"Don't give me more excuses for your half-assed job!" You give her rear a slap, getting a pleased yelp from your Holy Knight. "We all know that a maso-bitch woman with an obscene body like yours is only good as my sex slave!"

"Yes, Master!" She looked rather happy by your words as you continued to harass her.

You almost regretted going this far, since she proceeded to go on a tangent about her love and devotion and duty to you— sparing no detail about her deepest masochistic fantasies.

But you couldn't complain. Having a complete monopoly over her body had its perks in moments like these. You did with her as you pleased while she rambled on, now with varying levels of coherence. Things culminated until you ended up filling her to the brim with your love, 'threatening' her with things that would only bring out her badly hidden fetishes.

Eventually you had to leave your now weak-legged Holy Knight, and found Bertha practicing her new ability some ways off.

Bertha's [Custom Special], which she didn't fully understand, was called Pink Pompom Cuteheart Pow-Punch. After it created a bunch of cutesy hearts and other adorable figments Bertha would throw a punch—literally. It was a long-range attack. The speed and accuracy depended on how much mana and stamina Bertha had. This also had the bonus of making her fist attacks, energy or physical, at least twice as strong and cause double the knockback if she wished, and it also had good chemistry with her Hammer Tornado move for some reason.

Your warrioress was also the first one so far that wasn't startled or had been muttering to herself when greeting you, though you didn't know if it was because she was being her usual airheaded self or if she was out of the loop.

Cattleya was content with herself after the hangar was done. There wasn't much else to comment, besides how she'd keep on taking cat naps as often as usual and requested more massages from you. The latter of these you were happy to oblige, always looking forward to feeling up your toned, chocolate catgirl. She was always near the same area as she and the construction clankers finished the finishing touches on the hangar connected to a cliff.

Mel, on the other hand, needed to get rescued by you.

Your beguiler got some very good experience from fighting monsters when she was initially scouting the base of the mountains. Yet she and the clankers got trapped between a mountain pass after an avalanche. Thankfully the radios still worked, so you were able to be in constant communication with her. It was there that she was able to find some Monster Rooms near the surface; places where monsters would gather.

She also encountered monster nests for rock wolves and slime tyrant territories.

Mel would've gotten in trouble were it not for her invisibility and your intervention with the BoatMech.

Despite her detailed and perceptive mind she wasn't able to figure out how this avalanche had begun.