New Limits

Seth stood in the practice area with his new updated stats out and he was both happy and worried at his growth and current limit.

The notifications from earlier helped with his new limits.

*Congratulations! You have earned back the ritual recognition of a Centaur wifes affection!

+10 to level limit!

Congratulations! You have gained the true love and loyalty of an Oni wife who promises to bear you many children!

+20 to level limit!

Congratulations! You have gained the true support of a fiance who was doubting themselves and have opened their true feelings to you! You accepted them all!

+10 to level limit!*

Seth simply stares at these notifications before sighing, "Well it is good to know I helped them all, but I wasn't doing it to grow my levels. It is a nice boost and helps us out in the long run, but still! I don't like feeling like I am simply doing these things because I need to! I want to do them because I want to!... But then again given how I am doing them because I want to and th ecurse treats them as needs, then I suppose I shouldn;t complain. I'll just keep being there for them I guess and do my best to show them love and support as their fiance I suppose."

With a nod to himself at that plan of action he looks to his total level limit now and sees what he has stopped at for growth.

Seth Silverfang

Age: 21

Race: Human

Class: Hero (Soul curse)

Level: 67/120 (Rest of levels sealed)

HP: 3,350

MP: 1,675

Str: 732 (+1,005)

Agi: 732 (+1,072)

End: 732 (+670)

Magic: 732 (+804)

Skill: 732 (+720)

Equipment:

Heroes sword of legend (God rank): X5 users level added to str and agi

Heroic gauntlets of the chosen (Legendary rank): x3 users level added to end and str

Grimoire of the Sage (Legendary Rank): x3 users level added to magic and skill

Holy symbol of Saints (Legendary Rank): User is immune to all diseases and poisons

Magic half plate armor set (Legendary Rank): x4 level to End and x3 level to magic, reduce damage from magic attacks by 40%

Ring of the Wind spirits(Legendary Rank): x4 level to agi, x3 level to skill, x2 level to magic, Gain ability to Triple jumping distance without a skill, double movement rate for 30 minutes

Mantle of the famous Warriors (Legendary Rank): x3 level to str, agi, and end, reduce physical damage by 30%

Necklace of recovery (Legendary Rank) : Heal 250 HP back per minute, and 100 MP back per minute (Level requirement 10)

Ring of Magic (Legendary Rank): x4 level to Magic, x2 level to skill, reduce cost of magic by 15%

Ring of Barriers (Legendary Rank): Up to 8 times a day summon a powerful barrier that lasts up to an hour and has a durability of an S rank spell

Boots of the Fenrir (Legendary Rank): Boots that were made of a slain Fenrirs fur. Grants the wearer ×4 of level to agi, str, and skill.

Seth nods to himself and looks at how he apparently had some more room for training points. His base level stats had increased to 670, then his training stats added up went up to 62, so he had 5 points left he could train for. He prepared the training room and activated some sparring golems, that he bought for up to B ranked training for 20 Silver pieces each, to push himself while also activating some gravity rings on his hands to affect his whole body. He was ready to grind those 5 points out even if it took him the rest of the day. He had activated 3 of the 10 he owned, and had them set to mid C rank.

He roared out and charged at the golems while being only a third of his normal speed with x3 gravity affecting him. His gravity restriction made it so his stats were down ot a third overall. But he didn't stop there. His sparring gear was designed to simply dull hits, not stop them, his sword was 4 times heavier than a normal blade, and his shield was also just a hard solid slab of heavy and durable steel.  He was lugging around an extra 60 pounds in weight on his body form just the shield and sword alone.

He rushed as fast as he could pushing his body without boosts to give him the challenge of pushing himself to the next level of his training. The golems all took on humanoid forms with somewhat bulky muscles and some basic iron half-plate armor for this level of training. Their arms were turned into long blades meant to cut into and slash apart their targets.  Seth made sure to program them with dual wielding styles suitable for someone who has practiced with swords for at least 3-4 years straight.

This made them skilled as well as powerful compared to Seth with his now diminished stats. The golems all came close and Seth began to analyze all their movements so he could learn a few new tricks into his own style of swordsmanship.

After all as seen today, if he kept inside his comfort zone, he will forever be stuck behind the backs of his future wives. And that would be a poor look for a husband who is supposed to be a hero.

He rushes in to fight off the incoming golems who all open up with the skill triple strike. Pushing his body to react faster despite the gravity an dth eheavier equipment, he barely manages to get through with only 9 small cuts on his arms, legs, and his cheek. He slides as he finishes his dodge and looks at all the small cuts on him. Using a healing spell to handle that he smirks as he goes, "Well, looks like I have a lot to learn today. And the next week."

He raises his blade and shield and charges again while yelling, "Come on then!"

Using his slowly growing knowledge of swordsmanship skills from the golems he does his best to push them back without relying on any boosts, skills, magic attacks, and martial arts. He only uses healing magic to keep himself in the fight and using pure sword and shield work to fight against them.

For the next hour his training goes uninterrupted. Until his fiances all wonder where he went and begin to look through the house for him.

Kijo woke up from the brief nap she took when her happiness gave way to exhaustion after she noticed how comfortable her bed was. Centorea had just finished repairing and polishing her armor and lance when she noticed an hour had passed and went searching for Seth as well. Rin had woken up form her post cry nap and was searching all over for Seth with the other girls.

They went through the whole house before noticing the gym in the first floor was in use given how they finally noticed a sigh on the door saying, [training mode active].

The three of them looked at each other in concern at what Seth was doing to train inside, before the trio went in and were shocked to see what was happening inside.

First they saw three golems, all set to C rank strength, currently teaming up against Seth. Next they registered that Seth was wounded and currently using various healing spells on himself to keep himself going. He was covered in sweat and was panting hard showing that he had been at this the full hour that the girls all lost sight of him. They were about to interfere but were stopped as they saw the states of the golems.

Each golem had many deep gashes and cuts along its body. Its sword arms were heavily nicked and cracked. And their make shift armor was practically just scraps of metal a this point. They looked much worse than Seth at this point.

The trio looked at each other then silently came to stand by the wall far away from the fighting going on. And Rin gasps as she notices that Seth was using more skillful movements than what she remembered seeing him use against the crabs and orcs. While there was a hidden grace to the cuts he used against the orcs. The movements were simple and straightforward. Even the against the crabs Seth seemed to only use some skill and was relying on using instinct to battle them.

But now? He was using more efficient movements, more combinations of body  weight into cuts and learning how to dodge by a hairs breadth. He was even attacking the previous chinks in the armor and weapons he has made over the course of this fight to further weaken his opponents and make them slowly break down.

Kijo was smiling at how powerful Seth was becoming from only an hour of analyzing and fighting against other foes of similar strength, but with more skill than himself.

Centorea was smiling sadly at how Seth felt this was the best way for him to learn and gain strength. But given the curses he told them about in childhood, it was either spend ten days of sparring and training to get this amount of skill, or push himself like his father used to in real life fights to gain the same affect. It was irking to them how the weakening curse also affected their skill training, not just stat training.

Rin was biting her nails in worry about how Seth was practically dead on his feet now as he managed to finally deal a critical blow to one golems head as it slumps down defeated and doesn't rise again.

The last two golems come at him hoping to pincer him but Seth sees it and jumps into the air to avoid the 4 blades that stick into the space he was just in. As he comes down he begins to spin midair gaining momentum as he finally comes between both golems and smashes the edge of his heavy shield into one, while he cleaves off the head of the other with his sword.

He lands safely after taking off both of their heads and pants harshly as his lungs feel like they are collapsing. He takes one more look at his downed foes to make sure they stay down and then commands the room to clean them up and repair the golems.

He pours every last bit of his remaining MP into the room to make sure it has the energy to do all those tasks and heads to exit the training room for a bath.

As he goes to exit he notices his three fiances by the door all looking at him with a mixture of happiness and worry.

Happiness at his win, but worry at how hard he pushed himself to train and learn.

He shrugs as he drops the heavy sword and shield with loud clangs and small puffs of dust in the air from the tightly packed dirt of the training room. Making the eyes of all three ladies widen in shock at the heaviness of each item. Before he takes off all the gravity rings showing them how much harder he had been training than they thought.

He puts the rings, sword, and shield in the repair wardrobe of the training room to recharge them and repair them from the abuse they went through before turning to his still silent fiances and asking, "Any one want to carry me to the bathroom for a bath? I can't feel my arms and my legs are practically jelly."

Kijo rushes to his side and slumps him over her shoulder, making Centorea and Rin grin at the carry position. The over the shoulder carry position meaning is not lost on Seth as he sighs from his position like a sack of potatoes over Kijo's shoulder. When a man is draped over an oni women's shoulder, then that man is hers and can't be chased after by other oni women unless the woman who is carrying said man allows them to join the family. Kijo grins and says, "Ladies, you're both allowed into the family. Shall we pamper and help heal up this handsome idiot together?"

Seth grumbles as Rin and Centorea join her to bring Seth into the bath for a much needed massage and bathing. Not only was he covered in sweat and his muscles were hurting. But he also had some dried blood from the wound she constantly healed and closed without actually cleaning himself up from.

All three ladies had different plans they were going to enact in the bath today once Seth was in the waters and relaxed properly.