Actually, let’s sit down for a moment and take a breather.

After walking for a while in the cave, you arrive at an intersection. One path leads to the exit and another path is marked with some kind of warning sign. It’s probably a path to the deeper part of the cave where the stronger monsters reside. Definitely not a good place for a novice paladin who just starts her adventure, unless if you like challenge, and maybe better loots and faster level-ups.

You find a small, round rock nearby and sit on it. Or rather, you made your mind-controlled paladin sit on it. The term “mind control” isn’t a very accurate term to describe what you are doing to the paladin. Rather than controlling her mind, you are controlling her body. The original owner of the body is still there, alive, with her own individuality and personality, and completely conscious.

The “completely conscious” part might be terrifying for some. Imagine being awake. You can feel your own body. You can feel your limbs, your mouth, your neck, your eyes, and all the organs that you can control voluntarily just like usual. But somehow each of them are moving and acting on its own without you controlling it while at the same time you can see, smell, hear and feel every single thing that is happening to your body and around it. It’s as if someone, or something else that is not you is assuming control of your body. And you know that it’s what’s happening. You are at the mercy of this thing, who can do anything to your body, who can do all sorts of things to anyone else, including your loved ones, as you, and they wouldn’t know that you aren’t the one being in control of your body.

But it’s her problem now. Not yours, since you are the one who does the controlling. She pretty much cannot do anything to help her out of the situation, or rather anything at all. Literally.

You can feel what the paladin’s body feels, but in a very different way. For example, if the arm is stabbed with a knife she would feel the pain and the overall feeling of being stabbed like what should happen normally, and so would you. But you can choose to not perceive the pain, as if there is a switch to turn off the pain sensation just for you so the sensory input would be like reading the sentence “I am being stabbed and it’s painful” without actually feeling the pain.

You can also skim through her memories. And so you can know things like her past, her family condition, the people she had met, what books she had read in this week, what she ate today, when was the last time she took a bath and change clothes etc.

The paladin is wearing a full plate armor that covers almost everything below the neck. The armor look very realistic and practical like historical medieval armor, apart from that bulge at the chest.

For some reason she doesn’t wear helmet, but whatever.

And by skimming through her memory you can see what she is wearing under it. Under the armor she is wearing a thick, but form fitting doublet. Under that she wears a long-sleeved silk blouse as an undershirt. On the lower body she wears a pair of skintight breeches which looks like modern day spandex leggings, with very similar textures and stretchiness, but are open in the crotch area. Over the breeches she wears what appears to be her undergarment. It’s a length of silk that is wound around the hips like a belt, then tied at the back to secure it, then brought between the legs with the excess tucked in the cloth belt to hang on front like apron. It’s similar to Japanese loincloth that were worn by samurai. It’s quite practical too when the wearer needs to answer nature’s call and finish the business quickly without taking off the entire armor. The wearer just need to pull the cloth at the bottom to loosen, pull it aside and just go. After it’s done the wearer can fasten it again by pulling the cloth at the front. It’s practical, but a bit lewd too, you would think. It’s also the article of clothing that you pierced through to get into her.

It seems that she has been wearing all of these for a while without taking them off, as warriors very often wear their armor 24/7 during missions.

You take look at her stats…

Eirene Drakes

Race: Human

Class: Paladin

Level: 3

Health: 300/320

Mana: 40/40

Skill:

- Armed melee combat

- Sword proficiency

- wrestling

- spellcasting

Special abilities:

• Divine Sense : You are able to detect both divine and dark presence nearby, be it from a creature, person or from a place
• Lay on hands : You will regenerate small amounts of health when you rest and unmoving (passive). And you can heal a companion that is wounded, but only if you touch them directly.
• Divine smite : You can channel divine element into your melee attack, dealing more damage to enemies, and dealing even more damages to undeads and fiends.
• Minor disease immunity : You are slightly more resistant to flu, allergies, headache and rashes.
• Spells enhancement: Divine : Your Divine spells are more effective

Then you notice a special ability that a paladin doesn’t usually have

• Leech : Can leech health from an enemy through physical contact

Interesting. You see that you can use one of your skills as the paladin. You can’t use lesser morph presumably because it’s tied to your specific physiology and human body just won’t do. As for Parasite, right now you don’t have the means to invade and control other people. Not without leaving your hard-earned host and endangering yourself.

Now let’s take a look around. Not around the paladin’s body but around your body. Actually you can’t see anything because of obvious reason, but you can feel through your sensitive outer membranes and tendrils.

You’re inside her body. To be specific, you are now lodged inside her rectum that is now expanded to accommodate your semi-amorphous body, completely blocking, filling and stretching her anal cavity like a large tumor that grows too quickly, or a large buttplug without base that incidentally disappears during use then expands. You’ve had your tendrils piercing her intestinal wall and through the tailbone to connect with her spinal cord, which gave you the control of her body. These may feel discomforting for her, to say the least. You remember that on your way here you needed not only to deal with the dirtiness, but also you had to push upward against solid, rock hard….things. You don’t need to read her memories to know that she had been skipping number two for a while. This might cause a problem later. All of those waste eventually must exit or her body would get some health issues.

But enough with the pondering. It’s time for next course of action.