(Momo is Eileen Who play Lena’s role.)
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On the streets of Ashen Base, survivors came and went.
Among them was Momo, who had a very good first impression of Ashen Base.
Although it was a survivor base in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, there wasn’t much garbage or filth on the streets. The road surface still had some potholes, but there was no foul-smelling stagnant water inside.
Momo had disguised herself and visited other human bases before. The streets there, even the main roads, had poor sanitation. After all, in this difficult struggle for survival world, merely staying alive was already very hard. No leader would be willing to allocate their scarce personnel to cleanliness, which was not a noticeable issue.
Ashen Base was no exception, but Momo noticed that the cleanliness of the streets here was not due to a special Ashen military unit responsible for maintenance. Instead, it came from two sources.
First, the survivors here seemed to be very conscious, and there were rarely any instances of littering or relieving themselves in public.
Second, on the streets, church followers were distributing promotional flyers. They quickly noticed Momo, who was currently disguised as a down-and-out beggar.
“Join the church, and the holy light will heal us.”
“The cathedral built by Lord Ashen has been approved for use. Tomorrow, Lady Suthia will bless everyone and hold a prayer in the cathedral. Please come!”
“Resist the Miasma, everyone is responsible! The source of Miasma is the impurity in our hearts. We must actively purify ourselves. Come, join us as a believer!”
After learning about the church out of curiosity, Momo understood that the church would accept those in difficulty and without work, providing them with free basic food. In return, they had to work for the church and accept its assignments.
As a succubus, Momo actually disliked organizations like the church, which wore a moral fa?ade but might have darker and more twisted hearts than anyone else.
But here, Momo discovered she was wrong.
The church’s assignments were simple and not for the church itself, but to serve the entire Ashen Base and the collective of survivors.
As Momo had seen, the streets were so clean because the church’s people organized daily clean-ups, and some public facilities were also proactively established by the church.
Momo couldn’t help but be curious. An organization like the church, based on “faith,” should be the best at deceiving people. However, the people here did not use faith for profit but truly upheld it.
There could be only one explanation: their source was too pure.
Namely, the nun beside the Ashen base’s leader, the founder of the church.
Although the Succubus Princess had not yet seen Ashen base leader, she was already very interested in this nun.
Shaking her head, Momo forced herself to suppress her curiosity and focused on “testing” the Ashen leader first.
Since it was a test, the premise was that she could meet Ashen and create an encounter without the other party knowing.
So, Momo quickly set her sights on a patrol team of base guards.
To obtain information about the base leader’s whereabouts, going to the military was undoubtedly the fastest way.
In the impression of the succubus princess, gathering intelligence was never difficult for their succubus race.
Scratching one’s head and acting coquettishly were the lowest-level methods using physical means.
Truly advanced succubi could use their supernatural powers to easily enchant humans and make them obediently reveal everything.
Following the military, the succubus waited for a soldier to slack off or for an opportunity to enchant them.
However, after half a day, Momo’s expression became somewhat irritated.
Because these base guards, ‘why were they all so dedicated?’ Throughout the entire patrol, there was no slackness at all. Moreover, there was no one who left the group, slacked off in the bathroom, or took advantage of the poor to seek private gain.
The Ashen military was meticulous, and their strict discipline was something Momo had never seen before.
The helpless succubus could only resort to force. She chose the moment and, in a place with few people, used her supernatural powers to envelop this group of Ashen military, immersing them in the succubus’s illusion.
Here, they would see the person they loved the most and obediently reveal everything she wanted to know.
“Huh?”
Momo suddenly widened her eyes, looking at those Ashen military members who should have been enchanted in her illusion, each with a spring-like expression. Now, however, they were extremely terrified and frightened.
‘What is happening?’
The succubus hurriedly checked the illusions of these military members and saw that a women indeed appeared inside. From the two horns on her head, she could tell that she was a dragonkin demi-human. Her figure was slender, and her face was cold and enchanting. Even Momo was somewhat moved, showing the beauty of this women.
However, when facing such an object of their affection, the military members turned pale one by one. Forget about fantasizing; when the dragon women stood in front of them, the soldiers’ legs went weak, and they proactively confessed all the mistakes they had made. Even if they had just been slightly distracted during their patrol, they stammered and confessed.
‘Is this dragon woman so terrifying? Is she holding such high prestige within the Ashen Army?’
‘Could it be that the soldiers became so virtuous in my illusion out of fear of saying even half a word wrong and being killed?’
In Momo’s impression, the military officials in other bases were usually the type to enjoy life and not be respected by their subordinates. As for female military officials, they were more like objects of desire.
But now…
Momo seemed to understand why the Ashen military could achieve a hundred victories in a hundred battles, conquer countless Miasma masters, and even make other nearby human bases feel threatened and want to eliminate them.
‘Nova…’
The Succubus Princess silently took note of this name in her heart. This was another person who had piqued Momo’s great interest after the previous Suthia, and this cold and enchanting dragon women…
She was also one of the Ashen’s subordinates.
Previously, Momo thought that the leader of Ashen base was somewhat exaggerated in the rumors.
But as she conducted a slight investigation, she now found that perhaps Ashen in the rumors was actually just the tip of the iceberg?
‘What kind of person could have such powerful subordinates?’
The Succubus Princess’s heart began to eagerly anticipate and grow curious about Ashen.
However, now Momo had to solve a problem first.
Her prideful enchantment technique lasted only a few seconds before failing, and the Ashen military members one by one escaped from it. After their confusion, they quickly resumed their patrol.
If enchantment didn’t work, how was she supposed to find Ashen’s whereabout?
Before Momo could ponder other ways, suddenly, two people appeared from a nearby alley, a master and servant pair. One of them wore a gray robe, and a maidservant followed closely behind him.
Although the Succubus Princess did not recognize the maidservant, she immediately recognized the distinctive cloak. It seemed they had just brought it back from shopping. Momo was overjoyed, as she didn’t expect to get what she wanted so easily.
She immediately pretended to be a beggar on the verge of death from hunger and collapsed in the corner of the alley. The Succubus Princess’s first test was to see how Ashen would treat a survivor on the brink of death within his base.
On the other side…
[You have triggered a special event]
[A survivor on the verge of death has collapsed in the corner. Facing her, you choose]
[Option 1: Ignore and continue walking]
[Option 2: Order the Ashen military to throw her out of the base]
[Option 3: Send someone to help her up and provide food and treatment]
[Option 4: Feed her the “special drug” developed by Suthia. After she loses her ability to move, lock her up in the military prison and have Nova take charge of whipping and interrogating her. Use the drug to train her, ultimately making her completely evil and a breeding tool with only reproduction on her mind]