Well, it looks like I'm here back to back. This is GMSnow reporting~ This chapter contains 18+ maturity material and... ooh... looks like the MC is in trouble.... The content with this rating is in yellow text and will be in spoilers, making the chapter look smaller than it actually is.

This chapter is rated at Adults Only 18+ or a very mature audience and has some, if not all of the following:

- Blood and Gore

- Fantasy Violence

- Sexual Violence

- Use of Alcohol

- Mature Humor

Please consider your maturity and age before reading. Not reading this warning and then complaining about how your innocence has been scarred forever is not going to be compensated nor will the staff care as you have already been warned. Other than that, happy readings~

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Polaris Dark - Chapter V

Spoiler: 18+

Being held down against a tree, I struggle with all my power but I find that I cannot break away from two soldiers at once. I don't think that I can get away from one grabbing on to me either. Try as I might, I can't get out of this situation without any help. Hopefully the two of them have taken the child with them. Even though they are both fairly weak combat-wise right now, a surprise attack can probably let me break free and attack the two soldiers.

"Heh," the soldier in trapping me against the tree laughs, "just what the doctor ordered; a delicious elf bitch ripe for devouring."

The second soldier grabs my breasts and gropes them roughly and scoffs before replying to him.

"This bitch killed the other four, we should take turns fucking her until she dies from the trauma."

Ugh. I think I'm going to break down after this ordeal. I shiver in disgust as the second soldier runs his hands all over my body, feeling up every inch of me with lustful delight. I have to say, Ascendancy is highly realistic down to the smallest detail. I bet some men and women would just make a character just to feel the sensations in here without any backlash or commitment.

The human trapping me reaches down with his free hand, tears away the dress covering my back and legs and rips off my underwear. This causes me to flinch from the sting of the elastic material snapping on my bare skin. I can hear him dropping the armor leggings and pants, making me close my legs together as tightly as possible but knowing that that is not going to work properly since they're already stronger than me.

"Hm... this bitch isn't speaking much... you gonna do her without preparing?"

The second soldier asks the man directly behind while continuing to molest my body.

"This bitch deserves it for killing four of us. I wonder how long will it take to break her body as well as kill her with my cock..."

When he finishes that sentence, I feel the second soldier grab my thighs and force them open. I struggle futilely, but as long as there is a slight chance, I may still be able to free myself. As I continue my struggling, I fell something rubbing my against my private part, eliciting a muffled cry from me. As he continues to rub, I am getting desperate, hoping that a miracle can occur before I actually get deflowered.

A few tear form in my eyes as I start losing hope as the soldier stops rubbing my crotch and something hard presses against the entrance to my body, making me squirm in horror. Even though I can resist crying out and breaking down when seeing someone else get violated - at least I can stop the perpetrator - having someone up against you intent on invading your body with great relish.

My mental state is strong enough to deal with war, blood, and other psychologically traumatizing events, but having to deal with so many in succession and ending with myself getting raped has eroded my psyche enough to break my normally stalwart mind.

To think that my innocence is going to be taken from in a game...

As the pressure increased, my tears start falling freely down my face. I can feel his hard-on slowly penetrate me...

*Thwack!*

*Shiiiiing!*

Suddenly, the pressure and the feeling from his penis entering me disappears, as if something pulled the soldier back.

"Mother f... argggh!"

"WH..."

*Several more stabbing and blunt objects striking the head sounds*

I vaguely hear two bodies falling to the ground with a thump and light clang.

I slowly fall to my knees while I continue crying, this time in relief, realizing that I just had a close shave from having my "virtual" purity taken. My mind is still a wreck but is slowly recovering as the deed was not fully started. I flinch as I feel a pair of arms wrap around me but slowly relax, noting the feminine look and the gentleness that accompanied the hold.

Rien, the soldier I saved, kneels beside me and bows his head in shame.

"I-I'm so sorry princess... I could not reach you in time. For you to suffer such humiliation, I am deeply ashamed of myself for letting this happen."

His words bring me back to reality and I shake my head slowly.

"No, you did well enough Rien... even if you were late and these brutes already finished with their deed. At least I am not captured by them. Once is better than a life time..."

Rien then goes on prattle about how even once sullies the pure, beautiful princess. Then he goes on about the pride and dignity of nobleman, noblewoman and royalty, causing me to giggle and lessen my sobbing. I sniff, gradually stop crying as I gather my already broken wits and calm down. The child the three of us saved pops her head out from behind a tree and notices that everything is done.

The child is very bright; she notices that I am a bit distressed and she comes running over and hugging me like Ashia is doing from behind me, making my heart feel warm and fuzzy. If one can see us from in a video or movie, they would see the heart-warming scene of hurt, then comfort.

After I am calm enough to get up, I do so, albeit unsteadily do to the frightening experience. Rien comes to help support me while the child and Ashia step back to give me some space. A while later, I am now able to move without being weighed down by the experience for now thanks to my mental ability slowly filtering out the feeling of it. I will never forget this and will probably suffer from some nightmares later on, but at least I'm back to a functional state.

I look at the cyan arrow on the ground and start moving towards the destination with Rien and Ashia following me. Before we left the orchards, I found that the elven child's name is Mischa and that she is the daughter of a noble family visiting the palace. Her parents left her here with other noble children visiting for a few days and is not around when the invasion started. At least we know that her parents should be safe for now as Mischa tells us that they've gone to visit a neighboring elf country in the plains.

I check the quest objectives and see that I have saved the one child in the bonus objectives. As we approach the inner gate by moving beside the inner wall, Rien and I take down a few more roaming enemy soldiers that seem to be too dumb to live. Ashia is holding on to Mischa's hand and is following the two of us to avoid getting in the way of our attacks. Ashia had wanted to help us fight but Rien and I talked her out of it and gave her the reason of protecting Mischa if an enemy gets past us. So far, that fear has not occurred yet.

We reach the open gate and the four of us hide behind a bush ornament. I slowly creep up to take a look at the situation outside of the gate and find twelve enemy soldiers and a what appears to be a squad leader of the twelve soldiers. They have tied up two elven soldiers and are standing on guard, probably waiting for orders.

How the heck can I save those two? It's impossible to take on twelve enemies at once especially when there is an "elite" within the group. Against normal creatures or monsters maybe, but these enemies will try to grab me instead of attack. Even if I launch a sneak attack, I will just be handing myself to them on a silver platter when they rush at me.

Even if I don't save the two soldiers, this group of soldiers are in my way and I don't want to ignore their presence only to get caught while trying to stealthily move around them. As if reading my mind, a window pops up the moment I finish surveying the area.

In such a situation, you must find a way to eliminate all enemies by stopping their approach. Make use of this spell bestowed to you to become the deciding factor in this skirmish. You have acquired the spell

Oh? What's this?

I call up the spell window to check this spell's capability.

Spoiler: Information

Pressure: Gale Type: Support Proficiency: 0.00% Class: Control Circle: Adept Mana Cost: 200MP Rank: Initial [Wind] - - - Generates a cyclone of wind that constantly circulates in a select area, holding the target(s) in place and dragging all targets to the center of the storm. The storm circulates in a cylindrical field with greenish-translucent wind energy spirals in the area of effect. This creates the pulling effect as well as deal small amounts of constant damage.

Instant Cast

Activation Range: 2m

Effective Radius: 6m

Spell Duration: 12 sec

Cooldown: 72 sec Spell Damage Max Hit Type Magic Gust 15% 24 M-Blast

With this spell, I think that I'll be able to contain the enemies, but first, I need draw them away from the two captured elven soldiers to avoid friendly fire. I creep back to the bushes and explain to Rien and Ashia about what I'm going to do and ask them to stay out of the sight to protect Mischa. Rien tries to object but this time I assure him I will not get into trouble and he relents.

I look around for anything to help me with taking the twelve enemies down as well as check my mana reserves. At this time, my mana has recovered to around 90% so I should have enough to deal with them.

Finding a suitable location to attack the group from, I carefully hide myself until I reach the destination and then hide behind a bunch of trees planted in the area. I aim my bow at the closest soldier at about fifty or so feet away and then activate . The soldiers are facing the other way, including the leader, so they don't notice my pale bluish magic arrows flying straight for the last soldier.

They notice something wrong when the last soldier crumples into the ground lifeless. By then it's a too late as a arrow, looking similar to the normal magic arrows, strike the soldier next to the dead one and at this point they finally spot me.

I gambled that the squad leader and the soldiers are not smart enough to try taking the two soldiers hostage and this time, I'm just lucky. I couldn't think of another way to deal with them so I tried to attract their attention. Looks like all of them are rushing over to try and catch me.

I let them get closer while I fire magic arrows at them. Once the closest soldier is about five meters away from me, I cast the spell I just acquired a while ago, my body flipping backwards while shooting a greenish magic arrow forward, causing a whirlwind to whips up in front of me, right in the vicinity of the soldiers. The whirlwind spirals and forms a cylinder-like field of magical energy, dragging the soldiers into the center of the cyclone.

Right after I conjure the field-control type spell, I start firing normal magic arrows and arrows at the soldiers trapped in the cyclone, taking down eight of them before the spell dissipates and shoot down two more before the last three soldiers, including the elite, reaches me. These three were too angry to think clearly since I brought down most of them. They do not even try to grab me and instead start attacking with their swords.

"Don't think that you're a girl so we won't hesitate to bisect you!"

"You archers are always sneaking around like thieves, now I'll see you bite on cold steel!"

Excellent; since they treat both women and men the same in battle but they still have the archer-archetype ingrained in their mind, they won't know what hit them. I'm going to have to be careful of the squad leader though as when I hit him with an arrow, it revealed his level to be more than three times higher than the average soldier under his command.

At level 29, has 1212 health remaining out of the maximum 1300 after one of my magic arrows struck him in the shoulder. I'll deal with the two remaining regular soldiers before taking him on. With their levels at 8 and 9, I should not have much trouble taking them down even with the squad leader attacking me.

With a small lunge, I avoid an overhead slash from the closest soldier and kick out with my feet, striking the soldier in the midriff and causing 42 damage and knocking him back. I immediately activate to flip backwards and kick the soldier in the chin while the magic wind crescent forms and causes even more damage. It's a shame that the bleeding effect did not activate.

With that soldier staggering from the attack and the second man making a wide, horizontal slash at my body, I deftly do a back-step, just avoiding the sword before launching a kick at his head. My kick strikes the soldier's helmet and dazes him a bit from the reverberation but only takes 21 damage because of his defenses.

Trying to take advantage of my kick, the squad leader was able to land a slash on at my side, cutting my dress a bit as well as cutting into my left waist a little. This leaves a small bleeding slash that stings a bit but otherwise does not hinder my combat potential.

-72 Health

Ouch, I should be careful even though it only did a small amount of damage. The one thing I ponder about is that these soldiers have a huge amount of health for their levels although they're not that strong.

Avoiding another slash from the second soldier that has recovered from my , I lure the three of them close to each other before disappearing from their sight using . The confused trio looks around but are struck by my falling stomp, blasting them off their feet with the wind burst from the stomp. I take this time to launch six magic arrows at the two normal soldier's heads, putting them down within the three seconds of technique .

The squad leader hastily gets up and lunges, trying to finish me off in a single hit by stabbing me but trips over his own feet in his haste, as well as my careful planning to get him in an awkward position with two bodies at his feet. Tripping was actually unintended as I only wanted to hinder his movement with the corpses of the two soldiers to stop him from dodging my next attack.

While stumbling forward, my next kick hits him in the face and I unleash on him, kicking eight consecutive times, dealing a total of 702 damage to him. Looks like his defense is stronger than the other soldiers as it does less damage to him than the normal soldiers. Not like it matters though as once my final kick lands, I send a normal sidekick to knock him away from me.

I prepare my bow to shoot him down but I miscalculated: the squad leader suddenly pauses mid-recovery, and a red-orange glow washes over the blade of his sword as he swings his sword around in an arc, ending up above his head. My eyes widen in surprise and my mind freezes as I find myself in the middle of notching a magic arrow.

Oh no...

"Taste my !"

His overhead slash comes down hard on my right shoulder, slashing right through my body and knocking me away.

-310 Health

The bursting pain from being bisected at the shoulder causes me to let out a shrill cry of agony and surprise. The attack knocks me away for five meters before my body crashes heavily to the ground.

-12 Health

I-It... hurts....

Even with the reduction of pain in this game, being sliced into two parts hurts a lot. You can imagine what would it feel like if the pain is set to 100% of reality.... Of course, unlike reality, unless the attack is meant to take off the target's body part, the target will not lose their arm, leg or another part even if a sword cleaves at an area that would normally cut off something.

Some tears form in my eyes from the pain but I resist crying; I have to finish this battle before he gets any other ideas! Although there is still Rien and Ashia for back-up, I don't really want have an injured person and a non-combatant help just as a precaution so that they won't get hurt.

I pretend that I cannot get up and lie on the ground, groaning from the strike. The squad leader is not careless and proceeds to cautiously approach my fallen body. His vigilance is for naught: when he is close enough to touch me, I slide myself between his legs and hook my right leg around his left one and flip over, causing the surprised soldier to tumble over and fall on his face. He is clearly not expecting a maneuver like this and his body falls forward on to my body.

At least, he would have fallen on to me if I did not move. I hooked my right arm around his plated waist and rolled a little, using his falling inertia as well as my roll to end up on top of him when he crashes to the ground. A moment later, I find myself straddling the man's waist and also see Rien looking at me anxiously. It seems that he heard my cry and tried to come assist me when I flipped the man over.

After looking anxious, Rien's wanders over my body and the person underneath me and he instantly turns his face away. Huh? What... I look down at where I am sitting.

In this rather compromising position, the squad leader was actually embarrassed enough to blush and look away from me. My face reddens as I realize why the man underneath me blush and I scramble off him.

"Kyaaa!"

I cover my mouth with both of my hands. Well, "highly-realistic" it may be, a game is still a game. I'm guessing the developers rather like to poke fun at the anime-esque accidental ecchi scenes that happen way too often.

Rien just looks awkward and mutters something about the princess being too daring or something to that line of thinking.

T-This.... My face overheats and my mind shuts down from the unexpected emotional overload.

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Opening my eyes, I find my head lying on something soft and warm.

"Oh, she's waking up..."

That's the first thing I hear; a soft, feminine voice directly above me. Said voice then giggles and I wonder what is that about.

At this time, the squad leader is being detained by Rien and two other elven soldiers at the moment while Ashia is... Oh, she placed my head on her lap after I fainted. It seems that Rien and Ashia untied the two elves and had them help with guarding us in this area when I was unconscious.

At this point, I remembered what happened a while back and blush. Just thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed...

After recovering from fainting and assessing the situation we are in, I discover that the human squad leader knows when he's defeated and agrees to become our captive.

We question him on what he knows and he readily answers. Other than the information I already know from the quest window information and his name - his name is Herman Reviero, I also find out that about a fifth of the army did not want to go along with this invasion just to satisfy the greedy king's lust for the elf princess...

...Huh?

With the blank look on my face, Rien's jaw drops in disbelief.

"P-Princess... don't tell you forgot that you were the target...?"

Squad leader Herman Reviero's jaw drops at this bit of knowledge. His face goes red again when he put this piece of information to me straddling him a while ago.

"N-No... I...?"

I try to retort but fail to as my face also burns up from embarrassment. Even though we are all still in a precarious situation, the mood in our group lightens while the child Mischa doesn't even know what's going on but goes along with it. Of course, we quiet down shortly as we still need to escape.

After consulting with Rien and Ashia and the two new elven soldiers - one male and one female soldier named Lanus and Elena respectively - I allow our new prisoner Herman to come with us for now. We will sort out what to do with him later since he was just following orders from the upper chain of command.

Now that we've sorted out this problem, I apologize for killing the rest of his squad but Herman waves it off, saying that if he did not stop his soldiers, they would've raped Elena already.

We soon consider our options and decide to follow my instructions as I tell them that I know the best place to escape so that we will be undetected by the rest of the army but we may run into more enemy soldiers. Now that we have our goal, the group now follows my lead as I continue my journey, following the cyan arrow guide.

On the way to this "best" destination, the Rien forbids me from acting alone again lest I get into another troubling situation while I argue against that. In the end, we compromise that when we encounter enemies, I will attack at a range while Elena and Lanus attacks at the front directly.

Rien will protect Mischa and Ashia, placing himself in the rear. Mischa and Ashia will be walking ahead of Rien, following the two other soldiers and myself. I will be leading until we encounter enemies, then I will move behind Lanus and Elena, who follow me in the second position from the front. Our "prisoner" Herman here is actually grateful that we did not kill him and instead helped us by guarding the rear with Rien.

To be honest, this battle-escort formation is pretty good for starters so my ranged arrows can do more damage while I am unhindered. We encounter a few more patrolling soldiers and deal with them easily as well in this formation. We soon reach a long hallway with several doors on each side leading to single rooms. The hallway is only has the occasional splashes of blood and exactly three corpses on the floor. All three of them are elven soldiers, making me wonder if there is something that needs to be guarded in this area.

Before I can ponder more about this scenario, I hear a soft sniffling sound coming from one of the rooms to the left. I signal to the group to tell them to keep vigilant and assist me if there is any danger. Continuing to listen to the sniffles, I take a look in each room briefly before finally reaching the origin of the sound. In the second last room, I can hear a soft, feminine sobbing inside a closet with another female elf corpse leaning against the wall to the side of the bed, the corpse's blood splattered all over the closet.

I lower my head a bit, seeing the lower half of her body naked and clearly abused with all that white, not yet dry male sexual fluids on her as well as in her. Shaking my head I listen carefully and notice that the sounds are coming from... oh?

Why is the sobs emanating from the wall... I touch the wall by accident and it shimmers before returning to its original state: a closet. I see... its a visual illusion spell...

The quest bonus objectives did not register the dead women so it seems that she does not count in the 3 women that needs to be saved.

It looks like someone is in the closet and was forgotten by the soldiers. Most likely, she tried not to let any sound out when enemies are in the room as well

Thinking for a moment, I tell Rien and Elena to guard the room from in the doorway while Lanus stays outside to keep watch. Lanus will be able to watch for anyone approaching while Elena will be able to sneak attack anyone that tries to fight Lanus. Rien's injury doesn't let him fight as much so he'll continue to protect Ashia and Mischa with Herman. Rein, Herman, Ashia and Mischa are in the room with me. Herman really helped us with defending our blind spots and earned our trust and so have finally relaxed our guard around him.

Even though he is more comfortable around us as well, every time he looks at me, I notice his face blushing a little. This makes me remember what happened and makes my face burn up slightly every time. He's probably remembering the same thing as me....

I carefully move the women's corpse aside before slowly opening the closet door. Inside, I find a small, girl, probably around my age if she is a human (she's an elf of course), crying softly. Both Mischa and this girl have shoulder-length blonde hair but Mischa is shorter and definitely younger.

The young girl notices me and freezes up before realizing that I have the typical long ears of the elves and that I am female. She jumps out at me with her arms out wide, crying harder and I catch her, causing me to fall backwards on to my bottom in a sitting position.

My eyes soften as I pat the girl in the back.

"It's okay now... it's okay..."

The girl continues to sob into my chest, crying her heart out, albeit quietly. After comforting her, we learn of what had happened here. The girl's name is Alia while the dead woman's name is Rineah.

Rineah is Alia's older sister that protected her from the human soldiers by telling her to be quiet no matter what happens and not to come out of the closet while she cast an illusion spell to disguise the closet as a plain wall. She also used a sound-concealing spell to separate the closet and the room so that neither side can hear each other.

It worked a little too well as the soldiers did not notice anything unusual at all and left after doing their deed in this room. The sound-concealment probably wore off after the soldiers left, allowing others to hear her crying. Luckily, it seems the only people to pass through this hallway was the soldiers, and now us.

The girl soon stops crying and we explain to her what is going on. When she notices Herman, however, she falls back with a cry. Oops, I forgot to mention our "prisoner" that is wandering with us freely. Alia starts shivering and tearing up. I walk up to Herman and whisper something in his ear and then nods.

As I walk back to Alia, Herman comes with me, wrapping his arms around my body from behind, holding me in an embrace. Alia looks at me, her jaw drops a bit and is stunned. Rien scratches his head while muttering something while Ashia giggles from the display. Herman and I suddenly remember what had occurred a while back and our faces heat up in embarrassment. He quickly moves and turns away from me while I do nearly the same in the opposite direction.

"Uuu..."

I cover my face with my hands and squat down, making myself tinier, trying to disappear from embarrassment. Alia starts giggling at the scene... at least I cheered her up... at Herman and my expense.

We soon move out of the room and hallway, into the next section of the castle where there is no sign of battle or killing. As we continue on with Alia following us, we reach a closed doorway. I signal everyone to stop and hide at the sides of the door while I place my ear against the door and listen.

Spoiler: 18+

To my horror and disgust, I can hear at least four men talking and laughing while there are groaning, heavy breathing and explicit words being spewed out. Within the masculine voices I can hear a rather muffled, wet sounding coughs as well as the sound of somethin slapping skin to skin.

Even though I have only heard about this a few times, I recognize this as "rape" and is probably forced on the unlucky person. I open the door slowly, making it open just a tiny crack. It seems the men doing whatever they are doing is not in my line of sight... I open the door wider until it is fully open. I peek around the door and find no one around, only a large room with multiple doorways...

...ah, the sounds are coming from the left most doorway to another room. Looks like we will have to deal with this once more.

I signal the group to follow me and get ready for an ambush against the offenders. Rien and Herman stays back to protect Ashia, Mischa and Alia while Lanus, Elena and I go and hide near the entrance of our intended target. I peek around the edge of the entrance and observe the situation.

It's quite similar to how I found Ashia except more extreme; I can see a petite elven woman being raped in a three-way with a man lying beneath her, one behind while another is at her face. All three of them are busy grunting and thrusting their penis inside of her. Her body is covered in the men's semen; a lot of the white fluid dripping down on to the ground it sickening globs.

From my angle, I can clearly see the man at her face raping her mouth with relish, thrusting his penis in and out of her fast and hard, causing her saliva and sexual fluid to drip out and splash around. I shudder as I realize that this could have happened to me if Ashia and Rien were not quick enough to save me.

Averting my eyes to the side, I see two three more soldiers talking and laughing while the ones busy raping the poor, crying woman jeer and says obscene to her.

"Heh, even after several rounds of heavy pounding, you are still so tight!"

"God you're a fucking slut! Come on! Take my monster cock!"

I wince as they shout whiel the three soldiers waiting have their own penis out, rubbing them as they prepare for another round. How many rounds passed for this poor woman, we will never have an idea...

Closing my eyes and taking a deep breath I look at Elena hiding opposite to me and then signal Lanus behind me to get ready to ambush the men when they come out after I shoot at least two of them death. I nod at the two of them, beginning my countdown to save the woman.

3...

2...

1...

Let's go.

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Lanus, Elena and I are resting in the large courtyard, outside of the room we found the woman being raped in.

We were able to save her without too much trouble. The only problem was that one of the men unexpectedly threw his sword at me during the clash and it pierced through the left side of my waist, incapacitating me for the rest of the battle and making me lose quite a bit of health.

Luckily, we already killed four of them and the last two were cut down by Lanus and Elena before my health drained away. When the battle is finished, I tell Lanus and Elena to go check on the rescued woman first, I can deal with this injury myself for now. The two of them reluctantly goes back into the room to help the woman while I try to find a way to take the sword out of my body without killing myself.

This is the problem we have now; everyone is gathered around me while I lean against a wall. The woman we saved is also here, looking at me with a very concerned expression. Well, having a sword through your gut can make people worried so that's normal. I check my remaining health, mana and stamina as well as any afflictions to them.

Health: 241 / 875 Bleed I: Mana: 350 / 1300 No Change Stamina: 42 / 100 Bleed Exhaustion: -1 Stamina/15sec

The reason why I am only affected by is because the sword is still buried up to the hilt in my body. It's slowing down the bleeding and reducing the severity. Elena says that she has two healing spells she can use but if we were to remove the sword carelessly, the trauma will kill me. Lanus and Ashia prepares to slowly remove the sword from me while Elena starts preparing the first healing spell.

When everything is ready, I nod to Elena and she releases the spell and her hands glow in a soft greenish light. Even with the sword still piercing my body, I feel as though the stinging pain is slowly subsiding while my senses are becoming soothed with a warmness similar to being smothered by a giant hot-water bottle during a cold night.

+300 Health

Elena that starts channelling a sustained healing spell continuously heals me at a slow rate while Lanus carefully pulls the sword from my body. The cutting, stinging pain builds up as the sword is pried from my body slowly, making me cry out from the pain.

-15 Health

-16 Health

Ow! I-It hurts.... The pain fades a little from Elena's continuous healing spell but it does not do too much. I check on the healing effect Elena's channeled spell to see how effective the healing is.

You are under the effect: . While this effect is in place, you Health will be restored by 10 points every second.

Not bad, this will counteract most of the damage from pulling the sword out. Unlike other VR games, Ascendancy has a unique way of dealing with injuries. If one is to pull out a sword impaling a human or humanoid outside of combat(Beast-Kin, Elves, Dwarves, etc...), it will deal damage according to a rather complex set of calculations. During combat, a stab attack only counts the first hit, even when pulling the blade out after the attack.

Of course, in the end, this is still a game to the players (reminder that players are called pioneers by the NPC populace) so during combat, unless specified by a technique effect, the removal of a sword or another weapon will not do as much as what I am experiencing right now. Lanus slides the sword out more as I grit my teeth and shut my eyes tightly to endure the pain.

-17 Health

-13 Health

Even with that pain reduction, this is extremely uncomfortable and painful to someone that has not experienced a stabbing incident in real life.

-11 Health

Okay, okay! I mentally turn off the windows as Lanus and Elena work on me. After an excruciating amout of time (my sense of time askewed from the pain), they finally finish removing the sword from my body and fully heal my both my health and cure the status ailment. They were careful enough to not aggravate the wound and increase the severity of so it never increased.

Now that this problem is solved, we discuss or next move while I rest. Ashia and Rien are comforting the woman was traumatized from the multiple rapes.

"I think we are close to the secret passage now that we are here, I there should not be any more enemy soldiers unless we are unlucky."

Elena nods at my statement and replies.

"You are right princess, there is a hidden passage closeby. Being the captain of the reconaissance squad gives me the privledge of knowing where hidden passages are. The one you are heading to should be codenamed "Violet Ring" and is just past the doorway in front of us, to the right side of the hallway there."

Impressed, I nod and wait for my stamina to recover up to 75% before getting up. Seriously, if healing spells are available in real life, accidental injuries and other hazards could be dealt with much easier and quicker... too bad it just won't happen.

We spend some time with the woman we rescued and learn that she was trying to escape from the palace when she ran into the six human soldiers. The soldiers dragged her to this room here and... well, this is where we found and rescued her from a rather dreadful fate.

The woman, Marielle, is thankful that we saved her, even though we were too late to stop the deed from happening. She says that at least, she'll have her life back after escaping from this hell hole. We finally get back up as a group after I recovered at least 75% of my stamina and the group follows me as I follow the cyan arrow out of this large, but barren room.

Reaching the place where the cyan arrow is pointing to, I take a look at the wall the arrow points to and feel the stone bricks there for something different on the wall. As I run my hand against the wall, my slender fingers come across something that feels like a nob. I push against the nob and the wall slowly moves inward, then it slides to the right. It reveals a fairly large, hidden corridor that seems to run forever in front of us.

We start running slowly, with Lanus and Elena at the front as a precautionary measure. Herman is behind the two of them for backup while Marielle, Ashia, Mischa and Alia follow the human soldier that defected. Rien follows me while I end up behind the four females.

As we run, my vision starts dimming. I am a little worried but I do not feel like I am losing consciousness so I continue running and the world fades to a black.

*Ding!*

You have completed Quest: Fate of the Ameryst Princess Part B

Quest Objectives

- Complete the objectives of this trial presented to you:

> Take down at least two enemy soldiers with close-combat techniques (2/2)

> Take down at least two enemy soldiers with ranged attacks (2/2)

Bonus Objectives

- Avoid enemy calling for reinforcements

- Rescue three injured soliders (3/3)

- Rescue three women (3/3)

- Rescue one child (1/1)

- Extra: Recruit a defected enemy soldier Examination - The Final Trial Difficulty: N/A Tier: N/A Hidden Profession Trials: Part C

Well done. You have escaped the castle with while fulfilling the bonus objectives. Now that you have escaped the palace, it is time for the final trial to take place. This last examination consists of ten questions that reflect upon both your intelligence and wisdom. Be aware not every question has a right or wrong answer.

You will have one minute to think of an answer. Once the minute is up, you will have to answer if you did not already before the minute ended. If you cannot answer, the question will be skipped and you will not get another chance to answer that question. Final Trial will start in one minute. Please prepare yourself for the final examination and good luck.

It looks like I passed the second trial. Let's get on to the final trial before I break down from experiencing all of this...

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