Chapter 162: Barely Usable

“Let me…out…”

The yellow flame on the bronze candlestick flickered faintly.

In the dim dungeon, only these weak lights provided any illumination.

Even though it was still the end of summer, there was still a chill in the air.

Eric pleaded powerlessly to the guard at the door.

However, the guard, already used to such scenes, clearly had no intention of paying attention to Eric.

The guards had seen many nobles reduced to prisoners—each one unable to accept their fall from grace, crying out their grievances before finally dying in the cell.

Eric was the same.

Stripped of his noble and luxurious attire, he now wore a simple and ragged prison uniform.

The rough fabric was not only extremely uncomfortable, but after wearing it for so long, Eric felt his skin start to itch and break out in rashes.

Here, one couldn’t even see the sun.

There was no way to tell the time outside.

Only by the changing of the guards and the delivery of three meals could one barely sense the passage of time.

Once, delicate dishes on jade plates had now turned into steamed buns and vegetable soup that Eric once considered pig feed.

The first time he ate such things, Eric nearly vomited in the cell.

He screamed at the guards, but they ignored him.

In the end, he was beaten mercilessly by the Fat Man locked in the same cell with him.

In the past, such pig-like humans wouldn’t even dare to look at him.

In the end, when hunger became unbearable, Eric could only swallow the food he saw as pig feed in humiliation.

When the guards sent him into the prison, the charge set for Eric was violating the Kingdom’s secrets.

But no one told Eric what the sentence was.

They simply threw him into the cell and never returned.

Eric knelt weakly behind the iron bars.

His blond hair, left unkempt for so long, had become a tangled mess.

The pig feed-like food had also left Eric much thinner.

Eric thought again of that white figure—the true culprit who had brought him to this ruin—Liyakade.

First, she drove all the women around him away.

Then, she disgraced him at the cultural festival.

Finally, she sent him to prison, subjecting him to this torment.

And not only that, Liyakade even boldly declared her love for women.

It was clearly a forbidden thing, yet so many people accepted it.

Women were supposed to be playthings for men, weren’t they?

Monsters like Liyakade should be purged!

It must be because of Field and Sistem.

Because they were Princesses, they used their status to help Liyakade do whatever she wanted.

With power, they could do as they pleased.

Eric swore, if he ever got out, he would take revenge on Liyakade.

He would pin Liyakade beneath him, savor her expression of humiliation, and force her to yield under physical pleasure.

He wanted to see if she would still dare to say she liked women.

Not only that, Eric would completely ‘marinate’ Liyakade with a man’s touch, train her into a **, and make her fully realize she was nothing but a man’s plaything.

“Hehe…just you wait…”

“So noisy! How many days have you been here? Still screaming?”

The Fat Man sat up from his bunk, glaring at Eric clinging to the iron bars.

Eric flinched in terror.

He had been beaten by the Fat Man more than once during these days.

“I despise nobles like you the most. All so delicate and whiny—what’s there to scream about, huh?”

The Fat Man grabbed Eric by the collar and slammed him against the wall.

“P-please, have mercy!”

Eric begged desperately.

Without being able to use Magic Power in the cell, his physical strength was no match for the Fat Man.

All he could do was take the beating.

“You nobles sure have soft skin.”

The Fat Man’s tone suddenly softened as he examined Eric’s appearance.

Despite the recent lack of nutrition, Eric had been pampered since childhood, so he was still fair-skinned—barely acceptable.

Without another word, the Fat Man punched Eric in the stomach.

Eric collapsed, gasping in pain.

Then the Fat Man dragged him toward his bunk.

After being punched, Eric saw stars and his vision blurred.

Seeing the Fat Man’s malicious gaze, fear and dread flooded Eric’s heart.

“Help!”

Eric screamed toward the guard at the door, but the guard didn’t move or even glance his way.

The next moment, Eric felt the world spin as he was thrown onto the bunk, with the Fat Man pressing down heavily on him.

“Useless. They won’t care about you. A delicate brat like you is barely useful—”

“Ah—”

A scream of despair echoed through the cell.

It was the most humiliating day in Eric’s entire life.

***

In the days that followed, the Royal Palace wasn’t as lively as when Liyakade and the others first arrived.

If there were classes during the day, Liyakade and the others would obediently go to the Academy, then return to the Palace at night.

If there were no classes, they would train together inside the Palace.

A few days later, Field and Alice took Liyakade to the Church for a check-up.

Fortunately, Liyakade was not pregnant, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that even for a Succubus, the probability of pregnancy was not so high.

Of course, nothing indecent had happened in these days.

Since Liyakade could get pregnant, it was better to avoid letting her become pregnant before gaining the official recognition of His Majesty the King.

If Liyakade did get pregnant, the child would have to be born right away.

Such a thing couldn’t be hidden from His Majesty the King, and the existence of the Demon Bloodline would be exposed.

That would lead to big trouble.

As time passed, the end-of-term Exam for this semester was approaching.

In these two weeks, without going out to subjugate monsters and only relying on sparring in the arena and Liyakade’s help, Alice’s Level only rose to LV.32, three more levels from gaining a new skill.

Field also only increased to LV.44.

However, for the end-of-term Exam at the Academy, their Level and combat experience were already more than enough to overwhelm their peers.

The process for the end-of-term Exam was the same as the Midterm Exam, divided into two parts: the Magic Power Test and practical combat.

The Magic Power Test itself was divided into two stages: the value test and target shooting.

The only difference was in the combat section.

For the first semester’s end-of-term Exam, students had to explore a low-level Dungeon.

As someone familiar with the original story, Liyakade knew that the first semester’s Labyrinth was the Nasca Labyrinth they’d already visited.

They had already defeated the Boss on the deepest floor and were familiar with the terrain.

This Exam would be easy for them.