Chapter 1311: 69. Rage

"Hah..."

Muen's heartbeat kept accelerating, and under the surge of adrenaline, his breathing grew increasingly rapid.

Yet despite the turmoil raging inside him, his movements suddenly became gentle.

He caressed the mountains, stroked across the plains, exploring them carefully inch by inch.

At this moment, rather than saying he was engaging in an extreme sport of constantly climbing toward greater heights, it would be more accurate to say that he was carefully appreciating a perfect work of art.

He revealed everything he had, all so that he could fit himself even more perfectly with this one-of-a-kind work of art.

Because this "work of art" was simply far too "expensive" for him.

A Calamity.

The Dragon of Death and Doom.

The strongest creature beneath the heavens.

Words that by all rights should have existed only in legends had now taken on a clear and tangible form, lying obediently beneath him and allowing him to admire her as he pleased.

The touch, the scent, and the tremendous contrast brought by every movement she made gave him a sense of exhilaration akin to conquering the entire world.

And for Muen, that was merely the crudest, most external influence.

Far more important was the throbbing that came from the depths of his heart the instant his hands touched Dragon Lady's skin... the feeling he had hidden so well.

Surging blood, burning flames, intertwined breaths—all of it magnified that throbbing again and again and again, by who knew how many times, until compared with the stimulation of his external senses, the pounding of his heart was what truly set every sensitive nerve in his body alight.

"Hah... You're so beautiful," Muen murmured, becoming even more careful and going even deeper.

His heart no longer even seemed to be here. It had already broken free of him, drifting upward on its own toward somewhere even higher.

Hamreign had misjudged one thing.

A so-called trial was not one-sided.

It worked both ways.

Unlike Hamreign, who was fighting against her own heart and instincts, Muen had no reason to resist.

He simply followed them.

And because of that, he was able to reach the deepest part of his own heart far more easily.

So at this moment, Muen completely lost himself in it as well. He forgot all about schemes and tricks, forgot all those so-called arguments. All he wanted was to possess Dragon Lady's body with even greater fervor and completely release the feelings that had accumulated inside him for so long.

Countless scenes likewise surfaced in Muen's mind.

There was Dragon Lady from back when she'd "snatched him away from his wedding," descending exactly like an evil dragon from the heavens.

There was the cold and indifferent Dragon Lady in that shattered land, who had wanted to directly destroy everyone who had been Polluted.

There was also the confused and anguished Dragon Lady when faced with the enemy's cruel scheme.

And finally, there was the Dragon Lady hidden deepest within, who occasionally revealed a little natural airheadedness, who was the cutest, the most captivating... and the gentlest of them all.

All those different Dragon Ladies merged together at this moment, becoming the Dragon Lady beneath Muen... so beautiful that merely looking at her made one sigh.

"Dragon Lady, you're really captivating. I..."

Muen murmured so softly it was almost inaudible, then raised his head, wanting to confirm—or rather, admire—Dragon Lady's current state.

He had great confidence in himself.

He believed that under his assault, Dragon Lady definitely wouldn't be able to hold out.

However...

"Come, my companion..."

He met a pair of golden eyes that had forcibly regained their clarity through sheer self-control.

"I will prove the... purity between us!"

"..."

Muen fell silent.

He stared blankly at Dragon Lady, not knowing how he should react at this moment. He only felt...

His mind explode with a boom.

An unprecedented fury suddenly replaced all the feelings he had hidden in his chest, surging upward like a tidal wave.

He was suddenly furious.

Inexplicably furious.

He had been angry before.

But never this angry.

Especially when he heard those two words he had already heard countless times and long since grown accustomed to...

My companion.

The anger whose seed might have been planted long ago, yet had always remained hidden and dormant, was finally unleashed completely.

"After all this, you're still talking about purity?" Muen suddenly sneered.

"Hm?"

Hamreign froze for a moment.

She could not understand why her companion had suddenly changed so drastically.

"W-What are you talking about?"

"Dragon Lady, why don't you take a look at what you look like right now? You're lying beneath a man, leaving the most important parts of your body completely undefended. And you call this pure?"

"I... I'm only undergoing a trial!"

"What trial? What you're doing right now is already more shameless than Liya, that pure Saintess, when she's in bed! Heh, from that perspective, I suppose you really are quite 'pure'!"

Driven by anger, Muen was no longer gentle, nor did he continue treating her like a work of art to be admired.

He began climbing outright, step by step, no longer caring about the beautiful scenery among the peaks as he forcefully pressed forward and upward!

Without the slightest trace of tenderness, his eyes fixed only upon that supreme summit!

"Mm..."

Hamreign's delicate brows furrowed slightly, and a trace of pain appeared on her face, yet an alluring little moan escaped her lips like the soft cry of a lark.

Muen seized the opportunity and continued upward, passing over plains and mountains... directly reaching that beautiful lake.

He bent down and softly kissed the water.

Kissing...

That had not been part of the planned trial!

Yet at this moment, she no longer had the ability to refuse.

The shackles around her wrists were still sealing away all her power, and Muen pressed both of her hands above her head precisely to strip away even the last bit of her ability to resist.

As a result, not only was she unable to stop this unplanned, filthy, shameless behavior, she could only allow her companion to pry apart her pearly teeth and explore this beautiful scenery that had never before been revealed to an outsider.

No...

The contract between her and him had also been formed through bodily fluids...

But absolutely not like this!

And yet she still couldn't break free!

"Mm..."

After a fierce battle...

The thousand-year-old Calamity was nothing more than a blank sheet of paper in this particular field, without the slightest combat experience.

So unsurprisingly, she was defeated.

Every one of her positions was seized, and depths that no one had reached in a thousand years were now subjected completely to a ruthless invasion and cleansing.

Hamreign felt herself becoming increasingly unable to endure it.

Some indescribable heat was rampaging wildly through her body.

She had already realized something was wrong, but by this point, events had long since escaped her control.

From the moment she bound herself, the so-called Calamity had already lost the opportunity to control her own fate.

"I'd like to see whether you can stay this 'pure' forever."

Muen's eyes were bloodshot.

Under the catalysis of anger and fire, he seemed to have completely transformed into a beast that had lost all reason, while Hamreign was nothing more than a helpless little white rabbit, able only to wait for the cruel fate that came next.

Muen slowly spread her legs apart.

This too was a mysterious place that had never been revealed to an outsider in a thousand years, yet it was also the most crucial point on the road to climbing the mountain.

Muen was rough and wild, giving her no possibility of defending it.

"Wait..."

Hamreign finally revealed a trace of panic.

"There... no!"

"What's not allowed about it? Aren't you the one who wanted a trial? If even this isn't allowed, then how are we supposed to know whether you... are really pure?"

Muen no longer hesitated.

With his reason almost completely consumed by rage and burning desire, he showed not the slightest tenderness, directly entering this region and setting the summit as his goal.

Climb!

Climb!

...

...

"Huh?"

A few seconds later, Muen seemed to suddenly calm down and let out a confused sound.

He slowly lowered his head, his expression so shocked that it was as though he had just discovered Ariel possessed towering mountains as well. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

"How could this be?"

He had already gone this far, and yet...

"Hah... hah... hah..."

Hamreign was still breathing heavily, whether from the instincts that were becoming increasingly difficult to suppress or from the anger that had just risen within her.

She stared at Muen.

After that relentless series of attacks, she finally recovered some of the arrogance belonging to a Calamity and sneered:

"Did you really think I would be so easy for you to break through? Even with my Mystery sealed, the strength of my physical body itself isn't something that can be shaken so easily!"