“Hey, are you alright?” Kiara interrupted Lunete’s thoughts as she saw Lunete in a daze.
“Huh? What? Did you say something?” Lunete questioned back as she was brought back to reality.
The merging images in Lunete’s mind faded away into nothing as she was brought out of her reverie. Try as she might, the images refused to return. Lunete could only helplessly forget about what she was initially imagining and turned her attention to the three women.
It turned out that lunch had arrived and three of the foursome had already sat at the room’s table to eat, leaving Lunete staring at a wall in a daze. Lunete quickly joined the three and brushed off their concerns saying that she was just thinking about the martial arts that they had practiced that morning.
However, just before Lunete began to eat, she finally noticed the intricate design on the handle of her eating utensils. She was reminded of her career as a micro artist now that the previous’ days tension and stress had dissipated quite a bit. She considered requesting for some tools from the king through Alleyah.
Lunete thumbed the design wistfully and decided to start eating. She also began to make plans to start leveling up in her game system to craft superior equipment in the event that the four women needed them.
Lunch was proceeded by Alleyah coming up to the four to inform them of their training regimen. The instructor had also informed the four about the time differences compared to that of their world. According to what has been passed down by previous protectors, time passes twice as slowly as in their previous world. There was also 7 days in a week, 28 days in a month and 12 months in a year.
Seasons differed in each region. The Dragon Palace has all four seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. For their first year of training, they will get used to surviving in all four seasons. In the second, they will spend half a year each in the Monkey and Rabbit Palace to get used to the tropical environments’ rainy and dry seasons. Training in a rainforest was exceptionally vital as well.
In any case, the training regimen that the four held was one day dedicated to each instructor, followed by two days of independent training that doubled as rest days in each week. With Kiara, Yuri and Aanjay’s participation in the formations lecture, it was deemed that it was mandatory for all four of them to join in on the Keeper’s lessons as well. The three did not mind because they wanted all the knowledge that they could get in this world as much as possible to keep themselves alive.
Coincidentally, it was Sunday that day, and therefore the girls were given the rest of the day off to prepare for Alleyah’s training the next day. Lunete had sent a request to the king through Alleyah for various sculpting tools and materials. She had briefly explained to Alleyah that it was due to her profession in her previous world. She did not want to be out of touch, and at the same time, wanted to use it as an emotional and mental outlet.
Alleyah understood her plight and quickly sent the request to the king. The Dragon King, in turn, had the items made and sent over to Lunete as quickly as he could, allowing the equipment to make it into Lunete’s hands just before dinner.
Lunete also remembered to ask about the physical benefits of the summoning formation. It seemed like physical growth was determined by the ability of the formation master who summoned the protectors.
Lunete could only sigh wistfully at the shoddiness of the disgusting man who summoned her and continue about her day, the only thing she should be happy of was that the man was lustful and had reverted her age back to 20 to satisfy his inner desires. This piece of information, however, gave her some ideas that she could use for her teammates regarding health in the future with the use of formations.
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After dinner, Kiara, Yuri and Aanjay did some stretches and wanted to familiarize themselves with their martial arts more. However, seeing Lunete holding the tools in her hands and a thin piece of wood in the other with glittering eyes, the three decided to hold off on it.
Kiara gave Yuri and Aanjay a brief overview of who Lunete was. They were not art buffs, and therefore did not know that Lunete was extremely famous in the art world. Their eyes widened in surprised before they quickly stared at Lunete in anticipation of seeing a professional artist at work.
Lunete gracefully carved the edge of the thin piece of wood in her hands. Lines joined seamlessly and each curve was smooth and beautifully done. Slowly but surely, the end of the piece of wood began to take the shape of the Dragon Palace. The four were given a full tour around the Dragon Palace guided by Palal after being briefed by Alleyah. Therefore, Lunete’s brilliant memory had registered every nook and cranny of the magnificent palace.
The trio stared in wonder at the accuracy of the art piece in Lunete’s hands. To think that such a tiny object could still hold such detailed works by human hands. When Lunete finished the palace, she whittled the edges of the wood piece down until it was cylindrical, looking like one side of a chopstick.
Then, she mentally sold some useless works in her inventory to earn some in-game currency. The in-game currency was used to by several engraving skills to grant minor individual status bonuses that a level 1 could attain. Soon enough, she started sculpting an elegant design over the chopstick, engraving the status bonuses into the design. For some reason, she felt that it was somewhat similar to formations.
When she had finished, she examined her work. The lines connected smoothly and it was tastefully done. The hidden engravings were done just right and small amounts of power flowed into Lunete. Suddenly, Lunete was washed over by a strange feeling. She felt a sudden understanding for formations crop up in her head.
Lunete immediately put the chopstick aside and took out the materials used in the formation class today. It could be reused countless times since they could not be used up by the basic formation that they were tasked to set up. Lunete quickly set up the formation and a sudden burst of energy radiated from the formation. Even Kiara and company could feel the power that the formation emanated, their eyes widening in surprise.
After the sense of accomplishment of completing her first formation washed away, Lunete placed her hands on the central piece of material that kept the formation together and removed it. The energy that the formation radiated dissipated like a dream. Lunete was reveling in her joy when she felt piercing stares at coming from beside her.
“Huh? What are you guys staring at me for?” Lunete asked.
Her mind was still enraptured in the accomplishments of her first formation and the completion of her newest art piece. It had not fully returned to reality and therefore, she did not comprehend that what she did would have bewildered anyone.
“You just completed the basic energy-providing formation, didn’t you…” Yuri said softly, “and it was right after you completed your art piece. How did you do that?”
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After coming to this world and being constantly buffeted by strong energy aura after strong energy aura, it was no wonder that the protectors had developed the ability to sense energy and could discern what it was from their instructor’s teachings.
Yuri was not the only one who was confused. Aanjay walked up to Lunete and took the well-designed chopstick and looked at it in detail. For some reason, the design on the chopstick, excluding the Dragon Palace figurine at the top, gave her a sense of power and familiarity. It felt like she was at the cusp on something regarding formations.
However, Aanjay could not grasp that something and passed the chopstick on to Kiara, “take a look at the design on the chopstick. Maybe you’ll be able to see something.”
Kiara took the chopstick off Aanjay’s hands and had the same feeling as Aanjay. She voiced out what she felt and passed the chopstick over to Yuri.
After studying the chopstick for a short time, Yuri exclaimed with a loud, “Oh!”
She quickly moved to the desk with the formation materials that Lunete used. Then, she rearranged the materials and created a formation. The arrangement was different, but the effect was the same. This was Yuri’s understanding of formations.
No wonder the starting hurdle for everyone was different regarding formations and talent only mattered after. Everyone had to develop their own understanding of formations and that leads to how they could familiarize themselves with learning formations. Barriers were only in place due to thought process in the creation and dismantling of formations.
Soon, however, Yuri was at a loss of how to dismantle the formation that she created. She frowned and pouted cutely. Lunete just laughed as she took the central piece of the formation that Yuri created and dismantled the formation. Yuri just looked flabbergasted at Lunete’s actions. Soon, she tackled Lunete off the chair she was sitting on and buried her face in Lunete’s crotch in a comical Dogeza position.
Even if the context for a Dogeza was all wrong, she did it to distract her mental state and cried out loudly into Lunete’s crotch, “teach me, master-!”
This ended up with Lunete bursting into laughter as she was more familiar than the other two with Eastern Earth’s customs. Aanjay and Kiara missed the joke and Lunete explained after her fits of laughter died off. This sent the two into small giggle fits while Yuri began rubbing her face slightly harder into Lunete’s nether regions.
Lunete felt slightly turned on from the image of Yuri in her crotch, remembering some steamy actions from the previous night, but she gently separated herself from Yuri. Nightly activities should be kept nightly. There was still time to get things done for the day, and should practice and have a bath before resuming the intimacies where the four left off the previous night.
Yuri and Lunete set up two energy-providing formations before the four began to practice their martial arts. Lunete’s movements for the <
It was not long before all four women felt energy welling up from their bodies. They had all taken their first steps into cultivation almost all together. This interrupted their training as they squealed in excitement at their first steps, knowing all of this because of Naja’s earnest instructions that morning.
Deciding that they should get some early rest for tomorrow, Lunete dismantled her formation. Yuri seemed to have some understanding of her own formation while pondering over it when she was practicing her martial art. Therefore, she quickly dismantled her own formation with a proud expression which sent the other three girls into a fit of giggles at the comical but adorable face that Yuri had at the time.
The foursome then headed over to the bathroom. Lunete took the chopstick that was on the table on the way and casually but secretly sent it into her game inventory. A familiar tinkle of a level up was heard as the system registered the new artwork and she smiled inwardly.
“This is a good day,” she mused to herself.
Following that, Lunete headed over to the bathroom to enjoy some sexy bath time with the trio that was starting to grope each other with increasing intensity. Sexy bath time was followed by some intense intimacies. The satisfied foursome cuddled up to each other on the wide bed. Lunete and Kiara felt a growing connection between them and could see it in each other’s eyes as they kissed lovingly while snuggling together. Yuri and Aanjay felt closer to each other as they casually rubbed their bodies together in each other’s arms.
The last thing that Lunete did as before she fell asleep in a tangle of limbs again was to check her status and skills. A satisfied smile grew on her face as she looked through the numbers and allowed herself to drift into dreamland.
NameLunete ArgallStatusStrength3Endurance5Agility2Dexterity10Perception14Energy1Additonal InformationLevel 2Age: 20FemaleStatus Points Remaining: 5
SkillsSkill NameMastery<
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Author’s notes:
I will be settling my first fiction’s updates after this chapter. I’m wondering if I should add a romance tag to this. I don’t think I want romance in this, but the emotional attachment between characters seems to be increasing more and more. Hmm. Perhaps some of the readers’ thoughts would provide some idea as to where I should go with the character relations.
I made some mistakes with the previous skill table and forgot about adding the formations skill. Going back to add it. -skill added to the list-
Btw guys, if I make some spelling mistakes it will mostly be due to me being more familiar with British English instead of American English. So please kindly point out any spelling mistakes that I make regarding the two. For example, leveling vs levelling.