Chapter 3: Women are Toys, A Plaything
The night sky is full of lustrous stars, the moon lightened the mood of the surrounding in the darkness and the cries of insects gave a mellow feeling. A car traverses silently the road heading towards the Kingdom of the Iron Fortress. A middle age woman watching the view of the lands while driving and a seven to eight-year-old kid covered in a thick cloth sleeping at the back sit of the car. They travel for hours until they reach their destination at morning.
Kingdom of Iron Fortress owns the majority of land in the Golden Circle Realm. The size of the land they own is like a province and they are still expanding. This Kingdom controls a lot of minor sects, families, and organizations manage everything of the kingdom's operations, all of those are the Kingdoms property.
Arriving at the Kingdom's castle, the middle age woman and a child were welcomed by a number of servants. This middle age woman is no other than Lehra and her child. They are being escorted by the servant to the castle's main hall by the king command.
In the main hall, the king was sitting on his throne drinking a fine wine. The door of the main hall slowly creaks revealing a number of silhouettes; these silhouettes are Lehra and company. King Eric reveals a smile showing his white teeth, Lehra also mischievously smiled back at him. King Eric sends the mother and son both to the guest room.
At night where the cold breeze dominates, inside the dimly lighted room there are two figures caressing each other's body. They moved like waves of the ocean, strong and full of impact. They kissed like long lost lovers; saliva's dripping through their lips like ravenous wolves seeing food for a long time drooling nonstop like an everlasting falls. They both feel each other's warmth fighting the cold breeze entering the window that was blowing away the curtains. The man licked the woman's breast like a baby that finished drinking the milk. A bewitching moan magically give the man urges like he never had before, it feels like a bestowal of strength to carry on longer. They taste each other the whole night, full of penetration and satisfaction. In their process of pleasure they seem to not feel a presence that lurks in the dark, peeping with its small eyes seeing something which he should not see. A scene that opens a new world to this small mind that shouldn't be there; this scene diluted the innocent child.
"Did you saw your child had beaming eyes when he saw us doing it. You should also train him to become a man." The man said. "What a good idea you have, brother. I think I'll allow him to have a taste to woman flesh if I have a time." The woman replied with an alluring smile. The man and woman are both King Eric and Lehra.
"We had our plans done with the Tech-Engineering Group they are now part of our faction. The one your husband assigned is one of my men, now the next step we should do is to take control of the second of the Great Powers here the Heavens Anvil." Eric stated.
"It's only a matter of time to take control of this whole realm then," Lehra said while massaging Eric's shoulder. "and a step closer to the other six realms." She added.
"It's a shame we do not have your husband's great mind to make us further make our realm stronger. If only we have the same mindset I won't mind sharing with him your body." Eric laughs loudly followed by Lehra's giggle. Then they kissed each other intimately.
Several months passed, a child named Echo gloomily stands up onto his bed full of naked maidens, and these maidens are the castle servants. Echo is Lehra and Roland's son. After seeing the sight of his mother and his uncle having an intercourse with each other, Echo was shock and curious about what they are doing. But not until Lehra commanded the young maidens to have his little son a taste of a woman's flesh. For the first time Echo develop hatred towards women and his uncle, King Eric. When having lost his virginity at such a young age, the way it feels good and what the maidens told him why a man and a woman must do this thing with each other, gave him a realization. And that is his mother cheated his father, his mother had an affair with his uncle, his mother and all the maidens are pigs. This made him think about every woman in this world as a toy, a plaything.
For every passing day, weeks, or months not a single time did he not have slept with a maiden. He asked the king, King Eric give him his own house and servants and guards and his wishes had been granted. He just can't stand seeing his mother openly kissing and caressing his uncle King Eric in front of him; this made him almost puke and made a face full of disgust when turning his back at them. When his alone he would look at his necklace, remembering his father face deep in his memory. He wanted to ask him, why did he leave? If leaving can't be stop, then why didn't he bring me with him? He had many questions but nobody can answer him. Even with a handful of servants and guards with him he felt alone.
In Echo's 15th birthday his mother and his uncle were nowhere to be seen. It was like King Eric granted his wish and abandoned him making him live along with his servants. Echo didn't mind this, as long as his uncle provide him with food to eat he won't mind living like this. Celebrating with his servants made him feel very boring, these servants are more likely like robots they follow every order you give them but they show no emotions. King Eric had these servants trained to be emotionless to prevent them from doing things that may harm his wellbeing. This is the reason why Echo felt alone.
"What should I gift for myself today? Maybe I'll ask the guards to take some young ladies and have some fun with them in my secret chambers." Echo murmured to his self.
"Or maybe not? Those guards are dumb I always ask them to take young ladies but they brought me with ladies their age. They might not get what I mean when I said young ladies they might be referring to the same age as them. Well, I guess I'll just wander the streets and maybe I might find a girl of my liking." Echo pondered.
After pondering, Echo takes a few guards and walked to the streets. After circling the streets around the city, Echo still can find a gift for his own. So he headed to the places where a lot of people can be seen. He decided to go to the park to have a look; he might find a gift there for himself.
Inside the park, Echo found an unpleasant view. A beggar was being beaten by a middle age man. Echo's eyes narrowed it's his first time seeing someone beat somebody. The beggar looked battered full of bruised and its nose is dripping with blood.
"You f*ck*ng ant dare to ask that to me?" the middle age man laughs as he holds the hair of the beggar and slams its head to the ground. "You should ask your parents not to be born to be left alone like this. Let me help you end your problem by ending your life." There are many people walking around but they seem to not mind this thing, why would they help it's just a beggar it has nothing to do with them.
The middle age man pointed his index finger to the head of the beggar while he laughs like a devil. His index finger emits an azure glow and slowly forming into an ice spear. Seeing this Echo's eyes narrowed even more, "Help that beggar." Echo pointed to the middle age man while ordering the guards.
The guards' eyes glow a silver hue, one of the guards raise its hands forwards making the ice spear broke into pieces.
The middle age man was completely shaken. He turned around dashing towards a number of people. Echo waves his hand and the guards stopped pursuing the middle age man. The beggar look at Echo with tears trickling down its eyes, the beggar then kneeled to the ground clasping its hand thanking him for his goodwill.
The beggar has a fishy smell, long shaggy hair, tattered cloth, and the beggar's body is full of bruises but Echo did not seem to mind any of this as he touches the beggar's hair putting it aside revealing the beggars face.
What Echo saw mesmerize him because the beggar was a young lady, even though her face was battered and full of bruises you can see that her face was far from simple. Seeing Echo's perverted look, the beggar had a disgusted face. She wanted to punch this pretty boy's face. When Echo saw her disgusted face he was shocked, he did not expect the girl to be like this. When he saw that disgust, he thought about how disgusted he is to his mother. He didn't know what had happen to this girl to develop such hate. They have the same hate but in a different gender, he hated woman while this girl hated man; he change the way he looked at the girl he did not see her as a plaything anymore but as a kin. He smiled wryly while forcefully suppressing his urges and shake his head while saying "Sorry I didn't intend to do you harm, I just want to help you."
The beggar shocked her head indicating that she doesn't want anybody's help. As a homeless since she was a child, she encountered many unpleasant things, she was eight years old when she was helped by strangers making her take a bath, feeding her, and dressing her in clean dress but in the end she was rape by those strangers who helped her then after having fun of her they cleaned her and brought her to a mansion. That mansion's master was a pedophile and also a sadist. When the mansion master saw her, he smiled and looks at her like having a new toy to play with. He gave the strangers a card after the stranger receives it he left while laughing big time.
Her life at the mansion was hell, every single day she was being taken advantage, one night the mansion master was stress of his work. Her body was being cut by a blade and she was whip, she screamed while crying in pain. The mansion master enjoyed it so much that he seems full of ecstasy. After doing all of this the mansion master used her like nothing happen. Even though she was bloody all over her body the mansion master was even getting more drive. However a miracle happen, it is a bloody miracle. In the verge of getting unconscious, she was directly drop to the floor by the mansion master she weakly looked at the master but what she saw shocked her. The mansion master was holding his neck, being strangled with a tread. Blood was dripping to his neck; the man strangling the mansion master added more force separating the mansion master's head from it body. The man looked at her bath with blood he said, "You can go now, I'm tasked to massacre this polluted place but I'll spare your life."
She didn't know how but after being freed from that nightmare she looked like a healthy girl, she ran away not minding her bloody and weak body. That's is why she refused the offer Echo gave her, she is afraid that her freedom is taken away from her even if she lives a life of a beggar she would not mind. Echo's eyes the way he looked at her, made her remember the mansion master's stare; for her, that stare came from a demon.
Echo apologetically looked at her while he explained, "I don't have any motives towards you." He sat on a bench in front of her while asking some of his servants to aid her wounds. His servants immediately head his orders and apply a gel to the girl's bruises and wounds, after applying the bruises and wounds vanish in the blink of an eye there is not even a scar.
Even with the series of invitation by Echo, the girl respectfully shocked her head declining. But Echo is persistent in his invitation; this is his first time acting like this. He waited and stayed. A beggar and a wealthy looking young man with guards and servants standing by his side facing each other, the girl sat bellow a statue inside the park while the young man sat on a bench. The girl didn't mind him at all, she just laid a cloth on the ground pulling a sign and place it bellow her. Words are written to the sign stating, "Just a piece of Dormant Elemental Stone!"
Echo didn't know what this girl was asking for, "Is she playing? Asking for a stone than asking money? Is she really that tired of living? Maybe she is tired of living that's why she didn't take my invitation." Echo thought to himself.
But he was shocked there are a lot of people dropping small glass like stones, but every time those people drop this stone they reveal a mocking face, some sighed, some look like they felt ecstasy, some spit to the sign, and some even tried stealing it, if not for the guards around Echo stopping them those stones will be taken by those robbers.
Having a little knowledge about cultivation, this seemed like a joke to him. "Where do they get this stones from? It looked just like a broken glass to me." Echo wondered.
The sun set from the west, and it's getting dark. He asked the girl one last time before returning to his house but she was declined again. He did not force her; he just silently left without saying a word.
The girl looked at Echo's back while sighing. She then stands up, collects her things and rushed to the opposite path.
In Echo's house, Echo was searching the internet with a cellular bracelet. A hologram appeared with the information about that glass like stones. It is what the girl's sign says, a dormant spiritual element stone. This stone can be used in cultivating the Spirit Form of a person. There are three levels this stone; first, the low level which is what the girl had received, mid-level, and a high level. There is also what they called peak level that is commonly seen in the main system of one of the Great Powers.
Echo also research about cultivation, his seem not interested in cultivating he is only researching for a way to invite that girl by his side. Maybe he might pinch a little bit of her interest and follow him.
Echo's reason why he wanted to invite her was not to save and protect her but for his own. Saving her but he is really saving his self, protecting her but he is protecting his fragile mind from breaking.
When he had gathered the information he pressed the hologram right at a nameless contact. For the first in his lifetime, he asked for his mother's help.
"Oh, my. How are you Echo? Your mother misses you." A seductive figure appeared in the hologram.
"I'm fine! I just want some things." Echo replied.
"What do you want son? Do you want a new maiden to play for?" Lehra asked.
"No, I don't want that. I just want a supply of Dormant Elemental stones, different elemental cultivation books, and a Spirit Form Detector can you send me some I promise not to bother you again." He said.
"What a surprise! I can give you all of this, the kingdom has a vast amount of that. I can even gift you a peak dormant elemental stone as a birthday gift." Lehra replied.
"Ok. I'll accept your gift; I want it to be delivered tomorrow morning. If you don't have anything to say I'll hang-up." After that, he ended the call.
When Echo hang-up the call Lehra sigh saying, "Honey, what have we done?" She then entered her room having a lonely look on her face.
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