"Phew, that's the stuff!"
As the elevator slowly descended, Murphy leaned against its wall, relaxing like an office worker finally off the clock, and poured the soda in his hand into his mouth.
Cherry-pepper soda sounded like the ultimate in bizarre cuisine, but once he actually tried it, it wasn't nearly as bad as he'd expected.
Especially the way the bubbles burst in his mouth—it instantly took him back to the happy days when he used to slack off at work.
As Murphy smacked his lips and savored the taste, a text notification quickly appeared on his semi-transparent character card:
"Leisure soda of data deletion consumed. Unknown alchemical substance taking effect.
New talent one acquired: Beginner Warp Resistance. When facing warp corruption, your Willpower save gains +5.
New talent two acquired: Beginner Warp Detection. You can more keenly detect traces and carriers of warp corruption, but be warned! When you see them, they'll see you too."
"Cool!"
Murphy blinked as he looked at the two notifications.
Honestly, he didn't think these two enhancements had been granted randomly. If the Creator's Enemy came from the warp, then the snacks the Creator had put in that vending machine probably all came with similar enhancements.
This vending machine was, after all, a "gift" the Creator had left for Murphy.
The so-called "leisure snacks" were just a cover. Their purpose was to strengthen administrator Alpha's resistance to the warp.
Well, you casually stuffed this system into my brain without even giving me a tutorial, so it took me a month to unzip it. You tossed me into another world without giving me any powerful cheat to protect myself.
And you carelessly scattered the things you left me everywhere, so that some of them even ended up in the hands of cultists.
*But I still