Author's note.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Hi Everyone, hope you've been enjoying the story so far. I've put my heart into this story and every time you guys write to tell me how much you enjoy it, it really makes my day. So a big thanks to all of you, especially those who take the time to comment or email me.
Now, the thing I wish to announce both good news and bad news, in a sense.
The good news - I've just finished Book one of this series! Woohoo!!! Yes, After almost a year and a half, the first arc of this story is completed. Yay me! The total length is approximately 470K words long, which is way longer than I thought it'd be, but still, I've enjoyed every step of this journey.
The bad news - I will need to take time away from writing to edit this whole thing! The tentative schedule I have in mind is to edit three chapters a day. I might do more on some days, but a minimum of three chapters every single day is what I can currently promise. A total of eighty eight chapters divided by three comes to about 29 days of editing. So, for roughly a month, I will not be posting new chapters on here. Sorry for that.
Now, to address any concerns before they arise.
i). No, I will not be taking the story down off Literotica.
ii) Yes, I will still post chapters weekly after I am done editing.
III). Yes, I'll also post Book Two here on Literotica.
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All Characters in the story are 18 years of age and above...
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Chapter Eighty: Choices...
"Stop!" Came the stern order from Olivia.
Greg, who was already gritting his teeth in exertion, his face beaded with sweat, held the position he was in, barely getting the words out through the strain. "I can hold out a few breaths more," He declared. Despite his determination, however, a swift kick by Olivia to the back of the one leg he was standing on had him almost face-planting on the floor of the cave. Luckily for him, his hands reflexively shot out just in time to keep Greg from finding out if his nose could support his body weight. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" Greg couldn't help but growl at his familiar in anger.
"Keeping you from hurting yourself," Olivia answered him, not the least bit bothered by his flare-up. A sigh left the familiar as she crouched down to his level. "I understand your desire to become stronger, Master. Believe me, nothing would make me happier than to watch you grow more powerful than even your teacher. The harsh reality, however, is that it takes time to reach those heights, and injuring yourself by doing more than your body can handle isn't going to make the process any faster. What you are currently doing is like trying to help a seedling grow faster by pulling it up from the ground. Not only is it not helping you, but if you keep at it, it'll hurt you in the long run," she reasoned with him.
Greg's jaws clenched as he looked away from Olivia. Frustrating as it was to admit, she was right. Greg had advised Shalia not to be too hard on herself over her past mistakes. Instead, she was to learn from them and be better as a result. He, however, was having a hard time abiding by his own advice. Every time he thought to relax and take things easy, he'd remember what it felt like to turn around knowing that he was leaving his teacher for dead. Even now, the feeling left him with a deep hatred for his lack of power. Outside of the times when he was learning with the healer and when he engaged in his more lascivious pursuits, there was always a voice at the back of his mind reminding him that he wasn't yet strong in any real sense of the word. That if he was put back in the situation he'd been in, he'd still have to abandon her to die.
Frustrating as this feeling was, however, Greg wasn't so far gone that he couldn't hear the truth in his familiar's advice. Ardent as his desire to grow stronger was, if he just wrecked his own body in the process, it would be counterproductive. Besides, it wasn't like the familiar had taken it easy on him during this body conditioning session. His body was aching all over from the grueling exercise he'd been put through. Olivia may be asking him not to take it too far, but she hadn't been against upping the ante when Greg had made known his desire to grow stronger faster. Just a week after their fight with the abyssal creature, Greg had been forced to go up from the CONDITIONING BRACELET that made it twice as hard to move around to one that made it three times harder to move any of his muscles. And now, just three weeks later he was wearing one that made it four times harder. Greg had been forced to buy a charm from the Magic shop that would lower his body temperature to keep him from sweating all the time.
Greg shifted into a sitting position in the middle of the cave. This was the cave that belonged to his uncle. After a whole year, they had finally found a use for it. After putting the dark crawler's carapace in a storage ring and airing it out for a few days to rid it of the smell, the cave had become Greg's training ground. His image as the town hero made it impossible for him to train anywhere in town or around it. After all, if people saw just how inept he actually was at fighting, they'd raise questions that he wasn't that interested in answering. While Greg wasn't attached to the glory that this reputation gave him, he also wasn't blind to the benefits it afforded him. Greg didn't know what fantasies of him the women in town had come up with. But with how things had been going, Greg was certain he'd soon be able to clear the mission given by the system when he became an acolyte of lust. It had only been four weeks since the event and yet, the counter on his mission had gone from thirteen to sixty-nine.
His office had become the equivalent of a cheap porn production where everything seemed to be an excuse to get to the sex part of the interaction. Greg had gotten an exercise in seeing how straight a face he could keep when hit with all manner of ridiculous ailments from the women who visited him. The more tame of the women would pretend to feel some discomfort in their breasts and ask him to feel them up to see if he could find the problem. The more daring among them would find ways to draw his attention to their thighs, which they were all too happy to spread even when they were wearing nothing underneath. One bold girl had even complained of a 'fire' inside her pussy that she just couldn't quench. Greg had been all too happy to flood her womb with his seed to help her quench it. Most of these women had other women as their chaperones. In some cases, Greg had been forced to knock out the chaperones using the formations on the seats. But when most of the women chaperones were just as taken by him as the ones in their care, Greg had found himself in the middle of more than a few threesomes.
It took a few seconds for Greg to fully relax and settle his desire to go on training. When he did, he opened his eyes, a resolute look in them as he nodded to his familiar. Several formation plates were already spread out along the edges of the cave in a large circle. The purpose of these was simple, to keep contained any burst of mana or magical resonance that might be generated from what he was about to do. Taking the time to look at the small window at the edge of his vision Greg waited until it enlarged to cover most of his vision before once again looking at the very first page of the system.
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WELCOME TO THE SIXTH SCHOOL!
NAME: Roka.
RANK: Acolyte Of Lust (69/100).
MAGIC POINTS: 6.4M.
LUST POINTS: 35.7M.
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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 straight had been absolute torture, but finally, Greg had managed to see it through.
With a smile Greg couldn't repress, he navigated through the system to the MISSIONS COMPLETED tab and looked at the long list of Feats Of Lust that he had managed to achieve over the last year. The list had grown steadily for most of that time and then rapidly over the last four weeks. After all, this was when Greg finally started to collect his 'payment' from his teacher for the Maelstrom Ascension manual. Also, while the individual women of the town didn't give feats of lust as a result of their low danger rating, the numbers achieved in one small location contributed to a few feats of lust. The last time he'd looked at the list, there had been twenty feats in total. Looking at it now, there were thirty-eight feats.
If Greg wanted, he could merge a list of ten feats involving the healer only. Three things, however, kept Greg from doing so. The first and most obvious was the fact that he didn't have anywhere near the number of lust points he'd need to merge ten of such feats. Just putting together three of her feats had necessitated that Greg save up for months trying to get thirty million lust points together. Ten such feats would require that he get over a hundred million lust points if he didn't want to turn green with regret at having to let go of the rewards that he couldn't purchase. Waiting for the months that it had taken to gather thirty million lust points had already been a trial in itself. Waiting for years to gather a hundred million lust points was just not something Greg could picture himself doing.
Secondly, was the threat to his life from Fate. The options before Greg were essentially two. Either to make do with weaker rewards that could arm him against whatever Fate was certain to throw at him next. Or two, to stay unarmed hoping for a much more powerful reward from the system. Had the recent events not taken place, Greg would have been tempted by the latter proposition. After being chased down and almost killed by an abyssal creature, the equivalent of a fifth-tier mage according to his teacher, Greg wasn't willing to be caught flatfooted again. He'd take what he can get now even if it was just a sword, rather than remain unarmed hoping for a bazooka in the future.
The final reason came from Olivia. In plain words, the reason she believed Greg shouldn't go for merging ten feats involving the healer was because Greg was weak. If the world's sharpest sword were to be placed in the hands of a toddler, it would be just as much a danger to the toddler as it would be to anyone the toddler swung it at. According to her, anything that would cost a hundred million lust points from the system was probably far too powerful for Greg to be able to handle, let alone control at his level of power. Thirty million lust points for a first-tier mage was already pushing it but still manageable. Perhaps later on when he was much more powerful, Greg could go for such powerful rewards. But as of now, whatever he got for a hundred million lust points was just as likely to harm him as it was to help him if he wasn't powerful enough to wield it properly.
Greg's eyes went down the list of feats as he ruminated on a rather important question, what theme did he want his rewards to take? This was something that Olivia explained to him months ago, right after his threesome with the now former Town-head's wife and his daughter. She'd told him that while he'd never be able to determine what rewards the system would give him, he could instead choose the theme that the rewards would take if seven of the ten feats had a common underlying theme.
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THIRTY-EIGHT FEATS OF LUST ACCOMPLISHED.
Ø Brought the Town-head's wife to her first-ever orgasm right under the nose of her husband.
Ø Brought the Town-head's wife to multiple orgasms right under the nose of her husband.
Ø Lost your virginity to Alena.
Ø Took Alena's virginity.
Ø Creampied Alena.
Ø Came on the Town-head's wife right under the nose of her husband.
Ø Creampied the Town-head's wife right under the nose of her husband.
Ø Impregnated the Town-head's wife right under the nose of her husband.
Ø Brought Shalia to orgasm with your words alone.
