Legacy of The Arcane Lust Mage-Chapter 17: First Level Rune

Lukas, unaware of her thoughts, calmly reviewed the information for the first level rune creation.

Then, he started meditating to calm his mind.

After twenty minutes, he opened his eyes and started arranging the things in a small circle with three quadrants.

In the middle quadrant he poured the Lion King’s blood essence and a few other items. In the left quadrant, he poured dire wolf’s purified blood and similarly a few other items while in the right quadrant, he placed the rest of the items, leaving only the spirit soothing elixir and the ten Low Grade Mana Stones.

Oriana watched with nervous anticipation as he unhurriedly put three mana stones in each quadrant and the last one in the center.

Then, he suddenly produced a knife from his robes which made her heart skip a beat. ’Don’t tell me the Young Lord needs to harm himself for this... ritual?’

Knowing she would be worried, Lukas gave her a reassuring glance and gingerly placed the sharp edge of the blade on his palm before quickly sliding it back.

Hiss!

As the pain of blade cutting his palm hit his nerves, he hissed in pain and while mumbling something in an archaic language, he slowly dripped the blood on the circle.

Drip! Drip!

Initially, there was no change but after tenth’s drop fell on the circle, something shifted—the air in the room had become oppressive.

Drip! Drip!

Weng!

After another ten drops, the circle suddenly shone with an incandescent light.

Immediately, Lukas opened the cork of spirit soothing elixir’s bottle and emptied it in his mouth.

Weng!

Weng!

Swoosh!

As more and more blood dripped onto the circle, the air in the room became increasingly oppressive—Oriana and even Lukas weren’t even able to breathe properly—and the circle shone more and more before it suddenly turned into a ray of light and shot into his forehead.

Immediately, a searing pain shot through his head which made everything blank out in front of his eyes. He was in so much pain that he wanted to smash his head against the marbled floor to end his misery.

No matter how much he tried to grit his teeth and gather his will, he couldn’t bear the pain and by each split second, the prospect of banging his head to end everything became increasingly lucrative.

Fortunately, before he lost all sanity, the spirit soothing elixir he had taken earlier took effect and a cooling sensation spread into his mind, significantly relieving the pain and making it endurable.

Slowly, his vision started clearing and his other senses that pain had dulled started working properly.

Immediately, he realized he was lying in a familiar, soft and warm lap. Looking up, he saw a tear-streaked Oriana, anxiously looking at him.

Earlier, after the ray of light shot into his forehead, he suddenly swayed and fell back.

Initially, she didn’t want to approach him, not wanting to interrupt the process but then he started trembling violently as if he was having seizures.

Realizing some movements from her wouldn’t interrupt the awakening given how much movement he was unconsciously making, Oriana rushed over to him, put his head on her lap and started massaging his head using some mana.

However, her massage, which usually relaxed people, didn’t seem to have any effect on him which made her feel useless.

Fortunately, after a short while, his violent trembling slowly abated and his facial muscles, previously scrunched up tightly in pain, also relaxed, and now he finally regained his senses.

Her worries gave way to relief as she exhaled deeply before quickly asking, "How are you feeling, Young Lord?"

"My head... it’s throbbing in pain." Lukas said, touching his forehead before saying, "Please help me to the bed and give me a head massage."

"Of course, Young Lord." Oriana nodded and hurriedly took him to bed before starting to massage his head.

Lukas closed his eyes amidst the slowly ebbing pain and retreated to his mind sea where the bubbles of Legacy hung in the sky.

At this moment, where the first legacy bubble was, a circular pattern with three sections, similar to the one he had created, had appeared—the first level Arcane Lust Rune.

As for why it was just similar instead of being the same—it was way more complex than the one he had created.

At the same time he saw the rune, he noticed something else which made him heave a deep sigh of relief.

He could now sense the ambient mana through the rune and even absorb it.

’Now I can become a mage.’ He thought, relieved.

Before he created the rune and it drilled into his head, he had some unsaid worries like would he be able to absorb mana without activating any of the three sections. Now, they no longer existed.

After sensing the rune for a while more, he retreated from the mind sea and focused on enjoying the massage.

Though he wanted to start the mana absorption, he still had some lingering pain which made it hard to focus. So, he decided to enjoy Oriana’s relaxing massage and her soft and warm lap.

All of a sudden, he sensed something.

Opening his eyes just a tiny slit, he looked toward his crotch and saw he was pitching a tent in his robes.

’I’ll be damned!’ He cursed inwardly, but it was a mix of frustration and... relief.

Frustration because he realized this was a side effect of the rune and wouldn’t subside with time and relief because after he woke up in this world, maybe because he was physically too weak or maybe because of something else, despite feeling aroused at times, he felt no stirring down there which had concerned him.

As he felt her lap and inhaled her scent, he slowly became more and more aroused but knowing he couldn’t force Oriana as it would make him no different than Isaac, he started thinking how he could seduce her.

He knew after becoming a mage, when he revealed it, many ambitious women would be willing to accompany in his chambers, but he didn’t want those cheap women.

’I want Oriana and...’ Images of several women flashed in his mind, making him more aroused.

It was at this moment he felt Oriana’s movements change tempo and if he wasn’t wrong, he also heard her gasp.

Curious, he opened his eyes and looked up at her.

Immediately, his expression froze when he realized she was staring at his hard on with widened eyes.

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