The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 386: Information

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’Did plan A work? Did that guy have no artifacts to save his life? Or were my pure intentions enough?’

a bit puzzled I pulled my hand lodged in his skull and even, just in case, kept an eye out until I finally felt that he had indeed died.

I was actually surprised at how easy it was. I already had plans up to E and I didn’t think plan A would work. That one never works.

But more importantly, the situation was....

’Fuck, I was wrong about everything.’

Off the top of my head, I really swore this was involved with the sprout , but apparently my hypothesis was completely out of line because of some factors I didn’t know about.

’Huehuehue, what a Sherlock fiasco you are, you idiot! You seemed so confident. That’s why you should have stayed as Watson.’

’Shut up, you idiot, you concluded the same thing. Damn, we went for the obvious. Damn, I should have thought there was something fishy going on considering there are four factions in Vastlia instead of one.’

’Well, we didn’t expect that bastard would have shown his true colors so far in advance. Now, there’s the mystery of why everything went in such a way that our alternate self didn’t find out about anything; he’s quite capable of doing it like that.’

’I fucking know. That bastard is more disgusting than memories can show. I almost ran out of patience with how annoying he was.’

’Yeah, I hear you, but that guy already reached the ninth morphogenesis, we had to bide our time. When we saw that he had no artifact I thought it was because he had them too hidden, not that he had nothing to save his life. Was he that confident?’

’Who knows. It was good not to have to engage in an unnecessary fight. Although everything would be easier with the resonance... it really is a pity that the range of the resonance is only a day away by flying ship.’

It was the first time I had been progressively separated by such a long distance from the twins, so I was finally able to check the actual range of the resonance.

’It’s a considerable distance, but still not far enough for cases like this. Too bad we don’t have the materials to make another window and connect the spaces.’

’Yes, we had to resort to secondary methods to boost ourselves as much as possible.’

I really hadn’t gone out carelessly. I made sure I was well armed, taking all the potions I had and reinforcement spells.

It seems that at this point in time most of the leaders are entering the ninth metamorphosis, but that didn’t change that he was someone talented and could fight above his rank.

He is a faction leader who can easily fight against people of ten metamorphoses which is the current limit of the middle world.

So I had to find a way to empower myself as much as possible. I haven’t gotten a decent demonic core, so demonization was out and resonance was out, and those were my two best power-up skills.

So I had no choice but to use the fucking hard to activate but powerful passive of my art ’the power of friendship’, yes, placed in my head I had the ultimate empowerment artifact.

’Whoever made this art really wasn’t right in the head, haah~, but I have to work with what’s there!’

[[Enough is enough!!! I’m tired of all this, you piece of shit! You’re the one whose head doesn’t work right, you filthy piece of shit! Fuck, I feel like I’m the one having symptoms of corruption; if this keeps up I’ll really go crazy]].

’Hey, why the sudden outburst, come to insult me and leave as usual?’

[[Shut up and listen, because I’ll say it only once, you piece of shit who only thinks with his crotch down. The art of lust, as the name says, is based on lust, desire and pleasure]].

’Uh, yeah, I get that, that’s exactly why I have to-’

[[Shut up and listen! ’Lust!’ It’s lust, you piece of shit. Do you think there’s only carnal lust? Lust is more than that. It’s a fundamental desire that can arise in a variety of ways, not just in the sexual sense. You can lust for combat, for killing, for blood, for humiliating your opponents, for tearing them to pieces, for seeing their faces suffer... anything that gives you pleasure and makes you lust for it is enough. The range is fucking wide]]

’（⊙ｏ⊙) Oh... So you’re telling me to imagine the battlefield as a beautiful woman I should fuck? That’s even weirder... how do I picture her, redhead?’

[[Y-you... piece of shit... I swear- haah... aaaah... aaaah...!!!!]]]

’Are you bimperverting? Okay, calm down, I’m joking. Yes, I understood what you said. Now it makes more sense. But, in my defence, I was just doing what worked for me. The information in my head wasn’t specific, and you hadn’t told me... That’s why I’m saying you need to be more cooperative and communicative.’

[[...]]

’... Hmmm, but actually... it’s still not an easy thing to achieve... Honestly, I don’t like fighting, let alone the other things...’.

[[Tsk, just find your way to use it properly without getting fucking panties in your head. You’re going to make my legacy look ridiculous; you’re going to make it be called the legacy of the pervert with panties on his head.]]]

’hmm, but wasn’t it that you and the other thirteen legacies faded out of existence at the end of each era? After that no one will remember, right, so what does it matter what I do?’

[[Shit!!, you even know that! What the hell is that thing that gave you all that information?]]

’huh? well... you know it was my alternate self from the first timeline, and yeah, this came to me in the last morphogenesis, a lot of things made sense that way.’

[[ How the hell does that make sense? This is all so fucking contradictory that I don’t understand. All of that should be impossible and you know it]].

’Well, with what I know now, yes... but perhaps the explanation will come later. Who can say we know everything? And it is something that happened, so it has already been proven that it is not impossible. Perhaps you do not know why it was erased from the Akashic records. Who says that only you can do it?’

[[Damn it! I’m really going to go mad. Talking about something so important as if it were nothing... That’s why I don’t want to talk to you, you nasty little bastard. Ugh! ]]

’Me neither. If you’re done, go away. I have to move.’

[[Fine! While it’s true that we’ll do as you say, that doesn’t change the fact that this era is just beginning. I don’t want to spend centuries or even millennia being the butt of jokes, so start behaving yourself, you piece of shit, you disgusting, repulsive imbecile.]]

’Hey, you’re insulting too much, but I’ll take what you said into account. I found a way; it’s not like I like doing this in public either.’

That was welcome information at an unexpected time, but I would think later about the implications.

I took off my empowerment device and started paying attention to my surroundings and absolutely everyone was looking in my direction. They were still dumbfounded by what had happened.

Actually, since I have a lot on my mana stat, my brain is faster and more efficient with my thoughts, and even though I had a chance to talk to Quetesh, it hasn’t been more than five seconds since I killed that bastard.

But now the bastard’s minions seemed to be starting to wake up and act. They were watching me warily, not knowing whether to attack me or retreat.

I also looked in front of me at my brother who, luckily, didn’t seem to understand the situation either.

"Ptoo!... okay."

Not forgetting to loot that bastard and give him one last spit and one last kick just because even dead he annoys me, I decided how to act.

This also caught me off guard in how it played out, so I had to improvise a bit.

’Okay, let’s do it big.’

’Hahahahaha!!! This fool talks nonsense. Wasn’t it funny how he didn’t even last seconds to fail at what he supposedly learned?’

""...""

Silence reigned in the place. The bewilderment had passed, but the situation to everyone still seemed very confusing and inexplicable.

I made sure to retract my morphogenesis aura almost immediately after killing Saelis, thus preventing anyone from making any unexpected moves and keeping them very cautious.

Originally I thought the greater possibility was that I had to watch and only act after everything happened, but the situation had changed.

The group that had subdued my brother was not large and only had the advantage because of Ophelia’s poison, which unfortunately - as I thought - was involved.

That changed everything and gave me room to act. It was not a large and absolutely superior group that subdued my brother; it was just a bastard using tricks.

Even so, that guy, as far as I knew, was very powerful, and when no one saw me, I slipped into the shadows, reducing my presence with an artefact made with Elena and her blessing.

Honestly, due to the limited materials available, they are only artefacts made with simple and basic spells, but even the simplest spell crafted with Elena’s blessing would hide me perfectly as long as no one was looking for me, or the other party was very powerful.

In the end, even though I prepared as much as I could, it was easier than I thought. Now it was time to clean up and put everything in order.

"Yeah, really fun, don’t you think so too, ’Ophelia’?"

"Huehahaha, yeah, how silly. He thought he was the hunter; really, how silly."

""’...’""

Everyone’s attention turned to Ophelia, whose words didn’t seem to square with who she was at all. And the reason is that I already took care of her.

Who was there was Number One, the idiot who using our experimental art almost caused a disaster. The only good thing was that the only one who died was him.

It was also timely, as I was able to create him here to help me, although Seraphina had to be replaced with the doppelgänger created by the doppelgänger... a doppelgänger who cannot use abilities nor can he use our full strength.

"But it was all within our plans."

"Everything was under our control. After all we are..."

""Those who move in the shadows.""(x2)

The title I thought I couldn’t use has a chance to come up. This was getting more interesting; I realized that being known didn’t matter.

I mean, it’s like Batman: everyone knows billionaire Bruce Banner, but that doesn’t stop him from being Batman.

At the time I still looked like David, but I quickly changed it.

"""..."""

Silence, besides me, continued to reign. It doesn’t really change anyone specific, but this made it clear that I’m not David. It felt good to finally stop pretending.

My doppelgänger did the same and started walking towards me, switching between gender, race and age, and so on.

To disguise it a little more, I also changed the appearance of some people with simple faces, including my brother. This will make everything even more disturbing and disconcerting.

"Hahaha, it really was easy to infiltrate, replacing some loners."

"Hahaha, no one noticed anything; after all no one approached us."

’Huy, this is cooler than I thought.’

Yeah, we’re really just winging it but even on my brother’s face there was doubt, wariness, and a lot of caution. I wanted to continue, but I made my point, and when my doppelgänger got to me, we both looked at my brother and talked.

"So, Raphael Silvercrest, you seem to have a little problem. Why don’t we do a dea...? Huh? mo-mother?" (x2)

What the hell, why is my mother here all of a sudden?