Granberia gently set the Monster Lord down in the foyer. It was her last feat of strength. Other monsters caught her before she fell. She had obviously been in a tough fight. She was battered but good, with cuts all over her body. Her armor was broken and dented.
"Granberia!" I exclaimed, rushing to her. "What happened?"
"The castle…." She panted. "It's been taken! The Dark God. The Lilith Sisters. Saja…."
"Saja did this?! Someone get Ilias! These cuts aren't going to close by themselves!"
I quickly put my own hands on Granberia's wounds, closing them up as best I could with my own magic. Granberia passed out as I worked. I may have had more power, but Ilias was just better at this.
Alice knelt by her mother, clearly distraught but very clinical, as was usual for her in a crisis.
"How is she?" I asked.
"Near death," Alice said, shaking her head. "the only reason she's still alive is because Granberia had the good sense to flee with her rather than stand over her and fight. I'll have to compliment her on not being so bullheaded like she usually is."
"What can I do?" I asked. "I don't see many wounds on her. These can't be fatal, can they?"
"The wounds, no. She didn't succumb to those superficial wounds. She's in deep critical ecstasy. Hmmm, no signs of violation. Morrigan did this."
"Morrigan?! I thought we took her on as an ally! Hasn't she always been an ally of your mother's anyway?"
"I'm guessing that changed as soon as the Dark God wanted to claim the castle," Alice said with a grimace. "Morrigan must have hit her with that crazy attack where the victim feels a lifetime of pleasure in an instant without even being touched. Any human, even most weaker monsters, would be reduced to dried fish by that spell. Mother's built of sterner stuff, but still…"
"You're at full power now! You can save her, right?"
"Not from this, Luka," Alice said. To my surprise, there were no tears. Had she been expecting her mother to die? Because she always did?
"I can't accept that she's just going to die and there's nothing we can do. Alice, you're awfully clinical for someone about to lose their mother yet again! Don't tell me you're used to this!?"
"Luka, it's not that….We're not going to lose her. You're going to save her. I'm just not going to enjoy watching you do it."
"What do I have to do?" I asked.
"She needs energy, Luka. Lots and lots of energy."
Oh. That made it clear why Alice might not enjoy watching. Well, I thought. This is awkward.
"Um… okay. If it helps, I'm not comfortable with this either. It's not even that she's your mom, although that's a factor. It's that she's unconscious. It just seems…. Wrong."
"Trust me, she won't mind at all. Now stop wasting time and get out of those pants! She won't last much longer!"
I quickly got out of my pants. I was very self conscious about it, because everyone was watching, as if seeing the world's most spectacular train wreck. They just couldn't look away. I was about to have sex with Alice's unconscious mother in front of an audience. I thought Alice might shoo everyone away, but she was too focused on her mother's well being to care about such trivialities.
"What are you waiting for! Do it!" Alice ordered.
I awkwardly laid on top of Alice's mother. She was huge. Her breasts were bigger than my head, and her torso was bigger than my whole body. If I had intercourse with her, my head wouldn't even reach her chest. Well, that didn't matter. I positioned myself to enter my own mother in law.
"What are you doing?!" Alice cried. "Are you crazy?! That's your mother in law!"
"What?! Didn't you just tell me to do this?!" I asked, now very confused.
"Don't have sex with my mom! You are so perverted!"
"Wh-What do you want me to do then?!"
"Um… she has a mouth, you know! The idea is to feed her, not fuck her!"
Grumbling, I crawled up to her head. Monsters were so weird. Don't have sex with my mom, just put your penis in her mouth! Vaginal sex was just as good an injection for a monster as oral where energy was concerned. What difference did it make? Besides, her mother's vagina had been super lubricated already due to her being subject to a vicious pleasure attack. I could have finished inside her in seconds. I looked at the Monster Lord's mouth. Her jaw was hanging open, her long tongue lolling out the side of her mouth. This was going to be much less convenient.
Tentatively I placed my penis inside the Monster Lord's huge mouth. At least I didn't have to worry about choking her. Lamias had no gag reflex, and in any case, her mouth was so big due to her overall size that I probably wouldn't reach her throat anyway. Furthermore, the lack of gag reflex would mean that my semen would just slide down her throat without having to induce her to swallow.
Feeling very self conscious, I began slowly thrusting into Alipheese XV's open mouth. Alice helped out by holding it closed for me so there would be at least some grip on my penis. It actually felt pretty good, although nothing compared to a more active blowjob. I began thrusting deeper, my penis moving against her amazing tongue. It took longer than it should have. Alice even started helping out more by moving her mother's head up and down, which made it super weird. Well, that's life with monsters. Just when you think it can't get any more strange, it gets stranger.
As I started to move faster, getting closer, Alice gently set her mother's head back down and held her jaw as tightly as she could without risking me getting hurt by teeth. With a last moan and a final deep thrust, I emptied my semen into her mother's mouth. Most of it went down her gullet quickly.
Ilias arrived and began treating Granberia, although her look of surprise and disgust at seeing my dick in an unconscious monster's mouth did not go unnoticed by me.
"Is that enough?" I asked Alice, just wanting this to end.
Alice checked her mother's pulse. "It just might be! I won't be mad if you give her a little more just to be sure, but if this is making you uncomfortable, you can stop."
"Yeah, I think I'd like to if you're sure she's all r- Wha!"
Her mother's tongue began coiling around my penis, pulling at it, trying to take it ever deeper. I tried pulling out but her tongue's grip was too firm, as inescapable as a succubus' vagina.
"It's okay, Luka, she's waking up! She won't hurt you! Just let her have more!" Alice yelled.
I guess I could do that, not that I had any choice. My waist was mashed against her mother's face as her greedy tongue pulled and stroked harder and harder, as if she wanted to swallow me whole, which she could certainly do very easily. But she was not disengaging her jaw, just closing her lips around me tightly and sucking with all the strength she had. The pressure from her mouth along with the stimulation from that incredible tongue were unbelievable, like I was being licked while at the same time being sucked by a vacuum cleaner.
The head of my penis actually entered her throat, so deep had she taken me. Her lips and nose were buried into my crotch, pressing almost painfully hard, yet still she wanted to suck me in even further. The fact that I could go no further without her opening her mouth wider did not deter her reflexive sucking. Her tongue simply gripped me tighter and pulled even harder. It was too much. All of my semen went straight down her throat.
Her mother's eyes snapped open. She spit out my dick. I feared that her look of surprise might turn into a look of anger. But slowly a wicked smile appeared on her face. She abruptly turned me over and wrapped me up.
"So, my daughter's favorite has a thing for mommy," she purred. "Well, a delicious boy should always get what he wants."
"Mother, I'm right here!"
Alice was standing over us with her arms folded, a frown on her face. What had started out uncomfortable only became moreso for all of us.
"I don't understand," the Monster Lord said in confusion. "Your husband wasn't just trying to steal some pleasure from a forbidden partner?"
"No, he was saving your life!" Alice retorted. "You don't remember what happened to you?!"
"Ah, yes, now I remember. We were attacked! Hmmm, so Luka saved me yet again? How disappointing."
"You're disappointed that he saved your life?!" Alice exclaimed.
"No, I am grateful beyond words! I am disappointed because your husband coming to me while I sleep for some forbidden pleasure would have been extremely erotic."
"Mother!"
"Since I still need more energy and I am VERY grateful, then it is imperative that I give our hero proper pleasuring, wouldn't you agree, daughter?"
"Since you need more energy, I'll allow it," Alice grumbled. "But I can reward him just fine for saving your life. Get what you need and let him go. And don't have sex with him! That would be disgusting!"
Alice's mother sighed in disappointment, giving me a sympathetic look."Forgive my daughter, she is such a prude, is she not?"
"Prude?!" Alice exclaimed.
"Since my daughter does not wish for you to experience the unparalleled pleasures of my vagina, let me give you more appropriate motherly love. I will let you come between my breasts."
Lowering her massive breasts onto me, she made my penis disappear.Her smile was anything but motherly. It was lewd. She was enjoying pleasuring her daughter's husband right in front of her. I understood now why some versions of Alice might be exhibitionists. It was in the genes.
Her mother was just as greedy as the daughter. She made me come four times between those breasts, her chest so massive that I never saw any come leak out. When she was finished, she used her tongue to collect all that I had spilled between her mammaries.
"Easily the most delicious I have ever tasted!" she said happily. "And very high in energy content. I feel better than I have in years! Alice, for medical reasons, you simply must let me use him more often!"
"You will never touch him again, unless you're on death's door!" Alice retorted.
I realized that given her mother's propensity to die at every opportunity, that could be a weekly occurrence.
"So here's the situation as far as we understand it," Tamamo began.
It felt nostalgic to be in a meeting with the full cast of characters. My first ever war council had been with Alice and the Heavenly Knights, and I was once again sitting in a room with them. Except instead of going to war against Ilias, the goddess was in the room with us, along with her Seraphs.
It had been two days since Granberia had brought the Monster Lord to the Pocket Castle. Since the real castle was now occupied by the Dark God, the Pocket Castle would be the temporary home of the Monster Lord.
"When Luka did whatever he did to merge the three worlds," Tamamo continued. "Every person was deposited fairly close to where they were on the old world. We didn't feel anything because the Pocket Castle is a subdimension. Similarly, I'd bet my fluffiest golden hairs on my special tail that Heaven and subspace were also brought over intact. But the surface…. That got radically changed."
"Like another Great Disaster?" Alma Elma asked.
"No, actually the reverse. The continents are back to the way they were before the Great Disaster for the most part. There are still five Tartarus rifts, but the one near Esta and the one on Hellgondo no longer exist."
"Because Luka basically ended those worlds," Sonya noted.
"Something along those lines," Tamamo confirmed. "I doubt anyone had the slightest inkling that it was about to happen, and after it happened I think there was mass confusion. We had scattered reports of fighting, probably angels and monsters just blundering into each other and attacking on sight. They probably assumed the world was still theirs and were just continuing their campaigns of extermination. But by now they know what's going on. The Dark God taking the castle was the first move."
"That was her first move when I last fought her," I noted.
"She does regard it as her sacred home, as sacred as the Ilias Temple or the San Ilia Cathedral."
"We were caught completely by surprise," Granberia reported. "Saja is a nearly unbeatable warrior. Nearly. Next time will be different."
"Any reports from Grangold?" I asked.
"I was there yesterday," Alma Elma reported. "Utter chaos. Apparently the angels had some kind of prison there. The prison didn't come over, but the prisoners did. With no walls to keep them in, they scattered. The Gold region is already under the control of Heaven. Kanon ruled Gold on Makai, but her forces were light and disorganized compared to the angels, who seemed to have most of their forces there already due to needing to run that prison. The human king has also retreated. He hasn't surrendered the region, but he's led his forces into the wilderness. Sariela's control is so firm that she's already rebuilding the prison and rounding up escapees."
"So score one for the angels," Alice grumbled.
"The angels also firmly control Ilias Continent," Tamamo reported. "Sabasa and Grand Noah are currently being contested. Grand Noah is mostly a two way battle, with the monsters, led by Kanade, locked in combat with a force of angels and human warriors led by Uriela. The Queen, not wanting to put her forces into that meat grinder, has also retreated out into the countryside. Sabasa is a different story. It's was the strongest human kingdom on our world. Over there, it's the angels who have retreated. Sabasa was the Angel World breadbasket but it reverted to desert due to the merger. Seeing no strategic value in it, Gabriela withdrew her forces and followers to the sacred province of San Ilia. The fighting in San Ilia was chaotic and a lot of semen was spilled. The faithful found themselves neck deep in succubi, but they prevailed."
"Humans beat succubi?" Alma Elma asked in disbelief.
"The succubi of San Ilia can't even be properly called a fighting force," I explained. "When the merge happened, most of them were probably so high they had no idea what was going on. They knew enough to attack, probably, but not much else."
"And if they were too out of it to understand that they were in a fight, they probably didn't move on after downing an opponent," Alma Elma finished. "They must have just kept draining the same man, more focused on eating than fighting. Seriously, I don't understand why any succubus would use drugs. The high from semen can't be topped."
"So that's two for the angels," I said.
"Three," Tamamo corrected. "Micaela is running Ilias Continent and the monsters didn't even have any real forces stationed there in the first place."
"Looks like the angels have a leg up in the war," Ilias said. "Full control of three regions, with two contested."
"They're better organized," Alice's mother said. "We monsters don't have many standing armies. The angels, all they are is a standing army. But once monsters do get organized, they should be stronger. And Hellgondo is a nearly unassailable base of operations, especially for whoever controls the castle. Whatever setbacks the Dark God's forces experience at the hands of the angels, the war will not end until an assault can be made on Hellgondo."
"So what should we be doing?" I asked.
"That's the thing," Tamamo sighed. "I really don't know. We've got some powerful people here, but we don't have numbers. At best we could swing the balance somewhere. With Noah and Sabasa still contested, if we picked a side, we could probably help them win. But I'm not sure what that accomplishes."
"Wait, didn't you say Sabasa was mostly a monster vs. human war? Sara must be in the field with her army. Maybe we should intervene there. Give the humans a win."
"Is that really what we want, though?" Alice asked. "Then it just becomes a three way brawl. The Great Monster Wars, only worse."
"At least we'd have a base," Granberia pointed out. "This Pocket Castle is now behind enemy lines. It's only a matter of time before we are assaulted as well."
"How do we END the war?" I wondered.
"The only way we end the war is by directly challenging and defeating the powers behind it," Alice's mother answered.
"Okay, so I defeat one, then the other," I said. "We know the Dark God is in the castle. If she loses, she'll do what I say, right?"
"Yes, Luka, but what happens then?" Alice asked. "The angels will just sweep aside all opposition. They'll impose what they had on Angel World. Even now they seem more focused on rebuilding that prison than finishing the job in the Gold Region."
"I'm afraid that if we do try to remove the heads of the snakes, no offense, Monster Lords," Tamamo said. "It has to be at roughly the same time. And we only have one person who can fight gods."
"May I say something?" Promestein asked, raising her hand.
"This is an open meeting, Promestein," Tamamo replied. "You can speak whenever you want."
"We need to hold that super weapon at all costs, starting like…. Now."
"And why is that?" Alice asked. "Did you do something?"
"It was Sonya's idea, actually," Promestein answered. "I won't get into the long, scientific explanation here, but that world destroyer was already calibrated to destroy everything."
"It destroys universes, that's not too hard to understand," Ilias pointed out.
"Yes, yes, of course, but when Luka's power is added to it, it even destroys chaos. They wanted to use Luka in combination with the weapon to destroy the Goddess of Chaos."
"We know that too," Tamamo said. "Get to the point."
"The point is, the weapon can be modified to ONLY destroy chaos magic."
"That IS important!" Alice exclaimed. "So we can somehow use it to beat Black Alice without also destroying our universe. But how does it stop the war? It won't do us any good to stop Black Alice if this world is ravaged by Great Monster War II."
"Oh, it doesn't, at least not yet," Promestein said. "We're only in the early stages of figuring out the possible applications of the Demiurge. But we know enough to understand now that we don't need to repair it, which would be a huge long term project. We only need minor repairs in areas that require power, and Luka can do the rest."
"Didn't you say that it tears apart his very soul?" Alice asked.
"I'm sure he would die to save everyone, if it came to that."
"We're going to see that it doesn't come to that," Sonya said, correcting her colleague. "The weapon was also designed for the Ancestors to add their power to certain functions. And the way it worked with their bodies, is it simply drained their magical potential temporarily. Destroying Angel World with just their own magic channeled through the Demiurge was their contingency plan if they couldn't get Luka. I think it could be modified so that your own more normal magics could be used through it."
"But not for the purposes of destroying chaos," Promestein put in. "that doesn't mean there aren't other purposes that we can find, purposes that can give us a force multiplier in this war."
"Well, our castle is already sitting right next to the Demiurge," Tamamo said. "I guess we stay here, then. But that means even if we do go out into the field to pick fights, we need to leave the bulk of our strength here. We'll need that to have any chance should either side want to take the Demiurge for themselves."
"The monsters won't move on it unless they think it still has a use," Promestein said. "They may not know my capabilities, since no Promestein has ever existed on their world and they've never met me. And they are very occupied right now."
"What about the angels?" I asked.
"The Demiurge is in the middle of Hellgondo continent," Tamamo replied. "They'd have to extend their forces unwisely to take it."
"Also, they have their own Demiurge," Promestein said blandly. "It's not exactly the same, but the end result is."
"WHAT!!???" Alice exclaimed.
"I was helping build it before I was whisked away to a space between worlds. I can't be certain they finished it. Losing me would have been disastrous for their efforts. I doubt they could have completed the work successfully without me."
"That was over two hundred years ago!" I said.
"Do you think universe destroying weapons get built over a weekend?"
"Fair point," I conceded. "Wow, so they've been working on killing each other forever."
"That's our first mission, then," Tamamo said. "We have to capture or destroy that second super weapon. Without getting Luka captured, since they'd undoubtedly strap him into it just like the monsters did."
"So where is this angel superweapon?" Alice asked.
"When I left it," Promestein said. "It was on the moon."
It was nighttime. Promestein and I were sitting outside, our backs to the Demiurge, staring up at the night sky. At the half moon.
"So how in the world do we get to the moon?" I asked her.
"I know a girl," Promestein answered.
"A girl who can teleport to the moon?"
"No one can teleport to the moon, except probably you and Ilias herself. Once you've been there, anyway. No, we'll have to take the long way. But really fast."
"Does this girl have a rocket?"
"She is the rocket," Promestein said.
"When do you expect her?"
"She'll come when she comes. Maybe a few minutes, maybe a few hours. Until the powerful beings have mapped out this new world, teleportation is going to be dicey. So she's going to be flying. Don't worry, she'll be here."
"So…" I said. "What did you and your counterpart talk about?"
"Regrets, mainly hers," Promestein said. "She warned me to avoid certain dark paths. I admit I'm fairly amoral, but some things happened to her that sent her to some pretty dark places. Maybe I'll avoid those entirely. A lot of it was stuff I had no plans to do anyway. But there was one thing she told me that really made me think."
"What was that?"
"She told me to treasure you," she said. "She said that you're a great friend and not to be so indifferent to you. That I need you in my life to keep me on the good path."
"She was one of my regrets as well," I said. "We started out enemies. I hated her for awhile. As if that wasn't enough, even after I foiled her plans she tried to ruin me again. And then it turned out that I needed her and from that day on, she never let me down. Never betrayed me, although she would warn me all the time that someday she would."
"She said she did betray you once."
"That doesn't really count. She only made it look like she had. She was actually on my side the whole time. But I admit I felt betrayed until I figured it out."
"Well, that's advice I can take," Promestein said. "If it's okay…. I'd like to keep working with you when this is over. At first I didn't like how limiting it was. You wouldn't let me test on live subjects, except for you. But I realize that I have it good with you. When I worked for Ilias on Angel World, there were no moral limits on my research. The only limits were that I was to research only what she wanted me to research. She never appreciated me. Neither did many of the other angels. I had no real friends, just angels I didn't hate. I realize that the reason you won't let me test on live subjects is because you're a good person, and because you're a good person, that's why you treat me good. It's why you have good friends who are friends to me as well. Did you know that Saki sometimes gives me private shows?"
"Really?" I asked. "I've come down and found her there before, but I thought you were studying her."
"Well, I don't like to let her presence go to waste, and besides, I don't like her music. But I like that she wants to entertain me. I like that you make sure I'm fed, and get sleep. It's annoying, but it shows that you care. And I'm not used to anyone caring about me. Oh, she gave me another piece of advice. Give me your hand. No, the one with the finger still missing."
I held out my hand to Promestein. She started sucking gently on one of my fingers. Then she began licking the stub of my missing finger, followd by sucking on it lightly.
"That's the advice she gave you?!" I laughed. It did feel nice though.
"She said you like this. Especially when she's been eating popsicles. She shared one with me. You know I love cold things."
"Oh my, popsicles!" I exclaimed. "I almost forgot! There's a story there if you want to hear it. The monsters actually figured out that making their mouths cold could be an interesting feeling when they…. You know. Promestein figured out they were doing it, but would only lick my fingers with her mouth cold. And then she kept on doing it for some reason. It became her little thing. Our little thing I guess."
"What's this about our little thing?" Alice asked, sitting down next to us.
Promestein quickly dropped my hand and tried to act as if she hadn't been doing anything.
"Do you two need a room?" Alice asked pointedly. "Promestein, I know you don't need to eat semen. Remember that he's my husband, please?"
"I… I was just helping him heal!" Promestein stammered.
I held up my hand. The finger had actually grown halfway back. Well I'll be damned, I thought. I showed my hand to Alice.
"Uh huh," Alice said skeptically. "Does your healing power only work through your mouth?"
"I was… um…. Kissing it better," Promestein said lamely.
"Well, it's nice work, I'll admit that. Thank you for healing him Promestein. You may continue to lick my husband whenever you feel it necessary. Just stick to parts that actually need healing, got it?"
"O-Of course!"
"So what brings you out here, wifey?" I asked. "Coming with us on our moon mission?"
"I want to, desperately," Alice replied. "I have visions of you getting your power shut off again and getting strapped into that thing. But Promestein told me that only you and her can go. Not enough room for more passengers. Her expertise is required, and your power is required. No, I've come to tell you that I've taken on a mission of my own."
"Oh? What kind of mission?"
"I'm assembling a team to go to Sara's assistance in Sabasa. She's a valued ally and her forces are under pressure from Hiruko. Once Hiruko actually gets the monsters loyal to her organized, the humans will have no chance. We need to turn the tide now. So I'm going to grab some people, not many, because we have to defend the Pocket Castle and the Demiurge, and go to Sabasa."
"Between you and Sara, I'm sure you'll win a glorious victory," I said.
"I sure hope so. So what's going on, aside from you getting licked? Waiting for your ride?"
"Yep," I confirmed. "Promestein knows a girl."
For the next hour, the three of us sat in the moonlight on the hard, desolate ground, talking about little things. Promestein was fascinated by so much of what she'd seen in the advanced, technical world of her counterpart. I did my best to explain how things worked, but her scientific mind could tell that what I knew wasn't much. Alice curled her tail gently around me, stealing my warmth as the night grew chillier.
A bright flash of light drove away the darkness. Alighting on the ground in front of us was a beautiful angel that I'd seen before. A Seraph.
"Good evening, Lucifina," Promestein said. "It's been awhile."
"It certainly has!" Lucifina replied. "Let's not waste any time. Each of you get under one wing."
"How exactly are we getting there again?" I asked uncertainly.
"I'm flying you!" Lucifina answered enthusiastically.
"I'm human. I can't breathe in space. Do you have magic that gives me the ability to breathe while we're in transit?"
"Hmmmm…. That would be a good idea to develop," Lucifina said thoughtfully. "Normally I just fly myself, sometimes a fellow angel who also doesn't need to breathe. I've never brought a human before. Oh well, you'll just have to hold your breath!"
"Hold my breath?! For a trip to the moon?!"
"It won't be for that long!"
"How long?"
"Three minutes. Five at most."
"I can't hold my breath that long!" I protested.
"Technically, you can," Promestein said. "It's possible you may pass out, but you should suffer no significant damage. It will just be uncomfortable."
"Uncomfortable, she says."
"How about if I take a deep breath and just hold it?" Promestein suggested. "When you look like you're really struggling, I'll breathe my air into your lungs. About halfway there. That should reduce your discomfort somewhat. I have powerful lungs even though I don't need air. Imight be able to give you two full breaths."
"I guess I don't have much of a choice," I said with resignation. Well, I'd done a lot of suffering recently. What was a little more to save the universe?
"That's the spirit!" Lucifina said happily, and then without warning, she grabbed Promestein and I and took off. I desperately gulped air in the three seconds we were still in the atmosphere.