Jinwoo walked slowly toward the faint pink hue he had seen flicker behind one of the broken stone pillars. His steps echoed softly across the wet, broken ground of the boss room. As he turned the corner, his eyes widened.
Tucked between the debris and glowing ever so faintly, was a massive egg—bigger than even Kasaka's body had been. Its shell shimmered with hues of violet and pink, pulsing slowly like it had a heartbeat of its own.
"...Is this giant thing... that snake's egg?" Jinwoo muttered, stepping closer. "How did it even make an egg this gigantic?"
As he circled it, a dark thought crept into his mind. "I wonder if destroying it will give me as much Exp as killing its parent..."
Curious, he placed his hand on the shell to see if the Lust System would respond.
Ding!
[Kasaka's Egg]
[Rank: S]
[Type: Mutated Egg]
[The egg of the King of the Swamp, Blue Venom Fanged Kasaka. Due to the dungeon's instability, it mutated, becoming the vessel of an evolved beast — the Violet Venom Fanged Snake. These creatures grow rapidly within the egg, and upon hatching are nearly fully developed, ready to fight, hunt, and even kill their siblings for survival. The first living being it sees will be imprinted upon as its parent and guide — or in this case... its master.]
"Huh?" Jinwoo tilted his head, smiling faintly. "If I hatch it, it'll recognize me as its master?"
He placed a hand on his chin, amused. "I wanted to kill it, but having a pet sounds funnier. Maybe I can leave it to protect Jin-ah..."
He opened his mouth to speak: "Inventory—"
But the egg shuddered.
"Huh?" he blinked. "It's… moving?"
Thin cracks began forming across the surface of the egg, glowing softly with a pinkish light.
"It's starting to hatch?" Jinwoo said, surprised but fascinated. "Interesting."
The cracks widened, spiderwebbing across the shell, until—crack! The entire thing split apart, pieces falling to the sides as something emerged.
A massive snake slithered out, nearly the size of its presumed parent. Its scales shimmered with deep magenta tones, a beautiful luster under the dungeon's ambient light. Violet patterns traced along its body, and its pink eyes gleamed with strange intelligence — eyes that reminded Jinwoo of someone. Medusa... from that anime he had watched once. Elegant and deadly.
The snake raised its head, blinking. It saw Jinwoo—and paused. Its expression, if a snake could have one, was suspicion. This man wasn't its mother. Nor its father.
Yet...
Jinwoo extended a hand, calm and deliberate. "Come here."
The snake slithered forward, almost as if entranced. It didn't matter who he was. He was the only one there. The only one it could look up to. The only one it could love, fear, obey.
"Good boy…" Jinwoo muttered, gently caressing the side of its face.
Ding!
[You have formed a bond with a creature!]
[You have unlocked one of the Lust Goddess' Skills — Lust Familiar!]
"Huh?" Jinwoo raised an eyebrow. "Lust Familiar? What's this…?"
[Lust Familiar]
[Every god can create a familiar, a creature tied to them through divine power. Rosalia, the Goddess of Lust, forms this bond through desire. A Lust Familiar becomes eternally loyal, driven by its desire for its master. You may view its stats after forming this bond.
Special Effect: 'Union of Desire' becomes drastically more effective with a Lust Familiar; Lust Familiars also gain stats.]
Jinwoo paused mid-caress. "This snake will be bound to me… by lust?" He narrowed his eyes at the beast. "Is it at least a female—"
The snake tilted its head... and nodded.
Jinwoo blinked. "...Huh. It understands me?"
He sighed. "Ah, fuck it. I can't exactly fuck a snake, right? So if it just wants to lust after me and stay loyal, I can live with that." He placed his hand firmly on the creature's head. "Make this snake my familiar."
The snake was engulfed in a radiant pink aura, like a divine blessing had descended upon it. The light pulsed once—twice—and then faded.
[The Violet Venom Fanged Snake has been marked as your first Lust Familiar!]
"Let me see its stats," Jinwoo said aloud.
[Name: N/A
Race: Violet Venom Fanged Snake (Mutated)
Level: 1
HP: 4000
MP: 1000
Strength: 35
Dexterity: 35
Health: 35
Intelligence: 70
Sense: 35]
[Active Skills: Venomous Spit Lv.1, Poison Tail Lv.1, Mystic Eyes Lv.1]
[Passive Skills: Ironclad Scales (S), Venom Fangs (S), Magic Resistance (A)]
Jinwoo's eyes widened. "This thing... how is it so strong?"
A slow smirk crept onto his face.
"Not bad at all."
Jinwoo squinted at the stat window, arms crossed. "Its physical stats are quite good. They're still lower than mine... but if it can level up like I think it can—since it has a level—then once it reaches mine…"
He grinned.
"…It'll be stronger than me."
He leaned closer, eyes scanning the high Intelligence stat. "And this Intelligence... Does it use magic to create venom?" he muttered aloud. "Maybe... or maybe it's for this Mystic Eyes skill."
[Mystic Eyes — Lv.1]
[Allows the user to petrify a target with direct eye contact.]
"Yeah... this should be it. It'll surely be of great use to me," Jinwoo thought, nodding with satisfaction. His eyes moved to the name field again. Blank.
"And her name... she doesn't have one... Maybe I should give her one?"
[Attention, Host!]
[Giving a beast a name will enhance its very being — especially for a Familiar. Choose carefully.]
"Oh? It'll become stronger?" Jinwoo muttered. "Then I better make it count."
He looked at the snake. "Hmm... she's a snake, so maybe... Snakey?"
The snake stared at him. Her jaw literally dropped. Was this the mighty monarch of lust? That was the best he could come up with?
[Host, are you sure you want to name the Violet Venom Fanged Snake… Snakey?]
Even the Lust System sounded scandalized.
Jinwoo blinked. "Is it that bad? I personally think it's kinda cute."
Medusa stared at him with narrowed eyes.
"…Okay, okay," Jinwoo chuckled, raising his hands in surrender. "Since you can petrify people with just your gaze... what do you think of Medusa?"
The snake immediately nodded, satisfied.
[The Violet Venom Fanged Snake has been named: Medusa!]
"Welcome, Medusa," Jinwoo said with a smirk.
But then, her entire body began glowing with radiant pink energy, pulsing like a heartbeat.
"Huh? What's happening?" Jinwoo asked, stepping back slightly as her body lifted slightly off the ground, writhing in place as if enveloped in some unseen force.
[The beast has resonated with the name!]
[Medusa is evolving…]
The pink aura expanded outward, swirling violently. Medusa's body shifted and changed, her form melting and reforming like liquid silk.
Medusa's body continued to glow, the pink aura wrapping tightly around her as if weaving something new. Jinwoo squinted through the bright light as her massive serpentine shape began to collapse inward—scales vanishing, bones shifting, flesh reshaping.
"What the hell…?" he murmured.
The pulsing glow reached its peak, and then—
Boom!
The light burst outward in a silent shockwave, and standing where the snake had been was now a tall, curvaceous woman.
Her skin was porcelain-smooth, flawless. Her violet hair cascaded down her back in long, silky waves, brushing just above her hips. Her eyes—pink and piercing—glowed faintly with mystic power, the same hue as her old scales. She wore a revealing violet and black outfit that felt like it had been woven from her magic, hugging her in all the right places. Her every movement oozed grace, yet danger. She looked like temptation given form.
[Image Here]
Medusa tilted her head toward Jinwoo and smiled.
[Evolution Complete!]
[Medusa has evolved into a Unique Humanoid Beast: Gorgon — Medusa]
Jinwoo's eyes widened. "She's… human?"
The system chimed in:
[Due to her evolution and your bond, Medusa's stats have drastically increased!]
[Name: Medusa
Race: Gorgon
Level: 1
HP: 6500
MP: 3500
Strength: 55
Dexterity: 60
Health: 55
Intelligence: 100
Sense: 55]
[New Passive Skill:
Vicious Shapeshifting (A): She can shapeshift into her snake-form as long as she has enough mana.]
"She's stronger than me now... she can even shapeshift... are we sure she won't rebel—" Jinwoo muttered, eyeing the newly evolved Medusa. She was… stunning. Too stunning. Her figure was so perfect it almost hurt to look directly at her. Voluptuous, sculpted, confident—she radiated allure and danger in equal measure. It was difficult to tear his eyes away from her curves, from the way her outfit clung to every inch of her body like it had been painted on.
Before he could finish his thought, Medusa lunged.
"Master!" she cried joyfully, slamming into him and sending them both crashing to the ground. Her large breasts pressed tightly against his chest as she pinned him down.
"M-Medusa, you can talk?" Jinwoo gasped, more surprised than anything else.
"Of course!" she chirped, lowering her face toward his, eyes gleaming with unfiltered desire. "And don't worry. I'll never betray you, master. Ever."
"Then can you get off me—" Jinwoo began, trying to wriggle free, but she silenced him with a sudden kiss, her lips hungry and unrelenting. There was a fire in her—one too intense, too eager. The bond they shared from the Lust Familiar contract had ignited something inside her, and the evolution only made it worse.
She broke the kiss slowly, licking her lips with a pleased hum. "Your lips are so sweet, master... I want more."
"Medusa, get off me now!" Jinwoo snapped, frustration slipping into his voice. He didn't sign up for this. He wasn't some lust-crazed pervert. Definitely not someone who'd have sex with a monster. Lust Familiar or not.
"Why, master?" Medusa pouted, her expression faltering. "Don't you want me?"
"N—" Jinwoo started, but before the word could leave his mouth, the familiar chime of the System rang in his ears.
[A Quest has been triggered!]
[Have sex with your Lust Familiar: Medusa!]
[Reward: +5 to all stats, upgrade 'Twin Blades' to A-rank.]
[You may refuse this quest.]
"A quest?" Jinwoo blinked, staring at the glowing prompt. "And I can refuse it?"
He nodded to himself. "Right. I should refuse it. My morals are more important, after all…"
But then his eyes lingered on the reward. '+5 to all stats? An instant upgrade to my passive skill?' He bit his lip.
"…Those rewards aren't bad," he muttered.
His gaze slid back to Medusa, still straddling him, her violet hair cascading down around his face, her glowing eyes full of longing.
"And she is in a human form now," he added under his breath. "So… that doesn't really count as doing it with a snake, right?"
To be continued...
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How was this chapter? Am I cooking or not? Also, did I make Medusa too strong? Like she is a mutated beast and Jinwoo will eventually get stronger than her obviously, so I don't think it's a problem, but tell me what do you think.
Also, if someone has any idea for the Lust Familiar, you are welcome.