Chapter 144: 144 - Slime Plush
The illusion of the giant dragon, even though it only appeared for a few seconds, could clearly have shaken the whole world, but nothing happened at all.
Although Nexus was extremely arrogant right now, before his personality became like this, he had already set down quite a few rules to limit himself.
Only those related to him and who had strength at A-rank or above, or had a special status, could see it.
"You can rest assured that in my current state, my strength is heavily restricted. Right now, I need to use my full strength just to shatter the earth with a single strike. My current strength should be at the Nascent Soul realm. Of course, I am invincible among the Nascent Soul realm."
After limiting the amount of strength he could use, Nexus did not really care about how much his personality had changed. At least, Nexus was only arrogant and did not change his core rules, basically things like not destroying the world.
[Useless master, you don't even have a realm, yet you're saying you're at the Nascent Soul realm? Are you trying to make me laugh until my system crashes? You don't even have a spiritual root, so how are you supposed to cultivate?]
Nexus was no longer the Nexus from thirty seconds ago, so of course he could not just let the system say whatever it wanted.
"Hmph, how could a stupid system possibly understand the Supreme? Since you are so ignorant, don't blame me for being ruthless."
As soon as he finished speaking, Nexus simply used his bare hand to tear open a crack in space. He reached his hand inside and stole a blue slime plush from some store very far away.
Nexus originally did not need to steal it and could directly create the slime plush, but his current strength was too heavily restricted, so he could not freely convert energy into matter.
"From now on, this is your body."
Although he could not use much of his power, Nexus always had the authority to command the system. As long as he spoke, the system could argue all it wanted, but it still had to obey him. The reason Nexus had refused to use this absolute authority before was simply that he did not want to.
Nexus himself had never wanted to impose his will upon any other existence. But things were different now; he had become an arrogant master.
[You trashy master! You fucking bastard!]
The system cursed loudly but could do nothing else except obediently become a slime plush.
It could already imagine Ziz constantly laughing at it when she saw its current pathetic form.
Lailah immediately reached out to hug the system to keep it from falling to the ground, but she did not know that the system could fly.
"System, I'm really sorry."
She felt very guilty for indirectly turning the system into a slime plush. At least it was lucky that Nexus temporarily did not have the power to destroy the universe or even the earth.
Lailah could be certain that Nexus absolutely would not go all out to destroy the earth because he was currently too arrogant to do such a thing.
[Hmph, if Ziz can go offline, then I also can. You dared to take away the majestic appearance of the greatest system in the universe, so don't blame me for not letting you hear my magnificent voice.]
Even in the form of a slime plush, the system's expression could still change flexibly. After merging with the system, the structure of the slime plush had also completely changed from its original form.
"Hmph, I'm the only great one here."
After his personality changed, Nexus became even less willing to give the system any face. The system was so angry that it went offline, temporarily leaving its work to the AI.
Now that the system was no longer nagging in his ear, Nexus's gaze turned toward Lailah. He gave her a smile that looked like a rascal and asked her.
"You said you're going to be my tour guide, so what do you know?"
"I know how to do a lot of things."
Lailah immediately answered confidently. Just from this decisive attitude alone, it was enough to make anyone who did not know her think that she was an omnipotent tour guide.
"More specifically, what can you do?"
Nexus curled his lips into a smile. Who needed a bland answer like that? From his expression, it was obvious that Nexus wanted to tease Lailah more than he seriously needed her to work.
Lailah thought about what she had done with Bell from the time she came to Earth until now, then she began to list them.
"I know how to eat candy, and I eat a lot of candy. Although I don't like them as much as candy, I also really like other sweets. Besides that, I know how to watch movies, go shopping, and play games. I also know how to play many rides at amusement parks, like roller coasters, free-fall towers, upside-down rides…"
The more she talked, the more excited Lailah became, and she began raising a finger to count each thing she mentioned. It was just that the things Lailah could do made Nexus frown as he looked at Bell.
"What exactly have you taught her? Are these things a tour guide is supposed to do?"
Faced with this question, Bell could only awkwardly scratch his head. He was not Nexus, so of course he had no intention of making Lailah do anything. As long as she had fun and got a really good impression of him, that was enough.
"How is that my fault? I've never trained a tour guide before."
Bell rolled his eyes away and shrugged. He absolutely refused to take responsibility for this. What did their personal business have anything to do with him?
If Nexus were still like before, then of course everything would have ended here, but now he no longer maintained the attitude of looking at the world like a supreme existence.
"Bold mortal, how dare you?!"
Suddenly, Nexus shouted loudly. The pressure radiating from him startled both Bell and Lailah. Their heads were now filled with question marks because they had no idea what Nexus had gone crazy over this time.
Moreover, the moment Nexus opened his mouth, he called him 'mortal'. Why did this familiar, grating way of speaking sound so much like the system?
"What did I dare to do? I've just been standing here this whole time."
Bell's eyelids twitched when Nexus suddenly yelled at him for no apparent reason.