WIEDERGEBURT Act III: Chapter 1

The beast that Erica had procured for us was called a Qilin, a hooved chimerical creature. It possessed slightly dragon-like features, most notably its head, thick eyelashes, the mane which always flowed upward, and the beard. The features were of the orient variety. Its body was covered in scales and shaped like a deer with cloven hooves and antlers jutting from its head. His Qilin’s scales happened to be a bright golden color, but the ones he was flying alongside were many colors.

Erica was the one leading their group. With us was Tungsten, the recently appointed leader of the Paladin Sect; Dagan Fause of the Healer’s Sect, and ten other people who came from either the Paladin’s Sect, the Battling Valkyries, or the Healer’s Sect. It was a fairly large squadron of people. I was shocked that Erica had managed to procure so many Qilins for us.

The Tamers Sect must have been worked over time to get all these prepared.

Up head, floating several kilometers above the sea, was our destination—an island floating in the sky. While it appeared indistinct at first, the closer we got, the more I saw. The island was… massive. That was the only word I could use to describe it. This island looked like it was about a third the size of Midgard. Sitting atop this giant floating island was a city, or maybe an intricate palace built like a city.

None of us spoke as we gripped our Qilins and made for the floating island. The roaring wind was our only companion. It whistled in our ears and buffeted our hair. Erica’s long raven locks were billowing out behind her as she leaned forward slightly, as though trying to coax more speed from the beast she rode.

We were soon flying over this floating city in the sky, which I realized now that I was up close really was a city. All the buildings were magnificent structures, though they also looked quite ancient. They had a similar aesthetic to the Dweorg-built ruins, so I at first assumed this was something built by them, but then I realized that the designs themselves were different, smaller and not as ostentatious. Also, the Dweorg preferred building their homes into mountains. This one was on a floating island.

Our group was not alone. Several Sekbeists standing on the buildings spotted us. They were not the usual Grunts. Every one of them was an Elite. I could not hear what they were saying as they barked out orders to their fellow Sekbeists, but I soon found out what they were planning when several massive creatures appeared on the horizon.

“DRAGONS!” Tungsten shouted, modulating his voice with Spiritual Power to be heard over the howling winds.

“EVERYONE!” Erica similarly shouted. “WE’RE GOING INTO THE CITY! FOLLOW ME!”

We descended into the city quickly, thinking that might stop the dragons from attacking, but it didn’t. The beasts roared as they came closer and began shooting everything from fireballs to wind spheres at us. We yanked on our reigns and forced our Qilins to swerve around the attacks. While we managed to avoid getting hit, several of the buildings beneath us were not so lucky, and they exploded with incredible force.

Dragons were large and serpentine creatures with powerful wings, four legs that were rippling with muscles, and long necks. Horns ran along their sides and their massive feet were clawed. One of those dragons passed over us. Its powerful body was covered in corded muscles and glistening green scales. Long horns sat on either side of its head and sloped backward. I followed the body of this gigantic creature all the way to its long tail, which must have made up at least half the length of this legendary beast.

It looked like there were only three dragons in total. Two of them were fire dragons, evident by their burning red scales, but the other was a wind dragon. That was the green-scaled one that had just passed us. As we made our way further down into the city, the dragon turned around and followed us. Its jaws opened wide and it spat another bullet of wind in our direction.

“DODGE!” Erica screamed.

All of us did our best to dodge the attack, but one young man was not so lucky. He couldn’t get his frightened Qilin to swerve away in time. I flinched when the bullet struck his body, tearing him into bloody chunks that rained onto the buildings below.

Damn it!

Gnashing my teeth together, I realized we’d never make it if we didn’t do something, and I fortunately was not alone in thinking this. Erica quickly descended onto a building several meters below.

There was an Elite present. He had a chalky green body, bloody eyes, and a streamlined but massive frame. This particular Elite was decked out in dark armor, which glowed with Runes I recognized as Dweorg-made. With a grin, this Elite slammed his hand into the ground and several shadows ruptured from the building and tried to skewer Erica.

Erica’s eyes were narrowed fiercely as her Spiritual Power soared, activating the Runes on her armor, which created a powerful barrier of fire. The shadows crashed against the fire and dissolved. The Elite seemed shocked, but he tried to attack again. I could sense the power surging through his body.

Erica was not having any of that.

She reached behind her and grabbed the massive claymore that was her signature weapon. More Runes glowed on the weapon as she landed on the ground and dashed forward, closing the distance between her and the Elite in less time than it took to blink. With a swing of her sword, Erica unleashed a massive crescent of fire, which sliced into the Elite and chopped him in half. His torso flew through the air and disappeared between the buildings. His legs, meanwhile, tottered a bit before falling forward.

The other members of the Battling Valkyries landed on the roof with her. They were soon joined by Dagan and members of his Healers Sect. Meanwhile, Tungsten had taken his group and was harassing the dragons, distracting them as best he could.

I frowned as I wondered what I should do, but then I saw how one of the dragons was coming in from behind Tungsten and his group, hemming them in like a pack of Dire Wolves trapping their prey. That settled it. I knew exactly what I needed to do.

Nothing could be done against the Wind Dragon. My elements were lightning and water. Water had no elemental advantage over wind, and lightning was weak against wind.

So I decided to go after one of the Fire Dragons.

Standing up on the Qilin, I took a slow breath, and then released my Spiritual Power, which exploded from my body like a torrent, gushing out so much that the entire area was blanketed by my Spiritual Pressure. The feeling of my Spiritual Pressure was even enough to make the Dragons halt their attacks. I used that short pause to do what needed to be done.

My body transformed into lightning and water. I could feel the change. My body was both light and heavy, gentle and charged with energy. Lightning crackled along the surface of my watery-blue skin, pale and powerful. Despite the excess energy leaking from me, the Qilin I was standing on didn’t get injured because I was controlling my elements carefully.

Leaping off the Qilin, I shot forward like a bolt of lightning across the sky. My flight took me directly toward the dragon that had come up behind Tungsten and his group. I grabbed the Dragon’s Tail Ruler attached to my back. My Spiritual Power surged through the weapon, coating it in condescended water and lightning. As I passed by the dragon, I swung my weapon as hard and fast as I could, gritting my teeth as I felt a moment of powerful resistance before I sheared through the creature’s neck.

The Fire Dragon didn’t even have time to roar as it died. Its head fell to the city below, crashing into one of the buildings and causing the entire thing to collapse. The body followed suit. However, the damage done to the city by the massive several dozen meter long body was far more extensive, destroying numerous buildings by crushing them underneath it. Several Elites were also killed when they couldn’t run away in time.

Tungsten nodded in my direction, and then he also stood up on his Qilin. Spiritual Power surged through his body, erupting from him in a way that was intimately familiar to me. I was shocked when his body suddenly transformed into wind. It was as if he had become ethereal. I could only see the ripples that formed around his body, which was the excess Spiritual Power being released by him.

Not only was I shocked when Tungsten suddenly transformed his body into his element, but I became even more surprised when the same feeling erupted from below, from Erica, who had suddenly turned into a massive being of flames. As I landed on the Qilin that had flown back to me and transformed back into a human, the two Spiritualists leapt into the air, shooting toward their respective enemies. Erica traveled toward the Wind Dragon, while Tungsten went straight for the last remaining Flame Dragon.

Erica’s body took the shape of a powerful Phoenix, another legendary Demon Beast said to have exceeded the S-rank and become a god-like existence. She slammed into the wind dragon, a torrent of flames spewing all over as she attacked the creature. Of course, the Dragon was not so easily done in. It roared and tried to fire wind bullets at her. However, Erica merely blitzed past this Wind Dragon’s slow attacks and slammed into it again and again and again.

Her accuracy was frightening. Erica attacked the same spot over and over. It wasn’t long before the Dragon’s scales began melting. They bubbled and boiled, turning a terrifying shade of red before slogging off the monstrous body. A gaping hole soon appeared in the scales, revealing the soft flesh underneath.

That was when Erica finished it.

She flew forward and slammed into the weakened section, drilling straight through the dragon’s body and exploding out the other side. The dragon released an enraged cry of pain, but that sound soon tapered off as it died, falling to the city below and causing even more damage. Meanwhile, Erica landed back on the building where her Battling Valkyries were waiting. She set down in the middle of this group, transformed back into her human form, and fell onto her hands and knees.

By this point, Tungsten had also dealt with the Wind Dragon. The creature was lying in the city, its body covered in brutal lacerations as though numerous powerful cutting blades had sliced into it. He and the other members of the Paladin Sect set down on the same building as Erica. Just like the woman who had transformed her body into fire, the moment Tungsten’s body returned to normal, he fell onto his butt and heaved several deep breaths.

I set down my Qilin down on the same building as them, climbed off, and went up to them.

“I had no idea you two managed to reach the Third State of Spiritualism already,” I said.

Erica, her face covered in sweat, turned her head to look at me as she continued kneeling on the ground.

“I… I only recently… managed… managed to reach the… Third State,” she admitted with a wan smile.

“That explains why you are so exhausted.” I nodded as Dagan reached into a pouch at his side and produced two glowing green pills. He handed one to Erica and one to Tungsten. I continued speaking as they popped the pills into their mouths. “You’re probably using up a lot more energy than necessary. While I don’t think we had much choice given what we were up against, try not to enter the Third State of Spiritualism unless there’s no other choice.”

Erica nodded, but the smile on her face had not diminished. “I find it incredibly unusual that you are now giving us advice. Long ago, you were nowhere near as powerful as we are. Now your strength is the one Tungsten and I have been relying on the most.”

I shrugged and tried to act nonchalant, but I was a little uncomfortable by the praise in her voice—not the praise itself, though. What bothered me was the fact that my powers came from my non-human origins. I still didn’t know what I was and that bothered me more than I was willing to admit.

“Still… those Dragons were a little weaker than I expected,” I changed the topic. “I heard Dragons are some of the most powerful creatures in existence, but we managed to kill those fairly easily, considering they are Dragons.”

“Those were just young Dragons,” Tungsten answered as he stood up. His complexion had returned to normal and his breathing was even. “I’m guessing the Sekbeists didn’t have the power to subjugate the older and more powerful Dragons, so they went after those young ones.” He glanced at the three corpses. “If I had to guess, I’d say those dragons haven’t even reached one hundred years of age. They would still be considered children.”

That made me clench my fists. So we had killed children? I couldn’t help but find the idea loathsome, but I knew there was little we could do. It wasn’t like we’d had the option of not fighting them.

What should we do now?” I asked.

Erica had recovered as well, thanks to the alchemy pill Dagan had given her. She stood up, rotating her arms as though testing to see whether they still worked, her shoulder pauldrons clinking against her mythril corset. The frilly white top underneath her corset didn’t cover much, so a healthy portion of her cleavage was exposed. Placing her claymore against her back, the segmented joints of her gauntlets clicked together as she let her arms rest at her side.

“I believe we should travel to that palace.” She pointed at the largest structure on this floating city, which did indeed look like a palace. “Whatever the Sekbeists are after, I bet you anything it is there.”

“That’s a good idea,” Tungsten said.

“Tungsten, I would like you and the Paladin Sect to guard our flanks,” Erica commanded. “Dagan, you will take the center, while my Battling Valkyries protect you. Eryk, I would like you to take point with me.”

Everyone acknowledged Erica’s orders, moved into the specified formation, and set off toward the palace.

Little did I know that a figure from my past would be waiting for us when we arrived.

***

I woke up with a startled gasp as my cock was suddenly engulfed in something warm, wet, and all together pleasant. Gritting my teeth, I tried not to groan as an incredibly long and soft tongue wrapped around my dick. It moved across my skin, stimulating me in ways few things could. It felt like my cock had been wrapped in super soft silk.

Opening my eyes, I looked down to find a pair of golden eyes looking up at me. They were set on a dark-skinned face that normally looked quite cute, if not a little haughty. However, currently, that face looked a little mischievous.

Lin, her long and pointed ears wiggling, had placed my dick in her mouth and took it all the way in until her nose was pressing against my crotch. My cock had traveled down her throat. I could actually feel the inside of her throat enclosing around my dick. She wasn’t struggling with it like Kari and Fay did, though. Lamia didn’t have a gag reflex, a fact which I had learned very early on after we had become intimate.

“L-Lin!” I gasped as she bobbed her head up, then down, lewd slurping sounds echoing from her mouth as she sucked me off. “If you keep doing that… I’ll—”

I couldn’t finish my reply as I felt my balls contract and my stomach tighten. My hands went into Lin’s soft black hair as she moved her head all the way back down, pressing her nose against my skin as she fondled my balls with her soft hands. At that moment, I exploded inside of her. Since my dick was in her throat, none of my sperm escaped. It went straight into her stomach.

As I leaned back in the bed, Lin slowly removed my dick from her math, then smiled at me.

“Thank you for the meal,” she said with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.

Lin was a Lamia, a race of beings who were half-human and half-snake. Her upper body looked pretty much human, save for her long ears, but the lower half was that of a snake, shifting from regular skin to scales around her hips.

At this moment, Lin was not wearing any clothes, which meant I had a perfect glimpse of her unblemished dark skin. Her small breasts were quite modest. They were enough to fill my hands and spill over just a bit, but they weren’t large like Kari’s and Fay’s. Similarly, her lithe body was covered in streamlined muscles that made her seem sleek. Her stomach was perfectly flat, containing not even a trace of fat.

Seeing Lin like this, bereft of any clothes, caused my dick to twitch.

“You’re being awfully mischievous today,” I said as I held out my hands.

Lin placed her hands in mine and allowed me to pull her onto the bed. Since her lower half was that of a snake, she couldn’t fit her entire frame on the bed. Her snake tail hung over the side, the tip beating a steady rhythm of anticipation against the ground.

“This princess is always mischievous, Darling,” Lin replied.

I grinned and pulled Lin to me, wrapping my arms around her small waist and hampering her mouth with my lips. I didn’t give Lin a chance to resist or put up a fight as I slipped my tongue past her mouth and teeth. Her body shuddered against me, a moan escaped her mouth, and her arms quickly wrapped around my neck as I played with her extraordinarily long tongue.

“D-Darhing…” Lin somehow managed to mumble out her nickname for me despite my tongue penetrating her mouth. Nasally gasps escaped her as our sloppy exchange caused saliva to drip down her chin. Her chest was now squishing against mine, and I could feel the way her nipples hardened.

“Lin,” I said as I finally pulled back. “Lay down on the bed.”

Lin didn’t even question my order as we traded places. She laid down on the spot I had left, her body quivering with anticipation. Her eyes were shining with a luster I only saw when we were having sex—or when she was eating. This girl could put away food like no one else. Glancing down, I looked at her pussy, which was surrounded by pink scales that were softer than her black and yellow scales. She was wet. Her scales and pussy glistened in the light. A trace of juices leaked onto her scales.

However, I wasn’t planning to penetrate her pussy.

“Turn around please.”

I smiled when Lin’s eyes widened, but she eagerly turned around and lifted up her hips. Lamia had butts that looked exactly like a human’s, but surrounding their ass were scales. Lin’s were black with yellow rings. As she laid there on her stomach, she reached up and grabbed her ass cheeks, spreading them apart and allowing me to glimpse her puckered hole.

“Are you going to fill this princess’s ass, Darling?”

“I am.”

Grabbing her hips, I took a moment to simply admire the feeling of her skin and scales. Both were softer than velvet. However, the moment soon passed and I placed my cock against her hole. I was already dripping wet with her saliva, so inserting my dick into her ass wasn’t difficult, though her sphincter was impeccably tight. As my head disappeared inside of her butthole, Lin released a loud moan and her tail thumped harder against the ground.

“This princess’s ass is being filled by your dick! I don’t understand how it can feel so gooood!” Her last sentence was drawn out as I pushed even more of my cock inside of her. I went slowly, mostly because she was so tight, but soon bottomed out. Now with myself buried up to the hilt inside of Lin, I gave myself a moment to adjust.

“How do you feel, Lin?”

“How do I… I feel good.” Lin’s cheeks were flushed a dark red that complimented her skin tone, there was a dopey smile that I could just make out from my side profile view of her, and the one visible eye was gleaming. “This princess… she loves it when you fill her ass with your cock.”

“That’s good to hear. I’m about to start moving now.”

“Yes! Please move! Make me feel more!”

While I did start slowly at first, removing my dick until just my head was inside of her and pushing it forward until it was fully sheathed again, I knew that was not what either of us wanted right now. Once I had gotten a feel for her, I increased the speed and strength of my thrusts. I pounded into her so hard that loud smacking sounds echoed around the room as my hips hit her butt.

Lin’s ass cheeks jiggled and bounced as I continuously thrust my dick into her asshole, which tightened around my cock far more than her pussy did.

“Yes! This feeling! Hyk! This is—oh! I love this!”

Lin arced her spine as I kept hitting her ass. The muscles on her back were flexing and relaxing as though she was having spasms. Her tongue was hanging out of her mouth as she moaned. I had placed my hands on either side of her hips to help keep my pace steady and strong, but I also adjust the speed of my thrusts to keep her body guessing.

“You like it when I pound my dick into your ass?”

“Yes! Yes! I—ahn! Ah! So good! More! Give me more!”

“As my princess commands.”

Keeping up the incredible pace and power of my thrusts, I leaned down and reached around Lin, grabbing a handful of her tits. Lin screamed as I pinched and twisted her nipples. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head as her tongue lolled out of her mouth. Her breasts were coated in a layer of sweat that caused them to be slightly slippery, but I actually enjoyed the way my hands slid against her chest.

Deciding to go all out, I reached down with my other hand, sliding it across her convulsing stomach, and stopping only after I was cupping her wet pussy. The juices leaking from her cunt drenched my hand. I placed my fingers on either side of her protective scales and spreading them apart.

“Darling! Hyk! That’s—oh! It—ahn! Ahn! Ahn!”

Lin was unable to speak in full sentence as I played with her pussy, inserting my finger into her sodden entrance, which was quickly followed by another finger. I pressed my fingers against the rigid walls, which spasmed and tightened around me. Part of me wished my dick was feeling this warmth and wetness, but her ass was also a pleasant experience. It was tighter, but it was also dryer. I was glad Lin had given me head first, or it would have been painful for us both.

Leaning down further, I placed my head near Lin’s left ear and took it into my mouth. I bit down gently, nibbling on the scaled ear and coating it in my saliva.

“OOOOHHHH!!”

Lin’s entire body was twitching. Her ass convulsed and tightened around my cock, and the walls of her pussy had also become vice-like as they tried to suck in my fingers. She was close. Knowing this, I retracted my fingers and quickly found her clit. It was already engorged from arousal and pulsated as I lightly pinched it between my fingers.

“D-D-DAAARLIIIIIIINNNGGG!”

Lin’s entire body became ramrod straight as love juices overflowed from her body. The muscles in her back had grown stiff. Meanwhile, her ass had clenched around me so hard that I couldn’t control myself anymore and unleashed my load inside of her tight hole. A loud crashing sound echoed around the room. I ignored that, however, as I filled her butt with my cum.

A moment later, Lin and I collapsed on the bed. I was lying with my face pressed against her sweat-covered back. I could feel and hear her rapidly beating heart, which was like a wardrum in my ears.

I took several deep breaths and tried to regain control over my body. I placed my hands on the bed and pushed myself up, until I was hovering over Lin. I stared at her soft back muscles, at her slender shoulder blades, and could not refrain from leaning down and placing a kiss on her back.

Despite having just woken up, I wanted nothing more than to pull this lovely creature close, wrap the two of us in blankets, and fall to sleep with her in my arms. At the same time, I knew we couldn’t do that.

“Darling…” Lin turned around underneath me. She reached out and wrapped her hands around my neck and pulled me down, kissing me with a gentle, tender, and loving kiss that was far different from the ones we shared minutes ago. “This princess… ha… loves you very much.”

“I love you too.” I smiled at Lin.

In my previous life, I had only fallen for two women. Kari was the first and most important person in my life, and then there was the mysterious woman whose face I had never seen. That woman had saved me from myself. When I was lost in darkness, when rage and thoughts of revenge had consumed me, she had brought me back, taught me what it meant to live. However, she had also died a year after I met her. As per her request, I had buried her body without ever catching a glimpse of what was hidden underneath the hood of her cloak.

Lin was a new presence in my life. However, even though I had never met her in my previous life, I could honestly say I loved this woman. It was hard not to. Lin acted arrogant and haughty, but she was also kind and understanding. She did her best no matter what tasks were set before her, whether that was learning humanity’s written language, exploring the Demon Beast Mountain Range, or something else entirely. I had grown to love this snake-woman.

“This princess…” Lin continued. “She wants more sex.”

My smile became fixed. If there was one thing about Lin that could sometimes cause problems, it was her voracious… appetite.

Fortunately, I knew how to deal with this.

“We could keep going,” I began, and Lin’s eyes brightened. “But if we did that, you would miss breakfast.”

Lin paled.

“Breakfast?” she whispered, and then her eyes widened. “D-Darling! I-I-I completely forgot about breakfast! I was supposed to wake you because breakfast is ready! W-what am I going to do?!”

I tried to hide my smugness as Lin let go of me and scrambled out of bed. The feeling didn’t last long, though, as shock soon replaced it when Lin somehow face planted on the floor. I winced as the sound of her face smacking the carpet echoed around the room. Looking down, I realized what the problem was when I saw her tail, which had punched a hole clean through the floor. She must have stabbed it when she climaxed.

“D-Darling!” Lin whined, tears in her eyes as she looked at me. “This princess’s tail is stuck!”

Trying not to laugh at her, I smiled, climbed off the bed, and placed my hands on her tail.

“Hold on,” I said as I channeled the water element into the hole and widened it. “I will get your tail unstuck.”

“Thank you, Darling.” Lin sniffled. “I love you.”

As Lin confessed her love like this, with her tail stuck inside of the floor and her eyes watering from embarrassment, I could not contain my laughter.