Lunete woke up to find herself tangled with three other naked bodies. The “R&R” that the girls had overnight had been a really good stress reliever. Kiara had much more affinity with Lunete while Yuri and Aanjay were more compatible. Kiara was just as much a giving lover as a receiving one. Aanjay was more aggressive while Yuri was more receptive. The four enjoyed each other’s company and intimacies as they learnt more about each other and deepened their friendships.
Laying in the pile of warm flesh and tangle of limbs, Lunete brought up the game system and observed her status.
NameLunete ArgallStatusStrength1Endurance3Agility1Dexterity9Perception9Energy0
The values of her status were vastly different from the values that was shown in her previous world. At level 1, her status was supposed to be a flat 10 across the board. Additionally, there was an extra stat, “Energy”, which Lunete had no clue as to what it was. Lunete tried mentally selecting the stat for more details. She was greeted by a tooltip window popping up.
EnergyThis status value represents the cultivation level of the individual.
‘So that’s what it was,’ Lunete thought as she mentally selected the values to see if the system would show what they represented.
Strength ValueThe value of strength based on the number of adult males.
‘My strength is equivalent to an adult male’s, huh?’ Lunete murmured inwardly.
Lunete continued looking at her other status values and continued thinking, ‘this doesn’t explain why I could not keep up with the three girls last night.’
Lunete stared at Kiara and was surprised when another window popped up in front of her requesting to see Kiara’s status. Lunete consented and was greeted by a shocking status screen.
NameKiara CallaghanStatusStrength9Endurance6Agility8Dexterity4Perception1Energy0
Kiara’s overall status value were way higher than Lunete’s abysmal status. Lunete quickly checked the other girls’ status.
NameAkiyama YuriStatusStrength6Endurance6Agility7Dexterity5Perception4Energy0
NameAanjay Aamin JoshiStatusStrength8Endurance9Agility4Dexterity4Perception2Energy0
The other girl’s status totals were similar whereas Lunete’s was much further behind. Perhaps the benefits gained from the summoning was not equal?
Lunete shelved that question at the back of her mind and decided to bring it up only later when they met the kings and instructors. Lunete decided to further explore the game system. She brought up her skill window.
SkillsSkill NameMastery<
Lunete mentally selected <
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“Morning, sleepyheads,” Lunete greeted the three awakening beauties as she pawed two chests and began suckling on another.
The three of them moaned before becoming fully awake. Kiara giggled and pushed Lunete’s head away and Yuri enjoyed the caress and Aanjay got up and kissed Lunete’s cheek. Kiara managed to mumble a morning as she untangled herself from the others and got off the bed to stretch.
“Morning, ladies. Yesterday was such a crazy day. Transporting to a different world was crazy. Being forced into participating in another world’s war just to return home was crazy. Choosing exercise workouts through mind injecting jade rocks was crazy. Having a bedroom for four and a bathroom made in one hour was crazy. Bedtime and pillow talk was even crazier… and hotter,” Aanjay started droning on about the events that occurred yesterday and clutched her head slightly as she got off the bed.
Lunete quickly followed when the two got off. Yuri reluctantly got off the bed as well as she rubbed her eyes and said a Japanese “Ohayou” before shaking her head a little to perk herself up.
The four girls made their way to the adjoining bathroom, which was pretty wide and could hold all four of them. The Dragon King had quickly ordered elite workers belonging to the Dragon Clan to immediately build a shared room for the four women upon their request when they got to the Dragon Palace. The Dragon King was also astute enough to know that the women probably wanted a bathroom nearby and extended their living space to accommodate a bathroom that could hold all of them.
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The rooms of the four women was built as an extension of the palace, and in an empty space. Therefore, there were no complications to its construction. The speed that the place was built shocked the women, but they got tired of being shocked so many times in one day and just accepted the extremely fast building speed.
Getting ready for a long day ahead, the four friends quickly washed up, got dressed and headed for the outside. Apparently, they had gotten up early despite their long night. The sun had risen up only slightly in the distance. They were told to gather in the palace courtyard when the sun peeked over the palace outer walls, which had not happened yet.
As a result, Lunete and the others decided to take their time and study the palace as they made their way to the courtyard slowly. The splendor of the palace was obvious. It was clean, the surroundings had decent amount of greenery, and the geomancy of the place was in balance. There was a certain elegance to the architecture of the palace that made it look luxurious but not overdone. Instead of a luxurious splendor, the palace radiated elegant power and balance.
By the time Lunete and company reached the courtyard, the sun still had not peeked over the palace walls. However, there were several people waiting in the courtyard already.
“Greetings, future protectors of the Human race. It’s nice to see that all of you seem not the type to be late,” a middle-aged battle-hardened woman smiled at the four approaching ladies.
Three out of four of the other people nodded. Only the scholarly looking individual among the lot did not show any reaction, but studied the four attentively.
The middle-aged woman headed the four other instructors and introduced herself, “his Highness has already acquainted me with your names and characteristics, so there’s no need for the four of you to introduce yourselves. I am Alleyah Long, combat instructor of the officers of the Dragon Clan. I will be your combat instructor as well.”
After Alleyah’s introduction, a man who looked to be in his sixties spoke out with a kindly smile, “I am Palal Long, one of his Highness’ strategists. I was assigned to be your instructor in strategy and tactics. Well met, ladies.”
Following Palal’s introduction was a young woman who spoke stoically, “My name’s Naja Tu. I am charged with guiding your cultivation of Energy.”
That brief introduction was then proceeded by a middle-aged man.
“Ladies, I am Tabansi Hou. You will be put through various harsh survival exercises so expect no less than hard work from me,” he said in a gruff voice.
Finally, the scholarly man came forth.
“I will only be teaching formations. This is compulsory for Lunete, but the rest of you are free to sit in. Just call me the Keeper,” the Keeper introduced himself with a nonchalant tone.
“Now that introductions are done, Lunete, this is for you,” Alleyah came towards Lunete and placed a jade tablet into her hands.
The jade tablet contained the martial art of the Dragon Clan soldiers. It was widespread amongst the citizens under the charge of the Dragon King, so there was no consequence of handing it over to the supposedly martial art-less Lunete so she could defend herself. Lunete nodded gratefully at the gesture. It seems that the kings had actually seriously considered the otherworlders as assets, unlike the missing Snake King who had tried to collar Lunete.
From there, the four women were put through various tests to know their strong suits and limitations. Alleyah tested for physical ability and combat sense. Palal put the women into various theoretical war scenarios with varying conditions. Naja had the four practice their chosen martial arts and saw to their comprehension. Tabansi put them through various muck-filled exercises to test their resolution to survive. Finally, the Keeper gave a small introduction to formations. Kiara, Yuri and Aanjay sat in the lecture and the four women were given materials to construct and break a formation.
In Alleyah’s tests, it was easy to see that Kiara and Aanjay had the best physical abilities, with the former having higher speed while the latter had higher stamina. Lunete’s physical capabilities were terrible, to put it lightly. However, it was noted that her perception was exceptionally good. Yuri was very balanced in all her physical aspects.
Yuri shone in Palal’s test. She was quick-thinking and flexible in her strategies and tactics. She did mention to the other three that she was an avid strategy gamer at one point in her youth. Lunete did fairly decently while Aanjay and Kiara struggled.
The martial art exercise was interesting. The four each practiced the strengthening subskill of the martial art they had gotten. Then, they would make adjustments to the choreographed movements to make them as perfect as possible to the images that flowed into their heads from the jade tablets. Lunete excelled in this area due to her high dexterity and minute bodily control as a micro artist. She was quickly able to master the body movements. However, she still had yet to grasp the essence of the strengthening subskill.
Tabansi’s small exercise was just down and dirty. The various disgusting things that the four rolled in was terrible, but the four were resolved to survive in this world and took the exercise in stride. Tabansi was very impressed by the end of it and gave the four a gentle smile and some words of encouragement.
All four women failed miserably in the Keeper’s assignment. They could understand the lecture, but could not create a formation. The Keeper merely shrugged as said that the start is hard for everyone. Talent was only factored in when they get over the starting hurdle.
The women worked hard throughout the morning with only short breaks in between. Then, they were finally allowed to wash themselves off and to wait for lunch in their rooms.
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The girls had a little fun in the bathroom before coming out feeling refreshed. They knew that the activities for today was considered light in the eyes of their instructors and they mentally prepared themselves for hard work-filled days ahead.
Lunete started mentally studying the movements of the strengthening subskill of the Dragon Clan’s <
Feeling at the cusp of something, Lunete scanned the other three martial arts in her head. The movements of the strengthening skills seemed to resonate with one another. Little corrections were made in her head and the four skills seemed to slowly merge into one.
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Author’s notes:
It felt like forever trying to get this chapter done. I think I could have split it up into two chapters with one for testing the game system and the other for the training, but it just flowed along so well.
I hope I find motivation to start working on my first fiction again soon. I am procrastinating so hard right now.
Thank you for reading, and supporting this fiction.
Edit: I apologize for some alignment difficulties during my post. I edited one of the tables and caused the code to screw up so badly. It's fixed now.