Chapter 543: Chapter 543- Second Core

SNORE… SNORE~ The snore was like a saw cutting through the darkness; it was deep and rattling. It was the sound of oblivion, of a man lost to drink and fatigue just feet away from his wife’s infidelity.

That sound, that vulgar, oblivious noise, seeped into Delicia’s bones and ignited something feral deep within her. The shuddering of her body wasn’t just from the spent climax. It was raw adrenaline, a live wire sparking in the confined dark.

She could feel Reinhardt still hard inside her, a proof of their union. His chest was like a solid wall of heat against her own softness. His breath warm, steady and reliable.

During battles and even now, this man always made her feel assured that no matter what happened in the future, holding the world.

With [Endless Ardor] working its magic, Delicia was once again energised and ready for more. Slowly, deliberately, she pushed back against him, feeling him stir in response. She shifted her weight, lifting one foot to brace against the side of the armoire.

“Again~”she whispered. Her hand reached out, finding his hips and guiding him in.

At that moment, she felt the broad, blunt head of his cock nudge against her slick, swollen entrance. Delicia pushed her hips up, taking him in a single, smooth motion inside her vagina. The abundance of lubrication made the experience even better.

“Aang… Mmng… Ahnn… Fuck♥…” A sharp gasp leaked out of Delicia as he filled her. The angle was allowed him to go deeper and reach a profound, fullness that made her vagina instinctively accommodate him by stretching and gaping more.

The pressure, the bolts of ecstasy was so great that it changed her expression completely and made her weak in the knees.

SMACK… SMACK… the sounds of flesh, as well as the closet shaking was loud and evident. However, with the third person in the room already asleep, the two stopped caring about making any noise.

Reinhardt was not much different. Delicia was so tight and honest in her approach that it became impossible to resist her. With [Endless Ardor]

rampaging inside his body, soon he began to take charge.

He pulled his hips back a fraction and drove forward. SQUELCH… The thrust was deep but devastatingly potent. It wasn’t anyway like the frantic pace of before; no, it was something else. A slow, violent fucking, that aimed to deliver as much pleasure to his partner as possible.

Both of their faces turned red.

“Oh, God… so good!!” Delicia bit down on her lower lip, her eyes barely open anymore and her head bobbing around randomly.

The beauty of pleasure was radiating from her like a flower blooming.

Delicia could feel every inch of him, the hard, veined length stroking her inner walls with a friction that was almost too much. The soft slap of their joining the only secret sound in their dark world. His thumbs dug into the soft flesh of her hips, surely leaving marks.

She hoped they did. She wanted the bruises, the physical proof of this madness.

Faster~ Delicia willed him silently, pushing her hips back harder…

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The next day, before dawn had fully broken, the training field was already alive.

Mist clung low to the frozen ground, breath fogged the air, and steel boots crunched softly as the members of the Temple of Light took their positions.

Fatigue still lingered in their bodies from the previous days, yet not a single knight complained.

Not after what they had seen. Not after what they were promised.

Seeing the enthusiastic members of the Temple of Light, Reinhardt couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction. It appeared that his demonstration yesterday about the affinity of the Divine Beast managed to work wonders on them.

Right now, from the weakest of the newest recruits to the powerful Holy Knight, they all looked like they couldn’t wait to train.

Sensing their enthusiastic auras, even Reinhardt felt more energized to teach them.

He stood before them, hands clasped behind his back. “You have crossed the first threshold of acquiring the [Mana Synchronisation] skill. You can all now understand the Divine Beast Wayfarer to some level. This shows that with enough practice, you might eventually acquire the skill.”

A ripple ran through the ranks. Some nodded confidently. Others swallowed, still dazed and excited from the strange Divine Beast projection they summoned yesterday.

Seeing this, Reinhardt nodded and continued.

“Of course, acquiring just one skill isn’t enough. Today, I’ll teach you how to acquire the skill [Mana Channeling].”

On the first day of the [Divine Beast Summoning] training, he had informed everyone that to learn the skill, they would need to learn two more corresponding skills first.

The two were precisely [Mana Synchronisation] and [Mana Channeling]. He had already explained the importance of the first skill as for the latter.

“This is the second essential skill required to perform [Divine Beast Summoning]. Without it, even if a beast answers your call, you will fail to sustain it.”

Reinhardt’s voice, carrying an authoritative weight, echoed across the ground. His eyes swept over the squires and knights as he explained.

“A divine beast does not exist in this world naturally. When summoned, it draws mana from you continuously. To paint a clearer picture, imagine your skills. All skills can activate only through mana, it draws energy from you before manifesting in front of you. It is similar in that way, however, unlike skills, divine beasts do not consume mana in short bursts or in neat cycles.”

Reinhardt pressed one of his fingers to his chest.

“No, it draws it from you as long as it remains.”

The field was silent as everyone was intently listening to his instructions.

“Let’s say when you use a skill, you expend roughly five units out of a hundred, that is five percent of your mana pool. That is manageable and everyone knows how to do it. Now imagine the same, you use the skill and summon your divine beast”…

“Let’s say for the summoning the minimum cost is twenty out of a hundred. Some beasts demand thirty, some more. Anyways, now that you summoned it, the next step is to sustain it by providing it a steady and stable portion of your mana”…

“If that supply of mana stops or is unstable, the summoning would cancel thus making the entire endeavor a failure.”

Stating till this point, Reinhardt paused. He gave the members time to comprehend and mull over his words.

“That much?”

“We have to continuously provide it with mana just to keep it here?”

“We’d run out of mana in minutes.”

In a few minutes, murmurs broke.

Just as he predicted, the sharp ones could already see the drawback related to using such a skill.

That’s right, the summoning skill is not without its cons. What’s more, its most obvious con is its mana expenditure. Those with huge mana reserves may be fine. However, those with small mana reserves would have to think twice before summoning a Divine Beast.

Then there were additional cons like the mental exhaustion. To continuously supply the beast with your mana, you would have to divert a portion of your attention to the channel.

This additional task would tire you mentally and physically. If the beast summoned cannot overturn the situation you are in, it would only negatively affect you in a fight.

Reinhardt let them think for a while before speaking again.

“The above reasons I mentioned before are a part of the factor why all those who try to learn summoning skill fail except for a few noble houses. What you all need to understand is that you all are knights”.

“Forces who are deployed to unstable battlefields, ambushes, prolonged engagements and unpredictable threats. If you continuously pour a portion of your mana into a beast without preparation, your own combat flow will collapse”…

“Your reactions will become slow, your skills will falter and your body will become heavy. And during this time, if something goes wrong, suppose your beast resists, or if the enemy adapts to your fighting style, or maybe you are forced into a second engagement, you will have nothing left. Your lives will be forfeited at that moment.”

GULP.

The new recruits gulped in nervousness. They had been so occupied with summoning divine beasts that they never considered the risk factor at all.

Hearing their commander’s words, it just drove home again why the summoning skill was limited to some noble families by bloodline.

Then does that mean that there was no hope for them to learn a summoning skill?

Reinhardt spoke again to disperse the doubts of the weak minded.

“That is why you must learn to separate your mana through [Mana Channeling].”

At those words, not only the new recruits but even the most outstanding ones like Silvia furrowed her brows.

Seeing this, Reinhardt clarified. He drew a line in the ground and began explaining things from the rudimentary.

“For the next step, you will have to channel your mana and create a division that is separate from your current mana reserves”.

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