Disappointing outcome

John was ready now for a real challenge and he was eager to finally kill some monsters to get some sweet loot, cash and xp. His reflexes of gaming for years were revved up and he was ready to farm.

His first disappointment was when Moira, which he knew didn't took clothes from her room, put on a tabard she picked up from a weapon rack and covered her body with it. John equipped his combat gear a jeans and hoody combo over his armored briefs and sneakers on his feet. With his saber in hand he stood facing the closest creature.

Training Golem lvl5 construct.
This animated construct will attack if provoked or every target in a 10m radius. It will deactivate if struck twice in all its target areas in less than half an hour.

The creature also had an hp bar but it said 20000hp. John realized that as good an exercise this would be to teach him how to fight in real conditions he would never be able to destroy it and wouldn't receive xp or loot by facing it.

Still he had to face it and check if he could manage to beat it using the rules provided. It looked like a boss fight in a video game, there were red patches on its head, heart, back and a few other places.

John entered its aggro area and let him charge. It looked like a fat crash test dummy, artificial but less slender than the modern equivalent. The construct wielded a mace whose end looked like the training blades from earlier, as did its hands.

John was able to Dodge the first strike and used it to hit the mark on its back, but the victory was short lived. While John had kept his eyes on the mace the machine backhanded him with its free hand.

It sent John flying backward and falling on the grass. Contrary to Moira it hadn't held back even one bit. John had even lost his only weapon in his fall. The construct showed no sign of slowing or stopping and walked towards him.

Seeing his only weapon on the ground behind his adversary John got up and ran away. Sadly once provoked getting out of the radius didn't reset the creature. Being that far gave him a little time to think. There were 5 spots on the creature and he was supposed to hit them twice each in 20 minutes.

Could it be that simple? John quickly realized that this training ground was designed for knights and paladins, all melee fighters. He had the skillset of a mage despite his rogue inspired abilities and melee should be a last resort for him.

He observed closely, focusing on the 4 targets he could see and used Magic Projectile on them.

Each spell summoned two magic sparks that exploded on their targets. The red circles turned green once hit twice.

By chance the construct was rather slow, or John was pretty fast, that was up for debate. He let the creature approach and ran around it, just fast enough that before it managed to face him again he was able to see its back target and use a spell on it.

The construct stopped instantly its head dropping. Without surprise John didn't get any rewards for that. The machine was probably programmed not to kill and equipped with training weapons, his Gamer powers wouldn't recognize it as a real enemy.

"Congratulations, but you should have tried harder with your saber. When you'll run out of mana you'll need to use it in a real fight," said Moira.

"This won't work for me. You know my powers are game based, I don't get any reward and won't improve while fighting those. It's because I don't really beat them and that they don't try to kill me I guess. Thanks for everything but I think I want to create a barrier of my own and face whatever will be inside," explained John.

"I guess it is logical that you have such a feature or you would get more powerful doing things which are not real combat otherwise. It would be too powerful if you could get some experience from other things," she agreed, proud of having pierced the secret behind it. Of course she was unaware that because of his nature he had gained a lot more experience from stealing things and having sex than fighting so far.

He went to pick his weapon off the ground and put it back into his inventory.

"Can you get us out of here please?" he asked. She had regained her composure but he knew that she was still really horny. He had plans for her, sure she would help protect him from the psychos lurking in the shadows that would otherwise try to capture or kill him, but her situation (one he caused himself) made her need him. He knew that between her natural libido, the effects of her powers, the lack of release and a parsimonious application of Arouse spells, she would soon be ready to accept pretty much anything to be unlocked from that belt.

She raised her hand and everything around him broke into pieces and they were back to her bedroom.

"I'm sorry, but I can't drive you back home. I have a meeting with some other members of the Order later. There is a tramway station two blocks east of my house though," she explained as she was looking for clothes.

"I don't mind, I'll probably stop by the park to train alone," he told her, walking to the door of her bedroom.

"Wait! When do you think you'll be able to unlock me again?" she asked him before he left.

"I can't know for sure, probably a few days, but I don't know when we will be able to do it. I have to spend some time with my girlfriend, I have a special project to finish for Miss Summers' class, I have to train and I am busy all of Saturday. I think it will be fine Sunday I guess, if not it will have to wait until next week," he told her, leaving out a lot of details both about the activities which would occupy his time and the fact he could unlock her at anytime he wanted.

In the end he thought as he was going out of the big Manor, he had gained two nice skills to train with but no loot or new item and barely any xp from all of that. The most encouraging aspect was his hold on Moira, even if the quest he had received was totally useless. Having to get her pregnant to get her power and losing them the next time he would have sex was a joke. But if he ever needed to put her out of commission in case his relationship with her order changed it was good knowledge to have.

He walked to the tramway station, trying to decide what to do next. He could go to the city and train his various skills on people to gain money, items and have fun. Or he could hunt for materials to craft more equipment. Of course he could find a quiet place to create a barrier and hunt monsters inside, hoping they would be weak enough for him to kill them.