Chapter 133
[Dungeon Labyrinth of the Devoured has been cleared]
[Rewards would now be granted]
[Finding a suitable reward for the user at the current moment]
[At the moment, for the user’s necessity, two rewards can be granted]
[One: Entry into the temple of creation]
[Two: Corruption increment of Zara Hector]
[Warning]
[You can only choose one]
[In case the first reward is selected, the user would be teleported to the temple of creation for ten minutes]
[Which reward would you like to choose?]
Now the first reward sounded tempting. If I had to guess, it would be the same place where the children of this world are born.
If I were to choose that as a reward, many problems would be solved. But ten minutes was too short a time to analyze everything fully.
While the philosopher guy couldn’t enter the temple where children are born, I was not him. If I fully put my mind to it, there was no place I couldn’t go. I had the knowledge to even open dimensional tears after all.
Anyway, that was a topic for another time. The reason I wasn’t very convinced of the first reward was that there was something related to the second reward.
It might quicken my entry into the royal palace by a whole month if I manage to increase Zara’s corruption. The system didn’t say how much, but it would still be a lot of progress, considering I couldn’t raise her corruption for the past week.
‘Reward two.’
[Acknowledged]
[Corruption of Zara Hector will randomly increase]
[Corruption +20%]
[Current corruption of Zara Hector: 22%]
[She finds your voice slightly soothing]
The five stages of corruption. Slightly soothing, mildly soothing, soothing, comforting, and suggestive at 100%.
While this could be done anyway by gaining someone’s trust over a long period of time, say ten to twenty years, this skill would shorten that time period by years, down to mere months.
In just a few months, Zara would trust me enough to consider my suggestions first and foremost, and if the situation allowed, maybe even more than her own.
It may not sound like much, but influencing one’s mind enough that they would start to trust you to the point they wouldn’t even trust their whole family was a really big feat.
Of course, if things go wrong, one could go out of one’s mind. That was why I only used corruption on one target at a time, and not more than two to three people in one world at a time.
But it was still too low. Zara would only trust me enough that she would hear me out. It wasn’t to the stage where she would blindly trust me. So until then, I needed to be a subservient servant to the best of my abilities.
“We’re here,” Zara announced once the town was in sight. We entered the town under the astonished eyes of the soldiers, who were most probably taken aback by the lack of our numbers.
If only that were the truth.
“You’re back.” Someone was waiting back at the nobles’ district for us.
“Father.” Zara was also taken aback by Carlson’s appearance. “Why are you here?”
“There has been some development.” Carlson replied before he eyed me and then the rest of the people in our group before he said, “Return to your residences and rest for the night.”
“You follow me.” He said to Zara and turned to walk away in the direction of the original residence of the lord.
His suggestion was followed, and we returned to our homes. Sure, my family’s atmosphere was a little down, and I had to act with them.
“Mother, I think you shouldn’t sleep alone tonight. I will accompany you.” I graciously offered.
“Thanks, Jack,” Rayla replied in a small tone.
Poor woman. I’ll make her forget her husband tonight.
Anyway, I thought about inviting the sisters too, but I wanted to enjoy the widow tonight. I’ll go for the rest of the family later.
A soldier told us that the residence next to the lord’s mansion, where Zara and her family had been staying for the last few weeks, had been vacated, and we could move our stuff there when we wanted to.
We went to our temporary place, and I offered to move everything using my inventory while they rested. Except for the beds in their rooms, in which they were resting, I brought everything else back to our residence.
Rayla was crying when I went to pick up the stuff from her room, and as much as I wanted to console her, I let her mourn Julian for now. I could do at least that much.
Well, considering I was going to fuck her later, I shouldn’t act like a proper human being now.
“We should go now, mother,” I told Rayla once I was done putting everything in place in the other house. Once they were all up, I took the beds and couches as well, storing them in my inventory and going together with all of them to the house.
“Shall we go to sleep now, mother?” I asked Rayla after we ate. The atmosphere was still a little somber, so I didn’t want to just rush into it. Tonight would be the proper roleplay kind of night.
I will make sure to have her so hot and bothered that she would be screaming for me to enter her, and no thought of Julian would be left in her mind.
But…
“The Lady summons you to her residence. Lord Carlson also awaits your presence.” A soldier came by to inform me.
Haa…
Those fucks.
My hot and steamy night with my mother when she had just become a widow.
Fuck those noble bastards.
Well, I was already fucking one of them.
“You should go, Jack. I’m alright.” Rayla said with a forced smile. I guess she thought I was afraid of leaving her alone because of what had happened. Now that I feel guilty about.
“Alright, mother. I shall return soon.”
But…
“We shall be departing for the capital in the morning. Make sure you are ready.”
Fuck…
Fuck!
FUCK!!!
“Yes, my lord.”
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“Hey.”
“What?”
“Do you have to go?”
“What?”
“Relieve yourself. Do you have fecal needs?”
Just say if I have to take a shit, you bastard.
“No.”
“Then why does your face look like that?” Lucas asked.
“Yeah, Jack, why are you like that? Shouldn’t you be happy about this?”
I am happy. My objectives are being cleared faster than I had planned. I’m going to the capital sooner than anticipated, and my objective to enter the royal palace will also be accomplished quickly.
The only problem is…
“Is it because of your father, Jack?” Rayla asked with a down expression.
No.
“It’s alright. Your father would be happy too. We’re going to the capital, all of us. We have advanced in life. He would be very proud of all of you.” Rayla consoled me, but she was very wrong.
I was pissed because the golden time had passed. I wanted to fuck a grieving widow, but I didn’t have enough time. Now she’s not grieving that much anymore, so I can’t recreate a fantasy I once watched in a hentai once.
Haa…
“Yes, mother.”
What else could I say but that? I could only hope there would be another woman in my sights who would lose her husband so I could recreate that fantasy from that masterpiece I once watched as a kid.
Anyway, it all came to be like this…
“Redford has passed away. The priests who tended to him discovered his illness. He managed to keep it a secret, but in the end succumbed to it.”
“While it is not anyone’s fault, the fact that he died on your soil doesn’t look good. His family, especially his brother, is going to use that as an excuse to take over the Redfords’ estate.”
“But the queen has intervened. She states that it wasn’t your fault that this happened. Even still, you are not out of the woods yet, Zara.”
“So it was decided that you and your family will go to the capital and you will serve as the queen’s attendant.”
“You will be provided a sanctuary within the royal palace, so it shouldn’t be a problem for you either.”
Up until that point, it was unrelated to me. It was Zara’s problem. But…
“You shall be coming too. Your power, although strange, has great uses. I can tell Zara’s power has grown a lot in the last few weeks.”
“But what about my family, my lord?” I argued. I knew it was useless, but I was asking that so I could take them with me. Why would a noble care about my family being left behind after all?
“Do not worry about them.” Zara spoke, “I have decided to take your mother as my attendant.”
That’s strange. Oh, right, they were together in the dungeon. Maybe that has something to do with it.
“Understood, my lady. I shall tell everyone to prepare.”
It was alright. There was still some time left, so I could at least do some quickies two to three times. But…
“Good. We have to leave in two cycles, so prepare well and be here in one cycle.”
Fuck this old man.
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Let me know what you think about the development. I didn’t do a smut scene because I wanted to focus on the story a little.
