Chapter 32 – The Journey to Stronghold

Heracles sat in his carriage angrily, yelling "Faster! Faster!" at the carriage driver. 

His carriage was actually filled with 3 other pretty girls from lower backgrounds, and he chose them to accompany him after Aria and Arisa joined Samsara and Instructor Gwen in their carriage. 

The girls were intimidated by the heir to the Hellstrom Clan as they came from the nearby villages, found to have sufficient talent to join the Academy.

While Heracles was a level 32 Fire Mage and heir to a famous clan, these girls were barely level 10-15 at best, with no actual magical abilities yet, only raw talent. 

He opened the curtains and yelled as his carriage overtook Samsara's carriage, drawing petty satisfaction in beating his carriage. 

But as he passed them, the shadows of the people inside the carriage looked strange. It looked like one of the females were sitting on Samsara's lap, facing him and bouncing up and down as the carriage rolled down the stone road.

"Was there someone sitting on his lap? Is it Aria? Arisa? It can't be Instructor Gwen could it? Bastard! It's impossible!" he cursed in his heart.

He shoved his hands into the top of the girl sitting beside him by the name of Annette and groped her breasts while he forced the girl sitting opposite him, Cybelle to suck his cock. The last girl in the carriage, Luna sat terrified while the other two were forced to obey him. 

In the meantime in Sam's carriage, Aria got off his lap as warm cum dripped out of her as Arisa took her turn on him, rocking to the rhythmic movement of the carriage. Gwen watched with hungry eyes as she waited for her turn.

Sam on the other hand was half asleep. They were ravenous last night, but today the three of them were still insatiable. 

While Arisa fucked him, Gwen climbed on him and kissed him while rubbing her breasts on his face. Sam felt Aria licking and sucking his balls as his cum from earlier and Arisa's pussy juices flowed down his cock. 

Suddenly there was a loud commotion and the carriages started moving faster, as if there was an emergency. 

The road became bumpier and suddenly there was a large bump up ahead. 

The carriage Sam was in wasn't at the front, it was third in order before Heracle's carriage overtook it. The first two carriages were filled with other instructors and Merlin. 

So when going over the bumps, Heracles' carriage went over it first and it flew into the air before landing painfully.

Heracles screamed as Cybelle accidentally chomped down hard on his cock. His hands were stuck inside Annette's dress and he couldn't remove them in time. 

He ripped open Annette's dress and slapped Cybelle with his hand, causing her to faint. The other two girls cringed and started crying. 

In Sam's carriage, Arisa flew off his cock and landed with her ass being impaled by his huge cock. She gasped in shock, unable to move as Sam stared at her. It was incredibly tight.

"What is going on?" Gwen muttered, starting to dress up. 

Aria also followed suit, putting on her clothes. 

Arisa looked at Sam helplessly as he slowly exited her tight anus. 

"That hurt! But I want to try it again when I'm more prepared" Arisa said, putting on her dress. 

Sam nodded. Even he was getting concerned by the sounds from outside. 

Their carriage had a damaged wheel and was moving erratically as the other carriages passed them, leaving them nearly last. 

"Why isn't the carriage stopping? We should fix the wheel before we continue the journey" she said. 

Gwen opened the curtains to find that the carriages were all frantically racing each other trying to get away from something. 

As Sam opened the curtain at the back of the carriage, he was shocked to see the carriages being chased by a horde of orcs!

"Orcs!" Arisa screamed looking through the same window. 

"Do we fight?" Sam asked. 

"No, the carriage drivers were given the order to run. There are too many orcs and not enough instructors, we won't win this fight" Gwen said in a concerned tone. 

Just then, the carriages all entered a ravine which was narrow and could only fit one at a time. 

They were the last to enter but they suddenly found themselves in an ambush!

Arrows pierced the carriage from all angles, with all of them finding themselves hit by at least an arrow.

However, as Sam removed an arrow from his thigh and cast [Heal] on himself, he saw Gwen, Aria and Arisa looking at themselves with astonishment as they barely felt pain from arrows piercing their bodies!

Furthermore, to their shock, as they pulled arrows from their bodies and their wounds healed instantly!

Before they could question further, they found that the carriage was moving even more erratically. 

Then suddenly with a thud, they saw the outline of their carriage driver falling off the carriage with arrows sticking out of him. 

"Shit! We have no driver driving this thing!" Sam yelled

The carriage careened down the ravine, and as the horse made a sharp turn, the carriage smashed into the side and overturned with all the passengers inside. The horses broke their legs and bones and whinnied at the side as more arrows finally killed them. 

Sam and the girls got up, and Sam had to heal himself again as he had several broken ribs and broke his arm but the girls looked unharmed as they seem to heal instantly from any damage. 

"We've got to get out of this ravine!" Gwen yelled as she conjured a light shield, blocking arrows and rocks thrown at them from above the ravine. 

Just as Sam was about to bring everyone into the Nexus, he saw Aria and Arisa getting ready for battle.

Aria's eyes started glowing red and her arms burned with flames as her skin looked rocky yet metallic at the same time.

While Arisa's eyes shone in blue as a tornado of air, water as well as lightning surrounded her. 

"Lets go" Aria said as she and Arisa charge forwards, shooting magma balls and lightning bolts. 

They looked like two elementals as they charged out, covering Gwen and Sam.

Gwen nodded and pulled Sam along as they ran out of the ravine. 

"They're.... they're so powerful!" Sam said in shock, seeing both sisters in action as he haphazardly shot [Magic Missile], all hitting the multiple targets he didn't even aim at. 

"No.. they were not so good with their elemental powers before. I suspect you changed something in us. Even I wasn't able to use my magic so efficiently before this" Gwen said as she used her light shield with one hand and shot concussive bolts with the other. 

"It's as if we have unlimited manna now. I can fire these bolts without tiring" she said, exhilarated and happy as she ran with him. 

Sam nodded. His used of his magic was the same, as if there was no limit to manna. He could heal and cast his spells with no limit too, and perhaps upon "acquiring" them, they received the same ability. 

"Over there!" Gwen yelled, pointing at a several carriages circling another carriage who had fallen to it's side. The passengers were Heracles and the other 3 girls, and they were running to board the other carriages. 

Merlin stood in between the carriages and the orcs, shooting powerful bolts, keeping them back. 

Aria, Arisa, Gwen and Sam ran and killed from the midst of the orcs, fighting their way through them. 

"Over here!" Merlin yelled as they ran past him as he covered their escape. 

"Gwen! Girls, over here" yelled some instructors as their carriages started to take off. 

Gwen joined one carriage, while Aria and Arisa joined separate carriages too. There just wasn't enough space for all of them. 

"New boy! Over here!" Heracles yelled from the carriage furthest to them, but the last one with space. 

Merlin yelled "Move!" as he levitated and flew into his carriage and departed. 

Sam ran towards Heracle's carriage and reached for Heracle's outstretched hand. 

Just as Sam was about to grab it, from the same outstretched hand, Heracles cast a fireball at him. 

Sam screamed as his body burst into flames, rolling on the ground to put out the flames. 

Nobody else saw the scene as Heracle's carriage was the last one to depart.

"There goes the competition" Heracles laughed to himself inside the empty carriage. 

Aria and Arisa looked back from their different carriages, but only saw a body in flames, surrounded by orcs. They assumed that a fireball was cast on one of the orcs. 

Sam screamed in pain and disappeared into the Nexus.