Demon Days

The woman nods, "if you wish to go pick up another member of your entourage that is fine. I have waited a while for this. I can wait a bit longer," she says and Yulia, Cherchiel and Goma go to pick up Isalia. Isalia seems to be feeling a bit better, but she's very quiet.

"I... I don't know if I can talk about what I saw at the moment," she says weakly when questioned about the vision. She agrees to go with the others to visit this woman, but seems very concerned, "you say she's a human woman? Like Yulia? I've never heard of any humans living here," she talks as they head back.

"Could she be a previous chosen?" Yulia asks.

"If she is no one's mentioned her to me before and I feel like if there was a previous chosen just... living here that would be pretty well known," she answers.

They meet back up with the woman, "we're understandably a little concerned about following you into a private area," Yulia admits to her and she nods.

"I suppose we can stay outside, I just want to be away from prying eyes," she says and they agree to speak simply out front of her home. The woman leads the group to a large, ornate looking house and as Isalia realizes where they're heading she begins to breathe heavily and her walking slows.

"What's wrong?" Cherchiel asks and Isalia shakes her head.

"This can't be her house. No one has lived in this house for years... Centuries even," Isalia answers and the woman speaks back.

"You are correct. I have been away from home for some time," she says cryptically.

The woman keeps walking and the others are **** to keep up with her as they arrive at the house and pass through an ominous gate into the front "lawn" of the house at which point she stops and turns to them. "Alright, Drow. You can ask your question," she addresses Isalia who steps forward and points at her accusingly.

"This house is abandoned. Has been for centuries! This was the home of Liloth, who are you?" she asks and the woman laughs before she shakes her head.

"How cute, you name me and then ask who I am. I am Liloth. I have been waiting so long for my spellbook to reappear and what a coincidence that it does so, just as a marked Chosen, the slayer of Ash Medai is in town," she says and Isalia turns to Yulia.

"We should leave. Now," she says and Liloth speaks up quickly.

"You have been lied to, Drow. I don't blame you, even I was fooled once. Your history is fabricated," she explains.

Isalia glares at her in response and then turns back to Yulia, "I don't think I need to explain this to you, but she's a demon and specifically a demon specializing in lies and manipulation, don't trust her!" she says.

"Got to side with Isalia here," Cherchiel pipes in.

"Be silent, Angel. No one asked your opinion," Liloth cuts in suddenly, her voice dripping with venom, before quickly returning to normal as she addresses Yulia directly.

"Let me say my piece, explain my proposition and then you are free to do as you wish. My only goal is to ensure that Puppet does not fall into the wrong hands. As you may imagine, I do not need the spell, I already have it mastered. It's my own spell after all, but there's another. My supposed betrayal of the Drow and The Driders is a fabrication. I had an apprentice in those days, a Drow by the name of Mephia-" she starts, but Isalia cuts her off.

"Mephia was the Drow who took over after the **** of Cora, whatever vile lies you're about to spread about her, I'm not about to hear them!" she says angrily and turns to Yulia.

"Please... Don't listen to anymore of this!" she pleads and Liloth looks annoyed and then idly waves a hand and immediately Isalia goes rigid and gasps before her mouth closes seemingly under it's own volition.

"I didn't want to do that, but these outbursts are growing tiresome," she says.

"What did you do?!" Yulia asks and Liloth tilts her head.

"I took control of her. Made her shut her cute little mouth for the moment," she explains, "I'll free her once I'm done talking," she adds.

Yulia hesitates and she feels Cherchiel move beside her protectively, but she sighs, "Continue..." she says.

"Mephia wanted to learn my magic, supposedly to help the Deep and I agreed, charmed by her eagerness and seemingly her idealistic nature. She became my apprentice and I taught her much, too much it seems. Without my knowledge she began to use my magic to sow seeds of chaos. She was the one who caused the civil war. She was also the one who orchestrated the deaths of Malifax and Cora and of course the one who blamed me for it all," she explains.

"The history lesson said they went to ask for your help, but you refused," Yulia points out and Liloth smiles.

"You're quick. Indeed Cora and Malifax did come to me, or at least what they thought was me. Unfortunately Mephia had planned it out meticulously. As my apprentice she was aware of something the others were not. I did not stay in the Deep. I made many trips into the Tower Below and the civil war occurred during one of these absences. The Liloth Cora and Malifax met with was Mephia using my magic to disguise herself. She timed it so that when I returned I was met with an angry mob who chased me out of the Deep, it took me some time to even learn what had transpired. Mephia is long dead now using puppet cursed her with a disease that countered her elven immortality, but she had two children and I believe they purposely allowed Puppet to surface at this time. I'm not sure what their intent is, but they wanted you to have it for some reason and I am... concerned. I still care deeply for the Drow and the Drider's and I do not wish to see more pain come to them from whatever dark legacy Mephia has planned. Give me Puppet so I may take it away from here and hopefully undo whatever they are planning and in return I shall grant you a gift. A spoil from a very old war," she says and puts out her hand, in it a new spellbook appears. This one is white, with gold text on the front, reading "Divine Grace."

Cherchiel's eyes widen as she sees the book, "that's... That's an angelic Spellbook!" she says and then her eyes narrow, "I can't imagine how many of my kind you had to kill to get your hands on something like that," she says suddenly sounding bitter and Liloth rolls her eyes.

"Every dead angel is a gift to the world. Your kind should be wiped from the Tower completely," she responds the venom returned to her voice, before she turns to Yulia, "I will gladly trade you this book for Puppet," she offers.

"I imagine like Demonic Spellbooks, Angelic Spellbooks are special, but I'd like to know exactly what they do," Yulia asks.

Cherchiel speaks quickly, "angelic spellbooks are... exceedingly rare. They are not normal spellbooks, they are distilled divine essence. Usually they are created by divine beings, but they can also be created by... Forcefully turning divine beings into essence..." she says sounding bitter again, before quickly continuing, "they do not in fact teach you a spell, so much as they give you an innate ability. Something permanent. Divine Grace for instance would..." she hesitates and there's a hint of greed in her voice as she explains, "it's the power I had... the overpowering strength I wielded before you stripped me of my grace," she admits and Yulia is struck by a sudden sense of guilt as she couldn't miss a slight accusation in Cherchiel's voice along with the greed.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Equipment: Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular, standard bra, Standard Panties, 3 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 1 syringe of adrenaline, 1 syringe of poison antidote, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of strong aerosolizing aphrodisiac, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 1 health potion, 5 mana potions, A boar mask, 4 vials of sticky white liquid, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Bone Spear (-1), Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (6 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Empty Bandolier, Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), Spidersilk gown, Smithing Ingredients (3 silver ingots), 10 silver throwing knives, twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, Demonic Spellbook (Possibly Puppet?).

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%)

Unlock (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 15%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%).

Life Drain (lvl 1, unmastered, cost: 5% per 1 Hp healed)

Blizzard (Unmastered, cost: 10%)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 2, Masochism Rank: 1, Lesbian rank: 1, Submission Rank: 1

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak. (Countered previous Permanent Increase)

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Marked by The Abyss: Found You.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia.

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -3), Ultra Durable Shield (-3), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions).

Goma Equipment: Runed Dagger (-2), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage)

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%)

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Isalia's Shield (-3), Black Leather Armor

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