Somewhere far away on a phat isn't known for many things other than some upstart creatures causing trouble on a while... which is every world, there is an unnoticed s pletely devoid of the fun stuff in life, like extradimensional parasites, transmogrified spec ops... or dimensional rifts.

  That ges now as a rift opens, and out es the rgest mermaid anyone will have ever seen, barring perhaps some aquatic gods themselves. Cursing up a storm, Esstrey immediately feels the mana in the surrounding air, and begins tearing at her own back to get to the bsted little thing digging into her spine.

  [The tral Governor weles the-

  "Бля ты ешь дерьмо!" The mermaid screams out in a deep, guttural at. She pletely ignores any other stimuli as she's desperately trying to tuoward the cursed being stuside her.

  SpoilerFuck you eat shit!

  [colpse]Her attempts are in vain, whenever she tries to grab at the bck carapace of the parasite, her hand ly phases through it. Despite it's immaterial properties, it seems to have no trouble holding on to her, it hasn't even damaged any of her flesh. Regardless, the parasite isn't very appreciative of Esstrey's attempts at evig it from its new home, and hijacks the nerves in her spio stop her from filing about.

  Esstrey falls to the ground, pletely paralyzed by whatever the creature did. If it hijack her nerves, her brain must be part of that process. She feel the thing crawling up higher, trying to make its ward from the spinal cord. Fortunately for Esstrey, and unfortunately for the parasite, she isn't disabled by such petty cepts like 'oxygen loss' 'major bajury' and 'total body takeover'. Her blood is still within her body, and as such firmly within her sphere of influence.

  The parasite recoils as it is suddenly assaulted from all sides, blood o it begins to explode into sharp spikes. Some of it actually catches it off guard before it safely shift out of space, the nerves no longer respond, as they ck the blood to fuel them, and as Esstrey gets up from the disgusting s, she begins shoving heaps of trashy mud into the open wound that is her backside. If she has to inflict Tetanus on this thing to win, she will.

  The parasite tries to go on an offeo hijack the brain, taking it over would allow it to endlessly pilot the body, but it's clear that that's going to be difficult. Esstrey in turn notices it slithering further toward her brain stem, and start withdrawing all her blood away from the parasite, while f a wall of retaliating blood between her brain and the rest of her body. Both sides bet their all on their prey wants to starve it out, and the parasite seeks to break through her defenses. Even its extradimensional nature would ensure difficulty in bypassing those defenses, her side is sure that they win, only that they destroy the other.

  The parasite could easily kill Esstrey right now, but that would mean its own demise. Esstrey could potentially kill the parasite, but that would most likely result in her own demise. She 't even properly circute blood to her brain right now like when she did when she was beheaded, only sting on the small reserves she has. It is with this drum, when two people have the power to instantly destroy the other, both decide reasoning ahy trumps overwhelming force.

  "I propose a truce." The voies from Esstrey's own mouth, but it barely moved at all. The parasite is speaking through her throat and mouth, using none of the vocal cords. The sound of the voice is not uhat of an undead lich.

  "Give me back my limbs, and you have a deal." As Esstrey agrees, she feels the influence of the parasite recede a bit, and hands over trol of her nerves back to her. Esstrey for her part releases her hold over her own blood circution, and has it go to all ers of her body yet again.

  Stretg from the internal battle, and fixing some internal issues reting to it, Esstrey finally gets her bearings. She looks around the s, and unsurprisingly doesn't notiything too special. Although she still wonders where the fuck she is.

  [The tral Governor weles the fy to [The Veil]]

  Esstrey looks around her as the message reverberates inside her head.

  "Oi parasite, was that you? Did you hear that?"

  "I felt something, it is native. It knows." Esstrey doesn't fail to notice that her new roommate has some odd knowledge, sidering she's pretty sure that thing was birthed by the big worm iradimensional space.

  "Knows what?"

  Name:EsstreyRace:High-ranking MermaidBallistic MasteryExpert Blood MageExpert Aqua MageParasiteC????????????????????u????????????????r?????????????s??????e??????????d?????????????????? ??????????????????B?????????????e?????????????????????i?????????????n???????????????g???????!????????????????????????(??????????????????????*????????????????????????&????????????????????????????????%??????????????????????????!????????????????????#???????????????&?????????Esstrey looks at the sloppy piece of g work, this was made by both a very powerful and inpeteence. Although... it shouldn't know these things. Sure, she argue it doesn't do much to describe her, but it still got things right it shouldn't know. Least of which being her name, she never even used ballistics or water magic here, how does it not only know about her ability, but also correctly described blood and water magic being roughly equal? What does some of this stuff even mean if it's meant to describe her?

  [High-ranking Mermaid]

  [This one is a Mermaid of a higher caste, there are many varieties, but it always be guaranteed in the case of beast-kin that a higher caste meaer capabilities.]

  [Ballistic Mastery]

  [This one has exterained i of ballistics, this trait increases overall handling with ballistic onry.]

  [Expert Blood Mage]

  [This one has been using blood magic for years, this trait increases the holder's affinity for [Blood] magic.]

  [Expert Aqua Mage]

  [This one has been using water magic for years, this trait increases the holder's affinity for [Water] magic.]

  [Parasite]

  [This one is pgued by one or more parasites, a powerful doctor is o get rid of any parasite. Unless user wishes otherwise, or the [Parasite] has a specific trait for it, data about this creature remains hidden. An appraiser of high enough strength is always o identify that this user has this curse.

  The information floods into her mind, with even more incorrect things in it. Esstrey hasn't been using magic for years, and the st two entries just... disappeared. Not to mention it referring to the parasite as a curse, curses involve magid the parasite was born in a magicless enviro. Deg that this tral Governor is clearly malfunirey simply resolves to foore material matters, it's not like she rely oradimensional parasite te for some food around here.

  Esstrey quickly finds her target of surprise fing in the form of a shack with a busted open door, and signs of ret struggle.