All Chapters of Lustbound: The System Of Temptation: Chapter 331
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Greg's musings came to a stop and his smile faltered as he came to the door to the room where he and Shalia had their workstations. There was a moment of indecision on his face before he resolutely turned, pushed the door open, and walked in. Shalia was at her workstation, a serious expression on her face as she plucked the thorns from a coiling thorn vine inside a basin full of warm water. Unlike several occasions before where the vine would be thrashing around as she plucked the thorns, this time, the warm water made it only twitch slightly every time it lost a thorn. Greg quietly moved to stand next to where she was working but didn't interrupt. Ever since the night of the attack when she lost more than twenty patients, the girl had changed. After hearing about what had happened from Olivia, Greg feared that Shalia would lose all confidence in herself and stop learning under the healer. The opposite, however, turned out to be the case. As soon as the healer was back in town, she
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Once she was done working on the current thorn vine inside the warm water, she pulled it out of the water and carefully laid it out on her workstation, leaving it to slowly dry. It was only then that she turned to him. "Why bore yourself watching me perform these simple tasks," She asked in a genial tone. Greg, however, didn't miss the fact that the small smile on her lips wasn't reflected in her eyes. Ignoring the question, he chose instead to be direct. "I'm worried about you," He said looking deep into her eyes. There was a flicker of emotion in the girl's eyes but it passed too fast for Greg to fully pin it down. "Don't be," She answered in a carefully neutral tone even as she turned back to her workstation. "I am picking up everything rather quickly now that..." "I'm not talking about the damn herbs," Greg cut her off, not allowing her to deflect. "Look at me!" Greg commanded when Shalia started to reach for another thorn vine ready to continue her work. Her hand paused, bu
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Forgiving yourself doesn't mean absolving yourself of all responsibility for what happened. It just means that you can't beat yourself up for eternity for the mistakes you've made. Learn from your mistakes, do everything in your power to do and be better, and then let go of the anger, shame, and guilt. Then and only then, will you be able to walk with your head held high and not feel like a charlatan," Greg laid out in a much softer tone. Hard as he had been on her, Greg knew she was being harder on herself. He was simply trying to show her that learning from her mistakes didn't necessarily need to involve crucifying herself for them as well. "And don't forget, I am always here for you if you need me. I won't lie and tell you that this weight that you now feel will go away any time soon. I'm only saying that you don't have to bear it alone," He stated, hoping she could hear his sincerity. Shalia, whose gaze had remained on the floor all this while, didn't say anything. Instead, she j
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Selecting the new Town-head had been a rather straightforward affair for Greg. After presenting the heads of the Aria and Valla households with an oath-keeper stone each, he had gone on to recite all the pledges to which they would be committing themselves if they wanted to be Town-head. But while the process of getting them to swear the oath was easy, coming up with the oaths themselves was nowhere near as straightforward. Greg was no scholar of history and how governments were set up. And much to his surprise, neither was his teacher or Olivia. Despite her age, his teacher had never involved herself in politics. Her obsession had always been her field of magic. Little beyond that ever caught her interest. The most she knew of such matters was that the strong ruled and the weak obeyed. Olivia, on the other hand, simply told him that she came into existence the day she was bought from the shop, so she couldn't say much on the matter either. In a way, Greg knew this to be true as while
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Stop!" Came the stern order from Olivia.Greg, who was already gritting his teeth in exertion, his face beaded with sweat, held the position he was in, barely getting the words out through the strain. "I can hold out a few breaths more," He declared. Despite his determination, however, a swift kick by Olivia to the back of the one leg he was standing on had him almost face-planting on the floor of the cave. Luckily for him, his hands reflexively shot out just in time to keep Greg from finding out if his nose could support his body weight. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" Greg couldn't help but growl at his familiar in anger."Keeping you from hurting yourself," Olivia answered him, not the least bit bothered by his flare-up. A sigh left the familiar as she crouched down to his level. "I understand your desire to become stronger, Master. Believe me, nothing would make me happier than to watch you grow more powerful than even your teacher. The harsh reality, however, is that
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WELCOME TO THE SIXTH SCHOOL! NAME: Roka. RANK: Acolyte Of Lust (69/100). MAGIC POINTS: 6.4M. LUST POINTS: 35.7M. ------ It gave him a thrill of excitement just to look at the final number, seeing a months-long effort finally come to an end. In truth, Greg had attained his thirty million lust point target a little less than a fortnight before. It had thus taken a herculean amount of willpower and patience to heed his familiar's advice and not immediately cash it all in for rewards from the system. According to Olivia, while they might not know what rewards he would get from the system, they were certain to be powerful. With this in mind, it was therefore rather important that he be in the best possible condition to receive whatever it was. Two weeks ago Greg had still been recovering from the repercussions of handing control of his body over to Morpheus and still in a weakened state, hence the advice to wait. To have such tantalizing rewards dangled over him for almost two weeks
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From what Greg could see of the list there were two main themes he could focus on. One that appealed to him more directly and one that was more expedient. The first focus and the one that sparked the fires of his lust most, was taking other men's women. Several of the women that Greg had slept with were already married women. This was reflected in the fact that a good number of the feats listed, especially those involving the Town-head's wife, had this as the underlying theme. Greg wouldn't object to getting powerful rewards that would help him engage in more of this guilty pleasure of his. On the other hand, several feats involved affecting large groups of people. Be it the feats that involved him bedding fifty women from the same locale, or the ones about arousing large crowds of women in one go. The latter of which had occurred as a result of appearing before the town as a warrior after Olivia had fought off the threat that the town faced, saving a lot of the men in the process.
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Greg was left unsure how to feel. Given that this reward was appearing after merging ten feats with three involving the healer, he knew it had to be good. He, however, didn't have the requisite knowledge that would allow him to understand just how useful or not this would be for him. Still, with five other options yet to be gone over, Greg put aside his questions for now and moved on to the next reward card. On this second card, there seemed to be a depiction of a man with a sphere all around him. Greg couldn't understand what the image was trying to convey until he read the words on the card. LUST AURA.Greg immediately recognized this as the first of the skills that involved affecting large masses of people in one go. He also happened to be familiar with this ability, not because of the description on the card but because more than once, Olivia had activated it with him around and he'd gotten to feel it directly. In much the same way looking at the abyssal creature caused one's sani
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The fifth reward card showed a man reaching through what appeared to be a crack in the air and grabbing something on the other side. PERSONAL POCKET SPACE. A brow arched on Greg's face when he read the words under the image. He knew about storage rings and other devices of that nature, but a storage space that was attached to a certain individual as opposed to an enchanted item was a new one for him. But while it was a new one for him, it didn't take a lot of thinking to understand how this could also be ranked among the other rewards that he'd gotten so far. To begin with, though he was only guessing, Greg doubted that a pocket space attached to an individual as opposed to an item was a vanishingly rare phenomenon. Perhaps the only people who might have something like it would be the rare spatial element mages. And even that, Greg doubted. Even if one didn't consider the convenience of it, the security that it offered was damn near unparalleled. External storage items could either b
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Greg was silent for a long while as he looked at the five items on the screen before him. Much as he logically understood the fact that he couldn't have them all, it was hard to reconcile himself with the idea of letting some of them go. Greg could of course hope that he'd be able to get the options again when he merged another set of feats. He, however, doubted that the system was lying when it said that these were one-time purchases. If Greg missed out on any of them, he probably wouldn't be seeing them ever again. Gritting his teeth, Greg forced himself to look at the options critically. Yes, it would sting to lose two of these epic rewards, but rather than bemoan what was inevitable, he needed to instead focus on picking the best three options of the five presented. Without much hesitation, Greg made the first choice. The reward card with the image of a man reaching his hand through a crack in the air glowed with a golden sheen before vanishing, leaving behind four cards. The pe