《Ragnarök》 Chapter 0 : Prologue "8.15am... Right on time." I muttered to myself as i made my way up the familiar flight of stairs. Cheers of jubilation could be heard from everywhere as the high volume of chatter in the classrooms around me proved that this was a special day. It was the last day of school for the term. "SUP JINXXX!" And that was my clique. It was made up of 3 guys, Anthony, Joe and Zack. Anthony was the class clown and for good reason. There was never a dull moment with him and it was like he was born to joke around. Even the teachers had to seek him for entertainment once in awhile. Joe was the typical good looking guy all the girls would fawn over but sadly for them, he seemed to love games more than girls. Zack is the typical smartass who actually studies for his tests! But he was a genuinely nice guy with his share of epic moments sometime so it''s good he''s not just a complete nerd. I would like to think of myself as the sporty guy and the jack of all trades in the group but i shouldn''t comment on myself. It just doesn''t feel right. Today was an even more special day for the 4 of us. Not only was it the last day of school but also the date we agreed upon to embark on an epic journey together. Royal Road. RR is a new VMMORPG (Virtual Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) which was released about a year ago. Since its release it has been shattering record after record. There are 1 billion + unique player accounts in the game. The economy of the game was stronger than some countries in real life. The sheer size of the map is about as big as one quarter of Earth and there was room for boundless increase due to events or updates. Unicorn Inc. was the company who started RR and now, it has a net worth of 500 billion dollars, making the CEO of Unicorn Inc. the richest man in the world by a long shot. (Bill Gates has a net worth of about 80 billion dollars.) It was every gamer''s dream to play a game this large, with 29 races and over 100 classes with more hidden only to be revealed by fulfilling certain secret requirements. Today was the day that we finally got to play this epic game. Moving on to reality, the last day of school is never about lessons. Our tutors would come in and just share stories about the past year, how they have seen us grown and mature and sentimental stuff like that. It was really quite touching as the tutors themselves have been through quarrels, late nights, happy moments and epic moments with us as well so it was very relatable. However Anthony being Anthony had better plans and this sentimental mood was not suited for one like him. Our last lesson of the day was English by Mrs Maggie, a jovial woman who was a bit plump. "So class. This has been one heck of year and we made it through. I''m so proud of everyo- Yes Anthony?" The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "Mrs Maggie you have something on your chin." "Where?" asked Mrs Maggie trying to find the object. "Not that chin. The other one!" Anthony beamed while finishing the punchline. This was approved with an uproar of laughter and applause joined in even by good natured Mrs Maggie herself. "If only you were as ingenious with your work as your jokes. However i do get the message you''re trying to tell me and i suppose i should just give it to you. Sentimental time is over. Class dismissed go knock yourselves out this holiday." Mrs Maggie winked. "HELLLLLLLLYEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" If all hell broke loose it would probably be close to what was happening now. All of us scrambled out of the door with our backpacks and especially the four of us as we knew what was in stall for us at home. On the way back, i opened up our whatsapp chat to finalise a few of the things we decided a few days prior upon doing our research. "Remember guys our starting city is the Capital of Junad do not screw up the character creation process." "Yeah and no alteration to our appearances! Unless Joe wants to be uglier that is always welcome." "Go away. But seriously remember once we enter and register as friends, we should spend the one month confinement in town independently. This would make it more interesting once we regroup after one month." "Agreed. Let''s meet at 2pm in game. Don''t be late. Especially you Anthony!" "You would make such a great mom Jinx." "Shut up." I reached home, took a quick shower and ate my lunch. Going into my room, at one corner stood the newly installed, gleaming shining silver capsule. I had it installed 3 days ago and it took every inch of my willpower not to log in first to see the world I nearly went crazy. However now the time was neigh and we were going to make this journey legendary. Trembling with excitement, I nestled myself in the capsule and followed the instructions..
Connect to Royal Road? Yes|No
"Yes."
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Chapter 1 : Till We Meet Again ¡ªThe scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account?¡ª A feminine voice asked. ¡°Yes¡± ¡ªSelect the name of your avatar¡ª I have always used my nickname as my name for avatars and this isn''t going to be different. 1 ¡°Jinx¡± ¡ª Select your gender from male, female or neutral¡ª ¡°Male¡± ¡ª Royal Road has forty-nine races. You may select your race from the primary twenty-nine-¡ª ¡°Human¡± ¡ª Please feel free to choose the appearance of your avatar¡ª "As it is." Joe had better have made his character a bit uglier or girls will be stalking us on our adventure for sure. ¡ª Your account has been activated. Your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Royal Road. Please select a city and kingdom you want to start. ¡°Capital of Junad¡± They decided on this place as it was just on the outskirts of the Rosenheim Kingdom and near Grave Mountains which was a fantastic grinding spot. ¡ª Welcome to Royal. A tutorial is available if you would like ¡ª ¡°Pass¡± ¡ª Your account has been created. We wish you all the best in your adventures. Good luck! ¡ª Suddenly the space before me shone brightly and I was teleported to what seemed like a town square. "Hey there he is! Jinx over here!" I recognised the voice being that of Zack''s and looked at his direction. He was sitting down at a fountain near the middle of the town square about 10 meters away with Joe and I started walking in the direction towards them, trying to feel how virtual reality felt like. It was a wonderful feeling. It felt like all I did was use some strange machine to teleport to another world. I felt exactly like I did in real life; Swallowing my own saliva, walking, jogging running, blinking. Everything felt so natural i wonder how much effort had gone in the research and development of RR to make it so realistic. "So Anthony is as late as usual huh?" "That''s the one thing you can count on him to do other than being absolutely retarded." And as if to answer to our calling, Anthony appeared from what seemed to be a magic circle conjured from thin air. Newbies seem to attract a lot of attention as everyone will notice when a newbie appears in the middle of the town. Some of them like me just experimented with their bodies abit while some would look lost. Anthony however proved to be an extreme case of the prior. He punched himself in the face with all his strength. "OW! I thought pain thresholds limits were like 2% or something!" And I realised I could differentiate between the players and NPCs at that point as all the players laughed but the NPC''s just stood there puzzled at what was going on with the guy who seemingly punched himself in the face for no apparent reason. The AI of this game was so well made that the NPC''s themselves knew what sort of behaviour was classified as weird and queer. The level of human psychology implemented in the AI must have been extremely advanced. I was absolutely marveled at the sheer intricacy of this virtual world. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. "Oh there you guys are! I hope you didn''t see that!" Exclaimed Anthony after looking in our direction. "Your facepalm? I mean facefist? No we did not." "Shut up i bet it didn''t even occur to you guys to try that out." And Anthony was right. It was because of his way of thinking that enabled him to do all these seemingly reckless things which no normal person would. Thus we concluded that although the pain threshold for RR was set at 2% for everyone, this does not include intentional harm to your own body caused by yourself. This could be a bug that no one else has found and reported yet and we decided there were possibilities for it to be exploited later on in the game. "Alright guys we''re finally here. Lets get down to business. Friend requests sent to all of you." I said "Ditto." Joe replied "Yupz." Zack acknowledged "I have no friends ): " "Shut up and accept Anthony." "Im not Anthony here. I''m Breadtalk and its a cool name so use it." "..... Anyone else changed their name?" "I''m called Beathoven..." said Zack "My name is Soup." said Joe Jinx, Soup, Breadtalk and Beathoven..... Yup sounds like our clique alright. Loads of help required.
You have 3 new friend requests from Soup, Breadtalk and Beathoven. Do you accept? Yes|No
Everyone accepted the friend requests and we completed all the preliminary work. "Alright guys. We''ve done all our research. We have 1 month of in game time to set ourselves apart from each other. Lets do our best." I said as i looked at their excited faces. "Lowest level after one month treats the rest of us to a meal both in game and out!" said Soup who looked confident as hell. "You''re not getting that bet you grinder." retorted Beathoven who seemed to know exactly what he was going to do as well. "Well, i''m going to get a head start first so.. SUCK MY DICK IN ONE MONTH''S TIME GUYS." And Breadtalk dashed off. The three of us looked at each other with a smile and shortly after dashed off in three opposite directions. "Till we meet again." I whispered to all of them, dashing to my first location which based on my research was the third biggest building in Junad. The Grand Library.
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1.All first person thoughts shall be represented in italics for users to understand Jinx more by what¡¯s going on through his head. Chapter 2 : Mana Manipulation The Grand Library was Junad''s pride and joy. The high-ceiling rooms with towering bookshelves to complement it. The long oaken tables which are hardly empty as people try to satisfy their thirst for knowledge. It was top class even though it was still not the best library in RR. As i opened the door I swore i felt smarter already just by looking at the sheer magnificence of such an establishment. Near the door was a pretty bespectacled receptionist, with long dark braided hair wearing a pure white dress. However, looks can be deceiving in this game as appearances can be altered and one can never be too sure if a person was an NPC or not in this game. NPCs was far too realistic. "Good Morning welcome to the Grand Library. My name is Claire. Here are some rules before I let you in. 1) No eating or drinking inside the premises at all times. 2) Keep your volume down. 3) Any damage done to books which are caught will be fully reimbursed by you. 4) You are not allowed to bring any books out of this library unless you are a member of either the intelligence guild or the library itself. Anyone caught flouting these rules will be dealt with severely. Now that we are clear may I help you?" Gosh that was a long speech and if she has to say this to everyone... Well i think that''s definitely an NPC "I would like to browse books of a certain category and I was wondering if you can show me where the appropriate bookshelves are. I am interested in understanding more about mana." The truth was, I had already researched beforehand on forums that reading in libraries could result in procurement of skills. The easiest way of course was to go to the intelligence guild, pay them a sum of money or do some errands for them and they would give you a low level skill book to learn basic magic. You could even change class to be a mage immediately and take an aptitude test. The more talent you show, the more precious the skill books the intelligence guild would give you as an investment in your future. I knew that in this virtual reality game, i wanted to cast magic no matter what. Controlling mana and manifesting the elements while attacking was something reality could not give me no matter what i did. Unless i built a flamethrower of course but you get the point. I could still swing a sword around in real life, I could learn baking and cooking skills and even maybe architecture or merchanting in real life but magic, this was something only RR could give me. I wanted to take the aptitude test in the intelligence guild but in order to get the most out of that i needed to impress them. No matter what i needed to impress them first and as such i came to the library to understand more about mana as what i learnt so far in real life is only when you achieve a deep understanding over something can you fully utilise its potential. When you play a sport just enhancing your physical fitness is one way to get better but only when coupled with a true understanding of the plays and tactics of the sport will you get to the top. Same goes for things like studies, cooking, music and whatever you can think of I think this analogy would fit. Both practice and comprehension are necessary for proficiency and I had always believed in this so I went ahead and crafted this plan. "Are you sure you want books about mana? People usually ask for books regarding specific types of spells to help them learn better. We even have low level skill books that can be read to gain proficiency in some of the lower tier spells." Claire asked with a curious look on her face. Oh this is interesting. I thought many people would have already thought of that but maybe people came into the library to read books to gain spells and stats like intelligence and wisdom. Understanding of mana is not necessary in casting spells anyway. All you need is the skill and enough mana to cast the spell. Maybe I might be able to learn faster if i just read the skill books but i think I''m still going to stick with my principles. I need to understand mana first. "Yes I want to read books about mana. Not about skills or tactics of magicians and stuff like that. Is it possible for you to help me Claire?" I answered. "Hmm I will try my best. It''s been a long while since i''ve tried searching for books like that but since you''ve piqued my curiosity with that request i will do my best for you." said Claire, looking at me with a wry smile.
Piqued the interest of Librarian Claire! Relationship with Librarian Claire increased!
I followed Claire through a maze of bookshelves, left right left right left right left. Holy shit how much time must one spend here just to even know which books are where. How the hell do they even categorise the books anyway?! "The books are categorised by genre followed by keywords followed by age thought up by librarians. I''m taking you to the magic genre now which is rather huge but lucky for you only one bookshelf has books specifically about mana as the definition of mana is rather... in a grey area if you know what i mean. Its hard to pin down what exactly is mana even though everyone can use it. You do know how difficult it is right?" Claire said suddenly. "Wait you can read minds?" "What do you mean?" "I was just wondering how the books are even classified and you just answered me immediately. So can you read minds?" "Haha maybe i can" "Hmm but if you can you haven''t answered my other question. I am going to be reading for quite some time because yes I know how difficult it is but i would still want a better understanding of mana. As such I would be spending many days here but i would feel lonely so during meal times would you be free to accompany me?" "Wha- I mean.. Hmm i guess. I usually eat alone anyway." An immistakable blush grew across her pale white face.
Bold move asking Librarian Claire out succeeded! Relationship with Librarian Claire increased!
"Alright we''ve reached. This bookshelf is the one you''re looking for with the oldest books on the left and the newest books on the right. Knock yourself out." I looked at the spines of the books. Despite them being arranged by age, one could not tell with the eyes at all. They must have all been enchanted with some magic of sorts. All of them were preserved so well that there wasn''t a single hint of old age on any of the books. Excluding of course the dust on the books since I suspect it has been so long since someone else tried what I was about to do. Understanding mana in its essence. Oh well. Guess its back to school. Here we go again. I picked up the oldest and the newest book to start off and it shocked me. It was probably such a bad decision. The new one had theories of mana based on its properties. If i were to describe it it would be something like studying mana from a chemistry point of view. It talked about how mana was suspected to be gaseous particles whose density could change based on the will of the individual wielding it. They could pack it densely together to form heavier mana which was the basis of gravity type spells, they could also vibrate the particles of mana faster to increase its kinetic energy which gave it properties of lightning to be able to move at fast speeds. The caster could also change its temperature which defines fire and ice and also will it to change states to liquid and solid to form water and earth type magic. It made a lot of sense from my point of view but the feeling i get from magic shouldnt revolve around chemistry as this game already had alchemy to imbude the laws of chemistry in it. Also, this couldn''t explain light or dark magic. Thus i moved over to the old book. The old book was more traditional. It touched upon mana like it was an energy an individual unknowingly produces. With sufficient training, one could control it and manipulate it. The feeling this book gave me was describing mana as "ki". One could use it to send projectiles, circulate it to get certain buffs like increased mana regen etc. One with high levels of mana control could then manipulate it with their affinity to certain elements to get it to transform into spells. However this explanation was flawed as a simple noob could cast any type of tier 1 level spell at the cost of only 10 mana so no "high" level of mana control is needed. Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. URGHHHHHHH THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING AND I BARELY READ 2 BOOKS And so I decided if all of them were going to be this enigmatic, why not I read all of them and mix and match the theories i find relevant in order to form my own understanding from scratch. And as such the days went past. Everyday i ate rye bread from my inventory i got as a beginner at a bench outside with Claire as she packed her food from home. Once i finished my fifth book i got a surprise.
Wisdom +1 Intelligence +1 New skill: Fast Reader
Ohh just like i thought the Fast Reader skill came out. "Show Fast Reader Skill."
Fast Reader Beginner Level 1. 0% Enhances your reading speed. Finishes books 10% faster.
Using this box as a milestone and motivation, i began to steel my resolve and set out what i wanted to do in the first place. After 9 gruelling in game days of nothing but reading (216 hours in game time which is 54 hours real time) sleeping only when the library was closed, I made it. My fast reader skill even reached beginner level 8 and i gained a further 9 points in both wisdom and intelligence. I read 47 books of nothing but theories of mana and I begun to formulate my own theory. However, a pleasant surprise was awaiting me as I was formulating the theory. "Jinx look what I found! I was tidying up in the history section and there was a book with two keywords! I''ve never seen a book with two keywords before as librarians usually just give one keyword to a book but this might be what you are looking for!" Claire exclaimed after popping by my usual seat. I couldn''t have heard better news. This was most likely the book that could put everything into place as it was unique. Maybe it even needed a high amount of intimacy with Claire which i''ve developed over the past week. "Origins of Versailles - Yggdrasil." - J.K Bowling, Keywords: History, Mana. I was shocked. I was familiar with Yggdrasil as the tree which connected the 9 gateways of Norse mythology but to think it had anything at all to do with mana. I begun reading it as well to see if it would enlighten my head which was already full of possible mana theories.
"Yggdrasil was the first creation of the gods. That much i am sure of. The gods made Yggdrasil as a gateway to the 9 realms of which one of them is Versailles. The gods also assembled there for their daily meetings and even mythical wyrms resided among its branches. I am so fascinated by this tree. This huge tree who seemingly sustained the entire universe." "How then was Yggdrasil created? The gods must have put together their powers on such a large scale that it gave birth to the creation of Yggdrasil which could support 9 realms at once. Such teleportation magic of such scale led me to wonder how the gods could always supply mana to Yggdrasil for it to keep balance within the 9 realms. And it struck me. The simplest of thoughts struck me. Yggdrasil was a tree so i always thought it would be self sufficient to survive. But what if it wasn''t just self sufficient in terms of food or water but also in terms of mana?"
What an incredible theorist. To think that Yggdrasil can rely on its own mana regeneration.. It must be unlimited or something. WAIT. UNLIMITED MANA REGENERATION. HOLY SHIT. IT WAS LIKE THAT. OH MY GOD. I KNOW NOW. It just might be the missing piece i need. "Can you pass me some pen and paper? Please! FAST! I need to pen down my thoughts now." almost shouting at Claire. "S-sure." and her face looked as shocked as a face could possibly look. Looks like she even forgot about no loud noises in the library rule. She came back quickly with a pen and paper and i immediately started to formulate my thoughts proper.
Mana is a life force. Non living things can only get mana if it is imprinted or enchanted on by a living object. Yggdrasil should need tons of mana to be able to run 9 space time magics at once but it could manage. There are 9 types of main magic ; Fire, Water, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Dark, Light, Gravity. All of them are affilated to nature. What if nature had an embodiment. And that was Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil could generate mana non stop as it was nature itself and use it to shape the 9 realms. The gods didnt create all 9 realms.. Yggdrasil was the one who made it from using mana! So if we relate it to Yggdrasil, we were also products from nature but in a different way... So what if mana was actually the power of nature, an aura we were all born with and could develop as we grew stronger. The more we understand a certain element, the more we could harness the energy out if it. That''s why there are tier level system in spells! You need to use fireball enough times before you are capable of handling fire strike and eventually meteor.... The skill proficiency system from beginner to master would also reiterate this point! All of us were born with or developed basic understandings of the basic elements such as fire is hot and lightning will shock and maybe thats why even noobs can cast weak tier 1 spells like gust or a simple lightning bolt. If my theory is correct there shouldn''t be something like fire mana or lightning mana or specific types of mana. Everyone starts off with a pure mana, untampered which then can be changed to different elements according to how much you understand that element and what you want that mana to become. This is why some people have affinities towards certain type of magic but some don''t have an affinity at all! So if i want to cast a spell I just need to picture my mana taking form of the spell choosing the affinity i want the mana to have... OH NO WONDER MAGIC CIRCLES EXIST IN MAGIC. I''ve read somewhere that magic circles are actually rune engravings onto mana. The runes engraved might specify the element affinity as well as scope and shape of the mana attack! IT FITS DAMMIT!
After realising how Yggdrasil could be the core of what we know as mana, I was linking up idea after idea theory after theory upon formulating this hypothesis from all the information i have read thus far. I was so sure this was going to be it and true enough, I heard a *TING* and a notification box appeared in front of me.
Congratulations! You have found out the origins of mana. Mana at its very essence is a form of manipulation of life force nature has given you. Runes can be used to help enhance mana usage and you have identified in the form of mana circles. Upon understanding how mana works, you shall be given this skill which can only be used by the people who truly understand mana. Wisdom + 10 Intelligence +10 New Skill : Mana Manipulation.
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Chapter 3 : The Boars Head "Show Mana Manipulation Skill."
Mana Manipulation Beginner Level 1. 0% Ability to use mana to its fullest potential. A skill usually instinctively acquired by high tier mythical beings such as dragons or even gods. Allows one to manipulate his or her mana spatially like an aura to determine scope and effect which can be further elementally composed. The higher an affinity to nature, the easier it is to compose higher quality effects. Understanding mana has helped you undertake your first step towards attaining affinity to nature. Affinity to Nature + 5% Mana Cost : Directly proportional to amount of mana used.
YES! This was it. This hidden skill was exactly what I wanted to have. I thought understanding mana would help me learn spells at a faster pace but that wasn''t it at all. This skill meant that I could freely manipulate my own mana to create original skills. However there may be some limitations to the skill. Since there won''t be magic circles with runes to enhance elemental affinity my spells may not be as powerful as someone with the same stats at me even though i can be more flexible with the way I cast it... But i also had the option of increasing my affinity to nature or specific affinity to certain types of magic... I decided to give it a try. "Claire sorry to trouble you again but this time can you find me a book that would teach me a low level tier 1 spell like flare or lightning bolt or fireball?" I asked earnestly. "Wait have you figured out the essence of mana itself already?! In just 10 days?! I will fetch it immediately but you owe me an explanation!!" She half shouted while scuttling to get the book. A librarian breaking her own rules. Its kinda cute though. She arrived back shortly with a skillbook of flare. Thanks to the fast reader skill I learnt it almost instantly as the spell was a simple one.
New skill : Flare.
"Show Flare skill"
Flare Beginner Level 1. 0% Creates a small source of bright light from mana. Mana cost : 3 mana per second
I cast flare and sure enough a small bright ball of light hovered around the palm of my hand about the size of a tennis ball. I looked at my mana bar which i could toggle on and off and sure enough it was declining negligibly. I turned flare off and proceeded to use mana manipulation instead. I manipulated my aura of mana into a small ball of the same size and imagined it shining brightly. Sure enough the size of the skill was the same and the effect was similar as i could not notice any huge difference in brightness but the mana cost was definitely higher. For the sake of flexibility, I had to trade a higher mana cost for it. For dragons and gods obviously this was a better deal but I did not have large mana pools like them. In fact my mana pool now was puny. This was an extremely useful and rare hidden skill but it still had its drawbacks. "Open status window."
Stat Window
Charcter Name Jinx
Level 1
Profession NA
Race Human
Fame/Infamy 0
Health 100
Mana 300
Strength 10
Agility 10
Wisdom 30
Intellect 30
Vitality 10
Affinity to Nature 5%
Leadership 0
Luck 0
Attack 2
Defence 0
Elemental Affinities NA
Thanks to my advent in the library, I already had a good bit of wisdom and intellect. Should i go to the intelligence guild now? I thought about what I really wanted. I had about 20 days more till me and my friends were supposed to meet back together with a class. However I finished up all of my bread already and i needed a place to earn money and eat my meals. And furthermore even though I wanted to deal in magic in RR, i think i''ll also enjoy the thrill of close combat fights with monsters while casting magic. Especially since my magic won''t need incantations and magic circles, the risk of backfire which was when your magic circle casting got interrupted is nonexistent. I thought about my options.. I decided that if i was a jack of all trades in real life, I would like to also be a jack of all trades in RR. "Claire, thanks so much for your help. You have been indispensable to me for this academic journey. Would you like to know about what i found about mana?" I asked. "Hmm at first I wanted to but it just doesn''t seem right just asking you for it after you did so much hard work. I guess I will pass as this week has been kind of fun for me too. Please do come and visit often even though you already have what you need to know now!" "Of course. Thank you so much again." And I was running off to another establishment which would be important to me for my own survival for at least the next 20 days or so. It was an inn called the Boar''s Head. "Excuse me! I''m looking for the owner of the place. Is he or she in?" I asked the moment i stepped in. "That would be me. What do you want?" A burly woman appeared from the kitchen. She was extremely well built, was tanned and had short brown hair. The way she looked at me sent shivers through my spine. She looked like a lieutenant instead of an innkeeper. "I was just wondering if you need workers here. I need a place to consume my meals and sleep and I don''t mind trading hard labour for it." I replied, getting down to business as quickly as possible. "The straightforward sort eh. I like that. My assistant had to leave for his hometown for a while as he had emergency matters to settle. I do suppose i could use an extra helping hand. However you have to prove your worth first. I need you to do an errand now that will be quite tough but I do this to all my workers to have them show their resolve to work here. Do you accept?"
Quest Received! Help Elena the Innkeeper run errands. She says it will be tough on you and you don''t know what the errands will be yet. Difficulty Level : E Will you accept? Yes | No
"Yes. I accept." I don''t really have a choice in the matter i need a space to eat and sleep after eating only bread and sleeping in the library as Claire had so graciously allowed me to do. "Very well here''s your first assignment. Please go to the following shops to help me collect some items they are all written in this list and paid for already. Oh and go change your shoes into these."
Received Elena''s Shopping List! Received Boar''s Head Shoes! A pair of shoes Elena the Innkeeper loves to give her new recruits to wear. This pair of shoes have always been known for one thing which upon wearing it should be obvious enough. Defense + 3 Weight +50 Equip Now? Yes | No
"Yes." Weight +50? Does it mean my inventory now can carry more space? I was never more wrong in my life. Once i wore those shoes, it felt like my feet were rocks. Walking from the counter to the door of the inn felt like i was trudging through a mudflat. I looked at the shopping list, praying for about 3 places to go to. I got 5. "Oh and try to make it back within an hour. Its a very generous amount of time already." Smirked Elena. I did not even have the strength to retort. *2 hours later* "I''M BACK." and I didn''t even know how. I walked from the inn to the blacksmith to collect some pots and pans for Elena, from there I had to walk to the market to get some groceries. I had to walk to the tailor to collect aprons as well. Then i went to the post office to deliver letters for Elena. Last but not least I had to walk all the way to one of the corners of Junad to pass an old man a fucking spoon. I mean why the hell would you want to pass an old man a spoon. A SPOON. However along the journey, whenever I thought I couldn''t carry on, little boxes kept appearing in front of me and I knew I made a right choice. After finishing the entire quest my total bonuses came to this.
New Stat gained : Perseverance. Perseverance helps to increase your threshold for physically or mentally strenous tasks. The higher your stat in perseverance, the higher your tolerance and mental strength. New Stat gained : Sustenance. Sustenance helps to reduce stamina usage for physical tasks. The higher your stat in sustenance, the higher your stamina will be so you can last longer in fights or other physical activities. Strength +10 Vitality +5 Agility + 10
"2 hours? Pfft even my grandmother could do better than that. But at least you finished the task. Right in time for peak hour as well. Customers will start to flock in for dinner so remove your shoes and wear your original shoes instead. Oh and here''s one silver piece for your efforts for completing the quest."
Quest Completed! Rewards: 1 Silver Piece.
The rewards seemed meager for the uphill task but it was definitely worth it in my eyes. I gained so many stats just by walking in those godforsaken boots. And I finally get to take them off. The moment i did it, it felt like i could fly. It was not just the 10 agility i gained but from the drastic change between shoes as well. For the next 2 hours i was zooming from table to table taking orders, delivering food and collecting payment. It was also a rather big inn and i was surprised just me and 2 other helpers could manage the entire floor. After the end of the peak hour, we could finally get some rest and even though I felt as light as a feather, I was still tired from the earlier quest and had to struggle mentally to complete the task. However thanks to that my perseverance stat increased by a further 5 points. It was definitely good training. After working for 3 days I realised that my timetable was simple. I had free time till lunch to help out in the inn and I had to help Elena run errands after lunch if she had any and be back by dinner time to help out again. My daily services were rewarded with 2 silvers each which was quite little but understandably so as i did not have to pay for food or lodging. Sleeping in game was seen by some as unnecessary as one could simply log out to sleep but I did not have the luxury of time. 8 hours of sleep in RR would mean only 2 hours in the real world and since my body is resting in the capsule, i only needed to log out to fulfill my most minimum requirements such as food and toilet breaks. Apart from serving customers in the inn, at all other times I should be wearing those godforsaken heavy as hell stupid boots as I call it as Elena insisted on it. The other helpers wore it too so I guess I could not say no. However the bonus stats I was gaining from it got lesser and lesser but at the same time the strain I was feeling was also diminishing. During my free time, I decided I would go to the basic training hall which was quite near the inn. I read about the stats you could gain there and I wanted to try close quarter combat as well. The instructor, Monarch, was a stern looking instructor but he treated those with discipline well. Most people could not handle hitting scarecrows for a few hours and doing nothing but that and I thought I could not as well but surprisingly, my sustenance and perseverance stats helped a lot. The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. Hitting scarecrows also gave me stats but they were mostly for strength and vitality. The boots only gave me agility now so I guess it was balancing out. Oh and yes i still wear the boots to train in the training hall. Monarch treated me especially nicely and I got a feeling it was because he recognised these boots. He was a common patron in the Boar''s Head and knew what these boots mean. Thus when I asked if I could try out different weapons he immediately agreed. I tried out a plethora of weapons during my time in the training hall as I wanted to choose a weapon I found myself most comfortable with. With my above average stats in strength and agility now I could hold any weapon. The greatsword felt great but a bit too huge to manouvere. The spear had a great reach but the jabbing was not really my style. Dual wielding sowrds felt awesome but they took alot of concentration and I was looking towards mana manipulation along with weaponry as my answer to my play style. I wanted close quarter combat with spellcasting so the most natural way would be as a spellsword. Dual wield took too much concentration to further imbude my magic into it and I knew better than to chew off more than you could swallow. Eventually, i found my preference. It was a traditional katana. It was slightly shorter than a two handed sword but significantly thinner. Although it looked more fragile due to that, I realised the manouvereability it gave was more than satisfactory and I could make up for that lack of sturdiness in the swordplay and magic. I practiced using a katana instead of the typical swords in the training hall and eventually I gained what I was looking for.
New Skill : Katana Mastery
"Show Katana Mastery skill."
Katana Mastery Beginner Level 1. 0% Increases attack power with a katana +10% Increases attack speed with a katana +3%
Now all I had to do was find a way to find out how to imbude magic into my swordplay. I had 10 days left till my friends agreed to meet back at Junad town square again. I could imagine anything with my mana manipulation but the mana cost would be high so I had to find something effective yet low in mana cost... I spent one day pulling my hair at the possibilities. A burning sword with fire wrapped around it would look cool. A freezing sword that could slow down enemy movements also seems nice but all these auras need to be maintained and my mana cost would run out quickly. I needed something which could be toggled on and off at the instance of attack but it needs to be something effective. Flames coming out just before I strike an enemy doesn''t really fit what I''m looking for.... Confound it. It was the 22nd night already and I needed to figure something out. And as I took off that boots which felt of normal weight no me now it suddenly dawned on me. The answer was at my feet all this while. I went into the training hall early in the morning and tried out my new idea. I took my usual katana and practiced my usual stand and strokes first. Once i felt warmed up it was time. I took a clean straight slash downwards and just before the point of impact, I used mana manipulation to wrap a small around of aura near the tip of the sword. Drawing on my experience of how the boots felt, I projected that same feeling into the aura and willed it to become heavier. It was gravity magic. The heavier an object is, the more momentum it has. It''s a simple rule in physics. Force equals mass times acceleration. If I could change the mass of the katana after i start my swing, it requires no extra strength for me to complete the swing as the momentum is already in motion, but the destructive force of the strike will be amplified greatly! This was just theory but when my strike landed on the scarecrow, my theories were answered with a loud CRACK as i slashed through the scarecrow. Ii was still standing but it shuddered violently and even Monarch looked shocked. Everyone in the training hall paused to look at what made the sound and it felt awesome.
New Elemental Affinity Gained : Gravity Affinity to Gravity +5% Your time spent walking around in heavy boots by Elena has made you come to understand how frightening gravity could be. However you got used to it and now have realised how useful changing of one''s mass could be in the application of a swordfight.
I was pleasantly surprised. I gained elemental affinity from understanding what gravity could do so I''m pretty sure the more i understand gravity or the other elements, the more affinity I could gain with them which was paramount for my mana manipulation skill. Affinity to nature should increase the elemental affinity of all elements so I should keep that in mind as well. I suspect my affinity to nature will increase along with my mana manipulation skill level as well. I started practicing with an increased fervour in my strikes. I used gravity mana manipulation to make my strikes heavier and since it lasts just for the split second i start my swing, the mana cost was small. I could easily last about 100 strokes and still have some mana left. After practicing for about an hour, I gained a level in mana manipulation and suddenly, I realised that I could do something even more. Force equals mass times acceleration. I have maximised the mass part with gravity but it occurred to me that I could also manipulate the acceleration portion. I could make the katana lighter first, so that I could swing it faster and once i start the swing of a higher speed, I could then make it heavier so as to maximise both mass and acceleration. I would need to use more mana manipulation in that case but seeing as one strike now costs about 3-4 mana, Using it twice would make it about 6-8 mana. I decided to give it a try. However for this to work I needed to wrap my mana around the whole sword to make everything lighter for maximum effect, not just a small amount of aura. I started my backswing and lifted the sword above my head. I swung downwards with all the strength I had and the slash was so fast that I did not even have the time to adjust the mana back to being heavier. Monarch dropped his mouth which I have never seen before. It must have been too fast but since there was no weight behind the strike, the scarecrow barely moved. Making the entire sword lighter took about 50 mana off me due to the size of the aura i had to manipulate now. If i needed to use the same aura size twice, once to make it lighter and another to make it heavier, that one strike which theoretically can give the most damage would cost about 100 mana. With my current mana pool I would be able to use it 3 times before i ran out of mana. It should be saved for the finishing blow. I tried my newly discovered move on more time, knowing I had only a fraction of a second to get the timing right. And this time, i succeeded. A gleaming flash followed by an even louder sound followed. It wasn''t a crack but a howl. Like when the wind blows so strongly it cuts the air around it to form a high pitched howl. And the scarecrow was sliced neatly into two.
New Skill : Gravity Crush Harnesses the force of gravity to maximise the strength of a strike. Weapon Atk + 500% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity) Mana Cost: 100
Oh so I can also make new skills from my own once the system registers it as a possible skill. NEAT. "HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?" Monarch came running to me, extremely flabbergastered and with good reason. I was a level 1 newbie and even with 100 strength it wasn''t something one could do. "I have a skill that allows me to manipulate mana and I used it to imbude gravity into my strikes. I was testing it out just today and it worked quite well." I explained. "Gravity magic? It is one of the rarest forms of magic how did you come across it?" He asked. I didn''t know gravity magic was rare.. I thought many people just preferred using destruction type magic like fire ice and lightning so I thought gravity was just unpopular.. "I have affinity to gravity from training with the boots from Elena and it helped. It''s hard to explain but I can control mana to a much greater level than most individuals can." "I can see that. Literally. Alright Jinx you have done well. Too well. I officially announce that you have successfully completed the basic training hall and I will now give you your reward. Usually I give a sword but seeing as to how well you have done and how you have personally handpicked your choice of weapon, this is my present to you instead."
Received : Iron Katana A katana forged by a capable blacksmith that was given to the training hall as a present. This is not usually gifted to players but achieving an outstanding feat with a katana in the training hall will result in this item being gifted to him or her. Level required : 0 Strength + 5 Agility +5
"Thank you for this marvellous gift." I thanked Monarch. "Don''t thank me just yet that was a present that would be given to you by completing the training hall. This is a present I will personally give you because I''ve seen your resolve and determination. Take this recommendation letter to the intelligence guild. I don''t normally give recommendation letters. Especially to the intelligence guild instead of the warriors guild but this time I will make an exception. It should serve you well." It seems like I have all the luck with NPCs! Thank you RR the NPCs are perrrrfect. "Thank you very much for this. I will go to the intelligence guild first thing tomorrow to hand this to them. Thank you for all you''ve done for me. I will take my leave now." While walking back to the Boar''s Head, I realised I would probably be getting my class tomorrow and there usually was an initiation test of sorts. Am i really ready? "Open Stats and Skills table."
Stat Window
Charcter Name Jinx
Level 1
Profession NA
Race Human
Fame/Infamy 0
Health 100
Mana 300
Strength 10
Agility 10
Wisdom 30
Intellect 30
Vitality 10
Affinity to Nature 5%
Leadership 0
Luck 0
Attack 2
Defence 0
Perseverance 20
Sustenance 30
Elemental Affinities NA
Fast Reader | Beginner level 8 (64%). Finishes books 26% faster.
Mana Manipulation | Beginner level 2 (25%). Affinity to Nature +6%.
Flare | Beginner level 1 (5%). Summons a small source of light.
Katana Mastery | Beginner level 3 (40%). Increases attack power with a katana +30% and attack speed +9%.
Gravity Crush | Beginner level 1 (10%). Weapon Atk +500% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity)
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Chapter 4 : A Seniors Help Morning had arrived. The 23rd morning. Upon logging into RR for the first time you had a 1 month confinement within the city walls with exceptions of going out for quests only. I could try to get one of those quests to try and level up and train my skill proficiency levels but I could also go to the intelligence guild and submit the recommendation letter I got from Monarch. Ah what the hell nothing like making a life changing decision early in the morning. I went down to grab my pantry for some breakfast first. While I was grabbing some toast and milk, Elena came in and stopped me. "Hold it right there son. Monarch came to tell me about what he gave you last night while he was having a drink here. Today''s a special day for you and I want to help. I know how much this means to an aspiring adventurer such as yourself so let me make you breakfast instead. Treat it as a gift for working so hard in place of my assistant." She walked off into the kitchen and I could hear the jingling of pans and frying of the oil. Before she was even done with the food, a strong aroma that I could smell from way out atop the bar counter drove itself into my nose. It was the first time I had seen Elena cook. Usually the cooks are the one responsible for the food while Elena manages the counter so she can supervise the floor and assign rooms. Needless to say her skill in cooking should be at a godly level for me to be able to smell the food before it was even presented in front of me. She came out shortly with what looked to be a burger with scrambled eggs at the side. "Dig in. It should help you before you go to the intelligence guild." What sort of burger and scrambled eggs can have an aroma which one could detect from more than 10 meters away?! My first bite of the burger gave me the answer i needed to know. The buns were perfectly steamed with sesame seeds in them. The added crunch by the sesame seeds complemented the smooth meat and dressing inside the burger. The meat was undoubtedly the store specialty, boar''s meat. (Thus the name of the inn) But the way she had prepared the meat was so different compared to the usual roasting. I did not know what godly technique she had used but the meat was firm and smooth but the moment i bit down on it, savoury juices were overflowing in my mouth. The dry cold lettuce then helped to absorb some of the overflowing moisture and the honey mustard in it added a tinge of sweetness and sourness the meat itself couldn''t provide. It was paradise in my mouth. I quickly took a bite from the scrambled eggs, half in shock due to overwhelming taste bud stimulation. The seemingly normal scrambled eggs were just as shocking. They looked normal but I didn''t know how she did it, within the scrambled eggs were melted warm cheese that oozed into my mouth the moment i bit on the eggs. The amount of salt and pepper used were also immaculate. Just one simple dish of scrambled eggs could send me to heaven right there and then.
You have tasted the Special Breakfast prepared by Elena! Elena is a stern innkeeper who usually doesn''t show goodwill to people unless you''ve earned it. This is one such case. Furthermore, her cooking skill is in the advanced level. All stats +5 for 2 hours upon consuming this extraordinary breakfast cooked from her master hands.
"Wow thanks Elena! This was great. I''m off to see what I have to do with your blessing then. Wish me luck!" I would be a fool not to take any chances of an initiation test now with bonus stats for 2 hours. Off to the intelligence guild I go then. The intelligence guild was at the opposite corner of town from where the inn was situated in. As i was walking there, I grew to appreciate this lovely town of Junad. Sure it wasn''t an extremely big town like the Rosenheim Kingdom or the Niflheim Empire but Junad was a pretty place in its own right. The town square was where I first spawned. It was meant for activities and events whenever the mayor of the town wanted to organise something. Just beside the town square was the ever bustling marketplace. All the daily necessities could be found there with players, especially merchants setting shop there. With the town square as the centre of the town, it was divided into the North, South, East and West spines. The North spine was home to warriors. Everything you needed as a warrior was there. The blacksmithing shop, the heavy armour shop, the training hall (The Boar''s Head as well since its near the training hall), the warriors guild. The South spine was of course the complete opposite and where I was headed to. The magic shop, enchanting shop, the grand library, intelligence guild and cloth armour shops were all located in this spine. The West spine was more of the thieve''s part of the land. The traps shop, leather armour shops, agility guild and even some sneaky information shops could be found in this part of the city. Finally the East spine was the holy people''s land. The town of Junad was under the protection of the god Loki so a church of Loki was erected there. Blessings could be found in the church which were useful before one went hunting on quests but the queue was disdainly long. The followers of Loki were not all prim and proper, celibacy and holier than thou as the other priests though. They were a lot more carefree in the way they pay respects to their god but of course they have their own rules. I went through the marketplace and town square to get to the South spine and there it stood, a magnificently designed intelligence guild. Even though it was a bit on the small side. "Good Morning adventurer! My name is Grendel. How can I help you today?" A bespectacled old man greeted me. It was your usual mage stereotype. White haired, bearded, wearing a pointy hat dressed in cloth robes with a mysterious sort of voice. I guess some stereotypes in games should never be broken. "Hi I was asked by Monarch from the training hall to pass this letter of recommendation to the intelligence guild. Can you please help?" I answered as I passed the letter to Grendel. "That''s odd. Recommendation letter from the training hall. Haven''t seen one in years. Alright let me read this hold on.." "WHAT? Ability to manipulate mana and imbude it into sword play?! Son, you managed to get your hands on the mana manipulation skill????" Grendel stared at me. Wide eyed and seemingly in awe. "Err yeah... Is that a problem?" I asked not sure how to respond. "YES OF COURSE IT''S A PROBLEM! The only one I have ever seen with that skill is the founder of this guild. This means only he can truly gauge your potential and proficiency with that skill. The founder casts magic like I''ve never seen before and he says its thanks to that skill of his. A few of us tried to learn it from him but to no avail... It''s a wonder how you even managed to get this skill. Well the founder is in today so let me get him for you. This should be an interesting day.." He said as he left his seat and gracefully sort of glided off deeper into the guild. A few moments later, Grendel returned and escorted me to the master chambers. It was like a labyrinth with high walls and may turns but of course this labyrinth was well decorated with chandeliers from the celings and draping carpets of red and gold. We reached a long corridor and he took me straight to the end where two huge oaken doors stood. When I entered, I saw a wizard that looked even more stereotypical than the previous. This one had glasses which were twice as thick, had silver hair that gleamed with the lights and even brought along his staff, a huge oak staff that was around the same height as he was. About 6 foot long. "Good Morning son, my name is Dumblemore. I am the owner of the Junad intelligence guild. I have heard about the details from Grendel. I can answer questions you have about that skill or other relevant information I can provide but I also have some questions I wish to ask you. Let''s do it in a way such that each of us get one question and answer per turn and make it like a turn based Pokemon game or something. I''ll give you the privilige to start first." He said with a faint smile on his face. Oh great he''s one of those mysterious ones that like to play games. This should be interesting. "How rare is this mana manipulation skill? I asked first. "Sufficiently rare I suppose. During my travelling times I have only seen mythical creatures or high level boss monsters with this skill and less humans than I have fingers around who know the skill. How did you get the skill?" "I went to the library and red up all I can about mana, trying to understand it when I finally managed to fit the pieces together after reading 48 books. How did you get the skill?" "During my adventuring times, I had to do a quest that involved a Sphinx. Sphinx are mythical creatures and this one demanded me one of two things. Either I solve a riddle or best it in battle. I was quite sure I would lose in a battle so I chose the riddle. It gave me a riddle and I answered correctly. However because I took so little time to solve it she was impressed and asked if I wanted to know about anything. Sphinxs are all seeing beings so they have a very complete understanding of the world. And during that point of time I was interested in mana so I asked about the essence of mana and it taught me about it. That was how I gained the skill. What sort of adventurer do you want to be?" "I prefer to be a jack of all trades. I want to experience the exhilaration of close quarter combats along with the joy of using spells to manipulate the situation to my advantage. I will be adventuring with my friends to leave a mark on this continent, hopefully a legacy so I want to be that sort of adventurer. Have you tried teaching this skill to other people?" "I have. Time and time again. I tried to teach them the way the sphinx taught me but I don;t know why it just didn''t work. I think the skill works in such a way that only those they deem worthy can learn the skill. It must be based off an achievement or something and we the skill holders, cannot just impart the skill to other people by telling them the nature of mana. It sounds pretty simple but a deep understanding is hard to achieve and I think feats like you deducing everything yourself based on your own efforts along with my feat of impressing a sphinx gave us the chance to learn the skill. Simply telling another person how mana works will not give them the skill. This is what I''ve deduced so far and hopefully I can find out more now that I have met another individual who can use the spell. What affinities do you have already?" "Currently I only have 5% to gravity and 6% to nature. What are some of the greatest feats you have performed using mana manipulation?" "I''m sure you already know the many plus sides this skill has. Once you''ve played enough with it and leveled up your affinities, the possibilities are endless. There are many great quests I have embarked on and succeeded with this skill but every time I use it I already see it as a great feat. Just look." 9 round spheres appeared in front of me immediately, each a different colour and of course representing the different elements. "I can use spells from 9 different elements at once. I can decide the scope of the magic. Even though you already know the mana cost is slightly higher due to absence of magic circles, when your affinities rise, the mana cost will not increase but the spell will be more potent so eventually this balances out. We can even create skills just by discovering how to utilise mana and if it is impressive enough, the system will let us retain that particular way of manipulation in form of a spell. The possibilities are endless and this is the best feat in itself. We can even utilise unknown elemental spells which I found to be very effective against creatures with high elemental resistances." The 9 spheres of mana merged into one and a dark mass was formed. "I can be your mentor in this skill and give you advice but it looks like the journey you want to embark on is very different from mine. You will probably manipulate mana along with swordsplay and I find that a very intruiging way to use the skill. Alright i guess this is the time. I will tell you something. There is a hidden class called elementalist which I can confer as guild master onto people who have attained the mana manipulation skill. However what you are looking for would be something more unique than that. As such the only thing I can think of is this. I can confer you classes based on my power as guild leader and only one fits your description in the long great history of this guild. The requirement is simple. You have to gain approval from two masters. One is myself which will cover the elementalist side. The other master is the one from the warriors guild which will cover the swordplay side. This class is special in the sense that you will be able to gain membership in both warrior and intelligence guilds. This will be my last qustion to you. "Will you accept?"
Quest Received : Dumblemore''s Test Dumblemore has briefed you about the properties of your skill and informed you that a hidden class exists that suits you. However this class can only be attained by getting approval from two different guild masters. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report itDifficulty Level : D WIll you accept? Yes|No
I don''t see any other choice right. This is a once in a lifetime chance. "Yes." "Alright then lets begin with my test first. I have prepared this case specially for people who might have the same skill as me in future. I had no one to guide me so I had to do this all by myself. Your task is this : Gain elemental affinities with each of the 9 elements. Good luck." WHAT?! WAIT. I got gravity already but it took me a week to get it. Now he wants me to get 8 affinities? WHAT? "Pardon me but how long did you take to do this?" I asked before heading out of the room. "A month. There is a trick to it though but I''m not going to tell you that. You need to find out for yourself." Dumblemore grinned. With this seemingly inhumane task ahead of me, I weighed my options. I received the gravity affinity from wearing those godforsaken boots and realised the effects of Gravity the hard way... If i were to do the same thing one element by element I won''t ever finish in time before I need to meet my friends. How should I go about doing this fast... If understanding let to me getting the gravity affinity, I only knew one way to go about doing it while doing it quickly. At least I get to see Claire again. Pity the added stats weren''t of much use though.. The grand library was just nearby so I rushed down and sure enough Claire was there. "You didn''t visit me for a week I thought you forgot about me" She pouted. "So sorry. Listen I got even more research to do again so could you help me again? Pleaseeee?" I begged with the best puppy face I could. "You don''t have a very good puppy face. But sure I would help its my job to help people find the books anyway. What books would you like this time?" "One book each on Fire, Water, Ice, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Light and Darkness elements." "Usually mages specialise in a few elements you know. You sure are a weird one. Okay I will pass you the books. These are easier to find. Let''s meet again at your usual spot." Fifteen minutes later, Claire came back with what I requested and i realised how important she was to have around. "Hey Claire, I will be here for the next few days so.. Lunch on me?" I asked. "You will never be able to take that back." She agreed with a smile on her face. Thus I begun my research all over again. However I could have not been more thankful for the Fast Reader skill I got. After finishing the Fire book I wasn''t sure if I would be able to get it but sure enough I did.
New Elemental Affinity Gained : Fire Affinity to Fire +5% You have researched thoroughly about the properties of fire. Scientifically how fire is an exothermic process which consumes oxygen and the uses of it. You also have had firsthand experience with fire during your school experiments as well as helping out in the kitchen. The occasional burns you have suffered from has also helped further this understanding.
Wait this is a hint isn''t it. I get that I have done my research on fire but I think usually this isn''t enough to get the affinity. I got burnt pretty badly in primary school for playing with fire and this is mentioned in the bar. As I thought affinity requires not only understanding but also interaction. Got gravity I had the boots and for fire I had the experience of being burnt due to playing with fire... If i don''t get affinities by reading each and every book I think I know what I need to do. Sure enough after only 3 days in the library I managed to finish each element.Quite a feat considering that I still had only the mornings and some afternoons as I was still working at the Boar''s Head. Without a doubt this must have happened only because my Fast Reader skill got to intermediate level 2. However, I have gotten only 4 elemental affinities from the books. Namely, fire, wind, water and ice. Which meant to say I needed more interaction with earth, lightning, light and darkness. I was sure about this. But how am I supposed to expose myself to these elements? They were hard to find interaction with compared to the 4 I already got. If wearing heavy boots could get me interaction with gravity.. Well lets try and give it a shot. I spent one day in the intelligence guild getting new apprentices to cast lightning spells on me. while i hired a new priest to use healing spells on me as i paid him. It also paid off. But electric shocks while they were at 2% pain threshold only in RR were not a pretty thing to experience. I spasmed for quite a bit and could barely stammer the words out after the electrifying experience.
New Elemental Affinity Gained : Lightning Affinity to Lightning +5% You have researched thoroughly about the properties of electricity. Scientifically electricity travels in a current which can be altered by conductors or insulators. You have also experienced many electric shocks repeatedly even though they are of a weak magnitude. This has helped you understand electricity at a basic level.
New Elemental Affinity Gained : Light Affinity to Light +5% You have researched thoroughly about the properties of light. Scientifically they exist as photons which are able to travel as a wave. However in the game light magic is not just creating light but also in the holy sense. You have sufficient knowledge about gods in this world to be able to understand holy magic. Also, having experienced holy magic many times helped you understand the soothing nature of the magic.
The last 2 affinities I had to get were for earth and darkness. I wonder how I could get those as earth mages were very rare and ability to use darkness spells were rare as hell too. I decided to go to the one person whom i knew had both to help. "Sir could you help me for a bit? I just need you to use earth magic to toughen my defence for a bit and then use darkness curses or spells on me." I asked upon entering his room. "HAHA so you figured it out. You needed both sufficient interaction as well as knowledge before affinity is granted to you. Very well I was prepared to help but not throughout. I assume you have all the other affinities already?" I nodded. "Okay but be prepared. I shall use earth magic to strengthen you up but for darkness magic, it is known to cause even more pain than fire or lightning ones so I will be having fun but you will not." Said Dumblemore with one of the most sadistic smiles I have ever seen an old man do. Before I could even say anything it came. I felt the skin around me harden, becoming rock solid and a green glow could be seen forming around me.
Received Buff: Earth skin. Received Buff: Nature''s regeneration. Defence + 50 Magic Defence +30 HP Regeneration +10/sec
"Dark bolt."
You have lost 100hp! You have lost 100hp! You have lost 100hp!
"OW. WHAT THE HELL OUCH. THAT WAS FAST. AND PAINFUL. Time out man one more and I would die!" I screamed. The lightning spells usually just hit me for 20-30hp and this guy just blasts me for 300hp with one spell? And he''s still reading his damn book not even looking at me! "You have enhanced HP regeneration we can just keep doing this once your HP returns to full. Which is in 30 seconds. Yeap I''m controlling the spell so I know how much damage i''m doing to you. I thought you would have more than 300 hp and I was right. Lucky guess though if not." He winked. If NPCs kill characters they dont get a red mark? Seems fair though cos NPC''s dont get to respawn but we do. But this guy is secretly a sadist deep down inside isn''t he? "Let me expose you to different type of earth and darkness magics just for your gain as well." He started using earth magic to damage me instead by impaling me with earth spikes from the ground or ceiling and cast debuffs on me with darkness magic instead, making me feel heavy, slow and I swear even impotent if there was such a feeling. After a gruelling one hour of torture with Dumblemore I finally got what I wanted.
New Elemental Affinity Gained : Earth Affinity to Earth +5% You have researched thoroughly about the properties of earth. Scientifically earth can be related to mud, rocks, sand even the earth''s crust itself. Thus, the main point of earth element is defence. It is also seen as holy to tribal people thus earth magic has many buff type skills. You have receiveed many earth buffs as well as damage so appreciation for the variety of properties earth magic has enabled you to understand this element.
New Elemental Affinity Gained : Darkness Affinity to Darkness +5% You have researched thoroughly about the properties of darkness. Scientifically darkness can only occur when there are no sources of light present, thus causing blindness as the sense of sight is dependent on light. In the game, darkness magic has a very negative allegiance to it. Darkness magic is associated with curses and pain. Seen especially with necromancers or voodoo classes, darkness magic is a powerful source of debuffs anddamage dealing spells which you have experienced firsthand. It is an element closely associated with infamy but also a very useful element to have.
"Alright I see that you have completed your quest with me. But five days thats shockingly fast for someone to attain affinities to all elements. I will tell you this. It is easy to get the basic level of affinities. But in order to level them up to higher percentages, understanding and experiencing them will not be enough. You have to help the elements themselves. Usually this can be in the form of quests for elementals or your everyday actions. Finding rare elements like the fire from a pheonix or pure darkness from a demon''s essence can also help. For short, you will not be able to gain elemental affinities by just understanding them already. You need to broaden your exposure with them and not just through taking spells but finding out specific, intricate stuff that only adventure can bring you." "Thanks for the advice. This will be extremely beneficial to me." "Good. Your path as a swordspell will not be easy, but if you can manage to master both, you will be a force to reckon with and my goddamn pride and joy as a junior of mana manipulation. Now you should proceed with the next part of the test. Here is a letter of recommendation to the leader of the warrior guild. He will know what to do once he opens this letter. A word of advice, you need to put everything you have learnt from this first part into the next part if you even want a slight chance of succeeding in the test. May the gods be with you." "Thanks for your help Dumblemore. I will do you proud as your junior. Look forward to hearing my good news." I said with more confidence than I actually felt. This first half took me 5 days. And from the way he introduced the second half it seemed like it was only going to get harder and I have 3 days left before the deadline to meet with my friends again. This is going to be hard. But this shouldn''t be easy. And it most certainly is going to be worth it.
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Chapter 5 : The 30th Day I arrived at the warriors guild to accomplish the second half of my quest. The quest which will eventually get me my dream class. I had three more days to meet up with my friends and this I suspect this was going to be way harder than the first part. Unsure of what lay ahead of me, I braced myself and entered the guild with trepidation. The warriors guild and the intelligence guild was as different as rain and shine. The bright broad hallways of the intelligence guild was refreshing whereas the dark, flame lit corridors with weapons and suits of armour aligned in a path was foreboding. The entrance of the intelligence guild was decorated with statues and sculptures. The entrance of the warriors guild however was a training ground with many warriors honing their art. "Can i help you?" A booming voice greeted me as I entered the guild. "Y-Yes. My name is Jinx and I have come with a letter from Dumblemore, leader of the intelligence guild for your leader." I replied, caught off guard by the loud voice. "Intelligence guild? What would those scrawny bunch of weaklings want with our leader? Show me the letter." Scrawny? Weaklings? Warriors must not like magicians very much... I went forward and passed him the letter. However, his face slowly changed as he read the letter. First from disapproval, to slightly annoyed and finally shocked and wide eyed. The transition was quite pleasant to look at honestly. "You... Wait here." He simply said and he went deeper into the hallways, turning around a corner and vanishing from sight. As I was left alone I looked around me. The warrior''s hall had a huge main hall. They were filled with statues along the sides of the circular wall. Upon closer inspection, I realised all of them were modelled after characters, most of them human and not NPCs if i was right. They had a short intro and description engraved in a plaque at the base of the statue. Most of them were burly and well built, some wielding spears, huge battleaxes but majority of them greatswords. They must have been the most popular choice of weapon for warriors. However one particular statue caught my attention. He was holding a short sword instead of the usually huge weapons and he looked significantly less buff than the other statues.
Statue of Elemental Swordsman Zarak Zarak was a well known figure, especially in the northern lands of Ire. The fact that he could venture to the northern lands was proof of his strength. They were permanently shrouded in a winter blizzard, housing monsters of minimum level 200. The harsh conditions made surviving there hard enough let alone hunting. Zarak made his mark by leading a quest to defeat a frost wyrm with just 20 people. As a gauge most wyrm hunting parties consist of at least 50 people as wyrms were like mini dragons. They had breath attacks and were almost immune to both magical and physical attacks. Most of the people in Zarak''s party returned alive and all of them said that the fight was one of the most amazing fights they saw. He managed to stop the blizzard which most of them had no idea how. Then he managed to melt the surroundings and they say to this date, a small part of the northern lands is not covered by snow due to his efforts. Normally we warriors do not believe in using magic. However, Zarak''s swordplay was so ahead of his time that he could take on 3 of the best fighters in the guild at once. This is what earned him respect, and ultimately this place in the warrior''s hall of fame.
A warrior who could stop blizzards and make an entire piece of land immune against its own climate? Furthermore that title. This should be the title I am getting right. Dumblemore did mention to me that the title has been engraved in history before so some other person should have did it before me. "Hello. I see you have found the statue of what you can assume is your senior." A deep burly voice behind me suddenly spoke. Shocked, I turned around quickly to see a huge man, with long black hair wearing full body armour which was gleaming silver with red patterns all around looking at me. He was at least a head taller than me and I could see a huge battleaxe in a holder attached to the back of his armour. "Oh! You shocked me. Sir. May I know who you are?" I asked, suspecting that this was the man whom I was supposed to be looking for, the leader of the warrior''s guild. "I am Xeron, leader of the warriors guild. I have read the contents of the letter and I am very intrigued by your existence. Truth be told we warrior types don''t really clique well with magic types. We value strength, courage and valor while they value intelligence, tactics and efficiency. It''s not that I don''t respect them or anything but I would just like to have nothing much to deal with the intelligence guild. Zarak changed that. He came into my guild one day and challenged my finest to a duel. What I saw was an amazing warrior who could also harness the power of nature in his sword. That I could appreciate a thousand times over. This is why I am willing to help you. Are you ready finish what you started?" "Yes. A thousand times over, yes." "Good reply. This is what you have to do. You have to spar with me but I will only entertain one spar a day. This is so you can reflect upon your actions should you not succeed on your first try which is probably going to be what happens. The rules of the spar is easy. I will not equip any items except for a level 1 sword and I will use an item called stat limiter to reduce my stats to be equivalent to that of yours. I will only have one skill. Sword mastery at advanced level 5. I know it is a high level of mastery but I am not expecting you to win against me. I just have one request. You have to wound me using your choice of weapon. Just get 1HP off me and you pass the test. Do you understand?"
Quest Received : Xeron''s Test Xeron has told you how much he respects Zarak''s very existence and that is why he is willing to help you undergo this class change test. He has briefed you on the requirements. You must land a hit to damage at least 1HP off him during a spar. Difficulty Level : D WIll you accept? Yes|No
As I thought, there would be fighting involved in this. And I have a self imposed 3 days rule to finish this goddamn task. Well, this is it. This is what I''ve been waiting for. One hit.. It should be hard but maybe it can be done. I will have to use underhand or surprise tactics though.. "Yes." "Very well. Would you like to spar now? "Yes." "Follow me." He took me to the front yard of the guild where many people were practicing. Most of the people who were training hard immediately stopped and greeted him the moment they saw him. It seems like he usually does not come out into the training grounds often. He took me to a relatively empty piece of land and further elaborated on the rules. "Remember there is no time limit. You need to hit me once. I will not stop sparring until you either die or say that you give up. You must deal the one instance of damage physically. No casting of spells will get you either the class or my respect. Everything okay?" "Yes sirrrrr." "Begin." I readied my katana and took the fighting pose I''ve spent a few days at the training hall. Xeron took out a wooden sword which looked relatively plain and simple and took his stance as well. I looked into his eyes. Usually it was a calm gaze but now there was fire in his eyes. I could feel the killing intent radiating from every fiber of his body. I decided I should strike first to initiate on my terms and try to get the hit. I stepped in as fast as I could and decided to give him a blow that would surprise him enough to maybe get me that one hit. "Gravity Crush!" I swung downwards with the only sword skill I had and I heard the familiar howl in that split second. However, unlike the scarecrow, there was no feedback coming from my katana. I saw in the space that I slashed, Xeron had nearly, efficiently sidestepped in with a safe margin of about 5cm. Carefully calculated for any deviations I could possibly do. Needless to say i was as exposed as a man who got his swimming trunks swept away into the sea. He swung hard and fast. Precise and deliberate. I felt the sword bash squarely into where my liver was supposed to be.
Critical Hit! You have lost 200hp!
I swear if people still died from experiencing immense shock from pain experience in RR even though it was at 2%, I wouldn''t be surprised. That one blow reduced me to half HP and I had to back off immediately from him, unable to phantom how in the world that happened within a span of 1 second. He has the same stats as me! He''s using a lousier weapon. He has the same agility, strength and everything. Only the sword mastery is different and he just owned me in less than 1 second?! Doesn''t matter I just need to hit him once. But I shouldn''t risk dying though or else I will be unable to log in for 24 hours which was 4 days in game time. I recollected my thoughts. Gravity crush was an outstanding skill that could surprise almost anyone but my opponent was a guild leader. A master level player or NPC. He had even saw Zarak fight before so he should have seen his fair share of elemental swordplay. I needed a different tactic. And then I remembered what Dumblemore told me. I needed to use what I have learnt in the first part. But what exactly have I learnt?? All the elements? Should I combine them together to form element X? No that wouldn''t help at all. Wait what if.. Just like gravity crush, I could create more skills to help fight this monster? Well I had to think fast as Xeron was alreach approaching me with that crazy murderous intent radiating from him. I decided that I needed just speed to inflict that one wound on him. I used mana manipulation to make my sword as light as possible using gravity, I then gathered more mana at my feet and started to convert it to wind. Lastly, i concentrated aura across my whole body and converted it to electricity.
New Skill : Wind steps Harnesses the force of wind to increase movement speed. Movement Speed + 20% (Dependent on Wind Affinity) Mana Cost: 10 mana/s
New Skill : Electrical Impulse Harnesses the force of electricity to maximise movement of electrical impulses along the central nervous system to increase reaction speed. Reaction time -0.05s (Dependent on Lightning affinity) Mana Cost: 15 mana/s
In the spur of the moment these were the only two things I could think of that could help me maximise my speed. I opened my mana bar and saw that my mana had already begun draining and I did not have long to maintain these buffs for long. I had about 10-15 seconds worth to settle this. I charged at Xeron just as he was charging to me. My sword felt as light as a feather and my feet moved with much more agility than before. I decided to take the initiative and took 3 quick swings at Xeron. Since my reaction speed has increased, I could see the subtle movements Xeron was doing when I was striking him. His eyes were looking at my hands, not the sword and he carefully adjusted his sword to deflect each of my strikes with the smallest amount of movement possible and even though I swung three times in the time span needed for a normal man to only swing once, he deflected all three strikes with ease and followed up with an attack of his own. He swung horizontally from my right and I could see the attack coming. I shifted my katana to obstruct the path of the swing but I should have known better. With my sword as light as a feather, Xeron''s word plowed straight into mine and even after impact his follow through still managed to hit me as if my sword was not even there in the first place.
You have lost 50hp!
I was down to about 150hp maybe slightly more cos of passive health regeneration but things were looking bad. I could only maintain this amount of speed for 7 more seconds and it seems like it was at the expense of strength. I had to just believe in myself and I charged straight ahead again. I tried to feint left and strike right but Xeron saw through me like I was just an open book. Hell he did it so easily he didn''t even have to read the book. I was like an open porn magazine. And he raped me. He read the feint and slashed at me immediately. I could barely reposition myself to avoid a fatal blow but the damage had been done.
You have lost 100hp!
I had 4 seconds left to go and one more strike would kill me. I decided that this was it for now. "I concede sir. I shall return tomorrow." I said. Xeron nodded at me and looked slightly disappointed. How could I blame him. I didn''t even come close to wounding him, touching him even. It felt as if I had met with an insurmountable task. I had to move and immovable object. I decided that this quest needed to be dealt with the highest priorities. I immediately went back to the Boar''s Head and told Elena about my situation. I asked to quit then and there as I had to concentrate on this with everything I had and I would most probably be leaving with my friends after that already anyway. Elena however never failed to surprise me with that huge heart of hers despite that outward appearance. "Hmm yea I guess you wouldn''t be working here anymore. However as a reward for your hard work for the past month, you are now one of my esteemed guests. You will receive a complementary 3 nights stay here with free meals paid for by me and I will hear nothing less. Go kick Xeron''s ass. He''s a good man but he needs to be shown some surprises once in awhile. I''m sure you will be able to do it." If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. I''m pretty sure Jinx is an in game name that RR has programmed that should someone have this name, all NPCs should treat him well. With this settled, I went straight to the training hall and asked the only other NPC I know who could help a favour. "Monarch, spar with me please. As long as you have free time could you spend it sparring with me? I lack the experience of real battles to succeed in a quest of mine." Turns out all I had to do was ask. Monarch was also getting pretty bored of doing nothing but watch newbies whack scarecrows. I practiced for 7 hours straight with Monarch. He taught me the basic techniques just hitting scarecrows would not teach you. How to parry, when it''s better to dodge instead. Footwork, offensive and defensive were both also taught to me. I realised how much I have been lacking in the fighting department. Sure I had many spells I could conjure up but if I could not fight, it would be meaningless. I understood what this quest was trying to tell me once I started sparring with Xeron. This was also why I decided against using darkness spells to slow his movement, creating an ice floor under his feet and raise the earth one of his leg was standing on all at once. It would create a pretty big opening but I think it defeated the purpose of the quest and training. I had a deadline to meet and this could be a shortcut I could easily take. However I still have my pride and knowing this quest would only help in my journey in RR, I wanted to live up to Xeron''s expectations in the proper way. By giving him a beautiful sword fight. I learnt all the basics from Monarch by the first day and I decided the next morning, I would go spar with Xeron again to see how to apply all I learnt against him. As I walked into the guild on the second day, many people begun to recognise me. Looks like sparring with the guild leader isn''t a chance that one could easily come by. I went to the front desk. "Xeron is expecting me. I will be out waiting where we were sparring yesterday." I said as politely as I could and went back out into the grounds. A few moments later, Xeron was back out again and everyone had gathered around our training spot, eager to catch the guild master in action. "I hope you''ll do better than yesterday." "I tell that to myself everyday." "Let''s hope you''re not all talk. Begin!" This time I was ready. I did not use my buffs straightaway as they could only be maintained for a short amount of time at my level. Instead i just wrapped my aura around the sword and got ready to convert it to gravity, lighter or heavier at my command. I went into an offensive stance and slowly inched closer towards Xeron. He took up the same stance as before and I decided that I should take the initiative again. I slashed at him quickly and waited till the last moment where I could see him prepare to parry the sword with his own. I made the aura heavier immediately and it was apparent that Xeron wasnt expecting such a heavy impact. He staggered for a tiny bit and I immediately took that advantage. I brought my sword down from the top of my head as fast as I could making the aura light in order to get the one hit I was looking for. Xeron however was insanely fast in recovering and he put the sword above his own head at such an angle where my sword slid off this and before it hit the hilt of his sword he jerked the sword so my sword would fly off to one side and brought the sword down towards my head. I tried to sidestep it but the jerk he made threw my momentum off and I could only move partiallly. His sword struck my hard onto my shoulder blade.
Critical Hit! You have lost 150hp!
I recollected myself immediately as even though I was struck off balance, a shoulder blade was not really considered a vital spot. If it were a metal sword however that would be very different but thank god for wooden swords. I caught a faint smile off Xeron''s face and I just wanted to wipe off that smirk so bad. I got ready my sword again and this time I activated my buffs. Moving faster, reacting faster had small subtleties that really helped in the swordfight. After learning the basics, i learnt to read the flow of a swordfight that is actually very important. Whenever I went on the defensive, the reaction speed helped me identify the path of the sword which would come swinging at me just by looking at how Xeron held his sword and which muscles were contracted before he started his motions. I needed to parry most of his strikes as they were small compact and precise with godly amount of deliberation and practice that could be seen in each stroke. He did not move 1cm more than he needed to. He perfectly maintained a constant 1m range between the both of us. Whenever I took one step forward he took one step back. However my added movement speed enabled me to occasionally dodge one or more of his swings and whenever I dodged, I had the advantage to initiate a counterattack since he had to finish his follow through. This lasted for a good 10 seconds and everyone else in the crowd was obviously extremely hyped up about this seemingly fast paced exchange. However 10 seconds meant something bad. I had no mana left. Xeron took full control of the fight after my buffs wore out. I have learnt the basics of swordplay but I was obviously still full of holes. His parries all had a certain jerk to the such that after he parried me I would be mini-stunned for a short while, unable to quickly proceed to my next action. His dodges were so controlled that he could dodge my blade by as little as 2cm. The closer you dodge an attack, the more of an advantage you have as it means you were closer to the target after he missed his strike. His attacks were sharp and counters even sharper. I could only hang on for about 15 seconds after my mana had run dry before my HP dropped to a dangerously low level. "I concede sir. I will go and improve yet again." "You better. However you are not just all talk I can give you that for now." He turned around and walked off cooly. "Hey newbie that was kinda cool! Come back this time again tomorrow I want to see more!" "Yea newbie press on!!" Seems like I had a few fans within the warriors guild now as well. However this was bad. Tomorrow is the last day I have to complete this quest and the closest chance I had to strike Xeron today resulted in me suffering 150 damage in return. I had no time to lose. I headed back to Monarch. I went back to training with Monarch for the entire day again. He said he could not teach me anything more as the basics were all he could teach. It was the basic training hall after all. I decided that I had all my cards lay out in front of me already. I just needed to formulate the play with these cards that would grant me the one hit off Xeron. And so I begun to formulate my master plan. Sure enough as Dumblemore said, I would have to put everything I''ve learned up till now for this deciding moment. I trained my strokes until my katana mastery reached beginner level 5. I then headed to the Boar''s Head into my room and begun my image training where I considered every possible scenario and decided on my own battle plan tomorrow. I had to risk it all. The next morning, I headed to the warrior''s guild yet again. This should be the last time I told myself. As I reached sure enough there were a crowd of people in the front yard, some of them not even warriors now just waiting to watch the spar. I did the usual and called Xeron out. "Better than yesterday?" "Of course." "Begin." I took my stance and begun my final, master plan. It was a reckless one but I needed this to work. I slowly circled Xeron, for the first time not using any mana at all in the beginning. Not even gravity manipulation. It would be a straight up sword fight. Which meant that I would get creamed. Sure enough in the first minute I was just trying to hang on, parrying blows that resulted in me still receiving glancing blows. Failed dodges that resulted in hp lost. I lost about 300HP from the first minute and I still couldnt get anywhere close to wounding him. Then I decided to use my mana. I used electrical impulse and wind steps and begun to unleash my counterattack with gravity magic. I thrust with my heavy sword, forcing Xeron to use a sidestep which followed up into my light, high speed horizontal slash which he smacked away with ease. Knowing a counterattack was imminent, I merely allowed the momentum he struck into my sword to rotate me into a full 360 spin, using the added momentum to perform a gravity crush. Which was seemingly my last ditch effort. Xeron was in the middle of a counterattack but was forced to parry my counter-counter as it was too late to dodge. Gravity crush connected and I prayed the impact was huge enough to force some damage upon him. Apparently, Xeron''s parry angles were so perfectly calculated that he managed to absorb every single bit of force into the wooden sword. He grinned and struck back at me.
You have lost 80HP!
Oh crap I was left with 20hp. Usually this was when I gave up and Xeron knew it. I also appeared to be spent all out of mana. However today was the day which I cant give up and I decided to stick with it. Unknowingly, this was all part of the plan. I had about 50 mana saved up left. Enough for about 2 seconds of buff and gravity manipulation. I had to fight like a cornered beast if I wanted to get one strike off this asshole. I had to do it. There was no backing down. I steeled my resolve and filled with an adreanaline rush, I begun the final part of my masterplan which involved what seemed like a kamikaze attack. However I have studied Xeron''s pattern thoroughly and there was one habit he always had. He always parries with a jerk but that style would backfire on him if the impact was bigger than what he expected. As i threw myself into the fray knowing this would be do or die, sink or swim, I swear I saw time slow down. Maybe it was the adrenaline rush or something but I saw Xeron getting ready a thrust to repel his charge. Without the electrical impulse buff. I managed to sidestep the thrust, barely dodging it and I raised my blade from the top of my head again, knowing that Xeron will parry it by raising his blade above his head at a slightly slanted angle. I activated my mana manipulation and made my sword heavier as I brought it down, and added some wind aura to my arms to make myself swing faster. I also used electrical impulse to look at the angle Xeron was gonna parry my blade with. Along with that adrenaline rush I had I saw it. I adjusted my swing before bring it down and crashed it on his blade with all I got. The perfect parrying angle was finally off and Xeron''s sword was blown away and I quickly used mana manipulation one last time, using all my mana, making my sword lighter and swiping at the long extended arm of Xeron which was still holding onto the sword which was blown away by the earlier parry. Finally. For the first time in my life, I made a cut on actual skin and felt the feedback along the blade of my katana. All these short bursts of actions were all I could do now and finally I managed to achieve a breakthrough. The crowd burst into applause as I finally drew blood with my sword. "WELL DONE SON! That was quite a plan. I wasn''t expecting that hard as hell anti parry stroke. It was a pleasure trading blows with you. I was very surprised though that you didn''t use mana manipulation more to your advantage. You could''ve used it to slip my footing or curse me and slow me down. May I know why didn''t you?" Xeron asked with a huge smile on his face. "I realised that this test was to show me two things. The earlier part was to show me the endless possibilities of my mana manipulation. This second part however was to teach me that despite my mana manipulation, sword skills itself also has an equally huge role to play. The point of this test wasn''t to make me use all sorts of magic to slow you and cut you, it was to show me that just based on sword skills and nothing else, I could get owned like shit by someone having higher proficiencies than me at swordplay. Furthermore I think I only wounded you for what? 30HP? I''m pretty sure the slash was fast but not heavy because I made it light. If this was a real fight I would''ve been squashed." "Well done son. You are right. I wanted to show you just how important sword skills are apart from the mana manipulation. True, the possibilities are endless with mana manipulation. But if you want to take on this class you cannot just rely on that. Your sword skills will also shape you to become a better swordspell. I hope you can remember this test and what you gained out of it. Congratulations. Go and achieve greatness that was meant for this class. You will also be part of the warriors guild from now on. I hope to hear from you if you have any exciting exploits."
New Stat : Fighting Spirit
New Skill : Adrenaline Rush When your HP is below 10%, you will gain additional buffs due to the state of near death. Time will seem to slow down as you embrace the final actions you may be taking before your imminent doom.
Quest Complete : Xeron''s Test You have made a cut on Xeron''s arm, and it was through tons of trainings and planning. You have also realised the true meaning of this test without Xenon telling you. You have gained his respect as well as your reward. Congratulations. You can now change class to : Elemental Swordsman. Will you? Yes|No
"Yes." I made it. A hidden class in 30 days. I was still a level 1 noob though.
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Chapter 6 : And Then There Were Slaps ¡°So guys the time is near. All of you ready to meet up??¡± I whispered to all of them. ¡°Sure. What time and where?¡± Soup was the first to reply. ¡°How about 7pm at this place called the Boar''s Head? Its an inn at the Northern spine located near the training hall. I''m pretty sure I can get cheap food and lodging for one night for all of us there.¡± ¡°Sounds good. We can talk about what we''ve done the past month over some food and drinks.¡± Beathoven said. ¡°THIS GAME ROCKS. Flinging chickens out of the window to see which is the hidden chicken that can actually fly. Will head over once I finish the quest. See y''all later gaiss.¡± Which could only be Breadtalk. ¡°Alright I''ll let the owner know and make the necessary arrangements. 7Pm!¡± I entered the Boar''s Head and found just the person I needed to see. ¡°Hey Elena! My friends are all coming over to celebrate a reunion after 1 month apart from each other. Could we get a room for 4 and a table for dinner?¡± I asked. ¡°On one condition. Return me those boots and I''ll give you all of the above for free to celebrate your last night here.¡± OH DAMN. I was still wearing those godforsaken boots! During the test with Xeron! Urgh! I could have had an easier time but oh well, at least it all turned out alright in the end. ¡°Of course. But i want to pay. I insist. You have shown me so much grace over the past month, bearing with my abrupt request to hire me and then giving me free time to do what I needed to do, providing training in the form of quests as well. Please. Let me pay. I insist.¡± ¡°Haha if it makes you feel that guilty, fine I''ll allow you to pay for the meal and lodging. That would be 40 silver pieces.¡± ¡°Alright WAIT WHAT? Oh.. I don''t have enough money...¡± I felt so ashamed. ¡°HAHAHA just pulling your leg kid we''re just a humble inn. That would be 5 silver pieces.¡± ¡°Phew. Alright Elena here''s 5 silver pieces for you.¡± ¡°Sure. Everything will be ready by 7 and i will personally see to it.¡± She''s gotta be the best boss anyone can ask for. ¡°However since you''re not going to accept my gesture as a farewell gift, I better do something else for you. You''re finally going to start embarking on real adventures huh... I think there''s only one more thing that I can do for you. Come into the kitchen. Now.¡± Yea Elena can become bossy sometimes but thats just part of her character and it becomes rather charming after a while. I walked into the kitchen. ¡°Remember the time where I cooked a meal for you because we both thought you would require the extra stats for initiation tests should there be one?¡± I nodded. ¡°Well I''m going to teach you how to cook so you can put it to good use during your adventuring. You already know you way about the kitchen from helping out so ingredients and equipment shouldn''t be a problem so let me teach you the cooking skill now.¡± NPC GODDESS I LOVE YOU. ¡°Yes master.¡± I said cheekily. She taught me the basics of cooking, mainly temperature control, knife skills, seasoning and techniques of preparing meat. She also passed me a recipe book of all her original recipes. Soon I got a new notification.
New Skill : Cooking. Elena has taught you the basics of how to work your food in the kitchen to help your adventuring in future. Cooking can help increase satiety and may even provide bonus stats upon eating good meals.
After she was done it was about time I was supposed to meet with my friends. I went to grab a seat on the table first and begun recollecting my past 1 month in RR. ¡°Open Stats and Skill windows.¡±
Stat Window
Character name Jinx Alignment Neutral
Level 1 Class Elemental Swordsman
Title N/A Race Human
Fame 10 Infamy 0
Health 900 Mana 1300
Strength 40 Agility 35
Wisdom 30 Intellect 30
Vitality 40 Affinity to Nature 7%
Leadership 0 Luck 0
Perseverance 20 Sustenance 30
Attack 25 Defense 0
Fighting Spirit 5
Elemental Affinities Fire +5% Ice +5% Water +5% Wind +5% Lightning +5% Earth+5% Gravity+5% Light +5% Dark +5
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any swords and use up to leather armour +500 Health +1000 Mana Able to use magic and swordplay simultaneously No miscast penalty due to spell failure due to absence of magic circles Member of both the Intelligence and Warrior Guilds
Skills
Fast Reader | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Finishes books 42% faster.
Mana Manipulation | Beginner level 3 (33%). Affinity to Nature +7%.
Flare | Beginner level 1 (5%). Summons a small source of light.
Katana Mastery | Beginner level 5 (70%). Increases attack power with a katana +50% and attack speed +15%.
Gravity Crush | Beginner level 1 (40%). Weapon Atk +500% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity)
Wind Steps | Beginner level 1 (40%). Increases movement speed +20% (Dependent on Wind Affinity)
Electrical Impulse | Beginner level 1 (40%). Increases reaction time by 0.05s (Dependent on Lightning Affinity)
Adrenaline Rush | Beginner level 1 (5%). Increases time perception by 5% when HP is below 10%.
Cooking | Beginner level 1 (0%). Enables you to prepare meals.
It was a pretty eventful month for sure and I have gotten quite a lot to show for it. I just wondered what my friends were up to and it was about how we were going to complement each other for this journey of ours. ¡°Penny for your thoughts young man? You look troubled.¡± A familiar voice called out. ¡°Beathoven! Is that... A violin case you''re holding?¡± ¡°Well. I know my name is Beathoven but I can''t always carry a piano around with me you know. It''s not a violin though it''s a lute. Nice katana too by the way.¡± He winked. ¡°You''re a bard! Holy shit I knew Soup would go something along a warrior class and Breadtalk would pick something totally random but dude you pulled off a hell of a stunt too! When the rest get here I think you need a long time to explain why you chose this and how you got this class!¡± ¡°Haha yea. Well looks like the rest aren''t here yet. You wanna form a party first? The 4 of us should be sticking with each other like glue for the rest of the holidays going adventuring anyway.¡± ¡°Yea sure! Hold on.¡± I found the community icon which could enable me to create parties or join guilds etc. ¡°Create party. Invite Beathoven.¡±
Beethoven has joined the party.
¡°Ohhh this is so cool it''s the first time I''ve seen the party interface. Look it displays all our levels and classes! Omg Jinx you''re still a level 1 noob hahaha! WAIT WHAT THE FUCK IS ELEMENTAL SWORDSMAN. A HIDDEN CLASS ISN''T IT?! YOU SUNNAVABEECH! Looks like you got a lot of explaining to do yourself.¡± ¡°Haha yeah i guess.¡± And all of a sudden another guy came to our table. ¡°Who has to explain what?¡± Smirked Soup. ¡°HEYYYYY! I see you''ve chosen a warrior type class just as Jinx has suspected. You''re always about manning up and standing in the middle of a pack of monsters in every single game huh.¡± ¡°It''s called growing some balls dude.¡± ¡°Invite Soup.¡±
Soup has joined the party.
¡°Ohhh the party interface. Cool shit. Bard and elemental swordsman.. Holy shit both of you just cant stick to mainstream classes can you?¡± ¡°Gladiator. A manly class indeed no doubt but your name could be a bit manlier you know.¡± ¡°Says the bard named Beathoven. Hopefully your music will be better than your sense of humour.¡± ¡°Did someone say sense of humour?¡± ¡°HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! And you''re always the latest one you ass.¡± ¡°Thou who is the most important gets to come the latest.¡± ¡°Invite Breadtalk.¡±
Breadtalk has joined the party.
Ohhhh party interface. Lets see what we have got for the rest of the forseeable future!
Party Name : Unspecified. Party leader : Jinx. Jinx, Level 1 Elemental Swordsman Beathoven, Level 10 Bard Soup, Level 30 Gladiator Breadtalk, Level 1 Trickster
¡°So... One mainstream warrior class that can tank every mother''s son or daughter coming to attack us, one elemental swordsman which is a hidden class that most probably has to deal damage or something, another hidden class who I suppose has to con monsters or make them fall over banana skins or something while I play background music to lighten up the mood? Sounds exactly like us.¡± Said Beathoven. ¡°Well, first things first I think Breadtalk and I should explain what we did to get this class and what exactly it could do so all of us can better think about how to raid together. I guess i''ll go first.¡± And so I recited my tale as how I remembered it. The library. Claire. The mana manipulation skill. The Boar''s Head. Elena. The training hall. Monarch. The intelligence guild. Dumblemore. The warrior''s guild. Zarak and Xeron. What happened earlier today with Elena. It took awhile but the three of them were genuinely interested and were a great audience. When I was finished apparently all three of them were interested in different things. ¡°You think that chick Claire might be interested in you? Can you do NPCs in this game?¡± Asked Breadtalk. ¡°Well i''m not sure about doing NPCs but for our journey lets let Jinx do the talking to NPCs? I don''t know if all the NPCs he met were just nice or maybe the ones i met were just horrible.¡± Beathoven said. ¡°We need to spar sometime man.. I couldn''t get the privilige to spar with Xeron even though I''m a gladiator of the freaking warrior''s guild as well.¡± Soup muttered ¡°Haha well at least you all know about me now. Breadtalk, care to continue?¡± ¡°Sure. Let''s hope my story won''t lose out to yours.¡± And so Breadtalk told his story for us. When arrived on the first day, aside from punching himself in the face which we all knew and saw, he just went around town to explore it completely so that he had a better understanding of where he was. Apparently, he was extremely intrigued by the followers of the Church of Loki. He usually thought of priests as jobs perfect for people who did not even have an ounce of fun in them. However as he passed by the church, he saw some people who were clearly priests, vandalising on one of the statues of Fenrir, the great wolf who was fathered by Loki. They were adding nipples and a well endowed crotch to the statue and he was amazed by it. He went forward to them and asked them how come they could do these sort of things and not get punished by their god. They freaking added a crotch to a significant statue! Their reply was simple. Loki was the god of trickery. They followed him because they admired that trait of his. Although the church did teach holy magic and like other churches like the church of Freya, gave reputation points which one could spend to ask the guild for assistance, the people themselves in this church were less the sort of holier than thou priests but priests that just loved to have fun but wanted to be part of a holy community that still believed in strong moral values. They did community services, they also frowned upon the undead and true evil. They were less pure than the other churches for sure but if a normal person were to judge their moral compass, they would still for sure be classified under good. This was extremely appealing to Breadtalk. He approached a young woman who was dressed in church clothing and he asked her how to join the church. She brought him to the elder responsible for interested new initiates and he told Breadtalk he had a few choices if he wanted to be part of the church of Loki. He could serve as a Paladin, priest or shaman related to the church. However Breadtalk didn''t want such classes. They were too boring for him. He decided that he wouldn''t want such classes but he wanted to be part of this community who worshipped a god of trickery. He asked if it was possible for him to remain classless but provide his services for the church. The elder smiled at him and agreed to it. And so Breadtalk spent most of his days in the church helping out with errands. He had to take food to the poor, provide manpower for repair work done for less fortunate families and all sorts of odd jobs. They couldn''t give him traditional quests to help the church as he was classless and he could not even cast the basic healing hand spell so giving him a job at the healing altar was also not possible. However, Breadtalk showed no complaints. He enjoyed working with the people there. He genuinely enjoyed work so time flew past for him. He became close to the people there and everyone recognised him due to his unusual request. They respected him for the pure goodwill he had shown the church. They gave him a place to sleep and eat and in return he worked tirelessly for them and brought joy to wherever work was as such was his nature. One day however, when he woke up in his chambers, there was a crow that was perched on his chair. A crow in a chamber sounds odd as no bird would usually coop themselves up in a room but this crow was different. It spoke to him. ¡°Breadtalk. I have seen what you have done for innocents as well as my people. You intrigue me. You should be able to guess who I am now and I am willing to make a class for you. I have observed you for quite some time and I believe this quest would enable you to show your true nature and the true spirit of what it means to serve me. You just need to do one thing. Play a prank on my church people. How much I enjoy it will determine the reward you will get. Go make some magic.¡± The crow then flew away. Breadtalk begun to carve out his master plan. He contemplated what sort of prank would he want to play and he decided that it should be something huge. Something that would represent why he wanted to join the guild in the first place. It would have to be unknowing, seemingly holy but at the end obscene and cause for laughter. As usual it took him less than a few minutes to decide on what he wanted to do. He went to a sculptor he had worked with before immediately to consult his help for his plan. He had the sculptor to do two things. First it was to engrave a stone platform with the following plaque.
Loki''s statue of Fertility. This statue was miraculously created by Loki one night to give a miracle to his people. If enough people were to help suck the essence out of this statue, it will give birth to a new being that would greatly help the church in it''s future to come.
Next he asked the sculptor to consult an alchemist and come up with a paste that would cover Breadtalk himself in a white paint that would solidify after a short time and harden but it would be rather fragile such that he would be able to break out of it from the inside. During the middle of the night, Breadtalk put his plan into action. He shifted the stone platform into the centre of the garden and quickly masturbated to enable himself to look like a more potent statue of fertility. He then wore a mask and coated himself with the concoction the sculptor and alchemist came up with. In just five minutes, he was able to feel like he was encased in a molding of himself and everything was set. The next morning, many people realised there had been a new addition to the church. A carefully carved statue of a lifelike man with a sizeable penis. People wouldn''t realise it was him as he was wearing a mask and he just prayed that someone would fall for the bait. The people of the church begun to wonder about this miracle and as they read the plaque, everyone came to an agreement that in order to bring it to life, they had to do one thing. They had to suck what looked to be the part they had to suck in order to bring it to life. This shouldn''t ever happen in a church but because it was the church of Loki and Breadtalk had the god''s favour to do such a thing, what seemed to be a mass orgy was taking its shape. People who had nothing to do and heard about the statue would just go and suck it as they thought it was only a statue, no harm would be done and they would not be commiting a hineous crime even though it was obscene as hell. Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. Breadtalk was just enjoying himself in the statue when he heard the people coming around him and doing what he had manipulated them to do. More than a hundred people had already sucked on that particular thing already when Breadtalk finally hit his limit. He still needed to drink and pee so he decided that over a hundred people sucking his dick would be a good enough prank for Loki. He could not see and did not hear much commotion so he broke out of his shell. But there was one problem. There was an old woman. Still doing what Breadtalk would have wanted her to do but this time he was not a statue anymore. ¡°BY BLACKENED BODY OF G- I''m so sorry madam.¡± He managed to blurt off before running into his chambers, nude, laughing his ass off imagining all these people who sucked his junk. When the people around it saw what happened, needless to say it caused an uproar. Not of protest but of cheers as they all realised what just happened. Inside his chambers however, stood a figure waiting for him. He had expected the crow to come back but this time, Loki himself was personally standing in his chambers, waiting for him. ¡°Well done lad. I bet saying you made over 100 people suck your dick in 6 hours would be quite an achievement to your peers wouldn''t it. The idea seemed ridiculous but when people actually stood in line to.. Well I had quite a good laugh, especially with the timing you chose to emerge yourself. I''m sure you already know about me. I''m currently held captive by the gods somewhere in the mountain range of J?tunheimr. This is just one of my spirits I have left in the mortal world which is speaking to you now. Know that I am using what strength I have saved up in order to bestow this class to you. This is your reward for upholding the spirit of my church and adventure with pride. I would be giving you some more personal quests in the future should I require your services.¡±
Quest Complete : Loki''s Test You have completed what Loki has requested of you albeit in an unsightly fashioned which was still funny. Loki has approved how you dealt with the task assigned for you and chose a class for you which aligns to your nature and demeanor. Congratulations. You can now change class to : Trickster. Will you? Yes|No
He chose yes and sure enough he had a few additional skills which were all rather unpredictable. Which made Breadtalk one of the happiest boys in the world the moment he opened his skill window. He had mainly three skills which was the bread and butter of his class. The first was Loki''s Entourage. This skill enabled him to gain stats and a score buff through doing ridiculous things at his own whim. He tried it out by making a sled, climbing up to the highest building in the game which was the clocktower and sliding off the roof of it, sprinkling holy water all over the people below him while shouting ¡°You have been blessed! WOOOO!¡± before crashing into an adjacent building. He gained 5 stat points in courage and dexterity due to that feat but when he repeated it again, it did not give any more stats. He concluded that every retarded action he tried was unique and could not be repeated. A score buff was what he discovered to be a rating of 1-10 depending on how entertaining or funny an action is. The sled ride stunt got him a seven so Loki must have been pretty entertained by the sight of that. I mean who wouldn''t. This score buff provided an extra amount of stats to every single category effective for 24 hours. However the true worth of this buff lies in the next skill. The second skill he had received was Loki''s Roulette. Depending on his score buff from Loki''s entourage, Breadtalk could use this skill to draw upon a particular weapon from Loki''s hidden armoury. Seven was a dual pistol which could shoot out what seemed to be a cloud in the shape of a chicken''s head. He tried aiming it at a rock and at the moment of contact, the bullet went ¡°CUCKOOO!¡± and the stone exploded. The third skill he received was called Shapeshift. Loki was known to be a shapeshifter, taking on the forms of anything from people to animals in order to meet adventurers or finish his own quests. This skill was also apparently passed down to Breadtalk. He could alter his appearance any way he liked but it seemed like his proficiency of the skill now was so low that he could only alter his appearance slightly such as hair colour and face features. He could not really change his body shape or size yet. However this would also be quite a useful skill in the future. The skills itself seemed fun and relatively well rounded but the true perk of this class came from the class bonuses. Because he was blessed by one of the great gods himself, he could wear any armour or weapon from any class just by meeting the level requirement. He could wear armour meant for warriors or mages or thieves or any other job. He was also extremely blessed with the Luck stat. There was a bonus +100 Luck simply because of the class. That was 20 levels worth of skill points! He would also have increased reputation and affinity with the churches of Loki scattered around the continent. It all sounded damn good until I realised the drawbacks of the class. First you needed to have a sense of humour like Breadtalk''s or you would be a goner. Second, it was rather unpredictable so you won''t be a very stable character despite the huge buffs. Third, the weapons from Loki''s armoury should prove to be extremely powerful but if they were a different weapon type for each number.. He would need ten times as long as any other player to get their weapon mastery to a decent level and trust me, weapon mastery was something that took a players years to master just for one weapon alone. 10 weapons? LOL. But I doubt Breadtalk cared about stuff like that. He just wanted to have fun and I bet going around in the game trying to accomplish feats which were as stupid and retarded as possible should have covered every single definition of fun. ¡°Holy shit dude we''re all virgins here but over a hundred people sucking on your junk? You are one huge douchebag bro.¡± Soup was trying not to laugh as he said this. ¡°You should have made an exception and whispered me to go over. I could play some romantic music and maybe some horny priest would''ve spooned you.¡± Yup. These were my screwed up positively whacked in the head friends and I was never the least bit embarrassed about it. Anything was fun with them around. ¡°Alright so now we have information on both our classes. I know both the bard class and gladiator class are typical classes which are not hidden but they were still not as mainstream so would the both of you also elaborate abit on how you''ve gotten the class and what you''ve done? Both of you are the only ones not at level 1 and I don''t know how one can even go to level 30 while being confined within city walls.¡± I looked towards the direction of Soup who looked extremely smug upon hearing that. ¡°Well alright I guess we all should tell each other what we''ve been doing for the past month. My story isn''t anywhere as interesting as both of yours though.¡± ¡°I went to the warriors guild straight away and told them that I wanted to be a gladiator. As Jinx said i think they prefer the straightforward types so they loaned my a greatsword and asked me to finish the basic training hall with it first. I just went and whacked that bloody scarecrow like a million times before that Monarch told me I finished the training. After that I received the sword as a reward which was the usual route. Not a bloody fine katana like that one but hey it was better than nothing. The warriors guild saw that I had the greatsword mastery and finished basic training hall so they sent me to a building run specially by gladiators. It was located in the Rosenheim Kingdom so I had to spend 2 days on a carriage to travel there. Apparently you can leave the town if you were sent to another by a quest.¡± ¡°Upon reaching, I realised the place was designed just like the Coliseum in Rome. Fitting for gladiators really. Turns out everyone who wants to be one had to go through an initiation test. We had to fight against 5 warriors, one after another with no breaks in between. I died during my first try so I guess I''m the only one here who has died before. However I died when I was fighting the fourth guy and since I literally had to cut down the other guys, whenever I won a duel I received exp. Thus it was easier on the second try after I reached level 4 and added all of my stats to strength. When I completed the task on the second try, I was level 8 already with about 2 weeks to spare. They gave me a greatsword of my own as a reward. After that, I started dueling for fun in the coliseum and since it was just for fun, honour and experience, I could surrender and not risk dying. However we had to pay a price to fight and the winner gets more money back and since I won more than I lost I made a bit of money whereas the loser loses everything. I also took up a part time apprenticeship with a blacksmith because I needed to keep repairing that greatsword so i decided to learn the skill instead of having to keep paying for it. I think this will be helpful for our group as well.¡± ¡°After 2 weeks there with 2 days left I took the carriage back to Junad so here I am, level 30 blacksmith after all my efforts with a repair skill level of beginner level 5. That katana looks like it could seriously use some of my work though. Just saying.¡± ¡°You''re right it does. Let''s do that first thing tomorrow morning where we get ready our supplies before we embark on our adventure. Alright Beathoven. Guess its your time to play your part. Pun intended.¡± ¡°Boooooooo.¡± Breadtalk rolled his eyes. I tried. ¡°Okay well in real life I''m already studying so I didn''t just waltz off to the library like Jinx did. Instead I wondered what I should do for our party and it must be something I like. You guys know I play the piano in real life, Grade 8 and all but honestly I genuinely liked playing the piano. Playing computer games with you all and the piano are all I do during my free time and both are fun but I saw this as a chance to do both so.... I went to the intelligence guild straight away and asked if they knew how I could change my class to a bard. Junad isn''t exactly an arts centre like the city of Morata so they told me I had to go to Rosenheim kingdom as well. One of the elders had to visit the music guild over there to pass a letter so he gave it to me instead as a quest so I would be able to leave Junad.¡± ¡°I guess the reason why the 4 of us didn''t cross paths at all during the 30 days was because it really wasn''t meant to be. I was in Rosenheim all the way, Soup only joined halfway and he only stayed near the coliseum anyway. Jinx and Breadtalk were always in Junad but since Breadtalk was always at the East spine and Jinx the North and South, none of us would actually meet. So close yet so far huh guys. Just a passing thought. Anyway after I reached the music guild in Rosenheim, I felt like I was in paradise. Most bards were female so I got my eyecandy needs covered. Above all else, the music was genuinely amazing. They had all sorts of genre. It''s just like real life music but the instruments were all so varied. There were ancient instruments you hardly see anymore nowadays like the lyre, harp, lute even a harpsichord that looks like a piano! I tried playing the harpischord and it looks like your real life skills carry over in RR due to muscle memory. I could play it immediately and people around me didn''t look surprised. However I needed something portable so I could aventure with you guys and the momeny I saw the lute, I fell in love with it. So yup I''m now honing the art of lute music so please bear with my noob melodies for awhile.¡± ¡°After I chose my instrument, the guild master asked me why i wanted to be a bard so I told him the truth. To play music which I love while adventuring with the friends i love. And he gave me my initiation test. He wanted me to compose a song based on the reason why I wanted to be a bard and that was it. I had to find a senior in the guild who was willing to help me learn the basic fingering and read notes of the lute and after that I was on my own. You know how people ask why we like to hang around each other so much and its just so hard to put it into words? Like you know we set aside every Saturday to go out with each other and we see each other so much already its a wonder how we haven''t grew sick of each others faces. Well maybe I''m already sick of your idiotic faces but I still want to see you all. Well it''s even harder to put that into music. But after 2 weeks of painstaking meditation and trial and error, I finally managed to piece up something that I thought conveyed my emotions rather well. I went back to the guild leader and played it for him. The guild leader gave a nod of approval and tadah, I''m now a full fledged bard with one original song to his name. He also gave me a book filled with songs and since playing other songs were easier than composing your own, I know quite a number now and each song I play will give my party and I different buffs. The guild leader also gave me one additional score though and it was so bloody hard I haven''t mastered it until now. Once I do however I think that would be my most powerful piece yet. As for my skills in combat, I''m practically useless for now. All I have is a skill named bash where I''m supposed to smash my lute as hard as I can into an enemy but I swear thats not something I should do. I''m pretty sure the lute would break there and then. Think RR just added it for noobs who have extra guitars or something.¡± ¡°Speaking of which I''m level 10 now because on my way from Rosenheim Kingdom back to Junad, I was ambushed by a squad of bandits. Luckily there were a few high level players in the caravan and we all formed a party and I played songs to support them while they vanquished the bandits. The book of songs the guild leader gave me covered many bases. I could protect myself as some songs removed aggression from myself such that no enemies will usually target me and after that I raised their attack speed and attack by a few notches so everything was settled pretty fast. Turns out bards are one of the classes in this game which is really just pure support, not like priests or shamans who could still fight on their own. I don''t think there are songs that inflict damage onto opponents yet but if there is it must be damn rare because our supporting is always reliable. Playing music does not require mana and only very little stamina cost so I can play for 24 hours straight no problem if you all can fight that long. However, they say as you adventure more, rare song pieces which may require mana might exist so I''m looking forward to when I discover those type of music. As for stats, I put them all into wisdom as it helps me learn faster and also learn more. Quality and quantity. I also have an ¡°Art¡± stat like all artistically related professions do. The higher my art stat, the better the buffs I believe. I also think some songs require a minimum art stat to learn. So yeah thats about it for me.¡± Just as Beathoven finished his story, the waitress came along and since I was the one most familiar with the establishment, I went ahead and ordered 4 plates of Boar steek which was by far the best food item I''ve tasted so far. I also ordered 4 fruit punches which definitely punched my taste buds the first time I drank it. Just as the waitress was about to return to the kitchen though, Breadtalk caught her by the shoulder, spun her around and kissed her full on the mouth. The three of us sat there speechless, in shock and none of us even had time to think of a playful comment. The waitress herself looked shock as hell too. After 2 seconds however she got over it and slapped Breadtalk right across the face. Blushing furiously, she stomped off and all of us looked to Breadtalk, demanding an explanation. ¡°What? I got 2 points in courage and 5 points in charisma for that! Loki taught me a thing or two about girls and trust me if she blushes it''s a good sign. He found it entertaining enough he gave me a 4 for that effort alright!¡± Loki''s entourage indeed. Like I said only Breadtalk could have the balls or should I say retardedness to pull off something like that and I guess a 4 is quite bad but seeing how to get a 7 you needed to risk your life flying through the air in a makeshift sled I guess 4 is a pretty reasonable number. Not to mention gaining courage and charisma stats so easily, it must be good to have an incentive to have fun in the game. The waitress came back with our food and drinks a few moments later and it was awkward as hell. She was still blushing and Breadtalk had a face with a solid red handprint on it so I found it extremely funny but I couldn''t laugh in the presence of the waitress. Breadtalk slapped himself hard on the other side of his face just when she finished serving the food. All of us were stunned yet again and looked to him for an explanation. ¡°I was about to apologise to the waitress as I had to kiss her for being so lovely and I wanted to do it while looking as good as I possibly can. Having one hand print on one side of the face isn''t a very nice look so I made another one to make it symmetrical! Don''t look at me like that it''s perfectly normal. You are absolutely beautiful by the way so maybe you could come join me after you''ve finished your shift.¡± Breadtalk said with the most boyish grin on his face you could imagine a 16 year old pulling off. ¡°I just might have at that.¡± replied the waitress after recovering from yet another shock and looking extremely entertained by the antics of this ridiculous joker. ¡°Bro. You have got to teach me some of that sometime. That was retarded alright but make no mistake. Smoooooth.¡± ¡°Shut up Soup you just need to drop your pants and with your looks the girls will come knocking already.¡± ¡°Guys you do realise RR doesn''t allow adult content till our real age is above 18 in our country right?¡± ¡°Oh yeah. Fuck.¡± And so we ate and drank to this reunion, a whopping 30 days without each other which had been the longest since... Since we ever met actually. We talked about possible battle strategies, we talked about what we wanted to do which, which quests to take, which dungeons to raid and all we could talk about is how we could spend time together in RR to make the most epic journey ever. The waitress did indeed come looking for us after her shift ended though and Breadtalk just admitted he was trolling her but appreciated her spontaneity. Old sayings are repeated for good reason. They are usually true and for today, the quote of the day was : Third time''s the charm. We ended off the day after witnessing the last and most impressive slap by the waitress to restore her dignity and we retired off to our room, engaged in a brief pillow fight in which Breadtalk was flung out of the window apparently by Soup and without saying it deep down we all knew. These 30 days were just for us to do what we want. The next 30 months or even years however, would be for us to become what we want as a party, as brothers. Let the real adventure begin.
End of Chapter 6
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Chapter 7 : BOTs Morning dawned. Light streamed into the rooms of the Boar''s Head. I was used to waking up early as my mornings were most of the free time I got for the rest of the day when I was working for Elena. I woke up as per usual and this was it. The day where the 4 of us could finally venture outside to city walls, into the neighbouring forest, towards other cities, all of our own free will. I was excited. My curiosity was boiling, over the top and I couldn''t take it anymore. ¡°WAKE UP IDIOTS. IT''S A NEW DAWN IT''S A NEW DAY IT''S A NEW LIFEEEEEEEEEEEE FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEE.¡± ¡°Five more minutes mum.¡± Nope. No time to waste. I opened the window leading to the main street. Time to put mana manipulation to its fullest use. I made them all significantly lighter and I flung them all out of the window one by one. Of course I made them heavier again before they landed onto the pavement below which luckily was still sparsely populated due to the time. ¡°OW WHAT THE FUCK?!¡± ¡°NO MUSIC FOR YOU TODAY !¡± ¡°Loki gave you a 6 Jinx. He said it was ingenious use of your skills.¡± I jumped down into the streets making myself lighter and landed softly on my feet. ¡°That guys is how its usually done and alright I can''t wait to get started. Let''s all gear up get ready and meet back here in an hour. We should go and get some levels. Elena told me last night that her friend needed a favour which is supposedly quite a challenging quest in the forbidden forest just beside Junad. I trust you all are awake by now. Oh and Soup here''s my katana please repair it for me thanksssss.¡± I announced before dashing off into the West Spine. I needed to get myself some equipment. Without the boots from the Boar''s Head I had 0 defence. Sure I had 900HP now but with 0 defence i''m pretty sure a critical hit from a level 50 monster which are aplenty in the forbidden forest would reduce my HP significantly. Plus I was in essence a close to mid range fighter. I had Soup as a tank but since I would be near him dishing out the damage I needed to have protective gear as well. Thus, I decided to buy a full set of leather armour. I went to the leather armour shop in the West Spine to get the items. ¡°Hello Mister, I''m looking for a full set of armour. Can I take a look at your goods?¡± ¡°Sure go ahead.¡± I rumaged through his goods and found out that the newbie armour really didn''t give much but they were really cheap. I had earned my fair share of silver from working with Elena and I figured this would be the time to use it. I finalised my purchases for just a mere 4 silver and walked out of the shop.
Equipped : Leather Bracer A very simple bracer crafted out of leather by a tailor. Provides very basic protection for adventurers. Required level 1 Dexterity +1 Defence +3
Equipped : Leather Boots A very simple pair of boots crafted out of leather by a tailor. Provides very basic protection for adventurers. Required level 1 Defence +3
Equipped : Leather Helmet A very simple helmet crafted out of leather by a tailor. Provides very basic protection for adventurers. Required level 1 Dexterity +1 Defence +5
Equipped : Leather Gaunlets A very simple pair of gaunlets crafted out of leather by a tailor. Provides very basic protection for adventurers. Required level 1 Dexterity +1 Defence +3
Equipped : Leather Armour A very simple armour crafted out of leather by a tailor. Provides very basic protection for adventurers. Required level 1 Dexterity +1 Defence +8
Equipped : Leather Pants A very simple pair of pants crafted out of leather by a tailor. Provides very basic protection for adventurers. Required level 1 Dexterity +1 Defence +5
In total, I received 5 Dexterity and 27 Defence just by spending 4 silver. It would definitely be a psychological boost in dealing with the monsters in the forbidden forest. Monsters there were on average about level 50. I thought it would be a challenge that was possible for us. Breadtalk and I had bonus stat gains so by our stats alone we were about level 40 based on estimates. Soup was already 30 so there was no problem. If anyone were to die, it would be Beathoven but I trust his ability to stay alive. In previous games he was so timid he would always be the last man standing as he had an outstanding ability to run around trying to survive because he was so scared of death. It was extremely commendable actually if not for the fact that it looked extremely shameless and hilarious at times. I made one last stop to the market in order to stock up on ingredients. Elena''s recipe book had a few useful recipes I could make in the forest so we would not have to worry about or satiety levels dropping if I had enough food to serve. After finishing up my purchases, I went back to the Boar''s Head to rendevouz with the party and received instructions from Elena about how to start the quest. ¡°Alright Jinx, when you venture out the west gate into the forbidden forest, there will be a fork immediately. Take the left path and follow the path, turn right at the next junction you see and after that all you need to do is keep going straight. There will be a small village of cottages and the person you should speak to is the leader of the village, Kyle. Good luck.¡± We gathered at the west gate and then it was time. It was time to take our first step out of town, fight monsters as a whole team and having fun our way. However I remembered one last task we had to settle first. ¡°Guys. We don''t have a name for the party. And we are going to be stuck in this party for literally forever. Anyone care to weigh in?¡± ¡°85Kg.¡± ¡°Breadtalk be serious you fatass.¡± ¡°Hey thats a good party name but it''s abit too long.¡± ¡°Fatass?¡± ¡°Only Breadtalk is fat.¡± ¡°We The Kings?¡± ¡°Only one of us is a musician and none of us are kings.¡± ¡°Ghostbusters?¡± ¡°Ballbusters?¡± This is never going to end... I took it upon myself to give a name nobody could ever argue against. Outsiders or party members ourselves.
Party Name : Bunch Of Tards. Party leader : Jinx. Jinx, Level 1 Elemental Swordsman Beathoven, Level 10 Bard Soup, Level 30 Gladiator Breadtalk, Level 1 Trickster
¡°So. We are the BOTs eh. Thats actually quite nice Jinx.¡± ¡°Oh yea! BOT. NICE!¡± It was purely coincidental that the short form sounds cool. Oh well lets just let them think I have superb naming sense then. ¡°Autobots move out!¡± Breadtalk shouted. And so we did. We followed Elena''s instructions. Left.. Right... Straight.... Sure enough it wasn''t too far away. A cluster of cottages soon appeared down the path. We walked into the village and asked the first villager we saw where could we find Kyle. ¡°Kyle? He should be in his cottage. Right there.¡± The villager pointed us to the cottage located right at the centre of the cluster. We walked over and knocked on the door. ¡°Come in.¡± A seemingly dejected voice answered. When we walked in, any idiot would be able to tell that the mood was not good. Kyle wasn''t what you expected a village leader to look like. He was disheveled, his eyes had major dark circles around them and his eyes gave off a feeling of a man who had nothing left in the world. ¡°Good Morning Sir, we were wondering if we could provide you with any help? Elena sent us.¡± He eyes immediately brightened up and he begun to told us what exactly happened immediately. ¡°Our village was a normal village. People went about doing their farming, hunting and gathering as per usual. Our village was blessed by a small demigod that made our jobs alot easier. Weak monsters were attracted while strong monsters were kept away. Our livestock matured faster, became fatter and of higher quality. Farming yielded maximum output every time despite rain or shine. All that was due to the statue someone made for us when we created the village.¡± ¡°However, about two weeks ago, a monster managed to steal the tiara of the goddess which was what she imparted her holy powers into. Since then, the village was in shambles. Crops did not grow well. Livestock were unhealthy. We were even attacked by a pack of dire wolves about three nights back. I need to solve this problem ASAP but our village does not have the resources to send hunters after the monster. We have eyewitnesses saying they saw something like a tree stealing the tiara so we believe treants have stolen the tiara. The problem with treants is identifying them and then killing them. They blend in so well with the forest I do not have the ability to clear a large amount of them in a short time. Please. I formally request you, the.. Bunch Of Tards to help us find our tiara back!¡±
Quest Received : Tiara retrieval Kyle has requested you to find the tiara of the Korsak Village and restore the village to its proper order. They have been stolen by treants who are hiding within the forbidden forest. Eliminate treants until you find the tiara. Quest Difficulty : D Will you accept? Yes | No
¡°Yes. Don''t worry Kyle, we can''t turn a blind eye to this.¡± I said. ¡°I wish for your success. Please. The fate of the village depends on you.¡± We proceeded out of the village and had a team meeting. ¡°Okay tards how are we going to do this? Do any of you even know how to identify treants?¡± ¡°Why don''t we slash every tree once? Treants should lose HP and have some sort of reaction when we damage them right?¡± ¡°One slash might not be enough damage to force a reaction if they are hiding. Too many would damage the forest as well.. Oh boy just starting the quest and we are stuck already. Usually you are the one with the ideas Jinx. Any now?¡± I considered my options using mana manipulation. I could maybe use earth affinity to make the trees grow extra branches and maybe it would not be applicable to treants. However I could not be sure this would work. ¡°No... I don''t have anything for now.¡± I muttered. ¡°Oh wait. I have a skill called bersekers call. It aggros any monster within a 5 meter radius from myself. So we can just use it! ¡° Soup said. ¡°Sounds like a plan. Alright let''s do this.¡± Treants were about level 40. Not too high but way higher than our level anyway. Before we set off into the jungle to start on our quest, we made our necessary preparations. Breadtalk still had the score of 4 from Loki''s entourage last night since it lasted 24 hours so he casted Loki''s armoury. A spear popped out in front of him. He tried it out by poking Soup with it. ¡°BOOM!¡± ¡°YOU FUCKING RETARD CHILD WHY DO YOU TEST IT ON ME WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY THINGS AROUND YOU TO POKE?!¡± Soup caught Breadtalk in a headlock and begun grinding his knuckles on his head while Beathoven and I were busy clutching our stomach, busy developing 8 packs from laughing too hard at what just happened. We caught our breaths and Beathoven begun playing a melody with his lute. It was strange. It sounded like a messy jumble of notes at first but after listening to it for awhile, within the seeming randomness and clashing sounds, a consistent melody could be heard in the background. The melody was beautiful and after awhile, one need not even need to put in the effort to hear the melody in the background. Before you realised, the melody was now all you could hear with the jarring sounds in the background which unknowingly gave the song a consistent bass and treble along with the accompanying melody.
Received buff: Chaotic Melody. This is the original song Beathoven the bard came up with as his answer to the initiation test. It was a song that described his true wants and feelings. The desire to be around his friends that were seemingly chaotic and ridiculous which actually always brings him joy and laughter. This song will give special buffs to Beathoven and his three friends whom he created the song for. Special Buff: HP regen +50/s Mana regen +50/s Teamwork +50 *All party song buffs for last for 1 hour after they are heard. Cannot be stacked with another party song buff and will be replaced if another song is played.
¡°Oh cool! I didn''t know what were the buffs it gave to parties because it''s my first time playing it for a party but it seems this system really treats musicians with respect. They even acknowledge the people the song was made for. The buffs seem to reflect my desire for us to keep partying together thus increasing regeneration and teamwork I guess.¡± Beathoven commented. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Such buffs were rare to come by. Usually buffs improved overall stats but this buff increased regen. It could help us fight longer and more efficiently, especially in boss fights so it seemed extremely useful. ¡°Ok i finished my preparations as well.¡± said Breadtalk. ¡°WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR NOSE?¡± ¡°I wanted to train my shapeshift skill so I used it to increase the size of my nose. Its the only skill I can train with an since the mana cost is 10/s I can use it for unlimited amounts of time since Beathoven''s buff overwhelms the mana needed.¡± ¡°Oh yeah! Alright i''m training my skills as well. I turned on wind steps and electrical impulse. My mana did not decrease due to the overwhelming regen and I was extremely happy to be able to train my skills. Looks like Zack''s decision to become a bard would greatly benefit us indeed. The preperations were all set and we ventured into the forest behind the village. ¡°Soup, do the honours please.¡± He let out a large howl that was not high pitched and long like a wolf''s. It was a deep, nerve trembling roar that sent shiver''s down your spine. However I guess to monsters that would be the call inviting them to do battle. My thoughts were suddenly interrupted though. I expected us to take a few calls to locate some treants. I couldn''t be more wrong. Every single tree within 5m moved towards Soup. ¡°DAFUQ?! HELP!!!!!!!¡± But all of us were laughing so bad it took us about 3 seconds to recover from shock and laughter. Apparently teamwork does not mean we don''t get to laugh at each other. I assessed the situation briefly and decided that taking down the number of treants was priority. I wrapped fire around my blade and didn''t scrimp on the mana cost. ¡°Gravity crush.¡± A fire element attacked coupled with the help of gravity made my blade flow through the treant like it was cutting paper. However, since treants had high defence and hp by nature, one such attack was not enough to cut it down and I needed to add a few normal fire slashes to make it fall for good. Beathoven whistled behind me while playing his lute to give himself invisibility from enemy eyes while staying away at a safe spot. ¡°BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!¡± Breadtalk was just poking his stick everywhere and laughing his ass off enjoying every moment of it. However ,due to his absurdly large nose I really couldn''t stand looking at him for long. I wouldn''t be able to concentrate at all. Soup was taking the rest of the treant''s bashing though. Apparently berserker''s call lure the treants within 5m towards him but once the treants started their attack, some further than 5m away also joined in. They were swiping at Soup with their branches at thick as clubs and all he could do was activate his iron stance skill which enabled him to stay rooted to one spot and increase his defence. He was parrying blows left right up down and it was obvious if this keeps going on we would be overrun. I tried something new. I tried to wrap Soup''s weapon with fire and it worked. He now had the added fire damage to his sword as well but I still didn''t think it would be enough. There were about 20 treants around us, most of them aggro-ed towards Soup so I had to think of a solution. Then one of my bright ideas struck me. I needed quite a lot of mana for this though so I cut off using my electrical impulse and wind steps which were not of much use in these type of battles. Instead, I concentrated my mana onto the floor around Soup. I manipulated it in such a way that fire columns the height of 3 meters suddenly wrapped around Soup. There was only one area which did not have fire and that was directly in front of Soup. The treants around him stopped attacking him as they were lit on fire except for the one directly in front of him. They tried to go to where there was no fire but as they were still aggro-ed towards Soup, most of them tried to make their way towards the space directly in front of him. I can manipulate the terrain to maze it in a systematic way so that they will all be lured to a position that will be to our advantage. Handy! With this realization, I asked Breadtalk to stand side by side with Soup. I then begun to maze the treants such that all of them could only attack us from the front unless they were in the fire and begun to hack away at them, one on one. Beathoven could then stop his invisibility tune and just sat down behind the three of us, playing a tune that reduces their defence instead. However, my mana couldn''t last forever and a fire pillar surrounding our back and sides resulted in quite the mana consumption. I could only last for about 8-9 minutes and a debuffed treant still proved a slight difficulty for me. Luckily they were rather weak to the fire mana around me and Soup''s weapon. Breadtalk had an exploding spear so I guess it was his lucky day. When my mana ran out, there were only 2 treants left so Soup and Breadtalk were the ones who took them on while I just concentrated on recovering my mana and maintaning the fire mana around their weapons. Soon, dead corpses of 20 treants lay around us. It took us about 10 minutes. ¡°Okay. I was not expecting every tree around us to be a treant. Any more and it could''ve been trouble. Sorry guys.¡± ¡°No harm done man. It was honestly one of the funniest things that could happen in that situation. Loki said he would have given you a 9 or 10 but he couldn''t.¡± ¡°My stomach gave it an 11. If we weren''t in battle I would probably still be laughing at it now.¡± I added. ¡°Well this plan seems pretty solid. Lets stick with this but try to aggro less trees?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± And so we did. We proceeded to use berserker''s call on no more than 10 trees and surprisingly, almost every time we found some treants. We must have stumbled upon their nesting place by pure luck. It was not far from the village though so I wonder what they were doing so close to the village. After an hour of hunting, we still did not manage to retrieve any tiara so we decided to take a break and have lunch instead. I started a fire and took out the ingredients I bought earlier today at the market. I started making basic anchovy sandwiches for the group and they had nothing else to eat so they couldn''t complain about it. The recipe was only level 1 so the food did not give bonuses to us as it was too simple and easy a meal to prepare. We filled our satiety bars to the maximum and decided to press on. Our pace gradually increased steadily as we gained levels and allocated our stats. I decided on a balanced stat build as I needed both intellect and strength as a spellsword. As such I could maintain my mazing fires for a while longer and I required less strikes to cut down a treant. Breadtalk concentrated on luck as much as possible as he did not have a fixed weapon. Strength was for melee and dexteriy was for ranged weapons and he had both. Thus he had so much luck that it was insane. Almost every attack by treants missed him when we were at the later stages of the hunt. Skill proficiency levels were also increasing quite quickly as we had the mana regen to always activate our skills. We hunted about 1000 treants before we finally found the tiara. It was a tedious process and it was already dark when we were done. However, I realised something amiss from our surroundings. It was so foreboding that I felt a chill shiver down my spine and goosebumps appeared all over my skin. ¡°Guys. Look at the area we''ve been hunting in... Now that many treants are removed.. Doesn''t this forest look more.. Organized? There''s a path. Look. And if you follow that path... it looks like there''s a building ahead. And I''m feeling a vibe from the building that makes me extremely uncomfortable¡± ¡°Holy shit. You''re right. There is a path towards that building which the treants have covered. Why?¡± ¡°I don''t know but it can''t be a coincidence that all the treants just decided to plant themselves on the path. Looks like they wanted to hide this path or maybe this was the only place they could find? Anyway let''s return to Kyle to finish the quest first.¡± ¡°Yea you''re right.¡± We set off towards the village and returned to Kyle immediately. Upon seeing the tiara, his face lit up and he seemed like a child who got a lollipop for the first time. ¡°You did it! Oh man this is going to change everything back to normal!¡± He ran outside and placed the tiara on top of the statue''s head.
Quest Complete : Tiara Retrieval You managed to obtain the tiara from the treants. Reward : 3000 EXP, 50 Silver
¡°Alright guys look like our job here is d-.¡± I said. Just when I was about to finish my sentence, the statue glowed brightly and suddenly a splitting image of the demigod appeared beside the statue. ¡°Dear adventurers, thank you for guiding me back to my home. I am but a small demigod that manifests my power from this tiara. However, treants managed to take me away from my rightful place in this village but it was by no coincidence. Treants are usually nature loving monsters that do not attack unless provoked. I sense a foreign presence in this forest. And unusually dark and powerful presence. I believe this force was responsible for manipulating the treants to steal the tiara. Can I trouble you all one more time to get to the bottom of this matter? Unless this is resolved, I am sure I will be taken away by treants or other monsters again.¡±
Quest Received : Eliminate the Dark Forces Demigod Valhalla has requested you to investigate this strange dark presence she has sensed and suspects that it will bring alot of future harm to the village of Korsak. Will you help this village and this demigod restore their former peace? Quest Difficulty : C Will you accept? Yes | No
I was extremely hesitant about this. We already nearly died doing a D difficulty quest and this was one level higher. It might even be a high tier class C quest as it was given by a demigod. My nature eventually helped me decide. I was not one who would back down if i could give help upon seeing people in need of it. ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Typical Jinx, doesn''t even discuss it with us before accepting the quest. Still the kind natured ass that we know huh.¡± Beathoven snickered. ¡°A real man always says yes.¡± Soup added. ¡°Then suck my dick now Soup.¡± said you know who. ¡°Yes. I''ll bite it off ass.¡± ¡°I''m still here you know. A female demigod at that. I suppose you all will need help against this evil foe though. Take this along with you. It''s my pet, Xantos. It''s a light type roc which is still young and developing, she is capable of casting some holy spells. Treat it with care. I will be waiting here for your good news.¡± Valhalla said before vanishing. Xantos looked like an elegant eagle. Except... She was about the size of Breadtalk. Still young and developing?! How large will it become.. ¡°Alright guys. Based on what happened earlier, this is my hypothesis. The dark force came into the forest and set up their castle at the location we saw just now. This happened to be where treants used to live until they chased them out. They settled down in the path leading from the village to the castle instead. The dark forces then asked the treants to steal the tiara which the treants had no choice but to do. IF this were so, the enemies in that castle would be of a much higher level than the treants. Also, this would require some castle sieging skills. As we are now, I see no way of succeeding in this quest. We need to level up further. We also need to form an ¡°army¡± to siege the castle with us. I suggest we do the easier bit first which I think will be levelling up. Anyone got complains or suggestions they wish to raise?¡± ¡°Nope. Let''s clear the forest mobs first and show them who''s boss. We still haven''t explored the entire forest yet and there may be hidden information we could find out after exploring the whole forest as well.¡± ¡°Sounds good.¡± ¡°Xantos, you mind hunting with us? You can also gain levels right?¡± Xantos nodded. ¡°Well, first we need to get a good night''s rest. We''ll continue tomorrow. I talked to Kyle, there''s an empty cottage that we can use for tonight.¡± I cooked dinner for the night which all of them ate without complains again except Xantos. ¡°Xantos what do you eat then?¡± ¡°Mana.¡± Looks like I was meant to be the cook after all. I channeled all my mana into a highly condensed ball and converted it to light mana. It was shining so brightly that I couldn''t even look at it directly. Xantos on the other hand looked like Kyle did when I brought him the tiara. With one huge chomp, the light was gone and I felt extremely drained. We all turned in for the night, knowing that the task that was ahead of us was not going to be easy but who could resist the idea of solving a hard mystery? The BOTs would make our mark. Slowly but surely.
Party Name : Bunch Of Tards. Party leader : Jinx. Jinx, Level 29 Elemental Swordsman Beathoven, Level 35 Bard Soup, Level 41 Gladiator Breadtalk, Level 29 Trickster
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Chapter 8 : An Interrupted Feast Dawn broke and I woke up to a marvelous sight. Xantos was lying on the floor, emitting a soft warm radiance. The floor of the cottage was cold and hard so unknowingly, all of us inched nearer and nearer towards Xantos. The final product was the four of us cuddling with Xantos at the centre of everyone, no doubt looking pleased that it was receiving so much love. Talk about some serious bromance. I went to wash up in a river nearby the village and begun to formulate my thoughts on how to tackle the problem at hand. Apparently sieging a castle with unknown background isn''t the type of quest you usually get at the start of the game. I decided that we needed to map the whole forbidden forest first to get a hang of the surrounding terrain. We could map the area and fight monsters to level up at the same time. I went back into the cottage and wanted to wake them up but surprisingly they were all already up and doing their own preparations for the upcoming journey as well. Beathoven was playing his chaotic melody, Soup was sharpening his greatsword and Breadtalk.. Well let''s just say his nose isn''t the only thing that''s big now. His lips were huge and dropping as well he looked like a freaking Nicki Minaj with a clown nose attached permanently on him or something. Xantos was walking around restlessly. I turned on my mana manipulation, swift steps and electrical impulse to gain skill proficiency after hearing the chaotic melody and decided that we should just get down to business. ¡°Guys. We should go around raising our levels and I figure an efficient way of doing that would be going around the forest, exploring every nook and cranny around the castle to figure out the terrain at least. You guys ok with that?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°Sqwak.¡± ¡°Was that Xantos?¡± ¡°No that''s Breadtalk.¡± ¡°You guys always these idiotic?¡± ¡°Oh shit Xantos can talk?!¡± ¡°Yes I can and we should get going.¡± Xantos stepped out of the cottage and took to the skies, seemingly excited to start hunting. We went ahead and journeyed towards the east first, using the village as our centre. We ventured a distance in and we did not know what sort of monsters would be in this territory. The canopy of the forest started to thicken considerably so even Xantos had to fly in and join us on foot. Just when we thought no monsters inhabited this part of the forest, a menacing growl was heard from quite a few directions around us. ¡°Dire wolves!¡± Shouted Soup. No wonder we did not see any monsters on our way here. Wolves were known to hunt in packs. Everyone knows that. However, Dire wolves were on a whole different level. They could communicate to the extent where they would evaluate the strength needed to take down their prey and sent a safe amount of wolves after them if they had more than required. They functioned efficiently not only as pack but as a race. Wolves only hunted in their own packs. They could even turn on other packs if they chased the same prey. Dire wolves, co-operated. They were also at level 50. ¡°Hmm. This could be a problem. Soup could you aggro them for a bit? I need to find out the elemental weakness of the dire wolves.¡± ¡°You got 1 minute. Nothing more.¡± Soup roared his berseker''s call and I counted 8 wolves leaping at him. Breadtalk took out his exploding spear and went to help him as much as he could. Beathoven reduced their attack with a song and I decided that the fastest way to determine their weakness was to look at their health bars while casting 8 beams of equal size and strength, each of different elements except for gravity on all 8 different wolves. 8 beams of different elements seeming appeared from the base of each wolf and they were struck with the different elements. It looked like a rainbow sprouting from the ground. ¡°Ohhhhhhh. I didn''t know you were into rainbows Jinx!¡± ¡°Shut up Breadtalk.¡± I quickly identified the wolves which took the most damage after that. It looks like the wolves which were the most damaged were the wolves that were doused with fire and ice. That feat earlier cost me a fair bit of mana though which had increased abit through all my levelling but it wasn''t easy either. 1000 mana was burnt through just like that. I took that into account already and continued my plan. I used mana manipulation to add fire to further improve Breadtalk''s explosions and i decided to encase Soup''s weapon in ice. I then proceeded to use fire to maze the wolves like I did with the treants. However this time I mazed them all in front of Soup, but instead of all of us fighting it out with the wolves like before, I decided to try something else. I froze their feet which required less mana and stopped the fire mazing. They were all rooted to the floor and could only lash out with their bites at Soup which made their movements amazingly constricted and retarded. The mana cost was also quite little compared to maintaining many blazing columns of fire.
New Skill : Rooted Uses mana to root enemies to the ground. Can be used with ice,earth or gravity mana to different effects. Immobilise enemies. Mana Cost: Depends on element and strength of root.
It worked! I had found out that after changing their positions, immoblising them would be the next best thing to do for us to clear mobs quickly. Furthermore the mana cost for now was about 15 mana per second. For eight wolves, that was 120 mana per second. I had enough mana to maintain it for about 30 seconds thanks to the mana regen buff as well which was more than enough time to cut down on the number of wolves. Breadtalk, Soup and I began to hack down on them profusely while Xantos cast spells of light and wind to batter them up and when my mana finally ran dry, there was but one wolf left cowering at the sight of all it''s murdered friends. It didn''t help that Breadtalk the ugly clown Nicki Minaj was the one chasing frantically after it stabbing profusely with his exploding spear. I always run out of mana. I guess I should put more of my stats into intelligence now and make up for the lack of strength with my skill proficiency. We recovered our health and mana before venturing on, knowing the fights later would be easier now that I didn''t need to find out the dire wolves weakness. As we ventured deeper into the eastern forest, we found more and more packs, downing each one as we moved along. Looks like they were divided into 6-8 wolves per pack. Beathoven was mapping the forest with his considerable art stat and the map looked quite detailed. Before we knew it our satiety levels dropped and it was time for lunch. I did the cooking, Soup did the repairing, Beathoven touched up on the mapping and renewed the chaotic melody buffs and Breadtalk was just busy being Breadtalk. By this I meant that Breadtalk suddenly ventured into the woods alone saying he needed to pee. However in RR there was no need to pee so it was obviously a blatant lie. Just when we were wondering what he was up to, he started using his exploding spear to poke random trees somewhere which was about 50m away from us. About 5 minutes later, the exploding noises stopped. Another 10 minutes later, we finally saw Breadtalk running towards us, smiling with a grin as wide from ear to ear. ¡°Why so random bro? Venting your anger in RR and coming back after feeling better?¡± ¡°No. I was just testing out my mob drawing skills.¡± ¡°Mob drawing skills? What?¡± And as if answering to our questions, a pack of wolves appeared behing Breadtalk. Looks like his high luck stat proved to be useful not only for scoring critical hits or avoid blows in fights. When he went luring, he attracted about two times the size of the usual pack size. And so right in front of where we lay camp, 14 wolves were running to us with an idiot leading the pack. ¡°YOU FUCKING RETARD CHILD!¡± Everyone screamed in unison. However, i noticed something. All of them were just chasing him. It was an easy formation to imagine and even easier to manipulate. I raised earth walls of great height and width from the last wolf and boxed them up from the sides and the back. I used earth walls because there were too many wolves to hold them all in place with Rooted. It still had the desired effects. They had no where to run but straight and the entrance was only narrow enough for one wolf. It became something like an arena. It cost me almost all my mana though to suddenly whip out such a huge structure from earth but I didn''t need to use any mana after that. The wolves could now only attack one by one and by now, none of us could lose to just one dire wolf if it was 1 vs 1. Unless it was Beathoven of course but he did not have damage dealing abilities so he stuck with his songs to raise proficiency of the songs of his choice. I could even have time to went back to my cooking. Breadtalk was still laughing at what he had done which turned out to be a surprisingly good move. Soup was fighting the first wolf and was almost done with it already. We decided to take turns and fight the wolves. Soup took the first one down and we rotated such that Breadtalk took the next, Xantos took the following and I took the last one. This cycle repeated until the last wolf was beaten up. I realised luring mobs could be a better training method as we did not have to walk aimlessly until the wolves found us. We could help them find us and thus kill them faster. ¡°This is great! But what made you do that in the first place Breadtalk??¡± I asked. ¡°My Loki''s Entourage buff was running out as it was nearing 24 hours since the last time I had a buff and I decided to lure mobs to you all when you all were resting just to see the look on your faces. Loki gave me a 6 for it so I guess your reactions were pretty priceless.¡± ¡°You sunnavabeech.¡± ¡°Loki''s Armoury!¡± Two shining daggers appeared in front of Breadtalk and he grasped them tightly, wondering what these would do. He looked at Soup. ¡°Do not, test weapons out on me again. I swear to god I will slap you so hard your balls fly out. Both the eyeballs and those balls.¡± ¡°Although I''m a mythical bird you all do realise I''m still a female right.¡± Xantos added. Breadtalk decided to test those daggers on one of the dead bodies of the wolves instead. He slashed the body and right in front of him, the body began to sizzle and decompose. Look''s like those daggers had poison that naturally emitted out of the blades. ¡°If you tried that on me.. Holy shit.¡± ¡°Well it can''t be that bad. Loki said he was suffering from poisonous venom which was of a much higher quality dripping down his head everyday. He''s still alive and kicking!¡± ¡°Do i look like a god to you?¡± ¡°Oh yeah...¡± We took our break, finished our food and preparations and begun the second half of our hunt. The hunt was extremely simple. All of us used the base camp we set up for lunch as a reference. Beathoven would stay here and play music to keep himself invisible. I would be on standby here making some preliminary guiding paths with my earth manipulation which would eventually lead to a bottleneck where I could use earth walls to box the wolves up again. Xantos, Soup and Breadtalk would be responsible to take turns trying to lure wolves to attack them before running to the base. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it We trained like this for a few moments and realised this was indeed faster. We also realised one thing. Luck helps you do whatever you want to do so when Breadtalk wanted to lure mobs, he always had more mobs than either Soup or Xantos. At first I thought it was because his skill could attract a lot of attention but it turns out whatever Breadtalk wants to find, his luck will help him find it. Eventually Breadtalk was the only one we sent to lure mobs to heighten efficiency and we asked Xantos to fly around with Beathoven on his back so he could map out the rest of the forest. Xantos could only fit one man on his back and we needed the three of us to keep luring wolves and efficiently pulverise them. This persisted till nightfall where we had to go back to the cottage. The eastern side was also completely mapped out. More levels and proficiency was gained and I guess we needed to repeat this the next night. A surprise was waiting for us back at the village though. It seemed that the tiara really did embody the demigod''s powers. All the villagers were in such a good mood that they threw a feast. Kyle said a few words and introduced us as the saviours of the village. Apparently everyone knew what happened and we were greeted with applause. There were even adorable children who came up to us after the end of the speech and gave us a garland of fresh flowers each. We decided that it would be ungracious of us to accept and if there were anything that we wanted to experience in RR, it was a party in RR. Beathoven immediately took out his lute and play some of the classic party songs. He played rock, pop and even some house on a lute. I don''t even know how. Don''t ask me. Even more amazingly the NPCs seemingly understood all the music. Titanium on the lute sounds a bit weird but everyone partied along with it just fine. There was a huge bonfire in the middle of the town and we celebrated campfire style. I was helping out with the food and drinks because of the large amount of people we had to serve. The bonfire helped us smoke all the different sorts of meat quickly and I even learnt from them a classic recipe the village used which gave +10% HP to the villagers. My first meal which gave a stat increase and how fitting was it that it came from a party. Soup was going crazy with the villagers and he was the one who knew how to party the hardest. He drank liquor as if he was drinking isotonic drinks after a marathon and before long he was doing sit ups in the centre of dance circles, rolling around the floor saying he feels like a vacuum cleaner today and puking all over the grass shouting ¡°It''s okay! It helps the grass grow faster!¡± Breadtalk being Breadtalk.... Well let''s just say only Xantos did not have an especially fun night tonight when Breadtalk wanted to push Xantos into the bonfire just to see if it would become a fried chicken. The Demigod Valhalla apparently was present in spiritual form. As soon as he push Xantos into the fire, the fire became considerably smaller and Xantos immediately flew up into the sky, using wind magic to push Breadtalk into the fire. He nearly died but he was entertained so all was fine. It was a night full of joy and laughter. The festives were about to come to an end when everything went downhill from there. ¡°AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO¡± ¡°What was that?¡± ¡°Breadtalk?¡± ¡°No he almost died he''s just sleeping and resting now.¡± ¡°Sounded like.. a werewolf?¡± The night was dark and only the center of the town was lit due to the bonfire. However, there was unmistakably a dark figure on one of the cottage roofs. The sound also supposedly came from the dark figure. And to answer to our questions, the dark figure jumped three feet into the air and landed into visibility. It was a wolf on two''s, black with red eyes gleaming with bloodlust. It was about 2 meters tall with very human like behaviour. No doubt about that. Werewolf. The villagers all screamed and ran into their cottages and we immediately took our positions. Werewolves were known to be scared of silver. However, most games also had them attributed with a weakness of fire so I decided on my choice of element. Just when I decided though, Xantos came swooping down from the skies and begun pouring light magic on the werewolf. It immediately lunged at Xantos, achieving great heights whenever he leaped but Xantos was just staying out of reach as it was a relatively open area and she had all the advantage in the world. I decided to change my aura to light instead and took a look at the monster details. A werewold was a level 100 monster which was far superior than anything we had ever seen before. I tried using Rooted but the werewolf immediately broke out of it. On strong monsters it seems like Rooted would not work. Boxing it in was not an option as well as it could easily leap over the walls. This was the first time in the game where we had the numerical advantage instead of the monster but the monster was the significantly stronger one instead. We just had to deal with it as best as we could. Beathoven played chaotic melody as usual before playing a song that debuffed what seemed to be the werewolf''s greatest strength. Movement speed. Soup used berserker''s call and went into a melee with the werewolf immediately. Breadtalk was still sleeping that sunnavabeech. I decided that since the werewolf had all its attention on Soup and Xantos was also harrassing it constantly with light magic that seemed to do some damage, I would try something I usually did not do. Up till now I only wanted to achieve crowd control abilities as I was the only one who could do that and to quite a huge extent dependent on my mana and imagination. However, this was the time where all that didn''t matter. It was about dishing as much damage as possible per second to just one target and I did not have a spell to do that. I needed to use a large amount of mana and make it into a skill. However if the skill was too spread out, it would lose power and it might even hit Soup if I was not careful. I wonder how best should I tackle this problem. And then I remembered how I fed Xantos with mana the previous night. I focused all my mana into a single area directly above the werewolf''s head. I then begun to compress and condense my mana before turning it to light mana. I shaped the mana into the most destructive object I could first think of, a sword. It was a sword made entirely out of light mana, thin and slightly long and it was hovering a few meters directly above it''s head. After making sure I used all my mana and not even a single drop was left, I let it drop onto the werewolf''s head.
New Skill : Divine Judgement Concentrates a huge amount of a specific mana type into the shape of a sword above an enemy''s head. After determining the amount of mana the user adds, the sword will then drop down straight into the enemy skull. Deals high damage to a single target. High critical hit rate. Mana Cost: Depends on amount of mana invested into the creation of the sword.
The attack alone took about 70% of the werewolf''s health. With the damaged received up till now, I suspected he had about 10% of health left. However just one attack left me totally dry and the werewolf turned to look at me. Looks like aggro can be transferred onto a player even though other players are attacking the monster if the player inflicts a huge damage onto the target. The werewolf lunged at me and I barely had the time to use my katana to defend myself. It had extremely quick movements, even though Beathoven was already slowing it down with his song. I had to use electrical impulse and wind steps to keep up and the use of these skills were extremely apparent in these 1v1 fights. Actually it was 3v1 but as long as the opponent side was kept at 1, the skills helped me to manage. I was totally dry on mana as i needed to maintain the two skills with a thin layer of light aura around my katana as I engaged the werewolf. Soup was hacking and slashing behind the werewolf, dealing heavy blows but apparently physical attacks were less effective on werewolves that magical attacks maybe because of their tough fur. It took me and Soup a good 5 minutes with Xantos'' harrassment before we brought down the last 10% of health off the werewolf. ¡°If this was how much trouble one werewolf could bring.. How much would two or even a pack.....¡± I wouldn''t even dare to imagine that scenario. However this werewolf wasn''t supposed to exist in the forbidden forest. The highest level mobs around here based on websites were the level 70 Gorillas that lived somewhere among the forest. How did a level 100 mob just appear out of nowhere? ¡°Wait. I think we solved the identity of our unexpected intruders of the castle.¡± I said. ¡°Werewolves? Holy shit.¡± ¡°Why do you think so?¡± ¡°Valhalla already said herself, the foreign enemies are dark forces. This forbidden forest has a majority of earth type creatures which do belong in the wild. However a dark werewolf suddenly appears out of the blue? And what was he even doing in this village? Maybe he wanted to take the tiara for himself after the treants failed to accomplish this?¡± I suggested. ¡°Sounds reasonable... However if there are a castle full of these monsters within it. I cannot see how we can win against more of these creatures.¡± Said Xantos. ¡°I don''t see how we can now either... But I believe we can still complete this quest but with tons of preparation and proper planning. It''s a C rank difficulty quest for a reason right?¡± I reasoned. They all agreed that it might be possible that that was the scenario and everyone seemed even more excited than before. Sure the task was hard but if it wasn''t hard it wouldn''t give the sense of achievement after we managed to finish this damn quest. We went to turn in for the night, knowing that we had not much time to lose, even though we have already mapped the eastern side of the town, there was still the other parts to map. I had a bad feeling that if we didn''t finish this fast, more and more attacks would come to the town due to that tiara which I was pretty sure the dark forces would be able to sense and want to get rid of.
Party Name : Bunch Of Tards. Party leader : Jinx. Jinx, Level 41 Elemental Swordsman Beathoven, Level 45 Bard Soup, Level 50 Gladiator Breadtalk, Level 41 Trickster
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Chapter 9 : Snakes After a night''s rest which to tell the truth was not very pleasant, we begun to get ready for a second day of exterminating monsters of the forbidden forest. With the eastern part of the forest mapped out, we decided to go South. We did not have to walk far in before we noticed what was in store for us. A snake which was approximately 10 feet in length and about as thick as a tree trunk slithered towards us and attacked. Soup was the first man in line as usual and his reaction was superb. He met the snake''s wide open mouth with his sword and he used his ¡°Power Strike¡± just before the instance of impact. He sliced it cleanly with one shot. ¡°Niceeeee.¡± ¡°Holy shit bro.¡± ¡°OHYEAH LET''S KILL MORE OF THESE THINGS.¡± Snakes were about the same levels as dire wolves but a trickier thing to deal with. Their scales were hard, smooth and tough. Physical attacks were not very effective unless you slice them while their mouths are open which was what Soup did with the very first snake. Counterattacks were the best way to put them down. However this required delicate timing and courage which looked like what Soup was good at. Magic resistance of the snakes seemed rather high and I could not deal much damage with my spells. I tried casting Rooted on the snakes as well but there was nothing like feet to grab on to and grabbing the entire tree trunk of the body drained my mana faster than I thought so I immediately ended the spell. Looks like fighting with the katana is the best way for this. We did our usual routine like that of the dire wolves. Xantos took Beathoven to map the surrounding areas while Breadtalk ran around luring snakes and bringing them all back to Soup and I for the clean up. However there was a flaw in the plan. When I used my earth walls to box them up, I realised the entrance while small enough only for about one big sized man, the snakes inside could still attack all at once since they could all stick their heads out at the same time. Advantages of not having a normal humanoid or beast like body I guess. Apparently Soup noticed this as well. ¡°JINXXXXX. BAD IDEAAAAA. BOX THEM UP LIKE A PRESENT QUICK OR WE ARE GONNA DIE!¡± I was on it before he even started on the third sentence. Now we had a problem. How were we going to clear up the 10 snakes inside the enclosure? As usual Breadtalk had other ideas. He climbed a tree and jumped into the pit. ¡°YOLO!¡± ¡°WHAT?!¡± I immediately removed the wall and saw 10 snakes rearing up getting to strike Breadtalk all at the same time. Apparently his luck stat never ceases to amaze me. As all of the snakes striked at the same time, they all aimed for the same part and crashed into each other just 1 feet before being able to touch Breadtalk. Soup took this chance to quickly bring down one of them by casting a power strike onto the head of the snake and I used gravity crush as well. I realised that wind mana could be wrapped around to enhance the sharpness of the sword so I used wind for this fight. Breadtalk took out his knives and started stabbing another one in the eyes. Their HP all went down considerably and we had enough time to kill all 3 of them before the other snakes managed to recover and regroup. Beathoven came back in the midst of this and started playing songs that would slow the movement speed of the snakes while Xantos took to the skies and started pelting spells or swooping in to claw their eyes out. I transformed the piece of land into a frozen landscape, thinking that snakes would be bad at fighting on ice and I was right. The snakes were basically conducting a musical. They could not control their slithering and they looked like they just had a hell of a night partying and drinking. One of the snakes tried a desperate lunge at me and shot off in an entirely different direction into the wall. I thought the fight was won when I realised we didn''t have experience fighting on ice as well. Breadtalk was slipping and sliding like the snakes and it looked like he was thoroughly enjoying himself. Soup was decked in heavy armour from head to toe so he had abit more weight to be stable but when he tried to attack, he fell face first into the snake which still wasn''t able to counterattack. Before I could do something stupid I thought of what would be the smartest thing to do now and I added made spikes of earth sprout out from beneath my shoes. I tried running towards the snakes. Sure it felt weird like my every step was stuck to the ground and I had to use a bit of strength to pull it out and take another step but it worked. I added the spikes to Breadtalk and Soup''s shoes as well and we cleaned up the defenceless snakes in no time. ¡°That was ingenious Jinx.¡± ¡°That was so funnnnnn¡± ¡°You are a crazy bastard.¡± And so we used this technique to hunt the snakes for the entire day, venturing deeper into the forest. The deeper we went into the eastern side, the stronger the dire wolves became and it was no different here. With one exception. While we were venturing in deeper, a different type of snake could be seen. A cobra. It had elongated parts near their necks which looked like hoods and they were significantly about 10 levels ahead of their other counterparts. We thought they were free levels as the snakes could literally do nothing on ice but I was wrong. Cobras had the ability to shoot out their venom and when we realised this for the first time, the cobra had shot its venom at Breadtalk and due to his insane luck, the venom missed slightly and it landed on Soup in a clear headshot instead. ¡°ARGHHHHHH. OWWWWWWW. IT''S LIKE HOT SOUP ALL OVER MY FACE.¡± ¡°Nice pun I approve.¡± ¡°SHUT UP AND HELPP I''M GONNA DIE ITS ACTUALLY QUITE BAD.¡± Poison was extremely effective in RR. It took away just a bit of health per second but it acts as a percentage decrease so it was actually very effective against classes with high health such as gladiators. The poison from the cobra took about 1% of health from him every 10 seconds so in about 1000 seconds if we did not get this treated, he would probably die. Poison did not just wear off after a while in this game as well so we needed a solution. I promptly finished off all the snakes first, using wind and gravity crush and even Rooted the Cobra which took about 200 mana per second just for one bloody snake to prevent any further casualties from venom spray while I finished it off. I rushed to Soup and found out that Xantos was already on it. I saw light mana surround Soup and he was cured of his status. I asked Xantos if she could teach me the skill and she agreed.
New Skill : Dispel You have learnt how to dispel negative status from Xantos. It needs light mana but it only has a certain success rate. Success rate will increase at higher skill levels and different status would have different success rates. Poison and Blindness are the easiest to cure but rarer statuses will be harder. Mana cost : 100 mana
The mana cost wasn''t high so I was quite pleased with the skill. Just because I could manipulate mana doesn''t mean I know all the spells already. For now I could fight my manipulating and materializing the elements like creating a floor of ice, columns of fire, wrapping wind around my sword to make it sharper and basic level skills like fireball and lightning strike. However I still could not use spells like Frostmourne which was a spell that could coat my sword in cursed ice that would slow the enemy and impair their health regeneration as well. I know about the skill but I still had to learn it first before I could use it. I tried wrapping my sword with ice and dark mana but it just doesn''t work that way. Figures if not this class would immediately know every spell in the game and even that was too OP. Cobra''s were tough to deal with because of the venom spray but because of the ice we were constantly fighting on, their aim wasn''t too accurate and since Xantos and I had the dispel skill, we need not worry at all. Without Xantos however it would have been a different story so I was quite happy. They gave better drops and experience as well so we were progressing at a faster rate. Last but not least, when we reached the edge of the Southern forest, a surprise was waiting for us. Compared to the eastern side which just had dire wolves of increasing levels, the southern side had a bit more variety. There were snakes, cobras and finally, a king cobra. King cobras were a miniboss class monster which meant that there woud only be one that spawned within the area which gave higher rewards and experience but it was not a true boss monster so it wouldn''t be extremely good rewards but still it was our first time seeing a miniboss. The King cobra was easily longer than 20 foot, had a body circumference of almost 3 tree trunks instead of 1 and the head the size of Xantos due to its huge hood. It was huge. Soup looked excited as hell and Breadtalk''s eyes were shining like jewels. He must have been thinking how best to make fun of such a monster. Xantos was just like meh whereas Beathoven was just staying behind making sure our buffs were applied and quickly turned himself invisible. I had to engage the fight as usual. I wrapped the floor in ice but this time it was to no avail. The sheer size and weight of the king cobra made the ice crack beneath it so it''s movements were unhindered. I contemplated using gravity to make it lighter so that it could slip on the ice but the thought of making something that big and heavy lighter was ill considered as it would require about 5 times my current mana pool before I could do something like that. I had to think of another way to fight this beast. Before I could think of something though, the king cobra retracted its hood and looked slightly upwards. This was an animation signalling that it was about to use venom spray. We braced ourselves but what came out was not a thin jet of venom like the usual cobras. It was a river of venom of an entirely different magnitude. All of us lest Xantos who was in the air got drenched in it and the venom was of a different class as well. It dropped our HP by1% per second so we had only 100 seconds. I quickly used dispel on us with Xantos and it even took a few additional tries. Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. The quality of the venom must also affect the chances of success of Dispel.. Breadtalk and Soup went to flank the King cobra and Soup just went full man mode to show his balls of steel. He used berserker''s call. Apparently this worked on minibosses as well and the king cobra turned its full attention on Soup. It used the tail and jaws to lash out at Soup who could only defend and not even counterattack while Breadtalk took the chance to climb a tree near the head of the king cobra. He then proceeded to use his knives to attack the hood of the cobra. When the berserker''s call duration went off, the cobra proceeded to use another venom spray and this time, when he retracted the hood, all of us hid behind trees for cover and when he released the spray, the hood flapped back open and on the hood, there were words carved on them. ¡°I came...¡± ¡°When I was busy aggro-ing it for 10 seconds all you could do was go up it and instead of poking its eyeball out or something.... YOU WENT TO WRITE I CAME ON ITS HOOD?!¡± ¡°But it''s practically begging me to do that look! Its about to come again!¡± *Pshhhhhhhhhh* The sound effect of the venom didnt seem to help and Beathoven was the only one enjoying it as he need not be directly involved in this fight, laughing and playing his songs behind a tree. My options were rather limited even though I had a full mana pool. I considered making a swamp out of water and earth but I had a strong feeling snakes were amphibious and mud wouldn''t hinder it as much as us. It should have high magic resistance too so I wouldn''t be able to inflict loads of damage with divine judgement like i did on the werewolf last night. We had to take it down slowly but surely then. I used divine judgement on a smaller scale just to focus on the eyes of the king cobra and Xantos used to same approach. We tried to take the away it''s sense of sight. Breadtalk just went to slash at the cobra''s body, hoping that the venom inside his twin daggers were potent enough to cause damage to a venemous creature itself. Soup had no choice but to try and harm it with his greatsword but it wasn''t very effective. The head was too high above the ground for us to do any substantial damage and unless we could bring the head down, this would be an endless fight just tiring us out. Then I realised. I could do something to bring the head down. ¡°Guys! The head is coming down so get ready to inflict massive damage on the head!!¡± ¡°What?¡± I used gravity mana on just the head of the snake which didn''t require too much mana. It worked well. Just like I put on Elena''s boots for the first time, the head of the snake didn''t just slowly go down, the head basically just dropped down like a sack of potatoes and onto the ground. I used gravity crush onto the eyes of the cobra and it worked. The eyes were ruptured and bloodied. Soup went to use power strike on the base of the neck where it seemed like it would do the most damage. Breadtalk went into the mouth and stab his daggers into the tongue of the king cobra. ¡°WHAT? THIS ISN''T PINNOCHIO THIS ISN''T A WHALE YOU DUMBASS! GET OUT!!!¡± Breadtalk managed to jump out of there while the snake was thrashing around in pain from all the damage it just received. Before this we only managed to take down about 5% of health but now it was already at about half health left. Especially after Breadtalk''s ballsy move, it took out a huge chunk of health off the miniboss. It was also poisoned from the daggers still lodged inside it''s tongue. Loki must have put some serious venom in there which could even affect a king cobra. I checked my mana and decided to use all of it to keep it''s head down for about 1 more minute. We hacked and slashed at the base of the neck together and since the head was the origin of attacks for the snake, it could not do anything but try to whip at us with it''s tail. Since we knew where the attacks could come from, it was fairly easy and even before all my mana was drained, the king cobra died. We defeated our first miniboss. The rewards were substantial. All of us gained at least one level and there were also some decent drops. My katana mastery and Soup''s greatsword mastery was stuck at beginner level 9 (99%) for awhile already and this mob pushed our masteries both to the intermediate level. There was a pendant which was the fang of the king cobra attached to a silver chain which increased poison resistance and luck. There was also armour made from the scales of the king cobra which was classified as leather armour and gave significant increase to defence, magic resistance, poison resistance and added some dexterity. Breadtalk received the pendant and I got the leather armour as we were the ones who would benefit the most from it. Breadtalk then went to retrieve his daggers from the boss as we decided to skin the king cobra in order to use it''s leather to craft more items in town at a later date.
Equipped : King Cobra''s Chestpiece A piece of armour made from King Cobra''s scales. Extremely smooth and glossy with a fair bit of magical and physical protection. Level requirement : 55 Defence +50 Magic Resistance +5% Poison Resistance +30% Dexterity + 20
We finished mapping the Southern area as well already and proceeded back to town as it was late. We were left with the Western and Northern areas and the north was where the castle was. I had a moment to think. There''s a dark force in the castle that Valhalla wants us to exterminate. There are most probably werewolves inside as they don''t exist in this region but we saw one in the village yesterday. Treants should also be on their side as they stole the tiara for them. Inside the castle there should be a boss as someone should be commanding the forces. We only know these so far... Oh well I can think of worst and more impossible quests. We each took different shifts to look after the tiara as we passed the night, looking forward to tomorrow to map the western side before deciding on how to tackle the north. ¡°Open stats and skill windows.¡±
[quart=Character name,Alignment]Jinx,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,Class]58,Elemental Swordsman[/quart][quart=Title,Race]N/A,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,Infamy]10,0[/quart][quart=Health,Mana]1400,3000[/quart][quart=Strength,Dexterity]75,85[/quart][quart=Wisdom,Intellect]30,200[/quart][quart=Vitality,Affinity to Nature]60,13%[/quart][quart=Leadership,Luck]0,0[/quart][quart=Perseverance,Sustenance]50,50[/quart][quart=Attack,Defense]100,69[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,Magic Resistance]100,5%[/quart]
Stat Window
Elemental AffinitiesFire +5% Ice +5% Water +5% Wind +5% Lightning +5% Earth+5% Gravity+5% Light +5% Dark +5
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any swords and use up to leather armour +500 Health +1000 Mana Able to use magic and swordplay simultaneously No miscast penalty due to spell failure due to absence of magic circles Member of both the Intelligence and Warrior Guilds
Fast Reader | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Finishes books 42% faster.
Mana Manipulation | Beginner level 9 (37%). Affinity to Nature +13%.
Flare | Beginner level 1 (5%). Summons a small source of light.
Katana Mastery | Intermediate level 1 (10%). Increases attack power with a katana +100% and attack speed +30%.
Gravity Crush | Beginner level 4 (40%). Weapon Atk +560% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity)
Wind Steps | Beginner level 6 (40%). Increases movement speed +26% (Dependent on Wind Affinity)
Electrical Impulse | Beginner level 6 (40%). Increases reaction time by 0.1s (Dependent on Lightning Affinity)
Adrenaline Rush | Beginner level 1 (5%). Increases time perception by 5% when HP is below 10%.
Cooking | Beginner level 6 (70%). Enables you to prepare meals.
Rooted | Beginner level 3 (5%). Immobilises enemy by restraining their movement. (Dependent on element''s affinity).
Dispel | Beginner level 3 (40%). Has a chance to heal status effects.
I could only hope that this was for now enough for what was to come in the future.
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Chapter 10 : Revelation The night passed by without any special happenings and we managed to get our sleep. The third day of the quest has finally begun and we needed to map the Western area for today. ¡°Hey guys. It''s time to wake up.¡± was what I wanted to say ¡°Mmffgh.¡± was what came out My hands were tied and I was gagged and blindfolded. Oh my god the undead forces has kidnapped me I''m so dead ¡°MMMMRFFGGHHH!¡± I felt someone untie the ropes and slowly remove the blindfold.... Breadtalk. ¡°April fools! Sorry just wanted to make you wet your pants. I''m too tired to think of a good joke. Loki gave me a two. Can''t blame him though.¡± I made a fist shape rise from the ground below Breadtalk, quite literally punching his balls from the zero angle as hard as I can. After the commotion in the morning, we set off first thing in the morning to get on with the quest as fast as possible. I had a bad feeling that the longer we drag, the harder this quest would be. We set off immediately on to the western side. We did not have to walk far to find the first monster. It was a lvl 70 gorilla as I suspected. However something was very wrong with it. It was dead. ¡°Sword marks all over it with a few arrows sticking out. You think another party is here hunting with us?¡± ¡°Maybe. Let''s go in further maybe we could find out more.¡± We ventured further into the forest, finding more and more gorilla corpses. However after about 30 minutes of walking, we heard a few roars and sounds of a fight breaking out. We rushed over and saw a gorilla fighting against a group of warriors. Just one catch though. The warriors were undead. They were undead skeleton warriors which were about the same level as gorillas but as they had the overwhelming number advantage, the gorilla soon went down. No undead should exist within the forbidden forest. What is wrong with the forest? First werewolves and now undead skeleton warriors? ¡°Jinx. What do we do now?¡± ¡°What we always do.¡± I used Rooted on the skeletal warriors and all of us immediately engaged. I gave light mana to every weapon. Breadtalk had gotten a two handed mace with a spiky ball as a head. Apparently it didn''t seem to do anything so it was a first where we saw a weapon from Loki without any special effect. There was a number 99 printed on the handle though but I doubt that was of any importance. Soup dashed in and used a new skill he just met the basic requirements for learning. ¡°Gladiator''s rage.¡± His weapon glowed red along with the goldenish glow it had from light mana and he slashed it through one of the skeleton warriors. Gladiator''s rage was one of the bread and butter skills of what made the foundation of the class. It was the skill that allowed famous gladiators to solo an entire dungeon of monsters without any additional help. The longer the gladiator has been in battle would increase his damage. The more monsters the gladiator has killed throughout the duration of the buff, the higher his endurance, sustenance and vitality levels would become. The duration of the buff was dependent on the proficiency of the skill so I guess this was why Soup used it, he wanted to raise it''s proficiency as soon as possible. All of us hacked and slashed at the skeletal warriors. I experiemented a bit with their undead nature as well. I created a field of holy light around us and their attacks weakened considerably and it dealt damage per second as well. Xantos was extremely efficient in taking down these skeletal warriors as well. She had already grown in size to be about 1.5x that of Breadtalk already and it was only 3 days. She was capable of using holy magic so she cast something that look like a holy ray of light upon each skeletal warrior, lowering their HP significantly. Breadtalk was just flailing his club along like a giant spiky deathball. Beathoven played a rockish melody that increased our attack speed to heighten our efficiency in killing them. The group of 5 immobilised skeletal warriors were vanquished quickly. ¡°So why do you think there are a group of skeletal warriors here?¡± ¡°Maybe they cae out from the castle to hunt. The troops in the castle may include skeletal warriors and troops need training after all. Maybe this was their mission.¡± ¡°Sounds fair enough. But how come they can come out during the day?¡± ¡°Undead love the night but that doesn''t mean they totally melt under the sun. Besides the canopy is so thick I think they will be able to function normally.¡± ¡°Undead give additional experience though due to the nature of their type. We should get quite alot of experience if we hunt them down. Let''s go.¡± We scoured the surrounding areas and found out skeletal warriors hunted in groups of 5. We took each group down the same way, efficiently and quickly and made our way deeper towards the west. Suddenly, we heard sounds that were loud but it sounded different from all the fights we''ve heard so far. We decided to check it out. In a valley, there were a few tents set up and it turned out the noise we heard was this base camp that the undead had set up. Skeletal warriors were busy repairing their weapons, chatting away and the loud hammering noises with their voices were what we heard. There were about at least 5 groups of them so at least 25 skeletal soldiers. We could easily deal with 5 or even 10 of them but the thought of 25 skeleton warriors charging at you seemed a bit scary. Except to Breadtalk of course because all he did after processing a moment''s worth of thought through his brain was to jump straight into the fray. ¡°NOT AGAIN.¡± And the 4 of us went straight in with him. I quickly set up a holy area around us and thought about my options. Immobilising all of them assuming 30 skeletal warriors would mean I could only last 10 seconds. Not a wise choice. I stuck to basics and decided to rely on my katana mastery instead. Beside me I could see Soup rared up and ready to go with his Gladiator''s rage activated and ready to go, the bloodlust showing in his eyes. Xantos was already casting holy rays everywhere and swooping in to annoy a few of the skeletons. ¡°Guys! The number on my weapon reduces each time I hit an enemy with it and it''s about to go to 0 soon. Brace yourselves I guess?¡± Great. Of course all of Loki''s weapons had to have a secret to them. I wonder what would require 99 hits onto enemies to activate but it looks like I was about to find out. He swung his mace onto the helmet of a skeletal soldier and the head of the mace actually detached and latched itself onto the helmet. ¡°Guys. There''s another number now on the head of the giant spiky iron ball instead. It says 10,9,8,7....¡± Realising what it could be I quickly set up walls of earth around all the party members. I suspected it was a bomb. However, after I counted to 0, there was no explosion albeit a sound of gushing wind. I released the spell and looked around. All the skeletal soldiers were nearly down to 0 health and all of them had spikes similar to that on the giant spiky mace head covering their entire bodies. The head of the mace also automatically went to attach itself onto the handle, making it whole again. Seems like whenever Breadtalk strikes the enemy 99 times, the head of the mace would become a time activated bomb that shoots out it''s spikes endlessly instead of an explosion. It was a pretty handy skill for clearing big pile of mobs but it had to go through 99 hits on enemies first. No wonder a 2 would let you get such an item. However the timing was just nice as they had a huge crowd now. I proceeded to cut down the skeletal warriors one after another who were weakened in the holy field and had their movement speed slowed down by Beathoven. Soup was plowing through skeleton after skeleton and Xantos was still casting holy rays. Thanks to the activation of Breadtalk''s weapon, the situation was dealt with rather quickly. The 30 skeletal warriors all died and we took their base camp as our own to consume our lunch and follow up with necessary preparations. My cooking level was progressing well and with the recipe the villagers gave me, I could give the party a 10% hp boost for 2 hours once they consumed my food. Soup''s repair skill has also almost reached the intermediate level after repairing weapons every day during these hunts. Beathoven played so many songs that most of his songs were reaching intermediate level soon and his chaotic melody has already reached beginner level 9. It was giving us 140hp and mp regeneration which was an extremely impressive buff. I could use gravity crush all day long and still have full mana. He told me he was also composing a new song as he mastered almost all the typical songs he had from the book his guild master gave him. Self composed songs like chaotic melody seemed to have much better effects so I was looking forward to his new song. After lunch, we decided to venture further into the forest to finish mapping up the place. To no surprise, what lay deeper ahead of us were hordes and hordes of skeleton warriors which we cut down body after body, head after head. They were quite similar with us on levels by now but due to our skill proficiencies and experience, it was as smooth as cutting through soft cheese. Up until we saw what was seemingly the final group for us to finish off. However this was not normal. What we saw ahead of us was what seemed to be the leader of the fallen gorillas, a huge king kong about twice the size of a normal gorilla protecting a herd of his kind behind him, as around 20 skeletal warriors begun their final approach. Being the sort of guy I am, I couldn''t simply ignore this and I quickly assaulted the skeletal warriors head on instead of Soup leading the charge instead. ¡°Typical Jinx, he''s just a goody two shoes isn''t he?¡± ¡°Well I don''t particularly hate types like that.¡± ¡°Hahaha well good guys finish last anyway so I dont mind!¡± The three of them knew me so well they didn''t even hesitate one moment and join the charge. Xantos apparently was the only one a bit stunned to dive into the chaos but I guess our craziness rubbed off a little on her and she quickly rose to the occasion. Quite literally. As in flying and everything. Ok sorry i tried. I was outraged and angry now that I actually saw the king kong try to protect his kind behind him while he was wounded and injured already no doubt from earlier battles and I casted the biggest holy field yet. It''s intensity was also heightened and it was not only confirmed by a faster drop in HP from the skeleton warriors but also a message I received.
Elemental Affinity to Light increased! By spending time with a mythical creature associated with light and feeding it regularly, you have purified your light mana even further and the close approximity you have spent daily with the creature has heightened your level of affinity to light. Protecting this gorilla family from the skeleton warriors have also been witnessed by the demigod of these lands, Valhalla and all these acts combined have given you additional affinity to light. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. Light Affinity + additional 5%
Cool. I remembered what Dumblemore told me about increasing my elemental affinity. I had to make use of such chances to expose myself to higher purity of elements. This increase meant that all my light spells were of a greater purity thus efficiency and impact. I tested it out by trying to use a holy spell that Xantos has tried to teach me but I was unable to learn from her. ¡°Lesser heal!¡± I concentrated my mana on Soup as he used Gladiator''s Rage and Berserker''s Call and aggro-ed almost 10 skeleton warriors to himself. A ray of holy light from the heavens shone on him and his hp increased by about two fifths of the bar. The skeleton warriors nearby also suffered damage due to the close proximity with the holy ray of light that had healing powers.
New Skill : Lesser Heal Your attempts to learn this spell from Xantos has been in vain as you did not have the required affinity with light in order to manipulate light mana to be able to heal. However, upon increasing your light affinity, you are now able to use your mana to heal your allies slightly. Any undead in the surrounding area of the heal would suffer damage proportionate to the amount healed. Mana cost : 200
I always suspected that you needed a minimum amount of affinity to a certain element before you could learn certain spells as well and this answered my theory perfectly. This was how higher tier spells could slowly be learnt. By increasing affinity. It was a very useful spell. I was very concerned about our group not having a healer and have always thought using health potions would be the only other alternative. However health potions were rarely dropped and expensive but essential in boss fights where health levels usually decreased extremely fast. Looks like I could also act as a healer in situations as well and the mana cost was not too taxing as well. Sure it was high but if it could heal two fifths of Soup''s hp pool it could most definitely heal mine back to full due to my relatively low vitality. I had no skills to increase my defence level as well, i just relied on parrying and dodging so if I took a big hit I would most likely be almost dead. I decided to try and fix this weakness. I usually just used earth for building walls to trap monsters or mostly change the terrain but it looks like now is a good time for inventing defensive skills before embarking on the quest into the castle walls. I imagined a thin layer of earth mana surrounding me and hardening my skin and armour.
New Skill : Elemental Armour Gives different buffs according to which element is wrapped around the user. Mana cost remains the same though regardless of type of mana used. A very flexible skill that can be used in almost all situations with a moderate mana cost. Mana cost : 20/s
I immediately scrolled through the different elements to see their effects. Fire made surrounding enemies take damage as the flame from my aura scorched them. Ice made enemies who have hit me slightly slower as the frost on my armour would slow down their movements. Water made me more resistant to status effects as they seemed to be washed away and impeded by the water. Lightning made the enemies who hit me directly or with weapons that could conduct electricity stunned for a short period of time. Earth increased my defence directly and made me sturdier. Gravity made me heavier which meant I would be able to hold my stance more firmly and not get knocked back by strong attacks. Light made me glow brightly, causing damage to nearby undead enemies or causing a higher chance for opponents to miss due to the irritating light emitting from my avatar. Darkness cursed the nearby enemies to have a weaker attack speed and attack rating due to the overwhelming sense of despair they would be able to sense from me. Looks like this skill would be very useful. I also needed the existence of Beathoven to be able to cast so many spells in a fight. Mana regeneration is usually 1% of your total mana per second. However Beathoven''s song gave me about 5% of my total mana per second instead which meant I could maintain my elemental armour, electrical impulse and wind steps without losing mana at all times. He really seemed like the one who did the least in fights due to his nonexistent damage contribution but in actual fact, if Beathoven went down in a fight, I would most probably be useless after 1-2 minutes. I was extremely grateful for his class choice and I think Soup and Breadtalk also realised how important he was to the party. We defeated the skeletal army with ease. However the situation was trickier than that and it was still not solved. The king kong looked at us with apprehensive eyes. They did not know whether we have saved them or would finish them off. It would be an easy thing to do as the king kong looked extremely damaged. The gorillas behind him were also quite wounded. We went in with the intention of wiping out the monsters and levelling up and this would be the perfect opportunity but seeing wounded enemies which were easily picked off was not my style. I sheathed my katana and tried to communicate with the king kong. ¡°Do you understand our language?¡± I asked. The king kong nodded. But did not speak. ¡°Can you talk?¡± He shook his head. ¡°I am not going to kill you. I have prepared some food earlier and I will give you all some food. In return all I ask is that you recover your strength in order to assist us later. To the northeast there is a castle where these skeleton warriors likely came from. We will be raiding that castle in a few days and we would like you to be on our side so we stand a better chance and you get a chance to avenge all your fallen comrades today. Will you accept my offer?¡± He nodded immediately. Firmly. It was without a doubt that he understood my offer. I immediately took out my cooking supplies to prepare a meal for them. I included bananas in them just for fun as I suspected that if this game were as realistic and awesome as it was, these gorilllas would love bananas like crazy. It was a recipe I made up myself and I decided to feed it to them and see what happened. At first all of them looked apprehensive as I offered the food. They smelled it for abit and then took a wary bite. And after that in a split second all the food was gone as they swallowed it whole after tasting the first bite.
New recipe created : Going Bananas Thoughtfulness on your part has enabled you to create a dish that the ape family loves. Eating this dish would enhance their energy and physical attributes temporarily. Gives them enhanced recovery rate as well as endurance for 2 hours after consumption. Only for apes. Not applicable for humans.
Oh well looks like I''m born to cook for apes. There were about 20 gorillas at first which was quite a simple task to feed. However, the king kong let out a loud roar and shortly after, more gorillas appeared from the canopy of the forest, swinging down to the temporary rest point we had set up. I had to use all the bananas I bought from town as well as send Xantos and Beathoven to collect more to finish feeding the gorillas. There were about 100 in total which meant there used to be a lot more before the skeletal warriors came to hunt them down. The western area by now was fully mapped and the last area to go was the north. We had to make full use of the time given to us but we made sure not to map areas at night. Vision decreased so efficiency fell greatly and it was common sense that certain undead species become significantly stronger at night like the werewolf we saw 2 nights ago. We had to be safe. We started walking back to our camp as I said goodbye to the king kong. He was their leader and throughout the short 2-3 hours we hung out with each other, I could sense that we developed mutual respect and goodwill for the other party. I had no doubt that when I decided to raid the castle, all I needed was to call on him and he would be there to provide assistance. They could serve as an army alone already. However I doubt that was enough. When we reached the village, everything seemed normal and we decided to immediately get rest so we could completely finish mapping up our first area in the game and stand a higher chance of completing the quest. Little did we know that this quest was actually staged by a certain compatriot of ours that has noticed each and every step we took. Deep in the mountain ranges of J?tunheimr, Loki was busy entertaining himself by using his spirits in the real world to take the form of birds, watching Jinx and his party venture into the forbidden forest. There was no such quest for newbies. When Jinx heard the information from Elena, Elena was actually in the toilet. Loki just used shapeshift to pretend to be Elena and gave him the quest. ¡°My dear children, have you been watching the chosen ones? Have they passed your first test you have set for them?¡± Loki telephatically asked his children. ¡°My dire wolves and werewolf proved to be little challenge to them and I am particularly impressed by one person in the group. I see no problem in choosing them.¡± His son said. ¡°My snakes have also proved to be of little trouble to them. I expected them to fail at the king cobra but they answered my expectations spectacularly. I too have no problem in choosing them.¡± His other son said. ¡°My skeleton warriors were crushed. I think I had set the difficulty level a bit too easy but for now I approve of your choice father.¡± His daughter replied. ¡°Good good. I think the first test was a bit on the easy side though as they have quite a powerful synergy and line up of characters. However the next test will truly test their mettle and from there, we can see their true worth and whether or not we should risk it all investing in their potential. I think the next few days would be the most interesting show we will get to watch in decades. I sincerely hope that our long wait has ended for all of our sakes. I am running low on energy now as I need to reserve some to watch their moves. You all should too. Until next time, Fenrir, J?rmungandr, Hel.¡±
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Chapter 11 : A Meeting ¡°Ahhh what a good rest which I haven''t had for awhile.¡± I exclaimed. We did not choose to do sentry duty this night as we have considerably dwindled down the enemy forces yesterday and decided that a good night''s sleep would be worth the risk. Just as I was getting up, I saw a snake wrapped around my dick. ¡°FUCK! FIRE ARMOUR FULL POWER¡± I used all my mana at once to focus it onto my weener and suddenly I saw a six foot Breadtalk appear on top of my abdomen, covered in flames. ¡°HELPPPPPPPPPPP!¡± ¡°What? How?¡± ¡°HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!¡± ¡°I''m not helping until you tell me how.¡± ¡°HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!¡± The mini inferno I used has caused Breadtalk quite some damage. I looked at his hp bar go down as quickly as a torrent file with many seeders. Wait if I kill him.. It would be bad for our upcoming raid and I will have a killers mark right? But I get to kill Breadtalk. It''s like something I wanted a dark part of my heart secretly wanted to do all along. Killing him would be so fun. Ah nevermind. Maybe next time. ¡°Aqua gush.¡± A small waterfall of water doused Breadtalk and the fires were put out. Apparently I took quite some time to consider my choices and he had about 10% hp left. It was also a good way to wake up Soup who was busy laughing and Beathoven who was rubbing his eyes like it was a good dream and he haven''t woke up yet. ¡°So. Explain.¡± ¡°My Shapeshift skill reached intermediate level 1 after yesterday and it said I could now transform into small animals. I decided to try that out and what the hell man. Thanks for your flaming sausage in my face bro.¡± ¡°YOU PUT YOUR FACE THERE.¡± ¡°How is that thing even functioning after that? It became like a penis shaped sun. Are you sure you are still fertile?¡± ¡°My own spells won''t hurt me dumbass.¡± ¡°Ohhhhh. Alright. Loki gave me a 6 for that anyway so it looked like he enjoyed himself. He used Loki''s Armory and the familiar pair of shining gleaming daggers came out. However, the daggers were now almost triple the length. ¡°WHAT? Shapeshift can be used on weapons?¡± I asked. ¡°Hey thanks for the idea I should try that out and make it look like I''m holding a chicken when I''m fighting or something. But no, my Loki''s armory skill levelled up to intermediate level 1 as well. Looks like it affects the weapon I generate.¡± It dawned on me that all the fighting should have improved our skills quite a bit. The jump from beginner to intermediate levels in proficiency should have helped us quite a bit. I decided to call for another meeting to find out how much exactly have we improved. ¡°Guys before we venture into the northern forest today lets just take a look at how much stronger we''ve become. Guess I''ll go first. Open Stat Window. Open Skill Window.¡±
[quart=Character name,Alignment]Jinx,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,Class]88,Elemental Swordsman[/quart][quart=Title,Race]N/A,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,Infamy]10,0[/quart][quart=Health,Mana]1600,4500[/quart][quart=Strength,Dexterity]100,95[/quart][quart=Wisdom,Intellect]50,350[/quart][quart=Vitality,Affinity to Nature]80,18%[/quart][quart=Leadership,Luck]0,0[/quart][quart=Perseverance,Sustenance]80,80[/quart][quart=Attack,Defense]100,69[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,Magic Resistance]200,5%[/quart]
Stat Window
Elemental AffinitiesFire +5% Ice +5% Water +5% Wind +5% Lightning +5% Earth+5% Gravity+5% Light +10% Dark +5
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any swords and use up to leather armour +500 Health +1000 Mana Able to use magic and swordplay simultaneously No miscast penalty due to spell failure due to absence of magic circles Member of both the Intelligence and Warrior Guilds
Fast Reader | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Finishes books 42% faster.
Mana Manipulation | Intermediate level 2 (37%). Affinity to Nature +18%. Mana Cost - 2%
Flare | Beginner level 1 (5%). Summons a small source of light.
Katana Mastery | Intermediate level 4 (50%). Increases attack power with a katana +160% and attack speed +45%.
Gravity Crush | Beginner level 8 (70%). Weapon Atk +580% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity)
Wind Steps | Beginner level 9 (80%). Increases movement speed +29% (Dependent on Wind Affinity)
Electrical Synapse | Beginner level 9 (90%). Increases reaction time by 0.13s (Dependent on Lightning Affinity)
Adrenaline Rush | Beginner level 1 (5%). Increases time perception by 5% when HP is below 10%.
Cooking | Beginner level 9 (80%). Enables you to prepare meals.
Rooted | Beginner level 6 (50%). Immobilises enemy by restraining their movement. (Dependent on element''s affinity).
Divine Judgement | Beginner level 6 (40%). Concentrates a huge amount of mana into a sword which drops down onto the enemy. High critical rate. Damage depends on mana used and type of mana.[full]Dispel | Beginner level 3 (40%). Has a chance to heal status effects.
Lesser Heal | Beginner level 2 (50%). Heals ally for a certain amount of health. Damages undead in the surrounding area.
Elemental Armour | Beginner level 3 (0%). Creates an elemental armour of different affinities that wraps around the user.
We gathered around my stat table and noticed a few changes. First of all my mana manipulation going to intermediate unlocked a new attribute. It reduces the mana cost of my spells by 2%. It might not be alot but in the future when spells cost a few thousand mana, it may just proves its usefulness. I''m guessing I''ve grown to learnt to use mana more efficiently thus the new perk. There wasn''t much changes to my skills though. My stats I just kept focusing on intellect to raise my mana pool as well as potency of spells. However what really matters I feel is the affinity which unlocks spells and at the same time lets me put them to better use. I have gained a few stats in sustenance, perseverance, fighting spirit, vitality, strength and dexterity through nothing but grinding monsters and especially against the king cobra i feel. Then we proceeded to look at the next member''s information.
[quart=Character name,Alignment]Soup,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,Class]95,Gladiator[/quart][quart=Title,Race]N/A,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,Infamy]1000,0[/quart][quart=Health,Mana]5000,200[/quart][quart=Strength,Dexterity]250,150[/quart][quart=Wisdom,Intellect]20,20[/quart][quart=Vitality,Affinity to Nature]300,0%[/quart][quart=Leadership,Luck]0,0[/quart][quart=Perseverance,Sustenance]200,250[/quart][quart=Attack,Defense]350,250[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,Magic Resistance]220,0%[/quart]
Stat Window
Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Ability to wield up to Heavy weapons and armour +2000 Health Reduction of 5% of incoming damage regardless of type Higher propensity for perseverance,sustenance and vitality to gain stats Able to use any kind of weapon Member of the Warrior Guild
Repair | Beginner level 9 (50%). Repairs items with worn out durability.
Berserker''s Call | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Aggro''s nearby monsters within the range of 12m. Defence + 220% for 15 seconds.
Power Strike | Intermediate level 2 (37%). Swings down your weapon with great force. Weapon atk + 500%.
Gladiator''s Will (Passive) | Intermediate level 5 (60%). Whenever you suffer damage, you gain 3.0% of the incoming damage as defence for 1 minute.
Greatsword Mastery | Intermediate level 6 (20%). Increases attack power with a greatsword +200% and attack speed +55%.
Gladiator''s rage | Beginner level 8 (70%). When active, for every 10 seconds this skill has been activated, +0.7 attack. For every monster killed during the activation of the skill, +0.7% Max HP. Skill lasts 30 minutes. Every monster killed will add 10 seconds to the skill time. Max duration : 6 hours.
Soup as a gladiator was meant to be a solo class. However he was in a party with us. There were certain problems which you could tell at a glance. His bread and butter skill, Gladiator''s Rage, only counted monsters that were slain by him, meaning he has to take the last hit at the monster before it counts as his kill. However, the class also could make a pretty good tank. Berserker''s call could lift all the aggro of the monsters from the rest of us and his defence and health was extremely high. Looking at his stats and skills, it was really a straightforward class to play. Just like Soup himself, a straightforward guy who likes to tank everything and man up. His berserker''s call would be very helpful in a siege if many skeleton warriors were present and I could just blow them all up with an AOE (Area of Effect) spell while they were focused on Soup. We discussed about his stats and skills slightly before we reached the next person who was obviously the one with the most complicated and unpredictable class.
[quart=Character name,Alignment]Breadtalk,Holy[/quart][quart=Level,Class]88,Trickster[/quart][quart=Title,Race]N/A,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,Infamy]1000,550[/quart][quart=Health,Mana]2800,2100[/quart][quart=Strength,Dexterity]120,125[/quart][quart=Wisdom,Intellect]100,110[/quart][quart=Vitality,Affinity to Nature]180,0%[/quart][quart=Leadership,Luck]0,1110[/quart][quart=Perseverance,Sustenance]160,160[/quart][quart=Attack,Defense]110,110[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,Magic Resistance]260,0%[/quart]
Stat Window
Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.Ability to wield any weapon and use up to leather armour +1000 Health +1000 Mana +300 Luck Able to be telepathically linked with Loki Members of churches of Loki will be friendlier with you and members of other churches like Freya will be neutral to you. Member of the Church of Loki Chance to gain stats upon doing ridiculous actions
Loki''s Entourage | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Gets a score from Loki whenever you do a prank. Lasts 24 hours. Score you get adds to all your stats x10.
Loki''s Armoury | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Call''s forth a weapon from Loki''s armoury based on the score from Loki''s Entourage.
Shapeshift | Intermediate level 1 (10%). Grants you the ability to change your appearance. Degree of change depends on proficiency of skill.
Clown Gun Mastery | Beginner level 2 (50%). Increases attack power with Loki''s Clown Gun +20% and attack speed +6%.
Exploding Spear Mastery | Beginner level 5 (70%). Increases attack power with Loki''s Exploding Spear +50% and attack speed +15%
Dual Poison Daggers Mastery | Beginner level 3 (50%). Increases attack power with Loki''s Dual Poison Dagger''s +30% and attack speed +9%.
Bursting Ballhammer Mastery | Beginner level 3 (70%). Increases attack power with Loki''s Bursting Ballhammer +30% and attack speed +9%
¡°What''s with your fame levels?¡± ¡°What''s with your number of masteries?¡± ¡°WHAT''S UP WITH YOUR INFLATED STATS?!¡± Breadtalk had quite a reputation because he helped out a lot during the first 30 days in the church of Loki. His infamy came when he took on the class change quest which obviously left a bad taste in the mouth quite literally for some people. His stats looked inflated at first which was way off the charts but then I realised it was because of Loki''s Entourage. He had a 6 so all his stats had a +60 bonus. Guess he really did spend all his stats solely on luck. It was the first time I had seen someone less than level 100 have a stat that exceeded 3 digits. Most people need to reach about level 200-300 before they could have a stat in the 4 digit range. His masteries were extremely interesting though. They were not for the weapon type but for the specific weapon of Loki''s instead. Usually a person would just get gun mastery, spear mastery etc but his masteries were specific as hell. ¡°Say.. You think these specific masteries might unlock more potential to the special moves of the weapon itself?¡± ¡°You mean like the explosions of the spear might become more potent etc?¡± ¡°Yeah. It might have even more special attributes hidden in them!¡± The downside was it was a long way away before we could ever find out what the mastery could unlock for the weapon. Due to the low mastery levels, it balanced out his stats which were too broken as well. I did not know whether to consider his class overpowered or not. Last but not least, Beathoven was the only one left to show us his improved abilities.
[quart=Character name,Alignment]Beathoven,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,Class]92,Bard[/quart][quart=Title,Race]N/A,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,Infamy]10,0[/quart][quart=Health,Mana]2000,2000[/quart][quart=Strength,Dexterity]50,150[/quart][quart=Wisdom,Intellect]100,50[/quart][quart=Vitality,Art]50,350[/quart][quart=Leadership,Luck]0,0[/quart][quart=Perseverance,Sustenance]100,100[/quart][quart=Attack,Defense]10,10[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,Magic Resistance]200,5%[/quart]
Stat Window
Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any instrument and use up to leather armour +1500 Health +1500 Mana Ability to concentrate more easily in order to play music Music can only buff party members and/or debuff monsters Member of the Musician''s Guild
Music Mastery | Intermediate level 8 (12%). Increases duration of buffs and debuffs. Effects last 180% longer. Allows for one debuff and one buff song to be active.
Instrument Smash | Beginner level 1 (0%). Smashes your instrument at the enemy. Effects unknown.
Chaotic Melody(Special Party Buff Song) | Intermediate level 4 (33%). Increases HP regen +200/s, Mana regen +200/s and 200 teamwork.
Impedity | Beginner level 6 (37%). Slows down enemy movement speed by 12%
Heavy Heavy Heavy | Beginner level 6 (5%). Slows down enemy attack speed by 12%.
Destruction | Beginner level 4 (50%). Decreases enemy defence by 8%.
Enfeeble | Beginner level 5 (70%). Decreases enemy attack by 10%.
Flight of the Bumblebee | Beginner level 5 (80%). Increases party movement speed +15%.
Chop Chop | Beginner level 5 (90%). Increases party attack speed +15%.
What Doesn''t Kill You Makes You Stronger | Beginner level 3 (5%). Increases party defence +9%
Roar | Beginner level 5 (80%). Increases party attack +15%
There we have it. The ultimate support character. Beathoven could use his chaotic melody which was a special party buff to enhance our regen. It was extremely potent. However aside from that, after he plays chaotic melody, he can also play a song to debuff enemies as well as one to buff us due to his music mastery in the intermediate levels. He plays two distinct melodies with just his one flute. One to buff us and one to debuff the enemies. All of this while the chaotic melody buff is still active because it is classified as a special party buff. He was the only reason why we could have a shot at this super hard quest. Normally players wouldn''t even consider the bard profession because you only just play music. Most players want to dive into the game and kill monsters and a bard can literally do nothing against monsters. ¡°Oh yeah guys the new song I''ve been working on is complete. Is this a good time to play?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Sarcasm?¡± ¡°Noooooo.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± Beathoven took out his lute and we all wondered what he composed for us. He tuned his lute to the appropriate settings and his fingers flew across the strings masterfully. The song started out slow at first, with a mysterious sound you never thought could come out from a lute. It then became faster and more lively but at the same time more distinct. Then what came which I assume was the chorus which was simple, upbeat, and as close to happy music as possible. It was like vanilla in my ears. Then the music went on reverse. From happy, it became less lively and less distinct before fading into slow and mysterious.
Received buff : Reunion. This is an original song Beathoven the bard came up with after he got his inspiration at the Boar''s Head, meeting his friends again after 30 days of time apart. The mystery in where their paths would lead, the journey of them getting stronger seperately for the sake of being competent as a group till the final moment of reunion could be heard from this tune. After the reunion however, what awaits them as they journey forward, this is also reflected in the song and thus making this a true masterpiece, not only taking into consideration what has happened but also what would happen. Special Buff: All stats +100 Ability to gain inspiration on how to tackle opponents from the past. Ability to forsee danger as a party Ability to freely transfer health and mana from one member of the party to another once every 5 minutes. Must have at least 1HP and 1MP remaining after transfer. Transferred HP and MP can overshot cap levels. For E.G, A passes all his mana to B who is already at full mana. Assuming both have 100 mana, A now has 1 mp left and B has 199/100mp. Abilities can only be used when this buff is active. Upon replacement or expiry, the transferred health and mana will be lost. *All special party song buffs last for 1 hour after they are heard. Cannot be stacked with another party song buff and will be replaced if another song is played.
What a player! He managed to create yet another special party song buff piece. This piece had significantly useful aspects as well. During normal fighting and boss fights, the chaotic melody which provides regen should be more helpful. However the abilities this song brings could be very useful in non familiar situations such as the one we were going to be up against. The ability to look into the past and future sounds tempting and the last ability could be abused.. If all of them gave me their mana, I could potentially have about 9000 mana or more if the affects can stack which would result in.. Well lets say a divine judgement of that caliber could have easily raped the king cobra. This song is very situational but it could definitely have its moments. ¡°Niceeeee~¡± ¡°Reunion? Dude are you secretly purple for all of us? You love us that much?¡± ¡°Go away before I set your penis on fire which I assure you will hurt unlike Jinx''s case.¡± ¡°Peace. No more flaming penises. Please.¡± Thus we all collated our skills and stats in preparation for the big day ahead. Xantos also contributed but she was a pet so she only had very limited skills which included dispel and heal like me but she also had basic nukes like gust and holy rays which I was also capable of using. Her main advantage was she was an aerial monster and all the monsters we have met so far are grounded so they couldnt even touch her. We were left with one more portion to map and I assume we would all be level 100 after that so it would be our first milestone and what better way to celebrate it than to conquer a fucking castle. So we set off, towards the north, wondering what would await us.
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Chapter 12 : Preparations Complete We set off towards the northern parts, eager to finish up what we had set off to do. As expected, the trees at this part of the forest looked particularly dead and withered, the usual sounds of insects buzzing and birds chirping were nonexistent and the air felt heavy and onimous. We followed the path to see where it would take us and soon enough, we could see the looming figure of the castle. It was reasonably large with extremely high walls. We slowly circled the perimeter of the castle, on the lookout for perhaps minions on guard duty. However, we found no such patrol and we found out which side the main gate of the castle was and the other 3 walls just served as deterrance. The main gate was huge as well and made entirely out of steel. We could see 2 skeletal soldiers standing inside the gate but they did not see us. We quickly left the vicinity of the castle upon checking it out. ¡°Okay guys. So it''s confirmed that skeletal soldiers are within the castle walls. We should expect our enemy to be some sort of undead force with skeletal soldiers as one of their preliminary forces. Let''s check the surroundings to find out more.¡± The forest was unusually empty for some reason and as we walked and walked, no signs of an enemy even came close to us. It was an abandoned forest if there was even such a thing. Suddenly, we heard monotonous clanking coming from somewhere further away. We went to check it out. A few miles away from the castle, there was a cave. Skeletal soldiers could be seen going into the cave and coming out with a cart in their hands. The cart was filled with stones of some sort. ¡°Iron. I could recognise iron ore from a mile away after apprenticing at the blacksmith.¡± Soup said. It looks like the cave was a mine. A mine infested with skeletal soldiers who were digging out ores which presumably would be supplies for their stronghold. However there was something else. A werewolf was holding a whip and lashing out at the skeletal soldiers. It was functioning somewhat as a slave driver, making sure the soldiers did not skimp on their work. It looks like werewolves were also part of the enemy forces. ¡°So guys? Plan of attack?¡± Breadtalk charged in yelling ¡°NO NEED FOR PLANS PUSSIES!¡± ¡°Well looks like we got our plan.¡± The 5 of us emerged out of the forest and charged straight at the werewolf and his pack of soldiers at the entrance. Even though the plan was stupid, dumb, reckless, immature and so extremely idiotic on so many levels, sometimes these are the plans that actually work out best. They did not have much time to react so they could only charge back at us. The werewolf however howled first. I had a bad feeling it was calling for help. I immediately used all my mana to cast divine judgement on him. I had no time to think too much. If he was indeed calling for reinforcements I had to shut him down immediately. And I did. The HP bar went from full to zero within half a second. Soup was engaging all the skeletal soldiers which only amounted to about 5 of them since only 5 of them were present that time. He used berserkers call and with Breadtalk and Xantos by his side, they finished up the 5 of them in literally 10 seconds. We were only about level 90 but because I had semi inflated stats and Breadtalk had extremely inflated stats, we were able to make it look easy. We also had the elemental advantage as I could coat their weapons with holy aura almost without concentrating by now. The mana cost was also easily attainable with the absurd amounts of regeneration Beathoven gave us. ¡°Entrance cleared. Into the mines?¡± We all agreed and slowly went into the mines. They were well lit with torches and the sound of monotonous clanking still went on ahead. I assume the workers did not know what happened because of the sheer amount of speed we took down the party at the entrance. It was kind of like an assasination mission and it felt great. The mine was narrow at first but when we walked about 3 minutes in, it suddenly opened into something that looked like a great hall. It was about the size of 2 football fields with many skeletal warriors using pickaxes hacking away at stones. It was also extremely tall and there were ladders and everything already made. It was like a huge treehouse. I wanted to count the number of skeletal warriors but it was almost impossible. There were also about 20 werewolves in different parts of this massive amount of land. I could see a twinkle of excitement in Breadtalk''s eyes like he just played pokemon for the first time and I cast rooted on him immediately. ¡°Hey!¡± ¡°Before you go running off into maybe hundreds or even a thousand skeletal warriors for this we need a plan you bitch.¡± ¡°But I really wanna! Come on!¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Alright fine. Then I just have to do it my way.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°HEY IDIOTS! WE''RE HEREEEEEEEEEE!¡± Breadtalk shouted with everything he got. It did not help that as large an area this was, it was enclosed perfectly so echos could be heard after he finished and since the last word was ¡°here¡±, basically that word could be heard about 10 times coming from our direction. We were unsure how to react. But with about a few hundred soldiers charging at us and werewolves howling issuing commands at our direction, instinct takes over. ¡°SOMETIMES WE SHOULD JUST LET YOU DIE YOU RETARD CHILD. RUNNNNNNN!¡± We ran to the entrance of the cave and there was clearly a stampede after us. I thought about running back to the village but with an army of undead hot on our heels, it was not going to be a wise choice. Then it dawned on me. The entrance of the mine was narrow. ¡°GUYS! BOTTLENECK!¡± I cast a holy field inside the cave and went in to stand my ground. The other members got the message and they did their short preparations as well. The stampede got louder and louder and soon they were within sight. An endless sea of skeletal soldiers could be seen but since the tunnel was narrow, it could only fit about 5 adults standing side by side. Let the orgy begin. It was in these sort of situations that the chaotic melody proved its worth. The regen it gave us was so high that we could fight endlessly if the enemy could not burst us down. We just needed to make sure they could not get to Beathoven who was sitting behind us, playing songs that increased our attack levels and decreased their defence levels so we could finish them off faster. Soup was busy taking on all the aggro with his berserkers call and it was quite a scene, to see a gladiator with his blood red weapon due to gladiator''s rage doing what he excelled at doing. However, all the attacks that were raining down upon him also proved too much for him to handle. His HP bar was going down at a moderate speed. However, thanks to Xantos, I now had the lesser heal spell so I could heal Soup as well as damage the skeletal warriors around him. Breadtalk was slashing every skeletal soldier in sight with his dual daggers and it looks like the poison became more lethal. The soldiers he engaged had their HP decrease steadily and quickly and Breadtalk made full use of it. He did not just engage one. He would just slash one to poison him and proceed to ignore him and dive within the mountains of other soldiers, poisoning them all one by one. Every time a skeletal soldier was poisoned he took about 30 seconds and he would be dead. That was like 3% of HP every second. Talk about some serious poison. Then, the werewolves came into sight. They were blocked by the mountains of soldiers being bottlenecked by the tunnel but apparently, they were more nimble and capable warriors. They leaped and used the heads of the other soldiers as footing and leaped towards us at an impressive pace. This was bad. We could not possibly hold 20 werewolves away from all of us while hundreds of soldiers were still attacking us. I had to think fast. But apparently it wasn''t a very hard problem to solve. I made a thick wall of earth appear from the sides of the cave that covered half the height of the cave, leaving us free to engage the soldiers whilst making sure the werewolves would have no other way to approach us than to join the rest of the soldiers queueing up for their death. After playing this game for so long, I realised that positioning and terrain usually affected the battle more than strength of the monsters or ourselves. I was glad to find a class that could make full use of this. The battle lasted for about an hour. It was non stop slashing by Soup who got his gladiator''s rage buff to the point where every power strike he made was a one hit K.O for the soldiers and his max HP was over 10000. He could have solo-ed the horde from then on but we also wanted to hasten the process. I casted a new holy field using almost all my mana that drained their health at an even faster rate and I used the remaining amounts to heal Soup periodically. Breadtalk was just doing what he had been already doing for the past hour, poisoning every skeletal soldier he could see and reach. His luck levels were ridiculous. Almost every attack missed and those that hit only grazed him and whenever his dagger landed, the foe was immediately poisoned as his attacks were unusually accurate towards the vital areas. I only needed to heal Breadtalk once every 10 minutes as compared to Soup who needed healing like once every 30 seconds. Beathoven was now just playing songs to increase his mastery level and not even focusing on prioritising the buff and debuff effects already. Xantos just helped with the healing as she could also not do much due to the narrow space of the cave. Just when we thought everything was done, 5 werewolves emerged as the new opponents and we had a new challenge ahead of us. I immediately casted four walls of earth around Beathoven as his protection was our number one priority. I left a small gap so we could still receive the buffs and debuffs from his music. Soup proceeded to engage two at once and Breadtalk went charging towards one. Xantos was keeping one busy so that left one lunging at me. I finally had a chance to use my katana which was dying for battle. I turned on electrical impulse, swift steps, holy aura for my weapon and used gravity crush immediately as he lunged. It was a counter and a critical hit and to my surprise, the level 100 werewolf was immediately reduced to about half health. After a few more rounds of combat, the werewolf was dead and it all happened so fast. I looked around. Xantos was still fighting hers but she was winning so there was no problem. Breadtalk was almost done with his no doubt his poison worked on the werewolf as well and Soup was down to half health already but due to his gladiator''s rage buff he was so buffed up now that both werewolves were already lying dead on the floor next to him. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Breadtalk finished up his and I cast a quick divine''s judgement on the one Xantos was busy with and it fell dead. 5 werewolves down in easily less than a minute. We were clearly not the same party we were about 3 nights ago when one werewolf alone took us about 3-5 minutes to kill. However the situation was very much in our favour now. Gladiator''s rage was an extremely potent skill when Soup has already killed like more than 300 soldiers by himself. His attack power would probably be more than double his original and his HP as well. The bottleneck tactic was so well done we could only thank the terrain of the mine for this opportunity. 5 more werewolves came to engage their death as we repeated the process. Finally after one and a half hours of non stop combat which could only be made possible by chaotic melody with the regeneration for me to keep up my spells and hp regen for the rest as well as the bottleneck, we were done. The loot was extraordinary as well. We had more than 100 gold from killing all the monsters which could go a long way as our equipment were severely mismatched from our levels as we did not have the chance to go restock on equipment. We made camp at the entrance of the mine so I could cook lunch and we could repair our stuff. The battle also made us level up like crazy. My cooking reached intermediate level 1 along with Soup''s repair skill and with that he attained the blacksmith skill. There was so much iron lying around that we thought it would be a waste to leave it lying around here. Soup made me use fire magic to quickly melt some of the iron into the shape of a forge. Then, he proceeded to start a fire in the forge, using the coke he borrowed from the village and my magic to start the fire and act as a blower. He made me use earth magic to build high density bricks to line the pit such that the iron forge would not melt with high temperatures. He then started creating daggers which did not need a super hot fire not much iron. While Soup and I were busy with blacksmithing, Beathoven was still busy playing songs to raise his proficiency. Breadtalk was with Xantos venturing further into the mines to explore the place. After about 2 hours, they came back with a new discovery. Deep within the mines were more monsters but they resided extremely deep within them and they were about level 140. They were called Ironhides. Ironhides were monsters that lived near places with iron as they ate iron to grow up. From their name, ironhides had iron for a tough exterior in most places and the more they ate, the stronger they would become. It was no surprise that they could be found in the mines. Another trait about ironhides were that they were creatures that loved soltitude. They never went around in packs, they don''t even hang out as a family or something. They just loved to be alone. ¡°Well I guess hunting level 140 monsters would be fun. Especially since they don''t hang around in big groups.¡± ¡°Yea lets do it!¡± We finished up what we were doing and rushed down further into the mines. We saw the ironhides when we reached another main chamber of the mine. I heard about ironhides from a friend of mine who was playing RR for quite some time and he was quite proud of slaying one himself. Now I know why. Ironhides were humongous. It was a normal monster but each was about the size of the king cobra we fought 2 nights ago. Assuming what my friend told me was correct, ironhides usually will not attack unless you attack them first. We strategically went for the most isolated one first and our objective was to bring it down as fast as possible. There was no knowing if the other ironhides would join the fight even if they loved to be alone. ¡°Beathoven you wanna try out the new song you wrote?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Reunion was played and suddenly, I had a warm fuzzy feeling inside that sort of linked me to the rest of my party. I also instinctively knew that I could pass them some of my HP and MP at any time. ¡°Let''s try things out then. Guys you wanna pass me some mana?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± I looked at my mana bar. They passed me about a total of 4000 mana which was about all they had. I had about 9000 mana which was insane. I decided not to be stingy about it. Iron should be weak against fire so I just went with my instinct. ¡°Divine Judgement¡± A flaming sword pierced the skull of the nearest ironhide and it went down immediately. All the hp gone. It was basically a one hit KO move that someone should never be able to do against a monster about 40 levels higher than yourself which had quite a bit of HP. To be fair I think its magic resistance is quite low and it was more of a physical resistant type monster instead. ¡°Holy shit dude one spell and we get about 10% exp from this?¡± We looked around the room. There were not many ironhides in this chamber. Roughly about 10 but maybe even deeper into the mines there were more. We decided to make the best out of it as these monsters gave insane amounts of EXP and we could kill them in one shot. Beathoven changed his party buff to chaotic melody and we regen-ed all the mana i used which took about 20 seconds. It was insane recovery but what else do you expect of a class which only specialised in buffing other people? He then changed to reunion and we continued this pattern. Reunion, transfer mana, divine judgement, chaotic melody. Rinse and repeat. Every 30 seconds one ironhide went down so in 5 minutes the room was cleared. It was also very neatly done as the nearby ironhides didn''t even have a hint of what was going on it seemed. We cleared the remaining of the mines which had 2 or 3 large chambers remaining and a little surprise awaited us at the end. There was a little room at the end of the mines which looked extremely neat and tidy. There was a bed, some books and even some equipment on the desk. We took a look at what I could only assume to be a rest room and decided to take the stuff. There was a book that caught my eye. ¡°The Earth Goddess, Gaia.¡± Soup managed to find a chestplate that was better than the one he was equipping now so he put that on. Breadtalk looked in ridiculous places and he actually managed to find a secret stash of gold just under the mattress of the bed. Beathoven managed to find a music score within the stash of books so he took that along with him. What was a music score doing in a rest room in the mines I had no idea but we just took what we could find and got out of there. When we finished the mine expedition, it was already dark so we decided to head back to the village. Upon reaching the village, there was an unexpected guest waiting for our arrival. ¡°You all certainly took your own sweet time.¡± ¡°Valhalla?? What are you doing here?¡± ¡°I have some updated news for you. The evil forces within the castle wars have already finished their preparations. They will set off tomorrow night to raid this village and turn it to dust. How I know of this is not important. It is without a doubt 100% reliable so I have to ask that you are to raid the castle instead latest by tomorrow afternoon to finish this once and for all.¡± ¡°What?! The polite way to do it is usually to give us notice 3 working days in advance you know... But oh well we finished mapping this area already so I guess its fine. We will set off tomorrow morning to finish this.¡± ¡°Alright I leave this in your hands. By the way great job or taking care of Xantos. You must have quite some amount of light mana to be able to raise him. You should find him useful in tomorrow''s raid.¡± ¡°You better give me a hefty reward for doing this for you man.¡± ¡°Should you complete the quest, the rewards will speak for itself.¡± Valhalla vanished and we headed back to the house to rest. ¡°So it''s tomorrow huh..¡± ¡°We better get some rest.¡± ¡°Guys I have a surprise for all of you tomorrow.¡± ¡°Save it Breadtalk, your surprises are usually life endangering.¡± ¡°Be prepared for tomorrow muahahahaha.¡± By now we were all above level 100, we came this far in less than a week after leaving Junad. However, would this be enough? Castle fights with armies of skeletal warriors and werewolves which won''t have the narrowness of today''s cave to help us. Furthermore without a doubt it would be our first boss fight. We would have enough regen with chaotic melody to thrash it out for a long time with it but if it had enough damage to inflict 2000 points of HP, nothing was going to stop it from one hitting me or Beathoven or Breadtalk. There were many conditions to consider for tomorrow''s fight. But for now, what we all needed was some quality rest in preparation for the big raid. ¡°May Loki be with us.¡± Prayed Breadtalk. Little did they know, Loki was always with them. Especially for tomorrow.
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Chapter 13 : The Boss Today''s the day. I need not even tell the guys to wake up, all of them were extremely excited and were already up and about. There were still last minute things to do though. ¡°Guys. We need to fetch king kong and his team here, get our equipments up to date to our levels and prepare some supplies I thought about yesterday that should help with this siege. Let''s distribute the work.¡± Xantos was now big enough to carry two of us on her back so Soup and Beathoven agreed to fly to Junad to get the armour and supplies. Breadtalk wanted to go fetch king kong and his army so I decided to let him. It would give me some time to read the book I got from the mines yesterday anyway. Thus we dissaminated into our new job scopes and agreed to meet back in town in 2 hours time. While they were on their tasks, I quickly took out the book from our findings yesterday. ¡°The Earth Goddess, Gaia.¡± Due to my fast reader skill I managed to finish it in one hour. The book talked about how gaia was the driving force of earth. Earth was created because of gaia''s ability and anything on the land belongs to her. The book also mentioned her siblings, Chaos who was in charge of air, Erebus for darkness, Aether for Light, Pontus for Sea. This was very helpful towards my understanding of nature and mana as a whole. The book clearly defined Gaia''s job as a primordial deity. She had to oversee the growth of lands, the growth of nature and the things she did to uphold the growth of earth without upsetting the balance of nature with her siblings. Through this book I understood more about the earth element in particular.
Elemental Affinity to Earth increased! By finding a rare book which explains to you one of the primordial deities, Gaia, you were able to be enlightened about the true essence of Earth from its humble beginnings. The aspects of earth as a development of a universe is now in your knowledge. Earth Affinity + additional 5%
So there were books like these which could increase elemental affinities as well. From the book I read, there should be at least 4 more books which were for wind, darkness, light and water. As for ice, fire and electricity, I''m not sure of that but I''m pretty sure there would be a specific book for each. Seeing that this was a rare book I knew I had to safekeep it. Just after I have finished reading the book, Xantos, Soup and Beathoven came back. Soup had bought level 100 armours for all of us and they provided a ton more of defence and stat boosts than our current level 1 armours except for my chest armour made of cobra skin. I decided to leave the cobra skin armour on as the stats were comparable to the level 100 armour. While it lacked a bit in defence, it had higher poison and magic resistance which I thought would be more useful. We heard a roar from the west side and sure enough, king kong and his army emerged from the forest. There were about a hundred of them which was surely not enough. They were weaker than skeletal soldiers as well but we needed all the manpower or in this case, apepower that we could get. However, Breadtalk was no where in sight. ¡°Where''s Breadtalk?¡± I went up to the king kong to ask. WHAM I took a huge right cross in the face. Where the king kong stood now stood Breadtalk, laughing his ass off pointing at my shocked face. ¡°HAHAHAHA SUCKER PUNCHED IDIOT.¡± All the gorillas laughed along and I could see another huge gorilla standing at the back of the entire pack instead. ¡°Divine judgement.¡± Breadtalk''s health went down by half a bar and he was no longer laughing. ¡°Alright guys! We hav- WHAT?¡± A whole horde of people started coming into the village. I recognised some as the villagers over the past few days of staying here but majority of them were not familiar. They were all wearing robes of a church as well. And their numbers were not little. They numbered about 1000. A thousand holy priests, warriors, paladins and such had joined the army. But how? ¡°Thank me later you ass. Thanks for the burning sword stabbing into my skull man. Not pretty. They listen to me but I guess since you''re the party leader they will listen to you too. Try not to let too many of them die okay if i return them stronger and there isn''t too much of a drop in number I can get a reimbursement of the reputation points I spent for hiring them.¡± Breadtalk was a lifesaver. At first the chances of raiding the castle was about 3% at best but now, we really had a decent shot at this. However, big groups were harder to lead and this would be a true strength of how I can get them to rally together for an important cause. Even the village chief was aware of our preparations to settle this once and for all and he gave the whole village square which could not even fit everyone for me to speak to them. I decided to use my mana manipulation to create a second level platform around the entire square so just barely everyone could fit. The gorillas took the nearby trees and the villagers went to the roof of their huts. I had to address everyone here and make haste to raid the castle. ¡°People. All of you here are gathered for one cause and one cause only. To put an end to the dark forces residing in a castle up north which threatens the soverignty of this village. This village has already been in a state of shambles caused by these tyrants and we need to stop this once and for all. The forest has also been hunted by them and many lives have been lost. They seemingly just appeared here with a castle and even mining for resources with a nearby mine. If we let this go on, they will grow into a force that could threaten even more villages and maybe even a city if we give it long enough. Can I ask for all your help, to vanquish this evil foes so that we can restore peace to the surrounding villages and people.¡± A thunderous roar greeted me from the villagers who wanted to rescue their village, the gorillas who wanted to seek revenge for their fallen as well as the followers of the church of Loki who wanted to do their part in exterminating evil. I explained to them the plan. When we reach, everyone was to fight as a group of five with at least one healer in the group to maintain maximum efficiency. They had to break up and find their own groups. Upon reaching the outskirts of the castle walls, I would ask Breadtalk to shapeshift into a crow and scout the interior of the castle walls but outside of the building itself. Xantos would attract too much attention should there be enemy forces in the courtyard. The attack would be a diversion type mission. The main body would be fighting in the courtyard where I had a plan to implement to help them drag on the fight while the 5 of us would head straight into the castle to find the boss and finish it off. The basic preparations were finally complete and it was around 10am. It was go time. We went towards the castle and put the plan into action. Breadtalk mapped out the interior of the castle which was fairly simple. It was entirely symmetrical so the whole compound was of a square shape. The courtyard was everything outside the building which was in the shape of another square. So it was like a rounded perimeter, something like a running track which the main body had to fight in. It was quite an expected layout so nothing was wrong there. Then there was the question of how to siege the castle. We could storm in by the front entrance or attempt to scale the walls. I decided on a mixture of both. I realised with mana manipulation that I could use an existing source of element and warp it with mana manipulation. This actually saves mana cost as usually I would have to provide both the shape and size of the mana as well as the element type but if there was lets say a fire that was already started, I could borrow the fire and just alter the shape and size of it, reducing the mana cost. Walls were made of earth so essentially, what I can make, what I can break down. Of course the limit was my mana pool and removing a dense wall of earth of a castle wall would already take about half my mana pool away if not I would have just chosen to destroy the entire castle right. I made a hole in the wall and we streamed inside quickly and stealthily. There were guards patrolling the area but they were just normal skeletal warriors. We used Reunion and they all transferred their mana to me and I quickly used 4 divine judgements to exterminate the nearest guards before they could realise what is going on. It took about 5 minutes to get all the troops through one tiny hole in the wall which I''ve made larger and larger once my mana had regenerated enough of course and once they were all in, we could begin the sieging mission proper. Chaotic melody was played and we begun the diversion tactic. All of us charged towards the entrance of the castle, eliminating all the guards along the way and sure enough, I heard a bell sound which was no doubt the signal that they were under attack. Reinforcements would arrive any minute so speed was of the essence. The majority of the troops should reside within the castle so they should be coming out of the castle but my goal was never to let them make it out. Everything was going to happen inside the castle itself to make sure it was as messy as possible, making the chances of the diversion higher. We managed to rush into the castle doors and I found out that the doorway was huge. I wanted to use the hallway as a bottleneck like what we did in the mines but this hallway was easily two to three times bigger than that of the mine but since we also had more troops, I figured this would be okay. The most important part of the plan would be to get as many people fighting in the main hall or corridor as possible because everyone would be making their way there to fight and there was only one route people in the castle can take because their courtyard has been wiped out and all the troops were inside the castle. Everyone would be rushing down to the main hall and that was when we could start out diversion. From the top down. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it I was sure werewolves and skeletal soldiers and maybe even higher level undead monsters would be coming down soon so I did the same thing as I did in the mines. I used earth to create a blockage from the top of the army so that the enemies could only come from one direction, head on. I expected more enemies in the courtyard but since that was not the case, I gave the army a new instruction. All front line soldiers are to be tanks or damage dealers and anyone that could even heal are to be behind and heal them up. This was the best way I could think of to get them to buy as much time as possible. Everything was in place and we begun our seperate mission, our own mission impossible. The 5 of us ran outside and I used gravity magic to make all of us lighter. Xantos then took us all to the top of the castle. We readied ourselves. Breadtalk had gotten a 6 from Loki''s Entourage so it was his poison daggers again. Soup used Gladiator''s rage and was brandishing his new level 100 greatsword which looked alot more badass. Beathoven turned on chaotic melody and a buff that gave us more movement speed. Xantos also looked ready to go and I created a hole at the top of the castle, dropping us straight down into a huge room which I assumed was the lord of the castle''s room. However, it was empty. We ran our and saw that we were indeed at the top floor with only that one room where we came out from. We ran down the flight of stairs and saw some werewolves sprinting down the hallway down the stairs. The diversion was working. Everyone was heading down to join the fight. However usually the boss in this situation would be protected by bodyguards and not needed to join the fight himself. This whole plan was based on this likely scenario but what if the boss went to join the fight? I had no time to think as the longer we took, the lower the chance of success. From the top of the castle, we headed down, checking every room for signs of the boss. In the rooms sometimes there were skeletal soldiers and werewolves that were getting ready for the fight and gearing up and we made short work of them. We specialised in closed room fights anyway. The castle was kind of tall though and we had to make our way through many flights of stairs downwards. However with each room we checked our spirits went down a little. There was no boss to be seen anywhere. We eventually managed to run the whole castle down from the top floor to the second floor where we could see the staircase was still filled with enemies who were stuck in a traffic jam, much like the scene that happened in the mines. We made sure every room was checked and there was still no sign of the boss despite the huge room at the top which looked like his chambers. However the forces was still holding up as there was still a jam so nothing made sense. I could only think of one exception. What if there was a secret way out from the castle to the courtyard or maybe even out of the castle? Our forces could possibly be backstabbed and that would become very bad. Sandwiched in between two armies was something that was very, very bad. We had no time to waste. Our forces was still holding up but if my prediction was right they would not hold up for much longer. I asked Xantos to fly out of the second floor window to check what is happening on the first floor. When Xantos returned however, she said that there was nothing wrong and the forces were still clogging up the main hall and stairs. They were hanging on but of course there were casualties. No backstab was going on. Where is the goddamn boss?! Nothing makes sense here. Seeing that we could not find the boss, the diversion mission has failed so we needed to quickly proceed with the best course of action. From the second floor, since they were not backstabbing us, we decided to backstab them instead. I used earth mana to conjure a wall directly behind the enemy back lines. I opened a hole big enough for just the 4 of us with Beathoven safely at the back for us to fight and we did our stuff. The back of the enemy forces contained some of their most important people. The healers. Undead priests were busy at the back healing those in the front so we needed to cut them down fast. They were of quite a high level as well compared to the forces so we needed to make it quick. Skeletal warriors in the castle averaged to be about level 100, around our level while the ones we met outside were about level 80. I guess they really were on a training expedition. The werewolves were even stronger, about level 120 but with our crowd control mazing skills and superior regen and fight strategy, slowly but surely, we dwindled down their numbers steadily. With the enemies now fighting against two fronts, their strength was divided by half and our army could fare better against them as well. The fight lasted for about an hour, before we could see no enemies approaching us from the earth wall and when we went down the staircase, there were bodies after bodies of enemies that were decimated but also bodies of our own comrades who had fallen in battle. However, the damages were not great. Out of about a thousand we brought, about 600 still lived. That was more than half and I estimate about twice as much enemy forces killed. However that still didn''t explain the situation. Who was the one keeping all these forces in check? Surely a bunch of werewolves were not enough to organise an army of undead skeletal warriors to such a degree? And then I realised that all castles have one place more which could be gigantic but we have yet to check. It could function as a safe house from most attacks as well. The basement. I asked the army to split up and look for signs of a basement and sure enough, after 10 minutes, someone found a doorway in the first floor that had a series of staircases leading down. We walked through it with the BOTs leading the way and surely enough a sizeable door was at the end of the descending stairs. However there were no guards guarding the door. Maybe the boss said he needed no protection and sent the guards to attack as well. Approaching the door, I could sense some sort of aura coming from the other side. It was a first. I could sense a dark aura, no doubt a strong one, and for the first time in my life in RR, I could feel fear. The sheer size of the aura which could be felt from behind a door is something I have never experienced before. What commanded the forces would no doubt lie behind this door. I told everyone about this and everyone went into battle mode. Apprehensively, I opened the door. It was pure darkness and I had to cast flare to illuminate the basement. It was huge. It was easily as big as the main corridoor just that it was located one floor below and it was completely empty. Except for a hulking wolf at the back of the room, sitting in a golden throne with a crown on his head. He was not like a werewolf which was half wolf half humanoid. This was a fully overgrown wolf about the size of the king kong. However it had a part of it which was not covered in fur but just showing its ribcage and muscles. It was level 200 and its name had a crown beside it, signalling that it was indeed, a boss monster. The name read : ¡°Renfir¡± ¡°To those that have come through those doors, I give my words, you''ll soon be on all fours. Trying your best to crawl your way out, while all the others scream and shout.¡± It spoke.
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Chapter 14 : 茅ljç…¤enir Castle ¡°HAHAHAHAHAHA!¡± Breadtalk was clutching his stomach rolling around the floor of the dungeon. ¡°H- He.... His rhymes are as bad as Jinx''s sense of humour AHAHAHAHAHA¡± Apparently Breadtalk was extremely entertained by Renfir''s rhyme the moment he said it out. ¡°May i know what''s so entertaining, when your due date is arriving?¡± ¡°HAHAHAHAHAHA IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE. ITS LIKE SOMEONE IS PREGNANT AND I''M THE BABY JUST KILL ME NOW HAHAHAHA THIS BOSS IS CRAZY LETHAL.¡± In a flash, Renfir appeared before Breadtalk. ¡°Wha-¡± Renfir''s claw went up. Soup just managed to throw himself in front of Breadtalk when the claw swiped down. Soup''s health bar went down by half. Xantos and I immediately cast lesser heal to heal Soup back to full but the image still shook my mind. The army we had behind were shocked to the point they did not even move after the small exchange. ¡°TANKS AT THE FRONT. NOW!¡± While they were scrambling into formation, Soup was engaging Renfir but it was a shocking sight. His strength was so great whenever his claw met Soup''s greatsword, it seemed like the one that was going to break was the sword instead of the claws. But what shocked me was the health bar of Soup. Despite the blocks, his health still went down. Xantos had no choice but to keep healing Soup. And if a clean hit took half of Soup''s HP bar, it would amount to about 3000 damage. It would be enough to kill me almost twice. And any of us except Soup. This was no joke. The other times we could just regen ourselves up to full HP while managing crowd control but this was a monster that could take us out in 1 hit. There would be nothing to regen us back. Just then, the army managed to regroup themselves and charged at Renfir. Apparently it looks like bosses had crowd control spells as well. Renfir raised his foot up and slammed it down on the ground, causing and earthquake and making everyone around him lose their balance for abit before letting loose a huge howl that was ear piercing. As I was relatively closer, I took about 1000 damage which was still extremely substantial. I saw his claw incoming thanks to my electrical impulse and only managed to dodge it with swift steps. My movement speed was already the highest among our party so if I could barely manage to dodge it, the others wouldn''t stand a chance. This fight was absurd, just as a boss fight should be. However, I noticed another weird thing. While Soup was busy just now engaging the boss, Breadtalk managed to get many slashes in with his daggers and I managed to use a holy field and divine judgement as well. But his HP did not even go down by 1%. The bar was still full. The daggers were supposed to inflict poison and my holy field should do damage over time to undead monsters as well right. But in this case it wasn''t going down at all. Soup was also in close proximity to Renfir so the lesser heals should have damaged him as well but nothing seems to be happening. The poison which could even work on a poison based monster king cobra was not even affecting this boss. Are they immune to status effects? If this keeps up we wouldnt even be able to last 10 minutes. ¡°Guys, retreat. Everyone go back to the village. Leave us here. This boss monster is too strong. Another one or two AOE spells like just now and we would get casualties for nothing. Go back.¡± ¡°Bu-¡± ¡°My orders are absolute. I do not want pointless lives being taken away. GO!¡± The army turned tail and I asked them to shut the door behind us. It was just the 5 of us against this hell of a monster. Soup managed to buy us more time with Xantos supporting him so he was permanently at full health but at this rate we were going to get tired. I dashed in and used gravity crush with holy aura at appropriate times but the result was not any better. Poison doesn''t work, light doesn''t work, physical attacks do not work WHAT FUCKING WORKS? It''s like fighting against another BOTs. Wait what? Regen? ¡°GUYS! I THINK IT HAS REGEN! JUST LIKE US!¡± ¡°YOU SUNNAVABITCH. YOU GENIUS!¡± ¡°If there was an exam paper on games, you would be top without a doubt bro.¡± ¡°One question. After deducing this brilliantly, WHAT THE FUCK CAN WE DO.¡± It was true. Solving out the mystery of the permanently full HP boss was one thing. Tackling the problem was another. Regen was no doubt the right answer as Renfir has just been regenerating the damage from our attacks and even the poison. We did not have enough damage over time to take him down. His regen must be like 1000HP/s or something. I need to affirm this theory. I decided to make a big gamble. ¡°Divine Judgement¡± A holy sword pierced into Renfir''s skull and sure enough, I saw the HP bar drop slightly, maybe about 5% before it recovered back to full health almost instantly. I just used all my mana, 4000 mana, into a divine judgement and it only grazed him for 5% of his total HP. This was not going anywhere as planned. Soup was not really doing well either. His gladiator''s rage buff time could not be increased as there were no minions around for him to kill to keep his buff going and he was at the receiving end of extremely fierce flurry of strikes by Renfir. He was definitely the one having the least fun this battle. Xantos could also do nothing but just heal, heal and heal Soup because the moment she stopped, his HP would reach critical levels. ¡°Where is the confidence you all had before, exterminating my minions coming looking for more. So tell me how much do you like it now, When faced with an unsurmountable trial.¡± Breadtalk was laughing too hard to help for the next 30 seconds after he heard that. I just don''t get his sense of humour. In Renfir''s defence it was pretty well done with quite a large amount of vocabulary for a wolf. Suddenly, Renfir''s claws had a red glow to them and I sensed trouble, I immediately casted an earth and holy element armour on him just to prepare for the worst and sure enough, Soup''s parry got knocked aside like a chopstick versus a baseball bat and he flew from his position. He nearly died. That''s like 5000 points of damage. Holy hell. Renfir leaped to give the finishing blow and I quickly conjured a wall in front of his path and cast lesser heal simultaneously. Because I had no need for cast time, this was done just in time and his HP was back at full. However, if not for my holy and earth element armour, he would have died without a doubt. Renfir managed to break my wall down with one swipe and it was not something I have ever seen before. Looks like the threat I sensed earlier from his dark aura was very, very real. This was an opponent that made the whole quest make sense. This was a C difficulty class. What would a B or A look like. I couldn''t think of a way out of this situation. Almost every choice I had in front of me was not a way out. We had no chance of winning with a regen level that high. Suddenly, an hour was approaching since the start of the battle with Renfir and the chaotic melody buff was wearing off. Beathoven begun to cast Reunion instead. ¡°Beat, what are you doing? We need the regen!¡± ¡°It''s pointless. We need to use reunion to gain inspiration first. This would last for hours if we used chaotic melody and nothing would change. It''s just a matter of time before our concentration breaks and all of us die!¡± I knew he was right deep down. We were fighting an AI monster who was seemingly still toying with us. He could have easily gone for me or Breadtalk instead with his red claw attack but it looked like he was the sort who liked to play with his food before eating it. Suddenly, there was a flashback. I had a vision in my mind for a short moment about the first time I learnt the dispel skill from Xantos. I wonder why that vision even happened. Dispel was supposed to remove negative status from ourselves due to the holy mana vanquishing the impurities. Then there was a second flashback, this time back to when I was reading a particular paragraph from the book I was reading earlier today. ¡°The Earth Goddess, Gaia.¡± ¡°Gaia had to take care of many things at once so she had to do many things in the form of buffs. She gave growing buffs to newly planted seeds, she used hardening buffs on certain rocks so that they would naturally become waterfalls over time after erosion occurs. Buffs are the basis on which gods use the most because they cannot micromanage everything they take care of. It would take too much effort to individually bless every one of their followers. So they just cast a buff on the things they take care of which will be self sufficient. However, these buffs can be removed. Especially with the mana of that of a opposite nature. The enemy of earth is fire. That''s why Gaia''s creations can be ruined easily by fire. A growing forest would become almost useless after a fire and the fire automatically purges the buff by gaia so the forest would not grow as beautifully nor quickly as it would be unless Gaia goes to rebuff the forest.¡± Reunion was telling me something. And I would be an idiot if I couldn''t piece these information together. The regeneration was not an in born passive ability of Renfir''s. It was bestowed to him by a god. An undead god. And if i had a spell that could purge an unholy buff, it would be the spell that usually removes negative effects on myself through light mana. ¡°Dispel!¡± Apparently it didn''t work as his HP was still not going down. However, there was an immistakable look of shock on Renfir''s face and he immediately directed his attacks towards me. Soup interrupted that with Berserker''s call which apparently worked on boss monsters which was a good thing. From Renfir''s actions, it looks like we were on our way to something. I remembered that the dispel skill had a certain percentage of success so I decided to spam dispel with everything I got. Beathoven had already changed the party buff back to chaotic melody as I have gotten all that I needed to know. However I did not tell him anything so I guess reunion puts the same vision into everyone''s brain at once drawing upon all our experiences. For this time, it looks like the secret to success lies in my experience. ¡°Dispel!¡± And then I saw it, the HP bar that did not regenerate itself back to full. There was an immistakably slow drain on the HP pool no doubt from Breadtalk''s poison that kudos to him he had been trying and trying to wound him time and time again with it and finally it paid off. Xantos was also doing minor damage with the heals he had been using on Soup. I went into meele mode and used my katana with holy aura and laid gravity crush after gravity crush on him. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Renfir could sense that he was being hurt. His HP bar was hitting 90% soon. ¡°How dare you ruin my invulnerability You just decided your inevitability Fun time is over you''re going down I''ll never lose upon my crown.¡± ¡°HAHAHA ITS GOING DOWN, IM YELLING TIMBERRRR¡± Before I could smile, the familiar red aura was now around Renfir himself, not just his claws. I could sense something bad coming. Renfir suddenly flashed and appeared directly in front of Breadtalk like how he first appeared in front of him from the throne. It was going to be bad. I imagined a holy and earth armour around Breadtalk and this time I focused on it harder and imagined both of them merging into one instead of 2 layers.
New Skill : Divine shield Your desperation has enabled you to learn this skill which is actually a commonly used skill among the gods. Especially Gaia and Aether. This skill blocks one instance of damage completely. Requirements : At least 30% affinity to Earth and Light Mana cost : 1000 mana
Wait I only have 10% affinity to earth and light. Oh wait i have always wondered about affinity to nature. Looks like affinity to nature is across all elements due to the very basic understanding of mana itself. If that is the case I would have 32% now. Renfir made one quick stab towards Breadtalk who was still laughing. Even in the face of death that guy would rather laugh at a joke than defend himself. But thats what makes him so charming at times i guess. The shining aura around Breadtalk shattered and his health bar was unchanged. Soup managed to catch up in that time to cast berserker''s call and take the aggro for himself. However this time, every attack would do insane damage so i used a normal earth armour around him and joined Xantos in healing him. Beathoven changed his buffs to buff our defence and lower his attack because lowering his speed was of no use, it was negligible as he was too fast. Breadtalk suddenly jumped into the fray of the battle but facing the entirely wrong way. ¡°Renfir is his name, smelling is his game. How can he stand smelling himself with a huge nose like an elf. He think''s his rhymes are cool, But I think it''s quite true. Cos they make me laugh so hard I think I''m about to fart.¡± Apparently an attack like that was quite effective against an opponent with a keen sense of smell. Breadtalk suddenly used Loki''s Armoury again and swapped his dual knives. This time, what came out was something that couldn''t possibly be used by many classes in RR. It was a fucking rocket launcher. He ran a few meters back and aimed it at Renfir. Who happened to be engaged in a meele with Soup as always. Before I could say anything, his familiar ¡°YOLOOOOOO¡± came. I had to time this to perfection so I needed to watch carefully. Just before the rocket hit either of them, I cast another divine shield on Soup. It had quite a high mana cost and it was only for one instance of damage so I could not spam it. What happened though was extremely cool. The rocket exploded and the radius of effect was no where as small as it thought it would be. I was about 10 meters behind Soup with Beathoven and Xantos directly behind me. Breadtalk was firing his rocket from a position about 5 meters on my right. All 3 of us nearly died even though we were a considerable 10 meters away from the start of the explosion. I immediately cast lesser heal on all of us simultaneously and wondered what happened to Soup. The explosion cleared up and Soup was looking at us with shining eyes that anyone could tell were saying ¡°AGAIN AGAIN PLS AGAIN SO FUN AGAINNNN¡±. Renfir flew about 10 meters back into the wall and his HP was originally about 80% but now it was 60%. A single rocket dealing 20% of damage to a boss? Too overpowered hello? ¡°Breadtalk when you recited that stupid poem how much did Loki give you?¡± ¡°A nine. My first nine! YAYYY¡± I wondered what a 10 would give Breadtalk. An atomic bomb? In his defence though the rocket must have been a direct hit. Furthermore at such close proximity the damage was kind of reasonable. Renfir did not have high HP in the first place. It was his regeneration that was out of this world but since now that was out of the question, he was just a level 200 monster. I would estimate his HP to be about 50000 or something but he was still extremely lethal. One swipe could kill us. Even Soup if he struck in a clean hit at a critical spot. Breadtalk wasted no time shooting another rocket at Renfir. It seemed like Loki''s weapons all did not need repair or loading of ammo. They were all magical. Not just magical. Mythical. God level items indeed. Renfir however took more notice of the rocket now. His main priority target now was also Breadtalk. He flashed towards Breadtalk and swiped furiously at him. Breadtalk''s luck stat was so high however that all the attacks barely grazed him so it did not kill him instantly but he still almost died after being grazed about 2 or 3 times. Xantos was spamming heals and it was too close for Breadtalk to fire his rocket. He would instantly die no matter how high his luck stat was. But that wasn''t something that stopped Breadtalk. He sang ¡°I DONT CARE I LOVE IT¡± (By Icona Pop you should check it out its quite a nice song. Really go youtube it now.) and squeezed the trigger. I had enough mana for 2 divine shields so I quickly cast both of them onto Breadtalk to protect him from two instances in case Renfir got one swipe on him before he managed to squeeze the trigger. ¡°BOOOOM.¡± Renfir flew into another wall again and his HP reached 40%. Breadtalk was laughing like a madman in the middle of it and I realised the trickster title was really the perfect job for him. However I did not have much mana left. I was dry. I could not cast anymore divine shields for about 5 seconds because of the mana regen chaotic melody gave me. Soup managed to get off berserker''s call in time to buy me the time I needed. Berserker''s call could reset the aggro to Soup but it had a cooldown time so it was just a lucky coincidence that he could manage to use it. If not anyone Renfir decided to go on would die just there and then. Soup managed to keep the aggro on him and Xantos could heal him sufficienctly. Soup managed to get used to Renfir''s movements so his parry''s were alot better even though he was still taking damage despite the parries. Such was the enormous strength of Renfir. After 20 seconds, I was finally back to full mana and we did the usual combo. Divine shield with impeccable timing plus giant rocket bazooka shot from Breadtalk. Renfir was now down to critical levels. Renfir decided to go kamikaze and this time he ¡°teleported¡± to Breadtalk again, this time using brute force to snatch the rocket launcher away. ¡°HOLY SHIT HE HAS BRAINS.¡± Breadtalk immediately ran towards us. ¡°Resummon your weapon!¡± ¡°Oh yea! Lok-¡± Renfir squeezed the trigger. I had no mana to cast divine shield on all 5 of us which were grouped up together. We were going to die. I knew it. Suddenly everything slowed down again. Adreanaline rush. Of course. And i suddenly realised I could do something so simple yet so elegant. Mustering all my mana left, I used my trump card. ¡°Earth wall!¡± This wasn''t just some simple wall i made in front of us to shield us from some of the impact. I was sure the wall would just melt and all of us except Soup would die. I created the wall just in front of the bazooka. ¡°BOOOM!¡± Renfir flew backwards and was found sprawled out on the ground with about 1% of HP left. Without doing anything, the holy field and poison from dual daggers if it still was in his system would kill him in about a minute. We all felt the fight was won. This hard fought fight which lasted for about 2 hours from start to end. Suddenly, there was a bright light that appeared out of nowhere in front of Renfir and all of us had to shield our eyes to avoid being blinded. Where Renfir lay, there were 4 beings now that stood in front of him. There was a hulking wolf about 5 times the size of Renfir. He did not look undead though, not like Renfir which was part bone and no flesh. Beside the wolf was a head of a snake appearing from the ground. The head of the snake alone was about the size of the king cobra. Beside the snake was a woman who looked extremely attractive, wearing a long red dress with black long hair and face as pale as snow. In front of the three of them stood someone that looked like a normal human being, an old man with a friendly face. One that I have seen before in Junad in the form of a statue. Renfir suddenly crawled up and walked beside the giant wolf, kneeling down, without a doubt showing signs of submission. His HP suddenly became full again as the lady in red cast some unknown spell on him. ¡°WHAT? FULL HP?¡± Beathoven cried out, outraged. ¡°Look at these guys we don''t stand a chance.¡± Soup managed to mutter ¡°Loki? What are you doing here?¡± Asked Breadtalk. ¡°Well done boys. You have made me proud.¡± Loki said.
Quest Complete : Eliminate the Dark Forces You have successfully completed this hidden quest that Loki has asked Valhalla, a demigod serving under his command to give to you. You have received the following rewards: 100000 EXP 5000 Gold Leadership +1000 Sustenance and Perseverance +50 Intellect, Strength and Agility +100 Complete ownership of ¨¦lj¨²enir Castle along with your party.
The last reward was completely out of this world.
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Chapter 15 : The Plan ¡°You have done well. It looks like we did not make a mistake setting our sights on you after all.¡± Loki said. Then what turned out to be one of the biggest trolls played on us on a Breadtalk-ish level was explained to us. The first quest the 4 of us ever embarked on had been rigged right from the start. Loki posing as Elena at the Boar''s Head to give us a special quest which was unattainable unless he gave it. The forbidden forest usually had wolves, snakes, apes as monsters which made it an even more suitable place for the quest. J?rmungandr and Fenrir had complete control over their bethren so they could make them a bit stronger as well as adjust the difficulty of the quest such that it was a build up to the eventual castle fight. The castle was an abandoned castle in the forest which used to belong to a vampire lord but he moved out to some city called Morata or something. As such, Fenrir asked one of his higher level alpha wolves, Renfir, to reside in the castle to temporarily take over custody of the castle and protect it, for their fight. Skeletal soldiers were all provided by Hel as she ruled the underworld and had way too many skeletal soldiers at her beck and call. Things were also starting to get a little crowded in the underworld according to her so she was happy to send a few thousand of them to the castle for them to get exterminated. She was also the one who gave Renfir the blood red aura skill, Unholy Rage. If any of those attacks had hit us head on.... Well the result would have been decided there and then. J?rmungandr was the other sunnavabitch who gave Renfir the regeneration buff because he was an Ouroboros. An Ouroboros was a type of creature which had affinity with cyclicality. Otherwise known as self-reflexivity or eternal return. The regeneration buff J?rmungandr gave Renfir was one that signified that. Unlimited self renewal unless we could deal with the buff. As such, the whole story of how we had been playing into Loki''s hands right from the start was explained to us. However of course we had questions of our own. ¡°Why did you give us such a quest?¡± I asked. ¡°We wanted to test your worth. Whether 4 new characters would be able to accomplish this quest which would be hard for 4 people even if they started off at level 100. You started at level 1. And you did it. This is all we wanted to know. This was the condition we gave ourselves. If you succeeded in this quest, we would give you the next quest which is a much bigger and harder quest. And of course all good things come in threes. My quest is also a trilogy. First is the trial which you all have passed already. The next quest will be the build up which is hard. Not in the battle way which you all have experienced but in many other aspects. The last one will of course be the climax. You will be guided of course and trust me you stand to gain a lot from this.¡± ¡°J?rmungandr, Fenrir and Hel each gave Renfir certain buffs for him to become stronger. Which buff did you give it?¡± asked Breadtalk. ¡°His ability to make rhymes.¡± Loki simply said. Breadtalk had to excuse himself for a few minutes to laugh and when he came back, he could only kneel before Loki and say ¡°No wonder you''re a god. You will always be my master. It was the best buff anyone could give a monster.¡± Like master like disciple indeed. ¡°So are we gonna get the second part of the quest?¡± Soup asked. ¡°Yes. You all deserved it. Quite well might I add. All of you had an indispensable part to play in the fight. Soup of course had to fight in the front lines versus a monster which could quite possibly knock him out in one hit. He needed unyielding courage and balls to do what he did. Jinx then had to act as a support, damage dealer and healer accordingly. He had to do so many jobs due to the versatile nature of his job and he flawlessly executed his role. He prioritised healing, defence and damage at the correct timings which need much insight. Beathoven of course had to remain alert of his positioning as he is a feeble bard but providing insane amount of support and of course with his new skill, Reunion, was what unlocked your comeback to victory. Without that skill you all would have been ripped to shreads once Renfir started becoming serious. Breadtalk of course was doing what he does best. A complete retard who then unlocked his true potential, wielding my kickass bazooka and doing truckloads of damage to Renfir which of course would be utter suicide without the divine shield discovered by Jinx. It was an epic display of teamwork which was of course entertaining to watch but must''ve been hell to be a part of.¡± Loki said. ¡°As such, you all deserve to know what is awaiting you all if you choose to accept my next quest for you. However, to understand the rationale for the quest, I will first have to explain to you my predicament. As you all know, I am Loki, god of tricksters and currently held captive. Me and the gods don''t exactly share a hostile relationship because I help them in general but put them at one end of my pranks as well. Alas due to a prank went a bit too far, I accidentally killed a god named Baldr. The gods overreacted and decided to imprison me for life just cos I accidentally killed a bald god. Fuck those bitches. Oh well whats worse is they put a serpent over my head which drips poison on me without stopping. The only thing stopping that is my wife Sigyn who is here with me collecting the poison with a bowl but once the bowl becomes full, she has to empty it and in that split second, the venom drops onto my head and I yell and writhe around, causing earthquakes and thunder in the surrounding mountain ranges of J?tunheimr. I am sick of waiting for nothing and venom dripping on me.¡± ¡°Ages ago a prophecy was made by a famous prophet. It became widely known across the whole continent. The name of that prophecy was Ragnar?k. My powers as a god were unpredictable. Everyone knew that. No one doubted the prophecy because I was an enigma, an erratic, unexplainable fool. However I just like joking around in nature. I would never upset the whole balance of the gods realm to the extent where gods drop dead one after another. However after about 500 years of this sedentary lifestyle with my wife collecting venom and me stoning here, I don''t have much of a choice. I would gladly wage a war on all my compatriots than be stuck here, forgotten by the gods. I know nothing good will come out of this. But one of the things I hate the most is boredom and staying like this for the rest of my life is not an option.¡± ¡°In order to fufill the prophecy and do something with this life of mine, I need the help of a few heroes. In Ragnar?k, me and my children need to be set free in order to play very specific and important roles. However, our powers are extremely limited now as most of us are confined to our places we currently reside in and we cannot raise an army as we are conserving our powers. We already used a considerable amount in crafting this elaborate quest for you all to test your mettle. Thank god it has not come to waste. Now you know about Ragnar?k and the plan. Now let me tell you more about your roles should you choose to participate in this event that will shake the very foundation of this world and the future it follows.¡± ¡°Fenrir my son is currently enclosed in a fetter called Gleipnir deep in the Northern lands. Gleipnir is made of 6 mythical ingredients, crafted by only the finest of dwarvern smiths. It is impossible for him to break free from Glepinir himself. You need to free him in the future first as the trigger for Ragnar?k to happen. Fenrir will be the first step in what happens during the series of events." ¡°J?rmungandr is currently swimming in the waters which connect every single ocean and sea. The god Thor has been asked to safeguard J?rmungandr in particular, making sure he does not come out of the waters. In Ragnar?k, J?rmungandr will rise from the ocean to the skies in order to wage war along with Fenrir. After rescuing Fenrir, you all need to make your way to assist J?rmungandr to come out from the waters before Thor can electrify and bash his head in with his almighty hammer and control of the skies.¡± ¡°Hel is now the caretaker of Niflheim and the underworld of the nine realms. Thus, Hel will not need to be rescued or anything like that and she will be the provider of our main army in the upcoming battle. She is given much freedom as she played a major part in trying to resurrect the god Baldr which I killed. She will be able to teleport into the battle to join us immediately so she is the least of my worries. So in order for Ragnar?k to occur, you will need to free three gods in this exact order. Fenrir, J?rmungandr and finally, me.¡± We could hardly believe our ears. We were listening to a plan to start a war on a divine scale. A war between gods. And we would be the ones pioneering the war. We had to be the spark to ignite a whole forest fire. Furthermore it was without a doubt that the quest difficulty would be at least an A class quest, maybe perhaps an S class quest. We wanted a legacy. Well, starting Ragnar?k wouldn''t just be any legacy. It would be history which changed RR forever. ¡°Well before all that can happen though, you all need to grow stronger. Much stronger than you already are. In order to free Fenrir, you will have to be strong enough to travel to the northern lands of Lyngvi and fight against the ?sir which were the personal army of the gods. I also don''t expect you to fight 4 v 100000 or something. We will have our own army to fight this war and this is where the second stage of the quest comes into play.¡± ¡°After rescuing Fenrir you all have to get J?rmungandr out of the water as well and it might involve directly fighting with the god Thor. Even though you all might get assistance from Fenrir by then, fighting a god is no easy task I tell you. Just fighting a mere beast with two buffs from a god almost killed you all already so I no need to remind you how tough this will be.¡± ¡°Lastly, rescuing me will be the trickiest part of all but if you can pull that off, most of the fight would be won. No one knows the extent of my strength yet. Everyone knows the insane capabilities of Odin and Freya but I am at least as famous as them and no one has ever seen me fight seriously before. If you all can free me, I will be honoured to show you the extent of my strength.¡± ¡°I have made this quest objective and time based because I have come up with a timeline that takes into consideration time needed for preparation as well as strength recovery for us to be able to use our powers to both train you and recover enough to free ourselves and fight the moment you all come to free us. This is why this castle has been given to you.¡± ¡°This castle is called ¨¦lj¨²enir castle to resemble the ¡°Great Halls¡± Hel has in Niflheim. This will be your headquarters where you will raise an elite army comprising of wolves, undead, snakes as well as some of my followers which I have personally handpicked from the pool of followers I have all over the world. Most of them of course will be stronger than you are now but I don''t choose based on levels or strength. I chose based on potential which you all have proved to have. Thus, the second quest will be this. You all have to build up ¨¦lj¨²enir castle on your own, establish a working economy and army and turn this forbidden forest into a city. A kingdom. This will help you all grow in strength. The gods might suspect you all after maybe about a year or two after they see the huge growth in a certain town. However by then it will be too late. The four of us will give direct tutelage to the four of you in the meantime personally to train you all up to the next level as well. The basic requirements of the quest will be this. Transform ¨¦lj¨²enir castle into a kingdom within the next 3 years and reach level 300 by then. This is not an easy task. To do one or the other in 3 years should be simple enough but to do both, this is what we require of you.¡± Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.
Quest Received : Building up a Kingdom, Getting Stronger Loki has explained to you the situation he is in. You all have to build up ¨¦lj¨²enir castle into a kingdom and reach level 300 in 3 years time. Pre-requisite : Finish the first quest Loki gave you. Quest Difficulty : B Rewards : ??? Will you accept? Yes | No
¡°Guys? What do you think about this?¡± ¡°Are you kidding? 3 years in game time thats like three quarters of a year in real world time. 9 months and we become like RR celebrities. And by the end of this quest we''ll be like what? Level 500? Say yes please.¡± ¡°I''m gonna be a level 500 bard who can''t even kill a level 10 pig on his own. COME ON LETS GOOOOO.¡± ¡°All of us are raring to go, All of us will be so pro. All of us are going to own, But first I need an ice cream cone.¡± ¡°EVEN RENFIR HAS SHUT UP CAN YOU SHUT UP TOO?¡± Only Loki was busy laughing his ass off at that and what can we say? Like master, like disciple indeed. ¡°Alright Loki we''ve come to a decision. Yes. Count us in.¡± ¡°Splendid! Alright for now we will use our remaining strength to train you first since we have already materialized ourselves here. We have each already chosen one of you to tutelage because each of you has quite a clear teacher to be matched with you based on your styles to be honest and it is going to be extremely clear who is going to be paired with who. Of course I will take my disciple. Lets take this corner of the room. We shall begin our first training session as master and disciple.¡± ¡°Soup, you are with me.¡± Fenrir said in an extremely deep and commanding tone. Soup''s face could literally be seen shining. It was no doubt he wanted to be tutored under the most famous and ferocious mythical wolf there will ever be. ¡°We''ll take this corner.¡± ¡°Beathoven, I have been watching attentively. You know if I had a class, it would be a bard as well. I play music in my humble abode in the Great Halls. I could teach you a thing or two about melodies. They are definitely music worth dying for.¡± Hel whispered in a soft yet high pitched soothing tone. I was wondering if the pun was intended when I realised my master was decided. ¡°So.. I guess you are going to be my master then. I said while following the immense head to the last corner of the room.¡± ¡°Indeed I am. Nice to meet you. All gods have the same skill as you, mana manipulation and it''s going to be tougher and tougher on you because of your role in this party.¡± J?rmungandr said. ¡°I am generally a nice teacher but I''m afraid I won''t have time to be nice and patient to you. Your element affinities are greatly lacking compared to the gods and without a doubt, I will need to drill the basics on how to level up your mana manipulation even faster with a few exercises. Firstly, I''m going to teach you my favourite type of magic, poison magic.¡± I learnt from J?rmungandr that poison which isn''t one of the 9 main elements of magic could be derived by combining darkness and water magic and optionally, earth magic as well. I learnt that there were various types of magic that could only be gotten when combined. Lava, Storm, Explosive, Sand, Immolation, the possibilities were endless by mixing the magic types. However, most gods still specialised in a few because elemental affinity is really important when learning the high level skills. J?rmungandr was a god specialising in poison so he let me experience his poison spells first hand. They were so godly that even when he casted a few of his lowest tier spells, they took about 200 HP per second off me. I couldn''t even dispel the poison using my dispel skill until maybe my sixth or seventh try. If he cast his best poison spells on me I wouldn''t be surprised if I just died without knowing what hit me. He exposed me to such high purity darkness and water magic levels that both my water and darkness affinities went up by 5% in no time. He also taught me mana manipulation exercises that were mentally exhausting and draining. He made me cast a mini waterfall in my left hand using water magic and a dark whirpool in my right hand. It''s essentially the same as writing chinese words with my left hand and english words in my right. At first I could barely even use the magic spells. After about 10 minutes I was able to hold the spells but in the wrong shapes. Only after 30 minutes was I able to hold both spells simultaneously in their respective shape. However, J?rmungandr told me to reverse the spin on the dark whirpool and slow down the waterfall speed and both spells immediately went haywire again. He explained to me that the ability to keep two or more completely different and specific thoughts were extremely useful in mana manipulation. I could cast two entirely different spells instantly which could only be done with practice. I have casted many spells instantly before like my heals on the whole party simultaneously which felt awesome but it was possible only because it was the same spell. If I had to cast dispel on Soup, heal on Breadtalk and maybe swift steps on myself instantly, I knew there and then that none of the three spells would even be casted. This was what J?rmungandr was talking about. I could see how useful it was in a fight. I could cast all sorts of spell simultaneously and it might even combo well with certain spells. I could literally cast divine shield on the person getting attacked, cast attacking support buffs on the damage dealers, heal any injured person and deal damage to the monster all at the same time. However for now casting two spells at a time was already a challenge and I was getting a nosebleed. Three or four would have to wait for now. J?rmungandr gave me one last training session before he needed to go because his power reserves was running out. J?rmungandr was an Ouroboros. As mentioned earlier before, an ouroboros represents cyclicality and it was an aspect which could be very useful in battle. Certain attributes linked to self-renewal were things such as the pheonix''s ability to revive, regeneration in battles, it was equivalent to infinity and as such, there were a few things that resembled that in J?rmungandr''s arsenal of weapons. His poisons would last forever until they were dispelled. J?rmungandr also had insane regeneration levels which would be very useful for me as my mana regeneration and mana pool ultimately defines my usefulness in battle. Also, his ability to shed skin and negate all negative debuffs was also another flawless example of how a self sustaining cycle helps maintain the integrity of his strength. J?rmungandr immediately decided to teach me a skill which helps my mana regeneration in order to raise my usefulness manifolds in battle.
New Skill : Ouroboros Seal By focusing your mana onto the back of your right hand, a seal in the shape of a snake biting its own tail will be seen. The seal will store mana which you pump into it and keep it there like a storage permanently. Upon releasing the seal, the snake will unbind itself from the tail and the mana you have stored will be able to be put at your use at your command any way you want. You can also choose not to use all the mana you have stored up in the seal. Mana Cost : None
It was a neat little skill. Instead of relying on Chaotic Melody to give me my much needed regeneration, this was a much better skill to rely on as I had ultimate control over it. I can''t believe a skill like this existed and I should have thought of it earlier. J?rmungandr was running out of time in his materialized form so he left me with a few basic instructions in order to become stronger. Keep practicing splitting my mind into parts. The more parts I can split my mind into, the more effective my role will be in this party which is of utmost importance. Always store mana into the seal whenever possible and if i get used to it, i would even be able to store mana into the seal in my sleep. Start to experiment with the poison magic he had taught me because they were all high level spells which would raise the mana manipulation skill level faster and more efficiently. I also had to learn how to use poison spells since I have never used them before and did not know how to best use them. After leaving me with these few tips, J?rmungandr bade farewell and told him it would be a while before the four of them came back to tutor them again as it required a substantial bit of strength every time they came to do so. Hel, Fenrir and Loki also ended their sessions with the rest of the BOTs and we gathered back into the middle of the room. ¡°Okay so i leave this in your hands. I would recommend you to first start building a town surrounding this castle, then start the city going and make it self-sustaining. Then proceed to train the army along with yourselves so you all will become stronger as a whole. Each of us will leave a few elite troops behind to stay in the castle but the bulk of your forces will be my followers and any other adventurer that decides to join your city if they like it here. You won''t be training the wolves snakes and undead soldiers as they can be summoned by us anytime and they won''t be as efficient to level up compared to humans who learn and grow faster. The executives we leave behind are exceptions though as they are elite troops. I have already sent for an architect to come here from the Rosenheim Kingdom. He is the one who usually builds my churches so he is already the best of the best. Godspeed my friends.¡± Loki and his children vanished from the room. However, Renfir was still left behind, there were 2 new skeletal mages that were left behind which looked alot stronger than the ones we''ve face before and a king cobra which was now beside Renfir. They must have been the troops that each of them left behind so they could help us as well as function as eyes and ears for them to monitor our progress. ¡°Well guys. You heard the man. We got a kingdom to build.¡± I said.
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P.S. Author''s note : I''m sorry for the late update. I have been down with food poisoning and high fever for about the last 2 weeks which have been hell on earth for me. Also, I have tried to make this chapter by far the most plot enhancing one and exciting one before I need to take a 2 week hiatus as I will be very busy with work commitments and an overseas trip at the end of august till the middle of September. I hope this chapter will be enjoyable for all of you! Chapter 16 : Carnival ¡°So what do we do from here?¡± ¡°Well first things first lets decide which part of the castle should we place the town in? The top? The middle?¡± ¡°Obviously the middle we want to protect it from attacks from as many sides as possible right?¡± ¡°But the middle is a very bad idea for a town. Castles in the middle of the town is like.. What the fuck a more accessible feature should be there.¡± ¡°And if the castle placement is at the top, the back wall of the castle is the only way in for a surprise attack so we can just place more traps and people on guard duty there.¡± ¡°Oh my god we haven''t even started and this is already hard.¡± ¡°Well lets just vote to decide. The 4 of us have ownership of the castle, the 4 of us should build this town from scratch with just us.¡± ¡°What happens if there is a tie?¡± ¡°Well if there is a tie.. Why don''t we let Jinx''s vote be the deciding vote. He has taken on the role of leader for the party anyway and so far he hasn''t made any bad decisions yet. Excluding sleeping beside Breadtalk.¡± ¡°HEY! Sleeping beside me is an honour.¡± ¡°*cough* snake on penis cough¡± ¡°Okay okay. So it''s decided. We''ll make it such that the 4 of us will be the decision makers for this town but in the event of a tie, Jinx''s vote will win. So that means only if the three of us agree on something else than Jinx can the decision go through.¡± ¡°I''m fine with that.¡± ¡°Same here.¡± ¡°Alright that''s decided. Hold on I have to do something first.¡± I said. I went to see Valhalla who was still nearby while we were discussing what to do with the town. ¡°Valhalla aren''t you going to go back to the village?¡± ¡°I was instructed by my Master Loki to do the things I have done until now. I think he would like me to help you on your quest. Also, I suggest that I move my blessing into the castle and have the villagers move in to your town when it is done. What do you say to that?¡± I considered the offer. In my point of view, a successful city at its core requires 4 things. A strong infrastructure, a reliable economy, an efficient defence and last of all, something that gives the city a sense of identity. Needless to say, manpower is required for three of the four things less infrastructure. The decision was an easy one to make. ¡°Of course I would want the villagers to be part of the new city. They played a part in fighting for it so it is only logical that they be given citizenship for the town. Tell them to treat it as a form of payment and condolences for any loss of their loved ones during the fight against Renfir which was only a test... I cannot imagine how their families might feel. I need to make this city prosperous to make their sacrifices worthy.¡± Valhalla nodded and proceeded on the path back towards the village. ¡°Take Xantos with you for the time being! She said she enjoys time spent with you retards but I think she just really enjoys the food you give her. Your light mana must be of a certain quality keep it up man!¡± Great. I''m like free food to Xantos huh.. Well more help is never a bad thing. ¡°Alright guys. We need to start now. Before the architect arrives which I think will be some time soon, do you guys wanna discuss a floor plan?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± They said in unison. After an hour of planning, discussion and several retarded and helpless comments by you know who, we decided on something like this. West Spine Castle East Spine Castle Wall / Entrance Town Square Residences South Spine City Wall / Entrance So the idea was simple. We drew our inspiration from the shopping mall near our school which we found it to be well designed as well as our starting city, the city of Junad. Basically the castle would be in the northern part of the town, so as to put it deepest into the city and taking into account possiblity of castle sieges. There were basically only two options. Through the back of the castle over the walls, or straight up front which requires them to charge into the city. Both were possible to defend without much difficulty. The town would be a square shaped. Best to think of it as a 3x3 square. The top middle of the town would be the castle. The East spine would be for the intelligence classes and church. It would take up the right side top and middle boxes of the 3x3 square. This basically means Loki''s church as well as all the mage related stuff would be placed here in the East spine. The West spine would be vice versa, taking up the left side top and middle boxes of the 3x3 square. This part would consist of all the strength and dexterity classes. The Town Square is the highlight of the town which was obviously the square right smack in the middle of the 3x3 box. Instead of doing it like Junad where you would be extremely isolated to your spine depending on your class, we decided to make the town square where majority of the fun happens. Every single trade will happen in the town square. Even if you need armour from NPC, the NPC stalls will be set up in the town square. If you need swords or heavy armour, the left side of the town square nearer to the west spine would have the items. If you need spell books or robes, the right side of the town square nearer to the east spine would have that. If you need player sold items, makeshift stalls would be set up for players and merchants to market their goods. In the middle of the town square, there would be a huge landmark which was still undecided to signify the pride of the city. It was also here where players would spawn from and gather in order to search for parties before embarking on quests. It was a simple lay out based on simplicity. For quests and job related stuffs you would have no problem navigating through the town and everyone will tend to gather at the middle of the town square where events would also be held in order to bring the life into this city. We were the BOTs. We weren''t going to let this city be JUST another city. It would be THE city. That led us to discussion of what should be in the south spine which would be directly underneath the town square. The middle square of the bottom row in a 3x3 box. There were many ideas which were all quite good but of course a ridiculous idea had to come from Breadtalk. ¡°Guys why not we build something in the south spine which all of us specialise in? Something that combines all of us together. For Soup it would be a gladiator, for Beathoven it should be something like a concert hall which involves arts like singing dancing and maybe even acting. For Jinx I can''t think of anything the possibilities are endless he can make anything happen. For me I would like A BALLOON CASTLE PLEASE. A BALLOON CASTLE IN THE SOUTH SPINE WILL BE SO FUN! Imagine taking off your shoes and jumping around! Then we can maybe put a piano there for Beathoven and a mini coliseum for Soup and maybe a forest for Jinx to play in!¡± ¡°I think he''s officially nuts.¡± ¡°Wait a moment.¡± I said. The utter jibberish that came out of Breadtalk gave me an image in my mind. Before we played RR, we used to play several computer games and what Breadtalk described to me gave me an idea which I could implement into an ex computer game in a very different way... ¡°Guys think about this. What if we take the South spine and turn it into something like a coliseum. Imagine two balloon castles which albeit looks ridiculous, would appeal to any young person. Come on its a freaking balloon castle. Wait I''m not crazy. Not yet. Lets find some way to make it invulnerable to hits, maybe ask Loki as a blessing for this town. Imagine two balloon castles each facing the other. In between is a 100 meter stretch of land which divides into three lanes. One lane could be filled with rocky mountains and terrain, stones jutting out everywhere. Another one could be a lake 5 meters deep with a huge platform in the middle. The last one could be a mudflat with explosives hidden inside it. Just some suggestions. It will look like some sort of Carnival event right? Why not we play capture the flag in that scenario. A flag would be hidden somewhere in both castles. Add two teams playing on both ends which should capture the flag and bring it to their own castle for victory. It could be like a 20v20 thing. Spectators can watch from the outside with huge screens showing what is happening inside the castle for both specators and teammates alike. My inspiration for this was when Breadtalk said Carnival. Remember when we were young, carnivals were such fun. The nice loud music, the games, the ferris wheel. We can do just that!¡± I said excitedly ¡°We can make a grandstand surrounding the playing field so it becomes something exactly like a coliseum. Soup could be in charge of that. Entertainment is a must for the spectators so food and music as well as events in between matches could be ongoing and Beathoven could be in charge of that. As for me i will be the judge and umpire as well as the terrain creator because of my skills right? Then Breadtalk was the one who pioneered the idea in the first place so we can make him the event organiser. Just imagine! It would be something completely fun and unique to our city and it represents us completely. Carnival Wars if you might call it. Exclusively in our city. This would be our way of making our town unique and especially fun.¡± I suggested ¡°Jesus... I know he doesn''t exist in RR but still... JESUS!¡± ¡°HOLY SHIT NOBEL FUN PRIZE PLEASE.¡± ¡°And a moment ago you were calling me crazy.¡± Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. ¡°You are. Just a nice type of crazy.¡± ¡°I might even go as far as to name this city we''re going to build Carnival. I think its an ingenious name if we really make the South spine a permanent place to have this event to have fun. It is also a good way to level don''t you think. Like a real coliseum, just real fun with actual strategy and teams revolving around this. We might even get many visitors cause of this!¡± ¡°I like the name.¡± ¡°No complaints.¡± ¡°I AM THE BEST WOOHOO.¡± ¡°Hmm it was a great idea. Guess we could admit this just once.¡± ¡°Alright so do we have a vision for our Carnival?¡± ¡°Eat, Sleep, Play?¡± ¡°Hmm doesn''t really sound right...¡± ¡°Welcome to Carnival. Enjoy!¡± ¡°Hey that''s pretty good!¡± ¡°Carnival. Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun.¡± ¡°WE HAVE A WINNER.¡± ¡°Jinx can''t you just let us have a chance once in awhile.¡± ¡°Sorry bro. THIS TOWN IS GOING TO BE LEGENDARY.¡± ¡°Alright so we decided. The south spine is going to be exclusively for a carnival centre. Good food and music, a grandstand with huge screens, filled with spectators cheering for their favourite team, watching impressive plays from both teams in a 20v20 skirmish of capture the flag?¡± ¡°Hell yeahhhhhhh~¡± And thus we decided on the whole floor plan. Residences were residences obviously. We had two boxes left for residences, the bottom left and bottom right most boxes in the 3x3 layout. It was adequate. The majority of the army would be staying in the castle anyway which had alot of space for soldiers. After we are done with the city we just need one entrance preferably from the South Spine where the fun immediately starts to welcome the tourists and townsfolk. ¡°Alright guys lets split the workload. The west spine supervision should go to Soup because he is the only class here who fits the bill. Beathoven should be in charge of the South Spine because it is going to be an area for fun so it should be left to the most artsy person right? So I will take care of the town square since it is the most economically important aspect of the town. Breadtalk... Please don''t fuck up the East spine?¡± I begged. ¡°I''ll try my best.¡± Said Breadtalk with his boyish smile. Ohhhh boy..... Oh well. How bad could it be? I''ve learnt this lesson many times but you know with Breadtalk it just had to be this way. It could go bad. VERY bad. Okay so the workload was split up. Back to the present, we found ourselves at the entrance of the castle. It meant just one thing. First we had to make space for what we had envisioned. The forbidden forest had to be cleared. There were no monsters already but there were still trees everywhere. ¡°Guys. Lets split up and clear the trees. I think Soup can cleave through them no problem. I can also manage with my katana mastery. Breadtalk still has the rocket launcher right? Just please try not to accidentally shoot yourself and die. It is one hell of a weapon. Beathoven you''ll just give us regen?¡± I asked. ¡°Actually no. Hel taught me something that I wanna try. It looks like songs are more complicated than I thought. There are all sorts of songs out there and Hel just taught me one. I think I''ll be able to help with the clearing of trees.¡± ¡°Alright then. Let''s see what you got. The elite guards, Renfir, King Cobra, Xantos and the two mages. Can you all help?¡± They all nodded. ¡°Well we are going to need names so lets just give you all some. Guys, can you all take charge of the guard you''re in charge of and come up with a name for them?¡± ¡°Renfir needs a name change. I know its an anagram for Fenrir because Fenrir made it that way but no. It just doesn''t fit. I will call him Fuzzy Wuzzy from now on.¡± Soup said. Ren- Fuzzy Wuzzy gave Soup an incredulous look. The badass looking FuzzyWuzzy giving Soup an incredulous look was just an image I would pay any amount of gold to retain. It was the epitome of funniness. LOL. It''s kinda nice. ¡°Alright for my king cobra.. I''m gonna call him... Slick.¡± ¡°There you have it. Another Jinx level name. Sleek.¡± ¡°And there you have it. Another Breadtalk level pun. Sick.¡± ¡°Well, I got nothing. Ick.¡± Slick added. ¡°HAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT THE SNAKE HAS A SICK SENSE OF HUMOUR. SLICK INDEED.¡± ¡°The level of retard in this convo is too fucking high guys.¡± I could barely stutter out as I was busy enjoying myself laughing my ass off. Breadtalk was struggling to maintain a straight face and Soup was already bawling his eyes out at the level of puns being thrown out. ¡°MY TURN. I''m gonna name the skull mages... M1 and M2.¡± ¡°WHAT THE FUCK BRO. BOOOOOOO.¡± ¡°That''s not how you follow up two awesome moments man.. Omg what a killjoy.¡± ¡°WHAT?! Bananas in pyjamas dude. That was the best show involving twins wasn''t it? Like ¡°Are you thinking what I''m thinking B1?¡±. ¡°I think I am B2.¡± REMEMBER THAT SHIT GUYS.¡± ¡°You had twins. There was so many possible good puns you could put to use and you used fucking bananas. There were epic names like... R2D2 and C3PO. Or maybe Fred and George. I don''t know maybe you could be abit original and chose something like Machu and Mikachu, BUT NO YOU WENT WITH M1 AND FUCKING M2!¡± ¡°THEY ARE NOT BAD NAMES!¡± ¡°Are you thinking what I''m thinking M1?¡± ¡°I think I am M2.¡± ¡°These names suck.¡± ¡°Totally.¡± That was the last punchline i needed. Everyone was literally rolling around the floor laughing. Even Slick and FuzzyWuzzy. Looks like elite guards with affinity to Loki had his sense of humour as well. This was great. Carnival looks like a great place already even though nothing had been started. ¡°Okay guys. Let''s start clearing the trees. To keep things fun and interesting let''s make this a competition! Last one to cut finish 100 trees will have to wash the dishes after dinner tonight!¡± ¡°Deal.¡± All of them said. I immediately used swift steps to rush out and coat my katana with fire mana, bringing it down with gravity crush perpendicularly. It cut through the tree trunk like scissors gliding through paper. Alright I''m not gonna be last no matter what. All of a sudden, I heard a familiar lute playing but the song was.. Queer. It was a stacato, jumpy and irregular. Suddenly there was a small rumbling sound and skeletal warriors started pouring out from the castle where we slain them. ¡°WHAT? THE QUEST WASN''T OVER?¡± All of us shouted. ¡°RELAX GUYS! THEY''RE WITH ME!¡± Beathoven shouted. Holy shit that looks like 1000 skeletal soldiers. Beathoven is going to come in first?! I quickly got to work with my trees. Each gravity crush cost 100 mana. However my total mana pool was around 6000 now and mana regen was 1% of your total mana so it was 60/second. When I reached 80 trees, i started slowing down as I had to wait for my mana to regen. Oh my god faster fasterrrrrrr. Looks like the chaotic melody buff was something I really needed. My ouroboros seal had no mana within it for now anyway. After I finished my 100 trees, I ran back into the lobby of the castle and saw.. Everyone there. ¡°HAHAHAHA JINX. HAHAHAHAHAHA¡± ¡°WHAT THE HELL. ANYONE CHEATED?¡± ¡°Nope. I can vouch for Beathoven. Everyone can. He came in first unexpectedly. Soup just needed one slash per tree. Breadtalk... He was clearing trees 5 at one go with his rocket launcher. Fuzzy needed one slash per tree as well and he was fast. Super fast. Xantos use his light spell to knock down trees in a straight line like some hyper beam. Slick just wrapped himself around several trees at once and crushed the trunks. M1 and M2 used fire magic of a high level to clear about 20 trees at once per spell. Looks like you''re it Jinx.¡± Cooking dinner was trouble enough. Dishes as well? ARGHHHHHH. All of a sudden, a man came to us dressed in black robes with gold hemmings. ¡°Good Afternoon, my name is Hermes. Loki sent me here in request to build... A city?¡± ¡°You came at a good time my friend. I am Jinx. These people are Soup, Breadtalk, Beathoven, Xantos, FuzzyWuzzy, Slick, M1 and M2. They''re identical twins so it doesn''t matter which one is which. Even we can''t differentiate them yet. We need you so badly Hermes. We have a Carnival to build.¡±
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Authors Note: Hey guys! I know i said the next update would be in September but it looks like I had surprisingly little to do at work today and I came across some inspiration to continue the story. This is a surprise treat for the supporters of the story thus far. I really think this is the funniest and most interesting chapter to date so I hope you all can continue the support! I really enjoyed writing this chapter and I hope you all enjoy reading this as well! Chapter 17 : Fountain of Carnival ¡°Alright so i''ve heard the basic plan for this town and I''ve gotta say this is the first time I''ve built a town like this. I''ve heard of towns being centered around an event like the Lunar festival in the town of Moonglaive or the Taming festival in the town of Rexar but this is a town based on... everyday capture the flag fights? I gotta say I''m quite excited to be a part of this cos this really could work guys.¡± Hermes said after he heard the basic explanation from me. ¡°Well we got some time so why don''t you introduce yourself to us for abit? We would want to know what sort of architect Loki sent us anyway. He has a way of making things interesting if you know what I mean.¡± I asked as politely as I could. ¡°Of course. Well I started off as an architect the normal way. I just wanted to earn some coin here in Royal Road which I can sell in real life for money you know and architecture seemed like a quick way to get some cash. I also have an architectural degree in real life so I picked up the skills fast. However for my first project, the person wanted me to build a curvy house which looked modern and I took up the challenge knowing how hard it was. I started making it round straight from the base and proceeded upwards, making it a three story house for him, admiring the curves I made for him throughout the building and upon completion, the owner said my house looked like 2 gigantic balls with a penis that had both a left and right curvature at the same time.¡± ¡°Looks like someone failed to erect his reputation properly.¡± M1 said. ¡°He poked himself right in the ass there.¡± M2 replied. ¡°Guys give him a break even though his name rhymes with herpes I''m pretty sure he made a perfectly healthy house.¡± Breadtalk chipped in. ¡°Sick.¡± Slick said. ¡°Can all of you give him a break. He''s showing us a delicate part of himself.¡± Soup chipped in giving us a wink. ¡°Did the house have a garden? Or was it cleanly shaven?¡± FuzzyWuzzy asked. ¡°Guys. Stop coming at him so fast.¡± I retorted. ¡°Not exactly helping Jinx, coming is a good word to use during our foreplay.¡± Beathoven hummed. All of us couldn''t handle the level of penis jokes anymore and burst out laughing and Hermes was by far the loudest one of us all. ¡°This town is going to be a monstrosity of fun isn''t it with all you jokers running it. Okay moving on with my story yes sadly to an untrained eye my building might look like a huge crotch but it really did hurt my reputation. No one dared to ask me to build anymore buildings until Loki came along. He loved my building. He called me the upcoming visionary architectural dicksigner of the 22nd century.¡± Damn Loki was good with penis jokes as well ¡°He asked me to design a church for him and I did but this time at a much straighter level. No curves, no inner eye shenanigans, no dicks. When I finished, he was genuinely pleased as well so ever since then, Loki made me his go to man when he needed churches to be built. So yea thats basically my story.¡± Hermes completed. ¡°Round of applause guysssss¡± *Applauseeeeeee* ¡°Alright now for the serious stuff. Hermes how long does it take for you to construct buildings?¡± ¡°Depending on the size, a standard house would take about 1 hour using my advanced Architecture mastery. Slightly larger buildings would take slightly longer.¡± ¡°Alright that''s plenty fast enough. I want you to start with the west spine. Soup has always been straightforward and efficient. He submits his homework so fast because when he doesn''t know the answer he just hands it up using ''Because Jesus said so'' on his papers and trust me that accounts for like 90% of his answers. So Soup you can start designing the West spine and start building it with Hermes. We will do it by days. Day 1 is Soup and the West spine. Day 2 is me and the Town Square. Day 3 is Beathoven and the South spine. Day 4 will be Breadtalk and the East spine. Day 5 will be the residences which we will let Hermes decide on his own. The rest you have 5 days of free time. We can just sleep in the castle in the top floors where the beds and rooms are prepared. I recommend us to train up during our free time. The mines are still open as well so M1 and 2, Slick, FuzzyWuzzy, would you get your minions in the area in the meantime to mine the ores in them for us to use as resources? Okay now the plan is settled. Now we just need to address the payment and process. How much will your services cost and what materials will you require?¡± ¡°I''m Hermes. My payment is in reputation points Loki gives me. I figure that reputation points with one of Big 3 (Freya, Odin, Loki) is worth more than money and as for materials, don''t worry about that. I wont need stuff like cement and clay or steel and iron. I''m a master level architect. I have a skill that can use the resources I have in a certain store and smelt them immediately into the picture of the building I''m about to create. The store is of course replenished by Loki so no worries. Just tell me how to help and you got it.¡± An entire town from scratch at the cost of 0 copper. How about that. Let''s make millions from this town. ¡°Well, let''s do this. Oh and Hermes, no penises in Carnival alright.¡± We split up immediately and each of us hurried to do what we wanted. The elites (M1 & 2, Slick & FuzzyWuzzy) went to start mining for ores. The four of us decided to go to our assigned areas and brainstorm of how we wanted the town to be. Carnival in its essence was going to be a town all about fun. Even though the town square is the most important economical and political landmark of the town, it had to reflect that. I chose the town square because this was the only part of the town which couldn''t screw up. No matter how ridiculous the spines looked, they just needed to be functional. The town square needed to be perfect. Plus 4 different designs into 1 city would make the city look exactly as it should. Mashed up, imperfect, ridiculous, like 4 drunkards designed the town and it would basically scream ¡°BUNCH OF TARDS WERE HERE.¡± I was sure this was the best way to create this town. After 3 hours of serious brainstorming, I decided on the positions of the landmark, respawn point, shops and town square and designed them in my head thoroughly. Overthinking would be useless so I was done for the day. I just needed to wait for Hermes to come find me to start. I went ahead to start on my training J?rmungandr left me with. I quickly split my minds into two parts and experimented with different shapes of darkness and water magic in each. I tried tornados, waterfalls, condensed balls, letters, numbers, and tried to change the aura of each magic type into these different categories. Because it used a small amount of mana, I could also store mana into my Ouroboros seal as I was doing this as well. After 5 hours, it seemed like I could not store any more mana into my Ourobors seal. There seemed to be a limit of 12000 mana. However I realised the skill level increased to beginner level 3 and I figured the higher the level, the more mana it could store. Wait storing mana increases the skill proficiency but what about using the stored mana? I used the stored mana to unleash a huge pillar of rock from the very centre of where the town square should be and made it about 3 stories high, perfectly circular like a rod with a radius of 1 meter shooting up from the ground in perfect, highly condensed rock. The stored mana was diminished by about half so I used the other half to summon a glacier which surrounded the base of the huge rod of earth I just made. Perfect. This should be good enough for the preliminary preparations for the town square. I checked the skill proficiency. Using mana from the Ouroboros seal also increased its proficiency. It was almost beginner level 4 now. I then proceeded to repeat my training and by nightfall, I could manipulate my aura to write words in English on my palms and I proceeded to make the word HELL in my left hand with water aura, YEAH in my right with darkness aura and then changed the words simultaneously and swapped the elements so that in the next instant it read I''M with darkness aura in my left hand and AWESOME with water aura in my right hand. I''m done with splitting my mind into two parts. I returned to the castle in order to prepare dinner for all of them and when I was walking back, I could see what Soup has done with the West spine. It was so Soup. It was like someone spilled Soup all over that part of town. Barbaric was the go to word people would describe it. Soup has always been a fan of up right manfighting so he really liked Orcish and Barbaric designs and he couldn''t have made it clearer. The pathways of the West spine were lined up with spears and the pavements were all classic rubble. Sand and stones. The buildings were vastly made of iron, with fire lanterns hanging from the buildings to provide the lighting at night. Doors all had a door knocker, the way the old medival times had it. Majority of the markings and signs were all grey background to complement the colour of iron with blood red markings. It was quite a scene. Well constructed buildings some of which were huge all grey and red. The only exception would be the guilds which were all extremely noticeable. The warriors guild had a huge golden sword behind a silver gleaming shield reflecting the moonlight at the roof of the building. The thieves guild had a pair of silver daggers with green droplets of poison from the tips at the roof of the building. What do you know even Soup knew how to use reference to Breadtalk''s weapons. Of course lastly there was a golden bow and arrow for a guild which if you need me to tell you which class is it for, you would need to stuff Hermes'' first building up your ass. The training hall was of a reasonable size, perfectly round and was one of the rare buildings made of straw indeed. Soup must''ve made it a point to make it made out of straw in order to show newbies that they needed to train up before they deserve to be part of the more well built buildings. It was a pretty interesting concept that I knew Soup was capable of because I knew him for so long. This meant that here had to be a building which only the worthy could enter. For Soup would always make it a point to have the noobs suffer first and make something for them to look forward to. It was how he motivated himself. True enough, in the centre of the West spine, I found a building made of dark white marble. It was an incredible contrast. After so much grey and red, a dull white building in the shape of the Pantheon. I''m not sure if there would be an copyright issues but at the triangular roof, 3 words could be seen. ¡°HALL OF FAME.¡± Typical Soup. Nothing better to fight for than a place in the hall of fame in the heart of all the strength and dexterity based classes in RR huh. I''m pretty sure there were more buildings which Soup had put his effort into but I figured I had more than enough time to be familiar with the town I was going to build with my friends. First I should make dinner for the party. ¡°YOU''RE LATE. WE''RE HUNGRYYYYYYYYYYYY!¡± Screamed Breadtalk as he ran out of the castle the moment he saw me. My ouroboros seal was again fully maxed at 15000 mana at beginner level 6 so I figured why not? I used all the mana I got to firstly make Breadtalk as light as a feather, secondly to blast him with all the mana I had left in the Ouroboros seal in the form of a water jet upwards. ¡°WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee-¡± ¡°Someone catch him when he lands please I don''t want a PK mark at the top of my head.¡± I casually said as I went to the kitchen to prepare the food. It took me about 2 minutes while I was cutting the meat brought back by some of the elites before I heard a familiar voice. ¡°WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.¡± The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. *BOOM* HOLY SHIT BOOM?! I ran out of the kitchen screaming ¡°DIDN''T SOMEONE CATCH HIM?!¡± FuzzyWuzzy was holding onto Breadtalk and I saw what caused the huge sound. FuzzyWuzzy''s paw print was clearly imprinted on the forest floor with cracks all over it. He must have stomped on the floor in order to make me think Breadtalk landed on the floor. FuzzyWuzzy smiled so wide it was like he was the wolf who dressed as grandma when little red riding hood walked in. I quickly went back to the kitchen to finish up the meal and then it was just a usual night. Everyone enjoyed their food. More penis jokes were flung around the table. Breadtalk started a foodfight. I flung him up towards the ceiling. Beathoven played some songs for us. Soup drank some beer to celebrate his competion of the West spine. Elites were all laughing at the antics. M1 and M2 tried to perform a twin breakdance which actually went pretty well. It looked super cool and awesome until they literally broke each other''s neck. Slick fixed them up pretty quick by constricting their bones together and Hermes looked like he was going to die from laughter anytime. Even before Carnival was anywhere near completion, it was obvious that this was the type of town it was going to be no matter what. We went to bed after that and early in the next morning, I couldn''t wait as I charged my ouroboros seal to the maximum in my sleep and waited for Hermes at the huge earth rod and glacier I''ve made in the center of the town. ¡°Well what do we have here?¡± Hermes asked as he approached me. ¡°This my dear, is going to be the fountain of the town square and it isn''t going to be just another fountain. Help me construct a perimeter of shiny black marble around this glacier and rod and give about another 3 meters allowance from the center of the rod as that is going to be where the water will be.¡± ¡°Very well.¡± After the black marble perimeter was constructed, I went to build what I thought of when I first gained the mana manipulation skill. I filled the perimeter with water of about 1 meter high. Then, I lined the perimeter of the water fountain with a lining of dark magic. I realised dark magic could be manipulated to have a flammable property and that was the famous fire of the hellhounds. Dark magic floated on the surface of the water randomly and I cast fire magic to light it up on fire. The dark magic was just a medium which enabled the fire to burn. I then used some wind magic to create a current of wind flowing upwards before it would go back down and flow upwards again. ¡°Hermes could you construct a clear glass dome for this whole structure from the top of the rod till the bottom reaches the perimeter.¡± ¡°Easily done. Here.¡± I created a mini sun in the dome itself and used gravity magic for it to float. Basically what was left was a huge towering rod of earth surrounded by glaciers in a pond which on the surface had dark magic and fire ignited on it, with wind blowing upwards that kept the mini sun made of light to drop and for the final touch, I added lightning aura into the dome. All this was done in specific amounts of mana I used the ouroboros seal for help. A total of 16000 mana plus 12000 mana was put into this fountain. 28000 mana. Why did I create this fountain which looked huge but so unique and queer? Hermes looked puzzled as well. I asked him to create a white plaque on the black marble and carve this onto the plaque. ¡°Fountain of Carnival. This fountain was made by one of the founders of Carnival. It''s purpose is to highlight to the citizens of Carnival the importance of self sufficiency and evolution. Water in the pool will slowly erode both the glacier and the rod of earth. They will grind together to form a unique debris that will give the fountain a blue colouration unlike any other. It will be the bluest fountain you will ever see under sunlight as light reflects off the mixture of earth and glacier (true story look it up on google it''s found in New Zealand). Water will be evaporated into the atmosphere inside the dome by the fire sitting on dark magic which consumes a tiny bit of water for it to retain its flammable property. Wind will carry the hot water vapour up where it will condense into clouds. Lightning mana will merge with the clouds to form thunder clouds which will recharge the sun in the dome of it''s light energy. Rain will then pour down and erode even more of the rod and glacier. During the rain, a rainbow will be formed due to the artificial sun in the dome. This beautiful, 100% natural fountain uses the 9 types of magic; Fire, Ice, Water, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Dark, Light, Gravity in order to create an entirely self sufficient fountain. The only limiting factor here is when all the glacier and earth rocks erode entirely. I have made this fountain self sufficienct for an exact time of 3 years. When this fountain finally finishes its life span, the water will run out, the fire will die, no rain will fall, the sun will come crashing down but then, the fountain will have new life from all the remaining mana combined together, becoming a pool of element X. Carnival will become a town unlike any other. Greatness awaits you in Carnival and this is our timer. Be part of us. Here in Carnival, the fun is self sustaining, the money will be too and eventually, we will become like this fountain, self sustaining, natural, beautiful and above everything else, a calling for change, evolution after our time is up.¡± Hermes looked at the huge, beautiful, self-sustaining fountain made of nothing but nature. ¡°By blackened body of god. Are you the Creator? But seriously this is a self sustaining fountain which also functions as a town identity and a countdown timer for you. How did you even think of this. Thank god you''re not an architect or I would be out of a business.¡±
Created : Fountain Of Carnival You''ve created a masterpiece from nothing but nature and mana. This piece of architecture will give bonuses to people who are near the fountain or have seen the fountain for the past hour. It will give double the amount if they are citizens of Carnival because this is their pride and their landmark. Mana +1000 Mana Regeneration +10/s Fighting Spirit +50 Wisdom +20 Affinity to Nature +2%
You have gained a new Stat : Art
Wow I too can get an art skill even though I don''t have a crafting class. Might be useful... HOLY SHIT IT STARTS AT 1000 LOL. ¡°Hermes if i may ask how high is your art stat?¡± ¡°It''s about 10000 now why do you ask? ¡°How long did it take for you to get to 1000?¡± ¡°A year or two...¡± ¡°I just got the art stat and it''s already at 1000.¡± ¡°Fuck off.¡± ¡°I''m serious.¡± ¡°Well hopefully you''ll find it useful. Some classes have additional damage or perks from the art stat so I recommend you go fin a profession that helps you make use of that.¡± ¡°I will. Thanks for the advice.¡± Hermes explained to me that the fountain I just created was without a doubt a masterpiece. From the materials I used to the story I wanted to explain to the very idea of creating it was all master class. That was mainly the reason why my art stat was already at 1000 even though I just received the stat. Well now that the landmark is done, let''s concentrate on the rest of the town square. I used the rest of the day to guide Hermes to create the town square I''ve pictured for Carnival. I trained while guiding him using the usual mana manipulation and ouroboros seal training. I''ve split my mind into three parts now and I decided to embed light as my next element because my affinity to light is as high as my darkness and water while the rest are 5% behind. After one whole day, work was finally done. The town square was a sight to behold. I incorporated many aspects of nature into the town square to complement the immensde fountain which was our landmark. The respawn area was around the fountain so when they came back from death they would get the buff from the fountain. The town square was a piece of land about 50x50m large with the fountain in the dead centre of it. I made the town square completely white marble for maximum contrast with the fountain and created a podium in order to facilitate events. Surrounding the town square was the marketplace which was the heart of the economy. I stuck with my earlier plan, to make the NPC shops closest to the exterior of the town square as possible where the player shops would be closer to the interior of the town square which was where the fountain and events center was. The player shops which were closer to the town square were all black for maximum contrast against the white floor of the events center but not with some golden flourishes as well. Grey bricked pavements lead from player shop to player shop and I used my mana manipulation to decorate the area. I used holes in the ground which were filled with dark water same as the ones inside the fountain to light up as a source of fire and light when it gets cold or dark. There would be one in between each store. The town square is in the dead centre of the town so there was to be a main path which was identifiable with silver bricks leading north to the castle, east to the east spine, west to the west spine, south to the south spine and southwest and southeast for the residences. Due to all these paths I could only create stalls where these paths didnt exist as the road branches off from the areas to the events center. The NPC stores were made white for contrast with golden flourishes as well for some consistency along with the grey bricked pavements for people to walk on. For their light source I decided on something a little more different. I made a lantern with many holes out of earth from the ground and linked it to a power source.I then made a link from the power source to a huge pond between the southeast path and east path to make maximum use of the small space and asked Hermes to build a few windmills and turbines there. I used mana manipulation to create a small waterfall and supply wind, water, electricity in the pond to power the windmill and water turbines underneath the pond surface. The light sources were both self sustainable for the NPC stores as well as the player stores with what I call the firewells. Looks like I was also attracted to the idea of an ouroboros, a self sustaining infinity. Thus, after more minor decorations such as flowers along the paths and electronics such as a PA system for the events square, it was done. Now only the south spine where the Carnival wars will be and the East spine remain. I can''t wait to see what Beathoven and Breadtalk would bring to the table.
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Author''s note : Hey guys I''m back! Sorry for the long hiatus. Was really enjoying myself in New Zealand and Sydney! (Any Kiwis or OZs here?) i''ve brought back some knowledge I could even use for this fanfic :grin: but I''ve also missed writing for you all. I will try to keep this arc as entertaining as possible while enhancing the plot in subtle fashions. Look forward to the completion of Carnival! Chapter 18 : The Ascension And the third day arrived. The day where the South spine would be completed by Beathoven which would be the most important spine in order to attract tourists as well as make people want to stay in Carnival for extended periods of time. I wonder what he was going to call the place as he had the power to name and design everything from scratch. It was morning and I walked down the castle to the dining hall where everyone agreed to meet for breakfast. ¡°Good morning!¡± Slick, M1 & 2 and FuzzyWuzzy were all there. The rest of the BOTs, Hermes and Xantos weren''t. ¡°Wait where do your minions live anyway?¡± I asked. It turned out the snakes and wolves were still living in the forest and were available to answer to every beck and call of their respective masters whereas M1 and M2 knew abit of necromastery, just a tiny bit to raise a small bunch of minions to do work for them in the mines. If we took them out and level them their skills would no doubt increase even more and I wonder if there was a bigger reason for putting them here than just to assist us. Loki was too unpredictable. And as if to answer to my thoughts the only person who could rival Loki in how predictable he or she was burst into the dining hall. He was however extremely different. It was a centaur (Half human half horse) that came into the room bearing Breadtalk''s upper body. ¡°Look I can shapeshift certain parts of my body at will! CHECK OUT MY PENIS! Wait let me see if I can change the position of the penis.¡± Apparently the skill was extremely useful in changing appearances but it needed alot of mastery and control. Changing specific body parts into other animals or creatures now seemed to be of no trouble to Breadtalk but positioning looks like quite a hard thing to change because I''m pretty sure even if it was Breadtalk, he had no intention of replacing his nose with something slightly more bulky and droopy. The nose took up the original position of the penis and trust me it wasn''t the gigantic horse penis that we saw earlier as well so... ¡°Hey dude how does your ass smell?¡± ¡°Lol. He''s literally dumbo now if only his dick was a little bigger. Maybe his ears too¡± M1 said. ¡°At least its cleanly shaven. The head looks abit weird though.¡± M2 replied. FuzzyWuzzy was too busy slapping and pulling on the newly positioned organ to come up with a witty remark. Slick just said ¡°Don''t suck or lick it. Don''t Slick it. I know its tempting but please don''t,¡± Breadtalk was too busy laughing at his own fail and screaming in pain whenever FuzzyWuzzy swiped the dangling ¡°nose¡± to even comment and he tried to reposition the organ. Lets just say his mastery and control over the spell was definitely not anywhere near satisfactory as organs were just swapping all over the place. It was not a pretty sight but I''d be damned if i said it wasnt entertaining. In the end he just had to cancel the spell and give up trying and by then all of us were already present for Breakfast. I cooked breakfast for them using the vast amounts of ingredients the gorillas gave us as a parting gift after our little adventure and my cooking skill had already almost reached intermediate level 9. I was quite excited to see what would lie after that. All the food I cook already start giving bonus stats to I was even contemplating getting a new lifeskill that I could imbude art into like sewing or sculpting or anything that could make use of my new art stat. After breakfast, we all went about our seperate ways to continue our training and I knew I needed to move on to the next level of training. My mana manipulation was now intermediate level 8 because of the hard training J?rmungandr gave me. My ouroboros seal was also at Beginner level 6 nearing to 7 already because I had to keep using it whenever I had the time. However because I concentrated too much on levelling up the magical part of my character, my katana mastery has been rather stagnant. It would be troublesome if I just became a mage and lost my abilities to fight at the front line due to poor mastery levels. I decided to split my training more evenly. I asked help from FuzzyWuzzy to spar with me. FuzzyWuzzy was just going to ask his wolves to hunt further out of the forbidden forest to level his minions up abit so he didn''t mind that he would have something to do as well. We went into the mines to fight as we didn''t want to attract attention fighting out in the open even if it was just a forest. FuzzyWuzzy was a level 200 alpha wolf which usually doesn''t exist in these areas so he was already a mob of the highest class I could possibly find. He wasn''t a boss mob though. He was just a boss mob only when the quest was active because of the buffs he received from the children of Loki. Now he wouldn''t have the godly regen or the blood rage that Hel could cast on monsters to give them insane amounts of attack power. However he was still a blessed child of Fenrir and he still retained his movement speed, attack speed, vitality and strength. I was a level 110 elemental swordsman but since I had inflated stats due to my level 1 training as well as the first reward for Loki''s quest, my actual level should be around 170-ish. However, everyone knows mages are disadvantageous in close range combat. FuzzyWuzzy would be locked in close combat with me every single second during our spar and that was why he was the perfect sparring partner for me. I would only have split seconds to decide my spells, my footwork and my sword against him at all times and this would train my ability to cast spells instantly as well as my proficiency in close quarters. We made just two rules. First person to get the other down to less than half health would win the round, we are allowed to use whatever means possible. FIGHTTTT! As expected, the speed shown by FuzzyWuzzy during the boss fight was his own. He was about 10 meters in front of me and within 1 second he was barely 2 meters away from me. I did not have the chaotic melody buff Beathoven usually casted on us so this was my first 1v1 fight since i''ve sparred with the leader of the Warrior''s guild, Xeron. I immediately used ice to cover the floor around me hoping FuzzyWuzzy would slip on it and I casted some earth spikes on my shoes to give me some solid grip on the ice. However it looks like FuzzyWuzzy has got some might claws and even though the ice slowed him down abit, he could clamp down on the ice with his claws and he was still faster than me. He rained a flurry of blows towards me and I used my katana to parry his blows. However the result was obvious, a goliath of strength and speed against a semi-skillful katana with barely any strength behind it was hard to cope. Even with swift steps and electric impulse as my go to skills in close combat I was barely keeping up. However I was able to block every blow even if nicks and scratches got to me. If this continued, I had a good chance and I knew this better than anybody because for my job, the possibilities are endless. I immediately started on my own offensive as I just wanted to have a feel of FuzzyWuzzy''s close combat abilities and I knew my spells could easily make a difference. I used a torrent of water from below to push FuzzyWuzzy into the air but he was heavier than I thought. It was just like a shower to him so I used gravity magic on him instead. I wanted to make him lighter so he could be blown around a bit more, so I could start abusing my magic which required almost 0 cast time on him. However, making him lighter would also mean making him faster. He managed to get a clean hit on me and even though the blow was lighter, it still took a quarter of my health away because I had low health and he still had high strength. Bad idea. Making him heavier would make his blows stronger, also seemed like a bad idea. In the end I had to do what my training taught me. I split my minds into two parts, one would be in charge of offense and the other would be defense, simultaneously. FuzzyWuzzy launched himself directly at me and I made him alot heavier instantly. He was still swiping at me but because he was so much slower, I could dodge more effectively but if i failed the dodge it would be instantly a KO for me so you know what they say, high risks high rewards. I then matched up a timing for the counterattack. In the middle of his attack I made him light while I used gravity crush at the same time and he did not have the time to dodge or parry so he took the full brunt of the hit and flew back into a wall and crashed into it. His health was visibly reduced by about one quarter as well and I was pleased. However wolves have high HP regeneration in their blood. It wasn''t the crazy 1000 HP/second regeneration J?rmungandr gave him but it still amounted to quite a bit. When I used the same pattern against him, FuzzyWuzzy learnt well. He kept his strikes small and compact which meant that even though he was slow, the strike was not too long and he even used a skill i suspected which made his slash even faster. Seeing that he has adapted to my plan, I tried out more scenarios but it was a standstill. I was already drawing on some reserves of the Ouroboros seal and FuzzyWuzzy''s HP has recovered to only about an eight of his HP missing. I had to act fast. Long, drawn out battles it seemed wouldn''t be advantageous for me. I steeled my resolve and trusted my instincts and went for it. I rushed in using my swordwork to hang in there but used a high level poison spell for the first time. I casted the spell onto the edge of my weapon and used earth and water magic simultaneously to make a swamp under FuzzyWuzzy''s feet. I then made him heavy using my mana to hold him there for as long as I could and I just kept belting him blow after blow and the beauty about posion is even though he could parry my blows no problem, as long as he doesn''t dodge them, he would be inflicted with poison. I used one of the high level poison spells J?rmungandr taught me and his health was diminishing at a rate faster than it could heal. FuzzyWuzzy could sense that but he could do nothing while he was being weighed down by both a swamp and gravity magic while I was busy doing everything I can to make sure I could get as much poison into his system as possible. I used rooted on him from within the swamp and even went as far as to freeze the top part of the swamp to make sure it was a solid as it could be. However even the 16000 mana pool in my ouroboros seal was running out. He had about one eigth of his health left to go before it was reduced down to half so I used all my remaining mana to use a skill which has never failed me before. *Divine Judgement* However FuzzyWuzzy has seen this before so when he felt and saw the mana above him, even though the drop was almost instant, he managed to dodge it a bit by moving his head and then cracked the ice using all his strength and jumped out of the swamp. His health was still not below half but he was ticking out from the poison. He knew that so he too changed his way of attacking. I no longer had any mana to cast more spells on him so I stuck to using electrical impulse and swift speed to try and match him, drag the time out until he ticks out from the poison. Alas the plan was too obvious. FuzzyWuzzy ran straight for me and instead of focusing on my sword now, he ran straight at me and clinched me. He just used pure, brute strength to give me a bear hug, crushing my bones and preventing me from doing much with my sword. My health went down by half immediately. A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°STOP! Damn. Well played fuzzywuzzy.¡± He bowed in agreement. It was still a pretty useful spar. Because his close quarter combat proficiency was so high, it dragged my katana mastery up quite high for a two whole levels and my mana manipulation and ouroboros seal spells also levelled up during the process. I then realised how much Soup was able to do holding off someone like FuzzyWuzzy who had been buffed up to such insane amounts. I made an agreement to find FuzzyWuzzy to fight with him every time my ouroboros seal was maxed out and he agreed since it would help him gain experience and strength as well. At least it was better than using the mana for blasting Breadtalk into the sky. So I went about doing my normal training, beginning to break my mind into three parts now, one step ahead of two but it felt like it was at least 3 times more difficult. Now it was like using both your hands and one bloody leg to write 3 languages and different words at the same time. Holy shit it could drive anyone crazy. However despite the tough trainings, like in real life, as long as you have a goal worth fighting for, at the end of the day you will still survive and push through. Like men in the military for their country, like a husband working for his family, like a mother protecting her child, we pull through. We always do. My ouroboros seal could be filled about three times a day because of my passive mana regeneration which regen-ed 1% of my mana per minute so it took me 100 minutes to fill up 100% of my mana which was about 6000 by now. It needed me three full tanks of mana to fully fill up my ouroboros seal and another full tank before I was at full fighting capability so it amounted to 400 minutes which was about 7 hours. Thus I could fight fully for 3 times a day maximum. I could squeeze in four but that would leave me without time for sleep and I think that would be bad. Stamina was also important in these close quarter fights and every time I fought with FuzzyWuzzy it would bring my stamina down to extremely low levels. I heard when it reaches 0 you will die even though you have HP remaining so that was another perk of sparring with him. Finally, the sun set after our third spar which i lost as well (Haven''t won against that ass yet) and it was the end of another day and i walked to the South spine together with FuzzyWuzzy to see what Beathoven has brought to this city. And even from far away we could see that he outdid himself. I expected something like a coliseum you know with a huge centre with stands around but I forgot that ultimately, Beathoven would still be Beathoven. A fucking badass concert hall would be the best way I could describe the main building to you. From the town square when you look south the building was so huge it could block your line of sight of the mountains far away. It was made of a light bronze colour which would reflect alot of light off the exterior and make it extremely shiny i suppose. Even though it was dark now, the structure gave off a huge glow, reflecting the light off the surface with huge modern lampposts surrounding the complex. The shape of the building was perfectly circular with an open roof but the top of the building was tilted at an angle so it gave off an extremely modern look with a flat circle as the base and a tilted circle about 5 degrees at the top. The lamp posts were huge and towering and they provided quite good lighting and they were placed surrounding the entire complex which should amount to i estimate about 36 lampposts? 36 high powered hugeass lamp posts. The exterior was laden with many small modern looking shops around it. It was a huge contrast from the West spine which had an old school barbaric look and I was loving it. It was something like your country''s huge national stadium, something like the O2 in london, the Stade de France which obviously is in France etc. The shops all had clear windows and were all uniformly designed so it gave off a very neat feeling and they were well space out too. However these stalls were only open from the upper half of the south spine which was the one closer to the town square. The bottom half of the south spine had buildings too but they were of a different nature and all of them were of a modern design as well. This time, extremely more colourful which was a strong contrast from the upper half. They were also not uniform, some were short and big, some tall and skinny. Some were even irregularly shaped. Then I realised the beauty of Beathoven''s design. If you were coming from the town square or anywhere else up further north of town, you would have already seen how uniquely designed this place is so a modern, uniform image would be sharply contrasted and appreciated from all the various types of designs. But if you were coming from the south into the city for the first time, you would be able to see many colourful buildings, each differently designed but still of a modern nature with the huge stadium as a backdrop, foreshadowing the crazily designed town awaiting the individual. It screamed Carnival but in a modern sense. A fun filled, brightly lit modern area for fun. Looks like Beathoven really had a flair for art after all. This was a careful, modern piece of engineering instead of whimsical art. I walked towards the stadium. Beathoven already took the liberty of naming the stadium which was obvious as two words were floating at the top of the stadium, slowly spinning from left to right reading ¡°The Ascension¡±. I could only admire the apt name. The floating letters seemed to further symbolise and emphasize the grandeur and impact of the name. The interior of the stadium was breathtaking as well. It was exactly like a concert hall. Except it was a blend of concert hall and a stadium. The circular stadium was huge and the seats were extremely comfortable. They were the sort of red cushiony seats you could find in a concert hall or cinema. Each had a cup holder and mini table you could stow away as well. There were huge tv screens hanging in mid air at the centre of the stadium which you could clearly see without a doubt from wherever you were seated. I could also see that the seats were categorized. The red seats were closest to the centre of the stadium where the action would take place and then followed by yellow seats which were middle tier and green seats which were the furthest. Looks like Beathoven really thought it through, giving the seats good colour contrast among the glossy black floor as well. The whole stadium was a splendid mix of modernisation and fun. One could easily admire how modern it is and the colours used just brought out the inner child in you. Of course the most important part was the centre of the stadium which was blocked off by a huge glass wall. Two huge doors also made of glass could be seen on both ends of the glass circle. I assume thats where the players would enter the arena. There were the balloon castles already set up and they were not small. They were about the size of the mage guild in Junad. Where does Hermes get materials to construct a balloon castle?! What an amazing architect. It was estimated to be three floors high so I would without a doubt place the flag at the highest level of the castle of course. There were also three lanes spread out from each castle leading to each other just as I had instructed. However there were no obstacles put inside it yet and I assume it was up to me to design the obstacles as I see fit. It was just sand everywhere with three clear lane markings. Also, there was a podium also made entirely out of glass from the side. I could see a long table with microphones sticking out of them and two rows of seats behind the tables. I assume thats where commentary could be made and it would double as a VIP viewing lounge. Beathoven really knew how to make it big. If a stadium of this grandeur were to exist in real life, it would be able to host any event. The stadium I estimated could sit a crowd of about 8000 strong and it was no small number. There was also a gigantic screen facing the town centre from the stadium so people could watch what was going on. When I say gigantic I meant gigantic. It was so huge that people from the town square could easily see the highlights of what was going to be shown on the screen when the castle wars start. Beathoven definitely did the better job compared to Soup and I. I was already quite happy with the fountain I made which exuded natural brilliance but this was incomparable. Carnival wars in The Ascension. I had no speck of doubt in me when I tried to forsee the future of this town. It was going to be crowded. And loud. VERY loud. I started to head back with FuzzyWuzzy who was equally impressed and we started discussing about the design and ideas for Carnival Wars on the journey back to the castle. I had to prepare dinner again and my cooking level was already about to reach advanced from cooking so much for them. However, there was one person who was absent. Breadtalk. ¡°Hey where is Breadtalk?¡± ¡°He said he is in his room and he would not be eating today. He is too busy concentrating on how he plans to design the East spine.¡± Somehow I am even more worried that he''s so into this. ¡°Alright anyone wanna bet how the East spine would turn out?¡± I asked. ¡°YES! ME! I''m sure that there would be sexual innuendo somewhere.¡± Soup blurted out immediately. ¡°It''s going to be so fucking ridiculous.¡± Beathoven chipped in. ¡°Beat you might as well have said nothing there is no doubt that would happen. I think he is going to make a joke out of all of us in the area.¡± Slick chipped in. ¡°I think he will stick to a theme so ridiculous that nothing remotely even close to anything that currently exists in your world will be made.¡± FuzzyWuzzy contributed. ¡°I think its going to be so screwed up that Carnival will be famous for the East spine. In a good way though. Breadtalk may be retarded but he''s the best sort of retarded I''ve seen!¡± M1 and 2 exclaimed. ¡°Well, I think all of you made reasonable bets. Lets see who is correct tomorrow. Now, we anticipate and wait.¡± -Next day evening.- ¡°Well, looks like everyone won their bets...¡± I managed to stutter. It takes a lot for me to stutter by the way.
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Chapter 19 : Treats, And Many Many Slaps It was a sight to behold. Well basically I was looking at ice creams, fried chickens, chocolate bars, donuts, a bowl of rice, pizza, pasta, some chinese dumplings, a cup of tea, a huge cup of soft drinks like the sort they serve in a cinema, some pork rib soup and even a huge bowl of oranges. No I wasn''t looking at a table full of food that Breadtalk had prepared for us. I was looking at the East spine. The gateway to the East spine were traditional doors which were made out of chocolate bars. The walls surrounding the East spine were vanilla coated with strawberries for I don''t know what reason. Just taking a quick peek at the surroundings, I could see that the main details were still there. There was a magic wand symbol at the top of the building which clearly signified that it was the Intelligence guild. However it did not help that the whole building was shaped to be a bowl of ice cream sundae and the magic wand that stuck out of the top of the building served as a decor like a waffle stick on top of the sundae. There was even a church which we could only tell was a church because Breadtalk made a crucifix at the top of a typical chinese dumpling and I swear on that crucifix it looked like there was a gingerbread man that looked uncannily like Loki. There were even decorations such as candy canes lining up the paths of the town and even though it looked absolutely insane, it actually gave a pretty joyful vibe. I guess food really does make people happier even if you''re just looking at it. That was until I saw the statue Breadtalk made for us. It was made up entirely out of food. I had hershey kisses for my eyes, a banana for my nose, gummy worms for lips and the only reason why I could tell that was me because the statue was named ¡°Founders Of Carnival¡± and ¡°Jinx¡± was printed just below where I was standing, along with the other 3 and we looked absolutely horrible. All in all, this spine would no doubt amplify the ridiculous design Carnival already had and skyrocket the insanity level of this place. I would be willing to bet that if there was another town anywhere in the world or even in the RR world like this I would chop off my penis which apparently was a redondo biscuit in Breadtalk''s sculpture. There was one building that really caught my eye though for some inappropriate reason. It was made up of a donut standing on its side vertically and an ice cream cone sticking through the hole of the donut. ¡°Breadtalk... What is with the building that looks like an ice cream penetrating the donut?...¡± I managed to ask, first to break the silence. ¡°Oh thats the building I call Icenut. Ice-cream and Do-nut you know. Icenut.¡± ¡°No. Nuts being part of the name does not help in the imagery portrayed here. I heard of porn, animal porn, child porn, and maybe even god help me inanimate object porn but even though instagram has many hashtags of food porn, i''m 100% sure this is not how its supposed to look like.¡± ¡°Chillaxxx. Get it? Chillax once you see ICEnuts? Okay nevermind sorry that was bad even for me. That building is a cafe.¡± ¡°You mean the whole place is a cafe.¡± Slick added. ¡°Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, Super gay, Ultra gay, Fucking Gay, Hamburgay.¡± Soup recited while pointing to a different building each time while saying the word gay and obviously the last building was.. I don''t need to tell you that right? ¡°Were you hungry after not eating Jinx''s food last night and that''s why you built this city like this?..¡± Fuzzy asked. ¡°NO WONDER I THOUGHT FOOD WAS A GOOD IDEA! Actually I think you may be right!¡± ¡°Holy shit M1.¡± ¡°At least there''s no building shaped after that I can see anywhere near here M2.¡± ¡°Wait where''s Beathoven?¡± Xantos asked. We all looked around and we saw him. Beathoven was running towards all the buildings that looked like chocolate and biting pieces off the buildings. Oh crap. Beathoven was quite an ordinary student but when it came to chocolate... That''s where most of his funny moments came from. Beathoven loved his music, his games, his friends but I doubt that there''s anything in the world he loved more than chocolate. Once, my friend bought a cadbury chocolate bar and accidentally dropped it in school from the third floor and it landed in a tree. Beathoven tried to climb the tree but unfortunately it was quite smooth and steep. The next day, the tree was cut down by someone over night. If I had to bet my entire fortune on something, I would bet that the person who cut down that tree was the one chewing piece after piece off the buildings screaming like an excited little girl who met one direction for the first time. ¡°MY BUILDINGS! NEINNNNNNNN!¡± Breadtalk pulled out a weapon. There was no doubt about it. After building a city like this, even an idiot would be able to guess how much Loki gave him for his Loki''s Entourage buff. A weapon i''ve never even come close to guessing would be the top weapon in Loki''s armoury came out. Breadtalk pointed that weapon at Beathoven. ¡°KOO KOO BIRD!¡± Beathoven vanished and a chicken took its place. ¡°Cockadoodlekooooooo!¡± ¡°HAHAHAHA A CHICKEN IS FUNNY ENOUGH BUT IT''S STILL EATING THE CHOCOLATE HAHAHAHAHA¡± I snorted. ¡°KFC!¡± Breadtalk said while pointing the same weapon at Beathoven. A red beam emerged from the eyes of the weapon and met with Beathoven. ¡°BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!¡± We were too shocked to even laugh. Breadtalk''s name turned red above his head. There was nothing left where Beathoven was except... A fried chicken. ¡°WHAT THE FUCK MAN?¡± ¡°What? KFC. Kill Fucking Chicken!¡± ¡°NOT THE SKILL YOU MORON. WHY KILL HIM?¡± ¡°He was eating my buildings! Besides I was kinda interested to find out what this weapon does after Loki instructed me on how to use it... I didn''t know it would kill him instantly!¡± Hold on a minute..... In RR, if you killed somebody, you would get a murderer''s mark and if someone kills the one with a murderer''s mark, his fame would increase, he would get a decent amount of EXP, and he would even get some items. I weighed my option. In real life I have been tempted to slap Breadtalk so many, so many fucking times I knew if i didn''t do it now I would regret it for life. I used mana manipulation and a huge hand rose out from the earth. Slap Breadtalk was sent flying through the air and I used all the mana in my Ouroboros seal to conjour up the most advanced skill I have learnt so far from my master. ¡°Poison Torrent.¡± A dark whirlpool appeared and caught Breadtalk in mid-air. He was trapped inside and all I could hear was ¡°AHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCKYOUUUUUUUUUUUU!¡± Suddenly, everyone around me realised what I was doing and did what true friends were supposed to do. ¡°I WANT THE LAST HIT!¡± Everyone used their most painful one hit spell into the torrent and immediately, the whirlpool vanished, leaving nothing behind. Then I received a notification box.
You have levelled up! You have levelled up! Fame +100
Everyone looked at me. ¡°What?¡± ¡°We saw the level up light glow around you. You got the last hit. DAMNNNNNN.¡± Just then we received notifications from our cell phones connected to the capsules. I decided to reply there.
Zack: FUCK I can''t log in for the next 24 hours. Anthony : LOL! Same here. Jinx : It''s been awhile since we hung out in real life... Let''s just do it Soup. Joe : Yea sure. The mall as per usual? Jinx : 6pm! Don''t be late. Anthony : Yes mummmmmm.
¡°Elites, please look after and guard the town for awhile. We will be back in one, no I mean four days. During this time feel free to do what you want and Hermes, please restore the parts Beathoven has eaten away and start building the residences, finish touching up the town. We will see you in 4 days time.¡± Phew almost forgot time passes 4 times as fast inside here. Soup and I logged off and I took a nice long shower. It had been only about 44 days in game. In the 44 days alone, we were about level 100 which isn''t something to be proud of most people reach level 100 in like 20-30 days. However we were building a fucking gigantic kickass awesome sunnavabeech city. It had been 11 days in real life and there were still about 30 days of holidays left before school reopened. Alas eating in real life was different from eating in RR of course. Virtual reality was awesome but deep down inside, you always know that reality is waiting for you. The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. I took a bus to the mall and arrived at 6pm sharp. Zack obviously reached earlier than me seeing that he should''ve prepared first since he died. Soup texted us that he was on the way and I assumed Anthony wouldn''t have even left his house yet. Sure enough Joe reached in about 10 minutes and we talked about the game. We were so fun loving and retarded that even though we talk about nothing but the game while we were playing it, we were also talking about the game when we were not playing it. Time passed by and sure enough, Breadtalk reached at 7pm. Zack went up and said ¡°What took you so long ma-¡± *Slap* ¡°OW! WTF?¡± ¡°That''s for killing me in RR you assssss.¡± ¡°Ow my face feels like its on a period.¡± Joe ran over to Anthony and pulled his zipper on his bermudas down and grabbed Breadtalk by the collar, forcing him to look at his junk. ¡°ARE YOU OK? WHAT COLOUR IS MY UNDERWEAR? ARE YOU DYING?! QUICK TELL ME WHAT COLOUR IS MY UNDERWEAR!!!!¡± All this was happening just outside a shopping mall and there were people walking past looking in his direction. A couple of pretty girls took the opportunity to look at Joe and his fly since he was opening it for Anthony anyway but i was too busy laughing my ass off sitting on the floor like a hobo, unable to stand up and Zack was also guffawing his lungs out. *Slap* ¡°OW!¡± ¡°I said my face felt like it was on a period not I''m turning blind or colour blind faggot. You should''ve took out a tampon or something.¡± Anthony said while obviously trying his best not to laugh. ¡°WELL TOO BAD!¡± And then Joe slapped Anthony back and soon and all out slapping war began. Needless to say Anthony was too good at being a joker and since god was fair, he made Anthony suck at most other things so he soon lost while Zack and I managed to catch our breath. BOTs in game, BOTs out of game. This is so us. We managed to settle down and walk into the mall to find a place to eat. People around us somehow kept staring at us more than usual. I realised the stares were mainly at two parts. ¡°Joe your zipper is still undone from your colour blind test you gave Breadtalk a moment ago. Breadtalk your face looks like you''ve been rubbing your mom''s blusher all over it for half an hour. Try to masthinkbate abit so blood flows to your penis instead.¡± I whispered. ¡°Masthinkbate? Jinx that is bad. So bad I can''t eve- Wait I think it''s working.¡± And so we managed to find a place to settle down, have a good laugh outside of RR and plan what to do next. The town was about to finish and that would usher in the travellers and new players who chose Carnival as their starting city. Carnival wars would also start and the residences would be filled with NPCs and players alike. Everything was about to become so much more exciting. Just then, near the mall the BOTs were having dinner at, a girl slightly younger than them was at home, trying out a new capsule for the very first time. ¡ªThe scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account?¡ª A feminine voice asked. ¡°Yes¡± ¡ªSelect the name of your avatar¡ª ¡°Horse¡± ¡ª Select your gender from male, female or neutral¡ª ¡°Female¡± ¡ª Royal Road has forty-nine races. You may select your race from the primary twenty-nine-¡ª ¡°Human¡± ¡ª Please feel free to choose the appearance of your avatar¡ª "As it is." ¡ª Your account has been activated. Your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Royal Road. Please select a city and kingdom you want to start. ¡°Random¡± ¡ª Welcome to Royal. A tutorial is available if you would like ¡ª ¡°Pass¡± ¡ª Your account has been created. You will be starting in the city of Carnival. We wish you all the best in your adventures. Good luck! ¡ª Horse found herself in the middle of a town square which looked quite modern and elegantly decided with a plethora of black, white and gold colours screaming royal welcome. She looked behind her and saw a great fountain, no doubt artificially made but upon closer inspection, completely natural and self sustaining. She loved the design of the place RR picked for her and looked at the town map just beside the fountain for some directions. She decided to take a small walk around the town to familiarise herself with the surroundings. She saw to the west a huge barbaric village which looked extremely out of place compared to the simple and elegant design of the town square. The design of this town seems to be a little weird. Why is there such a run down part when the town square is so eloquently designed? She then turned counter clockwise to face the South and saw a huge stadium gleaming under the light. It looked extremely grand. There must be a hell of an event happening if this town if it has a stadium like that. Looks like I was lucky to be starting here and the stadium is really majestic too. The barbarian village really must have some sort of problem Finally she turned some more and her jaw dropped. Ice cream, donuts, pasta, all scaled up to about 100-500 times their actual size with doors in them. Food buildings. Okay the east and west spines must have been designed when the architect got high. Is there weed in RR? Cause thats the only logical explanation and I can think of and which was obviously lacking in the planning of this place. The words Carnival was floating on top of the fountain in the town square so she knew that this was no doubt all part of the design. However, when she was walking towards the north, where a huge, European looking castle loomed with a sense of foreboding and mystery. Horse felt something huge drop from the sky behind her. ¡°AHHHHHHHHH!¡± A huge golden bird easily about the size of a house was looking straight at her. It was beautiful but it was radiating warmth and looked immensely strong. ¡°Ohhhh boy what do we have here? The young masters are on a short getaway too so what do we do with this one?¡± A voice from behind her echoed. Horse quickly turned 180 degrees again and this time, she saw a huge werewolf which didn''t look as huge because of the bird now and two skeleton mages flocking his side. A huge snake was also slithering its way towards her. ¡°What-t do you want? I just started here I''m a noob please don''t kill me.¡± Horse managed to stutter out, terrified of the presence of five beings which were obviously stronger than her who looked like they bore ill intent. ¡°Are you thinking what I''m thinking M1?¡± ¡°I think I am M2. IT''S PARTY TIME!¡± Fuzzy took Horse and put her on Xantos while Xantos flew around in the skies briefly before darting into the castle. ¡°WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! OMG I''M FLYING!¡± The elites would also have something to do while the young masters were out enjoying their brief moments in reality which they have missed.
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Author''s note: HELLO PEOPLE! Hope you''ve enjoyed this new Carnival arc so far. I hope i get more retarded inspiration from my friends who really do exist in real life btw. (Underwear colour blind story was 100% legit) And of course now, it''s time for the girllllll~ Do look forward to the future chapters. One girl with four guys. I mean what could happen right with each guy having his own charm :grin: Lastly, please continue the support I would like to thank all my readers for getting me into the top 40 fanfics on RR!! *Opens champagne and celebrates with real life BOTs I''m meeting tmr.* Chapter 20 : Rainbow Sacks It was morning. I had a hell of day yesterday at the mall but it wasn''t a foreign feeling. It was always like that when we hung out. A crazy bunch of idiots doing a bunch of crazy things. I went home after dinner and supper and had a good night''s sleep outside of RR. However, it was time to go back in again and train until Breadtalk and Beathoven could log in.
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¡°Yes.¡± I was teleported to my own masterpiece, the town square and felt proud of myself. I could see the whole city from here. The three spines, the huge looming castle, the penis residences. WAIT WHAT?! ¡°HERMES!!!!!!!!¡± I ran towards the residences which had an impeccable layout but I definitely could not say the same for the design. I remember the first building Hermes said he had designed and I knew he did that with one glance. The houses were curved. Very curved. The bottom of the house was a round sack with a door in the middle. As it went up it slowly curved inwards and then swayed to the left, before swaying to the right and it had a mushroom cap for a roof. By the armpit hair of Loki how the fuck did he design a building which looks like a penis that could curve BOTH to the left and the right? ¡°Like the residences?¡± I heard a familiar voice behind me. ¡°HOW DARE YOU GIVE MY CITY HERPES! Alright actually it isn''t that bad once you get used to it.¡± The view shocked you at first. Hundreds of penises lining up one after another but there was no questioning the layout and colour scheme he chose. Like a true architect. The pathways between residences were easy to manouvere about and every row of residences were different colours of a rainbow. So the first row closest to the spines were red, followed by orange, then yellow, so on and so forth. The roads were also well named. Red privates, Orange privates... I could not think of a better name. Furthermore, the residences were called in general, rainbow sacks. Oh well I guess Hermes did have his moments. Carnival was completed. There was still some touching up to do here and there but majority of the work was done. The barbaric west spine where people would man up and choose dexterity or strength classes. The castle to the north where out army would reside in. The deliciously retarded east spine where everyone would definitely visit just for the fun of it. The town square where most of the players would gather. A kickass south spine for Carnival wars which would be the backbone of this town''s culture and economy. Finally residences which couldn''t be found anywhere else except maybe a few centimeters below a guys belly button. This will definitely not be the prettiest town in RR but i sure as hell can bet it''s the most retarded and funny looking one. To anyone with a good sense of humour of course. Beginners shouldn''t know about this town to start here and since the monsters are around level 50 at the weakest, it wouldn''t be a good starting city anyway. Suddenly, I felt Xantos descend from the sky behind me and as I turned to greet her, I was surprised. Xantos was mounted by a player no doubt. And the player was fineeeeee. The girl looked around our age, was slightly tall for an asian like us, about 167 centimeters which was quite above average. Actually the BOTs were above average in the height deparment with our average height being about 175 centimeters which was above the average of 170. (Be nice don''t laugh at us for being short.) So in general we weren''t unattractive. It was just that Joe was too good looking that sunnavabeech. She had long black hair which was typical but it wasn''t entirely straight with just the right amount of curl. She had a relatively small face, a decent body and long legs. I didn''t mind looking at her cos she was kinda attractive but I really didn''t have the time to be retarded. I needed to train abit more and find Fuzzy to spar. ¡°Who are you and why are you on Xantos?¡± ¡°How do you know Xantos?¡± she retorted. Well -100 points for being rude omg this bitch. ¡°Well i''ve fought alongside Xantos for about 5 days straight in a class C quest and raised him up from when he was a quarter of this size to how huge he is now.¡± Oh yeah Xantos had to eat. I used my mana to make a considerably huge orb of light mana and threw it at Xantos. Xantos gulped it down in one shot and let out his usual pattern when he felt happy. He would jump up and down while flapping his wings forwards and back and that threw the girl off her. ¡°Ow. Well at least it looks like you treat it well. I just started this game. My name is Horse.¡± Not even an apology? Oh my god this woman. ¡°Hello Horse. My name is Jinx. I''m one of the founders of this city. How did you even end up in this town? It was barely finished.¡± ¡°I chose random during my character selection and it brought me here. So you''re one of the people who designed this stupid looking town?¡± SHE IS DEAD. Funny, retarded. Insane, crazy, all those adjectives can be used to describe this town which I take as a compliment but STUPID?! I had it with her haughtiness. Sure she was kinda attractive but I really wasn''t the sort to find bad girls who are rebellious hot and sexy. ¡°Yes i am. This town was built by 4 of the most awesome people in the world and if you call it stupid you really shouldn''t stay here. I''ll ask Xantos to give you a lift to a more noob friendly town. Bye. Xantos, please take her to Junad or Rosenheim whichever you see fit.¡± I told Xantos before turning away and started walking towards the castle. Suddenly, Soup appeared around the corner and saw us. He ran over while screaming ¡°DID YOU SEE THE RESIDENCES. OMG SO MUCH BROMANCE. I LOVE THIS TOWN!¡± I could only smile at that idiot who looked so genuinely happy and entertained at how this town turned out. It was one of the most retarded laughs you can hear and you know how some people''s laughs are more contaigous than others? He definitely was in my top 5 contaigous laughters. ¡°Who is he?¡± Horse asked from the back. ¡°Soup. He''s another one of the founders. You really should be on your way.¡± I told her. Ohhhh no please don''t let her be infatuated with Joe this bitch needs to go. ¡°I don''t want to go.¡± OH GREAT. SOUP WHY COULDN''T YOU MAKE YOUR AVATAR UGLIER. NOW WE GOT A FANGIRL. ¡°I made friends with Xantos, FuzzyWuzzy, Slick, Hermes, M1 and M2 over the past 2 days. I''m not going to just leave the first friends I made. Besides they are funny people and I like funny people.¡± Horse said. Who doesn''t like funny people but do you even deserve to be around funny people? But alas I''m quite a soft person. She was just a level 1 noob. Even though she was rude to me, insulted my town, the fact that Xantos was willing to carry her around meant that she was at least capable of making friends with her and the Elites. ¡°Fine. You can stay. You''re our first guest in the town of Carnival. Since you''ve already been here for 2 days you should have seen the town. Any comments other than STUPID?¡± I asked. ¡°Oh yeah. Sorry I can be a bit blunt sometimes.¡± Apologise after seeing a hot guy in front of you? Typical estrogenic behaviour. ¡°I think this town really looks ridiculous. It''s so obvious that every part of the town was designed by a different person. It probably speaks of their personality as well. I assume you were the one who made the west spine?¡± Horse asked me. ¡°Yeah well actually that was me!¡± Soup butted in. ¡°Wha- Then which part did you design?¡± Horse asked me. ¡°The town square. Where you first came in from I assume.¡± OMG my favourite part of this town was designed by this jerk who wanted to send me away and take such a rude tone with me? Actually, Horse was not a bad person. She was blunt, straightforward, sarcastic but deep down inside she was someone who really valued loyalty and friendship. She was very headstrong in her beliefs but her beliefs were usually morally acceptable as well. It was just that when Xantos seemed like she recognised someone and flew straight down to him, she actually felt abit jealous and sad thus her slightly snobbish remarks. ¡°I think the town square was really well built. Sorry for thinking that you built the west spine.¡± ¡°Hey! What does that mean? The west spine is obviously the most awesome piece of land in this town!¡± Soup hollered. Well at least this one I can tell is abit more sincere. Ahh fine might as well. ¡°Alright Horse you can stay. I think Fuzzy and the rest should be in the castle. We''re going to find them now since we''ve been seperated for 2 days. You wanna come join us?¡± ¡°Sure I have nothing else to do anyway. And I''m stuck in this town for 30 days remember.¡± ¡°Oh yeah I forgot.¡± The three of us could fit on Xantos and we were off, immediately to the castle and when we arrived, all the elites were waiting in the dining hall already. ¡°Hey you guys are back! And you''ve met Horse! She parties harrrrrrrd man.¡± M1 and M2 said in unison. ¡°Yeah good to see you again guys. It''s going to take about 4 more hours before Breadtalk and Beathoven joins us so let''s discuss details about the town since its fully functional now. But before that, Fuzzy a quick spar please?¡± I gave him a pleading look. ¡°Of course.¡± Fuzzy answered with a smile. Over the past 4 days excluding yesterday, I have never won a spar with FuzzyWuzzy but because of his extremely high proficiency in close quater combat, my katana mastery rose to intermediate level 8. My mana manipulation training has also became advanced level 1. The increase from intermediate to advance was extremely huge. Mana suddenly felt alot easier to handle and I could now easily split my mind into three parts. I was working on four and I was almost done. All that added together, I could cast three different spells at once without any incantation whatsoever and wield my katana at the same time. Fuzzy of course was aware of this and even though I lost every time, I was getting closer and closer to winning. Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. We had a quick spar and using my new abilities, I thought of a new combo that would be able to decapacitate Fuzzy. The moment the spar started, I immediately went full throttle. No need to get familiar with Fuzzy''s movements because I''ve seen them non stop for 5 days in a row already. I split my mind into three parts and used three different spells. ¡°Poison torrent, Ice Age, Searing Chains.¡± Poison torrent was a huge DPS (damage per second) spell which inflicted poison damage over time and instances of damage by water gushing from all directions within the whirlpool. Ice age froze the poison torrent such that Fuzzy was firmly stuck in the whirlpool with the poison still ticking him down and Searing chains was a light spell that hindered movement extremely effectively. Much higher than rooted. I remembered these spells from the books I read in the Great Library of Junad. Fuzzy could not even react because poison torrent was so powerful it sucked anything near the whirlpool inside immediately and needless to say, brute strength was effective against certain types of magic like earth, ice or maybe even gravity. But against water, it was definitely not effective. Fuzzy kept ticking down and I knew he only could use one skill to escape. Fuzzy had a spell called howl which raised his attack power by a ridiculous amount but only for a short time. I was waiting for the howl and when it came, I used what I learnt from the boss fight against him. I used a darkness spell to remove the buff he gave himself. It was a spell I created myself after wondering what was the best way to remove strong buffs. ¡°Impure Beckoning¡± was the name of the skill. ¡°Alright I give up. That was almost all your mana wasn''t it?¡± Fuzzy asked. ¡°Yeah. I needed to win at least once you know. I know it''s kinda like cheating but my katana training really reached as much as I could learn from sparring with you everyday already. At least let me show you how mages could easily incapacitate a melee fighter right.¡± ¡°Haha well played. Well played.¡± All the elites were busy making comments about our fight and Horse just looked at me and Fuzzy with her jaws agape. ¡°How do you even fight like that? What level are you? How do you cast magic? Did Fuzzy even try to do anything? What happened?¡± Well of course to an untrained level 1, comprehension was impossible. She just saw a huge dark green bubbling whirlpool which turned into ice immediately, saw Fuzzy''s limbs glow with a light and hear a shrieking howl followed by a curtain of translucent darkness draping his body. I can''t blame her. ¡°Well if you stick with us for abit longer the answers will automatically come to you. Why not you wait for all the founders to arrive, decide on a job and then we can give you some help.¡± I said. ¡°Sure. But you owe me so many explanations.¡± This woman can be really unreasonable sometimes I don''t owe her shit. We then discussed the subtle issues of the town. Who would manage the finances, who would manage the events, who would take care of the well being of the people, our military etc. Throughout this discussion Horse had finally managed to realise the situation she was in. This was a real meeting with 4 people of a high status. Sure we didn''t look like royalty or rich people but we were founders of a city. We had to literally raise a small country. We finalised the discussion and were pleased with our roles. Breadtalk would be in charge of the events. He was so ridiculous that only his events would manage to fit the town. He was also quite creative so we were expecting great (Retardedly great) things from him. I would manage the economy and finances because it seemed to be the sort of thing left to the most responsible or calm guy. I did not really like the job but I decided better me than Breadtalk or Joe who would''ve spent all the money ordering a gigantic cake to replace our castle here or using all the money to buy one legendary weapon which was something Joe would do. Beathoven would be in charge of the community. He would be the go between for the people and us. The face of the founders for short. We didn''t need a good looking guy for it. We needed someone who could understand the people well and for that aspect, Beathoven was a rather good match. Only me or Beathoven could''ve done the task but since I was already in charge of finances. It was an easy decision. Soup would be the one in charge of the military. He had always been a military junkie (He''s an army officer in real life) and he loved games like Battlefield and Call of Duty. (I know its set 30 years or something in the future but you know you all can relate to this better right.) M1 and 2 would be in charge of foreign relations. Whenever high ranking people of other countries come, since they were immediately so lovable, they could be put up to the task whenever we needed diplomatic intervention. Slick was in charge of security. Slick had extremely small snakes which he could send throughout the town, lying harmlessly and unidentifiable in the grass to observe the situation through their feedback. He was also extremely fast if he needed to be. I mean he''s a huge snake the biggest out of all of us even Xantos who was huge. Fuzzy would be in charge of the area surrounding the town. This included the mines which would no doubt be a popular area for miners and blacksmiths. He would also help raise wolves which were about level 50 max for noobs to train on. We needed an elite army of monsters and eventually, the whole city of Carnival would be involved in Ragnarok so we needed the citizens and NPC''s of this town to be of a high level. After the meeting was over, Breadtalk and Beathoven arrived. We introduced Horse to them and likewise they introduced themselves. ¡°What sort of a name is Breadtalk?¡± Horse asked. ¡°A better name than-¡± Breadtalk did not even complete his sentence and shapeshifted into a horse. A horse that actually sneered at Horse. Hoooo damn. Nicely done buddy. Let world war III begin. I know Horse wouldn''t take it lying down. Horse went over to Breadtalk and yanked as hard as she could on his tail. Breadtalk shapeshifted back into himself and she found himself holding something that was as similar to a tail a guy had at all. Except this tail was sticking out from the front. ¡°EWWWW! FUCKYOU!¡± *Slap* ¡°OW! Fuck my face is still swollen from all th slapping from Soup yesterday. Guess I''m just a sucker for slaps.¡± commented Breadtalk as he started walking to our new destination while rubbing his face. Horse was finding a toilet to wash her hands I suppose so I just created a stream of running water in midair and she did just that. Well. Everything was settled and Hermes had already brought NPCs into the town using his familiarity with the cities he had built. During our meeting, he had been sending messages to his friends and he said even he himself would reside in Carnival. It was just too fun a town to miss out on. NPCs could be seen streaming into the city via their transport or the transport circle on the town square. It was a matter of time before Carnival became fully populated. I decided that we have to move on to the main highlight of the town. We all went to The Ascension. I entered the glass arena and started constructing the three lanes of the first ever Carnival war. There would be three possible ways to move from one castle to the next. Three lanes. The first lane I made jagged rocks shoot up like stalagmites from one end to the other. Then, i made it a huge pit 1 meter deep and asked Hermes to fill it up with plastic balls. If he could make balloon castles, he could make plastic balls like the ball pits we used to have fun in last time. The middle lane I made a huge lake, 5 meters deep fully filled with crystal blue water. In the middle of the lane I made a huge platform, something like the Ayers Rock in Australia rise from the middle of the lake. It was perfectly circular and could serve as a platform for a fight to the death. For the bottom lane, I made it such that it would be the most physically demanding lane. I created a mudflat with extremely even water and earth content such that the mud would be both extremely sticky and heavy. Underneath the mudflat, I placed certain booby traps that would go off if stepped upon using my mana. Of course if one had mana detection, one could seee the traps but I doubt most people would have the skill. The lanes were done. There were two flags, one in each castle of their own colour. Red VS Blue as usual. Carnival Wars was ready to begin as well. I counted our team members. Breadtalk, Beathoven, Soup, M1 and M2, Slick, FuzzyWuzzy, Xantos, Horse and I. 10 people exactly. ¡°Guys. Wanna give it a test run? 5 versus 5, only one lane allowed to go from one castle to the other. Only mid. (middle lane) First team to grab the flag from the other castle to bring it to his or her own castle wins.¡± All around me, there were only excited faces except for one truly horrified face. ¡°Don''t worry Horse, I''ll put you on the same team as Breadtalk. He''ll take extremely good care of you.¡± I snickered.
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Author''s note: OH YEAH! CARNIVAL IS BUILTTT! So many questions have been answered but even more have been created! What''s the reward in Carnival Wars? How would Carnival Wars turn out? Would the citizens like it? All new NPCs are coming into town! New players would appear. How would the town be received by the general public? And most importantly, what would happen when the BOTs all fight against each other 5v5? HAHAHA. Please continue supporting me! OTL Chapter 21 : Estrogenesis ¡°Alright let''s see what we have here. Two mages, one bard, one huge snake and me. This should be interesting.¡± I said. It was the first ever Carnival Wars. We split the teams such that Horse and Beathoven would be on opposing ends as both of them were the only ones who could not contribute a single cent to the front lines. Beathoven recently learn from Hel abit of necromastery but seeing as there are no corpses anywhere, it would be pointless anyway as he could not raise any undead minions. The other team would then obviously consist of Breadtalk, Soup, FuzzyWuzzy, Xantos and Horse. A level 1 noob was really nothing to be worried about, we just included her so we would have an even number. Besides apart from her first impression, she wasn''t THAT bad. I mean she sucks but it could''ve been worse. She was also the first ever human like us to enter Carnival so i figured she deserved some sort of special privilege and being part of the first ever Carnival Wars ought to be eventful enough. We were in the blue castle and had 10 minutes to discuss out battle plan. Only the middle lane could be used so splitting up would be a tactic we would be unable to use. I briefly assessed their strengths. FuzzyWuzzy and Soup were both the best front liners we have so without a doubt they would come charging at us and we would not be able to do anything much. Xantos would most probably be providing air support which is really irritating and she could also heal both the tanks so it was going to be a hard fight since we could only use one lane and it would be just massive up front fighting. However, M1 and M2 were able to dish out huge damage spells so I wasn''t too worried. My concern was with Breadtalk. It had already been 24 hours so the Loki''s Entourage buff should have worn off. That level 10 weapon was no joke. It could turn anyone into a chicken and if he just turned all 5 of us into chickens. Well.. Game is obviously lost. His unpredictability was extremely bad. Even though I considered myself to be quite apt at strategy, he was one piece of the puzzle which could not fit in anywhere. As such, I figured that the most versatile one should be the one marking and handling Breadtalk which was without a doubt, me. ¡°Alright here''s the plan guys. We''re going to totally ignore Horse because you all don''t need me to explain. She doesn''t even has a class. M1 just cast a homing fireball at her or something and she''s done. Soup and Fuzzy would without a doubt come charging at us, most probably flying on Xantos since she''s big enough to transport all 4 of them. I need you to find a way to bring that bird down. Slick I need you to buy some time for M1 and M2 to nuke down either Soup or Fuzzy. I''m counting on you to do that. Beathoven just stay back and try to use your chaotic melody on me. I''m going to go for Breadtalk immediately and spend all my mana.¡± All of them nodded. The instructions were clear, the battle plan was clear. We weren''t going to use some diversion tactic to sneak the flag back to our base since only one lane was available. We needed to fight it out straight away, eliminate the 5 of them and bring the flag over to our castle without anyone to stop us. ¡°RIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGG!¡± Something like our school bell sounded. ¡°Your time is up. The gates of your castle will be opening in 10,9,8,7...¡± We rushed down to the first floor and awaited the opening of the gates. When it opened, all 5 of us rushed out and sure enough, Xantos was swooping out of the gates with the whole team on its back. It started flying higher and higher to avoid our attacks but M1 and M2 were on it. They shut off the skies by forming thunder clouds ready to strike anything it sees, the nearer the better and Xantos immediately decided that it was not a good place to be. She came swooping down while Soup and Fuzzy jumped off Xantos. While they were jumping off, Fuzzy did the superman pose while Soup went with two middle fingers. Breadtalk was still nowhere to be seen so i figured he was still on Xantos''s back. Suddenly, another figure appeared above Soup and Fuzzy. For some reason, a level 1 noob was seen hurtling downwards from about 20 meters from the air and she didn''t even have time to pose. Soup and Fuzzy landed firmly and started readying their assault on M1 and M2 as I predicted but before they could do that, soemthing huge came in between their path. ¡°Sup gaiiiis¡± Slick said before releasing a pool of venom on the side with Soup and Fuzzy. Just then, Horse landed I think face first and remained motionless. ¡°Why did she jump off?¡± I asked. ¡°I think Breadtalk pushed her.¡± Soup replied before striking the huge body of Slick, trying to make him move. Trying to contain my laughter, I decided to go after Breadtalk now as there would never be a more appropriate time. I used gravity magic to make Xantos heavier so now she was flying at a much slower speed. Chaotic melody was being used by Beathoven from inside the castle so I figured now wasn''t the time to be stingy on the mana. I used all my mana, even the one inside the ouroboros seal which I had fully recovered during the meeting without Breadtalk and Beathoven while they were dead and used it to further elevate the thunderstorm M1 and M2 had created. Saying the clouds became darker was an understatement. The clouds suddenly became so dark that the arena was shrouded in darkness. I couldn''t even see 5 meters ahead of me. I focused my mana to my eyes to read the mana around me. It was a skill I learnt from reading books and true enough, I saw everyone''s mana like a heat reading sensor and saw Xantos flying higher and higher, trying to escape above the clouds. I stopped her right there. ¡°BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!¡± Nope. That wasn''t Breadtalk''s exploding spear or some stomp from Fuzzy, A lightning bolt the size a skyscraper flashed and striked directly onto Xantos. The flash of light was so huge and blinding that everyone lost their vision for a moment. Even though I was just using my eyes to see mana, they too were blinded temporarily by a sea of white. ¡°ABUSE! FUCKING ANIMAL ABUSE!¡± Shouted FuzzyWuzzy. ¡°DUDE THIS IS CRUELER THAN HOW KFC KILLS THEIR CHICKENS. COULDN''T YOU DO IT ABIT MORE LIKE BREADTALK DID TO BEAT?!!¡± Soup yelled. ¡°FRIED CHICKEN FOR DINNER WOOOOOOOOO!¡± Shouted Beathoven from inside the castle. I saw the mana die out and I assumed that Xantos and whoever was on her was also dead. Breadtalk didn''t have many defensive skills that I could think of. The skies then began to clear up after that immense amount of energy was released. Everyone''s vision became back to normal and I saw that within the few moments I was focused on Xantos, Slick was already becoming badly beaten up by the two tanks. M1 and M2 tried to help also but Slick was so huge that he obstructed their line of sight so it wasn''t exactly a perfect idea. Seeing Breadtalk and Xantos dead, I immediately went to focus on Fuzzy and Soup. I could engage Fuzzy long enough with just my sword skills from my sparring sessions. I already used all my mana so I just leapt in with my katana, taking on Fuzzy so Slick would get one less attacker. ¡°You again huh. Sorry but I don''t plan on dragging this fight until you get your mana back.¡± Fuzzy growled. Holy shit what a smart wolf someone needs to dumb him down. Fuzzy immediately used the few active skills he had and a flurry of blows rained down so fast and heavy that I could not dodge at all and every parry I made made my knees feel like they were about to buckle anytime. In just 5 seconds, my HP already went down by half. I did not have an answer to this. Suddenly, the song changed and I recognised what was being done. Beathoven changed the buff to Reunion and M1 and M2 poured their mana into me. They were fully fledged mages so their mana pool was no joke. Level 200 fully specialised mages gave me 20000 mana immediately and I''m pretty sure they left a bit with themselves too. ¡°Sorry Fuzzy but you haven''t seen this buff before. Poison Torrent¡± The poisonous whirpool wrapped itself around Fuzzy and usually that was my trump card that decided a fight immediately. I used the remaining mana to quickly cast ice age and searing chains like I did before. I wouldn''t even need impure beckoning as Fuzzy had already used roar to try to bring me down as fast as possible. I left Fuzzy there to let his health tick down to 0 and ran over to Soup who was now terrorizing the twins. M1 was already unconscious on the floor and M2 was close to dying. I wanted to ask Slick to help but I guess it was too much. Slick has already bought quite a bit of time for me and was now busy shedding his skin to remove all the bleeding effects stacked on him due to the ferocity of Soup and Fuzzy''s attacks. I ran over to Soup but in that 3 seconds, he had already dealt with M2. It must have been because they gave me too much mana and did not leave enough for themselves. ¡°Beathoven! Back to Chaotic Melody please!¡± However there was no answer from back inside the castle. ¡°Beathoven??¡± Soup charged at me and brought his greatsword down. I had no choice but to parry. I had a bit of mana left over from the fight with Fuzzy but it wasn''t much. About one full mana pool of mine. 6000 mana. That was all I had. I wondered what happened to Beathoven. Did he fall asleep or something? Where the fuck is he? I used electric impulse and swift steps to fight with Soup. He was way stronger than me but in return I was faster and more agile. Fuzzy was a stronger close ranged fighter than he was but I soon remembered what was the gay part about Soup''s class. He was extremely tanky. Even more so when he activated berserker''s call and I had no choice but to attack him while he had +200 armour. Every direct hit didn''t even inflict 1% of damage on his HP. The longer the fight lasted, the stronger the gladiator got. I forgotten such a simple rule. In about one minute I would not be able to handle the even more excessive strength and speed he would get from his buff bonuses. Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. I needed to end this fast. But I could not kill him. I had to do something but do what? Suddenly it struck me. There was only Soup, Slick and I left. Slick was about to be done regenerating from his skin shedding and then he could take over me fighting Soup while I use my mana to quickly get into their castle and grab the flag, take it back to our castle and win the game! It might be running away from the battle but hey it''s to win the war right?? ¡°Soup I''m sorry I love you in spite of your small dick and unbelievably huge aeriolas i''ve seen countless times in the shower but this is not one of those times where I will love you to the death. SLICK! SWAP!¡± I made myself lighter using gravity magic and used a torrent of water to blast me high and away from Soup in the direction of their castle, flying over the lake and huge stone in the middle and landing on the opposite side, where their castle was. However, there was a surprise waiting for me there. Breadtalk was one step away from the entrance to his own castle. Furthermore, there was a blue flag in his hands which was unmistakably from our castle. ¡°WHAT?! How?¡± And then I realised. Maybe Breadtalk did not even come out with the other 3 of them when the gates were open! He could''ve waited till the fight broke out and then swam over to the other side while we were all distracted amongst all the fighting. But I thought I saw four people on Xantos.... ¡°You didn''t come out of the castle at the start did you?¡± ¡°I did. I was on Xantos.¡± ¡°How?¡± Quickly buy time while I cast rooted on him and kill him before he gets inside the castle. ¡°You see... Shapeshifting has its advantages you know. Like I could shapeshift into someone who looks like level 1 cute tall girl and act like I fell out of the sky tumbling to the ground, landing face first and pretended like I died? I may have made my boobs a little too big thoough.¡± Breadtalk said with a wry smile on his face. He begun taking his last step into his castle. ¡°Rooted!¡± Breadtalk flung the blue flag into the red castle by throwing it. ¡°STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! We have a winnerrrrrrr!¡± The PA''s voice took over the entire arena again. ¡°WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DON''T MESS WITH THE TALKING BREAD!¡± Breadtalk screamed and begun stripping all his clothes, running laps around the balloon castle. Even though I lost, it was still an entertaining antic to see. We were then teleported out of the arena, back into the space between the stadium and the arena where we were joined by Xantos, Horse, M1, M2, Beathoven and Fuzzy. It looks like the players who died would immediately be teleported here to spectate the rest of the fight. ¡°What happened to you Beat?¡± ¡°Breadtalk manged to sneak in and stuck his exploding spear into my butt. It was a weird feeling you know. As if having something stuck up your ass wasn''t good enough when it exploded I felt like... Like you know how when you drink coke too fast and the gas starts charging up your stomach, throat and mouth? Yeah well that sensation became hot and spicy as well and it started from my anus up. I died instantly after that of course.¡± ¡°Damnnnn. When did Breadtalk become so smart? Maybe he should take over as the tactician of the group.¡± I said. ¡°It wasn''t me.¡± He said with a sheepish smile. ¡°It was a horse''s idea.¡± I turned and looked at her immediately. ¡°No way.¡± ¡°Way.¡± She said in her extremely haughty default face. Not that I can complaint about it even though it looked proud, it was pretty badass and she did come up with an incredible idea. ¡°Looks like I can''t say horses are dumb anymore then.¡± I said. ¡°Mmhmm. You can start describing them as beautiful and amazing though I have no complaints about that.¡± She flashed a smile which indeed looked beautiful but there was no way in hell I was going to tell her that. ¡°I agree horses are beautiful but try saying that maybe when your hair is a little less frizzled and smoking.¡± Breadtalk chipped in. Everyone chuckled and Horse immediately shot me a nasty look. "Someone could''ve went a little easier on the thunder. It wiped out a level 130 Roc instantly how would a level 1 fare? Argh I need a mirror." The winners got 1700 Carnival War points and a small amount of EXP. However it looks like the skill proficiencies increased at a faster than average pace because you were using skills like crazy against other players who could use skills too. Guess it would make good proficiency grinding which I needed for my katana mastery. Carnival War points could be traded for special items which Loki and his children have blessed. There were weapons and armours of every type and Breadtalk must''ve convinced Loki to do that for the town. It was pretty attractive though but the level requirements for the items were quite high and the points needed were insane. An enchanted katana made by Hel cost 300000 points. I would have to win like 200 times to get that! However, there were some lower level items too which were pretty affordable. The points were given by the average level of the party you won against in Carnival War. Ours was about 170 so 1700 points was given. Horse immediately traded her points for a pair of level 1 daggers. ¡°Why daggers?¡± I asked. ¡°Because I didn''t know what job I wanted to be. However you guys are a pretty fun bunch to be around with and it looks like you all need a thief.¡± She said. Oh boyyyy. ¡°Guys should we let her in? ¡° I whispered in our party chat. ¡°I''m fine with anything~¡± said Beat. ¡°The more the merrier?¡± asked Soup. ¡°I WANT I WANT! ITS A GIRL THERE''S FINALLY A GIRL AMONG OUR GROUP.¡± ¡°Breadtalk chill the fuck out. Okay okay. God bless us.We have never had a girl in our group before so we have no idea what close proximity to estrogen will do to us okay.¡± I explained. ¡°HOORAY FOR ESTROGENESIS!¡± Breadtalk cheered. ¡°Thats stu- Wait genesis means beginning of so I guess its an apt name.¡± Breadtalk will always have his moments of ingenuity in conjunction with his 24/7 retardedness. ¡°Alright. You''ll be a thief then I''ll leave the class up to you be it thief, ninja, rogue whatever you want. Starting tomorrow you''ll go get your class and we can power level you after your 30 days ban.¡± We left the stadium after celebrating an epic first Carnival War and when we got to the town square, it struck us. Many NPCs were around, setting up their stalls, some could be seen packing into the residences. Rainbow sack has been extremely well received despite its... Appearance. When we got back to the castle, the guild elders were all awaiting our presence. The representatives of the thief guild, archer guild, warrior''s guild, intelligence guild and even the new pastor for Loki''s church has all arrived. They sought us out for talks regarding their rent, services provided etc. We immediately gave Horse to the thief guild elder, Roxanne to study under her tutelage. The four of us then went to our respective spines to usher in the new NPCs who all got here because of Hermes'' recommendation. It seems that new towns with a good chance of becoming popular were very important information as the start up cost was cheap and when the town gets a few months of history and when more and more players start to come in, they will receive a spike in revenue and profits. Profession masters also started approaching me to set up their guilds in the town centre since I had a little bit of space left over in between all the paths branching to the other towns. There was tailoring, blacksmithing, artist, sculpting, enchanting, mining, farming... you name it you got it. I also needed to find a profession other than cooking which has finally reached advanced level 1 in order to make use of my art stat. I gave them all a piece of land for rent and watched as they erected their guilds. The town centre was populated for now and I could not wait for the day where it would be crowded and bustling with life with the roaring sound of the PA system and crowd from The Ascension and people flocking to the Carnival looking for fun. I was pretty sure things would all fall into place starting from now. We also had to level up to 300 within the next 3 years in game while managing this city and making sure everyone also reaches a certain level and usefulness for the upcoming war which they have no idea was going to happen. The gears are now all set in place. The wheel starts to turn. Fate is in motion. Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun. Welcome, to Carnival.
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Chapter 22 : What Carnival Means To Me -4 Months later- ¡°WHY IS IT ALWAYS MEEEEEEEEEE!¡± Horse screamed as she ran towards the blue castle with a red flag in her hand. 5 people were frantically chasing her over a mudflat spraying mud everywhere while Horse was running as fast as she could. She was a level 100 assassin so her speed was a force to be reckoned with. *ZAPPPPPPPPPPP* A huge wall of lightning struck Horse before she could proceed further and the 5 people pounced on her. The 5 of them were leaping towards her when suddenly the flag turned into something that wasn''t in the least like a flag. ¡°GANG RAPE IS BAD!¡± Breadtalk shot his gigantic bazooka at the nearest player. ¡°Divine Shield.¡± I muttered. All 5 players who were just inches away from Breadtalk disintegrated immediately and could be seen spawning outside the arena. I manipulated gravity and shot Soup towards the blue castle using wind to propel him. While he was enjoying the ride, he waved the red flag around high in the air. ¡°I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MEIN KAMPF, MEIN MUTTER, MEIN BIG BIG PEN- WOOOOOOOOOOOMPFH!¡± Soup hollered while I decided to redirect him so he didn''t go through the door but straight into the wall because he really shouldn''t complete his sentence. I teleported beside him and took the flag out of his hand, walked into the castle while Beathoven changed his song to ¡°We Are The Champions¡±. ¡°RIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG! STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! We have a winnerrrrrrr!!¡± The familiar irritating sounding PA rang out. ¡°AND WHAT A PLAY BY THE FAVOURITES, THE BUNCH OF TARDS TO CLINCH THE FIRST EVER ANNUAL CARNIVAL WARS CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!!!¡± The emcee''s incredibly enthusiastic and clear voice rang out throughout the stadium. ¡°YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!¡± Roared the 8000 strong full house that greeted us. The glass dome was removed instantly and suddenly confetti shot out of everywhere and fireworks were let off INSIDE the stadium. The crowd was roaring, the opponents were making their way over to shake our hands, and all I could do was look around me, at the 8000 people inside the stadium with the screens showing easily another 8000 more outside at the town square watching from the hugeass TV screen. Carnival was everything I hoped it would be. And more. In these 4 months, alot has happened. Let me focus on what happened after Horse joined our team first. She immediately went under Roxanne who decided that the class suited to her most was an assasin. Because she needed to stay in town for 30 days, we decided levels were not a priority and gave her management level jobs. The town was becoming quite popular with the NPCs and a few new players who discovered it. With the new players, M1 and M2 as our diplomats immediately became occupied with interaction and PR so they made everyone feel comfortable and explained the new guests and showed them around. Fuzzy also had to clear the surrounding areas and ask his lower level wolves to stay around. However, even the lower level wolves were about level 20 minimum. This helped foster relationships in Carnival even more though as newbies needed to form parties to hunt at city outskirts. There was no way a level 1 could solo a level 20 wolf. Beathoven had to be the face of the founders so he implemented the first few policies of Carnival. He started the 7 day work week which he thought was the best idea. Everyone would work everyday but with one golden rule. No one should be working more than playing. From morning, people would be setting up their shops and doing their work. However, work ends sharply at 1pm. After that, everyone would grab lunch, do whatever they want to do and if they wanted to work they could still go ahead but 1pm was the guideline. So everyday, from noon till midnight, you are the master of your fun time. Since the monsters nearby could all be controlled by our elites should they choose to, security was not an issue as the monsters would dare not go against their master and attack the city. Slick was also doing a good job monitoring the area using his trusty snake spies. Another policy was the Carnival War main event. Anyone could register for the Carnival Wars which would start from 1pm till 10pm. Every session had a time limit of 1 hour. If the fight was not decided by then, the team with the most number of people left standing would win. He also implemented the anyone could register policy. Every odd hour, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm etc, only teams who registered will play against each other matchmaked based on average level. Every even hour, everyone needed to register solo. It means you will sign up individually, and a computer will randomly allocate you a team and balance the average level of both teams. It was extremely popular. It was a good way to make new friends, learn more about teamwork and synergy and other classes skills. Last but not least, he made it such that every year in the game which was every 3 months in real life, there would be an Annual Carnival Wars Championship. The average level could not exceed 150. The number of players would be capped at 10. (I''m pretty sure he decided that because there was 10 of us and our average levels were around there. That sneaky bastard.) Strong players which are level 300 could join as long as they got enough low level players to join him or her in the team. We even met one team this championship with one level 366 gladiator and a few level 20-30 noobs he recruited just so the average level could drop to 100. It was not an effective strategy in RR. All the noobs died instantly and even a level 366 gladiator who only started the fight for 1 minute couldn''t take 10 characters attacking him at once. Soup was raising the military splendidly. It seemed like he really liked the troops who volunteered in the army or joined the army calling him General Soup. However, Breadtalk shapeshifted into a military recruit once and greeted him ¡°GOOD MORNING GENITAL SOUP!¡± The nickname stuck since then so even though everyone called him General Soup, behind his back I''m sure everyone preferred Genital Soup. The imagery involved in that name really wasn''t a nice one to imagine though. Xantos was extremely busy attending to our busy imports and exports because she was extremely adept at transporting goods between us and Rosenheim and Junad. She became an impeccable airlift for important goods and even VIPS. She was a very popular and sought after mode of transportation. I was also extremely busy managing the new shops all the NPCs started up. I had to reason with them affordable starting prices for equipments as many people joining us were beginners but due to Carnival Wars, the experienced players were also soon coming into Carnival to join it because it received raving reviews from the people who experienced it and posted it on forums in the real world. It became quite a problem so I made each shop sell the beginner equipments cheaply but advanced equipments at a premium. It was a simple and effective solution which caused no complaints. Even though they knew they were being charged at a higher price, it seemed like the atmosphere of Carnival could make anyone willing to pay more. This was the one part I didn''t take into account. Culture played the most important part of the town. Beathoven was having his hands full managing policies and planning events for the town. Everyone else had a job scope that was extremely important as well. As such, I had no choice but to entrust this important task to Horse. As much as I hate to admit it, I couldn''t have asked a better person to do it. Sure she was haughty and proud but it was because she could back it up. She handled all her tasks exceptionally well, always above my expectations and she didn''t brag about her achievements. She started a few festivals, invited dance groups, singing bands and made several NPCs and players part of it. She also pioneered a DIY programme for people to decorate their houses because the houses in Rainbow Sacks looked too similar. The best decorated male genital would win a prize. It seemed like because the whole town seemed so fun, everyone came out of their shell and there were extremely creative ideas. Several top designs included a house with exterior pipes and pumbling to make it look like veins on a throbbing AHEM. He called his house The Plumbing System. One installed a fountain at the roof of his house and made it continuous. His house would therefore be spewing out a stream of water continuously from the tip into a pond beside his home. He called his house The UrineNation. Another genius went to rear a garden and raised it up so spectacularly that trees were shooting out about half as tall as the house and he laid ivy everywhere around the house as well. He called it Pubic Hairven. I could not have named it any better. Alas, the award winning house belonged to none other than our very own Hermes. It was an honour to have such a master level architect residing in our very own Carnival. He actually cast a spell on his house that allowed it to shrink to half its size during the day, three quarters during noon and become fully erect at night. Furthermore, he added a garage beside his house that looked uncannily like a hand that moves up and down periodically. The cream of the crop came literally when his roof would release a jet of vanilla cream up towards the sky at 12 noon and 12 midnight sharp. The location of where the jet of cream would land up was entirely random. As such, it was not surprising to see some unfortunate people going back home at around noon time who was dripping with cream. However, it was seen as good luck in the city and if you get blessed by the cream, chances of winning lottery was rumoured to increase. Of course Hermes named his own house, Herpes. About one month after our first Carnival Wars, a representative of the famous media company, XZ Company, came to interview us about our town. Her name was Zoey. Zoey came to interview us about how we came about founding this town, deciding how to furnish it into this... Malarkey that was insanely popular on the forums. We couldn''t tell everyone about the real reason behind it because players being players, they would all want in on the rank A+++ quest which was Ragnarok. We couldn''t let everyone become part of this. We wanted all the glory and we wanted the people who are really important in Carnival to become part of this with us. We would definitely need people for this quest but we weren''t going to just announce it to the whole world. Thus we made up a fascinating lie about how we got this quest which people seemed to buy because of how ridiculous it was. We said that the 4 of us knew each other in real life, and we were close friends. Breadtalk was someone who faced an unfortunate problem though. Erectile dysfunction was the medical name but to us we just called it weak penis syndrome. However, he realised that in RR, he could actually get hard and he just did it everyday in the game. After wanking for 30 consecutive days, he suddenly got a quest from the god of fertility to start a town because of his dedication to masturbation. It was to build a town with linkages to fertility and thus, we built a town with residences that looked like the miraculous male organ of reproduction. Nobody must have tried to do that in game for 30 days straight. Oh well can''t exactly blame them can I? LOL We then explained how each of us created our own spine and Zoey gave us a trivia on our own town. Apparently the area most well liked by people was the East Spine. The landmark everyone found the most amazing was my fountain (GOD BLESS YOU PEOPLE). The coolest part of the town was The Ascension and out of every 100 people asked, 90 liked the looks of the residences even though it looked so bloody bad. This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. After the interview, Breadtalk''s reputation skyrocketed along with the town''s popularity. All the guys sympathised with Breadtalk because of his ¡°unfortunate plight¡± and found him extremely funny. The girls were less disgusted by the antics of Breadtalk because they took pity on him so on the few occasions that he stuck his head under a girl''s skirt, he got away with well what do you know! MORE SLAPS! And that was it! Lucky bastard.
Disclaimer : Please do not do this in real life. You will not only get a slap but you will be sent to jail and you will be unable to read my fanfic then.
After a while, I grew to hate Horse less. The haughty type who could actually do stuff and get results really wasn''t THAT bad. Furthermore she was starting to open up abit more. She was the mysterious sort to keep to herself at first but gradually she became more and more open, no doubt due to the influence of Breadtalk and the town. It was practically a party here everyday just like I envisioned. It wasn''t just because of Breadtalk. The elites had a great sense of humour. Soup would just man up and do everything retardedly and the girls hit on him like Winnie the Pooh seeing honey. Beathoven was apparently extremely popular because whenever he went to the East spine, he HAD to eat something from there and Breadtalk woul definitely be there to protect his spine, using his weapon of the day to try to kill Beathoven. I was the most boring one already but I was extremely well liked by the shop keepers and NPCs. I really must have NPC luck. I could buy stuff from them at ridiculous prices. Horse then trained up from level 1 to 100 with us partnering her alternatively and bringing her to different places to train. Every one of us took her for 10 levels. During my training with her which was from 31-40, she was extremely adept at using her surroundings and strategic mind to exterminate the enemies. Once she even used every single tree in a 10 meter radius as a trap. Anything that touches it would be crushed by the tree and she lured a pack of 10 wolves to attack her in that ridiculous area. I just had to watch and cast swift steps and give her additional speed and attack power. She took care of it by herself. When she became level 100, it was about 1 month back from now. Since then, we had just been entering in Carnival War after Carnival War with our party name as the group name. Bunch Of Tards. Everyone knew we were the founders because of my fountain and Breadtalk''s ridiculous statue of us in the East spine. The atmosphere became electric because favourites have came out for the upcoming Annual Carnival Wars Championships. There were about 4 teams whom everyone thought would be clear favourites and we were one of them. There was a team consisting of only mages who steamrolled everyone trying to get in their way. There was another team consisting of a mix of classes, just like us, but executed their plans of attacks in an extremely neat and uniform way with impeccable timing. Then, there was a team which consisted of 10 girls whom every guy supported. (Guys being guys.) Lastly, there was us. The ridiculous looking team who used extremely unpredictable tactics mixed with hilarious antics to get rid of every opposition. Now, one month later from then, we proved everyone right. We were the champions and I wouldn''t have traded the past 4 months in this game for anything. All of us were now even more closely bonded than before. Surprisingly there was room for a girl in this clique because most of our penis jokes should''ve been pretty awkward for a girl but it looks like a particular Horse was pretty cool about it. The elites were also extremely happy with the progress of the town and enjoyed being part of it every single moment. ¡°Now, the founders of Carnival will present the trophy to the winners of the Annual Carnival Wars Championship!!!¡± The emcee announced. All of us looked at Beathoven. ¡°What? It was only logical when I planned the event! How would I know we would have to present the trophy to ourselves?!¡± Sigh. ¡°I will present you all the trophy then. The four of you should be receiving it.¡± Horse said. She went over the the podium, grabbed the huge trophy by the handles and started walking towards us. ¡°Always doing it her way, she''s just like you Jinx.¡± Soup said. ¡°Shut up.¡± I retorted. She straightened up and the crowd settled down, awaiting the time where the trophy would be passed to us. ¡°It''s been a really really enjoyable time guys.¡± She started addressing us with the microphone so the whole stadium could hear her. ¡°That''s what she said!!!¡± Breadtalk shouted such that the microphone also amplified that. The trophy moved in one fluid motion from resting in Horse''s hands to being brought down onto Breadtalk''s head while the whole stadium roared in laughter. ¡°Moving on, I''m extremely fortunate to be part of this team. I''m not exactly a very open and sociable person. I know I can come across as rude and proud sometimes. However, these group of people acceptedd me for who I am, invited me into their group in spite of that and made all of this happen. This town, this event, this culture. I''m ever grateful and as such, I would like to present them this trophy so everyone here knows that these people, your founders, are truly awesome people.¡± She reached her hands out with the trophy towards Breadtalk, this time gently and smiling with such a broad smile I thought it would never be possible even though her name was Horse. Breadtalk took the trophy, gave a quick peck on the cheek on Horse and raised the trophy with both hands. The entire stadium roared in approval along with the citizens of Carnival which could even be heard from further north, near the town center. Horse blushed furiously and kicked Breadtalk in the nuts. The roars changed to an OOHHHHH as Breadtalk released the trophy and clutched onto his crotch. I teleported in front to grasp the trophy. Suddenly I felt everyone''s eye on me. Horse handed me the microphone. Soup and Beathoven gave me knowing smiles because they knew I was the sort of people who would enjoy addressing this crowd and even though there isn''t a leader in our group where everyone is important, this part was for me to do. ¡°Citizens of Carnival, we started this town with fun as our first and foremost priority. It was paramount for fun to be the basis of our culture. However, I did not want party idiots who just knew how to get high, curse and swear and just want to have a good time regardless of the cost. I was worried. I really was.¡± I started nervously. And then I saw all the faces of approval and I calmed down. ¡°Then over this past 4 months, I''ve seen people so much like us that I can''t believe it happened. Everyone who became a resident here was polite, but genuinely fun loving. After one whole night''s worth of partying, there was a reasonable amount of litter left over. After thrashing someone''s house after getting drunk, usually nobody is injured and public property was never damaged. During Carnival Wars, spectators would only cheer whenever brilliant plays were brought to the table. During tense moments everyone would be quiet. It was like watching a tennis match. Customers are polite to the shopkeepers. Everyone looks out for one another in one way or the other. I don''t know how this happened. Whether we planned it successfully or if it was sheer dumb luck. However I do know that this is probably the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. It doesn''t matter if it''s only in a game because whenever I look at all of you, even if this is virtual reality, every bit of this feels more real than the real world.¡± A standing ovation erupted at my words even though I was still going to continue. The crowd was so loud I thought my eardrums were going to burst and everyone around me just looked around at the crowd, all realising what they have contributed to this city and enjoying every minute of it. ¡°All of you are important to this town. All of you are the living embodiment of our motto. All of you have not asked what fun does for you. All of you asked what would you all do for fun instead. And all of you, have made Carnival the way it is today. I raise this trophy in hope that this spirit will never fade, will never die. I raise this trophy in hope that this fun and peace will prolong for as long as it can. I raise this trophy in hope and in belief, that Carnival will not falter, will not change and we will always be this insane, retarded and probably the best city that everyone has ever seen. PEACE OUT!¡± A second rain of confetti erupted and this time people in the stands were casting their own spells. Mages could be seen casting fireballs everywhere, aiming to collide their fireballs to form fireworks, archers were busy shooting frost arrows to decorate the sky with blue light, warriors were just using shout skills to increase the insane volume of the atmosphere and all of us proceeded out of the stadium to the town square, to be hoisted by people watching from there in a victory parade followed by an after party which Beathoven planned in case we won. It was a magical night like no other. Soup was wasted as usual, Breadtalk was busy trolling Horse with everything he had including a time where he pointed to a beautiful flower and when Horse was busy admiring it, he pulled down his pants to show his naked buttcheek in her face when she turned back. Beathoven was playing music and singing along to it. You know he''s happy when he sings because his singing is really bad LOL. But his music was good and with this type of atmosphere, nobody cares about your voice. Everyone just wants to hear everyone''s voices. And I was high as fuck from the drinks, running around screaming and doing somersaults, conjuring a gigantic waterfall which drenched everyone for 3 minutes, turning it into a wet party and used all my stored mana to make a geyser so large it lifted everyone 6 meters into the air. After the party, we all logged out because it was a special day. Tomorrow was the first day of the new school term.
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Author''s note: To my dear readers. This is actually quite an emotional chapter for me. I don''t know if i did the jokes well.. In the same way that Jinx found solace, fun and accomplishment in finishing Carnival for his people. I found the same thing in writing this fanfic for all of you. I started off nervous, and then you guys gave me positive and encouraging comments. Every night when I get back home I ask myself if I have the time to churn out more chapters for you guys. This is my Carnival and you all are my citizens. I hope you all feel that way and that my toasts will apply to this as well. MAY THE FUTURE OF RAGNAROK REMAIN AS RETARDED, AS FUNNY AND AS EVENTFUL AS THEY HAD BEEN! I love you all. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter because I know I really did. PEACE OUT. Chapter 23 : Back To School I put on that familiar school uniform of mine which I had seen for so long and headed out, going to the familiar same place. School for most kids was a pain in the ass. However, with the BOTs, I actually looked forward to going to school everyday. I reached the school slightly earlier on the first day of school to allow myself some time to get ready and take up the usual seats occupied by us which was the back corner of the class where we would best be able to be up to our crazy antics. However, when I walked into the class.... ¡°JINXXXXXXXXXX!¡± And it wasn''t my usual BOTs giving me the greeting. The whole class greeted me. ¡°What in the flying fuck is going on?¡± I wondered a little bit too loud and it actually came out of my mouth. ¡°We saw the XZ special broadcast! It was aired about 2 months ago and how could we not recognise you? Your in game name is the same as your real life nickname and you didn''t change your features in the game!¡± The class monitress said. Oh yeah I forgot that XZ company was actually a real media giant for broadcasting RR. ¡°Wait when did all of you play RR? I hardly hear any RR discussions from any of you?¡± ¡°Come on Jinx. Who wouldn''t play RR in this day and age? Of course we do but we don''t really talk about it to you and your BOTs! You know you all are so busy screwing around having fun everyday we thought you guys were the ones who wouldn''t be playing RR.¡± It was a valid point. We stayed in school from 8 in the morning till 6 at night just to be with each other and have fun so it seemed like we didn''t have much time for RR. We really just started quite literally too. However best not to tell them that. They would be jealous that 4 people who played the game for only a month could get one whole city to their names. At that point in time, Zack entered the class. ¡°Beathovennnn!¡± The whole class went ohhhhhhhhhh. He had the same look of shock on his face. It was like someone surprised buttsexed him. There really is no other way to describe the face. It was like you got caught red handed doing something stupid and embarrassing, like a deer who suddenly got caught in headlights from a hidden, stationery car. Surprise buttsex look it is. Anthony walked in immediately behind. ¡°What are you freezing up for?? Our new form teacher that pretty?¡± ¡°BREADDDDTALKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!¡± Surprise buttsex too for him and it was by far the loudest one yet. It looked like he was the fan favourite. He was already well liked in class for his jokes which never failed to make anyone laugh but it seemed like he was even more popular for his RR achievements which also made people laugh. Suddenly, screams could be heard from the corridoor itself. ¡°AHHHH! SOUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!¡± Joe ran into the class like a mad dog was chasing him and our class was no difference. ¡°SOUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!¡± The visual of our group looks to be as popular as ever. The four of us just stared at the class who had all their eyes on us. We expected some of them to recognise us because we didn''t change our looks and my name was still the same but this was still wayyyyyy too overboard. The whole class played RR and we didn''t even know because we were just too busy screwing around. ¡°So... How many of you know about Carnival?¡± Beathoven carefully asked. ¡°ME!¡± every single person answered. If only we had the whisper function in real life we would know how to communicate and get out of this extremely awkward situation. It''s like a zoo and we are the animals. As if reading my thoughts, Anthony caught my eye and let out a small ¡°woof.¡± ¡°Beathoven, Zack i mean sorry. Would you mind letting us join Carnival as residents? Pleaseeeee.¡± Carnival was becoming so popular that everyone wanted to try to affilate themselves to the city one way or another. Being a shopkeeper, guild master, resident of Carnival was a title sought after by many. However because places were limited we couldn''t just invite anybody to be a member. One residence could only fit one player anyway. The penis buildings were allocated one each to the masters of the house which then allowed them to rent out the rooms seperately or to live in with their family be it their family in RR or real life. It was a tricky question. One wrong answer and we would be condemned by our own class. Beathoven quickly weighed the odds. ¡°I''m afraid you have to understand that Carnival is now a hot topic and very popular destination of choice for noobs and pros alike. Our residences also will be increasing in rent shortly in order to further facilitate the growth of Carnival. If you all really wish to be part of this city, I need to make all of you stay in the castle where there are our soldier barracks inside. It will be cheap, food will be provided, but then you would be obliged to follow any instructions we have for our army. You all will be part time mercenaries. This is already a form of goodwill by us so please decide if you want to accept it.¡± ¡°Alright. We will.¡± the class monitress said. ¡°RIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG!¡± the familiar school bell rang and then the 4 of us sprung into battle stance subconsciously. I put my hand to the nonexistent katana sheath. Beathoven had his hands in lute playing position. Soup shouted at the top of his longs and accidentally went out of tune. Breadtalk slammed the door on all 3 of us and we flew backwards to get his Loki''s Entourage buff. But then we realised. ¡°FUCK YOU BEAT WHY DID YOU USE THE SCHOOL BELL AS THE SIGNAL FOR THE START OF CARNIVAL WARS!¡± ¡°MORON!¡± ¡°FUCKFACE!¡± ¡°SHUT UP I ALSO WENT INTO BATTLE MODE!¡± And this is what 4 continuous months of Carnival Wars did to you. The whole class was clearly entertained and much like the Carnival War spectators, cheered loduly. Looks like they would be able to fit into Carnival just fine though they were pretty okay people. Most of them legitly enjoyed our retarded antics except for a few who found us noisy. Those few can rot in hell for all I care but it was a nice class with nice teachers who could take jokes and I was fortunate to be in this. Classes begun as per usual and even the teachers when they came in, shot us a knowing smile but knew better to avoid the topic as once you start, it would probably take a good 10-15 minutes to end the discussion. RR was popular with adults too and the XZ company broadcast really made us famous. No wonder it seemed like I got a few more looks and stares on my way to school. After about 2 hours of lessons came our first break. Every single person from our class said they would agree to stay in the castle as part time mercenaries for Carnival. Even the people who found us noisy. You all shall get the shittiest jobs for always yelling at us to shut up and looking at us with contempt and disgust. :P MUAHAHAHA. Hey I could be evil too it was just that I was nice all the time. Sometime''s we have to be bad right. One of them about 150cm tall once even looked at me, which required her to tilt her head up about 45 degrees which was quite a degree of elevation and said with a tone full of hate and disgust : ¡°Grow up Jinx.¡± I was the one who was 176cm and she was the one at 150cm. Well looks like someone was going to be the one who was answerable to me now YESSSS. The four of us then went to the canteen to order some drinks and sit down to talk about how the class could contribute to Carnival. However it seemed like this temporary hype was bigger than we thought. When we were at the canteen, I could feel almost all the eyes there from 200 over students on us. A few who knew us like friends from the same club or neighbouring classes even came up to us to greet and congratulate us. That was not the end though. It seemed that everyone really really wanted to be part of Carnival REALLY badly. They asked if they could join in as well. We told them we would get back to them. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. ¡°Alright Jinx how now brown cow? Every mother''s son and daughter here wants in!!¡± Joe asked. ¡°How the hell would I know. I was still having the time of my life till yesterday I didn''t know a city based on the idea of pure fun would be this popular?!¡± I replied. ¡°Zack you''re the one in charge of these type of decisions. Any ideas?¡± ¡°.... Part time mercenaries?...¡± He said. ¡°I''m Anthony and even I know its rubbish. We gonna get what 1000 mercenaries? How are we going to pay for them and what are we even going to use them for? Sure the castle could fit in that many but then it would become extremely crowded and less desirable to live in this town already.¡± Anthony said. All of us looked at Anthony. ¡°Zack, there''s no other way to say this. You just got talked to and informed logically by Anthony because your idea was too stupid. You should probably commit suicide now to save yourself some face.¡± I said. ¡°You''re right omg. Tell my mum I love her.¡± Zack continued. ¡°You guys mind moving over a little so I can join in??¡± Some random voice came from behind me. Sounds familiar but yet not quite who is it? I turned my head. Long black hair, rather big eyes, a small but defined nose, perfectly shaped lips with an icy stare coming out of those eyes that gave her an aura of haughtiness. ¡°HORSE?!¡± We all said. ¡°Got a problem? And I actually have a real name okay can you all not call me Horse here. It''s Suzy.¡± ¡°Sooozeeee. Sounds nicer if you drag it out.¡± Anthony said. Then he proceeded to do Soooooooozeeeeeeeeeee and Soooooooooooooooooooooooozeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee''s. ¡°I see all of you really are like that both in game and out. She shook her head while sitting down beside me.¡± ¡°And I see you still have the whole ice queen thing going on in game and out. It''s good to know we''re all the same in and out doesn''t it? We won''t have to learn about each other again. Which class are you in anyway I didn''t see you around before?¡± ¡°So you''re saying if I were around you would have noticed me?¡± She gave me a smirk. Okay I might have found her to be okay but I''m starting to want to slap this bitch again. But she''s probably right she does look good so I guess... HEY I''M A GUY RIGHT. ¡°This is my first year in the school. I''m one year your junior I guess from what I''ve heard. My class immediately recognised me and said the rest of the founders were also in this school. I really didn''t want to be high profile but I guess it''s just not possible.¡± ¡°Oh well. Looks like RR affected us really badly in real life as well. We felt like celebrities when we went into our class but now everyone around us are asking us for favours.¡± Zack added. ¡°Just say no? Like it''s the hardest thing in the world.¡± Suzy replied. The BOTs were retarded but really we were a kind bunch. Joe would always, always give his seat to an elderly on the bus. Anthony had a younger sister whom he actually looked after even though he pretends he doesn''t give a shit. Zack volunteers outside. I''m a typical mummy''s boy so I remember her preachings well and she always asks me to treat others how I want others to treat me so I''m usually nice. So saying no was really a hard thing for us. That''s when I realised. ¡°Suzy can you help us be our representative in real life? We aren''t good at PR in real life because quite frankly all we can do is be ourselves and enjoy all we can. We just can''t say no. You already got your whole ice queen image working for you so saying no to requests like that can amp up that image even more right? Pleaseeeeeeeee.¡± I said. ¡°Oh fine. What a bunch of pussies.¡± she said. ¡°Meowwwwwww.¡± Anthony purred. ¡°Not that sort of- nevermind. You just enjoy trolling me don''t you?¡± She said. ¡°Who wouldn''t? You''re so pretty when you''re flustered its cute.¡± Anthony said. It looks like Anthony really had a flair for shattering her image. She just blushed furiously again and walked off now. We too had only 5 minutes left from our break so we went back to class. It was social studies lesson after that. Our teacher, Miss Tan, was giving back essays which we were told to submit to her online over the holidays as an assignment. ¡°Anthony, i''m fairly sure you did not do any research on Venice as I''ve instructed you. The first question was about naming three important things you could find in Venice. Boats could be argued but your second and third choices, chicken wings and the Taj Mahal needs a lot of work. Where exactly in Venice is the Taj Mahal may I know?¡± She asked. ¡°... Erm... In the centre?¡± Anthony replied. ¡°Hmm I''m pretty sure its located about a few thousand kilometers away from the center. Nevermind please write an extra essay about the Taj Mahal by the next lesson. And regarding chicken wings. Why do you say they are important to Venice?¡± ¡°Without chicken wings, Venice would never be as famous or successful as it would have been now as everyone knows, chicken wings are the cornerstones for a successful civilisation.¡± He said with the most serious face anyone could ask for.¡± ¡°Miss Tan let me help you with that!¡± Soup offered and he slapped Anthony across the cheek. As usual the whole class erupted into laughter even though they were already laughing at the replies Anthony gave. Miss Tan just pretended she didn''t see anything and proceeded on to write on the whiteboard, smiling. School soon ended and usually we would stay to screw around. We also had club activities. I was in the volleyball team which had trainings on Wednesday and Friday afternoons, Anthony and Zack was in the Boy''s Brigade which was a uniform group that has trainings on Saturday mornings. Joe was in the NCC (National Cadet Corps) which was another uniform group that had trainings on Friday afternoons. It was a monday so all of us were free though. I looked at them and wondered if RR was worth it. I decided to ask them. ¡°I know it''s early but... Carnival?¡± I asked. ¡°Last one to reach home will get a slap in the game.¡± Joe added. All of us smiled at each other and rushed back home, running to the shiny silver capsule that has impacted our real life on a whole new level.
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Author''s Note: Hello people! I realise not many fan fics have a touch of the real life aspect which I think is important as well. However I will not be concentrating on this too much. It''s to give you all a feel of how RR can affect everyone in real life and since this RR''s main point is fun, if our school life is fun and retarded too it''s fine right? Just wanted to share a bit of a typical day for us in real life. Hope you all can appreciate it! Thanks! Back into RR next week~ Also, the class will eventually be useful for something and hopefully you all can guess what. Chapter 24 : Forest Of No Return
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¡°Hellllyeahhhhhh.¡± I found myself in the town square of Carnival as usual, bustling with life and people all over greeting me, happy to see my arrival. The NPCs all showered me with free gifts upon seeing my arrival as I went around to see how they were doing. As such, my equipment has all been updated to level 100 equipment courtesy of the extremely nice NPCs. I checked my friends list. Breadtalk was online but I would never know where he was. Soup and Beathoven were still on the way home I guess. I decided to do some planning on how to train myself. Over the past 4 months, I''ve been training how to split my mind into 5 different parts so now, casting 5 different spells at once all independent of element and spell type was possible. Previously, I could only use alot of spells at once if they were all of the same element or the same spell with different elements. Now that''s a thing of the past. Also, my ouroboros seal has reached advanced level 10, likewise for my mana manipulation and katana mastery but no matter what, they could not advance further to the next stage. I''m pretty sure proficiencies were independent of levels so even though I was a mere level 120, I still should be able to go to master class with my skills. I wonder why. I brought out my stat and skills table to see how much I have changed since the last time I brought it out.
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Stat Window
Elemental AffinitiesFire +5% Ice +5% Water +15% Wind +5% Lightning +10% Earth+10% Gravity+10% Light +15% Dark +15%
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any swords and use up to leather armour +500 Health +1000 Mana Able to use magic and swordplay simultaneously No miscast penalty due to spell failure due to absence of magic circles Member of both the Intelligence and Warrior Guilds
Fast Reader | Intermediate level 2 (33%). Finishes books 42% faster.
Mana Manipulation | Advanced level 9 (99%). Affinity to Nature +40%. Mana Cost - 10%
Flare | Beginner level 1 (5%). Summons a small source of light.
Katana Mastery | Advanced level 9 (99%). Increases attack power with a katana +400% and attack speed +150%.
Gravity Crush | Intermediate level 8 (70%). Weapon Atk +880% (Dependent on Gravity Affinity)
Wind Steps | Intermediate level 9 (80%). Increases movement speed +58% (Dependent on Wind Affinity)
Electrical Synapse | Intermediate level 9 (90%). Increases reaction time by 0.25s (Dependent on Lightning Affinity)
Adrenaline Rush | Beginner level 5 (5%). Increases time perception by 10% when HP is below 10%.
Cooking | Advanced level 9 (70%). Enables you to prepare meals.
Rooted | Beginner level 6 (50%). Immobilises enemy by restraining their movement. (Dependent on element''s affinity).
Divine Judgement | Advanced level 1 (40%). Concentrates a huge amount of mana into a sword which drops down onto the enemy. High critical rate. Damage depends on mana used and type of mana.[full]Dispel | Intermediate level 3 (40%). Has a chance to heal status effects.
Lesser Heal | Advanced level 2 (50%). Heals ally for a certain amount of health. Damages undead in the surrounding area.
Elemental Armour | Beginner level 3 (0%). Creates an elemental armour of different affinities that wraps around the user.
Median Heal | Intermediate level 2 (50%). Heals ally for a higher amount of health. Damages undead in the surrounding area and spills over a small amount of heal in an AOE.
Divine Shield | Advanced level 4 (50%). Blocks out one instance of damage. The higher the level, the lesser the mana cost and larger the total area it can cover.
Ouroboros Seal | Advanced level 9 (99%). Stores up to 30000 mana. Able to use it whenever you want like a mana bank.
Poison Torrent | Advanced level 1 (50%). Engulfs target in whirlpool of poisonous water. Damage over time due to poison as well as engulfment of water. Incapacitates movement.
Impure Beckoning | Advanced level 1 (20%). Removes buffs from target. The higher the level the stronger the buffs that can be removed.
Teleport | Advanced level 2 (50%). Turns your body into electricity to flash to your designated area. Can only teleport to anywhere you can see. The higher the level the lower the mana cost thus the further you can tele.
I looked at my ouroboros seal with great fondness. This skill helped me in so many situations. Imagine a pool of 30000 mana at my disposal. However I really could not level it up no matter how many times I used it after it reached advanced level 10, 99%. Beathoven''s chaotic melody had already capped at advanced level 10, 99% as well and heals 300 mana per second. The ourobors seal would give me 100 seconds of that instantly. I could also pour Beathoven''s mana regen into the ouroboros seal, filling it up in 100 seconds. It was a very flexible skill for me to have. Mana manipulation and katana mastery were the bread and butter skills of my class and they too have stagnated. This means no matter how much more I fight now, I would not improve unless I grind levels and put them into stats! Sigh. *Soup, Beathoven and Horse has logged in* ¡°Hey guys. And babe. Let''s all meet at the castle. Loki instructed me to ask all of us to assemble there.¡± Breadtalk whispered Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Don''t call me babe.¡± Horse replied. ¡°Breadtalk you sunnavabeech I''m supposed to be your only babe.¡± I answered before teleporting over to the castle. In about 5 minutes, all of them managed to reach with Breadtalk being the last as usual. ¡°Alright we''re all here. Whats up?¡± I said. ¡°Loki says its time.¡± ¡°For?¡± Soup prompted Breadtalk to continue. ¡°Mentorship part 2.¡± *POOF* A huge dense of smoke suddenly released in the lobby of the castle. After the smoke cleared, all of us knew what was awaiting underneath the cloud of dust and smoke. ¡°Loki! J?rmungandr! Fenrir! Hel! And who the hell is that?!¡± Breadtalk exclaimed. ¡°This is my wife, Sigyn. I saw that you all got a new member in the team and my wife was getting bored. She used to be an assasin too and since she loves horses, she offered to be part of the mentoring team as well.¡± Loki explained. ¡°What in the fucking world is this?!¡± Horse exclaimed. ¡°Wait come to think of it, we never explained how we got this castle and the elites right?¡± I asked her. ¡°I thought Breadtalk had erectile dysfunction in real life isn''t that the story?!¡± ¡°I DO NOT. FUCK. You wanna see tomorrow in school?¡± He added. ¡°No. Who the hell wants to see your dick i''m pretty sure its small anyway since two thirds of it have been put into your character.¡± ¡°ho damnnnn that is some burnnnnn~.¡± Loki chipped in. The elites immediately ran to their masters and got reunited briefly while Loki was explaining the whole story to Horse. After he finished... ¡°YOU GUYS DIDN''T TELL ME I WAS PART OF A RANK A++ QUEST OMG HOW DARE YOU ASSHOLES. But honestly thanks it sounds like it''s going to be awesome~ I got a mentor too AHHHH!¡± Horse exclaimed. I heard about the legendary lady mood swings... This is definitely one of them. Holy shit it must be her period. As if reading my thoughts, Breadtalk asked ¡°Are you on your period?¡± Hel and Horse slapped him together at the same time and said the same thing. ¡°NEVER ASK A GIRL THAT QUESTION.¡± All of us just looked at Breadtalk and shook our head. ¡°Alright Jinx, lets get started. Show me how much you''ve improved over the past 4 months.¡± J?rmungandr said as he spawned 5 level 100 snakes. I immediately casted 5 spells at once. ¡°Posion Torrent, Divine Judgement, Wind Steps. Electrical Impulse, Gravity Crush.¡± 3 of them were engulged by the torrent, one got impaled immediately by a shining holy divine judgement and gravity crush took the last. In 0.5 seconds, all of this was done. ¡°Holy shit.¡± Breadtalk said. Loki let out a whistle. Fenrir gave a small nod as if this was to be expected. J?rmungandr however just asked how much mana i used from that. ¡°All 7000 of my mana pool.¡± I replied. ¡°7000?! Cheat character. OP. Fucker.¡± Breadtalk complained. ¡°Someone with over 1400 luck should shut up.¡± I retorted. ¡°Hmm look your mana pool is quite decent for a level 120 character but mana management should be your next stage of training. If you use too much mana, you''ll be left with no mana. If you use too little, you won''t be able to finish off the monsters. After mastering that your proficiencies should be able to reach the next level.¡± J?rmungandr explained. Just then, Fenrir gave a huge swipe at Soup with his hands clearly buffed by Hel''s unholy aura. Soup however just stood firm, brandished his greatsword and parried the enormous blow without a hitch in movement. Soup was busy training the military so his levels went up a bit and proficiencies without a doubt too. This was the fruit of his hard work for Carnival. Hel then took Beathoven into a corner and begun showing him what I assume were more music sheets from her realm. Hel gave him a slight necromastery skill previously so she would without a doubt be able to confer him more songs with regards to different skills I guess. Sigyn took Horse immediately into another room and this was a match up I was interested to see. How would the additional mentor help Horse develop her skills when she already was damn bloody kickass with her level of strategic planning? Horse herself also changed the moment she heard what was happening. There was a glint of resolve in her eyes now that she knew what was awaiting her. Loki moved towards me and Breadtalk and put his hands on both our shoulders. Guys, Get ready. Usually for the first time you will get naueseous but its completely normal. ¡°What do you mea-¡± Then it hit me. The world warped and twisted around me, contorting my field of vision. I felt like i was being squashed inside myself. The feeling got stronger and stronger until finally all I saw was black. I realised I was lying on the floor or something. I realised the world was black because my eyes were closed. I opened them. Around me were just mountains and mountains. In front of me, was a dense jungle with an opening which was no doubt man made. Breadtalk was down on the floor, puking his guts out. Suddenly I was overcome with nausea as well and followed suit ¡°What in the world??? Where are we?!¡± I managed to stutter once I finished vommitting my lunch, ¡°Welcome to the Forest of No Return.¡± said Loki. ¡°This is where we let only our best students go through. This is a test. A test only someone of a certain caliber can finish. The weird part about this forest is that it adjusts to your level. A level 1 can complete this forest if he or she has the intuition and acumen to complete the trials that await. J?rmungandr wants you to complete this trial. He says he has taught you enough and you show talent. It must mean he trusts you if he asked me to put you through this.¡± ¡°This forest also has the unique ability to increase your proficiency above advanced level if you find that you are stuck there. You need to be able to overcome certain trials before you can unlock the next level of masteries.¡± No wonder J?rmungandr put me through this. He wanted to see if I could pass this trial in order to improve my proficiencies. He even gave me one piece of advice before bringing me here which I think will be the key. Mana conservation. ¡°What about Breadtalk? Why did you bring him here?¡± ¡°He has private training to undergo with me in the mountain ranges over there. I also need to train him in my own ways. Don''t worry if you manage to finish the trials in the jungle, the way out is really obvious it''s just a one way road don''t worry. I''ll know once you get out alive. If you die you''ll just end up back in town right? Good luck young one. Remember all that you''ve learnt if you want to pass this trial. It''s definitely not easy.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± And then Breadtalk finally finished puking and yanked Loki''s underwear as high as he could, jumping up and down furiously. ¡°YOU RUINED MY 6 YEAR VOMIT FREE STREAK FUCK YOUUUUU!¡± ¡°OW FUCK I''M YOUR GOD YOU SON OF A BITCH!¡± ¡°YEA YOU ARE A BITCH COS I''M YOUR SON!!¡± Then they started slapping each other again. I was sure Breadtalk would lose again cos he never won in a slapping war before. I just turned around and faced the entrance to my second real test in the game since Renfir. Time to show my worth I guess. Watch me master. I walked in melodramatically. Would''ve been better with kickass music instead of the sound of a slap war behind me. What awaits me in the forest?
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Chapter 25 : The Training Begins I walked into the forest and surprisingly it felt very well maintained. The tuft of grass felt soft and smooth while the path was neatly paved into the plethora of trees surrounding me.
New Quest : Pass J?rmungandr''s trial. J?rmungandr has sent you into the depths of the Forest Of No Return for you to master your skills and evolve to the next level. Few were even offered this trial and even fewer has completed this to date. The first 10 people to complete this trial will get a special piece of equipment. You are unable to reject this quest because it is a direct order from your master. Message from J?rmungandr : NO CHOICE!! WHEN I ASK YOU TO SUCK A DICK, YOU JOLLY WELL SUCK A DICK WAHAHAHAHA. Seriously though, don''t fail this okay it''ll speak badly of me.
Looks like J?rmungandr was your typical sadist. Oh well. I just ventured deeper and deeper into the guided forest. After about 30 minutes of walking and wondering, I finally came to a clearing about the size of the fountain in Carnival. Looks like a place for a trial. I wonder wha- My thoughts were cut short. A blue snake shot itself from a nearby tree branch towards me instantly. I could only react as I drew out my katana quickly. However, the snake just phased past my sword and bit me on my waist. Reducing my HP slowly as it remained firmly bitten on me. ¡°WHAT THE HACK? LIKE SERIOUSLY?! HACKKKKKKK!¡± I quickly tried to grab the snake but my hands phased through it as well. Suddenly a red colour snake also shot itself from another tree branch. Again the sword did not help at all. ¡°Fire flaming armour!¡± Suddenly the blue snake dropped off and vanished. Just like that. It seemed like the snakes did not have HP at all but the red snake was still there sapping my HP. Two more snakes flew out, yellow and green in colour. Hold on a minute I get what''s going on. I quickly made a small mana shield of green and yellow and put them in the path of the yellow and green snakes respectively. When the green snake passed through the yellow shield and vice versa, both of them vanished. I quickly cast some water spell on the red snake still on me and it vanished as well. It was simple. The snakes could phase through my physical attacks because they were made of mana. Their colour simply told me which type of mana it was. Blue was water, Red was fire, Yellow was lightning and Green was earth. Simple and straightforward. They did not have HP at all meaning once they touched a mana type they are weak against, they would just vanish. However failure to stop the mana from reaching me would result in HP deduction. It wasn''t an extremely hard task, especially seeing that if all I need were mana shields I could just make 8 different elements of the same spell. It was easy enough. It was casting different spells using different elements that were hard. Suddenly, I realised something that made the test so much harder. Why the fuck aren''t my HP and mana regenerating? Being a class that was strongly dependent on mana usage it was second nature for me to keep an eye out on my mana bar. Mana regen was 1% of your mana every 10 seconds so after 10 seconds have passed I was supposed to regen 70 mana but there was no increase. The forest must''ve stopped any sort of regeneration of sorts. My HP didn''t seemed to be regenerating as well. I was a conjugating plane helically wrapped around an axis. Yes I was fucking screwed. Suddenly, no less than 10 snakes were shooting at me from different angles. ¡°Help.¡± I muttered. -Meanwhile, in Beathoven''s perspective.- ¡°Beathoven. You''ve practiced the songs I gave you right?¡± Hel asked. ¡°Of course. A musician without practice loses his shine.¡± I answered. ¡°Good. I trust you did not tell your friends about the songs?¡± ¡°They know about the necromastery one.¡± ¡°Why? I told you to practice in secret.¡± ¡°I needed to use it so I did not have to wash the dishes.¡± ¡°Hmm.. Alright. I hate washing dishes too so I''ll let it slide. Remember, do not play these songs in front of them unless you definitely have to. You''re the secret weapon they will have in moments of deep crisis and I need to keep it a secret from anyone and everyone. You never know where they place their spies.¡± ¡°Yes master.¡± ¡°Alright. Show me how much you''ve improved.¡± I whipped out my lute and begun to play a deep melody, sophisticated and sad. Legato and dolce. Forte to decrescendo. Hel slowly nodded, approving each and every stanza. Then, a familiar power begun surging through my veins. -Meanwhile, in Soup''s perspective- ¡°Boy, you''ve done me proud.¡± Fuzzy panted after a 2 hour spar with Soup. ¡°I''m very grateful for your teachings master. Want to grab a bacon?¡± ¡°Sure. But before that, I have one skill to teach you that will cover up the weaknesses of a gladiator quite proficiently. I''ve only been enhancing your physique, proficiencies and stats up till now because they are the core for any melee class. Only upon mastering these will your skills really shine. This will be the first skill I''ll teach you and with this, you can easily solo dungeons even in the beginning stage when your Gladiator''s rage buff hasn''t even peaked.¡± My eyes must have glowed with so much passion and excitement there wasn''t need for any more words. -To the retard we go- My cheeks felt red and swollen as fuck. ¡°I''VE FINALLY WON! WOOOOOOOOOO! SOME SUCKER SUCKS MORE THAN MY SUCKING SKILLZ! MY MASTER IS A NOOB WAHAHAHAHA!¡± I screamed with gusto and exhilaration. So this was how it felt to win a slapping war. ¡°Fuck. I know I suck at some things but I didn''t expect slapping to be so hard. Oh well alright. Time for the serious stuff. You''ve mastered the Loki''s armoury skill to advanced level 9, 99%. The reason why your skill won''t improve anymore is simple. Now, every individual weapon must be attuned to you in order for you to draw it out of my armoury.¡± ¡°Up until now, you''ve been summoning an incomplete part of the 10 weapons, gradually realising their truer forms every time you improve on class.¡± ¡°Now, you need to master each weapon and their personalities before you will be able to advance to the next level and summon their true forms in battle. First, let''s start with the easy one. When you get a one. Meet Belieber.¡± Master said as he drew out a pussy. The cat not the private part. ¡°Master I never got a one before but how the fuck am I supposed to whack my enemies with a cat? I know I like being retarded but honestly, if it''s not funny like whacking a cat on Soup''s junk or face I won''t be able to bring myself to do it.¡± If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. ¡°You fucking idiot. I''m the personality of the weapon. I''m similar to a cat so this is my spirit form.¡± Belieber said. ¡°TALKING CAT?! HAHAHA AWESOME NOW THIS IS SOMETHING FUNNY!¡± Even by Loki''s unbelievably low standards, he still had to shake his head. I love this disciple of mine but I got a feeling this is going to take a looooooooooong time. -Back to the forest- I panted and heaved. I did not know constraint was so hard to maintain. The snakes shot out from literally every direction. 360 degrees. But thanks to that, I managed to gain a new skill.
New Skill : Sixth Sense Only beings with high affinity to nature will be able to learn this skill. Due to the properties of nature, every being of it will have some sort of aura or presence. This applies to mana as well. As you have high affinity to nature, you are able to sense the aura''s around you more accurately. At high levels, even the magnitude of the aura will be able to be discerned.
This skill appeared after about 20 snakes were being released at once. I felt some movements behind me and I automatically made shields behind me when I saw that. I had less health than mana so I thought preserving health was more important. Then, it increased to about 30 snakes. That was when I could even sense the nature of the mana approaching me. It wasn''t like using mana and imbuding them into my eyes to see the mana around me. This was one step higher than that. I needed to use nothing but my subconscious to tell me what was coming. It was instinctive combat at the highest order. I was left with about half health and half my mana when the stage suddenly kicked into overdrive. The number stopped altogether. Usually they would come in waves, beginning in small amounts till now with about 30 coming in a span of about 10 seconds. However, that all suddenly changed. I could sense a whole army of mana snakes coming my way. It was definitely more than 300. What the fuck is going on oh my god no no no no no no. Then they all came at me. I closed my eyes to concentrate more on my instincts. It was as if I was watching a beautiful rainbow coloured meteor shower. Just that I was the object the meteor shower was heading towards. I had to create smalll shields of the correct element for the shortest amount of time and the tiniest space available to stop the snake and then proceed to the next ones. Even though I coul split my mind into many parts, 20 small shields at once of different elements were the maximum I could go to. I had to quickly identify, react and rectify and prioritize which snakes to deal with as they came at different speeds and angles as well. It was as if I have been taking an IQ quiz with questions of difficulty level 100 at first, then 110, 120, 130, and now skipped to 200 and above. I missed a few and I missed even more when I looked at my mana and health bars which were slowly ticking down. NO. No time to worry about that. I just have to hang in there. I''m sure this trial is to train this aspect of my job. I need to be able to be calm under any situation. The war will be 100x tougher than this. BUCK UP JINX. I steeled my resolve and concentrated even harder. I did not miss any snakes for about 1 minute but without a doubt, my mana was reaching it''s limit. Suddenly, I was unable to create anymore shields. That''s when I knew. Time is up. About 200 snakes hit me within the next 5 seconds and my health bar immediately dropped to 0. Or that was what I thought. All the mana I was sensing around me was immediately gone. I looked around. It was a calm clearing again. My health and mana levels were slowly regenerating. Then a box appeared in front of me.
Trial by Rapid Fire. Mana snakes of different elements will rain upon the user, trying to drain his or her HP. At first in waves, then all at once without stopping. They can be stopped only upon contact with a directly opposing element. Fire and water, Lightning and Earth, Wind and Ice, Dark and Light. The trial will stop any form of regeneration. It will only be over when the user reaches 1HP. The number of neutralised snakes will then be counted and shown to the user. Number of snakes needed to be neutralised is 1000 or more. Everyone''s HP and mana becomes 5000 for both when you''re in here. Hall of fame will also be shown. Jinx : 1572 snakes. Hall of fame : 1) Zarak : 1700 2) Dumblemore : 1642 3) Jinx : 1572 4) Grendel : 1499 5) Somerandomdouche : 1300 6) Somerandomdouche 2 : 1299 7) Somerandomdouche 3: 1298 8) Somerandomdouche 4: 1297 9) Somerandomdouche 5: 1296 10) Somerandomdouche 6 : 1295
I looked at the hall of fame, surprised to recognise a few names. Dumblemore, the person who gave me the trial to become the class I am now looks to be slightly more proficient in mana control than I am. It''s obvious what this training was for honestly. But the person who really caught my attention was the first place. Zarak. I could''ve sworn I heard that name somewhere before.... OHHHHHH It was at the warrior''s guild where I saw that statue of my senior. The only other elemental swordsman in existence I know of.... Elemental Swordsman Zarak. How come he did this trial as well? Who the hell lets people into this forest anyway? Was it exclusive to Loki''s followers? I still had many unanswered questions but for now, all I could do was put them away and concentrate at the task at hand. I let my hp and mana levels slowly regen up to maximum and I ventured further into the forest. This training wasn''t over yet. Not in the slightest.
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Chapter 26 : Weighing Scales As I trudged through the forest, anticipating yet dreading the next trial which would no doubt be harder, I also thought about what the others would be doing right about now... -Breadktalk- ¡°STOP RUNNING AWAY YOU PUSSY!!!!¡± I screamed as I frantically chased Belieber around this house that appeared out of nowhere. Loki instructed me that to attain higher masteries over the weapons I could draw out from his armoury, I would personally have to meet and complete the tasks the weapons asked of me without the help of any of the weapons. For Belieber, this task was unexpectedly simple but unseemingly hard. All I had to do was catch that cat. However, it was a game of tag in a two storey house. Belieber was unbelieveably quick on her feet. She darted through corners like they were curves instead and she could ¡°phase¡± past certain furniture like bed and tables by just running under them. Everytime I gained a small advantage, she just had to run under a furniture and all the advantage was gone. She could even run up to the second level and just jump out of the window, landing perfectly because cats have an innate ability to jump from great heights and suffer no damage. I stopped following her example after the third time I leapt out of the window to chase after her. The third time I actually rolled and tumbled into a fucking tree outside which hurt quite a lot. This is going nowhere... How the fuck should I deal with this? Cats have several weaknesses but how could I put them to good use?? Wait this is a furnished house.. I should be able to find... I ran to the storeroom and searched for what I was looking for. A ball of yarn. ¡°Here kitty kitty kitty!¡± I exclaimed as I played around with the ball of yarn. Belieber was running to me as expected. I put the ball of yarn on the floor and prepared to catch the cat while she was playing with it. YES I''VE DONE IT! While Belieber was playing with the ball of yarn, I leapt towards her with my outstretched arms. In that instant, Belieber immediately jumped towards me as well which threw my timing off. I only saw a gleam of light before I realised what happened. ¡°OW! YOU FUCKING SCRATCHED ME! BITCH!¡± ¡°I''m a female cat not a female dog AND CATS DON''T LIKE PLAYING WITH A BALL OF YARN YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG WE FUCKING LOVE MICE AND FISH GET YOUR FUCKING FACTS RIGHT!¡± I dashed into the kitchen. -Soup- ¡°Master what in the bacon is this? How come such a skill can exist?¡± I asked. ¡°Because you are my disciple. That''s why. Be wary, it must be used at the correct time for it''s full effect.¡± Fenrir replied. ¡°Yes master.¡± I reverted to training mode. I activated my Gladiator''s Rage, stood tall, facing at least a thousand wolves in the cave, none of them lower than level 100 and begun to activate the skill I just learnt. My features became more wolflike, my skin started becoming fur and I could feel my new muscles tensing up, elastic and strong. ¡°Go get them. Remember, anything more than an hour and you will have to do it again like now.¡± ¡°Aye yay.¡± I growled. And off I went. -Beathoven- ¡°STOP STOP STOP!¡± Hel screamed. ¡°It''s all wrong! You have talent with music but this is one step higher. The maximum number of melodies you can maintain with your flute is two. Like it or not, two melodies on one instrument is the limit for your lute and your two hands. This song requires three melodies so you need to use your voice. YOUR FUCKING HORRIBLE VOICE!¡± ¡°You think I like having a horrible voice?!¡± I retorted. ¡°No. But you have one so please do not sing to seduce anyone. My god if only you could get a third melody in. The effects of this song are extremely useful but this cannot be done with a voice like that.¡± Hel shook her head. ¡°Wait. Must the song only be played by me? Can someone else play the third melody?¡± ¡°I believe its possible but where are you going wit- OH I SEE. What you lack in your voice has gone to your mind I see. It''s a great idea I believe I''ve caught onto your plan. Let''s see if that''s possible. If you can actually do that.... I believe you will be able to gain access to even my upper tier musics. Let''s try it out.¡± ¡°Yes.¡± I started to strum a very nostalgic tune. The beginning of the stanza sounded like the chorus of one of my most favourite songs. ''Reflection'' After the desired effects of the song begun to come into play, I changed the song into the three piece melody that was required for the new song to work. Alas, the ground begun cracking open and a flaming fist thrusted out of the cracks. ¡°Say hello to your new friend Beathoven. It seemed like you managed to draw his attention.¡± Beckoned Hel. -Jinx- When the fuck will I actually reach the next trial I''ve already been walking for 30 minutes. The walks are longer than the trial holy shit. Suddenly, another clearing appeared in front after the bend. This clearing however was not just plain and empty. There were 9 huge weighing scales in front of me that were blocking the road ahead. There was also a signpost beside the first weighing scale on the left so I went over and took a look.
Welcome Adventurer! This is your lucky day! You''ve reached the mana cooking challenge! The 9 weighing scales you see in front of you are already coloured in the respective colour of the 9 types of mana. Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, Wind, Earth, Light, Darkness and Gravity. (Red, Teal, Yellow, Blue, Grey, Green, White, Black and Purple respecitvely). The goal is simple. This is a speed cooking challenge. You will see a dish appearing on top of the middle of the 9 scales with it''s relevant components at its side. For example, a green apple costs 1KG of earth mana, 300g of water mana and 150g of light mana to create. You will have to create the respective mana''s on top of the weighing scales in one second and then we will take the weight of the mana you''ve provided. The dish will be graded upon 100 how nice it tastes and if you follow the recipe list given, you''re likely to get 100/100. FYI, no one has gotten 100/100 before. You can try to be the first! Good luck! P.S. The weight of mana will be adjusted according to your maximum mana level so don''t worry. It''s calibrated and accounted for so no matter your level, the difficulty is the same. Also, you will have 100% mana regeneration here so your mana will permanently be at maximum.
So in essence, the previous challenge was about me creating shields as fast and as miniscule as I could while protecting myself to emphasize on mana preservation and control. This challenge didn''t seem to be that different as well. I needed to focus entirely on mana control and speed. The moment the recipe list comes out I need to use the correct type and amount of mana onto the weighing scales. Let me see how much 7000 mana would weigh. I used all my mana to form a fire sphere on top of the fire weighing scale. 7KG. This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. Every 1000 mana is 1KG huh. Easy enough! ¡°Your trial will begin in 3... 2....¡± I thought it was going to be easy but boy was I wrong. It was easy to use all my mana at once but using only a specific amount was harder than I thought. I realised this the moment the first ingredient came out. ¡°1!¡± Omlette. 3KG Earth mana. I estimated about 3000 mana worth into a sphere and placed it on the green weighing scale. I saw the weighing scale shoot to 3.5kg and as I was adjusting the mana to make it lesser, the one second really was one second. ¡°DING! You used 3.4kg of earth mana to make an omlette. The judges gave it 40/100¡± ¡°FORTY?! WHAT? It''s just 400g!¡± I protested. ¡°If you added 400g more sugar into a cake you will know how disastrous that would be. Protests are not entertained. Your next dish in 3.. 2..¡± Next was a bowl of fishball noodles. 2KG of water mana, 500g of fire mana. I already had problems getting a simple 3KG with earth. Now it had jumped to two elements and it was even harder to split two different manas with different amounts into two different locations. I barely did it within the second. ¡°DING! You used 1.5kg of water mana and 1kg of fire mana to make a bowl of fishball noodles. The judges gave you 20/100.¡± This was no joke. At the rate this was going, I was going to fail the test. Sure enough, 8 dishes later, I got my total score. ¡°Congratulations! You have gotten a grand total of 110/1000. You need a score of at least 500 to pass this test. We hope you will try again. If not, you can always retrace your steps and get out of this forest.¡± It seemed impossible. Even if I did four times better, I would still be quite far off from the passing mark. Furthermore, the higher the thing went, the more complicated the permutations of the mana. I had to use 7 different types of mana for the last stage!I just couldn''t use my gut feeling to create the exact amount of mana! I would always just estimate the size of the aura and turn it into the element.. Suddenly it struck me. ¡°Of course! I''M BEING SO DUMB!¡± I only estimated the mana and every time I did not care how I shaped the mana. They were all usually spherical but not perfectly round. I knew I could only use this way to try my best. I made a fire aura, estimating and trying to memorise the size of the aura which I shaped to be a cube which is my favourite shape. I adjusted the size of the cube of fire mana until it reached 1KG of fire mana. I burned that image in my head. Not literally of course. ¡°I would like to challenge again.¡± A warm cup of You Suck So Hard. 2KG fire mana, 1KG darkness mana. I quickly formed two cubes of fire mana and one cube of earth on the respective scales. ¡°DING! You used 2.05kg of fire mana and 0.95kg of darkness mana to make a warm cup of You Suck So Hard. The judges gave you 80/100¡± This time, I was doing much better. I was always blindly manipulating my mana, not fixing the shape nor scope or size. I always just estimated what amount to use and formed it into the necessary shape immedaitelyto cast a spell. However, I just realised that even during the conjuring phase, I could estimate the amount I use more accurately by manipulating my mana first into the 1kg cube until I reached the necessary mana before distorting the shape into the correct one needed for the spell while not changing the quantity of mana. However, this wasn''t easy to do quickly. Especially when more than one element was involved. At first I could not even finish the number of cubes of the different elements in one second. I had to redo the trial a few times. However, it seemed that there were unlimited tries and finally, after the 5th attempt, I passed. However. I was still unhappy with the score and decided to train here more. I started to gain more and more proficiencies until forming the cube of mana immediately was second nature. The next problem was when there were alot more types of mana than 2 or 3. That took me awhile but by the 30th try, I managed to complete stage 10. However, until now there wasn''t once where I got 100/100 for a dish. It was insanely hard. 10 grams off would ruin that chance for you already. This wasn''t an easy test at all. I finally managed to get a score I was quite proud of on the 35th try and decided to call it quits.
Trial by Weighing Scales. A specific amount of a specific type of mana has to be generated out within one second. The accuracy will then be graded. This is a very important skill in combat. It seperates the elites from the good. In fights, you don''t even have one second to conjure the mana. You got about 0.2 seconds. Also, combination spells require very intricate blends of mana in order to attain their highest affinity and power. An example is poison torrent. You might not know but poison torrent requires 80% water mana and 20% darkness mana in order to attain maximum damage. This is how important mana control is in high level fights. Hall of fame will be shown. Jinx : 880/1000 Hall of fame : 1) Zarak : 910/1000 2) Jinx : 880/1000 3) Dumblemore : 875/1000 4) Grendel : 770/1000 5) Somerandomdouche : 750/1000 6) Somerandomdouche 2 : 740/1000 7) Somerandomdouche 3 : 730/1000
I realised this hall of fame did not even have 10 people. Maybe only 7 people have passed it before. That would be the only logical explanation. After all, in order to pass this, one must have the insight to be able to visualise his mana in a certain form to estimate how much mana he was using. I used cubes but who knows what dumblemore used. At least I was better than him at instantaneous mana control. However, I was still losing to my senior. Cubes were already extremely symmetrical shapes with all sides of the same length. I wonder what shape Zarak visualised his mana in to get a whopping 30 points more than me which was quite a gap. I was awed but at the same time frustrated. I wanted to beat him in at least one aspect. Oh well, I''m certain more trials await. I will definitely beat you. In one thing or another. Just you wait.
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Chapter 27 : Almost There -Breadtalk- ¡°HAHAHA GOTCHA NOW SUCKERRRR!¡± I exclaimed, dangling Belieber by the tail, lassoing her around my head like a cowboy. Suddenly, I was holding on to nothing and my feet were equipped with new shoes that looked to be made of fur in the colour of Belieber''s fur colour. ¡°LOKI! I THINK I KILLED BELIEBER!!!¡± ¡°Relax. That is Belieber''s weapon form. Of course you wouldn''t have known you have never rolled a 1 before. Belieboots is what I like to call it. It gives you an insanely powerful kick but that means its only useful for close quarters combat. However, once you''ve gained higher mastery over a weapon and tamed it''s subconscious, you will unlock new abilities.¡± Loki entered the house and told me. ¡°Right now, you''ve unlocked the phase ability and passive increased movement speed.¡± My boots said to me. ¡°WHAT THE FUCK MY BOOTS?¡± ¡°When you''ve tamed a weapon''s subconscious, he or she will be able to talk to you directly in your mind. It means that we can actually communicate telepathically as long as you''re equipping the weapon.¡± Belieber explained. ¡°Sounds like lonely people need this I better give you to Jinx.¡± I said. Suddenly, the boots at my feet vanished and belieber took it''s place, jumping up and giving me a bitejob. After over a hundred people sucking my junk, a cat biting on it is not a good feeling. -Soup- The thousands of wolves lay at my feet, unconscious as I checked the time on the clock. ¡°58 minutes and 39 seconds.¡± ¡°HELLYEAH ALLAH KU ABAR PRAISE THE LORD BY THE BLESSINGS OF BUDDHAAAAAAAAAAAA!¡± ¡°What religion do you even belong to?¡± Fenrir asked ¡°I don''t know I haven''t asked my parents. But hey the more the merrier right?¡± Fenrir could only shake his head. ¡°Alright young one, you''ve mastered the lycan form perfectly. You should realise the strength and weaknesses of this form now. You''re the sort who just dives in and uses first hand experience to understand things anyway right. Just the way I like my students.¡± ¡°You trying to say I''m dumb?¡± ¡°You know you are.¡± ¡°Ah fuck who am I kidding. YEP #YOLO #StronkDumbWarrior.¡± ¡°Hashtags have no meaning here.¡± ¡°......¡± ¡°Alright now you mastered the lycan form, I can teach you a few skills of mine that you can only use in lycan form. They will add to the variety of things you can do while you can put your gladiator buffs on top of that.¡± ¡°I''m going to be more OP than Jinx or Breadtalk muahahaha¡± ¡°Hmm I''m not very sure about that though... You''re extremely capable fighting up front but your versatality... Let me just be blatantly honest about that you suck so hard that you could wipe out any vacuum cleaner business as a competitor.¡± ¡°You only can straight up man fight. If someone has a higher movement speed than you and is ranged, basically all you can do is suck cock. Like honestly sucking your own cock is more possible than beating someone faster than you.¡± ¡°HEY! I HAVE FEELINGS TOO YOU KNOW!¡± ¡°This is why this training is meant for you. Sure you all work as a team and in that regard all of you are indispensible. But what if there comes a time where you have to fight by yourself? Isolated by enemy front lines while the other 3 are seperated at the back?¡± ¡°I will bash through anyone I see and that will be enough.¡± Fenrir shook his head again. But I really like this dumb kid. -Beathoven- ¡°Sit. Sit! FUCKING SIT DOWN!¡± I screamed. The huge flaming giant was still busy running around, trying to wreck the castle, leaving fire wherever he stepped on and crashing into chandeliers on the ceiling because of his enormous size. ¡°Beathoven I''ve said this before. You''re talented enough to summon him but you also need to be charismatic enough to control him. You can deal with thousands of people in Carnival but you can''t deal with one giant?¡± Hel sneered. ¡°How the fuck am I supposed to be charismatic to a giant?! I look like a midget to him and you don''t see many charismatic midgets around for the human race right?¡± I asked, clearly annoyed by my task at hand. What the fuck can I give a flaming giant to make him listen to me? I had to try anything and everything I could. I decided to give him my first love. ¡°HEY SURTR! CATCH THIS WITH YOUR MOUTH!¡± I hollered while taking something out from my pocket, unwrapping it and throwing it at him. Surtr turned, looked at a brown chunk of stuff flying at his mouth and surprisingly he just opened his mouth just like that. Suddenly, his expression changed. From something like a curious child wondering about a mall at the first time to an emoticon which had heart for eyes and a huge smile that could blind anyone. Then, he suddenly shrank to about the size of a human and walked in front of me. ¡°WHAT?! FUCK IS HE ALLERGIC TO CHOCOLATES OR SOMETHING?! HELPPPPPP! HEL?! HEY HEL WHAT THE FUCK?!¡± I shouted at her. Hel just stood there, mouth agape and wide-eyed. Holy shit holy shit holy fucking shit i''ve said this three times already but it feels like its not enough. I made a kickass flaming giant become one of the fantastic four? How the hell does this game work? ¡°Master, your name please.¡± Surtr asked. ¡°Beathoven. You can call me Beat for short.¡± ¡°Yes master Beat. I am at your service.¡± It would sound better if a hot chick was the one saying those lines but I guess it''s alright. ¡°Surtr, how come you suddenly became so... small?¡± I asked. ¡°I can change size at will master. I can become bigger than that as well but normally I just stick to my default size which was the one you saw just now. If I may ask, what is that gloriously delicious piece of rock you threw at me?¡± ¡°It''s called chocolate. It is a type of food that is popular with the humans and especially me. I will feed you more if you perform well.¡± Surtr''s eyes sparkled more brightly than a sea of a thousand stars. ¡°I''ve never seen anything like this... It took even me a few days to tame Surtr to even talk to me and in just 5 minutes you got him to shrink down and talk to you respectfully?¡± Hel recovered. ¡°Never underestimate the power of chocolates.¡± I said while taking a milkybar out of my pocket, waving it at Hel while unwrapping it, in front of Surtr''s flaming puppy face. -Jinx- How fucking long does master think I should use to walk from one trial to the next? It''s more walking than actually training?! I was walking towards what I suspected was a third clearing. The first two trials taught me more than I thought. The first was about mana control which I was clearly lacking in according to master. The second was about mana precision in which the amount of mana I conjured about could be accurately ¡°measured¡± such that I could bring out spells in the best combination of mana as possible. I could only wonder what the third one was. I also realised why for this trial, anyone from level 1 to infinity could do it on equal grounds. None of the tests here require raw strength or skill mastery. The higher the better of course but in here, it just teaches you about subtleties of mana manipulation. It was like a dungeon meant for specific mana training and nothing else. As I wondered about the experience up till this point, the third clearing finally came into my line of sight. It was a small clearing, about the size of the previous one. Now however, there was not a signboard like usual but something like a mascot sitting on a stump in the middle of the clearing. ¡°I''ve been expecting you Jinx.¡± said the cuckoo bird perched on the stump. ¡°Hello. May I have your name?¡± ¡°My name is Cuckoo.¡± Well it''s a no brainer there. ¡°Hello Cuckoo. This should be a trial right? May I know what I should be doing?¡± ¡°Just as J?rmungandr described. You really are the sort to go straightforwardly into things aren''t you? Well most of us don''t dislike types like that. Very well. Get ready for the brief for this part of the trial.¡± Cuckoo said. I thought snakes ate birds for breakfast lunch tea and dinner. Oh well whatever. ¡°This part of the trial wants you to combine part 1 and 2 in a sense. In part 1, you learnt more about intricate mana control. In part 2, you learnt how to conjour up a specific amount of mana. For part 3, it''s demanding you to conjour up a specific amount of mana within a certain space. In other words, this is Trial by Compression.¡± ¡°Wait what?¡± ¡°Nevermind let me show you instead.¡± Cuckoo flew off from his stump and flew beside me, facing the stump. He spread his wings and because of my new found intuition, I could feel him conjuring up wind mana in both his wings. However, I had a weird feeling about it. I could clearly see mana being conjured in both wings but for some reason, the mana in the right wing had a noticeably shinier glow than the one on the left. The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. Then, he shot out the mana towards the stump from both wings. The wind bolt from his left wing buried itself about three inches into the stump. The wind bolt from the right pierced through the entire stump. ¡°What in the. It''s the same skill right?¡± ¡°Congratulations for noticing. What else?¡± Cuckoo said with a smirk. ¡°I just saw the mana in your right wing glow alot brighter than the one in your left.¡± ¡°Let me explain. For both spells, the size of them were the same. However, the amount of mana I put into them were different. I used about three times the mana in the right one than the left. I compressed the mana to make the resulting spell of a higher quality. Do you get it now?¡± Then it hit me. The size of the spell is determined by the mana I use no doubt. But it did not even occur to me to try this before. I could''ve packed the mana as closely as possible together such that it would take as little space as possible but that space would have such a high concentration of mana that it would result in a higher quality result. ¡°Yes. I get it.¡± ¡°Very good. Time for you to undergo my trial. There won''t be any mechanics like the snakes or weighing scales. To pass this trial, you have to survive my training. That will be it. Then I will judge your talent impartially.¡± ¡°Please help me get stronger.¡± I said and I readied myself. Cuckoo taught me the basic theories of mana compression. One must visualise the mana being squeezed tightly into the space you created for it. It was like stuffing a luggage with clothes and souvenirs after you finished a trip. You had to feel the mana, stuff it into the space which for me was a cube and then pack it as tightly as you can. The result was that the 1KG cube of mana I had as a standard of measurement fit about 3000 mana instead of 1000. I could pack my mana 3 times as tightly as I subconsciously did. Then there was another trick to mana compression. Instead of compressing it, you could do the direct opposite. Disperse it. Try to make as little mana as possible exist within that space without it totally disappitating. If you used too little mana, the whole aura would be lost. I managed to use only 50 mana instead of 1000 when I tried this in the 1KG cube experiment. The uses of dispersing the mana though were very enlightening. True, one could make a spell more compact and devastating which was a good thing. Something fast and small like a homing mana bullet usually does not pack a punch but by compressing the mana, you could potentially make it a small fast bullet which could do a huge crapload of damage onto your enemy. However, the reverse was also true. Imagine a huge ass spell like freezing field which requires a huge ton of mana to conjour up a freezing field the size of a football field, raining glaciers onto the people below, affecting their movement speed as well as their footing. It was a huge ass spell but by dispersing the mana required, you could use less mana, even though the effects will be less obvious to cast such a huge spell. The benefits were huge. Usually mana was my limiting factor. If I only had a small amount of mana left I might be able to cast freezing field but only a small one. But now if I master dispersion and compression, I might be able to cast a huge freezing field but with smaller effects. I could control both the size and aptitude of the spell. Against a whole army of enemies, I might even be able to make a freezing field so large it could debuff them all. Even though the debuff might not be as strong, it was important to affect huge AOEs in huge wars like that. It gave me easily twice if not three times the versatality than I already had. The opposite was also true. I could cast a small freezing field with so much compressed mana that the effects could be five times as potent. Imagine reducing movement speed by 50% instead of 10%. That''s how scary this training could make me. I trained hard. I knew the importance of this aspect. I pushed myself to make my mind which was capable of splitting itself into 8 parts and focused all of the parts onto squeezing as much mana as possible into a tiny space. I also tried to feel how little mana as possible could exist in a certain space. Because dispersion would usually be used with large area of effect spells, my estimation must be almost close to perfect for it to be highly effective. 1KG blocks were too small to serve as an estimation. I used the clearing as an estimation and for that small clearing which was about half the size of a football field, I realised the minimum amount of mana that would enable me to envelop an aura around the whole place cost me about 1400 mana. Good enough. It means that with my current mana pool of 7000, it would be able to cast a freezing field the size of five clearings or two and a half football fields. Impressive stuff. I trained day and night inside the forest. It wasn''t just a simple matter of passing a test this time. I had to spend quality time with my tutor Cuckoo as well as improve it with his advice and mentorship as I possibly could. By the end of three days and two nights, Cuckoo declared me as a success. ¡°Well done Jinx. I can see why J?rmungandr has high hopes for you. Only 7 people made it here so far and only 3 have passed this test before you. Zarak, Dumblemore and Grendel. The other 3 were utterly worthless. I have always judged people based on two things. Attitude and aptitude. Your attitude was stellar but your aptitude, that was what really shocked me.¡± What? I fucked up? ¡°You show more talent than any of the previous three when it comes to this. You managed to stuff 5000 mana into that cube of yours. Even for me that would be hard. Your talent at dispersion is also undeniable. I always specified weird areas for you to cast your dispersed aura in and everytime, you managed to estimate such a dispersed aura that it barely took you any significant amount of mana. Compressing is easier because all you have to do is stuff mana till you reach your limit but dispersion my boy. You have more talent than anyone I''ve ever seen.¡± He added. Suddenly, a pop up box appeared.
Trial by Compression and Dispersion. The ability to compress and disperse your mana within an aura affects the quality of the spell on top of your mastery. This enables you to control both your scope as well as effects of your spells to a frightening degree. The example of a freezing field is ample for you to understand. A small freezing field the size of a pond that could inflict thousands of damage per second while slowing the enemy by 50% would take extreme compression. A huge freezing field the size of a valley that still slowed enemies down while they take damage would also be possible by extreme dispersion. Congratulations on passing this extremely useful trial. Hall of fame will be shown. Jinx : 100/100 Hall of fame : 1) Jinx : 100/100 2) Zarak : 90/100 3) Dumblemore : 85/100 4) Grendel : 65/100
I did it. I showed more aptitude in this than Zarak. I FINALLY WON HIM AT SOMETHING. But this was strange because he did better than me in both part 1 and 2 and this was something like a combination of the two. However, there was little doubt that this part required a natural talent for estimation and cramming of the mana. J?rmungandr must have been training me for this as well when he asked me to train how to split my minds into parts. This made my mind more powerful and adept for handling these sort of things where it boils down to talent and concentration. ¡°You have done well Jinx. Now, one final trial awaits you. I wish you all the best. Only Zarak has passed the last test from my knowledge. I have judged you as one to surpass him from the score I gave you so don''t let me down.¡± ¡°I won''t.¡± I gave Cuckoo a little pat on the head, feeling confident as hell upon gaining approval, glad to master a whole new power even more potent than any new spell and of course knowing that I was just one step away from clearing this highly difficult trial. Then I saw the path I had to take again. One step away my ass. How ironic. WHY THE FUCK MUST YOU MAKE ME WALK SO FAR THE CLEARINGS COULD BE ONE AFTER ANOTHER THERE WOULD BE NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE ARGHGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! I rarely raged. But this was utterly ridiculous. Even with ¡°A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton¡±, a kickass song playing in the background as the BGM, this was unacceptable.
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Chapter 28 : Evolution of the BOTS ¡°Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass and I''m homebound~ Staring blankly ahead just making my way, making a way, through the crow-w-w-d. FUCK THIS SHIT WHAT CROWD WHAT DOWNTOWN COULD THEY CHANGE THE BGM ALREADY.¡± I shouted. It was already the 30th time this track has been played. Usually on adventures, one could choose to turn on or off the background music as they wish. However, it was between mundane silence or this same old song over and over and over and over and FUCKING over again. And I was still walking to the next clearing. -Breadtalk- ¡°Alright I''m beginning to see a pattern here. First a cat for the boots, then a porcupine for the spiky mace, a snake for the rope and now a swordfish for the fucking spear? AM I BECOMING AN AWESOME ZOOKEEPER?¡± I asked Loki. ¡°Yes all of them are animals but isn''t that a good thing?¡± He answered. ¡°Yea I love animals but now that I know what they truly are, I really can appreciate the fact that I stuffed a swordfish into Soup''s asshole and all but isn''t this animal abuse?¡± ¡°They have two forms. Just make sure you stick the spear inside the ass not the swordfish.¡± ¡°Oh well I guess you''re right.¡± My task at hand now was to master throwing swordfishes at dartboards. The fourth weapon which was the exploding spear was a swordfish called Pointy. Pointy summoned smaller swordfishes for me to throw at dartboards. I had to hit the bullseye ten times in a row before he was happy enough to consider me as a pass. It looks like all the animals were just playing with me. They did not have outrageous tasks. They just wanted me to play with them and build rapport with them I guess. Belieber did come running towards me the moment I found fish in the fridge. Porky the Porcupine (Not pig) was happy with me the moment I managed to putt him through 18 holes of a golf course. (Pun intended) Anaconda the snake just needed me to do yoga with her to pass me. My Anaconda don''t want none unless I got flexibility hun. Trust me they weren''t easy but the moment they saw me put effort into it, they accepted me. But then again we did have our fair share of epic moments together. I was ready to throw my fifth bullseye in the row when suddenly Pointy asked me. ¡°Is your dick more blunt or pointy?¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Just wondering.¡± It''s okay it looks like we all share the same wavelengths. There was nothing off limits and too random to ask when bonding together as a family. ¡°Pointy.¡± I replied. -Soup- Tens of thousands of wolves now lay at my feet. ¡°Time?¡± ¡°Two hours and thirty minutes. Well done.¡± Fenrir replied. ¡°AWOOOOOOOO!¡± I howled while doing the moonwalk on all fours. It was a neat trick I realised I could do. I added a few crotch humps as well. ¡°Not good enough though. I have a feeling Jinx and Breadtalk would be able to do as much. Beathoven might be able to do it too depending on what Hel teaches him.¡± ¡°I''ve taught you to become one of us, a lycan and now your race is no longer human. You''ve unlocked all the prerequisites to unlock this new class I can confer to you. This new class will be an addition to your gladiator class so don''t worry your skills wont be reset. I''m gonna teach you the basics of the class and then you''ll repeat the same trial you just did. This time with a time limit of 30 minutes.¡± Fenrir continued. ¡°AWOOOOOOOOO!¡± ¡°You''re just like a fucking dog now.¡± ¡°AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!¡± -Beathoven- ¡°Surtr sit!¡± He sat cross legged on the ground. ¡°Come here!¡± He vanished and reappeared into the nearest torch which was beside me. Surtr had a special ability to be able to teleport to any fire source in the world. (OP! FUCKING OP! But all hail the fire god.) ¡°Twerk!¡± He began shaking his ass until it became a blazing inferno. ¡°Come on now is that really necessary?¡± Commented Hel. ¡°Here''s your favourite part! Catch!¡± I threw a bar of Cadbury at Surtr and his eyes gleamed with happiness and even cried. His tears were also made of fire. ¡°Alright you''ve achieved complete control of Surtr. I''m amazed to be honest. I thought no one could tame that troublemaker except me but oh well I guess chocolate lovers bond together faster than two mythical beings who are on the same wavelength. Alright please take note the contract between me and Surtr which also applies to you is that you can only summon him once a day. The duration is dependent on how long you are able to maintain and play that melody. Remember the moment you stop or miss a note, Surtr will be unsummoned in the next minute no matter what. Then you can only summon him again the next day.¡± I was not surprised at the contract. In order to summon Surtr, I had to play an insanely hard song which I had no doubt I would be unable to play in real life. I could only manage this in RR because of my insane wisdom stats which were all I''ve been adding to since level 1 as well as my concentration and stamina stats which were raised because of the vigorous duration of music I had to play. In a perfect scenario, I could only imagine being able to summon Surtr for 4 hours. However, being able to summon a mythical fire beast with powers rivaling a god was more than I could ask for. But in reality, the moment I missed a note that was it. I had to learn how to make the best out of it. ¡°I understand master. Thank you for teaching me such an important song. I will make sure all my enemies burn in the fiery hell Surtr will unleash upon them and make your underworld even more populated.¡± I thanked Hel. ¡°Don''t thank me just yet. I still got about 3 hours worth of time here before I go back. There''s something else I can still teach you.¡± I trembled in excitement as Surtr said his goodbyes and vanished because I stopped playing the moment I tossed the chocolate bar to him. ¡°Don''t worry. It''s a song as useful as the one used to summon Surtr.¡± She said, winking at me. -Jinx- *turns off BGM music* I couldn''t take it anymore. I had been walking for about two hours non stop, just to reach a fuckin- Suddenly I saw it. A break in the path. My sacred land. My holy palace. My utopia. My paradise. ¡°MY CLEARING!!!!!¡± I yelled as I ran towards it, excited to take on my final challenge. The moment I stepped inside it, the air around me changed. Suddenly, a figure appeared before me, enshrouded in a huge dark cloak, smelling of death and with my heigtened intuition gained from the trial, I could tell that he was made of darkness mana so compressed, so pure, it was the darkest black mana I''ve ever seen. Of course I only could see mana this way since the first trial so I had no comparison to this but I could tell without even looking that this being was someone who was insanely powerful and affilated with darkness. ¡°Good Afternoon Jinx. I am the master of this forest. I will only appear before an individual who has passed the first three tests. You have already passed the trials and have learnt much more about mana manipulation ever since you stepped into the forest. This is not a trial. This is something you should call a gift. In this clearing, I will summon monsters of a high quality for you to battle against. Monster after monster will come after you and of course I will adjust both the quantity and quality. You will not know how many rounds there will be. You will be given a fixed amount of 40000 mana and 10000 health at the start of every round. No more, no less. Defeat every single monster until this ends. You have already completed the forest of no return. This is just a bonus round I give everyone who has passed it. However, no one has reached the end of this bonus round except for one extraordinary gentlemen. Then again only three people have ever had the privilege to attend this. Do not waste this chance. Let us begin. Before I could even say a word, the shrouded figure floated up into the air, to the side of the clearing and raised his hands up in the air. *Poof* Suddenly, ten king cobras were in the same clearing as I am, circling me as I was surrounded. Suddenly, I realised how much the training changed me. I could literally sense the quality and amount of mana coming towards me. Purity due to compression or dispersion was still not as clear but it was enough. I could tell that poison mana was being prepared to be spit out at me. All 10 of them had mana the colour of black and blue, darkness and water mixed together which were the basis of poison mana. The 10 snakes shot their mana at me but I already prepared my countermeasure. I teleported the instant I saw the mana leave their mouth and reappeared behind one of the snakes, out of the circle I was enclosed in. I took out my sword, got ready my gravity crush and decided to use compression to see what happened. A gravity crush that usually took only about 100 mana cost me 500 mana. The effects were devastating as well. The hovering head was smashed into the ground so hard that it''s head got buried into the ground and it was stuck there. It wasn''t dead yet but the head was stuck underground. It thrashed it''s tail around wildly. I could tell mana was being recharged by the other 9 so they were not ready to used their poison spit attack at me yet. I took about 10 seconds to be further entertained and laughed abit at the snake thrashing around wildly with it''s tail before I recomposed myself. I teleported instantly to the next snake, repeating the actions and soon, there were 10 huge holes in the ground, each with a cobra head stuck inside and I proceeded to slowly whittle them down. The shrouded figure then proceeded to the next round. Three minotaurs. Minotaurs were hardly seen in RR. They were rare creatures because they had both brute strength and intelligence. Part man, part bull. The three of them surrounded me again and this time I could feel a different type of mana being charged by them. I saw green mana being charged into their feet and they prepared to stomp. Instinctively, I teleported up into the air and used gravity to lighten me and slow my descent. Sure enough, the spell they used cause an earthquake and the ground where I was standing on was split and stalagtites were popping up from the ground as well. Looks like mana intuition really was useful in fights. I used the same tactic once on a minotaur but it didn''t seem to work. They had considerably tough skin and defence compared to the king cobras. The gravity crush did damage but it didn''t seem to be too impactful. It had to be because of their high defence. I changed tactics. Seeing that they used earth mana as their primary attack on me, I used fire mana and did my own improvisation. ¡°Infernal Tornado.¡± I used fire and wind mana in a 50:50 ratio and visualised my attack. I used two blocks of highly compressed mana, one of wind and one of fire so that was 5000 mana each block instead of 1000 and then a flaming tornado popped out. It wasn''t a huge tornado but just about the size of a minotaur. However, because the mana was so compressed, the minotaur was immediately swept into it and the health bar went down as quickly as a download bar when downloading a 1MB file. Almost instantaneously. If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. The other minotaurs looked shocked and trust me a man with a bull''s face looking shocked is also another sight that is funny as hell. I used the Infernal Tornado spell two more times and the other two minotaurs also died. And on and on it went. More creatures were summoned, from a whole army of water kappas to an insanely strong lightning Kirin. From a handful of holy knights to a lone dullahan. From a bunch of zealots to a horde of fairies. The enemies didn''t get harder and harder. It was balanced. Like the total level and average levels were almost constant. This trial wasn''t something like to see which stage you would reach as each stage got harder and harder. Every trial was unique. That was the selling point. I needed to adapt to enemies of different kinds. Strong defence or armoured monsters like minotaurs and dullahans. Enemies with high magic proficiency and magic defence like zealots and fairies. Monsters which are all rounded like holy knights. Enemies which were extremely offense oriented like the Kirin. This was me adapting to many situations, different types of mana, different types of attack and defence. This was to ingrain what I have learnt over the past three trials in a battle royale. This was indeed a gift. I had to use my mana management and intuition I learnt from part 1 to deduce what type of attack the enemy was going to unleash and what mana I should use to counter it. I had to react fast as well which part 1 was all about. I could still remember that meteor shower of mana oh my god it was like a painter splashing pints of paint of 9 different colours over and over again randomly. I had to use my mana control from part 2 because I only had a fixed amount of mana each fight. 40000. No more no less. I also had to control the strength of each attack. An overkill would be undesirable and not finishing off the enemy would be dangerous. I also had to use my dispersion and compression from part 3 according to the situation and monsters I''m facing. Against the army of kappas, I needed to disperse my electric mana to shock them slightly and make them alot easier to disarm and vanquish because all of them were slightly affected by paralysis. Against the snakes as I''ve demonstrated, compression of a gravity crush led to very devastating and entertaining effects. There were so many enemies I lost count. I easily faced at least 20 different types of enemies already. No wonder the figure said that he would not tell me how many rounds there would be. It was also mentally challenging. Knowing your end point is very important in tasks. Imagine someone asking you to go run a marathon with you. It could be a 5km short marathon, 10km, 21km, 42km. You would train according to how long your marathon would be. But what if the run did not specify the distance? What if it was only a 1km run. What if it was 84km? It was utter mindfuck. Trust me it is not pleasant. -Five hours later- Night has fallen in the forest and I was still on it. Was the figure making me go through the entire beastiery? By this point I''ve already seen everything I''ve seen before. Wolves, skeletal soldiers and even king kongs that made me nostalgic but honestly I was reaching my limit. My hit points and mana were refilled every round but concentration and stamina was another problem. I''ve seen monsters that would shock a person. Centaurs, a fucking hydra and A FUCKING WYRM. Of course their levels should''ve been adjusted due to the nature of this event but still. You don''t show someone a wyrm which usually takes about 50 players to bring down even though this wyrm was severely underpowered, it was still scary as fuck. And the hydra really was no joke. By the time I killed it, it had 20 heads. By now I could even identify the purity of the mana being cast. It had to do with the shade of the colour. The higher the purity, the more amplified the shade became. Highly compressed fire mana was the colour of the most fiery red you could''ve seen. Normally it was just orangey-reddish. Darkness mana could range from black to JETBLACKASFUCK black which looked awesome. You get the jist of it. I was at my limit. I was in the middle of fighting a dragon. Nothing surprised me anymore. I saw fire mana of a high density being charged and I was too lazy to even avoid it. I immediately countered with water mana of my own which I compressed, wanting to take the dragon head on in it''s own game. His jet of fire met my geyser of water and both did not give way to either. The moment his breath finished, (I could tell with my mana intuition of course) I looked at the immense amount of steam which was just generated and decided to use it to my advantage. I made a mist which when combined with the steam, made it even hazier than usual and soon visibility was close to zero. I learnt that a dragon''s weak spot were where there were no tough scales and that meant two things. Either the eyes, or the interior of the dragon itself. Since visibility was low, I decided to go for the interior. I had to draw his fire breath out. Surely enough, the dragon tried to use his fire breath to light up the surroundings to obtain better vision and I could see the mana and his location as clear as day. The moment he opened his jaw, I teleported in front of him, encased myself in ice armour of the highest density to protect myself from the fire and stuck my katana down his throat. ¡°Ice katana.¡± I encased the katana in ice as well and made it such that the tip grew longer and longer. I used gravity mana to make it as heavy as possible as well while elongating the sword and sure enough, in the next split second, my katana went through the dragon, piercing it''s stomach and intestines and causing frostbite to it''s whole system. The arms of the shrouded figure went up again and I just wanted to resign. However, this time, the poof was different. *POOF* ''CONGRATULATIONS!'' a banner that stretched across the whole clearing appeared while lights also appeared out of midair. ¡°Well done! So well done. I had a great time watching you apply the things you learnt in this battle royale. You''ve done so well. You could give Zarak a run for his money. Both of you have very different styles though. You focus more on spells whereas he focused more on swordsmanship. I look forward to the day where the two of you will meet each other. I gave something to Zarak when he managed to complete this and I will give the same thing to you.¡± He held out his cloak to me. His figure was skeletal. He was made of only bones and it was covered by the cloak from before but now he was ''naked''.
Received : Death''s Cloak. Death is a weird force. His embodiment likes to do weird things. Most people say they can see him when he comes to collect his victims. However, occasionally some can see him at either halloween parties or clubs as well. He has queer hobbies but one thing is for sure. This cloak is made from Death himself and he enchanted this with his own essence. Untradable Required level : 1 Item level : 1 Defence +10 Magic Resistance +5% Darkness Resistance +20% Strength +1 Dexterity +1 Intellect +1 Luck +1 Mana Regen +10% HP Regen +10% Affinity to Darkness +10%
Holy shit an item with a level. These sort of items get stronger with the user and they are extremely rare. YAYYY WOOOO! Plus this looks... SO FUCKING BADASS OMG. A torn and tattered cape which looks as black as darkness itself. It is so light as well. Light and opaque. Dayummmm. It was indeed a nice and rare cape. However, that was not the only piece of good news I got out of this trial.
Quest Complete : Forest Of No Return You have successfully completed this quest that J?rmungandr has tasked you to do. You have received the following rewards: Endurance +500 Perseverance +300 Sustenance +300 Intellect + 50 Concentration +100 Fame +1000 Unlocked higher masteries of mana manipulation, ouroboros seal and katana mastery due to completing a recognised trial. Quest Complete : Bonus Round of Forest of No Return You have successfully completed this quest that Death has tasked you to do. You have received the following rewards: 50000 EXP 10000 Gold Death''s Cloak Affinity to Fire +10% Affinity to Ice +10% Affinity to Water +10% Affinity to Wind +10% Affinity to Lightning +10% Affinity to Earth +10% Affinity to Gravity +10% Affinity to Light +10% Affinity to Dark +10% Fighting Spirit +1000 Endurance +500 Persevarance +500 Sustenance +300 Fame +1000
OH YEAH! What crazy stat bonuses. No wonder there was so much walking. It greatly increased my endurance, perseverance and sustenance stats. Walking for 2 hours in between each clearing really did test my patience. The bonus round was also extremely beneficial. No wonder I had to fight against so many different types of enemies with different types of elements. All of them were of such high speciality such as the lightning Kirin and water Hydra that they gave me added affinities. Even if their levels were reduced. No wonder J?rmungandr asked me to do this. I really did become a whole lot stronger. But I wonder what he has been doing while I was training my ass off here. Suddenly, I received a notification in my party list. I opened it up and received a shock. They had a lot of explaining to do. All three of them.
Party Name : Bunch Of Tards. Party leader : Jinx. Jinx, Level 130 Elemental Swordsman Beathoven, level 125 Rhapsodist Soup, Level 210 Lycanhero Breadtalk, level 120 Joker
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Chapter 29 : Second Training, Complete All of a sudden, I found myself teleported back to the entrance of the forest of no return. Suddenly, I saw Loki and Breadtalk waiting for me there. ¡°How the hell did you change your class into a Joker? I mean I know you''re the most stupid, retarded, irritating, annoying and motherfucking funny joker there is in the world but still???¡± I asked immediately. ¡°Whoa take a chill pill there man. I looked at the party list too. It looks like everyone got a power up except you. HAHAHA POOR YOU. FEELING SORE? NOOB JINX NOOB JINX NOOB JINX NOOB JINX!¡± A slapping war commenced immediately. I wasn''t going to go easy. I used half my mana to compress my wind steps and electric impulse. Yes it worked on buffs as well. Needless to say, within 10 seconds the fight was settled. ¡°Impressive~ I have mana intuition as well and I can tell you that not many individuals would be able to have the same mana density as what you did back there. You''re really talented in this.¡± He said. Breadtalk couldn''t even comment and his face was so swollen it looked like he was bitten by ants throughout his face. ¡°Haiz my stupid disciple. Heal him would you? I need him to be in good condition for a long range teleport back to ¨¦lj¨²enir Castle.¡± ¡°Median Heal.¡± ¡°How the fuck did you do that? You countered every slap I wanted to throw and you did it so hard and fast holy shit. Maybe we should start a carnival wars with a ban on mana and weapons and the only way was to make people slap each other to victory. We would never lose at that with you on our team.¡± The suggestion was so ridiculous and funny I couldn''t even slap him again. 20 people slapping each other would be good entertainment for Carnival though... Suddenly, Loki put his hand on both of us and the familiar feeling came. We were being squeezed into ourselves, the air pushed out of our lungs, our limbs screaming in pain from being positioned in positions that weren''t humanly possible anddddddddddd POOF. We were back in the familiar castle. Hel was already gone as Beathoven was just sitting in a corner, playing his music with a slight smile on his face. Fenrir was also no where to be seen but Soup was busy eating what I think was a quadruple bacon sandwich from MacDoofus. The elites were all nowhere to be seen and Sigyn was walking down the stairs with Horse. J?rmungandr however was in another corner of the castle, beckoning me to come over. I ran over to his side immediately. ¡°Well done young one. You''ve passed not only the trial but the bonus stage as well. I was watching you all along.¡± ¡°How?¡± ¡°I attached a small snake as a spy. It currently lies in your forest.¡± ¡°My for- WHAT?!¡± ¡°Please shave your pubic hair next time its common courtesy. It''s not a pleasant surprise for a woman you know.¡± ¡°THIS IS A GAME. AND WTF?! GET IT OFF ME!¡± ¡°It was already off the moment you completed your trial. On to much more serious stuff. You see that forest was run by Death, one of the governing forces in the world which are independent of any boundaries such as faction, race or class. Even I have a race. I am a god and my class is World Serpent. You see Death is a good friend of mine. We often go clubbing together. Then, he told me about this forest and I decided to send you there. It seems that the prerequisite was that the person must be able to wield mana. He or she need not specifically wield the mana manipulation skill but the forest was specially meant for training of that skill.¡± ¡°Now that you''ve passed the trial, you can check your skill window. Your skill levels should''ve increased. It should be master level by now. It is now even harder to raise proficiencies but I believe you will be able to do it. Also, the bonus stage. Holy shit that bonus stage. When Death told me about it I was sure no one would be able to pass. What is with you elemental swordsmen? I''ve seen Zarak in person before and boy was he an exceptional one. The way he handled his sword... I''m pretty sure you would lose in a fight against him. However I certainly did not expect you to pass the bonus round and you proved me wrong. Maybe you can prove me wrong again....¡± J?rmungandr continued. ¡°Again? I am going to fight with Zarak?¡± I asked ¡°In time to come, maybe fate will force both of you to cross paths. I do not know when or where but I am pretty sure the paths both of you have taken will coincide at some point. Moving on, I''ve done nothing but use Loki to send you to the place near the trial so I still have lots of mana left. My other siblings and father used their mana to confer new classes and new bonuses to their students but I don''t see the need to do that for you.¡± You lazy son of a snake they all got cool classes and what did I get? A cape that although is pretty cool DIDN''T EVEN COME FROM YOU AT ALL! ¡°I decided to use all my mana I''ve saved in a different way. One that I know for sure can make you even more powerful without needing to change your class at all. You are well suited to your class and this is my gift to you. Try compressing your mana to put it into your Ouroboros seal.¡± I did as I was told. It seemed like it was actually possible. The ouroboros seal was a space that I could store my mana in so even though the capacity was the same, since I could compress more mana into that same container, I managed to put more mana into the seal. Currently I could store about 30,000 mana and since I was able to compact my mana by about 5 times, my effective mana stored was 150,000 mana. Holy shit. ¡°Omg this seal is the perf-¡± J?rmungandr suddenly glowed with an indistinguishable colour. Then he bit me full on the back. ¡°ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!¡± I screamed in pain. I immediately fell to the floor, writhing in pain and shock with the whole world contorting before my eyes. Everyone seemed shocked and started running towards me but J?rmungandr told them to stay back. I couldn''t even pay attention to my surroundings anymore and all I could feel is pain, pain unlike any amount of pain I''ve ever felt and soon, my mind blanked out. -Five hours later- I slowly managed to open my eyes. Urghh I felt so weak. It felt like I just suffered from a high fever. I felt weak, my joints hurt and I felt feverish and nauseated. ¡°Don''t worry it''s like medicine. If it ain''t bitter it ain''t good is it?¡± A voice said. J?rmungandr was beside me, in one of the bedrooms in the castle. ¡°Where is everybody?¡± I asked, sitting up groggily. ¡°They''re preparing dinner. Most of my siblings already ran out of time so their training has been completed. I''m the only one left with abit more.¡± ¡°Figures. Seemed like you hardly spent any mana except for when you tried to kill me...¡± I mumbled. ¡°Kill you? Hahaha I think you will be grovelling at your feet, thanking me for what I did to you.¡± ¡°You didn''t make me some kind of snake did you?¡± I asked, thinking of how Soup became a lycanhero, meaning that he was definitely part wolf or something now. But it fit him though, the idiotic straightforward kid who just liked to dive into a mob of monsters, finishing everyone off in a meele. ¡°No. Here, take a look at what''s changed.¡± J?rmungandr created a pool of water so clear it could reflect light and I used it as a mirror. I looked at myself and saw.... ¡°Nothing changed?! Are you trolling me or something?¡± ¡°Your back idiot. Turn around.¡± I turned. And I gasped. The ouroboros seal on my hand was gone. And I knew why. On my back was the new ouroboros seal. More deatiled than ever, a huge serpent flexing itself on my huge back, with shiny black scales covering it''s entire body, biting it''s own tail like an ouroboros should with huge green eyes and covering a much larger surface area than before. ¡°I LIKE IT!¡± I shouted. I opened my skill window.
Ouroboros Seal | Master level 1 (0%). Stores up to 100000 mana. Able to use it whenever you want like a mana bank. Also, it has it''s own regen rate of 100 mana per second outside of battle and 10 mana per second in battle.
Holy shit thats effectively 500000 mana. I AM OP. I AM OP. I AM OPPPPPPPP! Suddenly I was feeling all better. J?rmungandr did this to me to give me this new and improved ouroboros seal. ¡°My apologies I couldn''t give it sooner. This required more mana to impart and I must be sure you would''ve been able to use it to it''s full potential before giving it to you. I had to inject it like venom as well because it is actually a living ouroboros inside of you. That explains it''s passive mana regeneration. Remember to compress the mana before you put it in. I''m sure you would be able to maximise the use of this. Also, I''ve left behind a manual of the most advanced spells I have at my disposal. With this new mana pool, I have no doubt that you would be able to use all the spells. My only advice now is for you to master your affinities. Only then will you be able to use all the spells to their maximum effect.¡± J?rmungandr said. ¡°Thank you so much master. I will learn them well.¡± ¡°Good. Also, I''ve used up all my mana as well so this is where we say goodbye. It should be awhile before we come back as well. Remember to train hard.¡± With that, J?rmungandr left. I was left to admire the design of my new badass tattoo and I decided to get dressed and go down. The pure exhilaration of discovering my new seal made me feel better instantaneously. It was better than sex. WOO! When I went down, I saw food being served on the dining table with a familiar scene. Food was being flung all over the table. No one was eating quietly while enjoying the food. Everyone was pointing, laughing, shouting. M1 and M2 were busy making twin jokes. Fuzzy was gulfing down the food but more of it was coming out than going in because of his raccous laughter. Breadtalk was busy annoying Horse who was trying to eat her food but it was obvious that she was enjoying the company. Soup was busy trying to use the spoon as a catapult with food as the ammo and flicking it into Beathoven''s open mouth. Most of the tries have been pretty close but with Beathoven''s nostrils taking the most of the load. Poor Xantos could only eat light mana and I was equivalent to her food so when she saw me coming down the stairs, she immediately spread her wings and flew over and trust me, Xantos was now almost impossible to fit in the castle lobby when she fully opened her wingspan. This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. ¡°EHHHH ITS JINX!¡± ¡°It''s OHMYGOD IM DYING ITS KILLING ME OW MUMMY IM CRYINGGG- OWWW OWWW OWWWW FUCK JINX STOP JINX PLEASEEEEEEE¡± Breadtalk said while I used earth mana to build a hand to squeeze his balls and roll it around the fingers. I immediately tried compressing the high quality light mana I have now and fed it to Xantos. Xantos immediately stopped moving and fainted. ¡°WHAT?!¡± ¡°CAN YOU FUCKING STOP ABUSING ANIMALS!¡± Screamed Soup. ¡°YEAH THE FINE IS FORTY THOUSAND GOLD NOW.¡± Fuzzy roared as he leapt to Xantos'' side. Suddenly, Xantos herself glowed brightly and suddenly, she became smaller. Smaller than I''ve ever seen her. But one thing was for sure, the colours of her feathers changed from yellowish gold to pure gleaming gold. ¡°THANKS JINXXX!¡± She screamed as she flew towards me and due to her size, now I could comfortably hug her. ¡°Sure but what happened?!¡± I asked, bewildered but feeling kinda snuggly and fuzzy and the same time. ¡°Well, Rocs can evolve to Greater Rocs which are considered semi mythical beings. Rocs are actually quite common but greater rocs are extremely rare. They usually belong directly to a god of sorts because the prerequisite of evolving to a greater roc is to consume mana of such a high purity and density that usually can only be provided by a god.¡± She explained. ¡°WUT? Jinx is at god level?!!¡± Horse exclaimed, outraged. ¡°I would think so. But it''s like a lesser god. But I think he might be stronger than Valhalla now. However, if you all are really going to go against the true gods, Jinx would get crushed easily by any one of them now. Even the non combatants.¡± The truth was always harsh wasn''t it. ¡°Alright now you all know even though my class hasn''t changed, I''ve become quite the kickass. But then again what did you all do? How come you all get to change your classes? And what perks do you all get now?¡± I asked. ¡°Well, guys, meet one of the 10 weapons I have in his true form. All my weapons have one. I got a four earlier today so it''s the exploding spear Soup is familiar with. Meet Pointy! The swordfish who has explored Soup''s anal canal before.¡± Breadtalk said. Suddenly, a swordfish appeared beside Breadtalk. ¡°Hello! I''m Pointy! Like literally. Hahahahaha =D But honestly I''ve always been around but just unable to materialise because Breadtalk''s mastery wasn''t high enough until now. I''m a fan of the whole group! Especially Soup.¡± Pointy introduced himself. ¡°Are there any categories for gay weapons?¡± Soup asked. We all laughed and had a good time as Breadtalk explained what his trial was and how he managed to get all 10 weapons to materialize and accept him. However, he kept their identities all a secret because he likes to do it that way. ¡°I managed to learn a dozen new songs, each with a different skill set. I had to learn several melodies to unlock the class Rhapsodist which was a hidden class Hel could confer onto me. She said the rhapsodist is different from a bard but could still use bard skills. Bard is a support character that primarily buffs or debuffs but rhapsodist goes one step further than that. The songs a rhapsodist play will be able to assist his teammates and at the same time deal damage or have other effects on the enemy not in the form of buffs but from real sources of damage and support. For example, I can use necromastery to help make skeletal soldiers to serve as tanks to assist the group which you all saw last time. I learnt alot more skills to that and now my most powerful skill is a skill that is only exclusive to summoners but Hel made it possible for a rhapsodist to summon one particular god. Surtr.¡± Beathoven explained. I dropped my sausage. Surtr. The god of fire. ¡°YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. OP FUCK. CHAOTIC MELODY AND SURTR TOGETHER?!¡± I asked. ¡°Of course the summoning has it''s limitations. You all will understand more when the situation arises. Also, there are other spells which have many uses and applications. They are all really quite interesting.¡± He added. ¡°I became a lycan.¡± Soup began. No surprise there captain obvious. ¡°Fenrir gave me the race and I immediately accepted. My fame isn''t affected but now, my relationship with other churches except for the church of Loki will go down quite drastically and my alignment is now towards the dark forces more than the light. I become stronger at night like monsters because of this race. I also gain many racial traits and skills of the wolves. I can use the powerful howl which increases not only my own attack drastically but everyone in the same party as me as well. I also have perfect vision at night. And I can''t stand eating vegetables now.¡± He added. His speech was shortly interrupted as everyone held him down and started stuffing greens into his mouth over and over again. ¡°PUI! As I was saying, I became a lycan but then Fenrir started training me in lycan form and he even gave me his personal armour when he was younger. I can freely choose to stay in human form or wolf form and this special armour molds to whatever form I choose to be in. Now I''m human but when I change...¡± Soup suddenly grew larger and larger. Fur started to grow out from his skin as well and soon, he became a wolf that stood at about 2 meters tall with dark grey skin and red eyes. He also wore an armour that fitted snugly on his snout and body, with a huge greatsword hanging on his back. The armour covered about 90% of his body with the only exposed parts being the bottom of his feet, the area around his nose and eyes and his tail. If not, the armour was gleaming silver with red outlines that really made Soup look like the most badass wolf warrior you would ever see in the game. ¡°Yeap. This is what a lycanhero looks like. I still have my gladiator skills but mixed with my lycan traits and racials. I have higher strength and speed with lower intelligence but then again I''m a warrior come on what is intelligence.¡± Soup said. ¡°You''re Soup, what is intelligence should be what you meant.¡± Beathoven corrected Soup. ¡°Shut up I know I''m dumb you closet mugger. Also, I have another buff that coincides with the gladiator''s rage quite nicely. You know how the longer the fight goes and the more monsters I kill the stronger I get right? Being a lycanhero gives me another passive. Whenever I kill an enemy, I gain strength and dexterity for a short time but this can be stacked and refreshed. As long as I kill another enemy within the next thirty seconds, the buff can stack so I gain twice the strength and dex and the cooldown is reset for another thirty seconds. For now, my record is killing 40000 level 100 monsters in 1 hour.¡± ¡°No wonder you''re level 210 now. No life.¡± Breadtalk said. All of us have definitely reached new heights. I became so much more godly because I realised I could compress mana into my ouroboros seal which now had an even higher capacity. The bonus round also gave me higher element affinities. Breadtalk now gained higher masteries over all his new weapons so the weapons all had added traits and stats so I wouldn''t be surprised if all his weapons became even more powered up. Just what would the rocket launcher and ''10'' weapon be like now? His unpredictability was always the best part about him. Beathoven now was legit at protecting himself as well as others. He could just play chaotic melody and the buff would last for at least 30 minutes. Then he could use melodies from his Rhapsodist class that would influence the battlefield greatly, both physically and magically. Imagine a Surtr rising from the ground and joining out ranks in battle. WHUT. Soup now was also an indispensible front line monster. If he became a high enough level to be able to finish opponents we would meet in war, he could easily take on 10000 foot soldiers who were lower level than him singlehandedly and easily. Without even breaking a sweat. Even I had to use maybe about 400-500 thousand mana to cleanly wipe them all instantly but Soup did not even need to use that amount of mana. He could just exterminate them one by one and by the one thousandth soldier, I think all he needed was one swipe to finish off an opponent and he would just steamroll into this unstoppable front line tank. Remember, the gladiator is a class that boasts it''s high defence. Not attack. If he really did improve from this new class, his defence now should be so much higher than I wouldn''t even be able to bring him down using just swordplay even if I fought for 24 hours. Horse also explained to us that although her class didn''t change, she learnt alot about traps and tracking which were Sigyn''s specialties. As expected of a woman who was able to hunt Loki down and tie him to her permanently for the rest of her life. She must''ve really laid out good traps. LOL. I guess it was also about time to invite Horse to this party. She deserved it for sticking through this so long. Also, I could tell that she and Breadtalk were really getting along well with each other. Breadtalk bothered me alot less now and was busy trolling Horse instead. That was always welcome even though I miss him annoying me sometimes. We were all getting stronger, no doubt about that. However, we had to get strong enough for the main event where we would do battle with gods. Legendary gods. Thor, Freya, Odin... We were strong without a doubt. But strong enough for that? Definitely not. We would be up against millions, not thousands. Chances are we will not be of a higher level than them. But alas we took on this quest knowing how hard this was. It wasn''t going to be easy but why would we want to accomplish a legacy that was easy to attain? We had about two and a half years left. And Carnival was still awaiting it''s dear founders to grow at a shocking pace.
Party Name : Bunch Of Tards. Party leader : Jinx. Jinx, Level 130 Elemental Swordsman Beathoven, level 125 Rhapsodist Soup, Level 210 Lycanhero Breadtalk, level 120 Joker Horse, level 105 Assassin
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Chapter 30 : The Profession I woke up groggy as hell, not from the new ouroboros seal but from the massive amount of drinking last night. My memory was kinda fuzzy... I could remember bits and pieces like Soup running at top speed in wolf form, jumping straight into a ring of fire conjoured by M1 and M2. It didn''t end well. Wolves were weak to fire by nature after all. Especially since its magic damage. I remember Beathoven using one of his skills for the first time. It''s called weapon smash.... All i remember was Beathoven was being too retarded and Slick was just beside Beathoven saying stuff that seemed like... ¡°Smash your lute over his head smash your lute over his head you know you want to do it you know he''s begging for it you know he''s asking for it GO GO GO.¡± And that was when it all happened. Beathoven couldn''t resist his temptation and used the skill on Breadtalk. It seemed like the skill was legit. Since it was a Bard''s only way of inflicting damage, it seemed like it took your art stat multiplied by the value of the instrument times some base multiplier and converts it into damage. And trust me Beathoven''s art stat by now was not something to be trifled with. Breadtalk nearly died. He ran around screaming from the pain and eventually for some godhelpme reason, ended up with his head under Horse''s skirt. Needless to say, he died. He died a death so horrible I think I only could remember traces of it. I remembered one long knife, shining green with poison and repeated slashing and stabbing. Oh well. I checked my friends list. Yup. I wasn''t just dreaming. It was all real. Breadtalk was unable to log in for about 19 more hours in real life and Horse had a red coloured name, showing the murderer''s mark. Should I kill her for the EXP and fame?.... Hmmm... I weighed my options. She was sleeping it would be painless and fast. Especially if I used a 300000 mana condensed divine judgement on her. Then again she would most probably hate me for it. Bah who cares. I saw my mana bar in the ouroboros seal drop by almost half. A sword made out of pure light mana shone so bright that my eyes wasn''t even able to handle it. Xantos immediately woke up, drawn to the light and everyone started to wake up. Oh shit I probably shouldn''t have used light mana. Nevermind lets make things fast. WOOOOOSH And Horse was gone.
You gained 10000 exp. You gained 1000 fame.
WOO! Kekeke. It was a weekend somemore so they would have no choice but to do something with their lives while the three of us could do our own stuff. Soup and Beathoven woke up shortly. Both of them immediately guessed what happened so I told them the truth. Yeap Breadtalk was killed and the killer met her due justice :P Soup decided that he wanted to make his rounds in the military camp which is the castle for short. We were just hanging around in the lobby so he wanted to check on the barracks and the officers. Beathoven also decided to went to take a look at the town since we were busy for about one whole day. Every day was important when you were managing a town as fast growing and popular as Carnival. Every single hall in the residence was filled and the waiting list was longer than... Well most things. I went to the NPC shops as usual to greet the NPCs, making sure nothing out of place was happening. I got free stuff as usual but it was pointless. My equipment were as up to date as possible since I got level 100 armour from top to bottom. I even got Death''s Cloak now which was kickass. I wondered what I could do around town that would make me stronger. And then I remembered what I was missing out on. You see RoyalRoad is a game that focuses not only on battle but on economy to a great extent. Professions were highly respected here. A popular enchanter could easily have more fans and friends than a highly popular mage or archer. Professions were important and not only were the advantageous in making money or connections. They could enhance your fighting abilities. Blacksmiths are able to equip more armour and weapons due to their professions. They would also get an increase in strength and defence as passives. Handicraft increases damage by 1% per level. Can you even believe it. 1%! By master level that would be easily a 30% increase in damage. Just by doing stuff like folding paper hearts or swans and eventually moving on to professions such as tailoring or crafting which required the handicraft skill. However it does not increase attack power for magic. Only weapons... I was sitting at my fountain which gave me my art stat in the first place and wondering what profession should I be taking up to further increase my jack of all trades status as well as become stronger. All of a sudden, a well dressed, prim and proper looking guy wearing all black with brown dress shoes and the exception of black long unkempt hair came up to me. ¡°Excuse me sir, do you know who created this fountain? I''m pretty sure it was one of the founders of Carnival but I do not know who it is.¡± What does he want to do with me? ¡°Yea I have a pretty good idea of who he is. They say his name is Breadtalk. What do you want with him??¡± I asked. ¡°Well you see I''m a mana sculptor. We are a branch of sculptors that use only our mana to sculpt with. Our works are less recognised than sculptors because we do not believe in using any tools so everything is made with mana alone. However, this fountain was so intricately and proportionately designed that to make it self sufficient.. I need to meet this Breadtalk and make him my master!¡± He said excitedly. Mana sculptor. The answer was right in front of my eyes. Literally. Of course I should have known. I should do the profession that gave me the art stat in the first place. Holy shit. I always thought I was kinda smart but because these type of situations happen quite frequently, I should know better. ¡°Actually, I was lying. I created this fountain. Hello my name is Jinx, one of the founders of Carnival and an honorary member of the Bunch Of Tards.¡± I said, showing a gesture of grace. ¡°What? You lied to me?¡± He replied. Oops. ¡°Sorry. I thought you wanted to ask me to do something for the town but I was in the middle of deep thinking and I didn''t wish to be disturbed.¡± I said sheepishly. ¡°Well alright I guess but can you prove that you aren''t lying now?¡± He asked. I used mana manipulation and created a penis around my height. I don''t know what is with my obsession with penises but honestly I just found them so bloody funny. ¡°HOLY SHIT. NO SPELLS NO INCANTATIONS NO NOTHING AND YOU CAN PRODUCE A PENIS OF SUCH GRANDEUR?! THE CURVATURE, THE VEINS, THE BALLS, EVEN THE PUBIC HAIR OMG CAN I CALL YOU SHIFU?!¡± He exclaimed, bowing down on his knees immediately. (Shifu is chinese for master.) I pulled him up immediatly while laughing at his genuinely funny reaction. ¡°Bro, I don''t even know your name.¡± ¡°Longbean.¡± ... That''s a BOT worthy name wtf. ¡°Okay... Longbean. Look I don''t have a profession. I can just manipulate the very essence of mana. This is why I need to find someone to learn this profession for. I think I''m very suited for this profession. Can you introduce me to someone I can learn this profession from?¡± I asked. ¡°YOU WHAT?! This world is fucking unfair I swear. Actually... I may not look like it but I have reached master level 1 just recently in this profession. I created three masterpieces already but I still think your fountain is one of the best work I ever seen. That''s why I wanted to find you and learn from you. This level of intricacy and proportion is too damn high. To think it was made by someone who didn''t even have the skill.... I could teach you this skill you know.¡± Longbean replied. ¡°Teach me.¡± I immediately said. ¡°Don''t you want to find other possible teachers?¡± He asked. ¡°I''m not picky. I believe teachers are important but I do not have the luxury of time. And I''ve grown to know that people who are already masters who can still admire a person''s work and want to learn from it will never be a bad master. It''s those who think they already learnt everything that are the worst sort of people.¡± ¡°Whoa that''s some strong principles and ideals you have there.¡± Longbean commented. ¡°I''m serious about this that''s why. Usually im worth nothing though. If you show me a video of an old man falling into a surprise pit I could laugh for hours. But I''m serious about this. Teach me.¡± I said earnestly. Longbean nodded his head. For the rest of the day, I was busy learning the basics of mana sculpting. It seems like mana sculpting involved altering of the runes to shape your spells to reach the ideal size and shape as you want it to and then locking it in position. For example, a simple fireball spell could be altered to be made bigger and brighter and once cast, you can use the mana sculpting skill to make the spell lose its effects and in return, remain as how it is until someone breaks the spell. It was like a time lock skill onto a spell. However, the limitations were that it could only be used on your own spells. I tried to time lock Longbean''s spell as he was demonstrating it to me and I failed. I thought it would be a good exploit in battles where if someone cast a spell I could just time lock it and continue the battle. You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. Longbean was so amazed because I did not have the time lock spell and managed to create a mana sculpture. Usually this was impossible but only because of my design, where the mana would interact with each other in the dome to form a sustainable climatosphere, the sculpture was semi-permanent and that''s why it even counted as an artpiece in the first place. If i didn''t have the timelock skill, like the penis I conjured up earlier, I would have to use mana to sustain it''s form. However, the basis of all mana sculptures lie in the first skill that was taught to me. Mana lock. I started practicing mana lock. It was a very enjoyable process. I recreated a scene from one of my favourite shows of all times. I made a humanoid figure from earth using mana and now that my mana control has improved by leaps and bounds due to the training from one day ago, the human figure was perfectly shaped. I then added fire mana to wrap around his body and legs like a jacket and trackpants. I used electric mana to give him blonde hair. Then, I gave him black shoes using darkness mana. Behind this figure, I added another one with white longer hair from light mana and a jacket which was black and green which meant poison mana was the best to use. As I was doing all this, Longbean had his mouth agape, his mouth was so wide open that I think I could stuff not one but both of my fists into his stupid looking face due to the big wide open mouth. I gave the finishing touches to the figure and it was showing the second figure clasping his hands together and sticking two fingers out before poking his fingers into the ass of the first figure. It was ¡°A thousand years of pain¡± adapted from Naruto. Any idiot would be able to tell it was Kakashi and Naruto because of the intricacies of the design. I used mana lock to finalise the looks of the now complete sculpture. You could even go and touch it because the mana was frozen in place. It could not harm anyone at all and the texture of the sculpture was smooth and warm. One drawback of mana sculpting was that you were unable to control the texture. Mana only has one texture. Longbean managed to recollect himself after 1 minute and managed to talk only after 5 more minutes. ¡°Do you even know what you did? You made such a well designed sculpture which would take even a master level like me at least a few hours. And you did it in 15 fucking minutes. You''re a level 1 beginner holy shit. Can you be more fair? How do you even manipulate mana like that anyway? We have to use spells that we are familiar with like fireball or lightning strike and manipulate the shape until we get it right. For you it just pops out of mid air in the exact shape that you picture it to. What are you? God???¡± And right on cue, Xantos flew towards me and nested herself on my head. Ever since eating my mana, she was now alot more energetic and loudspoken. ¡°Jinx Jinx more mana please =D MOREEEEE!¡± And I had to feed her of course. I made a concentrated ball of light mana as usual and tossed it to her. Longbean''s face looked even more incredulous. I cannot even describe it to you. It was as if his face had a stroke that can be recovered from. I''m sorry but there''s no way I can describe a face that priceless. I explained to him what my mana manipulation skill was and his face just grew increasingly cancerous and cancerous every time he heard more and more of what I could do. By the end of it I couldn''t even call it a face. I was struggling to not laugh at his face every single second but it was too irresistable. ¡°OH MY GOD CAN YOU FIX YOUR FACE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCKYOU HAVE THE BEST FUCKFACE I''VE EVER SEEN!¡± I rolled around the floor. Longbean gave fuckface version 2.0 ¡°HAHAHAHA STOP YOU''RE KILLING ME STOP. STAHHHHPPPPPPP!¡± Longbean just grinned at me now. ¡°You are meant for mana sculpting man. I never heard of that skill before but I''m pretty sure that skill is probably the skill most mana sculptors would kill any amount of people to get. It''s like that skill was created for mana sculpting or mana sculpting was created because of that skill. You''re definitely going to become the best mana sculptor I''ve ever seen man. Can I follow you on your adventures? I just want to be there when you make your outstanding statues and achievements.¡± I could not sense anything but utmost honesty and sincerity in his voice. ¡°You''re the master. Not me.¡± I grinned at him. He grinned back and then a split second later used his fuckface. ¡°YOU CAN CONTROL THAT FUCKFACE? YOU''VE JUST BEEN TEMPTING ME TO LAUGH HAVEN''T YOU?!?!¡± I said while trying not to laugh but failing miserably again. ¡°Hey you lied to me so I had to get even!¡± He shouted back at me. It seemed like I picked up a master who was on the same wavelength as the rest of us. And boy oh boy was it rare to find someone like that. There can only be so many retards in the world. And now in Carnival, I was sure there was at least 6 of us like that. I minimised four notification boxes while I was talking with Longbean and I decided to open them now.
New Profession : Mana Sculptor You have decided to walk on the path of becoming a mana sculptor. Usually shunned by people as a hard to master class with drawbacks far outweighing the benefits, you have chosen Longbean to be your master and will henceforth be known as a mana sculptor.
New Skill : Mana lock. The primary skill used by mana sculptors to lock their mana in place so that they have a definitive shape and volume. However, the mana will lose all form of effects and just be purely aesthetic after this is cast onto mana. New Skill : Manart (Passive) Being a mana sculptor, you must take pride in the way you harness mana. It is not just a tool for casting magic but crafting creations which will turn heads of many. As such, it is important that you keep an artistic mind not only in sculpting but fighting. During battles, the more artistic your attacks, the more damage they will do. Also, the art stat will be taken into account and added into the damage of your spells.
Created : A Thousand Years Of Pain You''ve created a splitting image of a scene from a famous anime in the middle of the town square beside your original work, the Fountain of Carnival. This statue looks so well replicated that passer bys will look at it in awe and appreciation of the sculptor''s talents. This will increase fun levels of the town as well as provide a source of inspiration for beginners be it in terms of class or profession. Mood +100 Inspiration +50 All stats +10 Propensity to laugh +50% Effects last 1 hour
You have created a fine piece! Gained 2000 art points.
Holy shit! I knew about all of this but that passive! THAT PASSIVE! Assuming that it won''t decrease my damage because that would be unfair, my art stat would now be taken into consideration for additional damage from mana attacks! Also, the more artistic my attacks the higher the damage?!?! The possibilities were endless. I could just imagine it now. Creating 1000 hands using earth mana and slapping Breadtalk with those thousand hands. How much additional damage would that give me? Creating a penis that shoots our a stream of water so highly compressed like a hydro pump for nude art. HAHAHA THE POSSIBILITIES MAN. THE POSSIBILITIES. ¡°Got the passive skill Manart eh?¡± Longbean smirked at me. He knew about my mana manipulation so it looked like he too saw the potential I now had not only in mana sculpting but in fights. ¡°Oh yeah. It''s getting dark. Let me treat you to a meal back at the castle master.¡± I grinned at him before attempting a go at the legendary fuckface. Longbean looked at me and retaliated. My stomach was positively aching by now and all I could think was. I gotta get that passive to level up more and I also got to learn that face man omg that epic face.
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Chapter 31 : Confession Longbean was introduced to the BOTs back at the castle. At first everyone was apprehensive because the group was already becoming quite large. And whether he could fit in was another story. However, all those concerns were flung out of the window immediately with no fucks given the moment Longbean used his fuckface. Longbean apart from his profession, was a level 50 Wizard. Wizards were a bit different from Elementalists or archmages. Elementalists used their mana to specialise in offensive or defensive attacks of a certain element. Archmages usually specialised in just one and they learnt devastating spells only from that one discipline. Wizards can learn elemental mana but they usuall stick with neutral ones to cast their spells. Their spells were not direct offensive spells but a balance between defensive and offensive with indirect forms. Examples would be casting levitate on himself and party members to render them more immune to attacks from the ground. Wizards could also use teleport which most mages would be unable to except for those who specialised in electricity. They could also use telekenesis which is something even I could not do because it was neutral mana and you needed to use runes for it. After his introduction, for the rest of the night, during dinner, everyone was trying to create their own original fuck face. It was an interesting and useful skill to have! Do you ever encounter situations where people ask stupid questions begging for a captain obvious reply? Something like.. ¡°Are you at home?¡± When they''ve called your house phone and you picked up? You would be tempted to reply ¡°No, I''m in outer space trying to catch floating krabby patties before delivering them to bikini bottom.¡± or some sarcastic reply. Instead of even thinking about a funny or sarcastic comment, all you have to do was use your fuckface! Easy, simple and guaranteed to stun them into silence or shock them into laughter. Sure it looks like you''re having a stroke and both you and the person laughing would be subjected to bad karma but apart from that it was a very interesting skill to have. -Three days later- Breadtalk finally managed to log into the game and went straight towards the castle. I was in the castle, practicing my almost completed fuckface while mana sculpting when Breadtalk walked in on me. ¡°Jinx? What the bloody hell is wrong with your face? Were you masturbating?? To a fucking statue??!¡± He asked. ¡°No you just walked in at a bad time. Why''re you looking for me?¡± I replied, massaging my face. ¡°It''s something private that I have to ask you.¡± Ohhhh boy. The last time Breadtalk came to me privately to ask about something, it was.. To ask me how to masturbate. You see Breadtalk is a complete idiot. He does not have any inhibitions stopping him from being stupid especially towards his friends. Sensing another question about the same level as that previous one because he came to me privately for advice.. I asked him what was going on in a very apprehensive tone. ¡°It''s about Horse. She confessed to me.¡± My jaw dropped. I was too shocked to even use the fuckface I have prepared to troll him with. Sure he was the one closest to Horse because he just kept trolling her but to think she liked him? And she confessed?? Sure it was the 21st century but its still quite a common practice for a girl to hold out until the guy she likes confesses to her instead you know! Wait hold that thought. It was Breadtalk. A confession would never come out from his mouth. ¡°Okay... Where and how did this even happen?¡± I asked. It might be just Breadtalk misinterpreting the situation anyway. ¡°Yesterday I died after getting my head up her skirt right. So I had nothing to do. It was a weekend and I was bored so I went to the mall to get some stuff for school and my leisure. Surprisingly, when I went to the mall, I met Horse. She was at the mall to eat lunch by herself because her family was out. She accompanied me to get my stuff and we ate together. She told me she was dead too because apparently someone killed her but she didn''t know how.¡± Thank god for the instant kill. 200 thousand mana well spent. ¡°So she was also unable to log in to the server for the next 24 hours. We decided to catch a movie together to kill time. It was a horror movie and the best seats were couple seats so we just took them anyway. I wanted to scare her so when the movie was playing, I grabbed her shoulder when I heard scary noises and she immediately jumped into my arms.¡± ¡°Okay okay. Sounds plausible so far. Carry on.¡± I''m pretty sure he left out additional things that happened along the way since he loves trolling her so much but oh well. ¡°Then, she was just clinging onto me for that hour and a half. After the movie was over, she told me it was her first time watching a horror movie because she hated it and when I asked why she agreed to watch it with me she said it was because she liked me.¡± HOLYSHIT THAT GIRL GOT MORE BALLS THAN ME. HOW MUCH MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD CAN YOU BE?! ¡°Well... She''s definitely proud and strong alright in everything she does.¡± I said while trying to keep a straight face because I was secretly impressed and also amused at Breadtalk''s face. It was a rare sight to see him this flustered. It wasn''t because he liked her too I was sure of that. Breadtalk liked a few girls before and he would always act the same in front of them. Stupidly and wonderfully retardedly. Always. But the moment they established some sort of connection, he would go to the side and secretly jump for joy or just stone with a smile so big you could swear that it joined both his ears together. However, when he was flustered, it meant one thing. He honestly doesn''t want something to happen. And trust me he doesn''t do this often. Savouring the moment and trying not to laugh, I asked him if he liked her. ¡°Are you kidding me?! That woman can run a Nazi prison by herself I wouldn''t wanna date someone like that!¡± Breadtalk said. ¡°A bit of an exaggeration but yes I believe she could if she tried. However, why did you keep associating yourself with her if you didn''t like her in that way?¡± ¡°I was trolling her. All i ever did was enjoy slapping wars with her, test my weapons on her and occasionally stick my head under her skirt so I''ll get punished but that''s it!¡± HAHAHA typical Breadtalk. I have to salute him though. Getting someone like Horse to like you was an achievement in itself. I''m pretty sure there were guys in school who would chase her for her looks and body but she seemed like the sort who would just smash their hopes into the ground and grind it with the heel of her feet. But to get her to like you not by chasing her but TROLLING her. That, is some high level shit right there. ¡°Erm.. Just tell her that you don''t like her that way?¡± I told him. ¡°But... I don''t have the balls to...¡± He replied. That was it. I couldn''t blame Breadtalk for this at all. He had zero sense when it came to girls. Zero. Negative even. He wouldn''t be able to flirt for nuts because all he can do and will do is be himself. Trolling people is his nature and who could blame him for that when he was so funny and good at it. I pitied Horse though. The poor girl just fell in love with his unsual charms and wits and I guess it was pretty legit. I mean if you like the guy and he nonchalantly sticks his head under your skirt due to acceptable reasons, even though you killed him already it must''ve entertained you at least a slight bit. I decided to show Horse some pity and give her what she deserves. I used mana manipulation to put two balls of fire into Breadtalk''s pants just where his scrotum is. ¡°HOTTTT! HOTTTTTTT! WHAT THE FUCK?!¡± He screamed, running around in circles. I don''t know why but I''m pretty sure ''stop drop and roll'' was the standard procedure, not ''run chase your tail.'' ¡°If you don''t want a burnt black penis, I suggest you go find her immediately since she just logged in and tell her that you don''t like her personally. Don''t drag this out she should like direct answers. Besides I doubt you would want to drag this out with your balls on fire.¡± I told him. Then I added my fuck face. TEEHEE. And he dashed out of the room screaming for Horse, slamming the door shut behind him. There was only so much I could do but I really think this was the best way to solve it. I looked around at my room in the castle. Over the past few days, I''ve been trying to increase my mana sculpting skill to try to improve the passive skill Manart to enable me to deal more damage. I have sculpted in precise details a few of my favourite figurines. Beside my bed on the table top, there was Chopper from One Piece. On the floor in the four corners were my four favourite characters of all time. Soup was in the top left, Beathoven was top right, Breadtalk was bottom left and I had a space for bottom right. I didn''t know who else to sculpt. They were all fine pieces and my passive did improve so I did this to train myself while running Carnival like I was supposed to. I tried to think of someone to craft for the bottom right corner of my room. Suddenly, thundering footsteps sounded along the corridor and my room door burst open. Breadtalk was there, panting and panting. The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. ¡°Jinx I told her already. Please. Fire. Stop. STOP THE FIREEEEE!¡± he shouted while lifting out his pants, blowing with his mouth as hard as he can onto the affected area. ¡°That looks so wrong I can''t even.¡± I said. I stopped the spell and Breadtalk looks as if he just managed to relieve his bladder after someone tied his penis up for twenty four hours while forcing him to drink 3 litres of water. He slowly walked back out of the room to carry on with his errands and suddenly, I heard another set of footsteps this time stomping towards my door and flinging the room door wide upon when she reached the doorstep. It was Horse. She was crying. Help I''m not good at these sort of situations I''m hopeless at this it''s like when the girl is asking you if she''s fat or not. It''s an impossible task to surmount SOMEONE FUCKING HELP! ¡°Jinx... WHY DID YOU FORCE BREADTALK TO DO THAT TO ME WHYYYYYYYYY?!¡± She lashed out at me with her hands, hitting whichever part of my body she could find contact with using her full weight behind her blows. ¡°Ow Ow OWWW! Why would he even tell you it was me! AHH FUCK STOP IT!¡± I shouted and I grasped her hands tightly, deciding that I didn''t deserve this. ¡°Look. I know you like Breadtalk. You should also be able to understand someone like him since you like him. He was close to you. No doubt about that. He kept joking around with you, playing the fool around you. Around everyone actually. And you enjoyed that. You liked who he was. He was funny, retarded, stupid, retarded, jovial, retarded, well mostly retarded but you liked it. So now just because usually you get chased and guys clearly want you, when someone you want doesn''t want you this is what you do? You come crying to someone who isn''t even involved and just asked him to tell you the truth to beat him up? I thought you were someone cool and proud. It sure as hell seems that I was wrong.¡± I said. Oh crap. I don''t think when I talk. Holy shit. Oh fuck. That was my truthful sentiments but the poor girl just got rejected. Ohhhh boy. I''m gonna get so much negative karma a lightning bolt should be striking me right about no- ¡°OOOOFFFFFFFFFFF.¡± I said as Horse kneed me squarely in the balls. Even though it was virtual reality, the weak points of the males were not altered. That lingering pain that feels like you''ve something emitting pain from your bladder for the next 10 minutes. That familiar pain all guys would have gone through before was still exactly the same. Don''t mess with karma... ¡°INSENSITIVE ASSHOLE! I''M BETTER THAN THIS!¡± She sniffed as she stormed out of my room, still crying. I thought I was playing the good guy. But it looks like I still really couldn''t deal with girls. I rolled around on my bed for about 15 minutes until the pain dispersed properly. I looked back at all of our adventures and even though I liked the BOTs alot. Horse did her fair share of work. During Carnival Wars, running the atmosphere of Carnival, going through the tough training with us, helping us in school by being the ambassador of our BOTs since all of us were too weak willed to do it. I decided to get down to work. Soon enough there was a Horse as well in the bottom right corner of my room. Apart from mana sculpting, I also started reading the book J?rmungandr left with me. It consisted of really high level spells and utility spells and I was determined to master each and every one of them. I had the mana to do most of them on a small scale but some of the spells were just impossible on a big scale. One such example was Aeroglyph. It was a spell with a very peculiar ability. Anyone who steps on an area covered by this spell would be pushed forwards in the direction the glyph was created for. For example, I could make one square tile an aeroglyph and anyone who steps on it will instantly be flung towards the front, right, left, backwards or even upwards. Imagine if I were to use this spell against an army. I could make one whole football field an aeroglyph and fling them all in a direction where I set up traps beforehand. It was easy to cast with low mana cost but it needed high purity for the affects to be really obvious if not it was just a negligible gust of wind at the feet which will shift them slightly towards the direction. High density made the victim fly literally 4-5 meters in that direction. There were many utility spells and damage spells in them but I needed time to slowly master them. On average it took me about one week to master one spell fully and it seemed like there were at least fifty spells to master in this book so it would take about one year. And by mastering the spell I meant knowing how to use it and when to use it. The mastery level would be at about intermediate. Not advanced or master. There really was no shortcut to these sort of things so I just had to stick with it I guess. I went down for dinner after practicing Aeroglyph for a few hours and I was scared if Breadtalk and Horse had any leftover tension because of what happened and it would be bad if the BOTs would be unable to maintain teamwork and rapport with one another. We had the title as Carnival War Champions and I plan to defend that till the very end. As I went down to the table, I realised Breadtalk and Horse were sitting beside each other. They were not talking though. I wondered if things were awkward when suddenly, Breadtalk tapped Horse on the shoulder and gave her a fuckface as soon as she turned. She just punched him squarely in the face before turning to her plate and continued to eat her food as if nothing happened. It had only been a few hours and Breadtalk could already do a good fuck face. I guess that guy was just talented in anything that was funny and pure horrible at anything that wasn''t. Horse was not smiling though when she was eating her dinner. Guess punching the guy who rejected her while his face was as if he had stroke felt good and could help her forget him faster but it wasn''t enough... Strong woman though for still being able to sit beside the guy who rejected her a few hours ago. So I consumed dinner with everyone, prepared dessert and then Soup and Beathoven came to help me in the kitchen. ¡°Hey guys you know what happened between Breadtalk and Horse?¡± I asked. ¡°What???¡± They replied. Breadtalk only told me??? Awwww. So sweet of him. To come to me first. ¡°Well rumour has it that Breadtalk likes Horse!!! Can you believe it?¡± I said, stirring up what came to be what would haunt Breadtalk for the next few years of his life both in game and out. These two faggots will make fun of Breadtalk for the rest of his life regarding this and I hope this makes you feel better you stupid Horse. ¡°NO SHIT!¡± Soup said. ¡°Meh. I''m not surprised. But I''m still going to make fun of him for it though.¡± Beathoven added. And they immediately rushed back into the dining hall to tease Breadtalk the moment they knew. I stuck my head out from the kitchen and peeped at how it was going. I saw Horse''s face. She was having a ball of a time horsing around (bad pun intended) and playing along, enjoying her revenge I guess. Oh well I have no doubt that she would be good at flaunting how desirable she was to Breadtalk to have her fun so I went back to cooking, knowing that Breadtalk would be trying his best to deny that fact in fear that Horse believed that he liked her. I guess I would get to see a serious Breadtalk for quite some time and trust me that''s rarer than a blue moon for me. And a serious Breadtalk is unusually funny as well. Hehehe. I brought out my freshly baked white chocolate fraise pie once I was done and we feasted our way to usher in a new crush. Breadtalk and Horse! I knew better though. I just hoped that what I just did would help them both get over this faster. Then we drank the night away as usual, high as we can ever be. I realised the next phase of our RR lives would be coming along now. I found my new profession and I knew which direction I would be taking off in. Soup was about to take his trained army for expeditions to train them now. Beathoven was busy with administrative matters for Carnival including trade and affilations. Horse had an upcoming festival she was preparing for and she even made all of us act in a skit for that. Breadtalk... Well he was just busy being Breadtalk. The foundation was brilliantly done. Onward we press in our journey towards Ragnar?k. -Eleven months later- ¡°And Horse does it again!!!!!¡± An enthusiastic voice screamed into the microphone.
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Chapter 32 : Team BALLs We were in the middle of another Carnival Wars. The second Annual Carnival War Championships have arrived. Over the past year, the BOTs have matured quite a bit. For starters, Soup led his army through many expeditions. The army of wolves, snakes and undead skeletons were becoming stronger and stronger. There were no units below level 200. That means there were no units which were lower level than us! Soup himself came back from the expeditions at a staggering level 302. (Fucking grinder) They travelled to all parts of RR, using the teleporter found in Loki''s church which can teleport them to other churches with a teleporter installed. Usually this involves a cost but because we were so favoured by Loki, money was never a problem. Looking back, we never had money issues since... Forever. Thank god for chaotic melody. No need to spend money on pots at all =DDD When I mean they went all over RR, they literally went all over RR. Soup led his army against several boss monsters. Towards the south he battled with a manticore. One third lion, one third snake and one third dragon. In the east, he fought with the sphinx. (He tried solving the riddle first but he was too dumb. The question was what was Venice most famous for and he answered ¡°Their Taj Mahal.¡±) In the wild wild west, he fought with a Cactusmon. Cactusmon is a type of monster which is, as its name implies, a giant cactus wearing punching gloves. (I''m sorry Digimon I have to rip you off because I can''t think of a better monster to exist in the wild wild west. Please don''t sue me.) Last but not least, towards the icy northlands, he took his army and managed to subdue an abdominable snowman. The snowman was of no joke. It was a whopping level 350 and Soup told us it was the only monster he nearly died to. After finishing boss monsters from all over the world (less the boss of the boss ones like Demons, Dragons, Wyverns, Demigods... You get it.) Soup managed to make such a name of himself that many cities were now trying to hire him to train their army. Carnival which was a new town had managed to get a one year protection from being taken over by a hostile city''s army and it was running out. However, after his achievements, I doubt there would be any city in the world stupid enough to attempt a takeover. The army was one thing to be afraid of but as my beautiful retarded city has turned out, the people here were even scarier. Beathoven has done such a great job managing the city. We had a few new citizens every year and they were welcomed with open arms because Beathoven had a very, very strict criteria to admit new citizens into Carnival. There were 5 extremely hard criterias to fulfill and you have to fulfill at least 3 of them before you could even be considered. This immigration policy was known as the Carnival Rules.
Carnival Rules: 1) Thou must have a unique class no other citizen in the whole of Carnival posseses. 2) Thou must be a masterclass level of a specific profession. (Availability limited) 3) Thou must possess a sense of humour so good that you need to make all 4 founders of Carnival laugh within 1 minute. 4) Thou must be able to turn on Breadtalk because of his poor erectile dysfunction disability. 5) Thou must be able to look at Longbean''s face without laughing.
Simple and easy. Beathoven thought of this in less than an hour. Carnival''s main problem and headache was that too many people wanted to move in here. Our town has become so famous that it received extreme media coverage. Many people gave a nicknames to our town as well. Carnival was still widely used though. More names for our city was ¡°PenisParadise¡± ¡°Dicktopia¡± ¡°RetardResort¡± and last but definitely not least ¡°Jinx Beats Bread & Soup¡±. All of a sudden I became a masochist. Beathoven had done a brilliant job in managing the city. One of the most challenging problems was easily solved. Most people couldn''t even accomplish one of the 5 criterias. Unique classes had already flocked to Carnival because of Carnival Wars and the advantage they had in it. Masterclass artisans were sought after but there were so little of them. It was hard to make me laugh unless you were a Breadtalk caliber person. All 4 of us had very different tastes in humour but since Breadtalk covers all bases for any type of humour only 2 or 3 people I ever remembered succeeded in that one. No one could turn Breadtalk on as well because he simply does not have interest in this sort of thing. And the last one was the biggest hurdle. NO ONE. I repeat. NO ONE. I repeat again. NO FUCKING ANYONE has been able to look at Longbean''s fuckface without laughing. Immigration policies were strict but Beathoven also wanted to make Carnival citizens responsible citizens. He also had policies for them to uphold or else they would be subjected to eviction from this retard city.
Responsibilities of citizens of Carnival. 1) The resident must participate in at least one major event every 3 months. (There was one major event every month). 2) The resident must participate in Carnival Wars at least once per month. (There were Carnival Wars every night.) 3) The resident must make sure his residence in the rainbow sacks looks neat and decorate it to try and differentiate it from the other genetalia in the region. 4) The resident MUST be friendly at all times. Rudeness and unpleasantness is unacceptable. Rowdiness and littering is though as long as its in the name of fun. However please clean up after you had your fun. 5) The resident must drink alcohol at parties. We have no need for pussies here.
Needless to say... No one has ever got evicted out of Carnival. The culture here was so influential here that no one was unhappy. There were never complaints from the residents. Whenever the people saw any of us, the four founders, they would just run up to us and thank us and stuff like that. We were invited to every single party that was in town. Which meant we received at least 3 invites from people every night. There were monthly events that really hyped up our life here though.
January ¨C New Year''s Day Party. February ¨C Who needs a partner when you got Carnival day. March ¨C 10KM fun march. (Attire : Underwear only.) April ¨C Carnival Fools. May ¨C Easter Funday (Every resident has 100 eggs as ammo in a 2 hour ¡°snowball¡± fight) June ¨C Summer Bumper (A huge clubbing night. Death & J?rmungandr came this year.) July ¨C Independence Day (Everyone re-enacts the scene from the movie. I summon the tsunami.) August ¨C Festival Night (Art forms get ALOT of recognition here in Carnival.) September ¨C Wake Me Up When September Ends (Clubbing night 2) October ¨C Rocktoberfest (Halloween and Oktoberfest together) November ¨C Founder''s Day (Celebrates founding of Carnival. The whole town is split into two teams and it''s a Carnival War on the town level as Loki blesses the town for one day. Flags are in the West spine and East spine. All buildings are indestructible for one day. Whole town becomes Carnival War Arena instead of just The Ascension.) December ¨C Christmas (Classic Christmas. The whole town draws lots and plays secret santa. Everyone will receive and give a gift to somebody in town. Season of Giving right.)
Beathoven was quite a planner. Of course some events needed people to be in charge. I was obviously in charge of founder''s day and Independence day. Horse was responsible for Festival Night and Easter Funday. Beathoven was in charge of Christmas, Summber Bumper, Wake me up when September ends and Rocktoberfest since he was the musician. Soup was in charge of the 10KM fun march since he was military and the rest belonged to Breadtalk which was the New Year''s Day Party, Who needs a partner when you got Carnival day and obviously and most successfully, Carnival Fools. Thus, Beathoven shown how much he has helped the town to grow. We were making money in the millions and the culture was ever so good. Skill wise, Beathoven only had time to be training masteries so whenever he had free time he would just practice his skills. Breadtalk and I were similar in the sense that we were actively managing our own roles as Founders of Carnival but we always took time to train our skills. I finished the book J?rmungandr left with me and I learnt about 50 new skills and each one took me a week to get to intermediate mastery and learn it well and since there were so many spells, it wasn''t boring at all. Breadtalk went to increase his affinity with his weapons so he made monthly trips with his weapons, going to their hometown, meeting their parents, understanding them so he would be able to better make use of his abilities. After 10 months, he finished a month''s worth of stay with every weapon and that greatly increased his mastery. He was already master level when we finished the second round of trials and in this past year, he was the only one who made it to ¡°Grandmaster¡± level of mastery over his Loki''s Armoury skill. I only saw the exploding spear in grandmaster form and let me tell you this. Picture all the best looking spears you''ve seen over the past few years be it if they were from Skyrim, Final Fantasy, some anime or some real life medival weapon. That exploding spear was so damn kickass it would kick all their asses. The exploding spear was about 3 meters long, an absurd height considering it was just about 1.5 meters long the first time we saw it.Yet, because of their affinity as well as telepathy, Breadtalk was able to control it like an extension of his body. The spear was jetblack with a red, glowing aura. The tip of the spear had a guard before it that extended out perpendicular to the shaft, making it look somewhat like a crucifix. The tip of the spear was considered as long and it had a glaive sticking out of it midway from the guard to the tip. The tip was completely sharp but it had nice curves from the glaive upwards that exuded even more class and beauty. When he swung it around, the tip of the spear would leave a red trace, something like writing on air with a laser pen and it was beautiful. Flames would also erupt from the base in place of sparks when he clanged it on the ground. Also, the explosions were on a whole different level. Thank god we knew better than to stand near him when he takes out his weapons lest he tested them out on you. Just one year ago, Breadtalk poked Soup''s ass with his plain looking exploding spear for the first time. Omg how time flies. Horse had been busy with festivals and getting over Breadtalk. At first it was rough because not only did she have to see him in RR, she had to see him in school as well. We don''t really hang out in real life but sometimes we share the same break time so when we go to the canteen, sometimes we see Horse and we would just greet and have a short chat. When Horse and Breadtalk saw each other in real life it was ridiculous. Breadtalk would just suddenly try to act funny and retarded which doesn''t really help at all because he is already funny and retarded by default. Horse would just avoid making eye contact with Breadtalk but since we all stand really close to one another she would just stare at our torsos and talk to us. It looked ridiculous but I guess it''s all part of the process. However, over the past year, Sigyn paid her a second visit because she had more than enough mana for it. If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. Horse had to go through a series of tests under Sigyn''s private tutelage. We did not know what she went through but because Sigyn used a private room in the castle, we would occasionally go and eavesdrop on the door and I swear it sounded like someone was slaughtering an extremely noisy cow inside the room. However, after she emerged from the week long training, sure enough she had a change that constituted the face that she had tutelage from a god. Her class changed from assasin to ¡°Murderer¡±. I could not think of a class that could suit her more. That cold disposition. The jet black eyes with a piercing stare. That haughtiness and aura. Murderer indeed. It looks like she did get influenced by Breadtalk quite a bit though. And apparently us as well. From Breadtalk, she picked up the habit of testing her skills out on people. And by people I meant Breadtalk alone. So instead of Breadtalk testing out his weapons on us, Horse was testing her skills on him. On the day she told us her job change, she decided to break to us the new by trying out her new skill, ¡°Without a trace¡±. Without a trace is a skill that worked quite remarkably. Horse would have to go invisible,(or stealth if you would prefer that term) and then deal one instance of damage to an opponent. However the catch was this. The person being damaged would not feel the damage until 10 seconds later. So while Horse was explaining this to us, in precisely 10 seconds, Breadtalk went down. The habit she learnt from us was... Well our obsession with penises. Breadtalk went down alright and he went down clutching his little wee wee like it was going to fly off the instant he let go. Breadtalk''s health also went down to 10% in that instant it happened. However, it technically happened 10 seconds ago so her new skill was amazing. I am sure that she also had other skills that she simply did not make us aware of. However, she too was becoming one of us. A student under teachings from a god. It was apparent that her stats were also inflated. She moved around faster than any of us and I could only use teleport to keep up. If she were to fight 1v1 with anyone excluding me and maybe Soup, the fight would be easily decided. Last but not least, Longbean was unable to get tutelage from a god like us so he went towards a support build. He grinded for levels and raised his defensive skills. He was also my superior in the mana sculpting profession. But not for long. I have been practicing my mana sculpting while practicing the spells so I was soon about to reach master level for mana sculpting as well. Longbean said it took him 2 whole years to get to master level and me achieving it in just one year without trying hard was an insult to him but I really owed him one for teaching me the skill. In my fights now, Manart could deal significant damage and it really just mattered on how creative I get while casting them. We were in the middle of our classic annual Carnival Wars now. It was a charity round because it was a round robin system format. The top 8 teams would fight against each other for a spot in the finals and we already won 6 rounds. This last round would not affect our position as finalists so it was just a match for the sake of it. Our opponent was also confirmed for elimination so only their pride was at stake and maybe a better placing such as 5th instead of 6th or 7th. Even though we didn''t take it seriously, the result was obvious enough. The average level for this annual Carnival Wars has not changed. There was a level limit of 1500 and 10 players as usual. For this Carnival Wars, because Soup was level 302 and we were already in the 150s, we just played it for fun with the 6 of us, me Breadtalk Beathoven Soup Horse and Longbean. Xantos decided to join though and she was about level 250 then. Our total levels were about 1400 and we had seven members. Soup charged in alone at the start, facing 5 warriors head on and taking them all at the same time. A fire mage on the opposing team was about to cast a high level spell on Soup when suddenly, a flaming giant appeared out of his fire magic circle and smashed him into bits. Beathoven just used Surtr and made him teleport to the fire magic circle.(OMG SO SMART THAT NERD) Horse went invisible immediately and told us she would be back with the flag. There was no doubt that she would be. Anyone with true sight would be able to see her but even if you can see her I doubt you can kill her. You would be dead first. Breadtalk was busy being Breadtalk, flying on Xantos around in circles, using his exploding spear which could now be used as a pen that could write in midair. He was asking Xantos to circle around the stadium in the shape of.... Yes you can predict it now can''t you? A penis. We were just penis obsessed idiots. I looked at the battlefield. Soup was taking on 5 at once and his HP was down by about a tenth. The rest of the 5 warriors had a tenth of HP left. Oh well. It''s Soup after all. And he was busy just using his stupid lycan head. His arms were busy because he was folding stars from strips of paper. Yes while fighting. Seemed like Soup found a girl he liked. Beathoven was just asking Surtr to jump around the map for fun and facing the fans, summoning explosions everywhere to wow them since the 8000 fans in The Ascension was growing crazy from witnessing the summon of a god class level monster. Horse was no where to be seen. Breadtalk was drawing penises in the sky. I decided that it was about time I stepped into the fight as well. I made a Blastoise (Sorry Pokemon. I used Digimon already so I decided to be fair and use you too.) and made two penises for his cannons poking out from his turtle shell instead of the usual bazookas. I directed the conjured Blastoise out of water mana to lock his aim onto the crowd Soup was fighting. I fired two highly concentrated blasts of water mana from the penises and they slammed into Soup. Normally after my calculations it would do about 5000 damage but looks like manart gave it 7500 damage. 1.5x increase baby! From a Blastoise using Hydro pump from penis cannons! Easy game easy life. However, Soup had high magic resistance in lycan form to water so his health went down only by about 3000. However, the impact was so huge that the 5 warriors around him died immediately. I proceeded on to use my next skill which I recently learnt from J?rmungandr''s book. It was called Terrasense. I used earth mana to directly imbude my mana into the ground. I then dispersed it and stretched it out across the whole map so I could sense anyone who was in contact with the ground. The other team had 10 people and since their 5 front liners and mage were dead, I tried to locate the other 4. I got a huge surprise. I sensed them alright. All of them. Directly behind me when I was in the castle. They were all thieves with invis. Invisibility didn''t really use mana so I could not sense them with mana intuition but Terrasense told me their exact locations. It looked like they were waiting to ambush me because the 4 of them were just 5 meters away from me, scared to come nearer in case I could sense them I suppose. That''s where a thought went through my mind. I used my earth mana to quickly make earth walls around them and enclosed them within the walls. They were obviously taken by shock as all of them appeared out of invis for the brief split second of time I had to see before the walls were fully closed. Then, I used another spell, microscopy, to shrink the size of the walls. I then changed the shape of the wall to be circular. I made some markings on the ball, made the earth softer but more dense so it was still hard to break through out of it and I went down to one of the lanes which were made of sand. I conjured up a makeshift net and we begun to play beach volleyball, using the earth ball as the volleyball and the 4 unfortunate thieves inside the ball who were the size of about macaronis now. Microscopy was an interesting skill. It shrunk people down but their stats remained the same. The skills they could cast were the same and damage inflicted would be the same. However, everything was still relative. They had the same movement speed but because their legs now were so tiny they would be moving alot slower because their strides are about 1/100th the distance it was. For short, your physical abilities still remain the same but your size disability is a real thing. They did not have enough strength to break out of the earth ball which i reinforced and condensed with earth mana so the crowd now was just busy enjoying an epic beach volleyball match between a wolf, a retard on a bird, some invisible player and me. Beathoven and Surtr were the umpires and Longbean was busy sculpting. After a few nice points, with epic saves and spikes, the ball eventually rolled into a certain spot in the sandy lane. You see the sandy lanes were rigged with landmines and apparently, even though your size changed, your weight didn''t so they were still heavy enough to trigger the landmine. ¡°BOOOOOOOOOM!¡± ¡°ANDDDD THE BUNCH OF TARDS ARE YOUR WINNERS FOR THIS ROUND! AS EXPECTED FROM THE FAVOURITES! THEY NOW MOVE INTO THE GRAND FINALS BY AN IMPRESSIVE SCORE OF 7-0!¡± The emcee announced. ¡°WOOOOO!¡± Breadtalk shouted as he streaked. Horse broke her invis and pulled down Breadtalk''s pants to help emphasize his actions but alas Breadtalk chose a bad day to went full commando style. His dick was hanging like a pendulum. ¡°¡°And Horse does it again!!!!!¡± An enthusiastic voice screamed into the microphone. Yup. Poor Breadtalk was clutching his penis, kneeling down butt naked in front of the crowd and camera while Horse''s face just look like she rubbed her face all over a pink door which was filled with wet paint. The crowd went ¡°OOOFFFFFFFF¡± again and truth be told, out of all the shouts the crowd was capable of, I still liked that one the most. Horse stormed off the platform and we went back to the castle. The final was tomorrow but alas, a surprise was waiting for us. It wouldn''t be an easy final. Not in the least. -Team BALLs (Brotherhood of All Light Legions)- ¡°By Odin, today was close.¡± ¡°Yeah we limited ourselves to 20% of our power but I guess even though we came out 6-1 losing to the BOTs at 20% isn''t too bad.¡± ¡°Duh. Our task at hand is nigh. Let''s show those idiots why Loki isn''t known as powerful among the other gods.¡± ¡°Wait till they taste my hammer.¡±
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Author''s Note : HEY GUYS! Sorry for updating only after like.. 5 days? Since I usually update once every 2-3 days. I''m super busy this week because of the WTA finals in Singapore! (Any tennis fans out there? I saw many of the players hitting on centre court :grin: ) Sorry but tennis is my most favourite pastime maybe even better than writing so I''m busy with my volunteer shifts and I''ll be unable to update for the next week which is the main tournament )= However i''ll be back to business as usual after that so please be patient! I need to watch over Sharapova and Bouchard to make sure all their needs are met <333 but honestly you guys are damn important too. Please continue your support and I hope this chapter sparks your interest in what''s to come =D I love you guys. Chapter 33 : The Clash ¡°LADIES AND GENTLEMEN BOYS AND GIRLS, THIS IS ITTTTT MAKE SOME NOISE!¡± The whole stadium roared their usual welcome and stamped their feet so hard that the whole earth seemed to shake. It was my favourite part of participating in Carnival Wars. The crowd. They made it so much fun for us and all the top teams even had to sign autographs after the match like tennis or soccer players should they show up around town. ¡°On the left side of the stadium, in the blue castle, we have our defending champions, the BOTS!!!!¡± The crowd roared their usual welcome for their favourites which were us and we stepped out of the castle to greet the crowd. Flames shot out from both sides of the entrance and fireworks appeared above the roof of our castle. All of us looked around at the full house of 8000 fans and waved to everyone with the exception of Breadtalk. He was busy running around the perimeter of the arena and trying to make a wave before he tripped and fell over himself. I would give him a hand but I wanted to save my mana before the big fight. Honestly though none of the teams we met in the round robin proved too much of a threat. ¡°And on the right side of the stadium, in the red castle, we have the challengers, the BALLS!¡± 7 of them stepped out from the other castle and the same thing happened. Flames shot up from the ground and fireworks ensued. Honestly they had a very catchy name for a team and I loved it. We met in the middle of the round robin and they were a balanced team. However, out of all the teams we fought they weren''t very... Strong. We were insanely strong because of our jobs and underleveledness but they were 7 people all in the level 200s and they were abit weak despite of a few catchy job classes. Carnival Wars reveal the job class of the participants so it wasn''t a secret. In team BALLS, there was one Winter Huntress, one Elementalist, one Blade Master, one Undying, one Lancer, one Hammer Chieftan and one Harbringer of Death. If we divided them into their branches, the winter huntress and blade master were of the dexterity classes, the elementalist and undying were of intelligence classes and the lancer, hammer chiefan and harbringer of death was of the strength classes. They were very very synergised and well balanced. The last time we fought against them though, Soup just went through all 7 of them by himself while the 6 of us made some coffee using a fire I made, Breadtalk''s porcupine hammer and and some coffee beans that Xantos managed to find before coming to the match. However, this time, when team BALLS stepped out of the castle, my mana intuition kicked in. I sensed an unexplainable force coming out not from one of them but all 7 of them. It was a quiet, strong radiation of energy. It was not as bad as when I first encountered Death and was too terrified to even move but there was no doubt about it. If they could subconsciously release this amount of aura and of such purity because I can see the intensity of the colours, they were definitely strong. Stronger than any team we''ve met before. I knew immediately that they hid their strength from us because they wanted to show us their full strength only in the finals. This was the reason why they were 6-1 in the round robin despite appearing so weak. The introduction ceremony ended and both teams went back into their castle for a 10 minute discussion that was always given to the teams before the match started. I was the only astute one among the 7 of us so I needed to catch them up to speed of what was happening. ¡°Bad news guys. The other team, I could feel their mana auras using my mana intuition and I tell you its going to be bad. The other time we fought against them, they hid their strength and the experience cannot be used in this before action review at all. It''s going to be against a completely different team. I think it''s looking bad.¡± I said solemnly. ¡°THOSE SNEAKY ASSHOLES.¡± Breadtalk said before he bolted out of the room. In all the past times in Carnival wars, no one tried to leave the castle before the 10 minutes of pre match time was up but apparently you were able to do so. He slammed the door down and ran over the the red castle to find team BALLS. Alas, it looks like you could only leave your castle, not enter your opponent''s castle. The moment he touched the door of the other castle, he was flung 10 meters backwards with an electric shock. ¡°OWWWWWWWWWWW!¡± Breadtalk squealed as he squirmed on the floor clutching his hand. He tried many ways to get in. He kicked, he tried the window, he used a rock on one of the lanes to smash the door and each and every time he got the same effect. Finally, he took out his weapon of the day which was the clown gun which was now an absurd size for dual pistols. He let loose a barrage of shots at the door. And... The clown faces that erupted from the barrel bounced off the door and headed straight back towards Breadtalk. ¡°BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!¡± In my party window I saw Breadtalk''s health go down to about 20%. The crowd roared in laughter and team BALLS even peeked outside the upper level window to see what was the commotion and laughed at Breadtalk. I cast a heal on him to bring him back to 100% and asked Horse to bring him back to the castle. The moment Horse stepped out of the castle to bring Breadtalk back, he ran towards our castle and started apologising to her immediately. No one was more scared of Horse than Breadtalk and it was really funny to watch. Upon reaching back, Breadtalk said: ¡°I tried to go in their castle to let loose my fart I''ve been storing for 3 days but for some reason their door just won''t open. Oh by the way I overexerted myself already so I let it loose like 5 seconds ago.¡± The room began to stink up. And Breadtalk was flung out of the room out of our discussion. Best friends don''t need to include everyone in a meeting. Best friends just do what the other party deserves. The crowd laughed their asses off as the two teams could be seen on the screen discussing tactics while Breadtalk was just rolling around in the sand making sandangels on one of the lanes. And he triggered a landmine in the process. Soon, the 10 minutes were up and we decided on a game plan. Breadtalk as usual would just be an unpredictable wild card that could tip the fight in either team''s favour. ¡°AND NOW, WE BEGIN THE SECOND ANNUAL CARNIVAL WARS CHAMPIONSHIPS! WHO WILL BE CROWNED FOR THE SECOND TIME IN CARNIVAL WAR HISTORY?¡± Horse immediately went into stealth and as a murderer, she could take someone into stealth with her so we decided immediately that she would take Xantos and stealth both of them for extremely high mobility and she could be able to do whatever she liked. However, the moment she stealthed Xantos and flew off with her, the winter huntress on the other side immediately flung a spear seemingly at random into an empty space but it was without a doubt where Xantos was flying to. She had true sight and could see invisible units. I immediately conjured up a wall of earth to stop the spear and decided to prioritise my attacks on her to make sure she would be unable to interrupt Horse and Xantos'' plan. Soup went charging down the middle lane as per usual and the representative on the other side was the harbringer of death. Soup went into lycan mode and the other guy immediately took out his halberd which looked even more incredulous than Breadtalk''s spear. It was gleaming golden with silver outlines and emitting a holy light so pure I estimated it to be about 80% light affinity which I did not even have. They clashed claw against halberd in the middle of the arena and a melee so ferocious no one could even interrupt occured. Beathoven immediately went into the castle and summoned Surtr into the fight after blessing us with chaotic melody. Apparently, the other side had their undying do the same thing. She went into the castle and raised an army of trolls from no where. She raised like 30 level 100+ trolls from nowhere and they just could not be ignored. Breadtalk cast Loki''s armoury and when I saw which weapon he had gotten from all the fanatical acts he did just now, I could not be happier. I could barely recognise how it had changed since we last had it for an epic fight but it was without a question the weapon why we got here in the first place. Breadtalk was suddenly inside a vehicle that looked like a batmobile with one clear difference. There was a hugeass cannon 3 times the size of the missle launcher he previously had and it looks like masterclass mastery really was worth all the trouble. He let loose a gigantic missle towards the harbringer and Soup and I casted divine shield on Soup immediately as he leapt backwards to avoid the missle. The impact was so huge that the whole ground shook and everyone was vaguely distracted from their fights. Soup then immediately went to clear the trolls which were streaming to our side because 1vmany fights were his specialty. Especially if they were weaker than him. Breadtalk then rushed over in his tank to shoot missles continuously at Harbringer. However, he was a fast mover and he moved too fast to get a clean hit or anywhere near him. However, the look on his face showed that even he could not take a direct hit out of any of the projectiles Breadtalk was hurtling at him, keeping him at bay. Suddenly, I saw a huge blue glow so pure from the bottom of my feet I immediately knew what was coming. I used teleport immediately out of the glowing blue circle on the ground and I was surprised. Usually I had about 1 second to react to incoming spells with my mana intuition but this spell was almost immediate. The blue circle lasted for about only 0.3 seconds and if not for electrical impulse with my improved reaction time, I would have been caught in the huge geyser that erupted from the floor. That elementalist was good. Looks like his job was to fight with me but I had to keep the winter huntress busy as well.... I decided to use some cheat move I learnt from my mana sculpting. I made a sculpture of myself immediately and froze the mana to make it look like I suddenly did a shadow clone no jutsu. (Yes now it''s a ripoff naruto I''m going to have so many copyright issues.) I then used one part of my mind to control the ¡°Clone¡±. It was just a fake body, incapable of anything but since I could split my mind into so many parts, I could potentially make that many clones and make it seem that they are independent of me and could use spells at will. The good part about this spell was that the opponent would legitly think that I split my mana into two between me and the clone so both of us could fight but the answer couldn''t be more different. I was just using more spells using different parts of my mind but the clone itself took me virtually no mana. It took just 2000 mana to make an exact replica of myself. Short change if you take into account that both chaotic melody and my ouroboros seal had mana regeneration now. I sent my clone after the elementalist because usually they suck at close combat and I tried to concentrate my offensive spells on both of them. Longbean was busy assisting Breadtalk defensively because all he was doing is driving around in his minitank with a hugeass cannon firing missles everywhere. Horse and Xantos finally revealed themselves after they grabbed the flag from inside the opponents castle because whenever someone grabs te flag, any form of invisibility is broken and what I saw made me speechless. Horse was sprinting at full speed from the inside of the castle because a huge frost giant was on her tail. The frost giant read ¡°Ymir¡± which was clearly a boss level beast. Surtr then charged straight at Ymir and a fight between two god level beasts occured. During this time, the lancer was riding on a golden-maned horse chasing after Soup but ever since Ymir was summoned presumably by the undying, all the trolls were gone and Soup just engaged with the lancer. He was holding a lance so huge it was about as long as Breadtalk''s spear but about 30 times the thickness at the very end. Looks like a hugeass barbecue stick that could easily hold 1000 sausages. The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. The harbringer and Chieftan then came towards our castle when Xantos flew back and tried to engage them. The flag cannot be held by any flying units so Xantos was unable to hold the flag. The blademaster was engaging Horse but in a very weird way. His blade was seemingly enchanted because the blade flew over to Horse and begun attacking her on its own. The blade master ran into our castle and also took our flag, trying to bring it back to his castle as well. My hands were full with two high level opponents on my tail. I had to avoid the huge spells the elementalist was throwing at me as well as the high speed spears which were thrown by the winter huntress who moved at an amazingly fast speed. The battle was developing in a weird way. It seemed that both teams were prioritizing the capture of the flag over the beating down of the opponents and now both teams were trying to bring the flag back to their own base. Suddenly, the first major development happened. Soup was now powered up by the few trolls he killed and since a good amount of time passed since the start of the battle, his gladiator''s rage was beginning to kick in. He managed to fling the lancer off his horse by destroying the horse first. Stupid Soup was clever sometimes. He then engaged the lancer from the ground where the lancer was considerably weaker instead of horseback and he managed to kill the lancer after a short burst of unholy rage and howl. It was crazy. His attack power just shot up 300% in that 10 seconds and the health bar of the lancer went down so fast it was like watching you download a 4mb song. He then ran over to the hammer chieftan and begun giving him the same hell which also reduced his health like he was some level 1000 boss. However, shortly after that, he was impaled from the back by the halberd of the harbringer of death. The result was instantaneous. Soup, even with his extremely high defence and HP, was instantly killed by the Halberd because the harbringer used a spell which made the Halberd grow so bright that my eyes could not even see that size of the aura clearly. The purity of it alone showed how potent it was. How did he even get behind Soup so fast? I looked around and found Xantos also dead on the floor. What a terrifying being. However, Surtr managed to subdue Ymir because of the advantage he had in type. Fire would clearly have an advantage over ice so now, Surtr was storming the castle looking for the undying while she was trying to flee from the flaming giant. She was quite fast and had a spell that could help her teleport. OMG a summoner with teleport? How to kill fucking OP omg everyone here is OP. I calmed myself down. I cast a small fireball out of thin air behind the undying while I was fighting with the other 2 and it did the trick. Surtr could teleport to any fire source so a huge flamist fist erupted from the fireball and caught the undying dead in her tracks. Needless to say that was 2 down for each team now. We had no more front line tank and flying bird and they lost their back row summoner along with their front line tank. However, they still had three front liners left while we had... None. Horse was still busy fighting the sword of the blade master while he was almost reaching his own base. This was the fun part. When the battle started, I secretly casted 10 aeroglyphs on the floor near the entrance of the castle of high purity so in the event where the person did try to enter the castle with our flag, he would be flung about 100 meters backwards which was near our base. I watched the blade master run to his castle in pure joy and delight andddddd ¡°WHAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!¡± He screamed as he triggered all 10 aeroglyphs and was flung back towards our castle within 10 meters of me. I quickly disengaged from the elementalist and used poison torrent on him. However, he was of a high level so the poison torrent had to be of considerable mana, about 100000 before he was put down and out. He also dropped our flag. But the sword was still fighting Horse. It seemed like he wasn''t controlling the sword. The sword was a rare item which could fight by itself no matter what. Suddenly I realised what to do with the sword. It was such a simple solution but because I was so preoccupied it slipped my mind. I used earth magic to encase the sword in stone and made it so dense that the sword could not move and that was all she wrote. Horse sprinted away to our castle full speed ahead. However, the next casualty also happened. Breadtalk managed to fire missles at the elementalist and huntress after I disengaged from them while they killed my clone but that also left him open to the Harbringer of death. He piereced the vehicle with his halberd and swung it such that he sliced the vehicle wide open and killed Longbean in the process. What a play killing two with one swing of his halberd. JUST WHAT WAS WITH THAT HALBERD. Horse then was sprung by a trap even I could not detect with my terrasense nor mana intuition because it was a trap made mechanically by the huntress. She was snared on the spot and was unable to move. Uh oh. Just then, Surtr managed to sneak behind the huntress and managed to kill her as well because she was also affiliated to ice and was susceptible to fire attacks. The elementalist however, managed to bring Surtr down using a wide array of high quality water spells aimed at the castle which disarmed Beathoven for awhile so he was unable to play and Surtr would be unsummoned. Beathoven without Surtr, a Horse which cannot move and me against the harbringer of death, the elementalist, and the hammer chieftan. The hammer chieftan was now busy hammering Horse while she tried to take it the best she can while the harbringer of death and elementalist concentrated their attacks on me. I could not save Horse as I had my hands full. Beathoven however, was full of surprises as usual. Aside from summoning Surtr, it seemed he had many other things he could do. He played a song that sounded so eerie I had goosebumps in the middle of my fight and the next thing I know, some demon took the place of Beathoven. He shapeshifted into this demon which had wings, a blackened body with red lines akin to blood vessels all over his body and he grew to be about 2.2m in height now. He then put his palms in the shape of a haduken (street fighter is a must too right) and shot our a black bolt so fast that he immediately caught out the elementalist. Direct hit and his health was definitely low now. I seized my opportunity. I teleported immediately beside him and put my palm on him. J?rmungandr''s spell book really had peculiar spells which were useful in many situations. I put my palm on him and immediately casted five spells at once. Mana drain, A spell which could drain mana from someone and convert it into my own mana. Frostbite, which enclosed the target in ice so he would become completely immobile and take damage over time. Toxic, which had the highest posion damage over time in my arsenal. I also casted mana shield on myself since I recovered enough mana from sucking the elementalist dry. Mana shield takes the damage I receive and reduces it from my mana instead of my HP. I used 100000 mana so I could take about 100,000 damage before my mana shield wears off. The last spell I cast was a build up spell that took 200,000 mana from me. I used high concentrations of lightning, water and fire mana to conjour up a dense army of clouds within the arena. They are part of a cycle where the water will get evaporated by the fire before getting charged by the electricity to form a huge pack of storm clouds overhead and the cycle would repeat itself until saturation point where I get to decide on one target. It was a sort of cyclic attack which was specified in the book J?rmungandr gave me. An ouroboros type of skill since it relied on a cycle and the result was an extremely devastating single target spell. I chose the hammer chieftan and immediately, the huge pack of storm clouds let loose their charged lightning all on him. However, the hammer chieftan raised his hammer and the electricity all went into the hammer and he redirected it towards all 3 of us. Beathoven and Horse instantly died while my mana shielf broke and I almost died. I looked at his hammer. It was unmistakably the legendary hammer, mjollnir that could even control the heavens. If i could kick myself then I would for such a stupid move but I would have probably died. I healed myself to full HP and checked my mana levels. I had about 100,000 mana left and staring at me were the harbringer of death and hammer chieftan. The harbringer of death then summoned an eight legged horse which I recognised as Slepinir and took the flag, mounting the horse while the hammer chieftan came charging towards me. I decided on my options. I used the same aeroglyph spell and stacked them at the entrance again. I then used 80,000 mana in an instant, teleporting behind the hammer chieftan, touching him and using the same 5 spells I did from the elementalist but this chieftan did not have the same amount of mana the elementalist did. He became the frozen popsicle that took damage over time while i rechecked my mana. 50,000. Just then, the horse stepped on the aeroglyph I had set but as the horse flew back, the harbringer jumped off the horse and was about to step inside. I used aeroglyphs again to force him back but he planted his halberd into the ground and stood firm. I only had 30000 mana left now. I had no choice. I used a huge chunk of it to teleport that long distance and just as my palm touched him, he swung his halberd 360 degrees, slicing me into half. ¡°WHAT A FIGHT AND WHAT AN UPSET! TEAM BALLS SNAG A CONVINCING WIN AGAINST THE CHAMPIONS TO EARN THEMSELVES THE CROWN FOR THIS YEAR!¡± The annoying loud microphone screamed as the only thing I could hear aside from by body screaming in pain as i fade into my unconsiousness.
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Author''s note : Sorry guys! I''ve been so busy everyday with only 5-6 hours of sleep per day for the past 2 weeks I really feel damn tired. I finally have a free day today so the first thing I do is give you all one new chapter to end your wait see so nice of me right MUAHAHA. But honestly though its been a crazy couple of weeks in real life and today is the finals of the WTA tennis finals! Gotta go catch it later as well so here''s to the busy people out there, we should always remember to make time for the things we love to do (= Hope you all enjoy this chapter! All 7 of team BALLS have a god behind them too so let''s see how well you know your Norse mythology! Chapter 34 : The Rally However, no fireworks went off just yet. The ¡°me¡± fading into unconscious split cleanly into two, with no blood or insides spilling out or vanishing. It was just rock hard mana hitting the floor. I was underground using a spell called ¡°Hide underground¡± which was a pretty basic earth spell that could made me sink underground. Using terrasense, I controlled that mana clone of me to try to finish off the harbringer remotely but alas the plan failed. Just what the hell is that weapon? Even Loki''s armoury doesn''t have something like that. I considered my resources. I had 15000 mana and 2000 health left. Not a lot to work with considering my opponent now just wiped out Breadtalk, Longbean, Soup and Xantos single handedly... My only hope was to use a mana drain but how am I supposed to do it? Plus he was just a few seconds away from victory. All he had to do was step into his own castle with our flag. I could not teleport to get our flag and teleport back into our castle. Units holding the flag were banned from using teleportation or flying skills. I decided that prolonging the pain was even worse. I quickly emerged out of the earth and used all the mana I had left to teleport behind the harbringer. As I rose from the ground I could hear the crowd cheering like crazy and the emcee gibbering some inaudible rubbish. I was only fixated on mana draining that asshole. I felt the physical contact. ¡°Mana drain.¡± My mana bar didn''t move. Not in the slightest. It did not even increase by 100. He turned around and gave me a wry smile. This time, the pain from the halberd was real and because he was so close the illumination from the spear already made me feel like I was in heaven before the weapon came into contact with me. All of a sudden, I found myself outside of the battlefield outside the transparent dome where we do battle in with the rest of my teammates. ¡°Even you lost eh Jinx.¡± Soup said. ¡°NO FAIR HE SOME OP MONSTER NOOOO FAIRRRRRRR.¡± Breadtalk sat on the ground flailing his arms rolling around until he found his head in between Horse''s legs again. ¡°OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH¡± The crowd went. I think i need not specify what happened. I swear that her class was meant not only for battle but to decapacitate Breadtalk in ways only one with perverse imagination could picture. Then the champion''s award ceremony began. The whole team BALLs were transported inside the glass dome again and fireworks erupted into the air. Sure we were the favourites but the residents of Carnival did not jeer or boo them. They appreciated the high level plays that got them to where they were which was the deserving title of champion. Honestly though what was up with the harbringer of death? Despite being engaged by at least 4 of us with each of us dealing some instance of damage at least, he still looked like he could fight another Carnival War battle this instant. I just looked both in admiration and jealousy at such a monstrous individual. His teammates were also not shabby. Looks like my mana intuition was spot on. Breadtalk''s mana force seemed to be getting weaker and weaker by the second though due to numerous holes he had in his body due to the courtesy of Horse. ¡°Median heal.¡± ¡°Thanks Jinx I owe you one I love you I thought I was dying my whole life was flashing before me. I was thinking of the time I rolled down the stairs on purpose in primary school to make my crush laugh and the time I went to your house and tried on your nice underwear but thanks man.¡± ¡°Divine Judgement.¡± Horse gave me a high 5. Most of us looked dejected like losers should look like but surprisingly most of us took it quite well. Sure we lost as favourites but honestly in terms of raw power I think team BALLs were on the higher side. All our fights were always entertaining though especially when I saw Breadtalk roll a 9 on his Loki''s Entourage. Looks like only with a 10 would we be able to win against them. The awards ceremony proceeded as usual, with the exception of the winner''s speech. It was not a winner''s speech at all. It was more of a declaration of war. ¡°Good evening everybody. My name is Genesis. I am the harbringer of death just like my class states and I think I should introduce myself to all of you. My class was confered onto me by none other than the god of all gods, Odin. He favoured me and made me his favourite disciple thus you see in my hands, a replica with a taste of my own touch, none other than Gungnir. I was sent here on a mission and the mission is to exterminate the BOTs and anyone associated with their cause.¡± By this juncture, the whole crowd really did us proud. Booing and jeering with tons of vulgarities thrown into the midst and spells casted towards the invulnerable transparent dome showed our immense popularity, even after losing the championship battle. Genesis just decided to drone on. ¡°My god sent me here because he has reasons to believe that Loki is up to something. We have intel that Breadtalk is the disciple of Loki who would start what is known as Ragnar?k. This is a very serious thing as it would change the hierarchy of this universe and tilt the balance of the world. ¡°You mean your god is a pussy who''s scared that he would be usurped!¡± Breadtalk screamed while his HP was still at quite a low percentage. ¡°Along with me, the gods sent their disciples along with me to stop this madness. To my left you see Trina, the winter huntress, descendent of Skadi. There is also FireFireFire, hammer chieftan, descendent of Thor. Then, there is Maxmystical, elementalist, disciple of Njord.¡± No wonder the elementalist had such high mana and such high quality water and ice spells. I was busy avoiding fighting with him head on because my mana intuition had the sense that his spells were of such high purity they would no doubt overpower anyone of mine if I clashed head on with him. Also, the winter huntress had true sight which was extremely rare along with those ice spears. It all just made sense now. It had never occurred to me that the other gods were making their move. No wonder the hammer chieftan had Mjollnir with him as well he was Thor''s disciple! That meant that eventually he would be the one to cross swords with my master, Jormungandr. ¡°To my right, there is MidandFeed, blade master and disciple of Freyr. Cheeballs, Undying and disciple of Freyja and last but not least, Morgan the Strong, Lancer, disciple of Magni.¡± It all made so much sense now. The only way we the BOTs could lose in a Carnival Wars was to disciples of the gods in the other faction. I looked at Genesis and I realised. Odin was known for being the god of war and death. He specialised in light magic with affinity to skies and owned the mount Slepinir. There was no doubt that Genesis was telling the truth. And I also remembered that one of the rarest rings in the game, Draupnir, was owned by Odin and the effects state that everything owned by the ringbearer cannot be taken control over. It was an especially important ring for summoners since there were skills to steal summons etc but that must have been the reason why mana drain did not work on him. I could not take away anything that was his. ¡°The seven of us have been gathered to fight against the BOTs and we are all aware that this place, Carnival as you call it, has been built for one main purpose. A harbouring site for troops that will engage us at the time of Ragnar?k. Is it not Breadtalk??¡± He turned around and looked at our direction. ¡°Breadtalk quick he''s looking for a reply.¡± Beathoven ushered him. ¡°Wait he''s still bleeding from Jinx''s attack he''s actually almost dead now.¡± ¡°Do we let him die?¡± ¡°Median heal.¡± No way in hell am I getting a murderer''s mark over this. ¡°Ahh much better. NOW LOOK HERE YOU PUSSIES. AND ALL YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS IF THEY ARE LOOKING AT THIS SCENE TOO!¡± Breadtalk started. ¡°They are disciples of the gods not children you sunnavabitch.¡± Horse reminded him. ¡°Oh yeah. Sorry. But don''t you start on my mother you idiot.¡± ¡°You started it!¡± ¡°NOT NOW!¡± I said. The whole crowd''s attention was on us now and I have no doubt all the gods were watching this. Not just Odin and his faction. Our masters would be watching too. ¡°Ahem. As I was saying. DATS RIGHTTTTTTTT! 100 POINTS TO TEAM ODIN! Carnival was built to harbour the troops needed to fight against you and your idiotic gods and I''m not afraid to admit it. You can beat us in Carnival Wars but trust me you''re gonna need to go through alot more than just us. To the citizens of Carnival, you have your choice in front of you now that the secret is out. The gods will no doubt try to vanquish this city of ours to try to attain ¡°Peace¡± and ¡°Righteousness¡± but I just ask you this. Will you just calmly vacate the city because you know it''s going to be under siege? Or will you take up your arms and be part of this SSS rank quest to revolutionise RR as we know it? We need a new hierarchy. Odin has gone on for long enough. If Loki became the new ruler instead I bet 10 new cities like Carnival will be built overnight and as residents of this place, will you stand up and fight for it knowing that only the most powerful in the world will come for us?¡± Breadtalk shouted into his microphone which was stupid because it was a microphone. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. There was a brief moment of silence. ¡°I''LL GO WHEREVER YOU GO BREADTALK!¡± Someone from the stands shouted. ¡°SOUPPPPPPPP!¡± what sounded like all the girls in the stadium shouted. ¡°BEATHOVEN BEATHOVEN BEATHOVEN!¡± More people shouted. ¡°JINXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!¡± I was glad I had a fan club too. Looks like we did a good job. We never did want our Carnival to be just a site for strong people who could help in the war. We gave them a sense of identity, a place they wanted to belong more than anywhere else and with that, it was of little doubt that the whole insane town of Carnival had no qualms about waging war with the most powerful deities in this universe. ¡°Fools.¡± said Genesis before turning to leave. The seven of them took off from the centre stage admist the huge jeering and booing from the crowd and it looks like from now on we had a lot to do. Not just for our sakes but for one whole city worth of awesome people''s sake. We had to hold an immediate town meeting the next day in order to address the many questions that were posted to us. Most of them are like ¡°Can we really be involved in a rank SSS quest?¡±, ¡°Can I ask my friend from another city to join us in this fight?¡±, ¡°Are we going to go to heaven to fight them?¡± The questions ranged from extremely stupid to extremely interesting so we had to address this issue immediately. -The next morning- ¡°Good Morning everyone. I''m glad all of you came to the town square upon such short notice last night for this urgent meeting. Jinx will be briefing you all about what really is going on and the founders will take any additional questions only after the brief.¡± Beathoven began. ¡°Okay awesome Carnivalists. Here''s the thing. Breadtalk is the disciple of Loki, the god who wanted to start this revolution because he feels that he wa locked up for something he did not deserve and we share the same viewpoint. Everyone should know that the prophecy exists. Ragnar?k will happen due to Loki''s act and it is actually already in motion. The moment he made Breadtalk his disciple, the wheels of fate started to turn. We were taken under wings of his children, the main opponents of the gods in Ragnar?k. I am coached by Jormungandr, the world serpent thus my seemingly endless mana. Beathoven is coached by Hel thus came his new summoning and transformation prowess. Soup is coached by Fenrir which explains his lycan form. Horse is coached by Sigyn who is Loki''s wife. Of course the other side has more gods and they have 7 of them but it is not the quantity that matters. Sure Odin is king for a reason but he has allowed this to happen to this extent and this will be his greatest downfall.¡± ¡°We made Carnival a place which would eventually host the army for Ragnar?k. However, we did not want to force you all into this. We wanted the population to decide whether a place like this is worth defending and fighting for at the expense of your lives. The fountain I made which you can see from this town square. The moment 3 years pass, the fountain will collapse into a dark pool of concentrated X element mana. That will signify the start of Ragnar?k. If you read the inscription of the fountain you would have figured that much.¡± ¡°We have an army of snakes, wolves and undead soldiers in the castle already and all of them are at least level 200. They are troops given to us by Jormungandr, Fenrir and Hel accordingly. However, these troops are not enough. We need adventurers like us brave enough to venture to the faraway lands of Niflheim and the likes. We offer you nothing but this city and many more like this should we emerge victorious and the chance to participate in an SSS rank class quest. This will not be easy, but this will be worth it.¡± ¡°To answer more questions you might have. We will only take citizens of Carnival on this quest. Outsiders will not be allowed to participate because we need useful people who really love this place. Not leechers who just want in and do nothing for it. The minimum level you need to reach is 300 by the time Ragnar?k starts. Any lower and you will just be a burden because you can expect that there will be no one below level 300 there. We have exactly 1 year and 11 months left before Ragnar?k starts. Masterclass artisans are the only exception to the level 300 rule as we may need their services in blacksmithing, enchanting etc during the war. Those are my main points. Any more questions?¡± I asked the crowd. A hand shot up into the air. ¡°Can I have your autograph please?¡± I used my manart to draw a huge penis on his face before signing on his shirt. ¡°Please don''t be like that dickhead. Any more questions pertaining to Ragnar?k?¡± I asked. ¡°How will we be split to fight the oncoming troops?¡± Someone asked. ¡°That''s what I''m talking about. This looks like a question for none other than Genital Soup, I mean General Soup to answer.¡± I pointed to Soup who was standing and sleeping at the same time. Horse kicked Soup in the nuts. ¡°OHHHHHHHHELLOOOOOO GAISSSS.¡± Soup greeted them in mid pain. ¡°I will split you all up into different teams based on your jobs. I have a pretty good idea of where to deploy certain groups of people. Especially after yesterday''s fight. However, I will not say it now lest there is some spies amongst our midst.¡± Another hand shot up into the air. ¡°Will we be able to get coaching from the gods as well?¡± ¡°Good question but I highly doubt so. They are hard pressed to coach us further more one whole city of people. However, we could teach you all some things the gods taught us.. This is a good idea. Okay how about this. 3 months before Ragnar?k starts, we will hold a clinic to teach you all some upper level skills the gods has passed onto us so that you all will be able to use them as well during the fight? I think you all need that to fight better as well.¡± Horse suggested. All of us agreed. One final hand shot into the air. ¡°Do you think we have a good chance of winning?¡± All of us looked at each other. ¡°I honestly don''t know. All I can say to that is if we never even try, we will never ever know.¡± I replied as honestly as I could. However, the looks on all the citizens of Carnival remained unchanged. They knew we were telling the truth. We were not the sort of rulers to lie to the masses to avoid a massive panic attack. Everyone knew our true characters. We were just idiot jokers who would do anything in real life acceptable enough not to become criminal acts for fun. What would stop us from doing the same here in RR? ¡°I understand that this might be alot of news for you all to take in at once. However, the enemy should already have begun their preparations for us as well so we have no time to waste. I only have one quote I would like to share with all of you. It''s how I live my life and play my games. My friends know that as well. Guys care to tell them what it is?¡± I prompted. ¡°Why would I want to win anything else but a beautiful game?¡± They answered. The whole town of Carnival may be fun loving idiots but they sure as hell were not dumbasses. All of them understood my message and gave a roar of approval, acknowledgement and the most of all, excitement.
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Chapter 35 : The Beginning Of The End Alas, the time was approaching. The past 23 months were filled with priceless adventuring, fighting, partying in RR with us still schooling in real life, managing to scrape past our tests by listening in class and copying homework. All that in preparation for the beginning of the end. Carnival has turned into a stronghold containing a whole army of troops ready to fight against the gods for what we believe in. Pure, unadulterated fun. This is the beginning of the end. -Jinx-
[quart=Character name,Jinx]Alignment,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,420]Class,Elemental Swordsman[/quart][quart=Title,N/A]Race,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,120000]Infamy,0[/quart][quart=Health,7000]Mana,20000[/quart][quart=Strength,200]Dexterity,200[/quart][quart=Wisdom,100]Intellect,2000[/quart][quart=Vitality,200]Affinity to Nature,60%[/quart][quart=Leadership,60000]Luck,20[/quart] [quart=Charisma,5000]Endurance,500[/quart][quart=Perseverance,500]Sustenance,600[/quart][quart=Art,10000]Concentration,5000[/quart][quart=Attack,1570]Defense,1070[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,3000]Magic Resistance,20%[/quart]
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Elemental AffinitiesFire +15% Ice +15% Water +30% Wind +15% Lightning +30% Earth+25% Gravity+20% Light +30% Dark +30%
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any swords and use up to leather armour +500 Health +1000 Mana Able to use magic and swordplay simultaneously No miscast penalty due to spell failure due to absence of magic circles Member of both the Intelligence and Warrior Guilds Direct Disciple of J?rmungandr
Following skills maxed out at master level 9 (99%): Mana Manipulation Manart Ouroboros Seal Katana Mastery Cooking Teleport Divine Judgement Electrical Impulse Wind Steps -Soup-
[quart=Character name,Soup]Alignment,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,510]Class,Lycanhero[/quart][quart=Title,N/A]Race,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,100000]Infamy,0[/quart][quart=Health,50000]Mana,200[/quart][quart=Strength,2000]Dexterity,300[/quart][quart=Wisdom,100]Intellect,20[/quart][quart=Vitality,1000]Affinity to Nature,0%[/quart][quart=Leadership,50000]Luck,0[/quart][quart=Charisma,4000]Endurance,2500[/quart][quart=Perseverance,1500]Sustenance,3000[/quart][quart=Attack,2450]Defense,2250[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,3000]Magic Resistance,20%[/quart]
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Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Ability to wield up to Heavy weapons and armour +2000 Health Reduction of 5% of incoming damage regardless of type Higher propensity for perseverance,sustenance and vitality to gain stats Able to use any kind of weapon Member of the Warrior Guild Direct Disciple of Fenrir
Following skills maxed out at master level 9 (99%): Gladiator''s Rage Howl Berserker''s Call Repair Blacksmithing Lycanform Wolf''s Regeneration (Passive) Lycanthirst -Beathoven-
[quart=Character name,Beathoven]Alignment,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,410]Class,Rhapsodist[/quart][quart=Title,N/A]Race,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,10000]Infamy,0[/quart][quart=Health,8000]Mana,5000[/quart][quart=Strength,50]Dexterity,150[/quart][quart=Wisdom,2000]Intellect,50[/quart][quart=Vitality,200]Affinity to Nature,0%[/quart][quart=Leadership,3000]Luck,10[/quart][quart=Charisma,1000]Endurance,500[/quart][quart=Art,20000]Concentration,3000[/quart][quart=Perseverance,1000]Sustenance,1000[/quart][quart=Attack,100]Defense,100[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,3000]Magic Resistance,5%[/quart]
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Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any instrument and use up to leather armour +1500 Health +1500 Mana Ability to concentrate more easily in order to play music Music can only buff party members and/or debuff monsters Member of the Musician''s Guild Direct Disciple of Hel
Following skills maxed out at master level 9 (99%): Music Mastery Chaotic Melody Summon Surtr Metamorphosis Divided We Stand Gateway To Hel Draugar Parade Summon Fafnir -Breadtalk-
[quart=Character name,Breadtalk]Alignment,Holy[/quart][quart=Level,410]Class,Joker[/quart][quart=Title,N/A]Race,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,30000]Infamy,15000[/quart][quart=Health,10000]Mana,5000[/quart][quart=Strength,200]Dexterity,200[/quart][quart=Wisdom,200]Intellect,200[/quart][quart=Vitality,400]Affinity to Nature,0%[/quart][quart=Leadership,1000]Luck,3200[/quart][quart=Perseverance,500]Sustenance,500[/quart][quart=Attack,1000]Defense,1000[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,3000]Magic Resistance,10%[/quart]
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Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Ability to wield any weapon and use up to leather armour +1000 Health +1000 Mana +300 Luck Able to be telepathically linked with Loki Members of churches of Loki will be friendlier with you and members of other churches like Freya will be neutral to you. Member of the Church of Loki Chance to gain stats upon doing ridiculous actions Direct Disciple of Loki
Following skills maxed out at master level 9 (99%): Loki''s Entourage Loki''s Armoury Shapeshift Legendary Retard (Passive) -Horse-
[quart=Character name,Alignment]Horse,Neutral[/quart][quart=Level,400]Class,Murderer[/quart][quart=Title,N/A]Race,Human[/quart][quart=Fame,10000]Infamy,0[/quart][quart=Health,10000]Mana,4000[/quart][quart=Strength,100]Dexterity,2000[/quart][quart=Wisdom,100]Intellect,100[/quart][quart=Vitality,400]Affinity to Nature,0%[/quart][quart=Leadership,3000]Luck,500[/quart][quart=Charisma,4000]Endurance,500[/quart][quart=Art,0]Concentration,1000[/quart][quart=Perseverance,500]Sustenance,500[/quart][quart=Attack,2000]Defense,1000[/quart][quart=Fighting Spirit,3000]Magic Resistance,5%[/quart]
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Elemental AffinitiesN/A
Class Bonuses Ability to wield daggers or pistol and any armour up till leather +500 Dexterity +1000 Health +1000 Mana +10% movement speed Ability to stealth even right in front of the enemy''s eyes Footsteps will not be able to be heard at all Member of the thief guild Direct Disciple of Sigyn
Following skills maxed out at master level 9 (99%): Murderer''s Stare Murderer''s Whisper Without A Trace Backstab (Passive) Into the Shadows Dagger Mastery Puncture The core 5 of us has grown without a doubt over the past 23 months. All of us have cleared the criteria of minimum level 300 and went well above the required guideline. We have also updated our gear with appropriate godly gear. Each of us had an equipment that could grow alongside us in levels. For me, I had my Death''s cloak with me which had grown to be quite a versatile piece of equipment. It was so strong now that it actually lets loose a passive aura of the item which reduces fighting spirit so strongly even enemies just 50 levels lower than me tuck their tails in between their legs and run away faster than I could say penis. Horse had a earring that Sigyn gave her which could function as a tracking device as well as an atomic bomb. The bomb was a one time use thing though. The earring could respawn by itself after 24 hours. Soup had a special greatsword we had looted from Thr¨ªvaldi, a giant that we were sent to kill. We had to track him down in a mountain range and it was a fearsome battle. I remember dying in that battle becauseThr¨ªvaldi had too huge an army but after I died, they said they managed to complete the quest because I died at the last leg. The 2 meter sword of Thr¨ªvaldi gives Soup a lightning charged sword which can let loose its own thunderbolts which would be charged slowly over time or by absorbing electrical mana. Beathoven was given a magical lute which the god Baldur used to play by Loki. Loki managed to take it off Baldr when he killed the god. The lute gives Beathoven additional concentration and art stats with a passive ability to play a song which all the gods will recognise as Baldr''s song. Breadtalk was given a ring by a passing Tinker whom he talked to and brought great joy to. He said it was one of a kind and impossible to find elsewhere. It belonged to the greatest Jester in the west. It gives a tremendous amount of luck and the more retarded things you do while wearing it, the faster the ring levels up. Needless to say it was the best equipment Breadtalk could ask for. Ever since the BALLs came over to announce their presence and intention, Carnival has changed a bit. The citizens of Carnival became a bit more competitive and they wanted to contribute to the war as much as they could. Many of them joined different groups and clans which begun to form in the town. There were about 10000 people in Carnival including NPCs so about 6000 of them were players. There were about 100 clans so each clan was of a different size. Many of them became famous clans because they were desperate to raise their levels and improve on their skills so they went exploring in different regions. Slowly, the raids became of a harder and harder difficulty. A few of the famous clans in Carnival were GuckingFeniuses, Fellowship Of The Bling and Representatives Of BOTs (ROBOTS). People didn''t know what was going on though. We decided to keep this rank SSS class to ourselves because we didn''t need any additional people trying their best to follow us to war. Also, our BOTs have not just been training and training. We were preparing the city for an all out war as well. Soup took the army to train in even more perilous locations and dungeons (which explains his whopping level of over 500). They even managed to subdue a young dragon together which was extremely impressive. I was pretty sure there would be dragons to fight in this war anyway. You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. Beathoven was busy managing the people now that they had a different mindset. Everyone was still fun and hosted parties but they were less regular and more and more people were training hard so Beathoven had to manage this culture shift and make it more manageable for everyone. I also had to manage the economy since we were going into battle mode. I had to negotiate with the NPCs to make stuffs like potions and armours cheaper so I paid from my own pocket and promised cheaper rent since we were already rich. We just needed to facilitate the conversion of mindset and make it easier for the population to train. Horse was also busy in the thief guild helping Roxanne the guild elder to help her manage and tutor new students of the guild. The events for Carnival on a monthly basis became our only time to unwind and relax. Our masters also took it to the next level once they saw the BALLs and how we lost to them. Once a month, they would pool in their mana and summon master class monsters to suddenly spawn in Carnival. Thus, it was totally normal if you suddenly see 100 people dying in the town square in 2 seconds because a level 500 Cereberus was spawned in town. We had to rush and take down the boss monster as a city. Of course not all 6000 people will always be in Carnival because most of them were outside training so once, we had to take down a level 700 Hydra with only 100 people. About half died. Lucky we were in town during then. I heard the worst summoning occured when our masters decided to drop a level 888 Unicorn who could kill people by just peeing rainbow coloured pee on us. We were out of town training during then and I heard 400 people died. Also, Loki told us that they were saving mana so they would not be able to give us any more training sessions through Breadtalk. They needed to make sure they were also prepared for the war so the only time they spent mana was to pool some mana together to summon one monster in Carnival once in awhile. I understood the rationale behind it as well. The town needed to know how to fight together because in war, it was going to be that way. I was extremely impressed by Loki''s training methods. As always. The elites were also now all above level 300 and all kicking ass both in the literal as well as their own way. Slick could now shed his skin instantly to remove any negative debuffs and the skin remaining behind was so tough it could function as an instant barricade. M1 and M2 have learnt such high tier spells that even I needed to use my best spells to counter them or dodge them. Xantos has become so huge now she couldn''t even fit into the castle. I couldn''t use microscopy on her as well since microscopy has a limit. I could not cast it on miniboss class monsters and above. Xantos has became a miniboss after she evolved into the greater roc she has became. She was now about the size of a Nut in rainbow sack. (Yes I decided to all the houses a nut because I really cannot think of any other name more appropriate than this. Penis was just too straightforward and the word penis appears far too often in this story). Lastly, FuzzyWuzzy has become larger as well and more ferocious. His colour changed from light grey to dark grey so now he looks even more badass then when he first did. Everyone has grown over the past 23 months. Carnival''s infrastructure however did not change. Actually it did. Hermes installed a huge jet pack under each Nut in Rainbow Sacks because we might need to use it to go over to the designated location, Lyngvi in order to free Fenrir from Gleipnir. So our mode of transportation would be the whole Carnival packed into about 1000 Nuts flying in the sky... Hmm I wonder how that will turn out. The people were the ones who changed incredibly. Everyone levelled up so fast in their clans that we had to give out recognition awards like Overall best clan, Most improved clan and Most Botlike Clan every month in order to keep up the motivation. The result? A city full of people who were at least level 300 and a few in the 400''s which were the top clan leaders of their clan. Of course we the BOTs were still the most respected people around because of our elite group. Oh and before I forget, we have a new addition to the team. Beathoven and Surtr got along so well that Surtr demanded his disciple, Macaroni, come to Carnival from all the way in the west in order to join us. Macaroni was a sweet girl who was everything but sweet when she fought. Her class, ''Pyromaniac'' as it suggested, was akin to a frenzied person flinging out fire spells of such a high purity and quantity that I was frankly scared to fight her. However, I was afraid that she would be unable to face Maxmystical. They were complete opposites. Fire and Water. However, her ability was real and she was also retarded so the BOTs welcomed her immediately. She was the same level as Longbean who was now 400 so both of them constituted to the lowest levelled members of our team which was still way over the required level. Once, Breadtalk stuck his head under Macaroni''s skirt and trust me it I did not know which was funnier. A white hot flamethrower of fire conjured from between a woman''s leg downwards or the sight of Breadtalk running around with his face on fire towards the nearest toilet. However her damage output was real. It didn''t even rival mine. It outclassed mine. In terms of pure firepower, Surtr''s disciple lived up to her name. However, of course I have discovered new spells of my own using my insanely high and versatile elemental affinities. I was still the best bet at any situation due to my versatality. All of us have worked around our role well and it all boiled down to how well we could live up to those roles in order to conquer Ragnarok. -Present- Currently, the seven of us, Me, Breadtalk, Soup, Beathoven, Horse, Longbean, Macaroni, along with the elites, M1 & M2, FuzzyWuzzy, Slick and Xantos was standing in front of the Fountain of Carnival. Behind us was the whole strength of Carnival, fully accounted for. 6000 people standing behind us in the town square looking at the fountain. Time was slowly ticking down and it was nearing midnight. Tomorrow was the date of Founder''s day which meant one thing. Once the clock striked twelve, instead of Cinderella running home without her glass shoe, it would be the start of a war among the gods instead. ¡°Jinx you do know that in a short while your genius fountain which is your first masterpiece will break down into a pool of just pure element X mana and your great sculpture will be gone right?¡± Beathoven asked me. ¡°Yea, I do.¡± ¡°Any last words?¡± ¡°Man some bacon now would be nice.¡± ¡°Not you Soup.¡± ¡°Might Morphing Power Rangers¡± Slapping war sounds between Longbean and Breadtalk broke out I looked at the majestic fountain with a small smile on my face. A small hint of inspiration created the massive amount of grandeur I am looking at now. Up till date there were only a few sculptures of similar amounts of awesomeness and epicness that I could say I pioneered. And at long last, I felt with my mana intuition the last bit of ice mana begun to run out. Without the glacier, erosion could not take place anymore. The endless cycle had reached a stop. Water levels begun to run too low because there was no more ice to melt into water. Low water levels meant that the dark mana built to absorb water to make the mana flammable was also becoming lesser and lesser. The fires burning on the surface of the fountain grew smaller and smaller. The electrical mana inside the dome had fewer clouds to merge into thus the clouds became highly concentrated. Gravity mana then ran out as well and the sun made out of light mana dropped into the remaining water. Too few clouds were formed to support the high density of electrical mana left and then the thunderbolts and lightning started. They were of too high a purity and charge that the moment the first few lightning bolts were released, cracks begun to form in the glass dome surrounding the fountain. Slowly, the thunderstorm continued and a short while later, the glass dome shattered completely. The wind mana then begun to mix everything together and slowly, the residue mana along with the glass shards were all mixed together and they slowly rose up higher and higher into the sky. The end result, was a portal of element X that was now about 300 meters up in the sky, surrounded by the glass shards which were now melted by the fire to form a gleaming new perimeter around the new pool of mana and once it begun to cool down, everyone was looking at a glass rimmed pool of element X with a radius of about 100 meters. Just then, something huge appeared behind us and I could sense it with my mana intuition that it was something dangerous. I spun around on the spot along with the 6000 people in Carnival and saw a huge dragon the size of three buildings being summoned. It landed on top of the Ascension and roared at the sky, a blazing trail of fire emerging from it''s mouth along with the roar. ¡°HAPPY FOUNDER''S DAY!!!!¡± Screamed Breadtalk as he summoned his weapon, this time a set of wings and a magically enchanted wing sword since he rolled 5. The animal paired with this was a bald eagle named Baldy. Everyone immediately sprung into battle mode and even though it was a level 1000 dragon, it was just summoned at the wrong time. I used half my mana to cast Fossilize, a skill I created on my own. It used fire, earth, darkness and light mana. I encased the dragon with damp earth and solidified it using fire and light and while all this is going on, a darkness curse was cast to weaken the dragon so it was imobilized and the effect of this spell is simple. The foe will be unable to move in the fossilized state due to earth and darkness mana will amplify whatever damage it takes in this form by 100% be it magical or physical damage. Macaroni casted one of her signature spells, Surtr''s fury. A huge whirlpool of fire the engulfed the dragon. Soup was already one of the first front liners beside the dragon in his huge, full lycan form swinging his magical sword he named ¡°Toothpick¡± at the dragon. Beathoven casted some further debuff songs and Horse just zoomed over to the top of the dragon''s head and begun stabbing the eyes and other critical parts with puncture. Longbean levitated the dragon and begun transporting it closer to the huge pool of 6000 players who have also initiated their attacks. Yes it was a dragon. Yes it was level 1000. But 6000 level 300+ players all casting their best spell at a fossilized dragon? In about 5 seconds since Breadtalk first shouted Happy Founder''s Day, the dragon now lay dead at all our feet. Everyone cheered and then Breadtalk flew to the portal of element X. ¡°Guys. Loki just told me this portal of element X can now function as a teleporter to the land of Lyngvi. Once we pass this teleporter, we will be on lands protected by Odin and his Aesir. Jinx any last words for them?¡± ¡°Yup. Everyone, get into your Nuts and fly it into this damn thing.¡± 1 minute later, there was us and 999 other Nuts flying through the skies of Carnival all heading to the portal which will lead us to the destined battlefield. Breadtalk headed over to the boombox in our Nut and turned it on at full volume. ¡°Starships were meant to fly Hands up, and touch the sky Can''t stop, ''cause we''re so high Let''s do this one more time¡± He didn''t sing starships. You know what word he replaced it with. I looked out the window along with the rest of the BOTs and elites. We had a rule in the house we liked to implement for fun. It was simple. ¡°No laughing or else you will get a slap.¡± It was pretty fun since it would just be us trying to make each other laugh so we can slap the other motherfucker as hard as we can across their face. The moment we looked out of the window, no one could ever resist the urge to laugh. 1000 penises flying across a starry lit sky as a backdrop towards a huge reddish brown pool of element X mana functioning as a teleporter is just not something you can look at and not laugh. We were the first Nut to fly into the teleporter and the scenery drastically changed immediately. Now, all of us with our faces full of red hand prints looked out the Nut and saw a whole sea of white. The whole place was a barren frozen wasteland. Then we saw it. Further down north in a valley between the two highest mountains, even from 10 kilometers away, was an unmistakable outline of a wolf. Our wolf. Fenrir.
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Chapter 36 : Gods, Assemble. ¡°WOLF AHOY!¡± Shouted Breadtalk. ¡°Yea man look at him.. How big is he if we can see him from even this distance?¡± Beathoven commented ¡°Wolf." ¡°Holy shit what in the world can hold him down in that place for so long?¡± I asked ¡°Wolf." ¡°I''m coming for you master!¡± Soup said. ¡°Wolf.¡± ¡°Okay Breadtalk we get it he''s a wolf just what is your problem?¡± asked Horse. ¡°Wolf. Hahaha nah I''m just trying to pretend to be a dog. It''s quite fun!¡± Breadtalk said. Soup jumped on Breadtalk followed by me then Beathoven and Longbean. Horse was busy slapping Breadtalk while he was being pinned down by 4 guys. ¡°No laughing remember!¡± said Horse with what I swear was one of the most sinister smiles I''ve ever seen across a pretty girl''s face. With each slap she gave Breadtalk gave progressively louder woofs. Finally he woofed so loud his voice cracked in the middle and went off pitch and I swear since I couldn''t see anything much it was just like a dog just orgasmed. All of us laughed which meant even more slapping. Our nut flew towards Fenrir at top speed and we landed on the icy plains near him. I looked back to check if all the nuts were following us and sure enough 999 nuts took our bearings and were manouvering their way here. We rushed out of the nut in order to rescue Fenrir but the moment we stepped out of the nut, reality hit us in that moment. Everyone was taken aback. Fenrir was about the size of... Well let''s see. If you were a normal human being, just put 100 skyscrapers together horizontally one on top of the other. That was the size of Fenrir. ¡°OMG MASTER YOU GREW BIGGER!¡± Soup exclaimed as he shifted into lycan form and ran towards his master. ¡°You fucking retard I was always this big. Well unless you count my babyhood. Just hurry up and get me out of this. It''s something magical and cannot be broken by brute force no matter how many times I''ve tried. It was the legendary Gleipnir. The only fetter in existence which could hold back a wolf the size of a mountain. Upon closer inspection, I realised that Gleipnir was crafted out of extremely sturdy material as well as enchanted by mana so pure I could only ravel at the craftsmanship. They didn''t cut any ends making this fetter to hold down the wolf god. Soon, many of the Carnivalists touched down in their nuts and disembarked from their penises to enjoy the glorious and breathtaking scene. One of the biggest names known to players all around the world. The wolf god himself, Fenrir, being held down by Gleipnir on his hind right foot. It was a sight to behold. It was like watching Mariah Carey sing or watching Messi or Ronaldo play soccer or Roger Federer playing tennis live in front of you. You can do nothing but try to take everything in and appreciate this very moment. Unless of course you were Breadtalk. He was busy flying towards Fenrir''s head using his weapon from Loki''s armoury. He landed on the top of Fenrir''s head and begun to do what he does best. Experiment the weirdest things possible that came to his mind. He went to kick Fenrir in the eye which caused Fenrir to howl so loudly that everyone almost closed their ears with both hands and almost went death. He then proceeded to bounce around Fenrir''s snout and flutter his wings directly in front of Fenrir''s nose. Fenrir let out a sneeze so large that Breadtalk flew about 100m in the direction of the sneeze and the snot covered his wings so he just flew like a ball and crash landed into a glacier. ¡°So... I guess vital spots still work on the gods. We can still poke em in the eye and make them sneeze we have a chance guys!¡± Breadtalk yelled from the hole in the glacier I presume he was now nestled in, unable to recover from the typhoon he was just a part of. The rest of us then decided to do our job. Gleipnir was made out of 6 materials, each enchanted highly by a certain branch of magic. Soup was a master blacksmith so he could identify the components of Gleipnir. He identified 6 different solids. Orihalcon, Adamantium, Diamond, Steel, Mithril and Carbon. I on the other hand could identify what went into the production of this fetter. Around the exterior was highly dense, immensely pure earth mana. It was made rock solid, rock hard and rock heavy. The chains were enchanted with ice mana, the make sure the metal stays cool, hard and contracted. There was also electrical mana within the earth mana to give Fenrir shocks whenever he moved to prevent him from moving too much. Gravity mana was dense within the extreme interior of the bound encasing Fenrir''s hind right foot. It was supposed to weigh his foot down to prevent him from being able to exert strength. Light and darkness mana was stored within the whole invention in order to balance and counteract any opposing force from the outside should there be any interference. It was well made. Soup took out his greatsword and used power strike. He tried it on what looked to be the brittlest part of the invention already. The chains. After his sword landed on the chain, the light and darkness mana counteracted with the force and blew Soup backwards. I think the more force you put in, the further you fly. Thus, Soup landed somewhere considerably close to Breadtalk whom I think was just taking a nap now. ¡°Should I summon Surtr?¡± Beathoven turned and asked me. ¡°No. You can only summon him once a day you shouldn''t use him here lest there is an emergency later. Is there any way we can break this? Physically this chain is so freaking solid already the only thing we can resort to is high quality spells.¡± I said to him. Then we realised and all of us looked to the same person. ¡°Yes?¡± Macaroni replied to our stares. Moments later, Macaroni was casting only her most powerful spells onto the chains of Gleipnir. With mana intuition, I could tell that the mana within those chains were more than strong enough to withhold the attack, even though the fire spells Macaroni was using was already the best against the ice natured chains. ¡°Fuck this is like fighting our first boss fight all over again. It''s impossible! How can we do this?¡± Beathoven sulked. My thoughts went back towards the first boss fight. It was against none other than fuzzywuzzy who looked the most hurt now because his master was chained up directly in front of him and he couldn''t do anything to help. During that time we only barely won because we managed to dispel his regeneration. This chain didn''t use anything like regeneration though. It was just a huge density of mana packed into the chains which prevented outside interference. We need a huge amount of purely condensed mana to even try to have a shot of breaking one of the links of the chain. Where the hell can we get someone to.. WAIT OF COURSE. HOLY FUCK I''M SMART! ¡°Beathoven! We can do this! All we have to do is-¡± A rumbling sound broke my exclamation mid-sentence. The heavens literally split. There was a crack in the sky. All of a sudden, pegasus with chariots rained down from the sky, heading towards our fortress of nuts in the plains. I could tell from mana intuition all of them were strong. All of them were of light based mana. All of them were soldiers of about level 300. All of them, were Aesir. 10,000 chariots illuminating the sky instead of penises. It was a good change of pace. This was the moment. Ragnarok has officially started. ¡°EVERYONE! TO YOUR BATTLE POSITIONS!¡± I hollered. Everyone had been assigned groups and positions over the last 3 months before the fight in our intensive training sessions. Each group was built to be independent such that they could function in any situation given the volatile situation of Ragnarok where more than one fight could break out at different parts of the world. The training paid off as within 10 seconds, everyone already found and gathered with their group members and took their fighting positions. Soup and Breadtalk also rushed back to our side but Soup still looked slightly stunned whereas Breadtalk was busy trying to wear his pants. I had no idea why he took out his pants but still. He did it. I pulled Beathoven near me and told him the plan. Suddenly, every single Carnivalist in the quest received a notification.
You''ve been invited to join Jinx''s party. Do you agree? Yes | No
All of them joined the party and I immediately whispered to them. ¡°Guys this is it. I need all of you to transfer half your mana to me. I need to use it to free Fenrir from Gleipnir. I don''t know if it will be enough but by my estimate, that''s our best bet. Too little and the chain won''t break. Too much and we will be left defenseless against the Aesir. Beathoven has a spell that can transfer party member''s mana to me. Please do it now.¡± Beathoven started playing Reunion and the buff took it''s place. I felt a whole sea of mana come towards me. Half of 6000 player''s mana. If each one gave me an average of 2000 mana, I would already have 12 million mana at my disposal. I never felt such power before. I was tempted to use it to conjour an ice field so huge and concentrated it would freeze every Aesir coming out from the crack in the sky but I knew better. ¡°Divine Judgement!¡± I screamed, condensing my mana as much as I could, concentrating the 12 million mana of mine to make a fire sword, around 10 times the size of the usual divine judgement but with about 10000 times the mana. I made it fire mana of course to counteract the ice mana flowing within the chains of Gleipnir. As the flaming sword was brought down on one of the links of Gleipnir, I could sense with mana intuition the huge amount of mana that existed withing Gleipnir coming together to repel the incoming attack. Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. I swore the flaming sword actually lifted off Gleipnir because of the surge of repelling mana but it went down again, concentrated on breaking the link to free the wolf which would turn this spark of Ragnarok into a fully raging inferno. The sword was in contact with the chains for a whole 10 seconds before an outcome was decided. Macaroni helped during this 10 seconds by channeling her own sacred fire from Surtr into the sword. By then, many of the Aesir and their chariots have touched down onto the plains and fights were breaking out everywhere. Several of our nuts were destroyed by the Aesir on their way down. Their chariots crashed into the giant penis and it looked like the Aesir weren''t expecting the careful and intricate architecture of Hermes. The buildings were so sturdy they took out a few of the Aesir when they crashed into the buildings. At long last, I saw with my eyes the colour of teal mana disappearing. The ice has been purged. The balance of mana was gone. The chain broke with an immistakable ¡°Chink!¡± sound. At long last, what the gods feared the most has happened right in front of the army they sent to engage us. The wolf of Ragnarok was now free. Fenrir let loose a huge howl which clearly frightened all of the Aesir. He ran towards the crack in the sky, (yes he actually ran on air because he''s a god that way) and devoured any Aesir that came close to him. I was busy thinning out the troops on the plains along with the BOTs while that was happening. The Aesir were about level 300 which meant that Soup was an absolute beast. He excelled at fighting against weaker level mobs in great quantities so it was as if this part of Ragnarok was meant for him. He took out 2-3 Aesir''s with each swing of the greatsword and he moved so fast and strongly within the army that even if he as much as bumped into a chariot or a pegasus, it would be sent flying 20 meters into the air. All I had to do was make Soup even faster with my lightning mana. Strength was not even needed anymore as he was one shotting every single enemy that came within his reach. Beathoven used metamorphosis which turned him into a demon we saw before during the fight against the BALLs. He had mastered the skill since then so now he really looked like a badass demon. He had horns (which sadly he could not blow to make music while fighting), he had a full wingspan of about 3 meters and stood at about 2 and a half meters tall. He could just fling masses of concentrated dark energy like energy bolts or just straight up fly towards enemies to engage them in a melee with his insane amount of strength and dexterity. Breadtalk took to the skies in his flying armour and wind sword. Baldy the eagle gave him a special ability. The sword could conjour tornadoes which proved vital in air combat. He managed to single handedly draw in a huge amount of chariots within the tornadoes and made it an easy cluster and target for Macaroni. Macaroni just had to cast an inferno at the tornado and the two would merge, making it a flaming vortex of destruction, destroying the Aesir inside. I was busy supporting Soup as well as all the Carnivalists on the ground. It seemed like everything was going well. I casted an ice field which recognised only enemies to slow them down. I also casted microscopy on as many Aesir as I could to reduce them to half their size which actually required quite little mana. Beathoven also changed to chaotic melody before metamorphosising so I had quite a bit of mana regen to work with. Our side did not take much losses because Xantos, as a greater light Roc now was a huge healing machine. She could cast High heal as well as holy field to greatly increase a target''s HP or increase allies HP regeneration in a huge area. The elites were also rampaging throughout the battlefield with us. FuzzyWuzzy was extremely energetic since he just saw his master getting freed from the shackles which binded him for the last Loki knows how many hundred years. Everything was going especially well but I knew better than that. This was just a preliminary action sent out by the gods. The real battle would only start when they personally come to the battlefield along with the BALLS. Fenrir managed to reach the crack in the sky and with his front paws, he wrenched the crack wide open. I saw what was at the other end. It was clear as day. Asgard. The realm of the gods. The only way the Aesir could''ve joined us from their realm was if they formed a bridge from Asgard over to our realm. That was when I subconsciously knew. The crack in the sky was the bridge or as Norse mythology would call it, Bifrost. ¡°Guys. We need to fight on the Bifrost! Hel will meet us there.¡± Fenrir roared to us. ¡°Bifrost? Is the bridge made of ice? And is it a boy or a girl or as the name suggests, both?¡± Breadtalk asked while flying towards the top. Fenrir aimed a spitball at Breadtalk and I swear if we played a game of who could spit on someone from the third floor to the first floor no one would be able to win against him. Out of the messy thousands of Aesir and chariots in the sky, he managed to land a spit the size of a tree trunk on Breadtalk. All of us retreated into the remaining nuts and took off into the sky yet again, heading for the Bifrost. We managed to intercept Breadtalk using the head (Roof) of our penis (Nut) and we throttled on full speed ahead towards the Bifrost. All of a sudden, on our left, one part of the sea became strangely disturbed. And then a head the size of Fenrir appeared out of the ocean and I had no idea how long the body would be if the head was that huge. ¡°Master...¡± I managed to utter while J?rmungandr was rising out of the ocean, joining us in a straightforward dash towards the Bifrost. He looked so menacing that some Aesir fainted from the sight of it like a woman seeing a fifteen inch penis for the first time. I just realised the gods had a very distinct aura to them due to my mana intuition. Just like death, they all had a scent of their own. Fenrir had an aura so ferocious you could feel him from a 1000km radius because of his urge to fight and devour anything it his path. For J?rmungandr, he had a scent extremely similar to death''s. A cold, hard aura which was insanely pure in darkness and water affinities. I was proud to be a direct disciple of such a formidable being. Alas, we were reaching the huge crack Fenrir had ripped wide open and when we made it, along with a good 900 Nuts still left intact from the fight earlier, it was another breathtaking scene the moment we pushed through the crack. Asgard was a beautiful city, made of primarily gold, silver and black colours. Everything about it shouted class and royalty. And of course what made it the best was that of course the gods were expecting us. We reached a bridge which spanned about 50km long and at the other end of it, was immistakably our opponents to the death. I could sense no fewer than 5 gods waiting on the other side of the Bifrost and the BALLs could also be sensed. All the gods were also the huge size which rivalled Fenrir''s but none as big as J?rmungandr. ¡°Guys. Our enemies have been expecting us.¡± I told the rest of the BOTs. ¡°Of course they have. Fenrir just ripped open their bridge like how Beathoven would rip open a bar of Cadbury chocolate.¡± Soup said. ¡°Or how Soup would have let it ripped from his ass.¡± Breadtalk contributed. ¡°Hey farting a lot is healthy okay.¡± ¡°Yea sure.¡± Soup walked in front of Breadtalk and rammed his butt into his face. *Pooooooooot* ¡°AHH FUCK THAT''S ONE THING I''LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO.¡± Breadtalk screamed as he summoned a tornado to clear the fetid cloud of gas from his nose. ¡°J?rmungandr. I''ve been waiting for you.¡± Hollered a voice from the other end as deep as thunder. ¡°Thor... Let''s do this in the skies.¡± J?rmungandr said as he took off to the heavens, coiling himself many times in order to fit his gigantic body even if it was in the skies. ¡°Fenrir. Proceed no further you mutt.¡± Said another voice. ¡°Fuck off Odin. You''re old and useless now. Geezer.¡± Fenrir snarled. Even gods like to trash talk it seemed but if things stayed as they were, it would be insanely disadvantageous for us. They had the whole arsenal of gods awaiting our arrival but Hel and Loki were no where to be seen. ¡°Where are you looking Jinx?¡± said a voice from below us, seemingly reading my mind. A ship clearly made out of skeletons was sailing up into the Bifrost, floating on air and on board were two more gods, immistakably Hel and Loki. ¡°Ahh my children. What a wonderful reunion. Finally we''re free to roam the lands as we please. However, this reunion will be short lived because of the ingrates that made us seperated in the first place. Let''s reunite again after disposing of the garbage.¡± Loki said nonchalantly. ¡°Loki... Go to hell.¡± Freyja said with furrowed brows. ¡°He''s already there. With me.¡± Hel retorted. ¡°Let''s not waste anymore time. The pleasantries have been exchanged. To the death!¡± Magni shouted. Let the battle of Bifrost begin.
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Chapter 37 : The First Death Fenrir hurtled down the bridge headed straight for the cluster of gods, knocking aside the army of Aesir in his way like they were bowling pins on a lane with a wrecking ball being rolled down the lane. The gods were all lvl ¡°???¡±. We couldn''t see their level. We could see the level of the level 1000 dragon so it could only be safe to assume that they were of a much higher level. Could hardly blame the creators of the game though. Gods shouldn''t have levels. J?rmungandr flew to the skies and it immediately turned dark. Thor could be seen taking off as well, flying into the sky, wielding the might mjollnir which summoned flashes of lightning with every swing his hammer made. Hel immediately started summoning her soldiers from hell. (Pun intended.) Skeletal soldiers, mages, and even her two personal wolves, Skoll and Hati also joined her, emerging from the ship. Loki slowly walked along the Bifrost, along the path cleared for him by Fenrir. Correspondingly, on the other hand, Thor of course took to the skies. Freyr and Magni started marching across the bridge towards Fenrir who was balling towards them. Odin took out his spear, gungnir and stabbed the earth. A flash of thunder bigger than 10 of Thor''s lightning strikes appeared straight down on the spear. Freyja started summoning her valkyries from Valhalla. Female angels started streaming down from the heavens and they were level 350 and above, higher than the Aesir we just fought. Njord and Skadi started using high level spells such as freezing field and aqua pulse on the whole map. Team BALLs still hasn''t made a move. They were letting their masters settle their fudes personally with our own masters. We did the same. The first fight broke out when Fenrir rammed himself against Magni and Freyr. The impact of the clash was so strong that even from about 30km away we had to brace ourselves and plant ourselves firmly on the ground. The citizens of Carnival who were fighting with the valhallas summoned from Freyja all stopped for awhile to recover themselves from the shock. We all tried to look at what happened. Fenrir slammed into them shoulder first and managed to knock Magni so hard that his his face was contorted with effort but alas his shield was flung backwards, into Freyr''s face. Fenrir did not even follow up. He just stared at poor Freyr. Magni as well did not react towards Fenrir but slowly brought his shield down.. Trying to access the damage of the impact. The shield came down slowly. We could see the forehead which was abit red but nothing weird... Then we could see the eyes which were squinted... Followed by the nose which was slightly crooked and bleeding and finally the mouth which swelled up like two banana boats. Fenrir sat down in the middle of Bifrost and laughed his ass off at Freyr. Magni couldn''t help it as well. Freyr looked into the shiny reflective shield more closely. And then he realised his good looking face has become sort of a.. well something like Longbean''s fuckface. ¡°HEY LOOK THATS ME!¡± Longbean shouted. ¡°NO THAT''S ME!¡± Breadtalk shouted, using his fuckface. All of us acted out our fuckfaces and then all of a sudden a huge torrent of cold water poured over us. ¡°Njord! Be nice! They were just kids having fun!¡± said Skadi. ¡°But they were being mean to Freyr!¡± ¡°You are always mean to me you don''t pour yourself with cold water everytime you do that!¡± ¡°But I AM always in cold water.¡± Skadi threw an ice spear at Njord. ¡°YOU DIDN''T JUST DO THAT YOU FATTY.¡± *GASP* ¡°Jinx did he just..¡± Beathoven asked me. ¡°I think he just did...¡± I replied. Horse looked like she could rape Njord right there and then. ¡°What''s the big deal? I call Horse fat all the time- OOOOFFFF¡± Breadtalk was lying on the floor clutching his stomach the next instant. Macaroni grabbed Soup by the collar, offended as hell and at the same time curious as fuck to what would happen in the next instant. Everyone stopped fighting. Thor and J?rmungandr. Even Fenrir, Freyr and Magni stopped when they were within 5 meters of each other. All eyes were on Njord and Skadi. ¡°Did you just call me fat?¡± ¡°Don''t be ridiculous you know I didn''t. Everyone can be my witness!¡± Njord said while looking hopefully at everyone. Everyone shook their head slowly. Except Breadtalk who managed to recover from the sucker punch he received. ¡°HE CALLED YOU FAT! I HEARD IT I HEARD IT!¡± he shouted at the top of his voice, jumping to add exclamation to his expression. Horse gave him a huge slap while I gave a huge punch on opposite sides of his face. It was squished to a point where anyone would have mistaken his face for a pear instead of a face and I would''ve already laughed at that but nothing was more exciting than knowing what Skadi would do to Njord. In her defence, she was not fat. Just saying. She was of a very healthy figure. Like voluptuously healthy. Suddenly I could feel chill in my bones. Like right down to the core of my bones. Everyone around me also felt it. The purity of ice mana Skadi was molding now for her spell was... absurd. It was clearly ice mana but it didn''t look anything like teal. It was almost pure white. And the amount of mana as well as the density... Well let''s just say I don''t have any spells currently that could rival that monstrosity. ¡°WAIT WAIT WAIT SKADI WAIT. YOU''RE SKINNY. THIN. FIT. SLENDER. ANYTHING BUT ICICLESSON.¡± What a name. Iciclesson. How many times have she used this on him? Suddenly, the pure mana split into at least a different fragments and took the shape of icicles. All of them homed on Njord. The first few thousand pummeled into Njord and pierced through him. Even a god had to take damage from that. I was wrong. ¡°Njord¡± suddenly just turned into water and fell like a tsunami. He then reappeared about 4km behind Skadi. Water clone. I had that skill as well. But it was not as easy as that. The icicles that pierced ¡°Njord¡± did not just vanish there and then. They suddenly defied any norm of physics and curved 180 degrees to home in on the actual Njord. ¡°You know it''s impossible to run away from this. Take it head on like a man Njord. Not like A GIANT FUCKING PUSSY WHO CALLED ME FAT!¡± Skadi yelled, her voice estranged with distraught. Njord gave a sigh so heavy that I was shocked his lungs did not drop out from his mouth. He then just stood tall, stood strong and took the punishment. I was expecting a spell of that scale to damage the god considerably but again it seemed like common sense in this fight has to go out of the window. The window of the 99th storey or higher. Njord took every single icicle through his body. And dropped dead. ¡°WHAT?!¡± Everybody shouted. ¡°WHATTTT?! OMG WHAT A PUSSY. Serves you right honestly.¡± Skadi exclaimed with a tinge of lament and disappointment in her voice. WHAT SORT OF WIFE KILLS HER HUSBAND JUST BY CALLING HER FAT?! I looked at Horse. This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. ¡°If i ever did that to you....¡± I began. ¡°Yes. A million times yes.¡± she replied. Girls. ¡°FATHER!!!¡± Freyr and Freyja exclaimed. ¡°WHAT?!¡± The BOTs exclaimed. ¡°WHATTTTT?!¡± The BALLs exclaimed even louder. HOW SCREWED UP IS THE FAMILY TREE? THE MOTHER KILLING THE FATHER IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN?! ¡°Actually I saw it coming.¡± Freyr added. ¡°Yea me too brother. They fight all the time. I liked mom more anyway.¡± Freyja answered. ¡°I like Soup the most.¡± Breadtalk added. And that stupid comment resulted in everyone reinitiating on their fights after a short 1 minute movie which was Skadi killing Njord in front of our eyes. The Carnivalists were trying their best to hold off the Valkyrie. The summons of Hel were making their way towards Asgard, terrorizing the streets. Flashes of lightning meant that Thor was fighting J?rmungandr again. Fenrir then begun dealing with Freyr and Magni again. The BALLS also decided to make their move. All of them sat on Slepinir which was Odin''s horse which was now owned by Genesis. They were galloping fast towards us. ¡°Okay guys remember who takes who okay. Stick to your targets.¡± I prompted. ¡°Of course. Anyone interferes with mine and I''ll team kill you like that badass Skadi.¡± Soup chirped in. ¡°Somehow I think I''m attracted to Soup.¡± Macaroni said. All of us stared at her. ¡°I''m right here...¡± Soup stuttered. ¡°It''s not the time for a confession Maca even though I understand.¡± Horse comforted her. ¡°So you got someone you wanna confess to?¡± Breadtalk pried. Breadtalk was then as usual facing the floor again while all of us got ready for the incoming enemy. We weren''t going down that easy again. Not a chance. Soup shapeshifted into his Lycan form and now stood a whopping twice the size of me. A level 500+ lycanhero will always exude so much raw power than I didn''t even need mana intuition to feel safe with him on my team. Horse went stealth immediately and I could sense her with Terrasense since she could only stealth, not fly. Macaroni engulfed herself in fire and summoned her sword, the only weapon Surtr ever uses. A sword that burns brighter than the sun itself. Beathoven took out his trust lute and played chaotic melody to get us started and proceeded to use his main song. A fiery hand erupted meters from where he was standing and soon, Surtr stood in front of us, summoned to this chaotic venue for the first time. ¡°Ahh. Asgard. Now this is what I call a fight. Macaroni. Don''t disappoint me.¡± He said. ¡°Of course master.¡± ¡°I know you''ve been crushing on Soup since you first joined them and don''t worry I approve so please don''t be distracted in the fights.¡± ¡°AGAIN I''M RIGHT HERE.¡± Soup added, flushing now. ¡°YES MASTER!¡± said Macaroni with more enthusiasm now. Macaroni with Soup. Now that''s nice. Almost as nice as a Jinxed Horse. WAIT WHAT THE FUCK AM I THINKING ABOUT. NOT THE TIME. I slapped myself. Everyone looked at me. ¡°Sorry sorry. Time for me to enter battle mode too.¡± Over the past years, I''ve trained myself to be a spontaneous multitasker even more. I''ve stuck to the basic trainings my master left me with. Break my mind into parts, so I can do multiple spells at once. Now, I can break my mind into a whopping twenty parts which required insane concentration and I invented a new skill which allowed me to take this to an even higher level. I used electrical mana and created a globe of dispersed mana around me. The radius was about 300meters. I then linked the electrical mana directly to my nervous system. This way, I did not need faster reaction time based on what I was seeing. I was directly linked to everything happened within a 300m radius of me. I could take in every movement, every bit of mana that was flowing and occuring in a 300m radius of mine. It was an insane skill which I thought of after reading medical books about how involuntary movements can be triggered using foreign electrical shocks to the correct part of the brain. I then proceeded to cast a freezing field like Sigyn''s around our party in anticipation of the BALLs. Breadtalk by now had recovered and pulled out his weapon. This time, it was an eight so his gauntlets came out. The gauntlets were copper bronze in colour which covered his whole forearm. The linked animal to the equipment was an armadilo called ¡°Immadildo¡±. The armlets were extremely special in the sense that they only do one thing. Greatly increase the physical attributes of Breadtalk. This way, Breadtalk had insane attack and defence stats just by punching stuff. The previous time he tested this, he punched Soup who flew through the interior castle walls. There was a clear hole in the wall which resembled a huge wolf that flew threw three walls before crashing into the reinforced castle walls on the outside. Soup himself was shocked at the damage output of those things. Longbean has also grew a huge deal. Wizards were hard jobs to master due to telepathy requiring a huge mastery and control over it for it to be useful in fights. Now, Longbean could use his mana effectively under my tutelage and lift up things as heavy as 200kg with just a tiny bit of mana. His offensive and defensive capabilities have shot through the roof. Plus, he could use telepathy with manart quite effectively since telepathy was just like mana manipulation just without the nature affinities. Telepathy always used a neutral form of mana. Xantos also gave us all a few holy buffs due to her status now as Greater Roc and all of us stood in anticipation of the BALLs who have all gotten their own preparations ready. Genesis could be seen wielding his own replica of Gungnir which was present with Odin. MidAndFeed was still seen with his mythical sword which could fight on it''s own from Freyr. FireFireFire the hammer chieftan still had a replica of Mjollnir which was called Maelstorm. Cheeballs the undying was summoning monsters in front of us now. They were all level 400 Holy Paladins which guarded the extremely important installments of Asgard. Maxmystical was molding his mana for a big spell which I could sense even though they were still flying towards us from 20km away. Trina had already created 20 ice spears which were ready to be flung at us anytime I presume. Morgan The Strong had already summoned his golden-maned horse by Slepinir''s side and had his lance ready. They were still charging at us despite knowing that we had completed our preparations as well. The first death between both sides has already occurred. Even though it was a friendly fire, the first casualty has already transpired. Who would be next?? One thing was for sure. It was going to be a bloodbath for sure.
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Chapter 38 : Anger It was chaos. The skies were rumbling with thunder and lightning and the air was drenched with rain and poison. Fire could be seen everywhere despite the heavy rain because of the pure intensity of the flames and clashes of metal, sounds of explosions and spellcasting could be heard throughout the battlefield. It was one of the biggest fights in RR history. Will Loki be able to upsurp Asgard, or will they fail terribly? All the fights were ferocious, with both sides seemingly matched for power. What Odin''s faction had in terms of numbers and raw firepower, Loki''s side could withstand it due to the strength of their Carnivalist army as well as unpredictability. However, the balance would soon topple. Out of all the fights that were currently ongoing, two mortal enemies had hammered each other so much such that their fight was about to end. That one fight was the fight that would spark many changes within the war. J?rmungandr was spraying Thor with only the highest level of his poison spells. With my mana intuition it seemed like the whole sky was entirely murky green. Thor on the other hand was also striking J?rmungandr with only the harshest of lightning spells and walloping him with his hammer, Mjollnir. All of a sudden, I heard a voice in my head. ¡°Jinx. Listen, I''m not going to last much longer. Thor isn''t going to as well. According to the prophecy, I know I''m destined to die. We all are. That''s why we recruited all of you in the first place. I believe you all have the power not to change our fates but to change the aftermath of Ragnarok.¡± a familiar voice in my head sounded. ¡°WHAT?! MASTER?! NO! YOU CAN''T JUST RESIGN TO FATE.¡± I shouted back at the voice in my head. ¡°Hahaha you''re always the objective one but yet now when I delineate my situation to you calmly you freak out? Unbecoming of my disciple man. Listen. I still have one last gift for you, that I can only pass down in the event of my death.¡± ¡°Don''t talk like this. No.¡± I began to remember the first time I met master. He was a snake head the size of Fenrir it was ridiculous and stupid. The way he trained me was also ridiculous and stupid. He was lazy, he was nonchalant and he was always the one to slack off in one corner and sleep while I work on the assignment he gives me. He taught me the basics of mana manipulation so I could work towards higher mastery levels. He gave me an Ouroboros seal that became the bread and butter of how useful I was now in fights. He threw me in a fucking forest alone and didn''t even accompany me. He bit me when I came back from the forest immediately and even though that gave me a huge power boost, he still made me faint almost instantly. After all that nonsense he did, always calm with his lame jokes, always calm with his teachings and delegations. And now even in the face of death? And I have no idea why. Even though it was just a game and I met him only for a few times, I couldn''t accept it. I just could not stand the thought of it. Not my master. I was fighting halfway with maxmystical when I changed target and teleported upwards towards the fight between J?rmungandr and Thor. I used half my mana instantly to cast 5 high purity spells on Thor. It worked. Thor turned around and stared at me, fury and rage defined in his eyes and instantly, despite my 3000 points in fighting spirit, I felt fear like I''ve never felt before and froze up there and then. I always used to think people who just suddenly stop moving because of fear or shock were stupid and ignorant. I was wrong. It''s never a choice to freeze because pressure and fear of such insane magnitudes would just make you that way. I saw him swing the hammer in my direction. ¡°YOU STUPID FOOL!¡± my master''s voice in my head sounded out. Darkness surrounded me and I thought this was it. This was how I was going to die. However, the darkness started leaving me and I could see the light again. The darkness hurtled down towards the ground faster and faster and that was when I knew. Master threw himself in front of me to protect me. And that was a critical hit. *BOOOOM* And that was him hitting the floor. Hard. Motionless. I teleported to his side instantly. ¡°Noooo. Noooo it wasn''t supposed to be this way what have I done....¡± I knelt beside my master, who''s body which was already cold blooded felt even more cold now. ¡°You''re in the middle of a war... Man the fuck up.¡± I heard a voice in my head. ¡°YOU''RE ALIVE!¡± I shouted as I cast all the healing spells I had at my arsenal on him. ¡°Not for long. Stop wasting your mana. His attacks have caused too much damage even for you to heal. Listen to me. Mythical gods like us can leave behind our titles before we pass on. It is strictly only for disciples only. And with the titles come certain.. Privileges. Use this. To win. You''ll know what to do with it...¡± the voice faded out slowly. ¡°NO! FUCK NOOOOO! I''LL STOP BEING A BURDEN. I''LL STOP SLAPPING BREADTALK. I''LL EVEN STOP MASTURBATING. COME BACKKKKKKKKKKKKK!¡± A silence so long, so deep and so painful was the only answer I got.
You''ve inherited the title : Infinite Ouroboros.
Your Ouroboros seal has reached a new level due to a certain event. Ouroboros Seal | Godlike level 1 (0%). Stores up to 1000000 mana. Able to use it whenever you want like a mana bank. Also, it has it''s own regen rate of 10000 mana per second outside of battle and 1000 mana per second in battle.
Affinity to Darkness became +40% Affinity to Water became +40% Affinity to Lightning became +40%
So this was what he meant when he said I would inherit title and certain priviliges... FUCK THIS SHIT LIKE I NEED IT. HOW IS THIS WORTH IT FOR HIS LIFE. I was someone who hardly felt angry. All my life, I''ve always been laid back, relaxed, happy go lucky. I would mug last minute for examinations. I would thoroughly enjoy the moments I''ve been in so this was a new emotion to me. I felt like the whole world was against me. I felt so... enraged. I felt like I needed to murder the person who did this to master over and over and over and over again until his body was mutilated and unrecognisable. The Aesir who were nearby me and the corpse of my master backed away. They could''ve tried to kill me there and then but they chose to back away. My eyes wandered around until they found what they were searching for. Thor has descended onto the Bifrost with his hand in a guts pose held high above his head, fist clenched as he roared in celebration while walking towards his teammates. His teammates roared back. Followed by a series of screams. Thor has managed to walk 7 paces before his face changed. It contorted itself with unmistakable pain. He fell to the floor, body writhing in pain. That''s not the only pain you''ll get. I used my whole mana pool. I didn''t give a rat''s ass what would happen to me afterwards. ¡°Divine Judgement.¡± A dark green blade as murky and pure as my master''s dropped down onto Thor''s head. He became motionless. Both sides of the war roared with fury. Loki, Hel and Fenrir were outraged that J?rmungandr was killed. Similarly, Odin and his family were also furious. This battle ended up in a draw, but this would be the only one that ends that way. Suddenly, Mjollnir flew from Thor''s body towards Magni, son of Thor. It must be the same as J?rmungandr''s title. The hammer would be inherited by his son as the next worthy candidate to wield it. He brought the hammer down and a flash of lightning targeted at me flashed down from the sky. Suddenly, a shield was brought on top of me and the lightning bounced off it. Sigyn was beside me. If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. ¡°You''ve tried your best son. J?rmungandr wouldn''t want you to die like that. Recover yourself. Then go and teach those Nazi BALLs what it means to kick ass.¡± Sigyn said. She put her hand on my back and I saw my mana bar rise back to full. ¡°Are you going to be alright?¡± I asked, worried about the sheer amount of mana she just passed to me. ¡°I can see why J?rmungandr liked you. Don''t worry. My spells don''t use a lot of mana. I can spare a million to top you up. Go now.¡± she smiled at me. I didn''t need to be told twice what to do. I saw Maxmystical whom I was fighting with before the J?rmungandr and Thor episode focusing his efforts now on Horse. I teleported beside Horse and shielded her with a shield made of darkness meant to absorb anything and everything. ¡°Leave him. You need to focus on more important people. You''re the best 1v1 fighter we got here. Leave this idiot to me. You need to go take care of the others.¡± I told her. She looked at me and did not say a word. She must''ve seen the way I looked. Enraged, stern, serious and cold. No one has seen me this way before. She held her hand to my face and caressed it lightly for abit. ¡°Go kick some ass.¡± she said before she stealthed and headed deeper into the battlefield. I teleported beside Maxmystical instantly and casted another spell from the 50 J?rmungandr left me. ¡°Reaper''s Scythe.¡± A dark blade made out of pure darkness ripped off his head. It was as potent as any god level spell now because my affinites were maxed out. A 60% affinity to nature and 40% affinity to darkness made the total 100%. It could not rise any higher. Maxmystical''s head rolled off and the body turned into water. Another water clone. Just like Njord''s disciple. My mana intuition could not differentiate between the clones and the original because they were both made out of similar colours and purity. Ice and water based with high purity. If only there was a way to differentiate between his clone and where his real body was. I might be enraged but I was still myself. I was desperate for blood but I could still think calmly and systematically. It must''ve been my master''s words. They still resonated within me. ¡°Yes master. I''ll be objective and calm till the end. But this life is for you.¡± I muttered. I began to formulate my new plan. I still had a healthy 900000 mana left and as I observed my surroundings, I came to one plan that I felt had no way of failing. Maxmystical was hurtling ice spears and water torrents at me with such ferocity and speed that it would''ve taken the past me everything just to avoid or block his spells but I was different. I had 10 times the mana than before and I was angry. Very angry. I cast a fire spell to melt all the spears into water and absorb the water torrents around me. The whole floor was soaked with water. I would like to say I came up with some ingenious way to bait and lure him out of his clones but albeit the calmness, anger was still the main source of fuel. I used 500000 mana without a bit of hesitation. ¡°Elexecution¡± Lightning mana was the easiest purity to see. Usually people see electricity as a yellow flash but that is one of the lowest purities already. The purity of electricity could be seen with the naked eye. It starts off as yellow, then orange, then blue, then purple respectively according to how pure the mana was. However, at it''s highest purity, it was not even purple. White lightning shot out from my hands, directed at the water while I jumped one meter off the ground. I melted such a huge amount of ice and Maxmystical threw so much water around that a 3km radius was covered with water. Fighting on it were more people like Aesir, Valkyries and a few Carnivalists. I felt sorry but this was the fastest and easiest way to deal with Maxmystical. The 500000 pure white electricity mana was conducted by the water body and everyone in contact with the water was instantly shocked. It was a 3km radius pond of elexecution. Everyone was jolted and shocked into petrification or death. All the small fries like the Aesir, Valkyrie and sadly some Carnivalists died instantly. All the water clones of Maxmystical vanished. All that was left within a 3km radius was just a spasming Maxmystical on the ground, spazzing uncontrollably. I teleported over to him and stepped on him, unaffected by my own spell as such was the nature of elexecution. ¡°You have not angered me in any way personally but one of your colleagues killed a very important person to me. As such, I won''t send you off in peace.¡± I said coldly to him, unsure of whether he could even hear me before I started extracting my cold, hard revenge. I used a moderate amount of mana to burn him, making his whole body flammable by using a combination of dark and water mana to create a flamable liquid. I encased his body in a coffin made by earth mana and I used his favourite mana against him. I froze him up entirely with ice mana and took out my trusty katana. ¡°Gravity Omnislash.¡± The ice split into thirty equal pieces as the name Maxmystical above his name turned red with skulls on either side of it. Signifying complete and utter death. Strangely enough, my anger disappitated a little despite me killing someone who wasn''t directly involved. However, a huge chunk of it was still left behind and I knew the only way for me to get rid of this inner rage was to kill the person most related to Thor. I took a short break, recovering my mana to the max since there was no one close within 3km and formulated my thoughts on how I would murder Magni. Suddenly, a huge roar which wasn''t human sounded out. Needless to say, the moment I looked in the direction the roar came from, I knew who did it. Fenrir was the embodiment of rage and anger for some cults and it was no surprise. He was definitely the most violent amongst the gods but no one knew how violent he could be. However, the scene before us showed without a doubt why he was feared, by everyone for his rage. Fenrir was holding Odin by the head. A head that was ripped off the neck of the body with an unmistakable look of shock on his face. Loki, Hel and Sigyn cheered along with the rest of the Carnivalists while Odin''s group was enraged. It was war at it''s core. Kill before you''re killed. Take revenge on the other side before they extract revenge from you. Only the winner is right. All is fair in love and war. I got up after recovering the majority of my mana and begun making my way towards Magni which I could sense using my mana intuition. By J?rmungandr''s life, I will rape all of them, starting with Maxmystical, followed by Magni.
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Author''s Note: Three gods down. One BALL down. I''m sure all of you know where this is going. Please leave me PM''s for any suggestions how to improve or if you all want to PR my work before I submit it. This will be the last arc. It''s going to be majority serious but don''t worry. It''s essence as a comedy will still be existent. Also, I''m looking for an artist to help me do up a cover for my work! Please let me know if you can offer to help! Last but not least, Thank you for all the support. Appreciate all the comments and reviews especially! Love y''all. Chapter 39 : And Off The Head Goes I teleported towards the direction I sensed Magni was in. Sure enough, After a few teleports I could see him in sight with his gigantic god size. (Gods can change their size at will but apparently they decided to become all big and badass for this fight.) Magni was engaged in a fight with... Someone vanishing from place to place at extremely high speeds all over Magni, treating him like some sort of inanimate object when he was swinging Mjollnir wildly around trying to connect with the target. Horse??.... WAIT HORSE?! ¡°WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! FIGHTING A GOD ALONE?¡± I shouted at her. ¡°Shut up I''m doing fine.¡± And she was. My mouth gaped in shock. I knew Horse was the best 1v1 fighter in our group but taking on a god? A god wielding Mjollnir at that? ¡°WHAT THE FUCK WOMAN?! OP???? WHAT DID SIGYN DO TO YOU.¡± I whispered to her. ¡°I''m always OP. Please-¡± I casted many divine shield layers as fast as I could on her. A torrent of icicles rained down on her as she flashed to another part of the map. ¡°Holy shit what was that? Thanks I nearly died.¡± Horse said. I looked at the direction the insanely pure ice mana was casted from. ¡°Skadi...¡± I muttered. She turned and looked at me as well. ¡°You. You are the imbecile who helped kill Thor.¡± She said, her voice almost as cold as her spells. I immediately teleported behind her and engaged her in a one on one. However, I was also worried about Horse. I figured this was it. If Horse could hold her own against a god, me being left behind with the title and a godlike skill should be able to do it as well. ¡°Poison torrent.¡± I whirpool as big as the goddess herself was conjured and enveloped Skadi. Sounds of the fight between Horse and Magni was resumed. Suddenly, the whirlpool I conjured was frozen not by me. The ice shattered, leaving behind Skadi seemingly unhurt but I knew the poison inside could affect even gods. ¡°That irritating snake master of yours taught you well it seems.¡± She said. She raised her hand. I could sense ice mana coming at me from every single direction. I teleported behind her. Icicles were aimed at my position a split second ago. However, they were the same homing icicles that she used against Njord. Holy shit holy shit holy jesus facking shit. THIS SPELL KILLED A GOD WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO. I tried to count the icicles. Too many to count. I needed at least 100 layers of divine shield which would be a waste of mana. I tried another tactic. I used wind steps and ran towards Skadi. ¡°Retard.¡± Skadi said. I saw the entire floor around me glow teal in colour, signifying an incoming attack witth ice mana. I teleported on top of Skadi''s head. The place I was standing on a moment ago suddenly had icicles the size of giants sprouting out from the ground. My feet even through the high quality shoes I was wearing could feel the chill on the top of her head. The icicles changed their path to target me again but this time I was glad. Sigyn realised the significance of the position of my teleportation. If she continued to stand there, the icicles would pierce her first while they were trying to get to me. She cancelled her spell and the icicles vanished. ¡°Very clever.¡± She said. This is going nowhere. I can avoid her attacks with a huge mana pool but how am I supposed to win? Skadi relentlessly summoned more icicles, used ice attacks all over the place while I was on the defensive. Things were no different on the other end. Horse was moving at speeds so high she looked like a blur. Even lightning summoned from Mjollnir could not target her properly. However, her damage output was also negligible against Magni''s thick armour. Both of us could keep a god occupied but that was the most we could do. We did not have the firepower to do much. Firepower? Wait of course. I have hardly used fire spells over the past year but my opponent only specialises in ice.Let''s try this out. I used about 10% of my mana to teleport and conjour a meteor instantaneously, firing it at Skadi. It exploded around her chest area and she turned to where I teleported, obviously and extremely angry. ¡°First Njord calls me fat and now you summon a fucking meteor to hit my boobs. ALL GUYS ARE GOOD FOR NOTHING JERKS.¡± She screamed her head off. I thought her attacks were already relentless and dangerous but it seemed I was wrong. Never, ever mess with a woman when she''s on her period guys. She froze the very water vapour in the air around me and her and about a 3km radius around her was suddenly encased in ice. Needless to say, I was caught in it. Skadi had the ability to move within the ice. She rushed towards me and I knew I had to think of something. Well, since all of us were encased in the ice already anyway, I decided to use a spell in an interesting way. I used aeroglyph on the humongous piece of ice. I accelerated it in the direction of Magni and Horse. The piece of ice sped over to them like a racing car and smashed into Magni who could only swing his hammer against it. It was insane. The force from Mjollnir crashed into the ice and it cracked into many pieces, freeing me from the ice. Suddenly, another deafening roar could be heard over the battlefield. This time, Morgan the Strong was the one who let loose the deafening roar. His spear had pierced through the upper jaw of Fenrir and Fenrir''s eyes were empty. They lacked the fire and ferocity it just had when he killed Odin. He was unmistakably dead. ¡°NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!¡± Soup''s roar could be heard from many miles away. Suddenly, another wolf the size of Fenrir could be seen. But I recognized the look of the wolf even from 30 miles away. ¡°Soup...¡± I managed to gasp. Soup was now the size of Fenrir. He looked exactly like Fenrir with broken chains now on his front and back paws. His class on our party window has also changed. It was no longer Lycanhero. It was... Alphawolf. Fenrir must''ve left behind something for him like how J?rmungandr did as well for me. I realised there and then that our masters were dead. Nothing we could do could change that fact. But they have left behind something for us that would enable us to fight against these gods. They had confidence in us even though they knew they would die. My new skill wasn''t some simple upgrade. It was THE upgrade I needed to fight against Skadi. It wasn''t that I couldn''t do damage to her. I was so scared of her attacks that I only concentrated on defending because I had no confidence that I could inflict damage on her and even kill her. But this was something I had to do and I could not run away from. I steeled my resolve. Soup could be seen pulverising anything within his reach and I now concentrated every part of my mind. I used 10 different fire spells, each with a different property like glyphs, damaging spells, enchanting spells, debuff spells all at Skadi. Her face suddenly looked different. I could sense something I did not ever sense from her before. Fear. She realised I could do considerable damage to her. And I did as well. I teleported close to her and encased my katana with fire. This was the time to use my swordplay. Mages are weak against physical damage more than magical. She tried to distance herself from me by using an Ice wall but teleport was a spell that proved to provide me with too much mobility. She then decided to encase me in ice again but I encased myself in fire at the same time after seeing the same spell once. Our fight was approaching a decisive outcome when something happened. Horse was suddenly seen flung to the ground. Magni had finally gotten used to her speed and swatted her like a man who finally managed to slap a fly that has been bugging him. I quickly casted divine shield on her to shield the impact from the fall which was a good thing. I could concentrate one part of my mind to help her and one to fight with Skadi. This meant that I was even outclassing Skadi in the fight. However, Horse was still in trouble. Magni pinned her down with electrical wires from Mjollnir and she was not good at taking hits. Especially from a god. Magni raised his hammer. I casted a few more layers of divine shield on Horse but Magni smashed through all of them by smashing the hammer repeatedly over and over on her. I could not keep up the mana drain of casting many layers of divine shield over and over again on her. I put my hand on Skadi and casted mana drain. It looks like I could also steal mana from gods. However, if I had to be close enough to establish physical contact with Skadi, her most powerful close range ice spells could also hit me. I had to use this in moderation. Magni however decided that the game was up. He charged Mjollnir up and dark clouds loomed over his head. I had a bad feeling that even divine shields would not be able to stop what was coming. Lightning that flashed so bright even my eyes which weren''t looking directly at it was blinded for awhile. Skadi was also affected. I had no idea if I could protect Horse using my divine shields. I got back my sight slowly and I trembled to see what awaits me. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. In front of Horse, was someone familiar to us. Sigyn. She was holding her staff up in the sky which I assumed conducted all the electricity. But this meant that she took the full brunt of the attack. She fell to the floor, charred and smelling of burnt hair but she was still twitching. She seemed to be still alive. ¡°MASTERRR!¡± Horse yelled as she raced by her side. Magni was busy smirking and letting out huge deep laughs. Skadi immediately gave me no chance to regroup myself and rained me down with more icicles and I had it. It was no longer dangerous but irritating. I increased the quantity of fire mana around me and barged through the icicles, aiming for one spot. A woman''s most irritating body part most of the time. Her mouth. She was shocked and let out a gasp but that was her mistake. I could not teleport to a place I could not see but her mouth was open and I saw it. I teleported inside and let loose all 900000 condensed mana of mine into one huge meteor. I aimed it at the roof of her mouth while encasing myself with the high purity fire mana. BOOOOOOM
You have killed a god! You have gained 500000000 exp! You have earned a title : God Slayer You have gained an item : Skadi''s ring.
I could see the sky. Along with bits and pieces of skull and brain which could be mistaken for other stuff because everything was black. Suddenly I felt the whole world tipping over as I was on a roller coaster almost vertically downwards. BOOOOOOM And that was the now incinerated from the mouth upwards body of Skadi collapsing onto the floor. I quickly looked over at Sigyn. Now, her almost dead body was being feasted upon by gargoyles and frost giants. No douby summoned from Cheeballs the undying. Horse was still fighting Magni and was now fighting while crying, too preoccupied with Magni to help her master. It was a horrible feeling, being able to do nothing but watch your master die. I made my master sacrifice himself for me so I knew. I quickly used my fully restored mana since I levelled up to wipe out the gargoyles and frost giants. But when I was casting my healing spells on Sigyn, I knew.... It was a lost cause. ¡°NOOOOOOO MASTER!!!!¡± Horse screamed. Similarly, Horse glowed with a new power, definitely inherited from her master. All of a sudden, Horse who was a blur already, took it one gear higher. She vanished from sight. Suddenly, I saw her at Magni''s eye level and instead of holding her usual dual daggers, she was wielding one rapier and one saber. One for piercing and one for slashing. Indeed befitting for a murderer. Suddenly, her class changed as well in the party window. It was no longer Murderer but Executioner. Badass alright. Damn bloody badass. It seemed that Sigyn also took her powers to the next level. One moment Magni was alright still with his fully armoured platemail set and suddenly, his back had a gigantic cut that pierced through the armour with blood gushing out profusely. Horse must''ve used Without a trace coupled with puncture but this was a puncture on a whole new level. To think it can even pierce through a god''s armour.... ¡°WHAT?! HOW?!¡± Magni shouted, summarising my long previous paragraph in two words. ¡°Shut up.¡± Horse whispered beside his ear. It was honestly a scary thing to see. A human versus a god but with the human dealing so much damage to the god. It was like a fly which was harrassing you suddenly stabbed you with a knife somewhere whispering ¡°Shut up¡± beside your ear while harrassing you. I mean it may sound stupid or funny but if it happens I bet you''ll pee in your pants and bath in pesticide. However, this was happening to Magni and he had no pesticide. Horse was still zooming around him and you could not even see her as a blur. It was as if she learnt the teleport skill. The difference was she was just moving so damn fast the only time I could see her was if she stopped to plant her legs on the ground to do a massive attack which usually drew blood even through the thick armour of Magni. Magni was also taking preventive measures by now. He wrapped himself with electricity from Mjollnir like a secondary layer of armour but it seemed as though Horse could now phase through even magical attacks for periods of times. She could waltz through the electrically charged armour without suffering any damage for periods of times and when it was on cooldown, she would just simply keep her distance and switch to ranged attacks which involved throwing deadly knives in huge quantities at vital parts. Magni was clearly not enjoying himself. He decided to use his last resort. He swung Mjollnir so fast around his head that soon, he conjured a typhoon with him as the eye of the tornado. He wanted to suck Horse into the tornado so that she would be unable to keep up the high speed combat and so he could land his hits on her. I think that was a legit, well thought out plan. However, Horse was such a monstrosity that I would never ever think of calling her fat lest we become another NjordSkadi domestic murder case. Horse was indeed being sucked into the tornado. Suddenly, something I''ve never seen from Horse became so clear to me. No it was not the tornado revealing her private parts or anything like that. She started glowing. Grey in colour. The highest purity of wind mana. But she didn''t even have much mana. And then they were concentrated into her saber. When she was just about to be sucked into the torrent of the tornado, she swung her saber horizontally, and the concentrated wind mana in her saber left instantaneously, causing a shockwave so powerful that it stilled the tornado, slicing through it, and as well as cleanly through Magni''s neck. His head flew three feet in the air first with a complete look of shock on his face which was remarkably similar to the look on my face as well. She just used a skill so powerful it took the head of a god off so cleanly. I looked at her, eyes popping out of their sockets and mouth so agape that an apple could fit inside easily. ¡°Sigyn''s signature move. Getsuga Tenshou.¡± She said. ¡°WHAT?!¡± ¡°Just kidding. Bleach would sue us. It''s called Zephyr. The saber and rapier was hers. They were enchanted by Loki and made especially for her. It has 100% affinity to wind and it could absorb both my stamnia, mana as well as health and convert it into power for the slash.¡± She explained. I looked at her health bar. It was less than half. She must''ve put half her health as well as all her mana and stamina for that attack. It was powerful enough to stop a tornado and take off a god''s head completely after all... ¡°How many levels did you gain from killing Magni?¡± I asked. ¡°About 60? Doesn''t matter. I''m going after Cheeballs now. That bitch needs to be raped.¡± Her eyes even colder and even more furious now scanned the map for her new target. It was my turn to caress her face gently and instead of telling her ¡°Go kick some ass¡± like she told me, I decided on something else more apt for her. ¡°Don''t rape her too badly. Her family still needs to recognise and claim the body.¡± She nodded and zoomed off. Boy that girl has issues. But now I''m sure of it. I have some sort of feelings for her. DAMNITTTT. I looked at the headless Magni, feeling better for J?rmungandr now that some sort of revenge was established. But I looked towards the giant wolf who was now on fire, both figuratively as well as literally as he was lit on fire by someone but still rampaging onwards towards Morgan The Strong. Suddenly, everyone was distracted by something even more incredulous than a giant wolf on fire rampaging in Asgard. Loki and Freyja have begun their battle. It was the first time everyone saw Loki fight. And boy oh boy did he live up to his name.
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Chapter 40 : Loki Indeed The way he fought could be summarised in one word. AWESOME. Loki had the ability to keep his whole armoury equipped at the same time. With the exception of baldy the eagle with his wind sword and wings which were now active on Breadtalk, he possessed all 9 other weapons at once. He held in his hand a scythe (10) with a huge amount of mana stored within it. The other weapons like the spear(4), spiky hammer(2), dual daggers(6), dual guns(7), were all floating by his side. He was equipping the boots(1), gaunlets(8), rope (3) and riding in his bazooka equipped vehicle(9). The sight of it was just ridiculous. And all of the weapons were talking to him at the same time so it''s no wonder Loki can multitask so well. He fired bazookas all over the place and the weapons were all like Freyr''s magical sword, capable of fighting on their own. The dual guns were shooting explosive clown heads the size of a human all over the place. The spear was exploding any unit that came within 5 meters of the vehicle etc. However, against the gods of course this was not enough. Loki had to use another skill which he excelled at and that was exactly what he used against Freyja. ¡°Game on!¡± Shouted Loki. All of the gods looked at Loki and tilted their heads to one side, puzzled at what the skill was supposed to be. Loki and Freyja were suddenly surrounded by a purple light from the heavens. A voice that sounded strangely like R2D2 from star wars suddenly could be heard throughout the battlefield. ¡°Loki and Freyja confirmed for battle. Any outside damage dealt to them will be reduced to 0. Both of them must now engage in a fight to the death. The rules are simple. You take turns picking from this huge list of games normally played in real life. You decide on a portion of health to bet based on percentage and the winner inflicts that much percentage of health onto the opponent. Certain games have a clear winner so in that case, the loser receives the amount of health bet on. Other games might have draws as a possible outcome. In case of a draw, both parties will lose half of the betted amount.¡± The mechanical robot voice came out from the sky. Freyja looked at the sky, puzzled at the voice coming out from nowhere. ¡°The R2D2 not working out for you? Alright just hold on.¡± Loki said. The voice suddenly changed midway. ¡°Any outside inteference will be immediately negated so outsiders cannot help the 2 people involved in the deathmatch. The winner of the deathmatch will immediately be restored to full health after the battle. The list of games available are as follows.¡± A voice that sounded ridiculously like Nicholas Cage replaced the commentary just as a huge chalkboard dropped from the sky. ¡°I got the whole Hollywood cast available just tell me who you like Freyja.¡± Loki smiled. ¡°I just like you dead.¡± She snarled. Both of them turned to look at the huge board which dropped from the sky. The list was endless. All the classic games were there : Jump rope, tic tac toe, fivestones, pick up sticks, tag, hide and seek, hopscotch. Card games were also available : Poker, Blackjack, Big 2, Bluff etc. Casino games were also available such as Roulette, Fruit machines.... The fuck even sports were avilable : Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Badminton! On the board was almost every single game one could play. Computer games, Drinking games, Dating games.... Freyja''s eyes widened in amazement. Loki''s shined with excitement. ¡°I played this 99 times and I''m still alive. Time for the 100th. I always have and always will love this skill the most.¡± Loki said. ¡°I used to be quite the party queen so I''m good at my games. You better watch out.¡± Freyja warned Loki. ¡°Time to choose who gets to go first. We will proceed with a coin toss. Freyja please choose heads or tails.¡± A voice that now sounded like Brad Pitt sounded from the sky. ¡°Heads.¡± Freyja answered dreamily, clearly enchanted by the rough and deep voice of the above mentioned superstar. The coin went up. And. Tails. ¡°HAHAHAHA NOOB. I CHOOSE COIN TOSS AS THE FIRST GAME. 10% OF OUR HEALTH.¡± Loki immediately guffawed. ¡°You''re leaving 10% of your health to pure luck?¡± Freyja replied, shocked. ¡°Hey hey hey. I''ve played this game 99 times. If it''s luck I got plenty of it to spare and judging from your first coin toss, you''re not very good at this game so I guess it''s fine.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± ¡°The rules are as follows. Both players will decide on Heads or Tails secretly. Both of them will key in their predictions. The coin will be tossed and after the result is out, the predictions will be revealed. The first player to make 3 wrong predictions loses this game.¡± Denzel Washington said. ¡°Easy enough. Let''s do this.¡± Freyja said. ¡°Try not to lose so fast.¡± Loki added. A screen appeared in front of both players and they entered their predictions. The coin went up andddd.... heads. The screens on both players turned to face each other. Loki : Heads Freyja : Tails ¡°HAHAHAHA YOU SUCK SO HARD OMG.¡± Loki started laughing his ass off on the floor. Due to his shapeshift he really could pretend to laugh his ass off. Freyja was clearly angered by Loki''s correct prediction and comment. ¡°Next round. Quick.¡± Coin went tails. Loki : Tails Freyja : Heads ¡°HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU REALLY SUCK HAHAHAHAHAHA!¡± Loki laughed his head off. ¡°Is this game even fair?! I demand to inspect the coin.¡± Freyja said. ¡°By all means. I only uphold the values of fairness and sportsmanship.¡± Obama said. ¡°Shut up already. Stick with Hollywood please not politicians.¡± Freyja said. ¡°Sorry.¡± Leonardo DiCaprio said. After she checked, the coin for any tricks, she found none so the game continued. ¡°Alright i''ll pity you so i''ll purposely get this one wrong now.¡± Loki said. ¡°Fuck off.¡± Replied Freyja. Coin goes up anddddd tails. Loki : Tails Freyja : Heads ¡°WHAT THE HELL I WANTED TO GET IT WRONG.¡± Loki shouted. A blue flash of lightning came down from the sky and sure enough, 10% of Freyja''s life was gone. ¡°Miss Freyja, the next choice of game will be up to you.¡± Channing Tatum said. ¡°Rock Paper Scissors. 20%.¡± She replied. ¡°Honestly woman? My best game? You don''t know what you''re in for.¡± Loki taunted her. ¡°Shut up. You''ll see.¡± ¡°The rules are simple. First to reach 3 wins. Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock. If you don''t know this, kindly proceed to the edge of the arena and commit suicide. Now let''s begin.¡± Emma Watson said. ¡°Emma Watson? Honestly?¡± Freyja asked. ¡°Hey I can''t always give you the hot guys. Gimme some chicks once in awhile.¡± He replied. And so rock paper scissors it was. Freyja : Rock Loki : Spock (Based on Big Bang Theory''s rock paper scissors lizard spock.) ¡°Error. Error. Loki''s hand sign not recognised. Will lose this round by default.¡± C3PO came. ¡°WHAT? ISN''T THAT A BIT TOO STRICT?¡± Loki exclaimed. ¡°Shut up.¡± C3PO replied. ¡°HEY I WAS THE ONE WHO CREATED THIS SKILL.¡± Loki shouted again. ¡°Freyja 1, Loki 0.¡± C3PO said. Loki cursed in many flowery languages before proceeding to the next round. Soon, they were tied at 2 all and this was the deciding round. ¡°Rock paper scissors!¡± Just when scissors was said Loki put on an astonished face and pointed towards my direction. Freyja immediately looked at me and I did not know what was going on. Suddenly Loki put out his hand in a scissors sign while Freyja was looking directly at me. ¡°Error. Error. Freyja did not put out any sign. She loses this round by default.¡± ¡°WAIT WHAT?!¡± She exclaimed before another lightning bolt hit her head. She was down to 70%. ¡°LOKIIIIIII!¡± She fumed. She lashed out at him and tried to punch him but before the punch landed, her fist collided into an invisible wall. ¡°Thou shall not injure an opposing player during this game.¡± Morgan Freeman commanded. ¡°Dat''s right!¡± Loki chided her with the most childish smile I''ve ever seen apart from Breadtalk''s. ¡°Next I want Pacman! 30%.¡± Loki said. Two huge arcade consoles popped out and landed in front of both players. ¡°Game is simple. Play pacman. The one with the highest high score wins. One try only. That means 3 lives. No trial run is allowed. If you don''t know the rules of pacman you have no life and deserve to lose.¡± Darth Vader commanded. ¡°Honestly too much star wars Loki.¡± ¡°Roger that.¡± Emma Stone said. And both of them got down to business for the third game. Loki was obviously good at Pacman while Freyja... Well let''s just say... Girls don''t play much Pacman in general then. For her first life she went around collecting the fruits for points and that was the right way to play it. But she didn''t have to go ¡°Cherry Cherry Cherry Cherry! Banana Banana Banana Banana! NOOOO THAT GHOST NEIN GO AWAY GO AWAY VON DOUCHBAG NOOOOOO!¡± That was something quite disturbing to see. Freyja jumping up and down while spamming her thoughts out loud with profanities admist the random mumbo jumbo but oh well it added to the entertainment value. Most of the fights stopped by now and everyone ordered a cease fire. Everyone was seated around their mini arena, cheering for their respective teams. A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°GO MASTER!!!¡± Breadtalk shouted. ¡°FREYJA FREYJA FREYJA!¡± The remainder of Odin''s faction went. ¡°NOOOOO OMG THAT STUPID SON OF AN UGLY GHOST''S BITCH HE KILLED ME!¡± Freyja replied. After 20 minutes, ¡°Game over. Loki : 3000000 points. Freyja : 30000 points.¡± A blue flash of lightning followed again and finally, Freyja was down to 40% health while Loki was sitting at a perfect 100%. ¡°Sorry it took so long Freyja. Must''ve been a long wait. I saw you not touching the joystick after 5 minutes.¡± ¡°You ass. Stop rubbing it in you''re dead now. I choose the drinking game, Kings. 40%.¡± Freyja declared. ¡°You know that''s your all in right.¡± ¡°You''ll be at 60% soon enough just surrender.¡± She said. ¡°Drinking game : Kings chosen. The drinks will be shots of Tequila. Rules of Kings will now apply. Please read the instruction manual.¡±
Ace : One shot. Two : Two shots. Three : Three shots. Four : Four shots. Five : Five shots. Six : Opponent drinks one shot. Seven : Go to Toilet card. (Without it you can''t go to the toilet) Eight : Action card. Flip it facedown and do an action. Last person to follow it drinks one shot. Nine : Categories. Random category will be given. 3 seconds to say one response. Failure to do so results in drinking a shot. Ten : Telepathy game. Two people will be randomly chosen. A question will be asked. Both players must answer at the count of 3. If both say the same thing, everyone else drinks. If their answer differs, both of them drink. Jack : Guys bottoms up. Queen : Girls please do a shot. King : The first 3 kings drawn will pour a random amount of Tequila they choose into a cup. The fourth king must drink the entire cup.
¡°As this game requires more than 2 ppl to play. Please choose up to three teammates to join in so the total number of players will be 8.¡± ¡°Breadtalk, Hel, Jinx.¡± Loki said. ¡°Freyr, Cheeballs, MidandFeed come.¡± Freyja said. ¡°Team members have been registered. The rules are simply. Play the game. The last person who is sober wins. I will be the judge.¡± Simon Cowell said. ¡°Well let''s start American Idol.¡± Loki said. And the game begun. Breadtalk went first. Ace. He took a shot of Tequila. You see, Breadtalk isn''t good at holding his liquor. (In real life as well.) He took one sip and his whole face became red. ¡°Wait. Disciple you cannot drink?¡± Loki asked. ¡°What are you talking about I drink everyday!¡± Breadtalk giggled. Giggled. ¡°Holy shit. Jinx I'',m sorry.¡± ¡°What? Why''re you apologising?¡± Loki was up next. He drew a three. ¡°Like master like disciple indeed.¡± He said it as if he was on his deathbed and downed three shots. Instantly, his face also went red like Breadtalk''s. ¡°FREYJA YOUR TURN!¡± He giggled cum shouted. Freyja smiled widely and drew a 5. She took in all 5 and it looked like she was drinking water. I drew a king. I knew this was important. If Loki or Breadtalk drew the fourth king they would instantly be out. I added only one shot of alcohol into the cup. MidandFeed was next. He drew another king. He poured 10 shots inside. Oh well plan ruined. One round was soon finished and Loki''s shirt was already off. Breadtalk had to go again. ¡°GO MAI FELLOW DISCIPLE LET''S KICK SOME ASS!¡± ¡°YESH SIRRRRRRRRR!¡± He drew a nine. ¡°Your category is..... Countries.¡± Simon Cowell announced. ¡°EARTHWORM!¡± Shouted Breadtalk. ¡°Please drink.¡± Simon Cowell said. Everyone except me was clearly enjoying this. The spectators were laughing their asses off at Breadtalk''s reply, Loki was proud of his disciple. Odin''s faction was clearly winning this hands down and I was preparing to be sent to my grave. Death by drinking.... Loki drew a five and after he downed 5 shots, he immediately started grabbing at Breadtalk''s tits. Breadtalk acted like a girl saying ¡°Stop master stop! Not here~¡± I used a huge stalagmite to pierce it up Breadtalk''s ass and it looked like that did the trick. He sat very straight up, started composing himself because a foreign sharp pain right up his ass was currently being dealt to him. This was the good part. The bad part was that an intoxicated Breadtalk was 10 times more retarded than a normal one as if being even more retarded was actually possible.¡± ¡°Master. A snake is spooning me. The snake has a super super long hard and pointy dick. What do I do?¡± Breadtalk tried to whisper but he had already lost all sense of volume control. ¡°Breadtalk is out of the game.¡± Simon Cowell announced. ¡°NOOOO! He''s so handsome he must stay inside.¡± ¡°Loki is out of the game as well.¡± He followed up. ¡°I surren-¡± Before I could finish my sentence Breadtalk body slammed me to the ground. ¡°NOOOOO JINX. A true man must never give up. A true man must always take the challenge. A true man... Must have felt a snake''s dick go up his ass before he understands what is... true pain.¡± He blurted out before vomitting all over me. I just continued and finally, sure enough, I drew the last king. 21 shots worth of Tequila. Hmmm.... Bottoms up! And then fireworks were literally going in every direction because when I become drunk, I really have no idea what I''m doing. Mana manipulation required delicate control which an intoxicated man could not wish to wield. I could''ve sworn I used high purity fire mana to try and burn off Horse''s clothes but after that I don''t remember much. I just remember going unconscious.... And what woke me up was a familiar blue flash of lightning. Loki was now standing over a dead Freyja. The best part was he couldn''t even walk straight. He was still drunk. I was still groggy and hungover so I tried to steel myself and asked the first face I could see. ¡°What happened? How did he win... He''s drunker than a drunkard who''s drunk.¡± I asked a familiar looking face. ¡°He''s not a master of trickery for nothing. He''s just pretending to be drunk. He won his game of Poker against Freyja with 40% of health on the line which was all her reamining health. But the way he won it was amazing...¡± A soothing voice made it''s way into my ears. ¡°Where am I? Heaven?¡± I asked, obviously out of sorts by now. ¡°You''re sleeping on my lap.¡± Horse said. She leaned closer towards me. I could smell something burnt though for some reason. ¡°And if you don''t get yourself straightened up for the rest of the fight which is about to begin soon, I will personally make sure your head get''s swiped off as cleanly as Magni''s one and trust me that''s not the only part I will cut off.¡± she whispered gently into my ear, using her skill, Murderer''s whisper. I sat straight up, shook off the dizziness, absolutely horrified at the tone she was using and saw her in quite an unglam state, singed hair and clothes which I vaguely remember causing. Her eyes were colder than ever. Nop no time to be drunk now. Get it together Jinx. Your bird and head are at stake here. I managed to talk normally but I had to do it very slowly and carefully. ¡°So.. How did he win in the end?¡± I asked. ¡°WELL WELL THAT WAS AN AMAZING GAME OF POKER! Let''s watch a replay of the game changing hand!¡± Ben Stiller announced as a TV screen suddenly appeared in front of all the spectators. Loki was looking drunk as hell and his hand was just like him. A mess. He had 3 and 7 while the table had K, K, 4, 5, 2. He had nothing. It was a clear loss but Loki was clearly messed up in his head. Freyja raised a ridiculous amount and Loki just followed. While pushing the chips, he dropped his cards on the table. However, the cards were now 3 and 6. It was a straight. He quickly picked up his cards. ¡°Oh damn. Now you know my cards. Ah fuck this. All in.¡± He said groggily. Freyja knew he had a straight so she folded and with the huge advantage in chips, Loki slowly whittled her down. But how did the 7 change to a 6?! I looked at Breadtalk who was beside me, his nose larger than an apple because that''s his usual body humour he likes to pull off. And then I realised. Of course... Trickster indeed. No doubt the god of trickery. He used shapeshift... On the card.
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Chapter 41 : Deaths Busy Day. Anddddd everywhere was complete chaos yet again After Loki killed Freyja, all the valkyries disappeared because they were unsummoned back to the Valhalla. Now the fight was overwhelmingly in our favour. Their lead summoner was gone while we were able to keep up the massive amount of monsters as well as Carnivalists to pressure the other side. The basic rule of war is ¡°Numbers will always win.¡± However, the fight wasn''t going to end just like that. The skies split open again and this time, more valkyries, most of which were of an even higher level came from the heavens yet again. I looked over to Cheeballs who was Freyja''s disciple. No. She wasn''t the one summoning the Valkyries. Nope. Horse was directly behind her now with two knives getting ready to rip apart her throat and any other part of her body. I said a quick prayer for her. I tried to identify where the mana was coming from and I found it shortly after my vision went majorly red with blood splurting out from another headless body. Genesis. Plus with the ring he had, his summons would be unable to switch factions. Beathoven had a song that could take ownership of other people''s summons but they would not work on this guy. I could not even drain his mana because of that stupid ring of his. I had to think fast. -Meanwhile- Soup was in a complete rage because of Fenrir''s death a moment ago. He was thrashing around in his giga form which was the same size as the gods now. Units near him instantly died now whenever he as much as touched him and he just wanted blood. Especially Morgan The Strong''s blood. Macaroni was extremely concerned about Soup so she quickly ran over to him lest he does somethign stupid in his fury. Soup was finding his way towards Morgan The Strong but someone stood in his way. MidandFeed ¡°Move. I have no business with you.¡± He said. ¡°Yes you do. Morgan is my best brother. I love him. Thou shall die at my hands.¡± MidandFeed said. ¡°You do realise what you just said can come across as a little, no. Very gay right?¡± Soup replied. ¡°We have spent countless nights together there is nothing stronger than our bond.¡± ¡°Bondage you mean.... But I''m not gonna let you tie me up. Nuh uh. You''re going down.¡± Soup charged at him instantly, using all the buffs he had including howl which meant that he had a whopping plus 1300% attack rating or something now. Midandfeed swung his blade at Soup in an attempt to counter and before the blade made contact with his throat, Soup equipped his wolf form armour which made him look like a machina concept badass wolf sent to destroy earth from outer space or something. The blade stopped in it''s path and Soup swiped his front claw across Midandfeed''s face. ¡°NEIN! MAI BEAUUUTIFUL FACE! What if Moggy doesn''t love me no more... NEIN! You big big smelly pussy I''ll rape you.¡± Midandfeed said. My god how fucked up can this guy get. But then the blade changed. It grew longer, sharper, more menacing and exuded an aura alot more threatening. MidandFeed was a blade master and this was no ordinary blade. This was Freyr''s magical blade that had a life of it''s own. Freyr was watching from a distance and he finally came to join the fight, after seeing his disciple getting five straight lines drew neatly across his face that made him look kinda like those picture books where you can flip different rows of the book to change how a face looks. ¡°You''re strong. You''re a threat. You''re going down.¡± Freyr said as he stepped towards Soup with MidandFeed. ¡°Did someone say down?¡± A voice appeared all of a sudden from directly above Freyr. A huge flaming fireball of chaos and devastation slammed his fists down on Freyr''s head. ¡°Master!¡± Shouted Macaroni. ¡°I could feel your troubles disciple. I''ll handle the god. You two, take down this gay son of a bitch.¡± Surtr said. ¡°I''m not gay! I''m bisexual. Your disciple is kinda hot though. AND MY MOMMA''S NOT A BITCH!¡± MidandFeed said before lunging at Soup. Soup was expecting it so he was preparing to use his armour to parry the blow but the sword sliced neatly through the armour, drawing blood even though he was supposed to be protected. ¡°WHAT?!¡± Soup shouted in pain. ¡°Haha who''s the female dog now~¡± Taunted MidandFeed. ¡°Are you alright???!¡± Macaroni asked Soup. ¡°Yeah I''m fine the cut wasn''t deep. My Wolf''s Regeneration will heal this up in seconds. However now we have a problem. He can slice through my armour like it''s nothing.¡± Soup said. ¡°It''s alright I have an idea for that.¡± Macaroni said. ¡°Flame guard.¡± Macaroni said. Soup''s armour glowed for a few seconds before exploding into an inferno. ¡°WHAT? I DON''T LIKE FIRE HELLLOOO!¡± Soup shouted and frantically jumped around, trying to put out the flames before he realised.... The fire was lukewarm, kind of nice and rather energizing. ¡°Don''t worry dear. This flame guard is a sacred spell passed on only to the people with relations to Surtr. It''ll feel warm like a blanket on you but trust me. Anyone who is even 1km away from you will be able to feel the heat from this baby. It''s perfect for close quarter combat which is the only thing you know how to do.¡± She said. ¡°Aww thanks. And I''m not your dear.¡± Soup said before he engaged on MidandFeed again. -Back to Jinx- It was an amazing sight to see. The Macaroni Soup combo. I was hungry just thinking about it. A blazing fireball of a gigantic wolf was pouncing on a stupid gay faggot who could only keep screaming nein which was no in german due to some idiotic issues I guess and he got thoroughly raped by the combo. I mean. Fighting someone encased in an inferno in close quarters was pure torture. Plus I could vouch for the intensity of the fire mana in that spell. It was no joke. In some cases, mana purity can go higher than 100% and I''m pretty sure that was one of the cases. I could copy the spell but it''s effectiveness would definitely not be anywhere close to that. It just proves that if one just concentrated really hard, really really hard on one affinity to nature, he or she would eventually be able to exceed 100% of that affinity. In Surtr''s disciple''s case, it was obvious that she would be able to do it. Meanwhile, the master himself was proving that his famed name which spread far and wide was not for show. He wasn''t exactly a god with a church and followers and all that but he was known as a god. Even the higher gods like Odin and Freyja feared him and for good reason. He was treating Freyr like he was a 7 foot basketball player playing with a kid. Freyr''s swordplay was supposed to be the best in the world, legendary, mesmerizing and beautiful. But all I could see now is desperation, madeness and much, much, pain. Surtr himself was enclosed in his own flame guard which was even more ridiculous than Macaroni''s one. Close combat opponents would no doubt be losing thousands of hit points per second just by standing near him and the fact that Surtr was using his legendary sword, Infernal, which burnt as bright as the sun on it''s own was of no help. Freyr lent his blade to MidandFeed which was now confiscated by Soup upon destruction of the poor faggot. Surtr slowly burnt Freyr to the extent where his skin was already charred black in some places and it was amazing the he could even fend off another god which had a much better sword than him for so long. If I was the one fighting Surtr.. Well I''m pretty sure it would be over in seconds and Freyr had already lasted for minutes close to the hour. If he had his own magical blade, it could''ve been a different story but too bad. It wasn''t. Soup was busy using his blade as his own personal toothpick now. I looked at Genesis. He was still summoning valkyries from the skies to put us under pressure. I knew I had to stop him but engaging him on a one on one was reckless. If any of us died, we would be out for 24 real life hours. The fight would''ve been settled by then. Deep down I knew, this opponent wasn''t the one to fight now. He was the last boss. He would always be the last one standing in our way. Despite wanting to fight, with my new title and skills, I had to make the correct decisions. My master also said right I was supposed to be the calm and composed one. This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. I teleported away from Genesis, deciding to leave him for the last where the remaining members would slowly whittle him down but with one douby in my mind. Who would be the remaining members? I looked at the remaining gods. Odin was killed by Fenrir. Magni was killed by Horse. Skadi was killed by Me. Njord was killed by Skadi. (LOL) Freyja was killed by Loki. Thor was killed by Jormungandr. Freyr was killed by Surtr. Then I realised. HOLY SHIT ALL THEIR GODS ARE DEAD! WE WON BOYS But then, reality struck. A blue bolt unlike the size of anything else I''ve seen struck down. It was like a pillar of lightning with the radius of a fucking gigantic tornado. And the target was definitely, Hel. I could only think of one possibility. Mjollnir. I sensed where it was and saw the wielder, FireFireFire holding it high above his head, staring straight at the huge lightning bolt he summoned onto Hel. All of us waited, waited for Hel to come out from the place which was now smoking heavily, saving herself by maybe summoning giants directly above her to thwart the blast but this was war. There would be casualties. And Hel just became one of the fatalities. ¡°NOOOOOOOOO!¡± Beathoven screamed in a ear piercing screech. He looked towards FireFireFire with a look that I recognised as mine just three chapters ago. Surtr was also unsummoned because Hel was now dead. Surtr was now bounded only to Beathoven since he would be the one inheriting the contracts she had. Which meant Beathoven now had the abilities Hel once had. The ability to summon the undead from her castle. The ability to summon Surtr indefinitely. If played right, I believed he could defeat FireFireFire easily. However, an angry man doesn''t think clearly and everyone knows that. Beathoven used metamorphosis and this time, it was apparent that he clearly inherited something from Hel. His metamorphosis now wasn''t the same one that we saw moments ago. Instead of the demonlike form which was completely dark with horns and red eyes, it was something very very different. It was ironic really. He looked humanlike. He looked just like himself, wearing something similar to Hel''s. He was draped in a long black cloak, wearing a black and red shirt with black long pants, looking seemingly normal, just maybe a bit pale. But I could sense the amount of darkness aura coming out of him and it was no joke. To my mana intuition, Beathoven now was darker than any black thing that existed in the universe. He was like a black hole of dark mana. He immediately shot a dark arrow made out of that mana at FireFireFire. Firecube (I''ll use this now because it''s easier to type fuck my friend''s name it''s so long) swiped it away with Mjollnir but apparently, even for Mjollnir, he had to parry the blow for about half a second which was ages in terms of combat time just to deflect the arrow. He had a shocked look on his face. Followed by his jaw dropping about maybe 3 inches from the ground when he saw what was coming next. Beathoven shot 10 more arrows simultaneously at him. Firecube had to turn tail and run, flying away while trying to throttle down the 10 dark arrows which now I realised were homing. Holy fack. Furthermore after that huge lightning bolt, he shouldn''t have much strength, stamina nor mana left. However, when all of us were preoccupied with what was happening between Firecube, Hel and Beathoven, something even more ridiculous was happening outside of our attention. Genesis was making his move. And the first move was already a power play which needed balls the size of steel. He went to engage Loki and Loki used Game on on him obviously but this time, it was not a long entertaining skirmish to the death. ¡°Old maid. 100%.¡± ¡°WAIT WHAT?! This is the first time someone went all in on the first game don''t you want to test the water first? No one tests the water with both feet?¡± Loki said. ¡°I''m not testing the water alright. With you beneath my feet.¡± Loki and Genesis played old maid. The rules were simple, have a deck of cards, remove the three queens and the last queen will be the old maid. Split the cards evenly between both of them and start laying down pairs. Then, each turn, one will take a card away from the other player and see if the card makes a pair with his own cards so he can place them down. Eventually, all of the cards will be paired except for the lone queen, the old maid. The player holding onto that card will lose the game. Genesis identified that game as his sure win game simply becuase of that one annoying property of his. That fucked up ring of his. No one can take away anything that was his. And as the game was approaching till there were only three cards left, one on Loki, two on Genesis, Genesis declared that one card was his so due to the property of the ring, Loki could not take that card out of his hand. Abilities still worked in Game On mode. Just as Loki used shapeshift, he was unable to stop that ability of the ring. So he knew he would be taking the queen. And Genesis took the other card which was the pair. Blue lightning struck Loki and sure enough, on his 101thgame, he lost. All of us only noticed after the blue lightning crashed down on Loki and the TV screen showing the replay happened. By this time however, Beathoven annihilated Firecube already with he dark arrows as well as a teleport skill he inherited from Hel which only could be used in metamorphosis mode I guess. Beathoven just raped the life out of Firecube by teleporting over the him, opening a dark portal directly underneath his feet which bound him to the portal. Kind of like a jail he was unable to escape from. Then, he let loose a barrage of dark arrows so strong and so fast that it was really an unpleasant sight to see. Only Horse was excited to see it and she was saying that it was one of the best kills she has ever seen to date. Death by impaled by hundreds of dark arrows. The corpse was a holey corpse. (Bad pun intended.) While all that was happening, Trina which was Skadi''s disciple was getting her ass handed to her by Macaroni which was obviously a bad mismatch. High purity ice mana versus extremely high purity fire mana. I can''t even write about a situation that happened because lets face it. Macaroni just used Surtr''s Infernal and killed the fuck out of Trina. Like she got fucked so bad I can''t even think of a valid fight where Trina might have gotten a chance somewhere. Nope. She just got charred and burnt down like a level 100 Charizard fighting against a level 10 Swinub (My favourite ice type pokemon because it''s so cute.) So as it was, all the gods were dead just as Ragnar?k promised, the BOTs were still left standing, against Genesis. Just like I predicted. Until just moments later, where his Gungnir pierces two people at once yet again. Beathoven and Macaroni.
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Chapter 42 : The Ending??? It all happened so fast. One moment we were trying to gather up as a group and the next, two holy spears were impaled into Macaroni and Beathoven. For Macaroni, this meant instant death but for Beathoven, this was still not his doom. Hel had a very famous spell everyone knew she had. It was called ¡°Restart¡±. Basically, there was a 30% chance that when Beathoven dies, he will be revived at 10% hp. Killing Hel required a bit of luck and since Beathoven now is the new Hel, he has already taken over the skill and he was still alive. ¡°Divine shield!¡± I quickly summoned divine shields to coat Beathoven while healing him. ¡°WATCH OUT!¡± Longbean shouted at me. I was too preoccupied on saving Beathoven that I let my guard down for one second. I didn''t sense any mana coming because Genesis didn''t use any mana. Gungnir was flying straight at me. I couldn''t even react. *Splat* A whole screen of red greeted me and for a second time, I thought I was dead. For a second time, I was wrong. For a second time, someone had to die in place of me. Longbean lay out sprawled across the floor, gungnir embedded deep within his body. The worst part was Longbean was holding onto the shaft of the spear. He wanted to make sure that even if he couldn''t catch the spear, the spear wouldn''t simply just go pierce through him and injure me as well. I turned to Genesis, a now familiar hatred growing deep within me. Similarly, Soup was already in battle mode beside me. The fight hasn''t even really started and we were already down by 2 people. Longbean and Macaroni. The remaining people on our side were nostalgically the people we have spent the longest of times with. The BOTs together, as well as Horse and Xantos. This was fitting but there was no time for reminiscence. The final enemy who has already probven how formidable he is, was standing across us, waiting for the battle to start. Gungnir flew back to him like how Mjollnir will fly back to Thor. Norse gods and their loyal weapons. Honestly. ¡°You killed my Macaroni.... NOW YOU SHALL TASTE THE FURY OF SOUP!¡± Shouted Soup.(With both puns inside this sentence fully intended.) Soup rushed at Genesis, claws with unholy rage, biting and swiping away, his strength and speed increasing every moment because of Berserker''s rage. By now, Soup had already been fighting and killing non stop for about 4 hours now so the buff should have placed him at somewhere about level 750. Beathoven also wanted to get revenge for his earlier death. ¡°Metamorphosis.¡± The Beathoven in the long black cloak came out again and he fired all his dark arrows at Genesis while Soup was keeping him busy. Not missing the opportunity to take advantage of our numbers, I immediately started casting a spell I newly invented. Earth, darkness and mana as usual but this time, my plan was to suck Genesis down into a quicksand of poison which will eventually consume him. Three high level attacks were all perfectly calculated, executed and timed to perfection simply because we''ve been fighting beside each other for all 3 years we were playing RR. Of course with the exception of the first month apart from each other. The result was a synchronised attack so devastating that no one would be able to withstand it. Of course except for our formidable opponent. Genesis cast divine shield on himself to deal with the darkness arrows, used Gungnir to keep Soup''s attacks at bay and immediately countered my attack with light mana of his own, breaking the balance between the different types of mana in my attack, rendering it ineffective and unstable. It was really an epic thing to watch. A team of well matched teammates trying to destroy easily the most OP character anyone has ever seen in the game. Odin''s disciple indeed. Disciple of the king of kings and it wasn''t just for show. Horse was doing her usual routine, backstabbing Odin while we distract him with our attacks and since she does a bucketload of damage with each backstab, Odin couldn''t just ignore her. Odin shouted some gibberish which I couldn''t quite make out and suddenly, a glass cage fell onto him. It was definitely a summoning. But why the glass cage? Odin could''ve summoned some high level monsters from his territory but instead this glass cage? Suddenly I realised something. He was not alone inside the cage. Someone else was with him. And that someone was familiar but she usually cannot be seen with the exception of Skadi since she was an expert huntress. Horse was inside with him and her stealth was mitigated. ¡°Hello there little Murderer. I see you''ve already stabbed me three times and I assure you they hurt. They hurt so fucking much I can''t even take my time to play with you and you need to die. Now.¡± Genesis said. ¡°NOOOOO!¡± I shouted. I began to cast every defensive spell I knew onto Horse but for some reason, it just wouldn''t reach her. Xantos was also trying his best to heal her but to no avail. ¡°Useless. This is the arena of reflection. It was something I came up with. Anyone caught within this glass cage will fight to the death with me. Futhermore, outside interference will be exterminated so no form of outside support can ever make it through. A little thing I can summon at will to get rid of annoying pests like you.¡± Genesis said, facing Horse, wielding Gungnir and brandishing it with bloodlust I could feel even if I were standing back in Carnival instead of here. Breadtalk tried to use all his weapons on the cage. Soup tried to crack it. Beathoven tried to unsummon it. Alas, all of them did not work. Horse in the meantime was trying her best, engaging in a 1v1 against Genesis. No doubt she was the best person on our team in a 1v1 fight but it was because she always had the advantage of stealth. Inside that stupid glass cage, all forms of stealth are disabled and she was simply just a fast character who needed to use hit and run tactics against Genesis. However, even hit and run tactics were rendered ineffective due to the small size of the arena. It was like the perfect counter to Horse. Her mobility and stealth, two of her biggest traits were both rendered useless and there was little doubt that she was fighting a losing battle. Genesis it seems just couldn''t wait to finish us off and win Ragnarok for his whole faction. He started using mana along with his spear skills in order to finish off Horse. Horse tried her best to side step away from the spear but alas, the added mana into Gungnir made the blade flexible and Genesis extended it such that it was now three times it''s original size and there was no side stepping this one. Genesis cleaved through Horse like he was cutting through paper. And then the glass cage shattered. The fight was over. Suddenly, everyone around me backed off and it wasn''t because of Genesis. It was, I think, because of me. Genesis himself took three steps backwards and focused all his attention on me. I was angry. Even more angry than I already was when Longbean took a fatal blow for me. I had been so useless. I trained so hard to split my minds into so many different parts but in the face of adversity, despite trying to be calm, I have always panicked during clutch moments and caused not only my master''s life, not only my mentor''s life but the life of the girl I liked as well. There was no denying that I had feelings for Horse which extended to more than friendship. But that was irrelevant now. I had always been useless when it came down to these clutch moments where the only thing I could do was watch as the people I loved most sacrificed themselves for me. I could only watch and scream. Feel helpless and lost. No more. Not. Anymore. I started molding all my mana together, from all elements to form an element X attack. I have always had a few element X attacks on me but they were difficult to execute. They required even more precise mana control because all the elements must be perfectly in harmony with each other. However, the results from these spells were also devastating. Nothing less would suffice in order to pay that bastard for what he has done to Horse. ¡°Black hole.¡± I muttered. A small condensed ball of element X flew towards Genesis but if one could see the amount of purity and mana stuffed into that small little ball, one would definitely know that if that thing as much as grazed you, no matter your level or defence, you would be close to death. Genesis immediately used a huge load of light mana to try to pierce the spell, to unbalance the mana within the spell to make it dysfunctional. But it would have to be a cold day in hell before I let that happen. I suddenly used a huge burst of darkness mana to create a darkness arrow spell and launched it at the black hole just as Genesis'' light spell touched it. The light mana sucked away the darkness mana, making the spell unbalanced but because of my heightened senses as well as thirst for revenge, I estimated an insanely accurate amount of purity and mana to add back into the spell to restore it''s balance. The spell was still intact. The black hole grazed Genesis''s armour and once it made contact, it started expanding. The black hole was sucking Genesis''s armour and everything in contact with that as well into an abyss. Into another dimension. His armour was cracking to pieces and his arm was already being sucked into the vortex. ¡°NOOOOO!¡± He said before he was totally annihilated by the black hole. The black hole subsided. Genesis then reappeared directly in front of us, looking incredulous and for the first time, vulnerable in front of me. The black hole earlier took up 500000 mana which was already half my resources but he did not know that. However, I didn''t know how he was alive. ¡°Jinx. Don''t worry. You did it. You broke his familiar. You see. Odin''s lineage have always had the ability to summon a familiar which looks like them, acts like them and are similar to them in every single way. They are like a complete carbon clone which can replace them. Only, this familiar can only exist one at a time which means multiple copies are useless. Also, once the fmailiar is destroyed, he or she can only create one more after an hour. This means that in order to truly kill any family of Odin''s, you have to be able to kill them twice within one hour to ensure their death.¡± Xantos said from the skies. ¡°Annoying bird!¡± Genesis screamed as he summoned thousand of light spears to go after Xantos. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. ¡°Xantos don''t move!¡± I said as I opened up a vortex directly below Xantos which absorbed all the light spears. ¡°Dimensional skills require alot of mana you know.¡± Genesis said while turning towards me. ¡°You better worry about yourself.¡± I threatened. ¡°Very well. It seems that I cannot play around with you as well.¡± Genesis said. He summoned a huge glass cage again but this time, everyone knew what to do. Instead of bacing off, everyone made a huge dash towards the cage and this time, every single person was inside the cage along with Genesis except for Xantos. ¡°Xantos. This is it. Go back to Carnival and wait for us there. You won''t be able to help us anymore. If we don''t return by the hour, please tell the church that we have failed and you all are to prepare for the worst.¡± ¡°But-¡± ¡°JUST GO!¡± All of us said in unison. All of us were aware that this would be our last chance. We had to finish Genesis off in this one hour or else all hope would be lost. We are all tired and worn out. Genesis didn''t do much earlier in the fights and it was obvious that he was saving his energy for this moment. Where he could finish up all the weak and injured to claim all the glory for himself and there was no way we were gonna let this type of fucker win. ¡°Guys. Remember the time when Jinx had to go access the teacher''s computer to change our grades secretly in order to help us get better results?¡± Soup asked. ¡°Yeah. That was Operation Retest. Huge success man why are we talking about this now?¡± Beathoven answered. ¡°Because we can use Operation Retest in this situation. Right here. Right now.¡± Soup replied. And all of us immediately knew. There was no time to formulate an elaborate plan in this glass cage and Soup knew how to solve it right away. We had to do something insanely risky and stupid in school to help us get a passing grade to skip supplementary school and the risk of repeating a grade and we had a series of elaborate plans in order to do that. We knew that the teacher kept our grades in her laptop of hers which she always brings to class. We also know that it was from there where she tabulated our final year scores and those who failed had to attend supplementary classes which were extra classes followed by a retest to see how well we do. In order to change the results, I needed the guys to buy me enough time such that I could use the laptop without her knowing, search for the file that contains all our grades and edit it slightly such that we would pass our final year scores. We broke down the job scopes and the actual event occurred like this. The teacher walked into class to teach us and she prepared a powerpoint slide for the lesson. She always asked Anthony to set up her laptop for her so this time, Anthony did the same thing but did something else. When the desktop came up, he secretly pressed (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+O). These commands stood for, ¡°Select all¡± and then, ¡°Open¡±. The laptop lagged like crazy for about 20 seconds. The teacher asked Anthony what was happening and he pretended to look like he was busy trying to solve the problem. ¡°Anthony, why is there chinese on my laptop?¡± ¡°Holy jesus I don''t know... Joe stop laughing!¡± Anthony said while Joe laughed his ass off, laughing at the fact that even chinese appeared on the laptop when it was English class, seriously entertained by the pure amusement fate had given them. This also caused a huge burst of laughter from the whole class as well. The teacher then called for more assistance which came in the form of Zack. Zack was quite good in IT so he was summoned to help. Anthony went back to his seat and then he started to cry. Of course he was just faking the tears but Anthony had the knack of doing stuff like that. He could join the drama club if he wanted and be their ace. The teacher hurried over to Anthony to find out what was wrong and Anthony was crying and crying saying stuff like ¡°I am zowweee! I''m ushless and I made Chinese appear all ofer your lap, lap, laptop.¡± He sniffed. If I wasn''t struggling so hard to laugh my ass off at that impeccable acting I could''ve been faster but I managed to force down the laughter and secretly join Zack at the computer. I hacked into the files needed and changed to appropriate stuff because out of all of them, only I had the hacking expertise that could access the files. Joe bought us more time by going over to Anthony and pretending to comfort him and asked the teacher for permission to bring him to the toilet. By the time everything was done, Operation Retest was a success. ¡°So. Soup, how do we link this to Operation Retest??¡± Breadtalk asked while dodging Genesis'' assault towards him. ¡°Easy. Me and you still the same things, distract. Beathoven will look like the main guy doing the job but at the last moment, Jinx will be the one to see it through.¡± Soup said. ¡°Sounds good to me.¡± I said. ¡°Let Operation Retest 2 commence,¡± smirked Beathoven. Breadtalk immediately stopped playing around and turned serious. He took out his Scythe of Vyse which was the number 10thitem in Loki''s Armoury and tried to turn Genesis into a chicken. The surprising thing was the scythe was so powerful it actually worked for a second. Genesis was turned into a legit chicken for 1 second before becoming himself again. Soup burst into laughter, rolling about on the floor, pissing Genesis off so much that he immediately used a huge amount of mana to make holy spears pierce from the ground directly underneath the floor Soup was rolling on. Soup managed to react in time though once he felt the rumbling of the floor. He leapt upwards and while still laughing, focused his dive onto Genesis in order to engage him in a melee which was the best way to distract an opponent. Beathoven started playing a very, very familiar tune. Of course. Surtr. Surtr rose up from the ground underneath and even Genesis looked shocked for a moment. He thought Surtr could only be summoned once and he was right. However, the one who summoned Surtr earlier was Hel. Not Beathoven. Surtr immediately charged straight into Genesis and Soup and made the melee even more fired up.(Again, pun intended) Surtr wielded his Infernal and tried to slice Genesis into pieces. A sudden entry of a god class opponent made his fight even harder so he immediately took out his trump card. Odin loved to use Heaven''s ray, a skill so powerful it used up alot of mana, even for someone with as much mana as Odin himself. He decided that this was the time to use it. ¡°Heaven''s Ray.¡± A huge beam of light shone down on an area of the arena, encompassing all of us. I read about Odin''s signature killing move in a book before so I knew all about it. Heaven''s Ray used light mana of insane purity and quantity to firstly blind the foes, then focus enough light onto the eyes such that it caused the brain to immediately signal the mind to go unconscious in order to save and preserve itself and it was a no fail mechanism. Everyone it shines on will undoubtedly go unconscious. However, that was only if the person didn''t know how it worked. I sprung into action. I used darkness mana but this time not on Genesis but on my teammates. I used darkness mana of insane purity and compressed tighter than anything could be (I know what you''re thinking of sickos) before placing the mana onto the eyes of everyone in the vicinity. The beam of light that came down was so strong that I could acutally feel the light intensifying for that split second. You know how people say you cant feel light, only see it. Well if they stood under a Heaven''s Ray, trust me they would be able to feel it. I removed all the mana just as Genesis manipulated Gungnir to have a tip so huge (Again I know what you''re thinking of sickos) that it could slash through all of us at once. He swung. Soup parried the attack. Breadtalk turned him into a chicken again. Beathoven used Surtr to pierce the Chicken with infernal. I casted black hole quickly. When Genesis appeared again after one second, his body was once again, within the black hole I conjured and this time I really was all out of mana. ¡°Well played.¡± Were the only two words that came out from Genesis before the black hole vanished along with whatever it absorbed of Genesis. Only his right arm remained and all the other parts were entirely sucked into the vortex. I went to pick up the right hand which had his ring on it and the glass arena broke.
Item acquired : Draupnir Odin''s magic ring. It gives the owner a special ability, to be able to multiply this ring and pass it to other individuals. Everyone who equips this ring shares the damage taken equally. Also, when equipping the original copy, no one will be able to take away what is rightfully yours (summons, HP and Mana etc.) All stats +100
It was one hell of a ring alright. But then the situation suddenly dawned upon me. ¡°So guys.. Ragnarok is over?¡± I said ¡°Or is it.¡± Breadtalk said. Or was it even Breadtalk? It came in the direction of where Breadtalk was standing but it wasn''t his usual voice. I turned around. Soup and Beathoven had their jaws reaching beneath the ground level already and mine was to follow. It was Loki. But wasn''t he dead???
End of Chapter 42
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Author''s Note: I''m sure all of you are no idiots so yes I am sad to say that THIS SERIES IS ENDINGGGG. The next chapter will be the last chapter so even if it''s for one more time, please give your kind love and support for the upcoming and last chapter which will tie up all the loose ends and give an ending proper for all these characters of Ragnarok. It has been an amazing journey these past 4 months and I''m sure I''ll miss this feeling. However, I still have one last chapter to write and have all of you enjoy it for me. Chapter 43 : The Real Ending ¡°Times up! Put your pens down.¡± Mrs Alhamid said. Anthony stood up from his chair and pulled his pants down, showing off quite the incredible pair of Avengers boxers with my favourite Ironman on it. ¡°ANTHONY PENS! PENS! NOT PAAAANTS!¡± Mrs Alhamid screamed at him while obviously still looking at his junk. That sneaky woman. Joe was clearly enjoying this as he was banging his head on the table repeatedly, clutching his stomach and laughing in quite a laugh that would be labelled by many as hideous and hilarious at the same time. It was the end of the year examinations and we just sat through our final paper. The only time we would come back to school was to collect our results and find out if we''re going to be promoted to the next year. ¡°Hey Jinx so how did you do??¡± Zack asked. ¡°The usual. Last minute mugging should''ve been enough to secure me my passes. And you? Going to top the class again??¡± ¡°Nahhh. Spent way too much time on Ragnarok this year.¡± He said. Oh yeah. Looking back, 3 quarters of the year was spent on Ragnarok in real life. 3 marvelous years in RR... ¡°How about you Joe?¡± ¡°The usual. I''m going to fucking fail and appeal to the teacher.¡± He replied. ¡°And Anthony?¡± We all looked over. ¡°FOR GOD''S SAKE YOU''VE MADE YOUR POINT PULL UP YOUR PANTS ALREADY!¡± we all shouted at him in unison. He chuckled and finally pulled up his pants. ¡°Ahhhhh. Now that was airy and relaxing.¡± He said. ¡°Too much info bro. But seriously how was the test?¡± ¡°I don''t know man. I think the first half was alright but when they asked for the food pyramid I ain''t got anything for them... I ended up drawing maybe about a hundred penises on the blank space where we were supposed to draw the pyramid.¡± He said. ¡°Andddd Mrs Alhamid is going to ask us why do we have such an obsession for penises.¡± Joe replied. ¡°Hey you''re the one with the biggest obsession for them!¡± I said back. ¡°Wait why do we have an obsession with penises anyway?¡± Zack asked genuinely. We all looked at each other. And shrugged. ¡°If you ain''t obsessed with penises before then you ain''t a guy I guess.¡± Joe said. ¡°Seconded.¡± Anthony said. ¡°This sounds stupid but actually makes a lot of sense. Thirded.¡± I said. ¡°Oh whatever. Let''s head back to RR and take refuge in our mountain of penises in Rainbow Sacks. Fourthed.¡± Zack said. All of us headed out of the classroom and towards the gate. Someone familiar was standing beside the gate, waiting for us. ¡°Oohhhh someone''s waiting here even though she doesn''t have a paper today.¡± Joe chided. ¡°Shut up Joe. You ain''t no better. I saw you with Macaroni the other day in the mall. You didn''t tell them did you?¡± Horse retorted back sharply. The three of us turned to him immediately, putting on our best ¡°OH NO YOU DIDN''T¡± faces at him. ¡°OH NO YOU DIDN''T!!!¡± We all said. Joe looked at Horse and sighed. ¡°Your woman can''t keep a secret for the better of humankind can she? Alright alright. Yes we exchanged contact numbers in RR and I met her at the mall. Turns out she''s studying at a school near ours so I just asked her out.¡± He said. ¡°You JUST asked her out? You''re sure??¡± Anthony asked with one of the highest raised eyebrows I''ve ever seen in my entire life. ¡°No making out or whatever?¡± ¡°NOT EVERYONE IS YOU ANTHONY. It was just a casual meet up. She''s a nice girl I might be going out with her more but nothing''s confirmed yet. Unlike you Jinx.¡± Joe said. ¡°Hey stop pushing the subject to me whenever you have the chance.¡± I replied. ¡°Remember that cheesy proposal guys?¡± Zack added. ¡°Oh yeahhh. He put a copy of Draupnir on her and said something like ''Now you''re mine. With Draupnir, anything that''s mine cannot be taken away from me so I''m afraid you''re stuck with me forever.'' BLEAGGHHHHHH¡± Anthony splurted out, pretending to be puking by the end of the sentence. Horse was no different in real life I assure you this much. She gave a well aimed kick to a well placed spot in between a man''s legs that would cause so much pain and discomfort in the bladder region for long minutes afterwards that could shut any guy up. Yes. Everyone one of us had some sort of obsession with penises. Somehow it''s just funny. ¡°Alright stop it already.¡± Horse said, blushing slightly. I just loved how she blushed. Mrs Ice Queen, showing off her vulnerable side and it was because of me. Muahahaha. Honestly though I was so happy when she agreed to go out with me. It was shortly after Ragnarok ended and we were busy studying together for the year end examinations. We studied together alot, one thing led to another and strangely enough, I was with the girl of my dreams. We had a good lunch together, discussing about the paper, about our lives and finally about RR. ¡°So guys wanna head back and check out what''s happening in RR now? Things should''ve been finalised now.¡± Joe said. ¡°Mm. It''s about time we went back after studying for so long. We have got a new job to do haven''t we?¡± Zack said. ¡°Well everyone has an important job to do maybe except Anthony.¡± I said. ¡°HEY! My job''s gonna be the most important. It''s the most fun one anyway.¡± Anthony said, grinning from ear to ear because he really was excited about his future in RR. We all were. We decided to head back home after lunch and dive into the capsule.
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¡°Yes.¡± I said after 1 month in real life, happy to be back in a familiar place. Carnival was just as we''d left it but with one major difference. Rainbow sacks was now decorated with even more penis shaped buildings that were of even better designs than the previous ones. We had to abandon all the flying penis houses back in Asgard because they ran out of jet fuel. I teleported everyone back with dimension magic and we had to build the residences again, from square one. Everyone helped this time, not just Herpes- I mean Hermes. And soon enough, Rainbow sacks had even more attitude and character than it already had in the past. We all met back at the castle and the elites were they, training their troops as usual. The elites led the troops into the war during Ragnarok so we didn''t see much of them then as we were gearing up for the gods. However, all of them made it till the end of the war safe and sound, albeit a few battle scar wounds on M1 and M2 which they were proud to don. Also, this made them recognisable and different from each other. M1 had a huge scar on his back while M2 had his on his right arm. Identical twins no longer. They welcomed us with open arms literally except for Slick because he had no arms but besides that lame point, this was our family now in RR. We were as tight as (Yes you sickos it''s as tight as something again) the most tight thing you could imagine and it was a great feeling. They were standing by for a grand ceremony, dressed in their best clothing which again for Slick was equivalent to no clothing (poor thing) and they were awaiting of course the Coronation ceremony which was meant for the BOTs. All of us. Finally, the guest of honour appeared. ¡°MASTERRR!¡± All the elites shouted and jumped on him. ¡°Alright alright settle down I''m happy to see all of you as well.¡± Loki said. He looked damn fine as well, dressed in red with golden plated linings and a crown no less. He was the only Norse god left in existence after all so who better to wear the crown after winning one of the greatest war history has ever known? He looked at us and beckoned towards the balcony. Below us, all the residents of Carnival had already taken their seats, watching the whole ceremony take place before their eyes, prouder than ever to be a citizen of Carnival, a citizen of a small town which vanquished the land of the gods. ¡°PEOPLE! You all were there. You all have seen it happen. Now, you will see the rewards I bestow onto these talented individuals who helped us win the war. I assure you the rewards albeit extremely valuable, carry their own responsibilities as well. First, let''s welcome Macaroni.¡± Applause louder than thunder seemingly shook the foundation of the castle itself. ¡°Macaroni joined our ranks just before the fight so I''ve not seen her much. However, there was little doubt that she has been extremely useful in the fights and as such, she will now be known as the princess of Carnival!¡± Loki announced. Everyone cheered because their town now had a cute princess and all the guys were especially happy and that made Soup have a sour look on his face. ¡°Next, for being a supporting character who has stuck beside the BOTs for so long, because the BOTs now need to move on to something even more important, Longbean is now, effective immediately, the mayor of this town and will oversee everything that this town requires. Greet your new mayor everybody!¡± Loki announced. Longbean''s shocked face was as priceless as his fuckface and everyone applauded the priceless face as well as the announcement. ¡°Xantos, will now be my personal pet and evolve from a greater roc to a legendary roc. A status that can only be achieved if a true god takes custody of a roc. Up till date there were no such rocs because most gods preferred to use horses or dragons but no. For Xantos, I will make sure this happens for her.¡± Xantos flew to Loki and nuzzled his cheek, happy that she has been promoted to the highest class of her species that they could go to. ¡°Next. For Horse, who has fought so valiantly and died fighting Genesis, she shall be taking over Sigyn''s role as my wife!¡± Loki announced. ¡°WHAT?!¡± I shouted. ¡°WHAT?!¡± She shouted even louder. ¡°I''M JOKING!!!!!¡± Loki shouted the loudest. ¡°Hahaha just kidding. Horse will be taking over Sigyn''s role but as a Norse god. I understand that Sigyn has already left behind her godly powers with Horse already so she would know as well. She has been given godlike abilities which require some responsibility. I plan to revive our Norse god lineage and Horse will take over Sigyn''s role. As a tactician and combatant at the same time.¡± Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Everyone cheered and even Horse was surprised over what she was getting. It was technically an invitation to become a Norse god in the game already. ¡°For Soup, who has taken revenge for his fallen master, Fenrir, so valiently, I concur to you the same offer I made Horse. You are to take over Fenrir''s place as the Alpha wolf of the Norse Gods. You will have to take over Fenrir''s place as our front line, irreplacable tank and brawler.¡± ¡°For Beathoven, you too will replace Hel. You will become the new owner of Eljuonir Castle. You will become the new icon for death in the ranks of the Norse Gods. You will take over your master''s previous position and be known as the lady of the afterlife.¡± ¡°HAHAHAHAHA LADY.¡± Everyone laughed. ¡°Shut up. I don''t really mind though. It''s to honour my master.¡± Beathoven said.. ¡°For Jinx, you too will replace Jormungandr. You will take over his title as the world serpent, to be the icon signifying the power of all Ouroboros. You will be tasked to watch over the entire world. You will also become part of us.¡± ¡°Lastly, for Breadtalk who has so selflessly sacrificed himself during the war to shapeshift himself to me and challenge Genesis to a Game On battle, knowing that he would most likely lose but could save me in the process. You cannot take over me because I am still alive and kicking but because I am still alive and kicking only because of you, I''ll change history for you. From now on, you are your own new Norse god. Your god name will not change because your name is too awesome for change. Breadtalk. You are hereby known as the symbol of Retardedness. You won''t be a trickster like me because you''re something far more powerful. You are, the Norse god of, Retards.¡± Loki announced. ¡°HELLYEAHHHHHHHH!¡± The whole audience went crazy. All they''ve wanted was to see what Breadtalk would get and Loki didn''t disappoint. I mean a norse god of retardedness? LOL. We all had iconic traits and strengths but it looks like Breadtalk''s one was the most popular. ¡°I would like to thank the city of Carnival which has supported us with an army during the war by protecting this place using my name and power until the day I cease to exist should the day come. This will always be the place I will bless with the most of my powers. I wish you all all the best for all future endeavours and I promise you. The new norse gods and I will always visit this place frequently. We will make this our home.¡± Loki ended off his speech. Fireworks went off, the citizens of Carnival started partying in the castle like there was no tomorrow and all of us retreated to Loki''s room in the castle where we had our final debrief. ¡°So.... This is what I''ve planned for all of you. I hope you will be able to accept this reward but it is also a responsibility.¡± Loki said. ¡°What are we responsible for?¡± Soup asked. ¡°You will be given a shapeshift spell I will give to you all personally. It will turn you all into the embodiments of your former masters. Once you activate the skill, Soup will turn into the giant wolf Fenrir was, Beathoven will turn into Hel so yes you''ll get her vagina and boobs and everything. Horse will look exactly like Sigyn, Jinx will become a fucking gigantic snake and Breadtalk will just look like whatever he wants to because he already has the shapreshift spell at godlike level.¡± ¡°Also, you have to take over your master''s duties. That includes taking in and raising a disciple. You may do it yourself or we can do it together, choose a group and train them up together like the way we did for you. We still need to find disciples to take over us because Ragnarok may be over but we have changed fate. We will have more battles to fight.¡± ¡°What do you mean? I asked. ¡°In Ragnarok, all the norse gods are supposed to die. Those who didn''t would be sent to a place to live in peace for the rest of their lives meaning their impact on the world would be reduced to zero. However, I''m supposed to die but I didn''t. Breadtalk changed the impossible. He saved me. During the switch, he altered the path of fate. Now, I am still in the world running around making an impact. We are not the only gods around you know. There are Egyptian gods, Greek gods and even modern gods in our midst. They are all going to fight for supremacy because religion is basically about ''My god has a larger dick than your god'' so this isn''t the end. We''ll need to involve norse gods in the fight as well. That''s where you all come in as inheritors of your master''s duties. We all have to fight to become the only gods in existence. Only then can we truly relax, enjoy peace and shape this world into the way we want it to be.¡± ¡°Every town becoming another Carnival?¡± Breadtalk added. ¡°If that is what you all want. If we ultimately prevail and become the only gods left in existence of RR. Yes. We can make that happen.¡± Loki answered. We looked at each other. The 5 of us were going to become gods. We needed to raise our own disciples in order to prepare for yet another battle. This time not amongst norse gods but with other gods. It looks like RR isn''t ending for us just yet. The developers as sure as hell did a good job with the game system. There were still fights to be won, wars to be conquered. But the most important thing of all, more fun to be had. Even here right now as a huge party was starting in Carnival just for us. Breadtalk took his leave first by shapeshifting into a giant literal dickhead and jumping off into the crowd below. Soup ran after him and morphed into his alpha wolf form because he really digged that shit. Beathoven decided to act all badass and metamorphosized himself first before flying down gracefully with his cloak flowing gently along with the wind. I took Horse''s hand and used the stairs. I preferred to slowly enjoy my time with her. I thought our time in RR was ending with the conclusion of Ragnarok but i was wrong. Ragnarok might be over but we sure as hell weren''t. The BOTs will always, always find more stuff to do and be absolutely retarded in the process of doing it. .THE END. Author''s note: And this is it guys. This is finally it. After 43 chapters and one prologue, Ragnarok is done. I started this journey at first for fun, interest and curiosity but I could only end this because of the support from my readers. Everytime I see a new comment and a new review saying good work, I want to write more to finish this story for you all. Because I for one cannot stand uncompleted stuff. It''s like robbing you of a climax and I did not want that. Now, I want to make a few acknowledgements because without these people, this story could not have happened. The BOTS in real life ¨C These are the people the story is about. Mainly, Soup, Beathoven, Breadtalk, Genesis, MidandFeed, FireFireFire, Maxmystical. All of them are amazing, funny and retarded people. This is my main inspiration for my story, my group of friends which will last forever. My readers ¨C You all are the only reason I completed this story. I used to think people saying like ¡°Oh my fans are what I do this for¡± are saying complete and utter bullshit just to garner likes and adoration but I couldn''t be more wrong. There is no doubt that I could only have done this with your helpful comments and generous reviews. It is added motivation every single time I post a new chapter. The administrators of Royalroadl.com ¨C These people are so awesome omg. The face that they revamped this entire site and still managed to get the forums working properly within 3 working days is astounding. Without them none of this would be possible so to the admins like Wing, Curvinho, KanadaJ and so much more of them, please continue giving your love to them because this site is fruit of all of their efforts. Horse ¨C She isn''t part of the BOTs but the romantic parts of this story, the few that actually existed, are actually also based on real life. Breadtalk trolled her, I liked her and it was such a good and funny story I need to credit this to her for being so sporting and not making a fuss out of it. We aren''t together in real life though this last chapter those parts were the only fictional parts of the story ): (Sorry if there''s any HorsexJinx fans out there. At least you''ll like this story :P) Alright now that''s all the people I want to thank. This story as you realise does allow for a continuation if I want to write it but I''ll be running short of time as college is starting soon... I don''t know if I''ll be able to manage my time well enough to continue writing (College in Singapore is very, very busy and studious. Fuck I wanna go overseas to study but I don''t have the $$$). As such, I cannot promise that I''ll be writing the second season but if enough of you encourage me to, who knows right? Now that I''ve shared a very important part of my life to all you readers out there I would like to request, if possible, that you all do something fun for me in return :P please please please leave a comment if you finish reading this finale and tell me your honest opinions.(Guests with no accounts please consider creating an account just to comment for me pleaseeeee. It will only take 5 minutes.) The negative ones can be here in this forum while the positive ones will be in the review page HAHAHA KIDDING. But honestly please do leave your comments here about what you like,what you don''t, what you enjoyed the most, do you like BreadtalkxHorse or HorsexJinx more etc. ANYTHING. Anything you want to share with me is also fine. I just want to have more interaction with my readers as this comes to a close. Please I want to see what you readers like which will help me alot if I choose to continue season 2. Also, to make it fun, I would like to request that you end off the comment with one quote from the entire story, one quote that you loved the most. It could be ¡°Penis.¡± or ¡°Rainbow Sacks¡± or ¡°Breadtalk when you recited that stupid poem how much did Loki give you?¡± etc. It''s been a pleasure guys. And this is me signing off. With lots and lots and lots of retarded love, Jinx. SURPRISE IM BACK! HELLO GUYS! Haha I''m back but sadly not just yet to write another story for you all. This is to help me gather some data which will assist me when I choose to write my second season. I will have to incorporate my work from season 1 into season 2 so this is just a short, direct poll which you can help to fill up so I can gather relevant data which will only improve my writing. Please click the kickass phrase below in order to access the poll and have fun doing it! Think carefully about your responses because every character has a particular element to him or her which I can bring to the table again! Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. Kickass HAHAHA sorry I knew that was lame but I really couldn''t help it. Peace out guys :D Stay awesome. Please help me do this btw. LOL. SEASON 2 IS HERE! IM REALLY BACKKKK! Hello all my readers of Ragnarok. I hope you''ve really enjoyed the read. In case you do, there''s some good news for you. SAY HELLO TO SEASON 2. JINX AND HIS FRIENDS ARE HERE TO PROVIDE EVEN MORE ENTERTAINMENT ON AN EVEN MORE EPIC SCALE. The link is below. Please continue giving that work as much support as you''ve given this one! :D CHEEEEERS~ If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Ragnarok Season 2 - Also known as ''APOCALYPSE'' ENJOYYYY New Fiction! Hello everyone! I''m back for about a period of 3 months (at least)! I hope all of you are still reading good fan fictions on RR. I would just like to apologise for being inactive for so long. However, college is a beast that does not allow me much freedom or time to continue writing my fictions. Also, things have become a bit more serious so I plan on giving Apocalypse a continued hiatus for now. After that insane chapter which I laughed like crazy myself while writing, I realised that my jokes are not as retarded anymore. I will need to hang out with my bunch of tards to get my sense of humour back. In the meantime, I thought of a cool new world and plot which I am now currently putting into writing. It is a fiction a lot more concentrated on a well-developed, interesting plot with also a bunch of interesting characters but more in depth. It also has some aspects of comedy inside it but it''s major selling point will be the plot and storyline and action scenes. Not so much the level of retardedness. If any of you are keen, you all can take a look by clicking here! I''ll be updating this with one chapter (~3000 words) every 1-2 days! If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. http://royalroadl.com/fiction/6622 It''s good to be back guys!