BXBX NOVEL Chapter 31: Compensation
Understanding that this was a world where dragons could fly and a single human could wipe out scores of humans along with the prompts given to him by the system, Blake had understood that until further directives were given gaining power was his goal and priority.
Even now, as Blake read the mission and understood that using any means to gain control of the continent was valid, for him there was only one way to get the continent under his rule, and that was through pure and total domination.
Of course, there was the option of politics and even shadow manipulations, but Blake rapidly eschewed those methods.
"Have an unstoppable army and most important of all become an unstoppable entity."
For now, this was Blake's rough plan on how to conquer this continent he knew nothing about.
Looking at the three choices he had been given, Blake shook his head and with a sigh, he threw out the first option and after a minute of being stuck contemplating the second and third, he decided to check them after he had seen the anonymous message that had been sent.
"System"
[Ding! Message from an anonymous sender:
Hey, it's me, I saw Lilith sending you a message and I decided what would it profit me not to sneak on this train and also send something hahaha.
Ehhhh I saw she sent you some unfortunately not valuable rewards and well I figured since I am the one who has made those rewards not so valuable, why don't I compensate you, and so I decided to send you something, something that falls in line with your title.
Armour of hell: what is a knight without an armour (Hehehe, no further explanation kid, I think it would be more interesting for you to find out what it is on your own, though I guess I can mention to you that it is really powerful.)
]
Looking at the message without even needing to think much, Blake already knew his anonymous sender was the voice that had spoken to him back when he had been in the darkness and trying to bond with the lust system.
Seeing his talk about compensation Blake couldn't help but sigh as he understood what the voice said and pitied Lilith who was in the dark about what was going on with her champions.
Lilith thought she was giving Blake a chance to make a selection from among three very valuable choices but the truth was that all she had done was mostly make a resource he could have been forced to buy from the store free.
From the incubus bloodline to the corruption ability, other than the lust flames which Blake had doubts about, he could find the other two in the system shop and purchase them.
Now with this availability and also the limitations of the incubus bloodline to just helping him with the sin of lust when he had six other sins to acquire, Blake easily wrote it off.
Blake could guess that Lilith probably expected him to pick the Incubus bloodline and look forward to evolving it, but the truth was that it was the least desirable option and now as he stared at the corruption ability and the lust flames, he couldn't help but flick his tongue in contemplation.
Looking at the lust flames, they had only one strong selling point, and it was the sin points they offered him after burning his opponent.
In the grand scheme, unless he himself was willing to take the time to invoke and infect his victims with the feelings of lust, men included, Blake couldn't see the lust flames having much if a powerful effect on some of them, and then there was also the fact that not only did he have hell flames which were unfortunately locked at the moment but he also had 6 other sins that when unlocked were going to become a source of sin points to him.
Though the lust flames did indeed have their uses especially when used against the right opponent, Blake felt like the corruption ability was what he truly needed to have.
Throughout history, many great men were known to have been brought down by women and despite how Lilith paraded the lust as something full of nothing but pleasure, Blake was wary of its trap, he was wary of the bosoms of a woman.
Like the system has said, though the woman became obsessed with having sex with him, that didn't mean that they became loyal to him and this was one very strong reason why he had killed Trish.
At the moment, Lena looked particularly harmless but that didn't mean that Blake had let his guard down against her, if he was going to keep Lena and any other woman he ended up fucking, then having the corruption ability was a necessity for him.
"But now the issue is that is it wise of me to disregard an ability which probably on Lilith can provide for a powerful ability I might be fortunate to encounter in the store. " Blake asked himself.
After minutes of contemplating and realizing that he was keeping the group from advancing, Blake figured that he was in no real rush to get any of the techniques and so decided to put his decision on hold.
Blake gave the amour of hell description one last look and then he closed the system focusing back on the team.
With only scratches and cuts having been sustained by the team, it had been difficult for Yula to heal everyone and then after she had taken a mana portion, the team resumed their mission.