Chapter 133

--- 22nd Day, Late Morning ---

We met with Cassia and Marcy outside the city, and while Azura immediately shifted, Marcy didn’t.

In her wolf form, Azura approached the lioness shapeshifter, wagging her tail and barking once.

“Oh, my doggy friend, I’ll shift and play with you when we head back,” Marcellina said, crouching as she petted Azura’s head and scratched near her ears. “Okay?”

I wondered if Azura didn’t mind being treated like a dog, but it was hard to tell what she thought, especially in her animal form. Still, it didn’t seem that she minded, as she barked again and rushed away along the road, running at full speed and enjoying a bit of freedom from the city’s containment.

As we headed toward the dungeon, Marcy matched her pace with Mari. “You have both of your ears healed,” she noted.

“How observant of you,” Mari grumbled.

“Now only your tail is left,” Marcellina said, unbothered by Mari’s cold answer. “I can’t imagine how it would be to not have it. Are you missing it?”

Mari shifted her gaze from the road to the lioness, glaring at her in silence, but Marcy didn’t care and simply waited for the answer.

“Yeah,” the kitsune murmured.

“You must be really grateful that Tobias freed you,” Marcellina said.

“What the fuck do you want from me?” Mari groaned.

“You know I can read your emotions?” Marcy asked calmly. “Do you really want me to answer your question and spill all of that to them?” She gestured mostly in my direction.

“No…” the kitsune murmured.

There was a moment of silence, and I wondered what exactly Marcellina could feel from Mari.

“Can you turn into a fox?” Marcy asked.

“No,” Mari sighed.

“Will you be able to?” the lioness continued.

“Most likely.”

“Oh, you’re going to love it,” Marcy replied. “You're going to be so cute! And we will play together.”

“I don’t play,” Mari said.

“You’ll change your mind when you shift for the first time,” Marcellina replied. “I have to be there.”

Mari glanced at the lioness and then simply ignored her, focusing on the road.

“What are you going to do now, as a free person?” Marcellina asked.

“What is this interrogation?” Mari groaned.

“It’s called talking,” Marcy replied. “And people do it to get to know each other better.”

“I don’t want to get to know you better.”

“Really? Because from your emotions I can tell-”

“Shut up!” Mari growled.

“So, any plans?” Marcellina asked again with a smile.

“No.”

“How long have you been a ****?”

Mari sighed deeply before replying, “My whole life.”

“Oh, then it must be really confusing for you to be free now.”

“I thought you could read my emotions.”

“We both know it’s a big mess.”

“You do realize people don’t like others poking around in their heads?” Mari snapped.

“And they don’t like grumpy bitches either, so it’s like we’re made for each other,” Marcellina replied.

Mari scoffed as we got close to the dungeon.

“Promise me that you’ll tell me when you get the skill to turn into a fox?” Marcy asked.

“If you stop plastering me with questions!” the kitsune shot back.

“Deal,” Marcy replied with a grin as she slowed down a bit, leaving Mari in front and moving closer to the rest of us.

I looked at her, confused as to why she was bothering to talk with Mari, but it seemed she had a way of pushing the kitsune to actually answer.

“Are we passing through level three today?” Marcellina asked, looking at me with a smile. I wondered how much of my emotions she could feel.

“Yeah,” I replied. “We should be able to do it easily.”

“But we still need to stay focused and cautious,” Cassia added.

With that, we finished our walk to the dungeon and headed straight for the third level. We had been there before, and while we struggled a bit back then, it had been without Marcy and Terra. Zoe and I had been weaker too, so this time, with Mari with us, we weren’t struggling at all.

Working together, we quickly dealt with anything we stumbled upon, even if it was several monsters at once. The only downside of having so many people on the team was that the loot, which was already poor, had to be split so much that it didn’t leave much for each person.

Once Mari was fully healed, we could head into higher levels and get better loot. Until then, we were stuck grinding experience on weaker monsters. At least it earned me another level.

[Level up!]

[Class: Sex Mage (Level 12)]

[Stat Points Gained: 1]

[Skill Level Increased: Achievement System: Level 3]

That meant new descriptions, but also new achievements, unfortunately only with names. I received descriptions for five achievements that had already been available before.

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Name: Undecided

Description: Have sex in ten different positions within an hour.

Reward: ???

Name: Multitasking I

Description: Make three women come at the same time.

Reward: ???

Name: Look, Without Hands!

Description: Masturbate using mana.

Reward: ???

Name: Don't You Think She’s Too Old?

Description: Have sex with a woman who is over three hundred years old.

Reward: ???

Name: Like a Fish

Description: Have sex fully submerged underwater. It must last at least ten minutes without emerging.

Reward: ???

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With the descriptions revealed, three of them immediately seemed easy to complete. I had even almost finished Multitasking I the previous day while fucking Azura and fingering both Zoe and Amber, but I didn’t let them come at that point, teasing them instead and unintentionally avoiding completion of that achievement. Now, knowing what I had to do, the first three achievements were pretty much possible to complete within a single night.

I only knew two women who were over three hundred years old, and neither of them seemed like a quick option. Gemma didn’t want to meet with me, and Sage… was Sage.

Then there was Like a Fish, which I had already guessed before, though I hadn’t known about the required time spent underwater. First I would need to have sex with Selira, but convincing her to do it underwater probably wouldn’t be much of a challenge. Maybe we could even do it for the first time together under the surface of the lake.

Then there were the new achievements, unfortunately revealed only by name so far. The first group fell under the Sex Mage category.

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Name: Healthy Diet (0/50)

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: Not the Best Place for an Orgy

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: Intergenerational

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: First Day

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: Too Deep

Description: ???

Reward: ???

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Healthy Diet had a counter of fifty, and because the achievement - A Healthy Meal - required a woman to swallow three loads of my cum at the same time, I assumed this new one required women to swallow my load fifty times. Not that hard, though it would mean I’d have to stop filling their pussies and come in their mouths instead. Hopefully the reward would at least be worth that sacrifice.

While checking the new achievements in the dungeon, Not the Best Place for an Orgy sounded quite suggestive that the place in question might indeed be a dungeon. But that didn’t answer how many women I would actually need with me for it to count as an orgy. Did I only need to have sex, or did everyone need to come?

It would require some testing, but having sex in the dungeon while monsters were lurking around didn’t sound like the safest thing to do. And try explaining that to Cassia or Marcy… or even Terra. Mari knew about my class, but I could only imagine her reaction if I asked her to protect us while we fucked in the dungeon.

We could do it on the platform that transports in and out of the dungeon. In case of emergency we could quickly escape. Unless the achievement somehow blocked that. Maybe it would be better to wait for the actual description. Maybe it wasn’t about a dungeon at all.

Intergenerational achievement connected with sex didn’t give me many ideas beyond needing to fuck someone from a different generation. But then, what exactly counted as a different generation? How was that different from having sex with someone who was over three hundred years old? Maybe I could complete it by accident, but most likely I would have to wait for the description to know the details.

And the last two gave me absolutely no idea what they could mean. They would either be completed accidentally, or I would have to wait until their descriptions appeared. I wondered if the previous Sex Mage, The Greatest Mage, had the same achievements. And if so, whether he had written down anywhere what he was supposed to do.

But if he had been hiding his class because it was special, then he probably wouldn’t want to write about it anywhere. Not that his journals, or some kind of tutorial to Sex Mage achievements, if it even existed, would be waiting somewhere for me.

I moved on to the achievements connected to demons. There were five new ones there as well.

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Name: Reconcile Old Enemies

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: Seed the Plant

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: Fear of Heights

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: It Shouldn’t Go There

Description: ???

Reward: ???

Name: Bullseye!

Description: ???

Reward: ???

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It was even worse than with the previous five. The names didn’t give me many clues about what I was actually supposed to do.

Well… Seed the Plant sounded like something connected with impregnation, but it was listed among achievements related to demons. Maybe I needed to impregnate a demon? That would certainly be an achievement with serious consequences.

Reconcile Old Enemies… Perhaps there were two demon races that were known enemies and I would need to reconcile them. Which, considering my class, probably meant just fucking them together.

Fear of Heights reminded me of Like a Fish. While that one required sex underwater, Fear of Heights might go in the opposite direction. There were flying shapeshifters I had read about, so there were probably also races that could fly while keeping their bodies unchanged.

Then it dawned on me that I already knew a race that could fly.

Zoe, if she were a full succubus, would have horns and wings. I was glad that realization came to me before I had the idea of asking her whether she knew any races that could fly.

But I was pretty sure that other races that could fly existed. Maybe something like a harpy. That added yet another type of demon I needed to find and seduce to complete my achievements.

Then there were the last two, which I had absolutely no idea how to approach.

Maybe with It Shouldn’t Go There I would need to have sex with some demon that had strange anatomy? But guessing which demon that could be was practically impossible.

The time I spent in the dungeon was divided between fighting monsters and thinking about the achievements. Eventually we managed to reach the checkpoint before level four.

Unfortunately, Mari would be missing again while Zelda finished healing her tail, but at least when we came back, level four would be waiting for us.

As we used the platform in the dungeon to head back to the normal world and left the building surrounding the entrance, we made a stop for Azura and Marcy to shift. Zoe must have wanted to take advantage of the moment, as she pressed her body against mine and kissed me.

“Stop using your skills on me!” Mari growled suddenly, and when I parted from Zoe, she was glaring at Marcy.

“Or what?” the lioness asked.

“I… I’ll kill you,” Mari threatened, though there wasn’t much confidence in it.

“No, you won’t,” Marcellina replied with a small smile, looking like she was challenging the kitsune.

Mari held her gaze for a moment, and then did what she always did when she didn’t like something - she huffed and turned around, giving the lioness her back.

Marcy stepped forward and wrapped her arms around Mari, practically throwing herself against her back. “Oh, foxy, we’re going to be best friends!” she gasped, hugging her from behind.

I was ready for ****. An outburst of rage. Shouting. Maybe some ice spikes flying around. But it seemed the only thing frozen there was Mari herself. I couldn’t see her face, but she just stood there without moving or saying a word as Marcellina hugged her.

When the lioness finally pulled back, she looked at me with a pleased smirk, stuck her tongue out at me, and then spoke. “Azura, catch me.” She turned her back toward me and started undressing. When her shirt was gone, I could only see her slender back, but as she pulled her pants down, I caught a glimpse of her ass before she turned into a lioness. It all lasted less than a second before she pounced and started running away.

Azura chased her, dropping her clothes and shifting mid-run as she went after her.

After picking up their clothes and Marcy’s bow, we followed them. I wondered if she really wanted to be friends with Mari, and why she would do that to herself.

We walked in peace for a few minutes. We were somewhere in the middle of the road between Ortas and the dungeon when Mari suddenly stopped.

“Wait,” she said. “We need to talk,” she added when I looked at her.

“About what?” I asked.

“In private,” she replied.

“Zoe can put the Silent Dome around us,” I suggested.

“No,” the kitsune replied. “They should head back to Ortas.”

“Why?” I asked, confused.

“Zoe and Azura can stay,” the kitsune replied.

Which meant that whatever she wanted to talk about most likely concerned my class, since she wanted to get rid of everyone who didn’t know about it.

Azura and Marcy realized we had stopped and returned to us, approaching in their animal forms.

“You should head back to Ortas,” I said. “I need to talk with Mari. Terra, can you get home on your own?”

“Yes, Master,” she replied, then frowned and corrected herself, “Tobias.”

Marcy approached me, sitting down in front of me, and as I dropped her clothes, I turned around this time, giving her privacy to shift.

“Don’t think you can get rid of me that easily, foxy,” Marcy said, once again hugging Mari. A frown crossed the kitsune’s face as she stood there frozen while the lioness hugged her. When Marcy finally let go, she joined Cassia and Terra on their way to Ortas.

“Don’t even say a word,” Mari hissed at me.

I chuckled, seeing her discomfort at Marcellina’s behavior. “What do you want to talk about?” I asked.

She didn’t answer, watching the three women walk away from us. Only when they disappeared from view, she shifted her gaze back to me. She stared for a moment in silence, and I wondered what was on her mind.

She groaned deeply before reaching into her bag and pulling out a collar. “You must put it back,” she mumbled under her breath so quietly that I barely understood her. Hearing what she said, I actually wondered if I had misheard her.

“What?” I stared at her, dumbfounded, trying to understand what was going on.

“Just fucking lock it,” she replied, putting the collar around her neck. “Or do you prefer to explain how you took it off?”

“And for a moment I thought you wanted to be my ****,” I replied.

“Yeah, I dream about it every night,” she shot back.

“You dream about me?” I asked with a smirk, focusing on my mana and summoning it with the intention of closing the collar around her neck. It clicked shut again.

Mari closed her eyes and growled. I wasn’t sure if it was because of my joke or because she had just willingly put the collar back on herself, but for a moment she simply stood there with a grimace on her face.

“I’ll kill you if you don’t take it off when we get back to Ortas,” she said finally, then headed toward the city, leaving us behind.

“Thanks,” I replied, glad that she had actually thought about it, so I wouldn’t have to explain to anyone how I had used my mana to remove the collar. Mari didn’t respond as she walked ahead at a quick pace, apparently wanting to get rid of the collar as fast as possible.