Aura finally stands on the threshold to crossing over into the corrution ending! This update adds the last Earth Corruption scenes and mental changes necessary to take her to the end of the corruption journey. Only the ending itself remains next month.

Overall, this update advances the game in three major categories

• Completion of the non-Ending Earth scenes - The Earth Recollection Room is now complete!
• Completion of the Demon-crazy quest - This time for real you can advance to the Expert Rank as we now have enough Intermediate Rank quests!
• Completion of the Charlotte Corruption Storyline - All key Roya lewd scenes are now complete with this as well!

A lot of milestones down as you can see, including various sub-milestones like the completion of all appearance mental changes with the addition of the tan mental change.

As usual, those who are interested in reading on the details of development progress, I refer you to the detailed devlog posts. In the following, I will be giving a summary of what's new in this update and also from this week of development.

And to start that off, let's recap the numbers as we always do: We have 1 new H-CG, Tan Variations, 4 new mental changes, 5 new lewd scenes, 11 new Corruption scenes, 6 new passives, 2 new passives, 2 new books and an additional level at Pasciel!

I mostly already talked about the additions on the Earth side in my devlog posts. And beyond the intro text of this update post that we cleared out all the prerequisites to move on to the Corruption ending next month, I don't think there is much to add without spoiling everything. George suffering! More sex scenes with Richard! Tan! The 'Next Supermodel' storyline coming back into the main story! Aura being Tired and Lazy all the time! I will just leave it a couple of random sentences with exclamation marks like this haha :D

Our assistant developer Trihan also finished the Demon-crazy quest - corrupt the girls of Nephlune into servants of the demonic cult or use them gather support for Liliana so that she can rise up to the position of a Magistrate and overcome one of the cult's most fervent demonic supporters - the Shadow.

Either way will complete the last Intermediate Rank quest needed to finally rise up to Expert Rank - the prerequisite in order to unlock the two outstanding Expert Rank quests we will begin developing in the final phase of the development of SKA.

Finally, I completed the Charlotte corruption events this week. First, let me start with the bad news: Lady Charlotte only contains 3 events. I had originally planned to finish Lady Charlotte 3 this week and also create a Lady Charlotte 4 but with the development of the events being slower than I expected and kind of dragging, I decided to cut Lady Charlotte 4 and merge the content of its event into Lady Charlotte 3. So the result is a longer Lady Charlotte 3 at the expense of the 4th event.

This sadly makes the event sequence feel a bit more rushed due to the missing intermediate corruption state, but, and here comes the good news, thanks to this cut I was able to work on something else: Dialogue variations for Charlotte post-Corruption state. I originally wanted to avoid this for Charlotte since it was a lot of work for Paul and Charlotte has a lot more dialogue. However, most of the complexity for the dialogue variations with Paul/Paulina came from her various different states male, female, female maid, female maid corrupted, female maid fully corrupted - in contrast with the simplicifaction of the Charlotte corruption events, she only has two real states.

The first two corruption events of Charlotte mostly deal with her relationship with Victor and her behavior around him, it's only in the new Lady Charlotte 3 lewd event that she then changes to become more haughty and ladylike in general in order to please Victor. Triggering a change in speech. I combined this reduction of Corruption states with some tricks like representing post-Corruption Charlotte being more focused on "not embarrassing herself or Victor" and "behaving ladylike" by parametrizing dialogue with variable subsitutions so in one case for example she would use lots of "!" and post-Corruption "." to finish the sentences. This way we don't get double dialogue boxes which multiply their complexity when in dialogue with Paulina x_X I then mostly focused on adding a couple of meaningful variations where she becomes haughty and talks down to John and Paul(ina) for being commoners to have key speech variations stand out.

Anyways, the short of it is Lady Charlotte 4 RIP, Charlotte speech changes yay.

Furthermore, if you decide to learn a skill from Lady Charlotte that requires a full day to learn (Heat Up I or Fire II), on the second day, a special scene will occur where Charlotte proposes to go partying instead of teaching Aura the skill. If Aura has not unlocked Party Girl she will refuse, but otherwise it depends on whether she has the Lazy state. Finally, if Aura has at least 10 Maid Obedience of 80 Maid Score, a special variation of this scene will occur.

To close out the update, the simplication of the Charlotte event line gave me some extra time, allowing me to sneak in the Magic Academy's 4th (and for 1.0 last) floor - The Magic Academy Library. It contains a couple of hints and tips for monster hunting, but most importantly a new book NPC. Currently, it only has two books. Reading Proficiency II to further power up your book reading abilities provided you have not yet obtained the Useless Knowledge passive.

The second book is mostly for Slime fans who want to make their slimie eVeN biGGeR!! The book is only for those who already invested a lot of materials into their Slime, growing it to level 15. If you have done so, this book gives you the ability to double any future EXP gain from feeding. Slime got a lot of nerfs in the past because it went out of hand way too soon, but I definitely want to enable it to be able to grow really strong in the late-game and knock out Demon Generals. This book should help with that.

(Also, unsurprisingly, the books in Pasciel are of course overpriced :'D)

Okaaaaaaaay, and that's it for the week! I hope you have fun with the update. And then are ready to play the Corruption Ending next month! After that Chapter 3-B will be finished and we can change our focus back on the content necessary for reaching the Good Ending for the final development phase - Chapter 3-C.

Changelog 0.45.0 (26.07.2024)

• Added Cheerleading Game 4 H-CGs
• Added tan variation character artwork
• Added mental change Evening With Richard
• Added mental change Superiority 3
• Added mental change Demon Queen Question
• Added mental change Tan
• Added scene Tan 1
• Added lewd scene George and Veronica 8
• Added scene George and Veronica 9
• Added lewd scene Late Night Sex With Richard 3
• Added lewd scene Late Night Sex With Richard 4
• Added scene Social Ranking 6
• Added scene Social Ranking 7
• Added scene Wanting To Be A Model 9
• Added scene Wanting To Be A Model 10
• Added scene Patricia Rebelling 2
• Added scene Social Ranking 8
• Added lewd scene Lady Charlotte 3
• Demon-cracy: Added lewd scene Voting Encouragement
• Demon-cracy: Implemented election plan The Seeress
• Demon-cracy: Implemented Adventurer Twins corruption mission
• Demon-cracy: Implemented pure election scene and Liliana win
• Demon-cracy: Implemented alternative election outcomes
• Demon-cracy: Implemented alternative election outcomes
• Demon-cracy: Implemented Shadow boss fight
• Iterated quest Demon-cracy
• Added Shadow walking graphic
• Integrated map Magic Academy Library Floor
• Added passive Entitlement: Queen's Privilege
• Added passive Sex Duties Of A Demon Queen II
• Added passive Tired III
• Added passive Lazy III
• Added passive Modeling Proficiency II
• Added passive Rising Star
• Added book "Skillbook: Reading Proficiency II"
• Added book "The Art of Feeding"
• Add migration rule to add Rising Star to Wanting To Be A Model 8
• Switched to Fallen Actor image in Evening With George 2
• Added memory reflecting mirror sprites
• Updated post-Corruption Charlotte state
• Increased max mental changes to 155
• Increased max killed bosses to 115

Balancing

• Changed Water Skin II HOT area damage negation to scale with MDEF
• Limited MATK gain from Lewd Knowledge to 50% base MATK

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed being unable to select A Child Needed after completing The Seeress
• Fixed George and Veronica 9 teleporting to wrong map in recollection room
• Fixed Truthmaker Page being usable, having no price, and missing its enhance event
• Fixed Shadow gold reward not actually giving gold
• Fixed Liliana reward not actually adding gold
• Fixed Hair Highlights infused in Cheerleading Game 4 H-CG
• Fixed Lorraine's path in Nothing But The Truth pure ending getting her stuck on a wall
• Fixed Belphegor still being able to summon NG+ fragments on turn 0
• Fixed unintended passable tile in poison swamp
• Fixed crash when beating bridge bandits after losing to them at least once
• Fixed gaining Lazy when Beauty Sleep is A Must is not unlocked
• Fixed test teleport for Clockwork Forest
• Fixed vice choice for adventurer twins having a > sign instead of >=
• Fixed Lack of Willpower to Study only triggering for Luck is not a skill

Stats

• Estimated play time: 34-48h
• Word Count: 801k
• Lewd Scenes: 129
• Real World Scenes: 325
• CGs: 46 (+1 Bonus CG)