Watching increasingly diverse expressions appear on the priestess’s face that had once been devoid of even a smile, Norton felt his heart tighten. 

Like a small branch growing secretly without noticing, Evelyn was sprouting in his heart too. Norton listened to Evelyn’s chattering voice, wishing her words would never stop.

“So when I put divine power into a child with heatstroke, I could feel the water filling up layer by layer. That sensation amazed even me. The physician ultimately cured the child’s illness, but I felt somewhat proud when told that without divine power, the child wouldn’t have survived the crisis.”

“…”

“Oh, by the way, do you know? Before coming here, I visited the Teher region. There are even priestesses there who have learned medical skills. Don’t you think they could cure almost any disease?”

While she unfolded her stories, Norton walked slowly and arrived in front of the great tree. The enormous tree had such a tremendous circumference that even both their arms together couldn’t fully embrace it.

The vigorously extended trunk rose tall, creating abundant foliage and offering a wide shade to the two standing beneath it.

Evelyn, feeling reverence before nature’s majesty, knelt down and offered prayers to the greatness bestowed by the divine.

Norton looked down at Evelyn’s small head, then gazed at the tree whose leaves rustled with a swooshing sound. 

It was a symbolic tree supporting the Norton family. Planted when the castle was built, it was a sturdy tree that had never collapsed or burned. It was also mysterious nature that sprouted fresh buds despite sharing all the hardships and adversities of this land.

Norton made a brief wish toward the great tree.

Please protect this young priestess.

Please embrace this person of Norton’s.

His first fiancée had been physically weak and dreaded walks. Therefore, she couldn’t come here together, but he had prayed for her well-being in front of this tree. 

Generation after generation, the heads of Norton Castle introduced their people before this tree. However, perhaps because he couldn’t bring her directly, his fiancée didn’t receive the tree’s care.

With that thought crossing his mind, Norton prayed that the tree’s vital energy would reach Evelyn.

The clear face that turned toward him smiled and slowly stood up. He was captivated by that unhurried movement, his heart pounding.

Perhaps it was only natural that the small woman who made his heart beat layer by layer appeared larger than even the great tree.

Norton approached her one step at a time. Even after reaching her, he didn’t stop walking, causing Evelyn to be pushed back step by step until her movement was blocked by the large tree trunk.

The woman’s wide-open eyes made his chest feel tight.

Even while lowering his lips, Norton didn’t take his eyes off hers. Even when Evelyn finally closed her eyes at their intertwining tongues, he still watched her fluttering eyelashes.

Evelyn had become more than just his healing priestess.

Lifting the hem of her dress that flowed around her ankles, Norton pushed his hand inside her underwear. She shrank back momentarily, but couldn’t resist much against the overwhelming force that sucked on her tongue.

“Mmph!”

“Ha… Evelyn.”

Norton’s quickened breath poured into Evelyn’s open mouth. She trembled at the touch that firmly rubbed her cl*toris, but was held firmly by the strong arm with bulging veins.

“My priestess.”

“Ungh.”

“I want to bury my face, not just my fingers.”

“Ah. Ah, gently please. Ugh.”

Digging into her opening with squelching sounds, Norton exerted his strength roughly. He wanted to put his entire face into her hole, so being gentle was impossible.

“Hmm? Priestess. How about spreading your p*ssy hole wider and stuffing my face right in?”

“Mmm. N-No… No way…”

His arm muscles tensed tightly, bulging, as he increased the speed of his finger thrusting. Evelyn leaned her back against the tree but swayed with her pelvis thrust forward due to his pulling force.

Swoosh. A cool breeze blew, making the tree sway.

The wind gently caressed her thighs, clearly exposed by the lifted dress.

Squelching wet sounds mixed with the wind, making them sing along with the leaves.

“Evelyn. Eat it. Eat all of me.”

“Ungh.”

His desperation was evident in his heavy breathing and rough speech. Though she couldn’t literally eat him, he drove her on, wanting to be consumed by her. Then he suddenly lifted her up, hoisting her higher with another adjustment.

Feeling anxious, Evelyn flailed her hands in the air and screamed “Kyaak!” at the heightened view.

He made Evelyn lean her back against the tree, then placed her thighs up to his shoulders. Evelyn trembled with anxiety and grabbed the Border Count’s black hair.

“Eek. I’m scared. Your Excellency. Put me down.”

“Priestess.”

He buried his face in her throbbing v*lva and called to her. Continuously chanting “priestess, my priestess,” he shook his head from side to side and parted her mound with his lips.

Firmly supporting her b*ttocks, he licked up her moist inner flesh.

“Aaaah!! Mmh!”

His firm, pointed tongue reached from her opening to her cl*toris. Evelyn was terrified by the movement that spread her folded creases and touched every hidden flesh, licking everywhere.

From her elevated view, she could occasionally see servants walking beyond the path in the distance. The anxiety of falling, the nervousness that they might vaguely discover her, and the soft sensation of her v*lva being stimulated all mixed together, corrupting Evelyn.

Moaning, she called for the divine. Instead of asking for forgiveness, seeking salvation, or help against corruption, she simply moaned while calling for the divine.

Though she had nothing to rely on except the hair of the man devouring her below, she unconsciously moved her pelvis to her boiling inner flesh.

“Augh… Stop…”

Norton blew air into her throbbing opening.

“Hoo… Priestess.”

“Hah! Aah. Don’t do that. Mmm.”

“I want to spread it, thrust into it, ram myself into you.”

“Aaaack!”

“Why are you so tight? Hmm? Should I tear you open?”

Uttering words to stimulate her, he continuously circled his tongue tip around her opening, seemingly trying to widen it. 

Even when Evelyn writhed and grabbed his hair tightly enough to pull it out, he pulled her b*ttocks closer to his lips and deeply thrust his tongue into her throbbing hole.

“Haaah!”

Squelch, squelch.

When he stirred her opening with his firmly raised tongue, Evelyn’s waist moved in all directions. Norton suppressed his sadistic desire to push his entire head in rather than just his tongue, and mercilessly sucked the fluids flowing from her opening.

His sucking force was tremendous, drinking everything deep inside her v*gina. When Evelyn convulsed at the dizzying sensation of her entire womb being pulled, her fluids poured abundantly into his mouth all at once.

Swoosh. The abundant tree leaves swayed, hiding her moans.

A servant working in the garden pointed to a distant place where the great tree’s abundant leaves were visible.

“Hey. Look over there.”

“Why? Is there something?”

“That place with the old tree. Why is there light coming from there?”

“Ah. Right. What is that light?”

Several servants gathered in small groups and blankly stared at the golden aura shooting strongly from the middle of the tree trunk.

“Must be the sun god shining on the great tree.”

At someone’s murmur, the servants all turned their heads to look at the sky on the opposite side. The sun was still high but had passed noon and was descending, and they looked back at the great tree.

The light emanated too intensely to be just reflected sunlight, but they all thought the great tree was receiving divine care.

“It must be divine will in our castle. Yes, indeed.”

The servants, dispersing to return to their duties, turned their backs on the undiminishing golden aura and murmured gratitude for receiving divine protection.