The countdown finished with a soft, almost sensual chime.
[Full System Interface Unlocked]
[Starter Package Deploying...]
Kai’s vision flooded with light. For a second the courtyard, Lira, the practice post—everything vanished behind cascading blue text and spinning geometric patterns. Information poured straight into his head like someone had jammed a USB into his soul.
[Desire Dominion System – Core Functions Online]
Primary Resource: Desire Points (DP)
Current: 50
Core Mechanics:
- Gain DP through acts of lust, emotional conquest, domination, and intimacy.
- Spend DP to purchase skills, enhance the body, or unlock System Branches.
- Bonds with claimed targets generate passive DP over time and unlock exclusive skills.
- Host’s Degenerate Soul trait amplifies all gains related to desire.
[Starter Package Contents]
1. Basic Body Reinforcement (Rank F) – Slight increase to physical capabilities.
2. Desire Sense (Passive) – Detect arousal, interest, and emotional openings in nearby targets.
3. Claim Mark (Active – 1 charge)
– Place a temporary mark on a target. Increases DP gain from that target by 50% for 24 hours.
4. 50 Bonus Desire Points (already applied).
The light faded.
Kai blinked. The courtyard snapped back into focus. His body felt... different. Not strong. Not even average. But the constant, bone-deep frailty had eased by a fraction. Like someone had replaced the worst of the malnourishment with slightly better materials.
He rolled his shoulders. The trembling in his arms from the fight settled faster than it should have.
Lira was staring at him.
"You just went completely still," she said carefully. "Your eyes glowed red for a second. Are you about to collapse again?"
Kai met her gaze and activated the new passive without thinking.
[Desire Sense – Active]
Information bloomed at the edge of his awareness. It wasn’t words. More like color and temperature. Lira registered as a cool, steady blue with thin threads of warm curiosity and a faint, almost reluctant spark of something sharper. Interest. Caution. A tiny undercurrent of something the System helpfully labeled Potential Opening – Low.
Kai’s mouth went dry.
*I can literally feel how interested people are. That’s either the most useful skill in existence or the fastest way to become a complete monster.*
He forced his expression into something neutral.
"I’m fine," he said. "Just... processing."
Lira didn’t look convinced. She glanced toward the main building, then back at him. "Garren won’t let that go. He’ll wait until Miss Helga is busy and then he’ll bring more people. You should stay near the adults for the rest of the day."
"Noted."
She hesitated, then held out the wooden stick he had dropped. "You might want this."
Kai took it. Their fingers brushed.
The System reacted instantly.
[+3 Desire Points]
Minor physical contact with potential target.
Claim Mark charge available. Recommend usage?
Kai’s brain short-circuited for a full second.
*She handed me a stick and the System just paid me for accidental skin contact. I am going to be insufferable.*
He cleared his throat. "Thanks. For the warning earlier. And for this."
Lira gave a small, almost awkward nod. "Don’t make me regret it."
She turned and walked back toward the main hall, booklet once again held like a shield. Kai watched her go, Desire Sense tracking the faint residual warmth she left behind.
Once she was inside, he leaned against the practice post and opened the full interface properly.
A clean, dark panel unfolded across his vision.
[Kai – Level 1]
Strength: 5 (+1)
Agility: 7 (+1)
Endurance: 4 (+1)
Magic: 2
Charm: 8 (+1)
Desire Points: 53
Skills:
- Desire Sense (Passive)
- Claim Mark (1/1 charge)
- Basic Body Reinforcement (Rank F)
System Branches (Locked):
- Conquest Branch
- Bond Branch
- Dominion Branch
- Corruption Branch
Tutorial Quest: Survive the remaining 22 hours 47 minutes.
Kai stared at the locked branches, especially the last one.
Corruption Branch. Of course there’s a Corruption Branch.
He dismissed the window and looked down at his free hand. The Claim Mark skill sat in his mind like a loaded weapon. One charge. Temporary. Fifty percent more DP from whoever he marked.
Lira was the obvious target. She had already shown interest. She was smart. She was isolated. And the System clearly liked her.
But something in him—some leftover scrap of the old, pathetic version that still remembered being lonely—hesitated at the idea of putting a magical tracking mark on the first girl who had spoken to him like a person.
Sentimentality is for people who don’t have a death timer and a system that pays them in power for being a degenerate.
He pushed the thought down and started walking toward the orphanage gate. The street beyond looked more interesting than another hour of waiting for Garren to grow a spine.
As he reached the heavy wooden doors, a new notification slid into view, quiet and almost playful.
[Optional Early Objective Generated]
Leave the orphanage grounds before nightfall.
Reward: 30 Desire Points + Location Data – Lower District Map.
Failure: None. But the System is watching.
Kai pushed the gate open and stepped out into the street of Eldoria for the first time.
The air smelled of horse shit, baking bread, and distant coal smoke. People moved past him—merchants, laborers, a pair of armored city guards. No one paid the thin orphan boy any attention.
He smiled, small and sharp.
Alright. Tutorial phase two.
Let’s see what this city has to offer a freshly empowered degenerate with fifty-three points and a single claim mark burning a hole in his pocket.
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