In the blood forest where the air carried a faint iron scent, and the rustling leaves sounded like whispers-warning any intruder to turn back.
The Safrion tribe in their Bloody Haven Village, went about their day as usual, from adults to children as small as 4, and everyone carried at least one weapon on them.
Even if not everyone's main role was combat, they learned how to fight and use their bodies to survive there.
As part of that, there were the hunting squads, which would send hunters out to the forest, and their job was to bring back food, eliminate threats, and explore the surrounding areas.
One such team was led by Kriantis' father, Karos Oxalith, who is currently a captain meeting with the Commander.
Carrying a wide smile and his greatsword on his back, he stood there in the commander's office while his team waited outside.
"There you are... Late again, Captain Oxalith." The commander was a red-haired man with a serious expression and a scar going from his forehead's top to the end of his cheek.
"Sorry Commander! My wife just gave birth to my 5th child, and my second son." Karos replied full of pride to the point of bragging.
"Good job, if we had more men like you Captain, maybe the village wouldn't fear crises like this one anymore." The redhead commander nodded as he spoke.
"Thank you, Commander. I don't plan to stop at all." Karos answered while he knocked his fists one on the other twice above, and twice below.
"Then what's the case with this child? Any hunter potential or is it too early to say on this one?" The redhead commander questioned pulling parchment and being ready to write things down.
"He's blessed! Born with the markings of Rebirth on his back, and even more impressive, from his face, neck, chest, and arms and covered in what seems to be a grand marking." Karos announced his smile greater than before.
"Cone again?… Are you sure of this?" The commander stopped writing to look him in the eyes.
There was a nod in response.
To this, the commander let go of the parchment and feather altogether, before saying. "What are you waiting for? Tell me what grand marking he has!"
"The Grand marking of… We don't know, it's an unknown." Karos shrugs with a smile.
"You bastard…" The redhead commander's eyes widened and the veins on his face became visible as an aura surrounded him full of murderous intent.
In response, Karos said nothing more, simply avoiding eye contact in a cold sweat.
"Tch! I'll have the kid taken to Arc, he's the only one who will know something." After snorting, the redhead commander let out a sigh and leaned back on his chair.
"…." Karos became serious and simply looked at his commander, not a word.
"Just say what you want before I cave that annoying face in." The redhead commander narrowed his eyes as he spoke.
"Commander, I mean no offense, but is it really ok to trust an outsider with a matter like this? Won't the chief be able to help?" Karos questioned looking at him.
"You truly are a fool! Unless you want to lose everything, you'll listen to me and wait until Arc gives me an answer and then we can have him look at your kid." The redhead commander shook his head looking at him with saddened eyes.
"Sir… Isn't this an omission of progress? An act of insubordination? Maybe even trea-" Karos stood serious as he spoke every word ready for the consequences.
"Karos! Enough! You don't understand anything about the Blood Haven Village, our Safrion tribe, and much less our Chief! If you know what's best for you, you'll keep that mouth shut and wait. Dismissed." The redhead commander became fully serious the air in the room growing dense as the idea of death slowly gripped Karos for every second that passed.
Shivers went down his spine as the dark blue-haired man found himself suffocating in the air bit by bit, and something set in fully.
He was no match for the Commander at all, despite being only one rank below him.
Nodding his head, Karos said no more and turned around to leave.
As soon as he did so, the pressure disappeared completely.
"Oh, and Karos." The redhead commander called him again.
With his hand just on the frame of the door, he turned to the commander again. "Yes… Commander?"
"What are the colors of the hair and eyes of this child?" The redhead commander inquired.
"Hahahaha!…" Karos could not stop himself from laughing outloud.
There was no response as the commander waited for him.
"Hahaha… Ha… Sorry, Commander, it was hard not to. My kid is something else now that I think about it. He has black hair with platinum underneath and… his eyes are golden. Hahahaha!" Once the absurdity of it finally hit him again, he continued to laugh.
"… You… Hahahahaha! Truly a broken clock does get it right twice… Karos…" The redhead commander joined him in laughing.
"Commander?" The black-haired man asked.
"Be a good father, or we'll all be paying for it again." The redhead commander stated.
"Of course, never again. May I go?" Karos forced a smile as he questioned.
"Dismissed." The redhead commander nodded.
Then Karos walked off, the mark of his hand imprinted on the now smashed doorframe.
"What a faithful airhead… Is this the price of loyalty?… Does it matter? Oh well, whatever happens, if he's right, that kid has to live." The redhead commander said to himself before grabbing the feather and parchment again.
Meanwhile, outside, Karos passed by his squad all waiting for him to return.
"Hey! Captain, how was Commander's face when you bragged about your new kid? Bet he was in shock."
"Of course he was, we didn't believe it either, after that last time, he might just have the breeder factor! Hahahaha!"
"Hahahaha, as if, I would bet 100 times on Merlia before I bet on him once, he's probably holding her back! Hahahaha!"
"Tch! Captain don't listen to these three fools! Hehehehe, I bet you're going up back up in rank after this."
"Shut up you 4! Can't you read the room at all?…"
His subordinates the basic hunters in his squad talked one after the other before the last one stopped them as they noticed the expression on their Captain's face.
"All of you get your equipment and be ready at once! As of late the scout squad found traces of the Big Red. So other wild monsters and wild magic beasts have been going off course. ON WITH IT!" Karos yelled at them, then went to his own office, and shut the door aggressively.
Inside he looked at his own hands as he remembered himself paralyzed in front of the commander.
Useless, weak, powerless.
Bam!
He punched through a wall and then pulled back his unarmed arm before looking at the hole that easily goes all the way to the other side now on the wall.
"I can do this and so much more, a captain at ER: H, level 25 man in his twenties, many would kill to be me, I have not one but two very talented sons, and capable daughters, a beautiful wife…
"Who does he think he is?! That dirty traitor conspiring with an outsider to pouch my son, and he thinks I'll watch in silence?!… So what if he's an ER: G, level 50 commander?! That's not all… I need to tell the chief... How do I get to him?…
"I know, Big Red, if I bring even a single part of this wild magical beast back, I'll get an audience with the Chief for sure." Karos paced around his office talking to himself until he reached a conclusion and let out a sigh.
At the same time, back at home, lying in a fluffy and warm fur and pelt cradle, there was a child looking at a purple floating screen.
[Welcome to the Harem Ascension System, User.] The feminine voice said to him.
(Thanks, now tell me about everything that you can do!) Kriantis said excitement oozing from him.
[As you wish, User. My functions are many and include: Status Screen, Inventory, Quests, Harem Management, Relationships, and System perks: Harem heal, Dual Cultivation, and Harem Chain. Currently, those are all my functions.] The system informed.
(That's good, so what does this mean for me?) Kriantis asked curiosity glinting in his eyes.
[Response: I am connected to your body, soul, mind, potential, talent, and everything else. Due to this, my functions are one with you, thus I am capable of using your abilities, controlling your body for you, and analyzing anything within your perception, though physical contact allows for a much better analysis.] The system responded.
(Hmmm… Is that so? If that's the case, I might be able to get creative with things… hmm, Ok. Good, show me your functions.) Kriantis nodded internally after saying.
[Response: I will demonstrate each function as requested, User.]
[Status Window]
[Name: Kriantis Virelan Oxalith
Species: Humanoid | Sub-Species: Human
Age: 0 years old
Sex: Male
Physique: Safrion Body(Human)
Bloodline: Oxalith Lineage(Human)
Affinity: Neutral, Elemental,
Alignment: NE(Neutral Evil)
Talent: Golden Venerable(Suppressed(Original-Rainbow))
SR: Mortal
Class: Omni-Layer
Job: Omni-Ruler
Titles: None
ER: I
Phase: 0
Tier:0
Ascension:0
Lv: 1- Exp: 0/100%
Attributes:
Hp: 100/100
Sta: 100/100
Mana: -
Stats:
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 4
Vitality: 3
Endurance: 4
Stamina: 2
Agility: 3
Energy: 0
Sense: 4
Willpower: 20(Limit)
Spirit: 15
Charisma: 5
Luck: 1
Stat points: 0
Particularity/s: None
Unique ability/s: Harem Ascension System
Innate ability/s(Racial skills): Adaptability
Active skills: None
Passive skills: None
Resistances: Acid Tolerance, Bleeding Tolerance, Sickness Tolerance
Magic: None
Unique Magic: None
Extras: Omni-??? ??? ???; Blessing Of The Reincarnation Deity, Vireya; Breeder Factor]
(That's a lot… Ok, explain the specifics of status and what they do.) Kriantis read through the entire thing taking his time before saying
As soon as he made the command many purple floating screens came up.
[Safrion Body(Human): This physique is the reflection of the strong bodies honed over generations of Safrions living in the harsh environment of the Blood forest. Highly adaptable and tolerant to bleeding, acid, and sickness.
Effect 1: Tolerance to Acid, Bleeding, and Sickness gained.
Effect 2: +2 Endurance, +2 Sense, +1 Vitality]
[Oxalith Lineage(Human): This is the bloodline of one of the families of the Safrion tribe, they tend to use heavier weapons the best. Once part of the chief's band, the closest of servants, but their family suffered a decline. Though lost to time, they have the Breeder Factor.
Effect 1: Affinity to Heavy weapons.
Effect 2: You have the Breeder Factor.]
[Neutral: This elemental affinity is the most basic and common one, allowing most individuals to use lifestyle magic for daily life, though those with better mana control, and a larger mana pool might be able to use Command magic]
[Elemental: This elemental affinity is the rarest, allowing individuals to gain any number of affinities their talent allows them through training, though unbalanced opposites are an impossibility.]
[Golden Venerable(Suppressed(Original-Rainbow)): This is the talent level of Nigh-Celestials like Demigods, a mortal is rarely born with such talent.
Though the User's actual talent rank is Rainbow 3 ranks above this one, it's currently suppressed to stop prying eyes from turning your way.
Different talent ranks have different effects on the mentality of the individual.
Golden Venerable effect: Who needs divinity?! Not you! Because you will someday blow up planets just fine without it! So who cares! F*ck the Gods and their bullshit! You'll just make your own rules and show everyone who's boss! For those that show traits that can have the power to affect whole planets. It has six stages. (18 stars)-(10 times buff from average)- up to 19 affinities.]
[Mortal(SR): This is the soul rank of the User, which is currently a pinnacle mortal soul.]
[Omni-Layer: This class is an adaptive pinnacle capable of learning and growing through intercourse. Experience points are gained faster and more by engaging with a partner, and everything from their style, techniques, and whatever else they have excluding their skills, unique skills, resistances, particularities, affinities, bloodline, physiques, magic, titles, unique magic, extras and other such, can all be acquired by you.
Not only do you gain enhanced proficiency in bedding arts, but you also get an understanding of the bliss points of any target.
Your Rod is now an Omni-Rod always perfectly fitted to your partner and producing its own natural lubricant as well as hitting critical points.
The produce of said Rod now has various effects:
Effect 1: Once inside a target, it will revert them to their youthful prime;
Effect 2: It has the properties of improving overall health such as skin care, hair care, and other parts of the target's body.
Effect 3: Omni-Growth, continuous target will experience an overall power increase in every area. From general strength or agility to potential and talent.
Effect 4: Omicron genes. The user's genetics are rid of any, and all gene defects as well as eliminate any found in the target. This includes the User's offspring.
Effect 5: Its taste will match the preferences of the target automatically.
Effect 6: The user has control over whether a load is active for fertilization or not.
Effect 7: A load will have sustenance value, high nutritional value, and grant healing equivalent to a healing spell as powerful as the user once inside.
Regardless of species or composition, everything is a possibility.]
[Omni-Ruler: This Job is focused on amassing a following and its benefits. The more you own in territory and subordinates, the more you can do. Inside your domains, you gain bonuses derived from your subordinates and territory.
Effect 1: Every Job, title, extra, and class your subordinates have is now connected to you, and you will slowly passively acquire them all except those unique to them.
Effect 2: You can manage and command your territory and subordinates through the system.
Effect 3: You get a percent bonus to talent and potential per subordinate under you, at a minimum of 0.001%.
Effect 4: You can temporarily loan any compatible ability to your subordinates.
Effect 5: Every time a subordinate grows stronger and closer to the User, 0.0001% of said growth always goes to the User, and gets added to their growth rate.
Effect 6: The larger the territory ruled, the more powerful the user is while in it, by default the user is one Sub-ER stronger while in their territory.
Effect 7: Every 1000 citizens governed by the User, will give them a 0.00001% bonus to everything. However this is dependent on them living in proper conditions, and if the population drops so does the bonus.
The ruler who can govern all.]
[I(ER): This is the Entity Rank of I, the lowest for a 3-dimensional entity, and the one most of them start at. Once you reach the limit level of this ER, you'll be able to evolve into a higher one once you meet your main class and job requirements for evolution.]
[Adaptability: This intrinsic skill or racial skill is the one given to all humans according to their general characteristics and development so far as a sub-species.]
[Acid Tolerance: This resistance reduces acid-based damage by 25%]
[Bleeding Tolerance: This resistance reduces bleeding by 25%]
[Sickness Tolerance: This resistance reduces the sickness risk by 25%]
[Omni-??? ??? ???: This extra is not fully understood by the system and its effects are unknown. It might be possible to fully analyze once the User is high-level enough. All that is known is that it's a marking imprinted on every aspect of the User to a point it's impossible to remove, and upon looking through the User's memories the origin was a white present box, it came from the unidentified object inside it.]
[Blessing Of The Reincarnation Deity, Vireya: This blessing stabilizes the User and limits them the necessary amount for the best outcome. Gives the User greater control and helps the soul, and mind adapt to the body and world quickly. The secrets of a transmigrator who reincarnated are to be kept.
Effect 1: Soul and mind gain the capacity to easily attune to a new world and body.
Effect 2: Control over new forces is vastly increased.
Effect 3: Hides and suppresses stand out factors the necessary amount.]
[Breeder Factor: You are a breeder, an entity that has a great propensity towards having multiple partners, and even more children, destined to create a great bloodline to be remembered for ages to come.
A true stallion, you can handle the burden of a Harem King.
Effect 1: Your sexual stamina is multiplied by the number of members in your harem.
Effect 2: For every member in your harem you gain a 0.001% bonus to your bloodline and physique.
Effect 3: All your kids will inherit your bloodline and physique at its best.
Effect 4: All members of your harem will have their evolution and progress busted for everyone 1000 times they get filled up by the User.
Effect 5: Once marked by you, you'll always be able to find members of your harem, even if they are killed, so long as the soul has not passed or been destroyed, you can find them.]
(Hahahahaha! Perfect! I am an absolute unit. I will make the most out of it all.) Kriantis could only laugh internally ready to grow and take over.
This was only the beginning of his journey.
A legend that would one day echo worlds.