Chapter 79: Massive Return
Asher laid on his bed, staring at the system screen hovering in the dim light of his private quarters:
"Because of what happened, I forgot to check the returns from Juliana and Kelly... Show me the rewards I got from Kelly."
The moment Asher saw the rewards and notifications, he sat up in shock, his eyes wide open:
"System, are you sure I have all these?" He asked, gesturing to his storage, which had numbers flashing ominously in golden holographic light. The sheer volume of high-rank items threatened to overflow his storage.
{Yes, Master.}
He blinked, staring at the rewards again, trying to process the absolute insanity of the return rates.
{Congratulations Master for Investing in your wife Kelly.}
{Investment: A Warm and Delicious Dinner.}
{Congratulations!! Master Triggered the 10,000x Return.}
{Gained Utility Skill; Driving Mastery. [Can’t Be Invested]!!}
’I have come to accept this system’s exchange rates, 10,000 seems big, but to this system, it wasn’t....’
Even a simple domestic gesture toward a starving, mentally fragile wife had yielded a permanent passive skill that bypassed standard learning curves entirely.
{Congratulations Master for Investing in your wife Juliana.}
{Congratulations!! Master Triggered the 100,000x Return.}
{Investment: 150 A-Rank Evolution Stone.}
{Gained 15,000 SS-RANK Evolution stones. [Can’t Be Invested]!!}
{Investment: 53 Equipment.}
{Equipment: (20 Mortal-Tier).(10 Earth-Tier).(10 Celestial-Tier).(8 Heaven-Tier).(4 Divine-Tier).(1 Mythic-Tier).}
{Gained: 53 Equipment.}
{Equipment: (20 Upper Heaven-Tier).(10 Upper Divine-Tier).(Gained 10 Lower Mythic-Tier.).(Gained 8 Mid Mythic-Tier).(Gained 4 Upper Mythic-Tier).(Gained 1 Supreme Mythic-Tier [Can’t Be Invested].).}
{Investment: 11 Skill Books.}
{Skill Books: (4 Mortal-Tier.).(3 Earth-Tier.).(1 Celestial-Tier.).(3 Heaven-Tier.).}
{Gained: 11 Skill Books.}
{Skill Books: (4 Celestial-Tier.).(3 Heaven-Tier.).(1 Divine-Tier.).(3 Divine-Tier.).}
{Investment: 1,000 Spirit stones.}
{Gained: 100,000,000 Spirit stones.}
{Investment: Devil Tower Key.}
{Gained: Emperor Demon Key [SSS-RANK].}
{Invested Mental Destruction Dungeon Key.}
{Congratulations!!! Gained a Super rare Item, Wife Juliana’s first Cure fragment: Everlasting Mind Pill. [Can’t be invested].}
{Item Has been stored in your storage.}
Asher stared at the last notification, stunned. He actually brought out everything inside his storage in the dining room, and the Gangster Juliana took everything as a gift. The bold move that had almost alienated Sara had completely triggered Juliana’s deep-seated respect for martial wealth and displays of raw power.
What he did must have greatly excited Juliana, and with the one hundred thousand returns, the rewards were off the charts. Even a Supreme Mythic-Tier equipment which has never been seen in the world has appeared; in short, he was now the only one who has such a weapon. The top guilds of the continent warred for centuries over mere Divine-Tier artifacts, completely oblivious to the fact that an absolute conceptual weapon now sat in his inventory.
But all these didn’t shock Asher; it was the last notification: Juliana’s cure. The system actually gave the cure as a Reward?! But...
’Hey, what is the meaning of fragment??’
{Master needs three fragments of the pill to fully cure Wife Juliana, these three fragments are located in the dungeon.}
{Two more Fragments left.}
"Okay, but is this Fragment effective?"
{If used, it will bring out the true Juliana, but it will only be temporary.}
{Master needs to use the complete three Fragments to fully cure her.}
Asher sighed, turning his head to the door. The system refers to the true Juliana... If he thinks about it, in the past, both personalities were one; what was Juliana back then? Before the mental degradation shattered her mind into a volatile gangster persona and a terrified, withdrawn co-wife, who was she? If he uses this pill, she will get better, but for how long? Would it reach a month?
He stared at the time on the interface, and exhaled. It was already too late to wake her up; even if her Affection is good, the gangster Juliana might snap if pulled from her sleep without reason.
He sighed, and turned to his inventory, staring at the skills and weapons glowing in the screen.
"With the discussion I had with Sara, I am free to use all equipment, no matter their elements—and it won’t reduce my strength. This is possible mainly because I have Aether energy."
He tapped the screen, staring at the Twin daggers on it, but this time, the blades were glowing with a red, suffocating light. Without even checking the information, he could feel the dense amount of energy flowing out from the weapon in the screen, bleeding through the interface as a physical pressure in the room.
"I invested the Mythic-Tier Twin daggers, and it gave me another Twin daggers, but a Supreme Mythic-Tier... What is the difference?"
{Supreme Twin Daggers: When skill is activated, and also when user is in stealth, attack increases by 600%, and Agility increases by 500%. When used together to attack one enemy, it causes bleeding, which removes 50% of Target’s health from the User’s health for ten seconds.}
{Second Ability: Once Daggers make contact with an enemy, has a 70% chance of causing stun.}
{Third Ability: When Daggers are Equipped, All Equipment, as long as they’re below the Supreme Mythic-Tier, will lose all their abilities for ten minutes.}
{Fourth Ability: After Combat, Heal User with 100% of the full damage dealt in battle.}
{Fifth Ability: Can Teleport to any location the dagger is located.}
Asher stared at the Twin daggers, dumbfounded. He thought Devouring Sword was the best weapon in existence, an unmatchable artifact capable of consuming world boss health. But before this Monster, Devouring Sword will not only lose all its abilities—it will be useless. A weapon that actively stripped an enemy of their divine gear while guaranteeing massive lifesteal, lethal bleed percentage, and spatial displacement was an absolute anomaly that rewrote the rules of the world.
Now, the main issue is, How will Asher utilize the Everlasting Mind Pill fragment on Juliana, and what will the "True Juliana" reveal to him when she temporarily wakes up?
’I will just have to find out myself.’ He thought, as the golden pill appeared on his palm.