"REWARDS!?"
Sol-Ho was ecstatic at the mere thought of what he could be rewarded with after all his troubles.
"I wonder what's the reward for this very traumatic and life-scarring experience of mine..."
He collected himself and began walking around the interior of the ruined tower, a flight of stairs showed him the way to the second floor.
Old books decaying from age, wooden furniture both intact and broken all of them rotting away, the very stone floors of the tower would seemingly
crack from just a hint of pressure and it all made Sol-Ho realize this place must have very very good loot. With a ever-widening grin
on his face he pushed onward.
"Hmm...maybe a legendary artifact for me? Or tons of gold and materials? Should I sell what I get or not...I still need to pay for school."
As Sol-Ho pondered to himself about what his plans are for his inevitable fortune, he passed by one floor after another in the ruined tower
passing by the old stone walls and decrepit interiors. Strangely enough he noticed with the number of furniture and floors in this tower
there doesn't seem to be any skeletons or hints of people who lived here. Only the abandoned tower itself seemed to be the very
proof of existence of the people who had once called this place home.
"Fuck, how many floors do I have to go up? I need to get back soon or the others might split my loot from the raid!"
Finally after what seemed like ages of climbing the stairs, he reached the final and uppermost room of the debilitated tower.
He cast his gaze upon the room, scanning from left to right. There his eyes landed on something disturbing.
The skeletons and bones of many humans on the floor piling on top of each other with their directions all the same.
Faced above towards the very top of the pile, sat a skeleton clad in the most beautiful finery one could ever gaze upon.
There in its hands it clasped a seemingly new book, untouched by the passing of time unlike the area surrounding it.
"What happened here? Why did all these people die like this? A game is a game but this is..."
Sol-Ho taken aback by the scene before him, mustered up his courage and walked towards the pile of skeletons to retrieve the book.
"This book must be at least legendary rank or above! Forgive me dead fake people, I would give you a proper burial but I'm on a tight schedule."
He walked on top of the skeletons, their bones creaking and breaking and fracturing with every step he took towards the book at the top.
Finally he reached it and he held out his hand to take his long-awaited prize.
"Hehe boy, what will you be I wonder?"
As his hands grasped the book tightly about to wrench it free from the skeleton's hands, a blue-eyed bat shoots out from the skull beneath him.
"AHHHH WHAT TH-"
This sudden beast causes him to lose his balance and fall back down the pile on to the old stone floor hard. The bat screeches at him whilst it flies
and proceeds to leave through a stone window.
"There just had to be a jump scare, thank you sadist developers."
He sat up again, book still in his hand and he grinned once more. However before he could examine the prize in his hands, a cracking noise beneath him
starts up.
"Huh?"
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Sol-Ho looks beneath him and his eyes widen. The impact of him falling down was just enough to crack the floor.
"Better not do something stupid again or else this whole place will come crashing down on me."
He repositioned himself away from the cracked stone floor and finally he could examine the prize he attained.
Opening the brand new looking book, a system message box appears before him telling him of the book.
- EX Rank Harem King Class Book -
Hidden within this book is the depraved and titillated ravings of a grand figure
lost to history. His name lost to the ages, but once known through one title...The Harem King.
*USE UPON PICKUP
"Wait...what? Harem King? Use upon pick up?"
Then out of nowhere the book disappears, another system message appears followed by a circle underneath him.
- CHANGING CLASS TO HAREM KING -
CONFIRM / DECLINE
"What?! NO! Fuck! I don't want this!"
He frantically presses the button to decline before him but is greeted by a ding and another system message.
- CANNOT REFUSE CLASS CHANGE -
"WHAT! What do you mean? BUT I FUCKING HATE THE HAREM CLICHES! They're so overused and cringe!"
With deep hate and resentment, he confirms the class change and starts sobbing hatefully.
"WHAT KIND OF SHITTY GAME DESIGN IS THIS!? You sick developer bastards why would you even give me an option when I never had one!"
After a moment passes, the circle beneath him disappears and he opens his character's HUD in grief.
A few message boxes appear from the system.
- NEW CLASS ACQUIRED -
- NEW SKILLS ACQUIRED -
- NEW TITLE ACQUIRED -
"Oh god..."
He dismisses the boxes away in disbelief at what is happening and a larger system box appears.
- PLAYER : SOL-HO
LEVEL : 29
CLASS : HAREM KING
TITLES : NOVICE HAREM KING
STATUS
HEALTH : 250/275
STAMINA: 230/230
MAGIC : 150/150
VITALITY - 25
STAMINA - 21 + (25)
INTELLIGENCE - 16
AGILITY - 23
STRENGTH - 18
LUCK - 15 + (15)
"Why did it have to be Harem King? Why did they make this?"
He moved to another section of the character HUD, his class' page.
X KING'S HAREM (UNIQUE SKILL) X
- MARK A FEMALE NPC OR PLAYER TO ADD TO YOUR HAREM WHO WILL SERVE YOU. BOTH PARTIES MUST GIVE CONSENT. MARKs WILL DISAPPEAR UPON USER'S DEATH )
- CAN SUMMON A CHOSEN MARKED FEMALE NPC TO USER
- MANA COST 30, COOLDOWN 10 MINUTES
-MARKED FEMALE NPCS WILL GAIN BONUSES WHEN SKILL UPGRADES
- CAN SUMMON A CHOSEN MARKED FEMALE PLAYERS TO USER
- MANA COST 100, COOLDOWN 30 MINUTES
-MARKED FEMALE PLAYERS WILL GAIN BONUSES WHEN SKILL UPGRADES
- CAPACITY 0/2, CAPACITY WILL INCREASE BY 2 WHEN SKILL UPGRADES
- SKILL LEVEL 1
- SKILL PROFICIENCY 0.00%
X DEPRAVED POUNCE OF THE HAREM KING (UNIQUE SKILL) X
- POUNCE TO A TARGET DESTINATION DEALING 150 PHYSICAL DAMAGE + 100 RANDOM ELEMENTAL DAMAGE,
- MANA COST 50, 5 METER AREA OF EFFECT, COOLDOWN 1 MINUTE
- IF THERE ARE HOSTILE FEMALE NPCS OR PLAYERS PRESENT IN TARGET DESTINATION THEN USER GAINS "DEPRAVED FRENZY" WHICH GIVES +10 TO STAMINA AND AGILITY FOR EVERY FEMALE PRESENT IN AOE FOR 5 SECONDS
- SKILL LEVEL 1
- SKILL PROFICIENCY 0.00%
X HAREM KING'S CHARM (UNIQUE SKILL) X
- PACIFY ALL NPCS AROUND USER FOR 45 SECONDS
- WEAKEN THE STATUS OF ENEMY PLAYERS BY 5% FOR 30 SECONDS
- MANA COST 150, 10 METER AREA OF EFFECT, 5 MINUTE COOLDOWN
- SKILL LEVEL 1
- SKILL PROFICIENCY 0.00%
EXTRA UNIQUE SKILLS ARE UNLOCKED AFTER EVERY 25 LEVELS
PRESENT SKILLS WILL EVOLVE IF USER HAS ENOUGH PROFICIENCY
"What the hell did I just get...almost all of the skills are related to females. This is the most degenerate and horny thing I've ever seen."
"Ugh, fine what about that title I got?"
X TITLE BUFFS X
- GAIN + 15 LUCK AND + 25 STAMINA
- GAIN SLIGHT INCREASE IN RELATIONS WITH ALL NON-HOSTILE FEMALE NPCS
- GAIN THE SLIGHT COMBINED JEALOUSY AND ENMITY OF SOME MALE NPCS
- SLIGHTLY INCREASED VULNERABILITY TO SEDUCTION-BASED SKILLS
- USER WILL RECEIVE PERSONAL SIDE QUESTS TO EVOLVE TITLE. IF USER FAILS TO DO QUESTS BEFORE DEADLINE, PENALTIES WILL APPLY
"I mean the charm and pounce skills aren't that bad I guess, but the King's Harem...why?"
"Where am I gonna find anyone willing for this! I don't belong in a guild or do I have any female friends..."
"And this weird title as well...it can evolve? I never heard of titles doing that...and it gives me better relationships to female NPCs but screws me over with male NPCs, great I guess..."
After a few minutes of examining the new class he received, he stands up and with a sigh begins to walk down the tower.
Once he steps out of the tower, a system message appears before him once more.
- CONGRATULATIONS ON COMPLETING THE HIDDEN AREA, DO YOU WISH TO TELEPORT BACK? -
CONFIRM / DECLINE
"Yes, please get me out of this hell."
With the press of a button, he is teleported out of the hidden area in the Ashen Plains and is sent back to the starting area of the Forest of Woes.