[Features: Sex, litrpg, cunnilingus]
Life was, heavy sometimes. Perhaps not all misery was made equal though but hell, what did I know? All I knew was that I was broke. That wasn't the real issue I was having though. My name is Marcus Phoenix and my life just wasn't really going anywhere. Somewhere along the way I had just, lost all motivation and all desires. It started easily enough, about the same as anyone else I guess.
I started working. No one really wants to but we all do it. But then you end up in a dead end job. No career, no long term goals, no, no anything. You just whittle your time away. You spend your money on some stuff, sure, but it's all just kinda a pointless road down to the void ain't it? So I started drinking at first but it never really agreed to me, not like when I really started drinking anyway. The first time I woke up with a splitting migraine that even god would need an aspirin for, I knew that this wasn't it.
Then I moved on. Tried to dive even more into my games and movies and TV shows. My hobbies and interests. And sure, I got addicted, I mindlessly played games I couldn't remember, I bought all the latest merchandise and posters and other junk and stuff. I watched more TV and played more MMO's than anyone I knew. That shaved off a good few years, filling the void in me. But then it started to grow dull one day and it never stopped growing dull. I still enjoyed it but the misery had returned, that same emptiness was back.
Other vices all started to get their own turns. Smoking, a few drugs, and my most recent one was sex. Paying escorts for their time. This emptiness had mixed with the pleasure though. It all felt fun and pointless, meaningless, and it all had mixed together into some sort of horrible soup. It started affecting work, until now I only had a part time job and even then, I was hemorrhaging money from bills and still paying for women.
In short, I was depressed.
And the reason why was rather simple. There just was no, no point to it all. I wanted, I just wanted more in life. Something I could take and grow and do more with it. My thoughts had recently started to surround getting into the porn industry myself, simply because at least the sex hadn't lost any of its flavor yet. It just hadn't been more than the crushing despair I felt day to day.
It was a quiet walk home. I had just gotten from a particularly lousy blowjob. Well, sometimes you really do get what you pay for but most women at least made the bare effort. It had left me in a thoroughly meditative mood, thinking about my life and my future.
Which is why I almost cracked my head on the sidewalk when a giant blue screen appeared in front of me.
[Greetings mortal. You have unlocked the Saikō-shin-kei through your past actions. With this power granted by the Great Kami, may you grow upon your Path]
My first thought as I landed my ass on the sidewalk was simple.
"Is that Japanese?"
My second thought was more immediately useful.
"What the fuck is this?!"
I stared, disbelieving, at whatever this weird floating screen was. Apparently, I had unlocked something from something called a Kami? Wasn't that a God?
I tried to touch the box in front of me and it disappeared and was replaced by a different one. It was simple but no less overwhelming.
[Self/Mantras/Ascension
Level: 1
Experience: 0/100
Alterations:
Form: 8
Mind: 7
Spirit: 5]
"What... the hell... is this?"
My mind bucked, trying to tell me that surely, I had gone insane. I pinched myself. Ow. Well, probably not asleep at least. Had I finally broken and lost all my marbles, was this the end of Marcus?
No, insanity, hopefully, usually isn't so... visceral. And hell, even if I was insane... at least this was something?
I stared, frowning at the screen in front of me. Level and experience was obvious enough, like a video game. The others weren't. Alterations was blank, and I had numbers attached to other things. If mind, was, well, my mind then... was form my body? And spirit was, my soul? Or was it something else?
I felt a headache coming on already and I didn't need that. I looked at the top where I saw Mantra and Ascension and mentally focused on Mantra. If this really was like a game then...
[Self/Mantras/Ascension
The Holy Dao shall advance via the Path.
The Holy Dao shall advance via consumption of Essence.
The Holy Dao shall advance via the touch of Flesh.]
.........what. What? No seriously, come on, there's not at least some kinda user manual here?! What does any of that even mean? What's the holy dao? What the hell does, does any of this mean? Path, Essence, Flesh?
I sat on the sidewalk and rubbed my head, the headache now fully formed.
Alright, so, I have a system. A... I frowned. I popped out my phone and googled "Saikō-shin-kei". There wasn't a direct translation but after sitting on the cold ground for a while, it very roughly translated to "Divine Sex System." So....
Like a lightning bolt, all of the details came together. Holy Dao, Path, consumption of essence, touch of flesh, all of it crystallized into a singular answer.
"Holy shit, did I unlock a way to level up from sex?"
Before my mind could take all of that and run with it, I needed to look at the next... tab? Whatever. I was jumping to conclusions. Surely, it wasn't...
[Self/Mantras/Ascension
Complete the trials and rise from mortality.
Through neither words nor action, allow yourself to be the culmination of the boundless pleasure of man.
Through neither want nor desire, suffer the boundless pleasure of man.
Through neither self nor ego, unravel society through the boundless pleasure of man.]
Well. Good news/bad news. On one hand, I am now absolutely positive I have received a way to level up through sex. The bad news is that I don't understand how to 'ascend' in any way whatsoever. Jesus Christ, what even are these? I need to seriously pick these apart.
So, neither words nor actions means I can't do anything to cause it. Simple enough. But what on earth does 'be the culmination of the boundless pleasure of man' mean? God I hope it means man in the "human" sense... I guess it means have lots of sex? Boundless huh? Maybe a crazy amount of sex...
Suffering the boundless pleasure of man is pretty simple then. No thank you. I'm perfectly happy not being raped, at all, let alone "boundless"-ly.
I don't understand the last one at all.
With a thought, I close the screen and just blink. For a moment, I almost can delude myself into thinking it was all a dream, a fake reality, some crazy insanity that I cooked up. But now, I can almost feel it. I focus and it reappears in front of me.
This Sex System... I wonder if this was what I had been missing? I have no intention of trying to ascend to be some sort of Sex god but, if this is real, even a little bit real, well it certainly doesn't feel empty. The idea of leveling up and increasing my body, mind, and even my soul.... That sounds amazing.
The pursuit of that nebulous thing called power had always been, well, nebulous. You could get richer, physically stronger, but it was always kinda vague. And almost pointless. So what if you can lift five or ten extra pounds? So what if you can now buy one thing more over the other? It's all just a pointless existence. But this? This was real power. Defined, structured. Even if I never completed the weird Ascension stuff, if I reached level 100, what would I be capable of doing? What heights could I reach? I felt like I had found my hedonistic treadmill again. I was a hopeless addict for desire and I desired to advance like never before. Even more than the power, maybe that was why I had been given this. The human desire to advance, even if it all turned out to be pointless.
I was level 1. And I wanted to be a higher level.
Even before everything else, that was the one thing that kept coming back to me. It was both irksome and sweet. The desire to make progress now was so strong. The only problem was...
[Self/Mantras/Ascension
The Holy Dao shall advance via the Path.
The Holy Dao shall advance via consumption of Essence.
The Holy Dao shall advance via the touch of Flesh.]
The Path part was vague but I essentially had to have sex and drink cum. Well, hopefully not cum but still. I didn't know how many people I needed to have sex with to advance to level two. I seriously doubted just one person would be enough.
I couldn't help but smirk to myself.
Yeah, I could probably never get enough women in bed to advance if I had to do it the natural way. But whoever made this system, or whatever kami had given it to me, I had the distinct feeling that they had never heard of a credit card before.
A plan was already forming in my mind. It wasn't a difficult plan but as I thought more and more about Essence, I refined it over and over again. This might actually be fun.
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