Chapter 122: Soulmate
Mark had the courage to curse inwardly, so don’t blame the system if it increased the difficulty a little for him. The system immediately pulled Mark into his consciousness space for a deep conversation.
"System? Why did you bring me to this place?"
Mark’s consciousness space was naturally under his control. It was just that entering this place to see his spiritual root required concentration and a calm mind, so normally he couldn’t enter it.
The system didn’t need that much logic. It directly used its power to pull both Mark and itself inside.
In this place, Mark wasn’t injured at all, so he looked much less miserable than he did outside. Of course, he was still skinny because Mark couldn’t imagine a scene where his body was covered in muscles.
[The content of the lesson I presented earlier wasn’t clear enough. I thought you were smart enough to understand the profound intentions of the great system, but you have disappointed me too much.]
Would the great system say it a second time because it said something wrong the first time? No way. The system was never wrong. It was only hiding profound intentions in those simple words.
Where exactly was the profound intention? No, that wasn’t right. When you said something that simple to me earlier, where could there possibly be any profound intention?
Mark was stunned, his eyelids twitching a few times. Although Mark himself had no idea what the system wanted, it was definitely not something good.
"I sincerely apologize, great system. How could a mortal brain like mine possibly understand your profound intentions?"
At times like this, flattering the system was the best way to make life more comfortable. If he stubbornly argued with the system, he would only make his suffering even worse.
[Haha, a useless mortal, but at least you know how to speak honestly. Since you understand the supreme might of the system, I should help you a little. I originally planned to make the requirement more difficult, but now you only need to continue drinking tea.]
Hearing the system say that, Mark could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Not having some other crazy requirement was already very good.
The system obviously wouldn’t go through all the trouble of coming here for no reason. There was no way it would leave Mark alone. Those words just now were only an act, and the system’s original decision hadn’t changed at all.
[But after drinking until you can taste the flavor, you have to analyze that flavor in front of the person who made the tea until she is satisfied. Only then will the test be considered complete. Don’t think about lying because she understands the tea she makes very well.]
"Wait a second, is that damn thing really tea? I feel like even a trash can would only stink, but it wouldn’t be as abstract as that flavor."
Mark’s face twisted into an ugly grimace. Even after drinking so much, he still couldn’t figure out what the hell the thing he had drunk actually was.
It felt like some ancient mysterious existence that had appeared since the chaos era of the universe, because mortals had no way of fully understanding it.
[Hmph, your narrow-minded brain really hasn’t made any progress. Have Nexus, and I ever asked you to do anything impossible?]
The system put on a profound expression as if it had calculated everything in advance. Of course, it hadn’t calculated that much. It just felt that this matter was actually not as difficult as Mark imagined.
"That’s... that’s true. There’s nothing impossible."
Although he was a little hesitant, Mark couldn’t deny this. The things he had considered impossible were all things he had already overcome.
[Good that you understand. Find a way to ask her to come every day. A little reminder that she has a very good impression of you.]
The system disappeared mysteriously in front of Mark after saying that, leaving him dumbfounded as he thought about the information he had just received.
"So the bastard who broke all my arms and legs and forced me to drink that damn thing is a woman. And on top of that, she has a good impression of me..."
Mark muttered. The more he thought about it, the more twisted the corner of his mouth became. Although he didn’t know what Emily looked like, Mark was sure that only a crazy person could have this kind of logic.
"What the hell does this crazy bitch have against me?"
The corner of Mark’s mouth twitched. He really didn’t want to believe that Emily had a good impression of him, even though it was the truth.
Leaving his consciousness space, Mark was once again struck by the flavor of this tea. No matter how many times he drank it, he still couldn’t understand it at all.
Mark couldn’t move much now, with only one hand left that he could use to send messages. Besides that, there was also his facial expression. Although his face looked a little ugly right now, it was still easy to tell when Mark smiled.
A little sand appeared in Mark’s palm, attracting Emily’s attention and making her frown. This amount of sand was far too little to use for an attack.
"What do you mean? Are you trying to tell me something?"
Even though she knew Mark couldn’t hear anything at all, Emily still asked him. Her eyes focused on the little sand in Mark’s palm.
The grains of sand were very light, so Mark’s spiritual power could move them. Mark arranged them into the word ’daily’, along with a faint smile.
"What?!"
Seeing this, Emily immediately pinched her own cheek. Her heart raced wildly, and her face flushed with happiness.
How long had she been waiting for this day? Could it be that someone who could understand what she was doing had finally appeared?
This sudden happiness shocked Emily so much that she almost fainted on the spot. There weren’t many people in this world who could make an A-rank hunter so happy that she wanted to faint.
"Oh my god, who hurt my soulmate like this? This won’t do if we keep going like this. Let me help your arms and legs recover."
She was the one who injured Mark, right? Completely wrong. Emily had broken all the limbs of a bastard who wasted tea. This person was her unfortunate soulmate who had gotten into trouble, not that bastard.
The system and Nexus didn’t interfere with this, so Emily easily healed Mark. Finally, the pain from having all of Mark’s limbs broken came to an end, making him let out a sigh of relief.