Harkness Estate*

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Vincel sat up suddenly with a startled expression.

He instantly placed a hand on his head as he looked around at the room he was in with confusion.

"Where am I?"

'Damn, that's the second time in recent memory I've wondered that.

Second time in recent memory I've also been drugged'

Vincel looked down at his body to see and feel that, although his bottom half was still covered, his chest was bare and he had been bandaged in two locations. There was a bandage over the wound on his shoulder and another around the wound on his stomach.

'I can't feel any of my injuries'

Vincel reached for the bandage over his shoulder wound and pulled it off to see unblemished skin. He pulled off the bandage around his midsection and the situation was the same.

He looked to the side and found his reflection looking back at him from a massive mirror. None of the injuries he had sustained during the entire ordeal in the Forest was on any part of his body.

"Good, you're awake. The Sorceress will be pleased"

The voice took Vincel by surprise and it tore his eyes off the mirror so that he could lay them on the absolute beauty that was now in the room with him.

She had black hair that was tied into a neat bun at the top of her head. Her hair being up allowed her slender smooth-skinned neck to be more on display and it looked rather fetching. There was a sort of mischievousness in her brown eyes and that was also the case for her delicate pink lips.

She wasn't wearing any make-up. She didn't need to.

She was dressed in a maid uniform and everything about her dress, from its length (very much above the knee) to its neckline (plunging), was aimed at emphasizing her attractiveness.

It worked.

"Who are you?"

'Yet another question I've been asking a lot lately'

"I'm Zay'in. The Sorceress has ordered me to tend to you all through your stay here"

Vincel took another look at the well-furnished room with extravagant furniture and even looked up at the high ceiling decked with eye-catching decorations. It wasn't that he felt safe but he certainly felt more relaxed than he had felt when he woke up naked in the middle of a forest.

'If they wanted me dead, I'd probably be dead'

"And where exactly is 'here'?"

"Harkness Estate. Home of the Sorceress." Zay'in told him with a bright smile.

Vincel's next step was obviously to ask who the 'Sorceress was but Zay'in was already pulling off the sheets that were covering his lower half on the bed.

"We have to make you presentable to meet her. I have already prepared a bath for you." Zay'in said and she bent over in such a way that her milky peaks caught Vincel's eye.

Vincel cleared his throat and rolled out of bed.

"How did I get here? Where is Lea? And Jilan, and Knowle? What happened to Kleon?"

As Vincel fired out questions, Zay'in simply retained her smile while she gestured towards a door over on the side of the room.

"All your questions will be answered once you meet the Sorceress"

Vincel paused, furrowed his brows, and then he nodded and walked over to the door. He grabbed the handle and pulled it open to be met with yet another large space.

In the very center of the bathroom was a bathtub large enough to accommodate six people comfortably. The water was bubbling and it had a sweet smell like it had been perfumed with a mixture of fragrances.

Closing the door behind himself, Vincel took off the bottoms he had on. He noted that this was not the bottoms he had been wearing before.

'Someone changed my clothes. And most likely saw me naked'

Deciding that the mystery of who took off his clothes was unimportant right now, Vincel waded into the warm water of the bathtub and immediately let out a satisfied sigh at the instant feeling of comfort he got.

"Mmm"

There was a magical quality to the bubbles in the water. It felt as though they could cleanse him more than any soap ever could.

'Relaxing'

As Vincel closed his eyes, the memories of all that had happened to him came to the forefront.

'Kleon. Does she have something to do with this? Nah, I doubt it. They knew who I was the moment they saw me and Kleon didn't. That was one of the reasons she was so hostile.

Other than the fact that she's a homicidal maniac'

*splash*

The water of the tub was disturbed and Vincel opened his eyes to see he was no longer alone. In the seconds he had taken to indulge his thoughts, Zay'in had entered the bathroom, taken off her maid uniform, and joined him.

When she saw Vincel's confused look, she smiled warmly, comfortably, as though she was not in a bath with a total stranger.

As she moved closer to him, her milky breasts jiggled enticingly and became the focus of Vincel's attention.

"I'm here to assist you"

A lump formed in Vincel's throat but he swallowed it as fast and as stealthily as he could.

"Thank you, but I can bathe myself"

Zay'in chuckled and placed her hands on his chest.

"Nonsense. Why would you have to do that when I'm here"

That ended any protest Vincel might have had.

It took a few seconds for Vincel to be relaxed in the company of the beautiful, naked lady bathing him but Zay'in's warm and delicate hands running all over his chest definitely helped.

In fact, he eventually got so relaxed that he did not react when her hands went lower and grabbed an excited part of his body.

When her small hand closed around his member, Vincel did not jerk but he did not have to because his organ had already been reacting from the moment she entered the room.

Her hand touching it was the final straw and it rose to complete prominence under the water.

'Oh, my God!'

All in the name of giving him a proper scrubbing, Zay'in stroked the organ and twisted her hand in all manner of ways that had Vincel feeling himself edging towards a release.

'How embarrassing would it be to blow my load into the hand of a stranger under the roof of someone I haven't even met?'

As soon as Vincel asked the question in his head, a part of his mind gave him the answer;

'Very'

'I need to focus my mind on something else. Status screen'

<User Status Screen Updated>

[Name: Vincel Grey]

[Race: Human]

[Job: Arcane Initiate Lv.2 {101/200 Arcane Shards}]

[Specialization: None]

[Title: None]

[HP: 75/75]

[Arcane Mana Reserves: 125/125]

[Strength: 7]

[Stamina: 5]

[Agility: 7]

[Resistance: 5]

[Job Skills: Arcane Augmentation Lv.1]

[Stat points: 0]

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'Wait, my HP is completely refilled? How?

Hmm, I don't feel like I've eaten anything. Haha, with all the craziness I've experienced in recent times, it might not be too much of a stretch to think I ate something in my sleep.

But no, I wasn't fed.

It must be a combination of the healing Elixirs they used on my injuries as well as the good long rest I got'

Vincel took a moment to stop focusing on the status screen to realize Zay'in had taken her hands off his dick with her focus now on other parts of his body.

No matter where she touched though, her breasts always grazed Vincel's skin and served to have his member never go flaccid.

Eventually, she announced the bath was over, climbed out of the tub, and presented him with a set of clothes.

The clothes were casual but were clearly of quality material. Just the feel of them against Vincel's body had him feeling snuggly.

Even the footwear he was given was open-toed and so comfortable to the point that Vincel had to actively stop himself from playfully twiddling his toes.

Zay'in put on her maid uniform and led the way out of the room and down the wide corridor that had even more affluence than Vincel had seen in the room he woke in.

The corridors appeared almost deserted but Vincel could not shake the feeling that his every move was being watched.

They arrived at a pair of double doors etched with strange-looking runic symbols.

"I have brought him, My Lady"

As Zay'in announced and Vincel still looked and felt out of place, the runic symbols etched into the doors glowed and they swung open inward.

There were two people in the large hall behind the double doors.

One of them was a man Vincel remembered seeing after he got out of the portal. The man who had injected him.

The other was an Elderly woman that Vincel instantly recognized as...

"Agatha!"