Meanwhile, on the other part of Greedland where a crater was made, Sakim was standing at the very center of it. His eyes were tightly closed and one of his hands was clenched in front of his chest as he felt strange energy flowing throughout his body.

Without knowing it, heavy pressure pinned down his surroundings as it seemed that the pressure came from him. The ground vibrated slightly and small cracks were formed from all around. But Sakim seemed to not notice anything at all.

A few moments later, Sakim slowly opened his eyes followed by a deep breath. He uncurled his hand raised in front of his chest as he muttered to himself, "Phew, that felt good!"

Stretching his arm before whirling it slowly, he then stretched his neck trying to relieve himself. After which, he gazed at the hologram screen in front of him as he said, "Now then, it's your turn, Penalty Box."

Three slots were revealed on the screen. Two of which had boxes that were already opened while on the other hand, the last slot had its box, the black in color, still lying leisurely as if excited to be opened.

With a deep breath, Sakim then ordered to the system, "Open Penalty Box!"

Rumble! Rumble!

"What's happening?" Sakim was jolted in shock by the sudden occurrence.

The ground before him was shaking intensely and the sky seemed to darken as dark clouds were just mysteriously appearing right above him. The wind was as if angered as it tried to push him away but to no avail.

Sakim turned his gaze above and saw the strange dark clouds becoming bigger and was starting to form lightning.

Rumble!

A deafening roar of thunder echoed across the land. The nearby living beings seemed to be frightened as beasts and wild animals ran aimlessly in all directions. Except in a certain direction of course, and that was to where the crater was.

It was as if something frightening was preventing them to go in that direction as they all avoided the area.

Sakim watched the dark clouds in caution but to his horror, something he would never expect had occurred.

Boom!

The lightning forming on the clouds had just descended and landed on him, making him feel the wrath of the heavens. As if the heavens itself were refusing for his existence.

Gnashing his teeth in anguish, Sakim tried his best for his consciousness to remain intact. Blue lightning shrouded his body as his sight was gradually becoming so blurry.

"Aaahhhhh!!!"

Roaring furiously as if trying to fight the heaven's will, an incredible amount of strange energy exuded out from Sakim. The blue lightning shrouding his entire body had gradually disappeared on sight as it was been absorbed by Sakim himself.

[Notification!]

Gasp! Gasp! Gasp!

The system let out a new notification the moment he absorbed the lightning. When Sakim saw it as he was frenziedly trying to gasp for air, his eyes had gotten wider. Slowly, a grin was forming on his lips as he saw the words written on the screen.

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• Because of your Passive Skill: Greed, you have stolen the Wrath Of Heaven.

"I've stolen the wrath of heaven?" Sakim was pleasantly surprised. He just survived a life-threatening encounter, how could he not be happy with that?!

He was even thankful that his passive was actually Greed, a skill that could steal everything! He never thought that the extent of this stealing capability would be so great to even dare to steal the wrath of heaven.

As long as he had this passive skill, stealing all the attacks against him would be no problem at all. He really wondered what was the extent of his passive skill: Greed.

The smile on his lips just didn't want to leave him not until when he read the continuation of the notification,

• Because of your Passive Skill: Greed, you have stolen the Wrath Of Heaven. Congratulations! You have received a Curse: Single Stat System.

"What the heck? A curse?" Sakim was taken by surprise for a moment before he found himself frowning over it. Though he still yet to read the description of the curse he just received, just by reading its name, he could already tell the gist of it.

But what the hell was those congratulatory words? This wasn't anything to be celebrated with at all. The more Sakim thought about it, the deeper his frown could get. If anything, he might even fail to control himself and angrily go wild already.

But realizing that his emotional state was being affected, Sakim breathed a deep one trying to calm his mind. So after taking a deep breath, his usually calm demeanor finally returned to him.

It was just a curse so why would he bother himself worrying about it too much? If he really was cursed, then he should just find a way to cure it.

With that in mind, Sakim's cold gaze landed on the hologram screen as he said nonchalantly, "Curse, Single Stat System."

[Curse: Single Stat System]

• If you've just accepted the content of Penalty Box which is the wrath of heaven and just die already, you won't be cursed anymore. But because you're so stubborn and even defy the heaven's will, the heaven puts a curse on you. But don't worry, it's only for the sake of game balance.

With twitching eyebrows, veins appeared on his neck and temple as he tried so hard to stay calm. Nevertheless, the complaints in his heart still lingered upon him. The heavens weren't fair in the first place, where did they get the guts of talking about 'balance' for the sake of fairness?

Besides, were the heavens trying to kill him? Sakim knew well that it was much better to be cursed than to accept the heaven's will that the system was talking about.

No wonder why he was getting agitated and his emotions were going out of control, Sakim finally realized the culprit. It was all because of the lightning he suffered earlier!

He almost died trying to overcome that lightning they called 'heaven's will'. If not for his passive skill: Greed, he would surely be a cold corpse right now. But now that he had finally overcome the wrath of heaven, instead of rewards, what he received was actually a curse. How could he not be angry with that?

The other protagonists in many manga and novels became stronger after their lightning tribulation. But for him, he still hadn't even met anyone at all and not even starting his journey, and he would receive a lightning tribulation just like that? What even worse was that as if it wasn't enough, the heavens also gave him a curse.

Just thinking about it could only make Sakim more and more agitated. And when he saw what was that single stat available, he almost choked to death trying to suppress his urge to spurt a mouthful of blood.

• note: only vitality stat is available for your stat points to be invested.

What the heck was this? Vitality? Sakim felt light-headed as he stepped back to regain his balance.

He suffered the wrath of heaven, fine, he would accept it as a punishment for everything he had done in his past life.

He was been cursed, fine, he would accept it and just try to find a way to cure it.

The curse was a single stat system, fine, he would still accept it even with reluctance.

But what the heck was this? It was still fine if it was Strength stat but Vitality? How the heck would he level up with that?

Suppressing his urge to cry, Sakim had once again felt the helplessness in his life. A moment later, a bitter smile surfaced on his lips as he turned his head upwards, gazing into the now clear sky.

"Is the heaven taking revenge on me?" Sakim muttered to himself. "Since I took so much from the others in my past life, my karma has finally arrived that even the System has only given me a single stat available..."

Sigh.

Shifting his gaze back at the hologram screen, Sakim shook his head lightly as he finally accepted what had happened to him. So instead of whining that could do him nothing, he just decided to go and continue to move forward using the little things he had.

Gazing intently at the hologram screen, Sakim then ordered, "Status!"