Ero Skill Tree

Chapter Fifty-Nine: To be Expected

The next morning, I was gently awoken by Serin shaking my arm. I slowly came too and found that I was the last of the group to rise. The others were already eating breakfast and checking over their gear.

"Morning Theo." She said as pulled myself up into a sitting position.

"Moring Serin. Have I overslept?"

"No, we just let you sleep in for a little longer after everything that happened last night. Don't worry it's still early, Altria has only just got up."

"Good, I don't want to be holding up the quest."

"You aren't. There's still time for breakfast before we have to set off."

I got myself out of bed and joined the others as they ate. I still had a slight lingering drained sensation from the night before, but I couldn't say it much worse now than an enthusiastic evening with all of the girls.

"Lillia told me what happened. How are you feeling now?" Asked Altria as I sat down with the group.

"Much better now, thanks."

"I bet that succubus was quite surprised when you turned the tables on her!" Siofra said.

"Yeah, I don't think she saw that coming." I answered.

"What did you use on her?" Asked Altria.

"Purification, to start with, you've seen how that works... Then disorient, at that point her grip relaxed a little and once I used appraisal, I was able to see through her enchantment. Luckily for me I had just enough energy to get them off me."

"Purification? On a succubus, that should only work on the undead." Siofra pointed out.

"Yes, well, this doesn't seem to work in quite that way." I replied.

"Then how does it work?" She enquired further.

"Um, it was the first time I had seen it up close, before that I had only tested it by accident in a fit of absentmindedness... As far as I can tell, it seems to flip a person's sexual orientation."

"It flips their sexual orientation?"

"I think so."

Siofra burst into laughter.

"Well, that could very well prove to be fatal to her. They draw their energy from sexual relations with men. I doubt they can do the same with women."

"I did wonder if that would be the case."

"When you said you tested it out in a fit of absentmindedness, what did you mean by that exactly?" Serin asked, the serious tone in her voice clearly evident.

"It was stupid of me and I shouldn't have done it, even if I didn't know what the consequences would be... But I used it on an unsuspecting couple of girls that were sat near us in the guild hall the other day." I answered awkwardly.

"You mean that couple that suddenly upped and left in the middle of their meal?"

"Yeah, that couple."

"So that's what happened... Theo that's awful! I'm really disappointed with you. I wouldn't have expected you to have done anything like that." She was clearly upset.

"I know this doesn't make it any better, but I only intended to see if it had an effect on their wine. To see if it purified it. I would never have done that if I had known otherwise."

"That doesn't excuse what you've done. You might have changed their lives forever!" She said angrily.

I could completely understand why she was angry. It was a stupid thing to do and she felt like I had betrayed the trust she had put in me as a person. I couldn't blame her for feeling like that.