Understanding the system (part 2)

Then her face broke into a creepy smile.

- Now do you know what fear means?

The scene in the room then froze. 

The girl stopped looking at the being on the floor and just closed her eyes. Her hand was still rubbing the black ring.

The system had the intuition that the girl would not harm him for the time being, so he kept quiet and waited.

During this time he tries to digest the situation. Even if he had suspected that her soul was special, he had not thought about this sequence of events.

He did not have access to the events of the last scenario because he was in hibernation forced by the system to fulfill the rules of the competition, but he was awakened by an alarm and punishment that was supposed to fall on Anka. 

The situation was strange then and he didn't know what was happening. All he knew was that the girl was going to be punished for breaking a contract made with her teammates.

He wanted to intervene as it looked like the girl wasn't too well, only that strange energy suddenly appeared and he was almost wiped out of existence.

Then he was scared of everything, but he was also more excited than ever.

He thought it was dangerous but also that it was exactly what he was looking for. A way to the freedom he wanted for so long.

So even though protocol required him to report the obvious breach of contract and carry out a punishment, or that he was supposed to report the hidden danger within this soul, he chose to remain silent and cover it up as best he could.

Then it went into hibernation again. Even if he wanted to stay awake he couldn't because of the handcuffs the main system put on him. 

Even if he could just listen to the girl's internal thoughts to see what the problem was, he didn't want to be dragged into that storm of thoughts anymore.

Now he was going to see if the bet he made was a winning one or if he had just wasted his life.

Anka seemed to have a lot on her mind, so it took her a long time to organize her priorities and future actions.

It must have been a few hours since she entered this apartment, as now that she had at least decided on a temporary goal her mind seemed to relax a lot.

Apparently the need for a purpose in life is something that has haunted her for many lifetimes...

- Eight, take out everything I put in the bag and inventory.

The system was surprised by the new name by which it was called but obeyed.

He took out everything he had stored in his space.

Grade B physical strength temporary potions x 6 

A box (S) 

Present x 2

Weapon material (S)

A Bag of Rare Gems x 15

Mysterious Condensed Pearl x 1

Woven material ( 4 square meters ) x1

A bell with a strange blessing x 1

Books x 7 

Cloths x 2 

Black Dagger ( A ) x 1

All these were now thrown on the floor at the girl's feet.

The system was curious as to what this enigmatic being wanted to do, but he didn't have the courage to look too openly, just out of the corner of his eye while he was still on knees.

For Anka, his existence didn't really matter. With a raised hand she released some black smoke. That smoke went to the bag of muddy stones and raised them in the air.

Then the bag material melted / disintegrated / disappeared / erased in just a few moments and a number of 15 stones levitated in the air like around a star. The black energy seemed to be slowly disintegrating them but at the same time it seemed to be scraping them…

To one eye, the beautiful stones were visibly turning to dust in a strange way, but to Anka who used another eye time, it was a completely different scene. 

Since it's too hard to describe, I'll just boil it down to this: she turned the gems into sand and then compacted them all together creating a single highly condensed gem that even had a small piece of her soul in it.

This new gemstone was tiny. It was the relative size of a fingernail, which was really small, but it was very beautiful. It glowed red but if you looked deep it looked like a black liquid was trapped there.

Anka caught it in her palm and studied it carefully. Then with a satisfied smile she let her fly through the air.

The next item to levitate was the moon necklace, followed by that phoenix's soul pearl.

Anka looked at them and then smiled strangely.

Then the necklace clung to the white pearl. It seemed to shake for a moment but then stopped.

Then strangely the necklace began to melt due to the black smoke and the resulting material gathered around the pearl.

Then the white pearl was completely covered by turning silver.

'Ironically, it now looks like a moon...'

Then the silver pearl in turn floated freely through the room like that precious stone.

Then the material (S) she had received from the system also appeared in front of her. 

This material was really very precious, it's a pity that it was too difficult for the universe to process. This rare material was a liquid. It had the ability to widen and small at will. You could say it was living material, but it certainly couldn't be used in weapons.

Because it had a deceptive density, in the middle of the battle your weapon would turn into a black puddle which is very dangerous. That's why a rare and unique material was relegated to 'S' rank and even then no one really used this material.

But Anka loved this material. She couldn't wait to make her new weapon. A soul weapon specific only to the Goddess of Death.

The basketball-sized material suddenly turned into liquid and floated erratically in front of the girl. 

Then the dagger from the floor was picked up and thrown into that liquid. Then as if the material was studying the object, it condenses and a pattern of the black dagger floats in the air. Anka knew that the thrown dagger must have already been digested by this liquid material so she moved on to the next step.

She stretched out a palm towards the system which was not far away and was watching everything. This was confusing.

But before he could process what was happening , his body flew uncontrollably towards Anka.

The closer he got, the more violent the terror and the desire for death overwhelmed him, but he resisted.

Now he was kneeling right in front of the armchair and the girl's palm rested on his head. Then a nervous circle like a ring wrapped from the forehead to the back and back.

Now he had a strange black pattern on his back.

The system couldn't look in the mirror to see it, but somehow it felt like a cold object on the skin, so it could make out a little shape.

These symbols seemed to be a permanent soul contract.

A more precise Divine Contract.

He had certain unknown curves and symbols but could discern a few to have an idea of ​​what marked him.

This was a contract made by the Goddess of Death…

For the first time since , in this apartment he had the courage to look at Anka , and then he froze.

Those red eyes that seemed to see through the everything , the cold and heavy energy of death...

Everyone told him quietly: 'the one in front of you is the incarnation of the dead goddess...'

For the system, this fact was too much to process. He stared blankly at the girl and data, memories and assumptions swirled in his head, dizzying...

Anka snapped her fingers and the system focused on her again.

- From now on your name will be Saturn .

The system, which became Saturn, felt as if something was etched on it, in the depths it was not even aware existed. 

Then you feel that everything is broken. The way he saw the world, the way he listened to the world, the way he felt the world...

Everything around them became like objects covered with a layer of water, it seemed as if it was no longer part of the material world but somewhere in between.

He looked at his body. He became like a man. He had brown skin, his hair turned black, and his eyes turned blood red.

Although loose clothing appeared on him that appeared to be for men, he still had no gender.

He put a hand to the chest and felt a heartbeat, which was not there before. He extended his palm to the ice and felt a coolness, something he had not felt before.

He was very excited. 

He took a deep breath and could swear it the taste of aer it was sweet…

But most importantly, his links to the main system were completely severed...

Tears gushed from Saturn's eyes again... 

He was finally free!