Chapter 44 44: Manticore's First Level Up! [1]



o-- Lilith Novalia  [1]

o-- "Obsessive Bride" "Orc Stalker"

o-- Manticore (Luna Variant)

o-- Age 24 (Visually 19)

o-- Blood Type M-69

o-- Level: 1

o-- Class: None

o-- Experience: 0/10

Attributes (Average = 1)

Strength: 1.2

Agility: 2.7

Stamina: 1.3

Vitality: 1.7

Intellect: 2.6

Wisdom: 2.3

o-- Skills:

Manticore's Heart (Passive) [Level Max] - Increases control over Vitality and Stamina regeneration and absorption, the perfect mate for a male Manticore.

Manticore's Body (Passive) [Level Max] - increases recovery of mana and willpower and boosts intellect and vitality at each level.

Shadow Spike [Level 1] 

Assault the enemy's mind with deadly spikes of shadow, penetrating their skull for lethal shadow damage.

No cooldown

1 Second cast time

Wisdom -0.3

Blossom Step [Level Max] 

Dart through the air after becoming an ethereal nether blossom, blooming with a beautiful rose cloud, intangible and immune to damage.

3 Charges - 10-second cooldown

Instant cast

Wisdom -0.1

Stamina -0.2

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When Raven saw her skills, some of which were [Level Max], he felt a little jealous, but seeing her sparkling eyes as she looked at them, her soft pink lips forming a cute smile, he soon forgot that jealousy.

'At least now I know she will be safe; that dash doesn't cost too much; if she gets tired and needs stamina and vitality, I can let her drain me.'

Lilith hopped around his body, trying to poke through the blue screen as she looked at Raven with twinkling eyes.

"Hey, hey... show me yours? Okay... Mine is pretty good, right? Hehe~ max level praise me, praise your little queen!"

"Look at those titles... You like my orc body that much?" 

The girl ignored him, her little dress spinning to reveal her training shorts, the latex wrapped and stretched around her ass, both alluring and erotic, causing Raven to swallow his saliva.

"Hmph! You love my attention~ let me see, okay?"

Raven showed his screen to her for a few moments as she quickly began to pout and kick stones into the dark tunnel, her little tail swaying as she seemed unconvinced.[2]

"I do love your cute voice."

"Hah... what's cute... I won't reward you for being weird...!" Lilith replied, her face a little pink as she started walking towards the right path, the split tunnel.

"You know how to fight with those skills, right?"

"Mmmm, it's in my head... That sneaky woman taught me many things but always spoke about complicated things..."

"I see..." 

'I'm glad she's gone now, if this cute and feisty girl vanished, I don't know if I could accept the other Lilith. For what they did to Eve in the past, I might even kill her...'

They moved along the dungeon path; Raven remembered his first kill in this tunnel, the patrolling goblin that faced the wall for a long time before turning around.

"Hey, Raven..." Her soft but husky voice sounded, her hands grasping his right fingers.

"Hmmm?"

Raven looked towards her, wondering what was wrong as she suddenly stood on her toes, eyes closed and lips pressed together as they glistened with her cherry lipgloss.

"Mmmmn!" She hummed.

Not needing any more of a hint, his arms wrapped around her soft body, the silk feel of her dress brushing along his fingers and he held her tightly, gently kissing the needy little Manticore as she started to suck on his lips, the feeling of her drinking his purple energy filled his body, a slight tingle spreading through his body as she licked across his lips and pulled away, her eyes glowing brightly as if entranced.

"Hehe~ watch how amazing I am and praise me more!"

She twisted her body, lifting off the floor with several little hops, tapping her feet on the floor, seeming to imitate something she saw in an anime or something.

Woosh!

He merely blinked once; now Raven looked at the place Lilith stood before her body vanished with a soft poof!

A flutter of pink mist and flowers fluttered as she suddenly appeared several metres away, her body clinging to the walls, like that space creature that would leave strange eggs in a person's chest, where they burst from them later into little face-grabbing winged rats.

A weird alien film.

Like a deadly spear lunging with a skilled spearman hand or a scorpions tail, whiplashing into a predator's chest to deal a fatal blow, her tail swayed as her tip became a sharp spike, over 7 inches long as it penetrated the neck of the goblin from behind, it's tip spreading as sharp blades tore through its throat and skull, revealing a sticky grey brain.

The sound was a little gross, but Raven saw her lifting it off the ground, sniffing the bloody mass of its brains before snorting and lowering her tail.

'I'm a little jealous... Her tail is so powerful... I wonder if mine will become stronger when I evolve further... a naturally-born Manticore is so lucky... oh!?'

Raven was shocked as she lowered the goblin's body before lifting her sexy leg above its head and slamming down with a vicious and powerful axe kick, crushing its skull and smashing the soft brain into mush.

As her tail became like a strange syringe, sucking the brains from the broken skull, slowly, the goblin's body became like a withered husk, like what the weird insect guy did from Serpent Circle Z, almost killing Pickles.

"Hehe~ stupid goblin tastes like instant ramen... so sticky and greasy...!"

[Gained 1 EXP]

o-- Experience: 47/100

Raven ignored her little comment; for some reason, he didn't find her disgusting and instead felt that the goblin might taste like barbeque flavour noodles, watching with a smile as she kicked away the withered corpse that exploded into dust against the wall.

Her face turned to him with a beaming smile; she seemed to shine with radiance, filled with confidence as she flashed forward with her [Blossom Step], suddenly landing in his arms as she began to kiss his lips, sucking on them passionately.

Lilith's tongue pushed into his mouth, trying to pull it into her mouth, her glowing eyes watching him with a dominant and predatory look as she sucked on the tip with a sloppy slurping sound.

"Mmmmph~ so good... this is the best meal in the world... Raven... do I taste good for you too? Do you want to suck my tongue?"

He suddenly realised not only was she using him to refill her exhausted energy as if by instinct, but also some palate cleanser as she became engrossed in their kiss for several minutes before pulling away, her face and mind seeming to catch up with her instinct as she blushed and pushed away from him, skipping towards the right tunnel.

"It's not like I wanted to kiss you... I feel my strength returning when I kiss you, okay... Stupid orc... getting an erection... pressing it again me... Hmph...!"

Raven smiled bitterly as she watched her skipping to the next room, her body fluttering with pink energy as if overflowing; her tail swayed gently, the tip forming a little heart, seeming to betray her coy response.

"Wait, Lilith." He whispered, grasping her shoulder tightly and pulling her back before they entered the room.

'It's just like last time, but now the torches are lit, and the chest is visible without dark vision...'

It differed from his attempt as he began to survey the room with those two powerful monsters; there were six goblins patrolling, the ones that were merely corpses on his try. 

"Did those two monsters kill them last time? Seem's realistic..."

"Mmmh? Can we fight? I am strong... and you will protect me when I make mistakes!"

"Tell me, how much experience did you get from killing that goblin."

"Hmmmm....?"

Raven watched with a warm smile as he saw her playing with the blue screen; for some reason, only a member of the bureau and the person could see experience gained; he received 1 exp point for that goblin, so he wondered if the killer got any bonus experience.

Or maybe if he got penalised for doing nothing and being level 10.

"I got 0 experience... it says I should have gotten 2, but it was divided... and I lack a class!"

She began to pout as she skipped around, looking back at him over her shoulder, lifting her foot slightly off the ground.

"You stole my hard work! Stupid orc, kiss my feet, and I'll forgive you!"

He looked at the cheeky manticore as she smiled at him; her raspy voice was lovely when she acted a little cute or flirtatious.

As he stepped forward, Lilith backed off against the rigid craggy walls with sharp rocks, her eyes glowing like torches as she went to lift her leg; Raven moved forward quickly, suddenly taking her lips, enjoying the reaction of her eyes widening.

He could not do this in a hard dungeon, but he was confident merely using his body; he could kill more than 20 of those goblins.

Thus he enjoyed the taste of his manticore partner, her soft pink tongue pulled into his mouth as she gently struggled before wrapping around him like an octopus, his mouth sucking on her tongue as he swallowed her warm spit and sweet drool, her breath lemon scented after eating some hard candies on the trip here.

"Mmmmph~ haa... stop... okay.... don't be so... Nnnnph! I lose... I won't be cheeky... I lose...!"

Lilith kissed his neck back, her little fangs piercing his flesh with two little trickles of blood in revenge as she darted forward, shaking her tail and ass at him, entering the room with four goblin warriors and two archers.

Her eyes were like torches before her body faded into the shadows, with a faint pink mist left in her place.

"Since she's impatient, let's kill those archers to make her shine!"

[1] (Nova taken from the Latin word for "New" often associated with new beginnings or a fresh start.)

[2] I didn't show it as it was shown not long ago and nothing has changed since, (don't want to increase the cost of chaps)