6

The singular thing that inspired Jack to join an order and become a Paladin was an image he saw of a buff, Fabio-looking man in heavy armor surrounded by scantily clad women. He had no reservations over this. He wanted to be the heavily armored tank with his own stable of heal-sluts. He even joined an order, without any reservations, that was most likely to make that happen. It was a notoriously stratified order where men were fighters and tanks and women were specifically healers. He had no issue with that, obviously, because he was male. He had just gone through some initial trials and tests to get in. He had not actually been inducted into the inner circle. Not yet. That was what his current meeting was for.

“You know how this order works, right?” Selene asked jack with a raised brow. She was theoretically a high ranking member of the order, but she was a healer for one of the main men, which meant she was basically a glorified assistant to him. She seemed skeptical, and a little hesitant about him for some reason. Jack exuded a very particular energy. She was familiar with it. It was her own energy when she joined. She felt so nostalgic seeing him in the room standing before her all confident and clueless. She got a rush from it.

“Of course!” Jack said enthusiastically.

She stared at him. Selene still had to go through the motions. “Can you give me a rundown on what you think this is?”

Jack smirked. “Well... From what I understand you let the girls do the healing and the guys do the important tasks. Right?” It was Jack's turn to feel a rush as Selene giggled.

“Yeah... That is more or less what it's about. But do you know HOW this works?”

“I guess I don't know the details.” Jack admitted.

“Hmhm.” Selena nodded slowly. Her arms crossed under her impressive chest as she inspected Jack. He was in a set of gear that he had bought with real money. Though, it was a modest set. She motioned to herself.

“I am a heal-slut.” Just hearing the attractive woman say that was enough to arouse Jack. He gulped and hung on her words.

“Oh, if you are interested in being inducted could you strip out of that silly armor, please? We provide everything for our members.” She asked offhandedly. Without even questioning it Jack began to strip. Selene lifted a finger to her lips and smiled coyly.

“You... You're sure you know what this is? What is going to happen?”

“Yeah! I'm good. I'm definitely into it!” He said excitedly, kicking off the last pieces of his gear.

“Oh... You're into it, huh?” Selene held back a moan before continuing. She knew based on his attitude that he had no idea, but that just made it better for her and the Order. They were a very specific organization that preyed of and propped up very specific types. They nurtured everyone into two hyper efficient roles that could best serve the player-lead government they supported.

“I am a heal-slut. My duty is to my tank. No one else. Understand?” She moved over to a closet as she spoke and rifled through it. She glanced back over her shoulder.

“Because our Order is fairly successful I am permitted to offer you free purity levels they are-”

“Are those like corruption levels?” Jack interjected.

Selene stopped abruptly and turned around. “How do you know about those?” She asked suspiciously.

“My friend got caught up in a scam because she's dumb.” He offered frankly.

“Oh.” Selena relaxed.

“Send her our way. We love dumb girls that can't help but get into trouble. It's kind of our thing.” She stared at Jack very obviously as she said that. She loved that he had no idea what was going on, still.

He waved a hand dismissively. “Oh. I don't think she'd be interested. She's already hooked up with a guy.

“What a lucky gal.” She winked.

“Alright... Anyway, moving on. Are you interested in the free purity levels? They are like Corruption levels but they are granted by good-aligned, high level NPC's instead of the bad aligned ones.”

“I don't know how that alignment stuff works, honestly.”

“Oh! It's pretty basic. In this world we would classify any NPC's that are against the players as bad and any that are in favor good. That's it.”

Jack blinked. “What? So even if you're a shithead, so long as you side with players you're a good guy?”

“Yep.” Selene gave a slight nod. It was a surprisingly insightful take from the man that she had for the most part discounted. Many 'good' NPC's were unabashed shit-heels in their own way. It was an observable and well-known fact of the Dark Continent.

“That's fine.” Jack shrugged.

“Give me the levels.”

“Do you... Want to know what they do?” She questioned. He was making it a bit too easy. If he asked like a smart boy she would have said vaguelly that his stats would be reassigned to maximize the efficiency of his role. It would not be a lie, because he was always going to assume that he was taking on a different role than what he was actually assigned. None of that occurred, however.

“It's free xp. I get stronger. What's there to know?” Jack stated confidently.

Selene covered her mouth and stifled a laugh. “Yeah, so true!” At that point she felt fairly comfortable around Jack, as he showed very little awareness.

“While I get that set up, Jackie, do you know how our partner system works? I can tell by our conversation right now that you are going to be an extremely valuable partner.” Jack gulped as he heard that. Images of scantily-clad heal-sluts flooded his mind. Even if it was just one to start it would be fine by him.

“It's totally fine. I dunno how it works but I'm excited to get started.”

“We put you with someone right away. We place beginner healers with men of the Order. No man should be without a healer in our organization.” She worded things very intentionally to both excite and mislead him.

“You'd think there would be a lot of guys on stand-bye, considering how good the deal is.” Jack observed, unintentionally pointing out a big problem with the great deal he assumed he was getting.

“You'd be surprised.” Selene found the fertility goddess idol that had been left somewhere in the room from the previous induction. The item was a small statuette of an attractive woman with generous breasts and wide hips.

“So what's the job of the man in all this?” Jack asked, since he presumed it was going to be his role.

Selene lifted her head from her prep work. She was a bit surprised by the question but not perturbed at all.

“The men... Well, aside from protection it is the man's duty to properly condition and discipline their heal-slut.”

“Am I going to be told how to do that?” Jack asked. He had no experience with that sort of thing.

Selene exhaled lightly and cocked her head as she tried to think of an answer that would be truthful, while remaining vague enough to obscure what was happening. She was actually quite excited about Jack as a candidate and knew exactly who she wanted to pair him with.

“There is going to be a lot of that, actually. We are going to place you with someone who can tell you exactly what to do and what to think.”

“What was that last part?”

“What to do.” Selene said quickly, moving over to Jack. She shoved the idol into his hands.

“Just concentrate on prayer. It will grant you the power needed to properly join our Order.”

Jack shrugged, hands rolling over the tits on the statue idly. “Alright.” He stopped.

“Uhm, how do I do that?”

Selene smiled sweetly, obscuring what she was rifling through as Jack turned his attention back to her.

“Close your eyes and relax.” She looked up and thought and asked in such a way that he would not refuse.

“Do you mind if I feel over you body as you are praying and leveling?”

Jack gulped. “M-my body?”

“Oh, you know. Your neck... Ankles... Wrists... Your dick.” She added that last and smirked as Jack merely nodded ecstatically.

He closed his eyes tightly and just tried to relax. To his surprise experience started flooding in. Within his character pane two levels were already added in brackets next to his true level. His true level that was decreasing. For each level he gained he lost a true level. All of the points that he had placed carefully to spec into being a fighter and a tank were replaced with points in stats relevant to healing and supporting other characters. Mainly Magic and Mana. The others were kept extremely low. He was drained of basically all of his Strength and Agility. His Reflexes and Body were kept high, surprisingly. But, he was unaware of any of that.

Selene was true to her word. As soon as he relaxed her hands were all over him. She was carefully running her hands up and down his weakening form. As she carefully locked anklets and bracelets around his ankles and wrists respectively, she admired how cute his body became with practically zero muscle. Finally, she caressed his cock and balls, causing him to moan. He had no way of knowing what she was really doing until it was too late. He felt a very hard pinching, followed by a straining.

“O-ow... The hell was that?” He asked.

“Perfection.” Selene stated in almost a moan as she released his cock and stepped back. The process was finished. Jack was level 1 in terms of true levels, but the brackets next to that showed that he was level 14. It was a net gain of 3, but all of the points were split exactly how the Order required. She framed the pensive new Jack between her fingers. A petite blonde with a very flat figure closer to Nyle than his original form, and certainly far from his desired form.

Jack glanced down to see his caged member and began to panic a little. He set aside the statue.

“Th-the hell did you do!?” As he moved forward he felt jingling around his wrists and ankles. They were decorated with gold bangles. To top it off, while looking he noticed his arms were thin and weak and his whole body was smooth.

“I inducted you.” Selene said calmly.

“B-but I'm a guy!”

She giggled and lifted her skirt, showing a very small, uncaged member. It shocked Jack, because Selene was his type. She was extremely curvy, her tits were big and her face was beautiful.

“I mean... Half of us are going to be guys, statistically.” She cocked her head to one side curiously.

“But how do you think each guy would have a full group of heal-sluts if every guy was allowed to have them? Are we just going to give any new guy the keys to the castle? No, of course not.” She finally let him in on the significant issue he had ignored.

Jack clenched his fist weakly and gulped. “S-so... Do I have to work my way up? Is that it?” He was so embarrassed. He did not think he could get scammed so easily. Especially after he laughed at and chided Reyna out of game. He was a lawyer. He was supposed to be smarter than that. He clung to any hope that he had not just been a perfect sucker. There must be a small silver lining, he thought.

Selena laughed. There was not. “Y-yeah? I guess. Every heal-slut gets to move up to the tank role after their service ends...” That was not a rule, but she knew it would never come up. She was like jack at one point, too, so she knew how effective the program was.

Jack breathed a sigh of relief. “O-okay. Well, that's something at least.” He stared at her character pane.

“Do I get my levels back, too?”

“Yeah, sure.” She shrugged. It did not actually matter what she said at this point, she decided.

“Okay. Okay...” He calmed himself down and looked up the items he had on. They were not able to be removed, first of all. When he checked, it popped up that they were locked by a player named 'Clovis.' The bangles were simple items that did nothing but take up a slot. They also apparently stored starter spells. Confirming this, he knew two spells right off the bat. Heal and Cure. The cage apparently had no use. It was a novelty item. That had to be false, because as Jack's cock softened he felt the cage tighten. He finally read the description. It said: 'The Cage shrinks as the member does, eventually enforcing minimum size and restricting all bloodflow while increasing sensitivity.'

“How do I get these off? They take up a valuable slot...” Gear in the game was another layer of scaling aside from level that allowed players to hit above their weight in a lot of cases. Even if his level and stats were wonky, he could've potentially made it better with gear, but he was handicapped by a few of the slots being taken.

“You'll need to talk to Clovis about that.” Selena advised.

“Clovis?”

“He's your partner.” Selena smiled widely.

“Listen... You two should just get to know each other. I will step back. If you need anything you will have to get it through him. My work here is done. Okay?”

Jack gulped. “W-what!? Wait!” She ducked out of the room quickly. Jack felt a low shaking in the room. It was like a minor earthquake.

“The hell is that?” He posed the question to no one in particular because the room was empty. The rumbling grew more and more with each second until the door that Selena left through was thrown open. A large male ducked under the frame. Jack's jaw dropped.

“Clovis?”

“That's me.” The man in question was an 8 foot tall, literal beast of a male. His face was that of a bull and he also carried an impressive set of horns that only just managed to fit through the door frame. He was armored but Jack did not need to see him naked to know that his physique was incredible. The armor itself was unique and shining and heavy and glorious. Clovis was everything Jack wanted to be in the game and more, right off the bat. As he planted one of his hooves down jack felt the room rumble. It told him exactly what the small quake was.

“W-what the fuck!? How are you a Minotaur? I thought there was only elves, humans, dwarves or gnomes?” Jack felt cheated. If he was able to be a literal bull of a man he would have jumped at the opportunity.

Clovis shrugged. “Usually it's an NPC race, but you can alter your body with various forms of alchemy and ritual. It costs a lot in game, but I think it's worth it. How about you?” Clovis stared down at Jack with a confident smile. Despite the situation, Jack could not help but nod.

“Totally worth! Absolutely!” He gushed admiringly.

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