The End Of World One

We all got quite a lot of mileage out of Sexual Calibration during the celebration, and spent more than a day at it. Possibly more than three days, really... I do know that it was less than a week, because no new Lackeys showed up. All the girls got several good fuckings, even Jasmine insisted on having her turn, to my shock. The mermaids guzzled so much cum that the three ended up looking positively pregnant by the end. More than a few of the girls probably actually ended up pregnant in all the debauchery, honestly, but I wasn't going to check. If it happened, it happened.

Eventually, even though we all had the energy to keep going, everyone had started to pair, or couple, off on their own and were sleeping in their own sections of the large room with its single wall-to-wall mattresses that I'd set up with the control room before the party. Last, falling asleep in my arms, had been Ella herself. This largely normal human girl was still important to me, even after all the others I'd gathered so far. She had been my first waifu after walking alone and unknowing into this abyss. I kissed her forehead, then rolled her over to where Hilde and Snow lay huddled together. Sleepily, they pulled her in with them as I got up and made my way to the door.

It was time to set up my entrance into World Two.

End of World One.

The small room with the shockingly advanced computer hadn't changed with the house upgrade, but I hadn't expected it to. It looked exactly the same as my incursion setup always had. I booted the advanced PC up, and the door to the room sealed with a very ominous and final-sounding loud click. As I expected, no backing out now.

What I saw on the screen made my blood go cold. The Three Nations of Mist. "Shit, shit, shit!" Of all the tier two worlds, it had to be a fucking Mamono world. Kat hadn't been a fluke, she'd been a fucking warning!

Long, long ago, early in my career, I'd been sent to a Mamono world of the MGE, Monster Girl Encyclopedia. Tier two, I thought, piece of cake, I thought. Then the very first woman I met invited me into her house and let me stamp her hand with zero fuss. I was addicted to her milk before the Binding even had a chance to take.

Tier two world cause the monster girls don't want to kill you, mostly, they just want to enslave you. Use you as breeding stock to impregnate them with more monster girls. Even a kind, gentle Holstaur pretending to be an innocent farmer.

I lost count of the years I spent with her, enslaved by each other. Lost count of the number of daughters we'd had. Always daughters with a monster girl, of course. I'd have spent the rest of my life there in imposed bliss, working her farm, drinking her milk, knocking her up, if not for by pure chance that another beta tester had happened by. Laughed his ass off at my predicament, of course, but he also had had one of his followers, some RPG white mage, break the corruption my cow wife had ensnared me with.

I learned a valuable lesson there about hubris, about not being cautious enough, and about losing control. In my anger and embarrassment, once freed, I sold her off to The Company, never to see her again. I regretted it after, I regret it still. She hadn't meant me any harm, it was just her nature. I've tried very damn hard to avoid any missions to Mamono worlds since. And now the Gauntlet was slapping me in the face with one.

Of course I recognized the name, part of avoiding the Mamono worlds was knowing them. Studying them like a man learns about snakes once bitten, to never have it happen again. It was a very good thing I had Stress Defense back, or I'd probably be screaming right now. Still, it could be worse, having been given a Cheshire it might have been Wonderland. My skin crawled at the thought, Stress Defense or no. There, it wouldn't matter that I wasn't currently human, wouldn't matter how many 'wives' I already had, the wild monster girls would fight tooth and nail to make me their 'husband' to corrupt my soul and enslave me.

Two out of the three nations on the continent of Mist were practically civilized, an anomaly among the corrupted Mamono worlds. If I was very lucky, I'd start in the human-dominated Land of the Four Souls. The Land of the Four Gods wouldn't be a total disaster, ruled by extremely powerful monster girls, but they had laws and guidelines. Husband poaching was extremely frowned upon. The Land of the Four Fiends however, would be bad, really fucking bad... And I didn't even know what the world's quest was going to be like. Nothing at all to do with what passed for royalty there if I had any luck.

Well, what's done is done. I should have known the Gauntlet would throw some of my worst failures back in my face. No backing out now. However, going forward did not show me my build as I'd expected. The world name cleared to show me a system message.

Congratulations on clearing your first world. You may be shocked just how many don't survive even a tier one world after losing all their toys they'd become so dependent on. Speaking of, don't get too dependent on your waifus either. From here on in, at each world's end, you will only get to choose five to carry with you into the next. Don't get too riled up though. We aren't taking the rest away this time. Any waifus beyond your chosen five will remain in your Pocket Space and be unable to access worlds they were not chosen for. Your residence is still available to you, and your chosen to travel to and from as well. All of your companions will be available to choose from in the following worlds, so don't worry about having to plan ahead past the current one. Personal Familiar counts however, are uncapped, though those of your retinue must stay with them. That is all for now, though we may or may not be adding new rules as things go on. Good luck.

After reading all of that, the screen cleared, and I was back to my build page. One bit of good news, my credits had gone up from forty to sixty, so I was getting the higher rating credits. More bad news after that though, my intensity settings were completely locked down now. I'd been tempted to raise it a point or two to get higher credit value for future captures, but no such Luck. And now, not only did I have to worry about Monster Girl Encyclopedia corruption, but also which of my girls to bring with me. At least my Minions didn't count against me.

Five girls to pick and sixty credits to spend. Shit. I didn't have Corruption Defense yet, and that would be sorely needed, but that would take up the bulk of the credits I had to spend, and that would only be resistance at the first level. I couldn't risk taking anyone that wasn't already a monster girl, that would at least keep them from changing there. Hang on... Wasn't there something about Disney Princesses and blocking corruption?

Frantically, I tabbed over to the Generic Waifu Perks, and there it was. Heart Of Light. Your chosen Disney or Square-Enix Waifu has now become a Princess of Heart, given them a heart of Pure Light. They're now protected from Corruption, even if you lack Corruption Defense, and can sense and push away corruptive forces, with their abilities growing stronger the more of them gather in one place. And it only cost ten credits per. What's more, it boosted them to a tier four if they weren't already. Hmmm, it specifically stated they could not be evil though, I guess that made sense. That ruled Hilde, Maleficent, Gothel, and probably Cass out. Really Hilde was more of a strategist than a foot soldier, so I should probably leave her at home. Cassandra and Maleficent were high on my list to take though, and already a Werewolf and a Dragon, so I shouldn't need to worry about them changing. I'd wanted to upgrade Ella before, so why not? Not quite power armor yet, but she could be my first Princess of Light. I really wasn't sure if I could trust Kat or Anna around further sources of corruption, the last thing I needed was the Cheshires turning on me. Elsa could be really useful though, and my second Princess of Light. That was four. Ruby was already a Werewolf, and I could probably really use a good scout, even though I had Wild Talent. Or Rapunzel? One hell of a healer, and she could also become my third Princess of Light? If anyone really needed healing, she could be at the Manor and only a short port away though, while Ruby could be used in the field, and having another archer for backup didn't hurt. I didn't even consider Eden. I'd just freed her, no way was I risking the corruption binding her to a treasure. MGE Genies drew in massive amounts of mana from the environment, she'd be fully corrupted almost immediately. So much for my new big gun.

Very well, I bought Heart Of Light for both Ella and Elsa, leaving me forty credits, and listed Cassandra, Maleficent, Cinderella, Elsa, and Ruby on the new companion page, filling out all five slots. While I was at it, I went ahead and bought Sticky Fingers. That left me thirty-five credits. Hmmm, with the rebates I wondered... I had to laugh out loud. With rebates, the first level of Corruption Defense came to exactly thirty-five credits. That sounded too much like fate to ignore.

That put me at zero credits. Well, there was only one way out of this room, and that was feet first.

Engage.