Chapter 802: The Dungeon’s Mana
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 802: The Dungeon’s Mana
And so, we immediately started tumbling together in bed.
It seemed everyone else understood the state of mind we were in, as no one came looking for me in my room. We weren’t interrupted even once.
To give you an idea, even Vanessa, who should have come to call us for mealtime, stayed away. That said it all.
We continued to explore each other’s bodies, breaking my all-time record for the longest session, but even so, there were limits.
When the sky outside my window had turned dark, I decided to stop for a while and pulled myself out of Matilda.
“Euh!”
No, I was fine. Thanks to Healing Sex, my stamina and virility were practically infinite as long as I was having sex.
The problem was Matilda.
Of course, Matilda also benefited from the effects of Healing Sex.
But her brain had been steeped in pleasure from morning until night.
I was fine thanks to my Indomitable Libido, but a normal person’s mind might have snapped.
Just like Matilda’s right now.
“Hahh… haa… haaah… y-you… heah…”
Matilda lay sprawled on the bed, her limbs limp and her dazed eyes staring into space.
Her nipples and clitoris were still hard, and her body trembled intermittently even though I was no longer touching her.
“Y-you…”
But even in that state, Matilda in her pink mode continued to crave me.
She barely managed to lift a hand, weakly grabbing my arm.
But I gently removed her hand, gave her a light kiss on the lips, and sat up completely.
“It’s okay. I’m not trying to end it.”
It was already the middle of the night.
The fact that no one had come looking for us probably meant I could stay with Matilda all night, regardless of whether the others had finished their special training and returned from the dungeon.
“I’m just going to step out and get us something to eat. You must be getting hungry, right, Matilda?”
“Nnngh…”
At my question, Matilda shook her head slightly, as if to say no.
She hadn’t eaten anything since breakfast, but it seemed my dear pink-mode Matilda hated the idea of being separated from me, even for a moment, more than she hated being hungry.
Seeing her like this made me want to just keep going, but any more and she might actually break.
Let’s take a break and have a meal.
“I’ll be right back. Just wait here for a moment.”
I leaned down and gave her lips another light kiss.
Matilda’s limp tongue tried to push its way into my mouth, as if to tell me not to go, but I quickly pulled away and got off the bed.
After covering her with a blanket, I washed myself with a water spirit, threw on some clothes, and left the room.
Alright, then. Would anyone be in the kitchen at this hour?
Normally, Vanessa would have appeared the moment she sensed I’d left my room, but for some reason, she was nowhere to be seen today.
Though, of course, it was late at night.
…Could it be that she’s still too embarrassed to face me?
I thought things would have mostly blown over since we saw each other this morning.
Then again, things were so hectic that I never really had a chance to properly smooth things over with her.
Can’t be helped. I’ll head to the kitchen first.
I could call Vanessa over and sort things out right now, but who knows how long that would take.
And I did tell Matilda I’d be right back.
Besides that, I wanted to focus only on Matilda today.
To get straight to the point, there were people in the kitchen.
The maids there were all incredibly flustered to see me, which made them a little hard to deal with, but I managed to get some food without any trouble.
I mean, I was dressed in a way that screamed, “I just had an insane amount of sex until a moment ago.”
Even though I’d washed up with a water spirit, it seemed I couldn’t completely erase that particular aura.
“Ah… you’re back so soon.”
When I returned to the room with the food, Matilda was sitting up in bed, looking much calmer. It seemed her pink mode had subsided in my absence.
Well, her disheveled hair, flushed skin, and ragged breaths still hinted at the afterglow of our lovemaking.
“I told you I’d be right back.”
As I set the food down on the table in the room, Matilda slowly got off the bed.
“Are you okay? Can you stand? Need some help?”
“Yes, I’m fine.”
Her legs were indeed trembling slightly, but she managed to stand on her own two feet and slowly walk toward me.
Well, the issue was the lingering pleasure, not a lack of physical stamina.
By the way, was there really a need to wrap a blanket around herself? It’s not like it was cold.
“No. Not while we’re eating.”
As if sensing my gaze, Matilda pulled the blanket she was holding up to her chest even higher and smiled.
“So, you’re saying it’s okay after we finish eating?”
“Yes. Please love me as much as you did earlier.”
Huh? Wait a minute. This wasn’t the reaction I was expecting. Matilda? I thought you were out of pink mode.
Finding my speechless reaction amusing, Matilda smiled softly and sat down in the chair across from me.
“I’ve been thinking a little. About how I can help you. There’s one more way, isn’t there?”
“Hm?”
“Channeling the Goddess into my body. If I try just a little harder, I’ll be able to do it too, right?”
“Ah, well, yes. I suppose so.”
True. Matilda’s Holy Knight’s Faith level was almost maxed out.
But to raise it, she needed to do something befitting a holy knight, and with her curse, that was difficult unless she went into the dungeon with me.
“While you’re in the dungeon, I’m thinking of going to the temple. I thought I could offer what little help I can in training new holy knights. It would help stabilize the dungeon, and I’d be able to grow as well. It would also be helpful when I teach Leia.”
That made sense. If Cardinal Matilda, a holy knight who had risen to the highest ranks, offered to teach, there would be a flood of aspiring clerics.
And if the number of holy knights increased, other adventurers would be safer, too.
“Matilda, you don’t have to be so fixated on helping me. Just seeing your face is enough to make me happy.”
I just hope she doesn’t push herself too hard.
Besides, from her attitude, it seemed she was expecting more from channeling the Goddess than just being helpful to me.
Does she think that if she channels the Goddess, she’ll find a way to enter the dungeon herself?
It wasn’t a thought that hadn’t crossed my mind, but I’d deliberately avoided mentioning it because I didn’t want to give her false hope.
After all, Alicia’s words had all but confirmed my and Diana’s hypothesis that clerics couldn’t go deep into the dungeon because of the War God’s mana.
That, in turn, meant that the hypothesis that I was brought from another dimension to be the Saint because I had a constitution that could handle both the Goddess’s mana and the War God’s mana had gained some credibility.
So, there was probably no way for a cleric without that special disposition to explore the dungeon’s deeper levels.
No, of course, my hypothesis could be wrong, so it wasn’t an absolute impossibility.
But there was no need to give her false hope only to have her be disappointed later.
“You… Euk! N-no. This is something I want to do.”
Hearing my words, Matilda was so moved that she almost slipped back into pink mode, but she shook her head vigorously and managed to hold it back.
“But won’t it be dangerous?”
I had told her before to go to the temple without me, but that was because I assumed Leia or someone else would be with her.
But if she went while we were in the dungeon, Leia wouldn’t be able to accompany her.
Of course, seeing her shake off the pink mode just now, it didn’t seem like she would fall into it as easily as before, even if she ran into another man while she was alone.
“It’s fine. For now, I plan to only teach the women. And I’ll ask Vanessa to escort me to the temple.”
As if she knew what I was worried about, Matilda smiled again.
Vanessa, huh. I could certainly rest easy if Vanessa was with her.
Well, at this point, the story of the cursed Cardinal Matilda being in my party was so famous that most people in this city would recognize her face. It was unlikely any man would try to approach her. If anything, they’d probably avoid her.
“But you never know what might happen, right? So, with the resolve to completely eliminate the curse today, please love me after we eat, too.”
Ah, so that’s where this was going. No wonder she was being so proactive.
But to use the taunt that she might fall into pink mode with another man…
Matilda, you’ve made a mistake.
I was being considerate and created this break for dinner, and you’re going to provoke me like that?
“My dear? Have you finished your meal already? You should eat more…”
When I stood up from my seat, Matilda tilted her head with a puzzled expression.
No way. Of course not. I’ve been starving all day.
I’m going to keep eating. Just… while having sex.
“It’s a waste of time to just eat.”
“What? Y-you?!”
Ignoring a flustered Matilda, I threw off all my clothes.
Then I yanked away the blanket she had wrapped around herself.
Once we were both completely naked again, I slipped my hands under her armpits and lifted her up.
I sat down in the chair she had just been in and lowered her body onto mine.
“Nnnghh?!”
Needless to say, as I lowered her, I made sure to insert myself inside her.
We may have taken a short break, but it wasn’t nearly long enough for Matilda’s body, which had been soaked in pleasure for hours, to completely cool down.
The entrance to her vagina was still soft and pliant. As I pushed inside, the slick, wet folds of her flesh enveloped me, giving me a gentle welcome.
“Let’s eat like this. Sound good?”
Having sex even while eating was a rather depraved sight, even in a world like this.
Clerics, in particular, tended to view sex as more sacred than others.
This was definitely not how a Cardinal should behave.
“B-but, like this… Nngh… I can’t eat properly…”
But Matilda didn’t refuse me for that reason.
She put up some resistance, but only because the pleasure of having sex while eating would be too intense to focus on her meal.
“Is that okay?”
“Haang?! Heut… Y-yes… if that’s… what you want…”
And even that resistance melted away the moment I asked again with a light thrust of my hips.
I sometimes wonder if I, the Saint who has been acknowledged as the Goddess’s messenger, am corrupting clerics like Leia and Matilda in a very strange way.
Well, not that I have any intention of stopping.
In fact, I think it’s perfectly fine for them to be even lewder when they’re with me.
It’s not like the Goddess has struck me down with divine punishment, so she must approve. Yes.
With that thought, I took a sip of wine and kissed Matilda.
“Mmm… mwah. Hahmm… slurp.”
Realizing my intent, Matilda actively moved her tongue to taste the wine in my mouth.
Moving our tongues like this to taste the wine felt a little different from a normal kiss, stimulating me in a new and pleasant way.
Above, I savored the sweet taste of a wine-flavored kiss while my hands explored the soft texture of her breasts. Below, I trembled with the pleasure from her slick, clinging vagina. And so, I began our long, long meal.
And of course, we continued even after the meal was over. When I came to my senses, it was already morning.
Aside from the brief chat with Diana and Alicia right after I got back from the dungeon yesterday morning, I’d been having sex almost non-stop… No need to even calculate it. This was truly a new all-time record.
A few more sessions like this, and we might really be able to get rid of the curse in no time.
Though, given Matilda’s circumstances, it would be impossible to do this many more times.
“Haeh… m-my… deaar… l-lo… ve…”
Looking at Matilda, who was completely melted down—even more so than Silvia—and couldn’t even lift a finger as she lay sprawled on the bed, I broke out in a bit of a cold sweat.
Yeah. I did this, but maybe I went a little too far.