Sero hit the back wall hard. I mean, extremely hard, enough to the point where his head is bleeding. However, he did not have time to recover, as he then nearly dodged another blow coming his way. Sero took a glimpse at his attacker and was not surprised to see the gigantic figure of a torturer in front of him. The torturer seemed to be a little surprised, as it probably did not expect him to dodge that attack. Taking advantage of the situation, Sero swung his arm upwards, the chain embedded deep into his arm as Sero had somehow managed to jam it deep into his arm. Blood spattered everywhere, a mix of Sero's once red but now black blood and the torturer's shining gold blood (it always seems like higher beings have golden blood in most stories for some reason). The torturer took a second to realize what had just happened. Just as it was about to say something, it started to split in the middle, and soon fell apart into two halves. Sero was just about as stunned as literally everyone in the room, both the torturers and the tortured, as it was not everyday when you see an "inferior trash" kill a "higher being" (wait, these guys can be stunned? Wow...crazy, never knew that).
A system notification popped up out of nowhere, startling Sero. It read, "Congratulations on completing the quest! You have received 100 stat points as a reward! Bonus - You have earned a Mystery Box as a reward! New skill unlocked - Information. Description: It's literally what it says. It gives you information on something."
Sero then looked at the chained ax, and noticed that it now also had a black box with white text. It read, "The Chained One: This ax was once a god, bringing devastation upon multiple planets until eventually being defeated by ******* and imprisoned by an unbreakable chain. It has the ability to cause agony and pain to anyone who dares to use it, however in exchange, it will multiply the pain that the holder experiences to the one the holder hits with the ax. The damage will also increase based on the level of pain the user is experiencing."
"...What?" Sero asked himself. "What is this weapon?"
Before he could wonder further, he quickly shifted to the right, barely dodging the flash of light that was aimed straight for his head (how the heck can he still move like that when like, I don't know, his hands and feet are basically dead?). Sero tried to find who had attacked him, however he was forced to dodge as another flash of light sliced his arm off. He finally sneaked a glance at his attackers and of course, they were the torturers, raging as their fellow comrade(?) had been killed.
Sero questioned, "How the fuck do I win this? Both my hands and feet are trashed and I'm exhausted. Maybe the system can help me."
The system, of course, replied back, startling Sero, by saying in a black box, "Are you mentally deranged? Has millions of decades of torture screwed your brain up? I can't help you; I'm just a system. But here's your stat tab."
Another window opened up in front of him, this time have words such as: strength, speed, stamina, luck, etc. Beside each word was a number and beside each one of those numbers was what looked like a plus sign.
At the bottom of the screen was written stat points, and beside it was a 100.
"Maybe I could add these "stat points" into these stats by clicking or saying upgrade that stat?" Sero thought (wow he's a quick learner). "Alright system, upgrade regeneration to 50."
As expected, the number besides regen went from 5 to 55, however the 100 at the bottom had 50 deducted.
Sero immediately felt the effects of regeneration, as he could feel his hands, feet, and other injuries tighten up and saw them bringing themselves together. A few seconds later, his injuries were completely healed and he could walk properly again. Sero then pulled out the chain that was jammed into his arm and started to swing it around to the side in a circle while the wound in his arm already healing.
After he had completely healed, he charged straight at the torturers (is it just me or not as to wondering what the torturers were doing while he was doing all these stats? Did all this happen in the span of like a couple of seconds or did time stop for him?) while the torturers kept assaulting him with what looked like flashes of light (probably they were too fast to see, so they described it as "flashes of light". I thought that they could see it, cause they kinda, you know, have absolute power here, but I guess not). Sero swung his chain and ax to block the flashes of light (wow when did he increase his speed stat, or was he always this fast?) and finally came right in front of him. One tried to attack him with what looked like a great sword embedded in a "holy" aura, however the strike was easily dodged by Sero, who countered by swinging the ax, slicing the neck of the torturer with a clean cut. Another tried to smash Sero's head with what looked like a mace, however Sero instead used his chain to tangle the handle of the mace and buried his ax into the attacker's skull. Of course, both of them went limp a couple seconds later, presumably dead. The other remaining torturers tried to kill Sero, however that was to no avail as he would just instead kill them instead. After the last one was killed, Sero called out for the system (wait, the battle already ended? Wow, I didn't know they were this weak, or was he too strong?) and asked for it to open the stats tab. There he found out that he had another 200 points and his level was now level 201.
Sero split those stats evenly amongst his stats, however he did not put any into the luck stat, as for some unknown reason, the luck stat did not have a number. It instead had a question mark and had no plus sign next to it.
As Sero finished up distributing the stats, he decided to open his inventory to find out what the "mystery box" he got did. However, as he opened inventory, he noticed something from the corner of his eye.
It was a glitched black figure, staring right at him.