In a small wooden room, the sunlight penetrated through a window that was open wide, lighting the whole room, and fell on the legs of a Fallen Corpse. There, another light began to glow brighter than the sunlight. From the hidden spot of the window, an incandescent light began to light up the room even more.
After a short moment, The light was gone.
'Let's see what you are capable of, Cloth Gauntlet.' Turns out, Rashin was equipping his first and only weapon, which made some white sparks light up in the room.
The cloth gauntlet took the very shape of his right skinny hand. A brown gauntlet with intricate patterns with some dots lining on his fingers with a bigger one on his hand's back. His palm was slightly empty, only with some wraps tied around his hand which appeared on his palm a little.
But, What would he do with it?
Although Rashin made so many smart decisions in the trial of death, this one was the smartest out of all.
He realized that the reason behind him not getting killed with one punch was something he was prosperous to have. Yet, it brought a heavy flaw with it, too.
The Vitality Enhancement!
It was the reason all along, and he simply forgot about it. It was all thanks to his psychics that he was able to remember faster than his normal state.
The vitality enhancement made his body more healthy and more resilient. That was why one punch for him now isn't enough to murder himself. He needs two punches now to kill himself. The real problem lies within the second punch... He would never be able to pull it out.
Because the enhancement did really make him healthier with a slight +10%. That makes it a bit complicated. Before the enhancement, he only needed one punch which consumed 100% of his health but now, with the +10%, the first punch will consume 90% of his health which makes the second punch nearly impossible as only 10% of his health would be left.
That proves why he was nearly dead and couldn't punch again even after he tried with all of the power he could muster. And the most irritating part is he can't train strength without dying. Yes, he figured out that deaths weren't connected to SP, but the more he punches, the more he dies.
With that, cloth gauntlet came to the rescue. Back when Rashin wore the cloth gauntlet for the first time, he felt it a bit heavy on his hand. So, if he can't level up strength without dying and the second punch now is not permittable, then, he would increase the weight of his punch to make his health vanish with only one blow.
'I'm such a genius... In a Fallen Corpse.'
But suddenly, a single thought popped into his mind that made him instantly shiver. What if... even with the cloth gauntlet, he couldn't kill himself? Another Terror! Indeed, if that punch with the cloth gauntlet being equipped didn't kill him then... it would leave him in a worse, far more worse situation than the last one.
'Ah, shit!'
Although the risk was so high, that was still the only idea that might level up his strength relic. Even if that happened and he didn't die, would he be able to kill himself like that death when the intruder came?
Until now, it's all mysteries.
'Enough thinking. Time to take action. Without risking, I won't progress.' disciplining himself, Rashin raised his arm little by little, the gauntlet was a little heavy on him after all. Posing to deliver a fragile blow through the air, Rashin smiled at yet another imaginary enemy in front of him. This time, It's Vitality itself.
Just like the curse of the fallen corpse, the terror of hunger, and even the terror of thirst -which hasn't come to life yet- Vitality was the same as them.
All he has to do now is to take the risk. Either he makes it and he would have successfully the best way to train strength after that new flaw or gets crushed once more with terrifying power and the worst is that he might not be able to die after.
'Count from three...'
Silent: " Setting a timer for himself! Lol."
'Two...' Rashin squeezed his muscles to the best he could so that he increases the possibility that he would die.
'ONE!!!'
EXPLODE!
***
3 hours had passed since he decided to take the risk and, fortunately, his intuition was true. The cloth gauntlet made him die with only a single blow through the air.
In those three hours, he kept training strength until he got bored and made a decent amount of deaths too.
[Deaths: 366]
He died about 90 times, accumulating a decent amount of SP, too.
Well... without the 10-minute reward, of course, he only made 0.95 SP. Not even close to a whole one SP.
'Looks like I would focus on psychic for some time.' He was right. In order for him to progress faster, he needed to focus on psychics... sadly.
Shortly after, he opened the status to see the current SP he has, and also to plan what would he do next.
[Current SP: -999,919.04 SP]
Strength: 3.14 ( 19 SP)
'Oh! I am so close to the first 100 SP! Hehe... with psychic, this would be easier than drinking water.'
Silent: "How did a Fallen Corpse say something this real? Fascinating."
It is really easier than him drinking water... uh, Blood, to be exact.
Without sparing any other second, Rashin dove into his subconscious domain to train psychics... for some time. Purple particles came to life again with the former one being fully saturated and another one on the way to become like the first one. With each purple particle appearing, Rashin gains psychic SP and the more he is focused the faster he gains.
His mind became fully empty, completely focused on accumulating psychics. Rashin felt like he was sleeping and awake at the same time. He just kept watching more particles emerge from nothingness and fuse with others.
After 3 hours of continuous psychics, Rashin disturbed his meditation and looked at the current SP relic, only to see what he wanted to achieve had been successfully made.
[Current SP: -999,881.24 SP]
'Finally! My first 100 SP...'
Ding!