The stalling. The reluctance to attack. The way it had taunted with repetition instead of fighting, the way it had stayed latched to trees instead of lunging. The sluggish movent that I’d attributed to caution but was actually sothing else entirely.
The reason it couldn’t move properly wasn’t injury. Wasn’t fear or strategy.
It was digesting.
The Chaleon hadn’t just mimicked Nisha. It hadn’t just studied her from a distance to learn her mannerisms and speech. It had swallowed her. The close proximity that I’d deduced, the terrifyingly accurate impersonation, the knowledge of how Nisha spoke... all of it made sense now. It hadn’t observed Nisha.
It had consud her.
And everything since, the stalling, the taunting, keeping fighting and distracted, all of it had been buying ti for the process to complete.
The Chaleon’s one good eye t mine. And slowly, deliberately, it let the smile widen.
It knew I’d figured it out.
And it knew what that ant for . Because now I couldn’t just kill it. I couldn’t burn it, couldn’t slash it open carelessly, couldn’t pour everything I had into destruction the way I had monts ago. Nisha was inside that thing, and any blow that killed the creature might kill her too.
Fire would cook her alive before it cooked the Chaleon. My sword could cut through its belly and cut through her in the sa stroke. Even blunt force, even if I had the essence to deliver it, could crush whatever pocket she was trapped in. Every tool I had was a death sentence for the person I was trying to save.
I was standing five paces from the thing that had eaten the person I was trying to rescue, holding a sword I couldn’t use, with no flas, no essence, and a body that was falling apart.
And the bastard was smiling because it knew, it knew with that terrible intelligence, that it had just beco untouchable.
My grip tightened on the sword.
"You think this changes things?" I said, and my voice was steady even though nothing else about was.
The Chaleon opened its mouth. From deep within its throat, muffled and distorted by layers of flesh, ca Nisha’s voice.
Not a scream this ti. A whisper. Faint, barely audible, stripped of everything except exhaustion.
"...Cade..."
My expression darkened. Anger washed over , sudden and total, flooding from my chest to my fingertips like sothing had cracked open inside and let the heat pour through.
Now, look. Nisha and I didn’t share so dramatic relationship. There was no power-of-friendship play here, no heroic bond compelling toward self-sacrifice. I could simply turn around and walk away. Say I was unable to do anything because I was crippled.
I an... am I not crippled? Give one good look and tell I’m not crippled.
But do you know the reason I wouldn’t do that? Why I wouldn’t be a fool and abandon Nisha the sa way I abandoned Emma, hiding behind the justification of so la excuse?
’Co to think of it, she does deserve it...’
How dare she have sex with and then go ahead and have sex with another man? Or was I the other man? Either way, how dare she? I gave that woman things. Monts. Experiences that should have had her swearing off other n entirely, and instead she goes and does this to ? The disrespect was staggering.
But I wasn’t about to be both an asshole and a coward at the sa ti. I was, after all, a very benevolent person.
’Which ans I have to find a way to handle this situation...’
Having no essence, by the way.
’I need to be able to generate essence.’
All the ans available to were currently unavailable, for the simple and unfortunate reason that there was no female here. The only female who would have worked was Nisha, and she was currently dissolving in the belly of a giant chaleon.
I sighed and stood there staring at the bastard, who stared right back at like he could do this all day. Which, considering he was mid-al, he probably could.
And then, while staring at him, it suddenly occurred to .
’I have a way out!’
There was a way. A thod to gain essence that had, in fact, been the very first thod through which I’d discovered I could replenish my reserves. The numbers were smaller, much smaller compared to when I used a partner. But it was still sothing.
’Does this an...’
The thought was revolting.
’Nah. Hell no. I’m not doing that.’
My mind paused. Reconsidered.
If I did it, I could gain at least two hundred spirit essence. Two hundred. In a battle like this, running on fus, with the bastard unable to move because he was trying to digest my companion, two hundred was the difference between living and dying.
The problem was ti. Luckily for , this particular redy was my foundation. My base. The thing I had been doing longer than anything else in my entire life, and after all those years of dedicated practice, I knew very well how much of a one-minute man I was in that regard.
I knew Infinite Vitality couldn’t work here because that one required a partner, which I didn’t have right now. Unless the lodestar counted my hand as a partner.
I chuckled at the thought, then glared at the Chaleon, who glared back. Wounded. Breath ragged. Looking at the way it was so hindered, sothing told either Nisha was fighting back from the inside or the Chaleon was reaching a critical point in its digestion. Either way, the clock was ticking for both of us.
I sighed and said to it:
"Toilet break, please."
The Chaleon blinked. Its one good eye tracked with an expression that, on a creature with that much intelligence, I could only describe as bewildernt. Like it was trying to process how its prey had just politely excused himself from a life-or-death standoff.
I turned and walked behind a tree. Exhaled heavily. With my mangled, scraped-up hand, I pulled out my cock and held it in place. Inhaled. Closed my eyes.
’Let’s get this over with.’
I built the image of Kassie and Maggie in my head. Started with Kassie’s sumptuous breasts, the weight and softness of them. Then Maggie’s terrifying ass, the kind of ass that could end civilizations, and I imagined slapping it, watching her alabaster skin ripple with each impact.
My broken fingers throbbed, sending a spike of pain up my wrist that nearly shattered the image. I gritted my teeth and held on to the fantasy with the sa desperation I’d hold a cliff’s edge.
I grabbed Maggie by the neck and went to work, imagined that composed, saintly face of hers finally cracking as she begged for more. All that dignity, all that composure, crumbling until the real her ca out gasping and desperate.
I didn’t ignore Kassie, either. When I noticed she was getting a little pissed that I was spending too long on Maggie, I moved over to her, held her close, and fucked her missionary style, slow and deep, like two people who actually ant it. Her moans against my ear. The way she whispered my na.
’Oh shit, I think I’m taking this a little too seriously...’
But I didn’t stop. One minute was all I had. No ti for an existential crisis about my imagination being too vivid.
I went back and forth between them. Maggie until she passed out, then Kassie, sa treatnt. My hand was screaming at the entire ti, every nerve in those mangled fingers reminding that I was masturbating with a hand that probably needed amputation, but pain and arousal have a complicated relationship and I was not about to unpack that right now.
And just as Kassie was reaching her climax, shaking, calling my na one last ti, I exploded with all the built-up tension and white liquid shot out in front of .
I opened my eyes.
The liquid had landed on the face of the Chaleon.
The thing was right there. Right in front of the tree. Staring at with my cum dripping down its face. And in that one good eye, behind the wounded malice, behind the terrible intelligence, I saw sothing I had never expected to see on the face of a monster.
Offense.
The Chaleon looked offended.
I staggered back in horror.
"You creep! How did you?!"
But even as the shock of this deeply violating mont hit , the ssages of my glorious victory were already singing in my ears.
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored]
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored]
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored]
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored]
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored]
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored]
[Your Spirit Essence has been restored]
[Your Physical Stamina has been restored] ...
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