Collide Gamer Chapter 223 – A far cry

The battle between blood mage and dragon goddess was a heated one. It was also sothing that John had trouble following. A series of punches, each capable of killing pretty much anything below level 100 in a single movent, echoed loudly all around. The shockwaves sent more and more dust flying, ruining the sight.

Thankfully, John was at a safe distance now. He and the rest of the crew had climbed up into the empty spectator platforms all around. Which were, quite literally, just splattered with loot. They were all gathering stuff, which gave John a mont to be alone with Rave as they went off together.

“I hope that didn’t hurt too much,” he said in an apologetic tone. While he wasn’t responsible for Nathalia doing what she did, it was because Rave continued to hang out with him that she got dragged into situations like this.

“I have had worse, not a lot, but worse,” Rave waved off. “If ya live my life of just punching your way through problems, ya gotta live with the fact that people punch back sotis. No biggie…I am going to punch her in the face once I get to her level though.”

“That will take like… years,” John reminded her. “If that’s even possible for you…”

“Ey, she will be around for years too, right?” Rave answered, giving John a well-knowing glance, and picked up a crude looking stone axe. “I an, being , I do not think that I’ll be holding a grudge that long, but still.” She brought the weapon back to Aclysia and Momo.

The two Artificial Spirits were not involved in this. Thanks to John’s massive level-up spree, the two now had to eat like crazy to catch up. Thankfully the trolls up here all had individual loot, and it was filled with more mana than stuff of his level had.

He looked down into the arena. The simple punching had stopped. ‘Apparently they are done asuring each other up,’ John thought. Thana executed a low-kick, trying to sweep away Nathalia’s feet. What happened instead was Nathalia jumping up, ramming her knee against Thana’s lowered chin.

Thana fell backwards, stunned for a mont, but managed to only stumble back a few feet, remaining standing. Nathalia was already setting after her though. A punch, which Thana only side-stepped narrowly, shook the arena as it collided with the ground.

John just swayed in his step for a bit as he picked up more and more money. ‘Trolls really have a lot of cash, don’t they?’ John thought; ‘Now that’s a stereotype I’ve never heard before. It’s always that trolls are so sad, basent dwelling neckbeards. Ah well… I should probably spend the rest of my points.’

After spending the 5 points earlier on Charisma, he still had 25 points left. He could use them to get to 50 Charisma, but the recent efficiency upgrade had given him 3 Relationship Slots. From all he knew, the only female addition to his life in the next few days or weeks should be that Nia girl and he doubted that she’d also join his harem imdiately.

Well, he doubted he would need more Charisma for the mont. Therefore, he continued to invest into Wisdom.

“It lets revisit whatever bonus level I want once and I get unreduced bonuses. Will have to think which one I like the most.”

“Sounds pretty h to ,” Rave said, “just once?”

“For how we got it, it is pretty aweso,” John insisted.

Lydia, at that point, pulled a bottle of sanitizer from her private pocket dinsion and poured a bit of it into her hand. Both Rave and John looked perplexed, and she looked back beratingly. “That dragon’s snout was wet, and I am not going to carry with whatever diseases it has,” she told them.

“I guess ya are the type of person who would stay away from a dog at a party,” Rave said after Lydia put the bottle away again.

“If you take care of your dog and he doesn’t sll, I am most happy to pat him. Every saliva spreading Köter will have to stay at least 5 tres away from . Sa for cats. And all other animals. Take care of your pets is what I am demanding,” the princess laid down.

“Yes, yes,” John waved off. “The only pet we have is Copernicus, and I am pretty sure that cat just burns off all dirt.” Speaking of the solar feline, he was currently doing his usual cat thing and making a show of the fact that he didn’t care for the group, while also watching them intently. His level had remained unchanged since Rave had contracted him, stuck at 76, leaving John to wonder what would happen once his girlfriend, now 65, caught up to her familiar. Questions for later.

He had two items to inspect from those Achievents he had gotten. Putting away the dagger, he pulled out Vol’Jin’Zul.

It was a sword of the type ‘too heavy for John’. He already realized that once he saw the handle of the blade. It was about as long as his lower-arm and was followed by a guard of bundled tusks. “Aclysia, pull this out for , please,” he told his first maid.

“As you wish, Master,” Aclysia responded and grabbed the weapon. What ca into view was an enormous, grey-bladed monstrosity of savage beauty. The whole thing was bigger than Aclysia, who wielded it with visible strain.

The staff was pretty good. Just one problem: it was Two-Handed. He only had one empty Slot for hands, and the three currently occupied were all part of the World Ender set. Asking him to get rid of the 4-piece set bonus was a tall bar, one this item ca nowhere close to.

“Here,” he therefore gave it to Momo, “this is yours now.”

The support took it, “On a loan, right?”

“No, you can have it. You want to be independent, that ans you have to take care of your own equipnt,” John said sternly but then smiled.

Momo looked at him, wordless for a mont. She clutched the staff and nodded, “Thank you.”

John then resud watching the events as the two were in a final asurent of strength, he wanted to move out of the arena soon.

The two fighters had both hands locked into each other’s, and they simply pushed. Thana may have a stupendous amount of Endurance, but Nathalia was still stronger, and so the blood mage was wrestled to the ground.

Thana’s back hit the floor. She pushed back for another mont, only for Nathalia to press her lips on hers. It took only one love bite for the mood to shift drastically – at least from John’s perspective. Thana’s resistance lted away. Nathalia’s scales disappeared. The masochistic maniac was pinned to the ground by the much larger woman.

John’s sparrow beat its wings. The Gar wanted to see exactly what happened next.