Chapter 38: Incubus King?

{+30 Love (Vienna Zepar)}

{+28,000 Affection points}

{The host has reached 250,000 Stockpiled affection points}

{The host's title (Lesser) Point hoarder has evolved into the new title: Point hoarder}

{Title: Point hoarder}

{Grade: Ultra rare}

{Effect: Receive five times the amount of affection points. This title is permanent and will not disappear even if the host's stockpiled affection points were to dip below 250,000}

{+55,000 Affection points}

{+4 Love (Sephra Lilliel)}

{+2,000 Affection points}

Such a flurry of system messages befell the retreating child, informing him of his sudden advancement through the point hoarder title; however, even though the benefits of such an evolution were remarkable, neigh, insane, this wasn't what left Arthur in a stunned stupor. With quaking eyes, Arthur remained placid in his place, frozen. His legs wouldn't move nor his eyes from what they were currently witnessing, no matter how much Luna urged the boy to run. 'This is insane,' Arthur could only hollowly mutter, his current voice betraying the inwardly exorbitant atmosphere that plagued the seven-year-old boy's euphoric mind.

{The host has earned the title: Chosen mate of the succubus queen (Stage 1)}

{Grade: Unique}

{Description: The succubus queen, an entity that only comes once every couple of millennia, has chosen you to be her one and only mate. From this point forth, the host's life is bound with the entity known as the succubus queen for better or worse and, as such, will undergo a transformation befitting the new king of the succubi.}

{Stage 1}

{Effect: The bearer of this title's aura will change, exuding an atmosphere of subtle sensuality. All actions the bearer performs will seem more captivating to the eye. +1 Charm}

{More stages will become available in tandem with the succubus queen's awakening. As the succubus queen bloodline still hasn't fully awakened, the host is limited to stage one.}

{Name: Arthur

Age: 7

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Rank: Elemental harnessing stage 2

Titles: Husband of the goddesses, (Fake) Prodigy, Point hoarder, Chosen mate of the succubus queen (Stage 1)

Bloodline: ?????? (Unawakened)

Charm: 7 / 10 (+1 = 8) (Enchanting to say the least)

Talent: 2/10 (Terrible, without the help of the system, you would have never reached your current level)

Harem: -

Abilities: Water magic Rank F, Scan Rank E, (Pseudo) Mana sense Rank F

Affection points: 307,000

{Shop}

{Item Shop}

{Ability Shop}

{Affection point balance: 307,000}

Upon reading through the system's heavy announcement, Arthur couldn't do anything more than gawk in awe at his current status. He, Arthur of all people, had somehow managed to locate the new queen succubus and make her his, her one and only mate. Such a feat was unheard of throughout the seven heavens and underworlds. The succubus queen was an entity like no other, a partial ruler of the third hell and leader of all the lust demons. Her mere presence was enough to terrify even lords of the fifth level. She was a highly sought-after asset, craved by even the gods for her unparalleled beauty and overwhelming power and yet, she had chosen this boy, this street rat, to be her one and only mate. You see, different from all the other lust demons who mate thousands of times throughout their lifetime as a means to gain power, the succubus queen only had one partner, and most of the time, they would only settle upon that partner after hundreds if not thousands of years of living. Their courtship ceremony was a battlefield, an unstoppable mass of bloodshed brought about by the queen's mere existence. Friend would turn upon friend, and lifetimes of love would be destroyed. It was lawless. You were alone, everyone had the same goal, and they would kill to attain the beauty's love, and yet Arthur, he had managed to skip everything. There would be no war, no pointless bloodshed, for he had already attained Vienna's undying love.

He was her king. The future leaders of the lust demons were a mismatched pair of seemingly impossible lovers. 'Holy shit,' Arthur absentmindedly muttered, weighed down by the gravity of his current situation. 'I-I, my bloodline…I was, I still am, maybe….Am I an Incubus King?' The boy continued, his attention brought away from the system's heavy announcement and returned to himself. He shared a bloodline connection with Vienna; after all, that was what got him into this mess. At first, Arthur believed both himself and Vienna to be simple lust demons, one's that shared an odd connection mainly for the fact that most of the time, Succubi and, by extension, Incubi would rarely mate or even feel attraction for one another. Their race didn't need to intermingle or breed with one another to keep themselves pure. Their children, no matter what race they produced with, would always end up as one of them. They were a dominant existence. Their genes were overpowering. You couldn't be a half incubi, only a full one. So to hear tale of an incubus and a succubus sharing a bloodline connection, well, it was an anomaly, something no one had ever heard of before, yet something Arthur believed to not be impossible. He had deluded himself into downplaying his own existence. The facts were all there the moment Arthur realised Vienna's true nature as a succubus. He should have realised it. Their unheard-of connection only made sense that way.

He was an incubus king, or at least he previous thought himself to be that, now Arthur had no clue what he was, and Vienna, she was his queen. 'But…still…that shouldn't be possible,' Arthur inwardly monologued, still ignorant to Luna's desperate pleas. 'An incubus king, and a succubus queen, they shouldn't be allowed to exist at the same time…it's impossible. The gods forbade it,' Arthur continued, his eyes unknowingly glowing with a faint golden light. He was right. It should be impossible. The right to rule over the lust demons was a fickle thing, with the incubus king and succubus queen never being allowed to exist simultaneously. If the succubus queen was born, then the incubus king would have to wait for her death to come into existence and likewise for the succubus queen. They were two sides of the same coin, destined to never meet, to never touch, and yet Arthur was here, with his strange bloodline attraction that mirrored the lust felt for the succubus queen from her male counterpart while also sharing a connection with the beautiful nine-tailed fox that pulled at his outstretched hand with such ferocity that he thought it might simply tear off.

'....' Arthur's mind remained frozen. He didn't want to regress. He didn't want to think. If he acknowledged his strange existence, he'd only fall to the depths of despair once again. He just had to ignore it, to play ignorant to his true nature until the time was right, until the future him had everything figured out.

"Arthur?!" Luna frantically screamed by the befuddled boy's side, her ruby red eyes shaking with unparalleled ferocity as her gaze remained locked on the unconscious figure of Vienna that slunk behind them.

"Hmmm…" Arthur dazedly stammered, breaking out of the trance-like state in which the system's alert seemed to have placed him.

"We need to…." Luna hurriedly commented, only to pause as her gaze caught sight of the enchanting figure that lay within her tensed grasp. Arthur was, in short dazzling, more so than he had ever been, more so than Luna thought possible. Whether it be through the lens of her bloodline attraction that seemed to grow ever stronger with every second spent within the boy's princely presence or just her simplistic analytical view, Arthur seemed to positively glow. His dirty brown eyes glimmered with invisible stars while his thick head of messy hair that Luna previously thought to be untamed and rather bland now seemed to dance with a seductive aura. No, that wasn't the only thing that exuded such an aura. Everything about the boy just screamed sensuality. Every action, whether deliberate or not, appeared to be a carefully taken attempt to seduce all who beheld them, from the soft batting of his rather effeminate eyelashes to his steady breaths that truly held no meaning. Everything about the boy was just too seductive. "...go~" Luna softly purred the haste that previously plagued the fake prostitute's voice now nowhere to be found, replaced instead by a furious unyielding heat, one that plagued the pleasure queen's heart with seemingly no remorse, a heat that only proceeded to burn ever brighter with Arthur's following smile.

"Ok…" Arthur skittishly said, his lips forcing themselves into a position of unending awkwardness with a curt smile, a smile that genuinely held no meaning yet one that seemed to enrapture the now furiously blushing twin-tailed fox. It was like her whole world gained colour for the first time upon witnessing the gentle smile of Arthur. Although to the rest of the world, it appeared as a forced, awkward pleasantry, to Luna, it was nothing of the sort. In fact, it was the brightest, most blindingly beautiful thing she had ever witnessed. *Dadum* Luan felt her heart skip a beat at the sight. The bustling noise of the packed street quietened, becoming nothing more than hushed indecipherable whispers to the maiden. At the same time, their moving figures shrank, consumed by the encroaching darkness that seemed to devour all, leaving only Arthur in its wake. He was her sole focus, her one target of affection. His smile lit up the void her mind had created, filling the infinite darkness with unabashed radiance.

Luna couldn't deny it anymore, not with her heart's constant palpitations. She was attracted to the child, to a seven-year-old boy she had met no more than a couple of hours ago. 'What's going on with me?!' Luna inwardly screamed, her face now an almost volcanic shade of red. How could she, the pleasure queen of Zepar city's red light district, an overwhelming seductress who made even the emperor red in the face, be attracted to this completely average child of all people? She had met countless men, all of whom were objectively infinitely more attractive than the young child she clutched to her side, yet…she felt nothing for any of them. To Luna, men were nothing more than walking piggybanks, incarnations of lust that would do anything to have their way with those they considered attractive. She had used them, tempting them with her otherworldly beauty only to crush their hopes of ever getting with the virgin seductress and taking them for all their worth. Luna had ruined lives and devastated families, all with an utterly apathetic facade, yet Arthur had managed to destroy the mask the wonderful woman wore. He had managed to ignite the previously unlit candle of curiosity that now burned with an unparalleled ferocity in the blushing maiden's heart, every emotion, every skip of a heartbeat, it was all new to the chaste centenarian. However, even though the twin-tailed fox felt such intense intrigue towards the dazed Arthur, she had yet to entirely fall for the seemingly oblivious boy. Her emotions were just that of overwhelming curiosity fueled by an undeniable attraction.

{+3 Love (Luna Adeline)}

{+1,500 Affection points}

"Miss Adeline, Miss Adeline," Arthur's curious calls echoed across the stunned fox's obscured ears, snapping the dazed woman out of her sensual dreams and returning her to reality.

"Y-y-what?" Luna dreamily questioned, her gaze locked upon the subtly seductive figure of Arthur, who remained firmly in her grasp. It took every ounce of effort for the stunned fox to resist the boy's alluring aura, to deny the temptations that seemed to beckon out of his plain pink lips with every syllable that spilt forth from his positively cute face.

"You said we needed to go, so why aren't you walking?" Arthur inquisitively questioned, his mind half focused on the current conversation he found himself engaged with and half drawn to his new title's seemingly miraculous effect. It should have only been a plus one to his charm stat. He should have only been an eight out of ten, a negligible existence, one whose beauty was not so overwhelming as to deserve one to stop and stare but instead merely earn a passing look of intrigue, so then why? Why was it that the silent minority of feminine eyes in the cramped street had now been turned upon him, not the beauty that lingered to his right? Arthur could feel it. Their lascivious gazes that seemed to undress him with unabashed joy. He could feel the temperature of the open space rise from their heated breaths. Everything was just so odd, so indecent, and he was the root cause of such X-rated actions. He knew it. 'Is this an additional effect of the title?' Arthur dumbly remarked, his mind returning to the image of the effect of the title he had made sure to bore into his cranium.

{Effect: The bearer of this title's aura will change, exuding an atmosphere of subtle sensuality. All actions the bearer performs will seem more captivating to the eye. +1 Charm}

'My aura will change, so is this a situation brought about by my new aura? I thought the system already accounted for such an effect with the plus one charm. Did it not? Is the plus one to charm from something else and my aura just its own thing, something separate from the charm stat?' Arthur could only inwardly question in a hopeful attempt to receive the system's answer to his curious plea.

{The system did account for the host's new aura. In fact, it is the host's aura that is responsible for the plus one to the charm stat. The host truly is an eight out of ten. Everyone around the host views you as such. Their carnal lust for the host is merely a by-product of the host's new aura of sensuality. See, despite making the host appear as an eight out of ten, the aura also carries with it the effect of making the host's every action appear more captivating to the eye, and it's this captivating charm that has falsely seduced those in the crowd}

'Ok…I think I understand, in short, the aura has two effects, the first of which is the added charm point, and the other is the sensual atmosphere that surrounds me…but what's subtle about this? Like ten per cent of all the women gathered here have already fallen to my passive actions, while the rest would probably cave the moment I do anything even remotely seductive,' Arthur furiously questioned, not with anger in his heart but overwhelming intrigue. He wanted to know, neigh, needed to know the full extent of his title's so-called subtle aura of sensuality, yet alas, the system once again met the child's desperate plea with nought but silence. This was something Arthur would have to figure out, not something the system could explain.

However, before Arthur could even release a sour complaint regarding the system's prompt absence, he was brought back to reality by the beauty to his right, who, under the child's unintentionally embarrassing jeer, began to move. Her steps were silent, shaky even, like the dazed motions of a drunk or even a sleepwalker. Lacking both strength and purpose. They were merely motions her body carried out half-heartedly as though instinctually responding to Arthur's absentminded question while her mind remained elsewhere, focused upon more pressing issues such as the constant heat that radiated from the boy within her grasp.

And it was only when the couple started their journey that Arthur remembered one very, very harrowing issue. His head immediately swung back to where Vienna should have remained with such ferocity, such force that it was a miracle it simply didn't snap under the intense strain. Arthur's mind was frantic. He needed to find her. He needed to request something from the parting marquis even if it put his life in danger. Yet alas, no matter how much Arthur's worrisome eyes scanned the crowded street, he met nothing more than the blurred faces of the mass. Vienna was gone, taken away by the beautiful half-elf, not to be seen until her eventual return one month later. Arthur's heart sank. His chest felt heavy, not with grief nor longing for the enchanting mother but rather regret, regret for the fact that he had been too blinded by Vienna's initial offer of escape to even think about his own wealth. In short, Arthur was penniless. His stash of cash would remain to rot amongst the mass of sheets he had left it in. "My money…" Arthur outwardly cried, his voice cracking with undisguised sadness. How? How was he meant to acquire those items now? He couldn't ask Sephra or Luna to buy them for him. Arthur hadn't built up enough rapport with the couple of beauties for such a thing to be possible.

However, it seems like Arthur's desperate cries would not be in vain, as Luna's obscured ears began to perk, unknown to both the child and the world as a whole. She had heard it all, Arthur's hopeless cry of despair, his admittance to poverty. She had listened to each and every word that spilt forth from Arthur's seductive figure with clarity many would deem to be impossible. This was an opportunity, a chance gifted to her by the very gods. Vienna didn't have to know. No, Vienna wouldn't know. What Luna had planned was something that shall remain unspoken until the day both she and Arthur die. Her hold of the boy tightened, going from a soft, gentle lock of the arm to an overwhelming pressure, one that could shatter the boy's fragile physique with even the slightest of motions. 'Oww!' Arthur inwardly cried, a tidal wave of scorching hot pain befalling his despair-filled mind from Luna's sudden and all be it drastic actions. Still, even under such intense pain, Arthur did not voice his displeasure to the grinning fox. He couldn't, not when he saw Luna's brilliant smile. To say it was blinding would be an understatement, her pearly white teeth stained with the multicoloured light that showered the packed street was a sight that could only be described as biblical. It occupied each and every part of the boy's befuddled brain, replacing the despair that had previously plagued it with pure unadulterated joy. Arthur liked this, though he didn't know it. Arthur enjoyed seeing those around him smile. It was a feat he had never accomplished in his previous life. It was something he never thought himself possible of achieving.