“These are your rewards and your new badges, they are restricted to each of you so if you can't get it to her just tell her to pick it up from the guild! Catcha wolf girl!”

“Thank you for mentoring us on this trip Mershi wan!” I bow and get on my tippy toes to give my big beautiful cow girl a kiss. I run off downstairs holding my bag trying to compile everything I’d heard in the meeting and where to go first with as much optimisation as possible.

First Silver City library and then … I peek in my inventory, trying my best not to fall over as I check on the white glowing crystal. I click on it and its profile appears.

< Bloodline Crystal of the enlightened Celestial Moths - 1 of 2 Unique >

Abilities Granted unknown

< Requires 40 Int 40 Wis >

I didn't want to tell Lil. Something tells me it's going to be amazing but the fact that it doesn't tell you what abilities you could get would only make her worry, especially since she saw exactly what that could mean… I had hit the requirements for the Bloodline Crystal even before I had received it… it almost feels like divine game intervention, although at this point that's more Lil’s ability than mine with all that luck. Maybe she rubbed off on me and at least got us to that event? The possibilities are endless with it! Currently all my thinking has earned me is bruises from constantly walking into walls and people.

I push it all to the back of my head, there's going to be plenty of thinking to do when I get to the Library! I’d managed to keep going down the stairs and ended up in the training rooms. In the distance I see a centaur woman getting surrounded on all sides by her training partners. She’s getting smacked in the ass quite a lot as she kicks out in frustration, they avoid her kicks easily though, she's really not having a good time… She really needs someone to mount her back… Well, not my problem, those abs though, damn… I blush and shake my head before rushing back up and out the main door to the main street.

A sign near the guild shows an open book and I follow it until I stumble on a large building. It rises up at least 3 stories high with a glass open roof, I'm guessing to let the light in? I approach the front and greet the woman at the front desk. She looks mostly human… apart from the lovely horns that droop down, she pushes up her glasses and glances at me before addressing me.

“Entry is 1 gold for unlimited access for a day, please present identification…” She seems quite bored, which is ridiculous, she works in a library! The most amazing place to be! Wait… OH my guild card!

“Sorry one second I was just given it, I just need to get my bag open wan!” I grab out the bag Mershi gave me and quickly unravel its contents, ignoring all the notifications I quickly grab out my guild card, there's no reason to keep someone waiting when I have all the time in the world in the library to check it all out! “Here you go, wan!” I pass the card over with one gold coin and she pushes up her glasses squinting hard at it.

“Huh E rank… good for you… Alright, please take care to not make a mess and try not to be too loud, the core of the library detests noises…” Core of the library?... I nod, puzzled, and enter the main foyer, as I do I see countless signs regarding noise, looking up I think I see the core… A large multi-eyed orb floats silently in the middle of the open topped roof, most of its eyes are closed or lazily open. I instinctively wave to it trying to be polite, one of its eyes opens and stares down at me before vibrating soundlessly, is that its greeting?...

I make my way to an empty desk in the corner and start accounting exactly what I’d heard from the meeting at the guild, putting together everything I can in an easy to read format to be assessed later and to be added to. As I move my fingers a piece of paper and a pencil arrives in front of me, being slid down my desk, “Oh! Thank yo…” I look up and see that there is no one there… puzzled, I look up and see that same eye looking down at me, it vibrates again when It notices me looking at it. I smile and it seems to vibrate happily… that's kind of adorable… wait does it read minds?? That could be dangerous if I dont keep my gay together… no gay thoughts no gay thoughts! Yeah that's gonna help… now im just thinking about Lilia crushing me between her thighs… fuck.

I avoid looking up at it and start dotting down some points on the paper.

1. One of the plots of this world is that gods and demi-gods exist, or at least things that would be inferred as such. Demi-gods are called The First and the straight offspring are called true, this would denote them as very special and with an unlimited lifespan. I guess it means they also live on the material plane?... Does this world have a godly domain or do they just like… live here?... It's really hard to tell any of that without more research.

2. Things that affect the First’s also affect the True, which means that if a god or demi-god/being of legend becomes corrupted or dies it affects all their offspring… Does this include all npc’s? Are there legendary dragons which if they become corrupted all their offspring will go crazy? Does it include things like half-breeds? Are races like kobolds included? Of course that also depends on if this game includes them as a separate race or a half-race with dragons as their offspring… not enough information to conclude.

3. The celestial Moths are said to come from the True Moon… Does this denote the realization of a fake moon? My crystal is called that of the enlightened celestial moths. Does this mean there are lesser versions? Maybe they have a hive, like a queen, they could be basically a different species! It's not a proper unique, which either means there's another half to this ability crystal or it's a ‘dark’ version that someone else will get? I wont exactly know much about it until I use it. The subtle fear from the word ‘unknown’ only piques my curiosity. Would I become some kind of wolf/moth hybrid?! Is that freaky or cool?… It would depend on too many factors!! I want secret wings! I want something that will surprise Lil and Keeks, something… amazing…

The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.

I spend hours writing and thinking about exactly what it all means, grabbing books from shelves and trying to find information on the celestial moths with no luck, jotting down absent thoughts until I get a message from Lilia.

< Help I’m trying to find clothes and I might get jumped by a fox girl in heat! >

I nearly burst into laughter in the library, I look up, holding my hand over my mouth, a few eyes are looking at me and vibrating in excitement. The thought of Lil in a compromising situation is amazing, as much of a dom and a mummy as she is. She is truly innocent about her feelings and things she wants. So many talks we’ve had about things that interest her, so many blushing lovely faces that she’s shown me over the years… As much as I would want to ‘rescue her’ or more like watch/join in, there are mysteries to solve and reading to do.

< Have fun! Take a video so we can use it later? <3 >

I can imagine her quivering and giving into her urges, it excites me to no end. I try to push the thoughts down so that my reading companion doesn't vibrate a hole in the library walls. Speaking of notifications… I scroll through all the items and don't find much of interest… clothing, materials, the title of truth seeker is interesting. I wonder if that will get me anywhere special in the world… oohh could there be a secret library!? That would be very anime of this game if that happens! I get to the diary and stop, opening it hesitating as the description only brings worry.

< The last words and Testament of Ariandel, 56th Daughter of the First Arachne (Book) >

Rare book

‘A small diary written by one of the daughters of the First Arachne, her words get more and more chaotic as the diary continues, until all that's left is pain’

A small diary, the handwriting is flowery and flowing. The front of the diary is embossed with stitching to spell out ‘Ariandel Arachne’ below it is ‘please keep out!’ It reminds me of something I would have written about myself as a child… She really was a child… damn.

I gently flick through it, running my fingers over the pages and feeling the indents of the writing, reading every word as If i was in her spider shoes.

Dear Diary

Mother has given me this diary upon my 21st birthday. She said that next year I will be allowed out of the nest to visit my big sister in the capital as I'm now growing out of my 5th molt, I'm nearly an adult! I can do all the things the other adults do, like travel to the world beyond the mists and fall in love and find a house and find out what I want to do with the world, I want to be a seamstress just like Mother!

Dear Diary

Today is the day I leave the nest! It's a few days of travel even on big sisters back past the great wall. We have to sneak around because they don't like anything coming through. Big sister told me they are scared of the mist and for good reason, the bad things stay away from our nest thankfully!

Dear Diary

We made it past the wall, but I’m starting to feel a bit funny… My big sister says that she feels it too. She dropped me off and told me to stay safe and she will be back… I get a feeling she won't be back… She went back toward the wall… is something wrong with the nest?...

Dear Diary

I found a really pretty cave today, inside was an even prettier lady, she was furry but in a different way. The funny feeling from before is starting to get painful, but whenever I look at the pretty lady it goes away… she talks to me like a friend and I want to get to know her better.

Dear Diary

Is it weird to want to kiss other girls?... My big sisters always talked about the men they have been with, not within earshot of course. When they were drinking I would listen in to all their fun stories from beyond the mist. Her lips are perfectly silver and slightly translucent and everytime I look at them when she’s talking, it makes me want to lean over and kiss her so badly…

Dear diary

It's getting more painful, not even looking at her works anymore, it just hurts more and more. She snuggled into my side last night and I felt like I nearly died on the spot. I couldn't sleep, I just listened to her breath as I wrapped myself around her… I'm trying to hold back so hard, she looks like what mother said angels look like, maybe she is some kind of god?...

Dear diary

I told her about my pains today, she looked at me sadly wishing she could help. She told me that she came to this cave to die. How can something so perfect die?... When she said it I felt a hunger build in me, is that just my want of her?... It's hard to tell through the pain now…

Dear Beautiful moon angel

Please stop coming near me. You can see it in my eyes, you can see that I'm going to hurt you. My hunger is becoming unbearable, the pain is now inside my head and behind my eyes. So many times I’ve blanked out and awoke to dreams of a red void. I wish you would stop looking at me with such pity, I wish I could just give you my remaining years, such a perfect being should not die.

If you should die you should become a part of me, please become one with me.

Sohungrysohungrysohungrysohungrysohungrysohungrysohungrysoohungrysohungrysohungrysohungrysohungrysoooohungry

The diary ends off with page after page of how hungry she is… how amazing her friend would taste. The beautiful flowing handwriting had started to get worse and worse until it was just scribbles, blood on the pages, she really went insane and it wasn't even her fault… She probably died not knowing why she was like this… fuck.

I lean back in my seat and look up at the core of the library, it seems to vibrate sadly along with my feelings, yup it truly is fucked…

I look at my list and sigh… I think I need some sunlight after that… fuck.