Regardless of how each dive went, however, Greg would be completely out of it afterward. The toll that each dungeon run would take on him would leave him feeling like someone had taken a sledgehammer to the back of his head. A nasty headache, nausea, lightheadedness, deep fatigue, and so on. These were symptoms that Greg had grown used to experiencing over the past month. Greg had taken to diving into the dungeons only after he was on his bed. That way, when he came out, he would just allow himself to drift off to sleep. "Extend my sincerest apologies to your father," Greg calmly spoke after a while of silence. Insufferable as the girl may be, her father was still the Town-head, there was no need to antagonize the man unnecessarily. His family was still part of the town, and Greg didn't wish to complicate their lives by making enemies left, right, and center. If a simple apology is all it takes to avoid future troubles, then Greg was more than happy to oblige. "I've been completely

The man eyed Greg with a critical eye for a few long moments. Greg could tell that he was trying to make him squirm and perhaps reveal anything he might have been hiding. The effect, however, was ruined by the fact that the man couldn't keep from casting leering glances in Olivia's direction every few seconds. "I'll escort you up to the house," The man finally asserted, acting as if Greg was some sort of security risk. Greg knew that if he'd been on his own, the man wouldn't have bothered. The only reason he wished to escort them was because he wished to ogle Olivia even more. Greg didn't mind. With a smile, he and Olivia moved past the guard and started toward the Town-head's house. Greg noted the diverse reactions he got from the three hosts standing by the door. From the town head, there was a look of surprise as he took in the young beauty that Greg had brought to the dinner. This was followed by a scowl as if Greg had somehow thrown a wrench into some plan he was hatching. The m

There was a bit of silence as Greg digested all the information he'd just received, trying to parse it out and make sense of it all. In the end, a weak smile crossed his lips as he mentally spoke. "So, I'm guessing that it wasn't just the title items to blame for how quickly she was turned on by me," Greg stated in a self-deprecating tone as he remembered his first encounter with the woman. 'I didn't think you'd work it out so quickly,' Olivia replied through their link, sounding amused. 'While the title items you had on helped the process along, the nymph bloodline by nature draws her to the strongest males around her that she can seduce without compromising her safety. Like it or not, as a student to a seventh-tier mage you are a very enticing target in her eyes. Not only are you growing stronger with each day of your training, but through your connection to the healer. You command a lot of authority in the town. Her bloodline will irresistibly draw her to you whether she likes it

The arrangement he'd just set up was, one part, a way to get rid of her for most of the day and one part an experiment. Seeing as Greg spent most of his day learning under the healer, he didn't need her hanging around the two of them. Not only because the healer had her own secrets to keep but also because Greg would be stymied in his attempts to seduce the healer, seeing as she had an image to uphold. The experimental part of this arrangement had to do with his innate title AROUSING. Greg never wore any of his title items whenever he went to see the healer. The only item he wore other than his clothes was the wooden mask that the town carpenter had made for him. And while the thing hid most of the damage, it didn't hide the fact that he was disfigured. Without any of the title items to build on the effect of the AROUSING title, he wanted to see how long it would take for the title to work. How long it would take to break through the will of someone who not only thought herself abov

Understanding dawned on Greg as he remembered the fact that his soul bow and the title AROUSING, had been bought from the system because Greg didn't pick them directly. While the system would give him one free pick out of a list of rewards, Greg could still get the other rewards by buying them. 'Wait, but won't it be like the last time?' Greg found himself asking through their link. 'Won't lust points be among the possible rewards?' He clarified his query. 'It may very well be,' Olivia replied, passing a shrug through their mental connection. 'But I don't have any control or foreknowledge of what the system might choose to give you as possible rewards. However, there is no harm in being prepared. That way if lust points are among the presented rewards, you get to keep more of your earned points. And if not, you're not caught flatfooted and can still get the other rewards. On the other hand, if you go in with no lust points, banking on the probability of getting lust points as one of