<~> Chapter 16I sat dowo Bel on a chair in the er of the tailor’s work room. We had both ged into matg light blue underwear after our measurements were taken. Bel’s panties cupped her cute package, whatever material it was made out of was stretbsp;like lycra but breathed like cotton.

  “Are you doing okay Bel?”

  “Yeah… I’m curious about us though.”

  “Worked up about that girlfriend ent?”

  Bel fidgeted nervously for a moment. “Yeah a bit.”

  “Do you wanna be my girlfriend?” I asked while bumping her with my shoulder pyfully.

  “Is it… okay though?”

  “What do you mean?”

  “Well, we’re both girls now. Well kinda…”

  “It doesn’t bother me. Does it bother you?” I replied.

  “I don’t know, not really I guess.”

  “You guess?”

  “Some people won’t like it but I don’t really care about that if you’re okay with it. It’s just, everything seems so different. I was a sve yesterday, now it feels like you’re treating me like a princess. I don’t know what to do.”

  “I’m not going to tell you what to do here. If you don’t want to have that kind of retionship with me I’m not going to force you. If you want to have a purely ptonic retionship, or even a purely sexual one I would uand,” I said a little pyfully. “But I like you a lot. A retionship as lovers, as partners, would be ideal for me but it’s up to you if you reciprocate those feelings.”

  There was silence for a few moments before Bel suddenly ed her arms arouight and dug her muzzle into the nape of my neck. “I think I love you Lilith. But being with you makes me feel selfish, like I’m taking advantage of your kindness, I don’t want to be a burden. But I do want to be with you, I want to get stronger so that I stao you and be proud. I want to be your partner, your lover, not just a dead weight follower. So I’ll work hard, give me a ake up for everything you’ve given me already.”

  I lifted her snout and looked into her beautiful pink eyes, a slightly uncharacteristic look of determination burned in them right now, I leaned forward and kissed her. I ed my arms around her and kissed her even more. She melted into my arms, all the tension fading as she let herself be drawn into my kiss. We kept kissing for a while but eventually broke off a back to sittio each other in our underwear, fingers entwiogether.

  I ran my hand through the fur on the back of her head. “Hey Bel?”

  “Yeah?”

  “Why do we seem to have all of these important versations naked or in our underwear?”

  She snorted in response, and then busted out ughing. I ughed too, the whole situation feeling incredulous. Met yesterday, had sex st night, and are dating today. It was hard to say if we were going fast oing backwards. I pulled her close and kissed her on the head. Bel turned out to be the perfect height, it was like our bodies fit together like puzzle pieces. Her head fit into the crook of my ned my arm ed around the fre of her hips like it was meant to be there, everything fit together perfectly.

  I ced my fingers with hers and leaned into her. “You saved me Bel, even if you were dead weight I’ll always be grateful you were there to help me st night. If you hadn’t been there we might both be in sve colrs right now. Besides, I’m sure that your healing magic will help us out a lot, you being dead weight should be the least of our worries.”

  “Yeah, and nature magic has other uses too. We’ll have to look into getting a nature magie so I learn some more spells. The system taught me the healing spell I have but I’m sure that there’s much more to nature magic than that.”

  “Sounds good. I’m pretty ied in magi general to be ho. Hopefully books about it don’t cost too much.”

  “Books, especially about magic, be pretty expe we might be able to get something from the adventurer's guild. I hear they make so many copies of some of the basic stuff that the prices are cheaper than normal bookstores.”

  Iing, seems like the guild does some sort of mass produ to reduce costs for early adventurers. Probably a detly lucrative venture for the stuff they know they’ll sell. This world doesn’t seem to be doing mass produ en masse but they at least know enough to do things in batches. Books are probably still copied by hand right now though. Printing press doesn’t scream medieval fantasy so that’s probably not arou.

  Not too much longer after that we finally got ht tan and brown work clothes. Not nearly as fashionable as my other ones but the fabric was obviously tougher. And now that I was wearing a proper bra my heavy breasts didn’t swing around as mubsp;Not to mention they really upped my cleavage game. Bel looked super cute in her own work clothes too but it’s obvious I’m really biased. The clothes made her look like a pretty girl that’s not quite able to pull off the tomboy look and I was loving it.

  “Thanks again for the clothes Ameliana, they feel great.”

  “Sure thing sweeties. I’ll have the rest of your order tomorrow m then.”

  I took Bel’s hand in mine and walked through the door. “So, the hing we should do is go to the adventurer’s guild. The guard yesterday suggested we could get some identification there and if we want to fight monsters and stuff for mo’ll probably be a good idea.”

  She nodded in response and we walked up to the adventurer's guild. The guild was impossible to miss, it was easily the rgest building in town, about twice as long and deep as any other building around it and it was three stories tall. We walked into the building and took a look around. About half of it looked more like a tavern than an official building, there was a full bar and a side door that lead into a kit on one end and a six desks with receptionists behind them oher other. On the wall to the right of the entrance was a rge quest board with papers pinned all over it. It reminded me of an anime I had watched, Kona something I think. It struck me as odd that I could almost name an a couldn’t begin to remember my own name. I wonder what with that.

  Bel and I walked up to a receptionist that didn’t seem to be doing anything. She was a tall redheaded human woman dressed in a bck dress with a white apron covered in small ink spots. It almost looked like she was wearing a maid uniform but not quite there.

  As soon as we walked up to her she started to speak, “Hello and wele to the Traehall branch adventurer’s guild. How I help you?”

  “Ah, the two of us would like tister to the guild. I don’t really know how anything works here though.”

  “Sure thing.” She pulls out two sheets of paper and puts them in front of us. “First you two will have to fill out these forms, ohat’s taken care of I’ll ask you a few questions to firm things, you pay the fee, and then you’ll start out as G rank, or wood tier adventurers. If you’d like to also test yic affinities we do that as well for a small fee. Ohat’s finished you’ll be able to take Wood or Iron tiered quests or turn in monster subjugation trophies to advahe tiers are as follows, Wood, Iron, Broeel, Copper, Silver, and Gold. There are two more tiers, Ptinum and Diamond tier, but those are only given out to specifidividuals that are proven to stop cataclysmic level events. There hasn’t been anything like that in a long time so I think there only two Diamond tier and three Ptinum tier adventurers and three of those five used to work together. Adva is based on tribution to the guild, not on your strength so even if you haougher quests to start with you are only allowed to plete wood quests for credit unless you’re in a rger party initially. Any questions before we start?”

  “Are we allowed to take the magic test before we fill out our forms? And how much are the fees?”

  “It would be 10 silver each tister with the guild and 5 silver each to test fic affinity. We do that first if you like but you’ll have to pay both fees first.”

  I dug through my bag and pulled out 30 silver. A bit pricy for the going rates around here but having some identification would be nibsp;And I’m dying to know if I be a mage. I set the s on the ter in two stacks to indicate that it’s for the both of us.

  “Alright good.” She took the s and pced them into a one way safe before stamping each of our unfilled forms. Then she went uhe ter for a moment to pull out what looked like a gss tablet. “First pce your hand on this and I’ll be able to tell you which of the 12 magic types we test for that you have any ability in.”

  I follow her instrus and pce my hand on the gss pte. Eleven different spots clearly light up for me all across the top of the tablet with one of them glowing a bit brighter than the rest.

  “Huh, It looks like you have a minor affinity in ten of the twelve affinities we test for as well as a medium affinity in light magic specifically. The only thing here you have no affinity for is holy magic.”

  ”Is that good?”

  “Eh… Well it’s definitely iing. I’ve never seen ah this many affinities but with only minor affinities ihing that doesn’t give you a lot of firepower. And the one magic type you do have any affinity in tends to not be very useful, especially for bat. Actually, the fact you seem to have affinity in almost everything means that you could be a very useful ritual mage though. Normally bat casters have strong affinity in one or two magid might only know a couple of rituals within their magic type. Ritual mages focus on using magic circles to get a wide variety of magic effects that are good for utility rather than bat. Usually the biggest dowo being a ritual mage is the time they take to activate their magid that they are limited to the magic types they vert mana into. But since you have such a wide variety of affinities you could use pretty muy magic circle you could power. Divination, firestarting, pathfinding, terra shaping, and more are all things you could do given enough time and prior studying. Oh, I just got an idea! I’ll be right back!”

  Without waiting for a reply she turns around and hurries up the stairs. I turn and look at Bel. “Well I don’t really know what to make of all of this. I was kind of excited to use magic but it doesn’t seem like I’ll be able to throw fireballs.”

  “Maybe not but ritual magi be pretty useful. That ing trip I showed you earlier is teically ritual magic. trips are basiough that nearly anyone use them but being able to vert your mana into any other type could be pretty useful if you took the time to study magic circles. Plus even if you aren’t a bat mage being a ritual caster that use any magic affinity will make it easier to find party members, assuming they’re okay with beastkin.”

  “Hmm, we’ll have to see.”

  Saine

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