BXBX NOVEL Chapter 74: On top of the Obelisk
"I\'m quite surprised you came here though," Sol smiled up at her, reaching under her skirt while she arched with her hands on his legs and began grinding faster, causing her sigils to hum and give off a radiant light. "Didn\'t you say nothing would get by you?"
"T-there is nothing to get ...by me... m-master!" Ikaris reached for him again and hugged his neck, leaning onto his hand and shaking while she continued her grind.
"Are you sure you\'re not just neglecting your duties of a hero?"
"Never, I would never~!!" Ikaris turned her eyes to the skies and dug her nails into Sol\'s neck and back when he suddenly started moving his hand against her thrusts. "I want more..." She breathed out a huff of raw mana falling backwards and sol had to catch her.
"We\'re right above over a thousand people, if you lose control like this someone is going to notice." Sol stood from the seat he made there and held her arched allowing her to view the ground upside down and see the camp as the soldiers bustled around.
"I... Am not an exhibitionist, the stares of others make my skin crawl, and I cannot leave here yet... But..."
"Even I have to admit, the only time you aren\'t shy is when you\'re in a fight," Sol agreed with her. "But if this is the desire I have to satisfy them I will not hold back, you will have to try your best to control yourself," Sol turned her back to him and bent her to hold on to the chair. "Do you understand, Ikaris?"
"Your words are perfectly clear, master," Ikaris straightened her legs and lowered her torso even more, causing Sol to bite his lips and look away as the space around them was sealed and her true form manifested in a burst of white mana.
"I can wait no lnng mashhhkar!" Her words deformed and loudened into a pleasured yelp when Sol reached and pressed her tongue to the base of her mouth while mercilessly burying himself to the hip in a single thrust, relishing in the pleasure it caused both of them as she snapped the handles of the chair from squeezing it down.
"This is truly my second greatest pleasure in life!" Sol roughly grabbed Ikaris\'s hair and pulled her toward him while he jolted forward letting out a grunt while she squealed and gasped.
"Shecong (second)?"
"That\'s right, my greatest pleasure is still the love that you\'ve shown me, the loyalty that you\'ve selfishly given to me, the life we have promised each other is my comfort; everything I adore and enjoy come from you, Ikaris!" Sol folded both her hands behind her and bent her before him again.
"That is why, no matter what, I\'ll never let you go," His pace quickened while the goddess slowly lost her ability to form coherent words as her mind, her body, and her emotions were being targeted at the same time.
"Wh- haah~ hnn~!" Ikaris went through three different levels of being flustered before she felt her legs starting to give out. "M-m-m-m-master-"
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Ikaris found her feet slowly rising off the ground, and looking around Sol had half undergone demonification, his left eye was crimson, and his right eye had traces of demigod mana seeping through it, and his teeth were slightly sharpened, his appearance slightly sobered her,
"Are you..."
Her words fell off when their eyes made four, he was planning something she was not ready for, she could feel it.
"Master?"
"Let\'s have some fun, Ikaris!" Sol laughed as his demigod mana completely suppressed the demon-god transformation and they both disappeared in a flash of divine mana leaving an invisible ripple in the air.
"Did someone just cast magic?" Dina looked around when she felt a shift in the mana around her like the disturbance of a rock falling into a small body of still water.
"Focus, we are about to begin," Arla responded with a serious stare as she placed her staff on the alter beneath the obelisk, letting it stand perfectly vertical and then stepping away and clasping her hands.
The Mages formed five rings around her, and at her side was Dina who was going to carry the heaviest burden as her mana was the highest.
"Alright," Dina spread her hands and began speaking in arcane along with her teacher.
Seconds passed without anything happening, and then suddenly the standing staff on the altar began emitting a blue light while the words they spoke appeared in a magic circle around them, and then another appeared around the first ring of mages, the more they cast the larger the circles would become until everything was formed into one great magic formation that spun around the Mages and illuminated the obelisk.
"Allow me to go first," Arla placed her hand on a her necklace and tuggedbit off her body allowing her mana to wildly escape her body as she began a different chant, while Dina split her focus to pay attention.
Runes began appearing on the obelisk reaching all the way to the top and then casting a bright light that illuminated the entire area for several hundred metres, and the army watched in awe as the very top of the obelisk opened up and began swallowing raw visible mana from the air.
"Dina." Arla called, when she looked around and saw the other mages sitting with their eyes closed and complete focus on their faces. "We must stabilise the obelisks mana absorption, otherwise it will start taking mana from living beings as well," She instructed her, taking a seat next to the altar and gesturing that she do the same.
"The only way to prevent it from doing so is controlling the input manually or destroying the obelisk itself, which would spell the end of Arkadia, the activation will take at least 13-15 hours, so prepare yourself."
"Understood."
"I swear she does this every time," Han stood facing the fields to the east, and at his side Lily Shadowpond had been temporarily assigned after Ikaris disappeared; this was the same older woman that had taken to Sol\'s defence and speculated that he had been exposed to demonkind before being summoned to Arkadia.
"I hear she often disappears with the young man after a battle." Lily leaned her head but kept her gaze toward the dark, counting on Han\'s perception as all they were able to see was what the obelisk illuminated.
"Every single time..." Han growled. "She does this every single time, but we are still active here she should show some sense of responsibility at the very least-"
"I used to do the same with my husband back in the day," Lily chuckled. "Before he was my husband though, it was about two decades after the obelisks activated, the lands inside of the barrier still had endless demonkin to exterminate, but we still found time after every battle to fuck around!" She laughed, holding her belly while Han looked at her.
She had many visible scars on her exposed arms and face, and he could imagine she was beautiful when she was younger because she was still gorgeous even considering her battle-worn state and her age being almost 100.
"Why haven\'t you retired?" He asked, and saw the small smile the woman had get slowly erased by an expression of dread. "As your husband, I\'d never have let you fight obthe front like this, I couldn\'t stomach the thought of-
"He died when I was fairly young; my husband that is, and I was so overcome with hatred for the demons that I left the main army and joined the advance regiment, a week after his death... I had a miscarriage." Lily held her gaze straight and her voice dialed down into a soft somber tone. "I did not even know."
"His brothers joined the advance army with me, and I helplessly watched an entire bloodline of great men die from their own hatred, in the end I was the only member of his family that survived that year, I had nothing left, so I closed my heart and dedicated my soul to the army, a D I have been fighting ever since.
"God..." Han stared at her. "I\'m sorry-"
"The army is full of stories like mine, there is nothing special about this tale, but still, it is beautiful to see them express their youth so openly." Lily went back to the main topic of Sol and Ikaris.
"I am rather envious of them, she smiled, it would be utter chaos of that boy died though, the goddess of battle might lose herself in bloodthirst, because I have never seen a woman so in love before."
"You don\'t need to worry for either of their sakes," Han responded to Lily\'s concerns. "Sol is strong, incredibly-unreasonably strong, even more so than Ikaris and Dina who have shown destruction I never imagined I\'d ever see with my naked eyes, and Ikaris is tenacity in the flesh, she never stops progressing, she is closer to his strength than any of us can ever hope to be."
"He is that strong, and yet he refuses to fight?"