Chapter 493: Targeting His Emotional Weakness
Chapter 493: Targeting His Emotional Weakness
Silly Luck System—Level 54!
It wasn’t a battle-oriented System, always choosing goofy Hosts for its use. And the reason was for them to behave as silly freaks that turned every single scene comical. Or at least, that was how it had been conducted until now.
The Silly Luck System was like a jester in that it caused people to laugh at the most abstruse situations, causing them to seem less serious than usual. And, things would continue to happen daily that would eventually cause people to treat everything with less seriousness than usual.
This was a terrifying outcome, similar to a disease that festered within people for a long time, only causing the effects to be pronounced after a long time, like consuming alcohol. When the problems arose, it was already too late to rectify them.
When people took everything less seriously, the effort they put into anything would be less than what they would have done before. Cultivators wouldn’t engage in life and death battles after some time passes, none would make any improvements in fighting techniques, Origin Arts, or even to gather wealth.
Because none would be taking things with the seriousness they deserved.
And this was a long-term repercussion that Gallo would be able to create through Silly Luck. This was how Silly Luck worked.
Unlike most types of Luck, Silly Luck was like an infection. It could be transferred to other people, causing them too to begin behaving like silly freaks after some time.
And hence, only Gallo was sent to the Gaider Realm. After all, as long as he wasn’t killed, no matter what Compass Carburettor planned, none would work over due course of time.
But, this wasn’t the reason for his rage. The cause was Gallo himself, or rather what he had been subjected to.
In the Apocalypse World, Gallo would typically survive for a year before dying a pitiful and lonely death. And the only reason he would survive was thanks to his pets that had protected him until then.
Gallo was a mentally challenged individual, someone that was slow on the uptake and lacked many things a human obtained while growing up. Basically, his intelligence stopped at the age of five.
His father owned a pet shop where Gallo spent the majority of his time. As he was mentally challenged, he didn’t have any friends and hence turned towards the pets that had more humanity than humans themselves.
And they truly bonded over time, so much so that Gallo would cry and make a mess of himself every time someone came to buy a pet from their shop. Even though it was troublesome, his father never scolded him.
After all, Gallo truly loved all the animals in the shop and took care of them. And as a reciprocation of his affection, the pets also were healthy and had spirited natures, a reason the shop actually had many customers.
When the apocalypse struck, Gallo’s father protected him somehow. All the pets too that had begun to mutate appreciated him taking care of them all these years and in return, protected him now.
Even the pets that were sold and had survived the apocalypse—and whose owners were dead—had eventually returned to the pet shop. Thanks to them, he managed to survive the initial phase of the apocalypse.
But a year into the apocalypse, when the Grassmen, ants, and various species established their territories, the pet shop would be razed down as all the pets were captured by the Grassmen.
Following them, all of them, including Gallo were turned into Grassmen. As this happened in a faraway city without any interference by the System Hosts, Gallo had been pretty much living through the same life over and over.
And it was this helpless individual with a kind nature that was selected by the Silly Luck System. Gallo was someone that didn’t even hurt a plant, not to mention take a life.
Due to his nature, he obtained a healing Martial Spirit. He only had one goal in his life though. And that was for his friends to call him by his name, nothing more, nothing less.
After all, not even in one loop did he have a friend who called him by his name. Even his father called him at most once per loop, and that too was when he was on the verge of death, hoping for his helpless son to survive somehow.
So, him being called by his name was his sole wish that became worse after recalling the memories of all his loops. But no matter what, he remained a child mentally.
And, the Silly Luck System took advantage of that, constantly manipulating his luck values to subject him to pain all the time.
The Silly Luck System was also able to harness the pity others subjected towards Gallo and use it to recover its Silly Luck easily.
After all, when he felt pity after knowing about Gallo’s past, his luck values shoot up through the roof, for this pity was from the Main Character.
And the reason the Systems even brought Gallo here was to target his pity. After all, when his father fell from grace and they had to suffer through hard times, his mother was unable to handle the emotional impact, losing her sanity in the process.
After that, she became no different from a child mentally. And in the troubled environment they lived in, his father wasn’t able to protect her all the time. His mother never had a peaceful time in that household. And as for the way she died…
Veins popped all over his forehead as Compass Carburettor was truly unable to control his rage. The Systems had truly researched his past on Earth, hitting him right where it hurt, making him recall parts of his past that he truly never wished to do so.
And the reason was to garner his pity that would rapidly strengthen Gallo to such an extent that he would become terrifying while Compass Carburettor would become the fuel that would continue to strengthen him nonstop.
Anything derived from the Main Character was of course the best recipe to become the strongest. And, the Systems had targeted his emotional weakness.