Radiant Ascension
"Hah… hah… hah…!"
I gasped for air, chest heaving. My inner energy and parts of my body had been sealed by pressure-point strikes, and for more than ten hours I had been having sex with Yeon Ye-ha without a single break. My flesh had finally hit its limit. The absurd part was that my cock still refused to go down. Even now it stood rigid and ready.
Losing my own pace was the biggest problem. And… not being able to circulate my inner energy didn't help either.
If I had been able to run even a little qi through my meridians, I never would have worn myself out this badly. Still, this body of mine was hardly ordinary — a short rest and I would be back to normal.
The real problem is whether Yeon Ye-ha will leave me alone…
I glanced down. She lay sprawled across my chest, eyes closed. Sweat-slicked, she rested her face against me. Given that only moments ago she had been grinding her hips with shameless abandon, wringing every drop from my cock, I doubted she was truly asleep.
"Mm…"
She shifted, arms tightening around me. I had become her personal body pillow. Aside from the fact that I could not so much as twitch a finger or a toe, the arrangement was not unpleasant. The press of her full breasts and the feel of her skin against mine were intoxicating.
Damn it. If you're going to cling to me like this, at least put my cock back inside you.
It was trapped between the cleft of her ass and her thighs.
"Yeon Ye-ha."
I had no choice but to call her name. Her eyelids lifted.
"What is it?"
"You're not seriously planning to sleep like this, are you? We're in the middle of Ipmaso's final trial. We don't have time to lie around."
"Don't worry. We have plenty of time."
Her gaze slid sideways. Two black wooden beads rested carefully atop our discarded clothes — the ones I had claimed. I would not have minded if she took one. The second was only insurance, something I carried for emergencies.
"We need to start escaping now. If we stay like this, we fail and get eliminated. You already know — Ipmaso awards Spirit Pills to those with outstanding results. We're talking about actual Spirit Pills."
"So you're asking me to release the pressure points."
"I won't attack you. I swear it. You have every right to take me. Now that you know who I am, you can use the Cult's power to kill me whenever you please."
"If I free the points right now, you could kill me."
"If I kill you now, I die too. Your father, the Sword Demon, is no fool. You think he wouldn't figure out I was the one who did it?"
"Hmm. In other words, you're admitting you've become my cock slave."
"…So that's where this ends up. Fine. For the time being, I'll play along as your cock slave."
"Very well. I'll release some of the points."
She jabbed her fingers into various spots across my body. My upper half came free. The problem was that my inner energy and my lower body remained sealed. I flailed my arms like a child. Being able to move my torso meant nothing — I still could not do a thing with it.
Using Heavenly Mind or Complete Recovery to break the seals was out of the question. That would only invite her suspicion.
"…Yeon Ye-ha. Did you not understand me? We need to find the exit—"
The words were cut short. She had suddenly kissed me.
It was a fierce, hungry kiss. She tilted her head, changing the angle as she ground her lips against mine. At the same time her tongue and saliva invaded my mouth. Her tongue roamed every corner as if determined to claim me completely.
The kiss went on. Our breath mingled. My mouth filled with her taste and scent.
I moved both hands. Far from pushing her away, I stroked the smooth line of her back with my left hand and kneaded her lush ass with my right. Soft flesh spilled between my fingers. Large, yielding, springy — just touching it felt good.
"Pwah…"
At last her mouth left mine. A sticky strand of saliva stretched between our lips. She stuck out her tongue and swept it across her own mouth, cleaning herself up in a rough, careless way. For someone whose face never changed expression, she knew exactly how to make me hard — experience had taught her well.
My hands were still roaming her body, caressing and squeezing, and she said nothing about it.
"As I said before, we have time. You are my cock slave, so you will do as I say."
"…Fine. I'll obey. So what, do you want me to lick your asshole again?"
"……"
She fell silent, clearly displeased by the sarcasm. Then she reached back with her right hand and seized my balls in a crushing grip.
"……!!"
"You are my cock slave. I would appreciate it if you remembered your place."
"Ghk… S-sorry. Let go of my balls…"
That was my weak spot.
Thanks to the effect of Hero's Testicles, they would not burst — but the pain came through in full. Having them squeezed was agony beyond description. A knife driven into my gut would have been kinder.
A faint smile flickered across Yeon Ye-ha's lips. She released my balls and laid her head back against my chest.
"I'm going to sleep for about three hours. Be quiet. And stroke my body gently with your hands."
"Stroke you? Is that why you freed the points?"
"Yes. I think I'll sleep better if you caress me. And…"
She pulled me closer.
"…your body heat feels rather nice."
Yeon Ye-ha closed her eyes. She truly meant to rest.
As her cock slave, I did as she ordered. I stroked her body with slow, careful hands — starting at her back, then her ass, her thighs, her breasts. Before long she had fallen into a deep sleep, completely unguarded.
Does she trust me? Or is she trusting something else entirely?
I touched her beautiful face for a while, and then sleep took me as well.
I was just as exhausted.
Squish, squelch, slap, squish, squelch…
My cock felt good. Pleasure I knew well pulled me up out of unconsciousness.
"Aahng! Ahn! Hnnngh…!"
Yeon Ye-ha was moving her hips above me. Her pussy swallowed my cock and released it again and again. She rode me so hard that the juices pouring from her turned to white foam, sliding down my shaft. Around the root of my cock a thick collar of froth had already gathered.
Slap!
Her ass came down hard against my groin. She straightened her back and squeezed her own breasts with both hands. Her body shuddered.
"Aaah, aaaaah…!"
I came inside her, and she gushed around me, a thin stream of piss escaping as she climaxed. Warmth spread across my lower half. Only after she had emptied every drop of fluid did she push herself upright.
Her face was so calm it was hard to believe this was the same woman who had been panting with pleasure moments before. If not for the fresh semen dripping from her pussy, I might have thought nothing had happened at all.
"You're awake. I've released the pressure points."
My hands and feet moved freely. The inner energy that had been locked away flowed through my meridians at my will. I sat cross-legged and ran a light circulation. The fog cleared. I felt restored.
I looked at Yeon Ye-ha. She was washing herself in the lake. Those full breasts, that generous ass — she even lifted her arms and scrubbed carefully under them. She looked like a celestial maiden who had descended from the heavens to bathe.
Now I understand why the woodcutter stole the fairy's clothes. I should visit the world of the Fairy and the Woodcutter sometime.
With the Amusement Life app, I could enter fairy-tale worlds as well. Come to think of it, places like Snow White or Cinderella might not be bad either.
Heungbu and Nolbu would work too. Heungbu's wife has to be an absolute beauty. There's no other way she could keep popping out kids like that.
I stood and waded into the lake. The cold water snapped me fully awake. I washed myself, eyes fixed on Yeon Ye-ha the entire time.
The celestial maiden washing herself with such grace suddenly moved into the shallows and squatted. She pushed her fingers into her pussy and scraped out the semen inside. Squelch. Push. Plop. Every time her fingers went in and out, her inner lips fluttered and made lewd, wet sounds.
I quietly marveled at how an elegant fairy could turn vulgar in an instant. Even more impressive was her expression — a perfect blank, without the slightest hint of shame.
Once clean, she stirred up a breeze with her inner energy to dry herself, then picked up the torn bandages and began binding her chest before dressing.
A short while later we sat fully clothed on a rock, facing each other. Sitting there in quiet calm, the previous night felt almost like a dream. It was no dream. The kiss marks still dark on my neck were proof enough.
"Yeon Ye-ha. Is there a way out of here?"
"The only way is to go back the way we came."
"Even for us, that would be difficult. There's nowhere to plant your feet climbing that waterfall. And even if we made it to the top, that wouldn't be the end — we'd still have to swim against the current."
"…Is there another method?"
I pointed to one side of the underground lake. There was a hole where the water drained away — large enough for two people to pass through.
"We go out through that underwater passage."
"I have no information on that tunnel. It could stretch more than a hundred jang. It might narrow until a person can't fit. There might even be monsters."
"I intend to pass the fourth trial and claim a Spirit Pill. I promise you we will leave Ipma Cave. So trust me."
"…You want me to trust you with no basis at all?"
"Yes."
In truth, it was not much of a gamble for me. I could breathe underwater. I could stay submerged all day without trouble.
That did not mean I planned to do anything to Yeon Ye-ha down there. If things went wrong, I could simply use a Spatial Transfer Scroll and take her out with me.
The Spatial Transfer Scroll is a last resort. If Yeon Ye-ha finds out about it, things could get complicated in all sorts of ways.
If she refused, I would climb back up into Ipma Cave the way she had suggested.
"Very well. I'll trust you."
"…Just like that? You trust me that easily?"
"In our truth exchange, you never once broke the rules. And you're staking your life on this as well."
"Thanks for the trust. First… if you use your inner energy, how long can you last underwater?"
"…About one gak should be possible. More than two… would be difficult."
One gak was fifteen minutes. If more than two was beyond her, then roughly twenty minutes was Yeon Ye-ha's limit. A little disappointing for a Chulji-rank expert, but there was nothing to be done about it. She had never trained to hold her breath underwater.
Twenty minutes would probably be enough.