Chapter 500: A Break for Lunch

*Bam* *Boom*

Lucien is thrown into the sea by a strong blow from the Leviathan, creating an explosion of water. He quickly comes out out of the sea and attacks the creature again.

They are already fighting for half a day after he opened another of the golden gates inside the naginata. And despite having understood how Aylin opened those gates, Lucien still doesn"t have any advances towards the next one.

"It"s about pride..." He comments to l.u.s.t while continuing to fight the Leviathan. "Aylin gained respect by fighting more powerful enemies... That should work with Leviathan, but even with that advance of strength, I can only inflict minor injuries on her..."

"Hmm... This doesn"t seem to be working at all." l.u.s.t comments as she looks at the Leviathan"s body. The wounds Lucien causes are immediately healed as her generation seems incredible like his, especially when she"s in the water.

"f.u.c.k!" Lucien exclaims as he is thrown into the water again. Even though he"s much stronger and faster when he"s with the golden naginata, he"s still far from similar to Leviathan.

"I have to try harder!" He talks to l.u.s.t.

"Go easy..." She suggests. "You"re really stressed out, and I know it"s because you miss your sisters and wives so badly."

"It"s not just that." He comments. "There"s so much going on... this connection with Aylin, that woman"s manipulations, and now this d.a.m.n creature... It"s so bad don"t understand why this is all happening to me."

l.u.s.t feels bad that she can"t help Lucien with that. She wanted to have the answers he seeks, but even she can"t understand what"s happening to them. All of that looks like something much bigger than they can imagine.

*BAM*

"AHHHHHf.u.c.kKK!!" Lucien is. .h.i.t by the Leviathan again with a blow so hard that it rips the skin off his arm, revealing his golden bones.

"d.a.m.n, boy!!" The creature looks at Lucien with an annoyed expression. "Why aren"t you concentrating on our fight again?? I thought we were making progress."

Lucien resists the pain as his arm quickly regenerates. He also looks into Leviathan"s eyes. "And I thought you would devour me when I learned to use Aylin"s power..."

She smiles, showing her big fangs. "That"s still the plan. But I need to make sure you really know how to use that power. I think you"re still far from your true potential, so we"ll keep going until I want this to end."

"..." Lucien sighs as he tries to deal with all the frustration he"s feeling right now. The fact that he"s being forced to do things by that creature only makes him feel worse.

"Look, I understand how you feel, little dragon," Leviathan speaks in a strangely friendly tone. "You"re frustrated; it"s understandable. I knew this would happen, and that"s why I brought you here."

"Here?" He looks around but sees nothing but water and black clouds. Well, he"s in the middle of the storm that follows the Leviathan out of the water.

"Yes, here." The Leviathan responds. "You can"t see it because I"m using a water barrier to hide our presence, but we"re near to an island."

"I don"t feel anything... maybe her water barrier is too powerful." l.u.s.t quickly speaks to Lucien mentally. She even tries to materialize her body away from him to get past the supposed barrier but fails due to the distance she can reach away from him.

"What does this island have to do with us?" Lucien asks Leviathan.

"The people on this island are part of the sc.u.m of this world; no one will miss them." She explains. "So, I will use them as part of our… training."

"..." Lucien can"t help but be upset when she calls that training.

The Leviathan smiles as she enjoys his frustration. "See this as a gift; you can go out there and unleash your anger on them. Also, you need to face enemies a little closer to your power level than me."

"She wants to see how Aylin"s power works on weaker people; this is a kind of test." l.u.s.t quickly comments in Lucien"s mind.

"Yes, that"s what it looks like..." He responds.

Then he looks at Leviathan with a thoughtful expression. "And if I don"t do what you want?"

The creature smiles. "You don"t have a choice. Either you destroy everyone on that island, or we"ll stay here forever; I"m pretty patient, you know. But how long can you stay away from those women?"

He sighs. "I see... But does it have to be all the people there? I don"t want to kill children and innocent women."

"Alright, I don"t think anyone is innocent there, but you can let the weaker ones get away if it makes you feel better." The Leviathan responds. "The important thing is that you fight a lot of strong people alone."

"Alone?" He thinks about Oya and Helena and then asks. "But what if-"

"Enough talk." But the Leviathan ignores his question and initiates a powerful attack with her tail in his direction.

*Blink*

He teleports to a spot two hundred meters away from there but then realizes that the Leviathan somehow predicted his moves and changed her attack quickly in that direction.

*BAM!!!*

He is. .h.i.t with great force and thrown backward without any control over his body, which flies tens of meters, crossing the Leviathan water barrier.

Still in the air, Lucien notices the storm"s center getting behind as the Leviathan seems to be moving that back.

*BAM* *BOOOOM*

He was so focused on the storm that he didn"t notice his body was approaching a lighthouse. After cras.h.i.+ng into the lighthouse top, Lucien keeps going backward due to the force of that attack.

He tries to flap his wings to regain control but crashes into another building, going through all of Its walls after hitting another and another.

*BOOOM* *BOOOM* *BOOOM*

His body crosses several buildings across that island until he hits a very thick wall, crossing it with less force and falling into a pool.

The first thing Lucien notices is that the water in that pool is strangely dark. He can"t see anything within a meter of him.

"There is someone here!" l.u.s.t quickly warns him.

Lucien turns around inside the pool and feels movement in the water around him. Then a charming face appears right in front of his face.

"It"s a woman." Lucien smiles as the mysterious and charming woman stares at his face with a curious expression.

"Not a human one..." l.u.s.t comments, and then Lucien realizes that woman doesn"t have legs but rather a long, thick snake-type tail plus pointy ears and small rifts around her neck, like the gills of a fish.

Lucien gets immediately more curious about that woman just as she is curious about him, so they keep facing each other in that dark water.

"What is she? Some kind of aquatic demi-human?" He asks l.u.s.t.

"A Naga." l.u.s.t explains. "They are one of the greatest races in this world."

"Naga..." Lucien can"t help but find that woman very beautiful, in a way different from all the others he knows. "She looks so... exotic."

"I bet she thinks the same about you…" l.u.s.t comments in a slightly jealous tone.

The mysterious Naga swims around Lucien, a.n.a.lyzing his incredibly attractive and fascinating body. Then she came back to stand in front of him and reached out to touch his bare chest.

"What kind of creature are you?" Her voice echoes through the water, but Lucien doesn"t understand her words.

"It"s Ocean Language." l.u.s.t quickly translates the Naga"s words for him.

Lucien quickly grabs the Naga"s wrist before she touches his chest, shocking her with his speed. "How can she talk underwater like the Leviathan?"

"She uses her mana to project her voice through the water." l.u.s.t explains. "It"s not a very difficult thing to do, and you actually did it, roaring like a dragon underwater when fighting the Leviathan."

"I see... I need to learn how to do that." He comments.

Then he lets go of that woman"s wrist and flaps his wings, flying to the surface of the pool as he can"t learn to project his voice underwater that fast or hold his breath forever.

The Naga follows Lucien as her eyes gleam with excitement. It"s not every day that the most handsome guy she"s ever seen falls into her pool that way, leaving her both fascinated and curious.

"Ahhh…" Lucien takes a deep breath as he reaches the pool"s surface. "This water... it"s hot."

He looks around and realizes that place is a bathroom. Then the Naga emerges in front of him again, closer than anyone should be to a stranger.

"You speak human language, right?" She asks, already using the human language that has few variations throughout the universe.

"Yea." He responds and then has to hold her arm, so she doesn"t touch his chest again. Then he looks at the hole he made in the bathroom wall. "Sorry about that."

"No problem." She quickly responds as she smiles and keeps trying to touch his chest. "Are you a demon? Is that why you are so attractive??"

"It"s complicated..." He responds and then swims to the edge of the pool. He also finds her very attractive, so he knows things can get spice quickly, but this is not the time to find a new wife.

He leaves the pool and walks over to the food trays around it in his underwear while the Naga continues gazing at him. "My name is Kamala."

"Lucien." He speaks his name while a.n.a.lyzing various types of food he has never seen, especially seafood, prepared in a very luxurious way.

l.u.s.t also a.n.a.lyzes that food and tells him it"s okay with that. And seeing so much good food, Lucien can"t help but think about Oya and Helena. None of them can cook well, nor l.u.s.t, so they haven"t had a good meal for several days in the purple world.

"You look hungry... just eat whatever you want," Kamala comments as she smiles seductively at Lucien.

She has a lot of questions about how he came out of nowhere through that wall, but she"s so attracted to him that nothing else really matters right now.

"Thank you," Lucien responds while opening the purple world portal. Regardless of what"s happening now, he doesn"t mind stopping to have a nice meal with his wives.

Kamala was already very curious and surprised by Lucien"s mysterious appearance, but seeing a magical portal appear out of nowhere behind him and two women come out of it makes her mind blow up.

"Where are we?" Helena asks him as she quickly begins to a.n.a.lyze her surroundings, especially Kamala.

"Food!" Oya excitedly smiles as she sees several trays of good-smelling food.

"Hahaha..." Lucien smiles and hugs Oya. Then he kisses her lips before putting a big white shrimp in her mouth.

"Yummmm..." She bites off half the shrimp and then moans in pleasure because of the wonderful mixture of Lucien"s saliva and shrimp taste.

Lucien kisses Oya"s lips again before eating the other half of the shrimp. "Good, isn"t it?"

She cutely nods. "Yep! Oya loves good food and Lucien"s kisses!"

"..." Helena and Kamala have the same confused expression on their faces as they find it very strange that Lucien and Oya are acting that way in such a strange situation.

Lucien lets Oya start devouring the food from those trays and then kisses Helena before putting a shrimp in her mouth too. "Try it, my dear."

Helena doesn"t know how to react but ends up accepting the shrimp. [Well, I guess I have to learn to go with the flow...]

Meanwhile, Kamala is more shocked and confused. [Who the h.e.l.l is he???]