I scanned the slaves on the first few rings, but there was no way to tell them apart due to the black soot that covered them all.
“How the hell are we supposed to find Kit down here?” I asked, overwhelmed by the size and scope of the Pits of Despair.
“I’ll handle it,” Nanaya hissed, and her eyes reminded me to shut up.
She led us over to a large fire troll who seemed fully absorbed with his table full of scrolls.
“Ah,” he said looking up. “More workers for the pits, excellent.”
“I am interested in a trade,” said Nanaya.
“Trade?” The troll stroked his chin and he looked us all over closely.
“She’s a furry named Kit,” said Nanaya. “She was brought here recently.”
“We may have her here,” said the troll suspiciously. “Who do you wish to trade for her, and why?”
“These four,” said Nanaya. “And why is none of your business.”
The troll scoffed and grinned. “You think she is worth four slaves?”
“These slaves are useless to me, Kit is not. Do you possess her or not?”
The fire troll looked us over again, and at length he shook his head. “She is on the seventh ring. Hand over the slaves and I will send for her.”
“No, bring her to me, then you get your payment.”
He grinned again and nodded. “As you wish, shadow wraith.”
The fire troll motioned one of his lackeys over and instructed him to locate Kit. We waited in silence for at least fifteen minutes, and I wondered what the hell Nanaya’s plan was. When the guard finally returned with a soot-covered Kit in tow, my heart nearly leapt out of my chest.
“Sam!” Kit yelled with delight and began to run toward me.
The fire troll that held her chains yanked her back hard, and she slammed onto the ground beside him. He kicked her in the stomach with his big boot, sending her spinning across the ground.
“Hey!” I yelled. “Leave her alone!”
Every fire troll, slave, and shadow wraith nearby stopped in their tracks and turned to regard me.
“Uh, please?” I said.
“Silence slave!” Nanaya screamed, and Wally burst out in tears.
“Alright, you’ve got your precious little pussy,” said the fire troll as he scribbled in his scroll and glanced up at us. “Now hand over the slaves.”
Nanaya floated over to Kit, who looked from the disguised succubus to me with wonderment and fear. The fire troll guarding Kit handed Nanaya the reins when his boss nodded at him, and I waited for Nanaya to make her move. She took hold of Kit’s chains with her black-gloved hands and dragged the cat lady over to our group.
“The slaves…” said the fire troll.
“Can you heal us?” Nanaya whispered to Kit.
Kit glanced at me in confusion, and I nodded.
“Yes,” said Kit.
Nanaya suddenly produced a long black scythe from out of nowhere and chopped off the fire troll’s head.
I pulled Kit behind me, produced a Magic Bolt, and unleashed it in the face of the closest guard. Pandemonium broke out when the slaves saw us revolting, and the shadow wraiths were soon scrambling to squash the revolution.
“Run!” Nanaya screamed at us as she fought off the fire trolls.
I hit the trolls with Arcane Lightning as Kit screamed defiantly and blasted them with magic of her own.
“Nan!” Wally cried and crashed into a fire troll bearing down on the succubus’s back.
The two went rolling over the side of the mine, and Nanaya pushed me toward the black gates. “Get them out of here, I’ll be right behind you.”
“Come on!” I yelled to Tweak, Trinity, and Kit.
We ran toward the gates and were met by two hovering shadow wraiths. I blasted one with a Magic Bolt that took him by surprise. They didn’t expect me and Kit to have use of our magic, and we used the element of surprise to blast the other shadow wraith to the side as well.
Tweak was the first one through the gates, and Trinity followed close behind. I urged Kit on and hit our pursuers with Arcane Lightning again. They had casters among them as well, however, and one of them hit me with a green glowing spell that left me panting on the floor and holding my smoldering chest.
Warning!
25% Health Remaining
Trinity dragged me up from the floor, and I let out a groan when I saw that dozens of fire trolls and shadow wraiths were fast approaching the gates.
“Get up, Sam!” Trinity urged me and lifted me to my feet.
Together we raced after Kit and Tweak, who were hightailing it to the underground lake.
“We’re not going to make it!” said Kit, glancing behind her.
I downed a healing potion and nearly shit myself when I found our pursuers no more than fifty feet away.
“I’ll slow them down!” I said and stopped to face the horde.
I began shooting Magic Bolts into the crowd, and lit them up with lightning, but they kept on coming. Trinity suddenly appeared to my left, and Kit came to stand to my right.
“What the hell are you all doing?” I asked, seeing Tweak had come to help as well.
“We’re a guild,” said Trinity. “And guildmates stick together.”
The horde continued to close the distance as Kit and I bombarded them with everything we had. We took out a few, but our mama was soon drained, and the horde fell upon us. I screamed defiantly and unsheathed my short sword, but to my amazement the group was suddenly covered in ice and frozen solid before my eyes. The cry of a terrible beast followed the mysterious freeze, and I looked up to see an ice-blue dragon fly overhead. On its back sat a grinning Wally.
I thanked my lucky stars for Nanaya, and then followed her across the chamber toward the lake.
Chapter 14
“Now what?” said Trinity as Nanaya landed beside us.
We stood on the banks of the underground lake, and I scanned the surroundings for a way out. We had fallen from a waterfall spilling out of the high ceiling, but we couldn’t go back that way, and there seemed to be no other way out besides the Pits of Anguish.
“Wally want to fly!” the ogre cried cheerfully, but Nanaya craned her neck to look at him and shook her head.
“All done,” she said, and Wally sulkily climbed off her back.
Once she was relieved of her burden, Nanaya changed back to her succubus form and gave a theatrical bow. “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you break someone out of the Pits of Anguish.”
Kit surprised Nanaya with a big hug and purred, “Oh, thank you, thank you so much for saving me from that terrible place.”
“You’re welcome,” said the succubus, looking a little awkward as the overzealous cat lady clung to her.
“How the hell do we get out of here?” Trinity was glancing back toward the pits with worry etched across her face.
“With a little help from a friend,” said Nanaya. She tapped on a ruby ring on her right hand and gestured for us all to gather around. “Everyone hold hands, quick.”
The sounds of another angry mob caught my attention, and I glanced back toward the pits to find dozens of demonic minions charging toward us. Nanaya grabbed my hand, and I in turn took Kit’s. Once we were all connected, the grinning succubus spoke a spell word. I felt a tingling sensation in my core and then a flash of light left me momentarily blinded.
“What the hell? I can’t see,” Trinity complained.
My vision returned, and I realized that we were back in the wonderful city of Baal’s Wart.
“You’ll be fine,” Nanaya told Trinity. “We’re back in the city, so try and be a good slave.
Nanaya started tying our wrists, and Kit looked to me with concern.
“What’s going on?”
“It’s alright, Kit,” I assured her. “Just play along.”
Once we were all tied up, Nanaya led us through the city and back to Brikturd’s place. We were all tired, so the succubus secured a penthouse
for us in the back of the building that had a couple bedrooms and a large main room.
“Make yourselves at home,” Nanaya told us as she led a groggy looking Wally to the door. “I’ve got to read Wally a bedtime story and I’ll be right back.”
“I’m running a bath,” said Kit with disgust as she looked down at her soot-covered body.
“They have bathtubs in hell?” I said half-jokingly.
“This one does,” said Trinity, poking her head into the bathroom. “And it looks like it can fit about six people.”
She arched a mischievous eyebrow my way and began to disrobe.
“I could use a good soaking,” I said, noting that Tweak had crashed out on the couch in the main room.
The bathing room was huge, with a big steaming hot tub carved out of stone at the center. Kit lowered her naked body into the steaming water and let out an alluring groan. I quickly undressed and followed Trinity into the water, which turned out to be nearly scalding. It took a little while to get used to the heat, but soon we were all basking in the warmth.
“I’m so glad you found me,” said Kit as she snuggled up under my left arm.
“We’re going to find the others, don’t you worry,” I told her.
“I was wondering,” said Trinity as she snuggled up under my right arm. “Does your special ability work down here?”
“I don’t know,” I said with a grin. “But there’s one way to find out.”
Trinity grinned and kissed me, and her hand wrapped around my erection. I felt another hand wrap around my shaft, and Kit purred and licked my neck.
“Well, what do we have here?” Nanaya asked from the doorway.
“Sorry honey,” said Trinity. “Private party, guildmates only.”
“Is that so?” the succubus asked.
I shrugged. “There’s always room for more.”
“You should join our guild!” said Kit, enthusiastically stroking me beneath the water.
Trinity rolled her eyes and glanced at me.
“What? We could always use more help, and Nanaya helped free you both, let’s not forget that.”
“Whatever,” said Trinity as she moved around in front of me. “I call first dibs.”
She lowered herself onto my shaft in a reverse cowgirl position and let out a moan.
Nanaya looked like she was getting pretty turned on, and she slowly began to undress. I explored Nanaya’s succulent body with my eyes as Trinity rode me, and Kit nibbled on my earlobe. The succubus had amazing breasts with big red nipples. When she tossed her bottoms aside, I noticed that her pubic hair had been shaved to create a devil horn pattern.
Trinity came quickly, and when she climbed off and sat back in the steaming water, Kit took her place. Nanaya lowered herself into the pool and disappeared beneath the steaming water, and a few seconds later I felt a warm tongue on my balls. It took all I could do to not explode as Kit clung to me, frantically gyrating her hips, and beneath the water, Nanaya took both of my nuts into her mouth.
Kit clung to me as she climaxed, and Nanaya finally came up for air. The succubus sat on the edge of the pool across from a lounging Trinity and opened her legs wide. When Kit climbed off me, I eagerly moved across the pool and dined on Nanaya’s succulent pink fruit. I nearly brought her to climax with my tongue, and as she came, she beat her wings and floated up into the air. She had a handful of my hair, so I was forced to stand as she rose toward the ceiling.
I lowered the floating succubus onto my shaft and was pleasantly surprised by how warm her velvety folds felt as they clung to my throbbing manhood. Her body temperature must have been over one-hundred, and her tight, burning pussy sent me over the top quickly.
Congratulations!
You’ve reached level 24!
“Holy shit,” Nanaya screamed with a look of delight. “I just leveled.”
“Sammy’s got the magic stick,” Kit purred.
“What about you?” I asked Trinity. “Did you level?”
“Yeah,” she scoffed. “Now I’m a level 1, whoopee.”
“Well, it’s better than nothing I guess.”
“Can’t you just…level with her all day until she’s back to normal?” Nanaya asked.
“Nope,” I said shaking my head. “12-hour cooldown.”
“Oh, I forgot about that. What a bummer,” said the succubus.
“Tell me about it.” I emerged from the pool feeling pretty hungry, so the girls and I joined Tweak in the small dining area to munch on a fruit, bread, and cheese platter.
“You know,” said Tweak as he popped grapes into his mouth and leaned back in his chair. “I could get used to this. Maybe the Underworld ain’t so bad after all.”
“Oh, for most people it is,” said Nanaya. “I’ve just got sick connections, that’s all.”
“Then why do you want out?” Trinity asked, being her suspicious self.
“Are you kidding?” The succubus scoffed. “This place sucks a big one. I only got like a week topside before I was dragged down here.”
“Then how are you a level 33.”
“34 now, thanks to Sammy.”
“Whatever.” Trinity rolled her eyes when Nanaya stroked my arm.
“I can level down here,” Nanaya clarified. “It was part of the deal.”
“With who?” Trinity pressed.
“None of your business.”
“I think it’s my business. We’ve put a lot of trust in you, and I don’t want any surprises or jealous ex boyfriends coming after us because you’re helping. Been there, done that, and it sucked.”
Nanaya looked to me for some sort of protection, but I wanted to hear more of the story as well, so I shrugged.
“Fine,” said the succubus. “But I already told Sam most of the story.”
She told Trinity and Kit about the demon that she had summoned, and how she hadn’t been able to control it. Kit giggled when Nanaya told them how she had cut off the demon’s balls and fed him to a lava monster, but Trinity still had questions.
“So this deal of yours; you agreed to become a succubus in exchange for ability to level down here?”
“Exactly,” said Nanaya.
“Why would you agree to that? Don’t all the succubi down here torture people like all the time?”
“Yeah, but I only torture those who like it, and it’s not really torture, more like freaky sexual shit like your friend Tweak there is into.”
Tweak blushed a deeper shade of purple and froze halfway into biting an apple. “What? You think I enjoyed what happened to me?”
“You were in a realm in which your deepest, darkest fantasies—”
“You’re crazy,” he said, and went back to eating.
We all shared a laugh, and the conversation soon turned to Anna, Ember, and Cecilia.
“How are we going to find them?” Kit asked with concern so deep her eyes watered.
I rubbed her shoulder to console her. “We’ll find them the same way we found you, with Nanaya’s help.”
The succubus glanced our way fleetingly.
“What?” I asked.
“I’m pretty much strapped for favors that I can call in,” she confessed.
“Then we’ll get the information the old-fashioned way,” said Trinity as she cracked her knuckles.
“Who we need to knock around?” Tweak asked Nanaya.
“What I’m saying is that I’ll have to ask around, and it might take some time.”
“What are you thinking?” I asked, sensing that she had an alternative that she didn’t want to mention.
“Well,” she said, shifting nervously in her chair. “I could summon a demonic minion…”
“Oh hell no,” said Tweak.
“You’re here because of a demon,” Trinity added skeptically, “and now you want to summon another?”
“I’m a lot better at it now, trust me,” said Nanaya. “And I don’t mean a full-blown demon, just an imp.”
“It must still be dangerous,” I of
fered.
She shrugged. “The worst that can happen is my soul gets devoured, but I highly doubt it. All we’ve got to do is get ahold of what imps crave the most.”
“Which is…” said Trinity.
“Pizza, of course.”
“Pizza?” said Tweak through a mouthful of mango.
“Yup,” said Nanaya happily. “The little fuckers go ape shi—uh, crazy for the stuff.”
I couldn’t help but laugh at the thought of an imp greedily stuffing his face with pizza while offering up juicy information.
“Alright, great,” I said. “But how do we get ahold of pizza?”
Nanaya pursed her lips and glanced at Tweak with a sympathetic smile.
“What?” said the purple ape.
“The other succubus that I get the food from…she likes to, uh, dominate.”
“No fucking way,” he said waving his hands.
“Oh, come on,” said Trinity. “The secret’s out, dude, and guess what, we don’t give a shit about what you’re into. Hell, we have giant orgies with Loverboy here. Who are we to judge?”
He frowned at us all, obviously feeling a responsibility to help. “You sure this bitch can get what we need?”
Nanaya nodded.
“Fuck me,” said Tweak. “I can’t believe y’all want to pimp me out for pizza.”
“It’s not just for pizza,” I said, trying but failing to hide my mirth. “We’re doing it to free Anna, Ember, and Cecilia. They were all blessed as I was, and once the guild is back together, we can take out Kincaid once and for all.”
“Yeah, this seems pretty familiar,” said Tweak. “And if memory serves me right, you got all the credit for saving Rebirth Online because of what I did.”
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