"Am I so strong?"
Anna widened her eyes, her gaze filled with disbelief that she could instantly kill a demon.
The demon's head split in two, losing its vitality, its corpse falling heavily to the ground.
"Master, how are you?"
Anna's favorability with Lucian had reached 40 points. Seeing him injured, her pretty little face was filled with worry. She put away her dagger and quickly ran to his side.
Lucian sat up from the ground, turning his head to the right. The clothes on his right shoulder were torn by the demon's claws, leaving three bloody marks on his skin, and blood flowed out.
With worry in her eyes, Anna bent down and gently licked his wound with her tongue.
Lucian felt a warm sensation on his wound, and a hint of ambiguity arose in his heart. He asked in surprise, "Anna, what are you doing?"
Anna's pink face flushed red, and she said shyly, "When we beasts are injured, we accelerate wound healing by licking the wound. I want… I want Master to get better quickly."
"You don't need to lick my wound for me, I can use Healing on myself."
Lucian reached out and touched her head.
He used the Healing skill on himself, and the wound on his shoulder quickly healed.
Being petted on the head by her master, Anna felt warm in her heart, and her head gently nudged his palm.
[Ding!]
[Mission completed!]
[Reward: 1 Skill Point]
[Please select the skill you want to upgrade.]
Lucian now had three skills: Healing, Shield, and Super Strike, all of which were level 1 support skills.
Believing that one had stay alive to deal damage, he chose to prioritise improving his survivability, "Upgrade my Shield skill."
[1 Skill Point consumed, Shield skill upgraded to level 2.]
Lucian opened the system panel to see what changes the level 2 Shield skill had.
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Host: Lucian Whiteley
HP : 100
Skills: Healing (Lv1), Shield (Lv2), Super Strike (Lv1)
Equipment: None
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[Shield: Creates a barrier around the host's body that can resist any form of attack. Its durability is equal to 100% of the host's max HP, with a counter-attack effect.]
The Shield skill level was increased from level one to level two, adding a new counter-attack mechanism, but the system's skill description was very vague, and he didn't know what the specific counter-attack mechanism was.
"System, how does the counter-attack effect work?"
[When an enemy attacks the host's Shield, it consumes the Shield's durability. At the same time, the enemy receives 100% full counter-attack damage for each hit until the Shield breaks.]
"What if the enemy breaks my Shield with one blow?"
[The enemy receives 100% of the Shield's durability as counter-attack damage.]
"Awsome!"
In short, it used Shield's durability amount to deal counter-attack damage.
Currently, his three skills, Shield's durability amount, Healing amount, and Super Strike's extra damage amount, were all related to his max HP.
His current health points were too low, so he had to quickly increase his favorability with Anna to 100 points to increase his HP by 10,000.
"Priest, thank you for saving my father."
The woman in white expressed her gratitude to Lucian.
"You don't need to thank me, thank the Life Goddess."
Lucian did not accept the white-clothed woman's thanks. After all, he only helped with the exorcism to complete the system mission, and he also beat up the white-clothed woman's father.
The two left the village. Before leaving, the woman in white gave Lucian a few large potatoes to express her gratitude.
After leaving the village, it was again a dense forest area, with towering trees blocking out the sun everywhere.
Anna, with her slender and tall figure, was wearing a classic black and white maid outfit, which was a little looser than before. She would occasionally run in front of Lucian, sniffing the roadside wildflowers and reaching out to catch butterflies.
"Master, I'll give this to you."
Her beautiful jade face showed a gentle smile as she gave him a handful of wildflowers.
"Little kitty is so cute."
Lucian took her wildflowers, smelled the fragrance, and reached out to touch her head.
As a fan of animal-eared girls, he really liked cat girls.
The soft black fluff on her cat ears came into contact with the skin of his palm. The fluff swept across the surface of his palm, which was soft and very comfortable.
After becoming familiar with Lucian, Anna was not as restrained as before. She placed her hands on her hips, a pointed fang revealed at the corner of her mouth as she pretended to be angry and argued, "I'm not a little kitty! I'm nineteen this year–already an adult!"
Lucian smiled, "In front of your master, whether you are an adult or not, you will always be a little kitty."
"I'll bite you!"
She threatened.
"Come, bite me. I'll admit defeat if you can bite me."
He stretched out a finger towards her very arrogantly.
"Hmph~ I'll bite."
She stretched her elegant neck and bit at his finger.
"Hehe~ You can't bite me."
Lucian was quick-witted and quickly retracted his finger a second before Anna bit his finger, and she bit empty air.
"Hmph!"
Anna's pair of dark and beautiful cat eyes stared at him resentfully.
Feeling her resentful gaze, Lucian smiled. He had to pamper the cat girl he raised himself.
He rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his arm, "Here, I'll let you bite again."
After being teased earlier, Anna looked at him with suspicion. Worried that he would shrink back again, she reached out and grabbed his elbow to prevent him from retreating this time.
Then, she bit down.
However, her bite was gentle. Her sharp fangs grazed the surface of his elbow, moving back and forth without causing any pain.
After successfully biting Lucian, she smiled and puffed out her plump chest triumphantly. The black cat tail behind her stood up high, and she quickened her pace and walked in front of him.
In a good mood, she saw a beautiful purple flower on a tree trunk not far away. She pointed to the purple flower, "Master, that flower is very beautiful. Do you want it? I'll pick it for you."
"I want it."
Lucian did not refuse her kindness.
The cat people were very good at climbing trees. Anna ran to the tree and climbed up the tree nimbly, picked the purple flower, returned to Lucian and gave it to him.
"Little kitty is so amazing."
Lucian took the flower from her hand and touched her head dotingly.
Receiving her master's praise, Anna rubbed her head against his palm, and her affection for Lucian continued to increase.
[Ding!]
[Anna's favorability towards the host +10]
[Current favorability: 50/100]
Lucian's gaze fell on the cat tail behind her, "Anna, can I touch your tail?"
"You can, but be gentle."
Anna had never let a strange man touch her tail before. Lucian was the first.
Receiving her consent, Lucian stretched out his palm and grabbed her cat tail.
Being grabbed by a man, Anna felt a strange feeling in her heart. Her delicate and watery cheeks turned crimson, and her eyes darted around, like a frightened deer…