Chapter 183: Climax

Sifa sat up slowly on the bed, still naked, still faintly trembling from the orgasm.

Kalon handed her a towel from the side rail. She took it and cleaned the residual wetness from her stomach and thighs before pulling a loose robe around herself.

For a while neither of them spoke. The room was quiet except for the soft crystal hum of the mansion’s cooling lines.

「Sifa Seduction」

Seduction Stage Eight: 24%

Kalon saw the update the moment it stabilised.

Stage Eight. Close enough to Stage Ten that travel was no longer a distant idea. If he spent some more days with her, he could get her there.

The system would allow it, but that did not mean it was something he wanted to do.

Sifa was not built for the kind of planets he was starting to touch. Her perseverance had grown since the tournament, and her status on Cryos was real, but her combat range was still narrow.

She was limited to an ice affinity, whilst someone like Josinia had much greater potential.

He looked at her and made the decision quietly.

Not yet.

Sifa noticed his silence and tilted her head.

"You’re thinking about something again."

"Your progress," Kalon said. "You’re further along than before."

Her expression brightened a little at that, then softened when he did not immediately follow it with an invitation.

Before the conversation could turn awkward, a low sound came from the corner of the room.

Kalon turned.

The ice dragon was there, no longer the small creature he remembered from earlier visits. It had grown. Not fully mature, but clearly larger, with denser crystal plating along its back and a wider frame to its wings.

Its pale eyes locked on him with recognition. When it stepped forward, the floor emitted a light frost under its claws.

Kalon studied it with interest.

"It’s bigger than it was a few weeks ago."

"It grows so quickly," Sifa said. She reached out and brushed her fingers along the side of its neck. The dragon leaned into the contact. "People on Cryos keep asking whether I’ll enter it into formal summon matches next season. I haven’t decided."

Kalon kept his eyes on the creature a moment longer. A growing ice dragon with bond potential was more useful than most people on this planet realised. Not just as Sifa’s weapon. As a long-term asset.

"You should keep raising it," he said. "It has great potential."

Sifa smiled at that, clearly pleased he had taken it seriously.

They did not drag the goodbye out. Both of them understood how their lives were running now.

She had city attention, summon requests, and public weight on Cryos. He had Earth, other planets, and a climb that was getting steeper by the week.

When Kalon finally stepped back and prepared the return, Sifa only caught his wrist briefly.

"Don’t wait as long to visit me next time." She pouted her lip.

"I won’t, don’t worry."

He transferred out.

[Returning to Earth...]

[...]

[Transfer complete.]

Kalon arrived back on the stadium rooftop and barely had time to orient before the system alerted him.

[Quest Complete: Anal With Sifa]

[Reward Granted]

「(SSS+) Active Skill Acquired: Abyssal Flood」

Kalon opened the description at once.

「(SSS+) Abyssal Flood」

~ Type: Water

~ Cooldown: 40 seconds

~ Mastery: 0%

~ Unleashes a high-density flood of pressurised water over a wide area, forcibly reshaping battlefield footing and crushing weaker defences under continuous mass.

~ Water created by this skill carries anti-buoyancy pressure, making targets harder to escape once caught in the flow.

~ Can be compressed into a single forward surge for direct impact or spread as a field-control flood.

~ Upon 100% Mastery, skill upgrades to [REDACTED]

It was wide-control water skill with a forty-second cooldown. The kind of skill that could shut down a large group of opponents, or be converted into pressurised force better at attacking just one.

He looked at the description of the skill, satisfied.

That was when he noticed movement near the rooftop access door.

Thea was there.

She looked like she had only just arrived back herself, hair slightly out of place from the travel. For a second Kalon almost asked how long she had been waiting.

Then the system logic caught up.

Travel suspension.

When transfer was initiated, external time on Earth did not continue in the normal way for the traveller’s return point. Sending Thea back before him on Venduros had not actually put her home hours ahead. From Earth’s side, both of them were landing at the exact same time. That was why she was here now, looking like her night and his had ended together.

Thea spotted him and walked over.

"Wait, you came back to?" she said. "Didn’t you say there were some other things you had to do first?"

Kalon spent the next five minutes explaining to her exactly what he had just went over in his head.

Thea processed the information, then nodded.

"That explains why it still feels like the same time, even though I was in space for hours..."

They stood there under the night sky for a moment.

The tournament was fully over now. No more bracket. No more stadium housing requirement. Everything was finally coming to an end.

"I need to go home," Thea said. "My mother already messaged twice. Now that the final is done, she’s expecting me back at the house."

"Go," Kalon said. "Its about time I head back to my dorm room as well."

Thea hesitated for a moment, then stepped in and hugged him once, pressing her breasts up against his chest.

"Tonight was incredible," she said against his shoulder. "Thank you again."

"You’re welcome."

She pulled back, blue eyes still bright with leftover excitement from Venduros, and headed for the access stairs.

Kalon watched her go until she disappeared below the roofline, then turned toward the opposite route that led back down to the dormitory side.

The tournament Chapter was finished.

From here, Thea returned to the Bluegale house.

Kalon returned to his dorm.