A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 301: Resolving Curses

Chapter 301: Resolving Curses

I started by releasing the power of my Bloodline. Since this Shandrakazaa was originally a Naga, I’m hoping to see if my Bloodline has any effect over her.

The smog that made up her current form, which was writhing in agony, destroying the very material she probably used to live in, soon stopped moving under my intense aura, but she didn’t seem to be any more intelligent than before.

This was good, it meant that I could do with her whatever I wanted or needed without her resisting, since it seems like her mind is not here right now, and all that’s here is just a raging and worthless angsty cloud.

And it was stuck in there, leaving me to do whatever I wanted. And I really wanted to make it suffer for what she did, but I shouldn’t. I should just get rid of her here and now.

And I would do so with the power of my own curse. I’d already supressed her enough, or so I hope, and now I would inflict a curse upon a curse. I hope this works.

If it doesn’t... I don’t know what I’ll do. Maybe I’ll just... I don’t know, put it away in my storage space or something? Maybe not that. Maybe just keep an eye on it instead.

Either way, now was the time for action, with her supressed and unable to recover.

And so, I began by focusing my power into my other bloodline, and releasing the pressure from that as well, which also seemed to be working rather well, so I decided to see if adding pressure from my Soul would help also, and to my surprise, it did.

’Well, this just makes things easier for me.’

This was indeed a good thing, as the more I supressed her, the easier it was to inflict my own curse onto her, which should hopefully render her powerless.

’Enough stalling, I need to start already or else I’ll never start.’

With that thought, I began focusing once more on my power, and began to inflict [Curse of Lust] upon this cursed smog entity, which caused my eyes to glow an ethereal pink.

And the moment I began doing so, I could see it writhing faintly. It was clearly struggling to fight against this, but because it was so thoroughly supressed beforehand, it had no way of fighting back.

And soon enough, the pitch-black smog started to brighten up in certain spots, gaining a somewhat red hue, excluding its eyes of course, which were not looking up at me with hatred from inside its eternal prison, where it wouldn’t ever bother anyone ever again.

It wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be though. Sure, it was time consuming, but in the face of what I stood to lose if I didn’t do this, this is nothing. Plus, we Naga have very long lives anyways, so I don’t need to worry about losing a couple hours to something like this.

Soon, the dark red patches started to pop up even more, becoming bigger and brighter the more I inflicted [Curse of Lust] upon to Shandrakazaa.

And eventually, after a few minutes, I saw a spot of pink forming in the middle of one of these patches of red.

Then another, and another, and another. And before I knew it, the entirety of her foggy body was either completely red, or slowly turning pink.

As for how exactly this is working? I have absolutely no idea. I just assume that the power of my curse is stronger, so it’s overtaking her very being. Or something like that anyways, I don’t know what the reality of this situation actually is.

All I knew was that it was working, and that’s all I needed to know.

Then before I knew it, the entire smoggy body had turned pink, and those red glowings specs for eyes turned purple. Why purple? No idea.

Either way, I stopped supressing Shandrakazaa with my Soul and Bloodlines now to see how she would react in her new state.

I knew she wouldn’t turn back because I made sure to keep inflicting [Curse of Lust] onto her until she started to grow bigger.

I don’t actually know or remember where I got most of these succubus powers, but I’m grateful to my father, who’s the most likely cause of why I have them, for granting me them, or at least unlicking them for me that is.

And the reason I used [Curse of Lust] was because I was hoping to override the hatred of the original curse with the power of my own, and it seems to have worked just fine by the looks of it.

"AAARRRGGGGHHH!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MEEEEEE!!!" The moment my oppressive Aura’s dispersed, Shandrakazaa screamed in agony.

But this time, it wasn’t in a voice that sounded broken and distorted, full of immense rage. Instead, it sounded more like a cute little demure girl that didn’t understand what was happening.

"This what you are now, a cloud of pure lust." I explained emotionally. I had no reason to do so, I just wanted to torment her a little before I erased her for good.

"Wh-What? AAAAGGGHHH!! Wh-What is this feeling!!!" Now that she was not being supressed, she was now constantly shifting and writhing about within the spatial orb she was sealed within.

"That is most likely the feeling of cumming constantly yet being denied an orgasm. Actually, I’m not entirely sure if it’s the curse denying you an orgasm, or you’re just incapable of cumming, since you are just a cloud and all."

"Oh, and literally every other thing that can cause you pleasure, even if you don’t have a physical body, you’ll still feel it all."

"N-N-Noooooo!!!" After hearing all of that, she started to go insane and smash into what was left of the rubble inside the orb and the walls of said orb.

The walls rippled ever so slightly, but apart from that, there was nothing she could do to escape, or stop feeling the way she is now.

Constantly aroused and horny, yet never able to feel the ecstasy of truly finishing. From ever being free from the never ending incrementally rising pangs of pleasure that will only increase over time.

It was actually quite interesting to see this happening, as I don’t remember using this power like this before. Yes, I’ve used [Curse of Lust], but never like this I don’t think.

Either way, now it was time to get rid of Shandrakazaa, or at least three quarters of her anyways.

"Goodbye. Thank you for creating Ash, but your continued existence would only bring her suffering."

With that, and before she could say anything in response, I waved my hand and dispersed the curse.

And thankfully, Shandrakazaa, or what was left of her existing sentience, went away along with her.

*Sigh*

’Now that that’s dealt with, I should return to Ash and see how she’s faring. I also need to see how what’s left of Shandrakazaa is affecting her, or if it possessed her.’

Seeing that I no longer had a reason to keep the orb as it, I dispelled that as well. Which was a mistake.

*Boom* *Bang*

The rubble left inside of it exploded, sending me crashing into a wall.

I tried to get up again, but suddenly felt exhausted, and when I checked, I only had less than twenty percent of my Mana and had used up around forty percent of my [SP] doing all of that.

And as my consciousness started to faded soon after, I could see someone enter the ruined pit. There were only two possible people that it could’ve been.

The first was Gary, but I asked him to stay at the entrance of the tunnel, and who knows how far away that is? I know that the tunnel itself was on an incline going from the outside inwards.

That meant that this was Ashtraz. It couldn’t be anyone else.

I heard her shouting something after a few seconds, likely worried about me after seeing me in whatever state I’m in.

I bet I look like shit right now, covered in dust and crap. I think I can feel some chucks of rocks currently crushing part of my tail, and my head bleeding also.

It won’t last long though, not with my [Hyper Regeneration] at least.

I wanted to respond to her franticly shaking me, but I was just too tired after all of that. Travelling all the way here, and having to focus on three of my Auras at once was hard.

And to top it off, I hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep in days. Every night was filled with worry over Ash’s safety.

But at least, she’s fine now...

I hope...

I’m drifting off now... See you... In the morning... Ash...

*Snore*

(Ashtraz POV)

"Traytora!" I frantically shook her body to prevent her from falling asleep, as I feared that she would die if she did that.

She was in a terrible state. The lower half of her tail was crushed under some rocks and her head was bleeding all over, covering her head and face in blood. Not to mention how tired she looked.

But nothing worked, and in the end she fell asleep.

Tears began to well up in my eyes as I realised that I had just lost someone dear to me.

All because I was being stupid.

*Snore*

’Huh?’

Wait... she’s really just sleeping?