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Paul tried to trate on the game instead of on Chris. It was already hard to deal with him IRL, and now that he had obtained such a provocative avatar, for ck of a better word, he was having a hard time even looking at him.
Everything about Chris screamed the word erotid he simply couldn’t shake that off his head. It was ihe Charm Stat of an Incubus in the works there. However, he had also noticed that Chris wasn’t a full-blooded one, but a half-incubus.
“Also his Trait…”
He looked at Chris' Status again, finding the Trait that he had almost fotten about, and also the Fw. Chris had not goo details about them, but they seemed quite iing.
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[Character Background Traits]: [Fairy Spirit Heart (Legendary Grade)]
[Character Background Fws]: [Insatiable (Legendary Grade)]
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“Fairy Spirit Heart? It’s a Trait and not something like a feature for his progression, like a blood core?” Paul thought. “And then… Insatiable, ah, I don’t even want to think about what that is about.”
“Paul! Hey! Why did you start running away out of nowhere? Take it easy, dude!” Chris finally caught up with Vd, who had finally stopped moving across the pins and stood up in the middle of it.
“Ah, sorry about that; I just... Err, never mind.” Paul couldn’t really make an excuse; he had simply run away from Chris' presence because of that aura he had.
A pink-colored aura that created a very alluring prese seemed that Chris was pletely unaware of its powers, it brought the attention of anybody nearby, and the closer you got to him, the dizzier you felt.
“Huh? Is the game that fun for you?” Chris raised an eyebrow. “You’re so lucky to get that cool vampire guy... I bet the only thing you o do with that Dracu cospy is drink bloht? Easiest sh*t in the world in a video game about hunting monsters.”
“It’s not that good, actually…” Paul sighed. “I guess it’s about time we share each other’s Traits and Fws. So we get a better uanding of our abilities and weaknesses. How about it?”
“Hmm, fine…” Chris sighed. “But don’t make jokes after reading it, okay?” he started poking Vd’s face with his index finger; his nails were painted red and were looo.
“Okay, okay, stop ping me…” Vd blushed a bit. “Here, look.”
After making sure there were no monsters in the viity and that they would o walk a bit more to enter any as this was the lowest-level dungeon out there, Paul decided to show his Trait and Fw to Chris.
“Oooh? Woah, what the—you got two Traits and two Fws?! And… What?! Huh?!”
Chris' face was stantly ging expressions as the cute boy couldn’t believe his eyes! Not only did Paul get two amazingly overpowered Traits that allowed him to eat anything and absorb it and ahat made him nearly invincible for ten minutes a day, but his stats were already pretty high.
However, when he looked at the Fws… He was at first fused about what he read, quickly realizing the terrible weakhat Vd had: a 90% debuff to all stats active at all times. And then, well, the Heavenly Demon’s fw did not offer aive thing.
But it had a certaihat he had to fulfill within a year, or else, well, he would permaly lose trol over his Avatar.
“What is this? Pfff, Hahahah!” Chris started ughing without stopping. “So you… Your background is that the Vd guy is... the reination of a super strong martial artist from another realm, I see, but the fw... So he’s gay, and he wants a “male bride”?!”
“Aaagh, don’t rub salt in the wound!” Paul felt an immense ge as he heard Chris talking about it. “I know it’s ge.”
“It reminds me of those Danmei novels, where it’s like yaoi, but with ese fantasy cultivators instead,” Chris pointed out. “There’s always the heavenly demon and then the heavenly saint or something; one represents the bad guys and the other the good guys, and well, they get going and stuff.”
“Hm? And why exactly are you reading yaoi?” Paul wondered as Vd raised an eyebrow in response.
“Eh?!”
Chris panicked a bit; he was caught rather easily for talking out loud and trying to poke more fun out of Paul! He ended up spilling a little secret: he liked reading BL romanovels.
“T-That’s just a fantasy book anyway, dude. I just read a bunch of novels of any genre and type to get a grip on the market, ya know? Yaoi sells pretty well sometimes,” said Chris. “Though I found out it doesn’t sell that well on English publishing pages... It’s weird; only BL Manga and BL ese Stories ever sell well; anything else just falls off. Not a good market!”
“Hmm, okay…” Paul decided to just not pursue the situation; it's not like he had time for it. “Anyways, let me see yours now.”
“R-Right… Okay,” Chris swallowed saliva. “Just don’t make fun of me…”
“Hard to ask when you just did that to me…” Paul crossed his arms, and his handsome face gave him a strre, whily made Chris recoil a bit.
Having such a handsome, tall vampire looking at him slightly angrily was making him really Well, it was better not to say it.
“Y-Yes, okay, look…” Chris looked elsewhere, blushing out of embarrassment.
“Let me see…”
Vd squinted his crimson eyes, analyzing Chris' Character Background Traits and Fws.
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[Character Background Traits]: [Fairy Spirit Heart (Legendary Grade)]
Alitheus is the illegitimate son of a Succubus and the Fairy King of the Fantasia Realm. Born as a half-incubus and a half-fairy, he has the properties of both the children of the Evil Goddess of Obsession and Pleasure, Luxuria, and the desdants of the World Tree, Yggdrasil.
Unbeknownst to him, he possesses the properties and abilities of a Fairy Heart of the highest quality, a special crystalized an Fairies possess iheir chest. However, because he’s a demon, he was uo create it from birth.
heless, these properties remain within his entire body, making him an even deadlier Incubus than the rest of his peers, in exge for starting out weaker than them.
Grants the ability to absorb and develop Spiritual Energies of any property or attribute and freely jure Spirit Magic. Alongside that, it is also possible to easily tract Spirits, and the user is naturally loved and protected by them, even to the point of receiving gifts and offers from them.
Illusion, Nature, Life, Spirit, and Dream Magic receive an enhao their learning proficy, speed, and spell power of 300%.
It is possible to gain the properties of fairies within the user’s body as they develop and obtain more abilities as a result.
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“Oh, this is pretty good; your Trait allow you to tract Spirits! That'll definitely be useful, Chris,” Paul erying to cheer up his friend, even if a bit.
“Aaah, I guess so? I hadn’t thought about that too deeply; how do I even find spirits anyway?” Chris wondered.
“Hmm, I could always look for that online; wait a bit…” Paul moved on to the Fw’s information.
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[Character Background Fws]: [Insatiable (Legendary Grade)]
Alitheus has been cursed by his progenitor and primordial aor, Luxuria, the Evil Goddess of Obsession and Pleasure for being an “imperfect” existehat possesses the properties of Fairies, beings abhorred by demons.
Normally, the retionship between fairies and succubus would only yield a pure-blooded incubus as their bloodlines are pletely incapable of mixing, however, Alitheus is a rare case, managing to el both a Demonid a Fairy bloodlihin him.
His existence is sidered an "error,” and to punish him for eveing, Luxuria has given him a curse, the curse of the “insatiable.”.
The more energy and lifeforce the user absorb from a target, the more obsessed they bee with it, and the more ces there are of them entering a frenzy that will make them go temporarily mad while draining as muergy as possible.
It makes the growth of the Lust Stigma ten times slower, requiring much more energy to be draio grow stronger. And if the user has yet to drain any energy from a target for 48 hours, they will enter a {Hunger} status that will decrease their stats every hour by -5% (Max -90%).
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“Wow, the Fw is really harsh…” Paul didn’t really find anything to ugh about.
In fact, it made him empathize more with Chris' situation because his Fretty simir. However, Vd’s fw was caused by Gu’s gift, while Luxuria here directly cursed Alitheus like a bitch.
“Yeah, see? Actually, my stats are already going down…” Chris sighed.
“So how exactly does this energy-draining work?” Asked Paul. “Don’t be shy, and just tell me.”
“W-Well, we don’t really o do anything; just touch,” Chris sighed. “If the target is going through stroions or is in pain and dying, the energy drain bees faster too.”
“I see…” Paul nodded. "Thankfully, you’re not forced to… Well, do that.”
“Yeeeah, but the system keeps insisting on that!” Chris felt embarrassed again.
“For now, how about you try feeding off me?” Paul asked. “Here, grab my hand; that should do it, right?”
“But…” Chris felt embarrassed about even doing that with Paul, but there wasn’t much of an optiht now.
“Don’t worry about it; let’s see how you do this first,” Paul gave him f words.
“Okay, fine…” Chris oug Vd’s hand.
The moment he did, his womb tattoo glowed brightly, as he felt warm energy entering his body.
“Aahh… Ah, sh*t, this feels good…” Chris moaned almost in pleasure, making Paul even more embarrassed.
He quickly noticed his stamina and energy were slowly going down. There was h Point indicator in this game, but every person could naturally feel their own life force decreasing or increasing as they took damage or healed.
Perhaps an aspect of the game’s realism was that there was no HP Bar, meaning that, uher games where taking enough damage on a single part of your body could eventually kill you, in this game, it was important to aim at the vitals instead.
Any pyer could survive taking damage in any area and could also instantly die if their head or heart were crushed. Also, being crippled by having their spine broken was a real problem.
Of course, there was healing magiedy most things; even potions and elixirs worked as well, but evehere was still this internal Life Force, whicreased the stronger a Pyer became.
This Life Force helped increase the natural recovery of wounds, maamina, and even seemed to affect Ki.
“Ugh, Chris, I think that’s enough… I’m getting tired…” Paul groaned. “Chris?”
Vd’s crimson eyes opened wide as he realized Chris seemed to have slightly ged.
His cute red eyes glowed brightly, his wings became three times as rge, and his long tail suddenly began ing around his arm.
“L-Let me suck a bit more…”
He slowly extended his tongue, which was lohan Paul thought, as he began lig his hand.
“Ahh~ Why is it so tasty? What the hell? I should just eat you up pletely instead…”
“W-Wait! Stop it!”
Paul felt flustered, shocked, embarrassed, and aroused, but he quickly stopped Chris, giving him a little bonk in the head.
“Ouch! Hey! What- Eek!”
Chris came back from his daze after being bonked in the head, swiftly stepping ba embarrassment after letting go of Vd.
“Agh… I’m so exhausted…” Paul felt pletely tired, falling into the dark grass below. “Oof…”
He popped out a Stamina Pill and ate it. It slowly recovered some of his Life Force, but it wasn’t enough, so he drank a blood bottle, and that finally did the trick.
“W-What the fuck did I do? That was freaky!” Chris said. “Sorry about that, dude; I didn’t mean to...”
“A-Ah… Well, it’s fine, I guess? This game is weird because it directly affect our senses; I guess it's part of the Full Dive VR Teology,” Paul sighed.
He was trying tet the immense arousal he felt when Chris licked his hand; he had almost felt something down there beginning to rise, and it wasn’t the Shield Hero.
Paul couldn’t really believe that whole se even happened, but he tried tain his posure after he heard something moving across the tall grass.
“Ah, sh*t, right, we’re inside a dungeon.”
He stood back up, standio Chris.
“What’s wrong?” Chris asked.
“’t you hear them? There are monsters around. They’re hiding in the grass; stay by my side,” Paul said.
“Ah, right!” Chris' senses finally fred up once he regained his posure too.
The sound of slightly rge creatures approag became louder—not one or two, but three of them at ohe grasses shook rapidly; their movements were quick; they weren’t even trying to hide anymore.
“They’re here.”
Vd’s eyes shone bright red as he detected something jumping towards him from his left.
“ROAR!”
It itch-bck wild dog, a Tier 1 monster of the lowest rank. It was around the size of an adult domestic brador, and it had sharper fangs like those of actual wolves. Its crimson-red eyes shone amidst the darkness of the night, attempting to bite Vd’s face off.
“{Fireball}!”
Using his wand, Vd quickly acted, juring a fireball roughly the size of his head, which was fired directly into the wild dog’s head, exploding and engulfing the beast in burning fmes.
BOOOM!
“Gryyaagh!”
The monster quickly fell to the floor and started g and running away, but the fmes ed its entire body, dying after a few seds.
“What the hell?! You know magic?!” Chris gasped, amazed.
“I learned a few things and imbued them into this wand I made.” Vd smiled fidently.
“H-He do all of that already? Why is he so cool out of nowhere?” Chris thought, feeling rather shocked by this new facet of Paul he had not seen before.
“ROAR!”
The other two wild dogs pouo attack. One of them aimed at Chris' legs, which he detected in time and used his wings to fly into the skies, evading a deadly bite. The sed wolf jumped to bite his tail, though.
“Eek, don’t bite my tail!”
“Just kick it and punch it! Abuse the fact that you fly! Don’t you have any ons they gave you at the beginning?” Vd asked as he hahe other Wild Dog by using his martial arts.
His punches were so weak at -90% stats that it was barely a joke to the Wild Dog, but each punch stole a piece of the monster’s soul, weakening it.
“I got this thing, a trident sort of thing?”
Chris pulled out a bck-colored trident from his iory.
“The! Quickly!”
“Got it!”
Chris quickly luhe trident down; the Wild Dog evaded the attack because it was really obvious, and thehe trident to climb and attempt to bite the cute Incubus's face!
“Uwagh!”
Chris furiously puhe monster’s stomach before it could get any closer and then kicked its face. He only had roughly 40th, but that, coupled with his Lifeforce Stealing ability, was enough for the Wild Dog to drop dead.
“Eh? I killed it?”
He looked down at the monster; it was truly dead, and he also received a notification.
[You have absorbed +100 Lifeforergy from a Monster.]
[Your [Lust Stigma]: [Energy Absorption Realm (Tier 1: Rank 1)] has Ranked Up to Tier 1: Rank 2!]
[Your Sin Power has increased by +200.]
[Your Charm increased by +150.]
[Your Vitality aerity increased by +100.]
[Your Strength has increased by +60.]
[You unlocked the Racial Skill: [Lifeforce Stealing Attack (B): Lv1]!]
[The Racial Skill: [Flight (B): Lv1] has Leveled Up!]
[The Css Skill: [Shenanigans (C): Lv1] has Leveled Up!]
“I got stronger… Now that feels good, this is nice! I didn’t know I could just fight using this power.” Chris smiled, feeling like things weren’t so bad anymore.
“See? You get strooo!” Vd smiled. “Now…”
He pointed his hands at the corpses but then stopped.
“No, wait, we’ll o sell these to make any money… Okay, let’s just drain the blood then.”
FLUOSH!
Chris looked in surprise as Paul rapidly absorbed the blood from the monster corpses and drank it fresh from the ret corpses.
[You have drunk the fresh blood of Monsters.]
[You gained +150 Blood Energy.]
(Blood Energy: 1.050/1.500)
If each Wild Dog gave him roughly 50 Blood Energy, he would o beat nine more to get to Tier 2 Rank 2 at this pace, which is not bad at all.
It ity he couldn’t just eat it, but with Chris around, it was better if he prioritized the two getting something out of it.
“So was that your vampiric power thingy? It looked pretty edgy, but cool,” Chris ughed. “Do you get stronger like that?”
“Yeah, I need Blood Energy for my Blood Core to grow stronger. I get it by drinking fresh blood; old blood from bottles doesn’t work,” Vd expined. “The corpses have now all bled, so they won’t go bad any time soo me store them; once we’re doh the Dungeon, I’ll distribute the spoils equally betweewo. Is that alright with you?”
“Sure! I don’t mind~” Chris smiled. “Thanks, Paul. I was really worried this css was shitty, but I ended up finding a way to fight. I’m kind of pumped up.”
“Me too; I also felt like shit, but because I helped my sister, I ended up getting Ara and magic books; with that, I was able to craft this wand and finally step out of my dammed manor,” Paul sighed in relief. “We have to just work around our fws and slowly improve.”
“Right! I’m finally feeling the vibe of a fug MMO now; let’s go hunt and level up!” Chris had pletely switched to his gamer mode.
“Haha, okay, slow down!” Paul ended up chasing Chris as he flew away, looking for monsters.
They advahrough the Instance Dungeon, cheg the timer.
[Duime: 24 Minutes]
[Monsters Left: 7/10]
[Dungeon Boss: Alive]
This low-level dungeon only had a time limit of 30 mien monsters, and one boss. The way to plete a dungeon was to sy the boss; sying the monsters wasn’t a y, but anybody who wao grind would hunt them anyway.
If the timer went down to zero and the boss wasn’t sihe pyers would quickly get kicked out of the dungeon and appear behind the Dungeon Gate iown. Then, they would have to wait five minutes before entering the dungeon; this cooldown would vary depending on the duype. But the minimum was 5 minutes.
Or so was aul iigated online, and which Chris was listening to as he expi to him while they hunted a group of four Wild Dogs.
“I see, that sounds pretty iing, so you just enter a Dungeon infinitely?”
Chris asked this question as he flew in the air, evading the Wild Dogs while provoking them with his high Charm Stat and then impaling their heads when they got close enough.
His new Skill: [Lifeforce Stealing Attack (B): Lv1] allowed him to not o touch a foe to steal their life force, as long as they were holding a patible “demon on," and the trident was one.
“Yeah, that’s right, we go as much as we want. The thing is, we’ll eventually get too tired; this game is too realisti some aspects after all,” Vd expined. "Also, my wand has a limited amount of Ara; o's down to zero, I won’t even be able to move without its help.”
As he expined, he fought two Wild Dogs at orying to preserve mana. He maneuvered in the air and evaded blows while hitting the monsters with his feeble punches.
The Wild Dogs felt their souls slowly beien bite after bite; it often took five to seven puo kill them in this way. It was annoying, but it saved Ara.
He would only fire a spell when he had no way to dodge.
Like right now.
“ROAR!”
“Shit, there was a fifth?!”
Paul panicked as he saw another Wild Dog jump from behind. He quickly jured a spell to repel it as quickly as possible.
“{Ice Shard}!”
His golden e glowed brightly as a small spear of ice was created out of thin air, firing towards the Wild Dog’s open jaierg its throat.
CLASH!
The Wild Dog dropped dead instantly; the Ice Shard Spell wasn’t as explosive as the Fireball, but its pierg power was the best.
“Need some help~?”
Chris appeared from above before Paul was to get swarmed by more Wild Dogs, kig them and then pieg their heads with his trident.
“Hah, thank you,” Vd didn’t care if his kills got stolen; he gained Blood Energy anyway.
It was also better if Chris killed them, so he would get the most Lifeforergy out of them.
“You’re wele; I am totally carrying yht now, lol~” Chris ughed mischievously as he saw Vd absorb the blood.
“Holy, we’re pretty even in terms of tribution... But you indeed dish out damage easily; you just fly very high and just evade all attacks. Flight’s really a cheat…” Paul felt a bit jealous.
“ime you get crippled, I’ll just carry you on my bad kill monsters; you’ll get carried by me and owe me a lot, haha!” Chris was sav the moment.
“That actually sounds like a good strategy…” Paul was quite shameless about it and seemed to like being carried anyway. “Will you really carry me like that? It would be really nice of you.”
“Eh? Ah…” Chris wao tease him, but Paul took it seriously. “There’s no way! You’re super heavy, dude; I wouldn’t even be able to fly like that.”
“Ah, yeah…” Paul sighed but also felt stronger after abs the Blood Energy.
[You have drunk the fresh blood of Monsters.]
[You gained +450 Blood Energy.]
(Blood Energy: 1.500/1.500)
[Your [Blood Core]: [Blood Refi Realm (Tier 2: Rank 1)] has Ranked Up to Tier 2: Rank 2!]
[Your Blood Power has increased by +250.]
[Your Strength, Vitality, aerity have increased by +200.]
[Your Ara has increased by +100.]
[The Racial Skills: [Moonlight Boost (C): Lv1] and [Ogre’s Muscles (C): Lv1] have Leveled Up!]
[The Css Skills: [Soul-Eating Fist Teique (S): Lv1] and [Treacherous (D): Lv1] have Leveled Up!]
[You Learhe Css Skill: [Beast Hunter (D): Lv1]!]
[Beast Hunter (D): Lv1]: [Increases Damage Dealt against Beast-type foes by 10%, decreases Damage taken from Beast-type foes by 5%.]
Vd took a g his gains a satisfied enough. The Beast Hunter Skill seemed like a particurly good passive skill, so he equipped it quickly.
“I think these were the st monsters… Yeah, ten out of ten, they’re all hunted.”
[Duime: 14 Minutes]
[Monsters Left: 10/10]
[Dungeon Boss: Alive]
“Now what?” Chris asked.
“We hunt the Boss…”
Paul and Chris had been analyzing how the dungeon worked as they moved through it.
Despite the Dungeon resembling an endless grassnd, its space was quite limited. They had walked enough to rea invisible wall, and through their senses, which they expanded using the Auras of their respective Racial Abilities, they were able to more or less mentally map the yout of the entire dungeon.
Despite fusing people by making it seem like just a giant grassnd, it was actually fe rooms interected by small passages, which were all invisible. They moved through the first three rooms; the fourth was the st, and they wondered where the boss might be located.
“The gates in this weird dungeon are invisible too; they open automatically once you get close enough, and the monsters jump out of nowhere,” Paul expined.
“Yeah, it’s really weird... But I kind of like the vibe it has~” Chris seemed to be having fun.
And Paul too.
Pying the game alone was okay and fun, but with a friend, things always became more iing and fun.
Teamwork was indeed necessary when both had awful fws too.
“I think it’s around here- Ah!”
The moment they stepped forward, suddenly, the huge body of a creature surged from the grassnd.
The invisible gate had already opened, revealing the beast hiding i room.
“GRRHHH…”
It was a two-and-a-half-meter-tall Wild Wolf, the Tier 1: Rank 5 Boss of the Dungeon.
It was four ranks above the other monsters, who were only between Tier 1 Rank 1 to 2!
“ROOAR!”
The beast was getting ready to attack.
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