All Chapters of Lustbound: The System Of Temptation: Chapter 301
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Gritting his teeth, Greg forced himself to ignore the feelings coming from his earth connection. It wasn't by any means easy, but Greg already had almost a full year of training by his familiar to withstand the extremes of any sensation. Except for the days he'd either been trying to assimilate a beast core and the month and a half that he'd been passed out after his ascension to the first tier, every other night had been spent in willpower training. The sensations from his earth connection had ambushed him, catching him unprepared, hence the puking. Clenching his hands into tight fists, however, Greg stood back and forced his expression into a neutral one. "The land under us is corrupted!" He stated by way of explanation. Greg went on to lay out all that he was feeling through his earth connection and his conclusion that they would have to cleanse the whole mountain lest it all become unlivable within a year or two. "Can you manage?" The healer calmly questioned. His teacher's whole
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Apart from a few armors to keep him safe and a significant pile of potions to help with everything from healing to increasing his speed of movement and reflexes, all of Greg's preparations had been geared toward one who would be fighting from a distance. Flying knives, flying swords, bows, and a whole array of arrows with various effects, items like alchemical bombs that he could lob from a distance, and so on. Greg would help in staving off whatever trouble came their way by attacking from a distance. As soon as that failed and whatever they were fighting tried to get up close and personal, then he was to fall back and let the healer take over. The reason Greg had gone for the sword and not a flying knife was because of a warning he'd gotten from both his teacher and Olivia. "Controlling flying weapons requires a lot of mental energy. Do it for a few minutes and you probably won't notice the difference. Do it for two hours straight, and you start to get a headache. Keep at it for f
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The first thing Olivia had emphasized when it came to combat, was efficiency. Never do in two moves what you could do in one! This had been the expression she'd used to explain this concept, but watching her, the depth of this simple concept of efficiency was put on full display. Olivia didn't make any move she didn't have to. She didn't evade any more than she had to, something that always left anyone observing feel like she was only avoiding disaster by the skin of her teeth. And yet, when one looked at the calm but cold and calculating look in her eyes, they'd immediately recognize that none of what she was doing was a fluke. Her eyes were constantly studying each of the creatures around her, making minute adjustments to her stance that always ensured that with only minimal movements, none of the attacks against her succeeded. In the same vein, Olivia didn't make any attacks that didn't end with a dead monster. Some of the attacks were obvious like a dagger through the eye, one to
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This wasn't because they were inordinately strong or anything, she also didn't have any affinity with Earth that would allow them to do this. Instead, it all came down to the material used. Deurite is a unique type of rock. Unique in that, it's damn near unbreakable by all means except one. The Rock is so hard that it doesn't even chip when struck by a pickax. And yet, cover your finger in mana and you can push it right through the rock like a hot knife through butter! Which was exactly what his teacher's clones were doing! "Aren't you afraid that they might not be as accurate writing out those runes by hand?" Greg asked. "There isn't a single rune that they are using that I haven't written and rewritten over a thousand times. Forward, backward, diagonally, upside down, on a surface that is bulging outward, on one collapsing inward, even on irregular surfaces I have done it all. I know each one of them by heart. Why do you think I am so insistent you write properly?" She asked, di
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Despite the ardor with which they fought, or the focus with which his teacher's clones worked to set up the formation, none of them had actually seen the doorway between the two realms. This is probably how it had remained hidden for so long. There were no phenomenological signs that there was anything different here compared to anywhere else on the mountain, apart from the high concentration of abyssal mana. The way the healer had mapped the exact location of the convergence was simple but effective. Using the spot where they landed as the beginning point, she had walked forward towards where the abyssal mana felt thickest and then past that to the other side. While she was in the zone of the convergence, the compass would point in all directions around her. As soon as she moved past the zone, the compass would point fixedly behind her.The moment this happened, she would stop and mark the point. Returning to the midpoint between where she started and where she stopped, she'd turn an
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Greg could feel his heart clench and a deep foreboding feeling overcame him at her words. It hadn't, by any means, been easy to deal with the relentless assault of the beasts that had been endlessly attacking them as they tried to set up the formations. Still, even at the worst of it, Greg hadn't been able to shake the feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop! Bad as the beast tide had been, they'd been gradually grinding away at it. Eventually, it would have either broken or been completely decimated by them. In other words, it had been far too weak to be an attack by fate. Looking at the look of struggle that was on the healer's face, the same wasn't true of what was about to come out of that doorway. Greg didn't harbor any false hope that the healer would be able to close the door before whatever foe this was, made it out. Right from the start, Greg had suspected that the hand of fate was behind this. With this last pronouncement from the healer, all doubt was gone. A conver
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Greg would have protested that they were wasting precious seconds, but with her speed, he knew that she would set up whatever trap she wished to and be back even before their new flying vessel had fully taken form within his storage ring. Besides, Greg understood all too well the importance of hitting first and making that first hit count. Whatever it was that was coming through the crumbling bridge, Greg didn't want to face it while it was in peak form. If they injured it with this first salvo, even if it was just preventing it from being able to chase after them, then it'd be worth it. He could thus raise no objections to Olivia's plan. Despite being a mana construct, Olivia easily traversed through the formation placing the various bombs and potion vials in such a way that, no matter where their visitor landed, he was sure to get a nasty surprise. The reason Olivia could traverse through the formation was because it was designed to deprive an area of ambient mana. Structured mana
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Mimicking her, Greg pressed the mana crystal against his chest on the light cuirass. Despite letting go, the mana crystal remained attached to his chest powering his wings. The difference was immediate as the powerful draw on his mana any time he moved the wings was gone. Greg cast one last glance around at the remaining beasts around them. Greg knew that fighting them would have been just as hard if not worse than it had been before their numbers were drastically cut down. Luckily for them, they all seemed to be held in a trance, their gaze fixed on the tear in the air. Greg couldn't help the suspicion that they would all be under the command of the being coming through the convergence. A fact that made him want to eliminate them to the last. Unfortunately for him, death was fast approaching. Olivia turned into a mote of light and sunk into Greg's glabella even as he turned his back to the convergence and flapped his wings.BOOM!Several things happened in the moment right after. Fir
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There was no explaining the abomination that was chasing after them. From what little he had seen, there was a mass of tentacles, several clawed hands, and even more terrifying maws, none of which was arranged in a manner that made any anatomical or even morphological sense. Two wings made of flesh, large enough to give shade to a hundred people were what allowed this monstrosity to keep up with them despite their blistering speed. But even more than the morphological paradox that was the creature's physical appearance, it was the mystical aspects of the being that made Greg abandon any desire to get a better look at the being. Foulness! Madness! corruption! contamination! Given how fast he rolled, Greg only got to see the creature for less than a second, and yet, his very sanity had started fraying from just that small glimpse. It was as if the thing behind him was the very embodiment of madness. To merely look upon it would be relinquishing any hold one had on sanity. This wasn't
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Greg's body slammed into the ground before bouncing for a distance like a rock bounced across the surface of a lake. When he finally came to a stop, almost twenty meters away from where he first landed, Greg could only count himself lucky for the fact that he was still breathing. His whole body was in agony, not to mention the fact that he could barely breathe after having the wind knocked out of him several times over. Even as he opened and closed his mouth, uselessly trying to draw in air like a fish out of water, Greg could only thank his lucky stars that he even felt anything at all, especially from his extremities. He wasn't a doctor, but in his layman's opinion, that at least meant that he hadn't suffered any serious injuries to his spine. He might not feel like moving anything at the moment, but at least the option remained open. Part of how Greg had armed himself in preparation for the convergence was by buying several protective charms and items from the Magic shop. The real