An old man appeared at the distance among the desert apes. As he walked closer to the camp...
(Alabaster) << That lucky bastard! He has those four sexy women accompanying him in the Savanna Desert! The one in the bone-plated armor does appear to have a feminine shape. Don’t tell me he has five sexy women! He must be tasting their flowers every night! None of them had any magical power! They are using primitive weapons… no wait they attached poisonous needles to their weapons to make them even deadlier. If I kill that ugly bastard, I can take all the women for myself! Finally, something amazing happened to me. My lonely days of the desert life are finally over! I will be tasting their flowers every day! All-day long!>>
Drool was leaking out of his mouth as he kept on thinking about his naughty harem fantasy with them after he kills off the only man in the group. He ordered his desert apes to remain on standby as he walked closer to them.
Alabaster shouted, “ surrender at once! I don’t want to kill anyone!”
“ Are you commanding the desert apes!?” asked Stardust. “ I’m the party leader Stardust! We don’t want to fight you either!”
“ Oh? You’re the party leader?” said Alabaster as he walked towards Stardust. “ Yeah I am commanding them. Don’t worry I won’t make them attack your party.”
“ Stop! Don’t get any closer!” shouted Marla as she moved in front of Stardust to protect him and everyone else. “ What are your intentions!”
Alabaster replied, “ there is no need to fear me. I’m only coming closer to have a proper talk with your party leader.”
“ Hold it right there,” said Stardust. “ We can talk like this. We are looking for the closest civilization and trying to get out of the desert. Can you help us?”
Alabaster smirked and shot wind blades at Stardust. It was at such a high speed and close range that Stardust wasn’t able to dodge it in time. The wind blade decapitated Stardust in an instant, blood spurted out high from his missing head, killing him instantly.
“ APES RESTRAIN THE REST OF THEM! RESTRAIN THEM ONLY! RESTRAIN ONLY!”
He wasn’t too sure if the desert apes would understand his command and hoped that these dumb apes won’t kill all of his future women.
All the girls grew furious! Violet shot her poisonous arrows and Remi shot her poisonous needles at him. But he was able to create a wind wall to deflect the oncoming projectiles. The range attacks on him were useless.
The hundreds of desert apes stormed the camp and Marla was having a hard time holding them off. Even if the desert apes were to get poisoned or suffer a cruel injury, they will still use their dying life to cling to Marla to prevent her from moving to protect her allies. With Marla being overrun by the desert apes and Rainbow soon as well from trying to help her break free. Remi was being chased again with no support as she tried to poison as many desert apes as possible. Soon they were reaching the rear guards of Violet and Luna. Luna was freaking the fuck out and missed half her arrows while Violet was trying to shoot as many arrows onto the approaching horde as possible. Soon they were going to have to fight at melee range.
All the girls were now in a melee brawl with the desert apes.
Marla kept on slashing as many of them as she could with her poisonous bone sword. Rainbow was doing the same with two poisonous daggers. The dying apes were clinging onto them to prevent them from moving while their backup was free to pummel both of them with their fists. Although many apes were holding Marla back, her ferocious nature kept on doing deadly damages towards her enemy, and eventually she will break free as many of them would die from the poison. But the apes overwhelmed Rainbow and were able to keep her restrained.
Remi did her best to shoot as many poisonous needles into many of the apes as she ran around the battlefield. But the horde eventually caught up to her and knock her onto the ground. Many apes pile onto Remi but she was able to take out her poisonous daggers and slash at many of them before being restrained onto the ground by the backups.
Luna and Violet had to fight at melee range with their poisonous daggers as the apes surrounded them. During the ensuing battle, the apes stole Luna’s weapon and were about to kill her with it before Alabaster killed him with his wind blade. A huge blood wound opened up on the desert ape with the stolen weapon as he collapsed onto the ground all bloody. The desert apes quickly redrew from attacking Luna before Alabaster ordered them to restrain her again. They complied but focus on restraining her this time.
Initially, half of the desert apes understood to only restrain their enemy but the other half were too dumb to understand. Alabaster didn’t want to lose any precious flowers so he killed several more desert ape soldiers that were too bloodthirsty. The rest of the army saw their master’s rage and they all understood to only restrain these girls. Otherwise, they would all be slaughtered by him.
Because all the desert apes soldiers could only restrain them, the girls had the upper edge in battle as they can kill without mercy. The poisonous weapons were truly deadly and that even if the apes can steal their weapons, they couldn’t use them. So they had to do their best to knock those out of their hands and restrain them with their numbers advantage. But all the girls were such ferocious fighters that the desert ape army would suffer heavy casualties trying to restrain them. They might not be able to even stop Marla as her strength was on another level.
Alabaster watched the battle unfold. << Huh even though the apes greatly outnumbered them. All of the girls are fighting quite ferociously. Do they all care about their party leader that much? They should have surrendered to me after witnessing my power! That ugly-ass bastard, daring to charm my flowers after death! All of my desert apes may die from the poison. Which was fine because all the girls will be heavily injured and exhausted. It will make it far easier for me to take advantage of them. I don’t care about my desert ape army, as long as I can have all of these sexy girls! I can’t wait to taste all my precious flowers and have them all submit to me!>>
He used his wind-step to quickly make his way to the desert tent that they seem to be guarding. The rest of the party saw him at the tent and grew enraged! They wanted to kill Alabaster but all of these desert apes were standing in their way.
When he used his wind blade to slash open the tent, he saw two more beautiful jewels inside the tent.
( Alabaster) << This fucking bastard has seven total beauties! They are all mine now!>>
He couldn’t wait to taste one of his beautiful jewels. He was quite the coward in his old days as a bandit and preferred picking on the weak. He noticed one of the girls was pointing a poisonous dagger in fear while the other girl looked frail and weak. She was the easiest target to snatch away from the battle without any worry of getting accidentally killed by their poisonous weapons.
He used his wind magic to blast Queen out of the tent. Then he grabbed onto the weaker girl and fled the battlefield. Alabaster wanted to taste his first jewel first before returning to capture the rest of the girls once his apes had thoroughly weakened everyone.
Marla and the rest of them tried their best to break free from the fight to rescue Lily but it was futile. Alabaster was too fast and the desert apes were preventing them.
When Alabaster left the battlefield, kid Stardust saw everything as he hid himself underneath his adult body corpse. If he rejoined the battlefield right away, Alabaster would most likely kill him again. Stardust knew that he wouldn’t kill any of the girls here as he was a sick pervert when he wanted his apes to restrain the girls. He couldn’t also risk himself dying to the deadly desert apes pounding him with their fists either. Stardust was entrusting his NPCs to win the battle and ultimately defeat Alabaster but that sly bastard had to snatch away one of the girls instead. Stardust was also waiting for the opportunity to come out and used his healing on his NPCs when they needed it most.
<< THAT MOTHERFUCKER TOOK LILY! HE’S GOING TO PAY A THOUSAND TORTUROUS DEATHS FOR THIS! >> ( Stardust)
Indescribable rage boiled inside of Stardust from losing his lovely fiancee Lily.
But since Alabastor had left, Stardust came out of hiding to fight and heal up the others. At the same time, all the desert apes soldiers stopped attacking the girls and they ran away. Many of the desert apes were dying and losing their lives from the poisonous weapons. The desert apes saw this as an opportunity to run away from their tyrant. There wasn’t any point in losing their lives in this meaningless battle after all.
The party did not chase after the fleeing apes. Everyone gathered together at the destroyed tent.
“ Master Stardust! I tried to protect Lily!” cried Queen. “ But I was far too weak!”
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Even though all the girls hated Lily, they wouldn’t want her to suffer the cruel fate of being used by a disgusting old man. The rest of the girls’ eyes burned with hatred that they let that bastard Alabaster get away with this.
“ We are all going to save Lily,” ordered Stardust. “ There isn’t much time before he does irreversible damages to Lily.”
Marla hated herself immensely for not being able to protect everyone. She blamed herself entirely even though she was the party’s strongest member and did the most work out of everyone.
Even though Lily pretended to be Luna’s bestie. Luna holds deep compassion for Lily and the rest of her party members. As a fellow woman, she wouldn’t even wish any harm towards Lily despite her terrible attitude.
Remi before was perfectly okay with killing off the ex-traitor Lily. But since Lily had become her master’s wife and sworn ally to the party now. She couldn’t stand to see Lily suffer such a tragedy.
Violet known for being extremely rational knew that they could just sacrifice Lily and run away. They weren’t strong enough to defeat Alabaster and he could defeat them and force all the girls into serving him while killing off Stardust. But deep in Violet’s heart, she too didn’t want to sacrifice Lily even if it meant the entire party’s doom.
Queen wasn’t the closest to Lily but she still thought of Lily as someone who could be extremely beneficial for the party in the future. She was almost as useless in the party as Lily so she could relate to her struggles. Lily was trying her best to obtain a healthier body to become more useful and she respected her for that. She truly believed she and Lily would become extremely valuable NPCs in the future.
They all ran in the direction where Alabastor was last seen carrying off Lily.
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Alabaster as he was carrying off Lily, he was putting his hands all over her body yet Lily didn’t react negatively but positively. He was checking if Lily had any hidden weapons underneath her clothes and was worried about the poisonous cactus needles but there wasn’t any. Lily’s petite body was being fondled everywhere but she was enduring his lust. He was licking his lips in the excitement that he will finally be able to taste his first woman in 30 years.
His wind steps allowed him to move fast across the desert ground. They were able to cross over a large amount of distance in a short amount of time. When they had gotten far away enough without anyone around to disturb them. Alabaster dropped Lily onto the sandy ground.
A desert tiger suddenly charged at them but Alabaster held out a hand and used his wind blade magic to slash the tiger in half. Then he used his wind wall to prevent any of the splattered blood or guts from getting on him.
He turned around and saw Lily’s eyes of admiration.
“ Wow, you’re are so strong! I have fallen deeply in love with you! Let me strip my clothes off for you.”
( Alabaster) << No woman ever said anything this nice to me before. Probably because I was always forcing myself onto them! Could she have fallen in love with me? This is perfect! I have been truly blessed! I’m way more handsome than that ugly man Stardust. I may be older but women always prefer the older men anyways!>>
“ Ahahaha! You have good eyes girl! Please do!” beamed Alabaster.
Lily got up and took off her top before throwing it at him. Alabaster catches it and gave it a deep sniff. The scent of a woman was charming him deeply and he was starting to lose his mind. Her chest was fully exposed and his excitement kept on reaching towards a higher level. Then Lily took off her shorts before throwing them at Alabaster’s face. He lets the shorts hit his face as he gave those some deep sniffs as well before tossing them to the ground. Lily intentionally stripping for him had seriously made him extremely happy as he always had to use force.
Finally Lily removed the ultimate treasure, her panties as she threw them at his face. Alabaster gave those a good sniff and lick as he was getting completely seduced by Lily.
Alabaster couldn’t hold back anymore and pushed Lily onto the sandy ground. His greedy arms were busy fondling her body. He greedily kissed Lily with his tongue trying to invade her mouth but this shy girl wasn’t letting his tongue inside.
Because Alabaster was deep in lust and lowered his guard completely. He didn’t even notice Lily removing her hair accessory that had a hidden poisonous needle. She jammed it right into his face. Alabaster bolted off of Lily and wind-blasted her hair accessory right out of her hand.
“ YOU FUCKING CUNT! YOU POISONED ME!?” roared Alabaster.
“ If you don’t want to die! Take me back to my party, we have the antidote!” glared Lily.
Alabaster was so deep in anger that not even the mountain could withstand his fury. All the blood in his body was ready to burst out. How could he let this sneaky cunt poison him like this! His ultimate desert fantasy was crushed. All the naughty things he wanted to do with all those beauties he saw earlier! His dreams were now over.
“ IM GOING TO RAVAGE YOU BEFORE I DIE!” screamed Alabaster
As he was about to force himself again on the defenseless Lily. She gave him the nastiest glare ever that was telling him that he was trash. No… he wasn’t worthy enough to be trash. He was lower than trash. His existence was so minuscule that it wasn’t worth acknowledging. Alabaster grew even deadlier and angrier, he was going to make be extremely rough on this cunt before he dies.
Before his hand even reached Lily again, her body had completely disappeared, leaving behind nothing but an NPC core. Lily had already poisoned herself with the needle and wasn’t going to let this piece of shit touch her any further after she successfully killed him.
( Alabaster) << WHAT THE FUCK! SHE WASN’T A HUMAN? IS SHE A MONSTER!? ONLY MONSTERS DROP CORES LIKE THIS!>>
Alabaster was going to destroy that NPC core with his deadly wind magic. He shot his wind blade but it missed the NPC core by a hair length. His mind was faltering as the poison was destroying him. The poison reached his brain and was causing catastrophic damage. He lost consciousness and soon died, falling onto the sandy ground, not being able to have his first taste of a flower in 30 years.
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30 minutes of searching for Lily.
The rest of the party were frantically running forward to find her as soon as possible. Queen was lagging far behind so Marla placed Queen on her back as they kept running forward. Soon Luna was running out of energy so she was being carried off by Violet. The party was spread far apart as they ran together to cover as much ground as possible. It was still dangerous to go solo in these areas after all. The desert tigers and desert wolves, and other enemies were still obstructing them. Marla fought even harder than before and soon she was running out of breath.
Everyone was getting exhausted from running at full speed and Stardust ran out of available biomass to restore them to peak condition. They had to slow down and walk together to recharge their stamina before being able to run at full speed again.
Stardust was growing even more frustrated and his regrets kept on stacking upon each other. The mood of the party was very gloomy with tears coming out of their eyes.
<< I’m truly sorry Lily... I… let you experience hell. I’m such a failure of a husband to not be able to protect you. When we save you, I promise you that I will do everything you wanted me to do with you and more. My entire life will be solely dedicated to you as to atone for you. Even then it won’t ever be enough to amend these damages. Please give me the chance to make you the happiest woman in the world. We are forever immortals, although the NPCs don’t know about that yet, please let my immense love for you save you from your despair.>> ( Stardust)
They were running again and Violet spotted something on the far horizon of the desert. “ There! There’s something over there!”
Everyone ran in the direction that Violet indicated. When they got there, they were surprised to find the dead Alabaster and Lily’s NPC core. Stardust immediately clutched onto Lily’s NPC core and held it close to his heart. Everyone was relieved that Lily was rescued and amazed that she managed to kill the disgusting vile man. Rainbow walked up to Stardust and handed over Lily’s hair accessory that was blasted several meters away. He held
Stardust could use the dead man’s biomass to resurrect Lily right here but why would he use such a disgusting man. It would only harm Lily’s mental state if she knew about it. There were plenty of dead apes back at the camp that they can use. They turned to leave as there wasn’t any point in remaining here any longer.
Remi suggested, “ should I lure a centipede swarm to devour this disgusting man?”
“ Please do,” said Stardust.
Remi scattered into the desert and when she found a giant centipede swarm, she lured it to the dead man’s body. The rest of her party was already walking back to the camp as they didn’t bother to look at the centipedes eating their most hated enemy. Remi soon ran up to rejoin her party.
The giant centipede swarms were happily eating Alabaster’s corpse. Although they too were poisonous, they still couldn’t withstand the poison from the cactus monster. They would eventually die ten minutes or five hours later. But before they die, they would be able to mate and lay eggs before dying, their offspring will not suffer the cactus monster’s poison. It still wasn’t the best tradeoff but the giant centipedes were too dumb to realize that the food they were eating was poisoned.
They got back to the destroyed camp. The dead ape biomass was used to revive Lily and restore kid Stardust into adult Stardust. She immediately went and embrace Stardust and cried to him. Everyone around them also went in for a group hug.
“ Lily…. I’m so sorry,” said Stardust. “ You were amazing to be able to kill that bastard.”
“ Yes! And don’t worry my husband! My purity is still intact…… but he did touch me and forcibly kissed me. But it’s a good thing that I gave my first kiss to you!” said Lily.
Stardust was shocked that Lily’s mental state was very good and hugged her even tighter.
Lily whispered into Stardust’s ears, “ please love me tonight…”
“ I will,” Stardust whispered back. He didn’t want to have any regrets and wanted to make Lily the happiest woman ever.
The Alabaster incident had warped Lily’s mind even further. Even though her karma was at the absolute lowest at -100 and couldn’t go even lower. The karma value system had completely broken down. It was now showing as ???, puzzling Stardust to the extreme. He wasn’t going to mention it to Lily or let anyone know of her mysterious karma value.
Lily’s Karma: ???
She became filled with endless rage against the world. She wanted to kill every human alive, even if they were innocent. Originally she couldn’t care less about the world as long as she had Stardust.
Somehow Lily gained a god skill upon her revival, [ Evil God’s Happiness LVL 1].
At level one, this skill allows Lily to invert anyone’s value and belief.
For example, if someone were to believe in things like sacrificing yourself to save others. Lily can use her skill to make them believe the opposite. They would sacrifice others to save themselves instead!
Only god skills can counter each other, all other skills are inferior. Nobody in the entire world even knew of the existence of the god skills! She can even use it on herself and Stardust!
Lily was never going to use [ Evil God’s Happiness LVL 1] on Stardust. If she did then… instead of her husband giving her complete love. Her husband would give her complete hatred!
Her new skill can pretty much turn any good person into an evil person and an evil person into a good person. What a broken skill! However, Lily must place her hand on their face to activate its effect as her body was weak and frail. Right now she could probably only use it once per year. The skill’s effect cannot be undone by its user.
Stardust can see all of his NPCs skills but it was up to Lily if she wanted to show her god skills to Stardust. She chose not to ever show her husband her new god skill.
( Lily) << This world must suffer my agony.>>