The Hero Became a Succubus, and the Only Way to Level is to… What?! Chapter 508 – Voices

Seated in the center of the Elizabeth Bedlam's laboratory after hours of experints, Kanae was beginning to grow doubtful that they were going to figure out anything. The sorceress had one last test to conduct and seed sure this would work. With Edina and Andora's help, they mopped clean the previously drawn magic circle. She drew a new one using chalk made of bone dust. Intricate lines and symbols Kanae didn't recognize surrounded her, but Eliza looked like she knew what she was doing.

The north and south part of the ring stretched into pointed apexes, each with its own smaller circle. While Eliza put on the finishing touches, the voice in Kanae's head continued to giggle. It had been giggling after every attempt, as if amused by their failure.

"Right. I'd like for Edina and Andora to take their places inside each circle. You will be aiding in assisted spellcasting. This is a powerful spell I cannot do on my own. Both of your mana pools will enable to do it," Eliza explained.

"Exactly what spell are you going to cast?" Kanae asked.

"Rend Apparition. It will try to seize hold of a non-resident soul inhabiting you. Not my spell, mind you. I have to cast it from a spell to." She walked up to her brandishing an iron-banded grimoire, in which the cover was scrawled with strange hieroglyphs.

"What? That's a high level Necromancer legacy skill! I don't even have that yet. How'd you get it in a fucking book?" Edina complained from her circle.

"Because this spell to was one of several that belonged to Mathilda. Perhaps you rember the na?" The sorceress grinned.

Edina flicked to the Pillar of the Damned in hand, specifically to the second skull from the top. Her voice, including that of the other necromancers and Hax'gorah had gone silent thanks to the dwarven sex automaton Lapis' help.

"Ahh. I'm familiar with Mathilda the Red," Andora recalled thoughtfully from the other end of the apex. "So of my ancestors were present in Radevic when she laid siege. It is believed that her attack contributed to the high elves sailing west."

"I thought your ancestors settled in the badlands?" Kanae asked.

"Most of us did, with several families that eventually beca Lights of Capillis. That didn't stop so from staying behind. They likely integrated into other houses or faded away." She shrugged.

"Save the history lessons for later. We're ready. Andora, Edina, begin channeling your mana into the circle," Eliza implored.

When they did so, the magic circle ca alight. The symbols humd and lines seed to shift like a snake moving through sand. Eliza held the open spell to, one hand on the spine and other keeping the pages down. Her robes lifted even though there was no breeze on this floor.

Andora and Edina lurched forward, like soone had yanked an invisible chain around their necks. They caught themselves, but struggled to stay standing.

"Why's it feel like an ogre is trying to shove …" Edina squeezed her staff with both hands, the base braced to the floor.

"How much mana… do you need?!" Andora gasped.

"Er, Eliza?" Kanae glanced up at the sorceress just as the grimoire fell.

Eliza's hands now looked like a large ethereal claw had been pulled on as a glove. Without warning, she plunged it into Kanae's chest. A frigid chill grasped her heart— no, deeper than that. Her soul. It felt as though her mortality had co to an end, then…

A burst of magic erupted from Kanae, throwing Eliza across the room. The circle went inert. Andora collapsed to her knees, and Edina barely held on to the Pillar of the Damned.

"Eliza, what happened?" Kanae ran up to help the sorceress, who had lost her hat and was sitting upright against a bookshelf. She grabbed her hand, only for Eliza to writhe in… ecstasy.

"Guuuh…. Aaaahhhhhh! I'm cumming?! I'm cumming!" Eliza curled up in the fetal position, eyes rolled back, and twitching intensely.

"What? How? I didn't even cast Turn Horny on you!" she explained.

"I did not see… hnnng… anything possessing you… oh, Supre One, save . My clitoris is throbbing so hard… I believe… sothing hit … with a spell— I can't stop cumming!" The sorceress tossed and turned from another quaking orgasm.

Kanae swallowed hard. This almost looked like—

"Power Word: Climax." Alicia entered the laboratory floor, helping Andora to her feet. "I'd recognize this spell anywhere. The statue from the cult temple. From Labelle and Ambrosia, who have casted it before. Kanae, you hear her whispers, don't you? The Devil of Lust, Satine."

"You've been hearing them, too?" Kanae asked.

"Ever since you all returned yesterday, yeah. Our daughter has, too, I think. Dawn's a curious girl, but her gaze has been wandering a lot more often," she explained.

Then this wasn't just her. It was affecting any full blood succubus.

"Makes sense… if Alicia can hear, that all but confirms it…" Eliza muttered, still suffering from constant orgasms.

"Do you want to put you to sleep? You're not doing so hot," Kanae said.

"No, no. Let … ride this out… Purely for… academic purposes… It is the most pleasure… I've ever felt in my life…"

Sighing, Kanae left the sorceress where she laid. Edina and Andora departed since their part in the ritual was complete. They needed a long rest after the ritual drained most of their mana. Alicia decided to take Dawn out of the tower to clear her thoughts, and Kanae joined them in going to the park. The two found an open bench at a playground where children ran about playing tag in the jungle gym, hide and seek, and pretend-adventurers slaying monsters. Parents watched and chatted with each other in lively conversation.

Alicia peeled the cloth swaddling Dawn, revealing her horns having grown more pronounced. It was nothing like her parents. They began on her upper forehead, going up and then twisting out sideways. However, their daughter also boasted a third that was a nub between the two. Sothing Kanae had never seen before in any succubus, half or full blooded.

"I'm not sure what Dawn having a third horn ans either. But I think it definitely suggests that she is sothing special." Alicia smiled, cradling the baby.

"Dawn's our special baby girl. Yes, you are!" Kanae played peek-a-boo and earned a cute little laugh. But the thought that Dawn was hearing the whispers of a devil dampened her mood. "Alicia, what exactly have you been hearing?"

"Insistence on joining the Cult of Lust and Depravity. Enslave the lesser races. Honestly, it's annoying at best. What about you?"

"Uh, the sa thing. Yeah!"

Alicia narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

"Kanae…" Alicia glared.

"Fine. The words were loudest in the temple, but mostly a faint whisper now. I think Satine asked to beco her champion. Obviously, I don't plan on it. Just didn't want you to worry," Kanae explained nervously, working the courage up to et Alicia's gaze only to find her deanor wrinkled with concern. "I'm telling you, I have zero interest!" She reached out to Alicia and cupped her warm cheek. "I'm still ."

The succubus relaxed into Kanae's touch. It seed enough to assuage her worries for the ti being. Children's laughter and Ehmvier's bustling streets served as a welco commotion. If only this peace and quiet could—

"Wait. Do you hear that?" Kanae asked.

"Hear what? Is Satine speaking to you again?" Alicia's brows knitted together.

"No, that's the thing. She isn't! Do you hear anything?"

Alicia leaned back and gave it a mont. A few monts longer. Her eyes widened in surprise. Silence. Well, about as much silence as there normally was in their own heads.

"It must be sothing you brought back from the temple. Has to be." Alicia seed sure.

"But what? The stone? The feltal? The crystal?" Kanae asked.

Curiosity spurred them back to Elizabeth Bedlam's tower, but when they reached the door, Alicia hesitated. She clutched Dawn closer to her chest, gazing up at the looming building. Kanae felt it, too. Like a burst of scalding steam.

"Sothing's off. Wait here," Kanae insisted.

"No. We go in together," Alicia said.

They unfurled their wings and lifted up to the Arcen floor, entering through the unpatched hole in the wall. Most of the debris brought back from yesterday's excursion to the temple were sorted into two piles. The stone rubble had been rid of, leaving behind one pile of feltal bands and the other was of the crystal.

The whispers returned, a faint breath against the back of their necks. It made their hair stand. In Alicia's arms, Dawn began to kick and twist. No amount of cradling and rocking could calm her down.

Together… Together… Together…

"You've been in the temple for centuries. Did you ever hear voices in there?" Kanae asked.

"No. Never." Alicia shook her head.

Then sothing changed between then and now. Was it the Cult of Lust and Depravity's doing? An ominous chill ran up Kanae's spine. The crystal seed to call out to her. She drew closer to get a better look when Eliza stumbled into the room. Kanae and Alicia whirled around.

"Kanae," Eliza said, drenched in sweat and leaning against the archway fra.

"Oh, wow. You recovered from Power Word: Climax already?" Kanae asked.

"Wait!" Alicia threw an arm out. "Eliza only ever calls you by your color!"

Eliza's lips curled into a wicked smirk. She exploded into a flock of ravens. Half of them sward Alicia, and the other half dove for Kanae.

"Shit!" Kanae dashed back.

Alicia and Dawn went invisible. Magical Stealth cloaked them in safety, and the ravens pecked at nothing. Eliza's upper body reford in the second swarm and grabbed Kanae by the face. Fingers clamped down on her with a vise. The sorceress' eyes showed a pinkish glow.

"Thistle, the Matron's Regalia must be whole. Seize the final piece from your contender. Plant it on your crown. Ascend, and beco my champion!" Eliza bood with a voice not of her own.

"Satine! I want nothing to do with you!" Kanae growled.

"There is no one more worthy, more depraved, more debaucherous than you. It must be you! I must have you!" she screeched.

"Kanae!" Alicia shouted from behind.

Eliza tensed up. Electricity surged through the sorceress' body. Kanae broke free. Alicia snapped her fingers, and the bolt dagger returned to her free hand while still cradling Dawn. Eliza rose only to jerk violently.

"Human cattle, whose soul is so scarred and cursed by the very gods you worship. Do not resist ," Satine snarled through Eliza's lips.

"And yet I worship them still. Unlike you, whose empty worship is rooted in compulsion. I will not… be a thrall… to a devil!" Eliza struggled to lift her finger and pointed to the crystal behind Kanae. "It's the crystal… Destroy the crystal!"

"No!" the devil roared, fighting to seize control of Eliza's body to no avail.

Kanae and Alicia raced up to the crystal. The assassin plunged her bolt dagger into the fissure left behind by Arenade, but nothing happened.

"Stand back." Kanae pulled Cockcalibur from the sheath that was her pussy, willing it into the first dick that she thought of— Mitty's. With the Cock Ring of Hardening around the base, its size and strength grew by magnitudes. She brought the enchanted dildo down, clobbering the embedded dagger deeper.

"Again!" Alicia yelled.

"By the power of Mitty's cock, get out of our heads, Satine!" She hoisted the cock over her head and pumled the crystal with Titanic Blow.

It cracked completely. Satine shrieked until her voice faded back to Eliza's softer tone now hoarse from yelling. The sorceress dropped to her knees, sucking in a deep breath. Pieces of the shattered crystal rolled across the floor, and from the largest piece, a trickle of viscous red liquid pooled on the stone floor.

"What was that just now?" Kanae panted.

"You tell , Athyst… As soon as you all left, Satine started invading my mind. I could barely hear myself thinking until Alicia hit with the dagger." Eliza pushed herself up, rubbing her lower back.

"You guys, what is this?" Alicia asked.

They followed the succubus' gaze to the crimson substance on the ground that looked like blood yet thicker, almost like lava. It gargled, too. An emanating heat made them hesitant to get too close.

"I want to study it," Eliza said.

"Haven't we had enough fun with mysterious voices and creepy things?" Kanae groaned into her hand.

"The key to combatting the unknown is to learn about it!" the sorceress protested.

"It was bad enough traveling around with Patrice… but fine." She relented.

They used crystal pieces to scoop the liquid into a small feltal cup Eliza had a smith make as a test. Sure enough and thankfully, it didn't lt through. The floor where the substance had pooled did, but fortunately for her not completely through.

"That was inside the crystal all this ti? What do you plan to do with it?" Alicia grimaced at the liquid.

"Brew a tea. Glaze my pastries. Ascertain what it is. Perhaps this holds the answer to Cult's temples." Eliza pretended to toast with the cup.