Their Experiences
~Vanessa~
As someone with a damaged spiritual root and meridians, Vanessa would never reach Foundation Establishment, let alone Core Formation or beyond. She had long accepted her fate from the moment she decided to ruin what little cultivation talent she had and take her life into her own hands.
Even after running away from her sect after ending relations with her own father, she had enough treasures and rare materials to exchange for money to buy a house and live a comfortable life for many years.
She was planning on studying magic and working as a basic researcher to earn a simple living. Perhaps she could even find a way to use her knowledge in cultivation in her research.
She knew how beautiful she was, even among cultivators. This was both a boon and a curse, especially given how low her talent was.
On her first day of her senior year, she had expected a few boys to confess to her, especially in the new juniors. This was a common part of her daily school life and had long since been accustomed to it.
A new student joined the class today as well, transferring from a school in the neighbouring suburb. Like many others, he had fallen under the succubus teacher's charms. As a devil that feeds on lust, there was nobody she didn't flirt with, and it was overlooked to the extent that she didn't break the school's code of conduct or human laws. This is why that to this day, not a single student, no matter how infatuated, had ever been able to lay a finger on that succubus.
"Well, Alex~, come in and introduce yourself to the class," Ms. Lilith smiled as she called in the new student.
"Y-yes!" He replied, awkwardly entering the classroom.
He stood at the front of the class and looked over the students. If Vanessa was to describe him, it would be that he seemed like a pervert.
When his gaze passed over her however, her heart which had been as calm as a still lake, suddenly had ripples. It took her by surprise, and she couldn't understand the reason behind it.
Vanessa released a pulse of spirit energy to investigate the boy and see if he did something, but Ms. Lilith effortlessly stirred up the spirit energy in the air with her tail. The pulse was broken apart and dispelled with nobody aware other than herself and the teacher who wore a sly grin on her face.
"I look forward to the rest of the year with you all," The boy named Alex nodded his head in greeting, but the perverted gaze never ceased.
"Excellent~, you can take the open seat behind Vanessa," Ms. Lilith giggled and indicated toward the set behind Vanessa, as if to mock her for her attempt to probe the new student before.
If Vanessa were to describe the boy, he wasn't as beautiful or refined as a male cultivator, but he was definitely attractive.
If only he wasn't a pervert.
Vanessa could feel Alex staring at her just by the feel of his gaze on her. The ripples in her heart ceaselessly shook as she couldn't stop thinking about him as a result.
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"What?" Vanessa asked Alex during lunch when he came to disturb her.
She already knew about the punishment game where he had to confess to her, she had overheard it when she was secretly listening in on Alex and the other two misfits in class and was quite offended.
Alex kept looking at her with his perverted gaze licking all over his body as he directly asked, "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Although knowing what he was going to ask, once the question was presented before her, she felt as if there were tsunamis barraging against the walls of her heart.
Her mind became a mess as she knew she should be rejecting him as normal, but a deeply hidden desire surfaced from her heart and stopped her. She knew it was wrong and essentially taking advantage of him, but she wanted to be selfish.
In her own justification, Alex was also benefiting from her.
Unable to accept or deny, she guiltily remained silent.
When she heard his stomach growl in hunger, Vanessa decided to give him some benefits and tore off a small piece from the corner of her sandwich. This was high energy food meant to sustain the higher energy needs of a power system user's body, such as a cultivator like her.
Instead of taking the piece, he directly ate it from her fingers. He even left some saliva on her fingers.
'!!!'
Vanessa was so shocked she didn't know what to do and instinctively went back to her food.
The fingers with his saliva were so close to her mouth she couldn't focus on anything else. She didn't know what was coming over her. When she saw him not paying attention through her spiritual sense, she quickly licked her finger.
'It just tastes like my finger… Well, the thought counts.'
Vanessa scared off the two misfits who were spying from a distance and indulged herself in Alex's care. She never expected she would be so intimate with someone before, let alone in such a public place. This was all happening far too fast, but she couldn't control the selfish desire within her.
On the way toward the final class of the day, she didn't care if he wanted to secretly perv on her body, but there was no way she would put up with him looking at others like that. Not after he had just confessed to her.
She knew that his proclamation of 'love at first sight' was complete nonsense, how many people had stated that to her before? Despite that, she played along with it and didn't press the issue.
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Alex walked Vanessa home after school, much to the latter's secret delight. She didn't give him the chance to leave and directly told him to come into her house.
Vanessa was a little worried as her house was quite barren, but it was a seclusive place where she didn't have to hold back her selfishness.
She originally wanted to just lean on him and do some private study together, but some awkward small talk occurred where she wasn't sure how she should reply and before she knew it, she was topless on her bed with Alex sitting on top of her.
Everything was progressing so fast it was frightening, and her rapidly beating heart drumming in her ears was proof of that. Despite this, she didn't want to say no. She wanted more.
The massage releasing all the stress in her body, increasing blood flow, and melted her heart. It was a heavenly feeling as she turned to putty in his hands. He didn't rush it, keeping a steady pace as no place of her body was missed.
Vanessa ended up opening up her feelings to Alex in a natural course of events and ended up completely naked for him to finish his massage properly.
She was embarrassed.
She was very embarrassed.
She was extremely embarrassed.
But she felt extremely good.
Unable to bear with it longer, she used her hands and feet to strip him too and they soon lost themselves in carnal pleasure. He filled her heart with feelings she never knew existed, and she reciprocated by giving her body and love.
They were connected intimately and her mind went black as she experienced her first ever orgasm while his essence entered her most treasured palace.
As if this peak of bliss was just a dream, she noticed the massage oil he had used was a System item and awoke to the realization that he must have a System. There was nothing wrong with having a System, it was in fact something to be incredibly proud of. Systems originated from the Akashic Record and were formed via a special kind of infinite, attributeless energy which couldn't be manufactured.
The way he was avoiding it though was highly suspicious though, so Vanessa could only interrogate him about it.
When she found out about his skill Lusty Gaze, she felt her heart break as the realization that she had been tricked dawned on her.
She instinctively threw him across the room and pinned against the wall with a hand around his neck. She even pulled out her tang sword from her storage ring and in her rage and grief, was ready to end his life, then her own out of shame and responsibility.
She had already given her body to him and committed to be with him for life. If she was to kill him now, she would take the responsibility of that upon herself to follow him.
Thankfully, she gave him the opportunity to talk and they resolved that issue, so she no longer wanted to take the extreme solution.
As he pulled up his System, Vanessa was greatly shocked to find that she could also see it. This was something she never knew was possible, but she soon realized why.
*'These skills… What are these shameless, perverted, depraved skills?! And I am a partner? A trainee maid?!!'*
"These depraved, disgusting skills… these new skills… The purpose of your system is…" Vanessa said with a dark expression.
"…To have sex with lots of women."
*'How do you want to die? Decapitation, no, castration? 100 stabs? Suffocation? Crucifixion? Immolation? Sealed in ice for eternity?'*
Although Vanessa was calmer and didn't break down in the end, her state of mind was in turmoil over a myriad of emotions.
She was grateful, for he had unintentionally helped her breakthrough to a higher cultivation realm. But this did not excuse everything. Unable to come to any rational thoughts, she threw him out in rage, forcing him to stand naked outside with his clothes in his arms.
Vanessa slowly calmed down after a while and found that he had left his bag and school supplies here. She pulled out her phone to tell him to come back when she realized it:
"Ah, I don't have his number… I guess, I'll at least help him finish his homework."
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~Shana~
She wasn't exactly sure when it started, but her brother started to become more and more perverted. It was too late for puberty, so she assumed that he must be collecting porn magazines or something similar to cause him to act this way.
Shana originally hated her stepbrother when her mother married his father. They were only little kids at the time and would constantly fight, pulling each other's hair and using toys to throw telephone punches.
She awoke her superpower at 14 and suddenly had to reign in her strength lest she seriously or critically injure him. It did however put her in the upper position to lord it over him and act as the one in charge.
When Mr. and Mrs. Ivanov were convinced to transfer Alex from Eastbourgh High due to an incident regarding sexual assault, Shana was disgusted with him. She didn't honestly think he did exactly what he was accused of, for she knew how girls thought, but she wouldn't put it past him to forcefully push a girl down one day.
If he ever did that, she would personally send him to the authorities.
Despite how perverted he had become, she didn't hate him. He was still her brother at the end of the day, step sibling or not. She would however prefer he stopped banging and making a commotion in his room when she is trying to do homework or carrying out her beauty regime.
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Shana also attended Eastbourgh High in the year below her stepbrother. They usually didn't interact much at school, but this year he wasn't even at the school.
She attended her first class of the day was Technomancy, a branch subject relating to modern technology and the magic involved in them. A person could always commission a mage for magic testing, but other could still invent new and revolutionary products, hence one of the reasons why a superpower user such as herself would study magic.
"Shana, what is the relation between aether and other sources of power, as well as how they affect us today?" The teacher, Mr. Luther asked as he finished writing on the mageboard with an arcane pen.
Shana, wearing reading glasses that were meant to protect her eyes, stood up and answered.
"Mr. Luther, each power source has its own unique characteristic and cannot mix with one another. However, they all share the common trait that they are formed by energy that is capable of causing change to the world around them.
The energy types can't be exchanged with one another, such as turning Spiritual Qi into mana, but it is possible to convert them into a purer form of energy that doesn't contain any attribute, known as aether. Our power grid and all modern day devices contain energy refiners which convert energy sources into aether. This allows everyone to be able to use these devices, no matter what force they harness."
"Excellent answer, Shana, you may sit. Nikolas, what are the detriments to aether that impact us?"
A kid with messy brown hair and freckles across his nose stood up.
"Mr. Luther, although aether is a universal energy that other energy systems can be converted into, it is inferior in power and potential. For every ten units of energy refined, only 4 units of aether are produced. Therefore, while it is possible to power a magic array with aether, it will only produce 40 percent efficiency compared to using without refining the mana. This makes large operations and arrays more expensive to test with aether and would be easier to just hire a mage to move mana."
"Excellent, but you forgot one key point. Once it has been converted into aether, it is impossible to return it into its previous state, meaning it is a one-way conversion. It has brought a lot of concerns about aether pollution and environmental protection ever since it was discovered."
Shana tucked her golden hair behind her ear and was constantly scribbling down notes for review later on. Even though she had a hot temper and constantly fought with her stepbrother, she had always studied diligently and stayed on top of her studies.
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During the first break, Shana sat in the classroom with a large lunchbox filled with an assortment of sandwiches, fruit, and some of last night's stew sealed in a plastic container. Ever since she awoke her superpower, she had been eating just as much as any other superpower user, cultivator etc…
Her family wasn't all that wealthy though so they couldn't afford regular amounts of high energy food.
"…can't believe he actually had to move schools."
"It serves him right."
Shana picked up the conversation of several girls in the classroom. They didn't belong to this year level and were instead seniors, but they came to this classroom to see several friends who were.
"The way he looked at everyone was sickening."
"I heard he sexually assaulted Lilia."
"Nah, she just wanted to get him in trouble. But he may have well have with those eyes."
Shana felt her temple throb in anger as blood rushed to her head. She stood up abruptly with her chair screeching across the ground and stormed over to the group of girls, grabbing the last to talk by the collar and pushing her against the wall, pinning her there with her superhuman strength.
"What the fuck are you doing, you psycho?" One of the other girls rushed up and tried to shove Shana out of the way but were unable to even budge her.
"What were you saying about my brother?" Shana asked icily to the girl she had pinned to the wall, ignoring the rest who were making a clamor.
"Is that disgusting pervert your brother? Did I hurt your feelings?" The girl pinned to the wall put on a brave front because she still had her friends here to back her up.
Shana paid no attention to what she was essentially considering to be the peanut gallery and punched the girl in the center of her stomach. The girl was released from Shana's grip only to fall to the ground in gut wrenching agony as she threw up everything she'd eaten on the classroom floor.
The snap of a camera was heard as Shana held out her phone and caught this girls most embarrassing moment as she was throwing up. The rest of the girls had backed away in a panic, while a few had gone off to find teachers.
"My brother may be a piece of scum and a pervert, but he's still my brother. He is not someone for you to bad mouth behind his back," Shana's was so angry it sent chills down everyone's spine.
She was angry that they were talking about her brother like that, and that they admitted that the girls at school had framed him to try and get him kicked out of school. In her mind, she hated her brother's perversion, but he was not somebody that these nobodies could speak about in such a way.
"If I hear you speaking bad about my brother again, I'm going to crush both of your legs and watch you crawl."
The girls were terrified by Shana's merciless actions. The girl who threw up just curled up on the floor like a shrimp and held her stomach as she shook in pain.
"Shana! What do you think you're doing!?" A middle-aged teacher with a balding head and beady eyes rushed into the classroom and looked at the scene aghast. "Come with me right this instant!"
Shana snorted and looked at the girl on the ground one last time, put her glasses into her bag and followed the teacher out of the classroom.
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Sheryl Pieres, or Principal Pieres, was a beautiful woman in her 30s with black rimmed glasses, perfectly straight black hair that extended down her back, and was wore a sharp female suit. She also wore a phoenix red eye shadow which stood out from her distinctly 'black' appearance, but it looked completely natural and only complimented her looks.
"Ms. Ivanov, why did you attack a fellow student?" Principal Pieres nonchalantly asked as she sat behind her desk filling out paperwork.
It was as if the incident that happened in the classroom was not worth her time, which was true to a certain extent. With all the various factions and political alignments, the world was a chaotic melting pot. Something like students fighting in the classroom was truly insignificant in comparison. She had a far greater interest in the strength Shana displayed.
"Hmmph," Shana snorted and turned her head with a grimace.
"Ms. Ivanov, if you would please explain?"
"She was speaking bad about my brother. She said that he actually did nothing to the girl who accused him of sexually assaulting her."
"So, you attacked her based on a schoolyard rumor. This is not an excuse to attack them, Ms. Ivanov."
"It was enough for you to force my brother out of school!"
Shana's anger exploded as she took a step forward and forcefully kicked the desk into the principal, or at least she intended to. A the principal grabbed onto the other side of the desk and a thin, transparent layer formed over it and the paperwork on it, Shana's kick hit this protective layer and managed to make it crack, but it quickly repaired itself as if nothing happened.
Principal Pieres placed her pen down and looked toward Shana impassively.
"Please calm your anger, Ms. Ivanov. The accusations against your brother held no evidence and he was never punished for it. His transfer was a willing decision made by your parents."
"…That's…" Shana quickly became deflated as she didn't know how to counter that argument.
"Ms. Ivanov, I am more interested in your strength. Is it a superpower, System, cultivation, or some other esoteric form of power you have trained in?"
Shana just glared back at her and pettily refused to say anything.
"You have never reported or shown your strength previously. At least, nothing that stood out so much. Have you given any considerations into applying for any scholarships, perhaps comparing different specialized universities? The school can aid you in this process."
"I don't need any of your help!"
Seeing this conversation was going nowhere, the principal pinched her brow and sighed at this student's stubbornness.
"Ms. Ivanov, the student you injured is currently in the medical ward with some serious internal injuries. Regardless of any reasoning you may hold, there is still a punishment associated with it.
Your parents will be here soon to pick you up. Thankfully the student will make a full recovery soon, so you will only be suspended for one week starting today. I hope that during this time, you can consider my recommendation for assisting the future development of your strength."