Whilst I was distracted with my thoughts and the kitten the battle raged on and a figure jumped out of the woods the moment the lady was all dressed and had descended the temple steps. Then the two started attacking each other. The ladies dress would shoot out flaming feathers every once in awhile hitting the giant man who howls like a beast and has claws and fur... Every hit does damage but with her dress slowly becoming shorter and patchy clearly the damage is finite... Slowly the dress is eaten away as the woman becomes naked yet again the large man thing bloody and on fire but still attacking fiercer then ever. The woman clearly at a disadvantage at this point as the fight devolves into her being beaten a lone feather flies over from the distance as a couple figures join the war... Oh... Whoops so the other fires were summoning more feathers for her but I interrupted them and delayed the summoning... also lowered that sides fighting force... Lol... I'ma dick... Given no choice I run towards the boss fight to join in but before I reached there the woman ignites into a giant burning flame and a small white bird engulfed in flames comes out... Phoenix? No... Dove... Wielding a branch in her talons she starts slapping the man thing across the face leaving burning welts behind... And avoiding all the attacks sent towards her... Rushing over I begin to support her by attack the man thing and we quickly draw the upper hand as I draw the man things attention... As for the npc army versus beast army? Oh... That's a slaughter... NPCs dropping like flies... My bad guys... Luckily for my straight male sake I assume... The male NPCs seem to make sure to die first... Yep... Titties deserve to be protected... Rushing my battle with the man thing I manage to down it around five minutes later... While normal people would need the full strength boss to fight this guy... My stats are just too high with his already diminished health I managed to finish him off rather quickly...
<- If you didn't get it the mc was meant to be joking there... But it just kinda sounded super sexist and entitled lol ->
Looting the boss I rush to the dove's side and see it's bleeding rather profusely and has lost conciousness quickly gathering the blood into a vial I then grab some cloth and wrap the wounds tightly before feeding the little dove a healing potion... After stashing away the little creature in a pouch and hanging the pouch on my neck... Can't store living creatures in the inventory... Unless it's a special case that defines the creature as an item... Like caged beasts etc... The undead and golem type beasts also don't count as storable... Unless trapped in a cage or deactivated... I then go to aid the now entirely female crowd of NPCs... No not only men died the men just died faster... By the time the battle is over... About... 58 exhausted bloody half naked women looked at me with caution and I saw the main priestess from before and walked over stopping about 8 feet away just out of the guards women's spears reach and took the dove pouch off my chest and placed in on the ground before backing away... Can't steal someone's god after all... I mean sure that's just a strong animal not a actual god but it's still their object of faith... Clearly... So gotta give it back. The entirely naked and always bloody figure rushed forward and picked up the dove before she turned towards the temple made a weird call and rushed towards the brazier... As she ran all the guardswomen ignored me and followed her... I shrugged and walked up after them...
At the top of the alter the bloody naked lady climbed the brazier burning herself profusely while cradling the dove and then seared her hands to charcoal as she placed the dove directly into the fire and immediately fell to the ground before the brazier... A short while later a chirp was heard as the figure of an injured naked woman appeared laying in the fire... Ok... Lotta naked ladies... Granted it's not nearly as bad as the earlier room I guess... The pile of nude lolis... The trap getting reamed by a almost naked succubus with a horse cock strap-on or the pig demons fucking chunks of corpses... This is very tame in comparison now that I think about it... Shrugging I just ignore it as the figure of the woman/dove slowly fades away turning entirely into fire. Seeing that I shrug and walk off looking for the next room... Or the lonely island? And of course cricket island... Is the island lonely or the tortoise? Any chance the tortoise and the snake are in the same place? Looking at my quests and seeing the fire dove bit done along with the kill the dude bit done I sigh as I completed another step of my quest... Looking at my armor that is now level 17 across the board... Except the poor shoes... They are only level 14... Granted they would have been thrown away if they were covered in vampire shit... Then my gun... Which is level 13... I sigh... Maybe I should make a sword? I mean sure my skill let's me materialize any sword I can think of and it will have the stats of unique grade item but it doesn't act as a secondary exp storage... sadly the levels for the gear is always maxed out exp cost wise at 100 so... Even 10 levels in it is only gonna be 1 or so level... For me right now and that's with the current requirement that will rise after I finish my level 10 cap quest... luckily it won't be long after I get to the map... I guess I never needed to go to as everything I needed was on the way that I'll be able to finish the level 25 quest at this rate... seeing as my sword Talent is already at level 17... the other skills will require a lot of work though... as they will all be level 1 tier 2 path skills then it will take 2 times the skill exp to get to level 25 which will be the requirement between 25 and 50 is expert skills between 50 and a hundred is master skills. Skills have no real cap level though theoretically you can get a basic skill to level 100 but no higher mortal limitations still apply... Can never pass 100 unless you finish the quest line in anything... Some people say that getting Basic-Normal-Expert-Master to level 100 each gives the sword saint title... But others also say that's just people wasting other people's time... Depending on if I'm right about what the compass will be when I get my hands on it... Then I may just attempt at least the basic level to level 100 then think about the normal and expert later... As for the master? Eh... It's a waste of time to think about whether to get that to 100 or not anyways... You have to get your main weapon master skills to level 100 as the basic requirement for the ascension quest line... So... Obviously everyone is gonna have to do get that one to a hundred... Some people speculate that it doesn't stop at 100 though... You just need to have the sword saint title and your master skill can go up to level 1000... but no one can prove it... and no one who could say whether it's true or not would ever do that... As getting such a title and your skill comparable to gods would be an overwhelming advantage so of course they wouldn't share... After all 1000 is supposedly the cap for the level between godhood and not so a low level god would likely have a level 1000 sword skill... Granted we only know that based on speculation... Some say you actually hit level 1 but evolve into a high being once you finish your ascension becoming a level 1 immortal. Others say theirs no immortal level or we'd have nothing to do with gods and only ever meet immortals... An argument on the lines of speculation however is sadly just a waste of time... There's a solid chance that the evolution and the level 1000 cap before godhood is both true... However to explain why we only interact with gods and not immortals I guess would also be purely speculator the best argument available would be only gods can communicate with the lower "world's" because they have to have followers or they won't grow... Others say that's bullshit but then comes a long argument about the nature of gods... which is even less defined then the other argument so it becomes nothing but loud mouths saying nonesense... One guy even said gods gain power by building a infinite harem... But then was immediately shut down by all the women who asked... How the women in the harem would ever grow stronger... At which point people suggested cuckold harems? Basically a harem member with their own harems and so on and so forth like some kinda weird pyramid scheme... It was a funny idea... However no one at all believes that shit... Even the guy who suggested it did so as a joke... the power of faith is a known resources however so clearly gods are stronger through their believers... Granted theirs also a resource called yin waters and yang waters... so... Most people assume dual cultivation is an option at some point in the game... Which made everyone assume that the immortal "sky continent" is gonna be all wuxia style... Then the conversation devolved into the men's favorite hentai and very few women continued to converse... Mostly because the conversation turned into lolicon incest immediately... four hundred people were banned from the forums that day... It was funny... I don't know why the hell they started sharing pictures... Of both the hentai and themselves... But the rules of the forum are clearly designed assuming orphaned or unsupervised children may be on their... so it's meant to remain at least somewhat child friendly... so sharing images that are pornographic is an obvious ban... Doing it repeatedly has reported resulted in an actual execution but that may have been bullshit...