Ryo thought moderating online drama was the worst part of his job. 

After years of night shifts, caffeine, and defending the Internet's most polarizing figure — Llewellyn, the world's most famous hero, the System's golden boy, and the only person alive with Transcendent-level Elemental Mastery — Ryo figured he'd seen it all. Conspiracy theories? Fan petitions? Cult-like followers? All in a night's work. 

What he didn't expect was the System deciding his online arguments counted as combat experience and dropping him straight into battle with Llewellyn himself! 

He also didn't expect the Internet to start shipping them! 

And he certainly didn't expect the System's idea of "combat partner" to involve an absurd amount of physical contact disguised as Healing Bonuses, shared body heat, Dungeon environments that look like dates, or being randomly teleported onto Llewellyn's lap! 

Llewellyn might be the strongest person on Earth, but he has no one to watch his back. Luckily for him, Ryo has had to deal with the unhinged online backlash around him for years… and he is more than willing to get his hands dirty in person.

💡 What you’ll find: BL | Magic | System | Magical Apocalypse

• Character-driven 
• M/M Romance 
• Feral Partnership 
• Emotionally repressed MC & ML 
• Slow-burn + mutual attraction 
• The System is a Shipper! 
• Banter 
• Magical combat 
• System mechanics 
• Elemental magic 
• Slice of life downtime 
• VR games 
• Online drama 
• The apocalypse is already happening, and the Internet is not handling it well 

🚫 What you won’t find:

• Toxic non-con 
• Miscommunication tropes 
• Love triangles 
• Harem anything 
• Sappy anyone 
• A protagonist who’s ever had a normal sleep schedule 

🎐 Tone: 

A mix of serious and funny, with both romance and high-stakes action. The world might be ending, but people are still annoying online, and Ryo is extremely tired (and increasingly attracted to Llewellyn). 

Content Note: 

🌶️ The rating goes up as the story progresses! Expect mutual attraction, sexual tension, only one bed trope, and explicit scenes between consenting adults. 

🗡️ This story also features fantasy combat, monster attacks, and action-based injury typical of the genre. Nothing too graphic, but blood appears in fight scenes. 

Welcome, welcome! ✨ 

Thanks so much for checking out The System Runs on Magic. 

This webnovel updates 3x/week: 

🗓️ Mon / Wed / Fri: On Tapas and Webnovel 
🗓️ Tue / Thu / Sat: On Patreon 

Patreon updates are usually around 2 weeks ahead.  

PS. If you’d like to see the original cover with Ryo and Llewellyn in their trench coats — which shows a scene from Chapter 26 — it’s available on Webnovel, and as a public post on Patreon (link below). Tapas guidelines mean I’m keeping this version text-only for now. 

Thanks so much for reading! 

I’m so excited to share this story with you. 

🖋️🥞