Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29. Potent Sage Injection
“So strong! Simply too strong, Demon King!”
As the holy light faded, Shier was the first to rush forward.
Ignoring his disheveled clothes and the faint marks on his body where the bindings had bitten into him, he circled around Asmodeus with stars practically shining in his eyes.
“To think that you can even command the legendary sacred magic! As expected of the supreme ruler of the Demon Realm! Petty tricks like Augustine’s are nothing but a clown’s joke in your presence!”
“Wuwuwu, to witness Your Majesty displaying such divine might once more, I could die without regret!”
“Long live the Demon King! Wuwuwu...”
As he spoke, Shier actually started crying. Heaven knew just how deeply he worshipped Asmodeus.
Faced with the young admirer’s frenzied praise, Asmodeus merely nodded calmly, showing little emotional reaction.
Lilith, however, standing off to one side, wore an exceedingly complicated expression.
She stared fixedly at that tall back while her mind replayed, over and over, the things the Collector had just revealed—things like “compulsory education” and “labor laws.”
「There is definitely something wrong with this guy, right?」
「His ideas are far too advanced, he can use the Hero’s magic, and he is even stronger than someone like me, who is supposedly among the best in the world... No matter how I look at it, that is the standard transmigrator package!」
A bold thought began to grow wildly in her heart. Should she just ask him outright? For all she knew, he might be from the same hometown.
「But...」
「What if he really is a transmigrator, and a ruthless one who believes in the dark forest principle? “Since you’re someone with a system just like mine, I have to kill you. After all, I don’t want anyone stronger than me.” ...Wouldn’t that mean I’m dead for sure?」
「And if he is not a transmigrator, then if I suddenly ask something bizarre like, “Are you from Earth?” wouldn’t that expose the fact that I came from another world instead? What if they seize me as an experimental specimen and dissect me for research?」
「Emm...」
At the thought of all this, Lilith became so conflicted that her brows twisted into knots, and her soft pink lips were bitten unconsciously until they turned pale.
Just as she was caught in that mental storm—
“Lilith.”
That deep, magnetic voice suddenly sounded by her ear.
“Yes!”
Lilith jolted all over and instinctively snapped her waist straight, standing at attention.
Before she could react, that tall figure had already enveloped her.
Asmodeus stepped forward, spread both arms, and pulled her tightly into his embrace without permitting the slightest refusal.
The instant his arms circled her soft waist, Lilith’s body trembled, and an involuntary sound escaped her lips.
“Mm?!”
His hard chest pressed against her soft breasts, yet that only made the warmth of his embrace stand out all the more.
That scorching aura belonging to a powerful male instantly wrapped around her, as though it wished to seep into every inch of her skin.
“My apologies. I arrived too late.”
Asmodeus lowered his head, his chin lightly brushing the top of Lilith’s head. There was a trace of lingering fear and self-reproach in his voice, though it was not easily noticed.
“Were you hurt?”
As he spoke, his hand slowly moved up along Lilith’s back, as though checking her condition.
Lilith’s gaze turned flustered. She could only struggle weakly while stammering in reply,
“I... I wasn’t...”
She had barely begun to speak when she realized that her voice had turned soft beyond reason.
Her blood was boiling, her breathing had quickened, and her legs seemed to have gone a little weak, leaving her mind hazy and unsteady.
「Bad... this is bad...」
「Being held by Asmodeus... feels so... so good...」
「If... if he pushed me down like this... if he held me even harder...」
「Damn it! No, that is wrong!」
The moment that thought surfaced, Lilith frightened herself into a cold sweat and immediately raised her hands to shove Asmodeus away!
「No, no, no!」
「What am I even thinking?! I’m an unyielding, iron-blooded man! How can I have feelings like this toward another man?」
「At this rate I’ll turn into an idiot! I’ll definitely turn into some lovestruck, brainless pervert whose head is full of nothing but Asmodeus! If that happens, how am I supposed to face Old Song ever again?」
「Surely it can’t be that the next time we meet, I’ll be standing there with a huge belly, leaning blissfully against Asmodeus and saying to Old Song, “Best Friend, I already belong to the Demon King~”」
「...That actually doesn’t sound so bad?」
「Pah! Bad my ass! Get lost!」
Her extreme panic temporarily overwhelmed her desire.
After pushing Asmodeus away, Lilith shook her head hard. Then she turned her back on the Demon King, crouched down on the ground, and held her head in both hands, struggling with all her might to remain rational.
“Hm?”
Asmodeus blinked in puzzlement.
「Did she come to dislike me?」
「Is she angry because I arrived late?」
Helpless, he looked toward Shier at the side. Shier himself could only spread his hands with a bewildered expression and shake his head, clearly unable to help.
What neither of them knew was this:
at that very moment, the crouching Lilith had her back to them and was frantically tapping away at her phone screen.
【AI! AI!】
【Why am I turning into this? Even if my body has changed into a woman’s, my soul should still be the same! So why do I have no resistance at all to that Demon King?!】
A few seconds later, the AI’s icy analysis appeared on the screen.
【Problem Analysis: Succubus Physiological Rejection Response】
【Result: The host’s body is that of a legendary high-rank succubus. The racial traits of a succubus determine that the stronger her mana becomes, the stronger her craving for a “powerful male” will become as well. This is a survival instinct engraved into her DNA and has nothing to do with the gender of the soul.】
【Additional Explanation: Since the host’s body is still in a “pure” state, the succubus factors accumulating inside her have no outlet. When faced with a top-tier male lifeform such as Asmodeus, it is entirely normal for strong desire and submissive impulses to arise as a physiological response.】
【Current Recommendation: Follow your instincts and engage in deep, intimate contact with Asmodeus, the Abyssal Demon King. Doing so will relieve the symptoms.】
「Deep contact my ass!」
Reading the suggestion on the screen, Lilith ground her teeth so hard they nearly cracked. Her face had turned so red it looked ready to drip blood—whether from embarrassment or anger was impossible to tell.
Then her fingers began flying across the screen again.
【There’s no other way? It’s not like I wanted to turn into a succubus! Think of something else for me!】
The AI fell silent for a moment. Then another window popped up.
【Alternative Solution: Pharmacological Suppression】
【Recommended Product: Potent Sage Injection (Succubus Inhibitor Type-X)】
【Effect: After injection, it forcibly suppresses the active succubus factors within the host’s body, placing the host into an absolutely rational “Sage State” and greatly reducing worldly desires.】
【Price: 10 System Coins / dose.】
「Aha! So there is something this good!」
Lilith’s eyes lit up at once, as though she had glimpsed her savior.
Only 10 System Coins. For Lilith, who currently possessed more than five thousand of them, that was absurdly cheap.
She did not spare a single thought for the fine print at the bottom of the product page. She immediately swiped away 【Omniscient AI Answers】, found the Potent Sage Injection in the shop, and pressed 【Purchase】.
Ding!
A metal syringe filled with pale blue liquid materialized in her hand out of thin air.
With her back still turned toward Asmodeus, Lilith discreetly lifted one corner of her skirt.
The flesh of her thigh, wrapped in black silk, was slightly compressed into a soft curve, making it look all the more alluring. Grinding her teeth, she aimed the needle at that spot and drove it in hard!
“Mmph...”
As the medicine entered her body,
a cool, icy sensation instantly spread through her veins and throughout her entire body.
In only a single instant,
that former burning heat, the racing heartbeat, the desire to snuggle close... all of it vanished.
Her mind became clearer than it had ever been before, as though she were standing upon a frozen wasteland at absolute zero.
When she thought of Asmodeus again, her heart remained utterly undisturbed. If anything, she almost wanted to laugh.
「So this is the Sage State...」
「I feel so rational. So powerful!」
「Wonderful! My body is saved! This money was well spent!」
Having finally preserved her chastity, Lilith’s spirits immediately soared. She casually closed the interface.
Little did she know that at the very bottom of that now-closed AI page, there had been a warning she never saw:
【Warning: This drug provides only a calming effect. It cannot eliminate the succubus factors within the host’s body. If the host engages in excessive intimate contact with the opposite sex during the drug’s duration, the suppressed desire will continue to accumulate and will undergo a “retaliatory rebound” once the effect ends. Use with extreme caution. Any consequences shall be borne by the host alone.】
Unfortunately, Lilith never saw any of it.
At this moment, she was already rising to her feet, brushing back her hair, the corners of her lips curving upward into a confident, self-satisfied smile as she walked back toward that man step by step.
“Lord Asmodeus.”
Her entire bearing had undergone a complete transformation.
The girlish manner she usually carried—part shy, part tsundere—had utterly vanished. In its place was a beautiful face as cold as frost, proud, unyielding, and faintly self-satisfied.
She lightly dusted off her skirt, her movements elegant and detached, like those of a lofty and icy queen.
“Lilith?”
Asmodeus looked at the girl before him, who suddenly seemed like an entirely different person, and found himself rather at a loss.
Instinctively, he reached out and wrapped an arm around Lilith’s slender waist, intending to pull her into his embrace as usual.
Yet this time, Lilith did not blush, did not struggle, and showed no sign of embarrassment whatsoever.
She simply stood there quietly and allowed the Demon King to hold her.
Lifting her chin, she looked at Asmodeus with utter indifference and said coolly,
“Now that the Collector has been destroyed, there is no need to waste time here. Demon King, let us proceed to the next floor at once.”
“In order for you to regain your freedom as soon as possible, I will help you leave this place at the earliest opportunity.”
Her voice was calm, utterly devoid of the tremulous shyness she had shown before. There was only the pride and confidence of a powerful demon.
At that, Asmodeus was visibly taken aback.
“Hm?”
He looked at the cold, breathtaking face nestled in his arms, utterly perplexed.
Although he did not understand why Lilith had suddenly become so much less adorable, there was something strangely—
something strangely even more compelling about this cold, aloof manner of hers, the way she could barely be bothered with him.
It made him want to conquer her even more.
“Very well.”
Asmodeus nodded, and a playful curve rose at the corner of his lips.
Then he lowered his head and directly kissed that little mouth of hers, the one that was always chattering without pause!
“............”
This kiss was deeper than any of the ones before.
And yet—
Lilith kept her eyes open the whole time, utterly unresponsive, her heart as calm as still water.
「Heh, useless, useless~」
「Kiss away, kiss all you like. It’s just two lumps of flesh pressed together, that’s all. I feel absolutely nothing~」
「I’ve evolved! I’m no longer that idiot succubus loli from before! I am now a merciless dungeon-clearing machine!」
「Hm? Wait...」
Just as Asmodeus, still unsatisfied, finally released her, his hand continuing to stroke at her waist in a decidedly improper manner—
Lilith, who had been maintaining her lofty, icy posture, suddenly felt the corner of her eye twitch for no apparent reason.
「Something feels off here.」
「Even if I don’t feel anything inside anymore...」
「Isn’t this still the same as Asmodeus kissing and holding me however he pleases? My status hasn’t changed at all!」
「And why is it that after taking the injection, I don’t even feel disgusted anymore? Don’t tell me I’ve already gotten used to it? That can’t be right—」