While they were talking, the loading progress bar had already fallen back to 0%, and the system's voice cut off abruptly.
Then she saw a ball of light rapidly fade in a single flicker, about to vanish right before her eyes.
She immediately judged that this was the system's true body and urgently reached out to grab it, trying to forcibly salvage the situation through physical means.
But with her mere mortal flesh, how could she possibly catch something intangible?
Her hand grasped only empty air.
Just then, however, a fair hand suddenly reached out from the void and seized the system's true body as it tried to flee.
At once, the system's true body began flashing wildly, seeming to shift through countless forms in an instant. But none of it worked. In the end, it could only obediently return to the shape of a ball of light.
"Waaah! I'm only a thirty-thousand-year-old child—I'm still young! Great existence, please don't eat me..."
At that moment, the ball of light suddenly burst into tears with a wail, even scattering tiny motes of light from its body.
Hearing the system's voice, seeing the suddenly appearing hand, and the figure whose face and form she could not make out appearing along with it, Laura—who had already been rather dazed—felt her brain completely unable to process the complicated information before her. Her mind went utterly blank.
Perhaps because she had transmigrated, however, she recovered quickly. Her first thought was that her system seemingly wouldn't be able to run away now.
But that did not seem like a good thing.
No matter how one looked at it, a system was something beyond mortals. And an existence capable of casually pinching a system between its fingers was surely far more powerful than the system itself.
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