Cheat Awakening

I hope there won't be any serious consequences.

After cursing the fatty to death, Myne took a deep breath to calm down and finally decided to do some experiments. After all, an entire new world with unimaginable possibilities lay before him. How could he simply ignore it, go back home, and suck his girl's breasts with peace of mind?

After a few seconds of hesitation, Myne finally collected sufficient courage to deactivate his Ethereal Phase skill. However, the moment he did it, he instantly regretted his decision. He slammed onto all fours, veins bulging all over his body, eyes turn bloodshot. He could barely stop himself from collapsing on the ground like a dead fish.

The sudden pressure on his entire body was like someone had put 500 kilograms of weight on him, was something he couldn't even imagine enduring. The feeling of being crushed under something heavy grew more and more intense with each passing moment. Myne tried his best to handle it, but he knew it was only a matter of time before he would lose all his strength.

He wouldn't even be able to move a finger after which, let alone fight back against such a strong gravitational force. It felt like the entire ground was made of magnets, and he was of metal, desperately trying to glue him to the ground.

Finally, after ten seconds, Myne couldn't hold it anymore and was forced to activate the Ethereal Phase skill again. As he did, the gravitational force on him finally weakened, reducing to four times. He now only felt twice as heavy as he does in his own world.

"Haaa, haa, haaa, haa... What the hell is wrong with this freaking world? Why the f*ck there's such a strong gravitational force here, it's like someone cast a permanent gravity spell from Fenrir. Damn it, it seems like my idea of exploring this world is impossible now. While I can maybe wander around in ghost form without worrying about getting f*cked up suddenly, that's all.

I can't use any other skills, nor can I touch, eat, or take anything with me. Then what's the point of exploring? Even if I found a mountain of gold, if I couldn't even take it with me, wouldn't it become one of my greatest regrets?"

Muttering curses, Myne again took a few deep breaths to calm himself down before falling into deep thought. He now had to choose what to do next: either honestly return to his world instead of seeking death, or at least go to the village below the cliff and gather some information about this world, especially the portal doorway.

If he could learn how to control it, then Myne could slowly think of a way to get rid of this strong gravitational force and explore this world without any hurry.

While thinking, Myne looked at the red portal doorway. It was still as calm as seawater, showing no signs of closing. Even the ten gems on top of it hadn't dimmed a bit, as if encouraging him to explore this world while assuring him that they still had enough power and wouldn't let the portal close before he came back.

With another solid encouragement from the doorway, Myne's always-death-seeking, reckless curiosity easily strangled the throat of his sensible reasoning. Gritting his teeth, he quickly flowed towards the village below the cliff.

The cliff was thirty meters tall. With the massive gravity of this new world, after flowing on top of the village, Myne stopped resisting and let himself freefall. The ever-reliable gravity field, which seemed to be working a little too seriously and holding a grudge against outsiders like him, pulled Myne towards the ground at an astonishing speed.

Myne crashed into the ground like a meteorite. However, since he was in ghost form, instead of creating a crater in the middle of the village and breaking a few dozen of his own bones, he simply submerged into the ground without making a splash. He soon floated out of the ground unscathed, with an excited smile plastered on his face that spoke volumes about his eagerness to try it again.

After forcefully calming down his childish excitement, Myne began scanning his surroundings. Most of the houses were made of wood, with not much use of stone. The road was simple and unpaved, created naturally by people walking on it day by day. However, what sent a chill down Myne's fragile heart was the eerie silence. There wasn't even a single dog in the entire village, let alone people.

If not for the sounds of wind and beasts roaring from the forest, Myne might have started wondering if he had become deaf or something.

Myne was very familiar with this kind of silence. It was either the calm before a storm or the aftermath. Judging by the eerie stillness and empty village with various signs of animal intrusion, Myne was inclined to believe the latter. It seemed a strong storm had passed quite some time ago.

After praying to all the gods he knew for good luck, Myne slowly floated towards the nearest house. The interior was quite simple, with only two rooms: a living room and a kitchen. There was no bathroom, garden, basement, etc. The house was bare-bones. In terms of furniture, the biggest thing Myne could see was probably the bed and closet.

There was no dining table, photos, sofa sets, chairs, study materials like books, etc. Obviously, the people living in it were true poor ghosts.

To verify his suspicion, Myne quickly approached the closet and tried to grab the handle out of habit. However, his hand simply passed through it as if it were an illusion. Sighing at his own foolishness, he went straight to the closet and put his face inside. Although the interior was quite dark, he could still able to see many men's and women's clothes hanging, confirming his one guess at least.

The reason behind the disappearance of everyone in the village was definitely not simple.

Myne quickly searched for a hidden compartment in the closet, hoping to find some rare treasure left behind for him. However, he only found a few silver and bronze coins in a small box-like compartment under a pile of panties. Discover more stories at empire

The coins were quite similar to his world, except they lacked the kingdom logo which Myne was familiar with, instead, there was a similar symbol of "WW" printed on both sides of them like the one tattoo on his left-hand wrist.

Although his first loot was nothing but decoration and left a heavy hit on Myne's enthusiasm, he soon overcame his disappointment and started wandering into other houses as well. This time, he didn't bother searching for hidden treasures or anything. He knew there wouldn't be much value in a typical villager's house besides a few pennies. His main goal was to find a person, alive or dead.

He at least wanted to confirm whether this village was populated by humes or some other race.

Myne entered more than twenty houses, but all he found was a disappointment. It wasn't until he gave up on other random houses and entered the largest house, presumably the village chief's residence, that he finally saw the small dead body of a boy or maybe a girl inside a locked wardrobe. The rotting corpse already emanated a disgusting stench that made Myne gag.

Myne looked around and noticed the scratch marks all over the inner door and the various wounds on the dead body, which explained its demise.

It appeared that this child's parents may have tried to save him at the last moment by locking him in the wardrobe, but in their panic, they forgot about the biggest problem: how a little child would get out of the wardrobe that was locked from the outside. This led the child to die inside due to suffocation.

"Sigh, luck can be such a cruel thing," Myne muttered while shaking his head. "This little guy managed to escape the enemy but died at the hands of his own parents... At least now I confirm this is a hume village, but where the hell did everyone go?

There were also no signs of fighting in the village as if the enemy just came here and killed everyone with a snap of their fingers, without spilling a single drop of blood."

While pondering seriously, Myne struggled to ignore the rotting corpse before him and quickly began searching for a hidden compartment within the wardrobe. Unfortunately, the village chief clearly didn't follow the common trend and his wardrobe didn't have one at all.

"Did the owner of this house hide everything somewhere else? Now this is going to be a pain in the ass. But this is also a piece of good news, the more difficult things get, the more valuable the rewards might be."

With a greedy smile on his face, Myne started flying through the walls like a fish in water, searching for the hidden safe. Finally, after five minutes of arduous effort, he found a cleverly hidden safe in the room that apparently belonged to the child in the wardrobe. It was hidden under the small bed and required a considerable amount of effort to unlock.

Despite a thorough search, Myne couldn't find the trigger mechanism that would open the hidden compartment and reveal the metal safe within.