I opened my eyes to see I was still on Shiro’s p. Her hand moved back from my head, as if she was doing something, and she flushed a little, but managed a smile. “Finally up, Aki? Don’t worry, it’s only been a few hours ierial. Your sister and Haru both popped in to check you were all right and apparently matters are well in hand.”

  A few hours, huh? So I’ve been asleep for about eight hours here? I did feel much more refreshed, the natural aether regeion of my body matched with the det amount my Territory was funnelling me, even at this distance. “I see. That’s good, I guess. And you’ve been watg me all this time? Sorry about that.” I noticed Shiro was still sitting a little gingerly, her body clearly still ag, but she chose to misinterpret my ent.

  “It’s fi’s a bit girly, not something I ever thought I’d say, but holy, it was kind of adorable watg you sleep, Aki. Besides, I wasn’t bored, I have Tan to talk to.”

  “That’s good then.” I agreed, taking stock. “So, my adherence isn’t as low as I thought, but I still have to do something about these Favours. Huh…” As I noticed, Shiro snickered, clearly amused, and one eye fred red, Tan expining herself.

  “Yes, I have supplemented you with my own. It is not a renewable resource, easily obtained, as I am trapped down here, far from my Pantheon and those who vee me. But this opportunity is too precious to waste. I am not averse to making an iment of time, effort or adherence, even as I did with the princess here.” She paused for a moment, a long silehat stretched out unfortably, before she tinued. “Do not think your progress will allow you to succeed in your aims.” Her tone was cold, but I could tell she was actually trying to offer some advice. “Yes, your skills have exceeded what I believed possible in this world for many years yet, but in the numberless worlds within the Pantheons, or the scattered worlds of the Reaches, skills with Chirurgery such as yours, while not on, no, they are hardly unknown. And what you seek is not trivial, and food reason.”

  “Tan’s totally throwing out the tsun right now.” Shiro smirked. “She was the one who suggested making sure you have a det amount of adherence. I think she’s got…”

  “… a pn.” Tan cut Shiro off, both eyes now red, hair crimson, though since she was not using Divine Possession, Shiro was still able to quirk her lips into a smirk knowingly. “I am Ta?hā, the Thirst! I do not take half-measures, no more than I did when the Buddha walked on by! If I am to fail, I will fall after giving it my all. My great father demands no less of me! I am not my sisters, hence why I was trusted to deliver the Favour!”

  “I’m not pining.” I assured her. “I’m grateful for the help. You don’t have to go this far…”

  “She’s a plicated girl.” Shiro seized back trol of her voice as one eye darkened. “I think those that live lives lohan us have a very different outlook on things. Too long, or too short…” she frowned, perhaps remembering her iable death at an early age, whiow fortunately had been banished by Tan’s intervention. “…and it ges us.”

  “You exaggerate, princess. If we fail here, and your world is doomed, I will have wasted a little time, a few blinks of ahat is all. But success, that proves irresistible.” Tan shot back, and Shiro snickered, amused.

  “Don’t worry, I know Aki is irresistible. At least you realised it faster than I did, Tan. But then, I was too self-tred and self-absorbed to sider others, too full of self-pity.” Her repetitive words were self-depreg too. “We talked while you were resting, Aki. Tan was most...” Fmes scattered as Tan tried to stop Shiro speaking, but she was uo halt the words that tumbled from her lips. “…impressed by your handing of the Favour.” She finished, and Tan gave up trying to trol her.

  “What did you think I would say, Tan? I’m not a bitch. Seriously though, Aki. Tan thinks you have top-tier potential. She really wants t you back along with me to her Pantheon. How about it? You’re actually strong enough to survive the trip, she says.” She teased me, enjoyment pin on her face. “You, me and Tan, bzing a trail, together. I bet you’re curious about Tan’s real body too. She’s surely a beauty.”

  Of course she is. Sure, she’s parroting off Shiro’s own geous looks when she uses Divine Possession, but it’s somehow… more. It’s definitely alluring, the Buddha was a damn fool to walk on by. I guess I’ll never make a Buddha myself. But… “You know I ’t. Hell, if you’d have givehat offer before all this started, Shiro… well, I would have thought you were joking, but a life with you in a strange new world… it would have been a dream. But…”

  “Yeah, I get it. Shit, I was mostly joking, Aki. I know you ’t be only for me. You have a lot of girls you love, family and friends. Damn… even I’m unwilling to see Hina, Aimi, Hayato and the gang suffer, and I’ve made a lot of new friends sinade me yours. But holy… you’ve reached a value that is Tan enough for her to make the offer.”

  “Like that fragment of Akoman, wanting to take Chae Cho-Hee away?” I mused. “Holy, it doesn’t seem real. I’m not evero being oh, so out in the higher Astral, against Gods and Mythical creatures, and mortals with greater strength and knowledge…” Even Ortlinde said I was only good enough for the Einherjar, in the memory I saved. Though that’s not a trivial feat, I believe.

  “You are not a fool. I respect that.” Tan spoke through Shiro. “Yes, the peaks are high, higher than you could ever believe. But you have talent, determination, and fortune. If we cim this world you call Earth, then that would be for the best, but… you are too much of a prospect to waste. While I believe we triumph, I have been wrong before. I thought the Buddha would look at me. I am ely, and charming, and though my father wished to tempt the Buddha, shatter his inner Dao, I am no fickle woman, I would have stayed by his side in the end, for my pride demands no less. You have a unique gift, one perfectly suited for you. And… I wish to see how far it goes. So I am prepared to sacrifice to see it, just as I was when my father called oo tempt the Buddha.”

  “She’s such a tsundere.” Shiro ughed again. “But she’s ho with it. Tan may be rather amoral, pared to us humans, but she doesn’t lie often. She hasn’t to you, has she Aki?”

  I shook my head. “So, you’re saying…” I began, and Tan cut me off.

  “I am saying that I would not stunt your potential, even if it puts me at a small disadvantage in er, Akio. I am Ta?hā, I do not fear failure, I merely fear missing an opportunity that seems destined for me. Besides…” she smiled now, a rather alluring one. “…I have observed you for some time now and read many memories of the princess. You always repay favour twofold. My loss of adherence is unfortunate, but I trust you will find a method to replenish me.” She licked Shiro’s cracked lips, and I found myself nodding as Shiro fully reasserted herself.

  “So there you have it.” Shiro grinned, ruffling my hair, as I was still lying on her armoured thighs. “We agreed. It’s a shame to miss this ce. Favours aren’t on, you know. Even in the higher Astral, they aren’t handed out like sweets, you know. We definitely ’t waste the ones we have. We might not be able to get so many at once again.”

  “I see. Thanks, Tan.” At my words, Shiro started ughing, and as I sat up, I stretched, yawning, feelier, if still drained. “In that case… time to take stock.” The first thing I wao do was check the details of the skills I had obtained by breaking apart and sharing Jarovid’s Favour.

  Boiling Blood Rank 1 is a Skill that allows the body, mind and spirit to be strengthened by the application of Aether and various Elemental energies, amongst them, Fme, Wind, Water, Earth, Light and more. This strengthening be pushed further via Adherence, blood aher boiling with power. This will damage Material and Astral bodies with increasing severity, and the effects of healing and regeion will be decreased ensurately, but the increase in Statistics is likewise simirly explosive. [Css: Imperious] [Type: Principle]

  Boiling Blood Resonance Link Rank 1 is a skill that allows e with others who are increasing their abilities and attributes via destructive Aether, Elemental energies and Adherence. Your Boiling Blood will be strengthened, as will that of the being you resoh, and you absorb and mitigate the backsh from the resonating being, redug the damage they take signifitly, while increasing the damage you take iurn. [Css: Imperious] [Type: Principle]

  That’s quite the boost in Css and Type for what was Body Enha. Although… As my Eye shone, Shiro was watg closely, as I cycled up Boiling Blood. It was a natural feeling, and it was Body Enha at the core, so it dodn’t take me long to master it, finding it perhaps ten pert more effective, even now at Rank 1, as opposed to the Rank 5 Body Enha rior to the ge. It wasn’t anywhere near as powerful a jump as passing the first bottleneck would have been, but this was before the true power was released. Might as well try it out a little…

  A surge of strength passed through me, though even with my newfound tolerance for pain, the sensation of the blood inside me raging, bubbling as if water boiled on a stove, was distinctly unfortable, and silver and red blood leaked from my skin. Shiro looked a touch armed, but I waved a hand, reassuring her I was fiesting my movements, I noticed a signifit degree of greater agility and strength, ae the nagging pain, my thoughts were clearer, faster. Ether Healing was w to repair me, but it was definitely perf more sluggishly than usual, and required a greater intake of aether. Pushing it a little further, I grimaced, gaining a further boost, but then decided to halt my testing for now, as I had too much to do and no time to leave myself incapacitated. Besides, my sis will be worried if I don’t return soon…

  “That looks painful.” Shiro observed, as I used a little water element to wash off the blood from my skin, and ed my armour as best I could.

  “It is. But it be used just like a better Body Enha, so it’s all good, and arump card for emergehe other skill though…” At first g seemed useless, without someoo resoh, but as my Eye glowed, Shiro, Tan staying silent this time, long having stopped being ed at my peeping at Shiro, I was sure there were some uses. “…I think it’s more of a pair. Shiro… you feel this?” I let the Boiling Blood run again, making a failure of my efforts to myself, but as the resonance began I could feel a little tingle, and Shiro opened her lips, letting out a little gasp.

  “Pervert.” She insisted, face flushed. “Yes I do feel it. It’s a hot bze. A little like Tan’s fires, but inside me. It’s a faint e, another one…” she paused, lig her lips, not uan would. “…not that I mind another e between us. But this one’s a bit… shit, I’m gd nobody is watg.” As she rubbed her legs together, which made me flush too, I let the Resonance Link drop. My Eye searched through Shiro, admiring her growth, and then gave me further details of what I was ied in…

  Shiratori HimekoBonded KinDivine Medium: Ta?hā, the ThirstyChosen Of Anesidora, Bringer Of Gifts[Material Statistibsp;[Intangible Statistibsp;Might253 725Fortune2 5Fortitude251 730Majesty1 3Intellect480 961Charm15 21Resilience510 980League7 11Acrity487 964Determination6 12Precision464 94ht2Aether1840 3367Fate31 35[Material Skills] [Aetheric Skills]RankCssTypeSilver CordRank 5 Rank 6Suffit (3) Noble (5)Foundation (4)Divine False Moon And Star Chakra workRank 3 Rank 5Powerful (4) Noble (5)Principle (7)Divine SparkRank 2 Rank 3Noble (5)Law (8)Adherence ManiputionRank 2 Rank 3Noble (5)Law (8)Aether ManiputionRank 5 Rank 6Powerful (4)Foundation (4)Sor Plexus Chakra Of FmeRank 3 Rank 4Powerful (4)Foundation (4)Fme ManiputionRank 4 Rank 5Powerful (4)Foundation (4)Ether HealingRank 3 Rank 4Powerful (4)Foundation (4)[Intangible Skills] [Unique Skills] Lovers' LinkRank 5 Rank 7Noble (5)Artifice (6)Divine Possession: Ta?hāRank 2 Rank 4Legendary (7)Law (8)Fmes Of Thirst And FamineRank 3Imperious (6)Artifice (6)Alluring The BuddhaRank 1 Rank 2Noble (5)Artifice (6)Blessing Of Many GiftsRank 3 Rank 5Imperious (6) Legendary (7)

  Law (8)Blessings From The BoxRank 3 Rank 5Legendary (7)Law (8)Berserk Blessing Of BloodRank 1Imperious (6)Principle (7)

  [Level]40 61[Css]Divine Medium 8/20 11/20 Mortal Spark 3/30 5/30

  Fae-Bonded 2/20 Mediator Of ?????????? 1/10

  Shiro’s certainly improved a lot. But there’s a few gring things that leap out at me… While Berserk Blessing Of Blood was clearly what I was looking for, it was not what caught my i. It had been a long time since I had seen such a sight, question marks in amber obsg half the Css. My Eye fred brilliantly, aers appeared, expining, but…

  Mediator Of ?????????? is a Css grao the rare Divine Mediums who have the ??????? ??????? of a Divine Being and form a bridge between the Divinity and ???????? ???????? ????????? ?????????. All Skills and Statistics reted to Spiritual bodies, Divine abilities, Ether, Aether, Adherend ????????? grow signifitly more quickly, and Fate and League also increase as this Css grows stronger.

  A bridge between the Divinity? It means Tan there, surely. And yeah, I’m especially impressed with the growth of her Silver Cord and Chakra work. That’s also pushed up all her stats a ton as well. Now Shiro hold her own even without Tan, though obviously Divine Possession makes her a lot stroemporarily. Now my Eye was Rank 5, and I had distant memories of being past the bottleneck, I strained, elliher into it, and the question marks slowly started to resolve themselves into fuzzy letters, as my insight grew, only for my head to rock back, from a sp I didn’t even see ing.

  “Ouch, that hurt, Tan. Nobody likes the violent tsun except possibly Yasu!” Shiro was shaking the hand that Tan had used to strike me, as my body was extremely durable, and even Shiro’s fairly awesome stats, sed only to Shaeu in terms of the girls, most likely, were not on par with mihout Tan desding. One eye flickered red, half her silver hair darkening, as Tan spoke, eyeing me sourly.

  “It is rude to peep. I took issue at this when first we met, did I not, Akio? Allow a woman some secrets, else you will not be well-liked.” She procimed.

  Well-liked? That’s an unusual thing to say. Guess I was wrong when I thought Tan had got used to it earlier. Rubbing my faintly stinging cheek, Shiro quickly recovered, her Ether Healing numbing the pain.

  “So… is that your secrets, Tan, or Shiro’s? Shiro and I don’t have as between us…” I queried.

  “That’s such a damn cool line.” Shiro gushed. “Shit, it made my heart flutter there. It’s true though. After all, we’ve shared everything a man and woman . We’ve been through life ah together, for each other. So, what did you see, Aki?”

  Tan gave me a hard look with the eye she was using, so I briefly summarised the ame and gains. Shiro whistled, impressed. “I see why Aki wanted more details. That Css is… probably as overpowered as Aki’s race ge! Levelling… well, Ranking up speed cheats are as cssic as informatios. But then…” she fell silent, and I had the feeling Shiro was in deep versation with Tan. “Oho…” Shiro ughed in a rather imperious fashion, after a while. “So that’s how it is. I see. I knew I was right.” Her smile was wicked, but she turo me. “Okay, Ta want you to know the details of the Css, and she’s surprised I have such a thing, but she knows the details. She is Ta?hā after all, she has knowledge of such matters, it’s not unheard of in her Pantheon and others. In fact, you’d be able to read the details with your Eye, but Tan is interfering. It’s almost cute. I wonder, does this t as tsun or dere? She wants your promise not to look at it, knowing that your word is important to you, more so than ever.”

  “I promise.” I nodded. “I won’t look at any further details of that Css without your permission, Tan.”

  “I thank you.” Tan managed. “Though it is presumptuous to assume permission will be granted.”

  “Don’t worry, Tan expio me how it works, though my lips are sealed, I’m afraid. Really, it makes me ugh. But yes, I should be able to level up the Css if all goes well. Although…” she fell silent again, having another brief unication, before she shrugged. “It will all work out, I’m sure. I’m just happy that I’m getting stronger, Aki. No more weak Shirohime, who will faint at the slightest stress. Nope, I’m a proper powerhouse now! So, onto the main course. I have it, right?”

  I nodded. “Yes, you do have a skill reted to Jarovid’s blood. Let me take a look and see what we have…”

  Berserk Blessing Of Blood Rank 1 is a Skill that uses Adherence-ced blood of the bearer as a medium to enhahe Skills of the blessed being. It forcibly stimutes the i Ether, Aether and Adherence of the target, allowing Skills to work with greater effid effect, however this is not without cost, as the forcible stimulus causes the energies within to run wild, boiling the blood within, inflig esg pain and damage, and redug the effect of any healing the target receives, though as the damage escates, so too does the grarength. [Css: Imperious] [Type: Principle]

  “I see. Uh… Anesidora is a far nicer Goddess, it seems.” Shiro frowned. “That’s nasty. Pain is fiher Healing training is the most painful thing out there, so we deal, but… it even reduces healing? What a shitty skill.”

  “At first gnce, yes.” I agreed. “But don’t fet, that’s only from a part of a broken Divine Favour, we should be gd we got anything at all out of it. Maybe I could have done a better job, but holy, I think it’s reat Fortuhat we received anything usable. Besides… you should know the power of a det buff that affects skills, Shiro, more than anyone.” It’s simir to what I expected, but… “Besides, Tahat a portion of the power erfect for you, and… it really is.”

  “Yeah, way to keep calling me a buffbot, Aki. Shit, I know I am best suited for support, and being emergency DPS with Tan when necessary. I pin, but… shit, now I’m being tsundere. And that’s just not me. You’re right. Even useless skills be powerful in the right circumstances, and I doubt this skill is in any way useless. I’ve seen what my buffs have achieved up until now. Hell, our success here artially down to me!” She puffed out her ample chest proudly. “Tan too…” she added quickly. “She doesn’t want you tet that.”

  “As if I could.” I ughed. “But yeah… setting aside the pain and the damage for the moment, your hard work has Ranked up both your Blessings to the first bottleneck. So… if you use Berserk Blessing on yourself…”

  “Shit, you think I could reach Rank six, making the buffs even stronger? Hell, I’d settle for loing, having to keep reapplying them is a damn pain. Huh… wait a sed… aren’t we missing the bigger picture?”

  “No, I’ve thought of it, I assure you. Asha’s Tree. It’s already providing us so much Ether that our impossible goals seem doable. Even a small increase in power is likely worth hundreds of thousands more ether drawn in every day. Maybe more. But there’s the elephant in the room…”

  “Yeah. The side effects. Maybe I hahem, I’m used to pain…” At her words I reached up and stroked her hair, fly. “…thanks, Aki. Holy, I’m fine. Wasn’t I just saying the past is the past, and I like the now we have, all of us together? But yeah, Asha’s Tree is Asha herself, right? No way we just have it wounded for ether. I know you wouldn’t. Even if she would, Aki, although…” Shiro paused, looking at me with pursed lips, before shaking her head. “Yeah, trust me. We ’t do anything that would harm Asha right now. It’s not a good idea.”

  “I have no iion of it, if it be avoided.” I agreed. “Ether Healing training is hell for me, seeing you all suffer. But sometimes it’s necessary. At least my sis will be fi uy now…”

  “Still worried about the horror stories about molestation and drugging at circle events and mixers, Aki?” Shiro sighed. “I won’t say it doesn’t happen, I’m a girl, I hear the rumours. But it’s really not as on as you’d think. Most guys are just like you, Yasu, Shugo, Hayato and anyone else. There aren’t many monsters about.”

  “I know. But I worry. My sis is very cute, and be a bit careless, you know? If anything happeo her…”

  “You’d have a hard time persuading all your political friends into getting you off a charge of murder, after extreme torture. I know, Aki. You’re a sis through and through. But I like Aiko too. We all do. So yeah, peaind is good. Besides, it’s helpful in battle too. So, when I felt that hot sensation earlier, the link…”

  “Yeah, you are right as usual, Shiro.” As she ughed in agreement, saying that she was always right, I tinued. “My first gain was a self-buffing skill, repg my Body Enha. It’s just all-around superior, and I push myself harder for the same sort of damage as your Berserk Blessing inflicts. But the sed skill seemed useless… but as you said, there’s no useless skill, only a skill we haven’t found the right use for yet. So, I have Boiling Blood Resonance Link, and the ability strehe effey self-buff… as well as yours, it seems. Both good and bad. But that’s not important…”

  “I don’t like where this is going, but…” Shiro sighed, her bck eyes blinking in annoyance. “…but you’ll do anything if it means we don’t have to suffer, and… I don’t think I want you to ge, Aki.”

  “Yeah, you got it. It allows me to take a good k of the damage your Berserk Blessing causes onto myself through the Resonance Link. That might make it viable, especially if we Rank it up.” I replied, and Shiro sighed.

  “Yes, this princess was right as always. But we don’t have time to test it right now, and if we do, you’ll just worry your sister and the others. But it’s definitely something we have to tread carefully on. The potential of reduced ability to heal s me.”

  “Worst case, my sed body should survive unscathed. But yeah, safety first!” I promised. “Anyway, as for the rest of yains…” Shiro, like all the human girls, had received the Fae-Bonded css. Now I was a Noble Faedui was as if I had an intimate uanding of the weight of such a bond, and so I was able to grant it rather easily through our existing bond of Lovers’ Link. Even my sis, thank all the Gods. If she was the only o out who knows what crazy scheme she’d cook up… Shiro was still struggling for Kami-Blessed, as she already had a Divine e, but the pnned pilgrimage might well prove enough to deal with that.

  “Other than those details, you just have good growth across the board. Maybe it’s your new Css pushing you forwards as well?”

  “Maybe. But I have worked hard too. Praise me Aki, praise me!” she ughed, so I did grandiosely for a few minutes, before we both shook our heads, amused. “So then…”

  “Onto you. But… Tan wants to speak to you first.”

  “I see. Feel free.” I replied, and Shiro’s hair and eyes burned red, fires flickering, showing Tan was serious.

  “Akio, have you ever wondered why such Divine Favours are not given out i numbers in the Pantheons, if they be spared ihousands, tens of thousands, for each world?”

  “Holy, yes. I have had a few thoughts. I think it’s a bination of things, isn’t it? Firstly, most of them are reusable, right? Other than ones broken down after being quered, usually oh they go back up, right?” I gnced up to the skies filled with dark aurorae above.

  “That is correct. Your means of extra is unusual. Crude still, but effective. Though the ability to steal favours, e them… such also exist. But yes, the majority will not be lost.” She praised my answer.

  “Then there’s the sheer value of a world. It’s more than just Territory, right? Otherwise a being such as you, Tan, would be an Astral Emperor, and wouldn’t have an i ih.”

  “Yes, once more you have intuited the answer.” She agreed agaiuring me, and now she reminded me a little of Ortlinde, who I had at least a little memory of now. Seeing my smile, Tan ordered me to be serious, and to take her words into my heart. “Territory is strength, but that step to Astral Emperor, to the sixth Rank, it is not merely a matter of ether, of adhereno, it is something more. I ot speak of it, but you asked before why there could not be more than one on a world. This is why. While there could be a sharing of Territory, this ot be shared…”

  “And it has something to do with a high League, hehe Kodoku they’ve made Earth into, and queror.” I pointed out.

  “Yes. I ot say more, but it seems you will arrive at the answer yourself. Any other reason?” she pressed.

  Is this relevant right now? I’m happy to get ation of some things, but… oh. I see. “I wasly certain, but your words are hinting at it. There’s got to be a limit to what a person hold, right?”

  “That’s why Tan isn’t taking every Favour she !” Shiro said suddenly, and Tan coughed, a little embarrassed, knowing I didn’t approve of some of her mreedy, amoral as. But as long as she only preys on irredeemable trash, who am I to judge? My hands aren’t .

  “The limit is that of the body and spirit, of course. Just as a vessel only hold so much liquid, a body only hold so much granted power. Though a vessel grow, enrging what it hold, and power be made into the vessel itself, freeing up room for more liquid inside.” Her analogy was , and I quickly uood it.

  “That’s why it took you so long to handle Daizen’s Favour then, Tan?” Shiro asked. “It wasn’t a good fit for your vessel, so you had to ge it until it art of you?”

  “That is correct. I easily fill my body and spirit with powers reted to fme and hunger, but an ill-suited power fills more. I am very skilled at burning down the power to a form suitable for me, and I am ia?hā, a Goddess, so my vessel hold a great deal indeed…”

  “But Aki has to choose.” Shiro finished, eg my thoughts. It’s as I thought. If I wahe Favour from Tyr to start with, Ortlinde would have had to improve my vessel, my Astral body, so I’d have ended up with Skills and Statistics along the lines of those Chosen I’ve entered since. But as Ortlinde said to me, my vessel could hold it now, yet… just as my vessel is growing, so too is the Favrowing. That was Ortlinde’s gift to me, the Seeds that spark growth. She was right. My future potential would have been stunted signifitly by taking the easy way. I could still get stronger, anyone , seeing other Chosen proves it, but… have any grown as fast as me? Maybe so, but I have to be he top, I find it hard to believe otherwise.

  “Yes. Though your vessel is rather special.” Tan licked Shiro’s lips, eyeing me hungrily. “It grows at a splendid rate. Yreatest strength is not yhting ability, but your rate ress. For now, you have reached a level not so impressive in the Pantheons, but not weak either, but this was achieved here in this annoyingly abnormal world, far from the resources and opportunities of the higher Astral. I am curious to see just how far you go, and y those alongside you upwards with you. That little Valkyrie who gave you those precious seeds has proved perhaps wiser than ever she imagined. With your Eye, and your drive, and some rather arming good Fortune…” she paused. “… suffice it to say, you have more flexibility, despite already having a dormant favour and one gifted to you, to accept more. But that will not be without limit, so…”

  “You wao think carefully about Morana’s Divine Favour. Holy, it’s ly my type, but…” I took a deep breath, mind made up. “I want it. No, I .” Shiro seemed surprised, so I eborated. “It’s mainly down to you. Your Berserk Blessing could be another multiplicative factor in our progression. And Morana’s favour was basically a pair with Jarovid’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a way to mitigate the dowhough I do wonder…”

  “Wonder what?” Shiro asked, proud that I wanted a Favour to effectively form a pair with her.

  “Just like Jarovid’s Favour, there’s some damage to it, and there’s a piece that’s probably more suitable for someone else. So I was w whether to risk it, trying to break it apart again…” There’s a ce of losing out on a powerful tool, but it would keep my vessel emptier, as I guess Tan would put it, and it would be a power someone else. I don’t know. Looking at Shiro, who merely shrugged, saying it to me, I decided it was time to return to the Material, and finish up our business in Korea. I could go over my own numerous gains in more detail there, and also sult with everyone about what I should do…

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  Arc 1 - PLETE! RR and SH Updated.

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  epub 2 - Standard/Gentleman's Cut

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  epub 5 - Standard/Gentleman's Cut/Degee Edition

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  Interludes

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  epub 7 - Standard/Gentleman's Cut/Degee Edition

  Arc 9

  Act 2 dotation, s out a better system for me as standard, and beginning to create the updated Dramatis Persoc. for Act 2

  epub 8 onwards

  Arc 10 etc.

  [colpse]So damn, there is a lot, but holy, while I've failed twice before, just like the Fae, three is the magiumber lol. But as the goal kept reg out into the distao be ho, I think I got a little depressed. It's a big job, and I'm not thrilled, but I do feel happier having mapped out at least the pn of how to tackle this damn mountain ahead of me...