As if to set my worries aside Ellie appeared in front of him, holding both of my blades, wearing only her hat, I could see her arousal dripping down her legs, she was really kinky, but I was wondering why she had stopped it there, I was feeling a weird tingling buzz down there, but it was the tattoo.

She sheathed both of my blades and came close, hands behind my head, to give me a kiss, she was a head shorter than me so she had to tiptoe, and she then gave me a confused look.

“Oh right, you still can’t move yet.”

She snapped her fingers and spell was gone, aggressively I pounced on her, we began to make out as I felt up her legs, a few more moments and I began to move my hands towards her honeypot, she grabbed one of my hands.

“No, we can’t, not yet.”

A strand of her hair was hanging in eyes, as she faced downwards apologetically, at least she knew what we she was doing to me, so I brushed the strand to the side.

“It’s fine Ellie, it’s whenever you’re ready, I’m always ready.”

She was still holding my hand on her inner thigh, she brought it up to her mouth to taste her own arousal., looking at me wistfully as if to show me how much she wanted it too.

“When you become intermediate in your first affinity, you’ll be able to pick up other schools of magic, that’s when I can give you everything, you can inherit any of my main three schools of magic, fire, ice or mana mastery, I have all the other basic schools at intermediate but you can’t pass on skills below master, we can talk more about your choice then, but if you’re going to be a magic knight I don’t recommend you take more than two basic and two intermediate schools, magic knights focus on weaving spells in their physical attacks, they need high proficiency and understanding, but they have to focus on both not just magic, even though it might be handy to have more schools of magic you most likely won’t have the time to level all of them in combat.”

She gave me one last kiss on the lips.

“I also don’t want to make you give up the path of the sword for me, after you leave I’ll put a barrier on the door, it’ll only open when you’ve got both intermediate swordsmanship and magic, 100 strength and 100 intelligence, I’ll be waiting for you.”

And with that she disappeared.

I turned to leave and a wave of blue screens hit me.

You have gained mana tattoo: Phenatos’ Mark

Phenatos Mark:

Mark given by the Master Archmage Phenatos to her lover(?)

Tattoo

Rank A

+500 mana

(Hidden Effects)

1/1 Mana Tattoo slots taken, to have more you will need to remove prior tattoos or increase available slots.

You have acquired the title: Phenatos’ Apprentice.

Apprenticed to Phenatos a reclusive, somewhat absent minded Archmage, but her skill in the art of magic and unique school has made her famous amongst the right circles.

+50 fame

Increased intimacy when dealing with merchants and magicians who know the name Phenatos.

Congratulations! For being the first player to have an NPC fall in love with them you have been granted a unique title.

Unique title: Scoundrel

A man who stole the heart of one of the most powerful Archmagus in the continent with only the shirt on his back, a smile and the right words.

Increases the effect of charisma on members of the opposite sex when wearing this title.

Randomly grants the user one thief skill list skill, this will not be dropped if class doesn’t allow thief skills, only penalized.

You have been granted the skill: Steal

While in stealth the user attempts to steal an item from the target.

While in combat can only target enemies with less than 10% of their life left.

Failing this will release stealth, may aggravate target, being caught in town will give the user chaotic status unless they can convince their target they are innocent.

You have reached the novice skill limit, if you learn any more skills you will be given the option to delete skills to learn the new skill.

“Oh, and one thing before you go.”

Ellie’s voice rang out in my head

“If you take a class that can’t cast magic, that will fall off you know.”

Needless to say I broke out into a cold sweat.

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After leaving Ellie’s tower because it would be awkward to log back in there after saying our goodbyes, I equipped my new title, because it was the only one so far that had an active effect while equipped, and I must admit I felt a certain resonance with the title, I’d test out the new skill in the field since I didn’t want to risk chaotic status, and then I logged out to make some breakfast.

It was 7:00 in the morning, the sun has risen the birds were chirping and the air was fresh. Taking my yoga mat outside to the back garden I did my daily yoga and breathing practice, the trick with breathing was alternating between long deep breaths 10 seconds in, 1 second stop and 10 seconds out and quick breaths purging the excess co2 as fast as you can in and out, this gives you temporarily more stamina, while giving you an amazing natural high as your heart rate falls and the oxygen in your blood begins to rise, your attention span will rise and you’ll feel more awake and fresh, alternating between three quick, one deep and three deep one quick as I felt appropriate I finished my yoga around 7:30 and went back in.

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Like I would put this in at the end, but just in case you do try this, this is a genuine thing, scientifically proven to work as well, if you’re gonna do this be careful and listen to your body and don’t purge too much or you’ll die.

*Disclaimer not my fault if someone purges for 40 mins and dies it ain’t my fault, don’t try this unless you’re responsible or you have a friend who does this who can go through it with you, but it’s still better if you listen to your own body.

But I do it all the time it’s not that dangerous for a beginner just don’t overdo it, there are a couple more techniques to it but I’m sure you could Google it, one last time, don’t be an idiot, real, but doing it does feel really nice.

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Ayo fam, u bn playin AOE? Ur mum said smt bout u winning a tv show 2 mine, if you are hit me back, I won 1.

I checked my phone as I put away my yoga mat, it was an old high school friend of mine, he had sent a text sometime in the middle of my gaming session, he was a good guy, we got up to all sorts of crap, as any two best bros would, sneaking into clubs underage, getting fake IDs, driving illegally, picking up girls in said car, hitting that Mary Jane, smashing hoops, slashing a racist politician's tires, you know just guy things. A silly grin crept on my face as I text him back, telling him that I was in Somner kingdom, though I had no idea where that was, and that we had to group up at some point.

Me and him had become separated but not badly, I was just in another city, even though we weren’t chatting 24/7 we still had each other in our hearts, he was still in our hometown working at his dad’s garage, I was off at university, honestly he had a better deal, his dad gave him great terms, he was essentially his own boss, and he was making bank, his mum and dad were proud, but I had my own things going for me, though I honestly felt that my degree was a bit deprecated by the advent of the AI, but it was new so it would remain to be seen if my course was invalidated, sighing I went to make my breakfast.

Cracking two eggs into a pot on low heat, I added a knob of butter and pinch of salt, then began to whisk it together in the pot as it began to cook, taking off the fire while still whisking. Slicing a wholemeal English muffins in two, I put them to toast. Adding a couple of cherry tomatoes and mushrooms to my frying pan I put it on a second flame, then once more I began heating the eggs and taking them off the fire while heating, when they looked almost done I took them off the pan, leaving it for a second to finish I grabbed crème fraiche from my fridge and added a dollop and stirred it in, then adding some chopped chives fresh from my windowsill, I plated up, this was the breakfast of champions. After washing up with a full stomach I went back to my reality gear, usually I would have to go out at this point, but I was free for the summer, usually kids would visit home, but I was still relishing freedom, and the landlord was letting me live here rent free until term started as long as I kept it in liveable conditions.

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Btw if could put a cooking tag in I would. Boy this cold sucks, I can’t write much, if only I could get my laptop fixed I could write in bed, but sigh too broke.