I don't know if you have seen it. But I used a grammar checker, to corrige the precedent chapter. They should have far less error. Thank you all for your support and good reading.
Oh and when I still have you. Do want R-18 chapter? Honestly I don't particularly want to make them, but maybe it will be a good experience? To leave my comfort zone and test thing.
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Valentine made a dramatic pause, at which I rolled my eyes.
'Seriously, just give me a name already.' If his objective was to annoy me, he succeeded.
"Your name from now on will be Lilith, the ancestor of all succubus."
As he finally said my name, I felt power submerging me, less than what I felt during my evolutions but still enough for me to lose control of my magic for a moment.
It was normal, after all, even if the fight against Ashley didn't last long, it was still pretty intense, and I was exhausted.
Skills of ultra-speed regeneration acquired.
Skills mental manipulation aquired.
Fusing mental manipulation and emotional aura.
Intrinsic skill emotion aura has been strengthened.
It took me a minute to regain control of all my power. When I finished, I didn't have time to look at my new abilities before Valentine attracted my attention by signaling me to follow him.
Deciding that I could look at my abilities later, I followed him. "Now that you have a name, you are free to do what you want. You can rest here for some time while waiting for the other members of your race to reach maturity, on the condition that you stop your mental attack on my personnel. You can also go around the various kingdoms and see the world. I'll send you a thought communication when you brethren have all reached maturity for you to take them with you. So what will you do?"
I took a moment to think about my option. If I rest here, I can train my ability without risk, and there will be people to teach me techniques and magic.
On the other hand, exploring the world will permit me to get real experience, and I could continue my game on a larger scale, even causing large-scale war between kingdoms.
The thought was certainly alluring, but I decided against it. I am immortal now, so I could wait some years here to sharpen my abilities and get some subordinates to help me in my game.
I told Valentine that I will stay here for now, and he seemed to not really care about what I choose to do. Well, in all cases he can get data from me, either from the conflicts he expects me to cause outside or from the training I will do here.
He showed me my room. It had several luxurious couches to relax on, a table for eating that could permit a dozen people to sit together without problem, and a bedroom with an adjacent bathroom that was separated by a door from the rest of the room, with a bed big enough for several people to sleep on.
"I would assign you an assistant. If you need anything, just ask them. The training room is always open, and you can wander around all you want. I have registered you in the system, so you can go practically anywhere. Just use some of your magic on the door, and it will open. Now for the rules, if you can't open a door, don't try to force it, and don't kill anyone. Accidents during training are fine, but don't do it on purpose, please. That will be all. I'll leave you now. I have things to do."
He left my room, and I sat on one of the couches and looked at my new abilities in more detail, first the one I gained after my evolution.
I already know the abilities of Analyze, it seems to function the best on individuals weaker than me or inanimate objects.
Through acceleration could speed up my thoughts by around 500 times.
For chant annulment I don't really see the use. I always used magic without chanting, not that I had a choice, try to speak while being submerged in liquids. But I think it increased the effect of my spell to the same level it would have been with a chant, but it's not a big increase.
The resistances seemed interesting, especially spiritual attack resistance. By looking at it, I understood why during the battle, no matter the damage I took, my body didn't seem to have any problem moving at max efficiency.
After my evolution, my body seems to have become semi-spiritual.Contrary to before, when it was semi-material. They might seem to be the same thing, but a semi-material body means that my body doesn't need food or sleep to function, but it still relies on organs and muscles.
But with a semi-spiritual body, my body consists of energy, and I can survive attacks that should be mortal for someone normal and don't really need the muscle in my body for it to function. It'll only start to be a problem if I lose an entire limb.
Now for the skill I gained during my fight. I could tell that it was far more powerful than any other skills I acquired before. If the other skills I have seem to be skills anyone could get if they fulfilled the condition, this one was unique, like its name said, like it was made especially for me.
My unique skills Joy had several abilities. First, joyful boost: it offers me a boost in power, depending on how much joy I feel at the moment, up to 50 percent of my base strength.
That's why I suddenly had a big increase in power during the fight. And it also augmented my regeneration, that's why all my wounds disappeared by the end of the fight.
The second ability, false happiness, permits my attack to pass the defense of my enemies by manipulating their perception.
Basically my attack appears to be inoffensive and even beneficial. Pushing them to drop their guard and ignore the attack even if it is a mortal one, it even fonction with barrier.
And the final ability is joy induction. I can imbue in all my attacks an effect that will create a sense of joy. Stunning my enemy, or even killing them, by destroying their ego due to too much happiness if they are too weak, it also makes them more susceptible to mental attack.
It is by far my most powerful skill, and it synergizes perfectly with my other skills. Even more now that the emotional aura has been strengthened by mental manipulation, making it able to control others more easily now. And ultra-speed regeneration is boosted by the regeneration of Joy.
I passed hours, thinking of different combinations between my abilities, when my thoughts were interrupted by someone opening the door of my room.
A woman with blond hair and green eyes in a black secretary outfit entered my room. "Hello, Lady Lilith. Master Valentine assigned me as your secre...ta...ry..." She stopped to talk and widened her eyes, her mouth still open, fixing me without blinking like I would disappear if she closed her eyes. She was blushing, and her whole face had become crimson.
I could feel her lust for me. I know she will be my secretary for the next few years, so I guess I could have some fun with her.
She was not bad physically. By the standard of my previous world, she could be a model or a Hollywood star, but the beauty standards have drastically augmented in this world. She was smaller than me, around 1.70 m (5 foot 6), and her skin was white with a light tan, like she had passed a day at the beach. Her hair reached the middle of her back, and her face was extremely cute when she was embarrassed, like now.
I get up from my couch and slowly approach her. Her gaze never left me, wandering around my body. When I was close enough to her that our bodies practically touched each other, I bent down so that my face was on the same level as hers, my lips centimeters apart from her own.
"~So what is your name?~" That seemed to wake her from her trance. She took a step back and responded to me in the most serious tone she could manage in her embarrassed state.
"M...my name is Elysia. I... I will be your secretary from now on. It...it is a pleasure to meet you, Miss...Lilith." Her face was still flushed, and she was even more flustered than before.
I took a step forward, and she started to back off from me, but she was stopped by the door that had automatically closed. I put my face right beside her and whispered in her ear.
"You have a beautiful name. We will be together for some time, so I hope you will take care of me, ~Elysia~." That seemed to be too much for her. She slid down against the wall and sat down, panting.
It seems that the next years will be interesting. Elysia is fun to tease, and she is strong, her emotions are of good quality.
I turn my back to her and go back to my couch while making sure to sway my hips for Elysia to see. I lie down on the couch and look at Elysia, who is still sitting on the floor, her gaze never having left me since she entered my room. She was rubbing her thighs together and panting, trying to calm down her excitement in vain.
"I am hungry. Can you go search for something to eat? Oh, and take something for you too. We can learn to know each other over a meal." She took some time to understand what I said, and then she rushed to exit the room, like she was running away from it.
These next years promise to be more interesting than anticipated.
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5 years later
I woke up on my bed after a good, refreshing night's sleep. I technically didn't need to, but I still liked to sleep from time to time.
I sat up from my bed, looking at my side at the still sleeping Elysia. She was naked and was holding my arm between her chest. A smile was still on her face from our activities last night.
It took me a week after our first meeting for Elysia to become more than my secretary. She practically lives in my room now, and I am quite satisfied with her. She is a great secretary. She always goes above and beyond for me, and she is also good in bed. That permits me to release some mental pressure from my training and also enjoy a good meal.
I created some clothes with material creation and left the bedroom to eat something before training. I don't need to, but they have some delicious food here, notably, dragon steak that is delicious. As I go to fetch some from the space storage of my room, that allows me to stock food for as long as I like, as time is stopped inside.
I noticed a young girl around 16 years old with pink hair sleeping on one of my couches, with some saliva trickling from her mouth onto the couch.
I approached her and tenderly caressed her cheek. "You have your own room, Sherry, so why do you always end up in mine?"
My word seemed to wake her up as she opened her eyes and looked at me with a big smile on her face. "Good morning, Lady Lilith, Did you sleep well?"
"Yes, I did. Thank you for asking, Sherry, but why are you?" I asked in a calm and motherly tone.
"I feel more relaxed here. The room has your odor and aura all over it. It's the best place to sleep." She said still with a big smile on her face.
I heard someone knocking at the door and a young female voice speaking with a tone of respect. "Sorry to disturb you, Lady Lilith, but did you see Sherry? She is not in her room, and we are waiting for her to go eat."
"Come inside, Wendy. Sherry is here. She slept on my couch again." The door opened, and a blue-haired girl entered. She had a serious look on her face, and even if she looked to be 16, her expression made her look more mature. Immediately after entering, her gaze fell on Sherry.
"How many times did I tell you to not go in Lady Lilith's room? It's disrespectful, and you make all of us look bad." She looked angry and exasperated, as the situation has it had happened many times already.
"It's fine, Wendy. She didn't do anything bad, and her sleeping face is adorable, don't you think?"
"But Lady Lilith! She is clearly being disrespectful to you, you need to be more severe with her, or she will never learn!"
"You are just jealous because I got to sleep in Lady Lilith's room and not you." Sherry stuck her tongue out at Wendy, making her more angry than she already was. "You disrespectful brat, I will show you!"
Will these two start bickering... Again. I took a seat at the table and ate my meal, a dragon steak mixed with the emotion of love from a mother to her child.
It's something I discovered during these 5 years. One day Valentine asked me what emotion tastes like. I wasn't really able to describe it, but it gave the idea to use emotion devourer in combination with the mental manipulation from emotion aura to give emotion a physical form that can be stocked.
Apparently for other races it just momentarily makes them experience the emotion, but for succubus it permits us to enjoy the emotion later, and the boost it gives is the same as if the emotion were eaten directly.
Now back to the two girls having a heated argument in front of me. There are two of the three succubi to first reach maturity, and as their ancestor, it is natural for me to give them a name.
Honestly, it's not a big deal. They are so much weaker than me that I will barely sense a loss in strength if I name the 300 succubi that are here in one go, and as of now I have only named a hundred of them. The others are still in their capsules maturing.
Only the first three that matured managed to evolve into greater succubus for now, and that despite me naming all of them. It seems that to evolve, succubi need emotion more than power, and the three that first exited their capsule are also the most talented and rapid when it comes to digesting emotion, after me, of course, but I don't count. At that point, it's not digestion but more like putting food in a black hole.
As I continue to look at the two girls still bickering. I spot a little white-haired girl approaching me. She looks timid, and in appearance, she looks like a 13-year-old girl with long white hair that reaches her lower back and an innocent-looking face that seems almost angelic.
"What do you want, Shiro?"
"Hmm, can...can I taste a bit of your steak, Mama? It…it smells so good." I look at the little angel and set her on a chair beside me and I cut a piece of my steak and give it to Shiro.
She is the third one to reach maturity, even if it doesn't look like it. She is the only one of the succubus to call me something other than Lady Lilith, but I gave her my permission to do so, as it is cute and perfectly fits her appearance and personality.
"Say Ahhh."
"Humm...Ahh."
I fed her the piece of my steak and looked at her eye lighting up in delight at the taste.
I must admit it is a novel feeling to care about someone else. Don't get your expectations too high. I still have very limited emotion, practically only limited to joy when I eat the emotion of others. But I have a special connection with the other members of my race, especially those three.
I feel a faint love for them, like the love you would feel for a little animal like a cat or a dog. It may not be much for others, but it is the most love I have ever felt in my life, and I think I like this new emotion of mine.
After finishing my meal and feeding another piece to Shiro, I clapped my hand, getting the attention of everyone present, including Elysia, who woke up and dressed in her secretary outfit.
"Let's go to the training ground. Your sisters should already be there." I got up from my chair and started going to the training ground, fully knowing the others would follow me.
As we neared our destination, I heard a commotion. When we finally got to our destination, I saw that there was a circle of people in the center of the room.
The people here were familiar with me due to the fact that I was the strongest person here and had a reputation for making every opponent that defied me in a duel suffer until they were unconscious.
It's not my fault, okay? I run out of good adversaries that could put on a fight one year after leaving my capsule, and so I can't reach the state where every emotion tastes better, so for the one that challenges me, I make them suffer until they are unconscious for still enjoying a good meal.
When they sensed my presence, they immediately let me pass, and in the center of the circle of people there was Valentine, beside him stood a girl around 14 years old in appearance with a striking resemblance to him, with silver hair reaching her shoulder and heterochromia, with one of her eyes crimson and the other sky blue.
"You are finally here, Lilith. Meet my finest creation and daughter, Luminous Twilight Valentine. Now I want you to fight her, since you are the only one here capable of matching her power. That will permit her to familiarize herself with her power and abilities."
I half listened to what he said, more focused on the girls apparently named Luminous.
I was fascinated by her. It was not her appearance that made me like that, even if she was beautiful, but her emotion behind her seemingly stoic face.
I could sense it. She had an incredible amount of lust inside her. Overwhelming all the other emotion in the room, I licked my lips and advanced toward her.
'Bon appétit.'