Jonathan A Countyman

Interlude New Dynamics

Delilah shifted a bit when Mira came over and poked Michael. Well, maybe it was more apt to call her Michelle. Of course, there was the whole name change ritual to go through first. To make it official. Mira could technically just change it since Michael was her pet, but she was kind. Mira didn’t do that, and Delilah did feel safer with her around. The little dragonkin was fiercely protective of them, in a way that just let her be vulnerable around the woman. Of course, Mira hadn’t wanted...

Chapter Ninety-Five Festering Faiths and Mixing Evils

Nelli walked down the path. It was time to check on the babies again. She had already started Master’s treatment plans for certain babies. Number three had taken to being starved well. She was losing fat, but otherwise healthy, no concerns yet. Master had her pick a few more healthy babies to cut off. They were doing about the same as well. She wasn’t concerned about the group that was currently starving. Master said it was an experiment to see how well they could take not getting their f...

Chapter Ninety-Four Princess Found

Misaki sighed. It had been a couple of hours since she had come back to the guild. Things were mostly dull. Aside from a couple interesting things here and there. It didn’t help that it was a slow day at the guild. So she spent the time chatting with Melisa and answering questions. Thankfully she didn’t have to do the paperwork. The other girl, true to her word, took care of that.

Finally Melisa let out a breath. “Okay, we are just about set here. Just read this, and sign here.”...

Chapter Ninety-Three Misaki’s Day

Misaki stretched and looked around. “Sleep well?”

She looked over. It was Phillip’s Aide, Melisa. Misaki smiled, “I did.” She looked around, “So where is Phillip?”

“She went to look at the house. It’s been a couple of hours since then, but it’s a slow day at the guild.” She leaned back, “I was organizing the paperwork, but I am out of things to do. There is only one item that needs Phillip’s approval right now, and it’s not marked urgent. So, I’m kind...

Chapter Ninety-Two Festering Evils and Mixing Faiths

Nelli slipped into the Master’s office. It was time for her to make her report on the sick infants. This was the big report, where she also would inform him about which infants were failing to get their allotted amounts of food as well and which ones got chilled due to mana shortages. Rather than the usual check them off as okay reports, this one was the one where she actually had to give meaningful data.

The Master smiled as she came in. “Good Morning Nelli. How are the babies toda...

Chapter Ninety-One Rumors and Building

Phillip stood on the path. She couldn’t help smiling as she looked at the exterior of her house. It was done and it had only taken a couple of days. Melisa had shown up just as she and Misaki had been finalizing the design. When she saw what they were doing, she had a few questions and things to add. Nothing Phillip could really object to either since Melisa was making good points about them. So they had made some adjustments to the nursery, moved her bedroom and shifted a couple of others ...

Interlude Belly Rub Sisters

Laki followed Qerni down the path. She had come out to check on a certain trio of girls. Now that she had the first tasks out of the way, she was looking to meet them. They seemed to be her kind of girl. Having spoken to Master, she had a general idea of who corrupted them. Another type of creature, related to the abyss. The creature in question takes young female children and slowly corrupts them over a period of several years. They would be removed from the family at regular intervals for t...

Chapter Ninety Building Foundations

Phillip stepped into the guildhall with Misaki. Where almost instantly she was intercepted by Melisa. “There you are! Seriously Phillip, I looked everywhere for you! Where were...” she trailed off when she noticed Misaki behind her. Then she smirked, “Oh, I see! I hope you two had fun, but next time pay more attention to the time. Remember you are guildmaster! It sets a poor example to show up late.”

Phillip turned red. Glancing around, she was happy to notice the only one here ...

Chapter Eighty-Nine Laki’s Adventures in Telka

Laki smiled when she saw the town. It had taken a little longer than she thought to reach it than she thought. Despite the unexpected obstacles she did manage to make it. She was somewhat worried about those obstacles as she shouldn’t have encountered so many monsters. Sure the area had dense mana and frequent outbreaks, but she had been beset by them far too often. In addition the roads were choked with weeds. Clearly, no one was maintaining the roads in the area. A bad sign for the town, ...

Chapter Eighty-Eight A New Morning and New Problems

Phillip shifted, pressing herself a bit more firmly into the warm body next to her. For a moment or two she simply relished in the sensations. As her mind wasn’t fully awake and she couldn’t help but feel very happy. Then she started to wake up, her memories flooding back in. She blinked but didn’t quite move yet. Her mind was waking up, but she still felt rather content to just lay there. It was just so cozy and warm. Hard to muster the energy to actually leave the bed. So instead she ...

Chapter Eighty-Seven Whirlwind Meeting II

Misaki moaned as the lovely girl she had just met nuzzled her neck. Sparks rippled through her and the heat in her belly grew. She relished in the feeling, yet part of her was still trying to figure out how this happened. Misaki wasn’t even sure how this started, or who kissed who. All she remembered was a kiss. It was a glorious spark that reminded her of everything she was missing. She missed those feelings and for the moment completely forgot why she was avoiding it. Suddenly her missing...

Chapter Eighty-Six Whirlwind Meeting

Phillip stepped out of the door leading from the fourth floor boss arena. She’d gotten by without a fight again. The boss Makara was a Lamia demon. Fairly strong but a skilled team might be able to bring her down. It seemed the boss was already aware of her abilities and was like the Dragon girl... flirty. She turned red just remembering it. Then she thought about her encounter with Aki and turned even more red. Briefly wondering what was with this dungeon, but she knew.

Pushing that ...

Interlude A Slime’s New Form

Susan stretched. Feeling quite happy for the moment. Waking up as a slime had certainly been different, but then she had gotten a taste of cloth. She licked her lips, she had been unsure of that when she had been fed it, but only at first. It tasted so good. Utterly divine. No wonder slimes liked eating clothes so much. If they tasted that good... she wanted more! No wait, bad girl. Clothes aren’t food... but they taste so good!

She tried to reconcile the conflict of instincts and upb...

Chapter Eighty-Five Lessons on Dungeon Exploration Continued

Reiko stepped out of the room. She had been hoping to play with Mistress Misaki, but she seemed to be hopelessly enthralled with something else. She couldn’t even get the other girl’s attention. So she had given up. Maybe she would find something to do elsewhere? Lily could be fun.

She frowned, nah she was too young and Reiko was feeling kind of frisky. She wanted to be touched and to feel hot. Lily wasn’t right for that. She changed routes as she considered who she wanted to play...

Chapter Eighty-Four Lessons on Dungeon Exploration

Meifa watched the princess knight run out her rear door, heading deeper into the dungeon, and sighed. A shame really, the girl was perfect. Strong, utterly adorable and that armor just suited her so perfectly. She usually didn’t think much of clothing, as a dragon she didn’t need it, but as a demon she understood its uses. To her that armor was perfect, the only kind of clothing worth using. Combining form in a sexy fashion with practical protection. As a result, she really liked the girl...

Chapter Eighty-Three A Fated Dungeon Run Begins

Misaki slumped into her sofa. Suddenly having two more residents was interesting. One of them proved to be easier to deal with than the other. That one proved to be the new slime girl Susan. It had been kind of cute watching her eat some cloth and then curl up. Of course that had happened after spending over an hour just calming her down. The poor girl had her entire future ripped out from under her. Something Misaki actually understood. Something similar had happened to her, what with that r...

Chapter Eighty-Two Shattered

Phillip settled into her armor. It had required some assistance and now she was swimming in the large set of fully enchanted plate-mail armor. Technically she could have triggered the resize enchantment earlier, but she wanted to do it all at once. Perhaps just a bit of theater.

With a smile, not that anyone saw it, she triggered the enchantment. Proper pants here we come!

Her armor shimmered in her view, folding and refolding. When suddenly she got a notification. One that left h...

Chapter Eighty-One Divine Blessings?

Her line of thought suddenly halted when a familiar voice called, “Greybeard, sir? Are you up?”

That wasn’t good, she was naked and no one was going to recognize her. Suddenly she found power for her legs and rushed into her room. There was a crash as she knocked something over, she stumbled a couple of times before she made it to her chest. Flipping it open, she pulled something out, just as the tent flap opened and Melisa looked in. She froze.

Melisa frowned, she spoke, bu...

Interlude Divine Spankings

Tina giggled as she watched the trio react to her little twisting of Mira’s wish. It was so fun! When suddenly she felt a shiver ripple down her spine. Her face turned pale and she looked up. Only to immediately regret it, her face turning even more pale.

“Um,... what’s up Dewari? Having fun?”

Dewari glared, “If I have told you once, I have told you a million times. Tina! How many times have I told you not to play on another god’s turf!!!?”

“Um... Never?” s...

Chapter Eighty Divine Curses

Phillip blinked at the light and rolled over. It was too early to be this bright. His mind drifted back into the pleasantness of dreams. It wasn’t often he had the chance and he didn’t have anywhere to be. Not pressingly anyway. The dream took him again and he enjoyed a wonderful moment. A smile graced his sleeping face as he saw the family he wanted. Gorgeous daughters enjoying a game of chase as they played in the yard of an elegant if modest home. He watched them play as he reclined on...

Chapter Seventy-Nine Failure?!

Michael leaned back in her seat and watched Mira sit back down in her chair. She had left about an hour ago to collect information. Michael noticed the smile on her face and shifted her position, “Good news I take it?”

Mira’s smile widened, “Yep! Guild Master Phillip apparently worked late tonight, went back home shortly before we got back. I was able to confirm he is in his tent, right now. The area is rather quiet at this hour, few eyes. I need the ring, I can get it done easy...

Chapter Seventy-Eight As One Game Comes to an End a Second Begins

Michael watched the screen as Susan got cornered by that invulnerable harpy. A real cheat skill that one had. One that Tina was more than happy to tell them about. Apparently, since Susan had entered an optional challenge area, the dungeon was free to make it harder than the floor would usually allow. This gave the potential for greater rewards, the more challenging the dungeon makes these areas the better the rewards.

On the screen Susan panicked, that was the only way to describe it. ...

Chapter Seventy-Seven The Harpies Nest

Susan took a second look around her cell. It was a modestly sized room with very little of note. The walls were solid stone bricks and reinforced in the same way all dungeon walls were. She was resting on a raised mat in the middle of the room, which was the only thing of note on the cell’s hard stone floors. That left her with the bars in front of her, they were sturdy and to her sight enchanted. Getting out of the cell was going to be interesting no doubt. Brute force was obviously out, b...

Chapter Seventy-Six Divine Pranks

Aka walked down the hall. Once again her mind drifted to that talk with her mother. The one she got when she brought Tovi home for the first time. She couldn’t help it considering she had just been caring for Tovi. She sighed, that had been a rather long lecture about being careful about gods. She knew now that Tovi was an addition to her life given to her by the Dark Goddess of Mischief, Tina. Honestly, she loved Tovi, the little chicken could be stupid and stubborn, but she was an incredi...

Interlude Powers in Motion

The figure slipped into the room. Several men were in the midst of a heated argument. Thrust into the middle of it, he found it hard to follow. Much less figure out what they were so alarmed over.

Sighing, he took his seat and waited for a bit. Oftentimes he wondered what kept the council working. None of the other high priests were what he would call remotely competent. He was especially irked by how the territories to the north were falling apart. The loss of trade with the elves was ...

Chapter Seventy-Five Tempting Fate

Michael looked up at the gaping maw that was the entrance to the dungeon and shuddered. For a moment she wondered why she was even here. Just a few short days ago, she recalled... the incident. Unlike previously she didn’t break down at the mere thought of it, but a shudder rippled down her back. Nearby Delilah pressed against her, the mere presence of the smaller girl being quite comforting. Michael was extremely grateful for the support. Of course, Delilah also had her own issues to work ...

Chapter Seventy-Four Assembling a Team

Susan sighed as she came out of the guild. She had done some talking after Seirra left. The jerk of a guild mistress could have bothered to give her a proper introduction, but no all she did was... and Susan. What kind of introduction was that? She was a future archmage and she was practically an A rank adventurer already. While there was some variance to the ranks, ranks pretty much followed a nice easy to understand bracket. A ranks were the cream of the adventurer crop and were typically a...

Chapter Seventy-Three Black Blood Fever

Aidera knelt next to the young girl. Part of her wondered why she was here. One moment she had been stepping out of her room in the inn, on a date with the sisters. The next a distraught mother was ambushing her in the lobby. Now here she was, next to a young kid, perhaps five or six years of age, preparing to diagnose her.

Nearby providing moral support were the sisters. Another part of her was glad that they had come with. Focusing her mind on the girl, she noted how weak her small bo...