Ceraph's manor is an imposing structure made of some sort of foreign stone. It is a darker color than the stone of the mountain and it emits a sinister glow to those who are magically gifted. The skies overhead are clear and I study them with a thoughtful look. I am armed with my wand and I wonder what sort of dark powers I'll attain by turning Ceraph into a doll.
Ceraph is simultaneously one of the more vile demons someone can encounter on a personal scale but also one of the ones whose antics are the most contained. She's a wandering menace who plagues the mountains but she doesn't leave this part of the world. She's also a solitary problem, and thus adding her to my faction instantly resolves everything related to her, especially since I can bring her mansion with me.
My minimap indicates that she isn't in the mansion at the moment but several members of her harem are. I did this on purpose, waiting for her to not be here before I struck. My creations and I step onto the clearing the manor sits on and I smile as I sense my moment of victory fast approaching.
I point my wand at the mansion and do something new. I cast "True Undeath" at a distance, an act which is now possible thanks to the extensive experience the spell has passively gained thanks to my shockingly potent combination of experience boosters, a passive trainer, and the ability to spread experience to everything that can be trained. As the mansion begins to come to life I half wonder
The mansion begins to rumble and my enhanced senses allow me to hear the screams and panic of the various members of Ceraph's harem caught unawares within. I watch this for a second before issuing an order.
"Stand. And expel those within you." I remark. The mansion lifts itself up, manifesting arms and legs just like the houses back on Veiled Earth. The front door to the mansion opens up and it begins to shake. I sense the occupants of the mansion, the members of Ceraph's harem get rocked around and my puppets and I stand still while we wait for the mansion to expel its inhabitants.
The first few people to get expelled are imps, whom I immediately petrify and pull into my inventory. For the next few minutes I capture every member of Ceraph's harem; a gang of imps, a pair of catgirls, a succubus, and several other figures of various other races, petrifying them and shunting them into my inventory. This is an inelegant solution, but given my ability to heal those I petrify I figure if it works, it works.
Minutes pass and as they do I look at the mansion curiously. I walk over to it and put a hand on the thing.
Sometimes perks and essence-backed abilities synergize in remarkable ways. Right now I am contemplating a possible synergy, one that I think should work and if it does… Well, if it does I can start to really get to work.
"Accept this energy." I tell the building as I look up at it. I am touching the walls of the building, and I shut my eyes.
I command my universal supernatural energy to surge through my body and into the building. I feel the sea of energy course out of my heart and streak towards my fingertips. The energy feels hot inside of me, and I can sense its eagerness to be used, to bend the world towards my will. It reaches my fingertips and I watch it seep into the walls of the mansion.
My sea of energy takes a hit, but not one so vast as to be concerning. The walls of the mansion begin to glow and I let out a loud laugh as I feel the transformation begin to take hold. The mansion begins to shrink and as it does the light it emits begins to intensify.
When it is blindingly bright the mansion's shrinking accelerates and I watch the silhouette of the structure change shape. The building goes from being building shaped to having a humanoid shape, and I smile triumphantly as I realize that I, without having it spelled out for me, have attained an impossibly powerful synergy.
The light dims as the shrinking of the building, in its new humanoid shape, accelerates. In moments the light vanishes completely and the mansion has completely adopted a human form. Its doll form is quite tall, with onyx colored skin that matches the color of the mansion.
"Good morning, beautiful." I remark, in awe of what my power can now do. The doll flashes me a brilliant smile and I note that a new dot has appeared on my mini-map in my mind's eye.
My gamer system has integrated into me completely. It is a subtle, non-intrusive thing, with most of its functions being either passive stuff tucked away in corners of my field of view like my mini-map or active things that fill out the edges of my vision like an icon for me to look at to focus on so I can see the status of my party members: my maids, Alex, and Amber.
The dot on my mini-map is fast approaching and I glance at it. I confirm that it is Ceraph by studying it, causing a window to appear next to it and allow me to see that it's her, and I turn in its direction to await her appearance. I take in the enormous victory I have attained as I wait for Ceraph to reach us.
I don't know if my dollmaker power works on inanimate things yet, but since I can already animate objects using my powers as a lich… I have attained a small version of Seduce the World at long last. Seduce the World has some superior traits, such as its ability to allow me to give something a spirit form that is its own separate body. My pale imitation of this power does cause the objects I use it on to fully commit either to their original form or their doll form, with them only being able to appear as one at a given time. Still there's a lot to be said about the idea of being able to convert whole buildings and other objects into lovers.
I glance at my grimoire, already planning future steps, and open it to the page denoting doll powers. Nothing new appears, which isn't quite surprising but it is a little disappointing. It'd be cool if turning the mansion into a doll granted me a new ability.
Ceraph steps into distant view and I raise a hand in her direction. She's too far from me to see me and I can only see her due to the potency of my senses. Her lack of awareness doesn't stop me from beginning my attack. I telekinetically grab her and lift the demoness off the ground. She begins to fight the telekinesis but I turn her around so she can't see me and pull her towards me. She has magic and is stronger than one might think at a glance but against my telekinesis: capable of lifting buses before I got here and stronger now than it was back then, her efforts are in vain.
She flies through the air and continues to attempt to resist the power, willing wings to sprout from her back and beat rapidly. It doesn't work and as she draws closer and closer I smack her with magical rays that slow her down. She fails the "check" to resist them, affected by one of my odder perks; "Support" and thus suffering from the general effects of having a -2 to everything she does.
"Support" is a deceptively strong perk. The generic gamer perk is one of the 200 point ones and what it does is multifaceted. The least impressive effect is that it makes me better at coordinating and strategizing on a battlefield. The odder stuff is that it causes buffs I apply to allies and debuffs I apply to enemies to spread across a battlefield, affecting everyone of the same group in an impressive range of several meters.
The best effect that is a part of it, however, is that it universally buffs my allies and weakens my enemies. In D&D terms it causes my friends and those on the same side as me to gain a +2 to everything they do, minorly enhancing everything from the damage they deal to how restorative rest is, while my enemies suffer a -2 to everything they do, affecting things like how likely they are to hit someone to impacting their ability to resist magic or other supernatural effects. It is quite strong and so long as you aren't facing someone or a group of people who radically outclass you in every way it'll tremendously improve your ability to stand up to foes and to succeed at things.
In seconds the demon is floating in front of me, caught securely in my telekinetic grip. She is nude and I admire the shape and size of her ass. I'm tempted to smack it, but I know I'll be able to do all I want in a minute.
"I've stopped moving… You! Who are you?!" She hisses, anger audible in her voice. The dominatrix is used to being in charge and a faceless foe like me, one strong enough to just body her like this, is absolutely something she doesn't fuck with. I don't respond and instead just pull her to my outstretched hand. She desperately fights against what I'm doing but is completely unable to resist my power.
I've found, during my rare outings, that my telekinesis remains one of my ultimate weapons. Telekinesis is a GOAT power for a multitude of reasons, but primarily its raw strength and my ability to use it to ignore distance, it's an unbelievably strong form of attack. Telekinesis is just… different. Better, really. I wrap my hand around the back of Ceraph's neck and I coax my power to life and then direct it to surge into my fingertips. As soon as it seeps into my fingertips I feel it rush into her and her loud complaints abruptly stop. She begins to seize as my power floods her system and begins to fight her mind.
I've limited my number of dolls. I have turned my undead army into dolls but aside from them Zetaz has been my only doll to date. I watch that change, and smile darkly as I feel Ceraph's mind grow weaker and weaker. Her intellect is vast but between the raw power I possess and the fact that my power doesn't have to warp her soul, since demons lack souls, it's all the easier for me to transform her.
I can hear the changes occurring to her thanks to my sharp senses. I easily hear her manhood receding, eventually disappearing altogether, though in addition to that I can see her ass expanding and hear her other curves growing in ways that make them appealing to the part of my demonic nature that is quite licentious. I also hear… static in her mind, my telepathy is strong enough to passively hear minds close enough to me, and my power is corrupting her brain, seeping into her sense of identity and twisting her values into something simpler than what she's sought before; pleasure and fun. By the time the transformation is done I know what she'll value: me.
The transformation happens fast. It starts in seconds and is completely done in seconds. I glance at my grimoire and note that there's a new ability that my dolls can be given: the power to shapeshift. This causes me to smile quite sinfully, though not everything on my mind is sinful. This new ability is only one of a few that my dolls can attain, with one of the others being the power to take someone's genitals which… I think for a second and remember that that is actually a canon part of Ceraph's toolkit, which is terrifying.
Ceraph can use black magic to shapeshift. And now if I invest power in a given doll, so can they. The possibilities that come with having an army of shapeshifters at my beck and call…
This is superior to the standard shapeshifting all dolls can do that allows them to choose between their native forms and the forms given to them by the dollification they've undergone at my hands. It's not unlimited shapeshifting but it is freeform humanoid shapeshifting, allowing someone to look like a member of another humanoid race of a sex of their choosing.
"Hey Ceraph… Take on a goblin form would you?" I ask as I let go of the doll. She drops but manages to land gracefully even as she uses her magic to alter her form. I watch her take on the form of an amber colored goblin, one on the shorter end of the height spectrum for goblins, before she turns around.
When she turns she sees me for the first time and I can practically see the hearts appear in her crimson eyes. I also note that I now know her surprisingly simple shapeshifting spell, which would be quite handy here if I didn't already suspect that even if I adopt other forms my new forms would be obviously corrupted. Drawbacks, man.
"Oh, you're much sexier than I anticipated," She confesses, and I let out a quiet laugh. My dolls are mind-fucked to be loyal to me, but it seems that some individuals have different levels of willfulness and autonomy they can manage to retain. I'm not surprised that Ceraph is not a simpering, mewling thing even after being made into a doll. "What's your name 'Master'?" She asks. There's something fun about hearing her call me "Master" and I wonder if this is the start of… something. I think about it for a second and admit there's a certain thrill I get from having fun with Zetaz, who still calls me "Master".
"I'm Lalo. But coming from you… Yeah, I prefer to hear you call me 'Master'." I admit. She grins at this, and before she can say anything else I pull her into a domineering kiss. The demon is surprised by this but as soon as she fully recovers her wits she begins to eagerly kiss me back. When we part I gaze into her snake-like eyes and I get a sense for her fetishes. She is into power, power in all of its forms, and into the things she afflicts on those who stumble across her; kinks for exhibitionism and bondage.
"I see you like bondage. Hmm… I can get behind that." I tell the demoness. This piques her interest and there's a sultry tone to her voice when she next speaks.
"Oh? That's good. What are you into, Master?" She asks. I pick her up with telekinesis, easily manhandling the goblin. She lets out a breathy moan as I float her over to me. I unzip my pants and allow her to see my manhood. I have a supernaturally long rod and it is infused with Marethian corruption, causing it to always be somewhat ready to go but the sounds of Ceraph's pleasant moans allow me to reach a state of readiness that reveals my full length in seconds. I flip her upside down and she gasps as she is drawn nearer and nearer to my rod.
I'll file this under "Things I'm only doing because I'm corrupted", but I've already done a few of those types of things before so I'm not entirely sure how honest I'm being with myself. Ceraph's goblin tongue escapes her lips and begins to snake through the air towards my dick as I pull her closer and closer to me. When she's close enough she wraps her tongue around my cock and I exhale quietly as her superhumanly warm prehensile organ coils around me. I feel her curious knowledge of enchanting filling my mind, the sort of profane enchanting that "Fetish Enchanter", one of my perks, allows me to perform. I don't need to glance at her to know that my tattoo has appeared on her.
I feel my powers growing thanks to things like "Master of All", but at the same time I am specifically gaining knowledge of assorted "Cursed enchantments". These are things that allow me to imbue items of various sorts with sex and sexuality centric debuffs in exchange for giving the wearer a powerful buff or special ability of some sort. I could easily use this knowledge to create amulets that allow their wearers to use telepathy but in exchange whenever they use it they experience powerful waves of lust or even blast minds with psionic energy but in exchange they orgasm.
Ceraph's talented tongue begins to get to work on my manhood and I decide to head home. The horny demon does not question what happened to her mansion, which is amusing since it's her major hangup for not coming to live with the player character champion in the base game. Getting dolled is a hell of a thing, I guess.
We make it back to the factory some minutes later, with Ceraph's tongue still coiled around my cock. I enter the structure and greet some of the people who've begun to call this place home resting in the reception room. Rapunzel is one of the figures here and when she sees the demon greedily orally pleasuring me she looks at me curiously.
"Is that a demon?" She asks, and I nod.
"It's Ceraph." I tell her, matter of factly. Rapunzel looks at her and nods when she recognizes the demon's goblin form.
"Huh so it is. Is she a new employee?" Rapunzel asks, and I laugh.
"Something like that." I tell the secretary.
I head deeper into the factory and reach my office. As I step into it I see Tamani looking at the main room of the factory. I admire her curves even as she turns to look for the source of a loud sound; the sound of Ceraph sucking me off. Her stomach is rounder than it was when I left, but only by a little bit. Still goblin pregnancies are wild. The goblin is visibly pregnant, and she weakly moans when she sees the pseudo-goblin distractedly sucking me off.
"Hey Tamani. How are you feeling?" I ask her as I walk closer to the goblin. She smiles at me and begins to waddle towards me.
"I'm feeling good! Have you finally decided to sleep with one of our daughters?" She asks, wondering if the goblin I'm playing with is one of our children. I shake my head, even as I playfully squeeze Ceraph's ass.
"This is a demon. She's Ceraph, a known shapeshifter who just likes to adopt a goblin form to trick people." I tell Tamani. I telekinetically lift the goblin into the air and pull her to me to give her a gentle kiss. There's an unusual amount of softness to the act, but neither of us hates the softness. She likes this kind of thing, and I quite like making her happy.
Tamani, like many natives of this world, does not have the human hangup towards incest that is something some offworlders, including myself, have. I've met humans in this reality who also don't like incest. My goblin daughters on the other hand… Well, thanks to them I now have experience refusing incestous advances. Mere days after my first daughters were born I was propositioned for the first time, and I got to experience something that marks me as an anomaly among Troyverse beings above a certain level of power. I rejected sexual advances from my daughters.
Incest wouldn't actually negatively affect me or my children, due to the power of perks and essences, but I'm still not into it. Though the more I actually think about it the more I realize it… doesn't make a huge amount of sense for a desire entity to reject it. I can't imagine a whole lot of archdemon of lust are going to see their adult children; incredibly powerful beings of desire and lust themselves, and reject them. Still, for now at least that's not something I'm especially into.
Tamani looks at me affectionately and I nuzzle my head against hers. In the last year and some change she's changed a good deal, becoming nicer. To me, and our daughters, at least. Which is all I really care about.
"Wanna show me what you're working on?" I ask, causing her to laugh lightly and nod. She reaches into her inventory, as she has a gamer system of her own now, and retrieves a fully modern tablet. She flicks through some screens before turning the device around and showing me it.
She's on an app that she invented. The alchemist is quite skilled in terms of technology and has taken to stuff like this with striking aplomb, revealing even more of the striking degree of goblin intelligence that she's inherited despite the corruption her kind have endured at the hands of demons. What's significant though isn't the app but what's on it.
There are multiple boxes on the screen and in each one there is a formula of some sort. I read through it and try to make sense of the things I'm seeing but it's magi-science and beyond the current me. I hand her back the tablet, though even just seeing it is setting a part of my mind ablaze with ideas. If I were to focus on She smiles at me.
"Ah that's right, this is why you recruited me. These are formulas for various sorts of alchemical products we can create." She tells me. The confident goblin then begins to explain what she's found.
"So we've begun to test some of these products already. Carl and I have been using some of your created humans as test subjects," She says, trying to speed past that. I've known about this for some time so I don't interrupt her. "But some of these products are already quite fun." She tells me, before pointing to two specific ones.
"That one is a regular potion. So far we've seen no negative consequences of using it other than a short-lived wave of lust that wears off as the potion works its magic. That other one seems to be something similar to Hummus, the mythical anti-corruption substance. But it just… It just doesn't work QUITE right. It always leaves its imbiber with one demonic feature, like a demon cock. But it DOES reverse other transformations." She explains, which is interesting.
"If I purified it, do you think that would mean that we'd have something workable?" I ask, causing the goblin's eyes to light up with delight.
"Hmm… We'll have to experiment with your powers, but that could work. If so we'd have a major product on our hands." She exclaims, excitedly. Ceraph continues to cling to me, eagerly trying to coax an orgasm out of my manhood. Tamani looks at her and smiles.
"She's an interesting one isn't she? Did you… What did you call it, 'Doll' her?" Tamani asks, and I nod.
"This is one of the native dolls. My second, after Zetaz." I tell Tamani, causing her to look at me curiously.
"Why haven't you been expanding your forces?" She asks.
"Oh I'm about to. Even right now stuff is in motion." I tell the goblin. She waits for an explanation. At the same time one of my puppets is talking to Marae, having just finished making a positive first impression on her.
"So I've been using… My form of pseudo-omnipresence this entire jump." I start, causing the goblin to give me an annoyed look. She doesn't love the goofy ass superpower names of some of my abilities. I smile at her.
"Right now one of my puppets, one of the two you saw here, is talking to Marae. I'm approaching her about the possibility of being friends if I go and stop the other factory from doing what it's been doing for some time now. She's… open to it." I tell my goblin-wife at the same time as Marae hears my puppet out. The beautiful goddess speaks and notes that she's aware that my puppet is the same kind of being as the creatures she's seen protecting the area where the river from the mountain pours into the lake.
For months now I've had a small group of puppets constantly purifying the waters that come from the factory. Marae noticing this is incredible and gives me a real in.
"If Marae asks us, 'us' being the puppets, to go and stop the factory, we'll be taking over their operation. I WILL stop their efforts to corrupt Marae, and I'll be taking their stock of demons ex cows… The demons will get dolled and I'll transform their factory." I tell Tamani. This intrigues her.
"So you're finally beginning real moves against the demons?" She asks, conspiratorially. She's known for some time that I've been planning to go after the demons. I gesture to Ceraph.
"I already have. I just prefer to have some incentive or at least to not step on 'the narrative' when I make big moves like this." I tell the goblin alchemist. She considers this for a moment before looking at me thoughtfully.
"Do you think anything here can actually stand up to you?" She asks, and I have to give her credit that's a good ass question. I make an uncertain gesture even as I hear Marae ask the puppet if whoever created it could stop the demons at the factory.
"So I'm not sure. Lethice is… in all honesty if Lethice lives up to the lore I'm familiar with she'll be an unbelievably powerful sorceress. I have some POWERFUl type advantages against her but I just don't know how different the real demon queen will be compared to what I've read." I admit. Tamani knows about jumping and the like and I've told her about this world's nature as a video game in the reality I was raised in. She believes what I've said enough. Marae meanwhile makes an interesting offer.
The goddess tells my construct that if I can stop the demon factory from trying to corrupt her and bring the demons before her for judgment, though this is due to my puppet egging her on in this direction, she'll tell the people of Tel'Adre that I am worth trusting. This is an incredibly interesting offer, and suggests that Marae may well have followers or something of the like in the city. I accept this offer through the puppet and I commit to making real moves against the demons. I begin to thrust into Ceraph's eager mouth, giving myself permission to come undone and to really go to town on the demon as I smile at Tamani.
"Okay… Marae made the offer. We're officially going to war with the factory!" I tell Tamani. This delights the goblin, who I know is eager to further increase our production and to have more of a range of test subjects to get to work on, as well as to see me expand my harem.
Over the next week I make new equipment for myself and make regular use of my Gacha gamer system feature to get new equipment worth taking as I wage what I know will be a very short-lived, decisive conflict against the demons of the original factory. The morning of the conflict, though my foes don't know I'm on my way, I don a full suit of magical armor and equip a fun item: an enchanted whip. I slip out of the factory unnoticed by the assorted figures who live in it and begin to make my way to the other factory; destruction and chaos on my mind.