Jonathan A Countyman

Interlude The Lordling and the Spider

Arlie looked through her wardrobe, she was leaving today to collect the Solunes, she needed to replenish her stocks following yesterday’s accident. She’d spent most of the day looking after the injured and getting her supplies in order for today’s trip. Which is why she hadn’t left already. At the moment she wore only a simple pair of panties secured in place by a simple ribbon, given the weather she rarely bothered with more during the night.

Flipping through her robes, she soo...

Chapter One Forty-Five Labyrinths and Unholy Monsters

The adventurers gathered before the door, true to the dungeon’s word they were allowed past the fifth floor boss, Reifa. She was pretty cute actually, and clearly related to the second floor boss Meifa. They not only looked but acted like sisters, and even without the battle requirement that didn’t stop the dragon sisters from trying to have some fun. A rather expected turn of events, they were lust demons after all. If there was one thing lust demons were renowned for, it was their pract...

Chapter One Forty-Four Unholy Ascension

Amy stepped through the door, to find Mira already settled on the sofa. Did she get the time wrong? She’d been invited to the guild for a meeting, something about a quest her party was suited for. “Um, did I get the time wrong?”

Mira looked up, “I just got here as well.”

The other door opened and in walked Misaki the dungeon avatar, and the guildmaster’s lover. Coincidently she was also currently in charge of the guild. Something Amy would have questioned the wisdom of...

Chapter One Forty-Three Maps, Routes and Passages

Emily looked up when she heard the door open to see Amber come into the room, still wet with water, her girls following after. Megan and Celine were thankfully dry and clothed. If she hadn’t needed to consult the map. She wouldn’t have left them in Amber’s care, but she’d decided after watching the bee girl that she was trustworthy. Well not as much as she would like, but enough to let her kids be with her for a few minutes.

“How’d the bath go?”

Amber grinned, “We ...

Chapter One Forty-Two Stained Honor and Old Wounds

Arrieta let out a breath, as she leaned back. From behind Darious inquired, “So what did you find out?”

She blinked, “I thought you had....”

“Bigger things to worry about? Fat chance, you just found and cleared a maneater’s nest right in the middle of the capital. Do you have any idea how embarrassed the Order of Aurous is over this?”

She pictured those pompous church knights and had an urge to giggle, “Yeah I guess they’d be rather unhappy about that. It d...

Chapter One Forty-One The Bouncing Bee

Emily stepped through the door, her kids following close behind. Amber entered a moment later, the energetic bee looked rather run down now, something Emily was somewhat thankful for. That girl had a lot of energy, it was easy to forget she belonged to a monster race given how much she behaved like a little kid. With behavior like hers, it was even easier to forget that she was not only mature enough, but old enough to have started... breeding. Emily couldn’t think of a better word since mo...

Interlude Voros

A knock echoed on the door. “I’m coming, I can hear, you know.” said a young looking woman as she moved towards her door. She was on the smaller side with very dark brown hair, but her eyes were unique, they were dark, almost black, but they glowed a mystic shade of blue. Her skin was pale despite many years in the sun, pristine and unmarked. She was dressed in the traditional garb of a mage, flowing brown and blue robes that did surprisingly little to hide her figure as her bust strain...

Chapter One Forty Trials in the Forest

Dreading what she might find, Milith stepped into the room. It had been a couple of days since she’d rescued the town, but there was no helping the time spent here. From talking with the local women, she’d heard about this particular place. Supposedly it was a clinic, but the local girls said there was something more going on in this building. Upstairs was just a typical looking birthing clinic, well, an Abyssal birthing clinic, but what she was finding downstairs was rather different. St...

Chapter One Thirty-Nine Risky Shortcuts

The cart rumbled along the road and the young woman kept an eye on the path. In the back she could hear her girl’s playing. Her mind wasn’t much on what they were doing but rather the path ahead. Closing up her shop on short notice had been hard enough, but she didn’t have long to reach the Borderlands if she wanted to reach the funeral on time. It played a role in picking this route. Nothing all that wrong with it, but the Greywood Forest was rather untamed.

Their family had been...

Chapter One Thirty-Eight Renovations

Misaki stretched a bit, careful not to disturb Phyllis who’d fallen asleep beside her. Then she glanced down at her selections for a moment hesitating to confirm them. She’d put a few hours into the decision. Phyllis had suggested she consider which traits would help her the most in the long run. The problem was she had nine choices, and many of them were so good! Fortified Puzzles was very tempting, the mana density one was a game changer and the shrine thing seemed really good. At least...

Chapter One Thirty-Seven Carcasses and Choices

Misaki settled on the ground and looked out at the giant snake carcass. Now that it was dead she could get a better look at it, the Lizarna was predominantly snake-like, but it also had tendrils. Thin tentacles that ended with barbs, from which it could shoot those spines it had bombarded her with. Thankfully it wasn’t venomous, but she was still rather surprised the thing was Tier Three. 

Her gaze turned back to her towers, they stood almost ominously over the land, the shadows ...

Chapter One Thirty-Six Dungeon Versus Serpent

Phyllis looked out the window at the wall, she’d known she was with a dungeon, but seeing it was certainly something else. Walls like that usually took years of work to build, magic certainly helped taking out months of work, but it still took a long time to build such walls. Quarries were needed to supply stones which then needed to be cut, lifted and placed with precision. The enchantments of a proper wall were particularly difficult as it took hundreds of skilled enchanters working on ea...

Interlude A Lost Village

Milith set down on the edge of a village, well, Arrieta had called it a small town, but she couldn’t see it as anything more than a village. The locals had somewhat different definitions for things, Salmus was apparently a city, but she didn’t see it that way.

She’d left the girl to help the church clean up the mess she made. Milith felt sorry for that young girl Viri, and her gendershifted father Howard. Viri had been abused and brainwashed by that maneater, to the point Milith h...

Chapter One Thirty-Five Banishings and Walls

Arrieta looked up, the church had certainly come out in droves, but some part of her couldn’t help wondering why she hadn’t been banished yet. Her mind drifted back a couple of hours.

She’d spent hours telling Milith the story of her fateful encounter with Xeria Cloudfeather, her goddess. It had been many years ago, but she remembered it.  She remembered that encounter as clearly as it had happened yesterday. At the time she’d recently celebrated her eighth birthday and Mom...

Chapter One Thirty-Four Unusual Encounters

The new girl landed on the street, her talons digging deep furrows into the cobblestone streets, as she surveyed the damage. “You two seem to be having quite the brawl.”

Arrieta stood there for a moment, before shrinking into her frame. Looking around she could see they’d done a lot of damage. Off to the left something finally gave and the roof of a wrecked shop finally caved in with a clatter. Sheepishly she rubbed her cheek, “Sorry about that?”

Milith looked between th...

Chapter One Thirty-Three The Maneater in the Capital

Arrieta turned the corner and found herself on the ground as a bundle of cuteness barreled into her. “Mistress! You’re back!”

She giggled and stroked Xiri’s head, “Yeah I’m back. How’d things go with Milith and Darious?”

“Milith is fun, but um, she’s been looking around the church more and more. I didn’t tell Darious, but I think the princess knows something darker is under the surface.”

“Oh, and what is our young St...

Chapter One Thirty-Two Funeral Planning

Pafi looked around the guild room before heading for the door. She’d checked the house and Phylis wasn’t there. There were some things she needed to discuss with her, like where to hold the funeral. Misaki was her partner, and being a young dungeon, couldn’t really travel. That meant if they wanted her to attend they would have to hold the funeral here. That was a very important point regarding the funeral, but not the only one they had to discuss. Even if a good chunk of it was already...

Chapter One Thirty-One Impending Funerals

Phyllis sat on a rock blankly staring at the water in front of her. The girl didn’t really pay it any mind, or her surroundings either. She just wasn’t all that aware of them. In her mind the news of her father being dead kept playing in her mind. It had only been a few days, Misaki and her mother Pafi had been there plenty for her. The funeral wasn’t for a few more days, the temples had already received her father’s body but it still had to be prepared for the rituals.

She sigh...

Chapter One Hundred Thirty Breaking the News

Aidera stretched, “Well um I guess I should get going. Good luck breaking the news to Phyllis.”

“Um, thanks and I’m glad Mira is doing alright. I was worried about her too.”

Aidera smiled before taking her leave. Leaving Misaki alone with Pafi. “So would you like me to be there when you break the news to...”

Pafi smiled, “I think that would be for the best.”

Misaki helped her out of her chair and together the pair of them made their way into the back ...

Chapter One Twenty-Nine Of Fallen Heroes and a Plotting Harem

Pafi separated from the hug, feeling better, “Thanks.”

“So what got you so rattled?”

Pafi handed her the letter, and Aidera soon leaned over to look at the page. A frown graced her lips, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

She shrank a little, “I’ll need to tell Phyllis.”

Misaki was silent for a moment, “I kinda wanted to meet the man. Phyllis made him sound like something else, guess I never will now.”

Pafi smiled, “He was something else alright...

Chapter One Twenty-Eight The Harem and their Clueless Leader

Misaki sighed as she leaned into a chair in the guild hall. Phyllis was busy with guild work. Arrieta was thankfully not here. She wasn’t sure she could take another training session so soon, but she knew it was coming sooner or later. She smiled when a naked figure came up, the other girl returned the smile and sat down, “I heard you had some fun last night.”

“I guess you could call it that. How’s...”

She giggled, “Mira and her pets Delilah and Michelle are holding ...

Chapter One Twenty-Six Late-Night Studies

Misaki watched Phyllis sleep for a moment, before turning back to the book in her hand. Leaning back in the soft chair she started to read. After what she had learned from the half-breed girl, she had decided it was a good idea to start looking into the child-eating serpent, which were also known as Lizarna Serpents. Although apparently only referred to that way in more academic text. She’d gone through a few books already, which had brought her to this bestiary. The book covered the serpen...

Interlude Magnetic Weaponry

The concept of a projectile accelerated by magnets is one that has been experimented with by military and civilian elements alike. Video-sharing sites across the world have videos where various amateurs make their own, as the concept isn’t that complex, but many of these video weapons aren’t much more than a proof of concept and are a far cry from a proper military weapon. Low stopping power, inaccurate at any kind of decent range, and slow to fire, basically amounting to the electromagne...

Interlude A Strange Nest

The rock crumbled under her foot almost making her lose balance if not for a quick reaction. Sighing, the young woman glanced down, if she had fallen it was a long way down. How she had ended up here, she still wasn’t entirely sure about. One minute she’d been running from Theocracy enforcers, the next she was here. The young woman remembered running into a cave hoping to hide from them and she had emerged here in the mountains. She thought it must have been some kind of spatial magic or ...

Chapter One Twenty-Five Union Point, the Underdark, and a Nice Swim

Misha giggled as she broke the surface of the little lake, she’d have preferred more space but this was awesome. Being cramped up in a small pool all the time sucked. She smiled at the thought of an even bigger space and then looked over at Eriko. The older girl lay on her back, giving Misha a great view of her naked body. Why these land dwellers wore clothes, she never understood, Eriko was very pretty. “Race you to that island!” She shouted as she pointed at one nearby, there were sev...

Chapter One Lunis Island

September 1st, 2038:

The young girl slipped out of bed, as her hand cancelled the alarm. She smiled to herself as the cool morning air brushed against her skin. Today was going to be a big day, she was going to school with the other kids, she couldn’t wait!

A knock at the door, “Eris! It’s time to get up, you better...”

“I’m up!” she called through the door.

Her adoptive mother replied, “Well Breakfast is almost ready, d...

Prologue Recovery Operation

USS Enterprise CVN-65; May 17, 1984:

Stepping onto the bridge, the man was instantly greeted with several cries of ‘captain on the bridge’. Almost immediately his XO called him over to a console. Heading on over, he inquired, “What do we have?”

The officer sighed, “Recovery mission. Local monitoring stations picked up a fast mover in sector four.” They tapped onto an area on the sea chart, “It crashed somewhere around here. The admiralty w...

Chapter One Twenty-Four Milestone Shopping

Misaki looked up at the sky, this wasn’t an easy choice. Seeing that she had some DP she had gone through the shop as well to consider prices. As that might play into her choice. In the end, she’d spent long enough that the sun had moved well past its zenith and into the evening. Her choice was now solidly made. Now that she had grown and traffic had improved, instances seemed essential, but she also found that they were reasonably priced in the shop. So she had chosen to buy them, adding...

Chapter One Twenty-Three Adventure and Revelation

Eriko followed the demon girl through a door. The dungeon’s courier was guiding her down to the lower levels. While her guards followed behind, carrying the pool in which the mermaid kid she’d rescued was resting. The guards had tested the floors a few times, they even reached the fifth one a couple of times. The dungeon was still digesting the results, but Misaki said she had a few ideas on how her next set of floors would go. In the meantime, she’d adjusted the fifth floor to contain ...

Chapter One Twenty-Two Of Mothers and Broods

Pafi walked down the path, following the young dungeon girl her newfound daughter had chosen as a lover. She was certainly cute, and from what she could tell actually cared for Phyllis. Even if her demonic nature meant she was less than faithful. Demons tended to be rather free when it came to sex, yet they did cherish their lovers and their children. Of course Demons were known to have many children. Her grandchildren weren’t going to be lonely, that was for sure. Not only that, but they w...