Seeds of Heroism - Chapter 45
Chapter 45 – content: >!threatening castration, references violence/death, sph!<
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“Step away from her, you monster!” Despina shouted. “If you hurt her, you will regret it!”
“You’re making it sound like I’m the villain here,” Raum said and dismissively shook her hand.
“Is there another murderous demon from hell here that we’re not aware of?” Aramis asked.
“I already told you, I had nothing to do with that one.” She vaguely pointed at Zenobia, the sorceress held tightly in Despina’s embrace. Behind Raum, the fire ignited on the remains of Harald von Haller’s sex organs died down. “And regarding these two,” she lifted Jim by his nuts, “all I did was help the little elf along the way.”
“Along the way to *what*.”
“To a little thing called the truth. I swear to the empress, I’m a demon among mortals, I have to hide my true nature wherever I go, but I can’t even hope to compare to you lot. What, is being truthful to each other that hard for mortals?”
“What are you talking about?” Despina hissed.
The demoness shook the bulging nutsack in her hand. “Well, no need to dive into this one’s mind, the elf is already doing that. I imagine there are plenty of juicy secrets in here as well. I mean, when I touched the mind of the elf in Gimeit,” she said and whistled appreciatively. “My, she’s carrying more secrets than the gaggle of nobles I’ve surrounded myself with. Sure, working for murderers and rapists is all well and good, we all have to make ends meet. But selling people into slavery? Her own village even, including her own parents? I’m sure you understand, I *had* to have her.”
Raum’s wolfish smile made them shiver. “And you lot don’t seem much better. For example,” her gaze fell on Aramis, “if I had to guess, you’re actually scared of women, aren’t you? Downright terrified, actually.”
His mouth clamped shut. “Hah, got it in one! That’s why I succeed where my sisters fail! Well, no need to pretend any longer, little fox, Raum is here to break up your little charade. I’m going to give you something to *really* be afraid of.”
The demon noticed Liriel’s ears twitching and spread out her arms in a grand, sweeping gesture. She didn’t mind inadvertently swinging Jim around by his balls doing so. “If I may introduce you all, please welcome the newly crowned maiden of darkness, moirai Liriel!”
At her exclamation, Liriel rose from her kneeling position, turning towards the others, and opened her pitch-black eyes.
“Welcome back, girlie. Did you subdue your boy toy?”
“Liriel? Are you alright?” Aramis asked.
“Get away from her, quick, before she can mess with you even more!” Despina said.
The elf regarded the princess with an unreadable expression, then shook her head. “I am right where I deserve to be, Despina. It would be best for you if you started to accept that.”
“Liriel…” Ina whispered softly.
The fiery princess, meanwhile, gritted her teeth. “Heinous beast, you’re controlling her like Malphas controlled me in Seduttri! Leave her alone!”
“I didn’t do anyth-” Raum began before Liriel interrupted her.
“I am under no one’s control but my own, Despina.”
“…then why?” Aramis asked.
“Neither of us are who you all thought we were. Drinking the ambrosia has allowed me to realize that. We lie to you, to ourselves, we cheat and mislead. All so we can hide the scars we bear. If we were to go on like this, we would tear each other apart.” She spared Jim a look, right as he started stirring in Raum’s hold. “It is the only way forward. The only way Jim and I can ever be together.”
“What the twelve hells do you mean? I know you fancy him, where is all of this coming from? You’re not making sense!” Inacea shouted, a hand clutching her side in pain. She was pale, barely keeping upright.
“I do not expect you to understand. I’m sorry, Ina. You as well, Despina, Aramis.”
“If you’re sorry, then-”
“I can’t,” Liriel answered immediately. Then she turned to Raum. “Do not let go of him.”
The demoness cocked an eyebrow. “I thought you controlled him?”
Instead of slowly coming to, Jim’s eyes shot open. He curled around Raum’s fist. “Argh, my balls! Let go! Let go of my balls!” he squeaked.
The demon laughed. “Can’t do that, boy. I don’t know why my new comrade didn’t take over your mind, but as long as I’ve got you by your cumtanks, you’re not going anywhere. And I know it’s not my business, but why do they feel so full? You really should get your rocks off more often. All that creamy goodness in those nuts of yours is just going to waste away. You should share it with someone, like me, for example.”
Despina, Aramis and Ina looked at each other with grim determination while Jim screamed and cried. Aramis gripped his dagger tightly, while the princess got ready to cast a spell. Ina extended her hand.
“Don’t worry, Liriel, we’ll fix whatever they did to you…” Inacea said.
“… but first…” Aramis said.
“… we’ll take back Jim,” Despina finished.
From behind them, a voice that was both melodious and dissonant rang out. “How dare you try to take what belongs to Us!”
A sallow hand reached out for Inacea. Out of the corner of her eye, the auf noticed a small, ashen figure extend a dainty hand towards her, coming to grab her. The girl the hand belonged to couldn’t be taller than a goblin and she was dressed in thin leather straps that barely covered her modest chest. The largest piece of clothing on her was the pair of panties hugging her sex. For the half-second it would take the weird, grey girl to touch her, the auf couldn’t even wonder where she had come from, why none of them had noticed her. She did wonder why her panties seemed to bulge out so strangely, however.
Aramis crashed into Ina just before the girl’s wan fingertips could touch her, shoving her out of the way. Instead of the auf, they brushed along Aramis’s chest and stomach, before his ballsack, swinging forward due to the sudden acceleration of the rest of his body, smacked against the dainty hand.
Foxkin and auf crashed to the ground in a pile of bodies.
“Tch.” For such a small person, she dragged an impressive mane of dark purple behind her. Her hair almost touched her ankles. [While her left eye was blood-red, her right eye was a similar colour to her hair.](https://imgur.com/a/chpHhjn) The heterochromatic eyes gave her face a strange imbalance, a crazed look made worse by the spreading smile on her lips.
“Empress!” Raum shouted and sank to one knee, dragging Jim to the ground by his balls along with her.
Ina meanwhile scrambled to her feet and drew back with Despina, huddling in a corner of the platform densely surrounded by mushrooms on all sides.
“Rise, Raum, while it is appreciated, this is not the time to shower Us with your veneration.” She sauntered up to Liriel, her bare feet tapping on the floor. “You are Our new maiden of shadow, then? A pleasure to have you as my servant. We are Lilith, empress of demonkind, ruler of hell, Goddess of shadows.”
Liriel said nothing, instead reaching out as if to shake the hand of the empress – only to extend further and grab the small bulge protruding through her panties.
Both Raum and Lilith froze in shock. The elf roughly grabbed and prodded the miniature manhood before isolating one of the stunted testicles. The muscles in Liriel’s arm tensed as she tried with all her might to crush the tiny nut. Lilith’s mouth opened in a silent scream, her hands ineffectually grabbing Liriel’s arm in an effort to stop her squeezing her ball.
“Elf, what are you doing!” Raum shouted.
Green light flowed into Liriel’s arm in a way that, as an apprentice mage, Despina now recognized as the sign that she had just used nature affinity mana to fortify herself. Was she strengthening herself even further?
Lilith was bent over Liriel’s hand crushing the life out of her spuds, sobbing and crying. Her thumb had already flattened the little gonad entirely, pushing through and meeting her hand on the other side. But even crushed to less than the thickness of a hair, the shell of Lilith’s nut refused to yield, not rewarding Liriel with the small *pop* she was seeking. The empress’s wailing was exactly what she expected from someone getting a nut compressed, though. Amusingly, Lilith’s nipples were clearly hard, and the tiny nub poking Liriel’s hand must mean she had a little erection as well.
At some unseen signal, Liriel let go and the empress of hell slumped to the ground, cradling her nuts, dry-heaving and shaking while still bawling her eyes out.
“I suspected as much. You are cursed with the weakness of a man but entirely incastratable, aren’t you, Lilith.” Liriel spoke with her voice devoid of all feeling.
Gasping for breath, Lilith reached out and squeaked, “My se-servant, I require your help…”
Before even Raum could react to the small ballbusted demon queen, Aramis had scooped her up in his arms. In a bridal carry, he brought her over to Raum as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
“Aramis?!” Ina shouted.
“Not you as well…” Despina shouted. She stared at the foxkin’s back with a mixture of anger and sadness. His expression, on the other hand, was entirely neutral, except that he had started drooling.
Then the princess spotted a flash of blond hair behind Aramis and Lilith, barely visible beyond the blue mushrooms. It was almost imperceptible when she gave a tiny shake of her head to the woman beyond the platform, looking in through the forest of mushrooms.
“My empress, if I had known that you would be here, I would have made arrangements so that your meagre manhood wouldn’t be humiliated like this.” Raum turned to Liriel. “What were you thinking? To just grab and squeeze the ruler of hell’s tiny brimstones!”
“It is a pair of acorns I am entitled to, regardless of their disappointing size. Although you would not understand that…” Liriel answered mysteriously.
“Jim, you’re still with us, correct? They’ve only scrambled your eggs, not your brains?” Despina shouted.
“Y-yes!” Jim squeaked.
“Good, then get ready!”
Raum’s head snapped forward, lifting Jim’s nuts threateningly. Her thumb settled on the centre of his left testicle, slightly pushing into the meaty ball. “Don’t you dare try anything, I quite literally have your little hero by the nuts! One wrong move and lefty gets it!”
The redhead smiled. “Get in line, cunt. I’ve been waiting for a chance to rupture his nuts since the day I met him. Ina!”
With a flick of the auf’s wrist, Jim’s massive pair of balls appeared in her hand. Immediately, one spilled over, bouncing away into the gloom between the mushroom trees. The other nut Ina managed to keep a safe grip on.
Across from them, Jim hit the ground hard when his empty sack slipped through Raum’s grasp. His breath was knocked out from him, but he crawled and scrambled along the floor, making his way over to the princess and Ina. He even managed to pick up the handle of his shattered blade.
He was out of breath and Ina gripped his lone gonad entirely too strongly, but he gave her and Despina a small smile. “Thanks, you two.”
In Aramis’ arms, Lilith growled, which sounded more like the yips of a small dog thanks to both her unimpressive height and busted nuts. “This changes nothing! There is nowhere for you to flee! We have you now, Jim, and We will have Our revenge for humiliating Us in front of Our sister! First, We will break those insignificant ovules of yours, and then We will break you, do you hear Us?”
“Like I said, get in line.” Despina raised her hand in a rude gesture. “You may have won here today, but don’t think for a second this is over. We are not without allies. We will come for you with everything we have. We’re going to end you, so you better get ready for that!”
“We don’t even know who you are, you red-headed weirdo.” Lilith got out of Aramis’ arms, standing on her own two feet again, although she was still clutching her little bulge and blinking tears out of her eyes.
“Are you so sure that you don’t want to stay with me, Jim?” Raum asked and produced a small silver key from between her breasts. “Don’t you want some release? I’ve fondled your balls, so big and full they were… Come back over here and I’ll unlock you. You could start by unloading a thick hot load down my throat, big boy…” She licked her lips lasciviously.
“N-no! I definitely don’t want that!” he answered rather unconvincingly, seeing how he couldn’t help but grab at his caged cock at her invitation.
“I will not let you all leave, Despina.” Liriel knelt and touched the mushroom roots. At her caress, a wave of the filaments surged towards Despina, Jim and Ina. In a flash, they wound around their limbs and bound them tightly.
“Ohoho, well done, maiden, well done! With that, all hope for their escape has been shattered!”
The roots held him tightly, but they also felt comforting, in a way. All of a sudden, Jim felt incredibly tired. He longingly stared at Liriel.
Maybe this should be it. Maybe he should stop and surrender.
Someone grabbed his left testicle. *Didn’t Ina take them? Right, she has dropped one. Then who is holding his other nut?* For a second, he thought he heard someone laugh.
His focus snapped back to Inacea. Despite the tight binds that made breathing hard, that dug painfully into her wound, she managed to smile sadly. “Sorry, girl. You may have some newfangled abilities and your mana pool seems much larger now as well, but… it seems I still have some tricks that you don’t. Oh Goddess, this is going to suck…”
Clearing all thoughts beside Liriel from his mind, his gaze settled on the elf. Ina clearly had some plan and for now, all he could do was trust in it. “I will come for you, Liri, and I will rescue you. Even if it means taking on all of hell.” Jim’s gaze was piercing and warm, even if he had trouble believing his own promise. It managed, at least, to produce the faintest hint of a blush on Liriel’s cheeks.
Princess and auf stretched against their bindings, reaching for each other. They didn’t manage to touch each other, but the princess’s dainty hand succeeded in placing the tip of a finger on the firm testicle in her companion’s hand.
Then, without warning, Jim, Despina and Inacea were gone.
“WHAT? Where are they? What happened?” Lilith demanded to know.
Aramis and Raum didn’t answer, either because they could not or did not dare.
“She teleported them away,” Liriel said, a small smile on her face. “I didn’t know she had it in her.”
“Grrr… No matter! This is merely a short delay of the inevitable. Raum, get us back to hell, I wish to discuss things with the new moirai of darkness.”
“At once, your highness. What about the boy?” she asked, gesturing to Aramis.
“Do with him as you please. I suppose your plan did work, even if they slipped through Our grasp again. You have earned a reward.”
When Lilith, Raum, Aramis and Liriel disappeared in a brackish portal, they left behind the remnants of the Calvino revolutionaries, the odd royal knight and town guard, as well as the former knight-captain who was deep in thought.
If she had interpreted the princess correctly, she wanted Leonia to gather the remaining force and prepare for her return. It had seemed that she was addressing this Lilith woman, but Leonia knew her words were meant for her. When she found the twins, she enlisted their help to retrieve Zenobia’s body. Then she helped defeat what remained of the enemy’s combatants.
None of them were allowed to keep a single gonad in their sacks. Sadly, neither Badri nor the half-castrated William were among their number.
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Harsh sunlight and a bright blue sky filled his vision. There were no clouds breaking up the endless sea of blue. The light was bright, so bright that it hurt his eyes. But it felt good on his skin after the sinister dark.
Wind dragged on his clothes, ruffled his hair and howled in his ears, but a sombre calm had taken hold of Jim.
They had lost. He had led his friends into a trap, playing right into Lilith’s hands. And now, Zenobia was gone. Aramis was their prisoner. He didn’t even know how many adventurers from Calvino had lost their lives in the shadows.
And Liriel…
His mind did not dare hold her in his thoughts, recoiling from her as if remembering could burn him.
It was his fault. Not just what happened beneath the streets of Hôdoburg. Everything that lead up to it as well. In truth, he had lost her long before that. He had hurt her on so many occasions, he just didn’t want to see it, excusing his actions one way or another. And it had driven her away from him, into the arms of the strange being that was responsible for his death and responsible for the dangers he was facing on Bythos.
“…!”
What did this world even hold for him any more? The woman he loved- thought he loved had turned on him. Zenobia was dead. Aramis was their prisoner. Liri had sounded like she still had plans for him, but would Lilith let her? He assumed he wanted her dead, or was she just interested in taking away his manhood? Maybe experiment on him, on the creation of her sister. He wasn’t sure if that was any better, living as Liriel’s nutless slave.
“JIM!”
His head snapped around and suddenly, the wind whipping his hair around was much louder. Hundreds of metres below him, a grey-beige desert sprawled as far as the eye could see. The barren land was dotted with strange silver structures, sharp and metallic monuments that seemed knife-like in some places and almost like silver coral in others.
[They were falling through the sky, hurtling towards a painful end](https://imgur.com/a/TljkRHE). Inacea was some distance away, thrown around by the winds. A thin trickle of blood came from her nose, immediately torn away to scatter in the wind before it could stain her lips. She was unconscious, whatever she had done must have knocked her out for good. Next to him, Despina shouted, panic and anger written on her face in equal measure.
“… don’t do something, you will regret it!”
He couldn’t let this be it. He had to find a way to make it up to Liriel. To apologize to her and win her back.
“Your magic!”
“Huh?!”
“Don’t you, like, control the winds? Break our fall with that!”
“I can’t,” she said over the wind.
“What? Why not?”
“…”
“What was that?”
“I said I spent all my mana fighting Badri!”
Of course. He had seen the mountain of little pebbles she had shot at him. “But in my defence, he deserved it! The little shit needed to be taught a lesson, I had to drag torturing his balls out!”
“Wait, that’s it!” Despina frowned, as if he had suddenly lost his mind. “I know this is gonna sound strange, but Liriel and I found out she could recharge mana by hitting me… down there. Maybe this is going to work for you as well! Don’t worry about me, I’m alre- HIIIIRKH!”
Without warning, Despina had grabbed his shoulders and slammed her knee into the V between his legs. The force of her busting his balls sent them spinning, flipping around in the air.
*Wait, didn’t Ina take them away? Did teleporting us like this put them back? No, this isn’t the time for that!*
“I-is it work-”
*SLAM*
Her knee crunched his nuts again, flattening the overfilled balls with pinpoint accuracy. And already, Despina was drawing her leg back again, her red hair fluttering all around them.
His breath caught in his throat as she kneed him again and again. With each hit to his nuts, she seemed to get more and more angry while a blush spread on her face. By the fifth knee, he could only brace himself by holding her hips, his head sunk onto her shoulders in a mockery of a hug.
Getting his balls rearranged by her knee banished all thoughts of falling from his mind. Jim could only hope that Despina knew what she was doing.
He breathed a sigh of relief when she stopped kneeing him, turned around and pressed her ass against him. Even through the cage, the pressure of her butt was a nice relief for his hurt sack. It only lasted half a second, however, as Despina’s hand reached through between her leg and roughly grabbed his balls inside his pants. She practically ripped them from his breeches, given how rough her handling of his most tender parts was.
His caged dick still rubbing against her ass, she pulled his balls through between her legs and hooked one foot around the other – trapping his scrotum between her thighs. Her legs held his testicles securely where she could reach his unprotected babymakers and force them to stretch to the bottom of his ballbag, leaving them no recourse or room to swing to avoid a hit. Most importantly for the princess, however, was the fact that it mashed his nuts against her loins, putting a gentle pressure on her pussy. Her fist slammed into his sack, neatly fitting inside the pit Leonia’s boot had kicked into the deformed nuts so long ago.
“Hah, hah, hah!” With each punch, Despina gasped loudly as smacking his nuts sent waves of pleasure through her while she was working over Jim’s testicles. The princess was vicariously masturbating by repeatedly smashing his manhood.
Jim felt exposed and completely powerless to stop her. His hands weakly grabbed at her, but Despina didn’t even notice when his hands brushed over her tits, too absorbed in a life-saving ballbusting session.
Throughout the beating his balls received, Jim lost all sense of time and space. The ground had to be getting close now, right? Despina would stop in time, right? She wouldn’t prioritize beating his testicles until she got her release over not letting them all splatter against the ground, right? … She definitely would.
“D-Des- AHH! Despina!” he mewled.
Her right hand closed around his ballsack and her left extended to the side. A blast of wind sent them both hurtling towards the unconscious Ina. The princess wound one arm around the auf’s midst, safely pressing Ina against herself. At any other time, Jim surely would’ve appreciated seeing Despina’s face rub up against Ina’s tits, but he was much too concerned with the vice-like grip the princess had on his nuts, as well as the now rapidly approaching ground. 20 metres. Ten.
“DESPINA!”
A blast of wind surged around them and for a split second, the howling of wind stopped, leaving them in complete silence. Despina’s fall halted abruptly, almost freezing her in the air. Her arms sagged as she struggled to hold onto Ina.
Unfortunately, the only point of connection between Jim and the princess were his testicles.
He slammed upside down and his balls screamed in agony. His testicles had stopped moving, but the rest of him had not.
The fabric of his pants tore, leaving Despina a clear view of Jim stretching away from the nuts she had clamped onto. The wrinkles in his sack disappeared as his scrotum and the cords of his nuts stretched comically far, she estimated about an entire arm’s length. The pressure on her own sex built as his balls tried their hardest to slip through her legs, and one of his plums was about to succeed.
One of his orbs squeezed through her shut legs, forcing its way along her clit and labia. Despina’s eyes rolled into the back of her head in pleasure and she inadvertently thrust out her tongue in the most stupid but also most blissful expression her face had ever produced. It also had the effect of the princess’s legs snapping shut even tighter, crushing the slippery testicle even harder against her pussy.
That was when another person grabbed onto Jim, sending another yank through the hovering group of people. Despina proved too weak to withstand the mind-numbing pleasure and hold Jim as well as another person, all while carrying Ina in her arms. As she orgasmed, Jim’s nuts slipped through her thighs and Ina from her hands. Thankfully, the ground was only a short drop away.
Jim hit the ground hard, knocking the air out of his lungs. His stretched balls followed about half a second later, the sack hitting the sand like a length of rope. Ina didn’t fare much better, the auf hitting the ground and immediately sliding some distance down a slope. The person that had held onto him hit the ground some metres away in a rush of sand.
Then came Despina, still caught in the throes of her climax. Her landing was comparatively soft, mostly because she landed ass first on Jim’s testicles. Her ass gave his babymakers one last solid thumping, pressing his nuts into the rough sand.
It proved to be too much for Jim and as the pain travelled up his stretched-out nut cords and arrived at his brain, it decided to mercifully let him slip into unconsciousness. The last thing he saw was Despina sitting atop his battered balls, moaning like an animal.
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*Whew, one more chapter for big dramatic stuff and then things will wind down again.*
*A lot of Despina's images were SO close to showing her actually hitting Jim but each time bing messed up just a little bit - a limb going nowhere, fucked up eyes, that sort of stuff. Really frustrating. And trying to get a usable image for Lilith was nigh impossible. THe result is a little too cutesy but it's better than anything else I managed.*
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“Step away from her, you monster!” Despina shouted. “If you hurt her, you will regret it!”
“You’re making it sound like I’m the villain here,” Raum said and dismissively shook her hand.
“Is there another murderous demon from hell here that we’re not aware of?” Aramis asked.
“I already told you, I had nothing to do with that one.” She vaguely pointed at Zenobia, the sorceress held tightly in Despina’s embrace. Behind Raum, the fire ignited on the remains of Harald von Haller’s sex organs died down. “And regarding these two,” she lifted Jim by his nuts, “all I did was help the little elf along the way.”
“Along the way to *what*.”
“To a little thing called the truth. I swear to the empress, I’m a demon among mortals, I have to hide my true nature wherever I go, but I can’t even hope to compare to you lot. What, is being truthful to each other that hard for mortals?”
“What are you talking about?” Despina hissed.
The demoness shook the bulging nutsack in her hand. “Well, no need to dive into this one’s mind, the elf is already doing that. I imagine there are plenty of juicy secrets in here as well. I mean, when I touched the mind of the elf in Gimeit,” she said and whistled appreciatively. “My, she’s carrying more secrets than the gaggle of nobles I’ve surrounded myself with. Sure, working for murderers and rapists is all well and good, we all have to make ends meet. But selling people into slavery? Her own village even, including her own parents? I’m sure you understand, I *had* to have her.”
Raum’s wolfish smile made them shiver. “And you lot don’t seem much better. For example,” her gaze fell on Aramis, “if I had to guess, you’re actually scared of women, aren’t you? Downright terrified, actually.”
His mouth clamped shut. “Hah, got it in one! That’s why I succeed where my sisters fail! Well, no need to pretend any longer, little fox, Raum is here to break up your little charade. I’m going to give you something to *really* be afraid of.”
The demon noticed Liriel’s ears twitching and spread out her arms in a grand, sweeping gesture. She didn’t mind inadvertently swinging Jim around by his balls doing so. “If I may introduce you all, please welcome the newly crowned maiden of darkness, moirai Liriel!”
At her exclamation, Liriel rose from her kneeling position, turning towards the others, and opened her pitch-black eyes.
“Welcome back, girlie. Did you subdue your boy toy?”
“Liriel? Are you alright?” Aramis asked.
“Get away from her, quick, before she can mess with you even more!” Despina said.
The elf regarded the princess with an unreadable expression, then shook her head. “I am right where I deserve to be, Despina. It would be best for you if you started to accept that.”
“Liriel…” Ina whispered softly.
The fiery princess, meanwhile, gritted her teeth. “Heinous beast, you’re controlling her like Malphas controlled me in Seduttri! Leave her alone!”
“I didn’t do anyth-” Raum began before Liriel interrupted her.
“I am under no one’s control but my own, Despina.”
“…then why?” Aramis asked.
“Neither of us are who you all thought we were. Drinking the ambrosia has allowed me to realize that. We lie to you, to ourselves, we cheat and mislead. All so we can hide the scars we bear. If we were to go on like this, we would tear each other apart.” She spared Jim a look, right as he started stirring in Raum’s hold. “It is the only way forward. The only way Jim and I can ever be together.”
“What the twelve hells do you mean? I know you fancy him, where is all of this coming from? You’re not making sense!” Inacea shouted, a hand clutching her side in pain. She was pale, barely keeping upright.
“I do not expect you to understand. I’m sorry, Ina. You as well, Despina, Aramis.”
“If you’re sorry, then-”
“I can’t,” Liriel answered immediately. Then she turned to Raum. “Do not let go of him.”
The demoness cocked an eyebrow. “I thought you controlled him?”
Instead of slowly coming to, Jim’s eyes shot open. He curled around Raum’s fist. “Argh, my balls! Let go! Let go of my balls!” he squeaked.
The demon laughed. “Can’t do that, boy. I don’t know why my new comrade didn’t take over your mind, but as long as I’ve got you by your cumtanks, you’re not going anywhere. And I know it’s not my business, but why do they feel so full? You really should get your rocks off more often. All that creamy goodness in those nuts of yours is just going to waste away. You should share it with someone, like me, for example.”
Despina, Aramis and Ina looked at each other with grim determination while Jim screamed and cried. Aramis gripped his dagger tightly, while the princess got ready to cast a spell. Ina extended her hand.
“Don’t worry, Liriel, we’ll fix whatever they did to you…” Inacea said.
“… but first…” Aramis said.
“… we’ll take back Jim,” Despina finished.
From behind them, a voice that was both melodious and dissonant rang out. “How dare you try to take what belongs to Us!”
A sallow hand reached out for Inacea. Out of the corner of her eye, the auf noticed a small, ashen figure extend a dainty hand towards her, coming to grab her. The girl the hand belonged to couldn’t be taller than a goblin and she was dressed in thin leather straps that barely covered her modest chest. The largest piece of clothing on her was the pair of panties hugging her sex. For the half-second it would take the weird, grey girl to touch her, the auf couldn’t even wonder where she had come from, why none of them had noticed her. She did wonder why her panties seemed to bulge out so strangely, however.
Aramis crashed into Ina just before the girl’s wan fingertips could touch her, shoving her out of the way. Instead of the auf, they brushed along Aramis’s chest and stomach, before his ballsack, swinging forward due to the sudden acceleration of the rest of his body, smacked against the dainty hand.
Foxkin and auf crashed to the ground in a pile of bodies.
“Tch.” For such a small person, she dragged an impressive mane of dark purple behind her. Her hair almost touched her ankles. [While her left eye was blood-red, her right eye was a similar colour to her hair.](https://imgur.com/a/chpHhjn) The heterochromatic eyes gave her face a strange imbalance, a crazed look made worse by the spreading smile on her lips.
“Empress!” Raum shouted and sank to one knee, dragging Jim to the ground by his balls along with her.
Ina meanwhile scrambled to her feet and drew back with Despina, huddling in a corner of the platform densely surrounded by mushrooms on all sides.
“Rise, Raum, while it is appreciated, this is not the time to shower Us with your veneration.” She sauntered up to Liriel, her bare feet tapping on the floor. “You are Our new maiden of shadow, then? A pleasure to have you as my servant. We are Lilith, empress of demonkind, ruler of hell, Goddess of shadows.”
Liriel said nothing, instead reaching out as if to shake the hand of the empress – only to extend further and grab the small bulge protruding through her panties.
Both Raum and Lilith froze in shock. The elf roughly grabbed and prodded the miniature manhood before isolating one of the stunted testicles. The muscles in Liriel’s arm tensed as she tried with all her might to crush the tiny nut. Lilith’s mouth opened in a silent scream, her hands ineffectually grabbing Liriel’s arm in an effort to stop her squeezing her ball.
“Elf, what are you doing!” Raum shouted.
Green light flowed into Liriel’s arm in a way that, as an apprentice mage, Despina now recognized as the sign that she had just used nature affinity mana to fortify herself. Was she strengthening herself even further?
Lilith was bent over Liriel’s hand crushing the life out of her spuds, sobbing and crying. Her thumb had already flattened the little gonad entirely, pushing through and meeting her hand on the other side. But even crushed to less than the thickness of a hair, the shell of Lilith’s nut refused to yield, not rewarding Liriel with the small *pop* she was seeking. The empress’s wailing was exactly what she expected from someone getting a nut compressed, though. Amusingly, Lilith’s nipples were clearly hard, and the tiny nub poking Liriel’s hand must mean she had a little erection as well.
At some unseen signal, Liriel let go and the empress of hell slumped to the ground, cradling her nuts, dry-heaving and shaking while still bawling her eyes out.
“I suspected as much. You are cursed with the weakness of a man but entirely incastratable, aren’t you, Lilith.” Liriel spoke with her voice devoid of all feeling.
Gasping for breath, Lilith reached out and squeaked, “My se-servant, I require your help…”
Before even Raum could react to the small ballbusted demon queen, Aramis had scooped her up in his arms. In a bridal carry, he brought her over to Raum as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
“Aramis?!” Ina shouted.
“Not you as well…” Despina shouted. She stared at the foxkin’s back with a mixture of anger and sadness. His expression, on the other hand, was entirely neutral, except that he had started drooling.
Then the princess spotted a flash of blond hair behind Aramis and Lilith, barely visible beyond the blue mushrooms. It was almost imperceptible when she gave a tiny shake of her head to the woman beyond the platform, looking in through the forest of mushrooms.
“My empress, if I had known that you would be here, I would have made arrangements so that your meagre manhood wouldn’t be humiliated like this.” Raum turned to Liriel. “What were you thinking? To just grab and squeeze the ruler of hell’s tiny brimstones!”
“It is a pair of acorns I am entitled to, regardless of their disappointing size. Although you would not understand that…” Liriel answered mysteriously.
“Jim, you’re still with us, correct? They’ve only scrambled your eggs, not your brains?” Despina shouted.
“Y-yes!” Jim squeaked.
“Good, then get ready!”
Raum’s head snapped forward, lifting Jim’s nuts threateningly. Her thumb settled on the centre of his left testicle, slightly pushing into the meaty ball. “Don’t you dare try anything, I quite literally have your little hero by the nuts! One wrong move and lefty gets it!”
The redhead smiled. “Get in line, cunt. I’ve been waiting for a chance to rupture his nuts since the day I met him. Ina!”
With a flick of the auf’s wrist, Jim’s massive pair of balls appeared in her hand. Immediately, one spilled over, bouncing away into the gloom between the mushroom trees. The other nut Ina managed to keep a safe grip on.
Across from them, Jim hit the ground hard when his empty sack slipped through Raum’s grasp. His breath was knocked out from him, but he crawled and scrambled along the floor, making his way over to the princess and Ina. He even managed to pick up the handle of his shattered blade.
He was out of breath and Ina gripped his lone gonad entirely too strongly, but he gave her and Despina a small smile. “Thanks, you two.”
In Aramis’ arms, Lilith growled, which sounded more like the yips of a small dog thanks to both her unimpressive height and busted nuts. “This changes nothing! There is nowhere for you to flee! We have you now, Jim, and We will have Our revenge for humiliating Us in front of Our sister! First, We will break those insignificant ovules of yours, and then We will break you, do you hear Us?”
“Like I said, get in line.” Despina raised her hand in a rude gesture. “You may have won here today, but don’t think for a second this is over. We are not without allies. We will come for you with everything we have. We’re going to end you, so you better get ready for that!”
“We don’t even know who you are, you red-headed weirdo.” Lilith got out of Aramis’ arms, standing on her own two feet again, although she was still clutching her little bulge and blinking tears out of her eyes.
“Are you so sure that you don’t want to stay with me, Jim?” Raum asked and produced a small silver key from between her breasts. “Don’t you want some release? I’ve fondled your balls, so big and full they were… Come back over here and I’ll unlock you. You could start by unloading a thick hot load down my throat, big boy…” She licked her lips lasciviously.
“N-no! I definitely don’t want that!” he answered rather unconvincingly, seeing how he couldn’t help but grab at his caged cock at her invitation.
“I will not let you all leave, Despina.” Liriel knelt and touched the mushroom roots. At her caress, a wave of the filaments surged towards Despina, Jim and Ina. In a flash, they wound around their limbs and bound them tightly.
“Ohoho, well done, maiden, well done! With that, all hope for their escape has been shattered!”
The roots held him tightly, but they also felt comforting, in a way. All of a sudden, Jim felt incredibly tired. He longingly stared at Liriel.
Maybe this should be it. Maybe he should stop and surrender.
Someone grabbed his left testicle. *Didn’t Ina take them? Right, she has dropped one. Then who is holding his other nut?* For a second, he thought he heard someone laugh.
His focus snapped back to Inacea. Despite the tight binds that made breathing hard, that dug painfully into her wound, she managed to smile sadly. “Sorry, girl. You may have some newfangled abilities and your mana pool seems much larger now as well, but… it seems I still have some tricks that you don’t. Oh Goddess, this is going to suck…”
Clearing all thoughts beside Liriel from his mind, his gaze settled on the elf. Ina clearly had some plan and for now, all he could do was trust in it. “I will come for you, Liri, and I will rescue you. Even if it means taking on all of hell.” Jim’s gaze was piercing and warm, even if he had trouble believing his own promise. It managed, at least, to produce the faintest hint of a blush on Liriel’s cheeks.
Princess and auf stretched against their bindings, reaching for each other. They didn’t manage to touch each other, but the princess’s dainty hand succeeded in placing the tip of a finger on the firm testicle in her companion’s hand.
Then, without warning, Jim, Despina and Inacea were gone.
“WHAT? Where are they? What happened?” Lilith demanded to know.
Aramis and Raum didn’t answer, either because they could not or did not dare.
“She teleported them away,” Liriel said, a small smile on her face. “I didn’t know she had it in her.”
“Grrr… No matter! This is merely a short delay of the inevitable. Raum, get us back to hell, I wish to discuss things with the new moirai of darkness.”
“At once, your highness. What about the boy?” she asked, gesturing to Aramis.
“Do with him as you please. I suppose your plan did work, even if they slipped through Our grasp again. You have earned a reward.”
When Lilith, Raum, Aramis and Liriel disappeared in a brackish portal, they left behind the remnants of the Calvino revolutionaries, the odd royal knight and town guard, as well as the former knight-captain who was deep in thought.
If she had interpreted the princess correctly, she wanted Leonia to gather the remaining force and prepare for her return. It had seemed that she was addressing this Lilith woman, but Leonia knew her words were meant for her. When she found the twins, she enlisted their help to retrieve Zenobia’s body. Then she helped defeat what remained of the enemy’s combatants.
None of them were allowed to keep a single gonad in their sacks. Sadly, neither Badri nor the half-castrated William were among their number.
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Harsh sunlight and a bright blue sky filled his vision. There were no clouds breaking up the endless sea of blue. The light was bright, so bright that it hurt his eyes. But it felt good on his skin after the sinister dark.
Wind dragged on his clothes, ruffled his hair and howled in his ears, but a sombre calm had taken hold of Jim.
They had lost. He had led his friends into a trap, playing right into Lilith’s hands. And now, Zenobia was gone. Aramis was their prisoner. He didn’t even know how many adventurers from Calvino had lost their lives in the shadows.
And Liriel…
His mind did not dare hold her in his thoughts, recoiling from her as if remembering could burn him.
It was his fault. Not just what happened beneath the streets of Hôdoburg. Everything that lead up to it as well. In truth, he had lost her long before that. He had hurt her on so many occasions, he just didn’t want to see it, excusing his actions one way or another. And it had driven her away from him, into the arms of the strange being that was responsible for his death and responsible for the dangers he was facing on Bythos.
“…!”
What did this world even hold for him any more? The woman he loved- thought he loved had turned on him. Zenobia was dead. Aramis was their prisoner. Liri had sounded like she still had plans for him, but would Lilith let her? He assumed he wanted her dead, or was she just interested in taking away his manhood? Maybe experiment on him, on the creation of her sister. He wasn’t sure if that was any better, living as Liriel’s nutless slave.
“JIM!”
His head snapped around and suddenly, the wind whipping his hair around was much louder. Hundreds of metres below him, a grey-beige desert sprawled as far as the eye could see. The barren land was dotted with strange silver structures, sharp and metallic monuments that seemed knife-like in some places and almost like silver coral in others.
[They were falling through the sky, hurtling towards a painful end](https://imgur.com/a/TljkRHE). Inacea was some distance away, thrown around by the winds. A thin trickle of blood came from her nose, immediately torn away to scatter in the wind before it could stain her lips. She was unconscious, whatever she had done must have knocked her out for good. Next to him, Despina shouted, panic and anger written on her face in equal measure.
“… don’t do something, you will regret it!”
He couldn’t let this be it. He had to find a way to make it up to Liriel. To apologize to her and win her back.
“Your magic!”
“Huh?!”
“Don’t you, like, control the winds? Break our fall with that!”
“I can’t,” she said over the wind.
“What? Why not?”
“…”
“What was that?”
“I said I spent all my mana fighting Badri!”
Of course. He had seen the mountain of little pebbles she had shot at him. “But in my defence, he deserved it! The little shit needed to be taught a lesson, I had to drag torturing his balls out!”
“Wait, that’s it!” Despina frowned, as if he had suddenly lost his mind. “I know this is gonna sound strange, but Liriel and I found out she could recharge mana by hitting me… down there. Maybe this is going to work for you as well! Don’t worry about me, I’m alre- HIIIIRKH!”
Without warning, Despina had grabbed his shoulders and slammed her knee into the V between his legs. The force of her busting his balls sent them spinning, flipping around in the air.
*Wait, didn’t Ina take them away? Did teleporting us like this put them back? No, this isn’t the time for that!*
“I-is it work-”
*SLAM*
Her knee crunched his nuts again, flattening the overfilled balls with pinpoint accuracy. And already, Despina was drawing her leg back again, her red hair fluttering all around them.
His breath caught in his throat as she kneed him again and again. With each hit to his nuts, she seemed to get more and more angry while a blush spread on her face. By the fifth knee, he could only brace himself by holding her hips, his head sunk onto her shoulders in a mockery of a hug.
Getting his balls rearranged by her knee banished all thoughts of falling from his mind. Jim could only hope that Despina knew what she was doing.
He breathed a sigh of relief when she stopped kneeing him, turned around and pressed her ass against him. Even through the cage, the pressure of her butt was a nice relief for his hurt sack. It only lasted half a second, however, as Despina’s hand reached through between her leg and roughly grabbed his balls inside his pants. She practically ripped them from his breeches, given how rough her handling of his most tender parts was.
His caged dick still rubbing against her ass, she pulled his balls through between her legs and hooked one foot around the other – trapping his scrotum between her thighs. Her legs held his testicles securely where she could reach his unprotected babymakers and force them to stretch to the bottom of his ballbag, leaving them no recourse or room to swing to avoid a hit. Most importantly for the princess, however, was the fact that it mashed his nuts against her loins, putting a gentle pressure on her pussy. Her fist slammed into his sack, neatly fitting inside the pit Leonia’s boot had kicked into the deformed nuts so long ago.
“Hah, hah, hah!” With each punch, Despina gasped loudly as smacking his nuts sent waves of pleasure through her while she was working over Jim’s testicles. The princess was vicariously masturbating by repeatedly smashing his manhood.
Jim felt exposed and completely powerless to stop her. His hands weakly grabbed at her, but Despina didn’t even notice when his hands brushed over her tits, too absorbed in a life-saving ballbusting session.
Throughout the beating his balls received, Jim lost all sense of time and space. The ground had to be getting close now, right? Despina would stop in time, right? She wouldn’t prioritize beating his testicles until she got her release over not letting them all splatter against the ground, right? … She definitely would.
“D-Des- AHH! Despina!” he mewled.
Her right hand closed around his ballsack and her left extended to the side. A blast of wind sent them both hurtling towards the unconscious Ina. The princess wound one arm around the auf’s midst, safely pressing Ina against herself. At any other time, Jim surely would’ve appreciated seeing Despina’s face rub up against Ina’s tits, but he was much too concerned with the vice-like grip the princess had on his nuts, as well as the now rapidly approaching ground. 20 metres. Ten.
“DESPINA!”
A blast of wind surged around them and for a split second, the howling of wind stopped, leaving them in complete silence. Despina’s fall halted abruptly, almost freezing her in the air. Her arms sagged as she struggled to hold onto Ina.
Unfortunately, the only point of connection between Jim and the princess were his testicles.
He slammed upside down and his balls screamed in agony. His testicles had stopped moving, but the rest of him had not.
The fabric of his pants tore, leaving Despina a clear view of Jim stretching away from the nuts she had clamped onto. The wrinkles in his sack disappeared as his scrotum and the cords of his nuts stretched comically far, she estimated about an entire arm’s length. The pressure on her own sex built as his balls tried their hardest to slip through her legs, and one of his plums was about to succeed.
One of his orbs squeezed through her shut legs, forcing its way along her clit and labia. Despina’s eyes rolled into the back of her head in pleasure and she inadvertently thrust out her tongue in the most stupid but also most blissful expression her face had ever produced. It also had the effect of the princess’s legs snapping shut even tighter, crushing the slippery testicle even harder against her pussy.
That was when another person grabbed onto Jim, sending another yank through the hovering group of people. Despina proved too weak to withstand the mind-numbing pleasure and hold Jim as well as another person, all while carrying Ina in her arms. As she orgasmed, Jim’s nuts slipped through her thighs and Ina from her hands. Thankfully, the ground was only a short drop away.
Jim hit the ground hard, knocking the air out of his lungs. His stretched balls followed about half a second later, the sack hitting the sand like a length of rope. Ina didn’t fare much better, the auf hitting the ground and immediately sliding some distance down a slope. The person that had held onto him hit the ground some metres away in a rush of sand.
Then came Despina, still caught in the throes of her climax. Her landing was comparatively soft, mostly because she landed ass first on Jim’s testicles. Her ass gave his babymakers one last solid thumping, pressing his nuts into the rough sand.
It proved to be too much for Jim and as the pain travelled up his stretched-out nut cords and arrived at his brain, it decided to mercifully let him slip into unconsciousness. The last thing he saw was Despina sitting atop his battered balls, moaning like an animal.
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*Whew, one more chapter for big dramatic stuff and then things will wind down again.*
*A lot of Despina's images were SO close to showing her actually hitting Jim but each time bing messed up just a little bit - a limb going nowhere, fucked up eyes, that sort of stuff. Really frustrating. And trying to get a usable image for Lilith was nigh impossible. THe result is a little too cutesy but it's better than anything else I managed.*
