Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Souls

Mila

Mila tried to look on the bright side of Aalam getting himself captured. At least the two in front of him were very, very horny for each other. Aalam couldn’t see it, both because he couldn’t understand their language and because he was generally oblivious, but he and Mila had started sharing their senses with each other over their bond and Mila could easily see it.

Aalam had also managed to kill almost every undead other than the generals and two dogs, so that was also good.

 

Congratulations!

Your Law Egg of Calm has advanced to high grade.

 

Your soul is affected by your understanding of Law.

Spirit +16, Soul +8

 

Mila’s intensive use of the Law over the last several minutes had finally lead to a breakthrough, allowing her to calm her thoughts enough to not worry about Aalam dying from blood loss with all his limbs held in the jaws of Shadow Wolves.

She was then able to shift to her Law Egg of Obfuscation and get within five meters of the Nightwalker mage heading to wherever their boss was located.

Then, just as the Nightwalker was about to notice her, she flared her aura to surround his and created a hologram of herself attacking him from the other direction.

In the split second he was confused, she transformed the Twin Dragons into its spear form and dropped her use of the Law Egg of Obfuscation. Then she stabbed the man in his unbeating heart with an attack empowered by the Law Egg of The Reaper and her Artifact Enhancement skill.

He didn’t die from that, but it became difficult for him to move and she was right behind him. Then she transformed the Twin Dragons into its sword form and decapitated him, this time ending his life.

She wasn’t sure exactly where the undead leader was, but she was pretty sure he’d be notified about his general’s death. The System didn’t care about the troops an invasion came with, but the generals held an important position in the planet conquering game that was an apocalypse style integration, so the leader would get a System message about one’s death. The other generals, however, wouldn’t.

“Mila,” Aalam sent over their bond, “Did you kill the mage guy?”

“Yes.” Mila knew the mage had done something to Aalam, and that effect had likely disappeared with the mage’s death.

“I think I know what the mage did to my Mental Forge. It wasn’t until it broke that I realized my main Mental Forge had been unable to move my resources or even my body. But that is the same effect as what the knight did, so I think the knight’s binding on me won’t last much longer, thus the need for the extra binding from the mage.

“Even without you, I could have escaped on my own.”

Aalam sounded pleased with himself, the enemies not knowing about his Multi-Mind skill and thus incorrectly binding him, but he’d forgotten a few things and Mila felt obliged to point them out. “Aalam, are you or are you not currently in the jaws of two two-headed wolves?”

“I am.” His mental voice sounded less sure of himself.

“Do you or do you not currently have a magic sword poking into one of your kidneys?”

“I do.”

“Are you or are you not in considerable pain?”

“I am.”

“Are there or are there not two powerful enemies right in front of you?”

“There are.”

“Have they or have they not taken your weapon?”

“They have.”

“Then Aalam, as someone with ample combat experience, trust me when I say you are not in a position where you could escape on your own.”

“Alright.” Aalam sounded somewhat dejected, but at least he wouldn’t start to feel even more overconfident.

Mila waited for a full ten minutes near the general’s body, but the leader of the undead never showed up. Then, through her link with Aalam, she learned a possible reason why.

“What do you think is taking so long?” the woman asked and, as had been happening the entire time, she seemed fidgety and kept looking at Aalam’s lower half.

“He’s probably near a breakthrough from the effects of that cave.” The knight had taken his helmet off by this point, it now hanging from his belt, and he kept looking at the woman’s lips and chest.

Nightwalkers, as a species, were generally turned on by death, and Aalam’s state of undress was heightening the effect, Mila having yet to find clothes which would fit his new taller body. Aalam’s Aura and Spirit were also quite a bit higher than the two Nightwalkers and, as an Incubus, he ever so slightly boosted the lust of everyone around him.

“You don’t think Prince Morin was attacked when we were, do you?” the knight asked, sounding like a man who was normally very concerned about duty but was currently extremely distracted.

“This bastard is an Incubus.” The woman flicked her sword, still stabbed into Aalam’s kidney, and Aalam screamed, causing the woman to smile with even more lust at the knight. “Given how powerful he is, there’s no way he was spawned with others, so his only backup could be some kind of lover, yet no lover would be able to leave him like this, so she doesn't exist.”

Mila considered if she was disregarding Aalam’s pain a bit too much as she moved back toward the undead’s main camp. Sure, he’d put himself in the situation; sure, it was a good learning experience which would likely cause him to plan more in the future; and, sure, he hadn’t actually asked her to save him, seeming to prefer her plan of ambushing the undead powers one by one if possible, but he was in immense pain and, if he were in his right mind, he’d be screaming for her.

Still, though, what she was doing, while cold, was more likely to keep him alive.

 

Congratulations!

Your Law Egg of The Reaper has advanced to high grade.

 

Your soul is affected by your understanding of Law.

Base Stats +2, Soul + 6

 

Mila made it to the area where Aalam was held within a minute, being as quiet as possible, but there wasn’t much foliage to hide behind and the two wolves likely had excellent hearing, so she didn’t get close.

Instead, she waited for Aalam to give the signal he was free to move again and only then did she attack.

From her hidden vantage point about twenty meters away, she used Artifact Enhancement to pour over half of her mana and qi into the Twin Dragon’s gun forms, aimed at the two generals, and then, using her Law Egg of Obfuscation to hide the blasts, she fired.

The two shots hit the now making out generals in their heads, very much killing them, and Mila ran forward. At the same time, Aalam used all his strength to slam his back into the two wolves holding him. Mila then shot each of them, already injured from Aalam freezing them earlier, six times each and they went down, thankfully not taking any of Aalam’s limbs with them.

Aalam began trying to take the sword out from his kidney, but Mila quickly stopped him, instead having him sit down crosslegged and focus on healing. He was bleeding from four sets of bite marks and had been stabbed, so he was not ready to move around at all.

Instead of immediately helping him with healing, though, Mila checked the souls of the generals and the two wolves, surprised to find them all filled with lust. Then she felt her own self unconsciously staring at Aalam’s lower region and realized something more than she understood must be going on.

“First,” Nana Xara sent over their bond, “while Aalam’s aura has only half the strength of yours and his control over it is abysmal, he has 36 Law Eggs, 12 of which are peak grade. When it comes to aura being able to affect the souls of others, he’s got you beat.

“Second, and magically more important, he’s been bleeding a lot and Incubus blood is a strong aphrodisiac, even just being smelled. Aalam has maximized the stats for his race, so racial effects like that are also strengthened quite a bit.”

As Nana Xara explained, Mila touched the two wolves and used her control over her aura to absorb the power of their souls into herself. Invisible energy flowed out of them and entered into her body using her aura as a conduit, the process almost as natural as breathing, and Mila felt satiated.

Then she sent that power over her bond with Aalam and helped him pull out the sword, the energy from the Shadow Wolves’ souls helping Aalam heal at a visible rate.

Mila then pulled out the souls of the two generals as well and she realized their souls held significantly more energy than the wolves had, over three dozen wolves not being able to match one Nightwalker.

 

You have met the criteria to advance your race to F rank

You have the following three options:

 

Succubus (F-Uncommon)

The weakest variety of an incarnation of Lust, but an incarnation of Lust nonetheless, one which eats souls.

 

Racial Abilities: 2

No limits, but a higher chance for charm and disguise related abilities

 

Max stats:

Strength: 1728

Agility: 1728

Endurance: 1944

Toughness: 1728

Vitality: 1944

Perception: 2160

Magic: 2304

Spirit: 2592

Soul: 3024

Aura: 2304

Attunement: 2304

Luck: 2160

 

Stat Growth Per Level:

Strength: 2

Agility: 2

Endurance: 4

Toughness: 2

Vitality: 4

Perception: 6

Magic: 7

Spirit: 8

Soul: 10

Aura: 0

Attunement: 0

Luck: 0

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Advancement Criteria:

Eat an E rank or higher soul of a sentient creature consumed by lust at the time of death.

 

Requirements:

Current race is Succubus (G-Uncommon)

 

 

Shadow Succubus (F-Rare)

An incarnation of lust born from shadows, one which eats souls.

 

Racial Abilities: 2

No limits, but a higher chance for charm, disguise, and shadow related abilities

 

Max stats:

Strength: 2160

Agility: 2592

Endurance: 2376

Toughness: 1944

Vitality: 2376

Perception: 2592

Magic: 2736

Spirit: 3024

Soul: 3240

Aura: 2736

Attunement: 2736

Luck: 2592

 

Stat Growth Per Level:

Strength: 3

Agility: 6

Endurance: 4

Toughness: 3

Vitality: 4

Perception: 6

Magic: 8

Spirit: 9

Soul: 11

Aura: 0

Attunement: 0

Luck: 0

 

Advancement Criteria:

Kill 3 E rank beings without them ever realizing they are in danger.

Eat an E rank or higher soul of a sentient creature consumed by lust at the time of death.

 

Requirements:

Current race is Succubus (G-Uncommon), has killed at least 3 F rank beings without them ever realizing they were in danger

 

 

Diabolic Succubus (F-Rare)

An incarnation of lust and a natural born devil, one which eats souls.

 

Racial Abilities: 2

No limits, but a higher chance for charm, disguise, and contract related abilities

 

Max stats:

Strength: 2016

Agility: 2016

Endurance: 2232

Toughness: 2016

Vitality: 2232

Perception: 2448

Magic: 2880

Spirit: 3384

Soul: 3816

Aura: 2736

Attunement: 2736

Luck: 2592

 

Stat Growth Per Level:

Strength: 2

Agility: 2

Endurance: 4

Toughness: 2

Vitality: 4

Perception: 6

Magic: 9

Spirit: 10

Soul: 15

Aura: 0

Attunement: 0

Luck: 0

 

Advancement Criteria:

Destroy the souls of 3 E rank beings through them breaking the terms of a contract.

Eat an E rank or higher soul of a sentient creature consumed by lust at the time of death.

 

Requirements:

Current race is Succubus (G-Uncommon), has destroyed the souls of at least 3 F rank beings through them breaking the terms of a contract

 

 

Will you advance to a Succubus (F-Uncommon), a Shadow Succubus (F-Rare), or a Diabolic Succubus (F-Rare)?

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