The Hero Became a Succubus! - Chapter 176

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Chapter 176

Late in the evening, everyone gathered at Eliza's tower to finish up preparations for their next foray into Artaggon. Kanae was nervous most of all. The bath's warm and soothing water couldn't put her mind at ease this time.

They had discovered key information into defeating Ambrosia and Labelle, but she wasn't entirely sure it would be enough. Firstly, Labelle fought several of them back without needing to drain at the time. Secondly, Ambrosia was also going to be there, and they knew little about what she was capable of.

Kanae cupped a handful of water and poured it over her head.

"It's time," Esta said, poking in from the open door. "Would you like me to tell them to give you more time?"

"No. I don't want to delay a second later. Let Eliza know I'm ready." Kanae rose from the bath and began drying herself with a towel.

"As you wish." Her loyal knight returned upstairs.

Alone again, Kanae posed in front of a mirror that best showed her curves. She squeezed her matronly breasts and pinched her pierced nipples. A pang of pleasure surged down to her crotch. Plush thighs as smooth as silk and springy like pudding accentuated a decadent backside. This shapely form, foolishly given to her by Lord Charron, she intended to make full use of it to defeat her enemies.

When Kanae slipped on the Matron's Regalia, the tower jostled violently. Water splashed over the lip of the bath. They arrived at last. She picked up the last piece of her full outfit, Lust, and pulled the whip taut.

Dull explosions rocked the tower right away. Kanae hurried upstairs to the floor of Arcen, where it had since been cleared of the dwarven's sex toys. Eliza and Arenade were there, peering out the windows.

"What's going on?" Kanae asked.

"We're under attack," Eliza began as she scribbled into a notebook. "Esta and Edina went ahead to repel whoever is assaulting the tower. Kanae, this goes without saying— at any point you need to drain us, just push us down and do so without asking."

"J-Just keep your dick away, alright? No one's looking to get pregnant at a time like this!" Arenade quickly added.

Kanae agreed but not without a hint of disappointment. They jumped out of the tower and into the fiery battlefield. Eliza's tower had landed in a meadow alight with a sea of flames. Hordes of undead stormed across the field, facing off against Lady's demon forces. The ten death knights at Edina's command barreled through them like an unstoppable avalanche.

"That's it, Edina! Now you need to cackle. Loudly, too! While surrounded by the flames and screams of your enemies. Give it a try~"

The three of them followed the voice to Edina inside a ring of fire. She raised the staff above her head.

"Behold, the power of the greatest necromancer in the world! Ahahaha— cough! Cough! Ughh… Should've drank some water first…" Edina cleared her hoarse throat a few times.

"Edina, what are you doing…?" Kanae and the others rushed up to the necromancer.

"Matilda here was telling me I need to act more menacing. How was I?" Edina asked.

"Pfft! There's no way a squirreling can ever look menacing!" Arenade clutched her stomach, doubling over from laughter.

"Oi!" The necromancer brandished the staff in Arenade's face.

"Can we please focus? We need to search for the entrance to Ha'Vavish! Also, where is Silver?" Eliza threw her hands up.

"Gee. I dunno. Maybe the only one with meat on their bones over there?" Edina pointed to her death knights.

Among the hulking undead monstrosities was the lone drakeling, cleaving away at incoming demons. They intended to join Esta and the undead army in battle, but the demon encampment had been defeated by the time they got there. Broken bones and groaning demons littered the charred ground.

"To think… a single necromancer is capable of this." Eliza gasped.

A death knight picked up a demon soldier who was barely conscious and shook him awake.

"Tell us where the dwarf city is and I won't raise you from the dead," Edina threatened.

"Have ya tried… checking out the giant… sinkhole back there?" He thumbed over his shoulder, and there was in fact a massive sinkhole.

Behind the encampment was a hole maybe a hundred meters in radius and incomprehensibly deep. They gazed down into pure darkness.

"Lady Dahlia and the succubi are down there?" Esta kicked a few rocks in, sending them clattering into the sinkhole.

"Wait a damn minute, you ain't the Underqueen's cronies?" the demon asked.

"No, we're not. Did they come through here, too?" Kanae questioned.

"Scared the shit outta us when a whole flock of succubi came flying in a week ago. Imagine our surprise when they paid those of us up here no mind. They went straight down," he said.

"A-A whole flock?" Arenade gulped.

He nodded and scoffed. "Won't matter once Lady gets her hands on whatever's down there. The Underqueen's good as rotten and soon, not even you can stop us, Demon Queen! Ahaha—" Edina's death knight flung him square across the sinkhole. "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

He landed head-first in the bushes on the other side.

"It's been a week? We're much farther behind than we thought. Shall we?" Eliza drew out her flying broom and sat upon it.

Edina de-summoned her undead minions. Kanae and Arenade grabbed hold of Esta's hands, and they descended into the abyss together. The Halo of Holy Radiance illuminated their way down.

"Is it okay for us to leave the tower behind?" Kanae asked the sorceress.

"Oh, it shall be quite fine. I've left hidden trap wards behind that will summon monsters if anyone gets too close." Eliza flashed a devilish smile.

They continued to plunge into the sinkhole's depths to no end. When Kanae glanced back up, the entrance had shrunk into a little dot. Deep was right. Even Tortuga didn't go this far.

Eventually, the party hit the bottom. At least, as low as they could go. It was a dead end. The bottom of the sinkhole was just a giant pool of water.

"You think that demon lied to us?" Arenade asked, searching the craggy side for any tunnels.

"Hold on, there's a current." Eliza beckoned them closer to the surface of the water.

"I can test this!" Edina summoned a skeletal grunt.

The poor undead monster looked left and right, at its master, and then plunged into the watery depths.

"That was cruel, even if it is already dead." Eliza side-eyed the necromancer.

Edina shrugged.

Her minion flailed about as an unseen underwater current carried him to the side of the hole. It hit the wall and knocked its head off. The skull proceeded to slip underneath the surface along with the body right after.

"Only one way to truly find out." Eliza came prepared. She provided each of them with a water-breathing potion. "Stay together now. You may be able to temporarily breathe underwater, but it only lasts so long. Hang onto each other and stay close. That way, I can teleport us back with a pellet."

Everyone drank their potion and grabbed each other's hands. Even though they didn't need to, they took an instinctive deep breath, then dove under. A violent current swept them up right away. It was so dark even with Arenade's Halo that they couldn't see past the closest person's face.

Something happened at the very front. Esta, who was the head of the group, lost hold of Arenade's hand and detached from the group. Kanae unwound her whip, and Esta caught it in time before slipping too far away.

The cavern grew more and more narrow, then—

They emerged from an opening and plummeted into a canal of water. Kanae resurfaced first, pulling herself onto a stone walkway. She extended a hand in to fish Edina out. The squirreling collapsed flat on the ground.

"I hate swimming now," Edina muttered.

A little farther down, Arenade, Eliza, and Esta had pulled themselves out of the water, too.

"That makes two of us. Thank god for this bridge though," Kanae said, hitting the side of her head to knock the water out.

"This isn't a bridge. It's an aqueduct," Eliza corrected her.

They followed the sorceress' gaze to a spout above them, feeding rushing water into what Kanae believed was a canal a moment ago. She glanced over the edge to find the dwarven factory city of Ha'Vavish below, bisected into two separate districts by the aqueduct. To the east was an industrial sprawl of rusty metal buildings and intersecting vents, gangways, and scaffolding. On the other side were a series of small, uniform buildings arranged in rows. Likely dwarven residences.

Some fire lights moved about down there. Good chance they were demons or succubi.

"Hey, aren't we supposed to destroy this place? Can't we just break the aqueduct and flood the whole thing?" Edina asked.

"We have the element of surprise. I want to look around the factory side of the city before we start wreaking havoc. Everyone on your toes. There isn't just an army of demons and succubus down here. We also have the dwarven sex bots to worry about," Kanae reminded them

The party of five quietly descended into the industrial section of Ha'Vavish. Arenade begrudgingly put away her Halo, so they wouldn't look like a suspicious beacon of light. The roads were narrow, tightly packed with abandoned mechanical vehicles of crude make, unlit street lamps, and dust. Occasionally, pipes whistled with scalding hot steam and metal cranked loudly in the distance.

"This place is giving me the creeps…" Arenade shuddered.

"I'm leaning towards agreeing with the necromancer. Let us flood this place and be done with it," Eliza urged them.

"Weren't you the one against destroying the city to begin with?" Kanae asked.

"Yes, but that was before learning that it was a factory to create sex automatons— Wait. Could it be you're hesitating because you wish to find them? Amethyst…" She folded her arms.

"No…"

Fire erupted from a shop down the street, giving the five of them pause. Two people crashed through the window and rolled across the road. A succubus and beastman. They locked eyes with Kanae and gasped, but their attention returned to the burning store just as quickly.

"Stay where you are!" Esta exclaimed, drawing her greatsword and greatshield.

"As fucking if!" the beastman cried and took off running.

The succubus, however, was too slow. Metallic hands, bronze in color, gripped the edges of the broken window. Multiple mannequin-like humanoids dragged themselves out of the fiery blaze. Their limbs and joints, rigid like puppets, cracked and popped as they twitched with every movement.

One of them pounced on the succubus, and the other chased down the beastman.

"No, no! Stop! I can't drain something like this— aaahhh!"

From the automaton's waist emerged a rubbery phallus. It thrusted into the succubus' back hole, railing into her despite her pleas. The second bot performed a handjob on the beastman's dick like it was on a mission.

"If you do it that hard, it's going to snap off! No, please!"

"Marwin was right all along?!" Eliza groaned as she watched in disbelief.

A similar cracking and popping noise from behind alerted Kanae. An army of bronze and iron automatons marched toward them.

"Arise, Legion of the Dead!" Edina summoned her undead army to do battle.

The automatons lunged at the skeletal warriors. Instead of weapons, they used their prosthetic dildos and vibrators to fight back. One automaton face-fucked an undead's eye socket to the point of shattering the entire skull. Another stabbed through a ribcage with a vibrator, and the destructive oscillations broke the undead apart.

"What the fuck! Don't just take it. Fuck them back!" Edina kicked a loose skull that rolled up to her feet. "Let's see you try and fuck death knights. Arise—"

"Save your energy!" Kanae slapped a hand over Edina's mouth.

"I'm starting to think it wasn't earthquakes that killed the dwarves! Run!" Arenade shouted.

They flew down the street while the automatons banged the undead army back to death. However, the dwarven creations proved more capable than just sex. Dozens of them raced and jumped across rooftops, weaving through vents and pipes, and making explosive suicide attempts to catch them.

Eliza whacked an automaton away with her staff, only for it to explode and shower her and the flying broom with liquid goop.

"Is this… lubricant?" Eliza rubbed her slickened fingers together.

"Watch out!" Kanae warned.

More automatons jumped from the rooftops. Eliza made a sharp turn to avoid them and slipped off her lubricated broom.

"I'll get her!" Arenade let go of Esta, leaving Kanae alone to carry the heavy drakeling.

However, an automaton fired a beaded lasso from its ass and snatched the high elf out of the air. She crashed to the ground, whining in pain.

"Shit… I'm coming back! Arenade, are you okay?" Kanae turned around to help them.

"Aw, gross! This isn't a whip— It's just one long chain of anal beads! Get it off! Get it off!" Arenade rolled around in disgust.

A giant death knight severed the anal beads and freed Arenade. Two more joined in formation to block off the incoming swarm of sex bots.

"I know you said not to, but I don't think we have much of a choice!" Edina swooped down to pick up Eliza and her broom.

They fled as hundreds of dwarven automatons toppled the death knights, gangbanging them into bone dust.

"I wonder if this is the future my old world has to look forward to," Kanae muttered in horror.

"How dare those fuckbots defile my death knights!" Edina shook an angry fist at them.

"More like how dare you defile the souls of deceased heroes, but I've kept my mouth shut." Esta rolled her eyes.

"Hey, hey… I'm not sure you know what keeping your mouth shut means," she joked back.

"Eyes up! We're not in the clear yet!" Arenade screamed.

The massive doors of a warehouse broke open and automatons poured out in a flood. Kanae and Arenade carried Esta up, but they didn't see the one falling from a tower. It exploded lubricant all over them. All three plummeted, and they were carried off into different directions by the groping automatons.

"Arenade, Esta! Argh! Damn it… stop fingering me!" Kanae kicked away one automaton only to have two more pouncing on her.

Edina and Eliza were nowhere to be seen either.

Left with no choice but to press on, Kanae dragged herself out of the sea of lube. She struck out with Lust, destroying a few but doing little to scare them off. They weren't alive after all, just machines with the singular purpose to have sex.

Kanae raced deeper into the factory. Hundreds of automatons chased after her. She even had one clinging to her back, screwing her with a prosthetic dick.

"Aahhh! Screw off, will you?!" Kanae couldn't shake it off for the life of her. Its dick was stuck firmly in her pussy. She rounded a tight corner into another block, but something yanked her into a building.

The face of a snarling hellhound stared Kanae down. Lady Dahlia. The demon lieutenant reached behind Kanae and crushed the automaton's head. It dropped to the ground, and the dick came out with a wet pop. Lady lifted a finger up to her lips.

A horde of automatons raced past the building, completely unaware that the two of them were in here. After the final one had passed by and quiet befell the area, Lady shoved Kanae away.

"Thanks." Kanae sighed.

"I didn't do it to save you," Lady scoffed. "But don't think I'm expecting a fight either. Last thing I want is to make a commotion and have those tin automatons come back."

"Okay… so why did you save me?" she asked, folding her arms and taking a look around the room.

It appeared to be some sort of workshop. Tables and benches were filled with mechanical pieces, coated in a layer of dust. Crates of undisturbed bolts and nails sat beneath, longing to be screwed into place. The floor was strewn with schematics and blue-prints, half-eaten away by natural decay.

"All that commotion was you, huh? Last thing I expected to find in this god-forsaken place was the meddling succubus from Orturic, but I guess that's just the way you are. As you can see, I'm also stuck. No matter how many of those tin cans I break, they just keep coming back. If things couldn't get any worse, two of the Underqueen's daughters are lurking somewhere and up to no good. So, whaddya say about a temp team up?" Lady asked, extending a hand.

"I might be easy, but I'm not that easy. A truce to deal with Ambrosia and Labelle sounds like it's more to your benefit than mine. If you want my help, I want to know what you're all doing in Ha'Vavish," Kanae said.

The hellhound bared her teeth and licked her sharp fangs. "Tch. Grew some balls, have you? Guess it doesn't matter if I tell you though. Lord Charron's after a secret weapon. Apparently, it's hidden in the deepest part of this factory. I don't know why the Underqueen's forces are here, too. Could be to stop me, destroy it, or to take it for themselves. Hells if I know."

A weapon…

Coming from the dwarves, it had to be something sex-related. Lord Charron had to know this.

"Fine." Kanae clasped Lady's hand. "Just know that I'm expecting you to betray me at any moment."

"Hah!" Lady squeezed hard enough to crush bone, but Lion's Pride allowed Kanae to withstand it. "You really did smarten up since we last fought. Yeah, alright. I'm onto you, too. Until then—"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Kanae and Lady smirked.