It was hard descision but very simple one, Choice between pride and power.
however simple it looks, choice is never easy.
What is pride?, simple explanation would be 'worth' yet it's meaning in its whole context could be so elaborate and complex.
For a warrior loyalty is pride, for a merchant profit is pride and for a woman chastity is pride.
Pride is not a absolute emotion, it's easy to mold into how one expect it to be. Meaning pride of warrior's loyalty is linked to his pay and pride of woman's chastity is linked to her emotions.
Lack or poor allowance in warrior's pay and lack of stubbornness in woman's emotions, change their way in pride.
Warrior no longer find loyalty worth more than money and woman no longer find chastity worth more than love.
As spoken earlier pride is not absolute, the same chastity woman prided herself with is bled away for the love of another. Now love worths more.
But such changes is nothing more than expression of us intelligent beings hypocrisy.
A facade, pride as they call it and wield it in absolute arrogance withers in presence of power. Ofcourse such is not case for everyone but finding earnest wielders of pride is a dream.
All that remains is power, power is power. There could be no shorter explanation for it, while elaborate explanation would make the topic more and more lengthy and horridous.
Simple is the reason for Natalie's choice but all the thoughts she must've used to reach this conclusion would be too inconsistent and inexplicable.
As spoken before, choice is simple but making it is no way an easy task.
But at the end choice is done and now all that left is execution.
Eren and Natalie both stood on grass field, facing each other yet avoiding the eye contact. A soft wind is blowing in the air as it sweeped the ground and shook the leaves. Sound of water splashing on the hardstone echoed through the forest, spreading wide and dispersing slowly as it hid every other sound in thin veil of splashing melody.
A bit cold but mostly serene, the atmosphere. Only things or rather the peoples standing there seems out of place with their unusual silent awkwardness.
Without much delaying eren transferred a bit of mana in his obsidian black plain ring, and response to his action thin gold dust flew out, quickly forming a shape that occupied reality space. Soon the light vanished and a king sized bed became visible.
Yes, Being a cultivator came with a various advantages, one of them is using artifacts.
Artifacts were magically engineered tools and with their versatility and durability, they were sought widely, but surely, not only artifacts were hard to create but also required mana for its basic function to work.Meaning only a cultivator could use it.
Second even artifats had ranks, From ranging 1 to 4. Rank 1 were cheaper and common and rank 4 rare, extensively expensive and one piece existence, other ranging between with variable prices and values.
The more higher the rank, more responsive and efficient they were. It barely took microsecond for eren to pull out a giant bed with drop of mana, that wouldn't be so easy with lesser version of any storage ring. They too followed the principal of hierarchy.
Also artifacts were classified into groups such as utility artifats, combat artifacts, medical artifats and protective artifacts or charms.
The space storage ring was in fact a utility artifact, especially the one eren was using was only one in existence rank 4 artifact.
Being Alena's lover...Ex lover....or much complicated relation certainly came with it's privileges.
Storage ring of rank 1 could barely stack up few meter square of load, While rank 4 storage ring had several miles worth of meter square space. It was unarguably vast difference between cheap and expensive, mundane and royal.
The one eren was using was even rarity, Afterall he had already made use of it's function to store all the books, gold, mana stone and every other things in the cave and yet he found the ring to remain 90% empty.
He was impressed but didn't had time to appreciate the magically engineered artifacts that he found so intriguing. Right now wasn't time for that.
Natalie glanced at him occasionally but avoided his gaze, she knew what was going to happen and that made her cheeks red and swollen with embarrassment.
Her heart beat erratically and breathing became long and deep, even more when eren slowly walked upto her. She was not ready for this but again, it was already too late.
Eren stood before her, his face very close for Natalie to notice every single detail about him. Eren's cute and handsome face with porceline pale white skin, black thin sword like eyebrows similar colour to his black long hair, deep black eyes, sharp nose, thin line of jaw visible with no fat whatsoever present on his face and crowned pairs of white horns.
She looked deep in his black eyes and as much as she tried to avoid it, her heart refused to let her mind take control. Natalie found herself in confinement of deep longing as she fell into his black eyes.
Eren too wasn't faring better, sure he was experienced but that was because of Alena, who made the situation extremely sexy and maintained the course, speed and rhythm of their action. That calmed eren and gave him much confidence to take the initiative but that was Alena, someone he knew and loved.
Eren's heart felt upset, was it really okay?
Such question hazed his thinking and temporary left him indecisive. Eren knew that this was just a means to an end but even then he felt empty and guilty.
Pushing his negativity away, Eren again looked at Natalie, from top to bottom.
Natalie's vermillion red hair, rosy pink smooth skin, cute round face with pearly sky blue eyes and petal shaped lips that inacted deep lust within eren.
Her neck slight visible and rest hidden in darkness, behind open hair.
And just below her sexy neck, started destructively proportional body.
Natalie was 5'5'' tall, her small figure only got accectuated with eccentric curves. DD bossoms and Ass gave way to slim valley of waist, forming a agile snake like figure.
Especially accentuated due to the modern clothes she wore, eren didn't knew how she was comfortable wearing something so tight but again, he had no idea whatsoever what it was to begin with.
She wore a full sleeve tshirt and jeans, both neatly covering her whole but that was entirely unjust, hiding every inch of skin yet every curve magnificently visible.
Maybe occupied by Alena's thoughts, her departure or simply that he wasn't really interested in this young woman but till now, he never noticed.
This woman was genuine beauty, even more beautiful than lily. Only now that he took situation into deep consideration, his eyes saw exquisite beauty hidden behind girl who held only motivation for bloodline awakening.
Eren closed the distance between them as he sealed her lips in deep kiss, his action startled Natalie and her body squirmed as she reflectively took a step back but eren didn't gave her leeway.
Eren pulled her closer and closer, tighly squeezed in his arms, lips placed together and tongue slowly invading natalie's mouth which she found infinitely hard to resist.
Despite reluctance, Her body acted independent and reactive to his touch. Natalie's soft lips parted, letting the invading snake like tongue venture into her moist mouth. Natalie's lips slowly succumbed to insidious infection of searching for touch and taste of his lips as she sucked him desperately.
Her own action bewildered Natalie and her eyes shot open, she saw eren's midnight Black eyes staring deep within her soul. Eren pulled his face back ending the kiss, staring still.
Their lips still too close and warm shallow breath felt subtle.
" Remove your clothes." His voice not to demanding, just casual and yet Natalie couldn't resist.
She broke free from her clutches, took few step back and turned around. She grabbed her tshirt and pulled it above, her back soon came into cascading deem light of moon, smooth jade white with eccentric curves.
As if with a bit embarrassment and resistance, she remained silent and only after few short breaths, she again took action. Natalie slowly removed her tight jeans, which she found annoyingly hard and excessively embarrassing.
Eren's lust only grew every second, the way her bare back shone in dim light and the way she sexily removed her jeans, bringing soft white peaches out seemed so fucking electrifying. Natalie's figure was hidden in darkness but with pale moon light reflecting her appromixate measures with accuracy, any men would want to squeeze her in tight embrace, she just seemed so divine.
Especially with thin undergarments that held no regard for privacy, but further added a subtle nude charm.
Eren walked behind her, removing his own clothes to drop on the ground and unlike Natalie, he didn't make it sexy. Just plain open clothes taken off without much effort and sound.
Natalie would've turned a tomato red but she wasn't looking, squirming and fidgeting as she hesitated to turn around. But eren was going on full attack mode, his naked pale white body walked behind her and soon took Natalie into soft hug. Natalie flinched as something hard touched but she had more sensation to think about.
Eren's left hand slowly slid upward and right downward, Eren felt those soft curves as his fingers traced above, he turned her face to side and took her lips into another passionate kiss. Natalie had no saying in this, as much as she found this embarrassing, it also felt heavenly and she found it hard to resist. Natalie instinctively held out her tongue, searching for other half as she slowly got accustomed to passionate kiss and taste of his lips.
But she was just a toddler, taking baby steps. At this rate they were never going to get to good parts and so eren moved onto the second stage, the good parts.
His one hand that slowly rose upto her chest, grabbing her DD size boobs into firm grip and left land slowly slid down between thin fabric and jade skin, onto to the main course.
Natalie tried to break free but the kiss, the force pressed down on her stopped her. She couldn't even speak with her mouth already occupied, she cocked her head back or atleast she tried, eren hand slowly pressed on her neck as his own lips gently devoured hers.
His slithering fingers moved in thin line, taking the feel of soft petals below. Eren gently rubbed her pussy, simultaneously holding her squirming body into deep kiss.
" ummh..Ahh...." She finally broke the kiss, hungrily taking deep breaths as she realised what happened, she looked down, Eren's hand inside her undergarment and his middle finger, inside her vagina, sliding in slowly.
" Mgfhh..."
Another muffled soft moan left her mouth, realising that it was two fingers now. She was feeling this from the very beginning of the kiss but only now that she realised. Her insides twitched and iched with growing desire for pleasure and only when his fingers satieted what little bit of that desire, she felt pleasure.
She enjoyed this change, new emotion and the intense pleasure. Yes intense, only to her, for eren this wasn't even a warm up yet.
Before Natalie could get feel on this devilish sensation of pleasure, eren whispered in her ears,
" We shouldn't waste anymore time, you're wet enough." Soft wind caressed Natalie's ears, giving her shivers. Eren drew back his hand and wiped it clean on her pussy, or rather on the thin undergarment that showed tight impression of her virgin tight pussy.
Each action made Natalie more and more anxious, exhilirated and lustful, she was surprised that she had it in herself to be this sexually engaged.
But again, eren didn't gave her any time to think. Pushing her onto the edge of bed, as she arched into sexy position, her ass lifted up and folds of vagina became even more prominent with stretched panty and in second, he pulled in down in one go.
" Wait, I...I want..to look." Natalie jerked and spoked with barely audible voice, imagining eren standing behind her as he observed her naked bady, it filled her with great shame.
Eren had already taken off his clothes, ready for the action and hearing Natalie didn't change that tune.
His ripped physique, handsome face, crowned horns and now raging high monstrous dick remained standing nonchalant, as if even simple posture as standing seemed arrogant and extraordinary.
Ignoring her completely, Eren slowly rubbed his dick between her thighs. Slowly and swiftly as his dick parted soft flower petals of vagina, Satisfying some of Natalie's feelings.
Natalie flinched, obviously young virgin had no idea what it was but even simple guess made her mind dizzy.
Eren rubbed over and over, as if waiting for something and slowly whispered, leaning into her arch.
" It's best of you don't look." With that he pushed his monstrous cock inside her already wet pussy, more and more juice slid down her thighs as his dick made its way deep inside.
" Aagh...Mfgh..." Natalie tried so hard to supress the painful groan yet failed, she felt her inside rip apart by something massive, as if hot hard rod was thrusted deep inside her vagina.
Natalie's mind went blank for a few seconds, her body lost all of its strength but she held on, as if trying to break her more eren retracted and gave another deep and slow thrust.
" Aahhh..."
" You'll feel better soon." As he said, grabbing her waist tightly and ready to uphold the task at hand without giving it to her pained resistance.
His hips shot forward again, with much more rythm, power and speed, Natalie's psyche was in shambles with how fast the situation was turning up but again, it was already too late.
Her pain didn't lessened but with increasing sensasion of pleasure, it became somewhat bearable.
Eren on the other hand found nothing interesting, atleast not yet. Upon his abrupt stop, Natalie glanced back with questioned troubled gaze, to which eren smiled and replied,
" Did you forgot the reason for this whole mess?"
Yes, It was not just mortal pleasure they sought but something much more, their true battle hadn't even started yet.
But as soon as strings of mana started circulating in his body, his intentions became apparent. Natalie was too occupied with sudden physical development that she totally disregarded the reason for this action but with clear realisation her mind became much more calm and determined. Her own mana started to circulate as she hoped to made this unwanted experiment to bear fruit in her favor.
They started, Dual cultivation.