The Hero Became a Succubus, and the Only Way to Level is to… What?!
Chapter 403 – So it Begins!

A heavy fist came down hard on the table. Their glasses shuddered. Its contents spilled over the edge. Renya held her stein of ale, the only one who had foreseen Rasheena's anger reaching a boiling point. Although they had returned to The Claw after Sultan Cerberus' public appearance, not a single one of them felt very safe anymore.

"If they have Odika, then they know all of us are involved. Including our plans. It also wouldn't surprise me if they're putting together a force to attack The Claw soon." Rasheena looked like she was going to strike the table again but ultimately unclenched her fist.

"What do you want to do now? Retreat?" Kanae asked.

"No. Too late to retreat now." She stood up to meet the eyes of every resistance officer gathered in the inn. "I have 10,000 across the city, ready and willing to lay down their lives to repel the Ortesians and succubi cultists. If I abandon them now, there won't be another chance. Avanesse will be free! We will not be slaves!"

Everyone in the room roared in agreement. They were much fewer than the crowds at The Royal Grounds watching Sultan Cerberus, but their fervor put the larger masses to shame.

Rasheena wanted to devise new plans until screaming outside sent them running out of the inn. People ran for their homes and to the edge of the district. Fires broke out towards the entrance of The Claw. Stacks of smoke billowed from every direction, as did cries for help.

Succubi charmed fleeing citizens. Ortesian knights, bearing the emblem of an eagle holding a book, marched through the streets alongside Saviran warriors. If both forces weren't bad enough, undead creatures sowed panic and hysteria among the defenders.

"The Mistress of Pain wants this entire district under control by midnight! Charm them all and deliver them to the temple!" a succubus leading the charge shouted from above.

Any unlucky Avanessi caught by succubi fell under their control and stopped running entirely. Instead they walked away calmly behind the wall of advancing Ortesians and undeads, where a succubus lifted them up to the temple that was flying a little lower than usual. They were like a swarm of bees delivering back to their hive, and The Claw district was a field of flowers ripe for harvesting.

"My sisters won't even afford us a moment of rest, I see." Alicia glowered and envenomed both daggers in anticipation to fight.

"Those Ortesians are all Pyrelle. Not a single other house in sight. The empire probably doesn't even know their greatest family is colluding with succubi. Time to reacquaint them with my existence." Petyr infused her maul with holy energies before marching into battle.

"Petyr, wait!" Kanae shouted, only to click her tongue when she didn't listen. "Kris, stay inside where it's safe. Praijya, no point in staying hidden anymore. Come out and help! Renya, Alicia, and Praijya with me. Damn it. We sure could use Edina right about now!"

"Y-You don't have to tell me twice— aahh!" Kris panicked as a succubus snatched her off her feet.

Rasheena quickly flung shivs, nailing the sex demon in both arms. She let go and fled. Kris fell back down, then took off running for the inn to hide. Two more succubi came for her, but crossbow bolts plunged into their backs, and they crumpled to the ground. Romira gave a thumbs up from atop a building and signalled to her Stalkers, who were all wielding bows and crossbows on elevated perches.

"Kanae, leave the defense of the citizens to us. We've drunk the potions taken from the imperials at Sultan's Wake to resist succubi magic. You and your team push the ground forces back to the land bridge. Governor Marin and some of my people should be there!" Rasheena explained while fending off a succubus and a high elf.

The race across The Claw was filled with fighting. Kanae, Alicia, and Praijya flew over burning buildings, while Renya blinked from one rooftop to the next to keep up.

"They aren't even hiding it anymore. At least in Vanuis, it was done quietly. The Mistresses are just kidnapping people in broad daylight now." Kanae made out the succubi openly disappearing with their captives into the flying temple.

"I'm not surprised. It requires a lot of people to power, and my sisters want to be able to charm the masses without expending their own mana. I can't imagine what would happen if they took the temple I'd been held captive… sorry! I didn't mean to worry you." Alicia realized too late the implications that would have on Ehmvier if the Queen-Mother seized that one.

"It's fine. I left behind a lot of capable people. Gretchen and Arenade would never let anything happen to the city. For now, let's just focus on keeping this city safe," she suggested.

They arrived at the governor's manor under siege. The land bridge between The Claw and The Commons was completely controlled by Sultan Cerberus' combined forces. Succubi circled the spire residence and taunted the people inside, occasionally dodging projectiles fired from the embrasures. Ortesians, with the help of a couple of their drakeling vassals, bludgeoned the heavy wooden gate with the skull of a large beast fixed to a battering ram. The hinges were beginning to give, and they would be flooding in soon.

"We'll deal with the Ortesians. Renya, how good are you at duck hunting?" Kanae asked.

"Piece of cake. It's hunting season, bitches!" Renya duplicated herself into ten clones and fanned out across the road, firing buckshots into the sky. The magical blasts weren't small caliber anymore. They were huge slugs that exploded into many smaller pieces. Scores of succubi retreated to avoid being hit.

Kanae directed the enthralled Praijya into a bloodlust. The harpy warrior, Left Hand of the Harpy King, tore through the battlefield with her long claws and hair blade ornament. A group of high elven priests called forth a pillar of light that beamed her down. Knights rushed in to surround her, but when the holy energies subsided, the harpy was still standing. They fell for her bait. She twirled around in a circle, slashing the ring of Ortesians with the sharp steel attached to the end of her long braid.

The battering ram ceased pummeling the gate. Its operators had fallen unconscious. Others were slumped over the large skull, their eyes barely able to stay open. Magical Stealth faded from Alicia, revealing herself above the unmoving siege weapon.

"Help… Please!" Someone's cry for help rang across the block.

Kanae and Alicia followed the voice to a collapsed scaffolding against the side of a clay built house. A harpy woman was trapped underneath the rubble and debris, her arm outstretched desperately in the air. A sneering succubus held a little harpy boy captive and was flying for the temple. 

"You aren't even sparing children? Come on!" Kanae lassoed her ankle and pulled.

"Want the kid? Take him!" The succubus flung the boy as hard as she could.

"His wings aren't ready yet!" his mother shrieked from below.

"Leave him to me!" Alicia zipped through the air to rescue the boy.

Lust slackened suddenly. Kanae reacted too late, and the succubus tackled her. They plummeted to the surface, crashing into a roof. The whip and clotheslines tangled them up. Kanae broke free first and fired a bolt of fire from her Ring of Scorching Ray. It hit the succubus square in the chest. The blast blew her off the building.

Alicia flew back down and set the boy on the ground. Kanae descended to join her in lifting the debris off the harpy mother. She embraced her son after being freed.

"Thank you so, so much!" The woman bowed to them, then ushered the boy up to Alicia. "Go on, my little hatchling. What do you say to the kind lady?"

"Thank you, miss succubus!" he exclaimed.

Alicia offered a soft smile. "Of course. Now hurry to safety, you two."

"Good job." Kanae patted her on the back.

"You rubbed off on me too much. They wouldn't have mattered to me if it wasn't your influence." She turned the other cheek.

Back at the manor, Governor Marin, an older coyote beastman, emerged from the gates and led a counteroffensive. The tides were beginning to turn. Resistance members pushed back and started to win. Or so they thought. The ground trembled and shook.

"Kanae, more are coming!" Alicia warned.

When Kanae followed Alicia's gaze, Avanessi soldiers came running armed with glaives. They were backed by Ortesian infantry, guards from edirashem, and large humanoid creatures like trolls and ogres. The latter looked different from the northern variety. Their skin looked coarse and leathery, and dark complexion marked with sun spots.

"Focus on helping the governor. I'll do something about it!" Kanae shouted.

"Oh? Are you going to throw yourself at the mercy of the trolls and ogres?" Alicia flashed a teasing grin.

"Hey, sex isn't all I'm good for! I-I can fight seriously if I want to!" she retorted.

Crap. Now, Kanae had to think of something else to deal with them. Alicia wasn't going to let her hear the end of it otherwise if she fought the usual way. Oh, well. Sex could always come later.

Kanae flew over the land bridge. The roughly 30 foot wide and 100 foot long geological structure was all that connected The Claw to The Commons. Before, it served as a sort of trade bridge between both districts, where merchants on either side could sell their wares to those not interested in going any deeper. Unfortunately, those stalls and wagons had been crushed or shoved into the sandy shallow canyon below.

"Hailstorm!" Kanae blasted the land bridge with ice and created a slippery surface. Those in armor couldn't keep balance. They fell over, some sliding right off. However, the rest continued marching. "How about this, then? Conjured Caltrops!" Tiny metal spikes sprouted from the sleet. Now, those without armor danced and tiptoed to avoid stepping on the traps.

Despite both spells, trolls and ogres were far too hardy to keep at bay. They barreled through, the weight of them crushing the ice and their skin tough enough to resist the spikes.

Kanae intercepted them at the stone archway, the final obstacle into The Claw. Five lanky trolls and three ogres, all eight of which were giants compared to her. Fighting them was going to be tough. They outmatched her in strength and numbers. She outmatched them only in magic. Her Charm wasn't reaching them either. That damned Arnault Pyrelle must have fed them reversal potions, too. Either way, she had to keep them from running amok in The Claw one way or another.

"It's come to this after all." Kanae sighed and stripped naked. "If you want to get through me, you'll have to fuck me first!"

Each and every one of them sprung an erection. These ten to twelve foot tall monsters with low intelligence took turns fucking Kanae and made a mess of her. The largest one was a troll, who had a scar across his forehead and a broken left tusk, pounded their hips together so hard, she thought her bones were going to break.

Everything felt a lot better after switching on Masochist. Kanae threw her head back and howled in pleasure. She wrapped her legs around the troll's waist as he thrusted harder and harder.

Plap! Plap! Plap! Plap! Plap! Plap! Plap! Plap! Plap!

"Fuck me harder! I love it so much! I'm such a fucking slut for your cocks! Yes, yeessssss!" Kanae screamed ecstatically.

Steaming troll cum inflated her womb. He had emptied his balls into Kanae, then passed her to another. Two ogres seized her. They sandwiched her between two mountains of dense muscles.

"Uugh… It's hard to breathe… you're crushing me…" Kanae murmured.

The ogres ignored her. The one behind parted her cheeks open to push his dick into her ass. It met resistance. Kanae arched her back at the pain which quickly morphed into pleasure. His peer had already plunged into her pussy, all the way down to the balls.

"My ass… I want it in there, too! Push it in, please… Hurry~" Kanae pleaded.

"Hehe. Succubus sex stupid now," one ogre said.

It slipped in. The tip entered first. Kanae choked down a gasp. The ogre trying to fuck her ass slowly and patiently wriggled his entire cock in… and succeeded. Filled to the brim from both ends and trapped between them, she was at the mercy of their rutting.

"So… tight… Succubus pussy, best pussy!" The ass-fucking ogre whooped.

"That not pussy, stupid!" the other one, who was actually fucking her pussy, corrected him.

PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! PLAP! 

When one pushed in, the other pulled out. They pistoned into Kanae with perfect rhythm. She was beginning to see stars. The world spun. Her brain turned to mush. The ogre that she was chest to chest against, grabbed her face and forced a sloppy kiss on her. He didn't know what he was doing. Instead, she choked on his drool and tongue.

They reached a fever pitch, and all three climaxed at the same time. The ogres blew their loads into her ass and pussy. Kanae came harder than she expected and blanked out. Only for a moment. She returned to her senses in darkness. No, not darkness. Just a troll, who had laid his thick, wart-covered cock over her eyes.

Kanae licked it all over while another troll shoved his member into her, forcing out all of the ogres' cum to make room. A third pried opened her tail and used it as a cock sleeve. Their simultaneous fucking rendered her a brainless whore for pleasure.

"More! More! More! Ogre cocks, troll cocks, just keep them coming! I love being used!" Kanae cried in ecstasy.

Before long, however, she was riding on top of an unconscious ogre. His limp dick still stuck in her pussy, but a shadow of its former glory. The same was true of the other ogres and trolls. Their faces were slightly gaunt. Some continued to twitch from pleasure and aftershocks of intense orgasms.

"Kanae! Are you— Oh." Alicia didn't speak another word and simply smirked.

"Uhm…" Kanae burped and wiped the layer of spunk from her face. "I can explain…"

"No need. You appeared to have stopped their advance. Well done, Knight-Commander. Although, it seems your unconventional battle wasn't the most private of affairs." She giggled.

Kanae glanced back to where Alicia had come, and a crowd of people immediately averted their gazes. As if it wasn't any more obvious that they had been watching this entire time. The men were all erect, and the women were red in the face and fidgeted. She quickly magicked away the mess and got dressed.

"Sh-Shouldn't you all be hiding?!" Kanae groaned, finally dispersing the crowds.

The succubi forces were beginning to retreat. They took to the sky, carrying whoever possible with them out of The Claw. On the other side of the bridge, Ortesian forces were pulling the injured back and building a barricade. The governor's people were doing the same on this side, too, but in a more makeshift fashion out of broken stalls and vehicles.

"You must be Kanae!" Governor Marin hobbled over with a cane in one hand and sword in the other. "I can't thank you enough for the help. The attacks seem to have stopped for now. We'll build our own fortifications in response. Can you let Rasheena know what happened here in the meantime?"

"You got it. Renya! Praijya!" Kanae whistled to the harpy, who was about to gouge the eyes out of a struggling Ortesian. She tossed him to the feet of a resistance member instead and flew over.

Renya had been beaten blue herself. The right eye was so bruised, she couldn't see out of it. Kanae casted Flash Heal, restoring both her sight and wound.

"For fucks sake. They were relentless." Renya sighed.

"They do seem more desperate this time around. Come on. Let's get back to Rasheena and the others," Kanae insisted.

There was destruction everywhere around the inn. They weren't exactly sure if this was Petyr's doing or Sultan Cerberus' combined forces. Either way, the resistance had come out victorious. Rasheena was in the middle of bandaging herself up on the steps of the inn, even though there was a shaman going around casting Chain Heal on the injured.

"Governor Marin's safe. Both sides are building barricades. We've beat them back for now, so it's our win," Kanae said.

"Hardly. They made off with maybe hundreds of people during the chaos, some of them were part of the resistance. Listen, it's too late to worry about the temple falling on top of the city. We've got to do something about it. I don't want to even think about that thing turning on, and us waking up tomorrow as succubus slaves." Rasheena snapped the bandage wrap with her own fangs and sighed. "I'm going with."

"It will be infested with succubi and their thralls. Are you sure?" Alicia raised a brow.

She nodded. "I need to see it with my own eyes, what in the three hells this damn thing is that's taking my people. Maybe if we destroy it, we'll free Cerberus from their control, too."

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