I Felt Free

Ha! Huff! Huff!

In his room, Lukas and Oriana were lying on the bed side by side, heaving deep breaths. Both were covered in sweat and had big satisfied smiles on their faces.

After having sex for two hours without any break in between, they were drained and just stopped after climaxing for the last time.

After regulating his breath, Lukas turned toward and asked even though her satisfied look told him the answer, "How was it?"

After finishing, Oriana had reverted to her original self, completely unlike her wild and unrestrained self during the sex, and didn't dare meet his gaze. 

Still, even though she found it embarrassing to say it, she replied, her eyes turning hazy as if she was reliving the sensations, "It was amazing, Young Lord. I… never felt so much pleasure and so much happiness before. It felt as if I had no concerns and nothing was holding me back—I was completely free. It was incredible."

Lukas nodded and then without her asking him, he told her, "I felt the same. You were incredible."

Saying this, he pushed himself off the bed and leaned over to her, kissing her lips. Then, he got down the bed, walking toward the bathroom.

"Wait, Young Lord. Let me help you wash." Oriana hurriedly said when she saw this. She tried to push herself to sit up but there was no strength left in her.

Lukas' lips curled into a proud grin seeing this and he generously waved his hand, "You are too exhausted. Just rest and recover, don't worry about me."

"Mm." Oriana meekly nodded.

Ten minutes later, Lukas returned from the bathroom with a towel wrapped around him and another, wet towel in his hand.

He was about to call out to her when he noticed she was… asleep. So, with light footsteps, he approached the bed and started to carefully wipe her body.

…

Quarter of an hour later, after tucking Oriana in, Lukas walked out of the room and went to the hall/living room.

Right now, he couldn't wait to go to the courtyard, activate the rune and begin his cultivation, but it was already late in the evening, almost time for his dinner to arrive.

Since he didn't want anyone to know he could cultivate for now, he decided to wait for a while.

Not long after, a maid arrived carrying a tray of food.

Seeing Lukas seemingly waiting for her instead of Oriana, she was a little curious but kept her curiosity to herself.

After placing the tray on the table, she bowed lightly and left.

Though the thought of quenching his hunger before beginning his cultivation crossed his mind, he didn't eat the dinner because when Oriana woke up a few hours later, the kitchen would have been closed and she would have nothing to eat. 

So, deciding to eat with her later, he left the hall and arrived at the courtyard.

The previous spot hadn't been cleaned yet after he shed his impurities there, and with sun down, there was no need for seeking a shaded area, so he just went and sat cross-legged at the center of the courtyard before closing his eyes in meditation.

After a while, his breathing, heart rate and excited mind calmed down. Now ready to begin his cultivation, he connected to his mind sea and activated the rune.

Weng!

The rune trembled lightly and the Sex Quadrant shone with colorless brilliance.

Shua! Shua!

In the physical world, the moment he activated the rune, wind seemed to howl around him as the mana of a large part of Neera City with him as center started converging toward him.

Within moments, streams of mana started flowing into his body under the rune's control.

The comfort caused by the invading mana almost broke his focus and the rune's efficiency began to plummet, but Lukas was ready and hurriedly concentrated.

He was aware since his mana veins were now clear, he would only feel comfort not pain and while pain caused major distraction, the comfort also did the same, the only difference was that people tend to ignore it.

As his focus stabilized and mana consistently entered his body, saturating his mana veins before dissipating in his body, strengthening it, Lukas couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

From what he knew about the Magic Cultivation Techniques, they could boost a mage's ability to sense the mana, absorb it more easily and at a faster rate and also helped to refine it through complicated circulations in mana veins so the mage wouldn't accumulate too much impurities and cause imperfections in their cultivation.

Still, no matter how high grade ones the Magic Cultivation Techniques were, they weren't able to refine and purify the mana to the point where it no longer had any impurities.

This was why mages didn't cultivate for too long periods at one time so as not to accumulate more impurities than they could handle and harm themselves. And after each cultivation session, they would spend time to eliminate the impurities and mend the imperfections in their cultivation which was usually called consolidation of cultivation.

However… Lukas sensed something which didn't conform to these rules.

He knew Lust Rune eliminated the need for a Magic Cultivation Technique and after his first cultivation session he realized he didn't need to consciously circulate the mana or refine it—of course, he still needed to concentrate lest it broke free of Rune's control and rampaged in his body even if he thought the chances of it happening weren't high.

Both of these points made the cultivation easier and faster for him and Lukas was very happy about it.

However, as he began to absorb the mana now and it started circulating in his mana veins, he realized it… didn't seem to have any impurities left. In other words, it was the purest it could be.

'Maybe I'm wrong and it might still have some impurities.' He thought, not too confident of his finding because he hadn't seen pure mana before.

'But if I'm not wrong and the Rune can indeed completely refine all the impurities in the mana…'

Despite being skeptical, he couldn't help but think what if and the implications made him so excited that he could barely contain his emotions.