Hunted

When the fight starts it's a flurry of movement, The Huntress, seems to vanish for a second before it becomes clear she simply moved faster than expected, leaping into the air and firing two shots from the railgun, one towards Yulia and the other towards Lemiel. The one shot at Yulia misses of course, caught by the cloak, the one aimed at Lemiel however hits and punches through her armor with ease, causing her to cry out as it passes through her gut. Lemiel drops to her knees and Yulia hesitates before running over and casting great heal on her, letting her get back to her feet shakily. As this is happening the rest of the group open fire on the Huntress as she lands near Cherchiel. She blocks the shots with the riot shield as a pair of smaller arms appear and work to reload her rail guns while she slshes her blades at Cherchiel.

Yulia casts energize on the group as Cherchiel dodges back from the attack and pulls on the Boar Mask. Lri creates an illusion and goes invisible as Cherchiel slams herself against The Huntress' shield forcing her to stagger back, but her blades swing back down and Boarchiel let's out a pained howl as they slice into her shoulders and she is **** to back off or lose her arms.

"Not being able to block any of her attacks is a real problem," Isalia states standing near Yulia as Lemiel runs to help Cherchiel.

"We'll have to take the hits and I'll try and keep us fighting... I just hope we all make it through alive," Yulia says as she casts heal on Boarchiel and then turns her attention towards continuing set up, hitting Huntress with an Undermine which thankfully lowers her speed a bit. Boarchiel and Lemiel seem to have her playing defense for the moment as Boarchiel has taken a more hit and run tactic, slamming against her shield then jumping back and Lemiel hitting her with an angelic ray when she tries to attack back. It gives Yulia some much needed time to continue her work.

She casts Blizzard and the chamber slowly grows colder, pellets of ice starting to buffet the computer tower and the Huntress, slowing her movements even further. Yulia sighs, happy she was able to complete the set up and she can now focus on offense and healing.

"I'm ready to heal, we can be a bit more aggressive now, just try your best to only take minor injuries, I don't think I'll be able to heal you if she stabs you in the brain or cuts off your head!" Yulia calls out as she grabs a mana potion in one hand while with the other she casts a lightning strike at The Huntress. The Huntress catches it with the Riot shield, but she was **** to turn enough that an angelic ray fired at the same time gets passed the shield and tears through one of the Huntress's arms holding the riot shield. Her grip on the shield weakened, but she responds by shooting Lemiel and Boarchiel with the rail guns. Lemiel is hit in the arm and drops her rifle, Boarchiel is hit in the chest and collapses onto her back.

Yulia panics and runs to try and heal her, but at the same time The Huntress goes for the kill, leaping towards the fallen Boarchiel. Luckily Lri uncloaks suddenly behind her as she fires her plasma rifle directly into her back, sending her forward and causing her to miss Boarchiel, letting Yulia heal her and Lemiel.

"Yulia! Stay back, if she hurts you you can't be healed with magic remember!" Lemiel admonishes her as Yulia is healing her and Yulia growls.

"We have health potions and healing kits in an emergency, the closer I am the easier it is to heal you two," she responds and Lemiel looks annoyed.

"Fine, but be careful. If you die all of this is pointless!" she counters.

"If Cherchiel dies what will I have to live for anyway?" Yulia responds.

The Huntress is damaged, the back of her leather armor torn away to reveal the wiring and metal underneath. Maple takes advantage as does Lri, both trying to get more hits on her as she's recovering, but she recovers faster than either expect and turns, catching their shots with the riot shield and then tosses the energy blades at them, her rail guns still reloading. Lri manages to avoid the energy blade, but Maple was too surprised to react and the energy blade stabs directly through her right breast just barely missing her heart and she collapses to the ground.

Yulia swears and Lemiel darts forward, "I got her!" she yells and darts past Yulia to grab Maple and she casts Heavenly Soothing. With the current situation, the Huntress is now in the middle of the group and Isalia and Lri open fire on her from opposite sides, causing her to struggle to deal with both. Yulia joins in hitting her with an icicle and a fireball. She lets out a decidedly and uncomfortably human sounding gasp of pain and drops to one knee before firing off her rail guns again, hitting Isalia in the shoulder and Lri in the leg. Both are downed momentarily, but at the same time The Huntress has dropped her shield and Yulia hits her with a **** lance that knocks her onto her ass and she struggles to get back up, before being hit with another that lays her out fully. Yulia then runs over and shoots her repeatedly in the chest with the plasma rifle until she stops trying to get back up. After she's sure she's dead she stops shooting and quickly goes over to heal Lri and then Isalia.

With everyone healed, Maple and Boarchiel are **** from their injuries and still in pretty bad shape, but healing, everyone else is still fighting fit and the huntress is dead. Yulia turns her attention on the Tower in the centre and approaches.

"Okay... I imagine you're pretty angry, but we can talk about this still," the tower screen displays.

"No," Yulia responds and shoots the tower repeatedly until there's basically nothing left of it. The screen going blank after the third shot.

As they watch the Directive collapses completely and then vanishes, where it was they find another vial of semen, a strange helmet with a glowing blue visor and one of the Huntress' rail guns as well as a quiver of bolts for it with ten bolts currently. The other rail guns, energy blades and the riot shield appear to have disappeared somehow. They also recover 4 metal plating and 2 machine cores from The Huntress and the Directive.

"I guess all that's left is Sally... But let's go let everyone out of the prison first," Yulia says as Lemiel carries Maple and Boarchiel and they head back out to the prison area. They proceed to let everyone who was recaptured go free again and then return to the terminal.

"Operations or Administration?" Yulia asks.

Combat: The Huntress

Difficulty: 20

Agility +40

Leather Armor +5

Riot Shield +40

Railguns +20

Energy Blades +20

No Defense -20

Energize -10

Undermine -10

Blizzard -27

**** Lance -12

Icicle - 12

Fireball - 12

Lightning Strike - 12

Illusion -10

Boarchiel - 10

Plasma Sword -10

Plasma Rifle -50

Angelic Rays -10

Backstab -10

Final Difficulty: -20 (Dear god I think Yulia's group might have gotten a bit overpowered... XD)

Yulia's Roll: 19

Result: Success

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Inventory: 10 EMP grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 sewing kit, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 3 two liter jugs of Lemiel's Milk, 3 health potion, 5 mana potions, 7 vials of Semen, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Ash's Quiver, Smithing Ingredients (3 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Grenade Bandolier with 0 grenades, Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, Gloves of Harvest (-3, heal for all damage dealt), modest two piece swimsuit, Binding Bandages, golden bangles, silk gloves, Siren Queen's black heavy armor, black bikini bottoms, Smithing Ingredients (10 metal plates), Smithing Ingredients (2 Machine Cores), 2 cure potions, strange techno helmet, rail gun bow, 10 cross bow bolts.

Yulia's Equipment: Simple black one piece swimsuit(currently removed). Ceramic Beaked Mask (currently Removed), Reinforced Monastic Scapular (currently removed), standard bra (currently removed), Standard Panties (currently removed), Ornate Rapier (-3), Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels, can bind a Demon or Angel), Cloak of Turbulent Waves (immunity to ranged attacks and offensive magic), Demon Horn Hairband (-2 to all ice magic, currently removed), tech armor, tech bodysuit (Core upgrade: speed, Special Upgrade: Light Module, Arcane Flux), plasma rifle (-10).

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%)

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

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: 4, 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.

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

Cherchiel Health: 100% (dropped to 20% but healed back to full)

Cherchiel Mana: 100%

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Staff (-1), God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), Bikini(currently removed), plasma Sword (-10), Tech Armor (damaged).

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

Goma Health: 10%

Goma Mana: 60%

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,), Swim Trunks (currently removed), 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.

Isalia Health: 100% (dropped to about 70% but healed back to full)

Isalia Mana: 100%

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Masterwork Trident (-3)(Unequipped), Isalia's Shield (-3), One Piece Swimsuit (Currently removed), plasma rifle (-10), Tech Armor (damaged), Tech Suit (damaged).

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% (dropped to about 70% but healed back to full)

Lri Mana: 100%

Lri Equipment: Twin Daggers (-3), black swimsuit (currently removed), Blood drinker, tech armor (Sans helmet, damaged), tech suit (Core upgrade: speed, damaged), plasma rifle (-10), 3 EMP grenades, Veil of Hidden Depths, fishbowl of Illusions.

Lri Status Effect:

Lemiel Health: 200% (dropped to about 110% but healed back to full)

Lemiel Mana: 200%

Lemiel Equipment: Angelic Visor, twin magic blades (Summoned, -10, take 5% mana to summon), Tech Armor (damaged), plasma rifle (-10).

Lemiel Spells Known: Angelic Rays (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 20%), Heavenly Soothing (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%), Retribution (Lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 100%, unusable, triggers automatically at 0% hp if Lemiel has enough Mana to trigger it), The One True God's Judgment (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 100%), God's Light (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Lemiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat level raised to high.

Maple Health: 100% (dropped to about 10% but healed back to full)

Maple Mana: 100%

Maple Equipment: Tech armor (damaged), tech suit (Core upgrade: Speed, special upgrade: Conversion, damaged), plasma rifle (-10).

Maple Status Effect:

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