“Ah! Oh… Please be gentler!”

“Oh~ Oh yes…”

Lihua did not resist the temptation for long. In fact, one might even say she folded at the first real push. As such, within a mine that had been concealed by the unimpeded growth of vines and moss, she was bent over, using her Dagger-Axe as a crutch whilst Edrick, the husband of her friend, was furiously pounding her from behind, the sound of their flesh colliding echoing loudly throughout the mine.

The only spectators to this show were the ores of Tarkin White Iron jutting out of the walls and ceiling. Her weapon would grind against the ground with every thrust from Anoteros, pushing loud grunts and moans out of Lihua with every strike.

“Now, let’s not alert the whole realm to our presence…” he smiled, reaching forward as he shoved a few fingers into the inner disciple’s mouth. He locked her tongue between his index and thumb, preventing her from being too loud as they continued to turn the inside of the mine into a steamy interior for several long minutes.

It didn’t matter if the act was brief. The combination of Edrick’s innate talent in such matters, Balls To The Wall, and Magic Fingers made Lihua climax like never before. Long forgotten was the past during which a bedly relation might not bring satisfaction.

In the span of just a few minutes, Anoteros had made her come more times than she had in her entire life, and the strength of each of them had simply been incredible.

Her palms were so sweaty she was close to losing her grip on the handle of her Dagger-Axe, and her knees were so wobbly that she was only still standing by sheer force of will. But everything was fine, as after a few moments, which might have been several minutes, or just a handful of seconds, she couldn’t tell at this point- Edrick lifted her off the ground and carried her.

Lihua’s sweaty back pressed against his sweaty chest as his long arms that wrapped underneath her thighs reached her head.

“So, do you want to be my maid or not?” he asked, Lihua catching her breath.

“I want to…”

“You want to… what?” he smiled.

“I want to be your maid!”

“Huh huh… And why do you want to be my maid?” as he spoke, his hips continued to move. This new position was stretching Lihua’s pink walls in a new way, making it hard for her to focus.

“B-Because I love the way you fuck me!” she blurted out. This was probably the most embarrassing thing she had ever enunciated aloud in her entire life, but it was the truth. She had pretty much forgotten about whatever resource Edrick had mentioned earlier. It was his ability to cause an eruption of pleasure within her that had Lihua completely convinced to accept his offer right now.

“Good” he said a single word. And then, a crest manifested around Lihua’s solar plexus, most of it was a deep, dark purple, but the bell within, a symbol that it was a maid crest, was a light blue, making her acceptance of being a maid of Edrick's residence official.

Immediately after the crest fully manifested, Anoteros thrusted upward deeply and unloaded an ungodly amount of his baby batter.

“Here is the resource I promised you... Can you feel its effects? Gather yourself and make sure to focus to make the most out of it” he whispered in her ear before pulling out. A long string of his white goodness was flicked against the mine’s stone ground as he put Lihua down.

Although the sensation of overwhelming pleasure was intense, right now, the inner disciple was instead absolutely gobsmacked by what had just happened. Not only had Edrick just referred to his semen as a resource, but it was accurate. In fact, he could have even called it a high-quality resource. Whatever was happening to Lihua right now was simply incredible.

Pixie Blessing gave her an effect that was on par with being granted dust from the wings of a velvet pixie. It was actively purifying her inner energies and allowed for a great increase in circulation speed.

A Succubus’s Dream rendered the entire thing incredibly nourishing, worthy of being coveted even by true succubi. For a human like Lihua, the sheer amount of energy this provided was overwhelming. There was far more than she could possibly need.

And of course, Cleansing Elixir was also at work, enhancing it all on top of providing further improvement to the two earned abilities. With the recent upgrade, the inner disciple--Now considered a maid--Was able to better digest the enormous influx of power and energy.

She had to sit down in meditation and circulate her inner energy. Indeed, it seemed like she was finally going to get past that bottleneck and truly earn total mastery over her cultivation technique.

Meanwhile, seeing that she was focused on another task, Anoteros put his pants back on, picked up a pickaxe that was appropriately sized for his usage, and resumed extracting Tarkin White Iron. He had already begun earlier, but things had quickly evolved into a more steamy situation.

Although Lihua cared about the fact that he was Hui’s husband, unlike Yin, her morals were far less steadfast. The allure of the handsome, strong noble was simply far too much for her to resist, and indeed, she was not regretting it in the least right now. Later, when things cooled down, Lihua might realise that she had just slept with the husband of a friend, but right now, her mind was elsewhere.

‘Alright, that’s one out of three…’ he thought to himself, pickaxe swinging as a piece of ore as large as his head came loose and fell to the ground.

Edrick didn’t stop to pick it up, keeping his momentum as he relentlessly swung and swung. He had practised before coming to the realm, so his posture was flawless. Each motion carried as much power as he desired, and it also ensured that he wouldn’t have back pain afterwards.

Without stop, he mined like a machine for multiple hours, only stopping when Lihua stirred and a small pulse of her inner energy spread out. It was far from grandiose, but it was a sign that she pushed through the bottleneck and finally graduated from Dagger-Axe Mastery. Now, once she came back, she would be able to choose a new technique to practise.

Anoteros swiftly gathered all of the Tarkin White Iron into the storage pouch and placed the pickaxe against his bare shoulder.

“If you feel up to it, we should probably return to the hill before nightfall” they should still have a few hours of daylight to make it if they left right now.

Lihua blushed as she realised that she was still naked.

“O-Of course, let’s go!”