Cheating

Without warning, Alice shoved Leo down hard onto the cave floor, her succubus instincts flaring wildly. Her thick, throbbing cock was already rock hard and dripping with pre, the heat radiating off it almost unbearable.

"A-Alice, wait" Leo started to protest, but his words turned into a shocked gasp as she yanked his hips up and found his hole already stretched and lubed, clearly used to thick cocks despite his protests.

"Someone's already ready for me," Alice purred, her eyes glowing with demonic hunger. Without any further preamble, she thrust her steaming hot cock straight into Leo's waiting bussy in one smooth motion slamming perfectly into his prostate.

Leo's back arched violently, a strangled cry escaping his lips. "Fuck! Alice, we shouldn't Nia will ahhhh!"

His protests dissolved into moans as Alice immediately set a brutal pace, her thick shaft pistoning in and out of his tight hole. She angled her hips expertly, the head of her cock slamming directly into his prostate with every thrust.

"Shut up and take it," Alice growled, gripping his slim hips hard enough to bruise. "Your body is being very honest right now."

It was true Leo's neglected cock was already drooling precum beneath him, twitching with every punishing thrust. The pleasure was overwhelming, short-circuiting his ability to think clearly.

"This is we're cheating oh god oh fuck" Leo babbled incoherently, his hole clenching desperately around Alice's invading cock. The stimulation to his prostate was relentless, building him toward orgasm at an alarming pace.

Alice felt it coming and grinned wickedly, her tail lashing behind her. "That's it, cum for me. Give me what I want."

Leo came with a scream, his untouched cock spurting onto the bedroll as his ass spasmed around Alice's shaft. The moment he peaked, he felt something being ripped from him a level, stolen by Alice's succubus powers.

[Level Drain: Leo loses 1 level!]

"W-wait, what was that?!" Leo gasped in panic, but Alice didn't slow down. she could feel fragments of his soul absorbing into her, If anything, she fucked him harder, her hips slapping against his ass with obscene wet sounds.

"Keep cumming for me," Alice demanded, adjusting her angle to hammer his oversensitive prostate even more directly. "I'm hungry."

Leo's eyes rolled back as another orgasm crashed through him almost immediately, his body betraying him completely. Another level ripped away more of his soul eaten.

[Level Drain: Leo loses 1 level!]

"No no no Alice pleas eI can't it's too much" Leo sobbed, tears pricking his eyes from the overwhelming sensation. But his traitorous body kept responding, his cock somehow still hard despite cumming twice already.

Alice leaned over him, her heavy breasts pressing against his back as she whispered in his ear. "You feel so good squeezing my cock. the twins don't need to know about this. This is just between us."

The mention of kiki and koko sent a spike of guilt through Leo, but it was immediately drowned out by another wave of pleasure as Alice's cock found that perfect spot again. He came a third time, another level draining away.

[Level Drain: Leo loses 1 level!]

"Please I'm going to lose everything" Leo whimpered, but his hips were pushing back to meet her thrusts now, his body completely addicted to the sensation.

"Then you better hope I'm satisfied soon because fucking you to **** sounds really good right now," Alice laughed darkly, her pace growing even more frantic as she chased her own pleasure. Her balls slapped against Leo's with every thrust, heavy and full.

Leo lost count of how many times he came, how many levels Alice drained from him. All he knew was the relentless pounding of her cock into his ruined hole, the constant lightning strikes of pleasure against his prostate, and the shameful knowledge that despite everything, he never wanted it to stop.

She leaned down, her heavy breasts pressing against his chest, and whispered in his ear, her voice a low, hypnotic hum. "Look at you. All spent." She gripped his hips, her grip hard enough to bruise, and fucked him again, her thrusts less about sensation and more about the primal need to fill his empty hole. "But I’m not done yet."

His eyes fluttered shut in defeat, and she knew it was true. He was a waste of space, a fuck-hole that only served her need. She pulled out with a loud, wet pop, leaving her cock glistening and slick. The sound echoed in the ice cream cavern.

Without ceremony, she hoisted him up by his hair. His head snapped back, his face a mask of shock and dawning horror. "What are you" he started to protest, but she cut him off with a firm, decisive shove. His head was slammed flat against the cold icy floor, the air knocked from his lungs.

"Shut your mouth," she commanded, her voice a silken snarl.

She pinned his head between her thighs, her heavy balls now pressing onto his face. She began to pound his mouth with her cock, ramming the thick shaft deep past his teeth, forcing his jaw to ache. He gagged, his eyes watering as tears of humiliation streamed down his cheeks. With every brutal thrust, she would Pull his head back and forth using him as a personal fuck toy.

"You're a pathetic little slut, aren't you?" she hissed around her dick. "Just my personal property. My cum-dump." She reached a hand behind his head, twisting his hair, grinding her fingers into his scalp. "I have no use for you. Nothing at all." Another level drained from him, and he felt it as a wave of coldness flood his entire being.

As she pounded his face, her free hand went to his groin. His micro-cock was already twitching, leaking a pathetic, transparent precum. She squeezed his tiny shaft between her thumb and forefinger, then wrapped her other two fingers around it and began to jerk him off with a cruel, mocking rhythm. Her two fingers were huge compared to his nub of a cock. "Look at this," she cooed, watching his pathetic little erection quiver and swell in her grip. "Your tiny dick. So useless. I don't know why you even bother. Your tiny balls are just a waste of space, a cunt would be more useful"

He sobbed, his chest heaving, a mixture of shame and a ****, shameful need to please her. But she refused. She simply held him there, her cock ramming his throat while she pumped his useless little cock between her fingers. "Your cock can't even cum, can it? You're nothing but a weak, pathetic fuck-toy."

"You're going to drink me dry. You're going to lick every last drop."

She pushed her cock against his tongue, "suck me, slut," she commanded. He whimpered, his hands coming up to clutch her thigh, his knuckles white. He tried to push her away, but she was too strong, her hips moving with a relentless rhythm. She plunged her wet cock back into his mouth, her cock juice flooding his throat. He gagged, but she didn't stop. She fucked his mouth, pounding her cock head against his tongue, forcing him to lick and suck her cock.

"You feel that?" she grunted, her voice tight with lust. "That's all your soul, and you're going to swallow it. All of it." She held herself still, letting him finish drinking her down, letting him taste the essence of her power through her jizz As rope after rope of thick creamy jizz flooded his throat. Finally, she pulled out of his mouth, leaving him weak and trembling on the wall. She turned to face him, She took a step back, her tail lashing lazily behind her.

Alice staggered back from Leo, her chest heaving, her skin glowing with that residual pink heat that pulsed under her veins. Steam curled faintly off her shoulders.

But the moment the haze faded

It hit her.

Exactly what she’d just done.

Her stomach dropped so violently she nearly swayed.

“Leo…”

Her voice cracked.

Leo lay on his back, limp and trembling, pupils blown wide in a dreamy, fucked-senseless daze. His red loincloth was twisted around one thigh, her jizz leaking out his bussy, cock still twitching Uselessly, his whole expression soft and blissed-out.

The aftershocks were still rolling through him, tiny involuntary twitches as the System notifications continued to blink in the air

LEVEL DRAIN COMPLETE

Leo - Level 0

All XP transferred to Alice.

The last notification flickered longer, as if the System itself were staring at her.

Leo blinked slowly, finally focusing on her.

“A-Alice…?” he whispered, voice hoarse. “I… I feel… weird… hollow… but gods that felt… so good… I can’t…”

His breath caught in a nervous laugh that broke into a sob. “Nia is going to kill me…”

Alice’s heart lurched.

Her hands shook.

Not from lust now.

From fear.

Shame.

Realization.

She had known, abstractly, that succubi could drain levels.

She had never understood what that meant.

Not until she felt parts of Leo’s soul dissolving into her.

Not until she felt her stats spike, her mind sharpen, her muscles hum with unnatural power.

She backed away, horrified. “Leo I didn’t I wasn’t I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to”

A small voice cleared its throat.

Alice froze.

Slowly, stiffly, she turned her head.

Nell stood in the mouth of the cave.

Pale.

Shaking.

His glasses fogged from the steam rolling off her body.

“H-H-Hi,” he squeaked.

Alice wished the cave would collapse.

Nell clutched his staff to his chest like a rosary. “II didn’t want to interrupt. A-And then I tried to interrupt. B-But then it was too late to interrupt. And then then I saw the notifications and”

Alice covered her face with both hands.

Leo whimpered from the floor. “Nell… don’t tell Nia… please…”

Nell made a strangled little sound.

“Alice…” he said softly. “You… you drained him. Completely.”

Alice felt sick.

Her skin buzzed with stolen power; her tail coiled tightly around her leg like even it was ashamed.

“I know,” she whispered. “I know. I lost control.”

Nell’s voice turned small, scared not of her, but for her.

“What will Nia say…?”

The question hit harder than any monster in Candyworld.

Alice’s breath caught.

Her heart hammered.

Her tail went still.

Leo looked up at her, eyes wide. “A-Are you two… together-together…? Oh gods I’m so dead that girl is fucking crazy"

Alice didn’t answer.

Because she couldn’t.

Because she didn’t know how to breathe with the weight of what she’d done sitting on her ribs.

For the first time since evolving

She genuinely feared her own nature.

She whispered, voice breaking:

“I have to fix this. Somehow. I can’t let this be who I am.”

Nell hesitated… then slowly stepped inside the cave and laid a timid hand on her shoulder.

“Alice… you’re not a monster.”

Leo, still sprawled helplessly on the floor, raised a trembling hand.

“I’d… let you do it again… so maybe not a monster but definitely a problem”

“LEO,” Nell snapped, scandalized.

Alice sank to her knees.

“I cheated on Nia,” she whispered. “And I hurt someone who trusted me. I I don’t know how to face her now.”

The cold wind outside howled through the cave mouth.

Alice opened her status sheet. And froze.

It materialized before her in a shimmer of neon pink, her heartbeat thundering in her ears.

Level: 32

She almost dropped the hologram.

“Holy… shit,” she whispered.

Her tail leaned over her shoulder, equally stunned.

“…Girl. Leo was STACKED.”

Alice stared at the number, her breath shaking.

Twenty five levels gained in a few hours.

Power humming under her skin like a living engine.

And it felt good.

Too good.

Her body trembled not with arousal this time, but with the horrifying realization of what she was capable of.

Leo whimpered behind her, curled on his side in the blankets she’d thrown over him, cheeks flushed from afterglow and shock.

Nell stood a few feet away, pale and stiff, glasses fogged from the cave steam.

He couldn’t look at her.

He couldn’t look away.

Alice swallowed hard and **** herself to scroll down.

[Status Sheet: Alice]

(Auto-updating… Dice humming smugly in the background)

Race: Bapholilim

Class: Bapholilim (Hybrid Succubus Variant)

Level: 32

(20+ levels absorbed through Level Drain “Congratulations, cupcake! You found the fast track.”)

Attribute Points Gained: +250 unspent

Her stats were ballooning before her eyes. Strength, Constitution, Appearance, all pulsing with potential.

Her Appearance stat ticked upward on its own just from leveling.

Her Horns glowed faintly, responding to the raw power surging through her veins.

Alice staggered back.

“This isn’t… normal,” she whispered.

Her tail flicked anxiously.

“This is VERY succubus behavior, babe. You drained him completely. Like completely completely.”

“I didn’t mean to,” Alice shot back, voice cracking. “I wasn’t thinking I just”

Nell finally found his voice.

“A-Alice…” he whispered, shaking. “You… you drained a human to zero. That’s that’s impossible. That’s that’s legendary monster territory. That’s”

He couldn’t finish.

Alice slammed the panel shut, panic twisting in her chest.

Leo, still recovering, blinked up at her through half-lidded eyes.

“I don’t I don’t regret it,” he breathed, voice thin. “It felt… too good. But you you took everything you could have left me a few fucking levels…”

Alice’s heart broke.

“I’m so sorry,” she said immediately, dropping to her knees beside him. “Leo, I swear, I didn’t mean to I didn’t know it would”

Leo shook his head violently.

“N-nodon’t apologize my body my stupid slutty body I couldn’t stop I liked”

His voice cracked. “I’m level zero, Alice. Fucking Zero. I can’t… I can’t even spark.”

Alice winced like she’d been punched.

Nell swallowed hard. “We’ll… figure something out. We can keep him safe until he levels again. But right now we need to”

He stopped.

Alice followed his gaze.

Her horns were glowing.

Brightly.

And the BONKbat at her hip gave a gentle ding, as if leveling alongside her.

Alice looked between the weapon, the cave, and her trembling hands.

She was stronger.

Stronger than ever.

And yet… a small, traitorous part of her whispered:

It felt good.

Her tail murmured quietly,

“You need to tell Nia.”

Alice inhaled sharply through her nose.

Alice sat back against the cave wall, breathing hard, Leo wrapped in blankets beside her, Nell keeping a worried distance.

Her status panel was still faintly glowing in her palm.

Level 32.

+250 unspent attribute points.

Her BONKbat humming like an excited puppy.

And then…

A small golden button pulsed at the corner of her vision.

CASH SHOP (Dice’s Favorite Discount Active!)

ALL ITEMS 50% OFF!!!

[Dice: Treat yourself, cupcake.]

Alice groaned into her hands.

“Oh no. Oh no no no I should not be making decisions right now”

Her tail perked.

“Correction: You should ABSOLUTELY be making decisions right now.”

Nell froze mid-sip of hot chocolate Leo had conjured.

“W-wait you’re opening the… cash shop? Right now?? After after EVERYTHING??”

Alice’s pupils dilated.

“Fifty percent off, Nell. Fifty.”

Leo whimpered faintly. “That’s… actually a really good deal…”

Alice flicked open the hologram with a resigned motion, and the panel EXPLODED into shimmering pink-gold light that filled the cave like a carnival display.

Dozens of items rotated in midair.

Some whimsical.

Some horrifying.

Some… absolutely overpowered.

The SSS-RANK ABILITIES tab sparkled most seductively.

Her tail whispered reverently,

“…Look at those …you're geting wet.”

Alice ignored it.

Mostly.

Alice swallowed hard.

Leo watched her, still dazed but soft-eyed.

“Alice… if something scares you… you don’t run from it. You get stronger. That’s what you do.”

Nell nodded nervously. “A-And we… might need whatever advantage we can get before climbing a cursed ice-cream mountain.”

Alice exhaled shakily.

CASH SHOP DICE’S FAVORITE SALE EVENT

(Dice: “Shop smart, shop horny.”)

S Rank Serpentine Mirage Technique

“Look fast. Be fast. Confuse your enemies and your friends.”

Effect:

Doubles Agility.

Leaves afterimages that deal phantom damage.

Makes you look like a parkour demon on Red Bull.

Dice’s Notes:

“Do you want to Naruto-run so fast that your enemies die confused? Because THIS is how we Naruto-run so fast our enemies die confused.”

SSS Rank Apotheosis Seed: Demon Queen Path

“You ever think to yourself: Alice should rule a kingdom of horny demons?"

Effect:

Extremely rare evolutionary catalyst.

Unlocks Future Evolution: Demon Queen of Lust.

Yes, Queen. Not Princess. Not Duchess. Queen.

Dice’s Notes:

“Becoming a Demon Queen is like becoming a manager: more power, more hot coworkers, and way more people wanting to kill you. But hey perks!”

SS Rank Gorgon Eyes

“Medusa but sexy. Well… sexier.”

Modes:

Seductive Gaze: Charms target.

Predatory Gaze: Petrifies target.

Dice’s Notes:

“You get TWO laser modes. Pew-pew, bitch. Use responsibly. Or don’t. I’m not your actual mother, thank god.”

S Rank Vorpal Tailblade Attachment

“Snip snip, motherf ”

Effect:

Your serpent tail gets a retractable blade.

Damage scales with Magical Strength.

50% increased chance to decapitate enemies.

Dice’s Notes:

“Look at you! Becoming a sexy Beyblade. Go spin on someone's neck.”

SSS Rank Gluttony

“Uh-oh. Someone’s becoming a REAL succubus.”

Effect:

Level Drain now drains MORE than XP.

Temporarily steals

Attributes

passives

Traits

Warning:

Dice: “Don’t drain a god.

…Or DO. I’m not your mommy.”

(Dice absolutely is wiggling eyebrows right now.)

S Rank Queen of Thighs (Demonic Grapple Stance)

“Weaponize the EXACT thing everyone already stares at.”

Effect

Grapples auto-succeed on lower-level foes.

Enemies trapped between your thighs become:

Stunned

Silenced

Taking Appearance-based damage every second

Dice’s Notes:

“Thighs so powerful OSHA wants a permit.”

SSS Rank Dominion

“Make the room your bitch.”

Effect:

Convert any dungeon room (or 50-foot radius) into Alice’s Demonic Domain for 5 minutes.

Inside Dominion:

Alice’s stats double

Enemies weakened

Allies regen 10% HP per second

Appearance stat becomes even more broken than usual

Dice’s Notes:

“You know how cats walk into a room and act like they own it?

Yeah. That. But with apocalyptic magic and tits.”

Alice bought the seed.

She didn’t mean to.

She absolutely meant to.

The instant her eyes landed on the glowing display

Apotheosis Seed: Demon Queen Path

her pulse spiked.

Her tail curled around her thigh like it was trying to pull her hand toward the “CONFIRM PURCHASE” button.

(Don’t do it,) her rational brain whispered.

(You want it,) her succubus instincts purred back.

Dice helpfully added a tooltip

Dice

“Might as well buy your future crown now, sweetheart. It’ll appreciate in value.”

Alice groaned out loud.

She had 250 attribute points, enough to buy almost anything… enough to buy several S- or SS-rank abilities that would immediately help them survive the mountain.

Instead, she clicked on the glowing, future-evolution seed.

CONFIRM PURCHASE?

COST: 200 ATTRIBUTE POINTS

(You’re spending forty levels worth of points. Bold.)

Alice hesitated for one single breath.

Then hit YES.

The panel exploded in a burst of pink sparks and smug laughter.

[Apotheosis Seed Acquired!]

Future Evolution Unlocked: Demon Queen (Lust Path)

Her entire body tingled, warmth spiraling outward from her core.

No visible changes.

No stat bumps.

No new abilities.

Nothing but a quiet pulse under her skin, like a second heart waiting to wake up.

And the terrible, wonderful feeling.

Her tail whistled low.

“Ohhh, you’re gonna be so sexy later.”

Alice slapped it lightly. “Shut up.”

Then her eyes drifted to Nell.

She didn’t mean to look at him like that.

She really didn’t.

But the moment she glanced up from the Cash Shop

saw Nell hugging himself for warmth,

his mana flickering weakly,

his level faintly glowing at the edge of her vision

Something inside her stirred.

A whisper in her blood:

You could afford more.

More S-ranks.

More SSS-ranks.

Just one more drain.

Just one more fuck.

Her throat tightened.

Nell noticed her staring and tried to smile, but it came out crooked and terrified.

“A-Alice?” he squeaked. “You’re… looking at me strangely.”

Alice jolted, horrified at herself.

She shook her head hard, forcing the heat down.

“No. No no no I’m fine. Sorry. Let’s let’s go.”

The whisper didn’t stop.

You’re hungry.

You’ll always be hungry.

He’s right there.

And he’d feel so

“No,” she whispered under her breath.

Her tail clicked its tongue. “Good girl. Proud of you. We like Nell alive.”

Alice inhaled until her chest hurt.

She’d promised Nia.

She’d promised herself.

She could not keep cheating just because it felt good.

Not again.

Not today.

“Alright,” Alice said firmly. “We’re moving.”

Leo sat up with a shiver, wrapped in a blanket like a traumatized cinnamon roll.

Nell scrambled to gather his things, still pale.

Alice stood, BONKbat over her shoulder, horns faintly glowing with the power she wasn’t sure she deserved.

“Once we reach the summit, we should be able to see the whole zone,” Alice said. “Regroup with the others. Figure out what Candyland has become.”

Leo wobbled to his feet, still blissed-out and empty. “Y-yeah… right… summit…”

Nell nodded vigorously. “Let’s get moving before anything else finds us.”

Alice swallowed, forcing herself to smile reassuringly.

“Good. Let’s go.”

She did not mention the 200 attribute points she’d just thrown away into a future gamble.

She did not mention the hunger still whispering at the edges of her mind.

She did not mention the goddamn Demon Queen seed pulsing under her ribs.

She just led her tiny, broken, freezing party out of the ice-cream cave, BONKbat humming at her side, and began the trek upward.

Ice cream crunched under hooves.

The wind howled sharper as they climbed.

The higher they went, the thicker the frost became mint-chip blizzards whipping across their faces, sprinkles of ice rattling against rocky sherbet ridges.

Leo had been trembling violently on the way up…

but now, weirdly, he had stopped trembling.

Alice squinted at him.

“Are you… warm?”

Leo’s cheeks went bright pink. “D-Don’t ask why!”

Nell adjusted his fogged glasses. “…It’s the succubus semen, isn’t it?”

Leo slapped both hands over his burning face. “I SAID DON’T ASK.”

Alice choked on her breath.

Her tail whispered, “Portable heater. Efficient.”

Leo pushed ahead faster just to escape the embarrassment.

They were almost to the mountain’s first plateau when they heard it.

A shrieking cry high, crystalline, echoing across the ice fields like a glass violin being murdered.

Nell froze. “...What was that?”

Alice peered up the ridge.

Something enormous circled overhead its wings glittering like stained glass, body shaped like a massive bird carved from rainbow popsicle layers. Its tail trailed cold mist in the shape of swirling ribbons.

A giant frozen creature, elegant and terrifying.

[CANDYWORLD MID-BOSS DETECTED]

Name: POPSIROAR (Phoenix Variant)

Size: “Unreasonably Big For A Bird”

Leo squeaked. “It’s… kinda pretty.”

The Popsisroar screeched and fired a beam of shaved ice that sliced a candy cane tree clean in half.

Leo immediately corrected himself. “I HATE IT.”

They dove into a crevasse.

A deep crack in the ice-cream mountain, walls coated with frozen marshmallow and frost. They huddled in the narrow space, breath visible in the dim light.

The giant bird swooped overhead, feathers shedding snow-dust like glittering ****.

Alice gripped her BONKbat, horns glowing faintly.

“Okay. Strategy.”

Leo raised a hand like a student who desperately did NOT want to answer.

“Um. Step one: Do NOT fight the giant **** bird?”

Alice ignored him. “I hit it until it stops moving.”

Nell looked horrified. “Alice, NO, that’s not a plan. That’s a headline.”

Her tail nodded. “She has a point. It would be a very funny headline though.”

Leo clung to Alice’s arm, staring up through the crack in terror.

“Why are you acting like we can fight that?! That thing is bigger than my house!”

“You don’t have a house do you?,”

Leo whimpered. “Exactly!”

Nell cleared his throat.

“I… actually might have something.”

He lifted his staff, hands shaking but determined.

“I’ve been studying a new spell. I can cast a pressure disruption sigil. It won’t hurt the bird, but… it will make its wings too heavy to lift for about ten seconds.”

Alice blinked. “You can do that?”

Nell nodded nervously. “I think so.”

Alice grinned. “Perfect. That’s all I need.”

Leo tugged her sleeve. “What about me?”

“You ” Alice paused.

She smiled softly.

“Just stay behind us. And stay cute.”

Leo turned red from ears to collarbone.

“I I’m That's not a combat role!”

“It boosts morale,” her tail said.

Nell nodded gravely. “It really does.”

Leo hid his face. “STOP!”

Alice stood, BONKbat humming.

Steam curled off her shoulders arousal warming her in the cold.

Nell knelt beside her, drawing the sigil in the snow, lines of pale blue mana crackling as the spell primed.

Leo hovered behind them like a very pretty, very distressed heating pad.

Above, Popsisroar screeched again, diving low enough that the wind shook the crevasse walls.

Alice rolled her shoulders.

“Alright, boys.”

She lifted the BONKbat, its spikes glowing heart-pink as her horns burned brighter.

“On Nell’s cue…”

Her tail hissed eagerly.

“Let’s clip a phoenix.”

Nell moved first.

The moment the Popsisroar swooped low, wings blotting out the aurora with rainbow ice, Nell slammed his staff into the snow and shouted

“PRESSURE DISRUPTION BURST!”

A shockwave of pale-blue sigils spiraled upward like a firework.

The runes detonated against the Popsisroar’s wings

FWOOOMPH!

and instantly the frost-phoenix’s elegant wings sagged, ice crusting so thick it dragged the bird downward.

The creature shrieked, spiraling out of the air.

A popsicle-wing clipped a sherbet cliff, sending shards raining down.

Leo screamed.

Nell screamed.

Alice grinned.

“Good job, Nell!”

Nell squeaked, “Ten seconds TEN SECONDS ONLY !”

Alice didn’t need ten.

She launched herself out of the crevasse like a bullet.

Her horns glowed white-hot for a heartbeat

then snapped dark as her tail ignited in neon serpent-light.

Strength Mode → OFF

Agility Mode → ON

Her body blurred into motion.

A trail of pink steam streaked behind her.

She hit the Popsisroar in the face.

The BONKbat sang like a tuning fork made of sexual frustration and glowing stickers.

BONNNNK!!

The colossal bird’s head snapped sideways, spraying rainbow sherbet across the snow like confetti.

The beast thrashed, trying to stabilize its massive body, but Nell’s spell still weighed it down, causing its wings to slog like they were full of cement.

A shard of ice jagged, neon blue shot from the phoenix’s beak.

Alice dodged the first two effortlessly.

The third hit her arm.

CRACK!!

Mint-chip ice raced instantly up her limb, freezing solid.

Leo gasped. “ALICE !”

Alice didn’t hesitate.

Her tail arced like a guillotine.

SHHHNK.

Her arm fell off.

Leo screamed.

Nell nearly fainted.

Alice hissed, clutching the stump.

“RUINED. DESIGNER. JACKET!”

Her regeneration flared pink flame erupting from the wound as a new arm knit itself together in seconds.

Her jacket sleeve, however…

“…I LOVED that jacket.”

Her horns flickered. Her tail’s glow intensified.

Leo whimpered. “She’s entering scary mode.”

Nell nodded. “Very scary mode.”

She vanished.

One moment she stood growling at the ruined jacket.

The next, she was gone

her body skidding across the snow in a streak of afterimages, each mirage echoing her motions seconds apart.

She started repeatedly hitting it off the ground air juggling

BONK BONK BONK-BONK-BONK !

The bird’s head snapped back with each hit, massive, glittering feathers exploding like shattered glass.

Alice leapt onto its neck, running upward between its wings with impossible speed, afterimages stacking behind her like a stream of ghosts.

The phoenix screeched, firing off a cluster of popsicle shards.

Alice backflipped over them

pivoted midair

landed on its beak

and smashed its face again.

“STAY! DOWN!”

The BONKbat glowed brighter, reacting to her rising heat.

But the bird was huge and still fighting

Alice needed more power.

She skidded across the icecream toward Leo.

“Sorry, Leo!”

“For what EEP!!”

Alice’s hand cupped his ass fingers quickly sliding in and out of his needy hole.

Leo shrieked.

Alice’s body lit up like someone poured gasoline on her fire.

Her temperature skyrocketed.

Steam billowed from her horns and shoulders.

The BONKbat glowed hot pink.

Her tail cackled. “Oh, she’s COOKING.”

She launched herself skyward.

Alice’s agility spiked so intensely that even Nell’s eyes couldn’t follow her movement.

She ricocheted off a candy-cane trunk.

Backflipped off a sherbet boulder.

Vaulted onto the phoenix’s wing.

And in a single, beautiful, insane moment

she spun like a beyblade of horny ****, bonking the Popsisroar repeatedly mid-air

BONK! BONK! BONK! BONK! BON K !!

The final strike landed squarely under its chin.

The phoenix’s body seized

eyes rolling upward

before it crashed into the snow with an earth-shaking thud.

A rainbow splash of melted popsicle flooded down the slope.

Leo blinked. “D… Did we win?”

Nell, trembling, whispered, “Alice… absolutely OBSOLETE’D a mid-boss.”

Alice stood panting, pink steam rising off her skin.

Her tail looked proud. “We should do that again.”

Alice wiped rainbow sludge from her cheek.

A sound cracked across the mountainside.

A shiver.

A flutter.

A heartbeat made of ice.

Her eyes widened.

“Oh no ”

A sudden BLIZZARD exploded outward from behind her like a detonation of winter itself.

Nell screamed.

Leo squeaked.

Alice whirled around just in time to see

POPSIROAR’S BODY REFORMING.

The melted rainbow sherbet pulled inward, rewinding itself like time-lapse footage.

The shattered feathers reassembled.

The cracked beak resealed with crystalline frost.

“It’s it’s coming back?!” Nell gasped.

Alice cursed. “I forgot the PHOENIX part!”

The bird rose in a cyclone of snow and pastel light.

The creature’s eyes snapped open bright, burning popsicle-blue and with a single pump of its massive wings, it launched into the air, trailing ribbons of arctic mist.

Then it screamed.

And the sky fell.

A rain of deadly popsicle-icicles cut down like artillery fire.

Alice didn’t have time to think.

She didn’t even have time to swear.

She lunged forward, throwing her arms around Leo and Nell, dragging them into a protective curl beneath her body.

The first icicle slammed into her back hard enough to crater the sherbet snow.

SHUNK !!

Then another.

And another.

Dozens.

Each shard stabbed into her flesh like cold lightning. Mint-chip frost crawled over her skin, racing to freeze her joints solid

But the pink fire under her skin ignited, roaring like a furnace.

The frost hissed.

Melted.

Evaporated.

Alice gritted her teeth, shielding the boys with her whole body.

Nell cried out as one of the larger icicles grazed his shoulder

but the moment it embedded into Alice’s side, her pink heat melted the shard instantly, splattering harmlessly as warm syrup.

Leo clutched Alice’s waist with trembling hands.

“Alice Alice, your skin !”

Her body was glowing.

Literally burning with pink, arousal-fueled fire, flickering along her skin like bioluminescent lightning.

Her regeneration pulsed with every heartbeat.

Every new wound sealed within seconds.

Every shard melted faster.

She was a shield made of lust and fury.

When the barrage finally slowed, Alice rose to her feet, body steaming, horns faintly ringing with heat.

The Popsisroar circled overhead, radiant and renewed.

Nell stared up in horror.

“It resurrects at full strength! How are we supposed to kill something that reassembles itself?!”

Leo whimpered. “WHY DOES EVERYTHING HERE BREAK THE RULES?!”

Alice tightened her grip on the BONKbat, her tail glowing in Agility mode.

“We figure it out,” she growled.

Her tail chimed in: “Kill the core. Dungeon mobs like this always have a core!”

Nell blinked. “The… what?”

“The part that isn’t made of ice cream!” the tail snapped. “Look for something glowing, dense, magical ”

Alice spun, scanning the bird as it beat its massive wings above them.

And there

as the feathers rippled

A glimmer.

A bright, pulsing shard embedded deep within its chest, beating like a second heart.

Alice smirked.

“There you are.”

The phoenix roared and fired a second volley of popsicle shards.

Alice inhaled, grounding herself.

Her horns flickered.

Her tail glowed brighter.

Her body heated until the snow beneath her hooves melted into syrup.

She angled her BONKbat behind her like a sprinter’s starting block.

“Leo!” she shouted.

“Stay behind Nell!”

Leo saluted weakly. “Y-Yes ma’am!”

“Nell!”

“Yes?!” Nell squeaked.

“On my mark cast your spell again.”

“but !!”

“Just do it!”

Nell swallowed hard. “…Okay.”

Alice lowered her stance.

Her shadow trembled.

Her tail hissed:

“Round two.”

Alice inhaled.

And the world inhaled with her.

Her horns pulsed once, twice

Then her throat opened and Goatman Mimicry kicked in.

A low, warped synth-note trembled through the air.

Then another.

Then the beat dropped.

Candyman’s Boss Theme, but twisted into her rhythm

heavy, seductive, violent, wrong in all the right ways.

Her tail harmonized with her:

“looooOOOOVE me… FEAR me… Melt for meeeeee ”

The Popsisroar faltered mid-wingbeat.

Its feathers rippled as if the sound physically weighed it down.

The entire mountain seemed to pulse with her music.

Nell’s eyes widened behind fogged glasses.

“B-Boss music… debuff! Alice, you’re ”

“Buffing myself,” she growled, steam rolling off her shoulders.

“And debuffing it.”

Her heartbeat synced with the song’s rhythm.

Every pulse sharpened her senses.

Every note accelerated her blood.

Then she moved.

Alice sprinted across the snow

and reality couldn’t keep up.

Afterimages split from her in branching waves, each one mimicking her movements half a beat behind.

She leapt

landed on an icicle falling from the sky

then hit the next one so hard the shard spun back as a deadly missile.

It slammed straight into the phoenix’s wing, exploding popsicle shards everywhere.

Alice didn’t stop.

She jumped again

onto another falling icicle

and another

and another

rising upward like she was climbing a collapsing staircase.

Each shard she bonked detonated with pink heat, firing the chunk back at the Popsisroar with pinpoint ****.

Nell stared upward, awestruck.

“She’s she’s air-stepping ”

Leo clutched his chest.

“She’s insane!!”

The mid-boss screeched and fired a volley of lasers.

Alice twisted midair, tail glowing neon pink, deflecting each beam with sharp parries of her BONKbat.

Pink sparks streaked across the sky.

She finally reached the monster’s head, planting a hoof on its crown.

The bird’s eyes widened.

Alice smirked.

“Hi.”

Then she jumped again.

Upward.

Through the icy wind.

Past the swirling blizzard.

Through a break in the stormclouds

and into the open sky.

The entire frozen landscape spread out beneath her:

Blinding white sugar deserts.

rockcandy cliffs gleaming myriad colors.

Candy-cane forests twisting with green mint leaves.

Nell and Leo tiny specks far below.

For a heartbeat, she floated there

Suspended in silence, pink steam rolling off her body after the impossible climb.

Then gravity reclaimed her.

Alice dropped.

A meteor of pink flame.

A comet of lust-charged fury.

A streak of burning demonic light headed straight for the monster’s spine.

The BONKbat thrummed in her grip

heart-shaped spikes superheating

stickers catching fire

She aimed for the pulsing core in its chest.

“TIME TO SHATTER,” she roared

and struck down from heaven.

The impact split the air like thunder.

The Popsisroar’s scream echoed across the entire mountain.

Sherbet snow avalanched down the slopes.

Leo ducked behind Nell and shrieked.

Nell covered both their heads with his cloak.

The phoenix buckled

feathers bursting outward in a spray of rainbow shrapnel

the core pulsing wildly.

but she missed the core by inches.

Instead of shattering the glowing heart, she punched straight through the entire phoenix like a pink-flaming ballistic missile.

For one frozen second, everyone stared.

Leo: “...did she just ?”

Nell: “SHE MISSED THE CORE !!”

Alice realized it at the same time.

“Oh COME ON!!”

Momentum carried her out the other side of the bird, trailing a long, perfectly circular Alice-shaped tunnel melted clean through its torso.

She hurtled downward, flailing her bat.

“Agh NELL! GROUND IT AGAIN!!”

Nell panicked but obeyed.

He slammed his staff into the ice cream.

“PRESSURE DISRUPTION BURST!!”

The spell detonated upward in a bloom of pale-blue runes.

The crippled phoenix, already struggling after being hollowed like a popsicle gourd, suddenly lost all lift again.

Its wings froze mid-beat.

And both it and Alice plummeted

SLAMMMMMMM !!

They smashed into the mountainside with enough **** to shake the ice-cream cliffs.

Sherbet avalanched down in pastel waves.

Rainbow juice blasted outward.

The shockwave knocked Leo flat on his ass.

For a terrible, breathless moment,

Nell whispered, pale as the snow,

“Alice…? A-Alice ?!”

Leo clutched his face. “No no no she can’t be dead she can’t be dead !! Nia will skin us alive !!”

The blizzard of shattered ice settled.

Silence.

Then

A hand punched up through the cream.

Not just a hand.

Alice.

She burst out of the drift like a pissed-off demon groundhog, hair wild, steam pouring off her body.

In her hand

She held the phoenix’s glowing core.

“…got it,” she panted.

Behind her, the mid-boss lay half-embedded in the cliff, deflated and lifeless, frozen mid-screech.

Nell’s jaw dropped.

“You you punched THROUGH a phoenix and THEN dug out its core ?!”

Alice shrugged sheepishly, cheeks pink. “It was… a learning experience.”

Her tail lifted the core and swallowed it whole with a delighted hiss.

Leo gasped. “D-D-Did you just FEED it to your tail?! We could’ve sold that for SO MUCH MONEY!”

Alice froze mid-step.

Her face slowly turned red with mortification.

“…I forgot.”

Nell slapped both hands over his face.

Alice squeaked. “I panicked!”

Leo flopped backward into the snow.

But then

A sound chimed.

A warm, golden ripple of System energy burst from the phoenix’s remains.

LOOT ACQUIRED

(Rank: Influenced by Dice’s Favorite)

The snow parted around Alice in a display that was absolutely dramatic on purpose.

A small pedestal rose from the ground.

On it sat a ring.

Forged of crystallized rainbow fire.

Feathers etched along its band.

A glowing gem pulsing with rebirth mana.

Nell’s eyes bulged.

“That’s that’s a PHOENIX RING! That thing grants a daily resurrection to its wearer!!”

Leo sat bolt upright.

“That’s A-rank!!”

Alice picked it up gingerly, stunned.

“Dice’s Favorite really IS cheating…”

Her tail purred.

“Good girl. You killed a mid-boss twice and got a get-out-of-****-free card. Very efficient.”

Nell dusted ice cream off his cloak.

“So… we survived the mid-boss.”

Leo stood, wobbling.

“And Alice only ruined the economy a little bit.”

Alice crossed her arms. “I said I panicked!”

They all looked up toward the summit.

The sky above was still swirling.

The blizzard still howled.

Something massive waited at the top.

Nell swallowed.

“Ready?”

Alice lifted her BONKbat.

Steam curled from her shoulders.

“Let’s keep climbing.”

Wind whipped against their faces like razor-thin ice sheets.

The air tasted sugary-cold, almost too sweet to breathe.

The slope steepened until the three of them were practically crawling.

And then

They reached the top.

The storm broke.

And the whole world opened beneath them.

Alice froze, BONKbat resting on her shoulder, horns dimming as the sheer scale of the sight finally pushed aside the adrenaline.

“…holy shit,” she whispered.

Leo, shivering but trying not to show awe, whispered, “It’s… huge…”

Nell adjusted his glasses with trembling hands. “This… goes WAY beyond the original Candyland map.”

Because below them was an entire new region of the dungeon.

Two Landmarks Dominated the Landscape

1. The Rock Candy Cliffs Far to the East

Jagged crystal formations rose from the earth like technicolor spines.

Explosions lit the cliffs with bursts of neon light red, blue, purple

like someone was setting off magical fireworks.

Silhouettes moved across the ridges.

Clashing weapons.

Shouted attacks.

At least two parties were fighting something massive deeper inside those caverns.

Alice felt her pulse sharpen.

Nia? Jen…?

Someone was down there, and they weren’t having a good time.

Her tail flicked anxiously.

“Big mana signatures. Strong ones. Probably mid bosses. Or idiots. Hard to tell.”

2. A Candy Village Below Directly North

A full settlement carved from dessert:

Gingerbread cottages with sugar-glass windows glowing warm golden light

A bustling square… with figures moving around

And at the far end

A castle.

A confection fortress perched on a rocky fudge hill:

Tiered spires of chocolate lattice

A central tower glowing with soft pink mana

It looked whimsical… but wrong.

Nell whispered, “That’s… architecture. Real architecture.”

Leo swallowed. “Do you think… people live down there?”

Alice didn’t answer.

Her Judge’s Eye flickered.

Something was watching them from the castle.

Leo looked between the cliffs and the candy village, teeth worrying his lip.

“Alice… w-which way do we go?”