The bustling city of Tairal was bathed in the warm glow of the sun as the day moved past high noon.

  It has been almost a week since Wina took the contract from Duke Aric when she was walking down an alley near the alchemist's guild. She had used some of the gold to pay her own personal alchemist to make a maternal elixir.

  'I hope Lucas found a way to make my breasts ctate. Otherwise, the duke will try to kill me if he finds out I told an untruth about already having a material elixir!... Geez! When I see gold, I can't help but get excited!' Wina thought with worry.

  Wina's heart raced as the absence of any word from Lucas stretched on for days, sparking growing anxiety within her. Determined to find out what was happening, she made her way to the guild with a sense of urgency and headed straight for Lucas's shop. Standing outside his boratory, she strained to hear any sign of activity within. After a minute of listening intently, she caught the faint sound of movement from within. Silently, she rapped on the door, her senses on high alert as she waited for him to answer.

  *Click! Creak!*

  "You're early? I told you I would send word when the elixir was ready," Lucas replied as he opened the door slightly.

  "There's been a change of pns. The royal family is hiring right now. And I can't be the one to tell the duke that I lied about being able to make it inside the pace, so I need you to pick up the pace."

  "But it's too soon for the elixir! It needs more time before it's ready!"

  "Sorry, Lucas. You need to hurry up. I don't know how long the royal family will be searching for a wet nurse." Wina said with concern.

  Lucas sighed, "Fine... But don't bme me if something goes wrong... Come in, and I'll show you what I've got so far."

  As Wina entered the room, her eyes nded on a bowl brimming with a mysterious, crimson liquid.

  "What is this?"

  Lucas sighed before answering, "The maternal elixir. All the ingredients are set, but we still need them to ferment for twelve more hours."

  "Twelve hours!?..." Wina repeated.

  "Yeah. And that's assuming everything goes smoothly," Lucas added.

  Wina gazed intently at the bowl containing the mysterious liquid, observing a faint mist slowly wafting upwards from its surface. Her mind raced as she pondered her next move, carefully considering her options before making a decision.

  "What would be the risk of taking the elixir too early?" She asked while examining the liquid.

  Lucas looked at her with surprise, "Well? There are a couple of things that could happen. Either nothing happens at all, or some unknown side effect takes pce. And if, by some chance, it works as intended. You don't want to eat anything for the next twelve hours because the elixir could get activated by another ingredient inside your stomach and change the elixir's properties into a different unknown potion."

  "Is there absolutely no way to get it ready sooner?" Wina asked, her face creased with a frown.

  "Absolutely not," Lucas decred firmly.

  Wina carefully pondered her options for a full minute, weighing the pros and cons, before finally arriving at her decision.

  "I have to take the chance, Lucas. I can't afford to let this opportunity pass by. It's the most convenient way for me to enter the pace without resorting to force... You mentioned that I just need to fast for twelve hours, correct?"

  Lucas was incredulous as he realized that she was actually going to follow through with her pn. It suddenly dawned on him why she had made the decision.

  "You took on a contract that failure isn't an option, huh?" Lucas responded sternly.

  Wina sighed, "Yeah, but the risk is worth it. So give me what you got. I only have an hour before they close the gates to the pace."

  Lucas handed her the bowl of liquid, and Wina took it.

  "Down the whole thing in one go, Wina," Lucas instructed.

  "Alright. How long does it take before I see any results?"

  Lucas shrugged, "All the ingredients should be active within twenty minutes. If you drink it right now, then you might start seeing effects as you walk through the streets."

  Wina gulped as she looked at the red liquid.

  "Alright, here goes nothing! Let's go!" Wina said and downed the entire bowl of the elixir in one gulp.

  As the red liquid coated her throat and entered her body, she felt a slight discomfort centered around her stomach.

  "Geez... I feel like I'm going to throw up..." Wina said with a grimace on her face, "Okay, I think I can keep this down..."

  "Well, the best of luck to you, Wina," Lucas said.

  Wina nodded, "Thanks, Lucas. I'll see you around."

  As she gracefully pivoted on her heel, she made her way toward the exit of his cluttered and dimly lit boratory, leaving behind a lingering sense of curiosity and wonder.

  ***

  Wina returned to her inn and dressed in a wet nurse outfit that she had purchased a couple of days ago. The outfit consisted of a white shirt with short sleeves, a bck skirt, and a red ribbon tied around the waist. She also wore thigh-high boots and hid her assassin's tools under her skirt.

  'Well, I look the part now. I can't wait to get inside the pace!' Wina thought to herself.

  *Groan!*

  "Oof! My stomach aches," Wina compined as she walked into the city.

  'I hope this elixir works. Because I don't have a pn B.'

  Wina started walking down the street while the elixir worked its magic inside her system. The pain gradually went away, and a strange ticklish sensation started forming inside her cervix.

  "Hmmm... What is that feeling?" Wina wondered.

  It was then she realized the ticklish feeling wasn't from her stomach, but rather the tingling sensation was coming from her uterus.

  "Oh my... That feels nice." Wina said to herself.

  And as the st few minutes of the elixir passed by, Wina felt a sudden urge to urinate.

  "Hm... That's odd. Why am I suddenly getting urges to urinate?" Wina asked herself.

  Wina hurriedly made her way towards the nearest public washroom and used it as she quickly relieved herself.

  When Wina finished using the toilet, she quickly washed her hands and returned to the streets.

  *Groan!*

  Her stomach made another rumbling sound.

  "What is happening to me?" Wina excimed as she looked at her reflection in a nearby window.

  Her eyes shimmered with a radiant hazelnut color, exuding warmth and depth. Meanwhile, her luscious locks had gained considerable length, cascading down to her hips with a graceful flow.

  The tingling sensation started to grow stronger, and Wina felt her clitoris swell in size.

  "Hm... This is so weird! The elixir must be trying to trick my body into thinking that I've given birth?" Wina said as she realized that her nipples were growing hard as well.

  Wina was using all of her assassin's training to keep her urges in check, but it wasn't working very well. Her breasts were still swelling up, and her panties were becoming wetter.

  "I can't believe how many changes I'm experiencing. This is crazy!" Wina hissed at herself as she continued to walk through the streets of Tairal.

  Her small chest slowly started to grow rger, and it became harder for her to hide her breasts. As time passed by, she noticed other things changing as well.

  "Why do my hips seem to be wider than before?" Wina wondered aloud.

  And as her hips expanded, her butt grew bigger as well, causing the hemline of her skirt to rise up, revealing more of her legs and the beginnings of her camel toe.

  "Ugh... I need to stop and buy a longer skirt... And a new pair of underwear." Wina said as she tried to hide her growing breasts behind her arms.

  What surprised Wina the most was her urge to want to have sex. She never had this urge before, thanks to her training as an assassin and also being forced to mutite the inside of her vergina. But it just came from nowhere.

  'Damn! If it wasn't for my assassin's training. A lesser woman would have probably stripped naked on the street and begged to be fucked by anything with two legs!' Wina thought angrily.

  But she knew that if she did something like that, she would end up as a sex sve for the local thugs until she died.

  "Grrr! Lucas was right! My impatience got the better of me. I just need some new clothes, and I need to hurry to the pace now." Wina said as she made her way to the royal pace.

  ***

  After Wina went to a tailor, she bought a long flowing dress that covered most of her body. Then Wina headed towards the main gates of the royal pace.

  As she approached the gate, guards stopped her.

  "Name and reason for being here?" One guard asked.

  "I am Wina Daz, and I am a wet nurse looking for the honor of serving her majesty's son. Here are my credentials," Wina responded as she handed them a letter.

  The guards read over her credentials and nodded.

  "Very well, Miss Daz, you may enter the pace." The guard said.

  Wina smiled and gave them a quick bow.

  She then entered the pace grounds, where several servants greeted her and pointed her in the direction of the royal maid's office.

  "Please follow me, Midy," one of the servants said as he escorted Wina towards the maid's office.

  ***

  After being escorted to the royal maid's office, Wina was met by five other applicants looking to be chosen as one of the wet nurses and nanny for Prince Quinus.

  "Welcome, dies. Please have some tea and rex while we interview you," a servant said as he gestured to the chairs provided around the room.

  The woman who took charge of the meeting was a middle-aged woman named Rose.

  'Hmm. How can I get these women out of the running?' Wina thought to herself.

  "So tell us about yourself, please," Rose said as she directed the first question at the first candidate. "What is your name, and why should we choose you?"

  As all the candidates took turns introducing themselves, Wina observed them with little interest. Her sole focus was to assess whether any of them posed a threat to her chances of securing the job. In response, she devised a nonlethal solution to ensure none of them would overshadow her candidacy.

  'I have some of Lucas's potions and poisons hidden away.' Wina thought to herself. 'If I use a small dose of it, I could make everyone here sick without anyone realizing what happened... Huh? Crap! Rose asked for my name.'

  "My name is Wina Daz," Wina said as she bowed her head.

  Rose looked at Wina and smiled.

  "That sounds lovely. Let me see your credentials," Rose asked as Wina pulled out a piece of parchment from her purse and handed it to her.

  "Thank you, I will look them over. Now, please join the others in the sitting room while I make sure everything is in order," Rose said as she rose from her seat.

  Wina felt a sense of relief as the break allowed her the opportunity to collect her thoughts and strategize for the remainder of her interview. She also needed to navigate the competitive atmosphere and assert herself among the other women who were vying for the same job.

  "Let's see..." Wina thought as she looked over the rest of the applicants.

  'I can't have all of them get sick. That would be too suspicious... Hmm... I have some of Lucas's potions and poisons, but I don't know how much to give them and who I should target. If I give them too much, then they might end up dying from overdosing on them. I need to be careful. I need to use the minimum amount of poison so that they won't die and have the staff suspect there's foul py.'

  Wina sat there thinking for a moment before considering other options just in case things went belly up. When...

  "Excuse me, miss?" One of the applicants called out to Wina.

  "Yes?" Wina replied.

  "I've never seen you before. How long have you been a wet nurse? Are you qualified to take care of our prince?" another applicant asked as she looked at Wina suspiciously.

  "Is that how you were treated when you were new to being a wet nurse? I thought this was a welcoming community. I guess my husband was wrong about the kindness of Fiafyrites," Wina said as she crossed her arms over her chest, which now had DD-cup-sized breasts.

  'Damn! My boobs are so much bigger than I'm used to! That elixir must have had some side effects! Well, no time to worry about that! I need to think of something fast!' Wina thought to herself.

  Wina looked at the other applicants, who were staring at her with wide eyes.

  "No one has ever treated me this badly before," Wina said, holding back a smile while trying to keep up the act of being offended. I am still new to the task of being a wet nurse. However, I do have experience taking care of children."

  "Treating you badly!? We have never seen you before, and we don't need someone like you coming in to try and steal a job that is rightfully ours to compete for. Not you! So you better be straight with us and answer our questions if you know what's good for you," said another applicant.

  'Sigh... It's going to be one of these missions, aye? I hope I don't get angry enough to kill them all. But I guess I'll py along for now.' Wina thought.

  ***

  Wina took the time to answer questions from the competition and asked some herself.

  She wanted to keep the conversation going because she was trying to figure out which woman was the bigger threat to win the job first. And somehow, she was able to win over a few of them.

  'Okay. I know that three of them aren't a problem. So, I only need to deal with those two, and the job is as good as mine,' Wina thought to herself.

  The one named Amber seemed to know exactly what she was doing. If Wina didn't do anything, she would most likely be hired by Rose.

  "Well, Amber. I can see why you should be hired. You seem to be the type of person that can handle a baby. I hope you'll treat Prince Quinus well," Wina said as she smiled at Amber.

  "Thanks! She's not as bad as I thought!" Amber said happily.

  Wina walked around the room to grab a cup of tea. As she walked to a seat, she stealthily sprayed a mist of poison in the air by Amber.

  The other woman Wina targeted was Kristan, who was one of the candidates for the job.

  Wina had already poisoned her drink when she was being challenged earlier, so she didn't need to worry about her in a few minutes.

  As the women waited for Rose to return from her chamber, Wina watched them closely and tried to gather information.

  "Miss Kristan, why did you want this job?" Wina asked in a calm voice.

  Kristan gulped nervously and looked down at the floor.

  "Umm... I-I just love babies. They're so cute and cuddly," Kristan said as she nervously patted her stomach.

  'Meh... I never was into babies. But I'll make this work if I have to,' Wina thought to herself as she nodded in agreement with Kristan.

  Just as Kristan was about to start another conversation, the doors to Rose's chamber opened.