We take a bath together and this time there's only light playing. We need to establish a proper rotation on my bed, we have to switch Roxanne and Hana since Alissa can't leave but Hana and Roxanne also wanna sleep together once in a while. So tonight is Hana and Alissa, then tomorrow it's gonna be only me and Alissa. Good luck, Roxanne, I hope you survive a night with the freak.
Hana is satisfied so we only do it slowly and lovingly while Alissa masturbates, then I use my fingers on her until she orgasms. I wonder when I will get [
Hand Technique
], I know I'm at least competent with it since Alissa already came many times from my hands.
I slept well again.
Today is the 24th.
I wake up to a double blowjob, I think this should be a morning routine.
I feel like trying one last time to sleep without Alissa but I'm scared of the nightmares.
In the morning me and Alissa go to the dungeoneering guild to search for dungeons to explore. Alissa slips out for a bit and goes to look for basil and more spices to bring. I know there's cinnamon, cloves, and curry around so maybe she can find something good.
It's rather lonely without her, she's quiet, unlike Hana and Roxanne, so I don't mind always being near her. I delve into the books and focus on the descriptions. I find one that piqued my interest, it's the Roulette of the Morning Dew, a dungeon with a large variety of monsters, mostly huge animals, mutations and the base magic elements. Monster Hunter story arc begin!
The dungeon is a variety of forest and mountain environments and rather pleasant to walk through. The monsters are a variety of large predators which the corpses fetch some good money, we can even use them for cooking since the meat here is a little limited. There's a minotaur that we can kill for meat and the female version we can extract milk, weird to think it like this since it's a half-person but everyone in this world does it so when in Rome do as the Romans do.
The plants are mana solidifications, unfortunately. There's plenty of interesting plants there but they disappear quickly after you cut them, you can taste them briefly if you eat them as soon as you cut them, though.
The dungeon is another dimensional door with an "elevator" but the levels are even more massive than Royd's Kerfuffle's and have quite the height variance too. The ceiling is filled with enough mana crystals that it looks like day at most of the floors.
"Hana will like this dungeon," Alissa says.
"Yeah, she will likely be the one working the hardest since the monsters all have a lot of strength."
"Which will make her like this even more."
We go back home for lunch. On the trip I hear my name being screamed around town, the criers are already divulgating the names of the fellowships involved in the subjugation. Well, now everyone around town will have heard about me, nothing I could have done about that one except failing on the subjugation.
After lunch Roxanne went to the bakery and ordered a cake that will get ready at the end of the day. I spend the afternoon sparring with Hana and Alissa, as we get tired the sparring turns into mere play and even Roxanne joins.
"Oh, actually I forgot to look at your status Roxanne," I say, "I will put some of your extra points into [Sword Use] so we can play."
"I guess these days were just a bit hectic, eh?" She says.
I take a look at Roxanne stats:
Info
Name: Roxanne Succubs | Age: 21 | Race: Succubus-Type Demon
HP: 100 | MP: 1105 | Magic Power: 359
Level: 30 | Experience: 7059/9000
Stats
Strength: 8 | Endurance: 8 | Dexterity: 11
Speed: 8 | Intelligence: 18 | Wisdom: 17
Willpower: 14 | Charisma: 15 | Piety: 10
Perception: 10 | Sanity: 12
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: NONE
Affiliations: Helios (Fellowship), Wolf Ryder (Fiance)
Companions: Wolf Ryder, Alissa, Hanafuria
Crimes: NONE
Roxanne Succubus Skill Report
Physical
Skill Name: Level
Dagger Use: 2
Magical
Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level
Sense Mana: 3 | Mana Control: 24 | Reduced Mana Cost: 3
Mana Efficiency: 9 | Fire Magic: 22 | Water Magic: 20
Ligh Magic: 1 | Space Magic: 8 | Conjuring Magic: 5
Alchemy: 3 | Potion Brewing: 9 | Poison Brewing: 2
Miscellaneous
Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level
Housework: 1 | Cooking :1 | Cleaning: 1
Washing: 1 | Riding: 1
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
Spells
Explosion | Melt Skin | Fireball | Fire Whip | Fire Arrow | Firestom
Fire Wall | Torrent | Water Wall | Water Blade | Water Breathing | Drown
Clean | Spirit Light (weak) | Syntehsize | Extract Ichor | Extract Pus | Conjure Water
Conjure Bland Meal (weak) | Telekinseis | Item Box (weak)
"Oh, it shows here that you are my fiancee already. Even on the other girls."
"Even the gods recognize us," Roxanne says with a smile.
"You are quite the high"level, you are close to Hana.
"I spent most of my time escorting caravans, they don't give that much experience," says Hana.
"And I spent most of my life hunting monsters for ingredients," says Roxanne.
"Huh, you have quite a high [Mana Control]."
"That's my talent! Without it I can't cast my explosion magic," Roxanne looks proud.
"I guess [
Extract Nectar
] and [
Extract Pus
] is from [Potion Brewing] and [Poison Brewing], right?"
"Yeah, kind of an unpleasant name."
"Agreed."
I reduced my points in [Sword Use] and we had some fun playing around. I need to setup a strength training regimen, I ask Hana to help me train my muscles, I need more strength to last a proper amount of time in melee.
When the sun was coming down we all took a relaxing bath together, too tired for anything sexual. Roxanne went to get the cake and we roasted a large rib of Grey Berserker that Alisa bought, we ate it with garlic bread. After we were done we took out the cake, a meringue and not-strawberry cake with a very sweet and creamy filling.
"To glory in battle!" Hana raises her cup.
"To great achievements!" Alissa raises her cup a bit tipsy.
"To happiness!" Roxanne raises her cup and laughed.
"To a long life!" I raise my cup.
I'm a bit dizzy.
"Waaait, what's this, iit's… lemon?"
"The cake? There should be a hint of Tonsel in it," Roxanne says.
"Aaaah, Alissa, buy Tonsel and put it into black tea, it's gonna be great!" I say.
"Tonsel? Okaay, we put it on fishh tooo, heh," Alissa responds, her voice is garbling.
"Yes! Fish! We should eat fishhh! Fish with lemon, now we need shoyu too!"
"Masteeerr-he-he-he-herr~… I love youu, I-I will do anything, because... be-because I love youu! Ok?" Alissa hugs me, I can see tears in her eyes.
"That's enough drinking for you two," Hana says and grabs out cups.
"Thanks Hana, wine sucks, I want my chocolate miiilk!"
"Okay, okay we will get chocolate one day, alright?" Roxanne strokes my head.
Alissa starts crying and hugs me harder.
My head hurts, I'm still dizzy. We are in the bed and Alissa is hugging me hard, she drank waay more than me. I hated the taste so I just drank a few cups but that's enough to make me dizzy since I never drunk before, literally.
I wanted to watch Hana and Roxanne doing it on the table, Hana gets more even more hornier when she drinks. Next time they drink I will join, I just wanna cuddle with Alissa now.
Today is the 25th.
I wake up first and Alissa goes for the blowjob immediately once she awakes.
"So, could this be a morning thing for us? I really like it."
Alissa smiles with my dick in her mouth.
"Okay," she says after taking it out.
She didn't feel like doing it so we stopped at this. I kinda feel bad that I abused her so much when it was only the two of us but she says she never felt like she was forced, but I'm still conflicted.
Roxanne walks slowly and without energy, Hana is the opposite and she seems even more energetic.
"How was it Roxanne?" I ask.
"She rubbed my tail and outlasted me," Roxanne answers with a sigh, "I would be in bliss if my muscles didn't hurt. I also have a hangover, that's the only reason she won, I get weak when I'm drunk."
Not even magic can heal that, I just smile and give my thumbs up to Hana who grins with pride.
"Hangovers are caused because you didn't drink enough water, alcohol steals water from the body and the lack of water causes the headache."
"Oh, is that knowledge from your Earth?" Roxanne asks.
"Yes, you can trust me on that one."
"Heheh, thanks, now I can drink more without problem," Roxanne gives an innocent smile.
I facepalm but I know she's joking, I hope. Thankfully Hana and Roxanne don't drink much because I don't really like it.
Alissa had a few Tonsels she wanted to use in a salad but she put it in the tea, it really is lemon. It comes from the High Forest so the supply varies, it seems it's not part of the culture here to drink it cold.
At the morning we clean the house, Roxanne is even worse than me at cleaning but now that they are all (soon to be) wives Alissa organized us all to work together and clean.
I have some free time and so I analyze the summoned bird's soul again. The patterns are really complex and I'm trying to find a way to write and describe them more precisely but it's almost insanity, really, the soul is a complete psychedelic mushroom trip. How the hell did that mage manage to complete an experiment without trial and error? His research notes on the soul were lost, unfortunately.
I spend all my time just scanning the soul little by little, maybe I can make some sense out of the madness one day.
We have some simple lunch, yesterday's dinner was a little too heavy on our stomachs.
At the afternoon there's not much to do. Alissa and Hana go out to buy books and see what's new, even Hana enjoys shopping around. I want Roxanne to go with them but she wants to finish her work with the Moonlight Moss. I keep scanning the bird's soul, no real progress.
"Wolf, a letter came to you," Roxanne whispers.
I snap out of the meditation and open my eyes. I reflexively kiss her since she tickled my ears with her voice and her face is so close. She chuckles.
"The town pass is gonna be ready tomorrow, the guildmaster will deliver it to me," I say.
"Oh, that's amazing, let's go explore a dungeon tomorrow then!"
"What about the Moonlight Moss?"
"I did it!"
"What?!"
"I did iiiiiiit!"
She jumps and hugs me. We cuddle and kiss until the other girls come back. Then there's more kissing coming from Hana.
"So what does the potion do?" Alissa asks.
"It's a performance enhancer. It boosts speed, strength and endurance for a whole hour, I believe, gotta time that. It also doubles as a strong health potion. There's also another potion that I made with it that heals a massive amount of MP but it seems it makes the person unable to move..." She looks away and cleans her throat.
"Well. That's interesting, when we can use [
Gate
] the second potion will certainly be useful," I say.
"Yes, right now it's not that great but maybe until then I can refine the potion."
"We should all carry the booster potion, in case of emergency a boost of speed is a life-saver," says Hana.
"Understood, I will prepare at least 2 for each of us. The MP super-potions use a lot less ingredients so they will last a while, but if we keep using the booster a lot I think I can make only 30 more potions out of the moss."
"I don't think we should be relying on the booster a lot, it should only be kept as a trump card so you shouldn't have to use all the moss on it," I say.
"Yes, consumables like this aren't reliable for long use," Hana adds.
"Ah, when we get [
Gate
] we could teleport directly to the floor of the turtles," Roxanne says.
"Another good idea," I say, "Well, then. With the pass let's go to the Roulette of the Morning Dew. Tomorrow in the morning I will report my progress to the university then after that let's prepare in the afternoon and depart after tomorrow."
We all agree to the schedule.
The bookcase is getting a few more books. Alissa and Hana found a few tapestries to put on the walls and windows. We only had black curtains to cover our diamond-shaped leaded panes windows. Now there's a few with single colors like crimson red and a few embroidered with simple patterns. We are putting a carpet in every room and 2 potted plants on the entrance to the living room, they are peace lilies. I suggested to Alissa to get some ivy-like plant to put on the walls.
Tonight again I go to sleep with Hana and Roxanne but I call Alissa to play in bed. Since the two exhausted each other last night it's just me relaxing in a sea of breasts, tongues, and hands. We need oil for some proper tit loving, but still, this is heaven.
The goblin woman and her child killed me again. Twice, I woke up from the nightmare and then had it again.
Today is the 26th.
"Alissa, today it happened again, it was worse."
"I told you I don't mind, we will just keep sleeping together."
I cringe. This stupid curse.
"We will find help one day for this, perhaps when Ciel joins she could help, the priests help with problems in the mind too."
That's true, Ciel might help.
Today I can't take a nap in the morning. I drink a lot of lemon ice tea hoping for a caffeine boost and go to the university with Alissa.
"This is amazing, Mr. Ryder, if you can create your [Sense Soul] skill I believe we can fully remove the need for your tuition fee," Mathias says.
Now that Roxanne is pooling her money with ours we have even less money problems, but I guess this is nice.
"I will focus on [Sense Soul] for a while, I want to at least be able to use [
Infuse
] successfully once."
"Yes, yes. Your progress is great and your skills are very interesting, at this point you are free to research as you please. I will report this to the council but I see no reason they will ask you to prove yourself further."
I waste no more time and come back home to take a nap until Alissa wakes me for lunch. Simple vegetable soup with fried not-potatoes and blanched Dragolite milanese.
Then we all go to the guild, in there they inspect our crystal ID tablets. I made sure I removed any odd skill first but I still saw the attendants mouth twitch for a moment. Then she pulls a flask and let a single drop of ink fall into each of our tablets.
Now when we touch that drop of ink the tablet changes and some writing can be seen: "The adventurer named Wolf Ryder has gained the favor and trust of the True Noble Alaraste Anara, Lord of Rabanara, and therefore has no need to stay in line or pass by customs. If known that the adventurer in question is smuggling trade goods from or to a town then this pass is to be immediately removed".
"Congratulations to you all," Silas says, "This pass works on the entirety of the empire so there's no need to worry about how other towns will react. In any case it also works to prove your reputation, if you show it to any other guildmaster they should know you are a reliable person."
That's good and that's bad, if we are known to be reliable more people are going to come running asking for help.
"Thank you for your help, guildmaster, we will not misuse it."
We take our leave and go back home. Hana and Alissa are going out to refill our traveling necessities while Roxanne stays to replenish our potions. Honestly, there's so many potions that Roxanne can do that it's amazing how well prepared we can be now, "a potion for every occasion" she says.
I work into [Soul Sense] without much progress. There's so much information it's like trying to rewrite a book just from memory. I can't reproduce the birds soul using [
Infuse
], it's too much info to write at once. I need to find the overall pattern on how this soul is constructed.
"It's time," Hana whispers.
I reflexively kiss her since Hana tickled my ears with her voice and her face is so close. She stops for a second then kisses back. I have to stop her, it's time for my strength training.
We start with jumping jacks then jogging. She prepared dumbbells and makes me do the usual biceps, triceps and forearm, then legs and calves, then abdominal, and then I don't even know the name of the muscles that we are exercising. I just know my muscles hurt and they are sore.
Hana makes my exercises be fast and heavy. Right after it we take a bath and Hana rewards me by sucking my soul through my dick. I have to teach her how to use her breasts though.
Lots of meat for dinner for my muscles. I cuddle with Roxanne this time and Hana puts Alissa to sleep with her gift of stroking heads. Then I go to sleep with Roxanne and Alissa.
"Well, uh. I can't really move too much right now," I say.
Roxanne grins. She throws her clothes away and jumps, my view is obscured and the typical smell of a woman invades my nose.
"Careful not to suffocate him like this," Alissa says.
I can barely move right now so I use my last functioning muscle, my tongue. I put it out and soon my whole face is covered in saliva and nectar. I feel my dick being touched followed by the comforting feeling of being inside Alissa.
Today is the 27th.
Wake up blowjob by Alissa and deep kiss by Roxanne, heaven.
I'm a little sore but it's okay. We have a quick breakfast and we close the house. This time I'm flying the dinghy.
If an aircraft engineer finds the one who built this dinghy he will kill him. The biggest problem with this dinghy is how ridiculously over-maneuverable it is. What's the point in being able to do 2 barrel rolls per second if you are going to destroy the structure of the vehicle with this amount of force? You can easily destroy the entire boat if you fly at full speed because a small change in pitch will suddenly increase the air pressure and it simply will break a part.
Bottom line, this world has no concept of aerodynamics. It's not my area but now I feel like I will have to be the one to jump-start it.
We pass by the castle to our right and reach the north gate. You are going to get shot down if you fly over the gate so we land and show the new function of our ID's, the guard reads each one and escorts us outside immediately. I wonder what's the literacy rate of this world.
Once we cross the gate we pull out the dinghy and start flying again. The environment is a little different, I can see the water wheels and the large river crossing the farms, it comes from the north, turns to the east and disappears in the horizon. The farms continue for a long time until they reach the horizon. There's barely any guard patrols over this side but we see a lot of archers around, it seems this area is most often attacked by the Dragolites.
I concentrate on flying. Slowly the mountain range on the horizon gets closer and the end of the farmland appears. We reach the edge of the valley at 11AM.
The valley is called The Smirk, it is a deep scar in the land. The well-made road we are on suddenly stops and only a beaten serpentine path goes downwards until it disappears into a Sea of Trees. We can see the mountain range so close to us, on the other side of that range is the elven wetlands, much further than that is the elven High Forest.
The valley is not wide but it's deep and long. The ground level the Sea of Trees is completely dark, it's normally a dangerous part of the forest but we will walk only a small distance to the entrance of the dungeon. To our left and right the valley goes on until it disappears in the horizon, eventually the valley ramps upwards and the land returns to normal elevation.
Sea of Trees is both the name of the area south of Rabanara and a type of forest, it's a land so filled with mana that the trees themselves also use it as a form of energy.
We lower the dinghy and fly close to the ground on the serpentine path. There's a small fortification there with a squad of 10 guards at the entrance lazing about, very rarely something comes out of that path, but when it does it's always something really bad. The lord takes great care in keeping this valley always culled so the farms nearby aren't in danger.
We nod towards the guards and I feel an envious gaze on me. Yep, stare all you want you will never get something close to my heaven.
I put my skills like this:
Wolf Ryder Skill Report
Physical
Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level
Sword Use: 10+5 | Dodge: 4+5 | Parry: 4+5
Block: 2+7 | Shield Bash: 0+1
Magical
Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level
Sense Mana: 0+5 | Mana Control: 0+5 | Mana Recovery: 7+0
Mana Efficiency: 3+4 | Reduced Mana Cost: 5+0 | Mana Overuse Resistance: 0+2
Blessing Magic: 10+0 | Light Magic: 9+2 | Summoning Magic: 15+5
Redirect Mana (creator): 2
Miscellaneous
Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level | Skill Name: Level
Andraste Language: 10+0 | Dismantling: 0+1 | Enhanced Semen Recharge: 0+2
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
The remaining 5 points will be left for magic resistances.
We reach the entrance of the Sea of Trees and get out of the dinghy. We all cast our [
Spirit Light
] and move on. We still need to go lower on the path until we reach the ground, the total height of the valley might be around 100 meters.
This Sea of Trees is damper, stinkier and has no small plants, only the trees and a moss covered ground. The complete darkness and our magical lights makes the scenery very creepy.
Another 20 minutes walking and we find the dungeon entrance, it's a simple floating ominous black rectangle. There's no point waiting, we are safer inside, so we cross.
All 4 of us enter the dark room and the familiar menu appears with the options, "1st floor" and "Exit". I see the girls disappear in front of me, then I press "1st floor".
"It looks like a starry night sky," Roxanne says with wonder.
"Yep, it's quite beautiful," I say.
The sky looks black with innumerable little shining points, these mana crystals that give so much light it seems we are under the sun. We are in a boreal forest, there's coniferous trees, hints of snow, freezing cold wind, and two extremely steep mountains, one blue and the other red.
We take out our winter clothes and put them on, Hana only needs a jacket since her brigandine is quite hot already.
The dungeon drops us randomly into one of the dozens of random exit points. Now we have to find ourselves in the map by first using the two landmark mountains and then we move towards the nearest stair. There's no exit behind us.
Roxanne had supplied the mana for the dinghy while I flew, I had enough time to cast most of our buffs so now I just finish casting the last ones and we both meditate to refill our mana. I still have 10 points in [Blessing Magic] so we all have [
Wind Armor
], [
Sharp Blade
] (except Roxanne) and [
Swift Foot
]. Then we have lunch.
Not even 5 minutes into the dungeon and Alissa detects the first monster. We sneak close to it and take a look.
It's a Zinotue, threat level 3. A nearly two meters tall bengal tiger with spikes on his stripes, this is an electric type monster. It's much more muscular than a normal tiger. I put all of my wives extra points in [Electric Resistance], I have 5 unused points that I put in resistance.
Hana takes out a spear and stands in front of Roxanne while I summon an earth elemental and have it guard Alissa. The training with the bird went well, I can still use the bird's and the elemental's sight without making me dizzy, it's all about focus. The bird is currently on Roxanne's shoulder.
The Zinotue is on a small clearing walking slowly towards us, Alissa fires the first shot from the bushes and it goes directly to the eyes. This monster is incredibly fast, it's reflexes allow it to dodge the shot but it still hits the side of its face.
"I'll thrust my spear up your ass!" Taunts Hana.
It gets up on its hind legs and roars, with that I can already feel a slight tingling in my body. Its base attack is making the air electrified, small shocks occur on the body regardless of where you are as long as the Zinotue keeps pumping mana to its fur.
A normal arrow hits its chest, Roxanne is casting magic.
It leaps and lands near Hana, it tries to charge but a quick jab on its face gives it a wound deep enough for it think twice. It tries to swipe the spear but it misses, the second swipe gets closer but just slides off the scale shield. Meanwhile I jump forward, slash the front left leg and jump back near Hana. Alissa puts two arrows on it's lower flank.
The monster turns towards Alissa and leaps. It receives a stone mace to the face and stops midair. The elemental's hand-mace is inside the Zinotue's mouth, you could hear the sound of rock being scraped by the monster's fangs. Then the elemental kicks the monster and it flies away a few meters.
At that distance Alissa's arrows can be dodged. The monster starts charging mana and keeps its distance. Roxanne jumps on Hana's back and dragon wings appear from the slits on Hana's brigandine.
The monster stops for a moment and opens it's huge mouth towards Alissa. Alissa dodges and on the place she was a lightning bolt hits, it wasn't at the speed of a normal lightning so it's dodgeable.
Then he turns to Hana and she uses the wings to dodge the bolt. Then he looks at the elemental and the bolt hits it right on but it causes only a small scorch mark on the chest of the elemental.
The monster gets angry and roars again with much more strength. Roxanne drops from Hana's back and then the monster charges Hana. He doesn't care about the spear and jumps towards her.
"[
Water Blade
]!"
The entire left flank of the monster gets a deep cut. It doesn't stop and crashes on Hana, she uses her wings to counter the momentum but she still gets her feet dragged on the ground. The monster huge mouth bites the shield and he gets a spear deep on his right side. Hana is splashed with blood.
I jump and slash at the neck, the wound is shallow. The monster disengaged from Hana to dodged me but he still received two arrows on his flank for this. He runs away to the trees. Enraged monsters don't run away, he's preparing something. His spikes point up.
"Roxanne! [
Drown
]!" I yell.
We scatter. Hana and the elemental go forward, I stay still and Roxanna and Alissa run back. Water droplets start appearing floating around the monster. Sparks appear from the spikes. The water droplets all congregate and surround the monsters body in a bubble. The sound of thunder can be heard.
"AAH!" I scream, I got shocked heavily but it's only pain, it didn't burn or even decrease my HP.
That was [
Lightning Strike
], that one is instant and can't be dodged. But [
Drown
] surrounds the target with water so it can't breathe, this water disrupts the strike and lowered its power greatly. Only I got hit, luckily or rather, unluckily I got chosen.
The monster is twitching, the water caused it to also get shocked. It turns towards us and an arrow enters it's eye, the monster twitched and falls, it's dead.
I cast [
Clean
] on Hana.
"W-what?
That's
the first thing you do?" She asks, amused.
I shrug.
"I would rather not let my wife's clothes get stained with monster blood," I say.
Hana laughs.
"I would do the same," Roxanne says and shrugs.
Alissa seems in deep thought, I don't know if she agrees or not with me.
We pick the fangs of the monster and help Roxanne harvest the best spikes. The meat of this monster tastes ok but it's not too valuable. We still have to be cautious and selective with the corpses we bring back so people won't suspect of my infinite "Items".
I feel something change within me, [Dismantling] increased by 1 (now 0+2).
I guess skills are a combination of technical knowledge and real life experience, that's why just reading the books on anatomy won't increase my skill immediately.
I dismiss the earth elemental then we stop for me and Hana to rest a bit. The elemental costs a considerable amount of mana but it's the perfect defense against this kind of monster. I don't have enough strength like Hana to take on a charge and keep standing so Alissa needs better protection than just me.
We start moving again and Alissa steers us away from the smell of an adventurer party. This place is somewhat popular for hunting so it's not uncommon to meet others but it's just unnecessary to get close to each other.
After an hour of walking we reach the end of our plateau and we are faced with a gentle slope of a valley, we are going towards the river at the bottom. Alissa senses a group of small enemies.
"Wysalites," I say.
The Wysarie is a large but thin velocir-... Wyvern. It has feathered wings and a scaled body but it does not fly, it uses the wings to increase it's land speed and mobility. The Wysalite is a smaller version of the Wysarie.
"I'll get them," Hana says.
We can't hide our approach, there are no bushes this time so they notice us from afar. We stand in place and let them come towards us, charging upwards is less effective.
There's 6 half-meter tall Wysalites approaching and letting out high pitched screams. Hana lowers her shield and puffs her chest, I hear the sound of someone breathing in.
*FOOOM~*, Hana breathes out and flames violently spew from her mouth. The fire covers a large area in front of us, dozens of trees go up in flames, the high pitched screams of rage become even higher-pitched screams of pain. A terrifying barbecue happens in front of us.
One survived the hellfire and Alissa ends its misery. They are the goblins of this dungeon so it's barely worth it to get their proof of extermination. We just move on from the bonfire we created, the snow and the good distance between each tree will make sure the fire doesn't spread on this forest.
"Isn't your [
Fire Breath
] tiring?" I ask.
"Not really, I can use once every 2 hours or so, if I used less then it would recharge faster," Hana says.
"I think it was a good use, [
Firestorm
] is somewhat inefficient," Roxanne says.
"It seems so," I finish.
We reach the river and move along the valley, we will be reaching the stairs soon. The advantage of going through the river is the higher encounter rate, we are here to fight monsters, the more the merrier.
Soon enough we find another Zinotue, it's smaller but I still summon an earth elemental again. Same strategy. We move closer to it and fail to sneak attack first, it was wary of something and spotted us from far away. Immediately it casts the lightning bolt.
The monster is quite far.
"Hey! Hide behind the elemental!" I yell.
We all share a "why not?" look and shrug, we form a line behind the elemental and keep walking forward. The elemental takes 3 bolt hits like it's nothing, it didn't even flinch. Earth is rather strong against [Electric Magic], [Fire Magic] is much more effective at melting earth and metals than electricity.
The monster immediately enrages and charges at the elemental. We just keep hiding behind it and Hana readies her spear from behind the elemental. As the monster jumps and bites the head of the elemental it hugs the monster and doesn't let it escape.
We stab and slash and shoot at his throat until Roxanne finishes [
Water Blade
] and decapitates it.
"Pff…" I let out a chuckle.
"Guess it was young and dumb," Roxanne says.
We move on.
We meet another group of 7 Wysalites and Hana creates another bonfire, it wasn't full strength so Alissa finished 2 of them. The smell is that of roasted chicken and it opens my appetite, but the meat isn't good, so I have heard.
We reach the stairs, it's like a ruin in the middle of the forest. A half"ruined mossy arch stands alone in the forest and past it is a set of stairs the leads to the expected rectangular black barrier. We cross it.
We reach the 2nd floor.
This floor is another boreal forest but the mountains are many and not easily identifiable, I bring my bird to the sky and survey the area. We are at the foot of a snow covered mountain to our east, there's a v-shaped valley without a river to the west of us that turns around and goes south, a prairie surrounded by mountains to the north, and to our south is a steep and impassable mountain. Again the best option is following the valley and then going south.
The prairie is infested with Wysalites, it's not worth our time. The snow-covered mountain has strong monsters but no stairs. These lower floors don't have many strong monsters so we have to use a balance of progress speed and encounter rate to test our strength on the new level.
We start moving again and meet 2 even smaller Zinotues.
"Probably siblings, they work together until they are strong enough to be independent," says Hana.
"Don't taunt them, Hana, I will take one."
"Is that really necessary?" Alissa says.
She does not approve, they are still 1-meter tall monsters.
"Not really, but I wanna test coordination with a dog, you can fire an arrow at it and it will disrupt the charge."
Alissa pouts.
"Fine..." She mutters.
We move forward and they spot us. I start to feel bad for them, until I see them both stupidly charge towards us with their fangs bared. I summon a pitbull and steel myself for the charge.
The small Zinotue leaps at me and hits my shield and my arm explodes in pain. Shit they are heavy. I try to counter stab during the defense but it's quick enough to dodge my sword.
It's quick but not enough to dodge everything, a second after it hits my shield the summoned dog leaps at it's throat and latches on. The monster is strong but it can't get out of the bite, it thrashes about and gives me enough of an opening to split its head open, ew.
I look at Hana and she's playing whack-a-mole with the other monster. The smaller it is the faster it becomes, that's the advantage they have to compensate for their stupidity and inexperience. It retreats away from Hana's reach, she changes grip on the spear and throws it at the monster. It hit its flank and pins it to the ground. Hana dashes with her wings, then draws her sword and slashes it's head off in a single movement.
"Ohohoh, that looked so cool!" Exclaims Roxanne.
I nod.
"Say that again during the bath," Hana responds.
"No, thank you," and she smirks.
We move along the valley and encounter a group of 5 Wysalites, no fire breath this time. I bring out a fire elemental, it's weak physically but it has good ranged magic. The fire of the elemental burns in a very specific form that resembles the shape of tall, busty woman with mane like hair. Hana smirks at me when she sees this.
I pull my shield besides Hana and we wait for the charge. The bottom of the valley has very little trees so we spotted each other from afar.
1 monster already falls to Alissa, they get wary of the accurate arrows and focus on evading them. But that means they don't focus as much on the magic and a fire arrow pierces one, who falls to the ground and receives a normal arrow as a follow up. 3 left.
They enrage and increase speed.
"Whips!" I yell.
"Here, chicken-chicken, heeere chicken-chicken," taunts Hana while hitting her shield with her spear.
As they are getting close 2 [
Flame Whips
] grab 1 Wysalite each. They fall and trash around trying to undo the burning whip. I dash and stab the heart of one, the other one receives an arrow to the chest. 1 left.
I look at Hana and she's proudly waving about her chicken on a stick.
The light from the mana crystals is dwindling, it must be sunset on the surface. We move away from the valley and find a place to camp, we settle on a small clearing with a thicker amount of trees around us that provides good cover for us. I pull out the already-built tent and the bathtub with the partition, then I summon 2 dobermans and tell them plus the bird to patrol. I'm actually feeling safe with these dogs around me.
We got a new bathtub, it's just a wood tub with a step so we can sit. We all enter and Roxanne brushes Hana's mane, it's my request because otherwise she might let that glorious hair get ruined. Alissa mounts me and we slowly enjoy each other.
"Hey… Are you two fucking?" Hana asks.
"Well, yeah," I answer.
"Alissa, finish him soon, I want my turn."
She closes her eyes and pouts.
"Don't wanna," she says, bashfully.
And she didn't, until the end she rode me slowly until she clenched her insides and wrung it out of me.
We have dinner then we cuddle inside the tent, Roxanne pulled out her personal magic stone air warmer so it's kinda cozy inside but a little stuffy.
Alissa reads her book while Roxanne cuddles me and strikes my hair and Hana rides me twice. The skill is working, I'm barely tired.
Hana grabs me on one side, on the other I grab Alissa and we go to sleep. Unfortunately this bed only holds 3 people but we managed to fit a smaller bed for Roxanne to sleep besides us.
I summoned another bird and made it guard the entrance to our tent.