Worry

Unbeknownst to me, the moment I had that terrifying thought the cosmos itself shook.

Due to this a being that emitted a pressure that could destroy planets just with a single glance opened his eyes in the starry space.

'Hmm'

However, just as quickly as the shaking of the cosmic began it ended.

With this, the being closed his eyes as he didn't think much of the anomaly.

Back on Hive an abundance of thoughts, we're going through my head.

I learned so much in a matter of minutes and before I could even begin to fully comprehend it I was hit with a hard truth.

'Willow is cursed by the god of desire? Does that mean the past couple of days we spent together was nothing but the external forces of the curse?' I couldn't help but think as my feelings of betrayal were resurfacing. 'First, it was my own family, then the planet, now the first person I was starting to get close to.'

I felt so much anger at this moment the only thought I could ask was, 'Why?!'

'Apparently, because I want Willow's teleportation ability it counts as a desire and part of her soul belongs to me. This means that once I defeat the men who are trying to take over this world my desire will be complete and her soul will shatter. But not only that the god who cursed her will become even stronger,' Fury, anger, hate, but most of all disappointment filled my body.

'This cruel world that bullies the weak and takes advantage of them… I will destroy with my own cruelty. Fuck the righteous and those who wish to create a better place. If the universe itself throws a punch at me I'll obliterate it, if a god threatens me I'll slaughter them, and all those who get in my way I'll use as stepping stones to rule over every being,' This I swear to myself.

'For now, though it's time to defeat… you!' Now being at level 98 and having my skills more than double I use countless abilities to see further away and through the defenses of the castle. They're in a huge golden room where four men are kneeling before a being with a crown on his head as he sat upon a throne.

Waves of my bloodlust came crashing down into that room causing the hairs on each of their bodies to stand upright.

'Just wait, your death is nearing at every passing second.'

Retracting my senses I focus my attention on Willow. She had been looking at me curiously for the last minute due to me turning towards her then freezing. She was probably waiting for me to talk but instead, I was staring off into space from her perspective.

"Did you know that we lose the sys-"

The moment I attempted to say that we would lose the system my mouth closed with a force that I couldn't even sense.

Surprised by this I try to say it again, "At level one-hundre-" Once again my mouth was forced shut.

'Is this what it means when it says it's a cosmic law. I can't even speak about it? No wonder the gods can't do anything, it's the universe that doesn't want us to have systems,' I say to myself as I hypothesize.

"Yes I know about it, but how do you? You need to be at least level… oh…" Willow began to say as she understood what I was trying to get out. But in order to know that information a person must be level 95. However, just a couple of minutes ago I was level 68 and now I'm 98; thirty levels stronger. So once she sensed my strength she quickly went quiet as I was now only one level lower than her.

"How are we supposed to get stronger than if we lose the thing that got us strong in the first place," I ask, uncaring of the fact that Willow was trying to process how I got so much stronger. "I mean I will be practicing losing everything that makes me powerful. How is this fair?"

Willow coming out of her stupor says, "Well, it's not it's the system that makes us stronger it really doesn't do that much if you think about it. The only main thing it gives us is skills when we level up, other than that it just displays the skills. But by our level, we can sense how much mana and health we have left which again makes it not that important. The only reason that it would be a bad thing is if a person was blessed by more than one god because only one ability will remain. But I've never met anyone who has been double blessed nor do I even know if there is such a thing."

'Fuck, fuck, fuck! That is the whole reason I AM UPSET! I have more than one blessing and the effects of my first blessing will be ruined once I lose the system.' Pacing back and forth my face becomes even uglier as I realize just how important the system is for me. 'All the abilities I've stolen so far will be deleted putting me back at square one. But not only that if I go on to continue to steal more abilities from those that I kill will I even be able to know what they are? It is the system that gives me a description of every ability, how will I know what it is or how to use it? I am so fucked!'

"I for one can't wait to reach level 100 because then I'll be fr…" A look of pain crosses Willow's face for a split second that I almost didn't notice before she corrected herself. "... Because then we will be able to use essence!"

"Essence?" I question looking confused.

"You didn't read about it?" Willow asks. "It appears at the same time we are told that we lose, well, it."

'Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that. I was so focused on the fact that I would be losing the system and that Willow is cursed that I didn't even finish reading all the notifications I got.'