Chapter 121:
Remembering
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*Boom!*
Skylar quickly casts a fire spell to create a similar corridor and kill thousands of ants in the process.
*Screach~*
"Quick, move through the corridor while the ants are restricted outside by the fire!" shouted Anna as she and Skylar created a 60-meter long and 4 meters wide corridor with firewalls on the sides.
"Leave now! I, Fiona, and Flora will stay behind to stall them here for a bit, then we will leave this fucking place," urged Skylar as she looked at Remi and others.
Aurora looked at her three elders with worry, "Please, be safe. We will be waiting for the three of you," said Aurora, and ran through the corridor to join the rest of the group of girls that had already begun to leave the place.
…
A bit earlier.
Vincent was calmly sitting in between Annie and Selena. He opened his bloody eyes and exhaled. He took his slightly trembling hands back from their chests and looked at his palms.
'F-Finally over…' thought weakly, Vincent to himself and began to use the Water element to clean himself from blood.
"Husband, how are you, please tell me," Annie sat up and quickly said while looking at her husband with teary eyes as her vision was fully restored after all toxins left her body.
She cast a healing spell on her and Selena's chest where Vincent cut it.
Vincent's state looked… bad.
His body was covered with thin black lines all over his skin like a weird, scary tattoo. But it was not a tattoo, it was his actual blood veins that were filled with corrosive toxin mixed with his blood.
Not a single bit of toxin was left behind since Vincent found each bit of it and absorbed everything from them.
'My unnatural regeneration really lowered the toxin potency. I would be dead from such a tremendous toxin dose if not for it,' thought Vincent and stood up.
The moment he stood up, Vincent turned to the side and covered his mouth with his hand as he felt that he was about to…
*Sound of vomiting*
Vincent suddenly threw up a large amount of dark red blood on his hand and onto the ground.
*Tphew*
He spewed some blood from his mouth and cleaned himself.
He began to feel quite furious at himself for being in such a pathetic state in front of his women.
This scene scared the hell out of his wives who saw it.
"Don't. I-I'm fine…" hastily exclaimed Vincent and waved back his untouched left hand to reassure them.
He was about to clean himself when he heard an angered voice behind him.
"What do you mean "Don't worry"?! You just threw up blood!! If not even your wives will worry about you, then who will? Vincent, it doesn't matter what you would say, we will always care about you. Even if I can't heal you right now, it's only temporary. When I reach 5th rank in Water and Darkness element, this toxin will not be something that I can't cure. I just never felt so useless being a healer mage… I can't even heal my husband…" said Annie as she bites her lip while looking at Vincent.
Vincent looked at her and smiled, 'I'm really lucky to have all of you, girls, with me…' thought in his mind, Vincent, and then said after he cleaned himself properly, "Annie, you, and others might not be able to help me in healing my body at the moment, but just your presence alone is enough for me to not become a fiend. This is already the biggest help…" Vincent gently touched Annie's wet from tears cheek.
He was about to kiss her forehead, but instead, he blinked as he felt a big softness on his back and somewhat trembling arms hugging him from behind.
'Selena… Sigh. Should I have just used the illusion magic to hide my poor state to fool them to make them less worried about me…? No, this will be wrong. They might lose their trust in me for doing it. No, I will never fool them,' thought Vincent as Selena placed her face on his back and pressed her 5th-sized chest on him.
Just this feeling alone of her large, juicy soft chest was enough to almost make his lower "weapon" rise.
"M-Master, please, don't think that I'm weak and useless… I will do everything to advance in power to stay by your side till the end, regardless of what will happen in the future. I will never leave you… never, so please, talk to me when you are in pain. Will it be physical pain or pain from the soul, don't hide it from me, I beg you. I can't look at how you try to hide your state to not worry people around you. Please…" sobbed Selena as she tightened her hug with her trembling hands.
Vincent just saved her life, and still tried to protect her, them, from worry about him. This made her heart clench in pain, but also in immense happiness.
He… he was the first man who showed such care about her, who had only become his unofficial concubine not long ago.
She knew what some men in power could do to their women for no big reason.
Selena began to remember her past.
She had once had the experience of visiting the Rising Tiger Sect with Skylar for some business matters that the Untouched Flower Sect had with them, and it was enough to make her get disappointed in men entirely.
She could clearly remember the gazes of sect guardians that patrolled the gates. How they shamelessly stared at her and Skylar's chests and butt, and even be bold enough to discuss it with each other without care if they would hear them or not.
She thought that this was only a single case of disrespect, a little mistake that she should just ignore.
She believed that the sect elders somehow forgot to educate those sect guardians since they were basically the sect's face since they are the first to receive guests and the first impression is crucial. But…
As they walked through the giant gates and began to walk through the main road, she was shocked by what she had seen.
There were hundreds of guys from 10 years old to 30, and there were also some… girls with them.
There was nothing weird for a man to be with a girl, but… all the girls there looked as if they had lost something within them. Selena even saw something like collars on their necks…
It was as if men there didn't treat women as equal humans at all, but only as some tool for sex, or if the girl is talented in magic, as the elemental cauldron for alchemy.
She immediately remembered one scene from there that made her become enraged.
It was because when she, Skylar, and a few other women were walking through the road under those men's gazes, one of them… asked how much for Selena as he didn't even move his gaze away from her chest.
This all made Selena think that there is no man that will ever manage to conquer her heart, but after meeting Vincent, especially after she gave her innocent body to him, her heart was finally taken.
And now, this man is saving her life by endangering himself.
Selena now truly could feel and understand what the word "love" means.