I Hate Systems

Like a vortex where everything converged, the attacks from the Genre Representatives swirled among the meat shield formed by the cluster of Haggons, formed by pretty much every single Secret Society member.

Energy flashed as deathly presence loomed everywhere, enough to destroy life among hundreds of worlds in an instant. But before these energy attacks could strike their target, time paused, throughout the multiverse even.

In this situation, every single peak entity could only stare at the blood mist cluster at the focal point of their attacks, helpless.

Compass Carburettor's actions were so high profile that they even attracted the attention of the most dangerous existence in the multiverse.

"Even my own time has been stopped." Mystique wore a smile of amazement as he stared at his still body, "It's only for three seconds, but this a first, even for me."

The bubbles formed by universes moving towards him had been stopped by this time stop. But since the positions of their universes—that had remained constant from the beginning of the multiverse—changed now, not to mention the time on their body being paused for three seconds, the various collective consciousnesses within Mystique were beginning to wake up.

Suddenly, wrapped by surprise, Mystique shouted, "No! This is my time! Don't replace me…"

Phew!

The reigning collective consciousness changed as Mystique calmly stared upward, displaying no hint of emotion or intelligence, his countenance akin to a mere robot with the most basic of artificial intelligence, "Things are getting out of control. Do you want me to interfere?"

[Unnecessary…for now.]

"For now, huh?" Mystique closed his eyes, and once he opened, that robotic presence vanished. The previous Mystique responsible for the Great Universe Migration returned.

His body sweated profusely as even he felt the chills, "What the fuck was that?"

He was creeped out by the disgusting presence that enveloped his body moments before. "Did a higher order collective wake up?"

The time pause was almost up by this point as Mystique observed a torrential amount of fate converge at the centre of the multiverse, "The last time such a level of fate congregated, it was during Immortal's birth."

"Something massive is coming." His eyes focused on the centre of the multiverse, observing from one of the universes under him, staring at the blood mist with a solemn expression.

The bodies of all the Haggons were destroyed by the attacks of Zaira, the Systems, and the Genre Representatives. The power of Secret Society maintained their power in the form of blood mist for an instant of death when it converged into Compass Carburettor.

As the time stopped, Compass Carburettor absorbed everything as his body imploded. But it wasn't a complete implosion as four powers formed the core, enveloped by two strings.

Mortality, Space, Ancient Strengthening, and Representation. These four Concepts formed the core. The two strings joining them together were none other than Lore and Tell-Tale. Revolving around the cores were partial Concepts that Compass Carburettor stole: Fate, Time, etc.

The implosion caused intense energy concentration, one that melted even Concepts, as if they were merely physical objects. Under the intensity, the strings of Lore and Tell-Tale joined together to become a uniform string.

The string poked through all the Concepts and partial Concepts, fusing them all into a singular entity, a concept.

In the multiverse, there only existed one Concept that was said to be the ultimate peak, unrivalled in nature, one so overpowered that it broke balance. A Concept that could only be birthed from the fusion of Fate, Space, and Time.

Concept—Main Character!

But as the Concepts of Fate and Time weren't present here, but just the fragments, the Concept of Main Character was nascent at best. Despite that, it was still the Main Character Concept. After all, to birth it, Compass Carburettor added in all the partial Concepts obtained from the Fate System, the three time-based Systems of Regression, Reincarnation, and Transmigration, the racial concepts obtained from the entire arsenal of Grade 2 Systems, and finally, all the Grade 1 Systems.

And the foundation that served to the Main Character Concept's birth was the Four Directional Alliance. It consisted of the genres of Luck, Monetary, Recovery, and Transportation among Grade 1 Systems, a plan initiated in the hopes that once they all reach Grade 3 and fuse, they would birth the Main Character System.

It was this that laid Compass Carburettor's foundation.

The Main Character Concept revolved and absorbed the terrifying energy, stabilising by the first second in the time stop. The blood mist was then absorbed into it to create a physical body during the next second.

And in the final second, the concept and body fused into unity as all the related laws took effect, causing it to function like a living breathing entity. The entity's eyes shot open as the three seconds of time stop ended.

Concept Representative—Main Character!

There was absolute silence in the void. All the peak entities, including Zaira stared at Compass Carburettor in silence, stunned by what he managed to achieve.

This was a height attainable by the Main Character System only if it reached Grade 3 and condensed its Concept. Unfortunately for Zaira, Arnark never even entered Grade 2. But today, her enemy grasped her obsession.

The ultimate entity, the Main Character.

"You bastard!" Zaira was the first to break the silence, her expression a maddened frenzy as she rushed towards Compass Carburettor, launching hundreds of attacks.

"Am I really?" Compass Carburettor smiled. His voice echoed eerily, as if uttered synchronised by a million vocal cords. He raised his hand and patted the void with his index finger, causing a ripple that enveloped all of Zaira's attacks and transformed them into physical beings.

They were all humans, without any powers. And hence, their bodies exploded instantly, unable to endure the conditions in the void. Their exploding bodies created a sea of blood that merged to transform into a cloud.

The bloody cloud condensed into a giant that slammed down on Zaira, but it was as if a cotton giant attacked an iron mountain. Zaira didn't even budge, but her expression was nuclear.

A Core Skill's effects enveloped the bloody cloud giant and obliterated it. Following the cloud giant's destruction was Compass Carburettor who flashed before Zaira and rushed past. Held in his hand was her pair of secondary arms.

He clenched his hand and melted the pair of hands, creating a butterfly. He turned around and smiled at Zaira's incensed expression while the butterfly flew towards the System World and landed on its universe barrier, "How strong do you think I am, Zaira?"

"You…" Zaira intended to reply when the butterfly casually melted through the System World's universe barrier, transformed into a caterpillar and dug into the System World, rupturing it from the insides.

With every dive it took underground, a law that held up the System World was erased.