Chapter 134

--- 22nd Day, Evening ---

Unfortunately, to free Mari we had to go to the most dreadful place I had visited so far in this new world - the **** market. At least we didn’t need to enter the marketplace itself, as we only needed to find the woman who lived next to it, responsible for all the collar bindings there.

She wasn’t busy at the moment and invited us into her house, to the part where she took care of her business.

“I would like to free her,” I said, gesturing at Mari. Zoe and Azura were with us, but stayed a bit back.

The older woman who had bound Mari to me before, whom I found among the images saved in my mind, was named Francis Laurent. She looked at the kitsune and frowned, the wrinkles on her face deepening.

“Is something wrong with her?” she asked.

“What the fuck, bitch?!” Mari snapped.

“She’s feisty,” Francis replied thoughtfully.

“I can show you feisty,” the kitsune growled, stepping forward, but I grabbed her hand and stopped her.

“Mari,” I said sternly.

She scoffed with an angry grimace but stepped back.

“She clearly can be trained to be obedient,” Francis added.

“You bitch! I’m gonna kill you!” Mari hissed.

“No one is going to kill anyone,” I replied. “Let’s just take care of business.”

Francis nodded, not bothered at all by Mari’s threats. “I’ll give you a grand for her,” she offered suddenly, looking at me.

I stared at her, surprised that instead of doing her job she wanted to pay me for Mari. And a whole grand. I had only paid fifty ryns for Mari. How much had Gemma paid for her without my knowledge? Though that had been before Mari was healed, when she had been in very bad condition.

Now her fluffy ears were back, the scar running across her face was barely visible, fading more with each passing day. Her hair had grown back to shoulder length and she had all her teeth. She was clean and no longer looked malnourished.

Despite what I had screamed at her during one of our arguments, it dawned on me that she wasn’t unattractive anymore. Maybe her character was terrible, but as long as she kept her mouth shut, she was beautiful. Though even with her lips slightly parted and not speaking at all, she had this resting bitch face, she still looked gorgeous.

She also looked older than me, Zoe, or Azura. The three of us looked at most twenty, while she looked over twenty-five. At the same time, looking at her and knowing she was twenty-six, you could tell she had the look of someone who had gone through a lot.

“Two grand?” Francis asked when the silence stretched too long and I was just staring at Mari.

Who was staring back at me, actually speechless, and rather than angry or frustrated, looking pale and scared.

“No,” I replied, shifting my gaze back to the older woman. “Just free her.”

Francis frowned, shifting her gaze between Mari and me. “Three grand?”

“She’s not for sale,” I replied. “No matter the offer.”

“You fell in love with her, huh?” Francis asked with a smile. “She’s gonna be gone the second you free her, fool.”

“Can you just take care of your job?” I asked, trying to keep the frustration out of my voice.

“Forty ryns,” Francis replied.

Forty ryns for a job that would probably take her five minutes sounded like a scam, but at the same time, from what I knew she was the only person doing that in the city and had a deal with the sellers. Unfortunately, it didn’t include me.

“How much are you paying for collars?” Mari asked.

“Fifty,” Francis replied with a small smile, looking at the kitsune.

“Then take the collar as payment and give me ten,” I said.

“Sure.” Francis shrugged. She approached Mari and brought her finger to the collar. She tapped it before stepping away. “Give me a moment,” she added, and walked out of the room.

As silence fell over us, I looked at Mari, who was staring at the door through which Francis had vanished. I tried not to think about how much money I could get if I sold her, but three thousand? And I could probably get even more, especially if I waited for Zelda to finish healing.

But I had promised to free her, and… remembering the images of her in the cage - naked, dirty, wounded, starved… There was no chance I would risk putting someone in a position like that for money.

Francis returned a moment later with papers in her hands. “Sign here and here,” she said, placing them on the table. I looked through them, but there wasn’t much to read. I was freeing Mari, waiving any rights to her, without the possibility of revoking it.

I signed the paper, and after that Francis moved to Mari, stepping face to face with her as she reached for her neck.

“You need to touch the collar too,” she added, looking at me.

The moment our fingers touched it, a message popped up in front of my eyes.

[Francis Laurent is trying to unbond you from the item: **** Collar]

[Do you accept?]

Quickly accepting, the message vanished, and the collar around Mari’s neck clicked open. Francis took it off and barely managed to take a step back when Mari summoned her ice spear.

“Mari!” I gasped, worried she was going to follow through with her threats.

“Do it,” Francis replied with a smirk. “Replace a collar with a cell.” Then she turned her back to the kitsune, completely unfazed, as she moved to one of the drawers and put the collar inside, pulling coins from another.

“Done,” she said, handing me the coins. “Good luck,” she added with a smirk, as she grabbed the papers and moved out of the room.

Mari’s angry gaze followed her until she vanished. Then it shifted to me and softened into a grimace as she let her spear vanish.

“Let’s go,” I said, heading for the door, not wanting to spend more time there than necessary.

We left Francis’s house and then the **** market, heading home. I thought about talking to Mari, but she seemed lost in her thoughts, and I let her adjust to the new situation. She simply followed after us while I walked with Zoe and Azura, holding their hands.

Only when we reached the house and were heading upstairs did Mari say her first word as a legally free person. “Wait.”

I glanced at her as she stood in the corridor, her gaze fixed on me.

“Yeah?” I asked.

“Zoe, put the Silent Dome around us,” she said.

“Why do you think you can order her around?” I asked.

Mari opened her mouth, looking ready to snap back, but then pressed her lips into a thin line with a grimace before looking again from me to Zoe. “Please?” she asked.

I nodded at Zoe, and she covered us with the dome.

“Yeah?” I asked, looking at Mari, wondering what she wanted.

“You’re too strong and too fast,” the kitsune replied. “It’s only a matter of time before Marcy, Cassia, and Terra start asking questions. Maybe the orc won’t, because she’s your **** and knows her place, but the other two will start to suspect something is wrong. Maybe they already do. If you don't want them to know about your class, you need to stop exploring with us or get rid of them.”

“Are you trying to get rid of me or Marcy?” I asked.

“I’m just warning you because you are clueless. Seeing you today, I’m surprised Cassia doesn’t already know, considering you suddenly got faster and stronger in the span of what? A week?”

“I’ll think about it,” I murmured. “Thanks.”

Mari shrugged, and when a moment of silence fell, I assumed that was all. I turned around and headed upstairs, but she stopped me again.

“Tobias,” she said more quietly. “That doesn’t change anything, but… I’m grateful…” she added, averting her gaze.

“I just held up my part of the deal,” I replied, and continued heading upstairs, as she didn’t stop me anymore.

In our room, Amber was sitting by the table counting money. It looked like there were well over a hundred ryns in coins there.

“No welcome kiss for me?” I asked, standing over her and glancing at the paper where she had noted the names of plants and potions with a series of numbers I didn’t even try to understand.

“You stink,” she replied, wrinkling her nose.

I snorted, putting my weapon and other gear aside. “What are you doing?”

“Counting out money for Azura’s sisters,” the elf replied, noting something on the piece of paper and shifting a small pile of coins.

“Sure you don’t want a kiss?” I asked.

“No.”

“Your loss,” I replied, shifting closer to Azura. “You don’t mind, baby, do you?” I asked, opening my arms.

She immediately threw herself at me, pressing her body into mine as our lips found each other.

I wrapped her slim body in my arms, palming her ass as she grunted softly into my mouth.

“Seriously?” Amber asked. “I’m trying to work here.”

“Don’t worry about us. Keep working,” I replied, as I turned Azura around and pushed her toward the bed so she landed with her hands on it, pressing her ass toward me.

“Don’t touch the bed,” Amber groaned. “You’re all dirty. Go fuck in the bathroom or something.”

“And you’re not going to join us?” I asked.

“I have work to do,” the elf replied. “And I’ll have you all to myself later.”

“Your loss again,” I replied, then grabbed both Zoe and Azura’s hands and headed for the bathroom. As we were losing clothes and the water was filling the bath, I decided to try and complete one of the achievements.

“Zoe, Silent Dome,” I said, and after she put it around us I continued, “I got a new level-up and new achievements.”

Zoe immediately grinned at the prospect of new challenges to complete, though I wasn’t sure she would like the one I wanted to try.

“I’ll tell you all about them later, but I want to complete Look, Without Hands!”

“What does it require?” Zoe asked.

“To masturbate using mana.”

“Oh…” she replied, her grin fading. “On your own?” she asked, glancing down at my cock, which was already hard with the two of them naked beside me.

“Yeah,” I replied, chuckling. “But you can help.”

“How?” Zoe asked, perking up a bit again.

Instead of answering, I grabbed Azura and pulled her toward me. Her hands rested on my chest as we shared a short kiss.

“Do you want to help?” I asked.

She hummed in agreement.

“I’ll sit on one side of the bath while Zoe plays with you on the other side, and I’ll watch. Is that okay?”

Azura glanced at Zoe and hummed yes. Then she looked back at me and murmured, “Not long.”

I snorted, pulling her in for another kiss. “I can’t wait to feel your tight pussy around my cock again too,” I whispered into her mouth before pulling away and heading for the bath.

As I sat on one end, Zoe sat on the other, with Azura sitting between her legs and resting against the succubus.

“Tease her, but don’t make her come,” I ordered, looking at Zoe.

She grinned, wrapping her arms around Azura. One hand slipped between her legs while the other gently grabbed her tits.

“Yes, Master,” the succubus purred, her lips moving to kiss Azura’s neck.

Watching the two hot demonesses naked, I hesitantly pulled my gaze away from them and focused on my hard cock. It would be the first time I masturbated in this world, though I still wasn’t going to use my hands, so I decided it didn’t really count.

I summoned a large portion of mana and split some of it off, trying to wrap it around my cock. The sensation was strange - feeling myself touching it while also feeling it being touched, even though nothing visible was there. I barely managed to brush it along my length before it dispersed.

Then, as I gathered more mana around my cock, something moved. Or rather someone. Peri started shifting from my lower back toward my crotch, where the mana was currently wrapped around my dick. At the last moment, I redirected it to my thigh, where the slime stopped and digested it.

I could bring my mana to my shaft, and Peri would probably climb onto it. After digesting the mana, she would do those trembling, shivering motions, and I couldn’t stop wondering how it would feel if she were wrapped around my cock while doing that.

But no… I needed to complete the achievement and use my mana to jerk off, not a slime. It felt weird and perverted, though at the same time I was curious.

But then it was Peri, and I wasn’t sure she would understand what I was doing, so that ruled out that option. However… maybe she would understand. She was sapient, even if she couldn’t speak.

No. I closed my eyes and pushed that thought out of my mind. At least for now. I summoned more mana for Peri to feed on, and only when she didn’t want any more did I return to what I was supposed to be doing. Though she remained in place on my thigh rather than hiding.

Using more mana, and connecting it with the big blob hanging over us to refill it as it dispersed, I started brushing my shaft with it, testing the pressure until I was satisfied. A hand would feel better, but perhaps that was just years of experience in that regard compared to using mana.

While trying to keep my focus on the mana stroking my cock, I shifted my gaze to Azura and Zoe. Apparently the succubus had been waiting for me, because she started to grope the wolf shifter’s tits, and Azura closed her eyes, letting out a grunt when, I assumed, Zoe began pleasuring her with her fingers and tail.

The pleasure wasn’t that great, especially when I had two eager demons in front of me ready to do pretty much anything. I could fuck their mouths, pussies, or asses, yet instead I was trying to focus on brushing my shaft with some invisible ****.

At least watching Zoe tease Azura was helping. The wolf shifter was grunting and moaning, writhing in Zoe’s embrace, while the succubus kept her purple eyes fixed on me.

We kept going like that for a while, and Azura was already on the edge of orgasm, but Zoe didn’t let her cross that line. And while my stroking was pleasant, I wasn’t any closer to my own release. I also didn’t get a notification about the achievement, which meant I needed to come this way.

“Can I help, Master?” Zoe purred, pausing her caresses for a moment.

“How?” I asked.

Her tail brushed against my balls, only the tip shifting gently against them as she looked at me questioningly. I wondered if it would work, but then again, without it, the way I was trying to complete the achievement didn’t seem to be working very well.

“Yeah,” I replied. If that didn’t work, next time I would fuck them first and then finish with my mana, hopefully completing the achievement that way.

Zoe grinned as she pressed her tail against my balls, the soft tip vibrating against them, as Zoe started pleasuring Azura again. The wolf shifter gasped suddenly, her eyes closed and mouth wide open as she panted from arousal.

This time, with the added help of Zoe’s tail, the pleasure spread through my shaft, and the stroking finally started to lead somewhere. Which caused another issue - it became harder and harder to focus and control the mana.

More of it dispersed, and whenever the pleasure grew too strong, I lost control over it, which pushed my release further away. But fortunately, my lovely succubus had an ace up her sleeve - her best weapon, Succubus’ Touch.

Suddenly a burst of pleasure surged from my balls to my cock, making it throb while wrapped in mana, and I groaned, closing my eyes. I only opened them again when Zoe giggled, her mouth pressed against Azura’s neck, while the wolf shapeshifter looked at me pleadingly, clearly wanting to finally come on my cock.

“Do it again,” I murmured to Zoe, trying to gather as much focus as I could to keep stroking my cock while hoping her skill would finish me quickly and still count toward the achievement.

She must have used her skill on Azura first, because the wolf shifter jerked suddenly with a grunt, pressing back against Zoe’s body, her face twisting with pleasure as her body arched, pushing her tits toward me. Then the succubus did the same to me, sending pleasure shooting through my body.

While I barely managed to keep jerking myself with mana, she used her skill again, pressing the tip of her tail against one of my balls, and then the other while using her skill for the third time.

I moaned as the pleasure became too much, and the pressure inside my body finally broke, turning into blissful release. My cock throbbed, spurting cum into the water in which we were submerged, as I **** myself to keep my eyes open and watch Zoe looking proud of herself while Azura writhed with pleasure in her embrace.

[Achievement completed: Look, Without Hands! - Masturbate using mana.]

[Reward: +2 Arcane Power]

I had hoped that being connected to mana this achievement might grant me more of it again, but instead I got stat points - ones I had mostly ignored while distributing my levels. Perhaps I should pay more attention to them. Because Arcane Power was also responsible for mana regeneration, which could be crucial if I started using a lot of it during fights, especially with a succubus and a slime feeding on it as well.

As my pleasure subsided, thinking about Peri made me realize that she was no longer on my thigh.

Looking down, I saw she had parted from my leg and, stretching and compressing her body, was swimming straight toward my cum.

As she touched it, it absorbed into her body, and she began to shiver before quickly darting toward another spurt before it could mix with the water. It looked like she intended to consume all of it.

“Okay, this is weird, even by the standards of this world,” I said, getting up from the water and watching Peri as she digested my sperm. At least I found a second thing she would eat beyond my mana.

“She’s like me,” Zoe giggled, watching the green blob. “She loves your mana and cum, Master.”

I was going to answer, but was interrupted.

“Please,” Azura whimpered, giving me a look that begged me to finally fuck her.

“Oh, baby, are you horny for our master’s cock?” the succubus purred.

Azura hummed a **** sounding yes.

“Go,” Zoe replied, pulling her hands away from the wolf shifter.

Azura got up and jumped at me straight from the bath. Fortunately, she wasn’t very heavy, and I managed to catch her while still standing as she pressed her mouth hungrily against mine, her pussy rubbing against my shaft as she moaned and grunted.

To stop her from coming like that, I pushed her away, turned her around, and pressed forward so she bent in front of me. With my cock still hard, I found her pussy and slid easily inside with how wet and aroused she was.

She moaned loudly, and then her insides spasmed as she came just from me penetrating her. Her whole body shivered as I started to fuck her slowly, sliding my cock out and back into her trembling insides.

“Zoe, drain the bathtub, pour fresh water, and join Azura,” I ordered, gesturing beside the wolf shifter whom I was still fucking, despite her already grunting and writhing from pleasure. “And help Peri out of the bath, don’t drain her,” I added, grabbing Azura’s hips to make my thrusts longer and harder, my body slapping against her ass.

When Zoe got out of the bath, she bent next to Azura, resting her hands on the edge of the tub and wiggling her ass at me invitingly. She also moved her tail to my shoulder, and Peri, who had been at the tip of it, slid back onto my body, settling on my shoulder as if watching from my perspective while I fucked Azura.

But I couldn’t resist the succubus’s pussy for long. I pulled my cock, wet from Azura’s arousal, out of her and stepped slightly to the side before plunging into Zoe’s insides, just as tight but much hotter, and started fucking her fast.

I kept switching between the two of them until both of them came two more times. When I was close, I would have loved to fill one of them, or even both at the same time if that were somehow possible, but I had another achievement to complete. Or rather start getting some progress.

“I need one of you to swallow it,” I said between thrusts, as it crossed my mind that Peri had technically swallowed it before, but it hadn’t counted toward the achievement.

“Me! Me! Me!” Zoe gasped as she turned around and dropped to her knees, opening her mouth wide and sticking out her tongue.

I pulled out of Azura’s pussy, and she dropped to her knees too, resting her head against the edge of the bath, still lost in the throes of pleasure. I placed my cock on Zoe’s tongue, and she immediately closed her mouth around it, closing her eyes before pushing her mouth forward and taking me straight down her throat until her lips wrapped around my base.

I groaned as she started to bob her head like that - small movements that made her throat rub the head of my cock. Already close, it pushed me over the edge instantly. I grabbed her head as I erupted down her throat, holding her pressed against me with my entire length in her mouth.

I basked in the pleasure of her hot throat around my spasming cock until I was spent, then pulled back. She kept her lips tightly wrapped and sucked me dry, swirling her tongue around the tip at the end before I slipped free of her mouth.

“God…” I groaned, looking at the two of them on their knees. “I love both of you.”

Zoe grinned, licking her lips. “I love you too, Master. And your cum.”

Still feeling the lingering pleasure of fucking and coming in Zoe’s mouth, I grabbed Azura and carried her into the bath, holding her in my arms and letting her rest with her back against my chest. Zoe slipped into the water opposite us, though her tail trailed possessively around my thigh.

Relaxing in the bath, I updated them about my achievements.

“I thought Healthy Diet was about you swallowing my loads, but it still says zero,” I said with a frown, wondering what went wrong.

Zoe giggled. “Master, maybe you should have a healthy diet.”

“And eat you out?” I asked, realizing she might be right.

“Yup,” Zoe nodded with a grin.

“We’ll test it later. I need to do it fifty times, so you might be in for a treat.”

“You too, Master,” the succubus purred.

I snorted before explaining the rest of the Sex Mage achievements. Zoe mostly agreed with my thoughts, while Azura simply cuddled against me. Then I moved on to the achievements connected to the Demon Master class.

“There is Reconcile Old Enemies. Do you know about any races of demons that were enemies in history?” I asked.

Zoe frowned, thinking for a moment before shaking her head. “But I know who will,” she replied with a smile.

“Yeah, I’m going with Mari to the library tomorrow, so I’ll ask Selira,” I replied. “The next one is Seed the Plant, which I thought might be about having a kid.”

That immediately woke Azura from her post-orgasmic haze as she lifted her head and looked at me with her dark blue eyes.

“I know, baby,” I said, brushing her hair out of her face. “And I promise, one day. But not now, okay?”

She hummed in agreement, though it sounded a little sad and disappointed as she lay back down on top of me, cuddling into my chest again.

“It’s in the Demon Master category, right?” Zoe asked with a frown.

“Yeah, so it’s probably with a demon.”

“But maybe a specific one? Like… an ent or something.”

“An ent?” I asked, unsure what that was.

“Yeah, it’s like a sentient tree. There are also other plant-based demons and dryads, so that would probably fit the achievement.”

I hummed, wondering if I would end up fucking a tree to complete one of my achievements. At least I hoped it would be something closer to a human than an actual plant.

“I think it will be best to wait for the description. It will probably appear before I’m ready to do it anyway.”

The next achievement on the list was Fear of Heights, but I decided to skip that one for now because of Zoe and her lack of wings. Instead, I moved to the last two, starting with It Shouldn’t Go There.

“I would say it’s about ass,” Zoe replied with a giggle. “But it’s in the Demon Master category, so maybe a demon ass?” she added, wiggling her own.

“It’s worth a try,” I replied, wondering if it wasn’t too simple. But before I came to this world, anal had just been a fantasy, so maybe I had simply become spoiled when it came to sex.

“And the last one is Bullseye!, and I have no clue,” I added.

Zoe pouted, wrinkling her nose while thinking, but she couldn’t come up with anything either.

“Peri?” I asked, and the slime shifted to stop at my hand that was resting on Azura’s stomach. She made a small circle there before she stopped, as if waiting for me to speak.

The last two days when I fed her, she wasn’t growing anymore, at least not as fast as before, but her absorbing my cum was something new. Though I wasn’t sure what to even ask about it. Not that she could explain to me why she had done it while only being able to communicate yes, no, and I don’t know.

“Does my cum work like mana for you?” I asked.

She moved left and right, which meant yes and no, so pretty much it meant nothing to me.

“Are you going to grow because of it?”

‘I don’t know.’

“Do you want more?”

She made a circle before confirming.

“Later?”

‘Yes.’

“Because you like it?”

Again she moved left and right.

I was supposed to find a better way to communicate with her, but it got lost among too many dungeon trips, dates, and sex.

“Do you want to have sex with Master?” Zoe asked suddenly, getting closer and looking at the green blob.

‘I don’t know,’ Peri replied.

“But he is your Master, right?” Zoe asked.

‘Yes.’

“And you want to make your Master happy?” Zoe asked with a smile.

“Zoe,” I said, realizing where she was going with it.

‘Yes.’ Peri replied.

“And sex makes him happy,” Zoe added, despite my protest.

Peri made a circle, which again I had no idea what it meant.

Not that I wasn’t curious, but I would prefer if she would actually grow more, and get a more feminine look rather than just being a big green blob. But who knows? Maybe it would be possible, and perhaps she would be interested, so I wasn’t crossing that option out.

“I’ll find a better way to communicate with you,” I murmured, looking at her up close.

She made a circle and then moved to answer yes.

With her limited options for answers, no more questions that would make sense came to my mind, so I just rested, relaxing in the hot water, cuddling with Azura, and washing before we finished and headed back to our room.