MTL NOVEL Chapter 606: Ding! [Bonus]
Kaelira scoffed with displeasure, "I didn't finish Lord Quinlan's armor yet! It feels wrong to rest."
Shallan, the Anemomancer-classed, tanned beauty, shook her head with an amused smile, "You had already run out of mana a long time ago… Honestly, we did you a favor by dragging you away. You could've ruined your work with your overeagerness."
Kaelira elected to shut up, deciding to drink instead of offering a rebuttal, for she had none. The others laughed in delight before raising their tankards to drink alongside their cherished captain.
"Haa! That hit the spot…" The trapper girl exhaled happily while eyeing her mug of ale. She hadn't drunk such high-quality alcohol ever in her life. Before being enslaved, she was a poor woman making scraps from trapping wildlife, and after being captured and enslaved by illegal slavers who then sold her to Kai, she wasn't afforded anything besides water and the cheapest of meals.
Back when they awoke after Kai's death, Quinlan conducted a little negotiation with all six women, asking what they required to be happy in his service. Among them were the most generous of offers: freedom after serving only a few years. Besides that, the one benefit the trapper girl liked the most was their monthly salary, the first of which she used to buy this well-brewed liquor for her and the team.
The archer's eyes suddenly lit up, "Captain, I'd been thinking; we suffered a lot while being with Kai, but we did learn some stuff about pleasing men as a result. I think we should give you tips before you're inevitably bedded by Lord Quinlan."
The rogue slurred drunkenly, "I can't have my boss be the stiff, boring wife in the harem!"
"I'm not boring!" Kaelira refuted the accusation.
The archer smiled coyly, knowing they'd gotten her. "Then let me ask. In a hypothetical situation where you found yourself kneeling between Lord Quinlan's legs, with his pants down, what would you do?"
"Why would I find myself in such a situation?!"
Six lips parted as the ladies began laughing in response to her statement, they all found teasing Kaelira to be a great deal of fun.
It was Shallan's turn to say, "It's not even a hypothetical at this point. We can all see the eyes with which he stares at your body, he is eating you up in his imagination each and every time you cross paths with him."
Hearing this, the athletic elf yelped and brought her palms to her face, shielding her rapidly reddening cheeks. She meekly muttered, "R-really?"
Liora was the most innocent of them all, so her words carried extra weight in such a situation. "Yes, even I can attest to the truth behind Shallan's words. However, captain, my eyes are telling me this is not a one-sided fascination… Is it?"
"I don't know whatever you might mean…" Kaelira replied bashfully like a schoolgirl who found the topic of love to be embarrassing. She spent most of her life learning about smithing and artificing in secret; her dedicated brain had no time to think about boring topics such as love and relationships.
"So back to the question, what would you do?" The archer was adamant about receiving an answer.
"… Lick it?" Kaelira asked innocently, her knowledge was as barebones as it got.
"Sigh… I knew it." The archer shook her head disapprovingly before presenting a shapely wooden product she carved to have a certain rod-like shape in her free time. "Look, captain, this is what you do!"
*Mwaah* *Smmoooch* *Schluckk*
Sylvaris intended to join them, but together with a wholly bashful Lyra, elected to return to bed. "So shameless…" the Mooncaller grumbled with pink cheeks as the vivid images of the brunette woman kissing and then deepthroating her wooden toy carved into the exact shape of Quinlan's erect penis—as per Blossom's memory—flashed in her mind over and over again.
…
The rumbling sounded from a mile away. A wall of stone rushed toward me in the form of an avalanche of earth.
Instinct screamed at me to move. To dodge. To run for my life.
But since crossing into the earth quadrant weeks ago, I have learned.
Earth did not flinch. Earth did not run. Earth endured.
To that end, I planted my feet firmly on the ground and then reached deep within myself, not for magic, not for force, but for the same resilience that defined the land itself.
The avalanche roared closer. Dust and debris filled the air, the sheer force of it enough to strip flesh from bone…
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The first impact struck like a truck as the immense weight slammed into me, trying to bury me beneath its might. The pressure was overwhelming. How couldn't it? An impossible mass was trying to flatten me.
But I did not move.
The force that would have broken me before found no weakness to exploit. I was not resisting. I was not fighting… for I was the mountain.
After a long while, the rumbling faded. The dust settled. The avalanche had passed.
And I was still standing.
A sound echoed through my mind.
[Ding!]
[Great understanding of the earth element has been achieved.]
[Due to mastery over the element of earth, structured spell constraints have been rendered obsolete.]
[[Rock Spike] [Earth Armor] [Quake Stomp] [Boulder Throw] [Terraquake] [Fortress Wall] [Stone Sentinel] [Rockfall] — Removed.]
[[Earth Creation & Manipulation] — Achieved.]
[The Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir has completed the Primordial Rank-Up Mission.]
[The Elemental Sovereign is a class given to entities who have dominion over the fundamental forces of nature. As a master of all elements, their power transcends the control of any single element.]
[However, the term 'master of all elements' merely refers to the peak of mortal affinity, achievable by exceptionally talented individuals.]
[The Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir has surpassed the limitations of mortals. His connection with the elements is far deeper and more advanced than what any mortal could attain.]
[Ding!]
[Elemental Sovereign is upgrading…]
[Ding!]
[Mythic-rarity class: Avatar of the Elements, unlocked.]
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