All Chapters of The Devil's Lust System: Chapter 171
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The True Enemy: The Arbiters
"I can't feel my legs," Yoana added, smiling contentedly.Desmond looked up at the sky. He felt calm. His energy had stabilized. He was ready for the next war.However, that calm did not last long."Ahem."A dry cough sounded from the dark corner of the room.Desmond froze. Nova and Yoana immediately grabbed whatever was nearby to cover their naked bodies.Desmond sat up slowly. He turned toward the sound.His father was awake. The old man was sitting against the wall, staring at the three of them with a flat expression that was hard to read. His face was still pale, but his eyes... his eyes were sharp."Sorry to interrupt your recharging ritual," his father said, his voice raspy but clear. "But I think you should put your pants on now, Son.""Dad..." Desmond wasn't ashamed, but he felt incredibly awkward. "You've been awake this whole time?""Long enough to know that your taste in women is as complicated as mine," his father tried to stand, leaning against the wall.Desmond immediate
Demon King Awakening
Mid-air, Desmond’s body transformed.The horns on his head elongated, spiraling backward into a majestic crown of bone. His skin hardened, turning into obsidian-like armor. His wings doubled in span, now etched with pulsating, glowing runes.And in his chest... a hollow formed. There, the Nexus Core nestled, spinning, becoming the new heart of the Demon King.Desmond opened his eyes.His pupils were no longer red or purple.His eyes were the Cosmos. Pitch black, containing thousands of stars.[FINAL EVOLUTION COMPLETE. STATUS: DEMON KING OF CALAMITY.]Desmond set his foot back on the ground. But the earth didn't crack. The earth submitted. Black grass and crystal flowers instantly bloomed where he trod.He stared at the Giant Arbiter in the distance."Hey, Eraser," Desmond's voice was calm, yet it resonated across dimensions, echoing in the heavens and earth. "You looking for an anomaly?"Desmo
The Battle of the Wasteland
"DELETE."Three cosmic voices sounded in unison. Three pillars of Null light shot from the eyes of the giant Arbiters. The beams erased the air they passed through, creating a terrifying vacuum path straight to Desmond's heart.Desmond didn't move. He didn't dodge. He simply raised his left hand lazily."Who do you think I am? Trash file?"Desmond stomped his foot on the Wasteland mud.[SKILL: PRIMAL SANDSTORM (MODIFIED) - METAL GRAVEYARD]The ground around Desmond exploded. But it wasn't sand rising. Thousands of tons of scrap metal, car wrecks, building skeletons, plane remnants, lifted into the air, spinning into a dense tornado of iron.BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!The erasure beams slammed into the metal storm. Steel of any thickness evaporated instantly upon contact, but the volume of trash was overwhelming. Desmond used the entire contents of this landfill as an eternal shield."Your turn, Egypt," Desmond whispered.He clenched his left fist. The iron tornado stopped spinning, then solidi
Dimensional Duel
"SABRUN! CHANNEL EVERYTHING TO THE RIGHT HAND!"Desmond rocketed vertically like a purple comet, challenging the giant hand descending from the transparent sky. The Grand Arbiter's index finger alone was larger than the Helix Tower that had just collapsed."Warning! The density of the object above us is infinite! Boss, that’s not matter! That is the Sky falling!""Then let me hold up the sky!"Desmond slammed his fist into the tip of the giant index finger.CRACK-BOOOOM!The sound of the impact wasn't heard by the ears, but felt in the bones. A spherical shockwave exploded at the point of impact, sweeping away clouds, acid rain, and city debris within a fifty-kilometer radius.Down below, the trash mountain of the Wasteland where Nova and his father took shelter was flattened instantly. Desmond's golden protective dome shook violently, cracking here and there as it withstood atmospheric pressure suddenly equivalent
The Father's Sacrifice
"Don't play the hero, Dad! You couldn't even stand straight five minutes ago!"Desmond tried to swat his father's hand away, but strangely, the astral projection's grip felt as hard as steel. In front of them, the damaged Grand Arbiter's Core grew larger, shifting from white to an unstable blood-red. The sound of dimensional fractures screamed like thousands of glass panes shattering at once."Warning! Critical! Core Meltdown in 10 seconds! Blast radius: ONE DIMENSION! Boss, if that goes off here, Neo-Eden, Earth, and all the history you wrote will return a 'Not Found' error!""Move!" Desmond shoved his father, his Void wings flapping hard, preparing to dive into the apocalyptic sphere. "I'm the only one with Black Hole energy! I can swallow it!""You can swallow it," his Father's voice was calm, too calm amidst the storm of armageddon. "But you will die, Desmond. Your body is at its limit. Swallowing an explosion of that magnitude will shred your soul until there is nothing left to r
The Silence After the Storm
The morning sun illuminated the ravaged Wasteland with warm, ironic orange light. The sky above Neo-Eden was clean for the first time in twenty years, as if the universe were smiling mockingly over a graveyard.Desmond landed softly beside the fading golden protective dome. The Void wings on his back retracted, sinking back into his skin, leaving his shoulders feeling heavy.He didn't look at the city ruins. He didn't look at Nova or Yoana.His eyes were locked on one spot on the ground.His father's real body lay there. Silent. Stiff."Dad?" Desmond called out. His voice was hoarse, cracking at the end.No answer. The thin chest didn't rise or fall. The red eyes that had looked at him with pride just moments ago were now shut tight, as if he were merely sleeping.Desmond fell to his knees beside the body. He reached out, touching his father's cheek.Cold. The cold of death. The Architect's heart had stopped bea
An Expired Ticket Home
"Coordinates locked. Earth. Home."Desmond's voice echoed softly before being swallowed by a deafening sonic boom. The rainbow light wrapping his body slowly faded, replaced by a familiar sensation of falling. Not falling into the Void, but falling into heavy, humid gravity that smelled of exhaust fumes.SPLASH!Desmond landed on both feet on wet asphalt. Dirty water sprayed in all directions.Rain.Heavy, torrential rain, accompanied by lightning tearing across the gray sky."Cough..." Desmond hacked, inhaling air thick with carbon pollution.He looked at his hands. The obsidian skin and golden veins slowly faded, retreating into his pores, leaving behind the tanned skin of an ordinary human. The horns on his head vanished. His wings sank back into his back.He had returned to being Edi."Sabrun, status?" Desmond whispered internally."Stealth Mode: Active. All Admin powers are hidden in the background. Physically, you are now just an ordinary 25-year-old human with the stamina of an
A Stranger's Face in the Mirror
"Twenty years... and all I got was a slammed door."Desmond kicked an empty soda can lying on the wet pavement. The can shot like a bullet, hitting a metal trash bin ten meters away with a loud CLANG.The rain on the outskirts of Neo-Chicago felt cold, but not as cold as Sella's gaze earlier.Desmond walked aimlessly. His Judean robe, magically modified to look like a shabby trench coat, was now soaked through. Passersby, night shift workers, pizza delivery drones, and teenagers with cybernetic eyes avoided him as if he carried a plague."Sabrun. Financial status?""Big fat zero, Boss. Your Roman gold coins won't work in vending machines. And you have no Citizen ID. In the eyes of this city's system, you are a ghost. No data, no human rights.""A ghost, huh?" Desmond stopped in front of a closed electronics store window.The glass reflected his image. He saw a tall, built man with wet black hair covering his forehead, a
The Snake Nightclub
"This is the end of the line, Sir. I don't dare go any deeper."The automated taxi driver stopped his vehicle at the district border. Ahead, a giant neon gate reading [THE ZONE: ANOMALY SECTOR] flickered in the rain. Beyond that gate, ordinary human laws did not apply. It was the territory of creatures whose DNA was mixed with beasts or other elements."Thanks for the ride," Desmond tossed a digital credit chip onto the dashboard. He opened the door, letting the noise of heavy bass music and the scent of wild pheromones welcome him."Be careful, Sir," the driver warned before quickly rolling up the window. "In there, pure humans are on the dinner menu."Desmond smiled thinly, adjusting the collar of his expensive suit."I'm not a pure human, driver," Desmond murmured as the taxi sped away. "And I'm hungry."Desmond walked casually through the gate. The atmosphere inside The Zone was vastly different from the quiet outskirts earlier. Here, the streets were packed. Strange creatures pas
The Madam and the Stray Cat
"Silence," Amel hissed. Her voice shifted, a subtle serpentine sibilance escaping her lips.Amel stood up. She walked to the edge of the glass balcony, looking down at the sea of swaying bodies.Her sharp eyes scanned the crowd, searching for the source of that strange feeling. A feeling that should have died twenty years ago.And her gaze landed on Desmond.The man in the black suit stood still amidst the chaos, staring right back at her. His face was unfamiliar. Too handsome. Too perfect. Amel was certain she had never seen this man before.But the Feeling ...Amel's heart hammered against her ribs. Her forked tongue darted out slightly, tasting the air.That scent... The smell of ozone and rain... Edi's scent?"Impossible," Amel whispered. "Edi is dead."But the man smiled. A thin smile, tilting to the left. The exact same smile Edi used to give before doing something stupid.Amel felt her k