"From now on, I will be called young master Gaun, right?"
The boy talked to himself calmly.
'I didn't have any identity. I didn't have any attachment to my identity on earth.
'My family, mother… father… sisters… brothers…'
However, the boy knew how he died so his family must have been crying.
Someday they will move on from his death in the future.
He hoped they could or hope that they would not forget him as he wouldn't forget them.
'I am now Gaun Leyhart.'
He said within his heart.
'I apologize but this is my dream, to enter a world and novel.'
'Live peacefully while enjoying the magic.'
Gaun Leyhart had no way of knowing how this world would make him amused, like social media on earth.
However, as a person from earth…
Wouldn't it be great to be great if he used the knowledge he knew from the earth in this novel?
Gaun Leyhart shook his head. He felt he was having a headache.
'I'm a programmer. What can I even contribute to this world?'
'No computers, no games, and I don't even know how to create a bicycle.'
'This novel has dragons, pixies, unicorns, hippopotamus, and crocodiles with wings.'
'People could teleport, make a wish, make a world of illusion, elves, fly, dig, breathe in deep waters, swim in lava, etc.'
His body seems heavy after thinking that things he knew from earth were all useless.
'Whatever, let me check this body I own now.'
Young master Gaun tried to move and stand.
'Grr!!'
He can feel that his veins are painful like there's any colony gnawing at them.
The muscles on his feet were solid and hard to move.
He staggered and fell.
Thud!
'Why can't I move?'
'What's wrong with this body?'
Ding!
[ Charge: 96. ]
Ding!
[ The host's soul still adapting to the past host's body. ]
Gaun's eyes narrowed.
'What happened to the past owner of this body?'
'How did I occupy this body?'
Ding!
[ The past owner was killed by a Devouring Curse! ]
Gaun perked up after hearing that.
'In the novel, this guy died because he was chasing his two cheating concubines, right?'
'I don't remember he was hurt.'
'Sure, he was killed by his wife who hated him for choosing the two flat-chested girls.'
'But that's it.'
Gaun knitted his brow when he recalled something about the devouring thing.
'In the past, the main villain in the first arc had a system called the Devouring System.'
'The main villain, in the battle against the main character.'
'Leylin Falkner remembered that when he met an arrogant young master who kicked and killed an old man in front of him.'
'He cursed that arrogant young master with his first curse, the Devouring curse.'
'When the young master was killed by his wife, the main villain occupied that arrogant young master's body.'
'It's also the reason the Devouring system was created.'
Young master Gaun's head became sweaty.
He suddenly put his hands behind his back.
Searching for something in the neck part.
'This is the place. This is the guy's weakness.'
Young master Gaun suddenly touched something hard, like a scorpion-shaped thing.
When he touched the tail, he mumbled.
'I can pull it.'
Young master Gaun can feel his body turning jelly.
He felt so weak that he didn't have the strength to pull it.
However, remembering how he would be replaced by the main villain's soul, his muscles tightened.
"Aaaaaahhhh!!!"
Kacha!
"SQUEEEEEK!!!"
The worm-like creature wriggled in his hands.
Trying to resist and get away from his grip.
Ding!
[ Charge: 95. ]
[ Discovered creature. ]
[ Parasitic of the Shadow Lord: A creature that was born in the shadow, it can carry a soul or anything that can strengthen targets and control them. ]
[ However, it will take days for it to complete its possession. ]
[ Completion: 88 percent. ]
Gaun's back sweat, and the hair on his back stood up.
He looked at it warily, struggling in his hands.
'This is how the main villain was defeated. The main character Leylin targeted this creature on the main villain's neck using a special eye.'
He is afraid that it would clamp its face.
'With the eighty-eight percent, it means I am not completely devoured by this bastard.'
'The problem…'
He paused for a second.
'I don't even recall everything about the young master, the owner of this body.'
Soon the wriggling scorpion-like worm stopped wriggling hard.
Its body was losing energy until it released its last squeal.
"Queeek…"
A quiet squeal.
Young master Gaun still did not trust it so he used his remaining energy to throw it away.
Pak!
It splattered on the wooden wall and fell.
Ding!
[ Charge: 92. ]
[ The system was interrupted, and the devouring system evolution was canceled. ]
Young master Gaun also fell on his bed. He didn't have the energy to stand up.
While lying on the ground, he turned to look at the system, screen notification.
"What will happen now?"
Ding!
[ The current host won't be able to practice Magical Improvement Arts. ]
[ The original host was cursed and crippled by someone who was the favored son of heaven. ]
[ The current host needed to transform the system into something suitable for the host to use or it would be impossible for the host to improve. ]
Young master Gaun agreed.
'Since that's how he works, so be it.'
"So you'll become the system that I wanted?"
Ding!
[ What the host truly desires! ]
Young master Gaun didn't even know how to answer that. He didn't know what he truly wanted.
"So Vampire system?"
Ding!
[ Invalid. ]
"Supreme dominator system?"
Ding!
[ Invalid. ]
Young master Gaun didn't know what this system wanted or why it even needed to evolve.
'Can this just force me to be whatever this system wanted me to be?'
Young master Gaun slumped to the ground.
''Why are you evolving into the devouring system earlier?"
Ding!
[ The past host's body wanted to be immune to the devouring curse, with the help of a potion. ]
[ The system wanted the body to cope with the curse that it experienced so it won't experience the pain that it caused again. ]
Young master Gaun felt it was taxing, especially because he was drained right now.
"So you mean I need this body to experience something?"
Ding!
[ It could be the body's desire, the heart, the soul, and the mind's desire. ]
Gaun was still slumped on his bed. Despite trying to move, he still couldn't.
'I don't have energy. I can't move my body.'
'Even if I can, what should I do? Hurt my body?'
'Why not create a miracle for me?'
'Isn't that why the systems are created?'
Gaun was losing hope. Once his body recovers, that's when he will think of it.
He ignored the system and moved on to a more important topic.
First, he needed to analyze the most concerning things that may happen.
'What will happen now?'
'I destroyed the connection between the main villain and the fake creator of the system.'
'I won't be possessed any more.'
'But then…'
'I will be killed by the wife of the original host?'
'Lawrence, the friend who acts as a brother of the main character, will come to erase me because he is the biological brother of one the cheating concubine of the original host?'
'Because he found out that the original host wanted his cheating concubines with their merchant lovers to die?'
Young master Gaun tried to move his feet, but it was not moving. However, after a few minutes, it moved.
"Finally, I need to run."
He mumbled when suddenly he felt the hair on the skin of his shoulder become hot.
"Why do you want to run?"