I casually practice my [Blessing Magic], I'm not too into it today as the high form [Ekrano Style] is still running through my body.
I get a few weird looks due to my hickey but most seem to be positive as they recognize the meaning of it. Hatara blushes and sends repeated glances at my neck during the break, she seems very eager to try it herself.
During the evening me and Lina attack Ciel again but she immediately pushes us away, now aware of our plans of using her.
"Don't you want to play with my breasts instead?" Hana asks.
Lina stops and looks at Ciel, who sends a quick glare at her.
"M-maybe not today," Lina says and twiddles her thumbs.
I pull Lina to my sofa and play footsies with her while she retells today's library delve.
Ciel's [Spirit Light] is starting to ignite and gain a heatless flame. She lets the spell fade in a puff of rainbow smoke and massages her head. "This is hurting my head," she says.
I summon a [
Holy Spirit
] and a corgi and make them tackle Ciel's belly. She yelps in surprise and then again in happiness.
Hana's [
Double Image
] improved, she managed to split her arm in two and it's much less blurry looking.
"How's it going with Gimbo?" I ask Lina.
"We are going over [
Double Strike
], soon I can enchant Hana's sword with it. It's quite the complex spell so it's taking a while."
"How's Gimbo and his wife? You never talk much about them," Alissa says.
"Oh," Lina blinks repeatedly and blushes slightly. "They don't talk much about things but they are really kind and gentle. Madam Nala always bakes some sweets and gives us some tea during our break. She makes a sweet cream that she puts on top of the cupcakes that remind me of that Chantilly we ate at the Tree of Mana," she says and smiles adorably.
"So you have been gorging yourself on sweets and you never told us anything about it," Roxanne says with a pout.
Lina's eyes open wide and her skin pales even more. Her cute feet stop playing with mine.
"Chantilly?" Ciel lifts her head and asks. Lina's mouth hangs open when she sees Ciel's face turn into a frown.
Lina opens and closes her mouth, a silent "sorry" is mouthed. Her slave training kicked in.
"They are playing around," Alissa says and pats Lina's head.
Lina lowers her head and her ears turn red. Ciel smirks and continues her training. From behind her bangs Lina glares at Ciel for a second.
Today is the 20th.
Roxanne wakes me up and the two others are staring at me.
"What?" I ask.
Roxanne swallows and says, "It only works when he's awake it seems."
Hana's [Illusion Magic] increased by 1 (now 2).
"I managed to double-cast once yesterday. It was quite odd, I did it but I barely know how," I tell Kyros, ignoring his raised eyebrow at my hickey.
"That's the sub-process forming, once it's complete it works with a mere thought," he says.
"Isn't it dangerous? Casting a spell instantly with a mere thought?"
"Instantly?"
Oops.
"I'm a magic swordsman, I learned how to cast [
Lightning Bolt
] chantless," I hurry an excuse.
"Ah yes, well for someone like you it can certainly be dangerous. Make sure the process only uses [
Lightning Bolt
] when you truly want to kill, sub-processes for instant spells aren't to be taken lightly."
Good to know.
After lunch I sent Alissa to talk to Nour, I want to meet up with him one last time before I leave town.
In mana cost classes we hold a class wide debate. My "replace reality with my own" side, Toroo's "building phase improvement" side, and Gimbo's "pattern's improvement" side are the three more well-developed ones. Other students have somewhat similar but more abstract and less developed takes on the skill.
One student saw it as a log that was wet and not burning fully, he's the son of a wood transport tycoon. Another student saw it as too many ingredients on a soup clashing and ruining the taste, her mother has very high [Cooking]. Another saw it as cleaning and polishing the windows so more light could enter the room, her father is the main healer priest of the temple. Another saw as conflicting voices in his head, his mother is a famous [Sing]er at the theater.
Spells may not really be like "circuits", but rather, they are painted as such in my mind due to how important circuits were in my life. Same goes for the soul's structures, the girls perception of the soul were tainted by my own since I explained to them what to look for before they created the "soul map" for me. Now I wonder how useful it might be to other people, maybe since they need to learn the skill the same way as I did they will see the soul similarly to me.
Toroo was obviously very amused at my hickey but didn't mention it. The others did their best to ignore it but Hatara had a mischievous smile the whole time and Garanae was seating cold.
I do my strength training alongside Lina. She unbuttons her shirt due to the heat and I spend my time admiring her cute collarbones. I reach over and free another button, showing more of her nonexistent cleavage.
I stand behind her and keep lifting my weights, looming over her. I quickly reach over from behind and free another button, showing a hint of her nipple. Her sweat drips over her neck and I feel like licking her.
I drop my weights and hug her from behind. Our bodies are hot and sweaty, she has a faint sweet scent coming out of her.
I scrape my teeth through her neck and bite her, then I turn her head and kiss her.
I free the rest of her buttons and remove her shirt, then I lower her pants and break my hug. I grab my weights and continue my workout. She stares at me and blinks blankly.
I let my erection stab her and she takes the hint. She grabs the weights and we continue our workout, her almost fully naked, me poking her cute ass.
By night I spend my time teaching Hana about light and photons, even the others join in to listen.
Then I teach them about the double-slit experiment to explain how waves and particles behave and how photons are both.
I push my hand on the water and we watch the wave pass through the two slits. The wave divides into two and both start interfering with each other.
Then by spitting water in a cloud I remake the particle patter on a piece of paper.
"So it's like, until the particle touches something it just goes around randomly like a wave?" Hana asks, tilting her head.
"Yeah it's kind of like it. Some theories say that a particle has a probability of being in a certain place until it is measured, then it is certain it is in that place and then it becomes a wave of probabilities again," I say, butchering the whole theory, but who cares, this is fun.
"Maybe we could derive an abstract magical concept out of it," Alissa says.
"Being a researcher sounds fun," Lina says.
"You only saw the good parts, it's mostly boring stuff," I say and smile wryly.
"Hm," she turns back forward and lowers her body on my back, drilling her ass again on my crotch.
With the lesson done her hand slowly snakes down my pants and pulls out my thick member, her thin fingers squeeze me and stroke me.
She lifts her dress and pushes her panties aside, taking me in inside her tight womb. I hug her and lean forward, forcing her to go prone. Slowly I move in and out from between her thin legs.
I envelop her completely with my body and breathe down on her neck. I whisper on her ears, "I love you."
Slow and steady I let our pleasure build until I feel her legs quiver below me.
As I finish Lina I see Ciel has lost her concentration and Alissa's head is buried beneath her dress.
"Not fair, ah," she mutters and moans, "I will never finish this spell since you all keep distracting me," she says and bites her lips.
I remove my dick from Lina who's still having light convulsions from her orgasm and move towards Ciel.
I remove Alissa from below and lift up Ciel's dress. I grab her by the waist and bring her towards the edge of the sofa. Then I pull out the browned marshmallows and kiss her.
"You will, soon enough, it's just that you are too delicious," I say and bite her pouting lip. "Just let me savor you a while longer."
I push my tongue inside her greedy mouth and penetrate her. Her lips grab on my shaft and try to not let go, making the wet sounds of our sex even louder and dirtier.
Later on Lina dutifully cleans my shaft from hers and Ciel's cream. I end the evening's relaxation with a titjob from Ciel, glazing her face white and calling the attention of Hana, who decides to slowly tease Ciel's lips while cleaning her.
Today is the 21st.
A normal awakening from Alissa.
I'm stuck on bed longer than normal as Aoi sleeps, curled on my chest, and I do not have the heart to take her off me.
"Everyone in here is just so cuddly," Ciel says as she leaves.
The smell of orc bacon being fried seeps into the room and Aoi's head suddenly raises, her eyes wide awake.
"Ba-cooon!" She yells as she runs downstairs, her little claws tickling my body as she moves.
My "Strength" and "Endurance" finally increased by 1 (now 12 and 13). My [Reduced Mana Cost] increased by 1 (now 8+6).
Hana's [Illusion Magic] increased by 2 (now 4). Alissa's and Hana's "Wisdom" increased by 1 (now 14 and 12).
We don't eat much as we are going to visit Nour this morning.
The sky is cloudy and a storm is coming, we put on our cloaks and enter the dinghy. Alissa distributed the bunny ear cloaks so everyone looks adorable in the gloomy weather.
Nour's house is near the north gate, not on the noble's quarter but clearly on the wealthy part of town.
We leave the main road and pass a number of large houses with their own guards in front, most have high walls and heavy gates. I see a twinkle of crystals every once in a while atop the walls, a security system of some kind.
We reach a standardized blue-grey house, a rental, but bigger and more well made than ours. A simple guard stands in front of the tall wooden gate.
"I am Wolf Ryder, Nour is expecting me," I say.
The guard nods respectfully and fiddles with a ring in his hand. In less than a minute a tall devil-type woman comes out of the house. She looks slightly androgynous with sweptback black hair and a male butler's uniform, but her face is still very feminine.
"Mr. Ryder, I am Bellatrix, I hope you remember me," she says and bows.
"I do, good to see you again," I say and nod.
Bellatrix straightens and gives a smile to Lina who answers with a shy head nod.
We are led inside a house with the same layout than ours, but bigger and with much more decorative furniture. The floor is tiled in colorful geometric patterns, imperial style. The walls have a few paintings and even a gnomic magic picture like ours. It seems Iana, the adventurer they hired, is integrating quite well.
"Whoever bought these tea sets has a good taste," I say while I look at the black and gold sets of porcelain. Alissa nods in agreement.
"Midori will be delighted to hear that, it's her family's heirloom," Bellatrix says.
We enter the living room and Nour rises from the sofa to receive us. Their fireplace is already lit and steamy, thick tea with milk is being served.
"Wolf," Nour says with a nod and we shake hands.
Safiya, the petite brown-haired woman serves us tea. Midori, the green-haired dragonkin, gives a bone-crushing forearm-shake to Hana and they quickly start to fawn over Aoi. Iana, the dark-skinned wereanimal woman with curly hair joins Lina, Alissa, and Bellatrix in talking about enchantments and bows.
I pull out the golems and Safiya looks at them wide-eyed, she nearly drops her cup when she sees them speak. Ciel and Roxanne join her in talking about their progress and how much smarter they are becoming.
Rain starts pouring outside, the pitter patter, the murmuring of the conversations, and the crackling of the warm fireplace make for a very comfy morning.
"So you are leaving," Nour says, with a slightly sad smile. He strokes his modest teen-ish brown stubble on his neck and looks away. "I wish we could have met more often," he looks back at me and his smile widens.
"So have I, but too often we get caught up in things and end up forgetting to give friends a visit," I say and smile bitterly. I still haven't learned my lesson, some people you really shouldn't let go, they are far too valuable to your life and you will never find someone like them again. "I will come back, one day."
"Make sure you do, at least before I go back home to take over father's business."
"How long until that?"
"Maybe 5 years."
"That's too far, I will definitely come back before then."
"Then let's enjoy our time, we won't get another opportunity," he leans over and slaps my back. Then he comes closer and looks over the women, they are all focused on their own conversations. "There's something I must ask you, Wolf," his voice turns serious.
"Ask away."
"Say, I have been having some, uh, problems, to..." He swallows loudly, "contain, all these women. So I have been wishing for some, uh, help. And I got it, but it's quite the o-odd skill. Have you ever heard about [Enhanced Semen Recharge]?" He asks through gritted teeth, his eyes wide open in pleading.
I put my hand on his shoulder, my tone is equally serious, "Nour, think of it as a blessing from the Goddess of Love. Be proud of having this skill, any man that meets you should envy this skill for we are not just simple men, we are men among men. We are the apex of masculinity, we are the Symbol of Man, the Lords of Sex, the Harem Masters. Do not worry, take the plunge and level this skill without regard, you will not regret it," I say and grin.
Nour looks around nervously and nods, he leans back and smiles. His smile turns wide and then maniacal, he stifles a chuckle that turns into a laugh that turns into a wheeze. The girls look at him worriedly but we ignore them. Today, a brotherhood has been founded.
Nour reclines back on his seat and relaxes.
"So, there's no side-effects..." he mutters with a silly smile on his face.
"Just that passing through customs can be a little embarrassing if you don't take pride in the skill," I say in a low voice, we are basically whispering to each other.
My free town pass is more useful than for just skipping lines.
He holds his chin in thought and speaks, "I wonder what happens when you level it too far. Plenty of skills have a low level-cap so it's possible this one has one too."
"Why didn't you know much about it? I thought the priests taught us a lot about those sort of things."
"It's embarrassing to show others you have sexual skills," he cringes and chuckles. The teasing I suffered makes his words ring true, "so most people suppress them, which leads to the priests not talking often about these skills unless someone asks for specifically."
"But the skills are just sexual improvements, are they not? Why would you be afraid of them?"
"There's some more... weird skills that could have side-effects."
Oh yeah, there's that [Sexual Metamorphosis] skill or [Sexual Charm]. Now I remember that in the Miscellaneous list there's quite a few with concerning names, like [Tendrils], [Viscous Fluids], [Sweet Discharge], [Body Distension], and even Hana's [Pain Conversion]. Maybe I should study them for my kitsune transformation project.
"Yeah, I get it but you really shouldn't be afraid of them, most of them seem to be something you turn on if you want to," I say, "I don't think I ever heard of a permanent body change that's constantly on."
"Makes sense..."
We casually talk about our progress after that. Nour is steadily progressing through dungeons, he met a wandering group of dragonoids and has been avoiding the Smirk ever since then.
"They don't even need to be undead to be tenacious, an alteration-type is enough to keep them fighting for a long time," he says.
"Well their coordination was crap and they had no equipment so it was mostly a damn long attrition contest," Iana says, now joining our conversation.
"It kind of hurt a lot, though, we are lacking in the healing department," Midori says, "maybe we should hire a priest, or priestess," her lips curl into a small smile.
"M-maybe we could train Safiya in [
Heal
], she has some skill potential left so it shouldn't he hard," Nour hurriedly adds.
"Hmm..." Midori crosses her arms and thinks, her hand covers her mouth which I bet is hiding a smirk.
"A strong, male, and vigorous priest is a good choice, you can always have more
men
to help," Hana says with a smirk, "or a kind and shy angel for healing not only the internal wounds, another cute little
thing
wouldn't hurt," she says and looks at Ciel, who shifts uncomfortably.
"I'm leaning more on the male priest, another
big
hand to help would be more beneficial," Midori says and narrows her eyes.
"I would prefer another Blood Slave, a young, petite, virgin would be easy to
train
as long as she had some talent in magic," Nour says in a serious tone and narrows his eyes at Midori.
The emerald dragonkin woman licks her lips and crosses her shapely legs. I see the muscles in her exposed arms grow slightly and her posture turn domineering.
Nour maintains his stare at Midori and grits his teeth. His brow sweats cold and his fists clench.
Midori exhales and her posture relaxes, it was like she flexed her entire body and soul. Nour smiles smugly and the silence that befell the room is broken by Aoi, who's rolling on a pile of gold coins and chewing on one, making clacking sounds as her scales and teeth hit the coins.
"Yes, another little play thing would be nice," Midori mutters.
I move to sit next to Aoi and pet her sleek belly full of small scales.
"Kweh," she makes a pleased sound and spreads her limbs wide for me, her puppy eyes draw me in and I use two hands to pet her. Monsters might not have a system but I think Aoi's "Charisma" is still affecting me.
"So how did you tame a nature spirit?" Safiya asks while petting Gify on her lap.
"He just liked me and attached himself to me, so I guess it was luck," I say.
"Gih!"
"Don't push it. Your 'blessing' has only been a drain in our food reserves."
Gify pops out of existence then pops on my head and dances, ruffling my hair.
"Gah! Gify!" Alissa chastises and pounces, grabbing Gify in a quick swipe.
"Geheheh."
Safiya smiles adorably.
"There's a spirit that looks like a cat with an oversized head that appears once in a while, I have been trying to catch his attention and even learned how to chant [
Animal Tongue
]," Safiya says and receives Gify from Alissa.
Alissa comes back and straightens my hair.
"Gilh gif guh gor."
Safiya grins and says, "Thank you, I would love to have a spirit connect our minds at least once in our lives."
Nour looks and nods in understanding.
We leave some time after that so we can make our lunch. Rain is still going on so we put our cloaks and make our way home, I cast [
Wind Armor
] on everyone since it reduces the amount of water that falls on us slightly.
Space class is just reviewing stuff since next lesson is the final test. I decide to not show my style yet and pretend I'm focusing on using [
Gravity Crush
] to keep my opponent in place.
In the evening I focus on finishing my chant for [
Infuse
]. The rain continued up until now so we light the fireplace again.
As I watch Lina cast [
Infuse
] repeatedly my mind slowly clouds as I enter a trance. Deeper than a meditation, similar to Roxanne's intoxication but actually unpleasant. My heart turns cold, my mind devoid of emotions, my purpose unified, my desire a certainty.
I sense, I process, I react. Input, operation, and output. The small, tiny, individual pieces that make us, us, are divided and observed. It's not a neural network but an abstraction of action and reaction. In the end it is the same, but different.
The inputs and outputs relate to our perception, not just what we see and feel, but what we
perceive
. Our internal construct of reality is broken down and analyzed. We observe, compare to our internal beliefs, and react, then repeat endlessly.
Differences in comparison to reality and perception cause disorder, to survive we must keep the disorder at bay, controlled. We either change the world to obey to our beliefs or we change our beliefs to conform with the world.
Disorder is chaos, pain, suffering, surprise, but also opportunity. For we need the chaos to move us forward, to dislodge us from the expected and force us into action to contain the unexpected.
A soul is not a bunch of lines of code or neural network, but a belief network. A spirit is the whole, it is a group of senses, beliefs, and actuators.
With a constant cadence and a flat tone I chant, "I invoke the genesis of life; from it I construct an automata, an agent of change; I base it as a mere imitation of life and then alter it to my whim; I modify it to serve me better, I adapt it to serve me better; I hold this new soul in my hand and give thee fake life, [
Infuse
]!" I finish the spell and my hand glows.
My breathe quickens as if I was holding my breath, my heart beats fast as if I did a monumental effort, my mind reboots as if I was knocked out for a second.
I extinguish the spell and say, "Certainly an unpleasant magic school to chant."
"The emotions in casting is one of the first thing researchers try to remove to complete system magic, otherwise it's too tiring," Roxanne says.
"I require cuddling, recharge my energies," I say and extend my arms to Roxanne. She jumps out of Hana's lap and lands into my arms. "Careful with those horns. How come you never skewer something with them?"
She turns to me and pushes them on my chest, the moment they touch me they suddenly turn rubbery, the sharp point doesn't even prick me.
"Interesting."
For once Ciel has an uninterrupted training session with [
Holy Spirit
]. Even I benefit from training that spirit as I think I have been managing to grasp dual-casting of Electric and [Space Magic].
Ciel decides to go to sleep and Roxanne pushes her head towards me, asking for pats. I slowly play with Roxanne's horn as the coldness of [Golemancy] is cleansed from my body. Roxanne moans seductively and I inhale a thick perfume.
Her legs part away and suddenly my dick is inside her. She waves her hips, our bodies lay on the sofa with minimal space to move.
I keep the intoxication at bay as I enjoy the sensual expression on her face. Her eyes narrowed in pleasure, her lips partially bitten, her glossy hair caressing me as it touches my face, her long thin fingers trace over my strong chest and abs.
With a long exhale my whole body relaxes and I release my tension inside her.
Today is the 22nd.
"Awaken, my master," Alissa whispers in my ear.
I break out of my slumber and rise for another day requires conquering.
My [Golemancy] increased by 5 (now 9). I certainly had quite a leap in understanding.
Kyros shows me how to affect someone's mind. "
You do not know who I am
," the friendly looking middle-aged man with olive skin says. He strokes his puffy white goatee and stares at me.
"Yes? Something wrong?" I ask the man.
"What are you doing here?" He asks casually.
Where did he come from?
I suddenly notice my sword is stored away and I'm in a closed room with an oddly charismatic man. His small blue eyes stare at me inquisitively.
"Well I was training with my professor," I say. I can't admit I'm training in [Godly Language] to a stranger. I look around and frown, "now where is he..." I mutter.
"How does your professor look like?" He asks, a small smirk forming on his face.
I ready two fast earth elementals in my mind, this man is too suspicious and I have no idea where he came from.
"Well my professor is... uh..." my voice fades as my brain races through my memories. Something is wrong, why don't I remember my professor's face? How did I learn so much about [Godly Language] without even learning his name!? "Wait..." I eye the man in front suspiciously, "did you mess with my head!? Did you use [Godly Language] on me!?" I raise from my seat and point my finger at him, readying [
Discharge
] in my mind.
"
You will remember who I am
," Kyros says hurriedly and I feel the weirdest déjà vu ever. "You are quite guarded, I didn't expect you to be this defensive," his eyebrows knit in worry.
"I hate mysteries," I say and sit down, my rapidly beating heart slows down, "even I didn't expect this reaction but I can understand why I acted like this. The hole in my memories was too great, I panicked thinking that if you can do this then what else could you do."
"So at least now you understand how difficult it is to actually mess with someone's memories."
"Yeah, there's too many details to convey on mere words, quite the puzzle."
"And it's all temporary, I stopped yours earlier but once the effect ends most people would instantly realize what happened."
"Good for some information gathering."
"But you will reveal your powers to your enemy then."
"Unless it's someone disposable," I say and Kyros nods.
In [Nature Magic] class I spend my time training with [
Animal Tongue
] so I can read deeper into the feelings of an animal. I don't want to show any of my main combat abilities on the final test since it gets put on my record and plenty of people would have easy access to it.
I spend my evening reviewing and then re-compiling my thesis now with [Writing].
"Shouldn't we spread this mana training method?" Hana asks, "It's honestly much better than the standard."
"Remember that me and Wolfy have to [
Heal
] you regularly," Ciel says.
"And I give you points in [Mana Control] during it," I say.
"And it's actually really close to [Godly Language]," Roxanne says, "Even I can learn it now, though I would be horrible at it I could still use it to invade someone's mind."
"Well, that's disappointing," Hana says and shrugs.
For bed I have Lina wear the black bunny ears cloak with black Clothes of the Berserker. She shyly comes to bed and sits at the border, twiddling her thumbs and dreading what's about to come.
"Maybe we should buy some animal ears tiaras," I say, "more convenient than using the cloak."
"To be honest it
was
a weird fashion choice to have animal ears on cloaks," Ciel says.
"Still, she is
absolutely adorable
," I say on a low growl. I pull Lina's chin towards and me and devour her.
I grab her cute buttocks and press a finger into her second entrance just to scare her. She plays the part of the terrified bunny perfectly as she shivers and looks away. I turn her around and she tries to desperately crawl out of my grasp but she's already on my jaws.
I grab her waist and penetrate her from behind. She gasps, suddenly glad that the only pain she's feeling right now is the mild discomfort from being stretched by me.
Tonight a bunny is taken by a predator.
Today is the 23rd.
Ciel wakes me up as Lina is too tired to do it.
"Good girl," Alissa says to Ciel and quickly moves out of the room as she receives a glare in response.
"I'm going to go look for an escort company and offer our services," Hana says, "The good positions should be opening by now."
"Sure, take care," I say.
I'll just train my mana a little. I'm not feeling very creative this morning.
Intermission 11
I go towards the Guild's Corridor. This must be the most boring part of town, the buildings are all straight, simple, and direct, only the rich merchant companies splurge and make their facade more interesting.
Heh, spending time with Wolfy changed me a bit, I never really cared about architecture until I saw him admiring every building we entered. I still don't fully understand why he's so curious about buildings but I can now at least appreciate when we enter a pretty house.
The men and women here are all quite pitiful too, pencil pushers, the lot. They look cute but I bet I would break their hips if I were to take one for myself. Wolfy is the cutest anyway.
A young scribe nearly falls over trying to stay out of my way. I give him a thankful kiss with my eyes and I see him shiver.
I really want to level my [Intimidate] but I'm not sure how, maybe I should ask Wolfy about it. Oh yes, he could put some of my points on it and I could learn what's different when I level it up.
The scribe's eyes glue to me as I pass, my cleavage, specifically. A few meters away I look back and see him suddenly scamper off.
I laugh freely at his innocence. Look all you want for a look is all you will ever going to get.
Now, business. I have to search for the smaller companies, Lina gave me a list of the better candidates. I have to gauge their worth by the number of guards they are taking, too little and they are going to be a problem, too much and they are going to be an even bigger problem. We don't need the money so we don't need to risk joining the more desperate caravans, which also means we certainly don't need to risk being attacked by robbers by joining the valuable ones. The High Forest is on low security so it's almost certain we will be attacked if we join either.
Too bad I never came here before, I don't recognize any of these companies. In the end we will have to gamble and go with one, there's no way we will really know how the trip is going to be like until we are actually on the road.
I wish Lina came too, I want to molest her so bad but Ciel is being prickly and monopolizing the cute bundle of cuteness.
I also wanted Aoi too, my head feels too light without her. The stares the three of us would get were delicious, too.
I walk out of the building and chuckle.
Okay, these wackos are going to die at the High Forest, no thank you.
Next on the list is... Este company. Ain't that the western Crown Lord's family name? Lina said these are the small companies so maybe it was a branch family that fell out of grace. Or maybe it has to do with the downfall of the Lord, the higher Lords would never be this incompetent without some shenanigans.
I reach the building and look at the facade. The building is kind of falling apart, maaybe they are on the "desperate" side, just maybe.
"Hana?" A familiar voice asks.
I snap my head towards the source and feel my heart tighten. My smile grows so wide my face hurts.
"Klein!" I yell.
A petite brown-haired-and-furred wereape woman runs up to me, I open my arms wide and receive her on my embrace. Her arms squeeze my waist like she wants to break me, I see that her toned and tanned arms are the same as always.
We break the hug and she looks up to me, beaming with a smile and jumping on the spot repeatedly.
"I-I can't believe this! Why are you here!? I thought you were going to be sent to prison!" She says so quickly and excitedly it's almost inintelligible. Heh, my vocabulary is improving, wait no, it was unintelligible.
"Calm down," I say and put my hand on hear head, forcing her to remain still. "I was sold as a Blood Slave in here, one thing led to another and now my master is my fiance," I grin towards her.
She finally stops fidgeting and lets her mouth hang.
"W-who could keep you in line? Who could even
survive
you?" She asks, slack-jawed.
Someone who can instant-cast [
Heal
], as a start.
"Someone very special," I say and smile awkwardly. Praising Wolfy to his face doesn't make me feel embarrassed like this.
"Yeah,
duh
. I want to know how's he like? What race is he?"
I look around and see the pencil pushers are all holding back their giggling. This is not the kind of attention that I like, but Klein still doesn't care about these things.
A long brown tail tickles my nose and I look down.
"Let's go somewhere else to talk," I say and smile warmly at her.
"Okay!"
Wolfy is right, tea shops are kind of calming, the atmosphere is so nice.
Klein sits down and looks around nervously, her round monkey ears are twitching.
"I'm paying," I say.
Her head snaps forward and looks at me confused, "What? Aren't you still a Blood Slave?"
"My maste-, fiance, is very kind with money and we are well off now," I say and blush lightly. Gods, I turned into a hot-blooded hatchling again, I never really had to refer to Wolfy as my fiance so often before and now I realize how much my heart tightens when I say it.
"Oh!" Klein's eyes open wide, "That's wonderful, enviable. How big is his dick?"
"Oh, I didn't measure it," I make a mental note, "But do you even have experience on this?"
"Nope!" She answers with a smile then immediately let her shoulders slump and frown. "Da is still looking for a husband for me and he says that plenty of the men want a virgin."
"Screw that, the Goddess of Love told us to enjoy ourselves and so you should!" I slam my fist on the table and cringe when the tea seat clatters. "Dad wanted this too and look where it got me? I got sold as a Blood Slave still a virgin. It's paradise for me that my master has a dick strong enough for me. I don't even want to imagine if I ended up being sold a limp-dicked fat merchant somewhere."
Klein nods repeatedly with her eyes glued on me, "Yeah! Screw Da!"
"Maybe you want to talk to him before you actually do something," I say and awkwardly play with my cheek scales. I don't really want to be blamed if she ends up doing something stupid.
"Oh, is your fiance a noble? I heard they like to form harems of Blood Slaves."
"No, he's just a commoner, a rather rich commoner. But I do have a harem, technically it's his but I have two women as my playthings. Soon I will get the other two," I say and lick my lips.
"Women? Didn't know you like other women," she eyes me suspiciously and I shrug. "So, do you want to take me? Do you want to drain me like you said you would do to men?" She excitedly sways her body with a stupid smile on her face.
"I don't feel anything in particular right now, but if my master lets me," I give her a kiss with my eyes and she shivers just like everyone, "then I would gladly turn you into my sex slave."
"A-hahaha-hahahahah," she laughs nervously at first but then lets her true laugh come out.
"So, what are you doing here?"
She composes herself and cleans her throat, "Well, after you got taken we ended up being interrogated but eventually they released us. I was really scared we would get arrested too just because of our association," she says with a heart wrenching sadness in her eyes.
Now that I think about it, it's likely the traitor was among the ones who suffered no repercussions. I have to get Klein to tell me their names, I don't want revenge but I don't want to ever see them again.
"Then me, Da, and Mom decided to go to a calmer place and went towards the High Forest. Boy, were we screwed, we didn't know about the rumors of how fucked things were," she smiles wryly. "But it's not so bad, our Gentleman boss is quite experienced. His family is going through some troubling times so he lost a lot of money but he's already improving steadily."
If Klein is with them then it might not be so bad.
"Say, Klein. My fellowship is going to leave Rabanara and we are thinking of taking the scenic route, do you know if your boss is in need of experienced hunters?" I ask with a smirk.
Her eyes opens wide, "Oooh! Yes!"
Hall of Fame of Patrons
The patrons who support Rupegia shall have their names sung by the bards for they deserve the glory and honor. Their names are:
Oracle
Maximillian Hübner.
Lord
Andrew Meyers.
Lord
SenilePenile.
Lord
Hope.
Lord
Samuel Lim.
Noble
Salty Panda.