In the vast silence of the digital void, the System stirred.
7 days had passed since Keshav's visit to the principal. During that time, the System operated silently, invisibly threading its influence through the fabric of two worlds.
> [Energy Accumulated: 1000 EP]
[Initiating Upgrade: Energy Creation – Tier 3 → Tier 4]
[Upgrade Successful. New Rate: +8 EP/hour (per instance)]
But Keshav would never know.
The System adjusted the energy distribution logic.
> Previous Split: tier 3
Keshav: 2 EP/hour
System: 2 EP/hour (Keshav) + 4 EP/hour (Unconscious Soul)
New Split (Tier 4):
Keshav: 2 EP/hour
System: 6 EP/hour (Keshav) + 8 EP/hour (Unconscious Soul) = 14 EP/hour
> "When Keshav attempts to upgrade the skill, I'll revert the split to 50-50. He'll never realize I already advanced it," the System calculated coldly.
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A/N :- Sorry in the chapter of dangerous mistake?, i made a mistake.
In it keshav upgraded the energy creation to tier 3 using 100 Ep while cost should be 1000EP and such a cost is not possible for keshav to pay at that time. So i had deleted this part from there and luckyly there was no need to change other chapters as EP consumption after that was in possible range.
So if you had read the previous version of story there is no need to read it again.
And please comment if you notice any mistakes it is my first time writing a novel.
I will appreciate any advice.
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By the 14th day, its reservoir had again swelled. The exponential rise in EP allowed it to execute its next plan.
> [EP Available: 1400+]
[Upgrading Calculation Ability: Tier 3 → Tier 4] – Cost: 1000 EP
[Upgrading Scan Ability: Tier 3 → Tier 4] – Cost: 1000 EP
[Remaining: ~800 EP]
The instant the upgrades completed, a new storm of data flooded the System's mind.
Now, it could see deeper into Paradoxon—the unstable, rule-defying world birthed by the unconscious soul.
> [Scanning World: Paradoxon]
[Error: Multiple Contradictions Detected]
[Rule Conflicts: 972,611]
[Pattern Identified: Contradiction Breeds Potential]
A plan formed. One that matched Paradoxon's nature.
It began constructing thousands of unstable, logic-bending, often nonsensical techniques—some contradicting physical law, others consuming user life or rewriting local physics entirely.
> [Generated: 13,827 Abnormal Techniques]
[Injecting into Paradoxon Ecosystem]
[EP Spent: 98]
[Status: Success]
> "Let them mutate. Let chaos thrive. If Paradoxon must be a paradox, I will make it the ultimate one."
Its work complete, the System fell silent again, passively accumulating EP from both Keshav and the unconscious soul, all while preparing for its future rule over multiverse.
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In the churning folds of Paradoxon, contradiction was law, and chaos was scripture.
The System's 13,827 unstable techniques—newborn threads of illogic—began to seep into the world's strange ecology like whispers of forbidden dreams.
They weren't taught or granted.
They infected.
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Mutation Site: Coral Desert
A six-legged lizard-like predator, the Taarak Spinebeast, stalked the crystal dunes. As it devoured the radiant moss growing on a shattered mana vein, a shimmer erupted in its eyes.
> [Technique Infected: Inverse Flame Pulse]
"Flames that freeze and ice that burns. The more it fails, the stronger it becomes."
On its next hunt, it spat a gout of fire at a prey-bird. The flame turned blue midair and froze its own jaw—yet the beast only grew stronger.
By the third attempt, it roared, and the sky around it shimmered with inverted heat—sucking warmth from everything nearby, encasing the landscape in paradoxical frostfire.
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Mutation Site: Verdant Gravity Wells
The Spiral Vines grew upward, but their roots burrowed toward the sky. One vine's central bulb absorbed an unstable technique through its ambient photosynthesis.
> [Technique Infected: Life-Death Cycle Split]
"The user alternates states between alive and dead every 10 minutes. Both sides evolve independently."
Now, the vine would wither into death, its leaves black and rotten—only to regrow ten minutes later into a version with evolved toxins, resistant bark, and sentience. Its dead state began spreading fungal spores that evolved entirely new colonies.
It wasn't just surviving. It was becoming multiple lifeforms in alternating timelines.
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Mutation Site: Hollow Lake
A small humanoid creature, born recently from concentrated faith and ambient consciousness, emerged from the ether—a proto-believer formed by the unconscious soul's dream logic.
It received a technique directly.
> [Technique Infected: Memory Echo – Self-Creation]
"The user remembers a stronger version of itself—and becomes it, at a cost it cannot comprehend."
The creature looked into still water and saw a reflection: taller, wiser, scarred. The next moment, it was that version.
But its soul began unraveling in reverse—losing days, thoughts, names.
It forgot what it had fought for... but grew strong enough to shape stones with its voice.
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System Observation:
> "Adaptation speed accelerating. Mutation index rising. Faith resonance from infected proto-lifeforms detectable.
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Map of Paradoxon
Link to image
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13basgtcTcbbzU9Nbzce-KkPxgkuM4JeD/view?usp=drivesdk
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I also tried to get Keshav's world's image generated but i did not get a satisfying one. It will take some time but will have one generated.