Just like he had expected. Another aspect had fallen under his control from the second milestone of the death path. However, it wasn't a normal aspect. It was "the best aspect" he could have in this fallen corpse he is chained within. The vitality enhancement!
'Finally! Finally! Something to boost and cure my corruption. A health-related aspect!' before he could have a moment of appreciation, Rashin felt a warm sensation coursing through his body.
It was different from the surge he was feeling when he trained strength that turned out to be trained with punches through the air rather than deaths as he had assumed.
'Now let's see... how much do you offer, vitality'
"Status... cough!" the status opened in front of his less-blurred eyes, but he was drifting away from analyzing. His body felt so much healthier compared to his corrupted state, his bones were more resilient, his vision became clearer, his blood flowed faster through his veins, his hair became more lively and his skin was fresher than before.
Rashin felt like he was a skin-changer creature! Cutting his thoughts, he focused on the updates in the status...
[status]
Strength: 2.19 (19 SP)
Psychic: 0.4 ( 8 SP)>>>[Psychic Enhancement: +10%]
Vitality: 0 ( 0 SP)>>>[Vitality Enhancement: +10%]
???: Locked
'So... it was +10% as I had expected... not bad.'
Not bad... he says. It was, actually, the best enhancement he got till now. With this aspect under his control, he can train vitality which will boost and cure his mere, perished health.
He would be able to stand on his feet again and train the other two aspects better with much faster progress.
But... how can he train vitality?
'Another string of the unfolded truth has shown itself to be solved...' Right now, at that moment, all he has to do is figure out how he can train vitality and with it... most of his problems will be solved.
This string had to be the initial beginning of his real journey.
The sunlight that penetrated through the opened window on his right became more dim. Shortly after, Rashin noticed that the sun was about to set, bringing with it the twilight of the dark night.
'Night has come... let's call it a day and sleep.' The first day being chained within the curse of the fallen corpse seems to come to an end. This exact day seemed like a whole journey all alone and Rashin is about to put the end to all of the previous events and sleep.
In about 8 or more hours, Rashin has killed himself 250 times, has three training aspects under his own control, unsealed two death milestones, passed the first death phase, achieved his status, unlocked his personal inventory, and finally obtained his first weapon all while not being able to get up from his bed.
Let alone bathing him whole in his previous red liquid along with the bed and some of the floor, creating a small pool of blood.
He also fought against the curse of the fallen corpse who turned out to be his ally amidst the epic of terrors. Defeated the terror of hunger, and thirst before turning into one himself who they also turned to be on his side, but they were a little savage due to the messy care they received from Rashin.
Rashin recalled everything that happened in this nightmarish hell on his first day. Letting out a calm sigh along with some laughing which he spat less blood this time thanks to the vitality enhancement. Rashin relaxed his body which was already relaxed, with a tiny lesser pain protruding through his body.
Closing his half-opened eyes, Rashin emptied his corrupted mind from any of his thoughts and swam into a cool relaxation of sleeping.
[Current SP: -999,970.41 SP]
***
'I... I'm sorry. Forgive me... brother. You were always like a brother to me. I hope you are doing well...'
'I couldn't... save you... from them and from it. forgive me.'
'Farewell, brother...'
An anonymous voice echoed in Rashin's mind. Slowly getting control of his consciousness, Rashin was about to wake up from such a deep sleep. He opened his eye's arch only to be tunned by the sunlight.
Although the sunlight didn't fall directly on his blurred eyes, it just penetrated through the window which was not anywhere besides his head but rather faced his lower body.
Rashin tried to blink several times to get accustomed to the incandescent sunlight as much as he could, he had a very long day After all. This was the initial start of the trial's second day.
Rashin chose to force his eyes which were also half-opened to stay exposed to that light that felt so much brighter than normal in order to adapt sooner. He let out a deep and long sigh, coughed a little, and stared silently at the table in front of him.
"sigh! cough!"
'Hello, second day of the death trial.' Although that name which he called the trial with was right on the spot, it was still might not be the real name of it. He just felt that it shouldn't be called other than that name.
'Farewell, brother...' The same voice echoed in his mind again only this time with just a single sentence. It seemed that his deep sleep resulted in the end… on dreaming, which he felt confused about it.
'Strange....' this dream of his was anonymous enough to make him feel powerless in thinking about it. He just threw the idea of caring about such a thing once he realized he was in no place to grasp any hidden messages. It might not have any, but he felt that it had.
At the start of the second day, only one thought made him draw a calm smile on his face. He had so many things to do during that day, but he wanted to only focus on a single one of those things, It was none other than enhancing his ability to be better. Not stronger, but just better the vitality aspect training.
He didn't know how to train such an aspect yet, but he was thrived to find out how and start immediately.
'Vitality... I will uncover your string.' swimming in the pool of his subconscious domain, Rashin began to think to the maximum extent his corrupted mind could withstand. He felt as if he was drowning in his thoughts rather than just thinking normally.
Soon enough, the purple particle appeared in front of him in a blurred figure. Realizing this familiar figure appeared in his subconscious, he knew that he was about to enter his meditation state... the psychic meditation.
Unfortunately, because of the curse of the fallen corpse, he couldn't reach the very beginning of the unsolved string. That's why he decided to let aside thinking and train more psychics so that he could think much better and also faster. His decision led to force the purple particle to fully appear and its bright glow that lights his subconscious domain.
Only to be disturbed and turn into its blurred figure once more.
'huh?! what is...'
[You have survived the first day!]
[A new reward shall be granted!]