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The group stood in the elevator, all of them a little uncomfortable, not used to being in something like this, that is until the elevator reached a point where the sides of the tube were transparent.

"Oh my..." Yulia muttered as she looked out.

They were high enough that what was outside was a glorious view of the Tower, though calling it such seemed wrong at this moment.

A massive expansive world spread out as far as they could see.

"Look there's the forest," Cherchiel says pointing to an area where indeed there's a large forested area and the connected caverns where Goma had lived.

"Then the Deep is under there?" Isalia asks curiously and Yulia looks uncertain.

"Maybe, it's always possible they don't actually connect that directly, the Tower is weird, but yeah, I guess at least metaphorically it's down beneath there," she answers and her gaze moves, "I wonder where the first and second floor are, both were in what seemed like a normal... if expansive tower," Yulia asks.

"There..." Lemiel answers pointing at a direction. Where she pointed there is a large towering structure.

"Oh... Wow, I can't believe I didn't notice that. It looks just like the Tower from outside... I'm going to ignore the implications of a copy of the Tower existing inside the Tower," Yulia says with a sigh and then blinks, "wait..." she turns to Lemiel, "You're still here?!" she asks and Lemiel blinks.

"Uh yeah... I wasn't sure if I could interfere with anything once Stephen was dealt with, but I continued to follow you after. I... Wanted to make sure you would be okay," Lemiel explains.

"So... What are you with us now?" Cherchiel asks.

"Um no... I'll probably leave as soon as we reach the next floor, but... I am always willing to help if I can," she explains.

"Well thanks..." Yulia responds and then looks back out over the world, "I wonder where we're going," she says idly.

"The view distracted us a bit, but we should probably respond to the voices..." Isalia notes and Yulia hesitates and then nods.

"Right... So, about Elena, do any of you know anything?" she asks.

"Well... There seems to be a bit of a misinterpretation as well... Elena wasn't the Chosen before Yulia, just the last Chosen to specifically arrive in Calumia. Not all Chosen take the same path. There have been a number of chosen between Elena and Yulia, Stephen for instance arrived in the tower after Elena was already dead. I'm not sure exactly how many chosen there were between Elena and Yulia, but it was a sizeable amount," Lemiel states, "there were also plenty of Chosen before Elena of course," she adds.

"Yeah I imagine the one who became the Old Mind had been there for quite some time," Isalia responds.

"As for the idea that Alide was the one who killed her..." Yulia says and then pauses, "I don't want to believe it, but it is true that Alide fits the bill. Like the voice pointed out, there's no mention of any companions to Elena and Alide would be a friend who isn't a companion so it would make sense she wouldn't be mentioned until her actions specifically played into Elena's legend," she admits reluctantly, "still... the idea Elena could have killed Alide is... terrifyingly impressive. What would our own journey have been like if Elena had been more willing to kill... Would Alide just be someone else or would there be no guide?" Yulia questions and then swallows.

"Also... am I going to have to make that same choice... Kill Alide or die by her hand?" she asks and then sighs, "I guess I should also admit, I... might already be dead..." Yulia says and the rest of the group look surprised.

"What... What does that mean?" Cherchiel asks, confused and clearly nervous about the answer.

"I... I used the identify spell on myself out of curiousity, it... It called me Undead. It seems... That the plague that ravaged my world might have actually killed me as a baby, that the grace of my goddess revived me and I guess now I'm some sort of... undead creature..." she admits, her voice awkward, clearly unsure how to really explain this.

The others watch her and then Cherchiel shrugs, "well you don't seem to want to eat brains or anything like that and you're still warm to the touch, so undead or not I don't see a problem," Cherchiel responds and there's a general assent from the rest of the group.

"I... Appreciate that, but... I'm horrified by the implications. I don't know what me being undead really means, what if... What if I don't have a soul?" Yulia mutters nervously.

"Birdy good person. Life or no... Soul or no," Goma pipes up and there's a few nods and then Lemiel speaks.

"The goddess of your world... Erimalia, right? I'm assuming there's importance put on the soul in the religion of your world," Lemiel asks and Yulia nods.

"A soul is needed to enter Erimalia's embrace. After **** your soul either goes to Erimalia or... to her father, but if I don't have a soul... I don't know what happens, I'm not even sure what I am if I don't have a soul..." Yulia admits.

"Well... Is your Goddess an evil person or a fool?" Lemiel asks and Yulia blinks, surprised by the question.

"I... I don't know... I don't think so, but..." Yulia says and Lemiel hesitates and then quickly changes tacts.

"Right... Your faith in her has been quite shaken... I had forgotten... Look I doubt she was evil or a fool... and only an evil goddess or a fool would revive you if doing so would hurt you in any way, after all what would be the point?" Lemiel tries and Yulia looks thoughtful.

"Maybe just for this?" Yulia offers.

"What?" Lemiel asks confused by the response.

"Maybe she brought me back simply because she knew I'd go to the Tower, save our world... I... I think that would be a worthy sacrifice..." she suggests and Lemiel blinks and then looks a bit defeated.

"This is too much theology for me," Lri mutters and then continues, "it hardly matters really... You do the job in front of you. I mean if you die in the Tower you're not going back to Erimalia or whoever anyway. The Tower has it's own afterlife and if you're too distracted by these questions you're definitely going there instead. Focus on the here and now, you'll have a long time to ponder these theoretical questions back in your world, once you've saved it," Lri adds and Yulia seems taken aback.

"I mean if you're undead, who knows you might even be immortal or something," Lri adds, "so that's a very long time to ponder what would happen if you died," she continues and Yulia nods.

"I... You're right. I'll try not to think about it. I guess if I do return to my world I'll have the priests of the order to ask anyway and they'll probably have a better answer," she suggests and Lri nods.

"I guess I feel a bit better..." Yulia admits and Lri shrugs.

"A bit better is still better," she responds.

The elevator stops after a bit and the tube now opaque makes a beeping noise before an opening appears for them to exit. The group exit the elevator and find themselves in a strange location. It's a large area, massive in fact, with a ceiling that towers high above them. More elevator doors line the wall behind them and in front of them, there's a high speed bullet train simply waiting for them. This appears to be some sort of terminal. An arrival area for this floor that seems to have elevators connected to various other locations in the Tower.

"This place is amazing!" Martin calls out, as he steps out of another elevator that closes behind him. The right wall of the terminal is lined with empty shops, except two, one is listed as Goma's Alchemy Shop and the other as Martin's Metallurgy. Despite the abandoned nature of the area, the place is extremely clean and well maintained, not even a piece of litter or dust, despite the clear implication that no living thing has touched this place in years.

A loud twinkling noise precedes the toning of an announcement system, "welcome to the Grand Station. Please board the train to be taken to your destination, the train will leave at your discretion and offers sleeping quarters and protection from the roaming monster known as the Directive. Sleeping quarters on the train do come at a cost and you already know what that cost is, Yulia, so I won't reiterate it here," the announcement speaks and the voice is clearly Dreg. Yulia hesitates and then steps onto the train through the open doors. Indeed, there are sleeping pods as well as normal seats on the train and a touch screen map showing a number of locations.

"downtown, residences, administrative, operations, engineering, mercantile, punitive and escape" are listed as possible stops for the train.

"Just touch your finger to the location you wish to go to and the train will depart," Dreg's voice echoes over the announcement system again.

As Yulia waits to make her choice, the voices vision is suddenly pulled elsewhere.

Back in Calumia The Goddess of the Mermaid's is being held down by a bunch of Sirens in a dry prison, a ball gag has been **** into her mouth and she's squirming violently, trying to get free, muffled cries escaping around the gag, her tail thrashes until one of the Siren's suddenly steps on her tail pinning it against the ground and making her tense up, clearly experiencing pain from this action. Her struggles slowly stop and instead she's left breathing heavily, her eyes darting around fearfully at the Siren's surrounding her.

"That's a good girl. Calm down," one of the Siren men speaks as he reaches a hand out and pats her cheek, she flinches away from his touch, but his other hand reacts by slapping the other side of her face forcing her back against his hand and forcing tears into her eyes. She tries to scream something, but it's unintelligible through the gag.

The Siren who just slapped her is straddling her belly, his nude cock pressed between the valley of her plump breasts and his hands move from her face to each take hold of one of her breasts pressing them together. "You mermaids are all so proud of your big tits, all of you letting them just hang free, always fully available for view," he mumbles as he begins to thrust his cock between her breasts as she lets out a weak whimpering noise.

The Siren who stepped on her tail steps off of it and grabs it instead, sitting reverse to the other Siren straddling the base of her tail as he pulls her tail up, lining up her cunt with his cock, she's too focused on the man fucking her tits to notice at first until she feels the tip of his cock press against her cunt and she begins thrashing again, but his grip on her tail is tight and he manages to **** himself inside of her making her scream into the gag. Surprisingly he feels a trickle of blood around his cock as he pierces through her hymen, "what the fuck? You're a virgin?!" he asks, surprised, but of course even if she wanted to she couldn't answer. Her wrists are grabbed by another two Siren, one a woman forces the Goddess' hand against her cunt and demands that she pleasure her, while the other another man wraps her delicate fingers around his cock and begins forcing her to give him a handjob.

Tears roll down her cheeks as she's violated, but the Sirens only seem more aroused by her pain. The female Siren seems annoyed as the Goddess doesn't do as demanded and she lifts her foot and stomps on The goddess' cheek making the goddess cry out, she grinds her foot against her cheek, "I told you to pleasure me! If you don't get me off, I'll get myself off by hurting you!" she says and The goddess hesitates before she slips two fingers inside of the Siren woman and the Siren woman groans in pleasure at the feeling of the Goddess' fingers slipping into her and rubbing her insides, "there you go! So many of our brothers and sisters were **** or murdered on your orders, don't think we'll have any sympathy or mercy for you," she moans out still grinding her heel against her cheek.

It's not much longer before the Siren fucking her tits reaches his limit and with a groan, he cums, shooting a load of hot cum onto her face and dribbling more into the valley of her breasts, he wipes the remaining cum onto her tits. Her eyes are closed to avoid being hit in the eye with the cum and some has landed on her left eyelid forcing her to keep it closed.

The one getting the handjob finishes next and cums onto her breasts, partially hitting the Siren still straddling her, "agh what the fuck man?!" the Siren straddling her growls, but the one who just came from the handjob just grins,

"Mmm... Not my fault you're in the way of such a delightful target," he counters, his cum leaking down the slopes of her bountiful breasts. The one fucking her cunt cums next and she thrashes again as she feels him plunging deep into her and his cock pulsing inside of her, she can't do anything to stop it though as his cum shoots into her, filling her womb. He pulls out of her and watches as his cum leaks out of her abused cunt. They all get off of her and look down at her, her face and chest covered in cum, cum leaking from her cunt, mingling with the pretty scales of her tail.

"Well done," one of the Siren's congratulates himself and then the woman Siren speaks up.

"Hey assholes, I didn't get off, this bitch sucks with her fingers," she grumbles and the one who had been fucking her tits grins.

"Let me help then," he says and he pulls the female Siren over to the Goddess and has her stand over the Goddess' face before he hugs her against him and shoves his cock into the female Siren's cunt. She moans and the two kiss as he begins to pound into her, the goddess staring up at the sight of his cock slamming into her, their mingled cum leaking down onto her face as the two Siren's fuck. Eventually the man cums inside the woman and more of his semen, mixed with the woman's leaks out onto the Goddess' face. Her eyes closed, she can do little else to protect herself. That done the four Siren's leave, locking the door to the dry cell behind them and leaving her still covered in cum and exhausted. Tomorrow they'll clean her only to use her again and until then there's no way to clean herself in the cell. The goal is not really to pleasure themselves with her body though that is a bonus, the goal is to humiliate her, the once proud goddess of the mermaid's reduced to a cumdump. She remains lying on the floor of the cell and muffled sobs escape from her.

In another part of Calumia The Siren Queen is stripped naked, a pair of tentacles are latched onto her breasts sucking mana out of her as another tentacle is plunged into her throat. She'd always considered her breasts shameful. They were too large, not befitting a warrior like herself. Having them suckled by the mana draining tentacle just brings these feelings of shame to the forefront of her mind. Here she is, a proud warrior being abused like this by her enemy. The thought makes her rankle, but more disastrously it also brings with it unwanted feelings of arousal, something her tormentor is aware of. The Mermaid torturer runs a finger back and forth, teasingly against the Queen's swollen and aroused cunt, "you really enjoy this, huh? Those fat milkers of yours, the envy of even a mermaid are quite sensitive aren't they? Or do you just enjoy being at my mercy?" she teases and the Queen growls, the truth is part of her is enjoying this and she hates that thought. Her breath hitches as the mermaid suddenly shoves her index and middle finger inside of the Queen and she leans in and runs her tongue over the Queen's stomach, "I can't wait to see this taut stomach of yours enlarged with my children," she says and the Queen's brow furrows, confused and the Mermaid giggles.

"Oh that's right... Very few non-mermaids know... Well you're going to learn a secret, one I bet you've wondered about before. How do we mermaids as a fully female species reproduce? Magic? Through captive males of other species, well the answer is that you assume we're all female, but that's not true. There are no male Mermaids, but there are no female mermaids either," she explains as she flits behind the Queen and her tail curls underneath the queen, pressing between her legs and up against her cunt, the Queen's eyes widen as she feels something press against her entrance, "the truth is, all Mermaids are essentially hermaphrodites, capable of having whichever genitals we choose, anywhere from having a quim, a cock or both," she explains as her cock pushes into the Queen eliciting a cry of surprise, muffled by the tentacle still gently thrusting in and out of her throat, "we all identify as female of course, but that's more of an affectation regardless, simply noticing a physical familiarity with females of other species, you may have noticed by now that I have quite the impressive cock in fact, feel how large, thick and sturdy it is," she whispers into the Queen's ear as her cock extends fully, pushed deep into the Queen's depths, the Queen feels so full with the honestly quite monstrous cock inside of her.

"Are you ready? I'm going to begin," the mermaid speaks and then suddenly thrusts upwards, The Queen's entire body jumps and her stomach visibly bulges for a moment as the cock seems to grow in length as it's thrust into her, her eyes widen in horror and pain, a choked cry escaping around the tentacle in her throat before the mermaid begins thrusting repeatedly, each thrust causing the same bulge and the Queen's entire body to convulse as her body is penetrated so deeply. The mermaid's hands reach around the Queen and grab the stem of the tentacles, beginning to tug on them in alternating patterns, in doing so tugging on the Queen's breasts in turn. The Queen squirms and struggles as she's fucked and milked. She's horrified by what's happening to her, but at the same time, it feels amazing, she can't resist the urge to moan as she's violated and is thankful for the tentacle muffling her until it suddenly is removed, her moans escaping openly to her horror and the mermaid giggles, "I knew you were enjoying this," she teases and then forcefully turns the Queen's head and kisses her, forcing her tongue into the Queen's mouth as at the same time she yanks on the tentacle, causing it to suddenly pull free of her breast with a pop like a suction cup releasing and the Queen screams into the kiss and the mermaid cums, filling her to the brim with her seed.

The vision jumps forward showing the Queen still held by the mana milking "machine" her stomach is indeed enlarged, clearly heavily pregnant. The mermaid returns and The Queen lifts her head, her tongue lolling out, "M... Mistress..." she moans and the Mermaid nods and slips behind her, the Queen's cheeks flush and she presses herself back against the Mermaid before the mermaid's monster cock extends out and pushes into the Queen's ass making the Queen moan loudly. It's clear this has happened many times and the Queen's mind has broken long ago, coming to love her ****. The mermaid's hand slides down to rub the Queen's belly.

"You're almost ready to pop, I can't wait to see our children," the mermaid says and the Queen nods.

"Our children..." she echoes.

The vision then jumps back to the Goddess, she's lying on the floor and as the door to her cell opens she closes her eyes, a strangely resistant gesture. Unlike the Queen it seems her repeated **** has not broken her yet. She's surprised however when a Siren approaches and removes the gag from her mouth. The gag hadn't been removed since she had been captured, it had been so long since she had gotten to speak she had almost forgotten how, the gag was meant to prevent her from using magic. She was confused until she saw the lumbering beast approach. It was a Sahuagin Brute. Her eyes widened in fear and the Siren stepped back as the Brute closed in. The goddess knew she couldn't beat it, her magic might have been strong enough before, but she was so weak now after so much **** and on dry land there was no way she could outmaneuver it. She tried to get up, but didn't even have the time to do that before the Brute reached her, his hand grabbing around her throat and then slamming her face first against the wall.

She let out a pained grunt as her breasts were crushed against the wall and then she felt the brute grab her tail, yanking it backwards and away, forcibly exposing her cunt to him as he inserted himself without hesitation. She screamed as he filled her and each thrust **** her tail up against her back, straining her spine and also crushing her breasts harder against the wall as he pumped into her. The Sirens had left the room and locked the door, they were leaving her with the Brute. She was terrified, the creature could kill her, she realized any resistance would put her in danger. As much as she hated it she had to play along, she closed her eyes as she pushed back against his thrusts, a sick feeling spreading through her as she let him pound into her. When he came it was so much it overflowed. He dropped her and she hoped it was over, but it wasn't, she felt his hand in her hair and she was **** up into the closest approximation of a kneeling position she could muster. His fat cock slapped against her face and with tears in her eyes she gently grabbed it and began to stroke it, her delicate hands working along the head and shaft, hoping to satiate the Brute and avoid any more pain. She barely resisted when he shoved his cock down her throat and after he shot nearly a gallon of cum into her stomach she was just happy that he took his cock out of her mouth after. She was left in the cell with him, Sirens only showing up to feed them and clean them occasionally.

The rest of the time she was completely at his mercy and soon subservience just became second nature, a way to survive. He'd put her on her knees and she'd immediately open her mouth for him or press her breasts together, he'd push her face down and she'd lift her tail for him. Eventually the Brute was removed, but she was broken by that point and she'd do the same for anyone who entered her cell.

Back to the present Yulia was staring at some buttons, wondering where to go, blissfully unaware of the fate of the two once monarchs of Calumia.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Equipment: Simple black one piece swimsuit. Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular(currently removed), standard bra (currently removed), Standard Panties (currently removed), 2 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 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, 6 vials of Semen, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (3 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Grenade Bandolier with 2 grenades, 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, can bind a Demon or Angel), Demon Horn Hairband, Gloves of Harvest (-3, heal for all damage dealt), modest two piece swimsuit, Leech Mask, Blade of Envy, Cloak of Turbulent Waves, Binding Bandages, golden bangles, silk gloves, Siren Queen's black heavy armor, black bikini bottoms.

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%)

Masterful Unlock (Lvl 2, 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, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Identify (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

God's Light: (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 3, Masochism Rank: 3, Lesbian rank: 3, Submission Rank: 3, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions Rank: 2, Degradation Rank: 2, Exhibition Rank: 1, Anal Rank: 2.

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)

Faithless: Yulia gains no effect from support spells cast on her, but offensive spells cast by her double in effectiveness. Lasts until faith is restored or replaced.

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.

Trauma Rank 1 : Costs of all spells doubled for the remainder of the floor.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia, Lri.

Cherchiel Health: 100%

Cherchiel Mana: 100%

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions (currently removed), Staff (-1), God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), Bikini, Boar Mask.

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

Goma Health: 100%

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma Equipment: Ritual Knife of Escaping Threads (-1, -3 with boar mask, automatic -5 when being used against tentacles, webs or other binding methods), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage, Currently Removed.), Swim Trunks, tentacle dagger (-3), Scepter of Still Waters.

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.

Pregnant: Starting to visibly show her pregnancy. Combat Level already as low as it can go. No further effects at current.

Isalia Health: 100%

Isalia Mana: 100%

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3) (Unequipped for now), Masterwork Trident (-3), Isalia's Shield (-3), Black Leather Armor (currently Removed, becomes invisible in complete darkness), One Piece Swimsuit.

Isalia spells known: Life Drain (lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 5% per 1% Health healed)

Isalia Fetish: Submission Rank: 1, Domination Rank: 1.

Isalia Status Effect:

Lri Health: 100%

Lri Mana: 100%

Lri Equipment: Twin Daggers (-3), black swimsuit, Veil of Hidden Depths.

Lri Status Effect:

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