Our last obstacle to reaching the Gold region was the Great Forest of Noah. The Gold Region's official border was just outside the forest. I wasn't complaining. Anything was better than a desert. Forests were shady, cool, and comfortable for the most part. I'd been walking a forest similar to this for the last two years nearly every day back in Ilias Village. The species of the trees may have been different, but the general atmosphere was the same. It felt good. Given that the Gold region was mountainous and Hellgondo was a hellscape, I was going to enjoy the natural beauty while I could.
"Hey Alice," I said at one point during our forest trek. "How do they decide who the Monster Lord is? Wasn't your mother also the Monster Lord? Is it a hereditary position?"
"When the Monster Lord dies, the selection for the next begins," she replied. "The first choice is indeed the Monster Lord's daughter. But the Monster Lord's strength is the most important thing. It isn't simply a hereditary system because that can result in a weak leader."
"Oh, so a modified hereditary system," I observed.
"We don't call it that, but that's not too far off the mark. So anyway, all the monsters wishing to become Monster Lord start to gather. And of course since they want to be Monster Lord, they're all very strong. They then battle against the previous Monster Lord's daughter in combat. The one who comes out on top is the new Monster Lord."
"Interesting," I said. "I can see the advantages of such a system, although the drawbacks seem obvious as well. A Monster Lord could be strong but not too bright."
"Intelligence is a big factor in combat," she argued. "At the level the top monsters compete in, no monster is dominant enough to win through brute force alone. I'm powerful, but I won using my head against a one dimensional opponent. If I'd fought her on her own terms, she'd be the Monster Lord right now."
"I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're talking about Granberia," I said.
"You are correct," she said with a smile. "She actually brought me to my knees, so to speak, she was so strong. But once I'd seen everything she had her defeat was certain. My family has won every single Monster Lord succession battle. No other family has sat on the throne other than mine. Do you know why?"
"Brains?" I guessed.
"That," she replied. "But also getting back to strength, all of my ancestors descend directly from the original Monster Lord. We devote ourselves to training. It's a matter of pride. No descendant of hers would want to be the first to lose the throne for the family. It's a powerful motivator."
"So you beat Granberia," I said, impressed. "How did you do it?"
"Well, it wasn't just her," Alice answered. "Something happened that had never happened before. There were five of us competing. So many powerful monsters at that level…. Some say we live in a golden age of monsters. Can you guess who my four opponents were?"
"The Four Heavenly Knights?"
"Very good," she said. "It was quite a battle. Alma Elma was eliminated first. After only a little while, she withdrew. Who knows what she was thinking? She wasn't even close to being beaten. Erubetie and Tamamo knocked each other out. I still believe to this day that Tamamo might be the most powerful of all of us. I treated her entrance into the competition as a lack of confidence in my own abilities. Another reason I hold a lot of resentment towards her."
"She never entered any of the previous contests?" I asked.
"No," she confirmed. "That was the first. I didn't take it well. But it was fortunate that she did, because slimes are very troublesome opponents. Once it was down to me and Granberia I was confident I would win."
"It's interesting to me how they are so different yet supposedly equal."
"They have different skills and affinities," Alice said. "So it comes down to the particular opponent's strengths and weaknesses. Alma Elma is the toughest opponent for you because you are so vulnerable to pleasure attacks and she is unparalleled in that regard. For me she would have been the easiest. Her speed is not a problem for me and pleasure attacks don't work as well against monsters as they do against humans. Especially weak ones like you."
"Do you really think I'm still weak?" I asked.
"In that respect, you seem to be weaker than a lot of humans," she read the glum expression on my face. "Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of humans who couldn't stand up to a succubus so much as touching their elbow without surrendering to her. Your willpower is stronger now than anyone I've ever seen. But your ability to avoid critical ecstasy…..Your endurance… It doesn't seem to be getting better at the same pace as your other attributes."
"Your, ummm, training has helped," I said.
"It has," she said with one of her dazzling smirks. "Alma Elma also gave you quite the training session. I should really learn that spell. It never occurred to me to branch out into sexual magic. It's not something most lamias have an affinity for. That's mainly a succubus thing. As if they need the help. But back to what I was talking about before, Granberia's strengths are precisely where your strengths are. It's one reason you seem to actually enjoy fighting with her almost as much as she enjoys fighting with you. Everyone likes to fight a battle on their own terms, utilizing their best skills. Having to fight a battle where your skills are useless and you're facing an opponent with attacks that you can't protect yourself from is annoying. That's one reason my family always wins. We don't specialize as much. We are proficient in weapons and magic and pleasure attacks. We don't exceed the best in those categories, but we are well rounded in all three, meaning we can cope with just about anything an opponent throws at us."
"So how did you beat Granberia? Magic?"
"A combination of things," she said vaguely. "Plus she ran out of techniques. I engaged her on her own ground at first, with that very sword you carry around. She was superior to me in swordsmanship, but couldn't finish me, and once I'd seen everything, repeating the techniques proved less than effective. A combination of magic, pleasure attacks, and my ability to restrain my opponent with my tail forced her to surrender. At the time she couldn't handle any of that. Faced with all three tactics, she had no chance. Today, of course it would be different. She learns from her mistakes. She beat you in your last sword battle but I just know the fact you own a victory over her in unarmed combat eats at her every day. She's practicing hard for next time."
"So the Four Heavenly Knights, that's a new thing?"
"Yes, after I won, they acknowledged me as the Monster Lord and pledged allegiance as the Four Heavenly Knights. That's another purpose of the throne selection battles. Beating other powerful monsters fairly in combat ensures no grudges or later power struggles, granting a peaceful reign with low chances of rebellion. Most of the time. That drawback you mentioned… Sometimes a Monster Lord is strong but not really…. Ready for the responsibilities, or thinks they are because they aren't wise or self aware enough to realize they aren't."
"Black Alice," I said.
"You have been listening," she said.
"So, Plansect Forest," I said hesitantly. "Are you ready to talk about what happened there?"
"Not really," she said. "I'm still trying to pull together my thoughts on that debacle. I'm not going to get into it with you, though. I don't have to explain my actions as Monster Lord to you. Let's just say I should have acted more decisively and leave it at that. My first instinct is usually noninterference, but you were a wild card. Once you stuck your nose in, my default of letting them decide things for themselves was no longer tenable. I'll have to learn from that."
"I'm sorry, Alice," I said. "I did what I thought was right. I was hoping for your guidance."
"You can't use me as a crutch, Luka," she admonished. "You fight your own physical battles, because I force you to. You need to fight your own battles with your judgment as well. Maybe that's my fault. I've been waffling between ordering you around and telling you you're on your own, and it's confusing you. I have my own reasons every time I choose to help or not help. I have my own reasons every time I choose to accompany you or not accompany you. But you're so damn difficult! You're smart…. Yes I said smart! But also impulsive. You fail to see the big picture, you only ever seem to see what's right in front of you. Someone's in trouble, gotta do something!"
Since I didn't know how to fix that, I told Alice I'd do some thinking and we continued our walk in silence.
No monster attacks and a smooth walk with nice weather got us out of the Grand Noah Forest ahead of schedule. We decided to camp right on the border between the forest and the more mountainous Gold region. After a long day's hike, I had no interest in tackling mountains. Alice was on the same page, more out of hunger than fatigue.
Camp meant training. Training, in this case meant trying to get me to use Undine's power better. Alice said that it was supposed to work in conjunction with a serene mind. Since my thoughts were usually pretty disordered, that seemed difficult. I had briefly seen the possibilities with Undine's help in her cave when she had induced a state of deep relaxation in me. But having her hold me like that wasn't very practical in a combat situation. I would have to learn how to make my mind serene during combat. It occurred to me that there were probably people back in Yamatai Village who could have taught me how to do that given time, but Alice seemed to be sure she could teach me herself.
"Entrust yourself to the flow," she said. "Close your eyes. Empty your mind. Just listen to the flow."
SMACK!
"Ow! You hit me!" I said.
"Why did you let me?" Alice responded.
"My eyes were closed, how would I know you were going to hit me?!"
"Quit sulking, you idiot," she admonished. "You would have dodged it easily if you'd given yourself to the flow."
"I don't even know what that means."
"Let's just keep practicing," she said. "You'll get it eventually."
Skeptical, I tried again. SMACK! Nope, still not getting it. SMACK! Definitely not helping. SMACK! Okay, now I was getting suspicious that she was enjoying this. Eventually the fun had to stop because she couldn't very well injure me, thus forcing me to rest. The session wasn't completely unproductive. She taught me a way to use Sylph's power to enhance Thunder Thrust. That turned out to be easy to pull off since I already had the movements down, plus I knew how to use Sylph pretty well at that point. The spirits were definitely a force multiplier. Although Alice's training had helped me improve as a sword fighter, with my human limitations that could only get me so far. I wondered just how powerful I could get with all four spirits and the ability to utilize them to their fullest potential.
I had one more question before I went to sleep that night.
"Alice, aren't the Heavenly Knights each masters of an element?"
"Mmmm hmmmmm," she said drowsily.
"Without the spirits, how do they do that?"
"One can master the elements without the help of the spirits," she replied. "Having them with you just makes it a lot easier since you're such an idiot. But also because you don't have time to train for years and years. Having the spirits enables you to get to their level quickly. But someday, if you practice hard enough, you could use those abilities even without them in your head."
That was an interesting thought. Assuming I survived, I'd have to pursue that.
We reached Grangold Castle a few hours after waking and breaking camp. I was very interested in seeing how things were over there, since there were rumors that monsters and humans also got along there as well as they did at Grand Noah. Alice was more interested in the food, even though it was unlikely that there would be anything new to eat. She wasn't all that picky so I guess it was understandable. As well as I cook, it can't beat fresh food found in city shops and stands.
As we approached the city, our path was blocked by a giant golem. I'd never seen the like before. Was it a robot? Magical or technological? I had so many questions, but the thing wasn't very talkative. It simply ordered me to turn around and leave. That didn't sound very promising. I thought this was supposed to be a peaceful city?
Alice answered at least one of my questions, noting that the thing was powered by magic. Was it guarding the castle? That seemed like a reasonable assumption. But maybe it wasn't? In any case, I wasn't going to just let it keep me out. I had to know what was going on. It was huge, but slow. I guessed that with Sylph's help, it couldn't touch me. Since it was magical and not technological, I could also assume that Angel Halo would be effective against it, since Angel Halo's enchantment was made to leech out magical energy.
My assessment proved correct. The golem would have been too slow to handle me even without Sylph. With Sylph, it couldn't even touch me. It still took quite a bit of time to stop it. I ended up using all the attacks I knew in the process, which was actually pretty good practice. By the time I was done, the golem fell to the ground, no longer moving.
Guards rushed out from the gates. While I knew that the golem had probably been a guard itself, I decided to pretend that I had thought it was a threat to Grangold Castle. Better to have them think me an idiot than malicious. It didn't work. I was arrested and imprisoned for three days. On the bright side, I needed the rest. I'd been working through some stiffness at the time from my efforts in Plansect Forest. Alice had taken my money bag off my hands so that she could get an inn and food. I was convinced that when she handed it back to me it would be empty. Oh well, it's the last major town we're going to be in, I thought. Where we're going after this, money doesn't matter.
The misunderstanding had centered around my species if you can believe it. They weren't angry that I'd severely damaged their golem so much as fearful that I must be some marauding monster. It turned out the golem was there to protect against such monsters. Given how slow it was, I wasn't sure it was all that effective but I kept my mouth shut on that point. A carrier pigeon had arrived from Ilias Village confirming my humanity and good character. The golem had been created as a gatekeeper. It allowed in anyone registered beforehand. Most people, and monsters, ran away from it, humans because it was quite huge and scary, monsters because it wasn't usually worth the trouble. I had been the first to respond to its refusal to allow me to enter the city by attacking it. I apologized for my impetuousness, of course. What happened next was either amazing or entirely predictable given how things had gone up to this point, depending on your perspective. I was given an audience with the king. I guess beating up on a giant golem using abilities no one has ever seen before would interest a monarch. I presumed I'd be given a quest as well. Unless it was insane, I felt obligated to take it for all the trouble I'd caused.
Turns out that wasn't it at all. "A quest?" the soldier taking me to the king said. "Hahahahaha! That's a good one! The king doesn't really do anything these days. He just wants to hear your stories."
As I was being escorted to the castle to see the king, I noticed that contrary to what I'd heard, there weren't a large number of monsters here. Or at least not a wide variety. Just ants. Lots and lots of ants. There were also more constructs, some made of earth, some made of wood or metal or a combination of the two. The magicians or scientists or whatever were very good here. This was interesting.
I asked the soldier escorting me about the ants. "They're controlled by magic," he said. "to make them useful to humans."
All over the city, ants were doing things like construction, carrying things from place to place, even operating food stands. It appeared they were doing almost all the work in the city! That didn't sit right with me. It seemed a lot like slavery. I decided not to judge too harshly just yet, however. After all, monsters regularly enslaved humans. Even Alice had talked about slavery as if it was a good thing! Although I suspected she must be feeling differently when it was monsters who were enslaved.
The king was quite friendly. "So you are the traveler who defeated the golem! You're amazing! I want to hear stories of your adventures! Heart pounding, blood pumping stories of adventures and heroics!"
The vibe I was getting from this king was different from the previous ones. The three other human monarchs I had met all seemed well suited to their jobs in different ways: the scholarly, kindly religious leader/ monarch of San Ilia. The quiet dignity of the Queen of Noah. The massive warrior king of Sabasa. This person didn't seem like a king at all. Just… some guy. Still, I felt I needed to be on my best behavior since I had broken their golem and all. So I regaled him as best I could with tales of adventure and heroism, feeling free to leave out the uncomfortable parts like losing, getting humiliated, getting violated, crying, and doubting myself. That made the story a lot shorter than I had anticipated, but he seemed pretty impressed. I guess retelling the good parts did remind me of how much good I'd done. It raised my spirits a little.
We were interrupted by an ant girl. "Excuse me, king," she said.
"Do you need something?" the kind replied. "I'm with a guest at the moment, so I'd prefer it if you left."
"It is about this year's flood control report," she said.
"Ah, yes," the king said. "I'll leave that up to you."
"Also the problem about the delay in goods in the business district."
"Ah, yes," he said again, clearly blowing it off. "I leave that up to you, too. Please do whatever you think is best."
"Confirmed," the ant girl replied. "Excuse me."
She left the throne room. "Ah, that was embarrassing," the king said apologetically. "In truth, I leave all government affairs to the ant girls. Thanks to them, I have all the free time I want."
"Do the ants do everything here?" I asked.
"Yes," he replied. "Thanks to the monsters, no humans have to do any manual labor anymore. That's why we're known all over as the place where humans and monsters live together in peace."
That sounded to me like something I'd heard before, something about certain people knowing their place and thus everyone getting along. It didn't sit well with me, but I decided to hold my tongue until I'd discussed this with Alice. As much as I disapproved of the situation here, I decided not to do or say anything unless Alice told me to. Yes, she had told me not to use her as a crutch, but the closer I was getting to my confrontation with the Heavenly Knights, the less interested I was becoming in concerning myself with other things. This continent was right across the sea from Hellgondo. If the Heavenly Knights wanted to do something about this, let them. If Alice wanted to do something about this, I would help. Otherwise, best to just enjoy the hospitality here and deal with it another time. Assuming there was going to be another time for me. Death or getting enslaved myself were very likely possibilities.
It occurred to me that I had no idea where Alice was staying. It didn't matter. She simply materialized in front of me shortly after I left the castle. How did she know? Oh well, a question for later. She was back in her human form, or disguise, I still wasn't sure which it was. Perhaps both, since it was no illusion. Of more immediate concern to me was the situation here. Alice didn't look pleased with it.
"I'm guessing you've seen what goes on here," I said.
"Hmph…" was her only response.
"This isn't coexistence," I continued. "The humans are just forcing all the work they don't want to do on the monsters."
"Ant girls generally follow a leader and act as a group," Alice said. "But using them like this is abuse. In addition, these man made… things. The magic science used here is quite advanced. But I can't admire it."
"They leave everything to the monsters while they live a life of comfort," I agreed.
I wasn't eager to go to the inn just yet, since I'd already been cooped up for three days in a jail cell. So we toured the city. Alice had already been around quite a bit, so she took me to places of interest. This wasn't really a tourist town, nor were we in the mood to take in the fun stuff even had it been abundant. Mainly, we just observed and talked to people. Information flowed freely here. I guess when people are lazy and bored, they talk more. We got a great lead on Salamander. There was a volcano in the region known as Fire Spirit Volcano. That sounded pretty obvious. There was also talk of Succubus Village, a village that was all human, but was attacked by succubi every 100 years on a day Alice informed me was called the Purple Sabbath. Of course, the Purple Sabbath was going to be in just a few days. I was starting to get really suspicious. I arrive in Grand Noah just before a big annual tournament, and in the Gold Region just before one of its villages is scheduled to be attacked by succubi? Was I destined to be here?
Ants not only operated most of the stands and did pretty much all the manual labor, they ran the shops. An ant was even the acting priest at the local Ilias church! I was pretty sure Ilias forbade that kind of thing, but I was by now used to the fact most people were hypocritical when it came to religion. But most interesting of all, and one of the few places ant girls didn't do everything, was the city's magic laboratory. Since I hadn't done any heroic acts for this place, I wasn't able to just go where I pleased, so access was limited. But one of the scientists there was willing to show us around the non-classified areas and answer some questions.
Alice had one question in particular. "How do you issue orders to the ant girls?"
"That's classified," replied the scientist. "so I can't say too much. But basically they recognize human orders as coming from the queen ant."
"You can do that?" Alice asked, incredulously. "Where is their true leader, the Queen Ant?"
"You really want to know?" the scientist asked. "The Queen Ant is in the basement of the castle."
"Is she sealed?" Alice asked. "Can humans do such a thing?"
"How it was done is classified," he responded. "But since it was done, the ant girls have become quite useful."
"Such absurdity," Alice huffed. "A queen class monster was sealed by a normal human's power."
"Are you a spy?" the scientist asked suspiciously. "It doesn't really matter. You can't duplicate our technology. It's so cutting edge no other country could even reverse engineer it."
That wasn't the only interesting thing. What this place lacked in entertainment value it more than made up for as a source of useful information. A diplomat, one of the few people who actually still had to do work in the city, was chatting with us and brought up a place called Lady's Village. He told us it was a village full of beautiful ladies, and only ladies. As a matter of fact, men who went there never returned! But women could visit and return just fine. Then he mentioned who was governing the place. Someone named Cassandra. That got a reaction from Alice. The diplomat seemed curious about her reaction, but Alice decided to clam up. However, when we walked away from him, she was adamant.
"I know what you're thinking," she said. "Don't even go close to that village."
"That sounds like an order," I teased.
"It's not," she said, changing tack. "It's advice. Advice I know you won't take."
"Actually," I said. "I'm not very interested in it. But I am going to check out succubus village. I can't imagine that my being here just when it's about to be attacked is an accident."
"Sigh… fine," she said. "I'm quite certain it's not a coincidence. All the more reason to stop letting yourself get led around by the nose and start doing what you want."
"So I should go to Lady's Village instead?"
"What? No! What kind of an idiot are you? There's a perfectly good volcano for you to go looking for trouble in! Believe me, you'll find all you can handle in there. At least it'll be for a real purpose."
I felt like I was being pulled in different directions by my own hopes and fears. On one hand, as I got closer to my goal of the Monster Lord's castle for my showdown with the Heavenly Knights, I was eager to get on with it. But on the other hand, I knew that was the likely end of my journey, and that going there without having mastered the use of all four spirits was probably suicidal. That would leave me needing something to do, and waiting around in a hotel didn't sound like a useful way to improve my use of the spirits. I decided to not decide anything more that day. I already had two firm goals and one nebulous one: get to Salamander, investigate Succubus village, and perhaps, if Alice desired it, do something about what was going on in Grangold. I imagined that would be discussed at the inn.
Speaking of the inn, I was mildly impressed. Alice had chosen a good value. When I complimented her on it, she noted that my money bag had grown pretty light, and besides, food was more important than a posh room. I had to agree. When you spend most of your days camping, any bed is nice. When your eyes are closed, the expensive places look just like the cheap places. But food, you definitely notice the difference in quality between cheap and expensive. When she handed me back my money purse it was depressingly light, with a just a few coins remaining, clinking around. Worse, there was no prospect of work in Grangold due to all the jobs already being filled by ant girls. We would have to really skimp the rest of the way.
"I don't like what I'm seeing here, Alice," I said.
"It bugs me too," she agreed. "But more importantly, how did they seal her? Even if every human soldier here attacked her at once, I doubt they could have sealed her."
There was a knock at the door. It was a humanoid looking machine of some sort. Judging by its shape, which was an exaggerated female form, I wondered if this was a sexbot or something. Turns out I hit the nail on the head. It was most definitely a sexbot, sent to the room to provide me with, er… service. I refused it of course. My promise to Alice was still in force, and…. Ewwww. I would have had to be really horny with no prospect of human companionship to want that.
"Those damn humans made something like that," Alice shook her head in wonder. "Thank you for refusing that doll's service. You know you could have said yes if you wanted to."
"I know," I said. "But I'm still holding to that promise and besides, how disrespectful would it have been with you in the room?"
"I've been meaning to talk to you about that," Alice said, looking pensive. "I appreciate you continuing to keep your promise. Even though it's unfair to you and I had no right to expect it of you, I can't control how I feel. I get jealous very easily. Someday if I get the chance I really need to make it up to you. You've had all kinds of opportunities to enjoy other experiences that I've denied you."
I don't know what impression she was getting about me, but women weren't exactly throwing themselves at me offering a nice roll in the hay. My options so far had mainly consisted of getting raped, the "privilege" of copious copulation with an insatiable centaur that probably would have turned into rape as soon as I got tired, and a sex doll more advanced somehow than anything that I thought existed even in my world. As far as nice experiences went, there was Maia, Sara, and maybe Undine, who I believe wanted to give me some enjoyment after passing her test, but who was kind enough to let me go with just a little slimy fondling when I protested. Oh wait, there had been Tamamo's offer. I regretted missing out on that one. But if it wasn't tough to keep, would it be a real promise?
"You could be nicer much of the time," I said. "but you've saved my life and helped me out enough times. If me being exclusive to you as long as we're traveling together is what you want, it's the minimum that I can do for you. I'm pretty sure it's the only thing I can do for you. You haven't exactly needed me to save you."
"You keep me fed," she pointed out.
" I guess there's that too," I said with a smile. My very empty money bag attested to that.
"Speaking of which…." Alice said. "I think it's time."
"Time for what?" I asked.
"Time for that thing you wanted," she said. "You have no stupid, dangerous quests tomorrow. We don't have to travel just yet. I can do things to you that will make you need to sleep in all morning."
"Really?" I said, feeling my erection rise in my pants. I had been anticipating this moment ever since Harpy Village.
"You might not even be able to leave your bed for a full day," she said, coming closer.
"I think it's very worth it," I replied, now extremely excited.
With her usual lightning speed she wrapped me in her tail again, stripping off my pants in one fluid motion. For some reason that took me out of the mood a little. Only a little though.
"Ayy, is that really necessary?" I said.
Her tail reluctantly released me. "Sorry about that," she said sheepishly. "I'm a predator, it's instinct. I like to wrap my prey up before feeding on it. But you deserve better by now. I'm getting fed here, but this is also about me serving you. Giving you something you've richly earned by being such a great guy to me."
She gently pushed me onto the bed and lowered her upper body over my legs, with her head poised above my erect cock. "I know you've been imagining me doing this for a long time now," she said. "But no matter what you've imagined, this is going to be many times better."
She extended her long tongue and licked it from the base to the tip. I was already in heaven. "Your penis is really delicious," she said. "I've been wanting to do this for as long as you've wanted it. Maybe longer. There's no better way to get semen than this. It's never more delicious than when it's shot directly into my mouth."
She then wrapped her tongue around my dick with her lips on the tip. I had not expected that. I cried out in surprise and delight. She had been right again. The things I'd been imagining did not involve this. She began to squeeze it with her tongue, another unique sensation to add to all the others I'd experienced from her thus far. Just a few seconds of that squeezing caused me to erupt in her mouth, surprising both of us.
"Mmph… So soon?" she said. "I haven't even showed you my tongue skills yet."
She swallowed the first load without even unwrapping her tongue. When she was done, she started to partially coil and uncoil it, creating a rotation movement all around my penis. It was the greatest thing I had ever felt. I was also noticing that she had some roughness to her tongue. Not quite as much as a fox girl, but more than an average human woman. The way it was moving really accentuated that roughness, providing an incredible stimulation. It had been less than a minute since she started, yet I came again. The swallowing motion almost made me spurt yet again.
"So good," she said. "You taste better every time I feed on you."
I wasn't sure how she could speak so clearly while doing this, but it was causing her tongue to vibrate a little, causing me to moan even more. I was also getting weaker. I remembered her alluding to the fact that the more intense the pleasure, the more it took out of a man being pleasured by a monster.
"I'm going to have to jump into the really good stuff now," she said. "It doesn't look like you can handle my full repertoire tonight. I'm willing to put you down for a day, but at this rate you might not survive the experience."
She sucked more of me into her mouth, so that half of my penis was in her mouth and the other half still wrapped completely in her tongue. Her movements varied from up and down, to twisting, to squeezing, her mouth at times gentle and at times sucking hard. I made it another two minutes before exploding again.
She uncoiled her tongue from me. "Those were the tongue skills, some of them at least. Now for my mouth techniques."
She took me back into her mouth. She may have called them mouth skills, but her tongue was still doing amazing things. Long licks while inside her mouth, fast flicking and coiling movements. This time I was hanging on for about five minutes, so after that point, as if impatient to get more of the delicious stuff, she began pumping my dick faster and sucking harder. Another orgasm followed quickly. I could definitely get used to this no refractory period thing.
"I'm afraid I have to stop now," she said. "When I use my mouth, you come a lot, and quickly. To the point where it's dangerous to you. But it was really intense pleasure while it lasted, wasn't it?"
My response was to drool and pass out.