Ryan shrugged off the question with one of his own.
"Tell me about the Empress. What is she like?"
Narrowing her eyes, Amanda thought about continuing her line of questioning but shook her head, forgetting about it.
"The Empress is kind, but she has a thing against dragons, which her mother brought on."
"What do you mean?" Ryan asked, confused.
'How can she have a thing against dragons? Isn't she a dragon?' Ryan thought.
Then remembering his own predicament, he thought, 'Well, I'm different. I don't hate humans, just an empire full of them.'
Amanda sighed. "Her mother, the late Grand Empress, was an evil person who didn't care for anyone or anything."
"Being raised by that woman, the Empress has had a bad impression of dragons since a young age, since she had witnessed her mother's tyranny first hand."
"That's why she requires you contestants to be in your dragon forms at all times and swear never to transform into them again," Amanda said, leaning her head against Ryan's shoulder.
'Sounds like someone selfish to me,' Ryan thought.
"What about the human empire? What is the relationship like between her and them?" Ryan asked, softly stroking her hair.
Sighing happily, Amanda wrapped her arms around Ryan and leaned into him further. "She is in an alliance with them but doesn't like the Grand Empress."
Ryan grinned.
As Ryan was about to ask another question, there was a knock at the door.
"We felt an energy fluctuation in there," a voice yelled.
"If the test has been completed, you must end it, Amanda."
Jumping up, Amanda said, "Crap, they're right. How do I explain this?"
Thinking for a moment, Ryan let out a chuckle. "Let me handle it."
===
Walking out the doors, Amanda looked toward the floor with an apologetic look on her face.
"Sorry I took so long to report. I just was shocked at what had happened inside, commander," Amanda said, looking up at the commander.
"What happened?" the commander asked, narrowing her eyes and looking past Amanda into the room.
"N-No, commander, you can't go in!" Amanda said, attempting to block the commander's line of sight.
"Get out of my way Amanda," the commander ordered.
Looking toward the floor, Amanda stepped out of the way and allowed the commander to pass.
Amanda smiled as the commander passed her and muttered, "I tried to warn you."
Entering the white room, the commander gasped, seeing a sight she couldn't unsee.
"So much cum!"
Although the room was white, it looked like it had been repainted with a fresh layer of cum that seemingly covered every inch.
Putting her finger to the wall, she brought it away, feeling the slimy liquid between her fingers.
Sniffing, she licked her lips as touching the substance produced a response inside her body.
Slowly bringing her fingers to her mouth, she put them inside and moaned, feeling orgasmic sensations fill her body.
She couldn't stop herself as she lapped at the walls, desperately licking the heavenly liquid.
As Amanda returned to the room, she laughed, "I can't believe that worked."
Ryan, who had been hiding behind the bed, popped out and shook his head as he watched the commander in heat as she slurped up his spent seed.
"If a girls thirsty, I shall provide thy liquid," Ryan said as he walked out of the room.
After parting ways with Amanda, who said the next activity would be at 8 A.M., as stated before, he headed toward his room.
===
The next day Ryan awoke to a loud noise that seemed to vibrate the building.
Walking out of his room, Ryan saw that he wasn't the only one awoken by the noise as 13 other men joined him outside.
"Good morning, potential harem members!" Lady Gwen's voice sounded.
"Fourteen of you have passed last night's test, and we shall now get on to the next round of competition."
Looking toward the sky, Ryan and the other contestants could see the source of the noise, an enormous helicopter.
"We will now take the helicopter to our next testing sight, so please enter."
As the helicopter landed and everyone filed in, they were each handed a box containing a hot breakfast.
Everyone put on noise-canceling headphones, taking off in record time, and Lady Gwen continued speaking.
"Yesterday, you were tested not only on your physical and character traits but also your ability in Nova Ball."
"However, today's test will be more about what we dragons value, strength."
"If you look out the side of your windows," Gwen said, pointing to a large hill caked in mud, "you'll be able to see our next testing zone."
One of the contestants excitedly asked, "Are we playing king of the mud?"
Gwen grinned. "Yes, king of the mud, for those of you who don't know is a game that pits one against all."
"Your objective is to be one of the three remaining people on that mud hill," Gwen continued.
"Push your opponents into the dirt below to eliminate them from play."
"It doesn't matter how long this game lasts, but the one with the most eliminations at the end will receive a special prize," Gwen said, glancing at Ryan.
Ryan arched his eyebrow.
[Yoko, have you heard of this game?] Ryan asked.
[Indeed, it's a tradition all over the Multiverse for dragons to participate in king of the mud.]
Ryan rolled his eyes, 'Why wouldn't it be.'
[Then, can you tell me the best strategy? I don't exactly want to use energy and expose myself.]
Yoko chortled, [So my Master needs my help, does he?]
'Oh great,' Ryan thought.
[What do you want this time, Yoko?]
Every time he asked about Yoko, Ryan was forced to do something for the annoying dragon.
[I want to hear about this Aliza person again. She's so interesting.]
At first, Ryan didn't know what Yoko wanted, but like most children, she loved story time.
As most of his stories revolved around his time on earth with Aliza, she inevitably came up.
Ever since Ryan had told the first story of her saving Ryan in the ally, Yoko had practically fallen in love with the girl who had saved her Master.
[Okay, fine,] Ryan relented, as they still had a few minutes before the helicopter landed on the ground.
[Once upon a time, Aliza and I were staking out a client in Mexico.]
[This girl was dangerous, one of the highest-level leaders of the cartel.]
[What's the cartel?] Yoko asked.
[It was the criminal organization that basically ran the whole country,] Ryan explained.
[Now, I thought Aliza would tell me that since this person was so well-known and respected as someone with power and prestige, we should do an in-depth analysis of her and over the course of a few months, make a plan for her to fall in love with me slowly.]
Yoko shook with anticipation as she asked,[What did she tell you to do this time?]
Ryan stifled a laugh, remembering the words she had told him. [She told me that I should sneak into her room and cut off a piece of her hair.]
[I, of course, thought she was insane. But she told me that if we could successfully do it, she was guaranteed to fall in love with me.]
[So, what did you do?] Yoko asked.
[Well… I might have misinterpreted what Aliza meant by a piece of her hair.]
[No…] Yoko gasped.
[I might have cut off half her hair, thinking Aliza meant she needed to notice the difference.]
[But apparently, the plan was that I would cut off a piece of her hair, present it to her a day later and tell her I snuck into her bedroom but didn't touch her, as a man shouldn't force himself on such a beautiful lady,] Ryan said, shaking his head.
[Instead, I cut off half her hair and got kicked in the nuts for my attempted love.]