Poonkey moved after Nameless stealthily, hiding in shadows.

Meow? Meow? Poonkey though, watching the man.

The cat saw as the human halted and muttered something under his breath. Poonkey realized that Nameless got a whisper from his peers. Meow? Meow?

The man looked around - he looked tensed - and pulled a weird-looking mask out from his pocket. Nameless looked at the mask and then he put it on.

In the next moment the man changed its form. He became a beautiful woman in men's clothes.

“Meow?” Poonkey knew that a shape-shifting magic was used just now, but still he was impressed. Meow!

Nameless turned around and ran down the street.

Meow?!

In the next moment Poonkey realized that his peers also had gifted him a present. It was a potion that was already poured in a cat's dish. There was only a little problem. The cat didn't know where that dish was.

“Meow?!” Poonkey looked up at the sky and shook his cute head in disapproval. “Meow!”

Then Poonkey hurried after Nameless. He was curious. A little later the cat saw a group of people who wore green cloaks. Poonkey felt strong holy magic from those cloaked figures. Meow?

Nameless ran around the group and continued to move down the street. Poonkey was going to do the same, but suddenly one of the cloaked figures exclaimed. “Look at that cat! He has a mark of a great sinner!”

All members of “Yuri-Alfa” looked at Poonkey. Poonkey was stunned and halted. He stared at the cloaked people with confusion.

“Meow?” the cat asked, but in the next moment he realized what those words meant.

A god could left a mark of a sinner or a great sinner on alive being to show their hate or dislike of the said being. It meant that all true followers of that god must punish such being.

“Meow?!” Poonkey understood clearly what would happen next. “Meow!”

“We must punish this filthy cat!” a man said resolutely and others nodded.

“Indeed! Our mission can wait! GREAT SINNER must be punished!”

Poonkey dashed down the street. The inquisitors chased the cat. Now Poonkey could hear footsteps and curses from behind.

~~~~~~

The next choices only for Poonkey

[Surrender to the inquisitors! A time of being punished for your crimes has come!]

[Try to hide somewhere!]

[Say “Meow!” angrily to them and continue to run down the street!]

Your choice

~~~~~~

Nameless sat at the table and drunk coffee.

Earlier he got a new whisper. [Flee the city! Inquisitors are close! Get out and use the mask to do it silently! I must warn you however that the gates will be locked not long after, so we need to do it fast.]

Additionally, the man was gifted a wonderful mask. It could change his form.

If those inquisitors look for a man, then I will be a woman, he thought and became a woman.

Nameless ran back to the close gate. He had an idea how to leave the city. I need to climb the wall up and then – with a help of a rope – descend!

The human realized that it was an idiotic idea when he had fallen down and injured his leg. Besides, in that moment a will of voices had disappeared. The man was free again.

Nameless panicked. He didn't know what to do with an injured leg, sitting at the street in the city where was coming off an unrest. Thankfully he was picked up by two girls. They were twin sisters who had formed their own adventure party “Pink rose” recently. It was exclusively for women, as Nameless learned later.

Now they all sat at the table and drank coffee in the inn “Dancing Donkey”, chatting.

Nameless introduced himself as Elsa, because he was in a female body now. The sisters were Juna and Huna, novice adventurers.

“Um... Elsa, do you want to join our party?” suddenly one of the sisters said and eyed Nameless.

The man was stunned.

The voices began to whisper.

[Join “Pink rose”! You definitely shall be a member of this party!]

[Reject their offer! Remind these fool women about triple K rule. Besides, demand that they make some pancakes for you!]

[Pretend that you don't know them! You still have a great mission! Flee the city!]

~~~~~~

Somewhere in the deep jungle.

Five crying demihumans were tied to the trees while a man in the wooden mask prayed to the great spirits. “Please, hear me, great ones! Your humble servant call you!”

This man was a leader of a cult that worshiped the great spirits.

All of a sudden the man smiled and announced. “Phantom_Lord_of_Void has heard us! He is agreed to accept our offering!”

All people around – in wooden masks – cheered and then chanted as one.

“Phantom_Lord_of_Void!”

“Phantom_Lord_of_Void!”

“Phantom_Lord_of_Void!”

“Now let's give him a good offering! Torture our victims!”

The cultists hurried to execute this command. They tortured the demihumans for several hours, exclaiming only one name – Phantom_Lord_of_Void!

The cultists called the great spirit to see how dedicated their were. They begged him to give them good reward.

Only when the demihumans were turned into bleeding meat, the cultists killed them, and the red energy – full of pain - moved up.

“Rejoice! Phantom_Lord_of_Void has accepted our offering!”

~~~~~~

Phantom_Lord_of_Void has 6 souls. 1 soul was added, because the victims were tortured and could produce enough energy to give birth to a new soul.

Phantom_Lord_of_Void, will you reward the cultists? If yes, then write what you will give them and how many souls you will spend on your reward.