CHAPTER 831: CHAPTER 831 - A REPORT**

Small drops of sweat shimmered on Erik and Emma’s skin. Despite their physical changes, they weren’t immune to the heat of lust. They both panted lightly, Emily through her gag, and their bodies remained connected.

After a moment of recovery, Erik reached up to gently pry the gag out of Emma’s mouth. As soon as he did, her tongue dangled out. Immediately taking advantage, Erik gripped her chin to turn her head towards him, then sucked her tongue between his lips, pulling her into a deep, passionate kiss. Meanwhile, his hips performed a few last pumps.

Still completely dazed, Emma nevertheless responded passionately. Behind the blindfold and veil, her eyes were perhaps even glassier than before as her consciousness retreated even further into the comfort of service and singular tasks. Pleasure, sensory deprivation, and orgasm denial were the vehicles by which her consciousness travelled deeper.

Erik immensely enjoyed the post-orgasm kissing and groping of Emma’s delicious body, but eventually he did pull back. "Good girl, Emma, thank you," he softly whispered in her ear. "Time to finish up, alright? I have more work to do."

Emma nodded almost imperceptibly, then started moving. Her body shivered and trembled still, but that wouldn’t stop her. Slowly standing up, Erik’s cock easily slid out of her pussy. White globs followed, but not for long. Sinking to her knees, Emma replaced the real thing with the dildo she’d removed earlier, which was still stuck to the floor.

More whimpers escaped her as the phallic object entered her sensitive folds, compressing the fluids Erik had left behind. Still, she didn’t cum. Watching this, Zahra gasped—not only because of Emma’s almost robotic actions, but because she only now noticed both dildos were vibrating gently.

"T— They’re keeping her on edge..." she muttered with wide eyes. "T— There’s no—"—she gulped strangely—"no way that’s relaxing, right...?"

Smirking, Erik glanced at her, but didn’t answer. Most people would have vehemently denied the possibility of this being relaxing, but the fact that she posed it as a question was telling.

The truth, of course, was that such a thing depended not only on the person, but also on the situation. If Emma had been fully conscious, then no, it probably wouldn’t have been relaxing. Yet, since she was in this meditative, autopilot, trance-like state, it was different.

Meanwhile, another flash of light had reattached the dildo to Emma’s harness, at which point she turned around to start cleaning leftover fluids on Erik’s cock with her soft tongue. When done, she pecked a gentle kiss on the tip, then used her teeth to pull his harem pants back up, tucking the now-soft shaft back in where she found it.

All that done and still on her knees between Erik’s legs, she opened her mouth wide and waited. Smiling, Erik leaned forward to lovingly kiss her forehead, then gently tucked the gag back between her lips.

A few steps away, Zahra was watching all this with heavy breathing and rapt attention, hands still cupped behind her back.

Wasting no time, Emma rose back to her feet—still showing impressive elegance without the use of her arms—then, surprisingly, conjured a smaller version of her golden disc. The disc floated horizontally in front of Erik.

Chuckling, Erik grabbed his teacup and placed it on the disc—as it turned out, this was Emma’s serving plate. "Something stronger this time, Emma, please."

With seemingly no reaction, Emma turned to walk over to a different table. This table was filled with tea sets, bottles, glasses, and even a barrel. With the help of some sigils, Emma managed to fill a more appropriate glass with the Runebound-proof booze she created herself and placed it on her disc.

Moments later, she kneeled back down on the pillow placed on Erik’s right side. From there, she had her disc present the glass to Erik, who grabbed it with a smile. "Thank you, my love," he sighed with genuine affection.

How could he not bear the deepest of love for someone so... committed as Emma was?

’Having her do this all the time would be boring, and I’m sure she wouldn’t be up for that anyway, but doing this once in a while is pretty fun,’ he chuckled to himself as he looked at his wife kneeling next to him, body still quivering lightly as fluids dripped out of her from below. ’I hope she agrees by the end of the week.’

Finally, he looked up from Emma to glance at Zahra instead. By now, the beautiful desert warlord and city ruler was entirely bewildered. Her gaze was a little lost, like a thousand-yard stare.

"I’m impressed you stayed the whole time," Erik chuckled smugly. Taking the glass in his left hand, he started caressing Emma’s head with the right. "I know that must have been a shock, and you probably have some things to think about, but I’d like to hear your report before you leave."

Shaken from her thoughts, Zahra looked at him with somewhat haunted eyes. "R— Right..." she muttered softly. With a gulp, she finally arrived at her reason for coming here in the first place.

For the next few moments, she told him about the current troop movements within Maghreb. By now, reinforcements from Enkare Nkai had also arrived through the portal linking the two cities. Naturally, these had quickly ended up under Astrid’s command as they helped the Maghrebian forces to scour the remaining hunter forces.

Cooperation between the two military forces actually went surprisingly smoothly, as a mutual hatred of hunters quickly forged bonds. Despite being very early days, it was a good sign for the inevitable future integration.

Other than that, hunting the hunters was going smoothly so far. They’d not run into any third-rankers at all, let alone any confessors. So far, most places between Maghradi and the border with Egypt that the hunters had conquered appeared hastily abandoned, with only some stragglers remaining.

Unfortunately, much of the Maghreb population in these places had already been killed or worse, with the latter category having been dragged back to where the invaders came from. The sights witnessed by Erik’s new forces in these places were igniting the already burning hatred for the Humanitas Sangh.

Unfortunately, this had both positive and negative effects. It certainly helped the people in Maghreb to accept their new emperor because he promised vengeance and safety against the hunters... but it would also make it harder for Erik to first direct these people towards uniting Africa.

This was an issue for later, however.