Chapter 37 - Magical Surprise (3)

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I was fast asleep when Maddie finally got back and came into our bedroom. Her breath smelled of booze, and she wobbled a little bit. She stripped off her clothes, and shook my foot to wake me.

"Purify please," she said.

"Huh? Why?" I asked.

"Got laid with this sexy adventurer dude," she said, with a grin. "Came inside me. Don't want the preggers."

"Gotcha."

I wove my Purify, and used a bit of [Advanced Mana Manipulation] to exempt the alcohol in her blood from cleaning. Technically it was a poison, so the spell would normally target it. It worked. I cleaned up her creampie without ruining her buzz, and settled back down to sleep.

Maddie, not wanting to be the odd one out, snuggled into the bitch pile behind me. I felt her soft warm body press up against my back, felt her nipples tickle my skin. I might have gotten a little bit wet from that. Okay, more than a little bit. I was downright horny. Playing with Emi before this hadn't exactly helped me settle down either.

I debated fooling around with the others a bit, but Maddie was tired and content, and everyone else was fast asleep. I decided to think of baseball or whatever to cool off my lust, and do the same as them. Soon enough I'd joined everyone else in their slumber.

Morning came, and we all went downstairs for breakfast. This time, I wanted the convenience of only eating one meal a day. I mixed up some slave gruel for Chloe and me. It turned out to be a simple process. Take one scoop of dry powdery stuff from the barrel, add one cup of water, mix. Easy peasy.

It was horrifically bland on its own, so I snuck a spoonful of honey into each of our gruel bowls. It helped the flavour immensely.

Father Jordan was there. He paid me for yesterday's work, and then scolded me. Apparently, the church, and by extension myself as their hired helper, should provide free healing to all Untainted humans, but not to slaves. Slaves were personal property, and getting their injuries healed was the financial responsibility of their owner, not the church. If they didn't want to pay, then they simply didn't value their slave and that wasn't our problem. He did say that we should still cleanse them of disease, so they don't infect Untainted people, but that was it.

I pretended to agree. But seriously, fuck him! I'd heal who I wanted.

Adam was going out healing again, I decided to do a second full day of healer-helping for another seven and a half silver. I managed to coax him into taking me to Purify the girls at the Sword's Sheathe today, saying Chloe and I could use the practice and I could probably fix up some innocent human girls who had old injuries. I neglected to mention I'd be fixing up all their slaves too.

Lysander was going shopping with Emi and Maddie today and they were taking my nice velvet coinpurse with them. Yesterday, Maddie made a single silver coin in salary, then another three silver in tips. She looked downright pissed when I told her I'd made almost sixty silver in a day. I debated whether I should recommend a career in whoring to her or not. I genuinely thought she'd be good at it, though actually telling her so would probably piss her off.

I gave the designated shoppers Chloe and my measurements, telling them to just buy something moderately decent, and not overly feminine for me. Lysander nodded, looking like she already knew what we would like.

Before we left, I decided to try out the Angelic Transfiguration spell so I could be extra sparkly for the day. I focused on the spell shape, the most complicated one I'd cast so far, and started to shape my mana.

I felt a surge of power.

Ninty percent of my mana pool emptied in an instant, forming into a different shape I couldn't recognize. It was orders of magnitude more intricate and complicated than anything I'd ever cast before and my mana was doing it all on its own. Mana from another source joined mine, unfathomable amounts of power flowing into a complex hyperdimensional shape that kept growing and unfolding as the power continued to pour in.

The spell activated. The so-called fifteen minute casting time had been reduced to mere seconds.

I felt a pulse of holy light fill my body with warmth. It was like the feeling of stepping outside on a nice sunny day: Joy and peace in equal measure. My skin tingled. Eventually, the magical sense of warmth cooled, but a strange feeling of contentment remained behind.

Species Changed from [Human] to [Aasimar]

New Perk Gained: [Blessing of Trindon]

New Perk Gained: [Blood of Angels]

Holy Spell Forgotten: [Invoke Angelic Transfiguration]

New Holy Spell learned: [Lesser Angelic Aspect]

"Mistress is pretty," Chloe commented.

Everyone else was staring at me wide eyed. Including Adam.

"Huh?" I asked, my voice sounding strangely resonant, "Something's weird."

I nervously took a look at my Status.

Name: Tyler Erikson

Age: 21, Sex: Female

Species: Aasimar

Class: Mage 8

HP: 110 / 110

STA: 90 /130

MP: 10 / 198

Str: 6

Dex: 11

End: 19

Per: 13

Int: 20

Will: 27

Mag: 20

Perks:

Greater Blessing of Vyreth

Blessing of Trindon

Blood of Angels

Skills:

Advanced Mana Manipulation 1

Fire Magic (I) 2

Air Magic (I) 1

Holy Magic (I) 10 (MAX)

Unholy Magic (I) 1

Meditation 6

Sense Mana 1

You have (1) Skill Points.

Spells:

Firebolt

Gust

Purify

Lesser Healing Hands

Hardlight Construct

Lesser Angelic Aspect

Lesser Curse: Doom

Well then. Where to begin?

I wasn't a human anymore, I was an Aasimar. That was something I recognized from Dungeons and Dragons. In the tabletop game's lore, Aasimar were humans with celestial blood, either thanks to a celestial ancestor somewhere in the family tree, or a blessing from a good-aligned deity. Given the fact that I had a new blessing added to my perks, I suspected it was the latter. Could I like… inspect this perk? I focused on it.

Perk: Blessing of Trindon

Permanent species change from [Human] to [Aasimar].

+10 Endurance, +10 Willpower

Compassion and Self-Sacrifice. Aid those who are suffering, bear pain in place of others, grow in power and clear this world of Taint for the good of all. So long as you continue to honor me in your actions, your blessing shall remain and your form shall reflect my glory.

Trindon, God of Mercy

And the second new perk,

Perk: Blood of Angels

Immunity to poison and disease. Immunity to offensive Holy magic. Moderate damage resistance to all sources of acid, fire and cold. Major vulnerability to offensive Unholy magic and curses. Darkvision. Lesser regeneration. Extreme vulnerability to Taint (Negated by Greater Blessing of Vyreth)

Okie dokie. Step one, don't panic. I took a second to catch my breath, and glanced at the others. Everyone was staring at me.

"Something on my face?" I asked.

"Mistress is very pretty," Chloe said, eyes wide like saucers, a lewd little smile on her face. She looked like she was about to start drooling. If she wasn't sure about being into girls before, then there was no question about it now.

Lysander frowned, "Your eyes are glowing blue. Your skin seems a little bit… smother than before perhaps? I can't actually notice much of a tangible difference. Yet, at the same time, you're giving off a sort of… presence?"

"It's sort of like the opposite of Chloe. While she gives of a feeling of lightness, you give off a heavier feel, like… a sort of gravity that draws the eye," Emi noted.

"What happened?" Maddie asked.

I glanced at Adam, still staring at me with astonishment. Father Jordan wasn't there thankfully. He'd left to do his morning business. I had to wonder… would I be enslaved as a demihuman because I turned into an Aasimar? That would be ironic, deemed a corrupted half-monster and arrested by a priest because a god he served chose to bless me. Demihumans being innately corrupted was the priest's justification for slavery. It sounded like bullshit to me, to be honest. But if I wanted to use his logic against him… I was pretty sure being divinely blessed and turned into a partial angel and living paragon of purity was sort of the opposite of corrupted? Could I convince him of that? Not sure. The priest didn't seem like the most flexible fellow. I'd have to think about what to say to him.

"I apparently gained the blessing of Trindon the Merciful. The effect is… similar to the spell Lysander and I were discussing before, but a little bit more permanent."

I caught Lysander's eye, and mouthed out the word 'Aasimar.'

"Ah, I see," Lysander said coolly. "I'll explain later, Maddie."

"Right…?" she didn't look convinced.

"You received a blessing?" Adam gasped.

"Well yeah, but doesn't everyone have a blessing too? This whole system thing?" I said.

"We all have the blessing of Vyreth, yes. The god of struggle wants us to resist the Taint, after all. But… to gain the blessing of another deity as well… That's rare, to say the least." Adam explained.

"I'd call myself a decent person, but I don't think I'm like… super virtuous or anything… Maybe Trindon is just buffing me a bit more so I can level up and kill Tainted stuff easier? A sort of… investment in me, perhaps?"

"Are the… effects of this blessing similar to the ones I described?" Lysander asked.