Reaper of the Martial World

Book 4: Chapter 1: Awake

Ri shifted in her sleep, her nose twitching as it breathed in a familiar scent.

Confusion filled her senses as she tried to her eyes to no real avail. Her vision was blurry, but she could feel a cushioned softness around her, but her face was on something hard, yet springy.

Ri trailed her hand along what she lay on, trying to figure out why her fingers kept dipping in and out hard trenches. Finally, her hand reached high enough that it fell into something wet, causing her to startle fully awake.

Dyon chuckled to himself wiping his mouth from where Ri’s fingers had been, “You’re quite handsy in your sleep.”

Ri’s blue-silver eyes blinked, finally clearing enough to realize she was lying on Dyon’s bare chest. The truth was that Dyon hadn’t been anywhere near Ri when he climbed into bed to sleep, but, in typical Ri fashion, she had ended up draped all over him. It was like she could track Dyon down even in her sleep.

“Dyon?” Ri’s voice was hoarse from such little use, but she jumped up excitedly, “You’re here!”

Ri grabbed onto Dyon’s neck tightly, burying his face and neck in her long blue-silver hair.

“Yea, I’m here.” Dyon smiled, holding onto Ri’s little waist. She was still wearing a baggy sweat shirt and pants, and Dyon had to admit she looked quite adorable right now.

Not willing to let go of Dyon, Ri laid there for a long time, half mounted. “Tell me what happened…” Ri had wanted to stay awake until the end, but it was clear she was just too tired to make it.

Dyon stroked Ri’s hair thinking back to that day, “I just scared them away a bit, it’s no big deal.”

Ri rolled her eyes, “I don’t mean that. I don’t remember you looking like this.”

Gasping, Dyon feigned a pained expression, “Was I not handsome before?”

Ri pulled up from her tight hold on Dyon neck, propping herself up to stare at his face. However, even as she scanned him, it was Dyon that couldn’t help but be lost in her beauty. It had been almost two weeks now since they arrive at Arena City and aside from some periodic rolling, Ri had been completely incapacitated… Dyon had almost forgotten how captivating her eyes were.

Tilting his head up, Dyon kissed Ri, relishing in the softness of her lips. “Forget me. Why are my fiancées so beautiful?” Dyon grinned, sliding his hands under Ri’s sweat shirt to trail his fingers over her soft skin.

Ri pouted. She wanted to know what Dyon had experienced, but he was too busy teasing her. And the problem was that she was heating up far quicker than usual.

“Dyon… I feel hot.” Ri didn’t know what was going on. She had liked sex before, sure. But, she had never held her breath in anticipation of it as much as she did now.

Dyon hesitated. Although Ri was awake, he wasn’t sure if she had fully recovered yet. If you take into account his new energy cultivation, he felt like starting would open a dam he wouldn’t be able to easily close. It was as though energy cultivation allowed the potency of Dyon’s demonic bloodlines to increase manifold, finally permeating throughout his body as they should have before.

However, Ri didn’t seem intent on waiting for an answer. Dyon barely had time to put up concealment array before her lips collided into his.

A low growl escaped from Ri as her soft tongue tangled with Dyon. Their clothes burst to non-existence, even severely reddening Dyon’s torso in the process as she inadvertently tapped into her void will.

Dyon felt as though he was strapped into a ride he didn’t have control of the beginning or end of.

Ri’s supple body weaved around Dyon, trailing what seemed like every inch him with small nibbles with her adorable canines.

The heat she felt in her chest at the sensation of hands running over her and her hair made her feel as though she could explode at any instant. By the time her hands finally made it down to Dyon’s member, she didn’t even pause at its increased size. The sounds she was making didn’t even sound human anymore.

Dyon smiled to himself. Seemingly understanding what was going on he flipped Ri over.

Ri moaned in displeasure, but Dyon didn’t seem to mind.

“You’re the queen of beasts,” Dyon said softly, lightly kissing Ri’s ear, “But, you shouldn’t forget who your king is.”

A look of defiance flamed into Ri’s blue-silver eyes as they formed into slits, her canine’s lengthening ever slightly as she began her attack on Dyon.

Both of her soft hands grabbed onto his shaft as she lay beneath him. Dyon groaned lightly, propping himself up above Ri’s exquisite figure.

Ri’s hands ran along his shaft, her thumb rubbing into tip as her other hand gently rubbed his balls. Dyon felt as though he would explode at any moment, and that was even before Ri tilted her head up, biting his lip to pull him down into a deep kiss.

All this time, despite Dyon’s words, Ri had been in control. He hadn’t even been able to think straight for long enough to realize he hadn’t made use of any dual cultivation techniques to conquer Ri.

But, there was little he could do. Something had seemingly snapped in Ri and her bestial aura was affecting even Dyon. It was as though Ri had manifested her own sovereign will and it was completely dominating right now.

Dyon grunted as his shaft convulsed. But, before he could finish, Ri’s hands suddenly stopped, shifting her hips to slide Dyon’s tip along her wet slit.

“You can only finish if it’s inside of me.” Ri’s eyes flashed with a gold Dyon’s eyes had reddened too much to notice.

He didn’t even last a single stroke.

An endless gush released into Ri causing her to moan in delightful pleasure.

Her small hands wrapped around Dyon’s wide back as her legs held onto him tightly.

A light giggle filled the room as Ri basked in her victory.

Dyon took a deep breath, “You little minx…”

Ri’s walls convulsed around Dyon, almost to remind him who had won before she kissed his jaw lightly. “Don’t be mad, my king.”

Dyon couldn’t help but chuckle to himself as Ri poked fun at him. She seemed really proud of herself. Dyon hadn’t even been that quick on the day the lost his virginity. But, embarrassment wasn’t a word Dyon knew the definition of. Now shamelessness… He knew a thing or two about that.

Suddenly, the room started to twinkle with a faint celestial light. The flames of Dyon’s aurora blazed with a purple-gold right along with it.

“You can have round one.” Dyon pushed himself up, grinning widely as he watched Ri’s soft skin and supple breasts redden. Ri’s breath quickened, but her lip twitched as though she was trying to pretend like Dyon’s slowly accumulating will was having no effect on her.

“Cheater.” Ri pouted, feeling her blood flowing wildly.

However, Dyon only continued to grin as he grabbed Ri’s waist, pushing his shaft in deeper and deeper.

“Wait.” Ri’s lips trembled, her hips wiggling as she tried to escape.

“My turn.” Dyon flipped Ri over, lightly pressing her face into the soft bed cushion and pushing himself in even deeper.

Ri’s feet curled upward as her ass shook involuntarily at the completely new stimulation. She came immediately, unable to stop herself from going limp and trembling in pleasure.

Dyon leaned over top of her, moving her hair out of the way to kiss her ear. “I hope you didn’t think that was all.” Dyon’s hand trailed along Ri’s soft back before he grabbed a handful of her plump ass. “It’s a king’s job to service his queen.”

Ri’s face buried itself into the bed’s pillows, her knees propping her ass up as Dyon had his way with her. She didn’t know how much time passed, or even how often she climaxed. But, what she did know was that she wanted more and more.

Ri’s feral cries filled the room, her hands gripping and tearing apart the sheets as her bestial side relished in the feeling of being taken.

She didn’t even notice when Dyon pulled her up by her neck, holding onto it gently as he pounded into her.

By the time Dyon stopped, it was already evening. An entire day and all Ri had to show for it were wobbly legs and a smile that was so self-satisfied that it could light any night sky.

**

When Ri finally came to her senses, Dyon was snoring lightly. She watched him silently for a long while before the dull ache between her legs made her giggle to herself. “You must have been trying to break me, king.”

Ri kissed Dyon’s partly opened lips softly before settling onto his chest.

Dyon shifted slightly, wrapping his arms around Ri’s waist as he smiled to himself. “The King had to put on a good show for his queen.”

Ri rolled her eyes. Dyon never seemed to sleep to deeply and that was something that worried Ri, honestly. Even during his coma, he was constantly muttering calculations and deductions. In fact, being in a coma might have been the only time Dyon got any real semblance of rest.

“Hmph. I let you win. Why else would I allow your cheating?”

Dyon’s eyes remained closed as he chuckled, “Ha, I didn’t cheat. I simply used the tools available to me.”

“You mean like memories from a person who lived thousands of years? You must have gotten that position from her memories too.” Ri’s eyes glimmered when she remembered the feeling of being pinned down beneath Dyon. There was a submissive feeling to it her beast side couldn’t help but gravitate toward.

“Eh – “ Dyon didn’t know how to respond. Could he say that that was a position quite commonly used in the human world? How would he explain how he knew about it? ‘Well… This is awkward.’

By the time Dyon finished explaining, Ri was in a fit of laughter, very much content to make fun of her fiancé.

“Alright, Alright. Every young boy is curious! It’s not my fault!”

Ri giggled, “Dyon Sacharro. Boy genius. Focused. Driven. And a pervert from birth.”

Dyon sighed. “Fine, fine. You win. I’m a pervert.” Suddenly, Dyon grinned. “But, now this means there are only two left in this world who can deal with that and for now, the job is solely yours.”

Ri smiled lightly, resting her hand on Dyon’s chest, “I don’t think I mind that too much. Even though today seemed excessive, if I didn’t lose consciousness, I feel like I would have still wanted more.”

A serious expression colored Dyon’s features. “I saw you awaken your faith seed completely. Or, I guess, what seemed like a complete version… I’m not entirely sure on how faith seeds work exactly, I’m sorry I can’t be of much help.”

Ri shook her head, “I don’t need to know everything now, we can slowly figure it out together. But, didn’t the Celestial Deer Sect use to be extremely powerful? Wouldn’t they have faith seeds then? So, why doesn’t your master have memories on it?”

Dyon pondered a bit, “I know for a fact that the Celestial Deer Sect has at least one faith seed tied to their lineage. The First White Mother transcended, so it’s likely she left behind her faith seed. However, I don’t have access to the rest of the Celestial Deer Sect’s history because my master locked it away. It’s likely her memories on faith seeds were locked away too, then.”

“Why are you so sure about the First White Mother?”

Dyon nodded as he answered. He told Ri about his experience in the Epistemic Tower and what it meant for them in future. He also told her about how the old man was technically his grand teacher many times removed, and how one of his disciples had been the first white mother. With that information alone, it was perfectly reasonable to assume that she had a faith seed. In fact, it was the only conclusion.

After thinking for a while, a sudden thought flashed in Ri’s mind. “Wait. Since the Epistemic Tower is one of a hundred of them, it does the same job as every other Epistemic Tower, no?

Since it connects every gate in this quadrant, doesn’t that mean we can use your ring to directly bring the elves back to our universe by using the gates as a spatial jump point?”

“Yes, that should be possible. But, whether we should do it or not is completely different question…”

Ri waited patiently for Dyon to continue. If he said it wasn’t a viable thing to do, she knew he had a very good reason for saying so.

“I don’t think we’d have any problems finding Universe Chaos should it be within this quadrant. In fact, it’s a near guarantee that Universe Chaos is within this quadrant because the old man confirmed for me the story Prince Belmont told. Amethyst fought the dark, ice and fire phoenix clans through Chaos and this universe. For it to be like that, Chaos must be relatively close.

In fact, there could lie a dormant gate to Chaos within our universe itself. After all, it’s the only uninhabited universe in existence. For it to remain as such, the entrance to it is either hidden or ignored. There’s also the possibility that it’s too dangerous to enter, however, from my understanding, its no more dangerous than it was for me to take Epistemic Tower. If it was out of my scope of abilities, grand teacher and the demon generals would have told me.

However, our problem isn’t in being able to find it, it’s about whether or not it’s smart to do so…

If we go and reboot a dormant gate, people will be made aware. This is why the tracking and ranking systems work so effectively even across dimensions. There’s someone or some organization powerful enough to keep tabs on these things and it’s important that we don’t alert them unless we’re strong enough to do so. And, the obvious problem, is that we aren’t strong enough to do so.

If the elves and us go as is to plant a flag in a completely new universe, we’d be asking for trouble. For one, we have no idea how many gates Chaos has. But, it could be very possible for us to have to split our already small population into even smaller groups.

Secondly, remember this universe used to be extremely powerful, which means its likely that the gate to Chaos might even be a peak dao formation gate or maybe even the peak-most half step to transcendence gate. Even though it’s possible to change the threshold of cultivation of a gate if you control all of its towers, remember that the dangers associated are set to match the cultivation thresholds. The dangers of an essence gathering gate would be nothing compared to even a saint gate, let alone a celestial gate or higher.

Thirdly, although it’s possible to teleport directly into chaos and completely bypass the gate problems and potentially avoid being detected, there is still another aspect of danger we’re missing. It might be okay for a small group to go, but, an entire population of people entering a dangerous area sounds like a formula for genocide…

Remember, there’s a reason the elves left that universe in the first place. My best guess right now would have to be that they predicted the fight amongst the phoenixes, however, that can’t be the full story.”

Ri nodded. “It can’t be the full story because the ancient elvin clans should have been at least marginally comparable to the phoenixes…”

“Exactly. There shouldn’t be a large difference between the Elvin Kingdom of old and the phoenixes. And yet, they still chose to evacuate. And maybe the worst part was that the family heads of the ancient god clans had chosen to stay behind, letting the younger generation and lesser families go instead.”

Ri sighed. “So, it’ll take quite a long time, hm…”

“But, Ri… I did think of something else…”

“What’s that?” Ri looked up, curiously.

“Your father is likely not in the universe anymore. In fact, it’s likely that he’s gone for your mother. Have you thought about how powerful the kitsune are?…”

Ri blinked. “Supreme levels beasts… In fact, higher level supreme level beasts. They’re likely past a King God Clan level to begin with. An Emperor God Clan, maybe?”

Dyon nodded before a spatial ring appeared in his hand. It was a ring from he took from the dead 5^th son, the young man from the Uidah clan that Alidor killed.

“According to information I got from this, the only Emperor God Clans in this quadrant are the Ragnor and Pakal. Aside from that, the Sapientia God Clans are really spread out and of various power levels, then there was the Uidah clan who were only a single universe conquered away from becoming an Emperor God Clan.

And yet… I see no mention of the Kitsune…”

Ri’s brows furrowed at Dyon’s words. The Kitsune weren’t from the quadrant at all? Were they maybe a small clan that didn’t do much conquering? Or were they really from an entirely separate universe?…

“But then, how did mom and dad meet?…”

Dyon nodded. “That’s the question I had too. But, as I thought about it, there was another problem I found.

Your father is thousands of years old. And I would assume that your mother is at least hundreds of years old if not thousands herself. And yet, you’re only 15, just like me.”

A look of confusion appeared on Ri’s features. Why was this important?

Dyon continued, knowing Ri might have been confused, “Once you think about it for long enough you’ll notice something really important is missing… It’s a massive loop in all of our understanding actually…

Because you’re only 15, that means your parents have been in this very universe within the last 15 years. You’ve met your mom and your dad, enough to even know their face and enough to even know their faces within the Elvin Kingdom itself.

However, isn’t there something wrong with your parents leaving this universe while they’re both hundreds if not thousands of years old?”

A sudden realization hit Ri. “The gates! Their cultivation is too high to leave this universe through them!”