Chapter 23 Caravan
Derby Day 7
A typical sweaty sexy morning passed with Felix and Michael in Michael's room followed by a quick relatively uneventful shower. I returned to working on my alchemy business in my room, ready for a long day of satisfying customers.
Business was interrupted with the arrival of Alec and everyone... Or what seemed to be everyone at least.
Alec was accompanied by Kered (his indentured servant and former thief), his father George, the family's butler Rupert, Will and his father William (stable master). Along with Deimos (senior guard), Sam, Dean, Edward and Geoff, all of them fully equipped for a battle, armed with various weapons and in full armour. Minos and Dale were there with the Swords of Destiny.
It was somewhat awkward since my door was open with Felix naked from the waist down standing behind the potion laden table while I was naked surrounded by five horny male adventurers. A full party who specifically did a dungeon delve to harvest Mage's Bounty for me (the mana rich plant necessary to make a standard mana potion). All of them had their pants down and their cocks out.
One was under me as I rode his cock, with another directly behind me fucking my ass too, while I had my mouth and hands busy alternating between sucking and stroking the three cocks directly in front of me. The three men kneeling at the head of the bed thrusting their hips forward in their eagerness to get more attention and or satisfaction. My position allowed me to see the sudden arrival of George's large group from the corner of my eye...
I didn't stop once I spotted them, on the contrary I sped up my movements, moving a hand off one hard cock to slip a sneaky finger up the backside of the guy I was sucking on, pushing him past the brink of pleasure and into bliss, and his cum and warmth pumped into me. He groaned and pulled his softening cock out of my mouth and I moved my attention to the next adventurer as the now satisfied seller made his slow way off my crowded bed and into his discarded trousers.
With only two cocks to service in front, I could switch from stroking cock to groping ass more easily. I sped up my movements even more, moving my hips faster and faster, while squeezing my ass muscles around the two hard cocks inside me.
My current fuckers didn't care about our new audience, there were already several guys waiting for a fuck, with some rubbing at their bulging trousers, while others were openly stroking their hard dicks. Another 20 men showing up didn't seem to worry them at all. All sense of shame or propriety had long been forgotten.
I saw Dale move over to kneel in front of Felix to swallow the entire length of his cock. It wasn't long before Dale was bent over the table getting fucked hard by Felix while Alec fucked Dale's throat. Minos got behind Felix and shoved his hard cock into Felix's well used ass.
Uffron on the other hand glanced towards the door with mild curiosity before resuming his work at mixing and making stamina potions without comment. Uffron had quickly grown indifferent to all the sex that happened around me, not surprising since he'd knew I'd drain him before bed time or really any time he wanted. After all we were partners and while I was satisfying customers with my body, he would continue working on his potion crafting skills to make more product.
Half of the new crowd wandered off, George and the butler left along with the Swords of Destiny.
Mark, Will, William and the five guards moved past Felix enjoying being within the brother fuck sandwich to move into the room, making it even more crowded than it was before.
Thankfully it didn't take that long for the Spears of Sorrow (the adventurer's party name) to finish up inside me and move along.
I rolled out of bed and onto my feet and went to greet my friends, much to the displeasure of the guys who had been waiting previously for their turn.
"Hello and welcome to my little home away from home." I said gesturing around to my somewhat messy workshop/room.
Will was the first to give me a hug and say "Been a while, you look well." He gave my bare ass a squeeze and a grope.
"Thanks you too" I said reaching into his bulging trousers to give him some much needed relief.
I sucked on his cock for a moment, to get him nice and hard and wet before bending over in front of him. He was quick to move into action, sticking his hard cock into my well used hole. He grabbed hold of my hips and hammered away at my insides with his hard cock. I moaned, enjoying Will's attentions, Mark made use of my open mouth and slid his stiff cock into my mouth, stifling my moans.
A few minutes later, Mark pumped a load of his special sauce down my throat while Will's thrusts sped up as he groaned and clutched at my backside as he unloaded into me. The other Guards all had their cocks in hand waiting for their turn, surrounding me so that I couldn't see anything but their hard cocks and lower halves.
After getting Will's and Mark's load they pulled out of me and moved aside, letting their positions be quickly filled by Will's dad and Deimos. William shoved his stiff prick into my backside with no concern that he was churning his son's cum while Deimos plugged my mouth with his own hard cock.
Both of the older men, thrust into both of my holes with calm dedication to the art of fucking, unconcerned by the other guards shouts of "fuck him harder", maintaining a steady and satisfying rhythymn of fucking me in both ends.
Several minutes later after they found relief, they were replaced by Geoff and Edward who weren't as patient or reliable, fucking me like madmen, ramming hard without pause or concern by my welfare until they came with a grunt and quickly moved aside. They got dressed and left the room, letting other horny adventurers into the somewhat crowded room.
In the moment between men, I got a glance of both Felix bent over the same table getting plowed in both ends by horny men. By the looks of it, Dale was getting fucked by two unknown adventurers while Felix was sandwiched between Minos and Alec, Alec behind him fucking his ass, while Minos fed him cock.
I didn't have much more time to pay attention to other events as I was pulled to the floor by Sam and Dean who double stuffed my ass while I got surrounded by impatient and horny adventurers.
There was a thick and heady tension in the air, familiar to me from many a bathing time orgy, the men were incensed, driven only by their sense of lust to fuckk and fuck again until they were too exhausted to continue.
As such I was not surprised that while both Sam and Dean relentlessly drove their hard cocks into my stretched hole that demand for my mouth became heated. A half dozen hard and horny men, circled around my face, blocking my sight of anything other than hard cocks and hairy legs, all wanting sexual satisfaction. They squeezed in at the front, so their hips were pressed against each other as they jutted out their cocks, I didn't have to move my head far to find a new cock to suck, I tried to swallow two cocks but the angles and position made it impossible.
I worked hard to satisfy my demanding customers, mouth and hands moving from one hard cock to another, all the while bucking and grinding and squeezing around the two stiff cocks up my backside. I wanted their loads in me, no I needed them to shoot into me, so whenever one got close, I moved my lips around their stiff organ to swallow their pleasure. All was motion, pleasure and lust, I lost myself to their need and mine, blurring together to become an endless need.
Some time later, after numerous loads entered my mouth and ass, I sat on the bed with Minos, Dale and Felix and I finally got a chance to find out why they were all in town. The room had mostly emptied and there was a lull in demand, so there was time for talking at long last.
Alec explained, "We're heading off to Essex along with a merchant caravan and most of the adventurers in town, I'm not surprised you don't know about it, too busy taking it up the ass to pay attention to what's happening around you."
"He's just bitter because we couldn't fuck around as much while his Dad was around." Minos said, with his arm wrapped around my shoulder as we sat in my totally damp bed. Alec meanwhile stood off to the side next to the bed glaring at the two of us.
I continued to idly stroke Minos' cock as we watched Dale teasing Felix's well used hole with his cock, slowly sinking his stiff cock all the way only to pull out just as slowly. Felix meanwhile was on his back, legs up, slowly stroking his own stiff cock as Dale thrusted in and out of him with agonising slowness. "I doubt you were that deprived," gesturing at Dale's pert buttocks moving back and forth in front of us, with the occasional spurt of cum leaking out of his hole as he pulled all the way out of Felix. It was faintly mesmerising watching them at it.
They kissed from time to time like old lovers, slowly and surely, caressing each other's naked sweaty bodies as they came together and pulled apart with every motion. Watching them got me fired up again.
"Yeah but we had to wait till night time and only Dale could take it for long enough and there was a fucking line for both his holes. Kered is good for a short ride but he breaks far too easily." Minos said.
I had become distracted as Dale had become more intense with my man, so I knelt behind him and stuck my aching cock into his slick hole, I sunk in easily to his warm wet depths and started ramming him. He felt so good, it was hard to hold back.
Minos not one to be left out quickly took up position behind me and started fucking me lazily, half in me, making me do all the work. I didn't mind that much, enjoying Dale's hole and Minos' cock teasing me.
Alec meanwhile let out a huff and moved to the head of the bed kneeling to the side of the kissing duo, undeterred by the increased fucking behind them and pulled out his hard cock. It didn't take long before Alec's cock was lathered with both Dale and Felix's spit and my cum was in Dale's backside. Minos picked up the pace at that point and started fucking me for real.
Uffron being the only other person in the room, continued his work, the bulge in his pants the only outward indication that he was affected by all the sex we were having not a foot away from him.
After we had satiated our carnal lusts, we had a quick uneventful shower to rinse off the sweat and cum, returned to my room, got dressed and made our way downstairs to meet up with the others.
George had gathered most of the group together minus the two footmen securing the horses and carriages outside to explain the reasoning behind the outing.
"Due to the increased bandit and goblin activity as of late, it's become necessary for merchants like myself and others to pool our resources to travel east towards Essex to engage in much needed trade. Normally we wouldn't require so many adventurers as escorts but these bandits have dug in deep somewhere between the two cities and they have the numbers to pose a threat to small to medium groups so we need to make preparations to counter the risk. There's safety in numbers after all."
The others looked generally disinterested by this announcement, eating their food with only a glance or two at George talking to me. This seemed like information they had all heard before, which begged the question why George was telling me this. So I asked the obvious question. "Why are you telling me this?"
"I thought that would be obvious. I want you to come with us and serve as the group's Alchemist, there might be a need for someone to provide some non magical healing on our travels."
I gave it some thought, trying to decide whether it'd be worth it or not, I had just started becoming comfortable in Derby with a steady increase in customers and I wasn't keen on being out in the wilderness again any time soon. I enjoyed regular bathing and soap. "Is everyone going?"
"Essentially yes, the notices have been up for the last few days and I'd imagine most of the Adventurers in town will make use of the opportunity to make some extra coin and travel to Essex for additional work."
I glanced at Felix, who said, "I'll go wherever you will."
"It will be a great opportunity for you to make your name known as an aspiring young Alchemist, make contact with multiple merchant groups, sell your products to numerous adventurers along the way and maybe even make some new friends along the way. I'll also give you an additional bonus on top of the one given as part of the adventurer's guild fee."
I sighed. "I guess I don't have a choice then, count me in." I was definitely not looking forward to being on the road again, maybe this time it'll be better, with the guys along, I'd at least not get lost and I'd have company overnight, that wasn't small and furry.
"Excellent." George said clapping his hands together in satisfaction.
"I do have one other question though."
"Yes?" George asked, his eyes narrowing as he looked me over. Felix sat on my right, while Minos sat on my left. George was flanked by Alec and Deimos. We had managed to grab a section of the Adventurer's guild tavern for ourselves after the initial lunch rush.
"Why is the Guild or the Army not hunting down the bandits?"
"The simplest answer is that there's a lot of ground to cover between the two cities and they could be anywhere, which makes it hard for a sufficiently sized force to sneak up on them. There have been rumours floating about since groups with high levelled Adventurers have not been attacked leading some to believe some that there's a conspiracy afoot."
"A conspiracy?"
"Yes some believe it's a conspiracy between the Adventurer's Guild and the Thieve's Guild to force Merchants to hire high levelled escorts but I believe the answer is probably simpler."
"What do you think it is?"
"I believe it's likely they're using some kind of scrying tool to observe the roads out of the city, allowing them to judge the relative strengths of various groups so they know who to avoid and attack. It's not like scrying tools are that expensive, I have bought a few to protect the estate." George said.
"You have?" Alec asked, suddenly displaying some interest in the conversation.
"Yes they're useful for detecting potential threats, or notifying me of powerful people arriving that need to be welcomed." George said, with an odd smile on his face towards the end of his speech.
"Oh." Alec uttered before losing interest again and tucking into his food.
After announcing the meeting place and time, which got a chorus of groans, George left along with Deimos and Rupert. Rupert had been hovering in the background, throughout the meal, watching the area for something unknown.
After George left I talked to Minos and asked "So what ended up happening with Dale and your dad?"
"Dale got Dad to agree to let him join the Swords of Destiny as an apprentice swordsman. Dad told them that if Dale got seriously hurt or killed, he'd hunt them down and ram their swords up their asses. It was very inspiring." Minos chuckled.
Alec joined in "This was the easiest mission for Dale to join us on, there will be over a hundred adventurers coming along with us, easiest escort mission ever."
Dale hearing his name so often came over and took up George's vacated seat. "What are you saying about me now?" Dale said, glaring at his older brother.
"Just saying how you're the best little brother a guy could ask for."
"Liar." Dale said and yet he still got a little flushed in the cheeks. He looked to me. "What were you really talking about?"
"I was just curious how your dad reacted when he heard you wanted to leave the farm."
"Oh that."
At that point, Arundel leader of the Swords of Destiny took a seat next to Dale, wrapping his arm around Dale possessively, "What did I miss?" he asked.
"Nothing much just talking about Frederic and you stealing his boy from him."
"Yeah that was..." Arundel drifted off in the middle of his sentence looking off in the distance misty eyed.
"Things got very intense." Dale said "Then got very fun."
"Basically Dad and him came to an understanding, then they both fucked the little slut and I walked in on them and things got very ..." Minos trailed off.
The communal storytelling was frustrating as they kept getting distracted and I just pictured Dale naked with both his dad and Arundel in him, grinding their cocks against each other was getting me horny again. I really wanted to know what happened next. "Then what?" I asked impatiently, hand on bulging trousers, feeling my hard dick beneath the fabric straining to be free and preferably inside Dale's welcoming ass again.
"He got his ass fucked by everyone some more." Alec said with an eye roll. "His dad, his brothers, his party, Kered, me. Then the next morning he was still horny for more so I took him home and had all the Guards pound his ass in the baths. By the way the staff misses your ass, so they really went crazy filling him up. Dale's almost as slutty as you."
"Can we go upstairs now?" Dale asked and judging by the movement of his shoulders and the looks of both Alec's and Arundel's faces, his hands were busy making them hornier.
"Yeah. Let's." Arundel stood up unconcerned that his trousers were bulging. He let out a low whistle and half shouted "Group up men. It's time to roll." The rest of his team were quick to report in, all their trousers showing tell tale excitement in the crotch area.
Dale led the way upstairs, followed by the rest of his party, Alec, Minos, Felix and myself.
The next couple of hours were spent naked in their rooms getting reacquainted with the Swords of Destiny and their hard cocks.
Felix, Dale and myself were quite busy.
After a quick rinse I returned to my room and a frustrated Uffron. He wasn't pleased that I left him alone with all the work and the clean up and customers.
I managed to calm him down, sucking out a tasty load out from him before sending him downstairs for a well deserved meal and break.
Then Felix and I helped sort out the customers, they came in two varieties, those who just wanted to buy some potions, which were the easy ones. However they were the minority, the majority wanted to either sell some ingredients or buy some potions and also get their dicks sucked or sunk into a tight hole.
Still I felt an obligation to assist them, I had Felix deal with the simple customers while I `glad handed' the rest.
It was a time consuming and onerous task but very pleasurable, Felix helped too once the simpler customers were satisfied.
Eventually, there was a lull and I got back to proper alchemy practice and Felix got back to manning the potion counter.
Kered came to visit and Felix let him in, "They're a nightmare, I don't know how you do it, it's like never ending, all they want to do is fuck and yes it's fun the first two or three times but there's so many of them and after so many of them, it gets less and less fun until it's just sweaty guys all over me and they won't let me sleep, at least when it was just Alec, it was good, I mean, it's weird being his servant and like falling asleep in his arms after getting fucked a few times but that was so much better than those animals just pawing at me all the time, not letting me sleep and I really don't want to go through all that again." Kered rambled in a non stop fashion.
I knew just the way to get him to calm down, I undid his soft casual pants and took his soft dick into my mouth and tongued his piss slit and he finally thankfully stopped complaining for a moment to groan in satisfaction. His cock hardened quickly.
I let go for a moment. "I'll talk to Alec and get them to ease up on you."
"That would be good, I just don't know how Dale does it." Kered complained as I led him to my bed. I was naked except for my apron and I took position on the bed, ass up and ready to be mounted.
"Fuck me." I said.
"Oh yes." Kered groaned out as he sunk his hard cock into my backside. "That's what I need, to be on top again, fucking a nice tight ass."
"Didn't you fuck Dale?" I asked as he started to slowly thrust into me, with a little more vigor.
"Like once, they were all over him, like flies on shit. They just kept fucking me. Oh fuck." Kered's cock started moving faster in me and he stopped talking altogether except for the occasional moan or groan as he just rammed me faster and faster. "FUCK!" he cried out as he came, slumping on top of me as one spurt after another of cum surged into me. He rolled off of me "I really needed that."
"Feel better" I asked..
"Yeah with the two of you sluts, my ass should be somewhat safer."
"Oh fuck, yeah, right there baby." I moaned as Felix dug his tongue into my recently filled hole and ate out the fresh cum. He had moved in as soon as Kered pulled out of me.
"Fuck you make me so crazy." Felix said, having had his fill of cum and shoved his large cock into me yet again. "I love you."
"I love you too." I said before reason left me and I became lost to pleasure as Felix stroked and fucked me, he knew just the way I liked to be fucked and he did it so good.
I didn't even notice when Kered left or when Uffron arrived.
I only came back to reason after Felix fucked a load into me, sucked it out of me again, then fucked me into a blissful orgasm that he swallowed as he fucked me on my back and leaned over to suck me off.
After all that, while I was naked and sweaty and recovering from my bliss, I actually paid attention to my surroundings again.
"You two ready to work again?" Uffron said, arms crossed as he glared at us.
"Yes, sorry got carried away."
"When do you not?"
"You have a very good point." I glanced at his lap, which bulged and smiled. "A very good point." A moment later, his stiff prick was inside me and I rode him hard and fast as he sat on his chair, his hands on my butt as I moved up and down, squeezing and clutching on his hard cock until he came gasping.
After I dismounted I worked for the remainder of the day, he was right after all, we had lots of work to do still. I dealt with customers, mass producing basic stamina and recovery potions, supervising Uffron's work, identifying potion and labeling the vials, accepting returns.
Then the evening came around and the guys wanted to hang out and I made full use of the fact that I had one more night of use of the Derby Adventurer's Guild inn to enjoy. It was quite enjoyable indeed as I made full use of the facilities in between and during the naked orgy times. I made vigorous use of Felix's and Dale's butts and they along with quite a few others made use of mine during the long fucking night. I think Alec and Kered were the only ones that got much in the way of sleep that night, as Alec tapped out early and Kered had hid himself from the guys.
On the Road Day 1
Very early in morning, our group shambled our way past the city walls and into the open. Despite my complete lack of sleep the night before, I was the most energetic of the group, happily gnawing on my early morning Iron Stag breakfast.
We weren't the only ones making the trip, many others joined us on the way out, dressed in various outfits and heavily armed. It was quite a sight, like an army moving out but less organised and more varied in appearance.
At least a hundred adventurers, joined the caravan on the way out, some coming alone, while others were parties consisting of two up to ten members. There were seven merchants, with their own entourages including guards.
George gathered our group together to explain the next step. He had told us all to meet here, waking us up early to ensure that we left the city in time to meet up with the other merchant groups.
George went on to explain "We merchants organised between ourselves to bring a limited selection of our staff along with us, padding out the numbers with adventurers. Most of them will make use of this stop to hire adventurers to work for them."
"Aren't we all getting paid to do the escort?" Dale asked somewhat blearily, rubbing at his sleep crusted eyes. Poor Dale had been very busy last night, getting fucked repeatedly and even his youthful vigour wasn't enough to counter a long night of fucking and an early morning wake up. I had sucked and fucked a few loads out of him. I couldn't help it, with both Kered and Sam making themselves scarce, I only had two guys out of a lot of guys that I could fuck.
"Yes, you're all receiving a small fee to escort us there but there are other ways for adventurers to make more money along the way."
"Like what?" Dale asked.
"Monster culling, harvesting of ingredients to sell in Essex, bandit bounties -" Alec said
George cleared his throat loudly, shutting Alec up. "What I mean by that is that certain merchants will pay extra for certain adventurers to complete certain tasks on their behalf according to their interests."
"I don't understand, isn't that redundant." I asked confused.
"Well it might seem like we're paying twice, which would be odd for merchants to do, but what we're really paying for is a certain amount of loyalty. The original quest is simply for the adventurers to escort us to the location for a fee but the reality is more complicated. Say for example, that a large group of migrating Trolls attacked the caravan, the adventurers would attack the creatures with all that they could to put them down and collect the bounty for killing a Troll but that doesn't help us merchants if a carriage of ours gets destroyed in the fighting. They'd still get rewarded by the Guild for the basic task of escorting us `safely' but we wouldn't have achieved our own goals of getting ourselves and our goods there. So we pay extra to ensure our goods are prioritised over a monster bounty or other priorities. It also serves as a way to recruit promising adventurers into our service."
George looked off into the distance where several well dressed people were bidding on adventurers. Half the adventurers were crowded into the centre of the caravan being fought over via money and then joining different groups.
Some adventurers seemed to be already attached to certain groups or completely ignoring the adventurer auction entirely, roaming around, doing patrols or otherwise somewhere else.
As my first time in a caravan escort mission, everything seeemed very odd and confusing.
"So why aren't we bidding on anyone?" Alec asked.
George shrugged. "I think we have more than enough people to fight if necessary and we have Mark to provide us with well prepared food" gesturing towards Mark who ducked his head and blushed somewhat as everyone looked at him "and we have Lucius to make sure that our group has priority to vital potions and even Magic weapons."
I glanced at Felix and Michael who shook their heads at my silent enquiry, when I looked at Uffron he looked away guiltily. Uffron must have told George about me upgrading his weapon. I would have to have a talk with him about keeping his mouth shut about certain things. Then again he didn't know my secret or how odd my Infusion was so maybe he didn't think much of revealing it.
Eh, George was my original patron and could probably be relied upon to keep the information quiet, then again maybe I should make use of my unusual talent to make even more money, I'd have to think it about more later. I had a more pressing interest at that moment. "I have a recommendation for someone we should recruit."
"Who did you have in mind?"
I pointed into the crowd, "Those two, the guy with the sword and the woman with the staff, his name is Stan and he's an aspiring Knight and he has quite the skill with a blade and is quite reliable." Michael snickered but I ignored him and continued. "His girlfriend is named Emily and is a junior priestess of the Order of Bodicea, she has Blessings of Nature, minor ones but they might be useful."
"Rupert, Deimos, say hello on my behalf and offer them an invitation to join us."
"Yessir." They both answered and left.
We watched in silence as they went over to talk to them.
It was a very odd event, with one well dressed and odd man with a lute strapped to his chest, standing on a low rise pointing out one person after another in the crowd of adventurers. Once pointed out the adventurer would come forward, say something and there would be some bids by the well dressed people on the right, the merchants and they'd line up behind them.
Emily and Stan were at the back, looking decidedly anxious, pacing, shifting weight from one foot to another restless so when they saw Rupert and Deimos approach them they were noticeably confused and concerned. That passed a moment later as Rupert said something to them and I saw them both look at me with very different expressions on their faces, Stan looked very guilty and Emily looked relieved.
Either way they followed Rupert and Deimos to us.
Before they arrived George asked "So how do you know these two?"
"Sewer Quest."
"Oh. That's." George paused as he noticed the two them approaching ear shot. "Welcome to the both of you, Lucius has told us great things about the two of you, I'd like to offer an invitation to the both of you to join our group. What do you think?"
Stan looked between Lucius, George and Emily. Emily responded promptly. "We'd love to."
"Emily" Stan tried to say something.
"We'd love to join you." Emily said more firmly, placing a hand on Stan's shoulder, exerting some kind of pressure on him, emotional or otherwise.
"Thanks for having us." Stan said, giving a short nod of acceptance in George's direction and giving me a suspicious side eye.
"Excellent. I'll give you all a quick run down of the other merchants and notable adventurers that you should do your best not to annoy." George said, glancing towards his son meaningfully.
"Yes Dad." Alec said, fists clenching white by his sides.
"That fellow over there conducting the auction is named Duggan and he's a Bard of some note, he's known for his songs that can provide useful boosts to his allies and curse his enemies. He's quite infamous with women due to his excellent singing voice and other talents I cannot speak of due to mixed company."
Emily pursed her lips and looked over at Duggan with interest, Stan looked between Emily, Duggan and me. I looked at Stan then gave Duggan a second look, he looked reasonably tall and fit, but so did most of the other adventurers. Not many adventurers did well if they weren't capable of running into or away from danger. I shrugged and looked back at Stan with interest, he frowned and I openly looked him over, remembering how he felt on top of me, naked and driving his hard cock into me with frustration and longing over and over again until he was relieved of the pressure within.
I was far more interested in having Stan naked and on top of me again than in Duggan but I wouldn't kick Duggan out of bed either. If there were beds to be had. Being outside has a lot of downsides, then again I could probably get Stan to fuck me up against a tree, which would be fun.
George continued, interrupting my fantasy "Duggan works nominally for Kevan, the well dressed gentleman to the side with no adventurers behind him. He is generally a cheerful fellow that has his fingers in many a pie, he has connections to most entertainment options, the pits, the pleasure palaces, several taverns and he even patronises a theatre. He's generally considered a neutral party of note, with substantial backers and ties to several other merchants. He is a friend of sorts though not much is known about him, he dabbles in magic and is quick with a knife. He kills anyone who betrays him, so it's best not to get on his bad side."
"He kills people?" Stan and Michael both ask at the same time.
"Well that's the rumour, all that is known is that anyone who betrays him disappears, whether he does the deed himself or gets someone else to do it is irrelevant."
"Feudal fantasies has it's dark sides." Michael mutters on my left.
Stan on the other hand goes quiet.
"Anyway, that man over there dressed only in a loin cloth and armed with a giant axe is Badrick, a rarity in that he's a Barbarian Beserker Beastmaster from the northern isles. He's known for his impressive strength, short temper and for his war horse that's said to be smarter than some humans. He works on behalf of Dalton the plump fellow with all the golden rings, he owns the Derby Adventurer's Market and is known for his ability to source practically any monster ingredient necessary." George said, gazing pointedly at me as I looked between Dalton and Badrick. I wondered how I could get Badrick's attention. I really really wanted to see what was contained within Badrick's loin cloth.
"Someone that might have caught your eye already is Deva, a famous beauty and a powerful mage specialising in summoning and enchanting Golems, a Golemmancer." I had noticed her, she had two golems at her side, flanking her, both of them made of mithril and covered in runes. Minos, Alec and a lot of the men looked in her direction, she looked like she was patrolling the area with her golems. "She is known to work for Nessa, from time to time, she spends most of her time in Mage Towers advancing her spell craft. For the love of all that's good and holy don't try and woo her boys, she's known for burying guys that annoy her. If you need to find a woman, Nessa is your woman, the one in the centre, with the very tight leather outfit, she can arrange a woman for a price."
"Woof, how much to have her..." Minos mumbled, apparently not quietly enough as George replied.
George sighed. "More than you could possibly afford so don't try anything stupid, she's rumoured to either run or be very influential with the Assassin's Guild."
"There's really an assassin's Guild?" Michael asked.
"There's a Guild for most professions, even bakers so why not Assassins?"
"Because they murder people for a living." Michael said.
George shrugged, "So do soldiers and mercenaries and from time to time adventurers. What was your name again?"
"Michael, I'm not from around here."
"That's apparent. What was your speciality again?"
"Spatial Magic."
"You spend time with some interesting people Lucius."
Michael had been pulled in to form my own little adventuring party, along with Felix and Uffron. I had convinced him last night during sexy naked times.
"I have a winning personality." I said.
They laughed, a lot of them laughed, bastards, the lot of them. I'm charming, it's even a racial ability of mine, GRRRRRRR.
"Anyway, the auction is nearly done, so no more interruptions thank you." George said.
"The thin fellow, with the shrewd eyes and the permanent frown is Richard. He deals in weapons and armours, he's got connections with the army and is not to be trifled with. He's brought along a Master Blacksmith, named Randall you might have noticed him, he's almost as big and muscular as the barbarian, except with a black bushy beard and a leather smock. He's probably smelting somewhere nearby, he brought his assistant, Ygos, the overworked fellow with the red face and tanned skin. Last I heard he's working on becoming a blacksmith too and developing heat resistance skills. They're the people to see if you need to have your weapons repaired while we're on the road, so be well behaved please."
"Next up is Garrick, the portly fellow over there with a permanent grin and a penchant for raunchy and impolite tales. His speciality is wine and he's accompanied by a water mage, who helps to keep the barrels at the perfect heat for maximum flavor. He's got a few of them at home in his vineyards, they ensure he never has to worry about irrigation or poor weather."
"Algernon is the man to the left of Nessa, accompanied by his son, they're well known for breeding the very best in horses. I hear he brought a tamer specialising in birds for the trip, you'll notice him by his absurdly colourful clothing and an overly waxed and stylised moustache. Well I'm sure you've had enough of me talking at you, so I'll let you get back to your work, see Rupert for your assignments." Rupert lifted his hand for those who didn't know who he was. "I'm going to be in my private carriage until we head off."
"So what do you sell then?" Michael asked before George left.
"I forgot to talk about myself, how silly of me, I guess some of you don't know me, I specialise in food and farmers, I export the food produced by the farmers of Respite and import items they might need from other places. I also organise tithes for the area." George left shortly after and people lined up in front of Rupert for their assignments.
There wasn't much to be done at this point, as we were waiting on the others before we could set off. I was told by Rupert to just work on ensuring there was enough potions in case of an emergency and if I had nothing else to do, upgrade the team's weapons.
I did notice that even within George's faction, there were odd groupings.
Alec obviously had his own mini entourage according to the tradition of heirs, consisting of Minos, Kered, Sammy and Dean. Minos, a close friend and capable body guard, skilled with sword and bow. Kered, a former thief and current bed warmer. Sammy and Dean provided extra security as veteran adventurers.
Then I was in my own sort of group with Felix, Uffron and Michael with our odd collection of skills and interests. Felix served as our vanguard, spearsman and heavy hitter. Uffron doubled as Swordsman and apprentice apothecary. Michael provided spell support in the form of slowing the enemy and I ... could stab things with daggers if necessary or spend the majority of my time naked or mixing potions.
Dale was linked to Minos by blood and he brought along his own large party of adventurers the Swords of Destiny. Even more on the outskirts of our group was Stan and Emily whose participation as a knight and Priestess were of dubious value. Then there was George's faction which included all his servants and the remaining Guards including Deimos.
I was directly employed by George and bankrolled sort of by a now on leave Michael. Michael had come along as he wanted to check out Essex's Mage guild to advance his spatial magic or to compare prices of spells. I may not have been paying that much attention when he told me, since I was naked and he had just finished fucking me. Can't even remember if it was during a morning or night fuck, it's all blurring together. I think I may be having too much sex.
Anyway it was a complicated and messy practice. The various merchant groups competed in gathering the best of the available Adventurers using some unknown measure to pick on who to try and buy. Some adventurers were left independent either out of choice or general disinterest by the merchants.
Regardless we eventually got moving with about ten carriages, pulled by twice as many horses, while the rest of us walked.
Walking is boring, every adventure written about, sung odes about and retold in taverns glosses over how boring walking is. There is far too much walking involved. Hours and hours of walking where noone was willing to carry-fuck me to our destination.
Michael aggravated me severely by showing off his latest spell called [Space Walk], he tried to explain it to me but it used a lot of words I didn't understand. The gist of it was that he stood on a platform of something invisible and he moved that forward, avoiding the boringness of walking. The bastard, I asked him to let me stand on it too but he said it was too mana intensive to carry more than him, the fucking bastard, see if I let him fuck me again any time soon... After everything I've done for the body snatching bastard.
Felix said I couldn't just be carry fucked on the way since there were so many people about and it would be weird and we might get in trouble or something. He was kind of vague about the problem and even Minos refused to carry me.
UGH. WALKING IS THE WORST!
Anyway the caravan was taking the opportunity to clear the roads on behalf of Derby and Essex of monsters along the way.
Or maybe it was just to relieve the boredom.
Still George would let me stay within his private carriage during the breaks so that I could work on my potion craft and mass producing recovery and stamina potions along with Uffron.
It kind of seemed that we took a break every hour, ranging from a few minutes to an hour, for the horses to rest, for various adventurers to scout the general area and prepare meals for themselves or their merchant employers.
I didn't have much opportunity to resume my usual misadventures during the day as there was far too much to do and not nearly enough time or space to do it.
Still my night was very busy even if quite a few members of our group left to check out the females in Nessa's group. To be honest most of the group disappeared, leaving only Dale, Felix, Kered and myself to entertain each other. Kered was pretty quiet throughout, leaving after dumping a load in each of our asses and snuggling up by himself in a sleeping roll.
Still even with just Felix and Dale to keep me company, we had a lot of fun, fucking each other stupid..
Road Trip - Day two
Early morning. The guys had arrived back and they were all worked up despite a distinct lack of sleep, they smelled of sweat, incense, alcohol and perfume. It was a rank mix of odours and yet, I couldn't seem to say no to Minos' desire to get inside me.
Minos regaled me with stories about the beauty of one particular female, named Aleessa? Or something? talking about her breasts and butt for an inordinate amount of time, all the while fucking my ass, while Dale also double stuffed my ass. It was very distracting. I couldn't ask for clarification as I had my mouth full of Felix's cock at the time.
Dale then left to take care of his new party's needs.
Travel was slow as there was frequent breaks to check on horses, repair weapons, kill low level monsters, scout the road ahead and behind to prevent ambushes and so on and so forth.
During the day I had two main activities, walking and alchemical practice. While walking I could only practice my Infusion on various items, typically the weapons of our faction. When the caravan paused, I could continue my efforts on mastering new potions or supervising Uffron's efforts at recovery and stamina potions.
George's personal carriage was larger than it appeared from the outside, it's insides were littered with expensive rune craft, making it more durable than the good's carriage as Alec and George both spent the night there.
Sex had slipped to the wayside as the lack of running water had left me grimy and gross from the night before so I got a lot of work done.
It wasn't until we stopped by a stream for the night that I managed to rinse off and feel clean again. I didn't stay clean for long as Felix fucked me, followed by Michael, Alec, Dale, Kered and Minos. Kered ran off before things got truly out of hand.
I as usual ended up in the centre of the sexual free for all. The guards, both Williams, the Swords of Destiny and a dozen other adventurers took advantage of the fact that there were three horny guys to fuck.
I lost track quickly of how many times I got fucked and by who, it somehow ended up an unspoken competition between the three of us as to who could stay going the longest.
I won barely.
I wouldn't have had so much trouble if the two others didn't keep sucking and riding my cock. They fought dirty, they knew I had trouble holding back when I was slamming into their wet holes and it'd leave me drained afterwards far more than getting fucked would. Still I held on, making use of my natural abilities to suck the life out of them to scrape out a victory.
I ended up spending a lot of time naked that night, face and ass stuffed with cock. My own cock is stuffed infrequently into four wet holes; Felix's mouth and ass and Dale's. As much as I enjoy fucking someone, it's far easier to get fucked repeatedly than it is to fuck repeatedly. Though that may be a stamina issue on my end, as Felix and Minos seem to have no problem fucking me over and over again.
On the Road Day 3
Progress stalls as we arrive at Bent, Bent is a strange village that served as a pit stop between Derby and Essex, our group stayed next to the village's defences, a wooden palisade reinforced with dried clay foundations.
Only the merchants could make use of the tavern's few remaining rooms, as they didn't get many people overnighting at a time. Usually merchants would travel in small groups, as the roads were typically safe for mildly prepared groups.
It's a bigger village than my home village, holding more than a thousand people, it was bordering on being a small town in it's own right, though it needed better infrastructure to qualify.
As a low ranking adventurer and an alchemist, I'm not expected to do much other than pad the numbers in case of an attack.
The others all have their own plans but I'm curious about the goblins, I think they might be useful to me.
Goblins have a very specific racial ability, Rapid growth.. It allows them to grow quickly physically and mature mentally for humanoid monsters.
Reaching sexual maturity in less than a week from birth and being capable of going from simple hunter gatherers to more complex societies in weeks.
It's why goblins are considered the rats of the monster races. They're not particularly impressive or dangerous by themselves but they're capable of going from a single goblin to a raiding party of ten to fifteen in a little under a week if they get a female or two under their... rutting bodies.
They are one of the reasons that female adventurers tend to be very rare. Not many women want to deal with the risk of being gang raped by goblins, then forced to give birth to a clutch of goblin babies repeatedly until they die.
A lot of monster species use females as breeding stock, with varying success. Orcs are feared for similar reasons, though their hordes are tougher to deal with. Luckily they take a hundred times longer to reach sexual maturity, so their numbers don't tend to get as bad as quickly.
Goblins tend to have a higher chance of evolving into higher forms than other monsters which take a lot more time and death to advance.
I wanted to get some fresh samples so I kept my eyes and ears open for news of goblin attacks but it appeared that we had scared them off if any were even in the area to begin with.
I visited Dalton and asked if we had any goblin materials on hand that I could practice with and he said he would arrange some for me when we arrived in Essex. I thanked him for his help and eyed up Badrick with longing.
The Road Day 4
Outbreak of The Grot
There's an outbreak of the Grot, a skin infection, passed along from prolonged physical contact, typified by a mild rash, that can easily be mistaken as abrasion from day to day life. There were quite a few men who came around after noticing that they had rashes on their penises, consulted me as I was the closest thing they had to a apothecary nearby. I gave them the bad news that they had the Grot rather than a simple rash or abrasion.
The thing about Grot, is that symptoms tend to worsen over time, with the rash spreading all over the body and becoming itchier and itchier.
They were quite angry and hostile, blaming the whores in camp for spreading it.
I told them that it wasn't a hard thing to cure as it only requires a single treatment of all potentially infected persons. All I needed were some Warrior's Boon and some Trail Grass to treat it.
The only real complication was that the caravan had over a hundred men and a dozen females, making it a time consuming task to treat them all. I wasn't keen on treating the women, as most of them were whores with only two women being spell casters.
I met up with George who I told what I needed to treat the outbreak and he got together with the other merchants to spread the news and the adventurer's went out to collect the ingredients. Neither ingredient was too rare, trail grass literally growing basically anywhere plants could grow and Warrior's boon growing in places with lots of animal activities.
Uffron provided assistance with the brewing and application of the salve, though I did end up covered in the green stuff as I made sure to treat as many of the men as possible while Uffron took care of all the women and some of the men.
I may have ended up a little more hands on than necessary and a lot more penetrated than I probably should have...
I had a run in with Deva afterwards who was not happy with men in general blaming her along with the other women.
I had originally just wanted to ask for advice about golem crafting but she basically yelled at me, thinking I was either going to lump her in with the whores or trying to make a move on her. The men were split on the issue, some wanting to protect the women's reputation such as it were in order to gain favor while others simply lashed out at them for ... something.
Even when I explained what I actually wanted from her, it didn't seem to help, she seemed even more annoyed than before.
I moved on and spent the night practicing golem crafting with Michael's help. I left Dale and Felix to fuck around instead. The results of my practice were underwhelming, I managed with quite a bit of effort and Michael's assistance to collect the necessary dirt & mud from the river bank and combine them with the slime cores but the golems were slow, unwieldy and short lived.
An expensive and time consuming effort with ultimately little pay off.
Day 5
I had an interesting encounter with the Barbarian where he came to make use of my services.
He had heard somehow that I could apply odd effects to weapons and armours and wanted to try and upgrade his weapon with some special magical effects. He also wanted a few berserk potions, stamina & recovery potions for later.
I said "I'd give you both if you let me do two things."
"What's that?"
"Ride your horse, then ride you..."
"I've heard from the others in the camp that you're insatiable. I'm curious to see if it's true."
I knelt down in front of the beefy barbarian and unwrapped the loin cloth, exposing his rapidly expanding cock to my view. "I'll show you." I wrapped my lips around it and started bobbing up and down as it enlarged inside me.
Once it was to it's impressive full size, I sat on his hard cock and rode him to a very satisfying conclusion.
Afterwards I had him introduce me to his horse, which he had a mental link with, allowing the horse to be much smarter and more responsive in battle. He took me out for a short ride into the woods and he fucked me on the horse once we were out of sight.
Badrick the barbarian was tasty and beefy and I wanted to use him as a template for shapeshifting practice. I didn't want to get quite as beefy as him, but I wanted to bulk up a little, so that I looked less like a gangly teenager and more of a man. I had to be careful, now that I knew I could change my body and what it cost, I had to take my time, watch my mana consumption and get regular doses of his essence in order to get stronger.
I had this strange feeling that I needed to get even stronger faster...
It was weird, I couldn't place the low level dread I felt but it was there lingering worry in the background of every moment as if I was getting closer to my doom.
So I kept trying to distract myself with one thing or another, sex or alchemy or sex...
That night I spent listening to Duggan's impromptu serenade of the camp while snuggled in between Felix and Minos. Duggan's music filled me with a certain longing and it wasn't long afterwards that Felix and Minos both were fucking me while Michael stuffed my face with his hard cock.
We weren't the only ones coupling with a unusual frenzy. The sounds of moans and groans echoed throughout the camp that night with greater vigor than ever before. Duggan's music drove us into a frenzy of revelry where people were openly fucking each other in public.
Dale was getting fucked by his entire party. Kered was on his knees getting railed by Alec while Sammy and Dean took turns with his mouth. Several of the camp whores were getting railed one after another by the over stimulated adventurers as wine flowed freely.
It was a wild night.
Day 6
After some thought I revealed some aspect of my ability to Richard the weapon merchant and he made use of my abilities to upgrade his weapon supplies in exchange for a portion of the weapon sales.
Some times it didn't have much of an effect, infusing things with my mana or fusing them with other things. The effects tended to vary on what I used and on what things I was working on. The common effect of infusion was [Life Steal] on weapons, distraction on shields and armors. Fusion using my blood turned some things red, other weapons got cursed, inflicting a mind poison of one sort of another on those struck. Fusion using some rarer elements helped to improve some weapons with increased durability.
It was very varied, but my skill with Infusion improved drastically with all the practice, doubling in level and reducing in mana cost.
More importantly we finally got to Essex and my first impression was not good. The place fucking reeked of rotten fish and had a stiff unwelcoming salty breeze that chilled me to the bones.
The place itself was a mixture of building types, some buildings made of stone, others of wood and others of dirt, which varied in height from a single story to several stories, small to large. It looked very unappealing.
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Author's note: Part of me wanted to go into more details and have more detailed interactions between Lucius and the various merchant groups but George's long ass introductions and the very involved beginning drained me of all energy. On the upside, Lucius's home village finally gets a name.
Next chapter may take a while, my writing has been a bit erratic as of late and my organisational system is even more so, it'll either be titled Essex or Goblins. Not sure how much time I will devote to Essex, Lucius is not a fan at the moment. I'm more keen to move onto the Goblins, but I first have to locate the stuff I wrote about them, presuming that I did and it wasn't some weird fever dream.
As always let me know if you liked it, hated it, were confused by it or whatever. I'm super bored during the Coronapocalypse, so feel free to shoot me an email on waynewriteswords@outlook.com