HPDBC Chapter 100: Meanwhile...
Chapter 100: Meanwhile...
"Xue!" The shout of the princess echoed through the western forest.
Her voice strained as he held down an enormous mutated rhinoceros with black armour and long, twisted horns.
Vela's hands of molten rock grasped the front and hind legs of the wounded monster. Her body was wearing a full materialisation of molten earth. The molten armour protected her from the blows of this deadly beast as it thrashed against her hold.
"Good work, Vel." Whispered Mu Xue, standing a few metres away and looking at the raging rhino.
'Hyōka, let's finish this in one blow.'
Mu Xue always felt the need to hold back in the past. Although she could become stronger, she felt the young master's depression and inferiority grow each time she broke through.
At first, it was nothing until she fell in love with him. Those glances of jealousy and anguish pained her heart.
'My beloved Asura, to you, Stage Two at twenty was something to be proud of, a genius, but in the wide world. It is above average at best...'
Swirling winds enveloped Mu Xue's body as she lowered her stance, grasping the long handle of her beloved sword. A storm of ice began forming.
'However, your praise and honest support were painful when you would show such faces when alone...'
The shards became sharper and more violent, tearing the wind with reverberating howls.
This was the manifestation of ice. It proved Mu Xue's Stage Three mastery and a message to Asura that she painted with her feelings and heart.
"Haa..."
⟪Mu Family Drawing Arts⟫
—Dissecting Blade
With a single step, her body flashed with violent propulsion through the dirt, her hand twisting the blade as she drew it from the sheath.
A single howl of frost.
That's all that Vela could recognise as a blue horizontal flash cut through the entire rhino. The deadly ice blade tore everything within a five-metre line in half.
Immediately after the blade cut, the rhino shards of ice formed along the wound, exploding with sharp spikes, penetrating its insides and tearing it apart.
"Phew..."
With a clink, Mu Xue put Hyōka to rest while the ice storm calmed.
"Xue, your attacks are so violet~ how will we sell this frozen meat to the traders?"
"Idiot princess, this meat is for our dinner."
"Hah!?"
"We have nothing left. Are you going to eat dirt?"
After spending two weeks together, the group leader became clear, but Mu Xue also enjoyed the princess and her company. She was nothing like she expected when in private.
The same was true for Vela, although Mu Xue liked to bully her and sometimes beat her up during practice. It was the first genuine sense of a friend Vela experienced.
'Asura, now that you can use magic and have become stronger. I no longer have to hold back or slow my progress, right?'
"Do you want to keep fighting, Vel, or shall we head back and prepare for tomorrow's hunt?"
"Ahhh! Bernard, help me! Please help me!"
She screamed, terrified at the vine rubbing along her naked skin, wrapping around her limbs, climbing her neck and covering her mouth.
"Petra!!!" Screamed Bernard as he struggled desperately, bleeding profusely as his torn muscles exposed flesh, yet the monster only tightened its grip on him while forcing him to watch as the vines changed shapes, pushing into her mouth and spurting a strange clear liquid into her mouth.
"Noo...Nyo..... I don't... This isn't me... stop... don't..." Petra's voice sounded sweet, causing Bernard's body to tremble. He knew something was wrong.
His fiancé's body was changing as vines rubbed all over her nude body. The liquid forced into her mouth seemed to turn Petra's mind into mush as she stopped struggling, her eyes turning white.
More vines crawled along her smooth and slender legs. Some pierced her skin, injecting a purple fluid. Yet she didn't show pain... her lips released soft moans instead.
Bernard realised the truth. It was an aphrodisiac and poison, changing her mind and numbing her senses as she started enjoying the treatment.
"Petra!! Snap out of it! Please! Fight it!!" Shouted Bernard desperately.
Yet she turned her gaze towards him but wasn't looking at him; as the vines wrapped around her body, a large flower appeared beneath her, blooming and revealing a pink tentacle covered in green slime.
This tentacle wrapped around her body, releasing a strange fluid that caused her skin to sizzle and melt visibly.
"Bernard~ come join me. Haha~ this feels good. I feel so good~ ah~," Petra moaned sensually while drooling as her body shivered in pleasure. The vine's secretions caused her skin to turn red as it slowly melted.
"Noo.... Petra!!!" Bernard continued shouting, struggling desperately as the vines opened his jaw forcefully, pouring another liquid down his throat. The next moment, the two flowers snapped closed, devouring the students whole...
Only the muffled sounds of their delight sounded for a few minutes before silence.
The next moment, an enormous axe tore through the skies, followed by the vast body of a goliath, slamming down and tearing apart both flowers, releasing the heavily wounded students.
"Hah! You vile wretch!"
With a swing of his arm, the wind howled, creating a powerful storm of wind, tearing the vines of both flowers into mush. Immediately after, a second swing created a tornado, slicing both flowers in half, ending their life.
"Vile Assassin of the cult, you bastard! Where are you!? Come out!!" shouted the giant angrily, holding Bernard and Petra under his arms as he searched the area.
Yet Bishop Cairn vanished already.
"Tsk, that coward. Students... Do not worry. I have blocked the images, and what happened here will remain a secret... Although you will suffer for a short time. Remember your desire to save each other."
"You are now safe."
The giant patted the student's head before vanishing into a green light.
Left alone, Petra crawled towards Bernard, kissing his lips as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I love you~ Bernard. We will always be together..."
Then she kissed him again, licking his wounds and cleaning him.
"Haha... hahaha~ it tickles, Bernie..."
A moment later, a beautiful green barrier of wind enveloped them as they released their passions, the fluids of the plan allowing them to break the last problem between them.
"Finally... we became one, Petra. I've always loved you..."
"Mmm, me too... I am so glad you didn't die... even if you are burnt or scarred, I will not abandon you."
Tonight, their family's years of stress would end with the conception of the first heir of Bernard's family in over ten years.