A Day of Two Activities

Having sex for the rest of the morning had a few results. First, Ahsch got two new spells from Ariin and four more from Mahat. His sister provided her Arsenal of Ecstasy and - oddly enough - Exhibitive Creation, though the latter would require mana input to actually produce anything, so the Dominant Mage wasn't sure if it would be useful for generating mana. From his familiar, he got the 'spine growing' ability, as well as 'enhanced senses,' a 'greater fox fighting' style, and 'shapeshifting.'

He was especially interested in the shapeshifting, but quickly realized that it was based on a familiar's mana-rooted essence. Their bodies were not initially formed of flesh and blood, but were constructs created by mana, which _then _became biological. Ahsch's body, while supernatural in many ways due to being an outsider, was still largely flesh-and-blood, and so he couldn't make use of the shapeshifting. Yet.

Still, he was eager to tinker with all the various new capabilities he had access to. The shapeshifting provided a mana-moulding lead, and Ariin's two exhibitionistic abilities provided some interesting scaling options for him to play with. An arousal and orgasm stuff.

The second thing that happened was figuring out Sexual Learning's and Mystic Fluids' quirks. On the latter end, due to the afore-discovered idiosyncrasies of Mahat's mana-based body, Mystic Fluids wouldn't take root, as her body wasn't true biology. Conversely, simply having sex with Ariin, and absorbing some small amount of her fluids through physical and sexual contact, gave Ahsch a miniscule bump in his mana. He hadn't 'consumed' a full milliliter, so it was only a smattering of mana, but he still caught it.

On the other hand, Sexual Learning was much more complicated. 'Have sex for an hour' didn't necessarily mean that his cock had to be inside someone for the whole time with no breaks; rather, as long as 'sex' was still the goal, and there was some form of movement in that direction, the time kept counting. Pulling out to switch from missionary to doggystyle, or to slap his dick across her face for the thrill of it, didn't reset the timer. Nor did switching from 'true' penettative sex to something like a tit-fuck or thigh-job, let alone having her jack him off, disrupt the Boon. They were also able to work on two partners at once, as Ahsch got two new spells within one session of double-oral from his girls, the new abilities coming to him almost simultaneously.

Finally, Ahsch realized he knew how to use the other hrafthi Innate Magic, Implant Lust. Reflecting on it, he probably had learned it somwtime yesterday. After conferring with his sister, he found that she hadn't been able to access Arsenal of Ecstasy until yesterday either, and she had noticed that Parental Mastery wasn't available to her until she had become fertile. Perhaps Boons are active as long as they could potentially be used, but spells - an action - will be age-restricted? Or maybe it's just random.

All told, the three had fucked for almost six hours, and the time was quick approaching for the incident review to be wrapped up. Getting dressed, the three headed for the guild building, Ariin mostly coming along to stay with her brother.

Inside the building, they found Kira and Michlas. As they entered, the girl looked over, then flushed, briefly looking embarrassed before fixing her face into her signature scowl, before turning resolutely away.

Rolling his eyes, Ahsch went up to the desk, nodding to Pyrin as he approached. "Rostyl ready for us?"

The old man smirked. "You're almost as bad as the brat," he murmured, just quietly enough that the hrafthi barely heard him. After chucking at Ahsch's second eye roll in as many minutes, he said, loudly enough for everyone to hear, "The guildmaster is just finishing up her daily work, should only be a few more minutes."

Even as the words left his mouth, the sound of footsteps came from the hall behind the desk, and a middle-aged panthran woman emerged. Her sharp gaze flicked between everyone present, then she beckoned. "Let's get this over with," she said, sounding very much like she'd rather be doing anything else.

The five involved followed Rostyl back to a meeting room, this one much larger than the one Ahsch had used to debrief Kira and Michlas. The guildmaster took a seat on one side of the table while Kira, Michlas, Ahsch, and Mahat took seats - or, in the familiar's case, sat by her master's leg - on the other side. Ariin stood back by the door, content to be an observer.

After everyone was seated, Rostyl took out a small device, filled it with mana, and set it on the middle of the table. "This will record the review, and has truth-sensing enchantments. Just relay the events as you recall, and we should be done quickly."

So they did. The whole report took a little over an hour, as Ahsch pointedly made sure to recall and detail every time he took steps to keep the expedition safe on their way out - all of the several dozen times. He noticed Kira slowly become uncomfortable at the number of times he reported doing so, the reality of his efforts sinking in as the guildmaster and Michlas nodded in understanding and agreement with his decisions.

The meat of the incident was reported by each of them, taking each chunk on its own. After Ahsch gave his version of Kira's departure from the path, the encounter with the tree wolves, and his and Kira's fall, Michlas lent his report, followed by Kira. Then Michlas gave his recounting of the fight, to which Mahat declined to add anything, followed by Ahsch and Kira's recollections of surviving the fall and doing what they could to recoup and escape their (illusory) pursuit. Rostyl required Mahat to give her version of events once the familiar had transformed, which Ahsch relayed over their bond, repeated word-for-word.

Their trek out of the forest back to Savras was luckily uneventful, and their return was unneeded given the number of other guides involved. Ahsch and Kira gave their reports on the events within the Canyon, including discovering the illusion of the drake and the mana burn trap, entering the temple, and their return to the site of the fall, harvesting the tree wolf, and their rescue. Like Michlas and Mahat, their return to Savras wasn't needed for the review.

Rostyl noticed that Ahsch and Kira declined to say anything about what happened inside the temple. After the rest of the report was complete, she circled back to that. "Miss Starr, you said that you don't recall anything happening within the temple aside from 'feeling a great presence,' that's correct."

"Yes," the girl replied tersely.

"Ahsch, you didn't say anything about what happened within the temple."

The hrafthi looked significantly at the recording device. "Off the record, ma'am?"

The guildmaster's eyebrows shifted up a bit, and after checking with Kira and Michlas, both of whom nodded, the former appearing embarrassed, the later confused, Rostyl reached over and deactivated the recording function of the device, though it still glowed to discern truth from lie.

Ahsch took a breath. "The temple housed Phashak."

The two older members of the group were shocked, but after a quick glance at the device, Rostyl motioned for the Dominant Mage to continued. "She seemed... interested in me, and didn't seem to like Miss Starr. Apparently, I passed some sort of test of hers, and she saw fit to 'reward' me. For the purposes of the review, the main, pertinent part of that is that Phashak spared Miss Starr's life."

Rostyl narrowed her eyes. "And the non-pertinent?"

Ahsch looked over at Kira, who met his gaze, the over at Rostyl, before shaking her head. The hrafthi looked back at the guildmaster and shrugged. "I'll say that - obviously - it involves Miss Starr. Past that, unless she decides that it's acceptable to share, I will not.

"Beyond that, Phashak implied that she would somehow keep an eye on me, and that we would meet again, made an alteration to the functioning of my Mana Generation Method, and then released us."

Neither Rostyl nor Michlas seemed particularly happy about being left in the dark about what happened, but Ahaxh wasn't too worried. The guildmaster wouldn't pry, and if Kira decided to loop her babysitter in, that was her business - after all, how could the man be upset about Ahsch saving his ward's life, even if the goddess he saved her from made things... complicated.

Satisfied that the review was complete, Rostyl resumed recording, gave her decision, and the group was free to go, though she requested that Kira and Michlas stay.

Ahsch hoped it was to chew out the idiotic girl for putting everyone in danger.

So, the Dominant Mage and his girls left the guild, and returned to their home. After conferring with his familiar and Thrall, he decided to keep up their work putting Sexual Learning through its paces. Several hours later, they had determined that Mahat had nothing else for her Master, but Ahsch got much more than he expected from his sister: both Protected Power and Mystic Domain - if in spell form - but also another innate ability, which seemed to be similar to Arsenal of Ecstasy. He didn't have a name for it, since it hadn't been among his options in the 'office,' but he had an innate understanding of it thanks to Sexual Learning: it increased Mana Generation and Mana Throughput the closer to orgasm one was. From the 'feel' of it, the ability would be a Boon, passive as the effect was.

As he explained it, Ariin blushed hotly. "I suppose that explains why Wxhibitive Creation didn't seem to scale properly."

"What?"

"I, uh..." her blush deepened. "Every time I actually tested Exhibitive Creation, I would get... aroused. Which explains why it seemed to generate more mana than it should when I was more naked."

Ahsch smirked. "So, my sister is an exhibitionist slut, huh?" Ariin whined, pouting quite adorably, which caused the Dominant Mage to laugh. "Don't worry," he murmured, pulling her close as he slid back into her tight cunt.