Legendary Traveler: By Earning Progress Points I will Become Supreme!-Chapter 263: The Host’s mental state…

'Fantastic, even my Subconscious is trolling me nowadays, sigh…well, it looks like my plan worked.' Wearing a faint smirk, Aoni crept toward the stairs and listened carefully for footsteps.

{'Glacia, listen up; I have a special plan that only you can do.'}

{'Pwan, wat pwan brodder,'}

{'It's pretty simple; all you need to do is keep Anthony away from the door, better yet, drag him back into the city to explore for treasure, act like you sniffed something good, and lead him away from here. Until I give you the signal to come back.'}

{'I sniffa sniffa somting goo, got it, Leab it all to Glaci, but brodder, wat you doin'?'}

{'Ima be getting stronger, but we can't let Ant know, so be a good girl and keep him away until I give you the signal, got it?'}

{'Gots it brodder,'}

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'Phase one, get Ant to storm off; phase two, convince Glacia to take Ant on a wild goose chase through the ruins, far away from me.'

'And that just leaves phase three…the worst part of my plan. But first things first, I should probably strip down to my underwear…and put down some tile and…' Running through a list of things that would make cleaning up the inevitable mess he was going to create, Aoni pulled out the prototype for a toy he was making, a giant durable kiddy pool, from his inventory, stripped down and sat in the center.

'Right, preparations complete. Increase my Defence by one step.'

| Scanning Host's Mental Health |

| Mind Fully Intact, proceeding |

| Increasing Defense from E+ to D- |

| Progress Points Have Been Deducted |

| 100 pp Earned |

'MMM, here we go…' Puckering his b COUGH…clenching his muscles, Aoni sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and waited for the pain to hit…'

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Slowly opening one eye and peaking down at his body because he felt no pain, even after 20 minutes, Aoni was terrified to find everything that usually happened, AKA the constant breaking down, restructuring, and revitalization of his body, was ongoing, yet he felt nothing more than a slight itch.

'Holy fuck…is it finally happening, sniff, no more pain…I wanna cry…'

| It has been observed that the Host's D+ Pain Resistance is able to nullify the side effect of Rapid Strengthening |

'Oh no…no no.'

| As it is meant to be a Tribulation, where the Host must experience the sensations brought about by physical training… |

'no…please…'

| The pain shall now be amplified to surpass what the Host's Passive is mitigating |

"Meep…ARGGGG!"

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Pain, agony, misery, gore, and disgust are all great definitions for what Aoni went through during that hour and a half wherein his Defense was strengthened, and by the time it finished, all he could do was float on his back in the kiddy pool full of the most foul-smelling substances he could imagine and stare up at the chamber's ceiling with glazed-over eyes.

'Ow…System, why…'

| The Notice is not a System; please do not reference it as such. The Host has already established a Title: Attribute Notice, and it is quite fitting |

| As for the answer to the Host's question, it has already been given |

'Nothing comes from nowhere, and my WHERE is Progress points and immense, unthinkable pain.'

The source of this c𝓸ntent is frёeweɓηovel.coɱ.

| Correct |

'I hate you,' sitting up and ignoring the gross fluids clinging to his skin and hair, Aoni, after some struggling, stored all the crud inside of a chest in his inventory and went ahead with maxing out his Defense Stat.

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'It's not worth it, so not worth it, *sniffle* boohoo, I just wanna normal life of getting stronger.….'

| The Host's mental state… |

'Is FINE yOU ANNOyinG ChaT boX frOm Hell, FuCk OFF!' Aoni snarled while examining his gains.

Defense: D+ (922) +651

Just like that, his Defense could now be considered his highest stat, as it approached the known limit of 1000 points; however, through his AN, Aoni understood that giving a numerical value to his Stats was superficial at best; even so, he still appreciated watching the numbers climb.

In fact, during most of the procedure, he got quite a dopamine hit from watching them rapidly ascend, even though it was excruciating.

Setting that all aside and snarfing down multiple protein bars and other calorie-packed yet nutritious foods, Aoni went ahead and checked in with Nyria before figuring out how things were going with Glacia and Anthony.

'Sure enough, the little snack gremlin knows how to string along someone. Ahhh, I taught her well,' Hearing about how she and Ant were on the far side of the city digging through destroyed buildings, Aoni couldn't help but smile before getting serious and cleansing the kiddy pool.

'Defense done, now onto Speed, then Attack…'

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With the DayCelest falling below the horizon, Anthony and Glacia returned to the chamber, arms full of all sorts of random items, but when they stepped off the final stair and found Aoni, they were too stunned for words.

Before them lay the broken shell of a lad who had experienced unspeakable horrors, such things that should never see the light of day, even in works of fiction.

** Not really, he's literally sitting upright in the center of the chamber, perfectly clean, as if nothing happened at all, just dark circles under his eyes and an expression like no one was home in that head of his.**

"A…Ao…Aoni…you good little bro…"

"Oh…my dearest eldest brother, and my beloved little Glacia…" Aoni said in an almost robotic voice.

"Welcome home."

"Home…what are you on about?"

"Yes…home… where our souls will find horrors which words can never describe."

"What?"

"ga…gaoo?"

{'Brodder brokeded?'}

"No…not brokeded, brodder okay," Shaking his head like a creepy ghost in a horror flick, Aoni smiled a full toothy grin that sent a shiver down Anthony's spine.

"Come…join me for some tea and snacks; there's plenty." In a grand and dramatic gesture, Aoni pulled out a picnic blanket from his inventory and magically spread it out on the floor, accompanied by all manner of snacks and, yes, even tea.

FWOOOSHH

In an instant, fire bathed the Chamber as Anthony went on the offensive. Something had CLEARLY possessed his baby brother, and he wasn't taking any chances.

However, when he looked down to tell Glacia she should stay behind him, he was horrified to find she was already munching away on some snacks on the blanket beside Aoni without a care in the world as if this were a totally normal scenario.