Chapter 271 – Academy Arc (44) – Forbidden Book 3
272. Academy Arc (44) – Forbidden Book 3
A book with a thick red border.
[Magic Theory Utilizing Lust]
The surprisingly straightforward title made me chuckle for a moment. Actually, all the book titles here are written this simply.
I immediately took it out and began flipping through the pages to check the contents.
The preface stated that this magic theory had existed since the Tamires era, hundreds of years ago.
After the high god Illisia fully took root, they started using the Illias calendar, and before that, they used the Tamires calendar.
In other words, this Tamires must have been a supreme god similar to Illisia before she came to this world.
Well, that’s not important right now.
I don’t have time to read and analyze everything here.
I skimmed through the pages, looking for the gist of it.
As expected, there were several wicked spells written there, all of them methods of using and applying human lust. While flipping through the pages, I found the content I was looking for and my eyes sparkled. I’d have to read it in detail later, but there was definitely a magic theory with the keyword ‘absorption’ in it.
‘This is definitely the book.’
The reason I risked infiltrating the Royal Library like this was to find a way to power up using lust. I’m having sex almost every day, so this path is probably more suitable for me.
There was a booklet tucked at the end of the book, and reading through it, I found various mages’ comments. Some said it was a useless magic that disturbed the world and should be destroyed, while others said that the theory itself was worth studying, so they should focus on the principle. It was a controversial magic in many ways, and they were arguing about their different positions in writing.
There was nothing else I needed in the other books, so I decided to leave the basement right away.
[Lust-related magic books to be stored in the Magic Tower]
They left such a sloppy note.
In fact, I don’t even know if a Magic Tower exists in this world. I’m just doing this kind of fire-starting act because it might be helpful in some way. Scarlett definitely knows that I have divine power. (She only guesses that I’m a rare blessed one, but she doesn’t know I’m a proxy yet.) If Scarlett were to visit this place sometime, and there wasn’t any bait to divert her attention, she might connect my disappearance to me and become suspicious.
The book was quite thick, so there was no time to make a copy.
As I came out of the basement with the book, I saw the mages still looking dazed. I tossed the lust magic book to the librarian who had spoken to me first.
“You, take this out secretly, wrap it up, and ship it as quickly as possible. The address is Raul at Phillips Academy. After this is done, forget everything. Got it? The same goes for you all.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good.”
After that, I took the carriage that Scarlett had waiting and returned to her mansion, driving through the night. I didn’t forget to thank her while talking to her. Since it was a weekday again tomorrow, Scarlett teleported me to my daughter’s mansion.
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A few days later, a book wrapped in multiple layers was delivered to my dorm. My roommate Lewin handed it to me, saying that a package had arrived for me. When she asked what it was, I just said it was a magic book, and she nodded, understanding.
Lewin knows that I’ve been studying magic in depth these days.
While she was out, I unwrapped the package and began to read the book in earnest.
I became engrossed in the contents of the book, losing track of time.
‘So there was a method like this.’
A way to become stronger by using human lust.
The book said that, fundamentally, one must absorb the yin energy emitted from humans. There were two methods: directly using drain on the target or using a magic circle. In the latter case, a crystal storing yin energy could be created using an empty magic stone as a medium, and one could become stronger by absorbing it.
Here, yin energy doesn’t refer to the yin in yin and yang, but the yin that means lewdness.
I had awakened Cube’s consciousness, thinking it might be helpful, and she spoke to me after checking the contents of the book I was reading.
[This seems to be a book recording the magic of the highest-ranking succubus queen. That woman created quite a lot of this kind of magic.]
‘Succubus queen?’
[Yes, I don’t know where she is or what she’s doing now.]
She said that during the Tamires era, she had had trouble with her direct superior, the demon god, because of the succubus queen. The succubus queen had turned part of Cube’s territory into a mass orgy site, and it had been noisy in many ways to clean up.
As I listened to the story, the anxiety I had been suppressing now rose up.
If it’s the succubus queen’s magic, then it’s definitely an evil power.
What if the goddesses find out?
Also, I’m going to have a power that’s the opposite of my divine power, wouldn’t it be harmful to my body?
After much deliberation, I finally confided in Cube about this. She seemed quite intrigued that I, a proxy, was acting against the goddesses.
Anyway, she gave an unexpected answer.
[Yin energy is different from the nature of demonic energy, so it’s okay.]
‘Not demonic energy? Why?’
[Unlike demonic energy, yin energy naturally comes from everyone. It’s not an evil power in itself.]
The method of extracting yin energy is evil, but the energy itself is not evil, she said.
If you had to classify it, it would be a power of chaos or neutrality.
[So, to put it simply, if you want to have fun with your lover or secretly use the magic of an incubus for testing purposes, who would say anything? Of course, then you’d hardly gather any yin energy, so it’d be useless. The problem is that to gain more power, you have to target a larger group with thicker, stickier yin energy, which is why it’s considered evil. It’s more of a matter of ethics.]
Cube added that once the power is properly absorbed, the yin energy would be diluted a lot, so if I was worried about the goddesses noticing, I didn’t need to worry about that either.
I don’t completely trust her, but Cube’s words made enough sense.
[Anyway, it’s certain that your hypnotic power and this magic will create a huge synergy. Well, there are some side effects, or something similar.]
‘There are side effects?’
[When you absorb yin energy, it’s true that it’s easy to become corrupted. Your ethical sense becomes shallow, so you can change to be similar to succubi and incubi. Do you have any aversion to that?]
‘………I don’t particularly have any aversion.’
I’ve already played a lot of tricks in the barony.
Even now, many families in the barony are continuing their promiscuous exchanges, and ordinary inns have turned into brothels where adventurers are busy having sex with women. Even at the inn where I enjoyed myself with Matilda (the baron’s son’s fiancée), the innkeeper had her daughters entertain guests with their vaginas, and when the daughters came back with silver coins, dripping with semen, she would pat their heads with a satisfied look.
And the convent… no need to say more.
Isn’t this already ethically messed up?
And in the first place, it’s not like I can have sex with all the women in the world.
In reality, I can run sex simulators with those who have had their common sense altered, so how different and enjoyable is that game?
[Hmm… I see. Well, that’s all I can tell you.]
As I continued to read the book, there were more secondary spells that corrupted people. There were various ones, and among them, it was possible to control pleasure and the degree of corruption by engraving a vulva.
‘Is there really a need to control pleasure?’
At first, I thought it wasn’t necessary since I already had superior power, but soon I realized that it was slightly different from the power I had.
My power, if you had to classify it, delves into the psychological aspect. Feeling good, being conscious, things like that. The degree to which pleasure increases through direct interference depends on how the person’s brain perceives it. Someone might be given the suggestion to feel 10 times the pleasure, but they might not know the extent or take it as a metaphorical expression.
In that respect, this kind of magic has an absolute value, so it can be considered useful in its own way.
It’s a one-way path to corruption, though.
It might be fun to make them into wanton women who can’t control themselves.
‘Okay, then I need to find a place…’
Where would be a good place to set up a magic circle to create yin energy crystals?
In other words, where should I turn into an orgy site?
I quietly fell into thought.
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Phillips Academy has a Faculty of Arts.
Since it’s in charge of comprehensive arts, it’s not just about drawing pictures. Like in modern times, it’s divided into different departments.
In the performance department, there were ‘Drama Department’ and ‘Performance Production Department’ (which mainly creates performances for nobles and the bourgeoisie), and the ‘Costume Department’ was also included in the Faculty of Arts. Because there isn’t a separate department for life sciences at the academy.
In the general arts department, there are ‘Beauty Department’, ‘Fine Arts Department’, and ‘Dance Department’.
Among them, Ellie was studying in the Fine Arts Department. When I was playing with Ellie at the general store, I used the fact that she was attending the art academy, and now that I’m involved with it again, it feels strangely new.
Besides these, there are various small groups that continue their activities.
In many ways, this Faculty of Arts was the academic department that was closest to the original form of a university.
There aren’t strong people like the combat department students or faculty, so there wasn’t a more suitable place to use as an experiment site than the Faculty of Arts. And also, like all art, I thought that yin energy might be flowing there even on a normal day.
A few days later, I was walking towards the Faculty of Arts.
The building of the faculty was advertising, ‘We do art,’ from the building’s shape. The faculty building was as antique as that of the magic faculty, but this one was more focused on splendor. The exterior walls had a clean color arrangement, and the style itself was medieval fantasy-like.
Also, from the entrance, there was a beautiful garden and a well-paved sidewalk, and elegant statues of figures that seemed to have been made by the faculty were placed in various places.
I encountered art faculty students from time to time, and they were looking at my black and red outfit with somewhat puzzled eyes.
In fact, it’s rare for a combat department student to take art faculty classes as a sub-subject. Whether they become a knight, a royal mage, or a mercenary, they have a long way to go.
Moreover, it’s almost the end of the semester now, so of course, you can’t apply for classes.
Well, I still had a reason to visit the Faculty of Arts.
If I just say I came to work part-time, who would think it’s strange? It wasn’t uncommon for students from other departments to receive requests and get paid. And since I’m a commoner, I could be short on money, so the reason is plausible.
In fact, I was holding a piece of paper right now.
[Seeking a male student with a sturdy physique to act as a model for croquis, etc.!!!!! Combat department students preferred for detailed muscle expression, pay 5 ~ 20 silver coins]
Such advertisements were plastered all over the academy’s public bulletin board.
There was quite a demand for requests, but the supply was low.
This is because most combat department students scoff and don’t even look at such requests. If they wanted to earn money, it was much more productive to take on monster requests and gain practical experience, and as I said before, they had a long way to go to participate in such ‘child’s play’.
More than that, the pay for this request, the difference in amount is quite large.
What’s with 5 to 20 coins? Well, I can roughly guess.
