Hovering above my white haired lover, I groped her boobs and indulged in a wet, smacky exchange of lips with her, head and hands twisting about in search of more of that delectable softness and pleasure.
Yue had thrown her arms around my neck, squeezing tighter with each passing second, a sort of punishment/warning to not keep my engorged member out of her any longer.
Chuckling into the kiss, I pulled away with much reluctance and slowly slid both palms down her burning torso, her body rising and curving like a snake's to maintain the no doubt skin heating contact.
Trailing down her abdomen and spreading both arms—one for each of her legs—I wrapped my eager hands around her upper thighs and adjusted my knees, my lower head pressing flat against her fat, reddened lips.
Before I could do anything else, the ravenous minx inched herself forward despite my hold on her and sucked the tip in.
Normally I would have laughed at such behavior, but when the obscene amount of writhing suffocation that came with this slight penetration hit me, lust immediately overcame humor.
Mirroring her effort, I thrust my own waist forward and we met at the hip, a shared frenzy overcoming the both of us.
There was no teasing and no "staring slow." It went from zero to hundred immediately, a wild rutting that saw our hips smack together like overly enthusiastic claps.
Our eyes and mind locked, Yue and I fucked each other like animals, me throwing my hips with everything I got and her throwing her waist up to meet me every time .
The bed creaked a great protest beneath us, but it went ignored, the haze of maddened lust draped over minds like a thick carpet.
Both of our endurances out of this world, I met Yue's impassioned, upward thrusts for the entire duration of the rut, the vampire managing to meet me the whole while despite the numerous times her eyes rolled up into her head.
Soon, it was time for my own climax. As had become the norm with our sessions, I yanked Yue's own wherever it was to meet mine, bringing both of us to the brain melting peak.
With a loud grunt, I slammed into her one last time and dropped my whole weight on her smaller body, grunting and twitching with her as we both rode off the spine tingling shocks and orgasmic high.
Raising my head and meeting her gaze again, we started another round of fervent kissing, my flaccid member still inside her. That softness didn't last a minute with our actions.
We were both raring to go again, but I had something else in mind.
Shifting off of her and earning a pout when my hardness slipped out of her very welcoming slit, I laid by her side and placated her with my next actions.
Our shoulders rubbing against each other, I hugged her from behind, throwing my right arm over while I deposited my dick between her soft cheeks.
She moaned approvingly and turned to face me when I fondled her boobs. She stole my lips without missing a beat, a gesture I reciprocated all too eagerly.
While our tongues warred with each other, I stopped twisting and savoring the envelopment of her soft, marshmallowy cheeks and aimed my dick at a hole I'd only recently become acquainted with.
We both hissed when I broke into her ass, the rare and ungodly sensations bringing to mind previous romps and ramping up our expectations at the oncoming repeat of those joyous experiences.
Since both parties were in agreement, I wasted no time and went the whole way, groaning and grunting all the while like I'd been dosed with something.
The kiss broke due to our verbal expression of the intense pleasure, and I took advantage of the momentary respite to look down at our contact.
I groaned and drew back my waist, shivering and fighting to hold back my nut at the sight of how she clung to me. Burying my face in her neck and holding her tighter, I peppered it with kisses until we were kissing again.
Desperate to enjoy the overwhelming sensations for a lot longer, I didn't speed up and kept that slow place, turning our second round of sex into a slow, lovemaking session.
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"Babe, take us down."
The journey to the Schnee snow fields had by no means been easy. For Siv and I, not much was required on our part. Yue on the other hand, fought tooth and nail to maintain her construct's integrity against the hellish conditions of the snowy, freezing territory.
It got even worse the deeper we went and the closer we got to the labyrinth, the storm of hail peppering her golden construct like the collective fire of a dozen miniguns.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the lightning bolts that had somehow manifested in this below zero area struck us repeatedly, each threatening to gouge pieces of the dragon's body to let the insidious cold in.
Thankfully, my presence here counted for something. Due to my insistence on her eating the monster meat and the ideas I'd be throwing over to her, Yue was more powerful than ever.
In fact, I daresay she was much stronger than her counterpart that faced Ehit at the end of the novel. And this was without two of the Ancient magics at her beck and call.
That was soon about to change. We would all have metamorphosis magic in a few hours. We just had to survive whatever this labyrinth had in store for us.
At my prompting, Yue nodded and threw her dragon into the deep crevasse my compass dictated was our next step.
Of course, with her constant, ironclad control over it, her dragon fell like a meteor but gracefully arrested its momentum at the end, landing without a shuddering jolt or a crater beneath us.
Yue was about to dispel her construct, but I stopped her from doing so.
"How's your mana?"
She licked her lips and smiled coyly. "Mmm… it's okay, but I could use some refreshment."
Smiling and resisting the urge to roll my eyes, I turned and gestured to my back. "Get on—."
My words didn't even land.
She latched onto me like a spider and buried her face into my neck, fangs piercing my skin. Cycling reverse cursed energy through my body to offset her "enthusiasm," I looked at the compass, at the lone tunnel, and then at Siv.
"You'll deal with any monsters we encounter."
"Yes sir," she nodded, ears twitching and back going straighter.
"Yue, maintain your barrier and keep up the warmth. I have a feeling it's going to get colder."
She didn't stop sucking, but she let us know she heard. "Mmn…"
We took off with that. I was in the lead as always, unbothered by Yue's weight as I all but sprinted through the winding tunnel and breezed past the multiple obstructions.
Siv easily kept pace with me and we soon arrived at fork where the originally lone tunnel now split into three. We stayed there for less than five seconds before diving into the rightmost tunnel, the infallible and reliable compass not missing a beat.
Strong, icy winds fought against our advance in the dark ice tunnel, wheezing past our ears continuously and fighting with Yue's barrier, copious steam rising from the war between them.
Having faced our fair share of inhospitable environments, the three of us didn't bother with complaints or grumbles and just pushed through it, though some of it was the girls mirroring my desire to speedrun this labyrinth.
As much as we enjoyed the power bestowed by the tortuous challenges, we'd rather be anywhere but inside the goddamn labyrinths. Why did these liberators have to make these things so damn hard? Normal adventurers would die before they arrived here.
I put my thoughts aside when we encountered our first monster, and its appearance jogged a very specific memory. Reaching Siv through our connection, I gave her a heads up.
"No matter what you do, don't let them touch you."
I sensed her confusion about the "them" part, but I let my actions do the talking. Still ensconced within my lover's barrier, I pointed my index finger at the tiny rabbit and roused my cursed energy.
The critter had silvery fur and eyes that matched it, a sharp departure away from the normal red of monsters. It squeaked and hopped toward us with innocence, ice crystals shimmering on its back and falling with its movements.
It was such a disarming sight that even Yue had stopped sucking me dry to look at it, and Siv's confusion grew even more.
Holding back the urge to kiss my teeth, I fired a bolt of compressed energy and blew the rabbit to chunks, spraying the tunnel with gore.
I felt the stares burn into me for a brief moment before they returned to the scene of the crime. More "cute" bunnies were hopping out of the tiny crevices in the tunnel they hid in.
They all stared at the splotch of red that used to be their friend and then looked at me specifically before squeaking loudly and hopping towards me with a vengeance.
"Kill them," I said to Siv and resumed firing on the monsters, painting the tunnel with more red.
Coordinating with Yue, Siv stood at a point that was a meter away from the edge of the former's barrier and sliced apart any rabbits she let through.
There were a lot of them, enough to form mounds of corpses. They poured into the tunnel like white waterfalls, filling the entire corridor with a cacophony of chittering and squeaking.
Seeing no need to stay still, especially when it seemed like there was no end to them, I resumed following the compass' direction and went deeper into the tunnel, Siv and I continuing the genocide the whole way.
Speaking of the tigress, she'd come to understand the reason for my brutal reaction to the first rabbit's presence. It was hard for her and Yue not to when the rabbits they allowed into the barrier robbed the heat within its confines like black holes.
Yue would've complained about the drastic loss in mana, but she had an all you can eat buffet, so she just urged Siv on to enact the vengeance for both of them. Nothing had the right to look so cute and be so dangerous, on this they both agreed.
'I could say the same about you two.'
We shared a couple of laughs, smiles, and the mental equivalent of long eye contact with each other and focused our full efforts and attention on culling the rabbits' population.
No matter what numbers they boasted, the rabbits were finite in number. And we proved as much when our onslaught continued till the unending streaks of white shooting out of the walls ceased.
Joy and accomplishment took over at the sight. With a quick check of the compass and each other for any injuries or mishaps we might have missed, we raced through the tunnel and arrived at its end.
A T-Junction of sorts awaited us, and the matter of where to go had already been answered. What we had to deal with was the even stronger winds blowing over from each side of the T.
"Leave it to me." Yue said, licking the tiny holes where she'd sunk in her fangs before getting down.
Without raising a hand or displaying any outward action for that matter, she took active control of the barrier and lifted all three of us, securing us firmly within its confines before adjusting its shape.
She made the front of the magical construct narrower and streamlined the entire thing, making it look as though we were in the frontmost part of a bullet train.
Without further ado, she launched us on the right path of the T junction, slicing through the headwinds and bringing us to where it led in no time.
We came out through a triangle shaped opening, and even through the barrier, we sensed the buffeting winds fizzle out suddenly like mist in the midday sun.
In fact, there was no sound in the ice room/cave. The contrast was not unnerving, but it was prominent enough to give us pause.
"There's something coming," Siv said all of a sudden. As if her words were some sort of activation code, a group of large monstrosities made themselves known to us right after the fact.
Eerily similar to gorillas, the white furred creatures, each the size of one storey buildings, charged towards us on their two legs in a manner normally reserved for humans and shook the still air with their roars.
"Yetis," I said and turned to Siv. "Get 'em tiger."
Showing a bright face and a grateful smile, Siv equipped her sword and shield before starting a slow trot forward, her body increasing in size with each step.
A smile of pride took its appropriate place on my face when the tigerwoman, now outside the barrier and the same height as the Yetis, picked up speed and met them head on with her shield.
A deafening bang spread unhindered throughout the room as the first of the monsters flew back and crashed into two of its brothers and staggered them both.
Before the trio could recover from the unexpected hit, Siv's shadow fell over them before her sword swept a sudden wide arc. It sliced through them like they were illusions and drew growing red lines on each of them.
A well-trained and seasoned fighter even before meeting us, the tiger kicked the centermost Yeti in the chest and sent its detached upper body flying into those behind it. A shield bash sent the head of the leftmost one back as well.
Having seen first hand how quickly and easily three of them fell, the Yetis showed the appropriate response and upped their game.
They stopped running and started skating on the ice, revealing their ability to manipulate it. Combined with their spiderman-like agility—spinning midair, triple flips, that sort of thing— they dodged the impromptu projectiles.
It wasn't as if Siv's efforts were wasted though. They indeed split up and evaded her attack, but one of them in its evasive maneuvers placed itself firmly in the path of her flying disc shield.
The strange construction of indestructible metal hit in the neck with impossible precision and sent it airborne. Akin to a shark that had smelled blood, Siv was on him in mere moments.
In one smooth movement, she expertly slotted her arm through the shield's straps as it returned to her and thrusted her sword forward, burying it in the monster's gut.
A simple slice upward and a lean to the left afterward saw the monster fall down bisected and an attack by another of the monsters avoided.
Without even looking back, Siv jumped and kicked backwards, hitting nothing but air.
Spinning around to find her missed target, she saw one of the giants, somersault and land on the ice with sliding movements reminiscent of a world class ice skater.
With speed that belied her current size, she darted toward him, expertly dodging the attacks of the others and retaliating with multiple, precise ones of her own.
She wove between their furred tree-like limbs like a dancer, her own agility more than a match for theirs.
Unlike their massive, lumbering movements despite the ingenious way they used the ice, Siv's size didn't come with any extra mass or weight. It was pure spatial manipulation.
Despite her meagre—compared to Yue's and mine—contribution to our completion of the volcano labyrinth, she was recognized for her efforts and received the ability to Spatial Magic as well.
You'd think advancing through nature's version of a pressure cooker would be the most difficult part of incorporating the ability to manipulate space into her repertoire of abilities, but no.
There was little she could do with the hard earned abilities. Not everyone was like Yue.
If she had had a class with ranged capabilities then we would've had some ideas to go off on. Unluckily, she was a melee type, a warrior-tank hybrid.
Together with Yue's insight and feel of the magic when she used it, we experimented with many things, my wealth of fiction knowledge serving as part of the input.
I wracked my memories for any space users that engaged in close combat and felt the urge to facepalm. How could I forget Gojo? I used cursed energy for god's sake.
From there on it seemed like the floodgates had opened. I recalled some guy from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure even though I'd never watched the show, and the valkyrie wannabe twins from Worm even though I'd never read it.
After describing Gojo's Limitless to her, Siv had managed to develop a variant of it. Though in her case, it didn't quite possess the "infinity" part, only giving her ample time to dodge most attacks since they now travelled over ten times the distance.
Her attempt to mimic Fenja and Menja was met with success after over a dozen tries. There were a lot of logistics involved in increasing the amount of space you occupy. Go figure.
We had to take into account things such as gravity's effects on her in that state and a host of other things, all things she needed to adjust to and fine tune the technique.
But all that hard work was worth it. Because now, Siv's giant form not only increased her damage and reach, it also did the inverse to all oncoming damage in proportion to how much bigger she was.
And it wasn't just damage she could offset. She could do same to gravity, heat, light and other things. She could adjust her weight between its base level and zero or anything in between on the fly.
Add that to her already impressive natural stats and she was completely untouchable, even as a giant. And this was just after a few days of training.
With time she would be able to fly, become invisible. Hell, she could even go in the opposite direction and rather shrink her proportions. It made me excited just thinking about it, a sentiment not just the woman herself, but Yue too shared.
A scene of gore and carnage in her wake, Siv cancelled the effects of her War Breaker state and shrunk little by little. By the time she reached us, she was back to normal, looking a bit tired but with nary a speck of blood or mark of battle.
Projecting as much pride and excitement I could towards her, I wrapped an arm around her shoulder and squeezed. "You were amazing," I smiled at her and said, "Good girl."
"Mmn. You did great."
If my words and behavior hadn't turned her bright red like a tomato, what Yue did and said next would have. The equally awed vampire joined her on the opposite end and hugged her from that side too.
Overcome with emotion, Siv's eyes watered but she held the tears back and alternated between our smiling and proud visages. "You guys…"
Our response to that was to shower her with more affection, causing the impromptu emotional meetup to last a few minutes. When we finally came apart and resumed the journey, Siv had all but recovered, the few mana potions I handed over bringing her back to her peak.
As amazing as it was, the War Breaker state consumed a lot of energy. Someone like Yue could maintain it indefinitely due to her ridiculous reserves and fast rate of mana recovery.
A "normal" person like Siv could only sustain it for a few minutes. That was something that could only be improved with training, time, and some methods and means that were only ideas for the moment.
We didn't have to go very far from the site of the Yeti massacre to find a change in scenery. Our new location was a giant cavern, easily the size of a soccer field enclosed by walls of crystal clear ice.
"Frost Caverns of Schnee," I said absentmindedly and peered down at the compass. "Don't tell me we're now just entering it?"
The idea that we actually had a long way to go didn't bother just me. Yue and Siv frowned when they examined everything we'd faced till now and they shared my irritation.
'These liberators…' I shook my head and gave Yue a direction to move in. Her flying construct reoriented itself according to her will and shot forward. A distance that would have taken us a long time to walk was covered in seconds.
Stopping right beside a wall to adjust the shape and size of her construct for the change in the path ahead, Yue looked up when a snowflake falling innocently hit her shield.
Her abrupt shift in attention drew ours from the corpse encased firmly in the ice.
"The snow is trying to freeze the barrier. It's taking a lot of mana to keep it intact."
"Do you need me?" I asked and gestured to my neck.
She shook her head. "I'm okay."
"Then let's leave," I said and gave the frozen corpse's serene expression a quick glance.
Around us, the world stretched again as Yue propelled us forward.
That still wasn't enough to prevent us from seeing the wealth of black spots in the clear ice—each being a person that braved this place and got swallowed by the ice for their efforts.
Our unusual method of travel brought us to our next stop, another intersection. There were four corridors in front of us, and the whirlwind in the center of this place blew the snow falling from the ceiling into all four of them.
"The right one…"
A simple nod from Yue and a second later, we were moving. We crossed the corridor easily and reached another room made of glinting ice, this one with no exits in sight.
Attacks that were seemingly waiting for us hit us immediately upon arrival, eagles, wolves, and other creatures made of ice swarming Yue's barrier construct with single-minded focus.
Without a word, Yue's construct exploded outward, the resulting force from the sudden eruption directed outward with masterful precision. The attempted encirclement and dismemberment failed and smoking chunks of ice creatures fell all around us like rain.
The time to rejoice and find out "where next" never came, as the chunks of the not so dead monsters moved on their own and reconnected with each other.
Those that had lost irreplaceable parts proved they were all too replaceable when the ice beneath our very feet rose up and mended their forms.
In little to no time, we were completely surrounded, eagles filling the airspace above us and on the ground with us, terrestrial animals of all kinds, each and every one of them poised to tear us to shreds.
"Heh," I chuckled and stepped forward, both hands coming up.
Trembling from how much cursed energy suffused them, my hands aimed directly in front of me and spat out thick violet beams of the dense energy.
Cursed energy flowed like a torrent, evaporating anything it came into contact with.
Arms outstretched, I waved my hands about while spinning, erasing the presumptuous monsters from sight like a child taking an eraser to an ugly paper drawing .
Careful not to hurt my partners, I did a full 360 turn and cleaned up our surroundings completely. I was naturally about to dial down the beams when Yue shouted and pointed at a far wall, mentally sharing an image.
She was using her magic perception ability, and it had picked up a kind of monster core in the walls. Not needing anything more than that, I brought both hands together like I was praying and adjusted where the fading beams were hitting.
Joining them together with a thought, the twin beams became one and instead of ballooning in size, compressed until it was the size of pvc pipe. It hit the wall like a laser, precisely where the crystal was embedded and carved a path straight to it.
Too bad for us, the crystal, or whatever monster it belonged to, manipulated the ice around itself to move out of the way.
I of course tried to reorient the beam, but the monster was lightning quick, darting across the ice like a ball in the pinball game.
This would've prompted a different course of action, such as a ramping up of the amount of cursed energy to demolish the wall completely or Yue using her spatial abilities to trap and destroy the crystal.
We didn't need to do any of that.
On its own volition, the monster breached the walls, its crystal hidden deep within the bowels of a gigantic tortoise that was larger than the Yetis by more than six times.
All around us—the floor, the ceiling, the walls—crystalline creatures of all kinds sprang up in large numbers.
"You girls deal with the monsters. I'll crack the turtle."
Getting their assent right away, reinforcement went into full force and I blasted off, tearing a gap through the monsters straight to their controller.
I greeted it with a simple probing punch, my fist and the force it delivered shearing through one of its pillar-like legs upon arrival.
Ignoring the shower of ice and its loud enraged roars—how a monster made of ice could roar was beyond me—I kept up my speed and flowed into the next attack, and the next, cutting all six of its thick legs from under it.
The dislegging attacks too fast for it to regrow the limbs, the tortoise plunged into the ice below with the force of an actual building, gouging it with wide cracks that spread from the impact.
It shook the whole cave, causing icicles and all sorts of pointy things to fall from the ceiling.
After a quick check with the girls to confirm that everyone was okay, I refocused on the disabled monster and locked onto the red crystal standing out against the crystal clear backdrop of its massive form.
"One strike. I want to get it in one strike."
Stepping close to the wall that was its side, I pushed reinforcement to the max and gathered an obscene amount of cursed energy in my fist.
One point of cursed energy gave me 100 points in Strength, Defense and Agility, and I had over 10,000 points of it. The sheer thought of it scared me… but it excited me even more.
Grinning widely as my body began to suffer under the strain of the sheer amounts of strength and energy coursing through it, I reasserted a measure of control and flung my fist forward, pushing with my legs and twisting my body.
What happened next couldn't be described with mere words.
Up became down and left became right. I lost sight of the tortoise and its core crystal, a scene of cracked ice flying about and the rushing of strong, forceful winds the only recognizable things for good while.
When things calmed down enough—not just around me but in my head and body too—I realised I was buried under large chunks of ice, but that wasn't the most glaring thing to me at the moment.
Yue and Siv were shouting their mental lungs out through our connection. A smile took over my features and I relaxed. For a second there, I thought I'd hurt them.
Immediately I sent over word that I was okay, the ice above me shifted and the hands of a golden giant came into sight. Yue plucked the massive ice blocks over me and I leapt out, landing before them with my clothes and hair disheveled.
"Sorry about that," I smiled. "Did we get it?"
The ladies joined me in looking around for the tortoise. Yue was the one who found it. She controlled her golden giant to toss aside a few ice chunks nearby and revealed the core—or what had become of it.
It lay in pieces, like a huge collection of tiny red gems.
'Is that what happened to the turtle?' If that was true then…
Shaking my head, I gazed at the newly formed tunnel and back at the girls. We shared a series of nods and promptly went into it, eager to face the next challenge and get to the bottom of this place.
At the other end of the tunnel, we found another cavern, this one with a large maze at its bottom.
My next thought was obviously to just fly over it to where the compass was gesturing, but a memory chose that moment to make itself known and reminded me why that would not work.
"Either the liberators didn't account for challengers who can fly, or they did and we have no choice but to go through the maze. What do you guys think?"
"Whatever you say sir. No matter what happens, we'll deal with it."
"Mmn… I'll fly us over first. If something blocks us, we'll go into the maze."
Satisfied with that plan, I let Yue carry us in her construct over the maze. Our flight remained uninterrupted for most of the journey. Except, right when we were about to arrive at the end, our surroundings warped and we were back at the start.
"Damn… looks like the maze it is."
Unwilling to waste any more time, we descended into the collection of winding paths without hesitation and started a long walk. With the compass leading the way, we didn't stop for even a second, weaving through the confusing pathways like we were omniscient gods.
It should have been a smooth sailing right to the end, but as always, the labyrinth trials were trials for a reason. I was the first to hear the whispers.
They came in Yue's voice, calling me all sorts of things for telling her I didn't love her as much and adding Siv to our group. Some too came in the tigress' voice, saying I only accepted her because I wanted a sex slave.
If I hadn't had pertinent talks with both ladies and myself about these issues beforehand, I don't know how I would've fared under this onslaught.
As for how the ladies themselves were doing—I wished I could hear whatever "labyrinth me" was saying so I could debunk everything. It occurred to me right then, I could hear them if I wanted to.
"Yue. Siv. Ignore the whispers and open your minds. Let's talk to and listen to each other instead."
Without hesitation, I felt the girls more clearly than ever, even though they'd both inched closer and now rubbed shoulders with me since the start of the whispers.
Passing the compass we obtained from the tree labyrinth to Yue, I stored my own and interlocked the fingers of my hand with theirs, silently communicating with them about the things we heard.
In this manner, Yue led the way and we cleared the maze.
We emerged on the other side with the bonds between us stronger than ever, the trial having revealed minor issues we had little to no idea existed and our deepened connection allowing us to work together and address them all.
The liberators… weren't so bad after all.