Harvest Dungeon - 39 Chapter 39

My head hurt, a lot, when I finally woke up. Worse than any hangover I had experienced in college, and some of those had been legendary, or at least the party that caused them had been.

It took me a few moments to get my bearings, thankfully the ache behind my eyes began to fade a bit with every passing moment. When It finally decreased to a dull throb I was able to manage a thought. I had a lot of information flooding my mind, sadly most of it was more theoretical knowledge than useful, but it would give me a direction to pursue later on.

I turned my head to look around. I stared at the room around me stupidly for several long moments before I was able to place it as my new bedroom. I was alone, which I thought was strange given Vanessa’s new attachment to me, but at the same time I thought it was a blessing. I was not in the right state of mind to deal with emotions, others or my own.

Another few moments and my mind cleared a bit more, I was able to piece together the meeting I had with the Overseer and my mother. As I did I started to panic. “Status.” I said aloud.

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Name: Jason

Level: 4

Available Points: 5

Strength: 15

Agility: 16

Vitality: 16

Fortitude: 15

Intelligence: 26

Wisdom: 26

Perception: 25

Dexterity: 16

Luck: 18

Charm: 14

Bloodline: Carbuncle 3%

Traits:

Mana Sight

Resistant to negative status effects

Abilities:

Doubler(Unattached)

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I sighed in relief seeing that I hadn’t actually reached level five. Looking at my stats I pondered where to put those extra five points I was ignoring, or forgot about, depending on perspective. I noticed that my stats were higher than they should be, some new classifications had been added, then there was the carbuncle bloodline my mother had mentioned, and an ability I didn’t have before, one Vanessa was supposed to have. So why did I have it now?

Well I had been advised, or told, to ask my sprite. It sounded like a better idea with every moment.

I crawled out of bed, somewhat happy to find that I was still wearing my boxers then decided that I needed a shower before I started to interrogate anyone.

Walking into the bathroom I took a moment to admire it. I hadn’t checked it out before I went to bed, it had been pretty low on my priority list with Vanessa following me to bed.

It was fairly large, maybe even as big as the initial restroom shack had been, it had everything I could think of too want, a large tub big enough to fit two, three if we were willing to be close, a separate shower, and a large mirror over the sink so I could watch anything that happened in the room. The toilet was in its own little closet, which was fine with me, I didn’t have that kind of fetish.

Once the hot water hit me I wanted nothing more than to stay in the shower and bask in the warmth, but I made myself keep it quick. I found the soap and shampoo and cleaned up quickly. While I hadn’t reached level five yet, I was reminded that I still had things to do before I leveled up. I had already had a few ideas before, but the information I had received from Lilian gave me some new ideas. I was eager to try them out, and get the first floor finished. I also remembered that we wanted to expand a bit more, which meant I might have to redesign the floor a bit, let alone new floors. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the other floors, but I could ask the girls what they thought, and we needed to talk to the company.

Thinking about the company made me think about Candice and the Overseer’s parting comment. I paused in my washing as I turned that thought over in my mind. Candice had only ever been my big sister, the idea of being engaged to her was ludicrous. I was pretty sure it was a joke to rile me up like telling me I was a level five already, but I had some doubts on that. The Overseer, while being a bit eccentric, didn’t seem like a bad person. I could see the level five joke being a warning, I doubt I was far from leveling, and we weren’t ready.

As for Candice? I had no idea what to think. Then again I wasn’t sure if it mattered. She was back on earth while I was here, and even if that somehow changed, it was still our decision, not our parents, on whether we wanted that kind of a relationship.

Feeling a bit better I finished cleaning up then left the shower. I was greeted by Zephirah floating in the center of the bathroom a fresh towel and clothes folded up on the counter.

“Not bad.” Zephirah commented with a smile as she looked me over hungrily.

“Want to give it a try? I could probably drown you right now.” I told the sprite grabbing the towel.

“Hard pass, I have no desire to swim in it.” Zephirah told me rolling her eyes.

I snorted at the image that comes to my mind then I passed it to the sprite making her grimace. “Pervert.” she accused.

I didn’t deny it just smiled.

“So how was your meeting?” Zephirah asked.

“How did you know about that?” I asked.

“Mentally bonded, I could feel your emotions Jason, bit stronger than what I usually get when you dream.” she replied.

I nodded, “Met with the Overseer and my mother.” I replied remembering what the Overseer had said about my mother being more than a fragment of her mind left inside of me. I wanted to believe that more than anything I had been told. “Any idea what the Overseer looks like?” asked curiously.

“No idea.” Zephirah replied. “Was she hot?”

“Incredibly, though I do wonder about that habit of taking the form of the most attractive woman her guest can imagine.” I commented.

“Not just women Jason.” Zephirah told me.

“Huh?” I asked confused.

“Not all of the dungeon masters the Overseer speaks to are male. While there are fewer of them, there are also women, and they would imagine their version of the most handsome men.” she told me.

I frowned then shuddered. “Weird.” I commented on realizing the Overseer’s hobby was odder than I imagined.

“That doesn’t even take into account the non humans. What do you think that old wolf would consider to be the most beautiful, because I doubt it would be a human woman.” Zephirah added.

“Got it.” I said as I tried to push those images from my mind. Suddenly I felt I needed to get back in the shower. “What did Lilian decide?” I asked trying to change the subject.

“She stayed and became my minion.” Zephirah replied.

“We are going to have to discuss that eventually.” I reminded her half heartedly.

“Later, it has little effect on us at the moment, just knowing that I would prefer to consume most of the others of the mana races should do for now.” Zephirah told me.

I nodded, I had enough on my plate right now, I didn’t need more. I finished drying off then dressed as I contemplated my next question. I had several and wasn’t sure where to start. Zephirah floated near me silently making me decide on my own despite the fact that she could read everything I was thinking.

“Ass.” I grumbled.

Zephirah chuckled but continued to remain silent.

“How did my stats increase so much?” I asked.

“A champion perk, and a bit of natural growth.” Zephirah replied. “You get five points that match your strength for each champion, and I think you grew two points from your own efforts.”

“But Seth is gone.” I pointed out.

“Doesn’t matter, you gain it from making him a champion not for having him as a champion.” Zephirah told me. “Though it is expensive remove the champion status without reason, so don’t think that you can trade out the champions to give your stats a boost.”

“Doubler, how do I have it now?” I asked next.

“Another perk of champions.” Zephirah replied quickly.

I narrowed my eyes as I pulled my pants on. “That is why you wanted her as a champion.” I stated.

“Yep.” Zephirah agreed.

I remembered how anxious she had been when I gave Vanessa a chance to back out of becoming a champion and her relief when Vanessa accepted anyways. She was after this ability the whole time. “How does that work?” I asked.

“Abilities are special skills that people can be born with and don’t need anything special for you to have them. In theory there are all kinds of abilities out there that people don’t even know they have because they have no way to use them.” Zephirah explained.

“Huh?” I asked.

“Look at your own case, you have had doubler since Vanessa became a champion, but you never knew so you didn’t assign it to anything making you unable to use it. It’s similar for other people with abilities. In Vanessa’s case she had a racial trait that it bonded to immediately probably an accident or stray thought when splitting allowed her to discover the ability, once discovered she would have been able to subconsciously know how to use it. Think about doubler now, don’t you have an idea of how to set it to something so you can use it?” Zephirah asked.

She was right, I could assign it to a body part or even my whole body allowing me to double the number of them I had. I would have more trouble controlling it than Vanessa did, but that was something I could cure with practice. “So you wanted me to be able to have extra bodies?” I asked.

Zephirah nodded eagerly her eyes shining, “How else are you going to be able to satisfy a large harem?” she asked me in return.

“You are really obsessed with the harem.” I stated.

“Sounds like fun.” Zephirah replied.

I sighed but moved on, I wasn’t going to set doubler to my body, after getting the information about Rune Lords I had a better idea on how to use it.

“What about Carbuncle?” I asked.

“Your bloodline?” Zephriah asked.

“Is there another kind?” I asked.

“Be clearer with your questions.” Zephirah told me.

“YOU CAN READ MY MIND!” I told her angrily.

“Yes I can.” Zephirah replied then was silent again.

I glared at the sprite then stopped myself and took a deep breath to calm down. After a few moments I was able to get some ideas as to what was going on. While Zephirah was a jokester I couldn’t see her deliberately riling me up like this. “Are we being observed?” I asked.

“Yes.” Zephriah replied.

“Is it the Overseer?” I asked.

“Yes.” Zephriah replied.

“Is she limiting what you can say because I thought her hobby was weird?” I asked.

“Are you assuming the Overseer is a woman?” Zephirah asked.

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“No, but she appeared to me as a woman, so I will use that until she appears to me as a man.” I replied.

“Not the best logic.” Zephirah pointed out.

I shrugged. “As for my question?” I asked.

“No.” Zephirah replied.

“Doesn’t care about my opinion, then she is just being a pain in the ass.” I commented.

Zephirah flinched.

“What?” I asked the sprite.

“Could you possibly not risk irritating the Overseer?” she asked.

“I could, but she didn’t seem that anal when I spoke to her, and she seemed pretty friendly with my mother, not so friendly as to help us out, but friendly enough not to throw a childish fit over calling it what it is.” I replied.

Zephirah flinched then seemed to look up at the ceiling for a few moments like she was getting a message. “She said that you are worse than your parents, and she isn’t being a pain in the ass, she is just curious, and all information about bloodlines are limited like this even if she isn’t paying attention.”

“Fine, my mistake, she is just a pervert who wants to watch an old friend’s kid take a shower.” I replied.

“What is it with you humans having to test your luck?” Zephirah complained.

“Just need to know what I can and can’t do, no idea how long she is going to be bored enough to watch over me, seemed like she had been doing it for a while already.” I told Zephirah. “For all I know she has some kind of godly pervert ability that lets her constantly monitor all of the contestants in her trials all at once.”

Zephirah froze in the air. “She was already watching you?” she asked.

I nodded. “Irritated that my abilities had been hidden when I was evaluated to see which tier I should be put into.” I replied.

A spike of fear ran through Zephirah then she fainted and fell out of the air. Only a quick reaction from me kept her from landing on the floor. “Huh, seems pretty scared of the Overseer. Not a bad idea given how strong she must be, but is that all?” I asked aloud wondering a bit if the Overseer might answer me. I got nothing, seems like I would have to wait until the sprite woke up.