After the teleport, Shirou found himself in a desert without knowing when it happened.
Rudeus and Elinalise were next to him, equally surprised by the location of the teleport magic.
Because the environment in front of them was already a completely different scene from the Central Continent.
This was the Begaritt Continent.
As a land that Shirou had never personally reached during the great teleport event, he found it difficult to adapt to the environment here for a while.
Because it was all desert in every direction.
In an environment of spreading yellow sand, it was difficult to even tell directions, and the sandy ground would suddenly sink from time to time, turning into a desert whirlpool that swallowed lives. There were countless dangerous monsters suddenly coming out of the sand.
Even Shirou and the others couldn't move forward quickly in this place. They needed to carefully check the surrounding environment and find a way out little by little.
They moved forward like this for a whole day, and when night fell, the temperature dropped sharply.
The previously hot weather suddenly became colder than the Northern Continent.
Except for Shirou, who could use his fighting energy to resist the cold, Elinalise and Rudeus couldn't continue moving forward under these conditions.
Shirou decided to set up camp in the desert for a temporary rest.
Since he had already learned about the environment of the Begaritt Continent in advance, all the necessary supplies had naturally been brought.
At night, Shirou took on the job of keeping watch.
Just as he was silently watching the blazing campfire, waiting for the next shift change, he suddenly smelled a sweet fragrance. At the same time, he felt a sudden tightness in his chest, and his heart started beating faster.
Faced with this strange phenomenon, Shirou naturally showed alertness by instinct.
But he didn't see any enemies at all, and his instinct as a Sword Saint didn't detect any killing intent.
He couldn't understand what was happening, so he could only carefully look around, but in the next second, he saw an unbelievable scene.
In the darkness of the night, a completely naked girl walked out of the shadows. Her teasing movements would make any man feel restless all over.
Of course, this level of temptation didn't mean much to Shirou.
He wasn't tempted at all. Instead, he began to think about what was going on.
As he was thinking, the girl in the distance seemed surprised that Shirou wasn't moved at all, so her appearance changed immediately.
She changed from an unfamiliar girl into a familiar face to Shirou.
They were all faces of women Shirou knew well. There was Eris, Ghislaine, Isolte, Nina, Nanahoshi, Ariel, and even Zenith. Even faces from another world were among them... The main thing was that all the women were naked, not wearing any clothes.
At this point, Shirou naturally realized that something was wrong.
He instinctively wanted to draw his sword and destroy those strange illusions, but suddenly felt an indescribable agitation in his abdomen.
Even Shirou's willpower couldn't resist the crazy primitive desire of his lower body.
"Huff... huff..."
Shirou gasped heavily, and realized that this was a problem that couldn't be solved by his own willpower. He quickly tried to call out for help.
But just then, he suddenly saw a seductive woman standing in the distance.
Even though it was cold now, she was wearing clothes like a dancer's costume. The clothes were too thin and her movements were full of temptation, especially the faint glimpses in the darkness, which no man could resist.
The woman raised her hand to her mouth and licked her fingertip.
This seductive action took Shirou's attention, and he couldn't take his eyes off the corners of her mouth.
She walked over step by step, swaying her hips, and then squatted down in front of Shirou. At that moment, the same sweet fragrance as before came to him, but the smell was much stronger.
"Gulp..."
At the moment when desire was about to explode, Shirou was completely panicked. He directly stabbed his sword into his wrist.
The pain of the blood spurting out made him suddenly come back to his senses, and he shouted loudly, "Rudeus, Elinalise, attack!!"
As Shirou's voice rang out, Rudeus and Elinalise reacted immediately, and rushed out of the tent with their weapons.
At the same time, the seductive woman was shocked, not expecting that Shirou could break free from her charm. She jumped backwards immediately, trying to escape.
But Rudeus and Elinalise had completely locked onto her escape route.
Elinalise held a shield to block her off, and Rudeus used a rock magic spell, hitting and piercing the woman's chest completely.
"Gyaaah!!"
A burst of frantic screams rang out.
The woman let out a piercing scream, and her fingernails grew to an abnormal length. Then her bones changed in the blink of an eye, and wings grew from her back.
She revealed her true face, which was a hideous fairy.
"It's a female succubus?"
As an experienced adventurer, Elinalise recognized the monster's identity immediately.
"Succubus?"
"That's right. This is a monster that sucks men's fluids, seduces men, and slaughters humans. It's my first time encountering one, but this suffocating stench is just like the rumors, so there should be no mistake..."
"Stench?"
Hearing Elinalise's words, Shirou asked in confusion, "I don't smell any stench?"
After saying this, he suddenly felt that the way he was looking at Elinalise was very strange. Even though she was a woman he had just met, he couldn't control the urge to feel aroused by her.
The heat that had just cooled down was almost uncontrollably ignited at this moment.
"That stench is a love drug, and it's a love drug specifically effective on men."
Seeing Shirou's agitated appearance, Elinalise's lips curved into a slight smile. "Once a man inhales too much, he will become attracted to all the females around him. Only by doing that kind of thing can the poison be removed."
"What? What do you mean, Miss Elinalise?"
"Yes, although you are Paul's son, you look like a strong boy. Would you like to do something fun with us now?"
"Don't say that..."
Shirou recoiled immediately. He was worried that if he touched Elinalise, something would really happen that he couldn't control.
Seeing this, Elinalise showed a regretful expression, and muttered, "I really didn't expect your willpower to be so strong. An ordinary person would have inhaled so much poison and would have already turned into a wild boar that only knows how to be aroused. They would even go up to a tree and hump it. You have actually maintained rational thought until now. It seems that Paul was right…"
"No, I'm just using pain to restrain myself."
As Shirou spoke, he showed his wrist that was still bleeding.
If the blood continued to flow, he suspected that he might die directly from blood loss.
"That's not good. I remember that detoxification magic can solve this problem."
"Detoxification magic, I know it."
Rudeus spoke up immediately, and cast detoxification magic on Shirou.
After receiving the detoxification magic, Shirou suddenly felt relieved, and no longer needed to rely on pain to hold on.
Just then, Elinalise suddenly asked curiously, "Wait, I can understand Shirou resisting the succubus, but why are you okay, Rudeus? You're not secretly a girl on the surface, are you? Only women are immune to the succubus's poison, and may even feel disgusted by it."
"I'm this…"
Hearing Elinalise's words, Rudeus's expression immediately turned gloomy, as if he didn't want to talk about it.
Seeing this, Shirou sighed. Although he didn't want to make the other person lose face, it was still necessary to share some information now.
So he told her about Rudeus's current condition, a male physiological illness of erectile dysfunction.
"Erectile dysfunction?"
Elinalise was indeed surprised after hearing this, but she didn't make fun of him. She just comforted Rudeus silently.
But hearing her comfort, the expression on Rudeus's face became even more lost.
That was the pain of a man's pride being trampled on.
...
After learning about the danger of succubi, Elinalise and Rudeus took turns keeping watch for the rest of the night.
Because Elinalise, as a woman, wouldn't be affected by the succubus.
Rudeus was also not affected because of his erectile dysfunction.
It could be said that Shirou was the only one in the whole team who was tormented enough by the succubus, so that even someone as upright as Shirou had the impulse to release himself.
Elinalise strongly expressed her desire to help, but was undoubtedly rejected by Shirou.
He couldn't do that kind of thing with Elinalise, who was Paul's former teammate.
Rather than being with Elinalise, it would be better to use his hand...
Of course, in reality, with Rudeus's detoxification magic, even if Shirou was poisoned by the succubus, he could completely solve it with detoxification magic, and the rest would depend on his willpower to overcome.
The three of them spent one night after another with their own thoughts.
After about three or four days, they finally left the endless desert and arrived at a town in an oasis.
Before arriving at the town, Shirou found that Elinalise's condition was suddenly a little off.
She had been lively and able to fight monsters while standing, but suddenly she became listless, as if she had lost her source of life.
Shirou thought she had caught some disease, and quickly wanted to take her to see a doctor.
But Elinalise said that she wasn't going to see a doctor, but to go to a brothel.
Shirou thought he had misheard at first, but after Elinalise repeatedly emphasized it, he finally realized that she was indeed talking about a brothel.
This almost broke Shirou.
Elinalise said silently that it was a curse she carried herself, and she had to have intercourse with the opposite gender regularly in order to sustain herself.
Otherwise, if she didn't do it for a long time, she would completely collapse.
Shirou found it hard to believe that there was such an outrageous curse in the world, but Elinalise's performance showed that it was all true.
"If you don't believe me, we can have a go now and see if it's true."
Elinalise seemed to be cursed and her words became full of seduction.
Shirou hurriedly sent her to a brothel for this reason.
After finding that Elinalise had stayed in the brothel for a few hours, she really ran out lively, completely without the listlessness she had before.
This undoubtedly proved that what she said was true.
But Shirou still thought it was outrageous.
On the other hand, Rudeus, after witnessing everything, revealed an obvious expression of regret on his face. He obviously regretted that his lower body was no longer useful.
Otherwise, this would be a god-given opportunity...
...
After replenishing their supplies in the town, Shirou and the others set off on their journey again.
Because he knew about Elinalise's curse, Shirou didn't dare to get too close to her, and also took the initiative to take on guard duty every night, fearing that she would raid him at night.
He had to worry about succubi and the humanoid succubus in his team. He even envied Rudeus's erectile dysfunction, not having to worry about so many messy things.
At the same time, perhaps because of so many influences, Shirou also began to think about things about the opposite sex.
If it was him in his previous life, the person he was most likely to be with was undoubtedly the junior girl named Sakura.
If the Ainsworth family incident hadn't happened, he might have developed feelings for her without realizing it, and then officially started dating.
Unfortunately, all of that turned to nothing with the madness of Sakura's brother, Matou Shinji.
In this life, Shirou had met many women, and many women had feelings for him, but there weren't many that he could truly say he had feelings for.
After a little thought, he could only think of two figures, one was Eris, and the other was Ariel.
But Eris was more like a younger sister, and Ariel... she was more of a cooperating comrade.
So it was still unlikely that Shirou would develop a special relationship with anyone. He had prepared himself for a future of being alone, or even repeating the path of Servant Emiya.
This wasn't bad for him. A person like him was originally impossible to gain any happiness.
While thinking, Shirou continued to move forward on the Begaritt Continent.
Unknowingly, a huge town built on the corpses of monsters appeared in front of him.
The Maze City of Lapan.
The place where Zenith was, had finally been reached!
"This is the Maze City?"
Shirou and the others exclaimed.
Because the city in front of them was too special, the most eye-catching thing was the huge white bone located in the center of the town.
It was said that it was the giant monster called Behemoth, which had caused trouble here, but was personally killed by the Second North God, along with his companions.
When Shirou first learned that this was the legend of the Second North God, he couldn't link it to the sloppy-looking wandering swordsman at all.
When he confirmed that it was his great achievement, Shirou was really shocked.
At the same time, he also realized more deeply what level of existence the so-called North God was.
He, like the Sword God and the Water God, was a powerful existence that Shirou couldn't reach now.
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