CHAPTER 40: A NEW ADVENTURE AWAITS

I came to from within the bathtub, it seemed that someone had spotted me attempting to run into the bathroom and had helped me the rest of the way. that was something at least. despite just waking up I could feel a power flowing through me, my very being resonated with a newfound sense of strength as all of my Aspects resonated together proving to me that I was now Iron ranked. Despite this my body still felt sore, be this from the energetic celebrations of my two companions or just an aftereffect of ranking up I don’t know but i do know that I feel rough. However, despite just wanting to sleep now it would seem that the system wasn’t done with me just yet.

[Congratulations on Ranking up]

[Due to reaching Iron 1 you have unlocked a new aspect of your boon]

Magically malleable - you have delved into the aspect of moulding ones own body, now you are able to extend this to others beyond yourself. allows you to mould the bodies of both yourself and others that trust you implicitly.

[Your patron has granted you a new Boon - Submissive Desires - as your lust grows you are more likely to submit to others. When fully submitting either willingly or unwillingly the one you submit to is able to share the benefits of one of your Innate Skills.]

[Your Innate Skill Flower Dress has been upgraded to - Dress of the Wilds. - Able to Summon a Dress Woven from Nature itself. The Dress can be altered at will and can be reinforced with mana to briefly reinforce any desired location. This Dress can be infused with different aspects of the wilds for a moderate initial cost to provide various benefits.]

[New Skill unlocked - (Passive) Touch of Lust - You are able to feel and interpret the lust of the people you touch when directed at you. provides insight into how best to satiate their lust.]

"Well that’s a lot to take in all at once" I mutter to myself. I can imagine the upgraded boon could be a lot of fun as now I will get the chance to alter my companions instead of being the only one that can be moulded. and whilst I really dont like the implications of Submissive Desires and how that will interact with Body of Lust’s side effects i have to admit that the ability to share one of my Innate Skills is huge, with that i could share Body of Lust and allow both Amanda and Kana to advance their aspects with me in the bedroom! I feel a grin spread across my face, I am defiantly going to have some fun with that!

Now the upgrade to my flower dress now Dress of the Wilds is just a straight up upgrade, no downsides that I can think of and just based of the impression i get off the ability it will allow me to imbue it with a natural element such as fire for added damage, or wind for increased speed. i do wonder how those effects will alter how it looks though, and knowing my luck it will probably be quite scandalous.

And then we have the last skill. Touch of Lust, I sigh I’m really not sure how I’m supposed to react to this. It would seem that this skill is constantly active with no way for me to turn it off, so will i now be cursed to always know how someone wants to do me whenever i shake their hands. Urgh that skill is going to get annoying, will have to come up with a way to avoid that, maybe gloves will work? will have to test it out, but later.

Deciding that I should probably get cleaned up as I was still covered in some black gunk I turned on the tap of the bath and began to cleanse myself of the gunk. Around 10 minuets later I was dry and standing in front of the mirror as I activated my upgraded Dress of the

Wilds. It was quit the sight to behold. Whereas previously my dress seemed to grow from me in the form of flowers. Now the dress seemed to materialise from the ambient mana around me, strips of green and pink ethereal energies strung together into the form of a dress. its base form was different to previous, now it consisted of 2 green sheaths with patterns of flowers trees and vines wrapped around my torso, one on each side to cover my breasts and wrapping around to meet together at my neck, the skirt was a mix of greens and pink with embossed flowers and vines that wrapped around my hips, meeting the chest wraps and lowered down to around mid thigh. as I thought it was equally exposing but i suppose that is just par for the course by now.

I had to admit though it did look great and it had trimmings of red that matched my hair perfectly. Happy with how I looked I strode out for he bathroom to be created with a green blue slamming into my chest as Dawn tackled me in an embrace. Chuckling I hugged her to me as she slithered up my body using her claws to pull herself up and wrapped herself around my neck reclaiming her rightful spot there.

Her emotions boiled through our bond being predominantly worry, happiness and pride. I sent back my own thoughts to reassure her that I was ok now and that I was also now stronger than ever! She had grown enough now that she could wrap fully around my neck and she enjoyed staying there like a very fancy necklace.

Hearing some laughter I looked up to see both Kana and Amanda smiling at the display before they two came forward and gave me a hug. "Congratulations on your rank up!" They both said to me causing my own smile to widen as I hugged them both back tightly.

"Thank you to whomever dragged me into the tub, wouldn’t have wanted to stain the floor!" I said with a chuckle.

"You are more than welcome." Kana said whilst squeezing me tighter. "How did your advancement go get anything good? I can see that your dress has changed was that one of your upgrades?"

Pulling back slightly I thought about if I should share everything before shrugging and giving them access the the last few notification windows I had received, I had learnt that this was possible and I did enjoy this function. I watched on as both of their faces went through a myriad of emotions from shock to surprise to worry back to shock then awe before settling on confused pride?

I couldn’t help but laugh at the rapid fire changes their faces went through. "So what do you think?" I innocently asked.

It was Amanda who managed to get her herself first. "Well you are just a broken existence it seems. She said with a bemused look that slowly morphed into something a touch more seductive. "And it would appear that you really are a submissive little elf aren’t you? Seems we will be able to advance in the same way you do, all we need to do to ensure this is remind you who is the boss." As she spoke she slowly ran her hand down my side till it settled in my bum and then she gave it a playful swat when she finished.

I shivered at that and despit thinking I was sexually satisfied earlier I suddenly though that I would not be going to sleep anytime soon. Oh well the things we sacrifice for those we love.

Morning arrived to find me squished between my two lovers and with a dragon curled around my neck, when Dawn got into our bedroom I have no idea. I also sighed as I looked down at my body to see that I was now much shorter than previously maybe just under 5ft and my breasts had been expanded quite considerably. Shaking my head I snuggled back into the warm embrace of Kana and waited for them to wake up.

Once they did eventually start to wake I escaped from the bed and began to cook us some breakfast. I also went to readjust my body but found a worrying change, I could no longer make my height surpass the 5ft mark. It seemed that this was forever to be my new height, sighing I also noticed that whilst I could shrink my bust from its egregious size I again couldn’t shrink them to their previous size, seemed I was also to be stuck with a D cup. I really did seem to be encapsulating my skill Body of Lust. Shaking my head at the ridiculousness of my skills and body I finished off making breakfast the two girls joining me as the smell of my cooking drew them into the kitchen.

After eating we headed out towards the adventures guild, we first got all of our badges upgraded to showcase our improved rank. We then moved over to the job board to find one that would suit our needs.

We managed to find an escort mission, a merchant was looking to travel to the city of Bowan which is around a weeks journey away and was hiring adventures to escort them there, they would be leaving tomorrow morning and asked any potentials to meet them at their inn to discuss any details. Thinking this was acceptable we decided to tie up any loose ends.

For Amanda this involved selling her house, turned out that this could be done in two ways, either find another person who wanted to buy it or you could sell it back to the town who would purchase any property and then resell it at a later date. Granted you would get a worse deal with the second option but for a fast sell it was the best option so she went ahead with that.

Whilst Amanda dealt with that went and purchased some previsions I focused on the food stuff that we might need whilst Kana topped off any consumables, she bought a couple of health and mana potions enough so we each had 2 of each, they were fairly basic but would do in a pinch. Alongside this she also stocked up on some more arrows and throwing knife’s. I did offer to just craft her arrows with Nature Moulding but she refused claiming they would stand out too much.

We eventually all met up again and proceeded toward the inn the merchant was staying at so we could introduce ourselves. Entering the inn we approached the barman a stocky dwarven fellow at around 4ft tall and with a neatly braided black beard and simple attire of a tunic and pants. After speaking with him he directed us to find a table and he’d send someone to go inform the merchant.

Settling down at a table we were soon joined by a older human man and a younger human female, based on their ages it looked like the merchant was traveling with his granddaughter? The older man was clearly getting in in his years with weather worn features framing his aged but kind face. He had a head of silver hair neatly pulled behind this head and a quite magnificent mustach.

His granddaughter shared his deep blue eyes and had a softer face but her eyes were sharp and intelligent, she wore a simple blue dress and matched Amanda in height.

"So you 3 are the adventures looking to escort our waggon eh?" The old man spoke, his voice held a roughness gained through long years of loudly anouncjng his wares.

"That we are, I’m Amanda, she is Kana and our last is Lilly here. What is your name?"

"Derek’s the name and this here is my granddaughter Shara." The old man responds, he the continues. "Hmm what’s your speciality’s then?" He asked in return.

I spoke this time. "I’m a mage, focus on control and damage with some healing capabilities. Kana here is a scout and archer with wind magic. And Amanda is our mele specialist."

He thought for a moment before nodding his head and extending his hand to me. "Well welcome aboard we are looking to head out at first light tomorrow. Meet us at the North gate, we will prove food but you can sort out your own shelter and you can ride on the back of the waggon during the journey."

Smiling I shook his hand. "Looking forward to working with you both."

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Finally leaving Tenebre village and forest and off to explore a bigger city!

Any guesses on what they will find at the new city?