The System Guild

Prologue

"Congratulations!"

The doctor sighed and started to clean his hands, while the nurses went to organize the equipment. One of the nurses, carrying a bundle of joy in her arms went to the exhausted mother's side. The patient still had the energy to beam a smile and stretch out her hands for her child.

The newborn let out sharp cries, resembling that of a high-pitched octave from bringing to microphones together, but calmed down once it settled in its mother's embrace.

"It's a healthy system!"

"AHHH!"

"Uh...b-boss?"

The boss sat upright in the office chair, looking left and right. Her glasses somehow were flung to the ground while an evident wet mark connected her lips to the documents on the desk. She patted her clothes down and wiped her mouth. Clearing her throat, she clasped her hands together and turned to her secretary.

"Ah...what..what is it? Did something come up?"

"Well..."he picked up the glasses and approached his boss. While handing the frames to her, he continued, "it seems like another one of the system gave in to their host."

"Just great...what happened this time?"

"...another halo..."

"Ah!" Swiveling in their chair. She jumped out and started to stroll around the office. "I've worked my way to build this Guild, this business. Why, out of all the eras, I never had trouble until now? Out of all dimensions, each one flowed easier than a river? Yet when it comes to newbie systems...ah, so difficult"

The secretary replaced the saliva-smudged documents from his boss' desk with new print out and nodded his head, murmuring sweet agreements. As old as his boss was, so was he. The two of them had built this place from nothing, after all.

"Alright then, please call in those systems. Might as well call those who messed up!"

"Right away boss!"

As he left, the boss returned to her desk but did not sit down. Instead, she went behind the chair and looked out the window, at the wide and gorgeous sight. However, it look bland to her. She had seen this sight for as long as she could remember, the first thing she was proud of creating had now began to suffocate her.

These six walls confining her existence since motion evolved. How long had she watched all creations form and began to grow? Her shoulders started to ache, her would depressed. Why?

She wanted to travel and sightsee those worlds, ah!

Never vacation, never break, no such thing for this day-to-day job, 24/7 pain! Ah!

By the time the secretary came back with three systems, he hid the employees' sight from witnessing the boss rub her face against the glass, smearing hot tears against the cool surface.

He coughed, alerting her, and then came inside once the boss composed herself.

The three systems fell to their knees, begging their superior boss to let them off this time. Snot and tears on their faces, resembling the boss just moments ago.

With a haughty and cool front, the boss watched them all cry and plead to her. One kowtowed, banging his brain against the hardwood. The second one offered his flesh and blood, to be a slave for the boss, willing to do anything for her. The last one started to empty his pockets of gadgets, crying while declaring for the boss to confiscate them if that will mean he earned her forgiveness.

The three babies shivered, they never had met the boss until now. Even if they had lived hundreds and thousands of years...or even millions of years, they were pressured under her gaze.