Milcar can't help but feel a rapidly growing sense of euphoria spreading to every part of his body and making pleasure course through every pore. His smile widens as he lightly grabs Aqua's head, lifts it, and kisses her again, this time with more intensity. Aqua closes her eyes, her body relaxes and she lets out a light, contained moan of pleasure, Milcar's hands slide down Aqua's waist until they touch the small of Aqua's back.
...
A few moments later, Milcar checks his ability to cultivate Qi again, only to discover, disappointed, that his ability to cultivate Qi automatically hasn't increased in intensity.
"I guess...", Milcar shakes his head. Aqua leans against his chest, murmuring something under her breath, not ready to meet Milcar's gaze.
"Aqua..." Milcar murmurs, but Aqua doesn't respond, simply resting her body against his. She seems to have fallen asleep, but that couldn't be possible.
"Aqua, I love you, you're beautiful and... well, I really like your goddess outfit... I mean... Can you at least say a word?", Milcar says with a smile. A moment of silence fills the room as Aqua quickly turns to face Milcar.
Aqua's hair falls slightly forward, her eyes are shiny and perfectly blue like the sea, her red lips tremble slightly as she blushes deeply.
"I... won't say it..." Aqua shakes her head before embracing Milcar's chest, she smiling and look at Milcar with a bright eyes.
...
A moment of silence lasting several minutes fills the room as Aqua simply presses her head against Milcar's chest, his steady heartbeat strangely comforting to her.
"Teach me how to cultivate Qi", suddenly, Aqua speaks, turning her head to look at Milcar.
"Hmph..." Milcar smiles mysteriously, but he was already expecting this question, after all, he had noticed earlier that Aqua was naturally accumulating Qi in her body.
It's as if Aqua, like Milcar, is a magnet for Qi, although the speed at which Qi accumulates in Aqua's body is much slower than the speed at which Milcar's body accumulates Qi.
"Well..." Milcar smiles widely as he touches Aqua's right cheek with his right hand, then lightly pushes Aqua's head against his chest. "You just have to follow these steps..."
Time cruises by as they rest embraced in a corner, Aqua and Milcar focusing on cultivating Qi. Hours pass, and soon it's a new day.
...
Milcar slightly opens his eyes, the speed at which he can now cultivate Qi is much higher than before, but he still needs to cultivate Qi for more hours to enter the second stage of Qi condensation.
Aqua also opens her eyes slightly, feeling that her body has improved; her vision has become slightly sharper, and all her senses have slightly leveled up. However, she still hasn't entered the first stage of Qi condensation.
"Aqua, the guys are waiting for us...", Milcar murmurs before heading to the door, Aqua nods happily before following Milcar....
...
At one of the tables in the tavern, Kazuma and Eris are chatting casually.
Moments later, Milcar and Aqua descend the stairs into the tavern. Eris and Kazuma quickly glance at Aqua and Milcar, their eyes narrowing with curiosity.
"The time has come, hehehe, Mr. Kazuma, Lady Eris, today I want to try something different", approaching the table where Eris and Kazuma were, Milcar says with a smile.
"Brother Milcar, you and Aqua were... What...", Kazuma squints his eyes before shaking his head. He's not the kind of man to pry into others' private moments.
"Hey, Has Aqua found a boyfriend?, Doesn't seem like it, or maybe she has, well, who knows", Eris murmurs quietly before walking up to Milcar.
The group quickly chose a special mission to hunt down some goblins and left the tavern.
Walking through a green field, Milcar observes his surroundings, a slight sense of peace passing through his body as he looks at this completely green landscape.
As he walks further, the trees become denser, birdsong accompanies his walk, the moist earth emits its peculiar smell, and the forest becomes richer in trees and greenery.
"I heard there was an attack on a neighboring village a few days ago...", suddenly, Kazuma murmurs somewhat loudly, Eris looks at him with curiosity, and Milcar does the same.
Feeling the two gazes upon him, Kazuma quickly shakes his head.
Before Kazuma or anyone can say anything, a person dressed in yellow and white quickly steps into the group's path. Milcar squints his eyes as he looks ahead.
His eyes then go from shock to surprise.
"Darkness!!!", Eris exclaims in surprise.
"You guys, really? Have you forgotten about me, your tank, your protector, your shield of flesh, damn it!!!, Hmph, Did you forget that you invited me to join your group yesterday?", Darkness mutters with a face full of grievance, lowering her head, and tears threaten to fall from her eyes.
There was a brief moment of silence as Darkness looked seriously at the four people in front of her.
"Well, to put it bluntly, I forgot that Aqua had invited you to the group last night, hehehe", Milcar laughs slightly, downplaying the matter.
Darkness swallows and looks at Kazuma, Aqua, and Eris, but they simply tilt their heads to avoid looking into Darkness's eyes.
Darkness stomps her foot before a smile spreads across her face.
"Hehehe, abandoned, abandoned, abandoned by my team... sorry, perhaps, Could you abandon me at a goblin camp?, Those guys are lecherous and have no scruples when it comes to taking women as sexual objects... I mean. Ahem, I forgive you, these things can happen. What mission are we doing?", Darkness quickly changes her attitude to a more cheerful one and asks with a smile.
After a brief explanation, Darkness begins to fantasize again about a story of a maiden being captured by a group of goblins.
As the group walks led by Milcar, Milcar squints his eyes with some caution.
That's because Milcar, with his enhanced senses, can hear faint screams coming from a few hundred meters ahead thanks to his improved senses.
"Brother Milcar, Is something wrong?", suddenly, seeing Milcar stop, Kazuma steps forward to ask, Aqua looks at Milcar and grabs his right hand, her eyes showing concern, the rest of the group simply can't hear anything because they don't have Milcar's cultivation level.