*Shendar*

Sylvia huh, that is actually quite a fitting name if you ask me. I smiled at the she-wolf standing across from me, “My name is Vitamor.” Sylvia smiled back and spoke, “Such an odd name, but it is kind of fitting for some reason.” Sylvia seemed a little perplexed about something, but it quickly passed as she got in a fighting stance. She smiled again, “I guess it is time for us duel?” I groaned as I was reminded of an anime I used to watch in my childhood where the characters said almost the exact same thing.

I smiled at her after a second, “Yes, let us do the tango shall we.” She didn’t understand what I said, but before she could say anything I had already blinked directly in front of her, mere inches from her face. She was slightly shocked and it actually looked kind of cute so I kissed her quickly on the lips before blinking back to my initial spot.

Sylvia looked even more shocked and slightly pissed at the same time. Honestly the [Blink] skill is a little bit overpowered. It is near instantaneous and undetectable as far as I know. Sylvia was glaring at me with a red face and clenched teeth. I could hear Dani whistling from where she was standing and Zellfina was just laughing. I smiled at Sylvia again who actually growled at me while talking, “What the hell was that?” I cocked my head to the side, “It was a kiss. What else could it be?”

She growled again, “I know it was a kiss, but why did you do it!?” I laughed, “Well I just thought you looked kind of cute with a shocked expression on your face so I wanted to see an even more shocked face.” He face turned even redder and she growled deeply before she disappeared from where she was standing. I looked around for her, but I couldn’t see anything but trees in the distance and everybody else.

I felt a breeze from behind me and I reflexively turned around and stuck my sword in front of me. There was a loud clang and I was thrown back about fifty yards before crashing to the ground and sliding another twenty yards. I groaned a bit as I stood back up and looked at the spot that I was just standing at. Sylvia was standing there holding a silver colored sword, which I don’t know where it came from, still seething at me. Why is she so mad at me? I know that I stole a kiss from her, but that shouldn’t result in this much hostility. Don’t tell me it was her first kiss or something?

On another note how was she able to move like that? Did she learn to use the [Blink] skill or something? It shouldn’t be that though because I felt some air movement before she ended up behind me, what the hell is she doing? I came out of my thought and cussed at myself for zoning out in the middle of a fight. When I looked back at where she was a second ago she was gone. Dammit! I looked around again and even turned to look behind me, it was then that I felt the same breeze from my right this time.

Clang! I was barely able to block the sword again, but I was more prepared and wasn’t sent flying this time because I braced myself. I was face to face with Sylvia again and I was actually holding her back with some ease now that I was a little prepared. I pushed my sword forward and pushed her backwards along with it. She disengaged from our melee and jumped back a bit. She stood there glaring at me. What did I really do for her to go from being so friendly to being so pissed off? I swear I will never understand women at all.

I concentrated on her and I was able to catch a slight shift in her body as she disappeared again. A thought hit me and I waited until I could feel the breeze. When I finally felt it I was ecstatic because it came from the left side just like I thought it would. I brought my sword up and blocked her swing again. The look on her face was changing from one of anger to one of anger and slight surprise. I smiled at her, “I figure it out.” Her look of surprise got bigger and she jumped back a bit again.

She glared at me and then growled, “How did you figure it out?” I smiled back, “It was quite easy once I started to concentrate and stopped worrying about other things. When you are about to disappear your body shifts slightly in the direction you are going to move in. You must have really high agility in order for you to be able to appear to move instantaneously. I honestly couldn’t see your path of movement if it wasn’t for that slight shift before you moved. The breeze I would feel before you appeared and swung your sword helped out quite a bit as well.”

She stood there glaring at me while talking, “So what if you figured it out. You are barely able to block my sword and eventually you will mess up.” I smiled back, “We will see, you honestly don’t know who the winner will be until the end of a fight.” She growled back, “Of course.” As soon as she said that she started to move again. I could feel the breeze from my right and went to block the blow, but to my surprise nothing came and then the breeze was behind me.

I tried to turn and was barely able to block the blow, but do to the feint that she threw at me I was slightly off balance and was thrown back twenty yards. I flipped in the air and landed on my feet and stared holes into Sylvia. She was just standing there with a smug grin on her face. This is going to be a little tougher than I thought. I blinked and ended up right in front of her, but before I could do anything she disappeared again. Shit! I guess she was ready for it this time.

She appeared ten yards back from where I was standing and still had the smug look on her face. I was starting to get a little pissed at the smug look so I cast [Pure Mana Shield] on myself and just stood there waiting. She finally moved after a bit and when she appeared I didn’t move a muscle and just let the sword hit the shield. There were cracks all along the shield and it was on the verge of collapsing. I guess I need to work on leveling the shield up so it can handle more strength. There was a look of utter shock on her face and before she could move again I grabbed her by the throat lifting her from the ground.

She couldn’t do anything because my strength was actually greater than hers. When I started to sense the mana in the area, to use the shield, I noticed that there was mana swirling around her feet and arms. So I realized that she was using some kind of support magic on herself to boost her speed and her strength making it close to mine. When she hit the shield and paused in shock I cast [Sever] on the mana flowing around her arms before I grabbed her throat bringing her strength way below mine.

Honestly if it wasn’t for the absurd increases in stats that I got when leveling I would be about the same as her in strength or maybe even a little under. She started to speak, “What happened? How were you able to catch me?” I smiled, “I noticed that you had some mana swirling around your feet and arms so I figured that you were using some kind of support magic. I cast a shield around myself and waited for you to attack me. When you attacked and paused shortly after I cast a special kind of magic and canceled out your support magic. Giving me the opportunity needed to catch you since you couldn’t overpower me now.”

When she heard my explanation her eyes got as round as saucers, I knew that the fight was over so I sat her back down on the ground. She still had a look of anger about her, but there was probably nothing I could do about it. I sighed and then turned around and started walking back to my group. I smiled at Dani and Zellfina who were just standing there looking at me with smiles on their faces. All of a sudden there was a breeze at my back and I had to spin around and block the sword coming at my neck. I got pissed.

I looked at Sylvia with a glare that could kill, “What the fuck are you doing!?” She growled back at me, “This fight isn’t over until one of us is dead!” What the hell is she thinking? I released my aura some, “Back off now!” She looked a little frightened, but she still tried attacking again. I blocked the sword again and released some more of my aura, “I said back off!” She was visible trembling in fear, but she still tried to attack again. What the fuck is wrong with her!? I blocked the sword again and then released my aura more than I ever had since the time I blacked out, “STOP NOW!”

My aura alone was forcing her to her knees causing her to drop her sword and grab her shoulders. She was hugging her self and starting to cry. I could see her look of anguish and despair and it made me calm down. I felt like a bully for some weird reason, I walked up to Sylvia and knelt down in front of her, “Why are you trying so hard to throw your life away?” She looked up at me with a tear streaked face and spoke through the tears, “You stole my first kiss and to us female werewolves it is more important than our lives.”

I was utterly shocked at this, not at the first kiss part, but the part about it being more important than their lives. I grabbed her chin and made her look at me again, “Nothing is more important than your own life, unless it is the life of your loved ones.” She shook her head, “You don’t get it. In the werewolf culture a female’s first kiss can only be taken by someone stronger than them and that person is to be their mate forever. You being a human though, means that you would never accept me and that is basically like dying. A female werewolf whose first kiss has been taken will never find another person willing to be their mate.”

She stopped talking and started to cry again, I sighed and then looked at Zellfina and Dani. Dani gave me a thumbs up and Zellfina just nodded her head. I gently smiled at them and then turned back towards Sylvia. Sylvia had actually grabbed ahold of her sword and was in the process of moving it towards her stomach, kind of like what the Japanese would do in order to die with honor. I moved quickly grabbing the blade of her sword, I could feel the sting from the blade cutting into my skin. I stopped it an inch away from her stomach. She looked at me through the tears, “What are you doing!? You will never accept me so just let me die! That way I won’t have to deal with the scorn from the tribe and the loneliness that comes after…”

I didn’t let her finish her sentence before I kissed her passionately on the lips. I threw away her sword and held her in my arms as we kissed. After a few minutes we separated and I smiled at her, “Don’t automatically assume that I am the same as all of those other humans. Clearly I found you attractive otherwise I wouldn’t have kissed you the first time. If you would have me I would love to be your mate and for you to spend forever with me.” When I said that she gasped and started to cry again, she smiled and buried her face in my chest. I sighed in my heart; I will never understand these crazy mating rituals or whatever they are called. All of a sudden I was greeted with a notification.

Congratulations! For reaching a lover count of three you have unlocked the ability [Household]!

[Household]: Allows you to see were your household is and what their affection towards you is. When in the proximity of anyone in your household you will receive a buff of 25% to all stats.

By unlocking the second tier ability [Household] you have automatically been given the first tier ability [Friendship].

[Friendship]: Allows you to see the location of your friends and their attitude towards you whether it be fear, respect, friendship, affection, lust, or etc.

Wow! This is actually a pretty useful ability, but why Sylvia become my lover? We haven’t even had sex yet. I decided to ask her, “I just got a notification of a new ability and it said you are my lover. How is that possible we haven’t even had sex?” She looked up at me with a look of affection, “Well in my culture if taken ones first kiss is equivalent of taking a humans virginity in a way.” I nodded my head; well I guess that makes sense.

Zellfina walked over to us and spoke, “What ability did you get babe?” I opened up the ability info and showed it to them. Dani didn’t really react to it, but Zellfina was in shock. She was staring at the window and then started to speak, “I have heard of an ability like this before, but it never came with a stat buff like this one.” I opened up the [Household] window and looked at its contents.

Lover: Zellfina

Location: Right in front of you…

Affection: 80

Lover: Dani

Location: Right behind Zellfina…

Affection: 100+

Lover: Sylvia

Location: Seriously? She is right in your arms…

Affection: 75

Potential Lover: Camellia

Location: Right behind Dani… Open your eyes man…

Affection: 63

I was shocked at the attitude of this ability. Can abilities even have personalities? I threw that thought to the back of my mind because I was more shocked at the other info on the window. Potential Lover? Camellia? I know she has watched her mother and I have sex and she even masturbated to it, but I thought that it was just because she was a younger draconian and was interested in it is all. I never stopped to think that she might like me.

I decided not to say anything to her because if she really did like me she would let me know about it. If not we will let nature run its course. Who knows maybe the next time I see her masturbating to one of my sex sessions I may invite her in and see what happens. I quickly glanced at Camellia who was fidgeting and looking at the ground. She does seem like a young girl in love though. I laughed inside my head and turned my head back towards Sylvia.

She had stopped crying and was still looking at me with uncertainty in her eyes. After a second she spoke, “Do you really mean what you say? Will you really accept me?” I smiled and nodded my head, “I will, but I need to you know that there are and may be others that share my heart.” She smiled and nodded her head, “As long as I am the only werewolf I will be fine with that.” I smiled and nodded my head before quickly kissing her. She kissed me back this time and we separated after a few minutes.

We stood up and Sylvia dusted herself off, “Well I guess since you conquered me I should uphold my end of the bargain. My tribe of werewolves will cooperate with the draconians.” I nodded my head and Zellfina smiled. I checked out the map of Shendar and saw that the only red spots left where those that I had marked with Demi-God leaders.

I looked over at Zellfina and figured it was time to go back to the outpost and let them know everything. After that we can continue exploring the continent, we really haven’t got to do much exploring because of us trying to clear out the red zones. I proceeded to tell the group that, “Well we should inform the outpost of our progress so far and then we can continue exploring and training.” The girls nodded and Sylvia went to talk to a male werewolf. After a few minutes the werewolf bowed and the rest of them took off. Sylvia walked back over to our group.

She smiled at me and then spoke, “I put another werewolf in charge while I was gone and instructed him to cooperate with any draconians that came this way, this allows me to freely travel with you.” I nodded my head and looked down at her tail which was swishing side to side. I smiled at how cute it was and that it reminding me of an overly excited puppy. I patted her head and proceeded to lead the way back to the outpost.

Along the way we had killed a lot of random monsters and collected their materials. I was still trying to figure out how to use my element in my attacks so I could break through to the Immortal Rank. I felt that with my stats when I broke through to the Immortal Rank and reached level ten I could probably face a Demi-God by myself.

We had been moving for about two weeks before we were a few hundred miles from the outpost. It was when we decided to take a break that it finally happened. I was punching a tree and trying to feel the destructive element flow through my fist and outwards. I was getting extremely frustrated and pissed at the same time. It was at that moment that I could feel the element flow through my fist and into the tree. The tree shattered into splinters with my punch. I was shocked at the amount of damage that it did considering that I wasn’t really punching with all my strength. I got excited and yelled out loud, when I calmed down some the girls had come over to me and I received a notification.

Congratulations! You have reached the Immortal Power Rank!

With the Immortal Power Rank your body will no longer age and can only be killed by outside influences.

With the Immortal Power Rank you are able to use the [Half-Dragon Form] from your [Dragon Scale Body] skill.

By reaching the Immortal Power Rank you have automatically been given enough experience to level up.

Congratulations you have reached level 10!

All stats have doubled.

I was completely shocked at this development. So having to have an Immortal Power Rank was the reason I wasn’t able to use the [Half-Dragon Form]? I was also given a level when reaching the Immortal Power Rank. I was honestly shocked it didn’t give more levels, but I am not complaining because with level ten my stats have doubled.

I was ecstatic and it must have shown because Sylvia spoke up, “What is it love?” I smiled and then gathered all of the girls in a huge, even Camellia. Kiralee was just off by the camp sitting there waiting for an order, I seriously want to know where her personality went to all of a sudden. I kissed the three girls on the head and rubbed Camellia’s, “I leveled up, but that isn’t the best part I reached Immortal Power Rank!”

When I said this everyone was ecstatic, but Zellfina was by far the happiest. She actually was jumping up and down and then threw herself into my arms. I laughed and then kissed her on the head, “Why are you so happy about this?” She laughed and then nuzzled herself into my embrace, “It means we can officially get married and you can officially become the king of the draconians.” I was flabbergasted; I honestly wasn’t expecting that to happen so soon. I smiled and then kissed her on the lips, “We can do that, but let’s wait until we explore the continent a little bit more. We can contact the palace from the MBS when we get back to the outpost. This way when we get back they will have a grand wedding waiting for you.”

She looked up at me and then nodded, “Okay dear, I will wait for it.” I smiled, it’s not like I was scared of getting married or even being the king of an empire, but I wanted to be worthy of it. The only way I could do that was to find something that would benefit the empire, which I had done, and to make it to where they can colonize the continent.

So when we are done exploring we will go and get rid of the other red zones, one way or another. We started on our way back to the outpost and after another day of running we made it. The guard on duty happened to be the same one we saw on our way out so he saluted and opened the gate for us. Some other guards stopped us and searched Dani and Sylvia to see if they had anything dangerous on them. Before they could ask them any questions though I told them they were with the queen and I so they dropped the subject.

I went to find the commander while Zellfina and Camellia went to the MBS so they could call Zendra at the palace. If found the commander in his building and informed him of the situation and also drew red circles on the map of the continent for the red zones still left. I told him they could start moving into the other areas at any time and the inhabitants would cooperate with them. He was extremely happy to hear this news, of course there would still be the occasional monster to worry about, but they never made it past SSS rank and could be hunted in a group if needed.

When I left the building Zellfina and Camellia were still talking to Zendra in the MBS. Dani and Sylvia on the other hand were being surrounded by some male soldiers who were asking them questions and some even asked them on dates. I smirked and then walked over to the girls. I grabbed both of them around the waist with each arm and spoke, “Sorry guys these ones are mine.” Some of the men started to grumble and walk away, but there were some newbies who hadn’t seen me before that started to make a fuss.

“And just what makes them yours huh? Just because you probably fucked them doesn’t mean that you have sole claim to them. That belongs to those who are strong and I believe you aren’t stronger than me.” I looked over at the burly draconian that spoke up and when I used [Identify] on him and I was shocked to find that he was actually a Power Rank SSS. What the hell is he doing on the continent and not in the queen’s bodyguards?

I was actually kind of excited because I had just hit the Immortal Power Rank and I was given a chance to see how strong I actually was. I let go of the girls and cracked my knuckles in front of me, “Want to make a bet on that?” The draconian smirked at me and then punched his fist into his other hand, “Fine with me, but don’t complain when I beat you to a pulp in front of your women.” I laughed and started to move towards him, but I was interrupted, “Stop!”

I looked over and saw Zellfina running this way, well this guy just got extremely lucky. I smiled and put my arms down to my side. The burly draconian was shocked and kneeled down, “Your highness!” I laughed and then spoke to Zellfina, “You have impeccable timing Zina” The burly draconian stood up and yelled at me, “Watch how you speak to her majesty human!” Before I could say anything Zellfina spoke up, “Watch how you speak to him soldier! When you speak to your king your words should be filled with respect!”

There were gasps all around and even a few murmurs, “King?” and “This human?” I sighed; well things are probably going to be more complicated in the future. I just looked at Zellfina and smiled, “Well I can’t be called your king yet, at least not until after the wedding.” After this the murmurs grew louder, why do I feel like I made things even more complicated? Zellfina laughed and then smiled at me, “That is true, but with your Immortal Power Rank you have earned the title of King even without actually being one yet.” The silence was deafening after she said that, you could literally hear a pin drop if it happened. I rubbed the back of my head and then looked at the burly man, who had a look of fear painted on his face. I laughed and couldn’t help but praise the man’s luck; if it wasn’t for Zellfina he may have been close to death in a few seconds.