<~> Chapter 23After our little early m fun it was time to get ready for the day. While pulling on my set of sturdy adventuring clothes I thought about the system. I should probably get in the habit of cheg my status regurly. Si’s the start of a new day I guess it’s a good opportunity to look over them now.

  First things first I want to put on a different css to hopefully unloe new magic reted stats so I have more choices when allog the bank of stat points I’m sitting on. The question is Illusion mage ht mage? her seem particurly offensive so it’s a toss up but after my experimentation with Light magic st night I’m feeling a little ied in it. I’ll ge my css to Novice Light Mage for today and see what it gives me.

  [Novice Light Mage] level 1Unlock dition: Have Light Magic at level 1 her. Increases the strength and iy of Light Magic Skills while equipped. While this css is equipped gain 5 magitrol plus 1 per level. Gain skills reted to basic magic use easier.

  [ged Css to Novice Light Mage][Unlocked Statistic - Magitrol]

  Magitrol - StatisticMagitrol influehe ability to manipute, form, and shape magic. As Magitrol increases, your ability to fiune magical effects increases. Additionally, your trol of the magi the area surrounding yourself bees easier. Higher Magitrol lets you make more accurate adjustments to a magical effe the fly and force a greater amount of the magi your surroundings to follow your will.

  This isly what I was hoping to unlock but at the same time I see the value in it. If magic force is strength then magitrol is finesse. A bigger fireball isn’t always as useful as a targeted one so even if I decide to foagic force ter, magitrol will still be plenty useful. Alright, talked myself into it, I’m going to put some points into magitrol for now. I’ll also put some in finesse for my swordpy while I’m at it.

  [Status]Name: Lilith [Surname Undefined]Race: Succubus (Demon) [Race hidden - Dispyed as Beastkin (Sheep)]Gender: FemaleCss: Novice Light Mage Lv. 1Level: 23

  Stat Spread:Strength: 50Vitality: 100Charisma: 10Luck: 20 (191)[New] Finesse: 40[New] Magitrol: 30 (36)

  Unallocated Statpoints: 30

  Karmiergy: 1717

  Skills:Haggling Lv. 1[New] Swordsmanship Lv. 33[New] Illusion Magic Lv. 3[New] Light Magic Lv. 2[New] Light Manipution Lv. 1[New] Uuna Riding Lv. 13[New] Linguistics Lv. 10[New] Ritual Magic Lv. 1

  *Special Passives[New] Sightspeak

  Innate AbilitiesKarmiceKarma AwarenessKarmic Resonanew] Karmic Retribution[New] Dominating Authority[New] Karmic Hypnotism [New] Soultouched e Lv. 1

  Racial Traits:Infernal Heat Resistanfernal Cold ResistanceDarksightSexual Appetite Lv. 3Soultouew] Minor Physical Shapeshifting (Succubus)

  Titles:[World Traveler - Hidden Title][in of Succubi - Hidden Title]

  I should really check my status more often, a lot of this "new" stuff has been around for a while now. I decided to save 30 skill points so that if I unlock magic force soon I’ll be able to match my magitrol stat. I have a feeling light magid probably illusion magic would both be more from greater trol thaer power anyway. Unless we’re talking sers I’m not really sure what more power would do to light magic. Though perhaps there is a more direct way to use light offehough spells and I just don’t know it yet. I assume power just makes illusions harder to break or see through? Not sure, I o read up more on magic. The ritual book is written more as a practical guide rather than one on magic theory so I might o look for more books down the road if I want to get better at magic.

  Anyway, it’s time to get going. First things first we o go pick up Bel’s new dress. I’m pretty excited to see how she looks in it.

  “You ready to go Bel?”

  “Mhmm!”

  It was a short walk back to the tailor’s shop. Just like st time the elf girl was snoozing at her desk when we walked it. We’re kind of in a hurry so we don’t really have the time to poke around until she wakes herself up. I gently grab her shoulder preparing to shake her gently awake whearts to freaks out.

  “Ahhhh! Get off of me! What’s going on?! Who are you!?” I jumped back like four feet, totally not expeg her to react like this.

  “Wait wait! It’s just me! Lilith!”

  A little expnation ter and we pick up the rest of our clothes, Bel goes to the back to ge while I wait in the front. A few mier she pokes her head around the er. “Promise not to ugh!”

  “What? Why would I ugh?”

  “Just promise!”

  “Fine fine, I promise not to ugh.”

  Bel ducks back around the er and there’s a bit of a pause before she finally shuffles out from the back. Bel looks amazing, she’s wearing a durable looking dark pink dress that goes down to her mid thigh. The cute dress is a little poofed out from the white petticoat under her skirt and her little brooofs out of the back above where the dress begins to fre. She’s wearing white fingerless gloves that go up to above her elbow and matg stogs that clearly ect to a garterbelt under her clothes.

  “It doesn’t look silly on me does it? I don’t know if I wear this in public, it feels like I’m just pying pretend or something. I’ve never worn anything like this, are you sure it’ll be okay? Maybe I should go bad ge into something else…”

  I grab her by the shoulder and pull her back before she’s able to make it back around the er. “Hey now, you look great Bel! You’re a girl, you’re not pying dress up or pying pretend. You’re just wearing tailored clothes and they make you look very pretty. I know you aren’t pletely fortable in it yet but just bear with it for today. If you don’t want to wear it tomorrow you don’t have to okay?”

  “O-okay. Are you sure they-”

  “I’m sure. Now lets go to the adventurer’s guild, we have an appoio keep.”

  “Wait I-” And I pulled her through the front door and bato the street before she could actually resist. I know this is a little mean but sometimes exposure therapy is the best cure. If there were any ce that people would point and ugh I may have hesitated but she looked so good there was absolutely zero ce. Ohrough the door she immediately g to my arm and looked around in a slight panic.

  Sure, some of the people stared at her as they passed but it was clear to me that it was because she looked good, not because ahought she was a boy in a dress. With how feminine she looked now I would find it strange if ahought she was a boy at this point. I just stood there in the road with her clutg my arm for a little while as I waited for her to adjust. When it became clear that no one was going to suddenly start making fun of her she relutly pulled away, no longer ging to me so tightly. She still held my hand but she wasn’t hiding behind me anymore.

  “See? No problem. You look great. Are you ready to go to the stop?”

  “Sure and… thank you,” she told the ground.

  “No problem. Now lets get going. With all of the excitemeerday I pletely fot to check out an armor store for myself.”

  I didn’t take too long to find a shop that didn’t discriminate against beastfolk. I looked around for a while, unsure of what to get at first. I didn’t want to be overly weighed down but I wanted a bit of prote so I settled on a sturdy steel breastpte that seemed like a good middle ground. It gave a little bit of prote for my vitals without restrig my movement at all. We hung out for maybe half an hour while the armorsmith adjusted the breastpte to fit me properly. It squished and pletely hid my breasts but it’s a little hard to pin about chest prote c my chest for obvious reasons. There wasn’t any magic bikini armor for better or worse. I paid the armorsmith 4 gold for the breastpte and adjustments. It was one of the more expehings I’ve bought the st few days but it wasn’t something I was going to cheap out oirely. It was expe I still have more than 14 gold left.

  It was still m whe to the adventurer's guild but not as early as I would liked when we finally arrived. Hopefully our potential party members weren’t waiting for us too long. Wheered Mirianna waved us over, looks like we avoided the m rush if nothing else. I looked around but didn’t really see anyone who looked like they were waiting for us as we walked up to Mirianna’s ter.

  “M Mirianna, I hope we’re not too te to meet the party you were talking about.”

  “Not at all, it’s probably for the best that we are taking care of this a little ter so I introduce the four of you properly.” She lead us away from the ter and up the stairs to a private meeting room.

  She gently kwice before opening the door aing us in. “Good m girls, these are the two I was telling you about.” Behind the meeting table are two twin catgirls. They had humaures with cute bck cat ears stig out of their hair. They were clearly twins and looked identical except for their eye color. One had bck hair and blue eyes and the other had bck hair and bright, perhaps even glowing, red eyes. One was dressed in cheap lookiher armor, the other in something simir to the durable clothes I got from the tailor.

  Mirianna turns to us. “This is Lilith the swordswoman and Beldonna the nature healer.” She theures towards the blue eye’d twin. “This is Torien the scout,” theures to the red eye’d twin, “and Man the wild mage.”

  The two panther girls bowed and spoke in unison. “Pleased to make your acquaintance.” It was holy a little unnerving to hear them in sync, as if they had been practig speaking at the same time. It wasn’t until they were straitening up again that I noticed the two of them were both wearing sve colrs. Uhe one I had seen on Bel inally, these ones were made of a dark metal with thin blue lihat traveled in various paths through otherwise invisible seams ial. These colrs were obviously an upgrade on what Mark had been using but I’m not sure what the difference is.

  “Pleased to make your acquaintance,” I respond in kind. I hesitate for a moment before deg to ask, “So may I ask about the sve colrs?”

  Mirianna jumps in, “They’re owned by the svers guild and on loan to us to pay for a debt. There’s o worry about a master breathing down your neck but because of that these two haven’t found any…” She paused while looking for the right word, finally deg to finish with, “patible party members. Though I think the two of you would likely be the right people to work with them without any… uh plicated factors ing into py.”

  “Uh huh…” I turn back to the girls. “Well I don’t have any reason to hold being sves against you and as long as you’re okay with the two of us. How badly are you two i?”

  They turo each other uainly before turning back to us, Torien the scout replied for them, “Don’t worry about it, far more than finner adventurers would be able to pay while pooling their moogether…”

  “Mmm, I’m sorry to hear that.” I ’t stick my neck out for everyone I meet but perhaps I could do something about their debt once I get paid from Bitch’s au. Assuming this party works out of course.

  “Well I’ll let you girls discuss tactics then,” Mirianna said as she left the room to us.

  Saine

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