Demonic Christmas

Yulia removes the halo and hands it to Goma who puts it on as Yulia places the demon horn headband on. A gentle chill suffuses the air making the nearby Goma shiver and take a few steps away from Yulia. Cherchiel takes the gauntlets and carefully puts them on. She moves her fingers watching the clawed fingers of the gauntlet move as well and she smiles, "Not going to lie... I kind of like these. They're weirdly stylish," Cherchiel says.

"They do give you a kind of bad ass sexy aura," Yulia agrees.

A few of the imps watch this, but most are still focused on their work. The group remains wary as they continue forward and pass through the hammer engraved door. On the other side they are met with an anvil and sitting behind the anvil, a large buff demon man. His arms are wrapped with chains that in places seem to slip beneath the skin of his arms and more importantly seem to bind him to the anvil. In his hand is a hammer made out of ebony. He is surprisingly not nude, wearing a thick looking rubber apron and a skull faced iron mask. Horns lift from a head bare of any hair and continue upward for a good foot before tapering into sharp points. Behind his mask, two eyes glow orange like fire as they look to the four women.

"The New Lust and her whores come to this humble blacksmith. Do they seek enchantments, weapons, armor?" he mutters to the air almost as if narrating before actually addressing the group.

"I can forge you a weapon or armor unmatched by any made by mortal hands or I can enchant a weapon, armor or accessory of your choice, but my services have a cost. For a simple forge I will ask only for your... company as I work, for an enchantment, I require blood," he explains and by way of example, he reaches his empty hand into a box beside him and places a dagger onto the forge, before tapping the forge twice with the hammer creating a loud noise that echoes outwards. Soon two demonesses appear dragging a resisting imp to the forge. The blacksmith grabs the imp and slams their head onto the forge before striking it with the hammer, splitting it open easily and the imps blood flowing over to the dagger as the corpse is tossed back to the demonesses who carry it away.

The demonesses came from and pass back through one of two doors. Both are behind the demon blacksmith, there's an engraving above both, one reads pain the other pleasure. The demonesses had come and left from the one reading pleasure. Meanwhile the demon blacksmith places the blood enchanted dagger onto a conveyor belt which continues on into the room the four women had just come from.

"So... We're being offered enchantments on our weapons... in return for sacrificing the life of one of us, or for this guy to make us high quality weapons or armor in return for..." Yulia starts and then trails off.

"In return for sex seemingly," Cherchiel finishes and Yulia nods weakly.

"If this guy is the source of all the demonic weapons in the tower, killing him might... at least temporarily stop the flow of demon cursed objects into the rest of the tower," Isalia adds.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100% (2 uses of energize, one use of undermine, one use of heal, one use of repair, 50% lost, but all regained by God's light)

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, 6 mana potions, A boar mask, 5 vials of Semen, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), 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), Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), 12 silver throwing knives, twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels), Demonic Dress, Demon Horn Hairband.

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Unlock (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%-10%)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed, Cost currently halved rounded down: 1% per 1% Health healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2)

Lightning Strike (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

God's Light: (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability.)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 2, Masochism Rank: 2, Lesbian rank: 1, Submission Rank: 1, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions 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: The Abyss Welcomes You.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia.

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask, temporarily missing), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask, temporarily missing), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions, temporarily missing), Staff (-1), Spidersilk Gown, Gloves of Harvest (-5, -10 with boar mask, heal for all damage dealt).

Cherchiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat Level raised to High

Goma Equipment: Runed Dagger (-1, -3 with boar mask), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage), , God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time)

Goma Mana: 100% (dropped to 0 from 5 uses of Puppet, which was mastered on the fifth use and then recovered all mana from rest)

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%), Puppet (Mastered, 10% per active command)

Goma Status Effect: Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak.

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

Isalia Fetish: Submission Rank: 1

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