Ch. 110 Cultivating Nun

Ellie looks around as she is abandoned by her party for whatever reason... After finding no one around she starts to giggle out loud while hugging tighter... what's she laughing about. Slowly the creepy giggle breaks into an all out evil laughter before she lays down hugging me to her chest clearly tired before she breaks out into tears... Shrugging and squirm my way up her chest while she seems to hug me tight enough to let me move but not escape eventually making my way to her face and licking up the tears before wrapping my wings around her head trying my best to give her head pats and a hug at the same time hugging her neck with my two front legs.

Wait are they legs or arms when you have claws? I mean I walk on them but... they are also capable of holding thing... Kinda... I mean nothing compared to thumbs but I got a bird thing going on.

Am I Birb?

Moving on from my internal mememage... Meme Mage? What would that be? A magical manipulator focused purely on influencing people socially? Hmm... Moving on...

It took awhile for the little girly to calm down at which point she starts telling me about everything that's happened whilst I was gone... Crying again when she told me how Addie left her and she was all alone then she started to blabber on about her new "sisters". Going into vivid detail about their personalities names and even giving me information of each individuals bust size in comparison to her it was during this comparison that she spent most her time flipping emotionally. Especially when she compared herself to a specific few. The orge like girl named Jay and the creepily titled "Mother" being the main sore spots in her own internal comparison and envy. All the while I'm just thinking... At least your not Addie... Maybe that's why Ellie liked her so much? "Little sister got no threat."

It wasn't until she finished describing almost every thing that's happened since we last met and everyone she met that she hopped up and screamed.

"Oh wait!!! I got a surprise for you!!!" The little pervert then immediately goes to take her shirt off without a care in the word seeing where my gaze stopped she immediately covers her chest with one arm and picks me up with the other directing my sight to her sternum where I find a very familiar green scale... Looking between her sternum and almost the exact same place on my body I find that the girlie has somehow made a almost identical replica of my true scale...

After seeing me touch and inspect her scale for awhile the little pervert has become very red and then puts me down and turns her back to me putting her shirt back on before turning back with a strange distant gaze as if her mind was somewhere else before she starts smiling and telling me all about how she can now create and store mist inside her scale by channeling her mana into it and that she uses that mist to create her other mist manipulation skills that she designed so she could be more like me.

After describing each and every one of her skills to me the little girlie then gives me a preview... I don't quite understand how this Cloud shadow is sposed to work as she's entirely visible and it changed nothing... She "sneaks" around me all the while I just stare into her eyes and she meets my gaze but as she circles me her eyes slowly become less and less certain of her skill and more confused.

"Can you see me?!?!" Nodding at the question I see Ellie jump as the mist surrounding her flows back into her scale and she starts looking at me in confusion and shock with one hand on her chin as if debating how something internally.

"I know!!! It's because I made my mist with your mist intially then used your and my own to make my skills it's probably not gonna work properly versus someone who made the skill partially themselves. I mean I can also see myself when I use the skill." Nodding slightly confused on how that works due to the fact my vision can be obscured by my own mist anyways she then goes on to explain and show case her next ability which is basically just manipulating arrows with her mist then using mist like a million tiny chainsaw blades on the edge of a bagger and the tip of the arrow to give them more sharpness and penetration ability. It's a good idea but also slightly flawed as she cannot really manipulate the mist too well. She's not even entirely aware of what she's doing she just goes on to explain she made the skill by attempting to mimic my claws.

That explains nothing... My claws are made of thick clouds of mist that I'm holding together. They can only damage things because of the pressure behind them and the nature of the granular like surface of trillions of tiny droplets of fluid that's mixed in the air. It's the difference between someone attempting to use a fist and a knife. My claws are a fist but she's made knives... All she perceived the technique as is sharp not the chainsaw like thing she's actually made... Which is a pretty pure way to go about it I guess.

"Are you gonna leave?" I guess. I go where Ellie goes. Would you like to come with?

Kris is silent for awhile before I hear a giggle in my ears and the crystal begins to glow brilliantly and the shield around it shatters the crystal then begins to wiggle like the surface of the ocean and eventually becomes a more slender and adorable version of myself. Except pure and crystaline not to mention see through. The crystaline copy of my body then walks over to us and hops onto Ellie's shoulder sitting down.

"I'ma have to trouble you to make room on your mount then." I guess I can allow a hitch hiker to come along but won't you leaving like break the entire dungeon and destabilize the who capital?

"Ah it'll be fine. I've been raising a monster to do my job for awhile now I just didn't know where to go if I left but I didn't wanna stay. So I was just waiting for a reason to leave." After Kris says this in telepathy I see the crypt doors shake like the surface of water and a adorable loli floats out without any legs and a cute little dress before making her way to a chair made of stone and begins to play with the air before her happily as if excited to finally be in charge and immediately making changes to the dungeon...

Couldn't find a hot secretary type to run your dungeon had to go a Loli?

"She was the smartest ghost I could find... Not to mention once a human who died in the dungeon who kept her memories after dieing and I raised her ever since. She's quite the good little manager as her father was a mayor of a nearby town for awhile before become a adventurer to follow his wife and they had her. So he taught her all about running a ton and everything intending to give his mayor position to her when she came of age. Sadly the couple challenged too far into the dungeon and got themselves killed and then the little girl came with the hope of finding her parents struggling desperately on every floor all alone till she finally found them... And then died at their hands as they'd been raised as undead. She hugged their bony skeletal bodies even as her father stabbed her to death and her mother corroded her flesh with dark magic. She wasn't sad to die just happy to see them. After that she became a ghost on the ghost floor and I took her in. She is a cheerful and happy girl who was more then happy to take over my position as she wants to help everyone by distributing food to everyone."

Yeah yeah that's all nice and good and a sad story but how you escape your prison? Weren't you like stuck and it was impossible for you to escape the array and go free or whatever?

"Yes? Then again that was my fate like 200 years ago... I might have left off the fact I've been growing and am now more then strong enough to escape I had just gotten used to the situation and liked the array as it was what was left of my past. Why else do you think I was fully in control of the array that 'trapped' me and was able to decide who all could come in?" Oh, that was you? Why you hurt my Ellie?

"I didn't hurt her she ran into me." Yeah... Excuses excuses you could have just let her in but you let her bang her head on the hard wall.

All I received was quiet giggles in response. Granted I guess all these things where said in silence seeing as she is talking with telepathy.

Looking to her shoulder Ellie blinks and then rubs the head of the little girlie version of myself before looking to me then back to the stone clear version of me then hugging me to her chest and glaring at the stone copy.

"Huh... I didn't even think about that... I guess we could do that now couldn't we." What you talking about?

"Nothing." Looking at the way Ellie is acting I gotta assume that Kris' first message was sent to Ellie as well but the response to my question only to me. Ellie seems to be extremely confused at first looking around before she seems to flinch and glare at the little see through version of me... Between the two staring at each other with hate suddenly I'm stuffed tail first down Ellie's shirt... What's going on? Keeping my head up for air I hear Ellie making a humph sound before hugging with in her arms and ignoring the little stowaway like she doesn't even exist.

Ellie hugs me all the way up to the top of the dungeon where she forcibly grabs the little crystal Kris and tosses her into the backpack before hiding me in her hood kissing the top of my head before putting me in her hood and I end up falling ass first onto Kris' head before she climbs back up to position herself on the other side of Ellie's head. Now the hood has three heads in it.

Ellie walks her way to a large hotel like building hiding her head in her hood along the streets and using a familiar but different form of mist to obscure all our heads without blocking our vision like I used to do.

Opening a door to the large hotel like building we see a receptionist. A bubby girl happily playing patty cake with a potted plant... Ellie pulls her hood down and walks up to the girl.

"I'm back Mal." The girl pauses and looks at Ellie before smiling.

"Hey little mist how was your date." Giving a naught grin at Ellie the girl is clearly imply something that doesn't make sense... Due to size differences and physical shape differences... Ellie just smiles and hugs me after she pulls me out from behind her then places me on the counter next to the potted plant. The girl that is named Malory stares at the plant then me and back and forth before laughing out loud.

"Seems we both got weird boyfriends." Choking up a little at the concept of this lady having sex with this potted plant I ignore them both.

The two girls begin to chat or... gossip about some sort of nonesense associated with the orge girl Jay's repeated and constant attempts at wooing a girl named Sea... The loli... Occasionally mentioning a girl named Scarlett whose got it "worse" because she's in love with "mother". They keep discussing how the two lesbians in the group had to go and fall in love with two straight girls who could never date rather then each other. At which point Malory burst into tears as she laughs rolling around behind the counter at the mention of Jay and Scarlett both being lesbians she seems to remember something she finds hysterical and is clearly struggling to breath.

Ellie eventually calms her down and then they both begin heavily whispering into each others earns with red faces and laughing none stop. Guess there's a story and it's sexual otherwise why would their faces be so red...

I am smiling, internally, all the while and trying to tune out their entire conversation as I simply don't care but am happy to see Ellie getting along with her new friends.

During their conversation the plant Malory refered to as her boyfriend is growing a vine like appendage and coiling it around Mallory's arm which Malory completely ignores as if it's not happening so she must be used to it. It wasn't till I felt someone lift me up that I realized we were no longer the only ones in the room. Looking at my captor I realize it's the sexy nun again who has already begun to lecture the two gossiping girlies about something and even the plant has released Malory and is still sitting in the pot as if it's lost it's sentience. It wasn't till about 10 minutes into the lecture that I hear the sexy nun begin lecturing on a new subject which is apparently the gender of the plant...

Which spirals weirdly into the topic of pointing out technically that makes Malory the third lesbian in the group at which point Malory snorts grabs her plant and hides behind the desk clearly not surprised but very unhappy that she pointed it out... How does this sexy nun know the plants gender? Well I can only assume it has something to do with the fact the plants clearly sentient and that this lady has telepathy so she can probably communicate with it directly.

At some point the lecture has stopped and sea is dragging Ellie along beside us as the nun carries me down a hallway. Sea seems to need to drag her at first but Ellie begun to lead the way instead as she seeds up trying to get me back from the nuns arms. Who completely ignores her. I don't really care to much about it as it's not like Ellie isn't just right there. I haven't been kidnapped or something.

Eventually we've successfully entered a open doorway where a steamy swimming pool with a pedestal in the middle clearly made for swimming and lounging. It wasn't till this point I figured out why Ellie is being so clingy and clearly upset as the little Loli and nun begin to strip as if I wasn't a dude... The Loli having already closed the door Ellie seeming upset begins to strip in what I can only call protest nudity. Eventually we all end up in the bath together and the nun places me on her head as she sits down on the pedestal and asks me to fill the room with mist. All the while being pestered by Ellie who is still clearly upset that I'm seeing other girls naked. Especially the "mother" she is insecure about comparing herself to.

Ignoring the scenario I begin channeling mp out of my scale and wrap some around little Ellie's shoulders hugging her with the mist to calm her down ignoring the weirdly excited feeling like adrenaline straight to the heart as the very core of my being seems to beat a little faster as my mist flows through the little nuns body. As if stimulated by but stimulating her. I don't really feel any change to myself or my mist but I can feel a sort of energy like mana flowing from the water into her as she breaths and a strange water steam flowing out on an out breath. Feeling the steam I find myself vaguely familiar with the steam but I cannot quite put my finger on it.