"SUPERRRR MILEDIII CRUSH!"
Despite the mountain of metal pushing me down to god knows where and the chaos of unending rock platforms splintering against me left, right and center, Miledi's button pushing voice managed to pierce through it all and stoke my anger even further.
Her initial attack put more than enough cracks in my bones despite my strength and toughness, but I'd gotten back to my peak quickly enough and promptly gone beyond it with reversal and reinforcement.
That still did not help me out of the situation since I had no leverage. I was not being hurt anymore, but I could neither move away nor push the giant robot off of me.
That left me with a squeezing attempt, channeling untold amounts of cursed energy into my hands so I could crush the superhot, bus-sized fist barreling me to god knows where.
Several thousand points of cursed energy infusion and nearly a minute later, I heard and felt a creak beneath both hands.
The triumph I was about to feel quickly retreated to the ether when the insane Maverick reacted.
"Hey! That's Azantium! You shouldn't be able to do that!"
A gigantic spiked flail that was more construction wrecking ball came along with her words and smashed into my side, tearing me off her fist and launching me through empty space and through some more unfortunate platforms.
The world blurred and spun in haphazard circles for a few seconds until I threw an open hand downward and clawed into a platform I happened to sail over, tearing a jagged scar across its length.
The attempt failed to stop me, but it slowed me enough for the next contact with another of the stone cubes to not end with the latter in a shower of pebbles.
I slammed into the square block of rock back first, nearly disappearing into the crater the impact created. Chunks of rock shifted around me and fell down below as I pulled myself out to return to the battle.
Right as my head peeked out from between the rocks, a cascade of shadows obscured everything around me and I ramped up reinforcement even further, crossing both arms in "X" in front of my face.
A series of loud bangs assaulted my ears and reverberated through my body as every platform in the vicinity honed in on the one I inhabited like it was a magnet, crashing into it and compressing into each other and into me.
"Rick!" Yue's frantic shout came over, and for the second time today I had to reassure my girlfriend I hadn't died.
"I'm okay. I can break out of here but we need a plan or she'll just do this again. Can you sense any concentrations of mana in the golem?"
It took a bit of time but she responded. She was trying and failing to get through the unbreakable shell of Miledi's robot while dodging the rain of platforms the maverick was throwing at her from all sides.
Even though the monster meat had empowered her magic greatly, the dispersion effect was amplified in this place. None of her high level spells were doing enough damage for Miledi to focus on her.
"...Yes. I can see it," she said, transmitting over what her mana perception picked up.
"Great. That must be its core. I want you to use your strongest ice spell on the golem. Don't worry about trying to reach the core, just make sure its shell is frozen solid."
"...Okay." I could feel her agreement and her mind churn on how to maximize the effect of what she was about to unleash.
"What about you?" she asked, her worry bleeding through.
"I'll break out and finish it off when you freeze it. One last thing," I said, pausing a bit. "Don't hold back at all. Let her have everything."
The joy and anticipation that came over gave me further assurance of the plan's success.
We paused communications there and went about our tasks, continuing in my case as I hadn't stopped moving. Stone came apart like Legos as I tore my way through the compress of hardened earth and dragged my whole body along.
The all encompassing weight pressed into me from all sides but I weathered it easily and advanced, pieces of my clothing left behind with each scrape against stone.
Outside my temporary prison, I could sense Yue move about while preparing the ice spell. For reasons I easily understood, she conveyed her perception of the battle and entire process to me.
She weaved about and through Miledi's attacks, her form blurring and reappearing in a manner reminiscent of the demonic rabbit.
A ball of pure blue hovered between both her palms as she chanted under breath, her dodging movements suspiciously bridging the gap between her and the giant robot.
"Hey! I see what you're doing you know! I can recover from anything so it's pointless to attack me. Hihihiiii!"
Yue paid the loud voice and aggravating laughter no mind and drew closer and closer, eventually answering my question as to what her plan was.
Upon reaching a sufficiently close distance, her form vanished in a blur of dark gold and reappeared atop the robot's gigantic head, her chant complete and the tiny ball between her palms a tiny sun.
"Frost Purgatory."
She lowered both arms and pressed them flat against the golem's head, the blue light sinking into it and turning into a sheet of blue ice that crawled down its massive 20 meter form in seconds.
"Eh?" Miledi's shocked voice echoed.
Some of the ice went past the robot's feet and froze the platform supporting its weight solid and seemed to even extend past its length to freeze the air around it.
But Yue's tight control of the first energies prevented this from happening, her strain intimately visible to me as she dumped her entire mana pool into the spell and tightly focused said large amounts into the robot.
"Jump off," I sent to her through our connection as I forced my way out of the weakened prison and kicked off of it.
She heeded my words and took to the sky on a golden disk, breath slightly labored.
I barreled into the robot's frozen leg right after, my reinforced body crashing through it and reducing it to a shower of ice and frozen metal.
Finding purchase with my legs on another platform, I kicked off it too and barreled into the falling robot again, a shattering sound going off as I impacted its chest in the area right above its core.
Ignoring the gnarly frostbite fighting against the reverse cursed energy in my grip, I held on to the frozen golem and threw my right fist forward repeatedly, creating a speedy rhythm of impacts that drowned out the crash of its fall.
Slowly but surely, I dug into the several meters thick plate of this world's Adamantium, frozen chips of the material splintering and coming free with every advance and retreat of my fist.
This continued until my efforts resulted in a pitch black hole that swallowed my whole arm. Smiling, I grabbed onto its edges with both hands and yanked outward, screaming as I channeled more cursed energy.
"Aaaaaargghh!!!"
Loud cracks and groans of protest arose from my actions, the hole having no choice but to expand to a size large enough to allow me passage.
I yanked myself forward and dove into the golem's immobile body, catching sight of my target instantly. A quick leap forward saw me wrap my hand around it and squeeze, the crystal shattering into tiny ineffective fragments.
Outside, Miledi let out a loud dying squeal that made me roll my eyes. How someone so old could be so playful and nonchalant despite her circumstances would always wow me.
I had to ask her about it.
Jumping out of the hole, I quickly found Yue and leapt toward her. She dispelled the disc keeping her aloft and dropped into my waiting arms, her exhaustion and pride evident on her enrapturing features.
"You were amazing," I said and lowered her gently, boots clacking on the stone beneath us. I cleared the hair out of her face and wiped the sweat off her forehead while she smiled and wordlessly conveyed what she wanted as a reward.
Putting on a wide grin, I leaned down and took her lips in a deep kiss before going past to whisper in her ear. "You can have as much as you want…"
She latched onto my neck with both arms right as my words landed and sunk her tiny fangs into my neck.
"Uhhh, I hate to interrupt this tender moment but there's something I have to tell you," a voice we'd both grown to hate said, drawing attention to its source.
It was Miledi's defeated robot, and it had begun to glow a pale blue as particles of the same color rose off of it like fireflies and evaporated to nothing.
Aware of the trick the mischievous maverick was trying to pull, I told Yue to ignore her through our connection and even directed her to climb my back so she could keep feeding.
Miledi continued with her speech about the bad guys (Ehit and his apostles) and how no matter our goals for clearing this labyrinth for her Ancient Magic, we'd encounter and have to fight them.
Just like Oscar's hologram, she ended with the advice to live freely.
We both took all this in stride, saying nothing even when she "died." Though we both felt our anger toward her decrease a bit. Not enough to let her off the hook for that acid thing mind you.
The only change we exhibited was Yue pausing when the platform we stood on began to move on its own after the speech and me looking where we were headed in a bid to see if I could get there faster.
Right in line with us, a wall with a portion of it lit up and a platform right beneath it like a balcony came into view.
Clutching Yue's smooth legs tightly, I leapt off the slowly advancing platform and drew an arc towards the wall, Yue breaking my fall with her wind spell in a practiced motion.
Clearly sensing our presence, the radiance on that section of the wall faded with an unlocking sound as it parted like it'd been sliced in half.
A hallway with glossy white flooring and walls was revealed to us and I walked right in, taking in the bland sights and noting a particular wall with seven distinct patterns we observed on the 100th floor of the Orcus Labyrinth.
Yue stopped feeding and I stopped circulating reversed curse energy through my body, both of us clearing the passage on our own two feet.
At the end of it, we found a completely white room with a large and ultra complicated magic circle right in its center.
Just like the one in Oscar's mansion, this was going to give us our next upgrade, but none of that mattered right now.
"Yahoo! It's me, the great and awesome Miledi!"
Standing between us and the magic circle, a doll as tall as a 2 or 3 year old stood in a robe so white it matched the walls, a cute, smiley face painted on its white smooth face.
Rousing the opposite of the intended emotions within us, the face joined up with the continuous taunts and irritating laughter in our minds and brought our anger back to appropriate levels.
"Die…" Yue beat me to it and seized the mischievous maverick with tendrils of gold, four of them latching onto her limbs and hoisting her up, pulling with an intent the frightened Miledi deduced quite easily.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! Please wait! This body's weak. It'll be bad if you break it. I will apologize. Please calm down!"
Yue lowered her but kept the ropes in place and stared impassively. Probably sensing that she wasn't getting out of this that easily, Miledi went on her knees and prostrated repeatedly, her head banging against the ground like a drum.
Meanwhile, I moved forward toward the formation and stepped on it, summoning my Status Plate.
The bright lights, brain scan, and painful imprint I experienced while getting Oscar's Creation Magic played out again and I bore the agony with bated breath and excitement.
When the process ended and I came to, Yue and Miledi had stopped what they were doing and were now staring at me. I ignored them both and checked the Status Plate for the expected change(s), eyebrows rising at the pleasant surprise in not just the skill section, but the attribute one as well.
[Rick-Updated Skills]
Skills: Reverse Cursed Technique, Cursed Tool Creation, Cursed Energy Output: Amplifies base cursed energy output by 100, Lightning Resistance, Night Vision, Poison Resistance, Paralysis Resistance, Petrification Resistance, Fear Resistance, All Elemental Resistance
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"My magic is Gravity Magic, and it looks like you don't have the aptitude for it," Miledi said and circled the formation to face me. "Though I'm curious as to how you're so strong."
Glancing up from the Status Plate, I kept my gaze calm and moved off the formation, treating her words like I didn't hear them. Yue walked onto it afterwards and a familiar column of red light consumed her.
It was my turn to be surprised when it faded a few seconds later to reveal my contemplative girlfriend. Seconds? I always thought these things took hours.
"Unlike mister muscles here, you have the perfect aptitude. With a bit of training you should be able to master it in no time."
Shaking my head, I put the issue of time out of my head and focused on Miledi. "Thanks, even though you suck as a dungeon master."
If my words registered anywhere in her metal brain she didn't show it. The unchanging smiley face didn't help either. Sighing, I asked before she could say anything else, "Before we leave, I want to know. What are your plans?"
"Eh? Plans? What plans? I should be asking you that. You still haven't told me what you and your girlfriend will be using my magic for."
"We'll use it to fight the 'bad guy' obviously. Once he's defeated then we can focus on my business plans and settling down."
"…Once… he's… defeated? Business plans?"
"Don't tell me you don't have a plan for after we succeed? Do you expect to die? Wait, do you even believe we can win? If you don't then I'm seriously questioning all this," I said, gesturing around.
"...You… you…"the maverick stuttered, clearly taken aback.
"It doesn't matter," I cut in when I realised I might have broken her brain. "Let's make a deal."
She snapped her round head toward me, and I gestured to Yue and myself.
"We're going to clear the rest of the labyrinths. Once we finish, you'll let us create a body for you so that you can join us in the fight. The 'bad guy,' as you call him, is a god. We're going to need all the help we can get when we confront him. Having someone like you on our side will be invaluable."
"...Why?" she said in an almost whisper after a long while.
"Why what?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"Huh? I just explained, didn't I?" I said and brushed my head through my hair. "Though, I get what you mean. It must seem weird that I'm so confident. My proposal for us to give you a body probably didn't help.
Well, it all comes down to two things.
One, killing Ehit will indeed solve our biggest problem, but that leaves his followers and the people. He's had centuries to poison their minds towards you guys and anyone who tries to reveal the truth of his existence.
If we don't prove without a shadow of doubt he's who we say he is, not only will we have a war on our hands after he's gone, we'll not be welcome anywhere. As someone who's experienced his real nature firsthand, you definitely know what I mean and how your help will be invaluable in this regard.
Two… I don't want you to die."
Surprise radiated from Miledi's doll body at the statement, even Yue was the same, but I paid it no mind and continued.
"It's quite simple really. I want you to live so that you can enjoy all life has to offer. Because no one deserves it more than you. I want you to live because you honor the dead by staying alive and keeping your memories of them alive with you. I want you to live because I'd rather be in a world with someone like you in it. A true hero, someone who'd sacrifice themselves to help me no matter what trouble I'm in.
It sounds selfish I know, but that's how I really feel. Plus, I like it when heroes have happy endings. If I can make sure that you get one, you best believe I'm going to try.
So what do you say Miledi? Do you accept the deal?"
The astonished maverick managed to convey just how confused and distraught she was through her inorganic shell, her head darting between me and Yue at a frantic pace that quickly slowed.
She stopped and looked down, clenching her tiny metal fingers in a struggle I empathized with. After a good long while she stopped and mumbled something, avoiding mine and Yue's gaze.
"Miledi? Did you say something?"
Mumbles again.
I gave Yue a quick amused glance and faced Miledi again, laughing. "The maverick of mischief is actually shy. Where is the Miledi who—"
"Okay! Okay! I'll do it. I accept. If you guys really clear all the labyrinths, I'll… do all those things you said. Now bye!"
The chains of the binding vow took hold and Miledi floated upward as though to run from her own words. She grabbed a rope that randomly descended from the ceiling and my eyes widened in recollection.
I shouted while jumping toward her. "Miledi! Don't you da—"
She laughed and jabbed her small metal hand in my direction, flooring me with what had to be a Force Push.
Before I could channel cursed energy to overcome the oppressive force, the formation in the room's center retracted into the ground and a sea of water burst into the room through the walls.
A hole that looked suspiciously similar to a toilet bowl opened below and swallowed us and the swirling water, our curses and promises of vengeance lost beneath the waves.
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Brooke Town.
It was the settlement closest to the river Yue and I swam out of after being flushed out the labyrinth. We hiked the small distance to it, flashed the guards our Status Plates and quickly found an inn. The Masaka Inn.
The name tickled my memory for some reason and that's why I chose it, but I still got nothing more when I entered it and took in the place. Pretty normal looking from what I gathered.
We walked to the receptionist, soggy and wet, and paid for a single room, something that made the young girl go red and speechless for some reason, her eyes darting between Yue and I like we'd just enacted a scandal with that simple act.
This couldn't be the first time she manned this counter was it? If so then her reaction made sense. Whatever the case though, I was too tired and horny to care.
Taking the key from her and climbing the staircase, I found our room and unlocked it, ushering Yue inside before going in myself and locking the door.
Sneaking behind my girlfriend while she escaped her soggy heels with relieved exhales, I latched onto her fair neck with my lips and snuck my arms up her blouse, sliding my hands up her torso and cupping her ample breasts.
I kissed and suckled her neck all the way to her jaw and finally her lips when she turned to face me. We breathed and moaned into each other while I massaged her boobs with fervor, her breath rising sharply when I took hold of her erect nipples and tweaked them.
We staggered unsteadily as my own boots came off and she grabbed my arms, pulling them away with a smile so she could undress properly, and I took the time to do same myself.
Soon we stood stark naked facing each other, something that ended when we rushed each other and resumed our kiss, my rising member pressing against her toned belly.
My head went low as we kissed each other hungrily, hands exploring each other in ways that ramped up our lust to higher heights.
Grabbing a firm hold of her soft and pillowy ass, I kept a portion of my attention on the kiss and hoisted her up, maneuvering to the bed in the room and laying her gently on it.
Both our orientations became horizontal and I broke away from the kiss, leaving a trail of them down her neck, collar bones, and boobs. My tongue then came out and carved a wet strip all the way to her sex, while my hands found her soft funbags and relished them again.
The strip brought me to her hairless muff where I continued downward and left a glistening trail along the length of her slit, her breath rising sharply with the contact.
Without waiting for anything, I squeezed her tits and tweaked her nipples as I dug in, eating her out in the most ravenous yet harmless way possible.
My lips clashed with her rapidly reddening and swelling ones while my tongue snuck past their lowered guard and burrowed into her tunnel, leaving pleasurable trails all over her inner walls.
She arched off the bed amidst stifled moans and grunts, the bulk of her excitement and arousal channeled into the grip she had on my hair.
Pressing her down with my superior weight and strength, I kept her stable enough to enjoy the meal, the sounds of amorous sucking growing wetter and wetter as her arousal reached peak after peak.
Once I was certain she was over-prepared, I pulled away from her cunt and saw the pink of it twitching invitingly, my member throbbing almost painfully at the sight.
Holding up her legs with both arms, I lined up my swinging dick with her entrance and timed its throbs while I aimed. This spread a good amount of my pre around on her already soaked lips before I finally sheathed a portion of my tip inside.
Pushing down on both her legs and straightening my whole body, I ended up inches away from a red-faced but anticipated Yue with her feet right behind her ears.
We naturally locked lips again and shared in her juicy sweetness, an act she engaged in with as much fervor as I did. My member trembling and aching with need, I stopped waiting and pushed my waist down mid kiss, piercing my engorged dick into her waiting cunt.
Sharp moans came from both of us into each other at the ripe sensations and a scene we'd both come to enjoy ensued. With more than enough core and bodily strength to spare, I hammered into her, waist going up and down in an almost blur.
The repeated slap of flesh and the protest of wood mixed with muted grunts and excitable moans joined together to paint a clear picture of our activity to anyone who happened to be passing by.
In and out I went, fighting an orgasm every few thrusts. Maybe it was this position, or maybe it was because we just conquered another labyrinth, but something about fucking Yue this way made holding back my eruption harder.
She wasn't using the instant orgasm powers or her mana. Hell, even her ultra tight pussy hadn't gotten any tighter (if that happened, I don't think I'd be able to pull out). But something about this session was especially trying on my endurance and ability to delay my orgasm.
I debated asking her or trying to find out on my own but quickly dashed that thought.
I was enjoying myself and my girlfriend fully, gazing straight into her sexy, beautiful eyes with each pound into the bed, sharing the occasional wild sloppy kiss and sucking and biting on her delicious neck like I wanted to taste her blood.
Nothing mattered more in this moment, so I fully immersed myself in the sex and let the unknown phenomenon drag the orgasm out of me bit by bit until I slammed into Yue one last time, hitting the back of her pussy and growling into her neck.
Subtle tremors raced through our bodies with each jerk of my waist and blast of fire from my lower head, the pleasure so indescribable I saw stars for nearly a minute.
Immediately upon coming to and seeing a delighted and breathy Yue recover as well, I pulled back and left her battered cavern, earning myself a satisfied and sharp hitch from her.
Grabbing her by the waist, I flipped her around with a surprised yelp (from her) and made her place both palms against the bed rest, my dick rising to attention at the next round of 'hostilities' about to occur.
I pressed my angry red head against her wet muff and played painter, teasing her lips and then touching her twitching inner flesh for the briefest of moments before retreating to resume the up-down painting.
She kept her arms straight and looked back in reproach and need, a look I paid no mind to keep up my teasing. This naturally made our contact slick with both our fluids and I smirked before moving the tip of my 'brush' higher.
I dabbed it on her winking and puckered asshole a few times, poking and prodding lightly. This naturally got me a surprised and wide eyed look from her, one that quickly morphed into immense satisfaction and pleasure when I lowered my tool and sheathed myself in her cunt.
After taking a few to adjust to her writhing and clingy insides, I slowly pulled back my waist, groaning at how her lower lips clung to me for dear life while tightening the grip I had on her waist this whole time.
With a subtle flex of strength, in both my grip and my waist, I dove forward and disappeared into her cunt again, pulling back after a brief moment to see a coat of white that made me groan louder and dive back in even faster.
Our aroused grunts and moans picked up and so did the bed's protests, both intent on returning to their earlier rousing peaks. Hip met ass in repeated loud smacks, our movements morphing into a visible blur.
Using long but fast strokes, I travelled the full path of Yue's pussy to hit the soft and fleshy end of it each time, just the way she liked it.
Unlike before though, my endurance wasn't tested, a phenomenon I of course noticed but paid no mind.
I just enjoyed the round for what it was for as long as I could, ending it the same way as all others, a complete bottoming out and then erupting into her deepest parts.
The instant orgasm of course came into play and reduced Yue to a panting, moaning mess that could no longer maintain a hold of the cracked bed rest, her chest flat against the bed and ass up for me to use as I please.
Slipping out of her to let my semen drip out, I enjoyed the sight of her gaping, twitching entrance for a short while before pressing my engorged head against it.
This time there was no foreplay or teasing. I just tightened the grip I had on her ass and pulled her back gently, spearing her on my waiting and throbbing member.
Another round of ploughing began and I eyed her twitching bum hole, giving in to a sudden thought to remind her I hadn't forgotten about it.
Coating my left thumb in cursed energy, I rubbed it over her tiny dark ring, eliciting a sharper moan and rise of her upper body, something I stopped by pressing her back down with my right arm.
Yue could neither see nor touch my cursed energy, something we both deduced from the few tests I had run with her. But she could feel it when I pressed it against her skin in slightly concentrated amounts.
According to her, it felt like solid ice was pressed against her skin except in this case, the ice gnawed at her like multiple blunted pins. None of the pain but all of the discomfort.
So it was no surprise to me when she reacted this way at my subtle prodding. What certainly came as a surprise though was when I drew the circles around her wrinkled ring closer and closer to each other until my thumb "fell in."
Her inner wall's hold on my dick went rigid immediately and she seized up, her back forming an arch as she pressed the side of her face into the bed, allowing me to see her eyes roll up into her head and mouth hang open and drool.
I would've smiled but I had to fight to keep my own orgasm in check. As soon as I beat it back though, I recovered and resumed pistoning, keeping my thumb still in there and smiling as I wreathed another finger in cursed energy.
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Sona Masaka had always possessed the ability to sniff out certain things in a person or between two or more people.
She had greater than normal senses in general, but when it came to the matters of love, both of the carnal and chaste kind, she turned into an unholy mixture of a hawk and a hound that zeroed in one the subtle cues and invisible scents people gave off.
With such a troublesome set of innate abilities and skillset, the young girl hadn't developed enough maturity and impulse control to temper the desire to dig deeper and know more about the things she picked up on.
Or maybe she just didn't care and embraced her perverted nature with open arms.
Needless to say, Rick and Yue's presence had set off dozens of alarms in her lustful, voyeuristic mind, alarms she didn't resist in the slightest and acted upon, finding herself kneeling before the door to their booked room with one eye peeping through the keyhole.
Her skin a deep red all the way down to her neck, Sona watched Rick hit Yue with his waist repeatedly from below, amazed at how the long white hair of the panting and moaning woman waved about like she was caught in a storm.
She marveled at the fury in Rick's thrusts and the size of his… thing, wondering how Yue could take it so easily and how she hadn't shot up to the ceiling from just one of Rick's "hits."
When she looked down and saw how hard Yue's hands dug into Rick's sides, understanding came to her.
She watched them for a few more minutes before they both stopped suddenly, both of them breathing intensely while making deep, strange sounds and sharp, clingy movements.
They fell back beside each other after that, Yue throwing one leg over Rick's own while she sucked on his neck and grabbed his member to stroke it back to attention.
Sona watched with bated breath, eager to see the famed white sticky stuff she'd heard from eavesdropping on conversations she had no business eavesdropping on.
She watched something white jump from Rick's thing after a while, catching sight of it for the briefest of moments before a hand covered her mouth and another seized her by the ear, both dragging her away and the latter twisting painfully.
When she looked up and saw the furious face of her mother looking down on her, a pit sunk into her stomach and she felt the urge to palm her ass as though the painful spanking had already started.