However, the slow sex method dragged. Sure, he enjoyed himself, but out of love, not for the stats. Dammit System.
Ming and Misaka…Perhaps the most difficult to get? Focus… well fuck. He needed just one point of it to…
She did ask him to duel. If he defeated her with the right wager, he could finally fulfill the requirement for the next rank. Dammit. She wasn’t someone he could simply ask, right? Of course not. Bashfulness aside, the other women would appear and deter everything. Getting angry at them for selfishly wanting to increase stats that they couldn’t see. Yeah right.
Ah fuck, Clyde had to visit Amina, his deck leader. Oh well, what’s another day of forgetting. The amount of shit on his plate felt beyond exhausting.
Focus could wait for now. He didn’t see himself entering a dungeon anytime soon, so he’d be fine. Could his deck really defeat a goddamn regional champion?
Clyde checked the system and there awaited him was the Faith store.
- Faith level 20. Faith points: 50.
[Select your purchase.]
[Skill. Healing Song. Cost: 10]
[Item. Wand of Light. Cost: 10]
[Skill. Faith Punch. Cost: 5.]
[Talent. Enchanting. Cost: 40.]
[Talent. Blacksmithing light-element weapons only. Cost 40.]
[Skill. Special attack: Chaos Construct. Cost: 50.]
[Item. Atom Potion. Cost: 1900.]
[Item. Grenos, legendary sword. Cost: 2500]
----[You need a faith level of 50 or more to scroll beyond this point]----
Clyde knew he shouldn’t be surprised by the sudden price jump. The same went for the Non-explanation of the items. Only one could be selected per month. Harsh.
He didn’t need the healing song since he had healers on his team. He sure as shit wasn’t going to waste his single purchase on the cheapest selections there. Enchanting…he still needed to assign that job to Natalia. A blacksmithing talent restricted to light weapons. Fuck that.
Could he really rely on the loli for enchanting? Maybe, but that didn’t excuse his forgetfulness. A special attack didn’t excite him much since he had a pool of amazing abilities that even evolved. What’s another death beam to the rest?
Wait… Chaos Construct. That sounded like a summoning. Only one choice…
Fuck it.
[You purchased Enchanting .]
Yeah, fuck Natalia , Clyde thought.
[Congratulations, you’ve unlocked the ability to enchant your weapons (and ally’s) using various magic items. This is a rare talent!]
[+2 intellect.]
Oh piss off, System , Clyde thought.
[Thank you for shopping at the Faith store. See you next month! Ta-ta!]
The shop vanished from his system menu.
Clyde opened his eyes, scoping out both sides of him. Alice was gone. On his left laid Tear, his right Harumi. A familiar sensation of solidifying occurred down below. A look of bliss smothered his face as he enjoyed the breasts. He snuggled his face into Harumi’s without waking her.
When he looked back in the succubus’s direction, she was awake and smirking. Clyde shrugged. What man wouldn’t appreciate this situation?
He crawled over to the woman and kissed her. That flipped her switch. Someone cleared their throat.
The duo stopped kissing to look up at a glaring Alice, Melody, and Airi. Well, Airi had a grin on her face.
“Room for one more?” Airi said, soliciting a blank stare from the redhead. “I’m only kidding.” She blew an appreciative whistle. “How about removing the blankets and showing off that erect—ow!”
Melody tossed the paper fan back onto the dresser.
“Clyde, didn’t you say we were taking a trip to the capital city?” Alice said. “We’re going to miss the train if you don’t hurry.”
Clyde sighed. Tear held onto him tightly.
“Can’t you just go tomorrow?” Tear said.
The sound of a paper fan smack made the young man chuckle.
“We don’t have time for you to slow things down, you horny succubus,” Alice snapped.
Tear’s breasts squeezed against him didn’t make rising out of bed easy, but he knew Alice was right. Professor Oak’s quote actually works this scenario , Clyde thought, but I’ll damn well ride my bike anywhere.
After dressing in casual clothing, Clyde met with the others at the breakfast table. Yuki boldly gave him a morning kiss.
“Clyde, kill yourself,” Seth said.
Toru sighed.
“At least we didn’t hear a peep from him last night. Unlike a certain pair.” He glared at Yusuke and Undine, who in return, smiled sheepishly. “Two fucking hours.”
The entire table erupted into laughter. Nina the gothic loli and Toru’s assistant rolled her eyes.
“I wonder if I should’ve stayed back with Fumi.”
“You do know that Fumi will be here this afternoon,” Toru deadpanned. Nina middle-fingered his blank stare.
“Why so late?” Seth asked.
“She had to get her vacation hours approved,” Toru said. “Of course my father did give the boss a little compensation. She’s one of those stickler types.”
“Dude, Fumi’s boss is hot,” Seth said offhandedly.
“She’s way out of your league, dumb blond,” Nina said.
“I don’t want to hear that coming from a child,” Seth said. “What are you doing at the grownups’ table?”
Nina’s anger aura erupted around her, but thankfully, a glare from Yuki settled things down. Clyde somehow managed not to laugh at Seth’s jive, although Seth seemed to notice the amusement in his eyes.
“Dummy blond, pass the pepper,” Natalia said. Her blank stare wasn’t fazed. Seth knew the deal, the loli’s nickname for him since the beginning, unchanged. And all he could do was mutter some choice words while passing the pepper.
Noona seemed fascinated by the entire banter, although she hid her excitement behind a somewhat neutral expression.
“Come on, Clyde, let’s get going,” Alice said.
“Fine, fine,” he replied. “Let’s see—”
“Melody, Airi, and Natalia’s coming with us,” Alice interrupted.
He shot her a blank stare, but Melody’s glistening eyes made it impossible to change the team. Not that they were headed to the capital to fight. In terms of power, they were fine.
“Har—”
“Tear has to talk with Harumi and Liru today,” Alice continued. “I’ll take up healer if we come to that.”
“I’m going!” Seth said.
“No you’re not,” Alice intervened.
“Too late—”
“Your role is important, idiot blond,” Alice said. “You’re going to be working with Toru and Misaka. Coming with us will only prove Natalia right.”
“You’ve got a roundabout way to saying things,” Seth said. “What’s gotten into you?”
“Nothing,” Alice said. “Just stepping it up. As Team Stone’s number two, I’ve taken the liberty of preparing today’s agenda ahead of time.”
Everyone blinked. Clyde nodded.
“She did save us the trouble with train tickets,” Clyde said, “but leave the Team picks to me.”
“Why?” Alice said. “What’s wrong with us?”
“Nothing,” Clyde said, “but that’s not the point. I have specific reasons—”
“Then everything’s fine,” Alice interrupted. She folded her arms.
“Clyde would’ve chosen the members with the biggest breasts to accompany him,” Ashard said with a chuckle. Nobody laughed. “What? Am I wrong?”
“Yes,” Kitome said. “You are exactly wrong—and you weren’t around for his picks.”
“Yeah, stupid slave fairy,” Natalia said. “You’re voicing what YOU’D pick, pervy dum-dum fairy.”
Clyde sighed. Arguing with Alice over something so little wasn’t going to get him anywhere. So what if she asserted herself today? He liked this change of pace.
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br /> He stretched.
“Thanks for the meal, Yuki.”
The demoness nodded, blushing.
“Clyde, have I ever told you to jump off a bridge?” Seth said.
“Alright, let’s go team,” Clyde said, ignoring the blond boy. “I think Alice is trying to take Right Hand back from Natalia.”
“Well she can’t have it,” Natalia said. “It’s mine.”
Alice grinned at her evilly.
“We’ll see about that.”
Before the group headed out the door, Clyde looked at Naoko. The kuudere loli stared back at him with glistening dual-colored eyes—one green, the other red.
“I need to talk you later about dragons,” he said. She nodded without saying anything. He was about to step outside to join the others, but noticed a magazine on a shelf, covered in plastic wrap. The cover turned out to be a picture of he and Melody kissing. The name of the magazine: Untouchable Gaming’s Upcoming Mula!
So that random photographer published the picture after all . Clyde bet he’d be baffled to hear that Melody now had a ring on her finger.
Alice had the cab waiting, ensuring the smooth ride to the train station. Two hours later, they found themselves gawking at a place brimming with color.
**
Unknown city, Terravaon…
Friend’s apartment…
Sol glared at his friend.
“Are…you seriously into this…strange, filth?” He said, pointing at the laptop monitor.
“It’s called a prank,” the boy replied. “I hope the image of two gorillas wildly fucking is embedded in your head forever.”
“You’re a sick piece of shit,” Sol said, laughing. “I leave for two weeks and you’ve proposed to three…What do you call them. Hooks?”
“Hookers man, hookers,” the boy replied. “And that was a joke. Sheesh. That’s why I’m here, to teach you a good form of humor.” He stood and closed the laptop. “I swear, it’s like you’re from another world sometimes.” The boy reached into a minifridge. He pulled out two beers, passing one to Sol. “Don’t worry, I have you the orange kind, for pussies who can’t handle the bitter stuff like the rest of us.”
Sol rolled his eyes.
“I told you, I’ve never had such a drink before, gorilla fucker.”
The boy’s eyes widened then he chuckled.
“So you do have a sense of humor.” He opened his bottle of beer and chugged. “Ah! Now that hits the spot. I have two hot girls from class coming over in a couple of hours to fuck our brains out. You down?”
Sol grinned.
“Daichi, when am I not down for some fun?”
“When you’re busy questioning my jokes,” the boy replied.
Just then, Sol received a flashing red prompt that made his breath drop.
[-Territory- Alert! Level: ** CATASTROPHIC **. An incredibly powerful enemy player and his group has entered your city with unknown intentions. This could spell true disaster for all of those innocent people. This is no time for you to mess around. Emergency! Emergency!]
Sol’s eyes hardened. A tingle of excitement and wildness jolted through his bones. Who would dare attempt to take his territory?
“Sorry Daichi, I’ve got to go,” Sol said.
“Wizard shit?” the boy said.
“Worse.”
“Ooh. Well, try to get back within two hours or I’ll end up fucking both chicks by myself. One of them thinks you’re really cute.”
Sol chuckled, but didn’t explain to his friend that the women took one look at his muscles and then seduced him.
He hurried outside the apartment and made the Jump. Whoever wanted to fuck with his city was going to die. He would be showing no mercy.
**
Unknown area…
Perched in her favorite chair, Venus stared down at Satovia using God Sight. She could sense an impending battle—two powerful energies and participants of the stone-viper games, colliding like rocks in space. He was at the center of it.
She licked her lips, her horniness increasing by almost three thousand percent. Yet, she still saved herself. Whether he knew or not, her place in the harem was already set.
Too bad the rules and eyes watching the goddess had no intention of letting her go to her true love. She tore up the letter of yet another suitor. Do they not tire of this? She thought.
Venus clapped once. Mortem appeared, bowing lowly.
“Send Tessa on a journey to save that village. It’s going to be tormented by monsters in five days. I need my daughter to make it there in three. The villagers saw my vision. Now they must wait for my prophet. Make it snappy.”
“Yes,” Mortem said, almost grudgingly before vanishing.
Venus didn’t understand why that pet hated her. She always treated it adequately. Maybe his appearance gave that impression.
She sighed. This was but a challenge. And it would lead to the most passionate night of her life. Unfortunately, the Supreme’s influence may more than likely change their baby into a girl. Then again, it may not work for two godly beings.
Who was she kidding? The Thousand Year Dragon succumbed to it. So would her child.
Too bad Venus would never get any thanks for stripping away most of that troublesome dragon’s core power.
She chuckled.
“That’s fine. Everything will go according to plan.”
Episode 53 (Part 3)
Lightnaris, Capital City of Terravon…
Midmorning…
Clyde, Alice, Melody, Natalia, and Airi marveled at the city before them. To the young man from Earth, these were sophisticated Chinese-style buildings, the rooves arranging from golds, silvers, and coppers. Some others seemed to go for a gem-theme: buildings of rubies and diamonds and emeralds. There stood even a building of pearl. Locals drove and walked the streets like this was normal.
There were a few strange pet choices the young man noticed. One woman walked what appeared to be a yellow and orange lizard that lolled its forked tongue out in the same manner as a dog. A man wearing a Ridout outfit, skateboarded with a cat-sized pink bird on his shoulder. The bird had a tail that resembled Pikachu’s . Heh.
A sight to behold, the city of gems and the bizarre. Some structures took on actual gem shapes, while a few were literal giant pearls—the roundness baffling onlookers. The strangest building far ahead seemed to be a giant spiraling tower constructed of a crimson material. At the top seemed to end in an eyeless alligator-like head. He made a mental note to check it out with the others later.
“I really wanted to see it for myself,” Alice told Clyde. “That’s why I was so excited this morning. Sorry for being rude.”
“You weren’t rude,” Clyde said. “You got our asses in gear, faster than even Yuki.” He looked around. “Damn, this really is some otherworldly shit.”
“Odd,” Airi said, eyes starry. “I could’ve sworn I’ve been here before…but it never looked like this.”
Everyone gazed at the purple-haired young woman expectantly. She shrugged.
“I’ve been to many places, so maybe it slipped my mind,” Airi said, rubbing the back of her head, chuckling nervously.
“I saw it in an article by chance,” Alice said. “The city that suddenly became a world wonder. Well at least for the Nation. Tear told me Clyde wanted to visit this place out of the blue. I figured something was going to happen, but…”
“Well, he does tend to sense strange things that we cannot,” Melody said, eyes on Clyde.
He waved that statement away. Natalia continued to softly hum an anime-themed song while on his shoulder, cheerful.
“This place is sick,” he said, excitedly. Maybe the system wanted to show him something awesome for once. “Let’s explore.” The girls smiled. “Maybe we can—”
A sudden feeling of wrongness rattled Clyde’s senses like rocks in a cup. Like Dark and Tetra, he could feel the non-Satovia presence as one felt heat from the sun. There wasn’t an earthly vibe, which meant th
e being possibly had no human limitations. He looked human of course. Clyde put him in the lady-killing category. He also looked no older than himself, give or take a year. Then again, in anime, age was certainly just a number. A loli could end up five hundred years old.
The newcomer was tall and muscular, sporting long dark brown hair, tan skin, and cold gray eyes. Dressed in casual clothing, the person ahead wouldn’t appear to be a threat at first glance.
Then he spawned a wicked-looking sword, eyes on them. It looked like something straight out of an over-the-top fantasy game. Or Soul Calibur . Large, dark, but mysterious gray with a spiky and fantastical handle. Honestly, Clyde couldn’t talk much because Bloodlight was also insane…
He analyzed the approaching man and got quite the surprise. This man…
Sol Niye Lor
Level: 242
Type: Sword breaker. Dimensional interloper. The Falcon.
Work under: N/A
Special: ???
Weakness: ???
Resistances: ???
Secret: ???
Clyde figured the newcomer analyzed him too, judging by the widened eyes.
“So, you’re the Stone,” Sol said. “A lower level. I wonder. If I killed you here, would the stone-viper games end?”
“Nice to meet you too,” Clyde said, humor and a trace of sarcasm in his voice. If this man approached as an ally to take out the Viper, he would’ve offered a hand. But the demeanor...Something was off. His eyes hardened upon noticing the red outline of aura. A killing intent.
Sol shrugged, smirk on his face.
“What can I say? I can leave quite the unforgettable impression. For you, maybe a slash across the carcass or a body strung up on the tallest tower as a warning to those who step into a place where they don’t belong.”
Clyde’s eyes widened. Was this guy a psychopath? Well, the old saying stated not to judge a book by its cover.
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