Ruby Mage
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“The main bay is through any of these doors,” Audry said, gesturing to both sides.
“Time to secure them then. You open I’ll channel. A full day freeze will work, I should think,” I said and she nodded.
While I could have frozen the entire fleet the goal was to capture this vessel and its admiral quietly. Audry opened the door and I realized instantly how we could get to the main hold from both sides.
Stairs led us down to a bottom deck. Bunks were stacked there high and men snored or rotated everywhere I looked. Most were strapped into their bunks to prevent from spilling out, making my job easier.
I walked the hold that stank of sour men. My trip through the unwashed bodies made me nauseous. My magic encased bodies in a short distance.
A few men woke to notice the change in temperature or quieting noise of reduced snoring. Audry was on the lookout, stunning those sailors into a paralysis while I hurried along. Less than five minutes later and only a few shouts broke out.
The hold was secured with even the stray animals frozen.
What I saw next turned my stomach. We went a floor up to the whoring rooms. Women… they were locked in stockades of a sort. Their asses hung free where men could use them. Their front halves were on another side of a wall so they could eat. They had to piss or shit while locked up. I literally walked into a man plowing a woman with feces squished between his toes.
I froze every room, knowing that was a mess for another day. My hope was that with time these slaves would heal. At the very least, I’d try to grant them something better.
Now it was time to deal with the upper portions of the ship. I patted Rickon’s frozen shoulder on the way back up, and I swore his eyes smiled.
Once we were a floor below the main deck there were echoing creaks, the sound of our feet thumping, and snoring from closed doors. This floor held the elite guards, the captain, and the crew managers.
These were on our bypass list to let others deal with later. Getting the Admiral was our priority now.
We arrived at another stairwell further toward the back of the ship without seeing another soul. The Admiral should be above us with elite guards at the very least. This was the big moment and I felt my palms sweating along with my stomach tightening.
I followed Audry up the stairs, letting her greet the guards first. There were two thuds, a sizzling, and then the wafting smell of fried flesh.
“Careful, don’t touch them, they’re radiating arcane magic,” Audry said, bypassing the two men on the ground. “They have anti-magic warding. Simple thing to bypass, just don’t cast fire or ice magic.”
My planned smartass retort of ‘that’s all I know’ was held in. Instead, I watched the guards convulse with shudders. I saw no orbs coming off their bodies so they were likely suffering in pain at the moment.
Audry encased her hand in a spell, reaching down to grab a ring of keys. The door cracked open, revealing a young boy poking his face out. His eyes widened at the dead guards.
“Uh,” Audry said, not having anything prepared.
“Are they okay?” he asked and I frowned.
I cued in. “Yes, we found them lying here. We need to tell the Admiral immediately what happened.”
He grew concerned that he should help, waving us in, and opening the door wider. Audry followed the boy into the captain’s quarters with me right behind her. We passed a dozen small cots, leaving me perplexed.
A few of the spots were vacant with most of them having eyes fixated on us. They were all boys between ten and fifteen or so. Young men by Lornia standards. These must be the ones Rickon warned me about.
The staging room went into a meeting room where a single candle in a glass case illuminated a meeting desk. Two additional guards waited at a door to what was likely the Admiral’s quarters.
“Harkin, yer dead, boy,” the guard said upon seeing us.
True to his words the guard whipped his sword out, burying it into the boy’s chest. It happened so quickly, I was stunned and transfixed.
He died instantly. These guards were good. The other guard lifted a crossbow.
I cast ice magic, expecting it to wash over both my targets to encase them. Instead, a shimmer of white magic blocked my spell. Audry’s sword went into the crossbow man's neck before he could properly aim the weapon.
The crossbow snapped as it fired. The bolt cracked into my shin, deflecting as the armor kept it from burying into my body.
Both Audry and the other guard hurried to extract their weapons from their foes. While I hobbled in pain, I pulled out my long dagger from my hip, flinging it at the guard.
He reflectively flinched, putting an arm up to block the blade. It saved his life, only to have Audry bury her blade into his neck.
The man gurgled before falling to the deck. My fixation on the two guards was dumb because one of the boys from a cot tried to jab a knife into my leg.
I only felt the pressure; the armor held against the stab of the dull jagged blade. I poured energy from my gem into a fire spell, searing the stunned boy.
His charred body converted into ash, refusing to give me energy like the two dead guards did. I consumed their orbs of magic, letting the power fill me.
“What deflected my magic?” I asked.
“Like I said, these ones had deflectors. Even casting a block around them will be blocked. We have much to teach you,” she said.
“Yeah, I figured I could freeze the area.”
“They’re mere trinkets from Farlake that sell for bundles of gold. That is the thing, they’ll stop common magic but not arcane or unique spells. Also, you can just overwhelm them with a barrage, but things got dicey there,” Audry said, unlocking the door to the Admiral's room.
The moment the door creaked open a bolt from a crossbow soared for us. A shielding spell cracked under the impact, causing a blast of bright light.
There were panicked shrieks from inside the room.
Audry rushed in coating the room in yellow static. The spell outlined six boys around a single man in the bed. The revelation of what I was seeing dawned on me.
He raised his hands and just like that we captured the Admiral.
There was no cheer of victory; this was merely a phase in the plan. I froze the room, unlocking Audry from my spell.
A warding necklace on an end table told me the nude Admiral relied on his guards a little too much. I walked to the balcony, setting the ten torches afire to give the signal.
With the increased light, I waited. My neck craned up with my palm aimed at the night sky. Sure enough, the rear guard peered down onto the lower balcony where I waited with a spell.
A fireball raced up, consuming the man’s face. His body toppled over the railing, dropping to the sea and only gave a faint splash.
Audry helped me unspool the emergency exit ladder. The sound of the rope creaking was deafening to my ears but no alarms were going off even after we captured the key room. I heard the bottom of the rope splash into the water below.
A moment later strain on the ladder caused the rope to groan. Siofra’s beautiful face crested the edge of the balcony and Susanna was right behind her. I inhaled deeply at their sight, ready for them to take over. My back was sore from figuratively carrying them so far.
Additional soldiers continued to come up the ladder, preparing for a fight.
“Waiting in that dinghy was the worst,” Susanna said with a green face.
Ah, she got seasick. Poor thing.
Siofra kissed my cheeks and grabbed a handful of my ass. She beamed proudly at what we had accomplished. I ran a hand over her smooth belly, around her belt line, and grabbed her juicy booty. I was in the mood even if the time was not right.
“Go forth and secure the ship, and get a worthy reward,” I told her and then nibbled on her ear. After she left Susanna went to kiss my cheeks. I shook my head due to the fact she reeked of vomit. “No… Just… No. You’ll get a shower and pleasuring after. Sorry you got sick.”
We stared daggers at each other as screams erupted throughout the ship. There was no raging battle, only the sound of men dying or pleading for death. That would be the demise of the crew’s leaders. A few minutes later, a bell chimed, and the ship lurched.
“That would be the sails unfurling. Apparently your flagship was easier to capture than anticipated,” I said, taunting the Admiral. “Why are there no mages aboard?”
“I decline to answer,” he said between clenched teeth.
I sighed. “Who will pay your ransom?”
“No one?” he said defiantly.
“Any last words?” I asked.
He nodded, looking to the boys frozen in his bed beside him. “Kill him or die trying, that is my final -”
Fire laced from my fingertips, erupting forth to cover the man. He lunged, desperately trying to get to me from where he sat.
I yanked power from the ruby, increasing the fire into the spell. The Admiral knew this was his end. The burning outer layers of flesh peeled off his muscles until he collapsed onto the sheets.
My flames flickered over the bed, bursting the ice shields the boys had rested in. Their deathly screams shook me internally. Yet, I wasn’t leaving six loose ends with orders to kill me.
I watched the admiral’s loyalists die with him; their final moments were indeed haunting. At the end of the demise, I pulled the flames off the ruined bed and into my palms. I balled the fire, condensing the flames, and when the bed was void of fire I flung the ball into the dark night.
Susanna placed a hand on my shoulder as I stared at the ash with remorse.
“They need you on the top deck. We’re being pursued,” Susanna said sternly.
I left the room, finding dozens of orbs below deck wanting to sink into the planet. I summoned the power that tried to fade down. The top deck whipped cool air as Siofra cast magic to inflate the sails. The ship was smashing into the waves, heading for Harun Port’s defenses in the distance.
When the energy from the dead elites overfilled my reserves, I burst into flames. Each step left a burning footprint trail that Audry extinguished for me.
“Master, we have three ships trying to catch us,” Siofra said, pointing into the night.
I walked to the port side railing, being careful not to touch the finely carved wood. “I can’t see anything?”
“Shoot there, Master,” Siofra said while pointing down into the dark. “A single shot should -”
I unleashed the energy that consumed me. The excess magic desired to go forth and I let it achieve its wishes. A ball the size of a house swirled forth, illuminating the gloomy night to a brightness that caused most to avert their eyes.
When I could finally see, there were three small ships gaining on us with oars in the water. These were the interdiction vessels. Their decks were filled with boarding parties eager to fight us for our prize. We had to be concerned about these ships for their boarding potential.
Instead of letting others pull off after an example was made I asked for power from my gems.
A second massive flaming ball swirled eagerly for the rightmost ship. I pulled enough flame into the third ball to stop being on fire.
When that fireball released I reveled in the magical power I displayed. The night had literally become day from the power of the dead. Somehow I knew Arenia was watching with glee.
The first shot smashed into the lead ship with precision. Siofra had pointed out perfectly where the vessel would be.
There was no mage to combat the flames and the deck was packed with boarding sailors who had nowhere to run. Only a few managed to dive overboard in time.
The impact blurred the sight of the ship. A second later I heard the anguished cries of the dying. This was a precursor to what the other ships would experience. As anticipated the next two twirling bundles of magic slammed into the other fast moving vessels.
The oars that produced their rapid speeds were turned to husks. The ships themselves were bonfires, billowing thick smoke as they slowed to halt. I watched the vessels become beacons of warning to the rest of the pirate fleet.
As they grew smaller on the horizon the first ship sank, quickly followed by the other two. There was cheering on the deck now as the lowered chain to the port was passed. After a harrowing ordeal, we conquered a massive ship to add to our fleet.
Finally it was time to relax and celebrate.
CHAPTER 50
Lornia - Harun Port
7th day of the 2nd year of King Partel’s Reign
“Gentle,” Rivinia said over her shoulder.
Rivinia small butthole barely allowed my cock to ease into her heavily lubed butt. She opened herself up to let me slowly glide in. Siofra was suckling on her left breast, underneath the elf. She was strumming her clit while we tried the back door.
A void of rocking or moving was about where I was out. I… I wasn’t huge into anal. My dick was big, and this was normally the result: limited to no sex.
It was Rivinia, Susanna, and Siofra, having a mini orgy in a lavish room tied to the main court chambers for the city. The day was won, the city in a celebration, and I was wanting to sate my desire for some great sex.
“It’s not going to fit,” I told her.
“If you keep giving up impatiently, yeah, it never will,” my sassy elven lover said.
I chuckled with a head shake. “Susanna wants you to lick more and talk less,” I said.
“Right,” Susanna said, pulling Rivinia back down to eat her pussy.
I extracted my dick slowly, replacing the opening with a thumb. With my free hand I cleaned my cock off with a nearby towel.
After lining myself up with her dripping pink, I slid right in.
“See, fucking amazing,” I exclaimed from the euphoric feeling. “Plus you wanted a baby right?”
Rivinia immediately halted what she was doing to eye me intently from over her shoulder. “Not the time to joke.”
“I’ll finish in you all if that is what you ladies want,” I said.
“Yes Master,” the three ladies said one by one.
I drove my cock hard into Rivinia. Her tight little pink pussy stretched against my girth. She moaned out while diving back into licking Susanna’s clit.
Siofra strummed her clit while I slid in and out a slow, controlled, and wonderful rate. I was in no hurry to cum, wanting to enjoy the sensations the ladies were apt to offer.
I stroked my cock against her squeezing walls with glee. When I increased the tempo, I let my desires grab hold of me. My soft thrusts went aggressive, to the point she had to stop eating Susanna’s pussy.
She cried out for me to fuck her harder and gushed onto my cock with a quick climax. That was the wonders of having one of the ladies on clit strumming detail. Siofra shifted tickling my balls after Rivinia cried in her orgasm.
A few minutes of ass smacking action from my hips crashing into her booty and I too finished the first round quickly. My pent up cum burst into her and filled her little pussy until I could feel the excess seeping out around my shaft.
Rivinia scooted off, grabbed a pillow, and left.
“Where’s she off to?” I asked, seeing the door to the other bedroom chamber close.
Siofra giggled and said, “She’s off to prop her butt up high in the air so your seed has to go down. She will be uncomfortable and likely doesn’t want you worrying.”
I stared down at Susanna and Siofra, leering at their naked forms.
“Who’s next?” I asked.
Siofra nudge Susanna. My cock was still hard and I mounted her missionary style. We entwined… sensually. Besides with Rivinia in the middle of the night, most of my sex was something I expected from a drunken night culminating into debauchery.
This, this was emotionally powerful. We locked lips,
she bound her legs around my hips, and we made love. The thrusts were soothing in a delightful way. We didn’t race or rush the experience and after a blur of time, we climaxed in unison.
“That was so fucking hot,” Siofra said.
Savannah bit her lip and nodded in agreement. She gave out a long pleasured moan before saying, “That was amazing Trevor. I… I… I’m lost for words.”
“Go shower, Susanna, and then await us in the courtroom,” I ordered, planting a deep kiss to her lips. She spurred me on for another round, but left with a final kiss on my cheek.
When she departed it was just me and my foxy fey.
I rolled onto my back and Siofra rushed onto my dick. Within seconds she had me completely inside her and I was in heaven.
Siofra was on a mission. She ground my dick until I hit something hard inside her body. She didn’t care, increase the power of her down and back hip thrusts. She was riding my dick rough and we both loved it.
I swapped my hand from clutching her hips to squeezing her tits, clamping her nipples. She arched her back sitting up more. She glided her hands up and down my muscly arms. We found our pattern with her calling out, thanking her Master.
I was thrilled by Siofra’s words, working myself toward a climax. She certainly wanted my cum and was going to do everything it took to earn it.
“Fill your toy’s little pussy with your big cock,” she said in a sultry tone.
She eyed me intently, biting her lip, and using her hands to increase my nipple squeeze I was applying.
She pushed against my cock in increasing swivels. I was loving my big cock filling her small vagina. My girthy shaft was so damn perfect for her squeezing walls. Each back thrust of her grinding hips seemed to fit him in deeper with me biting my lip.
“You’ll end up making me pregnant, Master,” she managed between moans.
I squeezed tighter, hearing her grunt from enjoying the sensation. “Silly darling, that is how it works. I made the offer, you merely have to do the fun part. Now shhh…” I said, edging up for a long lusty kiss.
Five minutes later she orgasmed so loud she likely woke the dead and we didn’t give one shit. I saw her toes were curled, could feel her pussy pulsing, and the squeeze on her tits had her wanting another round while she tried to finish me.