'For now, I am keeping a fool over the surveillance system, but it seems it's time closer to when I get rid of it.'

Scarlet had put forth all her surveillance on me a long time ago. I fooled them with the artefacts in my hand, and later towards when I reached the level I am in right now, it only became easier to twist them how I feel. It's more useful in the fact due to me being able to dictate what Scarlet will be able to see and understand.

The same with Celestinia: if I showed them what I want, it became easier to use them, but they come with their own risks of keeping them open all the time, like this. There might be a moment where they want to act, and the data showing me off at one place would have resulted in me having to change my plans or adapt to the girls' reactions—which isn't something I am looking forward to, not when now I will have to be even more serious on how I deal with this fuck-up that took place.

'In the end, there are pros and cons to everything.'

If I let go of this 'protection' they kept over me, then it will result in my ability to significantly control the narrative of the Dragon girls. But if I don't—seeing how the girls are starting to enact their own plans—it might all come crashing down on me in the end, which might result in me losing their trust or perhaps even something worse.

'This is so annoying.'

I thought as I felt my mind cool down. What Celestinia did was indeed place protection spells and gifts all over me, but it also comes with a heavy surveillance that lets her know more about me than I like to let on, which is harmful to me in many ways. Plus, even now, my sense is picking up on not just the changes around in the area but also all around, and just as I was about to relax a bit, I felt the connection call from someone.

||Master||

'Yes, respond.'

||The targets I have kept are seemingly changing course||

My eyes narrowed at that thought, and just as I was about to reply, another connection came.

||Master||

'Go on.'

||The target seems to have fallen into some kind of historic world along with his group||

I felt my head throb at those words. The target in question itself is Leonardo—right now, he and his team are on the outside dealing with some mission that, funnily enough, I had sent him on, and now he ends up falling into a historic world which might in a sense be something I have no idea about, which annoys me more than I like to admit.

'The good thing is that he is still with him, so I won't be completely blind.'

My eyes narrowed at the thought. It wasn't just the fact that my luck took a hit; it was also the fact that the great luck of these so-called protagonists is starting to shine and trying to kick my ass, too. My head was throbbing again as I took in all the information.

'Send me the completed report, and I will look into it.'

||Yes||

||It shall be done||

With those replies, I cut off the connection, my eyes gaining a dangerous mix of hue, running deep red and blue as I forced myself to calm down. My mind runs through the different ideas in my mind, my senses picking up the changes in the girls—all of it, which will come back to cause issues for me if I don't deal with it.

'This is such a pain.'

Musing on it, I closed my eyes as I leaned into the sofa, my mind relaxing away as I started to connect the several dots around me. The problems, issues, and everything slowly burning itself as different pathways to action formed in my mind—different actions that will help me to survive through all this and perhaps even dominate it.

'System, show me the interface.'

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[Dominion Nexus System]

1. Status Overview

2. Capture Target Interface

3. Affection Dynamics

4. Divine Power Registry

5. Influence Network

6. Seduction Engine

7. Inventory & Support Items

8. Knowledge Archive

9. Relationship Status Board

10. Desire Manifestation Module

11. Conquest Analytics

12. Charm Customisation

13. Divine Power Management

14. System Upgrades

15. Information

16. Notepad

17. Capture Targets List

18. Bloodline List

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'Move to interface.'

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[Status Screen: Austin Lionheart]

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Profile Overview

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Name: Austin Lionheart

Age: 18

Title: Celestial Initiate

Current Phase: Fate World Linker Destroyer Initiate (New)

Bloodline Status: Arisen Hero (Updated)

Total Points: 93798734532110

Appearance Attributes

Visual Charm: 10/10

Charisma Level: 10/10

Mystique Factor: 10/10

Talent Metrics

Combat Aptitude: 10/10

Social Manipulation: 10/10

Divine Skill Potential: 10/10

Seduction Mastery: 10/10

Lust Status:

A comprehensive readout of your personal stats, tracking every subtle enhancement, charm, level, and interaction record.

Charm Level: [Current Level: 100 (Unmatched)]

Lust Aura: [Intensity: Variable]

Mental Affinity: [Current Influence: +1078%]

Fate Protection: Fluctuating (New)

Luck Protection: Diverse (New)

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'Fate is deciding if it wants to keep me, and luck is deciding if I am worthy to stay.'

From both sides, it all sounds like a pain.

[As you have been integrated as a being of this dimension, fate needs to assign you a new position towards the choice of life]

'But she can't.'

[Indeed, you are too unique, far too different and far too dangerous to simply be assigned any status or fate of this dimension. Technically, you can be assigned the fate of a hero, but that is too low; the fate of a villain will match you quite well, but then, if fate does that, the Goddess of Life itself might go to war, not to mention the other Goddesses.]

I smirked internally at those words. A position needs to be given to me in this story, and they are all confused about what position it should be. Am I the hero who will save the world? Or am I the villain, selfish enough just for me?

Truthfully, the role of villain suits me more, but the fate of the villain always ends up being defeated by the Heroes—that's how the fate works, which would mean it won't work on me. Being given 'fate' isn't so simple; it comes with its own chains and conditions, and as a God-level being myself, no fate can simply hold me.

My situation will reject them all. As a being of power, I have the right to deny and access the fate given to me. I haven't yet, in simpler terms, of the being entering true Godhood and flying outside the perspective of fate, and as a being living within the 'story' of the olds and mortals, a fate needs to be given to me, but it should also be worthy of me.

[The universal system is definitely going mad. I am sure every curse known in existence is being thrown at you. Your situation is far too unique; by all aspects you should fall outside of fate since you have technically broken out of the 'story' and have gained realisation of the world and its secrets, but they can't]

'Because I still haven't stepped out of the mortal chain into the divine realm. I haven't belonged to the flow of this world from the very beginning, and yet when fate has to be placed on me, I have broken through layers where fate can no longer define my path.'

[Precisely, it's a state of limbo, a situation neither here nor there, which is extremely frustrating to the dimension, especially when you are loved by the supreme Gods themselves. They want only the best fate for you, even though the fate won't be able to define you.]

'Just a simple placeholder then.'

I laughed at that thought. The title of my fate would be given to me, but in no way will it be able to define what kind of life and actions I can take, because I have already taken a step outside of that level of power this dimension can bestow upon me. Basically, I am at a level where it can't affect me, because the fate of this dimension doesn't have the authority to place it on me, as I stand above her.

'It's a funny situation indeed.'

[Fate is literally ripping her hair off in frustration. Right now, she just wants to hail a thunder of lightnings at you to fry you away. Her workload has just tripled in several ways just due to you; if not for the other Goddesses, she would have come down to beat you up till you can't even feel fate.]

'Ouch, sounds painful.'

I can already see it: Orpheus holding back Fate from just running up to me and kicking me till kingdom come.

[You have already changed the fate of everything. When you were added to this world, beings that could have peered into fate lost all control; futures set in motion had changed; the story that fate was relaying towards had been destroyed completely, creating a new story with you at the centre.]

I smirked at those words, already knowing that the world as a whole had changed, and things would only be getting different from here. And just as I was thinking so, a message rang out.

[Ding!]

[Fate Has Decided]

[A new fate has been etched for you!]

[Your role in the story has been decided!]

[You have been assigned the fate....]

[The Conqueror!]

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