Tuesday. Week 2. Year 1.

Clyde jerked awake after a dreamless slumber. A system prompt filled the young man’s mind before the first line of complaint could flow from his mouth.

[Engaging the reading of Path of the Mystic.]

The book leapt out of the inventory and into his arms. Clyde sat up and focused on it. Like the prior books, it shimmered, but instead of golden sparkles, a pillar of sky-blue light struck the young man. He not only knew but felt as if he transcended. For just a moment, he was connected with nature, spirits, energy and even the universe. Power coursed through his veins, shaping his DNA, his magic, spirit energy, enhancing his life force. He rose more than a foot into the air, electricity pulsing around, eyes shining like lamps.

Then just as quickly as the event happened, it stopped. Ashes of the book floated off into nothingness. Prompts filled his mind’s vision as Clyde fell back to the bed. The first was his stat page.

Name: Clyde.

Level: 25

Type: Main character/ Stone. Mystic.

HP: 100% (+10%)

MP: 100% (+10%)

Attack: 52 (+16)

Defense: 54 (+5)

Speed: 56

Luck: 49

Will: 54

Intellect: 57

Form: 1.

Special: ???

Special Abilities:

Flash Step: Briefly move at the speed of light. A high, speed stat will increase the critical chance of any attack combined with this ability.

Acrobatics: able to run and jump swiftly. Can leap from building to building.

Mystic senses: whether in or out of battle, you will be connected to nature and its spirits. Unknown benefits. Ability to sense abnormalities.

Hidden stats revealed:

Special Defense: 45

Paranoia:

Charisma: 44

Composure: 42

Evasion: 27

Reputation: Lv. 2. Ah—Maybe I’ve heard of him.

Endurance: 54

Misc:

Free points: 15.

Wanted rep Harpy clan: 5/5.

Omen’s spheres (some call them orbs): 1.

Skills:

- Athlete: 10% bonus to speed and Will. [Passive].

- Mystic Calm: 100% resistant to fear, despair, discomfort, and shock. [Mystic Passive.]

-Hostile Detection 4: detects hostiles within a certain range of you. Detects enemy information. [Passive]. Can now see weakness.

-Heart Protection 4: you’re 45% less affected by unwanted mental magic or skills from enemies. You gain a 32% bonus to your ability to convince others to do anything that would protect their hearts. 36% chance to break from any magic or charismatic hold. [Passive].

- Secret sword and martial arts combination. Random unknown increases to speed, defense, and will during battle. Chance to critical increases by 2%. [Passive].

- Crafting 3: enables you to craft items using everyday objects. [Passive].

- Dagger combat 2: does physical damage. Enables dagger combat. Chance to critical at 3% [Passive].

-knife throwing 2: does physical damage. Enables knife combat. Chance to stun at 3% [Passive].

Trap Detection 2. You will be warned by the system automatically on things your mind would consider a trap. Your will stats dictate this! [Passive]. Range: 10 meters.

Party loyalty: Your party will know if you’re in danger and need help. A boost of stats will be provided to anyone who’s able to provide you assistance.

Unarmed attacks:

-Roundhouse kick. [Attack] – does physical damage. Change of knockdown at 5%.

-Mystic punch/kicks. [Attacks]- does physical and spiritual damage. Chance of stun at 1%. 50% stun if catching enemy by surprise.

Sword attacks:

-Precise Slash 4. [Attack] – does physical damage. Chance of critical at 14%

-Deep Slash 3. [Attack]- does physical damage. Chance to cause bleeding at 12%. Chance to stun at 2%.

-Spirit Slash 3. [Attack] – does physical and spiritual damage. Chance to cause dizziness at 5%. Chance to cause spiritual blight at 8%.

Defensive skills:

Spirit shield: [Defense] – invoke a magical shield around you for a few seconds. Will shield you from magic and block physical attacks. Chance to invoke Spirit Counter at 1%.

Special skill:

Quick meditation: once per cooldown, you can boost random stats. The buffs will last for up to two hours.

Mystic meditation: once per cooldown, you can boost speed, will, and composure. This buff will last up to 2.5 hours.

Combat level:

-Basic 4. Combat style: somewhat skilled.

-Mystic combat level 1.

Magic:

-Energy Ball. Type: spiritual. Class: mysterious.

-Scatter Shot. Type: spiritual. Class: mysterious. Shoot a flurry of energy balls at multiple enemies. 1% chance to stun an enemy.

-Spirit wave: Type: spiritual. Class: mysterious.: Shoot a wave of concentrated spiritual energy. Chance to cause spiritual blight at 3%. Chance to do double damage on dark creatures: 15%.

-Binder’s hand 2: Type: spiritual. Class: mysterious. Bind your enemies with tendrils of spirit energy. 35% chance to bind 1 enemy. Does no damage unless you will it. If willed, will do 2% damage per second.

-Mystic aide: invoke the power of nature to assist you. Does nature damage. 150% attack increase in forests, grasslands, and spiritual domains.

-Mystic wrath: Enter mystic mode. This form lasts for a short time and drains magic points, but all physical and magic attacks increase greatly. You will be able to cast Mystic Lightning. Due to the strain this form does on your body, it is high recommended to use if needed.

-Mystic Lightning- can only cast during mystic mode. Does spiritual, electrical, and holy damage. Change to cause spiritual blight at 34%. Chance to blind

- Trust Bond Skill Mimic. Type: mystic. Class: emotions. Once per day, you will be able to randomly activate a skill from any of trusted friends. If you do not wish to activate the revealed skill, you may store it for later use; however, if not activated that day, it will vanish from storage.

Talent:

Main character stuff.

Mystic languages. [Can read and speak old and unknown tongues.]

Bonus:

10% boost to relationship stats with Harumi and her friends.

+5% damage for a physical attack.

Marriage System.

Bravery noted to someone of great power.

10% boost to all stats- mystic bonus.

Inventory:

$ 8540

-Map of Lot City, Satovia.

-Map of Libado Grasslands, Satovia.

-Smartphone.

-Key.

-Reminder for practice- note.

- Natzo hand bomb. (Does Fire and Metal damage on enemies caught within the blast. 40% chance to cause burns, 20% chance to deafen. 30% chance to stun.)

- Zelt’s printer. Level 1/25.

- Zeth’s book of mist.

Equipment:

-Basic demon sword level 14 - +16 to attack. Demon element.

-School uniform or casual clothes.

-School shoes or casual shoes.

-Necklace of strength. (Uncommon)- +1 attack +1 defense.

-no rings.

- Basic armor set. (Uncommon). +4 to defense.

>Cards:

Attackers:

The Sorceress Amina. Power: ??? Defense: ??? Effect: ??? Type: ???

Wizard Otus.

Druid Karla.

Action cards:

Fever Draw. (Action card)

King’s Last Hold. (Action card)

Classes: (year1).

-Satovia History 1.

-Romance Literature 1.

-Sciences 1.

-Crafting 1.

Phone numbers:

-Chika.

-Harumi.

-Naomi

-Toru

-Seth

-Kitome

-Melody

Quest log:

Main story.

Investigate the mysterious cards. (MS).

Meet with Selkie on Tuesday. (MS).

Clyde took a moment to process everything. His new skills, a FORM, the trust bond. Even next to his name was Mystic. Did this book truly change his being, deeper than what he felt.

His senses felt different. He could sense everything, including the spiritual energy of the person sleeping underneath his blankets, next to him.

That made him flinch. He didn’t drink anything, and everyone left around seven. Who or what…He thought he’d panic, but a strange calm took over. This didn’t mean he couldn’t panic, enough fear could take any man, but…this, whatever it was wouldn’t make him so much as flinch.

He pulled back the blankets to see…Neko sleeping soundly, dressed in a tank top and panties. She opened her eyes, smiling at him.

“Nya.” She licked her lips, invoking the rise of a dormant horn.

“Neko, a nice surprise, but didn’t you go back to your homeland?” Clyde said.

“Yep, then I came back,” she said, sitting up. “Nya, you know why I’m here. Don’t make me spell it for you. A cat in heat spares no patience.”

She pounced Clyde, beginning an assault of kisses, while massaging his horn. Clyde decided the meeting with Selkie could wait.

Neko barely allowed him to breathe. Her panties were soaked—the edge of his leg felt as if it was dipped slightly into a lake.

Suddenly, Neko’s tail pulled off his clothes so fast, he barely had time to realize his nakedness. She joined him, their clothes scattered about the room.

Clyde almost laughed as he let the thought of choosing sex over his “destiny” slip into his mind. What’s that, getting back to your own dimension, He thought. No, let’s play the game of bed wrestle instead.

And indeed, he did. Neko’s tail wrapped around his erection and massaged. She licked his neck, returned to kissing, licked his chest, return to the kiss assault, then purred.

He used that to take control, laying the catgirl on her back, gently entering her. She let a song slip from her mouth before covering it. And she was tight.

Blushing furiously, she said under her breath, “I’ve never done this before.”

Clyde wanted to call bullshit, but the tightness, her embarrassed face, and sudden shyness made it hard to argue.

He began a slow thrust which she tightened, breathing huskily, holding onto the young man. As they neared climax, Neko pounced Clyde, mounting and riding. Sometimes she stroked with her tail or nearly choked Clyde.

When he grabbed it to pull it away from his neck out of frustration, Neko let out a moan that indicated raw ecstasy. Clyde almost forgot to pull out before unleashing a load that flicked onto the catgirl’s breasts. She laid back, quivering, breathing hard. They both panted.

“Nya, not enough,” Neko said five minutes later.

“Look, I’m not complaining but I’ve got a pretty important meeting,” Clyde said as he crawled out of the bed. She gave him a pouty face as he dodged her tail.

“You sure she can’t wait for just one more hour,” the catgirl said.

Clyde almost considered it and felt a fool for not going again, but his long list of objectives today needed to be addressed. The meeting, Clare, dojo and crafting before the night’s grind. If he expected to stand a chance against the demon lord, his eyes, or even Melody, he couldn’t toss aside his training. A trip to the grasslands for the first time didn’t sound like a bad idea. After being forced to buy an expensive magical printer, it was time to put the map to use. As if agreeing with him, a prompt revealed itself.

[Quest: train in the Libado Grasslands. Accept: yes or no?]

He accepted. Before he closed out the prompt, another one appeared right in front of it.

[Your stats have been temporarily boosted by 2% for having sex. 1% bonus for demon compatibility with Neko.]

[Let it be known that you CAN impregnate women from this dimension. Always practice responsible sex!]

Clyde facepalmed, dismissing the messages from his mind. He wouldn’t be surprised if they started giving him a talk about the birds and the bees.

“Nya, let’s shower together.”

Clyde gave the horny beast kin a soft skeptical look, barely hiding the hint of a smile. She was funny and carried on a lightheartedness he wished was allowed to have.

“Sure, but try not to tempt me,” Clyde said. “Selkie’s an entity. I’d rather not make her wait. Especially since she has answers I need.”

“You know, you could ask me,” Neko said. “Did that not occur to you?”

“It did, but the entity knows otherworldly things,” Clyde said. He couldn’t forget her ridiculous stats. Twenty thousand percent for both HP and MP…the impossibilities.

Neko shrugged.

“Are you sure about that?” She stood up and licked Clyde’s cheek slowly, massaging his horn. The erection punched back into existence. Neko grinned.

[Your relationship with Neko has changed from Very Curious to Frantically sexually interested. Warning, if you do not keep control of the situation, Neko’s heat may cause her to strongly push for sex. Very strongly.]

“Nya, come on,” she said, stroking the young man. She pinned him against the wall and drew herself against the young man. The cat girl pulled his horn into her, kissing him, longing on her face. He almost gave in but decided to be responsible. Even if Neko could give him answers, this arrangement with the entity was on his quest log. Unknown rewards too.

“Let’s shower,” Clyde said. “Maybe continue this later. Right now, I’ve got shit to do.”

Neko saw the determination in his eyes then reluctantly pull away, but not before kissing him.

“Don’t think this is over,” she said then smiled. “My sister’s got duty for two more days. I’m free to come and go.”

Clyde shrugged, unperturbed. He just knew she was going to be more trouble than she led on.