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Chapter 6 — Tier 3
🕑 Added 2025-05-16 07:00:39 +0000 UTC
You’ve been wandering in the darkness, but now the light is here, and it blinds you. Your vision clears, and you see it.
You see the trap closing right above your head, leaving you with no way to escape.
In this chapter:
The situation with Vezriel’s sibling becomes troublesome. Because of your abilities, you learn more than you should know. But it gives you a chance to see Vezriel from a side they show to few demons.
A strange vision promises you misery, though you don’t know why or how. Is it connected to Os? You can only guess, though you don’t have much time for it as Os pulls you back into the high society and shows you how they deal with some matters.
Perhaps Laz would’ve preferred to keep you at a safe distance, but when trouble knocks on the door of their home, Laz can’t refuse your help with an important matter. If you want your payment in honesty, you might just get it this time.
You and Ashmedai both walk closer to something you would rather not remember. For you, it is a painful reminder; for them, it’s another stone added to the weight of their guilt. They’re not prepared to give their last, most painful ‘secret’ to your judgment, but they must.
Az seems so simple, but the more you learn about them, the less you understand them. They’ve opened their home for you—which you never expected to happen—and have shown you unprecedented trust, but you still can’t stop wondering about what they’re hiding from you.
Other updates/changes:
Content warnings are updated!
Added the Oracle’s appearance description and the characters’ heights to the profiles.
The relationship’s statuses will update almost at the end of the chapter, so take a peek at these 👀
Serif font is changed. I don’t think anyone cares, lol, but this one is easier to read.
A new hidden stat. It is an obvious one, so I’ll let you find it in the chapter. It’s not here to make or ruin your playthrough, so don’t fret about it and choose what is suitable for your Oracle! :) It’ll mostly give you additional flavor text depending on the other choices you make in the future.
There are lots of variables and branches at work, and I couldn’t go through all of them. So if you see something wanky, or a bug, or a double space line, or typos, or anything that sounds like it shouldn’t be in your specific playthrough/etc., please let me know! You can put it in the tumblr askbox, in the form, or message me directly anywhere.
I want to thank all of you for your support. I can spend so much time working on my passion project only because of you, and I’m eternally grateful for that 🫶 I hope you enjoy reading the result as much as I enjoyed writing it!
I’ve been waiting for this chapter (this and the next one) for so long. When I was coming up with ideas for this story, the last scene of this chapter was among the first things I wrote down. At last you can guess where I’m leading the Oracle and what their journey will look like. Their journey and their growth... or downfall. And you’ll be the one to decide what it is and what the Oracle thinks of it :)
I wonder how many readers will be surprised by it and how many have been expecting it 👀 Let me know what you think about it!
P.S. I'm taking a few days off from working on the story, and I won't be publishing a sneak peek this month. Also, I'll begin writing the LIs' POVs for this chapter after the next month's stories and publish polls for which scenes you want to get first 👀
Comments
ritt
The height option comes later, and it shows in the profile because it's a bug. The Patreon version isn't updated yet, so please play the public one here: https://rikha.itch.io/the-abyssal-song The bug was fixed there.
Parson
So I see where I’m able to choose my Oracles facial features and hair but where am I able to choose height ? I assumed I missed it because the profile pops up when the Oracles heads to the throne room but by that time it already has a height set for Oracle.
