Planning ahead

The very second he left the barrier the missing notification popped up.

Level up - Contract, Level 2

Your benefits gained from contracts have been increased.

You are now able to see the status of your contractors in the skill description.

Well, good to know that this was a level up feature. Since he never got the level 1 version to try, he had just assumed that to be normal. Still, he would have to ask Henrietta about these delays tomorrow.

What couldn't wait till tomorrow, though, was a hardly needed thinking session. Now that his inventory was put in order and he also gained a fighting style, it was time for him to grind it. Too bad, it required him to enslave people or monster for this. So what other abilities would he need? He had tons of them by now, yet only very few were above the starting level.

There were 7 groups of skills he had, excluding Gamer's Luck, as that didn't seem to fit anywhere. Sexual, Social, Physical, Modifiers, Barrier related and information gathering. That was how he dubbed them. Next thing was to find out which would be important to him.

While he considered sexual skills to be most likely useless in fight, he had to consider that he would be unable to learn fighting skills. So maybe charming his opponnents... but wouldn't social be better for that? Or maybe he just had to use the modifiers to upgrade the basis skills. Or both?

Another idea would be to skill up the barrier and just create the monsters the way he wanted them, already willing to obey. Or possibly leveling up the informational skills, so he could **** them? That would most likely work better on humans than monsters...

Lost in these thoughts, John stepped back inside his house and went to his room, considering every possible route.

The next morning

"John" a soft voice moaned. Almost too silent to wake up from. "John, please..." it was hardly more than a whisper. He opened his eyes and only now noticed that he must have fallen asleep after thinking about his options.

"Ahh, help me." A lustfull moan came from his left. As he turned his head he saw a really tempting view. Laura was standing there in the nude, her back pressed against the wall, her legs spread afar wide. Or at least he assumed them to be spread, he couldn't see them, because his view was obstructed by a head of brown locks. This was not his mothers hair, so who...

A look down the unknown womans body revealed her identity to him.