"Hey Gabby."

​"Hmm?"

​Gabriella looked up at Quash.

​"Do you wanna go dungeon exploring with me tomorrow?"

​She thought for a moment and within that moment, Quash couldn’t feel her emotions. They were too messy or conflicting; he couldn’t understand. But he waited for her to answer.

​"No. You should go with the other girls."

​"What do you—?"

​At Gabriella’s answer, Quash felt flabbergasted but cut his question off. She smiled and patted his head.

​"Good boy. I see why the Headmaster said that your composure will take you far."

​Quash didn’t say anything and let her be. He understood what she was feeling now, and he was not willing to play her games. He had already blocked her from feeling his emotions, which made her pout cutely. She bit his neck again, drinking his blood. She made cute but happy noises, and because of that, he couldn’t even get angry at her because he was actually feeling a bit dizzy.

​Even though she had given him a Top Tier Regeneration Potion, it was still not enough, given how much blood she was drinking.

​But he was confused about one thing: why did she like his blood so much? She literally rolled her eyes at the taste. Is it that tasty? He could understand that his body had no impurities because of his Purified Body and his Aura Refiner Title, but that still wasn’t enough to explain why she would like his blood so much that even a vampire of her caliber would have a hard time controlling herself.

​Was it the pure Aura? He remembered that she showed interest in Alan’s blood in the novel for a brief moment because of his Pure Aura but lost interest the next second.

​He had Pure Aura as well, but her reaction was way more intense.

​’That only means one thing, I have a dormant Bloodline.’

​He concluded in his head. He remembered that his parents had done a Bloodline test on him but they found nothing. He was completely normal. But his grandparents always said he was destined for greatness.

​He used to be hyped by their comments but as he grew up, he realised that they might just be bluffing to cheer him on, so he put that matter aside because there was no credible evidence that he had anything great.

​But now, after the new context about his grandparents, he was forced to think otherwise. He might actually have an Overpowered Bloodline. And since his grandparents were people who could make a ring with absolute time stop, he might also have something related to that.

​And the Dafoe Forest inheritance might be the only way to Awaken his Bloodline.

​But that being said, Quash felt himself blanking out. The naked Vampire hugging him like a koala had officially sucked him dry and he was about to go offline.

​"Alright Gabby. I’m going to sleep. Good—"

​He tried to finish his goodbye but the power supply was abruptly cut and he passed out, leaving an unfinished message.

​( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

​The next morning, Quash woke up groggily. His eyes slowly adjusted to the light. He felt an unfamiliar weight on his body. He remembered that he didn’t use a body pillow, nor did he have any girl he was dating.

​’Could it be some dude...?’

​An absolutely horrifying thought came to his mind and all grogginess disappeared. His eyes shot open and found Gabriella peacefully sleeping with her head rested on his chest. She breathed out cutely. Even when sleeping, there was no fault in her form.

​Seeing her, Quash felt a momentary confusion as to who this girl was before he remembered this was his wife. And they had a lot of sex yesterday.

​And this wifey of his drank a lot of his blood. Both white and red. Not that he was complaining, but he still felt a bit of a headache from the blood loss though.

​He was still wearing the ring, and he made sure to not move much and wake up his wifey. She looked absolutely adorable right now and he wanted to enjoy it. But the headache was killing him so he decided to deal with it first.

​He took out a potion bottle. It was a Top Tier Regeneration Potion.

​A Top Tier Regeneration Potion can even regenerate missing limbs or reattach a severed head. If the head is brought near the body within 3 seconds after being severed, that is. Because after that, there would be no point because the person’s soul would have already left the body.

​But the ironic part was that he was using such a valuable potion to regenerate blood. He won’t even dare to think of his wifey’s wealth after this. She casually handed him a couple hundred because she was too lazy to give them to him every time he faced blood loss.

​He had wondered if she was being a tsundere and dared to make an audacious decision to look into her Spatial Ring. His brain got fried from the metaphysical light of her wealth and he dared not question her again.

​So that’s how the story of Quash the Kept Man started... or ended. He honestly had no idea what he was thinking, but he knew he was thinking something which he needed to stop.

​He did, and carefully chugged down the potion.

​Unlike a low Tier Potion, a Top Tier Potion is very tasty.

​And Potion grading is also different from item grading.

​Since it is tied to a person’s Stage, the Potion grades are named after that for clarity. And each grade has five tiers of quality:

​Lowest Tier.

​Low Tier.

​Mid Tier.

​High Tier.

​Top Tier. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

​And the potion Quash was drinking is something that works for people of level 400 as well.

​But if he drinks a potion of a higher grade than this, there is a chance that the excess energy might harm him instead.

​That is why there are grades to everything, so stupid people don’t die from inflation.

​But regardless, after Quash drank the potion, he felt his mind clear a lot. Since Gabriella didn’t want to go with him, he decided to go alone instead of taking anyone with him.

​But before that, he needed to make preparations that would help him in this endeavour.