All Chapters of Lustbound: The System Of Temptation: Chapter 211
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Chapter 210
"The obsidian earthmover poses two main threats to you. The first, as it's already demonstrated, is its ability to use the earth below your feet as a weapon. To counter that, we'll be using the Earth-lock formation," She explained as she pulled out a final plate from the storage ring. Unlike the others, the clone that took this plate placed it above the surface right at the center of the clearing, next to where they stood. "As soon as I supply mana to the control plate," She said, placing a foot on this last plate. "Then even a fourth-tier earth mage will have a hard time controlling the earth within the boundaries of the formation. Mages in the third tier and below won't be able to so much as move a mote of dust within the formation boundaries with their magic," She explained. Olivia didn't pause in her motions even as she continued to lay out her plan. While she spoke, she had produced another five discs, only these seemed to be different from the first ones. Like the first set, th
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Greg couldn't exactly remember the context around it, whether it was a movie or just a short clip, but he could remember watching a video in which one person asked another if he knew how to boil a frog. The person asked just shrugged and said to just put it in hot water. The first person, however, shook his head and replies that, it'll just jump out. Instead, you put it in a pot of cold water. Because there is no present danger and the frog can't comprehend the concept of future danger, it won't jump out. After that, you just seal the pot and place it on the fire. By the time the frog realizes that something is wrong, it's already too late! That was the closest explanation that Greg could give of the connection he had to the earth beneath his feet. Even under the pain of torture, if someone were to ask him when it was that this connection had formed, he wouldn't be able to tell. Like the frog in the pot, the change had been so slow and gradual that he probably wouldn't have become aw
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It... it felt unsatisfactory! It was winding back to throw the perfect punch at one's opponent only to get your feet tangled and end up punching air. Greg grit his teeth in frustration, fighting the urge to lash out, to find someone to blame for this outcome. Whether it be himself for not following through on his part of the plan, or the healer giving him a defective token, Greg wanted to vent his displeasure on someone. The only reason he managed to keep control of himself was how pointless it would be. Like the tantrums of a child after they had failed to get their way. Not only would it show immaturity on his part, but worse yet, it wouldn't undo what had already happened. He had fucked up, and that was that! 'Y... you need to run, master!" Greg's self-loathing went up several notches when he heard just how weak even her mental voice was. Still, he couldn't argue with Olivia's recommendation. With the obfuscation amulet, the obsidian earthmover wouldn't be able to detect him ev
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Why would the healer randomly decide to teleport to his location? He hadn't sent any distress signals to her that would cause her to know that he was in danger. And given what he knew of her, it wasn't like she was an idle person. Almost every spare moment she had, she would spend engrossed in one type of experiment or research project or the other. So, it wasn't like she would just randomly decide to teleport over to check on him on a whim or because she had nothing better to do. If she was here, then it was definitely because she knew something was up and had come to his rescue. Greg couldn't help but look at the token on the ground with suspicion. Was she using them to track and spy on him? "H... how did you know about the beast?" Greg did his best to keep his voice level and devoid of any suspicion as he posed the question. Greg didn't want to distrust the healer. Before he jumped to any conclusions, he wanted to get her side of the story. Perhaps there was a logical reason for
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Not that it mattered.There was no doubt in Greg that the beast's fate had been sealed the moment the healer walked into the clearing. He didn't have to wait long for his words to be proven true. Years as a creature that few others were willing to challenge had left the obsidian earthmover too bold for its own good. In the end, it chose to challenge the healer. The last mistake it would ever make in this life. With a deep bellow, the beast aimed its long obsidian horn at the healer and began to charge at her. Greg turned to look at his teacher, curious to see what she would do in response. With her hands behind her back, however, the healer just calmly watched it approach.Owing to its massive size, the beast only needed to take ten steps to cross the distance between them from the other side of the clearing. This short distance, however, might as well have been an impassable chasm for the beast. For reasons that Greg couldn't decipher, it only managed to accelerate in the first four
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The bones in its back legs weren't just broken, it was like a man had placed a biscuit in the palm of his hand and closed it with every bit of strength they could muster. Greg didn't know how, but the healer had made the muscles in the beast's back legs almost double in size and then contract with such force that the bones they were attached to were reduced to mush. The beast was now lying on the ground on its stomach, probably cursing itself for not choosing to run away when it could. "I can make your bones so brittle that the very act of turning your head will break all seven bones in your neck. I can make them so weak that your body weight would be enough to snap them like rotten twigs!" She said, ice in her voice. Over the next hour, Greg went from fearing the obsidian earthmover to pitying the creature as the healer showed him the true horror of a healer who chose to turn their knowledge of the body against it. Her abilities didn't just end at taking control of the beast. Greg w
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Roka... Roka..." A smile crossed Greg's face as his mother's voice roused him from sleep. Given the schedule he maintained since coming to this world, Greg was already an early riser. Ever since the day he gave his mother her first, massage, however, she would come into his room just a minute or two before he usually woke up and pretend to wake him up. Greg knew it was a pretense not because of anything about her behavior but because of the DISCERNING ring. Ever since they had crossed that line into the taboo, rather than try to pull back and go back to the way things were before, his mother had leaned into it fully. She played the role of the innocent mother while Greg was the lecherous son taking advantage of her. Greg didn't know why the fantasy of having her son take advantage of her turned his mother on so much. But so long as they were both happy, he didn't care either way. Opening his eyes to find her seated at the edge of his bed, Greg smiled even as he reached up from under
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It took a second for Greg to realize that while the rest of his body was still frozen, he'd been granted control of his neck and head back once again. Had he been more clear-minded, Greg would have felt a deep chill of fear to note just how much control the healer could exert over his body at a whim. At the time, however, his desire for the beast-core had been warring with his survival instinct, neither one getting the upper hand. In an odd twist, this left him clearheaded enough to know that he needed to be cautious but not enough to leave him paralyzed with fear at the healer's clear displeasure. "Do... do you remember how I was after Olivia's power overflowed and I was affected?" He asked. In reality, it wasn't Olivia's power that had overflowed and caused him to be completely lost in the haze of lust. It was her true self that had been channeled through her avatar, leaving behind an aura of lust that caused Greg to lose all rational thought. His familiar, however, with the tacit
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Greg looked between the three cores for a while. He didn't have to think long. The very fact that he even had to think at all was an answer in itself. As soon as he caught sight of the core from the obsidian earthmover, his body's reaction was immediate and didn't require any conscious thought on his part. With these three cores, while they were each beautiful and mysterious in their own ways, Greg didn't feel himself being drawn to any of them the same way he had been with the earth element core. Shaking his head, Greg replied. "No, nothing," He stated. "So, not only is your attraction specific to the earth element, it's not affected by the tier of the core or rarity of the beast-core if it's not from an earth element beast," She assessed. The researcher in the healer shined through from the simple assessment. Olivia had only suggested testing for different elements and from that simple suggestion, she had thought of other aspects to check for that neither he nor his familiar had e
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Take the skin off, you find the muscles, take that off, you find the organs, take those off you find bones, take them off you find the spirit-body, and right at the core of that is the soul. Now, don't take any of that literally or think that you'll find your spirit body inside your bones just like you'd find marrow. I'm just offering a mental picture to help you understand. The reason you won't leak mana the same way you'd bleed blood from a physical injury is because the physical body is the outer layer, whereas your core and mana pathways are found in the second layer, which is the spirit-body," She laid out."But while these three layers are distinct from each other, they are not separate. Each layer affects the other layers it's in contact with. That's why, if a mage loses a hand, while they may not leak mana from the injury, they also won't be able to cast magic solely with their spirit-body's representation of that hand. At the same time, if that hand is healed and restored, yo