allendalepharm Chapter 168 First Day in the Business: Encountering an Acquaintance Customer
Chapter 168 First Day in the Business: Encountering an Acquaintance Customer
Chapter 168 First Day in the Business: Encountering an Acquaintance Customer
The succubus found a passerby outside, paid him to sleep, and used her skills to make him daydream.
Broly also successfully added a succubus racial skill, [Dream Manipulation], to the skill bar on his adventurer registration card.
But rather than calling it a single skill, it's more accurate to describe it as a large skill that combines several smaller skills.
After adding points, Broly gained a complete set of dream manipulation knowledge, including dream incubation, dream building, and dream control.
Having learned his new skills, Broly naturally wanted to try them out. The passersby, hired by the succubus shopkeeper, became the targets of his spellcasting attempts.
The feeling after using the Dream skill was strange. Broly felt as if he had gained an invisible perspective, somewhat like the perception of Qi, and he was able to follow the faint aura emanating from the passerby in front of him and enter the other person's head.
Soon, Broly's consciousness, which had infiltrated the other's mind, found a white room in a hazy fog.
The man inside was bound hand and foot to a circular frame, but he was shouting strange words like, "Your Majesty, please whip me again."
"This is?"
Broly made a questioning sound.
"This is this person's dream."
The succubus shop owner, wearing a mask, carrying a whip, and high heels, directly answered the boy's question.
She snapped her fingers and conjured a mirror in this dream world, reflecting Broly's current appearance as a wisp of greenish-blue gas.
"This is how you perceive yourself. It's strange, why aren't you in human form?"
The succubus shop owner was a little curious. Generally speaking, when a newly born succubus uses a dream skill for the first time, she always appears in her original form in the dream.
But for some reason, the boy who learned their race's skills by allocating points through the adventurer class's special characteristics appeared as a non-human, bluish-green cloud when he first entered the dream.
"But isn't this just a portion of my anger that I've given away?"
Outsiders were somewhat puzzled. He had only gained a dream perspective, which didn't cause him any discomfort, as he already knew how to perceive things using Qi. It was simply that the dream perspective was more realistic than Qi perception.
"Qi, you mean magic power, right? To be able to perceive magic power as part of your own organs, you are truly amazing, sir."
The succubus shop owner began to praise it.
"You can now imagine your form in the dream and manipulate the magic that enters the dream to condense into a form."
Broly did as he was told, and soon a smaller version of himself appeared in his dream.
"Hey, that's pretty realistic. Looks like you have a pretty good impression of yourself."
The succubus shop owner didn't say something: people who have a strong self-image are usually quite narcissistic.
Of course, Broly wasn't that type of person. He simply created a form with a reduced proportion based on how his Qi flowed in his body normally. It was that simple.
"Now, try to manipulate this dream, starting with interfering with it."
"What should I do?"
"I'll give you the whip, and then you can try whipping this man."
"???"
Although he didn't know why he should do it, Broly did as he was told.
then……
"Ouch, that hurts!"
The passerby who was hired to have a dream was immediately woken up by the beating. After waking up, he rolled on the ground, looking as if he had really been whipped.
Upon seeing this, the succubus shop owner was first stunned, then realized something and immediately squatted down to tear open the other person's clothes. Then, a red mark gradually appeared on the person's back, as if it had appeared out of nowhere.
"Hiss~"
The succubus shopkeeper gasped. The dream manipulation had turned into a mental lash. She turned to Broly and instinctively asked, "What's your mental strength rating?"
"The registration card didn't have much information written on it, just 'MAX'."
Broly was telling the truth.
Succubus shop owner: "..."
The little succubus wasn't surprised; she had experienced the boy's terrifying mental power last night.
"Little brother, do you plan to become a regular customer of our succubus shop in the future? I can issue you a permanent free card."
The succubus shop owner was getting a little craving. A child with such terrifying mental power might not be able to produce the erotic energy suitable for succubi right now, but when he was able to produce erotic energy, she couldn't even imagine how high the quality of the erotic energy he would produce would be.
"Will you help me improve my dream-related skills?"
Broly asked.
"Of course."
The succubus shop owner smiled.
And so, Broly got a free Dream Skills Tutoring Card.
In the time that followed, he lived a simple life as an adventurer and apothecary, while occasionally visiting the succubus shop to receive guidance on dream manipulation techniques from different succubus ladies.
Under the careful tutelage of the succubus ladies, Broly's dream manipulation skills improved by leaps and bounds. He went from easily breaking into other people's dreams to gradually being able to control his mental energy output. He went from only being able to create a familiar environment out of thin air to being able to use the memories of the invaded dreamer to create a familiar environment for them.
More importantly, after learning the basics of dream building, Broly was finally able to eat in his dreams while sleeping at night by manipulating his dreams.
However, Broly cannot conjure up non-existent people or things out of thin air; that's a matter of experience.
Without having experienced it or seen anything related to it, it is naturally impossible to create a non-existent and unimaginable illusory object from a dream that is empty of anything.
Compared to a succubus capable of providing customized dream services, his dream manipulation skills are far from meeting the standards of a seasoned succubus.
Adding skill points is useless; it only makes the dream more realistic and the controls smoother.
But dreams require not only reality, but also imagination and creativity, much like 3D modeling.
Does Broly have modeling abilities? The answer is no. He only understands his own body. He can create another version of himself in his dreams and engage in fierce battles with himself, but he cannot create other people.
If you force it, you'll only end up with some kind of game character similar to Human: Fall Flat.
Of course, this situation doesn't really matter; Broly's original goal of eating in his dream has already been achieved.
One day, when the succubus shop owner invited him to become an intern and planned to have him take on some simple dream tasks to further improve his dream manipulation skills, an acquaintance of Broly's arrived at the succubus shop.
"Darkness, what are you doing here?"
"Ah, I—no, I should be asking you, what are you doing in a place like this?"
"I'm here as a succubus."
Broly's matter-of-fact answer stunned Darkness, and this was Broly's first day as an intern succubus.
At the same time, Darkness couldn't resist the promotion of the succubus shop and planned to experience and criticize this succubus conspiracy hidden in human society as a critic.
Unexpectedly, she bumped into her god-given friend and future husband, and even overheard him talking about being a succubus.
"How can you act like a succubus here? You belong to us! Have you forgotten Aqua, me, and Wiz?"
Darkness immediately rushed over and hugged the boy, crying out that even she only intended to have a dream where there was no one, only torment.
"Uh, I haven't forgotten. The shop owner here said that being a succubus would allow me to obtain more information about the elements that weave dreams."
The commotion quickly attracted the attention of the succubus shop owner. Upon seeing the boy being held, she immediately hardened her expression and warned Darkness, "This customer, our shop does not accept transactions involving the flesh. We deal in conventional dream-related services. Please be mindful of your conduct."
"Damn it, Aqua is right, succubi are evil demons. How dare she seduce another woman's husband into becoming a succubus! I'll destroy her in the name of the Knight of the Cross..."
"Hey, you two know each other, Broly or your husband?"
"What's wrong? Is it not allowed?"
"It's not that it's impossible, it's just that my shop was only opened after the prosecutor stamped and approved it."
"What, you think you can intimidate me with a prosecutor? Let me tell you, I'm Lalatina of the Darkness family!"
Darkness was not intimidated by the challenge of status and immediately pulled out her family crest.
"Um."
Having confirmed the badge's authenticity, the succubus shopkeeper nodded, then asked, "Miss Laratina of the Darkness family, would you like to be reported for pedophilia?"
"Huh?"
"This place is just a dream world, yet you just admitted that this young child is your husband. He's a minor, isn't he? According to the kingdom's laws..."
Darkness: "..."
Before they could even make a move, they were caught red-handed and defeated.
However, since they were from the powerful and influential noble family of Axel, the succubus shopkeeper did not dare to push them too far.
"Broly, since you already have a wife, why not use her to practice your dream skills? It's all the same anyway."
The succubus shopkeeper's heart was bleeding. He had intended to guide the child to mature early and reap the energy of lust, but a noble fiancée suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
(End of this chapter)