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Ch: 118.1
🕑 Added 2023-04-19 07:07:11 +0000 UTCI need to hurry!
The rotating whisps of the goddesses’ power were spinning as fast as I could control them and were cutting through the soul horror experience like butter, yet everything wasn’t smooth sailing. The whisps were slowly shrinking, but that wasn’t the most significant problem; I was.
It felt like I was being crushed under a mountain of pressure, and it was only getting worse the deeper I went. Of course, my current form was just my consciousness manifest, so I didn’t need to breathe. This was a good thing because if this were my real body facing this level of pressure, it would’ve been reduced to paste a long time ago.
Only my willpower kept me going, and I was worried that might soon give out, too, because it wasn't just the pressure I felt. While standing on the top of the soul horror experience, there was a disconnect between my consciousness and my soul. But now that I was closing the distance between the two, that connection was once again strengthening, and I could feel the strain my soul was under and couldn't imagine how it hadn't crumbled by now.
My soul was desperately trying to lighten its load by absorbing as much experience as possible, but there was simply too much for it to handle.
Even if I reach my soul and escape before my body attacks Tabitha, I’m not sure what will be waiting for me on the other side. The pain I was experiencing was already pushing the limits of what was endurable, and according to the goddesses, it would be worse when I returned to the real world, and my consciousness and soul were once again united.
There was a real possibility I might die immediately after I regained consciousness, but that was a better alternative than becoming a monster if you ask me. And besides, if I die, Tabitha won't need to worry about me when she escapes. So there was that, at least.
I know I’m being negative, but I was trying to look on the bright side of things. I really was.
There was no way I could predict the pain level I would experience once I freed myself. Of course, I wasn't going to give up without a fight, but I wasn’t going to form any unreal expectations either.
I feel the soul horror experience shifting around me and push harder. I lost my view of the outside world, but the tremors were a sign my body was still absorbing experience with Soul Devourer, and I refused to believe the added experience I was feeling was from Tabitha. The added experience made my digging harder but also meant I still had time. When the experience stops flowing in, that's what I fear the most.
I was almost there; I could feel myself getting closer to my soul!
I just need to push harder. If I can do that, I’ll ma…...
Just then, I feel the soul horror experience settle around me and stop moving entirely.
“No!” Ignoring all the pressure and pain, I put everything into controlling the goddesses’ fragments. If the experience around me settled, it meant no more was being absorbed, and if no more was being absorbed….
I was out of time.
With reckless abandon, I hurl myself downward. I was pushing so hard; my consciousness was right up against the gods' power and was being torn apart like everything else. The pain didn't matter; only reaching my soul did.
I desperately wanted to uncover my soul, and every second I didn’t, I felt an invisible scythe inch closer to my neck.
Then it happened; the dull grey experience of the soul horrors is ripped away to reveal the fake grass I knew and loved. I wasted so much time meticulously forming every single blade I'd recognize it anywhere. The goddesses’ fragments were damn near reduced to nothing, but I didn’t care. Reaching out, my consciousness once again touches my soul, and through the unbelievable pain, I felt joy.
It only took a split second, and I was finally back in the real world. And as fate had it, I was standing in front of Tabitha…...
With over a dozen spectral arms stabbed into her chest.
I could feel her soul in the palm of my skill's grasp. With one tiny movement, Tabitha's strong soul would be shredded to pieces, and I'd gain the power I always wanted. It would be so easy, a voice whispered in the back of my mind.
“You’re back," Tabitha's casual remark sends my mind reeling. "So, these arms are what you used to kill the soul horrors, interesting.”
She could see them!? Was it because I was holding touching her soul, or did she unlock a new skill?
“That’s what you have to say,” tears streak down my cheeks. She could see the arms, and feel me grabbing her soul, so why wasn't she looking at me like a monster? “I could kill you,” I hiccup through the tears.
“And?” Tabitha’s unshakable eyes bypassed what little defenses I had left. “I was prepared to die for you; that hasn't changed. Whatever happens, as long as you survive, I’ll die with a smile on my face.” Her mouth slowly morphs into her trademark battle grin. “That said, I preferred it if I didn’t die today. Can you retract your skill?”
“I don’t know,” I mumble. With the voice in my head ordering me to silence Tabitha, I didn’t trust my skill to listen to me. Then there was the pain in my chest; it was overwhelming. I could feel my soul trying to drag my consciousness back inside to help starve off the pain, but what would happen if I did that? Would my skill deactivate or resume what it was doing before I stopped it?
My breath turns ragged, and sweat starts to form on my back. I was doing my best not to move or accidentally trigger my skill, but the pain around my soul was increasing. Fast. All the experience I absorbed was crushing me from the inside out.
“Aaliyah, are you okay?” Tabitha notices my pain and is rightfully concerned.
“I don’t know what to do,” I admit in a panic. It was getting hard to think, which meant I would lose control.
"Calm yourself," Tabitha's authoritative voice draws my attention and keeps me from collapsing.
Through the tears streaming down my face, I pleadingly lock eyes with Tabitha.
“Your skill doesn’t control you; you do.” Even in her weakened state, even with her life literally in the palm of my hands, Tabitha projects an air of power and certainty.
“You don’t understand,” I bawl. “It hurts so much,” I shakily bring my real hands up to my chest.
“What’s causing you pain?” Tabitha doesn’t raise her voice, choosing to stay calm and composed.
"It's the soul horrors I absorbed," I whine, not even trying to hide the effects of my skill at this point.
For the briefest of moments, Tabitha’s eyes widen in surprise, but she quickly gets ahold of her emotions and continues to talk to me in a supportive tone. "I see; quite a skill you have there. Can you release any of it, lessen the pressure?”
All I can do is shake my head no in response. The darkness was closing in, and I could feel myself losing consciousness. Releasing some of the experience might help, but it could just as easily condense back into another soul horror.
“Alright then, share it with me,” Tabitha boldly suggests. “Can you do that?”
What! Did Tabitha suggest I pour the excess experience into her? But she doesn't have any soul skills or even Mental Resistance. Would she be able to survive such a thing? It was too big a risk. I again shook my head; no, but Tabitha noticed my hesitation.
"How many times will you save me today before you let me help you!?" Her calm demeanor finally snaps, and she yells at me. "I can't move; at least let me help you shoulder the burden you're carrying. If I die, then so be it."
The voice whispering to me tells me to do the opposite and absorb Tabitha’s soul, but I ignore it.
“Do you not trust me?” The look Tabitha gives me says it all. I saw her desire to protect me, the will to do whatever it took, and the resolve to accept the consequences; not trusting her would be equivalent to spitting on the relationship we’ve worked so hard to cultivate.
I trusted Tabitha, and she trusted me. So, I go for it.
Using Soul Manipulation, I channel the pressure threatening to break me back through Soul Devourer. I was already connected directly to Tabitha’s soul, so I might as well use the connection.
A sense of relief washes over me as I steadily channel the experience into Tabitha, but where I feel respite, Tabitha experiences hell. She took the first wave of experience like a champ, but after the second and third waves, she gritted her teeth so hard that her gums were bleeding, and she could no longer keep her light spell up.
“Do you need me to stop?” I groaned in the dark, there was still too much experience for me to handle, but I was worried for Tabitha’s safety.
“Don’t you dare," Tabitha bites back. "Keep going; I can take it."
Reluctantly, I continue. If Tabitha said she could take it, I had faith in her.
I am ready to send the next chunk of experience when I hear a voice in my ear out of nowhere. And it wasn’t the murderous psychotic one I was used to hearing when I used Soul Devourerer.
“How barbaric, you steal our power, and now you break even more taboos," Goddess Ilia’s voice sends shivers down my spine.
Was I really hearing her voice, or had all the pressure finally caught up to me?
“I should kill you for what you did,” Ilia threatens, and through all the soul horror experience still covering my soul, I feel a poke that feels like a branding iron against my soul.
That wasn't in my head, but how was Ilia interacting with me? I thought they could only make contact when a person unlocked a tier 6 skill. Don’t tell me!
“That’s correct,” the ice-cold voice of Goddess Ebeon’s voice whispers in my other ear. "Ilia wanted to drag you into your soul out of spite to talk and confront you there, but I convinced her otherwise. Congratulations, you’re the first mortal in a long time to unlock not one, but two tier 6 skills, even though they’re both his.”
“Thanks,” I nervously answer under my breath. Even if I had been louder, I doubt Tabitha would’ve noticed with how much pain she was in, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
I’m about to send over the experience I was planning to before the goddesses made their presence known, but this time, it's Ebeon who interrupts me. “Don’t be so forceful; sense the skill you unlocked,"she directs me.
It was hard to sense anything with my soul still covered. But surprisingly, Sense Soul easily pierces through the barrier, and I feel my new skill.
“It’s called Experience Transfer,” Ebeon whispers in my ear. “It’s just as dangerous as Soul Devourer, though, for different reasons. I don't suppose I need to tell you what those are?”
She really didn’t. If knowledge of Soul Devourer would make me a target, Experience Transfer would place a neon sign over my head saying ‘use me’ in bold letters. If Tabitha and I survive long enough to make it out of the Endless Forest, I would need to have a long chat with her about what she witnessed today. But I didn’t have time to worry about that now.
With the help of Experience Transfer, I can feed a steady stream of soul horror experience into Tabitha instead of sending it over in clumps. Of course, it's still painful for her, but at least I’m not making it worse by arbitrarily cramming it into her soul.
I monitor Tabitha as I continue with the transfer, but eventually, I reach a point where the pain in my soul is more reasonable, and I can stop. With the pain reduced to a manageable level, I can think more clearly, and I have no problem dismissing Soul Devourer without harming Tabitha’s soul. At least not any more than I already have.
As soon as my skill dissipates, all the energy leaves my body, and I collapse to the ground next to Tabitha.
“Very good,” Ebeon’s approving voice rings in my ear. "We cannot maintain this connection long, so we'll have to wait until next time to talk formally."
“What makes you think they’ll be a next time?” I whisper in such a quiet voice it’s barely even audible to me.
“Call it a hunch,” I hear the mirth in the goddess of death's voice. “Don’t die too soon,” she says before I feel her presence vanish.
I'm about to let out a sigh of relief when I'm reminded more than one god is watching me. “Try to so much as touch the remaining parts of us in your soul, and I'll do things that will make you wish for my sister's embrace," Ilia angrily hisses in my ear before she, too, vanishes.
I lay in silence, waiting for the other shoe to drop, but after five minutes of nothing happening, I finally allowed my body to relax. I was more than sore, and my soul was furiously working on converting the remaining experience covering my soul. There was no doubt in my mind there was enough to gain me a few levels, and that was after I transferred the majority to Tabitha. Though she had no resistance to it, thankfully, Tabitha's higher level and strong will allowed her to shoulder a considerable amount of the burden.
I wasn’t sure if she was still awake or not, but I could hear her labored breathing, so at least I knew she was alive. Was there any doubt…. Yes, a lot, actually, but I suppose I should’ve known better than to write Tabitha off, even with her injuries.
Speaking of which, I wasn’t much better. I might not have been in control of my body, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t feeling the effects of what it did. Now that there wasn’t an emergency to worry about, I couldn’t bring myself to twitch a finger, let alone move a limb.
I’m struggling to keep my eyes open and can't think of a reason why I should. If there's anything else down here, I'm sorry, but that’s it. Thankfully I don’t think we have to worry about that. With how aggressive the soul horrors were, there shouldn’t be anything else down here, and the fighting had to have drawn every last one of them to us.
So, with that in mind, I give up trying to stay awake and let sleep take me. I've earned that much.
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2,500 words.
What do you think, like the chapter? You wouldn’t believe how hard it was to see so many people comment on how they wanted Aaliyah to help Tabitha reach level 100 so many chapters ago, knowing full well this is where I wanted things to go and not to spoil it.
And don't worry; there will be limits on the skill, seeing how Aaliyah just got it.
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed myself.
I'll read all your comments tomorrow, and as always, stay safe.
Comments
Valderan
Yep. Yeeeepppp. Might want to forget you have that skill and swear Tabitha to a very rational bit of silence. Like, Brooklyn Silence, not regular silence.
Gon of the Dra
Yesssss, love it thanks
Aceter
her tier 6 crafting skill might be Forge Soul. By making an object that can gain levels.
Derek Walker
That’s probably the normal skill for level 100 in blacksmithing. Tier 5 skills are rare so if multiple masters are doing this it’s likely not tier 5, and rather like sword master, tabithas tier 4 skill
Penguin Glutton
Or only a stone-kin thing?
Penguin Glutton
Like a special skill
meticoeus
Pretty sure Del mentioned masters in Truset molding metal with their bare hands which would require skills and not just raw stats as most metals would fracture or break if you tried that with brute force on cold metal.
Penguin Glutton
What type of Blacksmithing skill yall think is tier 5?
Jon Oliphant
Well have to remember Pacore isn't built to fight a person but an army.
Penguin Glutton
True tho can you imagine all the gods decided to spy on her like the other 2?
Derek Walker
I think that's still a ways away. Her highest smithing skill is just tier 4. Nothing comparable to the soul skills and memories from a second life that drew the two Goddesses' attention.
Penguin Glutton
I wanna see Tarrow the God of earth and craftsmanship see Aaliyah
Matthew Dennis
It was so worth paying to read ahead but now that I’m caught up I’m so sad.
MikeL
Tabitha would lose here genius status. I’m sure Packor would not care but I’m sure she sees it as a loss of face for him.
Penguin Glutton
For me I think his experience and skills help him a lot
Not my Real Name
Pacore is a strange case, he pretends he put all his points into defense but that is obviously not the case or he wouldn’t be able to win a fight fast. He often deceives people so most people will probably underestimate him or approach him with a bad strategy.
Penguin Glutton
Hey yall hope ya have a great day today do yall think the 5 guardians of Scholl are stronger than Pacore?
Sondadir
Transfer experience is a low level skill, so it souls have loss during transfer. So even though Aaliyah transfers large amounts of experience, only a portion is effectively transferred.
Matthew Dennis
It would be cool, but that’s also no small task.
Ironwolf
Remember, Tabitha has probably very rarely experienced the amount of EXP gain that Aaliyah has. Aaliyah’s skills were what saved her. It’s likely that the difference between the amount of EXP Tabitha gained and the amount of EXP Aaliyah gained was not likely proportional to the difference in accumulated EXP between the two. We have yet to see an EXP table, but Aaliyah’s %gain in cumulative experience is probably higher than Tabitha’s
Derek Walker
Good point on Magic-Smithing may also level, but I feel this would be a case like her level 75 running test. She passed it by using a mana skill and learning Air Walk.
SFS
I'd imagine that Soul Devour probably has a cap at 20 which is partially why she is having difficulty consuming the experience. Additionally I think the Magic Smithing skill would be more important towards fixing Tabitha's arm than blacksmithing, as it's the skill that helps her see and manipulate the interior mana flow of objects.
Derek Walker
One request if possible, can we get a Tabitha POV where she examines her own status in light of what just happened. Would be fun to see the status of a high level person like Tabitha.
Penguin Glutton
She will definitely feeling she cheated
Derek Walker
I don't know why you need soul skills to handle exp, at least in some circumstances. General Pitz killed like 5000 soldiers with her skills, and probably got several million exp at once. She didn't need a soul skill because her soul was massive and could handle the influx. Same thing for Tabitha
Michael Maor
She might not value the accomplishment, she'd definitely value the resources she'd got from the government for being top-tier.
Penguin Glutton
I believe 40
DANTE
Tabita wont lose her status as protege if she didnt hit lvl100 before age x, cant remember the number, she would just fall behind the curve of what is considered a top tier advancement and the prestige coming from it, and, getting to this point with Aaliyha bossing experience gain is technically cheating, I dont think Tabita would value the accomplishment anymore even if she will still take the levels
Augustus
I dont think she had soul skills before this but she will definitely have them at the end.
Michael Maor
Since Tabitha mentioned her issue with failing to reach level 100 in time to maintain her protege status I was expecting Aaliyah to end up giving Tabitha the experiance she needs with her soul skills, but I wasn't expecting something like this. Great chapter.
Pagemaster
I agree. There should be no way for Tabitha to handle the Majority of the xp with no soul skills. I feel like our protagonist is going to get skammed again on level progression but as long as she gets into at least the 90s I will be happy. I would prefer 100s obviously. Been stuck in the 70s for way to long.
Derek Walker
The Goddess already told her anyone else without her soul skills would've seen their soul shatter. So in effect, she has such a resistance skill. Tabitha does not, but relative to Aaliyah her bigger soul functions the same way in circumstances like this. If you dump 10 million exp into Aaliyah, thats basically doubling the Exp in her soul. If you dump the same amount into Tabitha, thats about a 16% increase, so much less of a strain
Penguin Glutton
Also maybe pain resistance?
Penguin Glutton
For me o think Poison resistance would be higher
Jackson Ragland
If that's the case then wouldn't Aaliyah have gotten something like hardened soul or experience resistance when she killed the first soul devourer? It seems like in that case mental resistance helped her deal with the influx of experience
Derek Walker
So the resistance skill is about pain management/ability to function. Tabithas soul has a lot more experience so it can take a lot more before collapsing which separate from like being conscious through this or anything
Jackson Ragland
The one thing I don't get with this chapter is how Tabitha takes the majority of the experience. I understand there's a large level gap but I feel like a level 62+ tier 4 resistance skill should absolutely close the gap and then some versus someone with no resistance skill. Otherwise I like it!
Derek Walker
One thing I wonder is if the experience being tainted makes it painful to absorb. If not, then Tabitha experiencing pain from absorbing the exp, it must be truly massive amounts. Like 10s of millions of points, since just even 10 million points is 3 levels for her, which shouldn't strain her soul that much.
Timo Immig
More likely soul-smith. Still going to massively bother Ilia.
Derek Walker
It's impossible to really calculate levels but I am hoping to see her reach at least 90. Between the exp absorbed and the massive exp gained from skills, it should be plausible. Other predictions: Soul Devourer: 31 Sense Soul: 44 Manipulate Soul: 31 Experience Transfer: 5 Tier 5 Mana Healing Skill: 5 Blacksmithing Level 76 (she used her blacksmithing skills to help heal Tabitha so I think that will be a breakthrough) Magic Threads: 32 Manipulate Mana: 67 Mental Resistance: 70 Poison Resistance: 15 Inject Mana: 61 Final Level Aaliyah: 95 Tabitha: 110
Alex Galaitsis
Her third tier 6: “God botherer” 😂
Derek Walker
Have to agree with Jon. I can give “reasonable” estimates where both are level 100/120/150. Also to note, she says she gave most of the pressure to Tabitha, but that doesn’t take into account everything she had already absorbed until that point, which was probably worth 5-10 levels worth alone.
Undead Writer
Thanks for the chapter
Derek Walker
So next 5 chapters are just status screen updates? I am very much here for it. Level 120 each lmao.
Tjark
Nah. It would be far more satisfying to spread around that Ebeon is actually the nice one and make people curse Ilia for the mortal's struggles in life.
lenkite
Actually both Goddesses were Ok. Ilia's bite is far worse than her bark - in the end she DID help the MC while threatening her. If the Goddess did not want to help her, she would have died. Frankly, MC wouldn't have survived without divine intervention and advice. She should build a shrine to them and keep them somewhat appeased. Its like giving taxes to the [Soul Government].
Penguin Glutton
Love this Chap! Also damn they must've gain a few levels
Penguin Glutton
I still think they are gonna tell Pacore imo
lenkite
"How barbaric, you steal our power, and now you break even more taboos," Dear Goddess, how can a Mortal know what is Taboo unless they are educated about it ? Kindly provide the [Divine Lawbook].
SFS
I assume the transfer skill and devour skill are supposed to be opposites in a similar way to how inject mana and extract mana are opposites. Each controls the flow in different directions
SFS
Some people have theorized before about using her soul skills to make sentient weapons. I'm wondering if this transfer ability would allow her to essentially construct artificial minds inside items using experience, similar to how spirits and soul horrors are formed.
DANTE
Im not the biggest fan of this development either but I dont think giving SD an exp transfer breakthrough would have been any different narratively wise and it would also really clash with the skill purpose. Still not doing anything was likely to power level Aaliya too much as well. its not my favorite development but Im curious what's next
DANTE
Mmmm, I immagine Experience Transfer is going to play a big role in getting high tier crafting skills in the future but I wish Aaliyha obtained it in another way, I guess not sharing the experience would have power leveled Aaliyha too much
Captdeth
3hr
Endymion2314
I'm guessing still a God of Magic and Souls. There are probably conditions for using Exp Xfr. Soul manipulation to open the line and controlled, but not yet absorbed Exp floating around. So it's only good if set up prior to combat and directly afterward; otherwise the Exp is assimilated into a Soul or tithed off to Ebeon.
Endymion2314
Life's a Btch and then you die. Yeah those two fit their archetypes. I'm guessing their usual actual Tier 6 skills are Time Dilation/Stop. While Death's Tier 6 is probably Teleportation and Gate.
Alphafenrir401
Also I wonder who this God is that the skill truly belong to
Alphafenrir401
Wait can that transfer skill be done in reverse to take exp from a person to her?
Jon Oliphant
To a large extent you are answering your own questions. "And third of all the conditions were ridiculous. First she could only dump exp like that because of the encounter with soul horrors. and then doing this required her to grasp her friend's soul and resist her skill telling her to shred it. I would feel totally scammed to not have a tier 6 skill out of this much crap." It's a very narrow skill with very strict requirements. The social downsides are also real but can't be considered, they have nothing to do with the skill. Hell as it is you are going to see her targeted by people who want to know how a 15 yr old got to be level 100+
phantom
It is not at all unreasonable for her to get another tier 6 skill from this. First of all even viewing a soul is a tier 5 skill. Second of all she had to use her tier 6 skill to even meet this condition. And third of all the conditions were ridiculous. First she could only dump exp like that because of the encounter with soul horrors. and then doing this required her to grasp her friend's soul and resist her skill telling her to shred it. I would feel totally scammed to not have a tier 6 skill out of this much crap. And for another facet of soul devourer I disagree. It has a clear purpose and that purpose is an extremely powerful one. Finally why are you so bothered by this? how is this tier 6 skill going to neatly solve.. anything. for her? This skill outright put a massive target on her back. and it will be extremely obvious if she just uses it to buff up those close to her.
phantom
I honestly agree it is quite ridiculous. and threatening to kill her? The alternative was both she and Tabitha had their souls doomed. that threat is just petty. And it really is the only alternative. the protagonist could not even commit suicide without having used the goddess' power. As for using his skills. She was outright encouraging Aliyah to do it before. if anything I am wondering if she is a sore loser that Aliyah was willing to endanger her life over using the skill.
phantom
Just being able to even see souls is a tier 5 skill. There is no way this is not tier 6. and it may not be a thing in the minds of many. it is a thing in the mind of Tabitha.
Kyfe
Boo no absorbing literal divinity... oh well, it makes sense that she was prohibited from doing so (narratively and balance-wise).
Kyfe
I'm not justifying it, and I don't like her either, but I think some of the animosity comes from Aaliyah accessing Skills from an obviously hated entity (add on tinkering with a portion of her power itself, lol).
Kyfe
I respect your opinion, but I wholeheartedly disagree with it. It seems perfectly reasonable and logical for this to be a separate Skill. If other Skills can be broken down into different versions based on function (i.e. the many variations on Contract that we know exist, among others), then why is it unbelievable the same isn't true for these Skills. It was also literally foreshadowed last chapter when the goddesses mentioned Skills, plural, from the originator of her Soul Devour Skill.
Jon Oliphant
Doesn't matter. Someone who can eat XP and inject it into others is beyond ridiculous. Imagine Auschwitz but instead of gas chambers you have Aaliyah draining people to death, then injecting the XP into the fatherland's soldiers. Could be tier 1 it's still a game changer.
Nanooki12
I hope Ilia dies and is forgotten by the world.
Jon Oliphant
Well on the one hand I am really happy to see a new chapter, it's always fun. This chapter does resolve out the Benny Hill chase that had been going on for awhile and it provides a nice place to pick up both plot and character development. Aaliyah's relationship with Tabitha should get much more interesting. On the other hand this was what I was worried about. Aaliyah basically has that shonen moment where everything comes together for her because she is in the middle of a crisis. Not so bad in itself but then she picks up another tier 6 skill just because? This couldn't have just been part of soul devourer? It really doesn't seem to be a stand alone skill. Thinking about it, it makes far more sense to just to fold this into Soul Manipulation. Especially since this was done using the skill. Interestingly all of "HIS" skills seem to be soul related. Is he this worlds version of the Adversary, or overthrown creator god?
Sondadir
Aaliyah Can just say that her souls skill are Tier 5. Tier 6 isn't even a thing in the minds of many.
Quendolayne
This Ilia is a psychopathic/sociopathic b.tch … what got her panties in a twist? What she says make no sense, only that she don’t like our MC and whatever she do is wrong … the only right answer to someone like this is: STFU - Thx for the chapter
Jon Oliphant
After this chapter, I have no idea how anything can be properly constrained to make those kind of estimates.
Endymion2314
Whelp Contract is going to get a workout. Cause the only way she's going to keep from getting used is to swear Tabitha to silence or at least silence until she can stand on her own.
Err
A god desperate for respect seems kind of pathetic. Aaliyah should tell/empower Pacore/Tabitha to regularly check and restrain/kill her, managing soul devourer addiction in isolation is less sustainable.
Tjark
Hm, so last time she gained 5.7 million xp from the soul devourer but it still hurt her like hell and needed healing from Ilia. It did give her about 8 levels though and given what's said about Tabitha she should be able to handle much more at 75. So I imagine she got something like 10 million xp while Tabitha likely got 20 million or something? So that's about 9 levels I think for Aaliyah and maybe something similar for Tabitha which would make them 84 and 108 respectively. That's my guess at least. Will be interesting to see how they will explain that to Pacore, Pitz and others in Scholl that know Tabitha. I hope Aaliyah will be able to get Tabitha to keep quiet about her T6s though even to Pacore.
Blake Richardson
Thanks for the chapter
Bad Timing
I am starting to think she will get a pissed off "Priest of Ilia" after her head at some point. A frank discussion with Tabitha will indeed be necessary at this point.
MikeL
Yeah, Tabitha reaches 100? 110? Can’t wait to find out.
Disclancer
Tyftc! Can't wait to see her status update
