The Villain's RE:Life

Chapter 254: The Days Leading to April 20th 1999 (1)

Beginning of Act 2

You know, in my lifetime, I have come to realize that, in a sense, there are very few things that can truly annoy me. One is stupid people because, come on, let’s be honest, when someone is truly being stupid, it can get on anyone’s nerves.

Another is wasting money; if you’ve made it this far in my tale, then you already know how devastating it is for my psyche to burn money on useless things.

Not to mention people messing with my carefully laid out plans; yeah, that gets on my nerves more than I would like to admit.

And then….theres the…

"MOTHER FUCKING CAVERNS! OF all the goddamn Instances that have been found, WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP HERE?" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I ran at my top speed through the never-ending twisting and turning rocky tunnels.

"Millions upon MILLIONS OF OPTIONS, AND I END UP IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE AS BEFORE, and to make matters worse, of COURSE, it couldn’t be a fresh spawn, IT’S THE SAME FUCKING ONE I WAS IN THE FIRST TIME!"

Racing through the same path as I had years before, I couldn’t help but point out every single marking I had left behind on the walls, and when I entered the large open area I had fought the Drake some years prior, I easily spotted the devastation left behind from the battle.

Further and further into the void, I ran, coming across very few monsters along the way, which meant I was practically wasting what little time I had here by backtracking through my previous adventure, and to be honest, IT WAS PISSING ME OFF…if you couldn’t tell by my earlier outburst.

Well, that is until I hit my first horde of undead monsters; as expected, the looted corpses I had casually left behind had been reanimated. The only upside to such a situation was the fact that I could earn double XP from them…which STILL FUCKING SUCKED!

So for a full week, all I did was wander through the same space I had previously devastated until; finally, I came across my first living being, yet as luck would have it, the damn thing was at the bottom end of the Alpha-Rank, so even then, I hardly got any gains from it.

Hours turned to days, and eventually, I felt the particle content in the air spike in power until I crossed a certain threshold and entered into the Beta-Rank Zones.

Releasing a pleasure-filled groan of ecstasy as my body was washed with the stronger form of Particles, I expanded my perception to the fullest. I started

He about had a heart attack when he saw me laying out thousands of 1-gallon jugs full of Particle water, and it was a pretty funny sight that I wish I had recorded.

Anyway, that brings me to the first objective on my list after returning, and before you ask, no, it wasn’t Ranking Up to Beta-Rank; that would have to wait for now because I had left the very same day after having that meal with my brother, and hadn’t had enough time to upgrade the facilities allowing for a Flood of Beta-Rank Particles in Gnarnia.

Technically speaking, the upgrade was actually the third thing on my list because right now…I needed to go through the therapeutic process of dumping my inventory, identifying all the items, labeling everything, and organizing it in the storage room.