Lord of Charm

As soon as they entered the inner ring, they felt a change in the mana density. To Gale's astonishment, it was almost as high as the mana density in Alice's training room!

'I assume people don't stay to meditate here since the beasts would eat them if they dared try. Those ancient magic circles are impressive.'

Gale thought to himself and was already eager to check the mana density in the core ring. He could also understand now the incentive for the stronger beasts to remain closer to the center.

"Be careful, in this area, there are leopards hiding among the trees. Be ready to react to any ambush we might face here."

Lidia warned them both and took the front. She understood it was her job to protect them and placed herself accordingly.

Just like Lidia said, a few minutes later a leopard jumped from a seemingly innocent bush and pounced at them. However, Gale wasn't scared of a power contest. The leopard only used spells to boost himself to catch his prey unprepared.

Gale boosted his power with a fire spell and threw a punch at the leopard. The leopard was a fourth-rank magic beast and had no chance of fighting Gale in a contest of strength. With a whimper, it was sent flying and crashed against a tree. It broke a large part of its bones in that clash, and before it could run away, an air blade beheaded it.

"Try not to burn the animals, they'd lose their value and you might need to hunt more beasts to fill your hunting quota."

"But I thought we only have a quota to train ourselves, do I have to bring back the materials to the academy?"

"Yes, it's not only a way to train us. It's also a way for the academy to collect materials that would be used by the staff to conduct research or just manufacture more products. It's one of the academy's ways to sustain itself."

Gale collected the corpse into his magic bag, and they continued their journey. That day, they only faced fourth-rank beasts by avoiding the nests of the higher-ranked beasts as marked on the map in their Alessa watch.

"Lidia, you stay guard first while Gale and I will go to sleep, and we will switch after a few hours."

Ronda said hurriedly and pulled Gale into the tent. After the whole time she spent with Gale she was already addicted to the sensation of unending orgasms for a whole night and couldn't wait for nighttime to have Gale for herself.

They camped in a cave in the outer ring and killed the fourth-rank beast that occupied it before them.

'Sure, and I'm supposed to believe you that you're going to sleep. I can smell your vagina from here.'

Lidia thought inwardly but kept quiet and nodded. After being teased and being under Gale's charm last night she was also craving him, so she at least understood Ronda.

Gale and Ronda soon entered a steamy night, but this one was different; Gale felt that she was already deep under his charm. He started using his ability and absorbed her affinities.

By the end of the night, he already stole a large chunk of her connection and affinity, and he estimated he was 25% way through.

"Ronda, dear. Let me do all the fighting today and just be by my side. Since we are here for my training, it'd be wasted if you killed the beasts for me."

Gale's green eyes shone, and Ronda agreed to his request. The reason for his request was that he didn't want her to feel her defective affinities and connection. He already went beyond the point where she wouldn't notice the changes if she tried to cast a spell. She'd need a few months to heal from the damage he inflicted on her.

"Maybe we should fight elite beasts or fifth-stage beasts, Miss Ronda. It's a waste of your time to fight such weak beasts."

Lidia suggested hesitantly. However, Ronda didn't make the decision to go hunt stronger beasts. She looked at Gale and waited for his judgment.

"I'm not ready to fight stronger beasts yet, I'm not quite used to fighting in the forest with the lurking beasts around me. Let's fight magic beasts today as well."

Gale used his charm and the two girls agreed without arguing. They spent the second day in the same boring way, and all Ronda could think about was the night with Gale.

Another night passed, and Lidia was forced to stay guard all night again. It's been over 48 hours since her last sleep.

"Lidia, I'm sure you need some sleep after missing sleep two nights in a row. How about you go to sleep while Ronda and I will stay guard?"

'The hell with missing sleep. That's because you're having sex until you pass out and forcing me to stay guard all night!'

"Thank you, Lord Gale, I will go to sleep then."

She was avoiding nourishing her body with mana instead of sleeping, so she was just as tired as Gale said. Gale went back into his tent and kissed Ronda.

"Shall we continue?"

"What if a beast comes?"

"We're in the outer ring, even if a beast comes, none of them can harm us."

Gale and Ronda smiled as they sent their hands toward each other's bodies. Soon, they were naked again and their moans resounded again. Unluckily for Lidia, the tents had magic circles to block noise, and she didn't know she was sleeping unguarded in the forest.

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Alice watched Gale walk back to his tent and she could sense his actions by sensing the air with wind magic.

'Are those two addicts? They've just been fooling around in the forest and spending the whole night screwing. Did they come here because of a fetish? And why the hell Ronda is sleeping with her former lover's killer?'

Alice's mind was full of questions, but there was nobody to answer them.

'But there is a weird fluctuation of mana whenever Ronda has an orgasm. I don't know what's going on, but this magic shouldn't be possible for mages to perform.'

She kept watching them having sex for a while until she decided to leave for her own mental health. She was getting jealous when she saw Ronda's face.