Revealing the spiel

Her body had to be the work of a god. Her breasts were probably around a D-Cup with big nipples that stood out like little, pierced pins. Her hips were narrow, making her entire form resemble an insect quite a bit without going into the absurdly thin. Her skin had various blemishes, a lot of scars that were surprisingly symmetrical and clean that did not look like the battle scars that Brunhilde had.

She stood before him with a shit-eating grin, looking him up and down, "Well, looks like my acting lessons have paid off; you really believed I would kill you, didn't you?" She then cut John's arms and legs free from the webs securing them to the wall. "Wait a minute... This whole thing was just a bit of an act to you? The whole killing me thing? Those spiders almost killed me! Also: Why?" John was getting quite pissed about this... because this meant that he was played, he was the Gamer god damn it! Also, this was borderline **** (even though he did enjoy it at some point...)!

"Ah, man up ya wuss, it's not like I would've let you die there. If you hadn't fought, I would've just let them stick you to the wall and do you then. And a lot of the damage you took was seemingly your own fault for fighting like an idiot. And why? Well, you looked like a cute, nerdy guy when I brought you that pizza, and I have a thing for roleplaying and nerdy guys. And you seemed like you would have no idea what's happening to you so you would believe the act.

"When I noticed that you tried to gain information about me, I left a little spider with you, small enough that you wouldn't see or feel it. Since you were my only delivery at the end of my shift, I took the time to stick around and see what you would do and when you opened up that Illusion Barrier, I just took initiative and started this game. Sooo, sorry not sorry, you got a good fuck out of it as well."

Sighing, John resigned to his fate and looked himself over, to see if he had any lasting damages on him. While he did feel tired (probably both from the lack of mana and the exhausting activity of having sex), he noticed that his penis was indeed bigger than before, even when flaccid. Where he was at two inches in a soft state before (he was a grower), he now had something of about three and a half inches hanging between his legs. There were not bite marks on it thankfully, but he didn't expect to see any anyway. Noticing him checking out himself, Aranea had to laugh "Of course you would look at that first thing you do. But yes, no gratitude needed for that. I'd say fully erect you should be at eight inches now, or it at least felt that way."

Well, that was a nice upgrade for John, he would not complain about that. He would've come around to do it himself at some point probably with Augment Body, but now he didn't really need to do that anymore. However, John still had questions for the spider girl, "So what happens to your spiders now? I kinda destroyed them, didn't I? And how are you so okay with them being destroyed?"

"Yup, that you did, but that was nothing I didn't account for. These things are pretty easy to make if you know what you do and if you're me, which I am, but I certainly did not expect you to hijack one of them. How did you do that?" she asked him with a raised eyebrow.

"Magic," was John's curt answer for that. He didn't really know if he could trust the girl... On the one hand, she trapped him in here just so she could toy with him, on the other hand, she fucked him and did let him go... but just in case he would keep that answer to himself for now.

"Cute, alright, then don't tell me, don't really care that much... Or we could make a trade: I'll tell you something about me that you want to know and you tell me what I want to know. One question, no take-backsies. Deal?" she asked while extending her hand.

That did sound like a fair deal. The exchange of information did seem a lot more trustworthy. "Okay, that sounds acceptable. So, do you still want to know about my ability to 'hijack' your spider?" and he shook her hand.

"Yeah sure, I would like to know that. Technically that was also your question, but I'll let it slide," she winked while saying that, and John just had to roll his eyes. "Smartass... but okay, the ability I have is called Bond: I can make a Bond with people and creatures if they like me enough and if they accept the bond, and with items and automatons if they aren't bonded yet. Your spiders weren't bonded, so I took one over and made him my 'companion', I guess. Took a lot of my mana... Now, my question: Are you actually part spider?"

At his question, Aranea's face lost a bit of its cheer, but she tried to keep a moderately happy look, "Yes, I am part spider. Not just robot spider, but actual spider. My mother was an Jorogumo, a Japanese spider demon. The mechanical part is something entirely different, that's because of some scientist fucks tried to create a weapon, keyword: tried. Don't really want to talk about that... But okay, that was one question for you one for me. That concludes this deal then. I think I'm gonna get going now; I might need a bathroom and some sleep soon. I'll leave you the little spider that you took over seems like a fitting parting gift. I guess I'll see you around then?" with that, she extended her hand once more to shake John's.

Taking her hand in his own, he put on a smile and decided that Aranea wasn't actually that bad, just another weird case, a really weird one. "Yeah sure, maybe give me your number so we can keep in touch? And next time maybe don't try to **** me?" "Already got your number, I'll send you a text at some point. Have fun with the little one. And no promises," and with that, she and the carcasses of the big spiders disappeared into nothingness, leaving John once again with his own thoughts. This was the second time in one day now that he was alone in one of these Barriers.

Quickly getting his pants and the rest of his gear and putting everything on, he took one last look around the room, where indeed Aranea had indeed left the little pile of scrap that used to be Gary. Getting two pieces of scrap metal out of it, John then quickly went back to the place where he first appeared in this Barrier. He sure as hell did not want to find out where he would end up if he left in this position now...

Reaching the point was no problem at all, and, during the time it took him to reach the beginning, John took a look at all the pop-ups that he had ignored up until now.

Dungeon Cleared! Boss has fled!
+250XP
x2 for Dungeon level at least double your level
+200 XP for first Dungeon clear
+300$
+2 random loot drops possible in the Dungeon (half of killed enemies)
+1 Equipment Chest (Uncommon+)

DING
Level Up!
DING
Level Up!

Error Detected. XP Gain disabled until further notice.

Another two levels, that was ridiculous! Getting closer to the day he could use the Valkyrie spear, which would be even more powerful now that he knew how much damage he could do with his abilities, but that XP Gain error was concerning him. What did that mean?

Those loot drops turned out to be one piece of scrap metal and one piece of scrap electronics, adding to that were three pieces of leather and one piece of rubber he got through the crafting achievement and another 2 pieces of scrap metal. When he got home, he had to do some serious crafting, though this time without the use of Edge, as powerful as that was. He wanted to rather keep those points to avoid danger and to make sure he had enough mana to do certain things he needed to do...

Seeing as how he could do everything else at home just as good as he could do it here, John took another piece of pizza to buff his regeneration and then used Leave Barrier on the space around him.

Just as he expected, he reappeared in his backyard again, and, by now, the sun was going down, being halfway gone already. Looking at his phone, it told him that it was somewhat around 8 PM, matching up with the sundown he saw right now. So, this barrier didn't have that time dilation, interesting...

While he had his phone in hand, he saw that a message was waiting for him to read, the sender being Brun:

Hey Big Guy, I just had a really shitty and depressing afternoon/evening and could use some company and somewhere to crash... Would it be okay if I could spend some time with you? Probably no fucking or anything involved, not really in the mood for that, could use someone to hold me though. Text me back when you can.

Thankfully that message was only ten minutes ago, so he could still easily reply without her feeling like he ignored her. His mom always said that it was fine if he brought company over, which rarely happened, so he knew that she would be okay with it as well.

Sure you can crash here, got some pizza if you want and a free bedside you can crash on ;) We could do that 'introduction into the Abyss' you talked about this afternoon. So, when will you be around? Gonna assume you don't need an address as you should theoretically know where I am :P

John then went back into the now dark house, turning on the various lights to give the place some life. After he went to the fridge to get two cans of coke he got a reply:

Gonna be there in 10 minutes. Keep that pizza hot!

Chuckling at that, John quickly went up to his room to look at the remaining stuff he got which was the loot chest and the accessory for losing his virginity.

Looking into his inventory, he could see that the accessory was a necklace in the shape of a wolf's head with ruby red eyes.

Medallion of the Hunter
+2 STR
+2 AGI
+2 END
+4 CHA
+2 LIB
+50% RP gain on any action with the opposite sex
While worn: Infertility, STD Immunity

Well, given that he got the thing for having sex it kinda made sense that it would give him boosts to sex-related things. But infertility and STD immunity sounded like something he could very well use, for now, seeing as how he didn't want to become a father yet or get any diseases, so he put it on immediately. Also, he didn't have anything better to put into that slot yet, seeing as how he got some sweet boosts with it as well.

Next was the equipment chest that turned out to be a simple cardboard box with instructions on it.

Random Equipment Chest: Uncommon+ Edition
Open to get 1 random Equipment for a random slot (Equipment excluding Accessories and Weapons)
Chance to get:
75% Uncommon
15% Rare
7.5% Epic
2.5% Legendary

Open? [Y/N]

Just as he was about to open it, the doorbell downstairs rung.