Leticia was sitting cross legged inside the cave, seemingly cultivating. However she wasn't focused on cultivating because she was afraid that facing the beast outside alone might be dangerous for him.
In her anxiety, she didn't even notice that her mana refinement speed was way faster than normal and the mana in her mana core was also increasing Slowly.
Bang!!
Suddenly, she heard a loud bang and her nerves tensed. Then a few more explosions sounded out making her even more anxious.
After that the all commotion calmed down and she didn't hear any sound for a few minutes.
Just as she wanted to go out to check what happened, she heard the rock shifting from the entrance of the cave.
Step! Step!
Then she heard his unsteady footsteps. She wanted to open her eyes however she then heard his voice.
"I'm fine. You continue to cultivate." Hearing this her anxious heart calmed down a little. Max once again moved the rock to block the cave entrance and sat down in meditation to recover his exhausted stamina and mana.
...
After three hours, Max opened his eyes. His stamina had recovered to 45 points while Mana had recovered to full.
He looked towards Leticia who was sitting with a peaceful expression on her face, still cultivating.
He focused his senses to hear if anything was outside but he didn't hear anything apart from the sound of water flowing in the stream.
He sighed in relief. He was afraid that some beast might come since he had made quite a bit commotion when fighting the Dark Demon Snake. Fortunately, no beast came.
After a while Leticia's eyelashes fluttered as she opened her eyes, her eyes flashing with surprise and delight.
She then noticed Max looking at her with a small smile on his face and subconsciously a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.
Max asked "By your expression I'm guessing that you've improved quite a bit right?"
Leticia looked at him in surprise "Huh? Y-Yes. My mana reserves improved by a significant margin and its quality also seemed to have improved a bit. However, how do you know?"
"So, you haven't realised yet." Max smiled and continued "I've a special ability which can help improve the woman who I have sex with. However the requirement is to cultivate soon after having sex or you won't get any benefit..."
Max explained. An astonished expression appeard on Leticia's face and she exclaimed "It means that Belén had such progress because of your ability. No wonder!"
Max smiled wryly and nodded "Yes, you can say so." He was surprised that after hearing about his ability, she only mentioned Belén's improvements and not expressed her shock that he possessed such ability.
...
After they talked for a while and he once again warned her not to mention this in front of anyone. They got out of the cave.
The first thing Leticia noticed was the Dark Demon Snake's corpse "A dark demon snake." She exclaimed in shock.
She then looked at Max with a surprised gaze. The reason of her surprise was because the Dark Demon Snake is said to be stronger than an eight eyed spider that he killed a week ago with much difficulty but he still killed it.
Although this snake wasn't as fast or strong, it was notorious for its superior control over its dark poison balls and could even kill mages that were stronger than it by a small stage.
However, after knowing that he could even make his partners stronger, she knew that he wasn't a normal person and her gaze became one of pride. 'This is the man I chose.'
She then looked at the stream flowing with clear water and asked "Max, can I take a bath before going back?"
"Of course you can. In fact I'm planning to bring Belén and others here too. It's a good location to stay." Max smiled.
She became happy upon hearing that they could live here but then became worried and asked "But isn't this place dangerous since many beasts would come here to drink water?"
"No." Max shook his head and said "Do you realise that this Valley is located near the area where the territory of two-star beasts begin? There even if some beasts came, they would mostly be one-star and very few Two-star beasts."
He then continued "Moreover, we won't have to search around for beasts to kill to get their beast cores if we live here and I believe that our current strength is enough to handle most of the middle stage two-star beasts and since this valley is in the lower area of two-star beasts' territory, rarely any high stage or peak two-star beast would come here. Therefore it's the best location to stay."
"Hmm. Okay." Leticia nodded and went towards the stream and turned towards him and shyly asked "C-Can we bathe together?"
Max looked her in for a second and smiled "Why not." He then walked and took his clothes off and then helped her to take her clothes off.
Leticia looked at his little brother that was resting and her little sister flinched as if remembering something. She then hurriedly looked away.
Max smiled at her and lifted her in his arms and entered the stream that was less than two meters wide and only one meter deep. The water was very refreshing.
...
After a while they were sitting in the middle of the stream. Leticia was sitting on his lap with her back touching his chest and her head was leaning back on his shoulder. Max was embracing her from behind, smelling her feminine scent.
They had washed each other's body before resting like this. Leticia who had her eyes closed felt his crotch hardening under her ass.
She moved her ass a little and his cock was now between her soft buttocks. Feeling his little brother in her tempting crack, it hardened even more. But he didn't do anything and simply stayed in that position. It was giving him another kind of comfort.
However Leticia thought that he wasn't doing anything because she was tired and whispered "I'm not tired. If you want, we can do it again right now."
Hearing this, Max moved his hands upwards and grabbed her breasts. He pinched her nipples in his thumb and index fingers gently and then started kneading her breasts.
Although he simply wanted to enjoy the sensation of bathing with a woman in his embrace, but if he didn't do anything even after she took initiative then he wasn't a man.
