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Ryo moderates online drama.

Llewellyn is the drama.

The System decides online arguments count as combat experience — and sends Ryo into battle as Llewellyn's partner!

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🪶 Synopsis

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.

Until the System decides that arguing online at 2 AM now counts as combat experience!

Turns out Ryo’s unwavering defense and obsessive threat tracking apparently make him the ideal partner for Llewellyn himself… so the System sends him straight into battle.

His role? Magical crisis management, wrangling unstable Elemental forces, and helping tackle whatever Magic is currently warping reality — all while keeping the world’s most powerful hero alive. Easy, right?

Except that now he’s neck-deep in Dungeons and Distorted Realms — and just a little too fixated on Llewellyn’s mastery in battle. And everything else.

It would be fine if the System’s matchmaking algorithms didn’t keep pushing them closer.

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

Character-driven
Feral partnership
Emotionally repressed chaos (slow burn-ish + mutual attraction/pining)
Banter
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:

Anyone trying to become the strongest
Love triangles
Harem anything
Sappy anyone
A protagonist who’s ever had a normal sleep schedule

🎐 Tone:

A mix of serious and funny. The world might be ending, but people are still annoying online, and Ryo is extremely tired.

Content Note:

🌶️ The rating goes up as the story progresses! Expect mutual attraction, sexual tension, 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.

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Author's Note:

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.

(If you join, I love you. <33 Thank you so much for supporting me and helping me pay my bills while I keep writing!)

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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, or you can click on the header to be redirected to the overall carrd). 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.