Ch 240: Caught in a VR game.

"You have food and water in the fridge, Miyabi-chan. And make sure you do all the chores on the list. We will ask about it when we return." smiled Chisato, and Takina nodded.

"Can you please remove that thing before you go?" pleaded Miyabi, a desperate expression on her face.

"And that's two demerits for you, Miyabi-chan." said Chisato. "You haven't referred to us as Mistresses, and a good maid should only have wished us a good day before we leave. You need more training."

Miyabi groaned. She knew those demerits would translate into more intense edging, or even a spanking upon their return.

While only two days had passed outside, from Miyabi's perspective, she had spent at least ten days as a bondage maid.

"And what is that 'thing' you are referring to, Miyabi? And why do you want us to remove it?" asked Takina, wanting to tease her some more.

"The… vibrator… Mistress" said Miyabi with gritted teeth. "It's driving me insane, I can't think about anything but sex."

"No, it's staying." said Takina. "And do not pretend you do not like being treated like a plaything, you naughty girl."

"I don't!" cried Miyabi.

It was a lie, and she knew it. And she knew they knew it as well.

The constant humiliation, the stimulation, and the 'service' she was forced to offer at night when they both treated her body like a toy, were blending into a whirlwind of lustful desire and sexual pleasure… She had received more pleasure in the last ten days than she had had with her Limiters in the last few months.

But she would be damned if she ever admitted it. She knew they would never let her forget her admission.

"Alright, we need to go. See you later." nodded Takina.

Before Miyabi could plead again, they were gone. The vibrator stopped seconds later, but she knew it was set on a random pattern, and would restart soon.

Even with her wrists chained to her waist, Miyabi had enough leeway that she could remove the vibrator, if she wanted to.

But she knew it was a trap. They would ask her if she cheated, and she couldn't lie to them. She had removed it once, and they had punished her by edging her intensely for four hours, while somehow stopping her from getting any orgasm. By the end of it, she felt like she wanted to die.

With a sigh, Miyabi picked up the broom, the short chains clinking, and started on the first of the entirely redundant tasks on the list. She needed to get done as much as possible before the vibrator turned on again.

…

"Welcome. Please enter and take a seat." grinned Chisato after opening the door of the classroom. A group of about fifty young women, most of them Pandoras, but with a few E-Pandoras and Valkyries mixed in, recognizable by their different uniforms, had been waiting outside.

They were opening a few minutes earlier than planned after hearing some heated voices coming from the hallway. An argument had started, and two Pandoras were already starting to threaten each other and exchange taunts about their short heights. From the pictures on the files that Chisato had memorized, they were Attia Simmons, a third year like Miyabi, and Charles Bonaparte, the strongest Pandora from Genetics France.

She joined Takina in front of the chalkboard while all of their future disciples chose seats, then took the lead.

"Everyone, thank you for being willing to participate. As you all probably know already, I am Chisato Nishikigi, my partner is Takina Inoue."

"It is nice to meet you all." smiled Takina with a polite nod.

"We will tell you about ourselves, since rumors have a tendency to distort facts, but before that, we need to warn you about something. We are aware that a lot of you have tempers, and that there will be conflicts. But try to get along. Chisato and I won't really care if you limit it to a few bruises or minor cuts."

"But anything that would be a serious injury for a civilian, like that threat we just overheard from one Pandora to cut off another's breasts, will result in us kicking you out of the class, and you will have lost the greatest opportunity of your life. We don't care if you can regrow limbs. If you can't control yourselves with at least this much, you are too unstable to receive what we can offer you."

Takina was staring at Charles as she delivered her warning, and she could see the girl bristling, but she didn't interrupt.

"And on that note, do not touch Satellizer L Bridget over there." smiled Chisato, winking at Satellizer. "She's a good person, and she will be friendly with anyone who respects that boundary. But it is a hard boundary. If you violate it deliberately, we will reconsider your presence in this class as well."

Most of the girls had turned to Satellizer, and she blushed under the attention, but nodded with a fragile smile.

"Now back to us. We both come from a parallel Earth. Yes, a parallel Earth." grinned Chisato, aware that a lot of the girls assembled in front of her didn't believe her.

"As it turns out, there's an infinite number of parallel dimensions inhabited by humans, and not always just by humans. Some of the worlds that can be found in those dimensions have different landscapes and countries, and there are even dimensions that have several inhabited worlds. Some have magic, some have technology more advanced than what you are used to, it's a pretty diverse multiverse out there. The Novas, by the way, are also coming from another dimension."

"We have business with your world, but we will likely need to wait a few months for it, so in the meantime, we made an agreement with Genetics West and Chevalier."

"We will teach you one of our abilities, a kind of magic called Magecraft, and you will in turn be able to teach them to others. In return, we have been provided with two Stigmatas each, and we will learn some of your own Pandora skills. In addition, we are allowed to take with us at least ten volunteers when we leave, to become Agents like us."

Chisato paused, waiting for questions, and they came fast. The first to speak was Roxanne, a redhead nicknamed The Immortal due to her superior regenerative ability.

"How do you travel between parallel dimensions?"

"With an advanced form of Magecraft, and the help of an artificial super-intelligence. A family of Magus, that's the name of Magecraft Users, and who specialized in divination using astrology, created a device that allowed them to see into other dimensions, like a telescope who could only observe a single star at a time."

"Their goal was to observe the future to predict future catastrophes and avoid them, and so on. And it took them a while to understand that what they were seeing wasn't the future of their own world, but the present of parallel ones. Later, something really huge happened, and the superintelligence I mentioned upgraded the telescope to allow passage of living beings."

"I…see? But why did you come, then? Are you like explorers, or merchants?"

"Hardly!" said Chisato as she shook her head and used Item Creation to make a gold ingot, that she tossed at Roxanne. The Pandora caught it by reflex, her eyebrows widening as she realized what was in her hands.

"We aren't after any of your resources." shrugged Chisato. "We can already create just about anything we want, and it's that easy. I did mention something really big happening. Who among you is unfamiliar with that principle of Quantum mechanics, where some particles get their state determined only when observed?"

None of the girls lifted their hands.

"It's the Schrodinger Cat's paradox." nodded Elisabeth.

"Exactly." nodded Chisato. "I did mention something huge happening. There's this bunch of nihilistic scums called Solomon's 72 Demons, who decided to wipe out humanity on as many worlds as they could. They performed a Magecraft ritual of unprecedented scale and caused chunks of the planetary crust to turn into that existing slash not existing state. And what do they do next? They found their own way to reach other parallel worlds, and they are slowly pulling the chunks to them. Since there's A LOT of mass involved, it's taking them years to make it transit to the point where they will be able to force the chunk back into an existing state."

Chisato closed her mouth and waited, wondering how fast the girls would realize the implications. Some were really quick-witted.

"But wait!" flinched Ouka Tenjouin, the leader of the Valkyries. She had long, straight dark blue hair, with bangs behind her left ear tied by a small pink handkerchief. "If we're talking about a transition between dimensions, and not a movement in three-dimensional space, isn't that chunk of planetary crust you mentioned going to try to occupy space that is already taken? H-How big are you talking about? The size of an asteroid?"

Consternation spread among the others as they too realized the implications.

"Exactly." said Takina. "I would say that it would be very unhealthy to be near it when it happens. But staying far isn't going to help either. The smallest world fragment is probably bigger than France. It's even debatable if the world would return to a ball of lava or become an asteroid belt."

"But you can relax, it won't happen. We already killed over fifteen of Solomon's Demons, saving just as many worlds, and this one won't be different. We're even ahead of schedule to kill them all and recover the planetary fragments before they can be weaponized. Chisato and I are only one of many teams hunting them down in many different dimensions."

"We won't ask you or Chevalier to intervene in the hunt for the Demon. Once we find him, we'll either deal with it, just the two of us, or request reinforcements. We have gathered many allies from the worlds we visited, and some of them are crazy strong!" grinned Chisato. "There's one who can summon over two hundred undead dragons! And each of them is much stronger than those S-type Novas from the other day!"

"And I am sure that Chisato is mentioning her for a specific reason, because you, too, could one day reach that kind of power." nodded Takina. "We are recruiting, and after we deal with the Demon, we intend to leave the world with at least ten volunteers, primarily from this classroom. The deity we work for told us that, as compensation for poaching some of you girls to her service, she will seal the hole that Novas use to enter your world. And since that breach is accidental, not something they did deliberately, there won't be any other hole in the future."

"First Magus and a device to travel between dimensions, and now a deity? This is becoming harder to believe the more you talk." frowned Cassanda Lockheart, the top Pandora of East Genetics. She was as beautiful as a model, like everyone present, and had brown eyes and blue-green hair spreading across her shoulders.

"The superintelligence helping us was created by a Deity, yes. And who do you think created the parallel dimensions in the first place?" shrugged Chisato. "It is also Gods who created humans in nearly every world. But it's fine if you do not believe us right away. We aren't asking for you to make a decision immediately. Just know that being the Agent of a God has some massive benefits that you will never be able to find elsewhere. Like immortality. Gods do not like having to replace their underlings every few decades."

"Let's stop speaking about this for now, Chisato." suggested Takina. "They are here to learn Magecraft first."

"You're right." nodded Chisato. "So, Magecraft. The first thing we will need to do is engrave Magic Circuits on your bodies." smiled Chisato, making her own Magic Circuits glow for a few seconds. "This will require one-on-one sessions lasting from two to four hours, depending on your innate talent for it. Normally, it would be rather painful, like having several tattoo artists working on you at the same time, but we will block the pain. You'll only feel some itching starting from your stem brain and slowly moving down to reach your fingertips and toes."

"While we are doing this, you will be conscious, and it doesn't take much attention from our part, so we will have ample opportunities to answer your questions. Once you all have those, we will first teach you how to circulate mana into your bodies to strengthen your muscles…"

Chisato and Takina went on for a few minutes, outlining the major steps they planned to teach them. Then they asked most of them to leave, aside from the first two to volunteer themselves for the engraving, two sisters named Luna and Rana Linchen, from a powerful tribe in the Tibetan mountain range.

Luna, the elder sister, had black eyes and long black hair in a thick ponytail, with drills bangs framing her face. Rana, the younger one, had the same eyes, long dark blue hair styled into two braids with golden accessories along their length. She also had a small tattoo under her left eye.

Chisato and Takina let them to an adjacent room where two beds had been installed side by side, separated by a white curtain. A stool was placed beside each bed.

"I suppose we are supposed to take the beds?" asked Rana, a little nervous.

"Yes. Can we call you Luna and Rana?" smiled Chisato.

"I do not mind." smiled Luna.

"I don't either." nodded Rana.

"Thanks. We need you both to lay on the bed with your backs uncovered. We will place our hands on your backs and circulate our mana into your bodies, and it will cause your body to adapt by creating your own Magic Circuits."

"As Chisato said, it will take hours, so please take a comfortable position." said Takina. "It's fine if you move mid-procedure, but we'll need to keep our hands on your backs."

"It doesn't sound too hard." nodded Rana, changing her Volt texture to uncover her back and climbing on the bed, finding a comfortable position.

Luna did the same with her Volt Texture and laid down on the other bed.

"Do you wish for us to pull the curtain for privacy?" asked Chisato.

"No need." smiled Luna. "We've seen each other naked often. We sometimes slept in the same bed when we were little."

However, as they were about to start, something went wrong.

"Wha?" exclaimed Chisato, surprised, her hands jerking back from Luna's back.

"Is something wrong, Chisato?" frowned Takina.

"Yes. I used Greater Healing on Luna to check on her health before starting, and…"

Chisato placed her hands on Luna's back again, staring at the four Stigmatas embedded on Luna's back.

"Luna, there is something very wrong with your Stigmatas."

"The Tears of Kunlun?" asked Luna, looking past her shoulder at Chisato.

"Tears of Kunlun?" asked Takina.

"That is how we call them in our tribe. You say there is something wrong with it?"

"Yes. The filaments linking them to your nervous system are way thicker than they should be, and they're pulsing. And my System is telling me that she's only a few weeks away from being possessed by her Stigmatas."

"Ah!" exclaimed Rana in shock, but something in her expression told Chisato that she knew something about it. So did Luna, for that matter, as she looked like someone who half-expected to receive that news one day.

"Stigmatas have a will of their own?" asked Takina, raising an eyebrow.

"Our aunt, and one of our cousins." sighed Luna, while Rana was starting to cry silently. "One day, the Tears of Kunlun on their bodies became huge, and… they started trying to kill everyone around them. We never knew why."

"Then it must be fate that you were chosen to join our class." nodded Chisato. "We can remove them safely. However, that means you won't be a Pandora anymore. But we will still teach you Magecraft."

"…Before you do anything, can I get confirmation with Dr Ohara? You said the filaments are bigger and pulsing, right?" asked Luna.

"Yes. Let's go immediately." said Chisato.

She didn't feel offended that she wanted evidence. They were barely acquaintances at this point, and this wasn't the kind of news to be taken lightly.

The four girls walked briskly to the infirmary, and Chisato explained the situation to the head researcher, Dr Scarlett Ohara.

She agreed to use a large scanning device on Luna's back, and paled when a picture of the Stigmata's filaments was displayed. Rana, who stood behind her, brought her hands to her mouth to stifle a sob.

"You said you can remove them safely?" asked Dr Ohara.

"We can." nodded Takina. "Luna, are you okay with it?"

"Yes, please. Better than losing my humanity."

"Lay down on that table, please. It won't last long."

When Luna was ready, Chisato drew a Stop rune on her back to black any pain, and another to seal her Pandora power. She then mentally designated the Stigmatas as parasites while activating Purge.

Scarlett Ohara's eyes widened when she saw the Luna's skin around the Stigmatas stir, and the gems being forcibly expelled, revealing many root-like extensions under it.

With wet plops, the four Stigmatas were completely expelled from Luna's body and rolled to her sides, not moving. Chisato didn't waste time and triggered Greater Healing, and the four wounds closed in seconds.

"There, it's over." nodded Chisato, removing the runes. Scarlett Ohara used pincers to put the Stigmatas inside a glass jar.

"Thank you so much, Chisato, Takina." cried Rana as she hugged them both. Luna joined her thanks to her little sister's.

After a few minutes, Takina turned to the smiling Dr Ohara.

"Dr Ohara, how often do Pandoras use this scanning machine?"

"Only once, after they receive their Stigmatas." replied Scarlett, understanding what Takina meant. "But we haven't experienced cases of Pandoras going berserk, at least not without other factors being involved. Still, I get your point, and I agree. I'll recommend that they get tested every two months from now on, worldwide. And I'll run tests on those defective Stigmatas."

"Yes, that would be for the best." smiled Chisato. "And now we need to return to the classroom and get you those Magic Circuits, Luna, Rana."

It was too early to say, but Chisato felt confident that the two girls would join their family.

…

Noah felt like humming to himself when he knocked on the door, unlocked it, and entered.

"Hi, Meyrin. I brought you breakfast."

"T-Thank you, M-Master." replied Meyrin with an uncertain tone and a blush, clad from the neck down in the black latex golem. She sat on the edge of the bed, her legs pressed against each other and her hands on her thighs.

He raised an eyebrow. It was the first time she called him Master, and she did without sarcasm. She actually meant it.

"Have you given up on resisting, Meyrin?"

"…Yes. I… I like it, Master." admitted Meyrin, blushing. "I like being teased and tormented by this suit. I hated it at first, but now…"

Meyrin blushed further, and Noah smiled.

"Now, you would like to wear it more, isn't it?"

She nodded.

"I won't allow you to wear it constantly, as you would grow too addicted to it, but two days a week should be fine. Stand up, Meyrin."

She stood, and Noah hugged her gently. Noah kissed her, and she moaned as she returned the kiss awkwardly, putting her arms around him.

"I claim you as mine, Meyrin."

"Yes, Master. I belong to you now. Just, please, do me."

"Is my pet eager to experience the real thing, after all those tentacles?"

"Yes." said Meyrin with a hot breath.

"Let's sign the contract to make it official, then. After that, we'll go see your sister."

…

Lunamaria laid down on her bed, waiting. She didn't have any way to measure the passage of time in this dungeon, but she expected him to come any minute now.

She knew what she would do when he entered the dungeon.

She would stand, take the riding crop from the wall, kneel with both hands in front of him as she was, completely naked save from the red leather collar around her neck, set the crop on the floor, and look up at him, then call herself a masochist slave and ask to be trained again today.

That was how he told her he wanted to be greeted, and she was too tired to resist him anymore. Too tired to fight against herself.

The truth that she had finally accepted last night, after a lot of struggling over the last few days, was that she truly was a masochist.

She didn't know if she always was, or if this was the result of his training, but did it really matter?

No. What mattered was that she now felt undeniable pleasure and excitement from being flogged, that being tied up made her aroused, and there was no coming back from that realization.

Lunamaria sighed as remembering how her Master had trained her the previous day caused her treacherous body to turn on once again, and she started slowly masturbating.

She kneaded her breasts like he had done while she had been blindfolded and gagged, her arms encased in a black leather armbinder. And when she had been panting and moaning, he turned her over his knee and spanked her to orgasm.

Her own hands didn't feel anywhere near as pleasurable as his, but she didn't stop.

Lunamaria had closed her eyes, one hand drifting toward her crotch, when she heard the door of the dungeon being unlocked, and she hurriedly sat, already blushing.

He would know. He must have hidden cameras in the room, because he always seemed to know. But the awareness hadn't stopped her hands. He had already humiliated her so much. What was a little more?

The door opened, and he entered, dressed in black pants and a white shirt. Master smiled at her, and she could see in his face that he knew exactly what she had been doing just now.

But Luna froze as, instead of closing the door, he held it open, and someone else entered.

"Meyrin!" exclaimed Luna, happy to see her little sister at last.

"Sis." smiled Meyrin as she entered, and Master closed the door.

"Are you… okay?" asked Lunamaria, taking in her sister's appearance. Black leather knee-high boots with block heels and thick soles, black latex gloves and stockings covering her limbs, and a black and white latex maid dress with a pleated skirt and a high collar. A black leather collar encircled her neck.

"More than okay, Sis." nodded Meyrin. "I have given in to Master, and now, I feel great."

Lunamaria nodded slowly, not feeling any anger or disappointment. How could see, when she herself had stopped resisting and was on the verge of becoming a willing slave?

Then she suddenly remembered how she was supposed to act, and with a fiery blush at the awareness that Meyrin would be watching, she stood, picked up the ridding crop, and knelt in front of him, both knees against the floor and her hands on her thighs, the crop before her.

She looked up at her Master, not daring to glance at her sister on the side.

"Master, please, for the sake of making this lowly masochist into a worthy slave for sexual use, this lowly masochist begs you to be so kind and train her today as well."

"…Wow. Did you ask Sis to do this, Master?" asked Meyrin with a grin.

"I asked her to come up with the words by herself, and I am pleased by the effort she put into it. You did well, Lunamaria. I will train you today as well, and your sister will watch it all."

"…Yes, Master." replied Lunamaria.

"Stand up and step into this, my slave." said Master as a harness of black leather straps suddenly appeared into his hands.

Lunamaria nodded and lifted her right leg.

"And Anew, Master? How is she doing?" asked Meyrin.

"I am confident that she's about to fall as well. I prepared a surprise for her this evening. A two meters tall rubbery pod, actually a golem made to swallow a woman, restrain her, and tease her with tentacles while she is inside. The tentacles will be coated with lotion as well. There's a tank that will need to be refilled regularly. Anew will get the dubious honor, or maybe I should say horror, of testing it for a few hours. If that doesn't do the trick, I don't know what will."

"Master, I want to try it as well!" exclaimed Meyrin excitedly.

"You will have your turn." laughed Master as he fastened the straps around Lunamaria's body. "But you may have to wait a bit. Most of the girls I told want a try as well, and I forbade them from making copies. It sounds like they'll grow addicted to it if they gain easy access, and there's already enough debauchery going on in this place."

"Yes, Master. I agree it might be too much, if I could… the suit is already enough." nodded Meyrin.

"You'll get a taste of it as well, Luna. Do not think I haven't noticed how you reacted to my description of it." smirked Master, and Lunamaria shuddered.

It was true, she wanted to know what it would feel like, to be played with by tentacles.

When the harness was snug against her torso, Master fastened more straps around her forearms and wrists, pinning her hands on the small of her back.

"Legs apart, slave, and lean forward." said Master, and Luna obeyed as he took the riding crop. He rubbed the tip on the inner sides of her thighs, and she felt arousal pulse from her core.

"Slave, you are going to stare into Meyrin's eyes while I warm you up. I want you to watch her watching you, the masochist who loves being trained. Do not look away from her even once. If you do a good job, then from now on, I won't use only my hands to give you pleasure."

"Yes, Master." nodded Lunamaria, blushing and feeling humiliated like never before.

Until now, he had not had proper sex with her even once, only using his fingers to make a mess out of her. She had wondered a lot what it would be like, and how much pleasure she would feel, when he eventually used his huge cock.

And as the first blow came, she focused on meeting her sister's eyes, not even thinking about disobeying.

…

It's great that you joined our class on time to be part of this. This outing is a rare chance!" grinned Ririko Asagiri to Askua, half-standing on her knees against her seat to look beside her.

The class representative was a girl of medium size with blue eyes and shoulder-length, reddish-brown hair, and a pleasant, outgoing personality that made everyone fond of her.

The whole class was currently on a bus, on their way to visit a media company, Neuro Network Technology.

They were about to have a demonstration of their new VR technology, watching a semi-interactive historical documentary where they would be able to control the camera and look from any angle, and request more details about specific events or people.

"Yes, I think it will be a lot of fun, something we'll remember for a long time." smiled Asuka.

"Sakura, was ist Ihr deutsches Lieblingsessen? (what is your favorite German food?)" suddenly asked Ichinon to Sakura. She was sitting across the aisle on Sakura's right.

"Ich würde Currywurst sagen. (I would say Currywurst.)" smiled Sakura with a perfect German accent, curtesy of Noah's shared language comprehension ability, and wondering why the girl suddenly wanted to test their cover. "Ein einfacher Snack, aber das essen muss nicht kompliziert sein, um lecker zu sein. (A simple snack, but food doesn't have to be complicated to be tasty.)"

"Hey Nonnon, you aren't using a language I do not know to diss me secretly, are you?" asked Ririko with puffed cheeks.

"She was asking me about my favorite German food, and I told her it's a snack called Currywurst." said Sakura as she shook her head.

"Currywurst?"

"A thick sausage cooked over a grill or hot plate, served with fries and with a tomato-based sauce with various spices."

"Oh. It does sound like a great snack." smiled Ririko.

"I'll bring some at school soon so everyone can get a taste." declared Sakura. And the few classmates close enough to hear expressed their approval and gratitude.

Ichinon nodded with a small smile, before adding. "Thank you, Sakura. I look forward to it. And you really speak German fluently. I was hoping you might help me improve on my own German on occasion."

"We'd be happy to help." said Asuka, exchanging a quick glance with Sakura and Medusa. Their lie detection ability had triggered.

"Please tell me more later about the time you spent in Germany, too." asked Leonhart Yushima behind Sakura. He was one of those Weebs who obsessed over all things German, and she could feel he had a crush on her.

Not that he was the only one in the class. Half of the boys were clearly interested in her, Sakura, or Medusa. Not that she blamed them, with their own natural charm and enhanced charisma.

Asuka made a noncommittal nod, not really interested, but also not wanting to be needlessly rude.

Ichinon really doubted their cover story. Probably because all three coming to the same class was too outlandish no matter the excuse, and Medusa looked in her twenties. That girl was smart.

…

"Students, please take seats." said the employee from NNT as he invited them into a room reminding Sakura of a private theater.

Sakura, Medusa and Asuka sat side by side on the comfortable chairs as three assistants started distributing white VR helmets and helped the students adjust them over their heads into a comfortable fit, while their homeroom teacher was discussing with the NNT representative. Sakura could see the slightly envious glance she sometimes directed at them. It seemed she wanted to experience that VR documentary as well, but couldn't.

Sakura glanced at Asuka, and they exchanged a small nod of encouragement as the assistants walked to them. They didn't dare say anything, as it might arouse suspicion later.

The helmet was light and fairly comfortable to wear. And once activated, Sakura saw a white screen with the NNT logo, and several grayed-out options. A countdown displaying a waiting time of less than five minutes was ticking down under the logo, and Sakura shrugged as she waited quietly.

The countdown reached zero, and the screen went black. And Sakura felt like she was losing consciousness.

…

"Master, please wake up."

Hearing Medusa's voice, Sakura opened her eyes, looked around, and stood. She and Medusa were in a large valley without a trace of vegetation anywhere, only gray and brown stone and dust. If not for the jagged mountains surrounding the valley, the land would look like it came straight from Mars.

Even the clouds were dark as If a major storm was about to start, adding to the sinister atmosphere.

Far in the distance stood a massive fortress made of black stone. A single road of beaten stone linked the fortress to a canyon on the other end of the valley, near Sakura and Medusa, and seemed to be the only easy way out.

"This place looks very stereotypical." commented Sakura.

"Yes, Master. While you were still unconscious, I tried a few things. We have a status screen and an inventory."

"I see." nodded Sakura, mentally asking for a status screen to appear, and one did.

Name: Sakura Tohsaka

Occupation: Demon Lord Candidate

Level: 90

HP: 4 500 / 4 500

MP: 1 800/ 1 800

Strength: 10 (+77)

Dexterity: 10 (+131)

Intelligence: 10 (+112)

Stamina: 10 (+101)

Undistributed: 445

Skills: Appraisal, Shadow Control, Healing, Crowd Control Resistance, Poison Resistance, Aura of Seduction, Hell and Heaven.

"So we still benefit from Noah's attributes despite being in the game, it seems." frowned Sakura, wondering what this "Hell and Heaven" skill was.

"Yes, Master." smiled Medusa. "We also received something else."

Sakura was intending to ask her what she was talking about when pieces of jagged, black armor appeared on Medusa's body. In a mere second, her appearance changed to that of a black knight, most of her body covered by black steel, aside from a window in her boob plate revealing some cleavage. The helmet hid most of her face, and Sakura's long purple hair had become a raven black plume jutting from the back of the steel helmet.

In addition to the armor, Medusa now held a large black trident.

"With this, we should be able to fight without being recognized." said Medusa, her voice changed, deeper.

"Yes. If I hadn't seen you change before my eyes, I might not have recognized you, and we've been together for a long time!" nodded Sakura, impressed.

"There are some bad news, however. In this game, I cannot dematerialize or use Shunpo or Augment. You should also have a disguise in your inventory, Master."

Sakura nodded and mentally tried to open her inventory, and it happened. A dozen items were there, mostly water and food, but there were also four pieces of equipment.

"Plunderer, Sword of the Demon Lord: damage +150. On hit, inflicts a curse of weakness on the opponent, causing their attributes to be reduced by 10% for 5 minutes. Can stack three times."

"Succubus Queen's veil: Protects the wearer's identity by changing their voice, masking their face, and changing the color their eyes and color and length of their hair (by default, the hair will turn shoulder-length and white, and the eyes red. The wearer can change it in the item's options)"

"Succubus Queen's Battle Regalia: 40% physical damage reduction, 50% magic damage reduction. Further Reduces by a flat 50 all damage received. Increases by 25% the effect of all Charm or Seduction-related skills."

"Collar of Eternal Enslavement. Cannot be removed once put on. Replaces the wearer's normal attributes with Slave attributes. Strength becomes Pain to pleasure conversion, Dexterity becomes Sensitivity, Intelligence becomes Libido amplification. If the wearer swears Eternal Servitude to the wearer's Owner, the Slave attributes will revert to normal attributes, but their effects will be permanently applied through the Crest of Eternal Enslavement, allowing the Collar to be removed and reused."

"Wow. There are some very good things in there. One of them is vaguely similar to Senpai's Corruption. Thank you very much, Lilith-sama." grinned Sakura, one hand fondly patting her lower back where her own Crest was located.

She decided to try out the veil first and mentally clicked on Equip.

A black crown appeared around her forehead, with an attached veil covering her face.

"It doesn't obstruct my vision at all, and it nicely stays away from my face even when I inhale sharply." smiled Sakura as she looked around, and grabbed some of her white bangs, looking at them closely.

"Yes, Master. I wouldn't have been able to recognize you either." nodded Medusa.

Sakura next tried equipping the Succubus Queen's Battle Regalia, and her school uniform was replaced by an attire mostly made of black leather.

A sleeveless undersuit made of a dark gray spandex-like material reminding Sakura of what Aife and Scathach were wearing covered her from neck to toe.

Thigh-high black leather boots, lacing at the front, with moderate, thick heels that would be almost suited for combat, it not for the very idea of heels in battle being nonsensical in the first place.

A black leather corset squeezed her waist slightly while pushing her breasts up, making the undersuit's material strain to contain them. The corset had straps that linked to the boots, and others that joined around Sakura's neck, forming a collar.

Her crotch was covered by black leather panties.

She also wore tight leather gloves covering her arms up to mid-biceps, and pieces of black armor protected her shoulders and forearms.

Sakura laughed softly as she looked down at herself.

If not for the armor additions and the heels being a little more practical, this outfit would be an exact copy of the dominatrix outfit she had chosen for herself when Akeno allowed her to train Rin as their slave.

Wearing it again made her feel more confident and put her in the mood to find someone to dominate.

"Master… Just seeing you in this makes me horny." breathed Medusa.

"Hehe. Maybe we'll be able to indulge soon. But business comes first. We'll need different names to go along with our fake personas. I'll call myself Rin. Do you have a preference?"

"…Anna." said Medusa. "I vaguely remember being called that before."

"Very well, Anna the Black Knight, my devoted right hand." smiled Sakura. "I assume that you didn't start at level 1 either?"

"No, Master. Here is my status." replied Medusa as she opened her own window.

Name: Medusa

Occupation: Black Knight

Level: 80

HP: 4 000 / 4 000

MP: 1 600/ 1 600

Strength: 10 (+77)

Dexterity: 10 (+131)

Intelligence: 10 (+112)

Stamina: 10 (+101)

Undistributed: 395

Skills: Appraisal, Ethereal Chains, Healing, Crowd Control Resistance, Poison Resistance, Second Breath, Sure Footed.

"I assume that you invest most of your attribute points with Melee combat in mind?" asked Sakura, and the Heroic Spirit nodded.

With 445 unattributed points and a level already set at 90, Sakura deduced that players started at level 1 with 10 points for each attribute and gained 5 more per level.

"I will go with a balanced approach, Medusa. With Noah's attributes, I cannot go wrong anyway. None of these master-of-none issues. It would take someone really focusing on one aspect and gaining crippling drawbacks in the process to surpass us."

Sakura put 110 points on each of her attributes, and added the remaining 5 to her Stamina. As a result, even her weakest attribute, Strength, reached a total of 197, the result of someone single mindedly putting 39 levels worth of progression into Strength and completely neglecting vital attributes like Dexterity and Stamina. Her HP and MP reserves almost more than tripled.

"Now, since I am obviously supposed to become the Demon Lord, let us go claim my throne."

"As you command, my Master." smiled Medusa, bumping her right fist against her chest and they both leisurely walked toward the black fortress.

…

"Did you find anyone else?" worriedly asked Ririko when Asuka returned.

"No, sorry. I crossed paths with Izumi and Yuuki while we were searching, and they haven't found any of those who are missing either." sighed Asuka.

Only Asuka and eleven other classmates had woken up in the same place. Counting Sakura and Medusa, there were sixteen students missing. That was a lot for a class of twenty-seven members.

"I hope they're together, at least. It would be terrible if they were stranded alone." lamented Ririko.

"Yeah. I'll expand the search beyond Calvart's walls and return in an hour or two, I only came back to see if anyone had been found."

"Expand the search? How far do you intend to go? It's dangerous outside of the city. I almost got killed by goblins." frowned Megu Busujima, sitting nearby.

The girl with brown eyes and long wavy hair dyed blonde was just recovering from her initial panic, after they realized that they were stuck inside a game world.

The supposed documentary had turned into a video of a Goddess telling them that they were Heroes and needed to defeat the Demon King and reach the gate he was guarding.

And as soon as that video was over, they woke up on top of stone altars, with a crowd of priests, guards and villagers welcoming them as the Heroes of prophecy. Asuka would have expected a king to welcome them and try to order them around, but it seemed like the humans in this world weren't organized on a scale large enough to form a kingdom, and the classmates were left free to do as they wished.

Asuka had asked for a map, and Calvart's mayor had showed them one displaying a large landmass with a collection of cities and villages, as well as wild lands and two large islands held by non-humans, Elves and Dark Elves. There were two areas of particular interest in the main landmass. On the North-West was huge area isolated by an enormous wall, and the villagers didn't know what was inside. And on the East was a desolated Area called Hellandia, the land where the Demon King ruled.

Most of the students were fine with it at first, as the game-like setting looked more interesting than an historical documentary. But that only lasted until they found out they couldn't log out.

At least, they didn't fear death. One of the more reckless students, Tahuya Ougiya, had managed to get himself killed and reappeared shortly after on an altar in the city, losing the one level he had just gained.

"Asuka, tonight around 21h00, please meet with the rest of us at the adventurer's guild." said Ririko. "We need to decide our next moves."

"Yes, I'll be there. See you then, Ririko, Megu." nodded Asuka, taking from her inventory her Basic Spear, and walking away.

With a brisk pace, Asuka walked out of the city and entered the surrounding woods. It was too bad that she couldn't access her personal inventory, and the Sanctuary inside. Most of her abilities as a Representative of Athena and Lilith were also sealed.

Moreover, she had no easy way to contact Sakura and Medusa. They had planned to exchange information using Chaldea as a relay, but since they were now into a virtual world, they couldn't use their special phones either.

There was really only one thing she could do right now, and it was to gain levels and grow stronger. She spotted a group of three goblins behind a bush and ran toward them, her spear ready to strike.