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5.88% The Only Son Amongst The Daughters Of Eros / Chapter 11: How The Game Works

Chapter 11: How The Game Works

The Daughters of Eros or as it was formally called, Erothyria Adventures, was unlike other MMORPG games or even VRMMORPG where the character got sucked in with other real players.

The game was a simple one-person adventure with a single story that they would choose how to complete. The story was that of the only son of Eros who was born into the royal family as an anomaly.

All his siblings and step siblings were daughters and he was the only son amongst all of them.

It was structured like a normal fantasy story. In fact it was Whitlock's initial plan to write it as a story. But in order to give the readers a chance on how to accomplish the objectives of the only Son, he developed it into a game.

In the game, the player is born into the Starlight Region and he chooses a name for himself. Dagwood had given himself the name Aeric and that was what Guinevere had named him after birth.

Everyone in the game was called a Player, some were Awakened and others were Dormant. Awakened were the people who had a Divine Core, the space in their soul where Divine Energy could be stored.

This Divine Core awakens at one's eighteen birthday, after their Coming of Age ritual when they break their virginity on that same day. If one loses their virginity before or after their eighteenth birthday, they will not awaken a Divine Core ever and will remain Dormant.

Of course performing the Coming of Age ritual doesn't instantly mean one becomes Awakened. It's still a matter of Divinity Affinity. If one has an affinity for the Divinity, then their chances of awakening after the ritual was pretty high.

However, even if one has the highest affinity for Divinity ever recorded in history, they would still remain Dormant if they failed to perform their Coming of Age ritual on their eighteenth birthday, or if they were too sex-crazed not to keep their legs closed until then.

Naturally, the people of Erothyria did not know that they were in a game. They believed themselves to be true living beings of a real world, just like the people of Earth do. Who knows? Earthlings could also be a game being played by a supreme being, or just one big simulation.

Just like Erothyria.

When one awakens their Divine Core, their Region is first indicated. Regions acted as Bloodlines, which meant that their powers or classes will originate from their different Regions.

After the Region has been determined, the Player then chooses a Class.

Classes are determined based on Regions such as the Elementalist Class for Starlight Region, the Illusionist Class for Moonlight Region, the Solar Knight Class for Dawn Region, and the Druid Class for the Elysium Plains Region.

In the normal structure of the magic system, a Player would select a Class and then attain a Main Skill that comes with the selected Class. However, Aeric had entered the game world with his own personalized system, the Celestial Depravity System which had overriden the main magic system and granted him a special class, the God Tyrant Class.

With the God Tyrant Class, Aeric gained his Main Skill, [Claim]. Although not seeming like much at first compared to Mother Guinevere's [Bend] which let her bend elements, or Mother Aurora's [Illuminate] which let her control light, [Claim] was a very functional Main Skill.

In fact, as Aeric came to realize, it was an overpowered Skill!

When one gets their Main Skill they unlock their Skill Tree which starts from the Main Skill and branches out to other Skills called Sub Skills.

Sub Skills are the simpler abilities the Player can use that roots from their overarching Main Skill and Divinity.

Sub Skills can be unlocked using Skill Points which can be gotten alongside Experience Points from completing Divine Quests, killing beasts and other Players and exploring Divine Dungeons.

However, with Aeric's Main Skill being the [Claim] Skill, he didn't need to gather Skill Points to unlock Sub Skills. All he had to do was [Claim] the Main Skills of others and make them his Sub Skills.

Aeric realized this with a stroke of surprise and disbelief, he was truly in a game now and this was what he had to do to survive.

He could [Claim] others Main Skills as his Sub Skills!

This realization was only towered and trifled over by the dead woman lying on the floor before him, and the interface floating in front of him.

[You have killed Erimyra of Moonlight, Gold Ranked Player]

[You have received 100xp]

[You have received 30sp]

'Gold Ranked Player,' he panicked in his mind, now understanding what that meant. 'I killed a Gold Ranked Player.'

There was a difference between Ranks and Levels, and there were also tiers.

Ranks were the hierarchy between Players, measured by their success and accomplishment as a Player.

They were from Bronze, Aeric's rank which was early-game level where the character is still learning, Silver, Gold, Platinum and finally Diamond which was the rank for top-tier Players who are literally unbeatable with god-like mastery.

For Levels, it was the hierarchy as an Awakened, each named after a phase of growth in Erothyria, testifying to the Awakened's level of power, not necessarily experience.

From Initiate to Adept, Master, Grandmaster, and Ascendant. Each Level has 10 Tiers, Players must gain Experience Points (XP) from quests, battles, and other game events to increase in Tiers and level up.

[Use XP gained to progress through Tiers?]

Aeric, still in shock, blinked. "Huh?"

'It's asking if I would want to use the XP I gained to progress through my Tiers. If I finish all ten Tiers of my Initiate Level I could become an Adept.'

In a surprising moment to any onlooker, Aeric sat down on the floor calmly, as though Erimyra's dead body was not just in front of him.

'Let me see.' He scrolled through his progression interface. 'Hmm. 20xp for one Tier, which means if I use all 100xp I would be in Tier 5, halfway to Adept.'

He thought of it for a moment and went to his Skill Tree. There, Erimyra's [Insight] Skill which he had claimed hung by one of the branches as a Sub Skill.

'I could purchase some Skill Points with the XP and unlock another Skill.' He placed his finger on his jaw. 'But why do that when I can just Claim the Main Skills of others and use them as my Sub Skills?'

He returned to his progression interface. 'For now, I think it's smart to spend the XP on my Tiers progression.'

[Use XP gained to progress through Tiers?]

Aeric chose [Yes].

[Tier 1 Complete]

[Tier 2 Complete]

[Tier 3 Complete]

[Tier 4 Complete]

[Tier 5 Complete]

[Congratulations! You are halfway to becoming Adept!]


Chapter 12: Prince of Deception

Aeric stared at the interface for a moment, unimpressed. 'Well, that's a good thing I guess.'

He sat there still, and a few more seconds passed. 'I'll think about Tier Progression later. For now, what I have to worry about is her.'

The interface disappeared and his gaze shifted slowly to Erimyra's lifeless body.

The stillness of death was something Aeric wasn't all too familiar with. His breath hitched in his throat as reality settled over him like a thick, judgemental fog. She was really dead. A weight began to settle on his chest, heavier with each second that passed. He started to think if killing someone had changed him already, because there was a strange feeling he was having.

Or maybe..

It was all just becoming too real for him.

He had already died once before, back in the real world. This reincarnation into this world was his second chance. Even though it was a game and he was nothing else but a Player amongst many others, he realized now that he had a bigger burden on his head because he had a secret to keep.

Even though Eros had made the decree, it was only a temporary reprieve, Aeric knew that. Everyone still believed him to be an abomination, especially outside the borders of Starlight Region. What would happen when they found out that he was an imposter as well, here to [Claim] everything they had.

They wouldn't hesitate to kill him. All the powerful Mothers from other Regions and even the Snake Queen he had heard from stories would certainly make sure he was killed.

He wasn't even sure his mother would still love him, and even if she still did, she wouldn't be able to defeat all the other Mothers of the other Regions. God Eros will certainly want him gone too.

No outsider would be allowed to taint their beautiful world.

It was clear what he had to do now. No more messing around. Aeric of Starlight had to lock it in.

He had to level up as fast as he could and become stronger! He had to [Claim] everyone's Main Skills, all the Mothers and Daughters and make them his Sub Skills. With this, he could become super overpowered! A Diamond Ranked Ascendant!

So that even when they discovered his secret, he would be too powerful than any of them! He was going to [Claim] the powers of Eros himself! Whatever it took to remain alive in this game world!

Aeric took a deep breath of resolution.

As for now, he had to get rid of the issue of this dead lover on the floor.

"Argghhhh!" he suddenly shouted, sitting there casually. He yelled once again. "Arrrgghhh!!!"

Then he rose to his feet and crashed on the door intentionally, following this, he began to bang on it as hard as he could, trying to open the handle.

He heard hurrying footsteps marching to the door and so he quickly stepped back.

"My prince! Are you okay!" a booming voice of a Knightguard echoed from the other side.

Aeric did not answer, and the knight ordered another to break open the door. With a bang, the door shattered in and a team of ready knightguards marched in with swords at their grasps.

"She's a damned assassin!" Aeric shouted, hurrying to his bed and covering himself with the sheets, quivering in his half naked body.

"Young Master!" one of them bowed. "My prince. Are you okay."

The others hurried to where Erimyra lay lifeless.

"The Moonlight Region! They sent her here to kill me!" Aeric cried, pointing at Erimyra's body, squeezing his shoulders in fear.

The knightguard tried to comfort him as he asked his cohorts for an update.

"It's true, commander. The sigil of the Moonlight Region is inscribed at the back of her lower neck," one of them said, tilting her over. "This woman was planted here from the Moonlight Region."

"What is happening here!" Mother Guinevere's voice of panic thundered as she hurried into the room. "Where is my son? Where is my special boy?"

Aeric jumped from the bed like a baby and hurried to her, they locked in a tight embrace. Some would say a little too tight of an embrace, but neither seemed to care.

"Mother!" he exclaimed as he rested his chest on her heavy, soft breasts while his hands wrapped around her as she wrapped hers around him.

"It's okay, son. You're okay. I'm here for you, my special son." She held him tightly and greedily, then her eyes turned cold as she spoke to the knightguards.

"What happened? Someone speak!"

"Your Majesty, it appears that this woman's name is Erimyra of Moonlight not of Starlight," the knightguard replied.

Guinevere's eyes turned even colder as she narrowed them. "Are you saying that Mother Selene sent a woman here to harm my son?"

The knightguard nodded respectfully. "I'm afraid that it was what it seemed. She appears to be an assassin. To kill the Son was her intention."

"That vile hag!" Guinevere cursed. "I knew she despised me but I never thought for once that she would go as far as trying to kill my child!"

"Prince Aeric was able to subdue her because of his greater strength and he took her to the ground and strangled her to death with his bare hands. Seems you have a very strong and capable son, Mother Guinevere."

She looked at her son, who raised his head from her shoulder to look at her as well. They both smiled at each other. "I've always said it. He's a very special boy."

They returned to their embrace.

"Take her whore body and dump it in the ocean, let it feed the wild sharks. I will send a message of warning to Mother Selene to never defy my Region ever again. Any harm attempted on my Son will be met in a thousandfold!"

Aeric remained in the hug with her, keeping up the act as his plan was going as smoothly as he expected. He lifted his gaze and saw his sister Rosette at the entrance of his room, folding her arms and scowling at him with disdain, envy and suspicion.

Aeric gave her a mischievous, mocking smile. Let her hate him, it only made the game more interesting.


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