Desire was the most primal and fundamental instinct of all animals in the world.
Whether it was lowly insects with only simple conditioned reflexes, higher mammals with delicate emotions, or humans hailed as the spirit of all things, all of them generally existed in a state of near-eternal "unfulfilled desire."
Humans in particular often used all kinds of methods to suppress their desires, such as reason, law, and morality.
But such suppression often had a limit.
Once desire exceeded a certain threshold, it would erupt completely and uncontrollably like a volcanic eruption.
That was precisely why people used all sorts of strange means in their daily lives to release their accumulated desires.
For example, making themselves a delicious meal to satisfy their appetite, or the beloved bedroom activities between men and women to satisfy their physical desires.
As the saying went, "It was better to channel than to block."
The more forcefully desire was suppressed, the more fiercely it tended to rebound.
Laki's sudden outburst was because he had accumulated too much before this.
Coupled with the Sword of Desire's infinite amplification, he now seemed possessed. Seeing the once-arrogant Ophelia wail in agony beneath his whip, he felt a pleasure that words could not describe.
That pleasure even surpassed being trained by a group of "big sisters" in the Holy City.
But Laki failed to notice that while he was wildly swinging his whip, Ophelia was also deriving immense pleasure from it. Her already unstable mental state began to grow increasingly twisted and excited.
At last, a terrifying wave of Yoki erupted from within her body.
Clare, who had been frozen in shock a second earlier, suddenly recovered the next second. Staring wide-eyed, she spat out two words: "Awakening?!"
Just as she had described, Ophelia's body swelled to a degree