Chapter 217 – Multi-Quests and Grinding

Chapter 217 – Multi-Quests and Grinding

The last tablet was fizzing out as John got a pop-up.



Oh hey, that was kind of good. Being able to get multiple Quests was pretty useful now. Come to think of it, how many Quests had potentially been blocked out thanks to that ‘Clear 10 Floors’ thing he had had going on a while ago?

‘Ah, whatever, no use crying over spilled milk,’ he thought, dismissing the hypothetical before it could start to haunt him. What was great here was the rewards, and with great, he meant stupendously great. The experience alone was incredible. Accepted.

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15 Categories he could... exactly clear without touching the new kinds of fights. Time was a bit of a bigger constraint here. Monsters of one category should be pretty easy, if he went for something with a lot of big groups of small guys. Tier 14 boss wasn’t impossible but really hard. No, wait, actually that was fairly easy. He had his secret weapon, he could only use that once in a fight, but he only needed to kill one boss. Better make sure he aimed correctly. Hours without sex... that would be the rest of the day. That clashed with his modern lifestyle, which was a wonderful thing to contemplate, but it was easily doable.

Probably. It was just 8 hours.

‘Ah, fuck it!’ John thought and accepted. It was only until about midnight; how bad could it be? Much better questions: How great would the rewards have to be? Personally, John hoped for some points he could distribute on his Skills. He wanted to max out Possession and, much more importantly, raise Artificial Spirit up. Momo getting a few more abilities would likely prove vital in the upcoming tournament.

The laughter finally ceded in the background as Undine’s insides finally went back to just being blue. “Nooooohhh,” Sylph lamented as she found no more tablets to tickle her sister with, “John, Johnny Cash, Money Johnnie, Money Money, let’s go, go, drai-go get grapes and more tablets!”

“Nope, we have to do some grinding now,” John told her.

“Whaaaa?” Sylph flew over. “No touchy times first? I wanted to fuck!”

“Yeah, no, I REALLY need to get grinding. Also, I have a quest that tells me to stay abstinent for 8 hours,” John informed her. They finally left the room and went towards the gate in the garden.

It stood as empty as before, just a black arch standing seemingly without purpose between two patches of grass. John marched right through. He reappeared inside a seemingly random house on the outskirts of actual Rome. It was shabby, the kind that had stood empty for a few years but was owned by some rich family that just refused to sell or do anything with it for whatever reason.

John turned to see the door he just came from. It was a closed metal door, it appeared to belong to an industrial building rather than this rundown shack. Interested, John pulled it open. Behind it were just piles of rubble in a room with a smashed window. He stepped through and nothing happened.

He closed the door and, following an obvious idea, put the key to the mansion into the door before pulling it open. The view was the same. Stepping through brought him back to the mansion this time, however. Of course, he had pulled the key off the door first. He wouldn’t want to leave that behind for some random kid to stumble in here and ruin everything.

That little experiment concluded, John went back into reality and checked his monster table.



‘Right, so I want to concentrate on one or two of the Quest goals, to make sure I fulfil at least something,’ John thought and looked at the three that were available. The ‘categories beaten’ and ‘monsters of one category slain’ goals did not harmonize whatsoever. He was somewhat confident that he could do one after the other, but it was best to set his sights on one goal that was surely obtainable.

‘Mhm, beating a Tier 14 boss should be relatively easy,’ John thought to himself; ‘And if I go for the monsters slain, that way I will get to try the same boss several times anyhow. That means I can try to do it without the glove a few times.’

Then the storm broke. Sexy women poured onto the streets like he was the richest man at a Victoria’s Secret party. They besieged John from all sides and would probably have drowned him in a sea of tits and ass if it weren’t for Mana Protection.

“Hey, you strapping young lad,” one of them purred, pushing her chest together and seductively licking her lips. The pink, glossy things seemed to be made for dick-sucking, and John had to muster some willpower to ignore the call of his erection. ‘Thank god that I focused on Wisdom this much,’ John thought as the never-ending tide of willing pussy kept coming.

Same could not be said about Aclysia though, who was effectively lust-stunned. Sure, she maintained (barely) enough self-control to not engage in immediate eroticisms, but she also didn’t raise Ashkandi to stab them in the meaty bits.

“Hey, want to hire a courtesan? I am cheap, just a load of your semen and I am yours for the evening,” another girl, a redhead, sighed.

“No-no-no-no-no-no,” Sylph announced and electrocuted that one with a swift attack, “I am John’s courtesan! My title, bad horny, young woman! Bad!”

“I thought you were John’s concubine?” Salamander asked in a dry tone as she set a blonde on fire.

“I can be both! No problem! I can be concubine and courtesan, because those are cool words, and I want to be called cool words!”

“How about whore then?” Salamander suggested. “Silly Sally, that isn’t a cool word, I also don’t sleep with Johns who aren’t John John. Silly Sally.”

“I swear to all of the fire in this plane that you are insufferable,” the fire spirit sighed as the aggressive duo went to clear John’s direct perimeter.

“G-g-g-get off me!” Gnome shouted and scattered a pile of women through the air as she broke out from under them. The stone elemental had been similarly besieged, it seemed. Momo wasn’t being attacked at all, she just looked at the whole scene with judgemental eyes.

“Sister, I must say I am slightly disappointed in you right now,” the support announced as she watched Aclysia continue to struggle with her nymphomania. “Then again, this is all your fault, John! What the hell were you thinking, increasing her Libido to such levels when she gets a 140% increase!”

“I was curious and she agreed!” John defended himself as one of his Mana Blades cut through a group of assailants. He adjusted his pants afterwards. “Can we postpone the judgements until after we have dealt with this?!” The situation, as ridiculous as it was, was pretty bad. The stream of women was seemingly endless, and John’s mana wouldn’t support him forever. A quarter of it had been missing before they had even entered.

Normally, he would have just waited for his mana to regenerate in-between dungeons. With the Quest giving him a timer, however, he had decided to toss caution aside for once, and it had worked out, without great problems, until now.

It would have worked out even longer if this wasn’t essentially a swarm encounter, and he wasn’t all that great with those. Arcane Explosion was a good tool here in theory, but what he really needed was to get this over with quickly and Arcane Explosion needed several casts to really deal with these masses. He looked at his glove for a moment, there was his trump card if this all came crashing down on him.

‘Better exhaust all other lifelines before I pull that, recharging it is a pain,’ John thought. “Momo, how much Mana do you still have?” he asked the supporter, who was busy trying to drag two women off the still stunned Aclysia. “About 500, if you are going to do it, do it fast!”

‘Everyone, duck!’ John warned his group as he dumped a total of 1500 mana into Mana Blade. The result was an about 3 and a half metres long arcane edge that originated from his right hand. Without grace he spun around, screaming “Demacia!” for full effect. Everyone in his group who would have been in range fell to the ground just in time.

It was very effective. Not only did he instantly kill everything that was inside that radius by cutting them in half, but he gained all 4 stacks of Whisper of Mana from it. The passive increased his MP recovery by 100% for a minute for each enemy killed with an Arcane skill and it kicked his regeneration up to almost 16 per second.

Sure, he was at 0 mana right now, but he would be back to a sizable amount within the minute thanks to the passive. ‘Definitely the best choice there, although I still cry a bit after Overload,’ John thought. Sure, Mana Blade was extremely effective at being a finisher, scaling both in size and damage with mana. The amount it devoured made it unsuitable for anything but an AoE finisher though, he would have liked it if he could have gotten Mana Ray and Arcane Explosion a similar treatment to be more adaptable to a broader range of situations.

Anyhow, with most of the wave taken care of and the sparrow above unable to spy more enemies coming towards them, it now was clean-up time. “Sorry, not sorry,” John said, punching one of the assailants in the face with his clawed gauntlet and sending her flying into a nearby building. A rush of power went through him as the body crashed through the glass door.

He clenched his left hand a few times and smirked. “I just love the things this thing does,” he said and set after the enemy. He wasn’t nearly strong enough to kill an enemy in one punch, especially with the group balance active. Although said group balance seemed to have come down in pure numbers this time around.

Just meant the clean-up would take longer.