Wuchen excitedly raised his hands, watching this scene within a video game of a tender and lovely girl shackled by chains. He couldn't help expressing his pure exhilaration. Those charming eyes, belonging to a demon with a well-rounded figure, having beautiful slender legs wrapped in tattered black silk tights, and a mess of lace-woven translucent clothing on the upper part of her body.
On the surface, it looks as if someone provoked a tender and weak, lovely young girl. But even though the capture had already been a success, Wuchen wouldn't dare to start slacking off before her now, not even in the slightest. He was well aware that this was nothing more than a false pretense on the enemy's part. Before him was the great demoness of lust, Litia: the terrifyingly powerful strongest Boss in the whole game who's shattered the hopes and dreams of many players.
[Isekai Love Overture]: a large-scale war game mixed with love simulator elements released online. Players act as human feudal lords in the continent who'll establish territory, raise armed forces, develop science, technology, and magic... and with help from the goddesses, persist in the fierce resistance against the demons who invade from an unknown realm.
With the game's love simulator elements, players can cultivate favorability with female NPC's of any faction, ultimately finding themselves walking through a marriage hall. Even The Goddesses are targets for players to pursue. And yet for these players who can subdue anything, there's still a subset of women who have never successfully been subdued or married to ambitious players.
Demonesses, they're the strongest rulers of various demon clans hostile to the goddesses. Powered by all kinds of negative human emotions, their strength puts them shoulder to shoulder with the goddesses whom humans profess faith in. The reason for players' inability to subdue the demonesses is not a complicated thing. One could describe their power as a hax ability. You could be a WHALE pro-player with a maxed-out level, and possibly hold your own when facing them, yet find yourself violently killed in a matter of seconds. This applies to all players who encounter the demonesses: getting killed and resurrected within ten seconds. In that time frame, you're completely powerless, even as someone who normally picks up girls like a god.
Take this demoness, for instance. All human lust adds to her data, contributing to her power. With every increase in the players' power level, comes a simultaneous increase in the players' "lust level," ultimately empowering the lust demoness. When facing a level 9999999... demoness, do level 0 players stand a chance?
With such an unbalanced and cursed design, players have protested fervently. Yet the company remains indifferent, refusing to make severe adjustments to the demonesses' stats despite a plummeting player base and collapsing revenue.
"Today, such a powerful demoness of lust was subdued and captured, by me!" Wuchen pulled on the shackling collar attached to the lovely girl's pale neck with an expression of great accomplishment. But his gaming skills alone can't be credited with this victory, he mainly won due to a frustrating fact.
This game is now absolutely lifeless. Hundreds of players will be active in a server throughout the year, and with each player departure comes a downgrade in the lust demoness's level. Now facing a lust demoness with a mere ten thousands of levels, Wuchen finally saw his chance to win.
First, he went to the goddesses' Holy Temple and brushed up the favorability of maybe a dozen goddesses to the so-so level. He then got the so-so goddesses to assist him in battle just once. Now with the aid of a dozen goddesses and his own dexterity and cleverness, he finally defeated the strongest demoness in a one-sided assault, consuming countless legendary-tier imprisoning magic weapons that he was forced to spend countless materials and wealth on. Now, he had her held captive.
"Urgh... just kill me already!"
The adorable girl could pass off for a helpless thing, she instantly wore an intense gaze. Her sweet voice penetrated right through Wuchen's mind, as he witnessed an irresistible charm.
"If I wanted you killed, I'd have done it already. However, I couldn't stand to kill you~"
"Then what will you do to me at this rate? Go to the kingdom and receive the bounty... go to the temple of the goddesses and use me to secure the favor of those lowlifes?!"
If a gaze could kill a man, Wuchen figured he'd be killed a hundred times over.
"No, I want to marry you."
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Litia's proud white face shot up with a somewhat dull look of pure confusion.
"The unattainable are always the most restless."
Wuchen raised her jaw.
"You demonesses all have such strong social protection, with every kind of quality a man could ever crave. Simply putting it, I'm greedy for your bodies!"
"Eh?! Actually subduing and confining someone as my noble self for such a ridiculous reason... it's the worst possible insult to the demoness!!"
For a moment, Litia was full of disbelief. Even if the other side only desires marriage, it's too pretentious at any rate! What the hell is he eager to gain out of this?!
"Hmph, as if it's ridiculous! What's wrong with liking a woman, courting her?"
"You call this courting?!!"
Litia locked both legs in her pantyhose, frenzied.
Yet despite her struggling, the legendary tier imprisoning magic weapons manifested cursed chains outward, which secured her well-developed and pampered body.
"Well what else could I have done? With you demonesses killing on sight, I needed to defeat you before starting a conversation."
Wuchen was filled with frustration after mentioning this. Since the game's initial launch, he had been slaughtered by the demonesses in every way imaginable for a few hundreds or thousands of times!
"Even if you could obtain my body, you could never obtain my heart! One day sooner or later, this "seductive" demoness will be your undoing, Dawn Star!"
Litia called out Wuchen's name within the game, with wide-open eyes that implied something unrelenting.
"Easy now, I hadn't exactly planned to subdue you through conventional measures."
A smile emerged from the corners of Wuchen's mouth, as he glanced at the various x99 stacks of potions in his inventory. For players to subdue female NPC's within the game, they're forced to invest time into all kinds of missions and proceed through long dialogue just to attain a few favorability points. Not any harder than picking up girls in real life.
Yet there are also more opportunistic means, like certain extremely rare and exotic items which can be used to quickly boost favorability. The potions which currently pack Wuchen's inventory are just a rare, epic-tier example of items with such a capability.
[Epic-Tier Item: Secret Love Potion]
[Description: The Goddess Of Love's "Holy Water" Which Can Make The Target's Favorability For You Skyrocket After A Drink.]
[Its effect is essentially similar to that of various gifts in mobile games that can increase female favorability. And after their favorability is full, one can offer them a wedding ring. Which clever bastard could've formulated such a routine?]
[Epic-Tier Item: Dorm Shed] [Introduction: As long as you move inside, favorability will boost a little every 3 hours. Remember to use coins to decorate the room with ideal furniture. Why bringing a girl into the room will increase favorability remains a mystery.]
"This is the secret love potion I had specially customized for you. Do you have any idea of the ridiculously extreme things I had to do to get them from the goddess of love?"
Wuchen rocked the potions around in his hands, with a face implying thoughts of flashback.
The Goddess of love, stabbed in the heart.
"Come, be smothered in emotions! Dun-dun-dun: Love potion!"
Wuchen pried open the bottle, pinched the fine jade nose of the little demoness, and poured the potion directly into that cherry mouth.
"Guh.... So much, I can't keep drinking..."
[Ding-Dong! System Notice: The Demoness Of Lust Litia's Favorability For You Has Increased By +1. Current Level: Loathing.]
"Oh, affection actually increased by +1? Isn't this just... magical."
Wuchen made a slight frown.
Favorability is divided into the levels of Loathing, Hostile, Aloof, Unfamiliar, Friendly, So-So, and In Love. This epic-tier potion could make any NPC throw themselves into the user's arms, even if they're already someone else's wife. Even other goddesses will have their favorabilities increased by dozens of points after a drink. Why is it so ineffective against a demoness?
"Bwa-Ha-Ha!!! You think this sliver of a goddess's power will make me infatuated with the likes of you?!" Don't underestimate a demoness!"
Litia couldn't help but laugh and mock endlessly.
"It doesn't matter as I've come prepared with countless more vials. Come and get drinking!"
Wuchen followed through with his words and fished out his love potions from the item panel.
[99 love potions consumed, affection level +99, your favorability with demoness Litia has been boosted to the hostile level.]
"Ha... huh..... don't think I'll let you succeed..."
[99 love potions consumed, affection level +99, your favorability with demoness Litia has been boosted to the aloof level.]
"Hn... pathetic attempt, I refuse to admit defeat even as things are! Even if I'm brought down now, I'll never fall in love with you! I take this to my grave!"