At seven, the reinforcement from the Guild Alliance had arrived. The subjugation team was expecting the city to be devastated by then and being intercepted on the road but surprisingly they were able to travel unhindered.
The city was still standing solid and not even a single building had been damaged. Hell, even the unawakened people who would always be turned into a mountain of corpses during a massive invasion were safe and sound. They were all within their house making the street clear from any traffic.
The hundred man-strong subjugation team consisting of the most powerful players and the strongest player leading the team entered the barricaded area of city square without any event. Seeing the massive Dimensional Gate that dwarfed whatever they faced in the past gave them a chill that ran down their spine.
When the local guilds higher-ups got the news about their arrival they hurriedly went to greet them. The subjugation team members didn't want to hear their bootlicking pleasantries and neither did the team leader. So he ordered them to disclose everything that had transpired till their arrival. The local guilds unhesitatingly briefed them about the situation on the ground and the conclusion left them more vigilant.
In short, no invader appeared. Yet!
°°°°
Blue prepared himself to use Rules of Anomaly bloodline ability on himself to counter the incoming mental attack but the next set of information left him baffled.
Ding!
[Detected that host has suspicion towards the system]
Ding!
[The hidden conditions for system binding will be revealed to dispel host's doubts]
[System Binding Hidden Conditions: 6/6
Origin Spark Fragment ownership (✓)
Blood from the owner (✓)
Semen from the owner (✓)
Knowledge about System Avatar (✓)
Aether from any Outer Area (✓)
Solving the cube puzzle (✓)]
After comprehending the information he instead got more doubts but what made him exclaim in amazement was that those strange methods he used back in Abyss actually fulfilled two of the conditions. However he didn't understand what an Origin Spark Fragment was? Something about a System Avatar? And how did he give it aether from an Outer Area when he never went there in his life?
More importantly, why is he here? No, where is he? And did this "system" degrade his bloodline abilities proficiency along with erasing many of those powerful abilities at his peak? If so then why did it do it? If not then who did it? Also what's up with his subspace appearing out of nowhere!?
Even more so, how was his soul able to get inside Blue's dead body? Shouldn't it have exploded from the sheer mismatch of an abyss spawn's soul on a mortal human's body? If he wasn't doing a temporary possession with many restrictions to be compatible with the shell then did it become his true body from now on? If so then what happened to his original body? If not then how should he get out of this situation?
Before he could form more doubts in his mind the bell rang again and this time with no intention to dispel any of those doubts.
Ding!
[System activation conditions will now be revealed]
[System Activation Conditions: 0/2
Siphon the energy from Seven Baneful Blemishes of others - 0/7
Wrath - 0%
Lust - 0%
Envy - 0%
Sloth - 0%
Gluttony - 0%
Pride - 0%
Greed - 0%
Successfully evolve the system - (?)]
Ding!
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[System evolution requirements will now be revealed]
[System Evolution Requirements: 0/2
Find the woman with Blessed Womb physique in the city (?)
Gain acknowledgement from her without using any bloodline ability (?)]
Ding!
[System can now be accessed to only check the progress by focusing on host's mind]
[Upon successful evolution and activation system can be more useful to the host]
The flood of information finally stopped with that last message. Blue had a blank expression on his face as he digested all that information. After a very long time he heaved a tired sigh as he made his decision.
"Since it refused to give me any answers at this moment then I can only wait for it to do so in the future. The priority now is to get this thing evolved and activated then maybe it will resolve some of my doubts. After all, when it apparently 'binded' with me it was able to detect my suspicion towards it and then it took the initiative to reveal the hidden conditions to me."
Blue touched the left earring and started to ponder about how to get this started.
"Seven Baneful Blemishes. Let's start with that. This orphanage has close to 400 people in it. As long as I don't overexert myself I should be able to handle them. Further testing is required to see how the system will siphon the energy and what actions won't be counted as one of the baneful blemishes. That being said, the Blessed Womb physique is apparently in the city. Hmm, I can't be careless about this. Since this system didn't bother giving me a time limit then I would hold on till energy siphoning is completed. I also want to test the power of this system. Will the one with Blessed Womb physique leave the city before I make my move or will she remain within the city according to the description of the system. It is worth it to figure this point out."
He then decided to rest and strengthen his mental strength limit. If he wanted to manipulate close to 400 people then his current state was too weak to even consider. He first needed to keep increasing his mental strength limit to better use the bloodline abilities.
Thus he began his grind.
The very next day he decided to make full use of his bloodline of lust incubating abyss spawn's specific abilities. He went to the director's office and ordered him to send one male and female staff on the first floor of the basement.
The director did as he ordered and brought the pair of staff. Without wasting any time he used Perception Dissonance at full strength on himself to become imperceptible as he used Cognitive Distortion and Memory Shifting on the pair. They now had the memory of being lovers. He then used Lustful Murmur ability on them to give them many daring ideas to do in this workplace. Sufficient to say the director exited the room at the same time Blue used Lustful Murmur. It provided courage to go along with their reckless ideas. Director also gave them an hour's time limit before he returned to check if they had properly sorted out all the alchemy equipment in the room.
Now that they were alone in the room, the Lustful Murmur's effect intensified. However they still had some reservation to take the final step. Blue used Lust Desire Amplification ability on them thus giving them the final push. The pair couldn't hold back anymore and started touching each other intimately.
Two minutes later, they were half naked and making out while touching each other's private parts to excite themselves. Blue checked the system to monitor the progress on lust. It showed 0.04% now. Satisfied that system didn't reject the energy even though he used some of his bloodline abilities to cut corners he decided to make the pair get to the main part.
Blue used Rules of Lust ability to set the rule for their lustful behaviors as not liking foreplay and but likes to smash first. Thus the pair quickly abandoned the foreplay and started fornicating. Blue observed the progress and saw it steadily increasing. He thought about an idea and left the room. When he checked the progress again, it had halted. After he entered back inside, the progress resumed at the previous pace.
"Ah, so it is when I can perceive them then the system will be able to siphon the energy."
After confirming another limit of this system he observed the mating pair. The guy was thrusting from behind the girl and had an expression that he was close to ejaculating. And sure enough the guy couldn't hold back. Only about ten minutes into the smashing the guy had been defeated.
"Tsk! Tsk! You have to be joking."
Blue said in disdain as he checked the progress which got significantly halted. The girl's lust desire was still there but the guy seemed to have entered sage mode. Sighing heavily he used Lust Transfer ability on the pair. The girl's lust decreased by half and the guy's lust increased with the added amount. The guy's sword stood up ready to attack again.
Thus a new round of fornication began.
But around eight minutes in, the guy's sword had been crippled. The girl seemed to be dissatisfied and started stroking the guy's manhood to get it going again. Alas the guy seemed to have no energy left to spare.
Blue checked the progress. The progress on lust had reached 1.17% only. Seeing that this guy was becoming an annoyance he used Mind Corruption and Soul Corruption on the guy. Though using any of these two would increase his mental burden quite a bit, especially the later one, he still decided to use two of them on this guy. The continuous mental strength limit strengthening had helped his current self to be a bit more indulgent.
After becoming corrupted, the guy was ordered by him to smash the girl without climaxing till the hour-long time limit. Thus the guy started to go at it with newfound vigor much to the girl's delight.
Mind Corruption and Soul Corruption ability actually goes hand in hand as without succeeding in Mind Corruption the Soul Corruption can't be used. A corruptor is able to send telepathic commands to the corrupted when they are in the perception range. Of course, with increased proficiency an abyss spawn could do a whole lot more than this basic stuff.
However, Blue had no choice but to be satisfied with this basic stuff now.
As the pair kept fornicating for about a quarter of an hour with reckless abandon, he checked the progress again. It showed 1.17%, same as earlier. He frowned as he didn't expect the system to stop energy siphoning.
"Why didn't it go up? Wait, is it because the guy is corrupted? Then what about the girl's though… it seems if even one of the partners is corrupted then either one won't be counted."
Blue nodded his head with a satisfied expression. Though progress had been halted he was still happy that he was able to figure out this restriction at this early stage.
He then stopped the duo by ordering the corrupted to get back to his work and using the combo of Cognitive Distortion and Memory Shifting on the girl. She resumed her usual work after she took a shower and conveniently forgot what happened here.
Blue went back to his room as he started planning for the most efficient way to achieve his objectives.