The Duchess moved her hand to grab at Sylas’ member. The moment she felt the heat she had been thinking about, it felt as though a jolt ran through her entire body, and her movements became more eager, more vigorous—albeit clumsy in ways that were obvious to Sylas, but seemed to leave her in the dark.
Sylas didn’t move, his eyes a bit clouded as he still seemed lost in thought.
The temptation was great.
It wasn’t just about the Duchess’ body, though... that was truly immaculate.
She wasn’t carrying breasts the size of a man’s head like Ansla was, and her hips weren’t nearly so bulbous, but she was so well-proportioned, so delicate in all the right ways, so soft to the touch that she was no less enticing in her own ways.
No, she was far more perfect than Ansla in every way. There wasn’t the slightest bit of asymmetry on her.
Her body was powerful, and yet soft, such that even her slightest movements caused ripples along her breasts down to her bottom. Her hair flowed naturally and sparkled along with her skin. She had not the slightest hint of hair on her, and she was just the slightest bit cold to the touch—as though to invite you to warm her up.
But to Sylas, she might as well have just been a bag of flesh. His body was reacting as it would, but his mind was clear.
The problem he was facing was the path to power—the intoxicating sort of dangling carrot before his face... a path that would be so very easy to take.
Ravaging an E-tier beauty with the Lust Seed would almost certainly complete his technique. Bedding the Duchess just a single time would allow him to weed out a great amount of impurities and weaknesses in his foundation.
The change to his strength wouldn’t be linear, but rather exponential.
It was hard to put a number on it when he couldn’t even see his stats, but Sylas estimated that one night with the Duchess would make him twice as powerful as he was now...
On the low end. It could even be as great as three times.
The reason for that wasn’t just because she was an E-tier—though this was obviously a heavily weighing factor—but also because of her Race Grade and her suppressed Lineage.
Although she was no longer a member of an S-Grade Race, the lineage of one was still suppressed within her somewhere, and that made taking her better than taking any normal D-Grade Demoness by several orders of magnitude.
Sylas felt that his advantage on the Golden Battlefield would be enormous already. But if he could tap into more of his potential as a D-Grade Race himself—removing some of the limitations caused by the weaknesses in his own lineage—then this sure win would become even more secure.
It had to be remembered that Sylas’ weakness wasn’t just the fact he was born from a weak F-Grade Race. He was also a child not recognized by the Grimblades, offset by not just one generation but two.
His father was already a weakened Grimblade, and he further went on to marry someone that weakened his children even further.
Sylas had gotten rid of the most obvious result of that weakness, but he had obviously not managed to get to the very root of it all.
If he was correct about this last piece he needed... the Duchess’ body was too important to him.
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