Cheat Awakening

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"Huff, huff, huff," Myne, sitting on all fours, panted like a weary dog. The sweet, seductive female voice, which he found surprisingly pleasing, echoed in his head. However, it wasn't until he saw unknown yet strangely familiar and understandable words appear before him that he reacted.

"Motherfcker! Just don't give me any change, or I will f*ck up your whole family!" He cursed, gritting his teeth hard enough to make a creaking noise. Receiving unjustified punishment for something he hadn't done weighed heavily on Myne's heart.

Since the culprit of his hatred had long since vanished, Myne could only record this grudge and refocus his attention on the new system interface.

What surprised him most was his mana value. Though like most other attributes, it was pitifully low, the huge number in brackets, which exceeded three digits, puzzled him. It didn't take long for him to realize where the mana originated.

"So, although my skills are sealed, they still exist within me, huh? But I thought after so many days, I might have accumulated a lot of mana since I hadn't used any skill. Yet, it barely reaches 1500+. I suppose my natural body mana recovery isn't as fast as I thought. It seems I need to find a way to speed up my mana recovery after returning. Otherwise, what kind of mage am I if I run out of gas after casting just a few spells?"

"And if I consider my current strength to be four times that of a normal person, then a normal adult's attributes should be around 5 points. Hmm, I am quite strong," Myne nodded with a satisfied expression.

"What else do we have here? The skill section is off-limits. I wonder how it will display so many of my skills. Hopefully, it has some kind of filter function... An additional inventory. Well, compared to mine, which easily abandoned me at critical moments like this, it's better to have backup storage. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing if, one day, even with an inventory of unlimited space, I died from hunger simply because I couldn't use it."

"I still have nine minutes before teleportation," Myne looked at the countdown. Although he wanted to say goodbye to the tentacle uncle and his dear girlfriend, he had no idea where they were, so he shifted his attention to his poor pets, who the travelling merchant had beaten for showing too much loyalty.

"Guys, are you alright?" He approached Waffle, Ted, and Ocea, whose condition wasn't much different from his a moment ago, and asked apologetically.

"I feel like I'm about to die..."

"It hurt like hell. Although the pain has subsided, my body is still trembling with sensation..."

"I want cold water. My tongue feels sore and dry from all this screaming in pain."

Myne, listening to his pets' words, which were crystal clear in a language he understood, even Ted, whose thoughts he could only guess until now, was completely stunned. For a moment, he couldn't believe his ears.

Although he could communicate with Waffle and Ocea before, it was through telepathy granted by their mothers. When they spoke, the sounds he heard were random, unknown animal noises. But now, he heard their voices directly from their mouths instead of telepathy, a shocking and novel experience for him.

"Guys, I can understand your language?" Still confused, Myne spoke, wanting to hear more of their voices.

"What?" Waffle lifted his tired head and looked at Myne confusedly, wondering if the travelling merchant had hit his head too hard and he had become an idiot.

"What's wrong with him? What does he mean that he can understand our language? Wasn't he able to do that before as well?" Ted's expression wasn't much different from Waffle's. He also gave Myne an idiotic look.

"Fools, he means he can now communicate with us without the help of telepathy, just like we do with each other or other intelligent creatures. You two are truly helpless," Ocea, who had started floating again and had already cleaned herself with her water magic, scolded them while shaking her head.

"As expected of Ocea, only you understand me, dear. Those two fools are just wasting our food," Myne gave Ted and Waffle a disgusted look while patting Ocea with a loving smile.

"By the way, brother Myne, do you know what this floating window-like thing is, on which my name and a lot of random things are written?" Ocea suddenly asked, catching Myne off guard.

"You guys also have that system thing? Does it show your name, level, race, strength, agility, mana, etc., in digital form?" He asked, confused. He hadn't expected the bastard merchant to give his pets such precious things as well.

"YES×3!"

All three replied, and just as Myne was about to ask more about their status, as he was quite curious about their strength, a new notification from the system appeared before him.

[ It detected that the host has three soul-bonded pets. ]

[ Pet sub-system ( Specially Modified Version ) activated. ]

[ Pet 1: Waffle

Pet 2: Ted

Pet 3: Ocea. ]

Myne was dumbfounded by the system's quick response, especially the extremely seductive, sweet female voice sounding in his mind. He smiled perversely and clicked on Waffle's name. His status window opened in front of him.

[ Name: Waffle Fortuna

Level: 0 ( 0/100 )

Race: Subspecies of Astral Howler

Strength: 49

Endurance: 21

Agility: 47

Spirit: 99

Mana: 460

Free Attribute Points: 0

Coins: 0]

[ Name: Ted Fortuna

Level: Level: 0 ( 0/100 )

Race: Yr'Ghaunt

Strength: 45

Endurance: 79

Agility: 65

Spirit: 832

Mana: 638

Free Attribute Points: 0

Coins: 0 ]

[ Name: Ocea Fortuna

Level: Level: 0 ( 0/100 )

Race: Subspecies of Leviathan

Strength: 37

Endurance: 65

Agility: 86

Spirit: 132

Mana: 675

Free Attribute Points: 0

Coins: 0 ]

WTF! All three bastards are more powerful than me? And what the f*ck is wrong with their spirit and mana? How can those attributes be so damn high? It literally makes people question their lives, wondering if they were born with cheat codes.

No wonder they never seemed to run out of mana. With such a crazy amount of mana, they only have to worry about not having enough skills to use it. Wait a minute, doesn't that mean that during all our training, they were holding back and just being lazy? And all those training sessions were simply a joke for them?

So this is why they never showed enthusiasm for training. If you have such crazy starting attributes that grow with time without needing to do anything, who the hell wants to waste time on training? Isn't it better to sleep all day or have fun with beautiful ladies?

But this is good for me. At least during the starting phase, I can rely on them to clear all missions with brute force until I grow powerful enough to deal with any unexpected problems.

"You're still alive?"

Just as Myne was observing Waffle and the others' status windows, and thinking all kinds of nonsense, he saw the tentacle uncle walking toward him, carrying a badly injured woman in red on his back.

"What do you mean, 'You're still alive?' And why do you always think I'm going to die whenever I do something?" Hearing the tentacle uncle's greeting, which made people want to beat him, Myne complained angrily while taking his girlfriend from him.

"What's wrong with her? Hey, are you alright?"

"I don't know. When I was coming here, I found her in a random alley taking her last breath, so I treated her a bit, and came here to look for your dead body before going back to the apartment. But well, it seems I don't have to build both of your graves. This saves me a lot of time," The tentacle uncle spoke seriously, adjusting his goggles while observing the surroundings, wondering how Myne destroyed the source of the collapse.

"If you can't speak nicely, then just shut the f*ck up," Myne gave the tentacle uncle a middle finger before shifting his attention to his unconscious girlfriend.

"Ocea, throw some water on her." Not having any healing skills, Myne could only come up with this trick, hoping to wake her up.

"Whoosh!"

Ocea, who didn't have a good impression of the woman in red, hearing the order, without hesitation, threw a large amount of water on her, literally blasting her away if Myne hadn't been hugging her tightly.

"Seriously? I wanted to wake her up, not blow her to the sky. What's wrong with you guys?" Myne gave Ocea a speechless look. Although he knew she didn't like the woman in red because of her bad behaviour, and he hadn't explained their multiple personality situation, was it necessary to treat an injured person like this?

"Cough, cough."

Although Ocea's method was inappropriate, thankfully, it worked, and the woman in red slowly opened her eyes. However, after seeing Myne, she paused for a bit, rolled her eyes, and switched places with the woman in black. She wasn't in the mood to listen to Myne's caring words, which were obviously for someone else. Instead of wasting his breath, she might as well check her mindscape, which was now a complete mess.

"It's great to see you're fine." Seeing Myne in good condition, the woman in black breathed a sigh of relief and hugged him tightly. When he told her last night that he was going to destroy the source of the collapse, for once, she really thought that was going to be their last night, and she was about to be a widow at a very young age, even though their relationship had barely been a week.

"How can anything happen to me? I have you backing me up," Myne gave her a sweet kiss before responding with a smile.