The Devil Who Grants Wishes - Chapter 234



234 – System (2)

I can never get used to this feeling.

I’m definitely not familiar with the emotions I’ve felt many times. Every time I feel it, I feel a lot of new and unknown sensations.

Well, it’s a system, so I decided to do it now. Since he can wield power close to that of a single god who can control the world as he pleases, this feeling is not that strange from that perspective.

“Stella, please do me a favor.”

[Oh my gosh, Faust, you always come to me only when you have something to ask for.]

While in contact with the system, I ask Stella’s thoughts to assist me. Unlike when she was stuck in my world of images, Stella, who has an artificial body created by Elias, frowns slightly at my request, but quickly nods and agrees.

I had already explained what I had to do in advance, and more than anything, Stella thought that the only person who could do this was herself, who had once been the owner of the God of Light.

The system called divine power was created by the system, and the first divine power created by the system was the divine power of light. Once someone has possessed the status of light, he or she is qualified to contact the system, so when I destroy the system, there is no one but Stella who can help me.

[Faust I will take care of all the unnecessary things while you are in contact with the system. So feel free to destroy the system and come back.]

“…Thank you. But are you really okay? I can revive you before I destroy the system?”

[Is that still the sound? It’s already been more than a thousand years since we died, so what’s the point of coming back to life now? In the first place, the period in which I, as a thought, existed longer than the period in which the real Stella was alive, so am I not the original body at this point?]

“Well, I understand. I understand, so stop.”

[They started there first and told me to stop on my own. Anyway, let’s get started quickly. It would be better to finish it quickly.]

Stella, who is inside a golem with a face similar to that of an iron mask, waves his hands and urges me to hurry up and get to work.

Ah, I said I would have done it now even if I didn’t ask him that much.

Gooooo

When you completely transfer your senses to the system, the five senses that filled your body just a moment ago are suddenly overwritten by the unknown and disappear.

Stella, who was glaring at me

Visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and auditory, literally all of my senses are overtaken by the influence of the system, making me feel as if I am isolated from the world.

Well… It’s true that we’re really isolated from the world.

[Accessor name, Faust.]

“System, why did you create Xinyu?”

[Unable to understand command.]

The system responds to my question with a beeping mechanical sound, saying it cannot understand.

Of course this is a lie. The system obviously understands my question, but it doesn’t want to answer, so it’s just lying and saying it doesn’t understand.

As expected… The system is not just an algorithm. He clearly has an ego to some degree.

I’m not sure how high the level is, though.

“At first, the system was just a simple algorithm. But after tens of thousands of years of constantly repeating the algorithm, observing and calculating the world, it finally gained an identity… Something like that.”

It is similar to the process by which animals come to have a sense of self. This is the case of animals that, through the eons-long process of reproduction and birth, in which their DNA is reconstructed, are fortunate enough to develop a mutation that allows them to think, and thus acquire a sense of self.

There is no response from the system.

“I don’t even know who created the system. No, it would be more correct to say that I’m not even sure whether the system came into being by itself or was created by someone. The same goes for you, too. Why on earth do you exist? I wonder… He probably has that kind of feeling.”

[Unable to understand command.]

“So, you may have tried to find the reason for your existence by creating a god of light and projecting yourself into it… But unfortunately, that was not the answer you thought. So, you gave the children the ability to become infinitely stronger. “I made it possible to remove the divine status of light.”

When I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.

Something that cannot exist naturally, that is, everything that does not exist on Earth, is probably all caused by the intervention of the system.

Typically, as I just mentioned, there is divine status, but other than that, there are things like the ability to become infinitely stronger, magic, demons that feed on bad feelings, and numerous other races.

I don’t know exactly why the system created such things, but… I can be sure of one thing.

The system did not like the system called Shinwi, so it created Lucia, Iris, Celestine, Lena, Irene, and even me, beings that could become infinitely stronger, or to an unimaginable amount, and destroyed Shinwi.

Despite the fact that he clearly knew that the tip of the blade that destroyed the divine power would eventually point towards the system itself.

[…]

“You are you. You may think of yourself as nothing more than a machine, but aren’t you already capable of thinking this far? Just being able to think proves that you are not a machine. That thought is reflected in the algorithm. Even if it is just a simple output process, if you are aware of that fact, you exist as an entity.”

Still no response from the system.

The midges wrapped around my body wriggle like earthworms and sweep through my five senses, but I don’t feel any hostility in those sensations.

[What do you want?]

And not long after, an answer finally comes from the system.

Until now, if you’ve been speaking like a machine with no emotions, with a lot of mechanical sounds mixed in as if you’re talking about concepts, now it’s not like that at all.

It is so human and so full of emotions.

The unknown that surrounds my five senses is not just unknown, but changes into mystery.

“You know best what you want. Isn’t that why I made you so strong? I’ll make you comfortable. Just take a break.”

[Are you telling me to die now?]

“It is just the ending you have wanted. Now that I have fully recovered my power, I am capable of destroying the power that creates laws. Everything in the world could not even exist without your permission, so my existence is what you wish for. “It proves what came to fruition.”

As an overwhelming amount of power erupted from my entire body, the energy of the system that was filling the space was instantly crushed by my power and disappeared.

The reason I became so strong is because the system created new rules to make it so, but that doesn’t mean the system is stronger than me. Because a system is just the rules that make up the world.

“After destroying the system… How about enjoying a normal life?”

[…Ordinary life?]

“Isn’t your life so boring that you have been manipulating the world as you please? You have been manipulating the world’s life forms as if they were toy soldiers, creating countless races like an elementary school student writing a delusion diary, and even creating something called a divine power. You even created gods, without any malice. It proves that you are bored with your own life.”

Why isn’t there something like that? If you use cheats to play a game, you’ll quickly get bored of it.

The current state of the system can be seen as similar to that.

You get sick of the game because you always use cheats to play it, but if you have to repeat that game forever for tens of thousands of years, it would be no different from torture.

“It doesn’t matter whether you are born as an insect, an animal, a human, an elf, or a dragon. You will definitely be able to feel the joy that you could not feel when you were omnipotent and reigning over all things. That’s it.”

[If you die, isn’t that the end?]

“What else are you worrying about when you can just be reincarnated? All living things live different lives, so even people of the same species live different lives, so you will never get tired of it.”

[…]

I couldn’t hear the answer, but I heard enough.

Because the mystery of the system that enveloped my five senses is turning into a mystery that can be understood.

“I will completely destroy the concept of a system. Previously established laws will still be valid, but no new laws will be created. Then… Enjoy your life.”

Kwazijik-!!!

Use the mystery of the system that surrounds the five senses to destroy all algorithms that can create new laws. Of course, the part that makes up the self of the system is an exception.

Even though you may feel that your power is fading away, the system does not offer any resistance.

It just silently watches my actions and soon creates a sphere with a blue glow.

As the bluish sphere is gradually completed, the energy of the system that filled this space is rapidly disappearing.

If the system had tried to escape by putting its power into that sphere, it would have had to destroy that sphere as well, but that is not necessary.

That sphere does not have the power to create new laws in the world, but only contains the ego of the system.

“Is that your soul that you created? So, what are you trying to be born with?”

[First of all… Let’s start with the most insignificant creature, a bug. Because I don’t think it would be fun to be born as a dragon, the strongest race from the beginning.]

“I thought well. If that bug grows stronger by leveling up countless times, one day it will be able to compete with the dragon. Try to achieve that feat.”

The system responded to my words by shaking its body once, then completely disappeared from my sight and descended into the world.

As the system disappears, the collapse of the concept that can create laws begins to accelerate to a level beyond my control. Even if we leave it like this, the creation of new laws will never be realized.

…It’s really over now. I need to get out of here before I get caught up.