"So, how was the night?" Asked Ela imediatly after the werewolves came back to the cave. Oh, she'd come back from the village with them, but they went out again and didn't come back.
Aki's bright expression rapidly soured at that question, making Ela confused, but he just sighed and explained.
"The sex was great. The aftermath, not so much. For example, according to the system I am worthy of the skills 'degenerate' and 'sadist'." He growled. Both skills had been absorbed by mind alacrity, which leveled it up twice.
"It was magical." Said the smiling Anna, which made Aki produce arcs of lighting in his fingers. Followed by oil dripping from his palms.
"And I can augment someone's sensitivity with mind magic." Aki explained, getting elbowed in the ribs.
"You know even just one of those would make you a luxurious man-whore anywhere, right?" Asked Ela, seriously considering trying to seduce Aki for a moment. All Aki did was elbow Anna a bit, who growled at her. Ela rapidly gave up and held her hands up. "You didn't just rough housed her all the time though, right?" Ela said while looking sternly at the boy.
The sweet boy who sang to a baby for hours on end and showed great care for everyone he interacted with had gotten two skills that only those that were utterly crazy could obtain, that could mean many things, but Ela felt she should at least try to help.
Her worries were for nothing though. Hearing her question, Aki grinned and Anna blushed lightly.
"Well yes, but actually no. Ignore that. Everything is alright, right?" Aki was practically beaming as he ignored the elbow to his rib, getting only a nod and a mildly deeper shade of red on his lover's face as an answer.
He wasn't the only one who got a strange skill.
Nope, not just masochist either.
*****
Another week later.
"Fucking finally!" Aki muttered as he fell to the ground in a puddle of sweat, blood and whatever magical plant monsters had flowing inside of them. Aki looked again at the notification that had finally appeared in front of him.
[Congratulations! You have unlocked the unique skill Enhanced attribute values Lv 1]
That! was what he'd spent all his weak doing. Save for grinding skills and spending time with his lover, Aki had mostly tried to sustain himself on magic.
He was very tempted to simply check the options right there and than, but he'd worked too much to suddenly die because he found out the hard way that people get unconscious when they evolve their race. His class was in no way going to be normal either, so yeah, there was that.
Getting off his chiseled arse, Aki starting walking back to his cave, which actually didn't take too long since he was ripping some mana from the vegetation, just not enough for it cause any problems.
Getting there, he fond both his lover and children eating while Ela was trying really hard to... Poop? Well, no, she was clothed, but she looked like she was going to drop one much similarly to the baby.
Aki tried very hard to ignore it.
"I'm back" Aki said and kissed the heads of the mother and kids. "Very tired, gonna evolve now, might get graphic." He said and started stripping and laying on his pile of leathers.
It didn't take long for his eyes to glaze over and suddenly he was unconscious.
*****
Suddenly waking up from the soul trip that he somehow had been jolted into for seemingly no apparent reason, Aki started checking his notifications before thinking back on to the memory he had of the strange...
Nope, those were definitely going to dissapear, so now was the time.
'So this world is big, also formed by similar components when compared to earth, has four separated land masses and an arquipelago, probably some kind of japanese or chinese land, maybe even korean, there were some uncountable amount of gazes over me, that thing that caused mild headache when I looked directly at it, the elemental planes were in order, demons trying to get in, the world tree connecting this plane to everything else... Can't really think of anything out of the ordinary, but maybe that eldrich being was not supposed to gaze back when I looked or something? I mean, those guys do so automatically, so it's not like the fault is mine I'd there's an invasion. Is this the system telling me not to get involved with the current state of affairs?' Aki tried to pounder, but it all just seemed rather pointless to him. Then again, some people liked to try and pretend like everyone would understand their criptic bullshit and some didn't even know how to stop that, so Aki decided to file such worries away and check his notifications.
{Tyrannus Lupum: One of order and body, you are a ruler that fights with his people, pushing his body's potential.
+10 STR +10 VIT +5 DEX +5 AGI.
You will suffer with constant animalistic blood lust. Your skin, bones and muscles will become much denser. 100% easier to obtain beast and monster skills (does not turn the impossible possible). Your senses are sharpened, primarily your sense of smell and hearing. Your resistance to poisons and diseases is immensely raised. Your inner beast will test you weekly, in case of failure you will be enveloped by it and lose body control until the next test. Others are naturally compelled to obey you. Body reinforcement is 50% more effective. Your original race bonus are cut in half and added.}
[Scion of chaotic mind: One of chaos and magic, you are one of the embodiments of the mind's potential.
+20 WIS +5 INT +5 DEX
You gain 62.5% more XP with magic and 187.5% more with mind magic. You get 50% advantage in any kind of mental check. Your memory is 100% sharper. Naturally produces a domain of perception. WIS is 50% more effective.]
'Yes!' As Aki could only see the criptic description and almost unintelligible requirements, he was very happy to get percent based bonuses to his status and magical effects.
He was also happy to have passed out though, because no matter how much magic he imagined into the calculation, these changes gotta have hurt like a bitch in a normal situation.
Several of his skills had leveled up together with his class and race, so Aki was very happy when looking at his status. Though he wished the class effects stacked, getting even more stats over the ones he'd gotten for the initial classes was also great for someone that expected neither.
Name: Aki
Race: Human/Tyrannus Lupum Lv 1
Class: Scion of chaotic mind Lv 1
HP: 440/440 (regen 42/h) x1.2
MP: 550/550 (regen 85,5/h) x1.2
STR: 44
VIT: 42
DEX: 43
AGI: 55
INT: 55
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WIS: 57
SP: 100
Skills:
Ancillary:
Meditation Lv 8
Student Lv 6
Stealth Lv 6
Hunting Lv 7
Survailance Lv 4
Tracking Lv 5
Massage Lv 2
Rope handling Lv 4
Crafting:
Caligraphy Lv 2
Singing Lv 6
Handcrafts Lv 4
Acting Lv 5
Poetry Lv 3
Magic:
Mana manipulation Lv 10
Reduced mana cost Lv 8
Multi-casting Lv 8
Quick casting Lv 8
Mind magic Lv 7
Elemental magic Lv 6
Metal magic Lv 3
Blood magic Lv 5
Space magic Lv 4
Arcane magic Lv 5
Nature magic Lv 4
Combat:
Claw technique Lv 5
Deadly bite Lv 5
Unarmed combat technique Lv 7
Bow technique Lv 1
Dagger technique Lv 2
Taunt Lv 6
Augmentation:
Heat resistance Lv 3
Sun resistance Lv 3
Pain resistance Lv 9
Abnormal status effect resistance Lv 5
Blood magic resistance Lv 5
Arcane resistance Lv 5
Void resistance Lv 3
Sex:
Sexual technique Lv 5
Oral technique Lv 4
Hand technique Lv 4
Unique skills:
Mental alacrity Lv 8
Alpha Lv 5
Biomass processing Lv 2
Enhanced attribute values Lv 2
"Twenty percent extra in everything is certainly great. Hey, how long did I pass out for?" Aki asked as he got up without much difficulty. He didn't get any answer though, so when he saw both women just staring at him, Aki checked if he'd grown horns. He hadn't. He had the same height, but his muscles were smaller and more compact, besides his hair that grew again, this time a bit past his shoulders, but he'd quickly cut it off later.
Moving up at once, Aki checked for vital signs on Anna. No strange apocalyptic scenario or time stop either.
"Anna, you're scaring the baby." That jolted her up. Of course, Alma was just there, looking at him with those same dreamy eyes her mother had a moment ago.
"Aki, what happened? You started evolving, the sounds made Alma cry and I was trying to calm her down, but then this strange feeling came and there was nothing else!" She seemed a bit woozy from getting out of the trance, but otherwise fine, so Aki proceded to reasure her.
"It's fine, i know how to deal with this." Coughing a bit, Aki started to sing. "ARE, YOU SATISFIED!? JUST, OPEN YOUR EYES! YOU, CAN SEE THE LIGHT, ACROSS THE NEW BORDERLINE!" And that was enough. With his magic infused voice, Aki deeply infused the command of 'Rebel', then he howled. Yes, the music he sang before had to nescessarily been 'Howling'.
His efforts were rewarded by the deperate cries of a baby and the surprise of the other two. Aki imediatly caught Ela and Elladan before hugging everyone and softly wispering. "It's ok, I will protect you. No matter what." As he did so, he laced wis words with magic, making they sound like the most sincere truth.
They just stayed like that for a bit, in silence if not for the baby trying to get her tears and snot out of her face.
*****
As Aki looked at the lake reflecting his figure, he waited for Anna to finish the adjustments on his leathers buck naked.
"You know that thing about being raised by a mute wizard is a lie, right?" He asked, getting a nod and hum as answer. "Yeah, sorry for not telling you where i really come from, but it doesn't make much sense, neither is it very believable. Please, wait a bit before asking about it, ok? Things will be even more awkward since i will seen to be lying very badly, so i think it's best if i can slowly show it with time. I will still tell if you ask though." Aki asked in an awkward manner, getting the same answer.
That made him twitch a bit, but he simply poked her cheek because of the nonchalant answer.
"How are you still this cute? Aren't you mother of six? Can i hug you? Can i kiss you a lot?" He said, poking fun at the blushing woman while not waiting for the answer to any question and shamelessly flirting with her.
*****
Throwing the purple bear over his sholder, Aki roared and caved it's head in.
"And that's the last one." He muttered before he started eating the big foots. They all even had the X scar on an arm, how could he not call the bipedal bears like that?
"You evolved." Aki looked up from his food, seeing the driad.
"And you do not seem to have changed. Need anything?" He asked before putting a whole heart in his mouth. He wasn't an equidna, but his mouth and jaw could dislodge quise easily. It was supposedly a mutation for bitting better, but he hadn't gotten the chance to use it like that.
"While i was... away, i came upon some interesting pieces of information. There seem to be more like you." She slowly said, probing for a reaction.
"Please tell me none of your nectar filled, twig snapping and breast feeding peverted sisters triyed to snare one of those." Aki rapidly gulped the heart when he heart the last part and started approaching the bronze skinned goddess, stopping mere centimeters away from her face.
"One of them did. That's how i..."
"You're screwed. I'm leaving." He said while interupting her and rapidly butchering his prey of their brains, hearts and livers, the most mana filled organs in their bodies, and stuffing them in his item box.
"What do you mean?" The driad imediatly assumed an icier tone and blocked the cave entrance with roots.
Aki didn't get up from his work though, he'd even got better at it because of the rush.
"I mean what i said. Your conclave, sisterhood, net, whatever it is, will be hunted down to the last one and turned into meat toilets at best, and i'm not staying to get involved in it. Now, you have two options, you unblock that passage and grant me and my family free passage away from this shit hole and listen to the rest of my explanaition while on the way, or you try and capture me, suffering from my suicidal arcane bombing, which will raze and poison everything in an area of at least ten kilometers. We both know why you came to speak to me while i'm inside a cave, and it wasn't to have some good time in the dark, because diferent from you who just survives, i actually have a life and conviction i wish to maintain. Which will it be?" Aki started explaining rapidly, in the middle of his sentence he'd already finished reaping the valuable organs and started glowing with a black flame around him, which seemed to consume all light, looking for even more to satiate their hunger, while his eyes became bloodshot and with pink veins which started spreading to the rest of his body.
Catching the root spear trying to attack him, Aki started draining it of life.
"It seems i'm not the only one infatuated with my own back side. Now, i'm not the only one who reached for this power, and i certainly won't be the last. This here is a way for me to get to your heart tree. Let me be, or your pitiful existence will end much sooner than your sister's." He said, with scorn and pity in his voice.
"I have your pa, gah..." The driad tried to threathen him, but unfortunatly, he'd known this day would come, and he knew she'd never would let him leave. Like he said, she didn't get him in a cave for no reason.
"What a complete waste." Spat out Aki while reaching for the avatar's right breast with his claws. "This mess will take a lot to sort out later." As he said so, the void flame extinguished itself and the useless arcane highlights stopped.
His eyes were still irritated and red, but that was it.
"How..." The trembling avatar looked completely flabbergasted as her true heart formed under the hand of the human in front of her. He didn't answer or hesitate though, tearing the beating heart out of her chest and starting to draw on it with his claw.
As the torny heart bled it's golden, sticky blood, the driad's skin became white, her lips became thinner and of lighter tone, her hair came to her waist, her height got smaller and her features a bit sharper. Most of it was not noticeable through her curling into fetal position and holding her gaping chest while soundlessly screaming.