Chapter 2: Edge of Corruption
*Clang clang*
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Skill Acquired: Resilience to Corruption (Advanced Lv: 5 | 0%)
Your mind has developed a strong resilience to corruption.
Whenever your mind is inflicted with an abnormal side effect, then it will be alleviated after 5 seconds.
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‘Resilience? Isn’t this just apathy?’
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Class Quest: Path of an Impersiosus
Your father, a once mighty Impersiosus, has become corrupt and is becoming a Monstrum. You must kill him within the time limit or else he will begin rampaging and bring instability to Dominia.
Difficulty: E
Reward:
Can change to the Impersiosus class.
Warning:
If you fail to kill him within the time limit, difficult will rise to A.
You cannot reject this quest.
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Quest accepted.
Time remaining: 2 minutes
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‘Not like this… This isn’t going to work… If I had more time…’
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Time remaining: 1 minutes
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‘Then, there’s only one thing I can do…’
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You have died.
You will be revived in 3… 2… 1…
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‘How many times must that have taken him? I remember the time when I had to go through the Morionis bapti—’
‘Did he realize?’
‘Amusing. So this is what it feels like to be on the receiving end…Judging from the determination in his voice, I can see that he’s made up his mind. But since I’m still alive, that means he didn’t kill me yet…What happened?’
‘His resilience to corruption is already beyond mine.’
‘Very good.’
‘Show those monsters, the power of the Morionis family.’
*Slice*
‘Phi, it’s your turn now…’
‘Ah, I’m glad I could die a father…’
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Class Quest: Path of an Impersiosus [II]
After learning that your father had become corrupt, you killed him with no regrets. Since you killed him before he became a Monstrus, a huge disaster has been avoided, but since there were no witnesses, you will not be able to become an Impersiosus until you are officially recognized and fame will not increase until your deeds are uncovered.
Find a way to be recognized and accepted by the Impersiosus.
Reward:
Can change to the Impersiosus class.
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Level Up: Dagger Mastery (Advanced Lv: 3 | 0%)
After fighting against a master of the dagger in countless life and death battles, your dagger mastery has improved by leaps and bounds.
When you fight using a dagger, attack routes will be highlighted and attack speed will increase by 80% after you have determined a route of attack.
If an enemy is using a dagger, then their attack patterns can be analyzed and shown as well, but enemies with a higher dagger mastery than you may deviate from the predicted attack patterns.
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You have created a resurrection point.
The next time you die, you will be revived here.
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‘But how am I going to explain this to Mother and Amber?’
‘I feel like I’m going to have to go through a lot of trial and error…’
*Tick Tock… Tick Tock…*
‘4:13 AM… I woke up in the middle of the night, was knocked out, and awoke in the basement. It’s been at most… three hours? Shit… I’m going to have to get used to the temporal adjustments.’
‘This can’t be coincidence. Father was very meticulous with the traps he placed around the house. I didn’t even notice them until a week ago when he forced me to kill the intruders who were foolish enough to get caught in them… Could this be another test?’
‘Another person. Seems like I’ll have to be careful, or at least, that’s what I would have had to be a few hours ago. Hm… And a commander? Looks like I am dealing with militia. What are they doing here?’
*Thud*
*Whack*
*Step Step Step*
‘I guess now’s a better time than any.’
‘I’ll have to deal with him better next time.’
‘Not as painful as I thought.’
‘One… Two… Five people, including the commander.’
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Your motor cortex has been weakened.
Your body has lost its strength.
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‘Are you serious? Isn’t this a Diabolus spell?’
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Resilience to Corruption activated.
In 5 seconds, your motor cortex will be restored to normal.
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‘Crap. I don’t think I’ll be alive in another three seconds.’
*Whoosh*
‘Huh? This is bad. How does he know? It sounds like he has a countermeasure. I better restart as soon as I can.’
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You have died.
You will be revived in 3… 2… 1…
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‘Hm… that Diabolus doesn’t know that I have the Recasus yet, so I should find a way to conceal them somehow.’
‘This should do for now.’
‘M’ that was engraved on the blades, but aside from that, they looked like normal daggers.
‘4:15 AM… Looks like I spent a little too much time wrapping the daggers.’
*Step step step*
‘Here we go again!’
‘Winning War 101: Killing the head makes the body useless.’
*Thrust*
‘Checkmate. Now to take care of the limbs.’
‘Well, I guess there’s only one left? Though I should double check after killing him. Even chickens can move for a while after their heads are severed.’
‘Would be…?’
*Ka-cha*
*Sigh*
‘At least, I’m still human.’