Stella blew on the spoon several times to make sure it wasn’t too hot for me. “Open wide!”
I complied, finding my mouth immediately stuffed with monster meat stew. “Tasty.”
The meat was good, but I found myself wondering if I wanted to know what type of seasoning she’d decided would go with it. It was astringent like medicine.
We were halfway to Daeva’s New Haven, but we were making slow progress since Stella insisted I take it easy.
Out in the middle of a field, we could see for miles in any direction. And it made me a little uncomfortable. Having grown up and lived in cities my whole life, it was a strange feeling of freedom suddenly being out amid the wild.
There were certainly monsters, but Stella wasn’t about to let that bother us.
The huge boar corpse was partially carved apart, and the ground was splattered with blood from my lovely succubus' attempts at butchering the poor creature.
She was being stubborn about taking care of me, but she let me cook the meat with my power. She’d been quite hungry, and it was the fastest option.
The pot and the spoons had been quickly crafted by the succubus with her super strength. She’d used her durability to shape wood with her fingers. She didn’t even get any splinters.
Melody sat down next to me. “Think we’ll make it there today?”
“No. We can’t go quickly,” Stella objected. “Miles is hurt, and we need to go at a slow pace for him.” She puffed out her cheeks, repeating what she’d already said multiple times.
I knew Stella had been through a lot recently, so I didn’t push her. Our harem had expanded, and she and I had less one-on-one time. And then she’d had to face the concept of living on without me when I’d been attacked, and I knew that had really messed with her head.
Hell, it had messed with my head.
“Remember when it was just the three of us?” I asked the two girls. “This is kind of nice.”
“Master.” Stella blushed and held the quickly crafted wooden spoon up against her face as she blushed. “I miss this too.”
I grabbed both of them with my power and pulled them into my arms. “The others are lovely. I care for all of them. But I do love my succubus and my purple elf; you two started this with me.” I played with Melody’s ears, making her squirm in my lap.
While Melody tried to get away, Stella nuzzled in even closer. “Yes. Don’t forget about your lovely little succubus. I need lots of feedings from my master.”
“Of course. Lots of feedings. We are going into New Haven, and I need you at full strength.” I took the moment to scan her with my power, looking for any changes that might have caused her power to be hungrier than before.
We suspected that she had been exposed to the early stages of Libertech’s serum at college. It was my theory behind why her power was cracked.
Scanning through her, I found nothing different about her body. If anything, it was healthier than before. Her power flowed freely through her, reinforcing and strengthening her almost every moment.
It seemed like that cycle had caused her power to grow further.
“Stella, are you using your power more?”
“Hmm?” She tilted her head cutely. “Well, of course I am. I haven’t been able to use it freely for years. Now I have you to keep me supplied with ki all the time, and I’m out there fighting villains. A succubus has to feed, and I can’t feed on your harem, well maybe some Obby clones, but I don’t know how that would work,” she rambled before focusing back on me.
The tingle of her power started as she rubbed herself against me while I held her.
“Melody?” Stella asked. “Can you keep a lookout?”
Melody laughed. “Sure. Just don’t take too long.”
“Are you sure I’m healthy enough for that?” I teased Stella.
Her hand found my pants and cupped me. Her power made me tingle and brought me to a rapid attention. “I think you are healthy enough. Maybe I’ll have to take care of you for a few more days, though.”
Grabbing her with my power, I scraped all the blood and grime off the surrounding ground. “Well, then I should clean you up after we get dirty.”
She kissed me hard, pressing me back into the grass. “I love you, master.” She ground her hips against me. “Let me show you.”
Melody lifted off the ground and took the rest of the boar with her, heading off to dispose of it somewhere further away.
I peeled part of Stella’s super suit back and pulled her tit out, massaging it and pulling at her nipple.
Stella stopped kissing me and ground herself against me as she moaned. “Master, what do you want from your little succubus?”
“I want her to make me feel good. Isn’t that what you enjoy most?” I played into the role I knew she liked.
“Yes, Master.” She breathed and leaned down so that I could lick at her nipple as she jerked down my pants. “I’m always wet and ready for you, Master.”
She pushed aside the crotch of her suit, showing off the heart-shaped tattoo above her sex and eased me in. At one point, she’d been tighter, but she’d adapted to me over time. And she was right; she always seemed to be wet and ready.
I groaned as her silken sheath swallowed my cock. “Yes.”
“Yes, Master. You fill me so much.” She grabbed my hands with hers and laced our fingers together as she rocked on me, her power activating and feeling like a thousand little tongues running themselves up and down my length.
“No power. Just slowly rock me there,” I told her.
Stella licked her lips and stopped her power, panting as she stared into my eyes.
I lost myself in her bright blue eyes, and I played back so many moments throughout our time together. Stella had completely changed my life, and I knew she was never leaving me.
It was a moment of intensity that I hadn’t been ready for. Something more than just the physical.
“That feels good?” she asked softly.
“Yes. Amazing,” I replied, finding my voice a little choked up.
Stella hummed with a smile so wide that her eyes pinched together. “Perfect then. We’ll just stay like this.”
She used my hand to steady herself, keeping a rhythmic pace, slowly rocking me to higher intensity.
But it wasn’t even the sensation, it was that it was her. I couldn’t explain it, there was just… love.
I couldn’t deny the love that existed between us. But being there in that moment with her, it was overwhelming, like crashing waves each time she rocked herself on me.
“I love you, Stella.”
She squeezed my hands hard enough that I had to reinforce them with my power or else they would have become two piles of mush. “I love you too, my master, my Miles. This is lovely, but I’d like to use my power. It is who I am.”
I nodded, and she slowed down, but the intensity ramped up as thousands of little licks covered me. My cock hardened even further, and it felt like it was trying to grow and pierce as deep into her as it could.
“That feels good.” I clenched her hands and tried to make her speed up.
She only did so marginally, drawing out the moment of connection between us on a higher level.
Between her powers and the emotions running through me, my body was soaring as I felt the buildup beginning. Rocking into her, pushing deeper, I drove up to my peak. “I’m going to cum.”
Stella stopped, planting herself firmly on me as I erupted inside of her.
The bliss must have gotten to me. “Stella. When we get to New Haven, how would you feel about helping me pick out an engagement ring for you? That is, if you’ll marry me?”
“YES!”
I was smart enough to reinforce myself before Stella slammed herself down on me, creating a crater in the middle of the field.
“Yes. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. One hundred percent,” she squealed in delight.
“Loud and clear. You can stop. We’ll find a ring, or I could always make you one.”
“Make it,” Stella said quickly. “Make the ring and the gem and then make a few more. I’ll let you put your rings on every part of me. My fingers, my horns, my tail. We can even pierce down there and put a ring on it.”
I grabbed her horns and pulled her down for a kiss where she wouldn’t stop wiggling in excitement. “Just one ring. Although, of the list you just gave, the horns for some reason hold some appeal.”
“You like to grab them.” She grinned. “There’s something dominant in you that likes to use them.”
“Want to remind me?” I teased.
But she took it literally. She was off me in an instant, and I felt her hot breath reawaken my recovering member. “You need to practice feeding and controlling your little succubus.”
Melody came back a few hours later and shooed us into action. “Okay, you two. You need to put some clothes on before I want to join in the action, and we cannot afford that. We lost most of the afternoon and already won’t get there until tomorrow.”
“Actually. I think Miles has recovered enough.” Stella was wiggling back into her suit. “That, and I could use a bath. Think they have baths?”
“I bet they have baths, or we can find a body of water to wash you off,” I offered, lifting the three of us into the air with my power before she could say I needed to rest again. “And I hope they have food.”
“If not, I can make some more of my tasty stew!” Stella added.
“Dandelions might be edible, but they did not season it well.” Melody wrinkled her face. “I, for one, could use some real food.”
Stella crossed her arms in a pout.
But a pat from me had her relaxing, and she looked down at her hand, wiggling her fingers like she was deciding which finger the ring would go on.
Seeing that my two passengers were ready, I shot the three of us off into the distance. I removed any invisibility. As guests, we had no reason to hide ourselves.
“Are you going to Void up?” Melody asked.
I had been thinking about it. “No. No one here hates me for killing Fortress. From what I understand, they are a collection of people from many of the cities, and even then, many of them share no love for heroes. So, I’m just going to be Miles. A very powerful Miles.”
“We should get you a suit!” Stella bounced happily on the bench I had made for us to sit on.
“No. Absolutely not.”
“Your clothes are kind of ragged.” Melody looked down at me.
I was still wearing the clothes from my near-death experience. My shirt was torn, and the pants were missing a chunk of fabric around the hip. I was currently using a tie as a belt to keep them up.
I rolled my eyes. “New clothes and a super suit are two very different things.”
Flying over the wilderness, monsters were everywhere, but we were moving too quickly for them to be any bother. The few that reacted realized they had missed their chance. But a few did jump up, trying to catch us and missing by a mile.
“There.” Stella pointed and pressed her face against the edge of the bubble. “That’s an old city.”
I turned slightly, angling towards the direction of her finger.
There weren’t the giant skyscrapers that existed in Point City, but there were large buildings capping out at maybe eight stories. The entire city looked overgrown, but a few flying supers flitted above the tops of the buildings, giving away that it was currently populated.
I flew closer, and the city separated itself from the surrounding wild. The overgrown buildings gave way to newer constructions entirely of stone. There were no cars. Instead, people walked, flew, or otherwise propelled themselves about.
Slowing down, I tried to absorb what I was seeing and let them react to my approach.
The place was teeming with people. Each of them had to be strong-enough supers to make it through the wilds to get to the forest or handpicked by Daeva’s recruiters. Most of them were heavily mutated.
I could see their ki with my power, and the place was a beacon amid the wilds.
But what I hadn’t thought about was that the city wouldn’t have much electricity. I could only sense a few spots amid the city that had even a spark.
“Halt.” A super with huge butterfly wings rose in front of me. She had overly large eyes and a pair of antennas that stuck out where she was missing eyebrows. “Who are you?”
“Well. I’m Miles. This is Stella and Melody. We are coming from Point City, and I was told that we could come here,” I talked calmly, assuming she was some sort of city guard.
The butterfly woman frowned, and then her antenna twitched several times. I wondered if she was communicating with someone. She seemed distracted, and her face looked like she might be reacting to something said to her.
“Oh.” She looked back over at me. “Come right this way. Our Goddess has been expecting you.” The look she gave me after that statement held an increased intensity, but she turned and led the way through the city.
“Goddess?” Melody asked.
“She said that we, people of our power level, should be treated like gods,” I said, remembering the conversation as we fought over the prison. “I sort of hoped she didn’t mean literally.”
“Wow. That looks like pictures I’ve seen of Greece.” Stella pointed at several large buildings with rows of pillars in front. They seemed new, as if they’d been built recently.
As we descended into the city following the butterfly girl, the people on the street parted by some force, and Daeva appeared at the end of the street, hovering over the city.
The street was parted by her power, and a giant runway was set between us as flower petals sprayed into the sky, filling the air and settling down over the city.
“Everyone,” Daeva’s voice boomed over the city. “Today is a day of celebration! Take the day off and find someone to love. For today is the day that your Goddess accepts her first member of her pantheon. May I introduce to all of you your new God and my love.”
“Oh, yeah. I see the crazy now. Just a little.” Melody’s tone was as dry as a desert.
The city erupted in clapping and whistles as well as shouts up at me.
I decided not to go all the way to the ground and held myself and my two ladies at the same height as Daeva. Then I projected my voice. “Thank you for your exuberant welcome for my visit to your city.”
The people below cheered her on, and they really treated her as their goddess. I worried that if I rejected or corrected her claims, it would lead to trouble. I wanted to get a better feel for the city before I caused any giant ripples.
So for the moment, I played along.
“Come. Let us retire. We wish to clean ourselves and relax from our trip.” I kept us moving forward as I floated us down the street towards Daeva.
She was grinning ear-to-ear like a madwoman.
The super was in her purple suit with four banner-like pieces of cloth streaming off of her. She was just like I remembered, having sustained no permanent injury from our fight.
Daeva had gold-spun blonde hair with piercing blue eyes. Her pink lips were fixed in a smile as I got close. “My eternal love. No one but you makes my heart beat so quickly. Come, I have a room ready for you and your other loves.”
“No issue with him having more than one?” Melody asked, clearly on edge after the declaration of love and intensity.
“He’s going to be the god-king of our pantheon. I do not begrudge him having more. Heck, our pantheon might as well be his harem when he is done with it. The only requirement is that his harem is worthy of him and strong enough to stand next to him.” Daeva’s eyes flashed judgmentally over the two women. “I hope you two are up to par.”
Daeva turned and led the way back to one structure, and I saw Melody mouthing ‘up to par’ with a mocking expression as Daeva walked.
I grabbed her, giving her a little squeeze against me as I took in the gorgeous building that really seemed like it was out of a textbook about ancient Greek architecture.
As we walked through the columns, we entered a huge, open room with a statue of Daeva in a toga slightly off-center. A second statue was being erected in the center as we walked through.
“I did not allow them to complete your face until they could see your likeness. You are incredibly handsome, my love. I am not disappointed.”
Daeva moved behind the statue to a grand marble hallway lined with pottery and gold. “Forgive me. It might not be up to the standards of Point City. But in time, I think you’ll find this place has its own charm.”
After several more turns, the hallway opened up into a room with two large pools. One was one steaming hot, and the other was cool, sitting in the open air.
“Please, rest up, and we can discuss why I’m doing this and why I need you.” Daeva put a hand on her chest to feel her heartbeat. Her face lit up.
But then she moved closer to me, placing her hand on my chest, frowning at what she found. My heart apparently wasn’t beating as quickly as she had expected.
“You need me?” I asked, confused what her power couldn’t accomplish.
“The world is moving faster than the nine cities are prepared for. Monsters are growing stronger at an alarming rate. Have you traveled the world?” Daeva asked, one brow rising with the question.
I’d never had the desire to fly around the world camping. At heart, I was always a city boy. “No.”
I had a feeling there was much more.
“Later, my eternal love. We will have time to talk about it later. For now, clean up and rest. It can wait a few hours.” She smiled, pushing aside any disappointment.
Melody, Stella, and I stood there waiting for a moment. “At least they have a hot bath.” Stella didn’t seem bothered by anything as she stripped.
Several servants came out from the same door Daeva had used to exit and picked up Stella’s super suit while another two blushed as they picked at my clothing.
“I can undress myself. Please get me something new to wear, though.” I could definitely use clothes that were in one piece.
“Of course…” The servant trailed off, her eyes not meeting my own.
I realized that she didn’t know what to call me. “Just call me Miles, and tell the others that, too.”
She met my eyes then as they moved downward along my body. When she finished, she gave me a smile, along with a nod of interest, and she turned to leave.
I moved over, settling into the warm water, my body moaning in delight as my muscles relaxed.
Melody slid gracefully into the water next to me, followed by a near- cannonball by Stella, the water splashing everywhere.
They moved closer, cuddling into me in the water, hands wandering. And I did my best to push away any anxiety, but something told me this city was going to be an adventure.
Daeva seemed to know more about the world -- and about a danger lurking beyond the nine cities.