Chapter 4

“First, sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Then I want you to breathe in and out. Take big breaths and concentrate on how the air fills your lungs before being pushed outside. Feel your body as your heart pumps blood through your limbs and to your brain and let everything else go.”

Catching on what Ayla is teaching us, I meditate trying to feel foreign energy inside of me, which should be the Mana displayed on the Status Page. Falling into a trance I don’t notice the passage of time until I suddenly feel a slight presence in my body startling me in wakefulness.

Soul Perception - Level 1

You learned to perceive the most fundamental part of yourself.

I blink a couple of times in confusion, before turning to Ayla. Before I can ask her though she cuts me off.

“Were you able to gain Meditation?”

“No, instead I received Soul Perception.”

“Really? What did you do?”

“I just followed your instructions.”

“Mmhh. You should have gained Meditation if that’s right. No matter just try again. Close your eyes and empty your mind.”

I do as I am told, and despite it being difficult my persistence has finally yielded a brief moment with an empty mind. Sadly, it was short-lived as I thought about my success.

When I open my eyes again, I notice that the time has passed dusk, turning the world into the deep shade of night. Then I check my notifications.

Meditation - Level 1

This Skill helps you perceive yourself, thus strengthening your connection to your inner energy.

Error Skill level does not meet the requirement of Skill: Soul Perception.

Adjusting Skill Level.

Meditation has reached Level 10

(Note: In the future please unlock Skills in the proper order.)

“I have it.”

“Good. It’s late so let’s continue training tomorrow. You can ask me some more questions then. I’m sure you’re hungry; here eat.”

In her hand appears a loaf of bread and a small bowl of soup.

While taking the food I couldn’t help but ask; “Where did it come from?”.

“I have a spatial ring that lets me store things. Have a look if you want.”

She holds out her fist and shows me a silvery ring on her index finger. Looking more closely I can see there are inscriptions in the metal, though they are too small for me to discern.

“Ahh. that explains you and Lily taking stuff out of thin air.”

I eat my dinner, it was the same soup and bread I had before, and walk to the cave, where Alice is already soundly sleeping.

Lying next to her I try sleeping but somehow, I am restless, and throughout the night I fall asleep only to wake up soon thereafter.

As soon as I feel Alice stirring, I drag her down the stream where we’ve been bathing and undress the both of us.

Contrary to her expectations I push her to the ground and start kissing her wildly. She soon realises what is happening and slings her arms around my neck before invading my mouth with her tongue.

I grind my nether region against hers and by the time our kiss breaks we are both dripping copious amounts of fluids, especially me. So, I begin moving my mouth further down, briefly teasing her breasts and sucking on one while massaging both, before continuing until my mouth rests against her vulva.

There I continue kissing and invading her with my tongue but am stopped by a tug on my tail, informing me that I should reposition myself. After moving my legs on either side of Alice’s head I restart my cunnilingus, with Alice doing the same to me.

Around five minutes later we both orgasm and Alice seems slightly exhausted, but before I can dwell on that I can feel someone pulling my tail again and just as I turn around to see what happens I spot Lily next to us using my tail as a dildo.

Surprisingly, when Alice notices, instead of scowling or otherwise showing disapproval, she encourages this by shoving me in Lily direction, where she let’s go of my tail and pulls me towards her kissing me.

I continue wriggling my tail in her vagina and can feel Alice pressing against my back, snaking her hands around me to fondle one of my breasts and inserting two fingers on her other hand into my vagina.

It’s not long after that we come again and, I feel relief as I extract myself from the others to remove all the dirt our actions glued to our bodies in the stream.

Lily walks over and helps me scrub my wings clean and I clean up the blood from my tail.

Blood on my tail? Where did it come from? Thinking briefly on what had happened I turn around checking on Lily and sure enough, there is blood between her legs. As I’m staring something catches the sunlight, which turns out to be a piercing with inscriptions like the spatial ring.

“Uhm. If you want to go for another round that’s fine, but could you stop looking at my private parts like that it’s creepy.”

“Sorry. I only just realised that you were hurt and then was fascinated by that piercing you have. Does it do something?”

“Yes, but I can’t tell you what. And don’t worry about me I enjoyed it besides my hymen will heal. More importantly, are you feeling better?”

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“What do you mean?”

“Well, you haven’t had proper sex since arriving here, neither do you have the Skill levels of an adult yet ended up being one. My Lady thought you might be going through sexual-starvation and sent me here. It appears she was right. So, are you feeling better?”

“Wait, how are Skill levels important, I had the impression I just had to have sex?”

“Sigh. As far as we know Succubi feed on the sexual stimulus of people in their vicinity, including themselves. If they have higher Skill levels, they are better at pleasuring, thereby increasing what they can feed on. Throughout puberty, most Succubi level their Skills to around Level 15 enabling them to manage for a few days solely on masturbating before starting to show symptoms.

I assume you are fine, then. Let’s finish washing and head over to have breakfast.”

“Ok.”

We finish bathing and, on the way back I question Alice about her pushing me.

“Why did you shove me towards Lily sex? I thought you’d be jealous if I entertained another.”

With an exaggerated gesture and obviously fake pain, she answers: “I’m hurt. I only want what’s best for you and I imagined you would enjoy having a threesome, and I don’t think I was wrong. But you’re not going to leave me now that you had a taste of Lily, right?”.

“Of course not. We only just got married why would you think I’d divorce you now?”

“Then everything is fine. Don’t worry about doing it with others, so long as we’re together I’m happy.”

“Thank you.”

Alice smiles at that, and soon we are back at camp. Breakfast is some fruit pie with berries, and we all munch happily, having a proper meal that isn’t bread and soup.

Viewing my notifications, I’m surprised about all the Skill levels I obtained.

Kissing - Level 1

A good way to show affection, now you are better at it.

Kissing has reached Level 2

Kissing has reached Level 3

Kissing has reached Level 4

Charm has reached Level 4

Charm has reached Level 5

Cunnilingus - Level 1

The art of stimulating a vagina with your tongue. With this Skill, your tongue is slightly longer and more flexible.

Exhibitionist - Level 1

Not only is your body beautiful, but showing it is also sexy. Increase the arousal of people viewing your naked form.

Tail Play - Level 1

A tail is really useful and using it for pleasure is now easier.

“Do you have more questions right now? Otherwise, I’ll have Lily continue you’re training.”

“How does your economy work?”

In response, Ayla just blinks at me in some mishmash of confusion and disbelieve.

“I mean, do you use currency or are goods bartered, how are things priced, and do you have any idea how we might find employment?”

“Ahh. There are copper, silver and gold coins, each has a large version that is 25 times the worth of a small coin, and a single meal at a cheap tavern would be valued at around 20 copper. Here are the coins. Here are: a small copper coin, a large copper coin, the silver coins, and these are the gold coins.

A spatial ring would cost upwards of one gold coin depending on the size and an infertility ring costs one silver at the minimum with higher success rates and added effects increasing the amount.

About employment, you’re unlikely to gain an apprenticeship with your age especially factoring in your Skill levels, so unless you want to become a soldier or a prostitute, you’ll likely have to go to the Adventurer’s Guild.”

“What is an Infertility ring? And you have an Adventurer’s Guild here? What do they do?”

“An infertility ring mainly prevents pregnancy, mine and Lily’s also prevent diseases from being transmitted and ensure our hymens break during intercourse as well as regenerating them afterwards.

The Adventurer’s Guild is the chief supplier of monster parts, they regulate the monster population and the dungeon on behalf of the Kingdom, thereby allowing the citizens and unaffiliated people to increase their level.

They are an important organization across the world and will accept anyone who shows capabilities in combat.”

“Ok, I guess we should be training then.”

Almost as soon as I finish speaking, I already have Lily’s fist flying in my direction. I manage to narrowly dodge yet the same cannot be said about the follow-up kick.

Alice manages little better, while Lily ensures that at least one of us is kept away from her, and so we are unable to bring our advantage in numbers to bear, resulting in our defeat and too many bruises to count.

At least, I’m not as distracted anymore, maybe because of our actions in the morning or maybe because I’m starting to acclimatise to living on Angholm. Before I manage to contemplate further, I’m pulled up by Ayla to start the second round.

This time it works slightly better and I even land a hit on Lily, while Alice keeps her occupied, nevertheless we end up groaning on the floor once again, while Lily doesn’t seem injured at all.

But as the saying goes, ‘third time’s the charm’.

By now I think it is abundantly clear that Alice and I have little hope of winning, so I call a halt and discuss with her.

“Our approach isn’t working.”

“I know, but what else will we do? I don’t think Ayla will let us just run away.”

“We could try it anyway. If we take turns to stall her, she might run out of Stamina; it would at least even the odds.”

In response, I only receive a frown.

“Let’s at least try. It’ll hardly be the last time we fight.”

“Fine.”

Then Lily starts running towards us, but instead of engaging, we try to keep our distance. Of course, she quickly catches up to us, forcing us into a fighting retreat.

Before we tried to strike Lily whenever possible, now, since we changed our strategy, all our effort goes into blocking and dodging, increasing the time it takes for Lily to win, especially because whenever one of us was about to be knocked out the other took her attention, allowing us to recuperate somewhat. All in all, it is a prolonged battle of ten minutes, resulting in all three of us being winded.

“I wondered how long it would take until you’d flee from a fight.

Lily go and hunt us something to eat. In the meantime, we’ll continue with our magic lessons.”

“Understood, Mistress.”

“You two come over here and sit down. I want you to enter Meditation like you learned yesterday and try pushing the mana inside of your bodies.”

We do as we’re told. After some struggling, I meditate, encountering the first obstacle: I don’t know what mana is. I already tried sensing it yesterday and that didn’t work out. Left with no other option I blindly will my insides to move hoping it’ll have some effect.

Just as I’m about to give up on that approach, I feel a shift within me, and I redouble my efforts. Eventually, the sensation returns, and I push against it trying to keep the change in place and identify it.

In the end, I’m mentally exhausted and open my eyes to check my notifications.

Unarmed Fighting has reached Level 6

Unarmed Fighting has reached Level 7

Mana Manipulation - Level 1

The Mana of the world now bends to your will.

Mana Sense - Level 1

Mana is all around us. You have learned to perceive it.

Happy with the Skills I acquired I look around.

Lily returned with another boar that is currently roasting above our fire. Alice is still meditating, and Ayla is sitting beside us with a worried look on her face, presumably because of the five people in full plate armour standing around us.

One is a tall human woman with blonde hair and green eyes, looking to be in her late twenties. Another is an old man his once black hair is almost completely grey, just like his wolf’s ears and tail, though the silver eyes remain sharp. The next is an elven woman not looking much older than Ayla. She has the same emerald hair and equally coloured eyes. Further, there is a brown haired and eyed female dwarf. And the last is another male human with light red hair and blue eyes. They all have the same crest on their breastplate.

“What is going on? Who are these people?”

At my words, the knights tense up, and only now do I realise the various weaponry hanging at their waists and how close some of their hands are to grabbing them. Thankfully, Ayla glares at them and the atmosphere relaxes, though I’m more apprehensive towards the newcomers.

“We’ll talk later when Alice finishes. More importantly, have you gained Mana Manipulation?”

“Yes.”

“Good. Let’s eat while we wait. Do you intend to join us?”

“No, Milady, we have already eaten.”

“Very well.”

Waiting, we eat in silence. During our meal Alice stirs, prompting a much-needed discussion.

“Hello, may I ask who you are?”

“These are my Knights: Ren, Girard, Aren, Erica and Matthew. They came here to take me back to my father.”

“Huh. You ran away from home!? Why?”

“He arranged a marriage for me. The kingdom to the north, called Armsrest, is amassing armies at the border and he hopes war can be averted if Armsrest’s heir marries me.”

“Why would that help? It isn’t as if you’re the princess, after all.”

At that everyone else looks at Alice funnily, as if she had made a bad joke.

“Seriously?”

“Yes.”

“Cough. Sorry to interrupt, but I would rather stay at an inn tonight, so I suggest we pack up and make for World’s End. Also, I will require you two to come with us to the castle. His Majesty will be eager to know who has caught the interest of his daughter.”

And with that we made our way out of the forest, arriving at the town just as the sun begins to dip beneath the horizon.