Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 114: Ch-114 A Chance To Turn Your Life Around

"Lord Lark!!!" A worker rushed into Lark's private tent while screaming in panic.

"How dare you barge into the Lord's private tent like this?" Lark's personal butler said as he almost took out his sword to protect his Lord in case the worker had malevolent intentions.

"Wait, Alphonse, what's the matter?" Lark said as he stopped his butler, Alphonse, and addressed the worker, who looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Sir, the dungeon colour has changed from blue to purple."

Silence followed the workers declaration.

After awfully long seconds, Lark finally asked.

"What's the estimated danger rank of the dungeon now?"

"S rank," the worker replied.

"Oh no," Alphonse said in horror.

"S-ranked double dungeon," Lark muttered as his throat went dry thinking about the kind of horror those still inside the dungeon were about to experience.

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A dungeon is formed when a naturally formed dungeon core appears in the environment,and attracts nearby monsters close to it, and once it has gathered enough monsters to fill its capacity, it forms a sub-dimension, trapping all the monsters.

This subdimension is what's popularly known as a dungeon.

The monsters inside adapt and evolve based on their environment and abundance of mana over time.

And the dungeon creates a suitable boss monster to protect its core.

Once this boss is defeated, the dungeon will drop a reward, which is usually a natural treasure, artkfact, skill cube, or some other valuable item, and the dungeon core, which, upon being broken, allows the adventurer who killed the boss monster to escape the dungeon.

But what happens when two dungeon cores form in close proximity to each other?

Both the dungeon cores form interconnected subdimensions, both of which need to be beaten back to back in order to leave and gain the rewards of the dungeon.

Such a dungeon is called a double dungeon, and the monsters inside the double dungeon surpass those found in a regular dungeon.

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[Do You Wish To Turn Your Life Around?]

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A single system prompt message appeared in front of Sung, the porter who was hired by Lark to accompany the cleaners and the miners to extract beast cores.

Sung had awakened 3 years ago and was really excited when he learned of his awakening, but his excitement quickly turned into disappointment after finding out that he only had a Tier I aspect.

Sung hated it; his father used to be a really famous SSS adventurer before he died on a mission.

According to what his mother had told him, he had Tier IV aspects, aka the peak of natural human potential, and his BF exceeded even 300,000.

So how could the son of such a man be born with a tier I aspect and a mere 480 BF.

Before his awakening at the age of 14, Sung used to be really popular in school because of the identity of the man whose blood he carried and his family name.

Everyone, including Sung himself, expected him to awaken with a Tier IV aspect or a Tier III at worst.

But after his awakening, people who used to hang out with him or praise his blood distanced themselves from him.

And when he had no one by his side, the people who used to be jealous of him started bullying him.

They were too strong, and there were too many of them for little Sung. In the end, the bullying got so intense that he was forced to drop out.

Sung's father was from a very wealthy family that Sung was supposed to inherit due to being only a direct descendant.

But using his lack of talent as a basis for his being unfit to lead the family and accusing his mother of adultery for birthing such an untalented child, his uncle kicked him and his mother out of the family.

And as if being forced to leave his school, awakening below-average talent, and getting kicked out of his family weren't enough,.

His mother, the only person he still cared about, fell into a coma, requiring constant medications just to stay alive.

While he had no basis for this, Sung believed that his uncle somehow played a role in his mother's condition.

As one might expect, Sung hated his family, especially his uncle.

If need be, Sung was even willing to sell his soul to the devil just for a chance at revenge.

Sadly, not even the devil was interested in below-average talents.

While Sung was able to awaken successfully and wasn't cursed by some evil god or demon, he was cursed with something equally as bad as that.

He was cursed with mediocrity, a curse that plagues the majority of the population, forever condemning them to remain content with just living their non-exciting lives before eventually dying, unable to leave their mark on history or be like the idols that they grew up admiring.

Sung wanted to train and become strong enough to take revenge, but he knew it was useless with his medicore talent, and his mother also needed constant medication just to stay alive.

And sadly, due to the way the world functioned, a person needed money to afford medications.

Money, which Sung obviously didn't have, so instead he had to work day and night tirelessly switching from one job to another just to barely make enough money to scrape by and keep his mother alive.

He had been living this way for the past 3 years, and this time he had accepted the job offer to be a porter despite knowing the risks just because the pay was good.

And he was glad he had made this decision, as the man known as Edge Lord had offered to give him one whole luminous blue stone, which was equivalent to 100 gold coins. While this wasn't enough to completely cure his mother, it was at least enough to supply medications to her for a year or two, which he could use to finally train and hopefully get stronger for his revenge.

But even despite the optimism deep inside, Sung knew that it was useless after all. Even when given time to train his medicore talent  was still the same and would always hold him back.

At most, he'll accomplish a BF of 3000–4000 after 2 years of dedicated training, which most certainly wouldn't be enough to destroy the behemoth that was his family.

And after seeing the strength displayed by the man called Edge Lord, his jealousy only grew as he cursed the world for its unfairness. If only he had even a fraction of the strength or talent possessed by that man, his life would've never turned into such a tragedy.

But in the end, it was pointless after all. What's even the point of crying or cursing the world or the gods above? After all, if they cared about him, he would have never gotten into such a situation in the first place.

However, out of nowhere, a system prompt appeared in front of him, and while the content looked like a scam that couldn't be true after all, this was the world system they were talking about.

Out of curiosity, he muttered in a low voice.

"Yes"

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[Marvellous choice in that case. Make sure to not chicken out now; after all, this is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity.]

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~Gulp~

Sung gulped. His throat was dry, and he thought that someone was playing a prank on him or that he was dreaming, but whatever it was, he didn't want to wake up.

But still, scepticism got the best of him as he asked.

"How do you plan to help me?"

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[By getting rid of the root of all your problems, which is by upgrading your aspect rank.]

However, let me warn you that it will be painful. So, are you in?

Experience more at m_vl-em,pyr

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Almost without hesitation, Sung answered.

"Yes"