Today is the 28th.
I wake up to an awkward triple blowjob. There's too many heads and too little space, but Alissa and Hana teach Roxanne how to do it and I finish on her mouth, she doesn't like the taste.
We eat breakfast and break camp. The stairs are nearby, only an hour to reach them.
We reach the 3rd floor.
This floor is the last boreal forest for a while. We exit on the shore of a fjord, two mountains cover our surroundings. There's only one way and it's to go between the mountains. Behind us there is only a dark sea that ends on a black cave wall.
Most exits end here and since it's a cramped space it doesn't have many monsters so this ends up being a popular camping spot. For us who are searching for enemies while delving deeper, this fjord is just a waste of time. We change Hana's brigandine for her spare leather jacket and start jogging, with [
Swift Foot
] we can clear this fjord in an hour.
Alissa leads us away from crashing into 3 adventurer camps and we finally reach the valley. There's only small hills and a dense forest ahead, we have to follow the compass closely so we can find the stairs.
"This one is huge, it's another Zinotue," Warns Alissa.
I think for a moment.
"Means lots of experience," says Hana.
"We can go all out once in a while, maybe we could give the Moonlight Elixir to Hana?" Says Roxanne.
"Agreed, let's go with the Elixir, it's gonna be a trial run. First sign of trouble and we use the Escape Bomb, understood?" I say.
"Yes, yes," Hana surrenders.
"Alissa and I will hide behind the elemental, I will make it heavier. Alissa, can you hit it through the trees from this distance?"
"Yes, but I can't guarantee where it will hit."
"That's enough for a first strike."
Roxanne gives a glass flask with a shining silver fluid for Hana to drink.
I concentrate and start casting [
Summon Elemental
]. The summoning can be influenced by your [Mana Control] skill and your will so I imagine this one has a lead metal core, with this it's extra heavy and can hold on against such a huge monster. It's not gonna be super agile but it will have enough strength to not be crushed in a single strike.
A heavy *toon~* sound is produced when the earth elemental appears.
"Do it," I say.
An arrow flies, a roar is heard and the uncomfortable little shocks start.
Heavy footsteps are approaching. Hana readies her shield and her spear, her wings are spread wide in wait. She looks fearsome in this posture, her gaze has a mix of anger and amusement. I hide cowardly behind the golem, Alissa is to the side so she can fire an arrow, Roxanne is gathering mana.
"WROOOO~!" Screams the monster.
A 3-meters tall Zinotue leaps from the trees, it has 50 cm long spikes coming out of its stripes and they are already letting out sparks. It has an arrow on it's left flank.
"HAAAAAAAAA!" Hana screams back. Her scream makes my bones tremble.
What is this? A battle between monsters?
Mountains collide. Hana didn't bashed its snout so it so he couldn't eat her shield. She didn't even flinch and her feet got dug into the ground. What is this elixir? Her spear comes out of the chest of the monster completely bloodied, it didn't even care.
It steps back once and swipes at Hana. She bashes the huge paw and it flies backwards, her feet dig deeper into the ground. She thrusts again and the spear cuts the skin of the cheek as the monster tries to dodge the stab.
It goes in its hind legs and strikes Hana downwards with both paws. She blocks both and is forced on her knees but she gets another stab, this time below the mouth but it was not enough to reach the brain.
Meanwhile Alissa put 4 arrows on it's flank and it just ignores it, I slashed at the left paw but it barely cuts through. Then I jump and try to slash at its neck but it's too massive, my sword won't reach for a proper wound. It's all on you Roxanne.
The monster jumps backwards and start charging a lighting strike, my muscles start to cramp a little just from the increased power to the shocking aura. This one is going to hurt.
"[
Water Blade
]!"
A massive cut appears on the monsters body, it's right ear is cut, it's shoulder bleeds profusely, and the cut goes up to his back. The electricity it was charging disperses, it shocks and burns anything nearby, luckily we are far away.
It roars, it gets ready to charge again and this time it's aim is Roxanne.
I have an idea.
"Roxanne! [
Explosion
]! We will hold it!" I yell.
I tell the elemental to stand besides Hana while I stand on the other side. The monster charges. It's gaze is so powerful it sends chills to my spine. Hana readies herself again with all her might.
"WROOOOOAR!"
"HAAAAAAA!"
They compete in who can hurt my ears the most.
This time Hana jumps and her wings make the air behind her kick up a storm. She meets the monster and stabs him in the mouth just as an arrow also pierces him there, now it can't close it so it just uses its snout to tackle Hana's shield. They both stand still mid-air, then they fall down with perfect posture.
The monster prepares its legs to jump over Hana, she won't be able to stop it. The monster jumps and falls back to the ground.
The slow elemental threw itself into the body of the monster and grabbed it, its massive weight doesn't allow the monster to run. An arrow pierces its tongue, ensuring his mouth doesn't close down so soon.
I slash at its right side while Hana stabs it in the face. It tries to wiggle out of the grip but it's failing. I feel the mana level reaching dangerous levels.
"Back!" I yell.
"[
EXPLOSION
]!"
I go back a few steps and my vision goes red, my body gets hit by something wet and warm and I hear a loud explosion half a second later, I lose my hearing after that.
I cast [
Heal
] on myself and I get my hearing back, I rub my eyes and now I can see again. The Zinotue's body was divided in two, one part has the hind legs and the other has the forelegs and the head. Much of its midsection is gone, it's entrails are all over the place. I turn around immediately.
I cast [
Heal
] on the women so they can hear again and move behind a tree so I can clean myself. It's actually so much blood [
Clean
] doesn't cut it anymore. I call them and we get Roxanne to throw hot water on all of us so we can remove the blood. Walking around with bloodied clothes is not a good idea and we don't have time to remove it and wash it properly. Doing it like this it's much faster but rather unpleasant.
A few minutes of frantic scrubbing and many heavy [
Clean
] spells and Alissa tells us the scent of blood is gone from us. Alissa guides me towards the body while I keep my view down and I store both parts inside "Items". There's no comment from them towards my weak stomach but I'm still quite ashamed.
"Wolfy, it's okay," Alissa says and grabs my hand.
Oof, calling me that makes me happier.
"Thanks..." I say.
We leave the horrifying scene of blood and gut stained trees and move on.
Once we get far away enough so that Alissa can't smell the blood anymore we sit down and rest.
"That elixir is insane, Roxanne," I say.
"Praise me more," she responds.
"I felt invincible," says Hana.
"That's a bit much..." I mutter.
"More!" Roxanne asks.
"It looked glorious seeing Hana fly, even she looked small against that monster and she stopped it mid-air," Alissa says.
"Hohohoh, yes, glorious indeed!" And she hits her cheeks with her palms.
Of all of us, Hana seems the most happy in this expedition while I'm still feeling sick. I remember the fight with the Symbol and I think Alissa must have cleaned the place, it wasn't as horrifying as this.
Alissa hugs me from behind while I meditate. A few seconds later Hana hugs my left arm and Roxanne my right.
"Uh… sorry Wolfy, my spells make you ill," Roxanne mutters with a hint of sadness.
"Don't be sad for me, go back to being happy for your elixir. I have to deal with this, it's a problem that
I
have, not you."
She hugs me tighter and I get a kiss on the cheek. I really didn't wanna bring down the mood.
We meet a group of 4 Wysalites going towards the smell of blood.
"I'll make each of you give a blowjob to my sword!" Yells Hana.
They all enrage and charge blindly towards her, it seems this one was a critical success.
"[
Fire Wall
]!"
The 4 of them start burning and running around like headless chickens, target practice for Alissa. I didn't even do anything, I was going to call a fire elemental but they all bunched up like this so it's pretty much Christmas for us.
We keep moving and finally reach the stairs, it's another ruin.
We reach the 4th floor.
This floor is divided into a jungle on one side and a volcano on the other. The jungle has plenty of Giant Dragonflies so I don't want to go there and the volcano has an interesting enemy we have to fight.
The jungle is simply a large are covered by thick jungle and a few hills, rivers run between the hills so there's plenty of space for the Giant Dragonflies to live around. The volcano is a series of canyons and caves surrounding the very steep chimney, the map is quite serpentine and we will have to be careful not to get lost.
We are on the border of the jungle, a few steps and we touch the hard volcanic soil. A minute of walking and we reach a cliff with the first cave.
The cave is dry and hot, very unpleasant. You see bones and feces scattered about every 10 meters or so, this cave is the nest of monsters.
I put Roxanne's 5 free skill points in [Water Magic] and that allows her to cast [
Filling Waters
]. It recovers mana, stamina and gives a small regeneration, but the best is that it prevents us from getting our cavities too dry.
The Wysalites turned into Wyqualites, smaller versions of the Wyquasy. These are slightly bigger than Wysalites, they don't have feathers but they spit out fireballs and cook their prey alive. They are red colored because color-coding is a thing for monsters it seems.
We meet a few of them but since they aren't fast enough me and Hana simply block the fireballs, Alissa uses them for target practice, and Roxanne knocks them out with a simple [
Torrent
].
We find a relatively safe and not smelly cave and have our lunch. It's a proto-hamburger again, a piece of a cheesy not-eggplant casserole I taught Alissa and a large not-pear.
"I don't praise you enough for being so good at cooking," I say.
"You don't," Alissa mutters and then looks away.
Getting sassy, eh?
"I don't. You are an amazing cook Alissa."
She blushes, so easy.
"Agreed, I never ate such good food during my trips," says Hana.
"I feel like I should have proposed to her too," says Roxanne.
She gets silent and fidgety, she's holding her tail still deliberately.
"Alissa, you are perfect, the perfect wife," I whisper to her.
She starts shaking, her eyes lose focus, and her tail wags uncontrollably.
"Too far, you broke her," Roxanne smiles.
We continue our journey and Alissa smells something peculiar.
"There's only one other enemy here," I say.
We all let out a smile. We are close.
Alissa follows the smell and soon enough we find the monster. Alissa sneaks into its nest and confirms it, it's the Burkanolf, threat level 4, almost 5. This monster is a 2-meters tall black wolf with a very long snout and very thin, sharp fangs. It's tail is made of fire like a fire elemental and its claws are magically made of lava.
"Alissa, you are in charge of the Escape Bomb," I say, she nods.
I sit down and concentrate, this is a powerful enemy and I need a good elemental against it. It needs to protect against fire breath so I make it extra wide, the body itself will be a shield. On heat resistance I make it so it has a titanium coating so it protects against melting, followed by a cement layer so it insulates against heat, and the bones I make them out of onyx for hardness.
The weight of the body is carried by the skeleton, if the bones break it loses its power. If the entire body is considered "bones" then it moves faster but it also gradually loses power with every crack or piece of rock that gets scraped off. If I make only the internal parts considered bones then it can maintain performance while losing pieces of the outer layer at the cost of speed. The onyx is much more costly mana wise than the titanium or cement so I have to use it sparingly.
"Bring it," I say.
Alissa sneaks into the next cave, shoots an arrow, and comes running back. I hear a yelp, a growl, and the footsteps of something heavy coming. Roxanne is already charging mana.
The tunnel lights up in red light and out of it comes the Burkanolf with it's mouth already open, I see an arrow sticking out of where his genitals should be, wow Alissa.
We line up behind the elemental and a huge fire breath flows around us. It hits the chest of the elemental, and it didn't even flinch. A whole minute goes by and the breath dies out. The elemental is red hot but completely unharmed, I can feel that not a single point of HP dropped.
Immediately the monster jumps and bites the head of the elemental.
"[
Torrent
]!"
The monster is hit on the shoulder and flies backwards while spinning, it lands on its legs perfectly. The elemental only has small dents where it was bitten. Alissa lets out an arrow.
A fire wall appears in front of the monster, only its amber eyes are visible behind it. Alissa's arrow gets burned and disintegrates when it touches the fire wall. The monster stops and starts circling around us, its firewall moving along it.
"Hana, bait," I say.
She moves away and gets ready to receive a charge. Roxanne gathers mana.
"Hahahah, what a little candle, I can extinguish your tail with my spit!" She taunts.
The monster howls, critical success. The fire wall extinguishes and he charges. Hana meets his charge with a bash and stab, she pushes his huge mouth sideways and tabs his chest. An arrow appears on his flank and then he jumps back.
The fire wall appears again and his eyes gaze at Hana with malice.
"Oooh, doggy is scared? Come here, let me pat your cute ears," she taunts again.
The fire wall extinguishes and he charges again. This time he goes low and Hana has to use her wings to fly upwards and away from his bite. An arrow appears on his neck and he jumps backwards again.
"Bad doggy! No biting allowed!"
The flames of the fire wall grow uncontrollably, he's enraged now.
"Roxanne," I whisper.
He charges.
"[
Water Wall
]!"
He leaps and his whole body meets a huge, thick wall of water. He gets stuck in the middle of the whirlpool, his flame tail extinguishes, his lava claws crumble, and he writhes about trying to escape the wall. The water stops gushing from thin air and the monster jumps back to regain its composure.
Without its tail it can't create a fire wall, Alissa pumps arrow after arrow. The monster starts feeling the pain and gets desperate. I sense he's going to attack so I make the elemental shed its outer layers, now only a thin, strong, and fast black onyx skeleton is visible, I tell it to charge.
The monster tries to bite the bones but they are made of onyx and withstand it easily. This was a mistake for the monster, now the elemental grabs it and does not allow it to run. The arrows on its flank are making it harder for it to breathe and it chokes on blood.
"Now!" I yell.
Hana draws her sword and flies. Her long sword is raised high and without caring for her own safety she slashes off half the neck of the monster and crashes into it. Now again she's covered in blood.
The monster trashes but quickly loses power and gets choked by the elemental. It slows down, weakened allowing Alissa to finish it off with an arrow through the eye and into the brain.
"[
Clean
]!" I cast.
"Thanks," Hana says with a bitter smile.
"Oh, I leveled up," Roxanne says, "I got 1 point into [Potion Brewing] and 2 in [Water Magic]."
"You got the points
now
?" I ask while storing the body of the Burkanolf and quickly moving away from the small blood lake, "Now that I think about it, when does the skills level up, exactly? I know it's not instant most of the time."
"Yeah, most of the time it happens when you sleep, sometimes it happens after you level up or you reach a certain condition. Perhaps it's part of your knowledge that resting helps the brain develop?"
"Could be," I shrug.
We continue moving and soon we find the stairs.
We reach the 5th floor.
This floor has a huge cliff in the middle where a waterfall feeds into a river, along this river are a large amount of hot springs and a few lava lakes. Since we take a hot bath everyday thanks to Roxanne we don't waste any time on the springs.
Roxanne was a little disappointed, she heard that dungeon-created hot springs have special properties that help with beauty, as if they all already didn't have perfect skin. Wait, was the hot spring for me then?
We move along the river towards the closest stair. This also means we have to face a considerable number of Giant Dragonflies.
"This is a bit ridiculous," Said Roxanne while throwing a [
Fire Arrow
] through the body of a Dragonfly.
"What do you mean?" I ask while putting a dragonfly body inside the [
Item Box
].
"It took me a huge effort to find a fellowship big enough to handle a hunt for the dragonflies, then it took us hours to dismantle everything and the profits were so disgustingly low," she says and starts to charge another arrow.
"And now we are just casually strolling around through them," I say while collecting a Dragonfly body with 2 arrows pierced through it.
"[
Fire Arrow
]. Exactly! It wasn't even two months ago!"
"All thanks to our precious little Wolfy," Hana says, she didn't even draw her sword.
"Well… it's just that the elementals are too effective," I say, a little embarrassed.
"A little..." Alissa mutters and fires another arrow.
Another Giant Dragonfly appears and darts forward with his pointy legs aimed at us. 2 Semi-transparent green women with fox tails, fox ears, and a bob cut graciously floating around swing their arms, causing the Dragonfly to veer of course. It ends up stuck on the ground, then an arrow pierces its body and it dies before it can get itself free. I go towards it and collect the body.
"We still have to dismantle them," I say.
"But we can do it at our own pace, safe and sound. This is ridiculous, there's barely any danger in hunting anymore," Roxanne says and throws her hands in the air.
"Don't say such things, we shouldn't grow overconfident," Alissa says while a staring at the elementals, "Wolfy… aren't theirs bigger than mine…?"
"N-no… also, I'm not controlling their appearances, this is not my fault!" I hurriedly answer.
I can control the appearances of the elementals to a certain extent but they cost more mana if I do so.
We continue casually strolling until the Dragonflies stop appearing. Then we meet a group of 4 Wysalites. Hana uses [
Fire Breath
] and we start a small forest fire.
"What's this smell?" I say, feeling nostalgic.
"There's some aromatic fruit burning," Alissa responds.
"Yes… it's… it's… coffee," I say with pleasure.
None of the girls ever felt this heavenly smell.
"Smells kinda good though, if you ignore the smell of burnt flesh and plants," Roxanne says with a wry smile.
I look around us and find an unburnt bush with small red berries hanging. I grab one and open it up, the characteristic 2 little coffee beans are inside.
"Wow, it's really fucking coffee," I say as the fruit melts and disappears on my hand.
I eat one and it tastes sweet but very acidic, doesn't taste like coffee…
"Alissa, remember this smell. If you ever find it again in town follow it until you find the source.
"As you wish, ma-Wolfy," Alissa responds, almost relapsing at my strong command.
We reach the 6th floor.
It's the last jungle before the roman-style overgrown ruins of the 7th to 9th floors. There we will find minotaurs and there we will… milk them…
This floor is divided into a canyon that opens up and various mesa's appear, the mesa's are popular camping spots. They are safe since there's only one entrance and no flying monsters here but they can become crowded. With 3 women in this group I prefer risking a night attack so we can have full privacy.
The sun is setting so we find a low-traffic area near a mesa and set up camp. Before noon tomorrow we will have reached the 7th floor. Our progress is amazing.
After dismantling disgusting giant insect dragonflies Hana makes me do my strength routine, not as hard since we are still inside a dungeon but still hard enough that I feel like sleeping during the bath. But Hana doesn't let me, we exercised together and she got excited, she does the same as Alissa yesterday and slowly rides me during the whole bath. I kiss Roxanne and Alissa plays with my hair, this is my daily piece of heaven.
Today Alissa decided to cook a few of the Wysalites we didn't burn. They taste like chicken but they have a note of something fresh, almost minty, deep on it.
Near the bed Hana maintains our equipment, Alissa reads her book, and Roxanne slowly caresses my body, her slightly wet hair caresses my chest and the lack of ponytail gives her a new sensuality. Quiet moans fill the tent as I slowly tease my way inside her, Roxanne bites her finger and moves her hips up and down. She closes her eyes and enjoys all of it while her horns shake about uncontrollably.
"Uh, Roxanne… your horns are a bit… soft?" I ask.
"Hm? Ah… I can… ah… soften them…ah… and move them around..." She says between soft moans.
I grab her horns and spin them around so they are facing backwards, they sway like they are made of rubber. I fail to suppress a chuckle. Roxanne punches me in the chest and kisses me to stop me from laughing.
I finish inside Alissa's mouth to not make a mess and help her a bit since she was slowly masturbating while reading.
Tonight Roxanne wraps her tail on my leg, I feel scared to touch it but she says it makes her feel safe.
I wake up in the night, the dogs found Wyqualites roaming nearby. They are not strong enough to bypass my monster repellent stone but they can attract other monsters that could. This floor has the Burkanolf and a few rare Zinotues that can hunt at night, they could bypass the stone if old and strong enough so they could stumble upon us if they chase the Wyqualites.
I wake them up and we spend an hour on guard until neither Alissa nor the dogs can smell the Wyqualites. We sleep until a little later to compensate.
Today is the 29th.
My wake up alarm is having my soul sucked through my dick, today Hana seems extra proud of my surprised reaction.
Alissa cooks the remaining Wysalites again. She feels she could make a proper dish of it but they are annoying to hunt them on their own so it's gonna be a rarity.
We break camp and move on, we avoid the adventurers coming out of the mesas and create another small coffee-scented forest fire with a few Wysalites. At 10AM we reach the stairs.
We reach the 7th floor.
We are on an overgrown city ruins. There's partially destroyed concrete buildings, arches, and domes, with an overuse of columns. There's also ivies, vines, and moss covering any still-standing wall. Tall grass everywhere that's not a paved road, pieces of rubble spread all over. This town is called Tigurum.
At the distance we can see a very steep blue mountain surrounding us while a small sea is at the north of the town. On the outskirts there's an oak forest where the stairs of this floor lie.
We could hunt for minotaurs at the town, but since most exits end up here many other adventurers also hunt on this place so I prefer to have some privacy. We move west where the oak forest is the thickest.
We bump into a few fellowships on the way, these roads are tight and there's not many routes we can take to avoid them. All of these adventurers groups look like dirty brigands, they likely stay a long time here to collect valuable parts like proofs of exterminations and harvest organs. This dungeon is one of the easiest ones to overflow, if not for the constant number of hunters here there would certainly be a few Zinotues roaming The Smirk.
When we pass by the hunters I can feel gazes of envy on my back. That's right, they are all mine.
We leave town and enter the oak forest. It's quite beautiful. Large, mossy oaks and plenty of shrubs and flowers compose this forest. I feel like having a picnic here and enjoying the breeze and smells.
"Oh look, it's the morning dew. The monsters are weakened on this floor," I say.
This is why this dungeon got this name, the morning dew is the sign the monsters are weaker and slower, so people would pick a random floor and hope there's dew.
We walk a little happy, but Alissa starts frowning the more we walk.
"Ah! We are surrounded, nine people are coming," she exclaims.
My heart sinks, you can easily discern monsters and humanoids with [
Sense Presence
]. Adventurers don't come surrounding people, that's an extremely threatening move, there's only group of people that do this, brigands.
How do I deal with them? The advice book told me that thieves sometimes prey on smaller fellowships exploring dungeons, but a well maintained dungeon is rare to have thieves. The Orc Headhunter problem was a single mistake, they happen in every region. This doesn't mean that this is a badly managed region, we are just unlucky, again.
The problem with thieves is that you never know what they have. Poison, archers, mages, berserkers, magic tools, whatever you think someone somewhere is gonna use it, they might have it. Thieves are the masters of ingenuity, a horrible surprise box. If they have a mage how do I deal with him? We are outnumbered and they are not orcs, it's gonna be difficult for Hana to hold off more than one. I have to protect Alissa, she doesn't have a shield but she can keep the enemy at bay. What if they have Spirit or [Dark Magic]? Those are incredibly nasty schools of magic, I never encountered a monster that uses it, actually I never even fought against a single mage, not even for practice. How do I deal with mages? Interrupt chanting? But some chant super fast. My shield is my best friend now, but I'm still not very strong, I could get thrown away by [
Torrent
] easily. If they have poison I will have to use [
Diagnosis
] to know which, or maybe I should just drink a few of Roxanne's potions and hope of the best, I don't have time to put points in [
Diagnosis
]. What if they have archers? Wind elementals work but [
Wind Wall
] would be much more mana efficient, what points do I take out for it? Support magic can't go, all my buffs are working and they are very useful. What if I just put a point into some magic? I don't have [
Fireball
], [
Lightning Bolt
] is useful and I can get them by surprise with [
Entangling Vines
], even [Dark Magic]'s [
Torment
] could work. But we are surrounded and outnumbered, I need something to hold them off, how do I judge when to help Hana or Alissa? Roxanne can't get into melee at any cost so she's easy to judge but if I make a mistake and a blade pierces a chest it's over, a decapitation and it's over, anything on the brain and it's over. How about our formation? Should we fight back to back or should we charge the enemy? Our flanks get exposed if we charge but if we stay we can be more easily crushed and we have no place to fall back. I don't have eyes on my back I can't deal with the-...
"Wolfy," Alissa grabs my face and she looks into my eyes.
I'm hyperventilating, my heart race is racing, and my mind is dizzy.
"We will deal with them, Wolfy," Hana says.
"Everyone, drink the Moonlight Elixir," Roxanne reminds us.
"Wolfy, bring two wind elementals and give control to us," Hana says.
I obey.
"Block projectiles first and if there's an opening strike the enemy with the [
Air Hammer
] to disrupt them," Hana orders the elementals.
"Wolfy, you have to stand in front of me, understand? You don't have to kill but you have to defend me, okay?" Alissa tells me while looking into my eyes.
"Okay..." I mutter.
"Take a point out of [Sword Use] and put it into [Electric Magic], Wolfy, you need [
Lighting Bolt
] for a surprise stun, okay?" Roxanne says.
"Okay," I obey.
I'm slowing down, things are okay, things will be okay. Hana dealt with thieves all the time, she used to do lots of escorts. Roxanne dealt with bad people once in a while, she will be fine. Alissa is here to protect me and I will protect her. Everything will be fine, everything will be fine, everything will be fine, everything will be fine.
We drink our potions and draw our weapons. I'm facing east, Hana is west, Alissa north and Roxanne south. Alissa is close to me and Roxanne is closer to Hana. The elementals are in front of Alissa and Roxanne, I have to block arrows coming to me or they might hit Hana.
I hear footsteps and soon after a man comes walking out of a bush ahead. He's a golden"blond man with a square jaw, disheveled hair, and a stubble. He would be handsome if he did not have dirt all over his body. He loosely hangs a shield and walks forward with his head down. He notices us and looks up, he freezes for a moment, he looks confused.
"Ah! Uh… c-can you help me? My fellowship met a really strong minotaur and we lost. I-I wanna go find them but I'm alone and this floor is dangerous," he says, almost crying.
"What about the other eight guys around us? Aren't they part of your fellowship?" Hana says with a mocking tone.
The man frowns.
"Well shit, I tried. Dunno how but they noticed us."
"Oi! No one mentioned a summoner, these two elementals are trouble," Says another man coming from another bush in another direction.
"It's the mage girl. She shouldn't have much mana left with two elementals out, she's scared," Says another man coming from another direction.
"Whatever, just don't waste arrows on them then," says another man.
"If you lay down your weapons and the whores spread their legs we won't kill any of you. We gotta cut the hands of the mage lass, though," Says another man.
The last man comes forth besides the blond man. He is big and wears chain armor that barely makes a sound when he moves, he has a bastard sword and a round metal shield. His face is covered by a hood, I can see an ugly burn mark on the little skin he shows.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. They are not here for money, a scout on the city must have seen us and caught their attention. 3 goddesses walking around with me? NAIVE, I was so fucking naive to think I wouldn't attract attention!
"You dare try to rape adventurers? Is that really worth your life?" Hana says.
Rape? That's right, that's what they are going to do. This is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
"You might be strong but you can't deal with all of us. A single fucking dragon a fucking archer and a fucking mage, we killed worse," the hooded man answers.
"You underestimate us, we are Helios and this is Wolf Ryder. You wanna blow up like the Symbol of Hate did?" Hana says and laughs.
"No fucking way that little twat is Ryder."
"You want him to pull out his ID?"
"Like fuck the 'oh so glorious' town hero is going to let his women do the talking. Look at that fucking scared piece of shit."
I can't speak, I just can't, my body doesn't move, I'm shaking. I can't control the shaking, my heart is in my mouth. I'm sorry, I'm frozen, I'm weak, I'm a coward. I won't let you near my women.
"You pieces of orc cum, I will rape your asses with my spear and make you give a blowjob to my sword then I will peel the skin out of your dick and roast it to give it as a treat to the dogs! Come at me if you are men!" Hana taunts, "NOW!"
I hear a sound of someone breathing in. I feel mana being gathered and the blonde man falls dead with an arrow on his head. The hooded man raises his shield just in time to defend himself from an arrow.
I won't let you touch my women.
"FUCK! GET THE MAGE!" The hooded man screams and charges towards me.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Defend! I hear the sound of fire running loose.
I block his slash, my shield arm explodes in pain. That was a bad block.
"Fuckin whores…"
He slashes again and again and again and again.
I parry, I block, I deflect, and I block again. I hear screams.
I won't let you hurt my women!
"Just, fucking, die!"
I parry, I bash, I deflect and I slash.
I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!
I charge my mana.
"You gotta be fucking…"
"[
LIGHTNING BOLT
]!"
"AAAH!"
The hooded man twitches, I slash at his shin, I cut some bone. The men continues screaming and bashes my shield, I fall backwards.
"DIIIIEE!"
I block with my shield and my arm hurts again. I lose power in my arm. I throw my shield at him and kick the ground up.
"RAAAAH!" I scream.
I charge my spell and slash and slash and slash and slash and slash and slash.
"[
LIGHTNING BOLT
]!" I scream again and use all the mana that I can on the spell.
The man convulses and I cut one of his legs off. He falls on the ground and I jump and stab him with my sword, it goes through his chain mail and gets stuck on him. I grab my knife and stab and stab and stab and stab.
"You are now level 17."
"YOU WON'T TOUCH HER."
And stab and stab and stab and stab.
"I'LL KILL YOU."
And stab and stab and-...
Something held my hand. I lose the dagger.
"Ah…"
I get hugged from behind and carried. I want to struggle but it's too strong, the hug is crushing me. I need to get away, he's still alive, he's still alive! I GOTTA FUCKING KILL HIM!
I struggle until my strength goes away, then I accept death. Just cut me down and end this, please.
I get lowered on the ground and forced to keep down. A sweet scent fills my nose as another shadow gets up on my body and holds me.
I can feel the shaking of my body, I can feel the pain in my shield arm, I can feel the dryness of my throat, I can feel the pain in my heart, I can feel the lack of air in my lungs. My breathing regulates and my heart slows down. I'm feeling dizzy right now, too dizzy.
I force myself to the side and puke. I feel something pleasant on my mouth and the bitterness of the vomit goes away. My body is so tired and heavy, I close my eyes.
Slowly my hearing comes back and I understand the words again. "Wolfy, calm down, I love you. Calm down please", I hear those words being repeated into my ear.
"Yes…"
I smell Alissa's hair perfume and see her nearly orange hair on the side of my vision, I feel the warmth of her body pressed into mine. I let the tears run through my face.
"Wolfy, we have to leave, now," I hear Roxanne, there's hurry in her voice.
"I'll carry him," Hana says.
I'm lifted up and carried like a princess for a few minutes. I stop crying and my heart calms down. Then I feel like puking again.
"Put me down… I'm feeling sick."
I hastily struggle and nearly fall down, immediately I bend and retch but barely anything comes out this time.
"[
Clean
]," Alissa casts and my mouth gets cleaned again.
I walk a few steps and sit down besides a tree. Alissa comes and hugs me again. Hana sits besides me and strokes my hair. Roxanne gets on the other side and grabs my hand.
A few minutes passes.
"I'm sorry..." I mutter.
"Don't be," Alissa responds.
Hana sighs.
"Didn't you say there were no monsters in your realm? No fighting, no killing, no wars? Even a scholar on this world would react worse than you, I saw men get cut down without even lifting a finger," Hana says.
"Once I had to... kill a man who tried to push me down once, I exploded his head and don't remember what I did after that. My next memory was taking a bath back at home," Roxanne says, she looks away and Hana pulls her into a hug.
"I had to train by executing criminals, I puked the first few times. Now I don't feel anything anymore," Alissa says.
"Thank you..." I let out a weak voice, I'm holding back my tears.
I feel dirty, disgusted, sick. I feel angry, I feel like killing again, I want to make him suffer. Those feelings bring a storm inside me, I killed a human, what if that was me? What if I was killed and my wives had to suffer? What if it were them that were killed?
Why did you make me do this? Why did you have to be such a shitty human being that you just fucking had to try and take these women by force? How can such evil people exist? Why did you make me dot this!? Even though you didn't succeed you still hurt me so much. Why?!
It's because they are evil, that's why. Evil people need to die, that's all that there's to it. That's all, they need to die.
I look at the girls, I smell blood.
"Are you all okay...? Do you need healing?" I ask in a weak voice.
"You don't have to do anything, just rest."
"I will… after. I smell blood."
They break down the hug. Hana shows me her hand, it's reddish and swollen, it's broken. Her shield arm is hurting a lot and she has a bruise on her left flank. I remember the elementals are still out so I dismiss them and heal her.
Alissa shows a slash on her left shoulder, it penetrated the Grey Berserker armor. Roxanne was unscathed.
"I'm sorry… someone got near you Alissa."
"Don't be!" She answers immediately.
"I barely helped, if it happens again y-..."
"We will deal with it again!"
"I was useless i-..."
"You weren't! Stop it! You aren't trained like us, you didn't go through the same things we did! It's unfair to think you would react well on the first time, we still love you and we will protect you."
"I don't want to be protected like this."
"Isn't this part of my vow?" Hana says.
"So is mine," Roxanne helps.
"Your body and soul is mine, I won't let you die," Alissa ends.
I'm cornered, there's no way out. I'm blessed to be loved by these women. Next time I will protect them better, they keep me safe and I will keep them safer!
Intermission 4
We are a team now, we can't be selfish and childish, we have to put our pride aside and work together, to treat each other with respect and fairness. We all have a desire to monopolize him but we can't act upon it, Wolfy loves us all and to exclude one of us would only serve to hurt him, in the end it would just come back and hurt us all.
More than that we know that we are not enough. We give our all, we do not put each other down, we know we are not useless, but still, we know, we agree. that we are not enough.
Even our experience and effort combined is not enough to match someone with a life in a different realm. We need to understand the points in which we fall short so we can understand where he needs help and then accept whatever help we can get.
We vowed to him to live together forever and help each other, and we will do just that, we will all rise together. We know he has the potential to go far and even though he doesn't want the tile of hero we vowed to each other we will do our best to help him achieve great heights.