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[Sorry for breaking the fourth wall a bit, but I just wanted to thank you for sticking with me through 100 Chapters! As a big thank you today's chapter has extra length... mostly because I don't know what else to do as a thank you... So here it is: Chapter 100! WHUUUUHU]

John smirked as he read the salty message the goddes was giving him. His finger moved towards the accept button, but then just stopped. He did just turn off the painful reminder about popups, so what if he just didn't accept it, but ignored it instead?

With an even brighter smile, he lowered his arm again and looked at Henrietta. "Sure, let's begin." But before he even realized how bad of an idea it was to spite the goddess, she showed mercy to him by sending another pop up, clearing the situation.

The quest will auto accept in 3... 2... 1... The quest has been accepted

This only made John's resolve stronger, to at one day get one up on Gaia. Up to now, he had no reason to even confront with her. Why would he? She was an old goddess, sleeping in the earth, or rather as the earth beneath him. A **** of nature. It was useless to tell a tree that you dislike it, and it was equally useless to argue with Gaia. Now however that had changed. Gaia had proven to be not only an intelligent mind, but also interactable with. And John was already making plans on how to **** this lady on the ground.

"Okay, so tell me, Don't show, how you create your dimensional rifts. I believe it would be best if we start there." John nodded, being **** to focus his mind back on the task at hand.

"Alright, well, like you said, I just focus my energy, make it form an area, fill it with my thoughts and have them materialize inside. Honestly, I thought I was doing illusion barriers." She sighed.

"I see, this is not gonna work out. If you don't know what you should do, you can't see what you are doing wrong. Okay... How about this, you make a rift now. Don't freak out, I will guide you. Let's just hope we survive it. But do it slowly. I want to feel your energy take form and the minute, no the mili second I say stop, you will break off your attempt and do as I say, is that clear?" John swallowed. He had been making dimensional rifts all the time since he learned them, thinking they were barriers. However, now that he knew that they could mean his immediate ****, he was less eager to do them again.

"Okay, then... here I go?" He said and raised his hands. The area he was forming in his hand was small. No need to make it as big as he did before, or rather, no need to make it bigger than just enough. Now to make it slow, go through the steps. John was speaking to himself in thoughts.

First focus the mana in his hands. Next let it fly out, carefully, not letting it go wild but **** it into form, holding it and...

"STOP!" Out of shock, John let go of the energy and looked at Henrietta blamingly.

"You could have said that softer!" He only noticed now how she was standing behind him, her hands raised towards his back, most likely trying to scan or feel his flow of energy. It reminded him of Avatar's water bending in some way, yet he could not say what part exactly. "What did I do wrong?"

"Your energy was starting to rip open the dimension already, so I had to stop you. What the hell is wrong with you? That energy you send out had no purpose. All you send it out for, was to create a rift. And you **** it so much that.... Wait, you probably don't follow, so let me explain this. You know light bulbs?" She didn't wait for him to reply, as this question obviously was rhetorical in nature. "They are recieving energy. Energy that is send there with a purpose. The purpose to create light."

She was walking over to one of them, hanging on the wall, while gesturing John to follow her. "You are a light bulb John. You have a powerfull battery inside of you, that is fueling you with energy, so you can create light. But you need to know this purpose, because what you currently do is this." She grabbed Johns hand, as he was not focusing on it and pressed it against the light bulb.

"OUCH, you bitch! What the fuck is wrong with you?" He shouted as he pulled back his arm.

-5 HP
-20% Agility for actions involving the left hand for 19:43 Minutes

"Exactly my point. You shoot out your energy without the purpose of creating light, so all it does is destroy things. And even worse, you not only send out destructive power, you focus it on an area. An area in which you stop energy, which desperately wants to unload itself somewhere, from doing so. You press your energy between your will and the fabric of reality. Do you need me to give you an example of how that feels? Not only having raw energy like in the light bulb, but instead having that energy focussed onto a small area, **** to burn itself down as the only thing it can still do?" John swallowed, seriously scared about this girl he was no longer so certain about being his friend.

"I didn't think so. Well to make it simple: At some point, reality breaks. It is less powerfull than one would think. The only reason it is not broken all the time is because of its protector. Gaia." John nodded.

"Ehm, I am sorry to interrupt you, but could you also show me how to guide this energy? I do not wish to make the same mistakes as John did." Ashthyn spoke up and remembered both of them about his presence. Henrietta just shrugged her shoulders and pointed at him, which prompted him to disappear.

As John turned to her she calmed him down. "Don't worry, I send him into a small illusion barrier like I did with you the first time I started this. Nothing is inside, nothing can get inside, and he has to crush it to get out. And we can be undisturbed for a while. Now, show me what you can do."

John looked at her but she smiled reassuringly. Okay, so that was all he was going to get. Fine, time to do this.

He raised his hands and focussed his mana. Wait. No, not like this. He had to give it a purpose before sending it out this time. He had to focus on what he wanted before even letting his mana flow. So what did he want?

A quick thought later, his energy was leaving his body. It felt different this time, though. It was easier to control it. The energy was less willing to spread or go in different directions, less willing to fall apart in itself this time. He knew that creating giant barriers with this method would be way easier than with the old one.

"Stop. Don't **** the energy in any form. You told it the size you want as you send it out. Or you should at least. Have it find its own way. If you are in balance with your will and soul, then your energy will trust your will to stay in the form you wished of it. If you are angry at yourself and uncertain, it will break out. Be strongwilled, but not forcefull." John nodded and stopped his attempt, retrying anew.

This time, he included the size in his thoughts before sending out the energy. Certain it would not become a rift this time, he had no reason to hold back, so he tried to make the barrier almost as big as the place they were in. And she was right. Still, a big amount of energy was floating off of the place it should stay, but after a bit of time, enough energy had gathered and formed the area. Both of them were standing outside of it, for now.

"Good job. I knew you could do it." She patted him on the back.

Quest complete

Skill: Apprentice Barrier became Skill: Dimensional Rift

New Skill: Illusion Barrier, levl 1, 10 mp
Illusion barriers can take any shape or form. The default form is a circle. Changing its structure from the default may increase its costs.
You can create anything within the barrier, as long as you can imagine it.
Note: You can only gain xp or any form of experience in barriers in which you do not gain advantages above others.
Note: You can only gain new skills in barriers which were designed to follow all abyssal laws for barriers
Note: You can only gain positive status effects or positive influence from a barrier for the time you spend in that barrier. You will lose all such things once you leave it, and consequences dealt by those status effects or influences will be undone.

John nodded at this as he was happy with his new barrier skill. Even now it was already way better than the old one, if alone for the lower price.

"Awesome, what kind of barrier did you make?" Henrietta asked him. Her hand was raised against something he couldn't see, and as she noticed him looking she just smiled. "I ripped a hole in your barrier, to protect the one I made for the elven gender fluid thingy you brought along. Two barriers can never overlap. If they would, the weaker one collapses and gets absorbed into the stronger one. So I had to prevent you from completing his task for him." He nodded, a bit disappointed that she was strong enough to just poke holes in his barrier like that.

"Well, I made one where I think we could enjoy ourself in. And before you ask, no. It is not a bedroom. Come on, try it out." He made an inviting gesture towards his barrier and she seemed interested. Seemingly convinced, Henrietta stepped forward and entered his trap.

As John followed her, he closed his eyes for half a second, praying that all went well. As he created the barrier, he had focussed on multiple things, or at least tried to. He hoped that his first barrier had all of them fulfilled. And as he opened his eyes, he saw at least one of them already confirmed.

"John... what the fuck?" Henriettas eyes went wide as she looked around while John just smiled and enjoyed the view. "What is going on here? What did you do?" But John had no intention of telling her that just now. The image alone was speaking for itself. On the right side of his, he saw Vanessa Hawthorne currently sitting on Layklés face, having one hand reached down and two fingers in the wide spread pussy of said succubus. A bit behind the two of them they could see another Layklé currently sucking on the dick of what looked like June Summers, but with blonde hair... and a dick.

Right in front of them was Paw, facing away from them, but John was quite certain to recognize her ass. Even if it was bright red, considering that Ashthyn was currently spanking her, while sitting on her back. And this Ashthyn was absolutely female. That was given away by the fact that first, she was naked and had at least D cup boobs, as well as widely spread legs and a glistering pussy in between them.

What Henrietta was staring at though, was the scene on the left. She was looking at herself, currently on her knees. Next to her was John's mom, Brenda Newman, and both of them were sharing the joy of sucking on the dick off... another Henrietta, only that this one was extra equipped.

"Am I having a threeway with myself and some bimbo there? What the hell John?" Ouch. John did not plan to reveal to her who that was, but rather just wait for the moment she would find that out herself. He made a mental note to make sure these two would meet soon.

"Do you think I would just strip now and start some kind of orgy with you? Well, newsflash, first, I wont. And second, even if I would, it wouldn't get you anything, and neither me. If you engage with something in a barrier that was only made by your fantasy and not by the abyssal void, it can't affect the living. So even if I get the most mind shattering..." And finally it was Johns time to cut her off for once.

"I know, I know. I didn't get them so they could fuck you good. No, but if I get that correct, if I were to fuck you in here, it would still count, right?" He turned to her and smiled.

"As a matter of fact, it would. And given all the things you installed in this bad boy, I am quite certain she would not be able to stop you from fucking her so hard, Gaia herself would feel the thrusts." A male voice was stating from behind John, forcing him to spin around as if he was stung by a beetle.