Dungeon of Niflheim-Chapter 862: Private meal (3)
"So what are your immediate plans...when you leave?" Asked Khione with a slightly nervous stutter.
She looked absolutely ravishing, her clothes tightly following the contours of her generous curves, the Andurial red wine causing a light ruby red blush to don her cheeks and her exposed, chocolate coloured skin drawing Frost’s gaze.
With the mood lighting, the subtle joyous chorus of guests enjoying their meals and the beautiful sights of the passing ocean waves the atmosphere between Frost and Khione was incredibly romantic.
The young Princess was nervous and felt a little pressured by the mood thus without too much thought she shifted the conversation.
"Ideally I’d like to return to my Dungeon as soon as possible so as to prepare for what’s about to come." Frost resisted to urge to tease her about wanting him to leave so soon. "But your father asked me to do him a favour, so I’ll be handling that first." Though he was still in the dark of the exact location of the Lunar Maidens he knew it was within an area he could handle with his current strength.
"Oh! The old man asked you for help?" Khione didn’t expect her high and mighty father to need the aid of someone with Frost’s capabilities.
’What’s his angle?’ She knew that her father had reservations and restrictions when it came to his interference with the mortal world, but he had a bevy of soldiers and even citizens who would be more than willing to offer their services.
"Yeah, there’s a situation with the Lunar Maidens. He can’t move himself and they no longer have the strength to survive Niflheim’s environment, so he asked me to take them in and hopefully help preserve the last of their lineage." Frost knew Shivali didn’t come to this decision lightly. The Lunar Maidens despite being cut off for thousands of years still held an important position in his heart, an emotional connection to his first wife.
"The Lunar Maidens...." Khione frowned in response as her mind scavenged through her memories trying to recognise the name. "...Wait I remember Empress mother mentioning them before....aren’t they basically ice succubae?" Her womanly instincts honed in on this fact, flaring to the point that her expression warped and her insides twisted and oozed ripe vinegar.
’Of course that’s the thing she focuses on.’ Frost wasn’t even surprised. He’d have the exact same reaction if he were in her shoes.
"Basically yes but there’s no need for you to be worried Khione I’m not that fickle." Though technically despite already have two very loving partners he still found himself chasing after another, but Khione was a special exception and although his dragon sorely wished to break through those sacred gates of hers he repeatedly held himself back. Flirting, caressing and hopefully a lightning infused contact between their lips were all fair game or at least forgivable offences but anything more would be a betrayal.
Until he informed Maya and Daki of his pursuits and gained their blessings he couldn’t make such an extreme move regardless of how much his body and even heart wanted him to.
He even partially and secretly blamed the two of them for his current struggles, if only they had managed to thoroughly drain him before he left he wouldn’t be so horny.
His words sounded genuine to Khione’s ears, but the wariness never fully left, a small modicum of sourness remaining.
"My lineage is suited for reigning in their innate pride while the fact that my territory is in sore need of people makes for a double win. Uncle gets a weight lifted from his heart while I get to strengthen my territory." Even a few additional C-ranks would greatly shore up his military strength, but the true gain was the fact that these women could provide sexual services to both his own monsters as well as the growing populace within his territory, a service that had been repeatedly requested by the city-state’s council.
With their traits being akin to succubae the Lunar Maidens were the perfect fit for this kind of work and given their current circumstances and the fact that the majority of their older generation had been lost they’d likely be less adverse to performing such activities. No more would they be able stand on ceremony and look down on those who they deemed as lesser races and hopefully without their harmful traditions holding them back they could finally rise up and regain what they had once lost.
Frost held a great deal of hope and expectation for these women, believing that they’d fit right at home amongst his forces. He was keen to save them from their current plight.
"Is that all? You didn’t manage to extract a juicy reward for yourself." Khione found it hard to believe that her father wouldn’t be generous with his wealth nor that her young paramour would be so gentle in the face of such temptation.
In response to her confusion Frost showed off his sharp white teeth as he smirked. "Oh Khione do I really look like that much of chump in your eyes?" Of course he extracted a hefty price, one that was so high it even put his life in danger to ask it.
"...No you don’t that’s why I want to know. How much did you make the old man bleed." Her own lips turned upwards, mirroring Frost’s expression and several hundred kilometres away within the royal palace Shivali who was performing his Kingly duties suddenly shivered, his body somehow aware that he was being talked about in an insulting manner.
"Well other than offering his youngest daughter on a silver platter..." Frost winked in a flirtatious manner causing Khione to roll her eyes before continuing. "I convinced him to hand over one of his private chefs...they’ll join you when you eventually decide to leave Niflheim." Of course there’d be other gifts wrapped up alongside Khione, but they weren’t the most important.
"....." Khione stared at Frost in utter silence, her eyes opening up like saucers as she started patting him down. "How in Nova are you still alive with balls that big." She was blown away by his pilfering skills, her father had few reverse scales, his private chefs were one of them.
"The face helps but the reasoning this time around was a mixture of logic and emotion. He did flare up initially to the point that I was literally shaking in my boots but after convincing him to hear me out he reluctantly agreed." Just remembering the pressure that assaulted not just his body but also his very soul filled him with fear and trepidation. Khione and Maya’s bursts of anger were like being naked in front of a fierce predator, but Shivali was more akin to nature, as though the entire world was seeing him as an enemy.
"He really agreed, you’re not pulling my leg with this?" A group of her elder siblings tried to interfere with his private culinary department before only to end up beaten black and blue and suffering from nightmares for months. S-ranks with no small amount of pride, determination and guts turned into mewling babes.
’The balls on this man.’ She didn’t know if Frost was foolish or brave, but she was grateful he was still in one piece.
"No, dead serious I told him it was for Nanna’s education and upon learning about her life and her passions he agreed to my terms, allowing for an experienced spirit chef to enter my employ. He still needs to decide on who it’d be, but he did give his word." Frost had no qualms regarding the weight of the Primordial Ice King’s words; he was a God after all.
"Nanna that’s the young, phoenix kin girl you took in right?" Khione queried knowing some things about Frost’s life and those closest to him from their chats. She knew about his relationship with Maya and Daki and how he came to be responsible for two young phoenix kin. Getting involved with someone who already had lovers wasn’t something that gave her too much pause given her own family’s situation but kids that was a whole other kind of pressure.
She couldn’t help but feel a little awkward and anxious when Frost spoke of them. His high level of care and affection towards the brother sister pair was obvious to see therefore if she wanted to be with him, truly with him she needed to accept and be accepted by these two children as well as Maya and Daki.
Hurdles on the path that seemed to only grow more daunting the more she was forced to think about them.
"Yes alongside her younger brother Loki who recently developed a passion for medicine." He had plans to find a skilled doctor and or medical alchemist in the future for the purpose of his education just like what he was doing for Nanna but his troll witchdoctors and frost dwarven priests were doing just fine teaching him the basics.
"Oh wait I think I actually have a few pictures I can show you." Frost suddenly remembered one of the features offered by the Dungeon system, the ability to take pictures and although a vast amount of them were of his sexy lovers, a habit he couldn’t help but indulge in whenever he had the chance he had several of Loki and Nanna as well as his monsters and even parts of the Dungeon.
’Why didn’t I think of doing this earlier.’ It’d make explaining his whole situation to others that much easier.
