Chapter 1117 Love At First Sight

Chapter 1117 Love At First Sight

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"P-pardon?" Lady Faye froze, her brain taking a moment to catch up. She couldn't believe what she had just heard.

"Aaah, it's actually for the best. It makes things a lot easier for me." Jake suddenly caught her off guard, thanking her with sincere gratitude, albeit tinged with contempt. "Thanks to your pettiness, it will be easier for me to achieve my goals."

Lady Lyria had already sensed trouble brewing as soon as he showed his immunity to her colleague's unstoppable charm, but Faye was too deep in denial to accept the turn of events.

"I don't understand what you're insinuating." She tried to play innocent, but her look of ridiculous disbelief in 'keep talking, I'm amused' mode finally eroded her cool facade. "Aren't negotiations almost over? I just politely asked you to make a more reasonable request. I don't see what this has to do with pheromones? What is that, some kind of perfume?"

Jake stared at her intently, with a peculiar smirk lingering on his face as she awkwardly tried to absolve herself. When she thought he would leave it at that after catching her red-handed, his smile curled up into a sneer, and he declared to the Keeper of the Archives,

"Lyria, right? Inform the Celestial that I accept his offer. Faye here has decided to compensate for the rest."

Both women froze, not remembering giving him permission to be so casual with them. As far as they remembered, they hadn't revealed their true identities either, but that he guessed wasn't so surprising coming from someone as abnormal as him.

Then, Faye stiffened a second time, as her mind grasped the full extent of what Jake had just announced.

"I'm going... to compensate you?" She repeated, half bewildered, half incredulous. The slight enchanting smile lighting up her pretty face quickly twisted into an ugly grimace. "And exactly how do you plan to induce me to show such... generosity?"

Faye still harbored a thin hope that he was under the influence of her pheromones and would end up demanding sexual favors from her. At least that would prove he wasn't totally immune to her charms, although in a twisted way.

Unfortunately, his response hammered the final nail in, extinguishing her last flicker of hope.

"Very simple." Jake shrugged enigmatically. "The same way you tried to manipulate me. By charming you."

This time, even Lyria's mouth, who was holding her breath in the chair next to her, dreaming of disappearing, dropped to the floor in disbelief, let alone the subject of his remarks.

"A Fey." Jake smiled succinctly.

He wasn't lying. Most fairies did indeed have a supernatural charm, although it was usually not for harm. It was the kind of charm meant to soften and endear those around them, with most fairies detesting conflict and more prone to flight.

Except Jake wasn't just any fairy. His Cosmic D Starfeyrves Bloodline had come into existence in a very particular way: the voluntary sacrifice of Jeanie and the act of devouring Digestor Ruby.

Ruby also possessed the Charm attribute thanks to one of the components of her current bloodline. Whether this trait came from her innate abilities as a Digestor Trojan, her Myrgenian Light Alf bloodline, or the most recent addition, Angel of Aurae, was irrelevant. All abilities and properties of the prey and objects he digested automatically became within his reach.

Digestor Ruby had also devoured other Evolvers with various attributes and abilities, including at least one with the precious Charisma on which Will heavily relied with his Dragon Soulspeaker Soul Class.

In summary, Jake possessed both the Charm and Charisma attributes. And at a very high value, aligned with his other stats. The only reason his Oracle Status didn't display them was that he detested manipulating others in such a way.

He doubted the feelings of others enough not to artificially amplify them with supernatural charm and charisma, of which he had no idea of the limits and long-term side effects on those around him. Consequently, these two attributes were by default... muted.

But today, exceptionally... He was going to make an exception.

"Faye, be ready to withstand my charm." He launched provocatively at the vixen. "You can't say I didn't warn you... I'll start in three, two, one... Now!"

Impassive as someone already knowing the outcome, Jake bestowed Faye one last falsely sympathetic look, then emitted an invisible pressure that went far beyond pheromones. This energy resonated with every part of his being, every photon, wave, particle, and movement related to him and what he represented, snowballing in unfathomable proportions in less than a blink of an eye.

Each of his expressions and movements, even a offensive nose picking, was now imbued with charm capable of dazzling crowds and melting the hearts of the most frigid noble ladies.

Lyria, not being his target, felt no difference unlike Crunch and Lord Phenix, who had become collateral victims of Faye earlier. This already indicated the difference in skill between the two.

Confused, she commented a bit embarrassed, "I don't feel anything particular !!"

She didn't complete her sentence, her eyes almost bulging out of her head at seeing the soulless witch sitting next to her turn beet red to the ears, her heart racing and her gaze shy as an innocent maiden meeting her charming prince.

Love at first sight! The irresistible Faye had shown incapable of resisting his charm!