263. The System Core

While Kumoko calms her distressed teacher, Izumi and the chat group members discuss before they go to another world to retrieve pure energy sources.

Izumi held prismatic-shaped items. There were many that he showed them on the table. He created those in order to store pure energy. So, he purposely crafted as much as possible.

"Oh right, who is the new member? Have any of you decided yet?" Suddenly, Rori asked. And Izumi replied in an instant.

"I am."

Everyone turned to Izumi. Some are curious, and some can already guess who the new member is.

Without telling who it was, Izumi threw the phone in Tabane's direction that should have been given to the new member.

"You're living with her. So I entrust it to you."

Tabane nodded with a smile. She had expected this. Wielding a pair of Sharingan, Mangekyō Sharingan to be exact, it was just a matter of time before she was invited to the group. And that time has come. She was finally invited to the group.

And that person is none other than Uzumaki Karin. The so-called adoptive little sister of Izumi and Tabane.

At first, Izumi had absolutely no plans to include her in the chat group. However, once the experiment on transplanting a pair of Sharingan eyes was successful, and even upgraded to the next level, Izumi wanted to protect Karin immediately by inviting her to join the group.

Well, not exactly to protect her, but to protect the pair of Mangekyō Sharingan. That was Izumi's first thought before deciding to invite her to the group.

It might be too cruel for Karin since she saw Izumi as her elder brother. Yet, he didn't really think of her as a little sister. It was a bitter truth. Even so, Karin just accepted the fact while trying to change Izumi's view. With the hope that he could view her as his real sister.

Well, the reason he adopted her was due to her bloodline. And knowing that Karin was a very suitable vessel for creating the Sage of Six Paths' eyes, Rinnegan, of course Izumi would make full use of her.

Like, why not? Humans are nothing but tools. After all, most of them wouldn't complain if they got a fair exchange.

Since Izumi already decided on a new member, the enthusiasm of the girls soared because they finally got another girl member.

The matter of annihilating the elven race was over. Saving the reincarnators had already been done perfectly while giving them shelter. In addition, a new member has also been chosen.

What was left for him to do in that world was to hack into the system as well as eliminate Potimas' soul. Well, Potimas' soul still had some use, so Izumi didn't just finish him off right away.

Several days after that, Izumi "played" with Potimas' soul to master his sealing technique. After too many attempts, perhaps, being sealed and unsealed by Izumi nonstop, his soul couldn't hold on and slowly started to fade away.

One day, Kumoko informs him that she may know the location of the system core. With nothing else to do, Izumi immediately told the others to get ready as he planned to go straight to the Ninja world after hacking up the system.

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"So, where are we?" Izumi asked.

Kumoko used her teleportation magic to send Izumi and the others somewhere. The place is so dark, damp, and lacks oxygen. What's more, Izumi could only see his surroundings covered in wet-looking rocks that strangely lacked moss. Although, normally, moss or plants will grow in a damp place like that.

Well, Kumoko said that it was the bottom place in the Great Elroe Labyrinth. It's just that Izumi didn't expect that such a deep place was like a large cave that a 10-meter-tall monster might be able to pass through.

Kumoko led Izumi and the others deeper.

Until everyone saw something intriguing while hearing nonstop chanting in a monotone voice.

"Max skill achieved! Skill evolved to XXX! Max exp achieved! Level up–"

And the one who let out that voice was a beautiful woman with pale skin, short light blue hair with faded dark blue at the ends, and a pair of angelic wings on her back.

Both of her hands were restrained by chains with seals connected to them while her legs seemed to merge with the floor of the labyrinth. Somehow, that seemed like the bondage plays in the H-video. But, it's not.

"That's a real angel. It's the first time I've seen one." Izumi commented after seeing the angel in front of him. And she was probably Sariel. Well, not probably. But she's Sa"real", the angel that was used by D as a system core.

Not only Izumi, but everyone else was also seeing the appearance of an angel race for the first time.

They all approached Sariel who paid no heed to her surroundings as if she had lost consciousness due to having been the core of the system for hundreds of years.

Izumi glanced at Tabane. Tabane nodded and inspected Sariel closely. From the front, left, right, and back.

After confirming, Tabane took out something from her storage space. That thing was something like ports that could be connected from a speaker to her holographic computer. However, there was a difference in the ports. Both ports look like they could expand into grappling hooks.

And sure enough, because Tabane heard that the goddess turned into the core of the system, she immediately created the ports, specifically to hack the system by connecting them to the goddess' body.

After Tabane insisted on plugging the ports into Sariel's back, it didn't take long for data and information from Sariel to enter Tabane's computer. Tabane immediately stepped on the gas to operate it. Specifically, she was looking for a skill that would prevent reincarnators from leaving the current world. After she found it, she couldn't delete the skill from the reincarnators as Sariel prevented her from doing so.

But, Tabane chuckled.

"Hehe, don't underestimate the most genius person across the universe!"

Izumi rolled his eyes after hearing that. But then, he saw her fingers tapping the holographic keyboard at a quick pace, and stopped after she tapped Enter.

It showed the loading screen, which piqued his interest.

"Tabane-chan, what are you doing exactly?" Izumi asked.

"Hmmm, it's something like a virus to disturb the operating system." Tabane replied without turning back. And naturally, her reply shocked the others.

"Tabane, if you do that—"

"I know what you're worried about. Don't worry, I have complete control over this virus. And I can take it back once I'm done erasing those kids' skills."

After a few hours, Tabane managed to remove the "n%I=W" skill from the kids. Unfortunately, he couldn't erase Kumoko's. Because if Tabane did that, Kumoko would be shattered into pieces including her soul since Kumoko already had many skills.

"Hehe, done!"

"As expected of you." Izumi praised her. Then, Tabane turned to Izumi.

"But it's not over yet, I just removed the skill that restricted them from leaving this world."

"Then?" Izumi was a little bit confused.

However, Tabane just waved.

"Kumo-chan, come here!" Tabane called out to Kumoko who made the latter tremble.

Well, it can't be helped. It was the first time Kumoko saw someone who could hack the system created by a god. She didn't know why Tabane called her. But, if she refuses, she will be fucked up.

When Kumoko was in front of her, Tabane took out a port that was stabbed into Sariel's back and thrust it into Kumoko's back.

Once connected, Tabane operated her computer again.

Thanks to Tabane's intelligence, she was able to completely copy Sariel's operating system. And this time, she installed the operating system onto Kumoko's body even though it was still in a beta version. And that operating system links all the reincarnators while separating them from the old operating system.

The reason why Tabane didn't want to let the reincarnators still be connected to Sariel's body was, if this world was destroyed, the system was destroyed as well. And if the system was destroyed, everyone who had a lot of skills would be destroyed as well because the skills they had would return to the system, and their bodies couldn't handle the void left by the skills so they would die immediately.