After an intense and exhilarating intermingling of spiritual powers, Carlotta left a kitten-shaped spiritual entity within Abyss's spiritual sea, staying beside the little snake.
This signified a successful marking.
As Carlotta withdrew the remaining spiritual power and completed the full retreat, she suddenly felt a pervasive weakness throughout her body.
While she was still in a daze, the snake orc beside her, whose purple eyes still held a hazy, watery mist, abruptly pushed her away.
Despite the fact that the snake orc was also sweating and his body had taken on a pinkish hue, his thin lips emitted a frigid voice: "Female, how dare you mark me?!"
Abyss's fury made Carlotta aware that he had regained his normal state.
Nevertheless, Carlotta was no longer afraid.
Although a female's spiritual power could only soothe a male and not be used in combat, Abyss could no longer lay a hand on her.
The power of the mark would cause a male who attempted to harm the female to endure double the damage, whether physical or from special abilities.
Feeling secure, Carlotta sat up, fixing her beautiful blue eyes, ablaze with anger, upon Abyss: "You were in heat. If I didn't mark you, was I supposed to wait to be forced by you?"
Even though Carlotta's angry voice was still sweet and melodious, Abyss had no desire to engage in further idle chatter with her.
"Remove it!" He issued the cold command to Carlotta, and in the next instant, an ambiguous sound escaped his lips,
"Mm..."
Abyss couldn't believe that such a sound had come from himself.
The handsome male orc lowered his gaze and stared intently at his own tail.
It turned out that while his upper body had sat up, the last section of his tail was still tightly coiled around Carlotta, as if reluctant to part from her.
Carlotta merely accidentally brushed against his tail, and the flush on his face deepened.
Abyss swiftly retracted his snake tail behind him, and his gaze grew even colder.
It was all due to the mark. As long as Carlotta removed the mark, he would no longer be like this.
"Removal is possible," Carlotta stood up and said with a mischievous blink, "but only after we return to the imperial capital."
Once a male was marked by a female, even if the female removed it calmly, the male's special ability level would decline.
Not only that, after the removal, if the male orc were to experience another mental breakdown, there was a high probability that he would reject the spiritual power of other females, leading to a violent rage and death.
If Abyss didn't care about these drawbacks, Carlotta didn't feel compelled to care either.
It was just that the isolation area was desolate and uninhabited. After she removed the mark, even with a diminished ability, Abyss would still possess the power to harm her.
She would only remove it when she felt safe.
Abyss detected the undertone in Carlotta's voice, using the mark as a bargaining chip, and clenched his fists tightly.
Females were truly all the same, relying on their ability to mark multiple males and showing no genuine feelings towards them.
Abyss was about to speak to Carlotta again when a commotion arose at the entrance of the cave.
A magpie orc flew into the cave and transformed into a shapely woman.
The woman caught sight of Abyss and beamed with delight: "Lord Abyss, His Highness the Crown Prince said that it had been detected that your spiritual power was no longer emanating and guessed that you had regained your sanity. So I came to find you immediately."
"It's been a long time. You look even more dashing after regaining your wits."
After chattering incessantly for a while, the magpie orc Grace finally noticed that there was another female in the cave, and her expression instantly turned to astonishment.
"You, you female, why weren't you killed by Lord Abyss?"
Carlotta discerned that the other was anticipating her death and was infuriated.
She had been reborn with great difficulty and had already made up her mind to live a good life on behalf of her relatives.
How could she die so easily?
Carlotta's eyes widened like a cat's, and she retorted directly: "Why should I die? I won't die even if you do."
Carlotta's words further enraged Grace.
A male orc who regained consciousness after a mental breakdown was vulnerable and could be taken advantage of. Grace had originally intended to comfort Abyss and then mark him.
Who would have thought that she had missed the news and there was already a female by Abyss's side.
Wait!
Grace stared at Abyss's neck and then noticed the small, fingernail-sized kitten mark on Abyss's forehead, and her eyes nearly bulged out of her sockets: "You, you actually marked Lord Abyss?!"
With her dream shattered completely, Grace transformed into her beast form and pecked at Carlotta. Judging by the speed of her wing flapping, she seemed eager to pierce Carlotta's head in one go!
Even a female without special abilities could cause harm to others in beast form relying on her inherent strength.
Knowing this clearly, Carlotta had no intention of standing still and allowing Grace to peck her.
She transformed into a white cat with blue eyes and swatted the little magpie to the ground with one paw.
Carlotta thought she hadn't used much force, but the little magpie still let out a scream and reverted to human form, with a cat's paw print on her face and wailing loudly.
This little magpie was surprisingly fragile.
Carlotta thought to herself as she turned her head and said to Abyss, "I'm sorry. I didn't know you had a female you were in love with. Don't worry. I won't be a mistress. The mark will definitely be removed."
Carlotta's sudden apology made Abyss's pupils constrict to a fine point.
Females were born into a life of pampering and, upon reaching adulthood, were pursued by numerous males, which had led to their rather self-centered personalities.
Let alone apologizing to a male orc, some overly pampered ones would even deliberately disrupt a male's spiritual sea after marking him, playing with them until they were crippled.
Noticing Abyss's strange expression, Carlotta hastened to continue, "After the mark is removed, I can continue to help you with the counseling without any intimate contact, if your future female owner is willing."
When Grace heard that Carlotta was going to remove the mark on Abyss, she forgot even the pain on her face and happily said to Carlotta, "Just remove it. If Abyss needs counseling again in the future, I'll do it myself."
Anyway, the special ability level of a male who had been marked and then unmarked would drop. By then, Abyss would be downgraded to 3S. Coincidentally, she was also 3S. Surely Abyss couldn't despise her anymore, right?
As for whether Abyss would be hurt due to the rejection reaction after changing the female owner, it was not within Grace's consideration at all. Anyway, Abyss was a male with no fertility. He was just good-looking and capable.
All she wanted was to get Abyss.
"Abyss, we can finally become mates." Grace looked at Abyss with hope all over her face. "Don't worry. Although you have been marked and have no fertility, I'll still give you the position of the first male consort."
Abyss just found Grace disgusting.
He was in a semi-collapse state due to excessive use of his special ability. For his value, the empire would surely try to get a large number of females to volunteer to do spiritual counseling for him.
But his level was too high and his attack power was strong, and those females would die. This was also common knowledge.
Grace was not on the death list. Now that he had recovered, she immediately came over, putting on an affectionate look and dreaming of becoming mates with him after he was unmarked.
Rather than losing the privilege of being single due to the drop in the special ability level, it would be better to just let Carlotta be the female owner.
But this female owner couldn't be for real. He would make an agreement. In the agreement, he would pay Carlotta the remuneration for counseling him. He would never mate with Carlotta in any way again!
Abyss stared at Carlotta and replied, "No need to remove it. I have nothing to do with her. You can just be my female owner."
Only when Abyss said personally that he had nothing to do with the magpie orc did Carlotta breathe a sigh of relief.
Anyway, as long as she wasn't a mistress.
Grace, who was standing aside, was so angry that her eyes turned red when she heard that Abyss didn't want to remove the mark. "Abyss, you'd rather choose her than me. My fertility value is B level. There's a possibility that you and I can have offspring together. She's a female with no fertility value at all!"
Orcs can't obtain offspring through high technology, nor can they use high-tech means to increase the sperm vitality of males and the fertility value of females.
This is also the reason why there are fewer and fewer interstellar orc cubs.
But Abyss didn't care at all about being ridiculed. He didn't like females and didn't want to have any contact with them. Even if he was healthy, he had no intention of having offspring with any female.
"I don't need offspring. And," Abyss sneered, "Grace, you have no charm as a female in my eyes."
As soon as Abyss finished speaking, the sound of a hovering vehicle cutting through the air suddenly came from the entrance of the cave. Then, a burst of footsteps could be heard.
Carlotta looked curiously towards the entrance of the cave.
The first one to appear in front of the cave was a silver-haired orc in a white uniform. After entering the cave, he walked towards them while speaking: "Welcome back, Abyss."
Abyss slightly lowered his head: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, sorry to have worried you."
The Crown Prince reached out to help Abyss up, but his eyes fell on Carlotta: "Is this the female who successfully helped you regain your sanity?"
At the moment when their eyes met, Carlotta clearly saw the face of the silver-haired orc, which was as handsome as jade, and a flash of amazement passed through her eyes.
Compared with Abyss's Western-looking appearance, the Crown Prince's facial features with a sense of coldness were more in line with her aesthetic.
Moreover, he was the Crown Prince, with an otherworldly and elegant temperament.