Unexpected Pursuer
The wide cavern echoed with lewd cries.
“Aahng. Ahnng. Haaahng…!”
Beneath the bright magical lights, roughly twenty men and women moved their bodies with frantic intensity. Though they were intelligent beings—elves, dwarves, and beastkin standing shoulder to shoulder—at this moment they had chosen to become nothing more than beasts, completely focused on shaking their hips and thrusting.
“How’s that, you fucking slut? Does it feel good?”
“Uht. Hng. Y-yes…! Yes, it does…!”
“Then I’ll fill you up nice and thick. Be grateful and take it all into that cheap womb of yours. Understand?!”
“Yes, yeees… hngh. Ah, please cum inside me!!”
The man drove his cock deep into the woman and unloaded without pulling out. She wept as she accepted every drop.
“Whew. This really is the life. These lowly bitches have such perfect pussies. No wonder I can’t quit this shit. Don’t you agree?”
The man beside him, still vigorously pounding away, nodded in agreement. He mercilessly rammed his dick into the struggling woman’s ass as he spoke.
“Yeah. Especially the asshole—it’s fucking incredible. The way it clenches so tight… ugh…”
“Sob… p-please stop… It really hurts too much…”
“That’s it. Keep struggling like that! Makes it so much more fun to fuck you!”
Thrust. Thrust. Thrust. Thrust.
The man showed absolutely no mercy, slamming into her without restraint. Red blood trickled from the woman’s ruined asshole, running down her thighs.
“Ugh. You pathetic bastard. Are you some kind of animal? Why the hell do you love ass so much?”
The man who had just finished and was now in his refractory period smirked at the one still pounding away at the rear and walked off. He wanted to get some fresh air.
But the moment he stepped onto the balcony, he froze, doubting his own eyes.
“Huh…?”
‘Hah. These bastards. The young ones are really going at it like degenerates.’
“What’s wrong with that? They’re having a blast. Should we go join them?”
‘No thanks. Why would I?’
“You’re a noble too, aren’t you? Wait… now that I think about it, why have you been hiding out in the Stronghold all this time?”
‘No need to willingly put myself on the list of suspects, is there?’
I turned and headed back toward the lobby. Sensing something in my answer, Beres asked in a slightly excited tone.
“You’re planning to cause trouble, aren’t you?”
‘Yeah. Big trouble.’
“Bigger than the Impotence beam?”
‘No way…’
What could possibly be stronger than that? Still, I intended to publicly humiliate them within noble society.
In truth, there were no academy girls inside, so I had been willing to let it slide. Why stir up unnecessary trouble?
But then I recognized a few of the men.
‘They were laughing their asses off the moment I received my death sentence.’
Aslan’s creed: return everything received tenfold.
I circled through the building, disabling every alarm spell I found and replacing them with inscribed fire spells. Beres grinned wickedly when she saw what I was doing.
“This is going to be fun.”
The magic I had carved into the air was Fireball—or rather, a continuous flame spell that would generate endless fire for a set duration.
‘The power will be a bit weaker since I inscribed them in mid-air, but twenty of them should be more than enough.’
Once all the runes were set, it was time to activate them.
Snap.
I clicked my fingers. All the runes glowed blue at once, then began radiating intense heat as they summoned hellish flames.
Whoosh—!
Even though each flame was small, they spread with terrifying speed. I quietly slipped out of the building and used Fly to watch from above.
The fire completely engulfed the first floor. Just as it began climbing to the upper levels, one of them finally noticed and screamed.
“F-fire! There’s a fire!!”
“What?! Are you fucking kidding me?!”
They panicked, jumping around helplessly in place. They had sent away all their attendants and servants to hide their shameful activities, and now they had no one to help them escape.
Beres burst into laughter.
“Watching a fire burn and watching a fight are the two most entertaining things in the world. Hey, Aslan!”
‘What?’
“Since you’re going to kill them anyway, why not play with them first?”
‘What kind of crazy idea are you—’
“You have that Estrus spell, right? Cast it on the women and shove them aside. Then the men will start fucking each other like—”
‘Ugh, you lunatic. No! What the hell is wrong with you today? Why are you so obsessed with making men fuck each other?’
More importantly, I had no intention of killing them tonight.
If I had come here to kill, I would have walked in and done it myself. The reason I didn’t was simple—this was the Stronghold, the noble-only district. Committing murder in the street with the second-best security in the empire after the imperial palace would be incredibly stupid.
Not because I was afraid of getting caught.
But because it would raise unnecessary alarms.
‘As long as they don’t die, neither the imperial family nor the nobles will make a big move. They’ll just write it off as an accident.’
The flames had already swallowed nearly half the building. At that moment, a crowd of people rushed toward the mansion—apparently the security forces had finally arrived.
‘Time to slip away.’
The fire spell had already expired. All I needed to do was get my body out of here.
I quietly descended into the forest. When I looked back, thick black clouds had gathered above the burning building. A torrent of water poured down, and the fire was extinguished in an instant.
“Ah, that was a fun day! Let’s head back now!”
‘You look awfully satisfied.’
“Of course. Torture, watching a fire burn, and plenty of fun things happened. Especially handing those guys over to the male brothel… ugh… just imagining it gets me excited!”
This girl is getting dangerous. I should keep my distance from now on.
“I can hear you, you know?”
‘Ah, my bad.’
We entered the secret passage and swam through the darkness toward the opposite exit. Suddenly, a sound came from behind us.
Creeeeak.
‘This is…?’
“Sounds like a pursuer.”
I sharpened my hearing and pressed my ear to the floor.
Tap tap tap.
One person. From the heavy footsteps, they were fully armed. A knight, then.
Security forces?
“What are you going to do?”
The passage was narrow. Hoping the person chasing us would pass by without noticing was too much to ask for. Running together would only prove that the arsonist had used this passage.
After acting suspiciously at the bathhouse earlier today, I needed to avoid this at all costs.
In that case…
‘Should I kill them?’
The moment I made up my mind, my complicated thoughts cleared completely. Cold reason settled in like a splash of ice water, and my heart sank calmly to the bottom of a still lake.
“They’re coming. One hundred meters ahead.”
Fighting a knight wasn’t new to me. As a commoner-born mage on the front lines, I had always been the enemy’s top priority target.
‘Acceleration.’
That was why some mages hid the fact that they were spellcasters and drew their swords instead. It gave them a higher survival rate.
‘Strength Enhancement.’
I had survived thirty years in that hell as a mage.
That was why the enemy had given me a title.
Haran’s Knight Slayer, Aslan.
I had met countless knights and killed even more. The moment I saw an opponent, gauging their level was child’s play.
‘Weak.’
Somewhere in the middle of the average knight’s strength. I was about to strike when the figure emerging from the darkness made me freeze.
A woman with red hair tied in twin tails and an eyepatch over one eye. Madness poured from her remaining eye, perfectly matching the playful smirk on her lips. She was someone I knew very well.
‘Hah. Why the hell is she here?’
“Who is she? Someone you know?”
‘Yeah. Bella Hardrens. Granddaughter of Pellermil Hardrens, the academy chancellor.’
“Really? You two don’t look alike at all. Still, her mana is incredibly strong.”
Of course it was. Bella was one of the few magic swordsmen in the empire.
‘Guess I have to take back what I said about her being weak.’
The moment she spotted me, she slowed down sharply. She drew her sword slowly and spoke in a singsong voice.
“Heee…? Who are you? I can’t see your face with that hood on~ Will you take it off yourself, or should I rip it off for you?”
“She seems mentally unstable.”
‘Yeah… she’s definitely a bit off.’
“No, a lot off.”
One might think that upon first meeting her. That aside, the granddaughter of Pellermil… it felt a little early to lay a hand on her.
“Why are you even worrying about that? Just strip her and mount her. If you’re really that concerned, the ground here is nice and soft. You can turn her into a whole grave by yourself.”
‘Wow. You’re being awfully aggressive today, sis.’
“Yeah, I think so too. Kinda excited, aren’t I?”
Even as we bantered back and forth, my eyes never stopped analyzing the woman in front of me. A fight between knights could end in an instant.
“Not going to answer me?”
“Well… I really don’t want to fight you. Can’t you just let me go?”
“I don’t waaaaant toooo!!”
Bang!
With an explosive burst of sound, the woman shot forward. It was hard to believe she was wearing heavy armor with that kind of speed.
‘She’s using magic to strengthen her body, huh?’
Good thing I had already cast Acceleration and Strength Enhancement in advance. If I had faced her unprepared, I would have had a hard time.
I leaned back sharply, watching the charging woman. Her eyes were locked onto my mouth. She clearly planned to slash me in half the moment I tried to chant a spell.
‘She must have fought quite a few mages before… but this time, she picked the wrong opponent!’
‘Impotence.’
“Huh…?”
Confusion flashed across her face. Or rather, judging by the way her eyes and mouth were still smiling, it would be more accurate to say she looked intrigued.
Either way, she dropped the sword she was holding and collapsed forward. Still, she had enough skill to twist her body mid-fall and minimize the damage.
“Hehe… a silent spell?”
“Is this girl seriously fearless? She’s laughing even in this situation. Was she always like this?”
‘Not exactly… there’s a reason for it.’
I approached the woman who was still laughing while lying on the ground. Thanks to the heavy armor she wore, she literally couldn’t move an inch.
“Can’t you just let me go?”
“I don’t want to? I don’t waaant tooo~ I don’t waaant tooo~”
“Haa… Bella Hardrens. I really don’t want to deal with you.”
Her eyes widened into perfect circles. She made an exaggerated “Ooh~” sound with her mouth.
“You know me? But why don’t I recognize your voice no matter how hard I listen~? Hmm~”
“There’s not a single shred of seriousness in her, is there? Just eat her already. What are you hesitating for?”
‘I’m scared I’ll catch her insanity if I fuck her.’
“Mmm… yeah, I can understand that.”
In the end, Beres told me to do whatever I wanted. It seemed even she didn’t want to enter the body of a crazy woman.