Chapter 20: Not a Manhunt
I just go to bed and sleep. Today was a very long day.
I wake up with both of them in my bed, naked. I am spooning Cecilia, and Shandon is behind me.
As I move a little, Cecilia presses her bottom against my morning toughness, and Shandon hugs me tighter.
I start kissing Cecilia’s neck, while I move my hips, and my dick is between her legs, against her pussy.
“Good morning, my villain…”
I bite her ear a little, and she is rubbing her pussy against my rock. Shandon whispers in my ear.
“Good morning, my lord… Let me give you legacy…”
Cecilia turns her head back, and I kiss her. Our tongues meet and test each other. We keep kissing for some time. Then I turn my head back, and Shandon kisses me, but doesn’t open her mouth, until I place my tongue inside it, but she doesn’t refuse either. I can sense that there is some confusion coming from her.
I feel Shandon’s tits against my back, my dick is at the hardest right now. I sense that Cecilia is wet right now, and I just can’t resist anymore, I get out of the position, sit on my knees, and penetrate Cecilia. Shandon is looking at us. I make a gesture for Shandon to get closer, and she is on her knees, close to me. I grab Cecilias right tit with one hand, and Shandon’s ass with the other. Shandon gets closer, and I bite her neck a little. I start thrusting Cecilia, and she moves her hips around as well, so that my rock is forced against her g-spot. I bite and suck Shandon’s ear lobes.
Shandon gets goosebumps, and looks at her own arms. I suck on her tits, then I bite them a little. Shandon then holds her breast, and pulls my head with her right hand towards it. Then she drops her right hand, and touches her pussy, and brings it to her face. She touches it again, and starts masturbating violently. I look at Cecilia, and play with nipple with my left hand. I squeeze Shandon’s ass, taking care not to over do it. Then I circle her asshole with my finger.
Cecilia’s breath is quicker.
“Fuck me, my villain. Burn the world for me. Ravage my pussy. Take me!”
I keep pumping, and I pinch Cecilia’s nipple.
She arches, and screams while she cums. I just can take any more, and pump a load inside her. I see Shandon is masturbating, now with her eyes closed. With my right hand, I stick my finger inside her pussy from behind, and she cums.
She hugs me, there is a mess on the bed. I look at Shannon, and my dick is still hard, and I slip it inside her. She humps against my dick, while Cecilia is lying on the bed.
I continue humping, when Cecilia comes around, and holds Shandon’s wonderful but spread, so that I can see my dick conquering the dragon’s pussy. Cecilia kisses me, and licks Shandon’s butt. She stops for a second, then continues pumping.
Cecilia reaches down, and starts playing with Shandon’s clit, and she starts moaning loudly. I keep pumping, each time harder.
Shandon cums a second time, and I throw my load in.
We hear a knock at the door downstairs, there is a kind of mail delivery at the guild. It is a package addressed to me. It contains a list of known associates to the Shadows. In there I find a note from Leopold, “This is what we have right now. I am sorry we cannot help more than this. You have to work your way up. Again, sorry. L”
Well, lets prepare. I am thinking of ways to use the theatrical to scare someone. I have to be good, since I am going to avoid killing the asshole from the guild.
I open a portal, and take a look at the mountains, close to the ley line. There is another nest of dragons here, similar to the one I have seen on the other continent. However, the dragons look smaller than that one. I take a quick look and pick a cave that is on a high place. That will do, I guess.
I go back to the guild. It seems I am going to have to let my savage side go.
The first one that I have to get is actually the asshole. I am going to give him a scare. I know exactly what I am going to do. And it has to be something big, something that he would fear more than for his life. I have some theatrics planned.
First, I create a spy portal in the capital’s guild master room. Good, he is alone. I buff up everything. Time is almost coming to halt, I have to tread very carefully now. I open a portal, get in the asshole’s office, and open another portal on his other side, and push him and chair through it. This one, is a portal to the cave in the land of small dragons, in the mountains.
As he is falling down, I create a sanctuary spell. To his point of view, he was at his desk in one moment, and falling down on his back in a cave in another.
He is a fat guy. He is at level 35, but his skills are all barely at adept. He probably was carriaged through the levels.
Once he falls to the floor, I put my foot on his chest.
“…”
“Who are you? What is going on? What is this?”
“Shhh… We are waiting.”
“Waiting for what?”
“Waiting for the owner of this cave.”
“Do you fucking know who are you talking to? I am going to have you ass for this. I even command the Shadows! We are going to hunt you down, you shit.”
I press my foot, he gets unable to breath. That makes him stop talking. Once I see that he is about to pass out, I relieve the pressure.
I can feel his fear, it is starting to smell in his sweat.
At this point, a shadow appear in the opening of the cave. It covers the sun. A dragon, the size of a Parent, enters the cave. The asshole pisses himself. The dragon enters the sanctuary spell, and does a roar, with War Cry mana in it. The sanctuary absorbs the mana, but the sound is still grave and strong. It makes my hair fly around my head.
I take my foot off the asshole. He is having spasms. I turn the mana on, and do a War Cry. And I put a lot more mana than I should on it. I can feel the dragon expression change. He lowers his head, to the point that the top of his head is touching the ground. He extends his wings in a weird way… They are both on the ground, but the under side of the wing is pointing up.
“I am sorry, my lord, I did not recognize you. We have trouble telling your faces apart. I surrender all that I am, Slayer.”
“Sure. What is your name?”
“Piotr, my lord.”
“Piotr, I want to show this human what I am. He is not allowed to leave, but, as much as possible, I don’t want him harmed. Keep guard for a while.”
“As you wish, my lord.”
I get to the opening of the cave, and take a look. It is a part of the range of mountains that have caves all over. I see that the biggest dragons around are the size of the Parent one, and there are a lot of the smaller ones.
I see the gazes on me. I see another cave, with another Parent. I go there and enter the cave. It moves to the back of the cave, and salutes me the same way that Piotr had.
“What is your name?”
“Alexei, my lord.”
“Where can I find a griffon? I feel like killing one.”
“There is a nest of griffons about 50 miles west of here, my lord. I can take you there. We generally let them go because a war with them would be undesirable, my lord.”
I am thinking, I didn’t really want to start a war around here. The dragons are just a means to an end.
“What beasts do you generally hunt?”
“Fenrirs, my lord.”
“Where can I find one? I want to hunt one.”
“80 miles west-southwest from here, my lord. I can take you there.”
“That will do.”
The dragon flies ahead of me, and I use my propulsion system to accompany it. We arrive there in some 20 minutes.
He starts flying in circles, and I see, on the ground, a pack of fenrirs. I pick one at random, and do a similar trick that I did with asshole, and now we are inside the cave. The asshole managed to crawl up to a wall, and he is sitting on a corner.
Piotr is laying down, across the opening to the cave.
I am holding the Fenrir down, by the back of the neck.
The sounds the Fenrir does startle Piotr, that stands up. The asshole is frozen, I can see that he moves his eyes.
“Now, I want you to pay attention to what you are seeing.”
The Fenrir shakes, and my arm moves, but I don’t let go.
“One of the things that you got right is the reincarnation part. Every beast, monster, demon, human, elf, etc, has a soul. And it is that soul getting separated from the body that allows you increase your levels. You understand what should happen once I kill this Fenrir, right?”
He doesn’t move. I use a war cry.
“ANSWER ME!”
He nods, very slowly. The smell of shit starts to take over the cave.
“Good.”
I do the soul absorption spell on the Fenrir, and I break it’s neck. It goes limb, and I feel the experience coming to my body, though it doesn’t help me gain any levels right now.
Piotr was watching the scene with curiosity. He immediately assumed the submissive position, and started shaking.
“My lord, did you… eat its soul?”
The asshole starts spasming again, and passed out.
I smiled at Piotr. I knew that I did not get in the way of reincarnation, I only absorbed all the experience to myself, but no one else knew it. And it was better to have the fear than the weapon itself.
I woke up the asshole. He took some time realizing that for this nightmare he wasn’t sleeping. I get close to him.
“Now, I don’t ever want to hear about you anymore. I don’t want to see you anywhere. If my information spreads, I am assuming it is you. I will turn everything to the ground. Your house. Your family. You. Your souls. GOT IT?”
I saw that his muscles had just locked up. I opened up a portal to his office, threw him, his chair, and then closed it.
I walk slowly to Piotr. I see that the closer I get, the stronger he shakes. I touch his neck, and he actually pisses himself.
“I will not harm you. You can have that Fenrir.”
“Thank you, my lord. I really appreciate it, my lord.”
“I may need your help in the future.”
“I already surrendered all that I am, my lord.”
“Oh, I am sorry that I got your cave dirtied.”
“No, my lord, it was an honor being of service.”
I open a portal to the woods in Frolk, and leave.
The sun is already setting, but some of the places that the syndicate work actually function at night. It’s amazing how all of these are at the capital. I think of eating at the guild, but that is going to take some time.
I go inside, and meet the girls. Cecilia tells me that the guild was only this popular when she was a new arrival. But then there used to be other adventurers as well, so it was a different time. I go with her to the kitchen, and I leave out a bunch of dragon meat, about the same amount of meat we ate yesterday.
I can’t cook that with all of that people inside the guild, and I can’t wait for it to go empty. I have a job to do, but I will let them my girls have a good steak. I cut a piece off, and give it to Muninn. He has been on my shoulder most of the time, although I haven’t taken him on the ‘close the asshole’ operation.
I open a portal to the woods around the capital, and enter the city. I have to see where the addresses are, I have no idea. I decide to go to the guild, they probably have a map from the city. There is a big commotion in front of it.
“Hi, you are also an adventurer, right? What’s going on?”
“I heard that the guild master got cray cray. There was a noise in his office, and when the attendants checked it out, he had apparently done the trivecta; he pissed, shat and puked on himself. Apparently something scared him. He then just ran home. They closing the guild for the day. I hear they are going to contact one guild in another capital, to get a new guild master. There are some king guards that are trying to investigate, but the guild is independent, so you have that mess there. Dude, do you have a crow on your shoulder? Did you tame it? Is it a familiar?”
“Something like that.”
I pet Muninn on the chest, it stretches up.
“Do you know where is this address? I have to deliver a package.”
“Sure, you follow this street until almost the end, then turn left… But that is a dangerous address to visit, my friend. You should not go there. You know, ” and he points to his shadow.
“Thank you. Don’t worry, I will get a couple of friends.”
I take my leave and start moving towards the address. I can sense a lot of people, some homeless, some people in the alleys. When I inspect their souls, I can see that they are all bandits.
I go to a hidden corner, and jump up to the ceiling. People are not going to be watching that area that much. I go jumping, from ceiling to ceiling. Muninn is flying above me.
I get to what I think the address is, and I turn my senses to the building underneath me. The room in the back, away from the stairs, has apparently 7 people. There is guy, his back to the wall. There are four stealth people, one on each corner of the room, and then there are another two, in front of the desk.
This looks like jackpot. I can even get additional stealth from these guys. The distance is too small for a portal, but I can focus on them and sidestep them. I buff my senses, lets start with the stealth people. I sidestep the first one, soul absorption, and then I snap his or her neck. The second one. The third one. The fourth one.
Now, the lieutenant. I sidestep him, and show him his four stealth colleagues dead. I open a gate to Piotr’s cave, and in we go.
Piotr’s actually wake up frightened, but doesn’t make much sound. I am facing Piotr, and I am holding the guy by the throat, a foot above ground. Piotr sees me, in spite of the darkness of the cave. He assumes submissive position.
“Piotr salutes the Soul Eater.”
I drop the guy on the ground. He falls on his butt. He looks back, and his eyes almost pop out of his head. He quickly pushes himself to the wall of the cave. I get near him.
“Hello, my… friend.” I say, sarcastically.
“I need some information, and you are going to provide it.”
“Who are you?”
I make a head signal to Piotr. He understands it.
“SILENCE!!!! YOU ONLY SPEAK TO ANSWER!!!!!”
The guy is shaking. I look at him with my mana sense, and I sidestep his tooth with poison to my hand. This is really going to be useful.
His eyes get even more scared. He looks at me, and realizes that I have a dragon, and I am not afraid to use it. Piotr is kind of useful, actually.
“Piotr, how did the Fenrir taste?”
“It tasted good. Thank you for the meal, my lord.”
I wonder how much is fear and how much is genuine appreciation. With their culture, I don’t know if I ever will know that.
“Now, now, now. I am trying to reach the very top of the Shadow. I know that you will not know who the big boss is, but my guess is that you have a boss. I am going to need a name and an address.
“I am not very good with this questioning thing, to tell you the truth. I don’t know if I manage to raise the right amount of fear.”
“Nnnno, you’re dddoing gggoood…”
“That makes me happy, you know. Let me add a couple of things… I don’t know much about fear, but do you know who knows the most about pain?”
I stab his shoulder with a knife, too quickly for him to react. As he screams, I put my hands on his shoulder, and start healing it.
“Healers. Those are the ones you should fear.”
Another one soils himself. I am going to have to apologize to Piotr again. He is sweating profusely.
“Now, who is your boss, and where can I find him?”
“Mmmmyy bbboss is Iggorr the mmmootttherless. Hhe lililives inn a a mamamansion iiinn thththe slululums. Yoyoyou cccan fififind hihihim thethere duduring thththe mooornining”
“Okay. Igor the motherless, mansion, slums. Is that it?”
He nods. I sense that he is telling the truth. I take a look with soul sense, and see what sins were recorded there. I turn to Piotr.
“Piotr, do you guys like the taste of human beings?”
“Not particularly, my lord. Their clothes get in the way, they take longer to enter shock, so their meat has too much… Fear in it. But of course, I am to do whatever my lord wishes.”
“No need. You can just burn it and dispose of the body any way you see fit. I am going.”
“It will be done, my lord.”
I open the portal to the woods in Frolk, and go through it. I notice that there are a lot of crows around. I wonder if Muninn is also making new friends.
I go to the guild, and knock. I decided not to portal directly to my room in case someone was watching it. Let’s keep it as normal as possible. Cecilia answers. I go for a bath, and Shandon insists on helping with it, then Cecilia insists as well.
The water was hot, the air thick with steam, and Cecilia’s body pressed flush against mine as Shandon hesitated at the tub’s edge. Her fingers curled around the porcelain, knuckles white—nervous, eager, *untouched* in ways that made my cock twitch under the water’s surface.
Cecilia’s laugh was low, teasing as she dragged her nails down my chest. “You’re staring, my villain.”
*Fuck, I was.* Shandon’s nipples pebbled under the clinging droplets on her skin, her breath shallow as she finally stepped in, water sloshing over the rim. The second her thighs brushed mine, Cecilia’s hand was on her waist, pulling her closer.
“Relax,” Cecilia murmured, but there was nothing soft in the way her other hand slid between my legs, gripping my cock under the water. “He’s not gonna bite… unless you ask.”
Shandon’s gasp was muffled against my shoulder as Cecilia guided her palm down my stomach, lower, *lower*—until her fingertips grazed my shaft. “F-feels…”
“*Big?*” Cecilia finished for her, smirking as she wrapped Shandon’s fingers around me, stroking slow. “Wait till he’s inside you.”
The water distorted nothing—every glide of skin, every shuddering breath. Shandon’s hips jerked when my hand found her thigh, inching higher, fingertips skimming her soaked folds. *So fucking tight.*
Cecilia nipped at her earlobe. “Let him fuck you open.”
We finished the night in the bedroom.
Next morning, during breakfast, Cecilia is called to the room with the Comm Gem. She goes there, and a little later comes out, gesturing me to join her. I can hear Leopold.
“Oh my-y. The he-e-ro has been naughty… Do you mind visiting your favorite guild master?”
“Sure. Cecs, tell Shandon that I will be back in a little while.”
I open a portal, and Muninn lands on my shoulder, and the next second I am in Leopold’s office. I left the portal go, and he sighs.
“What did you do? You made him into a muttering lunatic. And he just keeps repeating that Wrax is going to eat his soul. And something about dragons.”
“Well, is he moving forward with the blackmail?”
“He is not moving forward with anything. People tried to take him out of his room, he screamed that he could not be seen outside. People just left him there.
“The king contacted the guild, and of course, we knew… Nothing… They tried to investigate, but could not come up with anything.
“On the guilds side, I kind of have been promoted. Something like upper echelon liaison to Marcelo. I kind of already had that post, but now I was told that resources would never be a problem. I never heard anything like that before. HAHAHA. They asked me if I wanted another guild master here so that I could focus my attention. HAHAHA.”
I just shrugged.
“I just used some theatrics. Don’t sweat the details, some time I can share the details. What are you guys doing to that guild? Did you select another guild master?”
“Not yet. Do you want to put someone in there?”
“Not really.”
“Well, we are searching for someone. We generally promote someone from the guild itself, but there are rumors now that that guild master post is cursed, so no one from that guild is willing to take the job. The king was trying to flex his weight to get some noble for that, but they are not going with it as well. We are moving in some guild master from a small city to there.”
“Sure, good luck. Today I am going to pay a visit to one of the shadows captains, I think. Someone called Igor the motherless. Who comes up with these nicknames?”
“I don’t know. Where are you going to find him?”
“Apparently, there is a mansion in the middle of the slums. How did you guys let that go?”
“We didn’t. Investigations within the city are under duty of the guards. We can’t act, so we never really cared. We just didn’t know it was his mansion.”
“How guilty is this one?”
“Well, he is not called motherless for nothing.”
“Ok. Well, I got a job to do, wish me luck.”
“Hahaha. Good luck, Wrax.”
I open a portal and go back to the Frolk, to get myself ready.
Locating the mansion is not hard, if you can actually see things from the sky. It’s right there, like a sore thumb, in the middle of the slums. There is something very odd, though: it definitely could be seen from the towers on the wall. That was a very bad indication on the moral quality of the guards. Either they didn’t care enough to investigate, they were in the Shadow pockets, or both. Not really my problem, right now I am not this big justice fighter, I just want to solve my problem.
Just as I am watching this, he is leaving home. Great. I accelerate my fall, and I land in front of him, as he walks out his gate. I open a gate to Piotr’s cave, and I take him with me. Muninn enters right after.
Once there, he reaches for something in his pocket. I raise up a sanctuary spell, grab his hand and take it out. It is a Comm Gem.
“Hello, my lord.”
Piotr salutes me, and Igor is now terrified.
“What do you want? Do you know who I am?”
I can see that he is trying to act tough. I am kind of tired of this. These are people that extort children, sell women to be raped, murder, torture, and then get pissed when they are on the other side. I have to admit that this one is at least trying for now. I am going to do this different.
“Piotr, do you want to be of service?”
“I already surrendered all that I am, my lord. Serving you is my life now.”
“Explain to this guy here, he is called Igor the motherless, how afraid he should be right now. Don’t kill him.”
“As you wish my lord.”
Piotr turns to Igor, places his head in a position that Igor has to look up to see him, and uses his war cry.
“DROP ALL YOUR WEAPONS ON THE FLOOR RIGHT NOW, HUMAN!!!”
I see Igor taking out some throwing knives out of his back pockets, in a very, very contained way, and I start taking a look at the Comm Gem.
I had access to one in the guild if I wanted to, but I didn’t bother. I start looking at, with my mana senses. I am inspecting the mana veins in the gem, when I feel a movement. I turn around, I see Piotr carrying Igor to the opening of the cave, puts him there and roars. Nice, they are playing. Back to the gem. I see that this is another fractal, but a different one, and it goes all the way down, up to a cage of mana that contains one atom. I create a room of silence like Leopold does, I enable mana again, and I snap my fingers. Something is happening. I enhance my view a little more. Again. I see that the spin in the electron changes several times each time I snap my fingers. So, somehow, that is transferring the information. So I am guessing that there is a quantum entanglement of this guy with the other Comm Gems. This is absolutely fantastic. No distance, no mana expenditure on the transmission itself; just on the changing of the electron spin.
I snap from my musings, and take a look at how things are going. Igor is sitting against the wall, his right foot is crushed.
“I DON’T KNOW! I DON’T KNOW!”
I can sense that that is not the whole truth. I am going to help Piotr.
“Hello Igor. You know, there are a bunch of stuff that helps with pain when you’re in a fight or flight situation. Let me help.”
I increase his synapses’ function, and remove the adrenaline from his blood. The pain goes up. He starts to roll his eyes. I diminish the pain, or I may break his mind. Again, the smell of piss and shit.
“Now, who is your boss? How can I find him?”
“I SWEAR I DON’T KNOOWW!!! Pleeeeeaseee. I don’t know… She is a voice on the gem, she tells us to do stuff, we do. No one ever met her… She calls herself Piratress… Pleeeaaseee…”
He starts ugly crying.
This is going to be kind of hard… She is probably in the capital of the kingdom, but not necessarily so, she can be anywhere in the continent, for that matter. Still, it is said that the Shadow was born in Lirastra. There is also the fact that there have to be ways for her to receive her money, she probably enjoys a good life. Being the leader of the Shadows and living in a swamp doesn’t really make much sense. I already have plan A, and if it doesn’t work, I can always go for recruiting some dragons and doing plan A all over the land. And if plan B doesn’t work, at least it sends a message, and nobody would be that stupid.
I have to keep the theatrics, to make sure I have the dragons under a leash. I place a soul absorption on Igor.
“Piotr, please kill him.”
Piotr spits enough fire that the wall behind Igor goes to lava. A bit overboard. All the experience comes to me. Piotr enters the submissive position.
“Thank you.”
I open a portal to the capital of the kingdom. This is night already. Apparently I spent a lot of time with the Comm Gem.
I position myself in the middle of the city, and buff myself. Time slows down. I activate the Comm Gem, and snap my fingers with a lot of strength. The sound that is going to be sent is going to have too high a frequency, so I don’t think other people are going to be able to hear.
After some time, I start hearing my snap coming back, from four different places in the city. One in the merchant district, one in the slums, on in the military barracks, and one from the noble district. Let’s start with the noble district.
After repeating the operation, I locate the estate, and I am right above the room. Two people, one and one woman, on a bed.
I sidestep to the side of the bed, create a portal to Piotr’s cave, and push the bed through it. When they wake up, they are already inside the cave. I do a light spell, so that they can see me.
The woman sees me, and pisses herself immediately. The guy sits up.
“WHAT THE HELL? GUARDS! GUARDS! GUARDS!!!!!”
The woman starts to relax after the first shock. She puts her hand on the guy’s shoulder. He turns around and looks at her, and she shakes her head.
“That stupid imbecile. When I realized what he was trying to scry it was already too late.”
“Hello, Piratress.”
“Marcelo, I presume?”
“Yup.”
Her husband was looking at both of us, not quite understanding.
“Nice gig you got going.”
“Heh. It was. Is there anyway he can be spared? He had no part.”
“WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?”
“I love you, honey. I have always loved you. You were my ray of sunshine.”
“WHAT IS GOING ON?”
I chuckle.
“He is not too bright for a ray of sunshine.”
“How did you find us?”
I pull out the Comm Gem.
“I thought they were untraceable.”
“They almost are. But I imagined that the leader of the Shadow had to be in a big center, she had to enjoy the money someway, right? I just tried Lirastra first because I was told that the Shadow was born in Lirastra. And I can actually locate the other Comm Gems if I am close enough. Who else knows?”
“No one. This is not an information that I could just share. And I would try to exchange that for clemency. At least for him.”
I can tell that she is telling the truth. No need to torture her. All the better.
“Ok. How many times did you leave potential witnesses alive?”
She lowers her head, tears start falling freely. She pulls the guy, and hugs him.
“I am sorry, dear. Believe me, I am truly truly sorry. Can you at least make it painless to him? I always did that for the witnesses.”
“Fair enough.”
I poison him with CO. He get groggy, falls sleep, and at some point just stops breathing. Her tears are rolling, and her nose is dripping.
“Thank you.”
“From one monster to another. Piotr, please finish this and dispose of the trash.”
Well, the manhunt, or better yet, the woman hunt, is over.
