Elric of Melnibone

  Elise's Festival

  "This one, this one, and this one, um, and also that black one. Oh, I want that green one too!"

  The red-haired female pastor gazed at the various high-end women's clothing in the window, generously buying everything she liked. She looked like a country girl who had suddenly become rich and was showing off her wealth. Phil followed behind Renny with a bitter face, carrying many large and small bags.

  "Thank you for your patronage, minus the change, that's a total of 70 gold coins." The salesgirl smiled and curtsied to the generous customer, while Phil rubbed his quickly shrinking wallet with a bitter smile.

  "Where are we going next? I'm broke!" After a series of hemorrhages at high-end restaurants, jewelry stores, lingerie shops, women's clothing stores and shoe stores, Phil, who had been shouldering the dual responsibilities of mobile wallet and porter, finally reached his limit. Even with the magic of love, extracting so much money from this miserly Phil had already far exceeded his critical point. At this moment, he was like a mouse that had its last piece of cheese stolen, and he solemnly issued an ultimatum to his girlfriend.

  "Don't worry, next sister will take you to a good place!" The red-haired cat sister showed a sly smile and said mysteriously.

  Good place? Aren't you here to window shop and take advantage of me at the same time? Feili rolled her eyes, tossed the empty wallet back and forth, and felt lucky that she had wisely transferred a few large denomination bills to the insoles of her shoes. At the same time, she also made up her mind not to spend a single penny on this woman today.

  Against Phil's expectations, Lenny led him to a small ordinary inn. This made Phil think of the usual dating process depicted in paintings: strolling, dining, viewing the night scene, opening a room... Although it was only afternoon, Phil would absolutely not mind a passionate siesta either.

  This pink fantasy made Fili's heart beat suddenly faster, and he paced nervously in the room, secretly pulling out a few banknotes from under his shoes, preparing to be slaughtered again.

  What disappointed Luffy was that Renny had no intention of going to the bathroom to take a bath or giving him a passionate kiss like in the comics, but instead stuffed the spoils of war into the cabinet and drawers after a quick wash, as if she had been living here for a long time. Then she carefully compared the high-end women's clothing laid out on the bed.

  "It turned out that you were preparing for tonight's appointment." Feili sighed, and at the same time as being lost in thought, she also felt a slight sense of relief.

  After deliberating for a good while, Renny picked out a pink evening gown, held it up by the neckline and pressed it against herself, turning around in front of Phil.

  "How do you think, Xiao Fei Li?"

  "It looks great, this long dress really accentuates your beautiful figure. Although the decorations are a bit too flashy and the pink is a bit too bright, overall it's still quite lovely." Fili chose her words carefully, trying to be more objective and tactful.

  In fact, this pink long dress is like something for a twelve or thirteen year old princess, extremely gaudy and luxurious. The gold trim, the sapphire brooch, the three-tiered skirt with ubiquitous pure white lace edges, although it's something that ordinary adult women would absolutely not touch due to its tackiness, yet somehow still has a bit of an innocent flavor. But overall, it doesn't match Renni's athletic warrior image at all, and Ferri saying so is just not wanting to criticize Renni's aesthetic sense.

  "This is for you, Little Phil, I think it will suit you perfectly." Renny smiled like a fox.

  Fili was shocked, seeing Renni walking towards him with a pink princess dress. He finally jumped up and wanted to slip out of the room. Unfortunately, the door had already been locked. When he tried to use magic to break the lock, he found that an anti-magic array had already been set up in the room!

  At this moment, he finally understood that the red-haired female pastor had been plotting all along.

  "Oh ho ho, Xiao Fei Li, don't move around, or else sister will hurt you..."

  ****

  What does the largest building in Emerald Harbor, El'goroth's Temple look like?

  Fili stood in the center of the plaza paved with bluestone, looking up at the dark jade-colored goddess statue that was extremely large. So large that people standing on the square in front of the temple couldn't see the goddess's face, and their line of sight searching upwards was completely blocked by Elise's magnificent breasts.

  Feili swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling a bit dizzy. Looking around, the temple square had various carvings in every corner, covering humans, Zor, elves, beastmen and dwarves, each with beautiful lines and vivid poses. However, there was one common point - they were all naked like the goddess, exposing their fit bodies and beautiful curves, and most of them were female, almost making people feel a criminal impulse.

  What makes one want to commit a crime even more is that there are now thousands of young women gathered in the square, most of whom are dark-skinned Zorl but also include other races, including beauties who make Phil's mouth water. These El'gorothian priestesses, just like the goddess they worship, completely expose their tempting bodies without any care, gathering in groups to discuss clothes and cosmetics, topics that interest women the most, or playfully hitting each other, with their delicate limbs entwined, those rippling waves of breasts making even the poor two-life males almost bleed from the nose.

  "This is truly the most luxurious heavenly camp." Phil felt a bit dry in his mouth, he forced himself to move his gaze away from those enchanting bodies and focus on a sign at the entrance of the square, which read:

  "You must learn to open your heart, let your body move naturally, and look at others around you calmly and naturally; You must maintain basic etiquette, avoid making scary moves, or go disturb other fellow students."

  Elise has indeed turned her church into a nudist colony.

  Elyndor Thorne, also known as the Naked Sprinter, is a goddess who has been called the "Dark Elf Maiden" by some. Her holy symbol is a dark elf woman dancing under the full moon with a silver sword in hand. In an era when dark elves were slaughtering each other under Rose's evil rule, Elyndor was the guiding light that led them back to goodness and the hope for the entire dark elf race to return to the surface. After this goal was achieved with Rose's downfall and Nefaria's conquest of the Underdark, she continued to guard her dark-skinned people all over the world and spread her faith to various races in both the underground and surface worlds.

  Elyse always believed that nudity was the most sincere form of expression, and even now that she has become one of the strongest gods in the world of Toriel, this habit has not changed, but rather has intensified. In the past, Elyse's priests were only required to be naked during religious ceremonies, but now they are required to be naked at all times within the temple. The higher-ranking priests have even stopped wearing clothes altogether since becoming clergy, and only occasionally don armor when going into battle.

  Although the pros and cons of this approach have been debated endlessly, some say it is a moral decay that harms social norms, while others argue that it is an expression of harmony between heaven and humanity. However, this has clearly helped El'goroth Church spread its faith, as most of its pastors are young and beautiful female dark elves, who have not lost their open-mindedness and skills in the art of seduction despite returning to the good camp. When a group of beauties come to preach to you, how many men with normal sexual functions will not be overwhelmed by lust and shout "I want to join the church! I want to join the church!"?

  Of course, the side effect of this clever move is that in cold regions, building Elrise churches becomes extremely difficult. The heating costs alone are enough to bankrupt most churches with poor financial resources... In addition, missionary work in dry areas will also encounter skin care problems, which can be seen from the fact that many female pastors often purchase high-end sunscreen from Phil.

  Elyse has always been very close to the goddess of magic, Mislara. Poems and songs from all over the world that describe an impure relationship between the two goddesses have long been rampant. Recently, there are rumors that the strategic goddess, Yin Red Knight, has joined this unhealthy group. Now, many of Mislara's followers have begun to learn from Elyse's church, gathering under the moonlight to dance and please the mothers of magic, which seems to be liked by Mislara and even has a formal promotional meaning. It appears that the rumored "forbidden love" may indeed exist. This makes Phil feel shaken in his faith - he doesn't have any inclination towards exposing himself at all.

  Today is the day of the most important "High Hunt" ritual of the El'goroth Church, and all the clergy and some devout believers from the city and surrounding towns have gathered here, waiting for the ceremony to begin. In order to prevent the sacred festival from becoming a **convention, male and female participants are separated in different locations. However, Ferry was fortunately or unfortunately dragged by Lainy to the women's rest area.