18: Montum Transfer
“Um… well you rember all those things you killed? They dropped a ton of Air Essence, so I went back and collected it! The Essence, like, Air essence I an, is part of what you need for explosives right? So like, I just put… well I made it explode,” Millie explained excitedly to
as chunks of at and stone continued to rain down around us.
“Wow, okay. That’s smart. There’s so much to this ga I don’t know and haven’t bothered to find out,” I chuckled, turning back to the smoking crater that used to be the sally port. “Maybe we should get moving though. We need to go to the capital, whatever its na is.”
“Tieille. That’s the na of the capital. How have you gotten so good if you don’t know how anything works though?” Millie asked curiously.
“Blind luck, rule of cool, and hanging out with smart people like you,” I grinned, pushing her hood back and ruffling her hair.
She was too cute, and it was almost impossible not to tease her. I’d have liked a little sister like Millie back in the day. Even though we were probably around the sa age, she just had an innocence to her that made
think of her like this I guess. An innocence, despite just having blown up like thirty people just now.
“Hey!” she protested. “I need that to protect my identity! We’re wanted fugitives now! We need to stay in-cog-nito.”
The way she emphasised the word incognito was also damn adorable. Gosh!
“Uh huh,” I laughed teasingly. “So which way is Tieille anyway? Just follow the western road I assu?”
“Yes,” she grumbled, making a show of fixing her hood, although her cheeks had gone very red.
“Alright, let’s go then little Millie!” I teased, moving off in the direction we needed to go.
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The forest was warm and quiet as the day progressed towards noon, the late morning light filtering through the evergreen leaves of the trees. It should have been a lot colder that it was to be honest, we were sowhat close to the southern pole of the world if I rembered right. The climate was similar to the north of germany had been during the middle ages, before humanity fucked with the thermostat. Maybe it was the trees sheltering us from the wind that made it feel warr?
“No no, this one. That one will make it taste awful! I think… wait, give it to ,” Millie said from beside , snatching the plant out I had been holding out of my fingers.
We’d had to stay the night in one of those trees again after we left the port town, although this ti there wasn’t any creepy things waiting outside, as we were too far away from the Bleaklands for the mist to reach us. If we hadn’t been fugitives, we might have found a nice cozy inn along the road, with a hot al… and a bath.
“No… this one would get us high actually,” she said, slipping it into her herb pouch and earning a startled look from .
“What? I’m twenty one! I’ve been high before, and drunk,” she said defensively.
“Twenty one? Really? Damn… I figured you had to be younger than ,” I said in surprise.
“Wait, how old are you?” she blinked, staring at my face more intently like she could figure out my age from my inga avatar.
“Uh, twenty…” I said, awkwardly looking away. I an, one year difference wasn’t much, but it was still surprising to learn that the cute little girl in front of
was, in fact, older than .
“Yes!” she giggled, pumping a fist, “I’m older than Tami! You hear that viewers?! I’m older than the Mysterious Demon Girl.”
Oh crap… I forgot she was streaming. Great, yet another thing that my creepy stalker fans knew about . I really needed to be more careful about what I said when I was with Millie.
“Um… yeah. Anyway, so you’re saying that this one, this one, and this one are edible?” I asked, drawing the topic of conversation back from my personal details.
Maybe I’d lean into the whole Mysterious Demon Girl thing when I’d finished my transition, but until that point I was keen to stay as under the radar as possible.
“Right! Yeah, you can probably use them for seasoning… I don’t actually pay much attention to the taste of the herbs I collect and catalogue so you’ll have to explore that side of things on your own,” Millie nodded.
“Aweso, thank you,” I smiled, before carefully beginning to taste each herb.
See, we’d run into a problem as we slunk through the forest near the road. We’d run out of food. Millie had been very good at pointing out things we could eat to stay alive, but there were only so many roots you could eat before you contemplated burning the forest down.
So I’d decided that I wanted to try my hand at cooking inside Cora. I loved cooking outside Cora, so an entirely new world, so to speak, with both ingredients I was familiar with, and ones that didn’t exist in reality? That sounded like a whole lot of fun!
Which brought
to where we were now. Millie was finding
random plants that were safe to eat, and I was taste testing them to see if there were any that I could use as herbs. It would have been a good idea to do this earlier when I wasn’t a fugitive from the law and being hunted by a mysterious organisation of thugs, but what can you do?
I managed to find one or two herbs from this latest batch that she’d handed
that might work, and I put them in my inventory and used the note function to write down my thoughts on the taste of each one. Most of what I was finding would only be useful in dishes with a heavy aty flavour. We actually found so thy earlier, which I was pretty happy about.
“Millie, I think I’m going to finally tackle all these level up notifications, then go and find so at for us to eat along with all the herbs and spices you’ve found ,” I said, stretching up onto my tiptoes to arch my back.
I felt my shirt fall open more, I’d unbuttoned it to deal with a weirdly hot day and it felt really good. There was sothing about looking down and seeing the rise of my breasts, clad in a silk bra, followed by the curve of my waist and hips on either side, and then my smooth flat stomach leading down into my pants.
My pants rode low, and there was just the barest hint of a mound that, on another girl, would have sent
wild. Because it was my body though, I felt a deep giddy excitent that was very obviously my mind’s reaction to the fact that when I looked down, I saw a girl’s body. I was going to be hard pressed to cover myself back up after having spent a day looking down and getting an instant shot of euphoria straight to the brain. It felt so so so so so good! Fuck I was happy… please, oh scary pod-locking entity known as MaTRON, don’t fuck with my transition?
When I looked over at Millie mid stretch, I caught her staring rather blatantly at my stomach, her cheeks beginning to colour. Oh girl, you are definitely not straight. The way you keep looking and reacting to
is just so very, very gay.
“Millie,” I laughed, coming down from the stretch and smiling at her.
“Wha— ? What? Oh! Ummm…” she said, blinking and stumbling over her words.
“I’m going to do all these level ups I’ve been putting off and then go hunting for food,” I repeated gently. Handle the baby gay with care.
“Okay… wait, what level are you?” she asked, finally coming back from whatever interesting fantasies had been floating around in that head of hers.
“Uh, let
check,” I said, bringing my character sheet up. “It says I’m level eleven.”
“Oh cool!” Millie smiled.
“What about you?” I prompted, curious what level she was now.
“What about ?” she asked, staring at my abdon again.
I needed to button my shirt back up if she was going to be talking to my admittedly amazing stomach the whole ti.
“What level are you, ya dingus,” I said with an exasperated sigh, folding my shirt over to cover myself.
“Ooh um… I’m level twenty five,” she said, her face flashing disappointnt for a mont.
Damn! She was way higher level than !
“Wow! What are you still doing around here?” I asked in disbelief. This was newbie land!
“I don’t know… the other places seem scary… I have to like, upgrade my sneak more and stuff too,” she mumbled, clearly making excuses for sothing.
“Well, when I end up leaving this area, how about you co with . Hopefully with Rora too, we’ll go on an adventure and you can be like, well whatever role you want really because neither myself nor Rora is a tank or healer,” I said as kindly as I could. I kinda wanted to keep Millie around. She was fun.
“Yes!” she exclaid excitedly. “Yes! Please! The ga has been so hard without… people to play with.”
“Well then, we’ll make our own little team shall we?” I winked.
“Yeah! We can be a party, but not like those LFG parties where they get all angry at each other and then storm off. We’ll be one of those parties that is like ‘I got your back sister. Our foes will fall to our might. Don’t lose heart!’ and then we’ll— “ she rambled, before cutting herself off and turning an even brighter shade of red. “Sorry… I got carried away. I used to watch a lot of magical girl ani and I start getting all ‘The Power Of Friendship!’ so tis. Super embarrassing…”
“Yeah I’m starting to doubt that you’re capable of saying anything that isn’t hella adorable,” I comnted dryly, then turned to my daunting level up nu. Here. We. Go. This is what I get for leaving it until now to deal with my level ups.
Through my nus I saw Millie’s face heat up in another blush, and she mumbled sothing about seeing a mushroom she wanted to get her hands on. I watched her wander off with a shake of my head. No wonder she was popular as a strear, she was as cute as a button and wicked smart.
Being the responsible player that I was, I made sure to increase all my stats by a little bit, since this wasn’t the type of ga where you could just ignore certain stats or whatever. Once I’d given so love to the lonely stats, I put a bunch into both Power and Strength to increase my damage, then a few into Speed and Endurance. Stamina was the wall I kept hitting at the mont, so I hoped putting a few points into Endurance would help.
When I looked at the ability trees and constructor though, I was stumped. There was so much going on. I wanted to get myself a more comprehensive array of elents to choose from. Explosions and fire were all well and good, but the mont I ran into a fire elental or sothing, I’d be fucked. Wait… I had been fucked by a “fire elental or sothing”.
Snapping back from those fond mories, I stared at the trees in confusion for several long seconds before I threw up my hands and ssaged my sister.
Tamipesagniyah: HELP. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS DUMB ABILITY TREE SYSTEM.
LipsAndShades: Hello to you too sis. What’s confusing that poor horny brain of yours?
Tamipesagniyah: All of it… help …
LipsAndShades: Sigh. Kinda busy right now, but give
a mont and I’ll call you.
Tamipesagniyah: Ooooooo… are you getting so?
LipsAndShades: ???? what? No! I’m fighting a battle!
Tamipesagniyah: oh… my bad…
While she was fighting, I stared aimlessly at my ability trees for a mont, and I absently noticed a node that intrigued . The node was called "Montum Transfer
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