Arin was finally relaxing, drifting through space as a molten planet-sized golem with a buggy system and two ridiculous skills: Burning and Bleeding.
Life was weird, but at least stable.
Until something tugged at him.
A faint gravitational pull from far away.
He extended his awareness outward… and saw it.
A huge, jagged rock drifting through space—growing bigger every second.
"…Is that coming toward me?"
The object entered his gravitational influence… then shot toward him like a missile.
It was an asteroid.
A massive one.
"Oh no. Oh no no no— SYSTEM?"
The system chimed.
[Notice: A rock is falling toward Host.]
"A ROCK?" Arin shouted. "That's a WHOLE MOUNTAIN IN SPACE!"
But the system continued calmly:
[Rock collision predicted.]
[Impact in: 14 seconds.]
"FOURTEEN SECONDS—SYSTEM, HELP!"
[…]
No response.
The asteroid hit his atmosphere, igniting into a blazing inferno.
FWOOOOOOSH
It tore through his sky and—
BOOOOOOOOM!!!
The explosion was world-shattering.
Lava erupted upward in a massive geyser, ash clouds engulfed continents, and a crater the size of a country blasted open on his surface. Many pieces of rocks were thrown upward which fall back on the planet.
Arin felt every bit of it.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH— THAT'S NOT A ROCK, THAT'S A PLANET-KILLER!"
For several minutes he just lay there—mentally—trying not to cry lava.
Then the system finally beeped:
[Recording acquired: Hit by Rock ×1]
[Recording acquired: Blunt Damage ×126]
[Recording acquired: Host fell down (metaphorically) ×999+]
Arin stared.
"System… fell down!? I am a PLANET. I don't FALL DOWN!"
The system ignored him and continued:
[Notice: Enough rock-hitting records gathered.]
[Generating skill…]
Arin waited, trembling.
"Please… please be a good one… for once…"
[Skill generation successful.]
[Skill Generated: Rock Resistance]
{Effect: Reduces damage taken from falling rocks by 1%.}
Arin went silent.
Very silent.
"…One percent."
His entire crust trembled.
"And NOT asteroid resistance. ROCK resistance."
[…]
The system stayed quiet, as if proud of itself.
Arin exploded—literally.
Dozens of volcanoes erupted at once in sheer frustration.
"A 500-KILOMETER METAL ASTEROID HITS ME, AND YOU CALL IT A ROCK!?"
But the system finally chimed:
[Host is a golem. Rocks hit golems. Asteroids hit planets. Host is a golem.]
Arin froze.
"…I'm literally a PLANET."
[…]
"System?"
[…]
"Oh great, back to silent mode again."
Arin grumbled, staring at the new crater on his surface.
"Well… at least future asteroids—sorry, 'rocks'—will hurt 1% less."
He sighed.
And then… something caught his attention.
Far in space…
More "rocks" were falling toward him.
And this time?
There were a lot of them.
"System… why are there so many rocks?"
[Host should walk where he is walking.]
Arin felt his entire mantle twist in despair.
"What walking i am a planet."
"…I'm going to die from stupidity. Not from impacts—from your stupidity."
But the rocks kept coming.
And with them—more records.
More skills.
More evolution.