WIEDERGEBURT Act VII: Chapter 38

“I have te admit, I wasn’t sure what ye wanted when you asked me te make this… but I think it’s come out lookin’ good, in ma opinion.”

Sterk was leading my wives and I to the isolation chamber, which was actually located deep underneath Vahn. We had already ascended via a lift that operated on the same principals as the lifts found in Midgard, the previous capital of the Northern Plains, and now we were walking along a well-lit corridor.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how it works,” I said to him.

“Ye’ll have to thank Kari for doing most of the legwork.” Sterk scratched as his beard as he looked at the blonde woman by my side. “She laid down all the groundwork for the runes—with some help from Lady Fray. All me and ma people did was create te building and make sure none o’ the blood ran out o’ the lines.”

“I had a lot of help from Fray,” Kari admitted. “She’s the one who knows the most about the Shared Power Array, but I was the one who figured out how to combine the Shared Power Array with the Time Compression Array and Power Generating Array.”

“The fact that you can do so much in so little time is impressive in and of itself,” Fay said with a sigh. “As always, you never cease to amaze me.”

“You’re pretty amazing too,” Kari complimented. “Your alchemy pills are incredible.”

Fay gave the woman a small smile. “I know.”

“Hmph. This princess is also amazing,” Lin muttered.

Siv patted the pouting woman on the head. “There. There.”

“Don’t patronize this princess.”

A little further behind us, walking at a slower pace, Chloe and Tora were having their own conversation.

“I hope you realize what you are getting into,” Chloe was saying. “Dual cultivating like this means you are going to have sex with Eryk and the rest of his wives. Are you mentally prepared for that? I hope you are. It would be a shame if you chickened out.”

“O-of course I know what I’m getting into!” Tora snapped, cheeks bursting with color. “Who the fuck do you think I am? I’m prepared! I-I can also do whatever the fuck it takes to get stronger!”

“Is that so? I’m glad.” Chloe wore a small smile as she continued to walk with her hands clasped together. “I am personally looking forward to serving Eryk and his other wives. Hmmm. It sounds like a lot of fun.”

“What is that supposed to mean? And why the fuck are you licking your lips? Cut it out!”

Chloe and Tora might have both been members of the God Race, but they came from two very different environments. Chloe was a member of the Valkyries, a division in the army made up entirely of women, and it wasn’t unusual for those women to share sexual experiences. She might have saved her virginity for the man she planned to marry, but she wasn’t above enjoying some cunnilingus with the women in her division.

At the end of this hall was a door. Made from a silver material that gleamed brightly, the entire doorway was covered in runes that made it look like a work of art. It was similar to the door that led into the previous isolation chamber. This one differed, however, in that some of the runes on it were different.

It still opened the same way as the previous one.

“This is it,” Sterk said, gesturing for everyone to head inside. “What do ye think?”

“Wooow!” came the call from several women at once.

I didn’t disagree with them. The inside didn’t look like a training room at all.

Our shoes sank into the soft carpet, which was made from a type of Demon Beast hide that was said to be the softest material in the world. A bed sat in the very center of this room. It was even larger than the bed we had been using at our house, was covered in satiny red sheets, and featured a canopy. It was also shaped like a circle instead of a rectangle.

There were many other features. A dresser, armoire, and closet for stashing our clothes were located off to the side. All of them were big enough that I imagined it would be easy for us to stash our personal effects inside. That said, I was fairly certain we’d be spending most of our time naked, so I wasn’t sure why they had bothered.

Perhaps the feature I appreciated the most, however, was the bath. It was located though an archway and looked large enough to fit all seven of us comfortably. Steam was rising from the surface. Somehow, despite that, none of the steam left the area surrounding the bath, making me realize there was a barrier to keep the bath and everything else separated.

This room also had an archway that led into a kitchen, which looked fully functional, with everything from a stove, oven, and grill to a cooler that relied on runes to keep everything fresh. And beyond the kitchen was something that looked like a training ground.

“This is pretty impressive,” I said at last.

“Ain’t it, though.” Sterk puffed up his chest in pride. “Yer wife might have been the person who laid down all the runes, but ma boys and me were the ones who actually built this place. Since you will be spending a couple o’ years in here with yer wives, we wanted to make it comfortable enough to live in.”

Comfortable enough to live in? I’d seen extravagant resorts that were less posh than this.

Everyone but Kari quickly moved further into the room; Chloe traveled into the kitchen, Lin immediately pounced onto the bed, Fay traveled passed the kitchen and toward the training ground, while Siv went to the bathtub. Tora hesitated for a moment, but then she followed Fay out to the training ground.

Kari turned and bowed to Sterk. “Thank you for all your hard work. I can tell you put a lot of effort into making this space as liveable as possible.”

Sterk bashfully scratched the back of his head. “Naw. Ye don’t need te thank me. This was the least we could do. Just… make sure ye rescue our leader once you finish yer training, yah?”

“We’ll save Hriedmar,” I said. “You can count on it.”

Sterk thanked us before leaving. The door closed behind him, there was a soft click as some mechanism inside locked, and then seals sprang to life on the surface.

“Those seals means the rune array has been activated,” Kari announced.

“Guess that means we should get started,” I said.

“I think we should familiarize ourselves with this room first,” Kari denied.

I shrugged since I couldn’t really argue with her. We moved deeper into the room and did some exploring of our own.

I first checked the bath, which I realized was bigger than it seemed. It not only traveled from one end of the bathing room to the other, but you could swim underneath the wall and it led into something like a small alcove. It was like a secret hideout.

I also checked out the kitchen, and just as I expected, it had everything a chef could possibly want, including a pit for cooking meat on a rotisserie. The cooler was also fully stocked. There were runes etched onto the inside, which expanded the interior and made it possible to carry what seemed to me like several thousand square meters of food.

Fay and Tora walked back inside after checking out the training area. Both looked excited, though Fay was positively bouncing.

“The training grounds are incredible,” she breathed out, her face flushed. “I don’t know how it’s made, but you can do any damage you can think of and the room will repair itself.”

“Self-Repairing Array,” Kari explained. “It takes Spiritual Power from the people using it to repair any damage done. There is a limit, however, so please don’t push too hard. I only added that because I knew we’d need to train extensively if we wanted to really master everything we gain from cultivating.”

Fay nodded while Tora just clicked her tongue. At the same time, Chloe turned away from the stove to face us.

“Can I assume these stoves are also an invention of yours?” she asked.

Kari shook her head. “Stoves have been in use for decades now. The Dweorgs are the ones who made this stove. I can tell it’s been heavily modified from the original stoves found on the Northern Plains by the material they used. That’s mythril.”

“Sterk really did get all out when creating this place,” I said.

“Seems like it,” Kari agreed.

“So how are we gonna fucking do this?” asked Tora, her cheeks turning a brisk red. “Do we just, like, get to fucking, or is there some kind of process we should go through.”

“I am going to start cooking,” Chloe said. “However, I believe the rest of you should get started without me. There’s something I’d like to try.”

Tora, Fay, Kari, and I wandered back in the bedroom to find Lin and Siv on the bed. While Siv sat on her haunches, hands firmly in her lap as her dragon wings flapped lightly in anticipation, Lin was lounging on the bed like an indulgent queen waiting for servants to feed her grapes.

“Welcome back, you four,” Lin said. “Are we going to begin training?”

Training, she called it. Well, it was a type of training I guess, though I wasn’t sure the name was very apt.

“I think we should take a bath first,” Siv suggested quietly.

“You just want to take a bath,” Lin said.

“What’s your point?”

“Don’t back talk me!”

“I actually agree with Siv,” I said. “I would really like to try out the bath.”

“So we’re going to get clean, and then get dirty again?” Kari asked. Then she giggled. “I’m okay with that.”

Fay just rolled her eyes, but she did not reject the idea, and so we all found ourselves getting naked. I stripped off my shirt, my pants, socks, and shoes. I was perfectly aware of the eyes on me while I took of my clothes. Gazing back at the four women blatantly ogling me, I grinned.

“Like what you see?”

“I wouldn’t be staring if I didn’t,” Kari shot back.

Fay blushed a little, but managed to say, “I will admit that I… appreciate the view.”

“Ah! Fay is learning wit,” Kari said with a giggle.

“If I am learning wit, then it must have come from you,” Fay replied.

“Seeing you naked makes this princess hungry. She just wants to gobble you up,” said Lin, flagrantly at the dangling instrument between my legs. My cock was currently limp, but it would rise soon enough.

“You’re gonna fucking eat him?!” Tora asked in shock.

Lin glared at her. “That was a figure of speech.”

“Oh.” Tora paused, then her eyes widened when she finally got it. “Oh. Fuck. You’re a nasty woman, aren’t you?”

“You’ll be joining this nasty princess in bed. No back talk.”

“Eryk.” Siv was already naked as she grabbed my hand and began dragging me toward the archway. “Let’s get in the bath. Hurry up.”

“All right. We’re coming.”

Since Siv was so impatient, we all traveled into the baths. Heat washed over us the moment we stepped through the archway. There was definitely some kind of barrier keeping the heat trapped inside.

The room was covered in tile from the floor to the ceiling. Our footsteps echoed around the room as we traveled along the tiles, and I was certain heat was not the only thing the barrier trapped in here. The acoustics were different in this room than the bedroom.

There were no showers in here, but Kari did not appear concerned as she stepped into the bath, waded forward until the water was up to her hips, then turned around. She waved us in with a grin.

“You can all just come in. The runes in this bath clean the water, so it will never get dirty.”

“That’s… convenient,” I said as I followed her into the bath. Siv was quicker than me. She raced across the tiles and jumped in, splashing water in all directions. The wave was bigger than it should have been, considering how small she was, but that tail of hers probably made her weigh around two times more than her figure suggested.

“Ugh… don’t jump in like that,” Tora grumbled. “There’s a fucking etiquette to bathing, you know?”

Siv emerged from the water, shook her head like a dog, and replied to Tora without concern. “So? This is our bath and no one else is going to use it.”

“Tch!” Tora clicked her tongue but said nothing more as she waded into the water, hands covering her chest and crotch.

“Why are you covering yourself?” asked Lin as she slithered into the pool beside Fay. “It’s not like Darling hasn’t seen you naked before.”

“Fuck you. It’s just… a bit embarrassing, okay?” Tora grouched, voice snappish.

As everyone continued to talk, I waded over to a small bench that ran across one side of the room, sat down, and watched as my wives did their own thing. Siv was doggy paddling across the pool, Kari and Fay were talking about something together, Lin was just floating in the water, and Tora was swimming from one side to the other. I was tempted to tell Tora that swimming like that was also against poolside etiquette, but I knew she’d cuss at me. It was still hard to refrain from teasing her.

At some point, Kari and Fay both turned to me. Kari was grinning from ear to ear, and Fay was wearing a small smile as they both waded over and sat down on either side of me.

“Are you having fun watching your wives frollic?” Kari placed her hand on my thigh and began inching it up. “Are you enjoying yourself?”

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t,” I admitted, pausing when Kari’s soft hand wrapped around my dick. It was already erect. I had a naturally high libido to begin with, and watching my wives enjoy themselves while completely bereft of clothes was just doing it for me.

“You definitely would be,” Kari agreed as she stroked my shaft with feather light touches. “Your little man here is already so hard and stiff.”

“He’s very honest,” I said with a pleased sigh.

A second pair of hands soon joined the first as Fay leaned over, pressed her chest into my shoulder, and began nibbling on my ear. I knew for a fact that this was Kari’s machinations since Fay wasn’t the type to do this unless pushed into it. That was also why I really enjoyed it when Kari did push her.

“Kari isn’t the only one here, you know,” Fay whispered in my ear.

“I haven’t forgotten you,” I said, and I was certain I hadn’t imagined the hungry growl in my voice.

Because I only had one hand, my ability to please two women at once using just foreplay was limited, but I made do. I slipped my hand between Kari’s thighs. She released a soft, delicate moan as I caressed the petals of her pussy. Then she gasped when I rubbed my finger across her slit. Her small pearl was soon exposed to my finger, and I didn’t hesitate to rub, pinch, and roll it.

“Mmm. Eryk… your hand… haaa… hhmmmm… it feels so good,” Kari moaned. She kept one hand on my cock, but the other went to keep my own hand locked firmly in place, and then she began grinding her snatch against my hand. The slow, gyrating motion of her hips caused her breasts to bounce.

Speaking of breasts…

“Hyk! Eryk! You know those are sensitive!” Fay bit back a cry as I pressed my mouth to her breasts. I focused on the left one first, coaxing her nipple out from the folds of skin with my tongue, and then rolling it around in my mouth. I pulled back, blew on it to chill her skin, then went back down. “Eryk! If you—hrrrn! If you keep doing that—ahn! I’m gonna—gonna cum!”

Fay was, in fact, the first one to cum. Her entire body shuddered after I coaxed out her second nipple. She panted and moaned, and I wished to all nine realms that I had both my fucking hands. Not having two hands was torturous. I wanted to feel this woman’s juices on my finger, to plunge my fingers into the depths of her pussy and feel it convulse around me as she orgasmed.

First thing I did after mastering the Concept of Life would be to recreate my arm.

Kari came not long after Fay, and I followed suit, spurting several threads of hot liquid into Kari’s hand… though it sadly dissipated as the Self-Cleaning Array kicked in. We leaned against each other, basking in the afterglow. Or we did until Siv and Lin appeared before us.

“That’s not fair. This princess wants to be pleased too.”

“I do too, Eryk. Please me too.”

Kari and Fay scooted out of the way as the Lamia and the Drakvarian closed the distance. Siv sat between me and Fay, but Lin planted herself firmly on my lap and leaned back. From the way Siv’s eyes widened, then narrowed, she was quite disappointed that she hadn’t thought of this first. I would have sympathized, but Lin ground her butt against my still raging erection and I found it impossible to concentrate on anything.

“Come on, Darling. Make this princess feel good,” Lin goaded.

“I will do a lot more than that,” I said with a growl.

I slid my arm around Lin’s hip and placed it against her belly, splaying my fingers as I enjoyed the way her taut stomach flexed. It didn’t remain there long. I traveled down very soon and cupped her sex. Lin’s pussy was surrounded by a pair of soft scales that felt similar to skin but a little sturdier. I rubbed my finger across her pussy lips until her clit was protruding from its hood, then rubbed it.

“Yes! Right there! Just… just like that! Darling!”

Lin arched her back against me and tilted her head to one side, exposing her neck. I leaned down and began trailing kisses across her skin. She tasted a little salty as sweat formed on her neck. One glistening trail appeared above me, and I pressed my tongue to her skin, then licked my way from her soft throat to her jawline.

“Hrrrn! Haaaa! Oh! Dahling! K-keep going! I wantsh more! Hssss!”

Lin was already slurring her words as I pushed a single finger into her pussy, stopping only after I reached the second knuckle. I pulled it back, then pushed it in again. She was so tight that it would be very difficult to have sex unless I got her good and ready. That made me wonder if we would have sex here in the bathtub, or if we would take this to the bed before things escalated to that point.

“Dahling! Oh! Dahling! Your fingers! Sho good! They feel… sho good!”

Lin was drooling and grinding her backside against me by this point. Kari leaned in and whispered in my ear.

“I think your princess wants you to take her in the ass.”

“Yes! Dahling! This princess! Her ass! Take her! Now!”

That was an invitation I could hardly refuse, and so I maneuvered myself until my cock was no longer trapped between her butt and my stomach, but pressing against her puckered hole. I grunted as I entered her tight sphincter, but pushed bravely on until her butt was resting against my crotch. The feeling of her asshole twitching around me was so intense I knew I’d cum soon.

But I refused to be the only one cumming here.

While I always told myself that I didn’t have any pride, I knew that was a lie. There were a lot of things I prided myself on. One of those things was being able to make my wives cum.

“Aaaahn! Hmmmm! Hssssss! Haaa… dahling… dahling! I—aaaahn!”

Lin’s moans grew increasingly more erotic. Her tail had already coiled around my legs. Her mouth was wide open, tongue hanging out and eyes unseeing as she hissed, moaned, and chanted my name in her slurred tongue. Her orgasm hit hard. She shuddered from her head to her tail, and her asshole tightened around me so hard that I couldn’t pull out. All I could do was remain locked in place until her body relaxed.

“Haaaa… haaa… Dahling… this princess… feels so good,” Lin mumbled against me.

I laughed and kissed the top of her head, but then Siv pulled the girl off me, pushed her into Kari, and climbed on top of me.

“I’m next.”

She grabbed my still hard cock and lined herself up. I grunted and came the moment she lowered herself against me. Her tight little pussy was just too much stimulation after what I’d just done, but even though I shot my cum straight into her belly, Siv did not stop moving. She gyrated her hips. The movement of her body was so erotic and the sensations of my cock rubbing against her insides was so good that I was hard again in moments.

“That’s good. I need you to be hard. Eryk. I want you have sex with me now.”

I almost laughed, but I was pretty breathless right now. “We are having sex.”

“Mmm. So we are. Hmmm. Haaaa. Mmmm. I want more. Make me feel more, okay? You have to make me feel as good… as you did Lin…”

“I think I can do that.”

Siv placed her hands on my shoulders and leaned back as I began thrusting my hips. She closed her eyes and moaned, though her eyes popped wide open when I leaned down and began licking her chest. I started from one breast, trailing my tongue from the bottom of her boob all the way up her neck. The way her body shuddered told me she liked it. I never did understand why Siv enjoyed being licked so much, but that didn’t stop me from repeating this action several times.

Her moans picked up in volume and frequency as she ground her pelvis against me, timing her movements to my thrusts. She was tight. It made big thrusts hard, but we made do with littler movements. My thrusts were short and sharp. Siv’s moans were similar short, like tiny yips as she bounced on my cock. The loud splashing of her tail as it emerged from the water served only to create background noise.

I felt hands roam my stomach and chest. Then a long tongue began licking my nipple. I looked down at Lin as she stared back with her golden eyes narrowed in mischief. That look was too much. I grunted one last time as I came, which fortunately triggered Siv’s own orgasm. The petite woman nearly pitched backward into the water, but Fay caught her, letting the tiny Drakvarian rest against her chest.

“I hope you’re not finished,” Kari said with a wicked grin. She pressed her lips to mine before I could respond, dipped her tongue into my mouth, then pulled back and licked her lips. “There are still at least three more people here who need your attention.”

“Don’t worry about me,” I said with grunt. “I’ve got plenty of stamina left.”

Kari’s broad smile was as sexy as it was wicked. “Good. And since you’re still good to go, I think the next person you should make happy is the one who hasn’t done anything yet.”

Kari turned her head, and I looked over at the now frozen Tora, who looked like a woman staring down an SS-Rank Demon Beast.

“Oh. Um. Look, that sounds… nice and all, but I don’t think—” Tora tried to say.

“Don’t worry. You don’t need to think,” Kari interrupted as she waded over to the woman. “You just need to feel.”

Tora squeaked like a frightened mouse and tried to bolt, but Kari was much faster, and she locked her arms around the woman from behind. She pressed her back to Tora’s chest and began licking her neck. Tora released a startled moan. I thought she might try to fight back, but then Kari reached around and began tweaking the other woman’s large nipples.

My semi-flaccid dick quickly grew hard again.

“Haaaa… Mmm… what are you… doing?” Tora gasped.

“What’s it look like I’m doing? I’m obviously getting you ready to receive Eryk’s cock,” Kari said.

I was certain Tora had no clue what was happening. If I wasn’t already used to Kari’s mannerisms, I would have been confused to. In less time than it took to say cultivation, Kari had the woman sitting on the edge of the pool, her legs spread lewdly and locked in place by Kari’s legs. My first wife was sitting behind the vulgar raven-haired beauty. One hand was fondling Tora’s large chest, but the other was rubbing her clit.

Tora could do absolutely nothing as she orgasmed hard.

“Haaa… you… that’s… not…”

“Shhh. Just have fun. You’re a part of this family now, so you shouldn’t concern yourself with things like propriety.”

“Mmmm.”

I didn’t think Tora was convinced, but she didn’t have the strength to argue either.

I walked up to the pair under Kari’s watchful eyes and Tora’s half-lidded ones. She seemed to have trouble tracking me because her eyes kept veering to the side, but then I was standing in front of her, coaxing her attention onto me as I caressed her face. The woman looked up as I tilted her head, leaned down, and kissed her. She kissed back. It was only for a moment, however, and then she was whining as I pulled away.

That changed when I slid inside of her. Tora’s warmth was something I was still growing accustomed to. We only had sex once so far. I thought it might be a little unfair to throw her into the deep end like this, but she already knew what being with me would entail.

“I’m going to start moving,” I said to her.

Tora said nothing. She did nod, however.

I began moving within her, sliding out until my cock was almost completely visible, then pushing back inside of her. Her large clit pulsed as I pushed. Her body shuddered against me when I was fully sheathed inside of her. Not only did her body respond, but the way she moaned, swore, and told me to “fucking continue what I was doing” let me know I was doing something right.

That said, even I was surprised when she grabbed the back of my head and pulled me into a kiss.

As Tora and I kissed and fucked, Kari was playing with the woman’s massive tits. They were about the same size as Kari’s, maybe a little bigger, and while her nipples were a bit small, her areola were large. Kari looked like she was having the time of her life as she swirled her fingers around those valis-sized circles of skin.

Tora’s end came fast, and I wasn’t far behind her. I pulled back when I felt the woman go limp. Her eyes were glazed over as she leaned into Kari, twitching and shuddering. As I pulled out, my seed and her juices spilled from her pussy and dribbled onto the tiled floor.

“Hmmm… seems she fainted,” Kari muttered. She laid the woman onto her back, then slid back into the pool. “Now who should you do next? Me or Fay?”

I wasn’t sure how to answer her, but a voice from the bedroom suddenly spoke up.

“Dinner is ready, everyone! Please come into the bedroom!”

“Dinner?” Kari tilted her head and looked at Fay. “What do you think? Have dinner first, or keep going?”

“Dinner first,” Fay said after a moment. “I’m beginning to feel a little flushed from the heat.”

I wondered if it was the heat that was making her flushed, or something else, as I lifted the unconscious Tora into my arms and led our little group out of the bathing area. We were dripping wet. I hoped this carpet wasn’t the type that would dry quickly.

All four of us stopped upon entering the bedroom.

“Well, this is quite the feast—for the eyes, that is,” I said in shock.

Chloe had indeed prepared a feast. There were all kinds of food, but they were all desert foods. Chocolate and whip cream covered Chloe’s breasts, which also had a cherry on top. Slices of apples, strawberries, kiwi were lined up in a colorful array down her stomach, and resting against her hairless mound was more chocolate and whip cream. Chloe’s feet were planted firmly on the bed, and her legs were spread apart.

“Now here is something I’ve never tried,” Kari said in awe. “I can’t believe someone else had the audacity to do something that I didn’t think of.”

“You can’t come up with every kinky idea, you know,” Fay muttered.

“I know you’re right. Even so, I feel like punishing her.”

“Excuse me?!”

“So this is your idea?” I asked, walking over to the bed so I could actually see Chloe’s face.

She smiled at me. “Yes. One of the women in my battalion mentioned doing this with her husband to spice up her sex life. I’ve always wanted to try it myself. Master? Won’t you partake of me?”

“How can I refuse?”

I set Tora down on a divan, then went to the bed and sat close to Chloe. I plucked a kiwi from Chloe’s stomach and popped it into my mouth. My four still conscious wives followed suit.

“Oh! This is very sweet,” Kari exclaimed as she ate a strawberry. “Did you do something to the fruit?”

“I sprinkled some sugar over it,” Chloe admitted.

“It’s good.” Kari grabbed another fruit, placed it on her tongue, and slowly closed her mouth over both food and finger. She sucked on her finger as though removing the juices, then removed it. “Mmm. Delicious.”

If my cock hadn’t been hard before, it certainly was now.

“You ladies can enjoy the fruit,” I said. “I’m gonna go for something sweeter.”

“I want to eat the chocolate and whip cream too,” Fay said as she crawled onto Chloe’s other side.

“Then I guess we can share.”

No more words were said as I leaned down and began licking the chocolate off Chloe’s breast. The woman moaned and squirmed as Siv and I kissed, sucked, and licked all the chocolate off her skin, then started on the whip cream. Very little time passed before I got to her large nipple, also covered in chocolate. Siv and I took her nipples into our mouth at the same time, and Chloe jerked like she’d been shocked by lightning.

“Oooh! Haaaaa! Mmm! I didn’t think… it would feel quite that… intense…”

“I hope you’re ready because it’s about to get even more intense,” I told her.

“What?”

Chloe’s eyes widened, but she could say nothing as I locked eyes with Siv. She seemed to intuit what I wanted because lightning skittered across both of Chloe’s breasts at the same time. Her nipple stiffened quickly in my mouth and began twitching erratically. Chloe bucked so hard some of the food spilled off her body. Lin squawked indignantly when some of the fruit landed on her tail.

“What is the big idea here?! Now this princess is all messy!”

“Don’t worry, Lin. I’ll clean you off.”

“Ah! Wait! Big Sister, I—Mmmm!”

I could see Kari licked Lin’s tail out of the corner of my eye, though most of my attention was still on Chloe’s nipple. The woman’s body continued to shudder, then stiffened for several intense seconds, before she went completely limp. I looked up to find that her eyes had rolled into the back of her head.

“Guess it was too much stimulation for her,” I said.

“You’re always going overboard,” Fay muttered as she popped another apple into her mouth. She chewed thoughtfully, then sighed and added, “Then again, this whole situation is ridiculous.”

I looked from Fay to the now unconscious Chloe, to Siv who was still licking chocolate off the woman’s breasts, and then to Lin as she writhed on the bed while Kari played with her body like a lyre.

“You may be right,” I said, shrugging. “But you know what? I wouldn’t trade this craziness for anything.”

Fay’s eyes gained a gentle, almost motherly glow. “Neither would I.”

***

Sixty days had passed without incident. Fray was placed in charge of Vahn during this time, and not a single thing had happened. She would have liked to say that was because of her excellent management and the fear she inspired in their enemies, but she knew the truth.

The Sekbeist were not interested in them.

Sitting on the balcony with Hilda and Medusa, Fray let the wind buffet her hair and thought about what was coming. It wouldn’t be long before the Sekbeist tried to revive their overlord. If Eryk and his wives didn’t emerge before that happened, it would be her job to stall for time. She wished Tor and the rest of their forces were here. He would have been a better receptacle for the rune array that Kari had created since he was a better warrior than she, but the cards had fallen in such a way that Fray found herself being forced to take up this position.

“You have been very quiet, Lady Fray,” Hilda said, snapping the woman from her musings. “Are you thinking about your nephew and his harem?”

“Not this time,” Fray said with a smile. “I was thinking about what would happen if Eryk and his wives do not emerge before the Sekbeist Overlord is revived.”

“Are we sure this is a good idea?” asked Medusa. “Waiting for the Sekbeist Overlord to revive seems foolish. Why not kill him before he revives?”

“That is not possible,” Fray said with a sigh. “I would have been the first person to suggest it if it was.”

“Why is it impossible?” asked Hilda.

“The Sekbeist Overlord is overwhelmingly powerful and has mastered the Concept of Negation to a degree none of us have reached with our own concepts,” Fray began. She trailed her finger along the edge of her teacup. “In some ways, he is a being of pure negative life force. I’m not sure how to explain it, but I believe it grants him a form of immortality. During the Great War, Wodan managed to kill him several times, but he never remained dead. Even if his body was destroyed, he would always come back. That was why the Great Overlords sealed him inside of themselves instead.”

Hilda cupped a hand to her chin. “I understand. If he is indeed immortal, do you think we have any chance of victory?”

Fray was about to answer, but the door slid open and one of her Valkyries suddenly stepped onto the balcony. She pressed her left fist against her right breast and bowed.

“Lady Fray, we have noticed some strange activity from the moon.”

Fray closed her eyes. “It looks like the time of awakening is upon us.” She opened her eyes, stood up, and hardened her heart as she gave out several orders. “Tell all of our Spiritualists to gather near the Spirit Transfer Array. Also, prepare a squadron to infiltrate the moon. They are not to try and disrupt the ritual but merely rescue Hriedmar once the seal is undone. I’m certain the Sekbeist will just leave him to die once the seal is broken.”

“Ma’am!”

The Valkyrie saluted, turned around, and left the way she’d come. Fray took a deep breath as Hilda and Medusa also stood up.

“It looks like the seal will be broken early,” Hilda said.

“It will probably take several days for the seal to be fully undone,” Fray assured them. “The rune array is the most complex one created, and Hriedmar is not the Great Overlord of the Second Realm. That being the case, we should prepare for the worst.”

Medusa nodded. “This queen shall let the citizens know what is happening.”

“And I will let the Lightning Giants know what is happening,” Hilda added.

“Thank you. I am counting on you both,” Fray said, even as she prayed that Eryk and his wives would return soon.