Reincarnated With The Degenerate System

When I opened my eyes, the first thing I noticed was the green sky.

It wasn't the sky I had known before. The clouds moved strangely, the air felt unfamiliar, and even the sunlight seemed slightly different.

For a second, I simply lay there, staring upward.

I made it.

I was alive.

Considering how many times the spatial distortions had almost shredded me to pieces, simply arriving here alive was already an achievement. The journey had been one challenge after another.

No wonder Hexor warned me that not just anyone could survive the journey. He wasn't exaggerating in the slightest.

If I had tried to come here without my artificial world, only Shadow and maybe Alexa and Hai-Yen would have survived.

The rest would have died within three seconds.

I tried to move.

'Huh?'

I recognized the problem immediately. It wasn't because I was injured or exhausted. It was the gravity. The second I tried to push myself up, an overwhelming weight slammed down on my body. It felt as though the entire world was trying to crush me into the dirt.

"What the..."

I gritted my teeth and forced myself upward.

My muscles strained harder than they ever had before. Every movement felt like I was carrying a mountain on my back.

This wasn't normal.

I had experienced different environments before. I had fought against pressure, extreme temperatures, and even mana disruptions.

But this was something else.

I finally managed to sit up, breathing heavily.

My eyes narrowed.

The gravity here was at least twenty times stronger than my previous world.

Twenty times.

For an ordinary human, such increased meant instant death. They wouldn't have been able to move before their body collapsed under the crushing gravity.

That immediately changed my plans. My idea of relocating everyone from my artificial world here would have to wait.

'Gravity is not the only issue.'

I reached out and tried to feel the mana around me.

There were traces of it.

But compared to the previous world, it was almost nonexistent.

It was like comparing a lake to a single drop of water.

I closed my eyes and focused harder.

The surrounding mana was thin, scattered, and difficult to gather. Even breathing in mana felt inefficient, like trying to fill a cup with a leaking pipe.

'So this is what he meant when he told me not to expect much.'

The previous world had been overflowing with different types of energy because of the Architects' influence.

This world had freedom, but that freedom came with a price: a lack of resources.

It was fine. I still got the system, and I was confident that once I found the sect, I would discover a way to travel to other worlds and get resources.

I slowly stood up, forcing my body to adjust to the crushing gravity.

My legs shook slightly, but it was mainly because I was caught off guard. I took a deep breath and circulated my Qi through my muscles.

In no time, I adjusted to the increased gravity, and it no longer posed any disadvantage.

I looked around.

The landscape was completely unfamiliar. There were no cities in sight, no signs of advanced civilization, no giant mana formations covering the land.

Just endless wilderness.

For the first time in a long while, I felt like I had truly started over. I had no information, no allies, and no idea where I was.

I reached into my storage and pulled out the emblem.

A connection to his sect.

My only lead.

"Alright."

I placed the emblem away and looked toward the horizon.

SWOOOOSH!

I flew toward the east. I could sense a concentration of mana in that direction, and because the surrounding mana was so scarce, the difference was much easier to detect.

Soon, I noticed a significant increase in energy consumption. The gravity here was twenty times stronger, but flying consumed nearly fifty times more energy than usual.

Even with my vast reserves of energy, the difference was enough to bother me.

In my previous world, traveling through the sky was effortless. I could cross enormous distances without giving it much thought.

Here, every movement required more energy. It wasn't just because of the gravity alone; there was something in the air that forced me to expend more than usual.

I closed my eyes and used my Hive Mind to get a better view. Then, I finally saw the crux of the problem.

The world itself was constantly siphoning my energy into the ground. It was stealing my mana to revitalize itself.

'What a scam. Don't tell me he's the one responsible for this. What a greedy bastard.'

Yeah, I was taking a shot at Hexor.

I was about to increase my speed when I heard a loud explosion.

Then another.

BOOOOM!

My eyes narrowed.

It wasn't the sound of an earthquake or some random collapse.

I changed direction and flew toward the disturbance.

The closer I got, the clearer the sounds became.

Roars.

Explosions.

The clash of magic against some massive armored creature.

I slowed down and looked ahead.

What greeted me was a battlefield.

Ten people stood on the ground, surrounded by broken trees and shattered rocks.

In front of them was a giant serpent.

Its body stretched across the land like a moving mountain. It was easily the size of a ten-story building, with thick scales covering its entire body. Every movement caused the ground beneath it to tremble.

Its head alone was larger than most houses.

The creature opened its mouth, revealing rows of sharp fangs.

The fighters looked tiny compared to it.

But they weren't ordinary fighters.

Each of them moved with incredible speed, attacking the monster from different angles.

One person created dozens of blades of wind that sliced across its scales.

Another slammed their weapon into the ground, causing pillars of stone to rise and strike the creature's body.

A woman in the back continuously fired arrows glowing with faint mana.

Their attacks were powerful enough to easily kill an S-rank seeker, yet the serpent absorbed every spell before it could penetrate deeper.

'Those scales... they're blocking magic.'

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