NOVEL SIMPLE Caverns of MINE
6/8 afternoon
“I might take you up on that, but first I’m going to need an explanation of what the hell is going on?” I’ve been surrounded by willing beauties for long enough that a pretty blonde elf practically begging for my dick didn’t cause my brain to short out anymore. Vanessa turned to me with a smile, falling to her knees, putting her hands behind her back, and thrusting her chest out before providing the requested explanation.
“My Lord, in an attempt to please you, Selena and I have been experimenting with the tools that you have given us. We have managed to get the time from contact to enslavement down to about an hour for high priority targets.” She had a dreamy, self satisfied smile on her face as she continued. “Shadow based mental alteration is at its strongest while the victim is possessed, possession is at its strongest when the victim is mentally compromised, and through the teachings of lady Natalie I have learned how to cleanse poison.”
“Okay, I have some guesses what you mean, but could you walk me through it?”
“Of course, my lord. I have developed a toxin that can paralyze the target’s mind completely while it’s in the body, but which has only modest aftereffects on the brain with short term exposure. Selena is able to possess such an individual and rearrange their thoughts and feelings with near impunity using the knowledge she gained from experiencing that exact process herself, though sexual submission to a member of the retinue does accelerate the process. It can take anywhere from half an hour to a full day, depending on how extensively we wish to alter the mind. For this demonstration, we only need this one to love you and be willing to say so when we wake her up, so it can be done quickly. Then, as the amulets cannot properly subdue the will of a target when their mind is suppressed, I cleanse the poison from their body, leaving them able to dedicate themselves to you or Lady Talaada.”
I was impressed, and Vanessa could clearly tell from the way she was getting flushed. “So, how many times have you done this so far?”
“Five, sir. The specific compound I developed is somewhat difficult to make, and thus far I only have Selena able to perform her part of the process. However, it will work on anyone who I can inject, so long as I can get the dosage right. As a dragon, this one,” the blonde in question supplied the name “Alurmi,""Alurmi took a particularly large dosage. Dwarves also take a large dosage, unfortunately, but I’ve managed to strategically capture three well respected members of the Wildhammer clan.”
“Good girl. I’m convinced. The two of you may pleasure me.” The two women gave me eerily identical hungry expressions, and I found myself wondering if Selena had been changed by her time in Vanessa’s mind. Such musing didn’t last long, of course, with the two women eagerly taking turns licking and sucking on my cock and balls. I sincerely doubted that it was actually shortening the timer for Alurmi at all, since aggressive initiations required the target to cum, but it was a hell of a way to pass the time.
When I was just about ready to burst, Alurmi and Vanessa knelt before me, waiting for a money shot. Alurmi whispered, “now,” and Vanessa cast a purification spell on her. Alurmi’s facial expression became faintly confused, but when I came on her face she collapsed into a massive orgasm. “Yes, yes, it’s so good! I love you, sir, I love you!”
As a dragon in her visage, there was no outward change, but she was clearly captured. It was even more clear when a flickering, exhausted Selena manifested next to her with a satisfied smile. I knelt down next to my new bronze dragon and gave her a peck on the cheek. “Welcome to the team. You wouldn’t happen to know how to get close to Chromie or Soridormi, would you?”
Alurmi was coming down from an entirely disproportionate orgasm, which a quick check revealed to be the result of a full strength orgasm trigger, attached to my cum being on or inside of her. Well that’s certainly another way to cheese Aggressive Initiations. “Um. Ah. Oh, yes. Yes. I can… I can probably talk to grandmother. But how did you get past the sensors? We should have been alerted to an intruder.”
“Don’t worry about it. Sensors can be a little spotty when it comes to me. Here’s the important question: how many bronze Dragons are staffing this timeline, and how many could you get control of with these tools?” I laid out what I had, including Paradox defense and trace defense. “I need to move fast; I want to be sure that I have a monopoly on legitimate time travel if I can. Best to assume Nefarian can pull off anything I can.” We hatched a plan.
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Alurmi was ultimately a rather low ranking dragon. Her primary job was as an archivist of things from broken timelines; that did mean she had a rather large collection of valuable artifacts she could get her hands on, but it didn’t give her any particular level of authority. What it did provide her with was a justification to carry around a collection of powerful amulets and company swag without being asked too many questions. Our saving grace was that currently the caverns were on a lean staff; all non-essential personnel were deployed elsewhere, in actual timelines outside of this nexus of crossing paths. Chromie, the most iconic member of Nozdormu’s brood, was among those who had left. A shame, but as the official Bronze ambassador to basically everyone else, it didn’t shock me that she was keeping busy.
That left about fifteen dragons and quite a few draconids and dragonspawn staffing the caverns, plus time lost individuals taken from collapsing timelines to assist in one way or another. I solved most problems involving dragonspawn almost instantly by turning into a bronze dragon. I made my bronze Visage Otto of Westfall, because why not? I made my way from dragonspawn to dragonspawn with Vanessa, who saw to it that they saw me as she did with minimal effort. Just as a way to pass the time while Alurmi and a moonwell-restored Selena tracked down higher ranked dragons. Andormu and Nozari, a pair of close siblings, had a fun little quirk that worked in our favor. They always employed time clones, basically just themselves from a later point in their personal history, to maximize their effort. To make things easier on others, they would have their younger versions take the form of children, while their older versions were adults.
Nozari, when sufficiently soothed by a shadow word so as to make suspicion almost impossible, was perfectly willing to put on an amulet at her trusted subordinate’s request “for testing purposes”. Her older counterpart, retroactively wearing the amulet for several weeks, was captured instantly the moment the amulet was placed around her younger counterpart’s neck. Her brother was much the same. The two elder dragons had the pull to request Soridormi’s presence in private, where she was incapable of resisting the pull of Jewels of Discord as an official target within the catalog. Naturally, we paralyzed her instantly.
I wanted to move fast, so I went the extra mile and signed my name on her thigh. Once we moved her so that she could see her own thigh, she relaxed. The disobedience trigger of paralysis for resisting my will simply didn’t apply anymore. She wasn’t captured yet, which did surprise me, but at least she was set to 72 hours ETE.
“So. How do you feel?”
“A bit saddened. I could have sworn I was my own person.” The busty brunette kept looking at her thigh, as if it must be some mistake.
“Nope. I’m afraid not. You and pretty much every other dragon belong to me.”
She gave me a reproachful look. “Hardly. Just because you have dominion over me does not mean that you have any claim to any other dragon.” Alright. So she still has her own opinions.
“Believe me.” She looked at me like I was an idiot before responding slowly, as if to a very special child. “I cannot simply choose to believe a patent falsehood. If you’d really like I can pretend to believe it, but if that is your will please tell me that.”
“So I suppose that if I command you to tell me that you love me?”
“I’ll tell you so, but that will not make it true.”
“Give it a shot. Put your all into it, and don’t resist any magic you may feel.” I winked at Alurmi, and a faint trail of smoke arced from one bronze dragon to the other.
“Very well. I love you, Erich Bismark. Completely and absolutely.” I checked my amulet; not enough. “No, I want you to tell me you love me as if you were horny as hell and I were Nozdormu, freshly returned. Lay it on thick, and mix in some physical affection.” She quietly groaned for a moment before fixing her eyes on me and smiling.
She leaned in and gave me a long, lingering kiss. “I’ve been waiting for that for so long, my love. Please, would you touch me? I’ve been so lonely.” She pressed herself against me. “Come on, do you really have to work so long? Time is so nebulous anyway. I’m sure you could be with me just a little more often.” She fished my cock out, and stroked it gently. “I love you my lord, my king. I’m more than willing to aid you in any way you desire, but shouldn’t your prime consort get to consort with you just a little more often?”
The transition into “captured” was subtle; she couldn’t exactly be refined much further by body tuneup. Selena’s obediences, of course, had that good old standby of expressing positive emotion towards me = validation. I went ahead and saw to the needs of the neglected housewife of the Bronze Dragonflight, having more or less hijacked her affections. If or when I got Nozdormu into my retinue, they could be together again. Whether or not I turned the Bronze aspect into a woman; I was vaguely toying with the idea of turning dragons into a monogender species-wide harem for me, just for the fun of it. Taking over the Caverns of Time was turning out to be a blast.
I had one question for Soridormi, once I’d finished inside of her: “Is there any place in the caverns that is emblematic of them? Somewhere where my name, if signed there, would tell everyone that I owned the whole system of caverns?”
And so it was that I, as a strange and unknown bronze dragon, walked up to the hourglass of time and signed its pedestal: “Erich’s Caverns of Time.” My newest consort was perfectly capable of securing all of the other dragons on staff; being a time cop included acting skills, apparently. This was eating up three days worth of amulets, but it was so absolutely worth it. I left my new girls and my first Catalog girl to the task of bending the spacetime police to my will; I had a magical Buoy to check up on.