《Reincarnation Games:Dark Wisp》 Prologue : Its never fair Normally when I wake up in the morning for work I feel like shit, however today is different as this is the day that the game I''ve been working my hand till they bleed for the last 3 years. Well 3 and a half due the the production delays but that was to be expected especially since it''s such a massive project. Finally I¡¯ll be able to play [Unparalleled Dungeons]. My name is Phil Frankoon, 21 year-old and I¡¯m a ¡°landscape designer¡± but all I do is work out in a couple fields each day remodeling the landscape the the customers desire. Usually we get asked to construct, ponds, hills or some garden display. As you can guess we only seem to work for the rich, since they''re the only one¡¯s stuipi¡­ kind enough to give us work. Recently we¡¯ve been working on making this excessively tall bamboo and vine effigy of the customer holding a sign saying ¡°Fuck you¡± pointed to his neighbor¡¯s house and its the last day we work on it to. When I got to work my boss was smiling like the madman he has us working for. We I say mad I mean eccentric since he¡¯s actually paying us with what we want for the job. Jokingly I said ¡°It¡¯d be great to be paid in ¡ê100 notes¡±. Next day I was giving a small wad of ¡ê100 notes. Anyway enough rambling if I ramble i¡¯ll never get to the play [Unparalleled Dungeons] today. After talking with my boss a bit I immediately got to work with the rest of the crew who were busy trying to chat up our delivery girl and making me look competent with women. As we worked away the customer brought us some lime-aid since one of my colleagues was ¡°looking thirsty¡±. The customer also tried to feel up my friends Muscles and strangely only when he was looking at them. Shortly after the neighbour came out and was shouting at the customer for building such a ¡°gaudy piece of crap¡±. Now I can see why this eccentric loon was willing to pay so much for this thing. That guy¡¯s a huge dick. We went back to work with the sounds of petty yelling in the background. After we finally finished that unwieldy statue just after 3pm my boss called me and asked if we could do another check of the statue before we call it an early day. When I was walking back to the stature I could still hear the customer and his neighbour shouting at each other and is was getting louder the closer I got to the statue. As I was passing my work mates I called a few of them to help with the final check, then strolled back to the statue. As we got there we could see that the customer was shouting at his neighbour like it make him go away, while that guy simple seemed to get redder and redder with what I hope isn¡¯t rage. The checks went for the structure will need some maintenance in a few weeks but should hold strong for a while. That''s when the I decided to leave but not before I heard the customer and his neighbour yell about the statue. Neighbour: ¡°I don¡¯t care about this fucking thing or you or what you¡¯ll do i¡¯m going to take this fucking thing down!¡± The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. Customer: ¡°Don¡¯t you fucking touch that! I will sue you if you break the ¡®Fuck You Statue¡¯. I will not tolerate you¡­.¡± I zoned out the rest and starter to walk away when I heard something break. When I turned around I saw the statue falling, the neighbour being punched repeatedly next to the broken leg of the statue. I don¡¯t know why, but when I was panicking as that thing fell towards me , my legs buckled as I tried to run falling and rolling to the side, landing with my face to the sky. At that moment everything seemed to slow down as I saw the steel sign the statue was holding crash through my chest at an angle that let me see the blood coated sign telling me ¡®Fuck you¡¯. As my vision went black and my lungs supported bloody screams. I heard people running over to me and the customer speak with them voice clearly unchanged and uncaring. Customer: It¡¯s a shame when the die young. Once everything was numb and darkness I couldn¡¯t stay awake but as I closed my unseeing eyes for the last time they seemed to spring open almost immediately. I looked at when I was and all I saw what the strange dark blue cobble stone walls, floor and ceiling. With a decrepit wooden door at the end of this strange place and the opposite wall from me. Just as I was trying to move my hands I found that I couldn¡¯t, I tried my legs and found them gone, panicking I tried looking at my body to find I have non. I then desperately looked around the room finding that I could somehow move but was a lot slower than normal as if I was moving as fast as a baby. Once I moved through the room I found a shard of glass and this glass reflected a small flickering ball of dark blue fire where I was looking and as I was trying to understand what was going on something popped into existence in front of me.
CONGRATULATIONS
You have been selected for the [Reincarnation Games] of the greater multiverse. Your soul was selected because of your gaming addiction and tragic death in front of a god/goddess. All of your memories will remain intact and you will be given a power randomly from a list of every conceived powers. Due to your gaming addiction you have been selected to be reincarnated into world with a game like system. Due to your karma being balanced you''ve been reincarnated and a random variant race. With my with my great joy and regret thank you for joining the reincarnation games against your will.
I think i¡¯m having a mental breakdown... Chapter 1: Wispy Start After my mind finally came back to me the first thing i did was look at the blue screen that popped up in front of me over and over until i practically had it ingrained into my brain.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You have been selected for the [Reincarnation Games] of the greater multiverse!!! Your soul was selected because of your gaming addiction and tragic death in front of a god/goddess!!! All of your memories will remain intact and you will be given a power randomly from a list if of ever conceived powers!!! Due to your gaming addiction you have been selected to be reincarnated into world with a game like system!!! Due to your karma being balanced you''ve been reincarnated and a random variant race. With my With my great joy and regret thank you for joining the reincarnation games against your will!!!
I might be adding too much emphasis the way i read it. Well that''s a given since i personally read it like it was a mad god telling me i¡¯m going to get fuck for their amusement. Going over what happened, i know i regret that i never got to play [Unparalleled Dungeons] after spending years waiting for it and that i was killed by a massive ¡®Fuck You¡¯ sign both literally and figuratively, and that i somehow found myself here in a strange place with a seemingly floating sign telling me i¡¯m part of the [Reincarnation Games]. It also said that i''ve been reincarnated into a game world as a variant race. I still don¡¯t know what''s fully going on and the only thing i have to go on is that i¡¯m somehow a floating ball of flames¡­ Well i have little to nothing to lose since i think i lost my sanity when i died so i should probably try something stupid like what i had to do in the VR games i played. Preparing myself to call out i tried to speak but what came out was a shallow voice which seemed to cause my body to shudder in the reflection of the glass. (???): ¡°Status.¡±
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 1
Race Profound Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 10/10 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 100/100 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 1 INT 10
VIT 1 WIS 10
AGI 1 LUC 10
AEXP0
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level
I was a little let down. Simply put this was to little detailed for what i was use too. When i was playing one of my favorite VR games called [Hardened Warrior] it would have a lot of different statistics that make this seem like a base. Heck i was half expecting stats like Slash Resistance, Fire Resistance and a lot more but this is¡­ I know that shouldn¡¯t be my immediate concern especially since i have so much to go through like why do i have no name, why am i female, holy shit i¡¯m a monster, i have crap stats, what¡¯s AEXP, those skills look interesting and HOW THE FUCK CAN A WISP BE FEMALE IN THE FIRST PLACE! I wonder if i can get inform¡­ its probably better to just assume it works like my VR games so let''s try the commands. As i tried the basic commands i found out that i have and equip screen but as i¡¯m a wisp i can only equip accessories, there is no help function, there is an options screen but its basic and only has, well optional things like subtitles and there is the basic inventory space in games with the standard 100 slots. All the advanced commands i knew simply didn¡¯t work so there''s no point going into it. Actually there was one that seemed to work, the narrator function still worked but it seemed to tell what was happening like a beginning author with little to no comprehension of the art form, so i turned that of. I also found that if i focus on a section of the status menu i can glean information about it. STR,VIT,AGI,INT,Health and Mana were pretty much typical of most games while WIS was simple better though processing and LUC on the other hand seems to have no description other than this.
LUC
LUC is the statistic which determines your Luck a multiversal force which even the gods and those before them have no memory of what it does or how it works.
From what i can gather it is nothing i will understand for a long time if at all. I also had a look at what skills i have and was starting to get excited, or maybe that was just my mental breakdown resolving into insanity.
Wisp ArtsBeginner 1
Wisp arts allows the user to use skills which are initially known and can only be used by wisps Known skills: Entropic mist: skill causes a small aura of degradation to surround body, lowers item and organic(lifeless) durability slowly. Energy consumption: absorb energy to use as food: ambient energy only.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. Float: allows wisp to move steadily through the air slowly. Mana manipulation: manipulate mana to a small degree(quality and quantity changes based on INT and WIS)
Known skills: Entropic mist: skill causes a small aura of degradation to surround body, lowers item and organic(lifeless) durability slowly. Energy consumption: absorb energy to use as food: ambient energy only. Float: allows wisp to move steadily through the air slowly. Mana manipulation: manipulate mana to a small degree(quality and quantity changes based on INT and WIS)
Exp Conversion (variant)GrandMasterMax
Due to this skill being a variant, conversion of matter to EXP is possible only on lifeless matter. EXP gain through conversion will have to be channeled into stats or skills and cannot be used to increase Main level. can only increase one stat or skill at a time.
These skills sure are cool and i really wanted to try out these skills just to see if i didn¡¯t survive and am suffering a mental breakdown and that make sure they work. Trying to see what i could do i decided to try and absorb the glass i was using as a mirror. Only when i tried i realised i have no idea what to do. So i thought about it of a little bit. After about 5-10 minutes i couldn¡¯t com up with anything better that try to eat it/absorb it. I floated to that glass and started to rub myself against it trying to find out if i could eat it only to get the cool feeling of glass only my non-existent skin. I kept tying all the ideas i could to eat like pushing my mouthless body onto it try and ¡®bite¡¯ it and put it over my flame. Not one of my ideas were working and i started to get mad when i noticed that a strange feeling of my body tingling sailed over me. As i was still trying to eat the glass i noticed that it''s started to breakdown and float towards me. Once it touched my body i could somehow taste the glass it was pretty bland almost like it was tasteless. Just as all of the glass was absorbed i realised that i was using the Entropic mist skill and just as i was going to check my status a new window popped up.
You consumed Shade Glass
Gained 317 AEXP will you distribute these yes/no?
I was a little surprised with how high the exp was but then again it was something i''ve never heard of called shade glass. I decided to say yes and then another new window poped up.
Select Status Screen attribute
When i open my status screen i was shocked when i looked at my mana. It was really low and i only used the one skill for less than 20 seconds. Actually now that i think about it i am only level 1 and its a similar skill to what wizards in games rarely get. After my little rant about mana being low i started to focus on what i could do with the EXP. just as i was about to put it all into AGI i stopped and realised the screen said attribute not stat. As soon as i noticed that i couple of ideas popped into my head but after noticing how lost and how slow my mana is recovering i tried to improve my mana regen only to be told i need more EXP. This made me happy since now i know i can improve my regen rates. I ended up trying with my skills but it was all the same as i sigh i tried putting it into my AGI tapping it twice due to habit and suddenly it went from 1 to 3 and a new stat popped up before called ATB EXP.
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 1
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 10/10 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 100/100 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 1 INT 10
VIT 1 WIS 10
AGI 3 LUC 10
AEXP 17
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level
So it looks like i can now store the attribute EXP and put it into the stats whenever i like. And from what i just done out of habit increased the AGI stat by 2 instead of the intended 1, although thanks to this i can guess that each status point will cost me the current stats times 100. I couldn¡¯t think of anything else to do with my abilities but suddenly i remembered that the first screen i saw said i¡¯m forced to take part in something called the [Reincarnation Games]. As i remembered that i also remembered a few other things like i have no name and am somehow female. I¡¯ve never really cared what my gender was but i simply can''t think of a female name i like. Without realising it i started to talk allowed. (???): ¡°If i can¡¯t think of a name i may as well be called something i like or something Profound. Why the hell not Darkness, why the hell not Haha...¡±
Congratulations your name has been changed from nothing to Darkness. You have also earned the Title [Self proclaimed Darkness]
[Self proclaimed Darkness]
This Title is given to those beings that have an innate link to the dark or abyss in some sense while also calling themselves Darkness with some semblance of want. This title is purely cosmetic.
When that window came up i think i could hear some subtly laughing echo around me but that must have been my imagination. I don¡¯t know what''s worse, either this is real and I¡¯m now a wisp with no idea where i am, or i have gone insane and cannot fathom what my own mind. As i started to calm down i started to feel like i was forgetting something, so i started to think about what happened to me and as i started it clicked that i spaced out as soon as i started to think about being forced to be part of the [Reincarnation Games]. With some curiosity lingering from my forced recollection i tried to figure out what it could possibly mean but suddenly i could feel my mind getting heavy and nearly forgot until i started to focus as hard as i could on what the [Reincarnation Games] could be. My mind suddenly lightened up as soon as i could no longer hold onto the my thoughts. (???): This is a first. I¡¯ve never seen a sentient Wisp, and a variant Wisp at that. As the voice seemed to ring through my whole being, the room i found myself in seemed to quiver. As the voice went quiet i looked around to see if there was anyone else in the room but but all i found was shade glass and the still closed door. As i was about to speak to the voice it resounded with a joyous tone through me making me almost jump at the power it seemed to possess. (???): Welcome to the world little wisp, I am the novice shade dungeon where you were born into, welcome to the monster world of Ohmaze. With a hearty chuckle the voice of the dungeon left me bewildered, i was startled and couldn¡¯t say anything other than¡­ (Dark): Holy Shit! Chapter 2: Deal I started to panic a little when the dungeon spoke to me since i''ve played games all my life where the dungeon is evil. What made it worse was I had low stats and couldn¡¯t help but think that I was doomed. Thankfully logic kicked in and I was forced to think that this dungeon might be good since it didn¡¯t outright attack me. Wait I¡¯m now a wisp so it might not have attacked me because i¡¯m technically a monster. As I was getting ready to speak the dungeon started to talk to me again only this time I could feel it bearing down on me. (Dungeon): ¡°I¡¯ve never heard a wisp speck before nor have I heard the flagrant use of such profanity come from a lady. If you would be so kind as to how you found yourself inside me, I may help you. It even makes it weirded as you seem to be just born.¡± I nearly panicked again but I seemed to have retained some of my self control from reincarnation. As I was about to open my non-existent lips to make an excuse about what happened something inside me seemed to raise a death flag. Deciding to be truthful with the dungeon I opened up started speaking. (Dark): ¡°Ah, yeah, sorry. Well you see I died in my world and woke up here as a wisp, i¡¯m kind of panicking a bit and don¡¯t know much about what happened other than that.¡± The sense of pressure seemed to lift from me and just as it was gone there was a sudden silence and I started to wonder why didn¡¯t the dungeon see to me when I woke up here, it did say I was inside it. As I pushed that thought to the back of my head the dungeon started to speak to me again. (Shade): ¡°You seem to be telling the truth, and you''re also aren¡¯t a threat to me. At least not at that level, so i¡¯ll tell you this. My name is Shade, the shade dungeon and as I said before you are in the world of Ohmaze a monster world. I will help you if you make a deal to protect me from pesky adventurers from Folous. If not I will not hesitate to kill you if you don''t leave. What do you say little Darkness?¡± As I was getting my bearings it took me a little bit of time to process what the dungeon just said. When it all settled in I decided that its deal was to vague and I needed more information and if I don¡¯t ask now I could be trapped here or killed if i¡¯m not cautious. (Dark): ¡° I¡¯d prefer if you call me Dark instead, and is it ok if I ask some questions about this deal and some other things?¡± (Shade): ¡°Interesting, most beings would have either accepted or declined right away especially since i¡¯m a shadow dungeon. Very well ask away, but be careful with what you ask madam as you may not like the answer.¡± (Dark): ¡°Ah¡­ yes. How long would this deal last and when you say protect what exactly does that entail? Could you tell my what exactly I am? And what is a novice dungeon?¡± As I rambled on too much the dungeon went silent for a minute and then its booming voice resounded in my very being. (Shade): ¡°You really were telling the truth that you''re from another world Haha! Anyway this deal would last 90 days which is when the new adventurers finish this year''s training all you have to do is keep them from getting to my dungeon core and boss room. During this time I will also provide requirements for you such as food stuff and a place to rest, if needed. This will also entail you to kill or maim these individuals, under the deal you will not be able to truly kill these people but you can still die as you are not a true part of me. You as a wisp a very basic monster of a found in shade dungeons and one of the 3 types of dungeon monster if you want more information on what you are focus on your race in the stats. And a novice dungeon is a place where new adventures and monsters find themselves going to inorder to get stronger and find loot, which I create. Anything else?¡± (Dark): ¡°You said there¡¯s 3 types of monster what did you mean?¡± (Shade): ¡°The 3 types of monster are: 1) created which are mostly the monsters you find in dungeons or summoned by a wizard. 2)Monsters which are born like the way you were spontaneous from a soul finding its way into a dungeon. 3)Lastly there is monsters birthed from another of their race, this one rarly happened in the wild but is common in a monster worlds with few or dungeons. Folous is one of these worlds, Ohmaze in a not. Now do we have a deal?¡± Feeling more confident and sure I was making the right decision I was almost sure that making this deal would be the best thing for me. There was just one thing that could change my mind. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. (Dark): ¡°Maybe, can I ask why you didn¡¯t notice me right away if i¡¯m that interesting?¡± (Shade): ¡°You are an do one Darkness that¡¯s for sure. The reason it took me so long to notice you was that I was in the middle of controlling my boss stopping adventurers beating me. It was tough to notice you since I was focused on the fight.¡± Satisfied with what he said and sensing no ill will I made up my mind and it is predictable but safer at least for now. (Dark): ¡°Ok you have a deal, but only if I can roam around on my own.¡± (Shade): ¡°Fair enough¡± suddenly a light seemed to envelop me and I could feel that I was connected to the dungeon. ¡°Since your a soul from another world do you know what skeletons and zombies look like?¡± with a quick yea he continued to speak ¡°Good all you have to do is kill the Merrow that come into this dungeon along with anything other than the zombies and skeletons. Oh Merrow a fish people if you didn¡¯t understand, little Darkness. You may now wander about but I advice you find a way to get stronger since the average level of the Merrow is 6.¡± With that he stopped talking and let me think for myself. I could ¡®feel¡¯ the dungeon and it was strange I had a strong feeling that I want to protect this place and it made me feel odd about this place. It was the desire to protect like it was an expensive collectable rather than the desire to protect because you care, it was unusual. With the deal in place I felt like I was free to wander but I could tell that leaving would break the deal I just made. I didn¡¯t know where to go or what to do and as I was thinking the wooden door to the room was opened. From the conversation I just had I already knew this place had skeletons but it was another thing to see one in person open a door for you then walk away. Logically it was Shade that used the skeleton to open the door, that just made me realise how weak I am since focusing on the skeleton caused a sign to pop up saying¡­
Skeleton LV 5
Basic skeleton the most common monster found in dark attribute dungeons.
Skill Discovered
ObserveBeginner1
This skill allows the user to discover info about a target.
As soon as the information popped up, I was reminder of the issue that I don¡¯t truly know who strong I am. Sadly I was shown to be extremely weak as the skeleton turned away and walk faster than I could move. I tried not to dwell on that and decided to look at my status and focus on my race and as I did that a pleasant window popped up.
Profound wisp
A wisp is a small weak monster which is almost unable to defend itself until it is at least level 10, however this is a profound wisp and as a profound being has the power to gain skills and resistances faster than most beings would find possible. Profound beings as a variant of there race which look like others of their race until they evolve which tend to be into unique beings. Since profound beings are unique they can also evolve twice once at level 25 once at level 50. Profound being gain EXP 10% slower than their normal counterpart.
If I had a face i''d be grinning like a madman but I didn¡¯t and then looked at my stats making myself realise how weak I am. I wanted that to change so I started to eat all of the Shade glass in the room before leaving, gathering 2134 AEXP. I still didn¡¯t have enough for mana regen or any of the other attributes besides the basic stats so I ended up gaining 2 STR, 4 VIT and 2 AGI while storing the rest of my AEXP for later. I also found I can now move as fast as the skeleton did earlier when walking now and that VIT seems to correlate with Health at 10 Health per VIT point.
Status Screen
LUC
Name N/A Level 1
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 10/10 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 100/100 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 3INT10
VIT 5WIS10
AGI 510
AEXP151
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 1
Why do I have a bad feeling about the halls outside this room? Chapter 3: Im too weak Authors Notes It was pointed out to me that I had a lot more than a fewgrammarmistakes in the last chapter and would like to thank those that pointed it out to me. I would also like to say that if you point anything elsegrammaror spellingrelated i should fix, that would be appreciated. With that done please enjoy the this chapter. Edit Thank for pointing out my mistake''s Killashard and Swan-san. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ (Dark): ¡°Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! FUUUUCK!!!¡± Letting out my panic as soon as I returned to my birth room I was still mad at what I saw. I decided to follow the skeleton but couldn¡¯t keep up and as I was following I noticed that there was almost nothing here aside from some torches on the walls spread out at different rates in almost each hall that a trailed the skeleton down. What I found strange was that the flames on the torches seemed to be eerily similar to what I looked like. I used observe on them just out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised.
Shadow Torch
The most common lighting found in Shade dungeons. These lights have similar flames to that as the common wisp and is normally used by weak wisps to hide. AEXP: 20-40
Seems since I have observe I can now see the info about AEXP, but that takes a back seat to what the description said. Anyway as I was following the skeleton it walked towards a fight and what I saw was some skeletons fighting what I can only assume are Merrows. The skeletons were being destroyed quite fast and I started to get worried since I observed them.
MerrowLevel 7
Merrows are the sea folk from the world of Folous and are a race of sentient monsters. They would be classed as a civilisation if they didn¡¯t frequently attack other races for fun and ritual sacrifice. These are the species of fish folk that inspired the Deep ones in earth''s fictions when a small settlement was transported there for a god''s amusement. AEXP: level*50
I was a little taken aback since they looked just like the deep ones from the stories I¡¯ve read. The only difference was that each of them looked too have some vibrant colour streaked down their backs. They were also only about 4 feet tall as each skeleton was taller than them. I found a shadow torch nearby on my left and hid in it so I won¡¯t get attacked and so that I can gather some information about these creatures. About half way through the fight with the skeletons it was obvious that they were going to win since they were decimating each skeleton that attacked them, caving in their skulls, smashing their bones and using some of the skeletons to destroy the remaining. I counted the Merrow and the remaining skeletons as they seemed to be either getting tired trying to catch their breath or re-attacking limbs. There are a total of 4 merrow and 6 skeletons remaining. Suddenly one of the merrow charged forward and one of the skeletons threw itself in front of the merrow being destroyed just as it managed to slice through the beast''s arm causing blue blood to sputter everyware as bone and sinew came ripped of with blunt blade reaching high as skeleton became a pile of bones. As the merrow screamed in pain and closed its eyes reflectively a few of the remaining skeletons charged it. None of the remaining merrows moved but I could see the shock and fear in them as their ally was torn limb from limb. The skeletons were ripping the merrow¡¯s muscles from its bones at the same time you could see its guts exposed as a skeleton was ripping through its gut pulling its organs out one at a time when they were done they stood back with the other skeletons almost motionless covered in blue blood, some even still holding the merrows organs it pulled out. The merrow still seemed to be alive as it was twitching and still trying to scream it was a husk of its former self. Muscle ripped from its arms and legs held onto the bones by a stand of tendon, organs lecking from its gut with a clear view of its barely beating heart and working lungs, some of its skull was exposed as the fins on its back was ripped off and is now a skeletons makeshift weapon. The merrow collapsed as its body fell forward and as the same time the whole thing blood and organs not help and stuck to a skeleton suddenly vanished. At this the other merrow started to slaughter the skeletons with only one of them getting injured afterwards. Soon they left and I was left panicking hidden in the shadow torch when I gathered most of my senses I fled, floating as fast as I could back to the room and screaming fuck repeatedly when I got back. I ended up waiting a few minutes calming down and realised that I have no way to protect myself. So I did the one thing I could.. This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. (Dark): ¡°Shade I don¡¯t know how to protect myself can you help.¡± Waiting a couple of seconds felt too long since I was still shaken up. Soon he spoke to me and told me something I completely overlooked and could be my only hope for now. (Shade): ¡°Your a wisp little Darkness you should have wisp arts which comes with mana manipulation. I don¡¯t think I can help in any other regards. And until you gain some basic defence or attack skill it¡¯s ill advised to leave this room again. I thought you¡¯d have some skill since you''re from another world am I wrong?¡± (Dark): ¡°Well, you''re not wrong but the only skills I¡¯d be able to know from my world sort of requires me to have a humanoid body. And we didn¡¯t have mana in my world, at least I don¡¯t think so.¡± (Shade): ¡°Strange¡­ well anyway learn to defend yourself as quickly as possible.¡± I didn¡¯t feel like I needed to know anything else nor say anything else. I feel like an idiot forgetting that I have mana manipulation or even mana at that. I probably forgot since the only VR games I played were physical or technological based, heck [Unparalleled Dungeons] was going to be the first true fantasy VR game I¡¯d play. I focused on what I could about mana and came to the conclusion I needed to ¡®feel¡¯ the energy. This took my about 5 solid minutes just so I could know it¡¯s there. And as soon as I could I tried to make a small ball of mana in front of me it was roughly half my size and it was hard just to hold it there. Letting it go caused all the mana to expand and float in the air for a second before vanishing. I looked at my mana pool and noticed it only cost me 5 mana. I tried again and this time it felt easier and I decided to try and ¡®throw¡¯ it forward. It zoomed forward about twice as fast as I can move for now before hitting the wall and exploding slightly. Suddenly a window popped up making my non-existent lips curve into a smile.
Mana Bolt
Basic mana bolt every being that can manipulate mana will almost always start with this skill once they grasp the basics of mana manipulation. This skill shoots a ball of mana at a target which will be stronger the higher the users INT stat is. Mana cost: 5
With this I couldn¡¯t help but ask Shade for help since I don¡¯t think i¡¯m strong enough. It took a little bit of time but I convinced him to send 1 skeleton to help me get strong enough to defend myself. Once the skeleton was here I asked Shade if he could tell me its health before and after I hit it with my mana bolt. Before it had 250 health after I hit it with my only attack its health went down to 230. I scanned it before and after to see if anything changed but it didn¡¯t other than it now said AXP: level* 30, but that was on both checks. This more or less confirmed that my observe simply isn¡¯t strong enough. After killing the skeleton I was surprised I had leveled up but it wasn¡¯t the way I was expecting it to happen.
Congratulations you have level up
As a Profound Wisp you will gain 2 times the normal growth rate of a Wisp
You have gained: +2 AGI +4 INT +6 WIS +2 LUC +100 Health +200 Mana
Due to special skill you gained: +1000 AEXP
I was a little taken aback by what just happened and surprised that I leveled up from one skeleton. Now that I think about it the skeleton was 5 levels higher than me and I¡¯m a typically weak monster. But this is just surprising I didn¡¯t expect to gain levels like this I expected to get 5 stat points to distribute not this blessing. Thinking that I should check my stats after that I opened up the menu and realised that my stats are actually still pretty weak but that will change in time. With this I consumed the corpse of the skeleton gaining 150 AEXP. Looking at my stats I think about what I¡¯ll start doing while I¡¯m inside Shade¡­ That felt wrong to say.
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 2
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 150/150 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 300/300 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 3 INT 14
VIT 5 WIS 16
AGI 7 LUC 12
AEXP1301
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 1
Chapter 4: Drudge Author¡¯s Notes I''d like to know what you guys think about the AEXP system I''ve put in to far since I''m thinking to expand it further than it already is. I already have some additions planned into the story but I''m curious to hear what you guys think. I''d also like to encourage you guys to point out any mistakes I make to help me improve my writing. Thank you for reading my story. __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ I decided to try and leave the room again with a little more caution than last time. Moving through the halls I find myself drifting through the still air down the path I previously followed that skeleton. As I''m uneasy about leaving floating about I decide to stay high enough that I''m practically eye level with the shade torches as I pass as an extra precaution. Just as I reach the hall were the skeletons slaughtered the merrow, looking down the corridor I find some merrow walking toward my location but they seem to be chatting away. I almost panicked are fled at the sight of them. Thankfully I almost instinctively jumped into the nearest shade torch. As they got closer to me I recognised the merrows as the 4 that fought the skeletons, there was even still the 1 that was massacred trailing in the back. Two were wearing some kind of gauntlets with one was holding a strange spear and the last what looks like a large bone fragment.Remembering what shade said about not being able to kill in the dungeon I managed to calm myself before my mind started to wander chaotically.Once they got half way towards the end of the hall and the torch I was hiding in, skeletons came round the corner and started fighting them. Watching the fight made me question why they would come back if they experience death fighting the skeletons. As the fight progressed it dawned on me that the merrow have improved in a short time, they¡¯re still as strong as before but the way they fight has improved and none of them charged in at the other¡¯s expense like last time. They must be using this as a training ground of some sort. When the first 6 skeletons were nearly beat 3 more came round the corner and joined the fight as back up. I noticed that the reinforcements had better weapons one had an iron sword while 2 had proper spears.Soon the fight came to an end with the skeletons finding themselves as piles of broken bones or bone fragments, oddly enough each seemed to be dispersed into neat piles with their previous weapons at the sides. I watched waiting till the merrows left the area but as I was watching them I noticed that he merrow were arguing about something in a language I''ve never heard before. The one with the gauntlets that stayed silent through their bickering suddenly got up and gathered all of the weapons a total of 7. 1 iron sword, 2 spears and 4 copper swords. They suddenly went quiet and lowered their heads, the merrow holding the weapons past the iron sword and a copper sword too the merrow holding the bone fragment weapon. Then it moved and passed a spear and copper sword to the one with the bone spear. Lastly it handed the last spear to the merrow that was previously killed, while keeping two copper swords for itself. The merrow that have the bone weapons suddenly drop them and start swinging their new weapons, testing them. After a few minutes the seem to smile except the one with an air of authority and then leave going down further into the tunnel before taking an offshoot tunnel right next to where I was hiding. After watching them leave I sank in the air until I was right next to the skeleton bones. But before I started to eat them I decided to observe the weapons that those merrow dropped.
WhaleBone Spear
This is a weapon made from a large whale bone. Commonly used by the merrow that haven¡¯t been recognised as adults as well as is a symbol of their rights in the clan. If a higher ranking member removes this weapon from them or gives them a new weapon, the young merrow will be then to undergo their ritual for passing to adulthood. AEXP: 300-350
WhaleBone Blade
This is a weapon made from a large whale bone fragment. Commonly used by the merrow that haven¡¯t been recognised as adults as well as is a symbol of their rights in the clan. If a higher ranking member removes this weapon from them or gives them a new weapon, the young merrow will be then to undergo their ritual for passing to adulthood. AEXP: 250-300
Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. I didn¡¯t expect to get lore about the merrow when I scanned their weapons. Well it might be useful to know later but for now these are just sweet AEXP. Oh yea before I forgot, I figured out why I use so much mana to eat earlier, it was because I was using all of my skills strength at once. Entropic mist mist breaks down matter into an energy from I can eat and if I use it at full power it''s fast, but if I only have it at the bare minimum it only uses a few mana per minute and only take a few seconds longer. I only found that out thanks the the shade glass I had in that first room. Anyway enough explaining back to my AEXP. Eating the weapons got me 312 and 270 AEXP but that''s not all. When I started to eat the bones I could taste them, and they were delicious, it was like eating a fine tuna steak with a prawn sauce coating the whole thing. It was delightful and I savored every second I had eating it. As soon as it was done I turned to the tasteless skeletons by which I mean literally since the skeleton I had earlier was almost like eating air. As I moved on from my first taste of proper flavor since reincarnation a couple of hour ago, I drifted over to the skeletons and started eating them away earning myself 1350 AEXP but as I was finishing the last of the skeletons a new window popped up in front of me.
Skill Exchange Possible
Random chance to buy a skill has been unlocked in [Exp Conversion(variant)]skill. Skill available for trade, this trade is only available while this window is still open. Window can only be closed by accepting or declining AEXP trade.
Would you like to trade?
Trade:3000 AEXP for Skill Advance of the Drudge? Current AEXP: 3233Yes/No
I didn¡¯t even think and trade all that AEXP for this new skill almost as soon as I registered what this was. I was excited to find out that my skill had hidden abilities or at least that ability. I didn¡¯t even register what the skill was until I brought up the skill to see only to have mixed feelings.
Advance of the Drudge Beginner 1
This skill Causes the user to lose 50% of earned EXP.This skill gives the use 10% resistance to physical, magical and mental damage and effects. A Drudge is an individual that works hard and suffered for gain but unlike those that gain big, a Drudge will have a constant gain from all there hard work and due to their hard work they can fight longer and harder if they can last long enough.
It''s a heavy loss with losing my EXP potential like then but the more I think about it, even a small amount of resistance can make a huge difference especially since this skill gives me so much different resistances. I wanted to know what it meant by the 3 types of resistances they were and when I checked the I was glad that I traded for this skill. Physical was pretty obvious, while magical and mental were exactly what I hoped for mental essentially gave me resistance to illusions, mind control and other mind bending effects. Magical on the other hand was better than I hoped. It essentially made me stronger against all forms of magic from light to dark and all inbetween, I was also pleasantly surprised to see Holy and demonic separated from light and dark. When I left the hall, a refreshing sight was found in the corridor I was floating down. There was a skeleton walking about in full military attire. As I was drifting past. The skeleton lifted its hand and saluted me. Since I was a little more than just curious at this skeleton I decided to observe it.
Tim(Skeleton Staff Sergeant) level 24
This skeleton was created by a beginning necromancer while he was being nostalgic. He sent Tim to fight alongside his stronger creations, only to never see him again while he still worked for the necromancer through his second in command. During this time Tim became his current rank as a Staff Sergeant and even became a higher level than his creator before coming to this world by accident. Tim is almost unbeatable at strategy.
I left with a feeling I''ve met him before, I just can¡¯t place it. Nevermind I''ll just roam the dungeon trying to get stronger.
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 2
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 150/150 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 300/300 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 3 INT 14
VIT 5 WIS 16
AGI 7 LUC 12
AEXP233
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1
Chapter 5: My First Fight Floating down the hall I decided to practice my mana manipulation and done my best to change the shape of the mana. It was relatively easy to get the mana to take any shape I wanted, the problem was that unlike the mana ball I made I couldn¡¯t keep the shape if I tried to move it. Just as I was getting fed up with my attempts I spotted a small group of green people walking past the hall I was in. Curious I decided to follow them and started to drift between the shade torched on the walls. I followed them for a couple of minutes before working up the courage to try and get close, the reason I was getting closer however was because my observe didn¡¯t work if I didn¡¯t have a good enough view. I was hopping that these green people would be something else but they turned out to be goblins.
GoblinLevel3
On of the most common creatures in the multiverse, these being are typically weak but are quick to reproduce. Most goblins come from monster clans and are typical mindless or close to mindless. However there are goblin civilisations as well which are classed as sentient races since they will trade with other races, have their own cultures and occasionally blend into other cultures. This goblin is classed as a monster. AEXP: level* 30
That was interesting info I got about goblins, not really relevant but it might help me out later. Anyway back to the goblins. As I followed them down 3 hallways I noticed that all 3 had basic wooden spears and when I observed them all I got was this.
Ponit-ed Stick
This is a weapon commonly used throughout the multiverse by those starting out in poor conditions. There''s little to no value having this weapon because even a banana is better than this. ¡°Only a loon would attack with a Point-ed stick!¡± -- a self-defence instructor. AEXP: 0-1
I feel like these weapons are a joke, but I don¡¯t know why¡­ Forgetting that I followed the goblins as they entered a room that has a single wooden chest in the center of the room. The goblins immediately ran for it, flinging open its lid. Almost immediately a skeleton walks through the only door to this room and makes its assault. Seeing that the 3 goblins can¡¯t fight of the skeletons I decide it''s about time I try to get some EXP instead of AEXP. Just as the skeleton and goblins separate from their initial bout I swoop down and hover next to the skeleton. The goblins seem to think that I''m some kind of joke and start laughing. Making the most of their poor timing I use Mana bolt, my aim was a little of but I managed to break 1 goblins shoulder, tering most of the skin from it in the process. Suddenly the skeleton jumped at the goblins as they were startled, separating the 2 goblins with no injuries from the 1 I attacked. Focusing on the fight I threw myself into my whole being was focused on the goblin in front of me. Throwing his Point-ed stick at me was the only thing the goblin could do as I floated up out of its range, its weapon hit the roof before falling down causing the goblin to scramble for its weapon. Taking full advantage I shot 2 more mana bolts hitting its back and the back of the shoulder I already hit. Roaring in pain as blood stained its back as its left arm flopped to its side oozing blood down it, the goblin started to attack as fast as it could. However with it still on the ground and me floating at roof height all it could do is throw its weapon, desperately trying to get lucky. Unfortunately it did get lucky and hit me with his weapon dealing 57 damage. It hurt like hell and it was a strange form of pain as it cause the pain to shudder through my whole being while also causing a feeling I simply can¡¯t fathom. I''d describe it if I knew how. The strange sensation seemed to change my anger to some form of sadness as I rained 4 mana bolts down on the poor goblin caving in its skull causing blood and grey matter to sputter the air, all the while tearing its arm of and back open. As the goblin died its body vanished and I looked towards the skeleton who was sitting down watching me fight. As it got up to leave shade started to speak to me. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, you fight in a strange manner. It is also painfully obvious you need some help if you''re going to get strong enough to protect me. You may have what¡¯s in that chest as I was planing to replace it anyway.¡± (Dark): ¡°Thank you shade, but can you stop calling me little Darkness and just call me Dark it''s annoying.¡± Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. (Shade): ¡°Oh where would the fun be in that little Darkness. I feel I''ve grown attached to calling you little Darkness. Wouldn''t you say it''s a lovely name, huh little Darkness. Either way I''m glad you only ask of me so little Darkness.¡± (Dark): ¡°Please don¡¯t do that again...¡± Laughing through my skull Shade leaves me to do as I please, so I descend towards the open chest to find some interesting things. When I looked into the chest I found a book, a crystal and an iron sword, I immediately observed them all.
Elemental Manipulation Skill Book
This skill book give the user the foundation to create and manipulate elements from their own mana. With practice manipulating the basic elements will eventually allow the user to alter or control elemental spells of other people. This skill requires affinities to be unlocked. Requirements: INT-15 WIS-15 AEXP: 300
Lowest Energy Crystal
This is a special crystal which can be used to create lowest level accessories or weapons skills. Each crystal has a skill type affinity which defines the type of skill and accessory or weapon would gain. AEXP: 500
Iron sword
Basic iron sword although this weapon in common it is stronger than some of the most exotic weapons available. Known examples WhaleBone Blade, WhaleBone spear. AEXP: 50-150
I wasn¡¯t surprised that there are skill books in this world but I am surprised that I''d get one this early. Shame I can¡¯t use it right now I''ll just place it in my inventory till I level up. As for the crystal and the sword I don¡¯t see any use for them for a while and since my body can¡¯t even hold either of them I''ll just consume them for AEXP. This was the point when another strange thing happened and another new window popped up.
Consumed Lowest Energy Crystal
Random chance to buy an affinity in exchange for forfeiting this items AEXP. Trade: Lose Crystals AEXP for Wind affinity
Would you like to Trade Yes/No?
I was practically stopped in my tracks I didn''t expect that I could trade for affinities. I thought about it for a second and accepted it since the elemental skill will need an affinity when I learn it.
You have unlocked affinity attributes in status screen.
Gained Wind Affinity 5
Well it seems I can unlock more stats and attributes. Neat. I get lost in thought as I start eating the sword gaining 67 AEXP. When I finally gather my thoughts it was a reasonable assumption since even the games I played had hidden stats you could unlock. I ended up asking Shade how long I''ve been in him. It turns out that it has only been about 7 hours since I''ve been reincarnated. It felt a lot shorter honestly. I checked my status as I swam through the air towards the room I started at, finding that I already had light and dark affinities.
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 2
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 150/150 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana300/300 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 3 INT 14
VIT 5 WIS 16
AGI 7 LUC 12
AEXP300
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind5
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1 Dark1
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1
Chapter 6: Rest I spent about 20 minutes floating back to the room that I started as since it seemed to be the safest place to rest, I was starting to get tired even though I''ve only been up¡­ well alive for several hours and it¡¯s almost like I''ve been working a full shift back on earth. As I was getting round the corner I caught a glimpse if the merrow from earlier walking back the way the came. I quickly hide in a shade torch until they strolled a couple of feet past me, then left towards the little room. Quickly turning down the halls I made it back to the room to find a shade torch sitting on the wall when it wasn¡¯t there before. (Dark): ¡°Shade can I ask why you put a shade torch I this room? I distinctly remember there not being one here before.¡± (Shade): ¡°That''s because I thought you¡¯d be excessively tired since your a wisp. After all most wisps only stay awake a couple of hours a day usually four hours due to their low vitality. It¡¯s strange that you were able to stay awake as long as you have, little Darkness.¡± (Dark): ¡°I must be because I''ve leveled up recently that I was able to stay awake¡± *yawn* ¡°Sorry I must be more tired than I thought. But why did you put a shade torch if you thought I was tired?¡± (Shade): ¡°Wisps can rest on any location but a shade torch hides them, keeping them safe from those that might attack them. Little Darkness that''s why I place a new shade torch in this room, since I notice you have a tendency to return here.¡± (Dark): ¡°Thank you Shade.¡± I waft myself through the air towards the torch settling into it, finding that it''s more comfortable that I thought it would be. I never notice before since I was too busy trying to hide from the dungeon divers too even gave some thought to it. My mind slowly drifts from consciousness falling to sleep rather fast. Back when I was in Earth I suffered from insomnia and couldn¡¯t sleep unless I tried but here, I must have only started trying to sleep for 5 minutes before I passed out. I didn¡¯t dream and I didn¡¯t seem to have a nightmare but I distinctly remember seeing,hearing and doing nothing but feeling a sense of urgency for something I just can¡¯t know. When I woke up I still had that feeling of urgency but I pushed it to the back of my mind. I asked Shade how long I was asleep and he said I''d been asleep for 16 hours which surprised me I thought about what Shade said about wisps having low Vitality and decided that I''d need to improve it if I wanted to stay awake long enough to do anything substantial. With some new renewed vigor I moved to find some way to gain AEXP. I would go and find some goblins but they vanish as they die so I can¡¯t gain any AEXP from them, I could go for skeletons but Shade might take that as betrayal, although I could ask. I decided to ask shade if I could get a couple of skeletons to train but unsurprisingly he basically told me to fuck off. He can¡¯t let me train with his skeletons since he needs them to defend the dungeon, at most he could spare one skeleton. I asked if you could spare a zombie to train and he said he couldn¡¯t since I was to far from them in the dungeon. I asked if he could create some shade glass for me but I was told it was only something that grows in shade dungeons at random and not something he can create. I ran out of ideas on how to gain AEXP and decided to roam around, looking for some shade glass and anything else I could get AEXP from. I did decide to leave the shade torches though since they could be my only defence sometimes. I spend about 2 hours looking around the dungeon halls that I have been down before and I only managed to find 3 pieces of shade glass gaining 803 AEXP. I ran out of places I had been to and decided to look down some of the other hall ways. Since I was nearer where I defeated the goblin, I decided to hover down the path I saw the goblins come from I found 3 more hallways after about 5 minutes. I went down the one that was straight in front of me ignoring the 2 on my left side. When I reached the end of the hall I found a large room with another hall at the end. When I looked around this room I could see skeletons clinging to the walls and roof while masked in the shadows since there was few torches on the walls. When I looked through out the room I found another 2 pieces of shade glass gaining another 596 AEXP and a strange mushroom.
Mana Shroom
Mana mushrooms naturally grow in places with high density mana and can grow into different forms of mana shrooms bases on the type of affinity the mana is infused with. Mana shrooms are normally collected underground or in dungeons and are used to create basic mana potions and other alchemical creation. These mushrooms can be farmed if enough mana is given to the shrooms. The best places to farm the shrooms are near mana wells or dungeons, however its ill advised to use dungeons as they are dangerous.
I was a about to eat the mushroom without thinking but as I was about to use Entropic mist it dawned on me what the description said. As soon as I plucked it from the stone floor and put it into my inventory I zoomed back the way I can and returned the room I''ve started to think as mine. Once I got there I put the mushroom on the floor and watched it root itself to the floor, which was a little surprising but I did find it growing on a stone floor. I started to think how I was going to farm it, based on its description it can grow on its own in a mana dense place like a dungeon. Since it only needs mana why don¡¯t I try and infuse some mana into it to force its growth. A little uncertain about what I was trying to do, I started to pull some mana from my reserves and tried to put in on the shroom, it didn¡¯t work and I used about 20 mana as well. I started to think how it would be absorbed by the shroom but I simply can¡¯t think of how it would be. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. I realised I''m an idiot, I''ve read stories where you drawn energy into yourself to recover faster maybe if I try infusing in a similar way I''d get it. As soon as I tied infusing by pushing the mana into what I can only sense as the mushrooms mana I noticed it start to grow and split, I now have 2 mana shrooms growing on the floor. I was happy that it worked and even more so with the windows that popped up.
Mana Infusion Beginner 1
This is a skill derived from an idea similar to meditation but instead of absorbing ambient mana, the user uses their own to give mana to an object or other being. This skill is one of the paths that can lead to learning enhancement.
Meditation Beginner 1
By grasping how to absorb energy from the world you can recover your mana faster. Due to this skills synchronicity with Wisp Arts: Energy consumption, This skill is more efficient than it would be normally.
I was glad about gaining new skills and was even more ecstatic about meditation being synchronized with my Wisp Arts. As I checked my mana to see how much I used I found I only used 100 mana to grow a second mana shroom. I decided to start farming the mana shrooms and by the end of my first hour I had managed to get 5 more shrooms, I used meditation while sitting in the shade torch when I ran out of mana just incase someone can here. I also put a shroom in my inventory incase someone that came stole my mushrooms. After I gathered 3 of the 6 mushrooms I started to eat them but I was met with an interesting trade window.
Trade Available
Would you like to trade this items AEXP for 50 Max Mana Yes/No
I didn¡¯t hesitate since I haven¡¯t tested to see if I could increase my mana pool with AEXP. After finishing the trade I started to eat the other 2 I planned on eating only be be pleasantly met with the same trade twice. I was so much more glad I decided to farm these instead of just gain AEXP from that first one. After I finished all of the trades I put all my mana into the 3 shrooms remaining gaining 4 more shrooms since my mana limit is now 450. I eat another one trading for more mana, then I split the mushrooms up throughout the room hoping that will they will grow faster that way without me. Shade asked me what I was doing and when I asked how he didn¡¯t notice till now he said he was managing a boss fight. I told him that I was farming the mana shrooms, when I did he started laughing and said that I''m very interesting. As he calmed down he started to talk seriously to me. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, if you could farm for me 50 mana shrooms I would be very grateful.¡±
Quest
The Shade dungeon known as Shade has, requested that you farm 50 mana shrooms for him.
I was filled with glee that I managed to get a quest and have quite a bit of rewards. (Dark): ¡°Deal!¡±
Quest Accepted
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 2
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul
Health 150/150 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 500/500 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 3 INT 14
VIT 5 WIS 16
AGI 7 LUC 12
AEXP1699
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind5
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1 Dark1
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1 Mana Infusion Beginner level 1 Meditation Beginner level 1
______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Author¡¯s Notes I will start writing longer chapters starting from chapter 7 and on. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, feel free to point out any mistakes I have done, it helps improve my writing. Chapter 7: Study Day It has been 4 hours since I woke up and 2 hours since I started farming the shrooms. After Shade gave me the quest to get 50 shrooms for him the room door vanished and Shade told me that he separated this room from the rest of the dungeon so I could farm in peace. Once I had gathered the newest batch of shrooms I planted them all over the room, on the walls and floor and each was spaced a good bit away from each other. After I recovered my mana I infused 5 mushrooms out of the 8 I had planted since that was all I could so at the moment, I decided it would be best if I start farming the shrooms for my self for now since each can give me 50 max mana. I took the 5 mana shrooms that split from the ones planted and consumed them all to increase my mana pool by 250. I started to meditate and once I had just over 500 mana I repeated consuming them. Then I waited to recover all of my mana while meditating. After I waited just over 40 minutes meditating I gained a rank up and infused the 8 mushrooms I had and spread 7 of them around the room, putting the last in my inventory. I started to repeat the mana infusion on 10 shrooms, while meditating I couldn¡¯t help but get frustrated as I realised that I barely know what my stats mean. I had a quick look at info about them before but I simply didn¡¯t look at them closely. I looked at my stats screen and used observe on the STR stat gaining a rank up. The info about the stats was just like the games I use to play back on Earth, but since I didn¡¯t normally play RPG games it dawned on me that a couple of them aren¡¯t normal. STR,VIT and AGI are basically the same as normal RPG¡¯s. STR increases how strong you are and gives a little boost to your defence, VIT increases how strong your defence is, bolsters your health a little and affects your energy. That seems to be why Shade said he was surprised I stayed awake as long as I did with low VIT, the more energy you have the longer you can stay awakeand active. AGI affects how fast you move and seems to affect your accuracy a little, since theres no DEX stat I''m not surprised. On the other hand INT and WIS seem to work like the shooter games I played that has stats. INT affects how fast you can think as well as your learning rate it also affects how strong you mana is, it also affects reaction time and your accuracy which is weird. WIS on the other hand affects the way you think as well as the way you can use mana, it also affects mental strain since every spell puts progressive mental strain on the caster. WIS also seems to affect your sense of mana making it easier to sense others or hide your own. Neither INT or WIS seem to affect your mana aside from the potence of skills. LUC was the same as other places aside from its weird description that alone made me think it''s something more important. As my mana recovered I started to eat the shrooms for more mana increasing my limit by another 500. Then I repeated the infusion and split another 15 shrooms putting them in my inventory since I want to try something later. Instead of focusing on meditation to recover mana I decided to study the remaining of my stats and skills. I didn¡¯t find out muchin the hour I spent searching my stats and skills other than finding something interesting about Advance of the Drudge. It turns out that the reduced damage I gain from this skill stacks with any of my other resistances, basically if I would take 100 damage from an attack with no defence it would be reduced to 90 instead. On the other hand if I have a natural resistance to the type of attack that removes 10 damage taking it down to 90, Advance of the Drudge would remove 10& from the new damage making it 81 instead of the initial 100. Truly a great skill. Affinities on the other hand are interesting on there own right, each reduces respective damage from attacks based on their value. For example if I have a fire affinity of 50 and get attacked by 2 fire attacks one the deals 100 and one that deals 200. The first would be reduced to 50 while the second down to 150. When it comes to attacks on the other hand it''s different, the higher the affinity is the less mana is needed for the same level of fire, 5 affinity and 10 mana would have flames as strong as 50 affinity and 1 mana. I wanted to also learn how to manipulate mana with affinities and since I only have wind, light and dark affinities I started to try and use wind since it was my strongest affinity. Almost immediately I got it only to realise I was only using my mana to push the air. I keep trying but couldn¡¯t seem to do it. As my mana maxed out after 10 more minutes of waiting I infused the 15 mushrooms gaining 15 more. I took out the 15 I stored earlier and at all 30 gaining 1500 max mana. I looked at my stats and was saddened because my health was so small compared to my mana. As I was looking over my stats again I noticed that I had 1699 AEXP, I should probably use. Out of curiousity I tried to use the AEXP on my affinity''s it didn¡¯t work on any of the affinities with 0 and when I tried wind a window appears stating I don¡¯t have enough AEXP. when I tried light and dark though I got a window saying it would cost me 500 AEXP. I decided to pass. I decided to increase VIT so I could have more energy and stay awake longer, it cost me 1100 AEXP I also remembered to try and improve my Health since I''ve been improving my mana so much. When I tried to improve the health it said it would cost me 100 AEXP per 10 Health I put 300 AEXP into health just so I have a solid 200. As I was looking at my AEXP, I really wish I could hit myself. I just realised that could have gained 1 INT and learned the skill book. I started hitting myself against the wall moaning out loud cause of my stupidity. Shade asked me what''s wrong, and laughed when I told him I''m an idiot. Recovering from my own stupidity it seems the world was mocking me when a window popped up but hey it help the issue my stupidity made for me.
Stat Gain
By realising your mistakes you have been awarded: 1 Int point, 2 LUC points
I really don¡¯t like how this world is¡­ I really don¡¯t like the fact my own stupidity benefited me more than doing the smart thing. I pulled out the skill book and learned it feeling like the world was piting me I couldn¡¯t get exited. When the skill window popped up suddenly I knew how to create and manipulate elements I even know I was trying to do something similar earlier but was unable to get the element from the mana.
Elemental Manipulation Beginner 1
This skill gifts the user knowledge on how to change mana into an element that they have an affinity for, while also bestowing the knowledge of how to manipulate each element. This skill is more effective with higher affinities and can gain most affinity when using an element occasionally.
I was happy I know knew how to manipulate my elements and it was, for lack of a better word awesome. I Meditated for 30 minutes to get enough mana to infuse the shrooms again. As soon as I got the new 15 I thought about using them to increase my limit again. I decided to consume 10 and plant the other 5 on the ceiling. I went back to meditation, and waited 50 minutes to max my mana. It¡¯s a good thing my meditation adds 1% to my recovery rate when in use, I found that out when observe leveled up. I board my mana into all 20 mushrooms in the room and when they split I put all 10 into my inventory and absorbed the rest then I poured the remaining of my mana into the mushrooms on the walls, ceiling and floor gaining another 20. If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. After I collected all 20 shrooms I moved to the part of the room which I''d deliberately left bare just so I could rest on the floor. I put 19 of the mushrooms in my inventory and placed one on the floor where I''d meditate and rest. I meditated for 10 minutes just so I''d have enough mana. I was going to try something with my elemental manipulation, I started by releasing 100 mana into the air and concentrating on it with the intent of changing it to wind element, after wasting several hundred mana I finally got the feeling of it just right and my mana became the element wind it wa cool. I then started to try and infuse the wing mana into the mana shroom and it took all 100 points of mana like usual but it wasn¡¯t enough. I tried again and again and when I had poured 500 wind mana into the shroom its color shifted from a steady and familiar luminescent blue to a near see-through greenish, yellow. When I looked closer I could see that the pattern that was slightly visible on its head was slowly rotating. I used observe on it and was stunned, not only because of the item itself but as I opened it another window showed up at the same time.
Wind Shroom
This shroom type was created when a newly born Wisp wanted to experiment on mana shrooms it was farming. After infusing several hundred wind attribute mana into a mana shroom. It was completely changed to a new species of magic mushroom not found on Ohmaze or any other connected world.
Congradulations
For being the first creature in Ohmaze to create a new type of magic plant you have earned a new Title: Magic Melder
Stat Gain
For being the first of your species to ever craft anything as well as for creating a new type of magic plant you have gained: STR+3,VIT+3,AGI+3,INT+3,WIS+3,LUC+3
Holy shit that''s a lot to gain! I thought that something like this would exist in this world, guess not. Not only did I gain a lot of stats but a new title. To think something so simple would give me so much. I immediately put the wind shroom in my inventory. I was feeling excited I even gained as much VIT a most creatures start with according to Shade when I ask him during my boredom while farming. I decided to use observe on my title to see what it does if it does anything. When I opened my status and looked at the titles I noticed right away that the title I gained when I called myself Darkness is gone. I started to wonder why and a window popped up saying that as the title does nothing it will not appear on the status screen. I realised that if I look for it, the title would appear but if not it would vanish. Weird but cool. When I used observe I used it on both my active titles since I don¡¯t know what either do.
Title: Foreign Soul
Due to being a reincarnated soul from a world without magic, your soul has became stronger than normal against anything that directly affects the soul. Most forms of soul magic would not even be noticed by you unless they would hurt you. It''s harder to get information about you with magic.
Title: Magic Melder
This title makes it easier to learn new forms of magic as well as blend them together better than most. It would still be hard but you¡¯d find it easier than most.
Wow both of these titles are different from what I expected, well Magic Melder is somewhat the same I just thought it would make fusing magic easier not learning magic easier. What surprised me though was that foreign soul had such good protective benefits. I didn''t even think that soul magic could be real I really shouldn¡¯t be surprised at this point. I decided to farm as much of these wind shroom since I might be able to create something new. I even tried to do the same thing with light and dark affinity but it turns out light shroom is a common ingredient used for healing potions. Dark shroomson the other hand had a similar description to my wind shroom, except instead of a wisp it said a ¡®Wild Rabbit¡¯ created it. It was also harder for me to make the light and dark mushrooms since I have low affinity at the moment, each cost me 500 mana but I had to concentrate a lot harder that the wind shroom and slowly infuse the mana. Although doing this was hard it cause my infusion to increase in level. I¡¯d have tried the other elements but I don''t have any. I decided to see if I could gain affinity from the wind shroom. When I started to eat the mushroom it took a lot more effort than I thought it would take. I had to use me entropic mist at full tilt just to get through one wind shroom in 10 minutes. It took way too long and cost me just under 1500 mana to eat it. On the bright side it did give me a trade for all of its AEXP for 1 wind affinity, which I took. I asked shade how long it''s been since I got up cause I was tired. I thought I''d only been up for about 8 or 9 hour but it turns out I''ve been up for 15 hours, jeez I must have been having fun farming these shrooms. I feel really accomplished today, I mean I did gain 10 times the mana I had yesterday, a couple of skills and a lot of stats from simply messing around with mana shrooms all day. If you don''t think that as impressive I don¡¯t know what. Especially when you consider I have no hands. Now that I think about it I¡¯ve been to lucky. Crap that means something terrible is going to happen tomorrow.
Stat Gain
For predicting a terrible event will happen in your future with complete certainty you have gained: WIS+1,LUC+2 and my condolences
(Dark): ¡°MOTHER FUCKER!!!¡±
Status Screen
Name N/A Level 2
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder
Health 230/230 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 5000/5000 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 6 INT 18
VIT 10 WIS 20
AGI 10 LUC 19
AEXP299
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind6
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1 Dark1
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Skill List
[spoiler] Wisp Arts Beginner level 1 --Entropic Mist Beginner level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Beginner level 2 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Beginner level 2 Meditation Beginner level 1 Elemental manipulation Beginner level 1 [/spoiler]
________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Authors Notes Thanks for pointing out my mistakesdrakenclaw and ZanthaV. Chapter 8: "Exam Day" When I woke up still in a bad mood from my premonition last night, floating down to the floor I noticed that 15 mana shrooms had split during the night. I quickly harvest them and put them into my inventory just to check what I currently have. Currently I have: 30 mana shrooms, 4 wind shrooms, 1 light shroom and 1 dark shroom. I also have 20 mana shrooms clinging around the room. Thinking that since I have enough mana I should start farming for AEXP since that''s good as well, I plant another 20 around the place and consume the remaining in my inventory gaining 2000 AEXP. I start infusing the 40 mana shrooms around the room when Shade starts talking through me again. (Shade): ¡°Good morning little Darkness, I expected you to rest until midday like yesterday, and it appears like you are almost finished my request all ready? Did you find a way to farm them faster perhaps?¡± (Dark): ¡°Good morning Shade, I did happen to find a way to farm them faster but I''m not going to finish your request today since these are really helpfull for now. Is that ok with you?¡± (Shade): ¡°Of course little Darkness but can I ask how fast you can farm them? It seems to fast for there to be 40 mana shrooms grown in only one day.¡± (Dark): ¡°Sure but only if you stop calling me little Darkness, deal?¡± (Shade): ¡°Counter offer I will add more rewards to completing my request. Would you like that little Darkness?¡± (Dark): ¡°mmm¡­ Fine deal.¡± I decided to trust my gut instinct, and I''m more than glad I did since a window popped up saying that my quest has been updated and the rewards now for it will add 2 more crystals. Smiling like a fool in my head I started to talk to shade again in slightly higher spirits. (Dark): ¡°I decided to follow a hunch and found out that I could infuse mana into the shrooms, when I infuse enough mana into it the shroom grows and splits into a second mana shroom.¡± (Shade): ¡°... Little Darkness, I don¡¯t know whether to be impressed of shocked. Not only can you farm them, but you found a way to farm them fast, that''s strange but I feel cheated if you can do that. Since you can do that I''m changing our agreement, farm for me 500 mana shrooms by the end of our deal and I''ll throw in more rewards as well.¡± Suddenly the quest window appears in front of me again. This time it read differently than I had expected and it was glorious.
Quest
For both surprising and impressing the Shade Dungeon known as Shade your quest was changed. You now have to farm 500 mana shrooms by the end of your deal. Shade will pay more attention to you and will respect you more due to this quest.
I was glad that the quest was changed to something much better, but at my current rate won¡¯t I be able to finish the quest today? Well I will if I go back to absorbing the mana shrooms for mana at least. Before I can finish my thought Shade started speaking to me again. (Shade): ¡°Excellent. I would like you to continue farming today, however I am going to need all the help I can today. I have to ask you to keep up our initial deal today since this is the day that the merrow come to take a graduation exam. They will be coming in the next hour.¡± (Dark): ¡°What do you mean that today¡¯s their exam day?¡± (Shade): ¡°Every 25 days the merrow have a ritual where the young run a dungeon on their own and do their best to get something of value. To the merrow this ritual trial is to see who is ready to be an adult in there clan, and since the merrow grow at a relatively fast rate they tend to have these exams every 25 days. Today is one of these days.The goblins you fought 2 days ago always stay away during this time for safety since only those killed by the dungeon revive.¡± (Dark): ¡°I knew that premonition wasn¡¯t good¡­ Aw fine just give me enough time to prepare.¡± At that Shade told me that when the door in the room opens, that''s when I should leave to defend him. Since I had been infusing the shrooms when he was talking to me I had managed to gain another 40. Since I didn¡¯t know how strong I was with all this mana I ended up eating all 40 of the new shrooms gaining another 2000 mana just incase. I ended up meditating for 20 minutes when an idea came to me, I was lacking in ways to attack and defend myself and since my INT and WIS were higher maybe a can do something other than mana bolt. I spent the next 20 minutes trying different ideas and managed to create a small arsenal to protect myself. Although it wasn¡¯t much it would make a massive difference to defend against the merrow. The new spells I had created were¡­
Mana Blast Beginner 1
By overcharging a mana bolt a more powerful version was created with the intention of overpowering the enemy''s defences. Size and power depends on mana used and INT and WIS. Mana cost: Varies on use, lowest cost is 10 mana
Mana barrier Beginner 1
This spell is the most basic defence a mage can have but also one of the most effective if used properly. Creates a barrier of solid mana in desired shape. Strength of the barrier depends on INT,WIS and skill level. Mana cost: 50 initial, plus 50 upkeep per minute(More than one can be in use, cost stacks)
Wind bolt Beginner 1
Basic wind spell that does less damage than a standard mana bolt but is intended to push back or stun opponents rather than hurt them. Mana cost: 10
Everything else that I tried was to hard to do was either to hard or I couldn¡¯t manipulate mana to such a fine degree although because of that I managed to raise my Wisp Arts main skill which seemed to do nothing new when I checked. Since I had about 35% of my total mana I stat back meditating to recover all of my mana. After 20 minutes I thought I recovered enough to relax a little since I now had 75% of my total mana. I asked Shade how long till I have to go out and help defend the place, and found that it would be about another 15 minutes, so I went back to meditating after I got my mana back to 90% I activated my mana barrier just to see how it worked. It turned out that I didn¡¯t need to focus on it once it was up but if I wanted to turn it of I had to focus. The same worked if there was multiple barriers and I found out I could turn off either one or both once they were summoned. Getting bored I sat back to meditating feeling cheated that I didn¡¯t farm more shrooms. Just as my mana was getting close to full Shade told me to get ready while one of his skeletons was opening the door for me. Floating out of the room I was feeling better, but nervous and as I started to follow the skeleton a new quest window poped up.
Challange Quest
The world has issued a challenge to you. Protect this dungeon from the merrow during their exam day until the day is up. The merrow use this dungeon to train their young until adulthood(25 days), once the day has started lots of young merrow will be trying to get to the dungeon boss or find something of value to earn their place as adults.
I thought about it and decided that even though I could die the rewards are too tempting since it''s going to be hard for me to gain EXP normally. I said yes and almost immediately regretted my decision when I realised how low my health is. Looking at my health on the stats screen, I decided to put all my AEXP into my health going from 230 up to 450 and hope I don¡¯t see it go down fast if at all. I drifted through the halls and found a merrow walking alone, as soon as it saw me it tilted its head and started to panic as it raised its spear. That changed as soon as it got a clear view of me as soon as it saw that I was a wisp it lowered its spear and started to walk past me thinking I''m not a threat. I was a little shocked since I was read to fight to the death, but as soon as it walked past me I felt cheated. I started to charge a mana blast and used about 500 mana since I didn¡¯t know how powerful my skill could be. I''m glad that I did since as soon as I fired it it crashed into the merrow tearing the right side of its body clean of I could see the beasts ribs protect its organs but all the organs below its ribcage were ripped out with his right side. As it turned to see who attacked it, the merrow tripped on its loosely attached intestines falling towards the side of the tunnel and impaling its own heart, through its exposed ribs on a shard of shade glass that was growing at the side. This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. As the merrow vanished I was stunned at how easy that was, now that I think about it I was lucky since the merrow looked like it could still fight until it tripped on its own intestines, stabbing its own heart. It was still easier than I thought though considering that it was a level 7. I wa underwhelmed with how I killed my first merrow but a win¡¯s a win. I sank and picked up the shade glass for an experiment later. Floating through the dungeon I found a lot more shade glass than I did 2 days ago, finding a total of 6 before I found another merrow this time it looked a lot smarter than the one that kill himself. Thankfully it was facing a skeleton and was too busy to even notice me, I charged a mana blast with 200 mana and as soon as the skeleton jumped away from each other I fired decimating the merrows neck separating its head from its shoulders, before it vanished I got a quick look at the head and body and notice that I didn¡¯t break the beast''s spine but severed the flesh and nerves holding the bones together. I wonder why it didn¡¯t break its neck but severed its flesh instead? I should look into it, I could also look into why I can cope so well in these kind of situations it feels wrong being this level headed during this. Aside from starting to question why I''m like this, I ended floating towards the large room I found before and found 3 merrow fighting 6 skeletons. I decided to join in but I didn¡¯t want to be stupid and charge in dieing again. Instead I waited and every so often I''d throw a wind bolt disrupting a merrow giving the skeletons a chance to attack. I kept using wind bolt instead of my other attacks cause if I missed I''d probably destroy the skeletons or at least damage them. After about 10 minutes of moving the merrow about with wind bolts they couldn¡¯t find the source of I started to get a headache since I was using the spell almost every 10 seconds. I couldn¡¯t deal with it any more since the skeletons were only doing small amounts of damage and I wanted to rest. With that in mind I launched 10 mana bolts landing 8 of them accidentally disarming a skeleton but thankfully I distracted 1 of the merrows and caused heavy damage to the other 2 ripping their flesh from the bones were I hit if more than one shot landed next to each other. One of the merrow had its back bleeding heavily, another lost the use of its left leg with its thigh ripped from most of its bone, leaking blood at a strangely slow rate. The last that got distracted I didn¡¯t see in time as a skeleton cut it down while I wasn¡¯t looking. After that the last 2 merrow were working closely together but were destroyed by a mana blast that cost 300 that threw them into the skeletons weapons. Feeling like my mind was cracked I found a shade torch on a wall down a corridor, deciding to rest and take a minute to recover from mental fatigue I started meditating once I notice my mana was below 75%. I was immediately glad that I did cause once I started my mental fatigue lessened to non existence almost as fast as I could move down the hall. Taking my time to recover I was glad that I managed to defeat 5 merrow within my first hour, although I got luck with the first 2 and had help with the 3 in the large room. Once I was recovered I set out and left the safety of my shade torch taking this one with me for an experiment later. Finding myself waltzing into the room with the treasure chest that the goblin tried fighting me, I found a merrow with a grin on its face as it raided the chest. When I looked closer it was the first merrow that I killed about an hour ago, it looks like it decided to come back. Since it was busy I decided to hide in a shade torch on the wall next to the door. I asked Shade quietly why this merrow is back so soon only to find out that anyone that dies in a dungeon on Ohmaze can return to the dungeon within half an hour if they want to, and since the merrow have to get something of value be pass the ritualistic exam they come back as soon as they can. As I finished listening to Shade I didn¡¯t notice it leave. Practically jumping from my shade torch I flew out the door I was next to and spotted the merrow and trying to get it to fight me since I was feeling cheap for killing it on accident I used wing bolt on it. Knocking it over straight onto another piece of shade glass I failed to notice, I accidently pierced its heart again killing it instantly. Well at least I killed him¡­ I better start looking for other merrows again. Picking up the shade glass that killed the merrow I wanted to fight I spent the next hour looking for other merrow to fight. I found one that had larger frills than the merrow I''ve been fighting up until now. Almost as soon as I got in range for it to see me, this merrow lunged to me and tried to stab me with a copper sword it was using. I recognised that this was the larger merrow that split the loot the gained from defeating the skeletons 3 days ago. It also appears to be level 8. I nearly got hit quite a few times during the fight only to dodge because of how small I was. I was stalling for time because mana blast needs to charge the mana I was using and since I had full mana I wanted to try something. Almost as soon as my mana blast was charged with 1000 mana I floated up and fires the vicious attack down at the poor merrow. My attack hit him directly on the head and splattered blood all over the walls all the while scattering the upper torso outward like a disgusting flower with broken bones and internal organs as the petals. As as soon as it blossomed it began to wilt, vanishing into white light. As I was feeling sick with myself for not even caring how horrifyingly disgusting my actions were, or at the very least what they caused. I found the same merrow that''s died twice to shade glass. This time I didn¡¯t attack it and waited until it saw me floating. As soon as it saw me it started running towards me and stood on some shade glass. It jumped at the sudden pain in itf foot, but its momentum carried it forward tripping on a larger piece of glass next to it. It was immediately impaled on another piece of shade glass. Just as it died again I swear I could hear it mumble something similar to ¡®For fuck¡¯s sake¡¯. I think I''ll leave this poor guy alone from now on. By the end of the day I had killed a total of 36 merrow and had to rest quite a bit since the mental strain got too much from using a lot of mana, I even gained a level in mana blast and wind bolt as well as 2 in mana manipulation and 1 in elemental manipulation from how often I use mana bolt, mana blast and wind bolt. I never once used my mana barrier, since I forgot but thankfully I never once got hit. I had spent a total of 12 hours fighting the merrow I even saw the merrow that kept killing itself. Not once did I get to fight him since he keep dieing to shade glass, which in turn helped me find a lot of it. Other than the suicide merrow every fight with them was hard there was even a fight where I nearly ran out of mana finishing the fight with only just over 100 out of my 7000 mana, what made it worse was it was a fight against a level 6 merrow instead of the level 7¡¯s or the level 8¡¯s I fought. My only excuse is that that merrow was very cautious unlike the rest. Shade talked to me just as I finished my last fight with a merrow saying that will be the last one for tonight, out of curiousity I asked how many merrow came to the dungeon today to find that a staggering 153 came to take his trail. I asked why I only saw the same 20 odd and he just said it was a Dungeon secret. After about 20 minutes of waiting Shade said that¡¯s it for today and everything will be back to normal from tomorrow and I should get back to my room for some rest. As I drifted through the corridors and arrived at the room I practically crashed into my room exhausted, ready to fall asleep. However just as I was about to fall asleep a new window poped up in front of me.
Challenge Quest Complete
Due to completing the challenge quest you have been awarded
Congratulations you have level up
As a Profound Wisp you will gain 2 times the normal growth rate of a Wisp
You have gained:
Since you gained enough EXP for more levels, and because you can only level up due to being a profound creature. You can select a bonus in exchange.
Select one of the following.
I was once again stunned cause of these damn windows, I was getting fed up with the stuff that could pop up any moment. Since I couldn¡¯t look at any additional information I was tempted to get the AEXP and the skill but I was too curious about the upgrade stat option. So I clicked it and as soon as I did it gave me a window which had STR,VIT,AGI,INT,WIS and a lot of ??? but I noticed there wasn¡¯t any LUC at all. Since I really didn¡¯t want to have any more of that crappy mental fatigue I selected WIS.
Congratulations your WIS stat has been changed to G.WIS
G.WIS stand for Greater wisdom, the new stat is essentially the same as normal WIS but is twice as effective per stat point. For example 10 G.WIS is equal to 20 WIS
Even though a skill could have been better I think this is far better in the long run since I''m always going to get G.WIS every level from now own, I think. And now that I think about it with mt equivalent WIS almost at 50 I''m a lot stronger than most Wisps at my level, and I''m only level 3! Even though I was excited I was barely able to see my stats screen before I passed out
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 3
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder
Health 550/550 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 7200/7200 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 6 INT 22
VIT 10 G.WIS24
AGI 12 LUC 21
AEXP15,099
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind6
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1 Dark1
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 2 --Entropic Mist Beginner level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Beginner level 4 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 2 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Beginner level 2 Meditation Beginner level 1 Elemental manipulation Beginner level 2 Mana Blast Beginner level 2 Mana Barrier Beginner level 1 Wind bolt Beginner level 2
_________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Authors Notes I noticed that while i was writing this chapter that i forgot to change the name in the stat screen from N/A to Darkness, so i fixed that in all previous chapters. also feel free to point out any of my mistakes like the lack of a capital on the also at the start of this sentence. Chapter 9: Farming As I woke up and floated down to the floor I looked around at all 40 of the mana shrooms on the wall, none of them split during the night. As I was about to start infusing the shrooms with mana, I started to think about the events of yesterday. This the change from WIS to G.WIS I''d grown calmer and started to question a lot more than I did since reincarnation. Even though it''s only been 5-10 minutes since I got up and roughly the same amount of time for me consciously, it''s a clear change. My mind¡¯s more peaceful than ever before and it''s so noticeable that I can honestly say I''ve never felt truly like this before. After contemplating my substantial mental improvement, I had collected another 40 shrooms, consuming 36 for a total of 1800 mana so I can bring my mana up to 9000. I put the rest of the shrooms in my inventory for now. I was about to start infusing more of the shrooms when I realised that Shade shouldn¡¯t have been able to change the quest and confronted him about it. (Dark): ¡°Shade, it down on me that you changed my quest without my permission, at the time I was too busy preparing to deal with the merrow that I didn¡¯t notice. You shouldn¡¯t have been able to do that right?¡± (Shade): ¡°Oh that little Darkness? Any being from Ohmaze can have a Quest changed midway as long as the quest giver isn¡¯t changing the type and only add to the quest if the addition is thought to be within their capabilities, while also the quest recipient is fully capable as well. Both of us would have got notifications if you didn¡¯t have the ability for my request. On the of chance you were both off us received a change to the quest. Is there any other questions, for me little Darkness.¡± Thinking about it for a couple of seconds only one more question popped into my head. (Dark): ¡°Is there anything else I should know about the way the world''s work? And I mean all the of them.¡± (Shade): ¡°Excellent wording little Darkness. For the world of Ohmaze there is a system that all beings born with, you appear familiar with it already. The system itself is flexible and can change almost completely if the right conditions are met. You might have already had some changes since a wisp normally doesn¡¯t have enough VIT to stay awake as long as you did yesterday. There are lots of monster clans throughout the world but I only know of the ones that I can create and those that enter me such as goblins, kobolds and alurnes. These are the only native monsters I know and each have different priorities when the enter. Folous is the world of the merrow the only monsters that come from another world to challenge me. Folous is a water world with lots of land slightly submerged in the planet''s oceans. I don¡¯t know anymore about Folous since I only got some info from a merrow that made a deal with me a long time ago. From the same merrow I found out there are a few other worlds connected to Ohmaze. I don''t have much info on them but they are called; Jarrjius a heavy world, Xefos metal world and Kiras no info on it. If you just said the world instead of worlds you''d be in for a shock when you leave, little Darkness¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯m a little taken aback by the fact Ohmaze is connected to so many worlds. It looks like this life if mine is either going to be painful or fun. Probably both though.¡± (Shade): ¡°Who knows maybe when you go to another world you¡¯ll find a male wisp and settle down.¡± (Dark): ¡°Don¡¯t joke about that, I don¡¯t even know why a wisp needs a gender if it can spontaneously exist like me.¡± (Shade): ¡°It seems like you''ve still got a lot to learn about yourself and I''m not going to help you with that. By the way little Darkness what were you in your previously life?¡± (Dark): ¡°I was a male human why?¡± (Shade): ¡°Oh you are going to enjoy being a wisp when you find a partner.¡± Laughing as he stopped talking to me I started to feel uncomfortable being female for the first time since reincarnation. Well nothing I can do about it, so I went back to infusing the mushrooms after 20 minutes of meditation since my mana was about 60% of my mana. After infusing the 40 mana shrooms I planted all 40 and went back to meditating and thinking. While I was meditating I opened up my stats screen and tried to upgrade my regen rate but I didn¡¯t have enough AEXP still. When I finished thinking through what I could use my 15,000 AEXP on I was a little worrisome that it was a bad choice especially since it cost most of my AEXP. I used 10,000 AEXP to improve my light and dark affinity up to 5, it was nice to my non-existent eyes that it cost 5000 for both affinities. With 5000 AEXP lest I decided that it would be best is I improved my VIT and since I wanted 5 points bit was a little short I ate my 4 shrooms from my inventory and a piece of shade glass getting an extra 1102 AEXP. since I now had enough I use 6100 AEXP to improve my VIT by 5 leaving me with 201 AEXP I decided to save. Although I still feel weak I know I''m a lot stronger than I should be especially with my mana pool almost at 10,000. Glade with my decision I went back to meditating and once I gathered 90% I infused all of the 80 shrooms gaining a spare 80, I planted 20 of them on the ceiling since I planned most on the floor, I put 40 into my inventory for later and devoured the last 20 bringing all of my mana up to 10,000 total. Suddenly a window popped up in front of me, I wasn¡¯t even surprised at this point.
Congratulations
For being the first being to break the 10,000 mana barrier before becoming level 10 or higher from Ohmaze you have been awarded: +5 to all stats
More stats are good and all but with this all my stats are higher than standard games start at, plus I can¡¯t even use STR at all, not unless I stupidly fly into someone. With this it''s safe to assume that I can gain rewards by being stronger than other of my level as well as long as it''s by a large margin, I think. Since I got to 10,000 mana why don¡¯t I try and go for 100,000? Make myself even harder to handle to fight. I was about to start meditating and go through with that but since I have a couple of experiment ideas I want to try out I think I''ll spend an hour doing that. I took out a piece of shade glass and started to infuse some mana into it, I ended pouring 500 mana into the shade glass before having to stop and meditate. I simply didn''t have enough mana when I started. After 20 minutes of meditating I started again and it only took another 500 mana before a window appears.
Mana Charged Shade Glass
This is shade glass which has been overcharged with mana. When shade glass is overcharged with mana it can be crafted into lots of useful materials for magic crafts. Those from a civilized culture might buy this from you.
Putting it in my inventory, this time I tried to add an element to it, since wind was still my highest I decided to try that first. When I finished infusing the wind element into it I ended up with another mana charged shade glass. I didn¡¯t think that applying the attribute would work since I had a hunch it wouldn¡¯t. Still determined to try my idea I moved onto my last 2 attributes. This is where things got interesting since this time both worked and I created 2 different items. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.
Shade Light Glass
This item was created when a young wisp infused light affinity into a piece of shade glass. It looks just the same but a faint light can be seen leaking for its surface. This type item is a unique and can only be created. There are no known applications AEXP: 2000
Shadow Glass
Shadow glass in an item commonly found in dungeons with a very strong affinity to the dark. Although it is uncommon it is possible to create shadow glass from standard glass and shade glass people usually do when they are looking to create Dark glass, a rare and hard to find or create material only master mages can even attempt fully creating lowest level Dark Glass. AEXP: 500-1000
Congratulations
By creating an item which is a blend of light and dark attribute the first in Ohmaze you have been awarded: +10 Light attribute +10 Dark attribute.
I was expecting to get stats but affinities are probably better heck I even got 10 in both light and dark. Feeling pleased with myself I decided to try and continue my experiments but no matter what I did, when I tried to infuse the shade torch nothing would happen. On the plus side I managed to raise my infusion skill. Deciding to give up and return to the mana shrooms I ended up meditating for 30 minutes to fully restore my mana since I had about 40% when I finished trying to experiment. I put everything away except the 100 mana mushrooms growing all throughout the room. I spent the next 10 minutes infusing the shrooms with mana, gathering a new 100 mana shrooms and using up all of my mana reserves. As I devoured them Shade asked me how I was doing and I told him that I was feeling great since I just earned some stats, when he asked me how I earned them I told him to double my rewards for the quest then I''d spill. He went quiet after muttering something to me I didn¡¯t understand. Once I ate all of the mana shrooms gaining 5000 more max mana I meditated for 40 minutes, then repeated infusing the mana shrooms. After practically inhaling the shrooms almost literally, I gained another 5000 max mana. I spent 10 minutes meditating recovering mana up to 55% of my mana, once I had that I infused the remaining mana into the mana shrooms I planted the new 100 around the room with the others. When I took a step back... float back I looked at the room and notice it was starting to look like a mini mushroom kingdom. I was really glad it looked cool but I drifted down to my rest spot and sat pleasantly meditating for about 50 minutes. As soon as I''d finished meditating I ended up falling into a rhythm, since I had a lot of spare mana I put my mana barrier up around myself and just left it on since it only used 1/4 of my regen rate. I infused and ate 200 mushrooms every hour for the next 6 hours before I started getting tired from the repetition. I''m honestly amased that it took me that long to get sick of the repetition. Aside from gaining another 60,000 mana and being able to produce the shrooms every 15 minutes now, during the farming I had my barrier up the whole time, improving it by 2 levels. Even though I could now have 16 barriers up without losing mana any more that 2 and the mental strain would build to fast with the constant infusing. I also raised my infusion twice as well, along with meditation once. I had spent a total of 10 hours up to day only 6 of them was farming the shrooms now. I was close to improving my mana to 100,000 but I didn¡¯t want too just yet. I spent the next 2 hours farming for the mushrooms and since I could recover enough mana to split them every 15 minutes if I meditated, I did just that. I had gathered 1600 mana shrooms during the 2 hours I had not ate them and since unlike earlier when I was only farming once an hour I managed to gain 4 times normal, my meditation and infusion went up as well because I didn¡¯t take a rest either. I put 600 of them into my inventory and decided that it was for the best it I use the rest for AEXP since it¡¯s only going to get harder to get it, at least while I have a deal with Shade. Since I used them for AEXP instead of mana I gained 200,000, which still wasn¡¯t enough to improve my health or mana regen rates. I don''t know why but I decided to put as much of that into my LUC as possible. Maybe it was a hunch but I feel like it''s going to be more important later than right now. I was also only 100 AEXP from raising it to the next level, so I ended up eating one of my reserved mana shrooms. In total I raised my LUC 7 Stat points with 20,300 AEXP. I was getting tired since I spent the whole day farming. Just before I was about to lay down for the night I took out 400 of the mushrooms and raised my man to 100,000.
Congratulations
For being the first being to break the 100,000 mana barrier before becoming level 50 or higher from Ohmaze you have been awarded: +10 to all stats
Congratulations
For being the first being to break the 100,000 mana barrier before becoming level 10 or higher from Ohmaze you have been awarded: Unique skill: Nonexistence
Nonexistence Level Max
This skill give the user the ability to hide completely anyware, you cannot be found if you haven''t been seen or noticed before using this skill. You do not register on any form of detection skill of system. Spells won''t be noticed unless intended. If you are in a fight you cannot use this skill to avoid being seen by those already involved, but you can stay hidden from those that might enter the fight unless you attack them. You cannot be tracked.
This skill is always on and you can only use the hiding ability if you intend to. Active part of skill is canceled during fights, to those involved. Smiling to myself I drift to sleep, I think boosting LUC was definitely the right decision. Aw crap I just raised a death flag didn¡¯t i¡­
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 3
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder
Health 650/650 Health Regen 1% per Min
Mana 100,000/100,000 Mana Regen 1% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 37
VIT 30 G.WIS39
AGI 27 LUC 43
AEXP101
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind6
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light15 Dark15
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 2 --Entropic Mist Beginner level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Beginner level 4 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 2 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Beginner level 6 Meditation Beginner level 3 Elemental manipulation Beginner level 2 Mana Blast Beginner level 2 Mana Barrier Beginner level 3 Wind bolt Beginner level 2
Chapter 10: Emergency When I got up today I more or less started to do the same thing I''ve been doing since I found the mana shrooms. I infused the 200 shrooms with my mana 4 times so I''d have 1000 mana shrooms planted throughout the room, when I did Shade asked me if I''m going to complete the quest he gave me. I told him to hold I''d not do that for now since I was planning to do something ¡®stupid¡¯. Leaving me to my own devices, I went to meditate for roughly 50 minutes to fully recover my mana. My goal for today is to get to 1,000,000 and get as much AEXP as I could from farming. After I''d finished my my first round infusing the 1000 mana shrooms I consumed them all gaining 50,000 max mana. I ended up repeating this once again but I only needed to meditate 40 minutes to recover enough. Once I gained the next 50,000 I started get into a rhythm where I''d spend 25 minutes recovering enough mana to double the about of mana shrooms. After that I''d spend 50 minutes recovering mana, split and consume the shrooms for 50% of my max mana increase and follow with spending 30-40 minutes meditating to split the shrooms again, eating them for the same mana increase. I managed to repeat this cycle 2 only using 4 and a half hour since I got up and I have almost already got 1,000,000. I had 800,000 and I only needed to split the shrooms once more to gain them. I infused and split the 4000 shrooms practically covering the walls, floor and ceiling, but instead of absorbing them I stored them for later in my inventory. Splitting them again I started to consume them for AEXP, after consuming 4000, mana shrooms I gained a large 800,000 AEXP since I had so much I was about to try upgrading my mana regen so I could be even faster. As my selected my mana regen, a window finally popped up asking me if I''d like to trade 250,000 AEXP to improve my mana regen. I smiled to myself and upgraded my regen. Within that instance I could feel the instant change, it was substantial. The only way to describe it was like drinking water when you''re thirsty and didn¡¯t know it. I tried with the health and it upgraded, for the same cost. The feeling was similar but it was like stretching your body when in pain to feel all that pain vanish leaving you feeling refreshed. I tried to upgrade mana regen again but I got the familiar window saying I don¡¯t have enough AEXP. I tried with the health and it upgraded just fine, for the same cost. The feeling was similar but it was like stretching your body when in pain to feel all that pain vanish leaving you feeling refreshed. I didn¡¯t know what I wanted to do with the remaining AEXP for now even though it could be a massive improvement. Instead I split the 4000 shrooms by infusing them again, gaining AEXP from them. As I was thinking it over I decided to try and create more spells while I think it over. During the hour I spent thinking I ended up creating 4 new abilities, which I think will help me a lot more than my current spells. It turns out that in order to make better spells I need INT and WIS to make different combinations.
Wind Blade Beginner 1
Wind blade is the most common form of attack spell from wind magics. It¡¯s more powerful that most types of magic that is intended to cut flesh but it is only as powerful as the user''s wind affinities and the amount of mana they have. It also happens to be rather easy to dispel when used.
Flash Blade Beginner 1
This spell is an attempt at a lost form of magic where the user channels magic into the form of tools. Since this is an attempt at lost art it is weaker than the real thing as well as limited to one form. This spell constantly consumes mana to maintain a mana blade. Unlike the spell mana blade this one is a constant stream of mana and cost more to use. The size, damage and cost will depend on the user''s wishes. The original spell was intended to be used for a moment and no longer, giving it the name flash blade.
Corrosion Bolt Beginner 1
Spell that was created to mimic the wisps natural ability to corrode those around them. By combining a mana bolt with dark energy, this spell was created. It will do less immediate damage to a target but will weaken them while it''s still in effect. Mana cost: 20
Lesser Light Heal Beginner 1
this spell is a combination of light affinities and mana bolt. It is rather uncommon since most healing spells use holy affinity. Unlike holy spells, this healing spell works on any creature regardless of their nature. Spells that use light instead of holy to heal are slightly weaker, but can heal anyone affected by it. Healing value varies based on individuals light affinity as well as skill level.
I¡¯m kind of eager to test out these new spells, but I''m still farming. As I was about to open my stats screen to use my AEXP, since I decided what to do, Shade started talking to me. I almost froze since I could here the panic in his voice he¡¯s trying to hide. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, we have an emergency a creature ive never seen before is rampaging through the dungeon. It¡¯s something called a Troll apparently and it''s not even flinching to getting attacked by mye skeletons and zombies. I need all the help I can get to stop it. Go to that large room you¡¯ve passed before and wait there for it.¡± (Dark): ¡°Did you happen to get a look at it¡¯s level?¡± I didn¡¯t get a response, this must be serious then. As I left the room I floated down the halls, noticing that I''m moving a lot faster than I did before. Passing the halls I noticed that there was a couple merrow jogging beside some skeletons and when I got to the large open room I noticed that there was a couple merrow, skeletons and some zombies. I was a little taken aback by the zombies since there was no human zombies, just merrow and something lizard like. In total there was 23 monsters in this room staring at the hall in the far end. I was a little worried since the merrow were here too. But they seemed to be helping out as well. I''ll have to ask Shade later. Suddenly a window sprang into existence in front of me. Making me think this is really bad if its like that.
Event Quest
the shade dungeon is under attack by a troll from distant land. It plans on killing everyone in the dungeon, including the dungeon to make this place its new home. Protect the dungeon with your life.
Allies -Merrow 7 -Skeletons 10 -Zombies 6Enemy -Troll
Skeletons and zombies will return to the fight after death from their spawn points, the merrow and you will die for good if killed.
As I close the window a large man like beast climbs through the halls doorway. As soon as he is through I notice, he is twice as large as the tallest merrow in the room, this head seems malformed and he¡¯s chewing own the corpse of a merrow. Looking closer the merrow is still alive it just can''t move. I don¡¯t know what came over me in that instance but I immediately used wind blade to slice the merrow in half. Bursting into light as the troll was chewing its leg, I noticed that some of the merrow were relived. The troll on the other hand is clearly mad it''s stared at the small army littering the room and started to walk forward. I finally got within range to use observe on it, I can understand why Shade didn¡¯t say anything now.
Troll level 24
trolls are famed for their frightful strength as well as their regenerative properties. People try to avoid fighting trolls at all cost normally since they tend to fight creatures stronger than them selves with ease. It can easily detect mana and normally looks for the strongest force to fight, when they are young. AEXP: Level*200
As the troll started to charge towards us, the skeletons stood in front of the merrow bracing themselves for the attack. While the merrow with spears stood ready and pointed there spears at the troll, the merro with swords ran to the left of the troll, and the zombies went to the right. I floated above the troll and prepared to attack, I started to charge my mana blast with 10,000 mana since I didn''t want to kill my allies. Thankfully no-one noticed me thanks to Nonexistence and while they were steadily attacking the troll it took large swings. No merrow was hit but a few skeletons and a couple of zombies were destroyed, scattered through the room. Once my mana blast was fully charged I fired it at the troll. As it hit I could see the troll being crushed to the floor. It was a glancing blow since I use enough mana to cause too much mental strain I couldn¡¯t focus enough. The blast tore of the trolls left arm and broke its left leg. It¡¯s bloodless limbs scattered and turned to dust, at the same time its body was flung down and to the right side of it. Its body cracked the ground and with it still knocked down, everyone was shocked. Nobody even noticed my till that point cause of my power but as soon as I attacked they all realised I was there. Before everyone could regain their senses the troll roared and stood up. It¡¯s leg had healed but its left arm was slowly re-growing. It stared at me as it screamed again, unknowingly waking everyone from there shock. The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. Everyone attacked again but I had to recover, I was still in pain from using so much mana at once. While the troll got distracted I started to meditate to relieve my mental strain a little. While I was meditating I noticed that the merrow were starting to get worn down, none died yet but they were all hurt, unable to fight for much longer. Having recovered a little I started to send out lesser heals to every merrow in the room and a few zombies that had broken limbs. As soon as the first hit, the merrows looked at me healing them and seemed to nod. The troll saw this and looked at me curiously before screaming and trying to swipe at me with its half regrown arm. I floated to the side and used flash blade, slicing through its arm in an instant. As its arm flew from its shoulder again I floated away using wind bolt several times knocking the troll to the floor. When it was down all the merrow with swords jumped and stabbed it¡¯s head, the zombies tore at its legs, skeletons were tearing at its arm while the spear merrow recovered. I was suffering from the mental strain still but I was getting use to it. As soon as the troll roared again, it started to flail its arms throwing everyone still near it around the room. As one merrow was about to get crushed as the troll stood up I used mana barrier to protect and push the merrow away just in time. The troll was heavily injured and its wounds were healing a lot slower than earlier. Healing all those that were injured I get an idea, if it doesn¡¯t work I''m done for if it does it¡¯s going to save the day. Launching a corrosion bolt at the troll''s chest I fly as fast as I can covering myself with a mana barrier, I smash into its chest and use flash blade, spinning as fast as I can tearing its organs apart and rip my way through the beast''s back. Stumbling forward the troll¡¯s wounds are trying to heal and I charge back in,still with the buried up I fire corrosion bolts inside this poor beast before drifting out. As the troll falls back I float up to the ceiling trying to clear my head from the mental strain. I look back down and see the troll still trying to move. Everyone charges at the troll while it can¡¯t move and tear it to shreds literally. As the troll breathes its last breath, everyone starts to cheer. The merrow are dancing, the skeletons and seemingly singing and the zombies are quietly hugging. Before everyone starts to calm down a couple of windows pop up.
Event Quest Completed
The Troll has been defeated and everyone involved has been awarded for their contribution. -------------------- Rewards 130,000 EXP 20,000 AEXP Title: Under Level Champion ----------------
Under Level Champion
By defeating enemies that are higher level that you. You will receive a bonus based on the level difference. The bonus could be from EXP to extra status points based on the difference in level.
[tr4]Everyone that saved the dungeon but is not part of it will be teleported to dungeon entrance. Nobody will be able to enter for 1 hour until the dungeon has recovered.[/td4]
Congratulations you have level up
As a Profound Wisp you will gain 2 times the normal growth rate of a Wisp
You have gained: +2 AGI +4 INT +6 G.WIS +2 LUC +100 Health +200 Mana
Due to special skill you gained: +3000 AEXP
[a][tr4]Since you gained enough EXP for more levels, and because you can only level up due to being a profound creature. You can select a bonus in exchange. [/td4][tr4]Select one of the following. -------------------- Random skill based on excess EXP Upgrade a stat EXP too AEXP --------------------[/td4]
Suddenly all the merrow vanished in a blinding light similar to what happened when they are killed by the dungeon and its inhabitants. Smiling away at my self with the new level up I selected upgrade stat again. I tried selecting G.WIS but a message popped up saying my G.WIS isn¡¯t high enough to upgrade. Cause it wasn¡¯t able to improve I planned on improving INT instead. Just as I was about to improve INT Shade started talking to me as I pressed a button. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, how did you do that? That troll was more that 20 times higher level than you. It should have even been possible for you to do what you did. How did you, not only deal substantial damage but also change the tide of battle without even getting hit? Explain how.¡± I flew as fast as I could back to the little room of mine before I even dared speak. Once there I decided I should say everything about how I''m as strong as I am. (Dark): ¡°You know how I''m reincarnated right? Well when I got reincarnated a window appeared to me saying I''ve been given a power and something else that keeps getting blocked from my mind when I try to think about it. Anyway the power I got was a skill called EXP convert...¡± (Shade): ¡°You got a rare skill but that should have made you a higher level by now since you''ve fought the merrow. It still doesn¡¯t explain why you are this strong.¡± (Dark): ¡°Don¡¯t interrupt please, plus I was just getting to that. The skill itself is a variant which doesn¡¯t allow me to convert to EXP but to a system that affects me called attribute EXP or AEXP. I can gather AEXP from consuming things and can use the AEXP to improve my stats. The main reason I''m this strong is because I found out I could farm the mana shrooms by infusing mana into them...¡± (Shade): ¡°So you have been gather this AEXP from the mana shrooms and improving your stats?¡± (Dark): ¡°Stop interrupting. You guessed right but. I''m only as strong as I am because I found that I can always gain a permanent 50 max mana from them as well if I forfeit the AEXP.¡± A pressure that I didn¡¯t even notice was there suddenly lifted. Shade seemed to be thinking something since he was mumbling to himself. (Shade): ¡°After our deal is done you have to leave, your mana will get to high and attract stronger and stronger creatures and I can¡¯t risk that.¡± (Dark): ¡°Ok Shade. I''ll leave when the deal is finished.¡± I decided to keep my Nonexistence skill a secret since it could cause more trouble for me. When I finally finished talking to shade I looked around the room and realised I just selected one of the stats to be improved. When I opened my stats I was a little shocked at what one I improved but at least it''s still a useful one. I couldn¡¯t be bothered doing anything other than resting right now. Just as I was going to go to sleep I eat 4000 mana shrooms boosting my max mana up to 1,000,200. I passed out as the windows popped up. I''ll have to see them tomorrow.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 3
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, ???
Health 1050/1050 Health Regen 2% per Min
Mana 1,000,200/1,000,200 Mana Regen 2% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 41
G.VIT 30 G.WIS45
AGI 29 LUC 45
AEXP1,102,101
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind6
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light15 Dark15
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 2 --Entropic Mist Beginner level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Beginner level 4 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Beginner level 2 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Beginner level 6 Meditation Beginner level 3 Elemental manipulation Beginner level 2 Mana Blast Beginner level 2 Mana Barrier Beginner level 3 Wind bolt Beginner level 2 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Beginner level 1 Flash Blade Beginner level 1 Corrosion Bolt Beginner level 1 Lesser Light Heal Beginner level 1 ???
Chapter 11: Day 30 After the fight with the troll, I started falling into the same routine for this month. Day in day out I''ve been experimenting on mana mushrooms for an hour or 2 depending on my mood. I spend the rest of the time floating through the Shades halls and at the end of the day I''d split the mana shrooms to add to my inventory. It''s a good thing I seemingly don¡¯t have an inventory limit since I have a couple thousand shrooms filling its majority. It¡¯s a good thing too since I found more shade glass and made more mana glass, shade light glass and shadow glass. When I was experimenting with the mana shrooms I created a lot of wind shrooms, dark shrooms and light shrooms. I ended up using a lot of time to get a total of 500 in each affinity even though it took a while to eat each one. As soon as I got my affinites past 100 all their respective spells. Ever since I helped defeat the troll I haven¡¯t got into a proper fight since then. Everytime I show myself to the merrow they bow and leave the dungeon, when the goblins suddenly see me the panic and run. On the plus side I''ve managed to keep my deal with Shade by protecting him. I recently met kobolds for the first time but when I revealed myself to the they seemed to pray and leave the dungeon. When I told Shade this he laughed and told me that the kobolds think that wisps are the spirits of the dead, so they pray and leave the area when they see one as it part of their religion to leave the dead to rest. When I gained 1,000,000 mana I got some nice windows telling me that I got a new title and one that said I got a new skill. I didn¡¯t get any stats though but I was fine with that. The title and skill I got were kind of interesting as well.
Congratulations
For being the first being to break the 1,000,000 mana barrier before becoming level 100 or higher from Ohmaze you have been awarded: Title: Eidolons Mind
Congratulations
For being the first being to break the 1,000,000 mana barrier before becoming level 50 or higher from Ohmaze you have been awarded: Skill: Eidolons Craft
Title:Eidolons Mind
Eidolons mind is a unique title which gives the user the ability to learn magic just by being relatively near when it is cast. All forms of mind manipulation magic can¡¯t work on you.
Eidolons Craft Beginner 1
This is the lost skill to create magical items of unimaginable power. When the user is creating an item it is possible for them to also use this skill to imbue a permanent enchantment with one of the users types of magic. Cost of enchanting this way is 1000 times the mana cost minimum. Enchantments done this way are unrivaled with the known forms of enchantment throughout Ohmaze and most worlds.
These are pretty useful, however I haven''t even been able to use the benefits of either since none of the monsters I''ve faced have used any form of magic. I''m not even capable of using my new skill, all because it requires me to actually infuse a spell into an item I''m crafting. I tried using it on a mana shroom to see what would happen. The results involved me having to re plant hundreds of mana shrooms throughout my room. Not everything has been that unfortunate, I managed to gather a few million AEXP. I used most of them to improve my mana regen up to 10% and health to match. After I did that I was left with just over 1 million AEXP, and even though I could easily farm more I kept getting the feeling I shouldn¡¯t and that feeling would arrive in full force when ever I had the thought. I ended up using all of my remaining AEXP to improve my G.WIS since I didn¡¯t want to suffer from that mental strain again, putting my G.Wis at 148. Thanks to the massive increase in G.WIS I can repeatably use my spells without feeling any mental strain unless I use mana blast part 100,000, which is devastating or if I use flash blade constantly with 1000 or more mana usage, as long as I don¡¯t use more than 1000 mana per minute I feel no strain. Thanks the the massive increase, I have been able to train a lot of my spells and managed to raise most of them to novice rank. My mana barrier and wind bolt are the highest level since I started toying with both to pass the time. I found that I can use the barriers as almost any shape while the wind bolt can be bounced of the barriers. I started playing ping pong with the barriers and a wind bolt whenever I had nothing to do. Since I told Shade how I''m as strong as I am he has changed the quest again, this time, instead of 500 mana shrooms I have to gather 500,000 for him by the end of our deal. I''m just under a quarter of the way there from just storing my spare shrooms. I''ve also only farmed at nights once per day cause I don''t feel like I need to get any stronger. I also found out that my mana infusion can work on spells I have to have a pseudo overcharge. If I hold a spell and infuse some mana into it, I can improve the overall effectiveness twice over, but no more. It also doesn¡¯t work on certain spells like flash blade or mana blast since there mana cost varies from use to use based on my desires. Shade told me yesterday that today is the start of a special event where people will be coming here to train their new fighters how to defend themselves. I''m kind of eger since I''ve done nothing but train and scary/convince monsters to leave by just being here. After floating down to the ground I started to drift my way through the dungeon towards the large room we defeated the troll. Before I forgot to mention this, but since killing the troll was a special event it didn¡¯t revive like when dungeon monsters kill other creatures. Anyway as I was floating through the hall, I saw a very familiar merrow. It¡¯s been a long time since I''ve seen this particular merrow since it''s the one that kept dieing to shade glass. As soon as I revealed myself to it, the merrow stopped and took something from a satchel. With what I can only assume is some kind of smile the merrow puts what looks like a book on the floor before saying something in its gurgly language, it bowed and left back the way it came. Curious as to why the merrow done that I stared at its back when it suddenly clicked. The merrow was thanking me, it was the merrow the troll was chewing on, the one I killed to send him out of the dungeon. I don¡¯t know how long he¡¯s been looking for me but it seems to have been a while since Shade said that that singular merrow has been in and out for weeks carrying that book. I float down to the book to inspect it as soon as I touch it 3 windows spring into existence.
From touching an enchantment that cast a spell Eidolons Mind activated.
2 skills have been generated from the enchantment and books contents: Skill:Linguistics, Skill:Touch Training(variant)
Linguistics Level Max
This skill makes it possible to learn languages from being around those speaking it and/or attempting to read a foreign language book.
Touchkinesis(variant) Level Max
This skill allows the user to learn information and skills from touch. Due to this being a variant it only works on information from books and can learn the needed information to gain skills this way.
I was taken aback by the skills I suddenly gained but as I gained the skills the contents of the book flashed through my mind. ¡®Hello wisp, I don¡¯t know if you can read Melgas so I had an enchantment placed on this to teach you the language on first touch. I''d thank you from the depths of my heart for killing me when the troll was going to do eat me. I''m most thankful that I was killed by you since you are part of the dungeon I revived safely outside. From the way you saved my I could tell you are a contracted monster rather than a created one. Once your contract is done and you can leave you will be welcome to my village as an honorary guest for saving me. This probably doesn¡¯t mean much to you and I''m not sure you¡¯ll fully understand since your a simple wisp but thank you. Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. -Dargeon, trainee shaman¡¯ The rest of the book was some basic thanks to me from other merrow that I helped during the troll attack. It all pretty much said the same thing and I was glad that they were thankful. That''s not something I expected from a race that practice sacrificing to their gods. I put the book in my inventory and drifted after the merrow when I caught up I fired a small lesser light heal to it, surprising it making it turn around. (Dargeon): ¡°Hello again wisp, thank you for healing me. Though I didn¡¯t need it. What am I saying it¡¯s not like you understand me.¡± As he was turning to leave again I couldn¡¯t help myself inflate with pride when I understood him, I immediately wanted to thank him for the book of thanks. Speaking Melgas stopped him in his tracks making him look back this way. (Dark): ¡°Thank you for the book, I''m glad I could help.¡± (Dargeon): ¡°You can talk Melgas, how? The enchantment was only to teach you how to read Melgas.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯ve know how the merrow talk for a while. When you gave me the book I learned how to speak it as well.¡± Telling a little lie Dargeon slumped down the wall and had a strange smile on his face. Turning back to face me he started talking to me again. (Dargeon): ¡°I knew you were special when you killed me all those times without me even getting a scratch on you. Ah, ha ha I think its right to have invited you to our village when you can leave.¡± (Dark): ¡°I only killed you twice on purpose and one of those times was to save you from the troll. Every other time you fell into shade glass.¡± (Dargeon): ¡°You are a weird wisp you know than, not only can you talk, you''re stronger than me. And from what I heard you were the deciding factor in killing the troll. I must be going I''ve got so dutys back in my village to attend.¡± Standing up, Dargeon said goodbye and left the dungeon, as soon as he left Shade started talking to me. I thought he¡¯d have something serious to say like the last few week whenever he spoke but this was the first time a long while he¡¯s joked around. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, you finally made a friend. I''ll call the gods make sure they have a good laugh.¡± (Dark): ¡°Shade did you just make a joke? It¡¯s been so long.¡± (Shade): ¡°Yes I did little Darkness, I could always make more about you, little Darkness. Would you like that little Darkness, would you?¡± (Dark): ¡°I thought things were going so when when you were serious this month. Why make crappy jokes about me?¡± (Shade): ¡°If I''m not going to make crappy jokes about you when I can, it¡¯s almost as bullshit as your abilities.¡± (Dark): ¡°Ah, touche.¡± It has been rather lonely since Shade learned about my power but he still talked to me. It just felt like I''d lost him at that point. Now that he¡¯s back to joking a little I feel better than I have for a while. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness, Little Darkness!!!¡± (Dark): ¡°What the hell Shade! Why are you screaming that in my head, jeez.¡± (Shade): ¡°I¡¯ve been serious to long I really couldn¡¯t deal with being serious to you any longer. I''m just not a serious guy. Woah, I feel so much better after that. I''m still upset about that bullshit you call a power though.¡± (Dark): ¡°Fair enough just don¡¯t do that shit again. It almost makes me want to break our deal just to silence you.¡± Laughing away Shade said he¡¯d make no promises. Feeling substantially better now that shade in no longer keeping up his serious facade, I start to move to the large room again like I initially intended. Once I got there I saw them, having a casual stroll through the hall. I observed the 3 of them that stood at the hall''s entrance from the room. I was glad that this was something interesting, I might even get to fight.
Claire Hausler(Human)Level 7
Kela Fayx(Hobgoblin) Level 12
Alex Burgast(Human) Level 6
They were talking away while I was hidden in a shade torch, this was the first time I''ve seen someone with a name and no description. Each of them looked well equipped and the hobgoblin seems to be walking behind them telling them to focus, Because every time so spoke the other 2 flinched. When the got to the center of the room 2 gates I''ve never seen before shoot down from the ceilings and block the hallways, I¡¯ll need to ask shade about that later. Following them the skeletons that are almost always clinging to the walls climb or fall down. Suddenly the small group move into a obviously practiced fashion and Alex starts talking. (Alex): ¡°About damn time we get into a fight. I was beginning to think this dungeon was empty.¡± (Kela): ¡°Shut up Alex, this is suppose to be your training, don¡¯t be overeager. Same goes for you Claire. Understood?¡± (Claire & Alex): ¡°Yes Miss!¡± (Kela): ¡°Good, test one defeat the skeletons without my help.¡± At that they sprang into action leaving me to watch unknowingly.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 3
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 1050/1050 Health Regen 2% per Min
Mana 1,000,200/1,000,200 Mana Regen 2% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 41
G.VIT 30 G.WIS148
AGI 29 LUC 45
AEXP1241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind6
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light15 Dark15
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 8 --Entropic Mist Beginner level 9 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Novice level 4 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Novice level 2 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 9 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Novice level 1 Meditation Beginner level 8 Elemental manipulation Novice level 2 Mana Blast Beginner level 2 Mana Barrier Novice level 8 Wind bolt Novice level 9 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Beginner level 3 Flash Blade Novice level 3 Corrosion Bolt Beginner level 9 Lesser Light Heal Beginner level 6 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 1 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level
Chapter 12: day 30 part 2 As I watched the skeletons prepare to attack the small group of adventurers, Shade decided to inform me of what was happening. As we were talking I had to be a little on the quite side. (Shade): ¡°Little Darkness, for the next few weeks groups of people from civilised worlds will be coming here to train.¡± (Dark): ¡°Why would they come to Ohmaze fromtheirworld? Wouldn¡¯t they have dungeons there?¡± (Shade): ¡°Only some worlds have Dungeons, from the worlds I know off, Ohmaze is the only one that has dungeons like me. Jarrjius has dungeons but they tend to start around level 100 or more. The merrow come to Ohmaze because it''s easier to train here rather than on Folous, which has a harsher nature.¡± (Dark): ¡°Do you know the world''s they¡¯re from?¡± (Shade): ¡°Sadly not, I''ve only learned of other worlds from deals and the occasional book left behind. None of the adventurers ever leave information for me. Maybe you could get some info from them, that''s if you¡¯re willing to risk fighting them.¡± (Dark): ¡°I might try, if you tell me what¡¯s with the gates.¡± (Shade): ¡°That, little Darkness is a new trap I placed after the troll attack. When a group of people or monsters from outside make it this far into the dungeon the gates will seal them in until all monsters in the room are defeated¡­ Crap.¡± (Dark): ¡°Don¡¯t tell me, I''m also trapped until they either lose to me or win against me? Well at least is something interesting.¡± (Shade): ¡°Ok good. That however was not what I was thinking about though. The adventurers will start to spread rumors that this is a new boss room or mini-boss room if you win. I''m afraid I''m going to have to ask you to be a new boss until our deal ends.¡±
Compulsory Quest
Due to poorly timed decisions you have to become a mini-boss for the dungeon you have a deal with for the duration of the adventurers training session. Be the dungeons mini-boss for the next 50 Days
(Dark): ¡°Aw, for fucks sake. It looks like I don¡¯t have much of a choice.¡± (Shade): ¡°Sorry little Darkness, I should have said something earlier. You¡¯ll have a lot of fights everyday now. I hope it doesn¡¯t interfere with your other quest for me.¡± (Dark): ¡°As long as I have an hour at night I''ll be fine.¡± Shade was mumbling apologies, none of them felt sincere. Feeling agitated I stared at the fight in front of me, watching them I noticed 2 things. 1)Kela was simply avoiding the fight entirely only watching the other 2. 2)Claire and Alex were working together holding back almost all of the skeletons. Mildly impressed to see them fight as well as the level 6 merrow that gave me trouble a while ago, I started to notice that the skeletons were being destroyed steadily. It was almost like they were being played with. During the whole fight not once did Kela fight, Claire and Alex on the other hand destroyed each and every skeleton like it was training practice. When I paid closer attention to them I notice how they were barely affected by the fight, only just breaking into a sweat. (Kela): ¡°Odd. I thought this was a wave room, but it was only those skeletons. Why hasn¡¯t the gates opened? No time to rest, Alex, be on guard.¡± They readied their guard and started searching the room. I wonder what they''re searching fo¡­ Shit it¡¯s me. Floating from my shade torch making sure they don¡¯t notice, I casual drift a couple meters from them at eye level. I Turn off Nonexistence and show myself to them and wait till they fully notice. (Claire): ¡°Eyes forward.¡± (Alex): ¡°Is that it? A fucking Wisp.¡± (Kela): ¡°Can it, it¡¯s a harmless soul and there could be more.¡± Barely paying attention to me as they looked around the room again, I was feeling agitated at their blatant disregard of me. Waiting for them to finish looking was getting on my nerves, I spent 10 minutes waiting for them to realise it¡¯s just me. Finally having enough I decided to talk to them, maybe find out where they are from. Putting on the best innocent voice I could I stopped myself just before speaking. Oh I am going to have fun with these guys. Sticking with the innocent voice I started to talk. (Dark): ¡°Where¡¯s mommy,*Sob* where are you mommy. *sob*¡± Turning around to face me, they were all shocked excluding Kela who seemed more worried than anything. (Dark): ¡°Mommy I stayed in the cave like you said. *shifle* Where are you mommy.¡± Alec looked at Claire, she sighed and walked closer, about a meter away when started to talk to me. (Claire): ¡°Are you ok. What happened.¡± (Dark): ¡°Me and mommy were running from bad men. I was hurt, she told me *sob* she told me to stay in the cave for her. *Sob* I fell asleep and woke up with all the pain gone. I couldn¡¯t find mommy or my body.¡± I could see Kela¡¯s face soften a little. Alex walked closer towards me and lowered his weapon. (Alex): ¡°Maybe we can help.¡± (Dark): ¡°Mommy told me not to talk to strangers. Mommy said I''ve to kill them all, strangers are bad people. Please die.¡± With the scraps of my sanity I fired a mana bolt right at the both of them. The instant the shots hit the both of them got knocked back, barely scratched. I floated up out of their immediate reach. Kela hardened her face again before shouting at what her student/underlings. (Kela): ¡°Why the hell did you idiots let your guard down! You''relucky its only a wisp!¡± She didn¡¯t even move from her spot, when she shouted that. Alex was the first to react, jumping and throwing something at me. I acted in kindand threw him with wind bolt across the room. I didn¡¯t hurt him but I did humiliate him when he was stopped with a swift kick by Kela. (Claire): ¡°It can use wind magic.¡± Almost as if it was a statement Claire didn¡¯t bat an eyelash, on the other hand Kela lowered her hand to the sword around her waist, Alex was getting up from the floor raising his blade in earnest towards me. I started smiling to myself. (Dark): ¡°Only bad people would try to hurt a child!¡± I fired 3 mana bolts towards Claire, she dodged only to get blocked my mana barrier. Being launched by the force of the mana bolts seemed to wind her but here leather armor took most of the damage. Pretending to Cry I launched a windblade hidden between a couple of mana bolts. As it was going to hit Claire who was still recovering, Kela jumped in the way, slicing the wind blade with one of her own. (Kela): ¡°This is a proper boss? How on the goddess''s can it fire 2 types of magic that fast.¡± (Dark): ¡°You should know the skill, were from the same world. Mean lady!¡± (Kela): ¡°There¡¯s no such skillfrom Godas!¡± (Shade): *Speaking to me* ¡°She fell for that!?¡± Trying not to laugh, I was having a great time. I almost forgot about Alex when I turned around I saw his sword coming down on me. Raising a quick barrier I flew in the opposite direction. I''d taken my first proper hit cause my barrier was knocked into me, I received 120 damage. Pretending I''d suffered badly I tempted them closer. (Dark): ¡°Waaaaa! Why would you hurt me! *crying* I can¡¯t move. Mommy help me.¡± As they moved closer to try and deal the ¡®finishing blow¡¯ I launched a mana blast for 100 straight at Kela¡¯s head. Colliding with her head, the blast exploded tearing her head of her shoulders causing blood to sputter over her comrades coating them with blue blood. As her body vanished into white light Claire¡¯s banshee impression rang through me making me fear her a little. As I turned I charged and launched a wind blade for 50 mana, slicing her in half through her stomach. Her upper half flew forward and her lower half collapsed to the floor. Organs spilling through the air as her body started to shine in white light, vanishing befor her head hit the floor. When I turned to face Alex, he was panicking but struck by fear. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. (Dark): ¡°This is for mommy.¡± Slicing his head off as I finished my sentence, I watched him vanish into light. The gates opened and Shade decided it was time to speak to me again. (Shade): ¡°I am both impressed and horrified at what you just did little Darkness. Don¡¯t do that again.¡± (Dark): ¡°I make no promises, but I''m going to change my act every time anyway.¡± (Shade): ¡°You have about 15 minutes before the next adventurers will come. Would you like the skeletons to be part of the mini-boss room?¡± (Dark): ¡°Yes but only once per group, just like what happened.¡± (Shade): ¡°I¡¯ll leave you to it then.¡± I floated back to the shade torch and decided to wait for the next group without practicing. I think this time I''ll pretend to be angry with the group and only use mana bolt, corrosion bolt and mana blast. I''ll pretend that the miniboss is multiple wisps with different abilities. Thinking about it got me a little excited, I decided that I''ll pretend to be 3 different wisps. 1)The creepy killer mommysgirl I pretended to be. 2)A mad violent woman who blames the group for killing her and her family. 3)A nice wisp that begs the adventures not to kill her friends. This one will be using mana bolt, lesser light heal and mana barrier and work with the skeletons unlike the other 2. With my little plan set up I patiently wait for the next group to come through. I waited 10 minutes before the next group waltzed rightin. There was 5 of them this time and all of them were level 6, there was 3 hobgoblins and 2 humans. Unlike Kelas group they are uncoordinated and rarely work together. There is simply no other way to described how they fought either, all of them used basic iron swords and swung like they had just picked them up for the first time. Watching them I was feeling disheartened since each of them were barely able to beat the skeletons. It almost doesn¡¯t feel fun to pretend to be a mad murderous wisp. I''m still going to do it though. I floated from the shade torch and started to screech at them, getting there full attention. (Dark): ¡°Why did you kill them! They were my family, why! WHY!¡± (Hobgob 1#): ¡°Oh fuck, i¡­ ah...¡± (Hobgob 2#): ¡°They attacked us.¡± (Human 1#): ¡°We only defended ourselves.¡± (Hobgob 3#): ¡°Oh for fuck sake. It¡¯s a monster just kill it.¡± At least one of them seems sensible. As soon as the 3rd hobgoblin shouted at them the last human fired a mana bolt at me. Narrowly dodging I launched a small wave of 3 Corrosion bolts at her. I watched as one of them landed on her foot and start to eat away at her. Before I even had a chance to speak I noticed that her boot was already gone. (Dark): ¡°Die, die, die for what you did!¡± Soon after the human girl started to scream in pain as her foot was being eaten away. Startled by the sudden scream, all of the group looked towards the woman. Almost immediately I fired a corrosion bolt at their heads. The 3rd hobgoblin looked back just in time to dodge but the other 2 almost died on contact, letting out a small yelp before collapsing on the floor. The humans were a little luck since I narrowly missed them. (Hobgob 3#): ¡°Gods tits that was close.¡± He looked at his comrades only to fall silent and charge at me. The first human was helping the other one while this hobgoblin tried to swing his sword at me. While dodging I was pretending to be angry and managed to make the hobgoblin flinch, only for him to lose his head to a couple mana bolts. When I looked over at the other 2 they weren¡¯t looking, I simply charged a mana blast with 100 mana and destroyed them. This was not as fun as the last fight but that''s because these people didn¡¯t focus on the fight, and they were idiots. (Shade): ¡°You really have a sick sense of humor little Darkness.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯ve always had a sick sense of humor, even in my previous life. I''ve just rarely done anything I found as entertaining since I''ve been quite content with now having magic.¡± (Shade): ¡°Oh thats right you didn¡¯t have magic in your old world. Should you not have entertained yourself some how though in these past 30 days other than with magic?¡± (Dark): ¡°I haven''t really needed too since I''ve been trying lots of different things since I could. Heck I''ve even been enjoying drifting through you to scare monsters off for just being here.¡± (Shade): ¡°Fair enough little Darkness, just don¡¯t do something stupid.¡± As I was about to reply a new group of people walked into the room, all 3 were human and they each had a different weapon, on wielded a spear, one was using a staff and the last a bow with a quiver, all level 8. As soon as the gates closed and the skeletons came of the walls. I floated down and started to talk to the group. (Dark): ¡°Please don¡¯t kill my friends. Please leave us alone.¡± (All): ¡°No.¡± (Dark): ¡°Please leave, we don¡¯t want to kill you.¡± (Staff-man): ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I can quite easily see the hypocrisy.¡± (Dark): ¡°then please let us kill you se we can be at peace.¡± (Bowman): ¡°Mon then you cheeky cunt, square go like!¡± (Dark): ¡°Are you scottish by chance?¡± (Bowman): ¡°I, why the fuck wid yay care?¡± (Dark): ¡°No reason.¡± Firing a mana bolt at the scotsman I felt a little unease since I was scottish in my previous life, and I know why guys like these can be like. After that little talk noting of any real interest happened in the rest of the fight. Aside from dodging the arrows loosed by the bowman I did almost nothing. I kept healing the skeletons over and over and using my barrier to save a few that were low on health. Even the way they died was anticlimactic. Bowman ran out of arrows and got overwhelmed by skeletons. As soon as he died the others followed in the same manner except it was a lot faster. It was a real let down. Once the fight was over a window popped up saying I''ve leveled up. I was happy maybe I could get to a more appropriate level being a mini-boss. When I checked my stats screen I found that a couple of my skills have been improved as well. I could have been fine just checking my stats but I decided to prepare myself incase I''d have to fight other adventurers. It turns out I didn¡¯t since most of them decided to wait until they figure out how to deal with the new mini-boss. Well that''s was Shade said they were doing just outside after my 3rd fight, however he didn¡¯t tell me until I wasted the whole day prepared. I spent the last hour of the day farming mana shrooms for the ceiling and my inventory.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 4
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 1150/1150 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,000,400/1,000,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 45
G.VIT 30 G.WIS154
AGI 31 LUC 47
AEXP4241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire0 Wind6
Water0 Earth0
Lightning0 Arcane0
Holy0 Demonic0
Light15 Dark15
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Novice level 1 --Entropic Mist Novice level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Novice level 6 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Novice level 3 Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 9 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Novice level 3 Meditation Beginner level 8 Elemental manipulation Novice level 4 Mana Blast Beginner level 5 Mana Barrier Novice level 9 Wind bolt Novice level 9 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Beginner level 4 Flash Blade Novice level 3 Corrosion Bolt Novice level 1 Lesser Light Heal Novice level 2 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 1 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Author''s notes Since i''m only writing this story to improve myliterarycapability and for fun. I am going to try making less errors and proofreadmorethoroughly. My chapters will start taking more days to be released and it will be not take any more than 1 week per chapter. Hope you enjoyed so far. Also special thanks to Killashardfor constantly pointing out mistakes i overlooked. Chapter 13: Day 50... Author''s Notes This is the first chapter I have fully proof read and would like people to point out any and all mistakes I missed. Other than that enjoy the chapter. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ It¡¯s been 20 days since I became a mini-boss and I haven''t had a moment''s peace since the first 2 days. I''ve had fight after fights since then and I''ve even got to the point I just stopped caring about the acts, it¡¯s simply not fun when you act the same day in, day out for weeks on end. On the plus side I''ve leveled up several times due to the fights, now I''m level 9. I still haven¡¯t used any of the AEXP I have, even though I have quite a bit from the levels. I''ve gotten so bored cause of these fights that I have started to farm the mana shrooms in order to complete the quest to gather 500,000 mana shrooms. It¡¯s been a lot harder to farm the shrooms since occasionally when the adventurers would try and attack me they would use spells like mana bolt and wind blade to hit me but would devastate the mana shrooms on the ceiling. In fact some of the people that used spells were using fire, water or earth occasionally. When they did I''d always get a window telling me I don¡¯t have the affinity to learn those spells. It got annoying really fast since after the first 3 days people in robes started to show up and use various elemental spells at me I simply didn¡¯t have the affinity for. After the second day I asked Shade why I haven¡¯t seen any merrow, goblins or kobolds since the adventurers came. Apparently they avoid going to dungeons when the adventurers are training their novices since they will be killed on sight. Moving on, I am very close to finishing the quest for Shade, I''m only a couple hundred mana shrooms short. Well to be honest I have enough for the quest, but I''d like to have enough to farm mana shrooms after it. I spent the day defending myself from groups of adventurers as they waltzed right in, attacking and destroying the skeletons as fast as they could. Almost as soon as I revealed myself they started attacking. Without even thinking about it I destroyed them almost instantly with mana bolts. It hasn¡¯t even been a challenge to fight Kelas group since most of my skills reached Intermediate rank. At least they occasionally last a short while unlike the other adventurer groups. Near the end of the day something interesting happened, a group of 5 which was full of wizards at least according to what their descriptions said. They came strolling into the room as soon as the gates closed all of them cast spells on the walls destroying the skeletons nigh-instantly. As I floated down revealing myself and ready to attack them one of the wizards fired a lightning spell at me knocking me back almost immediately once I was in view. I heard a small ding but was to focused on the interesting group in front of me. I was let down as soon as I started to attack them. It only took one mana bolt to kill each of them, what was worse was that they all panicked as soon as I killed the wizard that managed to strike me. They all died within 10 seconds of the first death. Feeling dejected I looked at the notification the I pushed aside during the fight.
Advance of the Drudge leveled up
For reaching Novice rank with Advance of the Drudge resistances improve by 10%.
I was glad that it reached novice, I''ve been trying to get it to level up for a while now. I noticed that whenever it leveled up before it never gained any sort of improvement, the fact it improved at ranking up makes me thing it will only improve when it ranks up. I also realised that it only ranked up since I took some damage, I¡¯ll have to look into that later. I had another 2 fights before it was the end of the day, nothing else of interest happened aside from the sadly week group of wizards. I went to farm the mana mushrooms and gathered the extra couple hundred of them before I decided to move on. I must have spaced out because when I checked my inventory to make sure I had enough mana shrooms just incase I had gathered more than intended. Smiling to myself as I had 2098 spare mana shrooms, I took out the 500,000 mana shrooms and called Shade to finish the quest. (Shade): ¡°Wow, you managed to finish getting that many this fast? That''s extremely unreal you know, little Darkness¡± (Dark): ¡°I would have finished them faster, but the adventurers kept destroying my mana shrooms on the ceiling.¡± (Shade): ¡°That is even more frightful you know. So I guess you want to finish the quest, little Darkness?¡± (Dark): ¡°Yes please.¡± (Shade): ¡°Ok just give me a moment.¡± Suddenly all of the 500,000 mana shrooms I collected vanished, in their stead laid 7 large pinkish crystals, 2 books and a wooden sword. Just as I was about to ask Shade about them and what happened to the mana shrooms, the quest window popped up in front of me.
Quest Complete
For both surprising and impressing the Shade Dungeon known as Shade by completing this quest. You will be given an award appropriate for collecting 500,000 mana shrooms. ------------------------- Rewards given Increase trust with Shade 7 Energy Crystals SkillBook: Craft Inventory SkillBook: Create Undead Soul bound Sword -------------------------
As I floated down excitedly, I could heard Shade thanking me, ignoring him I started consume the crystals. Each crystal asked me if I''d like to make a trade for an affinity, without hesitation I did that for all 7 of them. The affinities I got where all of them except holy, demonic and wind, each gave me 500 in each affinity which wasn¡¯t that surprising when I asked Shade about the different tiers of energy crystal. Each tier is 10 times stronger than the previous tier. When I finished with the crystals I drifted towards the books, as soon as I came into contact with them I gained some understanding on how to use the skills thanks to Touchkinesis. At the same time a window popped up asking if I''d like to learn the skill for each book. Without hesitation, I learned the skills and was upset with how craft inventory worked, seemed kind of misleading with the name.
Craft InventoryBeginner1
This skill allows the user to create any item they have previously crafted at a cost of 100 times the items mana value. Having this skill allows the user to see the mana value of objects.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Mana cost: varies
Create UndeadBeginner1
A skill to create undead to do your bidding. This skill will evolve based on how the user creates Undead. This skill can evolve into a new skill if the right conditions are met. Created creatures can evolve if the right conditions are met. If a created creature evolves, you gain the ability to create more of that creature. Summon list: Skeleton: 50 mana
Create Undead is very interesting, I wonder if it can be changed to create other monsters? I¡¯m a little eager to try out this new skill of mine but the last new item comes first. As I touched the sword I felt a sharp pain and suddenly 2 windows popped up in front of me.
You have been soulbound to a weapon, what will you name it?
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Being soulbound to a weapon has given you the option to change the type of weapon.
What would you like the weapon type to be.
Thinking for a moment I came up with a name for the weapon and decided that the weapon type to be a simple straight sword. I called my new sword Abyssal Whisper since I had thought about this sort of thing before. Once named the Sword started to change shape and became a long straight sword with a double edged blade, the handle was solid black with a greyish blue pommel which seemed to be in the shape of a twisted maw clawing up the blade. The handle and pommel seems to be moving slowly. When I looked at the blade it was a straight, thick blade with black splotched up and down the whole length of it. As I was appreciating the beautifully creepy blade a window sprang into existence.
Abyssal Whisper
This soulbound blade belongs to the wisp Darkness. The Abyssal Whisper, a blade that represents its owners estranged personality and sense of humor. The blade will always be sharp and instill unease to those that gaze on it for too long. This blade will change and grow along with the user. Due to high G.WIS this blade can be used as a powerful medium for magic. Cannot be converted to AEXP
I was both ecstatic and disappointed, I simply couldn¡¯t wait to use this weapon. Sadly I simply couldn¡¯t use this weapon at all as a wisp. Feeling slightly dejected I put it into my inventory when Shade started to speak again. (Shade): ¡°I know you cannot use it yet, but when you evolve you should be able to.¡± (Dark): ¡°What do you mean when I evolve?¡± (Shade): ¡°Every being aside from special once such as dungeons and civilised creatures can evolve at least once. They all evolve at level 20 some evolve after they reach level 100 and there is legends of monsters evolving at level 1000.¡± (Dark): ¡°Wow, I might be able to use Abyssal Whisper after all.¡± (Shade): ¡°Did you really name your soulbound weapon that? I should have expected that with that messed up sense of humor you have.¡± Not saying a thing, I start to use my new skill Create Undead before I go to bed. I summoned 10 skeletons in an instant and when I used observe on them I was a little disappointed.
Skeleton level 1
This skeleton was created by a wisp. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands and can even develop an identity. If it lasts long enough.
Although they are weak they almost work together as well as Kela¡¯s group when they were fighting. After testing how well they moved and how well the fight. I noticed that although none of them have weapons they throw their ribs as weapons. It was a little funny to watch. It even reminded me of one of my favorite games back on earth. After 10 minutes of the skeletons fighting one of them stepped aside and watched. The skeleton waited for the other skeletons to be damaged and when they started to fall apart, it started to move and destroyed the remaining skeletons. Once it was finished I noticed that it was now level 3 and tried to summon more skeletons. Once I summoned another 10 I noticed that they were all level 3 as well. I stopped the skeleton I told to fight before he started attacking the new ones, healing him completely. Telling him to sit at the side I turned to the new 10 skeletons and told them to separate into groups of 3 and try combining into one creature. The remaining skeleton I tried to teach magic. Spending an hour trying to teach the skeleton magic was painful, thankfully I managed to teach it 2 small spells, it managed to learn mana bolt and mana barrier. I also taught it how to meditate and told it to sit next to the original skeleton and meditate for the night. I turned back to the other 9 skeletons and was amazed that 2 groups were still trying to combined. The one group that successfully combined was interesting. They managed to combined 2 of the skeletons together at the lower spin. One was facing forward one was facing backwards, I also noticed that the legs from the lower half of the skeleton from the back were ripped off to make basic clubs. The skeletons upper halfs could move independently but it seemed that it was now only one mind controlling it. Satisfied I got the remaining skeletons to fight. After 5 minutes all of them were destroyed except the skeleton with magic, the original and the flexi skeleton. I stopped them and used observe on them.
Skeleton level 3
This skeleton was created by a wisp. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands and even develop an identity. If it lasts long enough.
Skeleton Mage level 3
This skeleton was created by a wisp. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands and even develop an identity. If it lasts long enough. This skeleton can use basic magic.
Flexile Skeleton level 3
This skeleton was created by a wisp. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands and even develop an identity. If it lasts long enough. This skeleton is stronger than most due to the 2 upper halfs
I was happy with them, this was certainly a cool ability. I opened my Create Undead skill and found that I could now summon them as well. I wanted to see how the skeletons would gain a personality so I told them to do as they please as long as they stay in this room and don¡¯t attack each other. Floating to the shade torch I made my bed in this last 20 days I drifted to sleep watching the skeletons start moving about the room. As I checked my stats I was surprised that Create Undead had already leveled up.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 9
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 1150/1150 Health Regen10% per Min
Mana 1,001,400/1,001,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 65
G.VIT 30 G.WIS184
AGI 41 LUC 57
AEXP34,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire500 Wind500
Water500 Earth500
Lightning500 Arcane500
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1000 Dark1000
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Novice level 8 --Entropic Mist Novice level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Intermediate level 6 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Intermediate level 2 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 1 Meditation Novice level 7 Elemental manipulation Novice level 4 Mana Blast Novice level 4 Mana Barrier Intermediate level 8 Wind bolt Intermediate level 5 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Novice level 4 Flash Blade Intermediate level 1 Corrosion Bolt Intermediate level 1 Lesser Light Heal Intermediate level 2 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 1 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 1 Create Undead Beginner 1
Chapter 14: Day 51 Experiments When I woke up I noticed that the original skeleton and the mage skeleton were resting next to each other, while the flexile skeleton was lying on the floor. When I observed them the flexile skeleton still had the same description, the original and the mage on the other hand had new information added.
Rune(Skeleton) level 3
This skeleton was created by a wisp. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands. This skeleton has developed a protective personality from its interactions with a skeleton mage. The identity is in the early stages and will develop over time.
Falz(Skeleton Mage) level 3
This skeleton was created by a wisp. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands. This skeleton has developed a cautious personality from its interactions with a skeleton. The identity is in the early stages and will develop over time.
I was a little surprised they developed a personality that fast, I''m more concerned why the flexile skeleton didn¡¯t though. Once I floated down I got a pleasant surprise, Falz noticed me and approached with Rune following closely behind. (Falz): ¡°Good morning master¡± (Rune): ¡°Mornin¡¯ mother.¡± I was taken aback as soon as they spoke, I simply didn¡¯t expect them to be able to speak this fast if at all. (Dark): ¡°Morning. How did you learn to speak?¡± (Falz): ¡°We have innate understanding when we are created so that we can follow commands. We can only speak because we taught ourselves during the night by talking to each other.¡± (Dark): ¡°Ah..good...hmmm.¡± (Rune): ¡°Is something wrong mother?¡± (Dark): ¡°Oh, no I was just thinking to myself. How come the flexile skeleton doesn¡¯t talk?¡± As I say that the flexi sits up and stares at us. It''s a little disheartening the way it just looks at us, barely moving if at all. (Rune): ¡°She refused to talk to us and sat on guard the whole night.¡± (Falz): ¡°It was a little weird, cause she stared at the entrance and us at the same time.¡± (Dark): ¡°Falz, how did you get your name?¡± (Falz): ¡°Both me and Rune named each other during the night.¡± (Shade): ¡°Well this is certainly interesting. How did you get them to have personalities? Actually don¡¯t tell me. By the way you should prepare the adventurers will start delving in about an hour.¡± (Dark): ¡°Ok. Rune, Falz I''m going to have to have you two stay at the back of the room or further in the dungeon most of the day. Don¡¯t jump out to help me if I look in danger. Trust me when I say I''m not.¡± (Rune & Falz): ¡°Ok.¡± Immediately they went to the back of the room and stayed there, both of them started to talk among themselves. I noticed that the skeletons that Shade normally summonses for me are no longer on the walls, not saying a thing I summon 10 basic skeletons and place them along the walls. I also summon 3 more flexile skeletons and have them stand in the middle of the room. The flexile skeleton I had summoned during the night was sitting against the left wall so I beckoned her over for a little test I thought of. Once the flexile skeleton was next to me I told the skeleton to endure as long as possible and immediately started to infuse raw mana into the skeleton. It coiled in on itself after a few seconds of infusing mana, while letting out a small sobbing. A few more seconds have passed and I had already infused 500 mana, closing in on 1000. She stood up after about 700 mana was infused, as if the worst has passed. I soon reached my goal and as soon as I hit 1000 mana I stopped. Observing her I was a little impressed with the description.
(Variant)Flexile Skeleton level 3
This skeleton was created by a wisp and subject to the same wisps experiment. Due to this experiment it has became a variant with mana strengthened bones and a small regeneration ability. This skeletons is more intelligent than a normal skeleton and can obey complex commands.
(Shade): ¡°Would I have permission to have that skeleton as a mini-boss?¡± (Dark): ¡°Only after she gains a personality and you¡¯d have to ask her.¡± (Shade): ¡°Fair enough, little Darkness.¡± I¡¯ll have to train her, it would be nice to get away from being a mini-boss for a while. Putting that thought to the back of my mind I continue preparing for the day. I''ve decided to set up 3 waves of skeletons before I reveal myself. First is going to be 10 basic skeletons with 3 flexile skeletons, second will be 6 flexile and 3 skeleton mages, and the last will be 10 skeletons, 5 flexile skeletons and 3 skeleton mages. I''m going to keep Rune,Falz and the variant hidden until each of them are at least level 10. Once I finished preparing I turned towards Rune and Falz and noticed that they seem to be playing with magic. At least that what Falz is doing, Rune is trying to copy but can only be amazed at what Falz is doing. I ushered them out of the room down further into the dungeon with the variant for safety. Rune tried to protest a bit but it was like a child having a temper tantrum, it was kind of laughably honestly. Smiling to myself I turn around just in time to see the first group of the day coming in, it just happened to be Kelas. It looks like Kelas group has improved a lot since I last saw them. Kela has gone up a level while Alex and Claire have risen a few. Once they stepped into the room the doors closed and my skeletons started to attack. Like every time they''ve been here before the started to make short work of the skeletons. That was until Alex got crushed by a flexile skeleton. (Claire): ¡°New enemy, be cautious.¡± With almost synchronized agreement Alex and Kela both nodded before they continued to destroy my minions. I noticed they were having trouble with the flexile skeletons since they couldn¡¯t attack from the back. However aside from a few lucky hits they were almost as good as the 10 skeletons. When the second wave started 6 flexile skeletons fell from the roof and I summoned the 3 skeleton mages. Kela noticed immediately and started barking orders like a dog in guarding its home. (Kela): ¡°There¡¯s more waves now! Quickly destroy the 3 at the back they¡¯re mages! Claire you get the mages we¡¯ve got the big guys.¡± Charging forward Claire managed to take out one of the mages before the other two could react. As she was about to move, her back was decimated by two mana bolts from each mage. Her back was ripped open, viscera clumps were all that was left inside her shredded rib cage. Before The others even saw her body burst into light, both mages leveled up. Alex noticed as the light was vanishing, and once it was gone a red mist started to shimmer into existence around him. He ran through the flexile skeletons almost literally as he smashed 3 before slicing the mages in half and collapsing. Kela was finishing off the last of the flexile skeletons when she ran over to him and was relieved that he was only exhausted. I¡¯m a little upset that I didn¡¯t get the skill Alex used, must not have been a magic skill then.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. As she was picking him up the 3rd wave started and I immediately summoned 10 skeletons, 5 flexile skeletons and 3 skeleton mages. Kela and Alex looked around and before they were crushed I heard them say ¡®we have to tell the guild¡¯. As they vanished I ordered the flexile skeletons to fight and lose to the variant and I ordered the same from the skeletons for Rune and Falz. I watched the skeletons run of towards them and turned back to set up the room again. 3 hours and 2 fights later Shade told me that no more adventurers are going to come in since the mini-boss room changed. I wasn¡¯t too bothered so I sent a skeleton to get Rune, Falz and the Variant. When they arrived I noticed that each of them were now level 5, must have been from the skeletons I sent to fight them. (Dark): ¡°Sorry about sending the skeletons to fight you guys.¡± (Rune): ¡°Please don¡¯t do that again it was hard.¡± (Falz): ¡°He¡¯s overreacting, he was the one that pointed out they were losing on purpose.¡± The variant nodded and Rune was complaining that they had a deal not to tell me. The variant still didn¡¯t have a name but the description changed too saying she has a stoic personality. Until she speaks I won¡¯t give her a name. Anyway since I have the rest of the day free I decided to try a few experiments. The first thing I did was summon 8 skeletons for a test. I had made up my mind to infuse skeletons with some elements and try change Create Undead into something greater. I spent about an hour infusing individual elements into the skeletons and when I was done I gained a new addition to Create Undead that allows me to create any elemental skeleton as long as I have an affinity. I was a little surprised that it costs 1000 to create one but it did take a lot to infuse the elements into them. I spent a few minutes watching the variant play with Rune while Falz meditated, then I started to think. When I thought about my skill Create Undead it dawned on me that I might be able to create other types of monsters if the skill changes. Feeling a bit excited I summoned a skeleton and looked at my skills, I was feeling like I was on the right track and decided to try and use my Eidolons Craft and started to imbue the skeleton with a mana bolt. It was taking a lot longer than I thought it would but then again I am infusing 5000 mana in a specific way into a skeleton. I had only got to 2000 when the skeleton collapsed on the floor, it looked like the skeleton was struggling to understand what was going on. At 4000 The skeleton started to collapse in on itself. At 5000 the skeleton started to implode and fully collapsed in on itself falling to the floor. Suddenly the remainder of the skeleton burst into a small blue flame, the remains condensed and became a small bead as the flames enveloped it. As it floated up I was ecstatic that it worked but I didn¡¯t expect it to be like this. I observed the new creature just to confirm my suspicions and was surprised, not for what it was but for the description.
Wisp level 3
This wisp was created through unconventional means by a fellow wisp. Due to these unconventional means this wisp has a strong affinity for raw mana and can use mana bolt from birth. This wisp is more intelligent than a normal wisp and can obey complex commands. This wisp can develop it own personality over time.
I knew right away that it was a wisp but I didn¡¯t expect it to be able to use mana bolt right away if at all. I wanted to continue right away but Falz was watching me for the last couple of minutes and walked up to me. (Falz): ¡°Can I ask what you are doing master?¡± (Dark): ¡°Sure, I''m trying to create something other than undead creatures by manipulating my Create Undead skill.¡± (Falz): ¡°Interesting. I hope for good results.¡± Walking away Falz seemed to start thinking about something, no doubt that he¡¯s trying to think of a solution for me. How cute. I looked around the room and noticed that the variant was sitting next to Rune who was trying to use magic. I turned back to my work and decided I should try with other spells as well, see if anything interesting happens. I summoned another skeleton and decided to try and make a wind elemental from him. If my idea works I''ll be able to get other types of monster as well from this. Once I decided to try with wind bolt I started to use Eidolons Craft to imbue the skeleton with the spell. As soon as I started I noticed that the spell was being forced into the skeleton a lot faster than what the mana bolt did, it caught me by surprise. When it got to 5000 mana the skeleton fell apart and the bones started to swirl around in a circle. The bones started to go bright yellow and green as the started to fall apart into dust once the mana got to 8000. The dust storm that the skeleton was now split into six mini tornados around 9000. Almost at 10,000 the tornados settled down and all of the dust started to condense into 6 small objects. There was 4 small yellow crescents with green pouring down on of the points about a third of the way. There was a solid green ball about the size of a fist and a crown like circle with small ridges, solid yellow in color. As soon as I finished with the imbuement I got a notification saying Eidolons Craft leveled up. Once I closed the window the small objects started to float up and started to spin and turn rhythmically. Only the crescents constantly moved, with 2 floating above and 2 floating bellow of the sphere and crown. All 4 crescents are slightly to the side of the sphere and crown while opposite of each other. The crown is in the center almost perfectly with the sphere sitting in the middle of it. I observed it and got a notification at the same time.
Wind Elemental level 3
This elemental was created through unconventional means by a wisp. Due to these unconventional means this element has a strong affinity for raw mana and can learn wind magic faster than normal. This elemental is more intelligent than a normal elemental and can obey complex commands. This elemental can develop it own personality over time.
Due to your actions a skill was changed
Create Undead was changed to Create Entity. Due to this change, it is now possible to create new entities. Can only create new entities from a base entity.
I opened my skill as soon as I had closed these windows.
Create EntityBeginner
A skill to create entities to do your bidding. This skill will evolve based on how the user creates entities. This skill can evolve into a new skill if the right conditions are met. Created creatures can evolve if the right conditions are met. If a created creature evolves, you gain the ability to create more of that creature. Can currently only create undead and elemental base entities. Summon list: Skeleton: 50 Mana Skeleton Mage: 200 Mana Flexile Skeleton: 100 Mana Elemental Skeleton 1000 Mana Wisp: 20 Mana Elemental: 500 Mana
At least I know I''m on the right track with this. I might be able to create plant monsters if I get a nature based skill. I ended up spending the next couple hours talking with Rune, Falz and the variant. It was pleasant and I found out that Rune learned how to use mana to increase his defence and attack by trying to learn what Falz could do. Falz on the other hand gave him the idea to try and use his mana to improve himself instead of copy him. He¡¯s also been trying to create new spells to no luck so far, other than teaching himself lesser light heal. The Variant on the other hand said nothing this whole time only nodding or shaking her head sometimes. Rune annoyed her a couple times only to get flung across the room, Falz would rush over to heal him. I told them to do their own thing cause I decided to get an early night. As I was settling into the shade torch, Rune flew past me and skidded across the floor losing an arm. I watched him ¡®fight¡¯ the variant after putting his arm back and getting healed again. Rune was only able to watch himself get disarm literally before Falz made him apologize. I must have fell asleep cause I didn¡¯t see whether he did or didn¡¯t after Falz stepped in.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 9
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 1150/1150 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,001,400/1,001,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 65
G.VIT 30 G.WIS184
AGI 41 LUC 57
AEXP34,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire500 Wind500
Water500 Earth500
Lightning500 Arcane500
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1000 Dark1000
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Novice level 8 --Entropic Mist Novice level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Intermediate level 6 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Intermediate level 2 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 1 Meditation Novice level 7 Elemental manipulation Novice level 4 Mana Blast Novice level 4 Mana Barrier Intermediate level 8 Wind bolt Intermediate level 5 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Novice level 4 Flash Blade Intermediate level 1 Corrosion Bolt Intermediate level 1 Lesser Light Heal Intermediate level 2 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 2 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 1 Create Entity Beginner 3
Chapter 15: Siege It has been nine days since I created Rune, Falz and the Variant and not much has changed. The adventurers have stopped coming to the dungeon since the change I made to the mini-boss room. I''ve spent most of my free time playing with Rune, Falz or the Variant. I have also spent a lot of time experimenting with my skills and trying to create other monsters, I haven¡¯t had any luck. I have found out that by using mana barrier instead of mana bolt on a skeleton it will make the created wisp able to use mana barrier instead. Every now and again Shade would check up on me and tell me what''s going on with the adventurers. According to him, the adventurers are planning a siege and are close to finishing preparations outside the dungeon. Shade would also ask me occasionally if he could have the Variant, I''d always give the same response. ¡®Only if she agrees¡¯. He¡¯s also not been smart enough to notice that she¡¯s sentient. I''ve asked her a few times if she can speak only to get stared at, it''s a little creepy. Rune and Falz have been playing with a few skeletons that I summon every so often, well I say ¡®play¡¯ but it¡¯s more like ¡®destroy¡¯. Rune has somehow developed a fighting style over these days, Falz on the other hand has been experimenting almost every time he¡¯s left to his own devices. Both of them and the Variant have managed to raise their levels to 8. Just as I''m about to relax and talk with Falz, the Variant came over to me seeming a little distressed over something. (Dark): ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± As I ask the Variant starts to make some movements with her jaws, at the same time she is slowly moving her arms on somewhat exaggerated patterns. Moving her arms down, sounds start to come out of her. Small noises, more like a baby''s attempts at speech. (Variant): ¡°Ah nae Var¡± (Dark): ¡°Oh you''re trying to speak. You can do it.¡± (Variant): ¡°My¡­ name¡­ Vari¡­ ¡± (Dark): ¡°Your name Vari?¡± (Vari): ¡°Yes¡­ My name¡­ Vari.¡± (Dark): ¡°That¡¯s good. You can finally talk. For a while there I thought you were mute.¡± (Vari): ¡°Hard too speck. Thank¡­ you.¡± After that small talk Vari went over to Rune and started to talk to him, as she did he freaked out since she¡¯s never spoke before. Rune demanded she proves it''s her only to be flung across the floor at us, he got up smiling as he walked over to talk with her. (Shade): ¡°The adventurers are coming in, they are a group of 30 and heading straight for you fast.¡± (Dark): ¡°Thanks for the heads up.¡± I start preparing for the first wave and set up the skeletons and flexile skeletons in the right way I even made sure they were level 3 like last time. I ushered Rune and Falz out of the room and as I was about to do the same for Vari the gates closed as the adventurers got here too fast. I told Vari to stay at the back and out of the way, she did as asked without hesitation. The adventurers started to destroy the skeletons very efficiently and within a minute I had to spawn the next wave. It was almost as fast as the last but a few of the adventures were caught off guard from the skeletons mages, only to have limbs torn asunder from their bodies. I was forced to start the 3rd wave within a minute as well. This wave managed to kill a few of the injured adventurers only for the remaining 26 to overwhelm this wave. A few of the waves noticed Vari in the back and started to walk towards her as a showed myself, while blasting them apart with a 1000 mana blast. The rest stopped in their tracks and noticed me floating. As soon as they started to move I summoned 10 wisps with the affinity for mana bolt and had them fly around the room shooting any and all adventurers. I summoned a wisp were I was and hid in a shade torch and watched as the wisps slowly withered as they decimated the adventurers. Once there was only 10 left, a wizard in the center sent a strange magic attack that destroyed all of the wisps. Suddenly Eidolons Mind prompted.
Arcane Pulse Beginner1
This spell sends a wave of arcane energy to damage or destroy the immediate targets. A simple spell but takes time to charge mana for use. Mana Cost: 500 or more
I knew I was forgetting something, after this fight I really should make some new spells. Suddenly having an idea I floated down to Vari and told her about it, she nodded and seemed eager for it to start. I summoned 6 flexile skeletons and 4 skeleton mages and ordered them to follow Varis commands. Vari told the mages to protect the flexile skeletons and ordered 2 of the flexile skeletons to stick close to her. I floated up to the shade torch out of sight and watched as Vari started her attack. As she started to walk forward 4 flexile walked in front of her followed by 4 mages and then her and her guards. The adventurers started to attack them and were doing some serious damage until the mages started using mana barrier and lesser light heal on the flexile skeletons. Marching forward the Adventurers refused to back down, taking serious damage from the assault. By the time they manage to get to Vari and her guards 6 of the remaining 10 adventurers were already killed, sadly none of them died in any notable way as most of them died from blood loss caused by too many injuries. When I looked at the remaining 4 adventurers I noticed that Kelas whole group was still fine, heavily wounded but still fine. The last adventurer was the scottish bowman and it was surprising since he seemed to be fine other than a near lack of arrows. I''ll have to talk to him sometime later. As Vari engaged them in a fight. I noticed how she was holding herself against Kela and Claire, while the bowman and Alex were attacking the guards. Alex was the first to fall as one of the guards broke his right arm off and stabbed him through the eye with its exposed bone. The other guard was destroyed by the bowman falling apart once an arrow shattered it¡¯s skull. Although bleeding the bowman was the least injured. As he turned to help the others Claire was cut down by Kela when Vari flung her in the way of Kelas strike. Claire''s head was separated from her body, a perfect slice completely. Before Kela could react the remaining guard smashed her skull in from the side. Here body slumped as she followed her team out of the dungeon in an illuminating flash. The bowman was all that was left, grinning as he opened fire at Vari.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. As the bowman was left I thought that this fight would be finished from here on out. It took 20 solid minutes after everyone else already died before Vari managed to end his life. I''d like to say it was an epic and valiant fight but all he did the whole 20 minutes was dodge and take the occasional potshot. He done a lot of damage to Vari and even managed to kill the last guard without taking damage. The only reason I didn¡¯t have to step in was because he tripped as he shot, only to get stomped to death before he could react. It was really pitiful. I noticed that not once did he miss, slow down or get tired. I think it''s best to avoid him at least when I can. Feeling a little ecstatic about beating them back I float down to Vari who is now level 9 due to the fight. As I''m about to congratulate her a window pops up and its contents were unexpected.
Compulsory Quest Complete
Due to forcing the adventurers to quit this year''s training session early you completed the mini-boss quest through unforeseen circumstances. You are now free to do as you wish, in regards to pre-existing deals. ---------------- Rewards -LUC+20 -Level up -------------- Special reward -LUC upgrade --------------
I was stunned that I completed the quest before its end and was grateful, now I can roam as I please. I was wondering what the LUC upgrade was and when I looked at my stat screen I found out that it was similar to how G.WIS and G.Vit worked. At this moment Shade decided to have a little chat with me. (Shade): ¡°That was honestly impressive how you managed to stop them without fighting yourself.¡± (Dark): ¡°I guess it kind of was.¡± (Shade): ¡°Would it be alright if I have one of those skeleton mages and the variant?¡± (Dark): ¡°You can have a skeleton mage, but you¡¯d have to ask Vari if she¡¯d like that.¡± (Shade): ¡°Thank you Little Darkness.¡± After the chat I summoned a skeleton mage and noticed that Vari started to walk towards me. As she got close the skeleton mage vanished as Shade thanked me. (Vari): ¡°The dungeon has asked me to me the new mini-boss. What do you think I should do?¡± (Dark): ¡°I think that you should do as you please, just remember to think it through.¡± I floated in front of Vari as she seemed to stop everything to think it through, her lack of movement was kind of creepy. As I was about to drift towards Falz, Vari spoke up having made her decision. (Vari): ¡°I¡¯ve decided to be the new mini-boss.¡± (Dark): ¡°That''s wonderful Vari, I hope you enjoy it.¡± Thanking me Vari went and told Rune as I went and told Falz. After telling him I asked what he was doing. Both of them were waiting at the hall leading further into the dungeon. (Falz): ¡°I¡¯ve been trying to create some new spells but I haven¡¯t had any luck.¡± (Dark): ¡°Well keep at it, I''m sure you¡¯ll eventually make some.¡± (Falz): ¡°I will, thank you master.¡± I gathered Vari, Rune and Falz after that and told them I''m going to start wandering the rest of the dungeon for the day. Vari told me she¡¯ll stay has to stay here and hopes I enjoy myself. Rune decided to wander the halls himself and told me to come get him at the end of the day. Falz on the other hand decided that he¡¯d like a place he could experiment in peace. I said goodbye to Rune and Vari as I left the mini-boss room with Falz following closely behind. We walked in silence for 10 minutes until we reached my old room, it¡¯s only been a month and it feels nostalgic. I told Falz that he could stay here and experiment to his heart''s content. Thanking me as I left the room Falz started to manipulate some mana to attempt to create a spell. I drifted through the halls looking for something to do, finding nothing but familiare halls and corridors. As I past the room I fought my first fight in I have a look in and notice that there is a couple flexile skeletons in the room, I immediately asked Shade for an explanation. Apparently when Vari accepted to be the new mini-boss he gained the ability to create more undead similar to her, it¡¯s also the reason he asked for a skeleton mage so he could do the same with them. I eventually found some corridors I haven¡¯t seen before hover close to the roof as I finally find some zombies other than the ones that fought in the Troll emergency. It was a little heart warming. I drifted further and further down these halls and eventually found a large room. In the center of the room there is a large undead lizard standing on it hind legs, it is twice as large as the humans I''ve seen. The beast was a zombie lord level 15 and according to Shade it¡¯s the final boss of the dungeon. Behind the dungeon boss is the room were Shade¡¯s core is, I avoided going to that room and decided to explore more. I spent the next 5 hours exploring before I decided to turn in for the rest of the day. On the way back to my old room I stopped by Vari and said hi. I passed Rune on the way back and told him I''m going to bed, he started to follow me back. As we were walking Rune kept talking about how he found a chest but it was empty. 10 minutes or the same story and I nearly started hitting him with mana bolts. When we got to my old room, I floated up the the my old shade torch and said goodnight to Rune and Falz. They were chatting away as I drifted to sleep.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 10
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 1250/1250 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,001,600/1,001,600 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 69
G.VIT 30 G.WIS190
AGI 43 G.LUC 79
AEXP43,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire500 Wind500
Water500 Earth500
Lightning500 Arcane500
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1000 Dark1000
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Intermediate level 2 --Entropic Mist Intermediate level 2 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Advance level 1 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Intermediate level 9 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 2 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 5 Meditation Intermediate level 1 Elemental manipulation Intermediate level 3 Mana Blast Intermediate level 4 Mana Barrier Advance level 4 Wind bolt Advance level 2 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Novice level 9 Flash Blade Intermediate level 4 Corrosion Bolt Intermediate level 7 Lesser Light Heal Intermediate level 8 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 3 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 1 Create Entity Beginner 7 Arcane Pulse Beginner 1
Chapter 16: Day 80 Author''s Notes I intended for this chapter to be out 2 days ago. I¡¯ve been busy for most of this week and hardly had time to write this chapter. Due to this I haven¡¯t had the chance to finish writing this chapter for a couple of days. Only 4 more chapters left for this story arc by the way. Hope you guys enjoy it. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ It¡¯s been 20 days since the adventurers left, and it¡¯s been pretty bland here. The main reason is that because the adventurers left earlier than they were planning all of the usual monsters that explore Shade haven¡¯t came back yet, none of them would risk being near adventurers. Because of this I''ve mainly been spending my time training with the zombies that Shade creates, and playing with Rune, Falz and Vari. I usually end up playing essentially pong with Falz most of the time. Rune and Vari are almost at each other''s throats daily, while Falz spends most of his time trying to create his own spells. Rune and Vari haven¡¯t been doing much besides playing around and improving the mana martial arts that Rune created, it¡¯s actually got kind of impressive. Falz though, he has been training against the zombies with me occasionally and has raised his level to 11. I managed to raise my level to 18 since I spent a lot more time training compared to Falz. Aside from training Falz has even managed to create a spell of his own. By channelling dark affinity mana through the entirety of his being and forcing it to take a form around him he managed to create this strange spell. Thanks to Eidolons Mind I even learned the spell which wasn¡¯t exactly like it appeared.
Dark Id FormBeginner1
This spell was created by a Skeleton mage trying to create his own magic. Although similar to a forbidden spell called Darkness Embodiment, this spell was purely created with the users mana and has no connection to corruption. This spell creates a form based on their id and Dark mana, creating a second body surrounding them. The function of this spell is to use mana to greatly boost physical capabilities as well as reduce physical and magical damage done to the user. Form will differ from user to user and will have different strengths and weaknesses then each user. For example some would be stronger than most while others faster. Weak minds can fall victim to their ids desires. Transformations can cause damage to the user. Mana Cost: 500 per min
It¡¯s a pretty cool spell that Falz created, I was surprised when he created it. I was playing a game of tag with Vari and Rune while Falz was experimenting, when I heard falz laughing, when I looked over he started screaming and was being enveloped by his own mana. I dropped the game I was playing and was about to rush over to Falz when I heard him shout stop. His transformation finished, he was ecstatically telling us about the spell. As his form settled Eidolons Mind prompted but I was busy being captivated by his new from. When He¡¯s using Dark Id Form he¡¯s 7ft instead of 5ft and looks like he¡¯s built for fighting hand to hand. His bones are covered from head to toe in blueish black muscles, nearly seamlessly at that. His head has purple eyes and bluish skin like metal covering his skull, exposed are his teeth covered is a thin layer of the same material. His torso is a thick human esque body with the same strange material covering his upper half like a ribcage. His arms and legs are large and ripped with muscle, shoulders are huge and coated in the same metal with his arms almost as thick reaching below his waist. His right hand has a similar shape to a gauntlet with an opening only exposing his flesh covered hand and 5 claws at the end of each finger. His right on the other hand is quite literally a flesh and bone sword coated in the same strange metal. Both his legs are large and have lizard like toes protruding at the base, these toes all have similar claws to his hand. Needless to say I was impressed but was concerned since a single use nearly killed him. After that I forced him to train with me and the now teach/practice a few new spells I created with him. I created an elemental bolt spells when creating a fire and water bolt. The elemental bolt deleted my wind bolt and took all of the experience wind bolt got for itself, it even took away corrosion bolt but it left lesser light heal. It wasn¡¯t the only spell I changed, Create Entity got a few new additions after experimenting a bit. Well first of all I managed to learn to create zombies after I defeated a few of them but that''s not all. Since I could create a few monsters by combining the together and with Eidolons Craft I began experimenting with some ideas that Falz suggested along with my own. I went with my ideas first since there was less that Falz¡¯ ideas. I started by taking and planting a mana shroom into what I''ve started calling the test room. It was the room I fought my first goblin in. After planting the mana shroom I started by using Eidolons Craft with Create Entity on the mana shroom. It wasn¡¯t much but I started to imbue wisps into the mushroom, it was an odd sight to see wisps getting created and destroyed all for a mushroom but it was oddly beautiful. After 30 minutes I was finished and had watched as the shroom grew to about 3 ft and became a pale blue. It had grown arms and legs and no longer attached to the floor, it had black beady eyes and a mouth half as wide as its body. It also stopped glowing. I was pleasantly surprised when I observed it.
Mush-Man level 8
Mush-men are some of the weakest creatures that roam Ohmaze and tend to be prayed upon. Although they are normally weak that is only because they rarely fight or level up, most mush-men never make it past level 2. There has been records of mush-men reaching level 500. This mush-man was created by a wisp¡¯s experiment due to this experiment and creators high Wis this mush-man has exceptionally high health and mana regeneration. This mush-man can develop an identity in time.
It was exactly what I was looking for but I couldn¡¯t finish it there, I still had other ideas. After 2 whole days I finished all of my ideas and not a single one of them worked, however 3 of Falz ideas worked perfectly. His first idea was to use Eidolons Craft to infuse the same type of monster onto itself. I tried his idea by infusing skeletons into a skeleton, it was almost as cool to make as the mush-man. I did the same with all of my creations but aside from the skeleton and skeleton mage it didn¡¯t work. The creations were something better than expected as well.
Greater Skeleton level 12
Was created by a wisp. Due to creators Wis this greater skeleton is resistant to magic.This greater skeleton can develop an identity in time.
Lesser Lich level 10
Was created by a wisp. Due to creators Wis this lesser lich has the ability to use Create Undead.This lesser lich can develop an identity in time.
His second idea was to attempt infusing passive abilities into some of the monsters. Funnily enough none of it worked except for the Passive ability Advance of the Drudge. It also only worked on the skeletons, the very monster I got the skill from in the first place. The skeleton didn¡¯t change much but its bones seemed to get slightly thicker.
Skeletal Drudge level 5
Was created by a wisp. Due to creators Wis this skeletal drudge has increased resistances.This skeletal drudge can develop an identity in time.
It¡¯s essentially a stronger skeleton but it''s not that much better. The third idea Falz had didn¡¯t exactly add anything to Create Entity, but it did increase what I could do with it. His idea was to try and mix Eidolon¡¯s Craft in when creating an entity. It worked to an extent and I can now create a single monster with a weaker version of any skill I have. Shade told me that today is the first day that monsters will return, since they know the adventurers will no longer be here. I was a little eager since it¡¯s boring just to fight zombies, plus I can¡¯t really train anything else that much at this point. The only skill I want to train is the one that Falz created but since I''m a wisp I can¡¯t use it since I lack a solid form. Oh well I''ll just have to use it once I evolve. I start to float about the dungeon a little earlier than normal saying hi to Rune and Vari as I pass. Falz decided to stay in my room and practice controlling his Dark Id Form. As I was talking to Rune I asked what he plans to do today and apparently he¡¯s found that he can use his mana to train his body and spirit so he¡¯s going to spend the day training with his new method. I asked him to show me what he meant and was a little disappointed when Eidolons Mind didn¡¯t prompt, which was to be expected since it''s a method of mana manipulation instead of a spell. Essentially he¡¯s using his mana to compress the atmospheric mana around him to put pressure on him as if he¡¯s underwater at around 50 depth. Apparently he could have only used this method for 20 minutes at most when he first made it, now however he can maintain it for just over an hour. Vari has also taken up the same method but since she already has higher mana and mana regen she can keep it up almost indefinitely.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! I said bye to them and drifted to the front of the dungeon where the first monsters started to come in. Since I got bored fighting the zombies with my spells I started to use my mana barrier and just ram into them, I am planing to do the same thing with these monsters until I can¡¯t defeat them this way. If it ever gets to that point. Its also a great way to test how strong and fast I am since my STR affects my impacts with the barrier. The first monsters to come in were some level 3-4 goblins, I left them as they were. The next monsters to come in were the same goblins half an hour later, it¡¯s obvious they died to some basic skeletons since I heard them saying things like fucking skeletons... Wait it just dawned on me that I shouldn¡¯t know their language, and as soon as I have that thought a window pops up.
Due to circumstances the skill Linguistics has been affected.
By listening to Goblins with high enough intellect and wisdom the goblin language(Gob) has been added to known languages for linguistics.
Well that''s cool, not really that useful for me at least for now. I wait about another 20 minutes before new monsters show up. This time it''s Kobolds and I start to listen to them but I barely get some words from the way they speak before they get destroyed by some skeletons. I head back the the entrance and wait again for more monsters that would be at least a little fun to fight. Not long after I get there I see a familiar merrow followed by a 3 more what caught my attention was that all of them were around level 10. It was Dargeon although he was only level 9 but he was leading the other merrow. I followed them for about 10 minutes staying hidden, god I love Nonexistence I don¡¯t even have to try to hide. After their 3rd fight against skeletons they were starting to make progress in Shade when one of them started to talk. (Merrow 1): ¡°This is stupid, Dargeon. This wisp of yours wouldn¡¯t care to show. I bet you made it up.¡± (Dargeon): ¡°It will show at some point. Be patient Okel.¡± (Merrow 2): ¡°I have to agree with Okel here, there''s no guarantee we¡¯d even be able to find him.¡± Deciding to show myself I float couple feet in front of them and start to talk, startling them for a moment. (Dark): ¡°Hello again Dargeon.¡± (Okel): ¡°Ok maybe you''re right Dargeon, he does exist.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯m female.¡± Dargeon is smiling and the 3rd silent merrow is doing nothing but nodding at him. The other 2 merrow are shocked still staring at me. (Dark): ¡°So why are you guys looking for me?¡± (Merrow 3): ¡°I¡¯m the shaman of our village called Jhamak and when Dargeon told us about an intelligent wisp most of us didn¡¯t believe him. When he told me I encouraged him to prove himself and lead me to you.¡± (Dark): ¡°May I ask why?¡± (Jhamak): ¡°I¡¯d like to ask see how strong you are and make a deal with you if you are as strong as Dargeon suggests. Which is why we brought Okel and Guarve to test you.¡±
Quest
Defeat The merrow Okel and Guarve in a fair fight and prove yourself strong. -------------- Rewards Increase relations with Merrow Increase friendliness with Dargeon Opportunity for a quest ---------- Failure Death
(Dark): ¡°Thats fine with me. Just start whenever you guys are ready.¡± After a few seconds of preparing themselves Okel charged at me and started to swing the iron sword in his hand almost blindly. Guarve was sitting back and clearly charging a spell. I continually avoided Okel without attacking and waited for Guarve to fire use his attack. As soon as he did Okel jumped out of the way only to be slammed back into Guarves mana blasts path by a mana barrier. Okel was heavily injured, covering myself with a mana barrier I flew threw him and into Guarve. Okel was vanishing as Guarve tried to stand back up only to realise I crushed his leg when I ran into him. Before he started to scream in pain I use a mana blast of my own to send him out of the dungeon. The Quest window popped up and told me I passed as Jhamak started to clap. When I drifted towards them I heard Dargeon repeatably saying I told you so. (Jhamak): ¡°That was surprisingly fast. I expected that fight to last longer, well no matter. I''d like to make a deal with you for the betterment of my clan. Until the end of your deal with this dungeon I''d like you to train the merrow of my village.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯ve only got 10 days left on the deal with the dungeon, would that be fine with you?¡± (Jhamak): ¡°As long as it can improve my merrows, I''m happy.¡±
Quest
Fight the merrow that come to the dungeon as often as you can. Teach the merrow as you fight them so that they can fight more efficiently. Repeat daily until your deal with the Shade dungeon is complete. -------------- Rewards Level Up Increase closeness with merrow Access to merrow Village ---------- Failure Death As you will be training the merrow instead of defending the dungeon all exp you would gain from defeating a merrow will go to the defeated merrow. All merrow defeated by you will have no time penalty to enter the dungeon.
I accepted the quest and told them that they can start to send the merrow to come to the dungeon as quick as they would like. Saying bye to Dargeon and Jhamak I went and told Rune, Falz and Vari about my new deal, to which they wished me good luck. I floated away towards the entrance when the first merrow group showed up. I started to train them to make them aware of their environment and to make them work together. I spent the whole day teaching groups upon groups of merrow how to work together only to be slaughtered by me ramming into them. Overall I think I slaughtered over 200 merrow throughout the day. And noticed that by the end of the day they had all reached at least level 10, most of which started at level 7. A couple of times throughout the day Dargeon would sit down and talk with me, he¡¯s a friendly guy and even though he¡¯s a shaman apprentice he doesn¡¯t like the rituals they practice. After ¡®training¡¯ him a few dozen times he¡¯s now level 14 and he¡¯s the most cautious of his environments. I''d like to believe it¡¯s from my training but it''s mostly because of the times he died to shade glass. By the end of the day it was clear that the merrow were making progress but since I''m a wisp I can¡¯t fight the same as them so they are only making progress fighting magic users. When everyone left the dungeon for the day I started to celebrate a little since I haven¡¯t had a moment''s rest for almost the whole day. I drifted back to my room saying goodnight to Vari and Rune as I pass and the same to Falz as I enter the room, barely registering he¡¯s in his Dark Id Form. I let my exhaustion take me as I eagerly wait and dread tomorrow.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 18
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 2050/2050 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,003,200/1,003,200 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 101
G.VIT 30 G.WIS238
AGI 59 G.LUC 95
AEXP151,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire500 Wind500
Water500 Earth500
Lightning500 Arcane500
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1000 Dark1000
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Intermediate level 6 --Entropic Mist Intermediate level 4 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Advance level 2 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Advance level 1 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 3 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 6 Meditation Intermediate level 5 Elemental manipulation Intermediate level 4 Mana Blast Intermediate level 4 Mana Barrier Advance level 6 Elemental Bolt Advance level 2 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Intermediate level 3 Flash Blade Intermediate level 7 Lesser Light Heal Intermediate level 9 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 7 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 1 Create Entity Novice 1 Arcane Pulse Beginner 2 Dark Id Form Beginner 1
Chapter 17: Training Days Author''s Notes Sorry about the chapter taking over a week to put up. I''ve been busy with preparations for university and taking care of family matters. I also have been having issues with my internet since the 7th. Sorry about the delay dudes. Also TheRedScythe and Source it''s not the apocalypse, just a natural disasterlevel called ¡°LazyAuthorWithValidExcuse...SortOff¡± __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ It¡¯s been 5 days since I started to train the merrow most of them have been making steady improvements with the way that they fight as well as the average level of the merrow has risen to 26 because of this. I''ve managed to get them to fight together much better from here. Ive also started to train Falz, Rune and Vari as well but I''ve been training them to fight the mush-men I create along side the Greater skeletons. Falz is now level 19, while Vari is now 22 and Rune just managed to get to 20 yesterday. Vari didn¡¯t evolve since her race is stronger than most skeletal monsters. Shade said that she¡¯d most likely evolve at 30 or 40. Rune on the other hand evolved as soon as he became level 20. Rune evolved into a race called a Skeletal Mystic due to the way he uses his mana. He looks mostly the same but on closer inspection his bones are now a white metal, making him almost twice as strong as before. I''ve stopped personally training all of the of the merrow and have only been personally training a few quick learners. Dargeon, Okel, Guarve and 2 other merrow are the only ones I''ve decided to train personally since they showed talent or intellect when I was training them. I''ve been having them train with Rune, Vari and Falz as well since I made a little discovery about this mission. If I kill the merrow they get all the experience instead of me, but if any of my creations kill the merrow both of them gain the experience. Thanks to this little exploit Rune is now level 26, Falz is 24 and Vair is 26. After reaching level 20 Falz evolved into a profound skeleton mage so he improves slower than Rune and Vari but gains twice as much per level now just like me. The only reason he¡¯s level 24 is because he''s been killing most of the merrow during the training since he¡¯s been using this to train his Dark Id Form. he can quickly change is it no longer causes him pain during the shifting. All the merrow that I''m not personally training are having to fight my Mush-men which has been very hard for them surprisingly. I created 10 Mush-men per merrow each day and told them that if they could beat 10 each they will join the others in personal training. Okel and Guarve and one of the other merrow were the only ones with any real talent in fighting, Dargeon and another merrow earned their way into the personal training buy patiently observing the Mush-men and defeating them as safely as possible unlike the rest of the merrow. Also training the merrow this way with the Mush-men is what showed me the exploit for training them since a lot of the merrow kept dieing to the Mush-men. 3 days into the training one of the mush-men developed a personality and started to organise and command the Mush-men to fight more efficiently. The average level of the Mush-men rose to 15 and seemed to fight on par with the merrow after the Mush-man commander came about. Only one Mush-man died since the as well. Thanks to the Mush-man commander the remaining mush-men started to train with the merrow and they all became far better at working with each other or against each other. Shade asked me if he could have some Mush-men and I jokingly told him if he could get me a shade glass weapon. I ended up giving him 10 Mush-men since he gave me a rather cool looking black blade made out of shade glass.
Shade Glass Blade
This ragged broadsword is comprised of tempered shade glass and has the natural qualities to repair itself when in shadows. The blade is as strong as steel and as sharp as obsidian. Aside for having a smooth hilt and handguard this weapon is extremely dangerous to handle. Capable of harming ghosts.
I was surprised about the quality of the weapon and thanks Shade even though I couldn¡¯t use it for now and have a much cooler weapon in my inventory. A the end of the 5 days training I gave Dargeon the Shade Glass blade on a whim, only to watch his face contort into mild annoyance. Okel burst out laughing when he found out it''s made completely of shade glass. Rune asked why Okel was laughing and as I was about to speak Guarve told the stories about how Dargeon died repeatedly to shade glass whenever he was in this dungeon, apparently it happens a lot of times to him before I met him as well. While everyone was laughing and not paying attention I noticed the smile on Dargeons face when looking at his new weapon. On the 6th day another merrow made it through the Mush-men and joined the personal training. This time it was a female merrow and she seemed to be a mage since unlike the rest of the merrow that got through so far she doesn¡¯t have a weapon. Guarve told me that both him and her are mages but he¡¯s only a basic mage while she is a true mage since so practices different spells. Curiously I asked her to demonstrate her magic and found out that she can use water, air and arcane magic but she didn¡¯t have any spells I already have. Training was rather bland on the 6th day but that was to be expected since none of the merrow seem to hold a candle to Rune, Vari and Falz when it comes to power. The 7th, 8th and 9th day passed the exact saw way with Rune, Vari and Falz decimating the training merrow and the Mush-men preventing the rest from progressing in the slightest. Dargeon has been using his new blade as his main weapon now and has show to have some talent with the broadsword, shame that talent is of a toddler with a stick. At least he¡¯s trying. The only notable things that happened during this day was that the mage merrow and me trained her control of her magic by playing pong with a wind ball and mana barriers until she could create and control 3 barriers at a time independently. The other interesting thing that happened was that Rune has been cultivating his mana at night instead of resting, as a result he has more mana that Vari but still less than Falz. he¡¯s also learned that doing so has strengthened his body slightly. The 10th and last day of the training and my deal with shade was different since I decided to have a little bit of a battle royale situation with all of the merrow with me being there only target. All of the merrow showed up and came charging at me, trying to take me down as quick as they could. All of them were blown back when I blew them all away with a couple wind bolts. Nobody was hurt, but that was going to change soon. As they were getting to their feet as fast as they could I flew to the center of them and struck all of them with lighting with me at the epicenter. 90% of the merrow vanished into light as they died but a few were only heavily injured. Only 3 merrow survived; the mage merrow, Gurarve and a one of the merrow that stained with them. They only survived because the mage protected, or tried to protect them the the mana barriers. Moving swiftly Guarve tried to slice me only to have his head and sword arm cleanly sliced off by a Flash Blade. Before his blood could sputter out his body he vanished in a wave of light. The mage girl was firing 3 mana bolts at a time at me to give time for the other merrow to get close. I spent a minute dodging them until the mage collapsed from using too much mana to fast. I killed them both with one swing of an extra long Flash Blade.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. The second attempt at me they were more cautious this time around, The mages started to fire mana bolts an elemental bolts at me in hopes of giving the warriors time to get close to me. In response I summoned a few elementals of the 4 basic elements and watched as they got torn apart by my creations, sometimes literally. At the same time elementals were getting torn apart by the merrows that didn¡¯t fall into a panic. When my final elemental was destroyed only 6 merrow remained. Dargeon was leading them and when it was only me and them he gave them a few commands I couldn¡¯t heard which the immediately followed. Mana barriers were created around me to prevent me from attacking without attacking myself, the 3 mages still alive were clearly focusing on the barriers and letting the warriors get close just as Dargeon was about to hit the barrier with his sword a mage released her barrier and I put up my own. Dargeon was pushed back and as I released my barrier I fired a lightning bolt and crushed 2 of the mages in one strike. As the mages fell one of the merrow attacked me while the others were still in shock. I got struck by the side and fell almost to the ground because of the hit. It didn¡¯t do much damage but it hurt like hell. I took them out with some mana bolts fst after that. The 3rd, 4th and 5th attempts didn¡¯t fair any differently from the second attempt, although I did change tactics to make them think how to defeat me. On the 3rd attempt I flew into people covered in a mana barrier killing them that way, only Okel managed to him me during this attempt but that was only because the mage merrow temporarily stopped me with her own mana barrier. The 4th attempt I only attacked them with elemental bolts which was interesting since a few maged managed to counteract some of them with their own bolts. I only got hurt during this attempt because Dargeon tripped as he was trying to stop a merrow from running away. His blade managed to slice me and do just over 100 damage which is the most I''ve took to date. Unfortunately he fell on the sharp end of a piece of shade glass just as I killed everyone with a barrage of elemental bolts. The 5th attempt nobody even got close tome since I summoned a greater skeleton for each of them. The 6th attempt was their last attempt and the last act of me being there trainer. Before I could even decide how I''d defeat them all of the merrow came quietly charging in as the mages tried to sneak around me. The merrow were doing there best to avoid my attacks, while he mages would fire of lots of mana bolts at me once I avoided the Guarve was underneath me and slicing at me with his sword. I got struck as I exposed his brain with a quick Flash Blade. A few merrow were getting to close for comfort so I struck the with Arcane Pulse. I killed 10 merrow in that one move only to be struck with a dark bolt. It hurt like hell and I even squealed for a moment before I launched myself through a few merrow, killing Okel without even realising it. I managed to launch a few corrosion bolts and lightning bolts at the remaining merrow before they started to move. Killing most of them I was struck from behind, with and arcane bolt from the mage merrow. I summoned 5 skeleton mages to fight her as I flew and killed the remaining merrow with a mana blast. As I turned to see the mage merrow as she died, there was only one skeleton mage left and it was badly damaged. 10 minutes later Dargeon, Okel and Guarve came to talk. Dargeon was smiling Okel seemed pissed and Guarve seems indifferent. (Okel): ¡°Listen up Dark. I don¡¯t appreciate being killed so fast by you and....¡± (Guarve): ¡°Shut up Okel. everyone was killed fast.¡± (Dargeon): ¡°Ignore that for now. Anyway for training us I''ve been tasked with giving this to you and saying thank you for training us. It will allow you and your allies entry to our town, just show it to a guard as you go in.¡± Dargeon handed me a shite scale with Melgas written on it. ¡°Permission to the Sacred Merrow town of Jacmal for owner of this scale and allies.¡± As I was looking at the scale I smiled to myself and put it in my inventory and thanking Dargeon for it. We talked for a bit and enjoyed ourselves when Okel suddenly jumped up and shouted that he wants to leave before Jhamak gets pissed at the for being away too long. I said goodbye to them and started to train on my own again. I spent 3 hours training myself while Rune, Vari and Falz rested since I''ve been making them train almost non-stop since I found the exploit. As I was making my way back to my room a notification popped up.
Quest Completed
You have trained the merrow for as long as you have been tasked with. Once Dargeon informed Jhamak about delivering the scale the quest was deemed complete. -------------- Rewards Level Up Increase closeness with merrow Access to merrow Village ----------
I smiled as I looked at the window, once I closed it I opened my stats and smiled since I was now 1 level away from evolving according to Shade. I looked at my new AEXP and though that I should improve my max health so I ended up spending all my 168,200 AEXP on it. When my health broke through the 10,000 I had hopes that it would be the same as when I raised my mana past the same amount, I guess not. I was so close to evolving I wonder what all become.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 18
Race Wisp Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 18970/18970 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,003,400/1,003,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 21 INT 105
G.VIT 30 G.WIS244
AGI 61 G.LUC 97
AEXP168,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire500 Wind500
Water500 Earth500
Lightning500 Arcane500
Holy0 Demonic0
Light1000 Dark1000
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Intermediate level 6 --Entropic Mist Intermediate level 5 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Advance level 2 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Advance level 1 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 3 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 6 Meditation Intermediate level 7 Elemental manipulation Intermediate level 6 Mana Blast Intermediate level 5 Mana Barrier Advance level 6 Elemental Bolt Advance level 4 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Intermediate level 4 Flash Blade Intermediate level 9 Lesser Light Heal Advance level 1 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 7 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 1 Create Entity Novice 9 Arcane Pulse Beginner 4 Dark Id Form Beginner 1
Chapter 18: Leaving Day As I woke up after the last day of my deals with both Shade and the merrow I was planning to leave. I was about to leave my shade torch bed when Shade started to speak to me, he sounded a little sad and excited. (Shade): ¡°It¡¯s a shame that you have to go, you made it interesting for there 3 months, and kept your end of the deal splendidly little Darkness.¡± (Dark): ¡°3 months and you haven¡¯t gotten over calling me that have you? Oh well I guess it''s one last hurrah then.¡± (Shade): ¡°Not quite, there''s something I forgot to mention about myself.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯m going to take a wild guess and say I can¡¯t leave without either a special item or defeating the boss right?¡± (Shade): ¡°I¡¯m a little surprised you could guess that¡­ Yes you have to defeat my boss mob to leave, and I won''t make it easy for you.¡± (Dark): ¡°out of curiosity what is the final boss you have?¡± (Shade): ¡°I won¡¯t tell you have it is but it¡¯s level is 25.¡± (Dark): ¡°Well it won¡¯t be that hard since I defeated a strong troll before.¡± (Shade): ¡°Good luck you''re going to need it.¡± Leaving it at that I floated down from my shade torch and woke Falz and Rune from there meditation. I get that the meditation skill removes fatigue but I just don¡¯t get why they¡¯d rather not sleep. Anyway I woke them up and told them what Shade told me. I asked Rune to go tell Vari and ask if she¡¯f like to come as well, before I knew it Rune was back with Vari strolling behind. When Vari showed up Rune started to speak and ¡®explain¡¯ that Vari is still Shades mini-boss. Vari interrupted and fined in what he meant, she can¡¯t leave unless let got by Shade. At that exact moment Shade stated that he¡¯d let her leave if we could beat his boss. We were planning to just go strait to the boss room and get out of Shade as fast as possible, but Falz raised a fair point. He suggested that we plan what we intend to do when we leave since we¡¯re still monsters for the most part. I interrupted him, stating that I intend to explore Ohmaze and go to the merrow village once we leave. Since none of us have a need for food we could spend all our time doing whatever we desire. I was planning to tell them about the reincarnation games I''m supposedly a part of but since I have no information on it I decided to leave it for now and simply enjoy my time¡­ and get stronger. Before we left my room Shade told us that the rest of the monsters in here will now start attacking us until we defeat the boss and leave. Vari and Falz were a little surprised by this tidbit of information, while me and Rune figured as much. As we left the room some low level skeletons were waiting outside only to get destroyed by Vari as she practically walked through them. During our jaunt to the boss room groups of skeletons and zombies would attack occasionally, none of which put up much of a fight. We stopped only at a couple of times when we were on the move simply to pick up some shade glass. The highest level of zombie we fought was level 15 and was the only mob that managed to even stall us, which was only cause Rune didn¡¯t fight seriously. By the time we got to the dungeon boss room, Vari, Falz and me were a bit pissed since Rune kept making bad jokes for the last 5 minutes. It was really bad ones like: Why can¡¯t a zombie keep a relationship? Cause the always fall apart. Why are skeletons so dumb? Cause there boneheaded. And the only joke that got even a chuckle from me and Falz(and immediate smack from us too). Why do mages get caught up in new trends? Cause they always go mana-stream. I was getting fed up with all of this by the point that we arrived at the boss room. When we entered Vari, Rune and Falz ready to fight and started to plan how to attack. I on the other hand was severely let down, not only is the boss different from what I was expecting but it''s a fucking cliche of a joke.
Monty the Ravenous Bunny level 25
A bunny rabbit that found its way to Ohmaze after getting blown up by the holy hand grenade of Antioch.
It¡¯s the bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not only is it a damn joke I''m not dumb enough to risk getting close to it. Before the others moved I fired a 10,000 mana blast right on to it sending indistinguishable bits of flesh and bone to paint the walls, and to a lesser extent us. Everyone was a little stunned that I just killed the boss that fast except Shade and Falz who only got startled that I didn¡¯t hold back. (Shade): ¡°Holy hell little Darkness why did you use so much power on one enemy?¡± (Dark): ¡°Cause I''m not going to fight a fucking joke Shade. Plus I wouldn¡¯t let Rune and Vari get close to something that can tear out throats fast¡± (Shade): ¡°Ok I know that you''re from another world and all that, but that is no excuse to know about Monty''s way of attacking.¡± (Dark): ¡°In the world I''m from that rabbit was a monster in a very funny movie, so I''m not dumb enough to get close to that thing. Anyway we beat your boss so can we leave?¡± (Shade): ¡°Sure, be sure to visit if you miss me. Oh and one thing.¡± (Dark): ¡°Yea?¡± (Shade): ¡°Please leave and take your absurd existence with you.¡± I could practically feel the banter in his voice. Smiling to myself we left Shade and headed to the entrance. When we got there we we took our first steps outside of the dungeon to find a sparse forest just outside. I looked at the reactions of Vari, Rune and Falz and all of them were taken aback by what they saw. I let them enjoy the view before we set out to explore for a bit while I started to think about what I should do since I don¡¯t have a deal with Shade anymore. I''m a little upset that I didn¡¯t get to level 20 from Shades boss but it''s not like it matters that much. I shouldn¡¯t have to worry about any major threats unless I somehow find something like a dragon. It might be a good idea to find a place to rest, thinking so I told my party that we¡¯ll be heading out now.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. We walked through the forest for 3 hours before we found something interesting. We found a goblin village. Thinking that it would be a good idea to rest in a village I hope that we could reason with them, if not all of them are only low level. None of the goblins are above level 10, this should be easy. I told Falz, Rune and Vari only to kill the goblins that attack them as we walked out a the forest bushes hiding us. I revealed myself and caught the attention of the goblins. The goblins started to panic a little but the higher level ones shouted at them to calm down and get the the other end of the village. Thinking that I could reason with them to let us rest at their village I started talking to them in Gob. (Dark): ¡°Hello, I was wondering if you¡¯d let us rest at your village?¡± (Mean Goblin): ¡°No, get the fuck out our village or else.¡± (Dark): ¡°Would it change your mind if I said you didn¡¯t have a choice?¡± (Smart Goblin): ¡°It might. But all the same we¡¯d rather not have outsiders in our village without reason.¡± (Mean Goblin): ¡°No they can fuck off, this is our village and I won¡¯t have anymore outsiders try and take it from us.¡± (Smart Goblin): ¡°Unlike the other outsiders these ones asked only to rest, not for us to give them the village. Their even using our language rather than the common Human language.¡± (Dark): ¡°We only want a place to rest for the night, and a village is better than in the forest.¡± Before any of the other goblins could speak the mean goblin charged at me swinging a crude blade at me. I used a small mana bolt to stun him but when he tried to dodge his head was struck by it instead, killing him instantly. Before the Goblins could react to what happened 2 windows sprang into existence as I fell to the floor.
Congratulations you have level up
As a Profound Wisp you will gain 2 times the normal growth rate of a Wisp
You have gained: +2 AGI +4 INT +6 G.WIS +2 LUC +100 Health +200 Mana
Due to special skill you gained: +20,000 AEXP
Having met the requirements to evolve. Evolution will take place immediately. Stats may be affected.
Due to rare or unique skills known as well as high stats, mana and origin as a profound being you will evolve into a Profound Eidolon.
As I finished reading the notice the small marble like core at the center of my flames burst apart and started to produce a thing dark blue smoke that spread out from me in all directions. Sudden pain surged through my entire being causing me to momentarily blank out. When I woke up the smoke was still blocking everything from view other than what was happening to me. I was growing a body, flesh and bone were being created around where my core use to be. Suddenly the flesh I now have surged forth and spontaneously formed into a fully humanoid body with dark blue skin. The smoke was still covering me as I was still evolving. My body became thicker, my forearms seemed to grow gauntlet like flesh with 2 spikes at the wrists and elbow pointing backwards. My head seemed to burst into beautiful greenish blue flames which flowed like hair but accted as fire. More spikes sprouted this time on my head and through my flames were a total of 6 with 3 at each side. My chest and back suddenly felt pressure and suddenly my chest expanded till I had D-cup breasts, at the same time on my back large fleshy wings sprouted from my back. The wings at too thick to be used for flight and have 3 large lance like spikes protruding at the end of them at the top, the bottom of the wings have 3 spikes of slightly varying size spout. Pain which has been constant throughout the evolution process now concentrated into 13 different spots on my new body 8 on my wings, 4 on my thighs and one on my head. The ones on my wings were just over half way along the wings, 2 at the top, on in the middle the last a quarter from the bottom for both wings. The ones on my thighs were on the outside a couple of inches from my hips and an inch apart from each other in a line going towards my feet. The last one was at the dead center of my head. All the pain vanished as quickly as it came and in their place were blood red gems. The smoke cleared and all the goblins had faces of fear about them I took my time to look around and test my new body. I looked at Rune, Vari and Falz and noticed I''m rather tall and large, my arms are as thick as a goblin''s head and I''m just shy of 8 ft. I practically dwarf my companions now. Turning back to the goblins and smile for real this time saying while registering the fatigue brought on by the evolution. (Dark): ¡°So, how about a place to rest now?¡±
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 20
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind
Health 18,970/18,970 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,003,400/1,003,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 121 INT 209
G.VIT 130 G.WIS350
AGI 163 G.LUC 199
AEXP20,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire550 Wind550
Water550 Earth550
Lightning550 Arcane550
Holy50 Demonic50
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Intermediate level 6 --Entropic Mist Intermediate level 5 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Advance level 2 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Advance level 1 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 3 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 6 Meditation Intermediate level 7 Elemental manipulation Intermediate level 6 Mana Blast Intermediate level 5 Mana Barrier Advance level 6 Elemental Bolt Advance level 4 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Intermediate level 4 Flash Blade Intermediate level 9 Lesser Light Heal Advance level 1 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 7 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 1 Create Entity Novice 9 Arcane Pulse Beginner 4 Dark Id Form Beginner 1
_________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Author''s Notes This is going to be the last Chapter for a while so i can plan the arc. Ihonestly didn''t think people would be interested in this story so i only planed up to this point in the story to practice writing, but if people keep reading it I''ll keep writing it. For those curious, i haven''t forgot about Shades deal. it was that the deal wasn''t a quest in the beginning ad was more along the lines of Darkness paying for rent in a way. Also for those that are curious about her design, i was inspired by The Profound Darkness from Phantasy Star 4 refrence image bellow. Q&A + Suggestions I''d like to know what you guys think about the story so far as well so far. I''d also like for you guys to ask questions about the story, characters, skills and anything else you''d like to know. Also if you have any suggestions about the story please have read up to the latest chapter. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Questions Q. What is an Eidiolon? An Eidiolon is a spirit which tends to be far more powerful than a normal spirit, not only that they have a corporeal form and tend to be the personification of a concept, enviroment, item or even a spirit that has became powerful enouth or skilled enouth to naturally have a corporeal form. When Darkness was a wisp she had a semi-solid core which is why she could get hurt as a wisp physicl but didn;t have a solid form. As an Eidiolon she grew a form which matched her Id on a surface level(Won''t get into detail as its a plot point). Eidiolons are special because they tend to become extreamly powerful and nigh-immortal eventually. Darkness as a Profound Eidiolon is a more powerful than most new-born Eidiolons and has higher potential whihc is why every stat gained 100, while every affinity gained 50 due to her nature. Asked by Nighmora and ZanthaV Q. Will she evolve again mabye at 25 or 50? She will evolve again but she won''t evolve at 25 or 50. To explain I''m going to gave to explain how she evolved at 20 first. A normal Wisp would evolve at level 10 were as Darkness was a Profound Wisp which evolves at double the normal level requirment 20. Darkness won''t evolve until level 500 since she''s a Profound Eidiolon and a normal Eidiolon would evolve at 250 since they are high tier evolutions. Evolution of creatures from Ohmaze depends on the base creature, circumstance and variant type if there is any. Darkness is one of the rarest types of variant while Vari is a more common type. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Suggestions Nighmora--needs a transformation skill to assume the form of other races plus she should do that mana pressure training that the skeleton did. Reply--I won''t be giving Darkness a transformation skill since I personally don''t likethe idea of darkness not being what she is without a plot important reason. I''ll probly get her a transformation skill but it will only be for later plot. The training that Rune did was a form of Ki training that uses mana instead of Ki and is used to reiginforce the body and skills of the user. it would be impractical for Darkness since she''s focused on magic rather than fighting. ---------------- Kernos--Darkness could always grow stronger and go with the "Girl in danger, saves her, turns out she was a princess." route. Reply--I thought about going down this kind of route but decided against it because personally it feels clichie to do that kind of thing. Although in saying that i might still go down a similare route with a twist for example: Save a beuatiful girl turns out to be an effeminite wrongfully exiled prince trying to get back his kingdom. but thats just an example... mabye.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. --------------- Jaffa-I think it''s strange that the MC didn''t try to increase the HP and quite a few other skills, so far. Also, no horde? Reply--She didn''t try to increase he HP and other skills for a few reasons. for her HP she was to focused on her MP as well as rarly even noticing the danger she was in due to how strong she became with a million mana. she also had compleate faith in her regen once she put it to 10%. The only reason she increased her HP near the end of the arc was because she realised her low health after getting hit in a fight. She''s also not been improving some skills because she couldn''t and some because she has more useful skills to use. She doen''t have a horde because she doesn''t need nor want one... yet. --------------- Kymodos--I think she needs a more humanoid form and more hp. Reply--She''ll get more HP but not a more human form due to what I have planned. --------------- Nighmora again--you can make it so that like when she farmed mana shrooms she farm the main ingreidtent for health potions so she can increase her health Reply--I have similar ideas but it''s not going to be for health for a plot reason. --------------- hurt_lock3r--Needs a humanoid form, a little subtlety never hurts. Maybe transform into a less ''dangerous'' looking person? Other than that, the story looks great. Reply--Same awnser as Nighmora and Kymodos about transformation and forms. Also thanks for the complement. --------------- Berserkjelly-- I kinda want the MC to go lone wolf throughout the book but occasionally finding somewhere to be and people to talk to for awhile before moving on whilst they grow learning more and more from each place they go to and each person they meet until they have found something to do or something to achieve which will become the driving point to the plot. It really depends on how you want the MC to grow and which direction the dtory goes but I personally don''t like the MC sticking to one spot for too long (Otherwise it becomes broing for the reader.) and in every book there has to be conflict so create conflict for the MC to tackle. Thanks for the chapters thus far I enjoyed this quite alot. ^_^ Reply--I have similare plans for how the story will progress but she won''t be going lone wolf for a while if at all. Story will be going along the lines of new places new challanges and will meet up with people mentioned or met in the story by that pount depending on what will happen. as you guys have problly already guessed she will be going to the merrow village and met Dargeon again. P.S thanks for the compliment ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tidbits about the story. Evolutions always come with stats but some times come at a cost for example Eidiolons will gain 50 stats when evolved into.(Darkness gained double by being Profound) Those stat for the Eidolons won''t benifit Character statistics other than luck, so although they gaing 50 Vit they don''t gain 500 HP same goes for Int and mana. This is why her HP and MP didn''t increase when she evolved. There are many world in this story which are inter conected as youve problly guessed from reading the story esspecially if you didn''t overlook me saying merrow are from a diffrent world. All of these worlds will have diffrent Systems inplace for that world benifits. Ohmaze has a game-like system to enhance its enhabatints but is a tame world compared to the other connected worlds. Some worlds have a similar system but would be unable to call stats like Darkness and other Ohmaze inhabitants(the merrow for example), others with be similar to earth with the way organisims grow and evolve and some will have esoteric systems that seems contradictory. Every one of these worlds have unique system benifits that only those in that wold can use, Ohmaze has non-toxic mana unlike most if not all connected worlds. Arc 2 Update I''ve been busy with Uni recently and personal matters, as a result I haven''t been able to work on my chapters. I was originally intending the 19th chapter to be released this week but I haven''t been able to find the time to finish it. However I will be able to get the next chapter out at the latest on saturday the 5th. Sorry to keep you guys waiting this long on an update but i hope you''ll like the next update once it comes out.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. Also a big thanks to everyone thats read my story so far, as you guys should know I only started writing this to improve my writing style as well as my grammer and never intended it to go further than a simple short story, nevermind steadily becoming a proper light novel(which is why the first few chapters a shorter than the rest). I never though that I''d have a single follower let along a sizable plethora, in other words thank you guys for reading and hopefully keep reading once the next arc is up. Arc 2: Chapter 1: Gob Village The goblins stunned by my new form froze as I smiled at them. I was about to speak when the smart goblin started to laugh, reining in his chortles the man started to talk calmly with a grin plastered on his wrinkled face. (Smart Goblin): ¡°This is fantastic, thank you for shutting that idiot up for good. You said you¡¯re looking for a place to stay? Then stay as long as you like, it¡¯s not like we could stop you.¡± (Dark): ¡°I didn¡¯t expect you to act like that? Why the sudden permission?¡± (Smart Goblin): ¡°If you wanted you¡¯d take the village, even as exhausted as you are from the evolution you just went through. I may be the leader of this village but I''m not stupid enough to fight an unwinnable battle, or miss an opportunity.¡± At this point the goblins that have been watching simple started to go on about there lives as if I wasn¡¯t even here. Even though they are still watching me and my creation they don¡¯t seem as distressed as earlier. Strange but not my problem. The leader noticed my gaze and started to speak up. (Rou): ¡°My name is Rou and my fellow gobs are going back to their business since even they recognise that it''s futile to fight you or my decisions.¡± (Dark): ¡°My name is Darkness, please call me Dark. Now, what opportunity were you referring to?.¡± Staring at him I noticed that my sight caused him to jump a little. The smile on his face seemed to grow as he started speaking again. (Rou): ¡°I was wondering if you¡¯d be willing to teach my goblins how to survive and become strong.¡± A window appeared to me saying I could have a quest to teach the goblins to become stronger for the next couple of days. I immediately gave a response which surprised the little goblin. (Dark): ¡°No I will not teach you goblins how to become stronger, but I might put you in situations where you¡¯ll be forced to become stronger.¡± Before the leader could ask what I was meaning, I summoned a level 5 skeleton and made it start attacking him. As the skeleton and goblin leader started to attack each other and cause each other wounds, the other goblins started running about and grabbed lots of weapons. Before they even got close to the fight, me or my group I summoned 12 greater skeletons at level 15 and blocked their paths. None of the other goblins attacks got past a single greater skeleton and none of the greater skeletons fought back as I turned my attention back to the leader fighting the skeleton. The leader fought his hardest but was covered in his own blood from head to toe, holding a severed arm as weapon. The skeleton was clearly winning as it only had some broken ribs. I watched as the skeleton was about to land a lethal blow only for the skeleton to be decapitated with a wild swing from the leader. Before he could turn to me I cast a couple dozen healing bolts on him and corroding bolts on his severed arm. He stopped as he noticed that the arm he was holding turned to dust while a new arm grew from his stump. He paused alongside all of the other goblins that stopped attacking the greater skeletons. A mere moment passed and he started to laugh. (Rou): ¡°So that¡¯s what you meant, Dark please don¡¯t do that again at least not without telling me.¡± (Dark): ¡°Sure just don¡¯t expect me to make things easy for you.¡± I talked with Rou for quite a lot of time and learned that his village is called Gob village and was frequently attacked by humans and elves. Even though they are frequently attacked by the humans and elves, they don¡¯t retaliate since they are only used to train the weaker trainees. This is why he asked for me to train them. I read about it from the quest I was given and rejected before I started to ¡®teach¡¯ them. I rejected the quest since completing it would lower my standing with civilized societies and the rewards weren''t all that good. After talking with him for a bit more he told me that evolution can happen at any time outside of battle and that as long as I''m not under direct threat in some sense it won¡¯t be called battle. Evolution comes with many benefits that tend to be a small increase of stats and new growth rates I was also told that some evolutions have a price to pay which is normally a set number of stat points, this is why Ogres are dumber that Hobgoblins supposedly. When I looked at my stats I found out that I gained a flat out 100 stat points for each stat but I didn¡¯t gain any increase Health and Mana, which I assume is my cost. Rune, Falz and Vari were given a place to rest as well as me, nothing productive happened the rest of the day other than me examining my body more closely when I was alone. Let''s get the obvious thing out of the way first. I''ve been female since I reincarnated but I haven¡¯t had a body so it didn¡¯t affect me in anyway. Now on the other hand I feel so exposed that although I know I''m female I feel extreamly both comfortable and uncomfortable. When I examined myself I had all of the functioning a parts of a full woman that it wa a little distracting, thankfully I learned that I can alter my form slightly and found I could create attached fleshy clothing. Covering my breasts and vagina in baggy flesh cloths was uncomfortable since I can still feel them, so instead I made a skin tight onesie that covered everything from my neck down to my toes, only having my hands free. The onesie was moulded around me so it looks like it¡¯s my actual form, which it kind of is. I also found that I could move and control my wings as well as change their size and shape by half or twice they already sizable initial state. My flame like hair could be as short as shoulder length or long enough to reach my ankles and just like my wings and flesh cloths I can manipulate it at will. Later that day I told Rou that as soon as both of us are up in the morning I''ll train his village, to which he was both ecstatic and smiling about. Me Falz and Vari went and slept in the house that Rou set aside from us, the original resident was dead and Rou didn¡¯t care as long as I was either helping or leaving in the morning. Rune on the other hand decided to stay up all night and practice his techniques around the town. Waking early I let Falz,Vari and Rune do as they please and decided to wake up all the goblins, when I left the house I was surprised to see that most goblins were already up. When I grabbed one of them and asked why are they up early, the panicked goblin punched me out of fear, apologised and said that goblins only need a few hours sleep each day. I found Rou walking towards me with a small band of goblins following behind carrying the corpse of the one I killed the other day. When I asked what they were doing they said that they were going to throw the corpse in the forest since they didn¡¯t know what else to do. That an none of them really cared for him. I asked for his corpse before we start training to which Rou smiled and ordered the others drop the body and leave. They didn¡¯t even need a second to be leaving. Rou asked me what I was going to use the body for, and when I said an experiment he didn¡¯t quite know what was meant since it didn¡¯t translate to Gob. Moving the body to a secluded section of the village smiling I moved Rou back just incase it might hurt him and asked him to prevent anyone from getting to close. I put the body down and thought about it for a few seconds feeling a bit giddy of what I might be able to do. Moving my right hand over the corpse I start using Eidolons Craft and start infusing dozens of Mushmen since they are the closest to my goal. My goal is simple be able to create life. As I infused Mushman after Mushman the body began to twitch and the body started to alter its shape and get up. A minute passed during this time and as the body stood it looked different from what I was hoping for and it certainly wasn''t what I was wanting to make however the monster was pretty good. That wasn¡¯t all though, I got a notification as I observed it.
Mush-Goblin lv 1
An experiment to create life from a corpse lead to the creation of this monster. This monster is a nier perfect fusion of an undead and plantlife created by accident. The Mush-goblin is a creature that has the benefits and abilities of both Mushmen and goblin, as a result this creature is as fast as a goblin and as strong as a Mushman. Due to the creators nature this creature is an intelligent and wise creature with a larger than average health,stamina and mana regeneration.
Congratulations
By being the eleventh creature to create a new monster in the world of Ohmaze you have been given a title. ------------------ Title: Mush-Goblin Creator
Title: Mush-Goblin Creator
The creatures known as mush goblins will spawn in the world of Ohmaze and any you encounter with be friendly and helpful regardless of circumstance.
I was pleased with my creation but upset that it didn¡¯t count as creating life. Instead of dwelling on it I had a closer look at the newly born monster. About 4ft tall and a dark, but bright blue which is almost luminescent covering its form without a single speck of normal flesh in sight. The arms are slightly longer than a normal goblins and its legs a little shorter making it look a little odd. Its body is the same if a little muclely compared the the previous corpse. The facial features are no longer there, which has left the beast with a curved face with pointed head spiking out like a spear of overgrown moss. His eyes are black semi-protruding from his face, there is no nose and the mouth is a thin slit curving from ear to ear. His hands and feet have spike like claws protruding from the only variation of blue on its whole body and the base of the hands and feats knuckles. All an all I''d have to say I''m more than glad that I tried to do this, this has potential in other aspects as well... Rou and the other goblins that started to gather round looked a bit shocked and when I told them I just created a new type of monster half stood shocked still but the rest went back to their daily lives. Truly an odd mentality these goblins have. As most of the goblins had left leaving only Rou and a few curious ones, I decided to try talking with my new minion while testing it. I spent 20 minutes testing how strong and fast it was ad was surprised since it was a lot faster than the Mush-men I can create along with how it¡¯s a little stronger. The monster smashed through a tree like it was just in the way, but I noticed that its arm was shattered on impact. Forcing it to rest, observing the yellow blood leak into the ground it was clear that it was healing faster that both goblins and Mush-men. The chunks of vicira that was its forearm lay on the ground, seemingly dissolving almost as fast as the new arm grew. After 10 minutes the arm was fully healed, while the old arm was turned to mulch just a little slower. For a level 1 monster it''s rather absurd, like I''m one to talk. It was pleasing to know that any of these monsters will be 100% loyal to me. I tested to see if the creature could talk shortly after the physical tests only for it to start moving its hands in strange ways while grunting at different pitches. I immediately noticed that it had a language and started to imitate it for a moment, stunning Rou a little more as I burst out laughing. The reason I was laughing was that it was indeed a language but I got a notification as soon as I learned it and couldn¡¯t belive its name.
Congradulations
You have learned a new language, Linguistics has been updated.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. ---------------- Language Learned-- Gob-Stopper
I simple didn¡¯t expect that and in my joy I decided to Call him Gruff since that''s what his grunts sound like. After my slightly unreasonable laughing fight I noticed that Falz, Rune and Vari had gathered round, standing next to some slightly panicked goblins. Turning to Rou I told him I''ll start training the goblins now and that they should all participate as long as they can fight. He sent the goblins nearby too get all the goblins that want to get stronger and aren''t children or injured and asked if I was going to be as harsh as I was yesterday old to start freaking out a little when he saw my eyes. 5 minutes later 53 goblins showed up holding weapons and looked ready to fight, the rest of the goblins where pregnant women and children all 24 of them. The look on their faces was priceless when I told them to go and put their weapons back was quite the sight. When they returned after another 5 minutes there was only 47. I asked Rou to bring back the 6 that left and when he brought them back all I could do was smile. I told them all that I''d be setting the to fight against a level 8 skeleton each and would be constantly protected and healed by 2 skeletal mages. Except for the 6 that tried to leave, they¡¯re getting a treat. I summoned a few Lichies to replace destroyed skeletons before I moved on to the more unfortunate skeletons. I summoned the groups of skeletons to fight the goblins and set them training, I then turned my attention the the attempted deserters. I think I''m enjoying this to much cause I was ecstatic about their faces as I pulled Abyssal Whisper from my inventory. Summoning 10 level 15 Lesser liches my smile was even greater cause the liches started summoning level 3 skeletons stunning the group of 6. I told them to either fight me as a group or the 10 liches and their summons. They were smarter than I though cause every one of them turned to fight the litches. I summoned 12 skeletal mages to keep the goblins alive and left the to their training. I was about to walk away and test Abyssal Whisper when a thought occured. I summoned the highest level of Lich I could several times and gathered Falz, Rune and Vari I told them that they have to defeat the lichies creations until I come back. When I told them that they had to use their weakest attacks and skills they thought I was joking until I summoned 7 Mush-goblins and told them to come get me if they don¡¯t listen to me. As I was walking away I told Gruff to follow that order as well before I left to go deeper into the forest. Once I was unable to hear the noise of the training I stopped and summoned 30 Liches and ordered them to attack me with summons constantly. I was wanting to try something and even if I was wrong this would help me learn how to use my blade. Still gripping the ever twisting handle the first summons were created and started to attack me. The lich''s were summoning level 15 greater skeletons to attack me, swinging my blade wildly it was easy to take down the first one but the skeletons weren¡¯t stupid even if they looked it. Once the first was gone they started to move around me and attack from different angles. As more where getting created as this was happening, I was busy attacking the greater skeletons abut noticed they started to dodge better. I knew my attacks were wild and didn¡¯t amount to much since it was my first time using a weapon. I carefully started to switch the way I was fighting leading to steady improvements and before the 8th skeleton fell a notification popped into existence.
Weapon Mastery Beginner Level 1
The use and capabilities are better with the more forms of weapons you use. Mastering a type of weapon still leaves room for improvement if you use different types and can make a master swordsman''s nothing but pray to those that use anything as a weapon masterfully. Current Weapon Fields: Swords
I was too busy fighting the small horse of greater skeletons to pay attention to what it said but the sudden improvement with my sword was somewhat noticeable. I spent 5 hours fighting the skeletons with consistent improvements in the way I used my sword, it got to the point that I haven¡¯t lost a single swing of momentum for the last 20 minutes and have destroyed at least one skeleton every 2 seconds. I''ve also noticed that abyssal whisper has become longer than when I started to use it by about the handles length, not only that but the blade now has slightly glowing black specks near the handle to halfway up the blade. Deciding to finish the fight and hope for the best with the others. Swinging Abyssal Whisper in a circular arc I used Flash Blade and was amazed at how it cut down everything except for the Lichies 10 meters behind them. I finished them with a quick test of channeling spells though my sword only to be shocked at the power of a simple Mana Bolt as it completely destroyed each Lich. I was surprised and elated with what happened after that though since my idea was right then.
Congratulations you have level up
As a Profound Eidolon you will gain 2 times the normal growth rate of an Eidolon
You have gained: +10 STR +10 AGI +10 G.VIT +20 INT +20 G.WIS +10 G.LUC +1000 Health +2000 Mana
Due to special skill you gained: +21000
Since you gained enough EXP for more levels, and because you can only level up once per time due to being a profound creature. You can select a bonus in exchange.
Select one of the following. -------------------- Random skill based on excess EXP Upgrade a stat EXP too AEXP --------------------
I was happy to be able to upgrade my stats again and this time though, I selected INT in a heartbeat. I wa most excited about what this meant though, simply put I could consistently level up like I did today since I''m able to almost infinitely create monsters to fight against. I smiled collecting all the bones then got on my way back to Gob-Village and as I returned everyone was still fighting the skeletons, aside from Falz, Rune and Vari everyone looks like they are about to collapse from exhaustion with the only reason they''re awake is due to the danger and constant heals. When I walked out of the forest sent a few targeted Arcane Pulse that destroyed all of the monsters aside from the goblins, Falz, Rune, Vari and the Mush-Goblins. Every goblin collapsed where they stood except for Rou and a rather large goblin, although both look like they should have. They fell asleep standing shortly after that though. I looked at all the levels of the goblins and was pleased that they are all in the double digits now. Falz, Rune and Vari have leveled a good few times as well, they are level 29,31 and 30 respectively. Gruff didn¡¯t level since I didn¡¯t let him fight. I let the goblins rest where they stood and ordered Gruff and his brethren to protect them. I went to the house that Rou lent us and started doing something I thought would help. Crafting. In the forest, while I was leaving and returning I picked up a few things that I found interesting several of them where plants with medicinal properties. I only found 4 that had their own names: Bloated Saint Herb, Health Reeds, Snap root, Angel Tear Leaf. I also found some assorted medical herbs but none of them had names and where various in quality. I started to make some rudimentary potions to heal the village and recover faster. I took some of my assorted herbs and cut them apart before putting them in a rough copper pot with some water. I used some fire magic to boil and some water magic to stir the contents as I casually help the boiling pot. I watched as the leaves in the pot started to exude a mix of yellow, green, red and deep red oils into the water. I mixed it more and watched as a slightly luminescent red potion was brewed. I set the pot on the ground and grabbed a glass and sieve from the goblins kitchen which was used to filter the potion from all the leaves. I looked at the potion and was glad when a pop up informed me that I created a small healing potion. Shame I didn¡¯t get a crafting skill though.
Amalgam Healing potion
A rare form of healing potion with varied results. This type of potion is rare because is unreliable to heal the consumers wounds but has a chance to be a full heal. AEXP: 200-300 Mana: 200
I put the potion in my inventory and started to test how my craft inventory would work and was really underwhelmed at the result as it sucked up 20,000 mana in a single moment only to leave me with a potion sitting in front of me. The Potion in front of me was in a small erlenmeyer flask with a cork sealing it. This was interesting since the original was stored in a pint glass rather than a typical potion flask not to mention it didn¡¯t have a cork or anything stopping it from spilling. I also realised that even though I have absurd mana I simply can¡¯t crank these out. Thinking that I''d need to become even more absurd I decided to start farming more mana shrooms. Instead of me doing it myself though I summoned a lich and 20 skeletal mages, and sent them to the build a suitable place to farm mana shrooms. I watched them leave in the direction of the clearing I trained at in the forest. I''d have to wait until they build it so for the time being I used craft inventory constantly to make more potions while looking around the village only to find a mine right here. I was tempted to make it into a mana shroom farm but restrained myself since there was clearly crude mining tools strewn about the entrance to the mine. I checked up on everyone before realising I had created just shy of 200 potions. Today was a productive day in a lot of ways but I think aside from the mana shroom farm I won¡¯t do much of anything. I spent 3 of the remaining hours talking with Falz and Rou when he woke up. Like every goblin that woke up before him he was still in pain. I gave him a potion and unlike the last 20 goblins he was unlucky and only got a minor heal, so I gave him a second which fully healed him. I collected every used flask as well since they¡¯ll be useful later. I left the village to go check on the Lich and the mage skeletons and found that they had built a small underground complex just before the clearing. When I went down I was surprised that there was solid cement walls covering the place, it was even more impressive that it reached down 50 meters before the first room. They somehow built a massive complex it just looked small from the way the entrance was. There was only one floor but it was massive and separated into 30 rather large rooms, each room have 5 layers of protruding shelves supported with intermittent poles holding them up. The only thing missing was the lich and the mage skeletons I had sent. I looked around some more and found a second set of stair cases leading down another 50 with another 30 rooms. I found the lich commanding 20 skeletons helping the 20 mage skeletons set up the last room with the same set up. Once they were finished they finally noticed me. I told them that that was enough for now and that they should start farming the mana shrooms in turn I gave them over 200 mana shrooms and taught the mage skeletons how to infuse mana alongside the lich. Inturn the lich started to create more mage skeletons which surprised me slightly, it made me wonder if my creations have the same perks as me. It would explain how it can create mage skeletons since it saw me do so. I was about to leave when I decided to summon a few more lichies and ordered them to follow the original. I told them to fill up the whole complex with mana shrooms and once it''s complete to store the excess for me while splitting more. How they will do that is up to them but it¡¯s not like I don¡¯t have a few ideas. I returned to the village and found that everyone had gone to bed aside from Rune, Falz, Vari and Gruff. I talked with them for a bit and then went to bed shortly after checking my stats.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 21
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator
Health 19,970/19,970 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 1,005,400/1,005,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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STR 131 G.INT 229
G.VIT 140 G.WIS370
AGI 173 G.LUC 209
AEXP41,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire550 Wind550
Water550 Earth550
Lightning550 Arcane550
Holy50 Demonic50
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Intermediate level 6 --Entropic Mist Intermediate level 5 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Advance level 2 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Observe Advance level 1 Advance of the Drudge Novice level 3 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 6 Meditation Intermediate level 7 Elemental manipulation Intermediate level 6 Mana Blast Intermediate level 5 Mana Barrier Advance level 6 Elemental Bolt Advance level 4 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Intermediate level 4 Flash Blade Intermediate level 9 Lesser Light Heal Advance level 1 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 9 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 3 Create Entity Novice 9 Arcane Pulse Beginner 4 Dark Id Form Beginner 1 Weapon Mastery Intermediate 2
Arc 2: Chapter 2 Progress I woke up early in the morning, finding it hard to resist the allure of the surprisingly comfortable bed I was sleeping on. Failing to succumb to my own wants and desires I got up and decided to look for Rou. I found him up and about with the rest of the goblins just as early as yesterday, walking up to him I noticed a few of the goblins were trying to hide from me. No doubt that they don¡¯t want to train like that again. I smiled as I greeted Rou and was surprised that unlike the goblins around him he asked immediately when the training will start. To the relief of the goblins hiding I told him that they don¡¯t have to train today but can if they want to, I also told him that I''ll be gone most of the day and will leave the training up to a few lesser liches I summoned. Giving my orders to the glitches I told them to only attack the goblins that ask and to only use level 8 skeletons at most. I also warned them not to kill any goblins while summoning 2 skeletal mages to protect the goblins during the training. Preparing to leave the village I found Rune meditating and told him that I''ll be gone for most of the day and to tell Falz and Vari as well. I followed the path out of the village and found myself walking towards my little mana farm once I got there I walked down to the first floor only to be a little perturbed. Only one room was full to the brim with mana shrooms and the remaining haven¡¯t even got a single one. I found a few of the liches and asked them why only one room was full, the reply I got was that they thought I''d only want one room filled so I could do other stuff. I immediately asked them to start filling all the rooms with mana shrooms which got them moving fast, especially since I told them I''ll be back in a few hours and hope that the first floor filled. I left the complex behind and walked to the clearing I was training in. I decided to summon a few more liches, 30 exactly and ordered them to summon constant streams of greater skeletons. Before the first one was fully formed I was already on the move I still hadn¡¯t attempted to use either the holy or demonic elements. I got into the dead center of the field and started to fired a holy mana bolt and was startled, it cost me 50 mana and destroyed the greater skeleton without damaging its bones in the slightest. Next I turned around and fired a demonic bolt which cost the same as the holy and was shocked as the skull I hit turned to a black ash instantly. Smiling to myself I decided to spend the next 2 hours experimenting with magic while fighting the greater skeletons. The 2 hours passed in a blur as if it was a passing moment while it left me with a great impression of what I''m capable of. I spent a large amount of time combining and experimenting with the different elements and found that although I can combine up to 3 I''m lacking in control with melding more than 2. During the practice though elemental manipulation jumped up to the advance stage and elemental bolt gained a few levels as well. I found out that I can create several effects by manipulating the elements which isn¡¯t half bad, for example when I combined lightning and wind I can create a paralyzing effect. I learned how to, paralyze, slow, poison and weaken with the elements as well. I also found that I''m completely immune to all of these effects due to Advance of the Drudge and my affinities. When I tested these effects on myself I gained a level in Advance of the Drudge. After I finished the fight I gained another level and excess level and as a result I upgraded my AGI to G.AGI, one more and I''ll have all greater stats. When I checked my stats I noticed that I still didn¡¯t gain any health from increased G.VIT, I thought I''d only lose the improvements for when I evolve. Shame I could use more health if something got dangerous. After the little bit of training I decided to try and improve my healing capabilities for one hour. I decided to try and create different forms of the lesser light heal as well as try making healing spells with the different elements which was more interesting than I thought since I lost track of time and spent an extra hour working on it. By the end of those 2 hours I couldn''t help but smile as I got this interesting new ability.
Healing ArtsNovice 2
Series of spells which are focused on healing the mind and body. Elements can both hurt or heal and each of them have various effects depending on the spells used. Spell List: Lesser light heal: 30 Mana Flames Warmth: 120 Mana Supporting Wind: 50 Mana Basic Heal: 20 Mana Repair: 150 Mana Revitalise: 200 Mana Ludwins Pulse: 5000 Mana Purity: 1000 Mana Demons Stitch: 200 Mana Dark caress: 100 Mana
Out of all of these healing skills a few really stuck out to me which a few of them seem darn right over powered. Each of them have their own effects which I like very much but for the sake of consistency I''ll go over all of them except lesser light heal. Flames Warmth is a regeneration skill that with steadily heal you and boost your stamina recovery, since I dont have stamina this is almost useless to me. Supporting Wind is a small heal which slightly increases the user''s speed. Basic heal is quite literally a simple heal spell and is twice as strong as lesser light heal. Repair is simply that it repairs things. Revitalise is a strange spell that shocks your whole body causing pain everywhere but it greatly heals any wound. It also has the effect to remove minor toxins from your system and speed up the patient''s reaction speed temporarily. Ludwin''s pulse is a very interesting spell since it doubles the user''s natural regeneration while in use and heals the user every minute of use. The pulse also seems to push things away from me as well which is cool. Purity essentially removes status effects and will regenerate lost limbs while healing. Demon¡¯s Stitch is a very powerful heal as it will close any and all wounds and heal a great deal of HP, on the negative side is that it also leaves a scar which can become infected and will leave a status effect of either poison or diseased if you have little resistance. Dark Caress is a very nice spell since it heals both physical and mental fatigue. As soon as I was finished with the Healing arts I returned to the liches in the complex and was pleased to find that the whole place was now filled to the brim with mana shrooms. Out of curiosity I asked the leading lich what they did with the earth they removed to make the complex as well ask if they had any excess mana shrooms. The lich didn¡¯t say anything and instead I got a window pop up.
Lesser Lich Ander would like to transfer some item to your inventory: 4,893 tons of earth, 39 tons of rocks, 29 tons of coal and 560,320 mana shrooms
Yes/no
Accepted the trade and proceed to absorb 480,000 mana shrooms to increase my total man up to 25 million and store the rest for later use. I order them to start continue collecting the mana shrooms and to construct a 3rd floor as a laboratory of sorts. Leaving them I start walking back to the village while constantly making amalgam healing potions for some later tests and learn that although I can create not much over a 1000, if I try to make any more that 20 in a minute I start feeling the mental stress. On my way back I stop a small freshwater pond I''ve past a few times and collect a flash of water, once I put a cork on it I got a notification saying that Craft Inventory can now create bottled water. I started creating bottles of water on my way back to town since I could create more and would be more useful for my ideas later. Interestingly I created over 1000 bottles of water before I got back and all of them were simple glass bottles instead of flasks. I need to have a deeper look into how this skill works later. When I returned to the village I was pleasantly greeted with a small goblin that told me that Roa is busy training. Out of curiosity I went to whats more or less became the villages traning grounds and watched as Roa and 12 other goblins were training against some level 8 skeletons I was pleasantly stunned when I noticed that the goblins that tried to skip the other days training were here as well. I left them as they were without being noticed and went to find Falz, Rune and Vari. When I found them Falz was fighting Rune and Vari in his Dark id form and they seemed to be roughly equals. Falz stopped mid fight and noticed me while Rune and Vari slumped to the ground. (Rune): ¡°Where have you been young lady? We¡¯ve been worried si...¡± Silenced by Falz punching his jaw out of place, Vari takes over before I could say anything. (Vari): ¡°Shut up Rune she went to train in the forest.¡± (Dark): ¡°So what have you guys been up to?¡± (Falz): ¡°We¡¯ve been playing some games and training against each other, we¡¯ve also...¡± I talked with them for an hour about what they did and what I did, Falz has been improving the control of his Dark id form and found that he¡¯s the strongest among them when he¡¯s using it. Rune has been improving the control of his mana martial arts skills and now steadily recovers health and mana almost as fast as I do. Vari on the other hand hasn¡¯t done anything as impressive, she¡¯s just been training her speed and strength. I said my goodbyes for the rest of the day and went to see if Rou finished his training. He was still training so I left to go back to the complex. I spent my time walking back practicing manipulating mana making it do various thing to improve my manipulation abilities which in turn improved a lot of my skills somewhat. When I reach the complex I walked down to the new 3rd floor that was still in the middle of construction and was please that in the 2 and a half hours I''ve been gone the place is already one third of the way done. I was about to sit down and do some experiments and see what I could craft but I decided that I should do some more intense training and left for the clearing, once I got their I summoned a few lesser liches and ordered them to only attack me with skeletal mages. I started fighting a small horde of the skeletons when decided to fight them only using my mana shields and fists. About an hour into fighting I started taking almost consistent damage from the skeleton mages and gained some proficiency in weapon mastery when a pop up said shield has been added alongside Unarmed. After another half an hour I started to take more damage that I naturally healed and started using various healing arts from then on, it got pretty painful after a while. I spent a total of 4 hours fighting skeletal mages and which lead to training various skills such as mana barrier, shield and unarmed mastery, healing arts and flash blade. When I finally finished the fight I leveled up with another excess level and finally got the last greater stat when 2 windows popped up.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.
Due to getting every greater stat, all greater stats can now be improved further.
Due to vigorous training, both physical and magical stats have been earned. ------------- G.STR--19 G.VIT--20 G.AGI--7 G.INT--31 G.WIS--10 G.LUC--24
Interesting I wonder why I only got stat gains after this training session, in fairness this has been my most difficult. Even better it''s possible to get even better forms of the stats now that will be use full. Feeling full of myself I went back down to the complex and asked Ander if he has any more excess mana shroom and I couldn¡¯t snort at how much he had just given me. 2.1 million mana shroom in a trade was some what absurd. I was tempted to consume them all for mana right their and then but decided to hold off on the since I wanted to try crafting some things on the now complete 3rd floor. I sat down on the floor of one of the rooms and pulled out an amalgam healing potion and started using eidolons craft with basic heal and in the next minute I got a window telling me I crafted a Greater healing potion and could now do so with Craft Inventory. I repeated the process a few times with the basic heal and got several variations of healing potions from false healing potions to Greater healing potions. I tried the same with some of the other healing spells and was intrigued when healing potions of various grades with the added effects of the spell used, Ludwins Pulse actually gave me a very interesting restorative potion which steadily fully restores a consumer''s health,mana and stamina for half an hour called Steady Restore. I wouldn¡¯t have been able to create it if I didn¡¯t increase my mana pool as well, what was worse though what the migraine which followed. After a 20 minute break waiting for the migraine to fade I got back to work and started some of my other ideas. I took out a water bottle and used eidolons craft and manabolt and wasn¡¯t surprised when the bottle exploded. I repeated the same process but this time I added a chopped up mana shroom to the water, I even got a notification saying I made a crude mana potion. Next I repeated the same as my first attempt and was pleased as it became a bottle of mana bolts which was very interesting. When I read the description I summoned a greater skeleton and threw the bottle at it. Once the bottle broke several mana bolts started across the greater skeleton destroying it instantly. This will be use full, thinking that I create a second and put it in my inventory, I also created another and tried to pour the contents out only for a small stream of mana bolts to start from the mouth of the bottle. Once finished I put the bottle in my inventory as well. Now onto my final idea for today, I start by creating a box out of some greater skeleton and skeleton mage bones while using eidolons craft to shape the box and strengthen it with elemental manipulation. I made a lid for the boz and crafted a barrier into the box to prevent magic from getting in or out. Second, I gathered 200 mana shrooms and chopped them up as fine as I could then started crafting the pulp into a mana crystal using elemental and mana manipulation with some help from eidolons craft at the end. Once it was created I put it into the center of the box and started to meld it with the bottom of it. Once finished I made some smaller mana crystals at the corners of the box melded again. I began to enchant the crystals with eidolons craft enchanting the corner crystals with raw mana greatly empowering them. The center crystal was then enchanted with Create Entity specifically greater skeletons and 2 mage skeletons and specific intent for each. It was costly and extremely painful to make this but I was more than glad that I did. I plan on giving a few of these to the goblin village before I leave for Folous.
Training Spawner Level 15
This spawner is created with the purpose of training whoever opens the lid and can spawn monsters up to level 15. This spawner will spawn a greater skeleton and 2 skeleton mages at level 15 or lower when opened depending on combatants level. Greater skeleton with attack while skeleton mages will prevent combatants death and heal them before vanishing once skeleton or combatants defeat.
Exactly what I was hoping for, the small white box looks like it''s made of white wood and could simple store things, I put it away in my inventory. As I get up and get ready to leave Ander offers a trade with me and gives me another 1.9 million mana shrooms. I started walking casually to the Gob-village when an idea struck me. I take out a water bottle and start to use Eidolons craft on the water while I walk. It took 20 minutes before I was finished and during that time the water steadily became what it is now, a phosphorescent yellow with specks of silver floating inside. When I got a window saying what I could now create I was met with it name being blanked out with an absurdly high mana value at 70 million. Without second thought I drank the whole thing as I came into view of the village. Rou started walking up to me and before he even got half way I fell to the ground clutching my head, dropping the glass I was about to put away. Rou, Falz and Rune saw me suddenly collapse and sprint towards me screaming something I simple can¡¯t focus on. My body went limp and I couldn¡¯t open my eyes, pain surged all around me and it felt like years was passing. I was conscious and in ever increasing agony for the time I was suffering and when the pain finally stopped I opened my eyes and noticed everything, literally everything in my vision it was strange. I didn¡¯teven need to turn my head to notice the notifications at the side of my head.
Due to reaching max level and exceeding limitations of skill Observe has evolved into Godly Observe.
Due to Unexpected circumstances Advance of the Drudge was forced to become Advance level 4 Improving resistances to 60%.
You consumed and survived Sight of the Observer, a potion few can say to exist even among the gods.
For surviving Sight of the Observer Visual prowess has been maxed and relevant skills improved.
Well that¡¯s something, what''s more that I can simultaneously observe and read everything in my sight. This is going to be useful when I adapt to it. I walk out of the house I woke up at and find that all the goblins stop and looked at me, I catch Rou in the sight of my peripherals talking with Vari, Rune and Falz. They notice me when all the goblins stopped and when I started walking towards them. (Dark): ¡°How long have I been in bed?¡± (Rou): ¡°You¡¯ve been unconscious for 3 days, screaming in your sleep.¡± (Dark): ¡°I was conscious the whole time, in agony¡­ it felt longer.¡± Everyone say the look in my eyes and I could tell what they felt since I was reading it of their profiles I was observing. (Falz): ¡°You nearly died Darkness, what was it that you did to end up like that?¡± (Rune): ¡°It was something hard wasn¡¯t it?¡± (Dark): ¡° I created a potion called Sight of the Observer and when I drank it my head started burning, I collapsed and then the pain spread and grew constantly from then till I got up. It greatly improved my Observe skill but I wouldn¡¯t recommend trying to do that ever.¡± (Vari): ¡°How did you survive that thing, your health constantly dropped until a weird pulse started coming of you every minute.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯m guessing that I only survived because I used an ability I''ve got called Ludwins Pulse to try and heal myself. I only got the skill the day I collapsed.¡± I talked with them for an hour about how I was doing and if I was thinking to do such a thing again. I basically told them I''m not an idiot and changed the subject of the goblins training. Most of them have gotten to level 16 while a few have managed to get to level 18-19 such as Rou and the goblins I saw training the day I collapsed. Rune, Vari and Falz are the same level as before but they gained a sizable number of stats while I was down. I left them and returned to the house I woke up in and decided that I should rest until tomorrow and let the remnants of the change fade. Before I went to sleep I created another one of those potions manually which took another 20 minutes and then observed it.
Sight of the Observer
This potion is a perfect recreation of the ancient potion sight of the observer and as a result has the exact same properties. These potions were created by a god of enchanting whose creations were always craved by the other gods. The god that originally created these potions was killed in pursuit of his potions of godly skills this one being the only skill ever captured before the gods disappearance to a more mundane world. The very god that witnessed your initial death. He/she has been watching over you and is glad to see this type of power went to someone interesting. Mana value: 70,000,000 AEXP: 1,000,000,000
I consumed the potion for the AEXP and past out on the only large bed in the house while thinking about what I just learned.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 23
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator
Health 21,970/21,970 Health Regen 10% per Min
Mana 25,009,400/25,009,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min
Stamina N/A
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G.STR 170 G.INT 300
G.VIT 180 G.WIS420
G.AGI 200 G.LUC 253
AEXP1,000,086,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire550 Wind550
Water550 Earth550
Lightning550 Arcane550
Holy50 Demonic50
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Intermediate level 6 --Entropic Mist Intermediate level 5 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Advance level 5 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Godly Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Advance level 4 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 9 Meditation Intermediate level 9 Elemental manipulation Advance level 6 Mana Blast Intermediate level 9 Mana Barrier Master level 2 Elemental Bolt Advance level 4 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Intermediate level 4 Flash Blade Advance level 2 Healing Arts Advance level 6 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 9 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 8 Create Entity Novice 9 Arcane Pulse Beginner 9 Dark Id Form Beginner 1 Weapon Mastery Intermediate 9
Arc 2: Chapter 3 Empowerment Waking up in the morning I got up and silently set up a training area with several liches and skeleton mages, told Falz to training the goblins and left for the complex without really focusing on what I want to do. As I was leaving I noticed the worried looks on all of the goblins faces, it was a little pleasing to see them concerned about me honestly. On my way to the complex I let my mind drift while thinking about what I should do know that I know gods would do anything for the potion I created to such an extent the original creator ran away. 10 minutes passed and I couldn¡¯t make heads or tails of my predicament as a result I decided to start experimenting with the new and improved observation on everything in my view. The moment I did thousands of windows popped into existence in my view about the individual grass blades, the rocks, the dirt, the trees and plants in my view. I was taken aback instantly and couldn¡¯t focus on anything other than reading the windows which didn¡¯t take long but came at a major cost. Not even past the second sentence on each window I started gaining a migraine. Half way through them and I noticed that each blade of grass has a different description same for the trees and plants it''s all rather fascinating, shame I have so much mental pain I didn¡¯t notice my body collapsed and I''ve been screaming since the 20th sentence. A few minutes pass and I finish reading and all the my mind finally rests, I notice I can¡¯t move but I lay there doing nothing for 5 minutes till my mental fatigue is barely enough to make a potion of the observer seem less painful. The wait felt like weeks but it wasn¡¯t anytime at all. When I finally stood back up I noticed 3 windows sitting in front of me.
Stat Gain
By reading 56,731 highly detailed observation screens at the same time you have earned: 127 G.INT 197 G.WIS 100 G.LUC
Skill Earned
For enduring a form of mental fatigue that makes some beg for death you have earned: Mental Fortitude
Mental FortitudeBeginner1
A skill which helps with the resistance and recovery from mental damage. This skill is a rare skill since most people rarely push their mental strength past their limits. Improving this skill is one of the hardest things a person can do without the ability to parsect their mind into various segments.
Its really good that I got a lot of stat points and a really useful for that other wise I''d have felt really stupid practically crippling myself to read about grass and their hopes. Seriously grass in this world are affected by the system as well to such an extent they can gain experience and levels like everything else. There is even a blade of grass called bob with 12 INT about every other stat is between 0-2. It¡¯s honestly fascinating. I sit on the grass letting my mental pain fade from me at a surprising rate before I decide to do anything else. As I wait I look at the grass and on a whim I infuse a couple thousand mana into the smallest one I see. Almost instantly it started to grow and became a thick blue. Ignoring the notification that I can now use Craft Inventory to create Mana grass I look at its properties and find its almost the same as mana shrooms only it recovers less mana per leaf. After 10 minutes my mental pain is now almost gone and I start to make my way to the complex again. Once I''m there I find Ander on the third floor messing with a bunch of mana shrooms. I walk up to him and get a trade notification as soon as he sees me, I gained 246.8 billion mana shrooms from that trade and before I left I told him to see if he can find other things to do with that mana shrooms since I can create and consume sight of the observers more than for more than the mana shrooms. I site in one of my test rooms on the third floor and start consuming the mana shrooms I have consuming 1,500,000 to bring my max mana up to 100 million. As I''m about to start consuming the rest I heard a loud band from one of the other rooms as Ander walks in and asks me to come see what he¡¯s made. Getting up I follow him and find that he¡¯s got a large mana shroom standing in the middle of the room just under 6 feet tall. When I observe it it said the same as a regular mana shroom except that it recovers 5000 mana instead of 50. As I was about to touch it Ander stopped me and asked me to step back at this point he summoned a small skeleton and ordered it to touch the large mushroom. As it did the skeleton exploded with a rather sudden burst of mana from the mana shroom. I asked Ander how he made it and he took me to the far end of the room and took out a pile of mana shrooms and laid them on the floor. I quickly counted them and found there to be 500 in the pile. Next he took out a knife and started to chop them up followed by molding them into a mushroom shape. Once it was in the shape he started to infuse a large amount of mana into it. Without even a few seconds passing a giant mana shroom was born. On a whim I used eidolons crafts and created 2 new monsters with the giant mana shrooms, a giant Mush-man and a giant mush-goblin. I ordered those two to follow Ander. I returned to the room and consumed the rest of the mana shrooms, 200 billion for mana the rest for AEXP. I was astonished at how much mana and AEXP I got, it even made me think that the mana shroom farm is more effective than the sight of the observer potion. When I thought about it I calmed down realising that it¡¯s still a better idea to use the potion. Suddenly 4 windows popped into existence in front of me.
Congratulations
For being the first being to ever get over 1 billion mana before levels 100, 500 and 1000 you have been awarded the Title: One with Mana
One with Mana
This title was suppose to be unattainable. You are so intune with mana that your mana acts as a second health bar against most forms of magic.
Congratulations
For being the only being in the entirety of Ohmaze to get 1 trillion mana a skill has been created: Raw Cast
Raw CastMasterMax
Raw Cast is a skill which was never intended to be used by even the gods themselves. This skill allows the user to use the true form of mana to cast a spell which in turn makes a spell cost 1000 times the normal cost for a much more powerful version. For example mana bolt can destroy a tree but a Raw Cast mana bolt can destroy a Wyvern.
I was amazed at how I now have the largest mana pool in this world and when I looked at Raw Cast I almost forgot the crap I went through the last couple of days. The title is pretty encouraging honestly since I essentially can¡¯t be hurt by magic users now. As I decided to test out my new skill I thought that I should use a safe one first. Casting a 20,000 basic heal was something else. I expected it to just heal more but instead it caused a regenerating effect which healed 1000 health a second. I was excited to see what it would be like if I used this with craft inventory, thinking such I used Raw Cast and created a bottle of water with it but instead of a simple glass bottle a rather intricate blue bottle filled to the brim with crystal clear water. Observing it I was shocked at what it read.
Sacred Water
This water was mislabeled as sacred water by the people which originally discovered it, but this water is a unique type of water which will remove all impurities from a person''s system. As a result their bodies and minds end up unhindered and they can use their bodies and minds much more efficiently due to this. Drinking it only works once for this effect. It also recovers mental and physical fatigue.
If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. I drank the whole thing and immediately noticed the difference, my mind didn¡¯t just recover from the mental pain but I could think faster and clearer than I''ve ever been able to before. Physically all of my movements were stronger, faster and more precise than ever as well. Shame it only works once other wise I''d drink another. Before I noticed it, the bottle I was still holding vanished before I could put it into my inventory. I was going to spend a bit longer messing about in the complex but I wanted to test my create entity with this skill and didn¡¯t want to destroy this place. As I was leaving I decided to use AEXP to increase my Mana regeneration and increased it too 100% in an instant. It cost me 2 billion and told me that it was rounded up since I was making massive change to my skill set. I half expected to get a notification saying I earned a title with that kind of regen rates. I did the same with health regen just for consistency and it was rounded up the same. ¡®I could probably become godlike before my next level with the 9 trillion AEXP I have¡¯. Thinking that walk out of the complex and go to the clearing not far away and as I get there I prepare to summon a skeleton. In the middle of the clearing I use my Raw Cast to summon a single level 1 skeleton in front of me. Once its standing staring at me I use observe and holy shit it this stronger than I expected.
Skeleton level 100
A skeleton created with the true form of mana. This skeleton is more powerful that it looks to be and even more so with its level. This skeleton has a stat average of 500 and a massive health and mana pool. This skeleton has the fighting skills of its creator and as a result is even more deadly than it should be.
Holy fuck that is terrifying, I almost regret what I''m about to do. Immediately I put 10 billion AEXP into Health and ignore the notifications that I got saying I got a new title. I charged at the skeleton pulling out Abyssal whisper and start attacking it. It dodged and attacked me fast before I even knew it I lost more than 30,000 health in an instant it''s healed before the skeleton kicks me threw a few trees. Smiling as I get up I charge at the monster and start attacking it with everything I''ve got. Slicing with Flash blades and Abyssal Whisper the skeleton dodged only to be struck by my wings which it tears off instantly only for it to be thrown back by the one which re-grew almost instantly. The skeleton starts to take this seriously and starts to fling itself around, tering at my body chunks of my flesh get torn and thrown about like trash as my relentless assault only causes minor damage to the bones. Smiling through the constant pain and healing I''m enduring I start to use everything that I can. Raw Cast Flash Blades flash across Abyssal whisper and start tearing the skeletons bones but not breaking them. Using every spell I can I start to damage the skeleton from every angle it gets into. Soon I notice that its healing with Ludwin''s pulse and all the damage I''ve done is healing very fast. This is going to be a long fight. 6 Hours later I''m standing in the clearing on top of the finally defeated skeleton exhausted physically and mentally. I collapsed next to the chunks of meat that once was my flesh and suddenly get a bunch of notifications about me leveling up and having an excess level, notification of skills leveling and the title for getting a billion health. The Title was a joke title and had no real benefit other than increasing health regen to 2% but it had no effect on me, the skill levels all reached advance at least. As for the stat upgrade I tried Luck but it didn¡¯t work so I upgraded G.WIS and what I got was Preeminent Wisdom or P.WIS. It made me laugh since the next time I get a stat upgrade I''ll improve G.INT cause who wouldn¡¯t want a P.INT after a hard days work. As I was thinking that a fourth image popped up I decided to hobble back to the village after cleaning up all on my flesh from the clearing, putting it all into my inventory for later use if I need it or want it. I walked back to the village wondering what I should do with the excess trillion AEXP since I don¡¯t need it right now. As I walk to the village I notice that the goblins are still training with Falz teaching them. As I walked up to them I could see all the goblins start crying and run away from their sparring partners towards me, even Rou was crying. (Goblin 1#): ¡°Please don¡¯t level him to train us please.¡± (Goblin 2#): ¡°Never again.¡± (Rou): ¡°Where the fuck have you been for the last 6 hours! Your Friend here was making us training constantly without brakes till you got back. Please don¡¯t leave he to train us again.¡± (Dark): ¡°Falz what did you make them do?¡± (Falz): ¡°Make them fight level 20 greater skeletons non-stop till you got back, why is that bad?¡± (Dark): ¡°Yes its back! Aw geez right everyone gather round and drink these.¡± As the goblins start to come closer I start to create a bottle of sacred water for each goblin. They look like they are trying their hardest to stay awake at this point, but as soon as I hand out the first sacred water they perk up and start thanking me. Once I''m finished I turn in for an early night after a single hour with Rune Vari and Falz. Rune says that he¡¯d be a much better teacher than Falz and begged me to let him teach the goblins. I had to let him teach to morrow since it was almost as mind numbing as reading all the observation windows. Lying on the goblin bed again I look at my stat screen and smile as I''m about to drift to sleep I start to think about the god that saw me die and started to wonder exactly what the Reincarnation games are. Losing my smile I fall asleep.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 24
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator, One with Mana
Health 1,000,021,970/1,000,021,970 Health Regen 100% per Min
Mana 10,000,100,009,400/10,000,100,009,400 Mana Regen 100% per Min
Stamina N/A
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G.STR 180 G.INT 447
G.VIT 190 P.WIS637
G.AGI 210 G.LUC 373
AEXP9,357,023,086,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire550 Wind550
Water550 Earth550
Lightning550 Arcane550
Holy50 Demonic50
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Advance level 3 --Entropic Mist Advance level 4 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Master level 2 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Godly Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Advance level 9 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Intermediate level 9 Meditation Intermediate level 9 Elemental manipulation Advance level 6 Mana Blast Advance level 5 Mana Barrier Master level 8 Elemental Bolt Advance level 9 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Advance level 2 Flash Blade Advance level 2 Healing Arts Advance level 9 Eidolons Craft Beginner level 9 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 8 Create Entity Novice 9 Arcane Pulse Advance 1 Dark Id Form Beginner 1 Weapon Mastery Advance 1 Mental Fortitude Beginner level 1 Raw Cast Master Max level
Arc 2: Chapter 4: Well Then... Waking up in the morning I was feeling refreshed as I walked out to the village center. Rune was sitting in the center with almost all of the goblins walking passed, however as soon as they saw me they stopped and asked about training. They were devastated when I told them Rune will be training them today, Rou even tried to hurt me for leaving him in charge. I gave them the option to eith train with Rune or a dozen level 100 skeletons, I''m glad they chose wisely and sulked while listening to Rune as I left. Passing Vari and Falz as they were playing a game similar to chess, I asked them if they¡¯d like to train with me later. Nope apparently they would like to avoid fighting constant high level hordes of skeletons. Smiling to myself I left the village and made my way to the complex stopping myself when I notice a patch of blue grass. I decided to observe everything like I did the other day. After 20 minutes I finished reading all of the descriptions and was glad that I could move after that little stint unlike last time, though the headache is still just as bad. So the blue grass is mana grass which started spreading after I made the first one on a whim aside from the patch of grass everything is pretty much the same aside from the blade of grass named Bob, apparently it likes me. I decided to take Bob with me to the complex after I made a small plant pot out of clay for him, even filled it with mana enriched soil for him. I also gained a few stats like last time but it wasn¡¯t anywhere near as much as before, only 20 G.INT and 12 P.WIS. Surprisingly my headache subsided as I got to the complex which was nice, it was even better when I realised that it''s because the mental strain I can take from using mana is much higher now. The reason being is for the preeminent wisdom, the reason being was that I could use 10 times my WIS stat initially preeminent without side effects per minute, 1000 times for G.WIS and 1,000,000 times for P.WIS. Truly overpowered if you ask me. It''s even better because Mental Fortitude reduces the strain further and helps recover quicker. After putting Bob into the test room I''ve been using I head back upstairs and decide to use observe on one of the rooms farming mana shrooms. If you thought reading over 50,000 descriptions at the same time was impressive, why don¡¯t you have a try at over 2 million at once. I spent over an hour reading the descriptions, unknowingly screaming again it was more painful than the last time I did it and I''m starting to think I''m a masochist since I keep hurting myself since I evolved. After finishing all of the descriptions I couldn¡¯t move again and my mind was so strained at the moment I didn¡¯t know how I was conscious. After half an hour I noticed that a lot of skeleton mages were gathered round me healing me with lots of basic heals. 10 minutes later I was finally able to stand up and noticed the window messages I received. One was simple saying the stats I earned, 212 G.INT and 191 P.WIS which was truly cool. The second was a notification that Mental Fortitude gained a level, that''s it just one level. Lastly I gained a notification that healing arts gained the healing spell Small Heal, simply a stronger basic heal. After Telling Ander that I''m fine I asked him to give me the collected mana shrooms and show me what he¡¯s been working on. He gives me 82 billion mana shrooms in a trade and leads me to a room on the 3rd floor which has a few small creatures running around.
Mini Mush-Man level 2
A Mini Mush-Man is the same as a fully grown in the sense of power but is much more concentrated making them much more powerful than their normal counterparts. They tend to have an absurd amount of speed due to their small size and large power and are fiercely loyal to those they become friends with or whoever created them. This Mini Mush-Man was created by the Lich Ander.
I asked Ander to show me how he created the Mini Mash-man and was surprised when he took a single mana shrooms and began to infuse it with some mana, just when it was about to split he stopped. Changing what he was doing he used Create Entity and used Mush-man to infuse the last little bit for it, suddenly the shroom sprouted a face, legs and arms becoming a Mini Mush-Man. Eidolons mind recorded the skill for me as well and I was surprised that it cost the same as the normal Mush-Man. He showed me a few other creations of his but most of them were useless unless you wanted a mushroom styled house. The last thing he showed me though was something I couldn¡¯t help but smile at. It was a small Brewery that used Mana Shrooms to make a small type of Beer. It was a glowing blue but it was certainly Beer. I learned how to create the beer from Ander which lead to me creating a few other types of drinks as well. I created a mana potion, some fizzy drink and beer which all tasted surprisingly like blueberries with the beer having the strongest taste. I looked at the stats on the beer and found it to be about 5-7%. I realised that I had spent 3 hour making beer with Ander and left to go to the blade of grass Bob. When I sat down next to the plant pot that held him I thought of an idea and quickly created 5 mana crystals, and much bigger plant pot and a lot of soil. I started to enchant 4 of the crystals with a lot of earth element and the intent to fill the soil they touch with nutrients. The last crystal I put in a sieve like pot I created and enchanted the mana crystal to pour out water under certain conditions. I set the Enchantment to release water every 2 hours for 10 seconds, when in contact with second mana crystal or when I say ¡®I wet my plants¡¯. Believe me when I say it''s hard to enchant intent with commands like this, I had to use a combination of Elemental Manipulation, Mana Infusion and Eidolons Craft just to get it up and running which wasn¡¯t easy since I was still suffering backlash from reading all of the descriptions earlier. I hung the sieve with the crystal from the ceiling with the large pot under it. The Earth mana crystals are placed on the inside of the pot within the soil and affixed to the pot itself. Once finished I placed Bob right in the center of the plant pot which was roughly half my size. As I was about to leave I told ander that I''ll be back in a couple of hours and left for the clearing. Once there I used Raw Cast and summoned a level 100 Giant Skeleton. The description was the same as the regular one from yesterday except instead of all stats being greater than 500, every stat was greater than 600. The fight began with me using Raw Cast mana bolts at the monster and was shocked at the sheer destructive power that crippled the Giant skeleton before it even moved from its spot. I also noticed that it tried to move out of the way but couldn¡¯t, thinking about it lead me to believe that INT also governs spell speed as well as effectiveness. Before I gave it another chance I used a Raw Cast Mana Blast which destroyed it instantly alongside a few trees for 5 meters behind it. Leveling up I was feeling disappointed at how I could easily destroy it compare to the normal skeleton. I Gained another excess level as well and immediately upgraded my INT to P.INT. Very appropriate now that I can drink beer, thinking that I create a beer which comes in a nice wooden tankard and drink it greedily. After finishing the beer which I shall now call Munters Mush I decided to summon something together to fight and since I was curious I decided to summon a level 300 Wisp. Honestly this Raw Cast is extremely useful, at least for someone with mana like me. The Wisp I summoned was massive it was as large as my head, to put it into perspective when I was a wisp I was the size of a person''s eyeball. I used observe on the wisp and as more that surprised.
Wisp Level 300
This wisp was created with power greater than its form should allow and was only possible due to the way it was created and is abnormally large because of this. The wisps stats are all above 200 with its INT and WIS being over 900 and luck at exactly 500. If this wisp was to ever get the chance to evolve it would become the rarest form of a variant possible for that evolution. This wisp is extremely resistant to magic.
I don¡¯t know if it was luck or something else but as long as it''s not fast I''ll be able to beat it. I start attacking the wisp and was startled when it cut a large chunk of my body of dealing 20% of my health with one Flash blade. I start using several barriers and start using everything I''ve got right away. This is going to be a long fight. 4 Hours passed and I was glad that it had a very slow health regen but its mana regen was rather fast. What made it worse was that it was healing very fast using several healing skills from the healing arts. I''ve been doing the same cause even though I fully heal within a minute it''s been doing so much damage that I''ve been constantly using ludwin''s pulse, revitalise and purity this whole fight all the while attacking it with everything I could muster I even started using several variants of Mana bolt and elemental manipulation while maintaining and replacing various barriers everytime I get hit. I''ve been using just shy of a billion mana a minute this whole time and it''s been a constantly increasing strain the whole fight. At the end of the fight the flames for the wisp die and its core falls to the ground as I collapse from the mental strain. When I get up an hour passed and I had several notifications. Several skills leveled up and a few even became master rank, I gained another level and excess level where I gained P.AGI since I felt lacking in speed. There were a few messages that stood out though.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.
Advance of the Drudge Leveled Up
Skill leveled up to master rank and as a result resistances improved to 70%.
Congratulation
Your title Under Level Champion has evolved to the Title: Under Level Legend
Title:Under Level Legend
A title which is only given to those that fight and defeat someone over 10 times their level in a fair fight. This title increases EXP rewarded when enemies are much more powerful level wise.
Congratulations
You have earned the Title: Deaths Ding Dong Ditch
Title: Deaths Ding Dong Ditch
Deaths Ding Dong Ditch is a title awarded to people who nearly die repeatedly and heal to at least 50% of their total health at their near death experiences. To earn this title to have to almost die 50 times or more within an hour. When you die for real the Reaper will slap you in the face repeatable for an hour.
Well that''s interesting,, smiling to myself I looked at my new titles and checked to see if I still had Under Level Champion. Once I checked my titles I found that I still have Under Level Champion except its unequipped alongside the title Self Proclaimed Darkness and the title I got from getting over a billion health, Titans Heart. It''s a shame all it does is increase health regen too 2% instead of adding a percentage as a result it''s useless to me. Anyway since it felt like a joke I unequipped the title Deaths Ding Dong Ditch since it felt like a joke. Moving one I was smiling to myself as I was walking to the complex when I saw a shadow cast its way over the clearing. Looking up I saw a dragon in the sky and on a whim I observed it which completely took my breath away.
Unnamed Lesser Dragon level 1348
A lesser Dragon of Ohmaze recently born. As a lesser Dragon it is typically a 10th and powerful as their true dragon cousins but that doesn¡¯t make them weak. A dragons born on Ohmaze fight to the death with theirs siblings shortly after being born. Dragons are born in litters of up to 10,000 and tend to be split into groups of roughly 2000 by their parents so only 5 newborn dragons survive. After words they are taken on their first hunt to kill lots of different things so they can grow to be independant. This Lesser Dragon recently earned its independence for unknown reasons. All stats of this Lesser Dragon are greater than 10,000. This is considered a weak child and is hunted for their hearts, blood, bones and scales before they become fully grown.
I thought I was really strong until I saw that, it makes it even worse that it''s only a baby and is hunted by gods know what. The world is a lot more dangerous than I thought it would be and I''m simply not strong enough even though I can defeat monster miles above me in level. Returning to the complex I sit down next to the blade of grass Bob admiring how it''s grown a few inches since I last saw it. As I sat down I thought I saw the blade of grass twitch, thinking so I observed it and noticed that it has gained a few stats in INT and WIS, apparently it''s as smart as an infant now. I''m still resting from my fight since it was extremely tiring so while I can I create a couple of barrels of beer and start drinking away as I play with small amounts of mana no more than 1000. An hour past and I found that I could create several different types of barriers including elemental versions, I even created a complex aegis over the entirety of my body just cause I could. I drank several barrels of beer and only felt a little tipsy. When you think about it cause of Advance of the Drudge I have to try to get drunk now. Thinking that I get up and ask Ander to create more alcoholic drinks just before I left to go to the village. Still drinking barrel after barrel of beer before I got to the village I simple let my mind wander as I started to come on the verge on drunk after roughly 30-40 liters. I never thought to ask myself why do I never have to go to the toilet and why didn''t I never think to eat but drink like this, even then I only started drinking when Ander made beer. Geez I don¡¯t know but if I think like this when I''m tipsy what will I be like when I''m drunk? Walking into the village put the now empty barrel in my inventory for the third time today. Walking up to the still training goblins I noticed than nobody''s levels have improved but they way they fight has improved greatly and almost all of them have a small but noticeable smile. Noticing Rou sparring with Rune I walk up to them. They stopped when they noticed me. (Rune): ¡°Welcome back, how was your day.¡± (Dark): ¡°It was good~¡± (Roa): ¡°Are you singing?¡± (Dark): ¡°I am not singing~ At least I don¡¯t think so~~¡± (Roa): ¡°What¡¯s that smell? It¡¯s coming from you.¡± (Dark): ¡°Hey, do you have any food~ I wana have a feast~¡± I didn¡¯t notice but everyone stopped sparring with each other and gathered round us as we talk, I also didn¡¯t notice I created another barrel of beer and began hugging it. (Gob #1): ¡°What¡¯s going on?¡± (Dark): ¡°I want some food~¡± (Gob #2): ¡°Ok¡­ What¡¯s that you holdin?¡± (Dark): ¡°Lets get food~ Let¡¯s have a paaaaarty~~¡± At this point I tuned out with what everyone was saying and just set up a part at the village. I even cooked and gained the ability to create lost of different food with Craft Inventory. I don¡¯t know when but I created dozens upon dozens of beer barrels and a plethora of food. At the end of the night I had my eyes closed the whole time as I created nothing but beer before passing out long after everyone else either went to bed or passed out with me. Vari and Rune were the last to pass out before me, which was startling since I didn¡¯t even know they could drink since they''re just types of skeleton. Anyway I don¡¯t know when but I passed out at least 3 hours after everyone else after the really long party and some how made it back to my bed.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 26
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Legend, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator, One with Mana
Health 1,000,023,970/1,000,023,970 Health Regen 100% per Min
Mana 10,000,100,013,400/10,000,100,013,400 Mana Regen 100% per Min
Stamina N/A
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G.STR 190 P.INT 699
G.VIT 200 P.WIS860
P.AGI 220 G.LUC 383
AEXP9,357,023,135,241
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire550 Wind550
Water550 Earth550
Lightning550 Arcane550
Holy50 Demonic50
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Advance level 7 --Entropic Mist Advance level 9 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Master level 9 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Godly Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Master level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Advance level 9 Meditation Advance level 9 Elemental manipulation Master level 6 Mana Blast Master level 2 Mana Barrier Master level 9 Elemental Bolt Master level 3 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Master level 2 Flash Blade Master level 2 Healing Arts Master level 9 Eidolons Craft Intermediate level 1 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 9 Create Entity Intermediate 9 Arcane Pulse Advance 5 Dark Id Form Beginner 1 Weapon Mastery Advance 4 Mental Fortitude Beginner level 2 Raw Cast Master Max level
Arc 2: Chapter 5: Men among Gobs Part 1 I woke up surrounded but a few beer kegs I know I didn¡¯t summon last night at the party, smiling like it was the first joy I''ve had in a long time. Getting up I created a small meal with magic and started to eat as I walked outside to see everyone calmly walking about clutching their heads, even Rune was doing that. I created a small collection of sacred water for everyone before I left and told them to relax today as I walked past everyone on my way to the complex. Once there I gained the 82 billion mana shrooms from Ander before checking on the blade of grass Bob. Bob had grown to just under 1ft tall since I left but I was surprised that it turned to face me when I approached. Interesting. I observed the plant and was pleasantly surprised to find that it has increased its stats roughly up to 5 for all except INT and WIS which are both 20. I think that I made a really good choice to take this plant but only time will tell. I left Bob and went to a spare room for some tests. I took some of my flesh from my inventory and started to inspect it which lead to some interesting finds. My flesh isn¡¯t exactly flesh, it''s more along the lines of it being a combination of metal, flesh and gems which I found quite interesting. But knowing that wasn¡¯t as useful as what happened when I decided to absorb it.
Hidden AEXP Store Quest
By absorbing flesh of a being with skills similar to your EXP conversion you can unlock the hidden shop by fulfilling this quest. ------------ Requirements Absorb 200 corpses of beings with similar EXP conversion abilities or equivalent biomass. 5,000,000,000,000 AEXP ------------ Failure Refuse quest
This skill was broken before I could use AEXP to shop but once I get this quest done things might get even more one sided for me. Without missing a beat I accepted the mission and started to absorb the rest of my flesh but I wasn¡¯t enough. So I started to slice parts of my body off and absorb them until I unlocked the shop. This took 2 hours of non-stop bodily harm which by the way was probably the most boring way to get use to having your own body cut in half. Once the shop quest was complete I checked my stats and nothing was different, I tried calling the shop up but it wasn¡¯t until I taped the AEXP section of the stats that a new window popped into existence.
AEXP Shop
AEXP PackagesMaterialsItemsWeapons and Armor
Rather simple but I like it that way. I started to look through the separate tabs starting with weapons and armor. It opened up a page with a hundred basic weapons on it and a page tab at the bottom which really caught my interest considering it said it 1 of 1.7 Septillion. That''s really mind boggling. I also noticed that the cheapest weapons are around 100 AEXP. As I was looking through I couldn¡¯t help but laugh as a Point-ed stick was cheaper than a banana. I skipped a few hundred pages and the prices skyrocketed into the 100 millions. Most of the weapons and armor I saw in the tab where interesting and the kind of thing I might actually get eventually, for example there was a trench coat called Cas which was highly resistant to damage, repaired over time and provided extremely high resistances to holy and demonic magic. There was a weapon that was tempting to buy called Speck which was an unbreakable iron sword which grows in power by how it''s used similar to a soul weapon except anyone can use it. I left the weapons and armor tab after a few more minutes of browsing before I bought a somewhat cheap pair of gauntlet weapons called Oni that is roughly twice as strong as steel, they only cost me 1 million. I plan on giving it to Rune. I was going to get something for Vari and Falz but nothing stood out. I checked the Items tab and was pleasantly surprised to find it had sub tabs for different types of items from food upto crafting tools and manuals for skills and different energies which was interesting. I whent to each tab and looked through them at my leisure before stopping on the food tab with a wide smile. I stumbled upon something I didn¡¯t think I''d find once I got to the 83 page on the food tab. I found Puffer Whale Sashimi from Toriko which I''ve always wanted to try. As I bought this I thought that if this is heard I can maybe get other things from fiction. It cost me 20,000 for the sashimi and on the first bite a smile burst on my face, it tasted better than I thought it would and ended up eating the whole plate over an hour after closing the tab. I moved onto trying the materials tab and I can honestly say it''s along more complex that I thought there''s so many different materials that it''s almost like I could make anything with this. It''s just like the Items section because it has several tabs as well. I wonder if this has material like mythril, I thought to myself. As I thought that the tabs changed to the raw material tab and showed me mythril ore and mythril composite ores. So I have a search ability with the shop this will be use full. Closing that section for now I open the last one and am surprised because their is only a few pages for this one instead of the Sexpillions that the others had. I look through the packages and find that most of them are flat out stat boosters some are greyed out and I can''t use them but I can guess what the do based on the the names of the packages. Almost all of the packages do something large for example the STR boosting one put all my AEXP into STR which would make me extremely strong. I notice one called Balance Stat package which would as the name implies balance all of my stats. I decide I''ll buy that after a few more tests. Moving on I go back to the items tab and search for a few manuals on different energies that I stumbled across. I took out a few beginners manuals on Chakra, KI and Qi. Suddenly 2 books and one scroll falls in front of me before I touch them I use observe on them just to make sure I didn¡¯t just use 90,000 for nothing. As I reach down for the books I touch the Chakra one and learn how to awaken chakra and how to learn the basics for how to get started with it. I did the same with the other 2 books and instantly noticed that KI and QI and extremely similar but they are both different energies as well as how to use them. I want to see if it''s possible to gather different energies and if I''m right I''ll be able to use multiple energies making me even more of a threat. I sit down and start meditating like the Chakra scroll said in how to awaken my chakra reserves. While doing so I was to look deep into my soul and connect my physical and spiritual energies. It was honestly harder than I expected to awaken my chakra but as soon as I felt a small touch of energie I immediately could use feel the difference of chakra and mana. a n expected window popped into existence as I opened my eyes.
Congratulations
You have awoken your chakra and as such have gained chakra capacity. Chakra awakened. Chakra+ 400
I checked my chakra and was surprised to find that I had extremely low recovery rates for it and I had lower chakra than I was hoping for. Oh well, I thought as I moved onto KI and QI. I done a similar thing as I did with chakra for QI except I was gathering energy from the world around me instead of from my very being. I had to be careful not to gather the chakra I noticed in the air while doing so since it was dangerous to me at a low capacity like I currently have. After about an hour of collecting QI I moved onto forming a foundation core like the manual said which took another hour to do so properly once I was finished I got another message.
Congratulations
You have awoken your QI and as such have gained QI capacity. QI awakened. QI+ 100
For the final energy KI I got up and went out to the clearing above the complex and summoned a level 100 skeleton using raw cast and started to fight it using nothing but my body. It took an hour of constant fighting and focus to find the final energy my body has rushing through my body as I was punching and kicking the skeleton whenever I could. I Finally had a grasp on what KI is and it seems so different from the other QI. I destroy the skeleton with some modified mana blasts as I get pop up about the KI.
Congratulations
You have awoken your KI and as such have gained KI capacity. KI awakened. KI+ 19,000
After going through the usual level up I noticed that Chakra, QI and KI didn¡¯t get any more capacity like mana did. I don¡¯t know how to use my new energies properly so I decided that it would be best to experiment before I went back to the village. I upgraded my G.STR into P.STR and got a pleasant surprise my KI improved from 19,000 to 190,000. I went back to the complex and relaxed for a few minutes befor I started to put large quantities of AEXP to work upgrading my Capacities and regen rates. By the end of it I had Billions of chakra, QI and KI at my disposal. My Regen rates for the energies al reached 100% shortly after. I picked up the books and scroll I left on the ground after I used a lot of AEXP and put them in my inventory for Rune,Falz and Vari. Before I decided to go train I went to the store and bought a few skill books and scrolls for the new energies, for chakra I for Shadow Clone since I could, transformation technique and substitution jutsu since they''re useful. For QI I got one called simply boars cultivation. For KI I got makank¨­sapp¨­, galic-gun, instant transmission one I found funny called Nail gun. After gaining the knowledge of the skills from the books, aside from QI I got skills called Chakra arts and KI Arts. Practicing the skills where fun and extremely easy to master once I started to use shadow clones to do all the training while I rested. I told Ander to make another floor purely for training as I was about to leave I opened the shop and bought the stat balancing package which used all my AEXP to balance my affinities and my stats. It used all my remaining AEXP and was just shy of being balanced. My affinities are now exactly 1050 each but my AEXP when I was almost at my P.INT¡¯s current stats. I now have no AEXP and all my stats are really high for my level now. I walk outside the complex and gather a few hundred leafs and start practicing a chakra control exercise I learned from the book using shadow clones while I started to practice with all the different energies I have along side another couple hundred. I spent 2 hours getting roughly 600 hours of training with my new energies which is along more than you¡¯d think I''d need to get use to them. Once finished I dispelled all the clones and let all the knowledge sink in I summoned a level 100 Mush-man and started to fight it at my leisure. At the end of the fight which only took an hour I leveled up again with another excess level as expected, upgrading my G.VIT to P.VIT. The fight was extremely easy compared to the skeleton earlier and it would have been even easier if I used my new energies as well.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. As I was getting up and preparing to leave I felt an arrow hit me on the side of my arm before falling to the ground. Curious I turned to the direction it came from and saw the bowman from Shades dungeon. He looked panicked when his arrow did nothing. Getting up I walked up to him as he started firing more arrows at me before running for his life only to have me use instant transmission to get in front of him. He fell to the ground at the surprise before stopping himself from running again when he heard my voice. (Dark): ¡°So bowman are you going to apologize for shooting a lady or introduce yourself.¡± (Bowman): ¡°Who are you? And yes sorry for shooting you.¡± (Dark): ¡°My names Darkness what''s your name Dave.¡± (Dave): ¡°My name¡­ Hey how do you know my name?¡± (Dark): ¡°I observed you the last time we met but that was before I evolved, that and I observed you again. We have a lot to talk about.¡± I could see that he was scared but it seems like he¡¯s realised I''m not going to kill him. (Dave): ¡°I don¡¯t have a choice do I? Well in that case what do you want to talk about.¡± (Dark): ¡°First off do you know who I am?¡± (Dave): ¡°Not a clue mate.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯m the wisp that kicked your ass in the dungeon a while back.¡± His eyes widened slightly but he didn¡¯t react any other way, from the way it looks he''s thinking hard about something. Suddenly he smiles. (Dave): ¡°So that''s where I know your voice from. I thought dungeon monsters couldn¡¯t leave the dungeon.¡± (Dark): ¡°Only those that are greated by the dungeon have to stay.¡± (Dave): ¡°Ok so if you''re not going to kill me what else do you want to talk about.¡± (Dark): ¡°The reincarnation games.¡± Three simple words and he¡¯s stunned and unable to do anything. I can practically see every thing running through his head as he hasn¡¯t mover or even blocked for 5 minutes. When he finally does move he passes out as I catch him. I pick up the bow he dropped and take him with me back to the gob village. When the gobs see me carrying a person they seem to panic a little until they see that he¡¯s unconscious. Rou asks me what I''m doing as I enter my hut to put the boy to bed until he wakes up. I explained what happened except for the reincarnation games mentioning and told him that the guy passed out after talking with me. Rou tells me that I need to keep an eye on him to which I nod. I send some clones to go and enjoy themselves with Rune,Falz and Vari while I sat waiting for Dave to wake up. At the same time I sent a few hundred to the complex and practice sensing energies with mana, chakra, KI and QI. I sat waiting for him to wake up to talk about the reincarnation games, I could have had a clone wait but I wanted to be here to listen to what he has to say in person. This is my first and possibly only lead into what the reincarnation games are and it¡¯s too important to me to let this chance slip by me. I waited feeling more tense than I have in a long time over the chance to find out what this is to me. I waited an hour waiting for him to wake when my clones all dispelled themselves to inform me that a large group of people are coming to. I created another clone to wait on dave as I head out of the hut to see all the goblins preparing themselves. Their is just under 100 gobs somewhat trained and practically armed to the teeth with basic crude weapons. I walk up and behind Rou and tell him to be prepared for anything as I transformed into a goblin with dark robes to hide and cover for Rune,Falz and Vari. I got all three of them to pretend to be mindless summons that will obey my commands. Just as the group came into view of the village borders I noticed that there are over 30 people in the group, some hobgoblins,humans, elves and a single dwarf lagging behind them. Almost all of them look prepared for a bloodbath and eager for it. Among the group I noticed a few that look like they really don¡¯t want to do that, Kela Claire and Alex are among these people. I also noticed that most are around level 16 to 19 but their is 5 that are over 20. Kela¡¯s group are between 23-25 a lone mage that has a sad smile on his face is level 48 and the dwarf I pointed out is level 98. They stop when they get in range to see our levels and aside from the mage and dwarf everyone else looks ready to fight, even if Kela¡¯s group look regretful. The mage commands them to eradicate the ¡®pests¡¯ and soon as they can. I watch calmly as the group starts to charge until the Dwarf at the back shouts to the to stop acting like idiots as he steps forward. He starts to speak both with disgust and an apologetic tone. (Dwarf): ¡°Hello Rou I see you¡¯ve finally got a mage in your village let''s hope we can make this quick. You¡¯ve also gotten stronger.¡± (Rou): ¡°Hello Dwark. Please don¡¯t do this, you know we didn¡¯t do anything.¡± The mage shouted while laughing at him, it made me want to kill him right where he stands. (Mage): ¡°Like hell you vermin are innocent. To have the gaul to claim innocence you filthy Mu...¡± (Dwark): ¡°Shut up you pompous prick! Anyway I''m sorry we have to do this Rou you seem nothing like the Murlaak that attacked us this time, but orders are orders.¡± (Rou): ¡°For the last time Dwark were goblins not Murlaak!¡± This caught my attention, can people really confuse goblins for whatever these Murlaak are and if so why is this group being ordered to attack us. I noticed the Dwarf raise his hand ready to order the attack but I intervened just in time. (Dark): ¡°Halt what you are doing, I have a few question Dwarf.¡± (Mage): ¡°Like a filthy bi...¡± (Dwark): ¡°Speak out of turn again elf and I''ll kill you right here.¡± The elf shut up reluctantly and Dwark signaled me to speak. (Dark): ¡°What are these Murlaak you speak off and how can you confuse the goblins for them?¡± (Dwark): ¡°Murlaak are creatures that resemble goblins to an almost identical setup the only difference is that Murlaak have a aggressive tendencies, lower intellect and can eat anything just like Rou.¡± I looked at Rou and before either of them said anything I spoke again. (Dark): ¡°That''s because of an inborn ability he gained when he was born and has nothing to do with his race.¡± The group looked unaffected but Rou was confused and thankful. Before anything could be continued Dwark apologised and sent the group attacking us. I pretended to only be slightly stronger that group only sending them away rather than killing them. I could see that the gobs had a similar idea to me and started to deflect rather than defend the enemy group. That changed when the mage launched a spell similar to mana blast made of pure arcane energy. Instantly I released my disguise and blocked the blast with my wing barely hurt, not that they would notice with my regen. Everyone froze when I revealed myself. (Dark): ¡°Leave these goblins alone and return to Goldas before I get mad.¡± Most of the group were a bit scared but Kela¡¯s group looked glad, while Dwark and the mage looked like they heard a bad joke. (Dark): ¡°You can leave and like another day but if you attack me or the goblins again I will make you suffer.¡± (Dwark): ¡°And if we go against you, then what?¡± (Dark): ¡°Then I''m sorry.¡± (Mage): ¡°Big talk coming from a low level eidolon, your nothing to a mage like be or the old dwarf.¡± (Dark): ¡°If you continue attacking us I''ll not hold anything back Theris Deloak the 3rd of the Deloak mage guild.¡± They all fell quiet until Theris started to chant a spell and launched the most powerful spell he could which was blocked by a simple mana shield stunning them. (Dark): ¡°Now Theris, I have to make an example of you.¡± Without any hesitation I fired my own copy of his arcane blast destroying him and a few trees not even leaving a scrape behind. Everyone was at their wits ends except Dwark who looked happy. (Dwark): ¡°Thanks for getting rid of that posh bastard, I now have a reason to leave and hopefully my superiors won¡¯t retaliate. Which I doubt. All right guy were leaving. Good by miss Eidolon.¡± Without saying anything the group followed Dwark back to Goldas the world they came from. I sent a clone to follow them so I know where the way to their world is. Everyone of the gobs had a look of relif, Rune looked disappointed for not getting to use his new gauntlets, Falz looks bored and Vari doesn¡¯t seem to care. My clone with Dave popped and informed me he¡¯s waking up, I turn to Rou and basically drag him to the hut Dave is in. When I get their Dave looks confused with Rou practically mimicking him. Before they could speak I sat back in a chair and forced them to do the same. As Rou was about to talk and ask how I knew about his ability, I jumped in and spoke first. (Dark): ¡°So I think we have to talk to each other about the reincarnation games.¡±
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 28
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Legend, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator, One with Mana
Health 1 Billion/1 Billion Health Regen 100% per Min
Mana 10 Trillion/10 Trillion Mana Regen 100% per Min
Chakra10 Billion/10 Billion Chakra Regen 100% per Hour
QI10 Billion/10 Billion QI Regen 100% per Hour
Stamina N/A
KI10 Billion/10 Billion KI Regen 100% per Min
Stamina N/A
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P.STR 678 P.INT 719
P.VIT 677 P.WIS880
P.AGI 677 G.LUC 677
AEXP28,000
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire1050 Wind1050
Water1050 Earth1050
Lightning1050 Arcane1050
Holy1050 Demonic1050
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Advance level 7 --Entropic Mist Advance level 9 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Master level 9 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Godly Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Master level 1 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Advance level 9 Meditation Advance level 9 Elemental manipulation Master level 6 Mana Blast Master level 2 Mana Barrier Master level 9 Elemental Bolt Master level 3 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Master level 2 Flash Blade Master level 2 Healing Arts Master level 9 Eidolons Craft Intermediate level 1 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 9 Create Entity Intermediate 9 Arcane Pulse Advance 5 Dark Id Form Beginner 1 Weapon Mastery Advance 4 Mental Fortitude Beginner level 2 Raw Cast Master Max level Chakra Arts Intermediate 3 Ki Arts Intermediate 1
Arc 2: Chapter 6 Men amoung Gobs part 2 Dave and Rou both had shocked expressions, making them look like a kid told santa wasn¡¯t real. Dave collected himself just before I was going to try waking them from their minds. (Dave): ¡°How do you know about the reincarnation games?¡± (Rou): ¡°I¡¯m going to guess you have something like observe them.¡± (Dark): ¡°I¡¯ll give you a clue. All 3 of us are included.¡± It didn¡¯t take but a moment for Rou to get what I meant but Dave took a few seconds to realise what I meant. (Rou): ¡°You mean you''re also reincarnated? And so is he?¡± (Dave): ¡°So we all died and got reincarnated to these games but do either of you know what they are?¡± (Dark): ¡°Sadly no, I was hoping you guys new something I couldn¡¯t get with my observe skill. I get a lot from using it on you too but I noticed a lot of information seems to be blocked. I''d guess that''s cause either my skill isn¡¯t high enough level or its being purposely blocked.¡± (Rou): ¡°I tried to use observe on you and all I got was information that you were a wisp evolved into an eidolon. I should have got more since it''s a max level skill, so explain how you got more info than me.¡± (Dark): ¡°Simple, my obsere is an evolved version I suffered to get and I won¡¯ tell either of you how to get it since neither of you would survive.¡± Dave was sitting quietly thinking over what was said, Rou fell into a stupor thinking over the little we know about each other and what was talked about. I on the other hand realised that almost all info on them is blocked. (Dave): ¡°I don¡¯t have the observe skill but from what I know each of us should have gained a power when we reincarnated. So what did you guys get?¡± (Rou): ¡°I didn¡¯t get anything when I was reincarnated I only got to keep my power. Did you guys not have powers back on earth?¡± (Dark): ¡°Our worlds didn¡¯t have powers where as yours did? Interesting. That would explain the world codes in the observes I got of you two.¡± (Dave): ¡°What do you mean?¡± (Dark): ¡°Each of us comes from a different version of earth. Me and you Dave come from separate earths called earth series Earth-Delta followed by a large series of numbers and letters. Rou he on the other hand comes from a Earth-Theta world. It seems that each series would have different mechanics in them or something that greatly differentiates the series, Theta seems to have powers whereas Delta seems to have none.¡± It took a surprisingly little amount of time for them to let that sink in, cause not a minute later Rou was back to talking on important matters. (Rou): ¡°So what about this world?¡± (Dark): ¡°No idea, I only got the info of the other worlds because I read them when I observed you two.¡± (Dave): ¡°Can we talk about the powers we got then? I''m really curious.¡± (Dark): ¡°Fine, Rou has consumptive absorption but hasn¡¯t used it properly, Dave has infinite stamina, I on the other hand have EXP conversion.¡± (Dave): ¡°You¡¯re no fun, I''m just going to chalk that up to your observe.¡± Nodding to Dave I moved on to something more important. (Rou): ¡°Out of curiousity how long has it been since you guys reincarnated? 3 years for me.¡± (Dave): ¡°15 years for me.¡± (Dark): ¡° You look older Dave, anyway it¡¯s been just under 4 months for me.¡± Both Rou and Dave were stunned at that which isn¡¯t surprising considering I''m the strongest and youngest in the room. Again Rou came to his senses fast. It seems like I''m repeating myself with these two around. (Rou): ¡°Darkness, how in the hell did you get that strong in such little time? Heck you¡¯re still technically a baby.¡± (Dark): ¡°My ability I got when reincarnated is more useful than it might seem even of I''m still low level.¡± (Dave): ¡°I¡¯m curious actually what''s your average stats? Mine is roughly 100 over all with LUC nearing 200.¡± Smiling Dave prompts Rou thinking that he¡¯ll be weaker than himself. Poor man. (Rou): ¡°My average is is just about 80 overall with VIT and WIS just over 250.¡± Dave looks a bit devastated and prompts me to go, oh how much fun this is. (Dark): ¡°Just under 680 overall with WIS over 850, a stats are the preeminent version of them.¡± (Dave): ¡°Beat down before I could even stand. At least I have infinitely more stamina than you.¡± (Dark): ¡°My race has no need of stamina and effectively has infinite all the same. I feel real good about my life right now.¡± (Rou): ¡°You¡¯re being kind of a dick Darkness.¡± (Dark): ¡°So, who said I wasn¡¯t.¡± We continued talking for the rest of the afternoon about various things. The main topic we talked about after coming to the conclusion we have nothing to talk about in relation to the games was each other and how we died. Dave use to be an archery instructor in New Hampshire which actually lead to his death when an arrow ricocheted of the side of a target and went through his skull killing him almost instantly. Rou on the other hand was a police officer of a kind that became famous for stopping almost all crime in his home town, which in turn earned him a stalker. This stalker was kind of like a little sister to him and she cornered him and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest with a taser like knife for refusing her advances. I told them I was killed by a giant sign saying fuck you and they lost it. Although when I told them I was a man on earth both where a little stunned and started to ask what the differences are like, what sex as a woman is like and other perverse things. I torn Dave¡¯s arm off and beat Rou with it when it got to disturbing for me, don¡¯t worry I reattached daves arm and healed them both only for the idiots to start again. I asked Dave why he wasn¡¯t cautious around us and was in turn fully cooperative from the start. I was surprised that he simple said he followed his guts since they''ve never been wrong before about a person. Both me and Rou gave Dave a place to call his own and told him if he hurts any of the residents without reason and a darn good one, worse pain that lost limbs would be his only fate. I left them to talk to each other as I went to talk to Rune, Falz and Vari who were sitting around the 3 books on energies I gave them. (Dark): ¡°So what do you think of the books and the energies?¡± (Rune): ¡°Well Chakra is really usefull and I even unlocked it alongside Falz but none of us have unlocked QI and KI since they seem to be exactly the same.¡±Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. (Vari): ¡°They are almost identical in every way and can¡¯t see anything substantial to differentiate them.¡± (Falz): ¡°Would you care to explain the difference to us?¡± Silently I held my palms up and held a white ball of QI in one hand and a yellow ball of KI in the other. (Dark): ¡°Of these to balls which do you think will be more destructive to the ground?¡± (Rune): ¡°I¡¯d say the white one it¡¯s giving off a more dangerous feeling.¡± Vari and Falz nodded in agreement as I started to explain properly to them. (Dark): ¡°The White one is QI and the yellow one is Ki, both of them are a form of life essence and have similar capabilities. Watch as I launch these to the tree over there.¡± Both balls of energie flew out of my hands and crashed at each side of the tree, QI on the left and KI on the right. The left side has a small crater only slightly bigger than my hand while the right side has destroyed roughly twice as much ground. (Dark): ¡°Both energies have destructive properties but this is because each have different energie compositions even though both are physical energies. QI is a life energie which is comprised of physical, soul and world energies in order to create a QI core which is where most of the energy is stored. QI can be gathered to increase your capacity as well as have other effects. If you gather enough QI a mortal could become nigh-immortal and possibly reverse their age. Although the energie is less destructive than Ki, it is however more versatile and can do things similar to mana based spells which tend to have higher quality effects than mana bases spells.¡± I noticed that they were hanging on my every word and seems to be enjoying listening to me, a few goblins even started to crowd around me. Falz is even taking notes for later, neat. (Dark): ¡°Ki on the other hand is purely physical and soul based as well as combined in a different way. Although both energies have similar capabilities, KI is much harder to control and a fair bit more powerful. Another difference is that KI is mainly connected to your physical strength but can be improved with similar cultivation abilities to QI. KI can be used to improve your physical strength, speed and reflexes and makes it easier to gain raw strength with higher KI since it forces that level of power when used to increase speed strength and reflexes. KI is much more chaotic and harder to control that other energies like chakra and mana and can work similarly to QI for most things but tends to be a crude imitation even if it''s a more powerful version of QI skills. Because of the hard to control nature of KI different ways to control it are used which makes imitation of other energies effects even harder. KI also doesn¡¯t prolong life like QI does when you have a sizable amount of it but it does naturally strengthen the body unlike QI.¡± Everyone that was listening started to ask questions on what the energies where and how I found books about them. Nobody even noticed when I switched places with a clone that was listening and answering to their pleas for knowledge. As soon as I left I was about to go to the complex to set up a few extra precautions when I decided to send a clone to tell Ander to change the new floor into living quarters for up to 300 people as well as to as an air cleansing system since other people still need to have breathable air. Ander was also introduced to a message that if somebody said they are to be led to the living quarters. I told Rou and Dave with a clone and found out their where having a drinking contest with the barrels of beer I left with them my clone join and drank a barrel for every pint of beer they had. The real me on the other hand decided to stay near the village and out of sight while playing with my energies. It reached about 10 o''clock at night when all my clones dispelled and I practically fell on my face since one of them drank enough to drown the village quite literally. It faded in seconds though cause I didn¡¯t have the stiff in my system. I left to go back to my bed when I heard dave calling me over. As I looked at him he was clearly uncomfortable and started to speak in a rather concerned tone. (Dave): ¡°Is it true you killed Theris Delrok?¡± (Dark): ¡°Yes, I liked the prick. Why?¡± (Dave): ¡°Well I''m familiar with his guild and I''m sure they will send an army just to get revenge for killing that prick. He may not have been much but he¡¯s only the 7th son of the current mage guild leader. That man will do everything short of destroy Ohmaze to get revenge.¡± (Dark): ¡°I don¡¯t really care about what they would do but I''m going to destroy anything they send as revenge.¡± (Dave): ¡°I hope you can defeat a people that are level 100 and up then cause that''s going to be what their armies consist of.¡± (Dark): ¡°I can create my own army if I have too. Heck I can even create an army that can create an army.¡± Dave didn¡¯t say anything after that but he beamed me a sad smile as he sauntered to his new hut. I sincerely hope that I won¡¯t have brought more problems that can fix. At least I''m made some preparations. Thanks to the clone I sen¡¯t o follow the group from earlier I now know that it will take at least 7 hours to get the this village. Lying down on my pillow I fall asleep and wait for the morning. I wake up to hear people shouting and step out of the hut to see the goblins setting up a line to defend their home from invaders. I look into the distance and notice that their is quite literally an army of level 100 people coming towards us, their is even a level 400 mage leading the army of 1000 men. I stop the goblins from preparing and get Rou, Dave and Graff to lead them to the complex. Rune Falz and Vari refuse to leave and stay by my side. I create a shadow clone and have them disguised as everyone from the village. I stand at the ready with Falz and Rune to my right and Vari to my left. 10 minutes pass and all the goblins have completely left the area as the army stops. The Mage that''s leading the group takes a step forward and looks at me before laughing. (Mage): ¡°Dwark said a powerful monster was defending the Murlaaks not a fucking level 28 Eidolon! Hahaha!¡± (Dark): ¡°Why are you here with and army.¡± (Mage): ¡°Why, little eidolon were here to wipe your filthy Murkaal friends from the face of this world and get revenge for my younger brother.¡± (Dark): ¡°Leave them alone. I''m the one that killed Theris Delrok.¡± As soon as the name left my lips the mage stopped smiling and ordered my death without any hesitation. As I started to get ready for the attack the mage fired a spell to the left of me tearing one of Vari¡¯s ribcages apart while severely damaging the other. My mind blanked at that moment I moved as fast as I could and caught her still falling body. The skull turned to me as I watched the light in her eyes die. Anger started to build, the army slowly matched towards me. (Mage): ¡°Did I kill your little toy Eidolon? When it deserved it. Haha.¡± (Dark): ¡°Falz, Rune talke Vari¡¯s body out of here.¡± Feeling my cold tone they didn¡¯t hesitate and left as fast as they could. The mage let them and watched as all the goblins started to pop into clouds. The mage didn¡¯t say anything but noticed that before they popped they all turned into me. Along and in a furious state, I used a skill I haven¡¯t even touched without knowing. I noticed that lots of energies started to swirl around me getting thicker and more chaotic. The army stops, the mage fires magic at me to watch it swallowed without touching me. My body broke down in my rage as Dark Id grasped hold without me even noticing. I screamed, oh how I screamed in rage at these people. My mind started twisting as I was fading in and out of conscious only to notice that the army was running¡­ or trying to run. A maelstrom of energies was stopping them. I blanked out only to wake up in the middle of the village which has now become the epicenter of a chaotic and twisted landscape with nothing left in sight for just over a mile. The ground is purple and looks like a flowing river of muddy water but feels like smooth glass. The trees that were around the village now seem to pop in and out of existence and look like wisps of a dark purple silhouette. I walk to where the army was and find nothing other than what can only be described as a lake of blood. I collapse and notice that I leveled up again. Without thinking I upgraded G.LUC to P.LUC and slowly made my way towards the complex not noticing the window that popped up say in Dark Id form is now intermediate.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 29
Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female
Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Legend, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator, One with Mana
Health 1 Billion/1 Billion Health Regen 100% per Min
Mana 10 Trillion/10 Trillion Mana Regen 100% per Min
Chakra10 Billion/10 Billion Chakra Regen 100% per Hour
QI10 Billion/10 Billion QI Regen 100% per Hour
Stamina N/A
KI10 Billion/10 Billion KI Regen 100% per Min
Stamina N/A
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P.STR 688 P.INT 739
P.VIT 687 P.WIS900
P.AGI 687 P.LUC 687
AEXP57,000
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Affinity¡¯s
Fire1050 Wind1050
Water1050 Earth1050
Lightning1050 Arcane1050
Holy1050 Demonic1050
Light1050 Dark1050
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Skill List
Wisp Arts Advance level 7 --Entropic Mist Advance level 9 --Energy consumption Max level --Mana Manipulation Master level 9 Exp Conversion(variant) Max level Godly Observe Beginner level 1 Advance of the Drudge Master level 2 Mana Bolt Max level Mana Infusion Advance level 9 Meditation Advance level 9 Elemental manipulation Master level 8 Mana Blast Master level 4 Mana Barrier Master level 9 Elemental Bolt Master level 7 Nonexistence Max level Wind Blade Master level 4 Flash Blade Master level 3 Healing Arts Master level 9 Eidolons Craft Intermediate level 1 Linguistics Max level Touchkinesis Max level Craft Inventory Beginner 9 Create Entity Intermediate 9 Arcane Pulse Advance 5 Dark Id Form Intermediate 4 Weapon Mastery Advance 4 Mental Fortitude Beginner level 2 Raw Cast Master Max level Chakra Arts Intermediate 3 Ki Arts Intermediate 1