[ Congrats! You leveled up! You gained 4 Status Points and the skill Healing Fluid! ]
'I received a new skill, but why this name… ?'
[
Healing Fluid: Your fluids can restore life points and cure ailments of women that come into contact with it.
Cost: 5 MP
]
'Are you saying that my semen has healing properties now?' I asked.
[ Not only your semen; your saliva can cure girls too. Sometimes a kiss can help as first aid. Just don't forget to call the skill. Even by thought, it will work. ]
'Got it. Let me see my status.'
[
Name: Richard Forster
Class: Valkyrie Tamer
Level: 2
Valkyries: 1/3
Health: 60 points
Mana: 25 points
Strength: 1 point
Defense: 1 point
Magic: 1 point
Agility: 1 point
Status Point: 4 points
]
'Hmm, how should I distribute these points? Brandish, "Healing Fluids" effect increases with my Magic, right?'
[ That's right. ]
'So I have a motive to up Magic early on. Sarah is a Swordmaster, our frontline. I managed to defeat that guy, but just with a temporary buff. We don't have a healer, and buying potions now is an extra cost.' I meditated about it.
It wasn't something definitive. We still need someone to be our support. A Priestess with healing magic or an Alchemist to make potions from herbs would be great. If I wanted to survive my trial, a Priestess is a must. Healing Fluids is a patch on a water tank, but it is better than nothing.
'I also want to add Magic. If I find a gorgeous Mage on our journey, of course I want to learn to use magic.'
I decided to distribute my points this way.
[
Strength: 3 point
Defense: 1 point
Magic: 2 point
Agility: 2 point
]
'I still depend on strength to deal damage, and I think it's better to avoid attacks than defend them, at least for now.' I confirmed my new status, so I'll have to stick with it until I gain more points. 'But I think I'm no good with knives. I could make good use of a sword.'
My eyes wandered around the crater that I was standing in. A rocky depression, surrounded by trees and bushes. The roots spread through that hole like popping veins. Close to one of these roots was the man that I killed. At least his body, because the head dropped a bit too far from the rest.
I don't feel any regret from killing him. He was attacking an innocent, and I stepped in the way to protect her. If things went how he wanted, he would kill her right after, and if he had won our fight, he would kill me instead. Why should I feel guilt about killing such a human?
'He reaped what he had sown, I guess.'
But I wasn't interested in the corpse, but in the longsword beside the body. I walked towards the blade and picked it up.
"I think you won't need this now, right?" I asked the mercenary's headless corpse. As expected, no complaints.
The sword was in a good state, which made it seem pretty new. Either he bought it with money from some shady business, or he stole it. 'I kinda avenged the people that this guy screwed over before, so I think I can have it without being cursed.' I joked to myself. Something like this doesn't occur in SCRL. You get cursed by other things here.
"Are you harmed?" a sweet, tense voice asked me. When I turned around, the blond girl was standing behind me, trying to hold her torn clothes, covering her beautiful body. She was wearing a white dress under the hood, but it was torn apart by the mercenary.
She was just a bit smaller than me, perhaps 1.60 m (5'3''), and she looked like a doll, with pretty silky skin, like someone who had been treated with care since young. Her green eyes were mesmerizing, like two emeralds glowing with youthfulness. The parts that I could see showed that she had a slim but beautiful body. As for her chest size, she wasn't very privileged in that area, but she looked cute anyway.
"No, don't worry. I don't have a scratch." I said proudly.
"This is really incredible!" the blond girl praised me, her eyes shining with admiration.
'Yeah, it really is.' I thought inwardly.
If it wasn't for the Ero Boost, this fight could have had a different end. Now that I know the Ero Boost buff is different every time I use it, it was clear to me. There's a long way to go to get stronger.
"Thanks for rescuing me. Words can't tell how grateful I am. I'll owe you my life." The young woman bowed her head towards me, as an act of the deepest respect.
"Don't mention it…" I responded to her gesture without thinking too much. I wasn't prepared for such a polite reverence.
"Fufu." She gave a shy laugh, seeing my embarrassment. "At least, could you tell me your name?"
Her small laugh made me recover my composure. "My name is Richard Forster. You can call me Rick, if you want."
"Richard. It looks like a prince's name." Her eyes were wandering over my name.
"I'm not like that. I'm just a regular adventurer. I don't have any noble title or bloodline. Fortune and lands are things that I don't have either." I said to her.
"It's not what I meant." She closed her eyes, with her hands folded in front of her chest. "There are some things that money can't buy and are not given to you by birth. Not everyone would help someone in need against armed men."
I don't know why, but I felt more talkative around her. Maybe it was her calm personality that made me feel at ease to talk. "Well, not everyone is well equipped to do that. I'm not some kind of hero, but if it's within my reach to help someone, I don't see why I wouldn't."
"Fufu, Richard. I think you didn't notice it yourself. You're funny." She said with a smile. It was good to see that she was doing ok after getting attacked.
"Oh, I didn't ask your name?" I asked her, pretending to be curious. I already knew her name, but it would sound weird to call her before she told me.
She stopped laughing, and for a short moment she avoided my eyes, but then she told me. "Alicia. My name is Alicia."
'She didn't tell me her full name. Well, it was expected. She was a noble being persecuted. If I were her, I would be very cautious about telling this to a stranger, even if this stranger saved her life. I would do the same thing.'
She had her circumstances. I decided to act as naturally as possible with her, and let her open up when she was ready.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Alicia." I said with a smile.
"Likewise." She responded to me with politeness.
"Alicia, there is something I need to tell you."
"What is it?" She asked curiously.
"Hmm, your chest is showing." I said bluntly.
"Eh?" She didn't notice that her hands weren't holding her clothes together, so her small breasts and tiny pink nipples were visible to me. Her panty was still down there, so I didn't see her genitals.
When Alicia realized that her intimacy was in my sight, the blond girl turned red with an intensity I had never seen before. Not even Sarah.
"Oh, my goddess! I'm so sorry! I'm not some pervert! Please, don't tell anyone! I can't get married otherwise!" She screamed at me, her voice completely possessed by shame.
"Don't worry. I'll keep it a secret…" I said to calm her down. But I thought that her body was kind of cute. "Oh, now that I think of it."
I took off my black shirt that I was using until now to adventure through the woods. "You can use my clothes for now."
"Richard, you don't need to give me your… Your chest is exposed…" Her shame was taking away her ability to talk.
"We are not going anywhere like this. Just use this until we get new clothes, ok?" I said to her, calm but firmly.
Alicia stopped being so agitated and looked at me expressionless. She stood looking at me for a while.
"Alicia? Something wrong?" I asked her. When I said those words, she might have noticed that she was staring at me in silence.
"Huh, no, nothing. I will accept it." She said this, but her cheeks were still red.
'Don't tell me that Alicia had fallen for me?' I thought about the cute girl before my eyes. Brandish didn't miss the opportunity to say something.
[ It's a perfect time to use Lover's Appraisal to see her Affection for you. ]
'That's right. Thanks, Brandish. Let's see.'
[
Name: Alicia [???]
Level: 4
Class: Priestress
Affection: 8
]
'Eh? I'm not seeing things, right? I remembered that she had the Priestess class, but 10 points in Affection is a girl ready to become a Valkyrie. She likes me that much? I barely knew her!' I thought in shock. 'Not that I'm complaining, she is still very cute.'
And she was exactly what I wanted. Someone with healing powers. 'Maybe the goddess of luck has fallen for me too. Hahahahaha!'
As this thought crossed my mind, I started to feel my blood pressure rising, my mind filling with dizziness.
[ Ero Boost effect wore off. ]