Morning came through the stone walls in thin amber threads.
His eyes opened.
The ceiling of Vekar's chamber stared back at him, carved stone, lamplight dying to embers, the smell of sex and milk and sweat and four women hanging in the warm air. His body was loose, rested, carrying none of the soreness of a man who had emptied himself repeatedly. Just warmth. Just the heavy, satisfied warmth of a body that had given everything and synthesized more overnight.
Then it appeared.
The system window.
Not a slow fade-in. A violent, crackling eruption of light behind his eyes, the notification cascading in a column of text that he read before he had fully decided to read it.
[ NEW ABILITY ACQUIRED — SYNTHESIS COMPLETE ]
[ SOURCE: Throne Bishop Succubus — Full Heart Sync Confirmed ]
[ ABILITIES TRANSFERRED — RANK: SSS ]
The list scrolled.
