"Help! Are you there?! Please help me get out of here!"
I decide to act like a poor soul who somehow got into this hole, how that happened will depend on their imagination and my improv.
"Okay~"
A bubbly voice filled with fun arrives as a reply.
I straighten my right hand into a 'one-inch punch' and position it towards the sound of footsteps above.
A head pops up from above, just in case, if there is even the slightest possibility of an attack, I had already prepared to fire the new moves I developed while journeying through the last few hundred Worlds.
"Mr. If it isn't a bad time, how long have you been down there?"
The girl asks in a completely serious tone as if another girl shoved her aside midway and took the bubbly girl's place.
"First help me get out!"
But I can tell they are the same person.
"Alright alright~"
She pulls out something from what seems to resemble a waist pocket.
I can't see it clearly.
It seems like I'll have to be just as careful around them as fighting an Eldritch.
Just as the item pulled out leaves the pocket, before it even reaches my view, through my Demonic Sense, I can already make out it's shape and structure.
Its some sort of gem like stone, grey-white in colour, refracting lights that go under and put of it.
But to my eyes this isn't as simple of a case optics but, something more fundamental.
It feels as if it's the space that's bending instead of the light.
[Quick Edit(System):
Space Resistance- 1260->3(Temporary) -3 AP]
She appears to be channeling a bit of her Ether, something I collectively call the other forms of energy besides Prime Aether(Shortened)
Wooom
I hear the space around me contract, pulling me with it, towards the surface of the hole.
Normally, such space manipulation would not work on me, but I had already edited my system to a base human's- mine, if I was truly in my original body from Earth.
Ionly knew the Space Resistance stats of one human since coming here, and I hadn't encountered any humans beside me, until now that is.
As I am pulled forward, I brace myself for the new developments to follow.
...
As expected, they locked me in.
Inside A Ruby.
It's a 10 by 10 meter square room. All the walls are covered in crystal bright rubies, giving off an ominous hue, if I had not been prepared, it would have been dangerous.
[Passive skills
Artificial limiter lvl 10(ON)
Passive ability-Adaptative Tendency is being limited to scanning phenomenona.
Current progress: 92%...]
What I didn't expect was that I would find myself in a potentially very dangerous situation.
The story I told was 'A hole suddenly appeared out of nowhere' and pulled me in'.
Naturally they were skeptical, not to mention the hole immediately closed up just as I left.
That hole... at least the boundary leading to the outside wasn't created by me, it just appeared while I was climbing up.
If it can rip holes into dimensions, whatever created it, is actually threatening to me.
The 'Young Miss' ordered for my immediate confinement and trapped me inside a Ruby before I could even react.
When I pretended to be injusticed against, they consoled me saying that it was for my own good, to cleanse any bad influence from inside the Anomalous event, something probably common knowledge in this World.
But my scan tells me there is far more to this design-
[Current Progress: 100%(Scan Complete)
Giving name...'Crimson Prison'
Effects:
1. Suppressing non-native Power-system by 70%.
(Adaptation pending: Would you like to use the skill Instant adapt? (Y/N)->(N)
2. Partial Status Deduction.
(System Skill: Fake Status in effect)
3. History Searching.
(Quick skill creation: Random History Generation Lvl 1 -20 AP)
4. Dimensional Isolation.
(Skill Barrier Penetration lvl 45(OFF)
5. Self-Annihilation.
(Warning: It is advised to break away before it's activation.
Or elevate prototype Skill:
Complete Regeneration->Absolute Regeneration -100000 AP)
Effects saved as skill blue-print.
Would you like to design a skill or use Random Skill Generation on them?...]
Alright, at least there's not anything aside from History that could throw me off, just hope it's an okay enough History. I'll let the Central Multi-Processor handle the writing.
[Understood. Re-Interpretting the Effects and the structure of the Crimson Prison...]
I decide to first let the System fine tune the various other intricacies of the effects, and blue prints, before creating skills based on them.
At the same time, this also helps to make out this world's Ether's functions and how it is manipulated and try to find a way to do the same for Prime Aether without relying on AP.
In this way, throughout my journey, I have developed a total of 30 new power-systems by observing others use Ether in their native World.
Out of these 30, I primarily use 2-
Passive Adaptation, by deriving another ability from Tempered Evolution using AP, I gained Adaptative Tendency, that is the core ability of this system.
It helps me gather and scan my new environment, absorb a portion of it, and help me in regulating my stats and Physique using AP, to maintain an optimal condition in any World.
And perhaps the greatest weapon for a long time to come-
Dimensional Phaser, it is mainly created by using a few skills like
Barrier Penetration and Aether-Form, along with the System Skill, Fake Status.
Barrier Penetrationis one of the first skills I gained, if I had to go back, it was probably in that ruinous ritual site, when I was trying to find a way out of it.
I must have used AP unconsciously, judging by how desperate I was to get out and my panicked mental state around then.
But it resulted in me getting out, to another world entirely.
Aether-form, this is the skill I made on the basis of my original build before the mutation or integration, and the advantages provided by System editing.
This form quite literally makes me transform into that Aether-Born build from back then.
The System already had its source Physique's blue-print, so I able to transform into it using around 150 AP. Making it a transformation skill, Aether-form.
I still kept my Primordial status, so like the system says, I guess I can transform into anything as long as enough AP is thrown.
I had to create this skill on the spot while fighting an Eldritch, a fancy name I dubbed, for beings with no shape, form or even a proper Ether.
Just chaotic forces of cosmos, after encountering the first one, it chased me to near-death across 45 Worlds, when I finally created this skill.
But my Aether-form was still far from perfect, it needed something else to become one of my deadliest attacking methods.
That is where the System Skill, a skill directly affecting the System's content through editing it, Fake Status comes into play.
With it, I could change my status to anything. Without actually having any effect on my original status.
But since the Aether-form is one of my skills, I can edit it's status as well.
But when both Aether-form and Fake Status are used simultaneously, it starts changing my original status in a weird ambiguous way.
Back then, before the System, during the Genesis Assimilation, I wasn't really concious nor completely unconscious when the change from my Aether-Born existence to Primordial Demon was happening.
I don't have enough time or a safe space to leisurely become stronger, who knows what might happen before I even reach my full potential. I need to be strong NOW!
All I know, it was probably something very dangerous and ethereal process, if not for the innate Tempered Evolution I already had as an Aether-Born, anybody else would've already gone off and exploded.
That is why...
I'll use what I believe is the most significant event in all the time since my transmigration! I...
The system said, Power can emerge from status, history, and even nothingness, which signifies an infinite initialpotential-
So, I'll regain that initialpotential, the time when I was closest to having my Proof of Existence completely changed into a Primordial, when anything could have happened!
At That Moment of Evolution!
Will Not Wait.
...
As the Eldritch finally reaches this Dimension.
My aura feels as if it has completely vanished from the World.
Like Primordial Aether.
But I am still the most eye-catching in the Eldritch's eyes, but for the first time I see hesitation in it's eyes.
All my senses have been enhanced, I can even make out the form of vision it uses.
It feels like I can do anything, and they can just watch as I do the unthinkable.
"HahAhaHahaHA¡!"
I laugh aware that this form is harmful to me if used long enough, if not for my strengthened Tempered Evolution ability. I would have been wiped out from existence.
It's evident from the distorting glitch effect I am showing, as if scraping away pixels from the fabric of reality, and putting them back in a mangled state, completely different from before with a morbid appearance.
I form a 'chop' with my right hand and...
Shiiing
"##&@#||||#§§!¡¡!!¡!!¡¡!!!¡!"
Like spewing curses at the World and a little towards me, collapsing this world where we faced each other, the first Eldritchdied screaming.
...