Unbound Mantra Chapter 8 (Patreon)

Purple energy covered my fingers as I pulled at the Lust energy in my Mantra Core, as I had officially truly become a cultivator in the Body Refinement Stage. According to the Eight Fold Mantra cultivation manual anyway.

The purple energy energy hazy like a flame, was called the Fallen Heart Flame, flames born of corruptive emotions. So that if it hit a target, not only would it burn them. But it would attack their mind and very soul with a disorderly blast of foreign emotions.

"The fact that you can actually call up those flames so quickly with the Lust path... From what I read, you are supposed to be in the next whole realm of cultivation to do so?" Vivian spoke with an adorably confused tone.

I shrugged and said with a wry smile. "Maybe I just had some good inspiration then." 

And being brutally honest. Vivian was indeed very fucking hot, and she specifically wanted me to ogle her as we worked out. So it wasn't difficult at all to get enough lust energy to ignite the Lust path in my Mantra Core.

Still, I refocused on Vivian as I put away the flames and said softly. "I won't be able to take you with me if I go to another world via the Church's Return Crosses and divine magic. So I just wanted to say, thank you for all your help, Vivian. I really do appreciate it."

Vivian hurriedly waved her hands as she said. "It's no problem at all Jake! You helped save my life, and fed me your very blood. I owe you... So much, so don't worry about me." She finished while covering her blushing face and looking at me nervously between her fingers.

Which was utterly adorable. 

Still, with a flex of my hands, I could feel the ki and powerful life force running through me due to the Eightfold Mantra's unreasonably dense and powerful ki that augmented my body.

I wasn't going to sit around for months using Vivian to upgrade the Lust Path I had currently active. And the rest of the path's I coudn't really touch upon all that well either now.

I NEEDED to go invading another world to steal it's fortune and gather my own resources.

Vivian, seeing my determined expression, took a deep breath and closed in... But not aggressively or trying to crowd my space. She was a bit shorter, and her low presence made her non-intrusive.

"Uhm Jake... Seeing as you are going to invade another realm. You don't have any spatial storage right? Then, I guess I have no choise but to loan you mine!"

She carefully took off a necklace that she had tucked under her shirt and offered it to me with a torn expression. "This was my mother's own spatial necklace. I don't use it, but you can't keep it, you hear! This is just a loan and an investment for your future!"

I smiled helplessly before I carefully took the necklace and felt its hollow interior, which held a five-meter inner space that I could easily control with my ki.

"Thank you, Vivian. Once again, you are a lifesaver." I said with clear emotion as this vampire sugar mommy was just too damned good to me!

With that, Vivian took a breath before she nodded sharply and said. "Well! We should get going! The sooner you can get signed up at the church to get sent to another world the better. But I can't go into the church with you." She finished with a deadly pout.

The drive towards the local super church was on the quiet side, and after parking outside of the church's walled-in grounds. I felt my stomach clench at the thought of what I was going to be doing.

I took a deep breath, and Vivian who was in the passenger seat, said quietly. "You don't HAVE to go, Jake. I don't expect, no. You don't need to be some immortal world conqueror to be happy in this world?"

I couldn't help a light, hollow laugh before I said, equally quietly. "And if I do not have strength, then I will be at everyone's mercy. Happiness in this world is dependent on your ability to keep your own life in order."

A heavy sigh left me before I laughed more heartily and said. "Take my car home Vivian. I am going to make my own fortunes. I will see you in a week or two, depending on the world I am sent to."

Leaving the car and heading into the utterly massive church. I could feel myself passing through several magical wards that scanned me. Scanning to make sure I was human, making sure I wasn't some sort of meat suit being controlled by a demon or ghost.

Who knows what all the wards were scanning me for.

Reaching an info kiosk, I rather bluntly asked how the world invasion process went; the hot nun working the stand told me in a kind voice. "Oh to bring the light of God to another world. You just need to sign a release waiver, as well as a magical contract which will allow Heaven to take a quarter of the worldly fortune you gather on your trip in order to pay for the travel."

While a quarter of your 'profits' was a lot, obviously. But in my own research, I did even from the POV's of other factions and such. Heaven's world invasion magic and technology was noted as being one of the most stable without a god directly leading the charge, as it were.

The nun then reached for a stack of papers and handed them to me with a smile as she said the next 'lower-power' world teleportation was set to go off in the next two hours.

So after signing up, I could visit the church's store to pick up extra set's of clothes and such to fit into whatever world I ended up in.

I quickly did my paperwork and going into the church's store... It was a very 'unholy' store, as it also sold weapons and magical items tied to the Abrahamic faith.

After a good bit of shopping around, I got myself a large blessed cross made out of treated wood that had a sharpened stake, which made it extremely effective against undead and unholy beings.

It also provided me a bit of protection against ghosts or something like that trying to possess me especially as I kept it on my person.

But finally, after spending a good hour of waiting. It was time. My 'flight' was here as a couple dozen others and I were handed small crosses we had to keep on our persons, which would act as our delivery method back to this world.

"Let us pray for your adventurous souls. I wish all of you to come home whole and in good health. With your backs bowed, not from weight or suffering but the weight of success." A voice spoke as the ritual circle formed beneath our feet.

And looking over at the voice. The last thing I saw was the fact that the speaker was a big titty angel wearing bikini armor of all things before my vision was englufed in holy light as I was transported across reality and beyond.