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Chapter 3 - Chapter 3: Being Human -> Cursed

Love stares at the brightly lit woman tears on her face and tells her, her dilemma while asking...

"Are sure you can return the life taking from me?"

The woman answers;

"That and more, we children of God see such things as trivialities and soon you too will, once you have faith in God"

She pauses a little and adds:

"Come and I will show you the way"

Love thinks about it for a moment,

*Only an act of God will save mother now and for the past 3 years I've been researching experimental procedures to save mother, maybe...*

*... maybe this is the way*

Love brings out her hand to the brightly lit woman and accepts, while asking the woman for her name.

The woman replies "I am Hope, one of the Light Of God, Master of Life, and the Great One of the Elfs"

On a normal day, Love would gulp about the absurd titles she is hearing but, today she just stares at Hope while Hope continues talking.

Hope says "You have been chosen by the Great One and you shall be known as the Chosen One but some might not accept your words"

"You have to prove yourself and always have faith on the true God, *The Goddess of Life*"

The Great One then opened a portal and urged Love to come with her.

Love stares at her surroundings for a while then follows her into the portal.

Meanwhile in another part of the city at that exact moment another portal is being opened.

***

Frank steps into the black portal that opens at one of the walls in his room with some of his luggages and some food for his long journey but when he emerges from the portal, he looks around and find out that he is completely naked with no luggages, food, clothes and even underwear.

"Damn!..."

***

As Love enters the green portal, she hears a voice telling her that;

"An anomaly has been detected..."

"...Changing co-ordinates..."

Love wants to ask what is going on but this all takes place in less than a second

***

Back in the land of souls, Frank has a panicked expression on his face because of the notification he is seeing.

[Status

*You have succeeded in traveling from Earth to the Land of Souls*

Due to an interference in your travels, you have lost 10 out of your maximum health.

This means your health will not go higher than the amount signified in the health bar]

[Status

*Welcome to the Land of Souls*

*You have been cursed*

*All learnt skills are in the cursed state*

A human cannot enter the Land of Souls

All things insignificant in the land of souls are temporary disabled]

At that same time Frank felt a little bit queasy and looked at his body.

His eyes, nose, hair, intestines, stomach, bladder, penis, liver, kidneys, nails, blood, and other fundamental parts of the human body were gone replaced with skin and a layer of webbed nerves attaching to his bone

His facial expressions showed shock, but things got worse from here on out

[Status

You are a Half Soul Being

Your duration of this state has been decided by an apprentice soul vampire.

*You will remain in this state for 90 days*

If 90 days pass and you do not find a way to retain this class your class will degrade into Weak Soul Being

Your skin is not used to this state, changes will occur in 7 days.

It is advised to take care of your skin before then or else a penalty will occur]

Frank finally had a horrified expression on his face and finally let out a curse while muttering something with his lips.

He then shouts "status".

[Status

Name: Farnklin

Level: 1

Life: 90 ▼

Class: Half Soul Being

Skills: Average Gamer(C), Hesitation(S), Idleness(S+), Escape(F)...]

Frank finally accepts to check his cursed skills after a while

[Status

Name: Farnklin

Level: 1

Life: 90 ▼

Class: Half Soul Being

Skills: Average Gamer(C), Hesitation(S), Idleness(S+), Escape(F)...

Skill Description: Average Gamer (C) (Passive Skill)

*You view the world as a game*

*Sometimes this is a good thing other times this is a curse*

Hesitation(S) (Passive Skill)

*You are afraid to make a decision so you allow others make the decision for you*

*Sometimes this is a good thing other times this is a curse*

Benefits: *You have a 10% chance on receiving advise from the system on easy tasks*

Idleness(S+) (Passive Skill)

*Due to the way you live your life you feel insecure around other people or beings*

*Sometimes this is a good thing other times this is a curse*

Benefits: *You own your mind*

*You have 10% chance of beating all odds to escape from people or beings*

Since this skill is highly beneficial to the Curse of Idleness a curse penalty has been removed while others has been reduced

*When using this skill, 50% of curse will not activate*]

[Status

You have acquired a new attribute

Attribute: Curse of Idleness

Attribute Description:

Curse of Idleness Lv 1(Active Skill):

*You have acquired one of the curses of the Sin of Sloth*

*You are different from other soul beings, you will get tired easily*

*Benefits: Soul vampires and other beings plagued with the Curse of Idleness will develop a likeness towards you and you have a 50% chance to be acknowledged by them*

!An attribute should not be a active skill, level it up so that it can be a passive skill !

*A skill has been cursed, the description will be changed*

Skill description:

Escape(F) Lv 1 (Active skill):

*There is a 20% chance of escaping targets on land*

*You will never escape targets on air*

*You will never escape targets on water*]

"Shit.."

Frank could not hold it any longer he started hurling abuses everywhere until he looked around and saw something reminiscent to a movie.

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