As she approached the castle entrance, Sophia had to squint. The structure was made of solid gold, and under the strong coastal sun, it looked like a blinding star, pulsing with a light of its own. It was a display of power and wealth so absurd it bordered on the vulgar.
The soldier who greeted her, the one with defined muscles and jewel-studded armor, gestured to a servant who quickly approached with a tray of exotic fruits and roasted meats.
"A banquet is being prepared in your honor, Lady Sophia. Please, accept our hospitality."
"I have no time for banquets. I need information from my master." Sophia dismissed the offer with a quick, impatient gesture.
The soldier, whose name was unknown, took a step forward, his voice calm but firm. "My lady, a long journey requires sustenance. The Marquis insists that we be hospitable to renowned figures."
She raised her gaze. Her blue eyes, as cold as glacial ice, met his. There was no explosion of power, no visible change in the atmosphere, but the soldier felt as if a dagger of ice had pierced his soul. A shiver ran down his spine, and every hair on his body stood on end, a primitive instinct screaming danger. That gaze contained a crushing pressure, the pure weight of a legendary mage. He swallowed hard and lowered his head, his insistence vanishing. In that moment, he felt like prey.
He, who was tall, black, and densely muscled, in imposing armor, felt weak before such a small woman.
"Only the Marquis has such information, my lady. He is the keeper of all important matters in the castle," he managed to say.
"Then take me to him," she ordered.
"I cannot, my lady," he replied, without flinching. "The Marquis must summon those he wishes to see. You will have to wait."
Sophia's patience ran out. The word "wait" was an insult. She waved her hands and a layer of frost began to form around the soldier.
"Where is the Marquis?" her voice was cold, as if it gave no room for argument.
Even with his teeth chattering and his body stiffening with ice, the soldier's loyalty overcame his fear, and he did not utter a single word. His lips turned blue, but he remained silent as the ice enveloped him completely, transforming him into a frozen statue.
A sigh of frustration escaped Sophia. Enough with the subtleties.
"Fools and idiots," she murmured with contempt.
She released her aura. A wave of legendary power exploded from her body, a pressure so intense that the air in the room grew heavy, to the point that breath became visible and difficult to draw. Outside, dozens of soldiers who felt the explosion of power rushed to the location, surrounding her.
Without even looking at them, Sophia expanded the wave of ice, and they were all instantly frozen in their positions, weapons drawn, expressions of fury on their faces. They were frozen before they could even understand the situation.
The golden castle fell silent.
With her eyes closed, Sophia used her aura like a radar, searching for the strongest energy within the fortress. She found it deep inside, a powerful and vibrant aura, surrounded by other smaller, weaker ones. Without hesitation, she walked in that direction, the doors opening by the force of her will.
She burst into a grand hall. In the center, the Marquis, a colossal man with black skin and a body covered in muscle and gold, had stacked five black women on top of each other as if they were dolls. All of them possessed enormous, rounded asses. Their naked, sweaty bodies formed a trembling tower of flesh, their voluminous buttocks pressing against each other, and he was brutally penetrating the woman at the top of the pile. His gigantic member stretched the woman's entrance to the maximum, his hands gripping the fat cheeks of her ass forcefully.
"Ow... please... be gentle," the woman pleaded, tears streaming down her face as her hands clutched the hair of the woman below her.
"You like it, don't you, whore?" said the Marquis, shoving his enormous cock even deeper with a violent thrust that made all of their asses ripple in waves. "You like it when I penetrate you deep?" He spoke and delivered a hard slap to her ass that echoed through the room, causing the pussy around his cock to tighten even more, creating a pleasurable and painful grip.
The other women underneath moaned in a mixture of pain and pleasure, bearing the weight of the bodies and voluminous asses above them while feeling the tremors of each of the Marquis's thrusts. The sound of flesh slapping against generous, fat buttocks echoed, accompanied by muffled groans and suffocated cries.
The shock of Sophia's abrupt entrance caused the Marquis to turn sharply. The sudden movement unbalanced the human tower, and the five women collapsed in a tangle of screams and groans, their bodies intertwining on the floor, enormous asses jiggling as they tried to untangle themselves from one another.
"Who dares?!" his voice was a thunderclap, still panting from the exertion, his member still hard and lubricated as he watched the intruder.
Sophia's gaze swept over the scene with perceptible contempt on her face. "A wild and lustful animal, as expected," she murmured, before speaking louder.
"I am Sophia, disciple of Norton. And I want information about my master."
The Marquis stood up, his enormous member still hard. He sized her up. 'Delicious,' he thought. 'A fine piece of white meat.'
"A mere mage? You look like an enemy. The answer is I don't know. GUARDS, SEIZE HER!" he shouted, already thinking about what he would do when he had this intruder as his prisoner. His huge cock quivered and a drop of pre-cum fell onto the bed.
A look of disgust formed on Sophia's face. "Your kind rarely understands the easy way."
With a gesture, the entire hall began to freeze. The wine in the goblets, the heat of the bodies, the air. The women screamed as the ice touched their naked skin, but fortunately, the focus was not on them. The Marquis felt his powerful muscles stiffen, the cold rising up his legs, threatening to freeze his manhood. The color of his frost was different. While the soldiers' was a light blue, the Marquis's frost was a deep blue.
Being of his rank, he understood... This wasn't just any ice; it was the kind that, if not removed quickly, would leave the frozen limbs crippled.
And in that moment, he could already feel his massive black balls freezing, taking the base of his penis.
It was then that he connected the dots: the legendary aura, the name "Sophia," the ice magic.
"Wait! You... you're Norton's disciple!" he shouted, panic in his voice. The pleasure of sex finally left his body and he understood the words the intruder had said... disciple of Norton... the legendary mage.
"I didn't know! I'll help! Spare me!"
"He... he left a letter! Please, I'll help! Please spare me!" he repeated in a panic.
With the same ease she had summoned it, Sophia undid the spell. The ice didn't retreat, but it stopped advancing up his body.
"Where is it?" she asked.
The Marquis, now trembling with fear, pointed to an ornate chest of drawers.
"I-in the bottom drawer. Get it! Quickly!" he ordered one of the women cowering on the floor.
All the women were paralyzed. The Marquis was someone who struck fear into them, and now, he was begging. None of them dared to make a move. They didn't even dare to breathe for fear that the sound would bother this mysterious mage.
Sophia didn't stop; the ice began to climb his body again. She wanted answers and was growing impatient.
"KIELENN, YOU WHORE, GET THE LETTER RIGHT NOW!"
The panicked Marquis screamed the name of one of the women.
One of the women stood up. She had black skin, her body was adorned with jewels, her nipples decorated with piercings of a diamond-like gemstone. Even her belly was studded with precious stones, creating a line that ran from between her full breasts to the top of her pussy.
The woman stood, her body trembling, her fat ass jiggling with each hesitant step. She went to the dresser and, to reach the bottom drawer, had to kneel, getting almost on all fours and sticking her ass out prominently for Sophia.
For a second, Sophia, who had never had any interest in women, found herself frozen, admiring the beauty of the one called Kielenn. The sight of that dark, round, and perfectly formed mass of flesh, her back perfectly adorned with amethysts, made Sophia's breath catch.
And when the woman reached her arm deeper into the drawer to find the letter, sticking her ass out even further, causing the cheeks of her ass to part, revealing a beautiful black asshole and a pussy with a light fuzz, Sophia felt her face blush, but she couldn't look away.
Luckily, everyone else in the room was also focused on Kielenn, and no one noticed Sophia's reaction.
Then Kielenn stood up with a mystical letter in her hands; it was brown paper with blue lines that moved across the letter as if they were alive.
She knelt before Sophia and extended the letter above her head, not daring to look at Sophia. Her nose was directly over Sophia's delicate feet as she took the letter.
It had a magical seal on it, which, in case of a forced attempt to open the letter, would activate a small attack matrix that could injure the person and would destroy the letter.
Sophia quickly undid the seal and began to read the contents.
"My dear disciple, how are you? Have you eaten recently? How are Lyra and Mei? I hope you aren't fighting amongst yourselves.
If you are reading this, then something has gone terribly wrong. A beast of immeasurable power has emerged from the depths of the ocean. It is not like the monsters we know; this creature is taking on a humanoid form, demonstrating intelligence and magic that rival and even surpass our own.
The Emperor of Avaland and I have joined forces to face it. His elite soldiers accompany us. If we do not return in two weeks, assume that we have failed.
Take care of yourselves. Trust only in each other.
Norton"
Her heart grew heavy. Sophia folded the letter, her mind processing the implications. Two weeks? Two months had already passed. Norton, one of the most powerful mages on the continent, missing along with the emperor of a military nation. This wasn't a simple delay, not something that could be ignored. She felt that the peace of the world, already shattered by the red stones, would fragment even further.
"How can I get to the maritime capital of Avaland?" she asked, turning to the trembling Marquis.
"IN 2 DAYS, IN 2 DAYS I CAN GET YOU THERE!"
Impatient, Sophia replied, "I don't have time. I want to go today."
"PLEASE, MAGE SOPHIA, THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE, THE MATRIX HAS TO CHARGE AND ONLY THEN IS IT POSSIBLE TO GO TO THE CAPITAL, NOT EVEN I HAVE CONTROL. I PROMISE I'M TELLING THE TRUTH. PLEASE THAW ME OUT."
The Marquis was in a total panic. Being a warrior, he could already feel that he had permanently lost movement in some of his toes and felt the ice deepening in his veins.
Sophia then looked down.
"You, at my feet."
The woman trembled, feeling a fear she had never felt in her life. Mustering her courage, she raised her eyes.
"Yes, madam, how can I help?"
"Is what he said true?"
Kielenn looked at the Marquis, remembering his words, and saw panic mixed with an authoritarian glare.
But in that moment, she was more afraid of the woman in front of her than of the Marquis who had been fucking her intensely just minutes ago.
"Partially, madam..."
As she said this, the ice instantly deepened in the Marquis's skin, permanently paralyzing everything from the waist down.
"KIELENN, YOU DAMNED Bit---" He didn't get a chance to finish before Sophia froze his entire body, but this time, the upper part was with the lighter-colored ice.
"Stand up." Sophia ordered, and the black woman stood before her. Sophia stared deep into eyes as dark as the night, which perfectly suited the woman. "Explain yourself. What do you mean by partially?"
"Ma-madam... the treasury really would only be recharged in two days..." she said and quickly felt ice form at her feet.
And then she hurried, "BUT IT'S POSSIBLE TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS USING PRECIOUS STONES."
She shouted in a panic, fearing she would suffer the same fate as the Marquis.
After shouting, she felt the ice around her body disappear.
"You will be responsible for this process. Get dressed and guide me."
Kielenn remained silent.
Noticing, Sophia asked, "What's the problem?"
"I... I don't have any clothes, madam... the Marquis... doesn't allow us to wear clothes..."
Sophia's gaze toward Kielenn softened slightly. With a wave of her hands, a light mist formed around Kielenn's body, creating a very thin robe of ice, but one that covered her nudity.
Kielenn was startled at first, but was relieved to feel that the ice did not hurt her. Despite its icy appearance, she didn't feel her body grow cold. It was something magical that her mind couldn't comprehend.
"THANK YOU, MADAM!" she cried out, with light tears forming in the corners of her eyes. She had forgotten what it felt like to be covered.
"Alright. Guide me."
Kielenn then guided Sophia into the depths of the castle.
With every step, it was possible to notice more and more luxury on the walls, many precious stones. The wealth was immeasurable, but instead of feeling admiration, Sophia now felt a certain disgust. It was as if they had contaminated every one of these treasures.
Finally, they arrived at a completely empty room that had some precious stones forming a perfect circle in the center of the floor.
Kielenn then spoke, "I... I've only seen it once... the Marquis ordered us to place treasures in the middle. They would glow and disappear, lighting up the stones. When they were all lit, the Marquis vanished."
Sophia quickly understood the mechanism. She was certain it was something created by her master. Something so profound that not even she could understand it. Perhaps only Lyra would have a subtle understanding of how it worked, but this was not her area.
"Okay, gather the castle's treasures and quickly fill all the stones."
Kielenn showed a certain difficulty on her face, causing Sophia to become irritated.
"What, you don't want to help me?"
She quickly showed panic. "NO, MADAM, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. TO FILL ALL THE LIGHTS LAST TIME, IT TOOK THE 5 OF US HOURS. IF I DO IT ALONE, IT MIGHT TAKE DAYS," she explained in a panic.
"Hmmmm, I see."
Sophia then waved her hand. Kielenn didn't understand, but far from her, all the soldiers who had previously been surrounding Sophia began to slowly thaw.
"Find the soldiers in that main hall and tell them that if they don't help, I will freeze them all eternally."
Kielenn then left hastily, afraid of those words. She never for a moment doubted that it was true.
Sophia then walked through the empty room, made a quick ice armchair, which looked more like a throne, and then she sat down, resting her elbow on the arm of the chair and placing her face in her fist.
She had a bored expression on her face.