Chapter 1039: Chapter 1038: Another Step Up The Mountain

After the two Fiends went ahead and had their fun at my expense, the rest of the dinner we had was rather tense and not as flavorful as before, mainly because I had three separate gazes on me that were clearly somewhat judgmental and worried, which only made me feel slightly angry at myself for what I had planned to do.

Judging how strong the general combatants at an arena should't have been that difficult, and after I got their measure I wanted to make some bets that tapped into the sphere of Lust so that I could begin using this power I had on something besides training and honing my control over it.

I wanted to not only harvest more of it, but also to make use of it and benefit from how easily people seem to lose themselves to it when they come into contact with it; it muddled the senses and addled the mind enough that I thought I could swindle some people out of almost everything they owned in a fight that was never fair from the start.