Chapter 17
The team finished up exploring the bathroom and moved on. After some discussion, it was decided that their next move would be to hunt some imps and then head home. Sabrina spotted a pair of them lurking on a ledge a ways ahead of them. She got the go-ahead to take them on alone, suckled on Jade for a buff to her reflexes, then teleported.
She skewered one of the imps on her spear directly where her teleport landed her. Behind that imp, at least two-dozen more imps were lying in ambush. They all sprung forth in a flock, startling Sabrina backwards off of the ledge. The long fall back onto her ass did little damage, but it was disorienting enough for the imps to get the drop on her.
They swarmed her. Some clawed at her, others shot fire, and one even repeatedly stabbed her with a pitchfork. She was durable, but the nonstop onslaught of little ticks against her HP would add up quickly if they didn't stop. Thus, twirling her spear like a helicopter to clear the bulk of them off of her, she stood and went on the offensive.
She impaled two at once like a shish-kebab. She teleported to the other side of the pack and stabbed one from behind. From there, she saw her party barreling towards the imps with murder in their eyes.
They two groups clashed. Sloan flattened some like pancakes. Jade fried them with her charged-up sword. Alice nimbly bobbed and weaved as she poked them full of holes.
One imp fluttered higher than the others, reigning down stronger fireballs onto the party. The fire hurt like a bitch, and Sloan's non-magical jeans got burned right off. Right between the ribs, the solar plexus looked to be that imp's weak point.
Sabrina poofed up to it, intentionally landing just a bit too low. Then she blitzed the rest of the way, striking upwards between the ribs. After getting the kill, she dove back down, landing spear-first on another.
The imps were ferocious, and the party got their fair share of surface wounds, but it was no contest. The girls wiped the floor with the imps, picking the last one off less than two minutes after the scrap started.
They caught their collective breath, let off some relieved chuckles, and took inventory. There was a lot of imp essences, a pantry-worth of ingredients, and fifty three jellies. It was a good thing jellies were filtered into their own table on the inventory, because their inventories were so stuffed that a lot of things would need to get lugged home by hand.
When Sabrina popped her first jelly, she was a bit dejected. Her Cognition gauge only filled half as much as it should have, while the other half went into a separate gauge for her class. She wanted to warn Alice and Sloan, but filling in their missing Aspects was the first thing they both did. Oh well.
The first aspect Sabrina managed to level up with this new handicap was Lust, since it was already close to leveling up. She got an insight into the point system. Leveling up Lust gave her eighty points, which seemed connected to it hitting level eight.
She could pour as many points as she wanted into raising her HP, but from a small selection of new perks and skills, or even level up existing perks and skills. She started to miss the old system of points being spent on her behalf. The gambling was fun, and she didn't need to deal with choice analysis paralysis.
At the bottom of the perk list, there was a "mystery" option. It claimed the mystery perks were stronger, but drastic enough that she would either love it or hate it. She opted pay homage to a classic and make Jade happy all at once. She upgraded Double-Cheeked, and put the rest into HP.
Double-Cheeked upgraded! The size of your butt is increased. The shape, lift, and bounciness of your butt are enhanced for an even more aesthetically pleasing effect. Erogenous pleasure from all areas of your butt is greatly increased. Damage that would be inflicted on your butt is reflected on attacker. Compatible enemies who see your butt are distracted and have a chance of becoming dazed.
She was also able to level-up Cognition and Mysticism. For Cognition, she took a perk that made all learning faster and easier. For Mysticism, she took a spell that would set off a concussive explosion centered on her, that she was immune to. That seemed like an effective way to deal with getting surrounded.
With that taken care of, she could check in with her party. She first thing she noticed was Alice. Wearing only her shibari rope, there was no hiding the fact that she had two dicks, but standing at attention, one over the other. Her balls seemed huge, too, and both dicks seemed at least and inch longer and girthier than the original.
Alice caught Sabrina gawking, and proudly asked, "not bad, right?" She swung her dicks around to show them off. "I make magic cum, too. The real news is my class. I definitely win. Not that it's a competition, but I win. I'm a Chaos Bonder. Pretty much a spider-witch. Check it out."
Alice put her hands together, and when she brought them back apart, pale blue threads of light had materialized, strung between them. She swiftly flung one hand towards a nearby wall, tossing a freely growing bundle of the thread. Several corners embedded themselves into it, making unseen anchor points. Then, she did the same to the opposite wall. With this loose frame set, she manifested another bundle of light-string and wove it into the frame, knitting together a hammock in seconds. Finally, she snuggly hopped to lie in her new hammock.
"Holy shit," Jade gasped.
"Is it too late to change my class?" Sabrina asked in awe.
"Mine's better," Sloan declared bluntly. She then walked up to a nearby tile-clad concrete pillar, lined up a batter's stance, and swung. Her club ripped through the pillar like it was styrofoam, reducing it to a cloud of dust and debris.
The girls were stunned. Alice asked "what's your class? Juggernaut?"
"Unyielding Bruiser," Sloan answered proudly.
After a few congratulations and boasts, the girls headed back for the exit. On the walk, Jade remembered something she wanted to brag about. "You know Bean, I got something better than anyone. I got a new perk that's better than anything else so far. It's called Titan Slayer."
Sabrina perked up in interest. "Sounds promising, what is it?"
"It makes it so that any pain caused from my holes getting wrecked by large insertions comes with twice as much pleasure. It also quickly heals any damage so I won't prolapse or whatnot. Plus, I got to level two in Sensation, so my tolerance for pain is off the charts. If I ever give birth, I'm gonna make a lot of doctors very uncomfortable."
Sabrina should've expected something like that. Still, she frowned sourly from the psychology wound.
"Don't you see? Now you can absolutely pound my right little asshole with your huge cock. Fuck, just thinking about it is making me..." she shook in place, tossing her head up and closing her eyes. "Oof. God, you're wasting your Stretchy perk. How have you not put that thing in your ass, yet?"
Flatly, Sabrina answered, "because my vagina is better. Any time I'm getting fucked in the ass is time better spent getting my pussy fucked."
Jade shook her head in disappointment. "I'm disappointed. If you find one ride you like in an amusement park does that mean you should only ever go on that one? Plus, that's not even true. What about double penetration? Are you gonna look me in the eyes and say you're not curious about Alice's twin dicks?"
Sabrina shrugged. "Of course I'm curious. Two girl cocks in my pussy is better than one."
Briefly taken aback, then smirking, Jade added, "leaving your ass for me to fuck with the big one."
Sabrina tried to keep a straight face. The hint of a smile betrayed her, though. That told Jade everything she needed to know.
The party left the dungeon, quitting while they were ahead. The degree to which they'd grown in power in one night was absurd. As much as that power was a nagging lure to stay for more, it was also a great excuse for a well-earned break.
Sabrina had her own reason that she was dying to go home. Wrapped in her softest blanket, she'd left her cock in the apartment. Several times during the delve, her arousal had spiked. That meant at several points she'd gotten a phantom hard-on that she could do nothing about, and it had long-past being painful.
Jade was first to exit, not concerned with who saw her naked. Sloan had her tits covered and nothing else, and Alice simply had rope drawing further attention to her nudity. Finding the coast was clear, Jade signaled the others to come out.
They got upstairs and found it different. There was new furniture, as crafting stations had been summoned for all of the newly acquired subclasses. There was some debate over whether Sloan and Alice should bring their's home, but it was decided that they'd probably just be spending a lot more time here.
When the subject of the apartment gave Jade an idea, she snuck over to the Base Totem and spent all of the new points on her own. The ground shifted, and all but Jade scrambled, thinking it was an earthquake. When the shifting settled, Sabrina looked around, puzzled, and looked to Jade at the totem.
"Did... the room just get bigger? ...and cleaner?"
"Yup," Jade confirmed, smiling. "The beds also became king sized, our room has an en suite bathroom, both bathrooms got bidets, and we got a third bedroom."
"Our bedroom? Also, why a third room?"
"It's the party's base. It's only reasonable that the whole party should live here."
Alice looked surprised. Her face repeatedly shifted as she mentally debated whether she liked the idea. Sloan simply shrugged and said, "fair."
Sabrina forgot to be polite, arguing, "have you seen either of their apartments? No matter how much space you shift, you're not gonna make enough room for Alice's collectibles. Sloan's place is like a refugee camp. She always has a minimum of five people staying over, whether it's teammates, couch surfers, or fuck buddies?"
