The Witch Tamer, Book 1
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I push him over the edge after twisting around fast and coming from behind! His eyes got wide, when he sees what's about to happen. It's already set in motion.
I feel regret over it, but its me or him. I have no other choice, and he's already followed me through dozens of halls and rooms, showing me that he won't let me go.
He screams but dropped his weapon.
CHOMP!
Whoa!
That thing was on level 1?!
In the pit, some huge ass snaked the size of a building just came by and swallowed him whole after he'd hit the ground, mostly dead.
My loot was stolen because there's no way I can retrieve what gear and belongings he had.
Crap.
Wait...
I realized he'd dropped something.
A cell phone?
And its enchanted to work in the dungeon?
This I have to study. If I can see how his enchant works I can copy it.
The last text to him is from an unknown sender with the phrase, 'text me when the job is done. I've already given you a bonus beyond the payment required. Make sure to show proof, and a picture of his face after its done.'
A chill went through me.
The text before that one said, 'Is it done yet? Did you get him yet?'
Whoever this guy had replied with, 'Kind of impatient aren't you? Don't worry, I'll take care of it like I said I would.'
Darn.
There's no names or anything in this enchanted cell phone. I can't see anything to tell who he was or who sent him.
...
I called Melanie to pick me up. By then its almost 7:40 PM.
She'd been pretty worried, I can tell.
"Your mom is mad. She wants you to call her," she said.
"Sure."
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"N-nothing."
"Bull shit. I can read it on your face. You look pale," she said.
She's suddenly hugging me in the truck cab after I'd shut the door. She'd also hugged me ferociously too. "I can tell that's not true. You look shaken up. Something's wrong. You can tell me."
"Some ass tried to get me."
I told her the rest while she's driving.
But she got really mad, while driving so I had to calm her down. (When she gets mad she drives faster than she should.)
8:12 PM
Pulled over and more marital intimacy with Melanie.
Then finished driving home.
8:51 PM
Late dinner.
I realized I was so shaken up that I didn't even sell my loot. But I got an agility +2 ring as loot from a slime. But it probably came off the hand of an adventurer.
Nice find, I thought.
8:59 PM
Dad came to talk to me, after I'd wolfed down my food, almost choking on it.
He said that I need to be careful tomorrow, because someone threatened him at work.
What?!
Weird...
Was this related to that?
His warning is a bit late.
I can't tell him what happened, because he'll take it too far. And I don't want him to take out someone's family or breadwinner because of it, and the rest of them go hungry.
Because he felt bad about it, dad agreed to have someone come train Simone as in some self defense and bodyguard skills. But that it will take some time.
"Yes!" we heard someone yelp from nearby.
Then Simone had to blush because she was caught (too happily) eavesdropping on dad and I talking. Dad didn't mind since he somehow got that she was trying to be close to me. (Its scary how good he is at reading people.) And I think he actually knew she was there. (Is that why he'd volunteered to teach her, instead of Melanie?)
Then he summarized our conversation, patting my back, before getting ready to leave. "Don't worry son. Anyone who messes with us, I'll exterminate their whole town." He smiled.
Jeez...
That scared me even more.
I need to get away from this family. But what do I do?!
Chapter 19
A couple days passed.
Naturally, every day I'm trying to push up my training, stats, and any available advantages given to me. Again, things were going like before; rest a day, do a dungeon, assuming I didn't get my health bar tore up.
We pursue controlled monster hunting in the Tower of Babel dungeon, where possible by trying to be aware of what we can do, and going to spots that only monsters that are predictable tend to show up.
But I'm still sticking to the low level floors. The first floor mostly specifically because I don't have a lot of power yet. Nor do I have a heal skill yet.
I still want my health regen stat to be a bit higher. But that's what its like for humans. And recognizing that, shows how much of an edge monsters have over people. And why humans have to mostly live in towns with very few exceptions.
I was laying low also because I didn't know where the dungeon assassin came from. Or if there would be more like him.
Plus, to make it worse my family was having a dispute with a branch family and another clan entirely. This means every topic at the dinner table was about war.
I hear this from my family while trying to stay silent and out of it. I have to be very careful that they don't trick me into taking sides. Sometimes they do this by making it seem like someone wronged them.
I started to feel stressed out.
The others forbade me from talking about this with Melanie or Simone. So that made it more stressful, to not allow any weakness and having to be careful about certain topics with them, for their own safety. And when I didn't want to hide anything from them that's hard also. And also it put a lot of pressure on me because my level still wasn't that high.
Although, I had made a few more pieces and upgrades.
Its now Friday, and I came home straight from school to be with Simone.
Name; Jay Williams
Race; Type 349F human hybrid
Magic job; Mind/Enchanter Mage
Level; 7
Health; 103/103
Mana; 362/362
Mana Regen; 23 (per hour)
Health regen; 3 (per day)
Element affinities; mind, enchantment
Str; 31Agi; 34Con; 41
Int; 104 Wis; 93App; 103
Skills; athletics (+1 con), jogging (+2 agi), math (+2 int), physics (+1 int), mana affinity (enabled), defend+1, block+1, parry, (weak) Stun (3 seconds), First aid, blunt weapon skill, hide & sneak (limited, weak),
Magic skills; Seduce +1, Charm +1, Mesmerize, Enchant, Enhance
Passive skills; demon lord clan heritage (bonus starting mana +50), demon lord heritage (bonus mana; +2 mana points per level), +1 to mind control. Team leader skill (+1% to group offense), party team window management magic, enchant; enhancement, enchant+1, weapon enhancement+1, mana sensing,
Gear list;
Crowbar +3 (Knock back effect)
Health (regeneration) necklace (+1 per 6 hours, maxed)
Baseball cap
Jacket +2
Jeans (+2 defense)
1 long crowbar +2
Hoodie +3 defense
Flashlight (energy efficient enchant, blind 3/day)
Flashlight #2 (nothing yet)
Remote Control (slow 1/day)
Baseball Bat
Buckler
(+5)+3
Belt +2
Ring; mana regen+1
Ring; Charm skill+1
Supply bag; 1 red health potion, 2 med gels, 3 pain creams (borrowed from the house)
Bank account; $1,847
Unused stat points; 3
Wait a second.
I haven't distributed my stat points as part of getting to level 7. But it seems like my INT and WIS scores are higher? It seems like I also made some other gains that I’m not sure where they came from in max mana going up.
I paused to think about it.
Could this be because of something I did?
I
didn't get any enchant achievements or anything special recently that I know of. I'd only been enhancing and selling daggers that weren't any better than I knew how how to do.
Unless...
Did it give me bonus stats for 'capturing' Melanie and Simone?!
Wow! That's very cool. So it seems like I got an achievement for having better than average mind control element compared to others!
Very nice!
Then its possible I could get other enchants by capturing others!
Although I don't just want to be capturing women. Especially I don't want to mess with people that are taken. I have to use my power wisely.
"Honey, is everything OK?" Melanie asked me from nearby.
"Yeah sure babe. Thanks," I smiled.
She smiled back.
In the last few days also, not only did I do more enhanced daggers but I also made a new weapon. This time, a remote control with a slow spell on it. The problem is that it only can be used once a day.
But even so this thing is amazing. And I realized people would pay big money to steal or have something like this. But it'd taken a lot of work to achieve.
And even harder is the fact that I'm torn between wanting to work up both the enchantment devices, and the mind control areas of expertise also! Both are important. But the enchantment line uses INT mostly, and some WIS, while the Mind Controller option uses Appearance, and a minor in WIS.
This means tough choices, because I have to end up choosing between them.
...
I paused in the kitchen to get ready for another dungeon dive.
"Wait! Please! Don't go! I...I really want time with you!" Simone told me.
Simone is crying and upset.
"I want to be with you also. Can you hang on a bit? I won't be gone long," I told her.
"But I just don't want you to go," she hugged me.
She's such a nice girl.
I hugged her back.
Wow this feels warm. And she's so beautiful.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
We're lucky the house is empty of my other greedy relatives.
"I...I just haven't told you anything about me. And I'm afraid of losing you," she stammered. She's crushing my chest in her fear death grip hug, otherwise I would have loved being hugged by a super hot girl.
I stared briefly, just to make sure I could believe this. She seems like she's telling the truth!
Wow this is a cool element to have, I thought.
"I'm just going to the dungeon. I'm better equipped now. The stronger I get and the more gear I enhance the more safe I'll be. Don't worry," I bit an apple.
"I don't mean that. Well, uh, yes, I mean I actually do worry about that a lot. I've been worrying about it more every time you go out. But I mean, we know nothing about each other. And I'm worried I'll lose you because we are having in a r-r-rel-relationship with each other, and I love this and want you so much. I think about you a lot, but we don't talk much and aren't learning about each other because we are having most of our marital togetherness time just for sex!" she cried.
I froze, dropping the apple.
Wow.
[For a girl to really worry about this kind of stuff, means she really likes you.] And then I had thoughts like I better not blow this.
"If there's something that's bothering you about it, I'll try to improve," I told her, slowing down and holding her hand.
She hugged me again. "I-I don't mind that you aren't perfect. And actually there's nothing specific to change. I just want to talk more," she said.
"I see."
"C-come back to the room and we'll talk for real," she said.
"OK."
She took my hand to lead me back to the room while I try to look at her face and not her breasts.
"Have you been worried about this for awhile?" I asked.
"Yes," she said.
"OK. We'll work on it together," I promised.
"Good," she's beaming now.
And we went back to the bedroom and sat on the bed together.
Its kind of hot to not want to only think about sex with two hotties only wearing panties with athletic slim waist-ed bodies and nice tits. (Simone had even risked being seen totally naked, to chase me down to get me to talk to her and not leave.)
We started to talk.
"So, what are you thinking?" I asked Simone.
"Um...well I got scared because we don't talk. But we should. We should know about each other, to have a real relationship," she added nervously.
"I agree with her. Its way overdue," Melanie adds. "But I don't mind if we do only have sex. And that its a lot is kind of fun too. But we could have more. And I'll still love you."
"I...I've lately been obsessed with sex. I was worried I was addicted to it, but Melanie says its OK as long as we can function normally. So I'm afraid of going back to before or losing this. But I know I used to care about if there was a real relationship. And I want to make sure its real and be able to really talk and care about each other," she added.
"OK, let's talk about it," I suggested.
So we started to talk. We had a genuine conversation.
I found out her life was pretty complex before I even met her. And she used to have depression but hasn't felt it with me. Its hard to tell that someone super hot like her had contemplated such really deep depression.
But when I mind zapped her, she wasn't depressed anymore. She hasn't realized why there's changes, or the full extent, which relieved me.
(Did the mind control solve her depression, I wondered? Maybe there really is a use for mind control?)
I asked her a few things...
"So, where were you from?" I asked.
"Here in Los Angeles, but more like out on the outskirts."
"Tell me more about yourself please," I said.
She explained further.
She has 3 siblings.
Her dad and mom both work.
She was going to college and in her second year. She likes dancing, music, photography, and was thinking about going into the nursing programs. She doesn't like recreation drugs or partying much, due to some bad experiences in high school. (She wouldn't tell me more about this, but it seems high school was hard for her.) She had a softball scholarship, but had recently lost it from not doing well enough on the team.
She'd just become unemployed, thanks to a corrupt boss pressuring her for more than he deserved, and while trying to have her first experiences away from home.
Her parents probably don't know what's going on with her being pressured beyond her ability to cope with by her boss and people from school also, just like the boss was doing. And since, she is 19 years old she didn't know what to do or where to go. Thankfully, she didn't give in, but she almost did, she told me.
Damn. I get sick of hearing that kind of story over and over. Its always some kind of bull shit, where the boss wants to get fatter and makes stuff up as they go. Or others.
We kept going for hours. It was even fun to talk to her.
Then Melanie jumped into this also.
Favorite movies;
Melanie; Stargate
Simone; Must Love Dogs
(They both like older movies maybe?)
Favorite sports;
Melanie; volleyball
Simone; softball (fast pitch)(She used to play the pitcher role; I wonder if this means she'll be good with range combat, because of this?)
Favorite foods;
Both said salads and healthy green vegetables.
(And exercise, both seem to be really concerned about body shaping and being in fit, I noticed from these comments.)
Both also like sports cars, but know its impractical, since you throw away money. But if given a choice Melanie would choose a four wheel drive truck over a sports car. And Simone would like just a nicer paid for car with no debt, rather than any particular choice of a car.
Melanie likes dogs, but Simone likes cats.
Both are hugging me like
crazy topless...with only panties on and very sexy figures.