by Nikostar A
Aila smiled as her left fingers slowly moved along the sofa like they were walking until she gently pressed against Alexander's elbow. "Let's drink!"
Alexander's senses were completely overloaded. That woman was simply too attractive and combined with the effect of his previous drinks, Alexander raised his glass before taking a sip.
It was an invitation from the devil but even if Alexander had still fully been in control of his senses, he would still have accepted the toast. No matter what she asked him to do, Aila was the one person he could not say no to.
Chapter 12: Aila
"Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep"
"mmm"
"Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep"
"Come on, let me sleep!"
"Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep"
"Bang!"
Alexander slammed the nightstand where his X-Driver was ringing the morning alarm.
"F*ck, my head..."
He immediately regretted his actions and yesterday's decision as he was assaulted by a strong headache.
Alexander dizzily opened his eyes, trying to remember last night's event. He found himself completely naked under the blanket. His room was a complete mess; his clothes and the pillows were scattered all over the place.
"D*mn!"
Alexander cursed but despite his headache, he readily activated his spirit circuits.
[Clear Mind]
Alexander's headache vanished into thin air; his mind became clearer and slowly, the memories of last night appeared in front of him.
When he recalled the wild scene that took place in his room, Alexander blushed. He quickly stood up to check his bedsheets.
"As expected! There's no bloodstain."
Alexander looked around him and started to tidy up. Aila had already left. He briefly remembered waking up earlier due to someone moving around. When he opened his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Aila's naked body.
The latter also noticed Alexander's movement and at that time she simply smiled and without trying to hide her nakedness, she leaned forward and pecked Alexander's lips, gently pushing him back into the arms of Morpheus.
Alexander opened his X-Driver to check for the time. To his astonishment, his wallpaper had been changed. Instead of the default animated galaxy, his wallpaper had changed to a plain whiteboard with the following message:
"Call me whenever you're free. Aila <3"
Alexander smiled and checked his contact list. The list was full. After yesterday's duels, many people tried to befriend him and out of politeness, they exchanged contact number. It did not take long for Alexander to find Aila's number. He let out a sigh as he tossed the X-Driver on the bed and started to get ready for the lecture.
In the shower, Alexander allowed the cold water to wash out his thoughts but no matter what, he could not forget about Aila. The lingering feeling of last night, tempting him into looking for more would never leave him.
Alexander did not remember much of his past life but there was no way he would forget about Aila. After all, the beautiful Lohan woman had been his one and only lover.
Aila did not have a surname and everyone simply called her Aila. Her origins were rather complicated. Her ancestors all used to be sex slaves of powerful families but after rebelling, they became the one in control.
As they were all slaves, none of them had a family name and even after obtaining their freedom, they still refused to adopt a family name. Loha was ruled by four major forces. When the Xals were still rampaging across Loha, these four forces united the people of their respective areas and succeeded in somewhat securing a territory for themselves.
Aila came from one of those major forces known as the Sacred Mountain. Its area was known as the paradise of Loha. The soil there was extremely fertile; the climatic conditions were never really harsh against its inhabitants.
A long time ago, a group of powerful mages decided to set up their headquarters there to live a life of luxury. They brought with them countless sex slaves and ruled over all the nearby towns and cities.
Those powerful mages gradually started to relax and enjoyed their life to the fullest. However, on one particular day, one of the sex slaves had had enough. She wanted to rebel but how could she, a simple mortal, face the powerful mages.
Time went by and slowly, the sex slaves started to elaborate on her plan. The only moment when the mages would be vulnerable would be in their bedroom during their intercourse but even if she succeeded in killing one mage, how would she face all the others.
While still refining her plans, her desires to secretly harm the mages gradually took form. She unknowingly developed a rare technique with a unique property: the unique ability to plunder someone else's life force during sexual intercourse!
Unfortunately, even if she was able to steal some of the mage's mana, it did not affect them greatly. However, soon, that woman gave birth to a daughter and secretly had her undergo an awakening ceremony. Her daughter had a harsh life but by using the secret technique, she was able to expand her mana reservoir and her spirit circuit without wasting her own mana source!
By that time, the first woman had already become old but before passing away, she passed her wishes to her daughter. The latter accepted the task and slowly spread the techniques with the other poor slaves.
Slowly, the group of mages among the sex slaves grew and unknowingly, they became stronger than their owner. In a twist of fate, the slaves reversed the situation and overthrew their owners.
The Sacred Mountain became the holy land of those women. Through the use of the sex technique, they rapidly groomed a group of loyal women that suffered during their life. At the same time, they weakened their neighboring enemies.
The Sacred Mountain grew in power so much that nobody could stop them anymore. But soon, the other major forces understood what was happening and spread the news.
Since then, the Sacred Mountain's development became stagnant, but they had already set up their roots in the best location of Loha. The secret sex technique was still taught to the next generations of the poor sex slaves, called the Saintesses but it was not shared to the outsiders.
That technique was the only advantage they had over their competitors. Although the women of the Sacred Mountain could no longer strengthen themselves through the other regions, they could still steal the life force of the men within their territories.
All the cities within their territories slowly developed into matriarchal societies. There, having sex with one of the saintesses of the Sacred Mountain was seen more as a blessing than a curse. After all, having the past of sex slaves, they were experts in their fields and having just one night with a saintess was to many men worth losing a few years of their life.
There were more than a thousand saintesses spread around the Sacred Mountain's territory and Aila happened to be one of them. Furthermore, she was not just a random saintess but was a direct descendant of the first woman who developed the sex technique. She was one of the few who had the rights to fight for the position of the next Holy Maiden of the Sacred Mountain.
Alexander was well aware that Aila had used her techniques to charm him. It was something he expected. The Aila of this timeline was still actively competing to become the next Holy Maiden and for that, she needed to strengthen herself as fast as possible.
Most students on the campus were not aware of her identity and simply saw her as a slut selling her body to all the powerful students. She was even codenamed: 'the bitch'. But the truth was, Aila was doing that to plunder their essence and become stronger. She particularly targeted those having high-performance indexes as she would be able to obtain more essence from them. The act of asking for Earth Credits or gifts in exchange for sexual services was just a cover.
Aila was seen as many as a cheap prostitute and it was not completely wrong but they did not know that by now, Aila's mana reservoir and her spirit circuits were already much larger than even the strongest student of the academy.
Last night, when he saw Aila
, he instantly knew that she was here to target him. She did not know his performance index but seeing how he defeated the two second-year students, she should have deduced that he must have great potential.
In his past life, it would only be at a much later date that Alexander would meet Aila but this time, the situation had changed. Even if he knew Aila was here to plunder his essence, Alexander was still unable to refuse her.
She was the woman he once loved. There was no way he could refuse her. If he refused, she would have probably spent the night with someone else. Even if this reckless act would cost him a few days of his life, Alexander could only bite the bullet for the sake of preventing Aila from sleeping with anyone else, even if she would most probably return with someone else the next day.
At the academy, Aila could not be completely reckless and use the technique to its full potential or else, it would be immediately detected if the student's performance indexes suddenly started to drop. Therefore, she only stole just enough each time to slowly expand her mana reservoir.
In his past life, Alexander had also seen Aila as a cheap slut and even vented himself on her once. However, in a strange turn of event, he eventually fell in love with her and to his surprise, the love was mutual. She admitted that at first, she was really sticking with him only to plunder his life force but eventually feelings started to develop, and she stopped harming him.
How did Alexander know that Aila genuinely liked him? It was because she shared with him the deepest secret of the Sacred Mountain, a secret only known by the direct descendants of the creator the sex technique. And that secret was none other than the male version of the sex technique.
It all started during Alexander's third-year final examinations. His task was a short exploration mission on the other side of the rifts and coincidentally, he was allocated to Aila's squad. Aila was one year older than him and at that time, she had already graduated; she was an official mage and was in charge of the examinations of the third years.
During their mission, Aila's squad fought against the Xals and in the end, only Alexander and Aila managed to survive. They were surrounded in the middle of the Xals' territory. The two relied on each other and slowly made their way back to civilization. On more than one occasion, Alexander saved the beautiful Lohan's life and vice versa.
They slowly got closer to each other and every night, they would end up relieving their worries together. At first, Aila only did so as Alexander was the only source of life force nearby but gradually, she stopped using her technique and enjoyed the feeling.
They were both at their wit's end and could face death at any moment. They both figured out that they might as well let go of their inhibition. However, the pair somehow managed to make it back to the rift they came from but what they did not know was that at that time, the Earth had already been overrun by the Xals.
It was not a coincidence that Aila's quad was completely destroyed; the Xals were already on high alert and easily detected the inexperienced squad.
Alexander and Aila finally saw some hope. Although Earth had been completely conquered, the majority of Earthlings migrated to Loha.
The pair continued their travel and eventually succeeded in sneaking into the rift to Loha. Along the way, Aila revealed all her secrets to Alexander. At first, the latter became furious, he felt like he had been played, that Aila had only treated him as a toy.
But he soon calmed down and the pair reconciled and once again let go of themselves but this time, they both used the sex technique!
The technique was called the Yin Yang Exchange. Very few people knew of the existence of the male version of the technique, even within the Sacred Mountain, only the direct branch knew its existence. If the male version was ever revealed to the outside world, the Sacred Mountain would instantly lose its standing.
The Sacred Mountain's sex technique was the only advantage they had over the other major forces. If somehow the men of the other forces managed to take advantage of their technique, they would all once again become powerless.
The fact that Aila shared the male version of the Yin Yang Exchange technique with Alexander was irrefutable proof of her trust and love. As the Sacred Mountain was a matriarchal society, it was very common for women to keep a harem of men. In fact, many saintesses had at least ten men at their service and would constantly replace them as their life force would dwindle.
However, on one occasion, one of the direct descendants of the creator of the technique fell in love with one particular man. She fell deeply in love with him and at the same time, refused to meet any other men. Since she loved that person deeply, she could not bring herself to plunder his life force but without plundering other men's life force, she would quickly lose her standing as the next Holy Maiden.
In the end, blinded by love, that woman decided to share the male version of the Yin Yang Exchange with her lover and as it turned out, it was the best decision of her life. The man was also passionately in love with her. Even when he received the technique, he did not run away and supported his lover. The pair practiced the technique together and in the end, the woman was rewarded with the title of Holy Maiden.
It was a fairy tale only known to the saintesses of the Holy Mountain. Aila shared the story with Alexander and the latter soon realized that their own story could have been very similar to the fairy tale.
When they returned to Loha, Aila brought Alexander back to the Sacred Mountain where the stood stayed there for a while. Eventually, after a series of events, Aila chose to give up her rights for the position of Holy Maiden and left the Sacred Mountain with Alexander.
The two traveled and face a lot of dangers but as long as they were together, the couple felt invincible.
Unfortunately, every good thing had to come to an end. During their travels across worlds, Aila once threw away her life to protect the reckless Alexander. Although she did not die, she was severely injured both physically and mentally.
Alexander was able to heal Aila's body but he was unable to do anything for her mind. Because of him, Aila became dumb, unable to even do the simplest task. Alexander was heartbroken. He put an end to their reckless adventure and soon settled down on Basilec.
He lived a peaceful life there and took care of Aila's every need. Even though she became a dumb useless woman who only brought him troubles, Alexander never thought of abandoning her. Aila lost her mind for him, the least he could do was to take care of her for the rest of her life.
Eventually, Aila peacefully passed away. Since that day, Alexander secluded himself in the library where he worked. He would always think of Aila and swore that was he given the chance, he would turn their life into the fairy tale she told him.
***
Alexander slowly cut off the cold water and stood out of the shower. His face was completely wet; half of it due to the cold shower while the other half came from his tears.
The painful memories of his past life felt like sharp needles mercilessly piercing through his heart. He buried his memories of Aila inside his heart, hoping that he would meet her in his third year but he never expected Aila to come and find him on his first day at the academy.
How was he supposed to react to her? The current Aila only considered Alexander as a possible source to plunder his mana. If he ever revealed to her that he knew her secrets, Aila would not even hesitate to kill him to silence him; even if she ended up expelled by the academy, as long as the secret of the Sacred Mountain was safe, it would be worth it for her.
Alexander was facing a dilemma, he did not know what to do about Aila. With a heavy heart and a worried mind, Alexander put on his clothes before quietly leaving his room.
Chapter 13: Magic lecture
Alexander stepped out of his room and locked his door. This morning, he had the double lecture of magic theory and magic practice; the only two subjects he was not interested in going to. He already had a much better knowledge of magic than whatever the lecturers were teaching. Even if he did not use magic
near the end of his life, using magic was riding a bicycle, he would never really forget how to use it.
As Alexander walked passed room A165, its door suddenly slid open, revealing a tired youth. The latter yawned without a care for his appearance as he sluggishly closed his door.
"Hey neighbor," greeted Alexander. He did not have much time to chat with him.
"Neighbor? You are last night's f*cker! Man, you need to tone it down with your girl. There are people trying to sleep at night, you know?"
Alexander felt the displeased look of the youth lingering on him. He lightly coughed and quickened his pace.
***
The magic department was not very far from the Colony. By taking the bus, it only took him fifteen minutes to get there. However, to Alexander, this small trip felt like an eternity.
