"Phew, that's the flavor!"
In the slowly descending elevator, Murphy leaned against the elevator cabin wall just like an off-duty office drone, pouring the soda in his hand into his mouth.
Although cherry pepper-flavored soda sounds like the pinnacle of culinary disasters, the actual taste upon entering his mouth wasn't as bad as Murphy had anticipated.
Especially the sensation of the bubbles bursting in his mouth, it instantly pulled him back to the carefree days of slacking off.
As Murphy was savoring the flavor with pursed lips, a text prompt flashed swiftly into his semi-transparent character card:
"Drinking the [Data Deleted] leisure soda, unknown alchemical substance taking effect...
New talent extracted as [Elementary Subspace Resistance: When directly facing subspace contamination, you get +5 to your willpower saving throws.]