by Bruce Sentar
“Oh, lover boy poisoned them all at their bonfire last night. Those that weren’t sick are taking care of the rest.” Sky paused, thinking for a second “Though they might find the Chef and stir up.”
“Seeing how much this place had, how about we clean up the rest of them?” Ajax offered a predatory grin. “We are still in the time compression instance. We should make the best use and grind out all the experience we can get.”
“Very true.” Sky nodded.
Missy looked between the two of them curiously. Before announcing our decision “Let’s go!”
“I thought you were too tired.” Ajax teased and playfully hit her.
“It’s just a game. I can’t really get tired; it was just mentally exhausting. I will admit I have a bit of anger to take out on these guys.” Missy opened the door to four worried looking men.
One of them spoke up “you da girls with da boss last night? Damn fine. Maybe the boss’ll give me around when he’s done.”
Ajax ducked behind the door realizing that the girls might be mistaken for welcome guests, but he doubted he would be.
“Shad’up you ugly toad. Were are here about Harper. He’s dead now. Wha’ are we going to eat.”
Missy’s face twitched, but she stepped out of the way, trying to keep her face polite. It was clearly a struggle for her not to yell at these fools. “Come in, I’ll bring you to the boss.” As soon as they passed her, the sword on her back sprung free and cleaved a head off.
Ajax jumped out and shot two before they even realized he was there. The last one was quick and was already halfway out the door when Sky, holding an arrow, thrust it into his chest. Looking at the dead bodies, Ajax could only sigh for their stupidity. “I guess they know the chef is dead now. Seems like we get to kill our way out.”
Moving along the house and into the dorms, Ajax killed every bandit they saw. One quick shot to the head or neck put these guys down. It really seemed like the fodder monsters were quite easy if you could hit them with a critical.
All in all, it was a slaughter. They picked up plenty of other items to sell and another 20 gold each. They came out of this with 58 gold each and likely another 10 or so gold in goods.
As they walked out of the blood soaked camp Ajax pulled up his character menu to see how he’d done.
Name: Ajax
Level: 12
Health: 280/280
Energy: 260/260
Mana: 370/370
Strength: 22
Agility: 21
Fortitude: 24
Stamina: 26
Wisdom: 37
Intelligence: 68
Charisma: 15
Skills >
Sprint 2
Power Strike 2
Arcane Bullet 5
Meditation 4
Axe Mastery 1
Dual Casting 3
Arcane Shield 3
Slow 1
Ajax was quite happy with himself, and he had another thirty points to play with. Looking over his stats, his intelligence was probably much higher than most for his level. However, he noted that he could two-shot himself with Arcane Bullet. He was a glass cannon at present. He wasn’t sure if he should dump them all back into intelligence, or if he should spread them out over stamina and wisdom to increase this health and mana pool.
Looking at Missy and Sky behind his menu, he thought as long as he had them he wouldn’t be alone for a while, and he’d have someone between the monsters and him. He did, however, need more mana and regeneration. He dumped half in wisdom and a half in intelligence promising himself he’d have to start joining Missy on some of her runs.
The three walked back, and Ajax started trying to pull off simple spells on the gear they planned to sell. They were just simple enchants that provided minor increases to armor or durability. He only destroyed the first two before getting the hang of it and in the end, he finished making three in the two-hour walk back to the caravan.
“Girls, do you mind if I keep some of the lower level items to practice enchanting on?” Ajax asked.
Missy’s eyes had gold coins in them since they left the raids camp. She pouted for a second before smiling “Sure no problem, we’ll take them out of your cut.”
Sky smiled “Yes, and then when you sell them for more than we sold them to you, feel free to take the extra profit.” Her jab had the desired effect, and Missy pouted. It only lasted for a second before another thought seemed to occur.
“Hey, Ajax, have you heard that there is a currency exchange in the game?”
“The different areas have different currencies?” Ajax thought that would be a headache.
“No, an exchange between real life cash and game gold.” Missy got close like she was a little girl waiting to be praised.
“Oh, well those exist in most games, I guess it would here too.” Ajax seemed to deflate after a moment of thought. Those systems were usually very lopsided in trade ratio. Often a thousand or ten thousand gold could only buy one dollar. Another thought occurred to Ajax. There would be players, especially those pampered brats from the megacorps, who’d spend money like it was a pay to win game. He realized that Richard would be among that group.
Missy’s face fell with his like she knew what he had hoped and lost in that short moment.
Sky, however, started flicking her fingers in the air. “The current exchange rate is twenty dollars to one gold.”
“What!” The other two exclaimed together.
“If I had to guess it’s to buffer the influx of initial players buying large amounts of gold and flooding the system. My AI says that you can only make exchanges at banks in the city. That means the rates will be steady until people get to a major city.” Sky was reading some display invisible to Ajax.
“Does that mean if we get to a city first, we can make an exchange at those rates?” Ajax’s hope returned. If he exchanged fifty gold for a thousand dollars he’d be over the moon.
“Possibly. Systems like this are pretty variable at first. If the group of people that make the first move either want to buy or sell in large quantities, it will definitely make things fluctuate. However, we all know in the end it will be a very expensive exchange to convert to USD.” Sky seemed familiar with the concept. She continued “I’ve seen it on a few games. Usually it wobbles quite a bit at first, then settles into a quick decline that slowly smooths out. But every time higher levels and more gold come out it keeps going down.”
It made perfect sense, and Ajax had seen some of the latter parts of that trend, he’d just never paid much attention to the exchange rates early on in a game when he didn’t have much to contribute. Plus, games were usually expensive right out of the gate, so he’d wait to buy it when it came up for sale.
Finally breaking from the tree line Ajax and the girls could see the plain where they had left the caravan. The copse of trees where he’d been on watch just last night was there, but there was no caravan. A few scraps and mounds of fresh dirt were all that they had left before moving on.
“It hasn’t even been a day,” Ajax said in disbelief.
Missy shot him a confused look. That Sky answered for him.
“They left us. Which way is Tyren?”
CHAPTER 29
Ajax set up his tent so they could all sleep in his personal space, but he needed a minute, and gave the girls a crappy excuse for some time alone.
There were so many emotions swirling in Ajax’s mind. The betrayal of the caravan leaving them behind was fresh and frustrating. It wasn’t all that bad; he knew at some level he’d been expecting it. They would be able to catch up to the caravan. Maybe he’d get some revenge and keep the summoning book; that’d show them.
Somewhere in his mind, he knew that wasn’t what was really bothering him. There was a tension that hadn’t left when they saved Missy. She’d been taken from him and he worried about all the things that Richard had been doing to her. When she seemed whole he was relieved, but the tension still lingered. Like the possib
ility of her being taken hadn’t been there before, and the fear of it happening again was an open wound that he wasn’t entirely sure would go away.
The damage that Richard had likely done was more emotional than physical, and the most frustrating part was that he wouldn’t be held responsible in the real world. But here, Ajax could exact revenge.
He unclenched his fists, which were bone white from his anger. He’d never been this angry before. He couldn’t have imagined he’d be this angry on Missy’s behalf. Was he falling for her? He found her attractive. He was quite literally living out a fantasy he’d had before. But it was getting different, deeper, more real?
He didn’t know what this was with Missy, and needed to calm down before rejoining the girls. He sat down and started his meditation spell. He took a deep breath in, then out, trying to expel his conflict. In. Out with all his nerves and anger. In. Out with his expectations.
He felt better. He’d been reading the spell details and some of the meditation techniques were really helpful.
Ding.
He checked his character sheet and his meditation spell had leveled up again. He put a smile on and stood.
Ajax returned to his personal space. There was nothing he could do now about the caravan abandoning them. But he could do something about his feelings with Missy.
As Ajax stepped through, he found it was pretty simple to forget about those frustrations.
Missy’s ass was waving in the air as her head bobbed between Sky’s legs. Her pink slit moist and ready for him.
“Mmmhmm, yes you are a naughty damsel. We saved you so re-” She gasped at something Missy started doing. She grabbed Missy’s hair and pushed her against her pelvis as she met Ajax’s eyes.
He wanted to dive into Missy and join this, but when he went to step forward, already starting to unbutton his pants, Sky shook her finger at him.
“What are you going to do Missy? When Ajax walks in on you rewarding me.” Sky said. Missy paused before shifting her head up and bobbing faster.
“E- ger, I see. He is too.” Sky was holding her head in place grinding herself against Missy as her moans ratcheted up higher until she shook and laid still with a glazed look of pleasure.
Missy turned away from the puddling Sky to Ajax. Her eyes meeting his before trailing down to the tent that had formed in his pants, struggling to break free of the fabric.
For his part, he was still frozen from Sky’s previous motion for him to hold. Now seeing Missy eye him like that, he was more than ready for his turn.
She crawled over slowly and started taking off Ajax’s clothes, replacing them with tinder kisses along his legs at first then moving to his chest. She slowed down with each kiss, teasing as she headed for the final prize of his lips.
He lost his patience and pulled her up, pressing her soft lips to his as he started to explore her mouth with his tongue.
Her breath was steamy, and she tasted of Sky.
Reminded of the third member in this, Ajax pulled Sky to her feet and kissed her. She held her lips tight and didn’t let him explore. But she did pull his lower lip in and nibble it before pushig a hand on his chest to break the kiss.
“Down boy, you don’t get me this time. I think our girl needs some of your attention.” She got up on shaky legs. Then sauntered off, shaking her hips for him.
Missy pulled him back to her kiss; she seemed eager to get him to look away from Sky. Was there jealousy in that action? He stopped questioning as her kisses turned hungry and started back down his chest.
She found her way back down to his thighs as she planted soft kissed in just about everywhere but his throbbing member. Every time she nuzzled it out of the way, it drove him mad. He just wanted to pull her head back and thrust it deep down her throat.
He could feel her hot breath as another kiss brushed right by it.
That was it. Ajax pulled her up and tossed her on the bed.
She landed with a happy squeal and opened her arms for him to join her.
He pressed himself on top of her and gave her a few gentle kisses before trailing down and giving her nipples some attention.
“Come back, I want you in me.” Missy was playing with his hard cock while starting to stroke herself.
Ajax, however, had other plans. He continued south after he had given both breasts his attention. Kissing his path down to her pink flower. “Rose” he groaned. All he wanted was to push himself deep in her, but he wanted to make this for her, not him.
“No,” Missy said barely above a whisper, but her hands were still dragging his head further down.
Kissing the pink bud, he parted her petals and dove his tongue in to sample her nectar.
She tasted sweet and earthy. Something like he’d expect from his Rose.
He pushed her flower open with his tongue and sucked on her folds as he explored for a sensitive spot.
While he was exploring her folds, she started grinding his tough deeper. He could feel her try to hold him still. Her thighs pressed in an attempt to keep him on that spot.
He worked his tongue in the area and moved his nose to her exposed pearl as she started to gyrate against it. He moved his head in tune with his tongue. Swirling her clit with his nose.
“Oh, damn. You are gooood.” Missy’s hand started pawing his scalp in encouragement. Her thighs relaxing a bit to give him room to work.
Ajax doubled his pace, keeping both areas well attended to.
She hadn’t cum yet but she pulled him back. “In me. Now. I want to cum around your cock.”
He wouldn’t argue with that. There was a deep pleasure in pleasuring someone else, but the mutual pleasure was almost always better. He sat up, thrusting deep into her wet and needy hole.
She was beyond ready, her body wrapping tightly around him and welcoming him entirely until their thighs met. “Yes, harder,” she begged, voice moaning in pleasure.
He set his knees and thrusted again, enjoying her warmth enveloping his cock.
She had been on the edge before. That was all it took as she shuddered digging her fingers into his neck as her flower clamped down and sucked on his cock.
Ajax stopped for a moment to enjoy it, careful not to overstimulate her at the moment.
“Slowly.” Missy’s voice was soft and her hips echoed her words in a slow grind against his crotch. Her body had relaxed and she wanted more.
Ajax kissed her neck as he gently worked her back into it. He still had plenty of stamina left, and he was still throbbing, begging for a release. If anything, it was a strain on him to keep from sprinting to the finish line.
She turned her head and caught his lips, their tongues swirling. Pulling his hands up to cup her breasts, her lips became hungrier and she held him in place with arms wrapped around his neck.
He stopped thrusting as they made out, his hands obediently teasing her nipples until they became small beads between his fingers. He was surprised when she pushed him back. He pulled out as she flipped over onto her hands and knees.
“Hard. I want it rough.” She looked over her shoulder with a sultry gaze.
Ajax didn’t hesitate and slipped up behind her, grabbing her hips and pushing himself as deep as he could. Grunting, he slapped his flesh to hers. He went hard, increasing his speed. One hand still on her hips, he wrapped his other in her hair pulling her head and body up hitting a tighter angle.
Missy reached behind her and hung onto his shoulder as her body rippled each time he pounded her. “Ajax, oh harder, split me in tw-o” her voice raising an octave with a particularly violent jerk of her hips. “Cum in me, fill me.”
Ajax wanted to hold it in, but he could feel the tension in his balls building to a crescendo. He could hold it still for a few more moments and enjoy Missy’s pleasure a bit longer.
Missy shuddered, and he could feel her clench around his cock. Her walls quivered and pulled him deeper, willing his seed out.
He could feel her pull him over the edge, as her womb sucked him in
to bliss and he felt himself dump his cum deep inside of her.
She twisted and pushed Ajax down on his back, coming to lay with him.
“You were amazing dear,” Missy said her eyes lidded in pleasure. She ran her hands over him claiming each inch with soft caresses.
Ajax was still panting from his final sprint and settled with a grunt. In his head, he was coming back to question why. Why was she was happy to be with him; they hadn’t known each other that long. Ajax couldn’t help but question it, and his thoughts slipped out “Why me?”
“Huh?” Missy stopped where she was twirling his hair into a clump. “Why you?”
Embarrassed, there was no going back at this point. “Why me, I guess we barely know each other. I mean it’s been less than a day outside LR and we are already having sex. It’s just fast and well…”