??? POV
After many months of travel, I finally found myself in that mansion. I had overheard adventurer talking about the owner of this place and how strong he is and since then I have decided to see it with my own two eyes. The females of my race will never mate someone weaker than them but our males aren''t the most delicate, because of that the only way they found to found to mate is to beat the one they fancy in a duel and then rape her to prove their dominance over the female, once the child is born they leave to find another mate. Many say that it is because of such barbaric custom that the Onis aren''t part of the races, something I ultimately do not care about since no man has ever beaten me. I will not let myself be dirtied by someone if only the weak can have kids then I''ll never be a mother.
My reason for coming here isn''t to be defeated but to ensure that I am indeed the strongest female Oni. But I may have been over-confident, the magic energy radiating from this house is almost suffocating even for a monster such as me. Although I went to places with much more condensed magic energy in my travels it was usually the lairs of powerful monsters and not a mansion that is so close to a city. I knew the one residing here wasn''t Human but this far exceeds my expectation.
|Sigh, the captain''s training sure is tough isn''t it ?|(Man)
|Talk about it, this is the first time I collapsed out of exhaustion since we appeared in this world.|(man 2)
|Hold on ... there is someone up ahead.|(man)
|My my my, to be able to sense me it seems it isn''t just the master of this house that is talented.|(???)
Two tall men had sensed me, although I wasn''t trying to hide myself newbies shouldn''t be able to detect my presence since I am not some amateur. Looking at them I can only wonder if they are Humans, the both of them are almost three meters tall and radiate with a phenomenal amount of magic energy. I see, only people with that much mana would be able to survive in this house, normal Humans would die from magic poisoning if they stayed here for too long.
The two men were shirt-less, leaving their amazing muscles'' lines out in the open. I could tell that they weren''t any push-over when it comes to fighting and their weapons seem to be enchanted. One of them is using a gigantic two-handed cleaver-sword while the other one has two one-handed battle-axes. Although powerful I''d say they aren''t better than an intermediate Dragon which I should be able to handle without that much problem.
|An Oni ? I''m pretty sure they''re rather rare in this part of the continent.|(Man)
|Check out those racks, damn they are massive.|(Man 2)
The one with the two battle-axes smacked the one who commented on my breast, I guess this is one of the differences between members of the races and monsters, a male Oni would simply have charged at me in hope to suck on them like a baby but some members of the races have some manners. He then stepped forward and went in front of me, they really are tall, he is around twenty centimeters taller than me so I have to look up to see his face.
|What ? Do you want to get a piece of me too ?|(???)
|Remember, they may be sentient but a monster will always be a monster.|(Man)
And he tried to take a swing at me with one of his axes but I managed to dodge it by air-breath and jump back to avoid the other ax. Damn, they are fast.
|I would never have expected that you took the saying "get a piece of me" at the bottom of the letter like that. You, men, are dangerous no matter what you do.|(???)
I took out my battle-staff and readied my stance and waited for him to come at me. I didn''t wait very long as he charged at me at lightning speed, it isn''t the first time I face a faster enemy so I know how to deal with them. With their speed, they can''t turn well because of the momentum so I thrust my staff in front of me but much to my surprise he managed to dive at his left right before my staff hit him. He kept charging at me and swung his axes at my head so I ducked down and kicked the ground to give my punch in his guts a little momentum. I immediately stood and twisted my hand that held my staff as I turned around to hit him with all my strength. Since I was in his back he couldn''t react in time and I managed to land the blow on him and sent him crash face first in the dirt.
Since I did not want to take any chances but at the same time did not wanted to kill him because if I did I''m sure I would be chased to death by the residents of this house while if I keep them alive but just a little beat up they may leave me a chance of leaving the place alive so I knocked him unconscious with a strike on the neck. Once I got sure he wouldn''t get up I looked around and noticed that the man with the sword was missing. Well, that''s until he jumped at me from a tree and tried to slash me with all his might. I managed to avoid it but when his sword touched the ground it made an enormous crater and a cloud of dust that prevented me from seeing the man.
|Although I commend you for not running away you may have wanted to help your friend a little bit sooner.|(???)
I said as I made my staff spin in order to get rid of the dust. As soon as I entered his line of sight again he charged at me and tried to cleave me in half, since I am no idiot I did not try to parry his strike since that would only result in me getting cleaved in half because of his monstrous strength, instead, I crouched. The sheer wind pressure of his swing cut down trees several hundred of meters behind me, damn, the first mustn''t have seen me as a threat and had held back but I think this guy is going all out.
|Help ? Had I given him any help it would have made him lose his pride as a warrior, this idiot underestimated you and got beaten that''ll just serve him as a lesson but I won''t make the same mistake as him.|(Man 2)
|Pride over friendship huh ?|(???)
|It''s because he is my friend that I protect his pride.|(Man 2)
This is something I never understood from the races, many monsters are prideful but they will always value their life before their pride, a vampire will gladly accept to serve a Human for a few years instead of getting killed, what are after all a few decades when you are immortal but the races are different, some of them value their pride so much that they will die in order to save it, the people of the East are good examples of that and that''s without including the Dwarves and the Elves.
He charged at me again and swung his sword downward so I stepped aside and used my staff to make some kind of pole on which this guy''s stomach would fall. I succeeded in hitting him but at last moment his twisted his hands and went for a horizontal swing so I had to lower my head at the last moment in order not to get beheaded. Since he had his breath knocked out of him I used this opportunity to hit him as hard as I could on the head with my staff and as I had predicted fell unconscious.
And that''s when HE came, holding within him so much mana that if he were to unleash it all he would probably irradiate this place for centuries, his reptilian wings were casting a dark shadow over me as his two dark red eyes fell on me. His many horns looked so strong and sharp that one could think it could pass through mithril as if it was butter. He too was shirt-less but countless black and dark red scales covered his torso. His hair were beautifully resting on his shoulder and chest. He quietly landed at some distance from me and looked around with a fierce scowl on his face, his eyes then slowly fell on me and sent shiver down my spine, all of my instincts were telling me to run away but if I did then that would mean I acknowledged him as stronger than me and that I won''t accept.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.
|Is this yar doing ?|(Apocalypse)
|And what if it is ?|(???)
|Then I will ask for yar purpose.|(Apocalypse)
|I suppose you won''t buy it if I say I was just looking for strong people to fight ?|(???)
|Ya wouldn''t be tha first fool ta do that.|(Apocalypse)
|Great, so you are used to it.|(???)
He slowly walked towards me, each of his steps leaving deep cracks in the soil, I unconsciously took a few step backs but I quickly found myself cornered against one of the few remaining trees in the yard and yet he just kept walking towards me without showing any signs of aggressivity. It is strange, the way he walks is fluid like a river but at the same as strong as flames, sometimes his hair would sway even when there isn''t any wind and sometimes when a breeze blows his hair would be as stiff as rock. The aura that surrounded him wasn''t one I felt comfortable confronting. When he finally got to me he put his clawed hand on my horn and started to stroke it before doing the same with my hair. He slowly brought his face to mine and lock his eyes with mine.
|An Oni, ah ah ah, how unfair, I want ya so bad now.|(Apocalypse)
He smiled and revealed two sharp row of white teeth. Although I should be terrified and beg for my life at the sight of such a powerful individual my mind had stopped working and his words kept echoing in my head. Rage took over my body and in a desperate moment I brought my fist up and did an uppercut, As my muscles'' mass increased to the Oni''s ability I still felt the hardness of this bastard''s jaw. He flew three meters in the air and fell on the ground. He slowly stood up with a mad laugh.
|GUIAGUIAGUIAGUIA, YES THAT IS WHAT AN ONI IS !!! THA INCARNATION OF STRENGTH AND RAGE, THIS PUNCH ACTUALLY HURT LIKE HELL !!! GUIAGUIAGUIA, BUT I''LL SHOW YA THA MEANING OF REAL WRATH !!!|(Apocalypse)
The already over-bearing aura that came from him increased and he started to look more and more like a monster in my eyes, not that he changed in some hideous form, just that I couldn''t accept the fact that such a strong being could exist and that this being would actually want to mate with me. However, I did not falter and grabbed my staff and tried to calm myself or else I am surely going to be annihilated. A detonation was heard and the ground that was beneath him got blown away as he disappeared faster than my eyes could see. I looked up and saw him getting ready to slam his fist on me so I jumped back and tried to slam my staff on his other shoulder but when my staff got close to him he flapped his wings and dived past it with grace and strength.
I avoided his punch at the last moment but the air pressure still managed to cut my cheek. He disappeared and reappeared a bit away from me, his strength isn''t something I can be careless with, his last punch he drilled a ten meters deep and five meters wide crator.
|WHAT IS IT ? WHY AREN''T YA STRIKING BACK ?! YA''RE SUPPOSED TA BE PART OF THA RACE I LOVE THA MOST AND YET YA ARE THIS WEAK !!! DON''T KID WITH ME, I WANT A BATTLE THAT CAN SHAKE THA HEAVENS !!|(Apocalypse)
What ? Is this guy crazy or what ? Onis are indeed powerful monsters but for one of us to be as strong as him they would need to be at least several thousands of years old, our strength grows with our age but rare are those that are over six hundred years old since most kingdoms send people to get rid of us before we get too powerful, I myself is only two hundred years old but since I trained myself and fought stronger opponents since birth my strength far more impressive than other members of my race of my age.
He took a step forward and his surrounding were blown away in a storm of energy, this guy wasn''t going all out since the beginning. but seriously what is a calamity such as this guy doing near Human''s settlement ?! I can''t run, if I run all I have been doing during all these years would have been in vain but if I die here it would be meaningless. He kept walking toward me with an enormous smile on his face, I was frozen in fear and could not understand what was happening. His hands reached out to my breast and torn off the fur that I used to cover them, he brought his face closer to them and ...
|GET A HOLD OF YARSELF !!!!|(Apocalypse)
He punched himself in the face so hard that he was blown away several meters away and he came a few seconds later, unscathed. I wasn''t overcome by fear anymore but by surprise, I was dumbfounded to say the least. He passed in front of me like nothing happened and took the two unconscious men on his shoulder and looked at me.
|Sorry for what happened, my wife tried some weird medicine on me and, well, ya can see tha result for yarself. By tha way, ya might want to cover those tasty looking water-melons.|(Apocalypse)
I snapped out of my stupor and hid my breast the best I could with my arm. Although I can hardly forgive the disgrace he made me suffer I am grateful he did not go further than my chest but at the same, I felt as if my pride as a woman had been wounded. Nobody likes to be undressed forcefully by a stranger and even more so getting raped by one, many female Onis go crazy before the birth of their first children and many child are beaten to death by their mother because of the trauma they suffered but at the same time when a man can just glance at your breast and not show any signs of attraction it kinda makes me feel like I lost. As he prepared to leave I asked him a question I wouldn''t have imagined would ever come out of my mouth.
|When you said you wanted me, did you mean it ?|(???)
He looked at me with big eyes and tilted his head on the side as if he was thinking and then sighed.
|No matter how I tried ta escape it in ta past, me and my people are creatures of primal instincts and even if I am not lust and can thus resist tha desire ta fuck like a rabbit but when my eyes fall on ya I do want ta eat ya up. However, I will never allow myself ta lower myself ta rape for pleasure.|(Apocalypse)
It is then that for the first time in my life that my heart heard the sound of thunder, me, who had always been seen either as a monstrous abomination or a piece of meat that one simply has to beat it with a stick a few times so they can get a bite, this is the first time in my life that someone held back his instincts and stopped himself from doing something that could''ve hurt me. It may stupid of me, of all the love talks I had over-heard from adventurers mentioned things like the first love being the stupidest one and even I think it is but even though I despise those who forces themselves on women I do love the strong and this man is of the one I love. I approached him and said.
|Then you can have me, Furia the "Bloody monk".|(Furia)
He looked at me and took my hand while smiling.
|Well, sextria is going ta be happy.|(Apocalypse)
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Apocalypse POV
After some days of training I managed to find some talented recruit in the Vermillion. I had them train extremely hard to be sure I could bring out their true potentials, at the same times I had Sextria and Eali prepare some potion that would boost our physical strength and dull our sense of pain, in short a berzerker type of potion. I also started to prepare ranks for my corp but since it isn''t finished I can''t use it. I noticed their were a lot of women in my corps, they must have thought that I would lessen their training sessions since it seems some people are saying I am too kind to women. I don''t agree, I killed as many women as I killed men.
Once they had finished preparing the potion Sextria and Eali called me out to test it. To be honest, I should have been more cautious with them, they dared add aphrodisiac inside the mixture. Not that it mattered since I got out of the room before the effect kicked in but I sensed a presence outside of the house. I use my aura to detect every intruder since I got back, I won''t allow someone to touch Julia in order to harm her anymore.
Since two of my recruits were fighting against the intruder I thought it would be okay but I sensed them getting knocked unconscious I rushed to the place it had happen. There I found a beautiful woman with a spotless white horn coming out of the middle of her forehead, her skin was blood red and her eyes were obsidian black. If anything she looked like she was in her thirties but still had a youthful face. That''s when the aphrodisiac kicked in, I already love the Onis as a race but the fact that only two pieces of fur were covering her private parts and the size of her breasts broke the last bit of sanity I still had.
My love for fighting and beautiful women conflicted so I tried to battle against her as well as denude her, something I am ashamed of. She did surprisingly well as she managed to avoid a few of my strikes, I wasn''t fighting seriously at all but it doesn''t mean I wasn''t overpowering her by a large margin. I managed to grab a hold of her bra and realizing what I had done I punched myself to gain back my senses. I know two people who aren''t going to walk straight for the next week.
I grabbed the recruits and as I was going to leave I got confessed to, well, not sure you can call that a confession but I couldn''t just refuse such a tempting offer. It is true that none of my loves have been born from long relationships but were instead created through lust, I had tried to do it another way with Lifera but I failed miserably so I decided that from now on I would be honest with my feelings and not hide the feelings I hold for someone.
I am Wrath, the companion of Lust and the cousin of Pride and I shall be one with the three sins, together we form a trinity that shall never break. And that is how I fell in love with yet another wife of mine and this was only the foreshadowing of the biggest scolding I would get from my mother.