5th Rated God - Volume 1 Chapter 73 The Sin System
“Uh, yes! I heard some rumors that there were some employers…”, the mutt came up with a quick lie.
“Heh~ Hades stiffed you? Stuck up gods like him always forget the little guys like us. Our lords are most generous with their rewards. You made the right choice to come here. As long as you acc.u.mulate enough sin points you can raise your rank!”, the imp advertised.
“If you are lucky enough you won’t have to spend the rest of your life in hell like me, for a measly few hundred sin points a day torturing these poor bastards each day…”
“Perhaps you might be able to possess a human or even form a contract with one if you are lucky enough and stay in that world for a bit.”, the imp sighed at its own incompetence.
“AHHHHHHHHH!!!”, the soul screamed as the imp stabbed him with a pitchfork while still contemplating.
“What are sin points?”, the mutt at this point gots use to the screaming and just ignored the sinner the imp was torturing.
“Im not sure about what goes on in your place, but our currency is sin points. You can earn them through coercing humans into sinners and completing missions.”
“Is it the same as faith points?”, asked the mutt.
“Faith points? That’s for those stuck up bastards, power that great is beyond us.”, said the imp pointing up.
“The fundamental difference is the fear and misery we create as well as the evil we cause empowers us.”, the imp explained.
The mutt: Sounds dark…
The author: Thats hell for ya.
“How do I get employed?”, the mutt asked.
“Oh, you gotta meet with one of the higher ups, a marquis or higher class demon.”
“System what is the class system of purgatory?”, the mutt asked the system.
“Replying, the lowest is a souls of a sinners who act as energy source by being tormented, they supply a mysterious power that is used to supplement demons. Then there are the lower demons who are subordinates of knights class demons. Next are counts, marquises, lords, princes, and finally the kings, who all vie for the seat of the true ruler of hell. (Unlike the angle hierarchy, the demon had way too many variations and I couldn’t find a good source so ill just make this one. If anyone knows the real order do tell.)
“How do I meet one of them?”
“Your already so deep in hell, how did you not meet one of them already?”, much to the mutt’s fear, the imp started to question it on what it didn’t want it to be question by!
“Uhhh there was a huge battle, I didn’t want to get caught up in it!”, the mutt quickly said. It couldn’t just say that it was randomly magically teleported!
“Oh must be those bastard angels, our kind has always been in blood feud with them, alright ill take you.”, thank god the imp wasn’t a deep thinker and was very trusting in nature.
“Angels? The ones with wings?”, the mutt asked.
“Correct, they are lessor gods to an extent, but refuse to be called as one. There is only one true god in their belief. They serve as an attendant, agent, or messenger of their God”
“The realm is in a constant influx of good vs evil, heaven against hell. If their realm was united they would have conquered the other realms with ease”, the system’s daily fact appeared.
“Those winged bastards sure like to force their values and preach about goodness, and repenting your sins, blah, blah, blah~”, the imp spits on the ground in contempt.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”, the soul let one more final scream as the imp stabbed it again. Black mist started to be emitted from the souls orifices and the imp easily controlled the mist to gather into its hand.
“Well Ill take you there… I squeezed all I can out of this one already…”, the imp stretched his thin black limbs, placing his pitched fork on his shoulder like a gamer with his hoe.
“See this? This is sin, and with the system we convert it into sin points.”, the imp pointed at the mist and it was soon absorbed by an unseen force.
“200 points? Dame! All that torturing for nothing!”, the imp spat on the floor again.
“Alright, I’m done, let’s go!”,with a beat his little wings, he started to lazily float and the imp started to fly to ward a direction, his forked tail swishing. The imp eventually lead it along a path where other demons were torturing sinners.
The screams of the souls resounding throughout the area were basically BGM at this point and the mutt trotted along following the imp.
“Heya, number 68!”
“Another dub, eh 68?”
“Why else would he come back so early!”, several imps along the way started up a chat with the imp and heckling him.
“Who’s the dog, 68?”, the imps torturing souls along the path where pretty chatty.
“Shut up 49, 182, 789! Cant ya see I’m bringing in a new talent!”
“Hmm, it seems their names are named after numbers?”, thought the mutt.
“Lessor demons do not get a name. They only get one once they are named by others or by an especially powerful being. There are other exceptions with certain conditions,”, the system answered it’s question.
“Warning! DO NOT SAY YOU HAVE A NAME.”
“Uh, ok…”, what a grim warning…
“How’s it going number 68!”, another imp greeted 68.
“Haha number 789, still trying to juice the poor bastard?”, 68 saw his another one of his imp friend. The mutt could sense 68 was pretty popular and had many friends.
After many “pitstops”, eventually the amp lead the mutt to a building with hellish architecture and there were decorations of suffering humans in various torture devices.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”, a man who had a spike up its butt screamed.
“HELP ME!”, a lady on a spiked bed with needles stabbing her entire body cried.
“KILL MEEEEEE”, a man who’s four limbs were stretched to a very uncanny lengthy begged.
*Various agonizing m.o.a.ns inserted*
This sent shivers towards the mutt. The sight was too spicy for its pure eyes.
68 led the mutt to a reception room where there were other demons lining up to a receptionist.
“Number 68? Bringing in a foreign recruit?”, a sweet voice calls 68.
“Flora!”, a very feminine demon receptionist with purple skin greeted them.
“If he’s a good seed you will be rewarded as well!”
“Aw shucks…”, the mutt could visible see the imp’s pointed tail form a heart shape.
“She’s a named demon. She must be a little bit higher in the hierarchy…”, the mutt noted.
“A succubus”, the system identified her species.
“Oh one of those l.u.s.t demons!”, even the mutt knew about succubus.
Thoth: Im so proud!
The mutt: Actually big bro Horus told me about them!
Isis: HORUS! What are you teaching Little Sun!
Thoth: ….
Horus: ….
“Oh, what an adorable little d.o.g.g.y!”, if a actual Cerberus were to heard this they would be insulted, but the mutt was quite flattered.
The imp started to give the mutt a dirty look. It seems he’s a bit jealous…
“68 did you bring him?”
“Y-yes!”, the imp stuttered with a silly grin and tried to strike up a conversion with the succubus.
“If it turns out if it has decent talent you have done a great service.”, she smiled.
“H-how was your day F-flora~”, the imp melted with delight as she praised him.
Looks like this was going to take a while…
The mutt: *Rolls all 3 pairs of eyes*
The mutt notices that while flora is very beautiful she doesn’t really have the busty traits of a succubus. She seemed very well kept and didn’t have an aura the usual degenerates in hell. She seemed very pure, and ironically more like an angle than a demon.
After 68 and his painfully awkward flirting skills, Flora finally starts to get to the point and explaining the details of its job and contract.
“The basic thing that demons do is spread misery and corrupt mortal souls to send them to hell and suck up their spiritual energy.”
“Low level jobs includes manual labor torturing souls and extracting their negative energy, and you get to keep a small portion based on how much sin points are produced”, this made 68 wince and feel a bit incompetent. If didn’t have alot of skill so it was confined to working such jobs.
Author: You sure are reaching for the stars pursuing such a beauty. Im rooting for you!
68: …
“Next you have your tempting gigs. This require great social skill and persuasive power. If you manage to make a human fall to depravity you get some big points”, while saying this Flora seemed to feel a bit pained as if something deeply hurting her in the past…
“You can also do quests that higher tier demons issue and often times when a human wants to summon one of us. Their tasks are wide and varied.”
“Another major job is to join a legion and fight god and his army of angles and other realms. Any angle you kill will automatically grant you thousands of sin points. Of course this requires you to have a high combat skill.”
“I rather not engage in any fights at the moment, with out any faith points…”, the cowardly mutt thought. It’s main focus was to get back to safety in the Egyptian realm and live a leashrly life under the protection of mama Isis and big bro Horus.
“Please follow me, to get your system, from lord Phenex.”,
“Phoniex?”, what a wired coincidence, it use to be a phoenix too! But what was one doing in hell?
“Oh lord Phenex was originally an angle but when he fell he was cursed to the form of one.. he doesn’t like it when we talk about it.”
“Angels can fall?”
“Correct, their god has pretty strict rules and if they break it they are casted away form heaven, lose their angelic form and are reduced to cursed monsters.”, answered the system.
“Curse? Phoenixes are a proud divine being, like itself! This dog body is a curse!”
The canine god from chapter 8: …
“The Christian realm has a huge stigma against monster like forms and have a strict code on beauty.”, the system answers.
The mutt: Wow system you sure are knowledgeable! This update sure is useful!
The system: …
“Lord Phenex is a marquis class demon and this is his domain.”, Flora lead it behind the reception desk to the back.
“Prepare yourself.”, Flora warns and knocks on the door.
“Come in!”, a child like voice sound and Flora opens a door.
Finally meeting great demon, flora bows. The mutt lowers his three heads as well but was able to take peek at the demon.
A cross between a bird, man, and apparently lava. His skin was black cracked and in the crevasse was filled with a fiery glow. Instead of human hands, he had birds claws. His wings were engulfed in hell fire as was his beak like face.
Currently Phenex was looking at a piece of art he created. On a canvas was angel wings pinned and spread like butterfly wings. Even when the wing was ripped apart from the angle, it still glowed with holy radiance. It was much weaker but to our shabby main character it stung a bit.
But was really caught the antiunion of the mutt was the emended wraft and pressure from the great demon.
“How much I would give to return to my form… “, the mighty demon thought. Phenex was currently gazing at the wings and sighing to himself.
“Alas I will never return to heaven.”, clenching his claws, a bit of resentment flowed out.
“Whoa, how may faith points does he have???”, the mutt peed almost it self. It lowered its heads even more.
“Warning! Ill advised to look at its faith points. Will draw unwanted attention!”, the clueless mutt didn’t seem to even realize that the system seemed a bit too proactive and sentient.
Author: Didn’t you learn your lesson last time?!?!?
The mutt: Opps, I forgot…
“A new recruits?”, the marquis retracted his slipped out thoughts and his child like voice made a deep contrast to his appearance.
“A Cerberus? What a rare appearance!”, lord Phenex voice sounded like a child who was just given a lolly pop.
“So I believe you are here to install the sin system?”, for some reason each time the sweet child like voice was heard the mutt started to experience a bit of reverence to the marquis Phenex. It induced a hypnotic effect as well as a slight headache.
“Is this the power of a high class demon, how terrifying!”, thought the mutt, but it couldnt really break the hold he had on it.
“Come here little one, along with installation I must check what compatibility you have with 7 sins.”
The mutt was compelled to stepped forward woozily.
“Warning! You mind is being influenced by a higher being!”
“Host regain control!”, a warmth pulsed in it’s psych, and the mutt was snapped out of its state. It had already been standing in front of Phenxe who was already pointing his claw at his middle head. A forbidden knowledge and malicious thoughts started to flow into its brain.
“Warning! The installation of the sin system comes with adverse side effect!”, the system blared.
“What?!?! What side effects!”, the mutt was already starting to panic.
“Slight madness and character changed to be more aligned with evil tendencies!”
“What should I do then? Should I refuse??!?!?”
“…”, the system seemed to suddenly stop functioning.
“Hurry!”, as the mutt stoped at its tracks slightly. Looking at the claw pointed at him.
The grand demon was already starting to turn impatient sensing the resistance of the lowly dog. His hawk like eyes narrowed and his hellish flames started to spike.
“SYSTEM!!!! Im about to be turned into fried dog here!”
