Chapter 118: The Tower Lord
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 118: The Tower Lord
The Triad (三合會).
A criminal organization centered in Hong Kong, wielding immense influence across parts of China, Southeast Asia, and the rest of the world.
Countless internationally wanted villains were also known to be members of the Triad.
“Heaven (天), Earth (地), and Man (人). The Triad is a massive organization led by three factions. The leader of the Heaven faction, which handles the Triad’s internal operations, is the Heavenly Lord (天柱), an S-rank villain wanted worldwide.”
“So, are you saying my master is this Heavenly Lord?”
“No, if the Heavenly Lord had entered Korea, all hell would have broken loose. It’s probably a family member or a relative. At least, that’s what I think.”
“...”
Even coming from Choi Hyena, I couldn’t easily believe it. The Triad’s notoriety was so immense that even I, a former civilian, knew of it.
Once, a cult had carried out a large-scale terrorist attack in Pyongyang. Among the victims caught in the attack was a Triad executive. Enraged, the Triad had slaughtered every last one of them, from the cult leader down to the last follower.
Of course, the Hero Association, angered by the incident, had crushed the Triad’s Pyongyang and Seoul branches, but the event had seared the Triad’s infamy into the minds of Koreans.
Even now, many people shuddered at the mere mention of the Triad.
“Don’t tell me you’re saying this just because their eye and hair colors are the same.”
“Of course not.”
Choi Hyena picked up her panties from the floor near the bed, shot me a glare, and quickly put them on. It seemed to be a silent signal for me to look away, but I wasn’t the type to do so.
“You know that even within the same race, beast-kin are divided into different tribes, right?”
“Of course.”
Marna Hircus, the one who would make Cheon Yeo-hwa’s antidote, was a goat beast-kin and a member of the Hircus tribe.
“There’s a tribe called the Silver Wolf Tribe (銀狼族). They’re a small tribe of wolf beast-kin with silver hair and golden eyes.”
Silver hair and golden eyes. It was one of the things that had always puzzled me whenever I saw my master.
In modern society, where unique hair and eye colors were rampant, golden eyes were one thing, but silver hair was not a color you saw every day.
“The Silver Wolf Tribe has fewer than a hundred members, yet they’re considered one of the most dangerous tribes in the world. Why do you think that is?”
I shook my head. No matter how hard I thought, I’d never heard of them.
“Most of the executives in the Heaven faction, one of the three factions leading the Triad, are from the Silver Wolf Tribe. No, it’s actually less of a faction and more like a clan. The same goes for the other factions.”
This was the first I was hearing of this. It certainly wasn't information available to the general public.
It was likely a secret Choi Hyena knew only because she was the successor of the Seongbuk Choi family.
“You remember, don’t you? The Pyongyang cult terror incident. The one who died in that explosion was a member of the Silver Wolf Tribe, an executive of the Heaven faction. In return, the cult was annihilated, not a single follower left alive.”
Now I understood what Choi Hyena was worried about. These were the kind of people who would kill thousands over a matter concerning their tribe. She wanted me to avoid getting involved with the Triad as much as possible.
This was definitely not something to be taken lightly. My master was unlikely to harm me, but that was all in the past. No one could predict what would happen in the future.
“Now you see why I told you to stop going, right?”
I got out of bed and walked over to Choi Hyena. I wrapped my arms around her, still in her underwear.
“...Get off me.”
“Thank you.”
“If you’re thankful, then say you’ll quit.”
“I’ll think about it.”
Sorry, but having not yet heard my master’s side of the story, I couldn’t make a decision so easily.
Besides, my master seemed like a person who was too precarious in many ways to be left alone. If I cut ties here, I felt like I’d be the one left with a bad taste in my mouth.
“I’ll make you feel good instead.”
“What? No, just quit!”
“I’ll think about it.”
“Think about what... Ahk?!♡ G-Get your hand out...!”
Squish. It had been a while since I’d touched her, but she was still dripping wet.
I held the weakly resisting Choi Hyena and laid her down on the bed.
“D-Don’t! It’s sore down there...!”
“Where is ‘down there’?”
“You know, so why are you asking!”
“I don’t know. If you don’t tell me, I’m shoving it in right now.”
I threatened her, rubbing the fully swollen head of my cock against her entrance. Choi Hyena’s face turned beet red, as if it were about to explode.
“You’re not going to tell me?”
Squelch♡
“Ngh, uhn...♡”
As I slowly pushed the head in, applying pressure, Choi Hyena’s eyes sharpened.
“My... my pussy is sore... I told you, so stop...”
“I don’t want to.”
Shluuuurp! I slammed my cock into her with all my might.
“Hnngghh?!!♡ You, you...!!”
The shock of my cock hitting her cervix in one go made her hips tremble faintly. She struggled, but with every scrape of my cock against her vaginal walls, she gradually grew calmer.
“Hahng, heu-eut...♡ You bastard...♡ Heu-eut, ngaat...♡”
Her sweetening voice convinced me that this was indeed the right way to treat Choi Hyena.
Just as I was thrusting my hips, Choi Hyena’s eyes suddenly began to turn blue. Then, the temperature around us dropped as well.
“Haa...♡”
Choi Hyena’s atmosphere changed. It was as if she had suddenly become a different person.
The way she looked at me also became strangely gentle. Her eyes were glazed over in a daze, a look I’d only ever seen on her after two straight hours of fucking.
“...Wendigo?”
“Hyun-woo...♡”
Choi Hyena, no, Wendigo, suddenly wrapped her arms around my neck, pulled me in, and tangled her tongue with mine.
Her body, which should have been warm, felt completely devoid of heat. A shiver ran down my spine at the sensation, as cold as ice.
“Phuaa...♡ I... I really missed you♡”
Thud. Wendigo sat up in one motion and pushed me down onto the bed.
She climbed on top of me, moving like a slithering snake, and only then did she wear a satisfied expression.
“...Is a spirit allowed to take over its contractor’s body?”
“Is that the first thing you say after we haven’t seen each other in so long?”
“My dick is still inside you, isn’t it?”
At my disgruntled tone, she gave a light buck of her hips.
“Ahk?!♡”
Startled by the unexpected jolt, Wendigo’s body collapsed. She lay on my chest, trembling slightly.
“Hoo, hoohoo... Ah, this feeling... It’s really you, Hyun-woo♡”
“So, your answer to my question?”
“...Normally, it would be impossible, but this is strictly part of our contract, and the contractor agreed to it, so you can rest assured.”
“What kind of contract is it?”
“Hmm, when we’re having sex like this and she feels like she can’t take it anymore, she tags me in?”
“Interesting.”
I reached out and grabbed Wendigo’s hips.
“So if you pass out, Choi Hyena will come back out?”
Wendigo’s eyes met mine, and the corners curved bewitchingly.
“Who knows? Hoohoo...♡ I’m not sure either. Would you like to test it out?”
“That won’t be hard.”
Thud. Our positions were reversed again. Pinned beneath me, Wendigo let out a small scream.
“Scared?”
“No, I’m excited...♡ But you seem to have a sweet scent on you... Hnngghh?!!♡”
[The Sex Expert skill has been activated.]
[Sexual Intercourse Bonus +100%]
I threw all restraint to the wind and fucked her with all my might. Stamina? I could just replenish it with my overflowing magic and internal energy.
That day, Wendigo managed to hold out until 10 PM, but around 11 PM, she finally passed out.
The forcibly summoned Choi Hyena tried to escape from me using her magic, but in a close-quarters fight utilizing magic, she was no match for me.
“I-I’m gonna die...!!♡”
“People don’t die that easily.”
“Hiiik?!!♡♡”
I discovered an amazing fact. Lost semen could be replenished with Vajra Qi. It was truly the second coming of a living sex machine.
Around 2 AM, Choi Hyena fainted, and Wendigo was dragged back out. The look in her eyes as she gazed at me was quite different from before.
“...P-Please be gentle...♡”
In the end, I fucked them both all night and was able to watch the sunrise in a refreshed mood.
*
The top five floors of the Magic Tower, including the very highest, housed a private workshop for just one person.
“Welcome.”
It was a space exclusively for the master of the Magic Tower, the Tower Lord.
A beauty with ash-gray hair that fell to her waist greeted me. It was Han Lael, the Lord of the Gray Magic Tower.
“I have black tea and green tea. Which would you prefer?”
“...I’ll just have water, please.”
I was about to choose green tea when I remembered what Choi Hyena had told me before I came here.
—Try not to drink anything the Tower Lord gives you. You never know what she might put in it.
At first, I thought there was no way someone like the Tower Lord would do such a thing, but she was a genius among geniuses who had become the youngest 7th Circle Mage and Tower Lord.
It made me wonder if the standards of common sense even applied to someone like her.
“Here you go. It’s from the fridge, so it should be cool.”
“Thank you.”
“It’s just water, nothing special.”
The Tower Lord’s friendly smile seemed to make me relax in spite of myself.
‘...She wouldn’t put something in the water, would she?’
The thought suddenly occurred to me, and the cup stopped halfway to my lips. I pretended to take a quiet sip before setting it back down.
“You must be busy preparing for your admission to the Magic Tower. Thank you for coming.”
“Not at all. It was part of our agreement, so of course I had to come.”
“I appreciate you saying that. Shall I give you the contract first?”
The day she had helped me in the Isolated Gate, she had made me a proposal.
It was a simple offer: if I helped her with her research on me, she would provide compensation in return.
I had accepted the proposal on the spot. It was a chance to form a connection with a Tower Lord. Who in the world could refuse?
The Lord of the Gray Magic Tower was, for all intents and purposes, one of the five most powerful people in South Korea, and her influence was immense enough to place her within the top twenty in the entire magic world.
Forming a connection with someone like that was a profitable deal no matter what.
But thinking about it now, it was a decision I slightly regretted. That’s how impossible it was to read the Tower Lord’s true intentions.
“I’m not asking you to sign the contract right now, so there’s no need to be so tense. You’re not a lawyer, Mr. Hyun-woo, so how could you sign a contract right here on the spot? You can take the contract with you, consult with a lawyer, and then sign it, okay?”
Still, for all my wariness, ever since I had entered the workshop, the Tower Lord had been nothing but cordial and perfectly reasonable.
“Thank you.”
“Of course. I actually called you here today just to have a simple chat. I have many questions about your constitution, but I’m also very curious about you as a person, Mr. Hyun-woo.”
The Tower Lord crossed her legs the other way. Because she was wearing a tight-fitting dress with a slight slit, I caught a brief glimpse between her thighs.
Gulp. I swallowed dryly without realizing it. She was so damn beautiful it made me wonder if she’d become the Tower Lord on looks alone.
“You’re truly amazing. To be a 4th Circle at only twenty-one.”
But my heated thoughts were instantly cooled by the Tower Lord’s words.
“...”
“Hoohoo, no need to be so flustered. If you wish to keep it a secret, I can certainly keep my mouth shut. By the way, if the reporters found out, they’d be all over this. It’s surprising enough that someone who’s been learning magic for less than a month reached the 2nd Circle, but the 4th Circle...”
I couldn’t find any negative emotions like jealousy or hostility in the Tower Lord’s eyes. They were simply filled with the pure curiosity of a child.
“I have a lot of questions for you. Would that be alright?”
I was beginning to understand why Choi Hyena had warned me to be careful of the Tower Lord.