The fourth floor was empty. Dust motes danced in the pale moonlight, undisturbed by anything living or dead.
"Fuck!"
Kai lashed out, his leg snapping through the air in a vicious roundhouse kick. His heel connected with a rotting wooden pillar.
CRACK.
Splinters exploded outward as the ancient wood shattered under his Strength 14. The entire ceiling groaned, dust raining down on his shoulders.
"We are wasting time," Kai growled, pacing the length of the empty hallway. "There's nothing up here but rat shit and cobwebs."
He stopped, his jaw clenching.
"System! How the fuck can you not know what it is? You're supposed to be absolute!"
[System Alert][Scanning...][Error: Target signature is fluctuating. The Entity possesses a high-level concealment ability. Detection is only possible when the Entity is actively feeding or in close proximity.]
"Then fuck off," Kai spat, swiping the blue screen away. "Useless piece of junk."
He took a deep breath, trying to center himself. The silence of the top floor was unnerving. He had expected an ambush, a scream, something. But this quiet... it was worse.
"I need to regroup," Kai decided. "If it's not here, it's hunting the others."
He tried to recall the formation. "Where was Leng Yue? Ah, yes. The second floor. The Ice Princess thinks she can handle anything."
He turned and sprinted toward the stairwell. He didn't bother with stealth. He thundered down the stairs, his boots slamming against the wood, descending into the dark belly of the dormitory.
He reached the second-floor landing. The air here was different. It was freezing cold, yet it smelled... wet.
He rounded the corner into the Hall of Mirrors.
Kai skidded to a halt. His eyes went wide.
"What the..."
It wasn't a battlefield. It was an orgy of two.
Leng Yue, the pride of the Leng Clan, lay sprawled on her back in the center of the room, her robes torn open, her fingers moving frantically between her legs. And next to her—just a few feet away—was Gu Ling. The fiery redhead had her trousers pulled down to her knees, her hand buried in her panties, moaning Kai's name into the dusty floorboards.
They weren't fighting. They were drowning in pleasure.
"Kai... fuck me... don't stop..." Gu Ling sobbed, bucking her hips against the air.
"This isn't right," Kai whispered. The lust in the room was palpable, thick enough to choke on, but underneath it was the stench of decay.
[Ding!][System Alert: Trace Detected!][Entity Recognition: 50%][Analysis: The Hostile Entity was present in this location approximately 60 seconds ago.]
Kai's blood ran cold.
"It was here?"
He looked at the girls. They were delirious. Their eyes were rolled back, their skin pale and clammy. They looked like they were running a marathon, their energy reserves depleting rapidly.
"It did this to them," Kai realized, a surge of anger mixing with the adrenaline. "It drugged them. It turned them into... this."
If the entity was here a minute ago, and it wasn't here now...
"System! Where is it now? Can you track it?"
[Scanning for Energy Signatures...][...Processing...][Alert: High Concentration of Sexual Energy detected.][Status: Energy is being consumed rapidly.][Direction: Downstairs. The Ground Floor.]
"Han Rou," Kai hissed.
He didn't wait to wake the girls up. If the entity was feeding, he had to stop the source.
He launched himself toward the stairs. He moved like a blur, his Agility pushed to the limit. He vaulted over the railing, dropping from the second floor directly to the lobby below.
THUD.
He landed in a crouch, the floorboards cracking under the impact.
He didn't need the System to tell him where to go. He could hear it.
From the east corridor—where Han Rou and Yun Xi had gone—came the sound of ragged, desperate wailing.
Kai sprinted. He kicked the double doors open.
The scene inside was a mirror image of the floor above, but worse.
Instructor Han Rou was leaning against the wall, her robes hiked up to her waist, her hand working furiously between her legs. Her glasses were gone, her face a mask of pure, mindless ecstasy. Yun Xi was on the floor beside her, her skirt bunched up, crying and moaning as she rubbed herself raw.
But Kai didn't look at them.
His gaze snapped to the center of the room.
To anyone else—to Han Rou, to Yun Xi, even to the comatose boys—the room was empty. But to Kai, with the System's interface overlaying his vision, the truth was horrifiedly visible.
[Entity Detected.][Target Locked.]
Floating in the center of the room, hovering a few inches off the floor, was a monster.
She was magnificent and terrifying.
She stood nearly seven feet tall. Her skin was a deep, crimson red, smooth and flawless like polished ruby. She was completely naked, her body possessing curves that defied anatomy—breasts the size of melons that defied gravity, a waist impossibly snatched, and hips that flared wide and dangerous.
Curving from her forehead were two long, obsidian horns. A thick, spade-tipped tail flicked lazily behind her.
[Analysis Complete.][Name: The Weeping Matriarch][Species: Cursed Demoness (Succubus Variant)][Diet: Pure Lust / Yang Qi.][Method: "Death by Bliss" - Forces targets to masturbate until life force is depleted.]
Kai watched, disgusted and mesmerized.
The Demoness was feeding.
glowing, translucent strings of pink light were shooting out of Han Rou and Yun Xi. The strings originated from their groins—the very essence of their arousal and life force being drawn out.
But it wasn't just them. Two more strings punched through the ceiling above, coming from the second floor—Leng Yue and Gu Ling were being drained remotely.
All four strings of light converged on the Demoness.
They flowed directly into her open, wet pussy.
She was absorbing their souls through her sex.
A smirk played on her black lips. Her eyes, glowing with a baleful yellow light, were closed in savoring delight. She shivered as the energy poured into her, her red skin pulsing with power.
"Delicious..." she purred, her voice sounding like grinding stones. "So much pent-up need... these little cultivators are bursting with it."
Kai stepped forward. His boot crunched on a piece of broken glass.
Cr-runch.
The sound cut through the moans.
The Demoness stopped. Her yellow eyes snapped open.
She turned her head slowly, looking past the writheing forms of Han Rou and Yun Xi. She looked directly at the doorway.
She looked directly at Kai.
For a second, there was silence.
The Demoness blinked. Her smirk faltered.
"What the fuck?" she hissed, her tail twitching in agitation. "Human?"
She floated closer, hovering just a few feet away from him. She waved a clawed hand in front of his face, expecting him to be in a trance like the others.
Kai didn't blink. He locked eyes with her.
"You're ugly," Kai said coldly.
The Demoness recoiled as if slapped. Her jaw dropped.
"You..." She stared at him, genuine shock replacing her arrogance. "You can see me?"
She looked him up and down, sensing the density of his body, the lack of the glassy-eyed stupor she was used to inducing.
"Impossible," she snarled, her voice echoing with supernatural power. "No male can resist my aura. Why aren't you on your knees, stroking yourself like the rest of these cattle?"
Kai flexed his hands. The veins on his forearms bulged as Strength 14 primed itself for violence.
"Because," Kai grinned, a dark, dangerous expression that made the demoness hesitate. "I prefer the real thing. And I don't kneel to food."
[Battle Initiated!][Opponent: Cursed Demoness (Level ???)]
The Demoness narrowed her eyes, her tail lashing behind her. "You think you are the hunter? You are just a meal I haven't eaten yet."
She spread her legs in the air, the glowing strings of energy still feeding into her.
"Come then, boy. Let's see how long you last before you beg to be drained."