[What happened this time?]

That trainer I was sent to sexually assulted me. You can check my memories, watch the last hour and tell me what you think happened.

[Give me a few moments to go over your memories.]

[...]

[Well what they did isn’t against any system rules. I can flag them, and if other people complain, an action can be taken against them with enough complaints. But you are the first person to report any issue with their behavior.]

There is no way I am the first person to complain. Didn’t the book say that every person who had this system was given that skill book as part of the starter kit?

[That is correct and you are the only person to file a complaint about that trainer's actions. All other system hosts… After checking the system data every host slept with them…]

And I was the only one to complain about unwanted advances?

[As previously stated, you are the exception to the rule. Other system hosts have very little life experiences and a very twisted world view. They found nothing wrong with the trainer’s actions and spent a lot of the time there experimenting with them on what their body could do…]

Ya I don’t need details. It’s fine, I will just practice on my own. But could you tell me why my body felt so sensitive? That was not normal at all, it felt like my sense of touch was turned up to eleven.

[That is part of the learning process of the skill. It makes you extra sensitive from the creation of new nerves. It will go away with usage of the skill, normal training of the skill can make the symptoms disappear after a year. Some people have reported it takes up to five years.]

Up to five years? Hopefully I am not one of them. Alright, I guess I will start practicing and get this out of the way.

[That would be for the best. Also… Congratulations! You have unlocked the system wardrobe function! The system wardrobe is a separate storage system for clothing. At your current cultivation level you can store ten outfits and change to them at any time with a thought.]

Nice, that will come in handy.

Zhi stands up and stores his current outfit. Then pulls out his work uniform and puts it on, afterwards he stores it and puts on his work out clothes. After storing those he puts on a somewhat nice set of clothes. Then tests out the switching functions, changing from one outfit to another a few times in a row. Each time the switch is seamless. Walking around the room the clothes switching out doesn’t affect him at all. Even if he is sitting down, the clothes go where they need to. After playing around for a few more minutes, Zhi sits back down and thinks about his status.

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Name: Ming Zhi

Gender: Male

Age: 15/300

Karma: Good Oriented

Karma Score: 5

Status: Wandering Monk

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Cultivation: Qi Distillation 2/9

Constitution: None

Bloodline: None

Soul: Extra Thicc

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Cultivation Technique: The Endless Dao

Martial Arts: Jeet Kune Do [5%]

Movement Technique: None

Divine Art: The Innumerable Body Technique

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Dao comprehended:

(Fire 0.02%)

(Cooking 1.38%)

(Lightning 0.03%)

(Sound 0.06%)

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Skills: [Appraising Fate]

Wardrobe: 4/10 Stored clothing sets

Inventory Size: 4 Meters Cubed [17% Useable]

Addons: Alarm Clock, Time Keeper

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System Level: 2

Experience: 1380/2000

Mystifying Diviner Points: 248

Please increase cultivation to unlock more system functions, skills and levels.

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System Store Open

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Quest Log, Please select to expand.

Quest: To Sky Metal City!

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Oh nice, my karma is good now.

[You have been being overly nice to people you don’t really know. That normally increases your karma.]

That does make sense. Well time to practice, please tell me when I should get up to wake Zhao.

[Already set.]

Thanks.

Zhi spends the rest of the night working on slowly changing his body. Sometimes into a woman, a little boy, an old man, or a young girl. Other times he would just change his face, or parts of his body. Sometimes he would be fat, other times ripped like a bodybuilder. Sometimes he would be pale white, other times he would be dark as midnight. It wasn’t until his alarm for waking up went off that he stopped. As he got up from his bed to go wake up Zhao a smile crept across his face. Then he started giggling and didn’t stop for almost a minute straight.

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Zhao was having the most wonderful dream, he was able to ask Xiulan out and she agreed. He was in the middle of preparing a meal for the date. He was planning to walk around the city with her and chat, maybe even hold hands. Then go to the lakeshore area and have a picnic with her.

He is pulled out of his wonderful dream by a touch to his face. A soft hand gently caresses his face, it takes him a moment to actually open his eyes. It’s still dark in his room and the door is closed. There is a dark silhouette hovering over him, their hand is currently on the side of his face. Not really sure what is going on he says, “Zhi is that you? Is it time to get up for training?”

The silhouette leans closer to his face, he can feel the heat of their breath pass over his face as they stop near his ear. Then a soft voice he will never forget says, “Keep your voice down sweety, it’s the middle of the night. We have hours before Zhi is supposed to come in and wake you up.”

Zhao’s breath hitches in his throat and he barely squeaks out, “Xiulan?”

She moves in front of his face and he can barely make out her smiling down at him. She leans in closer and rubs her nose with his as she says, “You get an eskimo kiss for being right. Tell me, were you dreaming about me?”

The darkness of the room hides Zhao’s bright red face, but he replies. “Yes, I was dreaming about us going on a picnic together after we walked around the city talking for a while and holding hands.”

“Oh you rogue, trying to hold my hand on the first date? So bold of you, but why wait for a date when I am already here?” Zhao feels something slide under his blanket and finds his own hand. The soft hand takes his and their fingers interlock. Her face leans closer to his again, he can feel every exhale of breath on his face. They stay like that for a few moments, then she says, “Can you do something for me?”

“Anything.”

“Put on your workout clothes and meet me outback, but stay quiet. You don’t want anyone to hear you.”

“My work out clothes?”

“Yes, just trust me.” She winks at him and then removes her hand from his. Then she crepts silently from the room. The door opens and closes without a sound. Zhao doesn’t think, he just quickly and quietly changes clothes and then moves to the back yard area trying to make as little sound as possible. When he steps out back, he is greeted with Zhi in his workout clothes.

“Oh good, I thought I was gonna have to come back inside and wake you up. You were taking forever, did you fall back asleep?”

Zhao looks around the whole area, but only Zhi is standing there looking at him. He looks at Zhi and says, “You didn’t happen to see Xiulan did you?”

Zhi tilts his head to the side and says, “Is that a joke because I have the blindfold on? Also why would Xiulan be here?”

Now Zhao looks completely confused, he looks around some more but only Zhi is outside with him. Looking back at Zhi he says, “I thought Xiulan woke me up and asked me to come out back with my workout clothes on.”

“You have some weird dreams, I woke you up and asked you to change and meet me out back. Come on, let's get started. The sooner we get to work the sooner you can see the real Xiulan and not just dream about her.”

Zhao looks down at his hand and says, “But she was her, she held my hand. My hand is still clammy from it.” Zhao holds up his hand to show it to Zhi. Zhi looks at it for a moment before shrugging at the boy and saying, “Looks like a hand to me. Come on, first set! Let's go!”

Zhao reluctantly joins Zhi for the morning workout routine.

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Zhi couldn’t stop smirking whenever he looked at Zhao when they were working out. He would randomly pause and look at his hand, then go back to working out. It took all of his control not to burst out laughing watching him. After they finished their work out, they cleaned up and changed clothes. As they were heading out the door, Zhi focused his spirit sense on the two people on the roof. As they started walking to work he caught something.

(“How much longer do we have to watch them? It’s been a few days and all they do is the same thing.” The other person replies, “Boss said a week, after that we report back on what we found. Hopefully the guys at the restaura…”)

Zhi tucked that info away and when they got closer to the restaurant he found two people watching him and Zhao. They were actually doing a decent job blending into the small flow of people on the street this early in the morning as far as Zhi could tell. He was able to get more info also.

(“Here they are again for work. A few more days of this shit and we are done. This is a dead end, the guy isn’t a cultivator, he is a restaurant cook.” The other man replies, “So what do you think the boss will say when we report back?” The other man laughs and then says, “Probably kidnap the Hai family, to force the guy to pay the boss back. Then he will probably kill them all, to teach everyone in the area not to mess with him. It wouldn’t be the first time he did something like that.”)

Zhi didn’t listen to more because the system popped up with a message.

[Limited timed quest is activated]

[Quest: Poking a bear isn’t a good idea.]

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Your actions with Hai Qiang’s debt collectors have had some unintended consequences or maybe this was planned. This is a limited time quest, you have 3 days, 6 hours 32 minutes and 12 seconds to preemptively take action. Otherwise the Hai’s will be kidnapped and the chance of quest failure will rise considerably.

Quest Objective: Solve the issue you caused, violence is always a good answer.

Bonus Objective: Solve the issue permanently.

Reward: 100 Mystifying Diviner Points, 500 experience

Bonus: 100 Mystifying Diviner Points, 500 experience

Failure: Lose 200 Mystifying Diviner Points, the death of the Hai family.

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