Chapter 137

--- 22nd Day, Night ---

“Did Whitney’s tip turn out to be true?” I asked Gemma, after waking up in the dream world.

“Yeah, but don’t expect much from it,” she replied. “I just bought a bunch of expensive illegal slaves that I’m going to free.”

“You saved those people,” I said.

“It’s a drop in the bucket. I’d rather deal with the root of the problem.”

“Can’t you do that?” I asked. “You rule in this guild. Can’t you just forbid slavery?”

“And put you in prison?” Gemma asked with a smirk.

“I could free them,” I replied.

“I was joking,” Gemma said, rolling her eyes. “It’s not that simple. I can’t just forbid slavery and expect the problem to disappear. What about the slaves that already exist? Should I **** their owners to free them or punish them? If I forbid it, it would just move underground or to other guilds. Then there’s the fact that slavery supports the economy. Taxes bring in a lot of income, and slaves handle many of the worst, hardest jobs. And those are just the problems if I could actually ban it. More likely, people would rebel and try to overthrow me. And it’s interesting you’re asking this right after enslaving yet another woman,” Gemma finished, raising an eyebrow.

“That’s… different,” I replied.

“Sure. Everyone says that. And while I can see that you don’t treat them badly, I can’t watch over everyone all the time. How did you manage to convince Amber to agree?”

“Let’s just say she might not have been thinking clearly at the time,” I replied with a smirk. “Give me a moment to check her status,” I added, focusing on it, as I had been too tired to look at it before going to sleep.

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Name: Amber Tzal’aenith

Age: 22

Race: Drow

Classes:

Dark Alchemist Level 14

Stats (0 points to assign):

Health: 50/50

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 10

Endurance: 6

Vitality: 6

Charisma: 12

Luck: 3

Arcane Power: 13

Mana: 350/350

Dark Alchemist skills:

Alchemist Knowledge Level 3 (Active) - Opens a recipe menu with advanced alchemical formulas.

Potion Infusion Level 2 (Active) - Converts mana into liquid form that can infuse potions, enhancing their effects.

Ingredients Inspect Level 2 (Active) - Reveals detailed properties of alchemical ingredients.

Potions Inspect Level 1 (Active) - Reveals detailed properties of potions.

Poisonous Touch Level 1 (Passive) - Prepared poisons are stronger and last longer.

Poison Resistance Level 2 (Passive) - Increases resistance to all types of poison.

Heating Level 1 (Active) - Heats liquids to a chosen temperature and maintains it.

Alchemical Dagger Level 1 (Active) - Summons a small alchemical dagger for ingredient preparation or close combat.

Blood Poison Level 1 (Active) - Converts the user’s blood into a toxin that can be used as a potent alchemical ingredient with unique properties. It can also be used to poison targets causing them to suffer from convulsions, fever, and severe weakness over time.

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Reading through her skills, most of them were only useful for preparing potions. I had no idea she could summon a dagger, though I had never actually seen her brewing potions properly, only glimpses here and there. Still, that skill seemed pretty useless for potion-making.

Why would she waste mana to summon a dagger when she could just use a normal one instead?

Unfortunately, while I could read her status, I didn’t have access to her recipe menu, which was probably the most important part of her class. Not that I really needed it, so it wasn’t a big loss.

After going through everything, I quickly checked my new skill while the blonde in front of me waited.

[Master's Champion Level 1 (Active) - Grants one of the Master’s slaves 5 Dexterity and 5 Strength for 10 minutes.]

It was a simple skill, but actually one of the most useful ones for me in the dungeons at the moment, since I could use it on Zoe without anyone realizing I had a class.

“That new skill I got sounds great,” I said, finishing reviewing the new information in my status.

“As long as you have a demon enslaved to you nearby,” Gemma replied.

“Zoe rarely leaves my side.”

Gemma hummed before changing the topic. “You should start learning about the people in politics in Tenebre, and then in Torania.”

“Why?”

“Because I have Sage for the dirty work. If I need someone else, it will be for things that require better people skills than she has. And considering that women hold most of the important positions, and you have a class that lets you charm and seduce them, you might be most useful getting close to them. Knowing more about those who hold power will help you.”

“So my missions will involve seducing women?” I asked with a grin.

“That would be a means to achieve another goal, but yes, that’s probably the best use of your skills.”

“Something like what I did with Whitney?”

“More or less.”

“Can’t you teach me about politics? You’re probably the best person for that.”

“I have better things to do. Especially since you lack the basics. Learn them first, then I’ll teach you more. Or answer your questions when they come up and you can’t find the answers yourself.”

“Library then,” I replied.

Gemma hummed again.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

“Yeah, why?”

I shrugged.

“Just tired,” Gemma said.

“If we met in person, I could help you relax,” I teased.

Gemma rolled her eyes dramatically before replying, “If you don’t have anything more important, I’m sending you back to sleep so I can get some rest myself.”

“Good night,” I murmured, and the darkness of sleep consumed me a moment later.

--- 23nd Day, Morning ---

I woke up still cuddling Amber, her body pressed tightly against mine. Zoe was draped over my back, but Azura must have shifted during the night, because she was no longer on top of me.

Squeezing Amber’s tits in my hand, I brushed my fingers over the tattoo low on her stomach. She must have already been awake, because she immediately wiggled out of my embrace, sitting up and turning toward me.

“Remove it,” Amber demanded firmly, glaring at me.

“What?” I asked, still groggy from sleep.

“The tattoo,” she clarified. “Remove it.”

“That was just a spur-of-the-moment thing during sex,” I murmured with a smile, looking at the letters on her body. “I can change it into something pretty.”

“I don’t want anything else,” the elf hissed. “I’m not going to be your ****. Free me!”

I could tell she was serious this time, it wasn’t just her bratting or playing again. Focusing briefly, I activated the right skill. It took much less mana than bonding, as it flowed toward her. The tattoo glowed, shrinking on her body before it vanished.

[Successfully removed a bond with a demon: Amber Tzal’aenith]

She blinked, her eyes unfocused as she read her status, before lying back down in front of me, wiggling closer until our lips met in a kiss. Then she pressed her head against my chest as I wrapped my arms around her.

“You know I’ll put it back on you,” I whispered, my fingers tracing slow patterns on her lower back.

“Good luck,” Amber snorted.

“You agreed once. You’ll agree again.”

“I didn’t agree. I… I was tricked into it.”

I chuckled, enjoying being squeezed between two warm bodies.

“Maybe I’ll put a collar on you, and we’ll see how you feel,” Amber grumbled.

“Didn’t you promise yesterday to behave?” I asked with a smirk.

“It shouldn’t count because of that tattoo you put on me,” she pouted.

“You liked it yesterday,” I murmured.

Amber stayed silent for a longer moment before mumbling into my chest a single word. “Pervert.”

“You’re mine anyway,” I replied. I didn’t really care that she wanted the bond removed. It was hot in the moment, but the control it gave over someone’s life was too much. If she didn’t want that hanging over her all the time, I didn’t have a problem with it.

Amber snorted. “You’ve got it all wrong,” she said. “You’re mine,” she muttered, pressing herself closer into my chest.

Zoe shifted from behind me, lying on top of both of us, wrapping her arms and tail around us. “I’m yours, Master,” she said, pecking my lips.

“Zoe,” Amber groaned from beneath the succubus’ tits.

Zoe wiggled lower until she was face to face with the elf. “It was so hot when he fucked you yesterday,” she commented.

“Another pervert,” Amber muttered.

Zoe leaned down and kissed her. “So there are three of us here,” she added.

Amber sighed, then started to wiggle away. “I need to wash,” she said, as I looked at her questioningly. Zoe slid off her and settled back into my embrace, taking Amber’s place.

The drow grabbed some clothes and headed out of the room. Azura shifted closer, pressing herself against me from behind, so I was once again surrounded by soft, warm bodies. It didn’t take long before my lips found Zoe’s, and we fell into a long kiss as her tail slid down to stroke my cock slowly.

After a while, I turned to give Azura some attention too, kissing her for a bit. I was already getting worked up again after just a few minutes, but I decided I should deal with communication with Peri first, or at least try to find a better way to handle it.

I broke the kiss with Zoe and, instead of turning to Azura again, I sat up.

“Where are you going, Master?” the succubus asked.

“I need to find a better way to communicate with Peri,” I replied.

“Now?”

“Yes,” I chuckled. “We have sex all the time, so it’s always going to get in the way,” I added, pulling on some pants before moving to the table and summoning mana to my hand, where the slime immediately rushed for her breakfast.

After she absorbed her portion, I let her slide onto the table, sitting beside it, wondering if any of the methods would actually work. The first idea was for Peri to try shaping herself into letters, which would be slow, but at least she could form words instead of me guessing everything.

But it didn’t work well. She had a hard time creating and maintaining loops, which made many letters impossible. She managed to form a ‘c’ or a crooked ‘L’, but a large portion of the alphabet was simply out of reach for her.

“Okay, that’s not going to work,” I commented when she tried to make a ‘D’ and failed, managing the general shape but without the loop or sharp edges. If I didn’t already know, I would have had a hard time telling whether it was a ‘D’ or an ‘O’. Or even any letter at all.

“I could write letters on paper, and you could move to them to spell words. Like a board for communication,” I said, thinking about those boards from my world that were used to talk to ghosts.

Peri moved to the left to signal yes, apparently agreeing with the idea, though it still didn’t seem very fast, and we could only communicate when I had the letters prepared.

And while Peri wasn’t big, I couldn’t write the letters too small, because she would end up covering several at once. That meant I needed more than one sheet of paper.

Fortunately, Amber had left some paper and a pencil on the table. Borrowing them, I started writing fairly large letters. After finishing the first page, where I wrote y, e, s, n, o, a, covering the basic vowels and allowing her to answer yes or no quickly.

“Check if it works,” I said.

She slid over “yes.”

Short words wouldn’t be a problem, but longer sentences would take a really long time. Still, she needed more letters to actually communicate fully, so I continued writing.

Before I finished, Amber returned from her bath in fresh clothes, her hair still wet.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“Trying to find a faster way to communicate with Peri,” I replied. “We tried having her shape her body into letters, but she can’t form most of them, so now I’m writing letters on paper so she can move between them to spell words.”

“That will be slow,” Amber said.

“Do you have a better idea?” I asked.

“Give her the pencil and let her write.”

I stared at her, realizing I’d been overcomplicating things without even trying the simplest solution. “My gorgeous genius,” I said, grabbing Amber’s hand and pulling her into my lap as she squealed. Our lips met in a quick kiss before I focused back on Peri.

“Can you grab the pencil?” I asked, placing it on the table.

She moved toward it and slid over it. The pencil shifted slightly but only rolled across the surface. Amber reached out, grabbed one end, and lifted it upright, holding it steady for Peri.

This time, she managed to grab it. When Amber let go, Peri was able to move it across the table. She slid onto the paper, leaving a line behind as she moved.

“Can you lift it so you can move without writing?” I asked.

She shifted, and the line stopped.

“It works,” I said. “Now you just need to learn how to write. You can make big letters and go slowly for now, it should still be better than the other methods.”

Peri began moving across the paper, writing something. While it still wasn’t smooth communication, at least she could use actual words now, and I didn’t have to guess anymore.

I could already tell what she was writing after a few letters, but I let her finish for practice. She wrote, ‘thank you.’

“No problem,” Amber replied, cuddling into me, still sitting in my lap.

Peri quickly moved again, writing ‘both,’ before sliding toward me and stopping at the edge of the table in front of me.

“No problem,” I said as well. “Do you need anything besides my mana?” I asked the same question I had asked her before, wanting to make sure she had everything she needed, and thinking about what she had consumed the previous day.

Peri moved to the paper where I had written ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and slid over ‘no,’ but then moved back to the other sheet and started writing something.

‘Need mana. Want cum’

“What?” Amber asked, frowning as she read what Peri had written.

“Oh, I didn’t mention it yesterday, but while we were in the bath, we found out that mana is not the only thing Peri can absorb.”

“She eats your cum?” the elf asked.

“Yeah.”

“Why?” Amber asked.

“Peri?” I said, hoping I’d finally get an answer.

She didn’t move at first, and we sat there, watching a green slime think about why it liked to absorb my cum. The absurdity of the situation made me snort, but then Peri started moving again, writing.

‘mana = your essence = cum’

“My cum is similar to my mana in some way?” I asked, looking at Zoe.

“Kind of,” she replied. “Both are yours and have this… I don’t know. It’s like a taste of you. Maybe it’s because of the skill you have? It makes it taste really good, so Peri just likes it.”

The slime started moving again.

‘mana = stronger’

‘cum = happy’

I snorted while reading that. “I guess others can share with you if it makes you happy,” I said.

Peri slid over the word “happy” again.

“Are you going to grow to human size?” I asked.

“I like your thinking, Master,” Zoe purred as Peri continued writing.

“I wasn’t thinking about it,” I replied. “But it’s an option.”

‘I think so,’ Peri wrote.

“Do you know how long it will take?”

‘Now smarter. Size later.’

“That’s the right choice. Can you use my mana after you absorb it?” I asked.

‘No’

“Wouldn’t you prefer to stay on your own?” I asked. “I promise I’ll feed you mana anyway, you don’t have to stick to me all the time.”

Peri didn’t answer. Instead, she dropped the pencil and rushed back toward me, practically jumping off the edge of the table to reach my body.

“I was just asking,” I said as she slid onto my hand and stayed there. “I don’t mind you sticking with me. At least until you grow much bigger.”

Peri made a small circle on my hand. It would be better if we had some faster way to communicate than writing, but all physical or technical options seemed worse. I wondered if there might be a magical solution, but for that, I’d need to ask someone more knowledgeable.

Looking at the slime, no more questions came to mind, and our time was running short anyway, we’d soon need to head back into the dungeon, especially if I wanted to try completing one more achievement before going.