Richard felt a ball of fire burning inside him!
[Congrats to the host, you got the talent Extinction Flame (S)!]
[Extinction Flame]
[Rank: S]
[Type: Elemental]
[Description: From the source-talent power of an Emperor-tier contract beast [Human] (female). As the Contractor, the host gets a slightly stronger version with an extra execute effect.]
[Effect: The host will control Extinction Flame and can spend energy to make fire. The fire has high heat and melting traits, plus the Contractor boost — the execute trait.]
"It feels… so strong!!"
"No wonder Contractor is a God-Tier talent. It can even upgrade the feedback talent."
Richard's face kept changing.
His eyes looked a bit more confident.
Even if Rayna really left the contract beast role, it did not matter.
Richard already had a power stronger than the future empress — Extinction Flame!
At the same time, he felt that as this strong talent flowed in and awakened, all his stats rose a lot. Strength, Agility, Body, and Mind all went a bit past (the limit a trained adult can reach) and reached what most people have when they become Level 1 players.
"Nice. That means I am already like a Level 1 player with an S-rank talent."
Richard felt even more happy.
In this world, wild monsters are strong. Early on, players do not have full skills and gear, and they cannot beat monsters of the same level, so most people, after becoming players, must find a steady team to level up.
But with his S-rank talent, Richard could solo monsters even before he became a player!
He could go out to train now, keep getting stronger, and truly hold his fate in his own hands.
How could Richard not be happy?
Of course, he was still eating with Rayna now, so he had to hide his smile.
"This food tastes pretty good."
Richard held his knife and fork and cut the steak in front of him, then froze.
He did not know why, but he felt his leg being lightly rubbed.
Richard paused and took a small glance. He could faintly see Rayna's long leg in black stockings, gently teasing him.
What the heck!
Richard was dumbfounded.
Rayna did not mean to flirt. This future empress was eating with a heavy heart because she had become a contract beast, and an unconscious instinct made her want body contact with Richard.
Her upper body was under the restaurant lights, so her lower body was not so well-behaved.
At once, Richard's face went stiff!
He did not know if he should remind her.
That silky touch made Richard's mind wander.
He thought that, at school, no one of the other sex had ever touched Rayna, let alone this suggestive rubbing.
Richard felt his whole body grow hot.
The mood in the private room felt very suggestive.
Richard did not dare say much. If he made Rayna notice, she might get mad with shame.
"Sigh…"
"I'll just have to hold it in."
He let out a sigh.
In the end, he would bear it all himself.
Until, after a few minutes.
"Still, I should scout first."
"If I tell my father directly that I became a contract beast, I'm afraid it will be hard to wrap up."
Rayna finished her analysis, her mind came back to the present, and then she suddenly felt something strange on the sole of her foot.
The next second, she realized what she was doing, and her face turned bright red.
Thud!!
She quickly pulled back her leg and sat on the other side, her body very stiff.
But because she moved too fast, Rayna also bumped into the table corner.
It made Richard, who had wanted to play dumb, have to bite the bullet and ask.
"Rayna, what's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"I'm full."
Rayna quickly cleared the two pieces of bread on her plate. Her voice was soft, and her face was red: "I already paid the bill."
"I'll go first."
She walked away in high heels, leaving only her back.
Richard let out a breath, but as he watched her long leg move back and forth with grace, he remembered the feeling just now.
It was those legs, moving slowly, that brought it.
"What the heck…"
Richard could not help but sigh.
His body was still stiff and could not calm down for a long time.
Right then, new words lit up before his eyes.
[Congrats to the host on successfully forming your first contract beast and finishing fusion with her talent. You have obtained the cultivation method for the contract beast [Human] (female).]
"Human female…"
Richard looked at the system prompt and felt speechless.
Logically, the system was not wrong. If Richard had taken in one [Pixies], the system would also prompt [obtained the cultivation method for [Pixies]].
But…
A person like Rayna, an opposite sex who had just made Richard a bit excited, being called this by the system, sounded so strange!
"From now on, call her Rayna."
Richard said it in his heart.
[Ding! Naming successful. Your contract beast [Human (female)] has been renamed to [Rayna].]
[Congrats to the host for taking a solid step as a Contractor. Giving contract beasts specific names and building feelings with them can better bring out a contract beast's power in battle. The host is insightful. Please keep it up.]
"…" Richard.
He was speechless, and only thought with some annoyance: "I want to view Rayna's cultivation method."
[Ding! Cultivation method generated:
Rayna's first-stage cultivation (after finishing, can raise talent quality and permanently raise attributes):
Dragonfire Fruit x4 (ingest) + skill [Heart of Smelting] (learn) + Condensation Pills x3 (ingest) + Flame Adamantine 5 kilograms (system smelts into pills)
After using the above resources, it is detected that Rayna fits the host's aesthetics, and that Rayna and the host are of the same race. It is advised that the host have intercourse with her to boost the energy absorption efficiency of the contract beast: Rayna, with a chance to enhance the effects of her talent upgrade and attribute increase.]
"???" Richard finished reading the cultivation tip and was dumbfounded again.
He read the first few lines with a serious face.
Richard felt the God-Tier Contractor talent was really strong!
He had heard of Dragonfire Fruit; it is a rare resource from a level-20 dungeon near Kaile City. Taking one can raise fire-skill damage by 1%, and each person can use it once at most.
As for the skill [Heart of Smelting] and the last two materials, Richard did not know.
But he felt it was not a problem. In a gamified world, strange materials are countless, and humans have never fully counted and sorted them.
Richard instead guessed from the value of Dragonfire Fruit that the other skills or materials might be within reach for players a bit over level 20.
Then…
Doesn't that mean he could soon raise Rayna's talent and stats once, and let Richard get another feedback?
But he read the rest of the cultivation guide and was speechless again.
To put it nicely, the system's advice was very blunt.
"Intercourse, gives a boost to the strengthening effect??"
If someone told Richard he had to sleep with Rayna to help her, Richard would be very excited.
But when the word intercourse came out, Richard felt a bucket of cold water at once.
All the mood was gone!
Luckily, he was slowly getting used to this crappy system's style.
He complained once and let it go.
Then Richard hesitated and looked at the table full of food.
"Waiter, pack this up."
…
More than an hour later.
Richard returned to his home.
He had not dared to try it in the hotel. Now he could not hide his excitement. His fingers moved fast, and streams of flames rose all around.
Almost all the clutter at home turned to ash with a light touch of the flames.
"I can't even see what the limit power of this talent is."
Richard frowned a bit.
He could feel by instinct that Extinction Flame was very fierce.
Even if he now only had stats like a level-1 player, he could burst out power equal to a gray-quality skill used by a player over level 10.
It did not sound like much, but before the job change at level 20, players gain +1 to all stats each level. That meant Richard could burst out output ten times his own stats!
Even if it matched the worst gray skill, that damage was still extreme!
Richard thought for a while, then rushed out.
He planned to go to the city's Adventurers' Association. There was a special dungeon there for testing damage, and it came with secrecy!