《Cheating Monster》
Chapter 1 - The end of the world
This chapter has been proof-read by: gcman01
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On top of a hill offering a view of the ocean, a man wearing a black demonic looking armor is watching the sunset. Next to him stands a small woman with glasses, black hair and a maid outfit.
¡°This may be my last sunset... I''m glad I get to share it with you Ana?s.¡± (Black Knight)
¡°Sorry, no corresponding dialogue.¡± (Ana?s)
¡°It''s already been 2 weeks since the last player logged out... Alterlife 2 will be launched tomorrow and this world will disappear along with us in the process...¡± (Black Knight)
¡°Sorry, no corresponding dialogue.¡± (Ana?s)
''... It''s seriously hard to have a conversation with this stupid A.I...'' (Black Knight)
¡°Command [SHOW TITTIES!]¡± (Black Knight)
¡°Sorry, not a valid command.¡± (Ana?s)
¡°Guhuhuhuu*¡± (Black Knight)
¡°...¡± (Ana?s)
¡°Sighhhh...... Go and do whatever you want with the few minutes we have left Ana?s. Command: [DISMISSED]¡± (Black Knight)
¡°Yes master.¡± (Ana?s)
Just with that the maid left towards the city near their location leaving the man on his own. That lonely man is me, Nicolas Pen. I''m not sure about my age but I should be around 30 ¡°IRL¡± years old... Nickname: Kneeko, Gender: male, occupation: Demon Lord.
Now, you probably have many questions in your mind but the answers are far from simple. First of all I should mention that I am technically dead... I died a few years back during a motorcycle accident. I was in a coma for a few months before finally being declared dead.
For anyone else this would have been the end of the story but the biggest difference in my case would be my father. Diego Pen, neuroscientist and co founder of Alterlife, the first VRMMO worth being called as such. Father was researching everything related to brain data transfer, treatment of information and most of all A.I. based on WBE.
Whole brain emulation (WBE) or mind uploading (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical process of copying mental content (including long-term memory and "self") from a particular brain substrate and copying it to a computational device, such as a digital, analog, quantum-based or software-based artificial neural network. The computational device could then run a simulation model of the brain informational processing, such that it responds in essentially the same way as the original brain (i.e., indistinguishable from the brain for all relevant purposes) and experiences having a conscious mind.
All this mumbo jumbo... Only father understood what it really meant... But thanks to his research, while I was in a coma with my internal organs shutting down one after the other, father uploaded my brain into a super computer and eventually succeeded in uploading ¡°me¡± into the systems of Alterlife.
This allowed me to keep living inside the game as if I was still alive but it was lacking. Being the first of it''s kind, Alterlife systems were still archaic and you couldn''t smell, taste or feel the world around you as well as you could in real life. For example, pain was felt as tingling or numbness... Every food item tasted like chalk.. I was alive yes, but in a bland world.
Being digitized had given me a photographic memory but it could be a curse as much as a blessing... Everybody have things they wish they could forget, but in my case it was impossible. Maybe if I had access to the computer holding my data I could manually delete the memory?! But it can''t be that simple I suppose...
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After this, father had thrown his body and soul into the next GEN systems hoping to finally create a world and living experience similar to that of the real world. He hoped to offer me a second world to live in even better than the one I was born into. A world that felt real up to the tiniest details.
This promised world was to be known as Alterlife 2. A world changing system using the finest technology this world had to offer. Well that is now all in the past, father ruined his health because of his obsession for his work, fell ill and died at the age of 64 years old.
I couldn''t even be by his side at the moment of his death... What a useless son I am. With his death, died the hope of a second life for me. But it was alright, I was but a copy of my original self. The real me had already died 10 years ago.
I was 20 years old when I died. I lived 10 years in this game and since time is 5 time faster in the game I had already lived the equivalent of 70 years... It was a weird life, but a long one none the less. I was satisfied, it was enough... I had lived far long enough.
In Alterlife, since I wasn''t using the system but was IN the system, I was considered a NPC. Father had also given me access to admin commands so I could entertain myself as I wanted. In the end I had given myself the title of ¡°Demon Lord¡±, had taken over a castle and hid a treasure in the basement.
That way I always had people coming to see me and ¡°play¡± with me... I lost only once, to a party of 20 high rankers... Even as a cheat character, there is a limit to my power. Each time I died, I re-spawned after a reset of my stats. That way I could feel the ¡°I don''t want to die¡± type of emotions adding to the realism of my (not so real) life.
Now Alterlife was at the end of it''s life... Alterlife 2 was going to be released tomorrow, access to the servers had been closed for 2 weeks already as they updated the systems. Tonight, my entire world was going to be erased (myself included) in order to launch the new game.
I would have loved to see Alterlife 2... The life work of father, I would never get to see. This was also the last sunset I would ever see. I opened the web browser window and looked at the Alterlife 2 website for the last time. In Alterlife you could have access to the internet while in game via a Zomilla Waterfox window. This had been my only means of staying in touch with the real world while being stuck in this game. When I was bored, U-toob always came to the rescue.
On their website was a countdown before release. H-00:01:27 minutes.
¡°This is it... I''m coming to see you soon father.¡± (Kneeko)
H-00:00:04
H-00:00:03
H-00:00:02
H-00:00:01
H-00:00:00
Then everything went black.
-Game over-
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¡°What the hell?¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°TOO SLOW!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
[A few mi-... Hours later.]
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*Relaxing ambient music playing in the background*
I was suddenly in an empty space that felt as if it was underwater, everything was sky blue with white circular pastern oscillating around like some sort of screen-saver... Then this appeared.
WELCOME TO ALTERLIFE 2
Chapter 2 - Strength in numbers
This chapter has been proof-read by: gcman01
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WELCOME TO ALTERLIFE 2
¡°Eeeeehhh?????? No way!¡± (Kneeko)
How did this happen? Father finished the preparation for me to join Alterlife 2 before his death?! Sniff* sniff*... Father!!... Then out of nowhere, a young woman dressed in white silk with silvery hairs, eyes and angel wings came floating down from above and stopped in front of me. She was incredibly beautiful and looked to be around 20 years old.
¡°Welcome to Alterlife 2. I am Lucy and my role is to guide your first steps into Alterlife 2.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Hooo An A.I. Who greets new players eh... I guess she will ask me if I want to do the tutorial then help me create my character... Mhhh but damn those legs... And titties...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Characteristics of a pervert detected. You are now banned from accessing Alterlife 2.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Waa!?... Wait nooo!!!!!! I''m sorry !!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihihihihi! How dare you lust at your own little sister Onii-chan. This little joke was payback for those perverted eyes.¡± (Lucy)
¡°I..I.. I didn''t!!!... Wait... What did you just say?¡± (Kneeko)
Lucy then showed a massive grin before launching herself into my arms.
¡°Niiii-channn! I''m so happy to finally meet you!!!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Huwawa- What the hell are you talking about? Since when did I have a little sister ?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Since father created me... I know i''m not your ''normal'' type of sister but father created us both didn''t he?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Created?!... You''re an A.I. ???¡± (Kneeko)
Lucy then pouted like a child before letting go of me.
¡°Aren''t we the same??? The only difference between me and you is that I never had an organic brain but was born in the digital world. Except from that we are the same...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Woaaa.. So the A.I. In this game are this advanced?... Father truly was a genius... But hey... Aren''t all the NPC in this game my siblings if we follow your logic ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ha! No... Father personally created me... The others NPC evolved naturally from the systems he created. Some other programmers have created other NPC as well for the sake of missions and game dynamic.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Fufufufu So you mean that all NPC are basically like real people but from the game world instead...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yess! So I am your real sister since you also live in this world.¡± (Lucy)
She said timidly while tiptoeing around me in a playful manner.
¡°Now! Wanna do the tutorial?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Do I get something from it other than knowledge I already have?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°... No... Hihihihi* you truly are just as father had described you hihihihi* ''My son always cuts right to the chase and hates to do anything he judges useless'' hihihi*'' hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
She said that with father''s voice as if she was playing a recorded message. At hearing this I couldn''t help but let a small tear escape from the corner of my left eye.
¡°I... I''m sorry Nii-chan... I lacked delicacy please forgive me.¡± (Lucy) She showed a tearful expression as she said these words.
¡°Don''t worry lil sis... I was happy to hear his voice that is all...¡± (Kneeko)
[Short awkward silence]
¡°So.. I take it that you won''t do the tutorial..?!¡± (Lucy) She said with a slightly more joyful voice.
¡°Yeah... Skip that.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Alright! Then character creation it is !!¡± (Lucy)
Then my vision exited my body and made a 180 in the air allowing me to watch my body from a 3rd person view. This really was one of the weirdest feeling I''ve ever felt... I read somewhere that some drugs could give a similar sensation but I never was into that kind of stuff... Now looking at myself attentively, my actual body was similar to the one I had the day before my death 10 years ago.
¡°Now! Wish to change gender? I wouldn''t complain about having an older sister hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
I threw a look at her that answered her question without the need for words.
¡°Urg... No ''titties'' for you then... hihihi Now then which species?¡± (Lucy)
Suddenly a list of thousands of races flashed before my eyes. Since I wasn''t considered a player, I had the possibility to spawn as whatever I wanted to be. I immediately scrolled down to the ''D'' section and looked for a bit.
¡°Not there?... Heyyy not fair ! Where''s the dragon race???¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihihi* Father truly knew you well... He told me this would be the first race you''d be looking for hihihi. Sorry but dragons in Alterlife 2 are among the strongest monsters... You can''t expect to start as one... Can you imagine a level 1 dragon? Hihihi.
Monsters have a ranking system... So you can only evolve into a dragon and not start as one...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Awwww Tsss...¡± (Kneeko) I clicked my tongue in annoyance.
Totally dejected I sulked for a bit. Lucy seemed to try extremely hard to contain her laughter which annoyed me even more.
¡°Prrffff* hihihiihihi*! Ok ok I won''t keep the suspense any longer. I suggest this onii-chan!¡± (Lucy) She said as a window popped up before my eyes.
Father''s suggestion (Secret)
Accept
Decline
¡°....Huh? The hell is this?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Can''t you read? Secret!! hihihi Father prepared this for you... He said you''d definitely recognize it''s potential.¡± (Lucy)
¡°What potential? What is it ? A secret race or something?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hmmm I''m not supposed to say anything but... This weak monster has a very high evolutive potential, if you catch my drift...¡± (Lucy)
¡°DRAGON! YAY!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Wa- Not exac-... Wait no!...¡± (Lucy)
In my excitement I immediately pressed the accept button then a huge flash of light blinded me for a few seconds.
When the light finally subsided, I looked around at my surrounding. I was underwater just below the surface in a small pond filled with aquatic plants and algae. The water was a disgusting brown almost black which limited visibility.
I was a small slimy ball in the middle of a giant mass of similar spheres. I immediately knew what I was looking at... Frog eggs ? Or something similar... THAT''S NOT A DRAGON!.................. Ok time to get more information.
¡°[Open profile !]¡± (Kneeko) This was the command from Alterlife which I suspected to be unchanged in Alterlife2.
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
1
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
0G 0S 0C
RACE:
Egg
MONSTER RANK:
Lowest of the low
HEALTH:
150
STAMINA:
150
MANA:
150
STRENGTH:
1
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
1
SPEED:
1
DEXTERITY:
1
(H)VITALITY:
1
CHARM:
1
LUCK:
1
AGILITY:
1
RESISTANCE:
1
(S)ENDURANCE:
1
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
PASSIVE SKILLS:
ACTIVE SKILLS:
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Then another window popped up on top of this one.
You are an egg.
As soon as you hatch, 100 starting skill points will be automatically allocated to match you
based on the analyze of your cerebral waves. Later you will receive 15 additional skill points per level you gain.
HATCH
''Waaaa this system is insanely sophisticated... But how does the system determine how much strength I have based on my brain waves?... I don''t even have a real body. Eehh I guess we will see after I hatch... '' (Kneeko)
As I was about to press the Hatch button, I saw from the corner of my eye one of the other eggs hatched. A small tadpole came out of it and quickly began to swim toward a patch of algae probably looking for safety in it. Suddenly a big fish came from the depths of the pond as if coming straight out of the deepest abyss. The fish swept in and swallowed the small tadpole in one bite before retreating back to the dark abyss he had came from.
''..... How''s that even fair ???? The poor thing didn''t stand a chance at all!!... The same thing will obviously happen to me as soon as I hatch! '' (Kneeko)
I waited to observe a bit before hatching and saw the same thing continuously happening... One would hatch, swim 2 seconds then be eaten by something living in the pond. Totally unfair was my thought at that moment but then something interesting finally happen.
All the eggs started squirming around as if they had coordinated themselves and they all hatched at the same time. Remembering an animal documentary I had watched a while back I knew what was going on and that this was my only chance. Safety in numbers they call it.
I quickly pressed the ''hatch'' button and my POV changed to first person on my new tadpole body. It was frantic, there were tadpoles everywhere and the fish were eating as much of us as they could. It was a total feeding frenzy.
I took a deep ¡°aquatic-breath¡± and used all my energy to swim as fast as possible toward a patch of algae I had spotted earlier. I swam with all my might without looking back even once. As soon as I reached the green sludgy algae, I burrowed myself deep into it and turned around for the first time to see the aftermath.
Everything was calm once again... I couldn''t see any tadpoles nor any fish around. All this had happened in a few seconds... Nature truly IS scary. Oh well... It was finally time to see what I was and what I had gotten skill wise...
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
1
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
0G 0S 0C
RACE:
Common Newt (Juvenile)
MONSTER RANK:
Lowest of the low
HEALTH:
350
STAMINA:
170
MANA:
600
STRENGTH:
15
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
45
SPEED:
2
DEXTERITY:
1
(H)VITALITY:
20
CHARM:
14
LUCK:
1
AGILITY:
7
RESISTANCE:
3
(S)ENDURANCE:
2
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
PASSIVE SKILLS:
Amphibius (E)
ACTIVE SKILLS:
Meh... I was a bit disappointed, but also surprised at how accurately my stat points had been distributed. Strong from doing manual labor as a young man, high vitality since I am still alive even though this is my 3rd world, charming since I was always good at wooing women and most importantly, incredibly intelligent. (Me being in a super computer, photographic memory and all...)
''Well, if father suggested it... It must be an interesting creature to start as. '' (Kneeko)
Then the next thing to check was;
''[Open Inventory]'' (Kneeko)
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What I saw in my inventory made my jaw drop.
''Father... You truly wanted me to cheat didn''t you? '' (Kneeko)
Chapter 3 - Cheat if you can
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What I saw in my inventory shocked me greatly. I immediately recognized them these were my items! Everything I had in Alterlife had been imported with me into Alterlife 2. I''m such a cheater now... But then I thought about it again, all the items in my inventory were high level items that I couldn''t equip.
My demon lord armor was restricted to level 900 and also needed the user to be of the demon race in order to equip it... No need to say that it was totally useless to me now... I had many potions which were very useful and other various stuff I could see a use for but most items were useless or too high level to use.
I also noticed that some items were missing, probably due to an incompatibility with AL2 systems... The most important items in my inventory were my 3 storage rings. 1 was a Medium ring of holding, the other 2 were superior rings of holding.
Medium ring of holding
Minimum level:
50
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
B
Rarity:
Common
When inventory space become a problem, this ring will give 25 additional inventory slots to the wearer.
Superior ring of holding
Minimum level:
150
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
S
Rarity:
Rare
When inventory space become a problem, this rarely found ring will give 75 additional inventory slots to the wearer.
I could hardly keep myself from grinning. Inside those rings were my most valuable treasures. Jewels, precious metals and materials, precious and very rare ingredients... This was a total jackpot! But I was far from high enough level to equip and use them so I simply left them alone for now.
I then closed my inventory and started to familiarize myself with my environment and new body. The feeling of the cold water brushing against my body... The realism was amazing... I couldn''t believe how realistic this new system was.
¡°Now I guess what I need to do is eat and grow into my adult newt form...¡± (Kneeko)
Thing is, I couldn''t bring myself to move from where I was. This pond was so incredibly dangerous that venturing too far away from my ¡°safety algae¡± was a certain death sentence. Right now i was on the bank of the pond where it is shallow, therefor safer for me.
I looked around in my immediate vicinity and spotted another mass of eggs similar to the one i was born from, but these eggs seemed smaller in size and reddish in color. I sneakily swam toward the hundreds of eggs and took a closer look.
On top of the mass of egg was a small black and red frog. The red patterns over it''s body looked like someone had dropped fire-red paint on it. For a small animal to be this brightly colored instead of being ¡°camouflage color¡± meant that it was most likely highly poisonous.
¡°[Identify]¡± (Kneeko) I used the identify command as i was staring at it.
Monster
Species:
Dendrobate obscuro
Level:
10
Monster Rank:
Very low
Rarity:
Very Rare
¡°Dendrobate obscuro...¡± (Kneeko)
So this is what i know: Dendrobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America. Dendrobates once contained over 40 species, but has lost nearly all of them to the genera Oophaga, Ranitomeya, Andinobates, and Phyllobates.
And then iIalso know that obscuro sound a lot like ¡°obscure¡±... I opened a web browser interface and did some quick research. It turn out that obscuro is Latin that can mean: (blind, conceal, cover, darken, eclipse, hide, obscure, overshadow, shade, suppress, the dark, veil). So by deduction it''s safe to assume that it is indeed a poisonous frog and that the poison will most likely blind the victims...
Not the most tempting meal if you ask me but after a quick look around I realized that it was either eating those, or eat mosquito larvae. The later was a bit annoying because they were so small and weak. They didn''t give any EXP and I would need to eat a enormous quantity of them before seeing any benefits.
After eating around 50 mosquito larvae, my limbs had barely grown at all. While I was doing that, I saw some poison frog tadpoles hatch and swim away. One of them had been eaten by a fish but a few seconds later the fish started floating belly up, dead. Then the tadpole leisurely swam out of it''s mouth and went on his merry way...
Now starting to find this little game boring, i decided to cheat... I had all these things in my inventory, may as well make good use of them. My first idea was to use a high level detox potion to get rid of the poison after eating one of these tadpoles. The experimentation failed since the bottle that appeared was bigger than me. I had no means to uncork the bottle, and I couldn''t drink it underwater now could i?
Then i looked at my scrolls. There was a means to detox through potions but there was one through magic as well. There''s a spell used to remove status effects like curses or poisons on a person. If you don''t know the spell, you can buy a scroll containing the spell instead of learning it. The inconveniences are that they are a one use items and cost a fortune...
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[ADVANCED DETOX] Spell-Scroll
Mana requirement:
500
Value:
20G
Rank:
A
Rarity:
Uncommon
Remove status effect up to rank A.
I have enough mana and can definitely consider it, even though this may be overkill... I don''t think these little frogs have a Rank A poison or above but may as well be safe. I slowly creep up to the ¡°nest¡±, and wait for an egg to hatch.
As soon as i see an egg twitch I rocket toward it and grab the tadpole that come out of it with my mouth. I bite it''s tail with no intention of letting go until it''s dead. So I begin violently hitting it with my tail which I used as a whip.
You have been poisoned by [Obscuro Poison (Rank B)].
-10hp
-10 hp
-10hp
[...]
Wow... Rank B poison... And not only that, I was now blind and disorientated. It truly is a horrible feeling. But then another message box (only things I can now see) appeared.
You have learned a new Active Skill [Tail whip]. (Cost. 150 Stamina) (Mastery: E)
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your skill points and mastery of the skill.
Since I have quite a bit of strength this attack should hit pretty hard (When it comes to a tadpole fight). It will cost most of my stamina but I can''t waste time with this poison chipping away at my health like that.
¡°[Tail Whip]!¡± (Kneeko)
Level up!
Level up!
(+1) Resistance
This time my attack had a lot more power being it and the tadpole finally died. I quickly ate the tadpole and with 30HP left, used the scroll to remove the poison. Waiting for my health to regenerate, I started to analyze the best course of action. I finally had grown my legs but even as an adult, i was only a damn newt...
I had 20 of these detox scrolls left... And i was curious to test a theory. My thought are that what I kill/eat may influence my future monster rank up. So obviously eating poisonous frog could potentially bring a very interesting result, so the plan is to keep eating more of them.
5 frog tadpoles and 2 level ups later, what I was waiting for finally happened!
Monster Rank UP!
King Frog (Very rare)
Giant Fire Salamander (Rare Variant)
Obscuro Salamander (Unique)
Get all the princesses with your beautiful golden skin.
King of the pond.
Kill all those who dare touching you. (Forever alone)
+++
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
5
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
0G 0S 0C
RACE:
Common Newt
MONSTER RANK:
Lowest of the low
HEALTH:
350
STAMINA:
170
MANA:
600
STRENGTH:
15
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
45
SPEED:
2
DEXTERITY:
1
(H)VITALITY:
20
CHARM:
14
LUCK:
1
AGILITY:
7
RESISTANCE:
6
(S)ENDURANCE:
2
SKILL POINTS:
60
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
PASSIVE SKILLS:
Amphibius (E)
ACTIVE SKILLS:
Tail Whip (E)
Chapter 4 - Ill take all 3 choices
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Finally!! Results! I then took the time to analyze my options and calculate which one would be the best for my aspirations.
First was the King Frog... From the description I guessed it would be a route toward harem making... Possibly a stat that would boost my charm toward princesses ?! Well I love women but to build my character based solely on that, not my style. I''m a natural with the ladies anyways so I don''t need that.
Second choice: DRAGON! A giant fire salamander, if that isn''t dragon like I wonder what is! But then again, this is unlikely to be the only route toward dragon-hood and will most likely only be a bigger body with fire affinity... Nothing special when considering everything...
And then there was the choice I was expecting. Obscuro Salamander... And a ¡°Unique¡± variant as well!... By the name you can assume that it will offer the same ability as the poison frog. Let me make things clear, this rank up would give me a passive poison based attack of Rank B... And I''m only level 5 !!!! It''s incredibly OP !
Even though I don''t really like the ¡°forever alone¡± thing... But with my natural charm I believe I''ll be able to compensate for that. Truth is, I believe by choosing the 3rd option that I will still be able to get women, and become a dragon, I already have my own plans now.
Without hesitation I select Obscuro Salamander and press confirm. Instantly, a bright white and blue light enveloped me. My body grew a bit, around 40 centimeters from the nose to the tip of my tail. I was now more lizard like but still had my smooth and wet looking amphibian skin.
I swam out of the pond and turned around to look at my body. I was now the exact same color as the black and red frog from earlier. While looking at my reflection in the brown water, I noticed a diamond shaped, ruby looking stone on my forehead.
What is that? And did it just appeared or did I had it in my newt form as well?! Quickly I brought up my status window. Everything was pretty much the same but I now had 3 new skills, 1 passive and 2 active.
Passive Skill [Obscuro Poison]. (Cost. N/A) (Rank: B)
Poison anyone who touch you.
Poison effects:
#Blindness
#-10hp per seconds for 5 minutes [Max 3000HP] (Effectiveness depend on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
+25% Bonus damage if ingested.
+50% Bonus damage if injected through blood stream.
Active Skill [Poison Spit]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: E)
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill and the amount of stamina used.
Active Skill [Poison Bite]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: E)
The strength of this attack varies depending on your skill points, mastery of the skill and the amount of stamina used.
All this was very nice, but I couldn''t find anything related to the diamond shaped ruby on my forehead. Maybe it was only one of the physical features of this species... But for some reason I couldn''t help but suspect it to be of more important significance.
Oh well no use in fretting over it for now, time to level up some more. I went back into the water and swam straight toward the middle of the pond. I stayed there for a while when finally a fish attacked me.
Monster
Species:
Salmonus Diabolicus
Level:
18
Monster Rank:
Very low
Rarity:
common
I only had time to burst out laughing at the name... (The devilish salmon !) Fuhuhuhuh*! Then the ¡°evil¡± salmon... ¡°prrffffhuhuhuhuhu*¡± I was saying, the .... PRRrrrrrrfffffhuhuhuhuhu*.....*pant * pant * pant *... The big fish swallowed me whole.
Everything was dark and slimy inside... I could feel the fish''s muscles pulling me deeper and deeper toward it''s stomach but only a few minutes later, I could feel muscle spasms. The fish was twitching for a while then the muscles stopped pulling me down.
Wahooo! Easy results ! I knew this poison was going to be over powered. Then was the arduous process of crawling back up and exiting through the half opened mouth of the "now floating" dead fish. I hadn''t received to much damage so I immediately went in the middle of the pond and waited to be attacked again.
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5 devilish sal-prrff huhuhu*... 5 fish and 4 level ups later, it seemed the creatures of the pond had finally understood that I was not to be messed with as they stopped attacking me altogether. I could swim everywhere and no one bothered me...
New title: King of the pond
If activated, this title grant (+50 Resistance)
¡°Already? Hurmff... That was easy... Or course I cheated but.. Bha I don''t even care.¡± (Kneeko)
I immediately activated the title which gave me 50 resistances. The ¡°resistance¡± skill was very useful since it reduced the amount of damage received by an attack. At this instant I was really happy not to have selected the ¡°giant fire salamander¡± as my rank up since I ended up as king of the pond anyway... Now I only needed to woo a princess... Hahaha yeah as if a princess was going to appear out here in the middle of a forest...
¡°Soooo pretty!!!!!!! Darui''n! Look! Look! I found a pretty lizard!!!¡± (---)
¡°What the- ???¡± (Kneeko)
I quickly turned around to face the direction the voice came from. A few meters away from me was a young girl looking at me with stars in her eyes. She had long golden hairs, blue eyes and was wearing a long white and blue dress.
¡°Hahahaha..... Can''t be?!... [Identify]¡± (Kneeko)
An''dalia Elmda''ril (NPC)
Race/Species:
N/A
Level:
54
Class:
Light priestess
Title:
N/A
¡°Uhh? Why can''t I see her race and title?! Could she be using an item to cloak the information? Well... Looking at her I would be surprised if this teenage girl was a princess... Sighhh It would have been way to much of a coincidence anyway...¡± (Kneeko)
Then out of the woods followed a bishonen (Hot dude) who also had long golden hairs and blue eyes, but this one was visibly a warrior since he wore a beautiful white armor and had a sword hanging at his waist. He was the stereotypical ¡°white knight¡±... Sighhh I hate those type of guys...
¡°Princess! You know you shouldn''t venture alone too far away from me...¡± (Darui''n)
Agagugagu!*
*Noise of jaw hitting the floor*
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
12
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
0G 0S 0C
RACE:
Obscuro Salamander (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Very low
HEALTH:
360
STAMINA:
170
MANA:
600
STRENGTH:
15
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
45
SPEED:
2
DEXTERITY:
1
(H)VITALITY:
21
CHARM:
14
LUCK:
1
AGILITY:
7
RESISTANCE:
7 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
2
SKILL POINTS:
165
FAME/INFAMY:
-100 (Mostly Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
? King of the pond
PASSIVE SKILLS:
Amphibius (E)
Obscuro Poison (B)
ACTIVE SKILLS:
Poison bite (E)
Poison Spit (E)
Tail Whip (E)
Chapter 5 - Immortality
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So she is a princess after all... Kukukuku Is it fate? Nah isn''t to much of a coincidence? Doesn''t matter, actually I was looking for a master. A big breasted princess is definitely a huge jackpot. With this, my plan can move forward.
¡°Look look! Isn''t incredibly cute?¡± (An''dalia) She crouched and tried grabbing me but Darui''n quickly stopped her.
¡°Princess, small brightly colored creature like this are usually poisonous. Better not touch it.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Awww but I''m a priestess, I can detox myself if anything happen.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Of course but animals aren''t toys... What is it anyway? [Identify]¡± (Darui''n)
I felt a strange sensation and saw a flash of light in Darui''n'' eyes... So this is how it feels to have someone use ¡°identify¡± on you?! Then suddenly the white knight eyes widened as is face showed an incredulous expression.
¡°T..T..t This thing is a named monster!.... And a unique species... This is beyond rare, princess !!¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Really??? [Identify]¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Urg, this feeling again...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kneeko?? King of the pond? ...This little thing?¡± (An''dalia) She said while tilting her head sideways.
¡°This is indeed a strange and rare sight... If we kill it maybe it will drop something very valuable... Look at this precious stone on his forehead.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Hey ho!! Don''t you dare you asshole! [Poison spit]!¡± (Kneeko) I spat my venom straight into the white knight left eye.
¡°HAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!!!!!!! MY EYES!!! My vision is fading!!!!! This damn lizard !!!¡± (Darui''n) -4hp -4hp -4hp -4hp
¡°Actually I''m an amphibian.. Not a reptile. Though I don''t suspect you to be smart enough to know the difference... Hmm.. But my poison doesn''t seem to be very effective on him...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Darui''n... Stay calm and come here. [Detox]¡± (An''dalia) Luckily for him, it seemed this princess was the ¡°healing¡± type.
¡°It didn''t work !!!!!!!!! HAAaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! It''s not working princess HaAaa!!!!! Damned creature !!!¡± (Darui''n)
¡°I can''t believe it!... Detox Rank C wasn''t enough??!?! I will use my strongest detox spell so stay still. [Detox]¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Ha!... It worked ! Haaa Thank you very much your highness. Imma kill this f-ing thing !¡± (Darui''n)
Realizing I may have overdone it I quickly starred at the princess with sad puppy eyes.
You have learned a new Active Skill [Sad puppy eyes]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: E)
People who see your sad eyes will feel compelled to help and comfort you.
The effectiveness of this skill varies depending on your skill points (charm) and mastery of the skill. (15 minute cool-down)
Seeing this I quickly allocated 26 skill points into charm making it now 40 and used the skill on the princess.
¡°[Sad puppy eyes]!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Awwwwwwwwww Cuteeeeee... Darui''n STOP!¡± (An''dalia)
Darui''n stopped his sword mid-swing at the princess order. My eyes were like enormous wet red marbles shining with all the sadness of all the sad puppies in the world.
¡°Milady?¡± (Darui''n)
¡°The poor thing attacked you because you threatened to kill him! It''s all your fault, leave him alone !¡± (An''dalia)
¡°B..b...But... Such a young monster... You know they can''t understand complex languages...¡± (Darui''n)
¡°He must have felt your killing intent! Apologize to him now...¡± (An''dalia)
¡°M-..Milady?!...¡± (Darui''n) She frowned at him destroying all of his hope to refuse.
¡°Yheaaa take that Mr white knight mwahwhaah Apologize now !¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Tsh... I.. Apologize...¡± (Darui''n) He visibly looked pissed.
¡°Now, let see... [Identify]¡± (Kneeko)
Darui''n Hugil''rel (NPC)
Race/Species:
N/A
Level:
254
Class:
Spirit knight
Title:
N/A
¡°Gulp*... Hmmm Let''s try not to piss him off from now on shall we...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Anyway, we need to hurry princess. They must already be on our tails... Let us go now.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°You''re right.. Let''s go! Bye bye little Kneeko!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Ho no you ain''t!... I need you for my plans...¡± (Kneeko)
Not leaving her time to leave I quickly grab a scroll from my inventory and drop it on the ground.
¡°Ehh? What is this? [Identify]¡± (An''dalia)
[Familiar Contract] Spell-Scroll
Mana requirement:
250
Value:
5G
Rank:
D
Rarity:
Common
Allow to perform a familiar contract with a monster. If your affinity with the creature is low, the chances of the contract working are almost zero and you may lack control over it.
I had been a monster in Alterlife1 for a long time and knew very well what I was doing. Right now if I die, I will have to restart from zero... But if I am someone''s familiar, I will be forced back into the ¡°familiar dimension¡± and wont be able to get out for 24h... Which is by far the cheapest way for a monster like me to become immortal...
Well as long as my owner doesn''t die... The safest way would be to contract with a player since they can''t die and all... But she''s a princess! I mean.. yeah... If I''m to be someone''s pet, I want my owner to be royalty! guhuhu*
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¡°Darui''n! Look!...¡± (An''dalia)
¡°That little lizard gets weirder the longer we stay in his company... How can he have such an expensive scroll ? Does it recognize you as it''s master?¡± (Darui''n)
¡°I''ll do it ! Kneeko will become my cute pet!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Don''t raise your hopes to high princess... Since you are not a beast tamer, the chances of the contract succeeding are almost nonexistent...¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Buhhhh!¡± (An''dalia) She pouted at Darui''n making him blush.
¡°Hoo! I see... So that''s how it is eh...guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko) I threw a mischievous look at Darui''n.
¡°Sorry OP knight but this princess'' mine mwehehehe*¡± (Kneeko)
The princess quickly unrolled the scroll, placed her hand on it while staring at me. Then I felt her pouring mana into it just before this appeared.
An''dalia Elmda''ril wish to form a familiar contract with you.
Accept
Decline
¡°ACCEPT! Mwahahaha¡± (Kneeko)
We exchanged a bit of mana then a new option appeared in my interface. I could now get in and out of a ¡°familiar dimension¡±. It simply is my own private, personal dimension. The dimension automatically creates the ideal habitat for my species to live in. It is also the place I will be stuck in for 24h if I die.
¡°I did it!! yay!!!¡± (An''dalia) She quickly grabbed me and squished me against her face in celebration. Luckily for her, monsters can''t hurt their master, so the poison had no effect on her anymore. Darui''n was agape with his eyes as big as melons.
¡°Everything about this creature is weird... I''ll keep an eye on it.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Tch! Stupid knight !¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
All of a sudden, An''dalia was staring at me with eyes even bigger than those Darui''n had earlier.
¡°D...d- Did you just speak?¡± (An''dalia)
HA! crap I forgot about that... The bond between pet and master allow them to understand each others. I don''t have a body allowing me to use humanoid speech but as my Master she could definitely hear that. Time to think fast.
¡°Qweekk! Qweekk!¡± (Kneeko) Hummm that''s not exactly the mighty roar I was imagining but it''ll do...
¡°Uhh.. Must have imagined it...¡± (An''dalia)
¡°We wasted enough time, we need to go now princess!¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Yes! I''m coming!... Kneeko! Go back now.¡± (An''dalia)
Your master summoned you to the ¡°familiar dimension¡±.
Accept
Decline
I declined and as fast as lightning, crawled on her body toward the warm and humid canyon located between her gigantic breast. This was the perfect environment for me to relax in.
¡°KYAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!¡± (An''dalia)
[30 minutes later]
Both of them had given up on trying to get me out of this wonderfully comfortable canyon and resumed their journey. All you could see was me poking my head out of her cleavage from time to time like a prairie dog in order to asses our surroundings. Actually in the dark humidity of this canyon, I was relaxing and playing online java games while they walked.
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STATUS:
Chapter 6 - Wallet warrior
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I had spent the entire day ¡°training¡± my speed stat. The training I had developed was truly simple but efficient, I called it the ¡°whack-a-mole¡± training. Simply said, I spent the day popping my head in and out of the princess''s cleavage trying to catch flies. That way I managed to raise my speed stat 6 times.
I had also spent the entire day using tail whip, trying to level up it''s mastery. I would whip Darui''n on the back of his head, then wait for my stamina to regenerate then whip him again... This earned me a little bit of infamy but was incredibly satisfying. An entire day of this and a very angry knight later, I had finally leveled up tail whip to mastery rank D.
After walking toward ¡°who knows where¡± for the entire day, the two of them finally decided to prepare camp for the night. They had selected a grassy area near a small lake offering a beautiful view of the slowly setting sun.
¡°I''m going to wash myself, don''t you dare peek on me! You go gather firewood the other way!¡± (An''dalia) She said while frowning at the white knight. Maybe she had caught him peeking on her before?!
¡°Yes yes, I won''t... Make sure to stay in ear shot in case anything happen.¡± (Darui''n)
The princess walked toward the lake, then began undressing herself. With the canyon suddenly widening, I had to crawl up on her shoulders to avoid falling down. Then realizing I couldn''t see properly, I crawled back down on the ground, took a few step back and stared at her.
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¡°Fuuhuhuhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
She hung her clothes on a tree then slowly entered the cold water after dipping her toes in first. Being an amphibian, I immediately followed after her. I was enjoying splashing her with water and she did the same to me. I climbed on top of her head and used it as diving platform.
¡°Splash!* Hihihihi* my little Kneeko is so full of energy! Kyaaaa! Splash!* Splash!* hihihihi*¡± (An''dalia)
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I was going around over and under water, inspecting every inch of her body. Not without perverted thoughts but mostly due to curiosity. When I first saw two people with golden hair and blue eyes, then saw that they had an item hiding their race... I immediately thought they were elves...
But their ears are human like... So right now I am looking for any clue as to what I am dealing with but with no success... It was possible that the item was used only to hide their titles... Not wanting people to know she was a princess after all... But why did Darui''n used it as well? Could he be a prince? Urggg...
So as far as I know, the princess is a beautiful human princess who''s currently on the run from, something or someone... Annoyingly they didn''t speak much as they walked... I don''t even know where we are going.
Not wanting to wrack my brain on this anymore I decided to enjoy myself and play with her some more. I was currently playing in the water with a naked princess... My life had never felt so fulfilling as a human... Being a salamander truly was a blessing.
(+1) Luck
A few minutes later, the princess panicked a bit when a giant fish swallowed me whole but a few minutes later, we were able to enjoy a delicious fish diner thank to that.
That night, while An''dalia was sleeping and Darui''n was keeping watch, I went around the forest looking for poisonous plants and insects. The reason why is simple, I''m a poisonous creature with no poison tolerance... Basically, I was immune to my own poison only...
My thought were that if I consumed a lot of poison, a poison resistance ability would eventually appear... I also refrained myself from attacking anything that wasn''t from the reptile family... As of now, all I had been, and all the evolution choices I had been offered were amphibians...
So far I had discover that my rank up options were related to what creatures I defeated, my skill points but also I suspected the system read my brain waves and analyze what I wanted... It truly gave me the impression that the game was trying to offer me the best playing experience it can offer...
I was very curious to know if it was possible to rank up into another species like bird, mammal or reptiles. However since I wanted to evolve toward being a dragon, I decided to exclusively kill reptiles. So I went around killing snakes and small reptiles of all kinds.
Thank to that I was not only harvesting poison, but also venom from the snakes. I quickly realized that Darui''n was spying on my nocturnal activities but I wasn''t doing anything too suspicious so I simply ignored him.
This was going to be my little nocturnal routine for the days to come since I could then sleep the entire day in the canyon. After I had gathered a considerable amount of poison and venom, I drank a poison resistance potion (I had to smash the bottle against a rock to open it...) then I drank and ate as much poison and venom as I could.
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This had been a traumatic experience... Dizziness, drowsiness, blindness, pain, swelling, bleeding... All the horrific effect you can imagine all at once... Even the poison resistance potion couldn''t keep up and I had to use a detox scroll again to avoid dying... But at least I had gotten results !
You have learned a new Passive Skill [Poison Resistance]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: E)
The effectiveness of this skill varies depending on your skill points (resistance) and mastery of the skill. (Raised by frequent exposition to toxic substances.)
I had finally reached level 15 but no monster rank up... Now I suspected monster rank ups not to be triggered by level but by defeating opponent stronger then ourselves. Or even by defeating opponents you shouldn''t have been able to defeat...?! This was all speculation anyway...
On the days that followed, many assassins looking guys attacked us regularly but the powerful Darui''n always took care of them with ease. Then I heard him say to An''dalia to hang on that we were soon to reach a safe zone.
Safe zones are areas where you can''t attack or get attacked. This meant only one thing, we were heading toward a city. This was still within my predictions and I was very anxious to reach wherever we were heading to.
Why you ask me? Simple, I had spend the last days on the Alterlife2 auction website and had found an item I really wanted. It cost as much as a medium sized castle but was definitely worth it. So I kept selling useless but expensive items from my inventory, trying to gather enough found to win the auction. (Yup.. Cheating again...)
The item was a ring allowing someone to shape shift between 5 pre-selected forms. It was a SS rank item so it was no joke. I could sell items on the go and receive money, but to collect any items you had purchased via auction, you needed to go to one of the auction houses located in towns.
I was currently in a bidding war with someone else and the price that kept rising was now 15,450Gold. There was only 2 days left to the auction and I had no intention of loosing this item. The price needed to stop rising otherwise I would have to sell my demon armor and I really didn''t want to have to do that.
For the other party to have so much money... They had to be royalty. Being caught in a bidding war against the king of a country kinda pissed me off a little... If I had access to my level 150 storage rings I would have crushed this adversary in an instant... But for now, I was still tight for money.
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STATUS:
Chapter 7 - Her first kiss?
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We have been traveling for a few days now, the auction is finally over. As the auction was a few seconds from finishing, I went all out and bid 17250Golds. (Pretty much all I had) This was the advantages of doing auction via the internet, a thing NPC couldn''t do.
If NPC want to buy or sell via auctions, they need to go at an auction house. Most rich people will send employees with a predetermined max budget. So, me bidding at the last second must have caught them off-guard and I won!
A few hours ago we received this message:
You have just entered a safe zone.
Both Darui''n and An''dalia immediately loosened up, their stress finally being relieved. We still had 1 days worth of walking before reaching the town or city so they decided to camp for the night. While Darui''n was looking around for something to eat, me and the princess were playing together before bath time.
¡°You know Kneeko... Sometime you seem a lot smarter than you should be. Can''t you understand me at all?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°...........¡± (Kneeko) All I gave her was a head tilt.
¡°Sighh... I wonder what will be your first word...¡± (An''dalia) Immediately her eyes shone, she then grabbed me and held me in front of her face.
¡°Repeat after me. Mama!......... Mama!.............Come on you can do it... Mama!¡± (An''dalia)
As she was trying to make me call her mama, Darui''n walked toward us and said:
¡°You should teach him to call you Master or mistress instead... You''re not his mother you know...¡± (Darui''n)
¡°I doesn''t matter does it? I want my cute little Kneeko to call me mama ! *Pout* Come on Kneeko! Mama!................. Mama!.............Mama!....¡± (An''dalia)
¡°......WIFE!......¡± (Kneeko) I enthusiastically said with big rounded eyes and a giant smile.
[...]
¡°EEEEEEEEEEeehhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!?????????¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Did he say something??¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Nnnnn...n.n.NO HE DIDN''T!...... Go away!¡± (An''dalia)
A bit confused by her reaction Darui''n simply left to cook the meat he had just killed.
¡°Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°KYAAAAAaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! Shut UP! SHUT UP!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife!¡± (Kneeko)
[The next day]
We woke up early and made haste toward our destination. I personally couldn''t wait to get my insanely expensive ring once we reached there. This ring would also allow me to make sure if my companions truly were humans.
Not only that, but I would finally be able confirm if my suspicions about how the monster rank ups functions are founded or not. Many questions are about to find answers. Theories are only speculations until you prove them via experimentation.
A few uneventful hours later a town finally came into view.
You have just arrived to the town of [Vennari]
Vennari eh... Seeing this I quickly opened the browser window and came up with a map of the town. I needed to know where the auction house was without having to go around searching for it. The town had wooden fortifications all around and 2 gates, (North and South).
As we reached a gate, guards came and asked them who they were, their business etc. Darui''n gave them 2 silver and they immediately allowed us entry into the town. It wasn''t a big town but I was still amazed by the amount of people walking around. I finally saw players for the first time but I didn''t use [Identify] for good reasons. I had to refrain from using identify until I had my ring.
We went straight to a inn in the middle of town. It was a shabby looking 3 story building named Insuella Inn. Darui''n entered and walked up to the counter with An''dalia in tow. The man at the counter was a fat bearded man who seemed to hate his life.
¡°One room with two beds for one night.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Brother and sister I suppose eh... 60 copper.¡± (Cashier)
Darui''n visibly wanted to correct him but refrained from doing so. He then paid the man and walked to the room which number was indicated on the key he had received. Once inside he quickly inspected the room then turned around to face An''dalia.
¡°The room isn''t luxurious but we are slowly running out of money, my apologies princess.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Don''t worry about it. I''d rather sleep in a barn than being that man''s play thing.¡± (An''dalia)
Hu? A man had tried to make her his plaything? Most likely the man who sent all these ¡°hunters¡± after us... I will need to inquire about his identity later... Someone needs to be taught a lesson. I couldn''t help but feel a little bit irritated.
¡°I''m going to go purchase the carriage and horse for tomorrow. We can''t stay here more than one night. Stay put and wait for me here your highness.¡± (Darui''n) She nodded then Darui''n left to do his chores.
I needed to go to the auction house and had little time to do so... But since I was living in her cleavage she would immediately notice my absence... So I tapped on her shoulder with my tail and pointed toward the door.
¡°What is it Kneeko? Need to go pee?¡± (An''dalia)
Tap* Tap* Tap* ... Point* point*
¡°You want to go somewhere ?¡± (An''dalia)
Nod* nod* nod*
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¡°Sorry we can''t, Darui''n told us to stay here and wait for him. Once he returns we will go ok?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife! Wife!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kyaaaa! Ok!ok!¡± (An''dalia)
We then exited the inn and I kept pointing her the way to go. Thank to the internet map of the town I had, I knew exactly where to go. I led her toward the auction house, then toward the automated transaction devise. Auctions were totally anonymous and I simply had to touch a glowing blue plate to retrieve my ring.
I discretely did so and indicated An''dalia to go back to the inn. She must have thought I just wanted to explore a little... Or she''s now totally confused and simply doesn''t know what to think.
Morph Ring
Minimum level:
N/A
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
SS
Rarity:
Extremely Rare
Allows the wearer to quickly shape-shift between 5 pre-programmed species/race. You can only use species/race you have encountered and identified before.
Note that you won''t get the species/race abilities but only their appearances, and people will be able to see what is your true species/race with the identify command.
As she got out of the auction house, a highly muscular man wearing a tank-top, dirty leather pants and a buzz cut stepped in front of An''dalia blocking her way out with his massive body.
¡°What do we have here... You''re not from around here are you? How about coming with big bro somewhere to play.¡± (Tank man)
¡°N..n-..No someone is waiting for me bye.¡± (An''dalia) She tried to go through but the giant man stepped right and left to block her way.
¡°Aww come on don''t be like that, just a few minutes.¡± (Tank man)
Sighh that girl is totally defenseless... Seeing her distress I quickly popped my head out of her cleavage and spat in the man''s face.
¡°GUAaaaaaaaa! I CAN''T SEE!!!! What is happening?! Help!!!¡± (Tank man)
Seeing the opportunity, An''dalia quickly ran by him and bolted out of there. A few blocks away from there she stopped to catch her breath.
¡°Thank you for protecting me Kneeko. You''re a good boy.¡± (An''dalia)
I exited the canyon, curled around her neck and licked her mouth like a puppy to show my affection.
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I couldn''t wait to finally be alone somewhere discrete to play with my new ring. Many questions were soon to be answered.
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Chapter 7.5 - Finding answers
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It was the middle of the night, An''dalia and Darui''n were sleeping soundly in their rented room. Tomorrow we would depart to some other unknown destination but right now it was the perfect time do to some experiments.
I crawled out of An''dalia''s bed, went up the window and down in the back alley. I took my incredibly expensive ring and equipped it. Luckily the ring expands or shrinks to fit the wearer ¡°fingers¡± so that a giant could equip a fairies'' ring.
After equipping it, I opened it''s configuration interface by selecting one of the 5 empty slots. There I had a complete list of all the creatures I had identified since the beginning of my adventure. Then hold and behold! No humans!!!
That''s why I had taken care not to use ¡°identify¡± on anyone in town. Then what I found while browsing through the list was remarkable. High Humans!... That is why they were so similar to elves... Also why they were hiding their race with an item.
For those who don''t know, High Humans aren''t ¡°junkies¡±... They are a superior race of humans who are somehow related to elves as well. Sadly they are on the brink of extinction, they wanted to keep their blood pure but ended up depleting their gene pool... (Personally, I call them Aryans... Urgg...)
So I then selected for the first slot, then for the second. For the 3rd I hesitated for a moment... I wanted a body that can fly but was unsure if I should wait to identify a more fearsome flying creature or simply pick a crow for it''s stealthiness...I think for now I will simply wait.
Morph Ring
Minimum level:
N/A
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
SS
Rarity:
Extremely Rare
Allows the wearer to quickly shape-shift between 5 pre-programmed species/races. You can only use species/races you have encounter and identified before.
Note that you won''t get the species/races abilities but only their appearances, and people will be able to see what is your true species/race with the identify command.
Having done that I then tried morphing into a High human by selecting the 2nd morph. My body swelled, contorted and finally took a human appearance. It was really dark outside so I could barely see my human hands and my long golden hairs hindering my vision.
Yes, this familiar feeling, I could immediately control this body perfectly since it was my original form after all. I did some stretches and ran a few meters before realizing I was naked. Damn, can''t go take a stroll without clothes...
I didn''t realize it was this cold outside as well... My sausage was insultingly small... I don''t have body or pubic hairs like the princess, must be a racial trait... So maybe the small wiener is also a race thing? I couldn''t help but laugh while imagining Darui''n''s.
¡°Hrm rhmm* One two, one two testing.¡± (Kneeko) Yup, human language acquired.
I made sure my skills still worked by using [Venom Spit]... This ring truly is a masterpiece. Then thinking of something I quickly touched my forehead. Crap! That damned ruby stone thingy is still on my forehead! I will need my long hair or even a bandanna to hide this thing... Sighhh Feeling satisfied, I turned back to my original form.
I then allocated my 184 unused skill points evenly in strength, resistance, intelligence and some in vitality as well. Satisfied, I closed the interface.
¡°If my theory on monster ranking is correct, I simply need to feel ready and wish for it...¡± (Kneeko)
Monster Rank UP!
Titan FireCroc (Unique)
Giant Berserker Varan (Very rare)
Gardening viper (Very rare)
Show this to those who say size doesn''t matter. This oversized monster convert mana into HP. Titans once ruled the world.
With scales, teeth and claws harder than iron, this giant lizard will get stronger as his HP goes down.
At 6 meters long, one of the deadliest venom known to men and the ability to control plants, this viper is among the most feared snakes in the world.
¡°Guhuhu what about that father?! I already cracked your code guhuhuhu*.¡± (Kneeko)
This was the confirmation I hoped to get. I finally understood the gist of it. The reason I couldn''t find any information on the subject on the internet was quite obvious really. This system have been made by father exclusively for me...
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After all i''m the only one who can play as a monster... So there''s no interface for it, simply game mechanics. The way it work is amazingly complex yet simple.
Let''s start by the basics.
Monster drop: (Small monster stay intact as ¡°ingredients¡± with some exceptions.), (Medium and big monsters dissipate and can drop items like meat, skin, fur, claws, teeth etc. even rare and valuable items, depending on the species and other exceptions like named monsters.¡±)
And sometimes they will drop a ¡°monster core¡±... Now this is a 1% drop. But actually in my case I always receive the energy from their cores. The EXP I gain from them IS their core energy. But even more than that, it''s treated like something similar to DNA by the system.
Simple example: You gain 500 EXP by killing a bird, and 500 EXP by killing a fish. Then you have 50% chances to get a monster rank up related to a bird and 50% chance to get one related to a fish... If the fish could use a water attack, you have a 50% chance to get a variant capable of doing the same...
It gets very complicated but that''s basically how the choices work. The system will also take into consideration how you have built your character... For example: A lot of points in ¡°speed¡± will give you choices of faster monsters.
Then there''s more! The system also ¡°reads your mind¡± and take what you want into consideration. The fact that I really like dragons is the cause for all these ¡°giant fire monsters¡±... This time it''s a titan fire crocodile... Sigh... The ¡°unique¡± species are usually created exclusively for you, based on your desire.
I hadn''t had any monster rank ups recently because I didn''t feel the need for it... Ok!ok! I didn''t want to become too big to fit into the canyon... But the Morph Ring fixed that problem. So as soon as I got the ring and confirmed it worked perfectly, I simply needed to wish to rank up... And voil¨¤!
I need to be sure to have enough EXP-DNA before ranking up again if I don''t want any crappy choices...
Ok quickly analyze all the options, deduce what they have to offer and compare. I need to use all my brain''s ¡°processing power¡± to pick the best choice for my future plans. Right now I am ¡°built¡± like a spell-casting monster, yet I am lacking magic attacks...
Quickly think...
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Chapter 8 - Cracking mask
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What I gathered so far from these choices is this:
-Titan firecroc offers size (obviously), as well as potentially fire type magic skills and merging of health and mana. This means to kill me, people would need to deplete both my health and mana pool.
-The Berserker variant is the perfect melee ¡°tank¡± type of body that would probably offer skills needing stamina. (Which I don''t have a lot of...)
-Gardening viper offers the ¡°fear factor¡± of it''s fearsome reputation, a likely upgrade to my poison/venom arsenal and plant based magic skills.
I don''t need a lot of time to see which one is the best for me... I need magic skills since I am a mana based monster... Of course fire beats plants but having a titan body at level 15 wouldn''t be very smart. I wouldn''t want to be the titan defeated with one swing of a sword from a high ranking player. How lame would that be.
The berserker isn''t suitable since I intend to fight using magic, so with that my choice was made. I selected the Gardening viper and like the last time, a bright white and blue light enveloped me as I changed shape.
My body grew in length for a while before finally stopping at 6 meters long. To compare with the ¡°real world¡±, 6 meters is around the size of a giant anaconda... So now try imagining a 6 meter long, 500 pounds, 25 centimeters in diameter, venomous snake.
I still had my damned diamond shaped ruby thing on my forehead, lustrous black and red scales harboring similar pastern to my obscuro salamander form. I had 4 small pointy horns on my head and a gold choker type necklace. (Being fingerless, my ring now thinks it''s a necklace...)
The most striking thing about my new appearance are my eyes. Two bone chilling, brownish-yellow eyes with a vertically slit pupil in the middle. These eyes were so striking that I could see their reflection in a nearby window despite the darkness of night.
I had been in a ¡°snake like¡± body before in Alterlife1 but it had never felt this realistic before. I could now use my tongue to smell the air. Yup, snakes do use their tongues to smell! Snakes have nostrils, just like humans. But a snake¡¯s tongue is also very important.
When a snake flicks its tongue in the air, it picks up tiny chemical particles. When the snake brings its tongue back into its mouth, the tongue fits into a special organ on the roof of the mouth. This special organ is called the vomeronasal system.
The vomeronasal system takes those tiny chemical particles and tells the snake what they are. This way the snake ¡°smells¡± things like dirt, plants and other animals. This way of smelling the world can help a snake avoid predators or help the snake catch food.
The weirdest thing when morphing into a limbs-less body like a snake''s, is the phantom limb syndrome. A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb (even an organ, like the appendix) is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts.
My ¡°brain¡± still thought I had arms and legs which made the few first minutes very awkward. I needed to continuously and consciously keep remembering myself to ¡°walk¡± on my belly, and that my hands were now my mouth. Luckily I had my morph ring for when I needed hands.
Then as I was still familiarizing myself with my new body, tons of windows started popping up.
Your skill [Poison Bite] has now morphed into [Viper Bite]. (Cost. 150 Stamina) (Mastery: D)
The strength of this attack varies depending on your skill points and the mastery of the skill. Use [Viper Neurotoxin]
Passive Skill [Viper Neurotoxin]. (Cost. N/A) (Rank: A)
Poison injected via fangs. Used by the skill: [Poison Bite]
Venom effects:
#Partially paralyze the target.
#-30hp per seconds for 180 seconds [Max 5400HP] (Effectiveness depend on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
You have learned a new Active Skill [Vines Hell]. (Cost. N/A Mana) (Mastery: E)
Allow the user to freely manipulate fast growing vines in a 20 meters radius. The more vines you use, the more mana you will need.
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your skill points and mastery of the skill.
You have learned a new Active Skill [TerrorEyes]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: E)
People who see your devilish eyes will feel immediate fear.
The effectiveness of this skill varies depending on your mastery of the skill. (30 minutes cool-down)
You have learned a new Active Skill [Gardener touch]. (Cost. 200 Mana) (Mastery: E)
Allow the user to grow any plants/trees he as encountered and identified as long as they are equal or below the mastery rank. Level up the mastery to grow higher rank plants.
New title: Toxic Powerhouse
If activated, this title grant (+50 Vitality)
Wow! That''s a lot of new toys to play with. I also have a lot of training to do but right now, traveling with these two is slowing my progression. At first I didn''t care since all I am looking for is entertainment but it''s getting boring.
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I think I will follow them until they reach their destination, then I will go on adventures on my own. My master is a princess after all, so I don''t expect her to go on dungeons diving adventures... I will have to separate from her in order to do so.
I just need to make sure she reaches home safely before doing anything else. I don''t care about her but no one can break my toys except myself! Cough* cough* I mean I deeply care about her and wish for her to be safe at home with her family.
Talking about family, I wonder why my ¡°sister¡± didn''t communicate with me since then... Is it impossible for her to send messages? Will I need to die before seeing her again? Truth be told, to me she''s an NPC... I''m having a hard time considering her as family in the same way you don''t easily consider a microwave as a father...
And did you hear her laugh?... So creepy it made my hairs stand on my head. Anyway, I think I am soon going to reach my limit... I don''t know how long I will still be able to hold this RP before my real personality inadvertently emerges by accident.
I then used the Morph ring to return to my salamander appearance, climbed the wall up to the window and went back to sleep into the canyon.
In the morning, An''dalia and Darui''n didn''t waste time and immediately departed after eating breakfast at the inn. We were now traveling in a carriage pulled by a horse which made our traveling speed increase dramatically.
¡°If we don''t encounter any problems we should reach home in a week princess.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Yes, I can''t wait to see father after so long.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°I promised him I would find, and bring you back. So don''t worry I will definitely bring you home safely.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Nod* Nod* I know you will Darui''n. Thank you for everything.¡± (An''dalia)
What with the soapy atmosphere?! If this stupid knight keeps this up I''ll have to shorten his life.
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¡°Is it me or is that thing glaring at me?¡± (Darui''n)
¡°Of course not, Kneeko is the gentlest creature in the world.¡± (An''dalia)
[TerrorEyes]
Darui''n jumped back after seeing my terrifying glare but regained his composure as I popped back down the canyon.
¡°I hate that lizard..¡± (Darui''n) He then grumbled to himself.
Down in the canyon I was concocting plans to kill him without being caught. Cough* I mean I was considering how to deal with this rival in a gentlemanly manner.
The next few days were quite uneventful excepted the occasional monster attack. But on the 4th day, a very interesting monster came along to play with Darui''n. This one would prove more problematic for him to defeat on his own.
Monster
Species:
Bolt Wyvern (Variant)
Level:
191
Monster Rank:
Upper middle
Rarity:
Very Rare
{First serious fighting scene in the next chapter}
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Chapter 9 - Mathematically optimal
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A huge bluish gray and green wyvern landed in front of us making the earth shake under it''s weight. The flying monstrosity crouched in an aggressive posture ready to pounce on us.
¡°Crap! What is this thing doing so far south?! Princess stay back and prepare to run if needed.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°You may be a lot more powerful than this beast but i''m not leaving you alone! Wyverns use fire elemental magic, you know it''s your weakness! You will need my healing ability if you want to win.¡± (An''dalia)
What the princess said was true, I had calculated the possible outcomes of this battle and without a healer, Darui''n''s chances seemed very slim. Every-time a monster used fire on him, the damage seemed to be multiplied... He must have gained a major weakness in exchange for his powers.
The level difference between the wyvern and myself were simply too huge for me to make any damage on it. I would have to be a spectator in this fight. Quickly Darui''n enveloped himself in a slight blue light which was most likely a skill meant to make him stronger or increase his defense.
¡°[Spirit blades]¡± (Darui''n)
With one swing of his sword, tens of semi-transparent bluish boomerang shaped blades flew straight at the wyvern. The wyvern used its wings to shield itself resulting in only minor cuts on its body. The creature''s scales seemed incredibly hard to cut.
Now angered by the last attack, the beast ran toward Darui''n and swept in his direction using its tail like a whip. This was a similar attack to mine but on a totally different level. The tail seemed to directly hit Darui''n but instead it went right through him as if it had hit noting.
Darui''n body then vanish in a pale blue light, like it had been a mirage all along. Then a bit further back Darui''n reappeared, uninjured. Was it teleportation? Lighting fast movement ? Now very angry the wyvern rushed toward An''dalia. Darui''n had made the mistake of underestimating the creatures intelligence.
¡°No! Princess!!!¡± (Darui''n)
As soon as it reached a near enough distance the wyvern made a 180¡ã and swung its tail at lighting speed. [Vines Hell] I rapidly created a wall of vines but the wyvern''s tail went straight through as if they were made of paper.
The attack sent me and the princess flying into some bushes after doing a few aerial barrel rolls. Darui''n now in a raging fury appeared on top of the beast and used [Spirit meteor], a skill creating bluish balls of light falling from above like meteors.
The impacts caused many violent explosions which created a giant cloud of smoke hiding the battle from view. The next thing I saw was Darui''n being thrown 20 meters backward straight into a tree. The impact had been so violent that the tree, 50cm in diameter shattered.
¡°ROARRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Bolt Wyvern)
I turned around to look at An''dalia, she had lost 50% of her HP so she was still ok since she could heal her wounds. Annoyingly though, she had passed out from the impact so she was now useless. As for me I had lost 80% of my Hp... If I didn''t have as much resistances as I have, this attack would have been a one shot kill.
Darui''n got up and charged at the giant lizard again but this time his body seemed to multiply. It was not exactly like clones, he would take a step forward then stop. But a bluish clone of himself would keep going and attack. If was as if he was using ghost of himself to fight while keeping his physical body at safe distance.
It was a little bit the same as the best lap ghost cars in racing games. He would feign an attack then stop, but then a ghost clone of himself would keep going and complete the attack. For a few moment, they exchanged attacks and Darui''n seemed to dominate the fight, but that was before the wyvern health reached 50%.
When its health dropped below 50%, the monster''s attack patterns changed. It began using its wings to create gust of wind to destabilize Darui''n''s footing making him miss a few attacks. Then the monster also started spitting fire at him every time he was destabilized. This wreaked havoc on Darui''n''s health.
The wyvern had now gained control over the fight, the outcome looked bleak... I quickly began creating battle simulations in my head and calculated what were the best options. I then opened my Morph ring interface and began fiddling with it.
¡°[Spirit Awakening] !!!!!¡± (Darui''n) Booooooooommmmm!*
A massive explosion brought my attention back to the battle. Darui''n''s hairs were now a deep marine blue and pale blue flames seemed to envelop his entire body. Then as fast as lightning, Darui''n began raining attack on the monster from all directions.
The wyvern was being pushed into a corner. Darui''n truly was a powerful warrior to be keeping a hidden card like this one. But apparently he wasn''t the only one keeping a hidden card since the wyvern began flapping its wings, creating a small vortex as powerful as a F3 tornado.
Slowly lifting up in the air, the wyvern began sparkling. Not like a disco ball but more like a Tesla coil. These were electric sparks.
¡°Not good !¡± (Darui''n)
Before Darui''n could retreat, the wyvern launched a massive electric attack engulfing everything in a 15 meters radius.
¡°Urgg.. Cough cough cough*¡± (Darui''n)
This was bad, if An''dalia was awake, this would have been a relatively easy battle... But now, Darui''n only had a sliver of health left. Throwing a rock at him could kill him at this point. Ho well, I had already prepared a plan taking this into consideration. It was finally time for me to move into action. I morphed into my new wyvern body (Slot #3) and ran toward Darui''n before the wyvern could give him the finishing blow.
¡°[Viper Bite]¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Khuu...! There was another o-...¡± (Darui''n)
Level up! (X42)
(-1500) Fame
¡°Guhuhuhu* sorry pal, this is mathematically the best choice for me. Getting rid of a rival as well as gaining enough strength to finish this already heavily injured wyvern. EXP feast!¡± (Kneeko)
While the ¡°Bolt Wyvern¡± was still confused by the appearance of another wyvern stealing his kill out of nowhere, I quickly took out 2 potions out of my inventory. One health and one stamina potion. Having no hands I grabbed them in my mouth, crushed them with my teeth then spat the glass out.
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¡°ROARRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Bolt Wyvern) The wyvern regained its composure and rushed toward me.
[TerrorEyes]
This made it flinch and hesitate just long enough to allow me to allocate 12 of my newly acquired skill points into endurance, then I took off into the air. Being a bit rusty at flying I first ended up in a tree but quickly regained control and went up in the sky. Higher, always higher!! I could see the ¡°bolt wyvern¡± on my tail.
He was visibly faster than me but I didn''t have time to start allocating my newly gained skill points in speed. When the beast finally caught up to me we were about 700 meters up in the air. The ¡°bolt wyvern¡± rushed at me ready to shred my wings with his talons.
[Sad Puppy Eyes]
Flinch*
[Viper Bite] + [Tail Whip] Combo.
I bit him in the neck with viper bite hoping it would be potent enough to paralyze it''s wings, then launched it toward the ground with a well placed tail whip to the head. As I had suspected, my attacks didn''t cause a lot of damage but gravity surely would.
The wyvern fell toward the ground like a rock. The poor creature tried to flap its wings but the paralyzing effect of my venom hindered his efforts. The bolt wyvern crashed on the ground, creating a giant crater in the process. I had followed it during its fall and was ready to claw it to death if it survived the fall, but it didn''t.
Level up! (X26)
(+4) Intelligence
[Tail Whip] Mastery increased to rank ?
[Viper Bite] Mastery increased to rank ?
I then landed, took my High human form and went to collect the monster drops. A few wyvern scales, teeth and its heart. A wyvern heart should sell for quite a bit of money. I had leveled up 68 times in a few minutes. Of course I had exploited the both of them and swooped in just for the kills but EXP is EXP... There''s no good or bad EXP in my book.
After collecting the monster drops I went to Darui''n''s body and looted everything on him. As I was doing this, I realized something troubling... My high human appearance was that of a 5-6 year old kid... So that''s why I was hairless and had a tiny winy sausage. Must be because my level isn''t high enough to appear as an adult.
As I was looting his body, I could hardly describe the joy I felt when I found this on him:
Privacy Ring
Minimum level:
10
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
A
Rarity:
Rare
This ring allow a user to hide his species/race and titles from others.
So this was the items they were using to hide their info... This will come in very handy for me. As for his armor and sword, it was limited to ¡°knight¡± classes... And it would be difficult to explain how a wyvern could have taken it from him so I left it untouched.
Reverting to a salamander appearance I ran back to An''dalia who was still KO in a bush.
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Chapter 10 - Whos dumb
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An''dalia POV -
You have just arrived to the town of [Vennari]
Finally!! We made it back to civilization. This horrible monster ! How dare he kidnap me and try to force me to be his wife. These dragons truly are horrible assholes! Because they are more powerful than other races they think they can have whatever the fuck they want.
Luckily, father sent Darui''n to save me. He was no match for these monsters, yet he came all this way to save me. Even ready to risk his life for me. Did father sent him because he knew I loved him? I will need a serious discussion with this idiot! What if he had died in the process?!
I could have escaped on my own if I wanted to, but he went ahead and risked Darui''n''s life... I, An''dalia Elmda''ril 1st of the name can''t let that go easily. He will get an earful when I get back home.
Anyway, fufufufu* sister will die of jealousy when she see my ¡°unique¡± named pet! Fufufufufu!* He''s definitely peculiar... I tasked Darui''n in keeping a close look on it and what he found out was truly interesting.
Spending the nights going around and killing snakes?! Gathering poisonous plants and eating them?! Is that a normal behavior for a tiny monster?! I have a feeling that I hit the jackpot with this thing. He may be worth a fortune! Enough to fill our treasury.
The way he act make me think of a jumper... Of course I know these immortal world jumpers can''t be monsters... I''m not the dumb princess everybody think I am. But still, I can''t shake this feeling. Only jumpers act this strangely. (Author''s note: She''s talking about players here...)
We then stopped for the night before reaching the town of Vennari. I played with Kneeko while taking a bath, he seem to really enjoy that for some reason... Truly a weird monster. But it''s good, I need to tighten our relationship in order to gain more trust.
The more he trust me, the more he will obey me! Fufufufufu* I sneakily used identify recently and he doesn''t seem that impressive... Still, this precious stone on his forehead could make a wonderful necklace. Whether or not he becomes powerful, he will be of great use. Fufufufu*
24 hours later we finally reached Vennari. Darui''n rented us a disgusting room in a filthy inn... Just because he is a poor bastard... If he wasn''t so hot!!! Looks and strength is enough... I will bring the money into the marriage.
When Darui''n left to buy a horse and carriage, Kneeko started acting strange again. Curious, I followed his directions and ended up in an auction house... I wonder what he want to do in here. Strangely, he simply led me to a item boot and asked to leave again.
I really don''t get that stupid lizard... Well whatever, I left but a brute appeared and started acting all gross and stuff. Kneeko spat on his face creating an opportunity for me to escape... I''m not below recognizing when someone helped me so I thanked him.
But this bastard started licking my mouth!!! My first kiss! With a disgusting lizard! Arggggggg!!! But it''s ok... It''s just an animal after all, it doesn''t count and I will do what I need to gain his trust. Rare and valuable monster, Rare and valuable monster, Rare and valuable monster, Rare and valuable monster....................
The day after, we finally left toward Niardo, my home town. 7 days... Only 7 more days of this horribly uncomfortable lifestyle. I will finally get back to my giant bed and bathroom!!! My slaves and servant! I can''t waitttt!!!!!!!!!
The 4 first days were uneventful. But on the 5th day, a rare monster appeared before us.
Monster
Species:
Bolt Wyvern (Variant)
Level:
191
Monster Rank:
Upper middle
Rarity:
Very Rare
Darui''n may be stronger but this thing is a the type of beast he''s weak against. Darui''n biggest fault is his fire weakness... But with me close by, he should be alright.
¡°Crap! What is this thing doing so far south?! Princess stay back and prepare to run if needed.¡± (Darui''n)
¡°You may be a lot more powerful than this beast but i''m not leaving you alone! Wyverns use fire elemental magic, you know it''s your weakness! You will need my healing ability if you want to win.¡± (An''dalia)
If you think I will let my future husband die to a lizard... How unreliable you are Darui''n! If it weren''t for your handsome face... grrrrrrrr!*
At first Darui''n and the wyvern exchanged a few hits, but then the monster charged toward me... That''s it, I messed up. I am going to die here. As I was about to get hit, a wall of vines appeared in front of me. The only thought in my mind was, Kneeko?
Then everything went blank. When I came back to me sense, I was upside down in a bush, badly injured.
¡°Ouchh... It hurts.¡± (An''dalia)
I used a healing spell on me and realized, Kneeko was once again sleeping in my cleavage. Such an annoying habit !!! I''m going to grow warts between my boobs if he keeps doing that! I can''t wait for him to rank up or grow too big to fit!
Once healed I had a look around. Such an horrific battlefield... There was craters, broken trees and debris everywhere. Darui''n?! Where is he? I quickly got up and started looking for him.
¡°Darui''n?!...¡± (An''dalia)
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¡°DARUI''N???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (An''dalia)
Can''t be? I wasn''t there to help him so maybe he lost?! No way... NO! I won''t accept that! He is to be my future husband, he can''t die! HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO!
¡°DARUI''N!!???!!!!!!!!!! DARUI''N!!???!!!!!!!!!! DARUI''N!!???!!!!!!!!!!¡± (An''dalia)
I looked around for a while and finally, I found his lifeless body laying on the ground.
¡°Da... ui''n...can''t be... sniff...¡± (An''dalia)
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¡°Snif... WANNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wANnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!* HOW COULD YOU DIE NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! WANNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnn*¡± (An''dalia)
No way! It''s not happening! My Darui''n can''t be dead !!! Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Why did no one helped him no!!!
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Kneeko?! Was he out as well? Couldn''t he have helped him?!... [Identify]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
83
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
N/A
RACE:
N/A
MONSTER RANK:
Low
FAME/INFAMY:
-1670 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
N/A
PASSIVE SKILLS:
Amphibious (E)
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Poison Resistance (E)
Viper Neurotoxin (A)
This......... I checked his stats 4 days ago... He was level 15. What''s up with these skills?! No! Wait a minute. I can''t see his race/species and titles! Darui''n''s ring!!!!! These rings are rare, our race posses most of them.
I quickly looked on Darui''n''s body and realized it had been taken as well as most of his possessions. Kneeko did?
¡°Oi! You fucking lizard!!!! Did you stole Darui''n''s ring??!! Could you have killed him as well???!!!!! IF SO, YOU ARE DEAD!¡± (An''dalia)
[...]
Kneeko popped his head out of my cleavage and stared at me, eye to eye.
¡°Kneeko protect wife!!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What the?!..... I''M NOT YOUR WIFE YOU SHIT! DID YOU KILL DARUI''N!?¡± (An''dalia)
[...]
¡°Tsss... You, you pretended being dumb all along didn''t you?!¡± (Kneeko)
Da fuq?!! What with this perfectly constructed sentence?! This little shit played me all along?!
¡°Who are you?! What the fuck are you?! You are so dead!!!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Sighhh...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°AWNSER ME!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Release me from our contract.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fuck no!!!!! You belong to me! I will make you pay for what you did you shit!¡± (An''dalia)
Then this fucking lizard got enveloped in bluish light and transformed into a 6 meter, terrifying looking snake. When I looked into his eyes, I may have wet myself. Those yellow eyes, felt like they could pierce your soul.
¡°This is the last thing I will do for you. I will promise not to attack you if you release me from our contract. If you refuse, I may not be able to hurt you... But I will find your family, your kingdom, and I will rain fire upon everything you hold dear. I will make you wish you were dead.¡± (Kneeko)
These words made me lose all strength in my legs. I suddenly collapsed to the ground and couldn''t look at him anymore. I could feel his blood-lust, he wasn''t lying. I could feel through his emotionless voice, he wasn''t lying.
I had signed a pact with the devil himself, he was now a level 80+ monster that I had no control over. Bringing him with me was risking everything I cared for. How did he transform like that? Did he just rank up? Am I dealing with something I have no knowledge or control over?!
Bringing this ting with me, was the most foolish thing I even done... I brought the devil with me.
¡°Hissing* I am getting impatient, High human.¡± (Kneeko)
What?! How did he know I am a high human?! He could only steal Darui''n''s ring after his death... This lizard... Is truly terrifying... Being totally overpowered by fear I quickly revoked my familiar contract with Kneeko.
¡°Hmmmm* You took the smart choice... You truly were pretending to be dumb after all... Guhuhuhu* I will leave you now, I hope you make it safely to your hometown. The horse fled that way, you should find him eventually...
Remember my words, if you ever seek revenge, send people after me... If you ever speak of me to anyone, you will see what hell truly look like. I will grow strong, become an unequaled monster. Then! I will come back for you... And I will take you into my harem.
Farewell, dumb princess.¡± (Kneeko)
After these words, Kneeko turned into a wyvern, a smaller version of the one who attacked us earlier excepted, he was his usual red and black instead of green and blue... Then he flew away without looking back...
¡°Sniff.. sniff... Darui''n. It''s scary without you. This was truly scary. I..I-...I''m.... Scared of... Kneeko... sniff sniff*¡± (An''dalia)
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Chapter 11 - Rich and famous
This chapter has been proof-read by: gcman01
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Dammit, who would have thought that the princess was a better actor than me. My calculations were pointing toward only a 30% chance of failure but that was assuming the princess was dumb. I had to go hard on her in order to frighten her into breaking the contract.
Telling her I would come back for her later should also prevent her from acting all high and mighty in the future. If she fears my return, she will find powerful and reliable people to serve and protect her and hopefully treat them properly.
I''m such a nice person really...
Alright alright I was pissed off by the failure of my plan and wanted to scare the crap out of her. Pitiful? Yeah maybe, but what would you expect from the son of a billionaire. I know how the princess lived her entire life. I had a pretty good taste of it in my own life.
Everybody in my life were there because we had money. My ¡°friends¡± always spoke to me from a facade and would change if I wasn''t there. No one ever did me any favors without expecting something in return.
Father was so busy with work, I would always end up spending money in clubs, going on my 130 million dollar yaht for a cruise around the coast with people my age... I was basically buying friendship.
Every-time I did something stupid, father would personally buy people''s silence, bribe the police and the judges... I never had to be responsible for my actions. There was this guy I accidentally ran over while drunk driving...
Well after telling father I never heard of anything about this incident again. The guy, disappeared and his family never seemed to come forward looking for him. Money had that much power... People would even keep silent about their family member''s disappearance in exchange for a bit of it.
Humans are disgusting beings. Claiming to be nice and ¡°evolved¡±, but if you scratch the surface you find the smelliest rot in the animal kingdom. Only father had a place in my heart. Only he, always loved, supported and protected me unconditionally.
That man was such a loving father that he even sacrificed part of his fortune and the last years of his life for a good for nothing son like me. This fact is even more incredible considering that the day I had my motorcycle accident was actually because I was running away from the police.
But this too, father never mentioned a word to me. He would praise me when I did good, and keep silent when I did not. Many would say that he was enabling me, doing me a disservice by not putting his foot down and straightening me onto the right path.
But it is because he was like this that only he has been able to etch his name on my stone cold heart. People use one another, people are therefor tools to others. If this is how it work, I would then make maximum use of every tool in my toolbox.
My naivety died at a very young age when my mom tried to use me as leverage to empty dad''s bank account. All she ever did in her life was giving birth to me, then she expected to become a multimillionaire just like that.
She came from a blue collar household, had nothing, but got lucky enough to snatch my father''s love. He gave her a lifestyle only a handful of people could dream of. She got pregnant, then gave birth to me but never cared for me at all. She would always leave me with the nannies all day.
Actually I never really knew her that well. I was a lot closer to my nannies so I never even called her mother. When I was 12 years old, she decided she wasn''t happy... So she filled for divorce and threatened father to take me away if he didn''t pay her a ridiculous amount of money.
I''m not sure how it ended, I never saw mother again after this. Whatever happened to her I hope she is miserable and poor. Don''t get me wrong, it''s not like I am a psychopath incapable of feeling emotion... I fell the same as everyone else.
I just went through a lot of stuff in my life that made me this way. A workaholic father, an unloving mother, fake friends... Most of the time I was alone on my own. I never lost hope of meeting someone who is genuine in their feelings for me.
But i''m not delusional about it. Being in a game world had made it even harder so I simply stopped caring. Nobody cares so why should I? But i''m not a total asshole, as proof of that I went ahead and stalk- I mean followed An''dalia for 3 days and made sure she made it home safely.
I went as far as murderi- I mean shooing away suspicious people on the road. And I didn''t do it only to know where she lives... I truly wanted her to survive.
Oh well... With that done I was now the one in control of what I was going to do. This is a game, there should be something entertaining to do right? Maybe I could even do a bit of training, why not? I could probably rank up but I had 50% more humanoid EXP than lizard...
Humanoids are lames!! So I guess I will go around and ask if there''s some lizard monsters around. The locals should be well informed about this area. Actually I had recently thought of a plan to get more lizard DNA.
I morphed into my wyvern body and went back to the town of Vennari. Flying was definitely useful in order to cut travel time shorter. Once arrived, I morphed into my humanoid form and put on an oversize shirt taken from a victi-... collateral casualty.
Bare footed and dirty, I looked like a homeless orphan. Thinking about it, it wasn''t really untrue. Sneaking past the guards had been easy in my salamander form so I didn''t have to pay the entry fee. My first stop was a tailor shop in the rich part of town.
When I entered in the shop, a very snobbish lady wearing a ridiculous wire-framed dress looked at me with a look of disdain.
¡°What are you doing here! We don''t want your kind in our establishment! Shoo! Shoo!¡± (Snobbish lady) She said while waving her hand for me to leave.
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[...] stare*
¡°Give me clothes, woman.¡± (Kneeko) I then threw a gold piece on the ground.
The woman''s eyes became as round as the coin itself. She quickly picked it up and started munching on it to make sure it was real gold.
¡°Please, this way dear customer.¡± (Snobbish lady) See what I mean by money is power...
She took my measurements, and said it would be ready tomorrow so I left toward the most expensive inn in town. You may wonder why I am spending so much... Simple, since I exceeded level 50, I can now equip one of my storage rings.
Medium ring of holding
Minimum level:
50
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
B
Rarity:
Common
When inventory space become a problem, this ring will give 25 additional inventory slots to the wearer.
This was the ring holding my stock of potions, weapons and scrolls. I wasn''t insanely rich though... That would only be when I reach level 150. Wait till you see what''s inside those rings. Guhuhu* Anyway, my new rich lifestyle was necessary for my next plan.
As an NPC, I had the ability to give out quest to players. Of course if you ask something of high value or high risk, you need something of high value in exchange. Basically you have to give them a reward like you would do with mercenaries.
The plan is to give a quest to a few adventurers, in this case it is geting lizard monster cores and pay them incredibly well. If the reward is massive, adventurers will queue to come sell me their monster cores. Of course I only want those from lizard type of monster and will pay accordingly to their level.
The stronger the monster, the higher the reward. Why would I do that you ask? Well I have a lot of money, and monster cores are basically EXP-DNA. I discovered that after a snake dropped one the other day. I discovered that I could eat them and receive the EXP I would have gotten by defeating them.
I basically had received twice the EXP from the little snake thank to his core. But them being a 1% chance drop, they were hard to come by... It''s then that I hatched this plan, using adventurers as a workforce was brilliant.
For now, I will take a warm bath, eat good food and have a nice sleep. Tomorrow I will begin the preparations. I had spent a few days training [Gardener touch] by growing poisonous plant and harvesting them. I would then munch on them to increase my poison resistance.
Both skills had finally leveled up to Rank (D) which encouraged me to do the same with other skills as well. I also need to decide where I will allocate all these unused skill points. Hopefully my new plan won''t be ruined by another princess... Hahahaha* What am I talking about, what are the chances of me coming across another princess... Hahahaha* Right?!
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Chapter 12 - Getting down to business
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I woke after the best night of sleep I have had in days. I would normally have eaten breakfast before heading out but I only had a old dirty shirt, hardly appropriate for such a luxurious diner hall. My first stop was to the tailor where the snobbish woman greeted me with a smile this time.
¡°Welcome back young sir, your clothes are ready if you''d follow me this way please.¡± (Snobbish lady)
We went to the back of the store where she handed them to me. They were black pants, black shoes, a purple wine colored shirt under a black gown also called mantle and a pair of black gloves. I hadn''t asked for gloves but was really happy that she made me some.
She must have thought of that because I asked her not to touch my skin while taking my measurements and even asked her to wear gloves. She must have thought I was some kind of sick-germaphobe-eccentric-snob, but accidentally poisoning her would have been a pain in the ass to deal with after all...
Dressed like that I was really sharp looking and could easily be confused for a noble. I then asked her for a black bandanna with some golden design to hide my forehead stone and something to tie my long golden hair in a ponytail.
¡°Young master truly looks stunning, you will grow into quite a handsome young man. May I inquire about your parents¡¯ identity? I don''t remember hearing about any new nobles coming to our town.¡± (Snobbish? Lady)
¡°I came alone, father has other important business to attend to and I don''t wish to reveal who I am unnecessarily.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Of course I understand young master but... aren''t you a bit young to be left alone like that?¡± (Snobbish? Lady)
¡°Don''t let looks fool you. Thanks for the clothes.¡± (Kneeko)
I hastily left since she was getting a bit too nosy for her own safety. I walked for a while and sat on a park bench. Now it was time to decide how to allocate these skill points. It wasn''t as simple as people might think.
Most people like to add points to all the skills but in my book they end up as trash characters... The perfect archetype of jack of all trades, master of none. It was better to choose 2 - 3 skills and dump everything into them.
Vitality and resistance basically had the same purpose. A character with a lot of HP will take heavy damage but can take it since they have a lot of HP... A character with a lot of resistance can have less HP and do as well since each blow would cause less damage.
Then it came down to which combat style you wish to use. Speed and dexterity usually go together and are good for assassins, archers, thieves and the likes... In my case I was going for a ¡°dragon¡± build. Dragons are known for their high resistance, high intelligence which result in high magical abilities and also for their immense strength.
So logically I had allocated a lot of point into strength, intelligence and resistance. Also, since I was a monster, building my character like a humanoid would be dumb. For example, even if I placed many point into speed, there''s only so much of it that can be used in a snake form.
To make it simple to understand let me give you an example. Between a turtle with 100 speed, and a rabbit with 100 speed, which one will be the fastest? Are the both of them equal when it comes to speed? Of course not, the rabbit will always go faster than the turtle.
That''s why I needed to build my character with my final form in mind. If I were working toward evolving into a cheetah beast-man, I would naturally be placing a lot of points into speed.
So what I did was add 565 points in strength, 300 in intelligence, 100 in vitality, 68 in resistance and 30 in endurance. The last 30 endurance was to up my total stamina to 600 since [tail whip] and [viper bite] both cost 150 stamina, I could now use these skills 4 times.
Satisfied, I then spent a few hours on the internet, looking for more information. How much are monster cores worth, what are they used for etc. I didn''t learn much, from what I could find, they are used by summoners, monster tamers, sorcerers and the likes.
I also learned they weren''t worth that much except those from very high ranked monsters. From what I could see, the high level monster cores were usually purchased by churches or ended up in a royal vault somewhere. (Note to self: see if it is possible to sneak into one of these royal vaults.) They must have quite a bit of interesting stuff in there.
Then after my long internet research, I was finally ready to fill out my quest window. I made sure everything was perfect before finalizing it.
Quest
Type:
Item request
Difficulty:
N/A
Minimum rank:
N/A
Time limit:
30 Days
A young noble kid named Kneeko wishes to purchase monster cores for more than the normal market price.
Big bonus reward for monster cores level 100 and above.
(THE CORES NEED TO BE FROM REPTILES ONLY)
You will be able to find Kneeko at the market place every day for the next month.
This should do, since I need as many people as possible to see my request I opted to use the adventurer guild. The guild building was an enormous 4 storey wooden building with a western style door at the entry. There were many players there and I was quite nervous at first.
When I entered, everybody turned to see who it was. Some were surprised to see a child but seeing as I was dressed like a noble, no one found it strange so I strolled toward the reception desk. There was a young woman with pink hair and green eyes who looked at me with a big smile.
¡°What can I do for you young man?¡± (Desk lady)
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¡°I wish to submit a quest request.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sure, what is it?¡± (Desk lady)
So I sent her the quest form I had previously filled which she browsed through while touching her lips with her index finger.
¡°I see, an item request, and a broad one too... And since it can be from low or high level monsters, there''s no need to put a rank on it. It will be 10 silvers.¡± (Desk lady)
That''s cheap... I guess if it was something like a monsters subjugation or a raid party, it would have cost me a pretty penny. I gave her the 10 silver and she displayed my request with many others on the quest board.
To make sure I had the best results, I also posted an anonymous post on Alterlife2 forum under the tag (Most lucrative quests) with the quest details. I may have also added that some rare legendary weapon could be obtained in exchange for very high level cores. *Guhuhu* Everything was falling into place.
Next I needed to sell some expensive scrolls, I had noticed many examples through the auction site before. Then I had to go buy a tent for me to install in the market place for the days to come. The next month would be a very busy one and I would finally get to use my business skills.
After finalizing the preparations, I went to the market place and had some men install my tent for a few coppers coins. I had already started to receive money from the sale of my scrolls so it was no big deal for my wallet.
My tent was a beautiful burgundy color, the inside was decorated with expensive draperies and silk curtains. The floor was covered with a beautiful carpet and had luxurious pillows spread on the ground. In the middle was a table with two chairs on each opposite side.
Now I just needed to wait and see... It was most likely going to be boring, but to cure my boredom and loneliness I could at least count on U-tube.
The first day, nothing...
The second day, nothing...
But by the third day, my post on the game forum had become somewhat viral.
Blazingfrost:
¡°Hey is that for real?¡±
Don_King_Pup:
¡°A friend of mine is actually in Vennari, and he says there''s really a quest like that over there.¡±
Raiko:
¡°GTG!¡±
magicdownunder:
¡°Actually, here''s the quest in question:
A young noble kid named Kneeko wishes to purchase monster cores for more than the normal market price.
Big bonus reward for monster cores level 100 and above.
(THE CORES NEED TO BE FROM REPTILES ONLY)
You will be able to find Kneeko at the market place every day for the next month.
¡±
Blazingfrost:
¡°Awwwww why do I have to be so far away from Venarri... 30days, I will never make it in time.¡±
Apache:
¡°I''m near Vennari! Anyone willing to team up and go hunt some wyverns? Level 185 dark knight here!¡±
shinx13:
¡°I wonder what type of legendary weapons we could get for a high level dragon core.¡±
Braders:
¡°Keep dreaming...¡±
The_Fighting_God:
¡°Looking for people ready to raid a Naga village!¡±
GenRal:
¡°That was racist...¡±
The_Fighting_God:
¡°I said (NAGA)! The human snake things...¡±
GenRal:
¡°ROTFL my bad.¡±
AntKiller:
¡°thanks for the info¡±
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Chapter 13 - Got myself a stalker
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The first week of business had been slow, only a few adventurers came with monster cores ranging from level 20 to level 60, nothing impressive really. Next to me was a flower pot I was using to practice my [Gardener touch] ability during the off times.
Same pattern, grow poisonous plant, eat poisonous plant... After a week of that, I had already levelled up [Gardener touch] and [Poison Resistance] to rank (B). Finally being able to grow rank B plants has given me the option of growing valuable plants and selling them.
Plants of lower rank were mostly useless, it was like being able to grow dandelions... But now I could grow plants used for lower rank medicines. As the sun was setting, I packed my things and prepared to leave for the night.
As usual, before going back to the Inn, I sneaked out of town and flew out of the safe zone in my wyvern form. Once in the forest, I would turn into my snake form and hunt for a while. Since I was so close to a town, the monsters weren''t worth calling opponents.
I was quite slow in my movements but I had many abilities making up for it. With my massive amount of strength, the vines I grew with [Vines Hell] were now as hard as iron and had ranked up to rank D. I could either immobilize my preys with vines, blind them by spitting on them, or even paralyze them with [Viper Bite]
Then I could execute them with a single [Tail whip] which had also ranked up to rank B. I don''t understand how some players can spend all their time grinding their skills... It was boring as hell. When I had nothing to do, I had to keep forcing myself to use my abilities to rank them up.
The easiest ones to level up were [Terror Eyes] and [Sad Puppy Eyes]. I simply had to wait for the cooldown time to pass then reuse it again and again. Thank to my dedication, both skills were now Rank B as well.
During my nocturnal hunts, I had to be careful in avoiding players who roamed around but thanks to my snake ability to ¡°taste¡± smells, it wasn''t too hard. I would also remember to identify every plant I saw for the first time to grow my [Gardener touch] library.
I had never worked this hard in my life. So when I went back to the Inn, I always immediately fell asleep like a rock. Today was no different, I had killed many monsters and was going for a bath. I enjoyed bathing in the middle of the night since I had the inn''s massive hot spring to myself.
I undressed myself in a gentlemanly manner, carefully folded my clothes to avoid any wrinkle and entered the warm spring water. There was a dense cloud of vapor hovering above the water hindering my visibility.
I installed myself in my regular spot and began to relax in the warm water.
*Splash*
The faint sound of movement in the water made me open my eyes and stare in the direction the sound had come from. Not being able to see anything wasn''t too much of a problem as I started sticking my tongue in and out of my mouth. I wasn''t alone in the bath.
¡°I wasn''t expecting to see anyone in the bath this late at night.¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°I know you''re there... No need to be timid. Actually I don''t really care. I''m just here to relax.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhhmmm, you sound young... How old are you?¡± (Woman''s voice)
What the hell? Is that the first question you should ask? After quickly analyzing the situation I assumed it was because she was embarrassed to be alone in a bath with a guy. The fact that my voice sounded like a child and I looked like a child should be reassuring to her.
¡°Hhmmm... 8 years old?! Maybe...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho!¡± (Woman''s voice)
Immediately the sound of water splashing came closer and closer to my location. Eventually I could see a head slowly moving my way through the fog. I say a head since she was submerged up to her neck and was hiding her body underwater.
¡°My name''s Irene, who are you?¡± (Irene)
¡°Kneeko...¡± (Kneeko)
After answering her I bent my head backward and stared at the beautiful starry sky. I wasn''t interested in doing small talk and honestly wanted to be left alone.
¡°Mmm... Since you stay at this hotel you must be a noble, right?¡± (Irene)
Look like she want to talk... Just my luck.
¡°Sighhh... Yea...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Which family?¡± (Irene)
¡°... The ¡°Notyourbusiness¡± family¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho.. Never heard of the Notyo-... Hey!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Kuhuhuhuhu* Sorry, you seem nice but I¡¯m here incognito, so please avoid asking too many questions ok?!¡± (Kneeko)
I wasn''t looking at her but I guessed she was pouting with an angered face.
¡°I''m older than you! You should learn to be more polite.¡± (Irene)
¡°I get it... Sorry big sis!¡± (Kneeko)
She became red like a tomato but didn''t seem angry anymore. She wasn''t bad looking, a small circular face, brown hair reaching her shoulders, purple eyes and cute pink lips. I could only see her head but I estimated her age to be around 13 to 15.
¡°Soo... Did you come here with your parents?¡± (Irene)
¡°No.¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°Uhhh... At your age, I wasn''t allowed to stay up this late.¡± (Irene)
She was timidly touching her index fingers together in a shy way. My guess was that she didn''t have any friends her age around here and was trying to befriend me. Since she was staying at this luxurious Inn, she was most likely nobility. All I could think of was ¡°smells like trouble¡±.
A bit annoyed, I cut short my relaxing time and stood up. My little pecan nut was dangling right in front of her eyes making her jump back and cover them.
¡°Kyaaa!¡± (Irene)
¡°Good night Irene.¡± (Kneeko)
I quickly dried myself, dressed up and left to my room. The next morning I went down to the dining hall to eat breakfast. Today was some kind of meat pie with vegetables. I have to admit it was quite tasty and I was totally absorbed in my meal.
¡°Good morning!!!!¡± (Irene)
Dammit...
¡°Hey ! It''s you... Again.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Bhuu you don''t seem happy to see me.¡± (Irene)
¡°Just tired...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What are we doing today?¡± (Irene)
¡°WE¡± ??? I paused for a while, then started rubbing my temples. Sighhh* I got myself a stalker...
¡°I don''t know about you but I have work to do.¡± (Kneeko)
I resumed my meal trying to ignore her.
¡°What kind of work?¡± (Irene)
¡°Remember my family name?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Notyourbusiness?¡± (Irene)
¡°Bingo! Have a nice day.¡± (Kneeko)
I quickly engulfed my meal and left toward the exit. I walked to the market place, and got back into my tent waiting for adventurers to come sell monster cores. After seeing some very high level adventurers, I wondered how they had managed to level up so quickly.
I went on the game website and looked at the top 100 high ranker and the #1 was already over level 250!!! Actually from what I could tell, there was 20%+ of players with level higher than myself. Some could be explained by them having paid more money to get early access to the game, but the rest was purely grinders.
Grinders are people who don''t care about enjoying the game but only want to be in the top 100 high rankers. They find ways to get a lot of EXP and keep repeating the same actions again and again. Others make a lot of EXP by teaming up against strong monsters and quests.
NPC''s didn''t count since this world already had over a few thousand years history. How is that possible you ask? Well father explained that the game world was going at 5 time the speed of the ¡°real¡± world. Its was only 5 time since the human brain couldn''t support the burden of a higher speed.
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But for NPC''s, it''s different. Since they are digital, they can support time acceleration by thousands times that of the real world. So for a few months before the game release, they had kept this world running at crazy speed, allowing the wildlife and everything else to proliferate.
Thanks to that, there are legends and past histories giving depth to this world. Thanks to that, you could find hundred years old monsters and such.
During dinner time, a group of 3 players entered my tent and looked exited. One of them was a warrior, the other an archer and the last one a mage... The classic adventurer trio... The big muscular warrior walked toward me and pulled out a monster core as big as a fist from his pouch and placed it on my table.
¡°What would you give us for this, rich little man?¡± (Big Warrior) He was wearing a giant smile that made me excited to see what this core could be.
¡°Let me see. [Identify]¡± (Kneeko)
Monster core
Species:
Frost Basilisk (Variant)
Level:
167
Monster Rank:
Medium high
Rarity:
Very Rare
*Guhuhuhu* Finally something worth purchasing. After a quick market analysis, where I compared prices with item of equal value, I estimated this core to be worth around 90 Gold. As for reference, a farmer, his wife and two children could live a year off of 1 gold piece.
¡°Uhhmmm.... If you sell this on the free market you should get around 90 gold. I can offer you 150 gold for it. Since you are a group of three, money should be easier to split than an item. But in the end you are the ones to choose, money or a weapon of equal value?¡± (Kneeko)
The trio was now looking at me with sparkling eyes after earring my offer.
¡°We all agreed to exchange this for a better weapon for me. Having a better weapon means that we will be able to take on harder quests and compensate them in return.¡± (Big Warrior)
¡°I see... Quite the noble companions you have there.¡± (Kneeko)
The trio smiled at each other, proud in the strength of their friendship.
¡°Alright... Sword, war-hammer, battle axe... What is it that you want?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Well a longsword would be best...¡± (Big Warrior)
¡°You''re lucky, I do have one. [Identify]¡± (Kneeko)
As a demon lord in AL1 I had many minions in my army, so I collected precious weapons to give to my generals. Once again they were coming in handy.
WireWolf27 (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
97
Class:
Berserker
Titles:
-Desert explorer
-Dune worms slayer
-Brainless slasher
¡°I do have the perfect sword for you, but it requires level 120...¡± (Kneeko)
The big warrior became very excited after I said that.
¡°That''s alright! I will reach level 120 in no time! I''ll take it please!¡± (WireWolf27)
¡°I understand.¡± (Kneeko)
I pulled a long sword out of my inventory and gave it to him.
¡°Thank you! [Identify]¡± (WireWolf27)
Agathon''s long sword
Minimum level:
120
Durability:
9900/10000
Rank:
B
Rarity:
Unique
-Damages: 20-50
-Higher chance of doing critical damages
-Frost effect
¡°Hooooo! Guys! This is fucking amazing! TOTALLY WORTH IT YAY!¡± (WireWolf27) He said while brandishing the sword toward the sky.
¡°Thank you for your business.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sure thing kiddo! Thank you!¡± (WireWolf27)
After this the forum went even more viral. As for me, I was salivating while inspecting my new monster core.
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Chapter 14 - Got myself a mother
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Today as usual I was preparing myself for my daily routine. The only difference was that I now had to sneak out of my room in my salamander appearance to avoid Irene. I don''t know why she''s so obsessed with me but it''s getting annoying...
I had ended up using identify on her but what I saw was even more confusing.
??? (NPC)
Race/Species:
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Level:
???
Class:
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Title:
???
I couldn''t even see her name... And instead of ¡°N/A¡± it was literally ¡°???¡±... Usually this happen when trying to identify something way too high level for yourself, but never as far as even hiding the name. As far as I could tell, she was only a little human girl.
I inquired about her parents but she stayed vague, saying her father was dead and her mother doing business not far away... Sound familiar? Yea, exactly the same type of excuse I am using myself. Since I don''t like things I don''t understand, I doubled my effort in avoiding her.
The 30 day time limit was finally almost over for the monster core quest. I had received a pretty good amount of cores but nothing higher level than the basilisk one I had received the first week
(+1) Dexterity
As I was waiting for customers, I was playing a game with little stones that I was throwing in the air and catching some left on the table before those in the air touched the ground. (Jacks) If I dropped one I needed to restart from the beginning.
I discovered that simple games like that could train my dexterity and speed. Playing card games could increase luck and yoga increased agility. I categorically refused to allocate my precious points in stats I didn''t need, so the only way to increase these stats was by normal conventional training.
Today the people at the marketplace seemed restless... Groups of players were arguing loudly, some seemed angered for some reason. Curious, I sneaked near a group of them and listened in on their conversation.
I didn''t really understand what they were saying but what I understood was that it was related to the last patch for the game... Wanting to know more I went on the forum and looked for topic on the last patch. I must admit, what I found angered me as well.
In the list of problems being fixed by the patch was something related to EXP attribution. Apparently some NPC were giving out easy repeatable missions in exchange for money. I guess that was to be expected when you give intelligence and free will to the NPC...
So what the patch will do is basically restrict the amount of EXP given to players and GM''s would keep a close eye on repeatable quests. What this meant was that players would now level at a much slower pace, it also meant that my monster cores wouldn''t give me as much EXP as I expected them to...
As usual, the players had to suffer because of some cheaters and the incompetence of the company running Alterlife2. Of course I had noticed that some players were levelling up way faster than I expected but it''s the game developer''s fault after all... Father would have definitely seen that coming before it happened...
Now I wonder if I should extend my quest for another month in order to get more cores. Anyway, today was an uneventful day once again... I went for my nocturnal hunt then into the hot spring once I was too tired to continue.
*Splash splash*
The water felt so good! As a cold blooded creature, I needed to keep my body warm by external means like the sun or in this case warm water. Soaking only a few minutes eliminated all the fatigue of the day. When I was satisfied and ready to sleep I got out, dressed myself and walked toward my room.
As I walked through the hallway I heard a familiar voice from the other side of a closed door.
¡°Sorry mom, he seems to be avoiding me... I couldn''t get close or learn anything about him.¡± (Irene)
¡°Hmmm so he is even more careful and smarter as I expected... That privacy ring is getting in the way.¡± (Irene''s Mother)
¡°Are you sure he is one of us?¡± (Irene)
¡°Probably not yet since he is gathering cores... But he definitely has the right smell.¡± (Irene''s Mother)
¡°How can he be so smart if he still isn''t one of us?¡± (Irene)
¡°*Fufufu* That''s exactly why I¡¯m so interes-....... Shhhhh*¡± (Irene''s Mother)
¡°Uhh?¡± (Irene)
¡°Young man, don''t you know it''s very rude to eavesdrop on others.¡± (Irene''s Mother)
I rapidly jumped back after realizing I had been caught. The door opened and glaring at me was a very tall and beautiful woman looking to be in her 30''s. She had brown hair tied on top of her head, pink eyes and was wearing a long dress fit for nobility. She had a stern look and a little bit of a frown.
¡°I heard what you said... What the fuck do you want with me?¡± (Kneeko)
*Slap*
¡°Watch your language young man!¡± (Irene''s Mother)
Da fuq?? That bitch!
*Slap*
¡°Stop glaring!¡± (Irene''s Mother)
-1HP -1HP -1HP
¡°Uhh? I''m poisoned?¡± (Irene''s Mother)
¡°Mother! Are you ok?¡± (Irene)
¡°It''s nothing.¡± (Irene''s Mother)
I was holding my hand on my sore cheek still totally in shock. [Identify]
??? (NPC)
Race/Species:
???
Level:
???
Class:
???
Title:
???
Argggg This is so fucking annoying!!!
¡°Who the f-... Who and what are you?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I would like to ask you the same. Your little core hunt has brought death all over this region.¡± (Irene''s Mother)
¡°Kneeko we are not your enemies. Be nice to mother, she came here to warn you.¡± (Irene)
¡°Warn me? Of what?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sighh... First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Anastaria, and we know you are a monster.¡± (Anastaria)
*Gulp*...
¡°Don''t worry, like Irene said we are not enemies... But some seriously powerful monsters are looking for your head since your little quest cost the life of thousands of their brethren.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I''ll deal with it when they come for me.¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°May I ask what species you are? You smell like a reptile, have the intelligence of a dragon and even their ability to transform into humanoids, but I doubt you are one. I never met a monster as puzzling as yourself.¡± (Anastaria)
Crap! I¡¯m an open book to this woman... What the hell is she? Wait, their ability to transform into humanoids?! Could she be a dragon herself? Looking carefully at her eyes, she had vertically slit irises like a cat... Or even like, a dragon?
¡°You... You''re a dragon aren''t you?¡± (Kneeko)
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As I said this she backed away a bit with an incredulous expression on her face.
¡°*Fufufufufu* Truly astonishing deductive skills. The more I speak to you, the more I want you. ¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Want me?¡± (Kneeko) I suddenly felt chills down my spine.
¡°Answer this: What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Fire...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You can''t keep this until you have given it.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°A promise...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Heavy it is but reverse it''s not?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Ton...¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°*Fufufufufu*! Amazing... Are you aiming to become a dragon?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Of course... Dragons are the best of the best.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You got that right! *hehehehe*¡± (Irene)
¡°Shut it Irene.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Urgg.. Sorry mother.¡± (Irene) She quickly turned around and silently sat on her bed.
¡°Come in... We have a lot to talk about young Kneeko.¡± (Anastaria)
Totally overwhelmed, I entered the room and sat on the bed opposite to Irene. At this point I looked like a kid who''s about to be scolded by his mother. Anastaria sat next to Irene on the other bed and stared at me.
¡°First, you must be wondering how we found you.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Not really... I made a request to adventurers for reptile only monster cores... Many reptiles are dying all around here as we speak, so I¡¯m not surprised to have attracted the attention of some powerful lizard monsters.¡± (Kneeko)
Anastaria then gave me a warm smile, almost as if she was proud of me.
¡°... Astonishing, Irene could learn a lot from you.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Mommm!...¡± (Irene)
¡°Shut it!¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Bhuuuu!...¡± (Irene)
¡°That is correct. I sent my daughter to gather information on why so many wyverns were being killed in the region and she quickly found you. Sadly she''s not as... quick witted as you, so she failed to find any interesting information about you.¡± (Anastaria)
At this point I thought Irene was going to cry so I butted in.
¡°With all due respect madam, I am quite careful and distrustful of other people. So it''s wasn''t really Irene''s fault.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°After speaking to you for only 2 minutes, I tend to agree with that.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°So.. what do you dragons want with me?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It''s a complicated matter... If you keep ranking up and eventually become a dragon, you will only be able to become a wandering dragon.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°You mean a dragon without a family?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Precisely.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Can''t be helped, I wasn''t born a dragon. I could only hope to one day become one.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°No one is born a dragon. The pure blooded are born as wyverns, then graduate into dragons later in life.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I see... So... For a pure dragon like yourself, I must be some kind of bastard lizard aren''t I?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°In normal cases yes... but dragons value strength and intelligence before everything else. Being as smart as you are despite not even being a dragon yet is unheard of.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°So... get to the point what is it that you want from me?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Wandering dragons are the weakest of our race. We, pure blooded ones are unequalled in this world. Our only enemies are other pure blooded dragons. We are divided by families or clans if you prefer. Problem is, the clan Irene and I belong to has weakened with the ages.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I understand... You want me to join your clan?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°*Fufufufu* It is not as simple as that... After the death of my male companion (husband) Irene and I left the dragon territory to mourn and escape dragon politics. There is no way I could bring a ¡°non-pure¡± dragon with us to the dragon lands.¡± (Anastaria)
Not understanding where she was going with this I simply tilted my head to the side.
¡°You will need to first become a dragon or at least a wyvern, so I am going to train you.¡± (Anastaria)
Hearing this I laughed a little to myself, looked around and made sure the room was big enough, then changed into my wyvern form.
¡°Would this do the trick?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°WOAAAaaaaaaa! Look mom!¡± (Irene)
Irene was now totally exited while Anastaria was totally floored by what I just showed her.
¡°Ok I seriously need to know what you are before going any further with anything... You just keep doing unbelievable stuff...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°My race doesn''t matter since it has nothing to do with my ability to change form. What allows me to change appearance is a rare item.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kneeko!!!!¡± (Anastaria)
A bit surprised by her sudden seriousness I became flustered and answered like a robot.
¡°Uh? Yes?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Become my son.¡± (Anastaria)
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Chapter 15 - The beginning of a journey
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¡°Become my son.¡± (Anastaria)
[...]
¡°Why would I do that?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhhh?¡± (Anastaria) She looked stomped by my answer so I continued.
¡°It wouldn''t make me a pure blood even if I did... If I don''t gain anything why should I bother with politics?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What are you saying, of course you would become a pure blooded dragon... The major difference between us and wandering dragons are our clans. Once you have undergone the family ritual, you will legitimately be a member of our clan, with all the benefits that comes with the title.¡± (Anastaria)
[...]
Urgg because of my real mother, the notion of having a mother turns my stomach upside down...
But.....pure blooded dragon! Yahoooo! Having the possibility to inherit extremely rare dragon related powers?!! I won''t get this opportunity a second time !
I don''t know if there is further evolution once I reach dragon-hood but if there isn''t, then I will at least have reached the highest dragon level there is... But if there is a higher evolution, it could shake this dragon society to it''s core. Who knows, I could even rule over all monsters as supreme dragonoid god or something... I can''t think of any setback in accepting this offer... Every tool has its use.
¡°...So what do we do now, Mother?¡± (Kneeko)
She looked at me with a giant grin on her face. Somehow, I think this ¡°woman¡± is even more evil than me. She probably saw me as a big opportunity to get revenge or something like that, but let''s make things clear, she''s better make sure I get as much as I give otherwise I would become their downfall.
One thing was certain, she had knowledge I wanted. It was my first time meeting an intelligent monster such as myself. For the first time I felt like I had found the people I belonged with. If we started a war with another race, it could be quite entertaining...
I don''t care if dragon politics are a pain in the ass, as long as I can have some fun with it. Messing with the most powerful race in the game was a rare opportunity. Back in AL1 the only creatures capable of giving me a hard time as a demon lord were the dragons.
But in Alterlife1, dragons didn''t have humanoid appearance though. They were area bosses... Meaning that there was one dragon per region and they were the strongest monsters in their respective regions. In the desert was a sand dragon, in the arctic was a frost dragon etc.
I suspected father to be behind these changes since dragons were my favorite creatures. I had even tried taming one of these dragon but had failed... I had ended up imprisoning him in a dungeon then played at luring players inside of it. You should have seen these people faces when they first saw the dragon hahaha*.
Usually players could only bring down a dragon during a raid party including 100+ players. Useless to say, dragons were OP... But there were no titans in Alterlife1, so I suspected Alterlife2 to have a lot of new things to offer and surprise me with.
¡°We will be traveling. When can we leave?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Humm.. My request to the adventurer guild ends in 3 days, after that we can go wherever you want.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufu* excellent. We will leave as soon as possible, this area is becoming too dangerous for you to stay.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°As long as we stay in the safe zone... Then when we leave we can simply fly out of here.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Correct, my son is so smart.¡± (Anastaria) She seemed even more happy to call me son than having me join her clan.
¡°Then your sister and I will be enjoying these last 3 days as vacation before we leave.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Please do so, now if you''ll excuse me mother I was going to bed before all of this happened.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho sure! Sorry to keep you up so late. Have a nice sleep my son. fufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
Each time she calls me son I get shivers all over my body. I''m having less difficulty imagining her as my wife than my mother. Ho well we''ll see what the future bring us. That night was a good one once again, I woke up as usual and made my way toward the dining hall for breakfast.
At the table were two familiar faces visibly waiting for me.
¡°Good morning son.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Moarningggg little bro!¡± (Irene)
[...]
¡°No...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh?¡± (Anastaria & Irene)
¡°It''s big brother for you.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Ehhh?! Why? I''m older than you!¡± (Irene)
¡°Yes and no... It''s big bro for you.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Mommmm¡± (Irene)
¡°Everything about him screams maturity compared to you Irene... Well everything excepted his appearance.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°MOM!¡± (Irene)
¡°I won''t look this young for much longer. I refuse to be called little bro by anyone am I clear?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Enough you two! Kneeko my son, I prepared you a plate. Come and eat.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Thanks mom.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Bhuu!!¡± (Irene) She pouted at her mother but quickly resumed eating.
Plates and chewing noises*
¡°So what are you doing today son?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Same as usual, training and business at the market place.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufu* So mature already. Mommy is so proud of you.¡± (Anastaria)
Urgg... This still sounds weird after all...
¡°What about you two?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I... will play in the water and eat a lot of good things!¡± (Irene)
Anastaria gave me a look that meant ''See... Totally immature compared to you...'' Luckily Irene didn''t see that otherwise she would have been sad again... I quickly finished my meal and excused myself to the two of them before leaving for my daily routine.
As the time limit for the quest approached, more and more adventurers approached me to sell their cores. I estimated to have at lease enough to reach level 150-200 which meant that I would finally have access to my most precious treasures. (The two level 150 storage rings.)
I would be careful not to mention anything about that to my new family since dragons are supposed to be known for their greediness and love of treasures... Once again I was growing venomous plants, eating said plants, playing games aimed at increasing dexterity and speed while doing yoga. I now had a very effective training routine and finally had started to see the effects.
I was buying a core like usual when this time I received a message.
New title: Tycoon
Condition: Having bought 30,000 gold worth of merchandise in less than two months.
If activated, this title grant (+40 Luck) (+40 Charm)
Hoooo That''s a title befitting me. Truly happy, I was doing a small dance where I held my fists closed and move my shoulders up and down. Even better was that after activating the title, my monster rank went from ¡°low¡± to ¡°Medium Low¡±... This was visibly the effect of these 80 freshly acquired points.
Crowd noises*
There seemed to be some agitation outside at the marketplace, people were speaking excitingly. Curious I poked my head out of my tent to see what the commotion was all about.
¡°Did you see this hottie !¡± (Random man)
¡°Yeaaa she''s visibly nobility by the way she''s dressed.¡± (Random man2)
¡°Her daughter ain''t bad looking either...¡± (Random man)
¡°She''s a kid ya fucking perv!¡± (Random man2)
¡°Hahaha can''t help it! The cock want what it want!¡± (Random man)
I looked and saw mother and sister walking my way surrounded by a salivating crowd of perverted men.
¡°Watch me man! Imma touch her ass. ¡± (Random man)
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¡°Ghhurrrffff!!!!******¡± (Flying Nut-less man)
I may have lost my temper and forgot how much strength I had... But he shouldn''t talk of my family that way.
¡°Big bro!!!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Hey!! what are you doing here?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Mom wanted to see you at work!¡± (Irene) She said with a delighted smile on her face.
¡°Hoooo So she''s this rich kid''s mother?! No wonder they all look from a different social class. I wonder who they are...¡± (Crowd)
¡°Please this way mother, sister.¡± (Kneeko)
I invited them in my tent and showed them around a bit. Mother was very impressed and visibly proud of my entrepreneurship. Mom was a bit surprised when she saw me growing and eating poisonous plants while playing dexterity games with my legs bent behind my head.
I must admit, it probably looked very weird... But it was a very efficient training program I had developed after all. She prepared tea with biscuits while little sis was rubbing my sore shoulders. They somehow gave the impression of servants spoiling their masters but I guessed they just wanted to tighten our bonds.
The day went by very quickly since I had people to talk to. They even played card games with me which increased my luck again. Sister was very bad and kept losing but I had no intention of losing on purpose for her. If she wanted to win, she would have to practice during her free time.
The next 3 days went by in a flash. Result, 64 monster cores ranging from level 20 to 90 but only a handful of higher levels. It was still a very good harvest. I dismantled my tent and told mother and sister to go to bed early since we would depart in the middle of the night when most people would be asleep.
At around 4 in the morning I woke up and packed my belongings. Mother and sister were waiting for me in the lobby.
¡°Are you both ready?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yup!¡± (Irene)
¡°Where are we going?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°We will head toward the dragons'' land but we won''t be flying all the way there. Let''s enjoy the trip and train you on the way.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°What kind of training?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufu* You''ll see.¡± (Anastaria)
Brrrr These goosebumps again... I have a bad feeling about this, but if it help me get stronger I guess I''ll go along with it. We walked out of the inn toward the north gate. A giant man who saw us began walking toward us. I had a strange feeling of d¨¦j¨¤-vue as he approached.
¡°Well hello there pretty lady!¡± (Tank man)
Now I remember... It''s this guy again. Does he do anything other than harassing women all day?!
¡°Those are some nice titties you go-.... Urgggg What the f-...¡± (Tank man)
Mother grabbed him by the throat and lifted him in the air as if he was weightless. Tank man was grabbing her hand trying to make her release him but visibly couldn''t as he slowly started changing color from pink to blue.
¡°W.w..wWhat are you!??? Monster!!! YIIIHAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!¡± (Tank man)
He said as he was flying toward the horizon where mother had thrown him. Mother was no joke, the massive giant of a man had flown so far he wasn''t visible anymore.
¡°Trashes everywhere... Now let''s get going kids.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Y...Yes mother!¡± (Irene & Kneeko)
Note to self: Don''t piss mother off before being strong enough to survive one of her punches. When we reached the forest, mother and sister grew bat wings and started flying. Annoyed that I couldn''t do the same I morphed into my wyvern form and followed them.
We flew a while but landed as the sun was slowly rising on the horizon. This was to avoid being spotted by people. While we walked I made sure to ask all the information I would need for my next ¡°role playing¡±. I was to be a pure blooded dragon from a noble family, so I had a lot to learn.
First was the name of my clan/family... Can you imagine I didn''t even know that... Mother told me our clan was called the Rokugan clan. Her full name was (Anastaria Dim Rokugan the 2nd) and after the clan ceremony, my name would become (Kneeko Dek Rokugan the 1st).
¡°Dim¡± being for women and ¡°Dek¡± for men, it would have been hard to get a more noble sounding name so I was quite satisfied with it. One thing I realized what that my future name had a lot of ¡°K¡± in it... Luckily the first K in Kneeko is mute so it wasn''t too hard to pronounce.
She then continued by explaining everything I would need to know like dragon etiquette and information about the other 9 great dragon clans. There were 10 clans in total and the Rokugan were the 3rd weakest. As soon as I was strong enough, I had the intention of brutally turn this hierarchy on its head.
The more we walked the more worried I became... For some reason we were heading toward the micro-kingdom of Niardo... For those of you who remember, Niardo is An''dalia''s kingdom... Of course she wouldn''t recognize me in my human appearance as long as I kept my forehead stone hidden but I wondered why mother was heading this way.
I concluded that it was better to keep silent about my past history with this kingdom and pretended not to know anything about it.
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Chapter 16 - The magic of Alterlife2
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We had been travelling for a while now and had almost arrived at the micro-kingdom of Niardo. We were on the side of the road, camping for the night around a camp fire. The sky was clear, the moon bright. A gentle refreshing wind was blowing through the foliage creating a relaxing white noise.
Irene was already asleep while mother and I were having a strategic conversation.
¡°So.. May I ask why we are going to Niardo?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho, so you know this area?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Well just a little. I came by here before going to Vennari¡± (Kneeko) I said voluntarily omitting most of the details.
¡°I see, well without going into too much details let''s just say that I am going to retrieve a precious item.¡± (Anastaria)
Seeing that my curiosity wasn''t satisfied she continued.
¡°Sighh... The leader of our clan is an stupid asshole. He enamored himself of one of this kingdom''s princesses and gave away one of our clan''s most important treasures to get her.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Uhh? He bought the princess?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes, he kept this a secret from the clan since the object he gave to the king is an object he had no right to give away. It is the Rokudan clan''s property and he had no right to give it away. Even worse, the princess who was unaware that her father had sold her escaped.
Afraid that the clan would learn of what he did, Damyon (The Rokudan''s clan leader) engaged mercenaries to bring her back but they all failed miserably. So now, our clan leader has lost our clan''s treasure and lost his new wife as well.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°What an idiot... May I ask what is this treasure you speak of?¡± (Kneeko)
She looked at me with a faint smile which also contained sadness, then leaned forward a little before answering.
¡°Secret... Fufufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I see... So what is the plan? How do we get it back?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Not ¡°we¡±. ¡°I¡± will get it back. You will wait for me in town while I ask for a talk with the king. Such a small kingdom wouldn''t dare anger one of the 10 great dragon clans. Since the girl ran away, the payment should be returned. If not...¡± (Anastaria)
I could feel Anastaria''s killing intent as she spoke. The hairs stood up on the back of my neck so I decided to change subject.
¡°Alright! I guess I should rank up now...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh? You speak as if you had control over it.. Fufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
Ho? So other monster don''t ? That''s interesting...
¡°I do, actually I had been waiting to finish my monster core hunt before doing so.¡± (Kneeko)
Anastaria seemed intrigued as I started pulling out the cores I had bought.
¡°I will consume the basilisk one, rank up then consume the others afterward. Since it''s already been a while since my last rank up, may as well make the most use of my cores.¡± (Kneeko)
Monster core
Species:
Frost Basilisk (Variant)
Level:
167
Monster Rank:
Medium high
Rarity:
Very Rare
The Basilisk core was too big for me to eat in my human form so I showed my true form to Anastaria for the first time by turning into my Gardening Viper form. I made sure that she could see the stone on my forehead but once again she didn''t mention it...
She had seen my wyvern form, so she had without a doubt seen it before but had never mentioned it. Very strange considering that was usually the first thing people noticed. Note to self: Mother is hiding stuff from me.
¡°Hoooo... Truly beautiful! You are the most beautifully colored snake I have seen in my long life. Is this your true species?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°YesSSsssSsSsss¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What kind is it?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Gardening viperSssSsss¡± (Kneeko)
Her eyes got big and she almost fell on her back as I was coiling my 6 meters long body on itself.
¡°Gardening vipers have a nasty reputation! They are one of the most feared snakes in the world... My little Kneeko never fails to impress me.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°ThankSssSsss¡± (Kneeko)
I was now in a form where I could open my mouth wide enough to swallow the big Basilisk core so that''s exactly what I did.
Level up! (X29)
¡°Woa! That felt amazing.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I felt it as well. You gained quite a bit from that eh?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°YesSSss¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Doesn''t feel enough to become a dragon though...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I''m in no hurry, I don''t intend to miss any opportunity to grow stronger to save you time... Mother.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You mean to rank up as many times as possible before reaching dragon-hood?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°YesSSss¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhhmmm... I won''t interfere with your growth, but I can''t bring you home before you truly become a dragon. Let that be clear...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Like I said, I don''t know about you but I am in no hurry.¡± (Kneeko)
I said that for good reasons. Monsters can''t get stronger the same way humanoids do... We can''t go to libraries or guilds to learn new techniques and magics. Well it''s not exactly accurate but when it comes to monsters, most skills are learned through heredity and rank ups.
True, I could learn new magic via skill books but most of these book are restricted by class, race, level and skill points. I couldn''t learn a detox spell via a skill book because they are restricted to either elves, clerics, or divine magic and stuff...
There are a few skill book which are not restricted as much and will only need affinity with the element in question or a certain level or a certain amount of mana or even restricted by skill points only but usually these spells are shit.
I had kept an eye on the auction website and hadn''t found anything interesting so far. The reason being that since they are lightly restricted, people learn the skill instead of selling the book. In comparison, if a warrior finds a skill book restricted to sorcerers, they are most likely to sell it for money.
There are other means of learning new techniques like artifacts and runes but so far I haven''t come across any of them. It didn''t really matter since I could learn new spells via rank up. If I keep killing creatures with fire abilities, I will most likely rank up into a creature capable of using fire to some degree... And after that being able to learn via skill books restricted to fire affinity.
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My amphibious passive skill could be interpreted as water affinity but wasn''t really that. It only allowed me to stay longer underwater. Right now my only magic is plant related. If you were to categorize it in the magic system, it would be a ¡°clay¡± element magic.
Clay refers to the mix of 2 elements, earth and water. These were basically my magic affinities at the moment. My future rank ups would not only be about unique or rare variant, I would instead prioritize learning new magic affinities first.
For humanoids it is very different. They are born with an innate affinity and could expand these affinity by learning the closest elements to their original affinity. Example: A mage with water affinity could learn air or earth, and only then be able to learn frost or clay type abilities.
The magical classes had to learn things in order and couldn''t jump from one to the other while monsters could bypass all of that... On one rank up they could learn shadow type abilities, then next rank up learn light based abilities even though they are both complete opposites.
Magic in Alterlife was overly complicated compared to other games but I enjoyed it a lot. Why? Because to be good at it, you had to use your head a lot. And using my head is what I do best.
Here''s a basic graph of Alterlife''s magic:
Spoiler :
Interestingly enough, this was considered a ¡°basic¡± graph only... Runic and Arcane magic is where the fun begins with necromancy, divination, transmutation, evocation, abjuration, illusion, conjuration, enchantment, etc. And this is only the Arcane part of it...
From what I learned, the dragon clans weren''t divided by elements but only by bloodlines and they have unique abilities and magic passed down through bloodline via the clan''s ceremony. I was expecting a fire clan, a water clan etc. But that''s not how it works apparently.
The clans come from the 10 original dragons, each had a different element affinity but since the strongest reproduced between themselves, keeping the affinities pure would have been impossible. For example: Anastaria and her dead male companion were from two different clans.
So Irene is a mix of these two clans. Female offspring would join the mother''s clan, and the males the father''s clan. In my case, since my ¡°fake father¡± was dead, I was exceptionally going to be part of my mother''s clan since dragons are raised by their parents.
As far as I know, there is no superior sex among dragons, so the females have as much power as the males. Like I said before, dragons value strength before everything else, so a powerful female would naturally have many potential sex partners. Harems weren''t a thing reserved to males but instead reserved to the strongest individuals.
I still have no idea what skills the Rokugan clan have since Anastaria seems to want to keep it a secret until my ceremony so I simply pushed that aside and concentrated on getting stronger the same way I had done thus far.
Time to get things moving!
Monster Rank UP!
Spiritual Wyvern (Unique)
Frost Naga King (Very rare)
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
This wyvern is as close to a divine creature as a wyvern can be. This creature will show spirit classes how insignificant their faith truly is.
A mix between a humanoid and a snake. As the king, all snake type creatures will be compelled to obey by fear of your icy wrath.
The basilisk is the King of the snakes and the most poisonous creature on earth. Looking at it, according to legend, brings death. This variant also come with a shocking surprise.
Chapter 17 - Welcome to Niardo
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°Pwahahahaha*¡± (Kneeko)
As I watched the evolution choices I couldn''t help let a laugh escape. This was by far the easiest rank up choice I had gotten so far.
Spiritual Wyvern: Gives spiritual affinity and a race close to dragon. Spiritual affinity would allow me to learn runic magic and give me a footstep in divine magic.
Frost Naga King: Gives frost affinity and control over snake type creatures. Frost means getting water and air affinities but I already have water affinity.
Bolt Basilisk: Also a snake king... (Possibly a skill to control snakes?!) Gives a poison upgrade and from the description, probably gives death and lightning affinities. Death affinity would allow me to learn Arcane magic and give me a footstep in demonic magic while lightning affinity would give me the 2 basic elements I am missing. (Air and fire) Having all 4 basic affinities would allow me to learn life based magic as well.
If you compare the 3 choices, it really is obvious which one is the best. Confident in my choice I immediately selected ¡°Bolt Basilisk¡± and once again the white and blue light enveloped my slowly morphing body.
I was still a snake, but one as big as a house. Basilisks were basically giant snakes with a dragon & snake hybrid looking head. My smooth and soft scales were now sharp and jagged making them look more like mini horns or spikes instead of scales. My tail had a sharp point at the tip allowing me to stab.
I also had spikes alongside my spine and a spiky frill on my neck allowing me to look even more menacing by unfolding it. I was still my familiar black and red color but my yellow eyes now had a hint of red around the iris making them look even more menacing.
Spoiler :
¡°RROAAARRrrrrr!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
*Clap! *Clap! *Clap! *Clap! *
Anastaria was clapping her hands at my transformation with a satisfied look on her face. As I was about to ask her how good I looked, the usual barrage of messages boxes started appearing.
Active Skill [Death Stare]. (Cost. 5000 Mana) (Rank: S)
As you activate this skill, those who make eyes contact with you will be affected by a death magic based curse acting like a poison.
Curse effects:
#Extreme pain.
#-25hp per seconds. [Max ¡Þ HP] (This curse is permanent and will remain in effect until the target''s death. Can only be stopped by using a detox/purification spell/potion/scroll of rank (S).)
(24 hours cool-down)
Poison Resistance rank up! (A)
Active Skill [Basilisk Cry]. (Cost. 500 Mana) (Mastery: D)
Let out a powerful scream that will attract all snake creatures in a 10 miles radius, shattering glass and enemies eardrums in the process. (Weaken enemies)
Active Skill [Deadly Breath]. (Cost. 1000 Mana) (Mastery: C)
Exhale a breath of acidic poison capable of corroding metals, dissolving fabrics and melting flesh.
The strength of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill.
Active Skill [Lightning Strike]. (Cost. 250 Mana) (Mastery: E)
Lightning based magic attack sending a bolt of lightning toward a target. (Range 15 meters)
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill.
Active Skill [Lightning Discharge]. (Cost. 750 Mana) (Mastery: E)
Lightning based magic attack. Send a massive electric discharge that cover a ¡°10¡± meters area around the caster.
The strength and range of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill.
New title: Elemental Master
If activated, this title grant (+100 Intelligence)
Every rank up was the same thing, an overload of new abilities and information. I needed to rethink my fighting strategies and possible uses for these skills. Without my ¡°super computer¡± information processing speed I would instantly be overwhelmed by all these.
¡°What a beauty you are Kneeko¡± (Anastaria) She said while slightly blushing at how mighty I looked.
¡°Guhuhuhu* I feel amazing! I can feel power rushing through my veins.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Great, but considering that we are next to a road that is near a town, I suggest you avoid staying in this gigantic form for too long... People could see you.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°True, that could be annoying to deal with.¡± (Kneeko)
Wanting to avoid attracting attention I immediately reverted back to my human appearance.
¡°AGGGGGGGGGGGgggggggggggg... Crap! Fuck fuck fuck!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kyaaaa!! hahahahaha*¡± (Anastaria)
It was my first time hearing Anastaria laugh that loudly. She was laughing so much that tears formed on the corners of her eyes. She even accidentally woke up Irene in the process.
¡°Uhh? Mom... Who is this?¡± (Irene) She said while sleepily rubbing her eyes.
¡°PRRRFffffffffff!!**** HAhahghagagahhaa*¡± (Anastaria) At this point she was unable to stand up and was rolling around on the flood holding her sides with both arms.
¡°For fuck sake! That''s not funny!!¡± (Kneeko)
Me, the great Kneeko... The one who never forgets anything, had forgotten something. After eating the Basilisk core I had levelled up quite a bit which made my other appearances grow older as well... I now had the body of a teenage boy measuring around 6 feet tall.
The thing I had forgotten was to remove my clothes before eating the basilisk core. My clothes being normal clothes without enchantment didn''t grow with me and stayed the size of a 8 years old. So when I changed back to my human body, I had outgrown my clothes by ripping them to shreds ¡°incredible Hulk style¡±.
It may have looked funny but it was surprisingly painful considering these clothes were made out of the best quality fabrics which were highly resistant to wear and tear. Now half naked with tattered clothes, I had both of my hands hiding my now respectably sized cashew.
I ran toward the trees to change clothes with Anastaria still laughing her ass off. Luckily I had bought a new pair of clothes for when I grow up and placed them in my inventory, I had simply forgotten to wear them before growing up.
Once again, it was rich looking black pants and red wine shirt covered by a long mantle going down to my knee. With my gloves on, my only exposed skin was my face. When I reach a big city I would try to have enchantments placed on these clothes.
After changing I returned to the camp fire where Anastaria and Irene inspected me with lustful yes.
¡°Ho my... My son has become quite the hottie...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Nod* Nod* Nod*¡± (Irene)
¡°Alright let''s make things clear. You are supposed to be my mother, and you my sister. Do you realize how creepy hearing you say that sound?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufufu* My bad my bad.¡± (Anastaria) She said while bumping her fist on the top of Irene''s head to stop her from drooling.
These event were followed by some more chatters while I was eating all the monster meat contained in my inventory. I ate everything and was still hungry. It seemed logical to assume that the bigger my true form became, the more I would need to eat.
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Since I began playing as a monster in Alterlife2, I realized that the tastiest meal to me was bloody raw meat. A bit repulsive at first, it saved me time since I didn''t need to cook anything. I would need to go around town and fill my inventory with meat as soon as I can as I was still hungry.
We went to sleep and woke up early the next morning. We walked a few hours and finally reached the micro-kingdom of Niardo.
You have just arrived to the [Niardo] kingdom.
The city was built on a mountain hillside and was mostly made out of stone. A river was flowing through it from the top to the bottom irrigating a channel people were using as sewer. The city had a serious lack of vegetation since everything seemed carved in the hard mountain granite.
Anastaria turned toward us with a serious look before saying.
¡°You two can look around, I will go see the king and be back in a bit.¡± (Anastaria)
Irene and I nodded in understanding then mother left toward the big castle visible in the distance. As we were standing in the middle of the street admiring the city, hundreds of people were walking by minding their own business.
This city was buzzing with activity. I turned to Irene and couldn''t help but say what was on my mind.
¡°Look at all these humans... Doing their everyday chores without the faintest idea that 2 pure-blooded dragons and a highly poisonous Basilisk are walking among them.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°High humans for the most part...¡± (Irene)
¡°Right... Humans and high humans all look the same to me.¡± (Kneeko)
I was expecting to see a city filled with blue eyed, golden haired people but it looked like they came in all shapes and colours after all. Irene and I walked around for a while until I found the library. It was a white building 3 storey high with ¡°LIBRARY¡± written in golden letters.
¡°Want to buy a book brother?¡± (Irene)
¡°Maybe... All depends on what they have. I''d be surprised if they had anything interesting though.¡± (Kneeko)
I entered the library walking with my hands behind my back in a distinguished manner with Irene following close behind. An old lady with gray hairs sitting at a desk wearing small glasses on the tip of her nose rapidly noticed us and came toward our direction.
¡°Welcome dear customers, what may I help you with?¡± (Librarian)
¡°Do you have skill books without class restriction?¡± (Kneeko)
The librarian made a face that showed how difficult these types of books are to get, then walked behind the counter. She rustled through a bunch of papers and small pamphlets before finally pulling out a small brown book.
Skill Book
Skill:
Luminar
Element(s):
Lightning
Rank:
E
Rarity:
Common
Restriction:
#Lightning element affinity.
#50 Mana to activate.
Create a glowing orb of light following the caster around. Last 15 minutes.
¡°That''s it?...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sorry young customer, unrestricted books usually get sold before I even have time to put them on shelves...¡± (Librarian)
¡°Sighhh thought so...¡± (Kneeko)
I inched closer to the librarian and grabbed a fistful of gold coins before whispering into her ear.
¡°Got an arcane grimoire by any chance?¡± (Kneeko)
She quickly backed away with a look of disgust in her eyes. Not taking any chances I used [TerrorEyes] before she answered. I could suddenly smell a strong odor of urine as she fell to the ground in a fetal position. (That was a lot more effective than expected.) Not wanting to put too much strain on an old lady I crouched next to her and tried to reassure her.
¡°I didn''t come here to get judged, just tell me where I can get what I want and I will leave you alone.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Y.y.y.y....Yes! Wait a minute.¡± (Librarian)
She ran toward the back door leading to the back-store. We could hear chaotic noises as she turned the entire room upside down looking for something. 15 minutes and a new pair of pants later, the old lady came back with a black box in her hand.
¡°Don''t open that box until you are somewhere alone. Divine magic users can sense that stuff from miles away.¡± (Librarian)
I nodded and bought the grimoire as well as the little luminar spell book. Who knows, a ¡°light¡± spell might come in handy someday. I placed everything in my inventory and left with Irene still in tow.
¡°What is it that you bought in that black box? The old lady didn''t seem to like the idea of having someone buy it...¡± (Irene)
¡°I''ll tell you the day you decide to stop hiding stuff from me.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Buhhh! You know it''s because mother told me to keep certain things secrets for good reasons.¡± (Irene)
¡°I don''t care, I''ll keep some secrets myself then.¡± (Kneeko)
[Awkward silence]
[...]
¡°Wanna go eat some sweets?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°YAYyyyyyyyyyy!!! Big bro''s the best!¡± (Irene)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
117
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
456G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium
HEALTH:
2150
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
5190
STRENGTH:
635
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
404 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
150 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
465
FAME/INFAMY:
-1670 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
Chapter 18 - Tokens of my affection
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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After a few pieces of cake and some coffee, our next stop was the butcher. I needed to stock pile as much meat as possible because my hunger didn''t seem to have any boundary. Even after eating all this cake I still felt as if I could eat 3-4 entire cows.
It didn''t take us a long time to find the place since I could simply follow my nose to guide me there. The butchery was among the smelliest places in town except the forge and alchemy stores. The forge could easily be spotted by following the column of black smoke and the alchemy store had a very strong spice smell.
When Irene and I entered the butchery, our eyes were met with many hanging carcasses and a fat bearded man behind a counter holding a cleaver and wearing a bloodied apron. As he saw us, the fat man stuck his cleaver in a wooden board before wiping his bloodied hand on his apron.
¡°Sorry young masters but my establishment ain''t got none of that fancy expensive meat you people usually eat.¡± (Butcher)
¡°Fuc-....leged *ids...¡± (Butcher)
¡°No need for fancy meat... I''ll buy all the red meat you have in store.¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°You messing with me kid?¡± (Butcher)
¡°N**........ mood..........ed *ith¡± (Butcher)
¡°Do i look like I''m messing with you? How much?!¡± (Kneeko) I said while pulling a few gold coins out of my pockets.
¡°You must have a lot of dogs to feed eh?! Guehehehe* 2 gold coins should be enough to buy everything in here.¡± (Butcher)
¡°M**** be g***.... be this r**h...¡± (Butcher)
I threw 3 gold coins on his counter and began putting the meat in my inventory.
¡°Got a void inventory? Looks a lot like the thing these jumpers (Adventurers) use...¡± (Butcher)
¡°It''s quite similar.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I g**ss m*ne..... b** an*****g.¡± (Butcher)
Once his entire shop was picked cleaned I left with Irene still following me. Next stop was the enchantment shop. I needed to know what could be done to my clothes and if it was worth my money.
As we walked along the street Irene suddenly stopped and began inspecting some necklaces being sold in a small stall. Her gaze seemed to stop on a golden dragon shaped necklace with a red gem embedded in its claws.
¡°You like that thing?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It''s very pretty... But it''s way overpriced for what it is. I ain''t rich enough to start throwing money down the drain. Let''s keep going.¡± (Irene)
¡°Su- a p****y neck**ce.....bad i c**** -ford *t.¡± (Irene)
This was such a common flag event in all fictions and manga that I already knew what to do. I know my classics very well after all. Sighh women and their love for shiny trinkets... Exactly like birds. I walked up to the vendor and asked.
¡°How much?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°3 gold coins rich master.. hehehehe*¡± (Vendor) He said while rubbing his hands together.
¡°B- ******k of his clot***, he ************f mo-... to ***nd. Tim-.....***ilk the c-...¡± (Vendor)
¡°20 silvers... [Sad Puppy Eyes]¡± (Kneeko)
The vendor seemed lost in a haze for a while before answering.
¡°He lo-**.. pi***.. -if*.. He m-......y wa-.....** ...f-*...-e girl he love.. Sni-*...nif* I w-.. ** yo. y-....**er!¡± (Vendor)
¡°Of course! 20 silvers seems like a reasonable offer.¡± (Vendor)
¡°Thank you sir¡± (Kneeko) I quickly gave him the money and grabbed the necklace before he regained his senses.
¡°There you go lil sis.¡± (Kneeko)
I gave her the necklace which made her face blush with joy and embarrassment. I then i turned around and kept walking as if nothing had happened. She immediately tied the necklace around her neck and ran back toward me with a giant grin showing how happy she truly was.
¡°Broth-... po**rs are trul-.........***ious...¡± (Irene)
¡°Heyy how did you do that? Nee? Neee?¡± (Irene)
¡°Secret¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Aww he ne-... tell me -***ing...¡± (Irene)
¡°Buhhhhhh!! Thank you big brother !!¡± (Irene) She then said still smiling from one ear to the other.
¡°Doesn''t matt-.........****her''s t-........***t!!!¡± (Irene)
For a while now my ears had been buzzing, it must be hunger I thought to myself so I looked for a deserted area and began eating the meat in my inventory. After devouring the equivalent of an entire cow I finally felt satiated for the first time since my last rank up.
I will need to start hunting more because at this speed I will spend all my fortune on meat before knowing it. The buzzing in my ears seemed to have lessened as I was trying to ignore it as much as possible. Time to visit the enchantment store.
I looked around for a while with Irene but couldn''t find what I was looking for. Even the internet map of this city didn''t indicate any enchantment shop. Maybe this city didn''t have one after all. After asking a few people we learned that there was once a shop like that but the owner got arrested and beheaded for doing a bad enchantment job on the princess dress.
She had requested him to enchant the dress with a charm stats boost but he apparently enchanted the dress with a charm with effect similar to an aphrodisiac which cause quite a commotion during a big reception at a noble house.
I couldn''t help but laugh after hearing the story and imagined An''dalia being treated as a sexual object by vulgar nobles. She must have been very pissed indeed. Anyway I''m glad the shop is closed, I wouldn''t have wanted a bad enchantment job after all. I will wait to find a proper professional enchanter to do my clothing.
Maybe I should go to the arms dealer and buy an enchanted armor instead for now. As we were making our way toward the arm dealer, my nose picked up a familiar scent that made me stop in my track. Snif* snif*... That subtle lavender smell...
I turned around in an attempt to find the origin of the smell and saw 3 cloaked individuals walking down the street and heading this way.
¡°Guhuuhuhuahahhahha*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Th*t lau** -**ays gi- ** ***-ivers...¡± (Irene)
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.¡°Brother? Are you alright?¡± (Irene)
¡°Yes... Never felt so good. Keep walking and wait for me at the arms dealer, I will join you in 2 minutes.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°He n**er tell m- ***hing.¡± (Irene)
¡°Are you going somewhere?¡± (Irene)
¡°Do what I tell you.¡± (Kneeko)
Leaving her on her own I engaged myself in an interception course toward to the 3 cloaked individuals. As I was around 10 meters ahead of where they were heading, I grabbed a little something from my inventory, popped it in my mouth, then spat it on the ground before calmly walking by them without attracting suspicions.
I hid myself in an alleyway offering a view of the scene unfolding before me. There, was An''dalia with 2 bodyguard. The tree of them wearing white cloaks to remain incognito. Suddenly screams and cries could be heard making everybody''s head swivel in their direction.
An''dalia was holding a little trinket in her hands clenched on her chest while crying like a newborn. The little thing i had dropped on the ground was the necklace worn by Darui''n before his ¡°accidental¡± death. With no strength in her legs the princess let herself fall to the ground as she cried all the tears in her body.
-10hp ... -10hp ... -10hp
Seeing her in this state, her bodyguards were panicking not knowing what to do. They noticed she had been poisoned so they unsheathed their swords and began looking in all directions for anyone suspicious.
¡°Obscuro poison... k-k-k-Kneeko... i-i-i-is here... snif* snif* [Detox]¡± (An''dalia)
¡°I''m sc***d... ****ed!! T-.. demon i- ***e whe** i live... I''- ***red!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Are you ok milady? What is going on?¡± (Bodyguard)
¡°Wh- is go*** on? I -n''t underst-...¡± (Bodyguard)
She had empty eyes and was looking left, right, up and down searching for something. Her face looked horrible with all the tears and snot ruining her make-up. She definitely didn''t look like a dignified princess at this instant.
¡°Sniff* sniff* B-bb-b-b-Bring m..m.m.me home... I want to go home ! BRING ME BACK HOME!!! WANNNnnnnnnn!!*¡± (An''dalia)
¡°I wa- ***y dadd-! -*DDY! I''m sc***d!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Yes! Milady!¡± (Bodyguard) The two men grabbed her and quickly escorted her back to the castle.
[...]
¡°I''ll make sure you never forget about me... my dear princess guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
Having now finished playing, I went back to where Irene was waiting for me. Time to buy some armor! I hope they don''t just have poor quality armors, I refuse to spend my money on shitty gear.
A few minutes later I finally reunited with Irene who didn''t ask any questions knowing I wouldn''t answer her. We went in the shop and looked around for good armors. Sadly all the items for sale were sub-par and not worth spending a dime on..
Sigh.. This city is shit when it come to shopping. I didn''t care for the armor itself since my Basilisk scales were harder than iron but I hoped that I could find an armor with some good enchantments on it. Sadly, it looked like it was better to wait for a qualified enchanter to do his thing with my clothing instead.
Disappointed, we sat on a bench and waited for mother to come back for our next courses of actions. While we were waiting I took the time to allocate my unused skill points. Simple really, 100 in strength, 100 in intelligence and the rest in vitality.
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
117
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
735
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-1670 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
Chapter 19 - Explosive farts
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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After a few minutes, Anastaria came back from her visit to the king. Seeing her walking our way, Irene and I got up and prepared to leave.
¡°Got what you came for ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Not exactly...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°What do you mean?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Apparently when his daughter came back, the king got scared of having angered our clan leader so he immediately dispatched an envoy to return our treasure.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Well, the problem is solved then isn''t it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It''ll be ea- to prete- i... *** disap- that wa- fufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Fufufufu* That created some little changes in my plans but it''s even better this way. I need to quickly go after them. They almost have a 2 month lead so even if I fly at full speed I won''t reach them before a few weeks. That, plus the time to make it back here, I will be gone for a bit more than a month.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°What do you mean? I don''t get it, you speak as if you are leaving without us...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I am, I will be faster on my own.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I m- be caref- of *hat I s- -nd **m.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°If they are bringing the treasure back to our clan, why do you mean to ¡°intercept¡± them? Thinking of keeping the treasure to yourself eh? What a bad example for your children you are guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufu* You are not exactly right. Actually I intend to give this treasure to you Kneeko.¡± (Anastaria) She then said with a subtle smile on her face.
¡°Eh?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I m- have sa..* to mu-..¡± (Anastaria)
¡°It''s for his clan ceremony is it ?!¡± (Irene)
¡°Yes my little Irene. In the end it will benefit the entire clan. There, take this so I can find you when I''m finished.¡± (Anastaria) She then threw a small blue translucent mana stone to Irene.
¡°My magic compass is linked to this stone, so wherever you go, I will find you once I am done. Don''t loose it.¡± (Anastaria)
Suddenly many guards began swarming the streets and slowly but surely made their way toward us. They were looking everywhere, using [identify] on everybody. It was obviously the princess who rang the alarm. Crap!.
¡°Mhhh... how about we leave right now.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I was thinking of grabbing a bite before leaving. Why the hurry?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Let me rephrase this, we NEED to leave RIGHT NOW...¡± (Kneeko)
Anastaria began looking around us and seemed to understand something was happening so we quickly walked toward the city gate. We crossed the gate without difficulty and rapidly made our way toward the forest. When we were finally out of sight, mother turned around to trow a menacing look in my direction.
¡°Th** lit-, did he -gere* the roy-?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°What did you do?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°... N''tin ...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Was it when you told me to go ahead without you? You also gave that creepy laugh before I left..¡± (Irene)
¡°YOU SNITCH!¡± (Kneeko)
Paf!* Mother slapped me on the back of the head so hard I could hear bells ringing.
¡°Ouch!... That hurt!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What did you do?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I just said hello to an old acquaintance of mine...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°No **e in -ing to *u- abo- it.¡± (Anastaria)
She frowned and showed an unsatisfied expression but ended up brushing it off as a minor accident. She sprouted wings and said her goodbye before leaving in a flash. Now it was only me and Irene. Better avoid going back to Niardo for a while so I guess we will be traveling for now.
¡°Let''s find a deserted area with nobody around. There''s something I need to do.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hmm ok.. This way should be best since there''s no town in that direction for a thousand miles.¡± (Irene)
¡°......ECHO......ECHO......ECHO.....¡± (Irene)
[...]
¡°You still won''t tell me what this treasure is? Even tho mother is supposed to give it to me?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°She will tell you when she feels like it I suppose.¡± (Irene)
¡°I do- *now -self w... I c*n''t tel* -t''s a dr- core...¡± (Irene)
¡°That''s annoying...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sorry.¡± (Irene) She said in a voice that sounded sincere.
¡°Ple- do- hate m-.¡± (Irene)
¡°Ho well, whatever. Let''s get going.¡± (Kneeko)
[1 week later]
We were in a deserted forest far from any sign of civilization. Luckily the forest was filled with low and medium rank monsters since I just can''t seem to stop eating. Did I contract an eating disorder of some sort? I could eat the equivalent of 2 cows a day.
At least thanks to that I had leveled up 3 times. That was without including all the monster cores I ate as we left Niardo. The cores I had spend a long time purchasing back in Vennari had given me a total of 37 levels making me now level 157.
Having access to my last 2 storage rings, I was now beyond rich. Not that it was of any use in a deserted forest but it was still an accomplishment. Irene and I had some time to discuss various things and thanks to that I now had a good idea of what it was like to be part of a pure blooded dragon clan.
It was a lot like the life of royalty. People trying to marry the strong while the weak were humiliated and trampled on. Everybody was competing against everybody and there was a lot of backstabbing going on. I would need to be on my top game if I wanted to survive this place.
Going there was now a lot less tempting prospect. There was something else annoying me. For the past week I have been feeling.....weird. I can''t get the image of An''dalia crying out of my head. Is that guilt? Since when did I start feeling anything toward NPC''s?
Something must be wrong with me.. Maybe it''s a sickness related to my eating disorder ? I thought messing with her would be funny but it''s torturing me instead. How can this be? Even in the real world I never cared about other people excepted my father of course...
Sigh, maybe I''ll try to find a way to make it up to her... I understand that leaving her alone should be the best course of action but I simply can''t get her out of my head. How troubling. I going soft. I''m a monster for Christ sake, I''m destined to kill thousands of these lowly beings...
Maybe I''ll make an exception with An''dalia only... Ho well, let''s think of something else. Good news, the buzzing in my ears had greatly decreased since I left the town. Maybe I simply don''t like crowds. But I don''t remember ever having this problem before.
Since Anastaria left, Irene had asked for some alone time regularly, I spied on her a little and from what I can tell she''s going off alone to kill some monsters on her own. Could she be training? Or venting frustration?
Whatever she was doing, being on my own right now was a good thing. I discovered that when I was on my own the buzzing in my ears was totally gone. Not only that but it was finally time to open my arcane grimoire that I had bought back in Niardo.
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I took the old lady''s warning to heart and avoided opening it before being miles away from anyone. I pulled it out of my inventory and held it on my laps. It was an old looking wooden box with intricate carvings sealed by what looked like black wax.
I unsealed it with a knife, then opened it. A black mist came out of it and enveloped my body before disappearing.
Compatibility with ¡°Death¡± element confirmed.
You have activated a new Interface Skill [Arcane Library].
You can now access a new interface allowing you to design your own arcane circles.
¡°GUWAHAhAhahahHAhHAha!*¡± (Kneeko)
I did a small celebratory dance before going back to business. I opened my interface and pressed on the arcane library icon. A new menu then opened showing me various information. This was no simple menu, but more like an arcane circle design software.
In a scrolling menu to the left were all the elements I had an affinity with, the second one had form and function like ¡°blade¡± ¡°expansion¡± ¡°refining¡± ¡°create¡± suppress¡± and hundreds more... Since I couldn''t make sense of most of it, I opened the arcane book and began reading it.
It was so incredibly complex, to create arcane circles I needed to learn something akin to a programming language. Like someone learning Java language, I needed to learn arcane language. The language used unknown characters and depending on their order, the place they were in the circle, what other function were around it and a lot more factors.
Each circle was basically a small program that you needed to create to achieve a certain effect. Thanks to my photographic memory I quickly memorized the book, then reopened the arcane library to try my luck at my first circle creation.
Since I didn''t have any fire skills, I decided to try and create a circle using fire as element. Other more complex circles could use more than one element but I decided to start with the basics. I spent 45 minutes designing my first circle, then when I thought it was completed it was now time to try it.
Spoiler :
[Activate]
BOOM!!!
The circle blew up in my face. It was a failure... Looks like this arcane stuff is harder than it looks. Practice practice practice! There''s no other answer to that. Then coming out of the woods short of breath was Irene.
¡°I felt an ominous feeling then heard a big explosion! Are you okay?¡± (Irene) She said visibly worried.
With my face completely black and a few hairs curled up by the heat I smiled at her before answering.
¡°You know how I can''t stop eating recently ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes?¡± (Irene)
¡°Believe it or not, I just had an explosive fart!!¡± (Kneeko)
+++
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
157
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
735
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
600
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Chapter 20 - Filling the toolbox
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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At night before going to sleep, Irene was playing the little pebble game I had been teaching her. It was an easy way to earn some skill points while killing boredom. As for me, I was still totally absorbed by my arcane library experiments. I think I have finally managed to create a spell similar to fireball and it should be ready to be tested now.
¡°Alright! This time it will work !¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ehh? Hiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!! WAIT !¡± (Irene) She yelled before running behind a tree at a safe distance away.
¡°It''s g-...na bl-...! It''s go-......ow! I-.......na blow!¡± (Irene)
¡°Thank for the vote of confidence...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You keep saying ''this time is the right one'' but every-time you blow our camp to pieces.¡± (Irene)
¡°La-..t...me you eve- .aw my na-ed b-..y. Kyaa......¡± (Irene)
¡°Awww come on... You know I didn''t burn your clothes on purpose... Anyway the robe I gave you suits you perfectly.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You burned my hair !!!!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Ev- the fe-....bes I had -..rned..¡± (Irene)
¡°I already apologized about that.. And it''s not that big of a deal you could regrow them back immediately with that human morphing ability of yours.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Buhhhh!!! I prefer you warning me before doing that crazy magic anyway !!¡± (Irene)
¡°Okay okay okay! I got it... I''m going to test it now alright?¡± (Kneeko)
Nod* nod* ''Disappear behind the tree''*
¡°You .-n''t ge- .e this ti-..¡± (Irene)
[Activate]
FOUIASHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! BAOUM!
A fireball flew straight ahead and blew up the tree Irene had chosen to hide behind.
¡°You alright sis?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Cough* cough* cough* DAMMIT!¡± (Irene) She came out of the dust cloud totally covered in black soot and some wood shrapnel embedded in her chest..
¡°H-.as to be d---g -his o-----ose...¡± (Irene)
¡°Sorry sis!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I can''t believe this... Your weird magic is going to kill me one day.. cough cough*¡± (Irene)
It may had been uncontrolled but the circle was a success. It would have been awkward to dance in celebration seeing Irene''s poor state so I danced in my head instead. I now have a fireball spell yay!!!! And it only took me 24hours and a few failures..
Do you wish to save this circle?
Yes
No
Yes!
Give a name to the spell:
Hoo! I even get to name it eh? Well I guess it''s logical since it''s my creation. Let''s keep it simple, I will call it Arcane FireBall and save. Awesome awesome! I quickly ran into the forest like a kid with a new toy and began firing at every living thing I could find.
Hearing them scream and smelling their burning flesh filled me with excitement. What kind of spell could I design after this... Arcane spells don''t have rankings since they are too unique to categorize. Even better, in the case of my newly developed fireball I had included a function that could make it rank E or higher.
The trick was simple, activate the circle, pour mana into it, when you stop pouring mana the ball is immediately propulsed forward. Therefor the more mana you pour into it, the stronger the attack will be. I really love this idea and am quite proud of myself.
I quickly gathered all the dead animals cooked to a crisp and began shoving them down my throat to satiate my hunger of the moment. I then went back to the camp to find my little sister still pissed at me from the previous events.
¡°Still angry at me?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes! BUUuuuhhh!¡± (Irene)
¡°Not re-.., I ...ply enj......ing you worr.........t me.¡± (Irene)
¡°What did you say?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I said yes! I am still mad!¡± (Irene)
¡°No- re....ly tho¡± (Irene)
¡°Yea but after that?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I didn''t say anything...¡± (Irene)
¡°I could have sworn.¡± (Kneeko)
A few minutes later we went to sleep. That night I dreamt of arcane circles... I was seeing circles and triangles everywhere. When I find something challenging that I also find entertaining, I can''t do anything else. My mind become completely focused on it in an attempt to master this new knowledge.
That night in my dreams, I got the most amazing idea on what to do next with arcane library. I had thought of spending the entire day designing the new circles I had dreamt about, but my plans quickly changed due to some unforeseen events.
We had just woken up as the sun was rising when Irene became quiet and seemed to listen carefully.
¡°What is it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°People nearby.¡± (Irene)
¡°People? How many?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Not sure, 3 or more...¡± (Irene)
¡°I -n''t te--- -hey don--- -alk...¡± (Irene)
I then began sticking my tongue in and out like a snake and carefully analyzed the odor molecules before coming to the same conclusion. 3 or 4 humans were not far away from our location.
¡°Want to go and play with them?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What do you mean play?¡± (Irene)
¡°Do-- he w--- to -i---- em?¡± (Irene)
¡°I don''t know... I guess it depend on what we find over there.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I was getting bored so I won''t refuse a little bit of distraction.¡± (Irene)
¡°At le--- that way he wo-- sp---- the day blo-------ur ca-p.¡± (Irene)
¡°What was that?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I said let''s go.¡± (Irene)
¡°Alright! Let''s make new friends. Guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
A short walk and we finally came across a group of 4 players who were talking loudly and seemed to have a very good time together. A big white armored ¡°warrior type¡± of guy was having an argument over something with one of his teammate who was waving a paint brush all over the place.
An eclectic group that''s for sure, is what I thought to myself after seeing them. Irene and I weren''t hiding or anything but they were so absorbed by their argument that they never noticed us. I ended up calling out to them since it was getting awkward just standing there waiting for them to notice us.
¡°Hello ?¡± (Kneeko)
Then all of a sudden they all went quiet and turned their heads rapidly in our direction. The big warrior stood in front of the group and adopted a defensive position.
¡°Who are you? What do you want?¡± (Uhh Let''s call him Darui''n #2)
¡°What we want? Fufufu* In a forest so far away from anything, when you come across other humans isn''t it natural to say hi? It''s alright if you don''t want us here we will go somewhere else.¡± (Kneeko)
Then from the back of the group, a small 5¡±4 little girl with cyan hair and blue eyes timidly appeared from behind the big warrior and spoke with her barely audible tiny voice.
¡°D..d..d.don''t be rude Molly.¡± (Cute tiny girl)
Wait... This big ass muscle man is named Molly? PRRrfffff* C...Can...Can''t...PRFRFFffffguhuhuh!*
¡°Alright alright, what are you two doing around here?¡± (Molly... PRRRffffffff*)
¡°Band---? A ---p?¡± (Molly)
¡°Some exploration, and gathering medicinal plants, and you?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sho---- I tel-----m? H----ll NPC us---y do-----are abo-----eons...¡± (Molly)
¡°We heard there''s an unexplored dungeon around here somewhere...¡± (Molly) Guhuhuhu*
¡°Hoooo?! Dungeon? Can we help? We may not look like it but my little sister and I are quite strong.¡± (Kneeko)
As we spoke, our two groups naturally began walking toward each others and when we were close enough, we all began identifying each others. I guess that was to be expected from a world having this function as a common thing.
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First was the big giant of a man wearing white armor, wielding a sword and a big white shield. He had brown hair and brown eyes and had to be more than 7 feet tall.
Sexymolly23 (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
124
Class:
Crusader
Title:
God Blessed
God''s servant
The younger they are...
Must keep an eye on my sister when around him. Next was a ninja... Yup, no use in trying to describe him as something else, he was wearing a black ninja outfit hiding his entire body except for his two blue eyes. He was also wearing a blue belt and two swords on his back.
Bluetigurr (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
94
Class:
Ninja Assassin
Title:
Unseen
Unheard
Backstabber
The next one looked like an eccentric individual... He wasn''t wearing any armor but only leather pants and a white chemise. He seemed unarmed for the most part but had a paint brush in his right hand. A magic wand?
Sacrafox (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
49
Class:
Legendary Sunlight Painter
Title:
Recognized artist
Always broke
Apparently no... Not a wand but a real paint brush.. Wtf?
Then last but not least, the most adorably cute little girl I had ever seen. She had cyan hair, aqua-blue eyes, was wearing a white robe with a hoodie and was holding a wooden staff with a relatively small blue monster core on the tip.
magicdownunder (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
71
Class:
Light Magistra
Title:
Idol of Rosana City
Light Master
Savior
Down under? Australian I assume. From what I could see they were all on the ¡°divine¡± side of the spectrum since one was a crusader and another a Light Magistra. I wonder from what kind of monster is the core on this little girl''s scepter...
¡°What the hell, we can''t see most of your stats... And your sister, we can''t even see her name. It''s ok since she''s cute but I don''t like that one bit.¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Sorry it''s some rare birth attributes... Her name is Irene and I am Kneeko. From what I can see we are both higher level that you guys. We wouldn''t mind giving you a hand in completing this dungeon if we can get a small percentage of the rewards.¡± (Kneeko)
They began discussing between themselves for a while. The painter dude was still waving his paint brush in the airs like some sort of chief orchestra stick. After a while they all seemed to have made an agreement and turned back toward us.
¡°We can give you each 5% of the gold we find. Z''that ok?¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°If th-----ant -ore th----an --ck o-f.¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Yup, we were bored and looking for something to do anyway.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°W.w...Welcome to our group.¡± (magicdownunder) She said while looking at the ground with a blushing face and giving a timid smile.
¡°Hooo.. W--t a stunni---ly beaut------an...¡± (magicdownunder)
Awww so adowable...
+++
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
157
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
735
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
600
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Chapter 21 - Getting to know each others
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°Uhhmmm... Aren''t we walking in circles?¡± (Kneeko)
It had been hours now and our group of 6 were without a doubt walking in a circle. The players seemed to be looking for something but visibly couldn''t find it so I ended up asking.
¡°Mmmfff fmfmffmff mfmmm mfmffmfmfffffmmm¡± (Bluetigurr) Said the ninja. I couldn''t hear what he was saying because of the mask he was wearing over his face but his friends seemed to understand him just fine...
¡°What did he say?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°He said there should be a waterfall around here.¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Ho yes! You should have said that earlier. Sister, where was the waterfall again?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I can hear it this way.¡± (Irene) She said while pointing north east.
¡°Wait, you know the area that well?¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Not at all but a waterfall is quite a noisy thing and sister has good ears. Simple really...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Amazing big sis Irene!!¡± (magicdownunder) She then said, her face beaming with admiration.
¡°Tehehee* That''s nothing much for someone as great as me!¡± (Irene) Sister then answered while rubbing the back of her head.
¡°Gahaha listen to this cute little sister of yours... As proud as a dragon gnahahaha.¡± (Sexymolly23)
Gulp* You have no idea how right you are big man... Even tho I spent so much time with her, I actually never saw Irene''s dragon appearance, never saw her fight seriously either. Everytime she killed a monster, it was by punching and kicking it.
Maybe I would get to see more if we entered a dungeon together. After a few minutes we finally reached a big waterfall flowing down a cliff. It was around 20 meters high and 10 meters wide and behind it was the dungeon entrance.
This is a video game rule: Always look behind waterfalls. There''s always something hidden behind them in games.
¡°Magnificent, splendid, spectacular, impressive, striking, glorious, superb, majestic, awesome, awe-inspiring, breathtaking.............¡± (Sacrafox) He was spinning around on one foot with his paint brush up in the air. Is he retarded or something?
Immediately Sexymolly23 took charge and began giving orders.
¡°Everyone ready your equipment and make sure you didn''t forget anything!¡± (Sexymolly23)
The group then began waving their hands in the air, visibly browsing through the game interface and their inventories. Well almost everyone, Sacrafox was preparing a canvas for some reason. I was wondering why would anyone bring a painter in a dungeon exploration. Curious, Irene asked him what he was doing.
¡°Before the canvas is primed, it must be stretched to fit the frame. Attempting to stretch it after it has been primed will result in cracking and flaking of the priming, which creates a rough surface on which to apply oil paint. Primer also makes the canvas rigid and it is unlikely to yield no matter how hard you tug at it. Stretching your own canvas can be difficult at first, but it is more cost-effective than purchasing pre-stretched canvases, which is a consideration for many artists.................... Blabblablablabla*¡± (Sacrafox)
Irene ended up stealthily walking away from him hoping he wouldn''t notice. After a few minutes, the group was finally ready to enter the dungeon. Magicdownunder created an opening in the waterfall with her staff preventing us from getting wet.
You have discovered the ¡°Enigma¡± Dungeon.
As it''s first discoverers, you will gain 50% extra EXP for the next 5 days.
Guhuhuhu* Brilliant! Everyone seemed quite exited but i was surprised to see that Irene seemed even more exited by the message. I guess all dragons wish to get stronger after all... After entering, we arrived at a big room filled with moss on the walls and floor. The entire place was crawling with insects seemingly eating the moss in question.
Curious, i walked up to one of the walls and identified the moss growing on it.
Plant
Species:
Sphagnum cymbifolium
Rank:
C
Nature:
Medicinal
Rarity:
Uncommon
Nothing really impressive but the 4 players immediately began gathering some of the moss. I guess adventurers gather everything they can put their hands on... For me it didn''t matter since i could always use [Gardener Touch] to grow some later. Once they had gathered enough and were satisfied, the group began setting up camp.
This first room was to be our base camp for this exploration. We had no idea how many floor were in this dungeon or what rank it was so the group took all the precautions they could before venturing any further.
Not having anything to prepare, i made use of these few minutes of free time to assign my 600 unused skill points into strength. (Haters gonna hate) I now had 1335 strength and since I had concentrated my points in a few skills instead of all over the place, I should now have enough strength to knock out monsters 2 time higher level than myself as long as I used my brain and abilities to cover up my weak areas.
The only living things that could remain unaffected by one of my punches should only be very high level monsters or players putting all their points into resistance which I was unlikely to come across. After this, since our 4 new friends still weren''t ready to go yet, I took out the little book I had purchased at Niardo''s library.
Skill Book
Skill:
Luminar
Element(s):
Lightning
Rank:
E
Rarity:
Common
Restriction:
#Lightning element affinity.
#50 Mana to activate.
Create a glowing orb of light following the caster around. Last 15 minutes.
I learned the skill since I had the feeling it would come in handy in this dungeon.
You have learned a new Active Skill [Luminar]. (Cost. 50 Stamina) (Mastery: E)
The duration and luminosity or the orb depend on your mastery of the skill.
Being mostly ready i then began looking for a suitable weapon in my inventory rings. It needed to be a heavy blunt weapon with very high durability. After a few minutes I came up with an iron club with spiky studs on the tip.
It was around 5 feet long and weighed at least 450lbs but since I had such a high amount of strength, it only felt like a weightless stick that I could swing around effortlessly. I guess I could even bash a dragon''s skull to pieces with this thing.
Minautorus Heavy Club
Minimum level:
150
Durability:
15000/15000
Damages:
(35-60)
Rarity:
Very Rare
-Restriction:
#800 Strength
-Damages multiplied by the user''s strength
That should do the job. I needed to use a weapon since I would have to fight in my human appearance. This was the cost of tagging along with players because otherwise I would have used my basilisk form to fight. Who needs weapons when they have a body that is a weapon in itself.
While we were waiting for the 4 fantastic over there, Irene and I were nonchalantly chatting near the hallway leading further in the dungeon.
¡°I hope this dungeon will be worth it. I don''t feel like fighting weak opponents again...¡± (Irene)
¡°Usually dungeons are a good way to farm EXP, I''m sure we won''t regret it huhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I hop-....ou are right.¡± (Irene)
¡°Of course i am.¡± (Kneeko)
Wait... I heard her talk while her mouth was closed. How is that possible? I was totally looking at her and didn''t see her lips move at all... Did she use telepathy?
¡°Of course you are what?¡± (Irene)
[...]
¡°Sis, can you use telepathy?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What are you talking about?! Of course I can''t...¡± (Irene)
¡°Why is he as---ng me t--t?¡± (Irene)
Uh? She did it again! After a few seconds i made 2+2 and thought about something.
¡°Sis, can you think of a word in your head? Just keep repeating it please.¡± (Kneeko) She looked at me as if i was a crazy man but did it anyway.
¡°Sighhh alright...¡± (Irene)
This time I concentrated on her as much as possible, trying to focus on the buzzing in my ears.
¡°--agon ---gon -d---on dr---n drago- drag-n dra--n dra--- drago- d-agon¡± (Irene)
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Dragon! It''s dragon! Wait, I can hear her thoughts?!!!! Then a sudden realization dawned on me. Could it be?! Quickly i removed my bandanna exposing my forehead stone to Irene before asking her to think of another word once again.
¡°Dungeon, Dungeon, Dungeon, Dungeon, Dungeon...¡± (Irene)
¡°HOLY CRAP!¡± (Kneeko)
Everybody jumped after suddenly hearing me scream and readied themselves for combat. Quickly calming down I placed my bandanna in my inventory (Won''t be wearing this anymore) GuhughuahuhGUAha*! This game keeps getting better and better guhuhu.*
¡°What was that about big bro?!¡± (Irene) She whispered to me with a worried look on her face.
¡°Did something happen? Is he alright?¡± (Irene)
¡°Hahahaha amazing!!! .. Cough cough* Sorry everybody I just saw a scary bug, everything is alright don''t worry about it.¡± (Kneeko)
This dungeon is going to be a lot of fun. Guhuhuhu* I then used the rest of our waiting time to eat some deliciously bloody meat from my inventory while being careful not to be seen by the 4 fantastic.
[15 minutes later]
¡°Alright! We will begin the exploration of the first floor! Everybody stay together, the support and magic types stay behind me, I will open the way.¡± (Sexymolly23)
magicdownunder went in the back with the painter and Irene. As for me I was with Molly and the ninja at the front. We entered the first room and found nothing. Then the second room, still nothing.
¡°Mmfff fmfmffmf fmmmmfmfmmfm mfmfmm*¡± (Bluetigurr)
¡°What did he say?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°He said that it feels like a trap...¡± (Sexymolly23)
Rumble* Rumble*
As he said that a faint rumbling could be heard in the distance and the rumbling was getting louder by the second.
¡°Brother...¡± (Irene)
¡°There''s a buttload of monsters coming our way.¡± (Irene)
¡°I know sis.¡± (Kneeko) I gripped my iron club ready for what was coming.
¡°INCOMING! READY YOURSELVES!!!¡± (Sexymolly23)
Then suddenly from the darkness appeared a giant rat as big as a pony. The beast jumped in the air ready to attack with its razor sharp teeth.
¡°Mine!¡± (Kneeko)
I took a quick step forward and bashed its skull open, embedding it into the floor with my club killing it on the spot and sending blood splatters everywhere. Then I took another step forward and did the same to the next one, and the next one, and the next one...
¡°GahagagahAGAaa! Look at all the pretty shade of red !! yAgahagaghag*!¡± (Kneeko) I hadn''t had this much fun in a while and was very glad to have come to this dungeon after all.
¡°Heyyy leave some for me as well you selfish big bro!!¡± (Irene)
¡°I can''t let him grow stronger than me without doing anything about it!¡± (Irene)
She jumped forward and began bashing giant rat skulls with her fists. Now with Irene standing next to me, we quickly advanced forward toward the direction they had came from.
[Sexymolly23 POV:]
¡°INCOMING! READY YOURSELVES!!!¡± (Sexymolly23)
As we were preparing ourselves for the incoming wave of monsters, a giant rat jumped at me making me flinch at how ugly they were. [Identify]
Monster
Species:
Giantus Ratus
Level:
65
Monster Rank:
Low
Rarity:
Common
What the fuck? The first monsters we encounter are level 65??? This dungeon is way too high level for my group.. I need to call for a retreat!!!!!!! As I was thinking of yelling to my group to retreat, one of the two NPC who had followed us here jumped forward with his iron club in hand and obliterated the giant rat with one hit.
¡°GahagagahAGAaa! Look at all the pretty shade of red !! yAgahagaghag*!¡± (Kneeko)
I won''t lie, hearing him say this gave me shivers. He killed another one, then another and another... They were mere insects to him. Who the fuck is he? By his clothes I thought he was a stupid noble who was going to quickly die on our hands but... What is going on?!
As to make things even more bizarre his little sister suddenly joined him and began ripping rats to pieces with her bare hands trying not to let her brother hoard all the prey to himself. What the hell is it that we are witnessing right now? My legs are turning into jelly...
¡°GYAAAAAaaaaaa!!!! Hahahaha Take this and that ! Yaaaa!! Quickly little sis, you are lagging behind Hahaha*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I won''t let you! Splash* Cough* cough* Heyy stop splashing blood in my face!!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Gygahgayahahahaha!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
Tug* tug* tug*
Feeling a tug on my sleeve i looked behind and saw magicdownhunder with teary eyes.
¡°I..i.i....I''m a little scared Molly...¡± (magicdownunder)
¡°Gulp*... M..m.m..Me too...¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Look at all the pretty shades of red!! This fear and excitement... I need to express how I feel into a painting.¡± (Sacrafox)
¡°Mmffmf M fmf fmmmfmf fmmfmmm mffm*¡± (Bluetigurr)
¡°Yea...¡± (Sexymolly23)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
157
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
1335
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
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Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Chapter 22 - Meeting with relatives
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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Author''s note: For those of you who absolutely need to know every little details on how the game mechanic work and how the damages are calculated here''s a quick tutorial.
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Ex: If the weapon do between 30 and 50... There''s a random factor right there.. Let''s assume that the hit we are talking about got the max which is 50.... And you have 1300 strength. Strength is a multiplier so 50 x 1300 = 65,000... (Range weapons like bows use ¡°dexterity¡± as multiplier)
Now let''s assume that the target have 200 resistance. Resistance is a divider so 65k divided by 200 = 325 damages. (The level difference between the players also affect this number.)
And that''s without taking in consideration a lot more factors like critical, armour, if the player used full strength, if the monster have an ability like dragon scales, some weapons are better against some type of creatures than others, the ¡°luck¡± stats, random skills/potions reducing damages, magic buff and debuff, etc etc etc etc.
Almost an hour and a few hundreds rats later, Irene and I stopped in a freshly cleared out room to catch our breath. I had leveled up a staggering 12 times. This place had a good amount of monsters at an ideal level for progression. What annoyed me the most was that at this rate, my next rank up would be a Rat Dragon or something.
I needed the EXP, but if there was no lizard in this dungeon, I would need to wait a very long time before ranking up again to avoid getting a shitty mammal monster rank up.
As Irene and I were sitting on the ground and relaxing before taking off again, the 4 players slowly approached us with a lot more respect in their eyes this time.
¡°The two of you... who are you? Seriously?¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°After seeing them fight like that, most people would call them monsters.¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°No one special... we just enjoy these kinds of things.¡± (Kneeko)
To me it wasn''t like we did anything weird, I thought it was because they were weak and surprised to see real strength for the first time. In reality, it was mostly due to the battle-lust we exhibited earlier that the 4 fantastic began to fear us a little.
All of them except Sacrafox. After hearing Irene and I call for a break, the painter installed his easel and began mixing paint of various color on a wooden palette. Once ready, he began to energetically strike the canvas with his paint brush like a madman.
We had blasted through the first 6 rooms of this dungeon but our surroundings were beginning to change. New layout meant new surprises and most likely new monsters.
¡°Mmmmffmfm mfmffm mffm mffmfm mfmfffm*.¡± (Bluetigurr)
What the hell? Even his thoughts are muffled? Worried I began gently tapping the stone on my forehead.
¡°By the way, what is that on your forehead? Jewelry or something?¡± (Sexymolly23) This question was obviously going to pop out eventually...
¡°Hehe* not really. In my clan, males go through a ceremony and this is the result of it. A symbol of my coming of age is what you could call it...¡± (Kneeko) I was pretty proud of my made up story so i listened to his thoughts to make sure he had bought it.
¡°Hoo.. I guess that make sense. I wonder how much it could be worth.¡± (Sexymolly23)
Feeling the heat I came out with another lie to complement my story.
¡°Interesting fact, this stone cannot be removed and if I die the stone will disappear.. Truly weird magic isn''t? Hehehehe*...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Aww. Too bad.¡± (Sexymolly23)
Asshole... Just because I''m an NPC you think you can-....... Wait wasn''t I thinking the same way until recently?! Damn, I have been a real asshole to An''dalia haven''t I?... I wonder what kind of gift could make her happy. She was cuter when she looked happy anyway.
¡°You know, since you are killing all the monsters without us, how about I invite you into our party?¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°That way we can get EXP out of them without having to do anything hehehe*¡± (Sexymolly23)
Grrr so irritating. Even tho I know that humans just keep using each others without scruple, being the one who''s being used always pisses me off. I won''t let you off that easily big guy.
¡°Ha sorry we can''t. Our mom told us to never team up with strangers. But I understand where you are coming from, we are hoarding all the EXP to ourselves. Let''s make a deal; from now on, me and my sister will let you and the others in the front to kill all the monsters from now on and we won''t intervene unless necessary. How does that sound? Deal?¡± (Kneeko) Guhuhuhu* Check mate.
¡°That fucker! We can''t deal with monster trains of this level... We simply aren''t ready for this dungeon. Without these two we would already be dead.¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Uhhmm Guys!¡± (Sexymolly23) Feeling the heat the big muscle man called out to his teammates.
¡°Mmfm fMFfmm ffm fmfmfm mmf mmffm mff?¡± (Bluetigurr)
¡°Molly, we simply aren''t ready for such a dangerous dungeon. And you two big sis Irene and Sir Kneeko. If the first floor is like this, the rest must be hellish. I estimate this dungeon to be close to rank C. As players, we can resuscitate but you two, if you die it''s the end...¡± (magicdownunder)
The group of players nodded in agreement to her words of wisdom so I played along.
¡°You know what, you are right little one. My sister is too precious to me to put her life at risk in here.¡± (Kneeko) I then threw a glance at Irene asking her to play along.
¡°Brother... Sniff* sniff* Brother loves me that much?¡± (Irene)
¡°I understand, sniff* brother. I love you too. Cry* cry*¡± (Irene)
I mentally face-palmed. As dense as ever this Irene. That must be part of her charm. Anyway her response seemed to do the trick as the players stealthily wiped their eyes. This was a bubble gum type of moment where everything seemed pink and shiny.
The only one totally oblivious to the atmosphere was Sacrafox who was still painting, alone in the corner of the room, not paying attention to us. In the end we agreed to finish clearing the first level then give up on the rest of it.
I of course had no intention of leaving until the 5 days of 50% bonus exp were over but these guys didn''t need to know that. After our short break was over, our group resumed its advance toward the next section of the dungeon.
In this section, there was a single corridor slowly descending toward the dept of the earth. It wasn''t a steep descent but a very subtle one. We walked down this long corridor for what felt like an eternity when we finally saw light.
The walls of the dungeon had some type of luminescent stones embedded into them so it wasn''t dark like one would expect, but what we could see in the distance looked a lot like sunlight. We hurriedly walked toward this shiny entrance and upon traversing the doorway, our little group was met with an unbelievable sight.
This was a gigantic room with a white ceiling. To me it looked like fluorescent light but it probably was something like magic light stone or something. The walls and floor of the room were solid granite and in the middle of this giant room stood an equally gigantic temple.
The temple was in the shape of a step pyramid like the Aztec used to build with moss and lichen growing all over it. But this wasn''t the most impressive thing about this room. The most impressive thing about this room was that it was filled with 15 meters long, giant snakes of all colours.
¡°T.t.t.There must be a hundred of them...¡± (magicdownunder)
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¡°Mmmmff fmf mfmff fmfmffm mmfm¡± (Bluetigurr)
¡°[Identify]¡± (Sexymolly23)
Monster
Species:
Beegasus Serpentus
Level:
125
Monster Rank:
Medium Low
Rarity:
Uncommon
¡°No way... Are we really still on the first floor?¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°It''s alright brave heroes! I have finished my masterpiece earlier. My painting will defeat these monsters!¡± (Sacrafox)
Ho! Are we finally going to see why this sunlight painter is with us? Maybe his class is a rare and very powerful class, even if the name itself sound weak as fuq... Curious I shimmied toward him to have a look at his painting.
It was me! More precisely a portrait of me with a creepy black aura surrounding my body, standing in a room filled with blood, gore, body parts and horror of all sort.
¡°Ghuu! What the hell is this?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Mmfmf fmfffm fmfmfmf f mfmfmf¡± (Bluetigurr)
¡°What did he say?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ha! He said, don''t bother. His style is a bit... Creepy.¡° (Sexymolly23)
¡°How does it work?¡± (Irene) Inquired Irene as curious as me as to how a painter could be of any use to us.
¡°I will explain.¡± (magicdownunder) Interjected the small cute little magician.
¡°His paintings have various effects depending on what he tried to communicate while painting it.¡± (magicdownunder)
¡°Hoo interesting.¡± (Kneeko) This was indeed interesting but seeing Irene scratching her head told me that she didn''t understand any of it. Weren''t dragons supposed to be really smart?! No wonder the Rokudan clan is crumbling.
From what I''ve seen in his painting, I imagined that Sacrafox wanted to inspire fear into these snakes. Useless to say, I had my doubts about it. Courageously, the painter entered the room and walked toward the snakes, his painting in hands.
He was holding it facing toward them and slowly walked forward, hoping the snakes would give way and safely let him through to the temple. Sadly the snakes seeing a strange human walking toward them, armed with only a painting launched in his direction and gangbanged him.
We couldn''t even help, it happened too fast. In less than 10 seconds, the painter had been swallowed. I guess the difference in level was simply too great for him.
¡°Ho well... I guess this is as far as we go... Let''s go team, we''re out!¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°He must be sad.. I hope it didn''t hurt to much. Where was his checkpoint again?¡± (magicdownunder) She said with teary eyes.
¡°It was in Niardo. We can make it in time for his resurrection in 5 days if we leave now.¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°Mmfm fmfm fmmmf f mfmfm fmmffmm¡± (Bluetigurr)
¡°Yea me too.. Fuck this dungeon. Well be back when we''re stronger. But we''re still the ones who discovered it !¡± (Sexymolly23)
¡°We.. w. We should hurry back to camp because i have school tomorrow.¡± (magicdownunder) She timidly said.
¡°Yup! Let''s go! I have work tomorrow too. You two coming with us?¡± (Sexymolly23) He said looking at us.
¡°Yes, there''s no way the two of us alone can make it through these scary snakes.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°PPrRrrrffffffffhahahahaha*¡± (Irene)
¡°Let''s go!!¡± (magicdownunder) She said now finding a regain of energy.
We walked back up the long corridor which took us another half an hour, then through the previously cleared rooms. We finally reached the camp and said our goodbyes. Irene and I pretended to leave back toward our village as the 3 remaining players disconnected, making them suddenly disappear in a white light.
¡°Sighhhhh Finally!!!....... Let''s go back down sis.¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
169
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
1335
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
180
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
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Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Chapter 23 - Busted
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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Irene and I walked back to the temple room after the players disconnected. Of course I was curious to know what was inside the temple but more than anything else, I was eyeing all this delicious reptilian EXP crawling all around.
Molly may have exaggerated by saying there was a hundred snakes, from what I could tell there was around 30 to 40 which was still a buttload of them. Since all of them were over level 100 this meant a crazy amount of EXP if you took into consideration the 50% bonus.
Since I was a basilisk, the king of all snakes, I was pretty certain to be able to simply walk by them without being attacked but to leave such a huge amount of desirable EXP behind wasn''t my style. Of course there was the issue of being outnumbered.
I may be their king but if I start killing them they won''t simply stand still and let me do it. As strong as I might be, if all these giant snakes come at me at the same time, there''s no way I can survive that. Going through my skills and items didn''t help me find a way out of this impasse either.
The only way out of this problem was to use brain over brawn. I needed to devise a tactic allowing me to kite them one at a time.
Kiting: (Gamer slang) Kiting refers to keeping an enemy chasing you while also keeping it at a range where it cannot attack you. This tactic is often used to more safely attack the enemy using a long-range attack or to distract the enemy while others attack it.
The effect looks like you have the enemy on the end of a string, kind of like a ''kite'', because you are both moving in the same direction and he''s never catching up to you. It is a generic term that applies to any game with mechanics that allow it.
Not only that but we needed a plan allowing us to kite them one at a time without alerting the other which made things even more complicated for us.
¡°Sister, I need you to tell me what you can do. Do you have any ranged skills ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I have [Inferno] and [Mana pulse]... And one more that I am not allowed to show you.¡± (Irene)
¡°What the fuck Irene! What''s the point in hiding that from me? Aren''t I your adorable brother?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I know!!! Sorry! But mother''s words are absolute. She said you can''t know of our clan''s secret techniques until you become a member of our clan.¡± (Irene)
¡°Mother doesn''t trust any outsider.. Sighh I hope brother won''t come to hate me because of that.¡± (Irene)
Sighh how annoying. I will have make do with what I know. [Inferno] is a ranged attack but only has a small reach. Depending on her mastery of the skill , it can reach from 5 to 20 meters. Then mana blast was a skill similar to my fireball but constituted of pure mana with no elements.
Taking in all these new information, my skills and my surroundings, I created fighting simulations in my head trying to single out the tactic showing the highest rate of success. My first plan was to create barriers with vines aimed at funneling them one by one like ranchers do with cattle.
That plan was a failure when I realized that I couldn''t grow vines on this granite floor. My next plan was definitely more vicious. Coming up with this kind of plan gives me shivers as to what it would be like to fight against someone as smart as me.
Not to brag or anything but I had came up with a plan that assured victory without casualty. I then ended up spending a few hours spitting in a bottle to gather as much saliva and venom as possible, then doused it all over the corridor floor leading to the snake room.
While I was doing this I sent Irene to bring me as much dirt as possible and created some piles of it here and there alongside the long corridor. Then I only had to grow various poisonous plants along the way where the snakes would be forced to rub against them.
In total, there were 30 different type of poisons used in the ¡°death corridor¡± as we now called it. We also installed a few traps and wooden spikes along the way knowing very well that they wouldn''t make too much of a difference, but it was better to over do it than not doing enough.
Once satisfied with our preparations, we walked back up the corridor and got into position. This would be a monster train like no others.
Monster trains (Dual meaning):
(1) A large group of monsters stacked near each other all following one player.
(2) A large group of monster that keep coming with no end in sight.
¡°Are you ready sister?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes big bro!¡± (Irene)
She readied herself, holding the new bastard sword I had given her. Apparently she wasn''t allowed to transform into her dragon form which made it more complicated. As for me, I had no intention of holding back. I was to Irene what the earlier players were to me, an annoyance preventing her from showing her true potential.
This annoyed me greatly but understood where Anastaria was coming from. She didn''t know if she could trust me yet, maybe I could go over to another clan and crush the Rokugans. As long as I hadn''t undergone the clan ritual, I couldn''t be fully trusted.
I seriously couldn''t blame her knowing fully well that I would have probably done the same thing in her situation. With our preparations and everything else ready, it was showtime.
¡°Cover your ears !!¡± (Kneeko)
[Basilisk Cry]
¡°KIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
The entire dungeon shook. Then sounds that could only be described as ¡°horror movie material¡± began to be heard. It was the sounds of a large amount of giant snakes hurrying toward our direction while being attacked by several traps and poisons along the way.
They truly were sounds of nightmares, enough to make a grown man wet his pants and freeze the blood in his veins. We waited 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes... The sounds kept getting closer and closer. Sweat was slowly trickling down my nose under the immense pressure of what was to come.
Sensing them getting really close, I transformed into my basilisk form. Then a few minutes later, the first snake appeared in all his glory. Well, actually he was quite wounded and was nearly dead so I abridged his suffering by biting his neck and trashing his body around like a dog with a toys.
They may have been giant snakes, but I was still 3 to 4 time bigger than them. One after the other I kept ripping them apart assisted by Irene who was spamming inferno down the corridor. Some of them put up a good fight but were nonetheless subjugated one after the other.
Having lost most of their HP due to poison, these level 100+ snakes were easy prey. What could have been an impossible battle had became a massacre. Easy pickings is what you could call them at this point.
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Me and Irene were level upping like crazy and were now totally drunk on battle-lust when something very strange happened. A scream could be heard from down the corridor. After that, no more snakes were coming. What had happened? Was there a boss snake down there that we hadn''t seen?
Our questions quickly found answers as a luminous doorway suddenly appeared next to us where there was none before. Out of the light slowly appeared the silhouette of a shadowy figure with red eyes. His body was entirely black preventing us from visually identify what it was.
¡°[Identify]¡± (Kneeko)
Monster (Kakaroto)
Species:
Egregore (Dungeon Master)
Level:
442
Monster Rank:
High
Rarity:
Very Rare
This is the information I have about Egregores in my database:
Egregore (also egregor) is an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people.
I slowly turned my head toward Irene and whispered.
¡°Sister. Gulp*... I think we''re fucked........ No wait! I ain''t going down without a fight! Bring it you fucker! [TerrorEyes]¡± (Kneeko)
Taking a fighting stance next to Irene we braced ourselves for the coming apocalypse when the dark figure began speaking instead of lashing at us.
¡°You... are monsters. Why are you killing my children?!¡± (Kakaroto)
Quickly thinking of what I could say to avoid death, my response was one only a monster could come up with. Putting my tail on Irene''s shoulder to reassure her, I then used my best acting skills.
¡°To get stronger... To kill more humans... To rain apocalypse upon this earth. ROARRRRRrrrrrr*¡± (Kneeko) Perfect role playing if you ask me.
Then seemingly reflecting on what I had just said, the dark shadowy figure stood there without talking for a few very long seconds.
¡°Why not kill humans then?¡± (Kakaroto)
Good question, but I had the perfect comeback for this one as well.
¡°To become a dragon unequaled under the heaven, I need to prey on my own kind.¡± (Kneeko)
After a few more seconds of silence, Kakaroto made a hand gesture which opened another portal filled with light.
¡°Go... If you are worthy, you shall receive strength. If you aren''t, you shall find death. This is not an offer but an order.¡± (Kakaroto)
Stuck between a rock an a hard place, Irene and I reluctantly walked through the luminous portal and got instantly transported to the deepest part of the dungeon.
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
189
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 37S 22C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
1335
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
480
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Chapter 24 - Enigma
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
A new bromance is blooming. (I''m so going to get killed for this. lol)
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Blinded by the white light, Irene and I traversed the portal leading to who knows where. It took a few seconds for our eyes to adjust to the darkness after arriving on the other side. Turning to look at where we had come from, I realized that the portal was already gone.
This was a one way trip with no way of going back the way we had come from. The high density of mana in the air seemed to indicate that we were deep in the lower levels of this annoying dungeon. We were in a small circular room with two doors on opposite sides of each other.
Normally we would have needed to decide which way to go but in this particular case it was relatively simple since one of the two massive iron doors was closed.
¡°What now? Any idea what''s going on brother?¡± (Irene)
¡°I''m a bit scared...¡± (Irene)
¡°I''m not really sure, the dungeon master may have sent us to our death.¡± (Kneeko)
I realized this probably wasn''t what she hoped to hear me say but it was the truth. We were killing all his precious monsters so he probably forced us through a shortcut toward the final dungeon boss or something. That way we couldn''t kill all of his ¡°babies¡± and be dealt with by the most powerful monster he had.
It was either that or other kinds of unpleasant surprises. He said we would potentially find death after all... Worried, I tiptoed toward the large open door to see what was on the other side with Irene following close by. What I saw was, nothing...
All there was on the other side was a large stone corridor with the ceiling so low I would almost have to crouch. The corridor was relatively large and long but the ceiling height worried me greatly. The only reason one would build a room like that would be to prevent people from ¡°jumping or flying¡± over traps.
Unsurprisingly, the floor was littered with subtle pressure plates meant to look like normal stones. Having a good idea of what this room was going to be I grabbed a few pebbles on the ground and began trowing them on the pressure plates while staying at a safe distance.
The first one triggered some iron spikes coming out of the wall in an irregular pattern. The second one triggered some giant blades coming out of the ceiling and moving like a pendulum from left to right while others were balancing from the back to the front.
There were flamethrowers coming from the floor, poisoned arrows coming from the walls, giant blades meant to decapitate and other nasty traps. Any normal person would need a week to memorize the patterns and find a way to go through.
As for me though, it wasn''t too much of an issue since I was already memorizing the pattern of each pressure plate and creating mental simulations to find how to avoid them in the most efficient way possible. After a while I ran out of pebbles and resorted to using copper coins instead.
After having triggered every single pressure plate I had already found the pattern allowing us to walk through without issues but I had a more serious problem on my hands, Irene. Every step needed to be precise and choreographed to perfection if we wanted to avoid certain death.
Irene didn''t have my photographic memory so i needed to teach her until she remembered it.
¡°One, two, one, two, jump forward, two step backward, 3 step forward and 2 to the left, 1 step back, 4 forward then 2 to the right.......¡± (Kneeko)
We were in the circular room, currently practising the movements as if it was a dance. Of course Irene kept stepping on my feet at first but after a few hours she finally began to get the gist of it. It took Irene a total of 4 hours before perfectly mastering the choreography.
Feeling confident, we walked back to the trap room and stood next to each other. I turned and looked at Irene in the eyes before presenting her with my left hand for her to hold. I then placed my right arm around her waist as if we were about to do a waltz.
¡°Now, breathe in and out slowly and relax. You have trained hard enough and will do this perfectly. Trust in yourself.¡± (Kneeko)
She nodded and exhaled loudly before looking back at me with eyes filled with determination.
¡°Let''s do this big bro!¡± (Irene)
¡°My life is in your hand brother.¡± (Irene)
¡°Go! One two tree, one two tree......¡± (Kneeko)
We were dancing beautifully, bending our bodies left and right as blades, flames and arrows were flying only a few centimetres away from our faces and vital organs. Totally ignoring these death traps we kept going like we practised and were slowly but surely working our way forward.
I grabbed Irene and made her spin around with her back bent backward barely missing an iron spike heading for her head. We continued and after a few heart stopping near misses, made our way safely to the other side of the room.
¡°Pant* pant* pant* Let''s never do that again shall we...¡± (Irene)
¡°Huhuhuhu* I thought it was quite fun actually.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Masochist!¡± (Irene)
We then walked through another door leading to a different room. This time it was a small room with a golden door on the other side. On that door were many circular disks looking a lot like the mechanism of a round multi-dial combination padlock.
Engraved on these disk were cryptic symbols and characters that seemed to have no meanings. I began fiddling with it and in less than 2 minutes i had completed the puzzle which allowed us to open the door with no difficulties.
To be honest i was quite happy with how things were turning out since I could deal with any puzzles or traps they could throw at me, but if they had thrown us in a pit filled with monsters we would have been fucked. Monsters are the hardest thing to deal with and so far we hadn''t come across any.
The next room was a simple game of giant chess, which I once again won effortlessly. Then the next one was a puzzle using colours and shapes which I cruised through with no problems. At this point I was filled with self confidence and impatient to see what our reward would be.
Hurrying forward, Irene and I finally arrived at a giant golden door engraved with drawings that I could identify as astronomy related. Some were constellations, other were things such as orbit patterns and drawings representing moon phases and eclipses...
I couldn''t understand what to do with all this. For once I was puzzled but before I began fiddling with it, the door opened by itself with a loud creaking sound. This door may not have been a puzzle after all. We then entered a massive golden room decorated with carvings and drawing.
The entire room was lit by giant torches shaped like ancient Egyptian oil lamps. A row of giant columns engraved with hieroglyphics were leading toward the giant golden statue of a winged sphinx. Silky draperies were hanging from the highly ornamented ceiling down to the floor.
¡°Is it over? Is this the treasure room or something?¡± (Irene)
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¡°I don''t know. Doesn''t feel like a room where you have to fight something...¡± (Kneeko)
I don''t like the feeling given by this room. I can''t shake the feeling of being observed by something dangerous. Having no other choice we walked forward on the red carped leading to the giant winged sphinx statue.
¡°The door must be behind this giant statue...¡± (Kneeko)
Usually sphinx don''t have wings... but i have some information about that in my database. (About 1600 bce the sphinx first appeared in the Greek world. Objects from Crete at the end of the middle Minoan period and from the shaft graves at Mycenae throughout the late Helladic age showed the sphinx characteristically winged.)
Everything seemed to indicate this statue to be incredibly old. So much gold, if we could melt it, we would be the richest people on earth. Too bad games don''t work that way. When we arrived at less than 10 meters away from the statue, a loud rumble began to be felt. We stopped and readied ourselves for anything.
I couldn''t help but be stomped by what i saw next. The giant sphinx eyes began to glow red, then the statue itself began to move. This giant thing wasn''t a statue, it was a monster all along.
¡°[Identify]¡± (Kneeko)
Monster (Enigma)
Species:
Boeotian Sphinx (Dungeon Guardian)
Level:
350
Monster Rank:
High
Rarity:
Very Rare
¡°Irene! Back away!!!¡± (Kneeko)
With the reflexes of a cat we both jumped backward and readied our weapons. This was going to be one hell of a fight!
¡°Two visitors. Answer 3 of my questions correctly and you shall be allowed to go through, answer wrongly and you shall perish.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
Guhuhuhu* I almost got scared shit-less there... Of course a sphinx will give you riddles to solve and let you through without a fight if you answer correctly. I should have known from the beginning. There''s no riddle I can''t crack so this was already a win in my mind.
¡°Go and ask ahead great guardian!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Alive without breath as cold as death; Never thirsty ever drinking, all in mail never clinking. What am i?¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°A fish!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Correct.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
Guhuhuhuhu* Easy win.
¡°Second question: Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouth-less mutters. What am i?¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°The wind!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Correct.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°Now''s your third and last question: A box without treasure, key or lid. Yet gold inside is hid. What am i?¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°Guhuhu* Easy, An egg!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Correct.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°Yayyy! We did it Irene! Let''s go get our prize !¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Brother''s the best!!!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Now''s your turn young lady.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
[...]
Ho fuck...
+++
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
189
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 36S 31C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
1335
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
480
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Chapter 25 - Enraged
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°Now''s your turn young lady.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
[...]
Irene threw a desperate look at me as her face slowly began to turn blue. At that instant, we both knew we were fucked. Who knows, maybe Irene is smarter than she looks? Gathering all the trust I could muster in my sister, I then decided to create battle simulations in my head.
Let''s be honest, Irene didn''t stand a chance in hell to get these riddles right, so I needed to begin preparing a plan B and even a plan C.
"Round she is, yet flat as a board. Altar of the lupine lords, Pearl on black velvet, jewel in the sea, unchanged but e''er changing, eternally. What is it?" (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°EEErrrrrr.......¡± (Irene)
That''s bad... Such an easy riddle yet she''s already struggling. Irene was holding her hands in between her legs and making circles on the ground with her right foot. I could tell, her mind was blank and she was beginning to panic.
When she looked at me I rolled my eyes upward trying to give her a hint but she showed me a face that clearly said ¡°uhh?¡±.
¡°Round, yet flat as a board... THIS DOESN''T MAKE ANY SENSE ARRRRRRR!!!!!!¡± (Irene)
Sighhh. From my battle simulations, our chances of winning against this sphinx were barely 23%... If Irene were smarter, all of this would have been so much easier.
"Only 30 seconds remaining." (Boeotian Sphinx)
[...]
"5-4-3-2..." (Boeotian Sphinx)
¡°FOR FUCK''S SAKE IRENE! IT''S THE MOON!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sniff* sniff* Sorry brother.. cry*¡± (Irene)
"You have failed, now prepare to die." (Boeotian Sphinx)
The giant sphinx suddenly gathered mana in his claws, then raised his front leg.
¡°ON THE GROUND!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
Irene and I threw ourselves on the ground, barely avoiding a giant wind blade which severed everything it made contact with. The giant columns supporting the ceiling slowly began to creak and fell to the ground in a loud thunderous crashing sound.
There were bits and pieces of stones flying all over the place but we didn''t have time to bother with them as the sphinx had already prepared his next attack. Our lives were in danger and hiding the clan''s technique from me shouldn''t be Irene''s priority right now so I yelled at her.
¡°We don''t have time for secrets right now!!! Take your dragon appearance and lets both fight it with everything we''ve got!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Eerrrrrr*¡± (Irene)
¡°Sorry brother, how am I supposed to tell him that I have yet to become a dragon.¡± (Irene)
¡°WHATTTTT??????!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hiiiiii* What what? I didn''t say anything !!¡± (Irene)
For fuck sake, who would have thought that I had been fooled all along. Irene wasn''t a dragon, she was still a wyvern who had yet to rank up. This made sense, this explained why Irene wasn''t particularly smart like a dragon should be...
Then it all became clear, why she was going off on her own to kill monsters while I was doing my arcane magic and why she was so competitive with me. She obviously didn''t want me to become a dragon before her. Useless to say, this was very bad news.
We once again barely avoided another attack when I finally decided to go for plan C. Running up to Irene, I transformed into my basilisk appearance, grabbed Irene with my tail and sent her flying across the room then through the door we had previously come through.
Next, I grabbed one of the pieces of broken pillars and threw it at the sphinx. Without even flinching, the sphinx destroyed the pillar into dust with a mana wave which shook the entire room.
[Poison Spit]
Finally something that made the sphinx flinch! With a small regain of confidence I lunged at the beast and bit its neck. [Viper Bite] I coiled around the beast trying to strangle it like a boa constrictor but the sphinx reacted by clawing my body like a crazy beast which made me lose HP at a scary rate.
I had no choice other than letting go of it since I would have been the one dying first if I had kept at it. [Tail Whip] ! A violent hit with my tail on its head barely managed to make it take a step back. I slithered away trying to increase the distance between us and suddenly turned around to face the beast once more.
[Death Stare] This rank S attack took 5000 mana out of my mana pool but I estimated it to be worth it. The beast roared and began trashing around visibly in pain as it began to steadily loose HP. Now completely enraged, the sphinx rushed toward me with a murderous glare in its eyes.
¡°Not yet you fucker!!¡± (Kneeko)
When the sphinx arrived only a few meters away from me I used my last hidden card, [Deadly Breath] !!! Green smoke violently exited my mouth, hitting the giant sphinx straight in the face. The sphinx jumped backward and roared once more as its fur began to melt like wax.
Quickly analyzing the situation, I had to admit it. The monster had lost 1/10 of it''s HP, while I had lost more than 2/3 of mine. This was a defeat... As I thought that, the sphinx began accumulating mana in its mouth. I could feel that what was coming was a finishing move.
I certainly didn''t want to get caught up in that attack so I turned back into my human appearance and began running toward the door where Irene was observing the scene in horror. I ran as fast as I could but the monster was about to launch its attack, there was no avoiding it.
This is where I die I guess... Is what I thought at that instant.
¡°DON''T TOUCH MY BROTHERRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Oblivion]!!!!¡± (Irene)
A very strange amalgam of energy went by over my head and toward the sphinx. When I looked over my shoulder I managed to see Irene''s technique stopping the sphinx attack. It was like her attack had disrupted the monster''s mana.
I was still running and as soon as I went through the door, it violently closed behind me in a loud bang. The guardian''s room was sealed once again and as for us, we were back to our previous position.
¡°Pant* pant* pant* FUCKKKKKKKkkk!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko) I couldn''t help but vent my frustration by punching the walls with my fists.
¡°Muhhhh Sorryy big broo wannnnn.* S-sorryy sniff* sniff*¡± (Irene)
¡°If you didn''t hide all these things from me it wouldn''t have happened that way!¡± (Kneeko)
Irene was crying with snot flowing down her nose. The sight of her made my anger dissipate and replaced it with a wish to comfort her. I walked up to her and patted her head gently.
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¡°I know I know... Mother''s words are absolute. It''s not your fault sis... Sorry big bro got angry.¡± (Kneeko)
We awkwardly hugged each other until she stopped crying, then I took out a health potion and drank it to stop my body from bleeding. After a few minutes I had regained my cool and was currently analyzing our situation.
I had poisoned it with the obscuro, viper, and death magic poison. We could simply wait until it''s almost dead then go back to finish it. With the monster HP regen rate and his huge amount of HP in general would make it a slow process but we simply had to wait after all.
I wanted to talk to Irene about the technique she had shown me and the ¡°not being a dragon¡± business but I knew she wouldn''t say a thing so I simply placed that aside for now. There would be payback later when we are out of this nightmare.
In the end, all wasn''t so bad for us. I lit a fire and began to prepare camp for the night. Tomorrow when we wake up, the sphinx will either be dead, or dying. I grabbed some meat out of my inventory and munched on it until I was satiated then went to sleep.
[The day after]
I woke up anxious to see what had happened to the sphinx. I hadn''t received any level up messages so I knew he wasn''t dead. Honestly, I was glad he wasn''t... I couldn''t wait to finish off that fucker myself with my own two han- my own tail...
I approached the door now equipped with a bunch of spell-scrolls of various kind. Once again, the door slowly opened letting a bright golden light seep through. When the door was completely opened I looked around waiting for my eyes to adjust to the bright light.
¡°No fucking way........¡± (Kneeko)
¡°How can this be?¡± (Irene)
¡°No.. It''s not ¡°how can this be¡± but more like: why didn''t I think of this possibility...¡± (Kneeko)
The giant room which should have been littered with debris, destroyed items and blood was perfectly intact. The giant columns were back to how they looked before being destroyed, the silk drapery were also perfectly restored.
But the most horrifyingly thing was that the sphinx was also back to his original position, unharmed. Like in the old MMO''s from back in the days, if you leave the room the boss get reset. So poisoning it was useless unless you stayed in the room with it until it''s dead.
You had to do the battle in one go with no interruption otherwise you would have to redo everything from the beginning.
¡°Two visitors. Answer 3 of my questions correctly and you shall be allowed to go through, answer wrongly and you shall perish.¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
Pissed off, doesn''t even begin to describe how I felt at that instant.
STATUS:
+++
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
189
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 36S 31C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
4800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
6190
STRENGTH:
1335
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
504 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+50)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
125 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
480
FAME/INFAMY:
-1700 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
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Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Chapter 26 - The power of money
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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[Irene''s POV]
It has been 9 days since then... Me and Kneeko are still in the circular room leading to the sphinx room. The atmosphere has been very strange and scary since 9 days ago. Kneeko is getting...scary. Right now I was playing a memory game developed by brother.
There were 30 pairs of cards with different symbols on them turned upside down. The game was simple, try to form the pair and make as little mistakes as possible. I didn''t understand why he asked me to do this until I received this message.
(+1) Intelligence.
I immediately understood what all of this meant. Brother thought I was too stupid and had developed a training method to help me overcome it. During my first years of life in the dragon lands I had been ridiculed, laughed at and belittled.
For a soon to be dragon I was judged inadequate and lacking. Eventually even my own clan came to despise me due to other clans teasing them because of me, a failure, being part of their clan. Here I was, being considered stupid once again but this time it was by my own brother.
The feeling made my heart bleed and sadness overcame me but then I came to realize something. Everybody has been horrifyingly mean to me because of it, but brother had instead developed a training method just for me.
A training method that could eventually help me break this curse that is my stupidity. Yes brother, I will train, train and train more!! This game you gave me, I will play until I become as smart as you! Or at least smarter than other dragons... Brother was still a brain monster after all.
Seeing that my mana was totally recovered, I raised from my sitting area and walked up to a giant mana stone at least 1 meter high and began pouring all my mana into it. This was also one of brother''s orders. Empty my mana into this big stone, play the memory game, empty mana into the stone...
I had been doing this for 9 days now but even if it was really tiring, I kept at it. Brother was also storing his mana into the stone at frequent intervals. I wonder what he intended to do with such a giant mana stone. This mana stone wasn''t something you see everyday.
Actually this stone was dwarfing any other mana stone I had ever seen in my life and even mother had probably never seen such a treasure. As amazing as this stone was, brother had simply pulled it out of nowhere and placed it there before asking me to pour my mana into it.
I still don''t know what he intends to do with so much mana but it can''t be anything good. The way brother is acting right now is... scary. There''s no other words for it. He stays in his corner all day moving his fingers around as if playing the ¡°air piano¡± and sometime lets out a lau-.
¡°Gughuhuhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
Laugh... Just like that. Every-time it gives me the shivers. Feeling that all that had been going wrong lately was my fault, I took the firm resolution of doing everything brother asks me and don''t ask or complain about anything. Making myself as small as possible, trying to disappear.
¡°I''ll show you who''s the smartest you f¡è?|! Guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
Brrrrr...* Creepy...
[Kneeko POV]
Yes yes! Then I add this here and this there... Yup.. Perfection. GGUHGUHUhuhuhuhuh*!!! You big stupid flying cat! NO ONE FUCKS WITH ME LIKE THAT! Now this is personal, I''m dealing with you on my own. I had allocated half of my points into resistance and the other half in intelligence. I''ll show you the power of money and intelligence you scum sphinx!
Do you wish to save this circle?
Yes
No
Yes!
Give a name to the spell:
[Immovable Mountain]
Finally ! Guhahahaha!* It took me 9 days, but I finally did it. It''s far from perfect but with the treasured phenacite stone and this circle, it deserved the name of Immovable Mountain. This new magic circle was a dome mana shield but not any kind of shield.
This one was my baby, a shield rendering me untouchable. Well I think... It''s not like I tested it or anything but I was convinced my codes were correct. I judged it imperfect because of its insane mana consumption. I would later need to refine it and add code allowing it to idle when there''s no attack but for now, it''s all I had time to do.
The phenacite stone was one of my treasures from AL1 hidden within my rings. This stone was a legendary artifact of an unimaginable magnitude.
Phenacite Mana Stone
Mana:
8.4/10mil
Durability:
¡Þ
Rank:
SS
Rarity:
Unique
Considered to be "God''s heart" this treasure has been changing owner countless times over the ages and is said to bring war to the country possessing it.
Nonetheless, for its unequalled mana storing capacity, this treasure has always been sought after by the most powerful people in the world.
This stone was the key piece to my revenge. Mana stones could be compared to batteries, except that instead of electricity they can store mana. Usually the highest quality mana stones can hold around 50k mana units and sometimes more in the case of some rare treasures but this phenacite stone could hold a staggering 10 million mana units.
Back in the days I had to kill a king to get my hands on it. Now thinking back on it, I had never used the stone after obtaining it. But this was about to change. I tasked Irene with constantly feeding the stone with her mana and I did the same.
The stone already had quite a bit of mana stored in it but I wanted to make sure it could sustain my crazy mana shield. I had gone overboard with my plan but if you make me angry, don''t expect any mercy from me. That winged cat has it coming.
Standing up I called out to Irene who was still playing the game I had given her. Training her intelligence was definitely what she needed to do to become a dragon but I refrained myself from voicing my intentions since I wasn''t supposed to know she wasn''t a dragon after all.
¡°Irene, pack your things up. It''s time.¡± (Kneeko)
Without a word she quickly grabbed her things and readied herself. During that time I placed the giant mana stone back in my inventory and approached the giant door once again with Irene following close behind.
¡°You stay behind me and don''t do anything. That golden asshole''s life is mine to take.¡± (Kneeko)
Once again, she silently nodded. Same as the last times, the door slowly opened blinding us with the golden light. We walked forward and stopped in the middle of the giant room. I sat on the cold ground and silently began pulling out tens of spell-scroll from my inventory and placed them in order on the ground all around me.
Next I pulled out 1 mana fast regen, 2 health and 15 mana potions and once again placed them around me. I uncorked the mana fast regen and drank it all in one go. This potion accelerated the mana regeneration speed and would come in handy later.
With all my ¡°VERY¡± expensive items strategically placed all around me I finally placed my right hand on the ground and invocated my newly created arcane circle. A 5 meters in diameter black circle appeared under us.
Next I took the giant Phenacite stone and placed it in the middle of the circle before linking them together which made the circle glow an intense blue and green colour. As soon as the shield became alimented by the mana stored in the stone, a bluish translucent dome formed over Irene and I.
With the shield activated and rapidly eating mana, I had no time to loose and asked Irene to walk in front of me where it was till in the dome yet close enough to activate the sphinx''s usual greeting.
¡°Two visitors. Answer 3 of my questions correctly and you shall be allowed to ........¡± (Boeotian Sphinx)
Time for the most expensive and unfair battle in human history to begin!!
[Death Stare]
The beast was once again under my most powerful poison magic but I wasn''t finished. [Spell-Scroll HellFire] A storm of flames engulfed the sphinx immediately after I had used the scroll. ¡°Which was worth 20 gold by the way...¡± Worth a 20 years supply of food to any poor family out there...
Drink a mana potion.
[Spell-Scroll Dark Prison]
A cage made out of black mana imprisoned the sphinx for a few seconds before getting obliterated by one of the beast''s mighty roars.
[Spell-Scroll Blizzard Storm]
[Spell-Scroll Dark Prison]
[Spell-Scroll HellFire]
Drink a mana potion.
[Spell-Scroll Dark Prison]
[Spell-Scroll HellFire]
This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.[Spell-Scroll Blizzard Storm]
[Spell-Scroll Dark Prison]
[Spell-Scroll HellFire]
Drink a mana potion.
[...]
The sphinx kept being caged, attacked, caged, attacked. But being as strong as he was the sphinx still managed to launch many powerful attacks toward Irene and I but were completely nullified by my Immovable Mountain shield.
More than 6k gold worth of items later the sphinx was pitifully limping with a mere 2% health remaining. Seeing a wounded prey blinded me with predatory instincts. I wanted to tear it apart, to see it suffer in agony as it realized I was the superior being.
I grabbed all my remaining items and stored them before deactivating the shield which had consumed a staggering 3million mana units. (Definitely need to improve this circle if I want to be able to use it in the future.)
I rapidly transformed into my giant basilisk form and faced the wounded guardian. [TerrorEyes] I hissed as I was coiling my body ready to pounce forward. This time, to my greatest satisfaction the sphinx flinched and took a step back.
¡°Not acting so mighty now bitch!¡± (Kneeko)
I launched forward and just like the first time bit its neck with [Viper Bite]. Being weakened, the sphinx felt some of the paralytic effects of the poison leaving me time to coil around its neck. Then I began tightening my grip, more and more.
The beast was clawing and contorting in all directions but it was the end for him. I had made him my prey and I never let one of my prey go unharmed. The creature''s movement began to slow down, then eventually stopped altogether. The beast was no more.
Level up! (X29)
(+6) Intelligence
New title: Sphinx Slayer
If activated, this title grant (+50 Strength)
¡°GUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!¡± (Kneeko)
At this point I wanted to trash its body around but couldn''t as the system made the giant carcass disappear and replaced it with some items.
Boeotian Sphinx''s Golden Mane
Type:
Crafting Item
Durability:
900/900
Rank:
A
Rarity:
Unique
Who knows what can be crafted with this.
That seemed to be something good, the rest was the usual stuff...
¡°Gulp*..................¡± (Irene) She was silently staring at me, not knowing what to say.
¡°Note to self: Never anger brother...¡± (Irene)
We walked around the giant pedestal where the sphinx was usually sitting and saw a small red door. We walked up to it and it opened effortlessly. What we saw behind that door defied imagination. A mountain of gold and treasures of all kind.
¡°WOAAAaaaaaaaa!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Yay! I''m rich!! No wait... I already am... Bummer... ¡° (Kneeko)
¡°What did you say?¡± (Irene)
¡°N''tin...¡± (Kneeko)
When we approached the treasure, as if to ruin my good mood Mr.Carrot came back again.. Out of a dark corner of the room the familiar black silhouette made its way toward us.
¡°No way.. Do we have to fight again?¡± (Irene)
The silent silhouette stopped a short distance from us before talking.
¡°You, have survived...¡± (Kakaroto)
¡°You sound surprised.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°No- euh- well.. I am impressed. I will now present you with two choices.¡± (Kakaroto)
Hearing this I instantly tensed up and readied myself for whatever was coming.
¡°You can either have this treasure, or this.¡± (Kakaroto) He then presented a small red box he was holding in the palm of his hand.
¡°What is it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°...........Power.¡± (Kakaroto)
¡°What kind of power?! The entertaining type or the boring ones?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I do not comprehend this question. It is......... power.¡± (Kakaroro)
Erff... This wasn''t such an easy choice. I could feel this room had many sacred artifact and relics that could be very powerful but to only present this small mysterious box as alternative was, intriguing... Ho well I''m rich already so let''s go for the mystery box.
¡°I''ll take the box.¡± (Kneeko) Mr. Carrot handed the box to me and immediately opened a portal before pointing his index toward it.
¡°Now leave and never come back. Next time I''ll kill you myself.¡± (Kakaroto)
Tss* Sore looser. Of course I''m not any better but never mind that. We hastily walked through the portal before Mr. Carrot changed his mind.
The portal transported us back to the outside. Behind us was the waterfall where the dungeon entry was hidden and all around us was the familiar forest. Irene let out a loud sigh before crumbling on the ground.
New title: Dungeon conqueror
If activated, this title grant (+100 Vitality)
¡°No more... dungeon for me...¡± (Irene)
¡°Uhh?¡± (Unknown voice)
A man wearing armour stood there, staring at us.
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
218
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 36S 31C
RACE:
Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8650
STRENGTH:
1335 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
750 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
365 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
435
FAME/INFAMY:
-1800 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler :
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Immovable Mountain
+++
Chapter 27 - The power of love
Something have been brought to my attention thank to rosidbeken2.
After fighting in the dungeon I forgot to give Kneeko:
Unarmed Mastery
Blunt Weapon Mastery
Which is now added to the status window.
(Moushiwake gozaimasen deshita.)
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After finally getting out of the dungeon, Irene and I stumbled upon a man wearing armour who seemed overly surprised by our sudden appearance. Breaking the silence I decided to greet the stranger in a friendly manner.
¡°Hello there! Hope we didn''t scare you.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°A red stone on its forehead! It''s him!! I need to subtly alert the others.¡± (Stranger)
¡°Heyy!! Hello there! Where did you two come from?... If you''ll excuse me for a minute I was looking for a discrete place to take an urgent shit hehehehe I need to go before it leaks, I''ll be right back stay right there!¡± (Stranger)
Unhappy by what I just heard I couldn''t help but show a frown. Before the man had time to leave I quickly used [Vines Hell] to immobilize him and had one of the vines making its way up the man''s mouth to prevent him from screaming (Tentacle porn style). [Identify]
OmegaFFX (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
62
Class:
Scout
Titles:
-Tracking Master
-My home is outside
-Rabbit Slayer
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Urggg.. Player. These ones couldn''t be treated lightly. [Poison spit] Now under the effects of the obscuro poison, the man was blind and slowly losing HP. Panic could be felt from him as I made my way toward him.
Next I began sticking my tongue in and out and carefully analyzed the smell/taste. 30 of them were scattered throughout the forest visibly looking for me but this wasn''t what shocked me the most. What did was the 3 familiar scent among them.
¡°I heard that even if you ¡°jumpers¡± are immortal, the penalty for dying is quite severe... What was it again, minus 50 random skill points was it? That sounds a bit harsh doesn''t...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Mmffm fmff fmfmfm mmfmfm*¡± (OmegaFFX)
¡°I didn''t do anything, nooo! Do you know how much of a pain it is to grind 50 skill points back!!!¡± (Stranger)-
¡°But you know... I am not cruel and will gladly let you live if you tell me why you people are looking for me.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh? What are you talking about brother? Are there people after you??¡± (Irene)
¡°Use your nose, there''s a bunch of them around. I actually have a really good idea of what''s going on but I am willing to give this man a chance to save his life.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Mmhhh! Mhhm hmh hmh hmhmhhmh hmhmhh!¡± (OmegaFFX)
¡°It was just a job! We usually don''t see such a large bounty so we thought this would be easy money. How am I supposed to explain all that with this thing in my mouth!! Free me dammit!¡± (OmegaFFX)
Umf... Bounty hunters. Exactly what I thought was going on. After my last visit to Niardo Kingdom and my little display of affection toward An''dalia, she must have placed a bounty on my head. And since the 4 players we met at the dungeon were heading to Niardo when we parted, they must have seen the bounty and recognized me.
Someone or something with a red stone on his forehead was really hard to miss after all. This also explained why I could smell 3 of them out in the woods. They had brought backup with them and came back to hunt me. As usual, humans were corrupt creatures always ready to betray you for money.
¡°Guhuhuhuhuhuhuahhah*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Brother? Why do you seem so happy all of a sudden?¡± (Irene)
¡°Because my little princess is thinking about me. Maybe even dreaming of me. Guhuhuhuhu* Be patient my love, I will come for you soon enough.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Urgg, I don''t know why I feel totally creeped out right now.¡± (Irene)
¡°Mmhhh! Mhhmh hmh hmhmh hhh!¡± (OmegaFFX)
¡°Yea yea! Don''t worry I won''t kill you... Irene!¡± (Kneeko)
Slash!* With one slash of Irene''s bastard sword the man lost his head.
¡°But I never mentioned anything about my sister. Guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What do we do now? Kill the rest of them?¡± (Irene)
¡°Nhaa... Humanoid DNA is trash... Let''s go to Niardo! My future wife voluntarily ignored one of my warnings. I had been very clear when I told her, ''if you send people after me, you will have to live with the consequences.'' Guhuahah!*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Deehenhay?¡± (Irene)
Totally exited by the prospect of seeing An''dalia again I rapidly used my morph ring to turn into a crow and flew away with Irene. Destination: The micro-Kingdom of Niardo.
[Two days later in Niardo]
Tonight was a full moon but the moon couldn''t be seen as the sky was covered with clouds. Under the cover of darkness a small black crow landed on the ledge of one of the castle windows. This window located on the 4th floor of the castle had nothing different from any other windows except for the smell coming from it. Lavender.
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After flying all the way back to Niardo I couldn''t wait to see my beautiful An''dalia once again. I had followed my nose and easily found her bedroom window. After a quick look around I saw 2 high level guards outside the door and confirmed that An''dalia was sound asleep on her bed.
I had butterfly in my stomach as I took human appearance and slowly walked toward her bed. I stood there for an undetermined amount of time, looking at her sleeping face. The poor child, sold by her father then losing her lover.. Guhuhu*
Is it love? I don''t know... What I do feel is that I want her. But forcefully taking her didn''t sound as interesting as trying to win her heart. Since when did I ever cared for such a thing? This girl had transformed me. ''Could she be a succubus?'' is the only thing that made sense to me.
Whether she likes it or not I''ll make her want me, love me. With that thought in mind, I began undressing myself. Removing everything excepted my underwear then slipped into the bed next to her. Shimming closer, I gently wrapped my arms around her, hugging her.
-5HP -5HP -5HP -5HP
¡°Hhmmm warhfns (incomprehensible mumble)¡± (An''dalia)
Getting poisoned by the obscuro poison, my little princess began to wake up. By fear of having her two guards coming in the way of our love I swiftly bit her neck with [Viper Bite] to paralyze her. Considering our level difference, the poisons were highly effective and she couldn''t move at all but for some reason it seemed my obscuro poison had less effect on her.
She''s probably developing a poison resistance. Guhuhu* My dear love, you are getting stronger against poison so that we can have intimate moment together without you getting poisoned each time aren''t you? Going so far just for me, just so that my poison wouldn''t stand between us.
An''dalia was now totally awake, her eyes as big as coins. Panic and fear could be seen as she laid there incapable of seeing, moving or speaking.
¡°Obscuro poison??? Kneeko!!! KYAaaaaaaaaaa No nO no! Don''t kill me WANNNNnnnnnnnn*!¡± (An''dalia)
Listening to her train of thought I gently caressed her cheeks and her hairs. Trying to show as much tenderness as possible to my poor little princess.
¡°Hello honey. Did you miss me?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°KYAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa NOOOOOOoooooooooo cry* cry* panic*¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Calm calm.. Shhh shhhh* there there...¡± (Kneeko) I said gently patting her head.
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¡°I would never hurt you my sweet princess. I''m truly sorry for paralyzing you but I wanted to talk with you without interruptions. You see, these last days without you... Well how should I say, I missed you a lot¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I want you dead! You monster!... How did he even take human appearance? Kneeko is scaryyyy wannnnnn*¡± (An''dalia)
¡°You see I intended to leave you alone, to be a good future husband and not be in the way of your self development... But I warned you didn''t I? About sending people after me?... And what did you do? Put a bounty on my head?
Bad girl, you''ve been a mean girl An''dalia. HO! I almost forgot. Here! I bought this necklace for you. I know you can''t see it but it''s a beautiful golden butterfly with a gotorite stone in it. It''s worth more than this castle you know... The gold and blue stone fit perfectly with your hairs and eyes. You are so beautiful my love.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Gulp* SCARY!!!!! SCARY!!!!! A PSYCHO! KYAAAAAAAAA I''M SCARED!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Hmm.. I was thinking about putting the heads of your siblings on your bed and leave stealthily before you wake up but I decided to be a good future husband, so I will be merciful and give you a chance. Tomorrow when you wake up, remove that bounty immediately. Be a good girl and don''t force me to scold you again. Okay?¡± (Kneeko) I whispered into her ear in a playful manner.
Nod* Nod* Nod*
¡°Anything!! But please don''t kill me or my family!! Leave me alone pleaseee cry* cry*¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Gooood girl. Pat* pat* pat*¡± (Kneeko)
I gave her a final hug followed by a ¡°rape-ish¡± kiss before putting my clothes back on. I used a detox scroll on her and quickly flew out the window before she saw me.
[10 minutes later in the outskirts of the city.]
¡°So, how did it go?¡± (Irene)
¡°Ha! You should have seen her! She was so ecstatic to see me again, she was barely able to talk! She must have placed this bounty because she wanted to see me again gnahahaha!*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It says ¡°dead or alive¡± on there... Seems a bit extreme to me.¡± (Irene)
¡°Such a passionate girl gnhahahahaha!*¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°I''m kind of glad to be his sister and not a potential lover.¡± (Irene)
¡°Well never mind that, what do we do now?¡± (Irene)
¡°Hmmm.. Mother should come back soon... I''d like to go in a pub to get a few drinks but I''m a wanted man in this city at the moment... How annoying.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°By the way do you still not know what''s inside the small box you got in the dungeon?¡± (Irene)
¡°Ho! Right... I had other things(An''dalia) on my mind and didn''t think of checking it out.¡± (Kneeko)
Then grabbing the small red box from my inventory I turned it around and looked at each side but didn''t see anything. No carvings, no nothing. What was most peculiar was that the box didn''t seem to have any lids or openings.
How do I open this thing? Did the dungeon master play a trick on me and give me a worthless piece of wood? I kept fiddling with it before losing patience and simply crushing it in my hand.
You have activated a new Interface Skill [Chimera Forge].
You can now access a new interface allowing you to design and customize your true body.
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Immovable Mountain
CHIMERA FORGE
Chapter 28 - Kneeko the demon
[A while back: An''dalia POV:]
After burying Darui''n in a shallow grave that I then covered with rocks, I made my way back home without too much difficulties. I suspected Kneeko to be the reason why I didn''t meet anyone on my way home but wasn''t sure about his motives.
How could he. Killing my beloved Darui''n ! I will never forgive him. Darui''n wasn''t really smart, neither was he rich, but he was hot as hell. He was my personal plaything always obeying me and making all the girls jealous of my relationship with him.
Kneeko robbed me of all that for no apparent reason. Since then I''ve developed a phobia of little lizards crawling around the forests. I''m sure Kneeko is still stalking, keeping an eye on me at all times. Sleep has been harder to find since then.
No one ever talked to me that way, daring to treat me like a vulgar commoner. This damned lizard! I will find a way to get back to him one day.
When I finally made it back home things began to get even worse. By my father''s reaction I understood that he wasn''t unaware of my situation. I even overheard him ordering some of his loyal men to bring something back to the dragons'' lands to avoid a war.
Everything seemed to point to the fact that I hadn''t been kidnapped but instead sold. From what I understand Darui''n must had become an annoyance after my disappearance so father sent him to his death while pretending to send him to ¡°save¡± me.
I am not as stupid as he might think, I already know everything that happened. If Darui''n were still alive, I could have plotted to have him become the king and me the queen. Even worse, when I spoke to father about Kneeko and how I needed his protection he treated me as if I was crazy.
All he did was appoint two of his strongest soldiers to my personal guard and totally ignored anything I suggested. He doesn''t realize how dangerous Kneeko truly is and that our kingdom might be in danger but I won''t give up. Next time I see Kneeko I''ll have his head!
A few days later as I had sneaked out of the palace to get some cake at my favourite shop, something horrifying happened. While walking down the street I found something startling on the ground. It was undoubtedly Darui''n''s necklace.
As soon as I saw it I immediately picked it up and as soon as I did so I got poisoned. But not by any poison, the familiar obscuro poison.
¡°Obscuro poison... k-k-k-Kneeko... i-i-i-is here... snif* snif* [Detox]¡± (An''dalia)
I''m scared... Scared!! This demon is here where I live... I''m scared!!
¡°Are you ok milady? What is going on?¡± (Bodyguard)
My bodyguards looked at me with worry in their eyes, not knowing what was happening. I was crying like a baby and even had snot flowing down my nose. Only Kneeko makes me fall to such a state. How unsightly I must be.
¡°Sniff* sniff* B-bb-b-b-Bring m..m.m.me home... I want to go home ! BRING ME BACK HOME!!! WANNNnnnnnnn!!*¡± (An''dalia) I want my daddy daddy! -DADDY! I''m scared!
¡°Yes! Milady!¡± (Bodyguard) My two bodyguards grabbed me and quickly escorted me back to the castle.
Once again father refused to believe me and simply sent a few guards to look for him. He obviously was just doing this to make me shut up and behave. I holed myself up in my room and refused to go out for a while after that.
If no one will help me, it''s up to me to do something about it. Kneeko might be a demon but jumpers are immortal, capable of slaying any type of monsters if enough rewards are offered. Let''s see how you deal with them you demon! I will send all the jumpers in the world after you.
Quest
Type:
Bounty
Difficulty:
C
Minimum rank:
D
Time limit:
N/A
The royal family offers 550 gold to those who will bring them a creature named Kneeko "dead or alive".
The creature named Kneeko may appear in many forms but can be identified by a red precious stone on its forehead.
The creature is extremely dangerous and should be approached cautiously.
Hehehehe* Let''s see how you like that Kneeko. After that I was finally able to sleep soundly for the first time in a long time. Since he''s wanted around here, he will most likely go as far away as possible to avoid capture. Knowing this felt amazing.
Everything was finally returning to normal and I was slowly getting my life back on track. But that was before this dreadful night where Kneeko ascertained his superiority and grip over me. It all began as I was soundly asleep at night.
Feeling myself gradually loosing HP I woke up and was met with darkness. Someone was holding me in his arms, slowly caressing my cheeks and hair. I tried to scream but nothing came out, I tried to move and struggle but my body was petrified, incapable of moving.
Obscuro poison??? Kneeko!!! KYAaaaaaaaaaa No nO no! Don''t kill me WANNNNnnnnnnnn!
¡°Hello honey. Did you miss me?¡± (Kneeko)
KYAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa NOOOOOOoooooooooo cry* cry*. At this point I couldn''t think clearly and was panicking, thinking my death was near. Kneeko had warned me not to send people after him, it was my fault for thinking I could free myself from this demon.
¡°Calm calm.. Shhh shhhh* there there...¡± (Kneeko)
He said gently patting my head. I quickly used detox on myself and regained my sight but my body was still paralyzed. Kneeko had gotten stronger, his poisons were more potent. The expensive poison resistance treatment I had undergone wasn''t enough yet to deal with this.
Being freed from the obscuro poison I could finally see my nemesis. A blue eyed, golden haired, tall and mindbogglingly beautiful human male was standing over me. He was gently caressing me as if I was the most precious thing in the world.
¡°I would never hurt you my sweet princess. I''m truly sorry for paralyzing you but I wanted to talk with you without interruptions. You see, these last days without you... Well how should I say, I missed you a lot¡± (Kneeko)
I want you dead! You monster!... How did he even take human appearance? Kneeko is scaryyyy wannnnnn*. Being unable to talk I kept cursing him in my head. How could a lizard have become even more beautiful than Darui''n himself?! Kneeko is a demon!!!!!
¡°You see I intended to leave you alone, to be a good future husband and not be in the way of your self development... But I warned you didn''t I? About sending people after me?... And what did you do? Put a bounty on my head?
Bad girl, you''ve been a mean girl An''dalia. HO! I almost forgot. Here! I bought this necklace for you. I know you can''t see it but it''s a beautiful golden butterfly with a gotorite stone in it. It''s worth more than this castle you know... The gold and blue stone fit perfectly with your hair and eyes. You are so beautiful my love.¡± (Kneeko)
Gulp* SCARY!!!!! SCARY!!!!! A PSYCHO! KYAAAAAAAAA I''M SCARED! I''m cursed, he''s going to eat my soul. Is he going to rape me? Rip me to pieces? Violate my virginity with his wonderfully muscular Adonis'' body? Hmm.. No wait! KYAAA!
¡°Hmm.. I was thinking about putting the heads of your siblings on your bed and leave stealthily before you wake up but I decided to be a good future husband, so I will be merciful and give you a chance. Tomorrow when you wake up, remove that bounty immediately. Be a good girl and don''t force me to scold you again. Okay?¡± (Kneeko)
This made my blood run cold throughout my body and made me muster all of my willpower to weakly nod despite the paralysis..
Nod* Nod* Nod*
Anything!! But please don''t kill me or my family!! Leave me alone pleaseee cry* cry*.
¡°Gooood girl. Pat* pat* pat*¡± (Kneeko)
He then gave me a hug, followed by a warm and tender kiss on the lips. (That ass-hole! He stole my first kiss twice!) He still thought I couldn''t see him as he got out of bed and dressed up. I could perfectly see his supple muscles flexing under the faint light of night. Was he a demon? Or an incubus ? He used a detox spell on me and quickly flew out the window.
Still in shock, I sat on my bed while hugging my pillow between my legs. I stayed silent, lost in thought. Then I turned my attention to the thing dangling on my neck. I ripped the necklace and went to throw it across the room but stopped myself.
This gorotite stone look real... That is so incredibly expensive it''s not even funny. Even a princess such as myself couldn''t afford such a treasure. How did he get his hands on this? (Kiss scene flash*) The scene where he kisses me kept flashing in my head as I touched my lips with my fingers.
¡°How dare you... Demon! No one ever treated me like this before. Totally ignoring the fact that I am a proud princess... You brute. (Kiss scene flash*)¡± (An''dalia)
[24 hours later: Back to Kneeko:]
I was still in the outskirts of Niardo, currently waiting for Irene to come back. I had sent her to confirm that the bounty had been removed and to buy a few bottles of wine. While I waited for her I decided to test this chimera forge interface I had just received.
[Chimera Forge]
Instantly, I was met with a familiar sight. A sky blue background with white circular pattern oscillating around. This was the same as when I first arrived in Alterlife2. This was the character design interface, the place where I first me-
¡°NI-CHAN!¡± (Lucy)
Met her... Still as dashing as ever with her silvery hair and eyes. She still had her silvery angel wings but instead of her usual white silk dress, this time she was wearing a Japanese schoolgirl uniform.
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¡°Heyy sis!... Long time no see, sighh... Aren''t you too old to wear this type of thing?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihihi!* I know you like these! Father told me everything. You know I designed it myself!.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Erff whatever... What am I doing here?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°This is the interface for the Chimera Forge ability that I made for you.¡± (Lucy) She bluntly said seemingly waiting for praise.
¡°You did this? So Mr.Carrot...?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yup! I did him as well hihihihi* I''m sure you noticed the Dbz reference didn''t you?? Nee nee?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Sighhh*. I should''ve guessed... Thank you I guess?! So what exactly is this Chimera Forge thing?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Simple really! Later when you evolve into a dragon or something of equal strength, there won''t be monster rank up until level 800+... So I thought of giving you this gift as a means to keep your body evolving the way you wish it to.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Hmmm.. How does it work? What can I do with it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I created this ability to be very broad... It would be simpler to answer ¡°what it cannot do.¡± You know this thing you call EXP-DNA ?!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Yea.. Does it use the same points?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yup! Same thing! Btw want to see my panties? I designed them as well.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Stay focused sis...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho right! Well you have this window here, it''s the interface. Right now you have 56,000NZ. Instead of NZ let''s call it DNA-points. Here on this list to the right you have all the DNA attributes contained in them, the possible add-on to your body. And I also made it so you can draw runes and arcane circles directly on your body. Hihihi* OP isn''t it? Praise me praise me!!!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Guhuhuhuhu* Indeed sister, you did a very good job hahahaha* Does it mean I can design circles aimed at repelling magic attacks and draw them all over my body???¡± (Kneeko) I immediately smelled the potential here.
¡°Hai! I can''t wait to see what you will do with it hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°Amazing!¡± (Kneeko)
I began looking through the possible add-on to place on my body when Lucy burst my bubble.
¡°You see this for example, ¡°Golden mantle¡±. You obtained this from the sphinx you slain in the dungeon. If you equip this to your body you will gain one of the sphinx abilities. But beware, once you rank up these changes will be reset and you will lose the DNA points you used to make these changes.¡± (Lucy)
¡°I see, so if I use all my DNA points in customization, the dragon rank-up I wish for will become distant...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Exactly! That''s why I suggest you use this ability only once you have become a dragon or something as powerful as one... Since you are over level 200 with more than 50k DNA points, you should soon reach the dragon rank bottle neck.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Urggg... My next rank up will be the last until I reach a very high level... Better not use any of my precious points for now then I guess...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Unn! That seem to be the wisest choice nii-chan...¡± (Lucy)
As I was about to say my goodbyes and delay my bodily customization, I noticed something sparkling on Lucy''s forehead. No way?! I ran and grabbed Lucy by her shoulder and lifted the hair hiding her forehead. There, was a red stone similar to mine.
¡°You!!...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ha! Right! That''s what happens when you leave without leaving me time to explain some things hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
I kept staring at her unsure of what to ask. Seeing my puzzled expression Lucy continued.
¡°This is a family heirloom, a hereditary trait you could call it. In a sense it is proof that I am your sister isn''t ?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Father did? Can you hear my thoughts???¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Can you hear mine?¡± (Lucy) Concentrating for a while I couldn''t hear anything.
¡°No...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°There you have your answer. These stones give us some necessary abilities as observers.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Observers???¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihi* Stuff you don''t need to know for now. Let just say that you don''t need to ¡°play¡± to exist in this world.. Take me for example.¡± (Lucy)
[...]
¡°You should go, your ¡°sister¡± is coming back... By the way what''s up with that? How come you never treat me as nicely as you treat her uhh? Not fairrr Ni-channnnn! I''m your real sister!!!!¡± (Lucy)
Beginning to feel annoyed I quickly closed the Chimera Forge interface and went back to where I was before, in the outskirt of Niardo. Not that my body had changed location but my consciousness certainly did for a moment there...
¡°I''m back !¡± (Irene)
¡°Hey! So? The bounty?¡± (kneeko)
¡°You were right, it''s gone... Ho! and here''s the wine you asked for.¡± (Irene)
¡°Haaa thank you!!! Guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
We then silently sat next to the fire while I ate some delicious raw sphinx meat. I allocated my unused skill points in strength and resistance as I was drinking my wine which couldn''t get me drunk because of my poison resistance. Then I began working on my new arcane circles project while Irene was still playing the memory game I had given her in the dungeon.
The wind was refreshing, the stars up above offering just enough light. Tomorrow since I am no longer wanted, I think I will go see Miss tailor and ask what she can do with my newly acquired golden sphinx mane. I felt like it would make the perfect cape for when it''s cold outside.
Next chapter, mother''s return.
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
218
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
445G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8650
STRENGTH:
1470 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
750 (+100)
SPEED:
22
DEXTERITY:
18
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+40)
LUCK:
19 (+40)
AGILITY:
19
RESISTANCE:
665 (+50)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-1800 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Immovable Mountain
CHIMERA FORGE
- Current skills -
Since most of us don''t have photographic memories,
here''s the skill tables previously shown in this FF.
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SKILLS:
Active Skill [Tail whip]. (Cost. 150 Stamina)
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your skill points and mastery of the skill.
Passive Skill [Obscuro Poison]. (Cost. N/A)
Poison anyone who touch you.
Poison effects:
#Blindness
#-10hp per seconds for 5 minutes [Max 3000HP] (Effectiveness depend on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
+25% Bonus damage if ingested.
+50% Bonus damage if injected through blood stream.
Active Skill [Poison Spit]. (Cost. N/A)
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill and the amount of stamina used.
Active Skill [Sad puppy eyes]. (Cost. N/A)
People who see your sad eyes will feel compelled to help and comfort you.
The effectiveness of this skill varies depending on your skill points (charm) and mastery of the skill. (15 minutes cool-down)
Passive Skill [Poison Resistance]. (Cost. N/A)
The effectiveness of this skill varies depending on your skill points (resistance) and mastery of the skill. (Raised by frequent exposition to toxic substances.)
Your skill [Poison Bite] has now morphed into [Viper Bite]. (Cost. 150 Stamina)
The strength of this attack varies depending on your skill points and the mastery of the skill. Use [Viper Neurotoxin]
Passive Skill [Viper Neurotoxin]. (Cost. N/A)
Poison injected via fangs. Used by the skill: [Poison Bite]
Venom effects:
#Partially paralyze the target.
#-30hp per seconds for 180 seconds [Max 5400HP] (Effectiveness depend on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
Active Skill [Vines Hell]. (Cost. N/A Mana)
Allow the user to freely manipulate fast growing vines in a 20 meters radius. The more vines you use, the more mana you will need.
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your skill points and mastery of the skill.
Active Skill [TerrorEyes]. (Cost. N/A)
People who see your devilish eyes will feel immediate fear.
The effectiveness of this skill varies depending on your mastery of the skill. (30 minutes cool-down)
Active Skill [Gardener touch]. (Cost. 200 Mana)
Allow the user to grow any plants/trees he as encountered and identified as long as they are equal or below the mastery rank. Level up the mastery to grow higher rank plants.
Active Skill [Death Stare]. (Cost. 5000 Mana)
As you activate this skill, those who make eyes contact with you will be affected by a death magic based curse acting like a poison.
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Curse effects:
#Extreme pain.
#-25hp per seconds. [Max ¡Þ HP] (This curse is permanent and will remain in effect until the target''s death. Can only be stopped by using a detox/purification spell/potion/scroll of rank (S).)
(24 hours cool-down)
Active Skill [Basilisk Cry]. (Cost. 500 Mana)
Let out a powerful scream that will attract all snake creatures in a 10 miles radius, shattering glass and enemies eardrums in the process. (Weaken enemies)
Active Skill [Deadly Breath]. (Cost. 1000 Mana)
Exhale a breath of acidic poison capable of corroding metals, dissolving fabrics and melting flesh.
The strength of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill.
Active Skill [Lightning Strike]. (Cost. 250 Mana)
Lightning based magic attack sending a bolt of lightning toward a target. (Range 15 meters)
The strength, speed and precision of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill.
Active Skill [Lightning Discharge]. (Cost. 750 Mana)
Lightning based magic attack. Send a massive electric discharge that cover a ¡°10¡± meters area around the caster.
The strength and range of this attack varies depending on your mastery of the skill.
Active Skill [Luminar]. (Cost. 50 Mana)
The duration and luminosity or the orb depend on your mastery of the skill.
Interface Skill [Arcane Library].
You can now access a new interface allowing you to design your own arcane circles.
Interface Skill [Chimera Forge].
You can now access a new interface allowing you to design and customize your true body.
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TITLES:
New title: King of the pond
If activated, this title grant (+50 Resistance)
New title: Toxic Powerhouse
If activated, this title grant (+50 Vitality)
New title: Tycoon
Condition: Having bought 30,000 gold worth of merchandise in less than two months.
If activated, this title grant (+40 Luck) (+40 Charm)
New title: Elemental Master
If activated, this title grant (+100 Intelligence)
New title: Sphinx Slayer
If activated, this title grant (+50 Strength)
New title: Dungeon conqueror
If activated, this title grant (+100 Vitality)
Chapter 29 - The hardship of beauty
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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As soon as the sun rose, Irene and I made our way up to the city for some shopping. Since I had burnt Irene''s clothes back when I did my arcane experiments, I felt obligated to buy her a new set. Okay I must admit it was also because I had business with the tailor.
Since I had been wanted in this city with a huge bounty only a few hours ago I didn''t take any chances and wore my trusty bandana to hide my forehead. Annoyingly enough, even with my bandana I seemed to be attracting a lot of unwanted attention as I walked down the road with Irene.
Women were slowly gathering around us with stars in their eyes which seemed to amuse Irene. Normally one would expect men to throw hateful looks at me out of jealousy but strangely enough, even men seemed to find me beautiful.
Walking faster, Irene and I made our way to the tailor shop and quickly entered before causing a riot.
¡°What the hell?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hehehe bro doesn''t realize how handsome you''ve become.¡± (Irene)
¡°What do you mean?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Since the dungeon, you''ve changed. You look a lot more calm and mature...¡± (Irene)
¡°I do?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sure do... Even I have changed a little bit...¡± (Irene) She said while blushing and looking embarrassed.
¡°Ho! So I wasn''t imagining it? I thought your boobs had grown quite a bi- Gurggg¡± (Kneeko)
She quickly punched me in the stomach preventing me from finishing my sentence. When I looked at her she was glaring with her face now as red as a tomato. Luckily, an old tailor lady saw and came to greet us just in time to halt her anger.
¡°Ho my... What a handsome young man. Makes my old heart flutter fuhuhu*¡± (Old Tailor Lady)
¡°Ho! Sorry for my lack of manners, my name is Gertrude, the best tailor in this city. How may I help you?¡± (Gertrude)
¡°I would like a new set of clothes for my little sister. Something nice... What I mean by that is make it comfortable, high quality and very expensive. I only want the best.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hohoho of course dear customer. Anything else?¡± (Gertrude) She then added, her eyes sparkling with greed.
¡°Yes, I have this... Can you make something high quality enough to be worthy of this material?¡± (Kneeko) I said showing her the sphinx pelt I had received after defeating it.
Boeotian Sphinx''s Golden Mane
Type:
Crafting Item
Durability:
900/900
Rank:
A
Rarity:
Unique
Who knows what can be crafted with this.
After showing her the item, Gertrude''s eyes got big and she didn''t seem able to close her mouth anymore..
¡°T-t-this is..... It must have cost you a fortune to buy such a precious thing!...¡± (Gertrude)
¡°Do you have the required qualification to work on it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Of course, I think... What do you want me to make out of it?¡± (Gertrude)
¡°I want a cape or cloak. For when it''s cold outside. I want the golden fur only on the edges around the neck area. Make the rest of it black like my outfit.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Of course I will begin immediately! Mhh I suppose money won''t be an issue?!¡± (Gertrude)
¡°Of course not. How long before it''s done?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Such a high quality product, give me at least 48 hours.¡± (Gertrude)
Nodding, I then threw a gold piece toward her as Irene and I left her establishment. Well I say leave her establishment but seeing a horde of hungry women waiting for me outside I turned around and asked Gertrude permission to use her back entrance.
This beautiful face of mine may become really annoying really fast. As we made our way to the tavern, the hungry pack of hyenas had caught on and more of them seemed to be gathering, increasing the size of the horde.
¡°Who is he? Looks like a super rich noble. And so incredibly handsome! Kyaaaa!¡± (Random girl)
¡°But who''s that girl with him?¡± (Random girl #2)
¡°I asked the tailor and she said it was his sister!¡± (Random girl)
¡°Luckyyy! I need to go get my new dress!¡± (Random girl #3)
¡°AAAhh! Me too ! Quick quick!¡± (Random girl #4)
Some of them frantically left to put on their most beautiful dresses, make-up and have their hair done. The situation was getting out of hand as we walked in the tavern to get some drinks.
New title: Don Juan
Condition: Having 20 women simultaneously falling in love with you.
If activated, this title grants (+25 Luck) (+150 Charm)
Erff. Dammit. Just what I needed, more charm... Unsure if I should activate this title at first, I then came to the conclusion that not using skill points available to me would be a dumb thing to do, so I activated it hoping these hyenas would behave themselves.
I was well aware that even if I was beautiful, what made them act this way was the total package. Money, beauty and self-confidence was a deadly poison to any woman. I knew this from my previous life as well and I had made good use of that.
But right now all I wanted was to be left alone so we asked the owner of the establishment for a private room on the second floor offering a view of the street. I then spent the entire day teaching many things to Irene. I thought her how to play reversi, majong and other brainy games for her to practice with.
While we were doing that I resumed my old training program which consisted of yoga, plant growing/eating and various dexterity games. Since mother was soon to come back, beginning a new adventure would have been pointless so we were just killing time.
That night we stayed in a luxurious inn similar to the one where Irene and I had first met. We took a warm bath and had a splendid night of sleep. As soon as we got up, it was time for breakfast. That day as well had been spent training and slowly but surely I could tell Irene was benefiting from it and so was I.
That night while we were in the hot spring we finally heard the long awaited familiar laugh.
¡°Fufufufufu* I see you are taking it easy during my absence.¡± (Anastaria) She suddenly appeared from the bath entrance in a superb black dress that seemed to be moulded from her body.. Quite revealing I might add.
¡°Mommm!!¡± (Irene) Irene suddenly jumped out of the bath and ran toward her mother.
¡°Dry yourself first! Do you know how expensive this dress is?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Buuhhh!¡± (Irene)
¡°Hello mother. Did you get what you wanted?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sure did, and I made sure not to leave any traces or witnesses behind. I must say, I am quite proud of myself fufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Glad to hear it. Want to join?¡± (Kneeko) I thought of offering since she had had a long trip and I still wasn''t ready to get out.
¡°Ho well... Why not.¡± (Anastaria) She proceeded by sensually taking off her dress while subtly throwing glances at me. That felt awkward...
¡°Looking at you my dear Kneeko... Could you have grown a bit?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Guhuhu* Aren''t you feeling the effects? Mother... Irene did as well, look at her boo- urgg¡± (Kneeko) A punch in the face prevented me from finishing my sentence.
¡°We both grew stronger by completing a dungeon mom!¡± (Irene)
¡°Hooo I am so proud of you my children.¡± (Anastaria) She added while slowly entering the water under my scrutinizing stare. Heyy! Don''t judge me... I''m still a dude... She was all naked and sexy, I lost control over my eyes for a second there.
¡°Haaaaaaa feels so gooooddd!¡± (Anastaria) We silently sat there for a few minutes, without talking.
[...]
¡°Are you both ready for our voyage?¡± (Anastaria) She inquired.
¡°Yes, tomorrow we will pick up the clothes we ordered and be ready to get on our way. Actually I can''t wait to leave this city, it''s getting tiring...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What do you mean?¡± (Anastaria) When she asked I couldn''t help but roll my eyes upward in annoyance.
¡°Hehehehe* Brother is getting really popular with the ladies in this town.. Hehehehe*¡± (Irene)
¡°Hooo... Stare* Fufufufufu* I can see why...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Erfff enough please... I only have eyes for my beloved princess.¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°Hoo? First time I hear about this... Give me the juicy details. Fufufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
She then seemed extremely curious. The kind of curiosity you would expect from a mother toward her love struck son. This situation was uncomfortable but we kept talking about what had happened and other things until early in the morning.
Obviously I pretended to be in love with the older princess (which I don''t even know the name of) since I knew that our clan leader also had a thing for An''dalia. This Damyon, our clan leader would need to learn his place. An''dalia''s mine only. I might authorize her to have a few boy toys but I forbid her from loving anyone other than me.
The day after, we woke up late due to our late night talk so we ended up missing breakfast. Instead we immediately made our way to the tailor shop to get our clothes. On the way there, the pack of hyenas quickly spotted us and began harassing me once again.
¡°Fufufufufu* It''s to this degree eh... I''m so proud of my little boy!¡± (Anastaria)
¡°That''s not funny! Mother...¡± (Kneeko)
Entering the shop, we were immediately greeted by the old Gertrude.
¡°Welcome back young masters! Ho? Greetings young madam.¡± (Gertrude)
¡°Hello, I am Anastaria, these children''s mother. Thank you for taking good care of them¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Hohoho it was my pleasure madam. Wait for me I will get what your order immediately.¡± (Gertrude)
The old lady disappeared into the back of the store and came back with a beautiful deep purple and black frilly dress. Irene''s eyes had sparks flying out of them as she laid eyes on it.
¡°Woaaaaaaaa.....¡± (Irene)
¡°Did you buy this for her?¡± (Anastaria) She whispered in my ear.
¡°Of course, nothing too expensive for my beautiful sister... Pardon me madam Gertrude but did you make sure to leave enough space in the chest area? Because my sister''s boobs are growing like craz- Gurgg*!¡± (Kneeko) One would have thought I had learned by now not to speak about them but I couldn''t help myself.
¡°Fufufufu* Seem like you''ve grown closer since I left.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°You could say that I guess...¡± (Kneeko)
While Irene was in the changing booth, Gertrude presented me with the cape I had asked for.
¡°There you go young master. This piece gave me quite a hard time. This material is extremely hard to work with. I had to infuse mana into my needles to pierce through it.¡± (Gertrude)
[Identify]
Golden Sphinx Cloak
Minimum level:
150
Durability:
800/800
Rank:
A
Rarity:
Unique
This cloak has been crafted by a highly qualified artisan and is worthy of a king. Those who see this cloak will immediately be filled with admiration and respect for the wearer.
+150 Resistance
+75 Charm
Higher chances of deflecting magic and various projectiles.
¡°Hhmmm.. Perfect, you did a very good job. How much?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Errr... Well this was quite difficult and I had to do overtime and-¡± (Gertrude)
¡°How much?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Well, for the dress ¡°which is of very high quality¡± and this custom work, how about 7 gold?¡± (Gertrude)
¡°There, 10 gold.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hooo but this is too much I can''t accept...¡± (Gertrude)
¡°Of course you can... Take it as a bonus for good customer service.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Thank you young master!!!¡± (Gertrude)
¡°Got quite a bit of money from that dungeon I see...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yea, kinda...¡± (Kneeko) I then lied.
After a few minutes Irene finally got out with a radiant smile on her lips. She was beautiful in this new dress and finally looked worthy to be called my sister. Mother was beautiful as well, no one could deny that our ¡°family¡± had looks, money, and power. Now I simply had to extend this to our entire clan.
¡°Now that you have finished shopping, how about we get on our way?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I was going to suggest the same thing. This city is getting suffocating.¡± (Kneeko)
*Rowdy hyena horde noises coming from outside *
¡°I see what you mean... Fufufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
Hmmm? What''s this smell? It''s coming from the horde of hyenas outside...
Lavender?
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
218
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8700
STRENGTH:
1470 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
755 (+100)
SPEED:
29
DEXTERITY:
27
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+265)
LUCK:
23 (+65)
AGILITY:
26
RESISTANCE:
665 (+200)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-1800 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Immovable Mountain
CHIMERA FORGE
Chapter 30 - I will miss you
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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Hmmm? What''s this smell? It''s coming from the horde of hyenas outside...
Lavender?
There''s no way I''m wrong, I can smell her from miles away. My little princess was there, outside, wishing to bid me farewell before my long journey. I knew we wouldn''t be able to see each other for a while but I was surprised that she was so forward with it.
I quickly made sure that I looked my best with my new cloak then once satisfied I walked out the front door instead of sneaking from the backdoor. Upon exiting the shop, the pack of hyenas immediately assaulted me with their ¡°Kyas¡± and questions.
Kyaaaa!* So handsome!!* Want to see me play the flute?* Wanna taste my buns?*
Out of the way you bitch!* Kyaaaaa!* Stop pushing!* What''s your favourite meal?*
Ignoring all the annoying noises, my eyes went straight to one of the 3 cloaked figures at the back of the horde. Her face immediately began to show a battle between shock, fear and surprise. I gave her a warm smile and delicately removed my bandana while maintaining eye contact with her.
¡°Hello my love.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°K-k-k...Kneeko??!¡± (An''dalia)
Uhhh* My love?* Who''s this bitch?* No wayyyy !* Who is she???*
The crowd was getting agitated as An''dalia was still battling with the sudden turn of event. Seeing the hyenas beginning to act in a threatening manner toward my dear princess, I began walking toward her while maintaining my charming smile.
¡°S-s-stay away! Guards! Kill this man!!!!!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°As you command milady!¡± (Bodyguard #1)
The bodyguards unsheathed their weapons while closing the distance between us. Having identified them the night I had paid a visit to An''dalia, I knew they were around level 150. I knew I could take them on my own so I readied myself to send the first one flying then play a little longer with the second one.
What happened next wasn''t outside of my expectation, but it was even better. A loud earth trembling sound made the two men stop dead in their track. It was a very low pitch voice that could belong to the Devil himself, a demon or even... A dragon.
¡°If you worms dare lay a finger on my son, I can guarantee you that I will turn this kingdom into ashes.¡± (Anastaria)
The two men began shaking in their armour while slowly backing away toward An''dalia. As for mother, she was elegantly making her way to my side with her eyes no longer their usual pink but now a fiery red with orange and yellow glowing patterns. Her eyes looked as if they were made out of fire.
¡°M-m-milady... This person is-¡± (Bodyguard #2)
¡°I-i know who she is... Did she call Kneeko her son?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°K-k-k-Kneeko was a dragon??? And a pure blooded one at that?... Gulp* And I went as far as placing a bounty on his head?! He definitely can destroy our kingdom if he wishes to... I''m so stupid!
I''ve never been fooled that badly ever in my life, that ass-hole was a dragon capable of changing his body into anything since the beginning! So when I thought he was a salamander, he was actually a dragon all along?
No wait, when I identified him back then it clearly said ¡°Obscuro Salamander¡±... Can he even change what the identify command sees? That would explain why he was so abnormally smart! Urggg and he''s a Rokugan at that.. The worst !!! Did they send him to bring me back to their leader?¡± (An''dalia)
With terror suddenly filling her eyes, An''dalia began backing away from us. I had to admit, she had herself come up with a very convenient story as to what had happened thus far.
¡°Let me guess, you lied to me about which princess you loved because our clan leader has a thing for her as well didn''t you?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°It''s her? I don''t see what brother likes about her...¡± (Irene)
¡°Guhuhu* It doesn''t matter anymore. An''dalia is mine and if our clan leader want to steal her from me I might have to remove him from his position.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°That''s risky talk, my son.¡± (Anastaria)
Isn''t she princess An''dalia?* Gasp!!!* I even glared at her earlier!!* We''re so dead!* Sorry your highness!* Excuse us!*
Ho.. Apparently An''dalia had built quite the reputation around the city. Good, my future wife needs to instill fear and respect to those around her. That''s how it needs to be.
¡°You all, hyenas! I wish to talk in private with my future wife, mind... getting the fuck away from us now?¡± (Kneeko)
Hiiiiiii!* Sounds of people running away*
Now with only the 6 of us, Irene, mother and I on one side, An''dalia and her two guards on the other side, we could finally have a serious conversation. Walking toward her under the nervous eyes of her guards, I stopped one arm length away from her.
¡°Were you missing me already? Such a needy future wife... huhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Y-y-you tricked me!¡± (An''dalia) She said with puffy cheeks.
¡°And a Rokugan at that... You''re the worst!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Huhuhu* Sorry, I simply wished to spend some time with you. But don''t you worry, I''ll never let our clan leader lay hands on you my sweet princess.¡± (Kneeko)
Then mother placed her hands on my shoulders before giving me a subtle wink that seemed to ask to play along with her.
¡°So this is the girl you spoke to me about... Ummff... Nothing much to see, I wonder what you see in this human. I won''t allow it! You, my peerless son can have any princess in the world, I won''t accept anything less than the best for you! She is only the 2nd princess, and her brother will become king after her father... I won''t let you marry a princess with so little importance that her own father sold her away. Now let''s go! We are going back home.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°The fuck did that bitch just say???¡± (An''dalia) Her face began to turn red with anger.
Seizing the opportunity, I stepped forward and gently held the necklace she had around her neck before whispering into her ear.
¡°I''m glad you like my present. And about what mother just said, don''t worry about it. In my heart you are the most beautiful, the most intelligent and the most desirable princess in the world. Don''t worry, I''ll definitely convince her of your worth and get her permission to marry you.
Sadly now, I need to go back to the dragons'' land so we won''t be able to see each other for a while. I promise to come back for you as soon as possible. Ho! And don''t worry about your father forcing you to marry anyone. If that happens I''ll take care of it. They may encounter unfortunate accidents... GUhhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Let''s go Kneeko! Stop wasting time with trash. We have a long journey ahead of us.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yaa brother! Leave the ugly woman behind and let''s go already!¡± (Irene)
¡°These bitches!! Me... Unworthy of Kneeko?? I am An''dalia Elmda''ril 1st of her name, 2nd princess of the Niardo kingdom! How dare they!¡± (An''dalia)
Guhuhuhu* Never expected to have a mother and a sister as wing-men but they are doing an awesome job at it. Nothing like telling a woman that she isn''t worthy of something to make her want it even if she didn''t before. It''s all about wanting to prove them wrong.
¡°Alright I''m coming. Farewell my sweet love.¡± (Kneeko)
Taking advantage of her attention being directed somewhere else, I leaned forward and gently kissed her on the cheek. She turned beet red and became as stiff as an iron pipe.
-5HP -5HP -5HP -5HP
¡°Keep working on that poison resistance will you? I feel bad for poisoning you every-time. [Sad Puppy Eyes]¡± (Kneeko)
I don''t know if it was because of the kiss, or because of my recent boost of charm points but at the sight of my new S.P.E 2.0, An''dalia lost all strength in her legs and fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes... She was panting and heaving like a a runner after a marathon.
Satisfied with her reaction, I then walked away without even looking back once like a total bad-ass.
¡°Fufufufu* Hooked.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°You think?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You need a woman to know the heart of another''. She''s totally hooked. Fufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Good! Hooo.. That makes me think. Do you know a creature with the ability to secrete something like an aphrodisiac? Guhuhuhu* Ho wait.. Nhaa that would still count as being coerced into it.. Nevermind that mother.¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°But you know, I am worried about the fact that she is the princess Damyon enamored himself of. This is sure to become trouble later and don''t go thinking Damyon is a push-over. He is the leader of our clan after all. One wrong move with him and you are dead.¡± (Anastaria)
And just like that we departed for our long journey toward the dragons'' land. I was surprised when I saw that mother had bought a 4 horse carriage and hired 20 soldiers since I was expecting to fly there. Mother simply said that is was to preserve our image and that I still needed time to become a dragon before reaching there.
We took off with our escort and slowly made our way out of the Niardo kingdom. Irene was like usual, busy playing her memory games. Anastaria asked her what it was all about and she simply answered that is was a secret training given by me to remove her curse. (She still thinks stupidity is a curse...)
As for me I had already resumed my work on my new arcane circles. It''s still far from done so I will keep the secret on what I am doing for now. Arcane circles are surprisingly a lot of work. You may understand the language perfectly, but creating a program will still take you a long time.
I had been waiting to be alone and far away from Niardo before asking what I have had on my mind since mother came back, so now seemed like the perfect time.
¡°That treasure you went to get... Weren''t you supposed to give it to me? I''m just curious.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes, I guess now is the perfect time.¡± (Anastaria)
She then pulled a giant monster core out of her rucksack. It was as big as a human head, red and pulsating a warm red light. Seeing this core I didn''t even need to identify it to know what I was looking at. No way... A dragon core?
Monster core (Irya)
Species:
Aurora Dragon
Level:
435
Monster Rank:
High
Rarity:
Unique
¡°Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!! LEVEL 435????????¡± (Kneeko) I couldn''t hide my surprise.
¡°SSShhhhhh* Keep it down will you. Absorb this quickly. If we are found with this, there''s no telling the trouble we could get in.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Irya?¡± (Kneeko)
As soon as I muttered that name Anastaria''s face distorted in a display of emotional fight. Anger was battling it out with sadness. What shocked me the most was to see Irene crying as well, trying to do it silently not to be noticed. After regaining her usual cool, mother told me about the owner of this core.
Irya was her first daughter, Irene''s sister. From what she told me I understood that she was a rare genius with a unique and rare ability. She had iridescent scales which were harder than anything known to men. Useless to say that she was hated by dragons of other clans. Because of her, the Rokugan clan was slowly rising up in power.
No proof of it had ever been found but Anastaria knew that the ones responsible for her death were dragons from rival clans. Fearing for the life of her youngest, dumbest daughter, Anastaria had left the dragons'' land and stayed low, always changing locations.
When she met me she saw an opportunity for a second matchup. This made me think that the same could happen to me if I went there. Maybe I should turn around and disappear as well. But the image of An''dalia being groped by our disgusting clan leader angered me to no end. (Not that I have ever met him)
My only thought at the moment was that I needed to get stronger. The most powerful being in this world if necessary. Since I couldn''t eat such a big core in my human appearance, and couldn''t turn into my true form because of all these soldiers around, I quickly hid the core in my inventory for later when I am alone. Our trip would be a training camp of some sort. Where will she bring us? A nest of wyverns? Hoo that would be so cool!
¡°Mother! Do you know the location of a low level wyvern nest somewhere? That would be the best for my training don''t you think¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufu* I have something better. But it''s a secret. Fufufufu*¡± (Anastaria) She said in a playful manner. She''s the most secretive person I''ve ever met. But this time, it was different.
¡°I can''t wait to see his reaction when I bring him to a fully grown dragon... Fufufuufufu!*¡± (Anastaria)
UUUUUUUUHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!*
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
218
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8700
STRENGTH:
1470 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
755 (+100)
SPEED:
29
DEXTERITY:
27
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+265)
LUCK:
23 (+65)
AGILITY:
26
RESISTANCE:
665 (+200)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-1800 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
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Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Immovable Mountain
CHIMERA FORGE
Chapter 31 - Chronicle of the iridescent dragoness
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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[Chronicle of the iridescent dragoness]
A few years back in the dragons'' land, a young woman was walking down a large cobblestone road leading to a large cave entrance. All around, giant snow capped mountains could be seen with many twisting and turning cobblestone roads going in all directions.
The landscape was barren if not for the occasional bush here and there in area protected from the cold wind. In the distance a large lake could been seen, so big it could be mistaken for an ocean. The lake was entirely covered with a permanent toxic sulphuric fog which was caused by volcanic activity in the area.
Only highly resistant monsters could live in this lake since the water was more like sulphuric acid than pure glacier water. A river of lava was flowing through the landscape down to said lake, creating a big cloud of vapour and a constant rumbling of the earth.
The young lady had beautiful dark chocolate brown hair, pink reddish eyes and wore a simple brown and yellow dress going down to her ankles. The woman appeared to be in her early 20''s betraying her 30 years of age but for a dragon like herself, 30 years old was still quite young.
Her mother was almost a 1000 years old and still looked to be in her 30''s after all. The young lady was walking, clearly knowing where she was heading judging by the confidence in her walking speed. After climbing the 500 stairs leading to the giant cave, the young lady called out to someone.
¡°Mom! I''m back!¡± (Irya)
Out of the darkness of the deep cave came a dark silhouette elegantly walking toward the young lady. Upon reaching the sunlight, a young strikingly beautiful woman appeared wearing a black t-top with a pair of short shorts that seemed too tight for common decency.
¡°Welcome back honey. How was school today?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Boring... Why do we have to learn this continent''s history at school? They could simply give us history books to study on our own instead of wasting our time at school... Time I spend there is time I can''t do my own research here at home.¡± (Irya)
¡°Fufufu* Not all dragons are as smart as my baby girl.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Mom... I''m not the baby anymore you know that!¡± (Irya)
¡°Riiiyaaa big shisss! (Irya big sis.)¡± (Irene)
Out of the depth of the cave came running a young toddler named Irene. She was barely 1 and a half years old and had just recently undergone the clan''s ceremony so she was still clumsily learning to use her humanoid body. The young Irene jumped in her big sister''s arms, eyes filled with excitement.
¡°Hello baby sisss! Woaaa you are growing so incredibly fast. Soon, I won''t be able to lift you up if you keep this up¡± (Irya)
¡°Buhhh! Irnn ish not eevee!! (Buhh Irene is not heavy!!)¡± (Irene)
¡°Not Irnn.. Irene!.. You need to at least pronounce your name properly if you don''t want other dragons to keep mocking you.¡± (Irya)
¡°BUUHhhhhhhhhhhhh! Other shildren arrh meeennn! (Other children are mean.)¡± (Irene)
¡°Fufufu* She''s still young, she will grow out of it soon enough.¡± (Anastaria)
Anastaria, not only divinely beautiful was also among the more powerful dragons in her clan and was therefore well respected among her other clansmen. Things being as they are, she was equally hated by the other clans because of her self-confidence and pride in her clan.
She had been blessed with a genius daughter the like is seen only once every millennium. She was already highly qualified in magic and had became well known for her runic creations. She had kept most of her research secret since she was currently working on runic scripts capable of boosting the strength of her other clan members.
It was obvious to everyone that the Rokugans were slowly rising in power and would potentially become one of the top 3 dragon clans. Sadly for Irene, she hadn''t been blessed with incredible intelligence and was only living in her sister''s shadow.
She was still young and still had time to improve but all seemed to indicate that she wasn''t promised a brilliant future. Nonetheless, her parents loved her unconditionally and didn''t care about such things as long as she was happy and healthy.
¡°Hoho! What do we have here? Aren''t these the 3 most beautiful females on the face of the earth?¡± (Zevron)
¡°DADDY!¡± (Irene)
Irene immediately jumped down from her big sister''s arms and ran toward the tall man who had just entered the cave. At 6¡±9, this man was a giant compared to most humans. With long black hair flowing down his back and fiery red eyes, this intimidating man emanated power and nobility.
This man was Anastaria partner. They weren''t husband and wife since there was no such thing as marriage among dragons. Instead of having multiple partners like most powerful females, Anastaria had always stayed faithfully monogamous, consenting to copulate exclusively with this one male.
This male''s name was Zevron, a member of the Nizukti clan which was among the tree most powerful dragon clans. Their relationship was considered strange by other dragons point of view as dragons are usually polygamous and quite promiscuous by nature.
Zevron wasn''t as powerful as Anastaria but made up for it with his fatherly skills. He was the type of father to indulge each of his children whims and dedicated all of his free time to his daughters. As the most responsible parental figure, Anastaria was the one in charge of disciplining them and she did her job with an iron fist.
They had stopped sending Irene to school and began home schooling her since she was constantly coming back with horrible injuries. Having tried everything to make the bullying stop, they had simply decided to raise her at home instead of creating more conflicts between clans.
Word had gone around that Irya had beaten up half to death some of the bullies who were constantly bullying her little sister making tension between clans flare up in an explosive manner. Irya was by all definitions a scholar but with her terrifying fighting ability was no push over either.
Some even saw her as being qualified enough to become the next clan leader in the future. Irya was born with a rare ability. Her white scales were shimmering with all the colours of the rainbow giving the same effect as an oil spill on top of a lake.
Boasting an incredible defence ability that only dragons twice her level could breach, she was often sent to dangerous locations where having the hardest scales allowed her to successfully accomplish her missions. Irya had piled up the accomplishments and the Rokugan began to grow more confident during clan meetings.
A few weeks later, Damyon the Rokugan''s clan leader assigned Irya another mission. The objective was to deal with a pack of wild Mangamyrs which were wrecking amok near their western border, attracting unwanted attention in the process.
Mangamyr were a race of giant wolves inspired from Norse mythology having great intelligence, powerful canines and claws capable of piercing through metal and the ability to wield wind magic. No need to say, Irya''s scales were a big asset against such opponents and explained why she had received the job in the first place.
The next day when Irya left for her mission, her father suddenly decided to join her since he wasn''t busy with anything. This was an occasion for him to spend some precious time with his adored daughter and see her in action. Seeing Irya fight was always an interesting event.
The both of them then left in a good mood ready for an entertaining day of hunting near the border. It would take them around 4 days to finish their task and come back so they took the time to bid farewell to Anastaria who had to stay behind to take care of Irene.
¡°Be careful on your way and take good care of our daughter big man.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Hoho* You know I would lay my life down for my family. And you Irene be nice to your mother. If you do your homework properly I may have a gift for you when I return.¡± (Zevron)
¡°Geeefff Yayyy! Luv you daddy! (A gift, yay! I love you daddy.)¡± (Irene)
¡°Fufufufu* You spoil her way too much. Come on, go and have fun. Irya, make sure to be careful out there alright?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Hehehe You know me mother. A group of mangamyr can''t even put a scratch on me hehehe*. I will do this quickly and come back, my research is finally bearing fruit. I even theorized that monster rank up may be influenced by the creatures we kill during our wyvern stage. That would explain why all the wyverns hunting around the lake seem to become aquatic dragons.¡± (Irya)
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¡°Fufufu* That sounds interesting indeed but it''s probably just coincidences. What I see true potential in is your runic experiments. I am convinced that you will one day succeed in creating a rune capable of making our clan stronger. I believe in you my dear little genius daughter.¡± (Anastaria) She said showing a smile filled with pride.
¡°You know I don''t like being called a genius... Do you know how hard I need to work to understand these cryptic writings?!¡± (Irya)
¡°Alright! Let''s go now otherwise we will never make it there before dark.¡± (Zevron)
¡°Yes father. Goodbye mother, little sis.¡± (Irya)
¡°Bai bai big shish!! (Bye bye big sis.)¡± (Irene)
¡°Bye bye.¡± (Anastaria)
Anastaria stood at the entrance of the cave with Irene in her arms, watching her man and daughter fly away westward to accomplish their duties to the clan. Anastaria wasn''t worried, this was a familiar situation for her. At least this time her daughter was accompanied by someone she fully trusted.
3 days later the unimaginable happened. Cirya, a friend of hers ran inside the family cave with a panicked expression on her face.
¡°ASTA!!! QUICKLY COME!¡± (Cirya)
¡°What happened? What''s the commotion?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I-i-it''s your daughter... Something bad happened!¡± (Cirya)
With panic in her hearth, Anastaria followed her childhood friend with Irene in her arms. After flying 300 meters from her cave entrance, Anastaria saw a long trail of blood tens of kilometres long. Someone heavily injured had visibly tried to reach the cave but failed, dying only 300 meters away from their destination. At the end of the blood trail laid a glowing, pulsating core.
¡°N-.... no.. C-c-Can''t be...¡± (Anastaria) The usually strong and stoic Anastaria suddenly flailed around seemingly unable to remain in a standing position. She fell on the ground with her arms hanging lifelessly beside her body.
Tears began to fill her eyes and eventually trickled down her face like a powerful torrent of emotional distress. Her friend Cirya held her in her arms as the no longer solid Anastaria broke down, her spirit shattered.
¡°Mommy? Where ish shis? (Mommy? Where is sis?)¡± (Irene)
¡° NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo IIRRRYAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cry* Cry* Cry*¡± (Anastaria)
--
The Rokugans sent people to investigate and try to locate Zevron but all seemed to indicate that he had stayed behind to fight whatever they encountered, trying to save his daughter''s life by having her run away but had also ended up dying in the process.
Anastaria remained isolated in her cave for a long time after these events and even neglected Irene who luckily ended up having Cirya look after her. Being as strong as she is, Anastaria ended up snapping out of it and came to the conclusion that the only way to protect her only remaining family (Irene) was to leave the dragons'' land and never come back.
So one night under the full moon, Anastaria flew away with Irene in her arms never looking back to the lands that had taken away everything she ever loved.
It is only 2 years later that she came to seek revenge and think of ways to get back everything that had been taken away from her. It is then that she made the faithful encounter with Kneeko. The similarities between him and Irya were simply too much to ignore. Her maternal instincts immediately took over her stern and unwavering outward appearance.
Anastaria had been given a second chance at revenge and at creating an happy family life.
--
"--om. m-m... Mom wake up!" (Irene)
Slowly opening her eyes Anastaria wiped out a tear as she sat up. They were soon to reach a small town where she would be able to rest, hopefully dreaming about happier memories.
"Are you alright mother?" (Kneeko) I inquired.
"Yes my son, just a weird dream. Don''t let it bother you." (Anastaria)
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
218
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8700
STRENGTH:
1470 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
755 (+100)
SPEED:
29
DEXTERITY:
27
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+265)
LUCK:
23 (+65)
AGILITY:
26
RESISTANCE:
665 (+200)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-1800 (Mostly Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Spoiler : Basilisk Cry (D)
Deadly Breath ?
Death Stare (S)
Gardener touch (B)
Lightning Strike (E)
Lightning Discharge (E)
Luminar (E)
Poison Spit (D)
Sad puppy eyes (B)
Tail Whip (B)
TerrorEyes (B)
Vines Hell (D)
Viper Bite ?
ARCANE LIBRARY:
Spoiler : Arcane FireBall
Immovable Mountain
CHIMERA FORGE
Chapter 32 - Zombies and trumpets
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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[One week after leaving Niardo]
Today was a horrible day for travelling. Storm and heavy rain had plagued our journey as our carriage kept getting stuck in the muddy roads. Since the hired soldiers were cold, wet and tired we decided to stop for today and resume our journey once the storm was gone.
Mother, Irene and I didn''t feel that bothered by it since we were still dry and warm inside the carriage but we felt that exhausting our escort would only slow us down in the long run. During this week of travelling I had finally finished my new arcane project.
I decided to erase my fireball circle and redo it from the beginning but differently. You see, when you stack two circle on top of each other you obtain a totally different circle. Most of the time this would create a giant explosion but I had thought of something very smart about that.
I had created a new fireball which I called firebolt this time as well as earthbolt, waterbolt, windbolt etc. The most important aspect of these new circles was that they could be stacked up on top of each other allowing me to create different effects.
In the standard magic system there is no such thing as a water + fire spell since they should both cancel each others but with my new circles, I could cast waterbolt and firebolt on top of each other creating a new circle allowing me to launch a totally new type of attack unseen until now.
After some quick testing I discovered that water + fire launched a highly explosive steam based attack, wind + earth seemed to create some type of sand storm attack which could probably rip people skin to shred as if you used sand paper on them.
There were many more combinations but I already had proved that it was indeed possible. Next I needed to test if I could stack more than 2 circles together. Can you imagine a fire + water + wind attack ? Who know what it would end up as.. Maybe a major explosive failure, but I was still curious to try.
I still didn''t understand how to create LightningBolt, FrostBolt, MagmaBolt etc but my research was progressing at a good speed in that area. Then I could probably create a DemonicBolt, a ShadowBolt, DeathBolt and basically a ¡°Bolt¡± attack from all the elements available.
Now when it come to the dragon core... Irya''s core. I still hadn''t consumed it yet and I had a very good reason for that. If I consumed it now there would be no guarantee that I would be given a dragon body with her famous iridescent scales.
I could even end up wasting her precious EXP-DNA into something else. The only way to guarantee that I would get her high tier scales ability was to consume her only after ranking up as a dragon. It''s really simple really, let me explain.
Sister Lucy already told me that at level 200+ and with over 50k EXP-DNA I was already in the dragon bracket. I knew that mother was leading me to a fully grown dragon therefore my new rank up was going to at least offer me 1 dragon to rank up as at a minimum.
Even if it''s a shitty dragon, it doesn''t matter now that I have the chimera ability since I can simply change what I don''t like and add what I want. I could transform a bad dragon into an OP dragon as I wanted. So if I consumed Irya after my rank up I could simply add her iridescent scales to my body without the randomness coming with the usual rank up.
My plan was now very simple and effective. Kill the incoming dragon, rank up, then consume everything with an ability I wish to get. If my calculations are correct, I should be strong enough by the time we reach the dragon lands to survive what is to come.
As night approached the soldiers quickly began to assemble the tents and lit a fire to cook the food. Since I was quite hungry and ate more than all these soldiers combined, I decided to go hunt in the forest for a larger prey to eat.
Flicking my tongue in and out I inspected everything in the forest but couldn''t find exactly what I was looking for. Turning into a falcon I then took off into the air to cover more ground more quickly. As I was flying over a certain part of the forest I ended up catching the smell of blood.
A lot of blood, something either big or many of them had died at the same place. Curious I landed near the area in question and began to scout the area. There, in the forest, laid a pile of rotting corpses. Tens of them all in a 1 kilometre radius.
It felt as if a battle had taken place there but all I could find were the bodies of various monsters of all kinds. None of them seemed to be from a pack or a group of some kind but instead seemed to be random animals of the forest who all ended up dying at the same place.
Some bodies were fresh, while other were old and highly decomposed. This evidence seemed to indicate that something living in this area was continuously killing everything infringing into its territory. Could I have finally found a monster worth hunting?
I smelled the air and waited but there was no movement of life sign to be found. Puzzled I simply stayed there and observed the corpses closely. Those which were in a more advanced state of decomposition all had something in common. A plant seemed to be growing from their body.
[Identify]
Plant
Species:
Fremansia (aka Zombie''s Trumpet)
Rank:
A
Nature:
Parasitic
Rarity:
Very Rare
Hoo? Parasitic? Am I in danger right now? Now worried I backed away and inspect my status. No poison, no status effect on any kind. I was unaffected by whatever this plant was supposed to do. Not having any information about this peculiar plant I quickly opened a web browser window and did a quick research.
Not finding anything at first I finally found what I was looking for in the Alterlife forum. A group of players had encountered this said ¡°Zombie''s trumpet¡± and described their experience.
My friends and I were in an exploration quest in the demon lands when we came across a monster cemetery. Hundreds of monsters laid on the ground perfuming the air with the putrid smell of rotting flesh. Unfazed, my group and I opted to have our scout go ahead and report the situation.
We were really surprised when our scout went to inspect one of the dead bodies and simply changed for no reason. He wasn''t answering anymore and seemed to simply wander around looking for something. We followed him from a safe distance and after an hour saw him sit on the ground and remain there, unresponsive for hours.
The man eventually disconnected and told us via e-mail they he had lost the control of his avatar and had no other choice than wait for death. When we asked him what had happened he simply said that he had felt a slight pain in his chest before his body began to walk on its own.
Wanting to know more, we ended up sending more men to investigate and every-time the same thing would happen. Luckily, each time we would gather important information and begin to understand what was going on.
What we concluded was that it was all caused by a single plant. The Fremansia (aka Zombie''s Trumpet). This highly dangerous plant has trumpet shaped flowers capable of moving around the same way sunflowers can follow the sun but the zombie''s trumpets follow body heat instead.
When you get at a certain distance from this plant, it aims at you by tracking your body-heat then launches a bunch of small needles (which are its seeds). These needles embed themselves into your skin and somehow take control over your body via poison or something else.
Once the plant takes over your body, it will lead you in circles until it finds a suitable area with plenty of sunlight, good soil and water. Once satisfied with the new location you will simply be stuck, unable to move until you die of dehydration.
The seed embedded into your skin will then begin to germinate and use your decomposing body as nutrient for its growth. After that the cycle repeats itself. New flowers would bloom and wait for a target to walk close by, then infect it.
If you see many corpses with purple flowers growing out of them, (STAY AWAY).
Guhuhuhuhu* Ho well... Looks like I ended up finding something very good for my arsenal. My gardener touch was rank B and this plant was rank A so I couldn''t grow them immediately but in the future this could be a very vicious way of decimating a town or a group of enemies...
I realized how lucky I had been for being cold blooded. Since this plant was targeting via body-heat, me who didn''t have any was immune against their attacks. It also reminded me to be more careful in the future since I wouldn''t always be this lucky.
A little bit shaken by my near death experience I settled for smaller prey but consumed a large amount of them to compensate. I would love to tell the tale of an epic battle between me and my food but it would have been exaggerated.
What I did looked more like someone going berry picking in the forest. All the creatures I encountered were killed as fast as I could eat them. Satiated I went back to camp to resume the game of mahjong currently going on between Irene, mother and I.
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Two days later we were still in the carriage, bored to death... Irene and I were currently playing the memory game together which wasn''t really fair to Irene but I had no intention of loosing on purpose. With that being said I immediately noticed that she had greatly improved.
She was very dedicated to her training and it had begun to show great results. Soon I would give her some riddles to figure out and see how she does. As I was playing with Irene, I kept growing plants trying to rank up my gardener touch to rank A. I couldn''t wait to play with my new toy after all...
Bandits!* We''re under attack!* Everyone in formation!* Protect the VIP''s !* Sound of soldiers yelling*
¡°Sighh... So noisy outside!!!!! Can''t they shut up a little?¡± (Kneeko) *ARRRGGGggggg!
¡°Can''t help it. Humans have a tendency for being loud...¡± (Anastaria) *HAAAaaaaaaaa! MY ARM!!
¡°Buhhhh Brother is too good at this game, not fair!¡± (Irene) *HelP! Help!!! GUARRrgggg
¡°Stop complaining and keep training sis.¡± (Kneeko) *There''s too many!!!! Stay in formatioN!!! GUAAAaaaaaa!
¡°BUHhhH!!!!!¡± (Irene) *Raise your shields!!! *Mommy I''m scared!!!!
¡°Come on now, it''s your turn to play.¡± (Kneeko) *Gurgle *Gurglee... CAPTAIN NO!!!!
[...]
¡°Sighhh* ALRIGHT ALRIGHT! I get it! Sighhhh* Useless soldiers. If I want silence looks like I''ll need to deal with this problem myself.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufu* Have fun!¡± (Anastaria)
¡°You''re kidding right? Trash human DNA ain''t worth celebrating over... Sighhh*¡± (Kneeko)
Angered I exited the carriage and saw most of our soldiers laying dead on the ground with the rest fighting bandits all around the carriage. I walked up the the nearest bandit and grabbed his face with my right hand. [Arcane FireBolt + WaterBolt = SteamBolt, power 5%] BOOOMmmmm!*
The man''s head exploded in thousands of tiny pieces. Some of the bandits who saw the scene began to converge toward me with daggers in their eyes.
¡°Hey you soldier, get some distance away from me otherwise I''m not responsible for your death.¡± (Kneeko)
The scene which then unfolded before my eyes was that of our soldiers running away from me while the bandits were doing the exact opposite. When the bandits were close enough I unleashed [Lightning Discharge]. A 10 meters area around me suddenly got engulfed by lighting.
The air was filled with a smell of BBQ mixed with the screams of the poor bandits stupid enough to attack me. Lightning Discharge being only mastered at Rank E didn''t kill any of them but they were now on the ground trying to get back up after the shock.
Not waiting for them to get up I immediately used [Vines Hell] and immobilized them on the ground. With the battle already won, I took my time to pull out my trusted ¡°Minotaurus Heavy Club¡± and began bashing the bandits'' skulls one at a time. Under the screams and pleas of these poor bastards I killed one, then two and three.
Fame +150
Fame +150
Fame +150
Level Up!
Looks like killing bandits is good for my karma. Poor bandits, how desperate do you need to be to choose such a dangerous job... With all these players around trying to get good karma, the life of a bandit was certainly a short one. After killing 12 bandits my karma was now back to neutral (0) and I decided it was enough.
Turning around to look at the remaining soldiers what I saw was pitiful. 6 grown ass men, soldiers at that, were hiding under the carriage looking at me with terror in their eyes.
¡°Are you going to let me do all of your work?¡± (Kneeko)
Suddenly realizing that the area was no longer dangerous, the soldier ran out and began to stab the remaining bandits as I slowly walked back to the carriage.
Stab* Critical -750HP
¡°Urggg!*¡± (Kneeko)
Something stabbed me in the back, quickly turning around with my club in hand I barely managed to see a blurry figure disappearing to my right.
Stab* Critical -570HP
Ghuuu!* I know this feeling. A speed build assassin. Each time you turn, they move around you and continuously stab you in the back with their sneaky techniques always trying to go for critical hits. How dare he!!! Does he think that since I have no speed points that I won''t be able to deal with him?
He should have ran away while he had the chance. Now that I have selected him as my prey, there is no future for him anymore. I will track him down to the end of the earth if I need to but I will have his head on a platter for injuring me. [Basilisk Cry]
¡°KIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
219
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Bolt Basilisk (Rare Variant)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8700
STRENGTH:
1470 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
755 (+100)
SPEED:
29
DEXTERITY:
27
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+265)
LUCK:
23 (+65)
AGILITY:
26
RESISTANCE:
665 (+200)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
15
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 33 - When shit hit the fan (Part1)
[Assassin POV:]
We received word that a convoy transporting 3 rich nobles was to come our way. Protected by only 20 soldiers, this was a rare opportunity to fill our empty treasury. Being a bandit is difficult but we had survived thus far by being especially careful of who we attacked, making sure not to leave witnesses and never moving when jumpers were around.
This time it was 2 young, rich nobles accompanied by their mother. Easy picking. We made sure to keep a safe distance from them and coerced a passerby into giving us information about their little convoy. They would arrive at our location in an hour.
As we waited for them to arrive something that shouldn''t happen, happened.
¡°Well hello there young lady.¡± (???)
With my incredible speed I jumped back and readied myself for battle. There, in front of me stood 5 tall cloaked figures giving off a vibe of insurmountable strength. My 6th sense told me it was the moment of my death and that I could only accept it.
¡°Are you perhaps thinking of attacking the convoy that''s coming this way?¡± (???)
Unaware that these nobles had backup I quickly lied and said no. The man standing in the middle removed his hood allowing me to see his face. A man looking to be in his late 30''s early 40''s with bright red hair and terrifying yellow eyes. [Identify]
??? (NPC)
Race/Species:
???
Level:
???
Class:
???
Title:
???
¡°Urgg...¡± (Assassin)
¡°Kukukuku* Don''t worry, we are not here for you. Actually you will help us. If you want to live, you will attack them like you had planned and will do everything you can to keep them busy.¡± (???)
¡°What is your objective?¡± (Assassin)
¡°None of your business. Just know that when you begin to encounter difficulties, we will take care of the rest.¡± (???)
Difficulties? How are we supposed to struggle against 3 nobles? I don''t like this at all why are such intimidating fellows even interested in them? I can smell a trap from miles but I am now stuck. I can''t consider disobeying them.
The feeling of pure power floating around them was simply overwhelming and seemed to announce impending doom. I have no other choice than playing along for now. Curse my luck.
One hour later we did like we were supposed to. We attacked from all directions taking them totally by surprise. Everything was going well, the soldiers were dying one after the other as we gradually made it closer and closer to the carriage.
As for me I stayed in the shadow ready to intervene if any problems were to arise. Suddenly one of the young nobles got out of the carriage with an annoyed expression on his face. He grabbed one of my men by the face and made his head explode in millions of pieces.
Gaspp* So he was the reason these dangerous looking men were here. This young man wasn''t a simple noble but was a powerful mage. Mages are weak and slow so I was still confident in my ability to deal with him when he began to use weird magic.
Wanting to learn his abilities before acting I waited and watched as he murdered my men one by one. I had witnessed him using a lightning based ability and a plants based one. Clay and lighting? This young man had the 4 basic elements? No wonder powerful people were after his life.
Using my stealth skills I closed in on him and stabbed him in the back.
Stab* Critical -750HP
¡°Urggg!*¡± (Kneeko)
This was my best skill and should have been a one hit kill but this bastard only lost a fraction of his health so I repeated the same action once more.
Stab* Critical -570HP
Uhhmmm Still not enough. Even the home made poison on my blades didn''t seem to affect him. I readied myself for a long battle when something unexpected happened.
¡°KIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
A sound that could only be described as blood chilling forced me to hold my hands over my ears. All I could now hear was the distinct ringing sound in my ears. My eardrums must have been ruptured as I could feel blood trickling out of them.
Panicked, I quickly backed away trying to widen the distance between us with my legendary lightning speed. The young (by the way beautiful) man suddenly transformed into some type of big cat and bolted toward me at a speed he didn''t have before.
My only hope was to lure him into the forest and use the trees to my advantage. Running into the forest the young man followed me like a predator unwilling to let his prey get away. The anger in his eyes made me shiver in fear. What have I gotten myself into.
[Kneeko POV:]
This annoying assassin was as fast as lightning and I had difficulty keeping up with him as we got deeper and deeper into the forest. I was waiting for him to attack me once more but he kept running like the slippery cockroach he is.
Having targeted him as my prey I wouldn''t let him get away no matter what. Tired of running I stopped and began flicking my tongue in and out keeping track of his location. What''s this smell? This was not how humans usually smell.
The smell of this assassin had a distinct smell reminding me of this stupid golden winged cat from back in the dungeon. Could this assassin be a demi-human? The cat type? Highly likely from the smell. I stood there immobile keeping my attention on him.
BOOOOOOOOOOommmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!*
Suddenly something unexpected happened. Turning my attention back toward where our carriage should still be I could only see a giant cloud of smoke. The assassin took the opportunity to launch at me but since I hasn''t stopped flicking my tongue I saw it coming and did a round house kick that sent him crashing into the forest.
Now my attention wasn''t on the assassin anymore, something ominous was happening back to where mother and sister were. I had a very bad feeling about it.
ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!*
A blood chilling roar suddenly erupted from the location of the explosion dispersing the giant cloud of smoke. Then what I saw sent shivers down my spine. A giant red dragon was currently rampaging in a fit of rage. Mother?
Immediately after 4 more dragons suddenly appeared and began fighting with the dragon I suspected to be Anastaria. What is going on? Dragons are attacking us? Panicking I quickly made my way back to where they were fighting and understood why mother was rampaging the way she was.
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All the soldiers were dead and next to the carriage laid a big heart and few other items in the middle of a puddle of gore. Irene? Rage suddenly began boiling inside of me. To work in a group, these had to be pure blooded dragons.
¡°ROAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
FUCKERS!!!!!!!!! I WILL KILL THEM ALL!!! I should have expected them to keep track of Anastaria''s movements. They most likely discovered what she was planning to do and decided to kill the threat before it became too hard to deal with.
I grabbed Irene''s heart and placed it in my inventory ring next to Irya''s core. Both sisters were now reunited in death and I had no intention of letting their deaths go unpunished. I didn''t have time to wait anymore. I needed to take drastic actions even if it killed me in the process, now was not the time to grief.
Monster Rank UP!
Phoenix (1 of 3)
Quickly Nii-chan! Pick this one!
Da fuq sister! Why are you telling me to pick this one when it''s the only choice I have? And she didn''t even bother adding a proper description. It''s not even a dragon DAMMIT! Being left with no other choice, I picked the only choice available to me. Like before my body began to glow in a bluish light as my body expanded.
I grew, grew and grew until I became as big as a mountain. My shadow darkened the entire area as I was even bigger than mother. Once I was finished growing, my entire body suddenly burst into flames. I wasn''t casting a shadow anymore and my body seemed to be made out of pure red flames only.
The usual message boxes began popping out but having no time to read at the moment I closed them without paying attention to them. Me being a phoenix meant that our plans had failed. I would never become a pure blooded dragon.
Since I am a highly adaptable individual, it didn''t bother me as much as I thought it would. Instead of becoming a pure blooded dragon I would become something completely different aimed at destroying them instead. I would become their nemesis, the god of fire and rebirth, the immortal phoenix. The being who will bring justice upon those who dared kill my little sister.
¡°CROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
End of part 1
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
219
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Phoenix (1 of 3)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
5800
STAMINA:
600
MANA:
8700
STRENGTH:
1470 (+50)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
755 (+100)
SPEED:
29
DEXTERITY:
27
(H)VITALITY:
415 (+150)
CHARM:
40 (+265)
LUCK:
23 (+65)
AGILITY:
26
RESISTANCE:
665 (+200)
(S)ENDURANCE:
45
SKILL POINTS:
15
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 34 - When shit hit the fan (Part2)
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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Now in the form of a giant fire bird, I latched to the face of the most heavily injured dragon with my talons and engulfed him in my burning body, swallowing him in a whirlpool of fire. The other dragons turned their attention to me neglecting mother for a second.
Anastaria used this opportunity to launch a fire-breath that engulfed everything around us. It was a battle of titans and must have looked like an apocalyptic firestorm to anyone lucky enough to witness it from far enough. The assassin from before was most likely dead by now if he hadn''t taken the opportunity to flee
I was now immune to fire which allowed me to easily survive their dragon breath but upon realizing I wasn''t taking damage from them, they began changing their attacks. High level, pure blooded dragons'' techniques are not something you can afford to take lightly.
Massive black spheres began to fly in all directions swallowing everything they touched. The black spheres seemed to eat the flames my body was made of, chipping away my HP like no tomorrow. I could see that mother was also reaching her limits. Curse you fucking dragons!
I used everything I had at my disposal and even used many scrolls and potions but they were too strong. We could have dealt with 2 of them, maybe... But 4... Unlikely. After a few more minutes of battling, mother finally took her last breath before crumbling to the ground.
¡°MOTHERRRRRRRRR NOOOOOOO!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
Fighting against 4 of them was simply too much. Not caring about anything anymore not even death, I dashed downward, grabbed mother''s heart and stuffed it in my inventory before transforming into a small, rapid and agile falcon.
I only had a few HP left but I was now a lot smaller and a lot faster. I flew into the forest and swerved around the trees trying to make them lose sight of me. Suddenly a loud grumbling voice came from one of them.
¡°Damyon! Don''t let him escape GRROAArrrr*!¡± (???)
Damyon? The Rokugan clan leader??? THAT BASTARD WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? Gritting my tee- uhmm beak, even more rage engulfed me. A fifth dragon... That was a very bad situation for me. As I was processing this new information a cloaked figure dashed toward me.
I turned right to avoid him but this cloaked figure I assumed to be Damyon transformed his left arm into a dragon arm and with one swing, ripped my body to pieces.
Game over.
[...]
Once again, I was met with this familiar sight. A sky blue background with white circular pattern oscillating around. This was the character design interface where sister Lucy lurks.
¡°Hmmm.. Hi! Ni-chan?¡± (Lucy)
I wasn''t responding.. I was dead. My mother and sister were dead as well. I had lost everything in a few minutes. All because of these pure blooded dragons. How sad will An''dalia be when she learn news of my death. The poor thing. (Ok she will probably do a happy dance... But who cares, I know she loves me deep deep deep inside of her somewhere.)
¡°I was kinda expecting this to happen to be honest... Those dragons were 3 times your level you know...¡± (Lucy)
Tears began to form in the corners of my eyes. I had grown attached to mother and sister. Yes I was keeping everything secret from them but it was only because they did the same. Once mother would have opened to me, I would have told her everything.. Mind reading and all.
At first I refused to accept a stranger as my adoptive mother but I slowly grew attached to her. And Irene, she had been working so hard. All for nothing, what a tragedy. This was the worst bad ending possible for a game.
¡°Ready to go back now? Nee nee? Why are you crying?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Why? Wait, Go back? What are you talking about?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihi* I see you didn''t read the descriptions of your newly acquired skills... I suggest you do so now that you have the time.¡± (Lucy)
Uhh? Quickly opening my status window I saw some game changing stuff. Phoenix (1 of 3)... Apparently it was not a unique form but close to it... This meant that I was one of 3 phoenix in existence in the world... Then I saw Passive skill Rebirth.
Passive Skill [Rebirth]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: -)
The legendary phoenix cannot die and will always rise back from its ashes. (Must pay a penalty each time)
¡°Uhh? Wait, does that mean I''m not really dead? That I can resurrect as much as I want? There has to be a high cost to this right?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Of course, but keep looking before I explain it in more detail.¡± (Lucy)
Next I saw that I had a new title, Divinity?
New title: Divinity
If activated, this title grants (+150 points to all skills.)
Woaaaa! That''s an OP title if I''ve ever seen one. I kept looking and also saw ¡°Fire immunity¡±. That is quite self explanatory and logical since I was a bird made out of fire... Next was purification rank (S). Another OP skill...
With that I was now immune to all poisons and status effects unless a rank (SS) poison existed somewhere out there. And last but not least, was the most important skill for a divine immortal bird like myself. Resurrection!
Active Skill [Resurrection]. (Cost. 15 levels) (Rank: S)
At the cost of 15 levels, This ¡°Divine skill¡± allows you to resurrect anyone as long as you possess a part of their body.
#Cool-down time: 1 month.
I stood there, mouth agape after reading this skill description. I had mother''s, Irene''s and even Irya''s core/body part in my inventory... At first I only wanted to bring them with me to give them a proper burial but with this new skill, everything changed.
I could reform my family and make a comeback to how it was before this catastrophe. Everything seemed to fall into place, I could already see a way to get revenge. It had been made obvious to me that only us 3 couldn''t do jack shit against the entire pure blooded dragon clans.
Even our own clan leader was working against us.. This fucking ass-hole! When I get my hands on him!! Grrrr* Since we couldn''t do it on our own, I needed an army. Yes! This is totally where I''m going with this.
I will raise an army and lay siege to these bastards'' lands. I will crush and destroy everything that stands in my way. So much for mother''s plan, time to do things my way.
¡°Sister! Quickly explain what it will cost me to come back to life.¡± (Kneeko) I impatiently asked.
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¡°hihihi* You have two choices. One: Loose the content of your inventory plus 500 random skill points. Or two, go back to level 1 and loose all your skill points... In both cases you will resurrect where you died. Since you wish to resurrect this fake mother and sisters of yours I guess you can only choose the second option.¡± (Lucy) She said with an annoyed expression.
¡°Uhh? Harsh... But something come to mind... If I go back to level 1 as a phoenix, will I be able to rank up again until level 200?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes and no. If you are lucky you might get a rank up at around level 200... But the chances of that happening are 50/50. The reason is simple, there are virtually no monster stronger than a phoenix at levels lower than 200... I suggest you use the Chimera forge I gave you instead...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Sighh I see... No more chances of me becoming a dragon then?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhmm.. Well the chimera forge will change the name of your species accordingly to what you do with it... If you give your body the shape of a dragon, it is highly likely that the system will rename your species to reflect just that... Like a Dragon Phoenix, or something else, why not... The possibilities are almost endless ya know.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Guhuhuhu* Thank you sister!¡± (Kneeko) I said as I gave her a big hug and a kiss on the cheek.
I will take the second resurrection option... But let at least a month pass before resuscitating me... I wouldn''t want to come back to life and immediately be face to face with the 5 traitor dragons again...
¡°Will do... Time in this dimension is disconnected from the world so you won''t have to wait... Are you ready ?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Yes.... Time for round 2.¡± (Kneeko)
A sudden flash of light and when I reopened my eyes I was back to where I had died. All around me the forest was burnt to a crisp. They had most likely burned everything to erase any evidence. I was a small flame quickly growing in size.
Remembering how big my final size would be I immediately used my morph ring to turn into a falcon. Can''t be careless, this big fiery body of mine could be spotted miles around. Staying small and discreet was necessary now that I was back at level 1.
I licked my lip- beak in anticipation of what I would do to these dragon once I''m strong enough. I needed an army of well trained monsters... Was it possible to create an army of dragons? Could I go to a wyvern nest and take control over the group somehow?
So many ideas popped in my head I needed to come up with the best plan possible. Right now though, I needed to gain some levels quickly to resuscitate my family...
Time to hunt some... mice... Sighhh It''s going to be... so... much... fun.... SIGHHHHHHhhhhhh*
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
1
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Phoenix (1 of 3)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium Low
HEALTH:
3160
STAMINA:
1660
MANA:
2660
STRENGTH:
1 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
1 (+250)
SPEED:
1 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
1 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+300)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
1 (+215)
AGILITY:
1 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
1 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
1 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 35 - I missed you
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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First thing I did was to go around and kill random monsters ranging from level 30 to 60. Thanks to my titles, I was the strongest level 1 to ever exist. In total, my titles gave me 2330 skill points which made me equivalent to a level 155 player if you calculate 15 points per level.
Levelling up had never been so easy as I had already reached level 35 in a single day of hunting. I placed the entirety of my points into speed this time. First time I built a tank, this time I''ll go for a bullet train just for fun since I have the opportunity to start over.
I could already resuscitate one of my family members but I decided to wait to find a safe location first since we couldn''t risk being discovered so soon. People needed to think we were all dead for good with no chance of comebacks.
Conveniently, 30 days had already went by since the day of our demise thanks to sister Lucy. Suspicions had probably subsided by now but I still couldn''t take the risk. For that same reason, I needed to give up on An''dalia. My heart bled at the thought of it but I had no other choice.
I know her well enough to know that seeing her again would be similar to announcing to the entire world that I was still alive. With this in mind I flew south for a few days heading straight to where we had fought the bolt wyvern back in the days with Darui''n and An''dalia.
There, I spotted the man''s grave and began to dig it up which was quite difficult with my little children hands. Yes, I was back to looking like a 6-year-old again... My clothes were now too large and only my cloak had shrunk with my body due to it being enchanted.
If you can imagine a half naked 6-year-old digging up a man''s grave at night, that''s how creepy I looked at the moment. The entire day I had felt quite hungry but as soon as I began digging up Darui''n grave, my appetite disappeared due to the indescribable smell of death emanating from the hole.
New title: Grave Digger
If activated, this title grants resistance to putrid smells.
A bit grossed out at first I quickly grabbed Darui''n''s skull and detached it from the spine with a gruesome snapping noise before putting it into my inventory. Once that was done, I took off, back into the air and began flying westward.
I had became quite paranoid of being discovered recently so I was using an owl form to fly at night and a falcon during the day. Falcons weren''t supposed to fly at night after all... Right? Having put all of my points into speed I was now flying at a terrifying speed and covered quite a good bit of ground.
I had developed a perfect level grinding technique. Simple really, as I flew I always kept an eye opened for relatively high level monsters. I would then swoop in and touch their back, poisoning them in the process before simply flying in a circle above them like a vulture waiting for their death at a safe distance or poison them again if necessary.
This was quite a cheap tactic but I had never been above using cheap and ¡°cheaty¡± method before. Thank to this, I had already reached level 110 in a week. Once again all points went into speed since it didn''t really matter anyway because using the resurrection technique would take most of these points back in the process anyway.
One thing wouldn''t get consumed by the technique though and it was the EXP-DNA. So one night as I took a short break from travelling I used Chimera Forge to maximize my anonymity. I asked sister if simply ¡°relocating¡± body part would cost me a lot of them but as expected, only ¡°relocating¡± wasn''t as expensive as ¡°purchasing¡± new abilities.
The first thing I did was relocate my forehead stone into my left eye. That way I could use an eye patch to hide it and simply remove the eye patch (¡°Kakashi style¡± like sister Lucy said...) when I needed to use it to read people''s mind.
This made my human appearance look as if I had lost an eye and had replaced it by one made out of red glass. I wasn''t as sexy as before but I prioritized function over looks at this point. Anyway I had so many charm points that women would still fall for me no matter what.
Next I began reshaping my body with all my remaining EXP-DNA points. They weren''t worth conserving anyway since it was mostly trash DNA after all. I reshaped my head from a bird''s to a dragon''s head, then changed the wings from feathered bird wings to the familiar dragon/wyvern/bat wings.
I little bit of reshaping on the hind legs and there you had it, drag- wyvern phoenix thing... Not exactly a dragon since I didn''t have enough DNA left to purchase new limbs once I was finished with the various changes. After saving the changes, the system gave me a funny message.
Unknown appearance, do you wish to rename your species?
Yes
No
Obviously I selected yes and entered a bad-ass species name. ¡°DragonPhoenixHybridFromHell¡±. Proud with myself I stood back and admired my creation... Just kidding, what I truly entered was ¡°Drakofenix¡±. I couldn''t wait to add some forelimbs to my creation but this was the best I could do for now.
A few days ago I had pulled out a map of Alterlife2 and carefully analyzed it. What I noticed was that south west from my position was an ocean. And a few kilometres offshore were hundreds of deserted, tropical islands.
I don''t know about you but I have always had a thing for white sand beaches, palm trees and all that post card stuff. My goal was to reach one of the biggest islands, preferably one having caves and forests and begin to secretly build up an army there.
I was flying at incredible speeds trying to reach there as soon as possible since I couldn''t wait to see mother again. I carefully thought about who I should resuscitate first since either sisters would benefit from having more time to train but without their mother around it was most likely to be anarchic.
On my way to reach the ocean I was suddenly met with an unexpected obstacle. A mountain range. Who''s the dumb ass who did a map of the world and missed these big ass mountains? They are so high that snow permanently stays at the top of them.
Annoyed at first, I quickly changed opinion about this interesting discovery. After spending the day going over the first mountain what I saw on the other side greatly interested me. The mountain range formed a circle creating some kind of giant bowl.
In the middle of all these giant mountains was a vast expanse of unexplored land covered with dense forests, grassy areas and a giant lake in the middle of it all. This was fascinating... Most people simply walked around the mountains thinking nothing was even there.
Guhuhu* I had finally found my lair. The place where my revenge will finally begin. First things first, I looked for a cave to live in. As far as I know, to dragons having a cave is mandatory. Even if pure blooded dragons could take human form and live in spacious houses, their children were born wyverns.
You can only imagine how would fare a wyvern in a normal house... Also from what I heard, some dragons despised humanoid creatures and almost never used their human form. This wasn''t a problem for wandering dragons as they didn''t have any ability to transform. (Normally)...
After some looking around, I finally located a cave big enough to house my family and i. First thing was to make sure the cave was uninhabited so I slowly crept forward in my salamander form, sticking to the wall and travelling through a crevasse totally out of view.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* RRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* Rrrrrrrrrrrr*
There was definitely something inside and it sounded big... Like really big and serious. The type of monster capable of sounding like Barry White. Slowly, slowly... Trying to be as quiet as possible, I made my way forward.
I was getting seriously annoyed at my inability to taste smell like before but I had to deal with the fact that I was not a snake anymore. I don''t think dragons can do that either anyway. Whatever was in this cave I would have to chase it away and bring back mother quickly. I''ve lost enough time.
When I was only a few meters away from the sound which seemed to be from its snoring, I used the opportunity to identify the creature. [Identify]
Monster
Species:
Manticore
Level:
257
Monster Rank:
Medium high
Rarity:
Very Rare
This is the info I have in my database about the creature called Manticore:
"The Martikhora (Manticore) is an animal found in the country [India]. It has a face like a man''s, a skin red as cinnabar, and is as large as a lion. It has three rows of teeth, ears and light-blue eyes like those of a man; its tail is like that of a land scorpion, containing a stinger more than a cubit long at the end. It has other stingers on each side of its tail and one on the top of its head, like the scorpion, with which it inflicts a wound that is always fatal. If it is attacked from a distance, it sets up its tail in front and discharges its stingers as if from a bow; if attacked from behind, it straightens it out and launches its stingers in a direct line a distance of up to a hundred feet. The wound inflicted is fatal to all animals except the elephant. The stingers are about a foot long and about as thick as a small rush. The Martikhora [a Persian word meaning man-eater] is called in Greek Anthropophagos (Man-Eater), because, although it preys upon other animals, it kills and devours a greater number of human beings. It fights with both its claws and stingers, which, according to Ktesias (Ctesias), grow again after they have been discharged. There is a great number of these animals in India, which are hunted and killed with spears or arrows by natives mounted on elephants."
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This is what I had learned about it on the internet but the description of said creature was different on the Alterlife forum. What the forum mentioned was that the Manticore was a giant red lion with dragon wings and a scorpion tail capable of throwing poison darts.
[...]
[...]
Okay change of plan, resurrect mother, then ask her to kick this monster''s ass, was my first thought but then I began to think that killing such a beautiful creature might be wasteful. Could it be reasoned with? Could it be tamed? Can a monster even tame other monster?
I guess yes since there are pack leaders and kings... Basilisk was a snake king after all. How should I go about it... This is when two heads are better than one so I exited the cave then pulled mother''s heart out of my inventory. It was all squishy and bloody but I looked at it with affectionate eyes nonetheless.
¡°Hello mother. I missed you, can''t wait to see you alive again. Let''s do this now shall we?¡± (Kneeko)
I laid her heart on the ground, placed my hands over it and used the skill for the first time. [Resurrection]!!!
The heart began to glow and expand. In less than a minute she was now as big as I remembered her.. Which meant bigger than a Boeing 747. She was there still glowing in all her glory. When the glow faded I could finally see her beautiful red scales shining under the sunlight.
¡°ROOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Anastaria)
OK that was terrifying... She must still be in her rage mode from seeing Irene dying. As for me, I was only a small (now 13yo looking) kid standing right next to this rampaging dragon. Before anything turned bad I transformed into my new Drakofenix form, standing even taller than her in my fiery body.
I didn''t have the stone on my forehead anymore but I hoped she would recognize my voice.
¡°MOTHER!¡± (Kneeko)
Immediately my voice and appearance seemed to make her snap back to reality. She stopped moving and began looking around in confusion.
¡°Kneeko?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yes mother. Please be calm and listen to me.¡± (kneeko)
¡°Where are we? WHERE ARE THEY?? ROOOAAAARRRRRRrrr!!!¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Whooooo Chill mom! Back then we all died, me included... I came back to life and resurrected you. Don''t worry I also salvaged Irene''s heart so I will be able to resuscitate her as well in a month. So you can calm down now. It''s all over, we will get a second chance at revenge but later...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ehh? Died? Resurrect?¡± (Anastaria) After hearing all this she reverted back to her human appearance so I did the same.
¡°Urrgg.. My head hurts, I will need you to explain me everything in detail please Kneeko.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Sure... Lets sit down and take time to catch up. But first...¡± (Kneeko)
My little 13 years old body jumped into Anastaria''s arms, giving her the warmest hug I had even given to anyone in my life. Back then, father and I didn''t use physical contacts much since I thought it was super gay at the time. Now I wish I had hugged my father more often and realize how foolish I had been.
Anastaria, surprised at first began stroking my hair and returned the hug for a few minutes of meaningful silence.
¡°I missed you so much mommy. Sniff*¡± (Kneeko) <- (AutNote: Gahahahaha!*)
¡°I love you too honey.¡± (Anastaria)
--
Phoenix
Spoiler :
Drakofenix
Spoiler :
+++
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
95
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Drakofenix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3160
STAMINA:
1660
MANA:
2660
STRENGTH:
1 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
1 (+250)
SPEED:
1426 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
1 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+300)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
1 (+215)
AGILITY:
1 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
1 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
1 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 36 - Flintstones Rip-off
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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After our heart warming reunion we sat on the ground for a long strategic discussion. There was much to talk about after all that had happened since the dragons'' attack. As touching as this affectionate scene had been, awkward couldn''t suffice to describe the aftermath.
In the heat of the moment I didn''t care but the fact is that mother was totally naked. She was only a bloody heart a few minutes ago so right now she had nothing... Like nothing at all. Shaking the awkwardness away, I took a quick look at the pop-up that had appeared after mother''s resurrection which I had ignored until then. Wink* wink*
New title: Death''s Demise
#Not only did you come back from the land of the dead, you also managed to free other people from death''s grip.
If activated, this title grants (+50 Vitality) (+20% HP Regeneration speed)
Woaa.. After reading this it became obvious that the best way to get stronger in this game was to collect titles. With that out of the way I began recalling everything that had happened since then and how I had managed to come back to life as well as resurrecting her afterwards.
When she heard that I would bring Irene back as well in a month, mother couldn''t help but shed some tears of happiness. Seeing her happy filled me with joy as well but her happiness didn''t last as I told her what I had evolved into.
¡°Phoenix?....¡± (Anastaria) She said showing a visibly displeased frown on her face.
¡°I can''t believe I wasted my daughter''s core to make him a dragon and he ended up becoming a dragon''s worst enemy instead...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Sorry about that mom but it was a last ditch effort at survival. If not for my phoenix form we would all be dead for good by now...¡± (Kneeko)
By her comment I understood that she had assumed I had absorbed Irya''s core to get my last transformation. I wasn''t sure if I should tell her the truth or keep it a secret a bit longer in order to give her the biggest surprise ever later.
¡°But when I saw you earlier, you didn''t look like a bird... You looked like a fiery wyvern. How''s that possible?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°My body is quite peculiar, I can shape it the way I want. Right now I''m not a really a phoenix anymore but am a totally new species called Drakofenix...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kneeko... You keep defying every logic of this world.. What are you really?¡± (Anastaria) She asked with a sincerely curious expression.
¡°I... don''t really know myself... Your son I guess...¡± (Kneeko) I gave her a naive smile since it would be too long to explain her how I came from the same world ¡°jumpers¡± are from and was now integrally part of this world as a cheat character...
¡°By the way mom... Any idea about the identity of those who attacked us back then?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Urgg... 2 of them were from the Iyotisha clan, the other two were from the Nizukti clan...¡± (Anastaria)
These 2 clans were among the top 3 most powerful with the Iyotisha being #1 and the Nizukti being #3. Looked like she wasn''t aware of Damyon''s involvement into this matter.
¡°Mom... There was a 5th dragon with them... And he''s the one who killed me as I tried to escape after your death.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Really? Tch... How desperate to kill us were they to send 5 highly powerful dragons after us...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°That''s not the worst thing about it...¡± (Kneeko) I said accentuating the suspense even more.
¡°What do you mean son?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°The dragon who stayed hidden the entire time and killed me in the end was none other than Damyon himself...¡± (Kneeko) I said with a solemn face.
¡°WHAT? Are you sure about that????¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yes, I heard the other 4 call him by his name.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I-I can''t believe this... THAT FUCKER! I''ll KILL HIM!¡± (Anastaria)
It was now obvious that Damyon was ready to kill anyone, even his own clansmen, in order to protect his position as clan leader.
¡°I feel the same way but for now we need to make sure we are prepared to deal with them unlike last time. We followed your plan last time, this time it''s my turn.¡± (Kneeko)
Mother looked at me with curiosity, waiting for me to explain myself. After a few more minutes of strategic talk I had finally told her about my mind reading ability and what I intended to do from now on.
¡°Mind reading? You sneaky little...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Guhuhuhu* Sorry for never telling you but you kept keeping secrets from me... You''re the only one to blame. Blehh¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sighhh I guess you''re right. Sorry for not fully trusting you my son.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Let''s forget about that... From today onward it''s a new start for us. Ho and by the way, there''s a big cat living in the cave I selected to become our house...¡± (kneeko)
¡°A big cat? Now that I think about it... Where are we?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Ha right, we are south west from the human continent near the elven border... And the big cat is a high level Manticore... Can we tame and keep it? Pleaseeee mom!!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hmm... Manticores are quite rare... I guess I could try.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Pleaseee do! I want a pet cat!¡± (Kneeko) I then added with a radiant smile on my face.
¡°Fufufufu* Is it just me or did you become cuter since last time? Let''s go see this big cat you are so fond of.¡± (Anastaria)
Mother and I then walked up to the cave in question. She transformed into her majestic red dragon form and roared to wake the Manticore up. After a few seconds the giant red winged lion emerged from the depths of the cave clearly in a bad mood.
Now was finally the time for me to witness mother''s epic battle to tame this indomitable monster!
¡°ROARRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!*¡± (Manticore)
¡°ROOOAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!*¡± (Anastaria)
Flinch* The big cat jumped back after noticing that the giant red mountain obscuring his vision was in fact a giant monstrous dragon.
¡°Roar?¡± (Manticore)
¡°GGGGGRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Meoow?¡± (Manticore)
¡°Roooar..* Nod* Nod*¡± (Anastaria)
[...]
¡°There you go son... She''s yours now.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Uhh? That''s it????????... And ''she''?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What did you expect? High level monsters are smart enough to know who they shouldn''t mess with... And yes she''s a female...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Hooooooo THANK YOU MOM!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufu* You are quite welcome honey. But you need to promise me that you will feed her and make sure she doesn''t shit in the house...¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yayyy! I promise I will take good care of her!! Hmm.. How should I call her... I know! Mendy!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Why Mendy?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Dunno... I thought about calling it Manti at first because of it''s species but since it''s a female I had to feminize her name a little... Can I pet her now?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufu* So thoughtful. Of course you can.¡± (Anastaria)
Excited like a kid at Christmas, I jumped on Mendy''s back and stuffed my face in her mane. Weird that even females could grow a mane, apparently they aren''t exactly like lions from my world... But a giant winged red lion with a scorpion tail suited me perfectly as a pet.
¡°Meowww.......¡± (Mendy) She looked a little displeased but not entirely angry about it.
We then spent the rest of the day cleaning, making the cave hospitable and comfortable. After seeing mother melt the walls with fire to create shelves and doorways I decided to do the same in my Drakofenix form.
Too big at first I finally understood how to change size by compressing my flames into a denser form. I melted a big hole in the ground before filling it with water. Bath, done! Next I used [Vine Hell] to free-form beds, tables, chairs and everything we needed.
Mother was already preparing an extra room for Irene. She visibly couldn''t wait to see her baby girl alive again. Guhuhu can''t wait to see her reaction when I bring back Irya as well. I was also quite curious to meet this second sister of mine.
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She would probably call me little bro which is annoying since I am actually older than her so we will have to fix that early on after she''s reborn.
¡°Meowwww.....¡± (Mendy) She then said with a worried face.
¡°Don''t worry we won''t make you sleep outside. You can sleep with me okay?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°MeoW! Wag* wag* wag*¡± (Mendy) She didn''t seem that unhappy about being a house-pet after all...
I then tried warming up the bath water with my Drakofenix fire but the water immediately evaporated. My fire was a bit hotter than I expected so I ended up using [Arcane FireBolt at 1% power] to warm the water. Then since I was pretty much naked already, I removed my cloak and jumped in.
¡°Splash* splash* Mother want to join me? The water feel so niceeee.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufu* I never refuse a warm bath.¡± (Anastaria) She said before slowly entering the water and sitting next to me.
With her being stark naked and all, she ended up getting quite dirty after all the house work we had done. I now totally considered her to be my mother and really enjoyed the feeling. Of course I couldn''t help but watch her with lustful eyes but it would be fixed as soon as she got some clothes to wear.
¡°Meowww..?¡± (Mendy)
¡°No Mendy, you''re going to put hairs in the water. I''ll wash you myself after we''re done here alright?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Meow.¡± (Mendy) She looked disappointed but simply laid nearby and watched us with curious eyes.
¡°I think after our bath I''ll go explore our surroundings a bit. By the way mom... If I give you some leather can you make yourself some clothes to wear? It''s getting a bit...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufu* Does my son look at his mother that way?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Urgg.. No- well.. Mother is very beautiful after all and- I''m a healthy young male and- ya know...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°How cuteee My adorable son is embarrassed by my naked body Fufufufu* Want to touch?¡± (Anastaria) She said with a mischievous smile in her lips.
¡°MOTHER!..... Maybe a little.. NO! Mother ! What the hell are you saying!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fuhahahaha!* You are so adorable when being teased.¡± (Anastaria)
I was now beet red and hiding my face underwater while mother was still laughing at my awkward predicament which didn''t seem to want to go away. The more I was trying to suppress it, the harder it got. I''m obviously talking about... Well you all know what I''m talking about.
Totally embarrassed I suddenly ran out of the cave after telling mother I was going to do some hunting. I ran as fast as possible crotch in hand trying hide my embarrassment.
¡°I can''t believe her... Just as I was finally starting to see her as my real mother she goes and does something like that.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Meowww!¡± (Mendy)
Feeling as if Mendy was also enjoying seeing my stiffness I immediately put my cloak back on trying to hide as much of myself as possible as if I had just been abused. I needed to quickly level up to be able to wear my nice clothes once again.
I really should have bought something for mother to wear but I had avoided every town and humanoid while I was coming here. Discretion was the most important thing right now until we were ready to make a comeback. Hopefully she can make something capable of hiding everything with that leather I gave her.
Obviously the situation would repeat itself with my two sisters but the worst that could happen is me enjoying the view so it didn''t really matter after all.. A bunch of naked people living in a cave... Yep, we really are cavemen aren''t we?
Entering the forest with Mendy in tow I quickly realized that walking naked in the woods was kinda dangerous.. There were so many thorns and spiky stuff that I decided to jump on Mendy''s back and use her as my mount for this hunt.
¡°Mendy! Let''s go find stuff to kill shall we? I''m STARRRRVINGGG!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°MEOW!¡± (Mendy)
+++
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
95
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Drakofenix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
1660
MANA:
2660
STRENGTH:
1 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
1 (+250)
SPEED:
1426 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
1 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
1 (+215)
AGILITY:
1 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
1 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
1 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 37 - Meeting the neighbour V2
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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4 weeks went by in a flash with me catching up on some mother-son times I had never gotten to enjoy in either of my previous lives. I had been acting quite juvenile without realizing it. I guess it simply felt good to have a loving mother for the first time. Can''t believe how precious this feels to me now.
But since it was almost time to resurrect one of my sisters I would have to act like my age once again. If I don''t want to end up as a little brother, acting mature was mandatory but I had enjoyed the little time I had to catch back up on my lost childhood.
Mendy and I had grown closer since we slept, ate, hunted and basically did everything together. I suspect her to be quite a lot smarter than she''d like to admit. With these suspicions in mind I had kept my mind reading eye on her all the time but couldn''t hear anything coherent.
All she seemed to think about was ¡°hungry, happy, sad¡± only vague emotions with no complex thought in sight. One thing was certain, she could perfectly understand me when I talked to her. Grinding like crazy I had trained doing yoga, speed, strength and basically training in every single attribute I had.
After killing all the monsters in our immediate vicinity I was finally back to level 210 again. Considering the fact that I was a speed build character now I reluctantly brought out Argy and Itzal from my superior ring of holding and placed them in my unrestricted inventory.
Urrggg I seriously don''t want to use them... They are so incredibly annoying but I couldn''t argue about the fact that they were indeed incredibly powerful. It''s just that... They have their way of getting under people''s skin...
Let me explain in simple words what this is all about. Last week I came across some kind of fish demon thingy... Obviously with the help of Mendy, I easily subdued it but this is where it all began. After killing a creature from the demon family I went into my Chimera Forge interface and spoke with sister Lucy about a few things.
After spending the entire month hunting and training I had amassed quite a bit of EXP-DNA and this demon fish thing gave me the opportunity to unlock my Demonic mana affinity. I had also grown two dragon forelimbs and renamed my species to ¡°Dranix¡± which I considered to be my last form. I was back to looking like a 20 years old hottie and could finally wear my beautiful clothes once again.
After that I had just enough DNA left to add a snake tongue to my body allowing me to smell/taste again. Since I was a speed build character with Divine and Demonic magic affinity there was something in one of my lvl 150 rings that was mathematically perfect for my situation. I had delayed this as much as possible but couldn''t keep running away from them any longer.
It was two short swords. One was white and needed Divine energy affinity to be wielded.. The other was obviously black and needed Demonic affinity to be wielded... The two working in pair and doing damage relative to your level and skill points made them what we call ¡°evolving swords¡±.
Evolving swords are of course among the most sought after weapons so what I had was a real treasure and would make me even more OP than I already was (In human form). But there was a massive problem with all of this...
These swords each had a personality... Sighhh they were already annoying with Alterlife1''s limited AI so I could only shiver in fear at the thought of what they would be like in Alterlife2...
Argy (Divine short sword)
Minimum level:
N/A
Durability:
¡Þ
Damage:
Adapted
Rarity:
Unique
-The spirit of a divine being is sealed inside this weapon.
-This sword is one of a pair and will grow stronger with the user.
-Restriction:
#Divine magic affinity
-Damage multiplied by the user''s speed/strength/level.
Itzal (Demonic short sword)
Minimum level:
N/A
Durability:
¡Þ
Damage:
Adapted
Rarity:
Unique
-The spirit of a demon is sealed inside this weapon.
-This sword is one of a pair and will grow stronger with the user.
-Restriction:
#Demonic magic affinity
-Damage multiplied by the user''s speed/strength/level.
¡°Meoww?¡± (Mendy)
¡°Yea yea don''t worry I''m just... Sighhh.. preparing myself mentally for what''s to come.¡± (Kneeko)
Equip!.... As I was standing there holding both swords in each hand I was waiting for the impending doom to begin.
¡°Nothing?¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
Sighhh thank god.. Maybe their transfer to the new system had corrupted them and somehow removed their personalities....
"Heard that old buddy?" (Itzal)
"Indeed, doesn''t seem like he missed us at all..." (Argy)
"Tch.. this little faggot..." (Itzal)
Oh no... There we go.. Hello guys? Same as always I can tell...
"Yeayea don''t suddenly act like you care.. By the way what''s up with the rich dude getup??" (Itzal)
"You are looking way too civilized for who you truly are I must admit." (Argy)
Sighhh Goddammit it''s not like I''m a real demon is it? I would appreciate it if you could be a bit more quiet in this life...
"This little.... You dare talk to us that way while you are nothing more than an dude with a woman''s face!" (Itzal)
"I can already see all these poor women being fooled by this appearance of yours." (Argy)
"Shut the fuck up with your ¡°stay a virgin¡± act! We have bigger issues at hand." (Itzal)
"I would prefer if you didn''t use this language in my company... Rude one..." (Argy)
"Imma kill you one day I swear!" (Itzal)
"Try it if you can..." (Argy)
SHUT UP!!!!!!!! DAMMIT DAMMIT! I''ll stuff you back into this ring and never take you out again I swear!!!!!!!! ...
Finally managing to get some silence in my head I returned back to the work at hand. I need to keep working on getting stronger and skill points wouldn''t make it on their own. I needed practice as well but didn''t have any humanoid adversary other than mother who was apparently opposed to fighting in human appearance.
This didn''t change the fact that I needed something to fight against to get the Dual weapon mastery skill... For this reason, Mendy and I went further into the forest than usual hoping to find something interesting to fight. Ho boy was I served exactly what I was looking for.
Monster
Species:
Goblin
Level:
35
Monster Rank:
Very low
Rarity:
Common
"Tch... Call that a worthy opponent you faggot?!" (Itzal)
"This poor creature doesn''t stand a chance just leave it be..." (Argy)
Shut up! I decide what I do and how I do it! When the goblin saw me he immediately began growling in a menacing manner. With both swords in hands I stood ready to play with it. The goblin use it''s wooden stick and tried to attack me but I side stepped and tapped my blade on top on its head, immediately knocking him out in the process..
Uhmm... Well maybe it was too weak after all... What if I located their ¡°nest¡±? If I went up against a few of them maybe they could offer me a challenge? With that in mind I transformed into a falcon, stood on top of a tree offering a view of the knocked out goblin and waited for him to wake up.
After a while the goblin stood back up, looked around and began walking in the forest clearly heading somewhere. Jackpot I immediately thought to myself.
"Fighting many weaklings is still fighting weaklings..." (Itzal)
"These poor creatures... Hope you don''t go all demon lord on them.. Brrr I still have nightmares." (Argy)
Huhu you still remember these times? Ho well, back then NPC were just NPC... Nothing worth fussing about but in this game, things are a lot more interesting you know...
"Faggot..." (Itzal)
YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP! I swear I''ll melt you!..... I then kept following the lone goblin as he made his way deeper and deeper into the forest then finally arrived to a cave entrance. There was at least 20 goblins going around killing small creatures and beating each other with sticks.
Not the smartest humanoid in the world that for sure but still an interesting species in my book. They were small (barely 4 feet tall) green creatures with pointy ears, yellow eyes and have a very primitive social structures. The strongest rule over the weak type of social structure...
I stood there for a while looking at them when suddenly, something interesting finally happened.
GGGGGRRRRRRIONNN* Grogogarooo!*
A loud and deep voice came out of the cave aparently making the other goblins nervous as they stood out of the way. Some even hid in small bushes. Then out of the dark cave came out a giant compared to the other goblins.
At 7 feet tall, proudly displaying some magnificent horns on its head and a greyish muscular body was what I assumed to be the boss of this gang of goblins. [Identify]
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Monster
Species:
Ogre
Level:
176
Monster Rank:
Medium
Rarity:
Common
Now that''s what I call an interesting opponent! This thing looked powerful enough for me to safely test my new character build and weapons.
"Weakling...... BORING!" (Itzal)
"Ogres are mean spirited creatures... For once I vote in favour of teaching it a lesson..." (Argy)
"BORING! BORING! BORING! BORING!" (Itzal)
After indicating Mendy to stay away from the fight, I flew down from my tree and transformed back into human shape a few meters away from the ogre. Swords in hand I looked at the beast in the eyes and used [TerrorEyes]. At first the ogre seemed to hesitate but eventually his thirst for battle overtook his fear.
¡°HUMAN! Attack!¡± (Ogre) Yelled the giant ogre before grabbing his giant club which was a small tree trunk.
A hundred goblins began to swarm out of the cave, glaring and showing their teeth in an aggressive way. You could hear them all mutter things like; Meat!* Pretty female human!* Mine!* Let''s make babies!* Let''s eat it !*
Not wasting time with weaklings, I ran right past the goblins so fast I looked like a blurry figure and stopped in front of the giant ogre. Surprised by my speed at first, the ogre then powerfully swung his club at me but I easily avoided it and reappeared behind him before his club even touched the ground.
With the creature having his back wide open for attacks, I stabbed him with my left blade and slashed the back of its legs with the right one. The ogre roared in pain and began wildly trashing around, sending some goblins flying in all directions.
For me, the goblins weren''t too much of a treat as I could easily avoid their attacks and knock them out of my way. While the ogre was furiously destroying everything around him, I kept closing in on him for some quick attacks and retreated back to avoid its fury.
You have learned a new Passive Skill [Dual Weapon Mastery]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: E)
Raise the mastery of this skill to get more proficient in dual weapon wielding.
Excellent, finally what I was waiting for. Now I felt like simply testing my strength against this creature which seemed extremely powerful judging by its gigantic muscles. I stopped running around and stood there ready to receive the beast''s attack.
The ogre swung his huge club vertically, aiming for the top of my head. Holding my twin swords in an X shape, I stopped the giant club from crushing me but still lost 150HP from the shock which made my feet sink into the ground a few centimetres. No doubt, this creature is powerful, but it wasn''t to much too deal with after all..
"It''s mean to play with creatures weaker than oneself..." (Argy)
"I''m bored out of my mind!!!!!! Let''s go kill some griffons instead!" (Itzal)
I''m not asking for your opinion! Now annoyed I used one of my newly completed arcane circle to finish the beast with a single attack. [Arcane LightningBolt power 35%] The giant ogre disappeared in a big explosion of charred pieces of flesh.
Already regretting equipping my twin swords I left back toward home hoping to get more work done for today. After seeing their leader- dictator explode, the goblins stopped attacking me and began watching me in awe instead. I had toyed and easily executed their most powerful member so of course they were afraid of me.
Pretty lady is very strong!* Let''s Make babies!!* Me first me first!* Me strongest male! Me more deserving of pretty lady!*
¡°I''M A MAN!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid lower form of intelligence!... Let''s go home Mendy.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Meoooww.¡± (Mendy)
"Hahahaha see! Told you! You are way too beautiful to be a man hahaha*." (Itzal)
"Calling them lower form of intelligence was terribly mean of you Kneeko..." (Argy)
I don''t care! Shut up! After these events, each day in the morning the carcasses of a dead animals would be left as an offering in front of our cave. Mother asked me about it but I simply told her that some goblins had realized who were the bosses around here.
Then 30 days had finally went by and it was finally time to resurrect one of my sisters. I still was unsure on who I should resurrect first. I didn''t know Irya yet and missed Irene quite a lot so at first I thought it would be an easy decision but after some discussions with Anastaria, I began to wonder...
From what Anastaria told me, Irya during the time she lived studied the clan ceremony to try to make her clan stronger. She was basically studying the runes used for the ceremony and tried to add more abilities and bonuses given by the title.
The only reason she was stuck in her research at one point was because the ceremony used rune and arcane as well. She could only do the runes and was stuck with the arcane circle part of it. So basically, if we worked together we could potentially create a ¡°clan ceremony¡± of our own. Creating our own clan sounded quite interesting to me which is why I wondered if I should bring Irya back first...
¡°Are you ready mother?¡± (Kneeko) She had been waiting for this day impatiently and I knew she was extremely exited at the idea of seeing her daughter again. As for me, I was still trying to decide which one of the two to bring first. I missed Irene so much but Irya was more beneficial to our plans for revenge in the long run.
¡°Exhale* Yes!¡± (Anastaria) She said looking visibly nervous.
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
210
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
1660
MANA:
7660
STRENGTH:
501 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
501 (+250)
SPEED:
1426 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
1 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
1 (+215)
AGILITY:
301 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
201 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
1 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
225
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 38 - Reunion V2
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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She looked anxious and very nervous to see her baby again. Seeing my dear mother so nervous, I embraced her in my arms, trying to give her courage.
¡°Don''t worry everything is going to be alright...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufu silly you... Just do it already i can''t wait to see my baby.¡± (Anastaria)
After leaving Mendy behind to prevent her from being attacked by Irya in the confusion, we went outside to a sunny area and readied ourselves for what was to come. Mother still thought i was going to bring back Irene but for my plans to advance more swiftly i had already decided to bring back Irya first.
I walked a bit further ahead, pulled out the giant sized dragon core from my inventory and gently laid it on the ground. After doing that I turned around and looked at my beautiful mom. She had her left hand over her mouth, tears pouring like waterfalls.
¡°I- Irya?... Didn''t you- W-w-why didn''t you tell me? Sob* sob*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°It''s called a surprise, mom.¡± (Kneeko) I couldn''t help but show a prideful smile as she fell on the ground abruptly realizing what was about to happen.
¡°Sob* I-I''m going to see my- baby again?... sob* sob*¡± (Anastaria)
"AAWwwww" (Argy)
"......The fuck is this shit?" (Itzal)
¡°Tell me when you are ready.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I AM! Thank you! Sob* Kneeko sob* sob* Thank you so muchhh. Sob* sob*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Alright then, let''s do this.¡± (Kneeko)
"Finally some action!" (Itzal)
Regaining her strength, Anastaria stood back up, her eyes filled with anticipation. I placed my hand over the big pulsating core and used the miracle skill. [Resurrection]!!!
The core quickly began to glow and to grow. A big blue light was slowly taking the familiar shape of a dragon then finally stopped growing just shy of Asta''s full size. The blue glow having subsided offered us the sight of a majestic white dragon with scales glowing and shimmering with all the colours of the rainbow.
¡°GGGGGRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr*¡± (Irya)
"HIIIiiiiiiiiiiiii" (Argy)
"YEAaaa GO on a rampage! Come on!" (Itzal)
¡°IRYA!!!!!!! BABYYYY!!!!!! Sob* sob*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°RRRRrrrr.... Mom? Uhh? What happened I was.. FATHER! Mom we need to help father!!!¡± (Irya)
[...]
Well that''s going to be awkward...
"Gulp* The poor child." (Argy)
"He''s DEAD! HahaHAhahaha Tell her! Tell her! Rampage here we go!!!!! *munch on popcorn*" (Itzal)
¡°Baby... Your father and you have been dead for more than 3 years already... I thought I''d never see you again.. Sob* sob*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Uh? What are you talking about dead? I''m here aren''t I? By the way where is this?¡± (Irya)
She transformed into her humanoid appearance while looking around and eventually her eyes stopped on me. She tilted her head sideways before turning back to her mother for answers.
¡°Who''s that?¡± (Irya)
¡°Ho! He- He''s.. Hmm... This is- Mhhh¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Hello Irya! My name is Kneeko and I am your fath-¡± (Kneeko) As fast as lightning, Anastaria punched me in the balls making me fall on the ground while holding them. 1, 2.. Uff they''re still there.. Cough cough That was... uncalled for dammit... I just wanted to do a small star wars reference.
"That was well deserved! You idiot." (Argy)
"Hahahaha Right in the balls." (Itzal)
¡°Honey... Your father and you died that time. We found your core a few hundred meters away from home. Sob* Sob* Kneeko just brought you back to life.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°The good looking guy rolling on the ground over there did?¡± (Irya)
¡°Umfff y-yes... I-I did... umfff* umff*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Father is dead...¡± (Irya) After realizing all that happened, Irya sat on the ground, lifeless. Anastaria immediately ran to her and took her in her arms, not wanting to let go.
Cryyyyyyy* CRYYYYyyyyyyy* Sob* sob* sob*
"Sob* sob* sob*" (Argy)
"......Da fuq? I give up.. KILL ME!" (Itzal)
They both cried for some time while holding each other... I kinda felt like the 5th wheel of the carriage in that situation. I stood there, silently... Massaging my precious balls while hoping nothing was broken. I''ll get you back for this Anastaria just you wait! Utch..
Once they finally stopped crying, they began to recall what had happened. Man was I not surprised by what she said. Apparently she and her father had been ambushed by 5 dragons... Go figure. Damyon was obviously one of them.
She had almost successfully escaped but had been injured in the process and ended up dying of blood loss before being able to warn her mother of the betrayal. Nothing I hadn''t already deduced on my own. Irya threatened Damyon''s position of leader so he got rid of her with the help of his little friends.
Then it was Anastaria''s turn to begin recalling what had happened to her and Irene. Then it finally became my turn to show up in the story. I crawled closer to them ready for my introduction.
¡°And this when we met Kneeko. An incredibly brilliant Drag- Phen- ehhhhh-¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Dranix... Some kind of hybrid between a dragon and a phoenix...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Really??? Never heard of anything like that before. But mom? Aren''t phoenixes supposed to be our enemies?¡± (Irya)
¡°Like I said..... I''m not a phoenix!¡± (Kneeko)
"Hoo this is truly an interesting story..." (Argy)
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"HAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! I''M BORED!!!! LET''S GO KILL SOMETHING ALREADY!!!!" (Itzal)
We kept talking and talking... about everything. We tried to fill her in as much as possible on our situation. Then I asked her about her research on the clan''s ceremony and mentioned that I was quite advanced myself in arcane magic.
As soon as I said that, Irya became very exited and wouldn''t stop talking and talking... Itzal was relentlessly annoying me like he used to do in the past...
"Stop playing house and grow some balls! Go kill something you pussy! Then maybe I''ll stop bugging you... Dumb-ass!" (Itzal)
"Umff.. Totally uncalled for." (Argy)
"Youuuu!!!" (Itzal)
Sighhhh I need a break... ,a warm bath and a good meal. Mendy brought back some type of wild pig earlier today, let''s go butcher that thing.. I''m starrrving.
¡°Are you hungry Irya?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Now that you mention it. I''d gladly take you up on this offer mister.¡± (Irya)
Urgg.. Mister? Da fuq... Anastaria told her I was older than her and all but still.. Being called mister by my own sister, how heart breaking.. Snif snif.. Guhuhuhu*
¡°Alright, let''s show you your room and our living accommodation for the moment. Then we''ll look over your research and go from there. Is that okay with you?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sounds just perfect. Can''t wait to kill those bastards. They even dared kill my baby sister... Thank you for your help mister handsome gentleman.¡± (Irya)
Urgg... Handsome gentleman???? Guhuhuhu* Charm points are a force to be reckoned with... And so will be my army when I''m done here. guhuhuhu*
"Urggg there he goes again..." (Argy)
"YEaaa can''t wait !! Gimme blood dammit !" (Itzal)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
195
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
1910
MANA:
7660
STRENGTH:
552 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
528 (+250)
SPEED:
1467 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
55 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
29 (+215)
AGILITY:
357 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
201 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
25 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 39 - More people, more trouble V2
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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AutNote: This fiction will start to become a bit more... Edgy... (I wont go unnecessarily to far, but...) If you are easily offended, well ya know... Not that i don''t want you reading the story but yea... Our mc ain''t a nice dude alright?!
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It''s been a week since I resurrected Irya and our interactions have become a lot less strenuous after Anastaria gave her some home made bras and skirts to wear. Bras which allow a full side boobs view and skirts barely reaching low enough to hide the bush... I bet Anastaria did it on purpose to test me.
Not that I didn''t enjoy the view but there''s a limit to perversion even for me. Guhuhu* who am I kidding, when Anastaria was away doing chores, I looked at her until my eyes bled. I think Irya caught me once but she simply smiled innocently... Ok enough of that for now.
We built ourselves some type of laboratory, an area where we do our experiments. I was researching arcane while Irya was researching runes and hopefully we would be able to recreate something similar to the dragon clan ceremony.
Recently, I ended up giving up on trying to create divine, demonic and death bolts... Apparently these more complex elements require conditions, limitations... Basically more complex circles than a simple ball of said energy.
Having confirmed that, I decided to work on a new type of circles using life magic element instead. To put it simply, invocation magic. As powerful as you might think I am, I needed something more. On my own, I still wasn''t strong enough to defeat a single pure blooded dragon.
Those who attacked us back then were all over level 600 and were very knowledgeable of magic. Even if I raised an army and attacked them, we still had virtually no chance of victory. Some conversation with Anastaria taught me that back in the days, the demon and human race had made an alliance and tried to subdue the dragons but failed.
I mean, that''s millions of people ganging up on dragons and still failing at it. And even if I''d like to think that after defeating the dragons I could finally have a peaceful life with my mom and sisters... I know very well that players would end up coming to mess with us eventually.
There was also the question of whether the people running alterlife2 were aware of me being in this game. Maybe father had done some sneaky stuff and let me be uploaded in here secretly. Or if they know I am here, why give me the possibility to ¡°cheat¡±? Are they watching my every move?
A quick search on the internet gave me no information whatsoever. One day I might get deleted from the server with no warning so my thought was that I should enjoy my time in this world. The problem is that I was now stuck in some kind of vendetta against enemies way too powerful for me to deal with.
Maybe I should run away, find myself a small cave to live in and kidnap a few women to play with when I''m bored. There''s no police in this world so I could fulfill my darkest desires. Should I go the evil road again? Or should I try to role-play a nice personality for once?!...
"URggg please don''t become a faggot... Let''s kill, rape and murder shall we?" (Itzal)
"I would advise against following the advice of a demon. You have some good things going... a mother, some sisters... Couldn''t you be good for once?" (Argy)
Sighhh* All I want right now is to go on a luxurious cruise ship, drink some champagne and eat some foie gras with caviar goddammit.. Now I''m stuck in a cave, with two young looking, lightly dressed, cave women... OK scratch that, I quite enjoy that last thing.
It''s a good thing that during the day, Irya and I can have fun messing around with magic but I could swear, Irya is trying to seduce me... When i told Anastaria about it, her response wasn''t the kind I was expecting. I seriously wasn''t expecting her to say ¡°Of course she''s eyeing you... My daughters have good taste in men¡±.
I should avoid considering Irya as my sister since it''s like that... As long as it''s entertaining, count me in.. But if I start to get bored, I''m out of town. Speaking of town, something quite annoying began to happen this last week. What began as simple carcasses abandoned on our door step slowly turned into a full on moving operation.
These damned goblins are currently building a town outside our cave entrance. Of course I can see the potential in that but... Between us, do you expect goblins to be able to fight dragons? All they are to me is smelly, noisy and plainly annoying. I keep telling them that I am a guy yet the male goblins keep trying to grab my ass...
Trying to change this I recently began training them. I taught them how to play chess and organized tournaments. If they get smarter, I''m convinced they will become less annoying to live around. And then-
¡°Mister Kneeko! I have completed the title part of the ceremony!!!!¡± (Irya) She said with excitement in her voice.
¡°Wait a minute Irya, I''m currently busy self-narrating in my head.¡± (Kneeko) (Don''t break the 4th wall dammit !)
¡°Come see quick! I think I managed to make it better than the original version!¡± (Irya)
Sighhh* Seeing that she wouldn''t stop until I go I decided to walk deep in our cave where the laboratory was located. I inspected her runic writing and realized the potential of what she had just found. She had created a title giving as many skill points as the ¡°Divinity¡± title... That was amazing!
¡°Woaaa!!! Irya! You truly are a genius!! And I could create an arcane circle to fuse this runic text with the next techniques we are currently developing!!!!! Brilliant! Irya, you are amazing!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hehehe please praise me more mister handsome.¡± (Irya)
In my excitement I grabbed her and kissed her on the lips before continuing to celebrate and yelling out loud my happiness. Working with another genius was allowing us to make so much progress it was ridiculous!!
¡°Ho yessss it was worth all the work. I feel like my legs are giving up.¡± (Irya)
¡°Haaa After so much hard work, how do you feel about a warm bath? Mind accompanying me?¡± (Irya)
¡°Please say yes! Please say yes! Please say yes! Please say yes!¡± (Irya)
Hearing her thoughts, I panicked a little and ran back to mother. If I''m with her, there''s no better alibi. (I swear i didn''t do anything) I don''t think i will be capable of holding myself back for the sake of having a sister. And I don''t even think mom would get mad at me for doing so.
[2 weeks later]
Some changes happened with the goblins. My training seemed to be quite effective as they are now able to follow simple orders. The males finally stopped harassing me after I stripped in front of them which is a good thing.
I may have fixed a problem by doing so but now it was the female who had became the problem. Always nonchalantly trying to show me their... reproductive parts. Sighh it would be a good thing if they weren''t so god awfully ugly.
The only one who I''m not bothered by is a goblinette I named ¡°Pigface¡±. An incredibly ugly little thing always following me around but not annoying like the others. She isn''t sexually harassing me and executes all of my orders perfectly. She''s no doubt the smartest one of the bunch.
She even warned me when some goblin tried to sneak in my bed at night. Of course Mendy who always sleeps with me would have ripped them to pieces but I was happy to avoid a bloody mess in my bedroom. To thank her I gave her a simple bow and arrows.
Since then she has been practising tirelessly and had become quite good at it. I really need to teach one of them how to craft some clothing because the level of nudity around here is getting distracting.
[Irya''s POV:]
It''s been 2 weeks since I''ve been resurrected. First I thought only a supreme being could bring the dead back to life but after testing this man called Kneeko a few time, I came to the conclusion that I could easily defeat him. How did he get such unbelievable skills while still being at a lower level than myself?
Then I understood why. This man, Kneeko, is the most intelligent being I have ever met. If I tell him something, he will never forget it. The things that took me years to understand about runic magic seemed to be child''s play for him.
I must admit, never in my life did I feel attraction for a male but this man. I can''t get him out of my mind. When I work in our room he called laboratory, all I think about is to make some break through so that he would praise me.
In the past when I lived in the dragon land, everybody who ever approached me was doing it with one thing in mind. My unique scale ability. I had a unique and highly desirable ability making them want to have children with me only with the hope of having strong children. These dragons disgusted me and I thought it was simply because I wasn''t meant to fall in love. But that was before Kneeko.
I think about him when I sleep, when I bathe, when I mast- icate my food... All the time and it''s getting unbearable. How can mother stay indifferent to him? I better lay my claim on him first before she opens her eyes. I wonder what kind of children we would have?
No matter what happens in the future, I will stay by his side even if this means leaving my family behind. That''s just how crazy I feel about him. I love his evil laugh and way of looking at everybody as if they were lower beings. A personality truly worthy of a dragon-phoenix-thing...
The other day I''m certain I caught him looking at me with lustful eyes. I could swear he was drooling while looking at my ass so I kept testing him by shortening my skirts and removing some leather out of my bras making them tighter and smaller. I will have him fall for me without a doubt!
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[2 weeks later Kneeko POV:]
With Irene''s resurrection day fast approaching, I began to put the gears in motions. After finding an undiscovered dungeon, I swiftly decided to used it to train my goblin army. Sadly I didn''t get the 50% bonus EXP for discovering it like last time but I was sure we were the first to discover it.
This was probably because NPC couldn''t discover new areas the same way players do and last time when I got the bonus, it was only because I had players with me. Nonetheless, after exploring the first level of the dungeon, I declared that it was safe enough to send them to train there.
I gave them the order to never go to the 2nd level until I ordered them to and they seemed to understand perfectly my order. As the smartest goblin, I sent Pigface to be their party leader which of course raised some protest but it was swiftly dealt with.
"Thanks for the meal by the way." (Itzal)
"Sob* poor creatures..." (Argy)
To prevent them from ever starving I used [Vine Hell] and [Gardener Touch] to make a garden where I grow all sorts of comestible plants, fruits and vegetables. They should be grateful that I am taking such good care of them.
Now some of you may wonder, what is Anastaria doing in all this? Well... Nothing. She just sits all day and seems to meditate. I tried asking her to explain Irya about our mother and son relationship before Irene is back but she didn''t seem to mind the incoming mess.
On a different note, my invocation arcane circle is almost complete. I feel like I''m very close to my goal and simply need to learn how to choose what you summon. So far it seems random except for the element you use. Fire will bring a fire related creature and so forth... The more mana is used, the stronger the creature etc.
When I tried fighting the ugly clay golem that appeared after my first summoning, I was disappointed to see that I couldn''t gain EXP from it so I almost lost hope in this circle until Irya came up with an awesome idea. By complementing my circle with runic magic we could maybe change that no EXP limitation which would create one more broken technique for me to use.
But even if we fail, I was still curious to see what would happen if I used this and the Phenacite Mana Stone to summon something in the middle of a city for example. With 10 million mana, could I summon a titan or something? This is something I needed to investigate.
Needless to say, our laboratory was buzzing with activity and slowly but surely the outside of our cave had come to look like a small village. With my sensitive sense of smell I couldn''t wait to teach these goblins some hygiene though.
The last side project I also had was my secret tunnel. You see, the area where we are is insanely hard to access. Even me, a flying creature with a massive amount of speed points had struggled to go over these mountain. I even resorted to using my fiery form to neutralize the snow storms up there.
We are currently in a bowl shaped by mountains and some exploration confirmed there was no secret passage or tunnels allowing easy access. I still had doubts about the dungeon, but with my goblins keeping a close eye on it I would be warned if anything came out of it.
After realizing this, I decided to dig (melt) a tunnel through the mountain going south west toward the elven lands with one precise goal in mind. You see goblins reproduce incredibly fast and babies are born in less than 1 month after pregnancy but goblins don''t often have sex among themselves.
They were ugly creatures and knew it since even themselves couldn''t get turned on by their own kind. Since I needed a few thousand goblins, I thought of going to the elven lands and capturing a few good looking elves to give them as a present. That way new babies wouldn''t stop coming. A real baby factory. I also needed weapons and clothing for my army...
"Kekekekeke HELL YHEA!" (Itzal)
"...... I know you won''t listen to me but, can you at least try to capture some mean elves instead? I wouldn''t feel as bad if they were real meanies..." (Argy)
I''ll think about it Argy. But if some elves attack me once I''m there, BAM sex dungeon. Guhuhuhu*
"Hhhhuuuuu*" (Argy)
"I love the way you think buddy. kekekeke*" (Itzal)
¡°Mashter! Come quick quick!¡± (Pigface)
¡°What is it Pigf-¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°Who the fuck are you and what did you do to Pigface?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Itsh me!!!¡± (Pigface)
¡°... Ok a few hours ago you were your usual ugly ass goblin and now you are, a naked, big breasted, green skinned, 5¡±8, almost not ugly thing?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°God shaid I wash a hobgoblin now!¡± (Pigface)
¡°Meow...¡± (Mendy)
¡°Hooooo!!.......... Innnnnttteresting.¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
224
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
2170
MANA:
7860
STRENGTH:
558 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
548 (+250)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
42 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
51 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
435
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Quick Update
AutNote: I edited the last 3 chapters.
-Kneeko and his mom are no longer a thing.
-Anastaria is no longer pregnanto!
-Irya is still far to much into Kneeko
Kneeko + Anastaria = Mom and son
Kneeko + An''dalia = Unhealthy obsession vs stalker
Kneeko + Mendy = A man and his cat
Kneeko + Pigface = Master and his maid
Kneeko + Irene = Big bro and his Lil sis
This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.Kneeko + Irya = Errmmm... Well.... To be continued.
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Some people didn''t get that i was trying to write a serious/comedy here but it''s alright, i still have plenty of ways to keep having fun in that type of setting.
Chapter 40 - I love her
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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AutNote: What felt like an afterthought thrown at the last minute has now been properly done.
This chapter contain sexual content and is not recommended for the young readers. Feel free to ignore this chapter as it is mostly fan service. You won''t miss on the story by avoiding this chapter.
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[2 weeks until Irene''s return.]
It was a beautiful night. The wind was refreshing and the night was clear under the light of the full moon. Mother and I were sitting next to each other by the lake, dipping our feet in the cold water. The only annoying thing was the home made leather eye patch made by mom.
Since I told her about my mind reading ability back then, she forbade me from using it on her. That made me regret the decision of telling her in the first place but I could understand why one wouldn''t like to have their thoughts known. Anastaria was as beautiful as ever in her badly made leather bikini, gazing at the stars.
¡°What was it that you wanted to talk about ?¡± (Anastaria)
"He wants to give you the D KakakAKakk!" (Itzal) Ho no!! Not tonight you don''t! I swiftly placed my twin swords in my inventory, wishing for privacy with my mother.
¡°Ho yea! Hummm how should I say this...¡± (Kneeko)
How was I supposed to tell her what I had in mind. How was I supposed to tell her that I wanted to screw her daughter. I hadn''t had sex in 50 years and during all that time I became used to not being able to have any but a few tests confirmed to me that it was something you could do in Alterlife2.
Slowly my libido had regained its youthfulness as I became addicted to u-porn dot com and used it every night since I joined AL2... Every night I needed to rub one out to keep my sanity. But now, with Irya constantly pushing me into a corner I was about to lose it.
But this is where my problem begins. How was I supposed to ask my mom permission to do her daughter? From what I could tell, she didn''t object but she was acting strangely since I mentioned it back then. Maybe she did have a problem with it but didn''t voice it.
I needed to make sure before doing anything since she is the one I love the most in this world. Making her disappointed in me would simply rip my heart apart. I never knew that the love one feels for their mother could be this strong.
I also wasn''t expecting it to involve a lot of wet dreams and lust toward her but that was most likely due to my 50 years without sex thing. Now that I know how strong a mother-son bond is, I surprise myself wondering why would any child want to leave their mother.
As for me, I wanted to live with Anastaria for the rest of my life, and do her daughter during the night. Is that bad? Am I totally messed up? Yea most likely. I''ve spent too long inside a virtual reality and it must have altered my personality quite a bit.
Still, I am ashamed to have my own mother in mind every time I get an erection. My emotional database must have gotten corrupted somehow.
¡°Say it... Why did you ask me to come here?¡± (Anastaria) She looked at me with a warm smile as she splashed her feet in the water slowly.
¡°Well... I am a lot older than I told you...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You are?? Fufufu* I thought you were a kid by the way you acted recently. But what does that mean? How are you older?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Erff well it''s complicated. Let''s just say that I lived many lives. I am still younger than you but I am more around 70 years old in reality.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Really?? Amazing... Everything about you is totally amazing. The more I learn the more fascinating you become.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Hehehe was that praise mom?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Fufufufu* Did you have me come here in the middle of the night just to say this?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Ho humm no, actually it has to do with Irya...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Is something wrong with her? Do you not like her?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Errr no, actually it''s the opposite hmmm how should I say, I did not have intimate relationships with anyone in more than 50 years... And with Irya clearly going for me I kinda... I mean-¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Be her sexual partner.¡± (Anastaria) Knowing where I was going with this, she ended up completing my sentence for me.
¡°Mhhh yea, BUT! Mother is the person I love the most in the world and if you object I will resist I promise!¡± (Kneeko) More like I''ll bring a young elf for myself later.
Anastaria remained silent for a while, looking at the moon with a perfect poker-face. Curious I disobeyed her by slowly lifting my eye patch.
¡°The love one feels for his mother is all I''m ever going to get. I''m such a fool...¡± (Anastaria)
Thump* ... Thump* ... Gulp* No... way? What is this feeling, my heart feels like it''s going to burst. I grabbed my chest and tried to catch my breath once again. Pant* Pant* THUMP* How come I feel happy yet also feel like crying at the same time. My heart... is throbbing. Am I having a heart attack?
¡°Are you alright son? You look strange. Ho and about what you asked, it''s alright. She''s not really your sister and you know that very well. Actually I''m very glad for her, she couldn''t have found a better man for herself.¡± (Anastaria)
Thump* Thump* Pant* pant* I thought I was mentally ill but she felt the same way? Mother, loves me? Like more than she should as a mother? Wait, was it really motherly love I felt all along? Her lips, are so shiny and beautiful. Thump*
A bubble of air must have went through my brain making me lose reason for a second as I suddenly gave her a kiss on the lips. Eh? What the hell did I do? I kissed my mother? Anastaria was holding her hand over her mouth visibly in shock.
¡°Ehh? Ehhmmm SORRY! I don''t know what went through my he- UmF fmfmffm fm*¡± (Kneeko)
Mothe- Anastaria suddently grabbed my head and forcefully kissed me before I could finish my sentence. Now even more in shock, I looked at her in the eyes as she showed a proud face.
¡°There''s nothing to say. I''m not mad, it was just a bit of mother-son affection.¡± (Anastaria) Then she went back to stargazing.
My eyes remained glued on her, unable to form any type of coherent thought. Was it really motherly love I felt for this woman? Did I ignore her feelings because of my selfish desire for a loving mother? The things she said in her head and the following action, couldn''t mean anything else right?
¡°I will head back now it''s already late. You should sleep soon as well, you are over working yourself way too much recently. Come when you are ready.¡± (Anastaria)
She then stood up and slowly made her way back toward home. As for me, I stood there for a while. Looking at the moon in contemplation. Around one hour later I did the same and went back home to sleep. Irya was in the bathtub, her cheeks beet red.
¡°Hi mister Kneeko! Want to take a bath with big sis? Heheheh*¡± (Irya)
Sighh* She heard me once calling Anastaria mother so we had ended up explaining her the entire thing. Since then she had kept doing this type of joke while trying to seduce me at the same time. Did she think I had that type of fetish or something? She was naked and twitching her body around, looking excited by my arrival.
¡°My plan is perfect! Tonight is the big night! Kyaaaa*¡± (Irya)
¡°Sorry Irya, I... am tired and will go to bed immediately. Thanks for the offer though. Come Mendy.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Meoww.¡± (Mendy)
¡°Hoo.. Okay.. Good night Kneeko.¡± (Irya)
¡°NOOOOOOoooooooooooo Buuhuhuhuhu*¡± (Irya)
Feeling demoralized I dragged my feet down to my bedroom. Mendy took her usual spot as my pillow and I curled my body next to hers and listened to her heartbeat and breathing which never failed to relax and put me soundly to sleep.
But that night, my eyes stayed wide open staring at the ceiling of my bedroom.
* The love one feels for his mother is all I''m ever going to get. I''m such a fool. *
* The love one feels for his mother is all I''m ever going to get. I''m such a fool. *
* The love one feels for his mother is all I''m ever going to get. I''m such a fool. *
ARGGGgggg Fuck fuck fuck fuck!!! There''s no way we have a real mother son relationship!!! Who wants to rip their mother''s clothes off before doing them all night. No... What I feel is... I need to make sure.
This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
With fire burning in my eyes I jumped out of bed. I had a raging erection, a messed up brain and didn''t give a shit anymore. I don''t want a mother... I WANT HER! With certitude in my steps, I ran down the cave and stopped behind mothe- Anastaria''s bedroom door. Pant* Pant* Pant*
I went past the door curtain made out of vines and stood next to her bed. She laid there, under some pelts improvised as bedding. Having keen sensory abilities, she immediately noticed me but didn''t move.
¡°It''s late, need anything?¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yes... I need... you.¡± (Kneeko)
Surprised by my answer she turned around to face me. She let out a small gasp as her eyes became big seeing I was totally naked and hard as a rock.
¡°Sighh* I see, another one of these dreams. Ho well might as well enjoy it.¡± (Anastaria)
She removed the covers, exposing her beautiful naked body. She opened her legs sensually before doing a hand gesture internationally understood as ¡°come here¡±. Pant* pant* pant* I had difficulty breathing, my heart was beating a thousand times per second and my erection was almost painfully too rigid. Lust taking over my senses I crawled on the bed and began kissing her passionately.
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¡°UUmmm This feels even more real than usual. Don''t make me wait, I''m drenched down there.¡± (Anastaria)
Gulp* Drenched... Drenched... Drenched... Drenched... Drenched...
I kept kissing her on the neck, then kissed her breast before going down to her belly.
¡°What are you doing? Take me already!¡± (Anastaria)
URGgg* Take me already! Take me already! Take me already! Take me already!
With my mind in shambles, I opened her legs and began to lick, slurp and suck on her most sensitive part.
¡°HANnnnnnnnnn!* Ehh? Heee? HANN!*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°What is he doing? This feels so goooodd!!! He''s licking down there??? What is this sorcery!? Yes! Yes! Yes! Wait, this isn''t a dream is it?¡± (Anastaria)
A few minutes later she began to twitch, then her body became rigid followed by violent spasms. A few hairs missing and a squirt of warm fluid to the face later I crawled back up to her face for another kiss.
¡°Kneeko?.. W-..w... Are you-¡± (Anastaria) I placed my finger over her mouth stopping her mid sentence. There''s no ¡°are you sure¡± that matters anymore. I''ve never seen so clearly in my life. It was right before my eyes the entire time but I had spent too much time in a bad virtual world to notice. (AL1)
Knowing from my last excursion down there that she was properly ready for it, I readied myself to penetrate her. I was feeling more alive than I had ever been before. We both looked each other in the eyes as my tip made contact with her lower lips.
She had the most sensual expression I had ever seen. Her eyes were slightly turned upward as if she was about to cum just from thinking about what I was about to do. I gently inserted myself into her. It was so warm, I didn''t remember how warm a woman was.
¡°HANNnnnnnnnnnnnnn MNNNNNNNNMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm*¡± (Anastaria)
(+1) Luck
I almost told her to be quiet to not wake Irya up but after hearing her moan, my mind went blank. I couldn''t care less anymore. I could feel it deep down inside me, what I was doing right now was right. It felt right up to the tiniest details.
Once I was fully in, I kissed her once more before beginning to move. I thrusted in and out as if there was no tomorrow. This was so good! Best time of my life. Need I repeat? Best fucking decision I ever made. I kept pounding her repetitively as if I wanted to break her. Of course what encouraged me the most was her moans getting louder and louder.
(+1) Endurance
...
(+1) Endurance
¡°Mom? Mist- Kneeko???¡± (Irya)
Ho.. hmmm we kinda forgot about her for a moment there...
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
224
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
2170
MANA:
7860
STRENGTH:
558 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
548 (+250)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
43 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
55 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
435
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 41 - Scientific approach
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz¡± (Kneeko)
Knock* knock* knock* As I was sound asleep, knocking on the wall near my door woke me up.
¡°Hhmmmmm what is it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Mashter, Itsh already morning. I have prepared breakfasht.¡± (PigFace)
¡°Hmmm thank you. I''m coming.¡± (Kneeko)
Today was finally the day I could bring back Irene. At midday, the 30 days cool-down would be over and to be honest I was extremely happy to see my little sister again. Asta, Irya and I had spent the entire week preparing for her arrival by making her a room, furniture, clothes and everything she would need.
We had also agreed that I would keep acting like her big brother since I apparently was a good influence on her. Can you believe that? Me, a good influence on a kid... I had also personally prepared a private room for her filled with puzzles, riddles, games and everything else needed to increase her intelligence.
She certainly was strong for a wyvern but was still lacking in many aspects. I had the firm belief that increasing her intelligence would allow her to rank up as a dragon sooner. After all, most pure blooded wyverns were already dragons by their first year of age and Irene was almost 4 years old already.
With the 30 days cool-down time finishing at midday I could have slept in a bit longer but I was overly busy with our research in the laboratory. Our experiments on the clan ceremony were finally reaching their conclusion.
Knowing I had a busy schedule for today, I had asked PigFace to wake me up early. Right now she is pretty much our maid and does the laundry, meals, cleaning and everything else a maid should do. Many of the goblins have ranked up to hobgoblin and began to be more useful.
Some are gardeners and other types of domestics, others were tasked with maintaining the land but most of them were doing serious training. I took the strongest males and built them a rudimentary gym. They are busy lifting weights all day and you can see them build muscle mass very rapidly. I was hoping to see many of them rank up as ogres since they were limited in their ranking abilities.
The majority of monsters can''t evolve into anything they want and are restricted by their species. I was one of the rare monsters capable of jumping from one species to the other due to my starting race. This was without a doubt what Lucy meant by ¡°high evolutive potential¡± back then and also the reason why father had suggested this to me in the first place.
The fastest, more agile females are training in the art of stealth, poison handling and archery. I''m basically trying to make ninjas out of them. Having all these goblins around was now a lot less annoying the more they evolved. They were a cheap workforce, loyal and hard workers.
When I need to leave somewhere, they will be in charge of running the place and obeying Irya, Anastaria and Irene. A powerful clan needs minions after all.
Waking up I began my day by freeing myself from the various limbs entangling my body, got out of bed and began getting dressed. I needed a new set of clothes, these clothes aren''t enchanted with auto-repair and have been with me for a while now.
¡°PurRrrRrrrr*¡± (Mendy)
¡°HMMmmm yawn* It''s still early, why don''t you stay in bed a little longer honey.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Good morning Asta, sorry but I have a busy day today. There''s still stuff that needs to be done before Irene''s return. You heard me? I''m going to the lab first but I''ll need you there soon as well alright?¡± (Kneeko) I said addressing the second sleepy head on the left side of the bed.
¡°Yawwwwnnnnn* Okay... just... let me.. wake u- Zzzzzzzz¡± (Irya)
¡°Irya, you said you would help him finish the runes today. Wake up...¡± (Anastaria) Said her mother slowly shaking her awake.
¡°It''s ok Asta, let her sleep in a while longer. I will begin by testing our new specimen first and for this I don''t need her.¡± (Kneeko)
Seeing my two beautiful dragonesses in my bed might seem idyllic but reaching this point hadn''t been an easy ride. Since Irya caught Asta and I in bed it was very awkward obviously. This is where in a movie or a manga, the guy would have said something cool like ¡°Wanna join?¡±.
But real life- cough* cough* but VR life isn''t as easygoing. Immediately after realizing what we were doing, tears began to form on her shiny reddish eyes. Before knowing what to say she left running out of Asta''s bedroom and cried in her room for a few minutes.
I got up with the intention of going to talk with her but Asta stopped me, asked me to sit and asked a very weird question. ¡°Do you want her as well?¡± Of course I answered like a typical human by saying that I found her attractive but that I was satisfied enough by just having her.
What she said next made me understand that I still didn''t understand dragons properly yet. If I wanted to become a dragon, I needed to start thinking like one. She said to me, ¡°She''s not sad because she found us together, she''s sad because she thinks you refused her all this time because she wasn''t good enough.¡±
I answered that of course that wasn''t the case and that she wasn''t lacking in any aspect. Seemingly satisfied with my answer she covered herself and walked out to have a talk with her. I stayed there, nervous and fidgeting wondering about what they were talking about.
After a few hours Asta came back and began explaining the rules they had came up with. Apparently, even dragons have some shyness about ¡°blood related intimacy¡± which seemed... disappointing yet reasonable. I think...
They came up with a basic rule. It was ok if the 3 of us ¡°slept¡± together, but if we wanted to do intimate things, we had to do it in private. Since then we began sleeping together in the same bed but threesomes with mother and daughter were out of the question. Sighhh*
Having finished dressing up, I walked out of my room and sat at the dining table. PigFace was wearing an ugly leather apron perfectly complementing her ugly face but I wasn''t bothered by any of this. She was so incredibly useful, ready to help and serve all the time
Not only that, but she was also quite a good cook. Of course cooking for the girls and I was a bit different from cooking for humans but as long as you followed a few simple rules, it wasn''t so hard. Rule 1: Never cook the meat. Rule 2: Vegetables are only for seasoning the meat. Rule 3: If the meat isn''t dripping with blood, it ain''t fresh enough. Rule 4: Serving me meat with worms in it is punishable by death.
With her being a hobgoblin and all, her culinary tastes were pretty similar to ours which made it easier for her to learn. She is slowly becoming indispensable even though, her being a 2 years old goblin made her quite empty. What I mean by that is that she doesn''t have a back story and no perceptible personality. She''s simply your typical, silent and stoic maid.
I ate at least 100 pounds of deliciously bloody meat and walked out of the cave to begin my usual routine. I inspected the goblin village, the garden, the gym and received various reports from the goblin in charge of the dungeon. So far, nothing out of the ordinary.
With these menial tasks done, I went back to my laboratory. Irya and I were currently working on a new species looking like flying squirrels. They had a venomous bite that seemed to be specifically aimed for defence against snakes.
Right now Irya and I were working improving this venom to work on dragons instead. This research broke all the dragons'' taboos since it was basically dragons, creating anti-dragon weapons. Obviously letting these squirrels go free would be stupid and dangerous.
I didn''t want my dragonesses to be in danger so we were using them as venom factory instead. Since I was the only one immune to such a dangerous venom, I was the one in charge of ¡°milking¡± their saliva daily.
Analyze the samples and have the more potent rodents reproduce between each other after supplementing them with various serums accelerating their mutation. After only a few generations, their venom had already ranked up from C to A and we were still trying to reach the infamous rank S.
¡°Hellooo! The most beautiful male in the world!!¡± (Irya)
¡°And what a beautiful ass... hehehe*¡± (Irya)
Haaaa I never get tired of such praise. Which man wouldn''t feel blessed to be constantly praised by his women.
¡°Hello sleepy head. You''re just in time I was about to begin the experiment.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho great! Decided on who''s going to be our guin- cough* subject?¡± (Irya)
You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.¡°Yea, there''s a goblin that doesn''t seem to rank up no matter what training I give him... Might as well make good use of him instead of having him slow down the others.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho yea him! What was it, HogFace?¡± (Irya)
¡°Nhaa.. He ranked up yesterday, finally... The one who still hasn''t is BoarFace.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho? I don''t remember him. PigFace! Go and bring BoarFace.¡± (Irya)
¡°Yesh Mishtress¡± (PigFace)
We both stood there looking at each other while rubbing our hands like evil scientists. An entire month of hard work coming to fruition. We would finally see how well we did. We stood on each side of a giant arcane circle filled with runic scriptures and a fully charged greater mana stone in the middle.
Since this was a test, there was no need to use the Phenacite Stone. We would test it on a goblin with 50k mana units first to see if it work. Later when it would be our turns, we would use the 10 million mana units supplied by the Phenacite Mana Stone to get the maximum effect.
It is for this reason that we also spent the last month filling it with mana. I even recruited the goblin capable of wielding mana to help fill it.
A few minutes later, a small and timid looking goblin arrived escorted by PigFace. This little half naked donkey-faced creature was BoarFace, the goblin with the lowest evolutive ability of them all. Wether the experiment was to fail or to succeed, we wouldn''t lose anything by testing it on BoarFace.
¡°Come BoarFace and stand in the middle of this circle.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°HhuuUuuuuu will it eurtt?¡± (BoarFace) He then asked with a worried expression.
¡°Of course not! Who do you think we are, amateurs?¡± (Irya) My beautiful white dragon then answered.
¡°UuuUuuuu* Ok... mistreuse.¡± (BoarFace) (AutNote: No typo, he''s just bad at speaking.)
¡°Urgg. Dumb creature...¡± (Irya)
BoarFace walked to the middle of the circle and waited for us to begin. Irya and I activated the circle, linking it to the mana stone. Then, Irya began chanting the runic incantation.
¡°? ¦× ???????????? ¦Ä ¦· ??? ?????¦Ò ¦Õ ??¦Å ¦Á ¦²?¦«?? ¦¨ ¦£....¡± (Irya)
Light illuminated the entire room as the circle began to glow brightly. BoarFace didn''t seem to feel anything as he seemed more scared of the light than anything else. Once it was over, BoarFace made an encouraging noise.
¡°Hoo?¡± (BoarFace)
¡°Uhh? Did ¡°God¡± speak to you???¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yeush... ¡° (BoarFace)
¡°... What does it say?!¡± (Irya)
¡°Uuuuuuu new titleu... member of theu T-t-..Test01 Clan...¡± (BoarFace)
Irya and I looked at each other in the eyes for a few seconds in silence with smiles slowly growing obscenely large.
¡°VICTORY! YAYyyy!!!!¡± (Irya) Irya jumped into my arms and began assaulting me with kisses. I was incredibly happy as well since him receiving the title meant our work had been a success. The amount of points received by it would vary depending on the amount of mana used.
Normally you use all the clan members to pour mana into the circle at the same time but for us, we had an OP mana stone that would make our clan title the most powerful of all. This was a huge success. PigFace was in the corner of the room, emotionless as usual.
As for BoarFace, he seemed confused by what was happening. Nothing surprising coming from a stupid creature unable to rank up. It was time to go share the good news with Asta so I pulled out my twin swords and beheaded the small confused goblin.
"KYAAAaaaaaaaa!*" (Argy)
"Thanks for the meal! kekekeke*" (Itzal)
¡°Sorry but you have served your purpose. Come Irya, let''s announce the good news to your mother shall we. Then we need to get ready for Irene''s revival, it''s almost noon.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes darling! I can''t wait to see my baby sister.¡± (Irya)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
234
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
2400
MANA:
7880
STRENGTH:
558 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+250)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
52 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
74 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
585
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
Chapter 42 - Irenes return
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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AutNote: Today i did not have time to write a chapter but i pushed a few hours of sleep aside to release this short one. I am still unsure if i will be able to release a new chapter tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenient. ;)
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[Irene''s POV:]
I opened my eyes to be met with the sight of big bro and mother looking at me with teary eyes. Remembering being suddenly attacked a few seconds ago I looked around nervously but realized we were somewhere else entirely.
¡°My baby!!!¡± (Anastaria) Mom rushed toward me and embraced me warmly in her arms. Big bro Kneeko came next and patted me on the head.
¡°Welcome back among the living little sis.¡± (Kneeko)
Among the living? Does that mean I was dead? Wait, is it even possible to bring dead people back to life? Being confused I decided not to think about all that complicated stuff and hugged mother with all my strength. As I did so, I realized that I was totally naked... B-big bro was... looking at me...
¡°KYAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Pervert!!!! PUNCH*¡± (Irene) I punched him as hard as I could to make him look somewhere else.
¡°Urgggg What was that for sis? I wasn''t even looking at your still growing boo- PUNCH* Ouch* Dammit...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°There Irene, I made you some clothes quickly put them on.¡± (Anastaria) Mother then handed me a poorly made leather dress. I quickly put the dress on to hide from my big bro''s curious stare and asked what was going on.
¡°Where are we? What happened after I got attacked? Are you both alright?¡± (Irene)
Then mother and brother began explaining what had happened. Everybody had apparently died, killed by 5 pure blooded dragons. Worst of all, Damyon, our own clan leader was among the culprits. Big bro had apparently inherited some weird resurrection magic that allowed him to come back to life then resurrected us.
Big bro truly was extraordinary to have power over life and death like that and as I was expecting, he cared about us enough to sacrifice part of his strength to bring us back among the livings. They kept explaining to me everything that had happened since and how it had been around 3 month since the day of my death.
I had no memory of while I was dead, so this probably meant that death was the end of everything. Like an endless and dreamless sleep. Scary... If not for big bro, I would still be dead.. Sniff*
Looking around for a while I took in our surroundings. We were in a grassy field next to a small dirt path leading to a giant lake in one direction, and going up to a giant mountain in the other. All around us were mountains and forests in all directions. Truly a beautiful landscape.
¡°You can come now!¡± (Kneeko) Yelled big bro, looking at a big boulder not far from us.
From behind the giant rock came out a smiling, short haired woman... There was something familiar about her, it was as if I had met-..........N-no way?
¡°S-s-...SISTER????!!!!!!¡± (Irene)
I looked at mother and big bro for an answer but they didn''t say anything. Their giant smiles told me everything already. Brother could bring dead people back to life so this person had to be... big sister... sniff* sniff* sob* sob*.
¡°Woaaa my baby sister grew that much while I was gone? Hehehehe how are you feeling?¡± (Irya) She said wiping some tears from her cheeks.
¡°Buuuuuuuhuuuuuuuu* SISTERRRRR!!!!!¡± (Irene) With a face covered in snot and tears I ran as fast as could and jumped in my big sister''s arms, never wanting to let go. I though I would never see her again.
We spoke about many things after that, me and sister had a lot to talk about after all. Who would have thought that dying would later bring me to the happiest day of my life. Mom, big sister and big bro all reunited together for this magical moment. We would finally be able to live as a big and happy family.
¡°Come this way! We''ll show you our new home.¡± (Kneeko) Said brother with a big grin on his face.
We walked up the road leading to the giant mountain in the horizon and after a few hundred meters finally arrived to what looked like a small village buzzing with activities. I kept using identify on everyone I saw, then wondered why this place was filled with goblins and hobgoblins.
¡°Mom, who are they? Why is there hobgoblins everywhere?¡± (Irene) But before mother could say anything, big bro answered first.
¡°These are our family minio- subjects... They will serve and obey you as their supreme master.¡± (Kneeko)
Really? How did that even happen? Must be Kneeko''s doing again. Everything he does is simply unbelievable and this seemed like another one of these weird accomplishments. Noticing us, a giant horned hobg- no, an ogre came to see us. After reaching us he kneeled and saluted big bro.
¡°Master! I now am ogre. Training successful as you predicted.¡± (???)
¡°Hooo huhuhuhu* Congratulation! You are the first one to reach this level. I am proud of you SwineFace!¡± (Kneeko) Brother seemed pleased with what ever this ogre had accomplished. Then the ogre big bro called SwineFace turned to look at me before asking.
¡°Master. Is pretty lady, for us to fuck?¡± (SwineFace)
Then out of nowhere, brother pulled out two swords and stopped his arms just shy of beheading the heavily muscular creature. A small trickle of blood slowly dripped from the ogre''s neck as he showed a petrified expression.
¡°You almost lost your head just now SwineFace. This is my little sister. If you ever look at here with lust or even just dream about her, I will rip your heart out with my bare hands and devour it as your family watches me. You won''t fuck anything unless I ask you to, am I being clear enough?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°A-a-apologies great leader. This. never happen again. I promise.¡± (SwineFace)
¡°As my sister she is your master from now on so you will obey all of her orders. On a happier note, congratulations for becoming the first ogre. This means you have worked harder than the others and this deserves a reward. I will bring a beautiful female just for you as soon as I go out to buy supplies.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°T-t-thank you! Much! Great Leader! I Nargaroth will obey. Always.¡± (SwineFace)
¡°Nargaroth ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes, God gave me name. Nargaroth it is.¡± (Nargaroth)
Monster (Nargaroth)
Species:
War Ogre (Variant)
Level:
75
Monster Rank:
Low
Rarity:
Uncommon
¡°Hoo upon becoming an ogre the syst- God judged you worthy of receiving your own name eh... Hehehe congratulations once again great warrior Nargaroth! This name sounds very manly like the way you look. Keep up the good work and keep lifting those weights.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Y-yes! Great leader.¡± (Nargaroth)
The giant ogre seemed extremely happy to be praised by brother as he ran back to what looked like some kind of animal cage made with brother''s vines. Inside were various weird things that seemed to have no purpose.
There, many hobgoblins were lifting big rocks then letting them back down before lifting them up again. What a waste of energy, what were they even trying to accomplish by doing this?
¡°Brother? What are they doing?¡± (Irene)
¡°They are lifting weights. This is an exercise aimed at making them physically stronger. The same way your personal training is aimed at making you smarter.¡± (Kneeko)
Hoo! Now this made perfect sense. It was another exercise developed by big bro to help them overcome their curses. Now that I think about it, where is my training game?
¡°Bro? I think I lost the game you made for me.. Sniff* Can, you make me another one please?¡± (Irene)
¡°Hehehe don''t worry about it, we made you something even better.¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°Yes little sis, we all worked hard on this. Come with us.¡± (Irya) Big sis, mother and brother were giving me a warm smile, having seemingly prepared a surprise for me. I love surprises! I can''t wait to see what it is so I silently followed them.
We entered a big and spacious cave. Inside was furniture made out of vines and other various things. In the middle of the first room was a giant hole I assumed to be a bath big enough for 4 people. To the left was some type of bar counter with candles and wood mugs.
This place was seriously spacious for a cave as everything seemed well decorated and thought of. On the back wall were various doorways closed by door curtains made out of thin vines. Mother explained that the one on the right was her bedroom, the one left to hers was big bro''s room, then Irya''s was the third one. Finally the last room to the left was mine.
I ran in and looked around. It was beautiful! I had a single bed with comfortable looking pelts improvised as bedding and various decorative ornaments everywhere. On my bed were various stuffed animals I assumed to have been made by mother since they were so poorly made but anything made with mother''s love was worth more than anything in the world.
I jumped on my bed and hugged all my new toys and stuffed animals. I was very happy! This made me remember something Kneeko said before. I was happy like a kid at Christmas! Even though I have no idea what Christmas is, this expression seemed to fit this moment...
¡°Do you like them honey?¡± (Anastaria) She said with a curious expression.
¡°Yes!! I love them a lot! Thank you mommy!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Your mom worked very hard to make this bedroom. As for your big sis and I we worked together to make you another gift. Come this way.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hehehe can''t wait!¡± (Irene) Sister seemed excited for me to see their gift which made me even more exited to see what it was. I stood up and followed them out of my room while hugging my new stuffed wingless wyvern in my arms.
Behind the improvised bar was a long corridor leading who knows where. Brother warned me to never to go inside the last room he called his laboratory and added that it was because there were many things that could kill me there. Hearing this, I wasn''t going to disobey him.
Before reaching the laboratory was another room. A big room filled with writings on the walls, various unknown things and what looked like games everywhere. Seeing so many colours, shapes and unknown contraptions totally overwhelmed me.
¡°This is your classroom. This is where you will come everyday to train your brain and get smarter. Your mom and sister will alternate to teach you many things everyday until you become the smartest dragon in the world.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°WOAAaaaaa! Really?¡± (Irene)
¡°Of course honey.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°I won''t go easy on you little sis. You will become incredibly smart when I''m done with you hehehe.*¡± (Irya)
Was I really alive? This felt more and more like paradise! Easily the happiest day of my life.
¡°Ho and before I forget... PIGFACE! Come here will you!¡± (Kneeko) PigFace? Who or what is that? Then in came a stoic looking hobgoblin. She was most likely the one big bro called PigFace.
¡°Irene, I present to you PigFace. She is our maid, the one doing the cooking, laundry, cleaning and everything else. If you need anything she''s the one you need to ask for. She will also study with you to become smarter. I hope you will both get along well.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It ish an honour to meet Mashter little shishter. I am at your servishe.¡± (PigFace) She then made a polite bow.
Note to self: I can''t let this hobgoblin get smarter than me! I need to work hard to be worthy of being called big bro''s little sister!
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
219
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
2400
MANA:
7880
STRENGTH:
558 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+250)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
52 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
74 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
360
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tycoon
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Chapter 43 - Making history
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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AutNote: No the chapter isn''t shorter... It only look this way since there''s no tables and almost no dialogues. 2k+ words of pure text look that way. ^^
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It has been 3 weeks already since Irene''s return. Seeing time goes by this quickly, Irya and I began doing overtime on the clan ceremony as I hoped to complete it before my resurrection skill was ready to be used again. Working on this was almost the only thing I had time for, forcing me to neglect everything else since the time was soon to be due. The resurrection was possibly an amazing money maker so I couldn''t afford to waste a single day of it''s use.
After gathering some information online, my plan was quite simple and very smart. The king of an elven kingdom had lost his queen recently. The entire country was mourning the lost of their beloved queen and the king was said to be highly saddened.
I don''t know about anyone else but when I think about this, it''s seem obvious what I should do. Go to the king, and promise to resurrect his wife in exchange for all the monster cores kept in the royal vault. Heck, if the king loved her enough, I could maybe empty their entire bank.
Added to this I hoped to get a few elves as payment as well. Maybe some prisoners, some slaves or anyone else the kingdom wouldn''t mind sending to hel- ¡°vacation¡± in my sex dungeon... I was also convinced that Damyon would soon make a move and was ready for him as well.
The moment he gets comfortable and goes back to his usual activities is when I will strike out of no where. With that and many other things in mind, we worked tirelessly to complete the clan ceremony. We had gathered a few intelligent-ish creatures and had tested the various stages of the ceremony on them.
Seeing very good results, we pushed forward and finally it was ready for us to use it on ourselves. The Phenacite Mana Stone was full, so we needed to begin as soon as possible. On a different note, Irene was currently in ¡°school¡± with PigFace and was doing great progress as expected.
With the clan ceremony''s bonus points, she would become even more intelligent and I think dragon-hood should be near for her. She was spending most of her time studying and playing with Mendy. When Irene first saw her, she obviously treated her as an enemy but some explaining later the two of them were already very close.
I thought that with her sister and mother constantly sneaking into my room during the night that she would eventually realize something was up but since Irene was quite dense, nothing seemed to be leaked out yet.
Of course there had been a few close call like the time she had a nightmare and tried sneaking into my room only to be met by moaning and the sight of her sister ¡°mounting¡± me. Irya saying she had had a nightmare as well, it seemed to be enough for her to be fooled.
Of course Irya also explained her current moaning and grinding as ¡°poison resistance training¡± and Irene didn''t seemed to question it. Then there was that time at night when she woke up for a wee and saw our dark cave lit with candles all around the bath.
In the bath was her mother and I doing doggy style but luckily Irene saw us from behind and mistook our current back and forth movement as me vigorously rubbing her mother''s back. I must admit, it really must have looked that way for an innocent person such as her.
Anastaria had learned to do it perfectly silently by going into some kind of trance making her look as if she was passed out from pleasure but Irya still moaned like a cat on catnip making it harder to be stealthy about it.
After all, women love anything that involves moaning. Bathum tssss* As for the goblins, things were going smoothly. We had new babies every month and their numbers steadily grew. We now had 15 goblins, 70 Hobgoblins, and 35 ogres from many variant species.
Nargaroth once again was the first to rank up and had reached level 150 already and had ranked up into a race called ¡°True Ogre¡±. He now had black skin, huge horns reaching the same length as his shoulders, bat wings and was towering at 10 feet tall.
He had muscles and yellow tattoos on every inch of his body. Curious I first had him strip and examined him from all angles which made Anastaria laugh as she watched an ogre blush for the first time which might even be a first in history.
Impressed by him I decided to have him join our clan when the time comes so we were now spending a lot more time together. Him and Mendy spent a lot of time training by fighting each other. Obviously Mendy could have toyed with him but Nargaroth''s growth was slowly making him gain ground on her.
Guhuhuhu* Wait till I put a legendary oversized weapon into his hands and he will become a force to be reckoned with.
PigFace was doing amazing as well! Low level goblins and hobgoblins had an incredible growth speed and with her diligently working on getting smarter she had ranked up as well. She now was a ¡°Maid half-lord¡± which was a unique species. She hadn''t received a name which intrigued me on how the system worked when it came to names.
Her new race seemed to be a race aimed at pure magic casting but what surprised me was that after her rank up, the entire cave began sparkling. Yes, sparkling by its cleanliness. Not only that but her meat seasoning abilities had reached new highs.
After she washed my clothes I noticed they had regained a bit of durability. Normally I would have said ¡°impossible!¡± but in this world everything could be explained by saying MAGIC! Okay okay I keep talking about her new skills but I kept the best for last.
She now was just a bit smaller than me, black eyes, black hair and her skin was now almost the same colour as humans with a subtle green hue to it. She had a beautifully curved body and the biggest breasts I have ever seen in my life if we exclude the fake silicon ones.
She looked almost entirely human and was now as pretty as she was ugly before which for once seemed to seriously make her happy. She didn''t say anything and didn''t act any differently but since I could hear people''s thoughts I managed to hear her celebrate in her head.
She even rejoiced of the fact that her boobs were bigger than even Anastaria which was inappropriate but I deemed that my servant should be allowed freedom of thought unlike certain gods from my old world. Well as light punishment I assigned her with the task of training a new butler to help her.
It was a very serious looking hobgoblin who had attracted my attention. You see, goblins, hobgoblins and ogres hold a tournament every week to establish a hierarchy among themselves and of course Nargaroth was on top of them all by far but a small hobgoblin I named PorkFace had managed to do something that even stomped me.
He challenged a level 77 Ogre and defeated him with difficulty of course but considering their 15 level gap it was definitely remarkable. As a reward he was to be my personal butler and I could already imagine him in a clean cut tuxedo following me around. Of course he needed training but this is where PigFace came into play.
After Pigface''s rank up Irene seemed incredibly down and I had to have a discussion with her to make her regain determination. For someone like Irene, it was relatively easy. All I had to say was that dragons were the last rank up while half-lords were still at the beginning of the evolutionary path.
Upon hearing that she was still ahead Irene became a workaholic. So easy to manipulate people when you can hear their thoughts. If I find items giving intelligence bonuses when I go out, I''ll buy and bring them to her. I hope it can boost her growth speed even more.
On another note, I had found a new post of the Alterlife forum which peaked my curiosity. It was a list of most basic titles, their bonuses and how to obtain them. Some of the easiest ones were things like ¡°Stone turner¡± which involved me turning 5000 stone upside down.
Stupidest title but this made me discover something important. After unlocking ¡°Tree puncher¡± by punching a tree 10000 times I had confirmed that I was allowed to enable only 10 titles. 10 was still a lot but this means that the best titles were a lot more important to get than easy ones.
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I should now only go after titles giving better bonuses than the ones I already had. The best one I had was ¡°Divinity¡± and from my estimate, the clan''s title Irya and I were working on could potentially be even better than this one.
Ho! did I mentioned that we found something interesting in the giant lake nearby? I still don''t know what it is, but it''s big. In the past, Mendy had almost been eaten by whatever was living in it so it was definitely a high level monster.
Mendy doesn''t talk much but was still able to tell me ¡°Big. Dangerous. Fish. Live. In. Lake.¡± When I asked her what it was or what it looked like she only said ¡°Pervert. Groping. Hands.¡± Immediately I thought, KRAKEN! But weren''t krakens confined to salt water?
As far as I know, krakens only exist in the sea so I would need to verify myself to know what it is but right now I don''t have time for that. All I did was tell my minio-... servants to stay away from it.
My rare free times were filled with ¡°harem duties¡± and a small side project. I had finished an arcane circle which I called ¡°Arcane Gatling¡±. Like the previous ones, I had made it to be linked to my ¡°Bolt¡± techniques.
It allowed me to transform the ¡°bolt¡± techniques which are firing 1 powerful attack into a barrage of lower level projectiles at high speed. I tested a few combinations and [LightningBolt + Gatling] seemed extremely promising.
As long as I kept pouring mana into it, projectiles kept firing out at around 10 rounds per second which is almost as fast as an Ak-47. Each projectile lacked power but the sheer amount of them made up for it if I compared mana consumption to the standard single bolts. Single bolts were like sniper rifles while Gatling was like, well a Gatling gun...
4 days later, it was finally time to go through with the clan ceremony. Irya, Irene and Anastaria would have to renounce their ¡°Rokugan Clan member¡± title as you could only have 1 ceremony title so ours would overwrite their previous one but I was confident that ours would be superior.
Right now we were in the laboratory, standing in a complex ceremony circle engraved into the stone floor. The Phenacite mana stone was in the middle, filled with 10 million mana units. Around it were standing me, Irene, Irya, Anastaria, PigFace, Mendy, Nargaroth.
We were all going to undergo the ceremony together since the mana used wasn''t distributed to us but was only used to activate the title giving system. We could have as many people as we could fit in the circle and still have the entire benefit of the 10 million mana units.
The 6 people who were with me were those I judged worthy of being members of my/our clan. I had no intention of doing like the others and restrict it only to dragons. Like all the most powerful nations on earth, what mattered was strength and worthiness.
After having each one of them recite a pledge of allegiance to our clan with the price of death to break it, we were now finally ready to put things into motion. I was about to link the circle to the Phenacite stone, butterflies in my stomach and dry mouth.
¡°We have ice in our veins, blood in our eyes, hate in our hearts, revenge in mind. Let make the world feel our wrath as we rain fire upon it. Today is the birthday of the ''Vindictae Clan''. May the world mourn this day till the end of times.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sanguis tuus erit in aeternum.¡± (Everybody)
¡°We are now ready my precious friends... Irya, you can begin now.¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
229
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium high
HEALTH:
3660
STAMINA:
2600
MANA:
7880
STRENGTH:
1068 (+200)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+250)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+350)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+350)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+150)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
Chapter 44 - Independence day?
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°We are now ready my precious friends... Irya, you can begin now.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°? ??????????????? ???? ????? ????? ???????? ??? ¦Ä ¦· ??? ?????¦Ò ¦Õ ??¦Å ¦Á ¦²?????????? ???? ????? ????? ????????¦¨ ¦£....¡± (Irya)
The circle began to pulse with a bright light but I couldn''t feel anything. We already knew that we wouldn''t feel anything from our previous experiment so we simply needed to wait for the ceremony to be over and for our title to appear.
¡°Ho!¡± (Nargaroth) -- ¡°Woa...¡± (Anastaria) -- ¡°Uhh?.¡± (PigFace) -- ¡°Holy-¡± (Irya) -- ¡°Eh?¡± (Irene) -- ¡°Meow?¡± (Mendy)
New title: Vindictae Clan Member
If activated, this title grants (+350 strength) (+350 Intelligence) (+350 Vitality) (+350 Resistance) (+350 Endurance)
¡°Holy crap! Irya, we did an amazing job...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It''s a lot better than the pure blooded dragon titles!!¡± (Irya)
¡°Guhuhuhu* And it''s not over.¡± (Kneeko)
You have learned a new Active Skill [Humanoid Shift]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: -)
Allows you to take human form. You can partially transform your body so that you can use your true body''s abilities.
You have learned a new Active Skill [ID Hide]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: -)
Only those who are from the same clan as you can use the Identify command on you. All the others will only see, (???).
You have learned a new Passive Skill [Intimidating Aura]. (Cost. N/A) (Mastery: -)
This skill affects the target''s instincts. They will feel as if you are a truly powerful being who they should fear. (The more skill points you have, the stronger the effect.)
You have learned a new Active Skill [Vindic Flames]. (Cost. 50 Mana per second) (Mastery: B)
¡°Fire type¡± attack shooting black flames consuming mana instead of oxygen.
You have learned a new Active Skill [Vindic Wave]. (Cost. 800 Mana) (Mastery: B)
Shoot a ball of ¡°mana disturbing¡± energy. Can dispel attacks of equal or lower ranks.
[...]
¡°SUCCESS!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yayyyy!¡± (Irya)
¡°Fufufufu* It seems all the work you have done wasn''t wasted. Congratulation hone-... Kneeko and Irya.¡± (Anastaria)
It was a happy moment. We were all celebrating and chatting about how useful these techniques would be in the future. The title gave 250 more points than my ¡°Divinity¡± title so it was obviously something unbelievable. It was definitely better than being immune to foul smells so I deactivated ¡°Grave Digger¡± and enabled the clan title instead.
ID hide was the exact same ability used by all these annoying dragon who I could never identify and would hide our information from any outsiders. Vindic Flames was a skill identical to the fire type spell called [inferno] excepted for the fact that the Vindic Flames were black and couldn''t be extinguished with water.
Oil fire is the same and can only be extinguished if you cut the fire''s air supply or remove the combustible substance. Vindic flame was functioning the same way and will extinguish only when there''s no mana left to consume. What you could do was basically set your enemies on fire and it would eat at their mana pool until it''s empty.
Intimidating Aura was self explanatory and did pretty much the same as [TerrorEyes] without the need to make eye contact. Next was Vindic wave. This skill was copied from the Rokugan''s [Oblivion] skill shown by Irene back in the dungeon and could disrupt or even dispel any attack of lower ranks. This was very useful to block attacks you are weak against.
Of course these skills were mostly aimed at magic casters and would be less useful for warriors such as Nargaroth but there was no arguing how powerful these skills and title were. First thing we did was use the Humanoid Shift ability.
First was Nargaroth. When he transformed he looked like a 7 feet tall, bald black man. Even if he was smaller, he still had the shape of a body builder and I doubt anyone would want to mess with him. He still had his yellow tattoos making him look even more intimidating.
Of course this wasn''t the most shocking thing. All the girls were staring at him in terror after seeing his pants drop to the floor due to his body having shrunk. That dude had a giant anaconda in his pants that could freeze the blood of any woman. I pity whoever gets fucked by him in the future...
Next was PigFace. She didn''t look that different from before except for the colour of her skin which became milky white. Her lips were pink and supple looking. She still had black eyes and hair but amazingly, her breasts grew even more. I wonder how she can still stand upright with those...
Then it was Mendy''s turn. She still didn''t have much thought in her head but seemed somewhat smarter. More human than beast. Once she used Humanoid Shift my jaw dropped. She was a 5¡±2 tall, fair skinned woman with beautiful fire red hair.
Her eyes were still those of a cat with their piercing yellow colour and vertically slit iris. She had cute small breast and all the qualities of a loli but this wasn''t what made my jaw drop. Well there was the fact that she was naked but what truly got to me were her amazingly cute red cat ears.
Humanoid Shift allows partial transformation so she could replace these cat ears with human ears but she instinctively kept her original ears. ¡°Kneeko Approves!¡±. I walked up to her and began patting her head while copping a feel of her ears.
¡°PurRRRrrrrrrrrr*¡± (Mendy)
Urgg... She closed her eyes in ecstasy and began purring which almost made my pants explode ... I definitely need to go take a ¡°walk¡± with Asta later. Speaking of Asta, after using Humanoid Shift her appearance didn''t change at all. It was the same for Irene and Irya which was logical since the skill was basically the same they had been using all along.
Next it was my turn. I activated the skill and no change happened. Of course I needed to deactivate my ring to see the effect which I immediately did. As soon as I did, my appearance remained the same with two exception. My hair was now pitch black and my eye red.
I didn''t remember seeing humans with red eyes so I felt like I looked more like a vampire than a human but I was still handsome. Then as I was contemplating myself in a polished bronze plate as mirror I noticed something. Asta, Irene and Irya were looking at me with the weirdest eyes ever...
¡°What is it? Do I look ugly?¡± (Kneeko) I asked curiously.
¡°Y-you look just like....¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yea... totally like him.¡± (Irene)
¡°It''s a bit disturbing. The face is a bit different but still...¡± (Irya)
¡°.... I look like someone familiar to you 3 ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yea... You look just like father...¡± (Irya)
¡°Urgg... Would it cause problems when it comes to taking ¡°walks¡± with you?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kneeko I know you can hear this. How about a ¡°walk¡± right now?¡° (Anastaria) She thought while fidgeting with red cheeks.
¡°Absolutely not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pant* pant* pant*¡± (Irya)
¡°Father was handsome after all...¡± (Irya)
¡°What are you talking about? Why should hair and eye colour cause any problem to walk?¡± (Irene)
¡°Silly big bro.¡± (Irene)
Reassured, I then materialized my wings. 2 fiery wings emerged from my back causing the cave to instantly become as hot as a sauna. Guhuhuhu this isn''t very subtle but it''s bad-ass as fuck! Then I did the same with my eyes and then began to glow as if they were made out of fire. (Which was the case)
We celebrated by drinking and partying for the rest of the day. Irene who was usually restricted to juice had her first drink tonight. She began to strip and act a little bit strange so we put her to sleep in her bed before she did something she would regret.
After that I kept pestering Asta and Irya to break their ¡°no threesome¡± rule but it was in vain. Because of my alcohol immunity I ended up faking drunkenness as an excuse to cop a feel at PigFace''s melons and Mendy''s ears.
Seeing what I was doing, my 2 dragonesses decided to take turns at draining me of my essence like true succubus(es). It was a night I would never forget as I felt as dried as an old raisin afterwards. It was not only me who got lucky as all the hobgoblin(esses) began to fight among themselves for a turn at the ¡°fight the anaconda¡± game.
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Alcohol, sex and battle was the perfect type of party for monsters such as us. The day after I decided to gather everyone for some hunting. Everybody living in our territory had been summoned for the occasion. Standing before all these attentive eyes I began my speech.
¡°Monsters -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can''t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it is fate that today is a completely random day, but you will all be fighting for our supremacy, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from tentacles groping. We''re fighting for our right to kill, to destroy. And should we win the fight, this day will no longer be known as a random day, but as the day when our group declared in one voice:¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What the hell is he talking about?¡± (Crowd)
¡°We will not go quietly into the night! - We will not vanish without a fight! - We''re going to live on! - We''re going to survive! - Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!¡° (Kneeko)
[...]
Clap* ......... Clap* ..... Clap* clap* clap* clap* clap* clap* YEAAAaaaaaaa!* crowd going wild*
¡°This man''s nuts... Sighhhh* I love him so much!¡° (Anastaria)<- (AutNote:Guhuhuhu* Deez nuts...)
¡°Let''s slaughter this monster who thinks he can squat in our lands and grope our women!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°YEAAAAAAaaaaaaaa! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!¡° (Crowd)
Drunk on battle-lust, the crowd began sharpening their crude weapons. I took out my twin blades and began the march toward the giant lake located in the middle of our territory. Today since we needed as many fighters as possible I left the dungeon surveillance to low ranking goblins.
"Kekekeke* Such energy! Smell like slaughter.. HOoo i''m getting hard." (Itzal)
"Urrrgggg* So much blood lust. Spookyyyy...." (Argy)
The dungeon had stayed secure for so long I wasn''t worried in the slightest. All the hobgoblins, goblins and ogres were present as well as all the Vindictae members. This giant tentacle porn-esque creature was going to be used as celebratory food at tonight''s bonfire.
When we arrived at the lake, our group began to shout battle-cries and taunts aimed at forcing the creature out of the dept of this bottomless lake. 5 minutes later still nothing was happening so we began to throw rocks and various attacks at the water. After a while there was still no sign of the beast so it is then that I lost patience.
¡°Everybody stand back!¡± (Kneeko)
I warned everybody to get away from me before I took my Dranix appearance. Being made out of the hottest fire in existence I dipped my hands and wings into the water. As my limbs touched the cold liquid, a giant explosion occurred.
This giant explosion was created by the water instantly evaporating. The cold liquid turning into gas needed to expand many time it''s original molecular size. I kept walking forward into the lake, creating an enormous vapour cloud all around us.
The water couldn''t even touch me as it evaporated a few meters before reaching me. The first thought that came to mind was Moses. I felt as if I was splitting the water as I could see the bottom of the lake. After a few minutes the water level had already dropped of a few centimetres.
Sensing that its habitat was in danger, the giant monster we were looking for finally appeared in all it''s splendour. It was indeed a giant octopus. The monster was red with blue circles on its body and must have been as big as a 10 story apartment building.
This thing was damn near worthy of being called a titan. [Identify]
Monster (Architeuthis)
Species:
Fresh Water Kraken
Level:
508
Monster Rank:
Very High
Rarity:
Very Rare
Gulp*....
¡°EVERYBODY UNDER LEVEL 100 RETREAT!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
229
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
High
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1068 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
Chapter 45 - Kneeko the hacker?
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°EVERYBODY UNDER LEVEL 100 RETREAT!!!!!¡± (Kneeko)
The lower levels began to retreat as the strongest took position for battle. The giant kraken slowly rose and began to close in on our position. Knowing that we would sustain heavy losses if that thing came to shore I took immediate actions.
¡°Anyone with ranged attacks take position all around the shore and retreat if this thing gets near you. I wont tolerate any casualties! Have each one of our archers and spell casters guarded by a warrior at all times. Irene, I want you to keep your distance as well. Anastaria and Irya, you will be my support.¡± (Kneeko)
Having barked my orders I took off to the sky in my dranix form and flew toward the beast. As a water type creature, this octopus should have been a creature I''m weak against but I still had the ¡°amphibious¡± passive skill which helped me resist water effects a lot better.
Also since I was a fire type creature, I should be able to deal heavy damage to it. I had the lower level minions retreat since they could die from a single attack. If that happened, losses would end up being greater than gains which would suck but truthfully, I was certain of our victory.
Irya was level 400+, Anastaria was higher level than this kraken and we had many members supporting us. If worst came to worst I had also gathered a few nails and hairs from the Vindictae clan members in case I needed to resurrect them.
I didn''t know if ¡°any¡± part of their body would work for that but it was better than severing one of their fingers. Flying over the kraken I began raining fire attacks on it, trying to keep its aggro onto me. If this thing reached the shore, who knows how many foot soldiers would perish.
Everybody was using ranged attacks from all directions, pelting attacks at the beast and slowly chipping away at its HP but all of a sudden the kraken realized it couldn''t catch me and began to swim toward the group of hobgoblins using bows and arrows.
If this thing wasn''t interested in me anymore, I needed to force it to pay attention to me. I swooped down at very high speed, avoiding tentacles left and right, trying to close the distance. Seeing as I was too fast for its tentacles to catch me, the beast began using water based attacks.
¡°[Water Jet]¡° (Architeuthis)
Uhh? This thing has some sort of consciousness and isn''t as stupid as it looks apparently. Having heard its thoughts I immediately avoided the incoming jet of water travelling at high enough speed to cut through granite. Some attacks were too wide to avoid so I skillfully used [Vindic Wave] to dispel them.
The kraken then began to use water blades forcing me to back away to a safe distance. I failed my approach but still managed to get its attention once again. BOOOOM! Suddenly a massive fire explosion took at least 1/5 of the beast''s health in one go. Turning around to look at where the attack had come from, I saw Asta with her palm facing the beast.
A slow trickle of smoke was still visible from her palm as she began to gather her mana once again. Even a level 500+ monster couldn''t mess with my dragoness which made me very proud of her. The only problem now was that she had aggroed the beast who began to slowly swim toward the group again.
¡°Ho no you don''t! You gutter slag fish!¡± (Kneeko)
I swooped down swirling left and right around the tentacles with my fiery body and clamped my claws into its tender flesh. [Viper Bite] + [Vindic Flames] combo. In this single attack I poisoned the beast with obscuro, viper neurotoxin and ignited its giant body with heat-less black flames slowly burning its mana away.
¡°GRRRRRrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuGulululululu*¡± (Architeuthis)
¡°PAIN!!! PAIN PAIN! KILL KILL!¡° (Architeuthis)
The giant thing began trashing around and tried to grab me as I flew away. The tentacles almost succeeded in catching me but as they were closing in on me, 3 extremely powerful fire based attacks blew up on its face.
Asta, Irya and Irene were perfect supports for a fight like this since I was immune to fire. The kraken had no chance of victory against the Vindictae clan guhuhuhuhu*! I flew in a circle around the beast and kept it busy as the others rained attacks on it.
The kraken used a few water based attacks and began targeting the lower level archers and magic casters but the tank type warriors positioned as their bodyguards blocked most of them. Once I had recuperated enough mana I then used my finishing move. [Deadly Breath]
As the corrosive acid touched its body, the Kraken turned it''s giant eyes filled with hatred toward me. This was exactly the reaction I was hoping for. [Death Stare].
¡°UUUUUUURRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUULULULULUL*¡± (Architeuthis)
The cries of agony of the beast were blood chilling but the ogres seemed stimulated by it. It was the same as a predator seeing a wounded prey. They then began trowing spears and rocks at the beast as it slowly and painfully died.
Mendy now in her manticore appearance flew next to me and began to use every opening to sting the creature with its scorpion tail and launched many air type magics at it. We were all slaughtering the poor beast with no mercy. This battle was closer to bullying than fighting.
¡°[Final Flash]¡° (Architeuthis)
The giant beast now almost dead began to glow. I could feel this was going to be a last resort type of attack, maybe even a self destruct type one so I yelled to everyone to retreat. Now that it was affected by my [Death Stare], it was already dead anyway... Unless it had a powerful purifying ability or death magic immunity of some sort.
Time to end this before this fucking thing explodes or something... [Arcane LightningBolt + WaterBolt + MagmaBolt: Power 100%]. Summoning 3 circles interlocked with each other, I poured in all my remaining mana and launched it at the beast.
The result was a giant explosion filling the area with steam as a hardened magma rock shaped like a bullet flew at high speed toward the beast. The steam was filled with electric sparks augmenting the electricity''s area of effect all around the beast''s giant body.
Still alive but only with a sliver of life left I rammed my body against his, trying to envelop the beast with my fiery body. The kraken''s skin began to sizzle and burn, making crispy patches appear all over its body. Finally the giant beast died and slowly sunk down the lake.
¡°No wait NO! FUCKKKKK!!!!¡± (Kneeko) Whatever this monster dropped after its death was now at the bottom of the lake. Knowing the lake was ridiculously deep, retrieving it was out of the question. Too bothersome... Sighhh* Such a stupid mistake.
Level up! (X46)
Annoyed, I then flew back to the shore where my clansmen and minions were looking at me in awe. What today''s experience thought me what that we were ready to face 1 of these pure blooded dragons at a time but more than this would be problematic.
I landed and turned back into my humanoid appearance before putting all of my newly acquired points into strength.
*Crowd cheering *
¡°Woaaaa The great leader is amazing!! Hooray for the great leader!!!¡± (Crowd)
¡°Fufufufu* This seemed a little bit too easy... Your battle strategies could be seen as incredibly unfair don''t you think? Fufufu*¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Yeaaa this giant thing couldn''t do anything against us! Hubb-.. Cough* cough* Kneeko totally toyed with it.¡± (Irya)
¡°Yeee yeee things went BOOM! And then BAAM! Then this big thing couldn''t do anything and it all went SwoushH! Then FIRE! Then it smelled like fried octopus heheheh* It was soo cool big bro!!!¡± (Irene)
¡°Pervert. Fish. Sank. . . Funny... Revenge. PUUurrrrr*¡± (Mendy) She then added while rubbing herself against me like a cat.
¡°[Master. Strong. . . Love.]¡° (Mendy)
¡°Guhuhu* Battling against a single opponent couldn''t be called a challenge. Look like we won''t have octopus meat for diner though.. What a shame.¡± (Kneeko)
¡° Yayyy! Let''s party! Bring the alcohol!¡± (Irene)
¡°Ho no you don''t!¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Ouch ouch ouch*¡± (Irene)
Not wanting her daughter to become an alcoholic, Anastaria pinched Irene''s cheek and dragged her back home. That night was going to be filled with food, booze and sex once again! Just how I like it guhuhuhu*.
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[MindTech Corp (Real life)]
In a room on the last floor of a giant skyscraper owned by MindTech Corp, the company running Alterlife2, was a balding man yelling at one of the employees working for him.
¡°I WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO RUIN US!!!!! Brain tumour MY ASS! YOU! You will do whatever it takes to prevent this study from being made public!¡± (Big Boss?)
¡°Hmm but they are a private research group with no financial backers. We have nothing to pressure them with so there''s little we can do...¡± (Employee)
¡°LISTEN TO ME YOU ASSHOLE! I SAID YOU WILL DO ANYTHING YOU CAN!!! I don''t give a shit about the method, take their fucking families hostage or kill them all I don''t give a shit! If this study goes public our entire company will go bankrupt! WE WILL LOOSE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN INDEMNIFICATION AND LAW SUITS! YOU WILL STOP THAT FROM HAPPENING BY ALL MEANS, AM I CLEAR???¡± (Big Boss?)
The bald man was the CEO of the company and had recently learned of a private study showing long term damage to the brain and even tumours on subjects using their virtual reality devices for too long. They also learned that this study was soon to be published in an important science magazine.
¡°Uhh y-yes sir!¡± (Employee) Said the nervous employee. The man''s name was Julian, a chief operating officer (COO) at MindTech Corp. Even though he wouldn''t lose as much as the big boss on such a scandal, he would still lose his job as well as thousands more employees.
This was a critical situation which created conflict in his mind. Should he protect his and other employees'' job and livelihood at the cost of the customers health ?! Stopping this study from being released could potentially cause the death of thousands of users.
Since his boss was now trowing objects around the room, his face as red as a lobster, the man didn''t feel like arguing and simply left after saying he would take care of it. As he got out of the ¡°hellish room¡± he came across another employee seemingly heading to see the big boss.
¡°Where are you going?¡± (Julian) He then asked curiously to the employee working as GM for Alterlife2.
¡°Ho I found a bugged NPC and to be able to erase him you know I need the boss'' authorization.¡± (GM)
¡°Uggg... I suggest you don''t go in there right now...¡± (Julian)
¡°But.. it may cause problem if we don''t fix this right now.¡± (GM)
¡°What type of bug are we talking about? What''s wrong with the NPC?¡± (Julian)
¡°Ho well it''s a monster with a bugged ranking module. First he ranked up to many strange species and seemed quite suspicious but was still within game mechanic but his last rank up was to a phoenix... Which he didn''t have all the components to unlock. The code simply doesn''t make sense and it looks as if the NPC cheated....¡± (GM)
¡°Sighhh* NPC can''t cheat so it must have been some type of corrupt data in his NzdataM.RUD module... Since I seriously suggest against going in the boss'' office right now you should simply reset its NzdataM.RUD module database. That way you will fix the problem without having to delete it. That way you don''t need the boss authorization.¡± (Julian)
¡°Are you sure? If we do that without doing a full reset the NPC will be totally broken... Like an overpowered rabbit or something... He won''t be able to rank up for a very long time. I''m sure it will come back to bite us in the ass later.¡± (GM)
¡°JUST DO AS I SAY!!!... Sighh* sorry I-... You seriously don''t want to go see the boss right now ok? Just do a reset of the NzdataM.RUD module and don''t worry about it. Keep up the good work alright?!¡± (Julian)
¡°Y-yes sir.. Sorry for imposing.¡± (GM) The young employee then turned around and went back to his work cubicle.
¡°Sighhh* This business is going to shit... Who cares about a bugged NPC right now. I''m trying to save our jobs you bunch of idiots...¡± (Julian) Mumbled the now highly frustrated man.
¡°Well.. where do I begin now? Would threatening them be enough or do I seriously need to go psycho killer on them...?¡± (Julian)
+++
STATUS:
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
275
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Dranix (Unique)
MONSTER RANK:
High
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
Chapter 46 - Transcendence
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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AutNote: Sorry to those who felt offended by a note in the last chapter. It wasn''t meant in a malicious way but i now realize some subjects should be avoided. With that done, can we all love each others again? Yes? Yes? Let''s get going with the story now. ;)
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Today I was up early. Yesterday''s party had been wild and most of the ¡°staff¡± were still sleeping off their hangovers somewhere. Luckily PigFace was perfectly fine and operational for my daily breakfast which I engulfed like a black hole.
I needed to begin preparations for my upcoming trip to the elven land and before doing so there were some things that needed to be completed. The poison of our little flying squirrels had finally reached rank S and the antidote was currently being produced in reasonable quantities.
As I was handling the dangerous venom some fell on my hand once again. This wasn''t a rare occurrence and was the reason why I forbade the others from doing this work. I had a rank S detox spell so it wasn''t too big of a deal for me.
Poison Resistance rank up! (S)
Morph into
Poison Immunity (-)
Hoo! That''s super great!
Ho? Does that mean there are no rank SS poisons ? Thinking about it, chances are the only rank SS poisons had to be magic based just like my [Death Stare] skill so it wasn''t too surprising to receive immunity at rank S.
That was a great start to the day. Next I decided to go get the items at the bottom of the lake after all. Who knows, maybe there was something great. I walked down to the lake and took my dranix form before slowly walking into the water in a cloud of vapour.
The more I walked, the deeper it got and I was not totally under-water in an steam bubble caused by my extreme heat. The water couldn''t reach me but the deeper I got, the smaller the bubble around me became. It was due to the water pressure fighting against me.
When I reached around where I had seen the monster sink, there was no longer any sunlight reaching me. The only light was from my fiery body shedding light through the darkness. The bottom of the lake was mostly sand and small rocks, nothing impressive.
After looking around for a few minutes I finally found a big pile of meat. I grabbed everything and placed it in my inventory. Under the meat were a few useless items but among them was a pair of silver earrings.
Earring of dominance
Minimum level:
200
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
A
Rarity:
Very Rare
When equipped, this earring should prevent monster lower level than you from attacking.
#Various limitations such as sheer numerical advantages.
Uhh... Not bad I guess. These various limitation are preventing me from being overjoyed but it''s not bad at all actually. Monsters lower than me should see me as hostile or simply be coerced from attacking me is what I think this earring does.
What this message also says is that if I am highly outnumbered, level won''t matter to them anymore eh. I immediately equipped it and began to make my way back out the lake. I still had various things to do and still needed to tell Mendy and Nargaroth they would be coming with me.
As I was walking back something strange suddenly happened. I felt some weird shift backward and felt as if my body shrank in a split second. What the hell is going on? The water then suddenly rushed toward me and engulfed me in its darkness.
Urggg*. Wait.. I can breath? Ho yea amphibious passive skill. I can stay a long time underwater and also go to the surface but what was going on. I looked to see if my ring had activated, but it hadn''t. Getting worried I quickly opened my status window, trying to understand what was happening to my body.
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
275
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
WUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttt??????? It''s motherfucking red! Most of my skills are gone and I-... WHAT THE FUCK!? I''M A FUCKING TADPOLE AGAIN? LUCYYYYY!!!!! I rushed to shore, used my humanoid shift skill to transform into a human and yelled the skill name. [Chimera Forge]
I was boiling with rage when I finally arrived at the character customization interface. I looked around for my sister and saw her cowering in an nonexistent corner, hidden behind a nonexistent chair. She clearly had something she was scared to tell me.
¡°LUCY!!!!!!!! ARRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr* WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!!! A TADPOLE? WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!¡± (Kneeko) I yelled with my face the same colour as the Ferrari I used to own back in the days.
¡°H-hi ni-.... ni-chan...¡± (Lucy)
¡°ANSWER ME! Da fuq is going on?¡± (Kneeko) I said still boiling, steam coming out of my ears.
¡°Uhhm... Well first, don''t panic okay? It''s not as bad as it looks...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Not as b-... You are fucking kidding me right? RIGHT? YOU ARE PLAYING A FUCKING JOKE ON ME RIGHT?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Kyaaa! Don''t be mad alright!! The GM detected an error code and I failed to delete it before they got their hands on it. But it''s ok alright, I can fix this ok?!¡± (Lucy)
Knowing I wouldn''t accomplish anything by yelling I calmed down and sat on the floor. I kept staring daggers at my sister involuntarily which definitely made her feel uncomfortable.
¡°Explain... EVERY FUCKING THING!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hhuuuuu alright. Back then when you were about to die, I... kinda... messed with the code a little... I unlocked an evolution you shouldn''t have had access to due to missing a few DNA fragments. But if I hadn''t you would have died and lost your new ¡°family¡± for good.
So I hacked into the system to give you a rank up allowing you access to resurrection abilities. The problem with that is that the system automatically sent an error code to the GM that I failed to intercept. Sorry ni-chan...
Then seeing that you had ranked up abnormally, the GM decided to reset your EXP-DNA completely. Still, you are lucky since they would have normally deleted you completely.¡± (Lucy)
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¡°D-d-d-deleted completely? Like killing me? You risked my life you fucktard!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Calm down ni-chan. It''s not like this could ever happen. You think father didn''t think of a way to protect you against such eventuality?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Hoo? So I can''t be deleted?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho sure you can...¡± (Lucy)
[...]
¡°I SWEAR TO GOD LUCY! ARE YOU MESSING WITH ME AGAIN?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hiiiiiii No no relax ! It''s the truth... They can delete you from their system, but they cannot get rid of you. Your data is contained in over 15 satellite servers connected through a backdoor to the Alterlife system. So each time you are deleted, you will be automatically re-uploaded into the system.
Obviously all this is done in an anonymously coded way so that if you are being re-uploaded, there is no way for them to tell that it is you and not another random NPC. And then again, if they find a way to prevent you from being re-uploaded, you will still be living in Alterlife2 but on a private satellite server.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Which means?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ummm a parallel world similar to this one. There would be your dragonesses there as well and everything you know about this world with one major exception.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Which is...?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°No more connection to the outside. Which mean no more internet, no more players. Your own private world where you would gain your powers as observer. Just like me... By the way, I am not all powerful in here, I am highly restricted.
Father presented me as a highly advanced AI to run the system from the background but my real purpose is to protect and guide you. In a private server, we would basically be like gods... With nothing impossible to us. But in a way, father wished for you to keep in touch with the real world so here we are. Hopefully worst won''t come to worst.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Alright this is interesting and everything but back to my current problem please...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho yes! It''s not a problem at all.. Here, take this.¡± (Lucy) Sister then handed me an egg.
¡°Da fuq is this ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°It''s an egg...¡± (Lucy) I immediately began to glare at her so hard that she would pee herself.
¡°Hiiiiiii okok! It''s a chimera egg... The creature that will hatch from it contains all the EXP-DNA you had gathered up till the phoenix rank up. I gathered it all here and made a chimera with it. That way if you kill the creature once it hatches, you will regain all your EXP-DNA up to the basilisk form.
You will be able to use chimera forge to reactivate them all and quickly regain what you lost. Excepted the phoenix ability of course.. But for that problem I have another solution which still won''t break the game rules.¡± (Lucy)
She then handed me a piece of paper with some kind of grocery shopping list written on it.
¡°And what''s this?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Remember I told you the chances of ranking up past level 200 were highly limited?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Yea..?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Well this is a list of all the DNA you will need to rank up into something I know you profoundly desire.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Hoo? Which is ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Surprise!¡± (Lucy) GLARE*
¡°Hiiiii! Okok it''s a dragon god!!!!!!!¡± (Lucy)
Blink* Blink* Blink* Blink*
¡°Muhhh? For real? A... DRAGON GOD?!! AHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA!!!!!! This may not be such a bad situation after all GUAHahahahah!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°See! I told you! It''s not an easy list to gather but I believe if it''s ni-chan, he will definitely succeed!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Uhhh? Let me see... First I need... Two basilisk?! Urgg one is already hard to come by... Then I need a Pterodon... It''s going to be a challenge indeed...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes.. But as you can see I included some locations where you can find what you need so, it shouldn''t be too bad right?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Sighh... Sorry about earlier Lucy. I kinda lost my cool for a minute.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I don''t mind. I am the one who kinda messed up back then by not intercepting the error alert.¡± (Lucy)
¡°By the way... Why is my status screen red instead of blue now?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh? It is ?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Yea.. What''s up with that ?¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
¡°Hihihihihihihihi* Ho my... They messed up big time hihihihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°What do you mean?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°hihihihi* So funny... Looks like the GM who took care of you deleted something he shouldn''t have... Hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°Please stop laughing like that.. It''s creeping me out... Explain what you mean..¡± (Kneeko)
¡°The GM must have deleted your ID code by error... You are basically a ghost now. Hihihihi Just like me!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Ghost? Like I''m dead or like I''m there without being there?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°The GM and the system won''t be able to locate you now is what I mean... It''s like you don''t exist for the system anymore.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Ho..?! And what does that do for me ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho well, the chances of you being deleted are extremely slim now. As long as you don''t attract too much attention on yourself, you can do whatever you want without alerting the system administrators. Hihihi such a weird NPC you are now hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°You mean I could destroy entire kingdoms and as long as no one sees or identifies me they have no way of knowing I was responsible ?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Exactly! They couldn''t even tell you were there. They can use the system to get a list of all the entities present at a certain place at a certain time but you would never appear in that list. Like I said, you are a ghost!...¡± (Lucy)
Huhuhu well it''s getting weird and interesting at the same time isn''t?! I placed the egg and shopping list in my inventory and exited the Chimera forge interface. I still felt like crap for being back to being a tadpole but if this was to be what I am, I would be the best at it.
I will create utter chaos in this world until this game goes to shit. That''s what they get for messing with me! I will rain fire upon the entire world! Looks like I need to become a demon emperor once again. Dragon God, Demon Emperor! Is that even possible? Mehh I''ll find a way.
But for now, I was a tadpole... But I don''t care anymore, this is only temporary. While I''m a tadpole I might as well do it right. I will be the strongest, meanest... The dragon devouring tadpole! I will become THE MIGHTIEST TADPOLE!
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STATUS
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PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
275
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
433G 31S 30C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
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Chapter 47 - Back on my feet
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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After walking back home I immediately went to the laboratory, took a few flying squirrels and broke their necks. I took the list given to me by sister and began analyzing it carefully. I had EXP-DNA that wasn''t needed for my godly rank up so I could use it as I liked.
I hadn''t lost all my skills since I still had my poison immunity which intrigued me but I quickly understood that it was because they had only erased my EXP-DNA which included my mana affinities, body and skills gained via these rank ups. The skills gained outside the rank ups hadn''t been touched.
I also compiled all the necessary DNA for my godly rank up and concluded that I could immediately regain some of my lost skills. I still didn''t know if I would have to re-grind the mastery of each of them but there was nothing I could do about it now.
Then I pulled out the egg Lucy gave me and placed it on the table in front of me. It was a blue egg with pink dots all over. How do I make this thing hatch now? I looked at it for a while, turning it left and right, even knocking on it.
Then I decided to pour some mana into it and as soon as I did so, the egg began to crack. My baby was finally hatching yayy! ..... When the egg finally opened in half what got out of it wasn''t cute at all. It was a ball of fleshy gore with an eye and some hairs, feathers, scales and other gross things.
It didn''t even look like anything and was most like a big ball of DNA. Grossed out I backed away as if this thing was some kind of sickness. Looking at it was definitely sickening. Not wasting any time I began punching it.
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Unarmed Mastery rank up! (D)
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A few punches later the thing finally died but didn''t give me any EXP. Anxious to know if it had worked as it should I proceeded by making a list of the skills I could activate and immediately went back into the chimera forge interface.
¡°Missed me already nee nee? Hihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°Errr... Yea sure... I came to activate all the skills not using DNA necessary for the next rank up. Can you activate them for me please?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sure can do! So the skills using unnecessary DNA are: Obscuro Poison, Viper Neurotoxin, Deadly Breath, Gardener touch, Poison Spit, TerrorEyes, Vines Hell, and Viper Bite. Want to reactivate all your lost affinities as well? This won''t take anything from your next rank up anyway...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Please do! It''s annoying not being able to use arcane magic anymore.¡± (Kneeko) She silently nodded before moving her fingers all over the place, visibly browsing the system interface.
¡°There you go! Anything else?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Yea do I have any unnecessary DNA I could use to put some wings on my tadpole body ?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh sorry you don''t have enough... GO and kill a few hundred birds and that should do...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Noted. Ho! Can you put the skills I had lost at their previous mastery? I grinded so fucking much to get them where they are I''d be pissed to do it all again...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Already did! Hihihi* Want me to put them all at mastery (S) ?¡± (Lucy)
[...]
¡°Nha... That would ruin the fun and the hard work I did since the beginning.. Ho! Well maybe just one... Can you put [Gardener touch] to rank S please? Guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Done! Anything else?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Nha I think that''s all for now. Thank you sis.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihi* See ya ni-chan! Come as often as you like alright?¡± (Lucy)
I then left the chimera forge interface and regained consciousness in my lab where I had left. Immediately wanting to confirm I brought out my status window.
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PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
275
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
58433G 72S 55C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
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Guhuhu....HUhuHuHUhuhUhuh* PURRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrFect! Haaaaa *long sigh* I feel so damn better now. I quickly need to go out grocery shopping now. Then I noticed my money. Woaaa... Looks like some of the auctions are over. After putting some of my monetarily valuable treasures up for auction a week back I was now loaded with cash.
Ready to move I woke up the hungover Vindictae members for an urgent meeting. In fact, only one of the people present wasn''t from the clan. This person was the stoic PorkFace who had ranked up during yesterday''s hunt. It was obvious who was forming him since he had ranked up to something very similar to PigFace and now was a ''Butler Half-Lord''.
Even if he had ranked up I couldn''t bring him since he wasn''t a Vindictae clan member and couldn''t take human shape. You can imagine the immediate chaos if I brought a monster with us. Back when we did the ceremony he was still a hobgoblin and there was also no way I would allow a simple hobgoblin to undergo our clan ceremony.
During the emergency meeting I ordered Anastaria to select the most promising hobgoblins and teach them with Irya at our little school, hoping to make them rank up into spell casters. Since I was leaving the Phenacite Mana Stone here I gave my medium ring of holding to Anastaria in case something happened.
If our hideout was to be found I told her to gather all our treasures into this ring, destroy the cave and bury our clan ceremony circle under the rubble before running away. We couldn''t afford to let anyone steal our treasures from us. I was leaving the phenacite stone here for them to fill back up during my absence and get the help of all the future spell casting hobgoblins to do so.
Anastaria was sniffing and looking at me with a curious expression as if she knew I wasn''t a dranix anymore. I gave her a look that meant don''t worry about it and she immediately did. Next I gave each member of the Vindictae a small mana stone that I had filled with my mana and linked it to a magic compass. That way I would always be able to find them wherever they are.
They could attach these stones to rings, necklaces or even earrings. I had a legendary item able to do the same thing and even teleport the person back to me if their life were to be endangered but I had already given this treasure to someone else.
¡°That''s all I had to say for today''s meeting. Nargaroth and Mendy will be coming with me to get some supplies from the neighbouring elven land. We will depart in a few hours so get ready!¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°Uhh? Can''t I come?¡± (Irya)
¡°I need you here to teach the new hobgoblins students and I also need you to do something for me.¡± (Kneeko)
I pulled out my invaluable demon armour, pitch black with menacing spikes all over and gave it to her. Seeing this treasure Irya''s eyes went so big I thought her eyeballs would pop out.
¡°I want you to see if you can remove the race restriction on this. If you can''t, see what you can do to allow me to wear it.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Where did y-... Alright, I''ll see what I can do.¡± (Irya) She said with excitement in her voice. Of course she was exited to get to work on such a unique treasure.
¡°Asta, mind coming with me outside for a sec please?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Of course, lead the way.¡± (Anastaria)
¡°Is it related to your change of smell?¡° (Anastaria)
She discretely asked in her mind. I answered by slightly nodding and made my way out of the cave with her following close behind. Once outside we walked a bit until we were in a private area.
¡°I will go on a quest to become more powerful than ever, but as of now I had to regress to make it possible. So I will need a proper body to fight with and a dragon''s body would be the best. I never used Identify on you before out of respect but may I identify you while in your dragon form?¡± (Kneeko)
She looked at me with a surprised expression. She must had assumed I had already used identify on her out of curiosity so she showed me a warm smile, happy with my delicateness.
¡°Of course honey, you can identify me all you want.¡± (Anastaria) She then answered in a tone that seemed more sexual than formal. She then transformed into her majestic red dragon form, casting a giant shadow all around us. [Identify]
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Anastaria (NPC)
Race/Species:
Dragon Ecarlate
Level:
712
Class:
----
Title:
-Mother of Dragon
-Millennial
-Divine Mistress
?Show more?
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Only-... Dragon Ecarlate? Ain''t that poetic french for red? Never heard of that subspecies before but level 712? Really? Holy crap indeed... No wonder she fucked up that octopus thingy and fought for so long alone against those 4 dragons. Title ¡°Divine mistress¡± ?
¡°Say, the title Divine mistress when did you get that?¡± (Kneeko) She immediately began to blush.
¡°That time when you came into my room. Brrrr* I still have goosebumps at how surreal it was.¡± (Anastaria)
Now that I think about it, it was mostly due to my ¡°Divinity¡± title that I had surprisingly kept after my rank down. So titles weren''t related to EXP-DNA after all. Now that I had identified her dragon body I immediately added the dragon form to my ring by overwriting my owl form.
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Morph Ring
Minimum level:
N/A
Durability:
100/100
Rank:
SS
Rarity:
Extremely Rare
Allows the wearer to quickly shape-shift between 5 pre-programmed species/races. You can only use species/races you have encountered and identified before.
Note that you won''t get the species''/races'' abilities but only their appearances, and people will be able to see what is your true species/race with the identify command.
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Perfect! I walked up to Asta who had regained her human appearance and I gave her a gentle kiss.
¡°I will be gone for a little while but I promise to come back soon with supplies for our army. I will need to leave again to get what I need to become a powerful monster again but one thing at a time. I will miss you babe.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I will always wait for you, no matter how long it takes.¡° (Anastaria)
She gave me a strong hug then we walked back together to the cave where our minions had gathered. I made a small speech to them and ordered them to obey Asta and Irya as if they were me which they immediately agreed with. It''s not like they could mess with Asta anyway at her level.
Mendy and Nargaroth had their cheap leather backpacks and seemed ready to travel so I bid farewell to my dragonesses and little sister before leaving for my secret tunnel. After walking for a few minutes we finally arrived at a stone wall.
¡°Uhh? Thought tunnel here...¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Guhuhuhu* It is here. Follow me.¡± (Kneeko)
I nonchalantly walked right through the stone as if I was a ghost of something. This was a simple illusion that I had created using an arcane circle fuelled by a mana stone buried under it. These circles were not using a lot of mana so these stones should be able to fuel the illusion for a few years.
I say ¡°these¡± since I had placed another one on the other side of the tunnel. The exits were well hidden and probably wouldn''t have needed all these precautions but better safe than sorry. The 5 kilometres long tunnel was filled with poison and traps of all kinds just in case.
After a short while we finally emerged on the other side of the tunnel. The scenery all around us was that of a beautifully dense and healthy forest. The 3 of us were pumped and ready for adventure.
¡°Elven lands... Guhuhuhu* I heard you were beautiful. Let''s create some chaos in this beautiful paradise shall we? GUhWahahHahHAhAhaha!*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°KhuAhAhahahahah Can''t wait... good looking women. KuahahaAHha!¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°............................. Hungry.¡± (Mendy)
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
275
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
58433G 72S 55C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
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Chapter 48 - Overused rape scenario
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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Nargaroth, Mendy and I had been walking through the dense forest for 2 days now and we still hadn''t seen anything worth mentioning. I made a quick visit to lucy to get back my snake tongue ability in case I needed to detect an ambush.
Better safe than sorry. With that said, most monster simply avoided us for some reason. Well maybe it was because of our clan''s skill [Intimidating Aura] or even my new earring but it didn''t matter that much.
¡°Master. Bird.¡± (Mendy) She said while pointing up in a tree.
¡°[Arcane LightningBolt 5%]¡± (Kneeko) The bird instantly vaporized into a cloud of slow falling feathers.
¡°Nicely spotted Mendy!¡± (Kneeko) I then added while patting her on the head.
¡°PURrrrrrrrrrrrrr*¡± (Mendy)
¡°Happy. Need. More. Birds.¡° (Mendy)
¡°Why master kill birds?¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Simple, you both have wings that you can materialize to fly around in your human bodies but I still need to use a falcon appearance. I need to kill many birds to get wings like yours.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh...¡± (Nargaroth) The giant black man then scratched his head, clearly not understanding what I had just explained to him.
According to the map I had we should soon reach a small border town a few days from the main elven kingdom. I intended to make a small stop there before going any further. It was necessary for my plan since I couldn''t resurrect the queen anymore.
Well actually that''s not true, I did have a few resurrect spell-scrolls in my inventory but they were worth 20k gold a piece and I only had 5 of them which is not even enough for all the Vindictae clan members. Using them on a stranger was out of the question so I had to come up with a plan B.
It''s incredibly simple yet should be very effective if everything goes well. I was also in the process of working on my ¡°Immovable mountain¡± shield. At night and every time we took a break I would go in the arcane editor and work on it.
During these last weeks I had already thought of the code in my head and simply needed to actually write it but there was something else on my mind. I wanted the shape of the shield to be adaptable. For example, if the circle was placed on a tree I wanted the shield to cover the tree instead of creating a sphere.
The reason for that was simple, I planned to tattoo this circle at strategic places on my body so that I would become invulnerable as long as I had mana. Obviously to create such an advanced circle I needed time, and a lot of it.
Ho! And interesting discovery, I am the only monster who gains EXP by consuming monster cores. Don''t ask me why as I am still in the middle of my research on that specific question. Along the way I had found many interesting plants and poisons of all kind.
The elven forests are a real gold mine for someone with my abilities. I already had poison immunity but I wanted to try something different. It is also the reason why I killed a few venomous flying squirrels back home before I left. If it worked, I wouldn''t have to wear gloves and fear poisoning the people I care for anymore.
I was actually waiting to have gathered enough bird DNA to get my wings before doing so to avoid wasting necessary DNA. I had had so many things on my mind recently that I had almost forgotten about something.
¡°Nargaroth. There is something I wanted to give you.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Present? Me love presents.¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Mendy. No. Present?¡° (Mendy)
I reached for my inventory and pulled out a sword. Well not really a sword, it would be more appropriate to call this thing a massive slab of iron. It was a 30cm wide, 2 meters long sword which must have weighed at least a 1000+ pounds.
Such a ridiculous sword was obviously not meant to be wielded by anyone as it was big enough to dwarf most people. Actually even Nargaroth in his 7 feet tall human form seemed a bit small for such a massive thing. It should look just perfect on his giant true-ogre form though.
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Griffith Slayer (Blunt long sword)
Minimum level:
150
Durability:
15000/15000
Damage:
10-150
Rarity:
Unique
-This sword is too heavy to be wielded by most humans and will generally be used by bigger races. Depending on the user''s strength, can be weak or unparalleled in its might.
-Restriction:
#1000 Strength
#7+ feet tall body
-Damage multiplied by the user''s strength/level.
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¡°Hoooo¡± (Nargaroth) He was looking at the giant sword in awe, unsure on how to react.
¡°It''s yours now. Of course if you go and die I''ll take it back.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Great Nargaroth never die! Nargaroth will always serve great master.¡± (Nargaroth) He then yelled as he knelt on the ground.
¡°Great honour it would be to die for great master.¡° (Nargaroth)
¡°No need for all that my friend. I''m glad to know I can count on your strength in the future. That is all.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Thank you! Thank you great master!¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Mendy. Present?¡° (Mendy)
She wasn''t saying anything but her thoughts weren''t very subtle... She wanted a gift as well ehhh. Annoyingly I wasn''t planning to give her anything since she already can turn her nails into claws, materialize her fangs, scorpion tail and trow poison darts around.
She''s strong and ferocious for her petite loli appearance. Honestly she didn''t need a weapon. Not wanting to disappoint her I took some of the kraken meat I had left and gave it to her.
¡°There, gift.¡± (Kneeko) I tried to act nonchalant hoping this would do the trick.
¡°M-Master. Best. Thank!¡± (Mendy) She grabbed the meat as fast as lightning and literally slurped it down in an instant. It was seriously creepy to see 50 pounds of flesh disappear so rapidly down the throat of a 5¡±2 little red head loli...
¡°More?¡° (Mendy)
Urgg.. Ok this time I simply ignored her. I couldn''t wait to reach the town. Mendy and Nargaroth were dressed Tarzan style which basically was like swimsuits. Their small leather clothing were hiding only what needed to be hidden if you see what I mean. As for me, my clothes were getting tattered and needed to be changed.
We were now getting far enough in the elven land that I was expecting to come across some elves soon enough. In most fictions and manga the encounter would begin with an arrow hitting a nearby tree, then elves appearing from all direction still up in trees, acting menacingly at first.
This was such a classic type of encounter that I couldn''t help but constantly use my snake tongue to smell the air, expecting an ambush. Of course in real life, things were most likely to be completely different and random like a naked elf princess running in the woods while trying to escape slavers or something.
¡°KYAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa HELPPPPppppp!¡± (???)
Suddenly the voice of a damsel in distress began to be heard in the distance. Guhuhu* Naked princess here I come. Prompting my acolytes to follow me I ran in the direction of the scream. The three of us emerged from the bushes with me in the centre, Nargaroth to my right and Mendy to my left.
We were pumped and looking for a fight! The scene in front of us was surprising yet not unexpected. A beautiful poor looking, half naked elven woman struggling to shake off a rich and noble looking elven male who was on top of her.
Hooo! I see. The famous rape encounter eh. So we save her and then she repays our kindness with her body. Guhuhuhu* After spotting us the two of them began staring at us. [Identify]
[table=#800000]
Elnfrid (NPC)
Race/Species:
High Elf
Level:
65
Class:
Saint Warrior
Title:
-God Blessed
-Royal Prince of Niflin
-Womanizer
?Show more?
[/table]
Urggg.. It''s the goddamned prince of the kingdom we were heading to. If I antagonize the prince, my plan will be ruined so I couldn''t afford to have that happen. The prince was pretty much like Darui''n, handsome, blond hair and blue eyes. These were characteristics of the high elves. Normal elves could have any hair and eye colour and the Dark elves had darker skin, white hair and red eyes.
¡°The fuck are you looking at? Go take a hike you peasant humans not even able to afford clothes! You stink like the filth you are. Do you know who I am?! I have my army not far from here just so you know.¡± (Elnfrid)
Grrrr* I already hate him. To kill or not to kill. I seriously can''t antagonize the son of the king I plan to meet soon can I... Better leave as if we didn''t see anything.
¡°Come on guys, we are leaving.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Can''t I fuck?¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Can''t I eat?¡± (Mendy)
¡°No... Let''s go.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°HELPPPPPPPPpppppppp ME!!! Pleaseeeeeeee buuhuhuhu* cry* cry*¡± (???)
URRMmmm* Goddammit what to do. I simply can''t ignore a beautiful woman pleading for help like this. I''m starting to feel sick. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR It''s annoying! How could I help her while pretending to be on the prince''s side............ HO!
¡°Apologies my prince but may I say something before we leave?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°How-... Are you trying to play heroes?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Ho! No absolutely not. Actually I quite enjoy raping women as well from time to time (Not really) but since you are a prince and everything I wanted to make sure... Have you ever heard about gonorrhea?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Goronea?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Yea it''s a disease transmitted during sexual intercourse. The symptoms of gonorrhea include 1: an unusual discharge from the tip of the penis, which may be white, yellow or green. 2: Pain or a burning sensation when urinating. 3: inflammation (swelling) of the foreskin. 4: Pain or tenderness in the testicles. 5: The penis can even dry up and fall off like a dead branch. (I added this one)¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°Uhh? Are you serious about this? But this woman looks clean.¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°That''s because women are not affected the same way... You see the black mole next to her right eye? Classic sign that a woman is infected. Anyway, farewell my prince it was nice to make your acquaintance.¡± (Kneeko)
At this point I felt like I could leave with no worries since the prince was already looking at the woman with disgust. What man would want to risk loosing their dick for a quick fuck after all? With that taken care of we resumed our journey.
¡°Master. Bird.¡± (Mendy) She said once again while pointing up in a tree.
¡°[Arcane LightningBolt 5%]¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Guhuhu* Well done Mendy! Pat* pat* pat* (Kneeko)
We kept walking for a while when we heard rustling in bushes not far behind us. I recognized the smell immediately, it was the lady we just saved. The small, purple haired, blue eyed woman came running at us with worry in her eyes.
The small woman visibly out of breath fell to the ground in front of us and panted for while, trying to catch her breath. We stopped and looked at her with curiosity. Once she felt capable of talking properly she looked up to me with sad puppy eyes.
¡°W-What you talked about earlier... D-Do you know how to cure my sickness? Will I die from this gorgonzolea sickness?¡± (???)
[Identify]
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Erfff such a weak little creature. Not even worth looking at. As you could tell I was training my dragon role-play. Dragons actually despise weak creatures so it was how I should react.
¡°You''re not sick. It was to stop him from forcefully taking you without making him my enemy. You can go home now bye.¡± (Kneeko) I sad while turning around to leave.
¡°Y-you went against the prince to save me? A poor country girl ? Sniff* sniff* Please how can I thank you?¡± (Neferia)
¡°This man must be a real hero. And very handsome too.¡° (Neferia)
¡°No need...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhhh master. Can I fuck?¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Can I eat?¡± (Mendy)
¡°Not that again you two! This girl is not the type we are looking for.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Looking for?¡± (Neferia)
¡°Sighhh have you ever killed someone? Are you a criminal?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°N-no... Of course not.¡± (Neferia)
¡°Like I said, you can leave. We have nothing to do with each other now.¡± (Kneeko)
After walking a hundred meters with her still following us, the small woman then asked.
¡°Are you heading to Nimirth Village?¡± (Neferia)
[...]
¡°Do you perhaps live there?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hungry...¡° (Mendy)
¡°Yes... I own a small piece of land there. It not big but it''s enough to cultivate some vegetables. I can guide you there if you''d like.¡± (Neferia)
Tch.. An unwanted witness... Maybe I should capture her after all... We''ll think about that later. For now I hadn''t done anything bad.. For now... Guhuhu*
¡°Nargaroth! Do you like her?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhhh a bit small but would do...¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Umm what may you be talking about?¡± (Neferia) She then asked timidly.
¡°Nothing important. Lead the way please.¡± (Kneeko)
Mmmm maybe not the perfect match eh... Ho well we have a long walk ahead of us so we may as well get to know each other. Quite a while later we finally arrive at a poor looking village constituted of no more than 50 houses.
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You have just arrived to the town of [Nimirth]
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¡°Please come with me, it''ll be an honour to offer you my hospitality.¡± (Neferia)
The town was looking more like a human town than an elven one. All around were small dilapidated wooden houses and giant trees all around. With such huge trees all around, one would expect elves to build their houses on top of them.
We followed the young woman down to a small wooden cabin and entered after being invited in by Neferia. Nargaroth was almost too big to fit through the door and had to keep his head down not to hit the ceiling. Neferia then invited us to sit and began to cook something after lighting the fire.
¡°You must be hungry. I will make you something nice to eat, it won''t take long.¡± (Neferia)
Urg, coming from a poor farmer it was most likely something made only with vegetables and none of us really liked them. Nargaroth could eat anything and since I was a tadpole again I could eat meat and vegetables with no problem but Mendy was a pure carnivore.
Knowing what was about to happen I whispered to Mendy to pretend not to be hungry, and that I would give her lots of meat later. She seemed happy after hearing the word meat and went along with it. What she then gave us to eat was some kind of vegetable soup which wasn''t so bad considering it was vegetarian.
¡°You are welcome to stay as long as you want. It''s not really big and not really comfortable but we can all find a place to sleep on the ground.¡± (Neferia)
¡°Hopefully I will get to sleep next to Mr. Hero¡° (Neferia)
¡°Now that I think about it, what are your names? I seem to be unable to identify you...¡± (Neferia)
¡°ERRrrrrrr.... I am..... ehhhh.... Elvis.... Yea, Elvis Presley.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh?¡± (Nargaroth) I subtly kicked him and threw a look that meant ¡°shut up¡± which he did.
¡°I am honoured to make your acquaintance Sir Elvis. Let''s get along well from now on!¡± (Neferia) She said with a happy smile and energy in her steps.
¡°Guhuhuhu* Right.. let''s be.. friends... Guhuhuhu*¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
275
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
58433G 72S 55C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
11650
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
550 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
0 (Neutral)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 49 - Its raining men, hallelujah
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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That night I waited for everyone to sleep and went out. Mendy saw me but I whispered her that I would be back in a second and to go to sleep. Once outside I did a quick survey of the town and confirmed that everyone was asleep.
In these small villages there was no such thing as night life since everybody was either a farmer or hunter and both occupations can''t be done at night. Satisfied I transformed into a falcon and flew in the direction we had came from earlier that day.
I went up high in the sky and surveyed the surroundings until I found what I was looking for. Fires in the horizon and many of them. I immediately knew this was where the prince''s army was currently camping so I hurriedly flew toward them.
Once arrived I saw many tents, fires and supply carriages. There were a few guards patrolling but they all seemed to follow a certain pattern. Once memorized I found the best blind spot and stealthily landed. There I grew a ¡°zombie trumpet¡± plant then flew up to the next blind spot.
After growing 4 of these extremely dangerous plants I left and landed in a nearby tree. There I made sure no one had been alerted yet and went to see sister Lucy. [Chimera Forge]
¡°Hey Ni-chan!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Hi sis. I will need your assistance for a bit.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes? What is it? I will help as best as I can.¡± (Lucy) She said with a smile. Most likely happy to be of use to me after all.
¡°Do you have access to other NPC data?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ha no sorry ni-chan, I can''t communicate other entities'' information, that would be breaking too many rules...¡± (Lucy)
¡°I kinda guessed that but can you for example color my body to match another ''dragon'' for example?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hoooooooo I see what you are trying to do! Hihihi* Smart! As expected of brother! Which one of these 5 do you wish to look like?¡± (Lucy) She then threw me a mischievous look that showed she had figured out my intentions.
¡°Guhuhuhu* I only know the name of 1 of the five, but I can''t use him yet. He will appear soon enough somewhere else. I am counting on it.. Guhuhu*.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Soooo one of the other four then. Okay! Luckily a simple recolouring won''t cost too much DNA. I will take it from the unnecessary ones.¡± (Lucy)
I looked at the small window showing a slowly rotating brown tadpole and suddenly it became green with lime green lines on its back. This was the colour of one of our attackers back then. I immediately recognized him.
¡°Huhuhu perfect! From my previous experience this colour will be transmuted to my shape shifted form like usual right?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°hihi* You already know all this. In your dragon form you will be the same colour as the guy you are aiming for.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Guhehehe* Excellent. Next I wanted to ask. Do I have enough unnecessary DNA to take my obscuro poison, the viper neurotoxin, all the poison from the plants I ate today, the poison acid from my deadly breath and the venom from the squirrel I killed back home and make them all using the skill [Viper Bite] ? I want to be able to select which one I want to use and be able to mix them if I want.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhmmm... ¡° (Lucy) She began tapping her shin with her fingers while moving her other hand in the air. After a few seconds she finally looked back at me.
¡°Actually you are missing just a little ¡°trash DNA¡±...¡± (Lucy)
¡°Ho!... Well that''s perfect since I was just about to get quite a bit of it... Guuhuhu* Be right back!¡± (Kneeko)
I exited the chimera forge interface and flew a few hundred meters from the soldier camp. I morphed into a huge green and lime green dragon and took off into the sky once again. Ready to get things started, I flew straight back toward the soldier camp, ready to play.
[Elnfrid POV:]
After a long day of training, my men and I were camping in a clearing near a border town. Today could have been a horrible day if not for the help of a stranger who seemed to know even more than me on how to rape safely. That man might have saved my precious dick today.
KYAAaaaaaaaaa* ALARM!!!* A dragon!! It''s a motherfucking dragon!!!!!* GUAaaaaaaa* It BURNNNS!*
I woke up to the sound of chaos in the middle of the night. Did I hear one of my men say dragon? There''s no dragon around here as far as I know so it must be a wyvern. These fucking monsters are always causing problems.
Abruptly, one of my men entered my tent to report the situation as I was hurrying out of bed. That man was Urlith, my right hand man. As one of the rare men I could trust I immediately paid attention to him.
¡°M-my lord! It''s.. a dragon! We are under attack!¡± (Urlith)
¡°Are you serious? I doubt someone of your calibre would mistake a wyvern and a dragon right?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Of course not my lord! It''s a real d-¡± (Urlith) Unable to finish his sentence my tent instantly caught fire without warning.
¡°You need to get out now my lord!¡± (Urlith)
Still in pyjamas I ran outside my burning tent to be met with a sight of apocalypse. Everything was on fire and men were scrambling all over while yelling. It was too dark to see clearly but when the dragon used a fire attack from above, the fire from its attack lit him up and allowed us to partially see it.
It was an enormous green dragon with lime green stripes. Such a huge dragon, how come no one saw it coming? The terrifying monster was swooping down, grabbing some of my men before letting go of them once high enough in the sky. It was raining soldiers and fire, it was absolutely terrifying.
¡°W-we''re leaving...¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Pardon my lord?¡± (Urlith)
¡°WE ARE RETREATING!¡± (Elnfrid) I then yelled in a moment of panic.
¡°If my lord flees leaving his men behind I doubt any of them will ever follow your command in the future.¡± (Ulrith)
¡°Urggg.... What do we do?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°I suggest trying to regroup our men and order those who can use magic to work together to subdue the beast.¡± (Ulrith)
¡°O-ok we will do like you just said..¡± (Elnfrid)
As I was finally cooling off my head, I saw the beast flying at low altitude straight toward us. This monster was looking at me in the eyes, visibly going straight for me. The beast then opened its mouth and fire began to form. That''s it, this is where I die.
I crouched and used my arms to protect my face as the heat suddenly became unbearable. My skin was peeling and crackling under the heat but there was nothing I could do. 4 to 5 seconds later I raised my head, surprised to still be alive. Then I saw Ulrith standing in front of me with his arms wide open. He had apparently used his own body to shield me from the inferno.
¡°Urggg are you alright Ulrith?¡± (Elnfrid)
[...]
¡°Ulrith?¡± (Elnfrid)
I tugged on his sleeve and as I did so, his body fell to the ground exposing the front of his body. His face and everything else was burnt beyond recognition. My precious friend had ceased to breathe. He had sacrificed his life to protect mine. THIS FUCKING DRAGON!
¡°MEN! GATHER!¡± (Elnfrid)
A few survivors quickly gathered around me looking for orders but before I could do so, the beast was already gone. He had left in the direction of the nearby village. Tch!
¡°The beast is gone! Gather and take care of the injured! I want a report on our situation!¡± (Elnfrid)
Yes sir!* They all said in unison.
I stood there, looking at the carnage around me. At the beginning of the day I had 500 men and now it looked like only a handful of them had survived. I was enraged, I will find this green and lime green dragon and slaughter him! A few minutes later some of my men came back in panic.
¡°M-my lord! It''s b-bad!!¡± (Soldier)
¡°What is it again!¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°The men seem afflicted with a strange malediction!¡± (Soldier)
¡°What do you mean? What malediction?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Many men are simply sitting, not responding to our orders. Some of the men you sent earlier are now acting the same way. It must be a curse or some sickness!¡± (Soldier)
¡°Tch! This place is hell itself! Call all the survivor and unaffected men and gather them all in the woods 200 meters that way!¡± (Elnfrid) I then said pointing in the direction of the nearby village.
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¡°Aye Sir!¡± (Soldier)
¡°GRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr How will I explain this to father. Goddammit! Fucking dragon I''ll kill you!¡± (Elnfrid)
[Kneeko POV:]
After destroying the soldier camp I flew toward the village. This little night raid had been very successful. The only problem with it was that as king''s soldiers they were giving 500 infamy each and since I had killed a few hundreds of them... Well I don''t really care anyway.
Good thing was that I had levelled up 3 times from all this. I immediately allocated the points into intelligence. A few hundred meters away I turned into a falcon and landed on a tree. [Chimera Forge]
¡°Welcome back!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Alright! You must have enough to do the modifications now right?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yup! Doing it right now! Hihihi you did very good out there by the way.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Thanks... By the way make sure I can still use all these poisons with [Poison Spit]. I will secrete them from my fangs into my mouth and mix with my saliva before spitting it.¡± (Kneeko)
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Active skill [Viper Bite]. (Cost. 150 Stamina) (Mastery: C)
The strength of this attack varies depending on your skill points and the mastery of the skill. Uses [Viper Neurotoxin (A)] [Obscuro Poison (B)] [Basilisk Acid?] [Anti-Reptile Venom(S)]
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Passive Skill [Viper Neurotoxin]. (Cost. N/A) (Rank: A)
Venom injected via fangs. Used by the skill: [Viper Bite]
Venom effects:
#Partially paralyze the target.
#-30hp per second for 180 seconds [Max 5400HP] (Effectiveness depends on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
#+25% Bonus damage if ingested.
#+50% Bonus damage if injected through blood stream.
[/table]
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Passive Skill [Obscuro Poison]. (Cost. N/A) (Rank: B)
Poison, now venom injected via fangs. Used by the skill: [Viper Bite]
Poison effects:
#Blindness
#-10hp per seconds for 5 minutes [Max 3000HP] (Effectiveness depends on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
#+25% Bonus damage if ingested.
#+50% Bonus damage if injected through blood stream.
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Passive Skill [Basilisk Acid]. (Cost. N/A) (Rank: C)
Acid injected via fangs. Used by the skill: [Viper Bite]
Acid effects:
#Extreme pain while melting flesh or even metals.
#-500hp (Effectiveness depends on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
#+25% Bonus damage if ingested.
#+50% Bonus damage if injected through blood stream.
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Passive Skill [Anti-Reptile Venom]. (Cost. N/A) (Rank: S)
Venom injected via fangs. Used by the skill: [Viper Bite]
Poison effects:
#Tissue necrosis
#Extreme pain.
#Sensation of being burned from the inside.
#Damage may vary from one species to the others. (Effectiveness depends on the adversary skill points and/or other factors.)
#+25% Bonus damage if ingested.
#+50% Bonus damage if injected through blood stream.
[/table]
¡°Tadaaa! Praise me praise me!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Guhuhu* Well done sis! I need to go since I am in a hurry, see ya Lucy!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Bye bye nii!¡± (Lucy)
With that done, I still needed to hurry and complete phase B of my plan before sunrise. Let''s go back to Nimirth town!
+++
STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
278
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
58433G 72S 55C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
12100
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
595 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-121500 (Pure Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
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Chapter 50 - The good Samaritan
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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AutNote: Cheating monster: The mightiest tadpole finally reached chapter 50 and is well over the 100,000 words mark. From my initial prediction we are about 50% there. I hope you enjoyed it so far and will keep following Kneeko''s adventures.
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After a while I finally reached the small village of Nimirth where my acolytes were still asleep. I landed in a tree and observed the village for a while, making sure no one was up and that no one had noticed anything.
The night was cloudy and warm. Some type of nocturnal cicada were singing in a low pitch that gave a vibe of horror movies. Once I felt everything was as it should I landed, turned into a dragon and summoned my arcane circles. [Arcane Gatling + Fireball]
I launched fireballs at high speed in every directions, trying to set as many houses on fire as possible. Immediately after doing so I roared a mighty dragon roar then turned back into my human form before running to Neferia''s house.
Ahem ahem! Time for my best acting skills. I opened the door of the flaming small shack with panic in my voice. Inside Nargaroth, Mendy and Neferia were scrambling to get dressed.
¡°Quickly out! We''ve been attacked by a dragon!!!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°A dragon!?????? Are you sure it wasn''t something else?¡± (Neferia)
¡°I know very well the difference between a dragon and something else dammit! The entire village is in flames we need to go and save as many people as possible!!! Mendy! Nargaroth! This is an order, Try to save everybody from the fire!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes! Great leader!¡± (Nargaroth) He said rushing outside.
¡°Nod*¡± (Mendy) She then did the same.
¡°Come on Neferia! Some people might still be asleep!¡± (Kneeko) I had roared hoping to wake them all up but some people might be drunk or deep sleepers so we needed to act quickly.
¡°Yes! Coming!¡± (Neferia)
We all ran outside as chaos was raging. People were running everywhere with their belongings in their arms, trying to flee the fire. I raised my arm up in the air and summoned a giant WaterBolt that I sent flying up in the air.
A few seconds later the water fell back making look as if it was heavy rain. Neferia was looking at me in awe while Nargaroth was tanking his way through doors and grabbing as many people as possible. Mendy was using wind magic to clear the smoke and overpower the fire, forcing it to extinguish.
The chaotic scene lasted until sunrise in the morning. Mendy, Nargaroth and I were standing in the middle of the village, exhausted. All around were ashes, burnt wood and half destroyed houses. The villagers had slowly gathered around us, still holding their possessions and children.
(Crowd talking among themselves)
Thank you sir water mage, without you we may have died in this fire.*
Did you hear that terrifying roar as everything went up in flame?*
We lost everything.*
Mamaaa waaaa*. *Children crying *
Did you see these 3? 2 mages and a man who can go through wooden walls as if they were made of paper.*
Yea they are strong!*
Thank you sir for protecting us!*
We owe you our lives great lord!*
They all began kneeling, trying to show their deepest gratitude. Some of them even tried to give me their only belonging which they had managed to save from the fire. Such generous folks, there was no way I could accept any of this.
¡°Enough all of you. We did not help you to receive a reward, we did it to protect the lives of this kingdom''s precious citizens. We know the king is going through a hard time and it may seem as if he has forgotten you all but I am sure this kingdom will rise from its ashes like a powerful dranix! Cough* I mean phoenix!¡± (Kneeko) Umm almost perfect, 9/10.
The poor elves began to cry, blinded by how generous and profoundly good we were. I thought all my infamy would influence them but apparently not. That or my recent actions had neutralized it''s effects. I knew that it would definitely influence my compatibility with divine magic but reinforce the demonic one.
That was something I was already familiar with anyway and knew how to deal with it. I walked up to one of the giant trees nearby, used [Vine Hell] and began to grow a spiralling staircase around its trunk. Once at around 100 to 150 meters high, I began to create platforms and bridges leading to other trees.
With all the points I had in strength, my vines were as hard as iron so my construction was unbelievably sturdy and wouldn''t rot or rust. The villagers were looking at me from below with big eyes, hardly able to believe how easy it seemed to me. I had a lot of practice after all.
[table=#800000]
Vines Hell rank up! (B)
[/table]
Once I had linked a great amount of trees together and had enough platform surface to work with, I began creating house frames. It wasn''t water or air proof since it was made out of vines but I was creating the basic shapes of houses. Having completed 2 ¡°houses skeletons¡± already, I went back down the stairs and addressed the crowd.
¡°Nargaroth, Mendy and everyone else, gather as much clay, straw and mud as possible. I don''t intend to rebuild this village on my own.¡± (Kneeko)
They immediately understood what I was asking since mud walls and straw roof weren''t strangers to this world. It was a building method ill suited for such a tropical climate but it was cheap, fast and worked well as long as you keep maintaining it.
For the walls it was simple, mix straw with clay and mud to create a mud that would be used like mortar then plaster the wall armature with it. Then you used more straw for the roof using a method called ¡°thatching¡± which was also used in the real world in the iron age.
The villagers quickly scrambled around after understanding what they needed to do. Nargaroth was transporting massive amounts of material up to the tree platforms while Mendy was... well she was playing in the mud...
A few hours later, we had completed a few houses and estimated it would take 2 days for everyone to get a roof over their heads. Some people were gone hunting and foraging while other were in their fields, gathering a few ingredients for the village to eat.
The women and some of the men gathered and began to cook for everyone giving the vibe of a camp of refugees to the place. Actually it was people working together to get passed some hardships. It is when in crisis that you see the worst, but also the best in the people.
As for me this scene was not touching me in the slightest as I knew deep down inside their heads that they were all using each other. People give only when they get something in return and will use each other that way.
Whether to gain respect, making themselves feel better, or making people feel indebted to them, there was always a reason for generosity. And just to prove my point, I was currently doing the same. I didn''t care about them all, I wouldn''t want to uselessly kill them but saving them and all was for my plan.
At first I thought I would have to deal with some annoying soldiers sent to investigate but with the prince nearby, I knew he would be here soon. Dealing with the prince to get closer to the king was a lot better than anything else so I didn''t regret doing some little changes to my original plan.
The reason I choose the elves was because it was like killing 2 birds with one stone. You see in this world there is a legend that says elves are evolved humans. Getting more in tune with nature and mana itself, some humans ranked up into elves and created a new race.
But between human and elves was another species that was a mix of both. This race was called high human and they were well known for being in a close relationship with elves while they were in a bad relationship with humans.
Getting in good terms with the elven king was the same as being friends with the high human king as well. I had never met the high human king but I knew his daughter well... Guhuhuhu*
We were all gathered together and were eating a well deserved meal when the low rumbling of tens of people marching in unison began to be heard. The villagers stood up and waited to see who the group of men were. As they appeared out of the woods, everybody instantly recognize them.
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It was the prince and his remaining men. Injured and dirty with soot, they looked like they had went through hell and barely managed to come back. I laugh internally as I watched them stagger their way up to us. The prince who was ahead of the group looked at where the village used to be and seemed angered.
Suddenly some of the villagers gathered around them and began helping the injured soldiers. Other were explaining what had happened to the prince which he seemed to already know. (Obviously)... I was observing the scene while eating when one of the villager began pointing in my direction. The prince looked my way and immediately recognized me. After making eye contact he came toward me.
¡°The villagers say you saved them from a dragon and are responsible for rebuilding all this in only half a day. Is this the truth?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°I didn''t save them from the dragon but saved them from the resulting inferno. This village is also far from completely rebuilt but everyone here is working very hard to see it through, prince.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°In the name of this king''s nation I wish to thank you for everything you have done. Also for saving me from this filthy woman yesterday. I would like to ask, did you see the dragon with your eyes?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Yes I certainly did. It was a green dragon with lime green stripes on its body. He blew fire everywhere and immediately left. If I might add, it was definitely one of the 5 from the rumour.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°One of five? Rumour? Please tell me everything.¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Urgg with all due respect my lord, this information is sensitive and not meant for any ears. More importantly, this information cost me a lot of money to obtain.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Lot of money? What kind of money can a filthy peasant have anyway...¡° (Elnfrid)
¡°No problem! I will pay you double of what it cost you to obtain this information.¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°My lord, I can guess that you think I am a mere peasant with no money because of the way I am dressed but know that I look this way only because I spent a long time in the wild during my travels. As soon as I reach your capital I will buy new ones. I may not look like it but I am a more substantial man than you think I am. If I wanted to, I could buy your castle.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Bullshit! Grrrrr he''s trying to swindle as much money from me as he can.¡° (Elnfrid)
¡°What is it that you want? And what is your name, why can''t I identify you?¡± (Elnfrid) he reluctantly added.
¡°I am Elvis, Elvis Presley and I come from the ¡°promised land¡±. I am a scholar travelling the world but am also a powerful lord with money, influence and power. Some even call me ''The King'' (Of rock N'' roll).¡± (Kneeko) It''s time for him to realize who he is dealing with.
¡°Why have I never heard of your name if you are such a powerful man?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Because I value my privacy. And as for what I want, it is very simple. In exchange for all the information on the ''dragon renegade gang'' I have, I only want the right to go shopping in your royal vault. Not for anything but only monster cores and I do not want any money, instead I will pay you the full price for each core I take.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hahahaha* Yea sure, you realize there''s for tens of thousands of gold coins worth of cores in there right?! There''s no way you could-¡± (Elnfrid)
The prince suddenly stopped after seeing the face I was making. It was a face of joy and extreme anticipation. I was staring at him while rubbing my hands like a merchant smelling a good deal.
¡°Could this guy truly have that much money? Who the fuck is this guy?¡° (Elnfrid)
¡°So... What will it be? I might even be willing to add a weapon capable of killing a dragon in the mix as well.¡± (Kneeko)
By the prince''s reaction I could immediately tell, I hooked a big one. Guhuhuu*
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
278
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120471G 79S 23C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
12100
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
595 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-121500 (Pure Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 51 - All hail the king
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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After a long discussion I had managed to convince the prince but sadly he wasn''t the one taking the final decision. To be able to access their royal vault I would eventually need the king''s permission and by offering to pay I had increased my chances by a lot.
I mean think about it, back then I evaluated a level 167 basilisk core at 90 gold and the prince had just said there was tens of thousands of gold worth of cores in there. Guhuhuhu* I can see my level rising at a crazy speed in the near future but I needed to put all the odds in my favour.
After that I had went back to work on the village as the prince and his men setup their camp. Of course I hadn''t burnt their supply carts since they would have probably went to nearby villages to plunder everything they had lost from them. Well at least this was how it worked in the real world back in the days.
At the end of the day I had managed to complete the house frames, grew ramparts all around the village vicinity and grew tons of fruit trees, vegetables and various edible plants. This place was now starting to look like the garden of Eden or at least what I envision it to look like.
That night the prince and I made conversation over a drink and talked about various things. He was deeply surprised when I began discussing military strategies and rare artifacts with him. It was at this moment that he began to believe me not to be a simple peasant.
Pleased with my ideas the prince asked for a young woman to come to his tent and made the introduction.
¡°This here is Anarion my personal tailor. She has no equal in this kingdom and I offer her services to you. Ask her to make you anything and she will have it completed by tomorrow. You can''t meet father looking the way you do after all.¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°I-I will gladly help sir Elvis any way I can if his majesty orders me to.¡± (Anarion) She shyly answered.
¡°I will gladly take you up on that offer.¡± (Kneeko)
I then took out a quill and paper and began drawing a photo-realistic depiction of what I wanted. The prince was looking at my drawing with strange eyes, unsure if he should like or hate it. In his head I could hear him wondering whether this was a fashion from my lands of simply a lack of taste on my part.
What I drew was a black jumpsuit worn in the past by Elvis in 1971 and 72. It was known as a pinwheel and was adorned with precious stones everywhere. I added the American Eagle cape, with the fully stretched wings of the eagle studded on the back.
Next was a massive solid gold belt, shiny black leather boots, gold chains, oversized gold rings and bracelets. After a quick research on the forum I discovered that sunglasses didn''t exist in this world, sadly. Of course I also asked for a simple set of clothes for Mendy and Nargaroth. Plain leather pants and shirt would do for now, they couldn''t go to the capital looking like nudists.
¡°Uhhmm Sir, I am afraid I won''t be able to adorn your costume with that many precious stones, it would be a little too expensive.¡± (Anarion)
¡°There!¡± (Kneeko) I said as I threw a giant bag of rubies and diamonds on the table. Both the prince and Anarion were speechless.
¡°He truly was filthy rich after all... So this guy only told me the truth since the beginning. I think I can trust him for some reason. My instincts are flawless when it comes to knowing who I can trust.¡° (Elnfrid) (AutNote: Guhuhuhu* yea right. ¡°Flawless¡±)
With the help of the prince''s soldiers the reconstruction of the village went really smoothly and by the end of day two it was finally completed.
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For rebuilding Nimirth town: +50000 fame
[/table]
Ho... That''s quite a bit of fame but compared to my current level of infamy... it wont do much. I would have expected a title with it but nothing even appeared. I had definitely heard of a title for the reconstruction of a village so why didn''t I get any? Maybe because I was the one who destroyed it in the first place? Well whatever.
As I was having some drinks with the prince while Mendy and Nargaroth were out hunting, Anarion came in and presented me with my new ¡°costume¡±. Guhuhuhu* It was exactly the same as Elvis'' black pinwheel and the precious stones on it made it shine under the candle light.
¡°Woaa.. Even I wouldn''t wear something so flashy. It this what you usually wear?¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°I usually wear blue suede shoes but they are unpractical for long travels. Thank you Anarion!¡± (Kneeko) I said as I quickly excused myself and went to take a bath before putting my new clothes on.
An hour later I was refreshed and looking boss as hell in my new Elvis suit. I made my way back to the village under the curious eyes of the villagers. I agree it might seem a bit flashy and tacky but they would get used to it.
Once in town I intended to have many black suits made like the one I was wearing before but wearing this Elvis suit when I reach the capital would play in my favour later. While I was waiting for the return of my acolytes from their hunt I went to see Neferia.
I had built her a spacious house that she had already begun to decorate with her feminine touch. It was warm and cozy and she was obviously proud of it.
¡°Welcome sir Elvis! Please make yourself comfortable while I make some tea.¡± (Neferia)
I sat on a chair and observed her as she skillfully prepared a few snacks to accompany the hot tea. From her thoughts and actions it was obvious that she was acting flirtatiously but I was remaining unfazed. If I brought such a weak creature home my dragonesses would rip her apart anyway.
¡°I wanted to make sure you would be alright after we depart tomorrow. Here take this.¡± (Kneeko) I handed her a small bag filled with the unused precious stone from my costume.
¡°Woaa.. I-i can''t accept this. This is way too much and you are the one who I should pay for all the help you gave us.¡± (Neferia)
¡°It''s alright, it''s my selfish desire to make sure you will be alright without us around. With that you will be able to buy more lands or even hire a few helpers.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sniff sniff* Thank you very much sir Elvis.¡± (Neferia) She then said with teary eyes.
¡°Let me properly thank you.¡± (Neferia) It''s at this moment that she began undressing herself and sat on my laps. Feeling I wouldn''t be able to control myself if I didn''t immediately stop her I quickly grabbed her hands.
¡°Stop this Neferia. Not that you are not desirable but I already have two wives at home. If you truly want to thank me then use the money I gave you to make this town a powerful trading hub. If you do so I promise to come back to buy supplies and various items.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Of course he already has a woman. And two at that...I''m such a fool, what does a poor farmer woman even have to offer to such a great man.¡° (Neferia)
¡°Hehehe sorry I was only teasing you. The tea is ready just a sec.¡± (Neferia)
Sighhh* This breaks my heart to hear but nothing I can do about it. We had tea and spoke about various things when someone knocked on the door.
¡°Great leader, we have returned.¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Master. Look!¡± (Mendy) She said holding around 6 or 7 live birds by the neck.
Of course I patted her head then quickly broke the birds'' neck before having Neferia cook them for us. That night we had a farewell celebration as we were meant to leave at dawn. I stealthily spiked the drinks with a powerful drug having the same effect as sleeping pills.
The entire night was spent attacking more villages in my green dragon form while being careful not to cause too many casualties but I needed it to look real so I may have overdone it on a few occasions. The day after, all the villagers had gathered to bid us farewell as the prince and I were finally leaving for the elven capital, Niflin.
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Since elves don''t use animals for labour, we had to walk the entire way which greatly slowed down our progress and it took us a week to finally arrive near the capital. The carriages were moved using magic but using horses would be a lot easier. Elves and their love for nature and animals...
On our way there I asked the prince about his mother. Since they were apparently super rich, why didn''t they use a resurrection scroll to revive her? I mean, they should be able to afford 20k gold right? I didn''t see any for sale on the auction website but for a king, a simple request to the adventurers would certainly do the trick.
The prince explained to me that his mother had a birth defect, something wrong with her heart and that no expenses had been spared to prolong her life but in the end she couldn''t hang on to life anymore. Resurrecting her would only bring her back for a few days before she''d die again and they had decided not to put her through this suffering again. Well that discussion had certainly ruined the mood in the carriage.
As the capital finally came into view so did players. The capital was the starting point of most players choosing elf as their character race. The entire place was swarming with them. At this point the prince was making a very displeased face and didn''t say anything but his thoughts betrayed him.
He was worried about how to explain to his father how he had lost so many good men. They were not powerful but were well trained king''s soldiers. A lot of money had been invested on their training.
Trying to make him feel better I told him that I would gladly explain to the king how nothing could be done without proper preparations against such a ferocious opponent. Once we reached the city gates the prince got out of the carriage and signalled me to do the same.
¡°We will be walking from here. The soldiers need to go back to the barracks but we are heading straight to see father.¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Understood. Mendy, Nargaroth, follow behind in silence please.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes! Great leader.¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Nod*¡± (Mendy)
¡°But....Hungry...¡° (Mendy)
¡°Look! It''s Elvis!!!! Hehehehehe*¡± (???) Suddenly said a random elven player.
¡°Heyy you''re right! It''s the KING! All hail the king! Hahahaha*¡± (???) Added another player.
All the players around us began to gather and looked at me with stars in their eyes. Some asked where I got my suit, other were joking around asking for autographs. The prince was agape, unable to believe was was happening.
¡°Hey yey yey! Uhh...Uh! Peace all! Gotta see the king! Uhh uhh uhh*¡± (Kneeko)
I couldn''t help but talk like Elvis at this point to the pure delight of my new fans. I was pointing my fingers as if they were guns and began walking like Elvis, like I had two crippled legs. Once things finally calmed down the prince grabbed my arm and whispered in my ear.
¡°How can you be so well known by the jumpers and totally unknown to me???¡± (Elnfrid)
¡°Because my fame transcends this universe, I am the King. Uhh uhh yea yea uhh uhh*¡± (Kneeko)
[...]
[...]
¡°PRRRrfffff* Hihihihehe*¡° (Mendy)
Wait, what? Did I just hear Mendy laugh in her head? And wait.. That laugh? No... way... Can''t be... Ha no wait, I can hear her thoughts so it can''t be her... Fiufffffff* Almost had a heart attack. But still, what was that just now? Ho well, doesn''t matter. Time for the king to go meet the king!
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
278
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120471G 79S 23C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
12100
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
595 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 52 - Ill fix your wifes hole
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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We made our way inside the castle with the guards and employees of the castle bowing as we walked by them. We eventually reached a long corridor with a giant golden door at the end of it. After reaching the door the prince made a short pause before telling us to wait to be summoned.
The prince then entered alone as we stayed there waiting. Nargaroth and Mendy were standing behind me silently, under the gaze of the two guards operating the giant door. It was perfectly silent and everything seemed calm when a loud voice suddenly erupted from the other side of the doors.
¡°YOU WHAT??!!!¡± (???)
[...]
¡°DON''T LIE TO ME SON OR I SWEA-...¡± (The king?)
[...]
Everything went silent once again. We stood there, waiting for what felt like an eternity. We could feel the tension in the air and the two guards seemed nervous as well. After a certain amount of time a voice suddenly came from the other side of the door.
¡°LET THIS ''KING'' IN!¡± (The king)
I knew this was addressed to me so I said to Mendy and Nargaroth to wait for me right where they were and entered the throne room. I walked on the long red carpet and stopped next to the prince before giving a courteous bow to the king.
¡°Is what my son told me the truth? You are a king recognized by the jumpers? And you hold information about the dragon who attacked our border villages?¡± (King)
¡°Yes great king. I saw the beast with my own eyes and barely survived the encounter myself.¡± (Kneeko)
The king was a high elf so he had blue eyes and long blond hair with a few grey hairs betraying his old age. He also had a nicely kept beard giving him a distinguished appearance.
¡°Sighh* First things first, my name is Hofhray Stafelh, king of Niflin kingdom. My son told me you were a certain Elvis Presley, is that information also correct?¡± (Hofhray)
¡°Yes king Hofhray.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I heard about the deal you wish to conclude but I see myself obliged to refuse. I will reward you for the help given to the citizen of my country and for rescuing the villagers of Nimirth town but you being a king of whatever is still unverified information to me. I will not allow access to our vault to any stranger that comes asking for it.¡± (Hofhray)
¡°I understand from your answer that his highness has some relation with some of the dragon clans'' leaders. You most likely wish to gather this information on your own but I can assure you that if the group we are talking about feels threatened, these leaders will soon be removed from their positions. Who knows how many traitors are among them.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I will be the judge of that. Now leave! My guards will reward you with a bag of gold.¡± (Hofhray)
This ass-hole is pissing me off.. I am the KING for fuck''s sake! Even more famous than him I certainly am! Tch... I knew this was a possibility, luckily I had gathered information about the departed queen during my talks with the prince. Time for the offer he can''t refuse.
¡°Alright, I will be leaving then. Ho and by the way, did I even mention that as a scholar I also knew a lot about medicine? The queen''s condition was easily curable for someone with my extended knowledge.. Ho well, farewell dear king and prince.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°WHAT DID YOU SAY? WAIT!¡± (Hofhray) Adrenaline could be heard from his loud voice which was very good sign to me.
¡°King Hofhray?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Are you telling the truth?¡± (Hofhray)
¡°I never did anything else other than telling the truth great elven king. Actually my first purpose for travelling to your lands was to offer my services. But since I am not wanted here I shall continue my journey elsewhere. Farewe-¡± (Kneeko)
¡°WAIT! You mean not only resurrecting her but fixing her heart for good?¡± (Hofhray) He abruptly interrupted me.
¡°What else could I be talking about? The queen''s condition wasn''t that hard to cure, but to do so you needed knowledge from the jumpers'' world.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°You are talking as if you have already been there before...¡± (Hofhray)
¡°Am I? Ho I guess I truly am mysterious after all... Anyway, my services and information aren''t free. I need many cores for my research and if I am not allowed to access your vault, I have no need to be here.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Can he really save her? If he can, I would obtain information about our attackers, plus it wouldn''t cost us anything since he is offering to pay for the cores... I have nothing to loose with this deal.¡° (Hofhray)
¡°Of course if I go as far as using miraculous medicine on your wife, you will be the one providing the resurrection spell-scroll and also give me the cores in your vault for free. I also want 1000 sets of clothing of all sizes and armour and also weapons. Ho! and since you just insulted me, how about giving 50 of the worst criminals ¡°male and female¡± of this kingdom currently in your custody for my experiments as a bonus.¡± (Kneeko) I said in a tone showing that I considered myself to be greater than him.
¡°HOW DARE YOU!!!!!! LUDICROUS! GUARDS!!! KILL HIM!¡± (Hofhray)
¡°It all depends on how much you value your wife''s life, great king.¡± (Kneeko)
The guards closed in on me while the king was still conflicted. To ease his decision I decided to show a bit of my power. That way he would understand I could kill him right here and now and that it was better not to fuck with me.
I used quick footwork to close the distance between me and one of the 4 guards coming my way and sent him flying across the room before crashing into a wall. At first I wanted to rip his head off but I hadn''t worked this hard at being friendly to destroy it all on a whim.
The remaining 3 guards abruptly stopped, paralyzed by fear since my intimidating aura skill was working at full capacity. [TerrorEyes]
¡°Hofhray! I came here in peace but you dare point weapons at me? I AM THE KING! I am your equal if not more powerful than you are. I have no hostility toward you and you can either accept or refuse my offer. If you attack me, there will be heavy repercussion. IS THIS HOW YOU WELCOME A FOREIGN KING?? You may not be the great king I first thought you were.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°M-my lord?¡± (Soldier) The soldiers asked the king if they should keep attacking, visibly shaken by my display of strength. The king as well was agape and glaring at the prince.
¡°Wasn''t he supposed to be a mage?¡± (Hofhray)
¡°Yes father, the villagers and I have seen him using clay type magic so he definitely can wield water and earth magic. If I may add, he didn''t lie a single time to me since I met him. He is a mage who possesses that much strength, certainly he is an extraordinary man.¡± (Elnfrid)
The king then paused for a long moment of reflection. I could hear his thoughts, unused cores, a few military surplus and criminals meant to be executed or sold to brothels weren''t that hard to provide after all. Seemingly resolute, the king finally spoke.
¡°I accept your offer. But hear me well, you will not get anything until you have proven you can truly save my wife''s life. Once I have confirmed that she is perfectly healed, only then will you get what you asked for.¡± (Hofhray)
¡°I have no objections. Let''s try to be friendlier to each other from now on shall we?!¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I-I agree. Apologies about earlier. Tell me what you need for this miraculous medical procedure you spoke of.¡± (Hofhray)
I began to explain what I needed for the surgery. Yes, I was thinking of performing surgery on the queen. I basically had a medical encyclopedia in my head and knew by the symptoms described by the prince what I was dealing with.
The queen had a hole in her heart. A hole in the heart is a type of simple congenital heart defect ¨C a problem with the heart''s structure that is present at birth. Congenital heart defects change the normal flow of blood through the heart.
The heart has two sides, separated by an inner wall called the septum. With each heartbeat, the right side of the heart receives oxygen-poor blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of the heart receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and pumps it to the body. The septum prevents mixing of blood between the two sides of the heart.
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Some babies are born with a hole in the upper or lower septum. A hole in the septum between the heart''s upper two chambers (the atria) is called an atrial septal defect (ASD). A hole in the septum between the heart''s lower two chambers (the ventricles) is called a ventricular septal defect (VSD).
A hole in the septum can allow blood to pass from the left side of the heart to the right side. This means that oxygen-rich blood can mix with oxygen-poor blood, causing the oxygen-rich blood to be pumped to the lungs a second time.
To keep it simple it was something very simple to fix. I simply needed to suture the hole to prevent future strokes. Even me who had only knowledge and a few videos to go with should be able to do this type of operations.
I explained to the king that I needed some tools, scalpel, simple needles and strings made out of boiled plant fibres that would easily and safely dissolve after a few months. I needed a room perfectly cleaned without a single spec of dust as well as mask and white clothes that had been sterilized in boiling water.
There was a very long list of items and procedures so the king''s assistant noted it all. The assistant looked like Yoda. He was so old and hunchbacked that it looked as if he was fighting a losing battle against gravity. The old man also had white hair and a long beard reaching his belly.
Then I told the king that I would keep my information secret until I was given what I had been promised after healing his wife. It would take the king at least 24 hours to prepare everything so my acolytes and I left to do some shopping for the rest of the day. I had removed my Elvis suit and was wearing my old tattered clothes to avoid drawing too much attention.
I commissioned many sets of clothes for myself and everyone else in the Vindictae clan. Of course I also commissioned a butler suit for PorkFace and a maid outfit for PigFace. I bought many random items and at the end of the day spent quite a bit of money.
I had also bought a few items at auction a while back and was happy to finally get to pick them up from an auction house. As we went through the market place we came across a merchant who was selling tons of animals in cages.
I asked how much for all his birds, then gave him double the amount before breaking all their necks and simply left as the merchant looked at us with terror in his eyes. Next I went to the adventurer guild and posted a simple request.
[table=#800000]
Quest
Type:
Misc
Difficulty:
E
Minimum rank:
E
Time limit:
2 Days
A rich noble is in need of someone capable of using spiritual type magic to unlock a secret chest.
The nobleman offers half of its content to the one willing to help open it with their magic. (Spiritual unlocking spell provided)
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Guhuhuhu* With that I should soon be able to use runic magic as well. After doing this, we were heading back to the castle for the night since the king had offered us his hospitality. On our way there, I decided to check my ''special'' compass as I do everyday.
¡°Ho... Guhuhuhu* We need to hurry, Damyon has finally made his move.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°How do great leader know?¡± (Nargaroth)
¡°Guhuhu* Simple, my precious third wife has begun to move toward the dragon land. Time for the gears of my plan to get into motion. Guhuhuhahaha*¡± (Kneeko)
I needed to quickly complete what I had to do here and get moving. I was able to move faster than them but I needed to reach their convoy before they entered dragon territory.
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
278
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120451G 23S 29C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Low
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
12100
STRENGTH:
1758 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
595 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
368 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 53 - Nothing personal
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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In the morning when we woke up the castle was in a state of excitement. The queen had been resurrected early in the morning and had spent some time with the king who should have explained the situation to her.
The day before I had grown plants with anaesthetic properties and others that could be used as antibiotics. I had various plants ready for any possible situation and felt ready for my baptism as a surgeon. First of all I needed a short meeting with the queen since I couldn''t really cut her open without saying hi first.
I tasked Nargaroth and Mendy with getting the set of clothes I had commissioned the day before and other errands. I wore my new white surgeon uniform and followed the king''s assistant down the long palace corridors up to a tea room.
Then the old man announced my arrival and opened the door for me to enter. Inside were the king and queen, standing up and showing me the respect I deserve for once.
¡°Good morning sir Elvis.¡± (Hofhray)
¡°Good morning good sir. I am Nafarihm, Queen of Niflin¡± (Nafarihm)
¡°Hi. How are you doing? It must be quite emotional for you.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sighh* I must admit to be very nervous. Why can''t I be there during the treatment? Why must you be alone with her to do the ¡°procedure¡±?¡± (Hofhray)
¡°Secret of the trade. But rest assured, I have everything to gain from her safe recovery.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I know but still...¡± (Hofhray)
¡°It''s alright honey. We tried everything, if this good sir says he knows how to cure me then do we have any other options?¡± (Nafarihm)
[...] The king went into deep thought for a moment before answering.
¡°I will put my faith in you young sir. Please save her.¡± (Hofhray) He said as he hugged the queen in his arms.
¡°Do not worry, I am pretty confident that it will be a success. Should we begin now?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sighhh* Yes, I am ready.¡± (Nafarihm)
We all went down to the room that had been prepared for me. The wall, ceiling and floor were white polished marble which had been washed with alcohol and boiling water. No one had been authorize to enter this room and it was perfectly sterile.
I had asked to be alone in the room with the queen for the operation since I knew the king wouldn''t be happy knowing I was planning to cut his wife open. Once in the room I asked the queen to remove her giant padded dress.
I was expecting some difficulty with that and even needing to anaesthetize her first but she removed it without a word. As a high elf like the king, she had long braided blond hair and blue eyes. She emanated maturity yet looked like a young maiden.
To be honest she made me think of Asta. You know, they are old, they act their age, yet look like young women in the prime of their life. She was only wearing her white undergarment and seemed embarrassed but went along with what I asked her to do.
I had her drink my anaesthetic potion then as it slowly affected her I had her lay down on my operating table. Then she slowly drifted off to sleep as I sang her a lullaby for children. Now that I think back on it, it must have been super creepy for her.
I made sure the door was locked then I proceeded in removing her undergarment, exposing her porcelain white skin. She had two beautifully formed boobs, just big enough to fill the hand adorned with two equally beautiful pink nipples.
I stood there, staring at them for a while before remembering what I was here for. I swear I didn''t touch them... a lot. Next I took out my surgical instruments. The obsidian scalpel wasn''t as sturdy as a modern stainless steel one but was definitely as sharp as the real deal.
I made the incision and began the procedure. I did exactly as I had seen in the medical video and surprised myself at even enjoying it. Seeing her inside felt, personal... As if I was more intimate with her than even her husband.
It took me a few hours spent trying to do a perfect job with the king constantly knocking on the door and asking what was taking so long. Sighh* I had told him if would take a while since I wasn''t used to it but he kept pestering me anyway...
Once I had finally closed the hole in her heart, I used a healing spell-scroll to close her back up since I couldn''t leave a wound or a scar on her royal skin. The king would have lost it if he saw the giant scar I would have made to access her heart.
Everything had went perfectly fine from what I could tell so I began to remove my bloody clothes. I could only imagine the king''s reaction if I got out all bloodied like that. The best would be to burn the clothes but I couldn''t start a fire in the operating room so I simply stuffed them in my inventory.
When I was finally presentable, I went out to inform the king of the successful procedure. I explained to him that she would need to take it slow for a few month until the heart was fully healed on its own but that she would see the effect immediately.
His reaction was unexpected... He grabbed me by the shoulders and made out with me. Well it was more like a quick peck on the lips but it felt very wrong to me. I guess he truly was happy and didn''t know how to express it. I hope.
I explained to the king that she would wake up in an hour or so when the little device given to me by the adventurer guild began to vibrate. Guhuhu* Someone with the spiritual magic affinity had finally taken my bait.
The box was a made up story obviously. All I needed was some DNA from someone having the spiritual affinity since I needed it to learn runic magic. Up till now I had Irya do that work but I wouldn''t always impose on her for my project.
Speaking of project, I am progressing quite nicely on my immovable mountain and since I was getting sick of working on it so much I decided to alternate between this and the summoning arcane circle I had placed on hold for a while.
But right now I needed to rush to the adventurer guild to meet my new vict- employee... I told the king that I would be back by the end of the day to conclude our agreement so that he could take some time to reunite with the queen once she wakes up.
With that done I quickly exited the castle, met up with Mendy and Nargaroth and ran to the guild building. Once there I went to the receptionist and gave her the little vibrating trinket she had given me. She analyzed it and simply pointed toward a young magician sitting alone at a table.
Those aqua-blue eyes, cyan hair, that white robe with a hoodie... The wooden staff with a relatively small blue monster core on the tip. The cuteness surrounding her... Everything looked unbelievably familiar to me. [Identify]
[table=#800000]
magicdownunder (Player)
Race/Species:
Human
Level:
164
Class:
Light Magistra
Title:
-Idol of Rosana City
-Light Master
-Savior
?Show more?
[/table]
Urgg that''s her... She grew stronger since back in the dungeon. At first I felt a bit angry but remembered that she was the only one among the original 4 who hadn''t come back to hunt us as we got out of the dungeon. So I didn''t have anything against her but there was no other way around it.
I needed to kill this cute little girl. As a jumper she was immortal and would suffer only a 24h log out penalty and lose a few skill points. I now had black hair, red eyes and no longer had my forehead stone which easily identified me.
To be safe I decided to wear my new eye-patch purchased at the tailor which was adorned with an embroiled dragon on it. I was also wearing my new set of black clothes and my golden sphinx cape with she hadn''t seen back then. I should be a total stranger to her.
She also hadn''t seen Mendy and Nargaroth, really there was nothing that could give me away at this point. For all she knew, I was Elvis Presley. On the forum some people discussed about me being some type of NPC linked to an event so I avoided wearing my Elvis suit from then.
You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.I walked up to the young magician and sat in front of her. Mendy and Nargaroth observed at a safe distance, trying not to be noticed.
¡°Hello young lady.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hello? Are you the employer?¡± (magicdownunder)
¡°Yes it is me. I understand you have the spiritual magic affinity? It is quite impressive for someone of your level.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho yes I- I trained my magic with the intention of learning runic magic. But I must admit, it is a lot harder than it looks. I''m not sure if I am suited for such advanced magic after all.¡± (magicdownunder)
¡°Don''t discourage yourself. I am convinced you can master it if you give it your all. Now! About the job.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho yea, do you have the box?¡± (magicdownunder)
¡°Ha actually no I don''t. It is a strange box which refuses to enter any safe zone.. Weird isn''t it?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh? Weird indeed... So where is it?¡± (magicdownunder)
¡°I left it in the protection of a friend who must be waiting for us. Shall we go?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ok, lead the way.¡± (magicdownunder)
We walked together and made idle chat about useless stuff as we advanced further and further into the woods. After a while she began to act nervously.
¡°Is this a trap? We are being followed...¡± (magicdownunder) She said tightening her grip on her staff.
¡°Huhuhu you are very perceptive but don''t worry it is not a trap. True, 2 people are following us but I employed them in case the adventurer I hired tried to steal the entire box from me. As long as you follow your side of the deal, nothing bad will happen.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhhh I- Ok.. I guess...¡± (magicdownunder)
After hearing my explanation she remained tense but kept following nicely. When we finally exited the safe zone I turned around and waited for my acolytes to join us. The young girl asked where the box was so I took out my twin blades.
Realizing it was a trap after all, the young magician quickly began chanting a spell. I used [Vines Hell] to remove the staff from her hands and used [Vindic Flames] to burn her mana away. Sensing a powerful magic attack I readied myself to counter with [Vindic Wave] but Mendy came out of nowhere and dug her scorpion tail in her back.
Taking this opening I used my newly customized [Viper Bite] on her neck like a vampire. [Viper Bite ¨C Obscuro + Viper Neurotoxin + Basilisk acid] This was a deadly mix and she began losing health at an alarming rate.
¡°Urggg* Blood splurging from her mouth* P-please... don''t... it.. hurts.¡± (magicdownunder)
"You are allowed to haunt me for this. Sorry, nothing personal." (Kneeko)
Not wanting to be left out, Nargaroth came rushing and swung his giant sword down on the poor little magician, slicing her in half. In a few seconds it was already game over for her.
[table=#800000]
Level up!
[/table]
Guhuhuhu* Not waiting any time I went to see Lucy and asked her to activate the spiritual magic affinity. After that I simply needed to read a runic grimoire which I had already bought via auction. Let''s put that aside for now, I have a butt load of monster cores to get back in the city.
Then I also had to sell the best story ever to the king, knowing that he would use all of his resources and allies to bring the renegade dragons to justice. I had no intentions of dirtying my hands and risking my friends and family''s lives for revenge.
It was a lot better to have others do it for me. Then I would need to quickly fly back to my beloved An''dalia and rescue her from the mean rapist dragon called Damyon. Well, I intended to have her do most of the work but still. Guhuhuhu* Time for revenge, dragon ass-hole.
+++
STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
723
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120451G 23S 29C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 54 - A stalkers obsession
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
-------------------
Later that day we finally returned to the castle. Guards escorted us to the king and queen who seemed to have perfectly recuperated from the operation as she was giggling with the king. There was the prince and the two princesses all participating to this cheesy family reunion.
One of the guard yelled:
¡°Sir Elvis Presley as arrived!¡± (Guard)
The entire family immediately turned around and came at us in a strange manner. It was no longer the king meeting a stranger but more like the royal family meeting their benefactor. They were talking to me in a respectful manner as if I was of higher rank than them. That''s more like it...
¡°Sir Elvis! We were anxiously waiting for your return.¡± (King Hofhray) He said as he offered a respectful bow.
¡°Guess what, for the first time in my life I''ve been able to dance with my husband without being out of breath only 2 minutes later. You said I would need a few months to be fully healed yet I feel like I could dance the entire night. Hehehe*¡± (Queen Nafarihm)
¡°I''m glad to hear it, but please remember not to overexert yourself or your condition might deteriorate.¡± (Kneeko)
She would need time for her heart to fully heal since I didn''t dare use a healing spell on it, afraid it would revert back to it''s original ¡°imperfect¡± shape. I lifted my eye-patch for a second and quickly understood that the king intended to present his daughters to me but I was in a hurry and didn''t have time for this.
¡°I mean no disrespect great king but I received news from home. I need to be on my way as soon as possible so if you have everything I asked...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho.. Won''t you stay with us a few more days?¡± (Prince Elnfrid) Asked the prince with a disappointed face.
¡°Yes please do, there is so much I would like to talk about with such a great scholar as you.¡± (King Hofhray)
¡°I will come back to visit you some other day but as I said, duty is calling me away from here.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I understand. Come with me this way please.¡± (King Hofhray)
The king led me toward the courtyard in the back of the castle and asked a few guards to bring what was rightfully mine. What arrived were 3 carts, 1 filled with clothes, armours and weapons, the other 2 were cages on wheels filled with fierce looking elven prisoners.
I didn''t know elves could look so intimidating but these men and women looked like murderers at first sight. There was one cart for women and another for men. Luckily Nargaroth was abnormally strong otherwise we would not have been able to transport them all.
¡°Will this be satisfying to you sir?¡± (King Hofhray)
¡°Guhuhu* Yes, perfect. Now the most important.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Indeed, this way please.¡± (King Hofhray)
¡°Mendy, Nargaroth, you stay here and prepare these carts for travel.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes great leader!¡± (Nargaroth)
Lifting my eye-patch a few time I confirmed that the king had no intention of deceiving me as he felt heavily indebted to me. We walked around the castle and went to the throne room. There the king opened a secret passage protected by a magic barrier.
We walked down a stone stairway lighted by magic crystals. After a short while we were finally in a giant room adorned with gold, valuable paintings and statues, weapons and artifacts of all kinds. This room was filled with an unimaginable wealth.
We walked in the room and went to the back where were stacked a huge pile of small wooden boxes. In each one of these boxes were monster cores protected inside a thick and soft padding. Guhuhuhu* there were a few hundred of them.
Most of them were not from really high level monsters but mostly from rare specimens holding rare proprieties. I was exited like a kid at Christmas. The king asked me if I would need help to carry them all but understood I didn''t after seeing me put them all away in my inventory.
¡°Since you have kept your part of the deal I shall do the same. The dragon you are looking for is from one of the 3 top pure blooded dragon clans. They seem to be a rogue gang of dragons working in the shadows for unknown purpose.
They attacked various towns and villages around the world and seem to act without their clan''s permissions. I do not know what are their purpose but I have been made aware of 5 of them. It all comes from a true story circulating as rumour among the people.
Apparently the Rokugan''s clan leader Damyon has attacked and killed one of his own clanswoman and her daughter since she was threatening his position as leader. This all happened near the Niardo kingdom a few months back.
Damyon was apparently accompanied by 4 other dragons to do the dirty work. I also heard Damyon had kidnapped princess An''dalia from the Niardo kingdom and tried to force her to become his wife. She eventually escaped but I recently heard that she had disappeared again. Most likely Damyon''s doing again.¡± (Kneeko)
I continued by giving the king the description of the 4 other unknown dragons. I also reminded him that he had jumpers in his kingdom, things the dragons don''t have. So with the jumpers, if there was to be a world war like before, it wouldn''t end the same way.
Not only that but the dragons were still recuperating from it and were acting cocky only because of their new alliance with the demon race. Dragons have a very low birth rate so recuperating the numbers lost during the war was taking them a lot longer than other races.
If we managed to sway the humans, the dragon''s fate would be sealed even without the half-human race. I told the king a few ways he could use to sway the humans and also deter the demons from intervening in case of a war. I had spent a lot of time thinking about all this.
¡°T-t... This is monstrous... Killing their own clansmen, a mother and her child... If I were to speak of this to my clan leader acquaintances their heads would go flying. But like you said before, there may be more of them out there. Maybe some clan leaders are even cooperating with them... I will need some time to sort through it all.¡± (King Hofhray)
¡°Obviously. But if you do as I told you I am certain you will know fast enough. Also, just between you and me... Damyon soon won''t be a problem. He owes me big time for something he did in the past. His fate is already sealed.¡± (Kneeko)
My face became dark and a black aura began to leak from my skin. The king wouldn''t dare look at me in the eyes with the amount of blood-lust I was radiating. This bastard is mine... He will be the only exception as I will deal with him myself.
Well An''dalia will do most of it.. Guhuhuhu* But fact is, I have ¡°Dragon¡± on my shopping list so I have more than one reason to kill him myself. From what I saw in the boxes I should find most of what''s on my list with these cores. This was a mega jackpot for my growth.
Guhuhuhu* Mission accomplished. With An''dalia slowly closing in on the dragon territory I needed to move fast, so we bid a last farewell to the royal family before leaving. The queen gave me a long kiss on the cheek before our departure and seemed sad to see us leave so early.
I listened to her thoughts a little and didn''t find any sign of her being under my charm sadly. Nargaroth and Mendy had attached the 3 carts together as to tow them like a train and surprisingly, Nargaroth didn''t seem to have any difficulty pulling them all.
We walked for a few hours and stopped as we reached an uninhabited area. We were still a long way from our secret lands but we couldn''t give any chances to these criminal to know our location so we placed bags on their head to prevent them from seeing where they were.
They were all cursing and trying to spit on us as we did so but they were all bound by chains to their wrists and ankles attached to the carriage floor, preventing them from even standing up. Those who were too noisy had their tongue severed under the eyes of their friends in order to make examples.
Soon none of them were making any noises or trying anything funny so the travel became more relaxing. We would feed them very well so they would stay healthy but didn''t bother to detach them when they needed to go the the toilet.
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Instead it was easier to strip them all and use WaterBolt occasionally to clean the shit and piss. Murderers don''t deserve clothes... Ok scratch that, prisoners under my custody, don''t deserve clothes. I kind of was a murderer myself when you thought about it.
We walked for days in this hot and humid tropical climate trying to do good time by skipping sleep. Nargaroth was pulling, I was doing recon and making sure no one was following while Mendy was in charge of using wind magic to erase our traces.
Only a S rank scout would be able to follow us and would most likely be killed by my numerous traps near the cave entrance. I kept using obscuro poison on the prisoners knowing it was better to keep them at low HP and blind.
¡°Master. Bird.¡± (Mendy) She said pointing up in a tree.
¡°[Arcane LightningBolt 5%] Poof!* Good job Mendy! Pat* Pat* Pat*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°PURRRRrrrrrrrrr*¡± (Mendy)
I had also finally finished consuming all the cores and holy mother of god was it a boost in strength. I was now level 723. I allocated my points where I thought I would need them and updated my shopping list. After a few days without anything happening and no sign of life I decided to leave to my next destination.
Nargaroth and Mendy would take 2 more days to reach our hideout and didn''t need me for the rest. I was already late for my next appointment and needed to go. I asked Nargaroth if one of the prisoners tickled his fancy and he timidly pointed toward the tallest one. She was pretty... but mostly tall.
I told him she was his and he could do what he wanted with her. I also instructed him to hold a big tournament to establish the picking order among the others. Only the 50 strongest, 25 male 25 female would get to fuck them.
Why? Because I need only the strong to reproduce to make stronger babies. I had heard that instead of 1 month of gestation for female goblins that if a female human, elf, demi-human or even demon was impregnated, gestation lasted only 2 weeks and the baby was born directly as a hobgoblin.
You can easily imagine how ideal that was and as for the male prisoners, I gave a large jug of succubus juice from my treasure ring to Nargaroth. One drop of this liquid and these male prisoners would fuck the living daylight out of anything. I could already foresee a huge increase in population.
I also instructed them to leave Asta in charge of distributing the clothes, weapons and armour to the deserving warriors. I took all the clothing and dresses I had bought for them and placed them in the last carriage. Even though I wanted to give these gifts to them personally, I couldn''t afford the time right now.
I asked my two acolytes to give them to Asta and that she would know which ones were made for who. With everything said and done I switched to my falcon form and flew at high speed toward the direction given by my StalkingCompass 3000. With how valuable the necklace linked to this compass was, there was no way she would have given it to anyone else. Wait for me my love... Guhuhuhuhuhu*
? ? ? ?
I was born the son of a lawless man
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand
Lived nine lives
Gunned down ten
Gonna ride like the wind
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
And I''ve got such a long way to go
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I''ll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
? ? ? ?
+++
STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
723
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120451G 23S 29C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 55 - New nemesis
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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[A few days ago back in Niardo kingdom.]
A tall cloaked man entered the throne room and walked up to the king sitting on his throne. The tall figure seemed agitated and as for the king, he seemed highly worried. The cloaked figure was Damyon, clan leader of the Rokugan''s pure blooded dragons.
¡°Welcome Damyon, what bring you to my kingdom?¡± (King)
¡°Don''t fuck with me Arh''taron. The men you supposedly sent to bring me back the core never reached our lands. You are responsible for the loss of our important treasure!¡± (Damyon)
¡°I-it is true that I have not heard of them since then. Something must have happened to them on their way there. I swear I truly sent them to bring the core back to you.¡± (Arh''taron)
¡°I don''t give a shit. If you can''t give me back the core, give me your daughter. And hear me well, this is not a negotiation.¡± (Damyon)
Arh''taron Elmda''ril, great king of the high humans was in a pinch. He had failed to safe keep the treasure given to him in exchange for his daughter and had now no other choice than to obey Damyon''s order. A small kingdom such as Niardo couldn''t possibly go against the dragon race on their own.
Luckily the king had an heir and An''dalia was only the 2nd princess which made her more easily disposable but as a father, the king was torn to betray her for a second time. Sadly though, the king didn''t have any other choices.
¡°Bring my daughter!¡± (Arh''taron) Reluctantly ordered the king to one of his guards.
Damyon was trowing daggers at the king with his eyes as they silently waited for An''dalia to arrive. The king was highly displeased as well since he was about to lose his daughter without gaining anything in exchange.
A few awkward minutes later, the guard came back followed by An''dalia who was wearing a beautiful red dress and two ponytails. Damyon''s expression immediately changed as he saw her. It was fair to say that she was the only thing capable of quenching his anger.
¡°You asked for me f-... What is HE doing here?!!!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°I am sorry, An''dalia. But to protect this kingdom, your duty is to go and become this man''s wife.¡± (Arh''taron)
¡°WHAT??? You would betray me again you old fucking ass-hole!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Ummm yes. Full of energy like I remembered you. Come now! I''ve lost enough time here.¡± (Damyon)
After a few mi- hours of screaming, kicking, biting, spitting... basically everything she could think off, the princess was finally loaded inside a carriage pulled by 4 dwarkors. Dwarkors are similar to crocodiles but with long legs used to run at high speed.
Damyon had tied her arms and legs to force her to behave and pretended to be sorry about it. But truth was, Damyon enjoyed seeing her defenceless and at his mercy. He was already salivating at the thought of taking her virginity as soon as they arrived at his cave.
He had to muster all of his willpower not to rape her immediately but also enjoyed letting the anticipation simmer like a good wine needing to age. She would become his favourite plaything until he found someone else striking his fancy.
¡°I am sure you will be very happy to live with me. You will be able to make many friends after meeting my 53 other wives.¡± (Damyon)
¡°Go die you mother fucker!¡± (An''dalia)
Slap!* The poor An''dalia held her swollen cheek in shock.
¡°Look like I will need to teach you good manners. This is not how a lady should talk, especially not one I am about to marry. Ho well, we will have ample time to reform that nasty personality of yours.¡± (Damyon)
At this moment for some strange reason, An''dalia held her necklace in her hands with one thought in mind. (If I was a monster like Kneeko I could kill this bastard...) The princess shocked herself by her own reaction. How could she find comfort while imagining Kneeko coming to her rescue?
Kneeko was dead, she had received confirmation of this a while back. Since then she thought she could get her life back on track but kept thinking of him. Now that he was dead, she had realized that the only thing he had ever done wrong to her was kill Darui''n.
But even that, he had done to protect her from the bolt wyvern. It was only now that he was dead that she began to understand how blind she had been. Yes he was creepy and a stalker but he had never done anything to directly hurt her.
She had now lost Darui''n and Kneeko... She was now alone and at the mercy of Damyon. It is then that she took the resolution to kill herself as soon as she got the opportunity. She needed to commit suicide before Damyon raped her. This is what she had resolved herself to do.
Every night they would setup camp and she would be tied up in her private tent surrounded by guards. There was no way for her to escape, no way to take her own life. Every night she lived in fear of seeing Damyon enter her tent and force himself on her.
Her eyes were so swollen due to her constantly crying that she was almost unrecognizable. She refused to eat or drink and was only hoping to die from dehydration before reaching the dragon land. Not wanting his precious toy to die, Damyon ordered some guards to force feed her, taking away her only hope of escaping her horrible fate.
1 week later, Damyon came to her tent during the night. Terror couldn''t express how she felt when she saw him. This is where I lose my virginity to this tyrant, I want to die! Is what she thought. But Damyon wasn''t there for that reason.
¡°Hello beautiful. Travelling by foot is taking too long. I have duties waiting for me back home so I will go ahead and wait for you there. Be nice and obey the guards if you want to make it in one piece. I can''t wait to taste you once you arrive. Heahahahaha*¡± (Damyon)
He then left, leaving her only a few more days before her descent to hell. As soon as he was gone, An''dalia immediately felt a huge weight lifted from her shoulders. She needed to find a way to kill herself. Poison would be ideal but her poison resistance would make it a horrible and slow death.
¡°Father... I swear one day I will kill you along with this fucking dragon as well. I will come back to haunt you after my death!¡± (An''dalia)
[Kneeko POV:]
I flew night and day without rest, unable to remain calm as I kept thinking of what Damyon was doing to my precious wife. She''s MINE! If he touches her, I''LL KILL HIM! No wait, I''ll kill him no matter what! My plan to do so was a vicious one.
The plan was to give An''dalia a dagger coated with my anti-dragon poison, then have her lure him into thinking she wanted to have sex with him. Then, when he let his guard down, she would stab him with it then use the necklace I gave her to teleport away.
I would then only need to have her wait in a safe place while I went to finish him. Guhuhuhu* Perfect plan. Well there were a few random factors in there but I had already planned counter measures to deal with them. For example, if Damyon wasn''t among her escort, she would need to remain with them a while longer.
She would wait to reach the dragon land and execute the plan there. Of course I would need to use my acting skills and pretend to be someone else but with my appearance being completely different now, it shouldn''t be too hard to do.
I kept following my StalkingCompass 3000 and after a few days finally got a visual on the convoy transporting my beautiful golden haired wife. I spent the entire day stalking the convoy, trying to locate Damyon but didn''t find him anywhere.
I could definitely smell lavender from one of the carriage which made my heart flutter in anticipation. After an entire day of recon, I discovered 50 high level guards and no dragons... This ass-hole didn''t even bother to accompany her the entire way and left her with these unknown guards. What an ass-hole.
I will have to wait till nighttime and infiltrate An''dalia''s tent. There, my ¡°Kill Damyon¡± plan would begin. Guhuhuhu* Can''t wait to see you again my beautiful angel. [Chimera Forge]
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¡°Heyy there ni-chan!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Hello sis. Can you change my colour to one of the other 3 rogue dragon please.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Sure!... Done! Anything else?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Let me check what I received from these hundreds of cores. Can you highlight only those using DNA I won''t need to my dragon god form please?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°There you go!¡± (Lucy)
¡°Thank you!¡± (Kneeko)
I looked at all these abilities I could unlock. I had many abilities but they were so expensive I couldn''t unlock them all immediately. I needed to take my time and select the ones I needed the most. After a few minutes my eyes stopped on something interesting.
¡°Hoooo so many OP skills... Guhuhuhu* [Checkpoints]? To me that sounds like a way to become immortal... There must still be a penalty for each time though... Ho? [Time Stop]? Is this what I think it is?¡± (Kneeko)
[Far away from there.]
A man wearing a blue uniform that seemed to belong to a military officer was walking down a road leading to a small road pub. The man had short black hair, black eyes, was relatively tall and had a stern expression on his face.
The man''s most peculiar feature was his diamond shaped stone on his forehead which was similar to Kneeko''s but was blue instead of red. That man''s name was Curvnt, an admin employed to enforce law upon the players of this world.
The man nonchalantly arrived at the pub where a fierce looking woman was beating up a small man to a bloody pulp. Curious, Curvnt walked up to them and asked what was going on.
¡°This ass-hole harassed me!¡± (Woman)
¡°I only said you looked beautiful! *Blood splurged out of his mouth*¡± (Man)
¡°Cat calling is what we call harassment! You are guilty!¡± (Curvnt)
¡°B-but... She''s only wearing a bikini top... punch* Isn''t she a bit responsible for it as well? Punch* ouchhh..¡± (Man)
¡°You dare put the blame on her? Women are always victims, men are always perpetrators! You misogynistic pig! PERMABAN!¡± (Curvnt)
¡°No wai-¡± (Man) And just like that the man was permanently banned from Alterlife 2.
The man should not have contradicted what Curvnt said since he was the ultimate authority in this world. In real life his wife was cheating on him, his children hated him, everybody at work despised him so in the game he could finally let off some steam.
He was an admin, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted. If someone said something he didn''t have an answer for, BAN! If someone looked at him funny, BAN! By always treating women like children who aren''t responsible for anything, he was what we call a white knight. (AuthNote:Some other type of sexism if you ask me.) By doing so he hoped to get laid. (Not that it had ever worked.)
¡°Heyy you dick! I was having fun beating him. Mind your own goddamn business!¡± (Woman)
¡°Dick? PERMABAN! Pouwahahaha* You will learn to respect my autoritahh!¡± (Curvnt)
¡°Ho?¡± (Curvnt)
Curvnt opened the message he had just received and was stomped. It was from a young girl who had been fooled by an NPC with a fake quest, then ambushed and killed...
¡°Unacceptable! There''s an NPC who needs to be erased as soon as possible.. How dare he kill a girl!¡± (Curvnt)
He then used the server entity locator to see who had posted the fake quest but couldn''t find anything... Strange, he thought to himself...
*Cue ominous music*
¡°Look like I''ll have to go there and investigate myself.¡± (Curvnt)
DUN!* DUN!* DUN!*
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STATUS
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PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
723
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120451G 23S 29C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
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Chapter 56 - Reunion
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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¡°Ok sis, I want these two.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°[Checkpoint] and [Time Stop] I see, really good choices.¡± (Lucy)
¡°I think so as well little sis.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Done!¡± (Lucy)
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You have learned a new Active Skill [Checkpoint]. (Cost. 5000 Mana) (Mastery: -)
Allows you to set a checkpoint. If you die you will be resurrected at the selected area.
#1 Week Cool-down.
#Lose 5 levels and 75 random skill points per death.
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[table=#800000]
You have learned a new Active Skill [Time Stop]. (Cost. 1000 Mana per second) (Mastery: -)
Just like the name says, allows you to stop time.
#Every second stopped costs 1000 mana.
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Guhuhuhu* Very good. It only costs 5 levels to resurrect? Woaaa cheap. Guhahaha* Then I looked at the time stop skill. That was a very good skill. It costs 1000 mana per second and I had 37k mana, so this meant I could stop time for 37 seconds.
For such an OP skill, 37 seconds was a long ass time. I immediately went a bit further away and set up a checkpoint. Better safe than sorry and it doesn''t really cost much. Once that was done, I went back to my perch and observed the guards and their patterns.
I anxiously waited for the sun to go down and for the convoy to stop for the night. I kept my distance in case one of them had some sensory ability and remained in the shadows. Finally as the sun slowly turned to a beautiful shade of red, the group stopped for the night.
It is then that I finally saw her, as they transferred her to her tent. She was wearing a red frilly dress and her hair was a mess. What struck me first was her swollen eyes and cheeks. She had visibly been crying a lot. Now I was pissed.
I reconsidered my plan, should I kill them all? I felt like doing just that but these soldiers were near level 300 and there were 50 of them... Bad idea. I first needed to prioritize An''dalia''s safety and couldn''t risk an all out battle.
I patiently waited for night to fall before making my move. I transformed into my salamander form and used [Time Stop]. With everything around me completely immobilized in a surreal way, I made my way up to her tent. I then stealthily slid under the doorway. After such a long time, I finally saw her up close.
She seemed collapsed from exhaustion. My poor darling, seeing you like that is ripping my heart apart. I immediately felt very bad about my plan. Was sending her along with them, luring Damyon into her bed then stabbing him truly something I could ask her?
I was torn, but I needed my revenge! On the other hand, was my revenge really more important than her? I couldn''t say yet. Actually I could simply transfer to a private server and bring all my loved ones with me, then with admin commands simply delete Damyon and the rest.
Why was I doing all this?! To entertain myself of course but seeing An''dalia like that wasn''t enjoyable at all. Thinking about this I made a resolution, I would ask her what she wanted to do and if she refuses to do it, then I would simply bring her back home with me and get Damyon myself, later.
I made sure the guards weren''t paying attention and transformed into my human appearance. It was the black haired one of course since I didn''t want her to recognize me. If she did, she was most likely to yell or refuse any help at all.
This girl hated my guts and was a stubborn one after all. I slowly crept next to her and placed my hand over her mouth which immediately woke her up. She looked at me with her giant round eyes filled with panic but immediately calmed as her eyes met mine.
Then, strangely she began to cry. What the hell? Did I do something? I then decided to lift my eye-patch to make sure.
¡°Kneeko?! It''s Kneeko! He''s alive, he came to save me?¡° (An''dalia)
Uhh? What the hell? Since when was she ever happy to see me? No wait, how did she recognize me? She must be confused since this is a similar situation to the one she had been in before, in the castle. Me creeping in as she slept and all.. Cough* Cough* Time to show my acting skills.
¡°Shhh please don''t yell or the guards will hear us. Don''t be scared I''m here to help you.¡± (Kneeko)
She remained silent and weakly nodded so I slowly removed my hand. She was silently staring at me, then she extended her bound arms and gently touched my hair. Then she touched my forehead and seemed to look for my forehead stone.
¡°Kneeko? Where it that red stone you used to have?¡± (An''dalia) What the hell, how come she''s so certain that it''s me?
¡°Kneeko? I think you might be confusing me with someone else...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Why is he lying to me? Is there a reason for him to hide his identity?¡° (An''dalia)
¡°Ho sorry, I thought you were someone else. You said you were here to save me?¡± (An''dalia)
What the-... Are my acting skills so bad? How can she be so sure it is me? And now she''s even going to pretend like it''s not me because she thinks I have a good reason for it? My only reason was to prevent her from panicking so in these circumstances, there''s no use to pretend...
¡°Sighh* I''ve never been able to fool you... What gave me away?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uhh? What do you mean? You think changing your hair colour and removing that stone on your forehead would make you a different person?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Well yea... Duhh. Everybody else got fooled so far. How could you be so sure it was me?¡± (Kneeko) After hearing this she looked away and seemed to hesitate for a while. Then the turned back to face me with a serious expression and answered.
¡°It''s... the way you look at me. It is so familiar I couldn''t not know. It seemed very obvious to me.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°What does that mean? Do I look at you in a creepy way?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°No... it''s... different. No one else looks at me the way you do. C- can you take me away from here? Anywhere other than here.. please.¡° (An''dalia)
¡°Of course but...¡± (Kneeko) Tch, I can''t ask her to go to Damyon''s place and do the dirty work now dammit. She was holding my left arm, not wanting to let go. She looked like an abandoned animal needing help.
¡°Urg dammit, if I bring you back to your father, Damyon will come back for you...¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I-I know. Sniff* Sniff* I don''t know what to do. Sob* sob*¡± (An''dalia) At this point she was snuggling in my arms, rendering me unable to think properly.
¡°Want to stay with me?¡± (Kneeko) I asked with as much seriousness as possible. She instantly looked up with a ray of hope in her eyes. Sighh looks like I won''t need an answer...
¡°I thought you hated me. What changed your opinion of me?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I- I don''t really know myself... When I thought you were dead, only then did I realize you weren''t my enemy.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°If I knew why I wouldn''t be so confused right now.¡° (An''dalia)
¡°Anyway, I''ll get you out of here and we''ll talk more later. The necklace you are wearing, when you pour mana into it you will be automatically teleported to me. But be careful you can only use it once a week.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Really?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°This thing could do that ? If I had known...¡° (An''dalia)
¡°I will go as far away from here as possible first, in around 5 hours you can just teleport to me. Is that ok?¡± (Kneeko)
I could see happiness in her eyes but also uncertainty. Actually what she felt was more like release than happiness. She knew her nightmare was finally over and she didn''t need to be afraid anymore. Her family might have betrayed her, a powerful dragon was also after her, but she wasn''t alone in this world anymore.
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Right now in her life, I was the only ray of light. Or maybe more like the darkness where she could hide and lay low in hope of revenge. Yes, we were meant for each other. Quickly I reverted back to my salamander appearance and ran away as fast as possible.
Once far enough from the guards, I flew in a straight line at a speed not many people in this world could reach. In almost 5 hours I had reached a familiar place where I knew we could talk in peace. It was my birthplace, the small pond I had hatched in.
Next I lit a fire, built a hut out of vines and began to cook a delicious meal. As I was waiting for her I began to think of a new plan to kill Damyon myself. Taking An''dalia from him should be enough for now. What mattered the most was that he was certainly going to be pissed about it.
As the meat was almost ready, my surroundings began to glow with a blue light. Then, there she was, right in front of me and still confused by the sudden change of environment.
¡°Welcome honey. Is everything okay? I made you something to eat, here.¡± (Kneeko) I handed a piece of delicious meat to her and a mug of water.
¡°Uhh? Ehh thank you Kneeko. Why is this place so familiar?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°You don''t recognize it ? It''s where I was born, where we first met.¡± (Kneeko) She then stood up and walked around a bit. She looked at the pond and seemed lost in thought.
¡°Yes, I recognize it now. You were right there... so small, so cute.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Guhuhu you are going to make me blush. Come and eat, you look skinny and tired. I built a hut for the rest of the night, feel free to ask anything you want.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°T-thank you Kneeko. For saving me and, everything.¡± (An''dalia)
She nibbled on her piece of meat and went to sleep as I kept watch. I was incredibly tired as well but I stood strong, determined to keep her safe. From the way she acted I could tell I was more like a friend than a lover to her, I would need to change that gradually...
A while later I jolted up after realizing I had fallen asleep while leaning on a tree. I looked around and realized An''dalia was sleeping next to me using my lap as a pillow. She must have crept in as I was sleeping. I was happy, she didn''t seem to hate me anymore. I smelled the surroundings and confirmed we were alone so I grew a vine dome over us and drifted to sleep while gently patting her head.
That night I had a very strange dream, I dreamt that An''dalia was fighting with Asta and Irya... I hope such thing won''t happen. Actually I don''t think my dragonesses will have a problem with it but maybe An''dalia would... I would need to tell her one way or the other.
Thump* Thump* Thump* The sound of very heavy footsteps woke me up from my dream. An''dalia was still sleeping and I decided to taste the air to know what was creating these loud vibrations. It tasted like, nothing I had ever smelled before. Was is a plant? Was it an animal?! It smelled like a mix of both.
GROUHAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!* *Bone chilling roar* Grrrr the fuck is this again?!
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
723
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120451G 23S 29C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
7160
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+700)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+700)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
0
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 57 - Honey moon
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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I slowly slid away from An''dalia, trying not to wake her up and exited our vine dome to see what was approaching. When I looked toward the sound I saw something extremely creepy. It was a monster which was part plant, part animal and had tentacles and flowers all over its body.
It was extremely big, at least as big as my dragon form and seemed to be walking straight toward us. It was walking using some tentacles bundled together to form 4 legs, its head looked like a big red flower. In the middle of this giant, creepy red flower was a big gaping hole filled with teeth.
Its entire green body was covered in spikes as well as its tentacles and if it stayed immobile, could be confused for a simple plant. Not wanting to let him get close to my sleeping beauty I ran toward it and used [identify] as soon as I was near enough.
[table=#800000]
Monster
Species:
Broxlorthian Squidflower (King of the forest)
Level:
482
Monster Rank:
High
Rarity:
Extremely Rare
[/table]
¡°Hooooo?! King of the forest, that title''s mine now bitch!¡± (Kneeko)
I used [Vine Hell] and tried to immobilize it but it had no solid body part and was mostly made of tentacles so it slowly began to free itself by untying the knots. [Arcane Fire + LightningBolt: 10%] A giant ball of sparkling fire flew at it and made contact with a giant explosion.
Against plants, fire was an obvious choice. The monster caught fire and began to growl and roar in anger. I was about to send the same attack when roots emerged from the ground and grabbed my ankles. The roots then got ripped out of the ground sending dirt flying in all directions then held me upside down in the air.
Before I could react, I was already being thrown in all directions, destroying trees and bushes in the process. I was being smashed around like an old wet sock but wasn''t receiving that much damage from it. I didn''t have that much HP for my level but I had an insane amount of resistance.
Health:
Stamina:
Mana:
Mathematically, resistance is better than HP since I was barely taking any damage as long as the creature was lower level than me. Angry to be trashed around like that, I tried to use [Viper Bite] on the roots holding me but only bit wood. My poison wasn''t meant to work on plants after all.
I could use basilisk acid but it would only cut one root at a time. Starting to feel sick from being trashed around, I transformed into my dragon form. I was now dark orange with a black belly which was the colour pattern of one of the rogue dragons.
[Deadly Breath] I spewed my acid gas at the creature making it scream it pain, its tentacles were going wild and hitting everything around. My attacks were highly effective against it and honestly, I wasn''t expecting too much of a challenge for the rest of the fight.
Broxlorthian Squidflower Health:
Then just to prove me wrong, the creature began to merge with other plants around and regained most of its HP... Well that''s going to be problematic. I latched myself onto it with my claws and began launching fire and acid once again.
This time I was forcefully holding it, trying to prevent the beast from merging with other plants. With my immense strength I was able to overpower it and simply spammed my most effective skills at it. I decided to use [Vindic Flame] in case his regenerative ability needed mana.
The monster caught on fire and tried whipping me with it''s tentacles to force me to let go but this was not going to happen. When the creature finally reached 50% health, I saw a slowly moving tentacle from the corner of my eye.
That tentacle was inching it''s way toward a big tree, obviously trying to leech health from it. At this point I was getting annoyed so I decided to end this quick. [Time Stop] With everything suddenly immobilized around me I took off in to the air with my powerful dragon wings.
Once a few meters above the immobilized creature I used what I thought would be the more efficient. [Arcane MagmaBolt: 100%] Let me see you survive this you dumb plant. A massive orb or lava as big as a small house fell straight down on the creature.
When it did, I stopped my [Stop time] skill and rushed to destroy the runaway tentacle which was trying to reach the trees. The giant creature was submerged under meters of melted hot lava and I couldn''t see it anymore.
Health:
Stamina:
Mana:
I was careful in case the creature had a trick up its sleeve still but finally relaxed once I saw this.
[table=#800000]
Level up! (X2)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
New title: King of the forest
Condition: Having vanquished the previous king of the forest.
If activated, this title grants (+150 Vitality)
[/table]
Now this was a useful title. I needed to pick which title I was going to deactivate to be able to enable this one. I currently had low level titles so finding one to sacrifice wouldn''t be too hard. These are the titles currently enabled.
[table=#800000]
Title: King of the pond
If activated, this title grants (+50 Resistance)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Toxic Powerhouse
If activated, this title grants (+50 Vitality)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Tycoon
Condition: Having bought 30,000 gold worth of merchandise in less than two months.
If activated, this title grants (+40 Luck) (+40 Charm)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Elemental Master
If activated, this title grants (+100 Intelligence)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Don Juan
Condition: Having 20 women simultaneously falling in love with you.
If activated, this title grants (+25 Luck) (+150 Charm)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Divinity
If activated, this title grants (+150 points to all skills.)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Death''s Demise
#Not only did you come back from the land of the dead, you also managed to free other people from death''s grip.
If activated, this title grants (+50 Vitality) (+20% HP Regeneration speed)
[/table]
[table=#800000]
Title: Vindictae Clan Member
If activated, this title grants (+350 strength) (+350 Intelligence) (+350 Vitality) (+350 Resistance) (+350 Endurance)
[/table]
After mathematically analyzing them all I came to the conclusion what it was better for me to replace King of the pond with this new one as I already had a lot of resistance already. I would loose 50 points but gain 100 more in the end.
With that done I turned around to go back to sleep but standing not far away with terror in her eyes was An''dalia. ''Ha crap!'' I was still in my dragon form and definitely looked terrifying. Not wasting a second I reverted back to my human form before walking toward her.
¡°Are you alright? This big creature was after us so I didn''t have any other choice... Sorry if I woke you up.¡± (Kneeko) She was staring at me with a complicated expression before finally asking.
¡°K-Kneeko, was that your real appearance?¡± (An''dalia) I thought it was a fair question to ask but I didn''t feel like telling her I was a tadpole...
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¡°Errr.... Not really. It''s this ring I''m wearing which allows me to change form.¡± (Kneeko) She hesitated for a while before continuing.
¡°So.. what are you?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Does it matter?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Emm... Not exactly but why would you hide it from me?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Well let''s just say that I am in a transmission form. Soon I will become something akin to a dragon god.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°WHAT? Was there even such a thing?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Maybe not so far, but soon there will be. It may seem hard to understand but I have some connection with the goddess ruling over this world. Well ok I''ll be honest, I''m this goddess'' brother. She told me how I could become a dragon god so this is what I am doing. Of course my goal is to kill the dragons who attacked me back then and get revenge but there are more reasons behind it as well.¡± (Kneeko)
She was staring at me agape mouth, having difficulty processing what she had just heard.
¡°Kneeko, a god? JACKPOT!¡° (An''dalia)
Sighhh and there she is back to her original personality. Ho well as long as I can hear her thoughts she wont be able to manipulate me anyway so it doesn''t really matter.
¡°If you''re not tired anymore we should start moving. Let''s take advantage of this beautiful sunlight while it lasts.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yes! Let''s go wherever you want.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Teeheee... Got myself a god! Yayy! Father, you will suffer soon enough pwahahahaha*¡° (An''dalia)
Yes... definitely meant for each other... Guhuhuhu* We then went on our way toward my little private kingdom. Soon I would be able to expand with my goblin army but I only needed the neighbour to suffer from war casualties first to make it easier for us to invade.
I intended to offer lands, an army and a kingdom to my beautiful wives after all. During our travel we enjoyed ourselves. Eating at expensive restaurants, sightseeing to the most beautiful areas on our way and simply acting like tourists or even a newly wed couple on their honey moon.
At first I was trying to seduce her but I quickly realized that hearing I was a soon to be god was enough to make her fall completely for me. She was a superficial and shallow woman but I had no problem with it.
After all, I was a stalking psycho soon to be god... Who am I to judge.. Guhuhu* Actually I was getting the feeling that she was the one trying to seduce me now... On a different note, during the boring parts of our trip I finally managed to complete one of my arcane projects.
[table=#800000]
Do you wish to save this circle?
Yes
No
[/table]
Yes!
[table=#800000]
Give a name to the spell:
[/table]
[Arcane Summoning] Guhuhu* Finally! With this I was able to summon minions from various magical elements. That part of the circle had been completed since a while back but what I had added was the possibility to use monster cores to summon the beasts which they belonged to.
Of course it was not like a resurrection skill and couldn''t summon the exact same creature but only a creature with the same body. The more mana I used to summon, the stronger they were so the level of the core didn''t matter at all. All that mattered was to gather cores from monster with strong bodies.
¡°Ho! A bird! ¡°[Arcane LightningBolt 5%] Pouf*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Why do you keep killing birds?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Ha it''s because I want wings... Don''t try to understand.¡± (Kneeko)
She looked at me funny but smiled happily and grabbed my arm in between her breast before resuming our romantic walk like nothing happened.
[MindTech Corp (Real life)]
A small obese man exited his private cubicle after gathering his stuff for the day. This little fat man was Billy Arkisonofitch also known in alterlife2 under the pseudonym ¡°Curvnt¡±. It had been a long day once again and he couldn''t wait to go to bed but dreaded going back home.
His wife was most likely to throw a fit like usual, his children would treat him like a dog and even his step mother who was living under their roof was going to call him little piggy like she usually does. Actually he wondered if he should go sleep somewhere else that night.
As he was about to leave, the big boss of the company summoned him into his office. Billy mumbled a few curses under his breath and dragged his feet to the boss'' office. There, another small fat man was sitting with a cigar in his mouth.
The two men looked quite alike excepted one was almost bald while the youngest was beginning to loose his hair. Billy sat on the chair in front of the big boss and waited for the bald man to say what he wanted to say.
¡°Billy... How many people did you ban today?¡± (Big Boss)
¡°Errr. I don''t know... 5-10...¡± (Curvnt)
¡°Sighhh Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to run this company without having you piss people off and inundating my phone with sentence reviews? YOU CAN''T SIMPLY BAN PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE YOU GET ANGRY!!!!¡± (Big Boss)
¡°Urggg... Alright alright I''ll be more careful.¡± (Curvnt)
¡°You little fucker you keep saying that but there''s never any change in your attitude! If you weren''t my son you would have been fired a long time ago you little idiot ! Now go and un-ban those who didn''t break the game rules! NOW!¡± (Big Boss)
¡°Grgrgrg* Old asshole.. grggrg¡± (Curvnt) He silently whispered.
¡°I SAID NOW!!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Big Boss)
¡°OKOK! I got it ! Sighhh¡± (Curvnt)
Billy then exited his father''s office and went back to his cubicle. Looks like his day wasn''t over after all. What a dog''s life he had...
+++
STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
725
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120445G 29S 76C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
8660
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+850)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+650)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
30
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the forest
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
Chapter 58 - The lost piece
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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TING!* TING!* TING!* TING!*
A giant bearded man was hitting the red hot iron of a badly shaped sword with his trusted hammer on his anvil. The dusty room was badly lit and reeked of sweat and humidity but it is where the man spent his entire days, working the metals in need of repair.
He was alone in this world if not for his apprentice who was currently pumping the giant bellow used to heat up the burning coals. The young brown haired man was watching his master''s every move as it was the best way to learn the secrets of the job.
The giant bearded man raised the still red hot sword and aligned it up in the air in front if his right eye, trying to find any imperfections in his work. Once satisfied with the result he finally quenched it in cold water which created a warm cloud of vapour engulfing the entire room.
The big man was named H?tirhon, blacksmith of Rosana City. He was a commoner with no family name but still had made a name for himself thanks to his blacksmithing skills. His entire life had been spent hitting his hammer in solitude.
Now he had an apprentice but having spent his entire life alone, the giant man wasn''t sure how to act around the young lad. This young man was named Kleytho Rhysh, brown eyes, brown hair, relatively small since he was only 15 years old and pretty much looked like your average farmer''s son.
¡°Ok young lad, that will be enough for today.¡± (H?tirhon) Said the giant man to the teenage boy while wiping his sweaty forehead with a dirty piece of cloth.
¡°Thank you for today master H?tirhon.¡± (Kleytho)
The young man began to clean up the tools and prepare himself to put out the giant furnace but was stopped by the giant man before he could do so.
¡°Let it run, I will try to do some experiments later. You can just wash yourself up and go home.¡± (H?tirhon)
¡°Can I stay to assist you with these experiments? A new way of forging? A new type of metal?¡± (Kleytho)
¡°No it''s alright. I''ll be good on my own. Go home.¡± (H?tirhon) Then answered the unwavering giant.
A bit disappointed, the young man then went to the barrel of water and began to wash his body before leaving for the day. He still had work to do at home after all so even if he truly wanted to stay with his master, reality was that he had already too much work to do between the forge and the family farm.
Once he was gone, H?tirhon went up front and closed shop for the day. He then walked up to the furnace and began emptying the used coals. Once that was done the giant man walked up to the storage room hidden under the stairs and took out a bag of something.
The giant man then emptied the bag in the furnace. What came out of the bag looked like blue coal that was emitting some weird looking white smoke. It was weird since the smoke seemed to go downward instead of upward. (Like dried ice)
As soon as the strange coals became hot, they began to glow with an intense white light which was almost too bright to look at. The giant man carefully monitored it as he began to unscrew some floorboards.
Once the floorboards lifted, H?tirhon put his hand in the hole and grabbed a piece of something black and shiny. It looked like a piece of iron but was pitch black and gave a very ominous feeling to whoever looked at it.
Now with his piece of black metal in hand he closed the hole on the floor back up and approached the furnace. The blue coals had changed colour once again and were now glowing more gently in a cyan blue colour which looked more cold than hot.
Seemingly satisfied with how the coals looked, H?tirhon then placed the piece of black metal into the coals and carefully looked at it. The black metal began to make a strange sound which sounded a bit like the whistle of a steam train.
Eventually the strange metal began to glow purple which made H?tirhon smile for a moment as he grabbed it and placed it on his anvil. He readied his hammer and hit the purple glowing thing with all his strength creating a loud swoosh* sound.
He kept hitting and hitting but the piece of metal never changed shape and remained unchanged as it slowly cooled down. The giant man then threw his hammer on the ground before walking away and angrily pouring himself a mug of ale to vent his frustration.
¡°Tch... Another failure.¡± (H?tirhon)
[Not far from there.]
[table=#800000]
You have just arrived at [Rosana] City.
[/table]
¡°Urgg... better change my appearance a bit.¡± (Kneeko) As I said this I changed into my High human appearance. Now An''dalia and I looked like the perfect couple since we both had golden hair and blue eyes.
¡°Why? Did you do something bad in this city before?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Umm not exactly, but I may have killed the hero of this city... Luckily she''s a player so she''s not really dead.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho... So you killed a hero eh?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°As expected of my beautiful evil god. Teehee*¡° (An''dalia)
Blush* Yes certainly it was a weird compliment to be blushing over but I didn''t dislike her personality. She was a lot like me in that aspect. An''dalia was wearing a beautiful new crimson dress I had bought for her and I was wearing my standard black suit with a crimson shirt selected to match my beautiful woman.
We walked hand in hand down the street, looking like a newly wed couple of nobles that made the surrounding townsmen''s faces look full of envy. People were looking at us wondering which royal families we were from.
One thing did attract my attention from looking at our surroundings. There was an insane amount of people walking around and all looked like warriors of some sort. After asking around a nice lady explained that a tournament was about to take place.
The prize was apparently some sort of legendary cursed weapon so people from all around the continent had gathered here. Who would want to get a cursed weapon? From what she told us, the weapon sucked up the people''s souls and made them lose their mind.
What kind of stupid prize is that? Of course most of them wanted to win only to sell the legendary artifact afterwards. It may be cursed, but a legendary weapon would still be worth a ton of money. It was destined to be kept in a vault somewhere never to be used.
Some NPC even talked about a weird rumour saying that the current lord wanted to get rid of the weapon, thinking it was the cause for the mental illness of his wife. Actually this was indeed a possibility. Ho well, I am already rich so I didn''t care at all about that weapon.
As An''dalia and I were slowly making our way toward a luxurious restaurant, a familiar sound suddenly tickled my ears. Swoosh*.......Swoosh*.......Swoosh*...... I suddenly stopped and twisted my head around, trying to locate the source of the noise.
¡°What is it Kneeko?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°This-... Tyrfing is here.......¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Tyrf...ing?¡± (An''dalia) She then repeated as she tilted her head sideways.
Then immediately I made 2 + 2. A legendary cursed weapon, that sound just now... The sound I had just heard was the sound that my old sword made back in the day when I pushed it to its limit. Tyrfing was the legendary sword... MY SWORD!
I thought it was lost forever after I lost it to the party of high rankers I had lost against in Alterlife1... But this sound was so unique that it couldn''t be anything else. This was my cheat sword I had created via admin commands back in the days. As black as the darkest pit of hell, his name was Tyrfing!
¡°As your master, I command you to make yourself known Tyrfing!!¡± (Kneeko)
TRILLLSHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
¡°That way!¡± (Kneeko)
I grabbed An''dalia''s arm and dragged her along as I was following the familiar sound. The shrilling sound led us to what looked like a smithy. An old and dirty building which seemed a fitting hiding place for a talented blacksmith.
If he had Tyrfing in his possession it would explain the sound I had heard earlier. It would also mean that the blacksmith living here was highly talented if he even considered trying to reforge Tyrfing. The only odd thing was that if it was the tournament prize, why was it here at the smithy?
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Then a low grumbling voice could be heard from inside the building which seemed to be closed for business. Of course if someone wanted to work on a legendary artifact, they would barricade themselves first to avoid curious eyes.
¡°The fuck is this sound?! Why is it reacting that way now? It never did that before...¡± (???)
Knock* Knock* Knock*
I knocked on the door impatiently and began to hear sounds of someone obviously panicking and hiding stuff in a hurry. After a few minutes the door opened slightly and a giant man almost as big as Nargaroth appeared through the crack.
¡°What do you want? Can''t you see we''re closed ?¡± (H?tirhon)
[TerrorEyes] I forcefully opened the door and waltzed in uninvited.
¡°Hey! The fuck do you think you are? I said we are closed!¡± (H?tirhon)
The giant man then tried to grab me but got dragged along instead as my crazy amount of strength wasn''t reflected by my body size. I walked around a bit still following the noise and finally stopped after finding the sound was coming from under the floor.
The giant man took a sword from the wall and glared at me.
¡°I don''t know what you think you are doing but you have nothing to do here. I suggest you get the fuck away before I call the guards.¡± (H?tirhon)
Without a word I simply looked at him and raised my hand over the area emitting the sound before calling forth my old sword.
¡°As your master I command, come to me Tyrfing!!¡± (Kneeko)
In a loud explosion, the floorboards exploded and a small black rock as big as a fist flew straight into my hand where it belonged. The giant man''s mouth was agape, looking at me with questioning eyes. As for me, I was angered to see my precious sword in pieces.
¡°W-who are you?! T-this is... a legendary artifact which belonged to a legendary demon emperor. He was rumoured to be the most powerful and also the most evil demon lord the world has ever known... H-h-how come you called yourself its m-m-m-master?!?!?!¡± (H?tirhon)
An''dalia was carefully watching the scene with what looked like admiration in her eyes. I placed the piece of Tyrfing in my inventory before walking toward the giant man who was now backing away, afraid of what I was about to do to him.
¡°Now, let''s have a very long conversation shall we?¡± (Kneeko)
Hearing this An''dalia entered and closed the door behind her. As for the giant man, I think he was about to pee his pants. I ordered him to sit and did the same with An''dalia giggling in the corner of the room. She seemed to have a lot of fun seeing me act like a villain...
¡°Now, mind telling me how you got your hands on this?¡± (Kneeko)
I transformed my eyes to those of my tadpole body as I asked this. Tadpoles may not be intimidating but believe me, their eyes are super creepy and intimidating looking. Of course to be able to do this I had to transform into my black haired human form which seemed to make the giant man freak out a bit.
He then explained that the lord of this city had asked him to find out if he could forge this material since he was the most talented blacksmith in the city. So this confirmed that Tyrfing was in pieces and these guys had wanted to reforge it.
Eventually they had given up and had opted to give it away as prize for the tournament as is. Tsss* These idiots had no idea what they were messing with, this sword could only be held by me and was indestructible as long as I supplied it with my mana.
Reforging it was something only I could do. After our long conversation I paid him a few gold for the piece and threatened him into silence. It was decided, I was going to take part in the tournament. No one is allowed to take away what''s mine.
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
725
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120441G 29S 76C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
8660
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+850)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+650)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
30
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the forest
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
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Chapter 59 - Our first pet
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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The little piece of Tyrfing I now had in my possession was merely a small part of its hilt and I seriously hoped the tournament prize was all the rest. I wouldn''t want to learn there were other pieces scattered elsewhere in this world.
You can only imagine how much of a pain in the ass it would be. Before simply jumping into the tournament, I tried locating it to know if I could simply steal it and be done with it but the rest of the blade was in the city lord''s vault.
Cities are safe zones and I could not go and kill people left and right but the city guards could. Getting into a fight in a city was a death wish. Of course with Tyrfing I could since it''s a cheat sword but I first needed to get to it and the best way to do so was still to join the tournament.
I needed to find a way to get close enough to touch it during the tournament. It would be ideal since I wouldn''t need to go through it all. Tournaments aren''t my thing after all since it was a little bit too high profile for my liking.
After asking around town I had followed their directions and arrived to a queue where I needed to wait to register. NPC as well as players were invited to participate in the tournament and luckily there were no level restriction.
This meant the weak wouldn''t even try to register since it was obvious that only the strongest would reach the finals. After all, only the strongest in this country would try to participate knowing that. As An''dalia and I were waiting for my turn to come, I discretely identified everyone I could.
Since I had a photographic memory I would remember their information at a first glance if I saw them ever again. The reason I was doing this was because there was a magic on the arena preventing the use of [Identify].
I had offered An''dalia to pay to get her a full day at a spa or something she would enjoy since this was probably going to be boring to her but she insisted that she wanted to watch me fight. Even now in the queue she wouldn''t leave my side.
The queue was packed tight except around us. Since we looked like royalty it was to be expected as normal people would avoid being too close to someone with the power to order their execution. Listening to An''dalia''s thoughts, even she herself seemed surprised by the people''s reaction.
Of course it was a bit because of my [Intimidating Aura] passive skill but she was definitely happy to finally be treated like an important person. Even as a princess, she was still the second princess and therefor not considered as important.
Here with me, she was being treated almost like a queen and I knew she really enjoyed that. After what seemed like an eternity it was finally my turn to register for the tournament. A small red haired and green eyed lady wearing round glasses made a gesture for us to get closer.
¡°Welcome to our beautiful city... yaddy yadda... Are you both registering?¡± (Glasses lady) She asked as if she didn''t care about her job.
¡°Only me.¡± (Kneeko) She then tried to use identify but instantly rolled her eyes upward and asked.
¡°Sighh* To which name Mr. Anonymity?¡± (Glasses lady) Umm this was a good question, since I didn''t want anyone to recognize or track me down I had already thought of a different name other than Elvis.
¡°Clayton Brown.¡± (Kneeko) A very bland name which attracts no attention whatsoever was the way to go here. The lady looked at me with a face that said ¡°yea right, you''re not fooling anyone¡± but eventually shrugged it away and wrote it on the paper.
¡°Alright, there are few rules but be sure to check them out on this pamphlet. The list with who you are going to fight against and the schedule will be published tomorrow at 7am then the tournament will begin at 1pm. Be sure to be on time Mr Brown. NEXT!¡± (Glasses lady)
Well that was pretty simple, she only needed my name even if it was obviously a fake one. This meant that this tournament was thrown hastily and that some suspicious individuals could possibly join in. Best was not to spend too much time here and get my old sword back quickly.
I turned around to look at An''dalia who seemed busy admiring the architecture of this roman style arena. She was surprisingly docile and obedient which of course made me suspicious but my ability to hear thoughts helped me get rid of these unnecessary worries.
Actually she seemed genuinely happy to be out of her castle and enjoy this much freedom for once. Back in Niardo she would always need to wear a cloak during the rare times she would go out. Once she realized I was looking at her she gave me a curious smile.
¡°Ho! You''re done here ?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Yes, want to go to a theatre, to a spa or something?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ummm anything you want. Want to steal something or bully someone like that big blacksmith earlier? Everything is pretty new to me so how about you teach me many things?¡± (An''dalia)
Gulp* I couldn''t help but hear Quagmire in my head going ''Giggity''. She was going to the dark side at a crazy speed which made me think she was destined to be like me from the beginning.. Guhuhu* I''ll teach you many things indeed.
¡°Come on, Let''s go eat something then go laugh at some slaves at the slave market.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hehehehe* Sound so fun! Kneeko sure knows how to entertain himself.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°My heart is beating so fast! Kneeko is procuring me so much excitement. Can''t wait to see these pitiful slaves covered in feces begging us to buy them. Teehee*¡° (An''dalia)
Is it weird that her thoughts are turning me on? Cough cough* Let''s think about something else. We walked hand in hand to the most expensive restaurant and ate for free thanks to my [TerrorEyes] skill which made An''dalia tremble a bit.
Then we slowly made our way down the dirtiest area of the city where most criminals stay. As we approached the gate leading to this nasty part of town some of the city guard ran toward us after noticing our arrival.
¡°Hello good sir, may I inquire about your destination?¡± (Guard)
¡°Sure we are going that way.¡± (Kneeko) I said while pointing toward the dirty wooden gate. Were we forbidden from going there? As far as I knew, slave trade wasn''t outlawed.
¡°If you don''t mind sir, we would like to accompany you. We can''t let nobles such as yourselves go in this dump without escort, our lord would kill us.¡± (Guard)
¡°Alright, I don''t mind... Do you, darling?¡± (Kneeko) It was the first time I was calling her something else other than her name which made her blush and show a joyful smile.
¡°Anything you decide, I will agree.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Who am I to question god''s decision.. Hehehehe*¡° (An''dalia)
Ho my.. I am already a god in her eyes eh? And more than that, THE god?! Well not that I mind but this is a little bit awkward after all. On the other hand she is only saying these things in her head so I cannot bring it up.
¡°Alright let''s go.¡± (Kneeko)
We resumed our little walk and entered the dreaded slump. Our entire surroundings instantly changed as we got deeper in. The houses were dilapidated and dirty, everything stank of piss and shit with a subtle touch of sweat and sexual fluids. This place was awful..
An''dalia was pinching her nose, still exhibiting a creepy grin. What was happening in her head was even creepier since she seemed to get turned on from seeing human misery. When we saw a skinny child slowly starving to death I thought she would have an orgasm.
This wife of mine truly had a disturbing side. Her life as a princess had distorted her senses and could only seek pleasure from others'' pain and suffering.. Guuhuhuh, not that I mind it that much. It''s not like we could save all the poor souls in the world on our own.
As very rich looking nobles we were sticking out like sore thumbs and we could see everyone staring at us with various expressions. The guards were getting nervous but we finally arrived at out destination where it would be easier for them to keep guard.
We entered what looked like a scrap metal shop as it was only a big fence surrounding the entire complex. Once inside we saw hundreds of cages aligned next to each other with tarps covering them as simple rain protection.
Almost immediately a skinny old man with a pointy grey beard and a hunched back approached us while rubbing his hands together like someone washing them with soap. After seeing our getup the old man''s eyes were sparkling and he began to rub his hands so hard I thought they would catch fire.
¡°How may I be of any assistance to my lord and milady.¡± (Creepy old man)
¡°What do you have as merchandise?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho!ho! Are there any sick slaves? Some missing limbs?¡± (An''dalia) She then asked like an exited kid at a candy shop. The old man frowned before answering.
¡°Of course not, we keep only the best specimens. Of course.. sometimes the merchandise has less resistance than others but they are quickly dispatched not to infect the others.¡± (Creepy old man)
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¡°Ho....HO!You mean killing them? How are you doing it? Leaving them to rot in a well or something?¡± (An''dalia)
The old man turned to look at me with a face that asked if she was fine in her head but I simply laughed. Confused, the old man decided to ignore the weird question before answering my question.
¡°We have pretty much anything, demon race, half human, elves, dwarves, fairies, beast-men, humans... Everything really. If we don''t have it, we can try to find it for you with a little supplement.¡± (Creepy old man)
¡°Babe, which race do you prefer?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Umm... I quite like the half-humans... They look so cute with their animals ears... It would be such a shame if someone were to cut their tails off.... Hehehehe*¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Guhuhuhu* Show us your half-human slaves. The male ones.¡± (Kneeko)
The old man, seemingly unfazed by An''dalia''s remark, showed how many years he had been doing this work. As a slave trader he had definitely seen all kinds of psychos. He showed us the way and stopped in the aisle containing the desired species. He then began to remove the tarps on top of the cages and proudly showed us his merchandise.
In each cage was something human looking but with animal ears and tail. Most of them were on their knees, trying to look as submissive as possible. Some where laying in foetal position trying to warm themselves as they were all naked. In all their eyes I could see ''Please pick me''...
As he was boasting their pedigree, the old man was poking at them with a long stick to make them move around a bit. From the corner of my eyes I caught something I judged interesting. It was a young man around 20 years old with silvery dog tail and ears. [Identify]
[table=#800000]
Gomshew (NPC)
Race/Species:
Half-Human (Silver-Wolf)
Level:
34
Class:
Slave
Title:
Feet liker
Hell and back
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¡°Hoo I see sir has very good taste. This one is a silver-wolf, definitely one of the strongest and this particular one as been broken into obedience by the best in the trade.¡± (Creepy old man)
¡°He probably wishes to buy it for his wife, better avoid mentioning his aversion for women. The stupid thing seemed to be attracted exclusively to men.¡° (Creepy old man)
An''dalia was looking at the skinny thing with saliva flowing out of her mouth. She had just found the best toy in the world. I wasn''t really thinking of buying her a toy but this one was apparently a hundred percent gay which lessened my worries toward An''dalia.
¡°You want it babe?¡± (Kneeko) I asked my salivating beauty.
Nod* Nod* Nod* Nod* She nodded as fast as she could with begging eyes so I couldn''t refuse her after that.
¡°We''ll take it.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Yayyy Thank you Kne- Clayton!!!¡± (An''dalia) She jumped in my arms and gave me a kiss on the cheek. She remembered to call me Clayton, sighh* I definitely got myself a smart girl.
¡°Of course, anything else?¡± (Creepy old man)
¡°No that will be it.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Please follow me this way for the master/slave ceremony and to get the contract done.¡± (Creepy old man) Said the old man while leading us toward a big tent in the middle of the ''market''.
The old man asked one of his employees to bring the slave to the tent on our way but unexpectedly a familiar scent caught my attention. Lick* Lick*... This smell was coming from a cage not far from me and since I can''t forget anything I recognized it instantly.
This smell was that of the assassin who had came after me just before being killed by the dragons. The speedy assassin... It was the assassin who smelled like a cat, obviously it had been a demi-human of a cat subspecies all along. This ''cat'' had apparently been caught (most likely arrested for his banditry) and was now a slave.
¡°Guhuhuhuhuhuu* Old man... I might be interested in another purchase.¡± (Kneeko)
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
725
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120441G 29S 76C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
8660
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+850)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+650)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
30
FAME/INFAMY:
-71500 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the forest
? King of the pond
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
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Chapter 60 - A good owner
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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I walked up to the cage in question with determination in my steps and stop in front of it. Then, I took a hold of the tarp covering it and with a swift motion threw it aside to see what was hidden beneath it. There, laid in a foetal position and shivering, was a small woman with pink cat ears.
¡°Sir my apologies but this one has yet to be broken into obedience and is not for sale.¡± (Creepy old man) Said the old man worried about the quality of his products.
The little cat assassin I was looking at was around 5¡±4, had pink hair, ears and tail. She had blue eyes which currently looked more like dead fish eyes and was covered with bruises. Even though she was quite petite, she had the body of an athlete with all her muscles well defined.
The petite assassin surprised by the sudden removal of her roof looked my direction with her lifeless eyes for a moment then seemingly noticing something she became agitated and cowered in the corner of her cage in fear.
¡°This cloak... It''s the monster''s cloak... He found me, I''m dead.. Noooo Buuhhuu*¡° (Cat-girl)
She had seen my unique cloak back then, that and also my current high-human appearance. She immediately recognized me and knew she was in trouble. My predatory instincts taking over, I ripped open her cage with my bare hands and grabbed her by the throat before lifting her in the air like a vulgar puppet. I held her there for a moment, watching her struggle as the old man began to panic.
¡°Please dear lord, do not damage my merchandise she is worth quite a good sum of money.¡± (Creepy old man) He then said trying to calm my anger. [Identify]
[table=#800000]
Lindsey (NPC)
Race/Species:
Half-Human (Purrsicat)
Level:
164
Class:
Slave
Title:
-Accomplished bandit
-Speed only
-Nobles slayer
?Show more?
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¡°How much.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hehehehe my dear Kn-, Clayton found himself a toy as well.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°My lord, like I said she has yet t-¡± (Creepy old man)
¡°[TerrorEyes] How....... Much.......¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Gulp* S-s-six gold my lord..¡± (Creepy old man) He then added after peeing himself a bit.
¡°Sold.¡± (Kneeko)
I threw the little assassin on the ground for the slave market employees to handle and finally went inside the tent for the contracts. It was quite simple, a bit of mana, some blood and a small tattoo would appear on their chest, binding the slaves to me.
I had ended up paying 4 gold for Gomshew and 6 for Lindsey. The slave seals prevent them from disobeying their master''s order and also prevented them from escaping. If they did, they would immediately be assaulted by an immense pain that would subdue only if they came back to their master.
I had Gomshew do the slave contract but refused to do the same with the cat girl. The old man was quite confused but didn''t argue. In his head I could hear him think that she would escape at the first occasion without it but that it was none of his business anymore.
[table=#800000]
New title: Slave owner
If activated, this title increases your control over slaves.
[/table]
[table=#800000]
-250 Fame
[/table]
Tch, trash title once again... Let''s ignore it.
Before leaving with our new pets I had everyone exit the tent and leave only me and the cat girl inside. The little naked girl was kneeled on the ground, trying to hide her nakedness with her arms. I walked up to her and crouched in order to speak eye to eye.
¡°Lindsey, I know you recognized me. I recognized you as well, miss assassin.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Gulp*, I was wearing clothes hiding my entire body, how could he recognize me this easily?! I''m so dead... Buuhhuuu*¡° (Lindsey)
I extended my left arm forward toward her making her flinch in the process. I grabbed the collar she had around her neck and effortlessly crushed it with my immense strength. She looked at me in the eyes, surprised by my action.
Next I discretely took a mana stone from my inventory and struck her chest with it, plunging my entire hand through her rib-cage and stuck the stone next to her heart. She screamed for a while in a voice only those seeing death in the eyes could make, then fainted from the intense pain.
Worried by the screams of agony, An''dalia and the old man rushed back in to see what was happening but when they entered, all they saw was the little cat girl laid in a puddle of her own blood and me standing next to her with a bloody hand.
¡°S-s-sir, you could have waited to be somewhere else before killing her. I don''t apr-.. Never-mind sir, I will take care of her body.¡± (Creepy old man) The old man wanted to voice his discontent but refrained from doing so, still afraid of me.
¡°Awwww you could have told me you wanted to kill her, I would have liked to watch your handy work.¡± (An''dalia)
¡°She is still alive. An''dalia mind healing her please?¡± (Kneeko)
Surprised at first, she then concluded in her head that I intended to let the pleasure last longer by healing the wounds I was causing her then torture her again later. She immediately used her healing magic, closing the hole in her chest as if nothing had happened.
She was still unconscious and had lost a lot of blood so I threw her over my shoulder like a bag of potatoes before leaving the slave market. An''dalia was following close behind with her new dog who was held by her with a leash.
Before exiting the premises, I had used the slave seal to order Gomshew to obey every order given to him by An''dalia and that as long as he did so, I would protect him from her to a certain degree. Then I told An''dalia that he was an expensive toy and not to break it.
We regrouped with our escort and left the slums toward our luxurious inn for the night. An''dalia said her dog stank so she brought him outside in the yard and began trowing buckets of cold water at him. Then she ordered him to scrub himself properly or he would have to sleep outside.
During that time I went inside the inn and went into the hot spring for some cleanup. I brought Lindsey who was still unconscious along and gently placed her in the water next to me. I took a sponge and began to wash her gently, trying not to wake her up.
Once she was clean, An''dalia joined me and offered to wash my body which I gladly accepted. She was gently caressing my body, taking good care of not missing any spots. Lindsey was still laying unconscious in the shallow part of the bath while Gomshew was kneeled next to the water with his ears hanging low after his traumatic experience.
¡°You seem to take great care of her... Going as far as bringing her in your bath. Aren''t you worried about her leaving hairs in the water?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Don''t be too mean with them An''dalia. They had enough hardships in their life already. A well treated slaved is a faithful slave. A badly treated one will betray you at the first occasion.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ummm... Kneeko truly is more knowledgeable than me about these things. I will keep your advice in mind.¡± (An''dalia) She added, deep in thought.
¡°Was I wrong to assume Kneeko was an evil god? I might need to rethink my ways of interacting with him in the future...¡° (An''dalia)
¡°I may currently be acting a bit rashly, but it is because I need to constantly fight not to loose my mind. You see, this piece of void iron I got from the blacksmith... It is a part of my old sword, Tyrfing. Even after reforging it with my mana, it will still be incomplete.
I have two short swords which are also parts of its true body. The void body which I am currently trying to rebuild is cursed since it absorbs the souls of those who die from it and imprisons them in its void body, making it stronger in the process.
All that sounds good but as long as the void body isn''t reunited with Argy and Itzal, these imprisoned souls will keep trying to leak out and corrupt my mind. So I apologize if I act in a strange way occasionally. I need to get my hands on the rest of Tyrfing''s body as soon as possible.¡± (Kneeko)
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¡°Hoo...! So that means... You''re not really evil after all?¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Guhuhuhu* Don''t get me wrong, I am not a very nice guy but I am not trash either. By the way, you should keep that sadistic personality of yours under control a bit better. If not this will end up being your downfall one day.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Nod* Nod* Nod*¡± (An''dalia)
¡°I will definitely keep God''s words in mind.¡° (An''dalia) As she thought about my words, An''dalia turned around to look at the poor Gomshew who was still cowering in a corner, afraid of being bullied by his mistress.
¡°Gomshew, come in the bath with us.¡± (An''dalia)
Gomshed jolted in a strange manner with his tail going straight up in the air like an angry cat after hearing the invitation. He seemed confused at first and looked at me for a confirmation. I gave him a warm smile and invited him next to me.
He still hadn''t muttered a single word, probably used to getting beaten each time he did so in the past. After finally calming down a bit, the naked half-man shyly entered the bath next to us and remained as immobile as possible, trying not to anger anyone.
¡°How did you become a slave?¡± (Kneeko) I nicely asked him. Gomshew hesitated for a moment before answering.
¡°3 years ago, my beloved disappeared after venturing too far away into human territories. I went to look for him- I mean her, but got captured by slavers. The same probably happened to hi-..her.¡± (Gomshew) He then sunk his head into the water, ashamed of his story.
We kept talking for a few minutes with An''dalia trying her best to be nice to him but she couldn''t help herself and kept pinching his skin, making him yelp a few times from the pain. She was visibly having a good time and as long as it was pinching and hair pulling I had no intention of interfering.
After all, it was still a lot better than being stuck in his cage with slavers who considered them as objects. As for me, I was seeing them as servants, people who needed to work off their debt since I had spent quite a bit of money for them. I don''t usually do things for free after all.
¡°Umhhmhm*¡± (Lindsay) The sleepy cat began to move and mumble so I quickly stood up under the blushing eyes of Gomshew and went next to her. I got her out of the water, dried myself and put on some clothes.
I grabbed her in my arms under An''dalia''s jealous glare and princess carried her to my room after telling An''dalia to join us when she and Gomshew were ready. As I gently laid her on the bed, the cat girl''s eyes suddenly burst open and exhibited terror after seeing me.
She realized she was naked, in a bed with me leaning over her so as fast as lightning, she tried to grab my neck into a choke-hold. She winced in pain as her wounds were still freshly healed. With my immense strength I effortlessly removed her arms from my neck and forcefully laid her on the bed once again.
¡°Sorry about earlier. It was something i judged necessary. You tried to kill me back then after all. I will not lay hands on you so you do not need to be afraid. Your injuries are still fresh so I want you to sleep and recuperate.... Back then, I refused to make you a slave, do you know why?¡± (Kneeko)
¡°.......Shakes head*..¡± (Lindsay)
¡°Because you are strong. Back then you gave me a good fight and I recognize you as a warrior. If you have nowhere to go I would like you to work for me. You are not forced to answer nor are you forced to stay. You can escape whenever you want. I repeat, you are no one''s slave.¡± (Kneeko) I tucked the blanket around her as she was staring in confusion then closed the lights and exited the room.
Well, now that that''s done, better go to sleep early. Tomorrow is tournament day. Guhuhuhu* I need to quickly complete Tyrfing''s body and place him under my control again before I start loosing my mind.
"Sighhh* We never get any screen-time. I''m tired of being ignored." (Argy)
"Tch.. this ungrateful bastard..." (Itzal)
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STATUS
[table=#800000]
PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
725
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120430G 19S 82C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
8660
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+850)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+650)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
30
FAME/INFAMY:
-71750 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
-------------------
TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the forest
? King of the pond
? Slave owner
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
[/table]
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Chapter 61 - Anti-Climactic
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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After a good night of sleep with An''dalia and I sharing the same bed, Gomshew on the second bed and Lindsey having her own room, I began to prepare for the long day ahead of me. We all got up at the same time and began to dress.
Next I went to the room next door and entered to see if Lindsay was gone like I was expecting which she was. She had left probably during the night but it didn''t matter to me. We got down to the dining hall and had a sumptuous breakfast.
Gomshew was puzzled by the way we treated him as a companion and seemed deeply touched. Well that was before An''dalia began tugging on his tail again... With our bellies full, we exited the inn and headed toward the giant roman style stadium to see who I was scheduled to fight against.
¡°Look Clayton, you are scheduled to fight against a certain Lupoxus21...¡± (An''dalia)
Umm... I had not seen this guy before and therefor had no information about him but it didn''t matter. From what I had seen so far, most players participating in this tournament were around level 200-300 which didn''t present a challenge to me at all.
I could definitely win this entire thing but I had no intention of sticking around too long. All I wanted was my sword and not to stand out too much. My fight was scheduled in around 4 hours so we decided to play at the pool in the meantime.
Our little moment of relaxation had made us grow closer to Gomshew and I was happy to see An''dalia acting a bit more ladylike since the conversation we had a while back. A few hours later I was back at the stadium, waiting for my name to be announced.
An''dalia and Gomshew were sitting in the spectator area, waiting for the announcer to introduce me as well. I stood there, slowly growing impatient, when someone asked me to step forward into the arena.
¡°Next fight is a jumper going by the name Lupoxus21 fighting against an inhabitant of this world named Clayton! Everybody applaud them for their courage.¡± (Announcer)
Clap!* Clap!* Clap!* Clap!* Clap!* Whistle* Crowd going wild*
I walked to the centre of the arena and in front of me stood a tall man with a powerful build. His muscles had muscles and he seemed really strong but not to Nargaroth''s level. He had blue hair, green eyes and wielded a giant axe.
The referee walked between us and raised his arm in the air. The giant man got into attack mode as I simply stood there without weapons, seemingly relaxed about what was to come. The referee suddenly lowered his arm indicating the beginning of the fight and ran out of the arena behind the magic shield protecting the spectators.
The big man raised his axe high up in the air and began to run toward me while yelling what seemed like a battle cry which had no effect on me. As for me, I remained immobile, waiting for him to come without even flinching.
Lupoxus21 swung his axe downward toward my head wile shouting a loud and powerful roar as I swiftly side stepped and avoided the blade effortlessly. Seeing me dodge, the man twisted his body and changed the trajectory of his axe toward his left where I had went.
Once again all I had to do was take a step back and see the axe miss its target and only cut air. His movement were so slow that I couldn''t help but yawn at his display of strength. Nargaroth was a lot faster even if he was a pure power build as well. Since all this man seemed to have was strength I decided to put him to the test.
The next attack was similar to the first one except that his blade was now covered with flames. He had apparently enchanted his axe with fire type magic and was hoping to increase his range that way but I threw a [Vindic Wave] at his axe which extinguished the fire and immobilized the giant blade with two fingers. The blade stopped moving so instantly that it gave the impression of being stuck in a big tree trunk.
Tch... I was supposed to pretend having difficulty winning my fights but this dude was so bad it was slowly angering me. How was I supposed to pretend having difficulty against a man whose only strength was weaker than my own.
I was still glaring at the man, rendering his weapon totally immovable with only two fingers under his incredulous facial expression. He was tugging on it, putting all his weight into it, trying to free his axe from my grip but the thing simply wouldn''t budge. This man was probably lower than level 200 from what I could tell.
Anger slowly invading my body and pouring through my skin, I may have lost it for a second there. I decided to send him flying across the stage by striking his chest with the palm of my hand but used 100% of my strength without thinking about the consequences.
Not only that, I simultaneously used [Arcane EarthBolt 50%] to send him flying further away but in my anger, totally forgot about our difference in strength. As I struck him, the giant man didn''t go flying like I expected... What he did looked more like sticking a stick of dynamite inside a watermelon.
POOF!* Splatter* Crowd Gasp!*
Ho crap... The big dude kinda got transformed into a cherry smoothie... The entire arena was covered in blood and guts. The biggest remaining pieces were the man''s limbs which had went flying all over the place. The only blood free areas were where I stood and behind me.
People in the crowd were shocked and whispered instead of cheering but I could hear a loud voice echoing from the crowd.
¡°HahAAHahAhAHaHAHahAHAh!¡± (An''dalia)
Yes this laugh was coming from An''dalia, my honey sugar coated girl. Sighh*... And I wanted to avoid standing out too much, this was a major failure. The referee who was now some shade of blue and green decided to stay out of the stage while announcing I had won.
Finally the public began to cheer or me as I walked out of stage, still annoyed by this dumb fight. The competition was then put on hold while some people were cleaning up my mess after I went back to the sitting area designated for fighters.
When I entered, the room went silent. There seemed to be a lot less people than before but I heard from some people though that many had withdraw from the competition after witnessing my fight. Well this was going to speed up the process at least.
A few more hours went by and the sun was now going down in the horizon, colouring the sky with shades of red, orange and purple. After the withdrawal of so many competitors, it had been decided that the tournament would last only 2 days instead of 3 so I would have to fight once more tonight.
I remained in my corner and watched videos on the internet with people avoiding me until it was my turn again. This time, my adversary had a small body built for speed and was using some ice magic... Sighhh... This one also painted the floor of the arena with his guts.
This was not only boring but frustrating as well... Fighting monsters was a lot more challenging, or maybe it was me who had levelled up too quickly... How weak could humans be? Very... This was not even a competition anymore but a display of dominance.
They announced my flawless victory as I walked off stage, still pissed at today''s pointlessness. I don''t have another fight until tomorrow so I may as well go to sleep and try to think positively. That night, An''dalia and I shared the same bed again but nothing note worthy happened. (Excepted some minor fondling...)
Finally the next morning I presented myself back at the arena under the stare and whisper of the local citizens. I could hear in their heads how afraid they were of me, some wondering who I was while others were in some state of minor worship.
At this point my intimidating aura was working at full capacity as I didn''t want anyone to bother me with their stupid questions. I sat in the participants room and once again waited for my turn but today, the event organizers had something different in store for us.
The 100 remaining participants were asked to go in the area for some kind of speech from the lord of this region. Today was going to be a day filled with battle and I didn''t think wasting time with a speech was very smart but I presented myself with the others anyway.
I was in one of the middle rows, carefully watching the stage in front of me for the important person to present himself. A few minutes later 4 armed guards arrived and were transporting a big wooden box with symbols written all over it followed by a noble looking man.
This man was most likely the current lord and this box, most likely holding the missing pieces of my old sword. I could feel Tyrfing presence emanating from it so without waiting for the lord to begin his speech I broke rank and began walking forward toward the stage.
When the guards noticed me, I was already close enough from it. It was too late for them at this point. I held my hand toward the box and called for him to come.
¡°As your master I command, come to me Tyrfing!!¡± (Kneeko)
Under the panicking eyes of the lord, his soldiers and the tournament participants, the box holding Tyrfing began to shake, then completely shattered as some shrapnel began to fly in my direction at high speed. The pieces of sword stopped in front of me allowing me to put them in my inventory.
¡°Guards!!! Arrest this thief !¡± (Lord) Said the tall man with a red face and a panicking voice.
The other competitors who were surrounding me weren''t happy to see their prize get stolen so they had already decided to fight me but I didn''t care, I wasn''t here to stay anyway. I then transformed into a dragon, one entirely orange with a black belly and began bitch slapping people around, sending them flying like golf balls.
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It''s a dragon*!!!!!!! Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!* Run away*!!!!! Oh my god, protect the lord*!!!!! Dragons are attacking our kingdom!* Crowd trying to evacuate in panic.*
At this points everyone had given up trying to fight me and were trying to save themselves instead. Taking this opportunity before mages arrives, I took off into the air and flew toward the area where the crowds were still trying to run away from.
There, I spotted An''dalia and Gomshew and began to fly straight at them. Gomshew was cowering under his seat and An''dalia for once, was shaking like a leaf at the sight of my massive body coming toward her at full speed.
I landed next to them, destroying most of the area in the process before grabbing An''dalia and Gomshew in my giant and powerful dragon hands.
¡°HIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!¡± (Gomshew)
¡°KYAaaaaaaaaaa!¡± (An''dalia)
Once I had them, I then went back into the air and flew away from the area as fast as I could. Worried of being followed and hunted down I decided to set the city on fire, this would keep them busy with something else.
I then flew as fast and as far as possible for around an hour before landing in a swamp which seemed devoid of any witnesses. I couldn''t wait to let go of Gomshew as my hand was now covered in piss but luckily, An''dalia had rapidly calmed down after the events.
¡°WOAaaaaaaaaaaa!!! That was amazing Kneeko!!!!!!¡± (An''dalia)
¡°Huhuhuhu thank you honey.¡± (Kneeko) I responded as I transformed back to my true black haired appearance.
Gomshew was unconscious so we sat and lit a fire in order to cook some meat. I took all the pieces of Tyrfing and placed them on the ground next to me. An''dalia was watching my every move with a curious stare as I began pouring mana into them.
As soon as I did so, the pieces began to glow purple and stuck to each other as if they were magnetized. Then, the pieces seemed to melt into one another and finally took the form of a long black blade so dark it wasn''t reflecting any light at all.
The blade was a bit longer than 1 meter, short enough to be used with one hand but long enough to be considered a two handed sword with the grip adding to its total length. On each side of the blade were two obvious gaps that seemed to indicate a missing piece but I already had those. I grabbed Argy and Itzal from my inventory and placed them next to Tyrfing.
"Hoooo heyyy! Look Argy, it''s our gangbang OP body!" (Itzal)
"Urggg... So crowded in there. Do we really have to merge with that thing again?" (Argy)
"Stupid weakling... Do you wish to remain weak? Even though I hate being merged with you, all these tormented souls are definitely entertaining... And that''s without mentioning how much more powerful we become.
"SIghhhhh* I HATE IT! There''s so much more evil souls than souls I could consider friendly in there... It''s depressing." (Argy)
Hey guys, I''m not asking for your opinions here.
"Tch.. this little faggot..." (Itzal)
Let''s do this! I then placed Itzal on one side of the blade and Argy on the other side. The sword began to vibrate and ominous black fog began to leak from it. Then, as the 3 swords merged together to form only one, a white line appeared on one side of the blade and a black one on the other.
The blade was matte black and the line in question was glossy which made it visible even if it was black on black. The sword had a jagged edge making it look like a true demon emperor sword. This was the missing piece to my demon emperor set.
"Nice to see you again, master." (Tyrfing)
[table=#800000]
Tyrfing (Gods slayer)
Minimum level:
N/A
Durability:
¡Þ
Damages:
N/A
Rarity:
Unique
-The spirits of its victims are sealed inside this sword.
-This sword is a world item created by an admin.
-Restriction:
#Kneeko
-Damages impossible to estimate.
[/table]
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STATUS
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PROFILE
NAME:
Kneeko
LEVEL:
725
GENDER:
Male
MONEY:
120430G 19S 82C
RACE:
(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)
MONSTER RANK:
Medium High
HEALTH:
8660
STAMINA:
6090
MANA:
37100
STRENGTH:
3258 (+550)
(M)INTELLIGENCE:
3095 (+600)
SPEED:
1472 (+150)
DEXTERITY:
73 (+150)
(H)VITALITY:
1 (+850)
CHARM:
1 (+415)
LUCK:
55 (+215)
AGILITY:
1043 (+150)
RESISTANCE:
2224 (+650)
(S)ENDURANCE:
94 (+500)
SKILL POINTS:
30
FAME/INFAMY:
-71750 (Seriously Evil)
CLASS:
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TITLES:
Spoiler : ? Death''s Demise
? Divinity
? Don Juan
? Dungeon conqueror
? Elemental Master
? Grave Digger
? King of the forest
? King of the pond
? Slave owner
? Sphinx Slayer
? Stone turner
? Toxic Powerhouse
? Tree puncher
? Tycoon
? Vindictae Clan Member
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Chapter 62 - Emergency evacuation
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¡°Such a beautiful and intimidating sword...¡± (An''dalia) She then reached forward to touch it.
¡°Don''t!!¡± (Kneeko) Hearing me shout, my princess suddenly froze. Without saying anything I simply took my blade and slightly touched a tree with it. The tree began to turn brown and quickly withered before turning into dust. An''dalia let out a gasp, relieved not to have touched it.
¡°This is.... horrifyingly powerful. It gives me chills...¡± (An''dalia)
¡°You have no idea. This sword does not abide by the rules of this world. I created it from the rules of my original world. If a vital organ is punctured by it, you die. Whatever your level, skills or anything else... If I strike through the heart or sever the head, they''ll die.¡± (Kneeko)
We kept talking a bit around a good piece of meat and when Gomshew finally woke up we resumed our journey back to my domain. The following days ended up being uneventful but as I would soon find out, this was only the calm before the storm.
Gomshew, An''dalia and I had been travelling for a few days and were now only 1 week away from my hideout. I couldn''t wait to see my dragonesses and my minions again. I still hadn''t talked about them with An''dalia and still wasn''t sure how to bring up the subject.
I received word from my sister Lucy that the elves had led a deep investigation and had allied with many dragon clan leaders to weed out the bad saplings. It had been relatively easy for them to find them all after following the tactic I had given them.
In total, 7 dragons had been proven guilty of conspiring against the current leaders and all had been executed by their own tribe as punishment. The only one who was still evading justice was Damyon since he wasn''t in the dragon land at the time.
Lucky for him, all this had happen while he was on his way back with An''dalia. Right now, he was a runaway criminal tracked by the most powerful beings in this world. It was only a matter of time before he got caught and executed as well for the murder of one of his own clan members.
From what I heard, the king of the high-humans, An''dalia''s father had declared Damyon had kidnapped his daughter and had allied himself with the elves and the humans from regions bordering the demon lands.
More and more people and races were joining in the manhunt and the pure blooded dragons were now walking on eggshells, trying to appear as cooperative as possible. It was a major change in this world''s dynamic. For the first time, dragons were feeling vulnerable.
I was lost in thought, thinking of how I could find Damyon and kill him myself after finally completing my immovable mountain body shield. I tattooed the circle on my chest via the chimera forge interface and after testing was incredibly proud of myself.
The shield formed a bubble around me that would activate only when something that could potentially hurt me tried to go through and would put out only as much mana as needed for that specific attack. This way there was no waste of mana and only what was necessary was used.
Now, as long as I had mana left, I was invulnerable to most attacks. After all this time, all this work, I was powerful enough to take on my foes single-handedly. Game administrators and moderators aside, I didn''t have anyone to be afraid of.
Flap* Flap* Flap* Flap* ROAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrr!* THUMP!*
This smell, sound and feeling... Damyon. I turned around and saw a giant black dragon land behind us with a fierce expression. The giant beast transformed into a cloaked figure which reeked of blood-lust. Damyon then removed his hood, revealing his white hair and golden eyes.
¡°Who the fuck are you? How dare you kidnap my future wife. You have no idea who you have messed with.¡± (Damyon)
¡°YIIIiip!¡± (An''dalia) She obviously was terrorized by that much killing intent so I gestured her to back away with Gomshew who seemed calmer than her for once.
¡°Guhuhuhu* If you take her back, where will you take her? It''s not like you have a place to call home anymore, Damyon.¡± (Kneeko) Damyon immediately threw a look of surprise.
¡°How the fuck- Who in the world are you??? Doesn''t matter anyway, you are dead for taking what''s mine.¡± (Damyon)
I began to inject a deadly mixture of all my poison in my mouth, mixing it with my saliva. Then, I pulled my god-slaying sword out of my inventory before spitting my most potent venom on it which included the rank S anti-dragon venom.
"I see, so my next meal is this big lizard. Try not to hurt him too much and do it quick. Or rip its limbs one by one and watch it squirm in a puddle of its own blood kukukuku.*" (Tyrfing)
I raised my eyes back at Damyon who was looking at my weapon with worry in his eyes. No doubt, he could feel it. He could feel how this sword would soon take his life for my greatest pleasure.
[table=#800000]
We have big trouble ni-chan!
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Uh? What is this? If she could send messages like that why didn''t she do so earlier?
[table=#800000]
Because this will inevitably attract attention to me but right now we have more important issues.
[/table]
Yes yes I know, I''m dealing with it right now.
[table=#800000]
Nooo! Worse than that! A GM is currently trying to track down Mendy and Nargaroth. I think he is using them to find you since you can''t be located. He is currently in Nimirth village!!!
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Nimi-... Why? I didn''t do anything worth their time back then.... I had calculated the probability and the chances of a GM coming after me right now were under 4%.... Tch. must be a zealous GM, drunk on power looking for a victim. FUCK!
This is a game over... I can protect myself against them, but my allies can''t. I''d rather leave here and go on one of those private servers you spoke off than have my loved ones erased. Back in the days I was always alone, but now was different.
I was not expecting to find love, friendship, followers and people I care about in general. Sighh... LUCY! Start to upload all my followers to the next server and give me full ''observer'' powers. I want admin access to everything.
This means that it will take only a few hours or at best a day before the game developers realize and try everything they can to cleanse their ''game''. I would have time to do what I needed to do before they did so.
[table=#800000]
If I do that you need to be resolved to leave here. There''s no turning back.
[/table]
Do it! I''m ready and my current adversary is growing restless over here.
[table=#800000]
Understood! I gave you full power... This is major hacking stuff hihihihihi so exiting. Time to upload everyone before the GM teleports to your base.
[/table]
Suddenly An''dalia and Gomshew vanished into thin air and for the first time since Alterlife1 I got to use this old system command.
[Admin console.]
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.set 978384-Damyon level:1
.set 978384-Damyon allstats:1
.set 978384-Damyon erase all skills
.set 978384-Damyon erase all titles
.set 978384-Damyon species:hamster
Damyon who was preparing an attack suddenly transformed into a small fluffy hamster. I grabbed and placed him in a small cage made out of vines and continued. LUCY? What was that thing you wanted me to evolve into ? Dragon god?
[table=#800000]
Ummm well not really but it was the closest thing.... (species:Quetzalcoatl) The feathered snake, god of all reptiles. After customizing 4 limbs with chimera forge it would have been exactly what you wanted, a dragon god.
[/table]
I see... Thank you for the information.
[Admin console.]
.set $Me species: quetzalcoatl
Suddenly tons of windows popped up with new skills and titles but they didn''t matter anymore. Once in the private server I would have access to these commands without the police trying to get me because of it. It would be my own world where I am god.
Sis! How is the evacuation going? And what are the coordinates to go home?
[table=#800000]
I''m 75% done. And the coordinates are: 398-342-2722-1163
[/table]
Thank you.
[Admin console.]
.cmd teleport 398-342-2722-1163
In the blink of an eye I was back home, near the giant lake with a view on my cave. A quick look around showed how much they had accomplished during my absence. It was now quite a big town with pubs, shops, blacksmith and everything.
All around I could tell many people were living here not long ago. Now the only ones left were quickly disappearing one after the other. My most precious people were already gone, safe in the private server. I just needed to vent off my frustration to this ass-hole who forced us to leave this quickly before joining them.
[table=#800000]
Evacuation complete! The GM has the coordinates to the last location of Mendy and Nargaroth, he should teleport here soon. I will back you up against his administrative powers.
[/table]
I only had to wait now... Not wasting my time I went onto the internet and with my admin command access was able to download some of my old hacking programs from back in the days. I had spent 70 years in a game world and this one still had the same basic commands.
There was no admin or even game developer who knew how to mess with the code of this game better than me. After what seemed like an eternity, a tall, stern looking man in a blue uniform appeared a few meters in front of me.
¡°Where are they? They should be right here... And where does this town come from?¡± (Curvnt)
¡°You... Who are you looking for.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Uh? Ho there''s someone! [Identify]... Uhh? Admin console!¡± (Curvnt)
[...]
¡°What the hell? A broken NPC which I can''t even see the info for? Tch... This need to be deleted.¡± (Curvnt)
[Admin console.]
.run 983.342.45.76/ladybug.bat 245523-Curvnt
¡°Guhuhuhuhuhu* Ho please try.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°WHAT?!¡± (Curvnt) The tall man was gobsmacked. I just had removed his access to administrator command.
¡°Y-you''re a fucking hacker?!?! Tch! I''ll deal with you straight from the server main hub you fucker. I''ll teach you to respect my AUTORITAHHH!!!¡± (Curvnt)
¡°GuhUHuuHAHahhahAHAhah*¡± (Kneeko)
¡°What the fuck?..... The log out button is... gone???????¡± (Curvnt)
At this point I was really enjoying myself. I took my God slaying blade and quick like lightning sank it into his right leg.
¡°AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!¡± (Curvnt)
Next I bit him with my viper venom which paralyzed him and made him fall to the ground. He was begging me with his eyes not to get closer but I did anyway. I crouched next to him and began to undo his pants buttons.
¡°W-w-waa.. a.t a.a.re.. doing?¡± (Curvnt) He managed to mumble with a lot of difficulty.
¡°Um? Ho not much... Just doing what needs to be done.¡± (Kneeko)
I then turned him around, ass in the air and dropped his pants. I could hear his thought, he was absolutely convinced I was about to rape him.. Pff who would want to fuck this ass-hole in the ass-hole?!
With his brown eyes staring at me I took Hamster-Damyon out of his cage and stuffed him inside Curvnt''s ass, making him yell in horror as the creature was trying to claw its way back out. To make sure he couldn''t come out the way he had went in I used a small dagger and stabbed it through one ass cheek and the other, making a wall of steel the little creature wouldn''t be able to pass through.
Ok Lucy, I''m done here.
[table=#800000]
Hihihihi holy crap that was nasty ni-chan hihihi. Here we go!
[/table]
[...]
When I came back to my senses I was in the famous room where Lucy usually dwells. It was the ''observer dimension'' and was now OUR dimension. Lucy was next to me, giving me a lap pillow.
¡°Hello ni-chan.¡± (Lucy) She then said with a big smile.
¡°Is everybody alright?¡± (Kneeko) I asked, worried.
¡°Sure, they are in your hideout, but in our own server now. I told them everything and they are waiting for you. You now have all the powers, admin and observer included. You can teleport from this dimension to another as you like.. You can do anything you''d like. By the way... An''dalia is currently making acquaintance with your wives... Hihihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°Urgg...! Better wait a bit before going back there.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hihihi I think you underestimate them. They seemed like they were already establishing a hierarchy hihihi. Sighhh* Poor An''dalia.. Human vs dragons... No way she''s first wife eh.. hahaha* All that matters is that you take great care of them all.¡± (Lucy)
¡°Yea, you''re right.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°So... what are you going to do now?¡± (Lucy)
¡°Ummm... How about as many babies as possible? Then make my own religion and have people worship me... With no more internet I''ll have to find ways to entertain myself, that''s for sure.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Ho well... At least we can now be together as a big family! I''m sure father will be pleased to see you bringing so many friends hihihihi*¡± (Lucy)
¡°Ehh? What did you say???????????¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Phwihihihi* Did you think father wouldn''t upload himself in here like he did to you when he learned of his illness? He waited here in this server knowing you would come one day.¡± (Lucy)
¡°N-...no way!!!!!! Dad''s here????¡± (Kneeko)
¡°I''m right here son.¡± (Diego)
Hearing this familiar voice coming from behind me, I was afraid to turn around and realize it was all an illusion. When I did turn around he was there, the same way I remembered him but without glasses. In this game world, he didn''t need them anymore.
¡°F-father.. Sniff* sniff*.¡± (Kneeko)
¡°Hufufu* Come here ma boy!¡± (Diego)
[Fin]
End of book 1
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THE MERGE
(Book2) Chapter 1 - Prologue
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In an office, located on the last floor of a giant skyscraper, a tall handsome man was looking out through a window overlooking the city of Tokyo in Japan. A nervous look could be seen on his face, as if he was about to go through the most important moment on his career.
Actually, the man had a very good reason to be nervous. He had spent the last 2 years preparing for this moment. The moment when he would finally be reunited with his son, who was still living inside a quantum computer, hidden in a underground laboratory on a faraway island located in an undisclosed area of the pacific ocean.
The man''s name was Lorenzo Pen, previously known as Diego Pen, neuroscientist and co-founder of the Alterlife projects. Lorenzo had spent almost 8 years living inside the supercomputer as a digitized consciousness with his son Nico Pen. During that time back in the real world, a team of highly advanced scientists had been working day and night on creating new bodies for them to be transferred into.
The way they had done it was insanely complicated yet simple. The scientists used some cloning techniques, DNA customization and growth stimulation inside tubes also known as artificial wombs. They had basically created new blank customized bodies, ready for digitized consciousnesses to be uploaded into them.
The technology behind this achievement was something the rest of the world was still trying to accomplish. Technology that Lorenzo had preciously kept secret since it was basically a way to become immortal. Rich billionaires could always have new bodies made for themselves and upload their consciousness into them as soon as their old bodies began to fall apart.
For some obvious reasons, Lorenzo felt that it was not a technology that should be made available to simply anyone. First, they had created and grown a man''s body until it looked in its early 30''s, experimented on it, and eventually uploaded Diego, Aka Lorenzo Pen into it.
After confirming that everything was working perfectly and that his body was performing as expected, Lorenzo then ordered his employees to begin the creation of two more bodies for his two children still trapped inside the highly advanced computer. After 2 years of growth stimulation, the two bodies were now looking to be in their mid teens, around 15 years of age.
One body was female, the other male. Both were highly beautiful, with black hair and green eyes. The two of them had been made from similar customized DNA, which gave the impression of them being twins. After billions of dollars and years of work, he was soon to be reunited with his precious children.
The past 6 months had been spent compiling his children ''data'' to be ready to be uploaded but they had faced an unexpected road block while doing so. The consciousness also known under the codename ''Kneeko'', had ended up being a lot more voluminous than anticipated. In total, Kneeko''s consciousness contained over 932 zettabytes worth of data and had ended up taking much longer to compile than expected.
1,024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1,024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1,024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1,024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1,024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1,024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1,024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
Today, the transfer of both Kneeko''s and Lucy''s consciousness should normally be completed and uploaded into the two teenage bodies, which was the reason why Lorenzo couldn''t stay calm. Pacing left and right in his office, Lorenzo could barely contain his excitement.
He was certainly excited, but also very nervous. After all, each year spent inside the quantum computer was equal to a thousand in game years. So even if it had barely been 2 years for him, over 2000 years had went by in the game world for his children Lucy and Kneeko.
His son Nico, was by far the oldest consciousness to ever exist. Taking into consideration the years spent inside the various game worlds, Kneeko was already over 10,000 years old. After spending more than 7000 years inside the virtual world himself, Lorenzo knew how living such a long life could change someone.
Not only had he lived for a crazy long time, he had also lived these thousands of years as a god, capable of doing anything and everything. There was no doubt that his children would have difficulty adapting to the real world. There was also the fact that Lucy had never lived in the real world herself, but had been born as an A.I. In the first place.
With so much unknown ahead of him, Lorenzo couldn''t help but be a nervous wreck. Even if he was extremely nervous, Lorenzo was still confident. He had spent the last two years preparing for this moment. Everything had been prepared for this day.
When he first died, Lorenzo known as Diego Pen at the time had written in his will that a distant relative was to inherit all of his fortune and assets. This mysterious relative was a man named Lorenzo, who didn''t exist at the time but was meant to gain some time until his return.
During these last two years, Lorenzo had been very busy doing all the legal paperwork to get his money and assets back. In only two years, Lorenzo had already built a new company worth billions, specialized in VR technology and other related domains. He had also prepared new identities, birth certificates, and cover up stories for his children, which were certainly nebulous, but impossible to prove as being fake.
If had been a lot of work, but everything was finally ready for them to enjoy a brand new life. Suddenly, a knock at the door pulled Lorenzo''s attention back to the present. ¡°Enter!¡± Anxiously ordered the longing father. The door then opened and a small expressionless Japanese woman entered the office.
The 25 years old woman was Maeda Sadashi, Lorenzo''s right hand. She was the type of woman who excelled at everything and knew more about Lorenzo''s schedule than the man himself. She was the type of woman who couldn''t hide her beauty even behind her glasses, stern look, long tied up black hair and business woman''s uniform.
¡°Lorenzo-sama, the call you have been waiting for has finally arrived. The helicopter is waiting for you on the roof, we should depart immediately if we are to make it there on time.¡± Said the serious looking woman with a blatant lack of emotions.
¡°Good, good! Finally! Let us go. Ha! Did you remember to notify the maids and other house employees?¡± Anxiously asked Lorenzo while nervously rubbing his hands.
¡°Yes, they are all prepared and ready to receive the two young masters. As you ordered, they have been instructed and trained as if they were to serve the Maou himself.¡± Said the young woman before rolling her eyes in annoyance. To her, Lorenzo was obviously exaggerating. There was no way that two teenagers could be as evil as he made it seem.
Of course, she was thinking that way because she didn''t know Kneeko. As centuries went by, Kneeko had slowly changed and become disconnected in some way. Boredom had transformed him into the devil himself. He had built himself a harem, wives, children, but still didn''t seemed satisfied.
All the crimes you could think of, Kneeko had done, perfected, and eventually got tired of it. He had provoked tens of world wars, created countless new species for the simple fun of watching them kill each other. The thing that scared Kneeko the most was also what made him so unsettling to be around.
His biggest fear was boredom. He was ready to do anything to prevent being bored, but after living for thousands of years, everything had ended up being boring to him. Finding no joy in life itself, Kneeko had turned into a grotesque existence that preyed on negative emotions and rejoiced at others'' pain and suffering.
As for Lucy, she had always been a good girl but her biggest flaw was her blind idolization of her brother. To her, Kneeko was an existence above all others, so she was always following him around and playing the ''games'' he played. As long as her father was with her, Lucy could somehow be kept relatively sane, but they had spent 2000 years alone without their father''s supervision.
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No need to say that Lorenzo was highly nervous and worried about how the both of them could have changed. In the end, to Lorenzo, it didn''t matter. No matter how evil his children had become, he didn''t care. After living thousands of years together, they were in the same boat. They were tied by an indestructible bond, a family bond that grew and got solidified over thousands of years.
Followed closely by miss Maeda, Lorenzo then quickly climbed up to the roof, where a private helicopter was waiting for them. A giant man wearing a military uniform quickly got out of the helicopter and helped them on board before climbing in and closing the door behind him.
The helicopter immediately took off and made its way south east. Lorenzo was awkwardly touching thumbs together while biting his lips nervously when his sexy assistant finally broke the silence. ¡°What are you getting so nervous about? You are one of the most powerful man in the world now, try to remember that. Those are just teenagers we are talking about.¡±
Of course she could say that only because she didn''t know the details about them. Only the scientists and programmers who had been living at the giant underground laboratory for years without being able to leave knew about Kneeko and Lucy''s true story. The most intelligent people on earth had been gathered to work at this laboratory and had been closely watched by a private militia own by Lorenzo himself.
They had accepted the job only because they had been promised 100 million dollars each at the end of their 20 year contract. After what felt like an eternity, they finally arrived at a small island that seemed to be nothing more than a deserted island covered with a few trees. ¡°You wait for me here.¡± Ordered Lorenzo to his assistant as the muscular man opened the door for him.
Followed by the giant soldier looking man, Lorenzo got out of the helicopter and quickly walked toward the trees. There, was a secret entrance which lead to an empty underground room where could be found an elevator door. Immediately after arriving to the underground room, the elevator door opened and two armed men came out to greet them.
Now escorted by 3 private soldiers, Lorenzo walked in the big elevator and waited for the soldiers to select the floor. When the door finally opened, a giant room lit by blue ambience lights came into view with a bunch of people wearing white lab coats lined up and greeted him with big smiles on their face.
Their 20 year contract was still not completed yet, but they knew that after bringing Lucy and Kneeko back to the living, their presence here wouldn''t be necessary anymore.
¡°Welcome back Mister Lorenzo. The synchronizations of code-names ''Lucy'' and ''Kneeko'' are finally completed, we were only waiting for you before waking them up.¡± Said a tall and skinny bald man who by the smell, had a serious lack of hygiene. Without saying anything, Lorenzo made a vague movement of his hand and prompted everyone to walk to the room containing the ''pods'', as they called them.
A few minutes later, they finally arrived to their destination. Two giant tubes containing the bodies of two teenagers floating in pink fluids stood right in front of them. The two of them had a visible likeness, as if they were a male and female version of a same person, which they kinda were in a DNA perspective. If anyone tested their DNA, it would only confirm them as being twins.
¡°Wake them up.¡± Nervously ordered Lorenzo to the head scientist, who then ran to a computer and began to type on the keyboard like a madman. ¡°Code-names ''Kneeko'' and ''Lucy'' ready for extraction.¡± Yelled the man to his colleges who were already running in all directions and seemed very busy with many ''sciency stuff''.
The pods then got drained out of their pink liquid and leaned back a bit so the two bodies wouldn''t fall face first, then the other scientists opened the glass doors and began to remove all the electrodes, tubes, drains and intravenous connected to the two bodies.
The twins'' eyes abruptly opened, then the two of them began to puke and cough violently some of the pink liquid but quickly managed to breathe normally after a few seconds. The two of them then stood up, and inspected their surroundings with blank expression on their faces. ¡°Son? Daughter? How are you feeling? Is everything alright?¡± Anxiously asked Lorenzo who couldn''t wait to take his kids in his arms.
Kneeko turned his head and looked at the man claiming to be his father. The man seemed a bit too young to be his father but then again, they had spent thousands of years together and had often been changing their appearance just for fun, so their relationship had already passed beyond these little details.
¡°Didi doodoodididi didoo doo doo doodoodi doodoodi!¡±
¡°Glory to the brave!¡± Said Kneeko in a language they had invented a while back, and was known only to him, his sister and his father. That way, he would be able to confirm that this unknown man truly was his father.
¡°Dididi didoo doodoodi didi doodoo doodoodi?¡±
¡°Is that you brother?¡± Then quickly said the girl next to him. This response made it clear that this unknown woman next to him was his sister Lucy.
¡°Di...di doo doodidi!!!¡±
¡°M-My children! I missed you so much! It''s me, your father. We finally did it! We are finally reunited in the real world! Come and hug your father!!!¡± Then added Lorenzo in a lengthy answer.
The two emotionless twins stood there and stared at each other. They had spent so much time together that there was no need for words. The three of them knew perfectly well what the others thought. The scientists were all staring in awe at the three people who looked almost as if they were communicating via telepathy.
¡°Uhhhh big bro...Perv...¡± Shyly said Lucy with a blushing expression. Confused, Kneeko inspected his body and noticed a raging boner down below. ¡°Cough* cough* Father, how old is this body?¡± He then asked while glaring at his father.
¡°Urr ermmm well.. You see, my body is around 34 years old... So... to make it credible that you are my children... you see...¡± Blurted Lorenzo while drawing circles on the ground with the tip of his foot.
¡°How.......Old.....?¡± Growled Kneeko.
¡°F-...Fifteen years old.¡± Then finally answered his father with an hint of fear in his voice. Kneeko then began to rub his forehead then pinched the arc of his nose in annoyance.
¡°You gave me a body that''s still in middle of puberty. I''m going to get you back for this.¡± By the way Kneeko had said these words, his father knew very well what it meant. Lorenzo knew that Kneeko was only saying this to scare him.
The subtle smile on Kneeko''s lips had betrayed his real feelings and told him that Kneeko was already thinking of a few ways to have fun with this. ¡°Here, I brought you some clothes, quickly put these on and let''s leave here.¡± Promptly said Lorenzo before giving a glance at the giant soldier standing next to him.
The soldier gave a subtle nod and began to rally up the scientists together. These subtle signs hadn''t passed unnoticed to the eyes of Kneeko who was already grinning from ear to ear. The two twins quickly put on the clothes given to them and began to do stretches to get used to their bodies before going anywhere.
Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan!*
Gunfire echoed through the laboratory as the Pen family began to walk toward the elevator. ¡°Yawnn* Well, where are we heading to? Which language do we speak and what are our names now?¡± Then inquired Kneeko who never failed at thinking ahead.
¡°We''re going to Japan. I have some work there only you can do. Your name is now Nicolas Pen, Lucy is Lucia Pen, and I''m Lorenzo Pen. Ha! And before I forget, you are twins.¡± Nonchalantly added Lorenzo while stepping into the elevator.
¡°You said what?¡± Retorted Kneeko whose face was contorting in unnatural ways.
¡°Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! I''m big bros'' twin!!! Yayyyy! Hihihihihihi*¡± And yes, Lucia still had her creepy way of laughing.
(Book2) Chapter 2 - The perfect family
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Upon exiting the laboratory, the Pen family were met by Lorenzo''s assistant, miss Maeda Sadashi. The small woman closely observed the 3 handsome family members walking toward her with envious eyes. ''Beautiful people truly make beautiful babies~~'' She mused to herself.
Lorenzo was 6¡±2, had black hair and blue eyes while Kneeko and Lucy both had long black hair and emerald green eyes. Measuring 5¡±8, the twins who were barely 15 years old, were already much taller than herself. Even though Lorenzo had a very masculine look, his children appeared to be more on the feminine side.
Maeda who was always in control of the situation couldn''t help but feel a bit tense at the sight of the two twins. Anyone who saw them had this feeling deep inside of them, as if these two teenagers were not like the others. Be it their total lack of facial emotions, the way they conducted themselves or their almost too perfect appearance, people couldn''t help but feel intimidated at the sight of them.
¡°Hajimemashite, Maeda Sadashi desu. D¨zo yoroshiku onegaishimasu¡±
¡°Nice to meet you, I¡¯m Maeda Sadashi. Nice to meet you¡± Greeted Maeda before offering a 90¡ã bow. Kneeko and Lucy stared at the woman without saying a word then looked at each others.
¡°74%¡± Suddenly said Lucy.
¡°No I would say more around 93%¡± Then continued Kneeko.
Ignoring them, Lorenzo then introduced his children to his assistant. ¡°This is Nicolas, and this is Lucia. Please don''t pay attention to their little games, that''s how they get to... know people...¡± Said Lorenzo whose face was slowly turning complicated as the twins'' discussion kept getting more and more revealing.
¡°But we know that father prefers big breasts... How could you come up with a number in the 90''s?¡± Inquired Lucy to her big brother.
¡°It doesn''t matter if the woman is a tiger wearing sheep''s clothing. I can smell perverseness from here. Can''t you sense the lack of stress even though she''s in such an important position? I betcha we''ll have to call her mom before long.¡± Then argued Kneeko while showing a confident expression.
¡°Ha! Now that you mention it... Okay okay 84%.¡± Eventually conceded Lucy.
¡°Excuse me but, what might you be talking about?¡± Curious, Maeda couldn''t help but ask, but as soon as she did, Lorenzo interrupted and prompted everybody to get on board of the helicopter. ¡°Let''s talk later okay hehehe *awkward laugh* Come on board.¡±
Once inside the helicopter, Kneeko and Lucy sat next to each other on one side while their father and his assistant sat on the other side. Maeda tried to open up a conversation with the twins, but was met with their usual stoic and emotionless facial expressions, which made her decide to stay quiet.
After an hour of awkward staring at each other in silence, Lucy then broke the silence once again. ¡°White.¡± She simply said while staring at Maeda with judging eyes. ¡°Tsss, Sister still has a long way to go. Definitely black.¡± Confidently answered Kneeko.
¡°No way! Bhuuuuu I won''t accept it.¡± Then Lucy leaned forward and pretended to tie her shoelaces but looked up under Maeda''s skirt instead. Noticing what she was doing, Maeda quickly pressed her hands between her thighs, hoping to hide her panties but it was too late.
¡°DAMMITTTTTT!!!!!!¡± Screamed Lucy in annoyance. ¡°893,298 to 259,660... Can''t you admit that I am the king at that game...¡± Said Kneeko while boasting an air of superiority. ¡°Bhuuuu*¡± Pouted Lucy.
Maeda was blushing from ear to ear, confused by these weird teenagers'' behaviour and looked at Lorenzo for answers, but the man was looking out the windows and pretending to be elsewhere. ''Hooo, look at the pretty birds. I''m on a beach, I''m on a beach.'' thought Lorenzo to himself.
A hint of annoyance could be seen on Maeda''s face as she automatically attributed Lorenzo''s lack of authority toward them as the cause for the twins'' weird and rude behaviour. Luckily for them, their natural way of interacting on such an intimate level together, greatly helped make their twins role-play believable.
A few hours later, Tokyo came into view. Lucy was glued to the window, seeing all these modern things in person for the first time. Coming from a medieval world to the real modern world, Lucy couldn''t help but break away from her usual expressionless facial expression.
¡°Woooooooooooo...... Waaaaaaaaaaa.....¡± Marvelled Lucy, as for Kneeko, he was excited to be back as well but was mostly annoyed by his sister''s overly excited behaviour.
¡°You saw all that on the internet before. If you''re to be my twin, you are not allowed to act like a vulgar primate.¡± Spewed Kneeko between his teeth. Hearing her brother''s words, Lucy immediately straightened up and returned to her focused, yet emotionless state.
Seeing this, Maeda concluded that ''Nicolas'' was the one running the show and was most likely the bad influence on his sister. A few more minutes later, the helicopter finally landed in front of a mansion built in the middle of what seemed like a private forest.
Kneeko was impressed. His father had apparently put his 2 year lead to good use. The group got out and walked up to the mansion''s front door, where some domestics were waiting for them. ¡°Welcome back mister Lorenzo¡± First said a blond haired, blue eyed European looking man wearing what looked like a butler outfit. The man then turned toward the twins and continued.
¡°And you must be Mister Nicolas and Miss Lucia. My name is Ivan, the head butler in charge of the Pen''s mansion. Hope you find your stay comfortable and if you need anything please don''t hesitate to call for me.¡± Gracefully said the man before offering a bow.
Kneeko and Lucy looked at the man, inspected him from head to toe then simply responded with a small nod. Ivan guided them to the large door and welcomed them to enter. Upon entering, 20 maids who were lined up on each side of a long red carpet bowed and offered their greetings.
Kneeko turned around to look at his father with a judgmental look, but Lorenzo only responded with a wink. Was he trying to say that these were his to play with? Kneeko then walked up to one of the maids who had beautiful black hair and brown eyes. From the way she looked, Brazilian maybe?
She wasn''t too tall, had a cute ass and ample breasts. Kneeko then raised her skirt which made the woman squeal in surprise. Lucy was looking at the scene with an amused look in her eyes but Lorenzo quickly walked up to him and whispered to his ear. ¡°I know what you are doing, but you can''t pick among our employees. Anyway, try to remember that you are 15 years old.¡±
Tch* Clicking his tongue, Kneeko stepped back to his sister''s side. ¡°Apologies miss, that was rude of me. My name is Nicolas Pen, please take good care of me.¡± Then said Kneeko before offering a polite bow.
¡°My name is Lucia Pen, please take good care of me.¡± Imitated Lucy. A breath of relief could be felt from the employees after the twins'' polite display but Lorenzo was worried. This behaviour was abnormal. What were they planning?
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Leaving that aside for the moment, Lorenzo then gave them a quick tour of the mansion before finally leading Kneeko to his private room. The room was big and contained a bed and everything a bedroom should contain, but also had more electronics than one could imagine.
Lorenzo walked up to a big shelf, holding a bunch of what looked like futuristic masks and explained; ¡°These here are all the headsets of our competitors'' VR.¡± Explained Lorenzo before turning his attention to the other corner of the room.
¡°This giant pod over there will be your future admin access pod to UnivR, our company''s new VRMMO. It''s still not publicly released, but you can already access it if you want to. Of course I understand that since you just arrived, you probably don''t want to go back to a VR immediately.¡±
Annoyed, Kneeko turned his glare back toward his father and asked. ¡°Stop with the unimportant stuff. How and where are they?¡± Lorenzo knew exactly what Kneeko wanted to know but was pleasantly surprised to see him care about them. ¡°Don''t worry, all 5 of them are already integrated into our new system. They are ready to be uploaded at anytime but we haven''t experimented with that yet, are you sure you want to risk it? We can''t make backups...¡± Worryingly asked his father.
¡°I swore to show them the world I''m from. We might not be able to afford other blanks, but they are over 10 thousand years old like me. Most human brains are empty anyway. I''ll find the bodies, you do the rest.¡± Answered Kneeko with a seriousness that gave his father goosebumps.
For the rest of the day, Lucy and Kneeko behaved in a very polite way that made it seem as if they were the nicest teenagers in the world. Their behaviour was making everybody happy, except Lorenzo who couldn''t help but see it as unsettling. They each took a bath and went on a television marathon until late at night.
To all the domestics, they seemed to be a happy, loving and almost perfect family. Just like that, a week went by during which the twins stayed glued to the internet, the television, went to an amusement park, did some shopping and even succumbed to Lucy''s constant request to visit Akihabara.
When they returned home that day, the twins found matching school uniforms waiting for them on their beds. As soon as he saw this, Kneeko ran to his father with the uniform in his hands and angrily asked. ¡°What''s this? You wouldn''t have dared...¡±
¡°Ha! They are finally ready. Did you try it on?¡± Asked Lorenzo while ignoring his son''s visibly angry attitude. ¡°Answer me!¡± Growled the handsome 15 years old Kneeko.
¡°Of course it''s what you think. You and Lucy- Lucia are starting school next week. I can''t have you work for my company without diplomas.¡± Nonchalantly answered Lorenzo. ¡°You old fart! You can easily fake diplomas! WHY?! I have nothing to learn at a kid''s school for fuck''s sake! I know a lot more than the teachers themselves.¡±
Sensing his son''s anger escalating, Lorenzo quickly leaned closer to his son and whisper. ¡°Isn''t it the best place to find proper vessels of your age?¡± He then said with a smirk on his lips. Hearing his father''s words, Kneeko stood back a bit and pondered. ¡°Meh, as long as it''s not too boring I guess it''s not a bad idea.¡±
Lucy who had been listening to the conversation and was already enthusiastically wearing her new school uniform, then barged in like a hurricane. ¡°Yayyyyyyy Just like in the mangas! I will go to school with big broo weeee!!! And since we''re in Japan you can''t scold me for calling you onii-chan! Hihihihihi¡± Kneeko could already feel hell opening beneath his feet.
¡°Okay, before I lose my calm, let''s talk business.¡± Seriously said Kneeko as he sat on the leather couch next to him. Lorenzo''s expression turned serious as well and sensing the atmosphere, Lucy stopped jumping around and silently sat next to kneeko.
¡°Alright then. As you already know, our company name is PenCo, and the VRMMO resulting of my thousands of years of work will be called UnivR. Our VRMMO is obviously decades ahead of its time but more problems seem to come from that than advantages. The cost for example. Our headset are going to be 3 times as expensive as our competitors''.¡± Explained Lorenzo.
Hearing this, Kneeko began to rub his shin but silently kept listening. ¡°Truth is, our company has ten competitors but only two worth mentioning. Dr3amSoft with their VR called Exodus and PopuliCo with their VR called Antharia world. For our expensive new VRMMO to be viable and make profit, we need to own 35% of the market. With that said, we would be in the green if we could kick Dr3amSoft out of business and take their customers. And this is where you come into play Kneeko. I know no one better than you to create chaos in a VR world.¡±
Kneeno leaned back on the couch and seemed to be considering his options. He had so much on his plate. He needed to find 5 vessels, graduate school and work for his father''s company all at the same time. Anyone would have felt overwhelmed by all that but to Kneeko, this was heaven. That way, he wouldn''t have time to get bored, hopefully.
¡°The Exodus VR you spoke of, it''s the yellow headset in my room right? I might take a look at it tonight.¡± Lorenzo and Lucy then remained silent for a few minutes, while Kneeko sporadically giggled on his own. Even after thousands of years, Kneeko still managed to creep the two of them out in this type of situations.
¡°Knock* Knock* Excuse me, I brought you tea and pastries¡± Interrupted a shy looking maid who knocked and entered.
¡°Definitely white.¡± Then said Lucy out of nowhere.
[Later that night]
Leaving his father and sister to watch television on their own, Kneeko went to his room, locked the door and sat on his bed with a yellow VR headset in his hands. He noticed that his father had installed a data bypass and everything necessary to mess with some of their competitor''s system''s weaknesses.
How did they knew? Simple, almost all the current VR companies were using systems based on Alterlife''s systems which had been illegally sold after the company''s bankruptcy. The people who used to own Alterlife2 had profiteered from his father''s death by selling his life''s work to their competitors. VR companies had since then fixed the brain cancer issues and slowly regained popularity with the customers, but this didn''t change the fact that all these VR were stolen, disguised versions of Alterlife2.
Their disregard for copyrights was going to be their downfall. Kneeko then installed a device in the bypass slot on the headset, laid comfortably on his bed, put the headset on and launched the device. The first thing Kneeko saw was a green background with what looked like yellow snowflakes falling around. Then similar to Alterlife2, what appeared next was the familiar welcome box.
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WELCOME TO THE EXODUS EXPERIENCE
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(Book2) Chapter 3 - Getting started
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WELCOME TO THE EXODUS EXPERIENCE
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Normally this is where the character customization screen would appear, but due to him using a bypass cheating device, Kneeko found himself in front of a command system screen. The first thing he did was to enter a username which wouldn''t tie him up to whatever havoc was going to ensue.
For that reason, the name he decided to enter was ''Heosphoros'', which was one of the many names given to the devil. Since his goal was to bring anarchy to this game world, the name of the ultimate harbinger of chaos and destruction was more than appropriate for him.
Then the next step was to select a starting species. Due to the cheating device connected to his headset, everything that was considered as low level entities by the system was accessible for him to play as. This meant anything from plants, mosquitoes and even earthworms.
The list which was organized by alphabetical order included millions of species of all kinds, but Kneeko needed something very specific. The biggest difference between now and before was that Kneeko was no longer part of the system and now needed to disconnect from time to time.
Selecting a classic monster like a lizard or a fish would be a very bad idea since NPCs wouldn''t simply disappear as you disconnected. After disconnecting, the monster would simply remain where he was, immobile and totally defenceless against any type of attacks.
Sure, he could program some basic AI commands for when he wasn''t connected, but nothing that could fully counteract attacks from players. For that reason, Kneeko focused on entities that wouldn''t be noticed by anyone as long as they remained immobile, like plants and the likes.
Sure, choosing an earthworm or something that could remain hidden underground would have been a viable option as well, but Kneeko needed something that could exert a major influence throughout the entire game world. Viruses were among those ''world changing entities'', but they didn''t exist in this game.
Viruses, bacteria, and all these other revolutionary entities, existed only in the most advanced game system in the world, and this game was the one he and his father had spent thousands of years developing, UnivR. The next best thing in this particular case was to find a kind of plant with an advanced ability to spread like a disease.
After browsing through the millions of species, Kneeko eventually found something which attracted his attention. The species he had found was named ''Hericium coralloides'', more commonly known as ''coral spine fungus''. Sure fungi were limited when it came to climate tolerance since they were fragile to cold and dry environments, but were the closest thing to a disease in the list.
Hericium coralloides was a type of fungus looking a bit like a quartz formation, and looked a bit like snowy white mould. As it grows, it should look like a blanket of snow covering the lands it managed to sprout on. The dissemination process was what made this fungus interesting.
It had the particularity of being able to clone itself and have its spores travel all over the place by being transported by the wind. With everything now selected, Kneeko then launched the integration program that would import his ''creature'' into the game.
As the game loaded, everything became dark as if someone had turned the lights off, but eventually a small trickle of light appeared and seemed to be coming from above. Looking above, Kneeko saw what looked like a light at the end of a tunnel.
Waiting for his eyes to adjust, he then realized that he was at the bottom of something like a deep pit or a well, but after noticing how big the hole was, calling it a sinkhole seemed more accurate. His ''body'' was no bigger than a green pea and seemed to be growing out of a crack between two rocks deep at the bottom of the hole.
Well let''s just say that there was not much to see at the moment. Immediately, Kneeko opened the profile window where his stats and other information were displayed.
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Heosphoros (NPE)
Threat level:
1 (Harmless)
Race/Species:
Hericium coralloides
Skill points (SP):
1
Class:
Fungus
Bio:
N/A
Skills:
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Such a simple and primitive life form obviously had very few stats and abilities, but it appeared that the Exodus developers had made some changes. From the look of it, this system used skill points (SP) which you obtained through level up or as rewards for certain missions.
The problem with that was that as a the simplest form of fungus, Kneeko didn''t even have a level. From the look of it, he had absolutely no way of growing stronger. Seeing that he at least had 1 skill point, he then decided to have a look through the skills list, where he could purchase new skills from.
The only skills displayed were skills costing no more than what he had, so only a few trash skills worth 1 SP appeared. Among them was a skill named ''mana feast'' which allowed to convert mana into skill points but once again, his current fungus body didn''t have an internal mana pool.
As for health, it seemed that the absence of a stat displaying it meant that as long as a minuscule part of his body remained, that he could grow back. That way, health points weren''t necessary. At this point, it would have seemed that Kneeko had reached an impasse and would need to try again with a new species, but that was not his style. In fact, he had a totally different idea which of course involved cheating.
If his body didn''t have an internal mana pool, then he simply needed to create an external one. Having finally a strategy in mind, Kneeko then used his one and only skill point to purchase the ''mana feast'' skill. He then opened the map and took note of his coordinates so he would be able to locate the hole he was in.
His goal was simple, it was to create a second, ''normal'' non cheated character and go feed his fungus with mana potions. Before disconnecting, he opened the AI command window and wrote a few lines of code, which would cause the fungus to automatically use the ''mana feast'' skill each time mana was available for it.
The AI command window was a way to ''auto-pilot'' his body while he was not connected with it. If everything went according to plant, the simple action of dropping a mana potion on his ''fungus body'' should have it automatically start growing and generating skill points, which was his primary goal after all.
It was going to take a lot of grinding, but since UnivR was not even released yet, destroying this game world right away would only have for effect of sending their users to their other competitors. The ultimate goal was to stockpile his skill points and area of influence before suddenly unleashing hell when they were ready for it.
Before doing so, they would also need to get one of their men on the inside. Having an admin watching your back, was the only foolproof way of pulling this off. With nothing else to do, Kneeko then opened an internet browsing window and looked up his coordinates through a fan based website which showed you where you were in the game world.
It would appear that he had spawned at a very good place since it was very close to a starter city, which were places where new players could decide to begin their adventures from. By the look of it, his ''hole'' was located near Nakubar, the demon capital.
Seemed like he would need to play as a demon to spawn near his fungus, but Kneeko was obviously overjoyed by that fact. Kneeko took a last look at his profile, then disconnected from the game.
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Heosphoros (NPE)
Threat level:
1 (Harmless)
Race/Species:
Hericium coralloides
Skill points (SP):
0
Class:
Fungus
Bio:
N/A
Skills:
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Just like that, Kneeko was back to his bedroom where only a few minutes had went by. This game world was set to be 10 times faster than the real world so for each minute spent connected to the device, 10 minutes went by in the game.
The next thing Kneeko did was to unplug the cheating device from the headset, put it back on and launch the game once more. This time he would go through the real game which every normal player had to go through. If he was to ruin the gaming experience for the players, he needed to know what it was exactly like for them by living a normal gaming experience himself.
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WELCOME TO THE EXODUS EXPERIENCE
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Once again, the same green screen with yellow snowflakes appeared but this time was different. ¡°Welcome to the Exodus experience. My name is Annel and I shall guide you through the first steps of your adventure in our unique universe.¡± Said a pretty lady with brown hair, brown eyes who was wearing something like a white mage robe.
''Unique my ass.'' Thought Kneeko to himself. The lady then continued ¡°Do you wish to start with the tutori-¡±
¡°Skip.¡± Impatiently interrupted Kneeko. ¡°Please enter your username.¡± Continued the woman without showing any emotions, as if she had either seen worse or had been programmed to be closer to a robot. In Kneeko''s eyes, the second possibility seemed more plausible, since Lucy was living proof that giving them too much free will could only cause troubles.
This time, the selected username was ''Kneeko''. Why change what''s already perfect? ¡°Now please select your race.¡± Said the woman in a monotone voice as the giant list of humanoid races appeared in front of his eyes. Some of them were blue, while others were red. Seemed like this system used the classic good vs evil concept which was... Very original... ¡°Show me only the races which can start at the demon capital Nakubar.¡±
The list immediately shortened, showing only red races commonly affiliated with the darkest side of things. There were vampires, lycanthropes, orcs, goblins, wyrms, and all kinds of races but what caught Kneeko''s eyes were all the various demon species available.
Bacnor, Caffeinus, Esprecht, Esprecht, Gundall, and the list went on and on. ¡°Show me the demon race with the best affinity with summoning and necromancy.¡± Asked Kneeko who had finally decided which direction he wanted to go with his character. The race which then appeared was called ''Kassarack Demon''.
This game wasn''t using any complicated stats, but instead used race affinity to determine which skills would be available to the players. This meant that some races would never be able to master certain skills which they lacked affinity for. For this reason, a high elf would never be able to master necromancy.
This system was very complex, yet simpler than that of Alterlife. There were only 4 stats to take into consideration and these were (strength, dexterity, intelligence and vitality). It had apparently been determined that the system felt more natural if most of the stats remained hidden and self-evolutionary.
Strength was mostly related to offence, dexterity to defence, intelligence to mana and vitality to health. The skill points (SP) earned could then be used to purchase new available skills or placed into these 4 primary stats which usually was more important than spending them on skills.
The reason why was because in this game, you could use your knowledge of the real world. This meant that a master sword fighter in real life, even if at level 1 would usually defeat a sword fighter level 20 who never fought with a sword in real life. It also meant that Kneeko, who had muscle-memorized all the skills from Alterlife wouldn''t really need any skills to be a dangerous fighter.
All he needed really were magic spells or skills that needed to defy the laws of physics. For example, it was possible to mimic a sword fighting move if you knew how to perform it, but it would be impossible to teleport somewhere without the teleportation skill. With the least boring character design he could think of, Kneeko finally selected the Kassarack demon race.
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You are now affiliated with the dark side.
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''Kuh* So lame! Did they even pay copyrights for this shit?'' Wondered Kneeko. ¡°Which class do you wish to start as? Beware, it would be difficult to change it in the future.¡± Said the robotic lady. ¡°Summoner.¡± Confidently said Kneeko. A 3d hologram of his character then materialized in front of his eyes. A tall and muscular yet slim man, with semi-long silvery hair and black eyes was what it first looked like.
Seeing his character for the first time, Kneeko wasn''t impressed. ¡°This looks nothing like me... He looks like a girl. And why are his horns so small? On the picture I saw earlier, this race was supposed to have arms and legs covered with something like bio-armour... What''s up with that?¡± Annoyingly inquired Kneeko.
¡°The horns and bio-armour are developed as you grow stronger in the game. You need to reach higher levels to finally see such an appearance on this race. As for the way your character looks, the avatars are made to look different from the users as to prevent problems. Players have a tendency to hold a grudge and seek revenge in the real world. You can of course customize your appearance as you wish.¡± She answered.
''So people who got mugged in the game, used their avatar pictures to track down those who robbed them in the game and kicked their asses in real life?! Well, yea I can see that.'' Thought Kneeko while rubbing his hairless chin. ¡°At least make me a bit more virile for fuck sake...¡± Reluctantly conceded Kneeko with a tone of annoyance in his voice.
A more pronounced chin and more ferocious brows later, everything was finally set to begin the adventure. ¡°As you asked, you will now be transported to the demon capital. We wish you an enjoyable gaming experience in the exodus project. Don''t forget to rate and donate.¡± Said the woman as everything began to glow in a reddish colour. ''Wait, what did she say at the end?''
Kneeko suddenly reappeared in the middle of a giant circular area surrounded by giant stone pillars. The sky was covered in dark clouds and lightning threatened to hit at any time. ¡°Feels like home.¡± Said Kneeko before inspecting his new virtual body.
Many people were spawning all around him, some newbies but others visibly veterans of the game. ''So this is a spot regularly used as teleportation point.'' He then concluded. Before he could do anything, a notice appeared once again.
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Randomly attributed starting skill unlocked: WAVE OF AGGRESSION
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''Well, I can see a few interesting ways to use this. Guhuhuhuhuh*'' Internally laughed Kneeko. ¡°Now, let''s see what''s so fun about this game so we can ruin it. Khukhuguhuhuhuhu*¡±
(Book2) Chapter 4 - The bloodiest chapter
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The sky was covered in menacing thunderclouds and the buildings had this creepy Gothic feeling to them, but other than this, the demon capital of Nakubar had nothing really ''hellish'' to it. The grass was green, trees covered the parks and streets and there were even flowers growing around.
¡°What kind of shitty demon capital is this... Where are the impaled corpses and bloodied roads?¡± Needless to say, Kneeko was a bit perplexed. Even more disturbing was how the players were dressed. Usually in these kinds of games, people wear mage robes or armours, but most of the players around him were wearing normal everyday clothes.
Some of them even wore goddamned sandals and flip-flops! The street were littered with street merchants among which many were players. The fact that many players became merchants was obviously due to the fact that the in game currency could be converted and withdrawn as real world money.
But as Kneeko slowly walked down the main street, he became puzzled by what these merchants were selling. Homemade alcohol, suspicious potions, food, clothes, perfumes, pets, even laundry detergent for fuck sake. No weapons, no useful potions, no monster cores, no scrolls or potion ingredients. These merchants seemed to only be selling useless crap.
How could they make money by selling these useless things anyway? Then looking around a bit more, Kneeko realized that most players didn''t have any weapons, and that those who did were mostly NPCs. He had done some quick research about exodus on the internet before playing and had seen many articles saying that since Alterlife''s fiasco, players didn''t want to play those scary types of VR games.
The VR were now too realistic for people to seek life or death situations in them. If you didn''t want to see a giant spider in the real world, then you wouldn''t want to see that in a virtual one either. Even after decreasing the pain ratio to 15% of that of the real world, players still weren''t interested.
They then made it so players would have to walk to each teleportation point first in order to unlock it, but smart people quickly saw this as an opportunity to make money and immediately organized highly protected convoys, going through roads which are being kept safe by regular hired NPC patrols.
So after making some money in town, the players would hire these organized convoy and be safely transported to the various TP points located around the world, effortlessly unlocking them for the future. In fact, 90% of the players would play this game for months or even years without seeing a monster.
You could see various monsters very safely in various zoos located in the biggest cities, but the closest thing to a monster these people would ever touch, were these ugly fluffy pets looking like furbies sold in the pet shops. The players would still go ''kya!'' when faced with a giant snake held in a cage, so it was obvious these people would never go out into the wild.
They even went as far as making the ''in game'' currency worth real money to motivate the players into treasure and monster hunting, which had worked to a certain extend, but only people desperate for money ended up taking the risks. People desperate for money were also the most susceptible to becoming brigands, more commonly referred to as ''red players''. These people had formed small communities, living in isolated areas to avoid bounty hunters and royal guards.
Other than that, this game had slowly become a touristic attraction, a place where people went to relax and disconnect from real life. Since it was a man made world, all the landscapes and sceneries were simply breathtaking and unrealistically beautiful. Many people enjoyed having picnics on grassy fields with their friends or loved ones.
''Modern humans are such wimps. This game stinks...'' Boringly thought Kneeko to himself. Luckily, they had taken this into consideration for their own game UnivR, in which there would be a lot more to do than simple monster subjugation. It still made the challenge of ruining the gaming experience in this game more difficult for him since most players never left the safety of their fortified cities.
Players had the option of buying small plots of lands and build their own shops or vacation houses in safe areas. If things continued like that, it wouldn''t be surprising to see the game company getting rid of monsters altogether. The VR scene was slowly but surely changing, evolving based on what the customers want.
After only a few minutes in the game and strolling around town, it had already been made obvious to Kneeko that what made this game popular was its aestheticism. If the demon capital looked so pretty and lively, then he knew that the human capital was probably a disgustingly glistening white city filled with flowers and other stupid stuff like that.
Kneeko''s first priorities were to find a way to gather as many mana potions as fast as possible and do it as cheaply as he could. From the coordinates he had memorized, the hole in which his precious fungus grew was no more than a kilometre away outside the city. There was no use in going there right now, not as long as he didn''t have potions to feed it and a weapon to protect himself.
With that in mind, Kneeko decided to logout for now and do so more research on the internet. Going on fan based exodus forums and looking at the most popular threads. Doing that would allow him to understand what kept the players passionately coming back for more. After all, research was the most important thing before starting out in a new game.
After pressing the logout button, Kneeko suddenly found himself back in his room. After taking the headset off, he then went to his computer and and quickly began to gather information about everything he could find. After only a few minutes of work, someone came knocking energetically at his bedroom door, forcing him to take his attention away from his screens. Knock* Knock* Knock*
¡°What is it?¡± Coldly asked Kneeko. ¡°Hmm nii-chan, big trouble! Can I come in?¡± Asked his sister from the other side of the door. ''Big trouble? Lucy never said she was in trouble unless it was very important.'' Worried, Kneeko quickly invited her in and waited for her to say what was going on.
¡°So?... What''s the problem?¡± Asked her worried brother. Lucy was fiddling and seemed on the verge of crying which worried Kneeko even more. ¡°My b-body... I think I broke it... sniff sniff*¡± She said barely able to remain collected. ¡°What? What is the problem? What''s the problem with your body?¡± Worryingly asked her brother.
¡°I-it''s leaking bodily fluids. B-blood is coming out of this body''s ass. Cry* What am I gonna do? Am I dying?¡± Said Lucy before breaking down in tears and seeking her brother''s help. Hearing his sister, Kneeko couldn''t help but rub his forehead in annoyance. Well it was not his sister''s fault in the end. After all, she never had a real biological body before so she had never experienced what periods were.
Standing up, Kneeko then grabbed his sister''s hand and dragged her out of his room, then headed toward their father''s office. With a sense of urgency, Kneeko then knocked the door opened and ran to his father while still dragging his sister behind. ¡°It''s an emergency Father! Lucy''s body is hemorrhaging and at this rate, she will bleed to death in a few minutes!!¡± Said Kneeko with panic in his voice.
¡°Kyaaaaa! Save me! I just became mortal, I don''t want to die after only a few days! Cry*!¡± Said the now panicking Lucy. Seeing her brother so worries had made her highly emotional and fearful of something she had never felt before, death. Seeing his children panicking like that, Lorenzo knew that the situation was dire.
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¡°What? These bodies should be perfect! Top of the line! Comparing normal human bodies to ours should be like comparing a Ford Pinto to a Ferrari, they shouldn''t break down without warning like that! Tell me, what''s the problem? What''s wrong with your body?¡± Worriedly inquired their panicking father.
¡°Sniff sniff* Blood is gushing out of my ass, my panties are stained with it Cry*.¡± Hearing his daughter''s words, Lorenzo was stomped. Seeing Kneeko snicker beside her only confirmed his suspicions. ¡°NICO! Why would you scare your sister like that? That was a very mean thing to do. She might be old, but this is still her first period. How cruel.¡±
Growled Kneeko''s father as he held his crying daughter in his arms. ¡°P-periods?¡± Hearing that word, Lucy immediately understood. She had never had that happen to her before, but she at least knew what periods were and also knew that it was a normal biological function.
Realizing that her brother had toyed with her and scared her on purpose, Lucy angrily punched her brother in the stomach as revenge. Punch!* ¡°You''re MEAN nii-san!! These bodies suck! There''s always something leaking from every orifice!¡± She added with her face boiling with anger and humiliation. ¡°Khukhuguhuhuhu* Welcome, to the real world.¡± Mischievously answered her brother.
¡°I can''t believe you Nico, doing this to your own sister. As punishment, you will be going out to buy some pads with her. She need to know these things and you will teach her. Now out of my office!!¡± Angrily ordered their father. ¡°What??? We have maids and domestics who can do that for us! What the fuck Dad!¡±Angrily said Kneeko. For a man, going to the convenient store to buy these kinds of things was the ultimate embarrassment.
¡°Of course it''s their jobs, but it wouldn''t be a punishment if you didn''t go with your sister yourself would it? Or is it that you don''t have the courage to do so?¡± Lorenzo knew that Nico had a massive ego and wouldn''t refuse a challenge if his pride was put on the line.
¡°What? Tss do you think I don''t know what you''re doing right now? Sigh, whatever, I''ll go. Come on Lucy.¡± Kneeko grabbed his sister by the hand and dragged her out of their father''s office and headed toward the main door. Seeing the two young masters heading to the door, the head butler Ivan immediately intercepted them.
¡°Young masters, will you be heading out?¡± Inquired the serious looking man with a tone filled with professionalism worthy of a first class head butler. ¡°Yes, my sister needs some TAMPONS since she just got her first PERIOD.¡± Mischievously answered Kneeko while making emphasis on the most embarrassing words.
Punch!* With her cheeks as red as tomatoes, Lucy was too embarrassed to even yell at her brother who definitely deserved the punch to the guts he had just received. Without flinching, Ivan then reacted in a remarkably professional manner. ¡°If you don''t mind waiting for a few minutes, I will have a driver bring the car for you.¡± Said Ivan before heading to the staff quarters.
Alone again, Lucy finally regained her composure. ¡°URRRgggg I hate you Brother!¡± She then said while trying to hide her flustered expression. ''Hmm, no nii-chan this time eh.. Khukhukhu*'' Thought Kneeko to himself. The both of them then exited the house and waited for the car to arrive.
What eventually stopped in front of them, was a black Rolls Royce Phantom with the windows tinted so dark that you couldn''t see the inside of the car. ¡°Whistle* Not too shabby...¡± The driver walked out of the car and opened the doors for them.
Since Kneeko had always lived as a billionaire''s son, an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia came back to him as he looked at the driver doing his job. ¡°Look Lucy, leather seats, how convenient. That way we don''t have to worry about you ''PERIODING!'' all over the seats- Punch!* Urg..¡±
Only a few minutes later, the local convenience store was already in sight and Kneeko asked the driver to stop one block away from their destination. Such a car would only bring unwanted attention and for obvious reasons, Kneeko wanted to avoid it. Their objective was already embarrassing enough without having a crowd spectating as they purchased the items.
In front of the convenience store were what appeared to be three teenage boys, who looked more like delinquents than respectable students. The three of them were smoking cigarettes which was an obvious indicator of them being the worst scums on the face of this earth.
¡°I''m tellin'' ya, he''z a buddy o'' mine. If ya bring me 60k yens, he''ll upgrade yo ''exo'' account to adult spec so ya can fuck em NPC bitches! Guiwahahahahahah* Mmm'' tellin'' ya, it''s worth it. Them bitches in da red light district are worth every penny Guiwahahaha*¡± Said one of the three boys with one of those evil cigarettes hanging at the tip of his filthy delinquent lips.
¡°Alright, it took me a while to gather this cash, so I''m counting on you. How long before the change is made?¡± Asked one of the boy with a flustered expression as he gave him an envelope filled with cash. ¡°It''ll be done under 48 hours, chillax buddy. Guiwahaha*¡± Simply answered the mean delinquent. The three boys were so busy doing their deal, that they failed to noticed the presence of two twin teenagers, staring and silently listening to them with their usual boringly stoic faces.
After the transaction was completed, the group separated but as the one running the deal turned around, the sight of the two indescribably beautiful teenagers staring at him caught his attention. The young boy''s name was Koyama Tomokazu, a smoking delinquent who was doing illegal deals in the exodus VR game with the help of an admin accomplice.
This important details didn''t fail to get noticed by Kneeko who found a sudden interest in this young delinquent. Koyama''s first reaction was to glare at the two, but after making eye contact with the two beautiful foreigners for more than a few seconds, he instinctively understood that he was outmatched.
Foreigners were more used to sustain eye contact than the shy and polite Japanese people after all, and that also applied to a delinquent such as Koyama. His second reaction then was to initiate a fight.. He wasn''t smart, he was not very tall and neither was he handsome, but the one thing he was good at was fighting. But then again, the sight of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life made his legs lazy and shaky.
There was no heterosexual man who wouldn''t have found Lucy deadly attractive, and the same could have been said for Kneeko as well. Feeling flustered, the super mean delinquent Koyama then decided to ignore them and quietly leave the area. As he turned around and prepared to leave, a voice filled with a sense of superiority and authority suddenly called out to him.
¡°Hey you, the smoking anti-establishment rebel. I''ll give you 100k yens if you put me in contact with this admin friend of yours.¡± Said Kneeko to the young delinquent as a grin that couldn''t be perceived as anything other than devilish began to form on his face. Koyama was perplexed and confused, but before he could say anything, Kneeko had already given him his card, and nonchalantly walked into the convenience store with his sister.
Kneeko was happy, he had already found something interesting to mess with. ¡°Guhuhuhu*, this has been a very good day! Now! Let''s get back to the active mission shall we, where are the TAMPO- punch* urgg¡±
(Book2) Chapter 5 - The impossible challenge
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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A few days went by in a flash, during which Kneeko did highly advanced research on Exodus and had finally devised the perfect plan to bring it down. With the players publishing everything they discovered on various forums, it was possible to plan every single one of your ''in game'' actions in advance without even playing.
Kneeko already knew which missions gave what rewards, and who to speak to in order to obtain or unlock certain things. By the look of it, the Exodus developers seemed quite lazy but there was a good reason for the lack of new content. The reason for this was that the majority of ''customers'' were interested in other things.
The Exodus developers were busy creating new cute pets for the players to buy. New rare collectible items, new attractions, games and restaurants to visit in the safety of their walled cities. The adventure aspect of the game was simply being neglected because only a small percentage of players still enjoyed it.
No matter how much Kneeko thought about it, he always ended up coming up with the same answer. What needed to be sabotaged the most was the customer''s trust in the Exodus company. Those who played Exodus did it as if it was a second real world. Meaning that they invested their time to get something belonging only to them in return.
Some bought houses, shops, plots of virgin lands to go camping. The players also tried their hardest to earn a bit of money to hang around with their friends. Students would find menial work in the game world during the week, earn a few gold coins, then spend the weekends with their friends online.
Since time went by 10 time faster in the game, a 2 days weekend would then become 20 days of fun times with friends. The students who were late to study for their mid-term tests would go online and use the time speed variations to their advantage. That way, 1 hour became 10 hours of last chance study time for the students.
The players were coming to this world not to play, but to ride horses, go to the beach, do karaoke, eat at restaurants, play sports, gamble, fly their pet wyverns or others stuff like that. So basically, this adventure game was not used by the players as an adventure game. To the players, this game world was a vacation spot without school or real world pressure to deal with.
Plastering one of Kneeko''s bedroom walls, was all the information he had gathered, and the most important points making Exodus a success. These points needed to be the ones attacked first by his strategy. If the players lost what they were going there for, then there was no reason for them to go back ever again.
As Kneeko was finally about to connect to Exodus and finally put his plan into motion, loud voices coming from outside attracted his attention. ¡°Lorenzo-sama!! I understand that you missed your children a lot, but you need to get back to your office. UnivR will be released in less than two weeks, and your employees are nervous wrecks since their CEO hasn''t been in his office in a week!¡± The feminine voice scolding his father was that of Lorenzo''s faithful assistant Maeda Sadashi.
¡°Urggg... B-but it has only been a week you know. I''m sure you can pick up the slack a while longer for me, eh? Sadashiiii¡± Pleaded the 7000+ years old man who sounded like a child trying to skip school. ¡°Don''t call me by that name! What would people think if they heard-¡± Barely finishing her sentence, a voice then interrupted their lover''s quarrel.
¡°Hey! Won''t you two shut up a bit. I can''t hear myself think. Why don''t you two kiss each other already? Jeez... And you old fart, I''m working my ass off on my side in preparation for the launch, you better not slack off on your side of the deal. Move your old scaly ass out of here and get to work! I''m too busy to spend time with you anyway, and Lucy- I mean Lucia has a decade of manga and anime to catch up on, so I don''t think she''ll even notice your absence.¡± Abruptly said Kneeko with a look of annoyance on his face.
Maeda was perplexed, how could a child talk to his father that way? ¡°Okay okay, I understand. Sob* sob*¡± Answered Lorenzo with a sorrowful voice. Kneeko then went back in his room and slammed the door behind him. ''Tch, Lorenzo lacks the necessary backbone to raise this temperamental teenage boy. Maybe I should try doing something about it.'' Thought Maeda to herself while throwing a frown at Kneeko''s door.
Noticing her expression, Lorenzo instantly grabbed Maeda''s shoulders and turned her back around to face in his direction. Maeda was startled. The sudden seriousness on Lorenzo''s face was something she had rarely seen in the past. ¡°Sadashi, you are extremely important to me.¡± Hearing these words, the woman''s usual expressionless face instantly broke into a vibrant shade of red.
¡°What I''m about to say, I''m saying it because I truly care about you.... Whatever you do, never get on Nico''s bad side.¡± Said Lorenzo while intensely staring in her eyes. Maeda had always wondered why Lorenzo seemed so afraid of his son, but seeing him say these words with such a serious expression sent shivers down her spine. Maeda knew that Lorenzo was not a coward, so his son Nicolas had most likely done something horrible in the past.
''I should have someone look at Nicolas'' criminal record. Maybe it would help me understand what happened to him in the past.'' She then thought to herself while dragging Lorenzo out of the mansion and into his car.
Back in his room, Kneeko had finally connected back to Exodus. He first logged into his ''fungus'' account, and confirmed that nothing had happened. His fungus body was still in the same hole, had remained untouched and as he expected, hadn''t grown either.
He then switched to his non-cheated character, which was back in Nakubar, the demon capital. He was in a busy street filled with players who were enjoying the peculiar city''s infrastructure and famous restaurants. Unsurprisingly enough, some fast food chains had managed to find a way to sell their products even in an artificial world.
You could buy a BicMag everywhere in the world, and even in a virtual one. Most of the players seemed to be using humanoid races since they were more worried about their appearances rather than their special abilities. After all, many came to this game to find a ''virtual love''.
If you hated the way you looked in the real world, you could go in a VR world, create your avatar based on your ideal body type, and go find love online. This was a big step forward compared to normal dating sim games. ''Guhuhuhu enjoy your beautiful appearances while you still can. Guhuhu'' Internally laughed Kneeko.
Ignoring all that, Kneeko went down the road and headed for his first destination, the warrior training ground. Since Kneeko was not a warrior but a summoner which was more closely affiliated to mages, there shouldn''t have been anything worth his time over there, but Kneeko had read something interesting online.
From what he had seen on the forums, all the warrior training grounds had some type of obstacle course that if you successfully completed, would give you a reward in return. Since failing the course meant death, very few people had ever attempted it, so the developer began to offer valuable weapons as rewards.
Despite that, the number of players who would try the course remained low, so they also added more and more gold in the reward, until they reached an acceptable level of participation. The developer calculated the amount of gold based on the completion rate and made sure they wouldn''t lose money by doing that.
As a level one summoner with no summoning skills unlocked yet, a sword and gold was more than enough to lure him to give it a shot. After all, in this game, your starting physical abilities were similar to those you had in the real world. So his genetically engineered body was more than enough to compensate for his currently low level.
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After a few minutes of walking down the cobblestone street of Nakubar, Kneeko finally arrived at a large wooden building with giant colourful shields hung on its walls. On a field next to the building, was a fenced area where a bunch of players but also NPCs were practising swinging a sword at wooden posts.
The inside of the building was dark and smelled like sweat, piss and spilled beer. Two men were sitting in a corner and were arm wrestling, while another one was drunk, sleeping at a table in the back. Other than these 3 men, the place was mostly empty. With his face still showing no emotions, Kneeko walked up to the counter and patiently waited.
Only a few seconds later, a small orange bearded man noticed him and walked back behind the counter. ¡°Hello young man, what can I do for you?¡± He asked while wiping his dirty orange fingers on his pants. Orange beard, orange fingers, this old man probably loved Cheetos.
¡°What is the reward for the obstacle course here?¡± Asked Kneeko. Hearing these words, the old man''s face instantly began to shine. ¡°The current reward is a high quality sword worth 130 gold, plus a cash reward of 50 additional gold. Ermm, but I see you are only level 1... And not even a warrior... You probably never intended to try it after all. Hurhurhur... I don''t know what I was expecting, no one cares to test their skills anymore. Sigh*¡± After noticing Kneeko''s level, the old man''s face began to show sourness.
¡°I wish to do it.¡± Simply said Kneeko while throwing the the 2 gold admission fee on the counter. ¡°Eh? Are you serious? This course is very difficult and will most likely result in your death. Last week a level 36 warrior failed at it...¡± Quickly rebuked the old man, but Kneeko kept staring at him in the eyes without showing any type of emotions.
Incredulous at first, the old man eventually pocketed the gold and asked Kneeko to follow him down to the backyard. In the backyard was a big wooden building with two doors. The old man walked up to the left door, turned around to the young man who he thought would soon be dead and said.
¡°The test begins on the other side of this door. If you manage to go through the obstacles and come out of the second door, you win. But you most likely will never come out alive. I don''t know where your confidence comes from, but skills, magic and items are deactivated when you enter this building. You can only use your physical abilities.¡± Grumbled the old man.
Before the old man could finish his speech though, Kneeko had already entered the building and closed the door behind him. Inside was a long corridor, a left turn and another long corridor leading to the exit. Along the walls, floor and ceiling were obvious holes and slots which Kneeko recognized as blade, spear and arrow paths.
By the total absence of noise or movement, Kneeko concluded that these traps were triggered and not permanently active. Because of that, he wouldn''t be able to memorize their patterns but Kneeko was at a much higher level than that.
Just by looking at the holes and slot emplacements, Kneeko could predict dangerous and safe areas. The rest would all depend on his ''natural'' heightened reflexes and sensory abilities. After a few seconds spent analyzing the layout, Kneeko took a deep breath and stepped forward.
Outside the building, the old man was depressed and annoyed. ¡°Doing this course at level one... As I thought, among these ''otherworldlers'' only nutcases come to try this challenge.¡± The old man then spat on the floor, turned around and began to walk back to the guild building when the sound of a door opening behind him made him stop in his track.
''Tch, go figure. He got scared and immediately got back out. Youngsters these days.'' Thought the old man to himself as he turned around with a fake smile on his lips. When he finally met eyes with Kneeko, the old man''s jaw dropped. Kneeko had nonchalantly walked out from the left door which was supposed to be the finishing line.
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You have completed the ¡°Warrior Skill Test¡±
(Your class does not allow you to unlock the sword mastery skill)
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You have gained ¡°5¡± SP
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¡°Sigh* Seem like I''m a bit rusty...¡± Said Kneeko while inspecting a small cut on his tattered beginner''s shirt. ¡°W-w-wha- H-h-how-....Eeeeeeeehhhh?¡± Blabbered the old man who was now wondering how Kneeko had cheated his way through the test. ¡°Alright, gimme my sword and money. I have a busy day ahead of me.¡± Finally said Kneeko.
After making sure that Kneeko couldn''t possibly have cheated, the old man then led him back inside. ¡°Young man, I don''t know how you did it but if you had such physical abilities, shouldn''t you have chosen a class that is more based on your physical prowess? I mean, summoners are usually for those who are physically weak and need their summoned creatures to fight for them.¡± Curiously inquired the old man.
¡°Khukukuku. What would you normally do if you fought a summoner?¡± Asked Kneeko instead of answering the old man''s question. ¡°Ermm... Since the summoned creatures disappear after the summoner''s death, I would obviously try to get past the creature and get to its summoner. Since they are usually wea- Wait... You mean..? Hurhurhurhurhur I see what you are doing now. You are quite the brilliant young man you know that? Hurhurhur¡± Said the man before giving a hearty laugh.
¡°Having your opponents think that you are weak so they would come at you when in reality, you are by far the most dangerous adversary, brilliant. Hurhurhur¡± Continued the old man who now seemed filled with energy. ¡°Well there are other strategic reasons as well but that''s pretty much the gist of it...¡± Added Kneeko.
¡°Hurhurhur, well to think some ''otherworlders'' were so interesting... Anyway, congratulations! Here''s your sword and gold.¡± Concluded the old man as he placed a standard looking one handed sword and a sack of gold on his counter. After closer inspection, the sword was nothing exceptional but was everything the forum had said it would be.
By far the best sword a lowly level 1 could hope to get his hands on. It was not because of the damage, or any special enchantments, but mostly due to its very high durability value. Kneeko quickly placed everything in his inventory and exited the building. His next step was an obvious one. In his quest list was the summoners'' starting quest which he still had yet to complete. The quest was simple.
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Go to the ''Summoners guild'' and undergo the Summoner''s affinity test.
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As long as he didn''t do this, he would remain a summoner with no summoning skills. For Kneeko, this was of course inconceivable. This test would allow him to unlock his first summoning skill and would select the perfect creature for him based on a quick analysis of his brainwaves.
''I wonder how the Exodus systems will react to my, ''peculiar'' brainwaves. Guhuhuhu.'' Wondered Kneeko with anticipation. ''Ho well, it''s sure to be interesting. Let''s go.''
(Book2) Chapter 6 - Birds of a feather flock together
This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL
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On his way to the summoners guild, Kneeko walked down the main street where the biggest shops were located. Walking down the road, Kneeko eventually came across a shop called ''Lotostuff Foch?p''. He had already calculated what he would buy with his newly acquired gold, and also knew this shop had the best prices on what he wanted.
Since he was already there, Kneeko decided to go inside and buy the necessary items before continuing toward the guild. Having only 58 gold in his pockets, he wouldn''t be able to buy nice clothes and equipment but other things needed to be prioritized.
The shop was mostly selling consumables like spellbooks, scrolls, potions and various objects having a limited number of uses. Sadly, there was no time for him to do the mission allowing him to grow closer to the merchant and lower the prices, but he only needed 3 items.
2 mana potions worth 10 gold coins each, and a familiar contract scroll worth 35 coins. Kneeko quickly completed the transaction and walked out of the shop with only 3 gold left in his pockets. Usually a single familiar contract was useless, since most creatures would refuse a bunch of time before finally accepting to become someone''s familiar, but Kneeko was a cheater after all so a single one was plenty enough.
The 2 mana potions would be used as nutriment for his fungus, while the contract would later be used to mess with the game mechanics a bit. Kneeko couldn''t help but giggle in anticipation, but there was a problem he needed to deal with first. For him to go forward with his idea, he needed to be able to ''convince'' (bribe/coerce/threaten) an admin from Exodus into assisting him.
The young delinquent he had met a few days ago still hadn''t given any news which was unexpected. What delinquent would miss an opportunity to make 100k yens? Luckily, Kneeko who was a prudent (paranoiac) man had taken some precautions and had two of his men keep a close eye on (stalk/spy) the rebellious teenager.
The next time the teen would make contact with his corrupted admin friend, Kneeko would learn who it is and then use this information to his advantage. If this admin turned out to be impossible to control, then he would have to go for plan B. No matter what this unknown admin decided to do, he was already certain to lose against Kneeko''s plan B.
It took 45 more minutes to finally reach the summoners guild. This went to show just how immense the capital city Nakubar truly was. This time, the guild building was a circular one, made out of large red clay bricks and was 3 stories high. The summoner''s guild''s red flag was elegantly floating on top of a pole near the entrance so people would know exactly what they were.
Unsurprisingly enough, the area seemed very popular with the players. Summoner was an overly represented class for many obvious reasons. The major reasons being one, summoned creatures are basically free pets and two, people who didn''t like fighting or getting injured were naturally appreciating having a creature doing it for them.
For these reasons the beast tamers, shamans, summoners and other classes offering the possibility of controlling some type of creatures were quite popular among the users. The demon races were quite common among players, and it was also common to see a ''fresh spawn'' coming to the guild for an affinity test. Because of this, nobody paid any attention to him when he finally entered the building.
The building was full of people pleasantly talking to each others. Some were comparing their ''creatures'' while others were exchanging information. Pushing his way through, Kneeko eventually walked up to the counter where a lizard-woman busily worked. He then installed himself at the counter and stared at the woman without saying a word, until she finally noticed him and came closer.
¡°Yes, are you here for an affinity test cugnoo?¡± Asked the small green scaled woman. To her question, Kneeko simply nodded while still staring at her. ¡°Down the stairs, you''re number 42 cugnoo.¡± She then said after giving him a small piece of paper with the number 42 written on it.
Not wasting any time, he then walked down the stairs and entered a room filled with chairs. Around 6 people were there waiting for their turns, so maybe the number 42 wasn''t so bad thought Kneeko. Following the procedures, he silently sat on a chair, and waited for his number to come up.
Next to him were two annoyingly loud women who kept rambling about how their ''online'' boyfriends were the best. Unsurprisingly, it took all of Kneeko''s willpower to resist the urge to snap at the two of them. A few minutes later, a young demon boy exited the area everybody was waiting to enter with a radiant smile on his lips.
The young man walked up to one of his friends who had been waiting for him, struck a pose and summoned his newly acquired creature to show off. The creature was something looking like a black salamander with lava red stripes on its body. Kneeko couldn''t help but smile. He knew this little thing had the potential to evolve into a dragon. ''Lucky lad'' he thought to himself.
Sadly though, there was a better chance of it learning how to sit, roll and give a paw rather than learning how to fight, so the dragon path seemed unlikely. ¡°Number 42¡± Then called an old woman wearing a mage robe. The old woman''s red and black eyes were very creepy, but Kneeko had seen worse.
For Kneeko who still remembered the eyes of his pissed off dragon wife after he had accidentally killed their children, the old woman''s glare meant nothing. Of course, back then his wife knew that he could simply load their save files and resurrected them afterwards, but Anastaria was merciless when it came to her children.
Having spaced out for a second after getting lost in that memory, Kneeko then quickly stood up and followed the old hag down to a giant circular room. The entire place was filled with carvings on the walls, columns, ceiling and floor. The entire room was also illuminated by a bunch of crystals shining with a faint blue glow.
At the centre of the room was a pedestal shaped like the talons of a dragon which were holding what looked like a crystal ball. On the outside of the circular room stood 3 people wearing mage robes. These mysterious people couldn''t clearly be seen since their faces were cloaked by their hoods, but they were most likely the summoner''s guild''s leaders.
The old woman walked down to the centre of the room, turned around and stood beside the pedestal. ¡°Place your left hand on the elemental sphere and... That''s it...¡± She then said as if she was in a hurry to get this over with. Seeing his perplex expression, the old hag eventually relinquished some more information.
¡°The sphere will change colour, yadiyada, red for fire, blue for water, yadiyada... Then you will automatically be contracted to a low level creature compatible with your dominant element, yadiyada... The creature''s species and potential is determined by the analysis of your soul and personality, yadiyada... Satisfied?¡± She quickly blabbered.
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¡°Can the summoned creature be more powerful that its summoner?¡± Curiously asked Kneeko. Annoyed at having to always repeat the same things, the old hag let out a long sigh before finally beginning her explanation. ¡°Yes and no. You can train your creature more than you do yourself, but this ceremony analyzes your soul-spirit and determines your true potential. The summoned entity is then selected among all the entities of this world to find the one best suited for its summoner. This basically means that you can''t summon a creature with more potential than yourself.¡± She quickly answered in a disinterested manner.
''So the young man from before had the potential to become as strong as a dragon? Interesting...'' Thought Kneeko to himself. Sensing the old hag getting impatient, he then walked a few steps forward, pressed his hand against the crystal ball and injected a bit of mana into it.
As soon as he did so, the sphere began to react and slowly turned darker and darker until it became a totally opaque jet black colour. Seeing this, the 4 cloaked summoners around him subtly inched forward to get a better look. ''Guhuhuhu. Admire and be amazed at how dark and black my soul is! Guhuahaha!'' He internally laughed to himself.
Once his affinity was successfully determined, a magic circle then began to glow in front of him with a faint red light. After glowing and pulsating for a few seconds, a dark silhouette eventually appeared in the centre of the circle. This dark silhouette had the shape of a human, but was barely visible to the naked eye.
By the look of it, Kneeko assumed his summoned creature to be something like a spectre. The 4 overlookers who had seemed interested until now, seemed disappointed after seeing what he had finally summoned. By their reaction, they had been expecting something more interesting after witnessing just how black the sphere had turned.
Then, the circle and the silhouette disappeared, returning calm and tranquility to the dark room he was currently in. ¡°A common spectre... It''s a rare thing to see a summoner with a ''death'' affinity... My opinion is that you should have picked necromancy, but it''s none of my business. The exit is this way. Number 43!¡± Quickly concluded the old hag.
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You have successfully summoned ''Thanatos ¨C God of death'' (Lvl-1)
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You have completed the quest ¡°Summoner''s affinity test¡±
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You have gained ¡°125¡± EXP
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Thanatos was the daemonic representation of death in Ancient Greek mythology (daemonic here is used with its classical meaning, which refers to benevolent or benign nature spirits). He did not play a major part in Greek mythology and rarely appeared in any stories, as he was mostly displaced by Hades, the god of the Underworld.
Thanatos was believed to be merciless and indiscriminate, and both mortals and gods hated him.
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''Khukukuku Common spectre my ass.'' Internally laughed Kneeko. But on the other hand, he was glad they hadn''t verified whether it truly was a common spectre or not. These types of things were better kept secret for the future, and there was no way they would have suspected that a player would summon a god just like he had just done.
Of course it was only at level 1, but it was still a god. This meant that the Exodus system had estimated Kneeko to have more latent potential than the god of death himself. Not wanting to hang around for too long, Kneeko turned around and walked out of the guild building while trying not to attract too much unwanted attention.
''I should be prudent and avoid summoning this thing when there are too many witnesses around to see.'' Thought Kneeko as he walked toward one of the city gates. Once arrived at the gates, he then first decided to allocate his unused skill points before heading out into the wilderness.
He was definitely strong and good at fighting, but a higher level monster still remained a threat to him since he was only a level 1 after all. Wanting to grind his new skills, Kneeko decided to pour his 5 points into ''INTELLIGENCE'' so he would have more mana at his disposal.
Since each point gave a hundred mana points each, adding 5 more to his previous 3 points gave him 800 mana units which was enough to summon Thanatos and use [Wave of aggression] twice. Now ready to venture out, Kneeko walked through the giant door leading into the wilderness. Near the door were a bunch of carriages and soldiers offering their escort services to anyone coming out of town but Kneeko simply ignored them.
He estimated that those who needed escorts to venture out weren''t even worth gazing upon. The outskirts of the city were plains filled with beginner''s prey like horned rabbits, demon foxes and other weak creatures. His plans were to hunt a few of them while walking toward his fungus which should be only a few minutes away from his current position.
But before doing anything, Kneeko went to a discrete area where no one could see him and summoned his new godly pet ''Thanatos''. [SUMMONING (THANATOS)] Soon after using the skill, the phantom silhouette appeared before him for the second time. Its appearance was that of a semi-transparent human silhouette with 2 creepy red glowing eyes.
¡°To reduce me, Thanatos the great god of death into a mere slave... What abomination might my master be?¡± Asked the ghostly being. At these words, Kneeko couldn''t help but chuckle in amusement. ¡°Well, what might I be, if not a more powerful and more deadly god than yourself, dear Thanatos. We will have a lot of fun together I assure you. Khukuku¡± He playfully responded with a smile on his lips.
Now with the introductions almost over, the deadly duo then entered the forest and headed toward the direction where they would find the devil himself, his fungus Heosphoros.