City of Witches

༺ The Price of a Loss (5) ༻

1.

Ea’s situation was far from normal.

It wasn’t merely a matter of her rank going down as a price for her rebirth.

Her mana, which should have filled her brand to the brim, was depleted to only 30%. Thanks to this, she couldn’t manipulate her mana as effortlessly as before.

Considering how bad her state was, it came as a shocking blow to her.

After all, her opponent was merely a slave.

A brandless slave.

All things considered, a 15th ranked witch like herself had the capability to single-handedly wipe out an entire military base.

But even while possessing such power, the mere slave still managed to effortlessly break through her autonomous defense system while dodging all of her attacks.

“Guh… Cough… Kuh…”

Overwhelmed by the pain she hadn’t experienced in a long while, Ea groaned while holding her abdomen.

Her naked body, which had been rolling on the ground for a while, was sparsely covered in moss and patches of dirt.

-Clank!

As she lowered her head in pain, a pair of sleek boots came into her view.

She looked upward with a faltering gaze.

There stood Siwoo, clad in a black armor, looking down on her with an expressionless face.

His eye was devoid of any emotions, making Ea doubt whether he was the same person she previously encountered or not.

‘How could he have changed so drastically in just a few months?’

Ea couldn’t understand it at all.

However, she had no intention of meekly submitting to him like a bitch.

Summoning her last reserves of mana, she launched her final strike.

“Die…!”

-Wooosh!

Her previously wobbling ribbon flew towards Siwoo to coil around his neck.

Having taken a direct hit on her womb, the part of her body that was responsible for mana manipulation, while already losing a significant amount of mana, her attack this time lacked the menacing force it should have possessed.

However, the ribbon was still able to exert a force equivalent to heavy artillery.

If Siwoo had been an ordinary human, getting his neck wrapped by the ribbon would have been enough to make blood come out of his eyes, nose and mouth, and make him collapse in agony.

But Siwoo wasn’t an ordinary human. Facing this fearsome attack, his reaction was a simple one.

He wrapped his hand around the ribbon.

Then, he tore it away from him effortlessly.

“Huh?”

Ea’s final strike that she had meticulously planned, was easily taken down.

Her mouth fell open at this absurd scene.

“Huh? Huh?”

But Siwoo didn’t stop there.

He extended his hand towards the remaining ribbons in his surroundings and began to pluck them out one by one.

-Snatch!

As soon as they came into contact with his gauntlet, shadows enveloped them.

It was similar to what it looked like in their previous encounter, back when the ribbon made contact with his spear of shadows.

The ribbons were consumed by the encroaching shadows before disintegrating as if it was being devoured by those shadows.

They scattered into the surroundings without giving any resistance.

Those ribbons, woven from the Maiden’s Loom, were directly connected to the intricate network of nerves extending from Ea’s final cord.

This connection allowed her to exert more precise control over the ribbons.

Despite having such a connection, Ea wouldn’t feel pain even if something were to happen to the ribbons.

But, even if she didn’t feel any pain from losing the ribbons, she still felt the extremely uncomfortable feeling of losing one’s limbs.

“What…?”

In just a few seconds, any semblance of resistance was mercilessly swept away.

Her core was stripped away and she barely had any mana left, only enough to barely flicker a few decorative flames.

The witch’s pale lips turned blue as she opened her mouth.

“Who…the hell are you…?”

When Duchess Tiphereth and Baroness Marigold bested her, she felt as if she had faced a thick, massive and towering wall that felt insurmountable to her.

But against this man, she felt a whole different thing.

While she had her rank reduced, she still couldn’t measure the gap between her and the man.

It was the equivalent of her trying to measure the depth of the abyss.

The gap she felt was on a whole different level than the ones she felt from other witches.

“…”

Siwoo remained silent and his expression remained cold as he looked down at Ea.

The latter’s breath became shallow.

She recalled what she had done to him and she could only imagine what he’d do to her as a retribution.

For a moment, she pondered.

After she was done weighing her pride against the weight of her life, she swiftly took action.

She had an idea.

Back then, he was willing to risk his life to save the twins.

This meant that he was a man as soft and pliable as a ripe peach.

While magical accomplishment could transform someone’s demeanor overnight, it still wouldn’t be easy for someone’s nature to change.

She assumed that there was no way someone as soft as him wouldn’t show any mercy to a defenseless witch begging for her life.

“Keuk…!”

Ea clenched her teeth, trying not to show any weakness.

‘To think that I have to beg for my life to a man I once looked down upon without wearing a single piece of clothing…’

She pressed her pale knees against the moss as she knelt before Siwoo.

“I-It’s my loss… I-I’m…sorry…”

Her trembling voice wasn’t part of her act.

It was the expression of her disgrace, humiliation and shame.

Those emotions mixed together and were now relentlessly crushing her pride.

“You are so much stronger than me now, I can’t even compare myself to you… Can you teach me how you achieve this in such a short time? I-I truly respect you now…!”

She knelt down, delicately placing both hands on her plump and smooth thighs.

Her breasts, which looked even more alluring with the pink area on each of their centers, were nestled between her arms.

They adhered close to each other, as if she was about to give a breastjob. Her small nipples also almost touched each other.

Ea believed that this pose would be enough to seduce any man.

“…”

However, Siwoo remained silent.

He showed no sign of wavering.

Seeing his lack of response made her desperation grow.

“In all honesty… I deeply regret my actions… I’m sorry, I’ll do anything that you ask of me, just please…please spare me…”

‘He still wouldn’t show his mercy after this much?’

Her trembling shoulders weren’t solely due to fear.

It was also caused by the humiliation she felt.

While forcing herself to move her rigid neck and waist, she pressed her forehead against the ground.

Her hands, positioned diagonally beside her head, were laid neatly in place.

The kneeling pose she made was perfect.

After she prostrated herself on the ground, her already alluring buttocks became more emphasized.

“…”

Yet, there was still no response from Siwoo.

It was at this moment that Ea realized something was amiss.

From beginning up until now, there had been no proper communication between them.

Puzzled by this situation, she lifted her head, only to find out that Siwoo had brought his face dangerously close to hers.

“Ugh?!”

Then, he gripped a handful of a hair before sniffing it.

His behavior reminded her of a beast, sniffing the scent of their opposite sex before mating.

“Sniff, sniff.”

Once he finished checking her out, his armor vanished.

But, before it completely vanished, it removed his clothes from his body.

His behavior only made her even more puzzled.

‘Did he get brain damage?’

It was an expected reaction as Ea knew nothing about what he had gone through.

“Ah…”

A shadow cast itself over her face.

It came from an object so grand that she couldn’t have imagined it coming from someone with a delicate face like him.

Siwoo thrusted his fully erect rod in front of Ea’s face.

Using the hand that was gripping her hair, he pulled her face closer toward his cock.

“G-Got it… I’ll do it with my mouth… You’ll spare me if I do, right— Mmph!”

Before she could finish her sentence, Siwoo already pushed his cock into her mouth.

“Agh… Cough… Urgg…”

Despite her notorious cruelty, Ea had no experience with men.

She was a radically conservative witch, the thought of mixing her bodily fluids with men disgusted her.

Even when she found men she thought to be appealing, the only sexual interaction she had with them wouldn’t escalate more than her having fun torturing their balls.

But now, her noble mouth was being mercilessly defiled by Siwoo’s rigid lump of flesh.

“Agg…mmph…”

Siwoo moved his waist violently, as if he was trying to exact revenge for what she had done to him.

His large rod barely fit her mouth, but he kept on shoving it down her throat.

Ea never expected that he’d treat her this cruelly.

‘Should I bite off his cock?’

‘No, I shouldn’t’

Since the ‘Barrier Separator’ wasn’t functioning perfectly at the moment, if Ea were to do that, he’d definitely unleash his rage upon her.

She already exhausted her mana, she had no way to defend herself from a single spell of his.

And so, she decided to keep her mouth open to make sure that her teeth would never touch his cock, all while desperately trying to push his thighs away.

“Urrg… Cough! Cough!”

However, his relentless thrusting only became more unbearable as time went on.

Not only did she feel an overwhelming urge to vomit, she also struggled to catch her breath.

After a brief scuffle, she barely managed to take his shaft off her mouth. Her sticky saliva that covered his large rod dripped down slowly.

“Wait…just…a moment…”

Tears welled up in her eyes as she forcefully controlled her expression, trying to suppress the urge to show him her hostility.

Her eyelids seemed to tremble with slight spasms.

But, even when she displayed such a pitiful sight, Siwoo still hadn’t spared her any of his empathy.

Instead, he approached her and pushed her upper body down onto the mossy ground.

“Ugh!”

To describe Ea’s body in a few words, it would be, it looked like a well-shaped water bottle.

Her hips weren’t overly large, but her thighs, legs and waist were beautifully defined, giving her a distinct feminine figure.

Siwoo grabbed her ankles and opened them wide, revealing what was hidden between her legs to him.

Unlike her mature and dignified appearance that exuded the aura of a mature noblewoman, her sparse pubic hair gave off the impression that she was a girl who had just entered her adolescence.

When he spread her legs, the flesh inside her lower mouth became fully exposed.

Seeing this, she willingly followed his whims and spread her legs even wider.

Then, she put one hand under her buttocks, holding the lips of her lower mouth, spreading it open with her fingers.

This was the posture of submission that only a female could show.

“I-I surrender…”

Like a defeated slut, she flipped her belly over as she offered herself to the man in front of her.

This was a position that she had abhorred in the past, but this wasn’t the time for her to succumb to her pride.

After all, as long as she could survive this encounter, she could eventually take up her revenge.

She could always pay this humiliation back several-folds in the future.

“I’m already going this far… You won’t kill me, right…? You’ll let me go, right…?”

“…”

“Aaah…!”

Without any hesitation, Siwoo forcefully thrusted his cock deep into her pussy.

Naturally, he hadn’t even bothered to caress her or enact a foreplay first.

In other words, they were having an intercourse without anything other than Siwoo’s own precum as a lubricant.

The only thing Ea could do in this situation was to open her pussy wide in hope that it would make the penetration go smoother while swallowing her screams.

“Nggh…! Urrg…!”

Siwoo began thrusting his hips vigorously while holding Ea’s waist firmly.

His cock couldn’t go in too deeply at first, but with each movement, it delved deeper inside her.

At this point, Ea’s elegant face had turned into a mess.

‘This son of a bitch!’

She tried to glare at him while gritting her teeth, but after she saw his emotionless eye, she quickly averted her gaze.

For some reason, she had a premonition that he’d kill her without blinking an eye if she were to show the slightest hint of resistance.

Enduring this humiliation, begging for his mercy and letting him raping her body, all were part of her plan for the future.

She tried to convince herself like that as she endured.

However, she began to develop a genuine fear toward Siwoo and she was deeply ashamed by this.

“Mmmh…! Ahh…! Keuk…!”

Slowly, some lubricants were added to her previously stiff vaginal walls.

As his glans, which had been poking the entrance of her cervix, gradually began to enter it.

Ea let out a sweet and alluring voice.