Ch.107Chapter 107. All-Out War Against the Demon Army (1)

# Tigria, Surprised by Lin’s Sudden Breast Caress

The mage, feeling extreme danger, barely managed to hold onto her consciousness that was about to melt under the porter’s mysterious touch, and made her escape outside the tent.

Tigria, who had hastily put on her clothes, could still feel the heat where Lin had grabbed her breast.

“Haah…!”

Even as she adjusted her bra, she couldn’t help but feel a sensation when the plump tips of her breasts brushed against the fabric.

It was a valuable experience in learning that her body was quite sensitive, but Tigria felt her nose burning and a tingling pain, which she quickly suppressed.

Fortunately, there was no bleeding, but Tigria was deeply shocked by the new and intense stimulation.

“It’s because it was Lin.”

There wasn’t the slightest doubt in this belief.

She simply made a firm promise to herself to be more careful.

Look at the case of the 2nd Mage who conducted that ridiculous experiment on the correlation between carnal desire and love.

That foolish woman kicked away the happiness that had been destined for her and became a great criminal of history.

Though Tigria couldn’t know, after Lin’s visit, the 2nd Mage was now writhing in agony, screaming desperately, unable to even struggle against the belated punishment, only shedding rotten tears.

While maintaining her vigilance, the memory of Lin’s touch quickly made her body heat up.

“Hnngh… uungh…!”

The hero’s moans flowed out from inside the tent.

It was unmistakably the coquettish sound of a woman.

Suddenly, Tigria felt pathetic about her situation outside.

She thought perhaps she should have endured a bit longer, but also felt that she couldn’t have possibly held out if she had stayed.

If only she had been alone with Lin, things would have been different.

“This is unfair.”

How wonderful it would have been if Lin had followed her out.

If he had left Luci behind and come to her.

If he had paid more attention to her than to Luci.

Jealousy was like a swamp.

There was no way to escape it.

She just sank deeper and deeper into that dark emotion, wallowing in it.

The cool night breeze chilled her body and made her heart ache.

Leaning against a tree, Tigria waited.

She waited, harboring a hopeless wish that Lin might come out.

But Luci’s moans continued, and her cold, tired body grew sleepy.

Just as her eyes were about to close without her realizing it,

“Tigria?”

“…Lin?”

Hearing the voice she had been longing for, Tigria jumped up.

The porter, not wearing a top, stood before her.

Seeing his firm body toned by labor, Tigria felt slightly embarrassed.

“What about Luciena?”

“Luci is exhausted. She completely gave in.”

“I… see…”

So he took care of Luci first and then came to me.

Something about that didn’t sit well with her.

“You haven’t finished yet, have you?”

“Huh?!”

“That’s why I’m here.”

“N-no, I’m fine now. Besides, we’re outside. I’m afraid someone might see us.”

“Isn’t that what makes it more thrilling?”

“Lin?”

“I’ll help you finish quickly before anyone sees.”

He was being slick.

The porter the mage knew wasn’t like this.

Suspicion began to grow, and Tigria tried to back away, but the tree she had been leaning against was behind her, so all she could do was press herself against it.

“Are you nervous?”

Giggling, Lin reached out to caress her cheek, but Tigria swatted his hand away.

“I don’t want to be an easy woman. Lin… you know why I’m acting like this, don’t you?”

That was a lie.

She wanted Lin to pounce on her right now.

She wanted him to whisper that he loved her, that he liked her, over and over again.

But some inexplicable uneasiness was suppressing this desire.

“Tigria.”

Lin’s face drew closer.

At a distance where she could feel his breath, she couldn’t smell his scent, perhaps because of the wind.

“Sometimes relationships can start with carnal desire and physical compatibility.”

“Really?”

“Yes, I’ll show you.”

“I see.”

Tigria closed her eyes with a faint sigh.

Complete disarmament.

Lin licked his lips and moved to explore the mage’s lips.

“I’m certain now. You’re not Lin.”

“…?!”

“Bind.”

Magical threads shot out from Tigria’s fingers.

The fake Lin struggled to escape, but the thin yet strong threads only tightened around him.

“The real Lin would never say such things to me.”

Though her expression remained blank, uncontrolled anger seeped from the depths of her voice.

Holding a ball of blazing magical energy in her palm, Tigria brought it close to the face of whatever was impersonating Lin.

“Do you know how gentle and considerate he is? Taking the form of my precious person who even keeps someone like me by his side… you dare to spout such words?”

*Crackle, sizzle*

“AAAAARGH-!”

“You dare try to make me a shameful woman in Lin’s eyes?”

She could never forgive this.

If she hadn’t noticed, she would have become no different from the 2nd Mage.

The very thought made her dizzy with rage.

Tigria continued to sear the creature’s face with magical fire without hesitation.

“What are you? Succubi can’t take the form of the opposite sex. Are you an incubus?”

“Y-yes! That’s right. I’ve committed a mortal sin, please forgive me…”

“A mortal sin, you say? Then die.”

“AAAAARGH!”

She grabbed its head and set it completely on fire.

As the incubus, with only its head burning, dropped its head, Tigria opened her eyes and was able to escape from the dream.

Quickly fixing her clothes, the mage cast a wide-range detection spell with bloodshot eyes.

Due to her uncontrolled emotions, magical energy was radiating from around her body.

“Found them.”

Not too far from here.

There was a gathering of creatures that matched the conditions of demons and magical beasts.

“Tigria!”

“I’m awake.”

After hearing commotion from inside the tent, a fully armed Luci rushed out.

That alone was enough for Tigria to immediately understand what had happened.

Although she didn’t like Luci, at this moment, they were allies.

“We’re going to wipe them all out, right?”

“Where are those bastards?!”

“Detection complete. They’re that way.”

The hero dashed off in the direction the mage pointed.

She easily jumped over the outpost’s palisade and continued sprinting, pounding the ground.

“Hey, hey, Luci! Wait for me!”

Lin followed hurriedly.

Tigria embraced the porter from behind and rose into the air.

“Tigria?”

“Lin…”

She buried her face in the back of his head.

The scent of his hair brought her a sense of security.

“I’m sorry.”

“For what? Why so suddenly?”

“In my dream… an incubus appeared in your form…”

“Oh…”

Although it was just a dream, Lin prepared himself for the worst possible scenario.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know it wasn’t you and I talked to it.”

“Huh?”

“When I realized it wasn’t you, I immediately burned its head, but I’m really sorry. I spoke more than five sentences with that thing.”

“No, that’s not…”

Seeing Lin’s relieved expression, Tigria felt a chill.

“You don’t hate me now, do you?”

“Huh? No, no, who would for something like that…”

“I’m scared you might be disgusted with me for talking to an incubus.”

What is this? Why is Tigria acting so much like Luci?

Could it be that without realizing it, the mage had also become heavily dependent on Lin?

The porter belatedly remembered that the mage was like a newborn when it came to emotions.

Perhaps she was following Lin like a baby bird follows its mother, without even realizing it.

Fortunately, Lin had learned enough from Luci about how to respond in situations like this.

“Did you properly blow its head off?”

“I burned it until it shriveled up.”

“Don’t do that again. Understand?”

“Are you… forgiving me?”

“But there won’t be a second time.”

“Yes, I’ll never do it again. Never…!”

But shouldn’t both you and Luci be asking for my forgiveness for something else?

Since the mood had lightened, Lin quickly swallowed the unnecessary words that were about to come out.

Not far away, they could see the demon army camp burning.

It seemed Luci had already wreaked havoc, as all the magical beasts were dead, and there were even some demons among the casualties.

“Ah, she killed all the incubi without leaving any for me.”

Tigria complained as she saw two male demons who, despite their obscene appearance, had been slaughtered with their grotesque appendages still erect.

“A bit smaller than Lin.”

Lin decided to pretend he hadn’t heard that.

As he landed on the ground with Tigria, they found Luci had lined up the succubi on their knees, resting her abyss blade on her shoulder like a ruffian.

“Were there only two incubi?”

“Yes! Just two. But even before you arrived, they were already bleeding from every hole!”

“Who ordered this? Who sent incubi after me?!”

So that’s why Luci was so furious.

Lin was starting to get a headache.

Even if it wasn’t love yet, even if he hadn’t forgiven her yet, it was unpleasant to think that his comrade had almost been violated.

“Lin, for dream demons to absorb life force, the dream and reality must flow at the same pace while the victim is asleep. Judging by that, Luci probably didn’t go all the way either.”

“I didn’t do anything!”

Tigria had deliberately said this to reassure Lin, but Luci, with her sharp ears, immediately heard and reacted harshly.

She swung her abyss blade in anger, and one of the succubi was cut in half.

“I… I… I fainted while collapsed on top of Lin, so our bodies did touch… but… ugh… sob…!”

Confessing something no one had asked about, Luci began to sob.

Lin quickly went to her and embraced her.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Let’s not do that again, alright? We need to be careful, very careful.”

“Okay…”

While Lin was comforting her, Tigria was quickly torturing the succubi with magic.

The mage continued her interrogation methodically, inserting magical needles into their eyes, lungs, and hearts.

“Is this all of the demon army on the front line?”

“N-no. There’s a main camp further back, and we’re spread out in cell-like reconnaissance units.”

“Who’s the commander?”

“A k-knight on horseback. She appeared suddenly, and despite not being the Demon Lord, we naturally submitted and followed her due to her magical power and strength.”

A knight on horseback?

Was there a knight on horseback among the demon heroes?

“Whose idea was it to use dream demons to absorb our life force and drain our energy? That knight on horseback?”

“W-we came up with it ourselves to try to earn some merit! We were wrong. Please forgive us just this once…!”

But as Tigria clenched her fist, all the demons except the one being interrogated collapsed, turned into porcupines by magical needles.

The sight of them trembling and dying wasn’t particularly pleasant.

“Well done, Tigria. Let’s take that one with us. We’ll extract information and use it as a punching bag for the soldiers.”

“Lin, what about me?”

“Luci did well too.”

“Hehe.”

Seeing Luci cheerfully standing among the corpses and Tigria performing confirmation kills, the succubus went mad with fear.

“Please spare me! Master! I’ll serve you as my master! I’m really good, you know? Day or night, I can do any play you want. I can prevent other dream demons from doing stupid things, I can scout if you tell me to, I can do anything!”

Realizing that Lin was the most influential among them, this was the succubus’s survival strategy, but her plea properly provoked both the hero and the mage.

“Day or night?”

Luci emitted a red-gold light.

“Any play you want?”

Tigria infused more magical power into her scroll of knowledge.

Trembling, the succubus desperately cried out, tears and snot flying everywhere.

“You can’t kill me like this! I know quite a lot! The location of the demon army’s main front line, plans for expanding the front, and also…! Huh? Huh?!”

*Thud thud thud thud thud-!*

From somewhere, the ground shook with the sound of rough hoofbeats.

Luci and Tigria immediately went on alert, but it was difficult to gauge the direction in the quiet night.

“Eek! She’s here! She’s here! What are you doing, you bitches! P-protect me! I still have a lot of information to…!”

*Splat!*

It happened in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, the upper half of the succubus exploded.

A puddle of blood, pieces of flesh scattered everywhere, and the lower half left behind were the only evidence that the dream demon had existed.

*Thud thud thud thud thud*

The sound of hoofbeats subsided.

As the figure entered the burning camp, the hero’s party could finally identify their opponent.

A black, muscular horse, and a side-tailed woman holding the reins, also wearing black armor.

They had been confused by the stupid succubus calling her a knight.

It was armor they had seen in the DLC as well.

This lance-wielding cavalry warrior was overwhelming from the illustration alone.

“…Salermei?”

“Lin… Adora is in a lot of pain. I wish you were by her side to nurse her.”

Salermei muttered with empty eyes.

“Come with us. We need you. So much… so much!”

The tension was no joke.

Not only Lin, who knew the cavalry warrior’s power, but also Tigria and even Luci were swallowing hard, trying to find an opening.

Demon Hero Salermei.

The power of this lance-wielding rider on horseback was strong enough to match Luci with a fully charged Hunoni.