Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 847: Emotional Garima

[A hundred minor units should be enough.] The Tower Spirit answered after contemplating for a bit but this made Max raise his brows in confusion.

”What’s a minor unit?” he asked.

[Remember the amount of energy you used on that child Ling Han when he sacrificed his blood essence to wake me up?]

”Yes. So, that amount is a unit.” Max muttered, feeling a bit helpless. That amount was around one fifth of his current maximum Nascent Energy and to replenish his Nascent Energy reserves, he needed to have sex with Esme at least two times if her pure yin energy was not at its peak.

Now, however, Esme wasn’t available as she had just gone into secluded cultivation. Even if she hadn’t, her pure yin was already thinned out, so he wouldn’t be getting much Nascent Energy if he were to do it with her.

He glanced at Ella and shook his head. She was just a Two-Star Mage and might not be able to help him replenish his reserve in full even a single time before her pure yin also thinned out. The same was true for Maria.

Even though Ellie was willing to become his woman, she was just an ordinary person. Moreover, because he would have to get rid of her curse, he would be using a lot more energy than what he would be receiving, so she also couldn’t help him. That left only Rima.

’Wait!’ He suddenly remembered Garima and his eyes lit up. ’Doesn’t she have the Ice Yin Body? I need to talk to her.’

Just as he was planning to go out and talk to Garima, the Tower Spirit spoke.

[No, that amount is slightly less than one third of a Minor Unit.]

”...”

Max stared at the emptiness in front of him, speechless. Following which, his expression darkened, ”You should have just told me this directly. What’s with all the pausing mid-sentence?”

Because of his irritation, his voice was a bit louder which seemed to have disturbed Ella’s peaceful sleep. Fortunately, as he caressed her shoulders soothingly, she once again fell asleep.

[Did I pause for too long?] The Tower Spirit asked.

Max didn’t bother answering. Gently removing himself from the bed to make sure he didn’t wake up Ella, he walked out of the room.

...

Garima was sitting cross-legged in her room, crystalline ice and flakes of snow swirling around her.

After a while, the swirling ice and snow flakes—manifestations of her Ice Mana—slowly receded in her body and she opened her eyes, her delicate brows knitting lightly.

She had already exhausted all her resources she brought when she came over to protect the Garfield family a while ago.

Without resources and no mana in the tower, she couldn’t cultivate but since she didn’t want to waste her remaining time away sitting idle, she tried to deepen her understanding of the Ice Law.

Unfortunately, the Tower was lacking the laws, which forced her to stop.

”I should talk to him.” she muttered and called out, ”Senior Tower Spirit, is Max still in the Tower?”

[Yes.]

”Thank you!” She stood up and walked toward the door.

Creak!

Just as she opened them, she saw Max standing in front of her, his hand raised in the air—he was about to knock.

”What is it?” She asked, suddenly feeling uneasy.

Max’s lips twitched seeing her wary look.

”Are you not going to invite me in?” he asked, forcing a smile on his face.

Garima stared at him in silence for a moment before opening her frosty lips and uttering a cold, ”No.”

”...”

Max had the urge to turn around and leave. Sure, he needed someone to have sex with to accumulate Nascent Energy but he didn’t want to do it with someone who obviously had no interest in him, not to mention was so wary of him—it was a turn off.

But remembering if he didn’t do it, she would die in less than 3 months, which he didn’t want because even if she didn’t seem to like him, she had protected him and his family and after accompanying them for so long, she had now become a part of their group. Esther even seemed close to her. So, he couldn’t let her die.

Taking a deep breath, he said, ”Remember the conversation we had in front of the Cloud Academy when you came to save me.”

Garima’s heart skipped a beat hearing his words.

How could she not remember? His words that day were precisely what had given her hope to continue living with a positive outlook on life instead of just waiting for death.

Since that day, she had wanted to talk to him about it on several occasions but never got the chance. Then as time passed and he also didn’t bring up the topic, she thought he didn’t have any way of helping her and maybe only knew about her physique, which was why he was avoiding her.

Though this disappointed her, she didn’t despair or become gloomy like before because her outlook of life had changed significantly after watching the Garfield family trying to survive and find ways to be as happy as they could be after everything happened to them in the last 2-3 months.

So, she also started trying to savor every moment of her remaining life, whether good or bad, happy or sad.

But after hearing him mention it again, her hope she thought she had buried in the deepest recesses of her heart surged, however she suppressed it.

Taking a deep breath, she nodded, ”I remember.” And then just looked at him, not asking anything, just waiting for him to say whatever he wanted—she didn’t want to nurse a flicker of hope only for it to be extinguished mercilessly by reality.

”You must already be aware that you only have around three months left to live because three months later, your Ice Yin Body will erupt and destroy every bit of your vitality, no remedy would be able to save you.”

Garima silently nodded in response to his words, her expression unconsciously hardening.

”However...”

Her heart skipped a beat.

Looking into her eyes, Max continued, ”...If you were to cultivate with a cultivation technique tailored to the Ice Yin Body, not only you would be able to control it perfectly, your cultivation speed would also skyrocket.”

Hearing this, Garima realized he had the method or had a way to get it.

Thump! Thump!

No longer could she hold back her surging hope. Closing her eyes, she took another deep breath, clenched her fist, opened her eyes and met his gaze with an unwavering resolve before resolutely declaring.

”No matter what it is that you want from me in exchange for the method... I agree.”

”I like your decisiveness.” Max smilingly praised her and without beating around the bush, he told her what he required of her, ”Become my woman and you’ll have the cultivation technique.”

”Alright. I’m your woman from this moment onwards.” Garima nodded and extended her hand toward him, ”Now give me the cultivation technique.”

”...”

Max couldn’t help but smile wryly in his heart, but without saying anything, he took out the snow white Cultivation Technique Scroll that radiated a hallow but bone chilling aura.

Max winched in pain and quickly put it on her hand before looking at his frozen hand. ”Damn.”

Garima’s breath hitched and her heart screamed with desire the moment she laid her eyes on the scroll. At this moment, she knew Max hadn’t lied. This cultivation technique could most definitely save her life and help her reach heights she had never even imagined before.

Swoosh!

Immediately, she disappeared and appeared in the middle of her room, sat down cross-legged and with trembling hands tried to open the scroll but... failed.

Rumble!

Her eyes narrowed and her aura erupted out of her, shaking the room.

”What’s the meaning of this?” she icily asked Max who had just entered the room.

Though he could understand her impatience, he couldn’t help but be speechless. Resisting a shiver, he calmly said, ”Nothing. It’s sealed and will only open after you have become my woman.”