The Jubo household's training grounds were already crowded when Damon arrived the following morning. Today marked the beginning of his formal training with the household guards.
Captain Roderick gathered the soldiers.
"Young Master Damon will train alongside you. Treat him with respect, but don't treat him like glass. Correct his mistakes and let him learn from them."
"Yes, Captain!"
Roderick turned to Damon. "A knight needs more than swordsmanship. Your body, movement, and endurance are equally important. Choose your foundational techniques carefully."
He led Damon to a table of manuals. Most specialized in particular areas, such as strengthening the arms, hardening the legs, or reinforcing the bones. One worn manual, however, caught Damon's attention.
Ironbound All-Body Tempering Technique.
Unlike specialized techniques, it trained the entire body through coordinated breathing, controlled tension, posture, and progressive exercises. Its initial progress was slower, but it promised balanced physical development.
"This one," Damon decided.
"Not many beginners choose it," Roderick remarked. "It demands patience."
"I'd rather build a balanced body than have one strong part and several weak ones."
Roderick nodded approvingly.
Damon also selected the Crosswind Sword Art, which emphasized efficient strikes, thrusts, and defensive transitions, and the Silent Step Movement Art, which focused on balance, footwork, and changing direction without wasting motion.
With his choices recorded, training began.
Damon followed the Ironbound technique's breathing rhythm while maintaining the prescribed posture. After several repetitions, his muscles began to burn.
"Don't force it," Roderick instructed. "Correct your posture before continuing."
Damon adjusted and tried again.
A familiar warmth stirred in his chest.
[Harem Resonance: Initial Link Stabilized.]
[Marked Partner: Melissa]
[Effect: Mild stamina recovery support.]
His breathing gradually steadied, and he recovered between exercises slightly faster than expected. The resonance didn't remove his fatigue or improve his technique automatically; it simply helped him recover.
So the effect works during training too, he thought.
After a demanding session, Roderick called for a break.
"Your endurance needs work, but you follow instructions. That's a good beginning."
"Next, we'll test your swordsmanship."
Two female guards stepped forward. Sara Hellpile was tall, dark-haired, and disciplined, while Alice Lightstone was slightly shorter, sharp-eyed, and openly confident.
"They'll spar with you," Roderick explained. "They're experienced, so don't expect an easy victory."
Sara saluted. "I'll make the lesson useful, Young Master."
Alice spun her practice sword. "I'll try not to embarrass you too badly."
Damon chuckled. "I'll try to survive your kindness."
Sara attacked first. Damon blocked, but the impact threw his arms aside, allowing her to tap his shoulder with her wooden sword.
They continued. Damon applied the Crosswind Sword Art's basic principles and lasted longer, but Sara feinted high and struck his side.
"Stop watching only the sword," she advised. "Watch the shoulders, hips, and feet. They'll tell you where I'm moving."
Damon absorbed her advice before facing Alice.
She attacked more aggressively, forcing him backward. He attempted to use the Silent Step Movement Art, shifting his weight to avoid her strikes. He dodged two attacks but lost his balance on the third.
Alice stopped her blade just before his chest.
"Better," she said. "At least you made me work for that one."
As Damon caught his breath, the system suddenly spoke.
[Universal Desire System Notification.]
[Special Quest Generated: Desire on the Battlefield.]
[Objective: Have consensual sex with Sara or Alice on the current training grounds.]
[Reward: Desire Points and System EXP.]
[Warning: The quest cannot override another person's will. Force, threats, or manipulation will result in failure.]
Damon froze.
What?!
The system wanted him to have sex with one of his sparring partners right there, in the middle of his family's training grounds?
Have you lost your mind?
Sara noticed his expression. "Young Master, are you injured?"
"No. I just remembered something."
Alice lowered her sword with an amused smile. "Something important enough to forget you're sparring?"
"Apparently."
"Damon!" Roderick called. "Are you continuing or not?"
Damon dismissed the notification and raised his practice sword.
Sara and Alice were his training partners, not rewards to be claimed. Neither had expressed romantic interest in him, and he wouldn't mistake friendliness for attraction. Whatever the system wanted, their choices remained their own.
"I'm ready, Captain."
Alice grinned. "Good. Let's see how long you last this time."
The sparring continued, and Damon concentrated on applying their advice. His arms ached, his movements remained imperfect, and his opponents were clearly superior. Still, he was learning.
He had chosen a balanced body-tempering technique, a sword art, and a movement art. Combined with disciplined training and the modest recovery support of Harem Resonance, they offered a foundation for future growth.
Yet the strange quest continued to bother him.
After thinking about it for a short while, Damon made a decision.
"Sara, Alice, could you both stay behind after training? I'd like some extra practice with you."
Sara glanced at Alice before answering. "Of course, Young Master. If Captain Roderick permits it."
Alice smiled mischievously. "Extra training? I hope you're ready to work harder."
Damon returned her smile.
Once the rest of the guards had left and Captain Roderick had given his approval, the three of them moved into the smaller private training annex connected to the main grounds.
Damon stood in the private training annex after the morning session. Two remained behind—Sara Hellpile and Alice Lightstone, both junior female guards who had sparred with him over the past week. Sara, dark-haired and sharp-eyed, had matched him blow for blow more than once. Alice, golden-haired and steady, had corrected his footwork with quiet patience. Both had watched him improve day by day, and both had started lingering longer than necessary after drills.
Today the air between the three of them felt different.
They began a series of close-range drills. Damon focused on parrying and redirecting. In the middle of one rapid exchange, Alice’s practice sword slipped during a disarm attempt. The wooden edge caught the side of Damon’s trousers with more force than intended.
A sharp rip echoed through the annex.
The fabric tore open from hip to mid-thigh.
Damon’s cock sprang free into the open air.
Sara and Alice froze.
Their eyes locked onto him.
Sara and Alice suddenly began to feel nervous, their hearts racing and their bodies growing hot.
Damon looked at them steadily.
The two girls sat down on the edge of the wide training bench while Damon remained standing.
Sara and Alice looked at each other. The dark-haired girl nodded first. The golden-haired girl nodded as well.
They were ready.
Damon freed his cock fully from the ruined trousers. Sara approached without hesitation and wrapped one soft hand around him, stroking slowly. The sensation of her palm was delicious. Moments later Alice joined her, adding her own hand. The two of them worked him together, eyes locked on his length as their bodies burned with growing desire.
Slowly, both girls leaned in and extended their tongues, licking him like melting ice cream. Damon exhaled deeply, watching their tongues swirl and tease the head of his cock.
They paused to kiss each other hungrily, still stroking him, then returned to his cock—taking turns, one sucking the tip while the other licked along the shaft.
For Damon, the sight was incredible: two female guards who had trained beside him now kneeling and sharing his cock with open, eager mouths, their eyes dark with lust and willingness.
Damon then began to move both hands, stimulating the entrance of both girls. Until he realized that the girl who was the tightest was…
He quickly withdrew both fingers. Sara and Alice screamed at the sudden loss of contact. Damon aimed his cock and drove it hard into one of them.
Alice gave a cry of pleasure, her face twisting as tears of intensity gathered at the corners of her eyes even while she smiled.
“Yes! I did it first! I knew I deserved it!” she gasped, leaning toward Sara and exchanging deep, messy kisses with her friend.
“That’s right, good girl. You two are doing great,” Damon confirmed, placing both hands on Alice’s hips and moving her body back and forth on his cock.
As he thrust into Alice, Damon began to slap her ass several times. All three were lost in the heat of the moment. Sara and Alice’s tongues stayed entwined, dancing in each other’s mouths while their bodies rocked together. Every hard thrust into Alice made her grind against Sara, stimulating her as well.
Damon kept pounding harder and harder until he began to alternate between them.
He pulled out of Alice with a wet sound and immediately sank into Sara, who responded with a sharp scream of pleasure.
“Thank you, my master,” she moaned, tears of overwhelming sensation gathering in her eyes as Damon began to fuck her just as deeply.
“This is incredible, I don’t know how to describe it,” Alice cried out in pleasure.
Damon pulled out of Alice and immediately sank back into Sara, not wanting to leave her wanting. He gripped her hips tightly and continued moving inside her with deep, powerful strokes until he released again, filling her completely with his cum.
He withdrew and took a few steps back, taking in the incredible sight. The two girls lay side by side on the training mat, completely filled, exhausted, and glistening. They spread their legs wide and used their fingers to hold themselves open, showing Damon how much of his cum was still inside them. Thick white liquid slowly leaked from both of their holes while their bodies remained soaked with sweat and the evidence of everything they had just shared.
“I don’t want you two wasting my energy,” Damon said, voice rough with lingering heat as he admired the view.
Sara and Alice looked at each other, then shifted into a new position. Alice climbed on top of Sara in a sixty-nine, lowering her mouth between her friend’s legs to suck and clean every drop of cum from Sara’s hole while presenting her own for Sara to do the same.
They stayed like that for several long minutes, hungrily licking and sucking until both of them had taken every bit of what Damon had given them. When they were finally satisfied, Damon ordered the three of them to clean up.
After they had washed and dressed again, Damon sat down on a chair while the two girls knelt opposite him on the training ground, still flushed and looking at him with quiet, satisfied obedience.