"What are you waiting for? Quick, come here and have some food. I have mastered a few recipes over the last year. Taste it before it turns cold."
"I am not your daughter."
Well, that was what I wanted to say. I even opened my mouth. However, looking at the food on the table, I chose not to say it out loud.
"The food looks excellent today."
'Did I say something wrong? Why does she look at me like that? It's better not to say anything.'
"What are you waiting for? Eat first." She said it with a bright smile on her face.
I don't know where she got the meat, but it feels like it was imported from somewhere far east.
The touch of the tongue was enough to melt them. The tanginess was perfectly neutralising the grease.
And the desert was perfectly opposite. It was sweet but felt like foam. It gives a feeling of lingering sweetness…
I am not a food critic. Then again, I had never had such fancy cuisine since I came to this world. And this is the best thing I ever had in my life.
"Are you satisfied with my cooking?"
"Yes."
"Then how about…" She didn't complete her sentence before she sent the table between us flying.
I was too sluggish. Before my brain could compose all the information, she pushed me against the tree with her forearm against my throat. "Who are you?"
"Oh!" I looked at her, asking, "What are you?"
"What have you done to me?" She was quick to step away from me.
And I could understand the reason. After coming to this world and winning the first battle, the ability I got from it was not a skill. Instead, it was an inherent ability.
As it was the first ability, the system didn't just increase the skill level and make it a unique skill. {Absolute Mana Denial (U)}.
Alas! Everything has its pros and cons. No magic works on me, and I can dispel any magic. However, the problem was I could never use magic.
She didn't know that. When she put her forearm against my throat, whatever magic was cast on her was slowly dispelled.
"Green skin."
"Who sent you here?" The motherly air around her vanished in a blink. But her body returned to its former glory.
"How do you… Oh! Never mind." The melons on my chest weren't there. I stood there wearing a short dress as I had regained my original height.
"Why did you look like my daughter? Did that bastard lizard send you to kill me?"
"Please forgive me, your highness." Going on my knees was the best way to show that I was not an enemy. "Your Highness, princesses… Bam"
I was not expecting her to kick me right on the chin. As soon as I fell to the ground, she kicked me on the side of my stomach. She took an advantageous position on my chest and showered me with her punches.
I have had my fair share of rough beatings from my opponent, but her punches were weighty.
However, with my newfound skill of {{Troll's regeneration}}, the effect of the punches didn't stack up.
I grabbed her hand, rolled over, and put an arm bar on her. She bit off a chunk of meat from my legs, which was close to her mouth, along with part of the dress.
"What the hell?" The fact that the arm bar lock didn't do much to hinder her momentum; instead, it made her fight back more intensely.
Before I could make my next move, she raised me in the air with one arm and slammed me on the ground.
"She-hulk!" It was only then I noticed her proper form.
"What? I am the Queen of the Tiger Hide Orcs. I am not she… or whatever you are talking about. I am Dragon Slayer Rihne." When I thought she had calmed down, she jumped on me to attack again.
Wait a minute! You are a dragon slayer, and the emperor is a dragon. Why did you have a child with him?
Ah! That is not important right now.
"Please, Your Highness." It wasn't like I could raise my hand against the empress while I was still a slave.
Then again, I am here to have sex with her. It doesn't make sense. Or at least by Earth's reasoning.
All I can do now is put up my guard position and talk my way out. "Please wait. I have brought a letter from Your Highness, the princess. I am not your enemy."
"Didn't you come here with the intention of mating with me?"
"Huh! Bam."
There might be a gap in my defence, and the punch landed on my eyes.
"Doesn't she send one every other year?"
"Sorry!"
"Don't worry! After I am done with you, you won't be able to feel anything, much less sorry."
'I am the victim here.' I wanted to say it out loud but didn't get the chance. Then it hit me.
That's why Rita has chosen me. If the princess wanted, she could find any good-looking man. Instead, she looked for a slave that could fight.
"Sorry, Your Highness."
Bam Bam Bam
"Why are you saying sorry again and again? Do you think a weak man like you can force the queen of the orc to bear a child?"
Green skin, even deeper green hair, overgrown lower canine covering upon her thick lips—she is not the type of woman I would go after.
Now that I think about it, I have gone after a woman to begin with.
But to say I am weak...
Bam Bam
A few more punches landed before I grabbed her hand and threw her off my body.
My counterattack surprised her. But her experience aided her, and she charged at me.
"Stop."
"What?" She didn't expect me to raise my hand and simply say that out loud.
"I need to keep the dress intact to get out of here."
The pause felt like agreement. So I grabbed the table Rhine had thrown away and removed the dress. It was hard, but I managed. Luckily for me, the potion and the hair strand were still there.
I ended up in a tunic over my underwear. I didn't get to change myself before she charged at me.
Her body radiated a lot of energy as the space around her started to distort. Her fist zoomed through the air as if it were some kind of jet, creating a sonic boom. I didn't dare to take the hit head-on.
I ducked. Rhine was expecting. The kick came simultaneously.
It hurt, but not as much as I had expected.
Rhine felt the same. She might have expected that my head would bend at a weird angle or I would be launched into the air.
However, nothing happened.
I don't see it right, but cracks started to spread from her back. From the sign, it was sure she was trying to expel more mana to pressure me. The problem was it did not affect me.
She punches through reality to impact me.
Alas! I didn't feel anything. I am supposed to feel sorry, but if I have learned anything from my life as a gladiator, it is never to feel sorry until the opponent has given up or died.
Bam
Obviously, I can't kill her.
Bam. Bam.
The physical attack could have been more practical. Rhine understood it.
Feeling the pure punches made me realise it was closer to sixty than fifty.
It may not seem like a big deal. But you can count the folks with 50 strength or more on one hand. Yeah, Rhine definitely knew her stuff.
But the gap between our abilities was filled by intense determination.
Alas! That was not enough. The orcs and trolls are known to be a bomb of endurance. And they are the type of enemies I fought most in the arena.
This was the reason I had raised my endurance over 70. Along with
The fight dragged on. Rhine's expression was starting to show signs of desperation. Like the siblings who knew about the inevitability but wouldn't give up, we fought on.
"Nah!" I caught her legs, aiming for my jewel. "I have fought many females of different species in the arena." I smiled at her, adding, "That sneak attack shows you already understood what will happen."
She jumped back and created some distance between us. "What else is going to happen? You are going to mate me. Just like you have done with many against their will."
"I am a slave."
She looked at me like she didn't understand what I meant by that.
"Enslaved people aren't allowed to have offspring. They can't even have sex."
"Then what are you doing here?"
"Well, I have fought and remained undefeated for fifty matches in the colossum. The emperor was impressed and allowed me to have offspring."
This still wasn't enough for her to understand why I was doing it.
"I am still a slave, you know?" My helpless smile failed to create a crack in her serious expression. "My owner had sold the right to having the first offspring at an auction, and Your Highness, the princess, had brought that right."
"Oh!"
It was another reaction I wasn't expecting.
"Sorry!"
"What, sorry? I understand you are strong. But to think there was someone who could fight against me on equal ground… and that is without using any magic."
"I can't."
"No, I understand you used magic to nullify my mana, but…"
"No, you misunderstood. I can't use magic."
"Huh!"
"It is true."
"Even that lizard had a difficult time fighting against my magic. And you are saying you could nullify that magic without using any magic."
"I can nullify any magic. That is my ability."
"What are you? A humanised golem?"
That name rings a bell in my mind. Contrary to what I have heard back on Earth, there are types of golem who can get physicality after gaining a tremendous amount of mana.
It was surprising, as they are somewhat immune to mana.
The first person I had defeated was a descendant of a humanised golem.
"No, I am not. But…"
"But?"
"Does it matter?"
"No." Rhine shook her head as she started to take off her clothes.
More than her bright green skin, the numerous scars all over her body attracted my attention.
She had used a thin strip of clothes to wrap her chest, which was still bulging. Just like me, she was using a cloth to wrap her genitals tightly.
"It's time to get serious." She raised her hand and motioned for me to attack first.
'I repeat, she wasn't my type. But the bulge on her chest and the thick thighs were causing some tension on 'my' lower bulge.