three out of 4 weeks done.

John finally left his room (after waiting for Sylph to calm down). The moment he opened his door the tempest elemental stormed outside in a flash, having changed back into a smaller form. ‘I will have to look into exactly what she can do now, later,’ John thought as he watched after the slightly crackling streak of green vanishing around a corner.

During that sexual encounter just now, she had shown control over electricity and air moisturization on top of her usual wind powers. The Skill Evolution did say that she would have basic control over all air types, but what that meant in its entirety remained to be seen.

“Yo, yo, yo, that is…HEY THIS SUPER UNFAIR, you cannot have fun, while I am having fun, without me!” he heard Sylph’s voice. ‘What now?’ he wondered and entered the living room. He was met with the sight of a fiery red body writhing on top of Aclysia as she and Salamander pleasured each other in a 69 position. Gnome was there too, masturbating while sitting on the floor right next to the action.

The stone elemental froze when John stepped into the scene. “Um, uh, we were just, uhm,” she tried to stammer her way out of this, she failed, her naked form and the two girls on the couch in the same state of undress left no room for interpretation. “You were too horny and decided to take matters into your own hands, weren’t you?” John asked, his dick trying its best to take hold of the situation here and go another round.

Sadly, as awesome as the sight was, John didn’t feel like he could waste any more time on this. This would have to be reserved for better times. Therefore, he ignored the tugging in his pants and instead went ahead and petted Gnome, who was in a state of wordless blushing, until she calmed down. Salamander and Aclysia took the situation much more calmly, or well, the latter of them did. Aclysia did sent him a message asking to wait until she had climaxed while Salamander was so in the heat of the moment that John doubted that she noticed that he was even there.

‘Well, that is the reality of a growing harem, I guess?’ John thought as he went outside with Gnome, who had dressed herself, Sylph staying behind to spy on the situation some more. “You know, this actually isn’t that bad, look at them go, that is hot, not as hot as you, Johnny, but still pretty good. Look at them go – gogo. What a silly word go, go, go!” Sylph said, watching the two eating each other out, with a perverted expression.

“So, I am officially no longer the number 1 pervert in this group,” John said once the two of them went outside, “and I am not sure how to feel about that…” “Wha-? You are trying to say Sylph is now worse than you?” Gnome asked, wrapping her arms around her as if to protect herself from some invisible molester, “this is worrying.” “I don’t think it is that bad, besides you seemed to be happy to watch that just now,” John teased. Gnome followed that with a wave of hasty gestures, “I, uhm, I-i-i-I was just caught up in the moment, yes, yes! I would never do something like that on my own. It is not like I regularly do something like that when you sleep or anything like i-,“ Gnome quickly sealed her mouth with her hands.

“Interesting, so when you masturbate, do you think of me or somebody else?” John wanted to know. Gnome just blushed deeper, kept her hands in place. ‘Please drop it?’ she requested over the mental connection, her voice a pitiful squeaking. “Okay,” John obliged, but he would keep this in mind for later teasing.

Gnome relaxed and they stood there waiting. “One more week, huh?” the stone elemental then said, having calmed. “Yes,” John affirmed, his thoughts circling around the same thing. There was only a week left until this relative safety came to an end, he would have to face Thana. He was now level 63, 25 levels higher then when he had started this grind. His progress had slowed considerably but he was several times stronger due the advancement in skills he had made. The evolution of three of his elemental had increased his combat strength extremely, not even thinking about what Sylph would be able to do. Next level he would unlock Endurance 100 and with it the synergy bonuses for Strength and Agility, so that would be another power boost. His Stats were all around better thanks to the World Ender set items.

And despite all of that he was not confident at all. He remembered how Thana had taken out Copernicus with playful ease, and the solar feline had been level 76. The strength of his abilities made John able to punch somewhat over his weight but he had no idea how strong Thana really was in the first place or how she fought, all he had seen of her was an overwhelming display of raw power. He wasn’t confident, he was afraid.

He felt a liquid hand connect to his left one and turned to see Undine. ‘No fear,’ she spoke into his thoughts. That was easier said than done but the calm of her thoughts spread partially to his own and so he relaxed the tiniest bit. “Undine, I…” he wanted to say something but the door flew open.

“I will not, Sally!” he heard Sylph shout as she flew outside. “Why not though?” Salamander asked, similarly small. John was surprised to see them at the same height in their ‘flight’ form. “Cause, I don’t wanna, is that not reason enough? I don’t wanna, I do not,” the tempest elemental spoke, her flower petal wings beating as quickly as a humming-bird's behind her back.

Aclysia also joined the party, “I hope the earlier display was to your liking, master,” she said. “Well, yeah, was it your idea?” “Affirmative,” the artificial guardian answered and turned to the bickering duo. “Salamander has been asking Sylph to change into her bigger form, who has declined,” she informed John about the subject of this particular fight.

“I don’t feel like it!” Sylph shouted and folded her arms. “Why though? I mean you have gotten pretty sexy now -I was never a fan of that armour thing you wore- so Sylphie show me your body in full glory!” Salamander demanded. “Oh, well, if you say it like that,” Sylph, being flattered instead of realizing that she was being played, answered, “I mean, yeah, okay, here, look upon my new hot bod!”

Sylph grew into her bigger, but still pretty small, form. Salamander burst out laughing, “AHAHAHAHA, you are still so fucking tiny!” “Don’t call me tiny!” Sylph demanded, her voice accompanied by a gust of wind that carried Salamander away. The blaze elemental just kept cackling as she tumbled through the air, landing a few feet away in the grass and rolling around, having changed into her own bigger form somewhere along the way.

Salamander was laughing so hard that she lost control over her heat and actually scorched the ground she was laughing on. Or maybe it was a completely conscious decision, John had no idea. As she calmed down she got up and walked over to Sylph, who gave her older sister an angry glare. “Well, guess you are at a good height to give blow jobs while standing,” Salamander ridiculed the tempest elemental, standing tall above her with a cocky grin. “You tricked me, apologize!” Sylph demanded and puffed her cheeks up when Salamander instead started patting her head. “Sorry, I can’t hear you down there,” she apologized for something else entirely, putting a hand next to her left knife ear, “can you repeat that, little Sylph?”

The tempest elemental's own elven ears twitched and she clenched her fists, “I am not amused, not in the slightest, this is the opposite of amusing, you are making me mad, silly Sally, silly, dumb, mean Sally. I will smite you!” “Pff, with what? Gonna fan my flames with some more wind? Like that’s workrkrkrkrkrkrkr,” Salamander was shocked to learn of Sylph’s new ability to control lightning as the hand connected to her sisters head now made way for a wave of electricity. Salamander’s body tensed as the energy set her own plasma into disarray, achieving a similar effect to humans touching high voltage. Only when Sylph stopped did the blaze elemental keel over backwards, saving herself from an uncomfortable landing by shaking her head and changing forms mid-fall.

“What was that?” she wanted to know, “the fuck was that?!” “So, to inform you all,” John intervened, before Sylph could make this quick explanation into a self-glorifying twenty minute monologue, “Sylph actually had a stronger evolution than the two of you, Gnome, Salamander, she either jumped directly to Tier 3 or some kind of Tier 2.5, I will have to read deeper into that once we saved Jane.” “That is bullshit!” Salamander complained to John, “why did she have a better evolution? That makes no fucking sense, you make no fucking sense, this is fucked up, I demand a retry for my own!” “Don’t hate the player hate the game,” John shrugged it off, nothing he could do about it. Salamander was left speechless.

“What exactly can she do now?” Gnome wanted to know, she didn’t look as offended by this as Salamander, more curious all things considered. “Good question, Sylph, show us what you can do now,” John furthered the question. “Kay, so I can do this,” she pointed at Salamander and there was a small spark of electricity, this one wasn’t nearly enough to hurt the blaze elemental. “Oh, haha, Sylph,” Salamander spat out and distanced herself, “rain on somebody else’s parade.” “Yeah, I can do that too, good idea, Sally!” Sylph said and struck a pose, her finger now raised to the sky. A cloud formed over her hand, “I have some weather control now, isn’t this cool?” The cloud started pouring down in a local monsoon that drenched Sylph to the bone. This was obviously not intended as Sylph started to make hasty movements, “Ehm, uhm, urgh, how do I turn this off? Maybe If I put some more energy into it, it will…” a lightning strike, made by herself, struck Sylph causing her to yelp in surprise. Well, at least Salamander had something to laugh again. “Clumsy airhead,” she commented as everyone waited for Sylph’s head to stop spinning. “Eh, uhm, so, uh, I can also do the usual!” the tempest elemental finally announced and threw out her arm, John could not directly see or feel the ensuing attack but he saw the grass being pressed to the ground by the oppressive wind Sylph had just summoned.

“So, lightning and some rain as well as your old powers,” John concluded, “although the latter are, expectedly, stronger. Anything else?” “Nu-uh, do not think so, maybe, maybe not, I can do some funny stuff now though, look at this!” Sylph hyped everyone up and opened her eyes wildly. Nothing happened, “…uhm, I think I am out of mana,” she then said. “Sylph!” Gnome said sternly, “You should keep track of your mana more carefully.” “Says the girl that mindlessly threw spikes at me!” Sylph countered. “I mean…that was…” Gnome stammered, “Just…THAT WAS YOUR FAULT FOR TEASING ME!” “Maybe she can do it if you believe in her Gnome, come on, do it with me, EY EY OOOH!” Salamander teased the stone elemental.

“Y-y-y-y-y-y-you are awful!” Gnome cried and hid behind Aclysia. “Save me!” she begged, “Do not bully Gnome, Salamander…” “Thank you!” “…that is master’s right.” “NO-hoooooo,” Gnome sunk to the ground and rocked back and forth in a foetal position, “why is everyone mean to me-eeeee?!” “Cause you are so adorable when we do it,” John explained, causing Gnome to give him a pouty, slightly teary-eyed glance. “Why can I not be adorable when you not bully me?” “You are, you are just extra adorable when you look like this,” he stated. Gnome sniffed and mumbled something flattered.

“Anyhow, with that out of the way, Undine, I wanted to talk to you.” The mostly silent water elemental looked at John with anticipation following these words. John kneeled down so that they could speak face to face. “I know that what happened in the first week must have been really painful for you and that I have waited so long for me to want to make things between us clear again…” even bringing this up unleashed a rage inside Undine that pressed down on John’s every thought just like her calmness had earlier. Against the power of her emotions he was nothing more than a sailor stirring a suddenly stormy sea. “…but I am willing to make amends now,” the sea calmed ever so little, with every word he spoke, “I ask for your forgiveness and whatever it takes for you to give it to me, I will oblige,” ‘Would you forsake, Rave for my sake? Would you kill one whom you love for me? Do not spout empty phrases, John Newman,’ her words crashed like waves into his thoughts and exposed his lies, ‘Say what you truly want I will state my demands in return.’

John clenched his teeth, he did not want to say the truth, not because it was ugly but because it was selfish. ‘Say it, I know anyhow,’ Undine urged him. ‘I want you to forgive me so I can evolve you without risk and have more power when saving Jane,’ he answered.

The turbulent sea became a silent pond, “Honesty about your intention, this is all I could have ever asked,” Undine said in her crystal-clear voice, “If you want to live in the peace of the ebb you need to face the mindless advancement of the flood.” “Is that your lesson for me? Honesty?” he asked. The water elemental shook her head, “That is what I expect of you, my lesson is different. Let us fight the demons, Gaia told me she has prepared something for us on the tenth floor.”

John furrowed his eyebrows. That actually sounded not that great to him. However, every time Gaia had thrown something into his way it had worked out for him in the end. “Okay,” he nodded, “Then we now go there.”