When Eridia walked through the empty door frame, she stopped in her tracks. A message had appeared right in front of her face. It read: "Welcome to the Trials of the Exiled Apprentice. Pick a path and make sure to see it through to the end. Survive each challenge on the way to earn a reward. Good luck and enjoy!"

Turning around revealed that the way leading back to the cave had disappeared. The only way to get out of this place was forward, which meant she had to choose a path and finish it. There were three doors available to pick from and they all had a word engraved on top of them. Fighter, Mage and... Courtesan?

Eridia had no idea what the last option meant, but she thought for a moment about which one to enter before deciding on the one in the middle. She had looked at her Status and checked her belongings too just to make sure she was prepared enough before she opened the Mage door.

The strange thing about this all was that it wasn't a divine trial by the gods as far as she knew. The message that had appeared would have mentioned it according to the records. Eridia glanced around, but the room was too dark even for her feline eyes until she took another step forward.

A row of Will-o-Wisps lit up in a bright flash of light that blended her for a few seconds. When she opened her eyes again, a translucent wave of energy rippled through the air and washed over her entire body. It was gone faster than it had appeared before leaving the otherwise empty room.

There was nothing else there, but when Eridia stepped toward the door at the other side of the room, an invisible force began to press down on her out of nowhere. It almost felt like she was inside a stream of water that tried to push her away. For some reason, she felt slugish and strangely tired all of a sudden.

"Be quick before you succumb to the drain. If it's too hard you can give up, and try again. Completing this task in one go will give you a reward. Good luck, challenger!"

Eridia took a deep breath and kept walking. The pressure on her grew with every step, but she felt fine despite the sensation of her mana being restricted. She had tried to shape it into a sort of barrier or crude armor, but stopped when it didn't help in her current situation.

It was hard, but not an impossible task. Eridia felt strangely fine despite the coldness clinging to her naked body. The fur on her was too thin to keep her warm, but she was still sweating from the strain of simply walking under this pressure that seemed like it could crush her at any moment.

She stumbled a few times and almost fell when she had reached the middle of the room. At this point, she was gasping while crawling on all fours. The sensation of relief surprised her when she had reached the exit of this challenge after a while of moving with the frequent short break. The door to the next room had opened silently, but she still needed to take a break.

Eridia had taken off her robes at some point during the challenge, hoping that it would lessen the pressure on her a little bit, but it didn't work. At least she wasn't feeling cold anymore, but now she was feeling thirsty from the ordeal. Yet she only drank a few small gulps of her water just in case she needed to preserve it for later.

"Congratulations, challenger! You have cleared the mana oppression room in one go and earned a slight increase in the control of your mana. Keep this up and you will earn more!"

She felt a sudden surge of energy coursing through her from the ears on the top of her head to the pawpads on her feet and even to the tip of her tail too. It felt strangely invigorating and washed her tiredness away. But there was a tingling sensation to her cock, nipples and clitoris too which caused her to shiver.

Eridia stood up after taking a few deep breaths and groomed herself a bit before entering the next room. It was already brightly lit up as soon as she walked through the open door. She stopped at the strange sight, furrowed her brows and readied her sharp claws atthe sight in front of her.

There were three light-blue slimes moving in her direction, either crawling or jumping towards her. Eridia tried to run past them, but stopped and dodged a tentacle while another message appeared in her mind. These gooey monsters were trying to grab her and almost made her miss the information about this challenge.

"Carefull, challenger! These slimes are frisky and want to 'eat' you. Keep in mind that there is always more than one way to win. Survive and you will earn a reward in the next room. Good luck, challenger!"

There were more goey tentacles reaching out to her while she listened to the message. Eridia wanted to use her spell, but for some unknown reason she was unable to cast it. She wondered if it had a certain condition that she had failed to fulfill before she was able to shoot a Kinetic Bolt at the slimes.

The three monsters didn't give her any time to figure it out with their relentless attempts to entangle her. The young Panthera tried ripping her constraints apart by using her claws and teeth, but there were too many and she couldn't tear through them fast enough to escape.

At some point, Eridia wasn't even able to slightly harm them since the marks that her attacks left behind were too shallow. And any tentacle that she had managed to rip appart just regenerated or got replaced by a new one faster than she attacked them. Biting them left a strange taste in her mouth too. It was a mix between lightly sour and something else, but she was too busy fighting and had no time figuring out how the slimes tasted.

Some of the tentacles hit her with all their might, outright whipping her while aiming at her breasts, ass and back. They even struck her balls and cock quite a few times too. It hurt, but felt kinda good whenever her nipples, clit or the tip of her semi-erect member got targeted by the slimes. After a while, the tentacles focused more on her genitals while constricting her arms and legs.

Eridia stood completely still in the middle of the room and groaned from the mix of pleasure and pain that the monsters inflicted on her. A few minutes had passed and the tentacles were still hitting her most sensitive spots. Sweat, tears, pre and pussy juices had fallen onto the ground. The slimes kept her on the edge of a powerful orgasm without letting her cum by stopping from time to time before they continued.

At least she was warmed up by now and didn't feel cold anymore. Something began to well up deep inside her body with each arousing strike on her stiff nipples, throbbing cock or sensitive nuts. She pulled on the tentacles that prevented her from moving away and managed to curl up into a fetal position, exposing her back, ass and balls to the slimes which did nothing to stop them. They focused on whipping her rear and hit her dangling orbs with more force than they did before.

Something clicked inside her head, making her act instantly on pure instincts. She stood up with a sudden outcry and pointed her palm towards the slime that was the closest to her. A projectile shot towards the blue, goey monster and hit it faster than it could react. Eridia was astonished at what had happened since all that she was able to see was a fast-moving, glowing, shimmering bubble that shifted colors from blue to red with beautiful arcs of light following behind it while the projectile traveled across the roroom.

It was over in the blink of an eye. The slime had moved its core out of the path of the Kinetic Bolt, yet it still rippled like water that had a stone thrown into it before the monster burst like a soap bubble. Eridia felt like she had enough energy inside her to cast the spell two more times. The remaining slimes stopped their attacks and suddenly moved towards the core laying on the ground.

They merged together and released a group of smaller slimes after their mass had suddenly increased. The swarm of blue goo rushing at her was quite fast. She tried to dodge them, but the small monsters were quicker and clung to her sweaty body. Eridia pulled at them in an attempt to get the slimes off of her, but the sudden feeling of being groped made that more dificult.

She could feel them stroking her cock, gently squeezing her balls and teasing her clit as well as her nipples while something thick was rubbing against her pussy and pucker too, all at once at the same time. They weren't penetrating her just yet and focused more on playing with her instead. Eridia was still able to move while the huge slime stood still, though.

She tried to claw herself free, but the slimes that were clinging to her body just regenerated whenever she ripped some of them off. Not even a second casting of her spell had worked since it only flung herself closer towards the huge mass of blue goo. Luckily, she didn't land too close to it. The enormous slime  wasn't moving from it's current spot right now while it kept releasing more tiny versions of itself.

Eridia moaned at having her cock stroked by the slimes that clung to her. She took a few shaky steps backwards before stopping when the teasing intensified. It caused her to trip and fall down. Luckily, she landed on her hands and knees. A gasp escaped her mouth when she felt something entering her ass before it began to move back and forth, fucking her with teasingly slow thrusts to the rhythm of the slime that was caressing her erect member.

She crawled towards the huge mass of combined slimes, moaning the whole time thanks to the slimy suit that kept stimulating her genitals. It felt good at first, but became slowly more intense the closer she got to the massive monster which had grown bigger over time. Eridia had a few orgasms thanks to the slimes having their way with her, but she didn't stop moving forwards no matter how good the slimes made her feel.

It took her a bit longer and cumming some more just to reach the merged slime mass. They had finished absorbing the core of their fallen comrade by now and fused all three nuclei together into a much larger one, causing them to release even more goo. It turned into smaller slimes with tiny cores only for them to then rush towards her and combine with the almost see-through suit on her body.

They covered her entirely except for her head and tail for some reason unknown to the Panthera. And yet she still managed to reach her goal by getting closer with each shaking, blissful step. Eridia was now on top of the blue collective and got engulfed by it until only her face was left free from any slime. At this moment, the rubbing against her labia and clit stopped all of a sudden.

Instead, the slime had taken her virginity by pushing forward and penetrating her deep enough to reach all the way to her cervix. There was even a visible bulge in her stomach whenever the phallic tentacle thrusted into her wet snatch. And if that wasn't enough stimulation bringing her closer to orgasm, then the other pleasurable sensations would certainly bring her closer to another orgasm.

Her cock got stroked faster now too while her pussy and ass got fucked in the same quick rhythm, one tentacle always moving forwards while the other withdrew before exploring her depths again.  The slime suit kept massaging her breasts and balls while at the same time alternating between pulling and twisting her nipples. It even stimulated her clit by somehow constantly vibrating.

The tip of her cock was now right in front of the the fused slime core. She came on it hard, shooting her thick seed all over it while her pussy juices seemed to be absorbed by it too. A small tendril moved deep into her urethra until it entered her bladder where it began to drain all of her urine before slowly moving back and forth.

There was a sudden pressure building up deep inside her when something entered her womb. The slime core had disappeared while her face got covered with the blue goo, engulfing her entire body from top to bottom. The words of the earlier message rung in her head, causing Eridia to cast her spell with herself as the focus. A blast of kinetic force shot out all around her from her body. When she opened her eyes, all that she could see were bits of slime scattered everywhere in the room.

Nothing was teasing her anymore. All the groping, fondling and fucking of her had suddenly stopped. And yet, she was still wearing a semi see-through suit made out of blue slimes. Eridia sat down and emptied one milk bottle by drinking it only to refill the container with some of the remaining goo by carefully scraping it from the ground without touching it. She then put the cork back on, put it away and checked the room for anything else before leaving for the next challenge. But there wasn't even a single core left so she just headed to the open door.

"That was a close call, but you did it, challenger! You managed to defeat the swarm of slimes and earned a piece of new equipment as your reward. Only two more challenges are left before you can finish this path!"

There was a sudden notification in front of her. She focused on her Status for a moment to check if something had changed. Eridia didn't see anything out of the ordinary until she took a look at the list of her skills. There was a new entry under it.

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Name: Eridia
Age: 18
Sex: Futanari

Level: 1
Class: Blue Mage
Occupation: Traveler/Explorer (temporary)

Spells: Kinetic Bolt

Active Skills: None
Passive Skills: Copycat, Enduring Defender, Mana Fountain, Mana Well

Mist Rabbit: 1/100
Ember Fox: 1/100
Arcane Slime Cluster: 1/1

Equipment: Slime Suit (ᚠ), Blue Mage Robes (ᚦ)

If this continued, then she would become a one-trick pony unless she learned a new spell or earned an active skill. Even a weapon could shange things, but she never was good with a sword or a bow. Eridia sat down, cushioned by the slime suit that covered her soft bubble butt. She closed her eyes for a quick nap before she continued with the next challenge. After she got up, the young Panthera entered the next room only to stop at what she saw. What awaited her made her think that she had walked right into a trap.