Arsere floated before Crevalis in silence.
The ten plates rotated gently inside the world orb, glowing faintly with divine light. Everything looked… normal.
Yet something felt wrong.
Very wrong.
She raised her hand to open the group chat.
Just as her finger was about to touch the interface—
A system window forcibly burst open before her eyes.
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{SYSTEM ALERT}
World Status Update – Crevalis
All lifeforms: DESTROYED
Current Living Population: 0
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The words didn't register.
She blinked once.
Then again.
"…What?"
The void echoed her whisper.
She stared at the message, unmoving. The system didn't repeat itself. It didn't clarify. It didn't explain.
It only stated a fact.
All lifeforms: destroyed.
Slowly—almost mechanically—she turned her eyes back to the world orb.
At first, she saw nothing strange.
Then she noticed it.
Across all ten plates… there were no bodies.
No races.
No creatures.
No terrain shaped by footsteps or breath.
Only countless firefly-sized soul particles, drifting aimlessly through the skies of Crevalis like lost ash.
No voices.
No instincts.
No civilizations.
Only wandering fragments of light.
Her fingers trembled.
She opened the full world status panel.
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SYSTEM MESSAGE — WORLD STATUS
World: Crevalis
Life State: Extinction Phase
Confirmed Living Beings: 0
Remaining Entities: Pure Soul Fragments Only
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Her breath caught in her throat.
"…Extinction?"
A hollow pressure crushed her chest.
She didn't scream.
She didn't cry.
Her mind simply went blank.
Seconds passed.
Then minutes.
Then she realized something that chilled her deeper than the message itself.
"Twenty‑four hours…"
Her eyes widened slightly.
"It's been exactly twenty‑four hours since I arrived in the void."
She hadn't known the system even tracked time.
Yet it did.
Cold.
Precise.
Unforgiving.
Her fists clenched.
"What went wrong?"
Her gaze hardened.
"Where… did I go wrong?"
She forced herself to think.
Not emotionally.
Not as a god.
But as a creator.
Her mind slowed.
Calculated.
Reviewed everything from the beginning.
Then the answer struck her like a blade.
Two fatal mistakes.
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First Failure — Law Collision
She whispered slowly:
"All life in Crevalis is born from souls…"
Her world had no natural flesh-based birth.
No physical evolution layers.
No biological development curve.
Everything existed only as soul.
She had created souls.
Then forced them into existence without bodies as a stable foundation.
She swallowed.
"That means… the Law of Balance was violated."
Life existed.
But matter did not.
Energy existed.
But vessels did not.
A world cannot sustain pure existence without form.
The balance auto-corrected.
By erasing everything.
Her chest tightened.
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Second Failure — Forced Creation
Her lips parted slightly.
"I directly designed every race…"
They were not birthed naturally.
They did not adapt through survival.
They were forced into environments they were never allowed to grow into.
They had no evolutionary resistance.
No environmental tolerance build-up.
When reality shifted…
They couldn't endure it.
They shattered instantly.
Her voice dropped into something hollow.
"…They never actually lived."
Silence followed.
Then the system delivered the cruelest truth of all.
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{DIVINITY EFFECT NOTICE}
Title Influence Detected: Infinity + Creation
Creation Success Rate: +150%
Adaptation to Existing Systems: -50%
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Her eyes froze.
"…Negative effect."
Her title didn't just empower her.
It punished her.
The more unprecedented her creations were…
The worse they adapted.
She had built perfection.
But perfection had no survival curve.
Her knees weakened.
She sank slowly onto the floor of her divine domain.
"I killed them…"
Not with hatred.
Not with intent.
But with ignorant brilliance.
The firefly-souls drifted endlessly through the skies of Crevalis.
They did not cry.
They did not suffer.
They simply… existed.
Homeless.
Historyless.
Her voice turned quiet.
"…I failed as a creator."
Silence stretched.
Long.
Heavy.
Then—
Her eyes changed.
The regret did not vanish.
But something colder rose above it.
Resolve.
"I won't erase my mistake."
She lifted her hand.
"I'll overwrite it."
Her fingers moved.
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{SYSTEM COMMAND}
Law of Soul Origin — REVOKED
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The foundation of Crevalis shuddered.
She closed her eyes.
Then whispered:
"This time… life will be born correctly."
Her voice sharpened.
Emotion drained.
Logic ruled.
"Bodies first. Souls later. Growth before divinity."
She began to design a new method of existence.
A world where life would earn its evolution.
A world that would not be protected by her mercy.
A world that would survive.
The firefly-souls continued drifting.
Waiting.
To be reborn.