A couple of days passed since that conversation happened, signaling it as the second-last day he can stay here and the debts catch up to him.
Unfortunately, there was still no trace of the supposed Imp in these two days, and that worried him. Did it assault more people? When will they finally kill her?
The more time passes, the greater of a chance the imp has to finally get him. However, while that kind of chance got greater, so did his source of income. Yesterday he successfully obtained the Cleaner, which did little to increase his source of income unfortunately, so he bought an Iron Mine at evening, since he had reached the necessary amount of money.
For reference, this is the current status of his Tycoon.
[Tycoon Info]
[Current Production: 35 Gold/Hour]
[Basic Production: 33 Gold/Hour]
[Current Multiplier: 1.05x]
[Automatic Wood Cutter: (1 Gold/Hour)]
[Automatic Stone Retriever: (2 Gold/Hour)]
[Coal Mine: (5 Gold/Hour)]
[Copper Mine: (10 Gold/Hour)]
[Iron Mine: (15 Gold/Hour)]
[Steel Mine: 500 Gold]
[Silver Mine: 800 Gold]
[Gold Mine: 1'000 Gold]
[Platinum Mine: 2'000 Gold]
[Upgrader Info]
[Cleaner: (+0,05x multiplier)]
[Purifier: 300 Gold]
[Polisher: 500 Gold]
[Refiner: 1'000 Gold]
At this very moment, he had around 400 Gold, so he could buy the second upgrader, which he did. The purifier passed him an extra 0,05x multiplier, turning his production into this.
[Current Production: 36 Gold/Hour]
[Basic Production: 33 Gold/Hour]
[Current Multiplier: 1.1x]
[Automatic Wood Cutter: (1 Gold/Hour)]
[Automatic Stone Retriever: (2 Gold/Hour)]
[Coal Mine: (5 Gold/Hour)]
[Copper Mine: (10 Gold/Hour)]
[Iron Mine: (15 Gold/Hour)]
[Steel Mine: 500 Gold]
[Silver Mine: 800 Gold]
[Gold Mine: 1'000 Gold]
[Platinum Mine: 2'000 Gold]
The next thing to get would be the Steel Mine. Even though upgraders are important, the mines are his source of money. Without a great base production, the multipliers would be useless.
At the moment, it was the morning of his fifth day at the inn. This time, instead of doing nothing, he decided to go through the store, setting his gaze on a particular item that is fundamental for his survival in this world.
Without that thing, the trip he will go through to reach the Treasure Cave will be many times harder than before, with a great chance of him dying… of boredom.
[P-MEGA Powerbank: 3'100 Gold]
[USB cable Mini A: 70 Gold]
Yep, his phone died some days ago… It's incredible that it lasted until then, to be honest. Still, these days are too boring without a phone… For now, he will have to settle with a smaller power bank of 400 Gold Coins.
Tomorrow he will get both the powerbank and the cable and pay up his debts with his money. However, he will have to push the date for buying the Steel Mine further for that, which he doesn't mind.
It's just a day, there is nothing wrong with that.
*Knock!* *Knock!* Someone knocked at the door, making Victor raise an eyebrow. He already ate breakfast, so it couldn't be Luka.
"Victor. It's me, Fredrick."
"Oh, come in, the door is open." If Fredrick was here, it means that he found something that he wished to discuss with him. The wooden door opened, and the familiar armored figure of Fredrick entered the room.
"Sorry to disturb you this early in the morning." Fredrick replied, carrying a grave expression on his face. Something serious must have happened…
"It's not a problem. I am already awake and there is nothing for me to do, was there something important you found out there?"
Fredrick sighed and nodded. His hand went to the hilt of the sword before he unsheathed it and pointed the blade at Victor's face, much to the latter's surprise.
"Victor, you are under arrest under the suspicion of illegally transporting a monster inside the village."
"Wait, what?!" Victor asked with a face of stupor, and it was then that Fredrick's face broke down in a full-blown laughter.
"Pfft… Hahahaha!" He lowered his sword and grasped his chest. "Your face was hilarious! Hahaha. Did you really think that I was going to arrest you? It's a joke!"
A bitter smile appeared on Victor as he sighed. "Goddammit, you really scared me, man."
"Well, the point of this joke is to make it seem believable."
"...Good point. I'll give you that." Victor took a deep breath for calming down from the sudden scare he received. "Anyway, did you find anything out there?"
This time Fredrick's smile was gone as he elated a sigh. "Yes, we found the fourth person you were talking about. It's the twin of one of the victims."
"I see, so it was indeed her. Did you capture her?"
Fredrick shook his head. "She already died five days ago, near the camping site between Iliasburg and Ilias Village. Her corpse was already turned into a nest for some insects when we found her, followed by a stench of rotten."
"..." Victor stiffened at those words and covered his mouth with one hand.
The 'culprit' who allegedly snuck in an imp in the village is dead, scratching away the possibility of her and the imp in question collaborating. If that isn't the case, then the imp must have either been great at the art of stealth, otherwise there is no way that she could possibly sneak in the village without being detected…
"...Is there a chance that the Imp could have flown high enough for them to escape their field of view?" Victor asked with a raised eyebrow, and Fredrick paused.
"...That is indeed possible. In the middle of the night, an imp could certainly hide in the darkness and fly inside our village. However, that doesn't explain how she could be this strong… There is no way an imp can kill an entire party by herself."
"..." Victor also went in deep thought. He also realized that an imp can't possibly be that strong; even in the game, the imps visible on the story were pathetically weak…
"...!" Victor's eyes widened in shock as his body trembled for a moment. Seeing his abnormal reaction, Fredrick panicked for a moment.
"Did you think of something new?"
"...There's no way that the woman died 5 days ago, she literally insulted me as soon as the entire group arrived here in the village!"
"What?" Fredrick blinked in surprise at Victor's words and shook his head for a moment before asking again. "WHAT?!"
"..." Victor remained silent before a certain thought entered in his mind. "...Hey, Fredrick… What if the 'imp' in question is a full-grown Succubus? Would it be possible for her to sneak in the village undetected?"
"Impossible, there is no way that a Succubus can appear in these lands! There is not even the environment for them to properly grow!" Fredrick exclaimed with a serious expression.
"People can become Gods, plants can grow in deserts, people can fly. Some things might seem impossible, and the more impossible it looks like, the greater is the burden to carry before reaching the realm of possibility. 500 years ago, if I told veteran heroes that they can defeat the Monster Lord if they followed a certain route, then they would laugh at me.
They are the ones that know better than anyone how strong monsters can get. If people are afraid of a Vampire or a Dragon, can they ever hope to defeat someone who is considered the strongest monster in the world? And yet, Heinrich Hein appeared… Now tell me, is it possible for a Succubus to sneak in the village undetected?"
"..." Fredrick sighed and nodded. "Succubi are beings that have great skill in sexcraft and black magic. I don't know much about magic, but I would not be surprised to know if one can change their looks with black magic."
"...Well, we got the solution to this problem. An imp got really lucky and was able to become a Succubus, who disguised herself as one of the party members and ultimately killed them all… Still, there is still something wrong about this… Why aren't there more attacks? I'm not a professionist in this kind of thing, but if it was indeed a Succubus, the entire Inn would be gone already at this point."
"That's true… If the Succubus only focused on the four party members…"
"...She was stopped by someone." Victor concluded Fredrick's thoughts as he switched his gaze upwards. "...If I think about someone capable of that, it could only be 'her'."
Fredrick followed his gaze and stared at the ceiling. A couple of seconds later, the realization reached him too before he clasped his hands together and bowed his head.
"I wish Eternal Blessing for our lady Goddess Ilias for casting a miracle upon us…"
Victor softly sighed but didn't say anything. Of course it would be Ilias, it would be a disaster if a Succubus currently stood in the range of 1 kilometer from Luka at this moment, not to talk about being in Ilias Village. Even with her mentality, there is no way she will allow monsters near her sacred temple, killing her followers in such a blatant way.
In chinese terms, it would be a slap to her face.
"Well, it looks like we were worried for nothing…" Victor commented, and Fredrick awkwardly stroked the back of his head. "You're right. It's better to have an open mind when dealing with complex cases… Do you want to come with me for a drink? I know the man working at a tavern here and I can guarantee that his alcohol is great."
"No. I don't know about here, but in my hometown the age of adulthood was 18, so I am still a minor."
"How old are you?"
"17."
Fredrick chuckled and patted Victor's shoulder. "It's alright then! Here, you become an adult at the age of 16. It's truly a shame that you are not a hero, though; with that brain of yours, you have the potential to be a strategist.
Maybe you can have a career as a teacher, though. Ilias Village misses a proper school to teach the children, and the Temple of Ilias is currently taking the mantle as a teaching institute for everyone. However, they aren't really able to do a good job… So, how about it? Come with me and I can give a good word about you to the Temple after a drink together."
Victor shook his head again. "Knowing a lot and teaching stuff are completely different things. I couldn't teach crap to my little sister, not to think about a group of children. Besides, I am already financially alright. For now, I just want to relax on my bed with nothing in my mind at all now that I know that the monster is dead."
"Alright then, I hope we can drink together another time. Maybe when you finally reach 18 years?"
"I'll hold it in for then." Victor smiled at Fredrick as they waved at each other.
"Bye, I have to take care of my team."
"Bye."
After Fredrick left, Victor pulled off the smile and sighed. It was hard being a social person… It's really better staying alone than going to parties, there will be less stuff to be focused on.
Victor wheeled to his bed and sprawled his body on it… Just then, a vague memory entered in his mind. Victor opened his system and reached for the Achievements.
Just like he remembered, there was 'that' achievement: 'V-Card? Is it worth anything?'
He lost his virginity… When? On the night of 3 days ago, probably. He had crusty underwear and there was nothing like that before.
How? That was the real question.
With whom?
Of course, the only thing that came in his mind was the Succubus that had killed off the other heroes. After all, the quarrel of 4 days ago was done against her, not the woman she disguised as. Unless she was a great actor, she should have been really angry.
And that anger might have been turned against him after she killed her 'companions'...
In that case, on the night of 3 days ago, he got raped by a Succubus and seemed fine in the morning. From his memory, Succubi is a being that lives off on semen and spiritual energy.
Unless you have a friendly relationship with that said succubus, you will 100% die during the intercourse due to your life energy being sucked off. You will be like an empty shell, just like many franchises have shown in regards to succubi.
So… How is he still alive, if he had sex with the succubus?
Maybe… His physiology is different from the other humans. In fact, there was nothing like spiritual energy back to Earth; the very concept of soul was very vague, and it was still debatable if it existed. As a soulless being, he is unaffected by the effects a Succubus might cause to him.
As much as he wanted to know more, he didn't really want to understand how it works because that would involve a special kind of group he wished to let them breed far far away from his entity.
Well, it's time to do nothing…
...
...As time passed, Victor began to get bored from staring at the wooden ceiling. His eyes set on his bandaged leg, noticing that it was now ruined and had metal bars sticking in the wrong direction. A sigh escaped from his mouth before he swept through his store.
He bought medical bandages at the cost of 98 Gold Coins and started to change his bandages. He didn't know absolutely anything about medicine and related stuff, but he knows that with this kind of injury, you had to change bandages often to prevent an infection.
Victor could have gone to the doctor in the Temple of Ilias, but he is determined to give him a 'fuck you' by not getting in contact with him in any way, even for breathing the same air.
He will find more competent doctors in Iliasburg, after he got a gun and there won't be any problem in the city.
Anyway, now he has to focus on bandaging his leg first… First, remove the old bandage carefully, to prevent injury.
The metal bars fell on the bed while the used bandages were sold back on the store for 6 Gold Coins. On his left leg, a large and ugly black bruise was embracing his entire leg, caused by a falling tree.
At the sight of it, Victor only sighed. If he had more money, he would have certainly had better care for it. Applying some medical ointment before covering the bruise with a large medical band. The broken bones will certainly not be gone yet, but it will be enough for him to last until he can obtain the True Vampire Serum.
The second thing he will have to do is lay down his leg and replace the metal bars around it, before passing his medical bandage around it until it covers his entire leg again.
Holding the metallic bars by passing over the medical bandage, he started to cover his entire leg with it until the roll was halved. By the time he covered his leg twice, he started to tie up the two ends.
"You put your laces in each hand," Suddenly, Victor began to sing with a far memory of his childhood as he moved his fingers through the knot.
"Go under and over again, take your loop-de-loop and pull, and your shoes are lookin' cool.
You go over and back - Left to right - Loop-de-loop and pull 'em tight.
Like bunny ears or a christmas bow, lace 'em up and you're ready to go!
Take your loop-de-loop and pull, and your shoes are lookin' cool.
Take your loop-de-loop and pull, and your shoes are lookin' cool."
At the end of the small song he reminisced from Spongebob Squarepants, which, by the way, made up his childhood less black and white, Victor looked at the knot he tied up on his leg with satisfaction.
A trembling smile was etched on his face as he stared at his knot. Actually, it wasn't the TV show that taught him how to tie his shoes, but it was his parents that did it.
They simply used the song to make him remember how to do it, and it got stuck on his head for a couple of years before he passed in the next stage of his age. Even if he didn't sing it anymore, it was in his mind like that box filled with stuff that you would tell yourself to throw away but forget about it, leaving it in a corner you will notice again in another couple of years, holding nostalgia for the old times…
"*Sniff*" Victor swiped one hand below his nose, wiping away the snot that was flowing out in an annoying manner. He clenched his fists before his eyes turned red and dripped out tears.
A whimper escaped from his mouth before he curled up on his bed in a tentative silence. He is someone introverted, liking to stay in his bedroom the entire time with his PC, but it was just now that he understood what it really means to feel grief for being lonely.
This is not like some stupid isekai story: His parents are alive and they have a good relationship with him; the technology of Earth is the only thing that let his true self comunicate with the external world; the food is great, and so was his life there…
Now everything is gone, and he got mixed up in a world where safety was optionary. Monsters that could kill him immediately roamed around the world, and they can even reach for him if they ever felt like it. There is no one that will save him, and he doubted that Ilias would move for an unknown like him.
It was a weird destiny… His extravagant life started, followed by grief. This was so unlike the story of other protagonists, which had an opposite chronological order.
If he had to pull someone in a similar case than him, that would be Subaru… Let's just hope that his future won't be like that boy's, or he will go mad really quickly.
…
"My Goddess, I have got some information from the target." Kneeling on the ground paved with gold was Eden, located in front of the Goddess that created her, Ilias.
"Speak."
"His name is Victor, and he seems to have a past outside Ilias Village, even though he was discreet with his origins. I also observed that he is capable of materializing things out of nowhere, probably using some kind of pocket dimension, even despite not using any magic. It is possible that he is in tune with the element of space; but if that was the case, fixing his leg should have been easy. I also have taken a semen sample from his body while he was sleeping, so that I would not get discovered." Eden said before she pulled a vial with white liquid inside from her green robe.
Ilias raised an eyebrow and replied. "Oh? That's actually a good result for being with him for 5 days. At least you finally surpassed my expectations if that is everything you got."
With a single gesture, she made the vial float towards her and grasped it on one hand. This vial contained Victor's semen, the seed of the unknown creature wearing human skin. She will have to pass it to Promestein for further analysis, but it would be better holding an open eye for her in the case she sneaks something suspicious from the results.
"I also have to report that Victor is capable of having contact with angels even when they are in the spiritual plane, and that he is highly receptive when he wants, capable of correctly guessing the situation that happened in the night of 3 days ago with the dead Succubus. What are your next orders, my Goddess?" Eden finished her report and silently waited for Ilias to speak.
"...What about his device? The black screen. Is it possible to retrieve it?"
Eden shook her head. "Unless I can stop being his guardian angel, it will be impossible for me to obtain his device. He almost always holds it in his pocket, even if he recently stopped using it. It is certain that it is currently unusable at the moment."
Ilias sighed and lazily waved her away. "Keep doing what you were doing until now. Remember, your only mission is to protect him from certain death and wring out more information out of him without him noticing you; don't bother with anything else, even if it is mingling with filth.
Rather, it would be good if he has intercourse with monsters: If he can obtain their Dark Energy, then that will be a good thing… Hmm. Also, try to supply him with Holy Energy little by little, so that he won't notice any changes in the immediate time."
"Your wish is my order, my Goddess." After announcing that, Eden began to fly away from Heaven and return to the mortal world.
"..." Ilias stared at the vial of semen on her hand in silence. After some minutes, she opened her mouth. "It's decided, you will be the key for absolute power…"
She took a deep breath and let out a shout that resounded in the entire Heaven.
"PROMESTEIN!!"
…
Victor Luis' (future) Trivia Book: Succubi
Succubi are a well-known monster species with an independent nature, known for being the 'Queens of Sexcraft', as they are all taught in the arts of sex from the mere age of 1 and have a natural talent on it, without exceptions.
They are also one of the races with the most human-like monster/human ratio, being almost entirely human with the exception of horns, wings, and tail. After Imps grow up into Succubi, the level of danger they possess is exponentially increased.
They can secrete powerful pheromones to sensitize the genitals of the poor victim who comes in contact with them, radiate a seductive aura to attract men and women only by looking at them, and can even change the insides of their bodies to better fit the victim's fetishes.
Unlike other monsters, Succubi hold high regard for semen not as some kind of nectar of the gods, but as their very main source of food. They can also live off with other kinds of food, but their bodies and minds will quickly deteriorate if they don't have their daily dose of semen.
Succubi in general also have the habitude of sucking spiritual energy along with semen, which greatly weakens their victims until they remain soulless beings. Having sex with an unknown succubus will result in either your death by dehydration if you are a man, or having your soul stolen if you are a woman. There are also great chances that you will be directly devoured alive by them once they take care of their own pleasure.
As for reproduction, this is a quite interesting point to mention. Succubi can give birth to imps in the normal way, by being pregnant and all. However, they also have the ability to convert other women into succubi as long as they have enough power, directly turning them into succubi rather than imps.
Their culture is also quite different despite being so human-like and independent. They take Sex as a form of art, a job they were born for, almost akin to a religion.
They love sex just like your neighbor loves your wife. They could easily take your semen with their magic alone, but only few do that, as everyone else directly swallows it with every orifice they have. Despite the obvious contrasts between their and our culture, they don't seem to mind it at all… No, it's more like they don't care at all about anything else other than sex.
If you wish to have a Succubus as a wife, trust me and give up. Unless you are open at the idea of your friends using your wife like a fuck toy twenty-five out of twenty-four hours a day, look for something better, because a Succubus will never stay with a single man unless that man is capable of fullfill every her expectations.
Just get your 10 Gold Coins you were saving up for a dinner with your family and go in the red streets, the cheapest and most good-looking woman you will find is the succubus you want to fuck.
While they have a great affinity with sexcraft and wind magic, they seem to be extremely weak against earth magic, for the simple fact that their bodies need to be light to fly fast, and thus also fragile. This can be compensated by learning martial arts like their queen, Alma Elma, did.
In short, don't trust succubi, even if they are friends. God knows what they will do if you take your eyes off them.