The rain was heavy, and my feet sank into the mud as I ran through the wood. I heard the howls of the beasts behind me and the laughter of the humans behind them. It was a sick game of cat and mouse as the Awakeners pushed the Blood wolves to chase after me harder. Lightning arching across the sky, my breathing was chaotic. I had been running for two days. I was hiding from the Awakeners as if I were caught; my fate would be that of a slave, something I didn't desire to become.
*crack*
"Shit." As a branch broke my footing in the mud, I fell down a hill. Tumbling down the mountain, I hit the ground.
"Fuck!" I saw one of my arms bent in the wrong direction. I struggled to my feet as the sounds of those chasing got closer. Blood flowing out of my arm, I knew now that my fate was sealed as Blood wolves can smell blood from miles away without a problem. If the Awakeners don't find me, the Blood Wolves will. I started to run again, this time with a frantic drive as every second I ran was a second longer I lived.
*pant* *pant* *pant*
I struggled to run after ten minutes as the blood loss was taking its toll on me. I started to stumble as I ran, making it through a set of bushes and tripping as I slid on the muddy ground. Out of pure luck, I tripped as I stopped sliding. My head hung off a cliff as I cursed and praised my luck. At the same time, I started to hear the sounds of movement behind me. I turned and got up slowly as three Blood wolves stepped out of the bushes, and a laugh echoed out.
"To think a sub-human was still not enslaved, we have found ourselves a good toy. But man, is this man old? How did he survive out here? His luck must have been amazing, but his time has run out." A group of teenagers walked out as they killed the Blood wolves because they no longer had a purpose.
As they walked towards me, I slowly inched backward out of habit, pulling a collar from their storage space. Once placed, that collar can never be removed. As they smiled wickedly, I inched closer to the edge, as I had forgotten it for a moment. The wet ground gave way, making it a mudslide. The mud engulfed me as it pulled down all of us, sliding into the raven.
I struggled to keep myself above the mud but was fighting a losing battle with only one arm. My body hurt, and my mind was cloudy; at that moment, I knew my time was here. I chuckled inside my mind as I hit the bottom, and the mud fell faster than me. I wasn't killed on impact, which I wished had happened as the mud started to pile up on me. The weight was crazy as I still tried to dig out while being covered, but at that point, I had no more energy.
I could feel the mud flowing into my nose as I held my breath, trying to dig out. My head was hazy. I dug until my hand freed the surface, pulling myself halfway out of the ground and coughing up mud as I looked around. I sighed for a brief moment of release, but a loud sound went off as I looked up.
"Well fuck me." The last thing I noticed was a giant boulder falling off the cliff.
*SCREAMING*!
I opened my eyes, sweating as a door opened up, and A woman in a silk robe wearing a lace nightgown under it as she spoke, "Dear! What's wrong!" I froze as I looked at the woman, and tears started to flow down my face as I ran out of the bed I was lying on and into her embrace. "Dear, you're scaring me. Are you okay?" I lost my mother and sisters the year the world changed as monsters attacked our small town.
"I had a nightmare; I lost you and Sofia and Zoey." She hugged me tightly as she smiled. "I am not going anywhere, my dear Jason." She hugged me until I calmed down.
*ding*
(Host has finished merging with his younger body. The system will now power up.)
My head felt hazy as if I was falling asleep after hearing that voice as I fell into my mother's ample breast. "DEAR!" I heard her scream as I fell into a slumber. I found myself in a room with a computer in it. Looking around, I noticed my arms were gray with white hair, and I was taller than a moment ago. The computer turned on, making me walk towards it as I sat on the chair before it.
(Welcome Host.)
Those words appeared on it as I moved my hands to the keyboard and started typing in the chat box. "Host? What does that mean, and was that dream real?"
(That was no dream, Host; you lived that life. Everything you went through was real. For the Host part, I am the system, the gods that had watched you and wished to reward you for the struggle to survive without any power. They admire that will you had. Even when you were alone, you never gave up at the end of your life. You still crawled through the mud, desiring to live your own way.)
So, I lived and lost those who I loved. I sat in the chair, clenching my fist as I could feel the joints popping. I looked back at the computer and started to type. "What kind of system are you?"
(I am called the fluid system, and I have the ability to awaken females. But to do that, you must bind them to you, and in return, you will get points to buy skills for yourself or your women. The goddess of love and lust was your biggest fan as your manliness impressed her, and she wanted to reward you for the lonely life you had walked once.)
So it's a system meant to make a harem and reward me, not that I am against harems. Women without powers had to do what it took to survive. Those who are against harems have never had to struggle in their lives, as people's desire to live will make them bear with whatever they need to. "You said Fluid system. Does that mean my fluids are the key?"
(Yes, any woman who takes in your fluids will be bonded to you and won't be able to say no to you. Once bonded, the moment you release your sperm into them, it will make them Awaken a class like you know about. You will earn points for every Awakening and every time you have bedded a woman. The first time will earn you a hundred points, and after that, you will earn ten points every time you have sex with them after the first time.)
So I am rewarded for having sex and Awakening women, making them utterly loyal to me. This system is fantastic, "Is there a panel for me to use for the system or something like a statue's screen?"
(Once the Host wakes up, you can pull it up. It has a status screen and a store for you to buy skills with your sex points. There will be a shop store button and a list of the skills.)
I see, that is all the information I need from the computer as I got up and started thinking about what to do. First, I will need to bind women to me, and the first ones will be my mother and sisters, as I don't want to lose them this time. If I have to claim them as my harem members, then so be it; after all, it's better than the fate that awaits them. They will have the strength to protect themselves, and I will hold that sin with pride if the world wants to judge me.
My aunts and cousins are following; they have always been close to my family and me. Lucky for me, I don't have any male cousins to worry about. Then there is Jasmin, the girl I started to date in high school; she died during the term that had taken my family away from me. I noticed that I was about the age of puberty when I woke up in my bed.
This means I have 5-6 years before the change. That is more than the time I need to get everyone I want and then more to be able to live. The monsters and worlds that open up first are weaker than the ones that come later, giving us time to train and grow our own domain.
At this moment, the world I was in started to crumble as I opened my eyes and lay in a bed with my mother and sisters, sleeping in the chairs in the corner. I groaned, moving around, and my body felt like I had just done a whole-body workout.