Day 55
Looking inwards, I touched upon the ethereal connection that was the bond between Mia and . Through that consciousness, I could feel a tumultuous bundle of emotions roiling back and forth with happiness, sadness, joy, and even anger.
Recognizing how Mia must've felt all these days, and how terrifying it would have been feeling my connection fade over and over again with my brief death encounters, I felt an enormous surge of sha.
I've gained all this overwhelming power, but what good has it done for other than barely keeping alive? The single woman in my life that I've taken as my own and sworn to protect has been fraught with despair and sadness because of my own shortcomings.
Seeing the obsidian-skinned beauty with crystalline tears dripping down her slightly reddened cheeks, I couldn't help but almost have my concentration slip as my shadow wings started dissipating to the point I was just about the fall out of the sky.
The petite drow girl hadn't changed much over the weeks of being apart, but her equipnt and clothing were all new. To my surprise, it didn't seem to be scavenged gear and clearly made just for her, which made think about just how she managed to co by them.
A form-fitting sleek black leather cuirass with small and thin leather shoulder pads that went along protected most of her upper body. Streamlined matching bracers and shinguards hugged her thin and slender figure, while so contrasting cloth material was underneath to cover the areas not covered by leather. The only thing recognizable about her equipnt being the twin blood daggers I made for her which were strapped to her hips.
Amazingly enough, this outfit sohow accentuated her petite figure without even revealing her body. While Mia didn't present her beauty and attractiveness in volus of curves and voluptuousness, she excelled in absolute perfection.
Perfectly shaped small mounds that rested on her chest which had a cute perkiness to them, a butt that each cheek fitted perfectly within a single hand, a tiny waist that accentuated an exotic hourglass figure, all this combined with her otherworldly drow features and obsidian skin created a beauty of the rarest proportions. Every inch of her body was perfectly sculpted and created a tantalizing innocence of both beauty and cuteness.
Seeing this stunning woman I so presumptuously loved to call mine once again after being apart for so long, I found myself succumbing to a stupor. Barely managing to get my mind out of the haze created by witnessing Mia's beauty once again, I reford the faltering shadows of my wings and continued on my way down to her.
During my journey back ho, I had been thinking up whole monologues and ways to explain my new appearance, not sure how Mia would react to how I now looked. I had been horrified at the prospect of what would happen if she disliked the fact that I was no longer like when I been with her.
However, my worries were completely unfounded as the mont I landed on the ground, the small drow girl stord towards , as fast as her legs could take her. I had barely even dissipated my wings before she was upon with a lunge that threatened to put off-balance and push over.
She hugged so tightly with a vice it seed like she would never allow us to be separated ever again. With my newly gained height, she barely went to my chest, and with her face planted directly at my sternum, she just sobbed heavily. I couldn't exactly make out what she was saying, but I caught a few words both cursing and calling out my na; well, my na being Master as she had always seed to like calling .
I just stood there for a few long monts, stroking her hair as she cried out her demons. Calming down after so ti, she extracted herself just enough to look in the eyes, eting her beautiful and crystalline ruby eyes with my gaze.
"Hmph, why did it take you so long!" - Mia
She yelled out as she gave a thump on my chest with one of her balled fists. Seeing no effect, she started wailing blows with her dainty hands.
"Stupid-stupid-stupid Master!" - Mia
Seeing that Mia had switched over to her bossy side, I brushed a stray lock of silver hair away and trailed one of her long ears. This instantly caused her deanor to change as a furious blush flooded both her cheeks and the tips of her ears.
"Eeep!" - Mia
She struggled to escape my embrace, holding her ears down and to the sides of her head in an attempt to shield them from any further teasing but I held firm. Not a chance. The display of her cuteness made my heart flutter and caused a wide grin to be spread across my face.
Mia had two modes, she was either arrogant and bossy, or she was overly shy and embarrassed. It was almost effortless for to swiftly have this diminutive authoritarian squirm under my teasing, and I relished in the privilege.
"Sorry, Mia. I had a few difficulties getting back... but nothing your man couldn't handle." -
I severely downplayed how difficult those 'difficulties' actually were, however, those were past tis and I felt no reason to recall such dark mories. Looking at with a disapproving gaze, she suddenly seed to realize sothing as she started scanning up and down.
"Uhhhh.... Master?" - Mia
"Yes?" -
"You've grown taller." - Mia
Just staring dumbly at the petite drow in my arms, I suddenly started guffawing out loud. It truly seed that Mia had no problems with my appearance seeing as it was first now she had really brought up the subject. Even as an Azde, with my appearance being quite ominous and not exactly handso, Mia seed to not care in the slightest.
"That I did indeed. I evolved recently." -
Separating herself from as I no longer held her tight, she got a better look at my body; scanning from head to toe. Looking at her facial expressions, I started noticing a small blush reappearing on her cheeks that only turned more vibrant and flush the more she took in the sight of my new body and looks.
"Fufu - you liking it?" -
Hearing my words all of a sudden, Mia snapped out of the daze she had fallen into.
"Wha-? Ah! - Y-yes..." - Mia
From the way she looked at , she seed almost entranced. While Mia didn't seem to be one who cared much for my appearance however bad it was, but I definitely could understand her reaction to my new overly handso qualities; that even to , felt slightly overkill. But from this, I couldn't help but feel an inexplicable pride in knowing that I've not only captured Mia's heart as man and person, a soul mate through the ethereal connection between us, but also as soone she's physically attracted to.
Truly captured every avenue of her heart.
By now, we had already caused sowhat a commotion as the newly build gate of the tribe was flooded with nurous hobgoblins. So even orcs who I didn't recognize. But before I could ask Mia for any further details, I was sure I heard the distant bellow of soone.
The crowd that filled the gate started to get panicked when they heard this soone getting closer from behind them, but I couldn't see what was happening from my vantage point.
"MASTA!" - Bob
Like a freight train, the lumbering figure of Bob mowed through the crowd that barely managed to make way quick enough to allow his passage. I wasn't sure, but I think I even saw a rather unfortunate goblin take to the air from his unstoppable charge.
A wide grin plastering itself across my face, I looked at the incoming Bob. But that smile slowly faltered as it seed that Bob had no intention of slowing down.
Colliding roughly with , I got thrown to the ground in the biggest bear hug I've ever experienced.
"MASTA!" - Bob
It hadn't actually hurt or caused any damage, he had just taken severely off-guard. Now laying in a heap on the ground with the giant cry baby that was Bob, I tried my best to extricate myself. But to my imnse surprise, I found it extrely hard to overco Bob's strength.
Even though I definitely wasn't very strong in the strength attribute, I was completely surprised that Bob had managed to surpass even my twenty-five points in strength while I had been gone.
[Appraisal - Lesser Draugr]
Na: "???"
Race: Lesser Draugr
Sex: Male
Rank: F
Level: 20/20
Health: 185/185
Stamina: 121/121
Mana: 0/0
[Attributes]
STR - 32
VIT - 34
AGI - 18
DEX - 12
INT - 9
CHR - 3
WILL - 12
MAG - 1
[Trait, Titles, and Skills].
Skills - 7
Traits - 3
Titles - 1
[Resistances]
Phy. Resistance - 8
Mag. Resistance - 3
n. Resistance - 4
[Sanguine Guard]
Looking over the stats, I beca very appreciative of Bob's hard work even though I had been gone. I was also pleased to know that my Limit Breaker had an effect on Bob even though I had been so far away.
I couldn't be sure if the distance would diminish the effect of Limit Breaker sohow or if it has an unlimited range, but I knew that no normal monster should be able to level that fast so it must have had so effect.
I was also a little disappointed when I realized that Bob must've killed a lot of creatures, but I had gained no bonus EXP from him being my Sanguine Guard. But I simply wrote it down being due to the fact that there was too great of a distance between us.
However, when I saw that Bob was at the threshold, my disappointnt was replaced by the excitent of Bob's next evolution. And as if beckoned forth by my thoughts, the system prompted with so lines of text.
[Your dominated creature has reached the level threshold]
[Due to your trait "Limit Breaker" your dominated creature can already evolve without eting its naturally imposed requirents]
[Do you want to choose the evolution for your dominated creature, or allow it to choose itself?]
[Yes/No]
I was very tempted to just start looking through evolutions right then and there, however, I pushed it to the side for now. I had other things to do currently. Getting up from the tangle created by the now snot-faced Bob, I scowled jokingly at him.
"At least when Mia cries she's cute, get up you big oaf." -
As the overly emotional lumbering Bob got up, he looked sowhat embarrassedly at . I simply couldn't help but laugh due to this large and fearso-looking monster acting completely contradictory to his appearance.
"Sorry Masta..." - Bob
Walking over to him, I clapped him goodheartedly on his back.
"Haha, I've missed you too buddy." -
Seeing his characteristic goofy smile appearing on his large mug upon hearing my words, I chuckled mirthfully. I hadn't really noticed Mia's approach, so I beca surprised when I looked down to see her poking my abs with a tentative finger while she intently stared at my muscles with a heated gaze.
Wait... was she drooling?
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