Sheila was about to stop, until the queen's mother turned and sat up facing Sheila.
**
"You say your name was Sheila, right?"
"Yes ma'am," Sheila answered.
"Have you ever been with a man before you got sold into slavery?"
"Uhmm….No, your highness"
"Don't lie to me, I can know whenever I want." The queen's mother said.
"Your highness, all I say is the truth. I never knew a man before I was sold into slavery and no man touched me when I was in slavery." Sheila replied fast but politely midst her head bowed.
"Hmm, I see." Queen Mother said moving closer to Sheila, she was still unclad and her nether region was still humid.
She got closer to Sheila, raised her head with a finger, and looked at her eyes, then she asked. "Do you know my real name?"
Sheila replied looking at the queen's mother's purple eyes. "No, your highness" She lied trying to stay calm.
"Hmm…she smirked. My name is Kimball. I want you to call me by my name whenever we are alone, like tonight. She said with a low husky voice as she tried to pull Sheila's maid's gown down from her shoulders.
"I DARE NOT CALL THE QUEEN MOTHER BY NAME!!. IT IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. I'M SORRY YOUR HIGHNESS. I DARE NOT DO THAT!. Sheila said at the top of hetop-of-her-voicece and took two steps back.
"Bring your voice down, you don't want to wake the palace up because of your voice. Now, move closer to me." She said with an authoritative tone.
Sheila moved closer to her.
"Strip"
"Eh," Sheila wasn't expecting that word, and at th,e same time she was.
"You heard what I said, Strip and don't let me repeat myself or you suffer the consequences. Her voice still had the authoritative tone.
"I….I…can't."
"If you don't, I will help you. The other maids do this all the time." Kimball pulled Sheila's gown off her body with force making it get torn. Sheila shoved Kimball off her body making her slip on the escaped oil that spilled to the ground.
"GUARDS!!, GUARDS!!! Kimball screamed in anguish as her unclad butt hit the hard ground.
Using the little space she got, Sheila ran out of the room to escape before the guards came. She knew she was already in difficulty when she pushed the queen's mother.
On the Kimball orders, the guards had started searching for Sheila in the palace. Searching every maid quarter even to the enuch quarters.
With the whole palace now awake, Sheila has no place to hide but she has to escape or die trying.
"THERE SHE IS" a guard shouted as he spotted her. The guards kept chasing her, and Sheila made the guards lose her as she hid in an old abandoned house.
As she hid in there and relaxed, a faint purple glow caught the corner of her eye. "Uhh, what's that?" she said as her curiosity pushed her closer to the object.
The room where she hid, its door was suddenly blasted open. Seize the whore!, a guard said as they barged inside. In fear, Sheila touched the glowing gem and fell.
Sheila started to glow a bright purple light, seconds after the glow there was a sudden blackout.
*****
[Checking host health]
[Host is healthy]
[Completion of system update into host - 9%]
[Host has received BLESSINGS OF THE GOD OF ORIGIN AND END!]
[Host has received JOB: MAN EATER]
[Host has received ABLITY: SCREAM!]
[Host has learnt skill Mid Swordmanship Lv 2!]
[Host has learnt skill Knife Throwing Lv 2!]
[Host has learnt skill Block Lv 2!]
[Completion of system update into host - 20%]
Sheila could hear the ringing of notifications in her ear as she was unconscious. If she were conscious, she would have seen this process.
[Completion of system update into host - 95%]
[Host has received the function QUESTS!]
[Host has received the function DAILY TASKS!]
[Completion to system update - 99.8%]
[Completion of system update - 100%]
[System update completed!]
Immediately after Sheila opened her eyes, this was the first thing that popped up in her line of sight. At first, she tried backing away before hitting her head on the side of the thick tree, which she was lying close to.
"awouch!! So that wasn't a dream?" She asked rhetorically as she recollected the events that had happened in the last hours, except for the killing of the guards.
[Congratulations, you have been granted the Villain System!]
Sheila stared at the system interface with a dumbfounded look. "Huh, What's this? Villain System?".
"Hold on, I have a system inside of me like those fantasy webnovels. This is AWESOME!!." Sheila said and screamed happily.
Little did she know her little scream of joy had called a guest.
"I would love to see what this system can do but first, where am I?", Sheila asked herself as she looked around. A screen interface pops up.
[Location: Scanning…]
[Location: Veil Forest]
[Do you wish to know about the Veil Forest Y/N]
Each interface cleared the other out.
"Oh nice, YES", she said with a light smile.
[Creator: Lady Mournwick.]
[The Veil Forest was not born of seed and rain, but of sorrow and a formidable will. It was created by the reclusive and powerful Lady Mournwick as a permanent, living monument to her grief. They say when her beloved perished, her weeping didn't fall as tears, but as droplets of cold, black obsidian, and from the ground where they landed sprang the first gnarled trees of the forest.
The trees of the Veil are a deep, permanent slate-gray, their branches perpetually coated in a fine, crystalline rime, regardless of the season. They filter the sun into a permanent, icy twilight, and the silence here is so profound it presses against the eardrums. Lady Mournwick herself is rarely seen, living deep within a spiraling manor of black marble and iron, tending to the Mournwick Gardens, where the flowers bloom in shades of midnight and bruised violet, and their scent is a heavy, intoxicating mix of funereal spices and petrichor.
The Creatures of the Veil
The forest is home to more than just shadowy silence. It is a sanctuary for creatures of myth and despair. Among the most dangerous are the Krasues, sleek, wolf-like predators with coats like polished jet and eyes that burn with a cold, blue fire. They hunt not for hunger, but for a twisted form of sport, their silent movements giving them an ethereal quality as they glide between the frosted trees. A Krasue's howl is said to mimic the lost cries of the Veil's first victims, luring wanderers off the path.
Other inhabitants include the Whispering Moss, a bioluminescent growth that pulses with a sickly green light and absorbs sound, making it terrifyingly easy to become disoriented; the stone-skinned Gloom-Hoppers, harmless creatures that only emerge to drink from the frozen pools; and the spectral, moth-winged Soul-Eaters, whose touch is said to steal memory and warmth, leaving victims to wander the cold woods like living scarecrows.
To enter the Veil Forest is to step into Lady Mournwick's sorrow. No bird sings, no gentle breeze blows; only the perpetual, unsettling quiet and the subtle, chilling signs that you are being watched by creatures forged from a heartbroken sorceress's magic. It is a beautiful, terrible place, and Lady Mournwick's presence hangs over every frosted bough like a heavy shroud.
Do you want to know more about Lady Mournwick's manor, or perhaps the tragic story behind the Veil Forest's creation?]
As Sheila read the long description, she felt eyes watching her. She turned around but couldn't find or see anything.
"I need to start moving, find food and shelter before night falls."
Dry leaves and tiny rocks crumbling could be heard under Sheila's feet as she moved.
It's been fifteen minutes since Sheila woke up and had the system. The moon had unexpectedly snatched the sky from the sun or rather the moons. The stars were up in the sky shining radially, almost brighter than the two moons together. It's an unusual world after all.
*****
*Unknown City*
A woman in rags and mud is seen shouting, "THE GLUTTON HAS BEEN BORN!, THE WORLD EATER HAD BEEN BORN!!, WE ARE ALL DOOMED." After her words came a weird loud cracking laughter like she had just gone insane.
A figure having a dark cloak on could be seen walking hurriedly, it walked past the woman in rags heading into a building over five hundred feet tall.
"You are late," A feminine voice told the dark figure as it came in.
"I'm sorry for coming late Baby Sigu, the meeting had me unexpectedly, since it's been over two centuries since we had a meeting." The dark figure replied as it pulled its cloak off and dropped it on an inhuman skeleton with dragonic horns.
"You know Ashgearth, just because I'm a skeleton doesn't make me a cloak hanger." The inhuman Skeleton with horns said angrily.
Ashgearth has a faceless face, dark wet hair, steroid-type muscles, pale blue skin, and legs of a goat.
"Oh my bad, Gasha," Ashgearth said without remorse.
"You know how Ashgearth is, Let him be Gashadokuro." A shy voice said.
"Arrogant bastard". Gashadokuro called Ashgearth.
"Thanks for the Compliment. Gasha" Ashgearth
"Grrrr" Gashadokuro growled.
"Enough of the pleasantries, let us begin," Sigu said, stopping the argument before it escalated. "The prophecy of Bavaria, which was spoken in the last ten centuries has been fulfilled, the Glutton has been born."
"Wait, you mean what that geezer said before I took his breath, was real and it just came to pass?" Another figure with an octopus head, six arms, and a human body asked.
"Yes, Krakos," Abyssia replied. Abyssia, a lady of dark, corrupted, and dangerous essence. She is also known as the "Tar Queen" due to the slick dark and vicious material that makes up her body.
"All we have to do is find out who the Overeater is, before THEY DO. I'm sure, we all know who we are talking about." Sigu added.
Everyone nodded in acceptance. In this league of monsters, there are no forerunners just monsters always trying to break the universe's balance.
****
"Oh shit, shit, shit, shit. Just what in the world is that?" A female said as she ran for her life.
"Skreeeeeeeeeetch", the bodyless monster screamed. It had the head of a woman and its lungs, liver, heart, and everything meant to be inside a human body, all outside hanging from its head.
"Ahh," She shouted as she tripped over a tree root and fell. The creature was moving closer and faster to the feminine figure who fell.
"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEETCH" The creature screamed as it opened its mouth wide ready to swallow its fallen prey. "Swwwiisssh, Swwwiisssh, Swwwiisssh" Almost silent sounds were made as arrows flew to the monster's head, killing it on the spot.
"Fwwissh, tiii." The sweet aroma of flesh burning filled the atmosphere. Well, it was a sweet aroma to Sheila's nose.
"Level one Krasues are easy to kill, maybe not for beginners like you." The Archer said as he helped Sheila up from the ground to her feet and added more fire magically by using his fingers.
Without thinking Sheila's mouth said while savouring the creature, "Stop, don't burn it to a crisp. I want to eat it."
"Eh, What? You wanna eat this thing?" The archer said in shock. "Just now, you were scared as a lost puppy and almost wet yourself. That's even if you haven't done that."
He wasn't done with his poem when Sheila started devouring the Krasue. The arrow shooter had an almost disgusted look on his face as he watched the young lady devour her meal.
As Sheila enjoyed her meal without timidity, the system rang out notifications.
[Host has devoured a level one Krasue]
[Host has acquired skill DETACHMENT]
[Host can now detach head from body for thirty seconds]
[5 Exp Gained]
[5 Exp Gained]
[5 Exp Gained]
"Hmm, nice fifteen Exp's for a level one Krasue. I wonder how many Exp for a level two, maybe thirty" Sheila thought.
[Host has received quest: (First Kill) Kill your Saviour]
[Rewards: 100 Exp]
[Time limit: 72 hrs]
[Time Left: 71 hours 59 mins 58 secs ]
[Punishment for Failure: Death]
"WHAAAAAAT!!! Sheila screamed out.