Grand Lust Sovereign-Chapter 121 : The Art of Eight Limbs

The registration was done and the wait was almost a month long.

The death of many at the south entrance led to a boost in time. Had it not been the case, the wait would've been much longer.

There was nothing to do but wait.

Julien, Jackie, and Amelia left the floor and went back to the Lichtenstein Castle.

Except for the maids, nobody was home.

All the ladies had a busy schedule and communicating in the Tower wasn't as easy.

It wasn't a problem for Julien.

He had come here to relax for a bit before leaving for the Tower again.

Since there was a month-long wait, he could focus on other things such as completing side quests or learning some martial arts.

Speaking of martial arts, there was a martial art in the lust system's shop.

Julien sat in his room, on the sofa, and closed his eyes to look at the lust interface.

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Name: Julien Von Lichtenstein

Path: Eternal•Lust

Points: 102,451

Buffs:

-[All points will be multiplied by 10 if the partner is a virgin!]

-[All points will be multiplied by 20 if the partner is blood related!]

-[All points will be multiplied by 30 if the partner is a virgin blood related!]

Skills:

-[Favorability Meter]

-[Profile Appraisal]

Favorability:

-Eleanor Von Lichtenstein: Too high

-Sophie: 100

-Jackie: 83

-Amelia: 96

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The points surprised Julien, but not too much. He expected to see a big boost given how many naughty deeds had done prior to leaving for the Tower.

In the Tower, he did not have time to focus on the lust system, and speaking of this, it provided much better rewards and tasks.

It had been a while since it gave him a mission, and Julien had a rough idea that the lust system only gave quests when he wasn't busy with other ones or in the Tower, trying to clear floors.

The 100,000 points came at the right time. Julien really needed those to buy a certain item in the shop.

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[Shop - offline]

-Legendary-

Art of Eight Limbs: 100,000p

Kama Sutra: 1,000,000p

Yin-Yang Vajra Sutra: 1,000,000p

-Forbidden-

Succubus Summon(Lv.99): 10,000,000p

(Click on an item to know more.)

-Note-

(More items will be added with each level up.)

(Legendary and Forbidden items refresh every 180 days.)

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It was that, the legendary item Art of Eight Limbs.

Julien had checked its description and this was indeed a martial art. Kama Sutra was related to sexual stuff and it was too expensive.

Julien needed a boost in his strength and the Art of Eight Limbs sounded perfect.

He only had six months to unlock these items and they would probably be gone forever after the refresh.

The Succubus Summon was the most expensive item there and how he would accumulate ten million points was still a mystery to him.

In any case, Julien purchased the Art of Eight Limbs without batting an eye.

Once it was bought, a scroll landed in Julien's hands.

Opening it, he saw many pictures and descriptions.

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[The Art of Eight Limbs]

"The manifestation of will into devastation starts with following the path not to fight, but to conquer."

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This was the opening line of the manual. It was strong and impactful, making Julien continue reading.

A lot was written on this scroll and basically, the manual considered the fists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, spine, knees, shins, and heels as the eight limbs. They were the foundation and core of this martial art.

This was the first time Julien was looking into a real martial arts manual. He had read novels in the past but they were fiction and this was real life.

As he read this, he understood what writers writing fictional novels meant about the protagonist having a hard time comprehending the manuals.

In this scroll, the pictures showed the actions one had to do, but the descriptions were too vague and unrelated to the pictures.

Taking the first limb, the fists as an example.

There were pictures guiding how to strike, but the description stated:

"The secret lies not in muscle, but in intent—a strike must declare victory before it lands."

Julien had zero clue on what the fuck it meant.

Reading further, in the elbows section, there were just three lines.

"The elbows are sharpened axes, meant to carve flesh and shatter armor."

"They strike with no warning, turning speed into lethality."

"Even the strongest warriors fall when their joints are broken."

Once again, Julien failed to comprehend whatever was being said within it.

Upon going through more descriptions, some of the things finally started making sense.

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Taking the shins section for example.

"The shins are the foundation of both offense and defense."

"To kick is to cut, to block is to break."

"The weak wield blades; the strong wield their own bodies."

Now, Julien had no clue what 'to block is to break' meant, but kicks being able to cut made quite the sense.

The shin bone was a flat bone. If it was angled enough and conditioned to be sharp, it could technically cut someone.

How he could make his shins so conditioned was a mystery though.

For the next hour, Julien read and tried to comprehend what was written in the manual.

He went through all eight limbs and when he reached the end, there was something written in faint ink, almost on the verge of disappearing.

-The Forbidden Ninth Principle-

"When flesh and bones are no longer enough, the soul itself must strike."

A warrior who reaches the peak of Eight Limbs…

That was the last sentence that could be read. Everything else was smudged and too faint.

When Julien was done reading, he thought, 'This is certainly not going to be easy. I barely understand the things written and I just hope that I don't comprehend it wrongly and mess myself up.'

It would've been great if there was a Master teaching him this.

Sadly, in a world of Arcana Cards, martial arts were rare.

At the lower ranks, since everyone only had three cards, they worked in groups to tackle challenges and had basic weapons mastery for physical combat.

The most preferred weapon was a sword and almost everyone had an idea on how to parry attacks.

Martial arts were unheard of in this world.

It was thus going to be really difficult to understand this, but Julien thought that as he progressed, he may start to understand more of the scroll's content.

If he reached a bottleneck, maybe he could ask El?

Julien decided to not worry about this.

He stood up and began practicing the contents of the scroll.

The first was the fists.

He did some basic punches and shadow boxing with absolute horrendous form.

He had no idea about footwork or how to land a jab or cross. He kept throwing punches however he knew of.

An hour later.

Julien was exhausted from his training.

He did not have enough stamina or endurance to continue and decided to rest.

He took note of a few things after the practice was over.

First and foremost, he needed equipment to train. He needed a punching bag and a sparring partner.

The sparring partner was not a problem. Jackie could help him, so that issue was solved.

Other things to take note of was that he wouldn't get stronger by learning these techniques.

He would definitely know how to attack or defend, but he would not necessarily have the power or strength.

To build strength, he had to build muscles and explosiveness.

It would require a new training regime altogether.

There was no secret hack other than to train hard. It was real life, not a novel where one could just drink some herbal tea and build a strong physique.

Training, nutrition, hydration, rest, recovery… all these factors came into play in real life.

It sounded exhausting, but Julien had to bear with it.

A good physique could be built with sheer hard work and luck was thankfully not an important factor.

He went to take a bath after his workout and had some food. When done, it was the afternoon so he decided to take a nap.

After waking up, Julien had the second workout of the which was strength training and had dinner with Jackie and Amelia.

He went to sleep with Amelia and for the next few days, the same monotonous schedule was repeated.

A few days passed.

Julien felt a need for sparring to understand his strengths and shortcomings.

He went to Jackie's room, looking for her.

Knocking on the door, he heard Amelia's gentle voice.

"Come in."

Going inside, Julien found Jackie resting on the bed, breathing heavily with her face being red like a tomato.

"Huh? Jackie?"

Julien quickly made his way towards Jackie's bed to inspect her.

Amelia was changing the wet cloth on Jackie's forehead and trying to keep her fever down.

"What happened? Why's Jackie suddenly sick?" Julien asked, touching Jackie's face and finding it really hot.

Amelia had a concerned look on her face as she shook her head and said, "I cannot tell, Master. He did not come down for breakfast today so when I came to check, I found him curled up with extreme fever."

"Fever?"

Amelia nodded. "With how high Jackie's body temperature is, a normal person would've died by now."

"What!?"