Chapter 38: Last Days – Part 3

Chapter 38: Last Days – Part 3

Today is the 27th.

Ciel wakes me up. Since today I don't have to meet with Kyros, I keep her and Lina in bed for a while longer.

Alissa comes back and throws herself into the pile of limbs. Her tail slaps Lina in the face repeatedly, who grabs it and pulls on it weakly making Alissa yelp once.

"This is actually so soft," Lina says and starts to caress Alissa's tail.

"Hmm... yes, run your fingers through, yes, like that," Alissa says and her ears flop in pleasure.

"The trip itself might actually be boring since we are going slow so I thought about buying some books," Ciel says as runs her fingers through my hair.

"You know what books I like," Alissa says. She closes her eyes when I start to play with her ears.

"Maybe we should buy some card game too," I say and Lina perks up her head.

"There are a few toys too that we could bring with us," Ciel says, "What books do you like, Lina?"

She sends me a glance and puckers her lips.

"You can choose whatever book you want, keep the history ones for when we reach another big library," I say and pat her head.

"Oh, then I want some ro-romance," she says meekly.

"Hm? Am I not enough for you?" I ask and lift an eyebrow at her.

Ciel painfully pulls a strand of my hair and Lina pouts.

"Ow, it's joke," I say.

"Let a woman dream a little," Ciel says and caress the hurt spot.

"For you the trip might be boring but for me it will be a good exercise. Sex is not enough to keep my figure," Alissa says.

"Not even when I don't hold back?" I ask.

"Only if we are doing it in my fox form," she says and smiles seductively.

Oh boy. It feels weird but for her it's the least I should do.

"Anytime you want we can do it on your other form," I say.

She gushes with a wide smile and rubs her face on my chest. For this happy face I would do anything.

I don't feel like training this morning so I spend it playing not-backgammon with Lina. She seems to love playing games, I bet she would be a hermit just like me on Earth, addicted to video games or anime.

Lina's still a little too young to compete against me but she's a fast learner. We started off 3-0 in my favor and then finished off at 6-5. I think that the last games were won by luck, her analytical and strategic thought are well developed.

For lunch we are having mutton, since we are going to leave we better enjoy it because we might not find it again so easily. The wine and juice made out of the Gorgon fruit is also a local delicacy so we are stocking some of it.

The High Forest has a large amount of fruits and veggies so we are not too worried about missing the taste unless it's something specific we crave. Ciel seems a little guilty over the amount of luxuries we have so we send some gold coins as donation to the temple.

The money is starting to run low again but the job will give us a lot of money so we aren't worried. Any monster we kill we get full rights over the body and proof of extermination so it's also a good supplement.

Nature class is the final test, just by showing Gify I pass but I decided to show my javelin creation.

"Have you been learning dual-casting, Mr. Ryder?" Professor Tanya asks.

"Yes, little by little I have been forcing my brain to learn how to create sub-processes," I say.

"Then this javelin creation is a worthy pursuit, learn a few levels in [Throw] and it will be a handy tool for close-range support."

Most other students focused on [Grow], [Animal Tongue], or [Manasynthesis], most combat-oriented mages seek that last spell just for the increased mana regeneration it gives.

At night Roxanne and Ciel start a proper [Mana Control] class.

"Feel the mana, it's like a river, or a pitcher that you use to pour water on a cup," Ciel says, "You control the rate of the flow, too much and you lose control, too little and it drips along the edge and down the pitcher."

"Ri-ver?" Suzy asks and tilts her head.

"Ne-ver, used, pi-tcher," Ted says.

"You should have my knowledge of it, shouldn't you?" I ask.

Both of them look at their hands.

"Diff-rent."

"Bo-dy."

"Oh, I see," I say and hold my chin in thought, "They may have my knowledge but lack the means to apply it. I though it was kind of weird they didn't know how to control mana seeing they have my experiences."

"Ad, hoc," Ted says.

"Ah, right! Mana is dependent on the soul and mind, so the way we control is different for each person."

"It shouldn't be that different," Roxanne says, "The standard [Mana Control] training is done with hundreds of other students so everyone learns the same way. Nonstandard control could lead to some dangerous side-effects when you start to cast bigger spells, specially with the empire's [Ritualism]."

"The souls of the golems are already nonstandard," Ciel says, making Roxanne frown.

"We shouldn't try to create something new. The golems are already dangerous as is, we don't need to make them even more special, it would only make them more difficult to deal with," I say and Roxanne nods.

"Dan-ge-rous?" Suzy asks, Alissa and Lina look at us with puppy eyes.

Roxanne chuckles and says, "Not in the way you are thinking. Currently you are harmless but your growth is an unknown, we don't know how powerful you will become. If we can't control you or you can't control your own spells properly then you might become dangerous to us or others."

"[Golemancy] is a very rough and unfinished magic school so we would rather not take any risks," I say.

"Un-der-stood," Ted says and nods. "Keep, us, far, from, com-bat."

"That would be difficult, the first thing anyone would want from [Golemancy] is cheap and disposable soldiers. If we don't develop [Golemancy] that way someone else will and they might not have the same concerns with safety as I do."

"Well, we are just a small group of people, maybe if the scholars of the capital join hands they would have more resources to deal with this safely than we do," Alissa says.

"But my knowledge of robotics and artificial intelligence sets me apart. I might know more about [Golemancy] than anyone in this world, alive or dead," I say.

"You never really explained what those two things are," Lina says.

"The first one is a little difficult to explain since this world doesn't seem to have sensors yet. But basically it is something like this: you see the water level of a rainwater collector is too high, so you open a trapdoor and let some of it spread to workshops, like say soap-makers.

"You have three important parts on this: first your eyes, they showed you the water level. There's a way to do something similar with mechanisms and electricity, it sends a signal, the higher the level of the water, the stronger the signal, the bigger the electric 'pathway'; The second part is the logic, if the tank is full, then open the trapdoor. If condition is fulfilled, then do an action, this is one of the basis for logic. There's a thing called transistor that hasn't been invented here yet that you use for this; The third part is the action, you open the trapdoor for the water to escape. With a thing called actuators they are mechanisms that allow you to do physical movements humanoids can do by simply sending an electric signal.

"Now, artificial intelligence is basically [Golemancy] or [Summoning Magic], specifically, the brains of golems and summons. It is the copying of our capacity for processing information and applying it in other areas. The interesting part of these magic schools is that they copied the brain while in my world we tried to build the brain from the ground up."

I stop and notice how I have been talking non-stop. The girls are looking at me warmly with a small smile on their mouths.

"Alright, then. Now I believe you are the most qualified person for this," Alissa says with a wide smile.

"You are a scholar, alright. Your eyes were shining all the time you spoke just like the ones I met," Hana says and smirks.

Roxanne frowns and says, "Do I have to? You know I don't like to talk about it."

"Wolfy did, you should know that talking helps."

It helps us accept reality, once you put your feelings into words they seem more "real".

Roxanne looks at me with pleading eyes.

"You should talk," I say and her her gaze turns sultry, her pale skin contrasts with her red lips, who are calling mine. I plant a kiss on them, I taste her tongue and tease her palate, then I break the kiss and say, "You really should talk."

Roxanne clicks her tongue and sighs. "Well... where should I start."

"Her personality," Ciel says.

"Happy, carefree, and just generally positive about life."

"Sounds like you are talking about yourself," Hana says with a smirk.

"Except the last part," Alissa says.

Roxanne aims my member and lowers herself, plunging it deep inside her. "If we are going to talk about this then at least massage my insides," she says and gives me a peck on the lips. "Well Mithra was her own person, if anything she made me realize how life is fun outside of studying and training."

"Considering how you abhor mana training I believe this is true," Hana says and Roxanne's dagger tail touches Hana's throat threateningly.

"How did she look like?" Lina asks.

"Like Hana but albino, it's quite common among our kind and I think it's a fetish of mine," Roxanne says and licks her lips.

"You are not meeting Sonny again," I say in a serious tone.

"Oh please, don't be a killjoy," she says while rolling her eyes dramatically, "I'm sure you would love to fuck me hard in front of him. Have him pull down his pants and watch him stroke his little cock desperately while you stir my insides with your thick log. Then watch as his cum flies and falls just short of my skin, the closest he will ever be of tainting me with his weak seed. Then you spread my legs and I squirt all over his face, he licks the air while his eyes glue to my body, burning it into his memory to forever wank pitifully at the glory of my body being pierced by your thick, fat, long, cock."

"That was... too specific, you are never meeting Sonny again," I say while I claw her ass and pierce her hard.

"Also, you are changing the topic, Mithra, please," Ciel says, slightly annoyed and blushing hard.

"Ahn...! Fine, as I said, she's just like Hana, I like being dominated-"

"Hah! Now you admit it," I say.

"Wolfy, shush, you are going to pull the topic away again," Ciel chastises me.

Roxanne squeezes her insides and nearly makes me cum, then she continues, "Anyway. When we first met it was like a [Lightning Bolt] struck, next thing we know I'm eating her up while the entire dormitory cheers on us. Things kind of turned into an orgy after that."

"That sounds wild," Hana says with admiration in her voice.

"And it was, though we never did it again, we are not that depraved," she says and Hana snorts.

Roxanne sighs wistfully, the happiness and her hip movements fade as she reminisces. "With Mithra things were just right, it's like the first time in my life I had someone who really wanted me by their side, we really just wanted me to be happy," her face turns into an angry scowl, "Mother just wanted me to start a lineage! Father is just a limp-dick who lets mother do as she pleases! The others are just snobs who keep sucking each others cunts! Not even in my own damn birthplace was I well received because Mother ruins other people like a breeder-type sucks souls!"

Her movements restart with anger, she slams herself on me and quickly reaches an orgasm, wringing one out of me when her insides squeeze me.

"It's all my [Fire Magic] this, my [Water Magic] that, my [Mana Control] is oh so amazing that I had a line of people just wanting to suck on my toes. Well fuck that, Mithra didn't even know my specialty magic until she asked when we left to hunt some monsters, then she shat her fucking pants off because she didn't know what [Explosion] was capable of. What even is the fun in being so high up there that you can't see the ground anymore!?"

She hugs herself and hunches over, when she's done speaking she grits her teeth and scowls at the water.

Hana comes over and buries Roxanne's head on her breasts, I pull out of Roxanne and hug her from behind. She turns her head sideways to look at me and I see she's crying angry, silent tears.

Aoi and Gify swim towards us to enter the cuddle puddle. The last three girls surround us and Gify turns on his special touch. I feel the anguish inside Roxanne's heart, her anger at a lost childhood. Then I focus on my time with her, her happy nature and teasing personality, her reliability in battle and her talent for potions, our adventures and bright future together.

In a few minutes she seems to calm and fall asleep. Her calm expression makes her look even more beautiful asleep.

Gently we wake her and leave the bath. Slowly we start to talk again and return to normal.

At night Roxanne spends her time playing Civil War with Lina, for once we had a more quiet evening.

Today is the 29th.

Lina happily swallows her success, her gloomy eyes become upturned at her wide smile.

This morning I spend practicing my [Godly Language], I easily tip over and find release. The second vortex forms, weakly, and shields me from my own voice.

"Now you can easily make someone puke that is not yourself!" Roxanne teases, completely back to normal.

"If I put 20 points on it I can do it without anyone getting too sick," I say.

"There's one word on your phrase that gives me a lot of concern," she says and walks away, out of my reach.

"Har, har."

She spends her morning happily coaching the little golems and Aoi in [Mana Control] while Alissa decides to glue on me again and we practice our mana routines together.

Today is the [Blessing Magic] test. The most straightforward of them, you just show all the spells you can chant. I show up to my [Reinforce] and the judge immediately tells me I passed.

"I'll miss the professor's singing," Hatara says and sighs deeply. "She's just so beautiful too."

I really have a dirty mind.

"Now that classes are done can you show us [Fly]?" Ciel asks.

"KWEH!" Aoi yells in my ear.

"O-okay, but later. Now I want to relax, tomorrow I have to defend my thesis," I say and clamp Aoi's mouth shut with my hand.

She wiggles out of my grasp and suddenly her slippery tongue is inside my mouth. She wraps it on my tongue and gives it a squeeze before quickly removing herself, giving me a large jolt of pleasure.

Hana smiles wide and pats Aoi, congratulating her on the successful sneak attack.

Oh boy.

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