Micky stretched his battle gear out. It was all new even if slightly used. Though he wasn’t actually going to be directly battling. In fact, it was likely they were only allowing him to buff the girls because they thought that he would do so in secret. Most of his buffs didn’t have any visible tell and unless you specifically [Analyzed] the opponent or used a similar ability you wouldn’t be able to notice… except that you noticed your opponents base stats suddenly increased by 1.5 times base values and their mana and stamina values went up by five times. At least before adverse effects started to kick in. Even then, Micky could fully double someone’s attribute values for a short period, according to his experiments in the military.

They would regret underestimating him and letting him visibly show off. Granted, he was well aware that these old fogies would cheat, it was in their nature. Yolanda already cheated when they plaid chess or go and she was his master. He wouldn’t put it past them to cheat in a ‘friendly’ gamble, especially one he couldn’t afford to lose.

It appeared that his first bout would be with the 63rd would be his first opponent. Well shit, that ruined Micky’s plans slightly. They all shook hands and gave their “We look forward to a good match”s before moving to their respective corners. The 63rd, the obnoxious ass looked confident and uninvolved, like he trusted the kids to do what needed to be done. Micky wanted to smack the obnoxious pretty boy smile right off his face.

Asneldean yelled down to Micky “How about we spice things up a little! I’ll wager this mana density amp ring if you go out on a date with the 63rd if you lose!”

The 63rd smiled over at Micky with an exasperated smile “Don’t listen to her she likes to mettle but she is harmless.”

Micky snorted “Don’t worry Charles, I wasn’t planning on it. Like ever.” He said.

The 63rd, Charles, looked taken aback, like he had never quite been rejected like that before. These days, with advanced magic practices that make male couplings an easily remedial problem it wasn’t so uncommon for males to hit on males. Yet he had been rejected off hand. He didn’t honestly know what to do.

“I’ll also throw in this transformation pill that will increase the depth of bloodlines. It would go great for that little beastkin girl down there I’m sure!” Yelled down Asneldean.

This made Micky hesitate. Himself he could ignore, there wasn’t a thing she could offer that would make him pimp himself out to another man. But he wasn’t about to ignore his girls. He looked at Prin wondering what to do, but she was off with the gaggle of female disciples having a chat about things… and somehow that went into weight lifting? Whatever, she was no help but it calmed him down a little.

“Ok, final offer, The ring, the pill and I give all three of your girls a suitable technique, no final offer, I will give your girls a suitable enchanted ring! No, final final offer, I’ll give you and your girls all of that plus this totem of the beasts that will help the little shaman girl comune with beasts easier and increase her beastly powers and comune with her own beastly nature to [Tame] herself and add herself to her own repertoire!” Said Asneldean.

She stopped yelling out insane offers after that, but Micky knew he could easily push her. His girls were shaking their heads, but looking at their faces made him make up his mind. “You’ll give me all of that, plus you’ll give each of the girls a good weapon, and you’ll give Prin over there a good set of armor, and you’ll give Kux a good weapon.” Micky said. There was no way he could outfit his own people, but he could make other people do the outfitting for him.

“Deal!” She yelled out like she had just gotten a steal. Yolanda face plamed but she didn’t help him negotiate. Granted only she knew that this woman would hive given… well most things to set these two up. If the dinner went well she would just have to get a better deal on the dowry.

Meanwhile Micky was thinking about if he lost he would just have to have an awkward dinner with shiny teeth jerk. It wasn’t really any skin off his back.

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Asneldean looked down upon the field. She was excited to see how this was going to play out. The group down there, Yolanda’s B team, were a scrappy bunch, the underdogs, the original reason for this thing in the first place? Nah, that’s not a good enough reason. But they seemed to be well trained, even if not to the standards that the other groups were at. Each one of their kids had been trained since before their divining. And then from a group of those only the best had been accepted after they used their [Extra Choice] and [Reroll]s. Finally they were all thrown out to the wilds to train in secret realms and ruins and dungeons near 24/7.

Asneldean herself had created a school just to raise and sift through future disciples. Her grand disciples had been training with each other for years and all had complimentary [Class]es. They each had a bit of a rivalry going because they had a crush on one another. What they didn’t realize was that the others also had a crush. So while their affection was circular they actually liked each other. This made them bitter rivals that attempted to one up each other. It was so pure!

Of course, they spent almost every waking moment with each other. Whether it was eating, sleeping, bathing… Oh the bath scenes, nothing untoward happened of course, no their relations were pure!... but she did enjoy watching when they didn’t know she was looking…

She couldn’t wait for these little ones to crush those upstart little shits so that the 63rd could finally find love!

Wait, why were they blushing after shaking hands with the girls… Hmm, those little ones need more training. She would have to see to that. Ahh, the match is starting. The pure little boys were using their team tactics to battle those little hussies. As rivals, they were in perfect sync with each other. Those hussies have been training side by side for months but it was nothing compared to the drill like training of the pure boys.

Ha! The girls are already on the back foot. The boys are using a 2/1 formation with 2 front liners. On the other hand the girls are using the opposite with a 1/2 formation with two backliners. Meanwhile the much better trained pure boy backliner is able to keep up with both of the backliners of the hussies.

That scribe bitch isn’t able to keep up with the onslaught and will soon be crushed… Why are you boys blushing just because she is making some feminine grunts? You need more training! Ha, that little buffer boy is frowning. He probably thought just because he was buffing them out they would be more powerful. I can even see his debuffs working, did he think I wouldn’t notice him trying that? I helped train them! Well it isn’t against the rules…

Ahh, the scribe girl is about to fall. In no time he will be mine… *Cough* will be Charles! Wait, what is that? What is that thing! It’s all tentacles, it’s a giant mass of just tentacles! Where did that thing come from?!

“Squishy now! I didn’t want to use you so early!” Stated that upstart little twerp! Did he think I wouldn’t notice his blatant cheating?! Just because my boys were using empowerment talismans to triple their stats didn’t mean I would allow this! I’m filing a complaint when I win!

Now the wolf girl is charging forward making it a 2/1 on a 2/1 and they are pressing their advantage. The front liners are keeping their own though even with that thing and… what is that? Why are the tentacles peeling off? Don’t tell me that is a [Queen Tentacle Slime]?!

“No the tentacles are getting into places!” “Not in there! Not in there! Don’t go in there!” Screamed the two boys as they were overwhelmed by the tentacle slimes. How impure! How atrocious! That vicious abomination should be destroyed!... How might I get one… I wonder if I could evolve my own?

With the frontline quickly overwhelmed and bound up by tentacle slimes, at least they were keeping their acidic ways from burning the boys, but their cloths were a different matter. Asneldean could see that certain spots were starting to become visible and she could feel the color rushing to her face. Oh she really just must have this wretched creature!

The backline’s only option was to finish it in a big move while they still had the chance before he too was overwhelmed. But alas, he too was quickly finding enlightenment… was being wrapped up in the tentacles of those wretched creatures. “Ahh! Ahh! Ahh? No, no, noooooooo? It’s inside! It’s inside!” He screamed.

“What the heck is he complaining about, yes a couple of them got inside their shirts, it’s nothing to scream that loudly about. Anyway, I think we can call it now, don’t you?” Said Micky.

How atrocious, but he was right. Unless they used certain things best left hidden for her true opponants than they were clearly defeated.