NOVPUBThe morning light filtered through the velvet curtains, tinging the room with shades of gold and purple. The silence was thick, broken only by the soft, rhythmic breathing of the Witch Queen, asleep amidst the disheveled sheets. Her countenance was serene, almost innocent, in contrast to the immense power that pulsed beneath her enchanted skin.
Kael opened his eyes slowly, as if returning from a dream - or from a lifetime intertwined in a few short hours. The air still smelled of the night before... Herbs, natural oils and... sex. Or rather, the fluids of both.
Carefully, he disentangled himself from her arms and stood up. His feet touched the cold floor strangely - it wasn't just his body that felt different, it was the way the world reacted to him.
He walked over to the bedroom mirror: an enchanted crystal relic framed by carvings that looked like serpents and constellations dancing in white gold.
He stopped in front of the reflection.
For a moment, he didn't recognize the man he saw, after all, it was the version of him ten years from now... the spell that had forced his body back in time. That's what Eleonor had done to enjoy her grandson. She moved his body ten years into the future.
Something that really shocked him when he looked at it.
His skin was firm and marked by defined muscles, as if he had been sculpted by a craftsman who understood strength and elegance in equal measure. The broad shoulders, wide chest and vigorous arms indicated not only physical power, but total mastery over himself.
His previously unruly red hair now fell like a dark cascade of dark crimson to almost touch his waist. There was something primitive and noble about his appearance - a warrior prince forged not just by battle, but by magic and time.
His golden eyes shone, analyzing his reflection. He raised his hand, touching his own face, his jaw more marked, his expression more mature. It was still him. But different. More whole.
"Really great work..." He murmured, "So that's what I'll be like in a few years' time... Really, I've been given a great gift."
Kael was still absorbed in front of the mirror, his mind buzzing with thoughts he could barely organize. The image that stared back at him was not just that of a distant future, but of an imposed present - shaped by the will and magic of someone who had always known more than he could say.
It was then that he felt the warmth.
A pair of arms wrapped around her waist from behind, firm but strangely gentle. Eleonor's unmistakable perfume - sage, incense and a sweet touch of black jasmine - filled the air like a subtle spell.
She leaned her chin on his shoulder, her crimson hair like his brushing against him as well as her large breasts. Her voice came low, close to his ear, laden with restrained pleasure and something that almost sounded like tenderness: "Did you like the present your grandmother gave you, my dear?"
Kael stiffened instantly, his body responding with a mixture of shock and... He didn't know if he was more disturbed by the sensation of her touches or by the content of the question.
"You..." he began, unable to finish. His gaze still locked on the reflection, now showing both: the molded man and the ancient witch who had created him - and now wrapped around him like a serpent wrapped in silk.
"You planned all this, didn't you?" she finally asked, her voice hoarse, with a tone somewhere between reverence and discomfort.
She laughed, a low, intimate sound, like a forgotten song that invaded the bones. "I only accelerated what was already inevitable." Her fingers slid slowly down his abdomen, as if admiring their own creation. "The shell had to live up to the spirit it carries. And the lineage it represents."
Kael turned partially around, his golden eyes staring into hers. As much as he wanted to pull back, there was something hypnotic there. A magnetism between the two of them, something forged by blood, time and... fate?
"But why?" he whispered. "Why now?"
Eleonor smiled enigmatically. "So you realize." Eleonor said smiling as she leaned closer to him. Her breasts squeezed into his as she took hold of his hard member and slipped it between her thighs, rubbing it against her already wet pussy and slipping out the other side, letting it pass between her legs so as not to disturb the conversation.
Or rather. Just because she wanted to feel it.
"Let's just say I had to move a few things forward..." said Eleonor, her fingers slowly tracing the defined lines of his muscles like someone appreciating a newly finished masterpiece. "Your mother was becoming more and more attentive to your body, and frankly... how long do you think that childish little body could withstand storing so much power?"
Kael frowned, suspicious. "Here you go again with that sealing thing..."
He had heard something similar from Eva. That the bracelet she wore - an old piece that now lay forgotten in a drawer - sealed away half her power. That's why he had taken it off. But even so, he hadn't felt any explosion of strength. No drastic transformation. Just... nothing.
"It wasn't just the bracelet that was the problem." Eleonor interrupted his thoughts, almost as if she heard them. "You have an age limiter." She smiled, her eyes shining with an uneasy pride. "You didn't have the body to bear what you're carrying. We had to seal away almost everything. Your potential... your magic... your essence."
Kael felt his stomach turn. A chill ran up his spine as he put the pieces together. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
'So that's why... the system's statuses never made sense. He thought bitterly. 'Increasing strength, speed, mana... all generated minimal, almost irrelevant effects. Nothing scaled as it should. Because my body was tied down. Pruned. Like a blade sheathed and forgotten.
He took a deep breath, his eyes returning to the mirror. Now he understood. It wasn't the world that was wrong - it was him who was chained.
"So now..." he murmured, his eyes fixed on hers, a new understanding beginning to form. "This body... it's not temporary, is it?"
Eleonor gave him a mischievous glare, a soft laugh escaping her lips before she answered.
"Do you really think I'd give you something like that, just so we could have a night together?" She raised an eyebrow, as if the answer was obvious. "I'm naughty, but not that naughty," she said, stroking his cock with her legs.
"Although it was very nice... it's a shame you'd rather use your mother's pussy... I'd love to receive this big guy here in my bowels." She said, smiling as his cock got wet just from passing between her legs.
"But yes." She said, her voice soft but charged with a quiet power. "That body, my darling, is permanent."
Eleonor slid her fingers over his muscles, tracing an invisible line, as if she were drawing in the air. Her touch seemed to dance over Kael's skin, until, with one final movement, she made a circle in the center of his chest.
The air around them vibrated. A magic circle began to emerge, its shape fluid and pulsating, like an energy imprint. Then, with a low, dry sound, the circle shattered, disintegrating into a shower of golden particles that disappeared into thin air.
Kael watched, wide-eyed.
"What was that?" He asked, his voice almost a whisper of amazement.
Eleonor smiled enigmatically, her fingers still slightly tinged with energy.
"A confirmation, dear. The sealed power... is now completely released. Your new body will no longer be held hostage by time or limitation."
Kael remained silent, his gaze fixed on the golden aura that still pulsed around the broken circle. But before he could say anything else, a strange sensation spread through his body.
At first, it was a lightness. Something so subtle that he almost didn't notice it, as if the weight of the world had dissipated, as if his body had finally found the balance it had been missing. He felt his muscles relaxing, as if the strain of a lifetime had been lifted from his shoulders.
But then, the change intensified.
His mana - that power that had always been there, just waiting to be unleashed - exploded inside him like a furious whirlwind. Kael could barely hold himself together. It was as if all the energy in the universe was concentrating in his chest, swirling, churning like a storm about to devour everything around him.
The pain, however, was short-lived. Soon, the whirlpool of force stabilized, as if he himself were a center of calm in the midst of the chaos. The energy was absorbed by his body, adjusting to the new power structure Eleonor had given him.
Kael felt every cell in his body vibrate, warm up, as if he were being filled with something vast and ancient. His mana was no longer an uncontrolled, raw flow, but a fluid stream, strong and serene, perfectly integrated into his being.
He opened his eyes, the golden ones shining brightly, and took a deep breath.
"That..." the word came out of his mouth like a sigh. The change was palpable, visceral. He felt stronger, more complete. Something inside him had changed irrevocably. He was ready.
Eleonor watched him with a satisfied look, like someone following the rise of something she had always known would happen.
"Now it is." She said, her voice low and full of approval. "Oh, it's even gotten bigger in here." She said as she looked down between her legs...
"You're much naughtier than I thought." Kael said.
