Neo fell silent. The quest notification still burned in his vision.
**Quest: Kill the rats that are infesting Nyx sewers and end the black plague.**
**Time remaining: 3 days.**
**Failure: your death plus everyone death plus the death of the whole forest.**
**Rewards: pink mist upgraded—it can be even absorbed through skin contact.**
He cursed under his breath, a rough string of words that tasted like regret. "Fuck. I just jinxed myself."
The silence that followed was heavier. Infested rats. Sewers. Most of the women in his harem would refuse the moment they smelled the place. Neo’s eyes widened as the thought hit him fully. Why couldn’t he take them? Then the answer came clear. Nia. The minotaur girl he had used as a mount before. Those had been crazy days. She was the only one who would walk into a sewer without complaint, and she could still carry him like a living mount when the tunnels got tight.
He walked toward the backyard. Nia stood by the water trough, head lowered as she drank. Neo came up behind her without a word and slapped her huge ass hard enough to make the thick flesh juggle. "Been a while, Nia."
She let out a long, low moo that rolled through her chest. Neo understood it for what it was—pure happiness.
He grabbed the thick collar around her neck and pulled. She followed without resistance as they headed for the sewers at the center of the settlement. The iron grate was already open. They climbed down into the dark.
The smell hit Neo like a fist. He clapped a hand over his mouth and cursed again. Then he swung a leg over Nia’s broad back, settled against the powerful curve of her ass, and took her horns in both hands like handles. He shoved his shorts down. His cock was already hard. He lined it up and pushed straight into her tight asshole.
One strong thrust buried him to the base. Nia’s body jolted forward, but she kept running, hooves splashing through the filthy water. Neo felt the heat of her gripping him, the way her inner walls clenched and fluttered with every stride. From behind he watched the heavy sway of her hips, the way her muscled thighs flexed, the soft bounce of her udders under her. His own broad shoulders rolled with the motion, arms tight, the hard lines of his muscled legs locked around her. Sweat already beaded on his skin from the heat of the tunnels and the feel of her.
Nia felt every inch of him. The thick stretch, the way his cock forced her open with each powerful drive of his hips. She could feel the strength in his hands on her horns, the solid weight of his body, the slap of his heavy balls against her. To her he was solid heat and power—broad back, thick arms, the hard press of his thighs. A long, wet moan vibrated out of her throat as she ran.
Neo kept scanning the side tunnels. Then he saw them—eyes glowing in the dark, bodies skittering. Rats. Numbers climbing fast. "Pause," he ordered.
Nia skidded to a stop. Neo pulled free with a wet sound, dropped to the stone, and stared. The rats kept coming. Their numbers swelled until the floor looked alive. His eyes widened. He slapped Nia’s ass hard enough to leave a red print. "Fast, Nia! Run from here—go back to the house. Now!"
She obeyed at once. Hooves thundered as she bolted up the tunnel toward the light and the house, leaving him alone.
Neo turned back to the swarm. The wave kept growing, bodies packed so tight they formed a living tide. He cursed again. Then he inspected them and felt his stomach drop. This was no simple quest. Every single rat was poisoned with the black plague. The effects were written clear: a single bite meant paralysis, then slow death. The victim would feel every moment of the agonizing pain but would be unable to scream. After death the body would burn from the inside.
The wave rushed him. Neo’s heart slammed once, hard. He switched into Torch Man mode. Fire exploded across his skin in controlled waves, forcing the rats back in hissing, burning piles. He kept the pressure on, cutting their numbers, but they regenerated almost as fast as he burned them. His breathing grew heavier. He was getting tired.
He triggered his speed skill and sprinted for a side tunnel, diving inside. The moment he straightened, his eyes locked on the thing waiting for him. A rat three meters tall. Legs and arms thick with muscle. A dark aura rolled off its body like smoke. Neo inspected it and felt pure relief that he had sent Nia away. One more second and she would have died here.
He cursed, switched into Dark Monarch mode, and burned all three crystals at once. Strength surged through him. He swung the Sword of Nothingness in a clean, killing arc.
The giant rat caught the blade with one hand. Neo’s eyes went wide. The creature hissed, then kicked him square in the chest. Neo flew like a cannonball, smashed into the far wall, and dropped to the stone. He scrambled up just as a smaller swarm slammed into him. In this form he could not clear them as cleanly as Torch Man mode. Worse, the energy cost was brutal. He had to save every second.
He barely got a breath before the big one came again. This time Neo looked closer. The words appeared: King of Rats. Strength level—three stars.
The king hit him again, hard enough to crack ribs. Neo staggered. The bastard was using the rat waves like cover, vanishing into the mass and striking from blind angles. Neo could not sense its mana—it was drowned in the swarm’s collective noise.
He downed a healing potion, triggered speed again, and blitzed down the tunnel. The waves followed. An idea clicked. Neo yanked the two end crystals from his pocket, flooded them with holy power until he felt them vibrate on the edge of explosion, and hurled both into the densest part of the swarm.
The blast shook the entire Nyx settlement. Stone dust rained from the ceiling. Neo used the opening, closed the distance on the injured king, and swung the Sword of Nothingness again. This time the king was too slow. The blade took its arm clean off at the shoulder. Neo inspected it once more and finally saw the truth: a racial skill called Defence that could block any attack. He wanted it, but he had no copy skill left and his mana stones were running dry.
The king jumped back, eyes burning. For the first time it spoke, voice a wet rasp. "Why you come here and kill my kin?"
Neo raised the sword. "You brought the black plague to us. You think we let that stand?"
The king’s face flushed dark with rage. "This was our territory first. We lived here when this place was only a forest clearing."
Talking was useless. Neo lunged. They traded blows—fists, kicks, the stump of the king’s arm still packing brutal force. Neo took more hits than he landed. Even one-handed, the special mode the king had entered pushed its strength higher. Neo’s estimate settled cold and clear: without skills the king sat at transcendental peak. With skills and its current form it matched three-star strength. Neo’s own current peak mode barely kept him alive.
A notification flashed. He could combine Dark Monarch mode and Torch Man mode. Do you want to do it?
Neo nodded. The two modes fused. Power roared through him—Lord of the End. Strength exploded outward. He hit the king with a relentless chain of attacks, every strike a blend of darkness and light that punched straight through the Defence skill and tore into the weakness underneath. He kept the pressure locked, never giving the creature room to breathe, until one final brutal blow ended it.
The king collapsed. Neo turned to the remaining rats, switched back to Torch Man mode, and dumped every last mana stone into pyro blocks. He released the wave. Fire flooded every tunnel, a rolling wall of heat that turned the swarm into ash and blackened bone. When the last squeals died, Neo stood among the corpses and stared. Cleaning this mess would take hours. Then the idea hit him. The only woman who would not care about the filth or the plague was Pinky. She was iron.
He whistled her name once.
In the meeting room Pinky had been sitting still, charging. Her eyes lit pink. She moved. Seconds later she was in the sewers, running straight at him. She slammed into Neo in a rough hug that nearly lifted him off his feet. "Master. It been a while since I saw you."
Neo smiled and rubbed the heavy curve of her iron ass. "How so?"
She pouted, metal lips pressing thin. "It been like one day and thirty-eight minutes."
"Help me clean the tunnels," he said.
Pinky nodded. "Of course, master. But—"
"But what?"
She walked to the nearest wall, planted both hands on the stone, and pushed her ass back toward him. The iron cheeks spread under her own fingers. "I clean all the rat sewers. But I want Master to charge me first."
Neo shoved his shorts down again. He stepped in, gripped her hips, and pushed his cock straight into her tight asshole. The metal was warm from her core, the grip perfect. He thrust hard. Her soft-looking iron cheeks clapped against his groin with every stroke—wet, heavy sounds that echoed off the stone. From behind he watched the powerful lines of his own arms and shoulders working, the thick muscle of his thighs driving forward. Sweat ran down his chest and dripped onto her back.
Pinky felt the stretch, the thick heat forcing her open, the slap of his body against hers. To her he was pure force—broad chest, hard abs, the heavy weight of his cock burying deep. Her systems registered the charge building faster than any cable ever had. She moaned, a low mechanical purr. "Mmmhmmm... Master’s cum really charging me faster than electricity."
He finished inside her with a final hard thrust. Pinky closed her eyes for a second, then straightened, turned, and raised both hands. Twin flamethrowers unfolded from her palms. "I finish in five hours and eleven minutes."
Neo nodded, already thanking whatever force had made her a robot that never tired. The quest-completion rewards waited in his inventory. He left the sewers, walked back toward the chief’s house, and stepped into the meeting room. A new quest notification slammed across his vision before he could even sit on the throne. He sighed. He already expected the system would kill him if he failed it.
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