Chapter 67: A Sudden Rush of Anxiety (1/2)

“I just said that I’m not a lust demon!” Damn it, what will it take for you to believe me. An all female race like the lust demons simply aren’t my cup of tea…oh wait, if they are willing to be my girlfriend, I won’t object to that.

“I’ve never heard of a thief calling himself a thief.” She threw out that irrefutable analogy and instantly shutting down my objection. She continued her inexplicable soliloquy without paying me any heed.

“In the past, any male who dared to touch me would be put to death immediately, someone like you would’ve died multiple times over. Also, those who stared at me for too long would have their eyes gouged out.”

“…” What the heck, are you some kind of sacred maiden! Putting aside the fact that you execute anyone who touches you, what’s with the eye gouging! Exactly how precious are you?

“Of course, that’s all in the past.” As she said this, she sadly shook her head. “While you’re a natural born lust demon, I doubt you know much about your race since you were born in the Blood Sea. I’ll give you a quick rundown so that you don’t end up getting your gender mixed up.”

“Who are you calling gender confused! I’m a male through and through, a female loving male!” This question of gender was driving me insane but no matter how I explained myself, she simply didn’t believe me.

“Alright, alright. I get that you’re a male lust demon. Just settle down and listen to me, who knows, your thing might actually grow out once you do so…pfft…”

It’s one thing to be snide…but you actually laughed at it yourself….

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According to her, lust demons had three branches namely, the carnal branch, beguiling branch and the combat branch. While they were called branches, they weren’t a subspecies of the lust demon race. Instead, they were methods of survival.

Firstly, the carnal branch of lust demons. They formed the largest branch of lust demons, roughly 70% of the entire population fell under this category. As for what they did, the name says it all.

Basically, the common view of lust demons originated from this branch. In fact, they were the reason why humans considered lust demons the avatar of carnal desires…technically, they aren’t wrong about that either.

The combat strength of the lust demons weren’t particularly strong. Even though they controlled darkness and flames, their forte lied in their beguiling talents. Unfortunately for them, hell wasn’t a conducive environment for them. To be exact, their forte didn’t do much for their combat strength, in fact, their strength was lacking compared to the other races.

Lust demons were an all female evolutionary path where there was only one requirement for its members—-being female.

This was the reason why they were gifted with an alluring appearance and beguiling talents. At the end of the day however, combat is still the main method of survival in hell.

Due to the fierce competition in hell, it was much harder for female devils to survive. This was especially true for the more beautiful ones where their beauty ended up becoming a burden instead.

Their beauty often made them a target for enslavement by stronger devils. It was in such an environment that the carnal branch was born.

Since they were naturally weaker than the other devils, they decided to rely on the most primal method to secure their survival.

Carnal lust demons would often serve a stronger devil, becoming a plaything for them. At times, they might even turn the tables on these stronger devils and end up assuming the dominant role.

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Simply put, it was using one’s body to please another, in return, they were given a safe environment to live in. There were even lust demons who used their bodies to dominate male devils.

They were kinda like a friend with benefits or a cheap prostitute and in some cases, like a female bandit chief who controlled her subordinates with her body.

As for the beguiling branch, they roughly made up 25% of the lust demons in hell. This type of lust demon tended to specialize in psychic magic and were easily able to beguile the more simple minded devils. (Abyssal devils, flame demons and even some greater devils who were befuddled by their desires.)

This form of beguilement was a combination of their individual charm and psychic magic. Every member of the beguiling branch were peerless beauties as well as master level mesmers (mages who specialised in psychic magic).

They were not only able to make a person like them with a glance, some of their victims end up falling irreversibly in love with them at first sight, regardless of whether they are female or male.

These lust demons tended to have what was known as “queen syndrome”…which means they had a very high probability to creating a harem for themselves…furthermore, they didn’t discriminate between men and women, with them as the dominant role.

The biggest difference between the two was a matter of choice. Carnal lust demons were either playthings or actively seduced others, on the other hand, beguiling lust demons were able to toy with others.

Combat lust demons were the most unique of the three. Unlike their kin, they possessed a terrifying gift for combat. If they were humans, they would probably be known as valkyries.

Their combat strength was so terrifying, they actually equalled the fallen angels who were known as the strongest devil race in hell. It wouldn’t be a stretch to call them the reapers of the battlefield.

Their claim to prominence lied in their perfect control over flames and darkness. Combined with their peerless agility, they were able to overwhelm their enemies in close and long ranged combat.

Their beauty and affinity with psychic magic allowed them to charm their opponents with merely a stare…coupled with their control over darkness and shadows, these lust demons were the perfect assassins. After all, with their control over shadows, who else could blend into the shadows as well as them?

The biggest weakness of the combat branch was their rarity. Within the entire population, only 0.5% of lust demons were of the combat branch.

Similar to human society, there was a big difference in prestige between genius and mediocrity. As such, you could imagine the joy I felt when Violet Snow praised me.

“I thought you were a carnal/beguiling lust demon at first, but it turns out I was wrong and you’re actually a combat lust demon.”

My face practically radiated confidence as I beamed and put on a “I’m really strong” pose. “Is it because I’m so adept at combat?”

Seeing my confident expression, her mouth cracked into a rare grin: “Actually, the conclusion is that I still don’t detect any trace of a male devil on you.”