“I’ll try…” Our imp guest smiled wryly.

  “Do we all agree with the current plan, then?” Levia asked calmly and I was glad to return to the main topic of this meeting. “I can use the white moss we gathered to create some stimulants for us.”

  “Oh, come on. You’ve had him like an hour or two ago and you are already itching for more? And it’s supposedly me who is the insatiable one.” Aisha huffed at her while crossing her arms under her impressive bust.

  Okay, I’d been wrong. No main topic anytime soon yet.

  “It can be used to stimulate plenty of things other than reproductive organs when processed properly, so no, I am not already itching for more,” Levia replied firmly. “Compared to you, my mind is already focusing on making our master safer during our upcoming expedition rather than on his manhood slamming into my vulva.”

  My drakan partner snorted. “Don’t talk like you aren’t thinking about it. I know your silent, loner type. You guys crave it like crazy after the first time.”

  “Girls, focus.” I stepped in before this argument dragged on forever. “What is this about stimulants?”

  “I will not deny looking forward to receiving more of Lucas’ physical affection. And never will.” The petite elf stared her down for a few seconds before turning to me. “They are a great source of energy, enhancing one’s body to be more efficient. You tire less and much slower while being strengthened. This could allow us to spend more time on the field without needing a break. It might be possible for us to learn whatever we can about the situation and move to deal with it right after.”

  I nodded to myself. “Sounds good. It would certainly be useful. I can give fatigue boosts to you two but Lulu could use something like this to keep up with us. How hard is it to make those?”

  “It is simple for me, but the process takes a while. Less than a day if I start soon. I should be able to prepare six doses at once,” Levia replied.

  “Great. We might come up with something else in the meantime.” I smiled at her softly. “What about your arcanas? We won’t really have enough time to figure out a better metal for their base, but you mentioned using the crystalized energy we got from the Seed as the ink after liquefying it.”

  She shook her head. “Too sophisticated. I would need to set everything up first and there are just too many steps. This is an extremely advanced and dangerous alchemy. I am not sure if a week would be enough to even start.”

  “I see. Forget that I asked, then. We will work on this after solving the current crisis. It won’t do us any good neglecting this boon for too long.” I tapped myself on the thigh. “And you, Lulu? Anything to add?”

  “Me?” The imp girl squeaked in surprise. “Uh… I don’t think I can do a lot besides preparing my gear… Listening to you guys discuss this, I kind of realized that I might have been focusing too much on a single thing…”

  Aisha reached out and fluffed her pink hair strongly. “I know how you feel, shortie. But, that approach is the standard one, not this one. We always focus on our skills and abilities since that’s what we are best at. It’s just this guy who is the weird one and looks everywhere else but. Do you know what was the first thing he thought of instead of raising his Class? Learning Telekinesis! A physical Overlord!”

  “What?” Lulu frowned while glancing at me.

  “Yeah.” My energetic girlfriend laughed. “And look where it got him. He can now casually fling two handaxes around with the power of his brain. We’ve been doing this shit wrong all along. But, don’t feel bad for it.”

  “You are exaggerating. I just knew a little more than you and used that knowledge to my advantage,” I said.

  “Bullshit.” She grinned. “You were as surprised as I was when you got that skill. You didn’t pick Telekinesis up with it in your mind.”

  “Fine. It was a stroke of luck coming from my unusual choices.” I raised my hands in surrender and chuckled lightly. “So, Lulu, just do what you’ve always been doing and prepare for a possible boss fight. We’ll be taking this Dungeon down in a day or two. That fine with you? Or do you want to wait this one out?”

  “There is no way I’m holing myself in my room and letting you three go alone. I’m not that kind of person.” She sat up straighter. “Besides, if you fuck up, I’m very well as dead. We should have a higher chance of success together.”

  “Great. We will be in touch, then. Thanks for your cooperation.” I extended my hand to her and we shook on it with smiles.

  Since there was no reason to keep her here for any longer, we chatted for a few more minutes and I escorted Lulu to the entrance. I wasn’t sure how much she rested after we had returned from the depths. The three of us had caught about two hours of sleep after my sweet time with Levia, but the small imp looked quite tired.

  Afterward, I returned to the apartment and met up with both girls in the middle.

  “Time for math?” Aisha cocked a brow at me with her fists on her hips.

  “We may as well.” I chuckled. “We’ve saved up quite a few points for this occasion. Too bad we didn’t hit Level 15. Not like it would have changed that much, but still.”

  “We might have if we were alone in this Dungeon,” she commented.

  I walked up to the desk while my drakan mate grabbed an additional chair from the kitchen complex and brought it with her. Levia slid onto my lap as I took my own seat while Aisha sat down next to us.

  “Remind me to get us something comfier later. I can’t have you using kitchen furniture forever,” I said, glancing at her.

  “Ooooooh, I’m moved you care so much for my ass.” Aisha batted her eyelashes at me while touching her chest. “Don’t worry, I always make sure to keep it all tender and bouncy for you.”

  I snorted while shaking my head and directed my attention to the monitor in front of us. “So, who goes first?”

  “Let’s start with the newest addition. Then we can go up in hierarchy,” she suggested with a smug grin.

  “Sure. Levia’s state definitely changed the most since the last time we checked it.” I shrugged and navigated to our Witch’s submenus. “Yeah, I can already see that she got my shared abilities, meaning Red String, For the King, and Unwavering Loyalty. You are now my true Bonded, Levia.”

  “I am glad to hear that.” The petite lunar elf showed a gentle smile as she followed the movements of my cursor. “These skills enhance my stats and resistances, right?”

  “Correct.” Aisha nodded. “The first one lets us sense each other accurately from long distances. The second one gives you a ten percent stat boost per other Bonded by your side, which is me. And the last strengthens your mind and protects it from various invasive techniques and magics.”

  “We had no one to activate For the King previously so this will be a great addition to our power now. Thank you for joining us.” I patted the quiet Witch on the head.

  “The pleasure is mine,” she responded. “I am happy to be part of your team. And your family.”

  A wide smile threatened to take over my lips and I was glad she couldn’t see me trying to fight it down. But, Aisha could and she smirked at me knowingly, making the smile win.

  Cursed woman. It was impossible to keep cool in front of her.

  Ignoring her gaze, I pulled up Levia’s status.

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  ATTRIBUTES

  +50% (27h Remaining)

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  Strength: 5 (+3)

  Agility: 10 (+6)

  Constitution: 9 (+5)

  Intelligence: 23 (+13)

  Wisdom: 25 (+14)

  Mystique: 15 (+8)

  Ingenuity: 5 (+3)

  [Available Points: 28]

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  “The stat boost is those numbers in brackets?” Levia inquired.

  “Yes. But thanks to our intimate time earlier, they are additionally raised by fifty percent as the notification at the top states. Normally, you get a temporary ten percent whenever you are near Aisha. So, this is like sixty percent in total or something,” I explained. “Also, it says twenty-seven hours while twenty-four was max before, so it looks like Touch of Love leveled up for me. Thirty hours must be the new max. Nice.”

  “That is a lot,” she mused quietly. “Just as the number of points we have to distribute now.”

  “Anything you have in mind?” I gently stroke her thigh.

  She glances up at me. “Would you mind sharing your opinion with me?”

  “Naturally.” I smiled at her. “Let’s see… We have twenty-eight… You are focusing on arcana this run so we certainly need to raise Mystique… I would say up by ten points… But we shouldn’t leave Ingenuity too far behind so we give it five points… Wisdom and Intelligence are important for you as a magician… We have thirteen left… Then, I would suggest five for Wisdom, seven for Intelligence, and the remaining one into Constitution so it reaches the ten-point. This should be a well-balanced upgrade for the intense boss fight. What do you think?”

  “Yes. I would like to follow your suggestion,” she agreed without a word of protest. “It has proven to be valuable previously.”

  “Of course it did. He knows what he is talking about.” Aisha snickered.

  “If you say so.” I added everything up. “Here’s how it looks now.”

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  ATTRIBUTES

  +50% (27h Remaining)

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  Strength: 5 (+3)

  Agility: 10 (+6)

  Constitution: 10 (+6)

  Intelligence: 30 (+18)

  Wisdom: 30 (+18)

  Mystique: 25 (+15)

  Ingenuity: 10 (+6)

  [Available Points: 0]

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  “If we include all the stats in the brackets, these values are far above what I was at around this moment in the past. Overlord is truly an incredible Class,” my adorable Witch commented.

  “Our Overlord of Lust, you mean,” Aisha corrected her. “I doubt other paths strengthen their Subordinates this much. It’s always all about taking everything for themselves while abusing their miserable slaves.”

  “We should remember to make use of this ability before we depart to slay the evil Witch,” I said.

  She grinned at me impishly. “You would like that, wouldn’t you?”

  “You bet.” I smirked back at her, visibly ogling her alluring body from top to bottom.

  “It’s great to see you not holding back. You could almost pass as a drakan.” She winked at me. “Now, show mine. I want to see some big numbers too.”

  Without further ado, I switched characters.

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  ATTRIBUTES

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  Strength: 40 (+8)

  Agility: 15 (+3)

  Constitution: 15 (+3)

  Intelligence: 9 (+2)

  Wisdom: 6 (+1)

  Perseverance: 15 (+3)

  Fury: 30 (+6)

  [Available Points: 30]

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  “Am I this stupid or does this feel like more than ten percent?” She squinted at the screen.

  “No, you aren’t.” I shook my head. “For the King is Rank E for you. It looks like it gives a twenty percent bonus now.”

  “Neat.” Aisha turned to face me. “When are we getting our next token? This is going to get crazy the more girls you bed.”

  “Slow down.” I laughed. “It hasn’t even been half a day since Levia joined us officially.”

  “She is not wrong, though,” the person in question added.

  “Not you too…” I sighed heavily, making Aisha snort and evoking a tiny smile on Levia’s lips. “This is a topic for after the clear. Get your mind into stats now.”

  “Just go with your strategy. It’s going to be better than mine anyway.” She shrugged.

  “Oh, come on. Are you not even going to try?” I raised a brow at her.

  “Fine. Even though Levia didn’t have to.” She crossed her arms under her chest, intentionally emphasizing her bust. “Since this is going to be dangerous, I think I should spread a little this time too. I’ll add only five into Fury, then five more into Agility, just in case. Ten into Constitution since that’s never a bad pick. Finally, ten more into Strength so I can smash all those bones harder.”

  I rubbed my chin while reviewing what she’d just said. “It should work, I guess. Since you are focusing on Fury, you don’t waste anything on upgrading Perseverance right now to be tougher by going with Constitution instead. We can add five to the former after the fight to balance it out a bit more. Great. Let me make the changes.”

  After a few clicks, the points were distributed.

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  ATTRIBUTES

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  Strength: 50 (+10)

  Agility: 20 (+4)

  Constitution: 25 (+5)

  Intelligence: 9 (+2)

  Wisdom: 6 (+1)

  Perseverance: 15 (+3)

  Fury: 35 (+7)

  [Available Points: 0]

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  “Halfway to a hundred already. This has to earn me some of my better old skills back now.” Aisha whistled. “Can’t wait.”

  “Your turn now, Lucas?” Levia peeked at my face once again.

  “Coming right up.” I navigated to my own sheet.

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  ATTRIBUTES

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  Strength: 11 (+11)

  Agility: 15 (+6)

  Constitution: 15 (+7)

  Intelligence: 25 (+8)

  Wisdom: 19 (+7)

  Leadership: 15

  Charisma: 30

  [Available Points: 30]

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  “I hope you aren’t making us suggest your own distribution too.” Aisha snickered. “Unless you are going to start ordering us poor Bonded to do literally everything for you from today.”

  “Maybe from time to time. It would certainly feel amazing bossing you around.” I grinned at her. “Let’s see… I should go wide just like everyone else, especially since I’m the weakest link, and kind of jack of all trades. I’ll do four into Strength, five into Agility and Constitution, then five into Leadership too, and ten into Charisma. The remaining one goes to Wisdom. That makes many full tens in case some weird skills would like to pop up again.”

  A moment later, it was done.

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  ATTRIBUTES

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  Strength: 15 (+11)

  Agility: 20 (+6)

  Constitution: 20 (+7)

  Intelligence: 25 (+8)

  Wisdom: 20 (+7)

  Leadership: 20

  Charisma: 40

  [Available Points: 0]

  ★━━━━━━━━━━★

  “Looks good.” I nodded to myself. “And I now get twenty percent from your respective base stats. Red String leveled too. I shouldn’t be surprised that those abilities rise when partaking in Class-related activities.”

  “You know what that means?” Aisha gave me the look.

  “That we are going to get our well-deserved sleep,” I cut her off and stood up with Levia in a princess carry.

  “That you should make use of this perfectly safe method to permanently raise our strength whenever possible,” Levia continued after the sly drakan, looking calmly into my eyes with her enchanting, purplish irises.

  “Diminishing returns.” I chuckled at her obvious message. “But trust me, I will. I very much will.”

  Chapter 31

  Unexpected Confrontation

  A quite distinct and pleasant smell woke me up. I took a deep breath, enjoying the scent of hot, freshly brewed coffee. As my brain slowly booted up and connected to all the organic systems all over my fleshy frame, I began to notice the pressure on my chest and legs. Having a pretty good idea what it was, I swiped down my face while letting out a heavy sigh and lifted my eyelids.

  The sight of my drakan lover sprawled all over my body greeted me, as expected. The sheets had been shoved halfway down so a good part of her muscular back was perfectly visible to the brightly illuminated world. My hand moved almost involuntarily and my fingers started gently brushing all over Aisha’s smooth skin, caressing it affectionately.

  One look aside revealed the lack of my other, more recent romantic partner. Since my other arm rested on Levia’s still somewhat warm spot on the mattress, I could deduce that the charming Witch hadn’t risen up that long ago. Thanks to the smell that had dragged me out of the dreamland, I knew exactly where I had to glance to locate her.

  And surely, our blue-skinned elf friend stood in front of the counter in the kitchen complex while preparing the black nectar of the gods. Levia wore nothing but one of my oversized t-shirts, looking insanely cute, but also incredibly sexy at the same time. Her pert, petite behind poked out from under the bottom edge as the stolen piece ended just halfway over her naked butt.

  Trying my best to drag my eyes away from the alluring view which had completely woken me up, in more ways than one, I somehow managed to untangle myself from the sleeping beauty without waking up the drakan lady and pushed myself off the bed. Naturally, Levia noticed my approach and turned around, glancing up with her usual, calm and neutral expression.

  I leaned in and placed my palm over her pretty cheek. We shared a few brief pecks before I scooped her up and sat Levia down on the same counter she’d been facing a moment earlier, forcing myself to be the one having to look up.

  “Good morning,” I whispered after withdrawing.

  “Morning.” Levia nodded faintly, her eyes following mine. “I had a feeling you two would be waking up soon so I started preparing some coffee.”