This is how you should actually do it

Diferently from manuals, an attunament stone wouldn't simply raise your affinities, they would transport your soul to a series of experiences that would help you raise it.

*Crack. Cracra tump cracra... tump*

In laymen terms, it hits you with said affinity until you figure enough understanding and absorb enough energy to naturally raise it. Suffice to say, having your own body try to undo itself was one of the least pleasant experiences around the options for such things. Not like burning alive for months or drowning in subzero waters are pleasant experiences, but...

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Deformed mind has reached level 38]

It's worse. Simply worse. Both the levels and diferent kinds of pain were much broader, nevermind the psicological effect. It's an experience that would simply break any human mind. Luckily for our main character, he was born broken.

As a sociopathic bitch, not as an altist, don't sue me!

Anyways...

[Hidden quest: Universe's student (X)

Requirement: Increase one origin affinity.

Rating: SSS

Reward: Godking #@!!&*%$¨'s arcane cultivation method. (X)

Description: WHAT THE *@*!*@$*!@$*!@#%#$@¨!....]

Aki had no time to celebrate his release from arcane hell or his rewards, he imediatly entered a catatonic state where he could only breath and look at the ceiling. Five minutes later, he changed his plans of continuing to train with the sword. Instead he got up, went to his bed, and downloaded the manual into his brain, imediatly blacking out for the next four hours.

When he woke up, he didn't feel refreshed, but that was rarely what happened when he did wake up. He'd even have liked to have a nightmare, he'd learned to deal with those when he was only a child, but he could only guess that was one of the reasons he only had one or two per year.

He looked at his phone. It was 10pm. He prepared a quick cup of black, extra strong and sugarless coffee, like his granma liked, and quickly drank the bitter thing in small but decisive gulps. That was about enough to psyke him up, so he took another shower, brushed his teeth, and dressed for a cold night. Quickly calling Ben on the phone, his call was picked on the first ring.

"Hey buddy, how's the opperation going?" He said in a weak tone.

"You ok dude?" Was the first thing the big man asked.

"Nope. Somethings happened, don't wanna talk about it. Do you guys need any operative to help kill shit?" He said in similar voice.

"Not yet. The day after tomorrow we will though." The man quickly caught up. He was a brute, not incensitive.

"Am or Pm?"

"A bit after midnight. We're meeting at the hub you last saw us at."

"Great, i'm in. Ben?"

"Yeah?"

"I just wanted to confess something."

"... I'm listening."

"I know i act all distant and cold with some heavy jokes, hell, i befriended you mostly for benefits on the gang, just that now i know you're a great guy."

"Surprising, but was that it?"

"No. I'm actually a virgin. I don't trust the internet, so could you recomend me some good brothel? Really need to take myself out of my head." He adimitted and was answered mostly with silence. It took a bit more awkward prodding, but Aki quickly ended the call and fixed himself a cab to his destination.

*****

One tall brunette turned into a mess later.

"Ok, I may or may not have downplayed how much I know of the human body." Aki smiled at the naked woman laid on bed with a relaxed expression after he'd just offered to massage her.

"Oh, you were awesome even before this." She turned to face him while still laid in bed and smiled seductively. "Now that you tasted it, will you be coming back regularly?"

Aki made a sound like he was thinking, crossed his arms and sat down on bed before nodding and slapping her ass with some strenght. "Of course i am."

To the hooker, he looked like an admittedly cute young man that had been hooked and was going to get her plenty of profit if his personality was what he showed her. To Aki, this was an enjoyable way to spend regular money in a way as to increase his energy and body related affinities.

There was aparently another hidden quest called 'beggining dual cultivation', which literraly just required someone to lose their virginity. The interesting part was that it did not raise his affinity itself, it just improved the effects of the first cultivation session.

That ment his body would become more agile and dexterous if he slept with women and stronger and vigorous if he slept with man. For a bisexual man those were great news greatly amplified by his recent experience with the idea of artificially upgrading his affinities.

Besides, it was a great control practice for basically every element. One of the advantages of being human is that you can always turn anything into porn, weaponry or both.

Thinking about such things while he left a bit before dawn, Aki gave kisses to the madam, who had a hell of a body even though she was in her late thrities, and walked away, half because he wanted to try and murder some people to reach the peak of his mood and half because he wanted to explore the city looking for some cultivators. Preferably bad guys since those drop loot.

He didn't expect to hear screams inside the establishment he just left though. Turning back he smilled as a wave of man left with haste. He mostly thought his luck had already been spent in being born in a stable and loving family. Who would never accept or undertand him for who he was, but they somehow still loved him, so he loved them back.

Back to the current encounter, Aki was already punching the back of a armed man's knee and drawing one of his short blades.

"If someone moves i will be opening this guy a new one." He clearly declared while holding the hand that had a revolver to the ground. This gave enough of a distraction to one girl for her to kick a guy in the balls, practically signaling to use his hostage's gun to shoot one of the man that seemed ready to shoot and split his throat open. He hit the man in the chest and hell ensued.

Literrally in the sense that one guy threw a girl away and went running to him with flaming fists. Aki grinned, threw his short blade at the man and promptly slashed his katana at where he would be dodging toward.

There was barely a thin line of blood in the man's arms, but Aki was enjoying himself a lot more than he'd expected.

"Do you know who you just..."

"Shut up and dance with me!" Shouted the music intusiast while charging towards the man, who shot a table at him, getting a clear shot with all the people running away, including the two man that came with him and were still consious. Aki just striked vertically with his weapon even though it would not reach.

The asiatic looking man dodged wide to the side while avoiding the eletric wave that cut the table.

He was starting to sweat coldly. That attack would probably have splitted him in half, but the man that used it somehow looked far scarrier.

"ENOUGH! No more blood will be spilled in my establishment!" Screamed the pissed matrom, who somehow looked younger at the moment. As if they were unbreakable rules, this stopped both man. Aki simply turned with his blade turned to ground, cupped his hands and bowed slightly while keeping a genuine and calm smile before moving as if to leave.

The other man spat something and ran away in the oposite direction.

Stopping by the entrance and coming back, Aki smiled at the tired establishment owner.

*****

"I see." He said with his eyes closed.

"I really can't tell if you think this is all a game." The older woman sighed.

"Not really. A game is hardly as fun after all. Now, i'd like to speak payment for redered service..." He commented with much the same jovial look.

"Your heart must be made of stone if you can even ask for payment after listening about my situation. Very well, what do you want? Know that i barely have any resources for myself though." Strictly said the woman sitting in front of Aki in her office.

"No no, you missunderstand. I wish for a cooperation between the both of us as individuals." He slowly shook his head.

"You want to have sex with me?" She asked while raising an eyebrown.

"I literraly tongue banged one of your girls using some low voltage until she came five times. I do not see how helping each other would be a bad idea." He calmly stated with a tone that said it was just a matter of fact.

"I wasn't worried about your prowess, just currious why you would want to cultivate with someone of such little talent." She explained, still confused.

"Various reasons." He shrugged. "First, you could say i am body cultivator, so anything at all can be usefull. Secondly, you overestimate my capabilities, that man was just not that good at actual battle against someone that had a chance of killing him. Third, you are a beatifull lady and i always had a taste for older lovers." He grinned at her. The female cultivator was used to man trying to sweet talk their way into her pants, but this was fine, right?

*****

Name: Aki

Age: 20

Cultivation: Humam-1

HP: 190/190

EP: 131/290

Attribute:

STR: 15

VIT: 19

INT: 20

WIS: 29

DEX: 16

AGI: 14

END: 16

LUCK: 26

Skills:

Psicology Lv 7

Acting Lv 3

Deformed mind Lv 38

Intimidation Lv 3

Medicine Lv 5

Shooting Lv 1

Sneaking Lv 2

Sexual technique Lv 27

Arts:

Tyrant blood arts (Peak mortal*)

Godking #@!!&*%$¨'s arcane cultivation method (Peak mortal*)

Sword arts Lv 3 (Peak mortal)

Money:

233 MS

Affinities:

Blood: Average

Lighting: Below average

Arcane: Average

Death: Trash

Life: Trash

Yin: Bad

Yang: Trash

It was around breakfast time before they stopped. Both ate like true cultivators, meaning the pantry needed to be restocked and the employees were flabbergasted from seeing their boss eat as anything less than a lady.

Though it's more like they saw the size of the plate she ate then her eating, but everyone had their respect for her renewed.

"From what I get it, you haven't even reached halfway to pawn stage, yet you are this frightening. I look forward to our future collaborations." Laughed said woman while sitting in the big bed in her room and wearing only a bath robe. Melissa herself was already at the seventh step of the human realm. Thanks to that her black hair had the same luster as in her youth, her bossom and bottom were firm, her height reached 5'7 feet and age barelly showed itself on her face.

"Of course, I look forward to our continuous cooperation." He just about finished dressing himself, but she thought it strange that he was approaching her.

When Aki straight up kissed her cheek, she was a bit surprised and bashful, but wasn't about to be outdone by this 'gentle child', so she grabbed his nape and pulled him for a deep kiss.

All smiles, Aki pecked her lips again after she released him, but he giggled and took his phone out.

"I was just going to try and be cute about asking for your number, but I don't think I can do that well enough now." He explained and she blushed lightly before exchanging numbers and sending him away.

Being on cloud nine was a rare occurrence for Aki, so he couldn't be more sure what he should do with his life now.

'Fuck the hell out of everyone in the way that I will have the most fun. Maybe I will find my first lover too. Though who'd say I'd actively think about dating other man openly.' He sighed, wondering what'd happened to that cute boy that worked at a hub.

Shaking that thought away, he reached for the door of the dojo Melissa had recommended him.

There wasn't really anyone but a petite girl around. One might think this misleading, Aki imediatly guessed her to be a full stage and a half higher than him.

"Excuse me, I am looking to join a dojo, but i kind of don't know what to do exactly..." He politely tried to ask, but the girl didn't seem to understand him and looked lost before asking something in japanese.

"Listen here little shit, my sister is a half being raised in japan, so i know enough to understand you called me lost old man. I'm freaking twenty!" He said with no more politeness in his voice. "Can you speak english?" And she answered with a diferent language. "What part of my appearence even looks like a homeless guy? If you want to use a foreign language to insult someone at least try to be more creative will you?" She snickered at that, but seemed about to cry for no reason. "Sir, i think we both know that i literraly haven't touched this girl nor tried to bully her, so could we proceed with more serious mathers?"

"Yes, i'd like that very much. Xiu, stop trying to fool around, can't you see this young man is looking for a martial home?" Started the well built old man before even turning the corner.