The Gene Gamer

Chapter 51: Cardinal Sins

"Human, you have disturbed other's comfort by screaming right as you had teleported to the place. You are warned one time, once you had been warned three times you will be forced out of the Core City"

A winged creature just like the previous guard came and said to him.

But there was a fundamental difference between them. The enforcer's eyes were blank and his whole body was a rune artifact. The previous guard may be an intelligent biologically modified creature while this one may just be a puppet that is programmed.

Deploying a puppet just for a warning, they must have this thing a lot, or the population of the city may not be big.

But just from the creatures, he had seen the number of them couldn't be small.

But it didn't matter, he was warned and he didn't dare to be warned again. The core of the city is bound to have very impressive benefits just looking from the middle age europian style buildings that were built everywhere instead of the primitive trees and stone shops.

Processed items and materials shouldn't be rare here. Here he could also try to find rune artifacts and teachings to take examples from. With it, his comprehension of runes was bound to increase greatly.

Now, the main problem was where to find money.

It was pretty late now. Even though the city was also lively at night and with his soul and body he could stay for a few weeks without sleep, he needed to find out where to stay. Surely he couldn't stay in the streets all the time.

When he needs rest, he would have to find a place to stay. Well, it could be ignored but he didn't want to roam the streets just wandering around without any benefits.

The guns he now is worth none here, in the gathering place of 2nd tier creatures, only his treasured gun and sword would count as something worth exchanging for. Probably all the monsters here would have connections or subordinates, they could find guns easily.

His mask, it also may be worth something here but he would absolutely not do that. That mask represented his identity and under the mask, his mind would be calmer and his reaction speed would also be faster.

Even though he didn't care about other people's thoughts, one of his split-personalities had the tendency of shyness and being afraid of others judging him. It was the main core of this personality so the effects it had on him weren't small.

When he was just standing he would feel the illusion of people's gazes falling on him and judging him. This made his thoughts divided into two parts, slowing down his reacting speed and body movements. The mask was the only thing he had found that could help him.

He was ready to exchange all his valuables except the storage equipment. This wasn't the only reason, it was also because of one of his personalities traits-objectophilia.

The word objectophilia refers to the action of liking and also being sexually attracted to an object. Early age, it was the first gun he had and the gaming tablet. The third object of affection was the mask.

Honestly, having split personality from birth was troublesome. His soul was split into pieces from birth and each part was engraved with one of his personalities. It was very different from the gained schizophrenia resulting from childhood trauma.

He suspected that the main reason was his talent 'extraordinary perception'. It severed his comfort which also resulted in the deletion and removal of positive personalities.

If he describes his state, he was very confused.

Why he was born this way? The only answer he had found was that he was abnormal.

Abnormal people, it can be associated with people who are born with deficiencies or people who are overflowing with talent. He was into both types.

His split personality, it was his biggest deficiency while also being one of his biggest advantages. It allowed him to see a problem from many angles and decide the most cost-effective method.

But it was more of a disadvantage than an advantage. If he had the choice, he would definitely not be born with it.

Then what was the advantage of this split personality? Was it useful in comprehending a rune? Maybe 'emotion'?

He had heard of it. Looking through the internet he had read much information, particularly about psychology.

The advanced version of this field will concern the rune which is the 'emotion'. People who have comprehended this rune will gain various means to manipulate people, even controlling their emotional fluctuation wasn't impossible.

But comprehending it was very hard as they would need to act on logic all the time and not be affected by emotions. Desires would also be forbidden and learning it would only make the person an undead.

They wouldn't feel anything, the desire to survive, and the desire to live, die. All of them were basically puppets and also used as such. They wouldn't respond when people insult them or step on them, no emotion.

Only by cutting off all emotions would be comprehending this rune be possible.

This rune was also closely connected to the 'cardinal sins' a high tiered rune below the top tier runes 'emotion' 'dimension' 'time' 'soul' 'creation' and so on.

Maybe his original split soul condition would've helped him comprehend this rune, but since the positive ones were cut off his only chance was the seven cardinal sins.

But it was also very hard to comprehend, first one must comprehend each of the seven cardinal sins one by one until in the last stage one would have to combine all of them to produce the 'seven cardinal sins'.

Its power was also extraordinary in the peak of the high tiered runes. It could also affect people's deepest desires making the people to be controlled by the desire.

Surely this rune was very suitable for him who is satisfied with seeing intense negative emotions on people's faces. But he wouldn't let his desire get the better of him doe, to resist it he has already thought of a way.

Making people happy, seeing the happy emotions on a person's face, and try to make the emotional value exuded by the person to make himself satisfied.

Or get a pet, a living pet that has emotion and is intelligent to make it produce a constant stream of emotional value. But this problem needs to be considered later as it was too early to think of that.

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This train of thought was ended here. Overthinking future plans and recalling information, he would easily go stray. He needed to think of the original problem. How to make money?