[It's not as easy as you think. The support mode is customized according to the host way of life, personality and the world. As to help the host to overcome any problem and difficulty in his way to reach the peak.]
[So, even if you change your action at such crucial timing. The support mode will not activate because in essence your will and determination is still the same.]
The system explained that the problem is never in the choice and action at crucial times. But in the changes of the host's life.
In the beast taming novel, the system activated the support mode when the main character is about to choose its partner.
In the super power novel, the system activates the support mode when the main character is about to awaken his super power or talent.
In many other novels, it is activated when the story actually begins. Where the direction of the main character's fate takes the turn. When the carp starts to swim against the tide and jump over the gate and become a dragon.
Listening to the system explanation. Niu Chang's brain was working hard, trying to analyze the input and process it to get the way to exit his predicament,
The system was watching Niu Chang. As it could only comment in its heart, 'as expected from him.'
Niu Chang was a weird one. Not as human but as the system's host.
In the system's knowledge base, there are no such cases and templates of main characters like Niu Chang.
Maybe because the system was only a newcomer in this business so its privilege and access was not enough to know the template like Niu Chang or maybe something else, no one knows.
The problem was not Niu Chang's personality or the character that was more like a villain than a main character. He was cold, indifferent and calculative.
Niu Chang's problem lies in how his mind was working.
His mind was not like how a man character should be and no character should think like him.
You can't cultivate?
Let me make my own cultivation method. Gathering low level cultivation manuals, extracting their essences and then comparing them to each other then pulling the logic behind cultivating.
At this time, wasn't the main character supposed to travel mountains and seas to find the cultivation method instead of researching himself?
What? You can't cultivate the qi or essence?
Then let me choose body cultivation.
What? My body is unable to follow body cultivation?
Let me do some research first.
Hmm.. my body is indeed unable to do qi and body cultivation. Then I will do mind cultivation.
Still not working? I will do soul cultivation.
Still not working? I will try every possibility from the novels I have read and if it's not enough I will make my own cultivation path.
It was exactly because of this kind of thinking that the system was having a headache. Instead of calling him a main character, it's more correct to call him an intruder from being a reader into the world of a novel.
His thinking was just not limited to the world he is living in at all.
He used all of his accumulated knowledge from his first life after reading so many novels, using them as reference and making his own way instead of taking the risk of finding it in this world.
Such willful and ridiculous people naturally will be mocked by others. Although there was a chance he will succeed, there will be more failure.
Even after knowing this in his heart, Niu Chang didn't bother at all. Walking the path of thorn and darkness, he was actually excited and passionate.
The goal naturally is immortality. But as much as the goal is important, the journey to reach such a destination actually plays a more important role.
So what if I ascend to immortality in one step? It's okay, but I will not be satisfied.
Now that I have become omniscient and omnipotent, naturally I will enjoy this power and enter various realities to play as the main character where I never enjoyed before.
The system was unable to hold and spoke.
[Host, your fourteen answers will not be able to activate the support mode of the system.]
Niu Chang was deeply immersed in how to exploit and finding the method to activate the support mode, he already has fourteen methods but still keeps increasing the number.
[Your fourteen- no, your fifteen methods are useless and more so those that will come in the future. Host, the problem is not with the system nor the world.]
[The problem is you, Host. In your way of thinking it is your will, the one thing that defines you. That person who now called himself Niu Chang.]
[I already know this and so you are. You even already deduced this before you came up with your fourth method on how to activate the support mode.]
When the system stopped talking, Niu Chang actually paid more attention to the system. His mind was still running but their attention was no longer on how to activate the support mode.
He stopped after the fifteenth method.
Niu Chang chose to be silent, since the system directly responded when he came up with the fifteenth method. There was no need to talk about it since the system right now was already reading his mind.
[Yes, you are correct, Host. No matter how many methods you come up with, all of them will be useless because this is no longer a normal development.]
As far as Niu Chang knew, he never read a story where the system appeared before the support mode activated. Even if the system is activated and it has some artificial intelligence to help the main character.
His development was unheard of.
While Niu Chang was thinking, the system continued his train of thought.
[It's as if the development met with a problem that was never recorded before.]
Before Niu Chang could construct his thinking into words, the system already deduced sentences that in essence were similar to what he was thinking right now.
[There were many fateful encounters that could trigger the support mode, but none of them were successful. Following this trend, there is a big possibility that the future will be the same.]
[Considering this situation. The host can be said to have failed to become the main character.]
But Niu Chang didn't flinch nor reacted. He is still calmly thinking. 'Then the reason why you appear now is naturally because that possibility is no longer a possibility, right?'
[Correct.]
Silent.
The system didn't continue to speak and so with Niu Chang.
The system has its own rules and way of conduct in encountering many possibilities in its duty. While Niu Chang used his first life knowledge to deduce many things.
The system already knew what would happen while Niu Chang was on his way to know.
Finally, Niu Chang found the answer and sighed in realization.
[This scenario shouldn't happen.]
The system gave its confirmation to what Niu Chang had deduced.
The system and the host shouldnt interact, or rather the core of system and the host wasn't allowed to have interaction at all.
This was breaking the fundamentals to any story and potentially leaking the secret about the system's truth.
Why is there a system?
What is a system?
Why did it help the main character?
What is its goal?
[Stop it host. Don't continue your thought or there will be no 'next.']
The system tried to stop Niu Chang from deducing further by giving vague description.
Niu Chang stopped immediately but he was helpless. 'System, you have already been with me since I came to this world, so you naturally understand me very well. It's not that I want to continue to deduce the answer but I can't. Humans are such weird creatures, the more you try to stop thinking about something the stronger you think about it.'
Shaking his head, Niu Chang let go of all his thoughts by solely focusing his mind on his vision. With his mind focusing on his vision, watching over the dark night and the lonely moon.
Niu Chang was finally able to stop his mind in running on their own and only able to watch the scenery.
[Such things naturally have been considered by the system, as long as the host didn't intend to do it. Even if the host already has his own thoughts, it is heavily forbidden to speak it out.]
'Sure.' Niu Chang followed the advice of the system.
[Since the situation is already clear to the host. I will give the host choices to exit his predicament.]
Instinctively, Niu Chang deduced the choices that the system wanted to give him.
He came up with seven possible choices in an instant right before the system spoke.
The system wanted to speak, but stopped when it read Niu Chang's mind.
'What a troublesome and fearsome man.'
Slowly the system finally understood why the management team gave Niu Chang 'very good' evaluation.
His awareness of out of the box thinking was just too high.
[The host has two choices. The first one is to alter the host personalities so that he can become a proper main character and the second is to drop the qualification of becoming the main character.]
The system chose to be oblivious towards the other five choices that Niu Chang came up with. Those five choices were indeed very good, but the system didn't want to consider them.
Since the system could read his mind, Niu Chang didn't bother to argue. Whether it's impossible or the system didn't want to, since the system said so. He just follows the flow.
[If the host chose the first choice, then there is a chance for the host to achieve immortality in this life. As for the second choice-]
Niu Chang cut the system's speech.
'Stop it system. We have already lived together for three years, you should know me better. If I can't achieve immortality what is the point of being alive? If in the end I only end up as a pile of soil and ash, it's better to strive for a sliver chance of success.'
The system was confused. Although it understood what Niu Chang said, it just didn't get any confirmation from Niu Chang's mind on which choice he took.
[Host, please don't play with me. You said you want to achieve immortality even if it's only a sliver of hope and nigh impossible. But in your heart you didn't take any of my choice.]
Niu Chang shook his head and said, 'no, I already gave you my answer. It is you, who chose to ignore it.'