Chapter 546: Shared Skills and Newspapers

After all, she's just a girl.

Tally is a spiritual warrior and should have better stamina.

But perhaps the foreplay was too excessive, or perhaps she was too nervous—just as suspected, she collapsed beside him, utterly drained, after only two sessions.

It wasn't even past midnight yet.

Luo De's excitement hadn't faded; he wasn't sleepy yet.

He leaned against the headboard and gently patted the back of the crimson body beside him.

Don't you say it.

Actually, don't you say it—the red body does have a strong visual impact, constantly stirring that exotic thrill.

Added to that is the girl's unique, innocent awkwardness and her utterly youthful, unripe face.

There's an inexplicable mix of guilt and pleasure.

If Tally hadn't been utterly spent, Luo De would've wanted to go again.

But the road ahead is long.

Tally knows how to act young, but she's a hundred-year-old woman—she can't compare to a truly young girl.

The tiefling girl in his arms let out a soft moan.

She buried herself deeper into his chest.

Luo De turned to play with her tail.

The tail's surface was fine, scale-like texture, feeling somewhere between the smoothness of a snake's shed skin and the soft plushness of velvet.

The tiefling's tail isn't as flexible or powerful as No. 3's steel tail.

But it's not rigid or motionless either—now, as Luo De lightly stroked its base, the tail curled toward him, responding to his touch.

"Since we're this far, it's time to activate the shared skill with Tally."

After enslaving Tally, Luo De had forcibly paused the shared skill extraction.

Mainly to preserve the option of lifting the enslavement later.

Now, there's no need to pause it anymore.

【Compliance surpassed 88%. Shared skill with Tally activated.】

【Extraction count: 4】

【Extraction paused!】

【Continue?】

"Continue."

【Activating random extraction.】

Skill entries scrolled rapidly across the panel, then gradually slowed.

Soon.

The pointer paused on four skills:

【Infernal Musculature: Through the refining flame of the Infernal bloodline, strength and constitution are pushed beyond human limits. Strength and constitution greatly enhanced; physical upper limit significantly increased.】

【Ember Leap: Surrounding flames surge to amplify all flight spells, greatly increasing flight speed; accumulating flame currents allows explosive damage upon landing.】

【Bone Blood Boil: Consume your own blood to forcibly enhance any one resistance; intensity scales with blood consumed.】

【Counterfeit Evil Eye: When an enemy casts a control spell on you, forcibly reverse it so the caster suffers the same effect—once per day.】

Oh!

Luo De's eyes lit up.

No wonder tieflings are battle specialists—all four shared skills are highly practical.

The most obvious is 【Infernal Musculature】.

As a passive skill, almost the moment it was extracted,

Luo De felt as if molten lava had flooded his entire body, scorching and unbearable.

After that phase passed, it cooled rapidly.

At that point, he felt his physical strength had risen a full stage.

He took the brass spirit-measuring orb from the bedside spell pouch.

Before extracting the skill, the reading was 536 marks.

【Paradox Motive】 converts others' desires into primal energy.

It seems to depend on the class tier of the desire source.

As a fifth-tier peak—no.

Because of the high-tier energy in 【Creation Dewdrop】, after just two rounds of Gao Chao, the tiefling girl ascended to sixth tier.

She contributed 3 marks of increase during this interaction.

But during Luo De's three-hour body shaping with Mistral, he gained a full 24 marks.

The difference is unmistakable.

Soon.

The black crystal panel of the brass spirit-measuring orb flickered, displaying the number: 563 marks.

At the same time,

as 【Infernal Musculature】 was fully absorbed,

Luo De's spiritual accumulation surged wildly, already reaching seventh-tier peak, just one step from eighth tier.

"Rising fast, really fast."

The next morning,

when the arachnid elf Yuna came to deliver breakfast, she happened to see Luo De stroking Tally's head, teaching her a morning chant.

The tiefling girl turned crimson, scrambled out of bed in panic.

Her face flushed as she fumbled for her clothes, tripped over her pants, and fell flat on the floor.

Embarrassed and flustered, she fled the forest guard cabin.

The sensible spider girl said nothing, only smiled faintly.

Then silently tore up Tally's IOU.

"Yuna, you scared her off—you've got to make up for it."

Luo De sat on the edge of the bed, legs spread, smiling.

Yuna's beautiful eyes trembled; her smooth throat rolled as she licked her purple lips.

"Understood, Master. But first, allow me to set up breakfast."

Not long after,

while eating,

Yuna asked, voice muffled: "Should I allocate some pocket money for Tally?"

"Hmm, you handle it."

"Understood."

"No need to bring me breakfast every day—go oversee the reconstruction at Coral Bay. I don't trust anyone else."

Yuna suddenly moved faster, her mood brightening.

Even now, you could see the corners of her mouth twitching upward.

【Yuna's compliance +3. Current compliance: 86】

"Yuna will never betray your trust, Master!"

"I'll give you funds directly. If you need support from Shiying Town, just contact Di Miya. Any problems, come straight to me. But right now, the biggest issue is lack of people—Coral Bay is large; to develop it, we need population and merchant investment."

Fucking dark elf.

Killing everyone in Coral Bay was truly disgusting.

Luo De was sick of these idiots who kept sacrificing people.

"By the way."

Yuna didn't let up, twisting her posterior spider limbs to hook a newspaper from the bedside table.

She handed it to Luo De, still speaking with a muffled mouth: "All major newspapers have begun reporting on your deeds. Perhaps we can use this fame to publish ads and attract settlers and merchant caravans."

"Good idea. You handle it."

Luo De smiled and pinched Yuna's drooping elven ear.

She was clearly pleased, eagerly proposing multiple reconstruction plans.

Luo De flipped open the Snow Hill Evening Post.

A bold, black headline caught his eye:

《Fake Death, Deceive the Dragon: Triple Kill! Garrison Commander Luo De Performs the Ultimate "Bird in the Bush"!

—"First lures the red and black dragons to fight each other, then seizes Coral Bay, finally beats the Infernal Duke! This human turned 'taking advantage of chaos' into an epic!"

Luo De nodded in delight.

He was extremely satisfied with the headline.

He switched to another paper, found the article about himself again:

《Dragon Slaying? A Fraud! Luo De's "Fake Death" Was a Nine Hells Agent's Sacrifice Ritual》

—"Exclusive: Both dragons screamed 'Asmodeus's name' before death. Scholars suspect the entire battle was a script by a Hell Lord to harvest souls!"

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Luo De's face darkened.

He flipped back to the page with the newspaper's name: The Igos Holy Daily.

The Igos sect's newspaper.

Luo De spat a loud "keeee!" onto it and tossed it away.

He picked up another.

The True Story of the Coral Bay Liberation: Dark Elves Were Just Scapegoats—Luo De Long Ago Signed a "Soul Absorption Pact" with the Mind Flayers!

——"Witnesses Claim: The Bay Was Filled with the Smell of Octopus Tentacles on the Day of the Attack—Evidence of Mind Flayer Ambush!"

Don't say it.

There really were Mind Flayers on the day of the attack.

Mind Flayer Hart even helped a great deal—how did these bards know?

He checked the newspaper's name again: Bahadur Magic Academy · Student Reporter Society.

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Great.

Luo De's two archenemies had independently published headlines smearing him.

(End of Chapter)