Grand Lust Sovereign-Chapter 116 : Why Can’t I Have It Easy?

-This floor is ninety percent cleared. You have the opportunity to take away the remaining ten percent. Doing so would result in immense growth leaps.

-You'll start to close the gap between you and that good luck boy if you do this.

'There's no need to compare me to someone loved by the heavens.' Julien thought and shook his head. 'It doesn't matter if he grows stronger, I'll just go by my pace.'

-I am not comparing you.

El was surprisingly serious this time.

-I am merely stating the fact that your hard work can beat his luck.

'El, we both know, in face of absolute luck, no amount of hard work can hold a candle. Let's not talk about it.'

-You dumdum, there is no such thing as absolute. The Tower has granted him absolute luck but it will balance things out some or the other way. The balancing may not be as much, but it will be there.

-In your case too, your curse did have some balancing effect on it. Didn't I find you and adopted you? That's the luckiest you've ever been.

'Wow… do you have no shame praising yourself like that?' Julien was speechless.

-Heh. You can never figure out the depths of your daddy's power.

'I am not interested, thank you. Please get to the point now.'

-Right… so what I was saying was…

The method to clear this quest was easy and right in front of the three's eyes.

It was…

-Just kill that spirit with six eyes you might've come across. It'll definitely drop a soul stone and some great treasures.

'There are better ways to suicide, El.' Julien said and clicked his tongue.

-I wouldn't suggest an impossible task, would I? You're surely capable enough to fight that. Plus, you only need to survive for a minute against it. If you do that, you will get a soul stone, but I suggest you kill it off.

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'How exactly do you think we can do that? We don't have any cheat powers to go against someone so strong. That's also a ghostly entity, we have no means to deal with such things.'

-Don't you have your Forbidden card? Just use that. Simple.

'Huh? That's a physical attack card. How will it work on ghosts?'

-Less talk, more work. Now go.

El did not entertain Julien's argument further and left. It was his choice if he wanted to do this or not.

When her voice couldn't be heard anymore, Julien sighed.

Beside him, Jackie could see his expression whereas Amelia could feel it.

She held his hand and rubbed the back of it.

"Is something wrong?" She asked in her sweet voice.

Julien nodded but then shook his head and sighed.

"I know how we can obtain this soul stone, but I don't know whether we'll survive trying."

Was going through a challenge always necessary? Why could the world not give him everything easily?

The questions were absurd, but quite profound if one thought about it.

There was a person in this Tower who was getting everything handed to him and there was one who was getting robbed of every opportunity.

The latter was to the point where he had to desperately take any and every opportunity he could get, and work ten times as hard to be on the same level as that person with immense good luck.

"Master, we don't have much of a choice." Jackie chimed in and said. "It's either we go through the trouble to find that soul stone or get corrupted by the ghosts here."

Amelia nodded. "If we have a way out, we should work for it. The gods are looking upon us, we won't find ourselves in extreme danger at the very least.

To a degree, her words weren't wrong.

Julien hesitated at first, but his doubts began to fade as his teammates' encouragement and optimism reassured him that everything would be alright.

Julien's hesitation stemmed from the fact that there was an easy way out.

If someone from the Crimson Night Guild brought a soul stone and gave it to them, half the quest would already be cleared. All they had to do was find a rueful soul, trap it into it and sacrifice it.

It was easier said than done, but much less life threatening.

'—fuck. Why am I being such a coward?' Julien suddenly became self-conscious.

'The goal was to be cautious, but I'm treading on the borders of cowardice and not cautiousness. I know, I know it's not going to be easy. It was never going to be. Despite being prepared for challenges, I'm hesitating when the challenge has actually come up…'

Julien felt conflicted.

He had many adventures so far, they were life threatening and not easy, and despite having been through them, his mind was signaling him to take the easy way out and not put himself in unnecessary danger.

'…I guess, trying not to fall into danger is an ancestral instinct of ours. It may be why my mind is making me take the easier, less dangerous path. But…'

But the problem with taking the easy path lay in the hindered growth.

Julien could never catch up to the good luck card boy if he rejected opportunities such as these.

'…I'm just worried of putting Jackie and Amelia into danger. Welp… if the need arises, I'll do my best to stall that ghost. We only need to survive one minute after all.'

Making up his mind, Julien gave a curt nod to Jackie and Amelia.

"Fine. Let's do it." Julien said and took the three out of the hall.

'It's about time I man up and stop with my bitchy attitude. The dangers are never going to stop.'

Jackie and Amelia diligently followed their Master.

Ever since the day they pledged their allegiance to him, they were prepared to put their lives on the line for him.

For Amelia, it was even more so.

Julien was not only her Master but also her lover.

Their relationship may have developed through a series of strange events, but the fact that they both cared about each other wouldn't change.

Amelia was prepared for anything and everything.

The trio confidently walked through the narrow passages.

Their goal was to come across the six eyed ghost figure, so there was no need to hide anymore.

When the stench of corpses intended, and the ground felt squishy to walk on, Julien knew he had reached the place.

The ambience was dim and blood red, filled with the pungent scent of decaying flesh and bones.

When the surroundings turned colder and Julien felt a sense of dread wash over him, he knew the entity was closer.

Turning into the direction of it, Julien clutched his sword and said, "Jackie, behind me. Protect Amelia. And Amelia, keep casting as many holy spells as you can."

"Understood!" The two exclaimed and got into position.

Jackie and Amelia did not have an idea as to what was going to happen.

The moment they saw and felt a pale figure with six eyes, the hair on their bodies stood on their ends.

Amelia couldn't see the monstrosity, but the eerie feeling it gave her was nothing she had ever felt before.

It was as if a giant mouth with jagged teeth was coming towards them to munch on their bodies.

The ghostly entity approached Julien's party. It stopped when it was in front of Julien, gazing at him with its six eyes.

Julien held his sword and breathed heavily.

As long as he did not make the first move, the entity would leave after a minute.

However, his intentions were not to have it leave.

Exhaling sharply, he thought about his Forbidden Arcana card.

'System, set two timers: ten seconds and sixty seconds.'

[Timer set!]

Julien channeled his body's essence into the Arcana Card and made the card's power flow through his body.

When he felt a sharp static current over his body, he could tell the card had been activated.

"Haaah—!" Julien exclaimed and struck the sword at the ghostly entity.

The entity's six eyes spun and saw the blade coming at them.

It jumped in the air to dodge, but the sword's edge left a thin yet long scratch on its body, making its soul seep out.

The entity had attached its four limbs to the ceiling and was gazing at Julien.

Its six eyes turned bloodshot, as if expressing the intense anger it felt.

It lunged from the top at Julien to snap his head, but at this moment, a bright flash of light blinded it.

Amelia used her holy spells to stun the entity!

The creature was blinded and could not dodge Julien's sword that pierced deep into its body.

He took a step back and saw the six eyes freeze.

The entiry's body leaked a lot of its soul as its body split in half.

'Did I defeat that?' Julien wondered.

His curiosity was answered shortly once the creature's lost soul returned to its body.

Its split halves morphed into a mangled mess which changed forms to turn into a bulky creature with four arms and and two strong legs, possessing six eyes and a mouth.

[The Ghost of d'Arc has evolved.]