The Goddess Chose Me to Bring Suffering

Chapter 42: Lastlands

The city was crowded like hell. Temporary wooden benches were everywhere, selling different kinds of weird things. Blades, potions, and clothes were the only normal things about the market that you could find on Earth.

Apart from that, it was just armor, hands, eyes, or even brains. But as ugly as it sounded, the place was clean like a child’s bottom. Leo looked around in curiosity. Everyone at the place was of other different kinds. But not even once did he see a human. Lucky enough, he had already covered his face with the mask, so the other races never knew what he really was behind it.

Even with that, the two looked more distinct unlike the rest. They didn’t have another eye or another dick, so many people thought Leo and Vegor were the weird ones, maybe more Leo than Vegor since Vegor’s eyes had live fire inside them.

They kept walking through the market, heading to the other side of the city that seemed to have a lot of tall infrastructures. Because if memory served him right, with the information he got from reading a lot of webnovels, fantasy worlds usually had different guilds or information centers. If they were lucky enough to come across one, they would get the answers about where they were and how to get out. Because Leo’s heart kept beating loudly, the ominous feeling closing in around his body even more, he wasn’t planning to stay for long to see what it meant.

So after walking for at least ten minutes, they came across a building with the words Magic Hub on top of it. After crossing eyes as if asking permission from each other, the two entered the shop.

Ding!

The door pushed the bell hanging on top of the frame, signifying that customers were entering. freēwebnovel.com

"Hey, welcome to the Magic Hub."

A fat man behind the receptionist desk welcomed them, putting a smile on his face, preaching that he was a friendly person. He had a crystal on his forehead with fish gills on his ribs, coming out of his shirt through custom-made holes.

"We have everything you need. Weapons, lucky dust..."

He bent towards Leo, reducing his voice as if wanting to whisper a secret in his ear.

"We also have potions that can help you go all night out in bed, huh?"

He finished his weird commercial with a cheeky laugh at the end.

"Thank you for the offer, but we are here for something different, information."

The shop owner froze for a second, then like a rubber band, his smile increased even more.

"You want information, huh? Well, we got just that."

He drew his gaze towards Vegor, who was busy looking around the shop like a kid , enjoying every single moment of his new body. Then he looked at Leo like some kind of scanner, checking for whatever information he could mine from them.

"So you’re the ones that fell yesterday. I figured you looked normal."

’He picked that up from just looking at us. Need to be careful with this guy.’

"Yeah, sorry if it caused any disturbance."

He replied.

"No, no, don’t worry about that. That happens at least every year. It’s a normal occurrence here."

A nail crossed Leo’s head.

’A normal occurrence... what the hell is this place?’

And as if he had heard Leo’s thoughts, the shop owner began answering his question.

"Tell me, what do you think is the worst punishment you can give an evil person or a murderer?"

Leo hesitated before replying with one word.

"Death?"

"Alright, then what happens if the thief is unkillable?"

The question threw Leo off his guard. It didn’t make sense at all, nor did he ever imagine himself being asked that kind of question.

Do you put him in jail for the rest of his life? Or do you make him suffer for eternity?

He tried to think of more points, but those were the only ones that came up.

"Put him in jail for life."

"Exactly."

The shop owner clapped for some time, then continued to enlighten him.

"That’s what this world is. A prison for the most evil beings in the history of all solar systems, and it makes them suffer at the same time."

Leo’s head went into a frenzy. Just thinking about it made him feel like he was awakening all the wounds that were sleeping inside his body.

’I get it now... why the goddess said this place is going to change me. Fuck... what do I do now?’

"And mister!"

The shop owner began again, taking Leo’s undivided attention.

"I think you’ve already realized by now that in this world, your memories have started to disappear."

A resemblance came into Leo’s mind. It was exactly what happened to him back in the forest.

"That’s just one of the punishments. In this world, everyone forgets who they are. The more you live here, the more you lose your memories. For a normal person, it takes a week to forget every memory. But if you’re lucky, then a week and a half."

’ I’ve been here for a day. That means at minimum I have at least six days here. Fuck!!’

Little did Leo know that he was already caught in the shop owner’s information strategy. Give the customer a taste of it, and they will come running into your hands for more.

"But there is still a way you can get out of here, if you’re lucky!"

"Tell me!"

"Ooh, young man, I can’t just give you everything for free. You need to buy that last part of the information."

Although the words made Leo angry, the shop owner’s words were sound. He was a businessman after all.

The shop owner gave Leo a list of ten different beasts, each with what he needed to excavate from their corpses after he killed them.

"Kill one beast from that list and get the required materials. From that, I will be happy to help you in any way possible."

He kept putting a smile on his face as Leo kept checking the list, while Vegor was looking at a two-headed fish that had a scorpion’s tail as a fin in an aquarium.

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Valoria

(1 day in Lastworld is 1 week in Valoria.)

The citizens were divided. Since the humans won the war against the meta-humans, many were surprised why a chunk of the planet was divided to the losers. It never made sense to many, even some of the Breakers involved. But when they looked up to the General for answers, he dodged them all, since going deep into the story meant he had to reveal classified information that Leo had used to make the division happen in the first place.

So what happens when something controversial happens in a country and the government refuses to explain itself? Chaos and conspiracy theories arise like flies.

But from all of them, one stood high above the rest.

Leo Hamany was a dictator and the meta-humans’ spy, and he used his powers to force the officials into allowing the division of Valoria.

And at the heart of this theory was its owner and creator, Jake Philips, the former teammate of Leo.