It was over, and now I had time to check my class, but I had forgotten about what Hero had told me about having to pick another class. Though, I had seen two other flashes beside the first two, so I didn’t kill quite enough, but I did feel much stronger.
[Name]: Kazz
[Level]: 9
[Class]: Shaman
[Strength]: 15
[Dexterity]: 12
[Fortitude]: 20
[Wisdom]: 16
[Intellect]: 14
[Spirit]: 13
[Energy]: 536
[Class Skills]:
<Totem Sync>{Rank 3}: When 50 feet from a Bonded Partner, the Totem Marks power increases 60%.
<Plantspeak>{Rank 4}: Target a plant to speak to it. 70% chance of success. 7% chance of irritation.
<Summon Totem: Plant>{Rank 3}: Summon 2 Bonded Plants to fight as your ally.
<Totem Bond>{Rank 5}: Auto-Trigger: Totem Bond is triggered when a Totem Mark can be acquired. The target must express gratitude to you in some form in order to trigger Totem Bond.
<Chromatic Bond>{Rank 2}: Activate more than one Bond at a time. Only one Primal Bond can be active. Total Bonds Activatable: 3.
There was nothing new, but I did gain higher ranks in the stuff that I had.
The beach was slowly cleaned by the elementals as I sat down with my girls all around me. Windorf and Wataluga were pulling the bodies, and Grogvel was collecting them and throwing them back into the water from one of the cliff walls to the south.
I kept Jilly and Lizy at either side of me and threatened that neither was going to get anything from me if they kept acting like this. I had imagined that they would be at each other, but the name-calling was getting a bit ridiculous.
Keri was resting in my lap with Kali, and then two of them had their heads on my chest. It had been a long day for them, but I wanted to relax for a bit before I headed back.
Veronica was letting me rest against her, but Mex had already headed back. There was no way for anything to come up the beach now, so the Village would be safe for now, but there was still the Gnolls, Neft, and Tiga left to deal with.
Then I needed to kill Dao and then get off this damn island.
<Getting off this island is only going to make your life harder, but the girls are improving, so I think you should be alright, but you should get off here sooner than later. You need to get stronger, or you will get pressed into service when you get to the shores of Gardania, but this is a starting island. You're not the first Hero to get off this island, but they are all slaves now with no way of getting free.>
How? Don't they all have the hero system?
<Not if you are defeated, and the heroes never took the time on the way back to train. Most used some kind of trick or bargained with one of the creatures of the depths for passage. Even after you leave, there is a passage that you will be able to follow to keep your ship from getting swallowed, but not from all attacks.>
So, then what you are saying is that I need to get off this island fast, but then make some detours at sea to get stronger? But what about the things that will try to eat us if we do?
<That is why you will need to get stronger, but maybe try and think of a different way across, but don't try flying. There are extremely strong monsters that live up there on floating islands, and most of the strongest demons won't even go up there. Focus on something that goes under the water and can either defend itself or move fast.>
This was a fair idea, but I wasn't sure how I was going to build something like a battle submarine. I decided to shelf the plan; for now, I would think of something in the future, I was sure.
I relaxed back into Victoria and gazed over the girl's Systems. Each of the three girls had gotten levels and had some new abilities, but I closed them after scanning them over and relaxed.
Veronica was incredibly soft and so great to relax against, and thoughts of her brought me back to when we were in the maze. I could now take her on, and she would change into a more compatible form, but no sooner had I thought it than did I fall back in a flash of light.
"Hey!" Keri cried as we fell back, and Kali squeaked.
I was slapped in the face and nearly smothered by a pair of massive breasts that were soft as pillows. I pulled my face from under them, but I could have probably stayed that way for a bit longer, but I want to see the rest of her.
The girls got off me, and I turned around to help Veronica up but froze when I saw the cute, power blue cat girl with angel wings. Wow, her hand changed a lot, but she was beautiful now, but not that she wasn't before, but those were some huge pillow-soft ta-ta's!
"Are you okay?" I asked as I finally unfroze, and Veronica nodded shyly to me and then apologized quickly, "Sorry, I shouldn't be looking you over like that before asking if you were okay! Or, um…."
Veronica blushed at first but then started to giggle as everyone started to get up. I offered her my hand as I did, and together we stood up.
"No, I like that you were; that means that I might have a chance with you now. I am confused, though, but not complaining; why didn't I get one of the things like the girls?" Veronica asked me after we were standing, but I really wasn't sure.
<There are no more systems to give. Instead, the girls will start receiving enhancement now. The first ones will be important, but the rest will still help you.>
"Fresh out of systems, but you got the body enhancements instead, not a loss in my body. In fact, I see them as big gains!" I joked, but Veronica smiled at me so seductively that I had to look away before I started to get handsy.
"Nice comeback before; I guess I'm still ahead on some things!" Jilly hiss whispered, but I could clearly hear it, and the real world I was in came back to me as Lizy screamed.
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