In a dark room, a faintly glowing formation circle pulsed. Two figures stared at a young, unconscious woman in the formation. A lustful look from one of the men had was obvious even in the dimly lit room.

“Tsk. This bitch is asleep. If she were awake, I could have relished in ravaging her right here and now,” coarse language was spouted out from a contrastingly elegant-faced man.

“Relax, your majesty. We have the slave collar here. Once she wears it, she would do your every bidding when she awakes. In the meantime, I will lock her up somewhere secret and guard the room personally. I will bring her to you after her awakening,” the other man replied loyally.

The other man was a stoic individual. Deep down, he absolutely disdained his superior’s lust and brutish words. To think that such an individual was able to climb up to the position of king and be deemed as the epitome of elegance within the Snake Clan.

Staring at his subordinate with some suspicion, the Snake King finally decided to let the loyal man do as he had suggested. After all, the man had worked under him long before he had climbed to power as a constant guardian.

***

The loyal man gently placed the young woman onto a soft bed in room somewhere in a remote part of the palace. He took a step back and sighed in admiration of the woman’s beauty. Such elegance, allure and her face still had a hint of cuteness. The woman’s silky blonde hair, perfect and fair skin, and curvy figure accentuated her facial features, making her even more enchanting.

The man himself was not bad looking. The man looked to be in his early thirties. He had a well-sculpted face despite his rugged look. His thick black hair would be unruly if it were long, but the man had it cut short to prevent it from getting in the way during fights. The man cut a dashing figure with his muscular body. It was not overly muscular, but had decent proportions. All of this together with his stoic attitude and accomplished feats made him the target of many women’s affections, though he had only one woman in his heart waiting for him back home.

After a period of admiration, the man grew serious again. He took out a talisman and wrote several warnings on the back of it. Then, he tore the talisman. The formation on the talisman glowed for a brief moment and the two halves of the talisman burst into flames. The flames harmed not a whit of the man’s hands.

The man had sent a message to his true master. He had worked under this disgusting man for too long. He has finally broken the rules to the protector summoning and therefore he would earn the ire of the other clans, finally getting his just deserts.

Watching over the beautiful figure lying on the bed in front of him, the man prayed that his master would come quickly.

***

A few hours later, secret agents poured into the Snake Clan’s castle. These secret agents wore the uniforms of the eleven other clans. The force broke easily broke through the defenses of the castle together and made their way up to the king’s resting chambers.

The commotion they had made was heard by the king. However, confidence in his guards and formation traps kept him from bothering as he enjoyed the slave women in front of him. He did not treat the women gently. Blood could be seen coming from the genitalia of these women even though they were not virgins. Their bodies also had various bruises on them.

Soon, the commotion happening in the castle finally subsided. There was just silence.

‘Fools. When I find whoever is responsible for attacking my domain, I will crush them thoroughly and enslave all their women… even the young ones,’ the Snake King smiled viciously and thought as he thrusted into the woman in front of him with greater vigor.

As he did so, the doors to his chambers burst open all of a sudden. The attackers quickly filled the room and pointed their weapons at the Snake King. Several among them, who were quick enough, sent out whips and dragged the slaves away from the Snake King. They pinned the women down to prevent the king from using them as shields or ordering them to fight for him.

“Y-you! All of you!”

The Snake King trembled and paled when he saw the eleven different uniforms of the intruders. He instantly knew that his seemingly most loyal man had betrayed him. When had he turned? It seems that he would never know.

Swords fell and the king’s body was minced. His strength was not enough to protect him from the menacing blades that cut into his body and rent his body into pieces.

***

In the remote part of the Snake King’s palace, Lunete awoke. She was startled by her surroundings, but immediately focused on the man sitting in a corner and staring at her. To her surprise, that stare did not have a hint of lust that other man would have whenever they see her.

Gradually, she noticed that she had a collar around her neck and began to panic. She did not voice out in fear of offending the man who was watching her. However, the man did not behave silently as she had expected.

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“Don’t be afraid. You are safe. My name is Adio. My master is coming to free you,” the man said with as much of a reassuring tone as he could muster.

After that, he lapsed into silence. Lunete introduced herself and asked several more questions, but Adio just left her unanswered. Lunete was wondering what she could do in the meantime when she noticed something bugging her mind. She decided to think about what was bugging her when a window popped up in front of her face.

Welcome, Lunete Argall.

The familiar blue screen of the game she played popped up in front of her.

‘H-how?’ Lunete began to wonder.

She was clearly not wearing the SRI. This unfamiliar, traditional Chinese room was also not a projection from it as the feeling of the soft bed was too real. Lunete began to explore the interface. It should have said “welcome back” but said welcome as if she was a newcomer.

Lunete checked her level and saw that it was just one, instead of eighty. She frowned. Then she checked her inventory. She was surprised as she saw many of the art pieces she made previously still inside of it. Lunete examined her latest masterpiece, the acupuncture needle.

Acupuncture Needle of DeitiesAttack Power: 1All stats +1000%Increased piercing damage +500%Unique Property: Needle returns to owner after hitting a target when thrown.

A secondary window popped up along with the information of the needle.

Available ActionsRetrieveSell

Mentally selecting sell, another screen popped up. This time, the options displayed system and auction. However, the auction button was grayed out. Undoing the sell option and returning to the available actions for the needle, Lunete selected retrieve this time.

The needle did not appear floating in front of her as usual. Instead, it appeared in her hand. Fortunately, she had her hands placed on the bed and the needle appeared underneath, avoiding her guard’s ever watchful gaze.

She was also surprised that the moment the needle came into contact with her skin, she felt lighter, stronger, and all of her senses grew sharper. It was obviously an effect from the needle that multiplied her attributes by ten times. Lunete also wanted to know how she could store the needle again. However, just as she was about to worry about it, the needle disappeared from her hand and appeared in her inventory again.

Lunete’s curiosity was now peaked over the game system that she seemed to possess. She was about to look at her stats when the pouch at her guard’s waist began to shake and shine. Adio took out a shining talisman out from his pouch and tore it. Lunete wanted to ask what that was when Adio took out a dagger and approached her.

She was starting to grow anxious when Adio said in a reassuring voice, “pardon me… the collar.”

Lunete relaxed and allowed Adio to slip the small blade in between collar and her neck. The collar resisted with a crackling sound for a moment before the dagger cut through the collar like a hot knife through butter. With the collar off, Lunete felt a strange pressure lift from her body and her expression immediately became one of puzzlement. A window popped up in Lunete’s vision.

Slavery curse has been lifted.

Adio tactfully informed the puzzled Lunete, “you probably felt a pressure that lifted off from you. That was a slavery contract that the collar possessed. You are unusually perceptive…”

With that, Adio extended a hand to help Lunete off the bed and onto her feet.

“My liege calls for us. Your answers will come when we meet with the others like you,” Adio said as he took out a stone tablet from the pouch and held out one end for Lunete to grab onto.

As she did so, he broke the tablet and the surrounding scenery changed. Lunete and Adio was struck by a sense of vertigo temporarily. The two of them suddenly found themselves in an empty field. Eleven other people of varying ages, wearing clothes that were from Earth, stood surrounded by eleven groups of soldiers. They were not fully at ease, but it also seemed that they were not afraid of the armed people that surrounded them.

When Lunete was led to join them, a booming voice sounded out and parted the soldiers, “Welcome, Humans of another world. We have summoned you here to be protectors of the Human race.”

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Author’s notes:

New fiction, new style. It’s a lot more mainstream. Hopefully this fiction would do better than my first one.