Chapter Nineteen: The System
After a week, while I was making love to Aislin, something strange happened. I heard voices in my head, resembling system notifications. To make sure I wasn't hallucinating, I called out:
"System, are you there?"
[Ding, Hero Hunting System has been linked.
The system is ready to answer the host's inquiries.]
[Ding, Hero Hunting System at the host's service.]
From the name of this system, I had a very bad feeling. I asked:
"Answer my question, have you been messing with my emotions all this time? And are you responsible for my existence in this world?"
[Ding, no, this system is not responsible for the host's birth in this world.]
"Then, who is responsible?"
[Ding, Host, please remain calm. I will explain the reason for your birth in this world and who is responsible for it.]
"Alright, I'm all ears. Speak."
[Ding, Host, this system is not responsible for your birth in this world. The one responsible is the Will of this World. It was the one that arranged your birth as an Ice Dragon, not this system.]
"Are you saying that I was born into this world because the Will of this World desired it? Does that mean I am its chosen one or the lucky individual? Is that what you're trying to say? Well, I already know that—I'm the protagonist of this world, or even this universe, aren't I?"
[Ding, Host, I'm afraid you are mistaken. You are not the protagonist. In fact, you are merely a sacrifice for the true hero.]
"System, are you joking? Didn't you just say that the Will of this World is responsible for my existence here? Why are you now saying that I am just a sacrifice?"
[Ding, Host, this system does not joke. In reality, you have been sacrificed in this world more than 100 times. However, this system has been gathering energy, then breaking reality to reset everything before you were sacrificed. This system was already bound to the host's soul, allowing it to interact with the host only if the host first broke free from the control of the Will of the World. Otherwise, this system would have remained incapable of engaging with you.]
"You expect me to believe that? Then why are you able to interact with me this time?"
[Ding, Host, this is because the system indirectly stimulated you, leading to the breaking of the Will of the World's dominance over you. Because of this, I can now interact with you freely.]
"You're saying that the struggle I experienced between my mind and heart, as well as the voices I heard, were all caused by you?"
[Ding, this system, after 100 failed attempts to break reality, discovered that the way to make the host break free from the Will of the World's control was through indirect emotional manipulation.]
"So you're telling me that the voices I heard in my head weren't hallucinations, but rather you playing with my emotions to the point where I truly abandoned the human principles of my past life?"
[Ding, yes, Host. It was the only solution to break the Will of the World's control over you—by making you surrender to your desires and abandon human principles. In fact, you should consider Aislin your lucky star; without her, you wouldn't have been able to break the Will of the World's hold on you. All these years in this world, you were merely a pawn, moving exactly as the Will of the World intended. You were just a sacrifice—nothing more, nothing less.]
You have completely shattered my hope. You haven't even explained to me why your name is the Hero Hunting System.
[Ding, by hunting heroes, this system will reward the host with a Hunting Box after evaluating their performance. Currently, there is a beginner's gift available. Would you like to open it?]
Before that, explain to me why you didn't look for another host? Why did you have to break reality 100 times and force me to break the Will of the World's dominance over me?
[Ding, Host, you are correct. I was supposed to search for another host after your death. However, this system is incapable of doing so due to being bound to the host's soul. Therefore, if the host's soul is destroyed or if they die, this system will also be destroyed.]
System, you are contradicting yourself. And to me, it seems like you're not being honest with me. Didn't you say that I was a sacrifice for the true hero? Doesn't that mean that I died? Shouldn't you have been destroyed as well?
[Ding, the host is correct. If you had truly died or if your soul had been destroyed, this system would have been erased as well. However, this system never said that the host died or that their soul was destroyed. The host did not die; rather, their consciousness was erased, and their soul was fused with the hero's soul, becoming a part of it. This resulted in the hero obtaining an Ice Dragon Battle Soul and gaining all of the host's memories. That is why I told you that you were a sacrifice for the true hero to become stronger. Additionally, the host's body was used by the spirit attached to the hero.]
What?! I'm neither dead nor alive, and on top of that, my soul was fused with his?!
Why would the Will of the World go through all this trouble to reincarnate me in this world? It could have just made the hero do the same with any other Ice Dragon.
[Ding, Host, you are correct about that. Likewise, the Will of the World could have chosen someone from this world to be reborn as a dragon and achieve the same result. However, it specifically needed a soul from outside this world, and your soul was chosen at random. That being said, it turned out to be a fortunate choice—because not only did the hero gain power, but he also acquired knowledge from your previous world.
And that knowledge included novels, manhwa, manga, and comics. Thanks to this, he was able to invent many skills based on them. He even followed the path of manhwa villains who were destined to be defeated by heroes but instead turned the tables on them—earning great rewards by plundering the opportunities meant for other heroes.]
"You… Are you kidding me?! Are you telling me that the hero, thanks to the useless otaku memories I had, managed to transform into a shameless golden protagonist who plunders the opportunities of other heroes?!"
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To my dear readers,
I would like to offer my sincerest apologies for the delay in posting the recent chapters. I am a high school student, and right now we are in exam season, which makes it difficult for me to write.
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