For Arin, several "days" had passed—meaning he had rotated around himself several times while staring into space out of boredom.
Just as he was wondering if a new skill might appear, the familiar chime of the system echoed in his mind.
[Notice: Host is continuously bleeding.]
"…What?"
Arin froze.
"Bleeding? How? I don't even have blood!"
But the system wasn't done.
ERROR
ERROR [Host is a golem and does not have blood]
ERROR [Sufficient records of bleeding have been accumulated]
ERROR ERROR
Arin felt dizziness he wasn't sure a planet could even feel.
"I don't have blood! How am I bleeding!? And why are you accumulating 'bleeding' records for a being that doesn't bleed!?"
The system paused.
Then:
[Fixing error.]
[Host species updated: {Golem} → {Golem with Blood (Unique)}]
[Congratulations to Host for evolving.]
Arin waited.
And waited.
And… nothing happened.
His planetary body stayed exactly the same—molten, erupting, on fire.
"Evolved? Nothing changed! I'm still a hot ball of death!"
But the system continued anyway.
[Enough bleeding-related records accumulated.]
[Generating skill…]
[Skill generation successful.]
[Skill Generated: Bleeding]
{Effect: Host bleeds 1% more efficiently while reducing blood consumption by 1%}
A faint sensation washed across Arin—like the volcanoes erupting on his body had slightly increased in force. Not much, but noticeable.
"Woah—hey! That felt like someone increased the volcano pressure!"
Then realization struck.
"Wait… WAIT! System, are you thinking volcano eruptions are bleeding!?"
[Host golems do not erupt, but your unique species can bleed. Host is bleeding even now.]
Arin was speechless.
"…System, I'm a PLANET. I erupt because of MAGMA, not BLEEDING!"
[…]
"Oh great, now you've gone silent again."
He tried again.
"System, I am a planet. Say it. PLAN-ET."
[…]
"HELLO?"
The system replied with something even more ridiculous.
[Host should have himself checked by a golem doctor. How can someone become a planet? Host is a golem.]
"WHAT GOLEM DOCTOR? I'm not going to some giant rock clinic! And YOU should get checked by a system doctor or whatever!"
The system stopped responding again.
Arin groaned mentally.
"Useless…"
He tried to calm down and look at the new skill rationally.
The Bleeding skill reduced "blood consumption"—which for him meant molten core consumption.
But something didn't add up.
"My lava output increased by 2%… but my core consumption only decreased by 1%. So where does the extra 2% lava come from?"
He tried asking.
"System, where does the extra lava come from?"
Silence.
"System… where does the extra 2% blood come from?"
This time, the system answered immediately.
[Skills generated by the system from records are beyond the laws of the universe. They only follow the Rule of Records.]
Arin froze.
"…Beyond the laws of the universe? So they don't follow the law of conservation of mass and energy? Not physics? Not thermodynamics?"
His planetary core trembled.
"System… what's the difference between laws and rules?"
There was a short pause.
Then the answer came.
[Laws are limited to a specific domain—an area, a universe, an omniverse, or a reality.]
[Rules are truth. Wherever they appear, they override laws completely.]
Arin stared blankly at space for several minutes.
So his skills were violating universal physics.
Just casually.
"…I need a moment."
For the first time since becoming a planet, Arin felt something close to fear. And excitement. And existential crisis—all at once.
If records could create skills that broke universal laws…
Just what kind of being could he become?