Soulbound: The System Of Temptation

Chapter Nine : Unexpected Gains 3

The whole process lasted barely fifteen seconds, to Greg, however, it felt like time had stopped. As such, it felt like torture when the healer moved on without so much as a pause. It was an intense moment of pleasure for him but for her just another part of her job. Looking at her straight face, it was clear that there wasn't even the slightest bit of sexual interest in what she had just done. Greg couldn't help but sigh, as he forced himself to ignore the unsatisfied need in him and just let the healer continue with her work. He was tempted to try and push things further. He, however, restrained himself. The danger grades attached to the missions concerning this woman were enough of a restraint on him. He wasn't willing to give up his second chance at life over a handjob.

Soon enough, the healer finished wiping down his body and took up her basin. There was a curious look in her eyes as she paused for a second to analyze his body. "It's not much, but the healing took a little more effect this time," She said. Greg couldn't help but inwardly congratulate himself for not making too drastic a change to the distribution of magical energy. If she could pick up on the ten percent change that he'd made, then a much larger change would have raised questions that he had no answer to. It might just be some grand delusion that he was suffering, but Greg found himself trusting the system's assessment of this healer and how much of a danger she could be. Until he was certain that the system was a figment of his imagination, he'd take its warnings seriously. "Keep fighting," The healer said as with a wave of her hand she pulled the covers back over him before turning around and walking out of the room.

Barely a second after the door to the room was closed, Greg found himself looking at the stamp-sized screen at the edge of his vision. Before long, the virtual screen was once again covering the majority of his vision. Greg clicked on the missions button and was sent to the page with all the mission tabs. A new, tenth tab had appeared with the label 'MISSIONS COMPLETED'. Greg had expected to have completed about four, maybe five, missions. He was, however, surprised to find a list of over ten different missions each glowing in golden letters that the system deemed completed. The order in which the completed missions were arranged was based on the arrangements of the mission tabs. So basic missions were at the top of the list and Milestone missions at the bottom. Also, below each completed mission, except the milestone missions, was a calculation of the total amount of lust points that Greg had earned. When Greg looked at the final tally, his eyes went wide. The entire list of completed missions was as follows;

Ø BASIC: Interact with the healer for five minutes.

Lust points: 8.

Danger Grade: Average (X5 multiplier).

Total lust points: 40.

Ø BASIC: Hold the healer's gaze for ten seconds.

Lust points: 6.

Danger Grade: Average (X5 multiplier).

Total lust points: 30.

Ø BASIC: Make the healer smile.

Lust points: 5.

Danger Grade: Low (X2 multiplier).

Total lust points: 10.

Ø BASIC: Hold the healer's hand for five seconds.

Lust points: 10.

Danger Grade: High (X10 Multiplier)

Total lust points: 100.

Ø ADVANCED: Have an intimate part of your body groped by the healer.

Lust points: 673.

Danger Grade: Suicidal (X100 Multiplier).

Total lust points: 67,300.

Ø ADVANCED: Flash the healer.

Lust points: 470.

Danger Grade: Suicidal (X100 multiplier).

Total lust points: 47,000.

Ø ADVANCED: Get a handjob from the healer.

Lust points: 890.

Danger Grade: Suicidal (X100 multiplier).

Total lust points: 89,000.

Ø DAREDEVIL: Without saying anything, strip naked in front of the healer.

Lust points: 3,964.

Danger Grade: Suicidal (X100 multiplier).

Total lust points: 396,400.

TOTAL LUST POINTS OBTAINED: 599,880.

Greg was just a hundred and twenty points shy of having six hundred thousand lust points! Apart from a few awkward moments here and there, the interaction between him and the healer this time hadn't struck Greg as being that much different from all others. However, from the brief fifteen minutes of interacting with the healer, he'd earned over half a million lust points! Some of the missions like the flashing mission had been expected given that Greg had done it intentionally. Others like the handjob mission were completely unexpected. The healer had simply been diligent in her work, leaving no part of him neglected. Yet to the system, that brief interaction had been enough. 'Seems I don't have to cum for it to qualify as a handjob!' Greg found himself thinking.

Other missions, like holding the healer's hand for five seconds, Greg couldn't even remember doing. Looking back on the whole interaction with the healer, it could only have happened while the healer was wiping him down. For a time, she had taken hold of his hand and raised it so she could wipe down the side of his ribs and armpit. It seems that, even when Greg wasn't actually trying to complete the mission, so long as the deed was done, it would still count as completed.

This, however, wasn't the end of the completed missions list. After the total tally of lust points obtained, the list continued.

Ø MILESTONE: Be groped by one woman.

Reward: a slight increase in women's desire to grope you.

Ø MILESTONE: Flash one woman.

Reward: A slight increase in the allure of your body to women.

Ø MILESTONE: Receive pleasure from one woman's hands.

Reward: A slight increase in the desire of women to pleasure you with their hands.

Greg's brows rose as he read these final three completed missions. Greg had speculated before that, despite not showing any lust points for completing them, milestone missions had to have some kind of reward. Looking at the list before him, that speculation was confirmed. What Greg would have never guessed, however, was that the reward for completing milestone missions would be to make it easier to achieve the same result in the future. Hitting the groping milestone, for example, would make more women tempted to grope him. In other words, milestone missions create a form of positive feedback loop. The more you do the easier it is to keep on doing.

Greg had no way of quantifying what "slight" meant in terms of numbers. However, he didn't have to think about it for long to see how easily it could snowball into something much larger. Say, for example, that slight mean only about ten percent. In a group of a hundred women, that's ten more women that would be tempted to grope him than there were before. And when Greg turned back to the MILESTONE missions tab, he could see that the next target to hit for the missions he'd completed was ten. So, with a group of a hundred women, just a ten percent increase in the temptation to grope him would allow Greg to easily hit the next milestone target. This would in turn make it that much more tempting for more women to grope him!

Greg could feel his cheeks hurt from how much he was grinning at the air. If someone walked in right now, he'd probably look like an idiot, if not a basket case. Still, he couldn't keep himself from grinning as he looked forward to hitting even higher milestones and seeing just how large this snowball could grow. Greg was as yet uncertain what either the magic or the lust points do. He, could, however, see the immediate benefit of the milestone missions. It wasn't anything material or even quantifiable, but somehow, thus far, he liked it even more than the lust points reward.

Speaking of which...

Greg turned back to the original screen that had appeared after the system awakened. It now read:

WELCOME TO THE LUST SCHOOL

NAME: Roka.

RANK: Virgin.

MAGIC POINTS: 77,000.

LUST POINTS: 599,880.