Aptitude Test (2)

Something soft and cold as ice cream was pressing down around my cock.

Melquibus Thalia squinted up at me, her face twisting in what looked like genuine panic.

"Nngh! Human! This is—!"

A world where men were scarce really was a lot of fun. Even a succubus-hybrid spirit went to pieces the moment a man came at her this aggressively.

"I'm cumming!"

"Nnghh—!"

A thick gulp.

The milky-white load that burst from my cock slid down the Melquibus's throat, spilled into her chest, and gathered inside the heart-shaped tattoo. I could see every drop of it settling there.

"Th-this taste—! Hiih! Nnghhk!"

That was the taste of Gold Aura cum.

"Hah! Haaah!"

The Melquibus who had just gotten a mouthful of my cock started trembling from head to toe.

Her body jerked. Then it began to shudder violently, the water of her flesh rolling in heavy waves.

"Look out!"

Kang Han-na threw her arms around me and swam hard for the edge of the pond.

The shuddering built into a full-body convulsion.

"Haaaaaah!"

The womb tattoo on the Melquibus's lower abdomen flared a vivid pink.

Her slime-like, translucent body swelled larger and larger, until it filled the entire pond.

"It's been so long since I felt a rush like this. Master!"

Han-na and I, now standing at the water's edge, both went wide-eyed.

"Oh my god! This is my first time sensing a spirit at all, and you just contracted a highest-rank one? That's insane!"

She stared at me like I was some kind of monster.

"This is a scam! I couldn't even contract a lowest-rank spirit — it took me a whole month just to say hello to one!"

Hmph. If you've got a problem with it, you should've been born a man. Or maybe it was because I was a dimensional traveler. Honestly, though, it was just dumb luck. Even Kim Do-jung, the number two hero in the rankings, couldn't touch talent like this.

"I've never seen aptitude like this in my life!"

"Hahaha."

That was when the Melquibus's enormous hand reached for me. She scooped me up and lifted me into the air.

I found myself staring into the eyes of a beautiful giantess of a spirit. Heart-shaped marks floated in her pupils.

"Put me down."

"Hehehe. Stay still, Master."

She carried me toward her sex.

A colossal slime ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠pussy unfurled in front of my face.

She started rubbing her clit against me, dragging that slick little nub back and forth across my face. Because her body was formed of water, the sensation was impossibly soft and clean, like being washed in something brand new.

"How does it feel?"

"Good."

"I knew you'd say that. This pussy belongs to Master now. Only you."

"Nngh—!"

Melquibus Thalia pushed me inside herself. I felt like I'd been turned into a living dildo.

"Haahn! Hah!"

It was bizarre in the best way. A bright scent of fresh lime and the smell of the ocean flooded my nose.

"Haaah! Master!"

I drifted through the soft interior of her pussy, and above my head I spotted a small protrusion peeking out. I reached up and stroked it.

"Aah! Th-that's—! Nnghhk!"

The spot my fingers had found was the spirit's G-spot.

"Aaaaaaaaaahnnn!"

A ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠waterfall of pussy juice erupted from the water spirit, blasting out of the pond in a roaring flood.

"Oh my god!"

Han-na, watching the whole thing, cast some kind of magic to get a better look at me.

"Spirit affinity of ninety-one percent? That's practically being one with the spirit!"

Her mouth hung open as she stared at me fucking Melquibus Thalia.

"Haaah! Nngh! Master! I'll be loyal to you forever! I swear it! Nngiiih!"

The gushing didn't stop. The pond finally overflowed — Thalia's pussy water had flooded the banks.

I swam through her insides and came.

"Aah! Thalia! I'm cumming!"

"Thank you! Thank you for dumping your cum in this filthy pussy of mine! Thank you! Nnghhhk!"

A moment later, Thalia's body began to shrink. She sank to her knees on the surface of the pond, demure as a bride on her wedding night.

I was lying on the water without quite knowing how I'd gotten there. That was Thalia's doing. She settled my head on her thigh and stroked my hair, hearts shining in her eyes.

"I belong to you, Master."

She vanished, and Kang Han-na came over to me.

"Your aptitude as an elementalist is a hundred points. No — a thousand."

She'd clearly given up on being surprised. She just stuck her thumb up and left it there.

I'd leveled up several times. Jumping from level 3 all the way to 9 meant I had six unclaimed level-up rewards sitting there waiting for me.

"Let's gooooo!"

"Hmm. Not bad. Not great, either."

Maybe it was greedy to expect something amazing when I wasn't even level 10 yet. Then again, my stats really were garbage. Still, getting a Mana stat at all was a relief. Without it, I wouldn't have had the faintest idea how long I'd have to grind before I could even start building a mana heart.

A low hum answered me as I cycled mana through a breathing technique and sent it toward my chest. Faint as it was, I could feel something wrapping around my heart, shielding it.

"Heheh. Nice."

I pulled up my status window.

"Alright. The stat points from the level-up rewards all go into Virility. The higher a stat already is, the more S-Points it eats to raise it further."

"And what's this?"

"Oh, that's completely broken. Once I actually grow into it, anyway."

I looked back at the status window.

"First things first. Every stat goes to 20."

Raising everything except Virility to 20 left me with 971 S-Points. The points I'd gotten as level-up rewards were already dumped into Virility. The more I had sex, the faster I'd get stronger. Of course, the bigger reason I was pumping Virility was that I just wanted to have more sex.

I turned to the last unclaimed level-up reward. A gift box I still hadn't opened.

"Please!"

I'd cracked open five of them already. The stat points and the Mana stat were fine, but they still felt lacking next to an Absolute ability that let me game the system this hard. Call it a thief's greed if you want, but why hand someone a nuclear missile and then make them fire it out of a machine gun? Give me the good stuff!

My hand trembled as I tapped the remaining level-up reward.

A skill. And a D-rank one at that!

Hmm. A white elephant, this one.

Men were scarce in this world. Most women would flood their panties if you just held their hand and smiled. And now I had an Ideal Type Mirror. It was going to need some work — but not right now. A skill for seducing women was not what I needed at the moment.

What I needed was that albatross of a skill, Useless Absolute Lie (E).

I laid my hand on the status window.

"Decompose the skill Useless Absolute Lie into two F-rank skills."

Right now, Useless Absolute Lie was caked in unnecessary restrictions and conditions. Picking those off one by one would be a waste. Grinding the whole thing down and starting over was more efficient.

"Okay."

The Eye of Truth at work, I figured. The most efficient projected outcomes appeared in front of me, already ranked. Without it, I would have had to burn S-Points checking every combination by hand.

I picked the two F-rank forms that looked best out of ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠a dozen or so promising shapes.

Eloquence did exactly what it said on the tin — it made my words more persuasive. Crude Illusion scrambled visual perception. Which meant it was next to useless in the real world. Camouflaging a cave to hide from beasts, maybe? Even that wouldn't fool them. Animals hunted by scent, not sight. Same problem with my golden aura. Changing what people saw wouldn't be enough to hide it.

"Rank Illusion up to E."

"Okay. Deal. Rank it up again."

"Okay."

This was an investment in staying alive. I was a growth-type with the highest possible ceiling, and if that potential got out, my life would be in danger. Hiding what I was deserved a serious budget.

"Now put a restriction on Perfect Illusion. Usable only once every twelve hours."

"In exchange, it targets every sense — not just sight. Mana included."

"And make it cost a matching amount of mana."

I needed more restrictions. But I wasn't going to butcher it the way I had last time. I wasn't short on S-Points the way I'd been in front of the Ten-Star Mage Kim Do-jung, and nothing was on fire.

"Set the success rate to 97.5 percent. Boost the effect to match."

A 2.5 percent chance it would fail completely — but in return, it had to be able to fool people I otherwise couldn't touch. The S-Point discount between slapping the word Absolute on something and leaving it off was enormous. I wasn't going to run into another ability user who sat in a hard counter-relationship with my Eye of Truth the way Kim Do-jung did. Not often, anyway.

Damn it. Not enough points.

"Change the earlier condition. Sensory mesmerism can only be used once per day."

I'd have to save it for when I really needed it. But there was a loophole baked in. On the surface, it just looked like the twelve-hour cooldown had been stretched to twenty-four. If I tagged the restriction as "once per day" instead of a flat twelve-hour wait, I could use Seamless Mesmerism once, and the moment midnight ticked over I could use it again. That meant I got to pick the timing of my lies.

If someone asked me to show my aura, I wouldn't have to stall for twelve miserable hours. I'd just wait until after midnight and fire Seamless Mesmerism right then. This wasn't a skill I'd be spamming, so pouring everything into quality was the right call.

"Good. That's an insane amount of progress for just a few days."

I hadn't even been in this world that long, and I'd already come this far. It was enough to make a man emotional. This really was the power of an Absolute, through and through.

"Jo-hyun said she'd teach me martial arts tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it."

Martial arts, huh. Magic, spirit arts, martial arts — could I master them all?

Honestly, I figured I could. I had the Eye of Truth, after all.