First, let me say a few things. I am really glad so many of you enjoy this story and are waiting for updates, however sadly there will be longer delays between chapters occasionally. That is because life just gets stressful sometimes and that robs me off the motivation and time to write, so that's that.
Now something more story focused. Someone pointed out a flaw in one of Bell's skill, so I will change the skill "Bunny Breeding" in the chapter I originally introduced it. I am just mentioning that for anyone that might be wondering about it. Essentially, I will just remove the whole "get's more dominant each time the skill is used" part from the skill. My idea behind it was that Bell would gain confidence and not be as passive anymore but well... honestly he doesn't need a skill for that. (As you will see later in this chapter :P)
Finally, one last thing: I would like to thank everyone for sending me suggestions as to what naughty things Bell and Riveria would get up to in the future, however when I started writing this chapter, I felt that it wouldn't fit in to have them do those kinds of things in between the story, so I decided not to include it here. With that said, it's not like I won't include any of those things. As I said I am really thankful for all the suggestions, so as I didn't want to disappoint everyone waiting for it, I decided to do a bonus chapter that will focus purely on alternate smut scenes between Bell and Riveria. Also, while I thought that including that kind of smut in the chapter didn't fit, it's not like I won't do any smut in the "main story" anymore. There is even a smut part in this chapter after all…
Anyway, with all the said: Please enjoy the chapter you all have been waiting for!
The following days after the Denatus were… surprisingly clam honestly. The attention around Riveria and her level up of course didn't die down after just a single evening, so she was still swamped with work and people to meet up with, leaving her no free time to see Bell at all, but actually… that wasn't all that bad. In fact she even appreciated it!
Now don't get me wrong, she would have loved nothing more but to spend each day in laying in her arms but… well she planned to reward him with something special for how he rejected Freya during the Denatus and she would need time to prepare for that. Truth be told, she had been mulling over what to do for him the past few days and hadn't really decided on anything up until now but… today she had finally decided on her course of action! After all she wouldn't won't to make him wait for too long…
Yes, she would start her preparations immediately! She would need to, after all she decided to do… do… do…
Riveria froze in the middle of the street, causing multiple people to almost bump into her. The elf didn't notice though. She was feeling too ashamed of herself due to her thoughts and the actions she would take in the foreseeable future, her shame quite evident due to her bright red face and ears…
Bell on the other hand was back to his usual dungeon prowling routine. As a level four, he was now an important part of the secondary party of Loki familia, consisting mainly of Raul, Aki and several others. Throughout the days after the Denatus, he had continued levelling in the Dungeon like usual since unlike Riveria he didn't have any obligations he would need to attend to. That led to his status already being up to the top of Level Four again. Most of his stats were low Cs already, with his agility already having passing the B mark, something that was of course only possible due to the skills engraved on his back…
Other than adventuring, the only noteworthy thing that had happened in these past few days for Bell had been him meeting up with Welf to discuss his new weapon with him. Needlessly to say that Welf had been overjoyed and grinning like a child before its Christmas presents when Bell had told him about the drop item he would get to work with. Honestly, it seemed like Welf would just jump at him and kiss him in joy…
Either way, as he didn't want to waste such a precious item, Welf had told Bell that he would take his time with this weapon to make sure it turned out in the best way possible, something that Bell certainly didn't mind.
Like that, the two lovers spent the following days until….
"Ey, ya see that?", one of the cities guards, a member of Ganesha familia asked his partner, squinting his eyes while looking off into the distance.
"What do you m-?", the other guard had started, but he grew silent quickly as he saw what his friend had meant. Instead he only mumbled: "Are those… people?"
That day, a wave of refugees had hit Orario. Of course the guild had been quick to respond. They had taking them in and provided them with temporary shelters while also giving them food and water, trying to calm them down and figure out the cause of this whole incident.
Obviously the appearance of such a large group of people had sparked general interest and that led to many gods and goddesses making their rounds through the camp of refugees, either to calm and help them or out of sheer curiosity and for fun (though those gods obviously weren't exactly well received by the refugees…).
Loki too had entered the camp, though unlike the other gods, she belonged to neither of these two types of gods. She had been called out here by the guild. Honestly, she could already feel another difficult situation coming up but… well she had to admit she was curious as to what happened to, so she been rather quick to agree and meet up here anyway…
Loki entered a large tent in the middle of the camp and was greeted by a bunch of guild employees as well as Royman, the head of the guild, and an old man, perhaps the leader of the refugees.
"Yo! You called for me?", Loki greeted them in her usual carefree tone.
"Ah goddess Loki! I am glad you came!", Royman was quick to greet her before introducing her to the old man: "This here is Moss, he is the leader of this group of refugees."
"Pleased to meet you, I didn't think I would ever get to see a goddess with my own two eyes, yet here I am in Orario, gods and goddesses all around me…", he mumbled.
Loki greeted him back with a nod, however she was quick to cut to the case: "So, what am I doing here? Or more accurately, what are you doing here?"
The old man Moss looked down at his feet with a dark expression, obviously having trouble to speak…
Instead, Royman filled her in: "He and the rest of the people here are from multiple small villages far away from here. They have been attack by a monster and so they had to leave their homes."
At that point, Moss cut him off, mumbling: "That thing was no monster… That thing was destruction incarnate!"
Royman then continued, ignoring the old man: "As I said they were attacked by a monster and well… this man here claims that it was…", he paused for a moment to eye the man again before saying: "He claims they were attacked by the Behemoth."
"It's the truth!", Moss shouts, but a few of the guild girls around are quick to calm him down.
Royman and Loki then walk a little further away from him to discuss this in private.
"Is he telling the truth?", Royman whispered, knowing well enough that Loki should be able to tell if he was lying or not, something that Royman very much hoped for…
Loki however simply nodded with a grave expression on her face: "Yes, at least he himself believes that monster really is the Behemoth."
Royman went pale after her confirmation, though he was quick to regain his composure. "W-Well I suppose after the recent incident it might not be too farfetched…", he admitted.
"Well? Mr. Head of the guild, what now? Was that the only reason why you called me here? To answer you something any other god or goddess could have done as well?", Loki asked in her usual playful manner, though she could already guess what Royman had in mind…
Royman stayed silent for a moment before telling her: "I would like for you to investigate this matter. If this is a similar case like Melen we might be in big trouble if we don't deal with this soon…"
Loki let out a sigh, telling him: "Well I expected as much… one question though: Why my familia again? Can't you have that pervert take care of it this time?"
Of course 'that pervert' reverted to none other than Freya, something that Royman knew anyway. Nonetheless he tried to stay professional, telling her: "As for Goddess Freya…", he began, though here he slightly let his true emotions shine through, adding: "She told my messenger that she had 'more important matters' to take care off", with a disapproving frown.
"Well, I guess that only leaves you with us huh…", Loki answered, already knowing well enough that the thing Freya needed to take care of probably had a connection to Bell…
After that, things had been set into motion quite quickly.
Loki familia had prepared another special group for this mission, composed of the highest elites in the familia, however this time the situation was slightly different. For one thing, this time they knew what they would be facing, meaning that they could prepare for it in advance. In addition to that, the supposed new-born Behemoth wasn't out in the sea, actively devastating the lives of civilians in a city of trade, but somewhere out in a plain and wide open field, so it wasn't such an urgent thing to slay it. Instead, they had been tasked with investigating it. They had been told to check the current state of the Behemoth and, should they see an opportunity to, kill it. Otherwise, if they deemed it too dangerous to fight on their own, they would return to the city to get reinforcements.
Finally, the last difference was in the group conduction this mission. They had been allowed to take one additional member with them this time. In fact they could have taken even more people with them, but… Loki as well as Finn had deemed it better to have a small group that could move quicker and coordinate faster than having a large group of people there. Speaking of coordination and fast movement, those were the primary reasons for the teams line-up, once again consisting of Riveria, Tiona, Tione and Bell, with the final addition of Aiz as the fifth member this time.
Riveria had been chosen as the leader, besides as a Level Seven, she was in invaluable assent in a mission such as this.
Tiona and Tione had been chosen for their teamwork plus the fact that they already had experienced the Leviathan.
Bell had been chosen as the ace up the team's sleeve, after all no one doubted his value after fighting the Leviathan together. Each and every member of the team would have admitted that there was no way they could have won without Bell back then…
In addition to that, Loki knew Freya was up to something involving Bell, so ironically he may just be safer fighting the Behemoth than staying here…
Aiz had been chosen for the final addition because of her wind that gave her almost unparalleled speed, as well as for the fact that she was on good terms with each member of the team, meaning she would be able to easily coordinate with them.
Bete too had been a candidate for his speed alone but… his unruly nature just wasn't suited for such an important mission. Of course he didn't exactly take kindly to the fact that he would be left behind but… he would get over it eventually…
Admittedly though, both Finn and Gareth would have loved to go as well. Both of them had been stuck on Level Six for what felt like forever and now that Riveria had surpassed them, they had every reason to try and catch up with her but… both of them knew they had to step down here. There was no reason for any of them to be in this party. Gareth would slow them down as he wasn't nearly as fast as the Aiz or the twins and they hoped to avoid battle with such a small group anyway so a tank wasn't really needed. Finn might have been able to acts as a leader but… there wasn't much of a reason for him to work in a team that small which already was quite good at coordinating themselves…
After the group had been decided, every one of its members began preparing for the task individually until the day of their departure…
For Bell that meant he had informed Welf of his mission and asked if he would be able to finish his new weapon before their departure. Welf really wished to do so, however he had honestly told Bell that he wouldn't be able to finish in time, which Bell accepted, not that he had much of a different choice…
Though as Welf still wanted to support Bell as his smith, he gave him one of his famous magic swords along telling him to make do with this for now until he could get him his real weapon.
Bell of course eagerly accepted, happy for any kind of help.
For Riveria, preparing for the mission meant visiting the guild every day to research as much as she could about the Behemoth. Well that and taking care of her… other preparations…
Soon enough the group departed, the remaining familia members all waving them and cheering them on, well everyone except for Bete, though even he had gone out of his way to growl at them this morning: "Ya all better come back alive and get me so I can tear that thing apart later!"
It didn't take long after that for the carriage to leave the city gates and even leave behind the city as a whole.
Tiona was her excited, usual self as she watched the scenery outside fly by.
"We are going on another adventure aren't you happy Argonaut?", the cheery Amazon asked, smiling at Bell.
"Y-Yeah Tiona just… don't you think we should be a bit more serious? I mean this mission is important and all…", Bell answered her, clearly a lot more nervous now than he had been before the battle with the Leviathan in Melen. That was most likely due to the Behemoth's reputation as a legendary beast after all they hadn't known what awaited them in Melen, but that was different this time…
"Relax Bell. The worst thing you can do is needlessly worry. We aren't here to eliminate the beast at all costs, merely to investigate.", Riveria told him in a calm voice which in turn seemed to help him relax as well. Admittedly though, it was kind of ironic hearing 'The worst thing you can do is needlessly worry' from the person that still had a bad feeling about leaving him in the Dungeon all on his own despite his Level Four status…
Unfortunately for them, this journey would take longer than the last as the place they were going to was a rather remote town and not at all close to Orario. The travel time would be at least one week, meaning two weeks in total…
Of course they didn't stop preparing for their mission even then, however despite all the tension of the upcoming battle, they had quite the cheerful and uplifting journey.
Most nights, they would sit around a small campfire while talking late into the night thanks to the wonderful weather they had, though even during that cheery time, there was one small downside… No matter how much they would have loved to, Bell and Riveria just couldn't get any alone time…
They would have loved nothing more than to cuddling in front of the fire or share a blanket at night, but of course that was completely impossible with not only the twins, but even Aiz around this time…
That was also why Riveria had to sate her… desires some… other way…
"Haah…", Riveria let out a low, stifled moan as she watched Bell sleeping soundly right across from her. She would only need to get up and get under his blanket, he was so close… yet so impossibly far away…
Currently, her fingers were eagerly working away under the blanket to… relief some of her stress, as she imagined all the wonderful things she would do with Bell if she only had the chance to… Her thighs were drenched in her love juices already and, as she had always been quite loud in bed, she did her best to suppress her moans. Of course not because of Bell or the twins, all three of them sleeping soundly under their respective blankets already, but because of…
"Riveria? Are you… alright?", Aiz asked her, cutely tilting her head, though there was some obvious concern in her voice.
"O-Oh Aiz! Y-You don't need to worry I am fine!", Riveria told her, slightly startled by being talked to in the middle of masturbating all of a sudden, her fingers quickly pulling away from her naughty bits…
"Are you sure? You were moaning as if in pain and your face is bright red… are you in pain?", the blond asked.
"N-No really I am fine, trust me Aiz. Just go back to sleep ok?", Riveria replied, for once thankful for the girls natural airheadness…
"Ok if you say so…", Aiz say before turning around to face away from Riveria and going back to sleep…
Of course Aiz wasn't that much of an airhead! She could very well tell when a woman was masturbating, after all it's not like it was a completely foreign thing to her either just… she didn't want to believe Riveria would ever do such a thing. Anyone would, but not her mother figure, the pure, strict and perhaps slightly cold Riveria…
"No, I am sure it's as she says, it's nothing…", Aiz told herself, face bright red, trying to ignore Riveria as her moans began to pick up again as well as her Level Six senses that easily allowed her to pick up on the wet, schlicking sounds coming from beneath Riveria's blanket…
After the group had traveled for a week, they found themselves closing in on a mountain region. They stopped in front of it, Riveria bending over a map with worry all over her face.
"What's wrong Riveria?", Bell asked her, the rest of the group clearly worried about their leader as well.
"This isn't right… There shouldn't be a mountain range here. All of this should be flat land, the land where the refuges came from…", Riveria explained, worrying that she might have misread the map and they might have taken a wrong turn somewhere but…
"RAAAAWR!"
Before she could worry any further, she could hear a distant roar from the mountain range. Despite being multiple kilometres away still, they could already hear that roar which meant that whatever produced it must have been extremely large…
Of course all of them immediately went into combat mode, knowing well enough this wasn't some normal roar.
They nodded at each other and Riveria only had to utter one phrase: "Let's go."
They left their horses and carriage behind there, worrying that they might run away in fear should the beast roar once more, being sure to tie the horses to a tree so they wouldn't be gone once they returned.
Soon enough they had entered the mountain range. It really looked nothing like the original map anymore… There were large mountains now, as well as deep valleys, almost as if the beast had dug through the ground for some reason, just on an incredibly large scale…
"It must have gone after the bones, just like Moss said…", Riveria mumbled when she saw such a particular valley.
Riveria had of course not only prepared by going through the guild records of Zeus familias battle against the Behemoth, she had also been sure to gather information from the refugees, one of which, Moss, had told her more about the villages they came from. Apparently they had been relatively close to the place where Zeus familia had battled the Behemoth once. During that battle, many of them had lost their lives and homes as the adventurers had been unable to defend them while fighting against a beast like that.
Zeus familia had apparently decided to bury the Behemoth's bones all around the area to ward off all monsters from the villages in the future in order to repent for their mistakes and prevent further tragedy.
Moss told Riveria that he suspects this was what caused the new-born Behemoth to seek out such remote villages, something that would align quite well with the Leviathan incident as it too had gone to the place where the Leviathan's bones could be found…
Either way they quietly stealthed through the mountain range until they found a large cave. The roaring hadn't reappeared while they had come here and even now it was nowhere to be found. However they did find something, namely a snoozing sound originating from the cave they were in front of.
Without anyone saying a word, they entered the cave.
They walked through it for multiple minutes before finally arriving at their destination, at a large, purple beast resembling a boar. There was no doubt about it, this was the Behemoth.
While technically still a child, the beast was definitely a lot larger than the Leviathan had been, meaning that it was already a lot more mature.
The five of them hid behind a large, nearby rock in order to discuss their plan.
"What do you think?", Tione whispered towards Riveria.
She took a moment to go through all the available information in her head and answered: "It's definitely a lot bigger than the Leviathan and, if this newly created mountain range is any indicator, this thing packs a lot more power too. I believe it would be our best bet to leave and get reinforcements. Of course the battle will be even harder as we will give the thing yet another two weeks to mature, but I don't think we can take it down right now."
"No! We should take it down!", Aiz strongly objected to Riveria's calm analyses, prompting everyone to look at her in wonder.
"Aiz, try to see reason. We don't have enough people to take on this thing.", Riveria tried to calm her down.
"B-But…! Didn't you take down the Leviathan as well?! What makes you say we can't do this?!", Aiz voice was steadily growing louder, something that definitely wasn't good besides a sleeping beast…
"We needed both my magic and Bell's skill to do that and with how much power he will need to produce, Bell's skill will be incredibly loud. The Behemoth will definitely wake up and I don't want the three of you to have to have to defend us from it. That thing is far stronger than the Leviathan already and it isn't confined to the water either.", Riveria explained, trying to make Aiz stay calm.
"Besides, if the records of the guild can be believed, the Behemoth is incredibly resilient to any magical attacks, so there is a chance we won't even take it down with such an attack…", Riveria once more gave voice to her thoughts.
"Then I will do it! If we can't kill it with magic then I will do it!", Aiz told her.
The group was at a total loss here. Why was Aiz so insistent on fighting the Behemoth?
Well everyone was at a loss except for Riveria who had feared such a thing would happen already, after all she knew of Aiz's intense hatred for monsters. Now even if that aspect of her had gotten better over the past years, there was never a guarantee that she wouldn't fall back into her hate filled mind set at some point…
Riveria extended a hand towards Aiz but… the swordswoman jumped back, telling her: "Don't touch me!"
"Aiz…", Riveria could only mumble.
"Y-You… you have been so weird lately!", Aiz cried out, finally voicing what she had wanted to tell her for a while now. "Even back home you were weird! You went into the dungeon at any day you had off, something you normally never do! A-And whenever I asked you what you were doing you told me it was a secret! B-But even on this trip! Y-You…"
"Aiz calm down ok? Let's discuss this issues some other time", Riveria tried to calm her, painfully aware of the beast sleeping mere meters away from them, but…
"No! I want an answer now! What is wrong with you lately?! I really look up to you but… why… why would you… why would you do such things every night?! Y-You were masturbating under you blanket every night weren't you?!", Aiz accused the elf, her face bright red.
Of course Riveria's eyes went wide at that, her face instantly flushing as well, now that she knew Aiz had realized what she had been up to all that time.
Unexpectedly though, Tione joined the conversation again here. While Bell and Tiona were obviously taken aback by such an accusation and both of them seemed to be blushing from the thought of Riveria pleasuring herself beneath her blanket, Tione seemed to be rather calm about it.
She tried to calm Aiz as well, telling her: "Yes, Riveria has been acting strange lately but well… isn't that her kind of thing? You know, admittedly it wasn't all that pleasant having to hear her moan finger herself every night but… she is just a woman too you know?", revealing that she too knew very well what Riveria had done each evening beneath that blanket of hers…
"Listen Aiz, I am sure there is an explanation for this ok? But let's discuss this somewhere save alright?", Tione further worked Aiz towards calming down.
Finally, Aiz let out a sigh and told the four of them: "Ok…", clearly unhappy about it but able to see reason again.
Just then…
"RAWWWR!"
The beast had woken up!
All five of their heads shot towards the Behemoth and, as they saw it had opened its eyes, a pair large yellow slits, each one of them dashed out of the cave at top speed. No matter if they would fight it now or not, they knew it was unwise to fight in a narrow place like this.
No sooner had they left the cave… the entire mountain burst open! The Behemoth had easily, effortlessly torn it apart as it emerged, enraged from being woken in its slumber.
At the very last now did Aiz realize just how terrifying that monster really was. She and the others ran away at top speed but… the Behemoth was so much larger than them! As it began to sprint after them once it had spotted them, it easily began to catch up!
"Tsk! Seems like we don't have any other choice but to fight now!", Riveria said, switching into battle mode now. She would have time to agonize over Aiz and Tione having heard her nightly activities some other time, now she needed to command this group!
"The thing is fast but it should be hard for it to decelerate! We have to let it pass by and then attack at while it runs past!", She commanded, each of the team members indicating that they had understood.
The group drew their weapons, Bell in particular the fire magic sword that Welf had given him.
Just then, the Behemoth caught up, but just like Riveria had expected, the thing was pretty much unable to decelerate once it had reached its top speed.
The group dogged it's attack sideways, causing the Behemoth to run right past them.
Everyone used their respective attack at that point!
Riveria unleashed a spell she had chanted while running, while Tiona, Tione and Aiz slashed away at the beast's thick skin. Once the thing had passed them by, Bell too unleashed Welf's magic sword!
All of their attacks hit and the beast let out a fierce roar as it was engulfed in a sea of flames.
Things were silent after that…
A column of smoke was rising from where the Behemoth should have been…
"Was… that it?", Tione asked, doubtfully.
"D-Did we win?!", Tiona, cheerfully exclaimed, much more gullible than her sister…
"This.. can't be…" Riveria mumbled, unable to believe such a beast would go down just like that, especially since it should have had special resistance against magic…
However that was what had happened!
The Behemoth was nowhere to be seen and soon enough the entire group began to celebrate their victory, though obviously there was seemingly still some bad blood between Aiz and Riveria…
Currently the twins were talking to her as Riveria was still straining her eyes, trying to look past the smoke screen of their attacks, unable to believe their victory just yet.
Bell was just about to talk to her when suddenly, he began feeling terrible all of a sudden! He doubled over and saw the most vivid images flash through his head! Almost like a bad premonition, he saw Riveria's body being pierced and torn! He couldn't explain it, but he felt like he had just seen her future!
"Bell?", Riveria asked, concerned for him as she saw him doubling over in pain.
Before she had any chance to talk to him further though, Bell dashed off and threw her to the ground…
Just in time to dodge an incoming horn. The horn of the Behemoth! The beast that should have been dead emerged from the ground like a giant mole!
Thanks to Bell's premonition he had been able to avoid Riveria being pierced through but… that didn't mean they had avoided the attack altogether! They were hit by the thing nonetheless and through vertically into the air, easily giving the Behemoth enough time to chomp down on them! Once it's mighty jaw had closed, the only thing that remained from the two adventurers was a missing arm that had belonged to Bell…
A scream could be heard. It was Aiz who had witnessed the scene together with the twins. All three of them could only stare at the arm on the floor, the human it should have been attached to now missing.
Now that the beast had reappeared, they finally saw the extent of the damage they had done to it. It was next to none… Their full powered attacks had merely scratched its hide and it didn't even show any burns from the magic it had been hit with…
All three remaining members of the group thought the same: "We can't kill that thing…"
As much as it pained them, they knew they had no chance. It was a lesson they had learned the hard way in the Dungeon. They knew when they were outmatched by an opponent and when they would need to run for their lives. Such a time was now…
All three of them turned on their feet and began running away from the beast, tears their eyes because of Bell and Riveria…
The Behemoth of course didn't plan on allowing them to leave. It gave chase almost immediately.
Now thanks to the Behemoth's weakness, it's enormous weight that caused it to be slow in decelerating, the three of them managed to dodge the beast's attacks but… it was futile really. They weren't fast enough to escape it and there was next to no point in trying to hide from a beast that could destroy and form mountains spontaneously… this was no battle, it was a cat toying with its food. Right now the could still dodged the mighty attacks of the beast, but one hit from the monster and they would be done for good and no one could tell which side would lose their stamina faster…
Just then… they heard a bell.
It was a different sound from the one the twins had heard when fighting the Leviathan together with Bell but…. it had the very same effect! The sound, strongly muffled for whatever reason, reignited the flames within the hearts of whoever heard them. It signalled their counter attack!
The Behemoth was of course taken aback by the strange noise who's origin it could not pin point, but the three remaining adventurers it had been chasing didn't give it a chance to look for much longer as they, contrary to their previous actions, were now charging right at the beast!
From then onwards the real battle began. Aiz used her armor of wind to draw the Behemoth's attention and was continuously outmanoeuvring it, giving the Amazons the chance to attack the beast's legs with all their power.
Of course they all hardly damaged the beast! It was almost like they were only stalling for time…
The Behemoth seemed to pay them no more attention than to a few petty little flies that were bothering it, nonetheless they succeeded in temporarily drawing the beast's attention away from the slowly growing sound of the bell…
A few minutes passed before… the Behemoth let out a pain filled roar!
The adventurers fighting it knew right away, they had succeeded. Of course there had been no guarantee that the bell they heard was really what they thought it was, but nonetheless they had believed. They had believed that Bell and Riveria were still alive! They had believed that the two had not given up and not given into despair and they were rewarded for their faith!
No sooner had the Behemoth let out its mighty cry of pain, did it collapse to the floor, soon falling apart and bursting into ashes…
Revealing a severely burned Bell and Riveria behind, alongside with lots and lots of black bones! Bell was unconscious and laying in Riveria's arms, obviously totally spent. His Argonaut skill had once more worked in overdrive in order to finish this beast off.
Bell was still heavily bleeding from his severed arm…
Aiz and the twins all rushed towards them, but Riveria was quick to yell at them: "Go bring me his arm already!", anything else but calm right now.
The three of them were strangely taken aback by Riveria's despair, but nonetheless Aiz was quick to retrieve Bell's torn arm, knowing that Riveria probably had a way to do something about it but it would need to be fast…
Once Aiz had brought her his arm, she pulled a small bottle up from her bosom that had was attached to a small chain around her neck. It was a trinket, a good luck charm of sorts that she had received before they had left Orario. It had been a gift from Eina, Bell's advisor at the guild. As Riveria and her mother had been very close, Eina had approached her and given her this item, telling her to use it in times of need.
Of course with her vast intellect and years of experience, Riveria could tell right away what it was. Mermaid blood. A rare drop item, said to be able to cure almost any wounds.
"Please work…", Riveria mumbled as she opened the bottle and poured its contents over Bell's arm that she held up to where it should have been…
And truly, the drop item lived up to its name as it reattached the missing arm!
At that, Riveria couldn't help but shed tears of happiness, the others also joining as they couldn't help but hug the two of them…
The two of them were seriously burned all over their body thanks to the digestive fluids of the Behemoth and their clothes were in shreds, but still they were alive.
Back then, in the Behemoth's stomach, neither of them had been prepared to accept defeat, not while there was still live within them! Bell had immediately began to charge Argonaut, not yet even knowing what he would attack with, while Riveria had begun to cast her healing magic on the two of them, continuously regenerating their bodies as they were eaten away at. Of course that didn't dull the pain in the least, but both of them managed to endure it without ever losing focus.
That healing however left them with a bit of trouble. Riveria couldn't chant like that! Or well she could, but not while simultaneously healing the two of them. Not that it would have been a good idea anyway, after all the Behemoth was resistant to magic, meaning that, even if they might have been able to kill it with a blast from inside of it's body, the magic would be trapped inside and they themselves would be trapped in the swirling storm of magic…
To solve this issue, they didn't do anything actually. Instead, the solution came to them on its own! The stomach of the Behemoth had been filled with many black bones, the bones of the former Behemoth! The mighty jaw had crushed them and it had swallowed them down for whatever reason, but these things were incredibly resilient! Sure they had shrunk down quite a bit by now, but nonetheless they were still there while a human would be fully digested in mere minutes…
Bell, despite only having one arm, picked up one of the bones with a sharp tip. Riveria helped him while simultaneously continuing her healing, knowing that Bell couldn't support such a heavy thing with just one arm. Then they had attacked. They had aimed at a large, violently pulsating light within the Behemoth, something they could only assume had been its magic stone…
And that had led to the current situation…
After that, the five of them, Tiona carrying the still unconscious Bell and Aiz helping the injured Riveria by lending her a shoulder to lean on, made their way to the carriage. They placed Bell down into the carriage and then drove off…
Once everyone had sat down inside the carriage, the horses being trained well enough to follow the road on their own, Riveria broke the silence that had engulfed the group since the moment after the battle had been over.
"Aiz… I am very disappointed in you. You nearly killed us all with your selfishness.", Riveria told Aiz who was hanging her head in despair as she knew it was the truth…
However, unexpectedly enough, Riveria continued by saying: "But… well, while it wasn't ok in any way, I guess I haven't been the most honest with you either. Perhaps things would have been different if I had been more open with you. I apologize."
At that, Aiz couldn't help but mumble: "Riveria…", unable to believe Riveria would say something like that.
"I believe that this mission was made a lot harder due to my own lacking in leadership skills. Being a leader doesn't only mean commanding a group in battle, it also means spotting the worries of its members and trying to solve them. I still have a lot to learn from Finn it seems. I apologize again…", she continued.
Of course the three other females were completely taken aback by this as they hadn't expected her to be so understanding.
"In order to prevent this from again, I will be honest with you from now on. Please ask me anything you are worried about.", she told them, intending to clear up this whole mess so that the relation between her and Aiz would become better again. Reluctantly and with a blush she added: "I- I suppose I… I will even answer question a-about my… my masturbation habits…", while looking away in shame.
The other three too were flustered by such a topic coming up, though they thought that, perhaps now that the only boy in the group was still unconscious, it might be the only time when they can freely talk about this…
And so…
"W-Well in that case tell me… why did you do it? So often I mean… I didn't think you were the type to do it so much… and I never noticed you doing it when we were on an expedition either…", Aiz asked with a blush.
"I…", Riveria began, trying to form a sentence without stuttering. "Let me… explain it from the beginning ok? Maybe you will understand it then…"
"You asked my multiple times what I was doing, going into the Dungeon during my free time while I would normally never do that…" Riveria began to explain, the other three hanging onto her every word now. "The truth is… I… have a boyfriend…", Riveria admitted. "That's the reason why I go into the Dungeon all the time. To meet him in secret since we can't meet up on the surface…"
The eyes of the three girls listening to her widened visibly. Tiona and Tione were especially interested in this as they loved this sort of gossiping and doing girl talk about things such as love. But really… in all this time they had never expected Riveria of all people to have a lover, even less being so secretive and embarrassed about it. Their reliable leader and mother figure was now a blushing, pure maiden in their eyes all of a sudden!
"And… what does that have to do with… masturbating?", Aiz asked, not yet able to draw the connection.
Of course Tiona and Tione were much faster here. Before Riveria could even open her mouth to answer, Tione already blurted out: "That's simple Aiz. Whenever she thinks of him she just gets these urges to touch herself. It's the same for me with Finn, I am just not as desperate for him yet."
Needlessly to say that being called 'desperate' by none other than Tione didn't exactly help Riveria feel any less ashamed of herself…
"More importantly, who is that lover of yours?! Is he tall? Or manly? Oh, is it even an elf? How old is he?", Tiona asked, clearly eager to learn more about this love story.
Before Riveria could answer though, Tione cut her off with questions of her own, her questions being a lot… less innocent than Tionas…
"When you are so desperate when you think about him, you must have done it already right? How was he? Did you like it? Does he have good technique? How large is he down there?", she blurted out.
Of course Aiz was completely lost at this point. Sure, she had been part of Tiona and Tione's girl talks together with multiple other girls of the familia already but… this was a new intensity even for her…
Nonetheless, Riveria planned to answer them truthfully…
"O-Ok hold on a second! I can't answer when you bombard me with questions like that!", Riveria interrupted the twins, still coming up with yet a new surge of questions…
Riveria let out a sigh: "W-Well I guess I said I would answer all of your questions so I can't back out now…"
"One thing though… No one, and I really mean NO ONE can hear about this ok?! I don't wanna be the talk of town…", Riveria told them with a shameful whine, at which the twins gave her a grave nod, after all a talk among girls was a sacred, secret talk that should never be revealed to any outsiders…
"The one thing I cannot tell you about is his name. Whether or not that man wants to be known as my lover by you is something that I can't decide on my own and since I can hardly ask him right now that will have to stay a secret for the time being. And no I am not giving in here so you can close your mouth again Tiona!", she began before moving on: "Tall? Well I wouldn't say he is exceptionally tall, at least he is smaller than me. Manly… well I suppose he normally isn't, but he does have his manly moments… and no, he is not an elf. He is a human if you must know…"
Then, the flustered elf moved on to answering Tione's… more lewd questions…
"Y-Yeah we did… it already. Multiple times…", Riveria admitted, causing the two twins to squeal in joy, further prompting a: "W-What's so funny about this?!" from Riveria.
"Go on, go on!", Tione demanded, not caring to explain their outburst of girly joy.
"W-Well he was good. I definitely enjoyed it…", Riveria answered Tione's second question, however that was of course not enough for the Amazon!
"Aww come on! Give us some more details! What do you mean 'he was good'?! Why was he good?! What did he do?!", Tione demanded to know causing Riveria's blush to intensify even further…
Really it was a bizarre scene, the two young Amazons towering over the much, much older Riveria, red like a tomato in her shame, while the Sword princess was sitting a little further away, listening to their talk almost equally flustered…
Riveria needed a little while to find the words to describe it: "W-Well I guess you could say he was… eager to learn at least. At first he didn't have that good of a technique but he is rapidly improving and by now… w-when we do it I feel like he is playing my body like a highly skilled musician would play on his instrument…"
Once again that caused a girly squeal from the two twins. Riveria however tried to ignore it, instead telling them: "Well aside from that… his stamina is incredible. If he wanted to, he could leave me a total mess…"
The twins eyes widened at that. Tiona couldn't help but burst out: "Is it Ottar?!"
"W-What?! No!", Riveria retorted, though really, it was a reasonable thought, after all there weren't many people that would be able to outlast a Level Six, now even Level Seven adventurer.
Riveria's words however, seemed to be quite believable. At least she wasn't in the least bit flustered when she rejected the idea.
Of course that only prompted the twins to continue throwing suggestions at her: "Then was it Bete? O-Or that Allen guy? Or maybe Gareth? Or… did you steal Finn away from me?!"
"N-No! It isn't anyone from that list, so stop glaring at me Tione! He is… He is below me in Level, he was at all times. Even now he isn't even Level Six.", Riveria told them.
Of course the twins found it hard to believe that, but before they could throw any more suggestions into the room, Riveria told them: "I told you I am not giving you his name so stop!"
That caused the twins to admit defeat. Finally Riveria answered the last question, her shame even more evident now, after it had just been pushed into the background when discussing her potential lovers: "And yes… I- I suppose he is… quite well equipped. I – I mean… I have never seen any other penises before but… at least he can reach very deep inside of me…"
A third time the twins squealed in joy at her words. Once more Tione began to bombard her with questions, even more lewd than the last but before Riveria could answer, Bell let out a moan as he slowly raised a hand to his head, apparently having woken up now…
"What… happened?", Bell asked, looking over each of the girls that were surrounding him right now.
Tione and Tiona were already back at their seats, showing no sign of what had just transpired, meanwhile Aiz and Riveria weren't as composed. Both of them still had the color of a tomato and Aiz couldn't help but mumble: "What just happened indeed…", in a daze…
Riveria regained her composure with a slight cough and answered him: "Thanks to you we managed to slay the Behemoth. Once again this entire group was saved thanks to you Bell. You have my gratitude…"
Bell smiled at her, saying: "No, everyone helped with that…"
After a week the group finally arrived back in Orario. Just like on their journey to the Behemoth, Riveria couldn't help but touch herself every night, though things were… different now…
Unlike at the beginning of the journey, Aiz didn't seem to care about it anymore now that she had an explanation at least. However that didn't mean it was better in any way…
Now, since Bell was asleep, Tiona and Tione would walk over to Riveria and ask her to talk to them while she played with herself!
"What are you thinking about? You must be thinking about your lover right? What do you want to do with him?", were questions they frequently asked, but Riveria never answered them in too much detail, too embarrassed to admit any such things. Tione would in turn talk about her own fantasies involving Finn in order to lessen the embarrassment for Riveria but… that usually backfired…
At some point Riveria had admitted to them that she was not only masturbating for her own pleasure each day, she was actually preparing herself for something specially. Hearing that, the twins had demanded to know what it was and how exactly she was touching herself in order to prepare. Riveria had been too shy and ashamed of herself to tell them, which led to a situation in which both of the twins were trying to steal away Riveria's blanket to see what she was doing underneath it. It had been quite hard coming up with an excuse when they had woken up Bell with their noise…
Either way, when they had arrived in Orario, they were quickly welcomed by Loki and the rest of the familia, all of them of course wanted to know what had happened…
Together with their familia, they also reported to some guild officials and Moss what had happened, once again prompting cheers to erupt when it was revealed that they had taken down yet another legendary beast…
Just after that, their statuses were updated, though the only thing of note was that Bell had achieved Level Five and earned a new skill.
The skill in particular seemed to be connected to what had happened before the Behemoth had swallowed him and Riveria.
It was called Lovers Premonition and it seemed to allow him to sense whenever Riveria was in danger. It was of course needless to say that he earned himself quite a bit of teasing from Loki due to that, Riveria had it even worse though as her status had been updated after Bells…
Over all, all of the stats of the individual members increased by a lot, but it wasn't enough for any of the newly levelled up adventurers to achieve yet another level up, especially as a majority of the work had been done by Bell this time…
Either way it was decided that they would have a big party in three days from now on and that each individual member of the team would get the days off until then so they could calm down after their journey and fight…
That of course was a perfect opportunity for Riveria to finally give Bell his reward…
The first thing she did when she was back and had some free time on hand, was contact a certain craftswoman, the same one that had made a certain piece of lingerie for her quite a while ago and who she had given another commission before she had left on her journey…
Fortunately that craftswoman had finished her request by now and, being since Riveria paid so well, she had even handed her another item, telling Riveria: "I can already guess what you are going to do with this new lingerie and I have to say, I didn't take you for such a naughty girl… Anyway, take that. Trust me, you will need it."
Of course that had caused Riveria to blush in shame and even more so to pay the woman even better this time as she really didn't want anyone knowing about this…
The following day, she had used a small piece of paper to invite Bell to the Dungeon. As he was a Level Five and finally had his own room now she could simply slide it through beneath his door. Now you might ask why Riveria wasn't just visiting him at night rather than set up a meeting in the Dungeon but… well after the incident on their journey, she would rather not take any risks and have anyone else hear her moans…
Of course Tione and Tiona were still trying to catch her alone at any point in time and have another lewd talk with the poor elf but… well as there were pretty much always people in the house or out on the streets together with Riveria, she managed to avoid them quite well…
That night, before heading into the Dungeon, she made sure to put her new outfit on, of course beneath her regular clothes, store the item the craftswoman had given her into a pouch and check whether or not Tiona or Tione or even Aiz were following her before heading into the Dungeon…
Bell too headed into the Dungeon after her, though he went in quite a bit later, just like she had told him. For some reason, he seemed to feel someone watching him, though he shrugged it off as his imagination…
Soon enough Bell arrived on the 18th floor, easily finding Riveria at their usual date spot. Unlike when she had left for the Dungeon, she wasn't wearing her usual clothes anymore but instead had covered her body with a long green hood…
"Hey!", he greeted her, prompting a shy, flustered, yet happy smile from her as she replied: "Hey there…"
"Why so bashful? Is something wrong?", he asked when he noticed her flushed face.
"Well I… Do you remember the Denatus? When you asked me why I was so happy and I said you would find out soon enough?", she asked, which he answered with a nod of his head.
"I… back then I heard you talking to Freya and… it really moved me you know… that's why I was so happy back then…", she admitted with a loving gaze.
"Oh that… I already forgot that haha…. well it's kind of embarrassing now that you mention it…", Bell said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Well to me it was very sweet… that is why I wanted to thank you for saying those things. You could have chosen to go with her you know? Freya is the goddess of beauty after all… but despite that you chose me.. for that I would like to thank you.", Riveria told him in a loving voice, now devoid of all the embarrassment from earlier.
"T-Thank me…?", Bell could only ask.
"Yes… tonight I would like to reward you, just like I did after the wargame and after the battle with the Leviathan…", Riveria told him, finally taking a step back and letting her hood follow off from her body, revealing her new piece of lingerie specifically for this occasion, a pure white set of bra, panties and matching thigh-high stockings that were strapped to her panties. Over all it was so white it made her seem like a priceless jewel, a rare, poor and innocent maiden, yet despite of that appearance, her outfit held a surprise that was anything but innocent…
Bell's jaw dropped when he was once again enchanted by her pure beauty. Of course it didn't take long for him to disrobe as well, his penis already standing proudly and ready to ravage Riveria once again, however… when he approached her, she slightly pushed him away with one hand, giving him a teasing smile.
He was of course confused by this but… once Riveria turned around things became quite clear. That pure and innocent looking outfit of hers… only covered her front! Well of course there were some straps on her back as well, otherwise it would fall off but… her ass was completely bare and without any protection!
Shyly, yet lovingly she bend forward and told Bell: "Tonight… I would like to offer you another one of my firsts…"
Bell was too stunned to speak. He could only stare at Riveria's inviting little butt...
"S-So? What do you say?", Riveria soon asked, unsure if he liked the idea or not…
Only when he heard her voice did he snap back to reality. "I- I would love to do it like this!", he immediately confessed, though he also added: "…but… are you sure you want this as well? I don't want you to fill pain or discomfort… so I will only do it like this… with your butt… if you can promise me you want this too…"
Riveria was of course happy that he cared so much for her and her pleasure as well, though she had already expected this. That was why she had prepared for today after all…
"Y-You can rest assured… I… have been preparing myself…", she admitted, her face burning in shame as she confessed she had prepared, even trained her ass for him…
"In that case…", Bell said, not even bother to finish his sentence as he stepped up to Riveria…
"W-Wait! Just- Just one more thing… I… you remember my skills right? Y-You know the one that keeps me… keeps me… tight? Well it seems to also work on my butt so… so I couldn't stretch it out too far so please… please be gentle… o-oh and use this…", Riveria told him, showing that, despite all her preparations she still felt scared about this. Not that she didn't want it, she was just scared, just like with her first time…
The thing she had referred to with 'this' was a small glass bottle, the item the craftswoman had given Riveria and honestly… she was glad she had done that. In truth she had thought about buying that thing as well, but she hadn't been able to jump over her shadow and go to shop that would sell… those kind of things… The bottle contained a clear liquid. It was a drop item from a monster on the higher floors of the Dungeon. It was commonly used as… lube.
The thing was easy to heat to the point where it immediately heated up to the warmth of your body once you touched it and it was an incredibly good lubricant that didn't harm the skin either so it was the optimal choice for sexual activity…
Bell picked the bottle up and, while he certainly didn't know much about these kinds of things, he did know what this was, so he crotched down to apply to onto Riveria's backdoor… As to why he knew… that was because this was a drop item one can find in the middle floor of the Dungeon so he had ran across it once or twice and he had asked Eina about it at some point… Needlessly to say it was quite awkward…
Anyway when Bell crotched down behind her, Riveria used both of her hands to spread her ass cheeks apart, revealing a clean, pure, pink hole to Bell…
Bell just… couldn't help but stare at it…
"H-Hurry up! This is embarrassing…", Riveria told him, though Bell didn't seem to hear her as his face moved closer towards her twitching little hole…
"S-Stop staring you pervert!", Riveria yelled, finally waking Bell up from his trance like state.
He now poured a large amount of lube from the bottle onto his fingers before he began to trace them along the entrance to Riveria's butt, causing her hole to twitch in response.
"It's… so pretty… so sexy…", he muttered as he slowly began to work one of his fingers into her hole to lube it up not only from the outside but also from the inside. He just loved how the tight ring of muscles clenched around his finger and he could already tell that this hole would be soooo much tighter than Riveria's pussy…
Finally, satisfied with teasing and toying with her backdoor, Bell also poured some lube onto his erection before lining himself up with her hole.
"Are you really sure about this?", he asked for confirmation one final time.
"A-Are you really going to ask that after you played with my hole back there so long…", Riveria only said, though that was enough confirmation for Bell anyway…
He slowly began to push into her, stopping every few seconds to give Riveria time to adjust. Once he was full sheeted inside of her butt, he asked her: "Are you ok?"
Riveria couldn't answer that so easily. Her ass felt like it was on fire. This was far beyond anything she had experienced in her 'training'. That was why she waited a while until that feeling of discomfort finally started to fade away.
Only then did she tell him: "Yes… you may continue now…"
Bell slowly began moving his hips then while pulling Riveria head back to give her a long, passionate kiss which easily helped her forget about all those worries and her discomfort…
Bell continued with his slow pace for a while, fearing that Riveria might still be uncomfortable but to his surprise…
"Y-You can go faster now… i-if you want I mean…", she unexpectedly told him. It appears her preparations had paid off after all as all of her earlier discomfort was gone now and she even wanted him to do her harder!
Bell was of course more than happy to fulfil her request. He began picking up speed and was soon enough railing his elven girlfriend at top speed!
Riveria could only moan in response as it was now plainly obvious she was able to enjoy anal quite a lot already…
Bell of course didn't want to neglect her other parts either as one of his hands moved up and beneath her bra to squeeze and play with one of her tits, while the other went down and slipped into her panties to toy with her soaked pussy…
Riveria was a moaning mess already at this point. As Bell was pounding away at her from behind, her butt cheeks jiggling oh so delightfully with each thrust of his hips, she could hardly keep standing upright anymore…
Finally… Bell came! He was quick to fill her butt up with his semen. Normally he had a lot of endure and would take her for longer before cumming but… Riveria's backdoor was just doing way too good of a job at pleasing him…
Not that he was done yet of course! After all he wouldn't be the one and only Level Four, no correction, Level Five that could outlast a Level Seven if that was all he had…
He pushed Riveria onto all fours now, seeing that she couldn't really keep herself upright any longer before starting to pound her from behind again, drawing even more, even louder moans from her…
Soon enough, he grew bolder, this new, even lewder side of Riveria just too arousing to keep holding back. As he was taking her from behind, his hands began to move. Now he wasn't rubbing her pussy anymore or playing with her chest, instead one of his hands had moved to grab a hold of her long green hair and pull her head back, using it like a horses rains, while his other hand went down and began to spank her butt. Both of those things drew lewd moans of approval from Riveria who seemed to really enjoy this messy, lewd kind of love making as Bell was basically riding her into submission…
He leaned forward to whisper into her ear: "You like that you lewd princess? You like having your ass fucked?". It was almost as if to see just how far gone Riveria was, after all she had never been so lewd before…
"Yes! God yes! Your lewd princess loves having her ass fucked!", Riveria replied without hesitation, confirming just how accepting and lewd the elf had become for real at this point…
Not that Bell minded of course. In fact it once again sent his Bunny Breeding skill into overdrive and caused him to pound away at her for hours from here on…
*Several hours later…*
Riveria was… a mess to say the least. She could do nothing more than pant and shiver in orgasmic delight when Bell finally pulled out of her through-fully fucked asshole… Of course as Bell hadn't bothered to ever pull out before, this caused a wave of semen to start leaking from her hole and run down her butt and thighs, not that she really noticed at this point…
Riveria's ass was bright red by now and, should she not use any healing magic on it, it would surely cause her to feel quite a lot of pain in case she would ever sit down in the next week…
Nonetheless, Bell couldn't help giving her butt one last spank, joyfully watching her bright red cheeks jiggle after he had pulled out.
That caused Riveria to wake up slightly, though she was still in quite the dick drunk state…
As Bell laid down onto his back, his dick coated in his own semen, Riveria turned around and dutifully began to clean him off with her mouth…
Bell's eyes went wide when he saw that. He hadn't expected this…
Riveria too hadn't expected it. She had only ever read about cleaning Bell off after sex and found the idea quite repelling, even more so if he was in her butt before but… well due to her cock drunk state, she found the idea strangely appealing…
Of course if Bell would ask her about it at any point again, she would probably tell him it was another one of a time, special kind of reward for defeating the Behemoth…
Either way Bell couldn't keep himself from getting horny again as his girlfriend cleaned his penis like that. He didn't have much stamina in him, but he still found the power to grab her head and start rocking his hips into her accepting mouth, effectively giving Riveria her first facefuck…
Naturally she was completely unprepared for this and it caused her to gag and choke quite a lot, though Bell was only further turned on by this and strangely… Riveria too…
She had found a totally new side of herself, a submissive side that wanted Bell to take control… Perhaps it was a sort of counter effect to her duties of leadership in the familia…
Either way both of them seemed to really like it….
Finally Bell could feel his next and final orgasm of the night approaching. He held Riveria's head down and came right into her throat before he let go off of her and his penis finally went limp…
*After about three hours of sleep, a bath as well as healing magic for Riveria later…*
"I will be going ahead this time", Bell told Riveria who could still hardly move.
"Don't worry too much about me. I am a Level Five now you know?"
With these words he turned around to leave. He would make sure to clear as many monsters for the exhausted Riveria on the way up as possible…
"Wait…", he heard Riveria's weak voice behind him.
"Yes?", he asked as he turned back around.
Now that Riveria had come down from her drunkenness she was even more bashful and ashamed then before the whole incident, but nonetheless she wanted to say something, no she had to say something…
"I… love you Bell…", she told him, her cheeks bright red.
Bell gave her a bright, cheerful smile at that and of course replied with: "I love you too… Riveria."
After that he departed…
Riveria's stomach was filled with butterflies from her on and she felt like she was on some sort of drug. Those words. Those words she had always wanted to hear… finally she had heard them…
*Half an hour later*
Riveria, now at least slightly more awake and refreshed, packed up her things and headed to the 17th floor, planning to ascend the Dungeon again. It was a relatively smooth ascend, despite her exhaustion, until…
"Ottar?", Riveria asked, finding the other Level Seven adventurer of Orario in front of her, blocking the way up towards the next floor of the Dungeon.
His only response was: "There is someone that wants to talk to you…"
So there you all have it! I hope you could enjoy this chapter after you waited for it for so long... As for the bonus chapter I promised at the top, purely focusing the lewd side of Riveria and Bell... that will probably be the next thing I will write, so... if anyone of you still has any ideas on what you would like to see, don't hesitate to write them into the reviews or per PM.
Of course I would be happy to hear your feedback for this chapter as well! Personally I am quite happy about it, though I certainly did focus a lot more on smut and comedy than on action this time.