The Unrestrained Overlord
Chapter 22

The Life Winner System That Refuses to Rot

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To be perfectly honest...

As someone who started the game with cheats enabled — and I mean pure, violent, plug-in-the-USB cheats, a winner from the very beginning — facing his current life script on the easiest difficulty setting, Xi Shenlian honestly didn't know what else he could possibly want.

Aside from not making all of humanity his personal slaves, the Life Winner System's two initial Extra TalentsDestined for Supreme Wealth and Life Winner's Wealth Customization Right — were already more than enough to let him just lie flat and wait for death.

This meant that when Xi Shenlian drew prizes, he had no clear goal in mind at all. His head was full of just one thought: Give me something useful, anything will do.

Even if it handed him a burger to whet his appetite, he wouldn't care in the slightest.

But unfortunately...

Unlike its coasting user, the Life Winner SystemLuxury Supreme Custom Edition — felt it absolutely had to step up its game!

So.

Refusing to coast, it kept working hard to cheat for Xi Shenlian, who was trying to lie flat!

Its dedication to service was truly tear-jerking!!

1. Extra TalentGrace: Extremely important. After using this Extra Talent, the user's attire and appearance will receive special enhancement. Head can be cut, blood can flow, but the hairstyle must not be messed up. Gamma-ray bursts cannot disturb the hairstyle, the Big Bang cannot ruin the outfit. Comes with an all-weather automatic cleaning function for clothing and appearance (Note: Based on the clothing's indestructibility effect, this means the user's clothes will be immune to all piercing and slashing effects, but actual damage is not reduced — all impacts remain).

2. Universal Plague Medicine (Box — 1000 pills): No matter the disease, even congenital genetic disorders, one pill takes effect on the spot, instantly restoring the user to perfect health.

3. Regret Pill (Single pill packaging — a precious single pill provided by His Majesty): After taking it, you can designate one past event to regret, automatically time-traveling back to the very origin stage of that event, ignoring space, ignoring time, ignoring causality, ignoring fate...

4. Didi Hitman Card (Quantity 1): After designating a target individual or group, once this card is used, it will summon a thug stronger than the target from the system manufacturer Crimson HeavenFallen Mech Council to inflict all kinds of brutal beatings on the target. Optional service items: Beat the target to death, beat the target to disability, beat the target until pregnant, beat the target until gender-swapped...

5. Merciful Spear: This is a merciful spear that does not kill. Even a headshot won't kill anyone, but the hit target will randomly and permanently lose a certain number of non-lethal body parts. Range is the user's line of sight.

6. Pulse Interference Earrings (Earring style customizable): A high-tech item from a certain technological civilization, powered by vacuum zero-point energy and antimatter energy. It can release special pulses of various intensities and frequencies according to the user's thoughts, thereby attacking and interfering with surrounding equipment.

7. Mud Truck Controller: Through this controller, the user can summon a mud truck that fits local conditions at a designated time based on the actual local situation to ram a designated target. Whether it kills them, injures them, or they tough it out depends on the actual comprehensive situation of local technology level and target strength.

8. Impoverished Family Card (Quantity 1): After selecting a target to take effect, the target will truly experience what it's like to be from an impoverished family. The effect duration is permanent, including their next life, the life after that, the life after that... until life after life. Useless against system hosts, because the host's Destined for Supreme Wealth is permanently at the top, enjoying the highest priority in related aspects.

9. World War Signal Gun: When you fire this gun into the sky, under the influence of fate and causality, the world will soon enter a World War phase by a twist of fate. The effective range is the current dungeon range already contacted, i.e., an adaptive range. It could be a continent, a planet, a universe, countless universes... The specific end time of the World War depends on the luck of the local natives. Note: May the King of Crimson show mercy, hoping they all die on the spot, horribly and miserably.

10. A Decent Dagger: A dagger from a certain technological civilization. Its sharpness and hardness are both decent. Made from an entire super-large special neutron star, comes with a gravity constrictor. Actual weight can be freely adjusted between 1 milligram and the actual weight of an entire neutron star. When the weight is released to a certain degree, it will automatically cause a black hole effect based on object density issues, automatically attracting and absorbing surrounding things. And more importantly, this dagger also comes with a cool built-in light effect, so it's very suitable for daily use. For example: peeling fruit, cutting vegetables.

Looking at these things he'd casually drawn out...

'...'

Xi Shenlian's pupils contracted slightly as he instinctively sucked in a cold breath.

'Holy shit, that's terrifying...'

'Are all the items this ridiculous?'

The rest were uncertain.

But the World War Signal Gun and A Decent Dagger were definitely dangerous items that could cause an apocalypse on the spot if not careful.

Especially the latter!

As a dagger made from an entire neutron star.

It only needed to casually release a bit of its actual weight to completely annihilate the entire Earth and Solar System with its gravitational field, like some kind of special two-dimensional foil.

And the former's adaptive effective range was equally absurd.

That thing...

If he really fired it.

Even Xi Shenlian didn't know how many unlucky bastards would die.

Even a global nuclear war with mushrooms sprouting everywhere would be perfectly normal.

Moreover.

Xi Shenlian also vaguely felt that these two items weren't the most powerful things in this draw.

Among the ten items.

The Didi Hitman Card and the Regret Pill directly gave him an instinctive feeling that these two things were weapons of mass destruction.

As for the former's actual effect.

Through the item description, he could barely guess the situation.

It probably meant the thug might cause a big commotion.

But the latter...

He couldn't quite understand where the mass destruction in it came from.

He just felt deep down that if he ate it, he could instantly clear the script of his life.

Overall, it gave him the feeling of facing a one-click-clear button.

But he didn't recall ever encountering anything in this life that could let him one-click-clear anything...

Could it be that this thing's activation range wasn't just this life, but also all his previous lives? But had his past lives really experienced anything that could change everything?

In the end.

After mulling it over without reaching any definite answer, Xi Shenlian used his Extra TalentGrace, So be it, and temporarily set aside his conjectures.

Moreover.

At some point, three pairs of metallic-looking male earrings, identical in color to his hair, had appeared on both of his ears.

Deep purple, ring-shaped, with no patterns on the surface, exuding a cold mechanical feel throughout.

Three on each ear, six in total, making three pairs.

Their structure wasn't the piercing type.

Instead, they hung on the earlobes via tiny mechanical claws that automatically clamped down.

Even though those claws weren't tight, thanks to the Extra TalentGrace, So be it, unless Xi Shenlian actively removed them, they would never fall off for life, and he could switch their styles or store them in the System Space at any time according to his will, much like a fashion skin in a game that could be unequipped at any moment.

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