"Hey...is she allowed to do that? That's totally cheating!" Tiinra was staring at the; was it mortal? The girl, woman, thing, that had been summoned to this world. The woman had spoken a couple of words that did not belong in this world. How did they have power in this world? Tiinra had not understood what had been spoken, but the result was obvious enough. The system had granted her powers, and was transforming the woman. Tiinra did not know what she should do. Perhaps she should do nothing. It did not seem like the woman was a bad person since she did heal the farmer. That should also not have been possible in the way that she had done it. You could only heal with magic, and medicine, could you not? But if it wasn't possible then the system would not have given its consent or approval of the actions being taken. Perhaps she should look into the system a bit more.
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A blinding light was enveloping Kim's form. In the shimmer of the fluctuating lights her form started changing. Her shoulder-length hair started shortening slightly, and started turning from the dark brown that it had adapted after her change into her old, natural blonde one. She also started shrinking slightly going from about 190 cm to about 170 cm, her form also turned a bit more curvy from the slimmer, agile build she had just inhabited. The wings on her back also started flickering out of existence as she fully changed from her new form into her old, normal self. Kim's hand reached up towards her head and felt that the horns were now gone, and gone was also the black, obsidian looking core stone that was sticking out of her head before. She started rubbing the spot where it was before and tried to figure out where it had gone. She closed her eyes and tried to focus on the feeling of the core, a feeling that she had felt the entire time it had been stuck in her head.
It felt, quite nice actually to be back to her old, or rather normal self. Kim's eyes scanned the surrounding area. She did not feel weird. She had spent a few days in her new form but now that she was back in the old she did not feel too weird. Neither had she in the new one to be fair. Part from getting used to the wings, the change in height and body type had not hindered her. However, she could feel a portion of her mind wanting to go back to the form of the Fallen one. She was suspecting that it was that person's personality trying to assert dominance, something Kim would not allow. At the most perhaps a merging of her real self and the constructed self. If she was being honest with herself, some aspects of that person was quite nice to have. The more evil parts...not so much.
She sighed. It felt like she sighed a lot nowadays. Her eyes met Lilly's before she opened her mouth to speak. "I think this appearance will be much better for our current goals. Fewer people will suspect two humans with a few children running around than an angelic being with horns roaming around the place. While I'm in this form we're sisters," she said and pointed towards Lilly. "The man and his family can be our neighbours while the children our wards. We can mask the area as an orphanage. There are bound to be wars, fights, disasters and more which would cause children to lose their parents." Kim turned, her mind already trying to work out the best way to conceal their presence until they were ready.
"How common is magic in this world Lilly?" She eventually asked. A lot would ride on this question.
"It's not too common, outside of bloodlines that is. However, mages pop up here and there now and then. And earth magic is one of the more common types of magic so your plan have some merit." Lilly said, already getting an inkling of what her summoner was thinking.
"Great, that makes things a lot easier." Kim turned towards the extra room on the same side as the dungeon and decided that this would become the orphanage. She removed the shabby door, absorbing it and turning it into mana once again. She tapped her chin as she thought about how the orphanage should look. Kim decided to go the humble-brag route and created two flat pillars on each side of the hole. They were fancy, but not exquisite, with no real embellishments part from still having the grooved marble pillar look from the ancient Greeks in her own world. Above the hole she created an archway with a slightly nicer look to it. It was arched with what looked like a scroll going across it which read. "The Angelic Sisterhood Orphanage."
"A bit cheesy of a name; don't you think?" Lilly said and raised an eyebrow but Kim ignored her and started thinking of the gates which would now adorn the entrance. She decided on solid oak, or at least what looked like oak in this world. She fitted the double doors with simple hinges, loop door handles with a knocker under one of them. They looked relatively simple, something that could perhaps be grown and ordered by a mage and blacksmith respectively. She also decided to redesign the interior of the little cave that she made earlier. She added some more lights, places where oils or wood could be burned for light. Kim thought about it for a while longer and decided to add a groove that travelled along the ceiling from the entrance, adding a smaller venting hole along with a vent, and into and from every room. This way there would be airflow along with getting any and all smoke out of the caverns so that there would be no lack of oxygen and no build-up of smoke.
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In the same vein she decided to make a channel going from the kitchen and the stove there and through the mountain at a somewhat steady slope and to the outside so that the kitchen smoke would travel out, adding a small cap at the end so that rain would not get in. Along with that she turned the beds a bit lower quality looking along with the sheets and the room decor in general. She added a few more dressers and turned the beds into bunk beds just to sell the illusion better. However like any great illusion or lie, there would be a truth to it. She would honestly start up an orphanage in this location. As for funding, she could conjure coins, so money would be no problems.
For now, she would not expand the little orphanage further than two bunk bed rooms along with an office, kitchen, cafeteria staffroom and the staffs sleeping quarters. Everything could be expanded as the need arose. For now there were two staffers and four children. Along with whatever the farmer would bring with him. She would just create a little barn and garden for him so that he could keep providing for himself and for them. It was almost worrying how easily she slipped into her calculating and planning mindset with everything that was happening. "At least I'm adapting well." Kim thought to herself and chuckled sadly.
She was in a magical world, a fantastical world. She had the powers of shapeshifting, psionics, magic and who knows what else. And all she could think about was how to plan and prepare for the future instead of gushing over how wonderful, or horrific her situation really was. It was a dream come true. Yet her emotions were being suppressed by her nature. "Why can't I just be normal and react like a normal person now and then? It would make my life so much easier."
"Because neither you nor her are normal. At least in that sense. Your life and upbringing along with a few genetic predispositions has made it so. You, bullied and broken in your childhood, a child unable to understand why things turned out the way they did. A person who turned off their emotions and distanced yourself from everyone to avoid hurt. Her, a more fantastical and romantic fall from grace, a being that represents who you were, and what you could have turned into if you had power with very few consequences." Lilly was whispering into Kim's ear at this point, her voice soft like a snake, words like poison. "Every dark thought, every lustful want, the power to do what you wanted to do to those who kept hurting you. The tragic story of an angel of love and compassion, naive of the world, who fell from the heavens and into the darkest pits of hell, giving into her passions and lust for power."
Kim was standing still, eyes barely open as tears fell freely from her eyes as memories of the body she inhabited, of her life, was flowing through her mind, as clear as a film. Every detail in splendid clarity. Even audio, sounds, when there should have been none. Voices calling for her judgement, as the angel was sentenced to be cast out as a fallen, the nephilim cut down before her eyes. Crying and screaming she was thrown out of the halls of God, only her good deeds preventing execution. But what awaited her was even crueller in some ways. Her form and purpose was twisted into something dark. Something that took what it wanted, cold, manipulative and with little regard for anyone. No morals except what she decided on herself. A being that most would call evil, or at the very least chaotic.
A snap brought Kim back to reality as she hazily looked at Lilly who was now grinning an evil grin. "That's for giving me such a horrible life in your story. A little payback on my creator. After reliving those memories I hope that you understand while it was just a story to you, to me, that was my life. And it was Her life, which you now possess. Or at least the memories of said life." Lilly backed away and shrugged her shoulders. "Things aren't like your stories any longer. For one, I can tell that you are weak in comparison to her, oh so weak. And just like your world, if you die, you die. There are no do-overs. The people you kill are people that'll never return. They are just as alive as any person in your old world. This is your real world now. Are you up for the challenge?" Lilly asked with a smirk on her face.
"You're a bitch. Did you know that?" Kim said and wiped the tears from her eyes before closing them and sighing softly. She honestly did not want to kill people. Especially before getting to know the people of this world. If they were all dicks, people who abused their powers to opress, rape, or do generally evil things, then perhaps it was better to take them out.
Kim opened her eyes once again. Her gaze focused on Lilly's face and there was a steely determination behind the gaze. "We won't know those things until we're at that point. However I think it might be better to prepare for the worst and deal with the consiquences as they appear." She looked towards where the farmer had left. "But at least I'll do whatever I can to survive. Hopefully that does not mean killing. But if people are stupid enough to ignore any warnings that I'll place in front and in the dungeon and perish inside, then perhaps the world is better off without them." Kim decided to draw upon Her personality and perhaps this would discourage people from entering. The people that valued things in this world. The ones that was ready to throw away everything, well, she didn't honestly know.
She turned towards where she was building the dungeon and walked into the first hallway. She focused her powers and erected a statue of Her. At her feet, a pedistal came up from the ground with a small bowl in it. Kim then made a pillar appear on each side of the corridor which looked like a scroll was hanging down from the top if it. She then turned back to the stature and made a sword appear in one hand, in the other there was a scroll. On the scroll she made words appear.
Any who enters here, prepare for death. This is the dungeon of the Fallen One, and here she rules supreme. Are the lure of treasure and strength worth your lives? Are you willing to throw away everything for the gain? If so prick your finger and drop your blood in the bowl and register your sacrifice. If you perish, your name shall forever be displayed for all to see your foolishness.