Greetings elegan/tg/entlemen and welcome to a new page of this quest. Twitter to follow: https://twitter.com/TaleOfMonstersArchive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Monster%20Girls%20QuestCharacter sheet of our protagonist: http://pastebin.com/Nstgp51H His companion (Emeth) : http://pastebin.com/uvANnf1v Let’s get this show on the road.You have one potion>One vial of pain killer which also act as a sort of healing potion, it’ll keep you alive for a few minutes longer in the event of a mortal wound or allow you to ignore your burning nerves if you cast too much magic. Side effect of making you sluggish and sleepy.
14th day of prophecy; 02:12 pm.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7BYCRKC58When you think of war, you remember the frozen landscape of your homeland stained in blood, the naked trees light a fire by residual magic while corpse of men, woman and monsters laid upon the fields and snowy hill of the horizon, youths and olds alike fighting for belief and philosophy but the numbers cannot exactly elevate this bloody event into a ‘’War of its own. You remember the civil war; nobles rising, conscripting young women and men alike from their demesne. Bocks of infantry marching out into the summer fields, some cut down to a man by centaurs, others pierced with arrows, troops emerging from the trees flanked by mages, renegades of the colleges wishing to fight for their country. Brothers and sisters clash in bloody battles between revolutionaries and royalist while the orders stayed neutral as befits of their oaths; war plain and simple, a generation pass no one would have believed that the people of the North would kill each other’s so readily.How can you describe this crusade? It’s undoubtedly different; no young man to lead a repressed, fearful people into frenzy, no dread of families rising against one another, you’ve come to realize at last that this crusade is the one, true war you’ve truly been in for it combine massacres and organized conflicts all at once. You aren’t inside the sleepy fortress you’ve adopted as a home anymore, nor are those you’ve come to love safe.
--The set of linked fortress is only visible from the towering headquarter, right now the shimmering stones burst with infused magical energy as you watch the second fort off in the distance ; troops pouring into the frontline of your current fortifications incessantly with a great many staying behind while the biggest wall uniting the two fortresses is condenses by bodies of armor-clad soldiers whose blades and equipment shone brightly against the afternoon sun. The ‘’first’’ fortress (the one you currently reside in) is much more akin to a citadel with three inner walls spreading out behind the exteriors, bigger line of stones masking its part of the horizon and arrayed enemy army, high towers and traps had been installed with boiling oil ready to fall while paths interlocked into dead ends to confuse the enemy. The tabards and raised flags – as well as the majority being equipment with large shields, throwing spears and shorts words, made you realize that the soldiers guarding the link of the two forts belonged to the Rahall clan whose force mimicked the Church almost down to the training while the others clans enjoyed a little more diversity, majority being the forces of Ame-no-Uzume and Mebuchednazi with religious priests and mages acting as combat magicians. It’s a surprisingly smooth combination despite the difference, soldiers and squads worked together like the well-oiled war machine of the Church and bonded as a result. Unfortunately the same could not be said of the leaders. >Character limit is quite the pain, bear with me
From the moment Tsukiyomi teleported into the inner center of the citadel with her twenty-some bodyguard, a magical warmachine, the presumed dead Oni chieftain and the secret weapon acting as motherboard for thousands of golem (along with two humans and a succubus) things became very tense, very fast to a point that you barely had any time to catch a glance of the girls you’ve spent so much time away from; Hadraniel, Athena and Sylphis all felt a near simultaneous surge of surprise at this impromptu arrival while Ame-no-Uzume was stuck choking back her emotions, although she certainly spent quite a few precious seconds gazing into your eyes as you were surrounded by drawn crossbows, bows and blades while the bodyguards took an immediate defensive stance around the Queen-Mother while Leila, Mylen and Emeth went to protect you and themselves(Belphegor hid behind you to take advantage of the girls overprotectiveness); all the girls had been properly equipped for war during the time of your discussion, even your succubus bodyguard didn’t shy away from metal armors despite her preference for light and comfortable. It was definitely one hell of a welcome and a statement of your popularity, although once Amarantha stepped forward bellowing ‘’lay down your arms!’’ loud enough for her face to turn red people started getting very confused and, always quick on the uptake, Ame was the next to speak.‘’Thank you for your hard work mother, now come inside’’Thank your lucky star to have been teleported right when Ame was outside, before you ventured inside with the squad you did manage to spot a certain black winged hero flying closer to your current area, the vision more than enough to create a little motivation in your steps. You unfortunately missed the white winged maiden following close behind…--02:15pm
‘’You were betrayed only once madam Tsukiyomi and your wrath shook our country to its core; someone like you has no right to grow soft, why then do you live with the insults of the continued existence of this young man?’’A light amount of magic burst forth from Tsukiyomi never ending well, runes on her body light up while the red war tattoos literally shift in movement, waving as if underwater; the teeth of the Queen-Mother grew sharp and thin as she glared toward the lamia.‘’I can start looking for blood right now, Mei’’ You later came to realize that this newest addition was the headmaiden of the water cult, a Shirohebi by the name of ‘’Mei’’ that, just like her station required, garbed herself in bright blue clothes with a visage to make any male swoon despite the war paints and runes painted across her pale body and scaly tail extended for well over three mothers, rolled politely under her as she sat behind the war tables full of maps. She didn’t strike you as bloodthirsty despite the previous comment, but it’s clear that news of your betrayal became a popular topic; when your eyes cross with hers you found nothing but contempt.‘’This traitor – along with the coward – should be detained until further questioning’’Mebuchednazi voice rang strong, cutting right into the hostility to add oil to the fire as she stood from her seat, clutching her golden staff into her paw as her cold gaze zeroed in on you, flaring your pride to stand up straight and exit the cocoon of protective girls around you, only stop when Emeth rushed out to grasp your hand while Amarantha was obviously quite upset at the insult, bellowing a ‘’Coward!?’’ that robbed the attention of the austere Anubis.‘’Yes, coward’’
She repeating, driving the wound deeper as the teenage Oni snapped her jaw shut, anger nearly overcoming her as she embrace her Trance, the ghost of her ancestor blurring to life yet staying amorphous, simply making its presence known onto the world as it hovered above the girl, giving the impression that half of her upper body was swaying in water. ‘’To pretend death is dishonorable and unbefitting a leader; someone like you is ill fit for the proud, strong Onis’’Whether Amarantha was ready for a rebuttal or not, you couldn’t say as Ame finally took a stop into the middle of the room, her set of swishing pale white tails highlighted by blue flames, the sheer presence of this simple magical display was enough to squeeze your throat, Leila actually choked as she was forced to take a step back from the raw, unmitigated power of the nine tailed Inari, Mylen was quickly to help her with her wing. You also spotted Rhy making herself small while looking at the map, seemingly disregarding everything going on around her while Belphegor tried her best to kept herself hidden, making certain her mask stayed on. That’s certainly one hell of a first impression. .
‘’Enough all of you’’She doesn’t need to change her tone, Ame slowly turn toward you while reaching inside her open sleeve, taking out a certain magical fan made in the image of the serpentine dragon of Zipangu; glitter gold and mineral fell from the artefact as she opened it to cover half of her face, bright golden eyes glittering ominously, no doubt induced by her magic you felt yourself twitch and cowering at such presence.‘’This man; along with the odd retinue of Tsukiyomi, are going to participate in the battle. I will have Amarantha move with her mother and if need be, engage the enemy as for him…’’She paused, her emotionless stare digging deep into you while Tsukiyomi closed her face in solemn silence.‘’…A geass. I want to work a geass onto him; if he were to act in betrayal of Zipangu, then he will kill himself’’ The magical fan snapped shut as her face broke into a cruel smile, canines creeping out of her upper lisps.‘’I trust you will agree, Siegfried?’’What do you do? >You can also discuss what kind of equipment you wish to have, as you had free reign of the armory before porting in.
>>29327635A geass is fine, as long we get to word it."If I work against the long-term greater good of Zipangu, then I will kill Siegfried Schaeffer."The entire point of our betrayal was that it was for the Greater Good of Zipang. And we will do it again if necessary.
>>29327635"I would really prefer not to, but if it's the only way..."I'm not sure what we should take. Light armor and a small sword? Anything to improve our mage-ing.
>>29327807We're an accomplished archer, so definitely a bow and arrows. Better than getting into a swordfight.
>>29327807>not plate armor and a longswordwe battlemage
>>29327635F that. Our last 'betrayl' benefit them more in the long run. Accepting stops us from doing anything like that again.
>>29327849Siggy is a pretty damn good archer, I advice yo uto play to your strength. So far we have 2 votes for accepting the Geass
>>29327826>archerTotally forgot about that.Bows and a quiver with as many arrows as possible.Maybe find out what was up with Tsu needing us to make it rain.
>>29327635"No."I'm really against any form of magical contracts.
>>29327911>>29327859>>29327807>>29327801So we got ourselves a 2/2 split. I'll wait a bit then roll for tiebreaker altough... Hope you guys can live with the consequences of your choices, either way.
>>29327975I vote for this one: >>29327801
>>29327975>liveHeh.
>>29327975If we don't accept, we're not trusted by any of the leaders outside of Tsu and maybe Ame, and our refusal undermines Ame's position. I understand that being shackled by a geass is unpalatable, but we'd end up jeopardizing the post-war political situation and peace by refusing.
>>29327635Best bow we could find, best arrows we could find, a shortsword (archers had those for a reason), and full chain mail. Gotta gear up.Ah, a geis, well can't say I didn't see that one coming. Let's see..."If I, Siegfried Schieffer, work against the long-term interests of Zipangu in the coming battle, I will kill myself painfully."Let's limit the duration. Also, here it is.
>>29328010As there n oother way to prove it, I'll assume you are a new anon, making this a 3/2.I'll start writing while keeping in mind the euipements you guys chose.
>>29327975Can we eat the magic used to geass us?
>>29328284It's not that easy to brink a soul contract
>>29328284A geis binds the soul, it can't be eaten. Our "friendly" squatter, however, may be able to do something about it. If he feels like it, or feels it's in his best interest, or finds it entertaining...Seriously, don't rely or trust in that evil little shit. He's gonna let us eat it for shits and giggles.
>>29328317>brinkI meant break
>>29328086Also I can't thank yo uenough for your efforts friend
>>29328477You're welcome.
>>29328317>soul contractCan we force big beast into it so if we ever act against them then /it/ gets killed.
All eyes in the vast room, from close circle guards to leaders, friends and lovers fall on you after Ame-no-Uzume proposition; so much eyes from head of states to overly trained individuals squarely on you bring an inevitable pressure that almost immediately cause a cockish smile on your face. You’ve lived through similar situations back home as the head of the Shieffer, nobleman and woman always trying to intimidate with silence here the only pressure you feel come from the two fluffy tailed woman whose guarded expression make guessing their emotions as easy as convincing Ahriman to lower his paranoia.Perhaps they were offended by the colors you were sporting, namely the blue gold paint representing the water dragon, an avatar closely linked with the cult symbol, or mayhap a felon entering in chainmail and a precious bow was actually insulting. Tsukiyomi certainly took her time to describe your new weapon, it was a bow made in the woods of faeries; a non-magical item of the highest quality able to bend almost without effort while launching arrows with enough strength to pierce plates. An obvious glorification but there was obvious truth to the compliments as during your tests, you landed bull’s-eye after bull’s-eye almost effortlessly…>You have 75/75 arrows‘’If such a thing would provide enough proof of my loyalty…. Then so be it’’ Of course not everyone was in agreeable mood, Mylen was about to protest but Leila was fast to intercept her and avoid a potential diplomatic incident while the Beast made its rotten presence known, squirming inside the depth of your soul without uttering a single sentence, merely watching. "If I, Siegfried Shieffer, work against the long-term interests of Zipangu in the coming battle, I will kill myself painfully."You utter next, which obviously, was immediately picked up by the detractors.‘’Coming battle?’’
The lamia repeated, gliding her hand across her long white hair as she looked at you in what must have been a combination of amusement and frustration.‘’That’s fine, after today he’ll have proven himself’’Ame is quick to come to your defense and close the distance, snapping the magical fan shut while the Anubis rose from her seat in silence, the only thing breaking her austere expression was the light twitch of her dark canine ears atop her head. ‘’Then let’s make this fast, we have a battle to plan’’--There are two kind of geass; long and short term.You’ve always heard tales of elaborate rituals with contracts handwritten and highlighted in the blood of the poor victim while each words were carefully uttered in order to avoid a loop as the Spirit Healer worked to bind the souls to this new reality; while it may or may not be true, you’ve at least learned just now that making a short term geass is surprisingly easy.At least, when two extremely strong magic users and soul manipulator work in tandem.There wasn’t any kind of grandiose magical display, Mebuchednazi entered her trance after coming closer; highlighting her veins in bright silver, the color clashing with her dark, brown skin while her paws extended to touch the middle of your chest, lightly rubbing against the chainmail while Ame cupped your cheeks in her hands as her tails hovered around and above her, the golden eyes of your future wife literally burned with an inner blue flame as you felt something tug into your thorax, prompting the Beast to flee as momentary foreign prodding.‘’Five Soul Links…? This geass won’t survive the afternoon’’What…?‘’It will, I’m the one doing it’’
Small pillars of foxfires exited Ame-no-Uzume eyes to enters yours, the process was painless, in fact the only thing you felt was the psychological fear of being burned alive but, inside of your being, you felt something locking, an impossible to escape reality that brought a strange, buzzing sound in your ears and your next sentence escaped your mouth involuntarily."If I, Siegfried Shieffer, work against the long-term interests of Zipangu in the coming battle, I will kill myself painfully."Just like a closed chest with its key in its hole, your words provided the needed wrist movement to lock its reality.--And just like that you were freed and lost your footing; only for Emeth and Mylen to grab you as a pounding headache sent the world spinning, thankfully this momentary unease dissipated quickly as the lock on your soul became natural.>’’Hahaha, she’s good… real good.’’‘’Why the hell did you…’’Mylen talked under her breath but was quickly interrupted once Ame captured everyone attention once more.‘’Now; do you ready to fight and die for Zipangu, Siegfried?’’Such cheek, she’s smiling from ears to ears with a sadistic, satisfied smile.Your wife is scary!
>>29329044"Just tell me were to be and i shall"
>>29329044"Of course my lady. Now, can I get a rundown of our general plan and where everyone thinks my talents would be most needed?"
>>29329044"I am yours to command; just tell me where I should be and what I should do."So, do Soul Links interfere with geases? I suppose they would make them difficult to create, as they're already imposing slight changes to the target soul.
Hey guys... did we bring the Demon Lord over? or have I missed a thread? Last thing I recall is heading to bed with Tsu.
>>29329211Soul Links are the best way to break them since you can't do it yourself.>>29329229Demon Lord is still in her underground stronghold with Bletsia.
>>29329211Now now, the proper term is "Geasa", that's plural for "Geis" (can also be spelled Geas if you happen to be Welsh). It's a pity that anime took such a wonderful mythological concept and misspelled the thing.>>29329229Don't think we brought her over just yet, the plan was to gate her in undercover sometime soon though.>>29329270Thought so. So does it have to be during the process of the link or can they just "jump in" and fuck it up if they focus on it?
>>29329311The one you are linked too can eventually break the geass through sheer force of emotions alone.
>>29329311Okay, missed a thread it looks like. Didn't see that official decision to convince the Demon Lord to give an official surrender.
>>29329373I see, so that's why she shat brix because there's 5 of them, 4 (that she'd know about) about to go into a warzone. Yep, that'd do it!
Wait, we can imbue our arrows when we fire them right? What kind of arrows can we make? Steam catapulted turbo penetrators? Arrows that coat the target in a decent amount of ice on impact? Acid tipped ones for extra pain? Arrows that explode into acid? For a little extra can we reach into the chemistry set for small explosions or even a poison/sleeping gas/tranquilizer arrow? We've never done this kind of thing before. How do we best utilize our newfound weapon?
>>29329726More importantly. We should ask what kinds of synergy we can get going with any local weather mages on the side of the Monsters.Or hell, if they can get some serious fire and air mages going? And create a big old sac of hot air above us? And then some ice mages to drop the temperature FAST.We'll have a nice old thunder storm to work with.Hell, what's the lay out of the battlefield? Is there moving water on the battlefield for us to work with and redirect? Remember, if the water is already moving we can do a shit ton more with it than normal. something like 75% of our energy usage is in MOVING the water around. Changing the STATE of water, or speeding up already moving water, or changing the direction of moving water, are all very low energy, easy to preform activities for us.
"I am yours to command; just tell me where I should be and what I should do."You had to push an invasive Emeth after settling down, this thing is… invasive, the presence of the lock always nag in the back of your mind in a similar way to the soul link without the benefits (or negatives) of the transfer of emotions. It’s like being unable to keep a blank box out of your mind.‘’Yes, your presence along with that of war machine and your loyal allies should prove useful…’’‘’Pardon me’’Tsukiyomi suddenly interrupt her daughter, stepping into the inner circle to take a place beside you, flanking you with her set of large blond tails while her face, empty of emotions as always, perused over the little assembly before locking her daughter in the eyes, the two women exchanging the same glare, whether it was to keep up images or not, you couldn’t say but you could swear a fire would burst out from the frictions between those two…‘’I’ll need his presence for a particularly important ritual, thus I request he be deployment with me in the coming battle as I intend to head out toward our left flank with the golem’’You expected an eruption of negative clamors but instead, silence greet the Queen-Mother as each of the leaders look at her with a different set of emotions, with Rhy suddenly embracing her own magical Trance, completely disregarding the happenings.‘’That may be so, mother but I think Siegfried ought to choose for himself; don’t we allow our soldiers the free will to join our army?’’‘’Quite’’‘’Good’’There’s definitely a bit of bad blood between them, regardless, Ame whirl back to look at you while perusing over Mylen, Leila and Emeth, the three girls shouldering you soundlessly and defiantly looking back without the smallest hint of fear, even the blond that was completely alien to this place stood her ground.
‘’Now then, you could be sent onto the frontline of the fortress, on the ground of the inner wall to act as a block with the infantry when – and if – our outer walls are breached. You’ll have to fight with your war machine and try your best to hold out, obviously, I can’t promise your continued survival but this task is the one we’ve assigned to Kyorn, thus, it is of vital importance.’’Next a few tails gestures toward some of the miniature maps arrayed on the tables while you ponder this scenario; a simple ‘’hold out or die’’ that is bound to get complicated very fast.‘’Next, I could have you on stand-by near my own position, the Church is bound to try some trick and I’D be helpful to have you respond to a critical situation fast.’’One could think of this way as to be cowardly, but you know very well how precious it’d be to keep a potent agent in reserve to counter the enemy gambit. ‘’Now…’’She finally gesture toward her mother with one of her tails and Tsukiyomi quickly start talking, it’s quite a statement to how much she respect and love her daughter, this Tenko usually isn’t one to wait to speak.
‘’As for me, I intend to awake the few thousands buried reserves we have on both flanks and to accomplish this I need to head out for the activation stones in the surrounding forest, no doubt choke full of enemies. I’ll have you install a teleportation scroll on your machine in the case we need it, but it’s likely we’ll face extreme odds… and I’ll need Sylphis and Athena as additional back up, I’d like you to spare Hadraniel as well, Ame’’‘’That is quite the amount of assets, god of night…’’Mebuchednazi comment provoked a blood curling smile to spread on your lover, the very same one she used to intimidate the Shirohebi; a set of glowing predatorily teeth greeting the magical canine as her eyes shone with malice… or at least something close to it.‘’I intend to win before the evening’’ Ame took to a thinking position, supporting her chin with her fist as she closed her eyes, rolling a few tails around her legs and shoulders.‘’Name your wish Siegfried, it’s likely the only one you’ll have.’’
>>29329726Exploding, ice, acid are al lfine and dandy, a steam catapulted arrow is going to cost quite a bit but it's feasible.>>29329909The few weathers mages belong to the cult, the vast majority of Zipangu magical forces come in the form of summoners, you won't really have time to synch up with those peculiar individual as they are needed and deployed elsewhere. And for the battlefied, i's plain with a good chunk of forest on the flanks with hills behond the horizon and line of troops, no moving water to speak off but your likely to stumble upon a few ponds and small lakes in the forests, away form the main plain where the Church is coming from.
>>29330000We need to know more about the lay out of the battlefield. Are there sources of moving water? And if not, can we get some kind of rain going for us? Assuming a rain storm wouldn't seriously hinder our own forces (I have no idea of the compostion of our forces. There are a great many types of monster girls who would have absolutely no trouble with a thunderstorm going on, and it would seriously hinder any human forces period).And it would give us a massive personal advantage. Give us a rain storm, and we'd probably be able to secure an entire flank on our own.
>>29330095Standing water means jack shit. We can condense water from the atmosphere with relatively little effort on the grand scheme of things.Can we get those weather mages working on getting a rain storm going? Even if it's late in the battle having that advantage (assuming it would be for our forces) would be enormous.
>>29330000Stick with tsu, she knows what she is doing.While fighting alongside the beserker angel would be enjoyable, i doubt anything is getting past him.Be a good idea to talk to him before we leave if we can.
>>29330101Tsu intend to create a rainstorm with her ritual, so yo ucan expect the battlefield to get stormy in around 3-5 hours after finishing She'll summon a Hero to make it fast and efficient
>>29330000Ok so Tsu thinks Emeth is human enough to manage a contingent of the golem army and simply overwhelm the Church army. Problem is someone very high up probably knows about it and will send some bad dudes to prevent it (Worst Case: You know what it is people, hero summon to hold him off then port outta there once the army's activated).Ame path is the surprise route. Lex is like Yang, you never know how he's coming at you but you can be sure it's both unexpected and effective.And finally, frontlines means we team up with Kyorn (who hopefully likes us a bit more now) and hold the fucking line.So guys, which will it be?
>>29330000Having thousands of Terminator golems suddenly appear on the flanks of the Crusade will give us an enormous edge. Let's go with Tsu to activate Zipang's hidden reserves.
>>29330257True but there are other things to consider as well. Once they learn we have a terminator army they might just say fuck it and blow the nuke. Then again it might strengthen Lex's case for suing for peace...Gah! So much shit that can go horribly wrong or amazingly right here!
Just to note guys:were ever we end up, were going to be drawing trouble like a moth to a flame.The church really wants us dead right, for making them look like fools.
>>29330157Sweet. You know we could speed that up with SCIENCE.EG: Fire and Air wizards working together to saturate the air above with heat. Then ice and air working together to bring in a cold front. Boom. Instant storm.
Seem like accompanying Tsukiyomi won, I'll wait a bit but that does seem like the popular option.
>>29330330If they decide to use the Holy nuke, it'll be too late. The hidden power of the golem army and of Emeth is that they were imbued with our manaphage ability. Tsu designed them to eat the nuke. Once the army is activated, they can absorb the Holy nuke's energy and use it to fuel themselves and their attacks.
>>29330430I have no clue what to do but I do know this, going with Tsu is the path most likely to lead to a confrontation with "that man".How many stones? Distance between each one? How long they take to activate? And Tsu has 3 hero summons, 2 to spare given her plan yes? Worst comes to worse we might have to sacrifice a hero to make our escape. We can't take him with anything less than everyone we got/can get in the future.
>>29330482Unless they've laced the nuke with something we don't know about. But we probably can't operate on that assumption. If the nuke goes off we're done.
>>29330482Problem with that is that there isn't enough golem to absorb the nukes, the entire golem army numbers in around ten thousands and for the moments there's around a single thousand top buried on the flanks.
Sorry for this delay, had a bit of a interruption irl but the update is coming along nicely.
Each options have merits with obvious disadvantage from your presence of lack of it thereof. Your mind however, was already made up before you started weighing the pros and cons, your mind settled onto the brilliant eyes of your future wife and for a moment ,the entire assembly was once again, bound to your lisps. ‘’I will accompany Tsukiyomi-no-Mikoto in order to make her accomplish her strategy’’Perhaps it was predictable for you to stay with your lover, Ame smiled and looked down giving off a momentary expression of strange sadness that was quickly beaten back when her mother stepped forward, plinking one of the gloriously decorated scroll given to her by Bletsia.‘’Ame take this. It’ll summon Darm, don’t be afraid to use if it you need to’’Darm? Now that’s a name you haven’t heard in a while, bring you back to school…‘’Hoho? The father of summoning? Now that could be interesting.’’Mebuchednazi sounded quite cheerful and for good reason, amongst the heroes he, along with one other woman, was part of the magical duo acting as backbones when the thirteen fought against the titans but information about him was scarce with the only certainty being that he somehow survived the onslaught of the final battle with the Demon Lord, yet… how could he die afterward?‘’Come with me, Siegfried’’Just like that, Tsukiyomi exited the common room, you saw Rhy wave a timid goodbye in your direction and you decided to oblige and acknowledge her while the women around you exited in a bit of a huff, eager to put this bad memory behind them.--02:40 pm
The preparations to the coming fight were all but finished and now the troops waiting eagerly for the clash, you followed the Queen-Mother to the very top of the fortress into the impressive, large tower right atop the headquarter, giving you vision of the enemy army and you couldn’t help but feel awe at the scales of the crusaders whose numbers expended to engulf the horizon, thousands upon thousands of men and women lined up in a neat line, glowering shield an armor reflecting the crouching sun with auxiliaries and others troops spreading into the forest while archers and crossbowmen sat along the frontline, glaring at the defending monsters. Thirty thousand? Thirty five? Maybe forty? You’ve heard that the Church could muster an army up to two hundred thousand… Something Zipangu could actually do, if it weren’t spread on two fronts. The odd things however, were the complete and total lack of siege equipment; no towers, no ladders, no battering rams the troops lined up for the fight as if expected to claw themselves up to the walls and gateway. ‘’This war need to end in its opening, I don’t think my country can win a full blown conflict’’ There no denying the power of the Faith, it can’t be compared to what it was in the old days. To think some historians keep believing humans were stronger in the past…‘’Now then, let’s begin. This isn’t going to take too long, we’ll set out once we get our reinforcement’’‘’Were really going to fight…Heh, never a dull moment with you’’Leila finally managed to talk, her hand grasping the magical sword while looking between you and Tsukiyomi, your ‘’squad’’ isn’t exactly numerous; Tsukiyomi left her honor guard behind to serve her daughter and simply went up with you, Mylen, Leila, Emeth and Belphegor. It’s far from enough to make you feel comfortable, but the coming siege is obviously going to need all possible manpower.
‘’Be glad Leila, you’re going to see a Hero’’And thus, the ritual to call one of the great specters of humanity began – and ended- in the blink of an eye thank to the scroll. Tsukiyomi trapped the paper between index and major while taking out her artefact, the glowing golden pen shed small flicker of gold onto the ground as she wrote a single word in her strange runic dialect, projecting strong magic all the way down the tower as the magical paper suddenly light up in flame, burning bright and suddenly while the words within stuck to the very world itself, flaring and imprinting themselves in the air. One of Tsukiyomi tails shrunk considerably and a jet of black goo escaped her mouth in a fit of cough, momentarily choking her and forcing her to bend over to spit it all out on the ground while you heard the strange sound of broken glass… and from the very air itself, something emerged.As you prevented Leila to rush forward to heal your lover, the very world beside her cracked as a hole was suddenly created, next a dull ‘’thunk’’ followed and the sound of glass resonated with an even stronger intensity until, finally, some kind of staff stuck out, then went back into its dimensional pocket to break its cocoon, completely destroying this ‘’glass’’ to allow a very unique person to emerge.It was a woman of natural tanned skin garbed in light clothing ill befitting this frisky weather with the pelt of a wolf adorning her backside while long flowing white hair stopped around her midsection, with a few jewels placed here and there, enhancing the unusual beauty of the maiden while her strange helmet almost managed to conceal the pair of pointy elven ears barely sticking out of her hair; the skull ornament on her head, along with the blood-red eyes and the skeleton staff she was holding, didn’t exactly sold you on confidence despite the sweet, sweet smile she gave your little assembly as Tsu worked her best to regain her breath.
‘’Gooday!’’She said, shaking her hand from side to side while smiling broadly and closing her eyes, holding her big staff one handed behind her while you wondered how someone adorning themselves in skull could be so strangely sweet.‘’This is… no way’’‘’Please… start right away, Vasuki’’Vasuki Uruloki was the second mage of the group, an elemental manipulator of the highest degrees, she was rumored to be born from the sacrifice of four elemental shamans but the truth was never proven – or disproven- and she was one of the original six, the first group of Heroes that killed the High General of Demon Lord and one described with to possess the ‘’gentleness of angels’’ ‘’Of course Tsu, I’ll enjoy it too~ Come, step forward mister Siegfried’’She pointed at you, clapping the ground with her staff and you obliged with Mylen in tow, which motivated Emeth to accompany your second flank until you gestured for the girl to stay back as, undoubtedly, a Hero was beyond trustworthy.‘’You origin is going to make it fast and efficient, let’s start right away!’’Nest think you know her staff ram itself in your guts and you double over in pain, kissing the ground as that jab didn’t’ have any trouble to hurt like hell despite the armor, your bow clattered loudly on the ground and Mylen immediately launched herself to boxes the shaman, only interrupted when Tsu bellowed for her to stop and to Mylen credit, she did when you grunted in approval.‘’That was for making Tsukiyomi cry~’’She said with the sweetest of voice and smile.
--The ritual in question felt almost insultingly fast; you simply had to slash your hand while in Focus and have her drink it and the elf projected a pillar of strange gray matter into the sky after an incantation followed by a dance, her veins light up in a strangely unique indigo colors that clashed with her skin but, once over, she simply stopped while gazing at the clear sky in brief wonder.‘’You made this easy for me didn’t you, Tsu?’’She asked the queen-mother who simply smiled and shrugged.‘’Making my job easy… well! In three to five hours, I hope you’ll enjoy another thunderstorm.’’Now then… there’s nothing holding you back anymore.Do you>Wait for Athena and Sylphis>Encourage departing without them, they’ll be needed here. >Something else?
>>29332178>>Wait for Athena and Sylphis
>>29332178Wait, you can never have to much back up.Also, quality time with Ame after this (barring horrible injuries/death)
>>29332178>Wait for Athena and SylphisBetter to have them in case we're attacked.Also, >Ame smiled and looked down giving off a momentary expression of strange sadness, I suppose we should try to spend time with her.
>>29332178Not taking any friggin' chances, we're waitin', and where the hell is Hadraniel? I thought she was coming too. This force, fully assembled, can likely hold off the one fucker I'm praying to high heaven we don't meet. Can't kill him with it, but can hold him off long enough to do our job and run like a little bitch! Might be able to chase off the other potential ass wrecker the church has but that we actually kinda like as a person. Oh boy if it's her Leila is gonna be hurtin'.
Phew probably need a short rest after writing all of that, hopefully you guys will come to like this new hero.
>>29332495Before she dies valiantly to ensure our success...Still, an Elf eh? Well they are supposed to be way better at magic than humies so I can see how this worked out so well. You'd think that'd save em' from getting corrupted so easily but hey, if ya too proud to admit ya got a problem you'll never get around to fixing it.
>>29332592Not jsut any elf, a brown one too. Staying behind would have you see who this ''Darm'' is
>>29332642A beardless dwarf
>>29332642You said "Father of Summoning" so I already know how that goes. Final Fantasy level BS is a go, I sure hope they're ready for Giga Flare.
>>29332717 Another Elf, actually. They were pretty big on magic back in the day. I jsut thought it's about them we get to see some pointy ears since we got a dorf stuck inside a machine
>>29332761You can never have enough Dwarves
>>29332495Take your time, dude, no rush.
>>29332896True, only one of them was in the Heroes tough given how hard the dorfs got hit in the underground fights but one if better than none!
>>29332955See that's what happens when you dig to deep!Honestly you'd thing the bearded booze hounds would learn to take it a bit more slowly digging down into the depths of the earth, try and make sure you're not gonna wake something up that you'd really like to stay asleep before ya plant the next magical powder keg.
>>29333037To their credits, they didn'T dig too deep. The Demon Lord hit them very, very hard because he understood that he'd be fucked if the dwarves were to ally with humans and elves and manufacture their weapons en masse.
>>29333082Damn, why'd he have to be so smart? And then after that the new Demon Lord rolls in and essentially takes advantage of the fact that they like to drink, party, and go home to a lusty wife and so they all get corrupted before they even know it.Sucks to be a dorf.
14th day of prophecy; 02:50 pm.‘’I really wish… I could see you in better circumstances’’Tsukiyomi finally regained enough composure to let out these soft words while you grumped while stomach, not too sure what to think of this elf shaman, getting rammed by a staff in the guts hurt like hell but you can’t say you didn’t deserve it; sometime a man has to take it without complaining.‘’Now now, don’t be like that. Making it rain has always been my job; I’d be delighted if you were to take me on a scenic tour until it start.’’This new arrival, Vasuki, walked toward the blond Tenko and wrapped her in her arms, her staff started to creepily hover around them as its empty sockets light up in blue along with an aura highlighted its entire length, you swear you heard some kind of cackling but that could have been Tsukiyomi laugh as she separated from her old time friend.‘’I’ve got to admit, I’m not exactly enthusiastic in fighting the church’’Leila finally said, taking the opportunity of the relaxed atmosphere to let her worries known as she tried her best to whisper, no doubt Tsu and the elven acute hearing picked up on it regardless but, you gave her a solemn stare and drifted your gaze toward your sword.‘’You’ve made up your mind by following me, but I won’t ask you to come against your wishes’’‘’Nah, it’s alright. I’ll do it’’ She tapped your shoulder then gave Leila and Emeth a nod, the two other girls kept to themselves as they braced for inevitable conflict, both of the women took their support from keeping a hand on your shoulders, the golem didn’t seem to trigger Mylen usual jealousy… or maybe she didn’t realized it, so focused was she in her inner thought. If there’s one thing that ought to be sacred between friends and foes, it’s the silence allowed to someone before the fight.--
Coming from the depths of the tower was the clapping sound of fast feet and interlocking armors, you, Mylen and Emeth made way for the coming trio as the sheer, raw anticipation of the soul link was nearly enough to motivate you to hide somewhere in cold sweat, Athena Sylphis and Hadraniel would obviously keep these feelings to themselves but by Mother Earth were they excited in coming up here! The first one to emerge was Sylphis, the swift, small mantis burst out of the tower in a blur, landing one meter from the exit as she immediately zeroed in on you, initiating a zigzagging charge that saw her fly right under Mylen legs who barely had time to take a protective stance in front of you, the outstretched scythes had been thankfully withdrawn and, just as quickly, the mantis rose to her feet while looking at the two women, the Elf smile grew and she immediately charged the girl whose previously smug smile melted in worries.‘’She’s so cuuuute~’’‘’Mmmph!’’…she found herself forcefully hugged with only her antenna sticking out of the brown elf bosom as she seemed to squeeze quite hard while Tsu sighed, her smile betrayed her amused as she started to work on the portal. The next one to come out was a little less aggressive, Athena burst out and stopped, trying her best to recoup her dignity, her entire body was hidden in a big, hooded rain cloak and you immediately scanned the ground for the arm but it was thankfully nowhere in sight, the girl kept her face hidden as best she could; the only thing you could see were some pf her brown hair spilling out of the hood as she jogged toward you and Tsukiyomi, a slight explosion of emotions bombarded her chest as she ran past you, prompting you to almost reach out and stop her but you thought otherwise when you heard her passing, bashful ‘’welcome back’’.‘’I’ll hug you too in a moment’’
Announced the elf, to which Athena gave her a dumbfounded smile, allowing you to gaze at her face and feel a pang of worry when you saw her left eye; it had grown completely dark, the pupil itself was invisible, the entire organ was nothing more than a swimming wall of ink. And then your attention was robbed when Emeth jumped up while Mylen froze; the edge of golden hairs teased your vision and you too, glanced upward only to be caught completely off-guard by the floating, descending angel whose very presence brightened the afternoon sky. Her halo was incredibly bright, her set of blue armor shone with mystic energy and her arms (as she was actually hovering upside down) extended toward you, then reaching gently to cup your face and proceed to your chest as the angel hugged you sweetly, making sure she wasn’t squeezing too hard.……‘’So you finally came out of your cocoon’’The shaman (who was now hugging Athena while Sylphis snickered, having retreated behind Emeth) broke the atmosphere while behind her, Tsukiyomi pen was glowering brightly, her face closed and impersonal while her mouth move to speak long forgotten words of mysticism in order to finish her ritual.
'’You could say that, it took a long, long while didn’t it, Siegfried?’’Her voice was as sweet as you remembered, her blue eyes opened to look at you solemnly and slowly, the Embodiment of love reached the ground, reluctantly breaking the hug and sparing your poor heart while turning toward her friend.‘’I want to ask you all kinds of things Vasuki… but we have to forge on, don’t’ we?’’Leila eyes were as round as saucers and you almost felt like striking a joke…Now, here it is; in a few moments you will head out inside enemy territory, the siege is about to begin and you will face a reckoning unlike anything you can possibly dream off; are you ready, mister Shieffer and do you wish to give these women a little piece of your minds, as befit the past leader of the Shieffer house? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-psfAnnNA4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-psfAnnNA4
>>29334364I want to write something to say to them all but I know I won't do it justice.hadraniel a best
>>29334497I'm gonna take a little break of 20 minutes, so think it over. Or don't
>>29334364I'm not a very good writefag but here it goes. Time to beg forgiveness..."I'm sure you already know this but, I'm truly sorry for betraying you all. Even if I had the best excuse imaginable it wouldn't make up for the pain I've inflicted. I can only ask that you forgive me somehow."
>>29334650So everyone is here? Okay. give me a little bit, will try to type something inspirational out.
>>29334364We're going to have to get that Arc Reactor implanted into Athena as soon as we can if the Corruption has already reached her left eye."My dear ladies, we don't have the time for any of my usually eloquent speeches, so my silver tongue shall have to give way to brevity. I know that I've hurt you all, and I will do my utmost to make up for it. Let's go, accomplish our mission, and come back alive. All of us."
>>29334900Yea, Athena is getting pretty bad.We will need to speak with her as well along with Slyphis
>>29334364I told you about the arm.I told you to chop chop when it happened. But no. Now we're going to have to kill our lizardgirl.
>>29334974 it's not going to be that easy
>>29334974Well one loop appeared to have us save her. Granted we were dead and she was still mutated but she was still sane.Just need to do it without dying this time.
>>29334900Yeah she's sitting at around 50-75 percent total corruption. It's getting pretty close to terminal by the looks of it. I hope there's some sort of cure, though I think Siggy would love her no matter how hideous she now looks.Still, after this, first fucking priority is fixing that shit before it goes terminal. I don't wanna have to fight Dark Athena.>>29334974Explicitly a death flag. We made the right call, though it's a race against time to make sure it doesn't bite us in the ass.
>>29334963It'll have to be right after the golem army is activated, at the latest. We'll need Ithel's help, and get her access to Garret's lab and notes. Also get Daiyu's advice, too. First thing is to stop the Corruption's spread; that's our first priority.Then we can work on reversing it.
>>29335068Nah I'm serious. Let's just kill her.that's easier than any other solution
>>29335068The Corruption afflicting Athena is the Old Corruption, right?We can still draw out and consume bits of it, can't we? Or does that risk the Beast deciding that he's going to take a little more than we intend?
>>29334364>>29334714Start off by addressing each of our girls in turn. One by one. Start with the girls who we didn't take with us on the mission. We want to express our apologies."Words cannot express how sorry I am for what I have put you through. If there had been any other way, I would have taken it, but if I had, I would have lost you, either then or within the next few days..." let that sink in. "All I can do is beg your forgiveness for my betrayal and know that I will never put you through that again. Ever. We stick together from now on, and I will never abandon you again so long as I draw breath."Continue, looking at and naming the girls/companions who came with us. "You saw this threw with me. You went with me into the jaws of certain death and because of it you ensured that we would all see a new dawn, as a family. Yes, as a family." Make sure to sweep our gaze over the entire group. "That is what you are to me now, even if I have made a poor showing of it in the past days.""Now, I ask for something hard again. My days amongst the inqusition were to ensure that this battle would be a final blow. We have removed the largest threat to ending this war quickly. Today, I'm asking you to help me in finishing it. We will show my former homeland and the bigots amongst them that their 'goal' of wiping us out will cost them too highly. Others will see to it that peace will come afterwards."take a pause. Maybe praise each of their virtues for the coming battle, bolster their spirits.Bow down at this point. "Everything I have done to this point is to make sure you are all safe and happy, and that you will continue to be for as long as you live. Please. trust me today and follow me onto the battlefield for this day."(continue)
>>29335125Give them time to give their responses. Then finish off with something far more practical as we begin to walk out, with them following us. Give positions to each of the girls in order of their strengths and weaknesses (point postion, flanks, rear guard, center, that sort of thing)."Remember, we stick together, and no one gets left behind. I will carry you all out of there if I have too, but no one is dieing today, and no one is getting left behind. If you go down, I -will- make sure you come home safe. Any questions?"
>>29335125Based writ anon writing what I could never
>>29335125>>29335145Well now I'm probably going to need to write out a two pages answers after you put that much efforts
>>29335168Take your time INH.
>>29335113And then we get slapped in the balls by feedback damage, psychological damage due to killing a loved one in cold blood, general hatred of us by Sylphis and ame for killing her bro/friend in cold blood...Seriously, we have to at least try to save her, just randomly killing her is all kinds of bad for us.
>>29335186Can't we just suck the corruption out of her?Also. I have a question.Can't we just pull the corruption out and spit it out in it's raw state? Isn't that an option? I know we've done it at least once before.
>>29334364Look at everyone "I am glad to see everyone again. I know my actions were sudden and painful and for that I am truly sorry." Bow at this bit "we are short on time but I hope to properly ask for all of your forgiveness after this mission."
>>29335207Nope. The arm is apart of her now. So the corruption is apart of her. It's the same thing on why Mylen can't be fully cured.
>>29335207Remember it's not "we" who's doing that little trick. The squatter controls the throttle and putting our hands on it requires a roll. He won't kill her because of feedback damage from link but he'll take all he can. He's saving up you see, for the big day when he kicks us out of the driver seat.
>>29334364motorboat the angel
>>29335241Then can't we do what we did to Mylen? Pull out the majority of it so her own body can handle it?
>>29335254Can't, Plate Mail in the way. Besides, why motorboat something so pure?
>>29335186Okay so we kill her in secret. Noboy will ever know
>>29335254No, but before I forget.Return the hug!
>>29335207 Hadraniel Nightmare is affecting her. That's as much hint as I'll give concerning this for now
>>29335251I'm beginning to get epicly tired of this fucker...I'm beginning to wonder how much of a control this fucker actually has in us. I dislike A or B choices. I always go for the hidden C, it's almost always best. And also.Just saying... what if we force the confrontation early? Wouldn't a soul-binder put the fucker down in such a way as to bind him permanently? Perhaps even in such a way that he has to release some of his corruption at regular intervals to weaken himself?>>29335272Because she's awesome?>>29335289It doesn't work like that. Everyone who has a soul link with us will feel the feedback and know immediately what happened.>Hadraniel NightmareThe fuck?
>>29335330We, the nightmare can kill us in real life, whose to say he couldn't surf the link?
>>29335387wait, the nightmare is the parasite inside of us?And he's using the soul link on one of our girls?Oh fuck no. We're throwing down -now-
>>29335330>I'm beginning to wonder how much of a control this fucker actually has in usSince the power to consume Corruption is his power and not ours, he's got a lot of control. And while he doesn't have any control over us now, that will change when he thinks he's got enough Corruption-mojo to destroy our soul and take control of our demi-god body.
>>29335387*well
>>29335406No The Beast is inside us.The nightmare is the shadow dude from way back
>>29335406The Nightmare is Hadraniel responsibility, the nemesis the last Demon Lord gave her.
>>29335466ah, well still. He's just jumped to the top of our shit list.>>29335407That assumes we keep using that power. We got a purifier on hand now... whose job is to explicitly deal with corruption. Meaning our corruption sucking ability is suddenly MUCH lower priority and necessity ehn?
>>29335265Nope. Arm has been on her for too long. That was the choice in the swamp.
>>29335297OH GEE I WONDER WHO'S ARM THAT NIGHTMARE COULD BE MANIFESTING FROM.kill herkillllll herrrr
>>29335509No, he hasn't. The nightmare is literally something Hadraniel has to beat. The fact she hasn't done it yet though is concerning.
>>29335520Or we just beat the nightmare
>>29335387The key thing is that it cannot kill the hero themselves. It can however kill their friends in order to break their resolve. Here, it is trying to terminally corrupt Athena so that she'll be forced to put her down herself.Of course, it can't do this all at once for some reason. Likely drawing it out, making her feel every last ounce of it as she watches her friend *slowly* descend into madness. Hurts more that way.The arm either has to go soon or we get the Corruption Arc Reactor/PED suit for it ASAP to thwart its plans.>>29335520I already told you how bad of an idea that is. We're going to try and save her. If we fail, then we kill her because we won't have a choice. But believe me that is the absolute last resort after ALL other options have been exhausted.
>>29335554>I already told you how bad of an idea that is. We're going to try and save her. If we fail, then we kill her because we won't have a choice. But believe me that is the absolute last resort after ALL other options have been exhausted.I still think it's not an option, even as a last resort. We -will- find another way.But we should pull Hadraniel aside and talk to her about this. ASAP.
>>29335509>Meaning our corruption sucking ability is suddenly MUCH lower priority and necessity ehn?Actually no, since our Corruption consumption ability is much more effective and has less toxic side-effects to Monsters than Purifier methods.
>>29335545Hadraniel's nightmare gets stronger the more people are helping her. She literally has to handle it alone.
>>29335543If it's not dead yet then....Oh fuck, oooooooooh fuuuuuck. Remember, don't help her, no not even then. She has to fight it alone, A-L-O-N-E. Abandon her and continue the mission if we encounter it, she'll catch up later.On the bright side it cannot manifest in bright light and it appears to be a sunny day. That'll change in 3-5 hours. Not good.
>>29335617Yep I do remember that. At this point we need her to take it out before it gets Athena
>>29335649Well i think we know who the boss is
>>29335649Not abandon her. We leave it to her with our full trust.
>>29335773After the thunderstorm starts yes, it'll likely result in a perspective change to Hadraniel as, again, we ain't doing shit and neither is anybody else if they fucking know what's good for em'.Still don't know who we're gonna face on the mission. Just pray it isn't a certain jewel eyed angel... Though he did have flunkies that looked a lot like him, I bet they're all kinds of strong.>>29335842Yes, but it'll look like we're abandoning her.
>>29335849Not if we throw in encouraging shouts and some encouraging feelings over the soul linke.
>>29335893That might count as helping... and helping gives him massive power boost.
>>29335908I'd argue that helping is just fighting the guy. Standing in a circle and preventing anyone from interfering isn't helping -anyone- that's maintaining neutrality. If he goes for one of the girls, stopping him from doing so in a nonlethal manner wouldn't be helping our fluffy wing'd friend, it'd be helping the person being attacked.Our intent just has to be to ensure the fight is perfectly fair for BOTH of them.
>>29335962Nah see I'd feel safer being as far away from the fight as humanly possible. Remember, he favors illusions and trickery. He'd fool us into helping out in order for him to be granted his power boost if we're anywhere close. Don't want to do that.
>>29336070You make a fair point. But in that case we might want to bring our personal guardian angel aside and talk to her quietly about this. Or maybe make it part of the speach.
14th day of prophecy; 03:05 pm.>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-psfAnnNA4 (Because it’s still perfectly fitting)The battle had officially started, while no hostilities had yet to erupt both army had finished to move and the incredibly line of professional crusaders are making their way slowly toward the large fortifications of the outer wall, the primary defenses of the linked citadels.You nudge the silent Belphegor onward, the little demon-goat has been keeping herself quiet enough to pass completely unnoticed despite the scythe and, once the shaman elf saw her, you could almost see the glint in her eyes as she rushed to hug the poor girl who could only yelp in distress as she was picked up and squeezed. You made your way toward Tsukiyomi, all this while passing the girls you had to abandon, you hand gently stroke Sylphis head, you tapped Athena shoulder gave Hadraniel wing a gentle caress as you took in a large breath, feeling a slight tingling in your stomach as four lines of emotions zeroed in on you. "Words cannot express how sorry I am for what I have put you through.’’Your voices carried down the tower as you gave each of the women you had to left behind a stare, Sylphis bright eyes frowned, Athena managed to keep your gaze locked despite the pure, jet black coloration of her left eye while Hadraniel simply stood with eyes closed and a soft smile, her halberd stood strong in her left arm, glinting in the afternoon sun while her wings outstretched fully.‘’To have you accompany me was impossible for your valor’s and strengths were needed here, at the home you belong and if I would have been cowardly enough to make you accompany, I doubt you’d be standing here with me today. I cannot pretend to ask forgiveness, but along with the geass I am shouldering I make this oath: never again will I betray you, even if I’m my heart I was doing it for a purpose’’
Even with all of this. I say we should turn the parasite into our personal bitch at the next opportunity.It's in our fucking body. That should give us SOME level of influence over it.
Athena and Sylphis look at the ground in perfect synch while Hadraniel open her eyes, the sweet smile on her face never left making it clear that whatever grudge she could have over your betrayal was long gone or maybe… maybe there never was any in the first place while Sylphis and Athena are juggling with emotions, from sincere happiness to anger, but not bitter, an anger born out of happiness at having you back where you belong and for making them worry so much.‘’As for you who came and helped me through these trials…’’ Leila wasn’t quite expecting this focus when you look at her, the girl jump with reddening cheek, then glare when the shaman let out a giggle, hand going to the holy sword to put it half out of its scabbard, Emeth went behind her to hug her forcefully while Mylen stood straight, zoning out the entirety of the world while holding her magical shield, and clutching her metal spear in the other hand, ready for battle as ever; her wings flapped in anticipation.‘’You helped me with an insane plan, saved my life time and again and became targets yourselves without so much as a complaint; thank you isn’t even to show my gratefulness, instead I hope we can see the coming dawn as a family’’You don’t need to put emphasis, the words sink in on their own and you can’t help looking at them, even the duo of newly-summoned hero and disgruntled demonic little girl looks unbelievably precious so instead, for a moment, you look toward the horizon and troops while crossing eyes with Tsu, the Queen-Mother silently the end of your speech silently. ‘’I hope that this battle is a final blow for this fight is a result of my actions; we can only reach peace if we removes the primary actors that would bring it death and if we win today… they’ll be hard pressed, even more once we gain some reinforcements. I cannot promise final victory, but there’s one thing I‘ll assure each and every one of you’’
A smile grace your face, perhaps a tad smug, your crosses eyes with the girls, each of them unique, each of them listening in their own way, some outright looking at you like Mylen, others distracted like Emeth… the sounds of clattering booths and tens of thousands of men and woman can be heard in the horizon, grim reminder of your purpose. ‘’No one dies today, I’ll continue to work my hardest to provide some happiness for each of you, thus, I will personally carry anyone that feel like being left behind’’With a smile, you gesture toward the newly-summoned Hero.‘’Vasuki and Belphegor will also enjoy this privilege’’‘’I’m quite honored, young man’’‘’Lemmego!’’Ignoring the wiggling protest of the demonic goat, the elven shaman face has changed from her usual childishness to something more mature and wise, her traits softening in a small serene expression while her bright golden eyes look toward you and Tsukiyomi with a love similar to a mother, or maybe a big sister? ‘’Let’s fight and kill well today, soldiers of Zipangu for a peace never seen before is within reach!’’With a flick of wrist, Tsukiyomi finish her portal, the golden letters imprinting themselves on the world cause a visible tear as the very world sway and cracks, a golden portal without visible exit emerge from broken glasses, standing at two meters tall, and a gaping wound upon reality itself.‘’Hadraniel!’’Tsukiyomi bellow and the angel charge forth with such speed that the very wind clacks in a hollow boom.‘’Mylen!’’You answer next and your bodyguard rush forward, disappearing with less theatrics inside the infinite gold.«Onward to death and ruin, Little Shieffer»>A Tale of Monsters -97- end
>>29336880Is the mech ready for us on the other side or will we have to "Call Gear" if we need it?
>tfw were actually heading toward the end.
>>29336880ha, win. Can't wait till the next game We need to get our game plan together asap.Can we get a strengths and weaknesses for each of the girls so I can begin going full tactical master on this?We need to figure out who is going down with us, and what we're going to do this for all contengencies.>>29336951We are? I thought we had like, 15 more days?
>>29336845>>29336818>>29336880I'll be blunt; not really liking the speech too much. Too long, that this isn't a final blow of any sort is obvious, and the ending felt pretty weak.
>>29336919You'll need to call for it. It's been outfitted with a teleportation scroll, it's jsut not very wieldy to have one machine in a squad... for now, don't need to blare all the alarms quite yet.>>29336970Oh yes we do ahve alot more days, but were well past midpoint and all, one big boss down, two to go. Probably 30/40 threads lefts with some epilogue thrown in.>>29336974Can't win em all I guess, heading to war with allies you recently betrayed ought to have a nice speech.
>>29337022>heading to war with allies you recently betrayed ought to have a nice speech.Yes, it ought to be a nice speech.But that wasn't one.
>>29337029Then give me something to work with because nice speech aren't easy to make on short notice.
>>29337049I think it was fine given the circumstances. Getting a good speech written is the effort of thousands of trials and runs and refinements. How many times do you think Martin Luther King gave his "I have a Dream" speech before the famous one? He didn't come up with that on a spur of the moment.
>>29337172Well this one was born out of emotions instead of trying to sway a crowd, Siggy had things to say to the ladies and he did, as far as I'm concerned it wasn't a speech but more like a public apology because he, too, has emotions. Are you ready to wreck some shit next update?
>>29337248>Are you ready to wreck some shit next update?hell fucking yes.I can't wait to finally see what kind of shit a hydromancer can wreck when he's got a down pour going on.Can you give us a big list of those coming with us and their skill sets and weaknesses so we can make a plan?
>>29336970General Note: All linked girls have combat synergy with Siggy. He also has it with Mylen, earned through more conventional means.Athena: Corruption arm hax. Strong and can take a hit or two. Frontline fighter type. Also synergizes with Sylphis.Sylphis: Assassin. Fast, light, silent. Can't take a big hit but can dodge well.Hadraniel: Overpowered as all fuck. Has mystery Noble Phantasm of EX rank. No idea what it does but it's gotta hurt like hell. Just, point in direction of thing you want to die or want occupied. Can take insane amounts of damage too.Tsukuyoumi: Squishy glass cannon magus type. Needs to be defended while charging big spell. Once spell is fully charged, point at thing you want gone and it will disappear. Can likely do normal Zipangu-type summons as well as hero summons and of course, fox fire.Vasuki: Elemental magus. Power level unknown but has to be high. Assume squishy but with faster cast times than Tsu.Belphegor: Demon Meat Chopper. Scythe is like a lesser version of MEoDP in that it'll "cut" most anything. Can control it telepathically too, making it fly around her. Kitted out in plate so can probably take a hit too.Emeth: Golem Monk. Has holy runes so she can shield herself well and has 8 blades on her. Think of each blade as a "shot" of holy energy. The blade will shatter shortly after imbuement but if you land a hit on a corruption based lifeform (i.e. A Fallen Maiden) it'll deal aggravated damage/hurt like fuck. Fast and strong, frontline type.And we already know all about Siggy.>>29337172This. Spur of the moment epicly awesome speeches just don't happen very often.>>29337248By the emperor hell fucking yeah I am! We got a fucking A-team setup here, god help anyone who tries to fight us! Well, except for two people, well not people but you get the idea. They don't need help, they pretty much got this. Let's hope we don't bump into them.
>>29337321That'll need some work on my part, I'll start working on it, giving you a bit of a general aspect of everoyne abilities and try to work on a ;list during the week (I'll finish that Mylen lewd eventually, I swear!)
>>29336974>>29337049lack of a puchi in sight
>>29337397Wait we were lewd with her that night? I thought we were in dire need of sleep...
>>29337378Pretty nice list, Athena and Sylphis synergise very, very VERY well with Siegfried, I can't stress this enough. Hadraniel and Emeth could also add considerable asset to the team effort but at the core, the mantis and lizardwoman are almost telepathic. Vasuki is a bit of a battle mage, fast cast, move fast and able to summon the 4 elements (Fire/Earth/Air and Water with a little branch in vegetations). She's a SERIOUS asset, tend to focus on aoE while Siggy is oviously mroe the sniping type.
>>29337514How much does Siegfried know about the Corruption in Athena's arm? Would the past loops have given him insight enough to know that it's a good chance that Hadraniel's Nightmare is behind the spreading Corruption? Does he know how to draw it out so that Hadraniel can fight it?
>>29337514So she can use the 4 elements without much trouble and can use "wood" element in a pinch. Very nice. AoE always helps but sometimes ya just need a focused blast of pain to burst an enemy down to 0 hp and she doesn't have manaphage.So yay we have something on a hero! Also, this is a big if but... Can we use Daiyu as a mana battery? Because if we can this is gonna be all kinds of fun...
>>29337632He's pretty knowledgeable about it, if there was any concern for immediate actions, Siggy would have made it known, as for the corruptio nbeing the nightmare, it's pretty much common knowledge for everyone, but no one can do anything about it.... for now. As for your last question, nope, that's not something he know how to do. >>29337643>Demon Lord as mana batteryOnly by making a constant portal for magic to filter through. Don't go thinking doesn't have some awesome reserves, because by jooves, she does. Heroic mages are pretty bullshit in that department.
>>29337699>As for your last question, nope, that's not something he know how to do.I was hoping that he might have stumbled upon the trigger in a majority of his previous loops so that he could infer it. Well, something to talk with Hadraniel about, then.
>>29337378>>29337514Okay, given even this basic information I can begin to form a game plan.Front line: Hadraneil. She takes point. We need her on point for this. Emeth goes front line too. She'll be excellent for this.Flank 1: Athena, strong girl, good guard, able to hold down a flank easy with that strength of hers, but doesn't put her in the thick of the fighting in case her arm goes wonky.Flank 2: Belphegor. That scythe ability will be excellent for holding down a flank against any mooks or even big stuff that tries to come in and wreck our shit.Core Group: Us, Tsu, Vasuki forming the elemental middle ground. Vasuki's summons will need to help hold down flanks if we need to rearrange. Our casters form the core of the group for trouble shooting purposes and kicking ass and taking names. Vasuki for medium power, medium length attacks and shutting shit down. Tsu for the long haul 'clear a corridor' area of effect attacks and shutting shit down. We'll be handling quicker casting support and trouble shooting (this is important when working with our physical trouble shooter in sync)Rear Guard: Mylen. Who else are we going to trust at our backs for god's sake?Trouble shooter: Sylphis. Our cute little mantis girl will be working with us as trouble shooter. She'll be working with us in fixing shit as it arises on the battlefield.The core of this strategy is to basically use Tsu as heavy artillery and keep her protected as we move across the battlefield to sort out problems and work our way towards the fortress. Our goal is to keep moving and sort out the big problems.If Hadriel goes down or has to deal with shit on her own, then Athena moves into her postion and Vasuki's summons pick up the slack.Same goes for when we get Emeth over to the new golem army for her to lead.
>>29337894You forgot Leila
>>29337977Arg, she wasn't in the list, and Mylen was closer to my thoughts.Caster right? She'd likely be in the core group, but unless she has something that can be used against our enemies (mostly humans and angels) her combat abilities are going to be severely limited except perhaps as a buffer and back up spell casting trouble shooter.
Hadraniel and Emeth take point, Leila and Mylen guard the rear.Athena is on the right flank behind Emeth, Belphegor is on the left flank behind Hadraniel.Siegfried and Sylphis will be in the center, guarding the two mages.All in all, a basic and commonly used formation. It's kind of obvious where people would go.
>>29338013Leila is a casting swordwoman who constantly use shields to sabotage her enemies, or protect her allies. Very good healer too
>>29338134yeah, rear guard then.
>>29338134>Very good healer tooBy using Holy, right? How much Holy can a Monstergirl take before it starts doing more harm than good?Will Belphegor, Mylen, and Athena reach the limit faster than Sylphis?
>>29338172Enough to heal a two major woundsAs for your other question, not quite, the problem is that Leila will need twice as much Holy to heal them.
>>29338250Unless she unleashes a certain angel in her sword maybe?
>>29338013>>29337977Gah! I always forget something important. Yeah her. Swordsman. Healer. Has holy shields. Great defensive and is team medic.
>>29338384That angel is another matter entirely, let's just say her threat level will increase dramatically.
>>29338466By that, do you mean draw enemy attention? Because that'd be bad for us.
>>29338542we have a demon lord candidate caster in our party and 2 former heroes who took down the 'original'(?) demon lord.drawing enemy attention is a given.
>>29338144See I'd have Leila as another troubleshooter. She can attack and all but she's our heals man, we need them to be as close to all our allies and ourselves as possible. She's gonna be the main reason nobody dies here and let's not forget, once the heals are gone you're fucked! So she's staying well protected.
>>29338555Add to that the potential of bringing in a magic magitek warmachine and you'll become priority one in no time.
>>29338542>>29338555also once the storm starts. We're pretty much going to be the game ender in this affair.Cause our biggest problem with being a hydromancer is our magic doesn't cover things like velocity. We can alter already existing properties in things, but we can't add them without massive amounts of energy. Changing direction in water is easy, increasing the speed of already quickly moving water, equally easy (though I feel that it's more a case of drawing energy from moving water and putting it into single bits of water. So we'd be drawing energy from 5 rain drops to increase the velocity of 1 to nearly meteorific speeds).Basically, when it comes to altering existing properties in water. We are unstoppable. But adding properties is nearly impossible for us. So yeah. The moment the water begins falling. We tell every one of our own forces to hit the dirt and then we pretty much end everything right there. Cause shit will get real and the gods themselves will have trouble taking down a hydromancer in the middle of a storm.So I'd suggest we conserve our magical power to the bare minimum until the storm breaks. We're as much a part of the core casters as Tsu and elfy summoner are. Got it?We only use our magic when necessary or expedient. Otherwise we're focus-archer/fencer only.>>29338581Alright, makes sense. Leila is in the trouble shooter team at the center.
>>29338622and when the storm breaks. Well. we're going to go from 'priority 1' to 'only priority'
>>29338682Pretty much, fire mages in a natural fire are incredibly dangerous, earth mage are ALWAYS dangerous but the art of Earth magic is nearly lost. Lightning mages tend to be screwed because one cannot quite reach to the clouds and ''take'' the lightning bolts, but redirecting it... might be possible if your that good.
>>29338622See they don't know about that yet, in fact, they don't know anything yet. The first two stones will be pretty easy, after that the enemy will have received word about us and will adjust their strategies accordingly (i.e. Best Men? Best Men, call em' in, send em' at the problem). If it lasts more than a wave or two after them well...Field Commander: Ok that's it! Orion/Ismael/Mech Squad, get in there and deal with this, I'm gonna go have a drink. Honestly, the fucking 13 heroes? I thought they were dead! How the fuck man!Of course, summoning the mech will automatically jump us up one threat category, or if our presence on the field reaches the wrong ears and they know a bit too much about how much shit Zipangu can pull.>>29338662So I take it the plan is to simply freeze, sharpen, and redirect the rain's trajectory as it falls upon our sphere of influence?That's a mooks nightmare but a boss character might be able to take it.>>29338763Is it simply the rarest origin? I mean, because of how human magecraft works it shouldn't be all that hard but if only like 1 in a 100 human magi get Earth then I could definitely see that.And lightning mage may have problems finding natural power boost but hey, nobody fucks with the guy who can shoot lightning out of his hands Palpatine style.
>>29338581I still think that she would be better in the rear with Mylen. We've set up such a classic formation, and the enemy can fly and use indirect and area-effect attacks to bypass the guards to attack the center. Their first target is going to be the casters in the center, and they're going to go after the healer first. Better that Leila look like just another fighter to be ignored in lieu of more important targets such as the obvious mages in the center.
>>29338763earth magic would be incredibly difficult to pull off if they have the same restrictions as us.Getting earth moving is nearly impossible. Of course, if you were near a fault line like the San Andres fault? It would be ludicrously easy to tap into all of that stored kinetic energy and redirect it. I shudder to think how much shear POWER they could pull from an area that had frequent earth quakes simply by bleeding areas getting ready for their next quake of kinetic energy to pour into shaping the earth around them. it would be horrifying to see the shear amount of damage they could wreck with that.Also, Lightning mages don't HAVE to reach into a cloud. They could use their own 'tether' the filament of energy being projected up from everything towards the sky, make a connection with the clouds, then redirect the flow of electricity as it came down towards them.Of course... it would be REALLY hard to get good at fulguromancy. You'd only need to make a mistake once and you'd be fucked.Of course, if someone's tether went outside their own personal field they'd be fucked. You could set up the link yourself and just be done with it.
>>29338829No, you don't get it.Our sphere of influence only matters when it comes to injecting properties.We can reach beyond it (but not into the influences of others) for the purposes of just altering the existing properties of water (I believe).That means we could slow down the vast majority of the rain storm, and pour the channeled kinetic energy into the remaining drops of water (which is something we can do without kinetomancy or velocomancy, it's not adding a property to the water itself), and basically turn the entire rain storm into a hail of super sped up bullets. Imagine thousands of hydro-drills the size of needles.That goes beyond the realm of 'mook nightmare' and into the realm of 'fuck over everything standing on the battlefield'
>>29338853also if I'm wrong here:>>29338889and we can't effect our element beyond our field of influence at all. Then Terramancy would be entirely useless. It would take far too much power to move meaningful portions of terrain at anything like fast enough to be dangerous. Terramancy would be entirely useless unless they could tap into the kinetic energy stored inside of continental fault lines.Except that continental fault lines totally can touch the surface of the earth (you can physically touch the san andres fault line), so maybe not...
>>29338889I wouldn't say vast majority of the rainstorm, the sphere of influence is the limit of what he can affect with magic. Now, perhaps we can gather Kinetic energy from drops to "charge" a big attack (eg, Giant Ice Drill Spike like what ended Noscrim fired at muzzle velocity, that'll fuck most anyone up and would drain us dearly outside of a storm. Take longer to charge too), but we can't become a walking god of destruction. A giant can of "fuck you" maybe, but not a god of destruction.
>>29338829There's quite a popularity in term of oring amidst human mages (don'r forget about holy and the myriads of small, unique ''origins'' that make for personal powers)Lightning is the most popular, followed by fire, then water With Earth dead last.>>29338853Earth magic isn't too offensive, it work very well in forging/architecture tough. It CAN work for comabt very, very well but you'd need a bit of specialised teaching and one or two magical items. Also one cannot influence anything outside his sphere of influence, that's a hard limit altought it CAN be circumvented if your willing to consume more magic. It's more or less like this : Spell costx2 for each meter beyond your hard limit. If I ever do a rts quest, choose Earth for boost to infrastructures
>>29339001"oring"? Is that a word, because I've never seen it before...
>>29339001>If I ever do a rts quest, choose Earth for boost to infrastructuresNoted. I fucking LOVE infrastructure.DO A FUCKING RTS QUEST AFTER THIS ONE INSERT O_O I WANNA DESIGN CITIES AND ROADS AND EMPIRES! D:<<<was the architect on Harem Knights<<<is addicted to city builders
>>29339038Origins drive the knife deeper why don't you?
>>29339064I do have a sequel in mind... all depend on how this one goes, it time I start concentrating back on my prequel too.
>>29339076I see, so the majority of human magi end up as killing machines instead of anything having a utility outside of well, killing shit (though I guess fire's good for cooking and blacksmithing). Now don't get me wrong, lightning will really help once the tech level reaches that point (Easy "Off The Grid" livin'/walking power station amirite?) but until then yeah, only good for one thing really, executions.Wonder if that's why the humans went down the magitek route, instinctively trying to find another use for the most common origin.
>>29339157Pretty much, yeah. Once the elves civilisation went kaput, the magical stones were destoyed by the few sane elves left which in turn massively booster the rate of elemental magis for the one race that could tape into it ie: human.Previously humans were much more random in their origins with elemental mages much, much rarer and Holy mages pratically a dime a dozen, right now the numbers are much more even.
>>29339212Ok so they blew up all but a few of the impossibly important (like the elemental pillars in Exalted important) mystic stones that had a role in governing who ends up with what magic in order to...Make the humans more killy. Well... That's rather fuck mothering depressing now ain't it.Then again provided Bletsia survives this whole ordeal we may be able to effect some repairs. Those few remaining elves better get really cooperative with me on this or Imma lose my shit and stab me a knife eared bitch. Around Elves, Watch Yourselves.
>>29339321Kind of makes sense. The elves made sure that the one remaining race that had a pretty good counter to the Demon Menace got a boost in their magical ability in order to better protect the last few remaining elves and better fight the Demons.
>>29339321It was either that or leave them to the demons, having mosnters able to tap into the element o na wider scale would be horrific. At least that's what they thought. Better than the dwarves who fucked themselves into near extinction, those little dude always push things to the extreme
>>29339321Repair the stones? Why should we? It's better this way.
>>29339377We can also alter them to make humans on the whole less killy and more civilization buildy. Make earth magic more common than lightning magic for example.
>>29339352>>29339365Still depressing as all hell. I mean those stones had to be practically revered by Elven society and the Millenia of history behind them as well... Destroyed, so as to alter the probabilities of human magi origins, skewering them as far into the destructive side as possible. It's that last part that's depressing. Destroying something so old and important merely for the sake of destruction and war...It's like they say. War, war never changes...>>29339377Yeah but what about Gravity Mages, or ones that were into kinetomancy, or other seriously OP origins? I know, they were still rare, but so much potential variety could be restored. And what's wrong with most humans ending up as holy mages? You get what amounts to self-reinforcement, useful as hell shields, and you're a doctor! It's not bad at all.>>29339417That too.
>>29339460Very sad indeed...Hell I ahve two idea for a sequel, given how we talk about elves I ahd the idea of the next protagonist being oen of the few remaining elves wishing to strike out with his people and the dwarves to carve a new city out of the swamp and restore elven and dwarvish pride. My other idea heavily depend on how this quest end
>>29339460Spare me your insipid sentimentality. It was necessary to ensure survival not just for the elves but for humans and dwarves as well. It shouldn't be lamented, but lauded, for having the will and empathy needed to make the sacrifice so that others might have a chance and a hope to live free of Corruption.
>>29339520Next quest should totally involve a female elf and her monster husbandos.
>>29339558But there's no monsters husbandos, only females!
>>29339520More like restore their own populations. Also, tech level, needs to be higher unless the church is sitting on top of a fully charged nuke at the end of this thing.Seriously it'd be like the only case in fiction I can think of ever where a WMD actually helped restore life rather than end it. Just park that sonuvabitch right in the middle of the place and BOOM instant giant safe zone. Pick a part where it's "thin" in the geographical sense and ya just might blow open a trade route. Because let me tell you, they'll be needing modern tech before they can even hope to clear out that death world conventionally.>>29339551I'm not saying it wasn't the right call, I'm saying that it's sad it got to that point. You don't *want* to have to do something like that, but sometimes you *have* to. Necessity doesn't make it any less sad or tragic.
>>29339520For the elves and dwarves to do that, they'd need a way to ward and contain Old Corruption. Maybe burn it as a fuel source; but that's more Human thinking.
>>29339619So, the holy nuke that the Church uses; does it draw down holy energy from the Heavens, use stored holy energy, or does it initiate some kind of magical/alchemical reaction that produces holy energy?
>>29339619Assuming things change after this? I think monsterous husbandos will probably be a thing.
>>29339636>>29339631Of course an elven-dwarven city in the swamp would need some seeeeerious thinking, something I'm not doing right now as I am concentrating on this quest. But it could be a fun thing to do, as well as making a huge impact on the world and make it a perfect setting for the yet another quest in the same world. >>29339669It used stored Holy energy while using a mixture of blood magic and alchemy to set off and drain some of the surrounding magic to ''fine tune'' the explosion.I'm not going to reveal all its secrets tough, gonna keep it juicy for the quest. >>29339686Doubt it, it took some time for the monster to become proper monstergirls, adding males in the mix is bound to make somebiological freaks until everyone is ABSOLUTELY SURE it'll work.
>>29339743>Doubt it, it took some time for the monster to become proper monstergirls, adding males in the mix is bound to make somebiological freaks until everyone is ABSOLUTELY SURE it'll work.Well it's something people will have to work on early on.I'd imagine the easiest way to make it function would be to alter the divine rules so that you don't get halfbreeds in the traditional sense. Children take to the same species as their same-sex parent. With very rare exceptions.That way you don't have racial divides that are hard and fast, but you still have distinct species without any of them being bred out of existence.
>>29339830Maybe, maybe not it's a solution that need long term solutions instead of a quick fix. It's not exactly a divine rule but the impossibility of the throne itself, Daiyu wished for the mosnters to become human-like, but even that thing has its limit, it copied Daiyu body and spread it as an ''absolute biological authority'' and that inevitably means they can only give birth to girls, as it'S the only type of body it knows.Not only that but a good chunks of the early mosnter girls were similar to the ''abominations'' you see in the monster girls quest game, you know what I'm talking about right? Those kind of monsters had no place in Daiyu vision and she spent the first three decades of her right genociding them as they kept eating humans.
>>29339887So it basically needs a human male template uploaded to it somehow as well as Daiyu's eh? Well, once it's fully repaired that shouldn't be too hard, unless in order to complete the upload you need the human male to sacrifice themselves. Who's gonna be the brave soul who'll sacrifice themselves for a better world?Please don't let it be us, unless our pedigree will allow us to survive it. Hell, with the soul link we might already have a workable backdoor hack into the the damn thing once it's fully operational. Direct it to follow the link and copy the first template it encounters, then add it into the probability matrix for what can come out of a monstergirl. Boom, human male births. Just have to find a way to upload a dwarven and elven template and we're golden!Well if the abomination types kept on eating the humans after "sucking them dry" then I can see the need to genocide them. They must have scared the shit out of the crusaders that met them though. Then confused them as they got raped, then passed out and got eaten. Oh well, at least they went down in a kind of good way. Death by snoo-snoo, it's not the worst way to go.
>>29340426Given that it was right after the Great Crusade, humans pretty much went on a similar rampage given that the ywere used to it, but they obviously more on rebuilding
>>29340474Oh of course, the humans and the other races took advantage of "The Calm" that comes after the death of every demon lord to rebuild.The problem is Daiyu came at them sideways afterwards. Instead of the usual "Maim Kill Burn!" it was "Rape Love Snuggle!" Instead of the corrupted become mindless berserkers they became cum mongering whores. Honestly... Nobody was really expecting that one and they had exactly no idea what to do at first. By the time a workable strategy had been hashed out, the Elves and Dwarves were already on the brink of extinction.In a very real sense her plan was more diabolical than any previous Demon Lord's. Why use what they fear, when you can use what they love to kill them all? It's a far more effective tool once you think about it. Even if she was pure evil she would have done it anyway if she was smart. The fact she's come closer than any previous Demon Lord at killing off everything except the monster race is a testament to its effectiveness. Problem for her is, she didn't want that. Sad really, happening upon the ultimate diabolical plan without really meaning to.
>>29340560The road to hell is paved with good intentions
>>29340619Indeed it is. Let's hope she can fix her "mistake" before everyone ends up extinct. We can still wing this, demographics will pretty much demand a significant population drop among the humans for the next generation but if we can land male births from the monstergirls everyone should be able to restore their population levels over the next century or so. Hope we can fix everything within Bletsia's short lifespan. With her the world can be returned to its former "natural" state, only without the constant war between the monsters and the humans/elves/dwarves. In short, a better world than has ever been before.
>>29340723Yes, hope... go ahead and do it, Hope. It's pretty amazing how Bletsia can literally hack the world to make things work
>>29340778Oh I'm not hoping too much my suffering addicted sir. I put our odds at a full and complete happy end on about the level of... winning the state lottery. We're fucked and I know it. Oh well, somebody's gotta win, maybe it'll be us. Who knows, I just got plans for if we miraculously pull this entire thing out of our ass somehow.And hey, about Bletsia, isn't that what magic's all about? In the end, it's magic. And you don't gotta explain shit when it's magic.
>>29340832Oh I'm coming with a reason to explain her hacks, she is the one true wildcard of this quest, something Mother Earth is picking up on very, very quickly as Bletsia never really factored in her plans. She has all the making of being a new protagonist
>>29340905Well that assumes Siggy bites the dust...
>>29341085Of course not, Siggy dying would be bad, very bad. We can't have that, yes?
hadraniel forever a best
>>29344723This.
