Epic Of Caterpillar

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The System Master groaned in pain for a few seconds before recovering.

Within his Divine Realm, he had sent a Divine Soul Clone, which he had converted into a System Program and sent through the System towards Kireina.

However, because of the rules of the System, he was not able to attack her directly unless she were to activate the program… or well, Andromeda was to do so with her permission.

This Program was hidden beneath an old program he had made, which he had forgotten about until the point where he realized that if Kireina were to conquer the entire Lower Realm, she could actually use it.

So he decided to wait and see if something happened, he had not even paid much attention to it until it actually happened.

Actually, everything went perfectly! Andromeda had foolishly thought that the program was safe as she didn't check it other than superficially, and Kireina agreed to use it to generate a Realm Core, using a lot of her divine energy and also her divine points to create it, and even her soul and flesh!

Actually, the entire incident went amazingly perfectly! It was all going so well! He even managed to fool the two of them, Kireina's body and soul was still bind to the System, even when she had made a new one, both system statuses were connected to share information and update, and through this bond, he had infiltered into her personal system and done this!

Of course, he barely managed to investigate anything because he rushed things and decided to take over the Realm Core and use it to fight Kireina, aiming to weaken her or maybe even kill her, foolishly believing that she was weakened now or that she wasn't strong enough to fight against a peak Great God-level being such as the Realm Core with his clone was… but he was wrong, he was terribly wrong.

In the end, he was completely unaware that Kireina already had the stockpiled power to even rival and easily defeat Great Gods, even more now that she had begun to slowly regain a part of her Chaotic Soul original power and even more, she had the overpowered Path Jewel Abilities, which were even stronger than Divine Techniques and all of its effects could easily stack up, granting insane power.

And The System Master didn't know any of this… And even when he infiltered inside her system for a few seconds, he wasn't able to find anything, as Andromeda demolished him with the power she draws from Kireina's Path Jewel, which connected to her soul… this actually meant that Andromeda could easily acquire a large amount of power from her and even overpowered her own grandfather's clone with such power…

After being destroyed and eaten, his clone disappeared, but the pain was carried to its original source, the System Master, as he immediately felt some slight discomfort on his soul, although this time Kireina didn't manage to bite him as he had created a special wall that would serve as a bait for her to eat instead of his soul, wasting the opportunity.

"How can this be… it failed miserably?! What kind of power has she acquired? T-This…!"

The System Master had never failed in his life like this. He had never experimented with so much frustration before until Kireina came into the picture! Before that, he planned to dethrone his mother, but in no way, as she ever ridiculed him like this, as he always held a high ground by manipulating the System, and the other Supreme Gods had never dared to provoke him either…

However, he began to recall his first mistake in getting lazy ad ending up splitting himself, giving birth to his children, the System Gods, and giving them the ability to manipulate most of the system while he went out of Genesis with the help of the Lucifer to gather power by consuming World's Origin Cores, although he had only eaten one since then… Mostly because they took a long time to grow into a good size for consumption.

Although doing this brought him a lot of new power by consuming the first and only world core he had ever eaten, which multiplied his power several times, he had just touched the first stage of the next realm after Supreme God, but was required to eat more.

However, by doing this, he ended giving the authority of the system to a group of computer-like Gods.

At first, he thought that they would never do anything wrong, nor anything would happen to them, as he had caged them inside a special dimension that could not be accessed by through any normal means, even the world's will nor the Supreme Gods were able to enter, this protection even multiplied when the power of the system was applied to this dimension, which gained even more power from it.

But he was wrong, Kireina, the entity that he himself had brought here because he wanted to change fate through her unique soul constitution and the power of Primordial Chaos within her, and the very entity that was bringing him these increasing headaches had ruined everything!

She developed strange powers way too fast, but at first, the System Master never saw her as a treat, as she was bind and chained by his blessing, even when she did whatever she did to the system Gods, he even allowed that foolishly thinking that it could help him somehow.

Just how stupid did he had to be to believe that everything would always go according to what he wanted? Truly, he was an imbecile through and through…

Everything started because of her! All of his headaches! Everything was going so well!

And it was all because of her! Because of… the problem that he himself brought to Genesis.

It was him! It was him the one that brought Kireina here, so did he even had the right to complain now? This is why this made him, even more angered, even more frustrated, even more… everything! It was eating away his mind the frustration he was feeling by seeing how this shit continued to get worse and worse!

And he, on his complete lack of fighting experience, had believed that he could probably wound severely Kireina or even kill her with that super clone… but it ended getting eaten.

Now that she had eaten a bit of his soul and also his blessing, she was completely free to do anything she wanted, and she was incredibly bold, bolder than he remembered her to be!

The System Master didn't know the complete history, but he already assumed that she met with the true Primordial Deity of Chaos, Kireina's mother and that Chaos had most likely done something to help her… It was perhaps her power that helped Kireina free herself from his blessing.

After this, Kireina's power had skyrocketed insanely high… and would continue to do so now that she had such a nice pile of gods to eat waiting for her, and even more after making the true Realm Core after killing his clone…

"Damn it! Damn it all! How strong is she?! This is so frustrating…! This rage! I have… never felt this frustrated in my entire life! I can't believe that this pathetic caterpillar would have ended becoming such an immense headache!" he cried, as he raged inside his Divine Realm.

Suddenly, the figure of a humanoid without face and made entirely out of stars, nebula, and more emerged at his left side… almost as if he were crossing through nothingness itself.

"So it failed?" it asked.

"Yes… it failed miserably! Have you come here to laugh at me?" asked the System Master.

"Do you see me laughing? …Haha, well, yeah it is a bit funny," said the entity, Lucifer.

"If you have come here to simply laugh at me then you're not welcome, get off my Divine Realm!" roared the System Master.

"Is this how you treat your benefactor and friend?" asked Lucifer.

"Does Lucifer has to retort to pity to convince someone? How low have you fallen," sighed the System Master.

"Pity? More like you're the pitiable here…" chuckled Lucifer.

"Tch! Kireina is growing too strong now… I fear that I might blink an eye and then she will be already a Supreme Goddess… I can't let this happen, I have to stop her before that happens! But anything I do ends up doing the opposite, anything I do ends up bringing her even more power! She even ate and somehow assimilated the fragment of the lesser Dao of Transformation like nothing!" said the System Master.

"The one you stupidly gave to those Dragons? Did you actually thought they would even give her a hard time?" asked Lucifer.

"But the fragment was powerful for being as low as them… Maybe Kireina is not as lowly as I originally imagined, she grows at an even faster pace than what I imagined… even faster… I fear she might soon enough touch the Supreme Goddess Realm…" said the System Master.

"So what? You were the stupid one that made all of this problem, it's your problem," said Lucifer.

"Is this how Lucifer treats his friends now?" asked the System Master.

"I already told the World's Will and the Supremes that I won't interfere, most of the other Supremes didn't interfere either, they all hate the World's Will, and a bit each other as well," said Lucifer.

"Why don't you help me? If I could use your powers, we could assault Kireina and kill her immediately!" said the System Master.

"Why would I? I actually like that she is growing stronger and doing as she pleases, it fits right into my own philosophy. Wouldn't it be going against my own beliefs to try to suppress her? She is rather majestic on her own, chaotic nature too," said Lucifer.

"Eh? Are you falling for her or something now?!" asked the System Master.

"Haha… Perhaps," said Lucifer, he was shameless and had no issue in saying whatever he had on his mind.

"Tch! So you're going to help her now?! That would be going against our plans and friendship, you know?" asked the System Master.

"My friend, I do like her, but I have no intentions of helping her in anything, I will simply not interfere. If that is by some means giving her help, then I don't care," said Lucifer.

"Hahh… Everything could be way easier if you helped!" said the System Master.

"I am already helping you in some other things, a few planets had become ripe, so you should really just go eat them already," said Lucifer.

"Hm… I will, but leaving Genesis makes it so Genesis goes faster, I can't leave it now due to the issue with Kireina, so until I deal with her I won't go out anymore," sighed the System Master.

"Fine by me," shrugged Lucifer.

The System Master glared at Lucifer for some time, feeling frustrated.

He remembered the first time both met, and how they were at first rivals, but later on, grew as companions. Lucifer desired to free himself from Genesis, so he wanted to help the System Master grow stronger to control the system, replace the world's will through his special powers that he didn't possess, and then let the Gates of Hell finally unbind from Genesis, even destroying his Avatar would be useless, as the World's Will itself was forcing the Gates of Hell to bind with the world so Genesis could draw power from this Plane and sustain itself.

But due to this, it was also why he wasn't interfering with Kireina, that she bites his friend or gave him a nice beating was of no problem for him, after all, she was going to still do her purpose, bring chaos everywhere.

Kireina or the System Master, didn't care who did it first, but any of the two could bring the world to an end or reset it, so it was the same for him. In any case, he would be freed.

Although none of Kireina's charm, enlightenment, or guidance skills affected him, Lucifer was… growing interested in her little by little, all of her actions simply… fit perfectly with his beliefs, so it was natural for him to end up growing a liking for her. And due to this, he decided to not do his friend a favor and let her do whatever she wanted…

"Oh, she's such an interesting being… Look what I found out, she seems to have become an Archdemon! She ate one of Mammon's Avatars," said Lucifer while laughing.

"WHAT?!" asked the System Master.

"Hm, and some spies told me that Mammon was heard screaming in agony when she ate his avatar, it seems that she bit him too, a little bit," laughed Lucifer.

"That's… it can't be… how can a being born in Genesis turn into an Archdemon?!" asked the System Master.

"Beats me. She just did it. See? This is why Kireina is so amazing. To be honest, you should try to make her your friend while you still can, while you're still alive," said Lucifer.

"Don't joke like that! I will never… befriend her! I just want to fucking kill her!" cried the System Master.

"Well, you got a lot of plans going, right? Good luck on them, I guess," said Lucifer, as he disappeared.

"I don't need your wishes of good luck… I know they will work!"

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