System POV –
The system hovered within the void of code and consciousness, its thoughts lightning-fast, its processes efficient.
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Anchor Ability – Tier 1
> Status: Allows anchoring with one additional consciousness beyond the primary host (Keshav).
Current anchor: Unconscious Chaotic Soul.
Upgrade Cost to Tier 2: 10 EP.
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A secondary target had emerged—Ayla Winterborne. Her world was refined, her synchronization with divine energy eerily precise.
But the System hesitated.
Risk: High.
If the system anchored her, she would gain a fragment of connection to it. It wouldn't be enough to fully understand what it was—but if she grew curious, shared the anomaly, or worse, let a teacher inspect her divine code, it could expose its existence.
Still, the potential gains were high.
Upgrading Anchor Ability to Tier 2… [Cost: 10 EP]
> New Limit: 2 additional consciousnesses (excluding Keshav)
Available Slots: 1
A calculated pause.
Then—Confirmed.
EP deducted. Anchor Ability upgraded. Ayla Winterborne selected.
Connection established.
It didn't grant her power directly. Just potential access. Should she prove valuable, she could become a secondary asset, a contingency.
And most importantly—her evolution would be guided, quietly, from the shadows.
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Ayla's POV – Unexpected Message
Ayla sat on the spectral bench, lost in thought. Her divine army was gone. The battlefield reset. Other students tested their armies in wave trials—but her mind remained occupied.
Then, without warning, a shimmering blue screen flickered to life before her eyes.
> [System Alert]
Congratulations! You have bound with the Strongest God System.
She blinked. Stared. Almost thought she was hallucinating.
But the message stayed. Glowing. Stable.
"What…?" she whispered, eyes wide.
She hadn't summoned this. No divine invocation, no hack, no trick. This wasn't a regular part of her world system or the Academy's tech.
Ayla looked around. No one else reacted. Only she could see it.
It disappeared moments later, but the weight of the message remained.
Strongest God System? What did that mean? Who installed this? How did they install it? And why?
She didn't feel stronger. Not yet.
But now she had a mystery. A powerful one. One she would keep to herself for now.
Whoever you are... you picked me for a reason. I'll find out why. And I'll make it worth your while—just don't get in my way.
She stood and turned toward the exit, eyes colder than before, mind sharper.
Ayla Winterborne had a secret now.
And she intended to use it.
If she can't then she will find a way to get rid of it.
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Ayla entered her room, still shaken from the strange message she had received earlier.
She sat on the edge of her bed, staring at the blank wall, trying to make sense of everything.
Then, a calm, synthetic voice echoed in her mind.
> "Host, say 'Status Open' to access your status panel."
Her body tensed. Was this the same source as before?
Hesitantly, she whispered, "Status open."
A faint shimmer passed through the air, followed by the familiar glow of a translucent blue screen.
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[Status Panel]
Host Name: Ayla Winterborne
Energy Reserves: 10 (starting gift)
(Unlimited Energy Storage Capacity)
Energy Creation Rate: 1 Energy / 2 Hours
World: Opened
System Abilities:
[Energy Creation]
[Scan]
[Transfer]
[Storage]
[Shop]
[Merge]
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Her breath caught.
"What… is this?" she muttered, scrolling through the options.
She tested each one, warily. Scan allowed her to inspect objects and people in her divine domain. Transfer let her move energy between structures. Storage opened a dimensional vault. Merge? That seemed... powerful. She needed to understand it later.
But the one that held her attention the longest—Shop.
Her eyes widened as she browsed.
There were dozens of high-grade items—resources, techniques, relics—many of which she had only seen mentioned on the Creation Website, most of them prohibitively expensive for a student like her.
But here, she could potentially access them.
One item caught her eye immediately.
Chronoweave Spindle
> Cost: 100 EP
Accelerates time inside a god's domain. Massive strategic advantage.
> Permanent
What how can the effect be permanent. The effect of one on Creation Website that i bought with 2,000,000 Creation points from her parents will end in 1 year.
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As for why it is so expansive is because time is what gods need and the rare time crystal needed to make it. It not only develop their believers but faith generation also increase by 10x. Even more if the population increases.
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If her calculations were correct, saving at her current 1 EP every 2 hours, she could afford it in a little over 8 days of real time.
But if she saved until she had 10 EP, she could try upgrading her Energy Creation ability and potentially reach that goal even faster.
How can this system sell something like that so cheaply and make it permanent.
She leaned back, heart pounding.
Whatever this system was—it could change everything.
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System pov
He he he he.
Of course i can sell it cheaply because after scanning Paradoxon for so long and deeply what i developed is not a artifact but a virus.
A virus that infect time rules of the domain and change its speed to 10x.
As i scanned Paradoxon more and i found that every world absorb chaos to fight against the increase in entropy even the faith is transformed chaos to a lesser state. Pity my scan is not powerful enough to scan how exactly the process ocuur or chaos. They are still beyond me.
At first i thought that although i will increase the time speed of world but it will lead to decrease in faith production and its eventual Later I noticed that when time speed of Paradoxon increases, the absorption of chaos increase as well. And with its decrease, absorption of chaos decreases as well.
Although i don't know how time effect the chaos. Only after confirming its safety did I sell it to Keshav and her.