The Flame Girl Weeps in Endless Climax
"| Cadets, please enter Arena No. 3. |"
The waiting room door swung open with the announcer's booming call. I passed down a dim corridor and stepped onto the arena floor, where a flood of artificial lighting mixed with natural sun washed my vision stark white. The roar of the crowd crashed over me like a wave, hammering against my eardrums.
"Whew."
I let out a short breath and walked out into the arena. My body still felt light—no, if anything, it felt even more vitalized than it had that morning. Perhaps Harin's little gift hadn't been a simple romp after all; the current of mana circling my dantian flowed smooth and unobstructed.
With my condition this good, I felt confident I could take on whoever my first opponent happened to be.
...That was what I thought, anyway.
"..."
The moment I laid eyes on my opponent walking out of the opposite entrance, I couldn't help but tilt my head.
Elaborately styled crimson hair. A neatly pressed cadet uniform. The staff in her hand looked, at a glance, like the latest custom model from Ignis & Co.
Kang Sera of Class 1.
I'd heard the name before, at least. Daughter of the Guild Master of Prometheus, one of South Korea's top ten guilds. A golden spoon among golden spoons.
But that wasn't the problem.
'...Why is she glaring like that?'
The instant she saw me, she began grinding her teeth as if she'd come face to face with her parents' murderer.
Calling it simple pre-match intimidation didn't cut it—the concentration was far too thick. Contempt, disgust, and unmistakable killing intent. Her gaze alone looked ready to burn a man alive.
I racked my brain desperately. Did I grope her butt by mistake, confusing her with one of my girls? Did I snatch some bread she'd had her eye on at the campus store? Or did I accidentally step on her foot somewhere?
No matter how hard I turned it over, nothing came to mind. We'd barely ever crossed paths to begin with—forget conversation, we'd hardly even run into each other.
"Um, excuse..."
I was just about to offer an awkward greeting at her blatantly obvious hostility when—
"Both competitors, ready!"
The referee stepped between us and raised a hand. Kang Sera, as if she'd been waiting for exactly this, began drawing her mana up.
-FWOOOOSH!!
The air around her warped, and searing heat came washing over the arena.
'...Shit?'
Watching the crimson light gathering at the tip of her staff, I swallowed a hollow laugh. This was no probing shot. She was going all out from the first second. Sparring rules, courtesy, all of it be damned—I could feel through my skin her genuine will to put me halfway in the grave.
"H-hey? Your eyes are kind of terrifying...?"
"Ha. Scared now, are we?"
I blurted it out in flustered confusion, but all I got back was a scornful snort.
"Match—BEGIN!!"
The moment the referee's arm dropped, Kang Sera shrieked shrilly.
"Blaze forth!!"
Red energy exploded violently from the tip of her raised staff. Instinct took over and my hand clamped down on my sword hilt. Whatever her reason was, I couldn't just stand there like a dummy while someone came at me with murder in their eyes.
-KWAAAAAH!!
A scarlet blaze came surging in, threatening to swallow my field of vision whole. The heat was close enough to scald my skin—yet strangely, my mind sank into perfect stillness. Time stretched and slowed around me as, on pure instinct, I awakened the heavy, cold energy sleeping deep within my dantian.
Energy of the Five Elements (S) — Water Qi in operation
One of the Five Elements, the power governed by the Guardian Beast of the North, Xuanwu. Water flows from high to low, gathering the scattered into one and building a vast sea from a thousand streams.
I poured that nature of condensation and cohesion into the tip of my blade.
-Vmmmm!
The blade hummed, shimmering a deep blue. The texture of it would feel utterly alien to anything that girl had ever seen from mana before.
"Hngh!"
I stamped my foot and slashed hard from low to high, driving the energy stored in the sword up through my body like the surge of a tidal wave.
-CHRAAAAASH!!
A blue-black wave split the air.
The massive fireball Kang Sera had hurled collided head-on with the wave bursting from my blade.
-SSSSSSSS!!
Under normal circumstances, a colossal steam explosion should have followed. But the qi of water was nothing so ordinary as mere water.
-Hisssss... pop.
The crimson blaze never got its explosion. Instead, the blue-black wave coiled around the flames like a serpent, swallowing their searing heat whole and smothering them in an instant.
"Wh-what the—?!"
Kang Sera's eyes flooded with horror. Her face said she couldn't believe the sight of her signature technique being devoured so effortlessly.
But it was too early for her to be shocked. The wave that had eaten the fire didn't stop—it came crashing straight toward her.
"Y-you think some lousy water?!"
Kang Sera frantically threw up a mana barrier. Fast reflexes, befitting one of the top first-years.
-CRUNCH!
"Th-this can't...?!"
Regrettably, the barrier tore apart like wet tissue paper. The instant the blue-black wave coiled around her whole body, the dense Yin Qi hidden within it bored straight through Kang Sera's skin.
"Nghiiiiiit?! Kkuh-hnnng...?!"
A strange sound burst from her mouth, somewhere between a scream and a moan. A jolt like a lightning strike crashed deep into her lower belly, somewhere around her womb, while a drug-like pleasure shot up her spine and straight into her brain in one surge.
"Ah, aahn...?! Wh-what is... this feeling... nnghk...!!"
Clatter.
The staff in her hand tumbled to the floor. Kang Sera swayed, unable to hold herself upright. Her legs wobbled like a newborn foal's, and her thighs twisted against each other, rubbing together all on their own.
"Haahn!! W-wait... stooop...!!"
She thrust her hands out desperately, but even that gesture looked like nothing more than begging hands flailing at empty air.
"Nnh, haahhh!! T-too... strooong...!!"
This was far beyond what willpower could suppress. The pride of the aloof Class 1 elite, the daughter of a prestigious family—her dignity melted away in a heartbeat.
-THUD!
Kang Sera dropped to her knees on the arena floor. No—collapsed was more accurate; the strength had simply drained out of her legs. Bracing her upper body on trembling arms, she wailed loudly enough to shake the stadium.
"Kkuhooohh!! N-nooo...! My pussy, my pussyyy...!!"
Her pupils had already rolled back white, nothing but the whites of her eyes showing, and uncontrollable drool ran in a thin line from her gaping mouth down her chin.
"Hek, huk... nn, nnghhh...!!"
Her whole body thrashed like a fish on a hook. The waves of pleasure came crashing without pause, without a single breath to recover—and the relentless onrush of climax burned her reason away to white ash.
"I-I'm—!! I'm cumminggaaah!! I'm dying...!! Nngiiiiiiit?!!"
-Squirt, squirt! Shudddderr...
The extreme orgasm slammed through her entire body. Kang Sera howled like an animal in heat, clawing at the floor. Her back arched like a drawn bow, her hips bucking of their own accord.
"Hik, hiiik...! Nnngh-hnnnggh...❤️"
The convulsions wouldn't stop. This was not going to end with a single climax. The Yin Qi kept stirring up her insides, and Kang Sera remained sprawled on the floor, ass raised high, trembling pathetically.
"Ohhuk, ohhoohh... n-no more... I can't... pwease, pweeease...❤️"
The crowd section fell dead silent, as if doused with cold water, at the sight of the haughty young lady who had been radiating killing intent mere moments ago now crawling on the ground and screaming like a beast in heat. Even the referee, stunned by the shocking spectacle, couldn't manage a word.
"......"
I stood there with my sword lowered, staring blankly down at the mess.
Kang Sera, twitching and drenched in drool and sweat, and the tide still gushing furiously from between her legs.
Behind her, the giant screen was broadcasting her wretched state in glorious close-up.
"Nnghoohk...?! Ohhoohoohk!!"
"| Er... um... |"
How long is that bastard planning to stand there frozen?
"Referee! Are we calling it or not?"
"| Ah! Match concluded! The winner is Cadet Hwan Yihyeon— |"
The barrier that had sealed us in dissolved. A glance to the side showed the neighboring arena had also paused its matches so everyone could enjoy the view of her disgrace.
"...Well, I'm fucked."
Sheathing my blade, I scooped her up in my arms as the lesser evil.
"Hooohk...! Ohgohk...!!"
-SQUIRT!
"..."
Apparently that alone had triggered another climax—water burst out from her panties and soaked through to my clothes. I let out a long sigh. While I was at it, I also collected the Yin Qi I'd accidentally implanted in her body.
-Vmmm.
"Hey... you okay there?"
"Nnh... haahn..."
Just when she seemed to be improving, she'd convulse again—not fully back yet, it seemed. I knew where the infirmary was. Dump her there and she'd pull herself together and wander out on her own eventually.
The problem was what came after. I'd just defiled a precious heiress in front of the entire world...
"Goddammit."
I had no idea. First thing to do was talk it over with Cheonghwa and Yeoryeong-noona. I decided to stop thinking altogether.
Meanwhile, at that very moment, in the Prometheus Guild—
-CRACK!!
With a thunderous boom, the mahogany desk in the executive office split in half.
"......"
Scarlet heat rose from the fist of Kang Muhyuk, Guild Master of Prometheus, one of South Korea's top ten guilds. At his murderous aura, the secretaries and executives in the room kept their heads bowed, not even daring to breathe.
On the 100-inch screen mounted on the wall, his own daughter, Kang Sera, was being broadcast live from moments ago—screaming 'nnghiiiit-ohgohk' as she climaxed. And in her thoroughly drenched, utterly debauched state, panties soaked clean through, no less.
"Explain."
A voice like ground glass ground out of Kang Muhyuk's mouth.
"Is that... what my daughter looked like? The heir I was told would become Korea's greatest fire mage?"
"W-well... we are beyond ashamed, Guild Master!"
The head secretary went pale and slammed his forehead against the floor.
"We are equally baffled. The artifact Miss Sera was wearing was certified A-rank defensive equipment. And yet in a single strike—"
"The armor was never the damn problem!!"
Kang Muhyuk roared, his eyes smoldering.
"What I want to know is what the hell that kid is playing at!"
"......"
Kang Muhyuk's eyes, honed since the very first appearance of the gates, could not be deceived. The movement of muscle faintly visible through the screen, the flow of mana in the instant before the strike was released.
It belonged, unmistakably, to a hero who had held the line against the primordial gates. The power that had neutralized Sera—an S-rank mana affinity—in a single blow. And beyond that, that monstrous, overwhelming control: subduing his opponent purely through pleasure without inflicting a single wound.
"Hwan... Yihyeon, was it."
Kang Muhyuk ground his teeth and glared at the male student's face on the screen.
"Handle it. Now. Contact the Academy... that Goldsmith woman as well."
"Shall we send a disposal team to bury him?"
"No."
Kang Muhyuk fished a cigar from the drawer of the ruined desk and clamped it between his teeth, eyes gleaming.
"Find out, down to the last detail, what the source of that power was—and who stands behind him."
"Understood."
His daughter's humiliation was irrelevant. A child who wasn't the heir was, in the end, nothing more than a long-term piece on the board for keeping the guild standing tall.
"If the situation proves favorable... I may just have to take him as a son-in-law."
The justification was more than sufficient. Threaten him with the girl as leverage, and he'd join Prometheus willingly enough.
"I refuse to lose him to East Blue."
-Click!
Picturing the rival guild that swept up talent with its Bottomless financial capital, Kang Muhyuk lit his cigar.