Crimson Vows of Tartarus: A LitRPG Romance
An isekai’d succubus with a maxed-out body and a beginner’s soul rewrites the rules of a summoning contract—turning ‘bound weapon’ into an equal who will never be commanded.
Aella Hart wakes after a fatal accident inside a ‘Crown Succubus’ vessel in the hell-plane Tartarus, governed by a game-like system called the Accord that grants max-rank capacity but locks it behind a level-one soul and a hunger she refuses to feed on the unwilling.
Pulled through a forbidden summoning by Shadow Warlock Roric Valerius—who meant to bind a soulless weapon to save his family—she renegotiates the pact into a consent-based covenant instead of obedience.
Together they investigate a conspiracy of magical compulsions threatening Roric’s house, bargain with an ancient dragon, and work to free a town enslaved by a coercion network, leveling Aella’s soul through choices that reject coercive power even when it would be useful.
Tropes: isekai / reincarnation into another world, LitRPG system with stats, levels, and quests, summoner and summoned bond, succubus heroine who refuses to prey, consent as central plot mechanic, female-led power dynamic, soul-bond / linked magical bond, forced proximity, slow-burn to committed romance, found family (imp companion), protective, restraint-showing hero, political conspiracy / intrigue
Story promises: Guaranteed HEA · multiple POV · past tense (what this means)
Content notes: explicit sexual content; consensual BDSM / bondage; magical coercion and compulsion (examined critically); graphic violence; demonic / hell themes; captivity and imprisonment; death and grief (full index)
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