System Task List: [Initialized]
Task 001 — The Catalyst of Carnal HungerObjective: Procure a magically significant historical artifact by theft, deception, or cunning. The relic must be sufficiently potent to trigger a systemic response.Reward:Awakening of Primal Drives. Permanently accelerates the host's magical puberty and bodily alignment: sharpens the senses, awakens latent sexual magnetism, and re-sculpts the body toward the predatory will of the soul. This change is foundational for future rituals of absorption and persuasion.
Task 002 — The Covenant of the Gentle SeerObjective: Secure 100 ml of voluntarily offered blood from a Demiguise.Reward: Unlocks the Oracular Awakening Circle along with skill evolution chart. When performed with a willing partner, the circle awakens a latent Divination talent within the host. (Note: ritual completion requires a synergistic release attainable only with a consenting intimate partner.)
Task 003 — The Gilded AlliancesObjective: Forge three mutually profitable partnerships with persons of notable magical or political standing.Reward: Unlocks the Siren's Theft Ritual — an enchantment woven during an intimate encounter. Upon success, the host gains a 50% chance to siphon a minor portion (5–10%) of the partner's innate talent (e.g., Parseltongue, Metamorphmagus ability). The siphoned trait degrades over one year; failure leaves the partner untouched.
Task 004 — The Confluence of Flesh and WillObjective: Identify a magically potent individual and seduce them, maintaining a dominant-submissive dynamic in your favor for three continuous months.Reward: +1 Charisma, +1 Strength, +1 Physical — permanent increases born from sustained absorption of the partner's ambient vitality.
Task 005 — The Scrivener of DiscordObjective: Acquire forbidden knowledge (a suppressed Ministry file, hidden lineage, or restricted rite) and use it to sow chaos affecting at least ten people.Reward: +1 Luck — fate subtly bends in the host's favor for a time as the ripples of chaos rearrange probability.
Task 006 — The Pyre of a SoulObjective: Select one individual and exploit them — physically, socially, and magically — across one solar year until their life is irreparably ruined by your actions.Reward: +10 Years Life Expectancy. The System harvests the target's stolen potential and converts it into raw vitality for the host.
Host Panel Update & Reaction
[Host: Icharus Rodrigus]Active Tasks: 6Status: ◉ AWAITING ACCEPTANCE
He stared at the list. Where a lesser man might tremble, Icharus felt an animal thrill — cold, methodical, entirely unsentimental. The System had not given him a road to virtue; it had handed him a curriculum for ascension. Each objective was a blade: dangerous, precise, and perfectly honed to cut away weakness.
His earlier disgust at childlike statistics — the low endurance, the paltry luck — melted into a slow smile. The smile was not youthful innocence. It was the smile of appetite met with opportunity. The hunger he had stifled for years was no longer a private wound; it was an instruction manual.
[System Directive:]The path to divinity is paved with wills you break and fates you consume. Do you accept the terms?
"I accept," he whispered into the dim room, his voice thin and new in the boy's throat. The word tasted like iron and lit the air between his ribs.
The System's glow withdrew, but the mandates were seared into him. He needed a plan — not fervent wishwork, but a ledger of steps he could enact while others played at childhood. Scrambling for a scrap of paper and a chewed biro, he mapped a first strategy with a hand steadier than his years.
Primary Directive: Operate from the shadows.
Dumbledore: An old puppeteer. Assume eyes in every cloister and symbol. Keep distance; do not tempt his scrutiny. He deals in meanings; do not become a sacrifice.
Harry Potter: A focal point, a variable. Not friend. Not kin. Observe. Use. Avoid unwanted proximity.
Phase One — Pre-Hogwarts: Acquisition & PreparationThe Catalyst: The artifact is priority. His body is a cage and must be reformed.Action: Devour histories, legends, and market whispers. In Diagon Alley, ask quiet questions about ancient relics — founders' heirlooms, Merlin's rumored remnants, long-lost grimoire fragments. Follow rumor into tombs of rumor: places where power goes unattended.
Forbidden Knowledge & Chaos: Secrets erode structures.Action: Identify a destabilizing truth — a hidden lineage, a Ministry coverup, a suppressing ritual. When revealed, it will create ripples and reward him with Luck while weakening the pillars he will later contest.
The Sacrificial Lamb: Time is currency. He needs more of it.Action: Find a suitable target — talented but isolated, useful and pliant. Befriend, bind, then unravel them across a year. The System's promise of ten years is a down payment on immortality.
Phase Two — Hogwarts: Infiltration & NetworkingProfitable Partnerships: Power is a lattice.Action: Identify three assets — a pure-blood heiress, a talent in obscure magic, a supplier of rare reagents. Offer knowledge, hints, and favors. Exchange fragments of future events as leverage.
Primary Vessel: The Siren's Theft needs a potent mate.Action: Seek a Metamorphmagus, a Parselmouth, a prodigy. Seduction is a long rite; patience is its key.
The Facade: The Sorting Hat reads mind and measure. Occlumency is necessary. Present a false tapestry: the lonely, loyal orphan. Hufflepuff's humility conceals a schemer's reach; the basement is home to unseen roots.
He folded the list, stained the ink with a thumb and pressed the paper into the desk's seam — a hiding place only he would think to check. He would play the part: quiet, unremarkable, the child who waited for a letter. He would trade smiles and small kindnesses for access, never letting the mask slip.
Beneath that mask, a patient god tuned his appetite to timing. The System had given him tools; now he would sharpen them into instruments. When the stage was set, he would not merely take power. He would reforge the world into something that answered to his hunger.