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

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

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

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

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