Chapter 3

> Back at the radiant palace:

Hadugar and Asuvis looked up from a giant crystal sphere, an artifact that helped with seeing far remote places.

"Oh, how *unhappy* she was!" Hadugar spoke with a smirk on his face.

"Serves her right! Maybe she'll finally learn some obedience." The goddess's voice was harsh.

"How long do you think, until she breaks and accepts that she'll now be on the receiving end of the *magic staff*?" he asked.

"Oh, she'll quickly learn how potent hormones are! And with a body like hers, and especially with the trait I gave her... I say she'll end up bouncing on a dick by the end of the next day! And you can be sure her body will LOVE it. There might be some denial at first, but soon she'll probably just try to displace her past and embrace her new nature..."

> Authors note: As of this point, I'll be referring to our protagonist as a female. Do not wonder; This has no deeper meaning; it is just that it was getting weird and confusing whether I should refer to her by her physiological gender or by her mentally perceived gender.

> Back to our heroine stuck on a tree:

Daniel was sitting in the tree, her head between her arms and crying.

Wondering when she became so emotional, she thought: 'The last time that happened was when my mother died in a collapsed building. But even then, I didn't feel so helpless; So vulnerable.'

She tried to take a deep breath to calm herself; Then another one; And then another. Slowly emotions settled, and she could think almost clear.

'Just weeping will get me nowhere!' And that's when she realized she didn't yet see anything of her body except for her boobs and pussy.

'pff, it's not like I had any time to gape at my body. But after reading so much good about it in my status, it'd be a shame not to check it out for myself. Besides, it's not like I have anything else to do up here...'

She started inspecting her body as well as she could, given the lack of a mirror.

The first thing one noticed when looking at her was her waist-long hair. It had an intense, vibrant, almost glowing red color. Unbeknownst to our heroine, she had beautiful, big, emerald green eyes and a lovely, innocent-looking face.

While holding a strand of hair in her hands, a quick naughty thought crossed her mind: 'There is nobody around here except for the wolves. I might as well have a look at the rest... Nobody will see.'

She looked around nervously as if expecting to see someone peeking from behind a tree. Before she could make up her mind, she committed and swiftly pulled her sky-blue summer dress over her head. She wasn't wearing a bra, or anything else, underneath. She really didn't need a bra with such firm and bouncy breasts, and she lost her panties when she ripped them off before. Carefully she hung her dress over the branch in front of her and returned to the examination of her body.

She had a lithe frame with seldom any muscle contours, fair skin with a slight golden tan to it, long, beautiful legs with smooth, soft soles, pronounced hips, a sizeable butt that her past self would have described as spankable, and big, firm tits, a bit too large to enclose with her hands, but not unmanageably massive like some pornstars'. They were topped by two small areolas with cute nipples in their centers.

Looking at her soles, she remembered that she definitely wasn't barefoot when she appeared in this world.

'I must've lost my sandals while climbing this tree...'

She tried to look around the base of the tree but couldn't find them anywhere. A light gust of wind blew across her skin, and she felt a tingly sensation. This was when she realized what an exciting sight she must have currently been: 'A stark naked girl, straddling a tree branch in the middle of the forest. What would a random passer-by just think of me?!' And her body definitely liked this thought. She felt a sweet longing building up in her nether region.

[Exhibitionism +4]

[Erotism +2]

For a second, she looked at the System messages, confused. Before her body could give her any more funny ideas, she decided this was enough and quickly pulled on her dress again.

'What's wrong with me!? I shouldn't be reacting so lewdly to my own body and to those perverted thoughts! I'm a MAN, after all!'

...

'Or rather, I used to be one.' she added in her head.

That's when she noticed a new small icon in the corner of her vision.

She concentrated on it and wished to open it.

[TOOLTIP: You've noticed this new icon in your view. This means that there are new System messages that were not important enough to show you immediately or occurred in an inconvenient situation, like the heat of battle.]

[You gain experience through -Exciting Risk- for wearing a skirt in public. Skirt length: long; Situation: tame; +10XP]

[Lvl: 1 10/50XP]

'This is embarrassing!'

[You gain experience through -Exciting Risk- for flashing your butt at someone! Known observers: 4; Unkown observers: 1; +250XP]

'WHAT THE!?' After that message, Daniel almost fell off the tree.

'First off: Why did undressing in front of wolves count as -flashing-? And second: What fucking -Unknown observer-?!'

A silent panic spreading inside her body, she once again surveyed the surroundings but couldn't see anyone or anything.

'Please let it be just another animal...'

Since there was nothing she could really do about this very unsettling information, she returned to the System message backlog.

[Lvl: 1 260/50XP]

[Level Up! You're are now Level 2!]

[3 Stat-points available!]

[1 Skill-point available!]

[Lvl: 2 210/100XP]

[Level Up! You're are now Level 3!]

[6 Stat-points available!]

[2 Skill-point available!]

[Lvl:3 110/150XP]

[New Skills available!]

'Hmm... That is a very unusual way to get a level...' She blushed. 'But points are points, I guess. I really hope there is some kind of ranged spell available. I don't know how else I could get down here.'

She looked down. Under the tree, the four wolves were still there watching her vigilantly, lying on the ground around the tree.

'System, new Skills!'

Before her eyes appeared a new Menu.

[New Skills Available:]

[2 Skill-points available!]

[Active:]

[Call Animal(COMMON)]

[You call out for help and support your request magically. If there is any animal within the hearing range that is weak enough to be affected by your spell, it will come to help you. With a higher skill level: The spell's duration increases; The animal is more obedient to your commands; Stronger animals are affected by the spell.]

[Passive:]

[One with Nature(UNCOMMON)]

[Nature is your home. You know what plants are edible and which ones you should avoid. You know how to live in a Forest for a long time. By learning this Skill, you gain knowledge of some plants and survivalist techniques that will help you survive in nature. With higher levels, you learn new things, and you feel more comfortable in the wild.]

[Striptease(RARE)]

[You know the art of seductively undressing.]

'Well, I think I see -Twisted Fate- working with that last Skill... Anyway, the -Call Animal- might come in handy, even though it probably won't help with my wolf problem, and since I don't know how long I'll have to be on my own in the wild, I also should take the -One with Nature- passive.' And so she took them both.

[0 Skill-points left.]

[6 Stat-points available!]

'I think I'll wait with spending these for now. I don't know what I'll specialize in later on and don't need anything right now. But before I try anything risky, I definitely should spend these. It'd be no good to be a nice corpse with free Stat-points remaining...'

Not expecting a lot from it, Dan tried to use his new active Skill, hoping to take control of one of the wolves. Once he formed this strong intention in his head, he saw:

[Call Animal activated!]

And felt energy being drained from her body. From somewhere she knew, that what she felt was a big portion of her mana being used. After having this insight, she intuitively knew that this spell just consumed about a third of her total mana pool. She also knew that it would regenerate on its own over time.

One of the wolves stood up and looked at her with readiness in his (and she somehow knew it was a *he*) eyes.

With some hesitation, she pointed at the other wolves and commanded: "Attack them!"

At first, she felt a sense of confusion and sadness coming from -her- wolf, but he did as he was told. Without any preparation, he suddenly launched himself at another wolf's neck, and his jaws closed around it. But it wasn't much of a fight. Her wolf was significantly smaller and obviously weaker than his opponent. Soon there were three wolves and one cadaver left below her tree.

'And what if I just try it again, until only one is left?'

But the spell didn't work another time.

'I assume the remaining three are too strong for my spell, and the one from before was just the weakest of the bunch...'