Chapter 123

After returning from the library, we ate a meal prepared by Hannah. At the same time, I fed Peri and wondered how to help Azura’s family - coming up with two ideas that could actually work. After the finished meal we were heading back to our room when Terra stopped me in the corridor.

“Do you have a moment to talk?” the orc asked.

“Sure, what’s up?” I replied, as Zoe and Azura entered our room, closing the door.

“My payment for work,” she replied, passing me a few coins. “I know it’s not a lot, and not even close to paying a weekly installment, but that’s all I have.”

It was seven ryns, out of thirty that I was supposed to pay every week. I had enough to pay, but it was hitting my finances quite hard. But if Terra would work a full week, it would help more and shouldn’t be that bad.

“Thanks,” I replied. For a moment, I was tempted to give her the rest of the money and ask her to take care of paying it the next day, but no matter how I would ask, she would take it as an order from her master, and I really didn't want to take advantage of the situation or get used to using them to do stuff that I don't want to do. And it was just a few minutes’ walk to do it myself.

“Are we going to the dungeon tomorrow?” Terra asked.

“Yeah. Actually, I wanted to ask, I’m going with Azura, Zoe, and my friend Selira to swim tomorrow at the lake close by. Do you want to join us with Mia? You could have some fun, the last month was rough on both of you.”

“Okay,” Terra replied immediately, and it didn't sound like she was agreeing to an offer, but acknowledging an order.

“It’s okay if you don’t want to go. It was an invitation, not an order,” I added.

The orc stared at me in silence before she gave a small nod. “Okay. I think Mia would like to go.”

“Great.”

“Can I ask you what your intentions are with her?” Terra asked. “Beyond the obvious ones.”

“Obvious ones?”

“I didn't mean anything bad,” Terra quickly explained. “But you asked her out on a date, and it’s obvious you want to sleep with her. Just like it’s obvious she wants to sleep with you. But if you are going to free us… what then?”

“I don't know,” I shrugged. “She will be a free woman and could do whatever she wants.”

“I’m asking it wrong,” Terra sighed. “Let’s pretend that she’s free right now. What are your intentions?”

“Are you asking if I want to sleep with her once and leave? Or do I want something more from it?”

“Yes,” Terra nodded. “I’m concerned about her. She’s never had a boyfriend, and I worry that she will get really invested, and if it is just fun for you, it might hurt her feelings.”

“I’m not going to have sex with her and leave,” I replied. “More likely, she will leave because of all the women around me. I already promised you that I don't want to hurt her. Not in any way - mentally or emotionally either.”

Terra nodded before she replied, “Sorry for bothering you.”

“It’s okay, you’re just worried. But everything is going to be okay.”

“Thank you,” Terra replied. “For everything.”

“No problem. Is Mia inside?” I asked, nodding toward their room.

“Yeah.”

“Can you get her?”

“Of course,” the orc replied. A moment later, the bunny girl stepped out of the room as Terra remained inside, closing the door.

“Hey cutie,” I said, smiling.

“H-Hi,” she stammered, already blushing.

“How is Mari’s healing going?” I asked.

“Good. Miss Zelda will finish the second ear tomorrow. Mari should take a two-day break from healing before taking care of the tail. But Miss Zelda said that she can join you in the dungeon if you stick to lower levels, and Mari stays back, only casting skills.”

“Perfect,” I replied. “I already asked Terra, and she agreed, but tomorrow late evening, we are going to the lake nearby. Do you want to join us?”

Mia glanced at me before she quickly averted her gaze back to her own feet, but she nodded vigorously, her long ears flapping above her head.

“Great, do you have a swimsuit?” I asked with a smirk.

This time, she shook her head.

“Then you will need to swim naked. I can't wait to see it,” I teased her.

“N-N-N…” she stammered and got stuck on that single letter.

“Good night, Mia,” I chuckled, walking into my room, leaving her still perplexed in the corridor. As I turned around, the amazing view was waiting for me - three naked demonesses in my bed. My cock was already growing hard as I grinned, approaching them.

As I got onto the bed, Amber was the closest. We immediately started making out, her naked body pressed into me, but I stopped us.

“Wait, there’s something I want to ask first,” I said, gently pushing her away as she shifted to kiss my chin.

“What?” she asked, her tone showing that she was clearly unhappy with the delay.

“Anna and Alyssa need education, money, and something to do. You could take them with you when you look for ingredients for your potions. And you could show them how to make them.”

“Why would I want to do that?” Amber asked with a huff.

“In their wolf forms, they have a better sense of smell than you. They can help you find more ingredients. You could pay them lower prices than you would need to pay on the market. And if you get too much, you could sell them and share the profit. They need money to live, and that would help.”

“That makes sense,” Amber murmured. “But why would I waste my time teaching them?”

“You could do something good for people who were born in a laboratory, were slaves their whole lives, and were experimented on. You would do a good deed,” I replied, but it didn't look like I was convincing her. “And because I’m asking you.”

Amber pouted, squinting her eyes, and I already knew she would agree. But not for free. Her gaze shifted to Zoe and Azura, who were watching in silence, before the elf focused on me again.

“I will take them with me to look for ingredients, and I will give them one lesson. If they are useless or helpless, I’m not going to teach them. I only give them a chance, but I have a price.”

“And what would that be?” I asked.

“I want you just for myself,” she replied. When I looked at her, wanting to be serious, she continued, “for one night. You take me on a date. Only me. Not a strange shared date. Then we have sex. Only you and me. For the whole night.”

“But they will sleep with us in the same bed,” I said. That price wasn’t that high, especially since I could fuck Zoe and Azura just before the date with Amber.

“You are the one that wants something from me,” Amber replied.

“And you will get it, but they need a bed to sleep in,” I said.

Amber huffed, but then nodded. “But you must pretend like they don’t exist when we have sex. And then you spoon me the whole night.”

“Okay. I’m meeting with Selira tomorrow late evening. We are going to take a late swim in the lake. You can join us. And you can have your night with me the day after.”

“I’m going with you tomorrow, but that doesn’t count,” Amber replied.

“When will you take the girls to look for ingredients and teach them?” I asked.

“Tomorrow is as good as any other day,” the elf shrugged.

“Thank you, princess,” I murmured, kissing her again. We got lost in each other, having rather calm sex, after which she was happy and satisfied, but wasn’t turned into an incoherent mess.

Azura was the next one, and after two quick orgasms for her, she fell asleep, curling up into a ball, with a cute smile on her adorable face.

I was kissing Zoe, kneeling between her spread legs, my cock rubbing against her pussy, just going to push inside when she stopped me.

“Master, you should really learn how to block a succubus from draining your mana,” she said.

“Do you really think I’ll have sex with another succubus?” I asked.

“You just stumbled into a vampire out of nowhere…”

What I really wanted at the moment was to fill her with my cock and make her squirm in pleasure as I erupted inside her, but a few minutes of training shouldn’t be that bad, especially since part of this training was having sex with Zoe.

“Okay,” I murmured, leaning down to kiss her as I pushed my cock into her scorching wet pussy, her soft tunnel snuggling around my shaft. But she broke the kiss and pushed us to turn around, so she was on top, controlling things during my lesson.

She was draining my mana slowly so I could focus on it and stop her. It wasn't that easy, and I needed a bit of time to interrupt her, which was an issue when she would quickly pull at my mana. Before I could focus on it, she was already done.

Keeping my focus was also hard, because of her naked body on top of me and her amazing pussy wrapped around my dick. We kept repeating the process of her draining my mana and me stopping her, hoping that I would learn how to do it faster through repetition.

But after just a few minutes, I had enough. The desire to finally fuck her was too strong. I finished our lesson without much progress, as I grabbed her and turned us around. She squealed, but before she could say anything, I grabbed her legs, pushed them to her chest, and started fucking her.

Even if she wanted to say something, it was interrupted by her moans as my hard cock plundered her insides. When, a few minutes later, I dropped to the bed, panting, her pussy was full of my cum, and we both drifted off to sleep.

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“We have a problem,” Gemma said when I woke up in the dream world. She was looking frustrated, but she was wearing her teasing purple witch dress, which I assumed meant she wasn't mad at me. At least not much.

“What happened?” I asked.

“The Dragon knows you have mana.”

“Wait, what?! How?”

“She tasted your blood.”

“No, she didn't,” I protested.

“Didn't she scratch your back when you were fucking her?”

“Yeah, but not to the blood,” I replied, with a frown.

“Are you sure? Even a drop?”

“Maybe,” I sighed. “Was that enough? And she didn't say anything.”

“If it was on her fingers, she could have tasted it after leaving the room,” Gemma replied.

“Isn’t it illegal? And taboo? Zoe told me that vampires can’t drink another vampire’s… food.”

“The Dragon isn't exactly someone who follows the law. But if she did it after leaving the room, alone, she probably thought no one would find out.”

“But you caught her, so it's not a big problem that she knows,” I said.

“Sort of, but I hoped she would have important information, remember? And now she only wants to talk with you.”

“I’m not giving her my blood.”

“For now, she wants to talk,” Gemma replied. “Maybe you can convince her to share what she knows without giving her your blood.”

“I don't like it,” I stated. “Can’t you enslave her and **** her to tell you what you want to know?”

“First of all, I didn't fight against illegal slavery for the last three centuries to go around and enslave everyone I don't like,” Gemma snapped. “And even if I would agree because she’s a criminal, she’s protected,” she murmured.

“Protected? Is that even possible? How?”

“I don't know how. There are a few ways, in her case, most likely it's because of her class.”

“So what now?” I asked.

“I’m not going to **** you to give her your blood or even talk, but I can pay you,” Gemma offered.

“For my blood or talking?”

“Just talking.”

“She’s not going to tell me anything if I don't give her my blood.”

“That’s why I won’t pay you a lot, but it’s easy money for you.”

“Isn't she in the capital?”

“Transporting her to Ortas is not a problem,” Gemma shrugged.

“You will come here to listen to our talks?” I asked.

“Sage will listen and pass anything of value to me,” Gemma replied.

I sighed, wondering if I should agree, when another thought crossed my mind. “Doesn't she need to drink blood to survive?”

“I’ll provide it to her,” Gemma replied. “From someone willing to sell it,” she added. “That might convince her to talk, even if it’s not your blood.”

“So you don't really need me. I don't think Zoe would be able to refuse anything back when I found her in the cave, for a bit of my mana. If it's the same with Whitney, just wait and she will tell you everything.”

“Zoe was starved for a really long time, and it is different. Whitney would get sick and die without drinking blood, but I’m not sure if the prospect of that is enough to make her talk. Right now, she’s refusing to talk to anyone beyond you. Maybe you can convince her to talk without starving her.”

“First of all, Zoe must agree,” I said.

I wasn't sure if she would be okay even if I would only talk with Whitney, and while she would probably accept it, it would upset her.

“Okay,” Gemma replied.

“And I want a hundred ryns per talk,” I added.

Gemma snorted, then started to laugh, shaking her head.

“What?” I asked. “You don't know what you will learn from her. It might be important.”

“Or she will demand your blood, you will refuse, and it will be the end of your talk. I’m not paying that much. No fucking way. Don’t be ridiculous.”

“For you it’s nothing,” I replied.

“A hundred ryns is not nothing, and even if so, it doesn’t mean I should go spend them left and right without care. I can give you ten ryns per talk. It's generous anyway, but you must really try to learn something from her. And if you actually learn something valuable, I’ll give you bonuses.”

“Fifty per talk, and bonuses,” I replied.

“Don’t push it. I’m offering you free money. And I can let her rot in prison. Maybe in twenty years she will talk without your help. I’m patient.”

“What value would her information have in twenty years?”

“Might not have value at all right now,” Gemma replied. “Ten ryns per talk, three times a week. You’ll pay the debt for Mia with that,” she said. “Or ask for more one more time, and that offer is off the table, and struggle to earn it yourself.”

I frowned, looking at Gemma, wondering if she was serious, and from the look she was giving me I believed she was. So that was the best I could get, and it was only for talking. But there was something else that I wanted to ask Gemma about, and that was a perfect opportunity.

“That, and a favor,” I replied.

“What favor?” Gemma asked, crossing her arms over her chest, looking at me suspiciously.

“Do you know that the library in Ortas hires only one person to do everything there?” I asked.

“And your nymph girlfriend doesn't have time for you?” Gemma asked with a smirk.

“She’s not my girlfriend. At least not yet. But she’s working really hard there and hasn't had a free day in a very long time. Probably years. She needs help, and they should hire a second person to work there.”

“I can agree to that, but you promise to really try to convince the Dragon to speak,” Gemma replied.

“I will, but that’s not all,” I said.

“What more?”

“I already have a candidate for that job.”

“Who?”

“Hannah. She and her daughters need money. After so long in the laboratory, she might have a problem finding a new job, but helping Selira shouldn’t be hard.”

“And why do you want to help her?”

“She’s Azura’s mother,” I shrugged.

“Can’t you help me like that for free? And not try to rip me off for just talking to the Dragon?”

“Maybe if I was sleeping with your daughter too,” I joked.

“Don't even think about it!” Gemma snapped, suddenly glaring at me, the threat clear in her eyes.

“I was joking,” I said quickly, raising my hands in a surrender gesture.

Gemma huffed, leaning back. “I will organize a workplace for Hannah at the library.”

“Tomorrow?” I asked.

“Do you think I don’t have anything better to do?” Gemma asked.

“How long will it take you? Order someone to pay more for the library, so Selira can hire someone.”

“I’ll take care of that in the morning,” Gemma replied with a roll of her eyes.

“Thank you.”

“Sage will transport Whitney to Ortas tomorrow. She will handle your meetings and payment.”

“Okay. Also, you shouldn't wait for me tomorrow. I’m taking Selira and the other girls for a late swim at the lake. We’ll get back late, and go to sleep even later.”

“Thanks for letting me know,” Gemma replied. “Is there something else?”

“Just a question,” I replied. “You mentioned that there are ways to protect yourself from being enslaved. Are you protected?”

“Why? Do you want to turn me into your **** girl?” she asked with a smirk.

“You are not a demon.”

“You could use a regular way,” she replied, still smiling.

“Then I will prepare a collar for you,” I joked.

“You can try,” Gemma snorted. “Good luck with that.”

“So you are protected?” I asked.

“Of course.”

“Can I get protected?”

“It’s not that simple,” Gemma replied, shaking her head. “But don’t worry, if someone enslaves you, I will save you. Unless it's me,” she added with a smirk.

“Good luck with that,” I replied.

Gemma only smiled and while both of us had nothing more to say or ask, we said our goodbyes and I left the dream world, returning to my peaceful sleep.