"Hmm…" Elise tilted her head, clearly unconvinced. She could feel my hunger for power, and it made her hesitate. "And why do you seem so desperate to grow stronger? Aren't you strong enough already?" She nuzzled closer. "Besides, you have me. My previous experience taught me much… and I've learned I'm reaching a quite high level as a goddess. Or I will be, once I finish consolidating my power." She looked at me gravely. "You don't have to fear stronger enemies. After all, you explained to me that the world might have some kind of limiter to prevent beings of a divine level from staying too long."
"Yes, I'm increasingly convinced there's a cosmic law limiting gods." I looked at her with concern. "That's why you shouldn't take your true body out of the Fief… at least for now. I believe that within here, that law shouldn't affect you. Until we prove it, it's better not to risk it. We don't want you to end up degrading your divine power like that sphere did. I don't think it was so ignorant as to not notice; perhaps its mind was clouded... otherwise, it would have been an absolute disappointment of a god." I shook my head.
Elise grew serious. She sensed I was dodging the core of her doubt. "You still haven't answered. If that limit exists, what terrifies you enough to seek more and more power?"
I took a moment, feeling the weight of my own secrets. "It's not... that I want to become stronger to defeat someone," I said slowly. "I want... answers."
"About what?" she asked, intrigued.
"About me. My blood magic, the nature of my skills... the real reason I'm here. I feel that if I keep ascending, one day I'll be able to get answers about all of it."
As I spoke, I clenched my fist with such force that all my clones in the Fief suffered a simultaneous millisecond-long lapse. It was a collective jolt in my network of consciousness.
"I don't understand..." Elise murmured. Through our connection, she could glimpse my thoughts, but on this topic, she only found an absolute void. "The reason for being here? Isn't it... the same for everyone?" she reasoned, thinking of simple concepts like birth or life.
"It's much more complicated," I replied with a nervous laugh, not wanting to mention my reincarnation. "Deep inside, I hear two voices. One tells me that if I ignore the truth, I can live happily here for eternity. The other urges me to discover it, even if it means losing my current happiness. I don't know what's better... but I want the capacity to choose. I want to be powerful enough to decide if I want to know or not."
Elise watched me, seeing me consumed by my own dilemmas. Unable to offer a logical answer, she simply leaned in and rubbed her head against mine in a gesture of pure comfort.
"Then... what do I have to do?" she asked, pulling me from my thoughts.
"Let me finish this separation. Afterward... let's act as if this conversation never happened. To the world, I'll just be a slightly special mortal mage with an incredible relationship with a budding goddess," I said, caressing her face. "Let's continue; there's much to prepare." I looked at the sky. "I need a vacation… but not yet. There's still much to do."
...
In the Amazon village, the atmosphere had crossed the border of feverishness. Couples who initially sought the discretion of the shadows had abandoned all pretense of decorum; they surrendered to frantic kissing and groping where they stood. The scant clothing they wore began to disappear, falling into the mud amidst moans that competed with the music. The air, once heavy with incense and food, now reeked of sweat, wine, and an animal lust that permeated everything.
The Amazon leaders noticed the change, but it was too late to intervene. Truthfully, they didn't want to. Seeing my malevolent smile, they understood who the architect of this chaos was and, in an act of hedonistic surrender, helped fuel the flames with more alcohol and willingness.
Soon, sex stopped being a whisper in the corners to become the engine of the party. Hannah, feeling the familiar vibration of my skill running down her spine, found me in the crowd.
"Red, you..." She couldn't finish. A chorus of collective moans drowned her words as she saw men and women let themselves be swept away by their most primal instincts.
"Yes... me," I nodded. I reached out and, with a firm tug, pulled her up to the elevated platform where I stood, in full view of everyone.
Before she could protest, I sank my hands into her clothes and, in one movement, ripped them away.
"Kyaaaa!" Hannah let out a cry that melted into a moan, desperately trying to cover herself with her hands.
I didn't let her. I grabbed her arms and forced her to turn around, making my own clothes vanish in the process.
"Look, everyone!" I roared toward the crowd, drawing every pair of eyes to us. "Look at your Flower Girl!"
"Red! What are you doing?!" Hannah sobbed, red with a shame that burned her skin as she felt hundreds of gazes pinned to her nakedness.
"I enjoy letting everyone see my girl exposed like this," I whispered in her ear before penetrating her forcefully. "Come on, show yourself to everyone like the bitch you can be!" I shouted, holding her by the arms while thrusting rhythmically on the platform.
"No!" Hannah moaned, shaken by the impact.
Her heart galloped wildly. The heat of humiliation consumed her, but the [Lust] I radiated turned her body treacherously weak. Amazons, warriors, young and old... known and unknown alike watched as their "heroine" was possessed on the platform as if it were the main act of a perverse circus.
The feeling of betrayal and outrage was devastating for her. She felt used, a display object, but the atmosphere soon distorted. Amidst the looks of consternation from a few Amazons, what predominated was envy and rawest desire. Seeing a figure of her status in that state finished detonating the remains of the village's morality; the party transformed into a full-blown orgy.
From her position, Hannah saw the scene become a nightmare of intertwined bodies. No one wore clothes anymore. Old grudges were resolved in rough encounters; people who would never have spoken now devoured each other. Some pointed at her while copulating, using her image as fuel for their own frenzy. Even some of the youngest, awakened by the din, watched from the windows with fear and forbidden curiosity. It was those childish gazes, full of innocent wonder, that finally broke Hannah's will as I continued to claim her before her people.
"You're hateful!" Hannah protested through grit teeth, but her words were lost as her restrained moans finally exploded into full-throated screams.
Having crossed the initial barrier of shame and seeing the entire village drowning in a sea of bodies, she decided to let herself be swept away. She wasn't the only one: she had seen the proud Amazon leaders letting out moans unbecoming of their rank, and even Niara, who with renewed ferocity devoured a superior while forcing a young man to possess her from behind.
At this point, inhibitions had been incinerated. Hannah began to move of her own accord, slamming her hips against mine with an electric urgency. She shook her breasts in the air and screamed with a force that sought to dominate the roar of the plaza. In a way, she felt like the absolute star of the night, and under the light of the bonfires, she was.
"You like it..." I mocked, sinking my teeth into the curve of her neck. "You love that everyone is watching you in this state."
"Shut up and just fuck me..." she scolded with a broken voice. "This is not going to happen again! I don't want anyone to think I'm this kind of... All of this is because of your perverse ideas," she added with a trace of anguish, aware that now, in her own time, the risk of friends or parents finding out was a terrifying possibility.
"Hehe... my little exhibitionist," I said, giving her a thrust that made her arch before flipping her so we were face to face, allowing the crowd to admire her rear jumping rhythmically.
"You bastard..." she growled, seeking me in a hungry kiss. "Seriously... no one must ever know about this," she pleaded between moans that belied her supposed regret.
"Fine. Consider it a madness of the jungle. With the amount of [Lust] I'm releasing, this is just the preamble. By tomorrow, everyone will have committed such unholy acts that no one will dare mention what happened tonight," I mocked as I stepped off the platform with her still skewered on my body.
We walked through the mass of human flesh writhing on the ground. Hannah remained attached to me, wrapped in my arms as we moved through the epicenter of desire. Dozens of sweaty hands reached out to touch us as we passed, seeking a spark of the power we emanated, but nothing stopped our march. It was a surreal scene: while we surrendered to frantic sex in the middle of an uncontrolled orgy, our minds remained lucid enough to chat, as if we were strolling through a private garden.
"Is it okay that we're doing this...?" Hannah panted, clinging to my neck like a koala. She pulled away from my penis for just a second to reach her climax, before skewering herself again with electric urgency.
"Mmm... it's just a little, innocent fun," I replied, shrugging. While holding her, I manifested several blood tentacles that began to possess the women clinging to my legs, begging for a scrap of attention.
"But... we shouldn't... AAhhhh!" Her protest died in a sharp moan as she felt a tongue running over her rear. Turning her head, she found Niara; the warrior's eyes were clouded, lost in a trance of absolute lust.
"Hey! You let her do it!" I complained with a mocking laugh.
"I didn't let her! It's just that..." Hannah struggled to maintain coherence while being attacked from two flanks. "Help me with her!"
I nodded and, with a fluid movement, lifted Hannah off my crotch. I pushed my hips forward and introduced my penis into Niara's mouth, who, though confused by the speed, began to suck with savage devotion. Simultaneously, I hoisted Hannah onto my shoulders, leaving her pussy at the level of my face, and began to devour her with my tongue.
"Shouldn't we... go back to Castelobruxo yet?" she managed to articulate between moans, pulling my hair. "I don't remember how long ago we left... They must be worried... What if they notify Hogwarts!"
"Relax. We won't be the first students to get lost in the jungle for a few days. And regarding Hogwarts... well, they have their own problems to deal with there," I replied before softly biting her clitoris, triggering a spasm.
"I need a break! Don't focus only on me!" Hannah pleaded. Being in direct contact with me while [Lust] was operating was overstimulating her; she needed a breather before her mind collapsed.
I let her go, letting her fall onto the mass of panting bodies surrounding us. Immediately, I lunged at Niara and began to claim her warrior body with rough intensity. Hannah, lying a few inches away, sighed as she caught her breath; she was convinced that one day I would kill her with pure pleasure... but, affected by my aura, she couldn't help but start masturbating as she watched me possess the Amazon.
"This... only for today. Tomorrow... we go back to normal life," she ordered me between moans, as if trying to convince herself. She wanted to halt this spiral of perversion before it became her new norm... or worse, before admitting how much she liked it.
I let myself be carried away in that tide of women: from Niara to the tribe leaders, through the rank-and-file soldiers and the youngest, most inexperienced ones. The night became a blur of flesh and desire for everyone, but each of them knew, in the depths of their soul, that boundaries had been crossed that night.