Someone is waiting for you...

You stop short, surprised by what you see as you enter. Sitting in the lotus position inside your tent is a woman. The funny thing is that your God's Eye doesn't work on her, and neither do your normal eyes. You can see her perfectly and you know that she is beautiful and sexy, but you are unable to tell if she is tall or short, blonde or brunette, big or small tits...

The feeling is really strange because she is not covered at all. She sits there totally naked as she flashes you a smile, part lust, part tenderness, part sadistic dominance...

"Greetings, my champion."

"Who are you? I know you're one of my goddesses, but I don't know which one."

"I am all of them and none at the same time. Carnachias, Farael and Melanoche decided to create a temporary avatar to visit you and congratulate you personally. Not being able to decide who would visit you first and not wanting to argue, they set me up. I am an avatar of the three, the representation of their will towards you. their feelings for you, their desires, their memories..."

Well, that would certainly explain why neither of your eyes, physical or not, are unable to make out anything about her. You must have really impressed the three sisters if they have decided to come to congratulate you in person. At least as personally as they can.

"So, besides conveying their congratulations, is there anything else you need from me?"

"Actually, I'm here to give you some explanations about your new powers, things that your God's Eye and your character sheet don't show. As you know, the quests were simply designed to give you the features that both you and they wanted. Everything was already there, it just became visible only when you completed the quests. As for the exchange of your earned XP, it was necessary to justify those concessions to the system without setting off alarm bells..."

"The system? What system?"

"The world itself. Well, the computer system that runs it, to be completely exact. It was created by the ancients and has been running ever since. The problem is that it's currently controlled by light. That's why they could break the rules like that, because even if they set off the alarms, they just turned them off. Obviously the sisters can't do that, so they need to keep a low profile, or at least trick the system into believing that."

"So, they designed the quests to reward me with traits that they were already going to give me anyway. That's why it was impossible to fail, right? I mean, even I noticed that it was impossible for me to fail the quests, even though It wasn't necessarily easy."

"Exactly. They turned those traits into something potential in you, something that you would get as a reward when you completed your quests. Your very conception was planned down to the last detail. They made sure to channel enough power through you to activate your incubus potential , and they sent those two girls on a mission of their own, to sacrifice themselves in a ritual to empower Anariel. They both decided to accept because, one way or another, their destiny was to die. They were lesser targets for the light, you see. So they , in exchange for their consciousness combining with Anariel, they chose to willingly sacrifice themselves. The instant you unleashed your seed within her, the ritual was completed. Or at least, the conditions for its completion were met."

"But the necessary conditions were also met for the seed within her to create my core and her soul to be expelled from her body for me to inhabit." Your sister says.

"That was what caused the failure, right? I don't fully understand what happened, but I find it hard to imagine how the sisters could have predicted such an outcome. The ritual could have failed in many other ways, after all." Anariel asks curiously.

"That's the thing. The ritual never failed. It was impossible to stop at that point, the magic had reached enough autonomy to fulfill its purpose without stopping. The seed didn't fail either, it did what it had to do."

The three of you look at the goddess blankly. Her words do not match the facts, since in reality your sister does not have her own body and neither does Anariel. Their current bodies are projections that they can control, but not their real bodies.

"But that doesn't make sense. I was conceived, not Anariel. And certainly my sister doesn't control my body either. Besides, I can dispel their projections whenever I want."

"Sorry to interrupt, my lord. But you are wrong. I can feel Anariel and your sister, and they are perfectly real. They are not illusions or projections of any kind." Hannah says confused.

What? You had assumed that the reason your HUD marked them as real was because they were extensions of you, but it seems Hannah perceives them as real as well. The question is, if they are real, what really happened during your conception?

"The priestess is correct. Both the ritual and the seed worked perfectly. What actually happened was... Well, maybe it's easier for me to show it?"

Without warning, the goddess raises a hand in your direction and shoots a bolt of lightning at you. You don't have time to dodge even if you really could, and none of your girls have time to do more than watch wide-eyed as the divine lightning strikes you. Fortunately, your disintegration is so rapid that you don't feel pain, you simply cease to exist, or at least your body does...