Chapter 3

Amael Parker.

That was the name of an ordinary man, of mediocre appearance and with average general abilities.

He was a guy you would see anywhere and not pay much attention to, except for the fact that he had clear traces of Asian descent, but that was all he had.

Amael Parker was born in Spain, but spent much of his life traveling around Latin America with his father Yamato, who wanted to appreciate the continent's diverse cultures while also enjoying his other hobby. Along the way, he saw and learned many things he'd never forget, and had experiences he thought would be worth telling someone about... aside from the occasional bit of danger, but nothing serious.

However, because Amael traveled from place to place with his old man without settling in one place for more than two months, Amael had no real friends and his only permanent company was his father, who introduced him to anime and manga from a very young age so that he could embrace his "national culture"...

Over time, Amael became interested in training methods similar to those of the Japanese, who come from China and Korea, feeling the excitement of exploring those incredible worlds.

And finally, Amael began reading various light and web novels from these three countries. Then, he discovered the most popular fan fiction about his favorite anime, written by young people like him… And that's how young Amael Parker suddenly had the desire to write his own novel for fun.

Thus, he wrote several novels, the second being {The Revenge of the Duke's Heir}, which tells the story of Leonardo von Aswort, better known by his pseudonym: Jayden.

A cliché novel featuring ability users called "Professionals," typical fantasy humanoid races, and a super-powered protagonist blessed with immense talent.

It was a novel of clichés, for cliché lovers. It even gave a harem of beautiful and talented women to a idiot-in-training who was as dense as a black hole in the first volumes, as usual.

And, unexpectedly, it attracted the attention of more than ten thousand readers in the first week, many of whom subscribed to follow the story. What surprised him most, and what made him laugh exasperatedly, was that some of them harshly criticized his first novel...

In any case, Amael was reincarnated in that novel, his first "small success."

Huh? What was that first novel that was so criticized?

It was a disgrace for Amael, but we'll tell you all about it in detail.

{The Northern Blooming Moon}

That was the cutesy title Amael, particularly drawn to Korea's "rofan" novels, gave to his first and most disappointing novel, which told the story of a prophetess with an unusual ability to alter fate at will and a powerful duke in what he once thought would be a light and enjoyable tale about the romance between two individuals of different status.

Yulia von Lasiuss, the novel's female protagonist, was a prophetess of the lowest rank and the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman who, along with her mother, escaped mistreatment and abuse to distant lands, only to end up in a village hidden in a mountain range, where the treatment they received as strangers would be no better.

Although they received help from a hunter who fell in love with Yulia's mother at first sight, they both had to deal with the caution and hostility of the villagers, who didn't like their secrets revealed. Yulia, in particular, was bullied by several boys during her stay there.

And much of this was started by one person.

Arisella Blun.

She, who frowned whenever she saw Yulia and her pure beauty, did not like the little lady of foreign origin at all, and with a mask of kindness and understanding, Arisella skillfully used her words and actions to create hostility against Yulia among all the children her age, all while appearing like an innocent child who did not know the harm she caused.

Yulia hated her, especially since Arisella even resembled the woman who harassed both her and her mother in her 'Father's' mansion due to her illegitimate origin.

Unable to bear it any longer, the two foreign women secretly fled Taylan with the help of the hunter to live in the nearest town, only to eventually fall into the hands of Yulia's obsessive and abusive father, returning to the hell they originally escaped for over six years.

However, one day like any other, Yulia woke up as a prophetess at the age of 19. She was a very weak woman, but a prophetess was needed anywhere, and the treatment she received improved overnight.

Still, Yulia did not want to remain in her Father's hands, and the poor woman fantasized about her and her mother being rescued by someone, their knight in shining armor, even though she knew how unlikely that was... And so, Yulia inadvertently used her unique ability [Authoress of Prophecies], altering causality to change her own fate.

It was a day like any other when an unexpected visitor arrived at the Barony where she resided. The Duke of the North himself, Astrian von Aswort, arrived to escort her to her palace.

The fact is that the Duke needed a woman to create the false idea that he had a mistress among the old nobility for a purpose beyond Yulia's understanding, but that didn't really matter to her; she simply wanted to leave that terrible mansion with the handsome man who was the key to escaping that hell. But she wouldn't leave without her mother.

Although the Baron did not want to let them go at all, not even his strange obsession with his mother would allow him to challenge the Duke himself who rules over the North in an absolute manner, and as such he could only watch with reluctance and anger as both were able to leave there towards the palaces of the duchy...

It was there that her life would truly take a drastic turn, with luxuries she never imagined she would have while helping the Duke with his mysterious goal, while also discovering her ability and using it to help the Duchy in any way she could, no matter how weak it was, which should be utilized to its fullest extent.

According to Amael Parker's plans, the Duke and the female lead would have grown attracted to each other as they interacted, Yulia would improve her relationship with the children who rejected her presence, and she would eventually break the Aswort family tradition of not having a wife, becoming the first Duchess of Aswort in all of recorded history.

However, none of that was possible because the novel only lasted 19 chapters before Amael abandoned it helplessly. After all, many readers treated it like garbage.

First of all, his writing was terrible and, according to readers themselves, he didn't even make an effort to explain why the female lead and her mother endured her treatment at Taylan for over a year or why the Duke agreed to Yulia's demands, something Amael didn't really think about at all.

Furthermore, since the novel was written from Yulia's point of view, many even pointed out the possibility that the first turn's villain, Arisella, possibly wasn't a villain at all, but rather a very nice girl who just seemed mean because Yulia interpreted all of her actions in a bad way due to her resemblance to her arch-enemy; though Amael was sure that she had made her look quite bad.

All this criticism of his work hardened and depressed him for a while. The many plans he had for the plot went out the window at that moment. He had so many ideas, but he couldn't carry them out because it would be a complete waste of time.

I was really sad about that.

Either way, the novel may have been a total failure, but Amael didn't give up writing web novels because of that.

He turned to his trusty friend the internet to learn what he needed to write better and how to craft a compelling story, and thinking he was finally ready to start over, Amael Parker began writing the aforementioned second hit of his life.

From there, he would make a series of web novels that would give him some money to use on himself and his father in their everyday lives... however, one day like any other he would spend that money on buying ice cream, which would lead him to meet his death while saving a helpless little girl...

That little girl, unexpectedly, was the future of humanity that God had brought to Earth so they could travel the universe without waiting a hundred life-threatening years for all life on Earth, and saving her gave him so much Karma that God decided to grant him three wishes.

Saddened by her death and what she left behind, but excited by the possibilities before him, Amael Parker gave the wishes he felt were best for him and would not offend God, and with a kind smile on his bright (literally) face, God granted them.

What were those wishes?

1-I want to be beautiful, super attractive!

2- I want to be reincarnated in my best novel!

3- I want the best power and talent of everyone in that novel!

They were desires filled with selfishness and greed, nothing specific and expressed by a young man too excited to think things through clearly in the heat of the moment.

...and as a result, God had him reincarnated into the world where his two novels are set, as the petty villain Arisella Bluen, who when it came down to it, was far from the manipulative villain he had imagined.

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The sudden recovery of her memories of that past life caused Arisella to fall unconscious from shock, frightening her young lover John, who quickly took her to the village's genius alchemist for treatment.

When she finally woke up, Arisella was momentarily confused because for a few seconds she only had memories of her first life, and she wondered what she was doing in a nice wooden room.

She tried to get up at first out of a feeling of panic and nervousness, but soon, memories of the past few months as 'Arisella' began to return little by little over time, although perhaps because of that the identity of her first life remained strong.

That of the man who once called himself 'Amael Parker'.

However, she also quickly realized that her current identity was still Arisella Bluen; the beautiful commoner girl from the hidden village of Taylan, and a prophetess of little talent who lived most of her life in these miraculous lands.

An orphan for as long as she can remember, Arisella was raised in a small orphanage run by the local Church from the age of two according to her caretaker and grew up to become, in her very humble opinion, an extremely rare beauty not seen every day among the commoner class.

She has a wonderful and handsome lover who cares for her lovingly, two clergymen who were like mother figures to her who lovingly raised her to who she is today, and along with her status as a prophetess, she lived being treated as a noble or a wealthy citizen by others in the town.

She believed she would marry, have children, and live happily with her family until the end of her natural life, where she would then go into the embrace of the gods and enjoy the eternal happiness of Elysium with everyone.

However, like Amael Parker, a 17-year-old boy who spent his entire life traveling with his father Yamato, he couldn't shake the complicated feelings of having been reincarnated into a beautiful woman and not only that, even having a boyfriend.

He never had a girlfriend in his other life... At least Arisella was still a virgin. But he put that aside for a very important reason... and that was that she was in a novel... her second novel.

{The Duke's Heir's Revenge}, which was technically a sequel to {The Northern Blooming Moon} as it was set in the future of the same world.

And Arisella Bluen herself, as whom she was reincarnated, was a mere extra in {The Duke's Heir's Revenge} to whom she dedicated a single entire chapter before giving her a miserable death after being brutally raped...

When Amael, or rather Arisella, remembered that part, a cold sweat broke out in his face.

Damn! How could something so ridiculous happen? Didn't I tell God I wanted to be beautiful, talented, and live in my best novel? {The Duke's Heir's Revenge} was far from my best novel, even though it was my first success!

Besides, I was a man, right? Why did God reincarnate me as an absolutely beautiful woman? My desires were so ambiguous!

Yes, yes they were.

Plus I have a boyfriend...it's crazy!

And being a minor extra or villain, whose life is destined to end in ruin due to the crown prince's mad schemes, experiencing the pain of rape and senseless death? I curse my past self for creating that situation!

"¡Argh!"

Regretting the mistakes that had led her to this situation, Arisella didn't notice a strange and mysterious force surrounding the entire town. Only when the external noise disappeared did she manage to emerge from her confused thoughts.

Normally, there should be one or two people outside shouting or talking about something, and even without that, you'd hear the sound of pigeons or other birds nearby. However, nothing could be heard, as if everything in this world had gone silent.

It was then....

"Hello, insignificant mortal!"

With a loud and arrogant statement that startled her, a damn talking cloud appeared in her life whose only asset was its cute little face.

What the fuck!?

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And so the events described above end, but not before the cloud explains that it is a virtual assistant created by God to help her survive with the power of a system she purchased in the intermultiversal society.

Arisella wisely decided not to question why he would give her a system to use, or why God would buy the system instead of making it himself with his omnipotence or whatever. As they say, God works in mysterious ways...

Either way....

"Even without a dungeon, this town... a grim fate awaits me and everyone else." He shuddered, recalling the setting he gave Taylan City in the novel.

"What do you mean? Another nonsense you wrote?" the despicable cloud asked, raising an eyebrow. If it had arms, it would most likely be crossing them right now.

"....Well...." Arisella began to explain as she recalled the story that the original Arisella "starred" in her second novel.

It was a catastrophic event that happened because the crown prince; one of the main antagonists of {The Duke's Heir's Revenge} gave the order to kill all the prophetesses of the Duchy simply to prevent a possible interruption in his evil plans.

To this end, a large number of mercenaries were hired to attack multiple towns and villages simultaneously to kill all the prophetesses living in those settlements, giving them quality weapons and sufficient supplies for their macabre campaign, as well as other forms of aid with which they could destroy any obstacles they might encounter along the way.

This cruel and seemingly pointless raid was actually intended to be a diversion to draw attention away from the Order of the Knights of the Draconic Lion, while the traitors killed from within the prophetesses in service to the Duchy and the nobles who represented a greater danger to their plans.

Of course, those vulgar and cruel mercenaries, who were no different from bandits, did not miss the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful prophetesses, raping them savagely and aggressively, and then killing them without ceremony.

Before being attacked, Arisella was helping the village celebrate the annual harvest festival with her boyfriend, John. They chatted with the villagers, flirted shamelessly even in front of the singles, and laughed at the children's antics, imagining themselves as parents of beautiful children in the future.

It should have been a joyful day in the distant village of Taylan... but it turned into hell because of the mercenaries, who suddenly appeared disguised as bandits.

They mercilessly killed men and women they didn't consider good commodities to sell on the Empire's black market, and kept the pretty women and children as future slaves for the nobility or anyone with enough money to buy them.

Arisella, for her part, watched as John died after receiving a merciless blow to the head with a sledgehammer while trying to protect her, then was easily grabbed by the mercenaries while she was in shock, and finally was brutally raped in front of the captives; right next to the corpse of her lover.

Finally, the mercenaries slit her throat, leaving her to choke on her own blood while those man-shaped demons laughed evilly with sadistic eyes and inhuman smiles.

It was the ruin of the Taylan people.

The terrible end of Arisella Bluen, the villain in the first novel.

And just a side story that appeared because one of the heroines, who was a former harem slave that Jayden saved, asked Jayden to go to the village ruins, since she was a survivor of Taylan, to remember her past, with the help of a prophetess.

This is because he had lost much of his memory after his captivity and slavery.

I wanted to know what its origin was.

By pure coincidence, they found a necklace belonging to Arisella, and the powerful Prophetess showed them what happened from her perspective through spirit projection; something they would come to regret as it awakened the heroine's trauma.

In reality, all of this was just another tragic story in the protagonist's path and something that would lead him to try to understand the reasons behind such horrible events, which would ultimately lead him to confront a powerful mercenary who would reveal everything he knew when he was about to die...

"Holy Heavenly Father... What kind of disgrace is this?" The despicable cloud looked at him with pity in its black, faintly glowing eyes. "I was wondering if this is really a reward for saving a daughter of God..."

"God works in mysterious ways...doesn't he?"

"Perhaps Heavenly Father simply threw you into the cycle of reincarnation and let fate decide what life you would have in this world as long as it was someone beautiful and talented," the cloud speculated with an indifferent expression.

"Isn't that a bit irresponsible!? And, "beautiful" aside, I'm not particularly talented, or at least I wasn't before! How come I'm suddenly at the fifth rank too!?"

"Isn't it good?"

"I was just an apprentice prophetess if we're talking in terms of spiritual power!"

"Anyway, with that unique ability you should be able to turn something around in your favor."

"That's something else! Because I have the heroine's ability? That completely contradicts the one thing!"

"God gave it to you, okay? Stop yelling at me about the good gifts Heavenly Father gave you!"

"If he wanted to give me good gifts, he should have made sure I remained a man in this world! Or how about making sure I was born in the Southern Empire if I was going to end up here anyway? Now I have to face this mess I wrote myself. And even this skill wouldn't be particularly useful even if I were at the Sixth Rank! It simply has too many limitations!"

As she exclaimed, Arisella couldn't help but feel deeply remorseful. Like Amael, how could she have come up with such a cruel story?