Before coming to James’ room Jessy had been for a bath and changed into some short grey robes that reached down far enough to just barely cover past her lower regions. In her own room she’d worked herself up into quite a fit of an anger, until at last she couldn’t handle it and had to give him a piece of her mind. Before James could even register what was happening or employ his spirit energy she’d launched herself across the room and grappled him to floor.

During her grappling him to the ground he felt her slick thighs rubbing along his legs, her bountiful chest pressing against his and her soft hairy pussy pressed into his abdomen as she tried to pin down his hands. James didn’t fully realise what was happening until her angry, seething expression was staring him in the face and his hands were pinned above his head.

He looked down at her disorderly robe that was now slightly parted revealing the satin soft white skin and the substantial cleavage of her perky rounded breasts. He couldn’t stop his biological reaction as his cock hardened and erected until it pressed against the crevice of her tight bum. Noticing his reaction Jessy couldn’t stop her own reaction, as at this moment she finally realised she was lying half naked on top of his fully naked body. She felt his chiselled pecs under her breasts and saw the toned muscles of his arms stretched out over his head.

Before she could react in time, James had flipped her over and pressed her to the floor in much the same position as she had him, except his hips sat inside her long legs and both her hands were pinned above her by one of his. She felt the shaft of his erection throbbing as it laid along her abdomen and his hot breath as he eyed her like a wolf. She tried to avert her gaze as her nipples hardened and her face flushed but he reached out his spare hand and cupped her chin pulling it back towards him. As her gaze travelled along his lean muscled body back to his eyes that were, for the first time since they’d met, alive and filled with vigour as an evil grin spread across his face.

The fingers of his hand then slowly travelled down her body, enjoying her soft skin, supple flesh and parting her robe to reveal her well-developed peaks and hard little pink nipples. Once it reached the cloth belt, that was the only still intact part of her short robe, it stopped for only a brief moment, waiting as if for consent. Although she said nothing she couldn’t prevent herself from reflexively swallowing and without further pause James pulled the belt loose revealing her entire fit toned body and soft skin as white as jade that now had a rapidly spreading blush across it.

His hand then began to travel back up her body along the ribcage and around the edge of her breast as he leaned in closely towards her. Without warning he forced a kiss onto her and she eagerly began to reply as their tongues battled and her hips started raising up trying to create some pressure on her clit as it rubbed along the shaft of James’ cock.

She let out a moan as he began to respond in kind and ground his cock along the length of her pussy. His hand began to roam along her body, circling and massaging a breast to then return to her toned thigh as he grabbed it for leverage while grinding his dick onto her. Soon he felt the hot juices flowing from her cunt and broke off the kiss. Leaning in further. With a whisper he told her “beg me.” and began to lick and nibble along her ear as he alternated between massaging his erection on her now well moistened pussy and leaving the tip flattened between his abdomen and her clitoris.

Jessy’s moans only grew loader, and with every throb of the head of his knob, she grew more restless, until finally she couldn’t hold back and started bucking in her frustration at being teased to the edge but prevented from tipping. While kissing and biting along her neck James chuckled cruelly and this time commanded her. “Beg me!”

At last she couldn’t handle this torture anymore and her beautiful blushing face with all her little freckles only looked cuter as she bit her bottom lip then begged. “Please James, I’m begging you. I need it.” And with that said James evil grin spread once more as he let his cock slide lower until it pressed against her maiden head and he pushed.

With a thrust, his throbbing erection buried itself into the depths of hair wet cunt and her lust filled moan echoed out in the room. James finally released her hands which quickly wrapped around his neck trying to pull him into her embrace and increase their contact as much as possible. Her skin was on fire as she thrust her hips upwards in an attempt to satisfy this growing urge. His girth filled her and every motion spurned her closer to orgasm as his dick grew harder and thrust in stronger in every passing moment.

James felt her starting to tighten on his cock and endorphins began to flood his brain as their wild rutting quickly approached its violent conclusion. As his blood rushed faster and hotter he felt himself unconsciously using spirit energy and his mind crafted a wicked idea.

Before they reached their ultimate goal James broke Jessy’s hold on his neck and pulled out. He grabbed her leg and flipped her over then pulled her up onto her knees. Sliding forwards he repositioned his himself, with one hand firmly holding her breast and pulling her back against his hard chest as the other lined up his cock. Just as Jenny’s mood was beginning to become impatient he thrust back inside of her.

Jenny let out a loud moan and pushed back her hips to create more contact. James free hand reached around, and employing his spirit power began to madly massage her excited clit with lightning speed. It was like a high powered vibrator that sent shocks through Jessy’s system. She felt James bulging inside her and then she began to spasm and shake on his enlarging dick feeling every nerve in her body ignite and every muscle tense as she started cuming madly.

James felt himself rapidly approaching his climax as his cock swelled and his balls began to contract. When Jessy’s already tight cunt started to tense and tighten further his spirit power rapidly traversed his body and his thrusting accelerated to an outrageous speed, until at last with a heavy grunt and Jessy’s scream they both released their final climax and James filled Jessy’s insides with his cum.

Sweating and exhausted they both collapsed onto the floor panting.

“Holy Shit!”

James chuckled lightly and began to speak at the same time as Jessy. “That was alright.” “Not the best I’ve ever had.”

Then realising that they’d both just replied and neither spoke first, they looked to the door of the room to see Harvy gawking wide eyed with a massive tent in his robes and a sagely nodding Dr. Skay who took the opportunity to belittle Harvy some more. “You see Harvy, that’s how a real man does it. With your pathetic little pecker and that ghastly grey skin you’ll never get a girl like this lass, if any girl at all. Even the dead ones would probably run at the sight of your petrifying face. You’re a useless waste of space and...”

As Skay begin to chip away further at that last little bit of will to live remaining in Harvy’s body, James languidly stood and lethargically walked back to the water basin to clean himself. With a tired “Let yourself out Jess.” he climbed into the tub and began to pour hot water on himself once again.

Inversely to James’ lethargic carefree attitude, Jessy was already rapidly trying to arrange herself and her clothes and a whole complicated array of emotions was flashing across her face. By the time James had told her to ‘let yourself out’ she was already quickly moving towards the door.

Before passing the slowly ever more greying Harvy and the sagely nodding Dr. Skay spraying an endless barrage of dehumanising taunts, Jessy spun with a strange expression then firmed an angry scowl and yelled back into the room. “This isn’t over James!”

“Yes it is.” She hadn’t turned back to leave before his lethargic reply came from behind the separator. She scrunched up her cute little face, stomped her foot angrily and marched out of the room with James’ cum still dribbling down her thighs.

By the time James had cleaned up again and found a fluffy cotton grey robe that seemed to be the norms of this cult ... ahh ... Clan, Skay and the surely dead by now Harvy had disappeared and his door was once again closed.

With a long sigh he finally laid down on the marble bed and let himself fall into a slumber.

The next day he once again awoke to the quiet chirping of birds and the warm rays of sunlight bathing his room in its glow. The first thing James did when he hopped out of bed was start playing with his spirit power. He couldn’t quite control it fully yet as his almost face plant holding Jessy yesterday can attest to.

He began with the waving motion of his hands like he did yesterday. One fast and one slow, trying to master switching between these motions instantly. Soon his hands began a bizarre series of rapid then slow movements.

“Well this’s harder than I thought it’d be.” James stopped after an hour of this, clearly displeased with his progress. With a sigh he got himself in order and left his room. ‘Why’s he still here?’ James thought to himself while watching Dr. Skay excitedly lecturing the now very dead looking, still standing corpse of Harvy.

He was so lifeless in fact, that the flies were busy making a little home for themselves inside his listless mouth and his eyes looked like they’d turned to glass as he just stood there letting Skay lecture at him on his failings as man, human, sentient being and anything else that came to mind.

After another good half hour of Skay lecturing Harvy, with James sitting nearby taking notes for future reference should he ever wish to torture someone to death, Skay slapped a palm on Harvy’s back and gave him a sagely look. “Now that you understand your place in the world go and fetch my equipment. There’s a great deal of work to be done.”

With that brief instruction the lifeless corpse began to, with great effort it seemed, shuffle in an increasingly rigid manner as it moved towards Skay’s room. ‘He’s dead right? He’s got to be dead right? Has Skay killed that poor bastard and created Frankenstein’s monster? Don’t tell me ... Zombie? Is this mad scientist the key that triggers a zombie apocalypse on this world? Holy shit!’

“Boy!” Skay shouted. With a jump James awoke from his nightmarish day dreaming. His face became stone, and looking at Skay he asked in a cold voice. “Dr. Franken ... Ah ... Dr. Skay, are you trying to create a zombie?”

Skay’s face become fanatical and his evil maniacal laugh rang out in the courtyard as he hunched forward rubbing his hands together like a Jew smelling money.

“Brilliant isn’t it? Muhaha! My first test subject. If it’s as they described to me and a person’s talent in cultivation is a reflection of how strong their ‘soul’ is then if I completely crush this mans ‘soul’ to dust and his heart still beats will he not become a soulless cultivator? Should his talent not then be even less than a common mortal’s? What will happen if his soul is crushed to dust and then he’s reborn with a stronger drive and will than ever before? Or what if the lack of any soul, gives him infinite talent and creates some cultivating monster like when you try to divide something by zero. Will this young man rapidly begin approaching godhood? Muha, Muwahaha. Muwahahahaha!”

‘Fuckin’ hell! I completely underestimated this fuckin’ nutjob. He’s absolutely the most diabolical and evil man I’ve ever met! In the future I have to keep a closer eye on him. It worries me that I may miss opportunities to take notes!’ James thoughts on Dr. Skay’s mad plan to crush Harvy into dust and observe from the sidelines were varied. He mostly thought it was genius though.

James was fully aware the information gleaned from this experiment could greatly affect the approach he takes in his future training. Furthermore, a great deal could be extrapolated from the results of this test such as the nature of the soul in relation to its effect on cultivation and even its effect on the ability to martial ones spirit force properly.

Naturally James was aware of the ethical nature of this experiment but ... Godhood. Even he was blinded by such desire. Besides he’d never called himself a saint or kind-hearted or anything of the sort. When it came to achieving his own goals his heart was as if a mountain. Unshakable!

“Old Madman what other little experiments are you running?” James finally asked.

Skay’s face lit up with excitement at the opportunity to initiate this shrewd young man, with morals as degraded as his own, into the world of science. He grinned and beckoned towards James as he started moving in the same direction as the still ambling lifeless corpse of Harvy. In passing him Skay leaned over and whispered into his ear. The ambling corpse visibly shook and then grew more frail and gaunt at an alarming rate.

As James passed, he decided to follow the example of the Old Madman, as he to leaned in and whispered some unmentionable things to the walking corpse. After which the corpse’s hair began to turn white like some natural law had descended and sucked dry all but the last few remaining beats of his heart.

Although James and Skay made note of this new development they decided to ignore it for now and continued walking. The slow shuddering dead form of Harvy once again began its shambling forward momentum to complete its allotted task.

James and Skay soon passed Skay’s room and moved towards a single story detached building a good hundred meters away, across a flat green grassy field, approaching the forest’s edge. When Skay opened the door to this building James was floored. In this mere 5 days they’d been here Skay had assembled an entire Mad Scientist’s Laboratory from the debris washed through with them. Random metal rods shot huge arcs of electricity about randomly, caged animals that somewhat resembled cute little blue ferrets with big adorable eyes, a currently empty human sized cage with a questionable nature of spikes sticking out of it everywhere, a dissection/operating table depending on Skay’s whim, that already had stains of blood covering it and a whole multitude of various other Mad Scientist things from chemicals to beeping electronics and a great deal of miscellaneous. The lab even had the smell of fear, ionization from electrical arcing and a few other suspicious smells James couldn’t quite put a finger on.

“Holy shit! Old Madman ... what, what is all this?” James was truly shocked. He couldn’t even maintain a straight face as this was one of the most enlightening moments of his life.

“Science boy. Clearly it is science!” Skay replied with a wry smile.

“Science my ass! Look at those electric rods sparking everywhere. What the hells the point? They’re clearly just there for fuckin’ show and the ferrets Dr. Skay, Think about the children! Is that even real blood or did you just spill something on that operating table.” James face scrunched up slightly when he actually started to examine the lab in closer depth.

Skay began to laugh evilly again as he pulled a little adorable ferret from its cage. He then gave James a wink and said “Watch carefully.” and with that he reared back and launched the fluffy little ferret at a lightning rod.

James eye’s widened in shock as he watched the poor little bastard shooting an ark through the air until finally it reached with a meter of a metal rod and a huge electric arc shot out towards the hapless creature.

It’s great big beautiful moist eyes widened as that bolt of artificial lightning rapidly approached it and it’s little toothy mouth opened wide swallowing the bolt down as if just some pre-dinner snack. It then latched onto the end of the rod and started scurrying up and down while arcs of lighting blasted away at it. The little ferret looked quite pleased as it bathed in all the electricity.

James was dumbfounded. “Fuck me dead! Am I seeing things? Did I just see that creature eat electricity? Oi, you old freak, what just happened ... what’s still happening?” He blurted as he watched the little blue ferret frolicking around on the arcing rod.

Skay’s face split open into a shit eating grin. “Yesterday, did you not discover your ‘spirit energy’ and ‘elemental affinity’?”

James thought back for a moment cupping his chin. “You mean when I placed the Spirit Stone into the compass? Did the Corpse tell you that? Well I suppose the answer is yes. But I truthfully understand nothing about what it is. In fact I only discovered my spirit energy by accident when I picked up the compass and saw a filthy vision of your Zombie Prototype pleasuring himself alone in his room.”

Skay gave a solemn nod and then started moving about the lab pressing buttons, poking unmentionable looking at things and pouring various questionable chemicals on stuff as he started explaining. “Yes, Harvy mentioned it after he returned from the forest. As punishment for leaving you behind in the Endless Forest he was gifted to me to be a lab assistant but once I had him in my grasp I realised since our first encounter his mental state had become significantly unstable, calling me Great Evil Lord this and Master of Damnation that, which is why I chose him to be the subject of my first ‘soul’ experiment.”

Boom! A loud explosion rang out as Skay twisted a dial somewhere and the lightning rod released a stupidly large arc, shooting the poor little ferret across the lab. Once it landed it shook its now black soot coloured fur clean and excitedly started running back towards the lightning rod. Skay then continued on as he began do more unexplainable mad scientist things.

“Once I dragged the full story out of Harvy I remembered a conversation I had about the ‘elements’ with the Elder. In this world they have 4 basic elements of wind, water, fire, and earth. Which to us educated beings would be aptly described as the three forms of matter and photons or more aptly radiation. The element of wind is actually the laws of gases, water is fluids, earth is solids and in my opinion the most powerful of the three, fire, or in our world, radiation, which if powerful enough can just turn everything to plasma and be done with it.”

At the mention of the fire element his voice sounded with a little bit of longing. Then after twisting some knobs he approached the happily playing ferret and started splashing a dubious mixture of chemicals on it before quickly returning and flicking some switches after which a whole multitude of extra lighting rods flicked out from the wall and they all started arcing wildly between each other. James couldn’t tell if the ferret was writhing around in pain or ecstasy as it began wildly spasming inside the now very active electrical grid. Dr. Skay pulled out his Black-Pad and started making some notes while he continued explaining to James.

“In addition to the 4 basic elements was a number of rare elements. Space and Time both naturally being the same as our universe but vastly misunderstood in this universe and also so rare that they can hardly be found. The element of fortune, which I believe to be the equivalent of advanced probability mathematics and so rare as to only be a legend. Also there stand a number of other legendary elements like ‘nature’ or ‘darkness’ and such that have hardly ever been seen or discussed in this backwater city and were passed down only in stories or through the rumours of travellers. Then there was one rare one that was truly interesting.”

At this point he spun to look at James with his eyes glittering. “Lightning! If I had to guess, your job was somehow related to electricity in our world correct?” With a nod from James Skay spun back towards the writhing ferret before moving to mash some more buttons. The ferret grew more frantic in its spasms and suddenly began to emit a faint blue glow around its body in which little arcs of electricity started to jump across it’s fur slowly growing larger the more the huge arcs from the rods lashed onto it. Skay continued on during all this while also still writing on his pad.

“Lightning or electricity, or more aptly, the flow of electrons. From what I was told, they believe your elemental alignment is set since birth. In my opinion that’s a crock of shit! I believe your innate elemental affinity is a reflection of your understanding of the laws of a certain ‘element’ and your ‘affinity’ to the ‘elements’ is limited only by your understanding and knowledge. For arguments sake let’s assume you’ve completed school having done physics and chemistry. In physics you learnt the basics of how photons are packets of energy and the wavelength of the photon is a reflection of the energy stored by that little packet and in chemistry you’ve learned about exothermic and endothermic reactions. In other words the way in which a system, object or whatever share’s its heat. Just with this knowledge alone you’ve suddenly qualified for the highest tier of innate affinity to the element of fire in this world and in fact you could just skip fire and go straight to the element of radiation, or rather light! As another example say you’ve completed some elementary courses in the nature of space-time at university at one point or another. You understand the nature of space and time being a singular entity because what’s space without time and what’s time without space and yadda yadda. You’re now a bona-fide cultivator of both the elements of space and time. In your case you’ve spent half your lifetime studying and applying the fundamentals and some of the advanced principles of electricity. Now watch this.”

Explaining to this point he stabbed a big red button that was just begging to be pressed and a huge current nearly blew the lightning rods apart as it surged towards the little ferret.

Boom!

A shocking explosion rang throughout the laboratory and the smell of burning hair spread as a smoke screen expanded out from the position of the little ferret and filled the lab.

After a few minutes of coughing and wheezing and opening a window the lab slowly cleared. Where there was once an adorable little blue ferret now sat a ferocious and slightly bigger ferret that had static arcs shocking across it body hairs. The entire rodent looked to be charged up to the brink with all its little hairs standing on end. Seeing this, Skay split his face with a grin, then turned to James. “You’re going to have to catch it.” He nonchalantly said as he slowly backed away from it.

James face turned stoic as he eyed the Mad doctor and then looked at the now very riled up rodent. Rolling up his sleeves he cautiously approached it and reached out a hand to grab it. The little ferret was a blue flash as it spat out some lightning and began running away. When the shock reached James, it started travelling up his arm numbing his nerves and making his arm jerk back, once it travelled through his body he started to convulse. He unconsciously deployed his spirit energy which quickly counteracted the effects of the lightning and like the tide of the beach swallowed the ferrets lightning discharge like a hungry wave before returning to where ever exactly it is that spirit energy comes from.

James could now slightly guess at the reason why that Old Madman said ‘he’d’ have to catch it and so began a game of cat and mouse in which a blue little shadow flashed around the lab firing off lightning everywhere and a much bigger grey blur ran around in chase, freezing every time he was shocked until he could fully deploy his spirit energy to quell the lightning. While this was going on Skay was humming to himself and writing away on his pad. He then once again began explaining just what the hell he was doing.

“Because of your ‘natural affinity’ to ‘lightning’ your spirit energy has begun to take on characteristics of that natural law. I suspect having your occupation you’ve completed at least high school level physics and chemistry and perhaps some advance mathematics so you now have all the qualifications to attune to every basic element and a few rare ones. In fact, if I’m correct, anyone can attune themselves to any natural law with a high degree of compatibility, required that they have at least some basic knowledge of how it works and have still not solidified a ‘True Spirit’. Ahh but I’ll get into that when Hao comes to teach you how to cultivate later.”

At the moment James was half listening as he raced madly around the laboratory knocking things over everywhere as the little blue rodent continued to evade him. His lifeless dead eyes would probably have frightened the ferret provided he didn’t have long strands of his hair trying so hard to distance themselves from each other due to static electricity. They almost stood directly upwards like some kind of Super Seyan. By this point in time the ferret was treating this as a fun game and continuously dodged and jumped the moment before James could reach it and throwing it’s lightning all over the place like some kind of twisted science fair project.

Skay of course wasn’t worried and continued on. “These ferrets are actually quite an interesting little species apparently native to the Endless Forest. Strangely enough when I approached the Elder and started asking about them he immediately offered them to me. They apparently are born with no natural elemental affinity and rarely ever evolve to the point of having formed a ‘True Spirit’ which is what you’re now seeing. By continuously subjecting it to a natural law and throwing a few interesting chemicals I’ve worked up from stuff in their herb garden that kept it alive through the process, I’ve successfully ‘taught’ it some of the laws of how electricity behaves granting it an elemental affinity and allowing it to progress in whatever path of cultivation spirit beasts like itself progress on. This is only the first subject, mind you. Hopefully if Harvy doesn’t snap anytime soon or break the ‘Spirit Barrier and solidify his ‘True Spirit’ he can volunteer to be the first human test subject. Muwhahaha!”

James finally understood what the whole purpose of this experiment was. Though he wasn’t certain about what this ‘Spirit Barrier’ or ‘True Spirit’ was he’d already formed some guesses based on the context. However after this chat he felt quite a bit more knowledgeable about natural affinities.

At present he felt that lightning gave him a sharp rise in speed and processing capability that made the world look as if the rate of time passing had halved, and allowed him to move explosively at nearly three or four times his normal max speed. He wondered what sorts of effects his spirit energy would have if he could incorporate every possible attribute he could think of. Suddenly he wondered what kind of monster the Old Madman was going to turn out like if he started cultivating. Having his vast and wide reaching knowledge of the universal laws he could surely develop any number of strange and wonderful ‘elements’.

While he was thinking about such things he’d finally cornered the ferret after a long game of cat and mouse. When he started closing in for the capture it started panicking then reared up as all its hair bristled and charged arcs started dancing off it like a lightning storm brewing as it opened its mouth and fired a massive ball of electrically charged particles nearly twice its own size, directly towards James. ‘Holy Shit! Is that a fuckin’ plasma-ball?’

Before James had a moment to escape it’d already arrived in front of him. The sheer degree of power in this ball was so huge that any gaseous matter that made contact, seemed to light on fire and fuelled an unusual reaction spitting out bits of super-heated plasma as massive amounts of electrons went into a chaotic state and the gases in the air began to become liquid fire.

James felt every hair on his body raise like pins dancing on a magnet. His eyes hyper-dilated as his spirit energy flooded into every part of his body and he leapt to the side just in time to escape contact with the rapidly fired, flaming, electric ball of death. However unable to escape totally unscathed as a massive arc shot out stunning him as he fell to the ground like a slapped fish.

Skay’s eye’s bulged out as he was taking endless notes of data and watched the plasma ball rapidly pass through a wall as if it didn’t exist leaving only a basketball sized, slowly melting hole in the wall of his lab like a new window to the outside. When he turned back he saw the ferret lying passed out on the ground from this huge release of it’s energy and James slowly trying to stand as his body kept jerking and twitching occasionally.

When he finally collected himself and turned to look at Skay his usual poker face seemed to have developed a strange twitching in his right eye. James himself couldn’t tell if it was some kind of nerve problem or he still hadn’t fully recovered but he damn sure knew the next time the madman roped him into his lab he’d make sure not to be enlisted for another seemingly harmless experiment such as this.

Interestingly he felt his spirit power was surging madly like an over filled dam as it unconsciously began leaking out into his body. His muscles bulged and contracted constantly as it ran through his body and he felt himself stiffening and relaxing endlessly.