Chapter 41: Chapter 40: Family

“So…what do we need to talk about?” Lia asked.

“You and Rose.” Amelia said. “It seems you finally decided to make things official.”

“We…did, yes.” Lia said warily.

“Congratulations.” Amelia replied. “Just…keep in mind that you’re not bound by society’s stuffy morals anymore.”

Lia blinked in surprise. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It means that monogamy is boring.” Amelia said. “And, if you want, you can keep your options open.”

“I…see.” Lia said. “I’ll do that, then.” She didn’t have any intentions of actually keeping her options open, but sometimes, in the moment, it was best to just go along with what Amelia said.

“Good. Now, before I send you to go talk with your family, I believe you have yet to check your Skills after your battle with Skarde. It would be prudent to do that now, so you know exactly what you’re capable of if things go south.”

Lia nodded. “Thanks for reminding me. Give me a sec and I’ll do that.” She had waved away the windows that she had received that battle in all of the excitement, so she had to open her Skills menu and check manually.

Since the last time she had checked, she had received quite a few upgrades, and not all of them were even related to the battle. The majority of those were rather boring; Analysis, Battle Commander, Blood Money, Dimensional Storage, Magic Multicast, Mental Magic Boost, Motion Blur, Rest, and Silent Steps had all jumped one or more levels, but only offered increases in efficiency or power, no new functionality.

Active Camouflage, Night Vision, Presence Detection, and Spiderclimb had all reached maximum level and were ready for evolution. She decided to hold off on evolving Active Camouflage, since there was apparently an evolution that would combine it, Motion Blur, and Silent steps, and combined evolutions were generally quite powerful, but the others were a bit more difficult.

First, there was Night Vision.

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