When Rex opened his eyes, the clock in the hallway showed three in the morning. And it’s the perfect ti for him to wake up after having to sleep for just a few minutes.
’Damn... at this point I really need so good night sleep for like six to seven hours...’
’But, fuck that! So good coffee is what I need because I need to grind more and more to beco the strongest here!’
Rex felt the room was warm and quiet. The lamp had long since gone out, leaving only the weak silver light coming through the curtains from the capital’s nightti lanterns at this hour.
He can see Marceline was sleeping on his right side. Her breathing was slow and deep, and her hair was spread out on the pillow in a way that made her look much less put together than the woman who had stood in the doorway five hours ago trying to act like she knew exactly what she had agreed to.
And then there’s Mara, who’s on his left, and she slept like she always did when she was really happy: completely still, with no restlessness or turning. It was the calm of soone whose body had decided everything was fine and who was going to take their ti coming back.
’And they say they want to get fucked until morning... but both of them got knocked out way fast.’
’How pathetic.’
Rex stared at the ceiling for a mont.
"Okay," he thought, feeling a calm sense of satisfaction that ca from seeing a plan work out just as he had hoped. "That went well..."
’Not just well, but really well...!’
’Nothing ever beats having a good threeso with two MILFs at once, especially when both of them are frustrated with their own husbands.’
’Those husbands... are so fucking stupid to let such gorgeous wives like these feel all frustrated and lonely.’
’We do know older won’s desires are care and attention... but it seems like they can’t give a single one of them other than caring about themselves.’
’What a fucking joke.’
’Anyway... it’s ti for to work.’
He carefully pulled his arm out from under Mara’s shoulders and then did the sa on Marceline’s side. The small telekinetic changes were enough to hold both won’s weight so that neither of them moved.
Marceline made a soft noise and turned into the warm space he had left. She snuggled up to his pillow and could sll him completely, which made her sleep more peacefully.
The two of them moved back together easily, like people who had been living together for years, which they had, even though it was a new arrangent.
Rex sat on the bed’s edge, picked up his shirt and pants from the floor, and let the system do its accounting.
[OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY LOG — FULL SUMMARY]
[MARCELINE BANCEY: MAXIMUM DESIRE ACHIEVED — FULL BOND COMPLETE]
[BONUS ENERGY: 1000 POINTS — MAXIMUM BOND (NEW TARGET)]
[MARA KESSON: EXISTING MAXIMUM BOND — SESSION ENERGY: 150 POINTS]
[THREESO MULTIPLIER ACTIVE: x2 APPLIED TO ALL SESSION ENERGY]
[TOTAL ENERGY GENERATED THIS SESSION: (1000 150) x2 = 2300 POINTS]
[PREVIOUS BALANCE: 1200 POINTS]
[CURRENT TOTAL ENERGY: 3500 POINTS]
Rex read through it twice, not because the maths was complicated but because three thousand five hundred was a number he had been working toward since the mont the Sovereign Necromancy briefing had laid out its cost.
He achieved this goal with only five hundred dollars to spare.
"Three thousand five hundred," he thought, running the number through his mind one more ti, as if soone had already confird the balance. "Three thousand for the skill and five hundred left."
’It seems like I really need to abuse the 2x multiplier by having a threeso or psychological dominance.’
’But... what’s even better is if I could do both at once.’ Rex looked at Marcelina and Mara. ’That’s right... I could just make their husband watch fucking them; that fucking counts!’
’Yeah, that’s actually a brilliant idea, but... I need to dispose of their bodies after that... arggghh... what a pain in the ass.’
After complaining, he easily pulled up the system’s purchase interface, as if he had done it so many tis that it no longer took any thought.
"Buy Sovereign Necromancy."
[CONFIRMING PURCHASE: SOVEREIGN NECROMANCY]
[COST: 3000 POINTS]
[REMAINING BALANCE: 500 POINTS]
[SKILL ACQUIRED]
[SOVEREIGN NECROMANCY — FULL BRIEFING]
’Even though you already explain it once, but aight... let’s read it again.’
[FUNCTION: RAISES FULLY FUNCTIONAL UNDEAD SOLDIERS WITH COMPLETE RETENTION OF ORIGINAL SKILL SETS AND COMBAT CAPABILITIES]
[COMMAND RANGE: UNLIMITED — CONSTRUCTS RESPOND TO DIRECT NTAL INSTRUCTION AND CAN EXECUTE STANDING ORDERS WITHOUT ACTIVE SUPERVISION]
[CONSTRUCT STABILITY: PERMANENT — NO DEGRADATION, NO MAINTENANCE REQUIRED BEYOND INITIAL RAISING]
[RAISING COST: SCALES WITH THE POWER LEVEL OF THE ORIGINAL HOST — STANDARD MONSTERS REQUIRE NEGLIGIBLE ENERGY, HIGH-TIER COMBATANTS REQUIRE PROPORTIONAL INVESTNT]
’With my energy manipulation... I could pull this off easily.’
[SOUL ANCHORING: OPTIONAL — PARTIAL PRESERVATION OF TARGET’S CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES SEMI-SENTIENT CONSTRUCT WITH RETAINED PERSONALITY AND INDEPENDENT DECISION-MAKING]
[ACTIVATION THOD: CONTACT WITH BIOLOGICAL REMAINS SPOKEN COMMAND IN NECROTIC FREQUENCY — INSTINCTIVE MASTERY GRANTED]
[CONCEALNT NOTE: CONSTRUCTS DO NOT EMIT LIFE SIGNATURES — APOSTLE OF LIFE DETECTION WILL NOT REGISTER THEM AS LIVING, BUT WILL REGISTER THEM AS NECROTIC IF SPECIFICALLY SCANNED]
’Fucking nice...’
[CRITICAL LIMITATION: FORBIDDEN ON ALL SURFACE KINGDOMS — EXPOSURE CONSTITUTES IMDIATE GROUNDS FOR ELIMINATION BY APOSTLES OF LIFE AND LAW ENFORCENT]
’Nobody cares anyway about those bums...’
[RECOMNDATION: DEPLOY ONLY IN CONTROLLED OR CONCEALED ENVIRONNTS]
Rex sat with that for a full minute. Not because he was surprised by anything, but because he wanted to close the gap between knowing how to do sothing and thinking about all the strategic implications of doing it before he did it for the first ti.
He didn’t want to fuck it up during his first attempt.
He thought about it and said, ’Semi-sentient constructs with soul anchoring.’
’That’s not a soldier... that’s a fucking sleeper agent. Place one in a location where it doesn’t stand out, and allow it to function on standing orders for an indefinite period.
’Nobody scanning for living signatures picks it up. Only a dedicated necrotic scan catches it, and you’d have to know to look.’
’That’s a level of hidden infrastructure that most people wouldn’t even think to look for.’
He felt the skill settle into him, like all the others he had bought. It was a deep-level integration that felt more like rembering sothing that had always been there than learning sothing new.
He already knew the necrotic frequency; it was an instinct that sat in the back of his throat and behind his sternum, waiting.
He got dressed quietly and left Marceline’s room. He used his telekinesis to pull the door shut behind him so the latch wouldn’t make a sound.
There was no one in the hallway. The third floor of the Silver Rest was as quiet at 3 a.m. as it seed.
Rex stood in the dark hallway, pondering when the sun would rise, when the groups would et, and when they would leave the dungeon. He had about at least two hours to get dressed, eat, and be there.
’Alright... I just need to test it on so weak monsters that I could find.’
’Thankfully, I already knew each nest that was near this capital thanks to Diana’s help.’
Two hours was enough ti to see if the system’s claim that Sovereign Necromancy worked was true. He only went back to his own room long enough to put on his Lustful Villain’s mask and then teleport away.
...
He found the first nest in the scrubland about four kilotres outside the city walls. It was a goblin colony.
Rex had flown out low, staying below the treeline, and used his foresight to get through the dark terrain without any problems. The colony was exactly where his foresight had said it would be: a group of rough shelters dug into a hillside, with about thirty goblins sleeping or not paying attention.
He landed on the edge of the clearing and looked at them for a second.
"Let’s find out what this thing really does."
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