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Lex stared into the grey-eyes littered with green and blue pebbles. The black hair danced with the soft silk breeze. Her lips spread out into a knowing grin and her arms shifted underneath the black sheets.

Yet, the visage felt odd to him. It wasn't that he didn't feel like he was existing. Nor was it that she was just unattractive or that his mind had slipped away with Autumn's seductive touch. No, it was that she gripped his balls incredibly tightly.

Maybe it was her first time fumbling someone's balls but it wasn't quite where it should be. It was a death grip, choke hold. Had she made a demand he would have squealed out yes, yes.

Lex gently loosen her gripped and moved her onto her back, sneaking a glance at the clock. Thirty minutes after six. It should be a good time to go hunting and try out some ideas he thought of.

However, Kathy's eyes said differently. Her legs spread out like a prayer mat, her fingers guided his dick inside that deep crevice.

Lex pondered for a second before shrugging, adjusting his posture to give her exactly what she wanted. Or what he felt she wanted by the very heavy-handed pushes and shoves. Definitely when she got on her knees. When she wanted you to just sprint like you had iron lungs, her ass shot up and her torso was parallel to the bed with her hands on her head. If she wanted you to slow down, she would throw her wobbly ass back. Either way, it was a delight sleeping with someone so pale that her pussy and ass was bright pink.

****

Lex stepped out of the shower in workout shorts and black t-shirt. He felt very alive as he slapped on a belt to hold his machete. It slapped against his bare knee but it felt comfortable just being there.

Lex opened the door and like usual, the women's heads turned to him like he was in the movie when birds attacked. That slow, agonizing head turn as you try, oh so hard, to creep around them. He cracked a smile and walked to the front door.

"Damn! Tiger-man is sexy as hell!"

"Those green eyes already ruin my panties."

"You too."

"Did you see how he filled out that shirt?"

"I was still looking at the eyes."

"He can throw me around anytime as long as I get my two minutes of staring into those gems."

"I'll take it up the ass for five minutes."

"Nu-uh, you're going too far."

"Just let me ride him and I'll be willing to die the next second."

Lex laughed and opened the door, he walked out and tried to close it gently. Something blocked the door but he caught Summer's smell. He let go of the handle and she walked out with his thick trench coat.

Summer closed the door and pulled the coat even tighter. "I need to go with you for several reasons. The first is that I want to level but I don't have the confidence to face an enemy which is why I went healer. Secondly, my degree dealt with animation and so on."

Lex began walking down the stairs. "Speed it up, princess."

"In short, I think I can help develop new spells without the system interface. I just need to watch and record you." Summer chased after him.

Everytime that flap opened and the breeze caused her to shiver, he caught plenty of her scent. The distraction it caused was like someone cooking bacon but burning the bacon grease. That thick fragrant smell added with the weird pan burn just agitated you until you got that bacon in hand.

"They should have revived by now, no?" Lex asked as they walked down the pathway to the Ram truck.

"They should. It's seven hours but they also don't attack places they suffered significant losses multiple times in one day." Summer replied.

Lex nodded and opened the door of the truck. The mana key formed much faster and almost didn't feel like he had to force it to do as he wanted. Which reminded him to check out his Stat panel. He revved up the engine, trying to remove the frost that took a nap on the hood and windshield.

Summer turned the heat up, all the way up. "So do you have a target for tonight or just random hunting?"

Lex opened his stats panel and saw a huge improvement. Ignoring he was level ten but just the strength and agility hit mid twenties. His intellect moved up to twenty-seven but wisdom had the biggest growth, standing at thirty-nine. One ninety-five mana couldn't be anymore impressive.

"Other than hunting, no? I'm just going to wing it. Do you need me to stop by a store for you to pick out your recording equipment?" Lex turned down the heat a little.

Summer pulled off the coat and folded it. "Yes, please. Also accept the party invite."

Lex grumbled about wasting his xp but he still accepted the invite. At the same time, he dove into his talent tree and saw a bunch of elements under large letters, Evocation. He already dealt with fire and the spells look interesting to him but like Summer he wanted to develop his own spells.

"Are you looking at your talent tree? Check out the Fire Shaper tree to the left of the regular spells. Unlike the main tree which is spells and passive twos to five int and wis buffs. Fire shaper offers you more versatility and affinity points which is stronger in my opinion than the generic spells." Summer turned to him in her seat, her left leg resting under her right as her back leaned against the door.

Lex looked at it and the five points he had all went into it. He closed the talent panel and felt a weird rush of heat spread throughout his body. Starting from the core at his stomach and reaching behind his eyes.

Summer turned down the heat to the lowest setting. "You are emitting heat stronger than the car. Plus your eyes are super bright right now."

Lex grunted and threw the truck in reverse, guiding the truck out onto the street and back to the main shopping center.

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"Do you know that your spells feel more compact and stable versus the system spell now?" Summer pointed at the bright trails of red that led from Lex's fingers to cauterized holes in orcs heads.

"Maybe because I'm not focusing on maintaining a shape but just condensing it in a more comfortable way." Lex pulled onto the sidewalk of a computer store.

Summer cast her shield before getting out, sighing at the warmth she felt even standing in Autumn's presence. "Why don't you try a hand next time? They offer versatility with gripping and pushing."

Lex shrugged and pointed at the store. "It's clear. Why don't you grab what you need. I'm saying hello to a few guests I sense."

He quickly walked off. A smile tugged at his lips as a bright flaming spear appeared in his hand. He arched back and tossed it straight through a brick wall.

An Orc squeal echoed out of the building, right before Lex stepped in. His eyes caught the movement of orcs fleeing but fiery arrows curve past the doorways and slammed into their backs. A bright yellow ball floated over his head, illuminating broken shelves and dark blood stains decorating the floor.

His footsteps echo in the building while his enemy waits in silence, gripping their weapons for that perfect ambush.

Sadly, all they received was a spear tip punching through walls, cabinets, doors, and stalls. He had yet to meet a challenge which made him wonder why this invasion even happened. Yes, it killed those who couldn't even move their minds into a self-defense mindset. But they were going to die if humans invaded just the same.

Lex walked out the building and targeted the next one. This time he tossed a beach ball size fireball inside and shield up as front entrances exploded outward.

He walked through it with his spear pointed to the side. A crooked smile on his lips but his eyes widened. A bright blue bolt slammed into his shield, sending him smashing into a baby blue sedan.

An Orc in robe walked out of the building with a blue shield shimmering around him. It raised its hand and four lightning bolts jumped forward like a beast's claw.

Lex flipped backwards and launched the spear in his hand. His other hand sent out swirling arrows that drilled into the orc shield. Sending ripples across the surface that widen the eyes of a grinning wizard. Lex punched out a brilliant red fist which shot forward like a rocket. Breaking through the enemy's shield and lifting it off it's feet by its head. Dropping it right down on a broken pipe.

"Don't fuck with me!" Lex roared and slapped his chest.

He took one step onto the curb when a big motherficker shoulder tackled him. Sending him flipping head over heel right into the side of a building. Like a boxer that caught a good hook, his head was filled with unicorns and rainbows. Shaking his head and rubbing it did nothing to relieve the pain he was going through.

A white light covered him just as a foot tried to implant him into the wall. He quickly rolled out of the way, bringing up his machete.

The huge ass orc swung it's hand backwards, sweeping up the trash and bringing fierce winds.

Lex brought up his machete and palm the wide blade. His arms tensed and veins marked his skin as he took the backhand head on.

"Yeah, it just happened."

The hulk stopped and looked at its arm which didn't swat the fly. It clenched its fist and turned around.

Lex snarled and launched forward, ducking under an incoming jab. His machete swept up, slicing right through the front of the elbow. Big boy kicked out, but Lex spun around the huge foot. Red blade cut right knee muscles. With the fury of an active volcano that got woken up after a killer hangover, he decimated the bulky orc. Teaching it that muscles weren't all that but a blend of legs and chest made the day.

The orc held its throat, it's eyes glared at Lex who bounced off a wall and landed a few feet away. It struggled to put its knee under it, or to ease just a little closer to end the fly. Yet, even it's huge hand couldn't stop the fountain from leaking. The bubbly red that seeped out its mouth or the dark wine that was tipped over without the stopper.

Lez turned away from the easy kill and stumbled towards the truck. He finally noticed that Summer came out in shorts and one of his white shirts. If she didn't have long brown hair, he would have sworn she was a boy. Breasts were definitely a factor. Almost made him crave chicken.

Summer glanced at him as he crawled into the truck. She cast a heal and he sighed, releasing his side.

"What did you learn?" Summer went back to drilling screws into a plate on the door handle.

"That having a healer is awesome?"

"That just because the enemy looks easy doesn't mean they aren't baiting you." Summer gave the plate a tug and attached a camera to it.

She moved swiftly to set up two stationary cameras. She climbed in and shut her door before opening up a laptop. Her small hands danced across the keys and her eyes seemed focused.

Lex pulled away from the store and slowly cruised down the strip. He didn't get out this time and just bombarded the stores with four huge fists. Whenever a hulking tank appeared, he would drop it with several well placed spears to the face. When wizards appeared, he surrounded them with a fire storm and drilled them with spiraling arrows. He gave them absolutely no chance to knock him around like before.

"Why didn't you try making fire bullets as a gun lover?" Summer looked up from her script.

"I don't know. Maybe I saw swords and shit and my mind just went there." Lex turned down a residential area to spot a blonde running at them.

Seven orcs were on her ass, when they spotted the truck. They lifted their crossbows and fired at the girl, then the truck.

A thick transparent white barrier appeared behind the girl, blocking the bolts. Fire arrows pierce right through the orcs face.

The blonde lady slammed into the truck and scooted around. She only looked back upon reaching the passenger door and the relief took her legs out.

"Why don't you try making a sword as your signature attack or angels?" Summer rolled down the window but looked at Lex.

Lex tilted his head and focused on making an angel but didn't get past the upper torso and wings. So he changed it to tigers and even though the drain was huge, he could effortlessly hold five with his mana recovery.

He sent them to hunt down the orcs still searching houses.

Summer looks down at the women with a pink nose and plenty of tears. "Why don't you come in, instead of sitting in the cold?"

That snapped the woman out of her dreamland. She stood up and fumbled with stiff fingers, finally getting the door open and crawling in. Summer closed the door with her spiritual energy and rolled up the window. The poor woman shook her hands that were rapidly thawing. The prickly pain made her bounce on the seat but she kept waving them as if that would divert the pain.

"I'm Summer and this is Lex. You are?" Summer tucked her chin and went back to typing.

"I'm Arlene and thanks for saving me." The woman rubbed her nose on the sleeve of her jacket.

"No problem." Lex replied.

The truck continued down the road, the tigers running along the side. Every now and then they would split off and screams would rise up in the night.

"Are you recovering mana with them like that?" Summer asked.

"Almost eighty percent recovered."

"So what are we going to do with her?"

"I don't know. Maybe drop her off at the military base?"

"Can't I stay with you?" Arlene spoked up from the backseat.

"We have about twenty-nine women and four kids. We don't really need another mouth to feed at the moment." Summer shook her head.

"I'm a level eight wizard."

"Why didn't you fight back then?"

"I ran out of mana. You saw how many were there. There was even more in the back. They just came out of the woods all silent like. Taking many of us by surprise."

Lex stopped as a woman ran over with two kids. She practically threw the door open and her kids in. The reasons became obvious when the orc wizard walked out in red robes, fluttering like he was the shit.

Lex hit him with a titan fist and watched as the tigers slammed into the shield. The orc kept blasting the tigers away but they were made of fire and it was using a fireball. The titan hands ninth punch crumbled the shields and the tigers caught the orc in mid run. Tearing into him even more vicious than they would a deer.

"Oh lord, thanks." The woman grabbed Lex's shoulder.

"No problem." Lex angled the truck towards the military outpost.

"I hit level ten. I'm going with Light shaper tree as well." Summer stopped typing to play around with a globe of light, transforming it from ball to a bird, a fish, then a rose.

"Let's hope you can still heal." Lex watched an Orc run across the road with his head turned back.

The fool ran right into a prius and crushed it but that allowed the tigers to catch up. His death wasn't swift at all.

"You have a very evil personality." Summer comment after watching the tigers play with their kill.

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Lex turned to her with an innocent expression. "No way."

"I agree." The mother in the back, replied.

"Bah! I'm not doing it on purpose!" Lex slowed down as another group of people came running out of their homes.

"Hop on the back." Lex threw a thumb back.

"But it's cold."

"But I'm a Fire wizard like Harry Potter."

"Harry didn't use magic though." A kid in the backseat retorted.

"I was just letting him know what magic was." Lex glanced back at the girl who sat wide-eyed.

"I'm sure you were. Just picked the most useless wizard in wizard history." The girl shrugged with her hands out.

One of the men hit the roof and Lex continued the journey to the military outpost.

"Okay, who would be a better wizard?"

"No idea. I hardly watched movies but I do read books and can think of several. It's just that I doubt you would know who they are." The girl's voice sounded oddly mocking.

"Okay, fair enough. But am I stronger than them?"

"Sure, when you can level a city to the ground with a single spell."

"Well ancient cities were entirely smaller than our cities now. Towns would be considered capital cities in a fantasy novel. So I could possibly sweep through a city." Lex looked at the long line and pulled in.

"Yeah, but it would take you a day and night with your tigers and way of killing."

Lex laughed and turned to a soldier who walked over. "Evening comrade."

The soldier looked into the truck and sighed. "Here for a drop off or staying yourself?"

"Just a drop off."

"Then pull up to that building there. They can wait for the bus to take them into the camp after registration." The soldier pointed ahead.

Lex nodded and drove to the right of the line. Easing past the road barriers made the whole thing a tiresome journey of curvy.

"Hey mister, can't me and my mom stay with you? She is a great cook and I'm very quiet." The girl grabbed his arm.

Her mother quickly pulled her back. "Stop! He did enough to help us."

"But the military isn't better for women than an orc camp." She argued back.

Lex stopped before the building and the people in the back got off. Arlene looked very reluctant but she eventually got out. As for the mother, the little girl was crying and trying hard to stop her mother.

"Sigh, why do I have such a soft heart?" Lex mumbled and turned around. "Fine, you can stay but if you throw a tantrum. I have to make you study during the end of the world."

The girl instantly stopped struggling and the boy looked at her like girls could get away with anything.

The mother, on the other hand, climbed back in faster than a tiger could pounce.

"Thank you."

Lex just waved his hand and returned. "Where should we hunt now?"

"Maybe go to a store that sells air mattresses?" Summer rubbed her fingers.

"Remind me when we are about to turn in." Lex drove north of the outpost instead of south.

Summer laughed. "You might not know but healer spells are a little different from wizards spells. What we are using can be considered tier-zero true spell because it contains runes."

Lex slowed down and looked at the laptop to see many lines that were like Chinese characters.

"I have been breaking down the main points for the spells and discovered that we can create a ward but it lasts as long as the mana input." Summer scroll down to some runes that merge into what look like engravings meant to make a building edge look better.

"I see."

"It's not great and I'm still contemplating on how this might benefit you but it means I don't have to put points into spells and can just copy the runes." Summer excitement lowered. "Oh, there is an undead dungeon about a mile away. You should see it since it's sitting in a shopping center for Walmart and Home depot parking lots."

Lex nodded and sped up, using titans hands to brush aside cars. There was indeed an arched gate with spiraling purple mist inside. Several cars set in a horseshoe around it. Little stalls held all kinds of crap and people crowded about but not directly in front of the gate.

Lex pulled up and parked in the middle. "So want to go to the two of us or look for a party?"

Summer's head lifted but didn't turn. "We can gather a team. Xp gains are high and we can do it five times a day. It's ten so that's two hours and it takes the fastest team twenty-nine minutes."

"Does it drop gear?" Lex glanced back at the family who was staring at the crowd.

"Yes and currency which they are using to trade." Summer opened the door and stepped out. She walked to the front of the hood and began inscribing stuff with her finger.

"So you can come to the front seat if you want. Don't open the door and you should be fine. Summer is making some kind of ward which means as long as you stay in the truck until we get back. You won't be hurt." Lex stepped out of the truck.

The mother nodded and Lex followed her to the portal. They barely walked through the crowd when a lady ran up to them.

"You guys are new?" A red head woman spoke hurriedly.

"Yeah, we are. Light wizard and Fire wizard." Summer smiled.

"I'm Isabella and I have two tanks plus I'm a healer but we need dps. Are you interested?"

"Sure."

Isabella broke into a smile and sent a party invite. Then quickly led towards a waiting area. Two ginger twins stood with a kite shield and longswords that look odd on their short form.

"I found two dps. Let's go in and quickly." Isabella pointed at Lex and Summer.

The two guys looked over Lex but quickly glanced away. "Fine. Let's go."

"You three are siblings?" Summer bumped Lex's arm who was starting to emit heat in his excitement.

"Yeah, we are. They are Brandon and Brendan." Isabella pointed at each one but the only difference was the color watch on their wrist.

Sadly, they stepped through the portal and appeared in a red desert. Many skeletons were spaced out and even skeleton beasts. Beyond that was a castle that looked really difficult to breach with its towering walls and sky high watcher towers.

"Aimed for their glowing eyes. They also dropped a crystal used in alchemy." Summer explained while firing off white arrows that left unstable trails which quickly faded.

Her arrows bounced off the bridge of the nose or ridge of the eyebrows.

Lex glanced at her before launching six arrows that accurately took down the skeletons and blocked the incoming arrow.

"So they are in a standard party except for the mage and healer? Two tanks, two rogues, and an archer?" Lex waved his hand to collect the loot.

Several white crystals shaped like a dagger with two side points and flat sides in the middle. The mana inside felt pure and emitted an attractive force to Lex.

Lex raised an eyebrow and made a backpack that moved like silk from the red sand. He placed the crystals inside and looked at the tanks who were scratching their heads.

"Should we pull it all?" Brandon with the purple watch, gestured at wasteland.

Summer nodded and began walking, her legs stepping high to clear the loose sand. She fired off light arrows and her aim slowly adjusted. Yet, Lex cleaned up the ones she missed.

"Well, I guess they could have done this solo."

"You think?"

"I mean, it explains why others went with more mages."

"Wondered why he brought a machete though?"

"What if he runs out of mana? Have to defend himself somehow."

Summer quickly mastered the arrow spell and they split up. Lex just snapped his fingers, blowing up the skulls after a certain point. His fire affinity has reached an astonishing eighty-eight percent.

They grouped back up a few yards away from the front gate with Summer dragging a heavy bag over.

"All the loot." Summer dropped onto the ground.

Lex opened the bag and began separating it by importance to him. The crystals were enough said. The coins were decent but it only spat out copper coins. No silver or gold. There were two books which had runes and spoke about basic enchantments. Lex waved his hand and they all floated into carts behind him.

"Wait, that's cheating?!" Summer looked at the cart filled with small boxes carried by a dark red Buffalo that emitted heat enough to cause everybody to sweat.

"No, using your brain isn't cheating. It's called having competence." Lex flipped through a book on alchemy which stated that true enchantments were a mixture of runes and ink forges through alchemical means.

"Fine. I give you credit." Summer crossed her legs and closed her eyes. "Give me a few minutes."

"Um, meditating doesn't recover mana any faster than standing around." Isabella pointed out.

Lex pointed at the small runes forming tiny circles around Summer. "She isn't just meditating but bringing in a denser amount of light mana. Definitely since my spell is emitting a lot of light for its size."

"You guys are like super geniuses, huh?" Brendan leaned on his shield.

"Yep, that is it. Casual display of using an ounce of intelligence to onlookers is a rare spark of ingenuity." Lex stretched out his hands and formed a dark red bow. He pulled back the bow's string, conjuring a red arrow that flew off faster than a jet. It grew in size before colliding with the gate.

"He just called us, dumbasses."

The gate blasted backwards, sending rubble crushing whatever behind. The skeletons on the wall drifted closer but looked lost at what to do. The archers in the tower released arrows that blanket the red sky to answer their silent question.

"Can you cast a shield?" Lex turned to Isabella.

She nodded and white runes formed a circle around her palm, a glowing white dome appeared over the group.

Summer stood up and looked at the shield. "Group shield? It's not very stable. The mana isn't properly spread but it's stable enough."

Lex shrugged and began bombarding the towers with the same spell. Smiling at the rubble that crushed the skeletons on the wall.

"Something is wrong with your psyche." Summer reinforced the dome as it showed signs of cracking under the bombardment of rubble and arrows.

"Like what?"

"You are enjoying this too much."

"So?"

"Something is not right about you."

"You want me to be like them during the end of the world?" Lex gestured backwards at the twins holding their shields looking somewhat bored.

Summer sighed. "No, I'm just trying to profile your elemental affinities. I think you should only focus on dark elements such as shadow, wind, death, and maybe a life element."

"Oh, okay. Why not earth, light, lightning, and metal?"

"Well metal doesn't allow you to control external metal. Earth could work as a third-party just to build things like you are doing. Lightning is strong offensively but it is developed around one aspect and hard to control at that. Light is well.. good. You.." Summer waved at the destroyed front entrances.

Lex gave a small snort and turned to the tanks. "After you?"

The two tanks blinked and moved forward robotically. The moment they crossed the gate, an armed knight slammed right into their unguarded front. Had Summer and Lex not managed to get a shield off, they might have died from its sweeping axe. Instead of being knocked on their ass by the impact.

"Maybe we need a new team?" Lex suggested.

"You could have warned them." Summer formed a white spear which slammed into the armored knight shoulder, ruining its follow up swing.

"I can't help it. I'm used to real killers." Lex removed his sword and rushed in.

The twins jumped to their feet and a soft blue glow covered their shield as they braced themselves for the next swing.

Lex gilded passed them, swinging out his sword which shot out a red crescent beam. The beam slammed into the axe from underneath, knocking it up. He quickly sent arrows rocketing towards the knight's eyes but it turned its helmet, blocking the attack.

Another crescent beam cut into the right armpit of the armor and a white javelin slammed into the left shoulder of the knight. The knight took a step back and caught several spiraling arrows to the exposed knee joint.

"Three javelins incoming!"

Lex jumped to the side, swinging his machete toward the neck of the armored knight.

The javelin slammed on the axe's handle knocking it off tilted yet again. The knight brought up his ruined shoulder to block the red beam, losing a piece of armor.

"Being a front line fighter, sure is easy." Lex sent two beams in the form of an X as he back stepped from the glowing red eyes of the knight.

Three more javelins slammed into the knight's axe's face. It turned its attention to the two closest but also weakest.

"Might want to step back. Sub-boss is going berserk." Summer suggested.

Lex launched more crescent beams while circling the knight. He watched with amusement as the twins backstop but turned out to be slower than a knight in charge. Their shields were sent upward and their bodies tilted backwards. The knight just used its damaged shoulder and hadn't even swung it's axe.

Even with their sister's frantic shield casting, they might not be able to survive the black glow that formed on the axe edge.

Summer javelin came in at the crucial time, diverting the axe. The other two created a dent in the chest armor. Lex's spiraling arrows slammed into the neck joint one after another.

"Maybe you are right but the xp is really good. I'm now seventeen." Summer leaned against the cart as she recovered from the mana usage.

Lex picked up the loot from the fallen knight. He swung the drop axe around with supreme expertise. The whooshing sound of the blade slicing through the air left a menacing touch with the drifting red petals.

"How are you so good at melee?" Brandon walked over with an apologetic frown.

"I work in Security." Lex replied while sorting loot.

The boss dropped one real good loot to him which was the blacksmithing book. The scepter tasted like burnt flesh and decayed bodies. The rest was just copper and silver which he tossed in a crate.

Summer let out a deep breath. "First, don't come into a place with your life on the line all gooey-eyed at better teammates."

"Secondly, don't take attacks head on just because your ability enhances your ability to block. Off to the side of the shield but never directly on." Lex added.

"Thirdly, when a boss's eyes glow and you have shit ability, move out the way. Use obstacles to break line of sight. Tons of boulders around." Summer continued.

"Fourth, your cleave can be used to parry or deflect. You don't need to stand right beside each other. To the left and right to make it split its target and hold back its strength." Lex picked his nail while holding back laughter.

"Fifth, you have buffs but didn't drop a single one. Are you waiting for your brothers to die before remembering your spells? Do you need to write them down or something?" Summer turned on Isabella.

Lex started walking into the gate, leaving the twins glowing like fireflies. He whistled loudly the dora explorer theme song while moving aside rubble for the Buffalo. The others followed with drooped shoulders and pondering looks.

They strolled through the castle front entrances and found themselves facing more knights plus the former crew of archers, rogues and swordsmen.

Lex gave the axe a spin in his hand. He shot forward with fire spilling out of him. Before he reached the first one, he spun around like a top and the flames formed a tornado with him at the center. Enveloping those not in the direct path in fiery-red flames and knocking around those that couldn't get out of the way.

Summer cast a dome with one hand and fired arrows after arrows with the other. The twins stood in front of their sisters looking around for any potential target.

"Do you think they were gamers?"

"I don't see you casting buffs?" Summer shouted.

Isabella blushed and formed three layer buffs for her brothers. They stepped forward just in time to receive spear attacks from two knights. They took three steps back and hastily blocked the next strike which forced them to be on level with Summer and Isabella.

"Are you stupid? Didn't he just say don't take direct hits?" Summer cursed.

Lex's fire storm died off in the middle of the mob. He released the axe before his revolutions weakened and switched to his machete. He formed a dark red kite shield with his free hand and caught the sound of a column collapsing towards the group.

"Oof." He winced as it just missed them but he didn't stop slaying.

Crescent beams sliced regular skeletons in half and the knights ended up duking it out. Blocking any other from getting close to fire a shot but not making any progress breaking his defense, themselves.

"Summer! Buffs please!" Lex machete formed an illusion of two strikes that broke through the neck guard of a knight, sending the helmet flying.

Summer buffs form a lot slower but the glow was much brighter than what Isabella put out.

"Archers dead. I'm on defense. The tanks are retards." Summer sent arrows that turned a fatal attack into minor injury.

Isabella worked at healing the more crippling injuries.

"How many knights left?" Lex shouted over the collisions of metal on metal and the crunching bone sounds.

"Just the four you have and two these idiots are playing with." Summer replied.

Lex slipped to the left, making the enemy offensive line have to readjust. He quickly laid down attacks that opened up the spear knight. Ripping his helmet off just in time to greet the next three.

"You guys still can't follow directions. What made you think you can risk your lives with these skills?" Summer shouted in frustration.

Lex blasted out a fireball that pushed the knights several steps back and soared towards the closest knight. Crescent beam sliced through the skull of a knight from the chin. A javelin took another away before the last corrected itself.

Yet, alone, it couldn't keep up with Lex's aggressive style. It was crushed soon after and Lex collected loot while adding free points to his stats. Just hitting twenty-one was enough for a new class pick but he had a full list of options with four next page buttons.

He added talent points into the shadow and wind tree, raising his affinity by taking the passives. Then he went back and looked at his list. First was Flame Sorcery and gave no information. Next was Shadow-wind Assassin and third was Necromancer. He picked the assassin and saw that it was literally a series of videos he could open with talent points. Also passives that included increases to agility.

Lex rubbed his beard and glanced at the other two professions. They needed ten talent points and he didn't have it.

"Did you just pick a class or something? You moved so quickly." Summer squinted.

Lex shrugged and slashed out with his machete. A black crescent beam shot out and split a knight in half, it continued to land upon the barrier and caused cracks to appear.

"Drop the shield!" Summer pointed at the black webs spreading at a breakneck pace.

Isabella did as Summer instructed and the white barrier link crumbled.

Lex waved his hand and the black webs formed a sword and cut down the last before disappearing into Lex's hand.

"Oh, wow."

"Shouldn't that be our words?" Summer glanced down at the skeletons that crumbled into dirt unlike their pals who littered the floor.

"My basic spells changed after the class change. Also my fire tree turned grey but the affinity for my Shadow and Wind rose by a small amount." Lex collected the loot and placed everything in the back of the wagon to sort out.

"Oh, wow. Small amount is sixty-two percent? You started with a base of seventy-eight to begin with. For a total of hundred and forty. Is that fair?" Summer closed the stat panel.

"How are you seeing my stats?" Lex unsheaths a short blade that was black all over and felt like it would enhance his shadow magic.

"I'm labeled as a concubine in the system. My privilege is, I get to stalk my husband apparently." Summer grabbed a ring but dropped it just as fast. "Everything here is either death, shadow, or ordinary. What a damn shame!"

Lex played around on Summer screen and smiled at the fact he had a harem. Try to avoid it and it sneaks up on you.

"We apologize for being burdens. We thought it would be just like goblins and orcs." Isabella looked more at Summer than Lex.

Summer shrugged. "Don't worry about it."

Lex held up a black book that covered shadow spells up to tier two. His grin widened as he sat on the cart and read.

"So is he born superhuman or is he investing in some kind of mage-warrior?" Brendan wiped his forehead on his sleeve.

"Honestly, I have no idea. He saved a bunch of women and walked out in his draws to kill goblins the first day with his bare hands. Next day, he uses magic and a spear. But he's not the only one with crazy skills like that." Summer replied.

"I watched some videos but it's different seeing it in person."

"Yeah, I can't even time a cleave and you told me when to."

Summer laughed. "I'm a gamer but he's a professional killer. It's a huge difference between all of us that we won't be able to bridge by just breathing."

"I see that now. It's like wanting to be a challenger pro in the league but they have coaches making them better and you have Plat teammates and master level coaches." Brandon sighed.

"That would be a good analogy if he was a warrior but he's a wizard. We are paving the way as we move forward. You guys can literally pay a better warrior to teach you his standards." Summer stood up and stretched.

Lex closed the book and replaced his machete with the new sword. They proceeded further into the castles. Meeting patrols that were quickly dispatched. Slowly the knight's became more diverse, wielding shields, spears, swords, and bows.

"Fuck! Your assassin class is basically cheating. I only got a Light-sorcery class that was good." Summer blasted an archer with white javelins.

Lex appeared behind a shield knight and cut off his head. "Huh, do I hear complaints?"

The twins were fighting desperately with a sword-wielding knight. They were again bloody but progressed much better than before.

"Yeah, I'm complaining. My light affinity isn't even close to a hundred." Summer steps back on a light square, rising off the ground as a knight charged over like a meteorite.

Lex arrived before the knight could jump in the air. Black crescent beam split the knight in half.

"You don't have any anti-death spells?" Lex pouted and pulled the loot to the back of the wagon.

"Where the hell am I supposed to learn that?" Summer grabbed a wand that looked normal from the loot pile. "Two percent affinity increase, fifteen percent elemental resistance, and increase to wisdom by five percent. A take."

Lex changed out of his pants and put on shadow leggings, completing his shadow assassin set. "Wow, that increase is surely nice."

"Hey, you've refunded your Fire tree talent points. Your ice affinity base is pretty high at thirty-six. Why don't you add to that instead?" Summer grabbed a ring from the pile but put it aside.

Lex leaned against the wagon. He took her advice and added the refunded talent points into water and then ice sub-tree. Unlocking both water and ice shaper and as many affinities and wisdom passives as allowed.

"Tsk, here. This is a shadow ring." Summer pointed at the ring she sat aside earlier.

She grabbed a black glass bow and sighed as she also set that aside. The rest were death equipment or ordinary weapons. Few books were journals in unknown written language.

Lex slid on the ring and felt another increase in shadow resistance and affinity. He chuckled as he closed in on two hundred percent affinity and fifty-five resistance. To top it off, there was a space inside the ring.

He sent his spiritual energy inside and saw a relatively large space. Almost as large as two car garages. The walls were lined with bookshelves that were marked clearly between shadow, death, life, and support enchantments. The space in the middle was filled with alchemy equipment and forging off to the side.

Lex pulled his mind out of the ring and grabbed the bow. It didn't directly increase his strength but it did provide agility increase along with silent enchantment.

"Nice increase, oh dark lord!" Summer sat back with an enchantment book for equipment.

Lex glanced at the replacement fire Buffalo with two white horses. Sighing at the uncomfortable light, he turned to watch the fight that devolved into a slugfest. One sided fight that the knight is winning by majority.

Not willing to waste anymore time, he launched three frost arrows. The knight blocked the first with his spear and found the tip heavier. It slowed its reaction down enough that the second arrow slammed into its shoulder and third into its elbow beside its waist.

The twins took advantage and the joint cleaved at the neck. Finally killing something in this bloody dungeon. The twins dropped their arms and looked completely worn out. Their sister was no better, having to switch with Summer to recover her mana.

It was awkward and embarrassing but they learned something. Just not enough to run a boss with them.

"Get on the wagon. We are leaving." Lex ordered and turned to walk out.

They exited and split up or more so, Lex and Summer left the team and walked down the market. There were many different items hawked. Some homemade while others were the death and shadow attribute of the dungeon. Sadly, nobody but a few stalked the shadow items. The death magic was all but a lost cause.

"Hey, sweetheart! I see that you recently advanced your class. My stall had exactly what you need to raise your affinity and resistance." A pot belly man in a clean suit with ink stained fingers, waved his hands in an inviting gesture. "Come, come."

Summer stepped off the cart with a look of interest. She scanned the items he laid out. A white robe with golden lining. The back however was only blocked by four crosses. The side of the leg area was split open a little too high near the thigh area.

She looked at the scepter and staff and felt the staff had higher affinity for light and fire. She pointed at it. "How much?"

The stall owner smiled. "Ten gold coins."

Summer looked at Lex who pointed at the necklace and ring. "Get those as well."

"Excellent choice. These were found on the third floor by my guild mates. The ring is bound on contact so nobody messed with it but all together fifteen gold and twenty-six silver." The stall owner pushed the items together and removed the rest.

Lex tossed over a small bag made from ice. He watched in interest as the portly man caught it with a red gloved hand and poured it out.

"Thanks for doing business." The stall owner pocketed the money in a small box.

Summer put on the necklace and ring and checked her Stat panel before smiling big. "Huge increase. Good looking out."

Lex laughed and they walked back to the truck. Loaded the crates into the back just as two military cargo trucks pulled off to the side of the road. Many soldiers flooded out in odd gear with the words army written on it. They headed straight for the portal with grim expressions.

"Damn! Those bastards always come in a rush and right behind them, the fucking aliens!"

"They need to learn how to clean up their fucking mess."

Lex glanced at the way the army guys came and the way they needed to head. Rows upon rows of torches marched forward. The sound of crossbows being fired filled the air. Followed by the dense swishing of fireballs and crackling lightning bolts.

Wizards on the human side turned and retaliated with fierceness. The pressure of an advanced class was evident in the terrifying spells that not only dismissed the basic spells but devastated the orcs in one round.

"Seems the orcs aren't a threat to the top food chain." Summer climbed into the truck and Lex followed.

He glanced back at the sleeping mother and two kids. They hadn't even woken up during all that racket. Could tell how stressful their day was.

Lex drove around the massacre, cutting through the grass and floored it home. His stomach was telling him food was waiting and the women would be worried.

"Cher said they left the food in the microwave. Just heat it up and don't don't a lot of noise. She is trying to sleep." Summer relayed the message.

Lex sped up a little more. Good food awaited.