Preparations
"...Ready?" Valeria yawned a little upon seeing Ciemnosc finally return. Her eyes had a couple of tiny tears come out from her lacrimals as she sighed after her yawn. She patted her bum in a silly manner. After jolting her neck back and thinking a little, she patted the seat behind her, breaking Ciemnosc's dreams that any man would kill to have...though he was already halfway there for that matter.
“Yupp! Leeet’s~ go.” Ciemnosc said, dragging his words on while tightly hugging Valeria’s waist. She bumped her motorcycle a few times before suddenly starting the motorcycle and zooming into the distance!
Trckrr-vruuuuum~!!
. . .
Driving for about 30 minutes, only less than 15 minutes before the time for Ciemnosc’s meeting with the Sect Master in front of the central building with those several buildings ‘attached’ to it.
…vrrruuuuuoom~!! Vroum, vruum~m~m.
Valeria’s motorcycle arrived at the road that led to the majestic, most important building of the entire organizational territory, where higher ups met and decided the sect’s future. The sharp pike going into the sky was right in front of them as Ciemnosc saw it from up close at last. He already couldn’t see its end with the naked eye - let alone with his ‘short’ Spirit Sense.
“Phew~!” Valeria took her helmet off in a hurry and faced her motorcycle, which Ciemnosc was still on and looking up. She took a look at the time from a clock on the back of her right wrist before sighing once more in her head. She then looked at the still looking up Ciemnosc before deciding to hurry him up. Her right hand went over and smacked his left butt cheek.
Pah.
“Gyawuugh~!” With a dragged on, painful sound coming from his mouth and nostrils and with a painful facial expression, Ciemnosc rubbed his tiny left bum and looked at his rapist with his eyebrows low and trembling, shaky lips. Valeria actually felt bad when seeing his pitiful appearance. But she then remembered that one time when she woke up with half his penis up her face as he was upside down on her body, still with the blanket in-between thankfully, and recuperated her ‘hatred’ towards this little evil.
“What are you looking up so much for?! Get down- ahem, get down and prepare yourself to meet my Master and the others. What are you waiting for?!” She smacked his bums again, a few times in fact, letting go of him and not wanting to hurt him in case she was too rude and unrestrained in her hits, the poor thing.
Ciemnosc took his helmet off then, his hair swinging away for a bit, making Valeria, who already had her arms crossed lightly to look at him admiringly. Ciemnosc looked at her and wondered what was up, so he gave her a ‘wut’ face and asked sincerely, “What is it, big sis? Did I do something wrong again? This time, let me spank you though.”
“...” Valeria looked at him with speechless eyes, for her mouth was already used to remaining speechless at almost all times with Ciemnosc nearby. She caressed his face very very softly with her fashionable long gloves for driving before stepping towards him, her tummy against his sternum and chest. “Get ready, or I will no longer allow you into the same bed as me. Take your opportunity. When you grow older… you might- no, ahem, you’ll never get such moments ever again~.”
Right after, she turned around and began walking towards the Central Building, directed straight for the ladies’ bathroom to change her clothes. But a bit farther behind, storing the motorcycle for her, Ciemnosc had a face of incredulous disgust after shaking his head ever so slightly while looking at her departed back. ‘Since when did big sis Valeria learn how to tease? Since when does she tease?!’
Pained at heart and at the cruel realities of change, Ciemnosc picked up his pace and waited for her to come out. Within just 5 more minutes and less than 10 minutes before his meeting commenced, Valeria came out, wearing a wonderful peasant type of dress in white color without those bun-like sleeves but with thin and even translucent white and pink thin long sleeves instead.
Her entire persona seemed to change, her image becoming much better, and her warm brown hair was semi-tied to a bun, as it was also tied to a ponytail at the same time. It looked simply fantastic.
“Oh, ehehh,” Valeria saw Ciemnosc’s reaction on his face and confirmed nothing was going on below. Once she saw him behave, she naturally smiled at him, dizzying the innocent virgin and little boy that Ciemnosc is. On the other hand, she made the entire floor all around the ladies’ bathroom become brightly lit and full of life, eyes drifting towards her nonstop but only momentarily since no one wanted to lose their eyes, sexual organs, and then life.
“You look beautiful. Beautiful!” Ciemnosc shamelessly emphasized, hands gesturing at her body, face, and hair entirely. His eyes were shiny as they took advantage of her slightly blushing face, which immediately made some of her closet fans faint on the spot, dozens of meters away. Valeria smiled even more and with her right hand extended over and Ciemnosc picked it up with his left handed fingers softly. She spoke lightly. “You think so? Well, let’s go to the grand hall. I want to introduce you to my Master, Little Ciemnosc, bad boy.”
After saying that, especially those words of ‘bad boy’, she lowered her head, kept smiling brilliantly like the precious princess she is, and walked with her waist and left hand in Ciemnosc’s right arm and left hand respectively. In this not so seen and known demeanor, they walked up… to the stairs after Ciemnosc deviated their walking trajectory from the elevator.
All smiley as well, though more at ease and resting her lips a bit, Valeria walked up the stairs with Ciemnosc. Bumping into each other every now and then and giving him the chance to smell what he only gets to smell deeply at their bedtime together, her pure and unrestrained skin without clothes - from her neck at these moments.
Of course, it was mostly due to Ciemnosc’s unique senses being nothing that any other life form could compare to and due to the few days he had spent with her. Slowly but surely, they both made their way towards the grand hall, where Ciemnosc was to be meeting with the rest.
… Tu-thump.
… Ciemnosc and Valeria walked over to the entrance to the grand hall as soon as a pair of guards-butlers opened the doors for them, they were both at the Spirit Gathering Realm's early stages. And it could be seen from that how advanced this palace was to have guards of such a caliber and in quantity to say the least.
As soon as they made it into the grand hall, with still a bit more than 1 minute remaining, a frowning Elder Tin relaxed. As elder Tin barely managed to keep himself from rushing over to his disciple and greeting her as well as introducing her to everyone, he looked at Valeria with a proud look while his hands were constantly rubbing against his formal robes.
Valeria smiled upon seeing her Master’s silly behavior before bringing Ciemnosc straight up to her Master, as he was also next to the most important people within the grand hall… except for the Grand Elder. ‘She really can’t come, huh?’
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Ciemnosc had a normal and resting facial expression as Valeria walked with him from the entrance of the grand hall to the back at the most glorious looking section of it through the middle of it all, becoming quite the center of attention and seen by every elder around as well as those other Spirit Gathering Realm cultivators beside each important person except for elder Tin.
“Isn’t that Enaro? Is he here to court you? I’ll beat him up.” Ciemnosc whispered to Valeria. She didn’t look in the direction his eyes were looking and kept her contented little smile on her lips while still stepping forth. “Oh don’t be silly, you can’t beat him yet. You first have to…hmmm…reach the 8th stage of the Phrenic Realm to beat him, hmhm.”
Giving Enaro one last look as he stood beside a rather incredibly beautiful blonde woman, soon becoming quite a milf, but that was still at the Conflagrate Realm’s late stages. Her eyes were azure white, and she oozed off dominance, charm, power, and thirstiness. Ciemnosc quite felt her eyes all over him, trying to know every little detail of his; his secrets were to be known afterwards in bed or something.
“Oooh, that is your girlfriend, look,” Ciemnosc said, and this time, Valeria actually looked in the direction he gestured with a nudge of his head in the air with her lower lip twisted and a slight frown. Fu Lan was beside the only other person from the 3 other most important people of the sect who deserved to be right beside the Sect Master; a cold, old man with a long white beard.
“Mn, don’t speak too much of her nor her master. They are…to be respected, Ciemnosc,” Valeria said with her eyebrows slowly relaxing, hushed, and clearly giving Ciemnosc warnings of being heard…
“...” Ciemnosc nodded and simply kept looking around. The grand hall was quite a grand place indeed, over 60 square meters big and with at least half that amount in the distance between the floor and its ceiling. A very pale, almost dull kind of shining gold adorning the entire place as crystal structures made most of the beauty of this grand hall.
Stepping onto its floor was like stepping on the smoothest yet non-slippery or greasy, and instead, one was able to step very comfortably on it as if they were getting a grip on the floor with each step being made.
Very quickly, Valeria and Ciemnosc made their way towards the most important upper echelons of the sect. While dozens of elders all around created a bountiful line that witnessed Valeria walking Ciemnosc towards them through the middle of the grand hall.
“...” Ciemnosc’s smallish head before the giant to the right of elder Tin, Valeria’s master, was still facing ahead, but his eyes were upturned. Looking at the tall, with bulky muscles, a dark-brown skinned man in the middle of the 4, Ciemnosc was then looked back at by the tall dark-brown skinned man with a smile slowly forming at his mouth.
“Master.” - “Umn, you’ve done well, Valeria.” Elder Tin responded right away and directly to Valeria’s greeting with a slight bow and a respectful call to his status with her. He then looked at Ciemnosc before slowly gesturing to the Sect Master on his right, clearly not going to present himself to Ciemnosc before even the Sect Master of the sect could.
Step, step.
“...You must be Ciemnosc.” The Sect Master said once he saw Ciemnosc step sideways to the left to meet himself face to face; Ciemnosc, in return to the Sect Master’s words, said with a nod and a low tone. “Yes, indeed I am.”
With a light chuckle, the Sect Master grasped and rubbed his chin, his eyes looking at how Valeria made her way to Ciemnosc’s back on his right, slightly holding his right arm. He looked back at the boy’s face before speaking as an elder to a younger generation. “Well, my name is Holoriu, but do call me Sect Master, it sounds really better than just my name.”
“Mn, Sect Master. For what reason was I asked here?” As if he was just a curious boy, Ciemnosc asked the sect master without any clear image of being purposely disrespectful. To which Valeria opened her mouth slightly but only bowed in the sect master’s direction.
On the other hand, the sect master in question chuckled again, the left corner of his mouth smirking as he did before then saying with tranquility. “I wanted to take a look at whom Little Valeria seems to value a lot, and not just her. But I also wanted to see for myself who and which kind of inner sect disciple decided to take upon the role of an always failed, always failing, and always to fail trajectory.”
“I just have many ideas, and I want to put them to use. If I can achieve them, then…” Ciemnosc spoke out clearly, hiding nothing and putting emphasis on his capabilities. He made a pause as if he was thinking about his future before finishing them up with quite a light tone. “Then that would be for the best!”
“Hahaha,” the sect master laughed, almost closing his eyes from how squinted they were, but barely any heartiness came from it. Valeria gripped tighter at his right sleeve. He was still looking mighty handsome and pinched the fat skin under his thumb. The sect master commented, rather ambiguous, “I would have thought that someone in your position would be… promising not to fail and to do the best; not their best.”
“I know the past, and with that, I think I can do a better future avoiding such a past.” Ciemnosc ambiguously sad, Valeria’s lips opened slightly a bit more as she looked at the back of the boy’s head. The sect master caught this, and a sparkle ran through his eyes.
“Is she with you?” Elder Tin gulped down; nervously; once. But Ciemnosc made a thin smile with pressed lips against each other, raised his head up a bit, and said clearly after making a few seconds of a pause, giving the sensation of mystery. “Valeria is my big sister, though it is more adequate to say Senior Sister, I see her better than just that.”
“Mm,” the sect master nodded, his right arm swinging in the air to his right, a cup with some liquor appearing in his hand. He then said while bringing that cup to his mouth. “I think I like you, boy… kid. I can’t imagine how many have talked to you like this, but the moment you embark on your ‘glorious’ mission to victory, you’ll be called ‘Corps Leader’, how does that sound?”
“That sounds okay.” Ciemnosc clasped his hands, bowed not a little amount, and said with his eyes still upturned while the sect master drank his cup up and looked down at the boy. Stepping backwards afterwards, Ciemnosc went back to stand before elder Tin, who was cleaning the sweat around his visible skin with his outstanding, Obsidiafying Realm 8th stage Power Energy.
“...Hello, Ciemnosc. I’ve heard about you well enough from, err… well, everywhere you go.” Elder Tin spoke once he saw the other 3 most important people - colleagues of his, walk away to their own desired location. “Here, let me introduce myself before I introduce you to our Grand Ancestor and then to Ancestor Pu Lianter. If you’d like my advice, don’t look into Ancestor Pu Lianter’s eyes if you, cough, you know what I mean, ahaha?”
“Oooh, I see, I see…” Ciemnosc showed blatant interest in the elder’s words as they walked aimlessly around the grand hall. But he then felt Valeria’s 10 fingers pinch all over his right arm, roughly and fiercely before hugging it to her chest and locking his body away from being a playboy. Bad, bad boy; bad playboy too. One bad was already too much, ey.
“Ouchie, never mind, I value my integrity I think, elder Tin,” Ciemnosc said, more like was forced to, but elder Tin took it lightly, and then, after some more idle chatter, he brought Ciemnosc around to show him to the grand ancestor.
There, Ciemnosc came once more face to face with Fu Lan, while the grand ancestor Xing Kie nodded coldly towards Ciemnosc and ignored elder Tin and Valeria. Only giving a few words out of his mouth whenever his Little Fu Lan spoke or asked directly to him.
When they left the grand ancestor’s side, Fu Lan’s eyes were all over him - but then fully concentrated on Valeria’s back with their group of 3 making their way towards Ancestor Pu Lianter. Throughout the time spent ‘chatting’ with Fu Lan, she actually behaved, but as soon as they left their side, she had hateful eyes when she saw Enaro begin to try and get Valeria out of locking Ciemnosc’s right with her arms and chest.
Only when his master, ancestor Pu Lianter, patted and left her left hand on his right shoulder, softly rubbing and caressing it did Enaro stop bothering Valeria about taking her out to take a breath and admire for how long the deep blue, dark night sky.
But he still tried chatting with Valeria. While Ciemnosc was fully ignored and even attempted to be covered by Enaro stepping in between him and Valeria - such obvious, childish, and prepotent behavior. Though Ciemnosc was smoothly speaking with ancestor Pu Lianter who did not seem to want to eat him with her words, her eyes were a different matter.
And whenever Ciemnosc talked with ancestor Pu Lianter smoothly, even making her smirk so much she laughed beautifully beyond comprehension of Enaro who was in the middle of ‘stealing away’ the real beauty from the dork; he was forced to continuously turn his head around to see his master actually enjoying her talk with Ciemnosc… WHAT?!
But by the 2nd time that he turned his head around and looked incredulously at his master, there wasn’t going to be a 3rd one as Valeria brought Ciemnosc away towards a balcony as soon as she saw the idiot turn his head, thereby abandoning her master ruthlessly to escape with a little boy. Such drama.
… Now, as they were alone at last and the array to hide their presence from weaker Spirit Senses to the one who activated it, which in this case was Valeria which was enough to deter any Enaros from coming close to finding where she was, they were finally relaxed as they seemed to have gained time to relax for a bit before the small, short dinner started. It wasn’t just going to be as bland as a meeting where Ciemnosc suddenly showed up, and that’s it; ah no.
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