Strongest Mage with the Lust system - Chapter 789

Chapter 789: Perfection

Max traced back the path his fingers had taken and stopped at her cheek. Gently turning her face toward him, he looked into her blue eyes and asked,

“Can you recover your face now?”

He had tried to inject some Nascent Energy into her face to make the wrinkles go away, but it didn’t work, and he had thought that if she agreed to have sex with him, he would use some of the produced energy to revitalize her face.

But hearing it was the result of a spell, he wondered whether she could undo it.

Esme’s already red face flushed even more when she met his gaze and saw his naked upper body. Biting her lower lip in a bid to control her roiling emotions, she nodded, “I can, but not entirely.”

Max felt his cock throb when he saw her seductively bite her plump lip and came to a realization.

‘No wonder those people pursued her despite the fact she is a widow… She is quite charming.’

“That’s alright. Recover as much as you can.” He said,

Esme looked at him with her limpid blue eyes and muttered, “I-I won’t be able to use that spell again if I recover my face.”

“Huh? Why would you need to use it again after you become my woman? You know, I prefer my women to be pretty.” Max revealed a small smile.

When he decided to have sex with her, he had already decided to make her his woman. His reason was simple—with her by his side, his progress would be rapid, at least until he became an emperor himself.

But after this brief interaction, he came to like her as a woman and felt that same indescribable and almost irresistible pull toward her that he felt toward Emily and Anna.

‘I’m… really a pervert, aren’t I?’ He smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking Pauline wasn’t wrong in her evaluation of him.

Suddenly, his thoughts started to drift toward her and Kriss and the situation of their family, but he hurriedly pushed them to the back of his mind, not wanting to dwell on anything that might sour his mood at this moment.

“Y-Your woman?” Esme stammered, her eyes wide.

At this moment, after seeing her flustered expression, no one would think she was a mighty emperor mage.

“Of course,” Max nodded before narrowing his eyes and asking, “Don’t tell me you were thinking of using me this one time and then throwing me away?”

“I… I…” Esme didn’t know what to say, so she just went silent and started to calm her turbulent emotions and her heart that was starting to beat faster than her injuries allowed it to, causing her a lot of pain.

Max also realized this when he noticed the pained glint in her eyes and felt guilty for teasing her.

He waited until she calmed down. Just as he was about to speak, he heard her say, “…I don’t want to take advantage of you, so… I agree to become your woman, but it’d be better if you kept it a secret.”

Max was stunned, not expecting her to agree so easily. But what he didn’t know was that she had thought about many things in that short while.

Even after she healed and regained her peak strength, she most likely wouldn’t be able to free her people even with the Thunder Sword.

After all, the Thunder Sword would only make her strong enough to fight an early-stage Monarch, but the Thunder family had multiple monarchs, and any one of them could kill her.

This was why she had planned to sneak into the Thunder family when their attention was diverted to the war and free her people. Even then, she knew the chances of her succeeding weren’t high.

But what else could she do? The Thunder Family wasn’t known for being patient, so she knew they wouldn’t wait for her to fall in their trap for too long and would kill her people.

Now, however, she saw another path.

Although she couldn’t increase her realm, Max probably could thanks to his bloodline, which she felt was strong enough to allow him to reach the Monarch realm without too much difficulty.

Once he became strong enough, he could probably help her progress too, and with both of them teaming up, rescuing her people would be a lot easier.

She didn’t have anything to back this feeling, but since her instincts told her so, she chose to believe it.

“You… sure?” Max asked.

“Mm,” Esme nodded before saying in a voice so soft and sweet that he almost melted, “Please give me a few minutes, my lord. I’ll recover my face for you.”

Saying this, she closed her eyes and covered her face.

“…”

Again, he was stunned.

Not only had she already made up her mind, but she had also begun acting like she was already his woman—speaking so gently and in her real voice.

There was not much difference between the voice she had been using before and the one she used just now, but the latter was very sensual and almost hypnotic.

‘How can someone have such a beautiful voice?’ He thought, dazed.

If someone had told him that an emperor mage was not only going to become his woman when he was just a Four Star mage, she would also be… submissive to him, he would have scoffed.

After all, even if he somehow managed to trick—cough—convince an emperor mage to become his woman, getting her to respect and defer to him would’ve been nearly impossible, given the pride ingrained in someone of her stature.

‘If her voice is so beautiful, she shouldn’t be any less beautiful than Lily, Emily, and Elena, right?’ He thought. He knew he shouldn’t have his hopes high, nor should he compare her to others, but… he couldn’t help it after hearing her voice.

After what felt like hours to him, she removed her hands and revealed her now wrinkle-free and almost glowing face that exuded an indescribable charm.

Max’s jaw hit the floor, and he stared at her in a daze. She looked so beautiful and so fatally attractive that he couldn’t find proper words to describe her, but he knew one thing—she easily beat Lily and others in that department and, needless to say, exceeded his expectations by a large margin.

“Perfection!”

He muttered, and before he knew it, he was already leaning toward her and kissing her pink, soft, and plump lips.