Grand Lust Sovereign

Floor 28.

It was a medieval world.

The king was dead and the throne was empty.

A curse lay upon the throne which killed the person taking the throne. The main quest was to unravel this curse or simply take the throne by force and not die for a certain period of time.

Many noble houses knew of it yet went to war for the throne.

The Players took advantage of it and made a random noble the ruler. The kingdom saw peace for a period of time and the quest was cleared.

What remained was a sub quest of unraveling the curse of the throne.

Amelia specialized in these matters, and with the help of her newly obtained cards, immediately found the answer to the curse.

A fallen god absorbed the ruler upon ascension.

As the new ruler had the people's praise and devotion, this gave a boost to the fallen god and made him stronger.

The mightier the ruler, the more it benefited the fallen god.

If no ruler was chosen, the fallen god would manifest and kill everyone, making the kingdom crumble.

If new rulers kept piling up, the fallen god would get stronger and do the same thing anyway.

It was a lose-lose situation from all aspects.

Julien tackled it by purifying the fallen god.

With Jackie and Amelia's help, he first lifted the curse.

Second, he made the deity manifest and killed him with his Crimson Requiem and Spectral Cataclysm cards.

A show was put up for the constellations to see and it greatly benefitted the trio.

The rewards from defeating such a powerful god were also quite high, quickly raising their levels.

Just like this floor, they kept clearing hidden quests and sub quests if there were any.

Julien's main path was the Lust path. He remained faithful to it and mingled with the ladies he found in his adventures, gaining points and improving himself.

He learnt the Art of Eight Limbs and integrated them with his Arcana Card usage, effectively killing any and everyone in his path.

By Floor 30, he was deadlier than Amelia and Jackie, surpassing them.

However, Floor 31 was where his misfortune flared up.

Floor 39 was cleared by Katherine's House of Commons, and when the world reached Floor 40, some mishap occurred that led to a premature breach of other Tower players into this one.

The gates were opened into Floor 31 and the main quest for this world's player was to defend against the invasion and destroy the gates.

The rewards were good but it was suicidal if one tried to defend against such an invasion.

Influx of an overwhelmingly strong majority occurred on Floor 31 and shocked the entire world.

The constellations were in an uproar for the mishap and the administrators tirelessly worked to fix this bug in the Tower's system.

The quest could not be changed but precaution could be taken that such a mishap doesn't occur in the future.

Julien was on the frontlines and almost died from getting attacked from all sides.

At the last moment, there was no plot armor that saved him, but his own ability.

He used his Void Card Spectral Cataclysm and caused a chain reaction of deathly explosions.

Upon activation of the card, he entered a shadow state and could teleport instantly in short distances. Whenever he appeared, a curse was formed. Whoever stepped into this curse exploded after a short delay and spread it to others.

A chain reaction of human flesh exploding occurred on Floor 31. It was a bloodbath, a massacre.

Julien didn't stop at this.

He used his Celestial Card Heaven's Ruins and made many divine spears rain down from the skies like heaven's divine judgement and annihilated almost every invader.

The gates were destroyed and the main quest was cleared.

The common folks did not know how such a mighty attack could take place and were too scared to be within the vicinity of it.

Nobody saw Julien's might except the constellations, who were shocked beyond comprehension to look at him possessing such brilliant Arcana Cards.

They had no way of knowing how he obtained them or could question it. They could only watch.

Snatching it was near impossible too as Arcana Cards weren't transferable without the consent of its holder, and there was also a high risk of offending the incarnation's constellation and the pantheon they belonged to.

Falin's viewership exponentially increased. She leveled up so fast that she had to take a break to consolidate her newfound strength and get to know her own body better.

The livestream's responsibility totally fell on Julien's hands.

Many constellations offered contracts with tempting conditions to Julien but he rejected them all and stayed independent. This did not stop them from sending him sponsorships.

Julien reaped benefits from all sides.

Once the gates were destroyed, Julien thought that maybe he could rest now, but alas, he couldn't.

Something within him trembled, and soon, a memo popped out of his system's inventory.

It was the Memo of Valthor.

It resonated with the spaces from where the gates had disappeared.

Julien went close to one and found himself get sucked within.

His body flickered in and out of existence. He was in a suspended state and saw himself standing in an empty world of gray and cyber blue.

He could see the edge of the world where gravity did not exist and debris, people, planets, and many weird things floated.

Beneath him were cogs and gears woven within the dimension of time.

System notifications rang out but they were completely glitched and ominous.

He could not decipher what they meant.

This was a world without perspective and he did not know what it was supposed to convey or signify.

As he walked a bit, everything in his system panel glitched and was corrupted.

Rifts and portals opened and closed randomly, and before getting sucked into one, he saw a glimpse of what neither he nor anyone else should've ever seen.

He saw a glimpse of everything.

Every single thing that exists within the Tower, he saw everything.

The overload of information almost made his head burst apart.

Before it could happen, he was thrown out of this place.

Upon reappearing within the Tower, a new system notification rang out.

[ERROR: Unregistered entity detected.]

[Warning: System integrity compromised.]

[Identity verification failed. No record of 'Julien' exists.]

[WARNING: Anomaly detected. Attempting to correct…]

[Correction failed. ENTITY CANNOT BE RECOGNIZED.]

[ACCESS DENIED. Return to designated area immediately.]

[Attempting to relocate unidentified entity…]

[RELOCATION FAILED. Entity exists outside parameters.]

[FORCING EXPULSION…]

[EXPULSION FAILED. ERROR—***** CANNOT BE ERASED.]

[WARNING: UNSANCTIONED PRESENCE MAY DESTABILIZE THE FOUNDATION.]

[RECOMMENDATION: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY.]

[FINAL WARNING: CONTINUED EXISTENCE HERE WILL RESULT IN UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES.]

[—OVERRIDE.]

[Stabalizing…]

'Holy fuck! I didn't know the consequences would be this severe…' El's shocked voice was heard.

Had she not intervened in time and overwritten the Tower commands with the administrator's help, Julien would've been permanently erased.

His very presence threatened the Tower's existence. This was bad. Very bad.

'What happened?' Julien had so many questions and didn't know where to start.

'That Memo of Valthor… do you know what it is? And why were you being asked to hand it over so much during the tutorial?' El questioned instead of answering.

Julien shook his head. He had no clue.

El began explaining at this point.

The Memo of Valthor belonged to the architects of this Tower. It was a key to entering the very core of the Tower where no one except the dead ancient architects had ever stepped.

The architects had designed this place in such a manner that anyone who steps here would be permanently erased to protect the Tower.

The Tower was the center of everything. If something happened to it, it would be the death of the universe. Countless civilizations would perish and life may or the universe itself may not exist anymore.

Such a sensitive region had only one way of accessing it—through the Memo of Valthor.

Nobody knew of this information, of course. Had they known, Julien would've been hunted for all his life. Many constellations would do anything in their power to descend into the bottom floors and snatch it from him.

El gave her hypothesis on why Julien was the chosen one for it.

He had absolute misfortune in the world. Entering this place would result in doom of not just his own but of everyone.

This was in line with how the card worked. It caused chaos and destruction wherever its host went.

Entering that place had completely corrupted his stats and no matter what he did now, they wouldn't increase or decrease.

Julien had become an anomaly.