"Hnng... not anymore...." The tired voice of Rossie came with pants.

"Eli...please...let...go....hnnnggg........" Rena's voice joined a second after.

For her part, Elizabeth merely stretched. They had been going at it hard and harder for a couple of days. Honestly, Elizabeth wasn't sure what the issue was. The three of them had a physiology that lacked nothing; they didn't need to eat, breathe, or even sleep.

Elizabeth of course still liked to eat, sleep and take showers, even if their body didn't really need any of those.

"...water...." Rossie moaned, and not in the hot enticing tone she had been using the first two or three days. When she still thought Elizabeth would get tired of it.

"Don't be such a drama queen, Rossie," Elizabeth said as she stretched. It stopped being exciting when she started paying attention to the fact that the bodies of Rossie and Rena had stopped reacting even by reflex. "Mordred."

"Yes Mistress, what do you require of this humble one?" The black-haired girl materialized in front of the king-sized bed, the now covered in a plastic sheet that was ripped in some spots and covered in a series of transparent fluids of doubtful origin.

And for some reason there was a few spots with pinkish hue liquid here and there.

"...You changed." Elizabeth didn't ask or question, she stated it.

"You suffered a qualitative change, so that means we did too as your closest servants," Mordred answered back, "Should I provide you with a new change of clothes for you and the Lady Consorts?"

"Why?" Elizabeth asked confused, "I summoned you because Rossie and Rena want some water."

"...As you command..." Mordred said without batting an eye, but Elizabeth got the feeling that the black-haired girl had wanted to say something else.

"Eli-Eli...not there...that...doesn't...work...like that...." Rossie continued on her fugue dream. The pink-haired girl, despite her complaints, still hugged Elizabeth.

The sensation of the bare skin against skin was something that would take... a few.... more... days.... to... get.... used.... to.... Bare skin...?

"... Oh..." Elizabeth said looking down at herself, really looking down, she was met by her bare chest exposed. Placing a hand atop her chest she felt... normal "I see... You know, it's a wonder what one gets used to, a couple of days going around like this, and I didn't even notice it!"

Elizabeth laughed at it.

"A couple of weeks like that, Mistress," Mordred answered as the black-haired girl opened a shadowy portal and a Shadow Dragon walked past it with a jar of water and some cups, "You and the Lady consorts have been..."

"Fucking each other silly in very ingenious and not safe for work ways that would make Mother proud?" Elizabeth asked, probing once more the wards she had set up around the room.

She wasn't sure how much her Mother had seen, but the wards had increased in power midway through, and she got the rough feeling that something had stuck its face first at one point.

"Yes Mistress," Mordred said passing one of the cups to Elizabeth and serving some water to the blonde girl.

"You aren't fazed?" Elizabeth asked with an impish glint in her eyes, "Of this? I am quite the good-looking woman, even if I say so myself... and my wives are quite tired, you could entertain me."

"Is that what you desire Mistress?" Mordred asked arching an eyebrow at Elizabeth, "You know that we will serve you to the best of our skills."

"... That is the prerogative of all my minions. But you aren't one," Elizabeth pointed out drinking the water in one go and then looking at Rossie who was snuggling at her, "Rossie, here... water."

"....real....water...not....more....love....juice..." Rossie grumbled as she pinched Elizabeth.

"....I may have tried to deceive her once...or...twice....when they continued grumbling about water, rest, and whatnot." Elizabeth said while laughing awkwardly.

"We... are not minions anymore indeed," Mordred said answering the first question and ignoring the other commentary on the side, "Here Lady Rossie, real water."

Mordred then proceeded to serve another cup of water and put a straw into the cup, tenderly offering it to the parched pink-haired girl.

"....a saint...." Rossie said as she drank slowly from the water, "Ren-Ren....water....here...."

"......salvation...." Rena said as she patetically dragged herself towards...the wrong side of the bed.

"Here Lady Rena," Mordred said patiently as she extended a tendril of shadows with another cup and straw, "As you reached the next threshold your Domain changed once more, those of us with a more complete Soul achieved the next step, so your most advanced minions are now fully sentient entities."

"...So not all the Shadow Dragons?" Elizabeth said as she paid closer attention to the shadow dragon that had brought the water.

It was...a small creature, or well, a humanoid thing? It looked like how Beatrice had looked at the start, when she was a deformed (In a cute way) little human. Only this one...

"Wait, this one doesn't have sentience, right? I don't want to have to deal with the police because they saw me naked...or what looks after a couple hours of Debauchery," Elizabeth said turning to Mordred.

"Of course not, Mistress, to them you look as normal, they do not perceive the world in forms or beings, but they perceive it as entities of mana." Mordred said shaking her head, "But do refrain from showing yourself like this to the other Minions that don't know you as we do. They may... get the wrong conclusions from it."

"... Fair." Elizabeth said snapping her fingers, the motion had been ingrained in her at the moment, after doing so and summoning her clothing, she felt a call...

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A new set of garb was awaiting deep within her Soul to be summoned. Elizabeth followed the call and she ended near the center of her Soul. Was it this that Mother and Papa referred to as the key to the Apotheosis? It was quite an interesting garb, but no. Elizabeth wouldn't touch it for now, lest it trigger before she was needed.

Instead she reeled her consciousness back to the superficial and called upon her normal clothing, she put on a new skirt and loose blouse. More importantly she was once more wearing socks.

Imagine, not wearing socks, what was she, a degenerated woman? Elizabeth could hardly believe she hadn't noticed it herself when she summoned Mordred.

What would her Minion...or well, her servant think!?!?

.......

"Are you quite done Mistress?" Mordred asked from the side, the girl at no moment had looked elsewhere, as if looking at Elizabeth didn't cause any reaction... Worse, as if the naked bodies of Rossie and Rena caused no reaction.

"Are you straight?" Elizabeth asked the black-haired girl, who for some reason staggered at the question, so that was it then. "That explains, I am quite the looker if I say so myself, the same can be said of Rena and Rossie, while Rossie is more like cute than anything, Rena is quite Sexy, no other reason you wouldn't react at us."

Mordred sighed, the girl dared to sigh at Elizabeth!

"Mistress... would you covet the body of your [Goddess]?" Mordred asked nursing her head, "Or worse, the body of your [Goddess] companions? Surely you can't expect us, your sons and daughters to look with lecherous eyes at you? You who are our progenitor."

That... was actually an interesting question, would Elizabeth try to bang her own Goddess? Well, if she started praying to Rossie or Rena, then the answer was yes, but she would only do so under those premises; she wouldn't start believing in them as Goddess just to bang them. The order was wrong. And that hadn't been the question Mordred had put forth.

The question was... If she believed in any kind of Goddess, would she look at her with lecherous eyes?

"No... I don't think I would do that," Elizabeth answered.

The same could be said to the second question, would she ever look with Lust at her own progenitor? Of course not, she loved her Mother. But not in that way, and maybe because she had grown up with Mother's silly shenanigans, she couldn't imagine seeing her like that, even if her Mother was (Like Elizabeth) quite the looker, she couldn't ever think about her that way.

And if all her former minions thought of Elizabeth in that way...

"I didn't raise any of you, didn't nurture, didn't take care or even shower you with Love." Elizabeth pointed out, "I may be your progenitor, but I never once acted like a Mother should toward their children."

"That is correct," Mordred said nodding, "Some of us even got birthed from what one could say are the worst possible ways or reasons."

Ouch, that hit like where it hurt, Mordred had been such a case, she was born just to spite on [ShadowPact] and his childish reaction.

"Even so," Mordred continued, "You still gave us a chance when you didn't need to. Don't think we aren't unaware of the fact that you could have subsumed us and the whole Soulscape at any moment, to make it truly yours."

Yeah... Elizabeth... didn't really know that to be honest, she had suspected that there was something that she could do, but it felt natural to let it continue as it was, so in the end Elizabeth didn't do anything about it. To know that she could subsume the whole Soulscape and use it to make something that was truly hers though....

What would come out of it? Elizabeth couldn't imagine something that wasn't Terra Nexus at this point. If she even attempted it, the more likely result would be her getting Terra Nexus back... minus all the minions and inhabitants she had gotten so far, and a [World] without life on it would be more troublesome to deal for her, if she had gotten right what was expected of a [World].

Since that was currently her path towards Apotheosis, it was better to keep it as it was; she didn't want to have to split herself into a thousand different scraps to attempt to make life from scratch, not when she already had a few billion souls willing to inhabit her planet as it was.

"Fair," Elizabeth said nodding to Mordred, "I still think you should at least be a little interested in our bodies, we are nice looking."

"You are gorgeous Mistress, as is Lady Rossaline and Lady Rena," Mordred said nodding, "But that is [Divine Beauty] it is to be expected, I don't know if you yourself are aware, but none of your bodies has imperfection anymore."

What?

"What do you mean?" Elizabeth said, looking back at herself, she was now clothed, so a flick of her will and the shadows under her clothing extended all over her body.

In a second Elizabeth was wearing a second skin of shadows over her body, and using these she examined each square inch of her body, all the curves and nooks and crannies. She found... nothing out of order.

A second later, she did the same with Rossie and Rena, not like she needed to do that at the moment; the past few days, she had explored plenty of the other girls' bodies.

There wasn't a single thing that was missing in Elizabeth's memory, neither from Rena nor Rossie. Elizabeth could even tell you how much Rossie's tail stretched and how much strength it could tolerate, both when you pulled at it and when Rossie got it to work pushing, twisting, and prodding at things.

The same as Rena, Elizabeth knew how much strength each of Rena's arms could exert, how many teeth each of Rena's mouth had, and how each of Rena's faces reacted and moved when you stimulated Rena just right.

Funnily enough, it seemed that each face of Rena's Ashura form focused more on an individual aspect of Rena as a whole, which meant that if Rena ever got into it, she could hold conversations with herself.

"I don't see anything out of order." Elizabeth said after that was done, and while she was at it, she made sure to dress both girls. Not before removing the plastic sheet that was atop the bed by storing it in her storage.

The bed had been swapped a few times across the days while Elizabeth sank more and more into her Debauchery, same with the bed itself, at least till she got tired of it and decided to use a plastic sheet. One of her more ingenious ideas if she was to be honest.

"That is precisely it," Mordred continued, "You used to have some mollars in your back, Mistress, also a birth mark in your thigh."

Elizabeth quickly sent a scan to those parts and found nothing, "I don't see anything there."

"That is the point, you hadn't perceived them before, nor thought of them as beauty marks. So your body as it starts being saturated by the Prana, it starts to evolve." Mordred pointed out, "We ourselves noticed, as we always pay attention to you, some minor tics and behaviour started to disappear, your sweat no longer smells bad. The food no longer becomes waste inside your stomach and is instead turned into mana and absorbed..."

Elizabeth was very proud of that last one, she had reduced the trips to the bathroom quite greatly.

"That is not something a human would achieve, no matter what type of skills they have, even the most dedicated ones, or those with a specialized skill set designed to maximize the working time, still need a bathroom break." Mordred continued.

"How would you even know that for sure?" Elizabeth pointed out, "You have been alive like...a couple of hours at most."

"Weeks," Mordred pointed out, "And I know because that is the build I have. I am Mordred Starbright, [The Caretaker of Dragons]."

Mordred did a small curtsy and a black screen materialized in front of Elizabeth, it had the data of Mordred.

Sure enough...Mordred was a Caretaker and had the title to prove it. If anything...

"This seems to be missing a few things," Elizabeth said, pointing at the status screen that had shown in front of her.

Status Name Mordred Starbright Health: Okay Title Caretaker of Dragons Soul: Stable Passive Title Birthed from Despair Grade: B Nascent Race   Ruler within shadows Level Job: Strength Caretaker of Hope Constitution Job Skills: Agility General Skills: Dexterity Title Skills Intelligence   Wisdom Charisma

"You have yet to pick those options," Mordred pointed out as she dismissed the thing completely, "It could have race as an option, as you have quite the varied races running around Terra Nexus."

"Aren't we all humans?" Elizabeth pointed out.

"...You are by far," Mordred said shaking her head, "Mistress, we aren't human, our physiology is a reflection of you. We are closer to dragons than anything, the thunder birbs are closer to lightning, their biology makes no sense..."

Well, that was because... actually, what was the deal with the Thunderbirds? Elizabeth knew that they had been born out of her Pride, but that didn't mean that they ignored most laws of physics did they?

A quick look inwards and she picked one of those things, they... still were quite round and skwaked around, Elizabeth could of course tap within her innate understanding of the world and find what they wanted to speak about.

But decided against it, as she remember quite clearly what happened last time she did.

"And the Fire Salamanders, Space Fox..." Morded carried on naming each of the species she had make, "And this isn't even taking into consideration special entities like Lady Sana."

The Spectral Owl she made, the one that worked as a grim reaper for Terra Nexus.

"So... All of them?" Elizabeth asked almost fearing the answer to the question.

"All of them, we all are counting as a living being." Mordred said nodding, "Our physiology is in the earliest stages, so if you desire to change something, you should do so sooner rather than later, if you wait a couple of centuries to change it, then it may cause mayhem."

...Beg you pardon? Centuries? Elizabeth was aware that she would live longer... Ah right, Apotheosis, that would make her all but immortal wouldn't it?

... So instead of a couple of hours (Allegedly weeks), then she could mess around with Rossie and Rena for centuries? Perhaps this whole thing about ascending wasn't that bad.

"Also you may want to make a new race using your newest Gem," Mordred said pointing at Elizabeth's stomach... Or well, somewhere near her waist. "Unless you want to torture Lady Rossaline more?"

"Rude," Elizabeth said puffing her cheeks, "I will guarantee you that Rossie enjoyed herself too."

Elizabeth wasn't that bad, or the chapter of that particular incident would have been larger.

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