While My Mage Wife Grinds, I Power Up Idly-Chapter 66: Ashu Likes to Keep It Going

"Ah!"

Vivita gasped like shocked prey, the thrill of secrecy under Anna’s scrutiny overwhelming. She tried retreating but found herself anchored by Ashu’s firm grasp.

"Begin the guidance, Vivita. I’m counting on you," Ashu declared before reclining with closed eyes, ready for enjoyment.

Stealing a glance at Anna’s impassive profile, Vivita tentatively accepted the tacit permission. Now that Ashu had emerged from the Church wielding Midaldas-tier Evil Power - indicating Anna’s recent...satiety - her long-denied hunger could no longer be contained.

With trembling hands, she tore open Ashu’s robes and pounced hungrily, inhaling his scent with full-body shudders. Only when Ashu gently patted her head did she remember her supposed purpose, reluctantly beginning to condense the ambient Magical Essence.

When the Magical Essence accumulated to critical mass, she finally dispelled the mist to behold her heart’s desire.

She pressed tender kisses, awakening the slumbering dragon.

Thereafter.

As Ashu absorbed the concentrated Magical Essence she channeled, she simultaneously indulged in her own consumption of Ashu.

Their exchange proved mutually beneficial.

She satisfied Ashu’s demand for condensed Magical Essence, while Ashu quenched her thirst for forbidden fruits.

Ashu voraciously devoured the energies, spared from laborious extraction across vast spaces. Like being spoon-fed and dressed, these pre-gathered Magical Essence from Vivita’s efforts required mere acceptance.

Thus.

The expansion of Magical Essence within him accelerated abnormally.

Within moments, the fresh energies replenished his battle-depleted reserves. Soon after, like overfilled vessels, they began spilling over.

Witnessing this, Ashu urgently activated the first phase of Nature’s Absorption Technique.

Absorbing without conversion or leakage, he compressed everything using his body as living crucible.

This brutal method soon manifested as full-body agony.

Bones groaned as if marrow would explode.

Blood vessels tore, radiating white-hot pain through every nerve.

Vivita servicing him orally received the most visceral feedback - engorged veins transformed her mouthful into overwhelming fullness, nearly choking her.

She hastily pressed palms against Ashu’s ribs, channeling icy-cold energy into his frame.

The over-compressed Magical Essence instantly stabilized.

"Haa..."

Ashu exhaled relief, the near-cataclysmic internal pressure having stolen his voice moments before.

Vivita’s assistance proved crucial.

He caressed her flushed cheek. "Thank you, Vivita."

Regaining control, Ashu began automated conversion and compression of new energies.

Time lost meaning.

When final Magical Essence alignment signaled his official ascension to Archmage rank, Vivita’s ministrations coincidentally drove him to climax - molten release flooding her throat.

"Congratulations, Ashu. You’ve reached Archmage first."

Anna approached, reclining against Ashu’s side. Her Twelfth Stage Spiritual Perception easily tracked his metamorphosis.

Vivita startled to withdraw, but found herself pinned by Anna’s palm cradling her occiput.

"Mmm?"

Anna murmured tenderly, "Ashu prefers maintaining this a while longer."

"Mmph..."

Ashu sensed fresh surges of CidiEvil Power accumulating within.

"So this is Archmage... Physical enhancement explains why lightning strikes caused less damage to Archmages versus regular Mages." He recalled the God of DeceitDevotee containment operation in Riven Town.

Even non-martial Archmages possessed bodies surpassing mortal limits. How formidable then must true martial practitioners be?

Before leaving the Witch’s Guild, Anna had been training in all schools of magic!

So, if Anna could return to multi-discipline cultivation—even without reaching her peak—just regaining the ability to train in all schools would already yield incredible rewards from the system’s feedback.

Anything that could increase his strength, Ashu would welcome with open arms.

"Among all the Archmage-level advancements, this probably has the least impact on one’s physique. If you were a Knight instead, your body would be dozens of times stronger than it is now," Anna said.

Hearing this, Ashu immediately asked, "Knight? What’s the starting point for a Knight’s training? What are the basic techniques?"

"Wanna see it for yourself?"

Ashu nodded eagerly. "Yeah, I do."

"Alright then, we’ll find a place tomorrow morning."

The next day.

Ashu signed off on the property transfer agreement from old Goth. Then the three of them, bathed in the morning sunlight, headed toward an open field in the eastern part of the city.

The public training grounds in Kakase were occupied by the City Guard and the Paladins, used as their regular drilling area.

Private training grounds required a fee to enter.

Ashu simply put the cost on the public ledger.

The trio arrived at a semi-enclosed circular field. The area came with some standard-issue equipment and was surrounded by trees for a bit of seclusion.

At the front of the field ran a shallow drainage ditch.

Just as Anna was preparing to go over the basic Knight techniques again from the beginning, she suddenly felt a gloomy fluctuation through her Twelfth Stage of Spiritual Perception.

The energy was very faint and disappeared almost instantly—but its aura was extremely similar to the Demon that had been possessing the little girl the day before.

She immediately stopped moving and extended her perception toward the coordinates of the disturbance.

With the hyper-attuned sensitivity of her Twelfth Stage of Spiritual Perception, she followed the trail forward, into the drainage ditch, and then down into the entire underground sewer system of the city.

Very quickly...

She discovered a faint demonic aura hidden deep within Kakase’s underground sewer network.

At that, she temporarily withdrew her perception and looked over at Vivita.

Vivita’s gaze was equally sharp—she too had sensed it. She’d realized another Demon had been born.

"It’s been like this for days," Vivita explained. "Every time we wipe out the last Demon, it doesn’t take long before a new one appears." free𝑤ebnovel.com

"That Demon from yesterday, the one inside the little girl, was the final one from the last wave. Or at least, the last of that batch," she added.

Ashu couldn’t perceive what the two were sensing, but from what they were saying, he could tell—another Demon had appeared.

"Let’s go," Ashu said. "I want to see what kind of Demon we’re dealing with this time."

Dealing with Demons would give Anna more real combat experience—and let him farm more system rewards.

Two birds with one stone—why not?

"Then we need to hurry."

"Don’t worry. I can keep up."

Ashu was fairly confident in his Flight Magic.

But just as he finished speaking, he felt his body lift off the ground. It wasn’t his own Flight Magic at work—it was Vivita.

In the blink of an eye, she had swept up both Ashu and Anna, and the three of them vanished from the training ground.

From Ashu’s perspective, the drainage ditch rapidly receded behind him, and the scenery ahead quickly shifted into a dark sewer.

The sewers of a large city were definitely no pleasant place.

This was the city’s entire waste drainage system—reeking of foul odors, and the floor sticky enough to cling to your shoes.

"That one up ahead," Vivita said as she set Ashu down, pointing toward the dim distance.

Ashu focused his eyes and indeed saw it—a Demon about the size of a lamb crawling along the filthy floor.

Seeing this, Vivita readied her bow to shoot, but Ashu raised a hand to stop her.

"Wait. I’ll try to communicate first."

Compared to the Demon from yesterday, this one looked extremely weak, almost malnourished and malformed.

Ashu didn’t need to rush. Simply walking normally, he caught up to it easily.

"Gaka—"

The little Demon sensed danger, crawling frantically while emitting a low warning growl.

However,

Ashu just lifted his foot and stomped down hard, pinning it firmly to the ground.

"Do you want to have your soul torn apart, or...?"

As a luminous saint, Ashu naturally had suppressive power over these Demons. He only needed to reveal a sliver of his Sacred Codex, and the golden Holy Light nearly incinerated the little Demon on the spot.

He retracted the Sacred Codex and then released a bit of his Cidi Evil Power. The little Demon immediately grew dizzy and dazed.

It looked up at Ashu fearfully and slowly spoke: "You are... Ashu?"

"Oh? Looks like my name has already spread to hell."

Ashu wondered if it was the publicity from the Demon yesterday—or maybe it was because of his identity as a Cidi Bishop?

The little Demon lay prostrate on the ground, pitifully replying, "You killed the Cardinal’s son. You are more Demon than we are Demons. A Great Demon admires you. Please, I beg you, don’t hurt me."

Faced with the little Demon’s pleading, Ashu felt nothing inside. He even wanted to crush it with his foot—it was just too ugly.

Though one shouldn’t judge by appearances, Ashu’s rule was whoever looked better was right.

"If what you say is true, the Cardinal’s son—his soul is in your hands now?" Ashu asked.

"Yes, yes. It’s in the hands of the Great Demon."

"Good job," Ashu said, deliberately easing up his strength a little, then continued, "One last question. If you answer correctly, I’ll spare you. How did you all come to the human world?"

From Anna and Vivita’s conversation, this little Demon was said to have appeared out of nowhere.

The three had traveled here without encountering any summoning facilities.

Hearing the question.

The little Demon obviously grew anxious. If it revealed the Demons’ portal, it would be torn apart by others. But if it kept silent, the luminous saint would annihilate it.

In desperation, it lied: "I was summoned by a Mage. But the summoning location... hehe, it’s a bit strange. I’m still looking for my Summoner Lord."

The little Demon’s lie was obvious—he still had hundreds of years to practice lying convincingly.

Ashu saw right through it instantly. With force, he stomped his foot down again.

"Do you think I can’t handle taking Demons like you? Besides burning you to ash, I have plenty of other ways."

Without waiting for the little Demon to protest, he immediately summoned Magical Essence, condensing it into a sword blade, and began carving the Cidi mark onto the little Demon’s body.

Transforming a Demon into a Cidi Devotee—this was the first time he had ever done it.