Agree to Circe's Offer

You mull over her offer. While you are sure that she's up to something, you're also confident in your abilities. On top of that, you risk losing face if you leave the princess and just return. You could invent a story that she was murdered or disappeared, but it would still harm your reputation. You nod and agree, "Very well, demon. While I don't trust you by any means, I'll take your challenge. Don't think I'll be easy prey. Despite how you might feel about me, I'm still no slouch with my blade and have some charms to boot."

The corner of Circe's lip twitches in amusement at your boast, "I would certainly hope not that you weren't a slouch. I want to torment you a little and garner some entertainment out of you. If you fail immediately, then I'll be sorely disappointed. Well then, let us go."

Circe holds a hand out to you and you go to shake it and she quickly grabs ahold before you can pull away or second guess your decision. Suddenly you feel the ground fall away as if it wasn't even there and you fall into darkness. Circe's grip on your hand disappears and you feel yourself tumbling into darkness. You shout, but nobody can hear you scream as strange lights and structures that you can barely comprehend fall in and out of sight and the wind blows by your ears to deafen you. Just as suddenly as your fall begins, you hit the ground with a thud that pushes all the air out of your lungs. The ground below you appears to be rough-hewn gray rock and you lay against it for several moments gasping for air.

An amused chuckle comes from nearby and you look to see Circe sitting casually on a nearby rocky outcropping. If you weren't desperately trying to catch your breath, you would certainly enjoy the view of the naked demon relaxing with her legs casually spread and her bare pussy exposed for all to see. "So how did you enjoy your first transdimensional trip?"

"It hurt..." You groan and slowly climb to your feet to look around. You are in a fairly large cavernous room that appears to have been cut out of an unfamiliar gray stone. It only has one exit that appears to lead out into a hallway before splitting in two separate directions. The rest of the room is rather non-descript other than a few rocky outcroppings like the one that Circe is sitting on and probably the most significant is a large archway on the opposite side of the room as the exit. A shimmering pink field covers the area within the arch that appears to be made of a smoothed version of the same rock the cavern was cut out of. At the top of the archway, the symbol "⚥" is engraved on the keystone. You find it easy to see around most of the room, but don't see any other obvious source of light other than the portal.

"So what do I do know?", you ask curiously.

"You survive however you can. You explore and make your way higher. "Circe stands and approaches you slowly. "Do be careful though. There are women from all over trapped here. Some of them are aggressive and might try to kill you or keep you as a toy. Others could pull you into their web and enamour you before you even realize and you could become a **** to them. Yet others may simply be trapped here just like you are and searching for a way out. How you handle these challenges is up to you. Do be careful with who you put your dick in though. Some of them are cursed."

You narrow your eyes at the fiend suspiciously "Cursed?"

She shrugs, "Of course, you didn't think that I was simply going to allow you to fuck anyone you wanted without consequences, did you? Some of the women will be marked by a special sigil. You will learn how to recognize its effects and what it looks like rather quickly, I'm sure. What's most important for you is that any woman engraved with the curse will be able to become impregnated with even a single drop of seed. Fertilization leads to the curse passing to you, or whoever inseminated her and that man will find themselves a **** to the woman's will. A toy for them to use how they see fit for the rest of his life."

"What!" You gasp, fear and anxiety surging through you. You knew that things were going to be dangerous, but didn't realize that you were at risk of becoming someone's **** for life. "You didn't tell me that before bringing me here!"

Circe shrugs off your irritation with a wave of her hand and she grins at you deviously. "You didn't think that it was all going to be fun and games, did you? Either way, you're stuck here now. So here's what's going to happen. I have your pretty little princess all tucked away about twenty floors up. The size of the floors varies, as does the environment depending on who lives there and how much or little I like them. In order to help you along your way, I will give you My Boon." She turns her hand upward and a small orb full of pink mist appears in her hand. "This orb will immediately bring you to the stairs to the next floor when it's smashed. You can do this if you feel the challenge is too dangerous, or not to your liking. It won't break without a fair amount of **** impacted upon it, so you don't have to worry about it accidentally shattering. However, you should be careful nonetheless. The Tower only becomes more dangerous the higher you climb. More monstrous and more aggressive females will be encountered as you climb higher and you only have one."

"Have fun now." She grins and hands the orb to you and you take it. Before you have a chance to say much more or ask any questions, she disappears without a trace. The last glimpse you have of her is her menacing smile.

"W-wait!" you shout at the now empty room, "But I didn't even get to ask you what that...portal...is." You give up on asking your question to the empty room before you finish even asking it. Your eyes meet the portal curiously and wonder if you should enter through the strange archway. It's pretty obvious though that portal leads you somewhere else. Is that the way you're supposed to go? Or perhaps the more obvious path is?

You don't know. All you know is that you have to decide because there's nothing else in this room for you.