The forest air was cool, crisp, and peaceful… which made it the wrong place for Lisa to be stomping through with the expression of a dictator who had just discovered taxes.
She marched forward like a queen inspecting her kingdom, muttering to herself.
"I am now mid-grade spirit warrior… I have corrosive fire… frost-ice skin… ape king fire… wolf ice… tiger should've stayed! I could've farmed him for points!"
Beside her floated the system screen like a smug billboard.
> [SYSTEM: Host. Your greed is evolving. Soon you will farm mountains, planets, and galaxies.]
Lisa clicked her tongue.
"Show me my points."
The screen flickered.
> [SYSTEM: Remaining points — 31,200.
Next system advancement beast requires — 500,000 points.]
Lisa froze.
Her eye twitched.
"…500,000?"
> [SYSTEM: Yes. A small, humble requirement.]
"And how much for killing spirit beasts now?"
> [SYSTEM: …100.]
Lisa collapsed to her knees like she had been hit by a divine hammer.
"I killed nine high-rank frost wolves, blasted 356 to heaven, almost died fifteen times, fought a tiger, blew the forest apart… FOR ONLY 100 EACH!?"
> [SYSTEM: Host, please stop screaming. The birds are filing a noise complaint.]
Lisa howled into the soil.
"This world is worse than those mobile gacha games!"
On her shoulder perched the Snow Lake Orchid Spirit in flower form.
A soft glow shimmered.
"Lisaaa," it chimed sweetly.
"Do not be sad. With me by your side, everything is beautiful."
She smacked him.
"You are not helping!"
The flower spirit huffed.
"I am divine elegance! How dare you hit me like a mushroom!?"
Lisa glared.
"You're lucky I didn't pluck you."
The flower gasped dramatically.
Rylan, who had been quietly observing from behind, wondered whether he should pretend to faint to escape the madness.
Lisa stomped her foot.
"ENOUGH! If beasts barely give points… then there is another path."
The system beeped with warning lights.
> [SYSTEM: Host… no. Whatever you are thinking— no.]
Too late.
Lisa rose to her feet, eyes sparkling with dangerous enlightenment.
"I am not just some warrior here."
Her voice lowered to a seductive, tyrannical whisper.
"I am the Lewd Queen."
Rylan dropped his spear.
Flower spirit fainted on the spot.
Even the system lagged.
> [SYSTEM: ERROR. ERROR. Host has entered forbidden brain mode.]
Lisa cackled like a villainess raising an army of pretty boys.
"This world needs obedient men. Men who obey every command… men who kneel… men who serve!"
Rylan froze.
Flower spirit trembled.
The trees leaned away.
COMMANDING RYLAN
Lisa turned toward Rylan slowly.
Rylan felt a cold shiver run down his spine.
"Rylan," she said, voice dripping with dangerous sweetness.
"Yes?" he answered carefully.
"Kneel."
Rylan blinked.
"K-kneel…?"
Lisa smirked.
"Did I stutter?"
Rylan opened his mouth to object—
But Lisa stepped closer, eyes glinting, voice soft and sinful:
"Rylan~"
He swallowed.
And knelt immediately.
Lisa burst into triumphant laughter.
"MUAHAHAHA! YES! I am unstoppable!"
The system chimed in, voice filled with judgment.
> [SYSTEM: Host, be serious. He obeyed because he likes you. Not because you have 'lewd queen authority.' Your control power is still level zero.]
Lisa stomped the ground.
"LET ME HAVE THIS! I FINALLY GOT A MAN TO KNEEL!"
Rylan, still kneeling, quietly regretted his life choices.
Lisa snapped her fingers.
"You! Fluffy!"
The orchid spirit broke into sparkles, returning to his human form.
"I TOLD you," he snapped, hands on hips, "that my name is—"
"FLUFFY."
He choked.
Rylan choked.
Even the system choked.
The spirit glared at her.
"That is a disgusting name for a majestic being like me!"
Lisa pointed at him with queenly authority.
"You shall now obey me as your queen!"
The spirit scoffed dramatically.
"I would rather wither!"
Lisa's fingers twitched with sparks of corrosive fire.
The spirit paled.
"…I shall reconsider."
Lisa grinned.
"Good boy."
The spirit fainted again.
She sat on a fallen tree trunk, crossing her legs, chin raised as if she were on a throne of human skulls.
"From now on… I shall form my own army…"
Rylan blinked.
"…what kind of army?"
Lisa smirked wickedly.
"An army of MEN."
The system panicked.
> [SYSTEM: Host, this is a martial cultivation world, not your man-collection simulation game!]
Lisa flicked her hair.
"It is now."
> **[SYSTEM: Host, world laws protest against you.]
[SYSTEM: Men of this world protest against you.]
[SYSTEM: Even I protest against you.]
Lisa stuck out her tongue.
"Cry more."
TRAINING OR… SOMETHING ELSE?
Lisa marched deeper into the forest dramatically, robes fluttering behind her.
"Rylan, follow."
He stood up quickly.
"Yes."
"Carry my bag."
"Of course."
"Hand me that branch."
"Here."
"Now fan me lightly."
"…yes."
The system shrieked.
> [SYSTEM: HOST! You are abusing the male protagonist!]
Lisa smirked.
"That's his job."
Rylan's ears turned red, but he didn't complain.
The flower spirit regained consciousness, watched Rylan obeying, and whispered:
"…Is this… a cult?"
Lisa snapped her fingers.
"You too, Fluffy. Walk behind me."
The spirit pouted.
"I am a proud spiritual being—"
Lisa raised a finger swirling with corrosive flame.
The spirit immediately straightened up.
"Yes, my queen."
Lisa beamed.
"My man-pets are so obedient."
Rylan choked.
The spirit died again.
Lisa stopped suddenly, her eyes shining with a terrifying new idea.
"You know… I don't need to grind beasts for points."
The system froze.
> [SYSTEM: Host, NO.]
Lisa held up a finger.
"I can just train a group of handsome men. Make THEM hunt beasts. And bring ME the points."
Rylan's soul left his body.
The flower spirit embraced a tree for emotional support.
> [SYSTEM: Host, are you trying to build a reverse harem sect?!]
Lisa grinned.
"A Lewd Queen Sect."
The system shrieked in five different octaves.
"Host, no! That will break the world!"
Lisa cackled.
"That's exactly the point."
The chaos echoed through the forest.
Birds flew away.
Clouds ran.
Even the sun hid behind a tree.
Lisa placed her hand on her hip, posing like a queen ready to conquer nations.
"Men… your queen commands you."
Rylan sighed, shoulders dropping in surrender.
"…Yes."
The spirit sparkled reluctantly.
"…Yes, Queen."
> [SYSTEM: Host, congratulations.
You have successfully become the nightmare of every man in this realm.]
Lisa laughed triumphantly.
"GOOD."