"It requires fifteen minutes to cast, not something you do in combat, and it gives you angelic traits. Upon casting, it lasts for twenty-four hours, making it a good long-term buff to cast at the beginning of the day. The effects of the transformation include minor resistance to acid, poison, and extreme temperatures, the ability to see in the dark, and slow passive damage regeneration. It'll also make your eyes glow blue. The book warns heavily against taking it, as your apparent angelic purity will be like delicious catnip to the ravenous monsters out there eager to defile you. They would target you to the exclusion of all others in the party even other females. For anyone lacking our greater blessings, that would be near suicidal."
"So it makes me a little tougher but paints a big 'rape me' target on my back? And you, my trusted friend who allegedly cares for my wellbeing, are recommending that one for me?" I asked incredulously.
"The passive regeneration in particular could save your life." Lysander replied. "So long as you don't die outright, it will constantly restore your body, like a very slow healing spell."
"Oh, wolverine healing factor? That's pretty badass I guess," I said.
"Nowhere near that powerful. It would happen over hours instead of seconds."
"So I'd still need to use my healing spell for big stuff, makes sense." I said.
"The main advantage is that you don't need to be focused or conscious for it to work, and it doesn't require any mana to maintain. So, if something like the rock mimic happened again…"
"Ah, yes. Doom curse it, endure its affections until I pass out inside it, and wake up fully healed and higher level? Yeah, I can see that kind of build working…" I said.
"Indeed." Lysander nodded. "I'd also recommend boosting your Unholy magic. There is a spell called Energy Drain that allows you to slowly drain mana and stamina from a target you're touching. It could be useful if you start running low on resources while an enemy is… using you."
"Is that a capstone spell too?" I asked.
"No, you can get it at rank four or seven."
"What's a good capstone for Unholy?"
"For you? Probably Vile Curse… It modifies the next curse spell you cast, doubling its duration and allowing you to inflict the curse without showing any signs of having used magic. It's perfect for dooming an intelligent or powerful enemy without their immediate knowledge."
"I guess that's okay…" I said a bit skeptically.
"Ah, it seems you're not realizing the true utility of it," Lysander pointed out. "Doubling the duration. The Doom curse exponentially ramps up in power over an hour, yes? Let's say the initial damage per second is 0.1, and the final is 100. What happens if you continue that spell for another identical growth period?"
"Oh shit…" I gasped. "Growth by a factor of a thousand… The Doom curse would reach a hundred thousand DPS by the end of the second hour?"
"Indeed." Lysander confirmed. "A tier 1 spell capable of killing tier 5 monsters in a single cast."
"The power of exponential growth…" I said appreciatively. "You going for that one at level ten Emi?"
"Nah," Emi replied. "I want to focus on more direct damage. Being raped for two hours every time I encounter an enemy isn't for me, thanks."
"We've decided on something else for Emi's capstone: Summon Shadow Familiar. It's another spell the books do not recommend as it requires performing a dangerous ritual to initially contract the familiar. But once the contract is formed, the familiar can hide in your shadow. You can summon and dismiss it at will. It's incredibly powerful, and its strength even scales with your level."
"Magical girls need adorable sidekicks," Emi said cheerfully.
"Adorable sidekick? What kind of pet is it? And how we supposed to do this dangerous ritual?"
"No idea what it is, but it'll be an interdimensional eldritch monstrosity conjured with blackest of magic sooo… It's probably super cute, right?" Emi said. "As for the ritual? It's easy. I go to a certain place at the right time, hold the ingredient in my hand, and channel the spell for an hour."
"What aren't you telling me?" I asked.
Lysander explained, "It has to be at night, during a full moon. And we cannot be inside the protective bubble of the anti-Taint artifact. It would require being out in the corrupted woods, at night, during a full moon when monsters are more aggressive than usual."
That sounded pretty ominous already, "And this mysterious ingredient?" I asked.
"Blood of a pure maiden," Lysander said with a shrug. "Easily acquired."
Emi held up a small glass vial filled with red liquid. "Got it already. Ethan found me an old potion bottle enchanted to preserve its contents."
"Where did you get virgin's blood?" I gasped.
Lysander gave me a blank stare, and pointed at herself.
"No way. You are not pure," I grumbled. "Didn't you cum last night from getting a tongue up your-"
"For the purposes of this spell," Lysander interrupted me, "I'm considered pure. I'm human, corruption free, have never had a man or beast enter my vagina with their penis. Those are the only criteria that matter."
"Oh, so this is just about your 'technical virginity.' The whole… 'I'm still a good pure girl if I take it up the butt,' argument?"
"I haven't had a man or beast in there either, you know. Just a tongue and my own finger." Lysander replied.
"Your own finger? When did that happen?" I asked with a sly smirk.
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"Earlier today, I masturbated myself while Emi was preoccupied with her training, outside Dooming individual blades of grass to raise her skill rank."
"What?" Emi gasped. "You pervert!"
"I fear Tyler is correct," Lysander sighed with resignation. "This body is freakishly responsive to anal stimulation. My anal sphincter is almost as sensitive as my clitoris. I could only imagine how intense actual penetration with a generously sized phallus would be."
"Wow… how did that happen? Weren't your saying how our bodies were created by our subconscious desires?" I asked.
"Well I did enjoy anal and prostate stimulation before my gender swap transformation. You may recall I was bisexual before my transformation? Well I believe that, were I to have engaged in homosexual sex, I would have been what those in the scene refer to as a Power Bottom. Dominant, yet acting as the receptive partner during anal intercourse. Perhaps some of those proclivities leaked over into the design of my new body."
"Yeah, pure maiden my ass…" I teased.
I asked about Emi and Lysanders progress with their skills. Emi had apparently reached rank 6 with Unholy magic, gaining a spell called Lesser Curse: Fleshmelting. The curse lasted only a single minute, and required a lot more mana than Doom, but it caused steady damage over time right from the start, no need to wait for the curse to slowly ramp up exponentially.
Lysander had finished off the [Arcane Magic I] Skill, bringing it to rank ten. In addition to Arcane Bolt that she started with, she learned a shield spell that I remembered seeing her use a few times during yesterday's nature walk. The level seven spell she chose was Counterspell, which allowed her to interrupt and unweave another caster's spell as they cast it. It was a difficult technique to master, requiring her to analyze the opponent's spell, find a weakness, and poke at it with her mana in just the right way. Lysander was a terrifying mad genius, though, so she had the ridiculous brainpower to execute it reliably. The final spell was called Arcane Lance, which according to Lysander was the single most powerful Tier 1 spell known to any school in terms of raw single target damage. It was the big brother to Arcane Bolt, basically a big purple spear of energy that shattered armour and reduced the victim to a pulpy mush.
Our discussion continued into the late evening. Maddie wasn't here, still working at the tavern that hired her. The girls and I decided to go to bed without her.
Like last night, Chloe was pinned between the two sadists. Emi didn't want to be on her own though, so we let her join our side's bitch pile. We put her between me and Chloe. Emi immediately started molesting Chloe's breasts, like the tiny ball of repressed sexual deviance she was. I came to Chloe's rescue, by grabbing Emi's firm little butt and slipping a finger into her tiny, impossibly-tight pussy from behind. I was starting to get over the whole loli thing. I'd mentally re-categorized her as a super-duper petite girl my own age, rather than a kid and that seemed to do the trick to ward off the squickiness.
We'd all had a lot of sex yesterday, so we actually just decided to sleep after a little bit of light molestation. Well okay… I might have finger fucked Emi a little… and made out with her a bit. It turned out she was a better kisser when she wasn't trying to be the boss.
Lysander complained she had to pee but was too lazy to get up. I decided to be a nice guy and Purified her and everyone else in the room.
[Holy Magic I] Skill has reached rank 10 (MAX)
Woo! That finally did the trick. I got a sense that I should pick another spell, so I decided on that angel-transformation-thingy that Lysander was talking about earlier.
New Holy Spell learned: [Invoke Angelic Transfiguration]
Lysander said it took fifteen minutes to cast, and I was tired, so I decided to play with it in the morning, and just go to bed for now.