Chapter 700 – How to Fast-Travel

Chapter 700 – How to Fast-Travel

“Hey...” John carefully shook Scarlett. Sometime during the negotiation and its aftermath, she must have fallen asleep. Although the signing itself had been concluded quite quickly, Emrik refused to actually end the meeting until he had final verification that the prisoners of war had been let go. As a consequence, they had spent another half hour idling around. This was bad for the Gamer’s remaining plans for the evening. Another instance of him having a reason that hardly qualified as an excuse in a public setting.

Once he got so strong an entire nation couldn’t stop him, even if they put all resources together, he could pull things like that. Would go right along with the semi-serious persona he was building. Until then, it was best to play along the rules of diplomacy.

“Hey... hey, Scarlett...” he continued to quietly whisper. All of those thoughts aside, he had the present conundrum of getting her back to New York. The only reason why she was even there was because John didn’t want to leave her alone in her current state. While she was a big girl and could get back to the Hudson Barrier on her own after she had slept, there was the risk that she would wake up, alone, while still experiencing the drop. A minimal risk, but not one he wanted to take.

As such, he now had to wake her up and get her on the plane with the rest of them. Rave stood behind him, watching the endeavour. “Maybe she and I shoulda just stayed home,” she suggested. “Moving her about the place was clearly not the smartest idea.”

“Yeah,” John could only agree. He had thought that maybe the thing would fix itself on the plane ride. As this was the first time she was experiencing the drop, there was no telling how long Scarlett was going to be affected. If she had gotten over it before the negotiations began, he knew that she would have regretted not coming. He had also been in a bit of a rush, although he was smart enough that this shouldn’t be too much of a hindrance. “If I am honest, I couldn’t stand the idea of just handing her over like something I don’t want to take care of.”

Rave squat down next to him and planted a quick kiss on his cheek. “Ya don’t get to declare yourself the sole overseer of mental health around here, alright?” she stated in a jokingly threatening way. “We’re basically a family so we pull each other up. And I mean a family like your family, not like mine, ya got it?”

“Yeah,” John assured and leaned his head against hers. Then he tried to gently nudge the Technomancer awake for the third time. A bothered little sound escaped her lips as Scarlett woke up. Eyelids fluttered and opened. “How are you feeling?” John asked, once her red eyes focused him.

“Like someone shot my dog last week and I hadn’t had a proper meal since,” she answered in a hoarse voice. “Can I have some water?” By the time John looked at Aclysia, the weaponized maid had already turned towards the kitchen. With some more groans, Scarlett sat up straight. “Better, overall, though,” she continued after she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. “How long was I out?”

“Just over half an hour,” Gnome reported, having kept watch the entire time.

“Things went well then?” she asked, before taking the glass of water from Aclysia with a thankful nod.

“Our terms were accepted as presented, no complications,” John told her with a smile. “There was no need to worry.”

“I guess not,” Scarlett grumbled and emptied the glass with three large gulps. Afterwards, her voice sounded much better. “Okay, I think I am over the worst of it... I hope this never, ever, happens again.” She shook her head, to hush away the remaining darkness. “Fucking Gaia almighty, if that’s what an actual depression feels like, I’d rather lose all my limbs than have that level of hopelessness and doubt all the time.”

“Sounds really bad,” John could only agree. He had been slightly depressed before, he even hesitated to use the same word to describe that slump. Ironically, the worst day of that down phase in his life had been the eighteenth birthday that he had spent only with his mom and his gaming PC. The very same day before he had gotten these powers, which, in turn, enabled him to skyrocket out of that bad mindset.

Scarlett wasn’t really into it at first. That was to say, she was clearly willing to do it, but she didn’t seem as enthusiastic about the act as usual. After about five minutes, he had worked her up a little bit though. The drop was quickly fading now. As it had lasted somewhere between four and six hours, John was happy that it was a relatively short one.

As fate would have it, though, John had no time to really satisfy the appetite he was working up. Certainly not during the taxi drive. Not when he got to the airport, as they accidentally timed it so perfectly that they were allowed to board the moment they arrived at the lobby. Not during the flight, for logistical and honour reasons. Once again, the toilet smell pushed him off. With enough horniness, that could be overcome though. Unlike Lydia, he had several girls around this time that would do it with him there as well.

Which was the crux of the issue. He had several girls with him there and he was terrible at choosing. Doing just one of them wasn’t an option and doing one of them after the other wasn’t either. As such, he had to hold back.

He was extremely tempted once they had landed. Opening a barrier and having a quick orgy was as easy as it sounded. Except for the time he wasted doing so. He was even more tempted once they had made their way over the Servitude Island and he had installed the teleporter. The mansion they had built was so close, but he still had to teleport back to New York.

Once at home, he finally caved. Most of all because his girlfriend was just as horny as he was and started making out with Eliza once they were in the living room. Before John knew it, things had devolved into a massive lesbian orgy. “Come on, tiger,” Rave tempted him with her sexiest purr, “we’re gonna suck you off and then you can have your guy evening with a clear mind, alright?”

And they did. Rave, Eliza and Salamander sucked him off right there. That wasn’t enough though. Scarlett, Sylph and Gnome took round two. Siena seduced him into a round three with her stupidly attractive voice and the sheer novelty blowjobs from her specifically still had. Round four, she kept going, just that Aclysia and Beatrice also joined the fun.

Then he managed to rip himself away and go take a final shower. A shower in which Undine was already waiting for him. Who he, predictably, proceeded to fuck against the wall. Didn’t help that she split into three of herself and scrubbed him completely clean with all their squishy features. Lots of jiggle was had in those fifteen minutes.

About forty minutes later than he actually should have, John finally managed to head out. The lesbian orgy, continuing even as he closed the door, was a very good reason to stay. Even though an orgy was something he could have practically every day and a night out with fellow men was something he had actually never really done before, the allure of the former was intense. Sex really was the most primal and one of the strongest motivators that existed.

However, he still managed to get on his way. All he needed to do was drop a message to Maximillian, asking where he was, and then make his way there. Once he could no longer hear the moans, the Gamer wasn’t even that tempted anymore. He even had a moment, standing atop the star fortress, where he experienced tranquillity.

‘Damn sexy seductive vixens,’ he complained about his harem mentally. ‘With their round butts and wonderful breasts of varying sizes. Ah, they look so good when I cover them with my cum... defiling is such a great feeling... NO! Bad John!’ He mentally slapped himself, feeling his own room pull on him like a gravity well of perversion. Distracting himself, he looked down to the island.

Although it was already dark, the city lights and the moon were more than enough for John’s eyes to scan through the darkness. Of the volcano, only a pitiful little bump remained. Zooming in with the Agility perk, he could even make out the Fairy Lantern. Even from this far away, the Midnight Forest seemed odd. It wasn’t as simple as a dark shroud lying over the area. The trees just seemed to curve oddly, some of them moving in the wind still landscape. Little lights flickered up here and there, only to hide again. More fundamentally, there was the feeling of looking at something unnatural in John’s gut. The fairies had clearly moved back in.

John’s phone vibrated in his pocket, and he pulled it out to read Maximillian’s answer.

Gravity King: We’re at the Little Whirl. Bring fifty-dollar bills.