All Chapters of Lustbound: The System Of Temptation: Chapter 341
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The Old man's eyes narrowed dangerously at him. 'A rabid dog is nipping at our heels, Greg. There is only one response to that if you don't want to find a chunk of your calf missing,' He stated with cold finality. 'I don't even have enough lust points to buy all four remaining items, I'll just not buy the Mana sight ability and that will be that,' He declared, not moved by Morpheus's argument. 'And that will be enough to tell her all she needs to know!' Came the cold reply from Morpheus. 'When someone holds a knife to your throat, the answer isn't to step back and hope it stops there!' He growled 'No, the answer is to let another fellow use half your lifespan just to send a message," Greg countered in a voice dripping with sarcasm. The Old man's head tilted to the side amusement once again marring his features. Somehow, the amusement was even worse than when he'd merely been glaring. The expression on his face wasn't one of happiness or humor, instead, there was dark amusement
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There was silence from Morpheus as he regarded Greg for a long while. His reasoning about Olivia's true self and the motivation behind her actions was sound. Even his proposition of giving up half his lifespan to secure the other half, while painful, was also sound. Greg could thus understand why the being seemed confused by his choice not to go with his plan. 'You don't strike me as the kind to just roll over and die, Greg. So, why don't we skip the charade and you tell me what you want,' Morpheus finally spoke, giving up the attempt to decipher Greg's thought process. 'You're absolutely right, Morpheus,' Greg declared. 'Weak as I am, I'm little more than a pawn in this game. But if any of you think that you are going to sacrifice me without losing a pound of flesh too, then you are sorely mistaken,' Greg growled, not hiding the raging indignation in his voice. "We both know that whatever plans the Primordial has in store for you, it more than likely has very little to do with find
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Greg didn't miss the way the old man's knuckles whitened as he clenched his hands into tight fists. 'Three,' He growled. 'As you currently are, you don't have even a sliver of a chance of getting more than the promised single rank from the life order promotion elixir. But with my help, you can be certain of rising at least three ranks in your life order! Now do you agree? Or do we await death?' Morpheus questioned. By the dangerous glint in Morpheus's eyes, Greg could see that if he turned him down, Morpheus would probably endeavor to make their last moments as excruciatingly torturous as possible. Knowing that he had pushed far enough, Greg simply nodded in return. It was only a second later that Greg noticed what he'd just done and realized that his body was no longer paralyzed. Once again sending mana to his eyes, Greg turned his gaze downward to his body trying to get a picture of what had been done to his spirit body. Understanding what he was after, Morpheus impatiently helped
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Greg could feel that some strange power had been interlaced into the voice making it so that even just hearing it would be enough to destroy the minds of lesser beings. If Greg wasn't already being protected by Morpheus from these effects, his mind would have already been ravaged beyond repair. "Why not come down and finish what you started instead of watching through this... thing!" Morpheus questioned, a deceptively cordial smile playing across Greg's features. It took a few seconds for Greg to process Morpheus's words, but then it suddenly dawned on him. It wasn't that Olivia was indifferent to the attack that she had just suffered, instead, it was that her true self had taken control of this clone almost as soon as the attack had been deployed. And while Olivia the avatar might have reacted defensively or even counterattacked, the true Olivia was more interested in watching to see what he would do next. From Morpheus's words, Greg could tell that this wasn't a descent as had been
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Got you!" Judging by the way her eyes went wide with both shock and panic, Olivia's true self felt the connection form at the same time that Greg did. He didn't know how, but it would seem that all this time, Morpheus hadn't just been talking. Using the connection between Olivia's true self and her clone, he somehow followed it back to the true Olivia, creating a connection of his own that Olivia's true self couldn't as easily cut. All this time that he'd been exchanging threats with her, had been a ruse. A magician's misdirection. While one hand dazzled his audience, the other was busy with the actual trick. This left Greg questioning, had Morpheus been smiling because the observation that he didn't care about Greg was true? Or was it because he had succeeded in his underhanded play? Greg immediately felt the tug on the new connection that had formed between Olivia's true self and them as the Primordial tried to break it. To her credit, the connection did start to break. The spee
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When Morpheus turned to once again look in Olivia's direction, a smile crossed Greg's features. Greg doubted that Olivia's true self was aware that she was projecting her emotions through her clone. This was the only explanation Greg could come up with as he saw no benefit for the Primordial in making her avatar appear white as a sheet of paper. "Y... you know the language of creation?" The words left Olivia's lips in a stammer. Greg doubted that the Primordial had ever been forced to stammer in all her life. There was, however, no faking the bone-deep fear that seemed to have taken hold of her. "Interesting, I wouldn't expect a child like you to recognize it," Morpheus answered. Greg knew that Olivia's true self was probably tens of thousands of years old, as such, it felt odd to have her called a child. If he was to be believed, however, Morpheus's jail sentence alone had been more than seven hundred thousand years. And so, in a way, it did make sense that he'd think of the Primor
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There was a look of shock on Olivia's face as if she hadn't expected Morpheus to so easily see through her. This, however, was quickly followed by acceptance as if she should have expected no less from the being before her. There was increased reverence in her eyes for Morpheus. On his part, Morpheus just smiled like an elder would to a child. "I've seen enough attempts both successful and unsuccessful to easily work out what this is. You've reached the limit of your growth and power as a Primordial and are unable to grow in power aren't you?" He posed rhetorically. Without awaiting an answer, he continued "Yours is among the more creative approaches to breaking through the barrier to become a deity that I've seen, I admit. But you should already know the odds of success in such an endeavor," Morpheus stated "Where one succeeds, ten thousand fail," Olivia's true self said. Greg could immediately tell that these weren't her own words. Instead, they felt like something that she'd hear
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The idea that they were always solemn, serious, and thoughtful beings was just a projection of people onto them. Yes, they could be all those things, but they could also just as easily act in the most irrational and immature ways. The only thing that could be said about such beings is that they were powerful, anything else was purely up to the whims of those beings at the time. "Would you have stopped her if she tried to kill me?" Greg found himself asking after a while of silence had passed between them. There was a long silence before Morpheus spoke up. "Your words were right, Greg. Pawn you may be, but you were my mother's pawn first. The reason the Primordial came after us this time is because of my actions during your ascension. If the Primordial killed you and I did nothing, the fault for your death would have been laid at my feet. Even if I somehow survived the Primordial, I would have had to answer to my mother. I already went against her once before with the help of seven
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Having morphed into a literal clown mask, Greg couldn't tell whether Morpheus was actually smiling at him or not. There was, however, approval in his voice as he answered. "I didn't expect you to understand my little ruse so quickly. You may yet join the ranks of intelligent beings," he declared, causing Greg to roll his eyes at the return jab. "Back when I was young, at about ten thousand years or so, Mother tried to teach me the language of creation. Unfortunately, I was too stupid at the time to understand the value of what she was offering. I only attained a very basic understanding of it before giving it up. I can use it to do fancy tricks like restoring a mortal's finger. When it comes to truly powerful beings like the Primordial and other beings at her level, however, my knowledge of the language of creation is far too rudimentary to affect them in any real way," he confessed.Greg was left in a daze, not sure what to make of the idea that ten thousand years of age was young. D
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Unbeknownst to most of them, at tier five, when mages begin to comprehend the various aspects and integrate them into their understanding of magic, they are stepping into a new life order. From simple mortals, they become a Demi. Understanding and integrating realm laws serves two primary functions. Firstly, any attack imbued with one's aspect will always be more powerful than an attack without. Secondly, and even more importantly, The deeper one's understanding of a given law, the more immune one becomes to its effects. For example, a fire mage that has a deep comprehension of the aspect of heat, could easily take a bath in lava and not feel a thing." "But while the demi are a step above mortal, they are by no means invincible. The fire mage may not be burned by the lava, but if they aren't careful, they could easily drown in it. In other words, while they have grasped a corner of the tapestry of laws that govern the realm, they are by no means immune to the rest. The goal of all De