Magic Chronicles : Fallen Race

With a snap.

Reji extended his sinful hand towards the wooden box and smashed it.

And it was at this moment...

The Sage Stone on his right hand suddenly emitted a faint glow.

The originally depleted energy actually recovered a bit.

Hmm!?

Breaking boxes can also restore energy!?

Reji immediately became excited. Then, to verify, he turned his head left and right and quickly locked onto the nearest other wooden box. After running over...

Snap!

The wooden box was cruelly smashed. Although there were no resource items inside like in the game, the Sage Stone on Reji's right hand indeed emitted a faint glow again, restoring energy.

Heh...

Reji could roughly understand.

The Sage Stone restored energy by him "reproducing" the original history, that is, the behavior in the game during the first playthrough.

Then naturally, not only did following the plot count.

Those "heinous" behaviors of his in the game also counted!

Smashing jars, opening treasure chests, stealing vehicles, stealing cultural relics, breaking into private homes, exterminating succubi, and... snatching lollipops from children.

Reji enumerated his game behaviors.

According to the experiment just now.

Doing the above should also add energy to the Sage Stone!

However...

Ahem!

Since he was starting over, Reji felt that he should be a more competent hero.

Back then, it was because he was too addicted to the above that he once led to a bit of a strained relationship with Freya, and even later, the Saintess chased after him to arrest him.

This time, Reji wanted to be a good person.

So he made a list in his mind.

He deleted the ones that were too much, such as stealing vehicles and breaking into private homes.

Doing some harmless behaviors to supplement energy would be fine.

Then first...

Reji's gaze fell on the little girl beside him.

"Vielsia, do you want a lollipop?"

"Huh? Lollipop?"

The young Elven princess initially didn't know what a lollipop was. When Reji later bought one for her and she saw that it was something to eat, and it was her favorite sweet food, the little girl's eyes were instantly filled with eager desire.

"Here, for you!"

"Brother is the best!"

Vielsia happily took the lollipop, quickly unwrapped it, and first used her tender red little tongue to lightly lick the candy. This one lick was no joke. After licking, the little girl's eyes were immediately filled with little stars.

"So sweet! So delicious!"

Afterwards, Vielsia kept licking and sucking the lollipop, not willing to put the candy directly in her mouth. She cherished every lick of the candy, showing that lollipops were indeed a big weapon for children, with endless attraction.

It should have been such a blissful moment.

Unfortunately...

Swish!

In a moment of distraction for Vielsia, her little tongue licked the air. When she came back to her senses and looked again, the lollipop in her hand had disappeared, snatched away by Reji.

"Children can't eat too much candy!"

"It ruins teeth!"

"But, but... no, no, Brother..."

"No!"

Although Reji felt sorry for the pitiful pleading little girl, he still ate the lollipop in one bite, completely extinguishing Vielsia's hope.

Seeing Reji's cruel behavior.

The young little princess's heart was filled with grievance. Thinking a bit more, her eyes were about to be teary, with little pearls swirling inside.

"Wah! Brother is a big meanie! I'm going to find Sister Freya, wah..."

The little girl, who had always been close to Reji, actually ran directly to the Saintess beside her for a hug.

It showed how big of a blow it was to a child to snatch away a lollipop in front of them and eat it on the spot.

Later, Freya gave Reji a helpless look, comforted the little girl well, explained to her that Reji was joking, and promised to buy her another one. Only then did Vielsia become satisfied. However, as if she was a bit angry with Reji, this time she wanted to stay with Freya.

Actually, this was what Reji wanted.

After all, it wasn't good to bring a child along for the things he was going to do later. Reji also didn't want Vielsia to be taught bad things.

Finding an excuse to leave and act alone, Reji began his "box smashing" journey.

That day, all the boxes in Darran City were trembling in fear, experiencing their darkest day.

Any abandoned wooden boxes, jars, ceramics, and the like that were placed by the roadside and unwanted by anyone could not escape Reji's clutches.

It even led to the cleaning staff in charge of the streets cursing loudly later on.

--- In a twist that has the packaging world all taped up, Darran City's boxes are facing their "flattest" day yet. Our intrepid reporter risked paper cuts to bring you these exclusive interviews

"It's absolute chaos," quivered one Azazon Prime box, who wished to remain anonymous. "We're all shaking in our tape."

A cereal box chimed in, "I haven't been this scared since the great recycling scare of '09!"

Even the usually stoic moving boxes are feeling the pressure. "We've handled cross-country trips and clumsy movers, but this? This is something else," a U-Haul representative box commented.

A pizza box, looking rather crushed, added, "I thought I had it rough with greasy fingers, but this takes the slice!"

"I'm about to lose my stuffing!" wailed a panicked gift box. "And I don't even know what I'm supposed to contain yet!"

A wine box hiccupped, "I've been through some cork-popping situations, but this is making me want to hit the bottle!"

"Talk about thinking outside the box," a sarcastic shoe box quipped. "I'd run if I could, but I'm a bit too square for that."

A flattened cardboard box wheezed, "I always dreamed of being recycled into something useful, like toilet paper. Now, I'd settle for being a paper airplane!"---

Fortunately, "dumpster diving" was removed from the list by Reji. In the game, the hero was a ruthless person who would even turn dumpsters upside down.

Who told the dumpsters to have a glowing mark on them?

After smashing boxes for a few days, believe it or not, there was an inexplicable feeling of refreshment. Seeing that the Sage Stone's energy had mostly recovered, Reji stopped with lingering desire.

Afterwards, he chose a quiet night when everyone was asleep and prepared to leave some money at the sanitation department.

It was to make up for the extra workload he had added to the sanitation workers these past few days.

However, on the night street, Reji discovered an extremely unexpected figure.

Fre... Freya?

After there was a second empty room at the inn, Reji and the others immediately grabbed it. After all, with the addition of Vielsia now, one room was really too cramped.

Later, it was one room for Reji and one room for the little girl and Freya.

The Saintess had also secretly come out in the middle of the night?

What was she doing?

This was definitely not a plot in the game.

Out of curiosity, Reji didn't directly walk over but quietly observed from behind.

He saw that Freya had changed from her daytime Saintess demeanor and was now sneaking around stealthily like a guilty thief, doing something.

This made Reji even more curious.

Could it be that I had discovered some hidden secret of Freya's that no one knew about?

Until later, when the Saintess arrived at the first place, Reji suddenly felt that this place looked familiar. Taking a closer look, wasn't this the place where I had smashed the first jar during the day?

Freya coming here, could it be...

Then, the Saintess looked around in the night, searching for something. Soon, she came to the "crime scene" where Reji had been during the day.

Now, there were shattered pieces of the jar scattered on the ground. Freya didn't mind the dirt and squatted on the ground, collecting these pieces bit by bit with her hands.

Afterwards, she began to chant a spell.

Under the faint holy light, these jar pieces were gradually pieced together until finally, they were restored to their original complete form.

After doing this, Freya carefully put away the new jar, walked to the opposite side of the street, and rearranged it, placing it in a very conspicuous position.

After finishing this set of actions, Freya patted her hands, let out a long sigh, and then walked towards the next "crime scene".