Prepping For the Next Phases

Delvin was able to set up to look at Shirona’s notes, Marin used her powers to generate a 15-hour copy of Shirona’s most recent notebook to bring the copy to Delvin. Looking through Shirona’s notes, Delvin was able to confirm she had noticed signs of corruption in his first two sluts but wasn’t able to properly articulate things because of gaps in her own knowledge base; she didn’t seem to have caught on to Marin’s corruption yet. Reading the notes also allowed Delvin to devise a plan, he arranged for Marin to prompt Shirona to go on a shopping run to get supplies that could not be acquired through hunting, mining, and/or harvesting. While the dwarf was out, Delvin would look at some of her projects that were in the works, her lab was set up so anyone who knew how to circumvent the security could enter without issue; Delvin had the knowledge of exactly how to circumvent the security measures because Marin had the knowledge of how to get around those safeguards as part of her job. Marin could get to the lab and make use of her summoning power to pull him into the chamber.

Shirona changed the security around a bit but didn’t share how to navigate it with Felnira, but after her corruption, Marin shared the knowledge with Felnira. It took a bit of work to convince Shirona to head out for the supply run, the only reason she seemed to accept the errand was that she noticed some of her lab supplies were low. A small handful hours after Shirona departed, Felnira went about to the observation spells and set things up so they wouldn’t pick up on Delvin and his sluts for a few hours. Shortly after that was taken care of, things that were arranged allowed Delvin to get into the lab. He made sure to tell the girls to remove all evidence of their visit even happening, for when he made his departure.

Delvin’s plan was to head down to the lab and covertly corrupt the items Shirona made to hold the corruption at bay, or at least slow it down. But before that happened, he decided to take Marin to see Inferra and learn more about her absorbing the power and knowledge from the succubus. He had a feeling it wouldn’t be as simple as it sounded, and it sounded pretty complex already.

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In the chamber set aside for Inferra, Delvin and Hilthrika met with the high-tier succubus. “Alright,” said Delvin, “how is this absorption of knowledge and power supposed to work? I have a feeling it will be quite a bit of work.”

“Indeed,” said Inferra, “Normal absorption would be barely more than the act of consumption, several higher-tier demons and devils have the power to gain the power and abilities of a target by literally consuming them, these absorption abilities have a variety of different names, and can even be found among some of the rarer variants of slimes and oozes.”

“Not surprising, when when you think about it,” said Hilthrika, “the earliest recorded cases of those types of monsters appearing in the mortal realm come a few decades after several demon lords worked to create such creatures, but the reason for their greater variety is due to unaccounted for magical residues not of any defined origin, some of that residue was likely from those demonic experiments.”

“Correct,” said Inferra, “one of the prior demon lords of Gluttony worked on such a project, he was taken down by his own creations after not setting up the appropriate safeguards before placing some in his territory as a defense mechanism, some of those creations managed to slip between unstable portals to the mortal realm where they were changed a bit from what they originally were. But because some of those creatures are a result of high-tier demonic power, that means some high-tier demonic abilities were made available to them, even if that was never the intention at any point. But the absorption process has a bit of a flaw; mental aspects, such as intellectual capabilities and knowledge are bypassed in the absorption process. To get around that, you need to find a way to make such things are included in the absorption process.”

“While this is all fascinating,” said Hilthrika, “why are we discussing such things in the first place?”

“It’s possible your fascination with demons morphing into a kink about becoming one was a result of subtle demonic meddling,” said Delvin, “possibly even the work of my own sire through one of his agents. It’s possible that a considerable portion of your life was manipulated like this.”

“In a sense, a failsafe for if I failed to make contact with your master,” said Inferra, “who better to help a budding lord of the hells than one who has spent most of their life studying such things.”

“There are fiends that do like to play the long con like that,” said Hilthrika, “and I wouldn’t put it past the Lord of Corruption to have backup plans for emergency cases, but that would also mean some other trigger would have to be in place for my demonic transformation beyond being corrupted by Master.”

“As to what that trigger was,” said Delvin, “we may never know, but for now, we’re here to learn how what Inferra has can become yours, we’ll set up for it after we manage to make Shirona one of your sisters, she would probably hinder the process if we were to try beforehand.”

“The rituals aren’t too complex,” said Inferra, “it’s the materials required that are the biggest barrier. Psyche Crystal Chalk is a difficult material to acquire in the Hells, even more so in the mortal realm, and its production is incredibly time-consuming, but it’s needed if you are to effectively gain access to all of my accumulated knowledge; not to mention, most of the spell patterns required within the circle are some of the more complex characters in the Infernal and Abyssal languages. You usually don’t see both languages together in spellwork, but it is necessary for something this complex.”

“And when it’s done does a tome with a copy of your collected knowledge appear in the circle,” inquired Delvin.

“Yes,” said Inferra, “but it will only exist for a maxim of one mortal hour, it usually sticks around for a small handful of minutes.”

“So after all that,” said Hilthrika sarcastically, “I’m supposed to just walk over and pick it up then eat it.”

“Exactly,” said Inferra with a straight face, “after which you are to consume me in short succession from the time you have consumed the tome, I don’t know how long the copied knowledge will remain with you, probably its usual time is a few days or weeks at most, but consuming the one whom it came from almost immediately afterward would likely result in the permanent results of your consumption of my power and abilities carrying over to the knowledge you consumed shortly before.”

“And I thought my kinks were odd,” said Hilthrika jokingly, “I’m guessing most demons or devils wouldn’t be as willing to be consumed as you seem to be.”

“That is correct,” said Inferra, “most would fight and squirm until fully consumed and the absorption magic kicked in, maybe even a bit longer than that. Due to that, the practice has become a bit of a novelty among demons and fiends these days.”

“Given her expertise,” said Hilthrika, “it would be best to bring Shirona into the fold for a project like this, she has the skills necessary to properly produce the materials we can’t otherwise acquire. Granted, the formulas for some of those are probably a bit more complicated than they seem at first blush.”

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After the meeting with Inferra, Delvin and Hilthrika (back in her guise of Marin) were in Shirona’s lab. Said lab was an exercise in organized chaos, tools, materials, and equipment were scattered around the chamber in no discernable pattern or filing. The only thing that looked like it had any semblance of any real organization was the workbench. And even that looked pretty messy. Looking over everything on the workbench, Delvin focused to see if he could genuinely see the core of the magic for the items.

Delvin was pleasantly surprised when he not only saw the cores of the magic of the items but also was reading their general descriptions for when they were completed. In total, he saw 2 rings, and a set of armor that described themselves as hindering magical effects, which meant his corruption as well. From the looks of things, these pieces were mostly complete, but not quite entirely complete yet. He reached out with his power to the core of each item he identified as hindering his power’s effect on the target and filtered his corruption into the cores until he could see they were saturated, while doing that he also made sure to mask the truth of his changes by making the items appear to keep their pre-corruption descriptions.

After the deed was done, he made sure to have all traces of his visit purged from all relative surfaces and precautions as he made his way out.

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A few hours later, after setting up a private magical space near his room at the inn, Delvin spent the next several hours fucking Glacia and Hilthrika, both of which gave erotic cries and moans as he plowed and pounded them. After all, he did promise them a reward, and this was the reward they requested for services rendered. After their multi-hour fuckfest with Delvin, the two demonesses resumed their mortal guises and returned to their duties so as to minimize any additional suspicions.