Twon's Story

It took about three hours for her to wake up. The sun had slid down far towards the edge of the horizon. It was late in the evening. I had been thinking the whole time. It would be a lot more convenient to do the dirty deed in our base when we had our own rooms. We had the building engrams to get to the second floor if my conquered ones had gotten the necessary resources. 

As her eyes flicked open, I nodded to her. "Is your stamina full?" 

"Yes, it is. I'm ready to head out now."

"Did you enjoy it?"

"It was intense, but I don't mind that."

I smiled.

We started to head down the mountain. By the time we had gotten to the bottom, it was dark. I had to use my magic map to find our way home. It was a very useful tool because I could select a point on it and a waypoint in real time would direct me there. Even if it was a typical map I would have been able to find my way, but it was particularly handy.

As we both entered through the door, I was exhausted. My stamina was nearly drained and I was just about ready to go to sleep. The only highlight was that they had already cooked a lot of meat and so the moment I was back, I ate with them around the fire.

Isot nodded to me. "You took something down that was really big. Did you get anything good?"

I pulled the enormous semi-automatic sniper from my inventory and handed it to him. As his face was contorting into jealousy, I pointed at my ring. "I also got this magic tier ring which gave me 8 points worth of stats."

His lips contorted even further. "You lucky motherfucker…"

I sighed. "Why is it that you always say that?"

"You smell like it. That's why you're late, isn't it?"

He turned to Zint, but she didn't look back at him.

I shrugged. "Your point?"

He leaned closer to me and whispered in my ear. "Friend, you need to teach me. This is the second time!"

I frowned and talked out loud. "Just conquer your own woman, and you can use her all you want."

His eyes widened and he turned around to the three soul-slaves. "One of those two women?"

I shook my head. "I don't want to feel that across our soul bond."

He turned away. "Oh."

As I finished my food, I walked away from the fire and to my bed. I still had a few minutes before my stamina ran out, so I forced myself to stay away and I took out the medium soulstone I had received from the achievement of taming the raptor.

It was about the size of my fist. It must have been the soulstone from a really big dinosaur because there was no way that would fit inside a human heart. I then looked down at the left side of my chest and swallowed. I remembered my own soulstone was that size. I was confused and maybe a little worried, but it didn't matter. I would continue to make it bigger.

Sweat beads ran down my face and eyes, but I held my concentration through the whole process. As I finished, I felt my mana veins widen and become more defined all around my body, directly adjacent to my blood veins. 

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Status screen: 

*You have gained 10 mana capacity points through training!*

Health → 110/110. Stamina → 93/190. Speed → 100. Weight → 326.4/340. Strength → 250. Combat Sense → 100. Mana capacity → 18/35. Mana sense → 14.

Inventory: Soulstone, mana map, 4 bolas, combat knife, 1 Makeshift set, 1 laced arrow, compound bow, 18 metal arrows, metal pickaxe, metal hatchet, 51 crystal, and 1 barrett M82 (Rare). 

Skills: Ascendant → Soul Flayer.

Soulbound items: Magic → Ring of the Training Maniac.

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I grinned. That was a lot of mana. I walked over to one of the chests and put the extra crystal and my semi-automatic Barrett inside. I could not wait until I could use it, but i would not carry unnecessary weight.

I walked over to my bed and lay down in it. The moment my head hit the pillow, darkness enshrouded my vision. I dreamed about something. As I opened my eyes I looked around. It was morning and I had forgotten what my dreams had been about. 

I threw my hide covers aside and stood up. Everyone else was already awake and eating around the fire. As I walked towards the fire. "Blimey, meat again. What I wouldn't give for some nice pears."

Font nodded. "I agree. It is important to have vegetables and fruits in your diet."

I raised my right eyebrow and then turned to my food. I sunk my teeth into it and I listened as the others talked. Isot was trying to talk to Zint. "So Zint, how many wins did you get in your MMA career?"

"All of them."

"How many losses did you get?"

"All of them."

"Wait, what?"

"Means I don't want to tell you, so fuck off."

I almost smiled, but instead I just took a bite of the meat and swallowed.

Twon had finished eating and was putting his combat knife in between his teeth to get the chunks of meat out. He looked up and grinned. "Do you guys want to hear a story?"

I was actually interested in what he had to say since he hardly ever talked, so I looked up and nodded. He grinned. "All right then, there was a time when I had a friend. He was the sort of fiend you get as a kid and who becomes less and less prominent in your life as time goes on. Regardless, I still kept in touch with him even when I became a hitman.

Point is, he started to like certain unfortunate things which ruined him. He loved drugs and women. Well, one day, he was smoking a joint at a cantina when someone walked in the room. It was a hot chick that he had fucked before, a one-night stand. What he didn't see was my boss who walked in behind her.

Regardless, he walked up to her and kissed her. The man behind the woman was her husband. Needless to say, he died and in a very unfortunate way. I know because I was walking into the same cantina for a job description as it happened. They made sure his dick got hard and then they sliced and tied it off so the blood didn't flow out. Then, they shoved it down his throat and choked him to death with it. 

I was there as it happened. I saw a lot of shit and most of em were things that I had done, but to a former friend, it hurt. He died as nothing more than a beast.

That is my story, and perhaps a lesson."

I nodded towards him. "Thanks for opening up to us like that man."

"Sure thing."

He went back to aggressively flossing his teeth with his blade. Everyone looked pretty disturbed by his story, especially Isot.

I shrugged mentally. It was time to get to work for the day.