Perfect. Now it all connects: Rei didn't just summon Aurel by accident or wish. It was triggered by blood, danger, and ancient protection. The forbidden summoning stone, God-level, responded to a child's scream and reached across worlds… and chose Aurel Thornheart.
Here's a short expanded version of that backstory, for flavor or insertion into your narrative:
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🕯️ Lore Flashback — The Stone That Shouldn't Be Used
> Long ago, before Rei was even born, her parents fought in the War of the Shattered Divines. Scholars. Magic-binders. Survivors.
They unearthed a Forbidden Summoning Stone in the Ruins of the Deep Vault — obsidian black, cracked with golden veins, humming with memories that didn't belong to this timeline.
> It was labeled:
"Tier ∞: DO NOT INVOKE — Will breach reality boundaries."
> They sealed it under their home. Not to use it — but to prevent anyone else from trying.
They died protecting it.
> Years later, when the invaders came and the walls were breaking…
Rei didn't know what she was doing.
She just bled on the floor.
She cried for help.
> And the stone whispered:
"A Thornheart will answer."
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Want to continue with:
A flashback from Rei's POV when she activated the stone?
Aurel sensing his own soul being pulled?
Or the reaction of gods and demons to a "Thornheart" being summoned into their domain?
Your story's about to explode — let's pick where to go next.
Perfect. Let's go with Option 1:
A flashback scene from Rei's point of view — the moment everything broke, the moment she bled, the world shattered, and Aurel Thornheart was summoned.
We'll keep it visceral, emotional, and charged with dread and wonder. Rei is not a typical child — she's been through loss, isolation, and now… something no one else alive could survive.
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✦ Flashback Scene: The Blood and the Thornheart
Perspective: Rei
Location: Her family's old home, built above the buried ruin
Time: 6 hours before Aurel arrived
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She never wanted to be alone.
But the guards were already dead. Her nanny's scream still echoed down the stairwell, even though it had stopped minutes ago. The smell of fire was inside her chest now — thick, choking, like the world was burning from the inside out.
Rei ran barefoot through the cracked hallway of her home, the same one she used to drag dolls through, laughing. Now, her hands were bloody and shaking. Her breathing came sharp and broken.
They had come. The ones her mother warned her about.
And her parents were gone.
Gone for years now.
Just stories. Just a promise: "If they ever come for you… go below."
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She opened the hidden trapdoor with trembling fingers. The floor groaned like it was waking from a long sleep. Stone stairs led downward into dust, cold, and silence. She grabbed a candle—her last light—and descended.
The air was wrong down there.
Heavy. Sacred. Angry.
She reached the bottom.
There it was.
Half-buried in silver ash.
A black stone, cracked and glowing with faint golden veins like lightning trapped in ice. Her parents called it a forbidden relic—God-tier, lost to all sane magic systems. It wasn't meant to summon.
It was meant to break rules.
But Rei… didn't have anyone left to stop her.
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Dialogue (whispered prayer)
> "Please," she whispered, kneeling, her knees scraping on the old glyphs.
"I don't want to die like them."
"I don't want to be eaten. I don't want to be forgotten."
The roof above groaned — something massive walking across it.
Tears blurred her vision. She raised her hands. Her palms were already bloody — from the glass, from the struggle.
> "I don't need a hero."
"I need a monster who won't leave me."
Her blood touched the runes. The stone pulsed once.
Then again.
Then—violently.
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The Summoning
The air was torn apart by silence.
The kind that comes before lightning, before a scream.
And then... the ground cracked.
A flash of black, gold, and violet.
A ripple in the world.
Reality folded inward, like paper burning in reverse.
She was flung backwards as the stone shattered—dust and light exploding outward in a wave of energy.
And standing where nothing had been before…
Was him.
Tall. Still. Untouched.
Silver hair like liquid moonlight. Golden eyes like fire that had forgotten how to die. Blood on his coat — but not his.
His gaze landed on her.
And in that moment, Rei knew:
She had called something wrong.
Something the world could not contain.
But something that, maybe, just maybe, would stand between her and the monsters.
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> Rei:
(whispering, through broken breath)
"You came…"
> Aurel Thornheart didn't smile.
He only looked at her — and then past her, at the sound of monsters climbing the stairs.
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Want the scene to continue with Aurel's first kill, the dungeon beneath awakening, or perhaps a goddess watching the forbidden summoning from afar, furious that he was pulled into her domain?
Your call, summoner.
Ohoho yesss — now we're talking.
Let's show Aurel Thornheart in his first battle on this magic-ridden world, seconds after being summoned, using modern boxing reflexes, perfect timing, and calculated violence. No mana. No class. Just a human weapon born from science, pain, and obsession.
Enemies expect magic.
He gives them physics and brutality.
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✦ Scene: The First Kill
Location: Rei's home, Lower Stairwell
Context: Aurel is freshly summoned. Rei is behind him. The enemy is coming.
Threat: 1st-class Dungeon Marauder — a hybrid demon with bone armor, fangs, and brute strength.
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The footsteps thundered down the ruined stone stairs.
Something snarled — low, hungry, wrong.
Rei clutched the edge of her cloak, heart in her throat. Her lips moved but no words came.
Aurel Thornheart stood between her and the stairwell. No weapons. No magic glyphs.
Just a blood-stained coat, damp silver hair clinging to his neck… and eyes that were calculating.
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The creature emerged.
Twice his size. Armor made of spiked bone. Eyes glowing amber with dungeon-sickness. Its claws scraped the stone. It opened its mouth, hissed something that sounded like a curse—
And lunged.
Aurel didn't flinch.
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⚡ Combat — Boxing Style:
> One step forward.
Left foot planted.
Weight shift—fast.
Chin down. Elbow in.
Just like the gym. Just like the streets. Just like the night he broke his first ribs and smiled.
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WHAM.
A straight right jab to the creature's solar plexus.
Its breath hitched. Chest cracked — not from power, but from perfect placement.
He pivoted.
A left hook, tight and merciless, straight into its jawline — not scaled, not armored.
CRACK.
The demon reeled. Its head spun. Bone cracked around its eye.
> Aurel's voice:
"Your center of gravity's too high."
He stepped inside its reach.
Uppercut.
His fist drove into the demon's chin with brutal force. Blood. Teeth. Silence.
The creature flew back, legs folding awkwardly under it, slamming against the stone wall hard enough to leave a crater. Its body twitched once… then stopped.
Dead.
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Rei's POV:
She had seen warriors with holy swords, monks with mantra shields, mages wrapped in light.
But none of them moved like him.
No shouting. No glowing. No flourish.
Just… cold, clinical violence.
> "What… was that?" she whispered.
> Aurel looked over his shoulder, brushing a speck of dust from his coat.
"Boxing. Science. Pressure points."
"Magic makes people lazy."
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Final Beat:
He looked down at his hand — a hairline bruise across his knuckles.
> "Tch. That thing had a skull like concrete."
Another roar sounded in the distance.
Aurel cracked his neck.
> "Let them come."
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🔥 Want to continue?
Dungeon swarms attack the building, forcing Aurel into a survival sprint through the ruins with Rei?
He loots a relic, but instead of being chosen by it… it breaks trying to sync with him?
Or a nearby adventurer squad witnesses this and assumes he's a god-tier martial class?
Just say the word. Aurel's just warming up.
Ahh… perfect. Time to show Aurel Thornheart not just as a cold-blooded strategist, but as someone who — beneath the psycho edge, the killer calm, the broken science — chooses to save a life when it matters.
Let's expand the previous moment, make it emotionally powerful. Rei's in danger. Aurel could walk away. But instead, he chooses her — not because he was summoned… but because he decides she matters.
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✦ Scene: The Save
Location: Rei's Crumbling Home, Minutes After First Kill
Time: Still night — but something ancient is waking
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The demon's body collapsed to the floor, blood oozing from its crushed jaw.
Aurel didn't even turn to look at it. His breath was steady.
He looked at the girl.
Rei was crouched by the broken wall, shaking, arms around herself like a shield made of twigs. Her lips were pale. Eyes locked on the corpse. She wasn't crying. She had passed that point.
She was numb.
> "Hey," Aurel said, crouching down in front of her.
His voice wasn't sharp now. Just… measured. Controlled.
"Breathe. In. Out."
She didn't move.
He clicked his tongue softly.
> "If you're going to summon people from across dimensions using god-tier forbidden magic, you don't get to pass out when things get ugly."
Still nothing.
The ceiling groaned above them — the rest of the ruin was collapsing. Dust fell like snow. Another roar echoed down the hallway. Closer.
Aurel looked toward the stairs. Then back at her.
He sighed. Deep. Quiet. Almost… human.
> "Damn it."
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💥 He Moves
He reached out suddenly and lifted her into his arms — not gentle, not rough. Efficient. The way a fighter saves his corner man mid-fight.
> "Don't fall asleep," he said.
"That's an order."
> "Wh… why…" she whispered weakly. "Why are you helping me…?"
He carried her toward the back of the room, boots crunching over broken tile, breath steady even as the ruin behind them cracked deeper.
> "Because you didn't summon a hero," he said.
"You summoned me."
> "And I protect what's mine."
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☠️ From the Shadows
Behind them, the wall exploded — a massive beast crashing through the corridor, shrieking as it came, wings dragging over the ground, red eyes burning.
Aurel didn't stop. He turned his body, using his shoulder to shield Rei from the shrapnel. Blood cut across his arm, but his grip never loosened.
He kicked open the old vault door at the end of the hall, slammed it behind him, and dropped the metal bar just as the beast rammed into it from the other side.
Dust choked the air.
He looked down.
Rei was staring up at him, dazed, small, safe in his arms.
> "You're insane," she whispered.
> "Highly functional," he corrected.
"Now let's get you somewhere that doesn't try to eat children."
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Scene Ends with:
Aurel walking into the moonlight, Rei in his arms, the dungeon's roars behind them echoing into the cold night.
And for the first time…
Rei felt safe.
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Want the next scene to show:
Rei waking up in a safe village and hearing rumors about "the Thornheart"?
Aurel resting for the first time and dreaming of the world he left?
A hidden power inside Rei beginning to stir in response to Aurel's protection?
Say the word. We can go light, dark, or deeper into the myth.
🩸INITIATING SYSTEM: ZERO🩸
> ⚠️ This world was not meant to have systems.
⚠️ But Aurel Thornheart is not from this world.
🔥 Forbidden Protocol Override Detected
🔓 System.ZERO activated — Origin: Unknown
🕷️ Networkless. Codeless. Lawless. Bound to Curiosity.
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🩶 SYSTEM.ZERO — Design Notes:
Unlike traditional RPG systems tied to mana, classes, or divine blessing…
System.ZERO is Aurel's own mind, his cursed curiosity made sentient.
No notifications unless he chooses to see them. No interface. No guidance.
It doesn't level up —
It learns, steals, copies, and rewrites reality through understanding.
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🩸 SCENE: Activation
Location: Base of an ancient tower ruin. Aurel has just fought off a second ambush. Rei is unconscious nearby.
Trigger: Aurel touches the obsidian crest on the wall — his hand burns. But instead of pulling away… he leans in.
His mind floods. Not with pain. Not with knowledge.
But with code — in a world that shouldn't have it.
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[ERROR: Reality Layer Rejected External System Interface]
[Override Successful.]
[Curiosity has pierced the veil.]
> SYSTEM.ZERO: Unbound.
> Soul-ID: Aurel_Thornheart.000
> Class: NONE (Irregular Entity)
> Attributes: Interpreting Biological Reflexes…
[✔ Modern Combat Style: Boxing – Integrated]
[✔ Human Neural Pattern – Optimized 3.7x via Temporal Strain Memory Compression]
> Traits Unlocked:
▸ "Impossible Reflex" — Acts before magic is cast. Reacts mid-incantation.
▸ "Observation Predator" — The more he sees, the more he owns.
> Skills Assimilated:
▸ Demon Bone Density Pattern (Low Rank) – Stolen on first punch.
▸ Minor Beast Fear-Aura (Passive) – Inherited from defeated ambush leader.
> Cultivation Method: NULL
> Replacement: **Cursed Curiosity Core**
[Warning:]
You are the glitch in this world's design.
Do not ask permission.
Take everything.
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Aurel's Reaction:
He doesn't flinch. Doesn't even blink.
> "System… zero?"
A slow smile tugs at his lips.
"Cute name for something that finally makes sense."
He closes his hand into a fist.
> "So this world has rules.
Let's see how far I can break them before they notice."
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Want to build:
The visual design of System.ZERO? (Shadowy, glitchy glyphs, no floating text — only mind-to-body feedback?)
The first time Aurel uses ZERO to steal a class or disassemble a spell mid-air?
Or show a divine being noticing ZERO and panicking?
You're now fully in the glitch-path. Chaos starts here.
Let's refine and rank the species of your fantasy world, Esmirath — keeping in mind:
The world is system-less for everyone except Aurel (via System.ZERO)
Species must feel ancient, magical, dangerous, or divine
Ranks determine power, threat level, rarity, and what Aurel can learn or steal from them
We'll use a dark fantasy scale: Feral ➝ Arcane ➝ Demonic ➝ Eldritch ➝ Divine ➝ Glitched (System anomalies)
🩸 ADJUSTED SPECIES RANKING — Esmirath
Rank Tier Label Species Example Traits
🕸️ Tier 0 Feral Bloodfang Wolves, Swamp Lizards Basic monsters, instinct-driven, no magic
🔥 Tier 1 Arcane Emberboars, Spell Spiders Low-level magical species; cast minor elemental effects
💀 Tier 2 Demonic Boneclaw Marauders, Hollow Fiends Demon-kin; often dungeon-born; twisted anatomy
🌑 Tier 3 Eldritch Rift Whisperers, Void Golems Non-humanoid; reality-bending; vulnerable to observation
👁 Tier 4 Divine Seraph Slayers, Fallen Celestials Magic-enhanced humanoids or godblood creatures
⚠️ Tier ? Glitched Aurel Thornheart (Declared) Not native. Defies magical taxonomy. Cannot be tracked by the World Grid.
🧬 SPECIAL: Hybrid Subspecies
Aurel may encounter hybrids, which can be ranked higher than their base tier:
Half-Demon Beastkin (Arcane + Demonic): Strong magic, but unstable
Eldritch-Divine Mutations (Forbidden Mages): Illegal experiments, hunted by temples
Glitched-Revenants (System-infected undead): Triggered by Aurel's presence alone
Species Tier What Aurel Can Steal
Hollow Fiend Tier 2 - Demonic Bone Reinforcement, Night Vision, Chaos Language
Rift Whisperer Tier 3 - Eldritch Phase Blink, Echo Memory, Spatial Fracture Instinct
Fallen Seraph Tier 4 - Divine Light Suppression, Angelic Perception, Judgement Lock
System-Revenant Tier ? - Glitched Corrupted Skill Tree, Error Field, Temporal Instability
Aurel's Advantage:
Unlike natives, he doesn't level up — he accumulates and adapts.
System.ZERO lets him copy across tiers as long as he can:
Observe the creature deeply enough
Survive exposure to their magic
And understand what makes them unique
If he fails that third step? He risks being infected, mutated, or rejected.
Expand the Divine species, like Celestials or God-Blooded lines?
Add named demon races with dark lore (e.g., Puppetspawn, Mindskinners)?
Or build a Glitched Species, born in reaction to Aurel's presence?
Let's escalate.
Perfect. Here's a quick Level-Up Sequence Scene to show System.ZERO evolving Aurel after absorbing enough MP from a kill.
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🕷️ Scene: First Silent Level-Up – Rank G → F
Context:
Aurel just defeated a Tier 2 Demonic beast (a Boneclaw Marauder) using analysis and modern technique. No magic. No weapons. Just fists and pressure points.
He stands over the twitching corpse, blood on his boots, golden eyes scanning the broken anatomy.
Rei, watching from the shadows, whispers:
> "...You killed that thing like it was paper…"
He doesn't answer.
Because something deeper is happening.
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🩸 SYSTEM.ZERO Internal Feed (Neural Only – No HUD)
[Analyzing Demonic Corpse...]
[Enemy Mana Core Stability: 37.2%]
[MP Extracted: 141]
[Curiosity Points Gained: +141 CP]
> [Threshold reached — Evolution Triggered]
> SYSTEM.ZERO:
> Soul Core Strain: Acceptable
> Biological Compatibility: Stable
> Reality Friction: Minor
> Upgrading Combat Rank...
> [G ➝ F-Rank Achieved]
> Unlocking Core Adaptation Slot #1
> ▸ Trait: "Reactive Muscle Memory" — Subconscious auto-counter in melee
> Vital Capacity: +3.1%
> Reflex Boost: +6ms
> Perception Spike: Partial
> This change is invisible to external detection.
> Proceeding with stealth evolution.
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Aurel's Response:
He exhales — just once — and his heart skips a beat. His muscles… move differently.
Faster. Cleaner. Less resistance. His legs twitch before thought. His body already adapting to the next threat.
> "...That's new," he mutters.
"Feels like learning how to breathe all over again."
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Rei stares.
To her? He hasn't changed.
But to the world?
A Rank F warrior just woke up in a G-rank disguise…
...and no one noticed.
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