Chapter 63: Chapter 62
10/9 16:05 (Autumn, Night, Midrar)
Luna stretched, enjoying greatly the way her body felt right now, full of Energy as she left their bed, careful not to disturb her Mate, her silent steps leading her outside, stopping briefly at the door as her Aura released in full and gently covering her sleeping Amber, adjusting her blanket, her smallest Mate being exhausted by this point because of the combination of their intense, over three hours long activities and the use of "Energy Siphon" to help the red-eyed one recover from her Limit-based stress caused by her "Core Implosion".
The white-haired one quietly opened the door, her Aura expanding into various ephemeral copies of her own arms to silently open the door and adjust Amber's blanket around her to leave her as comfortable as possible while she was absent.
Afterwards Luna casually followed her Marks towards her other two Mates, her Aura being constantly Shaped in different forms based mostly upon her own body with arms and legs protruding to both help and hinder her progress while various wings and tails forming before they collapsed back into Aura, quickly finding them together in the monitoring room.
"Amber is going to be out for a long while more and you two still need to sleep, so cease peeking and let's go to bed." Luna firmly yet gently ordered, her voice causing Sabel to jump on her feet because of her suprise.
"We- I wasn't pe-peeking, I-I just- Why are you naked?!" She startled in surprise before screaming and partially covering her eyes at the Lunarian.
"Because I didn't bother with wearing clothes before I came here?" The red-eyed one answered, confused by the fact that the question was ever made in the first case, finding the cause to be self-evident. "And it's useless to lie, you two were peeking on us, I felt your emotions for the entirety of the last hours, denial is useless." She smugly explained, satisfied.
"Didn't you shut off our emotional Link while you were with Amber?" Mafel wondered even while her golden eyes were focused on enjoying the show freely offered.
"I mean, sure, I could shut off our emotional Link at any time and I sometimes do to limit my transfer towards all three of you but why should I shut it off completely? Your emotions are all so wonderfully vivid, after all." Luna wondered, enjoying Amber's contentment, Mafel's curiosity mixed with lust and Sabel's own mix of confusion, embarassment and her own lust.
"I see, yeah, it makes sense considering how young your Soul is." The Elf exclaimed to herself, satisfied, before upon seeing the curious gaze of said Mate, explained. "the age of a Soul is measured not in years but in lives, in perspectives. Amber had seventy-two lives before this one, Sabel had ninety-three and I, if we consider my previous self and my current one as a single life, had eighty. You instead are only on your fourth one if we consider Scarlet and you to be one and the same. And in addition to that your Soul is a self-made one. It's no wonder then that your emotions and perspective are very muted in comparison to other People."
"I see." Luna calmly said before asking something that just popped up in her mind. "Do you know anything about my previous Lives?" She asked calmly, more curious that really interested in the answer.
"Well, I can confirm that your first Life was something akin to a Monster that obtained a Soul of their own through the consumption of small pieces of other Souls over a very long period of time considering their still massive influence over you. I would say that they were very passive before their death, as evident by your own mostly-reactive nature. Having said that, I can only be sure of your first life because they were, by an immense margin, the strongest one, with none being able to reach it. At least up to now." The Medium added this last part upon noting the gaze of her Mate but she had no need to wonder if she hurt her feelings as Luna was merely trying to wonder about her previous life's power.
"Make sense. In that case I think my first life was either plant- or spider-based considering my distaste for eating and the fact that neither eat solid foods."
"Right, something like that. The bleeding of such characteristics would be common in so small a number of Reincarnations, especially in erroneous ones that maintain their Unique Skill, like your own."
"Hey, how could you two speak so normally in this situation?!" Sabel exploded with embarassment and stress caused by the two speaking so calmly all the while Luna was just standing there naked, causing two pair of eyes to fell on her, amused.
"Sweetie, a professional Medium needs to be able to maintain composure regardless of their situation or present company." Mafel calmly corrected before, with a small dangerous smile, she proceded towards her black haired Mate, moving and then embracing her from behind causing their Human to yelp in surprise and briefly trying to fight back.
Said protests were silenced soon after by Luna's lips in a brief kiss before the Lunarian ended it soon after, her Aura shaping itself into multiple limbs that lifted up both of her Mates up before resting the black-haired one within the white-haired one's arms and the grey-haired one was gently posed on Luna's back.
Quickly Luna left the observation room, Sabel being carefully held in Luna's arms while Mafel's arms encircled her shoulders in an embrace, the red-eyed one adjusting them with Aura limbs before moving back to their room.
Sabel stammered in embarrassment before closing her eyes, trying and failing to ignore the fact that the two of them were flushed tight against each other while Mafel instead just enjoyed their situation and her Mate's emotions in silent bliss thanks to their Marks' sharing their feelings.
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10/9 12:11 (Autumn, Sunset, Mysterious Island)
Sider hesitantly stepped on the island, her body at the moment composed of Living Stone as she was careful not to directly enter in contact with it, following behind the turtle she just set free on the beach while ready to jump away the instant she felt any thought that wasn't her own.
"I don't like this. At all." She affirmed, her senses stretched to the maximum to find anything off with the air around her.
Her Qi surrounded her stone body, finding a trace of the culprit behind this anomaly.
The air and everything else in the island was filled with Qi and if this was all, it would be a wonderful news for her and her clan's future as a source, even if the Qi itself was very thin.
However she did not dare to take in any of the Qi around her to accelerate her Cultivation as she was able to quickly feel the Miasma making up most of the Qi itself, granting it a powerful corruptive influence that, so long as she didn't take in any of it, she would be able to resist.
Her stone muscles, Living Stone being somehow both flexible and rigid at the same time, clenched before relaxing with every single one of her steps, the magma taking the place of her blood slowly flowing within her veins, warming her body from the inside to fight back against the coldness natural to this island.
While Sider followed the turtle at a significant distance, she tried to understand the Qi around her, thing rendered quite a bit easier considering how step after step the concentration of Qi slowly increased as she neared the center of the island, more specifically the mountain at the center of the island she was able to glimpse in the distance.
Electricity coursed around her body before it moved deeper in her body, flowing within the melted rock functioning at least for now in place of her blood and as a conseguence the Werewolf shuddered, her muscles spasming briefly before she forcefully retook control of her muscles.
The Lightning-Attribute Mana flowing within her body was released in repeating pulses, helping the black-haired one in analyzing the false Qi surrounding her as static shocks circled the area around the silver-eyed one as an additional form of defense, just in case.
The turtle proceded unimpeded, their steps sure despite the lack of any familiarity with the terrain around and, step after step, cracks spread all over its body with scales falling down around it to no particular reaction from the reptile before new, much sharper and darker ones violently exploded from beneath them, expanding their cracks.
This process continued as more and more of its parts fell apart behind them, red blood, bone, scales and flesh slipping down its body before being substitute by new ones, they, no, it, as step after step it became victim of the process called Monsterization, ignored the pain completely, its fascination forbidding it to react to said agony.
It breathed in deeply before, with its exhale, it rejected its previous organs, new ones forming underneath its shell and pushing its now obsolete organs from its mouth, a minuscule layer of Miasma starting to generate around it while its shell pulsed, cracks forming in it as cancerous new flesh solidified to form a new, bigger and sturdier shell.
Step after step, this process repeated itself as the turtle slowly Mutated into a Monster and if this was all, it would not be that strange if not for its speed but the thing that caused a shiver in Sider was the fact a Qi Circulatory System was forming within its body as its false Qi sluggishly flowed within it.