Chapter 35: Chapter 33: Changing Lives

Lilith sighed in relief as she finished the last of her preparations. It was only around fifteen minutes before her meeting with the world leaders, and to say she was nervous would be an understatement. As much as Kali tried to drill into her that she was someone really important now, it had never quite sunk in, and the prospect of basically telling so many powerful people what to do was daunting.

She settled into the chair she had made, and Mae began to snake tendrils of flesh down through it and into the floor. The room was designed on top of a large, empty space meant for storing her considerable extra mass with Eldritch Abomination, with small channels reaching through the whole room to make sure just about anything was within a couple of feet of her flesh at all times.

It was grotesque, but it was effective. It allowed her to take advantage of the massive amount of extra HP she would get from her mass, while mitigating the downside of having all that mass out, namely the fact that it would hamper movement to an extreme degree. She was basically tethered to the chair, but she shouldn’t actually need to even stand up to deal with any of problems that might arise.

For this meeting, anyway. With everyone as weak as they were at the moment, she should be able to handle them even if they all rushed her at once. The only real threats at the meeting would be the other Perfect Chimeras in attendance. Kali had informed her that the system’s ‘catch up’ experience boost scaled according to how strong one was previously, and the other Perfect Chimeras were strong. Still, Lilith had a month’s head start and several rather unfair abilities on them, so she should be fine. Probably.

It took roughly ten minutes to finish getting all her mass out. Getting the large chamber filled was the fast part. She had left a lot of wiggle room for when her stock of mass would inevitably grow further, so putting all of the few thousand kilograms she had into the chamber wasn’t a big deal. The main time-sink was filling all of the small tunnels with tendrils in a way that wasn’t massively uncomfortable. Once that was done, she nodded at satisfaction at her nearly tripled HP, and settled down to wait.

After a tense few minutes, the mass teleport Kali set up went off, transporting a large variety of the world’s most powerful people right in front of her. And, it was at this point, that Kali began her broadcast, sending a live video of the meeting to anyone and everyone not in this room, translated into their native language. And, for those that were asleep or busy, she arranged for the video to be available once they were done.

Apparently, she also intended to upload it to the internet by the end of the day. Kali wanted to make sure this was seen, that everyone knew what went down here.

 Lilith gave them a few moments to read the prompt they would have been given upon entering her dungeon and told them to take a seat. She wasn’t particularly surprised when several people refused, so she put on her best displeased voice and asked again for them to sit. Elenoa, of course, sassed her, asking for a reason. Kali had instructed her to not take any of this sort of thing from anyone, So Lilith tried making a slight threat.

This time, Elenoa jumped straight to violence, instructing Winston to “take her out”. Kali had briefly explained the temperaments of Winston and Isa to her before the meeting, and Winston seemed particularly troublesome; Kali had chosen him as a Perfect Chimera for his strong sense of loyalty and duty. Unfortunately, Elenoa had saved his life after a particularly nasty injury in the war, and that same sense of duty led him to devote himself to helping her and her faction out.

And the attack he let off hurt. Mae immediately clamped down control of the nerves, preventing her from flinching, and the attack hit. Even with her defensive stats (which were over twenty thousand with the bonus from Pride’s Palace), the attack did almost one hundred damage, and Winston still had a sizeable chunk of Mana left. Of course, defense had diminishing returns the larger it was than the incoming attack, but it was still impressive.

Mae let a chunk of her body be blown off, and then shifted some of the mass away from the lump below them and reabsorbed the pieces that fell. It wasn’t necessary to have any of her body be blown off like that, but Mae apparently figured it would be good as an intimidation tactic, so Lilith let her do as she pleased.

Lilith then let a non-lethal Geas loose on Winston, fueling it with her own stats instead of Worship, as she wasn’t hurting for any of them. She had some limited control over the message given as well, so he ended up receiving something like this:

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