Chapter 168: The Midnight Auction (6)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 168: The Midnight Auction (6)
The maid, who had introduced herself as Melissa, suddenly sat herself on my lap and stared at me quietly with eyes that seemed half-devoid of life.
In contrast to her deadened gaze, her face was flushed with a deep blush.
“Hehe.”
Melissa licked her lips, a seductive smile playing on them.
The way her hand caressed my shoulder, the feel of her soft skin against my thigh, the scent of her body tickling my nose...
Her words and actions, clearly meant to arouse a man's base instincts, only put me on edge.
In that moment, I realized my vision, usually crystal clear, was strangely different.
‘...Black magic.’
They say that once a spell is seen through, the chain of its continuity is broken.
Simply put, its effect is halved. Thanks to that, I could detect the faint flow of dark energy from her fingertips.
“A 3rd Circle Mage truly is different. I never expected you to see through my magic so quickly.”
“Are you sure it’s not just because your magic is sloppy?”
“Hmm, I don’t think so. Even that idiot over there spent three years as my doll, and not a single person, from the servants to his own family, ever noticed.”
Henriot Hessler remained still, his head bowed.
He looked like a puppet with its strings cut.
“For your own good, I’d advise you to refrain from using magic.”
The moment I tried to draw on my magic, Melissa caressed my cheek.
I thought a black mage’s skin would be cold as a corpse, but hers was surprisingly warm.
“The tea you just drank, Henrik, was mixed with the venom of an Antrio. It’s a cute little scorpion from the Sutra Great Desert that has a powerful paralyzing effect, not to mention it also makes your magic circuits flow in reverse.”
As soon as she finished her explanation, dark red blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
Just trying to draw on my magic had caused internal injuries.
Seemingly pleased by this, Melissa unhesitatingly wiped the blood from my lips. Her pale white hand was instantly stained with my blood.
It must have been sticky and unpleasant, but she showed no sign of disgust.
Instead, she stared at her own fingers with a strange heat in her eyes before slowly bringing them to her lips.
“Slurp, suckle, schlick...♡”
Melissa’s bright red tongue slid along her fingers. She toyed with them as if they were coated in sweet honey.
As her moist tongue savored the taste, turning from red to a dark crimson, an ecstatic smile spread across her face.
With half-lidded eyes, she gently bit the tip of her finger and caught her breath, a deliberate smile spreading across her lips.
“Ah...”
Melissa looked at her now-clean fingers with a hint of disappointment.
I was dumbfounded by the scene unfolding before me.
“Do black mages drink blood when they’re hungry?”
“Of course not. We’re not vampires.”
A smile never left her lips, as if she found something immensely amusing.
“Hehe, although, if all human blood tasted like yours, Henrik, perhaps living as a vampire wouldn’t be so bad after all.”
The woman who’d just served me poisoned tea was now wrapping her arms around my neck, closing the distance between us.
Her pale, soft breasts pressed against my chest.
“Really... I swear, this has never happened before, but being this close to you, Henrik, is making my head feel all fuzzy. Inhale, haah...♡”
Melissa buried her face in the crook of my neck, breathing in and out repeatedly.
Seeing her cling to me like a lover, I finally understood the reason for her behavior.
‘Pheromones.’
The poison had disrupted the flow of my magic, causing my pheromones to spread uncontrollably. Melissa, being so close, had been affected.
The way she’d licked my blood like a vampire must have been because of the skill that sweetens my bodily fluids.
These were pheromones potent enough to affect a Tower Lord. There was no way a mere black mage could resist.
Besides, my bodily fluids also contained a faint aphrodisiac component.
Of course, it seemed to be working a little too well, but that wasn’t my problem.
“How did you hide your dark energy?”
“Hnngh...♡ What...?♡”
I had watched her carefully throughout the meal, but I couldn’t sense a trace of dark energy from her.
In fact, her magic power was less than that of an ordinary person.
And while I’d felt an instinctual revulsion when I first sensed dark energy in the underground auction house, I felt nothing now.
“Ah... is that what you were curious about?”
Melissa smiled, looking at me with feverish eyes.
She suddenly reached into her cleavage and pulled something out. It was a small talisman with a black rose drawn on it.
“It’s an artifact that conceals dark energy. I’m not supposed to show it to anyone, of course... but since you’re about to become my very own doll, Henrik, I suppose it’s fine.”
“...?”
At that moment, the dark energy I felt from her fingertips and the pressure gripping my entire body intensified.
It was another black magic spell.
Just as I was debating whether to draw on my internal energy...
Rustle. Melissa began to take off her maid uniform, revealing large, soft-looking breasts.
“With my other dolls, just casting the spell was enough, but a mage’s mental barrier is so formidable...”
The pressure that had been constricting my body now tried to penetrate it.
I could feel it trying to bypass my mana circles and dantian, reaching for something closer to my very core.
I had no specific knowledge about it, but I knew instinctively that it was my soul.
“...But if it’s you, Henrik, I think I’d be happy to give you my first time.”
I finally realized what kind of black magic Melissa was using.
I didn’t know the exact effects, but it was probably a type of magic that bound another’s soul to seize control of their body.
Of course, given what she said about mental barriers, it might not just be control of the body she was after.
Laid out like this, it sounded like an absurdly overpowered spell, but I knew that magic wasn’t omnipotent.
For someone who hasn’t reached a certain level of mastery to use a spell that transcends it, they must pay a corresponding price.
To begin with, the level Melissa displayed after revealing her dark energy was slightly below my own.
If she could use such a spell with only dark energy as the price, the world would have long been dominated by black mages.
‘The fact that she used a poison to suppress my magic flow must mean it’s possible to resist to some extent with magic, right?’
The soul-binding also felt incomplete. Her sudden attempt to have sex with me was probably related to that.
Just as I was methodically piecing together the information I had...
Squeeze. Melissa pressed my cheeks with both hands.
“I know a mage’s curiosity can be fanatical, but this is my first time, you know? Won’t you please pay attention?”
I stared at Melissa, dumbfounded.
Is this woman, who’s trying to bind my soul and turn me into a doll, really asking me to pay attention because it’s her first time?
“Hehe, you don’t have to worry.”
Melissa pulled my face into her chest. Buried between her large breasts, I felt my mind and body calming down against my will.
At this point, I figured I could afford to observe the situation a little longer. If things went south, I could just end the match.
“I know what you’re worried about, Henrik. You must be scared, suddenly being told you’re going to become a doll.”
Melissa whispered to me in a gentle voice, as if to reassure me.
“If you know, then give me the antidote.”
“I can’t do that.♡ You’re going to be my very own doll now, Henrik. We’ll always be together. When we eat, when we bathe, when we sleep.”
Melissa’s hands, which had been caressing my body, suddenly moved to my trousers. She unbuckled my belt, and her face lit up when she saw my underwear.
“Haah...♡ The scent has gotten so much stronger...♡”
Perhaps because of the paralyzing poison, my dick was completely limp.
But after a few clumsy strokes from Melissa, it swelled as if it had never been limp, threatening to burst through my underwear.
Gulp. With the sound of a dry swallow from somewhere, Melissa carefully pulled down my underwear.
“So this is a man’s...”
It seemed to be her first time seeing a real dick. She stared at it, speechless and mesmerized, for a long while.
Because she was sitting on my lap, my dick was pressed right against her lower abdomen.
It was long enough to reach her navel if pushed all the way in. Melissa gasped.
‘...Should I just use my internal energy?’
Of course, Melissa’s reaction was more than enough to boost a man’s ego, but it was a bitter regret that the poison prevented me from grabbing those huge breasts as I pleased.
The magic circuits that carry mana and the qi channels that carry internal energy are two completely different systems.
Well, most of the physically-oriented hunters on Earth seem to use mana instead of internal energy, though.
In any case, it meant that I could still draw on my internal energy even in my current poisoned state.
If I did, I could overpower Melissa in an instant.
But I decided to hold back for now.
After all, being reverse-raped by a virgin isn’t something you get to experience every day.
“Heh, hehe... It’s a little bigger than I expected, but this is nothing.”
Melissa suddenly started putting on a brave front. She was probably scared of having her first time while sitting on top of me.
Rustle. Steeling herself, Melissa took the hem of her skirt and slowly began to lift it.
As she lifted the long, ankle-length skirt, a shocking sight was revealed.
Pristine white stockings, a garter belt, and pure white panties.
It was the ideal scene from under a maid’s skirt that I had only ever imagined.
My dick twitched again and again, independent of my will.
“...It won’t be long now. The moment you become my doll, Henrik.”
Melissa’s panties were stained.
Well, she’d not only gotten a full dose of my uncontrolled pheromones but had also drunk my blood. Her entire body must have been sensitized to the extreme.
As Melissa pulled her panties aside with a trembling hand, a string of sticky love juice trickled down.
For a virgin, she was unbelievably aroused.
I couldn’t see it clearly, but her pussy was much prettier than I’d expected. A tightly closed slit, and completely hairless.
There were no signs of shaving, so it was likely she was naturally hairless.
Squelch♡
“Aah...!♡”
Taking a deep breath, Melissa slowly lowered her hips. The head of my dick, slick with pre-cum, touched her vaginal opening.
It was a strange position. She was precariously balancing herself, using only her leg strength to keep her entrance pressed against my tip.
“Hnngh, uuh...♡”
Hot breaths and moans escaped her small lips, as if she was getting off from the slight friction alone.
Moreover, her pussy, sensitized by the pheromones, endlessly gushed love juice. So much of it flowed down the shaft of my dick that my groin was getting soaked.
It was wet enough to penetrate right away without any foreplay.
Squish, squelch♡
“Hnngh, ugh...?!♡”
As it became harder for her to hold the position, Melissa’s legs began to tremble.
Each time they shook, the head of my dick pushed a little deeper into her.
“N-Now...!”
A faint light of determination entered Melissa’s eyes as she steeled her resolve.
But unfortunately for her, my patience ran out first.
The Vajra Qi coiled in my dantian exploded.
The paralyzing poison constricting my body, and even the chains clinging to my soul, were shattered in an instant.
“Huh? W-What was that just now...?!”
Sensing that something was wrong, a startled Melissa tried to pull away and summon her dark energy.
But it was too late.
Grabbing her hips with both hands, I treated her like a fleshlight and rammed my dick straight into her.
Shluuuurp—♡
“......Eh?”
Melissa stared blankly down at her groin with unfocused eyes.
(Illustration of Melissa)
