The rise of the pervert primordial - Chapter 748 - 748: The third day of the development trial (part 1)
Besides the flaming board making an announcement that no one could see, since the notice for the participants had to be triggered at the monoliths and the one to do it had to be the designated representative of the group, in other words Aster, nothing worth mentioning happened during night at the side of the Myriad Occupation sect.
Despite Lilia’s complains and pleas for Aster to make a “quick” visit to the mind space, to play with her, he ultimately managed to convince that dragon mother of his, by telling her that he didn’t want to negatively affect the girls from the sect, in case the flaming board could notice something.
Rya was sure that the flaming board would not be able to precisely know that Aster entered the mind space, but there was a slight possibility that his mind leaving the outside world, would make it grown suspicious of Aster and that could be interpreted as him cheating, which translated in no love for Lilia, for now at least.
So, with that sorted out, the night went on and soon the first rays of sunlight could be seen appearing on the sky, inside the main room at the right side of the log cabin, a black-haired youth’s eyelids slightly trembled as if perfectly timed with the sun coming into the scene.
What welcomed Aster first thing in the morning was the cute sight of Kana and Espi’s pretty sleeping faces, while the little girl made her “nest” on top of Aster, the little wyrm made a turn around Aster’s neck and then coiled the rest of her body to act as a pillow for Aster, this way she was hugging Aster and still got to rest her head on Aster’s right shoulder.
At the left side, the treasure girl whose face was slightly red even in her sleep, was resting on top of him, as for Alice, Aria and Sarina they were holding onto his arms and body respectively.
What happened is that those three were still calming down in the bathroom, when Aster returned to the room after picking up Kana, Espi and Camila, so after exchanging gazes, those three cuties reached a tacit understanding to monopolize the best spots, and by the time Alice, Aria and Sarina came out after cleaning themselves, those three were already deeply sleeping, with comfortable expressions on their faces.
And while Alice was shameless enough to think about moving either Kana or Camila to occupy one of the spots on top of Aster even if they were already sleeping, she was restrained by Aria and tossed to instead hug Aster’s side, while the ice princess got the left arm, leaving the right arm for Sarina, so that the pair of roc mother and daughter were at his right.
Seeing those cute sleeping faces, Aster almost didn’t want to wake them up, but they had a lot of things to sort out today, since the day would be dedicated to develop the camp and prepare everything for the clash with the enemies in and beyond the forest, so he started with the ones that were clinging to him the most, namely the pair of little girl and little wyrm.
“Don’t tell me that such energetic little girls like you two, aren’t raring to go out and play with all those big sisters of yours”, jokingly said Aster as he used his index finger to gently scratch Espi’s neck, which made the tip of her tail happily wag in response.
“Hssss~”, the little wyrm opened her eyes to then cutely lick Aster’s cheek with her little tongue a couple of times which earned her a head pat from Aster, after getting her morning dose of attention, she indeed loosened up her hug, but didn’t leave and instead remained coiled around Aster’s neck, it’s just that she didn’t “restrain” his movement anymore.
‘Is Mira perhaps a bad influence for her’, jokingly thought Aster, the little wyrm moved her tail like a cat and also got in the way of her “human” the way a cat would, when seeking attention, of course if the ligress girl heard about this comparison, she would growl at Aster while showing her claws at him in complain.
Leaving Espi aside, with his recently regained mobility he leaned his head rightwards to peck Kana’s forehead.
“Good morning big brother~”, which of course resulted in the little girl happily waking up, to Kana’s jealousy unlike the little wyrm, she couldn’t remain in her current spot, because Aster had to get up, so after greeting her big brother, she playfully rolled to the side, using her mother as a ramp to land on the bed the next second.
Softly laughing at the little girl’s way to move, Aster changed targets to a certain treasure girl, who “unconsciously” moved upwards really slowly since he was waking the little wyrm, so that she could receive a kiss from Aster, even if he couldn’t move too much, like as of current.
“It would have been a good plan, if you only had to move a few centimeters, not nearly a third of a meter”, playfully said Aster, which made Camila’s face redden a bit, Kana nestled her head on the upper part of Aster’s chest, close to his shoulder, so she could receive her morning peck on her forehead without moving at all.
But Cami was new to all this, so she committed the noob mistake of resting her face in the middle of Aster’s chest, and so, with the low mobility Aster had, unless she herself pulled her body upwards, she would at most receive a peck on her head, but that’s not what she wanted.
“Come here you, cute lucky charm”, jokingly said Aster as he leaned to peck Camila’s pretty lips.
“Mm~”, Camila’s pretty eyes opened as she greeted Aster with a soft comfortable sound, to then hop off from Aster’s body, just like Kana she didn’t leave the bed though, since today she was planning to get ready with Alice and the other Star Maidens, because she was teased by Mylene and the others to start getting used to the routine of Aster’s lovers, of course nothing too serious, but washing her face and changing her clothes with them, was a good start.
And now, it was time to attain freedom in one of his arms, since his right side only had one girl left, he started with it and so by wrapping his right arm around Sarina’s waist, he placed the blond motherly roc girl on top of him.
“Good morning, Aster~”, surprisingly, or maybe as payback for all the teasing she had to take from Aster’s revenge, Sarina took the initiative to kiss him instead of him doing so, with a soft peck she copied Kana and rolled out of Aster’s body, passing above her daughter as well.
“Mom, hahaha~”, of course not only that didn’t hurt Kana, the little girl cutely giggled finding it funny, Sarina even changed her wings to their physical form for a moment and used them to “kidnap” Kana while she hugged her, it’s obvious that the roc mother was in a really good mood this morning.
“It sure does bring peace to my heart, to see a pair of sisters getting nicely along and sharing like good girls”, said Aster as he gazed at the remaining girls who were clinging to his left arm and left side respectively, namely Alice and Aria.
Aster first tried to drag Alice to his right side, but that wild sister of his didn’t budge at all, so he ultimately had to move the ice princess, whose soft and light body almost “floated” like a snowflake towards his right side, only then did Alice move, by climbing upwards, so that those two were now resting on top of him.
“Well, maybe you are not as much of good girls as I thought”, jokingly added Aster as he pecked those two.
“Mm~”, the ice princess answered with a cute sound as her sky-blue eyes shone in a pretty light for a second.
“Hehe~”, Alice on the other hand had that pervy smile as she giggled while fluttering her long eyelashes in a tempting way.
“Let’s not waste anymore time, get up ladies, we have a lot of stuff to do”, said Aster as he softly patted those two’s backs to then raise his upper body, forcing them to sit on the bed.
Aster got up and went ahead to wash his face and mouth with the mint tea, before changing his clothes and leave the room first, giving the girls privacy to take care of their morning matters in peace.
As soon as Aster closed the door of his room behind of him, he was met with the sight of a pretty blond girl with blue eyes, her hair was tied in a ponytail and she was wearing shorts, tennis, a top and a loose white shirt, naturally such a sportsy girl with blond hair, could only be Agnes.
“Good morning, don’t forget we’ll be training a bit after breakfast~”, happily said the sun diamond princess, to which Aster chuckled.
“Sure”, he said to then walk away from the log cabin, just in time for both Guardian to jump from the roof to land a couple of meters next to Aster, while the other feline of the group, in other words the ligress girl Mira came out of the room she shared with Mylene and the others.
“Good morning”, said Aster, his words were met with a soft amiable growl from the lynx.
“Grrr”, Guardian looked really well-rested, and her instincts told her that it was in part thanks to Aster so she greeted him in a friendly way, also she enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere of the camp as well.
“Humph, pervert”, the ligress girl on the other hand softly snorted at Aster, not like he could blame her, Mira has the sharpest hearing in the whole group, even surpassing Guardian, so the past night she managed to caught a wind of a couple of lewd sounds, when those three’s voices became really loud.
What’s more, she was surprised to listen to Aria whom she considers a proper and elegant girl, and her friend whom she has shown interest in entering in a contract with, make such embarrassing sounds, naturally she put all the blame in the perverted dragon youth in front of her.
“Mira is such an innocent ligress, don’t you agree, Guardian?”, jokingly said Aster to the lynx, which was much more understanding about such subjects, because though her hearing was second to Mira, she knew what happened if a male human slept in the same room with female humans, thanks to her previous experiences with challengers, what’s more she didn’t find it strange, Aster is the leader of the group so from her point of view it is only normal that he has multiple partners.
Mira’s reaction to the previous was like Aster expected, she showing him, her pretty light blue claws to then walk towards the shore of the lake in order to distract her mind from those sounds she heard yesterday, that being said and as much as she didn’t want to admit it, she was fresh as a lettuce and had a really good night of sleep as well.
Apart from those two and Agnes who got up early to stretch her body a bit, the only others that had already come out from the room at the left wing of the log cabin, were Valentina and Mikaela, since they had to make a round of early morning patrol, in case there was something important written in the reports, by either the elders or the disciples who took turns for night watch duty.
“Hi”, Mikaela’s greet was a short one, but that was her being friendly, since she is not that talkative, unless she has had a couple of drinks of course.
“Good morning, Aster”, Valentina on the other hand greeted Aster in a much more “complete” way.
“Good morning to you two, come let’s see what grade and what reward were we given by the flaming board for yesterday’s development”, said Aster as he walked towards the monoliths.
“I’m interested in the reward, but the grade is of course going to be perf…”, poor Valentina couldn’t finish her sentence when the result that the blue flaming board had announced before, was published for all the members of the group to see, in a modified shorter message though.
[The result of the second day’s evaluation is “Unique” grade, a benefit and a privilege will be granted upon confirmation by the representative of the group]
[The second level of the benefit “One for all” has been successfully activated, from now and onwards, once a day a member of the group and a specific subject can be designated, for the rest of that day 20% of the progress (originally 5%, adjusted to fit Unique grading) made by the designated participant will be automatically imparted to the rest of the group, additionally individual progress by all participants in the same subject will improve in 5%]
“Woah, that means that if senior brother were to choose “swordsmanship” as the subject, for the next four days, we’ll be able to cut trees with one slash like he did!”, cutely exclaimed a junior disciple from the Black Sword faction, to which a girl from the Yellow Anvil retorted while pouting.
“I think it would be better for senior brother to share his progress in blacksmithing, that way we’ll get to make even finer equipment”.
Of course, a fired debate started between the disciples of the different peaks on the spot, that was a ridiculously good benefit, it allowed someone with a much more complex manual to share with others, but it wasn’t limited to that, because the message said “subject” so for example Aster could choose “Basics of mortal ranked fighting”, train in that during the day to give those girls a demonstration, which by itself would help them, and share a portion of his own progress.
‘It’s a perfect benefit for the short time we have to prepare, before the development trial ends’, thought Aster, and they still had a new type of reward waiting for them, a “privilege” instead of a benefit this time.
[The privilege “Strong Army” level 3 has been activated, thirty free slots for the group will be given to the representative (mission and exchange monoliths will be updated according to it and all benefits from the group that had accumulated up to the moment of their acceptance will be awarded after joining), if used properly an additional privilege will be granted]
In case you think the privilege sounds less impressive than the benefit, let’s make one thing clear, using James as an example, prior to the appearance of the monoliths, any other “participant” that tagged along the group and was accepted by the representative, in this case Aster, ended being considered as a member, thus was allowed to use the monoliths and the like, but that window of opportunity was closed as soon as the development trial officially started.
So, after that, any add to the group wouldn’t be able to benefit from the manuals, missions in the monoliths of the Myriad Occupation sect… until now at least, naturally the first one that came to mind for Aster was Guardian, but whether the lynx would be willing to join them, instead of just cooperating with them, was yet to be seem.
On the other hand, there was someone who had no saying in the matter, the black horse which went from being one of the seconds in command of the former king of herbivores, to become a pack mule for them.
‘If there are manuals for Espi, there should be for horses as well, I guess we’ll discuss that later during breakfast’, thought Aster, the other girls who were washing up their faces, or had yet to get up, started peeking out of their tents, due to the previous messages, among them Alice and the others were included.
“Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes, since we only need to heat it”, said Sarina as she walked towards the kitchen area, alongside the girls that helped her with all the cooking.
They’ll be having the pieces of grilled fish that were left from yesterday’s dinner, which were kept in hermetic containers and stored in a fresh area to prevent them from spoiling, the boar’s meat was all turned into soup which could be reheated many times to extend its life for at least one more day, since it will be used for lunch and dinner later.
Besides that, the girls helping Sarina cut up fruit in pieces to accompany the fish, before they started serving the portions in wood plates, so that the girls lining up could take their share and go sit down, not without giving Aster expecting gazes, all of them wanted their favorite subject to be chosen for today’s chance of the benefit.
Unfortunately for them, ever since Aster read about it, he had already decided how to use the benefit, and no, he wasn’t going to choose swordsmanship five days in a row.
But before that, he, after kissing the chef in other words Sarina, grabbed his plate and went to sit at the decision-making table, where Valentina, Mikaela, Agnes, Angela, Mylene, Eris and surprisingly Mira were sitting.
Of course, Alice and the others from Aster’s close group were also sitting there, and their opinion wouldn’t be ignored, since they had contributed one way or another, like Vivian for example, but the previously mentioned girls were the ones “supervising” the group’s activities as a whole, besides Aster of course.
Besides them, Guardian and the mare also joined for breakfast, the lynx was especially enjoying human cooking, so she was given a large portion of grilled fish at the discretion of the chef.
“Big brother, can we have sister Guardian join us?”, before Aster could bring the subject to the table, the little girl innocently asked, she meant no harm, Kana simply liked the lynx and wanted to keep playing with her, so she asked if Guardian could officially join the group.
“Ahem, that is up to her, there is no need to rush the decision anyway, since even if one joins late, all the benefits obtained will be granted, for now we’ll have that black horse join”, said Aster as he saw Guardian be lost in her thoughts the moment she heard Kana’s question, which made the lynx softly sigh as if a weight was lifted from her shoulders.
Apparently in a single day, Kana had managed to move the heart of the lynx, because Aster honestly thought she wouldn’t even consider officially join them, and that was half of the battle already.
‘Perhaps, if we properly get rid of the bear, we’ll get ourselves a new “big sister” for Kana’, amusingly thought Aster.
In comparison, the mare expressed the desire to have her niece which had also played with Kana yesterday, directly join the group, through Guardian of course.
So, two new members have officially joined the development trial of the Myriad Occupation sect, well one did so out of her own will, while the other was simply informed of it, but before the black horse could think of complaining, he was glared at by the wild dragon princess, which made him be reminded of the dangers of angering that violent and dangerous female human.
And here it came a small extra surprise of the process, when the filly walked towards the monolith to choose her manual, a ray of blue light landed on her and a message was projected for all the members of the group.
[A temporary grade based in observed performance will be issued for the newly joined members, merits and progress equal to the average of the group members with similar evaluations will be automatically given, upon choosing manuals]
