New shirt, new pants, new Gnome

The decision where to put those points was pretty easy, and he meant both the Skill and Stat Points. The Skills points went into his remaining three elementals that were not yet at the maximum level. It seemed smartest, although Aclysia was a worthwhile thought too. For the Stats he went with Endurance, he could use more of that. He also noticed a few more windows.

That was nice. He already had a SEP for Gnome in stock, but he could use one for Salamander, she seemed to be the next that would get there. However, the other achievement he got was a bit more confusing.

The heck was that supposed to mean? Whatever could that reward be that he currently could not access it? He sighed, ‘Not that complaining about it would change anything,’ thinking that he finally left the Bonus Level. He had a few things to do he wanted to make somewhere more serene, for lack of a better term.

While he stepped out of the gate, he Observed the two new items he had gotten.

Despite the name the shirt was not actually made from earth, it just had a dark brown, earthy color. The Attributes were pretty good, so John put it on without thinking much about it. Immediately he felt a difference in the way he perceived the world. The trance-like state he had been in earlier returned to him as he walked over the grassy plain and towards his “house.” It was less defined and not as clear a feeling, but John felt more synchronized with the earth itself. Anyway, for the pants.

Wisdom and Charisma or Agility? The answer, John found fairly quickly, was the former. He used Agility so seldom it was of little use to him. Off with the old, the Agility Pants were damaged goods anyway (The Sporeling explosion had blown a giant hole into them). Now all he needed were new shoes, and he was all set.

But before all of that he had something else to do. He walked into his room and sat down in his office share and relaxed for a moment; this had been an intense day, he had reached two levels, he called it a day in the training regard. Instead, he looked at his group slowly filling the room.

Aclysia had entered directly behind him and now stood at his side. She shifted around a bit; John could feel that she was unsure whether to ask if he wanted to have sex or wait until he announced it by himself. He smiled at that; he had grown himself a perfect fellow pervert. Hurray for his powers.

Sylph twirled into the room next. Doing a triple turn in the air before flying a giant loop and then landing on the pillow on his bed. She bounced off high once and giggled, “Fluffy! I like fluffy, bouncy and fluffy things are the best!” exclaiming that she finally came to a halt and, for a very rare occasion, shut up.

Salamander quickly followed her. The fire Elemental did her best to stay away from furniture. She was able to control her body heat and keep it at levels that wouldn’t burn anything but as a mark on John’s desk witnessed a very slight annoyance and that control went straight out the window. Instead, she assumed a relaxed, laid-back pose while hovering in the middle of the room.

Undine half stepped, and half poured inside. Her light blue, translucent body left the floor perfectly cleaned. The first time Undine had walked around John had been afraid that she would leave sticky trails everywhere but that, luckily, had proven to be false. Undine preferred to be somewhere quiet, so she hid under his bed. John did not completely follow the why, but apparently, it was her second favorite place in the house, the first one being the shower.

Gnome finally walked in. Each of her movements was heavy thanks to her body's nature as she walked inside with careful and thorough steps. Normally she would take her place by the plant John kept as a neglected piece of decoration (Although it had made a miraculous recovery thanks to being taken care of by Aclysia) next to his desk. However, today she walked up in front of him.

She was still just like the first day he had summoned her. A small girl, four years of apparent age, with brown hair bound into small twin tails at the sides of her head and eyes of the same color. She wore a youthful sundress, yellow like a buttercup, whose skirt reached just to her kneecaps. No shoes, no gloves, nothing else just the sundress and two small bands that held her twin tails.

“Are you ready?” John asked as he pulled up his Stat Screen.

Gnome took a deep breath and shook her head. She took another one, shook her head again. Then she exhaled ever so slowly and nodded. “Yes, I am, John,” she said. John used a Skill Evolution point on Earth Elemental Summoning.

Sand. No, he did not plan to fight in the desert anytime soon, and it sounded more like an offensive elemental anyway. Out of the calculation. Nature Elemental seemed interesting. However, if it brought him into a similar situation as with Undine, whose offensive capabilities were really expensive mana-wise because she needed to create all the water she was using, it seemed not really worth it. Gnome was his most versatile tool. She was good at defending him, had okay attacks and a sturdy body. He aimed to keep that; he would have a hole in his party set-up otherwise. Therefore, it would have to be Stone Elemental.

A click later and Gnome turned into a pillar of stone. Like, literally, the little girl in front of him suddenly transformed into a pillar of light beige stone, reaching up to his nose in height, something that he only knew because he jumped up. The sudden change had really startled him. “Gnome?” he carefully asked. In answer, the stone started to reshape.

First, it took roughly humanoid shape, John could make out arms, legs, torso, and head easily, although it was still a bit bumpy. Then the details started appearing from the feet upwards. She wore boots of a light black, golden flower-like ornaments decorating these shoes, which extended far above her ankle and halfway up her lower legs. Her legs were bare, of the pale beige color that the stone was made off. There was a skirt once again, but this one ended a bit below her waist and was black with golden ornaments, like the boots, with a white frill at the edge. John quickly realized that wasn’t all that was to the dress though. The simple old yellow sun dress had been changed for a beautiful piece of design. Two layers, the inner one was the black skirt but also a golden piece that was lying above the soft curved of her breasts, mostly hidden by the outer layer. The same yellow as her old dress, the outer layer looked like a sleeveless vest. Her arms had gloves of the same structure, the inner layer black and flowers drawn in gold, the outer yellow, long sleeves dangling downwards, the whole construction closed by white, lily-shaped pins.

Finally, her face formed. A cute, round face with a fine nose and pale lips, curved into a warm smile, her hazel brown eyes were slightly almond shaped. Her face was framed by her dark brown hair that formed as the last part of her body. A straight pony, two bangs at the sides, the rest of her long hair bound into twin-tails that fell down to her little backside, secured by hairpins decorated with yellow cloth of a buttercup design.

She had an oriental air to her, Chinese or Korean or Japanese; John was not secure enough in his cultural knowledge to make any exact guesses. “You are…you are very cute,” John stammered, still startled by the sudden change. It was a mindless but true compliment. He was surrounded by women he would describe as sexy. Aclysia was a sexy maid, Rave, a sexy half-Asian perfect girlfriend, but Gnome looked more like the type you wanted to cuddle and protect, rather than fuck her. Not that his boner shared his opinion.

His boner also had a very strong opinion about what John saw in that new and updated Observe Sheet. “John, I feel…needy,” Gnome carefully said and blushed. Her voice was soft and sweet and made John's insides feel all fuzzy. Her eyes darted to the side, back to him, she blushed harder, eyes darting away again. She rose a sleeve covered hand to her mouth and mumbled, “I…kind of want to try that thing you two are always doing.” Despite being all shy about her manners, she was relatively direct. John had not seen that side of Gnome before, how could he, he was fairly certain it had not existed a minute earlier.

Aclysia, despite being horny herself, took John’s brain meltdown induced hesitation to round up the other Elementals in the room quietly. Undine took it with tact and left on her own while Salamander had to be asked and Sylph openly shouted, “Nooooo! Unfair! I want to be a Concubine too! This is mean, you are meanies! Somebody make me taller! Sniff! Sniff! Bawl! Do you hear that! I am crying! I am cryi…” Thud. The door had closed. Behind Aclysia.

“Can...can we do it?” Gnome still did that thing with her eyes where she could not bear looking at John for longer than a moment before her cheeks turned red. “S-sure,” John stuttered and mentally reprimanded himself. ‘You are sounding like that virgin that you were before you met Jane, go get her tiger!’ he talked himself up and cleared his throat, “Yes, Gnome, I would love to spend the night with you,” he said in his best manly voice. Gnome looked at him for a bit longer than usual then she giggled. It was not the intended effect, but it worked well enough as Gnome’s nervousness reduced to a point where John could step in front of her and put an arm around her.