Lackluster rewards

"Uhg, what time is it?"

Chris woke up feeling refreshed, thinking of the events of last night. His eyes suddenly gained their full clarity as he looked around; he remembered that he slept with Gwen the previous night.

"Sky, where is she?"

He asked his AI.

|She left 30 minutes ago; her current location is--|

"Okay, forget about it." He interrupted.

Last night was very enjoyable for him; with his special physique, he could go all night if he wanted; the only reason he did not do such a thing was that Gwen was previously a virgin with no prior experience.

He did not know if her body would be able to handle him ramming her all night being the first time, though with her mutation it was probably possible. 

It was one of, if not his best sexual experience; that body was simply made for sex. He was wondering if the mutated spider that bit her had succubus DNA mixed within.

He didn't really mind her departure, as he knew that she probably couldn't face him because of her actions the previous night. She was acting more like his lover and less like someone being blackmailed; he could imagine the embarrassment when she woke up and found herself in his embrace and remembered last night with clarity.

"System, pull up the rewards for last night." Taking his mind off of Gwen, he checked out the rewards for a successful blackmail with anticipation.

[Congratulations, host, on a successful blackmail.]

[Reward: Advanced parkour mastery.]

"Wait, that's it?!" Although he knew that the more you blackmail the same target, the less the rewards. This reward felt too useless.

It was only the second time blackmailing Gwen for rewards, yet the system gave him such a useless reward.

Will he only get significant rewards for the first time? Chris felt cheated.

There were only so many significant female characters, with others being very hard to blackmail. Wouldn't he run out of a way to get rewards if he really did them all?

This was a bad situation. Was the system forcing him to change his target faster and prevent him from trying to get the same reward from one person over and over again?

No, it can't be that.

Although the rewards get more and more limited, the downgrade should not be this significant.

"What could be the reason?" He murmured.

He couldn't depend on the system to answer his questions either, as it straight up ignored him. 

The system only talks to him a handful of times; it conveys what it wants and disappears. This got him wondering if it was sentient or not, which was not important as he didn't mind either way, sentient or non-sentient.

"Sigh... I just can't figure it out." Even after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't come up with a valid reason.

Wait!

He remembered that the more the target is against something, the better the reward.

It means that the greater the degree of resistance of a target, the better the reward given. For example, if he could force Gwen to massacre innocent people, the reward he could get from this would be huge.

This is because it goes against Gwen's fundamental beliefs and crosses her bottom line.

Then how come he got such a small reward for last night? After all, Gwen was against sleeping with him. Although she did not put too much resistance, that was only on the surface.

He was sure that she did not want to sleep with him at all.

Was it because she enjoyed it? Nah.

But this also shows that she did not have as much resistance as he could've expected.

But why?

"Sky?" (AN. Sky is derived from the name Sky-net. This AI is not exactly Skynet but has the same model.)

|Sir|

"Why do you think Gwen does not have much resistance to sleeping with me, even though I have blackmailed her and forced her to sign a slave-like contract?"

Chris decided to ask his AI; maybe someone who views this from a different perspective could help him.

|That is because you are essentially her savior.|

He raised his eyebrow at the statement. Was he a savior?

As he was about to ask Sky to elaborate, he had a moment of realization.

Without him interfering, Gwen's identity would have long been uncovered. Be it SHIELD or HYDRA, they have been trying to uncover the identity of Spiderwoman for a long time.

It was because of him, erasing any video or digital footprint that could give her identity away before anyone could ever do anything about it. 

He also promised to help Gwen cover up more going forward in the future. It's just that he did not think that he was doing a helpful thing, but doing something that would help him have more control over Gwen in the future.

This made him overlook the fact that even if he was blackmailing Gwen, at the end of the day, he was helping her.

He shouldn't have offered to help her in the future; it was a mistake on his part. Chris just wanted to give her an incentive to agree to cooperate and get some rewards.

Then this means that the first time reward was affected as well.

"Sigh... I'm still inexperienced."

New plans regarding Gwen needed to be made; he also needs to check out his company and move on to a new target.

To be continued...

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Damn, Someone visited my patreon and pointed out that I skipped a chapter. This is the true chapter 11.