Chapter 168: First Day Going Down to the Sea, Encountering an Acquaintance Customer

A succubus found a passerby from outside, paid him to sleep, and used a skill to make him daydream.

Broly also successfully added a Succubus Race skill, 【Dream Manipulation】, to the learnable skills column of his Adventurer Registration Card.

But rather than calling it a skill, it would be better to say it is a major skill composed of multiple minor skills combined.

After allocating points, Broly's mind gained the full set of Dream Manipulation knowledge: Lucid Dreaming, Dream Construction, Dream Control, and so on.

And after learning the new skill, Broly naturally wanted to try using it; the passerby the succubus shopkeeper had paid to hire became the target for his attempt at casting.

The feeling after using the Dream Skill was strange; Broly only felt as if he had gained an extra, invisible perspective, somewhat like Ki Sense, following the faint breath emanating from the passerby in front of him, and diving into the other's head.

And soon, the consciousness Broly had dived into inside the other's mind found a white room within a grey mist.

Inside, a man had his hands and feet bound to a circular rack, yet his mouth was shouting the strange words, "Queen, please whip me more."

"This is?"

Broly let out a puzzled sound.

"This is this person's dream."

The succubus shopkeeper, wearing a mask, holding a whip, and wearing high heels, directly answered the boy's puzzlement.

She casually snapped her fingers, and a mirror appeared in this dream world, reflecting Broly's current appearance — a mass of blue-green Qi.

"This is your cognition of yourself; very strange, why is it not humanoid?"

The succubus shopkeeper was somewhat curious; generally speaking, when a newly born succubus uses a Dream Skill for the first time, the form they appear in within the dream is always their original appearance.

But for some reason, this boy who learned their racial skill by allocating points via the Adventurer class feature, his form upon entering a dream for the first time was actually a non-humanoid mass of blue-green Qi.

"But isn't this just a portion of my Qi that I separated out?"

In the outside world, Broly was somewhat confused; he had merely gained a dream perspective, and for him, who originally used Qi to perceive, there was no discomfort — it was simply that compared to Ki Sense, the dream perspective was more real.

"Qi, you mean Magic Power, right? To be able to use Magic Power Perception as part of your own organs, Customer, you really are powerful."

The succubus shopkeeper praised him.

"Right now you can imagine your form in the dream, and manipulate the Magic Power entering the dream to condense into a form."

Broly tried as instructed, and soon a small version of him appeared in the dream.

"Eh, the condensation fidelity is not bad; looks like your impression of yourself is quite deep."

The succubus shopkeeper had a sentence she didn't say: people with a deep impression of themselves are generally rather narcissistic.

Of course, Broly wasn't that type of person; he simply, according to the usual flow of Qi inside his body, created a form with a reduced ratio, that was all, it was that simple.

"Now, you try manipulating this dream; first is interfering with the dream."

"How do I do that?"

"I'll give you the whip, and then you try whipping this man."

"???"

Although he didn't know why he had to do this, Broly still complied.

Then...

"Ah, it hurts~"

The hired passerby was directly whipped awake; upon waking, the other party rolled on the ground, looking exactly like he had been truly whipped.

Seeing this scene, the succubus shopkeeper was first stunned, then thought of something, immediately crouched down and tore open the clothes on the man, and then saw a red mark gradually emerge on the man's back, appearing as if out of nothing.

"Hiss~"

The succubus shopkeeper inhaled sharply; Dream Manipulation had turned into Mental Flagellation. She looked back at Broly and subconsciously asked: "How much is your Spiritual Value?"

"The Registration Card doesn't write how much, it just says MAX."

Broly told the truth.

Succubus Shopkeeper: "..."

The little succubus didn't find it strange; she had experienced the boy's terrifying spiritual power last night.

"Then, little brother, do you have any plans to become a regular customer of our Succubus Shop in the future? I can issue you a permanent free card."

The succubus shopkeeper was a bit greedy; a child with this kind of terrifying spiritual power might not be able to produce Lust Energy suitable for them succubi right now, but when he can produce Lust Energy, she dare not imagine how high the quality of the Lust Energy he produces would be.

"Will you help me raise my Dream Skill proficiency?" Broly asked.

"That goes without saying."

The succubus shopkeeper showed a smile.

Just like that, Broly got a Dream Skill Tutoring Card, and it was free.

In the following time, while living the simple, unadorned days of an Adventurer and Alchemist, he also came to the Succubus Shop from time to time, accepting guidance on Dream Manipulation techniques from different succubus ladies in the shop.

Under the careful teaching of the succubus ladies, Broly's dream manipulation technique advanced by leaps and bounds, from always easily breaking through others' dreams, to gradually being able to control his own spiritual power output, from only being able to generate an environment familiar to himself out of thin air, to being able to borrow the memories of the invaded dreamer to shape an environment familiar to the other party.

More importantly, after learning basic Dream Construction, Broly could finally, when sleeping at night, achieve eating things in dreams through manipulating dreams.

However, the ability to fabricate non-existent people or things out of thin air, Broly still couldn't do; this is a matter of experience.

Things one has not experienced, nor seen relevant knowledge of, naturally cannot be fabricated from an empty dream into non-existent illusory things whose concrete form one cannot even imagine.

Compared to succubi capable of handling Customized Dream services, his Dream Manipulation still falls far short of the standard to become a senior succubus.

And allocating points to this skill is useless; allocating points only makes the dream more real and the operation smoother.

But dreams need not only reality, but also imagination and creativity, just like 3D Modeling.

Does Broly have modeling capability? The answer is negative; he only understands his own body, he can create another himself in the dream and engage in fierce combat with himself, but cannot create other people.

If forced, he would only produce something like the game sprites from Humanity's Total Defeat.

Of course, this situation doesn't matter either; Broly's original purpose of eating in dreams had already been achieved.

Until one day, the succubus shopkeeper invited him to become an Intern Clerk, planning to have him take over some simple dream work to further improve his Dream Manipulation skill proficiency, when the Succubus Shop welcomed an acquaintance of Broly's.

"Darkness, why are you here?"

"Ah, I, no, I should be the one asking you, why are you in a place like this?"

"I'm working as a succubus here."

Broly's matter-of-fact answer left Darkness stunned, and this was Broly's first day as a trainee succubus.

At the same time, it was also Darkness who couldn't resist the succubus shop's publicity, intending to experience and criticize this hidden scheme of succubi in human society from the standpoint of a critic.

She never expected to run into her god-given friend + future little husband, and hear him say he was working as a succubus here.

"How can you work as a succubus here, you belong to us, did you forget Aqua and me and Wiz?"

Darkness immediately pounced over and hugged the boy, shouting; even she had only planned to create a dream with no one, only torture.

"Uh, I didn't forget, working as a succubus is just what the shopkeeper here said, this can let me gain more elements and information for weaving dreams."

The commotion here quickly drew the succubus shopkeeper; upon seeing the boy being hugged, she immediately straightened her face and warned Darkness: "This customer, our shop does not accept flesh trade, our shop conducts only regular dream business, please mind your conduct."

"Damn it, Aqua was right, succubi are evil demons, to actually do something like seducing someone else's husband into becoming a succubus, watch me destroy it in the name of the Crusader Knight..."

"Eh, you know each other, Broly is your husband?"

"What about it, not allowed?"

"Not that it's not allowed, just that this shop of mine was opened with the prosecutor's stamped approval."

"What, you want to use a prosecutor to pressure me, let me tell you, I am Lalatina of the Darkness Family!"

Competing on status, Darkness didn't flinch at all, immediately producing the family crest.

"Hmm."

After confirming the crest's authenticity, the succubus shopkeeper nodded, then asked: "Then, Miss Lalatina of the Darkness Family, do you want to be reported for statutory rape?"

"Eh?"

"This place is just for dreaming, yet you just acknowledged such a small child as your husband, he's still a minor, right? According to Kingdom Law..."

Darkness: "..."

Without even making a move, she was caught with leverage and defeated.

However, after all, she's from a noble family with power and influence in Axel; the succubus shopkeeper didn't dare push too far.

"Broly, since you already have a wife, why not practice dream skills with your wife, it's all the same anyway."

The succubus shopkeeper's heart was bleeding; she had wanted to guide this child to ripen early and harvest lust energy, but halfway a noble fiancée barged in.

(Chapter End)