The way Lilith saw it

[Lilith point-of-view]

As I am talking to Darx about the whereabouts of his mother, a pack of wargs comes out of the forest and attacks the villagers. It must be a group of leftover monsters that has been lurking in the forest after the horde was broken. There is no way the villagers will outrun dog-like creatures like that. Of nobody interferes they will be killed.

“Crap, we have to get over there.” I say and use my [Shape Shift] skill to grow a pair of wings from my back. Reptilian ones. I love pretending that I am a Draconian.

With my green scaly wings ready, I jump forward while at the same time spreading my wings and flapping them down hard once. It is enough to launch me well enough from the ground that I am now airborne and fly in the direction of the wargs as quickly as I can. Behind me I hear Darx and Wendy move into action. Two B ranks and an A rank. We’ll take care of these wargs really quickly.

When I get close to the first one, I draw my sword. An old rusted Kakizashi. Then I fly low over the ground, just out of reach of the wargs and slash with my sword at one of them as I fly over him. It makes a small cut in his back, but a small cut is all I need. My goal is to draw these wargs away from the villagers and being a threat to these monsters should make them target me first.

After my first flight across the pack, I fly a bit higher. Enough to make a turn and then come back for another. On the other side of the pack, I see Darx and Wendy getting closer. Darx is even wielding 2 swords. I didn’t see him do that in the tournament. I guess he’s learned a new trick after it. I will have to ask him about that.

As I fly across the wargs a second time, one of them surprises me by jumping and bites one of my wings. He keeps his jaws closed and lets the weight of his body drag me to the ground. This is bad. If he bites me in the wrong place I am done for. Fortunately, I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

After crashing, I use [Shape Shift] again and transform my left arm into a tentacle. I wrap it around the warg’s throat, **** him and preventing him from biting me. Then I use [Life Drain]. It’s a spell I can cast because of my ability to use **** magic. The warg’s fur starts to turn gray and his skin shrivels up. Meanwhile, my wing, where he has bitten me, starts to heal, until I can fly again.

I notice a few other wargs closing in on me. I plunge my wakizashi into the chest of the warg that I’m **** and finish him. I throw him off me and turn my left arm from a tentacle back into an arm, but I am too late to dodge the other 2 wargs. Instead, I use [Double Vision]. This skill allows me to split my body in two exact copies of myself. This confuses the attacking wargs enough that both my bodies can launch and fly off, out of their reach.

This time, when I look across the field, I see Darx and Wendy have already engaged the wargs and are taking some of them out. Further up, from the village, other adventurers are rushing towards us as well. Among them are several of the Kight’s Hospitaler. Knowing them, they are going to focus their search for villagers and only attack the wargs if necessary.

But suddenly, I start noticing something weird. A strange essence that is demonic in nature. I am not supposed to be sensing this here. After all, there are no demons around. I let both my bodies scan for where the essence is coming from. It is Darx. Hang on, I’ve sensed something from him before. A few months ago, when Kase kissed Wendy in front of him. I noticed a darkness rising from Darx when that happened. And here it is again. Except now it is heavier. It quickly grows stronger and becomes a lot more oppressive then my mother’s essence from before she fell into a coma. To think that a cute guy like Darx has such impressive strength inside him. I feel compelled to respect it and honestly, start feeling a little horny for him.

When Darx starts shooting beams of darkness at the wargs I shake my head and remind myself that this is not right. Those blasts are pure demonic energy. Only demons are supposed to have access to that power and Darx is not a demon. So, how can he cast a spell like that?

At any rate, the wargs are already running away. The danger has passed, yet Darx is still shooting those dark blasts at him. I fly one of my two bodies over him and call to him to stop. Instead, he turns his arm to me and shoots one of those blasts in my direction. The blast hits my left arm and wing and destroys both, causing my second body to feel the pain as well. The body that got hit falls straight to the ground and it hits the surface so hard that several bones break. Those broken bones too are something I feel in my second body. The pain is so much that I can’t stay airborne and I fall as well. Fortunately, I can at least use my wings enough that I land save enough, but one of my wings gets broken in the fall. Although the body Darx damaged is too hurt and it disintegrates.

I decide to keep my head down for now, hoping Darx won’t attack me again. That is when I hear Wendy calling out to Darx. I look up and see Darx aim his arm at Wendy and shoot a dark beam at her as well. But rather than hit her, the dark beam just stops a few inches before Wendy. She has no idea that her [Null Field] just saved her life. But what I notice most about Darx is that his eyes no longer have red colored irises like usual. They have switched to purple. What the fuck is going on?

Wendy then makes use of her invulnerability to Darx’s dark beams and rushes towards him to grab him by the wrist. The second Wendy’s hand makes contact with Darx, the demonic aura radiating from him comes to an abrupt end and his eyes switch back to red.

“Darx! What is going on?” Wendy asks. “You attacked Lilith!”

“Wha?” Darx asks and look around him all confused. Including at me as I am struggling with a broken wing.

“Did I do that?” Darx asks. Why is he asking about things he has done. Does he not remember?

“You don’t remember?” Wendy asks. “You were screaming and fired at me as well. What has gotten into you?”

As I look at Darx’s face, I see the color drain and be becomes quite pale.

“I don’t … feel so good.” He says weakly.

Then Darx gets on one knee and loses consciousness.

“Fuck!” Wendy curses. “Lilith! Are you alright?!”

I look around and check for any wargs, but all of them have left.

“I’ll be fine!” I call back.

I use my [Shape Shift] once more. This time to pull my wings back into my body. This time it actually hurts because of the broken wing. Wendy picks Darx up and carries him on her back. The other adventurers arrive, Ryul and Shalia amongst them, and ask about the fight, but I tell them everything’s alright. There is no way I would tell anyone about the immense demonic energies radiating from Darx. It would just make them afraid. But I certainly have to report this.

I find myself a solitary spot where I won’t get interrupted, then I reach with my fingers into my mouth. I use [Shape Shift] to make the inside of my cheek peel away until I can grab the blue gemstone hidden inside. It’s a whisper gem. Something only special agents in the Royal Guard possess. Once I’ve got it out, I hold it in my hand in front of me. I think about Zhoron and form an image of his face in my mind, then I whisper his name. The gem starts to shine a light blue glow as I wait.

After a few seconds, Zhoron’s voice comes out of the gem saying, “You are not on any special mission, Lilith. Why are you calling me?” He is sounding more annoyed than usual. Just my luck.

“There has been a development.” I say. “Something you will want to know.”

“Alright, what is it. But keep it short.”

I let him know that Darx just had a case of expressing a serious amount of demonic energy. He is back to normal now, but it was quite alarming when I felt it happening.

“Hmm. That is indeed a concern.” Zhoron’s voice says. “Did anyone else notice it?”

“Wendy was there.” I say. “She was able to get him out of it with her [Null Field], but I don’t think she recognized the true nature of the energy emanating from him.”

“That’s good.” Zhoron responds. “We need to keep this hidden for now. We can’t afford it becoming public knowledge. Even rumors need to be squashed.”

“Sir, this is not the first time Darx has shown this power. Remember his month in the castle? He already showed this kind of energy back then.” I remind Zhoron. “Except this time, it was far stronger. Even more, his eyes had changed color. They were no longer red but purple.”

Zhoron is silent for a moment. Then he asks, “Are they still purple?”

“No sir.” I answer. “As soon as Wendy canceled whatever was going on, his eyes switched back to red.”

“Right.” Zhoron replies. “I will have to inform Aelbrecht about this.” Wait, Aelbrecht know about this too? “We better keep an eye on him for now. I want you and Wendy to stick close to him. But don’t make it obvious. We don’t want him to think the Royal Guard is suspicious of him. The last thing we need is for him to start hiding things from us.”

“Alright. Lilith out.” I say, and stop channeling my magic through the crystal. The light goes out and I put it back into my mouth. Hiding it inside my cheek with the help of [Shape Shift].

I return to Wendy and find her with Darx still ****. He is resting on a bed and Kiara and Amelia are there too. I pull Wendy away from them for a moment and try my best to convince her to join their party.

“But … we were supposed to stay guard and keep the village safe.” Wendy says confused.

“True, but the village was in danger again because of those wargs that came from the forest.” I reply. “If we go into the forest together withy Darx, we would kill some monsters before they can get to this village. Besides, there are other Royal Guards here. They can take care of the village for us.

Wendy looks at me with a raised eyebrow.

“Don’t you want to go adventuring with your friends again?” I ask, trying to motivate her to give in.

Wendy keeps her eyebrow raised at me and replies, “This is about the dark beams Darx was shooting, isn’t it?”

Crap. For a former whore from the slums, Wendy is pretty sharp.

“Ok, fine.” I sigh in defeat. “If Darx gets another attack like that, you are going to need to be there to pull him out of it. We can’t afford to have him hurting his friends by accident.”

“Hmm, you’re right about that.” Wendy says. “Yeah, it would be good to join my friends on an adventure again. Thanks for the suggestion.”

As Wendy returns to Darx’s friends, I think back of the aura that was coming from Darx. In my mind, I know it’s a bad thing. But emotionally, I kinda want him to go through it again. Fuck, that was hot. Ugh, thinking about him like that got me horny. I need to go back to the place I contacted Zhoron and jill myself off.