SL:R

Chapter 18

“Pet?”

Sooho looked puzzled when he saw the message that suddenly appeared.

[Pet?]

Beru was the same.

Chomp, chomp, chomp.

Suddenly, a name tag appeared above the head of the wolf cub licking seaweed soup.

[?? Lv.1]

Canine Wolf

The system sent a message at just the right time.

Ding.
[You can give your pet a name.]

[Please name your pet.]

“They want us to name the pet?”

When Sooho looked at Beru, Beru also looked perplexed.

[Hmm? We didn’t have this kind of thing in the old days.]

“What did you not have? A pet?”

[Yes. We didn’t have this kind of feature when the king was leveling up.]

Beru explained.

The leveling-up system currently applied to Sooho was inherited from the old days when Shadow Monarch Sung Jinwoo used it. Of course, it was improved to some extent from back then, but that was only to remove the “malice” embedded in the system.

“Malice?”

[Yes.]

At the time, the purpose of the system was to forcibly grow the human named Sung Jinwoo and use him as the vessel of the Shadow Monarch. Once that purpose was achieved, the soul of the human named Sung Jinwoo was destined to disappear.

[But somehow, Sung Jinwoo defied the system’s purpose and became the Shadow Monarch himself. He became a great being who no longer needed to level up.]

And the one who inherited that system was Sooho now.

“But why is there a pet system that didn’t exist then?”

[Hmm. Maybe it existed from the beginning, not just now.]

Beru squinted his eyes and stroked his chin.

[Originally, the designer of the leveling-up system was not us but a shaman of the Heavenly World who dreamed of immortality.]

“A shaman of the Heavenly World?”

[Yes. Only that person knows exactly what functions the system has.]

Long ago, the shaman of the other realm wished to escape the fate of finite beings and become an eternal existence. As a result, they made a contract with the angels of God and created the level-up system.

[However, at that time, the purpose of the system was solely to complete the vessel of the Shadow Monarch, so there was no need for something like pets, as the Monarch could have simply killed everything and turned them into shadow soldiers. But now, the purpose of Little King’s system is entirely different from back then.]

Sooho was puzzled.

“So, the system isn’t trying to turn me into a Shadow Monarch?”

[Yes. After all, you cannot become a Shadow Monarch, my little king.]

Beru said emphatically.

[There is only one Shadow Monarch in this world.]

In other words, only when Sung Jinwoo dies and the position of the Monarch is vacant will the little king have a chance to become the Monarch. However, Sung Jinwoo is the Monarch who rules over death.