The day ended uneventfully for all the different parties in the city of Tairal as the sun rose and set. And once morning arrived, the peaceful calm of the morning was repced by the sounds of the servants bustling about the pace.

  Queen Rianna put on a green dress, tied her hair in a bun, and wore her finest crown and jewels. She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled, "I hope you're ready, Leandra. Because this is the day when you will fail and Rya will be accepted into the nobility."

  She left her room and went to check on the preparations. She found Gretchen standing at attention and bowed to her, "The carriage is ready to depart whenever you are, My Queen."

  "Good. I'll wait for the dies in the dining room. We'll leave once Rya and her friends have breakfast."

  Gretchen and a few other maids bowed to the Queen as she regally walked towards the exit. Before Rianna made it past the threshold of the door frame, a moan came from the bathroom of the Royal bedroom.

  The maids had a confused look on their faces.

  "Was that his Highness, my Queen?" Gretchen asked.

  "Hm? Yes..."

  The maids gnced at each other before looking at the Queen again.

  "Does he need the doctor, my Lady? Should I fetch him?" Gretchen asked.

  Rianna smirked and gnced at the closed door.

  "I believe he is fine, Gretchen. He's just a bit sore from his husband duties. But do tell Mr. Gilbert to check on the King in an hour or so to make sure my husband is doing better. I can't have him dying on me... Not after he's gotten out of the dog house."

  The two younger maids snickered, and Gretchen gred at them to shut them up.

  "Of course, My Queen," Gretchen bowed.

  "Now, if you excuse me. I'll leave everything to you, Ms. Gretchen."

  Rianna turned away and walked out of the bedroom with her two guards.

  Lady Nelumbo noticed that the Queen looked younger than the st time she saw her, and she was practically was glowing.

  'So, it is true. Rianna did experience Mana Rush... Some people get all the luck when Mana started making someone look younger and more beautiful...' Nelumbo thought with a tinge of envy. She's sin many monsters and trained her body to peak performance as a knight and bodyguard to the Queen. But she's never experienced Mana Lust because of her common level Mana Vein, and a part of her wondered what it felt like. As, the vigint bodyguard to the Queen kept quiet as she followed her to the Dining hall, where Rianna enjoyed her morning breakfast and tea.

  ***

  As for the King, he was still asleep in the bathtub with the water turned cold. He didn't have the energy to climb out. His head was resting against the rim, and a slight smile on his face. As his manhood was spongy and raw from the previous night's activities.

  He needed to thank Rya for everything she's done to make Rianna more aggressive in the bedroom. He was starting to think that Rya helped get him out of the dog house, and if he wanted to continue having this new lifestyle. He needed to use all his power to get Rya married to his son. Confrontations be damned.

  But he will get to it once his soreness was gone.

  And he could still feel the ghost of Rianna's soft, tight, and wet pussy cmped around his member.

  A groan escaped his mouth as his cock was growing hard again.

  'Goddess be damned... I've never been this sore in my life, and my wife was a beast... I swear that she's as passionate as a beastkin... I don't know if it is a blessing or a curse,' King Cyndre thought with a groan.

  But then images of Rianna's sexy face, moaning as she was straddling his waist, as she bounced up and down, came to mind.

  He smiled and shook his head, "Naw... It's a blessing indeed. It is I whose grown soft. I better start training again or Rianna will break my back."

  Cyndre just sighed and enjoyed the cool water as long as he could.

  ***

  In the Crown Prince's bedroom, Rya had Quinus, Percy, Dalia, Nieren, Yuliana, Eine, Tayna, Johan, Sir George, Ms. Anna, and three other maids buzzing around Rya getting her dress, jewelry, and hair done.

  Rya was standing facing a mirror with a slight frown written on her face as Anna was cing up her corset. It wasn't her corset that was the issue but her body that was troubling her. Her once ft stomach has slowly become a cute little pot belly that seemed to have grown over the st three months and refused to leave.

  She was worried about the weight gain and her inability to lose it. Her breasts were always big and they did get bigger as well, and her butt seemed a bit plumper too, but not to the point that her dress size went up.

  So why was she gaining weight in the stomach area more than any other spot on her? She wondered as her eyes drifted downward and frowned.

  'M-Mom says that I should listen to my body and if I'm hungry then I should eat... But... My body shouldn't grow fat like this, should it?' Rya thought as she looked down at her round stomach. 'I don't know much about my race, but I do know that they're known for their lithe figures and not this... Pot belly. It doesn't help that the only female dark elf in the entire Kingdom. But this can't be normal... And my belly seems firm like a drum.'

  Rya felt Anna begin to tighten up her corset and her belly started to shrink a bit.

  "Ms. Anna," Yuliana spoke.

  "Yes, Princess," Anna asked.

  "Don't tighten the corset up too much. My daughter needs to be comfortable for the party," Yuliana said.

  "As you wish, your highness," Anna replied.

  Rya felt the material loosen a bit as her belly expanded.

  "Rah... Why can't I lose weight!" Rya whined.

  "It's because you eat almost as much as me, Alpha," Dalia chimed in with a happy smile while posing next to Rya. The Wolfkin's pregnant belly was pushing against her short, airy purple dress, which was exposing her cleavage and legs. It barely covered her thighs, and she was wearing white leggings that stopped halfway up her thighs. Her shoes were white ballet fts. Her bck hair was down, and she wore a white headband.

  "But you are pregnant, Dalia... I'm not... I just can't say no to good food for some reason... I thought Elves never got fat," Rya muttered grumpily as the maids continued to dress her up in the gown that she had commissioned months ago for this very occasion. It was a stunning off-shoulder bck and red gown, accentuated with rubies and other precious gems.

  The top half was a tight-fitted corset, and the bottom part was loose and free. There was a white ce trim along the hems of the sleeves and the skirt's hem. It also had a white ce ribbon around her waist. The back was low, dipped down past her hips, and stopped mid-thigh. It made Rya's Dark Elven skin pop out even more. Her Ptinum white hair was done up in a simple ponytail, with some of her bangs left out.

  Yuliana wanted to scream at her adopted daughter that she was pregnant too, but her fear of breaking the taboo of Wood Elf tradition would cause Rya to miscarry her child. The mother was the one who must realize that she was pregnant on her own accord and not by another's words or observation. But Yuliana couldn't sit idly by and watch her daughter spiral.

  "U-Um?... You're just going through a phase that all Elven women must go through, Ry. I promise you that you will return to your usual self in due time," Yuliana said, trying her best to reassure her.

  "But, Mom—" Rya began to argue, but was interrupted.

  "Ry, you are my only daughter, and I want you to be happy. So, please... Just take a breath and let your worries leave," Yuliana pleaded.

  Rya looked at her adopted mother and sighed, "So, you went through the same thing?... How many times?"

  "Me!?... Ummm..."

  Yuliana raised her fingers to her chin and slowly gnced to her right, where she saw her biological daughter, standing slightly behind Quinus, in her gorgeous red dress. Nieren told her mother that she wasn't going to wear that dress and pnned on wearing her retainer outfit so she could protect Rya if anyone tried anything at the party. But just as Yuliana thought she had a fight on her hands, Quinus was hurrying down the hallway to get a snack for Rya and noticed Nieren holding the red dress that she was about to throw out the window. He spoke his mind that Nieren would look breathtaking in it, and she acted shyly. He didn't push it and walked off to the kitchen.

  That was when Nieren realized she couldn't let her Prince down and went back to her room and got Ms. Elise to help her put the dress on. Nieren hated dresses as she thought they were impractical in a battle, but whenever she did wear one. Quinus would have trouble looking away, and he would compliment her more. So, she figured she'd get some extra praise and wore the dress.

  Yuliana sighed, "I-I went through a phase where I gained weight for... Two years."

  Rya was surprised. She didn't know that Yuliana went through a weight gain phase. "How did you get the weight off?"

  Yuliana ughed nervously and waved her right hand dismissively, "Ooh, it just disappears after a while. Like I said, it happens to all females. So, don't worry about it, Ry."

  Rya raise the brow and had a skeptical look as she gnced at Nieren, who was daydreaming next to Quinus.

  "So... Did Nieren go through the same thing as me?"

  Nieren snapped out of her daydream and looked around. Then, she saw her mother and Rya looking at her.

  "Huh!?... I've never gained weight and never will!" Nieren decred triumphantly.

  "Oh!? You'd better experience this once, Nier! Or so help me, Spirits! You will never use a bow again!" Yuliana snapped at her biological daughter.

  Everyone was surprised by Yuliana's outburst. They didn't know why she was so adamant that Nieren would go through Rya's weight gain phase.

  Eine panicked as she worried that she would be going through the same thing as well, but she was a Half-Elf, and she didn't know if she would lose the weight like Yuliana did because of her human side. Plus, after going to bed once she sin a monster in the Knight's Garrison training grounds, she woke up to find a bigger, perkier chest, wider hips, and a slightly firmer butt thanks to the mana flowing through her body as her mana vein awakened as it absorbed the monster's mana. It made all her dresses tighter, and the maids did some quick adjustments for her. She had a hard time moving in the tight dresses, but the maids did enough to make it possible for her to move around.

  "W-Will I go through the same thing, mother?" Eine asked.

  "Oh... Not for quite some time. And maybe you won't go through it... It depends if you find a boy—look at the time! Haha! You have nothing to fear, My little Eine. It won't happen for another five or so years, maybe longer." Yuliana said before she almost let the cat out of the bag that she wanted her biological daughter to give her a grandchild before she passed on to the Great Spirit Tree. Rya and Eine were icing on the cake if they did get married and have a child.

  "Aww. Mother... How would you know when it's going to happen?" Eine pouted and asked.

  "Hah. Oh, honey. You will know. Trust me," Yuliana said.

  "Hey! Why aren't you demanding that little sis goes through the same thing?!" Nieren pointed her finger at Eine.

  "Because! Now stop pointing your finger, Nieren. You know it's rude to point fingers," Yuliana said while trying to end the subject so she doesn't accidentally anger the Spirits and get Rya to miscarry.

  Rya just shook her head and looked at Quinus, who was a little amused by Yuliana's antics, "Quin?... Do I look fat?"

  Quinus was brought out of his thoughts and did a double-take. His fiancée just dropped a loaded question on him, and he didn't know to approach it at first. He looked into her big, beautiful, azure blue eyes and smiled, "Rya... You are the most beautiful woman in the universe. You always will be to me."

  Rya's heart raced, and she started rubbing her thighs together. "Th-That's not an answer. And you are not getting away that easily. I'll ask again, Quinus Meredydd. Do. I. Look. Fat?" Rya raised her eyebrows and crossed her arms, but her blushing cheeks gave her away.

  Quinus smirked and wiggled his right eyebrow.

  Rya blushed more, "W-What?... Why aren't you answering me?"

  The maids stepped back as Quinus stepped forward. Rya was trying to put up a brave front but knew what was coming.

  Quinus was just inches from her, and she could feel the heat radiating off him. His strong masculine scent filled her nostrils, and her body began to tingle. Her knees buckled slightly, and she felt her core become moist.

  Quinus leaned in and whispered into her ear, "You are the most beautiful woman in the whole world, and I can't get enough of you."

  Rya's hips swayed as her thighs rubbed together. She bit her lip and whimpered.

  Quinus' breath tickled her neck and sent shivers down her spine. His hand rested on her lower back, pulling her close. Rya's breasts pressed against his chest, and her nipples hardened. Her breath hitched as his lips grazed her earlobe.

  Rya's entire body tingled, but Quinus didn't answer her question. Instead, he was whispering sweet nothings into her ear and telling her how much he wanted her.

  His words made her heart race, and her breathing quickened. His hand trailed up her back, resting on the nape of her neck.

  Rya's hips instinctively bucked as Quinus nibbled on her earlobe. Her core clenched and unclenched, aching to be filled.

  "Ngh! Y-You didn't answer my—"

  "Your body is shapely in all the right ways, and if you didn't have to go to the party, then I would have torn off your dress... And..."

  Rya let out a gasp as she felt him rubbing her belly.

  "THAT'S ENOUGH!" Yuliana yelled as she covered Eine's ears with the enchanted wood earplugs.

  Quinus and Rya stepped back from each other and noticed everyone's reaction as they scanned the room. The maids and Anna blushed at the affectionate dispy while Percy scratched the back of his head and looked away out of second-hand embarrassment. Dalia thought she couldn't help but have a satisfied smile on her face as her Alpha and Beta were showing their love. Johan was red in the face, mainly because Tayna was rubbing her butt against his groin. Nieren had a look of longing; she was imagining herself in Rya's position, and Sir George was vigorously scribbling away in his notebook, occasionally gncing up at Quinus and Rya. The Love Guru was collecting all the data he could for romancing Dark Elves.

  "Hmm?... Interesting... So, you don't answer the question straight away... Is that why I've been spped by so many women?..." Sir George mumbled to himself. Then he shook his head; it couldn't be his fault for being truthful to human women when asked a simir question. Surely it was their fault for getting mad in the first pce. It was making him doubt his logic. "No... Surely, it's a human female issue that I haven't discovered. But for Dark Elves, you need to soothe their worries before answering their questions in a way that they'll like."

  Sir George's notes were about the different approaches and styles of how one should woo a dark elf. He had it in his mind that each race's females needed different approaches to get them. Taking a broad strokes approach with each race. He's been observing Rya and Dalia with a fine-tooth comb when it came to their interactions with their human partners.

  Quinus and Rya tried to tell George that he was oversimplifying things. But the old Knight thought they were messing with him like they always did and refused to believe that all women were different regardless of race. It was such an absurd concept to him that his mind couldn't process it.

  "Um! Sorry, Mom!" Rya said as she pushed Quinus back. He smiled at her and winked while walking backwards to give his fiancée space.

  "I swear! How do you two forget that you're in public? Ms. Anna, please finish up Rya's dress. And Rya, don't mess up your hair." Yuliana chastised her adopted daughter.

  Rya didn't want to argue with Yuliana and turned back to look at the mirror as Anna and the three other maids got back to work on her.

  Two of the maids added the final touches to her dress while another was adding expensive hairclips to her hair. Anna was applying a simple foundation to Rya's face. Luckily, with her dark elven genes and high beauty level. She didn't need a lot of makeup.

  "Okay, my dy. I am done with your makeup. You are beautiful." Anna said while smiling.

  Rya looked at her reflection and saw how breathtaking she was, which was practically all the time ever since she transformed into a dark elf. Even her unremovable metal choker colr neckce with the glowing orb with a gold and red yin-yang didn't csh with her appearance.

  'God, damn... It's really hard not to become conceited when I'm in a body as perfect as this.' Rya thought, but then she saw the one area that was bugging her. It wasn't easily noticable but if you were around Rya three months ago to now. You could tell that her stomach wasn't as ft as it used to be.

  'I am getting a little fat... If this is Hilda's doing—or her stupid Gods! I swear I will find a way to exile those bastards from the face of Tertius!'

  Rya's hands moved up to her belly and slightly pushed down on it in a futile hope of fttening her stomach.

  "My dy? Are you feeling alright?" Anna asked worriedly.

  Rya quickly took her hands away from her stomach and cleared her throat.

  "Um... C-Can we add a shawl to my outfit?" Rya whispered to her maid.

  "Huh?... I think there's a nice—"

  "Make sure it's long. Like it should reach past my hips," Rya cut her off.

  Anna blinked and looked at Rya with an odd expression. But then she realized what the problem was and smiled. "Princess Rya... If you're worried about the other Noblewomen seeing you, I doubt they could tell that your stomach is a little bit bigger. In fact, you're skinnier than most of them," Anna whispered to her.

  "I-I'm worried about one woman noticing, Anna," Rya grumbled under her breath.

  Yuliana elven hearing picked up the conversation and sighed, "Ry, the human Princess's Gods aren't making you gain weight. Like I said, they can only bless a person with abilities and strength. Not curse someone with obesity."

  Rya blushed, "I want to believe you, Mom... But I've had three Goddesses talk to me. And two of them found enjoyment by messing with me."

  "In what way?" Yuliana asked.

  Rya held her tongue. She didn't want to openly tell everyone that she was a human male before being transported to Tertius, and once she was here. The mana from sin monsters began to transform Rya's body, turning her into a beautiful dark elf. The only thing that Nils and Nebulus didn't change but sort of changed was her sexual preference. She went from a straight man to a straight woman, and it confused the hell out of her when her eyes couldn't help but linger on Quin's handsome face and muscur body. In time, she came to accept that she loved him and that he was her rock. She might have spiraled into depression if it weren't for finding Quinus.

  "I-It doesn't matter," Rya grumbled. "A-Anyway... If we can please find a shawl or something, Anna?"

  Anna rolled her eyes at Rya's funny reaction. Her mistress was such an amusing character, and she really enjoyed serving her. She wasn't a hard-ass like some of the other Noble women she'd worked for, and all the other maids who had tenure to be first in line to become the future Queen's personal maid had all declined to become Rya's maid due to their weariness of her race. But after months of witnessing Rya's character, the maids that declined were now feeling like fools as Anna became one of Rya's best friends and personal maid.

  "Alright... But it will cover your skin, My Lady. Are you sure about this?" Anna asked.

  "I am... Plus, it can be chilly in the evening," Rya lied. She usually preferred to wear lighter dresses that showed off her legs through long in the sides of her skirt, and she loved off-shoulder and low hemline dresses that left little to the imagination, as her cleavage was always on dispy. But this was Lydia's coming-of-age party, and Rya didn't want Hilda to know that she was still growing in her abdomen.

  Rya could only imagine all the mean things she would say to her. And normally, Rya was quick-witted enough to counter or dish it back tenfold. But Hilda was the only person who seemed to take the and fire back even harder. Growing up as a boy on Earth, Rya had dealt with bullying and some forms of harassment, but that was from guys, and it never really got under his skin. But from a shape-tongued girl like Hilda, it was much worse, and she found herself more hurt than normal, which bugged her to no end.

  How could a literally walking Demi-God with all her elemental magic, healing powers, quick wit, amazing fighting skills, and physical attributes be bested by a mere human girl tongue? Rya thought as she tried to understand her emotions and the reasoning behind it. If only she knew that it was. Her hormones from the pregnancy were making her more vulnerable and susceptible to her emotions.

  'No... It isn't me that's changed. I'm just not used to a cruel woman... I have nothing to be afraid of! Yeah! And if Hilda thinks she can get away with this, she has another thing coming. I'll show her what a real woman is made of!' Rya smiled to herself as she straightened up her posture and pulled her shoulders back to make her impressive bust stand out even more. Rya's confidence was sky-high until the silk belt around her waist came undone as her belly grew a little.

  "Uh-oh..." said a maid as she went over and helped her mistress tie the belt again.

  "Damn my growing belly," Rya cursed and looked at her maid.

  "It was our fail, My Lady. We must not have tied it correctly the first time."

  Rya blushed in embarrassment as she knew that the belt was tied the first time perfectly. But her belly must have strained the belt too much when she straightened up her posture and came undone. She looked away and nodded her head, giving her silent consent.

  "It's alright... They're good as new," the maid said just before Anna came back with a bck shawl.

  "Here, put this on," Anna said.

  "Thanks, Anna," Rya smiled and wrapped the shawl over her shoulders, and had it drape perfectly over her chest and belly.

  'Perfect! You can't make fun of me if you can't see it, Hilda,' Rya smiled evilly to herself.

  Everything seemed in pce as she observed herself in the mirror. With a confident nod, Rya turned on her heels to face Quinus and her friends.

  "Shall we get some breakfast?" Quinus asked as his eyes couldn't help but wander to her chest and belly.

  Rya could feel her heart pounding hard and fast in her chest. She knew he wanted her, and she couldn't help but let her mind wander to how his hands would feel against her skin, how his lips would feel upon her own. And as if on command, Rya's stomach groaned as the thought of food came to mind.

  "Yes, I am famished," Rya admitted.

  "Come this way," Quinus said as he gestured to a door.

  As they left the room, Rya's mind kept on thinking about Quinus. The way he spoke, the way he carried himself, his handsome looks, and his charming personality. He was a dream come true. She needed to win over the Ladies of the Court. They were the st obstacle that was preventing her from marrying her man. And she needed to make sure that nothing or no one would get in her way.

  *GROAN!*

  'Tsk! Expect my damn stomach. One of these days, it's going to be the death of me.' Rya mentally chastised her body as she held Quin's arm while they walked to the dining hall.