A Long and Difficult Journey
"Ahnn... um... that tickles."
A tiny voice, soft as a mosquito's buzz, reached my ears.
I ignored it just enough.
Whatever I did, she would understand.
No—she would have no choice but to understand.
By the time all of this was finished, her mana would have multiplied several times over.
"Aaa... your mouth on a place like that..."
She kept murmuring in that small voice, yet Baek Hwayeon never thrashed against me with any real force.
I was already fully switched on, and today I had no intention of stopping even if someone came knocking at the door.
It had been far too long since I properly put it in and came.
Of course I had taken care of my urges in other ways, but today I was absolutely going to shove it into a hole.
I moved boldly.
With the thought Let's see if she refuses this too! I brought my tongue to one place after another and sucked hard.
First her small, cute ear, then her armpit.
The ear only made her squirm from the tickle, but the moment my tongue touched her armpit she twisted her whole body violently.
You hate it? You do, right? Go on, say you hate it!
I rubbed my tongue against her armpit even more insistently.
"Haaeut, no... it's dirty..."
Chuuup. Suck. Suck.
I deliberately made the wet sounds louder so she would hear every one.
"Huit-!"
A nasal little whimper full of charm.
I never expected her to make a sound like that.
It almost sounded like she was begging me to go harder.
I lifted her other arm and licked that side just as fiercely.
Only after a long while did I finally stop.
"Haa, haa... is this really training?"
She lay on the bed looking up at me with eyes that seemed ready to spill tears at any second.
Maybe the stimulation had been a little strong for a virgin.
But we haven't even started yet, miss.
"We have to do the same thing I just did to every place where mana flows. We need to pierce through the blocked mana. If we succeed with all of it, Hwayeon-ssi might become one of the top Awoken in all of Korea. I can see that kind of potential in you."
"Yes? Is that really true?"
"Yes. But it will be a long and difficult journey. Are you prepared?"
"If I can just become strong... you can do whatever you want with me, so please make me strong."
I nodded.
Then I threw off my shirt and pressed my lips to her again.
This time it was her chest.
"Haeuung... no... aahk-!"
I lightly nipped the nipple of this self-proclaimed virgin using only my lips.
The stimulation must have been enormous; she shoved my face away with both hands.
I paid no attention and bit down on the other nipple.
"Hwaaang."
I settled fully astride her thighs.
I kept most of my weight on my knees so it wouldn't crush her, though I doubted it mattered much.
She was an Awoken, after all.
Either way her lower half was now pinned, so unless she used her abilities she could no longer thrash free.
I bent at the waist and brought my tongue to her abdomen.
I slid it back and forth across her belly, already slick with sweat.
Just as expected it tickled; she kept trying to bounce her hips upward.
But I held her down firmly, so she got nowhere.
I pushed my tongue into her navel.
Whether she got a stomachache later was none of my concern.
There was such a cute, lewd little hole right there—how could I not put my tongue in it?
Her navel was already soaked with my saliva.
When I stiffened the tip of my tongue and circled around the rim, she reacted so hard my whole body lifted for a moment.
If I hadn't been gripping her sides with both hands, her upper body would have sprung clean off the bed.
"The navel is dirty too... why only places like that..."
Even though she had stripped naked in front of me without a second thought, a few tears now slid from her eyes.
Seeing them gave me a small measure of satisfaction, yet it still wasn't nearly enough.
I normally disliked crying women, but somehow I wanted to make this one sob her heart out.
Maybe because she was the type who rarely showed emotion?
I wanted to drag every hidden feeling out of her, every last one.
Now that her navel was thoroughly wet, it was time to move lower.
Someone once said oral on a first-timer was far too intense.
Is that so? How intense, exactly?
I was finally about to find out for myself.
I didn't even spread her legs.
Her long legs were pressed tightly together, trapped beneath my hips.
I pushed my face straight toward the tightly closed clam whose lips were sealed shut.
"Th-there too?"
"You'd prefer I do it quickly, right?"
"......"
"Should I just leave?"
"Ah, no. Please do there quickly too."
"Where do you mean?"
"The place you were about to do just now."
"I don't quite understand."
"Aigoo... really..."
She raised both arms and covered her eyes.
Hiding the gaze that had met mine, she answered in a voice that barely crawled out.
"My pussy..."
"Yes? Where and how?"
"My pussy too... please do it."
"Hwayeon-ssi's mana seems to come out from here, doesn't it?"
"I don't know..."
The last answer was almost inaudible.
I only saw her lips move a little.
I thrust my tongue deep into the red crevice between her tightly closed outer lips.
Then I licked up and down with everything I had.
Because she had sweated so much, a subtle scent teased my nose.
"Ahk... hwaak... hk... does this really make me stronger...?"
She twisted her body violently, but I pinned her down with raw strength.
I held her completely still and stabbed into her mercilessly with my tongue.
Yet with her legs still closed like this, I couldn't go any further.
Spreading them wide was simply more natural.
I gently lifted the long legs I had been sitting on and opened them.
The outer lips that had been sealed shut and coated in my spit slowly parted.
I had stared at this place plenty while she did squats, yet my chest fluttered as if I were seeing it for the first time.
This place truly was a man's romance.
But Baek Hwayeon's pussy was far wetter than I had expected.
She claimed she was a virgin?
Why was she this soaked?
Wetter than any woman I had ever seen—it looked like she had wet herself.
The dampness on the bed wasn't only from her sweat.
"Since when has it been like this..."
"......"
"Please tell me. Since when has it been this way."
"I don't know either... because you keep licking only dirty places..."
"So that's why it became like this?"
"I don't know. My lower belly inside keeps itching and feels strange."
"A good sign. It won't be long now."
I stood up at once, yanked my pants down, and shoved my underwear off too.
My cock, already glistening with precum though not as much as her, came free.
Baek Hwayeon stared at it without blinking.
Being a virgin didn't mean she had zero interest in men.
But the words that left her mouth caught me off guard for a second.
"It's bigger than my little brother's."
"What?"
"Ah, nothing. Are you going to put that inside me?"
"It's the final process."
Without waiting for an answer I grabbed her legs and lifted them high.
Then I shuffled forward on my knees until I was pressed right up against her hips.
The tip of my glans began to rub against her thoroughly soaked pussy.
Baek Hwayeon covered her face again.
I forcibly seized her arms and pulled them away.
Her face was flushed to the roots of her hair.
Waiting only for her eyes to meet mine, I kept rocking my hips, grinding my cock against her folds.
"Haet... ahang..."
With the arms that had hidden her shameful face gone, she turned her head to avoid my gaze.
But it didn't last long; the moment finally came when she couldn't hold out and looked straight into my eyes.
That was the exact timing I chose to drive my hips forward and bury myself deep inside her.
In case she started whining that it hurt, I pushed all the way to the root in one bold stroke from the very first thrust.
"Ah... eut!"
Whether she really was a first-timer or not, Baek Hwayeon squeezed her brows tight, opened her mouth wide, and poured out a strange cry.
For a girl whose voice was always so small you could barely hear it, the moan was surprisingly loud.
I gently pulled out the cock I had just buried, and at the same time released the arms I had been holding.
Then I began to rock my hips lightly, gradually picking up speed.
"Aeu... ah.... aeut."
A rough, broken voice spilled from her, and her abdomen heaved in and out violently.
Since she never really cried out that it hurt, maybe being an Awoken made the pain bearable.
This was the first time I had ever put it inside an actual Awoken.
The difference from ordinary women was smaller than I expected.
A strange little feeling.
Had Shin Haneul been like this the first time with me?
That sense of superiority when you have sex with someone who knows nothing.
Maybe it came from being able to do whatever I wanted.
It was a curious sensation.
I grew curious about how she felt too.
"How does it feel?"
"It's hot... my pussy... inside my pussy... is hot."
She was now spitting out lewd words without any filter; it felt a little unlike her.
Had that just been my prejudice?
I hadn't been thrashing from the start trying to satisfy her one hundred percent.
That was something only pure virgins did.
I only needed to make sure today's experience wasn't unpleasant; a moderate compromise was enough.
From the position looking down on her, I bent at the waist and pressed my body flush against hers.
I bounced my hips, taking every bit of stimulation for myself, and whispered softly into her ear.
"It's the best. Hwayeon-ssi."
"Aeng... haat... heung... I... am getting stronger, right?"
"Of course. You'll become stronger than anyone."
Satisfied, I straightened up again and increased the speed of my hips.
Even a virgin's pussy made the same wet squelching sounds inside.
It wasn't especially tight in a way that felt better; if anything, Yoo Dajeong, who knew how to work her waist, had been superior.
Sorry to Hwayeon, but...
Still, she would change little by little. This was only her first time.
I decided to finish without changing positions.
I still couldn't come inside, after all.
"Haang... aang... heung."
She cried out moans that sounded almost like sobs, and I was reaching my limit.
Ugh.
Pushuushuk.
I nearly came inside her as I was; I barely managed to pull out and spill across her belly.
"Haa, haa..."
Somehow it felt like only I had been satisfied, but we weren't finished yet.
I slid my index and middle fingers into her vagina and rubbed here and there.
With my other hand I caressed her breast.
I kept giving her stimulation just short of pain while I checked her condition.
As expected, a full orgasm on her first time had been too much to ask.
But something close—I could give her that.
I immediately shut off her mana.
"Haet... heut... ??"
Baek Hwayeon stared up at me in sudden shock.
For a greater impact I deliberately gifted her despair first.
Then I continued caressing her sex, dragging out the time.
"I... suddenly my mana... all of it..."
"Trust me and wait. Focus on the physical pleasure."
I kept massaging her pussy, watching for the right moment.
The instant she felt even the slightest stimulation.
Right then.
I returned her mana.
And I raised it step by step, one rank at a time, all the way to F-5.
"Hwaaat... suddenly my mana... aeut."
I gradually roughened my touch, raising the intensity, and at the end I rapidly rubbed around her clit with my thumb—the one place I had left untouched until now.
"Hihyaaaat-!!"
The stimulation must have been fierce; she let out a bizarre scream, and I carefully withdrew my hand.
It had clearly fallen short of a true orgasm.
But from now on, whenever she remembered today, she would want to feel this exact stimulation again.
Because it was the sensation of her mana increasing—five times over, no less.
Wednesday morning.
The moment we stepped back into the gate we sensed that the atmosphere was off.
Dozens of people were visible; roughly half of them would be Awoken.
The rest were equipment-company staff and Supporter-company employees like me.
Even so.
There were more heads than I had expected.
At least four or five teams, maybe.
F-rank dungeon expedition teams usually ran with three to five Awoken.
I made our team's Awoken wait where they were and went out to gather information.
It was better to leave the Awoken alone.
If they approached the wrong people and got into a fight with another team, it would be a disaster.
Especially a certain someone like Kim Isol.
When I asked what was going on, an equipment-company staffer answered.
"Didn't you guys hear yesterday?"
"Hear what?"
"What else? The wolf howling."
Werewolves were monsters similar to wolfmen, but they weren't the type that howled much.
Yet when we entered the forest yesterday I had definitely heard a wolf's cry from far away.
I had brushed it off as nothing, but thinking about it now it was suspicious.
This was a dungeon that spawned monsters, not an ordinary wolf habitat.
"It was quiet all night, but a little while ago the wolves suddenly started howling. We come here every season around this time, you know? When the academy spits out new graduates we have to train the novice Awoken. Anyway, in all the time I've been coming here I've never once heard a wolf howl. It's already my third year, I think?"
"Hmm... we heard it too. Yesterday in the forest."
"You heard it as well? People who went into the forest yesterday said they heard wolves crying, so I wondered... anyway, starting a little while ago it's been audible even out here."
"Meaning you're hearing that sound for the first time in three years?"
"Right. Do you know what this dungeon was like in the early days?"
"I know. You're talking about the boss monster, right?"
"Yeah. You know. I've heard the rumor that the thing howls so pitifully."
"Then isn't that a problem? Even if it's only an F-rank dungeon boss, if novices try to face it someone could die. In an emergency shouldn't we request support?"
"I'd like that too, but those Awoken over there are all making a fuss saying they'll catch it themselves. We just hope no damage comes our way."
The boss monster of the Wolf Forest dungeon.
Lycan was inside here?
I swallowed for no particular reason.
The Awoken on those other teams were probably thinking the same thing.
That was the real cause of this whole commotion.
Because among F-rank dungeons, the only one that dropped anything actually worth money was the boss monster.
Well then—shall we make some money today?