Chapter 78. Mirror Refraction

Chapter 78: 78. Mirror Refraction

Envy’s lesser dragon reached the jungle edge in a long, low glide.

Mira had already turned back toward the open field when the heavy shadow fell across her.

She looked up at once.

Envy tapped the side of the dragon’s neck with two fingers.

The beast opened its jaws.

Black fire gathered in the darkened throat and roared downward in a thick, concentrated stream aimed straight at Mira’s position.

Mira did not have time for a full stance. She raised the axe and cut a sharp horizontal line through the air.

Gale Reversal

A dense sheet of pale blue wind met the black fire head-on.

The two forces collided with a sharp hiss.

The fire twisted aside and died in scattered sparks before it could touch her.

Envy watched the exchange without surprise.

She spoke a short command.

The lesser dragon folded its wings and dropped the final distance to the broken ground, claws digging into the torn earth.

Envy stepped down from its back with unhurried precision.

Her black battle dress clung close to her frame, the fabric reinforced with thin silver and diamond-like encrustations that caught the filtered light through the canopy.

Long black hair settled around pale shoulders. Dark eyes fixed on Mira with cool interest.

"Impressive skills for someone stuck in a small town outside the main region."

Mira kept the axe low and ready, the short blue dress still marked with light dust from the earlier fight.

Her thoughts stayed measured as she took in the woman in front of her.

’This one is stronger than the general I just killed. The energy around her is heavier, and she don’t even look a little concerned about the fact that one of her generals died.’

Envy lifted her right hand and pointed at Mira with a single index finger. Her voice began calm and almost conversational.

"Okay. It seems your time has come. You can’t just go around like a whore showing those big boobs and ass trying to seduce handsome men like Kael for yourself."

The last words rose sharper, the jealousy no longer hidden.

"THOSE BIG BOOBS AND THAT ASS SHOULD’VE BEEN MINE. THEY DON’T SUIT A WHORE LIKE YOU."

She spoke a short name under her breath.

Mirror Refraction

Fifty half-human-sized black mirrors erupted from the ground in a tight, unbroken circle around them.

Each surface rose with a soft crystalline chime and locked into place.

’How does she know Kael?’

Mira’s thought flashed once before her attention snapped back to the black mirrors surrounding her.

The mirrors did not reflect the jungle or the sky.

Every one of them displayed a different, intimate fragment of Mira’s body in perfect detail.

One mirror held only her face, neat brown hair slightly disordered from the fight, expressive features still carrying the residual confidence of her earlier smirk.

Another showed the full, heavy swell of her breasts straining against the short blue dress, inverted brown nipples faintly visible through the fabric.

Separate panels lingered on the deep curve of her cleavage, the soft line of her belly and the small hollow of her navel, and the thick, milky-white thighs that filled the lower half of the dress.

One mirror focused exclusively on the huge, rounded shape of her ass, the fabric pulled tight across both cheeks.

Another displayed the narrow cleft of her pussy and the thin patch of brown hair that marked the soft mound.

A smaller panel even caught the tight ring of her asshole when she shifted her weight.

Her own eyes stared back at her from several surfaces at once, the warm brown irises wide with sudden recognition.

Mira’s breath caught.

Heat rushed to her face and spread down her neck.

The shame of seeing every private part of her mature, voluptuous body laid out so openly made her grip on the axe tighten until her knuckles whitened.

The short blue dress suddenly felt thinner than it had a moment before.

She felt both shy and angry, as if her body had been put on display like a slave offered for sale to relieve men.

’What is this technique? She’s displaying everything... as if my own body is the weapon she wants to use against me. Those mirrors are showing parts I have never even seen myself.’

Mira moved.

The axe blurred in a series of rapid horizontal and diagonal cuts.

Pale blue wind blades shot outward in every direction, slamming into the surrounding mirrors with sharp, repeated impacts.

Whoosh..whoosh..whoosh!

Each strike made the images on the surfaces blur and distort for a heartbeat.

The reflections of her breasts, ass, thighs, and face wavered like water, then snapped back into perfect clarity the moment the wind faded.

Not a single mirror cracked under the attack.

Envy watched with open amusement and lingering jealousy, dark eyes following the useless attacks.

"It’s useless, you brainless booby slut. My mirrors can’t be destroyed that easily."

She raised her index finger again and pointed at one mirror, the panel that showed Mira’s left ear in close detail.

A thin arrow of pure black mana formed at the tip of her finger and shot forward.

The arrow struck the mirror dead center.

The black surface cracked with a sharp crystalline sound.

The image of the ear distorted, lines fracturing across the reflection.

Mira’s left ear went completely silent.

The sudden loss of hearing on that side made her freeze for half a second.

Understanding hit her at once.

The mirrors were not simple displays.

Each one was linked directly to the body part it showed.

Damage to the mirror meant damage to her actual body.

A cold thread of fear slid down her spine.

’If I can’t destroy these mirrors, my entire body is in her hands.’

She forced the fear down and kept thinking.

Envy had chosen an ear instead of an eye or something more vital.

That choice itself was information.

’She’s stalling. Or the skill has a limit. If she could fire freely she would have taken an eye or something worse on the first shot. Maybe she also needs time before she can shoot another arrow. I have to finish this before she gets the chance.’

Mira reset her stance inside the circle of mirrors, axe raised, the short blue dress still clinging to every curve the black surfaces continued to display without mercy.

Wind gathered under her feet.

She launched herself forward in a single powerful leap, closing the distance in a blur, and swung the axe in a wide arc aimed straight at Envy’s neck.

Sky Sever

She believed the mirrors forced Envy to keep part of her attention elsewhere and that the black-haired woman would not be able to defend properly while maintaining them.

She was wrong.

Envy’s eyes narrowed with fresh jealousy and annoyance as Mira’s heavy breasts swayed hard with the sudden movement.

Dense black mana flooded down her right leg.

She snapped a kick upward and met the descending axe with the reinforced shin.

Clang!!!

The axe and the mana-coated leg locked for a moment, pale blue wind and black energy grinding against each other. Envy drove more force into the kick. The impact overpowered Mira’s grip and sent her flying backward through the air.

"Don’t jiggle those slutty boobs ever in front of me or I’ll cut them off your body."

Mira’s back slammed into a thin tree at the edge of the clearing.

Crack

The trunk snapped under the force.

She hit the ground hard, a short grunt of pain leaving her throat as blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

The short blue dress had ridden up during the flight, and several of the surrounding mirrors immediately adjusted to display the newly exposed curves with perfect clarity.

Envy tilted her head, dark eyes moving slowly across the circle of mirrors.

"Now let’s see which parts of your slutty body should I aim for next."

She made a deliberate pulling motion with her fingers, as if drawing a bowstring.

Another thin arrow of black mana formed at her fingertip.

Instead of flying straight it curved in a wide, lazy circle around the clearing, then dove into the mirror that showed the tight, pink, slightly twitching ring of Mira’s asshole.

The surface cracked with a sharp crystalline note.

Mira saw the impact and started to form a thought.

’Waste of movement. It doesn’t even matter if that part—’

The thought never finished.

A cold, arrow-shaped length of solid black metal materialized inside her without warning, forced deep into the tight ring of her asshole.

"Nn—ah~!"

The sudden, invasive pressure tore a short, broken moan from her throat.

Her body jerked, thick thighs pressing together as the foreign shape stretched her open from the inside.

The sensation was sharp and humiliating at the same time, the metal lodged firmly where nothing should have been.

Envy watched the expression that crossed Mira’s face with open satisfaction.

’That’s the face of a real slut. But I was aiming for her eyes this time.’

A low, heavy vibration reached her through the ground.

Envy turned her head slightly.

In the distance a Warforged Titan was running hard toward the jungle, plated body shaking the earth with every stride.

She recognized the red-gowned figure on its back at once.

’It seems she is coming to help her. What about the girl? Is she leaving her alone? Well, from what I’ve seen the queen’s other daughter and husband seem capable enough. They’ll protect her anyway.’

Envy’s attention returned to Mira, who was still on the ground, one hand pressed against the dirt, the other half-reaching toward the unnatural fullness that now filled her from behind while the circle of black mirrors continued to display every detail of her body.