Forest Of The Herbaria Mountain

Opening my eyes slowly, I felt a sharp pain in my head. Once I opened my eyes completely, everything around me was spinning and kind of hazy. Moreover, I could feel every fiber of my body screaming in pain, soreness, and fatigue. It feels like a hard-fought battle against a celestial being. While agonizing over it, slowly, an arm hits my face. "Uuukh! Who the..."

Glancing over, I saw the fully naked pink-haired twin-tail woman, flustered, with red marks all over her body while looking satisfied. Furthermore, inspecting Clara, the white liquid dripping out of her honeypot caught my attention; memories from last night had begun flooding inside my head, alarming me. I started praying inside my head. 'I'm fucked.'

(Diana! Diana!)

(Hmph! Don't talk to me. Claude cheater, hmph. I keep calling you, but you ignored me all night. Hmph. I'll just focus my attention on Tsuki in my lap. Claude cheater. You're having sex with Clara because she's can have sex with you! While I can't! Unfair!)

(Eh...? Wait a minute. And, what about with Clara. Wait, no! I'm here to ask about the threads! Did something happen on it?)

(Nothing happened to it since you're now able to do it with her! Hmph!)

(Oh... Thank you, Diana. Come on now, Diana~ If you have your body, we will have a ton of fun, okay?)

Before responding, Diana went into silence. (Okay...)

(Now, that's my wife.)

(Hehe~ But in seriousness, it was all Tsuki's doing. For some reason, she could negate all of the side effects that came from Clara. I'm actually surprised that she can directly tamper with one's soul even the flow of their life essence. It's my first time seeing it. It's frightening to imagine what she can do.)

(Soul... That looks troubling... Anyway, how come I can't hear her?)

(She's sleeping right now. Luck was on our side because I'm actually panicking yesterday. If it weren't for Tsuki, I don't know what would happen. It's better to not use her powers yet. We don't know how crucial or dangerous it could be. Even right now, I'm scared of what lies beneath her. We can't tell if you can control it or not.)

(Yeah, I'm also thinking the same. Plus, I'm not sure if it's really solely because of the alcohol influence...)

(I'm not sure too. Yesterday, it seems like I'm also affected by you.)

(Really?)

(Yes. Thankful enough, I manage to get a hold of myself together. Anyway, there's also a piece of information that you need to know.)

(Yeah?)

(The girl Adelle. She has a unique mixed bloodline, circulating around her body. As for the mark, I'm not sure about it. It has a unique configuration beneath it, that even I can't figure out—it's multi-layer type magic.)

(Multi-layer... Like, a stacked-layer flat layer on top of each other?)

(Yes. Not only that, but it also has different structures.)

(I see... Even, Adelle herself doesn't know anything about it. Thinking about it, where is she anyway?)

(...)

A sigh of huge relief came out of my chest then when I was about to stand up, my left hand touched something soft, extremely soft. I squeezed it, a noise came right after. "Mmmhh~!"

The feminine voice was familiar. It was the woman whom I'm currently accompanying on the mission. The same woman who labeled me before. Her old black hair was now replaced with a silver-white. In addition, looking at her closely, she's in the same state as Clara where there are a ton of red marks all over her face and neck. I took off the blanket that's covering her, revealing her transcending body and her bare breast with bite marks. Then I noticed the blood down on her honeypot, dripping with white semen.

"Ah, shit." I cursed my own luck. "I completely screwed up big time. Wait..." I pondered on my own thoughts once again, remembering the events from yesterday. I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Shit. She got affected by the pheromones that Clara exuded from her body while we're doing it. And then, I heard her voice under the sheets, masturbating on the next bed where Clara and I were doing the deed. Then the rest is history."

The memories of me drinking with the people downstairs are kind of hazy, but the memory of me doing various stuff with Adelle and Clara was still fresh in my mind. Although at the cost of them milking me until I dried up which sounds great, to be honest.

Disregarding the conflict of the aftermath of this incident that'll most likely happen sooner or later upon Adelle waking up, I'm actually happy that my first time was an actual threesome, despite being under the influence of alcohol and succumbing to my own desire. Yesterday, there's a party downstairs where Samuel invited me to come and drink with them. But in the end, I lost and forfeited after five mugs. The party yesterday was a piece of memory that I will treasure along with what came right after that.

Shortly after while I'm mulling over my thoughts, I heard the noise of someone knocking on the door. Naturally, I stood up, staggeringly walking toward the door with my peripheral vision spinning around, and withstanding the upcoming vomit on my throat.

Opening the door, I squint my eyes on the person behind it; I saw two women's faces. "Kyaaah!" The two shrieked. They have red-beet flustered expressions etched on their faces, staring at my junk on between my leg. I looked at what they're staring at and saw. "Oh, I'm completely naked right now. So anyway, what can I do for you two young lad— Hungh—!" I almost barfed.

"Ah, no, no, we're here to inform you that the mission will start in an hour," One woman said, bashfully, and drags the other woman away with her. While at it, I saw some passerby who's going downstairs with shocked expressions, sneaking a loot at me. To be frank, I still feel groggy, as to why I'm not reacting to their gazes nor care about it. I closed the door and saw Adelle that looks like recently woken up, clenching the sheets on her chest with her mouth hanging, facing directly toward my direction.

"Oh, boy, here comes the headache."

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After dressing up for our preparation, I got greeted by the spectrum of people who are likely to join us on this expedition. Saying such things like.

"Yow, you're pretty wild yesterday! Huwahahaha."

"Hahahaha, the kid knows how to please! The noise that came from their room are something else! Hahahahaha..."

And many more...

Earlier, when Adelle woke up, she tried to act normal and didn't talk about what happened between us. However, I knew that she's just trying to keep straight face to kill the awkward atmosphere between us, to which I also did by not saying a word and kept my mouth shut. We did talk things out a little bit, later on.

"Hey..."

"Hey..."

"About last night... Sorry... I apologize. I know that a simple apology is not something that could be easily for—"

"No no no, it's okay! Really."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

With the last reply of Adelle, she licked her teeth and glanced over my neck slightly before heading out of the room. I trembled at the sight of it and instinctively covered the area where she sucked my blood last night. I saw a glimpse of enlightenment in Adelle's eyes.

Right now, I'm hanging my head down, hiding my extremely embarrassed face. I'm not the only one who's also in the same state as me. Adelle was clutching at my hoodie coat, hiding her face on my shoulder, covering the hickeys on her neck and face. While I on the other hand, due to my regenerative ability, the hickeys are gradually fading away except for the two tiny holes in my neck—that Adelle gave me. Then at my right, Clara had a blissful look on her, extruding a bright aura around her.

"Damn, Claude. I thought you're going to sleep yesterday, but you went wild. Great job, hahaha." Samuel patted me in the back, laughing, as he passed me going over his party. I didn't reply to him. The satisfaction that comes with the price, is a memory that I won't ever forget.

Later on, we are marching our way through the coniferous-brown, primitive trees of the forest. The grasses that we're stepping on crackly beneath us are surprisingly so dry, and the dry leaves drifting across us from the simpering wind carrying a rotten fragrance. The entire forest reeked of age. Nonetheless, it still made me in awe of the sizes of trees around me. The morning stars peeped down at us, glistening and shimmering, with the dimming sky in the background.

The further we went in the deep forest, the harder it was for us to see, as the misty mesh restricted the sights of our surroundings making it harder for us to walk across. There are about 100 adventurers who are traveling with us right now that made our expedition looked like an important mission of finding a mystical creature in the deep forest. We are scattered around in groups, and the group where I ended up has 15 personnel in total, adding the three of us.

A sepulchral silence resounded throughout the hallowed ground beneath us. Suddenly, a shuffling noise came across us, all of us are alerted by it. "Solais," I muttered.

Everyone took their weapon out, anticipating the threat looming before us.

"Stop! Prepare for battle!" The old man with a bulky figure right in front of us; the person in charge of the group shouted.

A vaporous mist enwrapped the air, writhed around us like a prestidigitator's smoke of sensuous and illusory tricks, playing with us, gliding with a deadly intent behind it. Shortly after, a hollow sound echoed throughout the forest. The exquisite light of our torches is getting dimmer slowly. Our heartbeat violently throbbed, as the inexplicable silence that enveloped and the tension drastically changed our perception of what kind of mission we went into.

Through the silence, I glanced at Adelle and Clara who are making a serious-looking expression, narrowing their eyes in the thick mist. The light-hearted people could be seen noticeably trembling in fear. Soon after, a deep, grotesque voice of man and woman singing made the ground beneath us, convulsively shake, creating a havocing scenery as one by one; the people in our group are flopping in the ground trembling. Their party comrades shouted in worry, waking them up; but to their dismay, a more worrying matter was just looming before us, patiently waiting to prey upon its victim.

"Run!" One guy shouted.

The people in the frontlines were swooped by silhouette in the mist and vanished in a blink of an eye, taking their limbs or head off. The screams and cries of nightmare had begun, drastically changed the air surrounding us. I clenched my jaw, "I knew it. There's something fishy about this expedition."

I squinted my eyes on the cloudy mist while hiding behind the tree, tracking down the culprit. I waved my hand in the air, shooting four fireballs out of my hand on the silhouette creature hiding at the top of the trees, wrapped around it. When the fireballs hit, it revealed a reptilian creature resembling a cobra with its dark-bluish hood-like wing and bones spike sticking out of it; furthermore, below its head, a face formed of a man and a woman covered in scale, singing the haunting song.

"Wait, Adelle!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Because on my right, Adelle rushed towards it with her hands over her katana and swung on the upcoming tail in front of her. She sliced it with ease and used the trees around her as leverage to leap around while simultaneously attacking the snake monster. Adelle inflicted some damage to the monster, causing it to shriek in pain.

"Kiiihhh—!"

Seeing that she's able to handle it by herself, nevertheless, I took action and sprint towards the ongoing fight between Adelle and the Snake. Clara was also the same throwing knives embedded with dark-like mana around it, directly at the head of the Snake; however, I noticed behind that the people in our group are standing frozenly, dazing off on the empty air.

[Walpurgis Hollow]

I struck the Snake with my sword, but the flames that produced from my sword didn't incite its body; I anticipated for it to burst in flame. However, it did inflict a wound on its body. While it rummages through the trees of the forest, I wrapped its body in chains pulling it to conceal its movement, but it slipped away.

"Wait, you can do that?!" I blurted out in disbelief.

The chains in my hands dispersed in thin air. Clara slides down beneath the Snake and underneath Clara, a wave of dark shadow tangling the movement of the Snake. And from up above, Adelle slices the head of the cobra before I could even reach them.

The predicament that we're facing isn't finished yet. The rest of the forest trembled once again. Ahead of us, a man was walking unhurriedly, gigantic disfigured right arm with talon-like hands along the two eyes sticking out on the side of the arm, gazing upon us; and lastly, its right arm was a sharp blade with five eyes sticking out and a mouth.

The mysterious man's red eyes darted on us, displaying an ominous bloodlust around him. Adelle flinched and had begun walking back as the man got closer. Clara gripped the hilt of her short word, tightly. During that time, I'm clenching my teeth while observing every slight movement of the man while emitting a dismal killing intent around my surrounding. One thing emerged in my head. 'I need to eliminate it. Escaping will be hard.'

(It needs to be killed.) Diana coldly said.

"Hohohoho, you're finally here. I've been waiting."

From my side, I saw Samuel holding his sword over his shoulder leisurely, sitting above Alvin who was trembling miserably in the ground alongside Aria and Elaine on the side, unconscious. Then he looks at me and said. "Shall we have some fun, sis?" He smiled.