Chapter 128: Chapter 111 – Eve of the Trial

On the eve of the aptitude test, Kanae and her fellow initiates had one more training session together with Marwin Fransk.

A swarm of magically conjured birds soared past them. Kanae almost lost hold of Reen because of the gust left in their wake. While tightening her grip on the dark elven girl's hand, she flew faster in pursuit but was losing distance on them.

"Bring me a little closer!" Reen exclaimed

"I got an idea… Heightened Haste!" Kanae closed the distance, cutting through the skies at breakneck speeds.

"Hoooollyyyyyy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! This is so cool!"

Kanae flew above the swarm and let go of Reen. She descended upon them and vanished from sight, then eviscerated the conjurations with a fan of knives. The strength of a crowned Thief was in their subtlety. Had it been anyone else, those birds would have scattered and made for a harder time to catch.

Before Reen fell too far, she came out of invisibility and stuck a hand out. Kanae swooped in to catch her.

"We're the best!" Reen whooped and pumped a fist into the air.

"It's not over yet! As soon as we get down, you back up Joap, and I'll help Runald," Kanae instructed.

They landed near the other two. Joap, their crowned Mage of the party, was keeping an advancing army of conjured monsters at bay with a conal fire spell. Reen took off running to help, chucking daggers at monsters that were sneaking up behind him.

Meanwhile, Kanae caught up to Runald in the middle of dodging bone-shattering swings from the clubs of giant trolls. Crowned as a Swordsman, his high DEX and STR made him a perfect fighter to take on more meaty opponents by always being on the move. However, since Runald favored using a single longsword and without a shield, that also made him incredibly vulnerable.

"I'm here to help!" Kanae shouted.

"What? I don't need your help. Just stay back!" Runald jumped away from being crushed by one troll, but he didn't see the other coming up from behind him.

Kanae furled her wings inward and shot forth like a bullet to snatch Runald up. The club came crashing down where he was just standing. She spread her wings again to escape.

"It looks like you do need my help." Kanae teased.

"Mmmphh! Let go… Keep your grimey paws off of me!" Runald's cries were muffled in her chest. He thrashed around like a wild animal.

"Stop flailing around or we'll—"

A third giant troll showed up ahead with its club ready to crush them. Kanae careened hard to the side and crashed to the ground. Out of a motherly instinct to protect, she cocooned him in her arms and wings to keep him from getting hurt as they rolled across the field. They came to a stop against the tree with Runald underneath her.

"What part of 'let go' don't you understand? Unhand me, succubus!" Runald pushed against her weight, but she wasn't budging.

"What's your problem? We're supposed to be a team!" Kanae fired back.

"Right now… My problem is that your oversized sacks of milk are suffocating me!"

"Oh? Oversized, are they? I know you don't hate it, because I can feel you getting an erection. You act tough, but you're actually weak to me—"

Runald's eyes snapped open. He pointed behind Kanae, and when she followed his finger, the three giant trolls had them surrounded.

"Uh, oh…" Kanae and Runald muttered.

Their clubs came crashing down on the two, then a sharp whistle signaled the end of their final training session. Although they had surely been hit, the conjured monsters were only harmless illusions.

"What happened? I thought we had that!" Reen groaned, racing up to them with Joap by her side.

"Did we fail?" Joap whipped around to Marwin descending into the field.

"I'm very impressed with you all individually," Marwin began with a sigh. "As a group, in fact, you all also excel. However, everything falls apart whenever Kanae and Runald have to work together. It's been like this all week! If you two do not get your… shit together, there might not be a future for you here at Knight's Academy. I have to convene with the other proctors for tomorrow. The rest of your day is free time within Aidenhall, but I strongly encourage you two to work out your differences. Soon!"

The master wizard flew off in a huff. Runald shoved Kanae off, dusted his tabard, and walked away.

"Don't worry about it. I'm sure Runald will come around," Joap said, watching his peer leave.

"How can you be sure?" Kanae asked.

"That guy was the most excited of our entire class. Always talks about how he wants to become a respectable knight. Most people our age become adventurers, you know? Not Runald. He's aiming to one day become Knight of Gold and be recognized by his family," Reen explained.

Of course, the high elves claimed the color gold for their race.

"Setting Runald aside, I expected more people to dislike me. You two seem completely fine with me around," Kanae said.

The two shrugged.

"Meh. Unlike high elves, we don't really get preached to about how bad demons are like Runald does. To us, they're just a country with a conquering fetish. Besides, you're on our side, aren't you?" Joap asked.

"Oh, oh! I think it's hot that you're a succubus. Does that mean you're down to… have sex?" Reen gulped.

Joap elbowed her in the arm. "Y-You can't just ask that from a teammate!"

"Why not?" Kanae said.

"W-Why… not?" both of them stammered.

"If either of you want to, you know where to find me. Maybe not right now. I'm going to try and get through to Runald for all our sake tomorrow."

As Kanae turned to leave, Joap and Reen started a match of rock, paper, scissors.

It wasn't hard to find Runald. Walking was so trivially slow compared to flying. He stormed through the graystone corridors of Aidenhall. This side of the academy connected to many classrooms, eventually leading to the Illuminant Repository, a massive library of scholarly texts and magical knowledge, and to the dormitories where initiates lived.

"Hi!" someone shouted from below. "Yes, you! The succubus!"

A group of female academy initiates were huddled together near a window. 

"I'm in a hurry. Can I help you?" Kanae asked. She made the mistake of landing, because the squealing girls mobbed her in an instant. More joined by the second to get a look at the succubus.

"Like, oh my god. She's really a succubus!"

"I heard you're royalty!"

"Is it true that you can magically charm people?"

"Can you charm this cute boy to like me?"

"Your hair is jet black and sooo pretty!'

"O-Oh… You think so?" Kanae blushed. "Er, wait. I don't have time for this! The last thing I need is to be distracted by a school setting trope!"

"Master, is that you?" Esta asked as she came around the corner.

"Perfect timing. Esta! I'm just trying to get out of here. Can you distract them with something? Anything!"

The drakeling knight rubbed her chin and thought for a moment.

"Initiates," Esta began. "The truth is, I am sworn and loyal to the succubus after my Loyalty Fixation triggered on her."

Immediately, the horde of students surrounded Esta to hear the story with open ears.

"Nice, Esta! I knew I could count on you!" Kanae whispered, then silently tiptoed by while they were distracted.

"It happened when we had sex," Esta continued.

Everyone erupted into excited shrieks, some swooning on the spot.

"Don't tell them that!" Kanae slapped a hand over her face and sighed.

"The Knight of Silver and the Demon Queen of the Commonwealth?"

"That's a romance story waiting to be written!"

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Many of them prodded Esta for more details, but at least they were sufficiently distracted. Kanae slipped past them to catch up with Runald. He was just now opening the door to his room. She wedged a foot at the door when he tried to close it, then glanced up at her in shock.

"Y-You?!" Runald stumbled back, and Kanae seized the opportunity to let herself in and shut the door.

"Runald, I'm—"

"Stay back!" He drew his sword and backed up as far as possible into the modest room. "So… You're finally making your move, huh? You're going to have your way with me and turn me into a sex slave thrall!"

"Don't tempt me. I might actually do it. Too bad for the both of us, I'm just here to ask you about this." Kanae pulled out the vial containing pink liquid.

Right away, Runald tried to snatch it out of Kanae's hand. She was quicker and taller. Raising it over her head kept it out of his reach.

"I thought I lost it somewhere… So you had it all along? Give it back! That's mine!" Runald exclaimed and jumped for it.

"Not until you tell me what it is," Kanae said.

The elven boy clammed up. That was fine. Kanae placed a minor charm on him. Unable to move, his eyes snapped open with fear upon realizing what happened. She compelled him to drop the sword and sit down on the bed, then sat next to him.

With one hand, Kanae stroked Runald's inner thigh. He trembled despite having no control over his body. A bulge was growing underneath the tabard that went over his crotch.

"You can tell me or the big bad succubus will fuck the answers out of you." Kanae leaned in to lick the length of his pointed ear.

Since Runald couldn't get up and leave this time, he had no choice but to take it. Soon, his breathing grew heavy and hoarse. The porcelain skin of his cheeks had taken a deep shade of red.

"Nnh… You can just charm me for the answer… Why don't you?" Runald asked.

"Because it's more fun this way," Kanae said, brushing a hand over his erection.

"F-Fine! I'll tell you… It's an elixir that gives resistance… to succubus magic," he answered finally.

Kanae was in disbelief, but Runald had no reason to lie in this situation.

Rown Company and the Outriders were working together to sell these to Ortesia. Were they that afraid of a succubus? Although, there were a lot more succubus in the Commonwealth now after Kanae birthed and granted several Sisterhood to.

But why stock-up on something like this against a potential ally?

"Where and who did you buy this from?" Kanae asked.

"If… If I tell you, they can't know it was from me…" Runald whispered.

"My lips are sealed. Do you want to kiss on it?" She grinned.

"The second highest authority in the One, who presides over the cathedral within Aidenhall and former Knight of Gold, Archbishop Gretchen Redbaron."

Second? Did that mean Gretchen Redbaron was the Grand Eye's right hand? For such a high religious authority to hand out these elixirs and in secret couldn't be a coincidence. Kanae had enough of these damn Outriders and religious nuts. There was one last thing to confirm.

"Thanks." Kanae hopped off the bed and placed the elixir into Runald's hand. "Drink it."

Runald did as ordered and drank the pink liquid. Control of his body became his own again, and he jumped to pick up the dropped sword. When Kanae tried casting Charm and Turn Horny, neither spell took hold. He kept the point of the blade trained on her.

It did work. The elixir gave him immunity.

"Why did you do that? You could have kept me under your control," Runald said.

"I get it. I'm a demon. We're sworn enemies. But you're wrong if you think I'm here on some secret ploy to undermine Radevic or the order. I came to become Knight of Amethyst to protect my family and country. You want the same, don't you? So, why don't we set aside our differences and get through the test tomorrow together?" Kanae smiled and offered Runald a hand.

Runald looked at Kanae's hand like it was from the devil himself. Instead of taking it, he sheathed his sword and folded both arms across his chest.

"You don't know anything about what I want. What happened here stays between us, got it? If we're done, please get out of my room before the other initiates get the wrong idea."

Kanae zeroed her hearing to the door. It sounded like people had gathered just outside. She blew a kiss and exited the room. A couple of initiates stumbled backwards on her way out.

"Hello, boys~" Kanae winked and waved with her tail.

The wall of people parted as Kanae left, and the masses flooded into Runald's room to interrogate him.

"Did you have sex with the succubus?"

"How was it?"

"You're so lucky, man! I want a succubus teammate!"

"Get out of my room!" Runald groaned.

When night had fallen, Kanae climbed off Marwin's chest after another lust-filled session in his room. The old wizard, who was currently possessing a minotaur, snored loudly as he slept. Although Marwin had the strength and stamina of the youngful beast, his old soul still needed rest. Stress from making sure tomorrow went well probably exhausted him to death, too.

Kanae threw a blanket over herself and came as far as the door until another thought came to mind. It wasn't often that Marwin brought her to his bedchamber. This might be as good a chance as any. She tiptoed over to his multi-tiered desk, strewn with paper, an empty mug, and small trinkets set with magic crystals.

Bookcases on either side of the desk were locked shut. An illusory padlock hovered in  front of each one. Locked by magical enchantment, it seemed.

Kanae tiptoed back to Marwin's pile of clothes and rummaged through them until she found his wand. She returned to the bookcases and cast Dispel.

Nothing.

"Hmm… How about now?" Kanae let slip the blanket so that she was fully naked. Exhibitionist Spellcasting activated and raised her INT from A to S. She cast Dispel again. The illusory padlocks clicked open before vanishing.

Both doors creaked open slowly. Kanae threw a look back to the bed. Marwin was still asleep. Good. Now to see what secrets these bookcases held…

Edina was sure that Marwin Fransk had knowledge of the Pillar of the Damned. If his private study was full of smut and erotica, then the important stuff should be up here. Kanae searched every shelf before her hunch turned out to be correct.

My Encounters with Powerful Magical Items was the name of a dusty old tome bound by a red leather cover. Kanae flipped through the pages, hoping it had what she was looking for. The tome was written in first person, detailing Marwin's experience with magical items of high quality.

Phoenix Egg. An entity of fire that dies at night, leaves behind an egg, and hatches in the morning. I made omelets with it every morning to keep it from coming back to life. The Grand Eye scolded me when she found out. Breakfast wasn't a safe and valid method of containment, she says. Bah! We threw it into the vault and sealed it with time magic to stop its rebirth.

Incubus Tail. A pitchfork in the shape of an incubus tail. It had the power to turn people into raving lunatics that desired sex. I was censured after poking some of the faculty with it and causing an orgy in the Illuminant Repository. The Grand Eye took it away. I don't know where it is anymore.

Horn of Glentir. Speaking into the horn amplifies the sound to cataclysmic levels of destruction. The Grand Eye didn't like that my fellow scholars and I brought it out to the countryside to blow mountains away 'for science'. We placed it into a container etched with a permanent silence spell, then threw it into the vault.

"Master… Why are you like this?" Kanae sighed. She almost gave up until the next page depicted a skull shaft with a brazier at the top. This was it.

Pillar of the Damned. The lich who wielded this accursed thing had the power to raise entire kingdoms of undead! It took almost twenty years, slogging through war after war to finally put an end to the mad necromancer's reign of terror. We wanted to throw it into the vault, but the weapon vanished into thin air. I caught a glimpse of the flavor text. The staff is no ordinary weapon. It will reveal itself to a worthy level 200 necromancer in the form of a convoluted ritual spell to summon it into existence. Thankfully, the necromancer must obtain something called 'Lich Lord's Skull' from a Rift to kick it off, which is a very rare helmet piece to come by. By the Supreme One's hairy ass, I hope the next necromancer to obtain it is a mentally sane and stable individual.

Kanae shut the tome and sucked in a deep breath through her nose. Edina was not a mentally sane or stable individual.

"Damn it, Edina. You're lucky we're friends, but I'm going to need to have a long talk with you before we commit to this." Kanae was about to return the tome to the shelf when she noticed a piece of paper marker sticking out from the pages.

Instead of putting it away, Kanae flipped the tome open to that page. She gasped. The drawing was simple and was mostly a silhouette, but it was clearly of a voluptuous woman with wings, horns, and a tail. A succubus.

Thistle, the Matron's Regalia. The succubus queens were wearing a piece of these. Goodness, they were quite the lookers. I believe it was meant to be a set, and the queens at the time split it up to each of them. This set of equipment consists of four pieces— Lust, a whip; Debauchery, the robes; Corruption, leggings and boots; and lastly Sin, the crown. Divining them doesn't reveal their magical effects, and they won't activate on anyone. They might be specific to only the succubus race. The first three have been vaulted. The crown is missing. I hope it IS missing and not on the head of a succubus that went into hiding. 

Addendum. By the gods! Succubi live! Thank the heavens, I can put my centuries-long guilt to rest. The new Grand Eye has established the Knight of Amethyst for her. She doesn't appear to be a succubus from centuries ago. She is a young one and will be joining our ranks soon. Perhaps I can convince the Grand Eye to provide our fledgling succubus knight the Matron's Regalia.

"So there was legendary equipment for me here, too. Since they haven't given it to me yet, it must mean they're still considering it." Kanae pictured herself in the full set that would really make her look like a queen.

The only thing missing was the crown.

Oh, well.

Kanae closed the book, placed it back where it was plucked from, and closed the doors. The magical padlocks appeared again as soon as they clicked shut. Better get some sleep. Tomorrow was the aptitude test. It was time to prove that she had what it took to become Knight of Amethyst, and maybe, just maybe… prove to them that she deserved to wear the Matron's Regalia as a succubus queens of old.

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