Just divine make-up. No biggie

We began crushing the blackberries into essentially a juice as I created a small flame with my hand. I could maintain it with just mana. Wouldn’t be enough for like traditional cooking, but I didn’t wanna fetch firewood. Plus for bringing a pot of smashed up berries to a boil. It would do just fine.

I know the physical method here was a bit different but that was fine. I had a phoenix vane after all. Once the pot of berries was bubbling I had Lillian come over to me. “Watch carefully. I want you to feel what I do.”

I placed the vane in her hand and began channeling mana into it. Like before it flickered and sparked and began glowing. Perfect! I then dropped it into the berry mixture and began stirring furiously while doing pumping even more mana into the mixture.

“Wow, that was,” Lillian said looking at her hand. “So simple but so intense.”

I nodded and handed her another vane. “Your turn! Do it to your mixture.”

“I normally invoke my godddess for magic though?” she asked.

“That’s fine, if anything that will have her even more curious what we are doing. It shouldn’t do anything bad for this. If anything it will help your quality be ideal even if you make mistakes,” I said.

The truth of the matter was phoenix vanes were somewhat naturally divine. So mixing them with divine mana didn’t make them that much stronger than just divine mana alone. If you knew how to handle your mana well, the quality could be topped out, divinity or not. But it would be a bit unfair to ask Lillian to do that firs try.

She held the vane in her hand and it began sparking. “Goddess of Beauty. I, your faithful follower ask for your help, for you’re guidance. Help me enchant this vane with your will so that I may create an offering worth your notice.”

The sparking turned bright, the divine influence. Like mine, she dropped it in and she began mixing it up. Her mixture was sparking, unlike mine. That little bit of divinity sure did add a kick. I then poured our mixtures into each other and the new purple-ish paste was looking damn fine. Sparking and all.

“So what did we make?” Lillian asked.

“Basically divine make up,” I said. “More than cosmetic though, it’s basically armor. Dye a shirt in this and it would be up there with any type of plate mail you’d find. ”

“Holy cow,” Iris said. “The implications of that are, ****.”

“Well, it did take magical ingredients a priest and two phoenix vanes. I would hope so,” I said.

We had a huge bowl of it, but in terms of dying clothes we probably couldn’t do more than a few shirts. But that was fine, I didn’t need much. I actually put some into a potion bottle. And then instructed Lillian to send the rest to the goddess.

Her light shined down a bit later as the mixture vanished. “My! Such quality! Rosemary no doubt?”

I flared my mana as I spoke. “Yep!”

“It has been centuries since I have seen make up of this quality. Rosemary, each day you make me want you more! I may need to chat with this Master of yours directly,” she said.

Lillian just gasped as she turned red.

“Having trouble with the sisters?” I asked.

She was silent for a moment. “Uh, don’t remind me. Not on a day like this.”

“I have faith in you,” I said.

“Aww, that’s swell. Okay, but now for such a wonderful offering and so much of it. Surely you have a wish in mind? Name it.”

I smiled. Just as I had planned. “If you want to earn the sisters approval, treating their favorite child well is something you’d want to try.”

“Hmm,” she said pausing. “What do you mean? Is granting a wish not what humans desire?”

“I am a seer,” I said. “We anticipate. Is that not what you like so much about me? I have not fulfilled your orders, I have tried to bring them before you have them. Drewchel would surely approve of you showing your own foresight.”

With a flash a woman appeared before us. She was blonde, one of the largest pair of breasts I had ever seen. She wore a blue outfit similar to ours. Her hair reached down her back as she stretched. “You make a point. You don’t mind right? I thought, if you all consider this sisterhood beautiful, I would try and blend in for the moment. Plus, I wanted to see how it feels. A bit snug I must say.”

Iris and Lillian fell to their knees. Both trembling. Poor girls. Divinity was a hard thing for anyone to handle directly. The only reason I wasn’t with them right now is thanks to the sisters blessing. The goddess of beauty picked up my potion bottle and began flowing it with light. So much light that it’s purple hue vanished beyond its radiance. It looked more like a lantern than anything.

Before leaving, she reached down to Lillian and lifted her head towards herself before planting a kiss on her lips. “Do encourage Rosemary and your master to continue spoiling me so.”

Lillian didn’t reply she just fainted. Her lips glowing ever so slightly. I chuckled.

With that, she vanished with a blink as if she had never been there.

Iris was shaking as she tried to stand. “That was…. What was that?”

“Divinity,” I said. “Strong stuff, right?”

“Under statement of the century,” she said. “So wait, you said you were working on hair care stuff for me? Is that what that is?”