The Hero Became a Succubus! - Chapter 146

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Chapter 146

On another warm morning, Kanae and Arenade skipped their stately duties in favor of staying in bed. Ever since returning from Talahurah, the two remained inseparable. At least during the nights. Today, after being awakened by chirping birds outside the bedchamber and cool breeze entering from an open window, Kanae tenderly kissed Arenade's clit and fingered her to a third climax.

The haughty high elf and former demigoddess writhed in bed, a slave to the pleasure Kanae was inflicting. Her heels scraped against the silken sheets beneath them. She clenched one hand on Kanae's horn and bit down on her finger with the other. A hoarse breath erupted from her lips every time it was too much to bear.

Often, Kanae had learned early on, Arenade would try to withstand the assault for as long as possible. Likely in an attempt to avoid falling to depravity. This moment was one of those vain efforts. However, unbeknownst to her or perhaps it was exactly what she wanted now, doing so only served to edge her into a much more intense finale.

"Are you getting close?" Kanae teased, gently sucking on her engorged clit.

"Don't ask me… that— aaaahhhhh!" Arenade shuddered enough to knock the bedsheets off the side. Her free hand snatched Kanae's other horn. The intense climax knocked the air from her lungs, leaving her completely breathless.

While the elf was still twitching from pleasure, Kanae climbed up on the bed to embrace her regal consort. They exchanged deep kisses and sucked on each other's tongues, something Arenade previously resisted after being eaten out but was now eager to partake. In fact, she seemed more into it today than usual.

"Hey… We should get up already… There's a mountain of paperwork," Arenade said, still a little dizzy from her orgasm.

"Not yet. I want to spend more time with you." Kanae nibbled the tip of Arenade's pointed ear and almost succeeded in convincing her until they flipped positions.

"I-I do, too!" she exclaimed with inflated cheeks. "You went to become a Knight of Color, and I ended up becoming a desk jockey again. The Supreme Bastard's probably got an eternity's worth of work waiting for me, so this is the last thing I want to do until my last days! Quit leaving me behind. Take me with you! I want to go with you!"

This nostalgic tantrum worsened by the second, but Kanae didn't exactly hate it.

"Okay, okay! I'm sorry for leaving you everytime. I just wanted you to be safe," Kanae said.

Arenade sniffled and cleared her throat. "I'm not the one who's been getting into trouble. If anything, you need me with you."

"I guess you're right. I do need my trusty busty high elf sex slave ready to serve me at any time." She giggled at her expense, recalling when they first encountered each other in Orturic.

A shadow fell across Arenade's face. Her eyes turned hot red like the sun.

"Holy Armament…" Arenade muttered, fury simmering in her voice and hand glowing brightly.

"Wait, we can talk this out! I promise to bring you with me next time, alright? Stop! Not in bed!" Kanae cried.

"BITCH SLAP!" She smacked Kanae across the face with a divine palm, leaving behind a handprint on her stinging right cheek.

The door of their bedchamber swung open, and Esta rushed in with a hand on the hilt of her greatsword.

"I was on my way here to deliver a report. What happened?" Esta asked in panic.

"Nothing a misbehaving succubus didn't deserve!" Arenade huffed angrily.

"What's the… report?" Kanae mumbled past her swelling cheek.

While the two were getting dressed, Esta explained that they had captured an imp the other day. Lilith was currently interrogating him for information in the dungeons. Troubled by the concerning news, Kanae and Arenade followed the drakeling knight to meet their captive.

They arrived at the cell just as Lilith was lacing up her robes. An unconscious imp was lying on a cot, a limp dick flopped over his belly and dribbling with traces of ejaculate.

"Oh, Mistress!" Lilith straightened her back to appear presentable. "I've just gotten done interrogating the imp."

"Is it an invasion?" Kanae asked.

"It might have been easier to deal with if it was… Unfortunately, it seems a demon lieutenant has sent assassins and scouts across the Commonwealth. The imp didn't know a thing about the others. I believe they were kept in the dark from each other so as to not oust the rest," she explained.

"Great." Arenade cursed under her breath.

Kanae squeezed her shoulder with reassuring intent. "How about the imp? What was he trying to achieve?"

"There's the good news that High Priestess Edina might want to hear! This imp was in search of a Rift. He found one in Toadstool Forest," Lilith said.

Arenade, Esta, and Kanae gasped. Toadstool Forest was an unusual biome in the Commonwealth composed entirely of fungi and mushrooms instead of trees. After an incident during Kanae's five year conquest of no man's land, she ordered the place off-limits for people's own safety. They had been searching far and wide for a Rift to little success, so maybe it was the gods' way of playing a joke on them.

However…

"What in three hells was a demon doing looking for a Rift?" Arenade wondered aloud.

"Well…" Lilith hesitated to begin, "the imp confessed that the demon lieutenant was getting desperate. They were searching for anything to give them an edge over both the Queen-Mother and the Commonwealth."

"Did he say if it was Lady or Minestra?" Esta asked.

"Neither. The imp said his lieutenant was an inspectator named Milton," she answered.

"Milton?" Kanae erupted into laughter only to notice a second later that Esta and Arenade were paler than a ghost. "Uh… What am I missing here?"

"Inspectators are giant floating eyeballs with extremely high intelligence! Aside from their main eye, they have an eyestalk protruding from the back of their heads that can replicate any spell it's seen," Arenade explained.

So, a new demon lieutenant to deal with. This one also sounded much more capable than the other two. Terrifying or not, Milton made a grave mistake and revealed to them a Rift. With Edina's luck, they might even find the Lich Lord's Skull within it.

"Esta and Lilith, prepare a detachment of our fastest to Toadstool Forest and secure that Rift for us. Have the imp lead you there. The rest of us will take care of some things in the city before heading out," Kanae said.

They carried the imp out by the scruff of his neck, leaving Kanae and Arenade alone in the cell.

"I'm coming with you this time." Arenade folded her arms.

"I know. That's why I said 'us' instead." Kanae grinned.

The two returned to the surface and dropped by Rosaline's atelier first. Eliza was inside, paying her former apprentice a visit. Mikki and Daya were there, too. They experimented over the alchemy cauldron in the back. Meanwhile the other two tinkered with the now magmadillo hide-dressed apparatus on the counter.

"What exactly is that?" Kanae asked on the way in.

"I call it a transmutation drum," Eliza said proudly. "It converts magical energy into another element entirely. Behold."

Rosaline fitted a magic crystal onto the three-pronged claw at the top compartment, then a piece of iron into the larger bottom compartment. Steam billowed out the side of a tube like a boiling kettle. When the crystal's energy dulled, the steam stopped, Eliza put on an oven mitt to open the bottom chamber. Sitting inside wasn't a piece of iron, but a piece of gold instead.

"Whaaaat?!" Arenade's eyes lit up.

"It's real gold, and gold isn't the only thing the transmutation drum can convert to. At current, however, a vast amount of energy is required to achieve transmutation. An entire magic crystal's worth," Eliza explained.

"And since magic crystals are more expensive than gold, we would be running on a negative budget!" Rosaline added, plucking the inert and energyless crystal from the prongs.

In other words, it wasn't worth it. But Arenade's reasoning was clouded by the shining gold piece rolling around her palm.

"By the way, Kanae, I regret to inform you that our interrogations of Hilde have not been successful. Ulric and I haven't given up yet. You should also know Marwin has requested the Grand Eye to let him come out here. To try and have sex with the captive succubus, no doubt." Eliza rolled her eyes.

"Hilde is part of the reason I came by. I want you and Rosaline to start producing the anti-succubus magic potions. Renya can provide you the manpower and Cylia might part with her moss if you ask nicely," Kanae said.

Everyone, including Mikki and Daya, turned to her in shock.

"It can be done, but… are you sure about this? We haven't even fully stopped their circulation from Radevic to Ortesia yet," Eliza explained worriedly.

"Not just demons, but we have a big succubus threat coming. I want my people to be ready to face them." Kanae nodded.

Even if those potions might one day come back to bite the Commonwealth.

Eliza and Rosaline accepted the task at hand and agreed to begin producing the anti-succubus potions as soon as possible, but it was going to take time. After all, this had been a massive undertaking even for Rown Company.

With that matter settled, all there was left to do was to pick up Edina and make their way to Toadstool Forest.

"Mom! Can we join you? Toadstool Forest has a lot of unique fungi ingredients I can use for alchemy!" Mikki exclaimed with Daya looking just as excited by her side.

"Sweetie, it's going to be dangerous. There's no telling what's out there," Kanae said.

"You don't think I'm strong enough to, do you?" she sulked.

Kanae searched Arenade for help.

"I don't see why not?" Arenade shrugged.

"You're supposed to be on my side!" Kanae expelled an exasperated sigh.

"We have Esta, Lilith, a small army of Commonwealth soldiers, and us there. As long as Mikki and Daya don't enter the Rift with us, it should be fine," she explained.

"You're the best, Auntie!" Mikki raced out from the counter to hug her.

Arenade smirked at Kanae. Was this revenge for leaving her behind all this time? She was probably right about it being fine.

They set off to find Edina together. Thanks to Kanae's Broodmother trait, she sensed the necromancer outside the eastern gate on the path to the mines. Edina was petting one of her undead dragons which had caught a dire wolf in its jaws.

"Aw, gross. What do you think you're doing? That thing's bleeding all over the road!" Arenade shook an angry fist at her.

When Edina turned around, everyone grimaced at the sight of the emaciated squirreling. What little boobs she had left were gone and flattened down to the ribs.

"Holy crap. What happened to you?" Kanae asked.

"Hey, guys… Sustaining two death knights and five dragons with Raise Dead sure takes a toll on a girl… aha…" Edina laughed weakly and was on the verge of keeling over.

"Aha, my ass! Get rid of them! You're starting to look more like a lich now!" Arenade fired back.

The necromancer became ten times more animated and hugged the dragon. "You can't just tell me to throw them away. You'll hurt their feelings! Besides, do you know how hard dragons are to come by?"

Come to think of it, Edina had looked fine with two death knights and whenever she used Legion of the Dead. The only thing that changed was the dragons brought back to life with her Raise Dead skill. Which meant they needed constant mana for upkeep?

"I can do a Restore Mana on you right now, but you're going to have to part with a couple of dragons. Come on, Edina. We found a Rift. The Lich Lord's Skull might be in there. What's more important? Undead dragons or staying alive until we get Pillar of the Damned?" Kanae asked.

Edina glanced up at her whimpering undead dragon with a sullen look. She summoned the other four. Then, like snipping the strings from the puppets, she snapped her fingers and put them to rest. All but one dragon crumbled to dust. Hilde's dragons passed on at last.

"Restore Mana." Kanae placed a hand on Edina's chest and transferred a flood of mana into her. The sunken cheeks and modest A-cup breast filled with some volume again.

"There. Ya happy? Because I ain't. That Rift better have the stupid skull!" Edina complained.

With Kanae's original party whole again, they set forth with Edina's one remaining dragon to Toadstool Forest. Mikki and Daya sat together on a saddle behind the necromancer, and Kanae and Arenade flew beside them.

There was one more unintended guest who had snuck her way in. Kanae slowed her pace until she was just behind the dragon. She reached out to grab what was seemingly empty space and yanked.

"Kiee...!" Revah's eyes unveiled themselves from the invisibility and glared.

"If you want me to let go, you better explain yourself," Kanae scolded.

"I overheard you were going to Toadstool Forest. My knowledge of poisons will be handy," she said, but couldn't stop looking in Mikki and Daya's direction.

"I see the shrooms!" Edina shouted over the battering winds.

The blanket of trees across the forest began to thin out. Those left standing were being eaten by fungal growths all along their trunks. Mushrooms as tall as trees rose into the sky with a canopy of wide-brimmed caps casting a shadow on the surface. A large blue toadstool with white and brown spots expelled a gas into the air.

"Mom, those are mana-burning spores!" Revah warned.

"Edina, Arenade! Break!" Kanae yelled in time.

They descended into the forest floor of a mushroom wonderland, just barely escaping the spores as they landed harmlessly on the caps instead of them. Bioluminescent fungal growth covered the stalks and provided light where the sun couldn't reach past the canopy.

"Revah? You're here, too!" Mikki hopped off the dragon to greet her sister, who shied away when Daya came down.

"I don't think she likes me," Daya whispered.

"That can't be true. I'm sure—"

"Mikki, come here. There's a fungus I need to ask you about." Revah snatched Mikki by the wrist and pulled her away.

"Hey, wait!" Mikki cried as she was dragged to a cluster of thin-stalked mushrooms.

Kanae frowned. It seemed like they weren't going to get along as easily.

"Okay, everyone. Stay close and keep your eyes peeled. Esta and Lilith should be here with a group of harpies… Just where are they?" Kanae scratched her horn and searched the expansive forest of fungi.

"Kanae, I changed my mind," Arenade suddenly said as she and Edina backed into her.

"What? If you want to go home, it's too late. You're the one who wanted to go on more adventures," she teased.

"Not again!" Arenade and Edina pointed up.

Kanae followed their eyes to dozens of her people hanging and wriggling just beneath the mushroom caps, constricted in gangly vines and stalks. Tentacle-like appendages molested them in every way imaginable. Although Esta was nowhere to be seen, Lilith was the worst off, a stalk penetrating each hole and another in her mouth. Among them were also demons, trapped in the same way and suffering the same hole-plunging punishment.

"Oh, great… here we go again." Kanae groaned.