After a long day of buying buildings and watching some dramas, Diamond finally rested at home.
As usual, she had dinner with Ruby and the two sisters relaxed in the living room as they video chatted with their parents for over an hour reconnecting.
After a wonderful moment as a family, Ruby bid Diamond goodnight as she needed to rest early.
Diamond, not feeling sleepy, decided to go for a swim since it was very hot. After swimming for several rounds, she was exhausted and finally dragged her feet to her bedroom.
As soon as she climbed on the bed, the system sounded in her head.
"It came pretty late today!" she mused at the thought of how the system had been rewarding her before lunch in the past few days.
She wondered why it changed tonight all of a sudden.
[Ding! Do you want to sign in?]
[Ding! You have been rewarded with a bottle of body-strengthening pills.]
Seeing the reward, she had received this time, Diamond became thrilled.
Among the pills she had received ever since she received the system, the only type of pills that enhanced a person’s body were the water pill she had taken before and the recovery pill that healed her from her rash.
After that, she got healing pills, and they didn’t come as often as she would love. So, finally receiving pills that would make her body stronger, Diamond was just thrilled with the thought of taking it.
Without delay, Diamond took the bottle from the inventory, and it flashed on her palm. It was an exquisite jade bottle, very similar to the bottles she had with her containing other pills.
She opened the bottle excitedly and a waft of medicinal fragrance hit her. She didn’t hate it but absolutely loved it.
She was not an alchemist and didn’t know what herbs were used to make the pills. But she was grateful to the hard-working people who were making it possible for her to get these wonderful rewards like that.
Inside the bottle, there were ten pills inside, and seeing how generous the system was, she felt even more grateful.
And what remained was to see how many pills she needed to take until there were no effects. But firstly, she needed to see the effect of a single pill and see how strong she would get when she woke up.
Diamond had a habit of taking the pills when she was going to bed, that way, even if something extraordinary happened to her, she wouldn’t be awake to experience it or see it.
So, without further delay, she popped a single pill in her mouth before lying on a mat instead of the bed.
Since she didn’t want to soil her bed in case something like what happened when she took the water pill, she would be safe.
Unfortunately for her, the experience awaiting her was completely different from what she was used to.
The next morning, around six, a dazed Diamond stood by the balcony as the morning warm breeze hit her face continuously.
Her body felt heavy from not sleeping. Even the dark circles looked especially so huge that she nearly scared herself when she looked in the mirror.
She couldn’t sleep at all even now when all she could think of was to sleep.
Who would have known that the pain she would go through would be so intense that she would feel like quitting?
But when she thought of how she couldn’t quit, since the pill was already taking effect, she was helpless.
In the end, she gritted her teeth and clenched her fists as the pain tore through every single limb for hours.
It felt as if something was coursing through her veins, expanding them and reconstructing everything.
The pain was there, though it had completely vanished when the process was over. However, the after-effects still remained.
If one pill was enough to drive her crazy, what would two do to her?
With the way she was feeling, Diamond was already thinking of canceling her trip to the farm despite the importance of making the trip.
She just wanted to sleep and if she were to leave in her current state, an accident would surely happen.
[Ding! Do you want to sign in?]
As if the system wanted to compensate her for the pain she went through, it appeared early in the morning, just a few hours after the last reward was issued.
"What are you plotting again?" she couldn’t help but ask suspiciously.
However, despite all that, she was thrilled, as that meant that she could get another reward. Another reward meant good news, and good news helped greatly with improving people’s moods.
[Ding! It had been detected that the host’s constitution is suitable for practicing cultivation and martial arts.]
"Oh! That’s new! Is it because I ate the pill?" she couldn’t help but become excited at the thought of it.
’Does that mean that if I start cultivating, I will live like an immortal and not die? But on second thoughts, if that really happens, does that mean that other cultivators exist in this world?’ the more she thought of that, the more scared she became.
"I just wanted to live peacefully, getting my rewards for five years without a hustle. I didn’t sign up to find myself embroiled in some war of cultivators. I just want to marry my man and live happily ever after. System, let’s not do something crazy, okay?" Diamond begged as she thought of the horror that the other protagonists, she had read in system novels go through.
She didn’t want trouble, not just for herself, but for her family as well. Besides, if she were to become immortal, did that mean that all her beloved ones would die and leave her hanging there?
What was the point of living when she would just live a lonely life?
[Ding! The host had been rewarded with a heavenly replenishing divine martial art. Please work hard to become strong so that you may protect everything that you hold dear.]
For the first time in the period, she had been bound to the system, she got to hear the system saying so many words that it amazed her.
"System, are you trying to scare me to death?" she lamented as she recalled what she had been given.
A martial art skill. Was she being forced to walk on that path now?
"Alas, it seems that I won’t be escaping this. Since it’s already here, I might as well just check it out." Diamond accepted her fate.
Just as the system had politely reminded her, she needed to be strong to protect everything that she had.
The system was going to leave one day and there was no guarantee that she would be able to protect herself or her family from greedy wolves with everything she had been given.
What if she was targeted by those rich families or she makes an enemy in the process of soaring high like an eagle?
She had offended Eliza back in Srad and it was obvious that she would report to her sister.
Although she had Andrea to block any technological attacks against her, there was no way that she was going to stay indoors forever.
She had to face people daily, and that was one of the reasons why she wanted to get a security team to protect her.
And now that she was thinking deeply about the issue, she began to find the system pleasing to the eye.
The system was indeed starting to give her items that she really needed in life. How could she become better and be above everyone else without power?
It wouldn’t hurt to know how to protect herself and fight, so the art she had been given started having a certain appeal to her.
With that positive thought in mind, Diamond quickly took the art out of the inventory.
What she received was an old tattered book. Luckily, it was written in a language that she understood, otherwise, she was going to have a headache.
Diamond went back inside the room and instructed Andrea to lock the doors since she didn’t want anyone to barge in while she was in the middle of doing something very important.
She sat cross-legged on the bed and began to read the book.
The heavenly replenishing divine martial art was an art that would replenish her energy, just as its name was.
However, instead of cultivating the art like she had read in novels, she didn’t need to do that.
As it was a heavenly divine art, it was a top-grade art that didn’t require the user to put in much effort. And it was the kind that Diamond entirely loved.
If she were to be given something that would require her to train and mediate relentlessly, that would be trouble for her.
Where would she get time to do charitable deeds if she would be so held up with cultivating?
So, the divine art she received was perfect for her, for after assimilating it with her, it would automatically work on its own.
Throughout the whole day, all sorts of energies surrounding her would be absorbed and turned into the energy that would make her strong.
The energy converted would be called spiritual energy, and it was that energy that would make a person strong, the more energy gets absorbed.
Just thinking of becoming a rich and strong lady, Diamond’s excitement shoots up the roof.
’I am going to be famous!’