CHAPTER 19: A SLIME

Qingyi’s eyes, firmly closed, opened slightly as a system notification popped into his mind.

[Skill: Dragon’s lust has been automatically activated, affecting all females in a 10-meter area].

Ethan struggled to comprehend this information, but his mind was too foggy to react.

Suddenly, his body heated up, and a viscous substance began to slowly crawl up his legs, sticking to Ethan’s clothes before he lost consciousness.

***

Once again, Ethan found himself waking up at dawn, completely naked as the eight o’clock sun bathed his face.

"What the fuck?" Ethan covered his eyes as they got used to the brightness.

He could feel that his body had not only fully recovered, but also seemed to be much better than before.

[System: A slime] The system sounded in Ethan’s mind.

"A slime?" Ethan’s eyes twitched.

[System: Yes, you were raped by a slime] The system sounded once again.

"What the... Shit... Blergh" Ethan almost vomited as the thought of that sticky, gooey creature taking over his body spread through his head.

[System: Don’t worry, slimes can change shape freely. This slime has taken on a human form].

"Very comforting... I didn’t know you had a damn sense of humor." Ethan gritted his teeth with anger and disgust in his voice.

[System: I don’t. But if it cheers you up, tonight earned you 5,000 corruption store points]

"5,000? Why so much?" Ethan’s eyes widened.

[There are many things that go into calculating your reward, but power difference is certainly the most important, and that slime was much more powerful than you. And what’s more, that little creature didn’t play a single round with you, she-.]

"I don’t need to know the fucking details!" Ethan roared, interrupting the system’s words and standing up.

He was in a bad mood and his pride was hurt, but he couldn’t deny that the 5000 corruption store points were something to celebrate.

"Ugh... is there an easier way to earn corruption points?" Ethan wondered.

He would like to advance the level of his bloodline as quickly as possible so that he could activate the dragon’s lust whenever he wished.

Although he appreciated the rewards, he would rather not go through it again.

[System: There are 2 ways, the first is by having sex with increasingly powerful women, the second is by completing various quests].

"Quests? The system has quests? Why the hell didn’t you say so before?"

[System: You never ask]

"Ah... fair enough." Ethan sighed. "Can I see my current list of missions?"

[Quests:

{The request of a primordial being.

Description: In exchange for being revived, you accepted a deal with Seraphar, primordial of corruption. One day, you will have to fulfill your part of the bargain and master the spirit of Elrilith’s spear.

Difficulty: SSS

Rewards: ???}]

"Things to worry about in the future..." Ethan muttered before taking his gaze away from the mission.

He couldn’t deny that knowing he would have to face something on that level to fulfill his part of the bargain was daunting, but he also knew that getting stuck into a challenge that was many years away was foolish, to say the least.

"And how can I get these missions?" Ethan asked, clearing his mind of any futile thoughts and once again focusing on what mattered.

[System: Don’t worry about it, I’ll activate the missions module and you’ll know whenever there’s a new mission].

"Ah... all right." Ethan shook his head before starting to look for his clothes, praying that the creature hadn’t destroyed them completely.

With a little effort, he found them next to his sword a few meters from the tree where he had fallen asleep.

Strangely, despite being extremely dirty, they weren’t badly damaged.

After getting dressed and making sure he still had the gold coins in his trouser pocket, Ethan set off in the direction of Stormerga.

Using all the vitality in his new body, Ethan ran without stopping and before nightfall, he saw a sea of wooden houses clustered around a large stone wall that separated the central region of the city; inhabited by the nobility and bourgeoisie, from the outer region, inhabited by the commoners.

Halting his steps, Ethan observed the city carefully.

Surrounded by a wooden wall over 6 meters high, Stormerga was not considered a particularly large city, but it still had a population of twenty thousand.

It was protected by a garrison of five hundred men in addition to the personal army of the count who ruled it, totaling fifteen hundred well-trained and equipped soldiers.

Although he was almost certain that no one would recognize him, Ethan still decided to avoid the wealthier areas of the city, where there were many noblemen and rich merchants whom he had already met personally in his childhood.

The weaker ones wouldn’t be a problem, but great experts only needed someone’s eyes to recognize them.

Ethan made his way through the alleys of the poorer parts of the city to a crowded street and disguising himself as just another of the many wanderers coming in and out of the city, he entered a tavern that looked slightly better than the others.

Its dark wooden façade was clean and bore the name "Six-Tusked Boar Tavern" on a giant sign.

Just below the sign, beautiful waitresses called customers into the establishment, smiling seductively, squeezing their revealing cleavages and lifting their dresses slightly, revealing their bodies as a way of trying to gain the interest of the many men passing by.

"Tavern? This is more like a brothel..." Ethan muttered as he walked up to the counter.