Morning broke in the Dragon Mountains. I stretched and got out of bed. The eternal snow, bathed in the morning sun, was glittering. Beside me, Ati was asleep, her arms wrapped tightly around my waist. Traces of last night's passionate sexual intercourse remained all over her body. I caressed her cheek once and quietly slipped away.
The lair was equipped with various magic tools that operated in different ways. The magic tool boiling water in front of me now was an unethical coffee pot, made by sealing a fire spirit to burn for eternity. The temperature was higher than a hearth or a furnace, so the water boiled in an instant.
I took out the coffee grounds from the kitchen, mixed a proper amount, and drank a cup. Ati wasn't particularly interested in 'humans' themselves, but she was the type to have a profound interest in the byproducts of human civilization. When I showed interest in the magic tools, Ati said.
"Evangeline made them for me when she was here. She really liked coffee."
Evangeline, surprisingly, seemed to be quite the connoisseur. The coffee beans were of a considerably high quality. The preservation magic was cast so well that even though they must have been stockpiled thousands of years ago, the flavor hadn't degraded and there was nothing strange about it at all.
While drinking coffee, I poked at a magic tool in the living room. I had stayed here for about a week, but I still hadn't mastered how to use all the magic tools inside this lair. Despite that, my life here was as comfortable as, or even slightly better than, living in the mansion. If it weren't for the matter of Evangeline or my territory, it was such a luxurious place that I wondered if I could live here forever as Ati's pet, just as she'd suggested.
"Lusius?"
Ati whined from the bed. I put down my coffee cup and headed back to the bed. Ati, her face still drowsy with sleep, was fumbling with the bed. As I walked over from the other side, she spoke in a relieved tone.
"I thought I might have killed you in my sleep again…"
I was terrified of that too when I first slept here, but maybe she controlled her strength unconsciously, as Ati didn't show her destructive side even in her sleep. She sat up, covering her naked body with the blanket. Her milky breasts and firm thighs were hidden by a single sheet of cloth, revealed only in silhouette. Feeling strength gather in my groin again, I stroked her cheek.
"Did you sleep well?"
Ati closed her eyes and puckered her lips. I lowered my head and kissed her.
"Mmm… mmmph…"
Ati pushed her tongue into my mouth and slipped her other hand into my pants. She let out a moaning sound as she gently stroked the shaft of my stiffly erect cock. I broke the kiss and said.
"Will you use your mouth?"
"Do you like it that much?"
Ati, despite seeming reluctant, pulled down my pants. Like a slingshot being fired, my cock, hidden inside my pants, sprang out. Ati turned her head slightly to avoid it, then began to gently lick her way from the shaft to the glans penis.
"Hoo…"
A dragon was sucking my cock. Would I ever experience such luxury again in my life? Ati, with her eyes closed, licked my cock, then opened her mouth wide and swallowed my object in one gulp. The humid, warm texture stimulated my glans penis. Hot breath filled the space, and a soft tongue wrapped around it.
As if intending to swallow it down to the back of her throat, she endlessly swallowed my cock. Finally, having swallowed it to the root, I felt my cock slightly catch at the back of her throat. Ati looked up at me and slowly began to pull my cock out of her mouth. The shaft, wet with saliva, glistened sleekly. Ati gently held just the tip with her lips, spitting my object out before swallowing it back down to the root.
I slowly sat on the bed, and Ati, kneeling before me, bobbed her head again and again, sucking down my cock. I gripped Ati's head and tensed my thighs. Every time Ati moved her head, it felt like all my essence was being sucked out. Ati gripped my thighs, dipped her head low, and ran her hand up and down my shaft.
"Ah…!"
"Mmph… eueup…"
Unable to bear the novel stimulation, I spewed out my semen. Ati's back shuddered as she took my entire ejaculation into her mouth. My cock twitched and ejaculated several times, and Ati finally lifted her head with a frown. She stuck her tongue out slightly, showing me the semen inside her mouth, before swallowing it whole.
Then she spoke in a dissatisfied tone.
"Really… I told you to let me know when you're about to cum."
"Sorry."
"If you're sorry… you know what to do, right?"
Ati threw off the cloth covering her body and lay face down on the bed. Her buttocks, facing me, were already glistening with vaginal fluid. I gripped her buttocks tightly, and penetrated her.
"Aang!"
Life in the lair was like this. If our eyes met, I'd have sex with Ati, and when the sex was over, we'd have more sex as an after-party. When we got hungry, we'd use the magic tools to grill meat or just make some bread. We really lived doing nothing but having sex, almost no different from beasts in heat. Having spent over a week like that, I started to think it was about time for me to go back.
After being gone this long in a dragon lair without any news, anyone would think I was dead. If I wanted to keep fucking Ati, I had to defeat Deorgon too, and I couldn't get any stronger living like this. You have to get strong to rape the hero and smash Deorgon's head. I stroked the panting woman's hair and said.
"I think I should go back now."
"...Will you?"
Ati caressed me, her face full of regret. But even though she was a married woman crazy for sex, she was also a wise dragon. She understood me without needing a lengthy explanation of why I had to leave. She hugged me once more and whispered.
"You have to come back, okay? Understand? You have to save me from the hands of that filthy Deorgon, okay?"
I offered a moment of mourning for the future of Deorgon, who had been demoted from a once-loved former husband to a filthy dragon, and packed my luggage. There wasn't much to call luggage. I grabbed my mace and stood before the magic circle. Ati had offered to specially use the magic circle to send me back to the Northern Grand Duke's castle.
The magic circle, shining with a blue light, looked like the portal magic circles you see a lot in 2D dot-art RPG games. As I stepped onto the magic circle, Ati asked again.
"Are you really all ready?"
"Yes."
"Really. You're really, truly ready?"
"Yes. I'm all set."
"Still, won't you check if you've forgotten anything?"
Only after hearing that did I realize. Ati wasn't really checking if I had left something behind. She didn't want to let me go. Even though she knew I had to leave and get stronger, she didn't want to let me go. This was her own way of throwing a tantrum. I took a step back out of the magic circle.
Ati mumbled something, looked at me shyly, and blushed. I kissed Ati once again. Our tongues mingled, our lips parted wide as our saliva intertwined. After ravishing my lips several times, Ati pushed me away again. She smiled and said.
"You must come back."
"Yes, Ati."
Ati snapped her fingers. The world turned blue, and I was lowered onto bare ground. The Northern Territory, which I was stepping on for the first time in a while, looked somewhat more vibrant than before. Knights were taking tightly bound prisoners to the castle, and the territory residents were repairing buildings. I felt as if I had been dreaming. The kind of feeling that if I turned my head right now, Ati would be there, waving.
But when I looked back, only the lofty mountain range was looking at me, and there was no sign of Ati anywhere. I shook my head against the pointless melancholy that wrung my heart. Now, I truly had to become strong to kill Deorgon and see Ati again.
I walked across the territory's main street.
"Lord Lusius?"
On my way, I met a knight who recognized me. He looked me over with a flustered expression and asked again.
"Are you really Lord Lusius?"
"Yes."
"I... thought you had passed away."
Did he mean I returned to the Southern Territory? Or that I went to the underworld after taking a dragon punch? When I tilted my head slightly, the knight added.
"...To your hometown! I meant to your hometown!"
So he thought I was dead. Still, I decided not to let it bother me. If I were him, and Robin had been dragged off by a dragon, I would have assumed he was dead, too. The knight, who gave me a horse, chattered on beside me about how things have been lately.
"The Hero also stopped by the Northern Region before leaving."
The knight also brought up the story of AA. He said AA stopped by the castle of the Northern Lord, spoke briefly with Emilia, and then left. But from what the knight was saying, it seemed he hadn't mentioned me.
"Did Sir Hero not say anything about me?"
"No. Even when the knights asked, he just frowned and didn't say much."
Ati's lair was full of stories AA wouldn't want to talk about. In fact, he had nothing he could say. Even if he told people I was fucking a dragon, no one would believe him.
"Is Acting Lord Emilia in good health?"
"Yes. She is doing well and in good health."
"I suppose I should go see her face for the first time in a while."
That fucking bitch sold me out, which is how things ended up like this. In a way, I was grateful, but in another way, it was an act no different from trying to kill me, so I couldn't forgive her. Just because you found a fortuitous opportunity at the bottom of a cliff doesn't mean you have to forgive the bastard who pushed you off, does it?
Guided by the knight, I returned to the lord's castle. The Northern Grand Duke's castle still faced the northern mountain range, boasting a very imposing figure. I opened the castle gate and carefully entered. A few of the servants walking in the hallway recognized me and bowed their heads in greeting.
"Where is the Acting Lord Emilia?"
"She is in her office right now."
I hummed a tune and took out my mace. Then I went up to the office and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?"
"It's me."
"...Who is playing such a prank?"
Bang!
I kicked the door open.
"Hiiieeeek!"
At the same time, Emilia, startled, screamed and jumped around before fainting. She fainted, right? She's not dead, is she?