Ailine's Pov
Last night my wife Airi showed me what an adult was. She didn't know I was watching. It was so lewd. I can't believe she's chatting with me nonchalantly when she's actually naked. These 'clothes' of hers are just illusion magic. Is she a pervert?
"Ailine. Ailine! Are you listening?"
Huh? Oh.
"Sorry, I was lost in thought. What is it?"
"What's the best way for someone to level and make money?" What? Has she been living under a rock her entire life? How can she seem so strong yet not know how to level?
"Well, there's the adventurers guild, there's mercenaries, kingdom knights, and lastly paladins. You can also just free Lance. Travel the world and kill monsters. Go to town and sell your spoils to crafters and merchants."
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Airi's Pov
"So nothing's changed then." Everyone used to do these things before to become stronger and make money, but now there's experience and this status. This status can help not-so-talented people keep track of things like their health and mana while giving them additional skills upon leveling up. So that's why the mortality rate has gone down and one of the reasons the quality of life has gone up. I'd say the two biggest changes are skills and evolution.
"Changed?"
"Ah. Nothing, don't worry about it."
For starters, let's level up and evolve. Get some money and materials. Ailine also wants me to help her level and evolve. That's the reason she did the blood-pact, to begin with. If she gets stronger that'll alleviate my worries anyways. It wouldn't be pleasant dying because someone killed her since she's a weakling.
I wonder if my stats change in my humanoid form. And maybe I've unlocked something after the blood-pact. 'Status'
Status
[Level] 1 of 5 [ Airi ]
Exp 500 of 5000
Age: Roughly 16,000
Race: Pure Blooded Dragon Humanoid Variant
Class: Holy Defender
Class: Vampire Berserker
Status: [3000/3000 HP] [2000/2000 MP]
800 Strength
500 Magic
750 Agility
1000 Def
1100 Mdef
Skills: [Holy shield], [Heal], [Protect], [Sword of Light], [Blessing], [Vampiric Transformation], [Berserk], [Siphon Blood], [Blood Enhancement].
Special skill: [Blood-bond]
Interesting.. My stats changed because of my humanoid form. I also acquired skills as well as different classes. My humanoid form truly has stronger holy powers than my dragon form. Perhaps it's because my humanoid form is closer to my core. It's hard to explain, but my core is still filled with holy power and is trying to ward the darkness off. It's able to do so for a smaller and weaker form like my humanoid form, but my dragon form is too big for the core to cleanse the powers of darkness, and it becomes overwhelmed. Thus causing my dragon form to be vampiric and sinister.
My dragon form doesn't have any skills. Is it because of the overwhelming stats? Or that Dragons are already too powerful that they require to level or evolve before learning or acquiring new abilities, or else, they'd be overpowered. Hmm.. I'm not sure. Well, these lower stats help me blend in with the other humanoids.
I can also transform between a defender and berserker. Although, I'll probably hide the berserker as much as possible. It'll be my Trump card. Especially because transforming into a vampire will draw unwanted attention. What's this special ability?
[Blood-bond]
A skill given to individuals who've undergone a blood-pact. User Ailine and User Airi share experience (usually if a party kills a monster they get split experience, but they both get the full experience whether or not they both attacked the monster or not) and gain additional effects as their bond deepens.
Oho, this will help tremendously. I should change my 'outfit' illusion magic into something befitting a paladin. Luckily I won't need a sword or shield because [Holy Shield] and [Sword of Light] manifest them for me. Also, even though I don't have an illusion magic skill I can still cast it. And it doesn't cost mp. Is it because it's an ability that I could use without the help of the system?
Then some people might have martial arts, magic, or abilities that aren't typical to the system. I can learn some of those martial arts and abilities. Secret techniques that aren't shown if someone were to look at my status and doesn't cost mp could turn the tides of a battle. Then if I can amplify those techniques in combination with some system skills. These combined abilities could be akin to ultimate abilities. Something powerful and devastating to end a confrontation or obliterate my enemies.
Although I want to learn more and acquire some non-system related techniques the fastest way for me to get stronger right now would be to level and evolve. So let's take Ailine and find some monsters.