CHAPTER 90: LIORA FOUND OUT

"Why is he taking so long? He even ran away last night. Now, he’s busy again."

In a simple, narrow corridor, a tall girl with golden-brown hair and sparkling emerald-green eyes muttered in a low voice, clearly complaining.

’Why do I feel like he’s changed so much? Before, it didn’t take much effort to meet him. He even seemed quite interested... in me. Now...’

Liora bit her soft lips, feeling a little frustrated. She couldn’t understand why Lucien was suddenly so busy.

’He even refused to give me any gold coins. Just when I was this close to purchasing that item for him. If I’m too late, the Golden City might just disappear.’

She thought with a sense of urgency.

Golden City, she just mentioned, was a wandering city within the World of Origin.

It was quite mysterious, and even she didn’t know much about it.

All she knew was that she could enter that city once every five years through the Sylvan Depths Dungeon, and as long as she had something valuable, she could buy some incredible things inside.

That city was a place of gambles and contracts, governed by its own unique mechanism. As long as someone could complete the tasks within its rules, they could obtain anything.

Unfortunately, it only appeared for seven days before disappearing again, and today was the last day.

That’s why she quickly left the room where Seraphine and Cedric were and came to meet Lucien in a hurry.

First, she couldn’t wait any longer. Second, she was too shy to ask Lucien directly for his gold coins in front of his parents.

She couldn’t even tell them the reason, as she was bound by the contracts.

’Sigh... Why do only his gold coins have Karmic Resonance? It just... doesn’t make sense. Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t have asked him little by little.’

She sighed again and walked a little faster, heading toward the meeting room. Since she was in a different corridor, she didn’t run into Garrick or Sera.

’This time, I can’t let him have his way. No matter what, I need at least 1,500 gold coins from him. That way, I can purchase the Baptism Stone for him and complete the contract too.’

Liora thought, biting her lips as various thoughts crossed her mind. Since the day she entered the Golden City, she had already known the World of Origin wasn’t so simple.

While it looked like a disaster, it was also a boon, if only one had the strength and means to claim it. That was a world where anyone with fate could rise to the top, even if their talent was dirt.

Honestly, that world was a dream. These dungeons clearly weren’t even the outer edge of that world.

After seeing the Golden City, Liora had the urge to explore that world and gain strength and wisdom.

And her plan was to gain both with Lucien.

After all, she had a thing for him for a long time. She was just too shy to express it.

"Knock, knock!"

By now, Liora was already in front of the large gate of the meeting hall, where Lucien was supposedly. Strangely, though, she didn’t see Garrick anywhere.

’Did Lucien already leave?’

Liora wondered if she had just missed them, seeing no one answer the door.

However, just as she was thinking of turning back the way she came, dejectedly, she heard a soft sound from behind the door.

"~~Mmmh!"

The voice was low, and Liora didn’t recognize it clearly, but it was enough to let her know Lucien might still be inside.

’Looks like he’s still here. Maybe... busy with something.’

Liora thought and decided to open the door herself. She still didn’t know Lucien was with the two princesses, as she left before Cedric managed to tell her.

She only knew Lucien was in the meeting hall, occupied with something.

’Let’s go in and ask him nicely this time. I don’t believe he doesn’t like me anymore and won’t even give me a few gold coins.’

Liora thought, unconsciously adjusting her dress before quietly opening the huge door and closing it right behind her.

However, before she could do anything after stepping inside, she was immediately greeted by the loud sound of moans echoing throughout the room.

"Ahn~ L-Lucien, wait...!"

Only now did she realize that the soft voice she had heard outside was clearly that of a girl, a girl in heat, moaning loudly in pleasure.

When she turned around, Liora was shocked to witness a scene she never thought she’d see, ever.

She saw a tall, beautiful girl with black hair cascading down her back, caught in the embrace of a broad-shouldered man.

Her lips were seized in a rough, feverish kiss, their mouths devouring each other as though time itself had stopped around them.

Her elegant dress was crumpled messily, slipping off one shoulder and baring the smooth, trembling skin beneath, radiating her seductiveness.

The man’s hands were greedy, as one of them roughly pressed into her ample bosom, as if trying to brand his touch into her skin.

One of her long legs, strong yet sensually soft, was lifted and tightly wrapped around his waist, held firmly by his grip.

Her thick thighs clung to him, accentuating every luscious curve of her figure, grinding subtly with each fevered movement of their bodies.

Each time the man humped her from below, she would shiver in delight, as if basking in the divine pleasure of lust.

"~~Mmmmm~"

The girl moaned shamelessly in ecstasy, her voice sweet and soaked with heat, echoing softly in the enclosed space.

Her fingers tangled in the man’s hair, pulling him closer, deeper as if she couldn’t bear even a breath of space between them.

Every movement between them was desperate, raw, wild, and intoxicating, like a storm.

Anyone watching them could feel their desire with their bare eyes. And Liora could see it crystal clear.

But she saw more.

She saw that the girl wrapped around Lucien’s chest was Lilith, the third Princess of the Edoria Kingdom, whom she had seen at the gate of the Genesis Rift Dungeon.

And the man holding her so intimately... was none other than Lucien, the very person she had rushed here to meet.

What a blunder!

Even in her worst nightmare, Liora had never imagined she would witness such a scene.

She never thought Lucien would be so infatuated with someone else, let alone engage with them like this, with such raw passion.

Truly, their passion was so consuming, so fierce, that they didn’t even realize someone had already entered the meeting room. They were indulging in each other, shamelessly, without a care, putting everyone else to shame.

And yet, when Liora finally registered who they were, instead of feeling embarrassed or shyly looking away, her heart felt as if it had been pierced by something cold and sharp.

Suddenly, a strange pain bloomed in her chest, strong, confusing, filled with disbelief, and something dangerously close to betrayal.

"Wha—?! L-Lucien?!"

The situation was so absurd, so illogical, that Liora was completely caught off guard.

She couldn’t help but let out a soft yet sharp cry of surprise, just enough to slightly drown out the moans echoing in the meeting hall.

"Hmm?"

But that much was enough, as finally Lucien and Lilith both noticed someone had entered the room.

Although they were clearly caught in the heat of the moment, their uncontrollable lust had already come under control the moment the seeds of lust within them synced.

They just willingly had been letting themselves go, completely surrendering to desire, indulging in the strange, euphoric pleasure of Dual Cultivation.

Maybe they thought Sera was still keeping an eye out for them...they went a little too far.

Still, they didn’t expect Sera to suddenly disappear and certainly not for someone else to show up in her place.

"Who—who is it?"