Chapter 238

"Now that Kal'daeryn is finished, are you interested in the transformation as well?" I asked Nelly the cowkin.

Nelly looked up at me, she still hadn't let go of the tigerkin. "You say we are both joining your family? What does that mean? Past the... restoration aspects?"

"You would join my family and become a succubus. There are others like us, mostly in Goldenhearth right now. Past that, it's open-ended. Generally speaking, we help each other out and do our best to grow and protect our burgeoning race. There aren't any requirements past the ones I told to Kal'daeryn."

"And you said it could make me younger...?" she asked.

"Yes. I've seen it significantly reduce the age of two people now. I don't know if that translates directly to life expectancy, but it seems that way."

Kal'daeryn ran her fingers through the fur on the scarred side of Nelly's face before looking into her eyes. "Please... do it. Let's take this step together... please."

Nelly took a deep breath. "Okay, I'll do it. What was the oath I had to promise to?"

I cleared my throat. "It would be best if you removed your clothes for it. The transformation can have some unexpected changes to your size and shape, though it should be within your control to guide those changes as much as you like. I would still recommend undressing, just in case."

The older cowkin blushed and started removing her maid uniform. As she was working on the buttons the tall naked tigerkin looked at Quinn with simmering anger. "You, boy. Turn around. Don't watch."

"Yes ma'am," Quinn quickly said as he turned away and watched the door. Once he was looking away he cleared his throat. "So... are all of you these Succubus?"

"Succubi," Silva corrected. "No, but it's not your business which of us are which."

"Hmm... And this transformation can reset stats you said? Is the turning you into a woman thing a hard requirement? Because I wouldn't mind rearranging a few things."

"Yes," I said, answering for Silva. "It's been attempted on a man who wished to remain a man but chose to go through the transformation anyway. The transformation turned her into a woman despite her 'ideal form' being masculine."

The cougar tapped his foot in thought. "And how did he feel about the transformation afterward?"

"She... afterward she was comfortable being a woman, almost as if she had never wanted to remain a man at all. The transformation seemed to have made her comfortable with it," I replied.

"I'm ready," Nelly said.

I turned back to her. "Please get comfortable. The transformation is very intense, but in a good way."

She looked up at Kal'daeryn who hesitantly nodded her agreement. Nelly laid on her back with her legs partially spread and she covered her nethers and her nipples with her hands and arms. After a moment she shifted around until she felt relaxed. "The floor is a little cold."

"Are you ready?" I asked.

She nodded.

"Good. Now, picture your ideal self. It can look as similar or as different as you want it to be, I've even seen this transformation change someone's species. Make sure to picture healthy limbs and what your face should look like as if it had never been scarred. If you want to keep the scars, you can do that too. Just picture however you would like to look, and tell me when you're ready."

She was quiet for a moment before she nodded. "Okay."

"Good. Now repeat this oath. I swear not to knowingly work against Lilith. I wish to become a succubus and join her family."

She repeated the oath and the moment she finished, her voice shifted into an unexpected moan. Her greying fur started to brighten to a light golden-brown and her chest and stomach lightened to a bright shiny white. Her large sagging breasts pulled up and firmed as they immediately took on a more appealing shape, her dark areolas lightened into a light pink and her nipples perked up in arousal. The shy hands that had been covering her modesty abandoned that to grope at her swelling breasts. The moment her fingers squeezed around them, milk began to flow between her fingers and she came to a quick orgasm before her transformation had even concluded.

On top of her head, white rounded horns poked up out of the tufts of hair on her head and the scars on her face faded entirely. Her large eyes fluttered open and looked up at Kal'daeryn as her milky white eye began to regain its color. The iris in her new eye turned a bright blue that noticeably contrasted with the honey-yellow color of her other eye, giving her heterochromia. Subtle changes all across her face made her look more attractive as the weathered lines faded and instead looked cute and pretty. Years melted off her form as she rapidly de-aged before settling at a place that made her look middle-aged rather than young, like most other succubi I've transformed. She also grew in stature, growing almost two feet, one of the most significant differences in height I've seen, except for maybe Sibyl but in reverse. Even after her transformation, she gave off a motherly vibe that was only enhanced by her apparent age, wide hips, and ample milky breasts.

Nelly gasped and shivered as she finished her transformation and reached a final climax. She was left panting on the floor. Any desire to cover herself or protect her modesty was gone as she caught her breath in the faint afterglow of the change.

"I... can feel you all," she whispered.

I smiled as I looked over her new figure. "That's the bond. We'll teach you more about it and some of the other changes later. How are you feeling?" I asked.

"I feel amazing, I don't even know how to describe it. All my aches and pains are gone," she said with a chuckle.

"Let me help you up," Kal'daeryn said pulling the cowkin to her feet. The cow woman was now about the same height as Silva and Kal'daeryn, much taller than everyone else. She handed the woman her servant's uniform but it was obvious that it wasn't going to fit the same. She stepped into the skirt and pulled the bodice closed but on her new taller and curvier form, it had her bust barely contained. Her once modest skirt looked more like a mini-skirt now than anything practical. She looked really attractive in it though.

Nelly gingerly put her weight on her formerly bad leg and was excited to find how much easier it was to walk. She was quite giddy just walking around the room and getting used to her new balance after the changes.

Suddenly the entire room rocked like there was an earthquake. It was a different feeling from the explosions that we had been feeling earlier but immediately after, we felt another one of those too. Something was happening outside, I hope the others that we freed are still alright.

"We need to keep moving," Lorriene reminded us. "If these other cells are going to have the same issues as these two, we should try to hurry this as much as possible."

I looked over at Nelly. "Don't forget to reallocate your stat points. Are anyone in these cells in bad shape like the two of you were?"

Nelly and Kal'daeryn shared a look before Nelly's eyes met mine again. "No one else here should have trouble walking, but everyone here is... defective in some way. Unsellable, only useful to our Mas- to the slavers here as toys for the staff and the cruel clients..."

I grimaced at the notion but nodded in response. "Then we should free them and get ready to move. We'll have more time to offer the transformation to the others when it's safer."

We went through the rest of the cells and removed each of their collars. Of the twelve people here not including Kal'daeryn, I hadn't actually picked her up in my earlier scan, four of them were unresponsive beastkin. They stared off into space and didn't say anything but they also didn't fight us when we pulled them out of their cells. Three of them started crying the moment the door opened and it took Nelly time to console them and convince them that she was actually the Nelly that they knew before they would come out. Two of them, a pair of hyenakin sisters that had been sharing a cell, tried to fight us as soon as the door opened but they quickly got humbled by Silva and the new and improved Kal'daeryn. The final two seemed more calm but one had been badly burnt across most of her body and the other was missing an arm and had a head so severely scarred that he couldn't talk. I would talk to everyone about the succubus transformation later, but for now, everyone here could walk so it was time to leave.

As Bella and Quinn took charge of the four unresponsive people, Silva and Kal'daeryn were trying to convince the two hyenakin to stop struggling. "Stay still so we can pull off your collar!" Silva said through gritted teeth.

"Liar! Let go of me!" The hyenakin was struggling against her, I'm not sure that anyone but the two of them could have continued to hold the two struggling hyenakin down.

I crouched next to one of them and she started trying to bite at my hand when I reached for her neck. Silva shifted her position so she was sitting on top of her before holding the woman's jaws shut with her hands. I took the opportunity to quickly grab her collar and pull it off as soon as I had the opening.

The moment the collar came off Silva let her go and she froze. "No way, you actually took it off!"

"Are you done fighting yet?" Silva growled out.

The hyenakin woman huffed. "Fine. Sis, stop struggling." The other hyenakin that Kal'daeryn was holding down went limp and I was able to pull her collar off as well.

"Don't attack any of us and we'll let you up. Once we've gotten everyone taken care of we're going to start heading up from here. Is that good?" I asked.

The second hyenakin looked over at her sister who squinted at me. "Fine, we won't attack you. Let us up then," she said warily.

Silva and Kal'daeryn rolled off of them and they got to their feet. The second sister hasn't spoken yet, she was mostly watching the other one who had done all of the talking so far. They stood a bit apart from the rest of the group we were pulling together, but they didn't look like they intended to attack anyone else so I was happy with that for now. It wouldn't be an issue if they ran off once we left the building. They had surprisingly good karma for two people who had been so aggressive right off the bat. Being kept captive like this could do that to someone I suppose. Both of them had severe burns where their collars had been, it looks like they continued to fight even as they resisted their collars in the past.

I looked over at the ones that had been crying. Nelly had calmed them down a lot but they were standing near her meekly through that entire interaction. Nelly had apparently been the caretaker of everyone in these cells, it was her job to feed them and clean them up after they were finished with their forced clients and masters. Everyone here had been used and abused and Nelly was the one responsible for taking care of them when she wasn't attending to someone herself.

"Nelly, is that you?... why do you look so different?" The talkative hyena girl asked. I'm surprised she hadn't heard through the door, the cells seemed to be more soundproof than we had thought.

"Oh, it's a long story, Cassia. We can talk about it when we all get out of here, these people are going to help us all escape together," Nelly replied to her.

Cassie hummed and looked over all of us. "You trust them?"

"I do! Look what they did for Kal!" she said while waving at Kal'daeryn.

The hyenakin looked up at the huge white tiger woman. "The... torso-girl? She looks different than how you described her..."

The room shook again as another explosion could be heard up above us. I shook my head. "We need to go. Something is happening upstairs and we still need to find a way out of town." I turned to Mimi "Can you give them some better clothes to wear, I don't want anyone to immediately recognize them as slaves now that their collars are off."

"I can give them some of your clothes but there isn't much," she replied. She summoned some clothes and handed them out to the stunned slaves. They got dressed but a few of them had to rely on the tops that they already had since I didn't have enough spare sets of clothes for them. I'll have to buy some more relaxed clothes and work clothes when we get to Goldenhearth again. Kal'daeryn looked funny in one of my shirts, it looked a bit comically tight on her muscular body.

Our group of twenty-one filed through the doors and back into the hallway. After a short walk, we were back at the hole that Morrigan had made in the building. Since we would be headed up the incline of the tunnel she dug, my spell wouldn't be able to detect any hostiles outside. Instead, I cast my tremor sense ritual again and used that to get a sense of what was out there.

The large crowd that had left ahead of us was gone now, the immediate area outside of the hole was clear. "I don't think anything is immediately outside," I told everyone. "It's now or never, time to get out of here and find our way out of town."

"Are we taking these people to the embassy?" Torien asked.

I glanced back at them. "No, I think we should take these ones to Goldenhearth with us." I turned to them. "Would any of you prefer to go to the Elven embassy to be smuggled out to the Northern Greens? Or would you prefer to go to Goldenhearth with us where we can help all of you get back on your feet?"

"I'll follow you and Nelly," Kal'daeryn replied immediately.

The cowkin nodded. "You said there was more to learn about our changes, I'm more than happy to go with my saviors." I didn't really like the way she phrased that, but I don't think it's time to argue that point with her right now.

Once Nelly said she was going with us everyone else immediately wanted to follow with her. She was clearly the center of the group, the one that had held everyone here together. Once they had gotten over her sudden changes, all of them wanted to follow the cowkin, and by proxy, us. The only ones who gave no opinion were obviously the four unresponsive girls.

I nodded and turned back to the hole. "Alright, then we're going to need to find our way through town. Everyone be on your guard, something is going on up there."

Silva and Kal'daeryn stepped forward and the three of us led the group into the tunnel and out of the building.