Immortality Starts With Selling Pills

Chapter 21: Chapter 21: Consuming The Pills

Derrick stared at the pill in his hands. Unlike the pills he had seen up until now, this one was red. So much so that it looked like it was made of blood.

The pill was smooth to touch, like candy. It had no roughness to its surface like the pill Cassandra had bought.

Since this was a 100% pure pill, there were no impurities in this pill. It had nothing but pure medicinal properties.

Derrick did not even realize that he had been staring at the pill for a few minutes now, analyzing it.

[Please consume the pill as soon as possible. Otherwise, the quality of the pill will decrease. The more you keep it exposed to the air, the more it will degrade over time.]

If it had not been for the notification from the system, Derrick might have spent a bit more time checking it. Sniffing, licking, and other things he had in mind.

But now...

He threw the pill into his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.

A cool sensation swept through his body, following the path of the pill. Once the pill reached his stomach, the sensation started spreading all over his body.

He could feel the coolness spreading to the spots where he had been injured, soothing them.

Derrick’s eyes widened.

The sensation had suddenly changed. The cool sensation dug into his body on a muscular level. It stabbed him like small needles all over the place.

Like tiny needles of ice, it traced along his veins, mapping every inch of damage his body had taken. Where it found torn muscle, it lingered. Where it found bruised bone, it pressed deeper.

’This... this feels amazing.’

Before he could immerse himself in the sensation, it changed once more.

His body started heating up. It was nothing unbearable, but it felt like he was getting a fever of more than 100 degrees.

The warmth bloomed from his stomach. It spread out along with the pulsing energy, embedding itself in every corner of the body.

His fingertips tingled. His muscles twitched on their own.

[Assimilating pure medicinal energy...]

[Cellular regeneration in progress...]

[Please remain still. Any interruption may cause energy leakage.]

Derrick gritted his teeth and forced himself to stay still. The notification in his mind turned silent. Sweat beaded on his forehead despite the coolness still coursing through him. His heartbeat slowed, then steadied, falling into a strange new rhythm.

He could feel it. The changes occurring all over his body. Without even clutching his hands into a fist and throwing a punch, he knew...

He was becoming better. He was getting stronger.

He was... evolving.

’Don’t move. Don’t move. Don’t move.’

The warmth reached his bones next. He could have sworn he heard a faint crack, like something realigning itself, followed by an odd hollow feeling as marrow shifted and thickened.

Minutes passed. Or maybe it was seconds. Time had lost all meaning.

Finally, the sensations began to fade, retreating back toward his core, leaving behind a lingering warmth that pulsed in time with his heartbeat.

[Absorption complete.]

[Minor injuries: healed.]

[Physical attributes: enhanced.]

Derrick exhaled a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding.

He flexed his fingers experimentally. They moved faster than before, without any delay or hesitation.

Derrick could tell he had gotten twice as stronger as he was before. It was like he was on a complete different level from what he was a moment before.

”This is the effect of just taking one pill. What would happen if I took the rest of nine of them?”

The moment that thought passed in his mind, his eyes moved to the tab lying in his lap, and he realized three things.

First was that it had taken him 10 minutes just to absorb one pill. The second was that he could feel the pain in his body had faded by a lot.

The surface injuries had been healed from the effects of the pill, and the deeper ones had become less pronounced.

The last thing he noticed was his sheet was completely drenched in his sweat.

So were his pillow and blanket.

”Ah, I should have known.” Even after reading so many cultivation novels, he could not believe something as basic as this would skip his mind just because he was excited.

”If I break through here, I might even release some impurities and toxins from my body.” Derrick thought to himself before standing up from the bed.

Much to his surprise, he no longer needed someone’s help to do something as simple as that anymore.

”2-3 more of those and I can heal completely.” He calculated while moving out of the room. Climbing the stairs, he arrived on the second floor, where they had a shared bathroom.

Derrick passed by Rebecca’s room, where he could hear faint conversation between her and Cassie. He did not linger and continued to the door next to hers.

The bathroom door slid open with a soft hiss, sensors picking up his presence before his hand even reached for a switch.

Soft blue light flickered on along the walls, tracing the outline of the room like veins of neon.

The floor was a seamless white material, faintly warm beneath his bare feet, self-cleaning panels humming quietly under the surface.

A holographic display blinked to life above the sink, ready to project the time, the weather, or anything he wanted.

Derrick barely spared it a glance.

His eyes were fixed on the bathtub in the corner. It was sleek, oval-shaped, carved out of some smooth composite material that looked almost like glass.

Derrick started striping as he walked towards it, his clothes falling to the ground. He did not bother to pick them up and put them in the clothing chute carved in the wall, which sucked in the dirty clothes and spat clean, dry ones in a few minutes.

A soft chime sounded as he approached the tub, and it began to fill on its own, sensing his intent.

’Convenient.’

Derrick slipped inside, without waiting for it to fill completely, and settled down in the water... No, it was not water.

It was a gel-like liquid that clung to his skin. Not only did it regulate the temperature of his body, but it also removed the dirt and impurities from the surface of his skin and moved them to the bottom, away from him.

’No point holding back now.’ Derrick ignored everything and cleared his mouth before taking out the second pill.