When Aki woke up, he was in an operation table, butt naked and inside a freaky laboratory.
He tried cursing, but his lips did not move. He didn't even try moving the rest of his body and just waited.
-Boho! You're no fun, mama won't like you this way. Said a young girl with a black ponytail and glasses. Yes, only her ponytail was black. She blue pig tails and rainbow hair.
-Uhghhmum…
-I have no idea what you saying, here. She flicked her fingers and his mouth could move again.
-You failed and experiment or you trying to be a gay parade flag holder? He said with sarcasm.
-Guy paraide? What's that? She asked confused.
-It's when a lot of people try to show themselves in a strange way. Nothing for mad scientists to care about. He said and turned his head to notice he was sprawled into a metal slab and his extremities were cuffed.
His dong was the same as before and there weren't any visible changes in his abdomen, so he thought that they had not done anything to his body yet.
-So you noticed, uhm? By the way aren't you uncomfortable without clothes and in front of a lady? She asked with a tingle of happiness in her voice. She appeared to not have heard the first part of what he said.
-I am. He answered straight away.
-Really, because you don't look like you are. She tilted her head.
-I am bound to a cold metal slab and never had a fetishes of showing myself, while I've always trained my poker face. I am trying really hard to think you are just a very smart kid tough.
Rule number one of isekai, never trust a loli but always help them.
-How rude, I am a proper eighteen year old girl, you know!? She pouted.
-Am I the youngest person around or something? Anyway, a normal eighteen year old girl wouldn't be talking to a naked dude stuck against a wall. What are you even supposed to be doing here?
-Homework! Fuck… she cursed.
-That's enough talking Chris! We have to get back to number 42! Screamed a boy too far away for Aki to see.
-Pretty girls shouldn't go around cursing, and find me a towel please! Said Aki while she was walking away.
*Vuom*
-I am here! Jovially said the Madam after teleport in into the room with a blue light and a strange sound.
-Clothes. He insisted.
-Moo, don't be such a meanie! She pinched his thigh.
-It's especially because you are here and what you said that I am worried. Even if I look like this I was pretty loved you know? I have no mommy or daddy issues! Also, aren't you an otherworlder?
-Is that so, then you will just need to get used to calling me mom with time. By the way, my name is Cleonis Arranatir As Themy Deriui. I am not actually an otherworlder either, though I do know some, they were all too grown up to be my children. She tilted her head and explained.
-What kind of parent/child is this though? I still don't know the details. He sighed at the already expected answer and resigned to his fate.
-I have implanted something special in your heart. It doesn't really give you anything, but actually allows me to monitor you and your actions. Starting today we are a family and you can't run! She explained with enthusiasm.
-Sure, I am ok with that. Not like I am going to see my blood relatives in the next years anyway. Now, where's Guilda? He asked with a deep seriousness in his voice.
-She Is safe. I used a special method to turn her into your subordinate. It's similar to a soul slave, but she receives some benefits to her growth and I can also command her. She answered with a smile.
-Is that so? I am a little angry, but I will just train it off. Could you give me back my clothes? He exploded the table restrains. His meat was charred but it did not work. He tried using radiance, which would roughly translate to a non-newtonian kind of molecule manipulation or the use of lasers. Most "energy" based magic has the first half though.
Five seconds of exposure to lasers in each of those cups had him freed and he started putting his clothes on.
-You know, of my four children you are the first to break those. She said with a beaming smile on her face.
-Isn't that because you only left then here once? He asked.
-Correct. Christina liquefied herself, Beatrice disjointed herself and got healed later, while Arthur turned into mist. She said.
-Liquid, solid, gaseous and plasma. Why do I get the feeling I am under the suggestive kind of magic? He asked.
-Pure coincidence. She shrugged.
-I will be testing mine and Guilda's connection them. If you would be so kind as to give us some XP bags…
-Homunculi? Or is your friend still fresh? She asked.
-No problem with either. She does seem guilty about killing humans while not on self defense though. She will learn. He said matter of factly.
…
[Your group has killed [Homunculi] x5. For killing an opponent 50 levels or more levels above your own you will receive bonus XP]
[*Ding* Assassin is now level 56. 6 attribute points awarded.]
[*Ding* Arcane magician is now level 50. 6 attribute points awarded.]
Name: Aki
Age: 16
Race: Human
Gender: M
Unspent points: 43
Class: Assassin Lv 56
Active skills:
-Backstab Lv 8
-Poisoning Lv 9
-Parry Lv 8
-Bleeding Lv 3
-Pierce armor Lv 6
Passive skills:
-Blade mastery Lv 9
-Smooth steps Lv 6
-Persuasion Lv 3
-Trap mastery Lv 5
-Debuff mastery Lv 5
Subclasse: Arcane mage Lv 50
Active skills:
-Arcane blast Lv 2
-Mana missile Lv 10
-Telekinesis Lv 13
-Mana steal Lv 8
-Life steal Lv 13
Passive skills:
-Mana manipulation Lv 15
-Mana absorption Lv 10
-Energy conversion Lv 8
-Grimoire Lv 3
-Magic overcharge Lv 1
General Skills:
Mental resistance Lv 10
Charm resistance Lv 10
Massage Lv 1
Meditation Lv 9
Pain resistance Lv 8
Anger Lv 9
Sleep resistance Lv 2
Demonology Lv 6
Disease resistance Lv 1
Identify Lv 3
Subterfuge Lv 5
Intimidate Lv 7
Mana perception Lv 16
Wind magic Lv 4
Fire magic Lv 4
Fear resistance Lv 5
Healing magic Lv 7
Earth magic Lv 4
Water magic Lv 4
Dark magic Lv 4
Thunder magic Lv 4
Time magic Lv 1
Demon summoning Lv 1
Light magic Lv 5
Enchanting Lv 6
Poison resistance Lv 3
Alchemy Lv 3
Space magic Lv 1
Steam magic Lv 1
Radiant magic Lv 1
Metal magic Lv 1
Ice magic Lv 1
Ooze magic Lv 1
Magma magic Lv 1
Smoke magic Lv 1
Attributes:
Vitality: 100
Endurance: 100
Strength: 100
Dexterity: 100
Intelligence: 200
Wisdom: 200
Health: 1000/1000
Stamina: 1000/1000
Mana: 2000/2000
His status now a lot stronger, Aki had more confidence in himself. He then looked at Cleo smiling and waving and felt it plummet. Nothing good comes from being conceited. He went to check on Guilda.
-You ok now? He asked.
-How can you be so calm?! She asked him while almost crying. She was a slave now.
-Because she doesn't mean us harm. Don't get me wrong, I am infuriated and want to crawl down to a ball too, but if I do that we both die. Use everything you have to get stronger, you hear me? That is the only way to cage that fear. You use it or accept it. By the way, I am also talking all this to myself.
…
-FUCK me, it worked! Screamed Aki in english.
Guilda then translated it for Cleo.
-There's a reason I was screaming in english, you know? Anyway, this should help my affinity to water raise. He said while doing flexion with weights on him. On the bottom of a 10 meter deep water poll.
He was given a direct mana chanel to speak into, so they could still hear him. The idea is the same as a phone, just that there are no satellites or ways to get cables all around. You imagine the factors.
It was there because that's where the mer stayed.
Nope, this is not an underwater adventure, but an underwater training. Mostly because he has to constantly heal himself because the water pressure was set to change around him in a way that it was constantly increasing until he was unable to adapt.
That's why he started trying to find a way to make it more breathable. Even if he could breathe because of a spell, it would make it easier to help his body regenerate if he had more of the original components. He couldn't kill the mer people, so that was the best option.
If he could then half the male population in this poll would already have been turned to dried up corpses.
Nothing against gay people, but if multiple dudes try to rub one to your ass, then I'm pretty sure most people in the world would beat them senseless. Unless you like that kind of thing, of course.
All of them were now floating a little above the ground. It's a magic pool. Aki did ask what was that, and those were apparently a band a gay pirates under a trap capitan. Slavers of mer and krimer.
-So if I…
-Nope, my children can't buy my things, except Chris, she is quite mature and just uses them for her experiments. I will kill them though. Said Cleo.
-Wait! He screamed.
-Yes? She asked.
-XP! He begged.
-Nope. She said cutely.
…
-From lifting five kilos for one hour I got two strength and one endurance. Obviously he meant fifty kilos, that was the weight of each lift. He had four of those. Underwater.
-Aren't you showing off a little too much? Asked Guilda while using a small top and slashing with a metal rod.
-More like, when did you become Zoro?! He screamed while pointing at the paint that indicated the thing weighed 250 kg. There was some iron stuck on it too, each saying 25, she also had eight of those.
-Do know. When did you become Percy Jackson? Want me to go looking for a centaur you can ride together with some blonde girl? She smiled at him and rebuked. Not stopping her swinging.
-Shouldn't you be stopping already too? He ignored her comment and asked.
-I started some time after you, so I will keep going for another half hour. She clarified.
Aki nodded and went out of the gym. He only had a short for poll, but shame was nowhere to be seen while he was caught like that by Bea.
-Training. Was all she said.
-Can I change first? He asked, even though he knew the answer was no.