A strangers help

Climbing out of the cave through a hidden exit had been a smart plan and it had bought them perhaps and hours worth of time to get a heads start on the minister, but clearly an hour hadn't been enough. As the group ran through the forest it wasn't long before they could hear a small group of dex-based Institution aids catching up to them, given that his party was solely int and str based, Sven had no chance at escaping high leveled dex tracking classes, peering over his should as he ran he counted them.

Three in total, a ranger, an assassin and a monk. Sven cursed his luck, the forest ranger would be granting himself movement speed steroids on cooldown and the monk would be activating passives to speed the group up even more. It wouldn't be long until they would be **** to fight, running wasn't an option vs these opponents.

Looking to Ignis and then to Alice he signaled for them to stand and fight, pointing to a large rock as the place they would hold their ground. Nodding they two ran towards the rock while Sven held his ground, kicking a tree and causing the large redwood to topple down towards the trio, separating the archer and the monk from the assassin.

"He's got a strength based class, we should focus the support classes before-" The monk had to dodge as a rock hurtled past where his head had just been. Sven smirked and beckoned the monk to come closer, a basic taunt but if the expression on the annoyed monks face was anything to go by, then it had worked a charm.

"Ranger, go long and snipe the two on the rock, monk keep him engaged while I circle the other two and flank." The assassin said shortly before disappearing into the woodland. The ranger began to run off in the other direction to get a better shot of the two supports.

"If only I had a flail." Sven thought to himself outwardly, doing his best to mask his delight of having the three play into the palm of his hands. They were trained professionals who would act just as he thought they would, but they had failed to factor in one very important part of their strategy, that and their next moves were telegraphed to a certainty. Soon the monk had dashed forward to engage Sven, the flurry of his punches was hard to dodge even now that he was much faster, the punches themselves didn't hurt but they each stacked an armor shredding debuff. So even though they did little damage, if you got hit by enough of them then you'd start to feel the pain soon for sure.

'Heh, well I should act the fool and pretend to play into their little misdirection.' Sven thought as he kicked the monk away and ran in the direction of the rock, the girls had just managed to climb to the top and were now enchanting Sven with their buffs. A flame enchant on his sword, a movement speed increase on his arms and legs. Sven pretended to keep running until a part of his muscle memory snapped and he quickly lunged backwards with his sword held firm, sticking into an invisible enemy that was just about to strike him from behind.

"H-How! Im-Impossible!" The assassin gurgled as blood began to pour out of his mouth, his eyes began to dim and soon enough he was dead. A shot to the heart had been a lucky strike, but something like this was childs play for Sven.

"You tell me your fake plans just loud enough so I let my guard down, meanwhile you have the monk apply enough armor shred so that your **** crit becomes an execute, I've seen it all before." The monk grit his teeth, looking towards the ranger who was running around like a headless chicken in the background.

"What are you playing at ranger?! Shoot the supports already, the assassin's dead!" Came the monks frustrated demand, Sven chuckled as they were soon discovering their mistake.

"They're both too high up! The leaves of the trees cover their position, they're untargetable by my arrows!" The monk spat curses, Sven wasn't about to waste any more time, charging the monk he stepped back to dodge the slash, Sven realized that fighting the monk would be a mistake, now his enemies objective wasn't to kill him or his team, it was to buy time for the others. The monk beckoned Sven to try again but he wasn't about to fall for such a simple taunt.

Turning around Sven began to run again, using his enchanted movement speed to run behind a tree to break line of sight and then activated his Sylivian blade. The monk gave chase but lived just long enough to regret his mistake as his head was soon cleaved right off of his shoulders by Sven appearing out of no where right beside him. With one left, Sven signaled for the others to jump down from the rock and begin running, the ranger would no doubt give chase and scout their movements but at least he wouldn't be nipping at their heels like a monk or an assassin would so long as they had all of these trees around them.

As the group began to run once again, the ranger would shoot pot shots through the thickets and leaves in a **** attempt to slow them down or to provoke them into reengaging, but they continued to run despite his best efforts. Grimacing at the prospect of telling the minister that he alone had let Sven escape, the ranger procced his movement speed steroid and began to chase the group with intentions to catch up. It was a dangerous move, but also an unexpected one and he hoped to catch them unprepared.

Noticing they were entering a clearing soon, Sven cursed his bad luck. In such an environment, the ranger would have a very high chance of hitting multiple shots, if he got hit by enough then he might be **** to stand and fight - and he couldn't afford to do that right now, not with the minister and his lackeys so hot on his heels as they were.

"Run in single file, head for the trees ahead and don't stop until you reach them, even if I'm hit. I have a plan." Sven called out, the ranger was soon at the clearing with a mean glint in his eyes, this was exactly what he was hoping for, he was glad he had taken the risk of getting closer now that he was here. Sending his first shot it soared through the air and hit Sven directly in his shoulder, Sven grunted quietly as he looked forward at the other two as they ran. If he dodged the attack it would simply hit one of the girls, and for them it wouldn't just be a flesh wound, it would be life threatening at worst, crippling their movement briefly at best.

Another shot went soaring through the air and pierced Sven in his lower back and came out the other side half way, piercing through his stomach. Sven tried his best not to cause the other two any concern, if they slowed down to check if he was alright then he would only take more arrows to his person. The end of the clearing was coming up, just a little more running and...

Another arrow connected with his back thigh, it caused Sven to briefly fumble before he caught himself back into full stride. 'Smart ranger.' Sven grimaced at the pain, the ranger was aiming for his legs now to try and get the other two to stop and help, that way he could focus fire on the sitting ducks and make short work of them all. The trees were coming up, if only they could get to that cover in time.

The tell-tale sound of an arrow flying through the sky soon pierced his other leg, this time Sven took the blow gracefully without so much as breaking a single step in his stride, but he was starting to feel the pain now. This ranger was a higher level than he was, and his arrows were starting to do their job. The clearing was so close now, he had to take maybe one more arrow and they would be home free.

Then he heard it, it wasn't just one arrow; but many. A barrage of arrows were falling from the sky and was soon about to pierce not only himself but his team too! Shit, Sven turned on his heels to face the ranger and quickly brought up his shield, a white-blue projection of his shield soon jutted out of himself into an astral projection that reached high into the air and far behind him, no sooner had the shield surfaced did the arrows connect with the barrier.

The Tower Shield spell is a Gate Keeper (Master) spell that gives 90% damage reduction towards the Gate Keeper for every projectile that lands onto the shield if the projectile hits within the first second of the Tower Shields activation. The ability lasts for 3 seconds, any projectile that lands after the first second has a reduced damage reduction of 50% for the remaining duration. Sven managed to block all arrows within the first second, but in doing so took every single arrow that would have hit himself and his party and converted the damage directly to his HP bar, the damage while reduced massively was still enough to bring him to his knees.

Sensing the danger he was in, Alice and Ignis turned around. Alice quickly cast her healing magic to stem his bleeding and to bring him back from the brink, Ignis hurried to his side and tried her best to pick him up to his feet.

"Come on master! Up you get!" Ignis pulling on his hand to get him up wasn't having any effect physically, but just her effort alone motivated Sven to stand despite the pain. Soon enough they were on the run again, just as they were about to reach the treeline Sven could feel the arrow soaring through the air once again, he was about to take another powerful blow to his back, turning around to shield it he stood there for a second, only for a sound of metal clinking against metal to play out in place of a the rangers arrow connecting with his basilisk shield.

Looking back he saw a hooded woman standing there with a long, engraved white bow. Her robes were a dark green and her under cloths a faded black tunic. With her hood covering her head and being under the shade of the trees he couldn't make out much of her face, but even trough her many layers of cloths she couldn't conceal her plentiful cleavage from Sven's hungry eyes.

"Come this way Sven, Ignis!" The stranger waved them over from her position in the trees. Not wasting a second to think about it, Sven ran towards his mysterious savior along with Ignis and Alice who must have been equally as confused. Looking behind himself as he ran he felt his heart sink a little at the sight.

The enemy ranger had bought enough time for the main group to catch up, at least another 16 aids were charging through the clearing now, thankfully all of them were melee str classes so couldn't do much in the way of slowing Sven and his party down with ranged abilities.

The mysterious woman shot a barrage of fire arrows high into the air, as Sven and his party came to join her in the trees, the fire arrows had fallen to the earth and had exploded each into plumes of fire, creating a wall of explosive fury that blocked the aids path to Sven and his group. Sven watched for a short time as he saw the fire wall circle the group so that they were trapped inside. He'd never seen an ability like this cage someone before, fire wall was just as it sounded, a wall, not a cage.

"Come on Sven! There's no time for gawking!" The stranger implored him, shaking his head Sven followed her through the trees until they arrived at a wooden rowing boat, with a larger boat anchored out at sea. Just who was this person? Why was she so prepared for this event? Quickly clambering into the boat, Sven took hold of both oars and began to row as fast and as strong as he could in the direction of the big boat. Given his strength and stamina, this time wasn't lengthy at all, upon reaching the boat Sven looked out towards the land he had came from to see a group of people staring at them from the shoreline.

When it was his term to climb aboard, he carried the small boat up with him to save the crewmen some time. The crew was running across the deck and doing their duties, dressed in white sailor outfits and with no sign of a jolly roger, Sven ascertained that these men were not pirates but ferrymen, or at least sailors that hired out their vessel for voyages.

"Raise anchor! Set sail!" The hooded ranger commanded as men scuttled across the decks to do her bidding.

"Where to ma'am?" Came the captains call from the helm of the ship.

"Port Vassir!" She called out as she looked towards the shore to see if they were going to pursue them somehow. The captain called for the affirmative and soon enough the anchor was raised and the sails unfurled. This was all happening much too fast for Sven's liking. Who was this guardian angel sent to protect him? And what did she want from him.

"You have my thanks stranger, but who are you and why were you waiting for us here? And you know mine and Ignis's names? Start talking." Sven narrowed his eyes as he looked at the woman suspiciously, to which she merely responded with an amused giggle.

"Stranger? You wound me Sven Gate, to think all of our time spent traveling together and you would so soon forget about me? I'm truly hurt!" She removed her dark green hood to reveal a lock of mossy green hair braided together now, her porcelain skin was white as snow which only reddened her luscious lips and gave depth to her beautiful blue eyes.

"Elise!" Sven's eyes shot wide in an instant as he recognized her, his heart fluttered in his chest and moved his feet forward instinctively to embrace her in a warm hug. She blushed deeply but returned the hug with as much want and desire as he had given her.

"I told you I would return!" She giggled into his strong pecs, she she felt his warm skin touch hers, marveling at how strong he had gotten. He seemed so much bigger now than she had remembered him being.

"Have you gotten more muscly over the past few months? What kind of insane training regime did you go through to even grow a few inches taller?!" Elise asked as she stood on her tippy toes to see if she could reach his head, only to find in amazement that she couldn't any longer. He was 6.6ft before, or 200cm, but now he must be at least 6.9ft or 210cm

"Right?! He's huge now, not that he wasn't before but wow!" Alice said as she inspected his body as well, Ignis huffed at having been left out so she too joined in, finding that she could only reach his mid section and thighs now. Perfect blowjob height, she thought with an excited thrill running up and down her body.

"I see you have yet another 'companion' Sven." Elise shot Sven a knowing look, Sven had the decency to at least blush ever so slightly at the implication.

"Hi, I'm Alice." The cat woman extended a hand to Elise which she took. "I'm the healer of the group, I've heard so much about you from Sven! You're even more beautiful in person!" Alice said giddily, it was now Elise's turn to blush as thoughts of Sven talking about how beautiful and sexy she was filled her mind all at once. Sven felt a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach as he watched Alice manipulate Elise into matching him with her. Alice winked back at him to confirm his suspicions. She was trying to grow a romantic interest between the two of them!

"I-Is that right? W-Well I'm happy that I h-haven't been forgotten!" Elise tried to cover for how embarrassed she was feeling but it showed nevertheless. As they talked they removed all of the arrows from Sven's body one by one, healing his wounds as they went along. However, to make sure no pieces of metal had snapped off inside of him, he had to do this shirtless which caused more than inspecting stares from the trio of women.

"God you're so fucking hot." Alice breathed huskily as she traced his body with her healing magic, not that it healed him faster, just that she could use it as an excuse to touch him more. Elise blushed at such an open display of flirting, were they a couple?! Had she lost her chance?

"Stop hogging masters upper body, hairball!" Ignis complained, meanwhile she was squeezing Sven's ass without even realizing she was doing it. Elise paled even further as she witnessed the two fighting over him like dogs would over a particular choice cut of prime beef.

"Hah, I'm only hogging it because you couldn't reach it, shorty!" Alice teased, Ignis made a growling noise while Sven just sighed. Elise could tell that Sven was subjected to this kind of behavior a lot and felt his pain, being the only girl on a hired ship of sailors had earned herself plenty of ogling as well, nothing more than that thankfully. However watching this display reminded her of the old times and made her smile ever so slightly, and also because they were both fighting over him, it wasn't like he was committed to either as a couple. Maybe her chance hadn't been lost just yet...

"How long until we arrive at Vassir?" Sven tried to ask seriously even as he felt the pair of prodding molesters continue their inappropriate fondling with increased fervor. Elise laughed as she watch Sven try his best not to enjoy it.

"Maybe a day or so, it all depends on the winds. Hey, if you're gonna get groomed so religiously by two other girls right in front of me, you might just make me jealous!" Elise tittered, with a small blush. Sven grinned mischievously.

"There's always room for one more." He said confidently, something his past self wouldn't have dreamed of saying. Her blush deepened and she looked away in embarrassment. Such a situation was perhaps a bit too much for a pure girl like her.

"Yeah come join us! The more the merrier!" Alice echoed Sven's invitation.

"Speak for yourself rat chaser! I don't want to share master with cow tits as well! You're bad enough of a hussy as it is!" Elise looked shocked as she considered the high elf's words. What did she mean by share?! Were they... No this was too much! Looking away she felt her heart sink a little, she knew that leaving Sven alone with Ignis would give her an advantage over Sven's heart, but she hadn't expect him to have TWO women at once! Could she share Sven with two other girls? It hurt to think about.

Seeing that she was uncomfortable Sven walked forward to grab both her shoulders reassuringly, looking up his looming form her eyes shook as she gazed into his commanding red eyes, he had matured up so much in just a few months, he was honestly breathtaking to her, just standing beneath him like this had caused her pussy to grow wet in anticipation, he was so much more dominant now.

"I can see that I'm making you feel uncomfortable Elise, that's not what I want to do to someone as precious to me as you are. Tell me what I can do to make you feel better? What do you want?" Sven began to rub her small, lithe arms with his big strong hands. She could feel her own breathing begin to shake and her cheeks begin to swelter with heat. Oh god what was he making her do?!

"D-Don't make me say it, ahh." She rubbed her thighs together like an animal in heat, oh god she couldn't control her actions! Abort, abort! But she couldn't, instead she quivered under him like a scolded daughter and it felt so right. What she wanted, what could make her feel better, was he really going to make her say it? Sven just watched her squirm, waiting for her to ask for it, he knew what she wanted but he wanted to make her ask for it first, he wanted to see if she really did want this, even though he wouldn't be loyal to just her. It had to be her decision in the end.

"I- I want..." Her breathing was ragged down, her cheeks blushing a deep tomato red and a small river of fluids beginning to leak down her faded black shorts.

"Yes?" Sven asked with a small smirk, he hadn't taken his eyes off of her once, his eyes still piercing hers without blinking once.

"I want you to... Fuck me!" She finally admitted, albeit a little too loudly as some of the crew members stopped what they were doing to breifly gawk at the strong and independant ranger all of a sudden submitting to some hulking man she had just picked up off the coast. Closing her eyes in embarrassment, Elise just wanted to crawl into a hole and die! What had she done?! Admitting to such lewd fantasies in front of Sven, his companions and a whole seafaring crew! What would they think of her now that she had humiliated herself so much?

Sven's eyes shone with excitement and he could feel his member hardening in his pants, threatening to burst the fabric from the seams. "We've got plenty of time to do just that, won't you accompany me to the cabins, little girl?" Sven bent down to breath huskily into her ear, blowing it ever so slightly to cool down her kettle temperature face. Opening her eyes she moaned directly into his face. How could she resist now? She was utterly under his spell.

Authors notes: Just a reminder that Elise is 20~ years old now, the next chapter will focus on the Daddy Dom - Little Girl fetish, so if you don't like that you can skip it as there's not much story or exposition happening next chapter, just pure smut.

Anyway, it has been good to reintroduce Elise once again, but if you remember she left under some mysterious means. What was her mission and how come she found Sven so easily? You'll just have to read and find out! Until next time.

Oh and a little PSA on the Gate Keeper / Master class that Sven acquired. It's fundamentally an off-tank class with high impact defensive abilities coupled with situational strong damage the lower life Sven gets. If you refer to the Index > Classes > Primary Classes section of the story you can read a little more about it. It's all very WIP so keep in mind numbers and effects are subject to changes and constant updates.