The lizardwoman step out of bed without adding anything else beside her brief words that didn’t really sounds angry, disapproving would be a better way to put it, but the bond given by the soul link tell you that her emotions are fading, look like she won’t hold it against you. Good.

The Mantis, however, still seem to be clinging to you, clad in her undergarment (both being of a pale pink) her scaled arms and abdomen grew warm thank to your body heat and her brown hair seem to produce the light odor of ``freshness``, you don’t really have any experience to compare it too after all.

It’s a lazy morning, one that will most certainly become very rare in the future; you also slept like a log and feel much more refreshed than yesterday, the corruption probably did a number on your body as well as your soul. Still, right now you got a stoic girl hugging you while looking at your bare chest (still kept the pants on) who doesn’t seem to be moving any time soon, if you didn’t share a soul link you’d swear she’d be sleeping.

Some free time, enough to be lazy, it’s not like being active first time in the morning will do you any harm either, but maybe you should take this little break to reflect on your current memories? You do know you’re a mage, Water mage to be exact, but maybe trying to brush up the basic will be good due to your recent selective amnesia, or simply going with the flow according to your instinct will do you just as much good.

Or sleep some more, Athena won’t mind will she?

>Seen quite a few quests going on, hope I'm not clogging up

>>17170531
Let's contemplate on our current situation. After we've had enough of that, do a bit of morning exercises.

Right now, coming back on what exactly happened yesterday would be most advantageous.

First, your woke up in a field covered with armored corpse turned skeleton with, also, a single one in clothing a bit similar to yours, the only landmark of the place beside the corpses themselves was a large withering tree, after that the duo that brought you to this town did what appear to be a ``soul link`` that is usually done in marriage on the island of Zipangu, from what you can tell this bond make you able to feels the emotions of your companions, only if you take some time to concentrate on it, but there also the fact that strong emotions get passed over without your wish, you had that example when Sylphis almost jumped on an announcer, feeling extreme bloodlust.

Oh yes, apparently the ``Shieffer`` family was slaughtered along with the arch mage of fire, it’s inevitable to link the field with that news but your still left in the dark, all that is know is that the head of said family is missing and the king of the land want his body back for burial.

It’s a damn mess, such thought make you sight a bit and, after patting the Mantis on the head, you slip out of bed once she release you and do a bit of stretching, your body seem to be in good physical form so you don’t need much to totally warm you up, after a while you are fully clothed except the breastplate that disappeared, that thing was worthless anyway, barely hanging on with holes everywhere. The stoic girl is already out of bed while you finish, allowing you to look at her firm, yet small body.

Now where too? Athena is likely downstairs, she seem to be acting like the leader of your company.

>>17170531
Try to collect as many memories as we can, especially those with immediate use, such as anything we can remember on how to cast spells.

We need to practice our magic, preferably out of sight of locals.

>>17170693
Organise breakfast.

>>17170693
Get breakfast, eat food, practice magic.

>>17170705
Man's right. Trying to do anything on an empty stomach is a fool's errand. Healthy body, healthy mind. So many mages neglect proper nutrition and regular physical exercise.

Speaking of, do some jumping jacks to rouse up the blood.

>>17170717
Oh, and try to avoid sex. Too much sex imbalances the vital humors and makes magic really, really difficult. Chastity'd be ideal, but we just have to make peace with the fact that you're going to get raped repeatedly.

>>17170750
>Too much sex imbalances the vital humors and makes magic really, really difficult

In what setting?

You rub your stomach a bit, your slumber having awakened your appetite, your eyes fall on the mantis that is now fully clothed, large cape covering her whole body scrapping the floor with her brown hood, she nod at you a bit and you can’t resist patting her head, with that the girl simply sit on the bed and watch you, waiting for your move, seem like she’s your official following bodyguard.

``Let’s get breakfast first``

The Mantis nod and the two of you walk downstairs; she’s tailing you very effectively without making a sound on the crack happy wood floor. Still you come back, the plump, happy female barkeeper hailing you while the Lizardwoman is clad in her identity concealing clothes, exact match of her partner, she seem to be looking at a map with great interest while eating some warm ham.

``Aye, breakfasts then you go young man? ``

If you said no eating, the large lady would probably force you, hell she already got two serving ready.

Time to eat, seem like this town is really peaceful.
You’ll have to practice some magic later on the road too, brush up the basic and all.

>We can skip to the road if yo uguys want, but you do have the option of choosing your destination here

>>17170765
look at the map and see where we are, what's nearby, and were zipangu is

>>17170765
Check the map, ask Athena what her plan is.

>>17170782
Second.

>>17170760
Well, sir, since we're flying by the seat of our pants, so to speak, I see what we call comedic potential here: lonely wizard, probably a pale type, doesn't get out much, running from hordes of monster girls who inexplicably want to bump uglies, in the most unfortunate and literal sense of the term, sir. It creates tension, introduces an interesting mechanic (sex vs. godly magical potential), and creates a source of dramatic irony.

>>17170826
>>17170750
I think OP will tone down the original fetish part of the encyclopedia.

oh and by the way, for those of you that don't know, in the monster world, monster girls are considered very bad things and often hunted, but in the land of zipangu (lots of japanese influence) humans and monsters live together and treat each other as equals (unless op went a different route)

>>17170826
>inexplicably want to bump uglies
it's because of the influence of the demon lord

>>17170826
>running from hordes of monster girls who inexplicably want to bump uglies

This quest is much less about sex and much more about adventure. The character we're playing is also amnesiac, so we actually know very little about who he is. He seems to be less of a pale, lonely wizard and more of a heroic, authoritative type, as the tendency to speak with a commanding voice and demeanor attests.

Leaving the bar, you pick up your bowl and head to the lizardwoman looking at a detailed map of the kingdom, it’s easy to see that it’s only listing the several village and cities of the north with road scribbled here and there; this probably is an old map. She nod at you, her yellow eyes serious, but you still see a faint flush in her cheek
``Sorry about your armor, I had to get rid of it, that thing was useless``
You shrug.
She point at the map, crossword between North and East of the kingdom, small village without its name scribbled on. If you were to head East, following the major road, you’d arrive at the capital of the kingdom itself, large city with the name of ``Rosario`` that is probably bigger than what the map lets on. A Journey south will lead you to a commercial center, city in the center of the kingdom itself where all the largest roads leads, named ``Crosswalk``. Going West or North will only delve you deeper in the country, your companion would probably object.

Going straight south while ignoring everything will probably take you a whole 2 weeks of forced march to enter the northern border of the Order.

``What is your plan? ``

You eye the lizardgirl who rub her chin, having finished her meal, you too in fact.

``I think heading south might be for the best, there a total lack of caravan in this kingdom with the civil war, the centaurs were probably mobilised, so we’ll just have to suck it up and walk a bit, thankfully we got enough provision for a month trip``

She doesn’t seem to be handling her leadership position well, but you nod.

Still, heading to the capital might be a better plan, you woke up in this country, and maybe it’s linked to you?

>Lust will play a important part, its just that now you didn't encounter feral Monsters yet.

>>17170873
You'll have to forgive me, as I wasn't here for the last thread. Still, though.

>>17170864
That word was chosen for brevity and comedy rather than strict accuracy.

>>17170892
The last thread was archived. See here:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17138060/

>>17170888
I'd prefer to go south. Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to get some armor before we leave, either.

>>17170888
We aren't going to stay anyway. So taking a detour through the capital is probably only wasted time at best, and might get us into trouble at worst.

Let's proceed south.

Rubbing your chin, you nod to the girl

``I might need some new armor``

Whoops, the authority in your voice was seriously thick there, but the lizardgirl smiled at you. Can’t see the Mantis, she’s directly behind you.

``We lack the funds for a good armor, milord, there also the fact that there is no blacksmith in town``

That makes you frown.

``Aye, our blacksmith, Leopold, was summoned to the capital for the war effort, and if I had any spare armor, trust me, I’d give it to yee``
This lady is really generous.

You straighten yourself up and walk ahead of your companions, surprising yourself a bit with how… solid your demeanor is, did you had a military background? Aren’t mage trained at the college here in the north?

Still as you head outside, there quite a lot of woman talking amongst themselves

``Shieffer family has been annihilated…``

``The work of that goddamn Fertinand! Blast his soul to Pandemonium! ``

``Ya heard? The Lady of Crosswalk got corrupted two days ago, news just came, seem like the purifier can’t even halt the process long…``

Well now that quite the small agitation. Might be good to pick up some informations.

>>17171022
>Might be good to pick up some informations.

Agreed. Let's see what we can find out about Fertinand and the lady of Crosswalk.
It would be rather impolite to leave a town without at least finishing one quest.

>>17171022
Indeed. See what we can hear as we head through the town. If there's anything we don't understand, it might be wise to ask our companions first.

>>17170526
GEANTALMEN

BEHOLD.

THE WOMANTIS!

As the door open again behind you, you don’t really wait for the girls to catch up, you proceed to talk a bit with everyone, the only male in the whole plaza being the old man in chainmail outside the church who isn’t saying much, for now.
Most of the conversation went well, surprising even yourself, you talked with a smoothness that was previously unknown to you while you ignored most of the stares people gave you; traveler are an almost extinct species, but after 10 good minutes, you join back with your bodyguards who were watching you, seem like they’ve learned to trust the people of this fine town to not stab you in the back, at least Sylphis did.
``Well now, time to show my result``
You say with a small smile, making the two girls looks at each other’s, but Athena nod.

``Seem like the instigator of this civil war is a powerful noble by the name of Fertinand who manage to rally more than ¾ of all the nobles houses behind his flag of revolution, seem like he wanted to start what happened in the Center a ``republic`` if I heard them right, but some just said the monarchy of the center simply changed hand, well anyway the royal family managed to rally most of the people instead of the noble and thank to they’re most fervent supporter, the Shieffer family most of the battle went in the crown favor thank to the elite knights of that family and now it’s a bit of a cold war with the Crown``

You clear your throat a bit; also you spy some weresheep slowly trotting toward you.

``As for the Lady of Crosswalk, it would seem the daughter of the ruling family got corrupted in a strange way but no detail, just that the young girl is sick with a traveling Purifier doing her damned best at halting the procedure``

You look at the fur covered girl and yawn a bit, she see your escort and clearly seem downcast.

``Ready to go?`` Ask the lizardwoman.

>>17171147
Yes, we're ready. I'd guess from this new information that we were either working for Fertinand or whatever corrupted us was.

>>17171147
>You look at the fur covered girl
Who?

>Lady of Crosswalk
Ask our companions if we might help.

>>17171161
One of the weresheep, probably.

>>17171171
but that's wool

>>17171184

Ah damn, sorry about, wrote too fast.

>>17171147
>she see your escort and clearly seem downcast.

Well, we should ask her if there's something we can help her with.

help the weresheep

You nod without adding anything else, however when you past the sheep you can’t resist patting her head a bit, she then give you a big smile while, then her voice become fluttery while you hear a small ``Thaaaaaank youuuuuu~``, no traveller can ask for a better farewell.

That wool softness was out of this world.

And then there is silence for a time, following the road with your companion, feeling pretty good after a great night of sleep, peaceful countryside with no snow on the cleared sky, perhaps this calm weather affected you? A part of you want to help this young Lady mentioned back at the town.

``Do you think we could give this Purifier a hand? ``

You really should try to tone down this authority.

This prompt Athena in front of you to scratch her head a bit, her hood still concealing her face. Well you are behind her after all.

``I wouldn’t be against it, milord, but me and Sylphis should stay clear of the Purifier``

Better than nothing, you DID resist being utterly corrupted.
With that you let the conversation end because now there something else to do: practicing your craft.

You exhale loudly, ignore the glance the girls give you and try to enter the ``Focus`` state all mages need for casting spell. It feels look you are incredibly rusty, having not done that in a long, long time.

>Roll 1d6 to see if you manage to Focus

rolled 5 = 5

>>17171273

>>17171283
High rolls are good, I hope?

No distraction, only the calm, cold wind of the north, the sound of shoes stepping on the ground.

Focus, yes, you feel it, you are in, each breathe give energy, you see some small droplets of water entering your mouth and nose each time you inhale, only to exit in a small steam, as you look at your hand, you can clearly see a great numbers of lines similar to nerves of a pale, dark blue that seem to extend in your arm.

You hear a gasp, stopping before colliding with Sylphis.
The two girls are looking at you with a mix of surprise and amazement; these lines are probably all over your face.

``Now now, I’m a mage, surely you’ve seen Focus before? ``
Athena exhale softly then resume walking

``Well yes, it’s just that we can’t feel you in the link anymore``
However, you do; also, Sylphis is looking at you with a grave intensity.

But now you feel more alive than ever, your body strong, ready to cast.

The very principle of magic is forcing one will on the world; water mage can create and manipulate the water on incredible scale, if the mage in question is talented enough. There no real universal spell, each mage tend to be unique in his development, you can create a frost weapon, armor, create a solid bubble, create a wave that you send at incredible force, hell even summoning Slime girls as temporary thralls for a brief time and even then decide on the type, be it sticky, acid, or shape shifting.

However be warned : an overzealous mage might fry his magic nerves and may very well end up an invalid or worse, consume his very soul for power.

But now it not the time to mess up, you can cast very easy spell like bubble or simple wave of water for warming up, hell even extend your body parts with a mix of water and frost, the options are massive, water Mage were always wild card thank to the ``solid`` nature of water.

>Short of summoning a tsunami, you can get away with alot of stuff, this is fun before mechanic after all

>>17171411
Is there a way for us to use our magic to increase our traveling speed? Such as with vapor wings, or a vehicle of ice?

>>17171411
>But now it not the time to mess up, you can cast

Is there a field nearby that looks like it could use some rain?
Might as well do something useful while we're at it.

>>17171441


That might be a bit difficult, creating wings with vapor is easy, but it won’t really be able to carry anything : you can manipulate force only in a ``thrown`` fashion as for water car, they can just slide so you’ll have to continuously ice up the road, this will drain your juice fast.

>>17171446

Looking around you, your group is climbing a small hill, no nearby farms; it’s just your basic plain view with some rock here and there, nobody to pester you as well.

>>17171496
Alright, since we have no sword and no armor, let's try to make a suit of ice armor.

can we cause the water/blood inside someone's body/eyes to boil?

>>17171561

That is unfortunatly impossible, manipulating blood

>>17171599

...is another can of worms, you can only force the magic outside of you, you haven't tested your reach yet

>>17171515
This.

You exhale a long breath of pure white fume.

The magic bubble in you, making you feel incredibly alive and bursting with power, the magic nerves glow for an instant, your considerable talent as a mage are made manifest : It take only a blink, you are clad in solid ice armor from head to toe, perfectly copying the style of the dead men at the tree, even the helmet.

Moving is easy, the weight is barely there, but you decide to remove the helmet that block your vision a bit. Also your two companions have stopped, looking at your with a mix of expression, this armor look quite noble in its blue hue with cold steam rising out of it.

``Well? ``

You wave your gloved hand; it’s not cold at all

``Don’t you feel… weak after creating such armor? Can you even maintain it? ``

You smile a bit then throw the helmet up in the air, it disintegrate quickly.

``I’m good, I think, might be able to maintain this armor for a long while``

You barely feel the pressure of its continued existence, you didn’t summon it of course, and if you did the armor would be bound by the common law of ice in the world. Now it’s as strong as the best of plate with no cost in mobility, and after a small stretch it also seem to barely hamper you at all, the coldness is not there, yet the two girls are definitely feeling it.

``So that is why you asked about mages yesterday…``

The Mantis resumes the walk

``Don’t put too much strain on you, I can feel the link again now so I will knock you out if you start to be overzealous``

And then the Lizardwoman jog to her partner and lightly slap her on the head ``don’t say that! ``

Small bubble escape one of your hand, you are bursting with power indeed.

>This is your first spell since recovering your memory, creating an armor of ice of best quality can be done in a flash, but not created for good.

>>17171644
There's no real need to maintain it, since we can create it at will and there's no (apparent) danger here. It could also draw unwanted attention.

>>17171644
Dismiss the armor for now; we may want to test out how long we can maintain it when we're further from civilization and prying eyes.

One more test of our magice: reach.

Try having a spear of ice leap from our pointed finger towards a target. See what kind of velocity, penetration, and range we can get with it.

>>17171644
Let's try to find out more about the girls. What do they like to do, how was their youth etc.

>>17171768
this

Your hand close in a solid fist, the armor disintegrates leaving you perfectly dry. There no need for incantation, or for any special gesture, it just makes it easier to move a bit while casting, at least it is for you, and maybe that how you studied?

Next come another concentration, looking ahead, your state allow you to calculate the distance to perfection: you index point right at your side, your eyes focused on a rook at exactly 37.5 meter. An Ice spear is thrown out of your finger; about one meter in length and 50 in girths, flying like an arrow out of a Longbow. However after exactly 20 meter, it dissipates in fume.

Time to retry, this time you aim for the ground at exactly 20 meters and the spear fly again, you do feel a brief tiredness but that quickly dissipate. Your spells, or weapon, take exactly 2 seconds to embed more than half its size in the ground. This was a basic spell made with the talent of a master.

Still, you exhale yet another fume of white while you maintain your Focus, feeling briefly tired, maybe but that dissipate fast as well. Then you bump right into Athena while pondering your next spell.

``Careful! ``

She tap your slightly on the shoulder then nod at your front, following her gaze you see a lone man walking in your direction, relaxed with his blade at his sheet. He’s still far, but the two girl close on you enough for you to feel they’re back on you.

``Doesn’t look hostile`` you say, bubble escaping your mouth
``Should we wait, or continue then? ``

Athena look at you

``Also your state might look aggressive. ``

Maybe, but it feels good to be in Focus.

Water mantle (deflection aura), water skates (frictionless sliding), water whip (long reach high pressure cutter).

Water equipment. Then we go with the elemental magic or weather magic: obscuring fog, cone of cold, water cannon, sphere of cold, hail, blizzard, tempest, big wave, etc.

PS: Perhaps you meant Undine? Or really just Slime?

>>17171827

>50 cm in girths

I derped hard there

>>17171827

Shut down the focus. We're just harmless travellers.

>>17171840

Just Slimes, Udines and others elementals create covenanter

>>17171827
Come out of Focus, we're trying to look inoffensive here.

You nod to the woman, close your eyes and let go of this unique state, with a brief feeling of loss, you suddenly recognize a fatigue that wasn’t there, but that might be simply due to the fact that you let go of your magic, yet it feels like you are recovering fast, could it be that mage need to enter and exit Focus in battle to not overcharge themselves?

The three of you continue to walk, descending the hill at an even pace; the girls stay silent while looking ahead until your paths inevitably cross.

``Hail, travelers``

The man nod, eyeing your group with interest, then his eyes fall on you and you can clearly spy a small expression of surprise, becoming masterfully hidden in his good mood, your companions missed it.

``If you continue the road, I fear you might encounter a rather… loud group of 5… er ladies, but worry not, they were employed by the Crown so they aren’t Feral. ``

Even before you can place any words, the man give the three of you a nod, he’s looking at you and doesn’t hide it one bit, you can clearly feel a great irritation in Athena, while Sylphis become a small, rising bloodlust.

And with that he walk, his hand nowhere near his sword, wasting no time Athena motivate the two of you to walk, but as you look back, you clearly see the man with a sparrow on his hand, yes the animal and not one corrupted. He then release the animal… and wave back at you without looking.

>>17171977
Continue, but be on guard.

A rather strange encounter, the ladies didn’t like him one bit, might as well ask.

``Why such strong emotions? ``

This caught them by surprise, but they don’t stop the walk
``I’ll never get used to this link, how can you be so calm all the time? ``

Athena is looking at you with a fake look of irritation.
You just shrug, why be mad?

While the two of you talk with some small interruption of the Mantis at rare times, none of you raise down your guards and after a non-stop walk of several hours, Sun slowly receding into its evening throne, it become rather easy to hear some loud, joyful and vibrant voices coming from ahead. The scenery at your left changed a bit for what look like a small forest with an abandoned logging camp, but what is there in front is more…

Well it’s enough to make you stop.

5 Minotaurus are sitting in circle, saying dirty joke, clad in revealing clothing of fur and metal, 2 meters tall and of course full of muscles, each something lifting a large war hammer or axe. The three of you are a bit far away to hear everything beside some loud expression of ``dicks``

And then one of them wave go up, look in your direction and wave at you, a big ``Haaaaiiiiiiiiill`` that probably got heard by the town you left.

>>17172099
>The three of you are a bit far away to hear everything beside some loud expression of ``dicks``

Wave back.

Find out what our companions think about this. We ARE going to need a place to camp, but then again...

>>17172099
Oh shit...

Who the hell decided to have house colors that triggered an arousal response in a fairly common monstergirl that enjoys rape?

>>17172138

Hey at least none of you wear red

>>17172122
Second. It doesn't sound like we'll be able to get much sleep if we camp near them, but then again, it would be safer.

>>17172142
ahh, just re-read the passage in question from the first thread, the main character is in blue, the corpse /next/ to him was the one wearing red.

I thought we were in trouble for a second there.

>>17172122
this, if athena and sylphis don't mind it would probably be best to camp with the minotaurus's (minotauri?), strength in numbers, especially if each of those numbers can beat someone to death with a tree trunk

>>17172138
when was our clothing decided to be red?

And then you simply force your way through your guards and wave back, clearly surprising them, and hell they even feel a bit of fear.

The friendly Minotaurus then wave her hand back ``Cooooooooooomeeee! ``

Sylphis is already right in front of you, looking at you sideway with quite a disapproval look that make you shrug again, you do it often.

The Lizardwoman however, slap your head. Softly.
``why did you just do that? ``

Her voice is soft, but still, the Minotaurus and her group are all waving at you, consuming what look like alcohol.

``Why not? ``

Beside it doesn’t look like those…girls will be here to stay; the camp they’ve made is made for a break, not the night.
…where does this knowledge come from?

Still you walk ahead and the big woman walk to you as well, extend her hand toward you and you take it with all of your might, giving a firm handshake that make her laugh in a ``Waha!``

``Name Tian, pretty boy, those girls here don’t deserve to be named, at least by me``

You hear a ``Whore! `` coming from the group, without any animosity. Then she eye your escort and nod at you ``you lucky, lucky man, fucking two fines women like that every night. ``

Well now, you can clearly feel embarrassment in Sylphis but the Knight pinches you in the back, but doesn’t say anything, probably intimidated by the larges girls.

She led your little troupe to her camp and the Minotaurus make place so that the three of you can sit as a group, Tian however grab you by putting her large arm around your shoulders. Each of the warriors seem to look like each other’s, same color of hairs with varying style while two of them are missing a horn and you see that Tian has one of hers cut in half. There a strong odor of alcohol, but each of them are prepared to move it seems, no tent to see and they are wearing armor.
>field too long

Even if it is revealing, hell you are seeing a nipple from the one with the ponytail, she see you and literally purr.

Oh boy, clearly Athena isn’t enjoying it one bit, she’s all red in the face while Sylphis is as emotionless as ever, except the link tell her irritation.

Also she’s grabbing your hand.

>>17172303
take the hand of each of your girls and squeeze tight

Why don't we ask them what they've been up to. If nothing else, this is a good opportunity to gather information.

And you squeeze back, and you make it really obvious as you reach toward the hand of Athena, squeeze it too and despite her embarrassment, she give you a faint smile, showing her teeth a bit.

And here come the whistle, followed by ``lucky`` and of course ``fuck’em good`` without forgetting ``plant your seeds`` from Tian. This action seems to have cleared away a brief… oppressive atmosphere, seem like you marked your territory between these Minotaurus and they respect that.

``Well then! ``

Tian get up, cracking her neck, her companions start whining a bit ``sisters, we got a job don’t we? ``

Others protestations to which the leader respond ``lazy whores! ``

You didn’t really had time to make yourself comfortable it seems, still, one of the sisters hand you a small cup of clear water… that is stolen by Sylphis, she gulp it down in one shot, without feeling any adverse effect.

``Don’t we have bandits to kills? ``

That makes you look at the leader, prompting you to releasing the hands of your guards and standing up, having to tilt your neck upward.

``Bandits? ``

You simply ask, the large girl nod, still having her big smile
``We got employed by a man of the crown to clear out an encampment here in the forest, they probably number in the thirties and not only did they steal some Holstaurus, they went and kidnapped some men and woman! Presumed dead now but still, someone got to kill em``

Then she looks at you, followed by your guards, hosting her axe on her shoulder.

`` Tell you what, you help us and I’ll give you some gems, those things are really handy for mages aren’t they? ``

…Really? Since when? Also seem like your clothes give your profession away big times.

Reflect upon the oldest and most primal of the Adventurer's virtues: a keenly honed edge of paranoia. Squeeze hands for moral support, look around the camp carefully, and take careful note of possible escape routes. Can't outrun a Minotaur, so outright flight is just about worthless, but you never know what might turn up.

>>17172464
>>17172467
Well, they seem helpful and note likely to rape immediately. Good news that they're focused on the job at hand.

Also gems are handy for mages. You can trade them to get things that are actually useful. You could also set them in rings or tiaras to look pretty, which is an added bonus. Anyway, it's a fairly small request for some magical backup. I see no harm in conferring with our two comrades and proposing that we agree to help out.

>>17172464
This time we check with our companions before making any rash decisions. But I'm for it.

>>17172486

Actually gems can be used as offensive tools, but you were a bit too amnesiac to remember that part

>>17172497
Seconding this.

>>17172464
Confer with your girls. I want to know what they think about taking out this bandit camp, or even if the Minotauros are the bandits.

>>17172464
back them up, the odds of winning go up the more of you there are and IIRC we only have 32/42 gold, those gems could help fund the rest of the two months of travel

>>17172500
A very forgiving brand of amnesia, I see.

>>17172525

Lets just say its not your typical brand of selective amnesia

This make you ponder, and then you eye the two girls that are already up and near you.

``See you in a bit``

You turn your back, grab both of the girls by the hands and drag them out of the camps

``So, what do you guys think?``

Dammit again with this tone of authority, but they do seem used to it now.

Athena take some big breath, clearing her hand, you see her tail popping out of her cape.

``As loud and… energetic as they are, those Minotaurus aren’t feral in the least, the sun will set in about… 3 to 4 hours, the camp is at a 2 hours of march at worse and I believe the gems could be useful, both to you milord, and to help funds ourselves…``

She trail off a bit and don’t look you in the eye, pretty easy to understand why.

``Yes, Athena doesn’t want you in harm way``

The stoic girl next to you responds for her partner

Can’t help but smile as the lizardwoman grow a bit red.

``Well, what do you think, Sylphis?``

This make her blink a bit and she look you in the eye for a good 3 seconds, also the Minotaurus seem ready to depart.

``I don’t care, if they double cross us I’ll slaughter them``

Scary…

Still seem like the decision is yours to make.

>>17172569
Go with them and attack the bandit camp.

Either they pull through and you have funding for the journey, or they betray us, and we have a nice steak dinner.

>>17172569
We're going for it. It's unlikely the minotaurs will need much help, but let's earn whatever share of the loot we get.

>>17172569
"Well, we could use the gems and a little more money, don't you think. And the minotaurus are nice if a bit rowdy. So why not, let's help them out."

Thus the agreement is made, the three of you nod and Tian is quite excited.

``Can’t wait to see mage in action! Also, worry not boy, us Lin sisters like to call ourselves honorable.``

As carefree as they were previously, now each of the woman are harboring serious expression while grabbing their weapons, they nod at you and your group, obviously seeing you in a new light.

``Be good to have a mage, even I don’t know if we could manage to annihilate an entrenched position with only us 5. Name Yian, by the way``

Solid handshake, then all of you head for the forest, the Minotaurus slowing a bit so their normal paces don’t leave you in the dirt.

A silence born of duty settle in, in no way uncomfortable, you feel… at home in this kind of atmosphere, death and slaughter await yet there not a single amount of nervousness in your stomach, contrary to Sylphis who seem a bit… excited, while Athena is a perfect wall of authority within herself, also she has equipped a large, metallic shield that was previously at her back, without any decoration probably to avoid any kind of detection. Her blade is pale and about half her height, it seem to glow of a strange, pale white and as a mage, you can clearly detect a faint trace of magic, her scabbard must have hidden that.

The march take about 40 minutes, making way in the dense forest absent of bugs, the trip is rather enjoyable but soon, the forest make way for a clearing cut of tree, a large fortification of woods, more than enough to go a good 30 meters in lengths, sprawl near the visible lake. It’s easy to see the various bandits patrolling on the wall, armed with bows and leather armor. There no gate beside a big entrance, all you’d need to do is charge ahead to enter the camp.
They’re probably all females, but what is most unsettling is that you, as a mage, manage to catch the glimpse of magic inside the camp, something that escapes everyone here.

>>17172697
Tell Tian and the rest there's magic afoot. I'm assuming our best bet is to deal with the bowmen, since we're the only one who can strike at range.

>>17172697
Whisper that there's a magic presence in the camp. Can we detect much more than that? Also, encourage Athena to blacken her blade with soot after all this is said and done, should we be going on any further night adventures; the gleam is a dead giveaway. At any rate, I'll leave the actual strategizing to other people.

>>17172697
Warn our girls to be careful, as we sense magic within the camp. Tell them it could be any kind of magic, we just got a glimpse.

``Magic…magic, Athena, hide your blade, I doubt the mage in there can feel it, but it IS emanating a small magic energy``

She nod at you, you then look at the Minotaurus.

``there probably a mage here, can’t really feel more, the guy must be using small spell to entertain himself, but how would you have us Proceed, Tian?``

The Minotaurus look at the camp, clearly deep in thought.
``You group would probably be best to go after the mage, if we want to avoid casualties between my sisters. We could easily break through that pansy wall and having one or two arrows planted in my guts won’t stop me. I think my sister would do best with splitting, but we aren’t totally sure of the numbers here. All we’d need is to establish a good position and maintain formations, if we can’t do that were fucked.``
So in others words, take out the archers fast to avoid being pestered ? Charging as a group or splitting up?

And then you notice it : Sylphis is nowhere to be seen, you can clearly feel a rising bloodlust form her, but she isn’t at your side.

>>17172778
She's going to get a talking to later.

First things first: Focus. Do we need to roll?

>>17172791

No, but entering focus will give your position away since the mage wil lbe able to feel you.

also if you want to try a spot check for Sylphis, roll 1d20

rolled 12 = 12

>>17172803

>>17172778
Sounds like she intends to make the first strike. We'll need to move quickly after she initiates the attack, neutralize the spellcaster, then do whatever. Don't really have a plan beyond that, since it seems like we don't have time for it.

Only upside is that Sylph's apparent commitment to an alpha strike will probably allow the rest of our group to attack a confused, distracted, and disorganized enemy. Not as good as several simultaneous strikes, but still acceptable.

>>17172806
Even with the irritation of not having her here, it seem you are more than capable enough of handling your emotions but, you look behind, side, up, lake… dammit she’s not here! The bond just make you able to feel her in the area, at least she’s feeling some emotions.

>>17172815

You aren'T really sure of what she's up too, just a increasing bloodlust coming from the soul link, but we could roll with this if that what you guys decide

Ice armor on ourselves. Locate the general area of the mage and have it rain razor-hail inside the camp.

Let's get creative.

>>17172849
We can help her by creating a distraction. I'd suggest using the lake's water to create a wave, and freezing it around the bandit archers as it comes down.

>>17172849
Tell Tian that we'll cause a distraction and try to draw the mage out. While we duel with them, she and her unit can charge the other bandits.

20 meters is not that much distance though. By our estimate, how far is it from tree cover to the wall? And how big is the bandit camp?

>>17172890

You can only estimate, but you'd have to say a good 30, maybe 25 meters, without Focus mode on you find it hard to make precise calculation. the Bandit came sprawl with a 30 meters long wooden pallissade and is more than likely much smaller than what the walls look like, just that there a centry posted at pretty much a 5 meters interval on the wall

>>17172865
This involves a focus and subsequent loss of the element of surprise. My guess is Sylph's going to hit the mage first, which gives us the advantage of focusing without the other bunch detecting us. And if she doesn't hit the mage first, it really doesn't matter if we stay hidden anyway.

>>17172875
>>17172865
>>17172890

so then, take the lead, make ourselves the bait, use water of the lake as a first strike on the side of the camp and howl to the mage to come out ?

>>17172920
Our range is limited to 20 meters.
We'd need to get closer without getting detected. We need some way of getting closer.

>>17172948

short of becoming invinsible or hell, having the talent of Sylphis, there is no way to approach the camp undetected from the front. All the trees were cleared, the only way might be to take a swim, walking on the side of the forest to take a dip in the water but even that is a close call, a sentry might be able to see you since you aren't really well trained in stealth while the Minotaurus are way too big, they're about 5 meters behind you with Tian sprawled on the floot to avoid detection.

Can we craft an icy mirror to let us see the reflection of the inside of the camp? Maybe some kind of divination orb that lets us see through water?

>>17172993
Any use of magic would negate all of our attempts at stealth.
We can't do anything until the enemy mage is neutralized.

>>17172993

Doing that will have you enter focus mode, the mage will feel you. But no, divination is impossible for you, you can only create water in its various form or manipulate it. Yo ucan't branch off into anything else, yet.

>>17172985
Dude, we're a water mage.

Open up an underwater hallway and walk in. And cover our entrance by exploding the water inside the camp outward as ice spikes.

Fuck reality.

>>17173060
For fuck's sake, the enemy mage will notice any use of magic on our part. Sneaking using magic will not work. If we launch the opening attack, we have to go all in.

>>17173060

Its quite the distance however, doing it like that.

Don't forget you can manipulate the Force of your waves and summons slime girls, several if they're weak enough

>situation will change soon if no consensus is done

>>17173101
Without knowing if we can get the enemy mage neutralized or not, we need to assume that he isn't going to be, and we need to go in full force.

Any attempt to magically sneak in will just result in the enemy mage sensing us, and be ready to blast us with magic as soon as we get in range.

So I vote we summon a number of slime girls, have them assault the bandits and take down the archers as we charge forward with a shield of ice protecting us. We get the enemy mage to focus on us, while the minotaurs and our slimegirls mop up the bandits.

rolled 1 = 1

>>17172803
I think this was a spot roll. Going again. I'd like to figure out what Sylph has planned so that we can support her as best we can, turning her overzealous offensive into something that'll work.

And reading the intro, were there schtuppings involved in the last bit? Made it sound like we'd already done the deed.

This indecision displease you greatly, you can feel it in your guts, not being able to take action while one of your precious follower is MIA… bah! Once you put your hands on that little Mantis…

Still, time pass, you can clearly feel the girl through the bond yet no alarm is being raised, the tensions make Athena stiff, while Tien look with a complete serious expression. The bandits continue their patrols, not really bothering to look in your general direction and that faint use of magic sometime before stronger, only to recede again, like some kind of pump.

What the hell is she do-

And then you feel it, an INCREDIBLE bloodlust that almost seem to overtake you, robbing you of your identity, it take your whole mental fortitude to resist without screaming out, only clutching your heart as the incredibly violent feeling washes over you like a tsunami, what if that would have happened if you were in Focus… ?

``Milord!?``

Athena shakes you, your face is full of sweat while the bloodlust reached its peak, and it almost makes you want to tear through her neck.

However it’s easy to see the agitation, the whole bandit camp seem confused as the new of an intruder settle in, and then you feel a brief explosion of a magic, followed by a brief pain and anger in your link.

Damn girl.

>If this feel like railroading, I apologize

>>17173101
move towards the lake, and wait for the mantis girl to strike, when she doesstart the water moving towards the camp as rapidly as possible (riding in top of the water if at all possible see "Rule of Cool") and launch ice spears at any archers you come across.

the others can charge the camp after you've succeeded at drawing everyone's attention.

>>17173152

Nah, just some cuddling, monsters girls like to hug

>>17173162
Focus and charge in.

>>17173152
THESE AREN'T MY GLASSES.

>>17173162
IT'S FUCKING ON, CHAPS.

Focus, breach, clear.

>>17173162
Attack! Attack!
Time to charge in.

The bandits have probably been caught flatfooted and a sudden charge by our other guys should panic the living shit out of them. Your job is to find the magic user in the camp and kill or disable him. With this I have a good feeling the bandits will rout and flee

>>17173162
Enter Focus, materialize Ice Armor and an Ice Shield to protect us from arrows, and then charge forward while the bandits are disoriented.

>>17173162
Quick dispose of or temporarily neutralize the archers first by utilizing the lake; it should give the minotaurs some wiggle room and they should know to take care of them first.

Focus on the mage next. The minotaurs can handle the rest.

First mook we see, can we PLEASE boil the water in his eyeballs?

>>17173278
>boil the water in his eyeballs?
Already said to be impossible.

There come the thunderous charges of the Minotaurus, it’s quite the sight as they scream war cry that could probably be heard at the entrance of the forest, hooves stomping the ground in loud clapping, axes and war hammer held high, literally freezing the sentries in fear.

No time to gawk!

Feeling the distress of the Mantis, you hop to your feet and enter Focus without an itch, even with the bloodlust, your magic come strong and unending, the armor you previously practice clad you in your noble form, your feet leaving you only slightly behinds the Minotaurus charging ahead without fear.

Let’s make that charge even better.

With one hand, you spawn a floating ice should right above the charging giants, arrows strike and imbedded themselves in it with the shaky bandits tries, however they can, to focus fire on the angry cow. It’s not like you can do any better to help them, anyway.

The Minotaurus charge as one formation, literally ripping apart the wall in one single shoulder slam, they’re speed perfectly matching one another and the formation never breaking, they continue the charge right through the various wooden equipment of the place, trampling some of the poor fools who stood there.

The only thing you can do is run in after them while they go happy swinging, their screaming covering the sounds of battles Right in front of you is Athena, sword and shield out, held high and solid in her posture, her hood was thrown back to allow her head a clear view, she’s focused on you and only you, the bandits are clearly occupied with Sylphis and the rampaging Minotaurus, with the way things are going you’d probably hit one of your allies if you tried to skewer a bandit.
So you search for the mage, for it seem the Mantis is engaged in a duel with him, at least that how it feels with the sudden burst of magical energy and the girl feeling pain and anger.
>field too long

And then you encounter small formations of 7 women, armed with shields and spear, perfectly aligned with each other’s and waiting, seem like going further will lead you to the mage. Athena immediately takes a battle ready stance, shield raised.

The complete and utter chaos of the camp behind you almost covers one of their voices

``NO FURTHER.``

>>17173341
"Further!"

Remove the obstacles with ice.

Fucking finally, action.

Ice armor, ice lances at archers. When we find the enemy mage, trap him in a block of ice. Or soak him with ice water so that he can't focus.

I still think razor-hail is a good idea, especially if we can get the bandits bunched up for an AoE hit.

>>17173341
build a heavy layer of ice over their shield and spear tips, blunt them and weight them down to the point of uselessness.

knock them out instead of killing them, we might manage to negotiate some extra pay if there's a hanging.

>>17173341
Create a spread of ice grenades, balls of ice that will travel along a path and then explode in ice shrapnel.
Cause ice to form on the enemies' arms and armor, weighing them down and making them less effective.
Then encase them all in a solid block of ice.

You scream back, strangely feeling at home on this battlefield.

The woman don’t move of course, nor does Athena, Sylphis is making a good job of holding the mage but is weakening.
No time to mess around.

Immediately, magic surge through you, area dropping in temperature while the weapons are encased in a cube of ice, making them useless, which surprised them greatly

``Mage!?``

Oh but it doesn’t end there.

One of your best spell relate to ice, you don’t remember where you created it, but you do know that it was given to you by someone precious, this battlefield and area of death seem to make you nostalgic, head held high, you see Athena suddenly move right behind you but you don’t even look.

Two hand.

And then spawn a wall of countless needles of ice, 3 meters large, 3 meters longs, enough quantity to mask you behind them. Their launched at an incredible speed, Focus allowing you to pinpoint the exact force and quantity needed to break through the wooden shields, the messy charge they attempted utterly stopped in its path while the needles draw blood.

A feeling of conquer overtake you a bit, making you smile while the wooden soldiers writhes on the grounds, not dead, but hurt with hundreds of small vicious blade dug in their flesh.

And then you see Sylphis, retreating, her blade arms having turned outward for offense, behind her you see… some black, ugly tentacle smashing in the ground, leaving a clear dent, the source of the magic being a little blond girl clearly having the time of her life, her wooden staff dropping some kind of black goo while it extend in some kind of tentacle, she’s seriously not doing her best, but she’s so focused in her fun that she doesn’t see you.

Good.

Athena comes back at your side, blade dripping with blood.

>>17173359
>>17173397
>>17173400


Tried to combine those into one, and it did work pretty well

>>17173494
Looks like it's time to knock out that witch. BTW. what's the current situation around us? Are the other girls still fighting the bandits?

>>17173494
field of icy razors the bitch and slice that tentacle to hell

>>17173573

you aren't really looking behind you, but it seem like athena came back fast after dispatching that bandit. the Minotaurus must be doing a fantastic job, only thing of note is the Witch

Launch the ice spikes into the air and rain them on the witch. Better if she doesn't see them coming, and people don't generally look up without some kind of cue.

>>17173603
Hmmm, let's try to get a drop on her. Can we somehow mask Athena so she can approach the witch to knock her out?

>>17173637

Her duel with Sylphis make her move around but she could wait in ambush, sneaking would probably be too hard.

>>17173625
Agreed. Then we should blast that tentacle-thing and interpose ourself between the witch and Sylph (assuming the witch survives the initial hail of spikes).

>>17173654
Can we use our link with Sylphis to make her lure the witch in a certain direction?

try a single ice spear for now no need to be flashy

>>17173668

Sylhpis is simply to oagitated, you can't communicate with the link so far, only feel emotion. Her massive amount of bloodlust is a constant pressure o nyour mind as well, making you much more violent.

>>17173706
We should practice suppressing that, when we have the time.

If we need to separate them we can create an ice wall between the two

>>17173706
Create a violent current passing through the ground under the witches feet, turn the earth into a slurry so slick and deep that she'll slip slide and sink into the ground.

``Wait here, ambush her when you can``

Your order is clear, you look at Athena with as much authority as you can muster, she glare at you a bit, probably not liking how calm and at home you are in this place.
Right now, the best way would be to limit the movement of the witch.

And you got just the thing.

Walking to close the distance, you feel a tingling in your forehead while you cast, forcing your reality upon this world and overwriting the one made by the Witch, catching her totally by surprise while she was swinging her tentacle staff, missing Sylphis completely.

First was casting and maintaining about 20 spikes of ices right upside the girl, next, was sprouting larger, razor sharp spike out of the ground that cut the black mess and almost manage to stab the witch in the guts, but the girl slam her staff on the ground, destroying one of the spike while the others only manage to draw a superficial amount of blood, the biggest one were aimed at her stomach after all.
Next come the raining spikes, you tried to use both of your technique but you gave up due to the massive pressure on your nerves such a thing would have caused, but there was barely a pause in your aggression and with 20 pikes, it’s a rain of death coming one after another, aiming with extreme precision.

>field too long

>>17173742
And what? It's not like being unable to move is going to affect the Witch's combat capability.
She probably has just as much magical power as us, if not more. And magical incantations or chants aren't needed to cast spells.

>>17173678
Seconding this guy.
Make it short and fast, kill her before she knows what's happening.

The witch shield herself in some form of sticky, black goo, totally masking herself while the spikes rain death. And then there is a burst, brief flames melting the ice while you feel a brief, but painful shock in your brain. A Duel between mage is the constant imposing of one will on the world, forcing one law and overwriting the will of the opposition. But you are in luck, you can clearly see one of your spike lodged in her chest, the girl is up and about, her attention entirely on you while the foul smelling black goo spew from her wounds.
There brief shocks as tens of black tentacles are launched out of nowhere, right behind her. A very basic spell, but you will have to force yourself HARD to overwrite it and come with a counter, or else be pummeled to death. Through your link, you keep your calm and determined posture, making sure Athena stays.

``COME TO MY SABBATH``

The witch is insane, but that isn’t a problem.

Went with >>17173625 >>17173584

>>17173767
not being able to breath due to buried on the other hand....

>>17173768
Overwrite the goo with slime. Turn her tentacles into slime girls.

>>17173706
Cool down by magically thinking icy thoughts?

>>17173768
Overwrite with wall of swirling blades of ice cutting the tentacles apart. Then have the blades fly at the Witch to cut her apart.

freeze the liquid from her wound so her blood is turned into razor sharp crystals right inside her very veins

>>17173794

You can't control the ice once its launched, yo ucan only give her a massive, destroying boose while its about to fly out of you.

Also if yo ucome at a concensus, roll 1d20. Duel between mages tend to be fast and bloody

>>17173816
Turn the slime to water, then have the water tentacles surround her in a deluge.

then while she's covered in a thick sheet of water, freeze it.

>>17173768
She's been skewered. It's only a matter of time till her wounds catch up with her, we can afford to play defensive until she makes a mistake.

Only keep our ice armor on, but intercept the dangerous tentacles with ice lances. Let her burn herself out.

Have our girls try to wound her further.

(can I get a link to the previous thread?)

>>17173841
Yo:
>>17170900

rolled 11 = 11

>>17173841

Will go with this

grow spikes on the armor in case she tries to grab us with the tentacles

rolled 5 = 5

What happen next is only a matter of seconds, after all mages with varying degree of power get slaughtered fast in case of duel, a person of arch mage level could simply cast with enough force to fool novice in expending all his energy and frying his brain, but dealing with the insanity of this girl is hard, her tentacles approach fast, the strength would be more than enough to snap you in half, you’ve never heard of magic like that but that is beside the point.
In order to stay alive, you have to throw back your basic spell to, overwrite her own law, hack it, and kill it. You don’t really know how, you just do. The armor on your skin is solid, fresh, made when you were at your best, supplied with more than enough magic to resist an axe. You know that she’s also in Focus, just like you, thus, her calculation near perfection and none of those giant, sticky, stinky arms will miss you, so now it’s only a matter of holding your ground.
With a tingling, you cast father than you ever had, overwriting this world law and the clash of corruption with your magic cause your brain to overload, your spears were thrown in the attempts of countering the tentacles only, the wounds of the witch will be enough for her undoing, its mortal, and she’s done for.

There a brief pause, you and her locked in an invisible battle of will as both of your spells try to negate the others. You feel your nerves growing hot, your head hurt like hell, casting, casting…casting!
>field too long

And then 9 tentacles falls, dead, skewered by one your spears and overloaded thank to your almost suicidal effort, you can only hope your armor resist the last one.
Or so you thought, during your brief exchange, you and the witch weren’t the only one moving.

You vision is clouded by the back of the Knight, shield raised high, tail straight, she grit her death and get smacked, hard, propelling her against, knocking you both for a very brief fly of one second, falling and rolling in the dirt while the tentacle reeled from the hit.

And the witch dies, because there was another warrior that took her chances, your whole exchange with the mage took 15 seconds from the very moment you cast your first spell, now she lay on the ground decapitated, a victorious Mantis standing over her.

And she’s covered in goo.

You feel a brief headache your instinct tell you, simply

Fuck.

>Never mind the dice

>>17173958
Assess the situation! Are the bandits dead?

check to make sure your girls are ok then check the rest of the field to see who else is still standing

>>17173958
Take stock of the situation, see if there's still fighting going on, and how do the girls look.
Also test our magic nerves and see if we burnt ourselves out.

Its strangely quiet, too.

Seem like the Minotaurus mopped up the opposition, well not completely you can still hear some clash here and there but the bandits more than likely abandoned their leader for self-preservation.

You’re still in Focus, too, time to let it go. When you do, it hurt, almost making you scream, you clutch your head as your magic nerves try to recover from the massive strain you put them through, sending your mind into a panic at the very real fear of becoming a vegetable.

It hurt, oh god it hurt.

So, so much.

Some part of you just want to die, right there, escaping this hell of pain, you probably burnt out some of your nerves, or came close so all of them are overheating or…!

``Raaaaaaaagh!``

It’s only normal to scream when one is hurt, still a stunned Knight makes her way to you and hold your hand, feeling up your forehead with her others, scaled touch.

The gentleness in her touch, followed by the link, is all you can cling on for now to keep consciousness.

That and the lust coming from a tar colored mantis who tried her best to suppress it
.
So many things to do..

Roll 1d6

rolled 5 = 5

>>17174030

check ourself before we wreck ourself.

rolled 1 = 1

>>17174030
rollin

>>17174045
Yay!

>>17174056
Boo!

>>17174045

>>17174056

Pretty lucky I'm only counting the first one

The pain.
Its staying, feel like you’re on fire.

But something at your very core scoff at you saying ``so what? Man up``

So you do, you crawl a bit, taking the support of the lizardgirl, taking her shoulder as support. You feel in a strange state, as if, you aren’t really ``you`` but you don’t even know who you are, still, you ask for Athena to approach the Mantis who is sitting, looking at you with droopy eyes.
She’s corrupted, you can clearly sense it, Athena doesn’t, and with this you can be sure : the girls can feel your emotions and you can feel theirs, they can’t feel each other’s, only you.

``I feel like shit``

You don’t hear the answer, Sylphis doesn’t look at you, her corruption is very real, her lust is growing and she’s ashamed of it. Soon it’ll overtake her and she’ll become Feral
So might as well cure her, right ?

Suck the corruption right out of her and eat it.

You’re man enough to do it. But does she deserve your mercy ?

>>17174078
I assume the 1 would've made us a veggie casserole?

>>17174103
Of course she does. They took our corruption. It's only fair we return the favor. Man up indeed.

>>17174103
Yes. Yes she does. Let's get that corruption out of her.

>>17174103
>But does she deserve your mercy
Yes. Considering she saved us when we first awoke.

>>17174103
> But does she deserve your mercy ?

Why wouldn't she? Did I miss something?

>>17174122
OP is just checking on whether or not we're going to be a hero or a villain.

>>17174122

More or less messed up the assault by going off alone.
you could treat this line as your more ``primal`` side. but the choice is made

>>17174103
suck out the evil

>>17174103
Sylphis is part of our team. Of course we are not gonna leave her to become feral. Move her to a private spot and remove that corruption.

>>17174134
attempting to take out the enemy powerhouse before anyone realises we're there counts as messing up the assault?

>>17174122
She jumped the gun and went in before we had a plan. She could've gotten herself killed.

A scolding may be applied later.

Moving your hand is hard, yes, so you ask your guardian for help. She’s not stupid, she knows her partner is in trouble, but it seem her priority is you.

And that make you a bit sad.

Sylphis is looking at you in shame, regret and lust, her tight rubbing together as your touch on her head is more than enough to send a sweet shiver down her spine, the pleasure of being touched increasing her lust, you feel it all, completely and its delicious.

But fuck it, people got more important things to do than copulating all day long.

Again you have no idea where the knowledge come from, just like every mage, the best you that can be done is ``do`` under the circumstance. But part of you know that what your attempting right now is..

Ah fuck the consequence, there a cute girl to save from herself.

You hand, held by the lizardgirl, is suddenly covered in what look like black runes and you just know what to do, the nerves don’t hurt, you can move your arm.

Magic is, after all, a quick and bloody operation.

So you plunge your hand right in her chest, making both the girl gasp, sending Sylphis in a panic as her self preservation instinct kick in, but she resist it with all her might; she resist killing you while, from her point of view, you are killing her.
She’s a good girl isn’t she ?

And then you pull out, half your arm buried in her body, a Knight on your side that can’t contain her tears at what she sees, thinking her precious partner dead. What you hold is a phallic serpent, writing in pure black that scream something, a sound grave and humid that activate all the hate in your soul.

Time to eat the fucker, so you do, a scream of helplessness from the beast escape as its gulped down by your hand.
And then you can only faint, because what just happened right now is beyond any normal man, much less you.

>writing next part

Being conscious or not doesn’t matter right now, it’s probably a dream.

All is black, but you got used to it, your whole past is black, why the hell should your mind be any different ? It all just foul smelling goo and tar that probably taste like crap too, but if you need to scrub it to proceed, then so be it.

You aren’t entirely alone, it’s a strange feeling not feeling alone while you are in your own mind, and this can’t possibly be schizophrenia. You chase away some of the dark, at least you try, but it just come back all the time, crawling like vermin’s.

God damn it.

Not in the mood for this.

Then you close your eyes a bit, but don’t dare fall asleep here.

``So, what are you?``

Indeed, what, exactly, are you?

You can only be honest here, after all, the most terrible lie one can make is to his own person.

[] a greedy man
[] a passionate man
[] a conquering man
[] a violent man
[] Inhuman.

>>17174292
[x] a passionate man

>>17174303
Second.

>>17174292
passionate, for everything. it's how we lived our life and how we got as good as we are with magic

>>17174303
>>17174306
>>17174307


I think I'll wait a little bit and see if more vote come it, this is the most important choice so far after all

>>17174303
Agreed.

>>17174292
Passionate, bro. WOO WOO WOO YOU KNOW IT

The choice is made then

conquering man.
it makes sense to me:
we are very calm, even in combat situations.
We are a mage, and magic appears to be conquest of your own will on objects/people in the world around you.
we have a very authoritative persona, even when we don't mean to, which means we are used to being in command of others.

>>17174319
well the only two we've really seen so far are passionate and violent, and the violent could just be us expressing passion for battle

>>17174346

Nah you pretty much had the opportunity to see every part from the start

A small chuckle, it comes from you.

Well you ARE talking to yourself after all.

So here you are, floating in your own abyss, answering question about yourself, that a pretty fantastic situation
There is silence for a moment, you immediately try to reach out and scrape some memories off the tar.

``A calm passion, is it ?``

Talking to yourself, again.

Were you really the monologue guy ?

``I had it, too, but I kept it for myself, would be better to give it to who you think is worthy, but I became a man of Authority, passion was just a foundation``

…Who is that man?

``What will you use your passion for?``

[] Love
[] Justice
[] Peace
[] Myself
[] Lust
[] Other.

>>17174383
[x] Other: Progress

>>17174383
[] Myself

mages, regardless, tend to be selfish

>>17174383
Peace.

>>17174383
[x] other; To be the very best, like no one ever was.

What? It looks like we're going to end up collecting /monster/ girls.

>>17174383
Myself: I seek to improve myself in every way, a never-ending search for more. Be it magic, knowledge, skills, friends, or belongings.

2 for Myself

I'll wait a bit more, this doesn't seem as one sided

>>17174405
seconded

>>17174420
How permanent are these choices?

[x] Myself

We could do [x]other to include Myself and our close friends, if that's what the other people are contending.

>>17174383
Other; To help others.

Athena and Sylphis saved us, possibly from a fate worse than death. We owe something to them in return.

>>17174430

They'll form the base for your identity. Can change of course, but these choices will follow you a while

peace
we know the world will never be truly peaceful, so we use our magic as a tool, to protect those that can't protect themselves

>>17174383
>[X] Other.

"How should I know, I can't remember anything beyond yesterday?"

so it seem Myself won

I'll wait a bit, but proceed with this choice if that what seem to be the majority

The voice, well you, quiet down a bit.

Time to scrape off some more of that disgusting tar, dammit it stink!

Again, he, or you, come back.

More commentary maybe ?

``Your passion, is for you``

Followed by an hmm, do you really need to be that obvious?

``I wonder, one person goal is usually the pursuit of happiness, you keep your passion selfishly. But what fuel it? One last question after this one, bear with me``

[]Friends and lover
[]Ideals
[]Hedonism
[] Me
[] Others

>>17174508
[x]Friends and lover

My love my friendship and all of my hope!

>>17174508
[x] Others

>>17174517
This, I suppose.

>>17174508
friends and lovers

[X] Others.
We seek to better ourselves so we may better others as well.
A cripple cannot help another cripple walk, but a strong man can carry them, while a god can cure them.

>>17174517
Agreeing with this.

>>17174535

I do admit to liking this alot

But Friends and loverS (forgot that s) it is

``Friends and lovers``

Your voice, for the first time, speaks out of your mouth. Conviction and absolutely certain of yourself, you use your passion for yourself, but you need people at your side to keep it hot. Thus, making them happy is what make you happy, what allow this eternal fire to burn in your soul.

A man of passion

``I am a who I am, I guess``

The voice stay silent

So you scare off some more and can almost see your objective.
Only to be interrupted.

``…I have no more questions, instead I have a advice, take it from me, to me``

You stop, because you must hear yourself.
``As a man of authority, I will say to you: it’s good to be greedy. Do not only look forward, look to your sides and your back, else your fuel will run dry. Do not allow some of the common sense of this world to weight you, be greedy, you are a mage, and impose your own law upon this world when conflict arise. Protect your fuel, passion and greediness tend to look the same``

And then the tar comes off, just a bit

``Guess it’s time for you to dream, a short, small but very precious memory.``

And then, finally, you can sleep.

>last post after this

Dammit its cold! Going out of the college into the blizzard is seriously NOT THAT FUN why does your mom has to be such a passionate person? Now here you are, freezing your ass off, ``bettering myself`` so that you stop summoning slime girl to touch the jiggly parts.

While should you stop anyway ? Hell YOU decided to follow her here in this place full of dirty old men, does she even know what you had to sacrifice to be here? She’s the one that said to listen to the elder, so you did, went out when that arch mage ordered you to go out in the snow for study, since you are a water mage.

If she didn’t say that you must obey them, you’d have flipped him off big time.

``Ooooooi!``

It’s a voice? Really? Here? Its thank to your magic that you manage to even be alive right now, who could that b-.

Well now, she…floats? Well she doesn’t leave anything in the snow that for damn sure, and now she post herself right in front of you, one of her small… blue? Hand on her mouth, masking her laugh.

Damn you, woman.

``...``
She reel back, clearly faking her indignation

``I’m no monster! Who the hell do you think I am!? Hey, you know, wanna play?``

Play in this blizzard? Is she SERIOUS?

``…``

She then laughs a bit and takes your hand, its…warm.

``I’ll teach you all you need! But you know, just to make you like me a bit, I’ll lead you back to your college, so you come back here in three day flat right? Also what your name?``

``...``

``Hehehe! Siggy it is, follow me now, y’see, I’m older, so I lead!``

Dammit this is NOT YOUR NAME

>>17174640
yukionna teacher? so very very want

>>17174640
Well fuck.
Them Yukionna, man.

>>17174659
>>17174653

Yukiwarashi, and with that I'm good.

That was one hell of a session. I'm giving myself 3-4 days again for part 3

>>17174670
even better, a little girl falling in love and then years later seeking out her crush to marry him

>>17174695
And here's us with two cold-blooded waifus.
Man, this doesn't look good.

>>17174695

>Childhood friends always win
>The creature