"Lucien… damn it. Are you taking revenge on ? You are, right? That's why you don't want to release , right?"
Sowhere around a vast wasteland, a large, beautiful Koi fish flapped and splashed in a huge flask, cursing loudly.
"Damn you, Lucien! Release imdiately. Why are you wasting ti? Don't you know I am suffocating already?"
Lilith shouted aloud as she saw Lucien completely ignoring her, busy with sothing. As more ti passed, little by little, she beca more anxious.
After all, after leaving that Mirage Pond, where they appeared, was a huge desert with extre heat.
She was already feeling uncomfortable, and now her situation was deteriorating little by little.
"Hey, hey. I am not joking here. Oii, Lucien… why are you ignoring ? Are you angry?"
Seeing that Lucien still didn't pay attention to her and suddenly closed his eyes, Lilith, in the form of her Koi fish, panicked imdiately.
"Lucien, please don't be angry and release , okay? Don't we share very intimate connections?"
When cursing didn't work, Lilith began to persuade him with all she had. After such a huge stroke of bad luck, she finally managed to get out of that abominable place alive.
So, how could she now let herself be hopeless again?
"Hey, why are you ignoring ? Are you really willing to let die? Look, if you feel bad about our first eting and my behavior, I will say sorry, okay? Please don't joke around like this."
Seeing that Lucien still didn't open his eyes, Lilith's voice beca more and more anxious. After all, she realized that due to the extre heat of the desert, the water inside the flask was already vaporizing extrely rapidly.
She was already getting so suffocated.
"Damn, Lucien! Don't forget your mother considers her daughter-in-law. You cannot betray like this. You even took my sister into your harem, and I didn't say anything. Why are you still ignoring ?"
Feeling the situation becoming more and more dire, Lilith finally couldn't take it anymore. Her voice trembled in fear, sounding as if she were on the verge of crying.
Lilith never thought she would see a day when she would die as a fish in a vast desert.
'What did I do wrong to have such bad luck?'
"Haha… finally, my strength is back. It feels good to be alive once again."
Just as Lilith was losing all hope, thinking that Lucien was really abandoning her, she saw him open his eyes and mumble in excitent.
'System, show my status panel.'
Unlike what Lilith thought, Lucien wasn't actually ignoring her, nor did he want to kill her.
Rather, he was simply excited to regain his power. To be honest, he felt extrely vulnerable when he lost all his strength before.
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[Na: Lucien Goldveil]
[Race: Human]
[House: Goldveil Viscount Lineage]
[Class: The Empty Throne (Unique)]
[Secondary Classes: Enchanter, Mage, Devourer, Assassine, Beast Master, BroodKing]
[Rank: C-rank (Arcanist-Peak)]
[Title: None]
[Talent: Exceptional]
[Attributes]
Strength: 889
Physique: 312
Agility: 1110
Endurance: 1009
Vitality: 300
Intelligence: 864
Perception: 1019
Charisma/Charm: 72
Dexterity: 118
Willpower: 105
Mana: 550/550
Lifespan: 15 (extra)
[Unique Stat: Origin]
[Current Origin: 0 point]
[Affinity: Darkness (Exceptional), Earth (Rare), Fire (Rare), Shadow (Rare)]
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Just as Lucien ordered his system, he imdiately saw the huge change in his status panel. Well, it wasn't a huge change as it was restored to his true state.
But it still managed to form a big smile on Lucien's face.
'Haha…so it was indeed suppressed and it didn't just disappear.'
He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as he was really afraid he would lose everything.
Fortunately, it was just a false alarm.
'Looking at it, even my realm increased to the Peak of Arcanist realm or C-rank. But…why the hell is there still no announcent from the World of Origin?'
Lucien wondered, feeling totally odd.
From how his realm or Class rank increased, it was clear that he completed his class ascension quest, right?
Then…why was there no announcent? There wasn't one when he woke up before, and there was still none even after he left the Mirage Pond.
To be honest, Lucien felt like he was being totally ignored by the World of Origin.
'System, do you know why this happened?'
He even tried asking his system, but got no response all of a sudden. Even though it seed oblivious to this situation.
"L-Lucien…help!"
Just as he was drifting off due to this weird situation, Lucien suddenly woke up to the loud plea for help.
It was from Lilith, or rather, from the beautiful Koi fish desperately flapping its tail in the shallow water inside the flask.
"Oh…I almost forgot."
Only after seeing such a situation did Lucien finally rember Lilith.
So, without wasting a second, he imdiately thought of the connection between them and wished for the Koi fish's release in his mind.
Fortunately, he knew how to do it, as it was the process given by that short old man in the mory crystal.
"Swoosh!"
Just as Lilith felt the darkness begin to cloud her vision and her thoughts turn sluggish from suffocation, everything around her suddenly changed.
It was as if so kind soul had lifted a floundering fish and gently placed it back into the water.
Or rather, in her case, she was finally allowed to breathe in her true form as a human.
"Cough… cough… cough…"
As soon as Lilith left her Koi form and appeared in her human one, she coughed nonstop while taking deep breaths continuously.
Her trembling hands pressed against the ground as she struggled to steady herself, the lingering panic still visible in her wide, teary eyes.
"Are you…alright?"
Seeing her in such a sorry situation, Lucien asked, although a little awkwardly, while gently patting her smooth back.
Because Lilith changed her form from a fish, she was currently completely naked from head to toe. Lucien could clearly see her huge jugs swinging wildly as she coughed and breathed deeply.
Of course, he wasn't paying attention to that as he saw that Lilith was really not feeling good.
"Cough…d-damn it…Lucien…I will kill you."
It was fine if Lucien didn't say anything, but when he asked if she was alright, Lilith's anger exploded imdiately.
She thought Lucien was mocking her in a sarcastic tone.
After all, if he really cared about her, wouldn't he have released her imdiately? Why let her suffocate for so long?
Did he have a thing for masochism or what?
While thinking about the last one, Lilith couldn't help but shudder as she really hoped that her guess wasn't true.
"Hey, hey… now, you're overreacting. I saved your life, and you want to kill ? Are you so ungrateful?"
Lucien rolled his eyes at Lilith's naked threat.
"Ungrateful? Cough… Lucien, tell sothing. You were trying to take revenge on all this ti, right? Otherwise, why didn't you release imdiately at the Mirage Pond? Why let suffer in this heat for so long?"
Lilith was, of course, grateful to Lucien. After all, like he said, if not for him, she had no chance of staying alive.
She might really beco a Koi fish and spend all her life in that pond with no sanity left.
Fortunately, he appeared at the right ti and saved her. However, when she rembered his deeds after saving her, she felt he was playing around with her.
"Flick…"
"Ouch…"
Just as Lilith was voicing her grievances to Lucien, she felt him flick his finger against her glabella, eliciting a sharp moan of pain from her.
"What are you thinking? Are you stupid? Why will I release you when we are still inside the Mirage Pond?"
Lucien asked, speechless. After all, he wasn't a fool.
The rule of the Mirage Pond was that a person had to pay two Bronze Coins to leave, or catch at least one fish from the pond.
If he released Lilith at that ti, who could say for sure if it would still count as him catching a fish?
And even if it did count and he could leave the Mirage Pond, what about Lilith?
After leaving her Koi form, she was no longer a fish, or rather, no longer a commodity of the Mirage Pond.
Lucien was absolutely sure she would require two Bronze Coins just like him to leave that place.
After all, he already noticed that the frog didn't appear even after the bell rang for quite so ti.
'That bastard is clearly trying to trap .'
"Okay, don't think too much about this incident. Everything I did has its reason."
Lucien didn't want to apologize, nor did he want to explain.
"I think, rather than getting angry with , you should first put your dress on. Who knows if soone appears here and sees you like this?"
So, he just lightly gaslighted Lilith before signaling at her with his eyes.
To be honest, with all that heavy breathing and frantic movent, she almost looked like she was pleading desperately for his attention.
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