>>5436397After a while, you decide to focus on breaking through the Immortal Ascension realm. The battles you witnessed today left a big impression on you. Moreover, it will be much easier to collect the resources for upgrading Tyrant’s Will with the ability of flight unlocked. The more you think about it lying down on your makeshift bed, the more you’re liking the idea. Well, you guess that’s about it for the night.
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The crackly audio from your headphones is barely enough to muffle the sound outside your dingy room. What should be joy-inducing in-game notifications feel empty, intertwined with the heated argument taking place beyond the door behind you.
[pPpPp has been slain by Distant-Cloud!]
“It’s your fucking fault we’re stuck in this shithole!” A weeping woman shrieks
“Skyfrost has picked up 3x [Flood Dragon Bone Marrow]”
Another man, deeply enraged, bellows “Just how fucking hard do you think I work? If only-”
[Fluffy (松松) has been slain by Distant-Cloud!]
“If only what?!?!?”
It’s… How long has this gone on for? You don’t remember. You don’t want to remember. What tears, what anger, what care you have left had been wrung dry a long time ago. Your hands simply move on autopilot. Your consciousness feels outside of this world. Wei Rudan. Distant-Cloud. Who you are doesn’t matter right now. You just want to lose yourself until everything passes.
“If only you weren’t so fucking useless. You lying bitch! I-” The man’s breathing became heavier, his rage palpable. “I guess that’s who he takes after. Useless brood from a useless broodmother!”
“How… How could you say that? He’s yours as much as he is mine!”
The arguing progressively becomes more intense, until it reaches a breaking point. Like glass shattering from an steeply increasing pitch of sound, words eventually break into actions. You hear it. The loud impact of a slap, followed by violent banging on the four walls of the living room. No matter. It didn’t matter. You wish with all your being that it didn’t matter. Your subconscious struggles to focus what little awareness still remaining onto the cold light from your laptop monitor.
“That’s it.”
Loud footsteps, practically stomping, can be heard.
“What’re you doing?” The woman asks, her voice now trembling with fear.
Screams.
You-
…
“Distant-Cloud has picked up 20x [Greater Fire Qi Essence]”
At some point, you had turned your system volume to max. Every wisp of sound in JSQ was now akin to thunder roaring in your ears. Suddenly, your door bursts open. You don’t hear it. You feel it. You don’t want to turn back. Your attention fights to fix itself to the game, even as your anxiety reaches its zenith. Your hairs stand on end. Your fingers shake uncontrollably. Then, everything abruptly ends with a loud…
BANG!
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