Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 475: S-135, Frenzied Chain Reaction! Game Update

"Hmm..."

Lu Ce struggled to open his eyes as he listened to the constant sounds echoing in his ears.

For some reason, his condition was particularly poor after this game session. Even the perfect clearance recovery and baptism hadn't allowed his body to recover quickly.

Like right now, he felt somewhat drowsy.

[Detecting abnormal divine energy fluctuations!]

The game's voice continued, endlessly repeating the same message.

"It's fluctuating, so what?"

[Should all be cleared? Or only the negative effects?]

Lu Ce: ?

A question mark formed in Lu Ce's mind. For some reason, these words sounded slightly familiar to him.If his memory wasn't playing tricks on him, hadn't this same voice appeared when he used the Jealousy Mask last time?

That time... it seemed to be contamination from [Life].

Back then, it had said it could clear all the contamination, but doing so would completely remove the related powers as well.

So he had refused. Since it hadn't really affected him, and no issues appeared during this usage, he had completely forgotten about it.

"First, clear only part of the negative effects. Also... last time..."

Before Lu Ce could finish speaking, he was instantly interrupted as the game's voice quickly said:

[Ding!]

[Detected memetic contamination from two different divine energies!]

[Life, Pleasure.]

[Completely different divine energy contaminations may conflict and corrupt each other. Recommended to clear!]

Hearing this, Lu Ce felt somewhat surprised.

After all, the game's voice had never given suggestions like this before. Most of the time, it only provided choices.

"Can you... extract them, but preserve them in some form instead of clearing them completely?"

Lu Ce frowned and asked. He always felt that things related to gods should be preserved somehow rather than removed too hastily.

[...]

The game's voice fell silent, then after a long pause said:

[Possible, requires substantial points. Extracting both powers requires 20,000 points!]

"Fine."

[Extracting now.]

[Processing reward settlement...]

Instantly, Lu Ce felt his condition had improved significantly. The previous drowsiness had disappeared along with it.

It seemed the divine energy extraction had taken effect...

[Current participant count: 10,256,341]

[Completion count: 3,465,841]

[Perfect clearance count: 3,012!]

[Your clearance rating: SSS-grade, Perfect Clearance! Current consecutive perfect clearances: 10!]

[Rewards being settled.]

[Points 8,000, reduced by 20,000 due to ability extraction.]

[Perfect Clearance Reward: For excellent performance, reward of one unit of Dimensional Backpack slot.]

[Current reward items: High-grade Recovery Potion*5, Game Exit Coin*1, Pleasure Sequence Artifact, Special Divine Energy Ring.]

Unconsciously, Lu Ce's consecutive perfect clearances had reached ten games.

He was becoming somewhat numb to his achievements, so he quickly checked the effects of the Divine Energy Ring.

They were two very simple-looking rings without any decoration or carved patterns - one green, the other multicolored.

They seemed to represent the two gods that had once contaminated him.

[Divine Energy Ring: Condensed from special divine energy, no effects, extremely high rank!]

[Note: Insufficient energy. If enough divine energy accumulates, may have chance to transform into powerful weapon. Currently no effects.]

Lu Ce couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. If the condensed divine energy of two gods wasn't enough, then this item's future potential must be quite high.

Could he get something like a Ruined Divine Weapon?

After briefly fantasizing about it, Lu Ce laughed self-mockingly. Ever since discovering how useful the Extreme Path Battle Axe was, he'd been constantly thinking about whether he could get more divine weapon-level items.

Conventional-level weapons were practically useless against those existences.

As for the "Pleasure Sequence Artifact," it was relatively easier to understand - all sequence artifacts were strongly related to "gods."

Because they carried the characteristics of the related "god," they were more powerful but also had greater side effects.

This sequence item was something related to Pleasure.

After opening the description, Lu Ce looked at the sequence artifact's details. He was quite lucky - it was actually an S-grade item.

Visually, it appeared as two collars with invisible energy connecting them in the middle.

[Sequence Artifact, S-135, Frenzied Chain!]

[Effect: Connects two individuals for random effect drawing, including buffs, penalties, and various other effects. Both individuals must draw simultaneously.]

[This product requires only one person's agreement to initiate the link, but requires both individuals' simultaneous agreement to remove.]

[Description: If you feel your life is a bit boring, come play a game with me~]

After reading the description, an image of a game appeared in Lu Ce's mind - two people each wearing a collar around their necks, with three slot machine-like images above their heads starting to spin for prizes.

One person got three skulls above their head, and the next second, their entire body exploded!

The other person got two smiley faces above their head, and instantly, their power massively increased.

"Completely random..."

Lu Ce looked at it and felt that from this pattern perspective, it was indeed quite pleasurable.

Especially the usage requirements - only one person needs to agree to link, but both must agree simultaneously to remove it.

"Somewhat perverted, but indeed quite interesting, hehe..."

After chuckling, Lu Ce took stock of his current possessions, then closed his eyes again to enjoy the comfort after perfect clearance.

He probably had the most Dimensional Backpack slots in the entire world, making him the person who least needed to think about what to carry.

So, he directly fell asleep, planning to return to the real world after waking up and prepare for the next game.

However, after he fell asleep, CHOSEN'S PARADISE issued an announcement to all players.

......

[Attention to all players.]

[Due to special performances within the game, the game will undergo further updates for better gaming experience.]

[Update content will be announced shortly. Please look forward to it.]

"This is really too frequent. Hmph! Seems like they're getting desperate."

Within Dragon Group, hearing the game's announcement immediately made them feel somewhat speechless.

"Now, this game practically introduces something new after every game session ends."

Listening to everyone's discussion, the Grand Elder turned back to look at the game screen.

On it was the last image they could see after Lu Ce's game ended.