While staring at the sleeping demoness, Vale thought a particular word:
'Legion'
Instantly, a new window popped up.
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Champions:
[Salome]
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Workers: [0]
Warriors: [0]
Archers: [0]
Mages: [0]
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He focused on Salome's name.
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Name: [Salome]
Title: [Succubi Queen]
Aspect: [Succubus]
Class: [Demonic]
Core Rank: [Nascent] - (0/600)
Loyalty: [100/100]
Traits: [Charm] [Quillstorm] [Slight Masochist] [Rudimentary Shapeshifter] [Vitality Drain]
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Salome's status was much the same as his own, so he could quickly digest the information and delve into the nuances, reading all the descriptions.
From what he could tell…
'The Demonic class is lower than Vice, but not by too much.'
However, he wasn't truly aware of the class's true meaning or importance just yet.
As for her Traits…
She possessed the same Charm one as he, which was described verbatim. She also possessed a similar aura and was able to raise a follower of her own.
This trait was probably the thing responsible for making him give in to his lust so easily when she first appeared.
'Mhm. Definitely.'
As for the other traits…
Slight Masochist was just what one would expect. But how did that function as a Trait? Well, getting hit would empower her a bit.
There was also the side effect of her liking pain, albeit just a small amount.
Vale sighed now that he was privy to this information. He knew damn well if he fell under her spell again, he wouldn't be able to hold back from fulfilling that hidden desire of hers. Even if it was a bit kinky and…
'Why am I even thinking about this shit? Did she wake up?'
Vale looked over and took notice of her beautiful body. She has slender curves and a perfect hourglass figure. Her supple breasts were on the larger end of what was endowed naturally.
Yet, she was still asleep.
'Maybe the Trait works while sleeping…'
Vale shook his head, then focused and set out to accomplish all the essential prerequisites before he could let himself calm down.
As for the Quillstorm Trait…
'It's surprisingly normal.'
By normal, Vale meant that it was unrelated to lust.
It allowed her to enchant, separate and control the quills attached to her wings telepathically.
'At last! This foreign world has deigned to surround me with something unrelated to lust! Something practical!'
The shapeshifter Trait was also described verbatim.
Then, the last Trait, Vitality Drain, was something of an enigma.
The description detailed that she was able to drain the essence of people.
How exactly? The benefit for her?
Vale didn't know. The knowledge wasn't given to him yet again and the description retained its usual vagueness.
'Store'
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Recruitment:
Champion: [20 Satisfaction]
Worker: [1 Aether]
Warrior: [10 Aether]
Archer: [15 Aether]
Mage: [100 Aether]
Random: [25 Aether]
Items:
Starter Kit: [10 Aether]
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[Congratulations!]
'20…'
Vale had slightly guessed it would happen, but the cost for Champions seemed to increase. By how much each time, he didn't know yet, having only done it once. But, for this time at least, it doubled.
In any case, his true objective lay within the second half of the message the system relayed to him before he was distracted.
'The Starter Kit.'
[Would you like to purchase the Starter Kit for 10 Aether? Y/N?]
"Yes…"
Although he still hadn't figured out what Aether was.
'I have a sneaking suspicion I'll find out very soon.'
Approximately in about two hours and twenty minutes.
'…'
Vale waited around while looking left and right, then remembered where Salome had appeared.
Slowly, he made his way over to the floating pink sphere and gently touched it. A fraction of a second later, he was spat out into the white void.
Vale looked around, confused, before spotting a multitude of items lying on the floor. He picked himself up off the 'ground' and slowly made his way over and bent down.
He picked up the nearest item.
'Underwear?'
Vale curiously slid them on.
[You have equipped a N-rank item: UnderWhere]
'Seriously…'
The next item was a pendant.
He awkwardly undid the chain and then re-clipped it around his neck.
[You have equipped SSR-rank item: Nexus of Beginnings]
Unlike when he put on the underwear, he felt the pendant's innate ability…
'Spatial storage.'
He could store a small number of items inside, which he could retrieve at a moment's notice.
Vale quickly went through the rest of the starter kit, either equipping or storing the items inside the pendant.
Vale hummed a little tune in his head.
'One of these things is not like the others.'
In the end, he got a pickaxe that could remodel the dungeon, pants, socks, boots, bracers, and…
'A whip?'
The whip at least didn't seem to be catered toward anything sexual. In fact, the razors on its end looked quite lethal. It seems like it was put in here to serve as a true weapon, not some tool for sick twisted pleasure.
But…
'No food. No water. No shirt. Seriously?'
Well, the bracers could expand into thin plate armor, but that seemed to exhaust his power source rather quickly.
'Am I just supposed to starve to death or die of thirst?'
Or…
'Do I even need to eat or drink?'
He was 'Lust' incarnate…
Why would he be subject to other desires?
Vale sighed at the very fact that, from what he's seen of this twisted world, his conjecture might be correct.
After all, while it wasn't entirely gone, his desire to find a way home and reunite with his 'mothers' at the brothel was most definitely muddled and being suppressed.
The supreme carnal desire was stomping all over his free will.
It was a weird, disgusting feeling knowing he was at the mercy of a foreign, vicious and untamed vice, yet being unable to do a thing about it.
At least his desire to survive was still strong.
'But that's because one has to be alive to indulge in lust, isn't it?'
[Congratulations on completing your tasks!]
[Now, take the remaining time to continue preparing for the challengers!]