Author's Notes:
I know it's rare for me to do this, but I have an announcement. This book will be on a two week break, because I am going on vacation. Sorry, but I'm going to be very busy, so I feel a two week break is the best option since I doubt I'll be able to keep up with my writing while I'm away. At least I'm leaving you all on a high note. Thank you all for understanding.

P.S.
This is my very first time writing ArtxTess smut, I hope you like it. And if you don't want to read the smut part, that's fine. I'll have it marked so you can skip it, which will be the rest of the chapter.

The reception carried on, and gradually most of the guests left, only those who stayed in the sanctuary remained as the teleportation gate was shut down till tomorrow, so they were residing in the palace tonight. Arthur and Tess were following one of the maids to their new room in the palace.

"So why can't we just keep using your old room? It seemed big enough to me," Arthur asked as they walked.

"Are you kidding? That room was only a little bigger than my room on the floating castle, this one will be much bigger," Tess replied. "My old room probably only felt a lot bigger since we were...I think eight the last time you saw it."

"I guess you have a point there, it has been a long time since those days. And now I'm getting a little excited to see it."

"Me too."

"Wait, you haven't seen it yet? Did you sleep in your old room last night?"

"Yup." She hugged Arthur's arm. "I wanted the first time I saw it to be with you."

"Here is your new room, your majesty's," the maid said, as they arrived at a set of double doors and opened one.

As the door opened their first sight was Sylvie, with a bright childlike smile.

"Sylvie?" Arthur and Tess questioned.

"I wanted to sleep with mama and papa tonight," she announced with a childlike innocence.

The maid gasped and covered her mouth as her heart melted from the sweet comment. On the contrary, Arthur and Tess gave an awkward smile. They agreed that the gesture was so sweet they didn't think they could say no, while at the same time they didn't want her there, as that went completely against their wedding night plans.

"Pffft," Sylvie let a laugh slip out. "Sorry, but the looks on your faces." She quickly recomposed herself. "I was actually just finishing setting up for the right mood for the night."

"Right mood?" Arthur questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"That's right. Even though I would love to sleep with you both, I want to be a big sister even more."

The maid stifled a laugh.

"Anyway," she floated up and gave them both a hug. "Goodnight. I'll be going back and forth between here and the Sanctuary helping out, so I'll probably see you soon."

With that she flew off.

"What is she talking about? Helping out?" Arthur asked himself. But he quickly abandoned the question, there was something much more pressing to deal with. "Woah there Tess," he said, stopping her from walking in.

"What is it?" She asked as the maid looked just as confused.

"This will be our room from now on right?"

"Anytime we stay at the palace, yes."

"In that case, there is one last human tradition I need to follow through with."

"What?"

Arthur then scooped Tess up in his arms. "It's tradition for the husband to carry his wife across the threshold of their first home together. And seeing as this is our room from now on, I say this qualifies."

Tess looked at Arthur lovingly as she placed her hands on his cheeks, and leaned in for a loving kiss. "Then by all means, carry your bride."

The maid quickly opened the other door, and Arthur carried Tess inside.

"Goodnight your majesty's," the maid said as she closed the door.

The room was dimly lit with dozens of candles, no doubt part of Sylvie's preparations. Tess was right, the room was larger. By Arthur's guess it was at least three times as big as Tess' room in the castle. The room had the same kind of furniture as most of the other rooms Arthur had become accustomed to while with nobles. Of course there was a large dresser against the wall, and a canopy bed larger than any he had ever seen, with a set of nightstands on either side, but also what looked like an adjoining sitting room complete with two plush couches and chairs with a coffee table in the middle. The coffee table itself held several fruit bowls, a platter of finger foods, and two ice buckets, one with a bottle of wine, the other a glass bottle of water, all of these no doubt intended to ensure they were both hydrated and had the energy for an active wedding night. Then on opposite ends of the room were two separate rooms, one being a bathroom larger than a middle class commoner's bedroom, the other Arthur decided he would check on later. Lastly was a set of glass doors that led to a balcony that was the length of the room.

"Umm, can you put me down? I'd like to change out of my wedding dress," Tess asked with a slight blush.

"Or I could put you on the bed and help you out of your dress," Arthur suggested flirtatiously.

Tess' cheeks blushed even darker as she shook her head. "No, I have something I want to change into. It's a surprise."

Reluctantly Arthur stood her up on the floor, as his wish to consummate their wedding as he removed her dress went up in smoke. He could have stated this, but with sex being so new to her, he didn't want to push her too much.

"I'll be back soon," she said, then kissed him and rushed off to the bathroom and closed the door.

Arthur began removing his robes while walking and examining the room. He arrived at the couch and threw his top rob on it, then grabbed a few grapes and popped one in his mouth.

"Clean," he thought to himself.

He continued to sample the rest of the food, and came to the same result. He then looked at the wine and examined it. The bottle was sealed with no sign of tampering, but the same couldn't be said about the water. He grabbed a glass, filled it, and took a sip.

"Hmm, also clean."

He then headed to the other room. It was an office complete with two desks facing each other with chairs. Arthur blushed a bit as he felt his member harden, as he had naughty thoughts about Tess interrupting him working in the office, and the things that would happen on those desks.

He turned back towards the bed, and finished removing his robes as he used aether to check and make sure no one was in the area. Once cleared he placed a powerful sound barrier around the room to ensure not only not a sound would escape, but also nothing could get in. Once he was down to his boxers he sat at the foot of the bed and waited nervously. I'm his past life he had sex plenty of times, but always with women he knew he wouldn't ever see again. Tonight he was going to have sex with someone he loved, and would be seeing everyday for the rest of his life. How he treated her had to be different, he couldn't be selfish.

!!WARNING!!
THE REST OF THIS CHAPTER IS SMUT BEYOND THIS POINT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

"A-art," Tess said nervously, pulling his attention back to her. "What do you think?"

Arthur looked, and standing in the doorway was Tess, wearing a white lace babydoll. His jaw practically dropped to the floor as a smile formed. He had never understood the point of lingerie

like that before, since it was just going to end up on the floor anyway. But now as he gazed upon her womanly curves and ample breasts, just barely being covered, he saw the appeal.

Tess giggled. "I guess I can take that as you like it."

Now knowing Arthur approved she felt more confident, and decided she would have to thank Clare for suggesting this, and Kathyln and Lilia for helping her pick it out. Following the girl's instructions, she walked to Arthur with a sway in her hips, which seemed to mesmerize him. Once close enough she bent down at her waist, placed her hands on his cheeks, and kissed him gently. Slowly she broke the kiss and her hands left his cheeks, and started to gently move down over his body, as she lowered her own until she was on her knees before him, and her fingers were grabbing at his waist band.

Even though her movements seemed confident, he could see in her eyes that she was nervous. He reached out and caressed her cheek while giving a reassuring smile, then lifted himself up off the bed a bit.

Tess pulled his boxers down to his ankles, as gasped at the sight of his erect manhood.

"Oh my..." her mouth just hung agap.

"Tess?"

"It's so big. Is this normal size for humans? The way my mother described it, it seemed a lot smaller."

Arthur beamed with pride. "I've never compared, but I'd like to think I'm above average."

She held it in both hands to gauge it. "Regis showed me some memories he had from the previous timeline, some of which you were naked. But even then it didn't look this big."

"I just figured out why all the Asuras like to keep lessers down!" Regis chimed in laughing. "They all suffer from needle dick syndrome!" Arthur bit his lip to stifle his laughter. "All male lessers must have giant dicks compared to Asuras!" Regis laughed, but then was suddenly silenced.

"Sorry about that," Sylvie said. "I'll block him out for the rest of the night."

Arthur looked back down to see Tess still sizing up his member.

"Tess, what are you doing?"

"I'm trying to see if I can handle all of this without choking."

"I'm sorry what?"

"It's something my mother told me about that I can do that men really like."

"I have no doubt that your mother is right about that, but if you're too nervous to do that..."

"No, I want to, for you."

She then raised his member and ran her tongue along the bottom from the base to the tip, causing Arthur to shutter. Tess quickly looked up, unsure if she did something wrong.

"Keep going if you want, I won't stop you," he said with an excited smile.

She looked back down to his member, opened her mouth, and put his tip in. Her tongue moved around all over his tip as she sucked on it, which caused Arthur to shutter even more. She then started to move her head forward, taking more in. As she suspected, she couldn't handle the whole thing, leaving an inch or two after she felt his member reach the back of her throat, nearly making her gag. Pulling her head back a little she then grabbed him at her lips, marking her limit and began bobbing her head back and forth.

Arthur brushed a lock of hair behind her ear as he watched the love of his life enthusiastically sucked on his memeber. As he did this her body shuttered as he touched her ear. He had heard elves had sensitive ears, but he only thought that was related to hearing. He always felt she had cute ears, so decided he would play with them a little later when he was in a better position.

In his past life Arthur had experienced more than his share of blow jobs, but this felt different. The warmth of her mouth, the touch of her tongue and lips, or perhaps it was something to do with his own body, but it was all intoxicating. Even though it had been over twenty years since he last experienced this, he could confidently say this was the best he had ever experienced.

In an effort to keep in control he forced himself to think of different things, battles he had experienced, his torture in the previous time line, his childhood, but it never lasted more than a few seconds before he was back in this moment. Eventually it was becoming too much for him, he was about to release. Suddenly Tess stopped and removed his member from her mouth, a trail of saliva connecting the two.

"How was that?" She asked.

"Amazing. I was about to cum."

Tess smiled with a bright seduction. "Good thing I stopped then," she stood up and kissed him passionately. "You can only cum in me." She said after breaking the kiss.

She then crawled on the bed and laid on her back. Her arms straight by her side and legs spread.

"I'm ready," she said nervously.

This was a bit awkward for Arthur, but he just took it as her lack of experience. As he crawled up after her he saw how nervous she looked, as if she was bracing herself for something.

"Tess, it's ok, relax. I'll be easy on you."

"I'm just preparing for the pain."

"Pain?"

"My mother told me sex is painful."

Arthur raised an eyebrow. "Your mother taught you about sex?"

"Yes? How did you learn?"

"This kind of knowledge was widely available in my past life." Curious, he reached down between her legs and rubbed her pussy, it was dry. "Tess, what else did your mother tell you?"

"Just that sex is a painful, but an important part of marriage that brings a man lots of pleasure, and that a woman's real pleasure comes from the child that's created."

Arthur gave a deadpan expression. "That poor woman. Now I know why you're an only child."

"What?"

"Tess, sex doesn't have to be painful. Yes it will be the first time, but it can also be pleasurable for both if the man isn't selfish, and knows what he's doing."

"Really?" She asked with a hopeful expression.

His hand caressed her cheek. "Really. Now just relax and trust me. I'll make this as enjoyable as I can."

Arthur then climbed on top of her and kissed her tenderly. Relaxing, Tess snakes her arms around him to his back and held him as the kissing intensified. Resting his weight on his right elbow his left hand moved to her right breast and began massaging it through the lingerie. Pleasure filled moans left her mouth as they made out. Soon Arthur broke off from her lips, and began sucking and gently biting on her neck, working his way to her ear. Gently Arthur began nibbling on her ear causing her to gasp.

"Did you like that?"

"Y-yess," she moaned, so Arthur continued nibbling for a little longer.

Having had enough fun with her ears Arthur attacked her neck again, leaving small marks from his sucking and gentle biting as he moved along her collar bone. His hand abandoned Tess' breast, causing a disappointed moan. Arthur grabbed the shoulder straps and slid them down and off her shoulder. To make things easier Tess slid her arms out, then slowly pulled her arms out and pulled the lingerie down to reveal her breasts.

Arthur took a moment to gaze upon them. Despite the intense physical training she put herself through they were quite large, about the smaller end of C cup, with milky white complexion like fluffy marshmallows, and little pink nipples. He then grabbed both breasts and began massaging her right one as his mouth came down and began sucking on her left. Tess gasped sharply, then moaned even louder as she ran her right hand through the back of his hair while holding his head there, as her left hand rested on his back.

"Aaaart," she moaned in ecstasy.

Feeling even more turned on Arthur decided to take things up a notch, and moved his left hand from her breast, down along her body, over her thigh, to her lower entrance. Her legs were spread enough that his hand reached her easily. He began rubbing his fingers on her lower lips, she was already feeling wet, but he wanted her even more so before he took her virginity. His fingers nimbly worked her pussy, causing her breathing to speed up and her to moan his name even more.

He moved to her other breast to give it attention too, and also slipped his middle finger inside her. Instinctively she started to close her legs, but stopped herself, this was Art, her husband doing these things to her. Things that made her body tremble in pleasure she never knew possible. From his past life he knew what he was doing, so she relaxed her instincts and allowed him to continue unhindered. He said he was going to make her feel good, and she trusted him, so she wasn't going to stop him.

Her ears started flapping as Arthur sucked on her breast and moved inside her. She knew tonight would be a night of new sensations, but never in her wildest dreams did she expect things to be like this. Soon Arthur added another finger, and the two worked inside her pussy driving her insane with pleasure. As this happened Arthur abandoned her breast and started kissing her body, but with the way his fingers were working her, she barely noticed. By the time his fingers stopped she realized he was now kissing her inner thighs, slowly moving closer and closer to her entrance. Tess looked down in disbelief, she was confident she knew what he was about to do, yet the idea seemed so foreign that part of her told herself that she was wrong.

Arthur looked intently at his target as its wetness caused it to glisten in the dim light. He had never done this in his past life. Due to always having relations with prostitutes the idea seemed more repulsive than anything, despite his desire to do it, and now was his chance. He continued kissing her right inner thigh, inching closer and closer to her clit. Once there he gave a slow firm lick over her pussy, making her shutter. He looked up and their eyes locked, both showing a hunger for one another in their eyes, a result from the pent up sexual tension from over the past two months. Tess bit her lip and nodded, giving him the go ahead.

He leaned his head and moved her legs over his shoulders, then buried his face in her pussy. Tess gasped sharply as her thighs closed around his head, but he didn't even react as he ravenously devoured her pussy. He alternated between sucking, biting, and licking her. He reached his tongue inside and moved it along the same place his fingers stimulated earlier. Tess leaned forward and grabbed his head, pulling him harder into her. The sensation for her was mind blowing, and Arthur became intoxicated by the act that he never wanted to stop.

"Art!" Tess cried out, and his tongue found a new spot within the folds of her pussy that was extremely sensitive.

Loving the reaction, he targeted that area with all his attention. Tess' body began to shake as her ears were flapping out of control.

"A-Art...sssooommmethiiinng is hhhappening," she struggled out as she felt her first ever orgasm building.

Hearing Tess like that drove Arthur to work even harder. After another minute or two, she had reached her limits.

"Art!" She screamed as she released her orgasm on his face.

Her body became limp as she rode out her orgasm, and Arthur licked up her juices. He heard in his previous life that a woman's juices tasted salty or didn't have much flavor at all, but to his surprise and enjoyment Tess tasted sweet.

"I wonder if it's because she's an elf?" Arthur asked himself.

"How was it?" He asked while taking a breathe.

"What...was that?" She asked in an exhausted amazement.

"That's what's called an orgasm. The peak of physical pleasure durning sex." Arthur looked up at her smuggly. "I told you I could make it feel enjoyable."

"I never doubted you for a second," she replied as she caught her breath.

"So are you ready to continue?"

"Continue?"

"Yeah, I haven't had a chance at the pleasure yet," he replied, then looked down to gestur to his manhood. "Even though it's going to hurt a bit soon, as sensitive as your body probably is, you'll probably cum again."

Tess looked up at him dreamily. "Even if I don't, I'll be happy just feeling you inside me."

He leaned in and kissed her lips as he lined his member up.

"Ready?"

Tess nodded.

"I'll go slow then."

Tess bit her lip as Arthur's member slowly pushed inside her, It didn't hurt yet but she was ready.

Arthur managed to push in a few inches, still not halfway, before he hit her hymen.

"As soon as I start pushing through it's going to hurt. If you need to dig your nails in my back or bite me you can if it'll help you endure it better."

She shook her head. "I've been injured plenty of times while clearing dungeons, I can handle it."

Arthur nodded in acknowledgment, and began pushing again. Tess gasped as several tears escaped her eyes as her hymen broke. Instinctively Arthur leaned down and held her in his arms as he slowly pushed all the way in, then slowly started pumping his member back and forth to give her a chance to get used to it.

When she finally started to calm down he released her and began sucking on her breasts again in an effort to give her some pleasure. After another minute or two she was moaning again as she ran her fingers through his hair.

"It doesn't hurt anymore," she said with a relieved smile.

"I'm going to start going faster then."

Gradually he picked up his speed. Tess' hands grabbed Arthur gently by the head and lifted him from her breast, and pulled him into a passionate kiss. Once broken she held him close, she only wanted to feel him inside her now, and the pleasure his member was giving her.

"Art, I feel it again. I'm going to cum," she cried out.

Seconds later it happened. "ARRRTT," she cried out as she came.

As this happened her walls constricted around his member, making her feel even more amazing, followed by the warm sensation of her cum covering his member. Knowing now she was satisfied twice, Arthur forgot about his self control.

In seconds.. "ahhh," Arthur released himself inside Tess.

He slowly trust a few more times as he released, before trying to roll off her. Before he could though Tess wrapped her arms around him.

"Please, stay inside me just a little longer."

"Ok," he replied as he relaxed and kissed her neck.