Lazarus

  Primordial limit.

  Primordial 1.

  Paragon luck.

  Paragon strength 2.

  Presence detection 4.

  Regeneration 12.

  Centaur riding 5.

  Sex 8.

  Sword mastery 1.

  Blink 2.

  Resistance 1.

  Acid resistance 2.

  Poison resistance 1.

  Centaur pleaser 10.

  Forging 1.

  Skill points - 4

  So good news and bad. The good news is that the girls for the most part have put our previous misunderstanding behind us and are now walking together, the bad news is that for once me being human and riding on Araths back is not why we're getting strange looks. It's because of Kayalett and her rather rge spider abdomen. I would have thought that her being a resident of the city would have made people aware of her but walking through town proved that very wrong.

  I might have almost ughed at how ironic it was but stopped myself st minute. It expins why she was a bit of a recluse.

  "So Kayalett how much silk do you produce a day roughly?" Arath asked, probably trying to find out how much she could use for her weaving now that half of it went to her.

  "It rgely depends on the amount of blood I can ingest. Normal food will keep me alive but I need blood to produce silk and a few of my poisons. I can however substitute blood for meat but I must liquify it first."

  Now that was interesting. I was going to ask her at some point how that all worked with her diet now that she was part of our family. Going to have to be a lot of food items with rge quantities of meat in my future. I wonder if we could personally get deliveries from a butcher of hunter of some sort.

  "And how much would you use in your daily routine?"

  "Not a lot. Most of it is used in my home to build things. If at all possible I would like to redecorate a room in your home with my silk before I start spinning some for you. Just for my own personal comfort."

  Oh yeah she can live with us now. Although now that I think about we don't have any spare rooms unless Arath wants to sacrifice her weaving room.

  "You will be sharing a room with Lazarus and myself should you wish to stay with us. You are more than welcome to stay at your shop as we don't currently have a room just for you. It is on our to do list and why we're trying to make some money today. That also means you won't be able to design it to much but we will try to get you your own room as quickly as possible."

  "That is understandable. Should it help I have a small stash that should allow us to start pnning a little bit."

  I am so lucky Araths bed is so rge although I wonder if we could fit Arath, Kayalett and Willow all at the same time. Probably not at least not comfortably.

  Maybe if I could persuade the girls that we need a rather rge room just for our kinky activities. Oh I would make so many toys especially with Kayaletts help.

  "What's on your mind husband." Arath snapped me out of my thoughts her human half almost turned fully around to look at me with a sly smile. Kayalett was giving me an equally smug look.

  "Is it that obvious when I'm thinking about you like that?" I asked.

  Kayalett was trying to hold back a ugh.

  "My love you are riding me bare back. It is very noticeable when your body shifts."

  Of course my little man had risen by my thoughts of a sex room and Arath had felt him. Kayalett burst out ughing and I was thankful it was a quiet street.

  Deciding to take a little revenge I looped my hand around her stomach and whispered into her ear. "Well I was going to ask if we could have a room solely for practicing foal making, one I want to fill with all kinds of things to pleasure you girls with."

  Her tail rose behind her instantly.

  "It is very noticeable when your body shifts." I let that taunt ripple through my little mare as we approached a building that was very busy.

  Arath let out a cough to try and cover it all up but even her friend noticed. She wisely stayed quiet. We gave each other looks like children that had been caught and if it wasn't for the traffic, I'm sure I would be ughing till my sides ached.

  I would probably regret it ter but who knows, maybe I won't.

  The building we seemed to be heading towards was filled with centaurs coming and going to the point there was a dedicated entrance and exit. We squeezed out way into the flow finding ourselves in a rge space broken up into sections dispyed with more signs I couldn't read.

  "Arath, you're going to teach me how to read sometime."

  She conveniently ignored me and made her way over to a booth giving out wooden boards about the size of my whole chest with, would you guess it more words I couldn't read. Kayalett tried to stay close but got a bit pushed to the side in amongst the rabble.

  Arath got one of the wooden boards from the vendor without too much fuss and we left the building. It was all very quick and clean. Not that I knew what we had done but Arath seemed happy with whatever the board said. Kayalett followed us out a little ter with her own board and the two girls started to make their way towards the actual market part.

  The boards it turned out were to tell us what area we could set up our shop at as people that actually lived in the city could get a plot for free once every five days. If you didn't live here or wanted one before your next five days you must pay for it. It was a good system at least I thought so. Better than anything I'd come up with.

  Our plot of nd was almost in the middle of the whole market so that bodes well for our day. Arath hadn't had space on her back for any type of tent so we had to make do with a rge bnket to dispy our wears. It had a very travelling merchant feel to it once everything was unloaded.

  The next step was to create that sign I'd previously seen on other stalls during my st visit. This was done with something resembling chalk that Kayalett had remembered to bring and the girls used the back of the boards as their signs. I took the time while they were setting up to look through my unlockable skills as whenever I attempted to help I'd been shooed away. Let the girls do it their way.

  I had four skill points to use so I had some choices to make. I spent the time as they set up browsing my options and creating a list.

  Dodge 1. The subtle art of not being hit.

  Escape artist 1. Houdini got nothing on you.

  Catch 1. Be it ball or arrow making sure it never reaches your face is a good thing.

  Araths protection. Any aura Padin Arath possesses are automatically active on you regardless of range.

  Copycat 1. Those abilities look cool, let me try a few.

  Primordial Pantheon. You serve, you obey, you benefit.

  Sleepless 1. Less sleep = more living.

  Invisibility 1. Now you see me, now you don't.

  Primordial blessing 1. This is a fraction of my strength, use it well.

  Paragon aura 1. My species thrive under my protection.

  Limitless Primordial 1. Waiting is beneath me.

  Well okay there are eleven skills I want, a few of them mainly because they have either Paragon or Primordial in the name but invisibility would just be sweet. Although everytime I look through my skills I have more questions.

  Like what are the conditions to making Araths auras affect me at all times? Or who is making the descriptions for these skills?

  I mean come on if I didn't know what half these skills were I'd never know how to use them, and that's not including the one that mentions Houdini because thats a guy from my original world so how does all of this work? I doubt Arath would be able to expin that one to me but maybe Rayna would have an idea.

  Okay let's think about what skills I actually want instead of frying my brain trying to understand the universe.

  I gave the girls a quick once over to make sure they were all good. They'd almost finished with the set up and I did see one of Kayaletts arms disappear into a small rift before coming out with a potion. Definitely going to ask her about that ter.

  I can eliminate escape artist and Paragon aura easily enough. Both seemed good but I wasn't pnning on escaping anything in the near future and I don't have any humans in this world that would benefit from having an aura.

  Dodge and catch are a bit the same. I'd love to have them but I've got to be a little stingy with what I get.

  Copycat.... I really want this one just to be able to test other abilities out as well as confuse my opponents. I didn't let myself second guess and bought it.

  Copycat 1 acquired. Copycat 2 avaible.

  Copycat 1 (-------)

  Okay that's new. Did I need to see a skill being used to copy it? I presume whatever skill I'm copying goes in the middle where those lines are. Something to test ter.

  Primordial Pantheon was the next skill I needed to decide on. I'd got a notification when Arath and Willow had joined but had no other options apart from the skill points that I got. But there in lies the dilemma, if it's a skill that benefits the girls there's no reason to not get it. Well looks like I've already persuaded myself on that.

  Primordial Pantheon acquired.

  Primordial Pantheon (----------)

  Again with this? What did it want me to do this time? It can't be like copycat so maybe.... I trailed off in thought looking through the rest of my skills. What if? I mentally thought of Primordial limit but felt like the skill itself revolted against it. Changing tactics I thought of presence detection.

  Primordial Pantheon (presence detection 4)

  Well that's reassuring. I could still feel the skill active on my side so, does this mean Arath and Willow now have that skill?

  I took a look at my head mare and found her staring at me with a mix of wonder completely forgetting her current task. Seems something changed to warrant that response.

  I put my finger up to my lips to try and convey we would talk ter and she seemed to take the hint but I didn't miss the subtle way she licked her lips as she returned to her task. Seems I'm not the only one looking forward to tonight.

  Now two skills left to pick. It had to be the remaining Primordial skills. I mean both the two I currently have are way too powerful and as much as I want invisibly to complete the rouge type build I seem to be going for, I needed to embrace being a Primordial as much as possible.

  Primordial blessing 1 acquired.

  Limitless Primordial 1 acquired.

  Both of them felt like abilities I could cast simir to blink so I guess that's a good thing. Limitless Primordial was a self cast so it would affect me somehow so let's start with that one.

  I mentally activated the skill and a flood of weightlessness hit me. I tried to blink and managed to get right beside Arath. I then blinked again nding on Kayaletts back before returning to my position with another blink.

  Blink 3 acquired.

  So if I felt that right limitless Primordial actually removes the requirements for my current abilities because there's no way I should have been able to blink three times in rapid succession like that with the skill at level two. Neat.

  It did however have a long cooldown as I probably won't be able to use it again till tomorrow. Not bad definitely worth the skill point.

  Both girls were looking at me now and I decided to call it a rest with testing everything, especially out in the open like this.

  "Sorry was just experimenting."

  Arath shushed me. "You should not be doing so in the open my love. Some things should be kept a secret."

  "I agree husband. Knowing you have the blink skill at level 30 is something you should keep to yourself."

  I held my hands in defeat. They were correct of course I was just being a bit greedy. Not that my decision would have changed I still liked the ones I picked but maybe I should start relying on the girls for advice instead of blindly picking a bunch of skills I thought were good. But you know the saying jack of all trades, master of none but still better than a master of one.

  I walked back over to the girls admiring the spread they had made. Araths weaving work was all on the left and a few potions were on the right. Not enough to actually sell but enough to grab a customers attention.

  "You're not dead." A voice I really didn't want to hear again chirped.

  Evidently the wrong type of customer has made her way over to us as my gaze found the very same bird that had kidnapped me on my first day.