Lilith: Origin of Succubi

<~> Chapter 177

I woke up to a slightly odd sight, Morrigan was resting next to me idly playing with my breasts. She hadn't noticed I was awake yet so I got to watch with amusement as she gently groped and played with them. She was so focused on them that she jumped when I leaned forward and kissed the top of her head.

"Are you enjoying yourself?" I said with mirth.

"Ah! Lilith, I thought you wouldn't mind so..."

I laughed and pulled her into a hug. "I don't, not from you or my other girlfriends at least. And they are a bit fun to play with," I admitted. My breasts were quite large and heavy, though my increased strength meant that I didn't really feel any fatigue carrying them around which was pretty nice.

She blushed and looked away with a smile. I decided to pull her closer and make out with her a little. She melted and relaxed into my arms as I explored her mouth with my tongue. After spending a little time enjoying each other, she pulled away and broke our kiss.

A grin spread over her face as she cupped my cheek. "As much as I'm enjoying this we should probably get up now. You were the last one up this time so I took the opportunity to... uhm, cuddle with you for a while but we do need to start getting ready to go for the day."

I sighed. "Too bad. But you'll have plenty of other opportunities to play with them later," I teased.

She giggled and pulled herself off of me. "Sounds like a promise! I'll hold you to that you know!"

"I bet," I said with a grin.

"Mimi left your clothes here," she said patting the small pile of clothes next to my armor in the corner. "I'll start packing up the rest of the supplies while you finish getting ready."

"Alright." I groaned and got up. Morrigan slipped out of the tent while I got dressed and started strapping on my armor. The habit wasn't completely familiar yet but I had done it enough times that I could go through the motions without paying that much attention to it.

"[Status]," I said to myself absentmindedly.

[Status]
Name: Lilith Baphomet
Race: Greater Succubus [Race Hidden - Displayed as Beastkin (Sheep)]
Gender: Female
Class: [Novice Magic Swordsman] Lv. 11
Level: 50

Stat Spread:
Strength: 100
Vitality: 100
Charisma: 10 (690)
Luck: 20 (700)
Finesse: 70
Magic Control: 100
Magic Force: 100 (155)
Speed: 70 (90)
Endurance: 10

_Karmic Energy: 6804

Unallocated Stat points: 0

Skills:
Haggling Lv. 15
Swordsmanship Lv. 38
Illusion Magic Lv. 4
Light Magic Lv. 10
Light Manipulation Lv. 12
Uuna Riding Lv. 13
Linguistics Lv. 10
Ritual Magic Lv. 10
Drawing Lv. 12
Mana Sense Lv. 4
Luck Magic Lv. 6
Enhancement Magic lv. 5
Flying lv. 1
Intimidation lv. 1

Class Abilities
Merchant Skill - Calculations
Prostitute Passive - Resist Disease
Prostitute Passive - Magic Fingers
Prostitute Skill - Ease Pain
Prostitute Skill - Freshen Up
Prostitute Passive - Tight Fit
Prostitute Passive - Group Dynamics
Prostitute Passive - Resist Sleep
Prostitute Skill - Center of Attention
Prostitute Skill - Nightcap

Special Passives:
Soulbound Companions
Special drop rate up
Sightspeak
Double Down

Innate Abilities:
Karmic Retribution
Being of Karma

Racial Traits:
Succubus Constitution
Sexual Appetite Lv. 47
Succubus Bond
Greater Succubus Shifting

Titles:
[World Traveler - Hidden Title]
[Origin of Succubi - Hidden Title]
[Dungeon Destroyer]
[First Explorer]
[Early Intervention]
[Demon Hunter]
[Follower of Sorsette]
[Mother of the Succubi - Hidden Title]

Not much has changed this time. I haven't been fighting much since we cleared out the castle and I haven't been practicing skills much. The one exception is a few more levels in Enhancement magic and the new intimidation skill. I didn't even get a new enhancement spell from leveling, though that didn't seem strange since I've already received some from leveling my class.

Once I finished lacing up my boots, I stretched and stepped out of my tent.

"Lilith! I want to become a succubus!" Cecilia blurted out the moment she saw me coming.

I raised an eyebrow and glanced over at Raya who was looking way too smug for her own good. "Did Raya tell you everything that becoming a succubus entails?"

"She said I'd get a class reset and that I could grow a dick..." she said trailing off. Bella laughed off to the side which made the enthusiastic woman blush a little. "How about we talk about it on the trip today? I wanna hear more about it. Gods, no wonder you guys are always fucking, sex-based shapeshifting sounds amazing." That only got more laughs out of the group and I couldn't help but facepalm.

"Alright, I'll give you the explanation once we get on the road. Let's finish packing up."

The rest of the morning went pretty quickly. Cecilia was a bundle of excited energy, it seemed Raya had done a good job 'seducing' the woman into wanting to join us. She was also a little bit more open about letting her eyes trail up and down the other members of our group, especially Raya and Sibyl. Last night must have left an impression on her.

I was a little excited to sit up on the coach seat and get to see everything go by from outside. Silva finished loading the last of the tents into the carriage and we started heading down the road again. We had only spent maybe twenty minutes on the road when Cecilia finally broke down and started asking me about the transformation.

"Sooooo, this transformation thing. How does it all work?"

"The first thing I should probably say is that it will change your sense of hunger. Instead of requiring food for sustenance, you'll require sex to survive. Succubi literally feed off of the mana that's created when people have sex, Lust aspect mana."

"You get to have sex instead of eating, gods that's so hot."

I laughed. "It is pretty nice, it also means that you don't actually need to eat food. You still can if you want. Not all of us are Succubi so we'll still need to cook though."

She nodded. "I noticed that most of you didn't eat last night, the only ones who did were Silva, Morrigan, and Torien. Are they the only ones that aren't Succubi?"

"Yeah, they aren't interested in transforming yet for personal reasons. This isn't something I push on others, you should only join our family if you don't mind the 'downsides' of the change."

"What are the downsides?" she asked.

I grinned. "Well, primarily the sex to live thing. If you're not comfortable with that or you can't reliably get access to sex, you'll enter a 'starved' state. It doesn't sound like you can actually starve to death as a succubus but the description says that it leaves you in a state of perpetual arousal, none of us have let it get that far for obvious reasons."

"Gods that's hot too. I'm not really hearing any downsides yet."

"The only other thing is an oath not to 'knowingly work against me' I don't know why the transformation requires it but it doesn't work without that part," I told her.

"Hmm... That seems vague enough that I could see people refusing due to that part alone. May I ask how many Succubi already exist? ...or are you keeping that part quiet?"

"Well, five of our group and nearly everyone in the brothel you met us in the other day."

She turned towards me in shock. "The entire brothel?!"

I laughed. "I was surprised how many wanted to join me but yes, there were only a handful of people that refused the transformation after I explained everything. Offering the transformation to people who have sex for a living and enjoy the work only makes sense. The ones who refused the transformation did it because they didn't actually want to be prostitutes forever."

She faced back toward the road. "Makes sense."

I tapped my foot on the floor of the seat for a moment. "Actually, I can think of one more downside. Becoming a succubus means potentially running afoul of the Tamin church. They're already wary of me in particular and all succubi will have a direct connection with me. If things get messy then I wouldn't be surprised if some guilt-by-association came into play. That being said, succubus is a hidden race, it's even protected from things that can read someone's status directly. Kind of like a hidden title."

Raising an eyebrow she looked back at me. "You have a hidden title too?"

I shrugged in response.

"Well, if I was that worried about getting on the Tamin church's bad side I wouldn't have slept with two women who I know are at least former prostitutes. My connection to Tarklin also gives me a bit of cover when dealing with them. He and I have been friends for a long time and I have a few assurances in place with the elves. I would be a problem for the Tamin church if they tried to hold me captive or attempted to execute me or something. That won't stop them from attacking me, sure, but as long as they don't kill me outright I'd be able to weasel my way out of it."

"That's reassuring to hear. That does it for the main downsides, any other questions?"

"So... Raya was vague with the benefits. Wanna go through those as well?" she asked.

"Your body changes into your 'ideal' self, which can be influenced right before the change by having in mind what you want. You get access to an ability that lets you shapeshift but it's limited based on the amount of mana you want to dedicate to it. Anything more on the sexual side is easier for whatever reason and you can do extreme things like change your entire body proportions if you have the mana to maintain it."

I held out my right arm and shifted it into a giant white bear arm to demonstrate. "The shift is real, it's not just an illusion. I haven't tried anything hyper-specific like transforming into someone else though." She ran her fingers through the fur on my transformed arm to test my claim.

"That's crazy. Usually only demons have powers like this. It's no wonder you've been keeping it a secret."

I nodded. "That's one of the main reasons to keep it a secret. Anyway, The transformation comes with a full stat reallocation, you don't lose things like classes or spells but you can completely change your build if you wanted to. Bella did something similar during her transformation, she was a farmer based around endurance and now she's a nature healer based around spellcasting."

She whistled. "Some people would kill for a perk like that."

"Maybe. Most people I know have kept similar builds afterward. The last two things probably haven't been mentioned to you yet. The first is the succubus bond. It lets all succubi within range share their sensations, emotions, and even communicate. It's helpful in a lot of situations, both practical and... sexual."

She took in a sharp breath. "No way, you're not saying..."

I wasn't sure she knew exactly what I was going to say but it made me grin regardless. "Have you ever felt being fucked while doing the fucking at the same time? Mindblowing."

"Wait... did you...?"

I scooted closer to her. "I shared all of their sensations last night while the two of them were playing with you. At the same time, I was fucking the girls in my tent and we all shared that pleasure too."

She squirmed and blushed. "So you saw all that?"

If she was mad about it, she didn't seem like it. Though admittedly it was an invasion of privacy even if exhibitionism can be pretty hot. It's not exactly like we wouldn't have known what she was doing in there though, the noises she made were pretty obvious even if we didn't have the bond. Tents don't exactly block much noise.

"I did... Does that bother you?" I asked.

"Mmm, maybe I could let it go... if you let me peek in on you sometimes too..."

I grinned. "Does the naughty woman like to watch others?"

She huffed. "So what if I do? You can't tease me with that, I can be pretty shameless."

I laughed. "I noticed, especially last night."

Her false bravado quickly turned to embarrassment.

"Okay, okay," I said. "I wouldn't mind if you wanted to watch, assuming everyone else was okay with it too. If you do decide to become a succubus though, all of us have been pretty free about sharing our sensations and you'd be no different. It's actually kind of hard not to pay attention to it when it's happening nearby. Just as a clarification though, if you ever didn't want someone intruding on a personal moment it's easy to close off the bond when you want to. However, it's pretty noticeable when someone is isolated so you can't really be sneaky about it. Lying to each other and hiding things from other succubi becomes pretty difficult in general actually."

Cecilia cleared her throat. "And the last thing?"

"The last benefit is probably the biggest, a huge boost to your luck stat and a togglable charisma stat boost based on your 'karma.' To be short, you can think of it as a number that represents how much you help others, including killing hostile monsters, minus how much you harm others."

I looked over her karma, 2067, pretty respectable.

"If the pattern with the others holds true, it would be around a one hundred and three point bonus to each of those stats for you."

"A HUNDRED? What the hell? Ten levels of stats for two stats? Just for having to live off of sex?" She covered her mouth and looked over the road. She suddenly looked lost in thought as her eyes darted around in mental calculations. "Lilith, your race sounds strong, like, weirdly strong. Are you sure there isn't a bigger downside? I've never heard of racial bonuses being this powerful and I've traveled a lot."

I shrugged. "The stat thing is a recent development, my origin title said it was a milestone for hitting level 50. I do suspect that there's been interference from at least two gods though."

"Two gods..." she repeated numbly. "Which two?"

I sighed, the more we talked the more info I was giving out. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. I have a feeling she's going to want to become a succubus either way, probably better to give her this information now. "Sorsette and Charon, the god of... change."

Her brows furrowed. "I've never heard of the god of change. What makes you think that god is involved?"

I showed my left arm and revealed the mark of change hidden there.

"Oh fuck... Lilith, why is it that every time you reveal a secret you go out of your way to reveal a bigger secret a moment later? I've never even fucking seen that mark before but I can tell it's powerful. Okay, put that away. No one's around but it still makes me feel like it's going to bring trouble. DO NOT show that to anyone from the Tamin church, an unknown god would make them flip the fuck out."

I shouldn't tell her that it's actually the god of death and change, she's already getting pretty wound up.

"Okay, that one's plausible." She nodded. "Why Sorsette?"

I shrugged. "The way a lot of the powers my origin title granted me early on looked like they were influenced to encourage behavior she approved of. More recently I got the 'follower of Sorsette' title and it came with a boon. I'd be surprised if Sorsette wasn't putting her fingers on the scales here."

"Fuck. Okay, you're lucky I like you because if you ever told anyone half the shit you just told me you'd be at risk. Be careful, for real."

"Right..." I replied.

We rode in silence for a while as Cecilia digested all the information I gave her. Eventually she got back to her original question. "So like, when do we do it then? Turn me into a succubus?"

"You're sure?" I asked.

She nodded. "Yeah, it's worth a risk for the stats alone, not to mention all the other fun benefits. Sign me up, if this turns out well I'll even stay on as your driver once I finish up my business in Torlimal City."

I sat up in surprise. "Really? I thought you worked with Tarklin."

She turned to me with a confident look in her eyes. "I can tell sticking around you will be more than worth my while. So, when do we do it?"

I laughed. "Tonight, we can't have you cream your pants while driving."

"Oh fuck, I can't wait."

We bumped along the road for a while longer until it was finally time to break for lunch.