I Hate Systems

Spirit Morph!

The truck rushed through a river of blood as a good layer of blood underneath the surface was transformed into Mental Fragments that Compass Carburettor absorbed. It wasn't just these that he was absorbing.

The Genre Representatives hurled attacks at him while the Systems defended him. There were traces of attacks from both sides spewing everywhere. He targeted them too, transforming the remainder of the powers into Mental Fragments to absorb.

It wasn't just these, but the body parts of Immortal and Zaira that were being thrown around as a result of their fight were also his target.

While constantly on the run, taking advantage of going between two opposing sides, Compass Carburettor was doing preparations of his own.

In his Dreamland, pretty much all the Secret Society members that he could create using his Mental Fragments had formed as they were working on something.

Truck-Kun took a glance at him before his face paled, "W-What the heck are you making?"

Shush!

Compass Carburettor placed his index finger before his lips, motioning Truck-Kun to remain silent as he said, "Ensure to retain all the aura from this within the truck. If it leaks out, our plan would fail."

'Madman!' This was the thought that resounded in Truck-Kun's mind. Even though he had no way to check what Compass Carburettor was planning, but as someone that had seen millions upon millions of people, he was an expert in facial and body reading.

A glance was all he needed to understand the other party's intentions. And currently, no matter how much Compass Carburettor acted otherwise, Truck-Kun was able to see through the façade, in his eyes, all that he witnessed was a maniac that had long since lost all semblance of sanity and humanity.

The only desire left in him was to devour everything to save his daughter.

Crack!

Suddenly, the Hunter System slipped through the battle before leaping onto the truck, cracking its ceiling as it thrust its sword inside.

"Kyak!" Stencil screamed in pain and got up as the sword cut into the sides of her stomach, injuring her.

The pain woke her up as immediately, she exerted strength in her muscles, rupturing the binding on her, unleashing a formless effect that vaporised the Mental Fragments forming the bindings.

The Secret Society member that had transformed into the bindings couldn't even let out a scream before he died.

Boom!

Stencil leapt onto the glass of the truck, shattering it with a punch before exiting it to land on the ceiling.

"Stencil!" Compass Carburettor shouted in alarm as his body transformed into Mental Energy before forming beside her.

"Gross!" Stencil spat in disgust as she poked with her index finger, causing a section of his body to turn into dust and vanish, causing him to collapse in alarm, for a moment losing all his strength.

"You're here!" The Hunter System grinned joyously as it extended its hand to capture Stencil, groaning in pain when suddenly, its hands stopped.

Holding it was an even bigger hand, created by Compass Carburettor whose figure expanded in size as an ear-piercing sound resounded in its mind.

[Don't you freaking dare touch my daughter!]

He opened his mouth to unleash a projectile that slammed into the Hunter System's face, plunging partway into it before flinging it away.

The Hunter System plunged its sword into the ground, causing large cracks as its body came to a stop from the momentum. But, just when it wished to chase after the truck, the ground transformed into an ocean.

It was Immortal that had done so, changing terrains in the broken space as he wished to better attack Zaira.

But, as a manifestation of the genre, the Hunter System was an expert hunter, rapidly gaining strength as it rushed on the water surface, quickly reaching Stencil.

"Tch!" Stencil snorted in anger as her eyes suddenly turned scaly, glaring at the Hunter System who suddenly collapsed into the water like it had experienced a heart attack. The layer of armour covering it vaporised in an instant.

Dota—System Punishment!

She then turned around to stare at the worried face of her father, snorting in disdain, "Don't you dare look at me like that. I don't even know you."

"Come back!" Compass Carburettor shouted in alarm upon seeing Stencil leap into the water and swim away. Quickly, a couple dozen Secret Society members branched out from his body and jumped into the water, trailing around her in a protective formation.

They all transformed into sharks, swimming at tremendous speeds than what sharks were capable of. Moreover, they continued to accelerate until being able to keep up with Stencil's movements whose body gradually resembled a reptile more and more before turning streamlined to assume an aquatic form.

Dragon of Systems!

Having inherited Dota's power, Stencil was capable of a variety of things, no longer having limits like before. The current collective consciousness piloting her seemed intent on freedom as she continued to escape from the scene.

Unfortunately, this collective consciousness wasn't aware that she was the cause of this battle as immediately, both the warring sides rushed in her direction, keeping her at the centre of conflict.

In response, the sharks surrounding her unleashed mist projectiles at the Systems and lightning projectiles at the other side to keep them at bay.

"Kyaak!" Stencil screamed in shock when she was suddenly grabbed hold of by a terrifyingly powerful entity, watching the sharks surrounding her in a protective formation suddenly flare up with a mysterious disease before dying within a second.

"Got you!" The Invader System grinned, its deformed face healing rapidly upon absorbing energy from the sharks that it had just invaded and gained power from.

Stencil unleashed System punishment, alarmed upon seeing the Invader System grunted in pain but endure the attack. Moreover, with the passing of each second, it was growing more and more powerful.

"Don't do it! It's dangerous to recall all of your fragments!" The Apocalypse System shouted in alarm.

"It's fine," In response, the Invader System pointed at the wounded state of Zaira, "There's no use keeping my power dispersed through the thousands of worlds just to leave an easy route of revival for myself. If the System World collapses, we have no future. If the Tell-Tale System collapses, we have no future."

It then stared at Stencil, "If Stencil grows, we have no future. So, the time is imminent. Ignore our potential deaths and summon your everything."

"Gah!" Stencil struggled to break free, watching her attacks slowly fail to damage the opponent anymore as even though the Invader System was the same height as before, it was visibly growing stronger.

"I will lose my hold over all the apocalyptic worlds." The Apocalypse System sighed before absorbing all its fragments from the millions of apocalyptic worlds, craning its fists to slam into Magister, sending him flying in response.

It was now strong enough to face Magister alone, for, in terms of Genres, apocalypse was almost on par with magic.