The horrid eyes of insect girls from trees and bushes at the edge of their campfire's light. Stingers dripped with venom and scythe-like appendages, prepared to rend them limb from limb. Repellent and fire were the only deterrents against the endless hordes hungry for the flesh and blood of tamers.
Thunder boomed in the distance, a sign that they might have to make a run for it soon. Cloud cover had been partial all day, but after nightfall, the stars vanished. If it rained and doused their fire, it would be a race for the gate to the mansion grounds with insect girls hot on their heels.
Red felt that a betrayal could come at any time from his companions. The girl looked too relaxed, and the guy was all nerves. The returner thought about just leaving with his movement skill, confident that not even the bug girls could catch him at a full sprint. It was also likely that a trap was waiting for him if he somehow bypassed the hungry bug girls.
He tossed another log on the fire. They only had so many, and going out for firewood was a death sentence. An E-rank was needed to travel through the woods safely at night.
By executive decision, he didn't camp on the mansion's grounds and met some others at a campfire. It seemed he wasn't the only one after the spider lily. They were fortunately in season and difficult enough to get that there would be plenty of them to go around.
There were some facts about the grounds he hadn't known before. The girl June Lee, lounging across from him, hid her grinding in the lap of a bear girl sitting on a log with her schoolgirl skirt. June gave him the most condescending look he'd ever seen.
He had told her about his hopes of getting a spider lily. Another boom of thunder caught his attention, and he looked at the ground for any hints of rain.
"Didn't you think it was weird that the job paid 3000g?" Her voice cracked.
The bear girl shifted her hips, and June Lee blushed. There were no virgins among the tamers, including June Lee. His mother had many like Tanya June's bear girl. Her adorable round ears and long blonde curls almost distracted from the six-inch hooked claws that could gut a man sticking out of her knuckles.
Futanari monster girls were popular with female tamers. Male tamers with large decks had a few. Red had Leah. She needed some attention soon.
"Come on, June, I've been doing a quest a day with varying prices. I just assumed this one was a little creepier, so it paid more." Red tried to make himself sound friendly.
"Well, at least we don't have to go to the mansion. Could you imagine touching one of those cold girls?" June shivered.
"What's wrong with cold girls?" Red made sure his tone showed which side he was on. Xion was cold-blooded as a larva girl and would become warm-blooded as a wasp girl.
"I guess you're in the right place."
"I don't like cold-blooded girls either. You shouldn't bully June because she has an opinion." Their third wheel glared at Red but soon returned his eyes to June's shifting hips.
"If you only ever experience warm-blooded girls, you're cutting several types out of your deck." June was a lost cause, but maybe the guy would see the logic in his words.
"Who cares? I'm not putting my dick in something cold."
"I find your lack of culture disturbing," Red said.
He let the two-on-one discussion drop as he turned his attention to the road leading to the mansion.
A field of spiritual pressure surrounded the mansion, weighing upon anyone with a spirit level below G5. In other words, it was the perfect training ground to increase his party's spirit attribute. Inside the mansion, the spiritual pressure intensified.
June seemed to believe the pressure was a bad thing.
For people without training pills, it must have been terrible. Fortunately, he had enough pills to last a while from his goblin slaying event.
"I don't know why they don't just tear the place down and farm the flowers artificially. They could do it if they tried." June said.
Red completely disagreed. He liked the idea of a training ground he could exploit and marked the place on his map to return to with other girls to get their spirit attribute maxed out in the G-rank.
"Do you have any party members with spirit at G5?" Red asked.
"No, Tanya is only G4, but that should get the job done. What about anything that can make this nightmare easier?"
"No, not even close. I have the highest spirit at G3." Red said.
"Oh, that's impressive. Too bad the goth, ghoul, and crow girls won't let you near the flowers." She glanced at his weights and sniffed. "You know, we can't raise our attributes like monster girls. We need lots of abilities to reach F-rank."
Red had already reached G6 strength from training. His pills made a mockery of what tamers knew about attribute training. He planned to exploit this advantage for many years to come.
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Dark clouds covered the sun at the time when the undead girls would be at their weakest. Rain poured, and he ran in front of the charging bear girl carrying June while the other guy hauled tail behind them with a mantis girl hot on his heels. The gate to the mansion grounds was a half-open, old iron gate, nearly rusted off its hinges. At the entrance, a ghoul girl with bags under her eyes waited for them. It looked primed to kick them out into the charging horde of insect girls.
Ghouls were like zombies, except they had a slow heartbeat, had red eyes, serrated teeth, and used debilitating curses on their enemies. One touch from their hands could ruin a tamer's body if their vitality were lower than G3.
Red took a single step onto the grounds and realized that for every level of spirit he was below G5, there was a level he had lost from all of his physical attributes. G6 agility was still faster than any man before the Neuroverse app. The ghoul girl lunged, and Red caught her outstretched hand and threw her out of the barrier. He raised his card and light encased her body before dragging her into the card.
The third wheel flinched, and that gave the mantis girl time to stab her scythe into his shoulder. "I bring you back to my nest. My sisters and I love you long time." Tanya moved after June was in the barrier. She grabbed the guy and tossed him into the barrier before roaring ferociously.
Red waited until the card cooled in his hand, showing he had captured a ghoul on his first try. If he tamed her, then she would assist him and his team in adjusting to the spirit pressure.
"Ok, but now you have to tame her," June said.
Red struggled to catch his breath. "Did you think our earlier talk was hot air?"
"I hoped you weren't one of those sickos but I was wrong," June said.
Going from an area with heavy spiritual pressure to one with none was taxing; he imagined it would be like diving deep and then suddenly being on land. If he were at a lower level of spirit, then it would be even worse. That was something to consider for the rest of his team.
Once he got his ghoul under control, he would train the rest of his team to handle the spirit pressure. Well.
He watched June go and had a feeling, more like a premonition, that they would battle eventually. That girl was far too attentive when he spoke about his team and always asked the right questions. She knew one of his girls was out of commission and two had no training.
All he had was Jean, and if they battled, that bear girl of hers had at least agility four. Jean had agility G2 after training. Four charges were needed to gain reaction time parity.
It would be a close fight. That was a sign of poor planning on his part.
…
They built a roof out of wood, and the following night, when it rained, they weren't attacked.
Red took some time off from searching the mansion to recover from the debilitating soul damage status the spirit pressure inflicted on anyone with a spirit level below G5. He read up on ghouls and had an idea of how to entice his newly caught ghoul.
He purchased a few black and red candles, dimmed the lights, and bought a bloody cow liver. Blackout curtains blocked out the light of day, and he turned on some music to add to the ambiance. The tamer pulled out every stop he could think of to take advantage of the ghoul girl's psychology.
After making a final sweep and checking to ensure he had enough cleaning supplies on hand in case she made a mess of the liver, he summoned her.
The ghoul girl looked around and rubbed at the antler spikes on her head. She brushed back her dark hair and eyed him before sniffing the air and focusing on the liver. The ghoul girl opened her mouth and stopped herself from going for it.
"You know, we tell stories to each other about tamers and how awesome it is to get caught. A few girls make it easy, but I'm not a weakling like them. I always said if a tamer can't beat my butt, capture, and tame me themselves instead of relying on their girls then they aren't worth it. Now I have to eat humble pie, and it's so annoying. How did a human get so strong? Do you have like 20 girls already?"
"You're number four. I'm going to tell you right now, once you're mine, there is no going back." Red said.
Her light grey skin contrasted with her ink-black hair and red eyes. She smirked, revealing serrated teeth built to grip and tear flesh.
"I'm not that easy to get along with, you see, I have weird interests."
"I'm not into feet," Red said.
"No, not like that, I'm talking about alchemy. I like to grind up herbs and junk and mix them and make potions."
Dollar signs appeared in his eyes. Red leaned in until his nose touched hers.
"You're like me."
He had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter if she was talented; if she had an interest, then he could make her into an alchemist. All he had to do was nurture her talents, and the sky was the limit.
"I'm not like most tamers." He slipped a hand around her waist and pulled her close. She gasped as he placed a hand on her butt and lifted her. She might have weighed 90 lbs and felt as heavy to him as a hat. "My name is Red, and I plan to make all my girls into the best monsters they can be. Every scrap of potential that can be found will be." Red said.
"My name is Beatriz, and I want to be an alchemist."
His hand glided up her back, and he felt the elastic cloth of a ghost girl. They were one of the girls who could create clothing in the form of funeral shrouds.
Red stripped her of her top, letting her breasts tumble free. Beatriz's dark grey nipples rose before his eyes.
The tamer met her gaze before catching one in his mouth before taking a step on the bed before sliding a hand down her pants and felt his eyes roll back as he felt her smooth skin and firm butt. His fingers slipped further to the gap between her thighs and the moist dark grey slit he imagined. Oh, she was going to be perfect.
"I'm guessing my interest in alchemy isn't a deal breaker."
"It has increased your value to my team significantly," Red said.
He slipped a finger inside of her, and she was unbelievably tight. Her hairless lips squeezed around his digits as he plunged them deeper while giving her breasts attention.
Red tossed her on his bed and stripped her black skirt off and slapped her waiting dark grey pussy with his hard cock.
"It's too big?"
He reached for the nightstand and withdrew a bottle of lube.
Eventually, the girls would be cards in his deck, but that was not today. He planned to make this all about her. He sprayed his cock with lube and pressed his head against her entrance. She grunted before he slipped into her. He felt a tearing as he took her virginity.
Black blood dripped down his cock, down his balls, and dripped on his bed staining the white sheets.
Red grabbed her hand and pulled. Beatriz's eyes widened and her legs stretched as he shoved himself deeper inside of her. He stood up on the bed and let her pussy grip his cock as it and his hold held her aloft.
He pulled out and flipped her around. The tamer grabbed her hips, and the ghoul squealed as he slammed into her, then picked her up by the underside of her knees and smashed into her like an animal. Her tight ghoul pussy gripped him like a vice as he slammed into her using gravity and his increased strength to dominate the monster girl.
She froze as if she knew what was about to happen and practically bounced on his cock in preparation. He slammed harder into her as she moaned into his ear as he came. The ghoul's pussy convulsed as he came and she clenched around him as she milked every last drop his balls could dish out. When her pussy could wring out no more and after she drained him to the last drop, she pushed her hips against him to claim one more inch and push him deeper into her tightness.
The hands he pulled to push deeper into her gripped his wrists as she pulled to chase after the elusive phantom last inch. He was ready, and as she worked him up and down before she took another load.
Red pulled out and placed a thumb on her darkest grey eye. He wanted it, she looked back and flicked her long, dark hair back. She was on all fours on the bed.
"Do it, I want more cum." Beatriz said. He slammed into her and felt her pussy throb as his thumb slipped into her tight butt. She was slick there as he imagined, as her rippling tightness took his man meat for a ride. He slammed into her as she worked his cock backing into him with crushing force. Not a condom on the market would stop his next load.
He felt the bond connect and knew what she wanted. Red reached out and wrapped his hands around her throat. With only a light squeeze, she came just as he unloaded into her, sending her into a third orgasm.
The returner pulled himself out of her. Not a drop from his load leaked out of her. A monster girl's body was so hungry for cum it didn't let a drop go to waste. It would help her increase her attributes.
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Over the next three days, Red trained Jean to improve her precision by two points, thanks to pills, and increased her agility by one point. He watched the bear girl and how June trained her. She fed it a steady diet of supplements that didn't have the incredible effects of his pills. The way it moved with its sheer battle experience, Jean wouldn't stand a chance against it in a fair fight. If Jean were to fight Tanya, it would be a disaster. His only hope was to bury the bear girl with overwhelming power.
With that in mind, he needed to bring Jean's agility and precision to parity with her strength.
"I think I've narrowed down the location of the spider lilies. Unfortunately, it's in an area where the G7 spirit is needed. So I'm calling it quits and leaving." June smiled.
Red suspected that the guy wounded by the mantis who shared their campfire days ago would follow her. June's deck was bigger, but he hadn't seen her capture any monster girls, and she had an aversion to undead-type girls. The crow girls avoided her but always seemed ready to strike if she showed weakness.
Maybe it would be better if he chopped off the woman's head off. The bear had G4 agility. It couldn't stop Red in time to save her. Then he would have a bulky, dangerous bear girl on his hands.
He watched her pack up and leave, and before he knew it, he was at the waypoint alone.
His soul used the chi he stored from each cultivation session to adjust to the spiritual pressure and grow stronger. In a week, Red's chi repaired his spirit. In a week, he managed to climb from G3 to G5 and had begun using the spider lily area closer to the mansion for training.
There were dangers there he couldn't underestimate. Ghost girls floated around the mansion with dangerous F-rank banshees leading them. Even with his skills, he didn't like his chances against a F-rank something that completely outclassed him physically and spiritually.
Behind a rock, shivering from her presence, he managed to scan a banshee girl. Two skills stood out, and they were terrifying.
Cold Touch
Death Scream
What he thought would happen did. Increased spirit raised the speed of his Cultivation. 5 activations of Sky Father's body every two days had drastically improved his Spiritual limits.
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The lighting of tribulation rained down on his flesh as he activated the skill. Instead of unleashing the skill as an AOE attack like he had in battles against goblins, he absorbed it. Each use of the skill stretched the limits of his soul.
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"I'm not sure we should be doing this."
It wasn't time yet to walk in on them. She preferred to catch them in the act.
"June's busy, I thought you wanted me."
"Are you sure June will trade you?"
It was essential to have plausible deniability. The act of sleeping with another tamer's girls was considered taboo in their society.
Why hadn't he left with the flower? Her fly girl had already reported that Red had found the location. This was her game, but he wasn't playing; he was supposed to rush in, take spirit damage, and escape with one flower. Weakened, she would ambush him on the road and crush him in a battle. She would get the flower and turn it in at the nearest town for the reward, and he would be dead, and she would sell off his team.
She walked in just when her guest came inside Tanya's. The bear girl's eyes were closed, and her claws were inside the fool's chest cavity. Tanya dove in and took a bite of the tamer's face.
June rolled her eyes at the tamer who thought she would trade Tanya. What a fool. What was the purpose of their existence?
June didn't understand why he couldn't follow the path. Instead, he cleared out every blade of grass and herb around the mansion grounds and used tonics that shouldn't be able to help. Even the best supplements on the market couldn't increase a girl's spirit or magic quickly; for humans, it could take years to see any growth.
Red was a freak, but what did she expect from someone who regularly tamed a centaur? The disgusting wasp was just another example of his degeneracy.
She leaned into her bear girl Tanya's embrace.
"Don't worry, we'll get them. All we have to do is be patient, and they'll come to us." She brushed Tanya's golden locks aside and kissed the beautiful bear girl on the snout. Out of her excellent lover's sheath sitting above her tight vagina was a hard cock hidden from view by June's short skirt. She felt Tanya move her hips slowly, pushing the cotton fabric of her panties aside as June bit her lip in anticipation. Her guest watched on as Tanya found the right spot and drove in stretching June out as Tanya's bear girl cock expanded digging into her depths.
She liked it when they watched as she pleasured herself; sex in public was one of her kinks. As the light faded from the eyes of her latest victim, she watched a few numbers on the ranking move up. That too was a treat.
No one would come and check on him after all the things that happened out in the woods all the time. Girls hunted down tamers and captured them to be used as sexual objects. Oftentimes, they destroy the tamer's girl watch in the process.
Tanya's hooked claws dug into her hips as the bear girl brought her powerful thrusts to bear. She relaxed. Tanya knew what she liked best after all. June looked over the mauled, half-eaten corpse of her traveling companion.
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