Chapter 2: Pregnant with Power

Chapter 2: Pregnant with Power

✨📡 DING

【YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE FIRST CHOICE】 PLEASE REQUEST ANY TYPE OF PHYSIQUE YOU DESIRE. INCLUDE ANY SPECIFIC DETAILS OR TRAITS YOU WISH TO DEFINE.

"..."

I was shocked, even a little relieved to hear that.

But when I saw it didn’t immediately grant anything, my relief turned to rage.

"This rotten system. I’m practically dying here. How do you expect me to properly design a physique in this condition?" I muttered under my breath.

My voice was fading. I could barely speak anymore, but I still had enough strength to complain inside.

Yet the system said nothing. Like some broken lottery machine, it just sat there.

Cold. Silent.

Every second that passed under its pressure felt like a blade to my chest. My veins pulsed from the stress of trying to communicate with something so robotic.

"Forget it," I whispered to myself. "I’ll just choose the physique I want."

I could sense the goblin's footsteps growing closer.

Slow and careful. It was likely cautious. As a rogue monster, it probably didn't believe I was alone in this cave. The system had called it a cave, after all.

My instincts told me the creature wouldn’t finish me off if it suspected other threats nearby.

"Alright, let’s get this over with."

I focused on describing what I wanted.

A flawless physique. Something unmatched, something singular.

I included as many traits as I could.

Rapid growth, regeneration, stealth.

It had to adapt to any kind of environment, in case I faced unknown dangers later.

After listing everything I could think of, I submitted the request and waited, hoping the system would actually listen this time.

✨📡 DING.

【YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY CREATED A PHYSIQUE THAT MATCHES YOUR DESCRIPTION. HOWEVER, NOT ALL ATTRIBUTES COULD BE APPLIED EXACTLY AS INTENDED. THE SYSTEM HAS ADJUSTED THEM TO ENSURE PROPER ALIGNMENT.】

📜 PHYSIQUE: NO-MARK PHYSIQUE

🩸 TYPE: RARE MAGICAL BODY
🌌 GRADE: MID-TIER
💠 RARITY: RARE (NOT MYTHICAL)
🔮 MANA COMPATIBILITY: STABLE WITH ALL ELEMENTAL MANA TYPES

📈MANA BENEFITS:

+30 PERCENT MANA FLOW EFFICIENCY
+25 PERCENT SPELL COMPREHENSION RATE

🔹 PASSIVE TRAITS
【CLEAN RECOVERY】
MINOR WOUNDS HEAL RAPIDLY
NATURAL RESISTANCE TO WEAK CURSES, TOXINS, AND MAGICAL DEBUFFS
MANA FATIGUE RECOVERS FASTER THAN AVERAGE AFTER SPELLCASTING OR OVERLOAD.

【SOFT PRESENCE】

MANA SIGNATURE IS FAINT AND DIFFICULT TO DETECT,
LEAVES NO LINGERING MAGICAL TRACE WHEN INACTIVE.
HARDER TO SENSE WITH BASIC DETECTION, OR MAGICAL PERCEPTION SPELLS.

🔮 INNATE ABILITY: TWIN MANA VISION

【EYE OF ORIGIN】

CAN PERCEIVE, AND ANALYZE THE FLOW OF VARIOUS MANA TYPES.
QUICKLY UNDERSTANDS LOW-LEVEL SPELLS, ENCHANTMENTS, AND FORMATIONS.
GAINS MINOR LEARNING BOOSTS WHEN STUDYING NEW MAGIC DISCIPLINES.

【EYE OF SILENCE】

DETECTS HOSTILE INTENT AND MAGICAL BUILDUP, IN OTHERS.

CAN MIMIC SIMPLE SPELLS AFTER REPEATED OBSERVATION, SLIGHTLY DISRUPTS UNSTABLE OR COLLAPSING SPELLS WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY.

🐉 RECOGNITION

LESSER MAGICAL BEASTS SHOW WARINESS, OR AVOID CONFLICT.
MANA STORMS AND NATURAL MAGICAL PHENOMENA REACT LESS VIOLENTLY.
ANCIENT RELICS WITH SENSING FEATURES MAY RESPOND FAINTLY.

"No-Mark Physique...?" I blinked. Disappointed.

The name sounded so cheap.

What kind of name was that?

I expected something powerful, elegant, meaningful.

"This isn’t the flawless physique I wanted," I muttered.

"System, change it. I want to redo it."

✨📡DING

【MODIFICATION DENIED. PHYSIQUE REGISTRATION IS COMPLETE AND CANNOT BE ALTERED.】

I clenched my teeth in fury.

Of course it wouldn’t listen.

"What kind of trashy system doesn’t care about the host? Aren’t you supposed to support your master? What kind of nonsense is this?"

My anger built as I ranted silently, until suddenly, I felt something strange.

A shift in my body.

"Wait... what the hell is happening?"

I was stunned.

My body felt different.

Refreshed.

I couldn’t see anything, but the pain in my abdomen was gone. The deep, gaping wound that had nearly killed me had somehow vanished.

"This... it’s a miracle."

I didn’t understand it. The system never mentioned a healing effect that could repair a hole through my stomach.

The physique was only supposed to regenerate minor wounds.

"What the hell is going on?"

✨📡DING.

【THE HOST BODY COULD NOT SUSTAIN HEALTHY CONCEPTION. THE SYSTEM WILL REPAIR ALL DAMAGE. THE PHYSIQUE WILL NOW BEGIN INTEGRATION. PLEASE ADAPT TO THE CHANGES ACCORDINGLY.】

My hands clenched into fists.

"So you only healed me because I couldn’t get pregnant? Is that it? This disgusting system... you could have saved me earlier, but you waited. Just because you wanted a healthy pregnancy?"

Fury swelled in my chest.

My vision was still gone. My future was completely uncertain. And now I was pregnant in the middle of a monster-infested cave.

"How am I supposed to raise a child in this hell?" I cried out. "I can’t even see."

I opened my mouth to argue with the system again, but before I could, an immense pressure exploded from within me.

BOOM.

The cave trembled.

A shockwave echoed through the darkness.

The goblin screamed in terror and fled.

I gasped.

A strange force was spreading through my body.

My limbs felt heavy. My muscles trembled.

My skin itched and tingled.

Something was changing. Something inside me was awakening.

"What... what’s happening to me?"

Sleepiness washed over me like a tidal wave. I couldn’t resist it. It wasn’t just fatigue.

It was the kind of exhaustion that dragged you under, the kind that came after days without sleep.

My body shed something.

My vision flickered, slowly sharpening, as though I was being rebuilt from the inside out. My thoughts blurred. My strength faded.

I tried to open my eyes again, but it was no use. The sleepiness was too strong.

I whispered to myself, "I just wanted to survive..."

And then I collapsed into the dark, completely unaware of what I was becoming.

I did not know how long I had been lying there. It could have been minutes or hours. Time felt distant and meaningless.

But one thing was certain.

My vision had returned.

Light touched everything, soft and golden, revealing the raw color of the earth. The dirt beneath me was coarse, and droplets clung to the sharp edges of the rocks.

I was not dreaming.

I was truly inside the cave.

And for the first time in what felt like forever, I could see.

"I can finally see?" I whispered, overwhelmed.

A strange happiness filled me. I felt no discomfort. Not even a trace of pain.

I stood up quickly, adjusting my posture with ease. My body felt incredible, like I had never been hungry at all.

I was full of energy.

This was nothing like when I had first gone blind. Back then, my body had been broken.

Weak. Sick. It felt like I would shatter if anyone touched me. Every breath was a struggle. My bones ached, and my muscles failed me.

"Could it be because of my physique?" I wondered aloud.

My body now felt weightless. My vision was not just restored.

It was changed. I could see tiny particles, small orbs of glowing energy drifting through the air in every direction. They danced gently through the cave.

"Is this mana? The same mana the system talked about?" I asked quietly.

The memories came back to me, sharp and clear.

My physique came with abilities. Among them were divine eyes: the Eye of Origin and the Eye of Silence. I remembered that clearly.

And it was not just sight.

I could feel things now.

Energies. Emotions.

Hidden presences.

The remnants of killing intent still clung to the air like old smoke.

"It must be because of that goblin attack." My voice trembled slightly.

That moment had been terrifying. The pain was unbearable. I thought I would die. But I survived it. I endured.

And in surviving, something inside me awakened.

"I will make them pay." The words came from deep within me.

It was not a loud declaration. Just a quiet promise. I had been helpless. Powerless. But I was no longer the same.

Still, my joy lasted only a moment. Even as I discovered what I had gained, I remembered what had been taken. Or maybe what had been forced onto me.

"I am pregnant. I know I am."

I said it aloud, but the truth had already settled into my bones.

The system wanted this.

I had felt its intent.

It had pushed me toward it from the beginning.

But I did not understand how it happened. I had never been touched. There was no intimacy.

No one to give me a child.

The only explanation I could imagine was that the system had created it. Just as it had created my body.

Perhaps it made something else. Something like a seed. Something that could grow without love, without choice, without consent.

That was all I could think of.

I did not know how.

I only knew it was real.

And yet, I pushed the thought away. I could not carry that burden now.

My focus had to be survival.

I had to live.

I had to endure this new world.

I had to stay alive long enough to reclaim everything that had been taken from me.

To make those who hurt me understand what they had done.

Because even if I had not chosen this path, I would not let it define me.

"I should try to see what the outside of the cave looks like," I said softly as I began walking toward the exit.

The cave walls were sharp and uneven.

The deeper I moved, the more I felt something cold slip into my skin. A strange sensation began crawling across my arms and neck.

I stopped and muttered under my breath, "What is this? Toxic air?"

I could feel it invading me. It wasn’t just cold. It stung.

Like something was clinging to my skin and digging deeper.

I held my breath, analyzing what it might be.

"Thank goodness I have some resistance," I whispered.

The air was laced with a thin layer of poison, a low-level toxin that could seep through the skin and settle into the body. It even targeted soft tissue around the eyes.

Suddenly, it all made sense.

The weakness. The blindness. The ache in my body.

This was the reason.

This poison had humiliated me.

"So this is the cause," I breathed.

My voice trembled. "Why would the system throw me into a place like this?"

A wave of anger rose in my chest. I clenched my fists, trembling.

"This system doesn’t give a damn," I said bitterly. "It left me here like I was disposable. Just another piece in its game."

The silence of that cursed digital screen still haunted me.

Always watching.

Never answering.

I wanted to scream.