"More~"
She pulled back, her breath ragged, and gazed up at me, her eyes pleading, her full, slightly purple lips slick with saliva. The violet depths were unfocused and fogged over with pure, insatiable desire. And gods, her scent. It wrapped around me and filled my lungs and senses with each shallow breath. It was almost tangible, an invisible blanket of lust, and it took all my restraint to keep my hands by my sides. But I couldn't, not for long.
Not now.
So I leaned, attempting to eat her lips once again, however.
"!!!" Suddenly, I felt a chill down my neck that immediately snapped me from my lustful state. Something was looking directly at me, watching me, and when I turned back, my eyes stopped at a disturbing sight.
"Shit!"
Every single human being who had moments ago been lost in their moans and writhing pleasure was now staring at us. No sound escaped their lips anymore — just silence. Their mouths hung slack, faces frozen mid-ecstasy as if something had paused them... no, emptied them.
Their eyes were wrong. Glassy. Soulless.
But they weren't blind, they were watching me. I took a step back, instinct screaming at me to run, the purple-haired succubus clung to my arm, panting.
"They're awake…" she whispered, voice trembling. "She knows... She knows you're here."
"Who?" I asked, even though I already knew. My gut answered before my brain did.
The Varul Queen.
A deep groan echoed from the walls — no, inside the walls. The very flesh around us pulsed, twitched, shuddered. The veins bulging along the living chamber began to throb with growing urgency, and a thick, nauseating scent of decay bled into the air, overpowering even the erotic haze that had clouded the room just seconds ago.
Ding.
[Warning: The host's environment is corrupted. Unknown presence detected.]
Then, the moaning returned but this time it was wrong, like something had infested these people, eating away at their sanity and turning them into mindless, fucked-up fucks. Their bodies began to move. Jerky, unnatural. Their bones cracked as their heads twisted toward me fully, mouths widening far too much, jaws unhinging like snakes preparing to swallow.
Slowly and like a spider crawling through its web, the corrupt humans freed themselves from the fleshy pillars and began gathering around us, surrounding us, trapping us.
"Oh shit..." I cursed jumping to my feet, my right hand gripped the flail tightly ready to kill the abominations.
"Stay behind me," I hissed to the succubus, my eyes locked on the approaching swarm. They moved slowly, their muscles twitching and their eyes glazed with a film of unnatural pink light.
"They won't stop. Not until we're like them" The succubus cried out, pulling at my arm. "Please, don't fight them, run!"
Without hesitation, I summoned five Cinder Wraiths, the blue cold-flamed skeletons burst from my tail-pussy, startling the succubus, yet she didn't have the time to think of it as I reached to pick her like a sack of potatoes and throwing her on my shoulder.
The succubus on my shoulder let out a surprised yelp but quickly wrapped her arms around my neck, holding on tight as I turned to face the oncoming tide of corrupted humans.
"Hold on," I growled, my voice low and dangerous. "We're getting the fuck out of here."
"Make way!" I charged forward, my Cinder Wraiths leading the way, blazing through the swarmed people who didn't even flinch back. Instead, they lunged at us, reaching, grasping, and moaning as the tentacles began to pulsate and vibrate. I didn't stop, didn't even hesitate, a full sprint to break through their ranks.
Umbra was screaming through our link asking if he could join the fight, but I refused, fearing that he might get infected with some sickness and I wouldn't be able to help him. Moreover, these humans weren't hard to kill, it's just their numbers are what makes them dangerous.
A swarm of ants could kill a bear with their bite, I saw it back in my old world.
"Ah!" A sudden sharp pain shot through my thighs, making me stumble. I didn't even turn to see what it was, the flail swung, cutting through the flesh and bone, sending the head of a man rolling to the ground.
"H-Hey, what's your name?" the purple-haired girl on my shoulder suddenly asked, her voice a shaky whisper.
"Azariel," I replied without thinking.
"Azariel..." she repeated, testing the sound on her tongue.
"I like it. My name is Evangeline, by the way." She squeezed me tighter. "And I'm sorry."
"Wha- AH!" Before I could finish my word, a naked woman suddenly jumped from the fucking ceiling, her mouth opened wide, trying to sink her teeth into me.
"HOLY FUCK!!!!" I cursed, summoning a hell chain, the black link flew and pierced her neck, and then with a strong slash, the woman was cut in half.
I continued running, Evangeline clinging tightly to my back, the swarm of corrupted humans behind us, they were running now.
Bent limbs. Inverted joints. Grinning faces torn by their own pleasure. Crawling across the walls and ceiling, chasing like possessed spiders. My Wraiths held them at bay, the blue cold flame created a wall of death that none dared pass. But they wouldn't last. Not against this many. And I can't summon the remaining five or use the corpses in my inventory since I need them to face the Queen.
"Where's the fucking exit?!" I growled.
The succubus twisted on my shoulder, her tail coiling tightly around my back like a reflex. "Left—left passage! There's a tear in the membrane—it leads to the birthing rooms!"
"The what?!"
"It's better than staying here!"
Fair enough.
I bolted left, barreling toward a jagged tear in the fleshy wall, where viscous liquid oozed like the chamber was weeping or cumming if you preferred. I didn't hesitate. I charged through, ducking low as the walls screamed around us.
The passage spiraled downward like the throat of some giant, diseased beast, slick with mucus and twitching muscles. I half-surfed, half-slid down the fleshy slope, the succubus screaming and laughing deliriously on my back, her fingers digging into me.
I didn't know what I expected to find in the so-called "birth chamber", but the name alone made me shudder with fear.
We hit the bottom with a wet splat that echoed through the tunnel like a birthing cry. I staggered to my feet, fingers squelching in the warm, viscous fluid coating the floor, and my heart stuttered in my chest as I took in the scene before me.
"What the fuck is this?!"
We were inside a vast, dome-shaped chamber.
The walls were lined with bulging sacs of translucent flesh, each the size of a grown adult, hanging like grotesque fruit. Shapes writhed within—some human, some not. Some used to be. Umbilical cords of flesh snaked from the ceiling and floor, connecting everything in a throbbing, breathing web. Fluids dripped. Groaned. Moaned.
"Don't touch anything," Evangeline warned, tapping on my shoulder. "These aren't just spawn… they're linked to her. Every breath in this room, every drop spilled—it feeds the Queen."
"Why the fuck would you bring us here, then?!"
"Shut up and listen!" she hissed. "There, see? To the right. There is a safe room where you can wait, recover, and deal with your lust before you fall into a frenzy."
Evangeline's trembling finger pointed toward a crooked arch of bone near the far wall, barely visible through the pulsing haze of birthing sacs and misty slime. The tunnel leading to it was narrow, flanked by twitching tendrils that recoiled at the touch of light as if even they didn't dare approach it too eagerly.
"A safe room?" I echoed, panting, my knuckles white around the flail's haft. "Here?"
"Yes," She nodded quickly. "The Queen uses it to dump things. It's cut off from the hive nerves. She can't watch us there."
"How do you know that?"
"I lived there for a time" Evangeline replied "Before she captured me, the place was really safe, so please hurry"
With a sharp nod, I turned and bolted for the archway, my boots splashing through the mucus-like puddles.
My heart was pounding, adrenaline and fear flooding my system, and every inch of my red skin prickled with the sensation of being watched. My mind raced, trying to figure out a way from this mess, if not for this succubus I could've easily burned this place to the ground. But she was one of my kin. Moreover, my plan was screwed and all because of lust.
Fucking Lust.
I reached the archway, ducking low and squeezing through the gap. The tunnel beyond was narrow and low, lit only by a soft pink glow that emanated from the walls themselves. My eyes adjusted quickly, and I realized the walls were covered in a layer of fine, almost invisible tissue.
"Cut through here," Evangeline said, tapping my shoulder.
"What?"
"Cut through the flesh" she pointed her finger to the pink wall, "the room is just behind it."
"If you say so," I shrugged and summoned a hell chain, after modifying the tip to a blade, the chains cut the flesh like butter.
Evangeline didn't even blink, didn't even seem concerned or scared by the skill.
After cutting a hole big enough for the both of us, I entered the room, carefully placing Evangeline onto the ground and inspecting the area.
It was a simple circular chamber with no windows or doors. The walls were made of the same pinkish flesh as the rest of the hive, but the texture was rough and uneven as if they had been hacked and slashed at by something powerful and hateful.
"So... what now?" I asked, glancing at the purple-haired succubus, who was staring intently at the hole I had made that slowly started to close.
"You need to calm your Lust meter," she said, her tone serious and focused. And before I could say a word she pushed me down to the ground.
"W-Wait what the hell are you doing?!" I shouted, not knowing how to react.
Evangeline straddled my lap with surprising strength for someone who had just run for their life. Her hands pressed flat against my chest, and the soft warmth of her thighs around mine made me tremble with anticipation.
'Shit... I'm about to be eaten by a succubus!'
"I'm saving your mind," she whispered. "You're two points away from frenzy, Azariel. You know what happens if that meter breaks the threshold."
She was right... but... fuck I'm a man trapped in a succubus body.
"How the fuck do you expect to do that, then?" I asked, not hiding my curiosity
"Sister..." she purred, leaning closer, her hot breath tickling my lips, "Let me absorb your lust"