Saelia, Lysandra, and I hiked through the Forest of Embers towards the flame kroll encampment. The warden and I were in our usual outfits, she in her black coat, pants and white button-up, me in my cloak and armor. Our third companion on the other hand had stayed in her dark summer dress and hadn’t bothered even to put on shoes. “Doesn’t it hurt to hike around without shoes?” I asked the angelic woman. “If anything in this portion of the forest can pierce my skin let alone harm my feet, it would be humiliating.” “Does that have to do with you being a demi-empyrean?” “No, in this case my fate aspect is responsible.” “Lysandra’s of the knight fate aspect, Bryan,” Saelia said. It grants her body more durability, strength, and endurance as her spirit grows larger. With her level of power, she would be rightly embarrassed if stepping on a thorn caused her any discomfort.” “Oh, that’s awesome!” I looked at Lysandra, excitement brewing in my eyes. “What divine aspect do you have?” “I
“I… uh… no,” I said to Lysandra, deciding it was a bad idea to oblige her request to shoot her so she could test out how strong my unruned bullets were. She put her hands on her hips and narrowed her burning eyes. “You think you could harm me with these bullets you’ve created? Such arrogance!” “What?” I stared at her incredulously. “I’m being ‘arrogant’? You’re wearing nothing but a sundress! I get you’re all tough and stuff because of your fate aspect, but you’ve never even seen a gun before a couple minutes ago! How’re you going to stand there and tell me you’d just shrug off getting shot?” “She’ll be fine,” the warden grumbled begrudgingly, her arms crossed. “She may be graceful like a pig in mud, but she’s durable. With her amount of spirit and her fate aspect, I seriously doubt you’ll harm her with unruned bullets.” The angelic woman shot the shadow primal a withering glare before turning her gaze back to me. “The comment about my grace aside, speaks the truth.” “And even if
“And that makes five…” I said. I crouched in a small clearing of flame-colored grass near the flame kroll village. My chest welled up with satisfaction as I looked at the splintered trunk of the tree my most recent creation had destroyed. I’d had to tinker until late afternoon to figure out how to make five fairly complicated traps using my magic, but it had totally been worth it. Saelia and Lysandra lounged on a nearby couch I’d conjured for them. As I’d experimented, they’d made out, taken a nap, offered suggestions about what I should make, and bickered. The warden leaned back and absently stroked one of Lysandra’s wings. “How much spirit will you have left after making that one?” “With all the current items I’ve had to imbue to keep around, making these five traps leaves me with a little over ninety spirit left.” “That’s not much left over…” “Yeah, the spirit I gained from the torchboars and flame krolls didn’t boost my maximum as much as I’d hoped. But does it really
There were smudges of dirt on her beautiful face. In a dirty tunic, mud-caked boots, and leather leggings with a couple of tears exposing glimpses of pale thighs, the woman was petite with a delicately elegant figure. Disheveled, sparrow-blue hair hung down to just above her shoulders. Woven through the messy locks were feathers of the same color, creating an interesting layered texture. As soon as she stumbled in our path, her piercing golden eyes darted to Saelia, Lysandra, and me. About ten feet away, she straightened and looked at us with a mixture of caution and tentative relief. We stared back at her, Lysandra and I with curiosity; the warden with suspicion. Fuck, she’s cute… Judging by the feathers in her hair and the bird-like eyes, I’m betting she’s a demi-aviatin. I gave her a smile meant to convey no bad intentions, one that I prayed to Nikki wouldn’t come off as creepy. “Hey, uh, you alright?” She furrowed her brow, watching us carefully. “No… I’ve been lost in
On opposite submerged benches, Saelia and I sat in the bathing pool. Despite my cock being hard like iron at taking a bath with the gorgeous shadow primal, my stomach twinged with unease at her ‘ulterior motive’ for getting me alone. “I wish to speak about the near-death experience you had with the flame kroll yesterday.” She untied her ponytail and let her hair fall loose on her shoulders. My guts clenched at the memory, but I put on an easygoing grin. “What about it?” “Such an experience is terrifying. I want to know how you’re coping with it.” “Uh, I’m fine.” “Your false smile says otherwise.” She frowned. “Please, share your feelings with me.” My heart tightened at the tender concern in her expression. A crack formed in my resistance against talking about my new, fuller understanding of what was at stake for me in going to Chromaryn Academy. She stood from her bench. The water coming up just above her waist, she crossed over to me. Her thigh pressed against my length wh
My eyebrows rose in surprise at the confidence in her voice. “Geez, is she really that strong?” “Among ascendents, she is considered fairly powerful. If I had to guess, I’d say in a straight fight she would be considered either gold or greater gold rank. So… I think she will be fine should Alea prove to have nefarious intentions.” “Shit… If she’s near the top of gold rank, doesn’t that mean there’s only two ranks higher than her? Platinum and diamond?” “Indeed, though, the higher the rank, the larger the valley of power you must cross to reach the next rank. For instance, the power differential between greater gold and lesser platinum is greater than the difference between lesser stone and greater gold. So, there are those far, far stronger than she.” I blinked in surprise. Like trying to picture a billion dollars in cash, the exponential increase in the power of higher ranks was difficult for me to imagine. “That’s insane… What rank are you?” She quirked her mouth to the side. “H
Saelia lowered herself into the bathing pool. In each hand, she held a silver ring, one just large enough to fit on a finger, the other about as wide as a tennis ball. The lightly steaming water of the magical hot tub rippled as she sat beside me on the submerged bench. On my other side sat Lysandra, her soft wing against my shoulder while she lazily stroked my cock beneath the water. The soft bliss of her touch put a relaxed grin on my face. I nodded to the rings. “What’re those?” “Items connected through runic engravings so that they may function as one.” In her palm, she showed me the smaller ring. “This one requires raw spirit, life spirit, water spirit, and flame spirit to function.” Tiny, intricate runes ran along the band, and upon closer inspection, I noticed four gems. Each was the size of a grain of rice and embedded in the polished metal. One was a flaming red, the second was yellow like a sunflower, the third faintly glowed and was the color of ice, and the fourth was
Lysandra and I sat side-by-side on the edge of the bathing pool. Between the angelic woman’s legs, Saelia knelt on the submerged bench protruding from the circular wall of the magic hot tub. With the silver ring fit snugly around the base of my stone-stiff manhood, I stared with fascination at the white-blue cock the angelic woman now possessed. It was identical to mine in shape and size and looked ridiculously large on her. Huh, I wonder if– My thoughts came to a screeching halt when Saelia’s full, pale gray lips met the head of Lysandra’s spirit cock. I felt the phantom sensation of her kiss on the head of my manhood. As she took more of the glowing dick into her mouth, it was as though it were my length being engulfed in her warmth and wetness. Pleasure rippled through me as my cock experienced the unseen motions and slippery friction of her tongue along the underside of the spectral manhood. “I can feel it… It feels exactly like she’s sucking me off,” I said with delighted