"Shy, wake up." Beck whispered into her sleeping Support's ear. Shiloh cracked his eyes open, already smiling at the huskiness in her voice. He sat up and looked around. The pillows and bhe five of them had spread out formed a sort of on the floor of the tent, and it was not unoccupied. He found Elnor and Twil sleeping, but no sign of Ara.

  "Good m." He whispered back before she captured his lips in a needy kiss. He pced a hand on the back of her head and id back down, taking her with him. He ran his fiips over her furry ears, and she moaned into his mouth. He took advantage of her momentary distra to slip his too her mouth, and hers eagerly met it.

  When Beck could hold her breath no lohey broke apart gasping. The lust from her eyes was now mirrored in his, and he had to focus his entire willpower to keep from jumping her bones, which was made much more difficult by the girls' insistehat nobody wear clothes to bed.

  "Did you want to discuss-"

  "No." Beck's response was short and direct. "I need you." To prove her point, she raised herself to a kneeling position and dropped her heavy coto his own. He hissed at the sensation of pain turned into pleasure. She leaned back down and kissed him, her cock sliding up his abdomen and smearing her precum all over him. She pulled back again and admired his naked form beh her.

  Shiloh smiled warmly at her, and he saw her lust abate for a moment before it returwice as strong as it had beeail began wagging as she lifted his ko his chest. Shiloh loved his women folding him in half, not just because it made him tighter for them and he loved the dominating feeling of not being able to move, but also because he could feel their desires.

  Ever since he had gaihe power to see their deepest desires, he had started posing lists of fun things they would never ask for. Despite all the degeneracy he saw in their minds, there was one on longing that they all shared, and that made an appearan every single coupling they had with him.

  They loved to see him cum. Whenever he started breathing heavy and twitg, each of them had the overwhelming urge to see his eyes roll back as they brought him to mind-shattering asm with only their cock. It gave them a sense of power and pleteo know that they were all their lover needed in order to reach the peaks of ecstasy.

  So, each of his lovers had bee incredibly fond of any position that allowed them to look into his eyes, and Ara and Beck were particurly partial to folding him in half and power-fug him into whatever he was ying on. They had to be a bit more careful while camping, though, as he was ying on the ground.

  Beck lined herself up and slid easily into him, earning a soft groan of satisfa from both of them. They both flushed and cmped their jaw shut. The rule was, if you eople up by fug the Cleric, you had to pull a double shift the following night, which meant you had even less of an opportunity to fill him up. Elnor twitched, but otherwise didn't move. Shiloh grinned and made a shushiure at Beck.

  The foxgirl rolled her eyes and smmed a quick thrust into his prostate. Shiloh's eyes shot open and he squeaked. Beck made a shushiure back at him and he flipped her off. She raised an eyebrow, and he grinned suggestively. She began slowly fug into him, making sure to hit his spot with every thrust.

  Shiloh's head fell bad he struggled not to moan as she did her best to give him all the pleasure she could. He could barely focus through the haze of bliss that quickly fell upon his mind. heless, he picked up a desire that fshed through her mind seds before she did it.

  Beck sat back a little bit and leaned her left forearm across his feet, keeping his knees bent towards his chest. With her right hand, she reached between his legs and grabbed hold of his cock. Shiloh's eyes shot open as she ed her hand around it and began pumping. It wasn't the first time one of his girls had pyed with his cock, but it was the first time they had such devious thoughts about it.

  Shiloh, though he knew her pn, couldn't stop his body from rapidly approag climax. Between her swelling cockhead smashing his prostate with each slow thrust, her hand firmly stroking his own member, and the love he felt both for her and ing from her, Shiloh's body betrayed him.

  He let out a keening whine, which Beck silenced by pg her left hand over his mouth. He reached up and grabbed the backs of his knees, keeping himself folded up for his lover. When Beck felt him begin to jerk, she stopped thrusting and ed her thumb and forefinger around the base of his cock, squeezing tightly. Shiloh's whiurned into a growl of frustration as he was denied release. He gred daggers at Beck, who smirked back at him.

  When his breathing had leveled out, she began slowly thrusting into him again. Once she'd gotten bato her rhythm, her right ha back to stroking his cod her left moved to his shoulder to give herself more leverage on his ass.

  "That was mean." Shiloh muttered softly. "Doing it three more times is even meaner."

  Beck sighed. "You know, not being able to surprise you in bed is kind of a bummer, Shy."

  "I'm sorry." Shiloh sighed. Twil had mentiohe same thing, but he didn't know how to turn the ability off.

  "It's okay, hun." Beck whispered. "It doesn't stop you from making that cute little 'mean face' when I do this." She began rapidly jerking him off until he began twitg again, and she denied him the release once again.

  By this point, Shiloh's breath was heaving and he could feel sweat beading on his forehead. He was sure his face was bright red as well, and all he wanted was to feel her fill him up and to reach his own climax. She began thrusting when his breathing had slowed a bit. She slowly drove him back up to his peak but, instead of stopping and gripping his cock to deny him, she ched around his cod pounded him even faster.

  Shiloh was sure she'd messed up, that he was going to cum in spite of her improvised c. Her hips hit his with just enough force to jostle him without spping. He writhed ahe asm ing closer and closer. He was going to blow...

  Beck squeezed down even harder on his cod pulled entirely out of him. The ck of stimution drove him mad with desire. He thrashed beh her, angry and frustrated and gring at her intensely.

  "There's the look." She whispered to him, smirking. "Let's see if we get it again, shall we?"

  Shiloh shook his head desperately, begging with his eyes for release from this torture. Beck just smiled and eased herself bato him. She slowly hilted herself in his hot hole, relishing the squeezing of his ass around her length. Shiloh used every trick he could think of; tightening up on her, giving her his best puppy-dog eyes, whining in the back of his throat, biting his lower lip, even softly begging her for her load.

  Beck was unfazed by it all, and her desires were so single-mindedly focused on t him that he couldn't even try to distract her with anything else that she wanted. So, he was forced to watd feel as his frustrated body was quickly brought back to the edge. She pressed her cht into his prostate and, instead of withdrawing again, she began grinding into it. Shiloh bit down on a fio keep himself from screaming for her.

  Beck suddenly withdrew everything from his body. His hole wi her as it closed back up. His cock twitched in need, but there was no stimution to push it over the edge. He actually pouhe ground in disappoi, and tears began to fill his eyes. He just wao cum.

  Beck waited for him to still, then slowly slid into him. She lowered his legs, then id on top of him in missionary, bringing her face so very close to his own. She smiled at him and caressed his hair, whispering into his ear.

  "Don't worry Shy, now it's time. Yoing to cum so hard for me, aren't you? Yonna blow that hot, sticky load all over my tummy, Shy. You won't be able to feel me fill you up until you do, you know? Don't you wao fill you up? Give me that cum, Shy. Give it to me."

  At her urging, his arousal rose to its fifth peak and he finally, blessedly, reached the summit. His eyes rolled bad a low groan, stifled by her hand, rocketed up his throat as his cock erupted between them. As promised, he covered her stoma his sticky, salty seed. Beck murmured her approval before speeding up her thrusts, being careful not to sp into him.

  Beck's eyes began sliding out of focus as Shiloh's slid ba. He was barely able to see straight when she ched her eyes shut and buried herself within him. He felt her love flooding into him as her desires were met, and it sent him into another climax at frightening speed. He positively soaked them and their portion of the of bedding.

  Beck colpsed on top of him, and he followed her into dreamnd. They didn't wake again until they heard Elnor scoff at them when she saw the state they had fallen asleep in.

  "Get ed up. We have a lot to do today." Elnor huffed.

  "Yeah, big day!" Ara called from outside the tent when she heard Elnor's irritated voice. "We finally get to see what everyone's been hiding!"

  Beck groaned.

  "You don't have to, B." Shiloh murmured. "We won't think any less of you."

  "No, it's fine." Beck mumbled back. "Just fot about it. I don't think you really uand how fug awkward this is going to be for everyone. My parents don't even know each others' full skill list."

  "Where are your parents?" Shiloh asked as they began ing up aing dressed.

  "Chattery. I'm a local, born and raised here." Beck seemed a bit upset by her own answer.

  "Why were you spending on a room at the Guild?"

  Beck sighed. "I chose a css suited for adventuring because I want to see more of the world. My parents are traders, but not the traveling kind. I want to see far away nds and experience different people's ways of life. I want to see fantastical creatures and magical anomalies. Since I've started adventuring, though, the furthest I've gotten from home is the dungeon. I spent so much time at home that my dad tried to start teag me the business again, so I moved out and started really looking for any group that could get me out of there. That's why I took a you guys, even though you didn't seem to offer anything iurn."

  "I hope you aren't having any buyer's remorse." Shiloh gave her a small smile. "We havely done a great job getting you away from the city so far."

  "It only took a couple days, Shy." Beck responded with a raised eyebrow. "We're not iy now, are we?"

  "Well, no, but we're still going back."

  "I don't mind going back, especially after Aphrodite made it pretty clear that she has big pns for you throughout the world." Beck gave him a light pun the shoulder, then led him out of the tent.

  The others were gathered around the campfire, and Ara was just dishing up breakfast for everyone. Shiloh accepted his gratefully, and they all ate in silence as they pted what was ing up. There was a definite air of nervousness pervading the group, and Shiloh was w what he could do to kind of break the ice. When breakfast was over, Shiloh coughed and all of them looked at him.

  "Well, you already know my skills, but I figured I would go ahead and give you all a refresher first, if you don't mind." Nobody argued, and Elnave him a smile and a nod, as if she kly what he was doing. "Let's start with my stat sheet."

  Shiloh SuttonCss: Cleric of AphroditeHP: 150/150Level: 6MP: 150/150Lust: 1630 Strength: 8Ara: 0Finesse: 15Divine: 92Fortitude: 15Resistance: 15Endurance: 12Focus: 15 "I still 't believe you hit Level 6 before me." Ara muttered. "You're so fug lucky, Shy."

  "Hey, I worked for my levels!" Shiloh protested. This led to a hearty round of ughing from everyone. Even Twil chuckled a couple times.

  "Okay, well, maybe I didn't work as hard as you all have." Shiloh admitted with a grin. "I guess we'll move on to my skills." He focused on the skills tab, and it opehen, on a bout of inspiration, he focused on the skills tab again. Much to his delight, it gave him the option to dispy all of them.

  Emp Pool

  Store a pool of lustful energy whenever engagingin sexual acts. Disperse this energy ter to givean ally a buff to a stat of their choice equal 50% ofyour Diviribute. Duration scales with amountof energy stored.

  Aphrodite's Advocate

  So long as you are the one speakiiations with your party aremore likely to end in your favor.

  Healing Unions

  You heal an ally for an amount ofHP equal to your Divinity per asmyou give them.

  Aphrodite's Guidance

  You gain a ritual by whiay speakwith your patron. You may ask three questionsand she may answer in any manner she sees fit.

  Feat of Persistence

  You have proven yourself capable of going the distance.You no longer incur exhaustion by missing sleep.Gain +5 Endurand +5 Focus.

  Boon of Aphrodite's Beloved

  Your dedication to the ways and means of Aphrodite hasmarked you with her love. You have been blessed withthe uanding of the desires of anyone you eh in sexual acts, while engaged in those acts.

  Boon of Akeso's Mercy

  Your brush with death at the hands of another hasdrawn Akeso's empathy to you. You have beenblessed with the amplification of all healingmagics, both cast by you and cast on you.

  Boon of Nemesis's Retribution

  Nemesis has seen the injustice which has beeninflicted on you by Ashleigh Coldwater. She hastaken all but one of each of Coldwater's stat pointsand giveo you.

  Cleric's Radiance

  You may expend activate this skill to emita healing aura around you. Allies withinsixty feet of you are healed for 50% of yourDivinity stat every mi the cost of100 Lust per minute.

  "I kind of feel like we wasted our money on that wand of healing, now." Elnor mented.

  "It's not a total waste." Twil tered. "Any of us use it, if we o. It also stacks with Cleric's Radiand Akeso's Blessing, so he went from no mid-bat healing to detly high amounts of it."

  Elnor hummed, but didn't respond.

  "I'll go ." Ara said, with the look of someone about to dive from a cliff without knowing how deep the water was beh. She focused for a moment, theatus sheet appeared.

  AraLittonCss: BerserkerHP: 150/150Level: 6MP: e: 0 Strength: 35Ara: 0Finesse: 11Divine: 0Fortitude: 35Resistance: 0Endurance: 13Focus: 0 After seeing Ara's stats, Shiloh realized just how insane his own truly were. Where he had most of his stats at 15 or above, Ara had clearly hyper-focused into what she o make her css work. She had three stats at 0, and her Finesse was much lower than Shiloh would have expected. The others, however, seemed quite impressed.

  "Wow! You're only level six and already over 30 in your primary and sedary stats?" Beck whistled in appreciation. "I didn't break 30 in my sedary until Level 10."

  "It's because of a skill." Ara admitted, then switched over. "Shiloh, how did you get them all to show up at the same time? It only lets me selee at a time."

  "Focus oab again." Shiloh replied, and Ara's eyebrows raised before all of her skills showed above her head.

  Berserker's Rage

  You build up Rage while taking, dealing, blogor avoiding damage. While out of bat, yeslowly drains to 0. You gain 1 point of Strength for every 10 points e, rounded up.

  Staying Power

  Gain +5 Endurance. While in bat,increase this bonus to +15.

  Mighty Cleave

  You activate this skill to increase the damage of your sshing attackby 250%. Cooldown: 1 minute

  Power of the Berserker

  Gain +15 Strength.

  The Best Defense

  While not wearing medium or heavy armor, your Fortitude is equal to your strength.

  "You have two skills that give you +15 in your stats?" Beck asked ihat's incredible!"

  "Yeah." Ara responded with a mischievous smile. "Staying Power only works in bat, though."

  "Still." Beck was starting to sound a little jealous, and Shiloh grabbed her hand, giving it a squeeze. "How did you get Power of the Berserker?"

  "I actually hit level four at the beginning of the duhat we found Shy in. The first room we came to had a bugbear in it." Beck gasped, Shiloh looked mildly fused. "Bugbears are goblinoids who staween seven a feet tall when fully grown. They have the same pointy noses and ears as regur goblins, but they're covered in fur and their arms are abnormally long. They're also incredibly strong and fast for low-level creatures, though they are pretty dumb.

  "Anyways, we walked into the first room and saw an adolest bugbear in the middle of the room, maybe six feet tall and two hundred pounds, just looking around in the opposite dire. I rushed in like an idiot, and a barrier activated, trapping me in single bat with the thing." Ara looked furious just at the memory of the i. "It she handle of my battleaxe off, and I was forced to wrestle it to the ground before I was able to snap its neck. That gave me level four, and Power of the Berserker."

  "You wrestled a bugbear to the ground and ss neck with your bare hands?" Beck clearly didn't believe a word of her own summation.

  "She did." Twil stated. "Elnor and I tried to help, but the barrier kept our ons and spells from passing through, and it only came dowhe bugbear died."

  "That seems like a pretty brutal trap for the first floor." Shiloh ented.

  "Only if you're an idiot and leave your team behind." Ara muttered. "If I had strategized with them, we might have found out about the barrier without activating it, or we might have been able to kill it fre."

  "Why do you only have five skills?" Elnor asked, fused.

  "I just reached Level 6 yesterday. I didn't have a ce to pick a new skill before we decided we were going to do this, so I waited to get your opinions." Ara replied. Her skill list disappeared before she dispyed her new choices.

  Always Angry

  You retain an amount e equal toyour Fortitude stat after leaving bat.

  Purifying Rage

  You may expend all of ye to cure one poison, disease, curse or maledi afflig you.

  "Defiake Always Angry." Shiloh said immediately.

  "Do we have other ways of getting rid of poisons, diseases, curses and maledis?" Beck asked, looking at Twil and Elnor.

  "Just purging stones." Elnor informed her. "And we only have three of them."

  "Purifying Rage might be worth taking, then."

  "Really?" Shiloh asked. "How ohose afflis? How debilitating are they?"

  They all looked at the walking encyclopedia, and Twil took her cue to expin. "Poisons are fairly on, though they usually don't do much beyond slightly redug your stats or making you feel physically sick. Diseases are also on, but they usually start out more benign ae into serious ditions if not treated, resulting in signifit losses in one or two stats, or moderate losses across all of them. Some of the more serious diseases even kill you, but they take a while to get to that point.

  "Curses are where things get really bad. They're not at all on in the first five floors unless you run into some kind of spellcaster, but they have immediate and drastic effects. They take rge portions of your stats, make you blind, paralyze you, make you vulnerable to certain damage types, the list goes on. There are so many curses that there's a whole College dedicated to them in the capital. The curses Ashleigh was afflicted with should give you a good idea of what they aplish, although those were divinely applied and were strohan anything we're likely to enter, as long as we don't ahe gods.

  "Maledis are the worst of the worst, and they hit multiple people. They are only used by extremely tough enemies, but they are crippling to whomever is afflicted with them. They do things like mind-trol you to attack your friends, switch a party's skills around, cause massive true damage, which bypasses all forms of prote, or even instantly kill you if you're not a high enough level, regardless of any skills or other protes you might have."

  "Well..." Shiloh resporying to absorb the massive info-dump. "It sounds like we really shouldn't have to worry about anything but poison and disease at this low of a level, and poison sounds like it would suck, but we'd be able to naturally recover from it."

  Twil nodded her head at his assessment.

  "So, I would still suggest taking Always Angry. You always take Purifying Rage ter, and I think you'll get more immediate help from having higher Strength and Fortitude at the beginning of every battle."

  "He does have a point." Elnor murmured. "If you keep thirty-five rage after eabat, you essentially get a four-point boost to your Strength and Fortitude at all times."

  "Plus, hitting harder gives me me." Ara ented. "So if I start with higher stats, I should be able to build rage faster eabat. I'm going with it, Shy. You sold me on it."

  "Not much to sell, in my opinion." Shiloh responded with a shrug.

  "They are both powerful skills." Twil observed in agreement. "I suppose I will go ."

  Without any more fawil dispyed her status sheet while Ara locked in her choice.

  TwilReignoverCss: Temporal MageHP: 100/100Level: 5MP: 150/150 Strength: 12Ara: 32Finesse: 10Divine: 0Fortitude: 10Resistance: 24Endurance: 8Focus: 15 "Not bad at all!" Ara said, looking over the halfling's sheet.

  "Why do you have so many physical stats?" Shiloh wondered. "Ara is a physical fighter and has no magical stats at all, and you're a magic caster, so why do you have physical stats like that?"

  In lieu of her normal, refined expnation, Twil merely reached down and grabbed her cock through her robes, giving it a little shake. She did this with airely straight face, making Bed Ara both snicker.

  "What Twil is trying to say is that futas, being naturally stronger and tougher than enders, have naturally higher physical base stats." Elnor said in exasperation. "The other side that she failed to mention is that magilike the ability to swing a sword, is an inborn ability. If you aren't born with it, you literally ot put points into yic stats."

  "Oh." Shiloh murmured, still looking at the vague outline of Twil's cock against her robes. He only mao look up at Twil's skills when Beck kicked his shin.

  Boon of os

  Temporal magicks cost 50% less mana foryou to cast, rounded down.

  Don't BlinkSpell

  Speed up a target's perception of time by10x, making everything else appear tomove 10x faster.

  Cost: 50 ManaDuration: 10 seds

  Spellshield

  Gaiance equal to 50% of yourAra stat, rounded down.

  TimeskipSpell

  Phase yourself out of time and space. Whilephased out, you bee incorporeal andare uo i with the physical world.

  Cost: 100 ManaDuration: 1 sed

  Domain of osSpell

  Pause the flow of time for desigargets in ahe area affected is a sphere with a radius of X feet, where X is your Ara stat.The first attack against a paused target dealsdouble damage.

  Cost: 20 Mana per sed, per targetDuration: tration

  Practice Makes Perfect

  Gain 1 Ara for every 1,000 spellsyou cast.

  "You have a boon, too?!" Beck was almost green with envy. "I'm not feeling like such a fu' hotshot anymore, and I'm double everyone's level, here!"

  "It was not my doing." Twil stated.

  "What do you mean?"

  "I did not earn my Boon of os. My father defeated the Celestial Hydra and, when offered a boon by os, begged him to give it to me, instead." Twil's expnatio Ara, Beck, and Elnor in total shock.

  "What was the Celestial Hydra?" Shiloh asked, half amused and half a his stant feeling of being out of the loop.

  "The Celestial Hydra was-" Twil started, but was cut off by Elnor's words of whispered awe.

  "Your father is Gyrax Stoutheart?"

  "Yes." Twil responded before tinuing her expnation. "The Celestial Hydra was a creature of-" This time, Ara cut her off.

  "Why did you ell us?"

  "You never asked, and it hardly seemed relevant toals. The Celestial Hydra was a creature of immense magical power, capable of many advanced magicks, including the ability to breathe magefire and tee decapitated heads into two new heads. It had seven heads when my father went to do battle with it. Over the course of the battle, he cut off the heads one by one, freezing the stumps in time to prevent them freing until the st head was removed and the beast finally died."

  "So, your dad got pretty famous off that?" Shiloh asked, sure that he hadn't been given the full story yet.

  "My father was well-known before he did battle with the Celestial Hydra." Twil stated.

  Beck sighed. "What she's not telling you, Shiloh, is that her father is the Archmage of the empire."

  Shiloh just stared at her.

  "He is literally the most powerful mage anywhere in the empire, and he works directly for the Emperor." Beck further expined, finally drawing a look of awe from the cute Cleric.

  "So, does that make you royalty?" He asked Twil.

  "No." Twil respoly. "We are not iwined with the Imperial bloodline."

  "It does make her one of the few people with a direct lio the Emperor's ear, though." Elnor said quietly.

  Twil leveled a gaze at her that made Elno stock-still. "I will not be transferring any kind of messages to the Emperor. I left the capital so I wouldn't have to deal with the tedium of nobility anymore. There, I was Gyrax Stoutheart's daughter. Here, I am Twil."

  "I didn't mean... I'm sorry." Elnor whispered, and Twil's gaze softened.

  "It is okay. I am sorry I distressed you."

  A short silence fell over the campsite before Ara piped up in a forced, cheery voice. "How about that level five skill, though? A perma, infinite, power sg skill? That's going to make you a powerhouse, Twil."

  Twil nodded with a small grin. "I have already gained five points of Ara from it. I've been casting Domain of os on bugs and small game during our travels. If I only activate it for a sed, then dismiss it, I get a spellcast off for only ten mana, and its cast time is nearly instantaneous."

  "Very impressive, Twil!" Shiloh said with a warm smile. She gave him a look that made his stomach fill with butterflies and, when Elnor decred she'd go and the others were looking at her status sheet, she purposefully adjusted her co her robes, making sure the outline was visible for him. Shiloh blushed and had to force himself not to stare at it. Or to salivate. Or to just step around the campfire and take her right there. Instead, he male enough willpower to look at Elnor's sheet.

  Elnor LudgerCss: ToxophiliteHP: 100/100Level: 5MP: 0/0 Strength: 14Ara: 0Finesse: 34Divine: 0Fortitude: 10Resistance: 10Endurance: 12Focus: 0 "It would seem I was mistaken about any of us being able to use the Wand of Minor Healing." Twil mused. "her you or Ara have any mana to use with the wand."

  "Yeah, um, sorry?" Elnor said, blushing.

  "Don't be sorry." Shiloh reassured her. "I'm the healer here and, if need be, Twil always use the wand if I'm busy or incapacitated."

  All of the girls winced as the st word left his lips, and his heart swelled with affe for each of them. They were upset even at the mention of him being hurt, and he had never felt so loved in all his life oh.

  "Here, let me pull up my skills." Elnor muttered, desperately ging the subject.

  Toxophilite's Draw

  When drawing an arrow from a quiver, a phantomarrow is drawn instead, leaving the inal arrowbehind and taking on all properties pertaining to it.

  Steady Progress

  Gain 2 Finesse every time you level up.

  Unerring Shot

  If you line up a shot for more than two seds,it deals 50% more damage.

  Well-Rounded

  Increase your Strength, Finesse, Fortitude and Endurance by 3 points.

  Marksman

  Projectile attacks you make against unsuspegtargets deal triple damage.

  "Wow, another sg skill." Shiloh said, beaming at Elnor.

  "Yeah, but it doesn't scale infinitely." She replied, blushing. "Just every time I level up."

  "Still, it's an incredible skill." Beented. "We o make opportunities for you to use Marksman more. That skill is insane."

  "I was actually going to say something about that." Shiloh said, addressing the group at rge. "We haven't evehe skills Beck brings to the table, but already I see dysfun in how we've been fighting."

  "Indeed." Twil agreed. "If I use Domain of os before the enemies know we're there, it should stack with Elnor's Marksman and Steady shot, providing an opening attack that's imes strohaandard attack."

  "If that hits a soft spot, it could probably take out anything that's not out of our level range." Ara said with awe. "Even if it doesn't hit a soft spot, it would probably cripple whatever the stro enemy is that we're fag. Imagine if she'd gotten that off iroll's eye."

  "Imagine if she was buffed with my Emp Pool before she took the shot." Shiloh whispered.

  "Alright, I'm sold." Benounced, leaning back. "Sharing your skills is absolutely the way to do things, if you have a party you trust like ours." Shiloh smiled at this, pleased he had been able to ence the level of trust necessary t this discussion about, and that it had yielded such fruit already.

  He nudged Beck, and she looked at him in puzzlement before the light bulb came on. "ht. My turn." She almost winced, and opened up her stat sheet.

  Bebsp;QuickfootCss: Bul: 450/450Level: 14MP: 10/10 Strength: 20Ara: 1Finesse: 14Divine: 1Fortitude: 45Resistance: 30Endurance: 27Focus: 1 Ara whistled, impressed. "Forty-five in Fortitude? I'll bet Shy here could punch yht i and you wouldn't feel a thing."

  "I'd rather not test it." Beck replied dryly as Shiloh eyed her generous bust. "Up here, Shy."

  Shiloh snapped his head back up and blushed before examiniats again. "Why do you have one in all yic stats? I thought the initial stats were kind of random."

  "You were born under a full eclipse, weren't you?" Elnor asked.

  Beodded. "Yup. When you're born under a full eclipse, when all the moons are aligned, even if you normally wouldn't have had any aptitude fic, you get one point in each stat and are able to learn magiyways."

  "Wow! Talk about lucky." Shiloh grinned and nudged her.

  "I don't want to hear about luck from the guy that gets to level up by getting his back blown out." Beck retorted. "Magic is pretty useless for my css, anyways, so I haven't messed around with it at all."

  "What are those skills looking like, though?" The intrigue pin in Ara's voice.

  Beck sighed and pulled her skills up.

  Blessed by the Moons

  Gain +1 in Ara, Divine and Focus.

  Bulwark's Resolve

  Gain +5 in Fortitude aance.

  Stand Tall

  Wheween an ally and an enemy, take 10% less damage, rounded up.

  Time of Need

  When an ally falls below 20% max HP, you activate this skill to teleport yourselfbetween them and the eo them.

  Drop Yuard

  You may temporarily increase your Firading points from Fortitude or Resistao it. Points return to their inal stat(s)when the effect is ended.

  Shieldsworn

  While wielding a shield, you add 20% ofof your Fortitude or Resistao an allywithin 30 feet of you. Shield bashes dealdouble damage.

  Willing Sacrifice

  When an ally within sixty feet of you is hit by an attaay activate this skill to trahe damage ofthat attack to your own body, bypassing all resistances.

  Tougher than I Appear

  When an attack would deal at least 20% ofyour max HP, you may activate this skillto reduce the damage to 20% instead.

  Shield Stun

  When you bash with your shield, you mayactivate this skill to stuarget forthree seds. Stuargets take doubledamage, but taking damage breaks the stun.

  Bulwark's Durability

  Increase your Fortitude by 50%, rounded up.

  The Front Lines

  While you are between an ally and an enemy,you gain +15 Fortitude aance.

  Lost and Found

  Activate to see a path to each of your teammates at the cost of 10 Stamina per minute.

  Bulwark's Safeguard

  If an ally is reduced to 0 HP, you may activatethis skill to reduce your own HP to 1 instead.

  Master of Distra

  You may activate this ability to draw the attentionof all enemies within 20 feet of yourself.

  Walking Fortress

  While wearing heavy armor, you gain +15Fortitude, Endurand Resistance.

  "What are you pining about?" Ara asked when they had finally finished looking through Beck's extensive skill list. "I would kill to have some of those skills!"

  "I'm not saying they're not good." Beck defended herself, blushing. "I just... they're not like, overpowered like some of the other skills are."

  "I think they're amazing." Shiloh said, reag out and taking Beck's hand in his. "You have so many different ways to protect us, and they all seem to synergize really well with each other. Not to mention, your shield bash also be used with Ara's or Elnor's damage increasing abilities to really hurt some people."

  Beck smiled at him.

  "I agree." Twil stated. "Though none of your skills are quite as unreasonable as say, Shiloh's, they are quite powerful. You don't even have your heavy armor on, and you're not between us or any enemies, so your usual Fortitude is actually going to be seventy-five, not forty-five. Add in all the damage ion abilities you have, and enemies will have a very hard time getting an attack to sti you."

  "Unless it's a moss troll."