Single Stat System

Chapter 2: Vessel Of The Greed Sin

"!"

"So will you repent now?"

Sakim heard a voice of an old woman so he slowly opened his eyes. But it got immediately widened when he saw the old woman from before right beside him. The mouth of the old woman creased into a smile as Sakim felt a chilling sensation all over.

He tried to stand up and to his surprise, he was able to. But what surprised him the most was that he was now not in a grass field under the fireworks that he was at before. Everything around him was utterly white and it seemed that there was no end to all directions. His bed that he was lying on a while ago was nowhere to be found anymore as only him and the old woman who was standing before him was there.

He then stopped looking around and stared at the old woman before him as he asked, "Where am I?"

"You're on your way to the afterlife." The old woman answered leisurely as a smile that as if not a smile remained on her lips. Both of her hands were on her back and an aura that as if she already saw through the vicissitudes of life exuded out from her.

"Afterlife? So I was really killed by that fireworks huh..." Sakim muttered to himself as sadness loomed upon him. He then averted his eyes downwards as he asked, "So am I going to hell now?"

"Hell? What the hell are you talking about? What hell?" The wrinkled face of the old woman frowned in displeasure as she continued, "Maybe you have read so many fictions that it affected your thinking so much..."

Without knowing it, Sakim turned his gaze back to the old woman as confusion was written all over his face. Sakim was still completely bewildered but in the next moment, realization dawned upon him. His mouth curved upwards as he excitedly asked, "Then, am I going to heaven?"

"Heaven my ass, you're not going to any of those!"

"Ehh, then where?"

Scratching his hair frenziedly, Sakim found his brain not functioning properly as he failed to fathom what kind of afterlife was this.

Shaking her head as she clicked her tongue, the old woman then stared at him in pity as she advised, "Maybe you should stop reading fiction from now on, it's really not good to your notion you know."

Sakim tilted his head as he was completely speechless and found it hard to reply to her.

Without waiting for his nonsense, the old woman continued, "Hear me 'boy', the afterlife I am talking about is not heaven or hell, it's the place where you can fulfill your imaginations! It's the game world!!!"

The more the old woman spoke the louder and the more excited her voice became. She even found her hands trembling in excitement as her wrinkled face had as if disappeared.

"Huh?" Sakim gaped in wonder as he failed to process what the old woman had just said.

Wasn't it more fictitious that the afterlife was a game world as what she was talking about? And what kind of afterlife was that?!

Was she really joking with him? Sakim suddenly felt annoyed. If she was so bored, why not she go and find someone else to fool with?!

And maybe she should be the one who should stop reading fiction especially those with a game system genre!

Since Sakim thought that the old woman had already gone into insanity, Sakim then turned around, intending to walk away and find the exit of this seemingly endless white field.

"Where are you going?" The old woman frowned then again as she asked.

Sakim didn't even bother to answer her question as he made a step forward and walked around instead.

"Do you think I am joking? Look at yourself in the mirror." Seeing the other party not believing in her, the old woman then snapped her finger as a human-sized mirror appeared and obstructed the path of the leaving Sakim.

Sakim found his eyes agape in shock as his youthful appearance in his early twenties surfaced in the mirror. He looked into his hands and only then did he notice that his old and wrinkled skin had become so smooth and rosy. He gently touched his handsome face with both of his hands as he turned his gaze back into the mirror.

"Is this really me?" Sakim unwittingly asked to whoever would hear it.

"Yeah, it's no doubt to be you." A glamorous voice of a 'lady' answered him.

Sakim curiously turned around and there he saw the old woman slowly turning herself into her youth. Sakim rapidly blinked his eyes thrice before he rubbed it for a moment to see if he was just hallucinating but after he was done, a lady in her youth obstructed his view.

Under her pointy black hat was an alluring beauty that Sakim himself found his heart wanting to jump out from his chest. The shabby robe of this old woman from before became a beautiful green dress that fitted her entirety.

Shaking his head to regain his sanity, Sakim breathed a deep one as he asked, "So what if I turned into my youth, what's the relevance of it to the game world you're talking about?"

Sakim had already experienced so much in his life. And he already saw and played with lots of beauties on Earth, so it was impossible for him to lose his composure for a long time. Even though he saw the old woman doing the impossible of magically transforming herself into her youthful beauty, he still managed to barely contain his state of mind.

Hearing his question, the lady smiled elegantly as she answered, "This would be your appearance when you transmigrated to that world since this is what you desired the most."

"My appearance?" Sakim mumbled as he nodded slowly in realization. Sakim agreed that this was really what he desired. The vigor of youth and the enthusiasm of them was what every old man like him would long for.

After a moment of thinking, Sakim narrowed his eyes towards the lady before him as he asked, "Then...?"

Seeing the questioning and confused look of Sakim, the lady grinned from ear to ear. She then raised her elegant hand towards Sakim as she spoke, "What you have done in your past life will all be recounted and it will greatly affect the System you will have. Be it your passive skill, active skill, ability, or such, it will affect everything related to your Game System.

"You said you will repent if you have given a chance right?" The lady paused for a moment as her grin remained on her face and continued, "But I doubt it..."

After which, the hand of the lady pointing towards Sakim glowed a golden light as she released some sort of energy that made Sakim feel heavy pressure from it.

"What are you doing...?" Sakim asked in a panic, his forehead formed cold sweats as his heartbeat hastened abnormally.

Without bothering herself on replying to him, the lady continued to smile. After which, something like a glowing golden liquid shrouded the entire body of Sakim. Gritting his teeth, Sakim tried to remove the seemingly liquid thing that suddenly appeared on his body but he couldn't even move a finger. He stared indignantly back to the lady before him only to see her smiling at him.

So for the last time, the lady then spoke with a provoking tone of her voice, "Good luck, Vessel of the Greed Sin... ...and try to repent from your sin if you can."

Just after the very moment she spoke those words, Sakim vanished right away.