After Yasenia threw Farsha off the platform, she undid all her buffs and looked around the arena.
Ao Yuelan's voice echoed. "What a spectacular show of raw strength! Yasenia Dravory shows why she is the [Treasure Holder]! She shows why she is not the challenger, but the one to be challenged! Let's give a round of heated applause to the first winner!"
Her bias tore through the air as she sang praises to Yasenia. However, did it matter?
Once Ao Yuelan called for it, the entire stadium roared to life.
Yasenia chuckled faintly as she heard all kinds of things spoken out in the heat of the moment. 'Aunt Yuelan is really something.'
Instead of focusing on the surroundings, she checked the other arenas. 'Hm… There are differences between the finalists.'
Farsha could be said to be on the weaker end of the last few competitors. While he was dangerous and strong, Yasenia simply outclassed him where he thrived. Defeating him with a few punches and kicks was an obvious result.
Unbothered by her win, Yasenia sat cross-legged and waited, recovering her strength. Since this was a battle of attrition, fighting without rest once everyone was done, any time for recovery would give her a strong advantage over her competitors.
Time slipped by, with many fights stretching far longer than Yasenia expected. It took about 1.5 hours for all battles to have a winner, with over 70% lasting less than 10 minutes.
This showed that some fights were evenly matched, leaving everyone else plenty of time to rest.
'My opponent is platform 50 now…'
Her eyes moved over, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly. 'It's that incubus.'
The incubus was not conventionally attractive. Instead of having features that would leave human women breathless, he seemed to have grown on a more beastly continent, making his attractiveness wild. He was tall, muscular, with a squareish jawline. His deep purple eyes shone with ferocity that could awaken something deep inside most beast-human women.
The black-colored ram horns and a single pair of fleshy, grey wings only accentuated that wildness, while his sexually charged aura would awaken some wild fantasies in most females below certain ranks.
Yasenia didn't doubt that the incubus's looks, while not traditionally attractive, were enough to bed over 99% of women below a certain strength threshold. She wasn't surprised, nor affected. That was the nature of their blood, born with a fatal attraction toward the opposite gender.
Moreover, after receiving the full burn of the Second Succubus Ancestor's seduction head first, the incubus's aura felt… lacking. Even with his beastly charm, Yasenia's heart didn't even falter for an instant, her eyes like ancient golden wells, without a single ripple.
Both platforms moved, and Yasenia's and the incubus's platforms merged into one. The incubus smiled faintly, his voice velvety yet low and rumbling, each word carrying a subtle vibration that sank beneath the skin and set nerves humming.
"Yasenia Dravory. I've waited for this moment since I first set my eyes on you."
The incubus smiled, reassured, thinking that his voice would cause some kind of ripple in Yasenia's mood. And yet, a moment later, a trace of confusion flashed in his charming, purple eyes. 'No reaction?'
If there was any reaction, he would know. A faint moment of breathlessness, a light flicker in the eyes, a twitch at the waist, or even a stutter in the tail's movement.
And yet, after his voice landed, Yasenia's composure didn't even flicker. Not a single twitch.
Yasenia extended her hand, summoning Draheart and grabbing her by the hilt. The weight of the massive weapon made her arm sink for a second before she tightened her grip.
The incubus teased. "Are you summoning weapons to try and maintain composure? Don't worry, I know we can have a great time. I am, without a doubt, weaker than you. However, that doesn't mean that we should clash just like that, right?"
The incubus saw Yasenia look at him, and suddenly, a breathtaking smile appeared on her lips. In that instant, it wasn't only him, but most of the stadium that felt their hearts stop.
It was as if all colors other than those making up Yasenia's existence faded into the background.
"Incubus," Yasenia spoke, her mellow, low, and seductive feminine voice sending a shiver down his spine. "Do you want to taste me?"
The incubus, for a moment, blanked out. He could feel a shiver of pleasure going down his spine, making his thick and powerful tail freeze for a second.
Of course, as a demon specialized in sexual arts, and one of the most powerful geniuses at that, he managed to snap out of Yasenia's influence quickly. His figure relaxed, and a smile full of meaning spread on his own lips. "A taste? I want ownership. I want you to relish in me, to speak my name with your voice."
Yasenia laughed, her voice as charming and hypnotizing as fairy chimes in a mystical forest. It narrowed the world to her presence alone.
"Good, then come."
Yasenia's eyes softened, her pupils expanding as her tongue wetted her oh-so-kissable lips. The incubus knew that the next words would probably send another shiver down his spine.
Nevertheless, as he prepared, the incubus suddenly noticed something odd.
'When did she shorten the distance so much?'
As that question appeared in his mind, his eyes widened. However, it was far too late.
Yasenia's lips moved, not to seduce, but to kill.
"[Celestial Sunder]."
Her sword flashed, speed unmatched as Celestial Energies coiled around it and surged forward. The path Draheart followed looked effortless, and Yasenia spun once with it.
It was then that they noticed Celestial Sunder not only coating the sword but also her tail.
As she slashed forward, a breathtakingly handsome figure appeared in front of the incubus genius. He had two pairs of fleshy wings on his back, instead of one pair, clearly showing his status.
BANG!
With a gentle tap, Yasenia's attacks collapsed.
Yasenia remained unaffected as her eyes met with the new arrivals. With an elegant bow, she saluted. "Lord Incubus Ancestor."
Then, she turned toward the central area, not sparing a second glance.
Her sashaying only enhanced her attractiveness, her tail wagging playfully yet seductively as her full hips swung from side to side. The Incubus Ancestor's eyes flashed with momentary surprise when Yasenia ignored his natural charm. Even if he was holding it in, the difference in strength between them should've at least made Yasenia blank out for a few seconds.
He didn't know that Yasenia had gone through a much more profound tempering not long ago. So, while it might've been true before that moment, now she was able to remain unaffected.
In the stands, someone finally asked, confused. "W-What happened?"
Someone at the side snorted. "You were too enchanted by Celestial Fairy Yasenia's charm."
That man blushed slightly and snorted. "So what? I wasn't the only one!"
A strong female cultivator smirked. "Interesting. Yasenia knew that the incubus almost desperately wanted to have her. Therefore, she decided to fight charm with charm. Her attempts didn't have any specific skill, but I can tell that there is some profound art enhancing her presence."
And the woman was not wrong. Yasenia had used her [Celestial Maiden Ascends Through The Heaven] Dual Cultivation technique to bring out her charm. She didn't use any finesse, as she flooded the incubus's senses with her raw innate beauty and attractiveness. It was a brutish method that most charm-cultivators would despise. But, since the incubus didn't expect it, it worked.
The first male cultivator blinked. "Are you saying that Celestial Fairy Yasenia reverse charmed that incubus and attacked when he had no chance to retaliate?"
"I am not saying it. That's exactly what happened."
Meanwhile, in the stands, Lady First's eyes glowed faintly with endless praise. 'A diamond in the rough? No… She is like an ancient treasure waiting to be unearthed.'
The Second Succubus Ancestor chuckled. "Little Yasenia sometimes makes me wonder if our race's reputation has made us too arrogant." She then sighed softly. "What a shame that her view on Demons is clearly not good. Otherwise, I wouldn't have minded nurturing a little dragon baby for her."
Lady First chuckled. "Who knows? There might be a chance. I think that's not that hard to get along with that child. Just be respectful and keep boundaries. If she says no to something, respect it. You can keep trying, but always with propriety. As long as you don't cross her bottom line, she will be mostly indifferent to everything else."
Tatyana, standing nearby, spoke lightly. "I recommend not making those attempts now. She has been away from her wives for a long time, so her heart is currently as tight as a fortress."
Since Lady First was going to teach her about the [Love Law], she didn't mind giving some advice back. These succubuses were clearly of quite a pure bloodline, making them develop less vulgarly. 'While they might ride everything that moves, they have restraints. I can even sense a trace of strange purity in them.'
It was weird, to say the least. But most of the Seventh Realm succubuses she has seen carried themselves with elegance, not sensuality.
Her eyes gravitated toward Lady First's common facial features. She was not, in any way, a beauty. Thin, pale pink lips rested in a straight line, her nose straight but wholly unremarkable. Her eyes were similarly plain—dark pupils that, at times, hinted at something deeper, yet never long enough to truly linger in the mind.
If one had to summarize her appearance, her face was without flaws but also without any feature that would make onlookers want to take a second look.
'It's probably her influence.'
If the strongest Succubus was a ruinous beauty, Tatyana didn't doubt that they would've followed the usual steps of their race. Seductive, confident, and arrogant, extremely sure that they can take anyone or anything with just a single, disarming smile.
However, when the strongest one was someone who probably clawed her way up through a thorny path, the whole race's dynamic shifted.
'Interesting.'
Tatyana thought, a quiet smile appearing on her lips.
On another part of the arena, the Incubus Ancestor returned with the genius by his side. Once he arrived, he looked up at his disciple and spat a single word. "Pathetic. I'll be giving ten of your breeders to your junior brother as a punishment and have them breed at least a child each before returning them to you."
The incubus genius's eyes widened with indignation. "Master! You can't do that!"
Even when they could get any woman, incubuses were extremely possessive of those they marked as theirs, and not a fling. This punishment was similar to plunging a claw into his chest and tearing half his heart out.
The Incubus Ancestor was ruthless. "If you don't want this to happen again, don't get seduced by such low-level techniques again."
The incubus genius trembled in shame and anger, venomous vengeance growing inside him. However, he couldn't go against his master. The last time he rebelled, he found most of his lovers broken in his Master's bed. Since that day, he had never dared to offend him.