The room was a crypt of shadows when my eyes flickered open, the sky beyond still clinging to darkness, as if dawn were a promise it refused to honor. Silence buzzed in my ears—a sound that explained nothing and smothered everything. Yet there she was, pressed against me, her arm draped across my chest as if I belonged to her. I didn't. In an instant, my body turned to stone, every muscle screaming against that unwanted touch. Irritation surged hot up my throat, and I shoved her—hard, with a cruel edge. She hit the floor with a dull thud, the wooden boards creaking faintly under her weight.
For a fleeting second, the world held its breath. Then she stirred, her eyes flashing with a tangle of fury and groggy sleep.
— "What the hell is this?" — Her voice ripped through the stillness, hoarse and jagged like shattered glass.
I said nothing. Arms crossed, I shot her an icy glare—the kind that freezes any retort dead. She rubbed her face, struggling to stand, her movements clumsy, still caught in the shock of the fall. But then her gaze locked onto mine, steady and piercing, and something shifted. The anger slipped from her face, replaced by a gleam I couldn't read—and didn't want to. I tilted my chin up and turned my eyes to the void.
That's when the system flared before me, its grating mechanical hum slicing the silence:
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Achievement Unlocked: Designated the Lady of Destiny as your Companion Candidate; Concealed.
Reward:
➤ 2 Supreme Upgrade Vouchers
➤ 8 Supreme Evolution Vouchers
Bonus:
➤ 5 Primordial Beast Offspring Eggs
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The words danced in the air, cold and luminous, hurled into being without explanation. I had no clue what I'd done to earn them. Maybe that was better—one less tether to hold me down. But those rewards… they struck like a punch I never saw coming. Not for their grand names, but for what they carried: power. Power I hadn't chased, power that landed in my lap unasked.
— "Interesting," — I murmured, so low I barely heard myself.
I've got rules—rules forged into me like iron. Free power is like tasteless food: it fills you up but leaves your soul empty. What matters is the journey—the cuts, the sweat, the cost you pay to climb to the top. Without that, it's just ashes scattered by the wind.
— Flavor, I thought, staring into nothingness. — It's not about what you take or how much you can break… it's about how you get there. Without that, power's just a hollow echo.
The system lingered, blinking, waiting for me to move. But I just studied the notifications, half intrigued, half indifferent. It wasn't disdain for what I'd gained—it was the sheer nonsense of wasting something so immense on something so trivial. Even the system, which I'd bled to claim, couldn't change who I was.
— "Talking to yourself now, huh?" — She broke the silence, her voice dripping with sarcasm, edged with something deeper I wouldn't grasp.
I turned to her, my gaze drilling into hers as if I could pierce straight through her core. She faltered, expecting me to offer something—anything—to unravel the world. But I wasn't giving her that. Not today. Maybe not ever.
— "None of your business," — I replied, my voice sliding out like slow-melting ice.
She huffed, hauling herself off the floor, exhaustion etched in the slump of her shoulders. The fall had sapped her rage, but her eyes still burned with a stubbornness I knew too well. And there was more—something tender I refused to name.
— "You know you can't run from what's right in front of you, right?" — Her voice softened, almost a whisper, but it carried the weight of lead.
I didn't respond. My eyes drifted back to the emptiness, the system's words searing behind my lids.
She fell silent. Her quiet was a shout I didn't want to hear. Outside, the sky split with the faint shimmer of dawn, sneaking into the room like a thief. She climbed back onto the bed, wordless, but her words hung there, clinging to the air—a shadow that wouldn't leave.
The room breathed now, the darkness fracturing apart. My heart thudded steady, a muted drum in my chest. The challenge loomed ahead—a mountain I'd scale, not because it was easy, but because it was mine.
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⚜️ Updated Status of Nael Supremium ⚜️
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✦ IDENTITY ✦
Name: Nael Supremium
Age: 15 years
Race: Supreme Nephilim
Lineages:
➤ Supreme Celestial (Sealed)
➤ Supreme Demonic (Sealed)
✦ TALENTS ✦
Soul: €^#&÷#€# (???)
Eyes of Everything and Nothing: (???)
Absolute Body of Everything and Nothing: (Awakened)
✦ ELEMENTS ✦
Sealed: ✧ Oblivion, Chaos, Reality
Awakened: ✧ Creation, Destruction, Time, Space, Darkness, Light, Death, Life, Curse, Shadows, Illusions, Lightning, Fire, Water (Ice), Earth, Metal, Air, Wood, Blood, Poison
✦ DOMAINS ✦
Existential Sea: ♒ Evolved from Spiritual Sea
Realm: Purple Mansion (Peak)
Cultivation Technique: ✦ Nameless (Primordial)
✦ STATISTICS ✦
Strength: 10,000☆
Speed: 10,000☆
Agility: 10,000☆
Endurance: 10,000☆
Vitality: ∞ (Infinite)
Perception: Undetectable
Intelligence: Cosmic Level (Sealed)
Charm: Absolute (Sealed)
Luck: Child of Fortune (Sealed)
✦ SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES ✦
Soul:
➤ Passive: Absolute Immunity to Curses and Soul Attacks
➤ Active: Soul Obliteration (Completely destroys souls with no return)
Eyes:
➤ Passives:
• Always See the Truth (Impossible to be deceived; analyze through everything and assimilate all)
• Create Absolute Illusions (Illusions become real in the minds of others)
➤ Actives:
• Eye of Nightmares (Induces sanity-destroying nightmares)
• Null Eye (Nullifies laws, abilities, or powers)
• ??? (Unlockable in the future)
Body:
➤ Passives:
• Aura of the Absolute: (Fusion of three supreme auras)
• Body of the Absolute: (Eternal body, adapts and is immune to debuffs)
➤ Actives:
• Devour (Void)
• Absolute Destruction (Destruction)
• Materialization (Creation)
• Temporal Chaos (Time)
• Interdimensional Teleportation (Space)
• Shadow Slaves (Darkness)
• Divine Wrath (Light)
• Perpetual Death (Death)
• Revive (Life)
• King of Curses (Curse)
• Shadow Displacement (Shadows)
• Dream Entry (Illusions)
• Judgment Lightning (Lightning)
• Celestial Divine Fire and Infernal Demonic Fire (Fire)
• Purification (Water)
• Absolute Zero (Ice)
• Earthquakes (Earth)
• Magnetism (Metal)
• Flight (Wind)
• Blood Marks (Blood)
• Venom Extraction (Poison)
✦ DIVINE ABILITIES ✦
Absolute Control over Life: (Manipulates and recreates life at a supreme level)
✦ CONQUERED DOMAINS ✦
Primordial World: (Since the primordial eras)
Existential Home:
➤ A land with rivers and waterfalls formed by the Waters of Life, teeming with exotic beasts in growth
➤ A luxurious mansion surrounded by forests and a garden of Primordial herbs
✦ SOUL WEAPON ✦
Nyx: A Soul Sword that can take the form of any weapon, evolving through the essence of its wielder
✦ CURRENT STATE ✦
Current Condition: Still weak compared to supreme entities
Recommendation: "Your true potential is just beginning."
✦ SYSTEM INVENTORY ✦
Available Vouchers:
Supreme:
➤ 2 for Upgrade
➤ 8 for Evolution
➤ 3 for Weapon Talents
➤ 3 for Updating Weapons and Techniques
➤ 5 for Talent Awakening
➤ 13 for Wishes
➤ 8 for Species Evolution
➤ 8 for Lineage Evolution
Others:
➤ 1,000 Congenital Talent Evolution Vouchers
➤ 10,000 Cosmic Evolution Vouchers
➤ 100,000 Chaos Level Evolution Vouchers
➤ 100 Supreme Foundation Upgrade Vouchers (4 of 81 Turns; 96 of 9 Turns)
Miscellaneous Items:
➤ Random GoldenFinger
➤ 5 Primordial Beast Eggs
➤ Eternal Celestial Fire
➤ Dao Fruits of All Elements
➤ Rule Beads of All Elements
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The dawn's light barely pierced the curtains, a heavy shroud keeping the room steeped in gloom. The air felt thick, burdened by something I couldn't name. Then they came—words slashing across my sight, cold and sharp, carved by an unseen hand: my status, my existence distilled into lines of text. "Still weak compared to supreme entities." That phrase burned into me, a blow to the chest masked as advice. Weak. Me, Nael Supremium, weak? It was almost funny, but no laugh escaped—just fury, raw and suffocating.
I shut my eyes tight. Drew a deep breath, the air scraping its way in. Always the same game, I thought, the system's words rattling in my head: "Your true potential is just beginning." Beginning. Always beginning. Like I'm some endless promise on pause.
— "It always starts," — I muttered, voice rough, a thread of sarcasm tangled in weariness.
A faint sound cracked the quiet. I turned my head just enough to see her. Elowen sat there, on the bed's edge, staring me down. Her eyes held a force I couldn't dodge—like they saw all of me, the parts I showed and the parts I buried.
— "How long have you been staring at me?" — I asked, harsher than I intended. Irritation slipped out, untamed.
She blinked, caught off guard, but then a sly grin curved her lips.
— "You look gorgeous with that messy hair," — she said, her voice a near-whisper, as if the words had snuck out unbidden. But there was a hint in her tone that made me scowl.
I rose slowly, body heavy, and faced her. My stare was a blade.
— "Since when did you get so bold?" — My voice dropped low, almost teasing, but laced with a dangerous undertone. I leaned closer. — "You know I bite, right?"
Her grin widened, eyes sparking with a challenge that danced right in front of me.
— "Maybe because I'm the only woman you've ever loved," — she said, calm as anything, but with a certainty that hit me like a thunderbolt.
The room tightened. Breath caught in my throat. The mark I'd branded her with—an invisible bond—thrummed between us, silent but alive. She was mine, sure. The mark sealed that: protection and captivity in one strike. But love? No way. Love was for those who could afford to shatter.
— "I should kill you for saying something that ridiculous," — I snarled, springing to my feet. At fifteen, I towered over her, but she didn't shrink. She stayed there, defiant, like the world was hers.
Her eyes met mine, unflinching, almost mocking my threat.
— "So why don't you try?" — she whispered, her smile twisting into a perilous invitation.
Time froze. The air grew dense, electric. My power roared awake, a beast clawing through my veins, begging to break loose. She knew exactly what she was doing—every word a match struck against the gasoline I kept locked down. And I hated it. Hated her for knowing me so damn well.
I stepped closer, invading her space, my face inches from hers.
— "Be careful what you wish for, Elowen," — I whispered, voice trembling with threat. — "My patience isn't endless."
She smiled again, but this time it softened—something gentle that clashed with the fire in her eyes.
— "Maybe that's why I'm not afraid, Nael," — she said, her voice smooth yet cutting. — "Because deep down, you know you won't lay a hand on me."
My eyes narrowed to slits. Silence crashed down like a muted storm, too heavy to bear. She was wrong. I could end her. One thought, one flick of my will, and it'd be over. So why were my hands shaking? Why couldn't I move?
Before I could scrape together an answer, the system chimed again. Ding. That cold, mechanical note sliced through the tension.
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Ding!
Recommendation: Master your emotions. Your true potential hinges on it.
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