Free Web NovelChapter 45: Chapter45-Skill Change Card! (Edited)
She sat up and lay down beside me, her breasts rising and falling with each deep breath.
"Goddamn is right, Michael. You fucked me so good."
"I... wow," I laughed weakly.
"I’ll take wow." She reached down and gave my cock a gentle squeeze. "I’m going to make you say wow for the rest of your life, honey."
"I hope I can make you say it too," I replied.
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She smiled and let her fingers drift lazily across my chest. "Oh, well, you’ve already made me say it many times in my mind."
I let out a short laugh. "Ha, May, you—haha!"
Before I could finish, a holographic screen flickered into existence right in front of me. A string of messages began scrolling across my vision.
[Congratulations, Host! You have officially completed the quest "First Time with a MILF!"]
[Congratulations, Host! You have been rewarded with a Triple Rank Upgrade Card for completing the quest!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have also completed the hidden quest "Taming the Protagonist’s Mother!"]
[Congratulations, Host! As a reward for completing the quest, your Triple Rank Upgrade Card has been upgraded into a Skill Change Card!]
I blinked at the screen. Skill Change Card?
What the hell was that supposed to be?
The name meant nothing to me. According to everything I remembered from Michael’s memories, the Triple Rank Upgrade Card sat at the top of the reward tier. There was nothing higher. Nothing beyond it.
Yet here this was, staring me right in the face.
I focused inward and reached out to the system. "System, what is this Skill Change Card? I’ve never heard of anything ranked above the Triple Rank Upgrade Card. What’s going on here?"
The system’s response came almost immediately.
[Host, the Skill Change Card is the upgraded version of the Triple Rank Upgrade Card. However, instead of upgrading any skill by four ranks, it grants you the ability to replace any skill you possess with any other skill of your choosing. As for your second question, you have never heard of it before because no one in this world has ever acquired it.]
"Wow, that’s incredible. So I’m the first person ever to get this card?"
[Yes, Host!]
I let that settle for a moment. The first. Ever.
Still, that wasn’t what truly grabbed my attention. With this card, I could finally replace that useless future sight skill with something genuinely powerful. Something that could make me truly dangerous.
The possibilities started flooding my mind. Regeneration. Time manipulation. Reality warping. Shapeshifting. Each sounded absurdly powerful.
Then another thought stopped me cold. Forget all of those. What about an instant death skill? free𝑤ebnovel.com
I’d been craving something like that from the very beginning. A skill that could end any fight before it even started. With something like that, I could become the strongest person in the world. Hell, maybe even the strongest in this entire universe.
Just thinking about it made my pulse quicken. I was actually going to be powerful now. Truly powerful.
I was still lost in those thoughts when May’s voice pulled me back.
"Michael! Michael!"
I blinked and looked up. "Huh? What?"
She was already dressed and standing beside the bed, her hands resting on her hips.
"Are you okay?" she asked, concern flickering across her face.
"Why? Is something wrong?"
"I’ve been calling your name for the past minute."
Shit. I’d been so absorbed in deciding which skill to choose that I’d completely tuned her out.
I cleared my throat, "Oh, I was... I was thinking about your sucking skills."
May tilted her head slightly. "What about them?"
"It’s top class," I replied.
She gave me a slow, seductive smile, her voice dropping low. "Oh my... Want more of that?"
Fuck, I really did. My brain was screaming yes, already replaying everything. But when I glanced down, my dick was soft and spent, completely drained. No matter how much I wanted it, my body wasn’t cooperating.
I let out a tired chuckle and shook my head. "No, no... not now, sorry. I can’t do it anymore."
May laughed softly, the seductive edge melting into something warmer.
"It’s okay, I was just joking anyway. Besides, I’m pretty tired from sucking you off too."
As she spoke, she made that filthy little gesture, forming a tight hole with her fingers and slowly moving it back and forth in front of her mouth while looking straight at me.
The visual hit me like a spark. My mind flooded with heat all over again, even though my cock stayed stubbornly soft.
May smirked, clearly enjoying the effect. "Anyway, dress up quickly or you’ll catch a cold."
"Yeah, right," I muttered, snapping out of it.
I quickly pulled my clothes back on while she watched for a moment. Once I was dressed, she yawned widely and stretched.
"Michael, baby, go get some sleep. I’m heading to bed too. Bye~"
With that, she turned and walked away.
I expected her to head for her own bed, but instead she left the room and made her way toward the guest room. Before slipping inside, she glanced back at me one last time, a playful smile on her lips, then gently closed the door.
Huh? Why was she sleeping in the guest room?
I frowned for a moment before it suddenly clicked.
Oh. Right.
I looked over at her bed and immediately understood.
Yeah... that wasn’t exactly a place anyone would want to sleep right now.
Even I wouldn’t go anywhere near it.
Shaking my head, I turned away.
Anyway, let’s get out of here.
I started making my way back toward Eden’s room. Part of me wanted to use the Skill Change Card immediately, but I stopped myself. I was exhausted, barely holding my eyes open, and a decision this important needed a clear mind.
As I walked, I glanced down at my watch.
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Name: Michael Frostburne
Total Rules Broken: 0
Time: 4:58 AM
Date: 21st February
Year: 2130
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Almost five in the morning. I couldn’t believe three hours had passed while I was with May. It felt like barely any time at all.
I pushed the thought aside and slipped back into Eden’s room. Without bothering with anything else, I dropped onto the bed beside him. Within five minutes, sleep dragged me under.
***
Nine hours later, I woke up.
The first thing I saw was Eden sitting next to me, scrolling through his phone. He was dressed in his usual casual home clothes, looking completely relaxed.
Wait. What was he doing here? I thought he had a dungeon expedition scheduled for this morning.
"Eden, didn’t you have a dungeon expedition today?"
He didn’t look up from his phone. "Yeah, I did. Got called off suddenly. Liam told me this morning."
"Oh. Makes sense." I hesitated, then added, "Speaking of Liam, what rank is he at now?"
Liam was the guildmaster of Frostburne—our guild. He was a quiet, mysterious type. Reserved to the core. The kind of person who kept to himself and only spoke when he had something important to say.
Allen had appointed him to the position. More than that, Allen had been the one who discovered Liam’s potential in the first place and spent years shaping him into what he was now.
Liam even called Allen his master, though from what I could tell, Allen had never once acknowledged the title.
According to Michael’s memories, Allen helped people, trained them, and guided them when necessary, but he didn’t subscribe to the traditional master-student relationship. He never claimed anyone as a disciple.
Eden glanced up from his phone. "He reached platinum a while ago."
That was genuinely impressive. For someone his age, reaching platinum rank was solid progress.
"I see."
We talked for another half hour before I finally decided it was time to leave. After a quick goodbye, I left the building and headed down to street level.
Once outside, I stopped and waited. A few minutes earlier, I’d sent Allen a message through my smartwatch asking him to come pick me up.
The car I’d used last night was long gone. I’d programmed it to fly back to the Frostburne mansion on its own after I got out, and it had left without issue.
It didn’t take long before a sleek black car descended from the sky and touched down gently on the pavement.
Allen stepped out right away and circled around to open the back door for me.
"Young master."
I nodded and slid into the backseat. Allen closed the door behind me, circled around to the front, and settled into his usual spot. He punched in the necessary instructions, and moments later the vehicle lifted smoothly into the air and began heading toward our destination.
Allen pulled out his book and started reading.
This time, I didn’t mind. In fact, I was relieved he wasn’t sitting next to me like he had on the last trip. That entire ride had been unbearable. The book, his presence so close, the way I couldn’t stop turning things over in my head. I’d spent the whole time on edge, practically ready to jump out of my skin.
I pushed the memory away. No point dwelling on it.
Instead, I turned my attention inward and addressed the system. "System, use the Skill Change Card and replace my Seer’s Eye skill with an Instant Death skill."
A screen flickered to life inside my mind almost immediately.
[Sorry, Host, but that is not possible. Given your current rank, your body cannot handle the aftereffects of an Instant Death skill.]
Wait. What?
This had to be a mistake. frёeωebɳovel.com
All my plans, everything I’d been imagining, collapsed in an instant. The vision of becoming the most powerful person in the universe crumbled before it even had a chance to take root.
I wasn’t giving up yet.
"What about Reality Warping?"
