Chapter 182: Acidity

Paige clicked her tongue, pouting furiously as she rubbed her forehead. "Tsk! No sense of humor at all! Fine, fine! Don’t turn me into a hamster again, I’m changing!"

FLASH!

The pink dress and tiny frame dissolved into a thick cloud of glowing silver mist.

When the mist cleared, the woman sitting in the passenger seat took my breath away. She had transformed into a jaw-dropping, incredibly voluptuous nine-tailed foxkin milf.

She looked to be in her late thirties, possessing a gorgeous, ethereal face, dark seductive eyes, and a pair of fluffy fox ears poking through her long, flowing pink hair. Nine massive, impossibly soft pinkish-white fox tails fanned out behind her back, resting over the leather seats.

She wore a rich, dark silk kimono that was draped loosely over her shoulders, revealing a deep, breathtaking cleavage and an impossibly narrow waist.

She leaned back in the leather chair, running a manicured finger through her hair as a slow, sultry smile spread across her lips.

"Is this form more to your liking, Master?" Paige asked, her voice shifting from its usual digital tone into a rich, smooth, and deeply attractive cadence. "I know how much you appreciate mature women, and you mentioned wanting a fluffy foxkin earlier, so I decided to solve both preferences at once."

I looked her up and down, a satisfied, genuine smile returning to my face. "Now this is much better. You look amazing, Paige."

I leaned over slightly, eyeing her fluffy tails. "Though I knew you’d pick a fox form. Foxes are notoriously horny creatures."

Paige chuckled softly, her dark eyes flashing with a playful, dangerous glint as her nine tails swished rhythmically inside the car. "Guilty as charged, Host! Though, to be honest, I also considered taking the form of a bunny beastgirl. Their breeding capabilities are statistically off the charts."

I shook my head in amused disbelief, starting the engine. "Let’s stick with the fox for now."

VROOOOM-!!

The engine roared to life with a deep, thunderous vibration that echoed through the vacuum of space. The wheels began to spin, grabbing onto an invisible track of spatial mana that extended straight off the lunar surface and into the dark void.

I slammed my foot on the gas pedal.

The convertible rocketed off the Moon like a missile, leaving a glowing blue trail behind us as we soared straight into the open solar system.

Our first destination was Venus.

As we accelerated through the void, the giant, blazing sphere of the Sun dominated the view ahead of us. The intense, blinding solar light washed over the hood of the car, bathing the entire interior in golden radiation.

"Hahaha!"

I threw my head back and let out a genuine laugh at the sheer absurdity of the situation, driving a convertible through the cosmos toward the Sun, with the AC blasting in zero gravity while sitting next to a nine-tailed fox goddess.

Paige leaned back in her seat, resting her arm over the car door as her fluffy tails fluttered in the cosmic wind. For once, she dropped her chaotic system act, chatting with me like a relaxed companion as we sped past asteroid belts and drifting space rocks.

"This is actually incredible, Seth," Paige admitted, looking out at the passing stars with a soft smile. "I’ve processed billions of data points across realities, but riding in a sports car through space is definitely a first."

"Told you a road trip was a good idea," I said with a grin.

In less than ten minutes, the massive, cloud-covered sphere of Venus appeared in front of us.

Unlike Earth’s clear blue oceans, Venus was completely encased in a thick atmosphere of murky yellow and orange clouds. The planet was a nightmare world, an absolute pressure cooker of extreme environmental hazards.

"Hold on,’ I said, steering the car straight down into the dense atmosphere.

SWOOSH!

The convertible plunged through the upper cloud layers, piercing through thousands of miles of heavy atmosphere.

As we descended through the clouds, torrents of burning rain slammed against the car’s invisible barrier.

"Sulfuric acid rain," Paige noted casually, pointing at the yellow drops sliding off our spatial shield. "The atmospheric pressure down here is ninety times that at Earth’s sea level, and the surface temperature sits at a comfortable four hundred and sixty degrees Celsius. A normal human would be instantly crushed, fried, and dissolved in less than a second."

"Sounds lovely," I said with a chuckle, guiding the car through the low-altitude cloud layer until the planet’s surface finally opened up beneath us.

The landscape of Venus was wild and dramatic. Sprawling plains of dark, cracked basaltic lava stretched as far as the eye could see, broken up by massive shield volcanoes and strange, pancake-shaped rock domes carved by ancient lava flows.

The sky above was filled with a heavy, glowing orange haze, illuminated by constant bursts of cloud-to-cloud lightning.

I set the car down on a high volcanic ridge, switching off the engine.

Stepping out of the vehicle, my boots clicked against the scorching, dark volcanic stone. The extreme heat and crushing pressure washed over my body, but my Origin authority negated the environmental hazards effortlessly, making the lead-melting heat feel like a mild summer breeze.

I walked over to the edge of the basalt cliff, watching a river of liquid rock flow through a distant valley below. Acid rain drizzled down from the orange sky, evaporating the moment it hit the red-hot rocks.

I caught a drop of sulfuric acid rain on my index finger, looking at it curiously. "Hey, Paige... I wonder what this rain actually tastes like?"

Paige stepped out of the passenger side, her long silk kimono trailing over the volcanic rock as her nine fluffy tails swished gracefully behind her. She looked at me and let out a rich, melodious laugh.

"It tastes like extreme heartburn and instant, catastrophic acidity, Host," Paige giggled, walking up to stand beside me at the cliff edge. "I strongly advise against drinking the weather."

"Fair enough," I said with a chuckle, wiping the drop away. "I don’t want acidity in my stomach."

She laughed at that.