Mana 4 Chapter 6 (Patreon)

Waiting to see if anybody arrived felt like an eternity.

Each of my women had a soul palace stylized in their own manner. Michelle’s was a castle on a cliff just above the shores. The Hua sisters were a competition in whose could be more richly decorated a display of wealth and power. Thea and Celina’s were quiet and far smaller. Kat’s was a mirror image of my own at the end of the row, as if ours were a pair of matching bookends.

Then of course, my mana beasts were their own interesting displays floating above my own soul palace. I had yet to go up and explore them.

Aurora was first to shoot out of her soul palace, appearing like a green bullet as she flew down from above to tackle me once more. Mei got there first, though, and she must have seen my look of apprehension. I was happy to see both of my mana beasts, but I was most anxious about if any of the women who had stayed behind could still reach me.

Mei had a look of understanding in her eyes. “They’ll come. The space is still linked.”

“Master.” Aurora clung to my back with a hug that threatened to cut off my air. I didn’t need to breathe as a soul construct, but the reflexes were still there when I pulled her free.

“It hasn’t been that long, I suppose.” I sighed, putting her down to my side.

“I still love to see you.” Her face scrunched up with a smile so wide that it squeezed her eyes closed.

I couldn’t help but pat the top of her head. Aurora was always such a light in my life. And having her with me was a wonderful distraction as I waited.

Quinn lazily wound down from the sky in her winding flight of a dragon. Riding her still made me dizzy every time.

“Isaac!” A shout came from down the row while I was watching Quinn. Michelle burst out of her soul palace, and I left my two mana beasts’ embrace to sweep her off her feet and plant a longing kiss to her lips. “Glad to see this is working. We talked to Kat, but she said you were unavailable.”

Searching her eyes, I found no concern. That meant either Kat didn’t know what had happened to me or hadn’t wanted to worry them.

“It has been a hectic transition. I’m glad that I have a chance to make space for all of you before you come.” I forced a smile on my face, which must not have been very convincing. It earned me a squinting look from Michelle. She’d known me too long for me to be able to play her when it came to my emotions.

But the others appeared one by one, and she didn’t press me as I enjoyed the comfort of my harem.

When I got to Nikki, she greeted me by prying open my lips with her tongue, worming its way into a battle with my own tongue.

I lifted her up by her ass as she wrapped her legs around me and ground her hips to mine, our kiss stretching out.

“You know, nothing is preventing us from giving our husband a proper greeting.” Celina said, which sparked off comments from the others while Nikki clung to me and prolonged the kiss.

“Sex!” Aurora cheered.

Mei quickly joined in with Aurora’s cheer. “You know what this means, right?” When no one immediately answered her, she continued. “Orgy every night!”

Aurora and Mei got up, linking arms and circling around while they sang a random song about sex, dancing at the edge of my vision. I could see Thea coming to break up my kiss with Nikki. “Nikki, save some for the rest of us.”

My pink haired lover pulled back to look at Thea. “Sister, I think Thea needs some attention.”

Diana and Nikki could have been twins. The younger sister snuck up behind Thea and grabbed her chest. “You still bind these poor puppies even in your soul construct?” Her hands slipped inside Thea’s robes and started to undo her binding.

“They get in the way.” Thea protested weakly. Her face blushed a deep crimson as Diana’s hands got curious.

Nikki just grinned in my face as she kissed along my jawline and down my neck, tugging me down to the ground on top of her.

I didn’t put up a fight until I was pressing Nikki to the ground and slipping her robe open. The rest of the girls would pair off until it was their turn. Aurora and Mei were going after my other wives, while Quinn went to help Diana with Thea.

“Missed you.” Nikki punctuated the statement with a flutter of kisses and released me to open my own robes, pulling my pants down just enough for my erect member to come free. “Need you in me.” She lifted her head and spread her legs, opening herself up to me.

I pressed her down with my body and felt my stiff member slip against her sex, sliding up to her pelvis.

“Ugh.” There was a frustrated groan before I felt her hand grab me and realign me to thrust into her.

Nikki, my ever eager wife, was wet and ready without any foreplay.

“I love you.” Pressing inwards, I let out the words as a sigh. Feeling her sex wrap around me like a silken vice brought a sense of home I hadn’t realized I’d missed so much. “Missed me this much?” I asked, my own voice throaty.

“Shut up.” She blushed but didn’t turn away. “I didn’t know when I was going to see you again. And the others will want you too. I’m not wasting any time.”

With that, she started wiggling her hips, and I obliged her, pumping deep into her.

Nikki gasped, her pink lips falling open as she arched her back and her legs came around on my hips, squeezing me forward with each stroke. “Yes!”

I knew her well enough to know just what she needed. Nikki liked it fast, but not rough. Lifting her hips to help my angle not be too much for her, I pressed her shoulders into the ground and thrusted rapidly into her core.

Moans picked up with the pace of her bouncing chest and escalated with each stroke until her moans cracked into screams. She met my pace, thrusting back up into me.

I looked down into her eyes, which were filled with hazy pleasure as she bounced her ass against my thighs, driving herself up in an attempt to make the pace faster and faster.

Quinn came over and kissed Nikki upside down, smothering her lips with her own. I took her offered horns and used them for leverage as I continued to please my wife, enjoying her smothered screams. The wet noise of their kissing only encouraged me.

I picked up to a fiery tempo, plumbing Nikki’s depths until I felt her squeeze me like a vice, her sex rippling around my member. So caught up in pleasuring her, I hadn’t focused on myself. I was still erect and ready for more.

Quinn moved off Nikki and looked up at my dripping cock with a look of hunger.

“Just what I needed.” Nikki sighed as I lowered her hips. Quinn prowled over on all fours, biting her lip, and staring at my cock.

Grabbing her horns again, her eyes lit up, and she gave a toss of her head, a token struggle at best.

The mana beasts, even after years of living with us, still had their instincts. They liked to be dominated. We didn’t even need to talk, both knowing the game when I grabbed her horns.

I pushed and pulled on her horns as she tried to push them into my stomach at times and at others tried to keep her lips away from my erection. But the whole time, her eyes shone with love and lust in equal measure.

Getting her lips on the side, she rewarded me with a wet kiss and a lick up under the sensitive underside of my cock, causing me a moment of distraction. She took advantage, pulling away with a smile on her lips as we played our game.

Pulling her horns back and removing some of her leverage, I brought my tip back to her pursed lips. She surrendered, opening her mouth as she closed her eyes and sucked me deep into her throat.

Her long tongue snaked around my cock and licked Nikki from me as she bobbed her head, her nose brushing my pelvis and her throat opening to accept the tip.

“Quinn.” I groaned as I pulled out, only to thrust back in.

My lovely dragon didn’t respond. Her eyes closed as she focused on pleasuring me. The dedication and seriousness that she brought to everything she did was endearing. If she did something, she made sure she did it well.

I let her focus as I continued to use her horns as handlebars and took her wet mouth.

My head was pulled to the side, and Celina’s tingling kiss overwhelmed my senses for a moment, only for my head to be passed back the other way and Michelle to give me a firm kiss and whisper. “We’ll talk after.”

I just grunted in assent. Quinn must have noticed my lack of attention, because she started doing wonderful things that only her serpentine tongue could do to me as it circled the edge of the head. She kept repeating a rough dragging sensation under the sensitive ridge.

Focusing on Quinn, I let my wives trade my head back and forth for kisses even as I got dizzy. I held onto Quinn’s horns tighter, using them to help ground me as I was kissed into oblivion.

Quinn started moaning, and I saw a lock of pink hair between her legs. Nikki seemed to be getting her back for the earlier kisses.

The vibration of Quinn’s moans on top of everything else sent me over the edge, and I painted the back of her throat with my seed. Quinn looked up, happiness in her eyes as she sucked me dry, licking her lips.

“Not done yet.” Michelle promised as I pulled out of Quinn. She pushed me down to the ground, straddling my hips as she got on top. “You’re going to have to be a Stud for us all tonight. We’ve been missing you.”

I groaned at the old nickname as my life mana tingled through me and revived my cock. Michelle smiled as she felt it harden between her legs, pushing herself up and sinking herself onto me in one movement, swaying her hips forward and back as she rode me.

***

At some point in the night, during all of our time together, Kat had joined in. I was glad to see that she was okay, or at least okay enough to come be with us.

But eventually, even Aurora had finally admitted defeat and needed to rest, which Mei had been teased her about as they left.

Now we were having a small meeting among the head of the family.

I was sitting on my throne, with Michelle perched on one arm, her legs dangling across my lap. Kat, my ever submissive kitten, was leaning against my thigh between my legs. The gold chains from so long ago had returned to her expression of her soul.

“So, spill. I think we satisfied you enough.” Michelle’s amusement was long gone, replaced by the stern look of the woman who held our family together.

“First, Kat, how are you?”

“Good? I built a small hut in the woods and killed a few beasts for food. I’ve been trying my best to stay put in case you came back looking for me.”

I nodded. I’d expected Kat would be able to take care of herself, but it was a relief to hear she hadn’t run into any trouble. “If only it were that simple now. I would have come back if I could. But you should make sure to protect yourself if you’re near where we landed. Those men were slavers, who took me to a nearby city, Murdock. From there, they sold me.”

Michelle’s spine went straight, and she bristled like a cat with its tail stepped on. “Slavers?!”

Letting out a heavy sigh, I went on to tell her about our entry into the immortal world.

Michelle didn’t take it well. “We are all heading there right now. Isaac Hughes, how could you try to hide this?”

I patted the air, trying to calm her down. “Everyone speaks of these slavers as if they are a common thing and they hunt this Jungle of a Thousand Paths for people who show up in their world. I’m just happy that I could hide Kat before they found us.”

Kat glared up at me through her red hair. “Where is this ‘Mohawk’?”

“I don’t know. Apparently, I was a big payday, and she was going to get the hell out of dodge. She killed her two partners.”

Kat bit her lip. “People like her don’t just go after a payday. They always get suckered into trying to get another. I can’t meet up with you until I know the area better and we can figure out directions. But I’ll start doing some hunting in the woods.”

She might have been my sex kitten when we were alone, but the outside world knew her as a fierce and determined woman. She’d been strong enough, or stubborn enough, to hold her mind together against the battery of thousands of soul fragments.

“I will try to find a map when I wake up.”

Kat nodded. “She needs to die for what she did to you.”

“This, I can get behind, and I should. I’m going to the immortal world.” Michelle declared.

“No.” My tone brooked no argument. “You absolutely will not.”

Her eyes bore into mine, and there was an imaginary war between our two wills. But I was firm in my resolve. While Michelle was fierce, she was far from being able to do much more than I’d been able to in the immortal world. I wanted to get us settled and better protected before they came.

Eventually, she scoffed and turned her head in defeat. I waited a moment longer before explaining my reasoning. “Kat, how long did it take for you to recover to your full strength?”

“Three days.”

I nodded, looking back at Michelle. “If you come, so will the others, and what is Kat supposed to do? Find you all and keep you protected for three days? What if you don’t appear exactly where we did? We have no idea how big the jungle is or how it works.” I pounded questions into Michelle.

There was just too much we didn’t understand. We weren’t rash teenagers on our first adventures or young adults who had too much responsibility thrust upon them at once. We were leaders, and we would go about it properly.

I looked back at Kat. “I’ll get a map and we can arrange a meetup, Kat. Then, we can work on my situation and start to find a way to make it safe for when the others come.”

While she might not be rushing through the portal to the immortal world, I could see the resolve to come soon in her eyes. But she gave in to my plan. “Fine. I’m going to stop Thea from recruiting more kids and have her start training a replacement. The Hua sisters too.”

I nodded, knowing that not giving her that concession was a recipe for trouble. She needed to feel like she was moving in a direction where she could come help.

“Okay. Kat goes slaver hunting. Michelle, you get the rest to wrap up their stuff. And I am going to find a map and see what else I can learn today.”

The two of them nodded firmly. Kat left moments later. It wasn’t safe for her to be focused outside her body while she was in the slaver territory.

Michelle turned on me the second Kat left. “You keep her safe, we won’t lose her again.”

“Promise. But she’s a big girl. Frankly, her cultivation has become terrifying.”

“I feel pity for this Mohawk woman. She isn’t going to know what hit her.” Michelle returned a slightly feral smile. “Well, besides Kat’s glowing eyes.”

I nodded. Kat had recovered the power of her soul to terrifying levels. Though I hadn’t seen her use it offensively in a very long time, her understanding of the soul had continued building. She understood it well enough that she’d been able to create this connected soul palace even across worlds.

I hadn’t thought that would even be possible. I had no idea what she could do if she used her knowledge of the soul against somebody, and I felt bad for whoever she tested it on.

The only concern I had was if she’d go too far.

***

I rolled out of bed well ahead of the rest of my fellow servants, feeling rested and ready for another day. Having seen my wives had bolstered my attitude like nothing else could.

Heading out to the third floor, I found it empty, and a little wind left my sails. A part of me had hoped that I’d have a group of disciples waiting, and I’d be able to pay off my debt faster. I’d apparently grown used to disciples flocking to me given my position back at the sect.

Tempering my disappointment and my pride, I summoned out my sword and went through basic stances learned long ago.

Even today, the sword art my father had taught me was the core of my form. Layered on top of it was years of experience and a multitude of other forms I had learned to augment my fighting and broaden my knowledge of the sword.

My sword cut through the air and quivered as he surfaced in my mind. I wondered what had happened to my father. He’d come to this world in search of my mother. Was he a slave like Charles, or has he found his own path?

I hardened my mind and continued through the forms. He must still be alive, but the questions of where and under what condition weren’t possible to answer at that moment. I needed to push aside those feelings. They’d only be a distraction until I was in a place to do something about them.

Flowing through my stances, I lost myself in the familiar practice. When I finished the final thrust, clapping punctuated the motion.

“That was very impressive. You sure you aren’t some hidden sword master?” Red dress’s face was still covered by a veil, but her eyes were smiling. Behind her, three other girls walked like floating silk.

Feeling a tad embarrassed, I relaxed my stance. I’d been so lost in the motions that I hadn’t seen them coming. Flipping back my sword, I bowed and hid it behind me. “Thank you. I’ve practiced for a long while; the sword art was my father’s.”

Red dress turned to the other women. “See, he’s quite skilled, even if he’s a servant.”

One of the others, this one wearing pink, snorted. “Sword skill means little against overwhelming power. Cultivation is absolute.”

I bristled a little at her tone. “Cultivation is a long, winding road filled with many challenges. You’ll need many tools to progress and practicing the sword not only gives you additional tools of survival but sharpens the mind.”

As I watched her face morph into anger, I realized that I didn’t have the respect here I had in my previous sect. Here I was a servant and one giving advice to someone who saw me as her better. I’d given her coaching like I would have one of my disciples, and she was not taking it well.

My interpretation was confirmed as she drew a sword from a spatial ring. “I’ll fucking show you. Do not speak to me like that.”

The disciple in pink stomped up to the stage, her sword drawn and held at a terribly ineffective angle.

No words were spoken as I readied my sword. Her anger would shut out my words if I tried to calm her down. So instead, I’d speak the one language she’d understand and earn her respect.