I like you 8

Author: Read the auxiliary chapter in volume 0 first

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Shaolan's system was unusual to say the least. It birthed other systems, but it also got the ability to get all powers from fictions.

Meta Essences weren't exactly systems. Though they could be if the reincarnator in question willed them to upon reincarnation. There was also no teaching Meta Essences.

The contradictory combination of the first and second rule worked to Shaolan's full advantage. The bastard system wasn't surprised. It knew...

It didn't matter. Without shame, Shaolan used her four charges to make system-like packaged Meta Essences.

Starting with an Essence of the Butler.

The Essence of the Butler made the system some kind of ultimate Sebastian, ultimate Albedo, from Overlord. It could never think of betraying its master and would die from multiversal heavenly lightning, or depression if it miraculously survived.

To begin with, it couldn't get corrupted, and its loyalty was maxed to the apex. An apex even Li Qiye could never reach.

This wasn't the only cool thing about the Essence, but it was the only aspect Shaolan cared about. The secretive system, even if already loyal, was going to be obedient at last.

The second Essence which Shaolan spent her charge on was the most key of the four she got. She used it to get rid of all the system's limitations. Whether it was teaching or anything else.

That Essence was going to allow Shaolan to travel the Multiverse too.

The Essence was called Essence of Summoning. Like the next two Essence she got, she didn't fuse that one with the main system. She didn't need to.

Using this Essence, Shaolan literally summoned somebody that could get rid of the system's limitations. That person didn't exist, so she was created.

The Essence of Summoning was unreasonable like that… It was the power of a god.

Getting that Essence, Shaolan understood that she was living for fun.

The person the power created was someone that would never interfere with, plot against, harm or think to harm Shaolan, naturally. Summoning people, she could make those detailed requirements, and she did.

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Real time. Li household's backyard.

Shaolan's training had yet to resume. Seeing her slacking, the guards however didn't dare saying anything. They started respecting her a lot, and it was never their place to.

Fusing the last two Meta Essences with parts of her soul not tied to the system, Shaolan smiled oddly.

Trying to solve her issues, she created a god. A baby she. Yes, a baby god…

This was the new god watching over the world of Avatar. Or so she said to Shaolan when she soared into the clouds. After she was kindly named.

She didn't have a name and identified Shaolan as her mother.

This was the Essence of Summoning. Things that didn't exist would get birthed. The success rate of the summoning was 100% after all.

The Essence of Summoning worked like a search, creation engine when things its holder wanted didn't exist.

The number of details Shaolan could add during the search was endless. For example, because of the surrounding guards, she had the person summoned, Fey, as she named her, be invisible.

She also asked for her to be kind and loving.

Avatar had a new goddess, baby Fey. Shaolan wasn't sure what she would do. Nor did she care too much, since she wasn't allowed to meddle with her.

It was Shaolan's first summoning, so she made a few mistakes. If she was more cruel, more rational, she would've requested for the summoned person to be able to get the hell out of her world after the wish was granted. But she didn't.

Shaolan didn't even know that person would be a god. She should've if she was smarter.

She didn't know what kind of goddess Fey was, either. Likewise, she didn't have time to ask.

*Sigh*

Shaolan sighed. Hoping this wasn't going to bite her in the ass later, she finally fused the last two Essences she chose.

The Essence of Summoning could summon anything, anybody, anywhere. Including herself. So she could already travel the multiverse.

She wasn't limited in the number of other Essences she could get tomorrow or another day, so she chose the most basic powers she could think of. To have her fun.

With the Essence of Summoning, she didn't need to worry about a lot of things. That existed or didn't.

Her final picks, which she fused with, were the Essence of Corruption and the Essence of Beauty. Because why not.

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That same night.

Shaolan literally wanted to sell beauty in bags. Her ideas about business came up again. This time more for the fun of it...

Just when she decided to stop getting Essences ever again, because they were too broken, too distracting, Shaolan came to a startling thought. A shocking finding.

With the Essence of Summoning, she could become a man again. Someone out there could make her.

In a happy rush, when she searched for an individual who could, she was once more aghast. The weakest, nearest person who could turn her back, was actually a spirit from her own world.

"Mother of what?" Shaolan's eyes were strange, looking at the spirit's perverted name. Even more so when she found out the spirit already knew her, apparently.