Chapter 1: The Game Rune System
"Happy birthday! Happy birthday to you~~!" Sweet voices sang the wishes in unison! Clearly happy for the celebrant, the ladies surrounding him clapped and smiled with their beautiful bodies performing a beauty show for the celebrant's eyes content.
The person who was the only male here and receiver of all those sweet voices was called Tetsuya. He was twenty years old and already rather successful in his life. All women around him were 'friends' on the outside, but all of them were his 'girlfriends' as well. His mother was also here, totally unaware of what was going on between him and all these 'friends'.
Naturally, the friends themselves were clueless that they were just 'girlfriends' for his 'school life' where rules were ignored, and freedom was sought at every step.
That was how Tetsuya lived his life. He ignored rules and responsibility, but it was fine as he was talented. His talent could be applied to school, jobs, and any other activity as Tetsuya's memory was eidetic. He could remember stuff easily and read it like a book from his mind! Adding his excellent physique, Tetsuya was like the perfect man on the earth and the target of many ladies' attention. Even his bosses at the part-time jobs were going easy on him.
Women, easy part-time jobs, and exciting life were what Tetsuya loved and hoped to keep close.
"Thank you, everyone. I can't even express how grateful I am to have you all here. Even though this day can be called one step closer to death, I am thrilled just because of all of you gathered here-" Before Tetsuya's speech could end, his eyes dilated as the 'background' suddenly changed.
He, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly hit the ground with his butt as even the chair disappeared. His eyes then looked above as it was raging here. The dark sky was blooming with red roses.
Literally.
"What the fuck is going on?" Tetsuya pinched his cheeks, yet the dream didn't disperse. Instead, it felt so real he knew that he hadn't suddenly fallen asleep. "I got fucking summoned? I knew these fucking novels were based on real experience. Now, the fantasy world wants me to step on it." Though he looked somewhat composed, Tetsuya was far from entirely realizing his situation.
The sky was not alone but instead dominated by one entity. It was a woman in a tight red dress floating above the heavens. In front of her was an object similar to Red Rose that was lit up in a thousand flames.
Its petals were continuously falling off from it. The moment these petals reached the ground, the flames erupted furiously as if trying to return to the red sky that looked more mesmerizing, with many of those still up.
"Ughh…" Only after Tetsuya looked around, his eyes spotted the dead and burnt bodies whose smell was disgusting. Their appearance also nearly made him puke out his cake that he just ate. "Jesus, killing… Not around me." He then crawled on the ground to not get found out by the red-dressed woman.
She was here to murder the whole household, but the worst was that Tetsuya couldn't even tell why and how he got summoned here. It was another world filled with magic and killing, so he had to find a calm place and just begin a new life.
"I will manage a new life…" Tetsuya swore to himself. "To return to my world, I have to fulfill some special condition, don't I? As if I will kill some evil trash people… I am evil trash myself, so it is time for a good life with a good cover." At least he knew that he was a bad man. And just as Tetsuya said, he didn't want to begin a magical path in this world to return home as it would put him in many death situations. Maybe his talent would prove to be useful, but it still would be filled with death. Just the Red Rose woman was enough to realize it.
Instead, Tetsuya preferred to just begin low life in one of the villages. He would use his talent to learn everything here and get the respect out of people. Some knowledge from his modern world also would be useful here.
"Polygamy should be legal too, so don't worry, mother and father, your son, will continue our lineage with a big family." It felt terrible inside to leave his mother alone on the earth after his father's disappearance. "But you would do the same, mother. I don't even know what will be thrown onto me by the world before I can return. But if the conditions will be convenient without massacre, then maybe…" Tetsuya still loved his mother, who had to raise him alone, so his initial goals shifted slightly.
Nonetheless, he was crawling his way out from this household filled with flames and killing.
Until a sudden voice called him out.
"Summoned… The host has been summoned…" It was a womanly voice laced in pain and sadness. "Stop… Please… stop…" She called him while mustering every bit of her strength, so Tetsuya couldn't ignore her. Her voice was the sweetest one he has ever heard, which stupefied him as he had many women who loved him on the earth.
When he turned his eyes in her direction, Tetsuya immediately bit his lips as her body was one of the worst here. It was all due to the Red Rose from above, all burnt and bloody. She couldn't even be recognized as a woman.
"How do you even live?" Tetsuya instantly whispered, his quiet tone heard by the woman as she answered him. "My bloodline… has awakened… when my royal family died…" A bloodline was also the reason why her family suddenly got attacked by The Red Rose. She told all of this to Tetsuya, then immediately got down to brass tacks.
"This bloodline can't use my body… to awaken thoroughly. I need the host, so the summoning has been issued by the bloodline… This bloodline… is cursed in the whole world… because it's demon bloodline…" It would mean that Tetsuya would be the host while she would live within him as the soul. His body would get the bloodline, and she could survive. At this moment, Tetsuya immediately shifted his eyes.
"Unfortunately. You can't rely on me." Wasn't it evident after his initial thoughts? "I don't want to deal with killing and any other shit like that." Those words hurt the woman, but the demon bloodline would certainly change people if one wasn't strong mentally. One would need to challenge it or go along with the demon bloodline's tendencies, but it was clear that Tetsuya wasn't interested in those. She wasn't thinking about it too!
Regardless of his choice, he was the one summoned by the demon bloodline to help her. He was the one which suited her bloodline and probably her too, so the woman stated the obvious.
"You can't go through these flames without my bloodline." Her voice was getting weaker on the contrary to her resolution. "Survive this! You can only survive with me… Become my host.. and we will become one! Friends, family, lovers, I will be in your care… and I will take care of you… for an eternity!"
Her shouts were so weak, yet Tetsuya heard these well. Now that she said it, Tetsuya indeed had no way of leaving this household without getting wounded. Furthermore, the red rose petals were still falling off and creating even bigger flame walls.
There was no time to waste here, but Tetsuya honestly didn't want to step on the killing path. It was a path filled with so much bullshit and continuous responsibilities he would rather become the villager!
"Fuck! I will do it! But prepare to lose that royal status. From now on, you are my woman, and I am not a fucking royalty. We are going to be the revolutionizing villagers!" Tetsuya couldn't tell whether she heard him correctly, but the moment he accepted her, a purple cube appeared out of her hand.
This purple cube was the new bloodline awakened in the form of a rune. It was one of the special runes like Red Rose in the sky with the difference that it was newborn. The rune's path had yet to be decided. However, when Tetsuya got touched by the rune, his mind shook as the womanly voice rang out more vividly and clearly relieved.
"My name is Ashley. Pleased to meet you." She was no longer with a body, but the soul only, yet Ashley spoke with a beautiful and calm tone. "My Asmelo Household wasn't aware that we are the descendants of the demon, but our ancestor is really the playful demon, Yumu!"
After telling Tetsuya the origin of her bloodline, her purple cube began to read the host's memories. Ashley had gone through the same a few minutes ago, so she patiently waited for the purple cube to awaken its powers.
This privilege was only possible for the royal descendants as any other 'normal' people would accept the rune and yield to its power. Still, Ashley and Tetsuya were getting something tailored from their memories with a tinge of 'playfulness' from the demon bloodline.
[The Game Rune System has been created.]
"The Game Rune? System? What kind of system?" Ashley was bewildered by the rune and her partner Tetsuya was the same. He then shouted with content. "Nice rune. I will play a lot of games with my women."
His body was no longer hugging the ground as well. He stood up and sped up to escape the swallowed in flames household. The bloodline's effects were felt by his body already, so Tetsuya could only leave his fate to the demon bloodline's resilience.
[The Game Rune System has created two main games.]
"What? What are you doing?" Tetsuya asked, but Ashley immediately shook her head! "It's not me. The rune is… working on its own." This left him speechless as to what kind of 'soul' she was supposed to be now?
"Listen, Ashley…" His voice sounded somewhat irritated. "If you are just a useless woman who provides the bloodline, then get the fuck out." This bloodline was already making moves while the owner was just looking around from the inside. Tetsuya didn't feel like dealing and taking care of a useless woman who would be just a beautiful vase.
He would rather have a less beautiful but nice and working woman. Of course, he based her appearance on her voice and royalty, so the guess was that Ashley was the beauty he had never seen before!
"I have limitations from the soul, but my knowledge is rich. I used to be a bookworm. The world and its mysteries aren't foreign to me!" Ashley immediately made a comeback and satisfied her partner.
"Just keep the bloodline in check, and let's have fun as villagers. Don't make this game rune-"
[Main Game: MMORPG has spread its power onto Tetsuya and Ashley.]
[Tetsuya Lv.1 Class: Tank.]
[Ashley Lv.1 Class. Demon Mage.]
"I told you!" Tetsuya screamed.
"This is the rune still assimilating with our settings! Just wait for a little and then you will be the one to create the games! Just wait!" Ashley was a tad annoyed as this was the power-up, yet her partner was just complaining. However, she knew he got summoned from another world and that it was a new world, so Ashley could only bite her lips when she wanted to shout at him!
But she knew that villages were not what Tetsuya imagined them to be. For him, it was as if this place was without any battle or killing, which was so foolish! Then, another rune setting appeared before their eyes.
[Main Game: MOBA]
"Moba?" Ashley tilted her head as she asked. Unlike her, Tetsuya was aware of what MOBA was, so he was kinda stupefied by this game rune. He waited for the results to come out, but these results made him roll his eyes.
[Quest! Create a board for MOBA Games. Create MOBA Games around the world!]
[Quest! Spread your MMORPG System throughout the world and turn it into one game!]
[Quest! Turn Ashley into The Queen Of The World!]
[Quest! Grow up in strength to have leisure and exciting life!]
"Yeahhh, yeahhh… I am the revolutionizing villager from now on." Tetsuya spat his saliva while saying so. In front of him was the flame wall that should be the only problem in this fantasy life! Then, the life of a quiet but revolutionizing villager… will begin! A good cover indeed as he would have village women get the merits and allow them to have the most out of the village's new revolution! He, of course, also would then propose and begin polygamous life!
These thoughts made Ashley chuckle as she cheered him on. "It will hurt, but you can do it. Go, go!" Currently, her sweet voice was the only thing Tetsuya liked about her. She then peeked at the quests and blushed. "I wanted to be the queen of the world to see through every rune and mysteries…"
Her soul getting hotter would get noticed by Tetsuya, but the flames were a perfect cover to hide it! He also had yet to see her 'soul form', representing her beauty and real body.
*Please read author's note.*
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