TF Chapter 88 One Year Later

A year can be long or short depending on the perspective and experiences of the subject that was experiencing the passage of time. The thought that this had been one hell of a long year was the prevalent one within my mind. 

The sun was bearing down onto my skin, unleashing a fury that was practically nonexistent to me as I had already gotten used to it. A gentle breeze blew, causing the thin branch I was standing on to sway with the leaves, but my feet remained steady. I had climbed up to the top most tip of this tree, gazing at the ocean of black that was before me. A year and a few months had passed. More time had been added because the others had had to get used to their newly awakened intents.

Me on the other hand had tested the limits of what was possible with my intent, even having managed to grow my spiritual powers to the limits of the first level with the many spirit cores we had managed to procure. Right now, I was confident that anyone without an intent was simply mere canon fodder to me. And this wasn't me being arrogant by any means. It was the cold hard truth!

With a small leap, my body plummeted, with everything that appeared within five meters of me, from leaves to branches to creatures, turning to ash and steam without even being given a chance to ignite!" It was exhilarating how my intent domain could achieve something so great with just a little bit of my input.

Before my feet even touched the ground, I created a globe of orange above me that tried to suck me upwards, causing a strange equilibrium with the planet's gravity, allowing my body to halt midair.

The mud instantly turned to solid ground as I evaporated all the steam and let my self drop towards it. 

"You simply love showing off your power, don't you?" A soft voice spoke while my smile widened in recognition. It was Bora, who had arrived to pick me up.

"I don't love showing off. I just love using my intent." I clarified while pulling her into a hug, where, with just the barest hint of our lips touching, I gazed into those purple pupils of hers that were looking at me softly.

"You know, I love men who like to show off." She teased.

"Oh! Then I was most definitely showing off." 

Through my body, I felt hers' heat up, and a crimson blush to adorn her cheeks yet, those purple petalled eyes never broke eye contact with mine. They contained something that verged on a challenge, as if she was daring me to do something.

And I knew what she wanted me to do...and that was to taste her lips, but, I didn't give in, instead, I moved my right hand to below the hem of her short black beast skin dress and dragged my index finger on her thigh with just the right amount of pressure for a caress, only for a shiver to cause her body to tremble, but she still didn't avert her eyes.

I scoffed at her attempts to make herself appear unfazed, but I was also starting to get excited as her gaze was stimulating my desire to dominate her, so I started moving the finger upwards, with my hand causing her dress to slither upwards. 

Her lips parted a little and a hot breath was released. For a moment I had an illusion that her body had almost buckled at my touch, almost crumbling to the ground. This was what I loved about her. Her body was honest even though she tried to appear nonplussed. It was cute!

"What are you happy about? You haven't won yet." She spoke after seeing the grin on my face.

"Bora, you are one interesting woman. I would have liked to continue this and see the various expressions I could elicit out of you...but didn't you come here to pick me up?" 

I broke our close contact abruptly. l was scared that if I continued, I might not be able to stop myself. This was not the time, besides the others would be drawn over if we took too much time.

"Coward."

That one word caused every self control I had been trying to exert upon my desires to almost break. I pulled her once again into a hug and placed my lips upon her ear, where I proceeded to lick the tips before saying...

"...if I ravage you, I wouldn't be able to control myself to stop. You...wouldn't be able to handle my big dick for over 24 hours."

After those words, I pulled away from her and sauntered off before I truly lost control. She was the bane of my existence.

*****

Walking through the mud, with the occasional light falling onto my body, I took a deep breath, to try and calm my raging boner. Bora was behind me as I could hear her soft footsteps behind me yet, she didn't come to my side, probably still shaken by what I had just whispered into her ears.

A grin appeared on my face as I felt happy of the fact that I hadn't been the only one flustered.

"...and I had placed my bet on you two taking a much longer time to appear." Danny smirked as he gave away a spirit core to Alistair, and it was probably related to his words. With our current power, hunting for spirit cores had become all too easy that they had become useless to us.

"I already told you that you would most definitely lose, why did you have to go and insist? Those two are too conservative. They are new to this relationship thing." Alistair spoke with a smile.

"You two are weird creatures. I really want to document you! How can you spend over a year together without even having sex once?" The short haired woman who had followed Alistair spoke with genuine surprise in her tone.

"Shut up!" Bora raced over and closed a hand over the woman's mouth. She was someone who could murder people with just words.

"So...now that we were here, are we prepared to storm the city?" I asked, with the question causing everyone's eyes to become a tad more focused and serious.

I crossed my hands over my chest as I pondered upon what we were about to do. What had surprised us in these months was the fact that the tribe hadn't sent anyone to hunt for us. And even the previous aliens who had been cutting down the tress hadn't appeared ever again. Even on the other side of the bridge, there were none that appeared. It was as if they had decided to retreat from this area. But why didn't they come back to destroy the bridges? There were many questions that I had due to their bizarre behaviour that would only be answered when we truly reached their village.

"Their behavior...or lack of ever since we escaped from their village is puzzling. I had thought they would hunt us down." Alistair scratched the back of his head.

"It looks like we will need to be cautious. I believe that many of them would have awakened their intents. This is going to be a very dangerous situation...and we might lose our lives. Are you still sure you want to attack the village?" My gaze roamed all of them, searching for any traces of hesitation. This wasn't a game! Our lives were literally going to be at stake here.

"We need to understand about that statue. And I don't want to live a life where am just going to sit around worshipped by people. Whatever happened that caused the death of many forgers is something I wouldn't want to happen to me." Alistair's fists were clenched and his eyes had the luster of resolve in them.

I was of the same decision as the man. From the moment that Alistair had revealed information about that weird statue, my heart had been moved. I had felt that maybe, I was going to learn about the universe at last! If that statue knew about intent, and even had the means to pass on such knowledge, them that meant that there was some sort of higher civilisation at play. There were risks...that I couldn't deny, but if I gave up here, then what would have been the whole point of becoming a forger? I didn't like the act of sitting around, trying to synthesize new materials for our civilisation, getting rich by bleeding people dry, and sitting around with absolutely zero excitement in my life! I wanted to be on the front lines of whatever event was going to happen related to forgers. 

"...I agree with you all, but I want you to promise me that at least, we will first scout out the place...okay." Bora asserted. Her gaze travelled through all of us, causing each and every one of us to give her a verbal agreement.