Chapter 391 - The Dread Their Screams Cause. R-18
*Pah* *Pah* *Pah*
"Ahh... Ahnn... Ahhnnnnn"
Julie stood frozen in the doorway starring at Hal's perfect form thrusting relentlessly into her mother who moaned and groaned in pleasure while also thrusting her hips back at him for an even better impact.
So lost in the throes of pleasure was Bertha that she did not notice her daughter standing at the door even though, she was facing that way.
Hal however, noticed and smiled at the beautiful daughter,
"What are you standing around for? Join us or leave us" he said and his words seemed to give Bertha an inkling of the fact that there was a witness to her act of infidelity and she looked up and into her daughter's, now only mildly shocked face,
"Oh, what... Ahhnnn... You doing up?" she said in between moans of pleasure.
Julie was a tad bit surprised that her jaws worked when she then attempted to speak but even then no word actually came out.
Her mind was much too preoccupied with Hal's words; Join us or leave us.
Did she in fact want to leave? She asked herself.
No, she did not.
My mother might have barely kept it hidden at dinner that she was enamored with Hal, but Julie would have never thought she would go through with it and actually sleep with him, betraying her father.
So if her mother, who despite her flaws was still fairly responsible and very faithful, could let herself go and surrender to the mind-numbing pleasure she was clearly enjoying from the look on her face, then Julie saw no reason to deny herself.
Also, the perfect mix of this display as well as the sweet ensnaring scent that permeated the room already had her pussy juices flowing.
Slowly but surely, Julie began to take off her clothes and soon she was naked and could not help but cup one of her breasts and pinch her bright pink nipple as she took tentative steps towards Hal and her mother.
Hal grinned at her once she was by the side of the bed but Bertha had long since let herself go back into a state of blissful ignorance and incognizance.
A state in which she did not notice her daughter's continuous presence in the room until she had one hand cupping her large breast.
Enjoying the feel of her mother's breast in her hand, Julie went a step further by grabbing her nipple in-between two fingers and punching.
"Ahhhnnnnn"
There was a definite increase in her mother's pleasures moans.
Hal paused his thrusts to pull out of Bertha and rolled her on her back before he thrust back into her to the hilt in one push that caused a loud smacking sound of body against body.
With her mother on her back, Julie took her ministrations to a whole other level as she lowered her head and grabbed a nipple into her mouth, and sucked hard. The pheromones washing whatever inhibitions she ever had.
Then she raised her head and stretched her hand lower towards the point where Hal and Bertha were joined, pausing for a few seconds to watch Hal's majestic cock thrust in and out without its view being obstructed as it had been upon her arrival into the room.
And then she found her mother's clit and began to tease it while she returned to sucking the nipple as hard as she could.
Bertha's moans grew louder and she clamped her inner pussy muscles even harder around Hal who did not let that stop him or reduce the speed of his thrusts even a little bit.
Then Julie joined them on the bed and positioned herself with her ass thrust in the air, right in front of Hal and well within his reach.
Hal grinned and charged his hand with {Erogenous touch} before spanking her,
*smack*
The sudden hit took Julie by surprise but her body welcomed it with a pleasurable shiver and an even harder sucking of her mother's breast.
She popped her mouth off the delectable tit to moan and shake her ass towards Hal in what was a clear signal...
Hal did not disappoint...
*Smack*
"Nnnghhh... More"
*Smack"
"Ohhhh... That's it..." Julie groaned and the spanking of her ass continued until both halves were bright red but she felt no pain. Only the tingle of pleasure and incessant craving for more.
All through the spanking session, Hal's thrusts into Bertha's warm and wonderful snatch never wavered or lessened. If anything, it increased in intensity until she began to spasm.
It grew so violent that she wound her legs around Hal to stop him from pulling out which Hal never had any intention of doing so as he too reached his climax and with a groan of pleasure, he discharged an eye-widening volume of cum into her ever-receiving pussy.
The sheer warmth of Hal's seed inside her was a trigger for another orgasm hot on the heels of the one that just wracked her entire body.
And then she slumped onto the bed, exhausted.
However, Hal knew it was far from being Bertha's limit and was sure she would be back for more soon enough.
In the meantime, while she took a well-needed breather, Julie grabbed Hal's still erect and angry-looking cock to begin cleaning up the mixture of her mother's juices as well Hal's cum off of it.
Hal let her run her tongue all over his cock before taking complete advantage of the bed's commendable size as he positioned her with her ass up in his direction and her mouth in front of her mother's pussy out of which his seed was leaking out onto the bed.
Having had a teaser of how delicious the mixture of her mother's pussy juices and Hal's cum could be, Julie's eyes brightened at the prospect of getting even more of the mixture at its source as she placed her mouth over her mother's pussy to begin eating her out.
Hal on the other hand was also quite delighted at the prospect of tasting another pussy and he began to lick all over Julie's inner things figure focussing his attention on her pussy lips as he thrust his tongue inside her and felt as, just like her mother, Julie clamped around his tongue inside her.
Hal then elongated his tongue moderately to search for the spot that would most bring her pleasure and it got Julie mad with pleasure when she felt his tongue on that spot.
Bertha was rejuvenated even faster when she felt her daughter's mouth on her pussy and grabbed fistfuls of Julie's hair as she began riding her mouth as the daughter set about eating all the mixture she could reach.
Once there was no more time getting on the outside, she sought more deep inside her mother's snatch with the use of her nimble tongue.
Soon, Hal leaned away from Julie's pussy to place his cock at her entrance and push about half of his length into her.
Julie moaned into her mother's pussy as Bertha was far from willing to let her daughter's mouth stop touching her pussy.
Not to mention, she fell victim to numerous mini-orgasms and squirted enough pussy juices to push even more of Hal's seed that was deeper inside right towards the reach of Julie's ever-searching tongue.
Much to her delight.
Hal had only paused to allow Julie the opportunity to get used to his cock and then he thrust the rest in and began his relentless pounding of the daughter's pussy while she ate out her mother,
Julie moaned constantly into her mother's pussy and eventually the pleasure Hal was causing her to experience with his consistent thrusts made it next to impossible for her to continue her cunnilingus and soon, she began to neglect Bertha's snatch.
However, Bertha barely noticed as at that time, she was spasming once again in orgasmic bliss and once she came down from that high, she saw Julie on her back with Hal between her legs and pounding away.
She decided to return the favor by doing to Julie what she had done to her and with her pliant ass pointed in his direction and her pussy looking hungry for filling, Hal thrust his fingers into her pussy and curled his fingers to rub against her most sensitive spot and have her screaming with pleasure.
Her loudest of the night and a testament to how pleasure with Hal only increased and never decreased.
With Hal taking no measures of blocking that sound and letting it ring out to the castle along with Julie's ever-increasing-in volume moans, the inhabitants of this large structure were beginning to notice that there was something familiar about the sounds.
It was clearly happier and louder than they had ever heard it being but it was definitely familiar.
The Mayor was in his study when the loud moans finally reached his ears and he perked up at the familiar feeling.
Felix who could hardly sleep with his wife not yet back in bed heard it and he immediately sat up to follow the sound with a dreading feeling already enveloping him.
Meanwhile, the mother-daughter pair having no idea what their screams were causing were busy pledging their eternal devotion to Hal and how they only had one wish which was to feel this pleasure for the rest of their lives.
Hal had to admit, as he fingered one in the pussy and fucked the other, that he was quite intrigued at their pledges...
Chapter 392 - Two To Twenty.
Hal was still drilling into the two and mulling over their pledges when the first truly unwanted interruption showed up.
Felix stood at the doorway and his look of shock was almost identical to that of his wife's when she had seen what was going on and what really made the difference is that Julie slowly went front shock to interested while Felix's face went from shock to horror.
He did not know what to say.
And how could he?
Was he supposed to ask what the hell was going on?
That would be redundant ad he could clearly see what was going on.
Was he supposed to say stop?
Well, he could try that and it might actually have an effect but then again, it had already gone on this long, so what difference would him asking them to stop make?
And finally, why the hell was he still standing there?
Well, that was entirely the fault of his body that was no longer reacting to commands and was completely rooted to the spot.
And then he heard the sounds of quick footsteps and before he could even process whoever it was, he was pushed aside and the new arrival stood at the doorway but was not frozen...
"H-h-how dare you?!" He bellowed at Hal who did not stop putting thrusting but did raise a hand in acknowledgment of the Mayor's presence in the room,
"Hold on. I'm still a little busy. We can speak on your anger and frustration when I am done" he said with a smug smile on his handsome face.
At first, the Mayor blanked and then took a step towards him while his wife remained oblivious to his presence as she moaned,
"Oh yes, Hal. Fuck me more. More, I want more"
And more was what Hal gave her.
The Mayor's face went red,
"Why you little..." He began to say and charged a cosmic attack but Hal snapped his fingers and royal blue Runes suddenly shone on the ground where the Mayor and Felix were on.
The Mayor's eyes widened and he attempted to keep away from it because no in-depth knowledge of Runes was required to know that this was dangerous and needed to be avoided.
However, he was far from fast enough as the Runes morphed into a spherical orb that enveloped him and his son-in-law.
In anger and desperation to be out of the sphere as fast as he could, the Mayor let loose the cosmic attack he had charged but it failed to destroy the orb.
Of course he did not give up and attacked with even more of his cosmic attacks but there was barely an effect.
Meanwhile, now that he had achieved his aim of luring the mayor to the room with the loud moans of his wife and daughter, Hal took the ladies into the Harem space and took his sweet time with them.
It would take the Mayor at least Two hours in the Orb before he could truly make his escape, not because the Rune Orb was so strong, but because Hal had taken his time to not put down one trap layout but multiple layouts that would always replace the one the Mayor had previously broken through.
Those two hours translated into Twenty in the Harem space. Twenty hours that was more than enough for the ladies to come out of their comatose state and refine Hal's essence in line with the cultivation Technique he had given them.
He did not wish to take them with him.
First, he could see that they were far from ready to leave this place behind even though they had pledged devotion to him and second, Hal himself was not entirely ready to add to the Twenty plus women already residing in the Harem space.
So he decided on a compromise.
He was still going to rob the Mayor of all he had but why stop there...
Two normal hours later,
*Bang!*
The Mayor finally freed himself from the Rune orb and looking even angrier than before.
Felix was now lying on the floor unconscious from what Hal was sure was collateral damage that resulted from the Mayor's battle with the Orb.
The first person the Mayor saw upon his exit was Hal who sat on the bed, fully clothed and with his legs crossed.
Having the guts to not make an escape during the time the Mayor was locked away in the Orb.
"So glad you could finally break out. You took much longer than I thought. It seems I might have overestimated you." Hal said with a shake of his head.
"Where is Bertha?" The mayor asked in a deep voice while he took another look around the room but both his wife and daughter were nowhere to be found.
Hal shrugged,
"That's none of your business, at least for now" he said with a smile. It seemed as though he was having a rational conversation with an acquaintance as opposed to someone who wished to kill him.
"How dare you? Who are you to tell me what is my business and what is not? I invite you into my home, I tolerated your insults and you FUCK MY WIFE?" He bellowed the last part.
"Multiple times" Hal added.
"What?" The mayor was a little confused and Hal shook his head at his dimwittedness,
"I said I fucked her multiple times. I quite enjoyed it too." He clarified
And then a blast of Cosmic attack pelted right towards him but he was able to evade it and it hit the wall behind him or at least it was going to hit the wall but was intercepted by the Array Dome Hal had prepared before the Mayor's exit out of the Rune Orb and only just activated.
The attack however did not remain in place but instead ricocheted off the Array and directly towards the Mayor who canceled it out with another cosmic attack.
"You should be careful where you toss that thing, Bradley" Hal said, having learned the Mayor's name from Bertha.
Then the Mayor frowned deeply,
"This nonsense again?" He asked casting a quick look at his feet to see the Array was protecting the ground as well.
Hal nodded,
"Oh yes, it will keep our battle contained and I know what not to do since it is my creation while I am sure you will occasionally forget" he said and summoned his Cosmic armament.
The Mayor summoned his sword Cosmic armament and took on a battle stance before dashing towards Hal with speed that Hal admitted surpassed Red Beard's.
Relying on his instincts since he could not hope to follow Bradley's path with his eyes, Hal was able to raise his sword just in time to parry the Mayor's strike.
Or more accurately, he attempted to parry but they ended up in a stalemate on account of the Mayor being much stronger than he was physically.
And then he actually began to push Hal back.
Hal smiled and his eyes brightened,
So this was the difference between battling with a late-stage Cosmic phenomenon realm expert and battling with a peak-stage Cosmic Phenomenon realm expert?
Bradley was indeed a league above.
Only Red Beard's fire ordinance had even a chance at victory against this might.
Of course, even without an Ordinance of his own, Hal had other means of bridging the gap quite nicely and that was announced with his iris shifting from Sapphire Blue to Fiendish red...
Chapter 393 - Shadow Mirage.
Bradley's eyes widened as following the change in Hal's eye color, he grew stronger and began to push him back.
Not to mention the Bloodcurdling feeling Hal was now exuding.
As the two continued their test of strength, Bradley had a sudden idea, and making a daring move of taking one hand off his sword, he charged a cosmic attack with that hand and struck it into Hal's midsection but Hal simply smiled at his naivete.
Before the attack could actually hit him, he vanished from the Mayor's sight and the attack went unimpeded towards the array dome only to be ricocheted towards him.
Bradley planned to evade it but there was only so much he could do when Hal landed a kick on his back and sent him rocketing right into the cosmic attack,
*Bang!*
Of course, being that it was an attack he had charged himself and its effects had been lessened upon contact with the Dome, Bradley was pleased that it only caused a little numbness on his chest.
Nothing he could not shrug off.
However, he had failed to see that the array dome's ricocheting factor was never actually meant to ricochet his own attacks but to ricochet Hal's,
*Bang!*
Case in point, Hal charged a Cosmic attack towards the Dome and it ricocheted off it towards Bradley who canceled it out with an attack of his own.
Then Hal struck multiple attacks at the boundary and watched as they all ricocheted and targeted Bradley who found himself smack dab in the middle of it all.
However, the Mayor was far from worried. In fact, he smiled and charged an attack of his own but did not strike at any of the multiple attacks in particular but struck right at the ground beneath his feet.
As the Array was protecting the ground, Bradley's cosmic attack ricocheted in an Area of effect pattern that canceled most of the attacks Hal had sent towards him.
As for the ones that were not canceled out, he could evade.
It was a testament to how Bradley was not underestimating Hal that he did not let any of the attacks make contact with his body as long as he could avoid them.
The last thing he needed was more surprises from someone whose change in eye color could suddenly grant a powerful presence and the strength to contend with an expert two cultivation stages above him.
*Clang*
Once again, their blades met in a ringing sound after which they both separated only to strike once again at each other.
Both weapons became shrouded in cosmic phenomenons with Bradley's being clearly deeper and stronger than Hal's and with it came the upper hand once they detonated those phenomenons when their weapons connected.
But soon, he had to be on the lookout for something else in Hal's arsenal; Fiendish fogs.
The red fogs exuding demonic might were incredibly versatile and capable of changing shapes in seconds. Their preferred shape was usually to he tapered at the end and strike at the Mayor.
They were successful more than a few times and had already caused more than a few nicks and cuts on Bradley's body and at some point when he attempted to avoid them, it resulted in a brief lapse in concentration that Hal was quick to take advantage of by sinking a knee into the Mayor's midsection.
*Bam!*
And then follow up with a strike to his jaw that sent the Mayor crashing into the Array Dome.
"Ack" Bradley groaned as his back made contact with the Dome boundary but the groan was all he allowed as he stretched his hand forward,
"Fourth grade Skill: Knight's Guard"
He summoned a four circle ring out of which emerged a normal-looking bronze shield which the four circled ring continued to rotate around.
With that pointed in front of him and his sword held tight in his hand, Bradley ignored all the pain he was feeling and charged towards Hal who eyed the shield with a light smile.
With a flex of his mind, he controlled the fogs to stretch even farther away from him, and strike at Bradley who still dashed towards him with the shield held before him.
The fogs avoided direct contact with the shield and targeted his exposed sides,
However, as though sensing the attack, the shield expanded to surround him and deflect all for attacks.
Bradley grinned as his defense was successful and then he yelled and released the full might of his cultivation base which blasted everything in the surroundings of him and Hal.
The bed, the rune lamps, chairs, desk... Everything that was inside the array dome was blasted back to clear an open space for his attack on Hal.
But then he noticed Hal's expression had not changed following that unsuccessful fog attack.
Hal's eyes went completely Dark as he was now making use of his shadow demonic bloodline and then he blurred away from Bradley's sights right before the Mayor could strike him.
When Hal next appeared, it was on his right side... Or was it in his left?
Bradley blinked and he came to a stop when he saw not just one Hal but two.
They both looked completely identical and stared at him with the same expressions.
Then the one on his right spoke,
"Surprised? Freaked out? I don't blame you" he said before the Hal on the left charged a Cosmic attack and sent it to the Mayor who turned his shield to defend himself but the attack passed through him as though it did not exist.
Then the one that had spoken before and was behind him, closed the distance in a matter of seconds to slam his palm against Bradley's back, which was suddenly protected again by the Knight guard skill, and hit him point-blank with a Cosmic attack...
This one was real...
*BANG!*
The Shield blocked most of the attack's impact but it had caused a considerable strain on it as it cracked and showed signs of rapidly deteriorating integrity.
However, Bradley did not pay attention to this as he felt he had discovered the trick and slashed his sword at the Hal who had struck him and grinned as it made contact... Only to pass through as though he was intangible.
"Impossible!" He said.
The one he had just struck put his hands behind his back and smiled,
"Is it?" He asked just as the Hal who had sent a cosmic attack before landed a kick on Bradley's back and pushed him forward.
*Bam*
*Crack*
There were now additional cracks on the shield as the kick had been placed right on the crack that had been caused by the point-blank cosmic attack.
"Arrghhh" Bradley groaned and jabbed at the Hal, who had kicked him and was now in front of him, with his sword but it went clean through just before the Intangible Hal took a step back.
Then the other one came dashing at him with a charged cosmic attack but when Bradley held up his shield for protection, the attack simply went through him and the one behind him who he had stabbed, struck him with a Cosmic attack on the same spot the Shield was weakening at.
"Confused?" One of the Hals asked and the other one continued,
"Let me explain. This is my mirage..."
"... We are both real..."
"... And we are both fake..."
".... When one is real, the other is fake and ..."
"... Only I decide..."
"... Which will be fake..."
"... And which will be real..."
"... So don't bother attempting to know which will strike you for real..."
"... because you can't figure it out"
This was a Shadow Demon bloodline ability known as Shadow mirage. It involved the creation of an illusion that could perform the skills and abilities of the original except that it was an illusion that would not actually have an effect.
However, the impressive part of the ability was not in the creation of the mirage but in the fact that the original could switch between him or herself and the mirage.
In which case the one that had been considered real would become a mirage and the one that had been considered a mirage would become real.
"Who cares which is real, I'll just strike you both!" Bradley yelled and summoned actual cosmic phenomenons and let them loose on the surrounding. Blasting everything back.
It no longer mattered which Hal was real and which was a mirage, the result was the same...
Chapter 394 - On A Grander Scale.
*Bang!*
The repulsive force of the detonation of Bradley's phenomenons did indeed let off a spectacular blast and thinking of the last expression he had seen on Hal's face that was one of someone caught off guard, the mayor could not help but smile as he thought that regardless of all his tricks, he still defeated this annoying bastard...
The smile, however, froze on his face when the dust finally settled and he saw only one Hal standing right where he had been before, his eyes no longer ordinary dark but now had a nightmarish hue and occasionally released fog of the same color. He had a nightmarish energy revolving in a vortex around him.
This was a use of his Bloodline Hal was more comfortable with.
The applications of shadow mirage were quite impressive but also very draining. It was far from something he could keep up for too long.
Also, Bradley had the right idea when he released his blast to hit both Hal and his mirage at the same time. In fact, the idea was much more brilliant than the mayor could possibly know.
First, Hal discovered that when using Shadow mirage, his defense was drastically weakened. Making use of the Shadow Demon Bloodline alone already reduced his density and strength, and while Shadow mirage gave him back a bit of his original strength, it was too costly to use.
Second, he discovered that he could not make a hybrid of Devil and Shadow demon Bloodline as he was able to do with the Fiendish Bloodline. Come to think of it, he could not make a hybrid of Lust Demon and Devil Bloodline either.
Had he being able to do so, he could have been able to cover up the Shadow demon bloodline deficiencies and be quite an unstoppable force.
Anyways, if he had not made the quick transition to Devil Bloodline and used Devil energy to protect himself, Bradley might have succeeded in doing some considerable damage.
That said, the shadow mirage was still an incredible ability to add to his arsenal and was perfect for overwhelming his opponents. Not to mention that the stronger his Bloodline became the more mirages he would be able to create.
Also, it should be noted that he had not made use of the shadow demon Bloodline Armament, Reaper, which would have made an all the more deadly combination with the Shadow mirage ability.
For the first time, Bradley was genuinely frightened and it was not just because of the fear the nightmarish energy was exuding, but because that cosmic phenomenon blast was the most powerful weapon in his arsenal and it seemed absolutely useless on Hal.
There was not even a scratch on him!
And yet, the pressure of his cultivation remained at the mid-stage of the Cosmic Phenomenon Realm.
This young man was making use of a powerful bloodline!
That was not so common not to raise the eyebrow of a small city mayor such as him.
"Who and what the hell are you?" He asked but Hal only smiled as the Devil energy retreated into his body and he vanished only to reappear in front of Bradley and kick his jaw in an upward direction.
The kick lifted the Mayor into the air and in prime position for Hal to punch forward right into his stomach,
*Bam*
"Ack" Bradley groaned as the punch had him sent towards the Array boundary.
While he was in the air and getting ever closer to the barrier, he condensed another cosmic attack and began imbuing it with a Cosmic Phenomenon which he planned to unleash on Hal, the moment he came to a stop.
After all, he thought, there was no way Hal continuously survive point-blank blasts. There was just no way, he thought.
Unfortunately for the Mayor, however, Hal did not let him toss that attack as before Bradley even made contact with the Array boundary, he was already behind him and lying in wait with a punch that cracked a couple of ribs.
"Arrgghhh" he yelled before Hal punched his much shut before knocking him into the ground.
"I have to say, I was expecting more from a peak stage cosmic phenomenon expert. I even expected your anger of me cucking you to give you a rage boost but I am quite disappointed at this display" Hal said as he bent low to mock the mayor who was now spurting blood on the ground at his feet.
Hearing Hal insult him and make mention of what he had done in such a casual and sinister manner, Bradley looked up into this terrifying Dark eyes and began to attempt summoning every last dreg of power he still had just so he could wipe that smirk on his face.
Alas, his strength was gone and all he had was empty rage that failed to grant him anything.
Hal chuckled and then proceeded to brand the Mayor with the Devil mark which had been the whole point of his battle with him. Then he pushed a mending pill into his mouth to begin healing his wounds while he looked into his mind for all kinds of security surrounding his vault.
Everything he would need for a noiseless entry was all inside the Mayor's spatial ring. The mere fact that he even had a spatial ring were signs that his business with Red Beard had been good.
When he straightened up, he deactivated the Array Dome and branded the unconscious Felix with the Devil mark as well.
"Listen up, you idiot. From now on, Bertha is Mayor and you are to do everything she orders you with absolutely no complaints" Hal said in a clear voice while he damaged the imprint on the spatial ring.
Bradley had a blood spurt from the damaging of his imprint on the ring but with the mending pill healing his most extensive injuries, he could speak,
"No one would go for that. The merchants are the backbones of this city and if they don't rally behind her, her authority means nothing" he said.
He was now demure on account of the Devil mark but his words made it clear he still had considerable confidence in himself and the amount of support he had garnered from the merchants.
Hal looked back at him with a smirk but said nothing more and left the room.
Once outside, he reached out to Rita telepathically,
"How goes it?" He asked.
"We've got them all and are heading back to the castle." She said through the telepathic link.
Hal nodded at the news and cut off communication as he continued his leisurely stroll to the vault.
So efficient had Bradley been with his security that there was only one way anyone could be allowed even near the vault regardless of who they were, which was to hold up a personal seal of his.
A seal he only kept in his spatial ring and would only bestow to anyone who he trusted to run errands for him in the vault.
With the seal in hand, the guards allowed Hal to proceed to the Vault, and once before it, he was quite impressed. The runes which made up the protective arrays in place were intricate and of multiple layers. Quite difficult to break into in their own right.
Also, they were all Rank 5 runes which required a special seal created only for them to be unlocked.
Hal retrieved the seal from the ring and opened up the vault to behold its riches.
He gave it a quick look and made a quick calculation of the Blue gems the vault contained and was quite impressed to see it amounted to about 400000 and there was no silver to be found.
Only about one million gold coins were in the vault since Bradley had had the majority of his wealth exchanged into blue gems as that was the currency of the much more powerful cities which had not exactly been easy and from the ideas Hal had seen in his head, the Mayor planned to go into business with those cities.
In all honesty, that seemed a little of a far-fetched dream but not as unattainable as it would have been had the city not had a Teleportation circle to teleport to those better cities.
Now the issue was in regards of acquiring enough capital to push through with his grand plan and that had been the reason he wanted to be cordial with Hal.
He wanted to hire Hal's strength and do what he had done to Dell's gate with surrounding cities. Cities with their own Mayors and of equal status with Dell city, except it would be on a much grander scale.
That way, he could acquire enough capital to go into business with the more powerful cities.
He did not wish to begin until he was sure he could succeed with the wealth he had and his target was one million blue gems which in all honesty would take him years if he continued to focus on Dell's gate.
He was planning on setting his sights on the neighboring cities before Hal even made an appearance but he was sure of success if he could have Hal's force on his side.
Chapter 395 - Will You Be My Kill?
Of course, Hal could not care less about Bradley's plans and dreams.
The vault contained other valuables, mainly skill scrolls among which Hal was sure the Knight guard Skill would be.
From what he had seen in the Mayor's mind, he knew the skill was actually a high-tier fourth-grade skill which in itself was quite impressive.
There was no denying that Hal was a greedy fellow who was content with enriching himself at the expense of others but he felt his greed was nothing compared to Grimoire's.
All through this stagnation he and his ladies were now facing and those who were not yet there would eventually face, Grimoire was practically licking its lips and rubbing its metaphorical hands together in excitement.
Once they broke past the stagnation as they were sure to do eventually, their ungraded techniques were sure to head towards an upgrade at incredible speeds and as they would be progressing into the Cosmic Aurora realm, only Blue gems would be accepted for the upgrades.
Actually, since this was only the Aurora realm upgrade, Hal could still upgrade the techniques with their equivalent in gold coins but that did not change his need for wealth.
In one move, Hal covered the contents of the vault with cosmic energy and drew it all into the inventory. Leaving the vault more empty than it had ever been.
Then he turned towards the doorway only to see a confused man looking back at him,
"Who said you could clean out the vault?" He asked and immediately took on an attacking stance.
From Bradley's memories, Hal knew who this was.
He was Louis, the mayor's strongest and most trusted man with a cultivation base at the mid-stage of the cosmic phenomenon realm. He had been at the dinner party but just preferred to blend into the background.
He had, however, not attended the dinner itself which had been because he declined to dine at the same table with his lord.
Hal held up the personal seal,
"I have the Mayor's seal. Surely that accounts for my being here" he said.
Louis frowned,
"It does but it does not account for you taking everything it contains. My Lord would never order that"
Hal raised a quizzical brow,
"He won't?"
Louis shook his head,
"No, he won't." He said.
There was a glint in Hal's eyes as he made to walk past Louis,
"Well, he told me to clear out the vault so I suggest you let it go" he said but Louis' loyalty and confidence in his knowledge of his Lord's mannerisms caused him to reach out and grab Hal's shoulder,
"Put it back" he said in a slow, intimidating voice.
Hal sighed and looked over at him,
"And what would you do if I don't?" He asked there was a slight darkening of his eyes that Louis failed to notice as he said,
"I'll kill you and take it all back."
Hal raised a brow,
"Oh, you will? Well, it just so happens that I haven't killed anyone today. At least not yet so how about it Louis, will you be my kill?" With that question came the complete darkening of Hal's eyes.
Looking into those eyes struck fear into Louis' heart and he took a few steps back and summoned his sword cosmic armament but before he could even make a single move,
*Slash*
Hal had cut his throat with the serrated edge of his cosmic Armament, absorbed all of his Blood essence, and had dispersed of said armament before the body crumpled to the ground.
Then he projected a rune to the body and burned it up before locking up the Vault.
It had all been quiet and fast and caused no commotion.
Sure, the guards wondered why Louis did not exit the vault area even after it was closed but they were mostly confused and could not investigate since the seal to open the vault was in Hal's hands.
And he was gone from the scene already.
Hal continued till he was inside the hall where the Mayor often held conferences with the Influential members of the city. A vast majority of them were merchant families.
As Bradley had said, they were the backbones of the city.
When he entered the hall, Rita, Karmen, Olivia, Lillian and all the ladies in the Harem space who had reached the Cosmic phenomenon realm were there waiting for him.
And with them were the head of those influential families.
Before Bradley broke out of the Orb, Hal had sent them all out to capture and beat them sufficiently and bring them back to the Mayor's castle.
The most influential families, at least, the families that actually mattered and had the most wealth were only Seven and Rita, and the rest of the Ladies outnumbered and outmatched them and could actually pair up to guarantee a smooth operation.
However, while they did outnumber the family heads, they did not outnumber the guards and they had to be stealthy and swift. Mostly, they kidnapped the heads and then beat them up somewhere else.
Anyway, it was done and from the smile on their faces, Hal could tell the ladies had quite enjoyed it.
Kayla was positively glowing and occasionally casting glances at the female merchant head she had beaten up and the female merchant usually cast her the look you give to an insane person.
"W-w-what is the meaning of this?" Said Doug the merchant. He was not actually a head of an influential family. He was more of an up-and-coming merchant who had the good fortune to actually be able to converse with the Mayor and even offer advice.
That said, as the head of his merchant group, he had not really been required to go along with the merchant representatives to Red Beard's camp and had actually being beseeched by the Mayor to do so as he was the only merchant he could truly trust.
Hal ignored him as someone soon came into the hall in a slouched and defeated manner. That someone, was Bradley the Mayor who only spared the beaten-up family heads a few glances before he demurely bowed his head to Hal while the family heads wondered what the heck was going on.
With Bradley now present, Hal opened up the portal to the Harem space, and Bertha and Julie exited and looked around with wide-eyed surprise.
Having been explained to on how time worked in the Harem space, they knew it had only been a few hours, and yet there was so much change already.
"Okay, now that everyone is here, we can begin. Bradley has decided to abdicate the position of Mayor to Bertha and from now on, you all answer to her.
Of course, Bradley, you will now be her right-hand man because even though she is now about to break through to the mid-stage of the Cosmic phenomenon realm, you are still more powerful than her.
You will lend, no, devote all that strength to helping her reign."
The family heads shared a look,
"Bertha is now Mayor?" One said in a confused tone of voice.
"Oh yes, she is" Hal said with a nod.
"W-w-we will not stand for this. Whatever has gotten into you Bradley, snap out of it" said another.
Hal chuckled,
"We haven't even gotten to the best part and you are already so worked up. You see, I already cleaned up Bradley's vault so you all will provide Bertha financial security by giving her a quarter of your wealth.
No one Is excluded.
Except for Bradley of course since he is now destitute."
Chapter 396 - Resonating With The Culture.
"Are you out of your mind?" One of them found the strength to yell.
Hal looked at him with a perfectly straight face,
"I'm not. In fact, once you have all given her a quarter of your wealth, whatever you still have and can still lay claim to will be at her beck and call.
Also, you don't have a choice."
With that, Hal's eyes which had reverted to their normal sapphire blue after his killing of Louis once again took on the nightmarish Devil hue as he released a torrent of Devil energy that the family heads could not hope to resist since their strength had been sapped by the beating they had been given.
They were powerless in face of it and it froze them in place as Hal began branding them all with the devil mark one at a time.
And just like that, what had taken him much scheming and planning to do in Salmon city was completed in one night in Dell city...
...
Bertha was more than ready to assume the role of Mayor and could actually care less what her husband was going through. Needless to say, he was never going to touch her again. Neither was Felix who when he finally awoke from his comatose state, was ready to serve.
All through the rest of the night, Hal indulged himself in the bodies of the mother and daughter and their moans of pleasure rang out in the castle.
Meanwhile, Bradley and the family heads who had taken mending pills to heal their wounds stayed up all night making plans for a smooth transition of power from him to his wife.
It was when they broke the news to the guards that Bradley realized he never really had the loyalty of the guards. They were surprised by his sudden decision of abdication but did not resist it.
They said there was no need to worry since the power remained in the family anyway but he knew they were just glad they were still employed and had not lost their lives in what could very well have been a violent take-over.
The one person Bradley was sure would actually showcase true loyalty to him was Louis but Hal had long since delivered the news of Louis' death to him. At the same time, he gave his spatial ring to Bertha.
After all, the new Mayor should be the one to accessorize.
The Ex-Mayor could not for the life of him believe how his life had changed so drastically in one night.
From Big dreams to big nothing.
The next morning, Hal left the entanglement of Bertha and Julie after he had filled them up with enough essence to JumpStart their cultivation and place them on the path to become titans in this region, to make a quick visit to the Harem space before he left the Mayor's castle to finally go to the Doxon capital.
He was closer to getting reunited with his sexy Emily and Beautiful Amelia.
He could very well have told them he was already on his way but he saw no point in doing so for now. Besides while visiting them was an integral part of his reasons for coming to the Doxon Duchy, there were other things he came here for.
Many of them involving the fact that it was the Dual cultivating Capital of the Haron continent and the prime location for him to farm essence that would prove incredibly useful to him in overcoming his cultivation stagnation.
He made his way through the city streets towards the Teleportation circle that Dell city had.
From Bradley's memories, Hal knew that even though this city was closer to the neighboring cities than the Barony capital, those in the neighboring cities still preferred to travel to the capital on foot and with stead-drawn carriages.
To make use of Dell city's teleportation circle would mean they would have to pay tax and thereby contribute to the city's ever-growing wealth which was something they would never do.
Especially since the Barony capital was not actually that far. It was a place they could reach in a few hours should they travel at full speed and if they could not or did not want to do that, they could leave their cities in the early morning and with a steady pace, they would be there by evening.
And then from there, they could teleport to any city they wished to go to.
When Hal arrived at the building, the Attendant runemaster looked up at him and demanded the exiting tax but he held up a Mayoral seal that excluded him from this requirement so all he actually provided were the Blue gems that would be required to power the circle and he stepped inside as soon as the coordinates were put in and the Blue gems were slotted in.
Then he activated the circle with cosmic energy and he was sucked into the void.
The Teleportation circle steered him through the void and soon, he was standing on a Teleportation circle in a beautiful building that could only be situated in the capital.
Hal took a deep breath and could not explain the hammering in his chest. He seemed to be reacting to finally being in the Doxon Duchy capital.
He shook off the feeling and finally stepped off the circle just as an attendant Runemaster came closer and held up a scroll to him,
"Name?"
"I don't want to say" Hal replied just as the scroll flashed and his image was captured.
The Attendant Runemaster left him with a nod,
"As you wish" he said in a bored voice while Hal walked out of the building into the sunny afternoon and when he saw the city itself, he could not help but inhale sharply before he slowly let It go.
It truly was breathtaking.
While the Silva Duchy capital had also been impressive to behold, Doxon went a step further with its beauty.
Also, it was rich in culture.
The people of the capital regardless of family or status shared a culture.
So common was it among them that the select few who probably did not follow this custom could not possibly derail it from its wholesome picture...
It was rich with Dual cultivating culture and Hal could feel his body resonate with that culture...
...
Meanwhile,
While Hal was standing in place in front of the Teleportation circle building and enjoying just being in the Doxon Duchy capital, news of his arrival was already reaching the ears of his mother in the Doxon Duchy palace.
"Duchess, I just received word. Master Hal is in the Capital. He only just arrived." Said the lady who came with the news.
Svetlana was in a lounge and dressed for comfort. She had shed her voluminous robes for a silk tight-fitting gown that showed off her mouthwatering assets so well.
She took regular sips of the cultivation resource-rich beverage she was drinking and did not pause or stop even as the report was given.
It was not that she did not care but that it did not come as a surprise. Elsa already informed her four days ago that Hal was on his way to Doxon.
The only question she could have had was why it had taken him so long to arrive at the capital even though the journey should have only taken two days.
However, even that was not unknown to her as she was already aware of how his point of entry into the Duchy was into Dell's gate city...
Chapter 397 - Distinctive Eyes.
"What should I do?" The lady giving the report asked.
Svetlana paused her sips and nailed the lady with her sapphire blue eyes,
"I'm not sure I follow" she said.
The lady did not seem to understand what her Duchess was saying so she decided to clarify her own words,
"Well, should I get some men to extend an invitation to him? Set up a reunion?" She said.
Svetlana made an 'o' shape with her mouth in a mocking manner,
"Oh, of course. why not? We shouldn't stop there too, let's begin a parade. Let's hold a huge celebration" she said.
The lady gulped,
"I get the feeling you are being sarcastic" she said in a slow voice.
"You think?" Svetlana said and took another sip of her drink before she sighed,
"I was not the one who called him here. He came here for something. If he came to see me, well, surely he can find his way here and if he came for other reasons, well... I would love to know what they are" she said.
Then there was a pause before,
"Where's my father?" She asked almost like an afterthought.
The Lady seemed caught by surprise before she said in a careful tone of voice,
"Well, for a while now, he has been 'cultivating'" she said.
Svetlana frowned slightly,
"In other words, he's been busy with his cauldrons" she said.
And then a voice sounded behind her,
"Actually, I WAS busy with them but now I'm not. Also, you should have some respect dear daughter, they are people too, you know?"
The one who had spoken was a middle-aged handsome-looking man with shoulder-length gray hair and the characteristic sapphire blue eyes of the Doxon Bloodline. The only true mar that could be pointed to about the man's face was the excess wrinkles that did not belong on a middle-aged face like his.
The wrinkles were vestiges of a sickness the man once had.
And he wore them quite well too.
The Lady who had been giving her the report rose to her feet and bowed to the newcomer,
"Patron"
The Man was Kirill Doxon, Ex-Duke of the Duchy and now patron of his family.
Svetlana did not bother to look behind her as she replied the newcomer,
"Are they people, Father? I would not have guessed with the way you diddle them every single day" she said in a casual voice that did not betray her annoyance.
Kirill chuckled,
"Now that, my dear girl, is an exaggeration. Also, I have to say your senses are getting dull. You had no idea I was so close to you until I spoke up" he said and took a seat opposite the sofa Svetlana was lounging on.
As he did so, the servants served him his preferred Beverage and he drank a cup of it in one gulp,
"So thirsty" he said and had another cup poured for him.
The reporting Lady excused now as it could not be any clearer that this was no place for her.
Svetlana gave her father a long hard look before she said,
"Father, have you ever thought of your grandson?" She asked.
Kirill furrowed his brows slightly,
"You mean Ivan? I think of him. And I think he is an idiot"
Svetlana frowned,
"Ivan does everything he can to impress you" she pointed out.
"And he fails constantly to meet my standards. So he is an idiotic suck up" Kirill said.
"Well, I was referring to your other grandson" Svetlana said.
"Artyom?" Kirill said but Svetlana shook her head,
"I'm talking about my son, father. My son" she clarified and now Kirill frowned deeply,
"Oh, that one. What about him? He hardly deserves to bear the Doxon name. Partly because he was born of a Silva Native and partly because he came out... Defected. I mean the son of a Doxon Duchess who can not cultivate... What a disgrace!"
Svetlana let her father complete his rants. Mostly because this was not the first time she would be hearing it and then she rolled her eyes and was about to speak when Kirill interrupted her,
"And don't you even think of ever bringing him here. Let him stay in the Silva Duchy like his worthless bum of a father. With any luck, I will never have the misfortune of laying my eyes on him throughout my lifetime."
Svetlana opened her mouth to speak and then closed it,
There was no point in reasoning with him.
Maybe she should tell him that there was a possibility he would meet his grandson in the Duchy capital and that she had had nothing to do with it, but then she thought of it again and decided to keep quiet.
...
Meanwhile,
Once Hal was done enjoying simply being in the Duchy capital he opened up the portal to the Harem space and Rita and Karmen stepped out of it and were dressed to fit in with the demographic.
Which meant, the two beautiful ladies were dressed every bit as revealing as any of the ladies in the Duchy capital.
They already had high-class materials in the Harem space and only needed to give them a few adjustments to make them perfect for the scenery.
Rita was grinning and no matter how Hal looked at her, she seemed to be glowing with positivity. Clearly, she really enjoyed being back to her roots.
The three of them then began a slow walk down the Capital's streets with Rita occasionally stating how a lot of things had changed since she was last here.
Hal nodded and smiled at her reminiscences.
And then of course there were the looks their group of three was garnering. The ladies eyeballed Hal and it was usually not mere interest, sometimes it was curiosity as well.
While Hal was indeed not sticking out as a new arrival to the city, he was hardly a forgettable face, and yet he was not recognized.
Who is he? Some of them wondered.
And what was with those eyes...?
Eventually, they arrived at where Rita had been partially leading them to which was a restaurant which she said she knew to serve delicious meals and exotic drinks that would boast wonderful advantages to a cultivator's body.
She did admit that it was a much larger establishment now compared to when she had still lived in the capital.
It was sure to be more expensive now as well but they could afford it.
Once they were inside and took their seat, Rita took the menu and began to order meals with the waiter looking quite eager to serve.
How was it his business that this group came here by foot and not with a luxurious carriage, at least they were dressed well enough to be admitted to eat here.
While Rita took care of the ordering, Karmen was casting weird looks at what some of the other people in the Restaurants had been served and wondering if it indeed was as delicious as Rita had proclaimed or would just upset her stomach.
Hal on the other hand reached out to a certain someone with their telepathic link,
'Did you miss me?' He asked Amelia who was the one he had actually signed a contract with and could speak to through said contract.
He could feel Amelia's excitement at hearing his voice through the telepathic link but she worked to keep it hidden as she answered in a grumpy voice,
'Took you long enough. I thought you forgot about me' she said.
Hal chuckled,
'I almost did' he told her and knowing he was teasing her, she smiles on the other side of the connection,
'Bastard' she said 'So when are you coming?' She asked him.
'How about now? I'm in the Doxon capital. And as I seriously doubt I would be allowed into Sensual palace with no actual authorization, I'm reaching out rather than arriving at your doorstep.'
There was a pause in which Hal knew Amelia must be rejoicing in a more vocal manner while probably also calling to her mother to tell her the good news,
'Where are you?' She eventually asked him telepathically and he told her the name of the restaurant they were in,
'Stay there' she said.
Hal chuckled,
'Yes ma'am' he said as the communication was cut off.
When he focussed once again on the table, he saw it was already laden with all the dishes Rita had taken to order and that seemed to be about half the entire menu.
Karmen made a face but decided to take a courageous bite and her eyes widened at the flavor,
"Rita, Never would I doubt you again" she said as she began scarfing down meals.
Hal was not about to act shy now and began eating as well while ignoring the peaks people kept sneaking of him while talking among themselves.
Now he was sure it was not just about his looks...
Even the men were looking at him.
Mostly they looked at Rita but even then they were paying too much attention on him.
"Master. Everyone is looking at you" Karmen pointed out.
Rita did not even bother to glance around as she said,
"It's your eyes" she said and Hal knew she was right.
His eyes were distinctive enough, but here in the Doxon Duchy capital, where the rulers of the Duchy reside and share the same color of eyes, there was no way he would not garner attention...
Chapter 398 - If You Ever Get Tired...
"Ignore them" Hal said and Karmen shrugged, never really one to fuss over a little extra attention. Rita was more preoccupied with the re-familiarization of her taste buds to Doxon's delicacies.
Then a large carriage pulled up right outside the restaurant and out of it stepped a young man and a young lady.
The young man had the look of a classically charming look with dirty blond hair and brown eyes and in a location where Hal was not present, he surely would have been the main focus of attention. And the lady with him was very beautiful as well with her back-length brown hair and warm amber eyes.
However, while her eye color was warm, the same could not be said for her expression which was cold as could be.
Upon the entry of the two, many looked over in their direction and there was clear recognition in their visage. The recognition was because of the clothes they were both wearing.
They were the same midnight blue with an intricate castle etched into the front of it with three stars above it.
The crest and attire color of the Sensual palace.
Not to mention that this dress belonged to inner disciples who were only lower in status than those belonging to the Antonov family which was the family that had always been at the helm of the palace and this deficit could very well be solved partially by becoming personal disciples of the Palace Elders.
Anyway, even before they were fully inside the restaurant, they were already approached by a waiter and the mannerisms of said waiter made it clear that this was hardly the first time the two would be visiting.
"Delaney, what would you like to order?" The young man asked with a bright smile.
The lady picked up a menu and looked through it with the same cold expression before she ordered something.
The young man said he would like the same dish and ordered the drinks and the waiter left them after a deep bow.
And who could blame him for being so enthusiastic?
This two were inner disciples of a power in the Duchy only second to the Doxon family so he would be a fool to treat them with anything besides complete deference.
Hal smiled to himself at this classic scene of two lovebirds out on a date. While it was happening at noontime as opposed to evening dinnertime, it was still quite similar to dating in normal relationships on earth.
He knew what was happening of course. This was a technique of sorts in regards to Dual cultivation. It was a regular belief in the Doxon Duchy capital that adequate time should be made for cultivating partners to perform these acts.
It was said to strengthen their bond and enhance their dual cultivating experience. Since even after centuries it was still being practiced quite efficiently, Hal guessed it must indeed be helpful, or at least it was not too much of a hassle.
That said, it was definitely good for the Duchy in terms of revenue and must have contributed quite nicely to the economy.
Anyway, talks were still going on among those who had been in the restaurant before the arrival of the two Sensual palace disciples and as the two awaited their orders, they could not help but overhear and their attention turned to Hal as well.
The Lady called Delaney roamed her eyes over every part of Hal she was privy to, apart from his face and she could not help but admire it.
The young nan noticed the cold look of his date thawing a tad bit and he knew that at the very least, this black-haired young man had piqued her interest.
Which considering the level of manly beauty she was used to seeing as a member of the sensual palace where looks were quite as important as cultivation foundation as well as sexual potency, that was a big deal.
However, the word in the restaurant was that this young man had the distinctive eye color of a Doxon.
The young man suddenly stood up and his date looked up at him from her seat,
"Vihaan, what are you doing?" Delaney asked him but he ignored her and walked up to Hal.
Then he took a look at the ladies he was with and was quite impressed. Rita especially caught his eye with her quiet but sexy looks as she ate her meal.
"Hey, you" he called to Hal who actually looked over at him with a light smile.
"Hey, you too" he said and returned his attention to eating his meal.
However, since Hal had already looked at him once, Vihaan could confirm that the eyes were indeed the same sapphire blue shade of the Doxon family...
Also, he easily won in the looks department and struck a blow to his overinflated ego.
"Are you a Doxon?" He asked.
Hal frowned slightly at how annoying he found Vihaan to be. After all, here he was having a nice meal with his ladies and this stranger comes up to him, even though they know nothing about each other and have so far not crossed paths, to ask him a question.
And he could not even introduce himself?
That was just plain rude.
Not to mention the demanding tone of that question.
Needless to say, Hal ignored him and so did Rita and Karmen who had not even given any indication that someone was speaking to Hal from the very start.
"Well, are you?" Vihaan asked again when Hal did not answer him.
Eventually, he scoffed,
"Of course you are not. If you were I would have been able to tell." He said.
Hal paused and then looked up at Vihaan with a light smile that suggested he was enjoying a private joke,
"Oh really now" he said.
Vihaan adopted a smug pose,
"Well, of course. You don't spend as much time meeting members of the Doxon family and not be able to tell apart their elegance from the poise of an... Ordinary man.
I do wonder though how you came to have eyes like theirs. It's quite curious..."
Vihaan paused and took the time to look like he was deep in thought before he shook his head,
"Anyway, I hope you never attempt to impersonate a Doxon. That could have severe consequences. Think of it as my advice to you" he said with his same smug smile.
Hal nodded while Rita and Karmen looked between him and Vihaan and wondered how long Hal was going to let this man continue to spout drivel.
"Well, I'm not a Doxon and will keep your advice in mind" he said in a humble tone.
Vihaan made a smug gesture with his head and scoffed before returning to his seat.
Karmen looked at Hal closely,
"Master...?" She began but Hal dabbed his chin with a napkin and stood to his feet with an amused look and walked over to Vihaan's table,
"Oh, you don't have to thank me..." Vihaan began but Hal ignored him and looked over at Delaney with a smile,
"Hi, unlike your partner, I have manners and so I will introduce myself first. My name is Hal" he told her and picked up her hand to kiss it.
Delaney did not resist as she was quite captivated by his looks which she had not really paid attention to when Vihaan had conversed with him.
"I'm D-Delaney" she said as her heart beat even faster.
"Beautiful name. Anyway, if you ever get tired of settling for what I can tell is sure to be mediocre..." He gestured at Vihaan with his eyes,
"... Then I'll be more than happy to introduce you to the real pleasures of Dual Cultivation."
Chapter 399 - A Speedy Intervention.
Delaney actually flushed at Hal's words while Vihaan stomped to his feet immediately with his face red with anger.
He glowered at Hal who did not act as though he even noticed his reactions. Even Delaney did not seem to notice as she remained captivated by Hal.
"Bastard!" Vihaan snarled at Hal.
That seemed to finally shake Delaney into awareness and she looked over to her partner and rolled her eyes,
"Will you sit down?" She said to him.
Vihaan gulped and for a second, he seemed about to take his seat again which clearly showed the power dynamic of their partnership but then his anger towards Hal as well as the smug smile on his face jarred him to showcase his anger,
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" He asked.
Hal merely eyed him.
The fact that Vihaan was at the Late stage of the Cosmic Phenomenon realm was hardly what he considered worrying.
"Talking to a beautiful young lady" he said in a frank tone of voice.
"Well, that young lady is with me. The least you could do was acknowledge my presence and not mock me" he said and clenched his fist.
Hal cast a mocking look at that fist and then looked back at Vihaan's red face,
"Oh, I see. Well, I'm not a stickler for social norms. If I feel like insulting you, I will.
Besides, none of all I have just said was anything but frank and truthful words meant to voice what I was thinking in my mind. If you don't like it, then you can go fuck yourself"
There was a collective "Ooooooooo" from those in the restaurant as many marveled at the guts of this young man.
"Why you..." Vihaan snarled and punched towards Hal who was quite ready to block and counter but just then someone was suddenly in between the two and smacking Vihaan with a back palm that launched him into the restaurant wall...
*Bam!*
*Crack!*
... Cracking it.
Vihaan groaned in pain as he tasted sweetness in his mouth before he looked up at the one who had intervened.
She was a mature-looking lady with grey eyes and a sexy figure that was further accentuated by her provocative outfit.
A veil covered the lower part of her face but how could Hal not recognize his woman, the Masked Lady, Emily.
Emily was completely focused on Vihaan.
And If her one-handed smack that sent him to the wall had not been enough, then her sudden arrival which no one had been able to track with their eyes was total proof that this was not an expert he could hope to contend with.
Meanwhile, Delaney's eyes widened as she looked at the sudden arrival and felt an immense familiarity that she was sure was because of those grey eyes.
"You don't touch him" Emily said menacingly as her eyes flashed.
By now Rita and Karmen were already standing by Hal's sides and glaring at Vihaan as well while Hal sighed with a shake of his head at how Emily had taken away from him the satisfaction of punching Vihaan in the face.
'Oh well, some other time I guess' he thought.
'You plan to meet him again?' Grimoire asked.
Hal rolled his eyes mentally,
'The guy is a disciple of the Sensual palace and has a beautiful partner I will not mind sleeping with... I think it's safe to assume we will meet again and I will get another chance to punch him. Not necessarily in the face'
Vihaan however wiped the thin trail of blood from the corner of his lips before he looked up and past Emily to Hal,
"Are you really going to keep hiding behind ladies? Why not face me yourself?" He yelled at Hal as he stood shakily to his feet.
Hal shrugged,
"I don't want to. Besides, if I did fight you, I would probably kill you." He said and patted Emily's arm affectionately.
She got the message and with one last glower at Vihaan, she tossed a small pouch towards the waiter,
"That's for the food as well as the damages" she said before leading the way out of the Restaurant. Rita and Karmen followed and on his way out, Hal stopped by Delaney and once again kissed her hand, this time to say goodbye and give her a mild taste of {Erogenous touch},
"Until we meet again" he said with a smile and the lady blushed not just from his words and actions but also from the pleasurable feeling on the back of her palm where he had kissed.
And just like that, the drama was over and many went back to their meal while discussing the mild altercation. The part that truly stole the show was the speedy intervention of the beautiful lady who had smacked away a Sensual palace disciple.
Vihaan walked over grabbing his midsection and then made his way towards the exit. Then he realized Delaney was not following him,
"Come on" he said.
She raised her brow,
"Come on what?"
Vihaan did not seem to understand why she could not pick up on the message he was passing with his eyes,
"You can't seriously still be thinking of eating after all that has happened, can you?"
"Why not? I'm not the one who was smacked into a wall now, am I?" Delaney said and signaled the waiter who hurried over with their ordered drinks.
She took a sip and then said,
"You can leave if you want of course but you have to leave the money to pay fur all this. After all, I paid last time and will not let you weasel out of your turn just because of a booboo"
Her cold expression was back.
Vihaan looked to be in complete disbelief before he took his seat and endured the shame he was feeling from the looks he was getting from those in the restaurant.
Meanwhile, outside the restaurant was the Carriage Emily had come here with which was being steered by someone who was designated to be with her at all times.
It was supposed to make her life easier but Emily was sure her father just wanted to keep an eye on her so she would not run away again. While she accepted that it was out of love, it did not mean Emily liked it.
Anyway, Hal had only just taken a seat that arms were already around his neck and pulling him into an Ardent kiss.
Amelia pressed herself against him as everyone was finally in the carriage and it began moving towards a fairly remote location Emily had told the driver to take them to.
Once they were there, the designated driver came down from the carriage and moved away to give them privacy while still close enough to keep an eye on the carriage.
That was fine of course since this reunion was bound to actually happen in the Harem space.
Eventually, Amelia separated from Hal and Emily ripped off her veil and kissed him as hard as she could and when she separated from his lips, she snuggled into his chest,
"It's just like you to get into trouble in a restaurant" she said.
"He got into trouble?" Amelia asked with her eyes slightly widened,
"Yes, he did" Emily nodded while Hal patted her hair,
"Oh come on. Is that idiot really what you two want to be discussing right now?"
Amelia shook her head with a smile,
"No"
Emily chuckled,
"I don't think we want to discuss anything at all..."
Chapter 400 - In The Pretense Of Sharing. R-18
As expected, the reunion was taken into the Harem space, and Karmen and Rita decided it was better to let the mother-daughter have their reunion with Hal without any interference so while they did go into the Harem space as well, they were in a separate room cultivating.
They could have stayed in the carriage to while away the time but then they would not have been able to take advantage of the time wrapping array.
Which considering the stagnation they were heading towards, every time advantage they could get mattered.
Anyway,
In a large room with a large bed, Hal had created quite the atmosphere by saturating the room with his lust demon pheromones.
However, Emily insisted she would not let the session begin until she had signed a contract with Hal who obliged with a smile while the grey-eyed mature woman did her best to make the contract signing as big a deal as she could by adding in sultry pledges and vows.
Such as,
"My holes shall be for yours and yours only"
Once the contract had been signed, the two ladies then took off their clothes before they began to slowly strip Hal of his clothes before peppering his body with kisses while their bodies shivered from how good the kisses were to them.
Hal quite enjoyed the feeling of having the two of them worship his body and then Amelia beat her mother to the part of his body which always brought them the most pressure.
She grabbed his cock and began to stroke it and then she stretched out her tongue to tease the head before she took it into her mouth and began to suck.
Emily barely acted as though she had seen this at all as she grabbed Hal's face and pulled him into a kiss that would make any man weak in the knees.
But Hal was not any man and he lifted Emily quite effortlessly to grab her to his front where she wound her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist. Leaving just enough space to not disturb her daughter's ministrations.
Soon, she had Hal in a classic koala hold and continued their passionate make-out.
Hal reached down below to grab her plump and perfect ass as he held her up.
Eventually, Emily detached from his lips and dipped her head down to his neck to suckle at it. Hal loved the sensation and his interest in it did not decrease despite the little love bites Emily was giving his neck.
Of course, it should be noted that while Emily's love bites had a much sharper impact on his skin on account of her stronger cultivation base, Hal also had enhanced healing abilities on account of the {Regeneration} factor of his Bloodline.
As such the bites were usually gone before Emily's lips left his neck.
However, upon noticing this fact even as her mind slowly inched into blissful sexual delirium that she was ready to surrender to, instead of letting up on her bites, Emily bit even harder.
Hal did not caution her cause he quite enjoyed the prick of pain on his skin before the sensation was gone following his accelerated healing.
Then she leaned back and presented her neck to his lips and Hal while enjoying Amelia's attention to his cock below, which she had actually gotten to rise to full mast, he leaned and began to reciprocate Emily's actions to her own skin.
As it turned out, while her body was quite susceptible to his sensual teasing as well as her mind getting overridden with pleasure from being in mere proximity with him, it would not matter how hard he bit, he could not cause the same marks on her skin.
Hal was not disappointed, on the contrary, he saw it as free rein to bite, nip and suckle as hard as he wished.
"Nngghhhh" Emily moaned to the feeling of it and gyrated her ass against his hands.
Then Hal lowered his head and grabbed one of her nipples into his mouth to suck hard.
"Arrhhnnnnhghhh" Emily moaned even louder and her hands grabbed his head and pressed him even harder against her large breast.
Amelia decided to pick that moment to make her presence felt with a particularly aggressive suck that had Hal groaning into Emily's breast.
The vibrations increased the pleasure she was already feeling and she gyrated against his hands even harder.
Amelia began working her way down his pole and even grabbed his balls to massage them for what she desired to have shot into her mouth as her fellatio continued.
*Fap* *Fap* *Fap*
She stroked the length, always going from the hilt to the head and especially the Ridge below that head which was a part of this magnificent organ she knew always got Hal very revved up when teased and focused on.
*Slurp* *Slurp* *Slurp*
She had slobbered the entirety of it that it was well lubricated and her hand slid easily across it while she continued her attempts at coercing the delicious seed out of his organ and into her mouth.
Hal was going from one of Emily's breasts to the other, never neglecting any and making sure the pleasure was evenly distributed and resonated with her entire body.
Emily did her part of course by grabbing his head and pressing it even harder into her chest to enhance the experience while she raised her head and moaned her pleasure to the ceiling.
Then Hal took his lips off her breasts and groaned but the fact that he did not groan into her breast as he normally would have done got it into her foggy-with-pleasure mind that he was about to blow.
Or more accurately, he was already spewing his seed.
Deftly, Emily disentangled herself from Hal and did so without hindering her daughter's ministrations.
Then she knelt beside Amelia who sure enough was collecting Hal's seed into her mouth.
When she took her mouth off of it, Emily grabbed her daughter and meshed their lips together to begin a passionate make-out session that involved her tongue touring the inside of Emily's mouth to get as many of Hal's seed as she could before her greedy gobbling daughter swallowed it all.
Hal looked at the mother and daughter making out in the pretense of sharing his seed and smiled while he hyped himself about how he had had the power to bring people closer together.
When the two separated they took turns cleaning his cock of any residual cum before the whole session was taken to the large bed where the two laid with their legs wide open, well aware of what was to happen now.
Hal grinned,
"Sometimes Routine can be a wonderful thing" he said before he knelt at the foot of the bed and grabbed Amelia's thighs to pull her closer to him and her pussy to be in reach of his tongue.
While he licked at Amelia's inner thighs which were already slick with her pussy juices, he stretched his hand towards Emily and inched a finger into her pussy before adding another almost immediately.
"Nnnghhhhh"
"Oohhhh, I love your fingers, mmnngghh"
The two ladies moaned at his ministrations and Hal took things a step further by charging his tongue and fingers with {Erogenous touch} that had the two going wild with pleasure.
Emily arched her back in hope of getting his fingers even more into her pussy as Hal had not stuck his fingers into her completely.
Only the first knuckle of each finger was inside her snatch and they were already driving her insane with pleasure. She could not wait to have them inside her completely.
Or even better, to have his cock completely inside her.
However, while Hal had his face between Amelia's thighs he could still tell what she was doing and knew how to accurately adjust and stop her from achieving her goal.
Amelia opted for a more vocal expression of her needs,
"Hal, don't tease me... Nngghhhh... Lick my pussy.... Please..." she pleaded.
Hal acted oblivious to her pleas as he continued teasing her by going closer to her pussy and getting her hyped and happy to get him licking her pussy before he pulled away at the last second.
Meanwhile, even with only one Knuckle of each finger inside her pussy, the pleasure from it still got Emily closer to her first orgasm of the day and as she spasmed slightly, Hal could tell and stopped his actions with his fingers.
Emily gasped at the sudden stop while she propped herself up with her elbows to glower at Hal for what she considered cruelty and Hal having sensed her expression smiled against Amelia's thighs before he thrust his two fingers completely inside Emily whose eyes widened and she froze and flopped back onto the bed.
Then she began to shake as she spasmed violently and squirted out her pussy juices as she experienced her first orgasm of the day and it turned her mind completely into mush.
Before Amelia could actually take the time to be upset that Hal was still teasing her while he had already made her mother cum, he used his other hand to these her clit while he began to lick at her pussy lips.
Then he thrust his tongue into her and actually elongated it a bit to find the spot that would most bring her pleasure and it became the focus of his attention.