Sensory Deprivation, Lifted! / The Beginning of a Nightmare

For a moment, Li Xuan thought he was doomed, but for some reason, Black Cat did not attack him.

After his brief panic, Li Xuan gradually adapted to the chaotic scene before him. He forced himself to clear away his distracting thoughts and regained his composure.

He quickly realized that he was not entirely without hope. Although his senses were currently scrambled, he still had one source of information he could rely on—the Hunting Radar.

Although the images transmitted by the Hunting Radar had also been shattered into fragments, he could directly sense the positions of its marks on a mental level.

Through the black marker representing Black Cat, Li Xuan realized that Black Cat was circling around him, trying to approach him. Yet her route was winding and circuitous, as though an invisible maze surrounded him.

His senses had clearly been completely thrown into disarray. One more swipe from her claws would kill him for real, so why was Black Cat still wandering back and forth instead of coming straight at him?

Because of the Cognitive Obstruction, she should not have known he was the big brother who had taken her fishing. She had no reason to hold back.

With that thought, an idea suddenly occurred to Li Xuan. Perhaps she was lost too, just like him?

Relying on the coordinates provided by the Hunting Radar, Li Xuan tried to move through the muddled world.

He quickly ran into an obstacle. His raised leg struck an unknown flat surface. Since he did not know whether he was standing or lying down, he could not tell whether it was the ground or a wall.

It seemed that merely knowing Black Cat's location was not enough to get him out of this maze.

Fortunately, Li Xuan had also marked Felia's location. While Black Cat kept shifting around, Felia, who was trapped, was clearly staying still.

By repeatedly testing the changing distance between the two points, Li Xuan gradually deduced the rules of this world.

Here, there were not six directions—up, down, left, right, forward, and back—but seven. It appeared that only one extra direction had been added, but the resulting changes were immeasurable.

The biggest change was that each direction no longer simply corresponded to an opposite one. The basic logic of forward corresponding to back and left corresponding to right no longer applied in this world. To return to his original position, he had to move forward at a certain angle.

Yet even knowing that, he was not confident that he could defeat Awakened Black Cat.

The safest course of action now was to bring the immobile Felia directly back to the Delusive Badlands and decide what to do afterward. So he began using the rules he had just grasped to move through the twisted, inverted world.

This way of moving was utterly counterintuitive. With every step, Li Xuan had to repeatedly compare the two markers against his own relative position, making sure he was gradually approaching the white dot marking Felia's location.

During this process, he would occasionally feel tearing pain due to the distorted directions. But when he thought of the bratty girl still lying in the Delusive Badlands waiting for his punishment, he gritted his teeth and endured it.

After crawling at a pace slower than a snail for some time, Li Xuan suddenly felt that the scene around him no longer seemed so distorted. This sped him up considerably.

Li Xuan quickly understood. The center of the chaos was Black Cat herself. The farther he moved from Black Cat, the more orderly his surroundings became. Soon, he no longer needed the three-point positioning method and easily arrived before Felia by judging the scene in front of his eyes.

At this distance, Black Cat's influence had completely vanished, and everything around him had finally returned to normal. Black Cat probably did not want her Awakening to affect Felia, so she had deliberately kept her distance.

"It feels so good to be able to walk normally!" Li Xuan raised his arms high and let out a long breath. The intense sense of security felt like finding a narrow path back to familiar territory after being lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood for hours.

"You got out of Black Cat's Awakening?" Felia was stunned when she saw Li Xuan unharmed.

"That's right. I got out." Li Xuan smiled smugly.

"That's impossible! Impossible! Black Cat's Awakening is a maze that can trap even Grade S monsters. It's a supreme ability capable of affecting the laws of the world. How could you possibly get out so casually?"

Felia's eyes were full of disbelief, as if she had watched someone manually calculate hash values with a pencil and scratch paper, then successfully mine Bitcoin.

No wonder she's so shocked. Without the three-point positioning provided by the Hunting Radar, I might really have been trapped to death in there. Even if I stood still, Black Cat would have found me eventually and killed me with one swipe.

"Don't be so surprised. Maybe I just got lucky and found a loophole in the maze."

Of course, Li Xuan would not tell her the real reason he had escaped. He crouched down and checked the time on his phone. He had been trapped in the maze for over an hour, which meant Felia had also endured more than an hour of tentacle massage.

The pleasure that had built up for so long should be stimulating enough when it all burst out at once, right?

"What are you going to do?" Seeing the unfriendly look in Li Xuan's eyes, Felia sensed that something was wrong.

"Please prepare yourself, Miss Felia. The pleasure built up over more than an hour is about to erupt at this very moment. I really hope you can endure it." Li Xuan gave a wicked smile.

"No! Don't do this! I'll go insane!" Felia was instantly overwhelmed by terror. She had originally thought that once Black Cat killed Li Xuan, she would be free. She had never expected him to escape the range of the Awakening on his own, and the heart she had just managed to settle immediately leapt back into her throat.

Seeing the usually calm and composed nun panic like this, Li Xuan wanted to tease her a little longer. But he also knew that once Black Cat discovered he had escaped, she would immediately chase after him. So he did not hesitate and raised his right hand, counting down from three.

"Three! Two! One!!!"

When the countdown ended, Li Xuan snapped his fingers. Felia reflexively shut her eyes and tensed every muscle in her body, preparing for the intense impact.

Sensation Blockade, Released!

However, several seconds passed, and the overwhelming pleasure she had expected did not arrive. Felia found that her lower body was still numb.

"Could he have been lying to me? The pleasure didn't accumulate at all. It disappeared along with the blocked sensation?"

Felia instinctively came to that conclusion. Li Xuan had just lied to her about making a confession, only for the cross to end up being confessed into her rear entrance. Someone who had lied once telling another lie was perfectly normal.

So she opened her eyes again, and her tensed muscles relaxed.

Then she saw the triumphant smile on Li Xuan's face.

The Wine of Ecstasy, which had the effect of blocking sensation, had been stored by Li Xuan inside the monsters. Its effects could only be maintained by having the monsters continuously smear it over Felia's skin.

The moment they received Li Xuan's command, the monsters stopped applying the Wine of Ecstasy. However, the portions that had already been applied would continue to work for more than ten seconds.

Only after that would Felia's normal senses return. Li Xuan had deliberately exploited this brief delay to stagger the timing, making Felia think that everything was already over and causing her body to relax instinctively.

The result was that Felia directly endured the enormous amount of pleasure accumulated over more than an hour with no preparation whatsoever.

"Ugh, ah—"

As her senses returned, Felia cried out miserably. She felt as though a bomb had exploded inside her body, reducing every cell in her body to ruins capable of holding nothing but pleasure.

The violent impact made her roll her eyes on the spot. The stimulation borne by every part of her body, each different in intensity, now erupted all at once in a single overwhelming surge.

Felia felt as though her brain had been blanked out by a kitchen blender. Only explosive sensations surged into her mind, immediately making the chaste and dignified nun wear an expression of pure ecstasy.

Because of the violent impact in her lower body, the cross and necklace Li Xuan had inserted earlier were squeezed out by her twisted, spasming body.

After the tentacles' modifications and Li Xuan's cultivation after taking her virginity, Felia's sensations had become extraordinarily sensitive. Over the course of more than an hour, she had climaxed several times per minute on average. The accumulated experience of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of climaxes now erupted in a single instant.

The violent impact shattered Felia's sanity and completely robbed her of the ability to think. Her entire body trembled and stiffened amid wave after wave of eruption, unable to escape.

"Such exaggerated pleasure... Oh, huff? Ah, ha... Father God? This really is..."

Felia's face was covered in saliva and tears, leaving her a complete mess. She could no longer say a single coherent sentence.

Although Li Xuan admired that she could still think of her Father God at a time like this, considering the context, it was probably more of an exclamation like, "Oh my God."

As Felia reacted violently, Li Xuan finally heard the long-awaited system notification.

[Defeat CG unlocked: Sensation Blockade Play (I)]

[CG elements: Sensation Blockade & Trap & Collapse]

[Experience +300]

[Current experience: 5/1000]

[Level increased to Lv. 6]

[Dark Pact upgraded to: Grade B+]

[New skill unlocked: Forbidden Mark]

[Delusive Badlands control authority increased to: Intermediate]

"Holy shit, how much? Three hundred?!" Li Xuan felt as though the overwhelming happiness might make him faint. Although facing a Grade A magical girl had brought him unprecedented pressure and danger, the reward was generous enough to make it all worthwhile.

A full three hundred experience points had raised him straight to Level 6! And his authority over the Delusive Badlands had increased as well.

Not only did this mean he would become stronger, but he could also build his base into something more prosperous. He had taken another encouraging step toward creating a super harem made up of magical girls!

Li Xuan impatiently looked at his new skill. If this skill could be used in battle, then perhaps he could capture Black Cat while he was at it.

[Forbidden Mark: Consumes Evil Energy and a small amount of mental power to imprint forbidden Curse Runes onto a living being's skin. Effects can be freely adjusted. (The marking process takes a long time. The target must remain entirely unresisting throughout for the mark to be successfully applied.)]

Li Xuan was a little disappointed when he saw this. Clearly, this skill could not be used in battle. Even though he had leveled up, the small increase in Evil Energy was obviously not enough to defeat Black Cat's Awakening.

But then another thought struck him. Isn't this basically a Succubus Tattoo? This skill might not be usable directly in combat, but it's an incredible skill for humiliating magical girls!

Imagining Succubus Tattoos personally imprinted onto the lower bellies of magical girls, Li Xuan immediately became eager to try it.

To verify his guess, he opened the skill's detailed panel. Like Fallen Blood and Wine of Ecstasy, the panels for customizable skills were extremely elaborate. It was colorful and looked like an oversized palette.

If the Wine of Ecstasy panel was more like the interface of a cocktail-mixing game, then Forbidden Mark was drawing software.

On the interface, Li Xuan could freely select brushes with all kinds of functions. Different texture directions and marking types would affect the effect of the imprint, while the area and quality of the mark determined the specific Evil Energy cost.

But overall, this was absolutely a skill born for Succubus Tattoos. Just seeing several preset templates made Li Xuan's heart itch unbearably.

[Enslavement, Crystal Vessel, Degradation, Continuous Climax, Sadism, Automatic Counting, Flesh Reconstruction, Star Addiction, Womb Development...]

Every one of them looked so interesting, and once they were combined, they seemed capable of producing chain reactions.

Of course, this skill was not exclusively for erotic purposes. Li Xuan also found some marks with strengthening effects. For example, there were marks that could transform the genetic material released by the master into magic power stored within the womb, or strengthen physical abilities after sufficient pleasure had been experienced.

Li Xuan naturally intended to use these marks on the several magical girls who had already fallen, further strengthening their combat power. However, it seemed that these marks all carried side effects related to their enhancement requirements, which undoubtedly posed a severe test for Li Xuan's kidneys.

Forget it, a test was a test! Let the magical girls come even harder!

Li Xuan happily began planning what mark he should give Wu Yan and what mark Xu Rou should receive. And Bing Rui, who had stubbornly refused to submit, definitely needed some special attention...

But at that moment, Black Cat's voice suddenly reached his ears.

"Felia! Felia!"

Black Cat's anxious cries came from the distance, and the light around him dimmed once more. It seemed she had noticed Li Xuan's escape and lowered the power of her Awakening, rushing over to protect her important companion.

The Beginning of the Nightmare

When Li Xuan saw Black Cat approaching, he opened a passage to the Delusive Badlands behind him and dragged Felia out of the tentacle burrow.

He held her in the posture used to help a child pee, spreading Felia's legs into a wide "M" and displaying every important part of her body toward the direction Black Cat was coming from.

"Come on, smile. Yeah~" Estimating that Black Cat was already close, Li Xuan whispered softly into Felia's ear.

"Yeah~" Felia had already stopped thinking. Hearing Li Xuan's words, she instinctively raised both hands into a V-sign. A dazed smile still hung at the corner of her lips, and her eyes even seemed to gleam with meaningless heart-shaped patterns.

And Black Cat, who had just arrived, saw all of it.

"Felia... Felia!" Black Cat had not yet received that kind of education and did not know what had happened, but Felia's appearance, so completely different from usual, immediately left her frozen in place.

Black Cat's feelings for Felia, who had always taken care of her daily life, went beyond companionship. She also had a mother-like attachment to her. Although the mother she remembered was not like this, the depth of those feelings was no less profound.

Because of that attachment, Felia had always been perfect in her heart.

She was holy, great, kind, and selfless. She could play the drums, compose music, use guns, open bottle caps, repair air conditioners... She was an omnipotent nun and the invincible leader of their band.

Yet this Felia appeared before her in an utterly shameful pose and with an expression Black Cat had never seen before.

Black Cat did not understand, but Black Cat was deeply shaken.

Taking advantage of Black Cat's shock, Li Xuan poked his head out from beside Felia and waved a tentacle. "Goodbye, cute little kitty. I'll come play with you again next time~"

"Don't go!!" Only then did Black Cat finally realize what was about to happen. She raised the power of her Awakening in an instant, but she was still too late.

Even as he spoke, Li Xuan had already used his tentacles to brace against the ground and leap backward. Together with Felia, who had been played into collapse, he vanished into the pitch-black portal.

The moment he returned to the Delusive Badlands, Li Xuan immediately ordered the magical girls to retreat. A few minutes later, the exhausted magical girls returned through the portal while supporting one another. They also brought back dozens of monsters barely clinging to life.

"I'm very sorry, Master. We failed to capture that violent woman, and the monsters you worked so hard to summon were basically wiped out." Wu Yan stepped forward in deep guilt, while the other magical girls also revealed ashamed expressions.

Seeing that they were all alive and well, without missing limbs or broken bones, Li Xuan could not even think of blaming them. He pulled Wu Yan up just as she was about to kneel and gently said to the girls.

"You all did great this time! You completed your mission perfectly and held off that troublesome enemy for me. As for those monsters, they were created to serve as cannon fodder. How could they compare to you? At worst, we'll replenish our magic power a few more times and create new ones!"

Seeing that Li Xuan had no intention of blaming them and instead praised them, the magical girls all smiled in delight. In their minds, being needed by their master was the greatest happiness.

What was more, their master had personally acknowledged that their status was higher than that of the monsters he had created. That made them feel incredibly honored.

"Master, isn't that the nun with the gun? You defeated her?" The sharp-eyed Tang Xi suddenly noticed Felia trembling constantly on the ground and was immediately shocked.

"Not just that. We captured two Grade A magical girls in this battle. Victory is already within reach." Li Xuan pointed at Yao, who was lying some distance away and having a nightmare.

"As expected of Master. With an entire team at Grade B, you achieved a complete victory against four Grade A opponents and even captured two alive. I've never heard of such a record even at the Guardian Abbey." Tang Xi exclaimed in admiration.

"Enough flattery. Qi Mo, help everyone recover first. Once you're done, stay here for now and don't go out. I'll settle these two prisoners first. Oh, right—once Wu Yan's injuries are healed, go to Qi Mo's house and bring Bing Rui back too. It isn't safe to leave her outside after all." Li Xuan gave his orders.

"Master, you look badly injured too. Shouldn't I heal you first?" Qi Mo asked worriedly.

Only after Qi Mo pointed it out did Li Xuan realize that he too was covered in injuries. Not only had he been hit by many of the nun's bullets, but he had also suffered plenty of bumps and bruises in Black Cat's maze. They were not serious injuries, but there were small wounds all over him.

"It's fine. Heal yourselves first. I'm your master. A few bullets are nothing." Li Xuan spoke with righteous conviction.

The magical girls behind him were all deeply moved by Li Xuan's words. Obeying his command, they formed a circle and received Qi Mo's treatment together.

If any of them had stood up and looked over at that moment, they would have discovered that their beloved master was using tentacles to seize the newly captured Felia and Yao, rushing impatiently toward the dungeon on the new platform.

Bratty girl, this time I'll make you properly taste how formidable I am. Heh heh heh heh heh... Li Xuan laughed wildly in the depths of his heart.