Chapter 1332: Chapter 897: Frontline Report (Requesting Monthly Tickets at Month End)

“I never imagined this is how it’s actually used.”

After browsing through the system information, Duanmu Huai finally understood how the experience of his Pleasure God was accumulated.

Well, taking Yuriya for example, after using this ability on Yuriya, the displayed information is as follows:

[Quick V Pearl +500][V-Sensing LV2]

[Desire Pearl +1000][Climax Poisoning LV1]

[Submission Pearl +3000][B-Sensing LV2]

[Obedience Pearl +2000][Submissive LV2]

[Fear Pearl +3000][Serving Spirit LV2]

Simply put, every time Duanmu Huai educates Yuriya, he obtains pearls akin to currency. When the number of pearls reaches a certain amount, it automatically raises some spiritual level ranks.

For example, the trait of “Submissiveness” requires either “Fear Pearls” or “Obedience Pearls” to advance.

This is quite normal, after all, to make someone obey one’s commands, one either uses fear or appeasement. In other words, it’s just a carrot and stick approach, there is no significant difference.

Of course, at first glance, it seems like brainwashing, but to be exact, it’s not entirely the same. This ability is more about visualizing the spirit of the other person. For instance, previously Duanmu Huai knew others were afraid of him, but how afraid? That’s something Duanmu Huai couldn’t quantify.

But now, at least with one glance, he can identify whether your fear is at LV1 or LV3… roughly that’s the idea.

For instance, if someone doesn’t listen to Duanmu Huai at all, their Submissive level is naturally LV0.

If Duanmu Huai wants to improve their Submissive level, he can use various methods to instill fear in them, enhancing their fear experience, and once the fear experience reaches a certain threshold, the original [Submissive LV0]will rise to [Submissive LV1].

Of course, that’s just a part; the most important point is–Duanmu Huai himself must feel pleasure during this process.

Yes, it turns out that this is indeed a two-way upgrading process!

That is to say, not only does Duanmu Huai want others to feel joy, but he must also feel pleasure himself to improve the level.

Thinking about it, it makes sense, after all, it’s the Pleasure God, the deity itself must be a merry one.

If you yourself are not feeling joyful, how can your followers feel joy?

This contrasts completely with the God of Destruction and the Old God’s Will, as those require only their effects to be applied onto other things to level up, but Pleasure God necessitates Duanmu Huai himself to experience pleasure to upgrade, which to be honest, is a troublesome matter.

This is also why, although Zhenjiling worked hard earlier, the experience absorption of Pleasure God was low–the issue wasn’t on Zhenjiling’s part; rather, Duanmu Huai didn’t feel overly joyful, so the experience couldn’t rise much. As long as Duanmu Huai himself feels pleased, the experience quickly rises.

As for why he would feel joyful… well, that’s probably it.

Training a disobedient puppy is somewhat enjoyable after all.

Hmm, that’s about it.

Thus, in the end, Yuriya obediently canceled the Elf Contract as per Duanmu Huai’s request.

Yet even so, she had some worries.

After all, this meant Yuriya completely lacked combat capabilities, and frankly, one of the reasons she couldn’t make up her mind was whether self-disabling her martial abilities was the right decision before the battle at the Northern Fortress began. After all, Yuriya’s aerial support was crucial for the United Army, and disabling the Elf Contract at this moment equates to being unable to use magic, significantly reducing her combat effectiveness.

However, Duanmu Huai wasn’t too concerned; on one hand, although Yuriya discarded the Elf Contract, Lumiere was still there. Unlike Yuriya, Lumiere was already a Great Spirit–a semi-pure Subspace Creature, canceling the Elf Contract for Lumiere meant death.

By the way, this was also the transaction between Lumiere and Duanmu Huai. As a Great Spirit, Lumiere could directly manipulate Elf Magic, and her request after the battle ended was for Duanmu Huai to cancel her Elf Contract.

After all, she never thought about immortality; as far as Lumiere was concerned, she had lived long enough to qualify, and for her, the Elf Contract was more a curse than a gift.

As for Yuriya…

“Why don’t you just learn the Human Magic System?”

Duanmu Huai felt there was nothing to worry about; originally, Elf Magic was not purely magic, mainly depending on lineage, but besides that, it also required magic power, which fundamentally was no different from the Human Magic System.

By the way, Enisphia could actually learn the Human Magic System too, but as a royal princess, she dared not learn–after all, this represented the rise of the Human Magic System, and those nobles who revered Elf Magic would go mad.

After all, as the saying goes, heretics are more detestable than heresy.

For the nobles who idolized Elf Magic, a Magic User of the Human Magic System was no different from a heretic.

Someone who hasn’t contracted with an elf using magic so carelessly is utterly preposterous–such are the claims.

“I go learn the Human Magic System… is that okay?”

“Don’t worry, it’s fine.”

“Just eliminate all the problematic people, and there won’t be any problems left.”

Although Yuriya was still somewhat worried, in the end, she obediently did as Duanmu Huai instructed. Perhaps for Yuriya, finding something to do was better than idly sitting by herself here.

“Master.”

Shortly after Yuriya and Enisphia left the room, Ogis came in with Zhenjiling.

“Yo, what’s up?”

“Zhenjiling has just got the news – just now, news has come from the front.”

“Oh?”

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes. Indeed, the second day after the supply transport team arrived, the Nobleman’s private armies had already set out towards the Northern Fortress. Officially, these Noblemen claimed to be going on a scouting mission, but Duanmu Huai knew they were actually encouraged by Algard to go to their deaths. Of course, these Noblemen didn’t believe that there were any Demon Clan in the Northern Land, so they didn’t care and even wanted to compete for glory.

Now news had come from the front…

“What, those annoying guys all died?”

“Not at all, big brother.”

Zhenjiling shook her head.

“I heard that the Nobleman’s front-line troops have completely recaptured the Northern Fortress, and they specifically sent someone to bring the good news!”

“………Huh?”

It must be said, this development was completely unexpected by Duanmu Huai.

“Are you sure?”

“Yep, Karen specifically asked the Guards, they said those people came back with smiles on their faces.”

“This is really…”

It must be said, this was truly unexpected for Duanmu Huai. Could it be that the Demon Clan really weren’t stationed at the Northern Fortress and just left directly? That shouldn’t be the case, right? Or do they have another plan?

If that’s the case, wouldn’t Algard’s plan be doomed?

Although Duanmu Huai was surprised, he still had to do what needed to be done. The next morning, the United Army set out again. Apart from leaving some people to guard the trading city fortress, everyone else set off again, heading towards the Northern Fortress.

From the trading city fortress to the Northern Fortress, the journey wasn’t considered far, strictly speaking, even for a large army it would only take three or four days. Of course, to be safe, Duanmu Huai and Enisphia naturally flew to the fortress first to check the situation.

“………What do you think?”

“Uh…… It seems like there are no problems.”

Duanmu Huai flew in the air, looking at the Northern Fortress built between mountain hollows — a huge fortress that mostly seemed intact from the outside, but there were also some traces of collapsed and damaged walls. Below the howling cold wind, one could clearly see soldiers holding torches, patrolling back and forth.

“What do you think?”

“Should I say?”

Enisphia reached out and carefully stared at the fortress.

“I also can’t see any problems…… It all seems normal……”

“It’s actually very abnormal that these Noblemen are behaving themselves.”

Duanmu Huai also activated the “Quality Confirmation” and scanned the area. He could at least confirm that those soldiers showed no signs of being brainwashed or manipulated. This is another use of “Quality Confirmation,” primarily capable of revealing a person’s mental state, so if these soldiers had been brainwashed, manipulated, or coerced, Duanmu Huai would be able to observe it through “Quality Confirmation.”

Of course, there was a downside too, as sometimes you are forced to know things you didn’t want to know.

Like Duanmu Huai didn’t want to know why that man standing on the city wall had a “A-Sensing LV3” sign… he’d rather not know that for the rest of his life.

“And could the Demon Clan really just ignore this place?”

Enisphia pondered for a moment and then gave her answer.

“Maybe they really don’t care? After all, the Demon Clan can fly, why would they bother defending this fortress against the enemy?”

“What you say also makes sense………”

Hearing Enisphia’s answer, Duanmu Huai furrowed his brow and thought for a moment.

“All things considered, let’s go back and report the situation first. As for the rest — we’ll see when the time comes.”

Then, Duanmu Huai made his decision.