Let’s be honest.

You’ve probably read a hundred stories like this before.

Guy gets a system out of nowhere.  
A cheat appears.  
Some mysterious force decides to gift him power like it’s a free trial.

Yeah… that one.

This is not that.

Because instead of receiving a system…

He built one.

With his own hands.

Inside his own body.

And no, this has never happened before. Not even once in history.

This is the first system ever created. Not gifted. Not found. Not stolen.

Made.

His name is Shadow.

Yes, it sounds like he’s trying too hard. No, he didn’t choose it. Blame his family for that one.

At sixteen, he did something insane.

He successfully installed a system inside himself using forbidden rune theory and logic that most people would reject immediately just by hearing it.

And somehow…

It worked.

Now here’s where things get interesting.

Infinite mana.

That means he doesn’t run out of energy. Ever.

No limits. No exhaustion. No “you’re out of mana” warnings.

But don’t get excited yet—he still has to actually learn how to use it properly.

So right now, it’s less “overpowered invincible mode” and more “unlimited fuel inside a machine he hasn’t finished building.”

“Oh cool, a system.”

No.

He made it.

“Oh cool, quests and leveling.”

Yes—but this one answers to him.

“Oh cool, one million beast cores requirement.”

Yes.

And his reaction was very simple:

“…You’re joking.”

In this world, people are born with limits.

One element. One path. One destiny.

Shadow looked at all of that and decided something very simple:

“I’m not doing that.”

Now let’s clear something up.

He is NOT overpowered at the start.

He is NOT invincible.

But he is something far more dangerous:

A person building the thing that will eventually make him unstoppable.

He is smart.

The kind of smart that turns impossible theories into reality just because he thought about them long enough.

He is calm.

The kind of calm that usually shows up right before something goes very wrong for everyone else.

And he is observant enough to turn everything he sees into something useful later.

Now about people.

Some fear him.

Some try to understand him.

And some realize too late that they never even existed on the same level of “understanding” as him in the first place.

And then there are others…

Especially women.

Some find him hard to read.

Some find him strangely attention-grabbing without knowing why.

And some realize, even without meaning to, that their eyes linger longer than they should.

Not because he is trying to charm anyone.

But because something about him simply pulls attention without asking for permission.

He doesn’t chase it.

It just happens.

So yeah.

This is a story about Shadow.

The guy who didn’t receive a system.

He created one.

And now the world is going to find out exactly what that means.

Unfortunately for everyone else…

That discovery won’t be gentle.

After Shadow finished his fight, the arena did not immediately quiet down, as the echoes of the previous battle still lingered in the air along with the crowd's excitement, which refused to settle even after the result had already been decided.


Above the battlefield, the massive screen projector flickered slightly before updating, displaying his new standing in the rankings with clear, glowing digits that could be seen from every corner of the arena.


Someone in the audience looked wt the rank change and asked 


"…wait… he only moved four ranks after that one sided performance?"


"No… that just means the people above him are monsters."


Shadow lifted his gaze toward the screen, observing the change without any visible reaction, though his eyes lingered on the numbers for a brief moment as if calculating something internally.


Chapter 53 - Chaos In The Crowd