Life Of A Nobody - as a Villain

Rio played with the pair of rings in his hands as Esme paid for them. Rio looked ahead and noticed Leon staring at him with fixed eyes. Thinking of something, he waved the rings in the air and caught them in his hands.

Next time he threw the rings again, but instead of catching them, he just snapped his fingers as a red flame appeared and burned the rings to ashes.

Leon, who saw this scene, nearly jumped from his seat and shouted while pointing fingers at him. Forget about that ring's special feeling he got, that guy spent 150 million on it, does it make sense to burn it right in front of everyone.

Alfred and Vanessa who saw this scene were smirking, thinking their previous guesses were right.

[If you want to play with people's emotions so much, how about you buy the feature called 'Negative meter' - with this feature unlocked, every time any protagonist or supporting character hates you or feels any negative emotions towards you, you'll receive corresponding rewards.]

System, who saw its host playing tricks after placing the real rings into its storage, spoke up. Promoting business.

But Rio knew all too well how this stupid system always eyed his hard earned points. So instead of agreeing instantly after hearing the fancy promo introduction, he decided to ask about the price first.

And counting how many zeroes the system placed before writing the word 'only' at the end, Rio directly slapped it away.

'half a million points for some sassy feature. Which I'll get eventually for free when I kill a few hidden ants in some towers.' Rio said remembering every tower floor is a separate world, and every world has a protagonist.

Ignoring the next up boring auction Rio just became indifferent to all the items and decided to leave. Informing the waiter, they waited for a few moments before they were led to a teleportation gate, once clear by some security checks, Rio and esme directly left the auction and appeared in a fancy hotel under Nishkal family's name.

Rio sent Esme back to do her work and then went to his office. And enacted the highest security options. Where other than him no one else could take even a step inside without triggering hundreds of traps. Not even SS rankers.

As soon as he felt that he was alone, he closed his eyes. And when he opened his eyes, he was standing in a lush forest with a giant tree in the middle. Where long long orbs of different colors floated being entangled by the branches. This was his system stage and his own VFX Yggdrasil.

[Reflection of system space onto reality started. Time limit - 10 minutes]

[I warn you host, it's all on you now. Once the timer goes over all the gods would be able to come and go or listen and see as usual. Finish your interrogation fast.]

Hearing the system's suggestions Rio nodded his head and prepared himself.

He brought the rings out and looked at them for quite a while. Using his True eyes he could see that a strand of black was wrapped all around the rings.

Bringing a small bottle filled with blood, Rio dropped two drops of it on both rings.

Instantly as if some magic triggered, one ring crumbled and got destroyed, while the other started to shine bright. The layer of black entangled and opened from the ring automatically, as it gained a new color.

A light shot from the ring to the sky at high speed, but his system space trapped it. Stopping it from leaving.

While Leon, who had just decided to leave from the auction, suddenly frowned and spurted a mouthful of blood. His expression twisted in pain as he clutched his chest. He felt his mana leaving his body at an alarming rate, until he couldn't even stand straight. Confused at this situation he wanted to ask Apollo for help, when he felt something and his expression turned to horror - he noticed his rank started dropping slowly.

The foundation he created for himself started to crack while his mana kept getting sucked dry.

From rank C- to D+

D+ to D

'What's happening?'

"God _ Apollo, what's wrong_with me?" Leon said chugging down a mouthful of pills to stabilize the pain and recover his mana. He kept drinking potions after potions not even seeing what effect they had. Started eating rare herbs whole without refining them - hoping to heal himself.

And finally after a long and hard struggle, his rank stabilized after falling 3 times. And stayed still at D-.

If not for him having a lot of treasures and treatment methods, he would've fallen back to rank E or even F. Cold sweat broke out on Leon's forehead just thinking about that possibility.

'What happened? God Apollo answer me? Why did my rank drop so suddenly?" Leon wanted to pray and ask his God but Apollo didn't answer immediately and soon he lost his consciousness and fell down.

Alfred and Rebecca, who were finally alone and started talking about their differences this time, got interrupted when someone knocked on their door frantically.

"Your majesty, your friend. T_ the one who was here with you. He _ he suddenly fell down." The waiter said, rushing in between with loud breaths.

Alfred stepped out of the room and frowned when he felt Leon being carried away by some guards. He looked at Leon's clothes covered in blood and waved at his butler.

Reginald/Reggie went forward to take Leon's pulse and frowned after sensing it. Coming back, he whispered something in Alfred's ears and stepped back.

"Prince, he's useless. His body has a lot of indisposed vitality and herbs aura lingering around. He probably ate too many pills or potions together to boost his rank in a short time and suffered a backlash."

Hearing Reggie's analysis Alfred finally understood how this idiot was able to rise so fast in ranks. From an unawakened cripple to a genius C- rank in just two years. It was clear, his foundation was poor and he relied on pills or potions to rank up. But today his body must've given up. Breaking his foundation with a backlash.

Leon would've still been somewhat useful at rank C but now this idiot even fell from his original rank and became a D- ranker. Which is normal for his age, but against geniuses of other noble families he was no match.

'Crippled bastard' Alfred said in disdain and waved his hands. Signaling the guards to take Leon away from him.

He was already raising a crippled heir of a Duke, there's no need to add another Baron's crippled son.

All the while Rebecca just kept silent and frowned even more seeing Leon's conditions. Her thoughts were the same as Alfred's. At first she thought Leon was a genius but looking at it now, she was probably expecting too much.

<In arcadia anyone with the help of proper pills and herbs can level up to rank A. So there are a lot of people who're still relying on them too much. And many times suffer a backlash and fall down in ranks like this or go completely insane.>

[Congratulations host, for destroying the foundation of protagonist Leon.]

[Host's calculations made Leon fall in ranks and lose consciousness.]

[Congratulations host for twisting the threads of fate for his own advantage. His understanding over Skuld's blessing increases.]

[Skuld sneers seeing the situation of the golden boy.]

[Loki giggles happily while planning something in secret.]

[Apollo feels confused and angry as host's action changes the mechanisms of God's plan.]

Rio ignored the barrage of notifications from the system as he carefully placed the vile of Leon's blood aside. And looked at the golden light in front of him, which slowly started shining brighter and taking the form of an illusory old man.