Succubus.... slave contract .... subduing.... interesting, rather than having a kill quest this is the first time I am getting a subduing quest, and a succubus on top of it.
Mark knew that it's been a week since he last recieved a random quest, and it was time for system to present a new one, never did he imagined that one day he mark white would also receive these sort of quest.
If there was a direct confrontations between mark and the succubus, probably nine times out of ten mark would die, as he was suppressed by dungeon and was not able to perform his best, and the demon was higher in terms of attributes which was enough for her to kill him hundreds of times at his present conditions, unless he reveals allhis trump cards that he can make use of to prevent him from dying against her.
Since it was an ordinary random quest, mark has the option to discard it. But he would be forced to pick up the upcoming quest during his next time, regardless of its type and it's difficulty. Him discarding of the current quest would be the last resort, as getting random boxes was not a frequent process, he would normally receive one of such reward after completing a single quest per week. This time he could get three such boxes that system would present him in case he finished the quest, which had intensified his greed to accept the quest. As random boxes had once presented him a strong set of blades, dead man's blades which comes with the option of evolving together with user, also had a strong base attributes that was terrifying as present for mark. If the description about those blades were to be leaked. Empires would wage war, against other competitors, just to get those rusty set of blades from him which could very well alter their countries destiny. So mark would only give up this current quest in case he did not find a suitable way to finish it.
If this succubus Selvira were to confront mark head on, he would never dare fight against her and endanger his life for the sake of a single quest, as many other such quests would pop up and await him as long as our protagonist Mark managed to survive without dying. He even had few responsibilities in his head that he must uphold and also to find secrets about his new body he was reincarnated, as dying would not be an option for him in either cases.
He got the courage to accept this damn quest, when he found her to be f***ing others depriving them of their vitality.
He knew the information regarding them, their natural abilities, their weaknesses and their affinities about these succubus race, in demon population, he found these information from demon's encyclopedia he studied after he got reincarnated at local library accessible to the nobles, he had all day to learn the world, during the time when the system was under dormancy and preparing for her upgrade ( 6 years) .
The encyclopedia stated that, these race ( succubus race ) were considered to be one among the 36 strongest sub-races in demon populace present on the main land. They were found to be present more actively in dungeons rather than at the mainland where they had established their dominance, it was to absorb vital life force from adventurers, who were more stronger and had high reserves of life force when compared to ordinary people found on the continent, as stronger their prey more vital life force they can suck out of them and higher were their chances to evolve, they were propagated mainly by two distinct paths, completely unrelated to each other. During the course of evolution from their precursors, monsters they were evolved, or also through mating between their own species, succubus with their male partner incubus. These incubus were considered to be special variant among them, rarer compared to females ( succubus ). Incubus are also same when compared to those of succubus only difference among them were their ratio, 1:10000 and hence were treated as treasures in their population and were heavily guarded to keep them safe, away from harm as they could not bear to lose even a single one, which could very well threaten their survival.
They had a natural trait of sucking vitality by mating with males, their preference towards human was because of the benefits they can derive out of them which far outweighs the cases where they choose demons as partners to suck dry their bodies of their vitality.
They may develop hidden trauma that erupt out during the later part of life, which shortens their life when they had follow the later cases and choose demons to mate.
No such cases are seen with humans as mating with them had also decreased the effects of their erupted traumas, sometimes preventing them from exposing thereby played a significant role in decreasing their death toll.
Incubus also plays the same role rather they increase their chances of evolution to become stronger for their race, tough they give vital life force to females through mating, they do not experience death, as shown in cases of humans and other races due to nature born blessing, a trait which allows them to revitalize their bodies immediately. Hence showed the importance of their presence to the race, and being worshipped as saints by succubus.
Eventough they are defying laws set by nature, being able to evolve regardless of limits, they have a terrible defect that they were born with, a sort of curse. Unable to utilize mana post few hours after mating, that had played a major draw back on their life. Demand for males, competition with rest of their own race to fight for the chance to improve, vulnerability of defending against attacks when they are mating and relatively smaller in number when compared to populace of other demon races. These exact reasons explains why the succubus race had not finished conquering the massive main land as rulers.
Since she was at her vulnerable period, cursed and unable to utilize her mana, completing the current quest became far more easy, but still he was not sure about problems he might encounter during the quest, as system had given her difficulty of a C rank, even minotaur who was far stronger than her was given a D rank, a quest of lower rank which stated that this current quest was harder when compared to his previous quest by a large margin, this had also made him wary of her to think of a plan before making a move.
Mark was excited he can complete his quest and obtain a slave that he can use to farm experience, increase his speed in levelling, since the incident at the trail tower when he obtained a mount with a new wife, both had received blessings after being bound with him, so he was expecting this succubus to also receive the same blessing boosting his levelling speed and helping him reach level 60 fasrer, after which he could utilize his personal space which was provided by system, where his second wife and his childrens were present along with his mount, as he had missed them and not seen for a period of six years.
Judging her strength attribute at 550, it may cause him some trouble but her defense attribute at 260 is not high, if a critical hit was landed on her, he could very well reduce a large chunk of her HP and his plans of subduing her will increases by a larger margin.
He made three plans on spot, to execute and finish his current quest.
Plan A : Use darkness extract, as it would not alert her of his presence, helps him reach behind her without being spotted, as only shadow were required to displace his position, a dark cave with a bonfire inside was ideal place for mark to move unhindered using his ability to execute his plan.
After getting closer to her at her back, use fire blade skill with all his might to reduce large chunk of her HP followed knocking off the male adventurers, who were under her charm that could hinder his plan, next he had to follow his attack by using resonance over her spine, to render her defenseless as paralysis will occur regardless of race when theirs spine gets damaged, as their brain signals would not be received up by their bodies.
Plan B : In case a mistake occurs during any phase in Plan A, he had to follow it up with plan b to finish his quest.
During the time when he gets behind her and made a sudden appearance, she may either react faster to get away from him as she was vulnerable to his attacks or charge towards him with her brute strength which was troublesome.
If she ran away he could easily subdue her by chasing her with traversing followed by resonance.
In case she charges towards him, he was left with no other choice but to receive her first blow and get thrown towards the walls with injuries, use the ability of resonance over the walls and produce cracking over them, allow the boulders to fall on him as a disguise. He had to protect himself by using darkness extract at the very moment he reaches the walls, where he would be blended into shadows and act dead by exposing him after all the boulders that had fallen over him had settled.
The succubus will not fall for his trick and still continue to attack him by rushing over his place to kill the person who had assaulted her .
Mark will use his traversing ability as of that moment and catch her off guard, when she wasn't aware of him possessing laws of space and make a decisive blow to her spine by resonance
This method was needed to be employed as killing was far easier when compared to subduing a demon, who had their own pride. In case she refuse to submit to him, he can only end her life by kill her to complete the quest, tough the probability of killing her was less unless he employs Plan C when both plan A and plan B failed , where he will activate his slayer title power, tough it may not be able to show its full efficiency as it was resticted by dungeon, it would still hold enough power for him to kill the demon before him.
His instincts by some how were ringing his mind by telling him, there may be a unknown consequence awaiting him during his quest, he exclaimed out to himself internally, " hey succubus, can my strategies subdue you ? "
If all three plans were to be failed, due to some unknown circumstances at that moment. Mark had to flee from that place to protect his life, as failing the quest had no major penalties and staying any further was equivalent to death.
Author's notes.
Succubus Race : one if the major 36 races among demon, has succubus ( females ) , incubus ( males ) who are special variant that can increase the species propagation by regular mating, rather than regular ways where a monster evolves into a succubus under right circumstances at rare condition, it was difficult to trigger than a monster triggering a evolutionary path into a other races among demons.