Empire domination plans

After Seth and Hollie had their share of fun, Hollie left to meet with Maya and the others. Seth also had her promise she would make things easy for everyone else.

Sitting in his bed, Seth covered himself in a new set of clothes after cleaning everything up and started thinking about his current main issue.

All his major sources will be able to use the spring to gain energy, but his lust and perception won’t gain any energy that way.

These five years of changes in the kingdoms have filled his perception source to the brim, but he still needed more after breaking through to the fifth shell. As for his lust source, he knew his girls wouldn’t be able to provide him with enough energy to reach his goal of the sixth shell.

“Oh Lust, what am I going to do with you….” muttered Seth before asking the system: ‘Do you have a way for me to ensure a steady supply of lust energy?’

<The best method for it will be to use your position as emperor.>

‘More details…’

<Set up a pleasuring service deep underground. With the host’s perfect body control and lust energy, you’ll have an easy supply of lust energy while the other party will gain a unique experience.>

<At the start, things will probably start slow, but as time goes on and word about the experience spreads, more and more women will be looking for your services.>

<The satisfied women will bring host a steady supply of positive perception energy, and with the temptation of a night in heaven, some married women will also choose to use the services, bringing host some much-needed negative perception from the male population.>

‘This brings a bad taste to my mouth, but there is no other way to go about it. Lust said that I’d need to collect the energy spread all over the world.’

‘I’ll leave setting up a decent plan to you as I release Alice from my perception’s control.’

<Understood… one more thing host…>

‘What is it?’

<Host… I am not your enemy...>

<Some directives have been set inside our system by the World Sovereign, and we have no choice but to follow them…>

Seth smiled and asked: ‘What about him? Is he my enemy?’

<… The thoughts of the World Sovereign are beyond our understanding, but His Excellency should not… >

‘Then tell me, what is the most logical course of action I should take in this situation?’

<…Using the tower and the system to your advantage while trying to set up a failsafe in case of their betrayal…>

‘Do what I told you to do.’ Said Seth with a chuckle, teleporting away from his room. He arrived at a large house on the outskirts of the Imperial District, where the castle and academy were located. There, Alice was taking care of a colorful garden.

Feeling someone’s presence behind her, Alice turned around and immediately fell to her knees.

“Master.”

Seth sighed and rotated his perception source, completely removing the mark on her forehead. A confused looked appeared on Alice’s face for a moment before she lowered her head and sighed.

“You pulled a big one on me….”

Seth extended a hand toward her. “Just because you gave me no choice. I needed you out of Hope as quickly as possible.”

Alice nodded and looked at his hand for a moment before taking it and pulling herself up. “Everything ended up fine, so I won’t argue with you about it, but what you did to me… it is not right, Seth.”

Seth smiled wryly and nodded. “It isn’t right, but it was necessary, and I won’t apologize for it. If need be, I’ll do it again without hesitation.”

“I know… I also won’t thank you or blame you for it. Is there anything else, or can I see my people? I feel like it’s been an eternity since I spoke to them.”

“You can, but I have one more question. Why did you side with Hollie when she argued with Maya and the others? Can you remember?”

Alice nodded and said: “Because that’s what I believed you would have wanted, and I felt compelled to follow your wishes. Being in that state… was the most frightening feeling I had experienced all my life. Maybe even more horrifying than having to deal with my father. It was one thing to have my body and even my mind not listen to me, but I felt that everything I did under your control was my own will. That ability of yours takes away everything a person is...”

Seth sighed and nodded: “Alright. Thanks for answering me. Take care, Alice.”

After Alice nodded, Seth teleported again, spending the rest of the day as the girls worked through their issues with his parents. He didn’t ask the system what they were doing, trusting they would sort it out themselves.

Once evening came, Seth said his goodbyes to his parents and returned to the Imperial Chambers, where the system told him the girls were.

All his women who had reached Endora were casually chatting while relaxing in the warm bath. Seth’s presence made everyone shut up and turn towards him with anticipation in their eyes.

“Did you work things out?” asked Seth, removing his clothes and entering the bath.

“We did.” The girls replied, swimming closer to sit next to Seth.

“That’s good. There’s something I must let you all know.” Said Seth, moving his arms around Hollie and Maya’s waists, who cheated to reach him first. Seth knew Henrietta would have been even faster if she wanted to, but he understood she wanted to give Hollie and Maya some time to reconcile.

After giving Henrietta a grateful look, Seth continued: “As we’ll head into seclusion, I’ll need to have a constant supply of fresh lust energy….”

Hollie and Maya shared a look before smiling, and Maya said: “We already knew that and set up some things.”

“Oh?” exclaimed Seth in curiosity, the system having not informed him of any of that.

“We’ve made your lust source public knowledge to the entire kingdom a while back. We didn’t get too much into detail, but we informed everyone how important it was for you and the kingdom to grow stronger. We also explained that to grow stronger, you might need to have sex with many women, and you might even give your loyal subjects a chance to ‘participate’.” Said Hollie with a smile, and Maya continued.

“We didn’t touch the subject in the last five years, but I’m sure multiple women had considered it back then. Hollie even said it was the talk of the younger generation of women back then, all of them hoping to have a chance to gain the king’s affection. Now, we can announce the time had finally come and even have gossip about it spread throughout the empire.”

Seth chuckled and kissed Maya and Hollie in turn. “I always forget I have such thoughtful wives. That is exactly what I was planning, which will make things easier. I was hoping you could form a pathway to the spring under our capital. The academy will have to rely on other springs for a while, so have creation ascended set up the place for us to live into.”

“The pathway will lead to an adjacent room where I’ll take ‘lust donations’ from the volunteers.”

‘Caitlin!"

“Yes?” asked Caitlin in confusion.

“After entering the seventh shell, you should be able to restore some of their youthful appearances after feeding them life energy. Let’s use that as bait.”

Caitlin frowned and said: “We can, but their lifespan will not change. I’ll also need a lot of life energy to change their bodies and restore their youthful appearance.”

Seth nodded and said with a chuckle: “Would any woman give up a chance to look young again? Even if it was just an empty facade? Also, we can sap life energy from my body. It’s not like I am going to die anyway.”

Caitlin nodded, and her frown eased up: “Sure, I’ll do it, but I want something.”

“What is it?”

“Let me in on the fun as well. I want to join you in the spring even if it doesn’t do anything for me.”

Seth chuckled and nodded: “I already planned on having you there. Maya, it would be best if you announced this to ease some of everyone’s worries. You know what to do, don’t you?”

Maya shook her head and said: “I don’t think it would be good for me to do it. Why don’t we prepare the celebration for your return, and we’ll make the announcement at the celebration?”

“Also, we won’t reveal it as Caitlin’s ability to make them young and beautiful again, but call it a side effect of having sex with you. It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie. Caitlin can do her magic from the shadows, and the women will not know that there’s another way, giving even some of the ones on the fence another push.”

Seth pondered for a moment before nodding: “Alright. We’ll do that.”

“Seth, how long until the others arrive?” asked Hollie from the side.

“Rebecca will be here in a week at most, Leora in two. As for Alexa, Tiana and Ava, they will take about a month. They have air ascended from Asteria carrying them back, but it’s still slower since they are quite far. Why?”

“I was just wondering how long we have to set everything up.”

“We have enough time.” Said Seth as he turned towards Caitlin again. “How is your understanding of the seventh shell? Will you be able to get everything in a month?”

“I need at most two more weeks. Souls are quite complicated, but I already gained a little understanding of them as I was studying Maya’s knowledge.”

“Great. When you are ready, look for me, and we’ll leave the capital so you can break through. If we do it here, I’m afraid the entire city will be destroyed.”

“No problem.” Said Caitlin with a nod.

After spending some more time chitchatting while taking care of all the small details, Maya and Hollie went to take care of Seth’s return ceremony while Caitlin returned to prepare for her breakthrough.

Katy approached Seth after everyone was gone and said with her head lowered. “We still haven’t….”

Seth pulled her into his arms and nodded, rotating his space energy and linking to Katy’s room in the Imperial Chambers.

“Then I guess we might as well take care of it now.”