Chapter 38 Storm’s waning

Name: Danial Drizzle

Age: 16

Height: 6’2”

Weight: 180

Health: 436

Mana: 405

Stamina: 872

Class: Farmer

Level: 04

Stats

Strength: 2.07 + .34 + .72 + .2 + .5 = 3.83

Perception: 1.76 + .5 + .28 + .41 + 1.2 = 4.15

Endurance: 2.17 + .31 + .50 + .33 + .8 + .25 = 4.36

Charm: 1.99 + .21 + .17 + 1.1 + .91 = 4.38

Intellect: 1.95 + .12 + .13 + .9 + .45 + .5 = 4.05

Agility: 2.01 +.8 + .37 + .2 + 1.67 = 5.05

Luck: 2.42 + .18 + .11 + .3 + .25 = 3.26

I breathed in at the sudden boost to my stats. We had worked out that it finalized my score first before boosting my wives by the total I had. So every wife I gained was added to my other wives' stats. Each was getting thirty percent of the stats I gained from each wife, up to forty-five percent if they had the maxed-out daily bonus.

It meant they were all getting just over one entire stat in each category except luck, which gave them a boost of .978 at thirty percent. Except, just by having sex with me once would start the daily bonus, which would change the amount from thirty percent to thirty-one. It meant that they would all get 1.0106 luck unless they went three days without having sex with me, thus resetting the daily bonus back down from thirty-one percent to thirty.

My intellect allowed me to make calculations almost instantly. Leaf was the only one who didn’t have the daily bonus maxed. It made a big difference. The difference between 1.149 strength and 1.7235 was fairly obvious, and that was the difference of having the daily bonus maxed out. Now wasn’t the time to think about that, though; we needed to prepare for the barrier coming down.

Berry looked sickly as she spoke. “The barrier is about to drop, I hope whatever you did in there will be enough. I’ll… Stay inside and take care of Tems.” I didn’t know she knew my first wife’s name, but I mean it made sense. Tems tended to say her name a lot, and her daughter now lived with the three of us, so figuring out our names was probably important to her. Speaking of which, I whisper to Silk. “Hey. What’s Cherry’s dad’s name?”

She looked shocked before asking. “Really? You don’t know the name of the mayor and also the sheriff of the town. The backbone of the entire village, and the reason the bandits had to plan around him being outside of the town.” I whisper argued with her. “It never came up, and I’m bad with names. You should know that by now.” She could only sigh and mutter before answering me. “Jeez, you pick now to learn everyone's names. You’ve been in the village for almost a year now, anyway. His name is Marcus.”

A loud shattering noise was heard as we all prepared for the upcoming battle. It might have behooved us to play defense and stay in the house, but bandits were known for burning down heavily defended buildings. It was a risk to stay inside, and with my pregnant wife unable to run if they did set the fire, it was best to take the fight to them.

Leaf pushed everyone to the side as she cleared the way for herself. We heard banging on the door; it had some boards nailed in, making it harder to enter, but that would only buy us a minute or two. “I can only do this once.” She pulled her bowstring back with no arrow as an ethereal arrow was created. The mana pouring off Leaf as she focused on a magical attack I had never seen before, letting loose, the arrow shattering the door and killing everyone behind it.

We all poured out at the same time as the fighting began again. Someone happened to bring my axe, so I was armed again. I followed behind Delilah as she bashed a bandit in the face, dropping his guard for long enough for my axe to dig into his skull. We cleaved our way out of the encirclement, as well as several other people.

Leaf jumped up and kicked off the bandits’ heads before coming down on the opposite side. Silk cleaved her way through a weaker part while everyone else got caught up in the opposing forces clashing. The last dregs of Cherry's mana were shot out as fire, boiling the center of the bandits as four were slain outright before she fled back inside to help her mother deliver the baby.

Windows on the second story opened as the wives began to pelt the bandits with whatever they could get their hands on. I looked back at the group. Leaf blocked a swing from the bandit leader with her bow before kicking off his chest, making him take a step back. I doubted she could outright fight against him before, but we had to be careful he didn’t try the same strategy again to injure her.

The bandits who weren’t in the line that kept the townsfolk contained all turned and began to fight against the few that broke free. The biggest problem was, these men were the runners before; they were weak. They might have outnumbered us five to one, but we cleaved through them like a knife through butter. The bandits should have had the advantage, but because they could only continue to rush and fight the enemy head-on, they put themselves in a disadvantaged position.

I stepped behind Delilah as she blocked another bandit, swinging low and almost breaking his legs with her shield as my axe came in sideways, almost taking his head off before he collapsed. Everyone but me and Leaf were running on fumes, and that went for the bandits as well. Stamina regeneration doesn’t sound that strong, but going into a fight fully refreshed while everyone was already tired made a huge difference.

I broke off from Delilah, the both of us could kill more separately than together as I battered through a bandit's shield and cut his hand off halfway up the forearm. Leaf had dropped her bow at some point and was fighting the bandit leader with two scimitars, blocking blows as she swung and hammered his armor. The only signs of fatigue or damage were the scratch marks on his armor. She just wasn’t strong enough to pierce through his armor.

The only good point was that he wasn’t fast enough to land any hits on her, but even now, with the stat boost, it was still a toss-up between the two. The only difference was that it was now an outright fight between them and not a hit-and-run/cat-and-mouse game between the two. Either way, the fight was winding down. The first to get an advantage over the other would decide who won.

I noticed her equipment before looking at mine. Her bow was upgraded, but not designed to pierce armor, nor were her normal, not upgraded to copper weapons. I rushed at him from behind as I swung down with all my might while he was distracted fighting Leaf. My axe digging into his armor only a fraction of an inch in his shoulder, but it was the first real damage that had been done to him since the fighting started.

He cried out in pain as he turned to swing at me, but I had already run away. That was all I could do for now until he dropped his guard again. I could see it now, the fighting had shifted with their boss taking damage. More bandits began to run for real now, not just so they weren’t the ones risking their lives, but because they had seen how the fighting was going. Now might be the only time they could get away, as many broke and ran.