7/29 16:18 (Summer, Night; Edgar and Iriblades)
Edgar was without a doubt in an incredibly dangerous situation, surrounded, chained, with three limbs missings and trapped within a dome of steel.
He activated his ace.
He instantly disappeared, changing place with one of his Ghoul bearing his previous wounds that had already activated a self-destructive Spell, exploding between them.
A yellow Magical Circle manifested around it, safely suppressing said explosion as the dome vanished and they were able to see the fully-healed Edgar and his horde of Ghouls ready to continue to fight.
Various blades made of wind rained down on them, only to be stopped by a solid layer of water with a slight golden light within, a combination Spell between Marine and Klevel.
“Oh, Crushing Spirit, respond to my plea.”
An humanoid mass of rocks now floated behind and to left of her, but differently from the other times, she did not Cast a Spirit Spell, as she Summoned it with the intention of using it only for support.
Fora lowered her hand to the ground, spikes rising out of the ground to try to impale the Ghouls, with the Spirit increasing the potency and speed of said spikes.
Hastily, various Spells were Casted to destroy them, buying the Iriblades enough time.
Klevel rose his Cleric’ Staff, consuming most of both his Vital Energy and Mana to Cast a specific Spell, only possible because his Holy Magecraft reached B-Rank after the battle with the Water Drake.
“Potential Release.”
Instantly, the power of the Iriblades was amplified to as much of their potential power as possible.
This Spell was incredibly specific in requirement to Cast, requiring the target, or in this case targets, of this Spell to not have any active Strenghtening Spell Casted on them nor can they be activated on them for the duration.
But, it was more than worth it.
The effect was to temporary bring all of their Skills to a Rank equal to the Caster’s own Holy Magecraft Skill, in this case B-Rank, while creating enough Temporary Magicules to increases all Skills’ Grades by 4 in this case.
The Iriblades enjoyed the feeling of having their Potential released for the first time, after all this increase in power was much more intimate than any other previous one.
“Oh, Howling Spirit, respond to my plea.”
A person-shaped tornado formed itself behind and to her right, her increased Rank in Blessing of the Spirits allowing her to handle two Spirits at the same time while strenghtening them further.
She rose her bow, an arrow whose shaft was made out of rocks and with an arrowhead made out of solified air, nocked and launched high in the sky.
“Endlessly Raining Arrow.”
The Technique was activated.
The arrow shattered into pieces and said pieces became new arrows.
This process repeated itself again and again until a veritable rain of arrows fell upon all of her enemies.
Edgar’s eyes widened as he hurriedly activated an Artifact, covering all of them in a barrier while all of his Ghouls Casted various Spells and Technique to destroy as many arrows as possible before they could multiply further.
Fortunately, this Technique vastly decreases attack potency and durability in exchange for… well, a lot more attacks.
Unfortunately for Edgar, the original arrow was a Dual Attribute Spirit Arrow, much more dangerous and sturdy than normal arrows.
Fortunately the barrier would be able to mostly defend against the arrows, as spread out as they were.
Unfortunately for him, however, his reaction was already foreseen as the arrows instantly changed direction and target, without any loss of speed, charging directly at one point of the barrier.
Edgar’s eyes widened in shock as his barrier was shattered into pieces, arrows piercing his body in various places while he constantly switched his wounds to other Ghouls, using his own Regeneration and his Ghouls’ to barely survive the assault.
This, however, was only the start as the floor underneath him turned first into steel and then into spikes piercing his body and the Ghouls closest to him, killing five of them and wounding himself even further.
The distraction was enough as Marine charged her Mana, the water responding to her temporary increase in Rank, forming a figure inspired by the Drake they fought previously, a great serpent made entirely out of water, its eyes shining white as it roared, its power equal to the Drake they fought while they were in the ship, its body crushing Ghouls as it devoured various others.
Evan’s blade made entirely out of light was raised horizontally.
“Shining Flash.”
A white light was drawn through the Ghouls, before they all fell apart, dead.
Edgar’s eyes widened before he closed them, falling to the ground.
“Where is she!”
A growl escaped Azure as she stamped on his spine.
He, in response, didn’t hesitate.
Once the rest of her party neared them, he activated his final card detonating himself and his whole manor at once, to negate them any possibility of gaining any information on Luna, a resigned smile on his face.
Thirty minutes later, when the smoke started to dissipate, the Iriblades left the former manor after carefully exploring it, noting how even the basement was destroyed, leaving no trace of where to find Scarlet behind, a grim expression on their face.
Additionally, they only survived because they were under the effects of “Potential Release”, being able to shield themselves from the worst of the explosion while protecting the exhausted Klevel.
Azure gloomly observed Her photo, before she slapper her own cheeks, her eyes clear and her will resolute.
“I will find you. No matter the cost or time.”
She moved faster, deciding to ask the people of this Island for informations, hoping and praying for answers.
After all, even if her Unique Skill didn’t indicate the way towards her, it indicated that she was still alive somewhere.
She did awaken her Unique Skill only after She was taken from her for the expressed desire to find Her.
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7/29 16:14 (Summer, Night; Luna)
She smiled before using a Technique, normally used with Shields, through her Wings, shielding her.
She didn’t hesitate, converting her feathers into knifes, before throwing them all around her.
The group of bandits scattered while the mace-wielding one shielded both himself and his leader, before swinging, releasing a shockwave towards her.
“Pressure Wave!”
She jumped left, dodging the shockwave and blocking a sword swing from another person with her Unique Arma’s left gauntlet before blocking a slash from another sword with one of her own in her right hand, Shaped from both Black Blood and Vital Mana, before swinging with a second one in her now armed left hand, blocked by a shield from a third bandit, before she jumped away.
‘How should I call my Shapes? They are not Mana Shapes anymore… Can I call them Blood Shapes? No. Moon Shapes? No. Hm, True Shapes. Yes, True Shapes, it is.’
At the end of the thought, she proceeded with a less important, but more immediately relevant, one.
‘Now, is it Sorcery, Magecraft or Naturecraft. Sorcery for ranged attacks needs either B-Rank or Mana Shape and the power of the Spell was way too low for the ammount of Mana contained for it to be the first option. It was also too stable and, at the same time, too unstable to be Mana Shape. So it is either Magecraft or Naturecraft.’
She nodded to herself, her newly-renamed True Sword, cutting straight through a swordman arm before she quickly cut off the top of his head with no hesitation.
At the sight of one of his men dying, the enraged leader joined the fight with his second in command following close behind.
“How dare you kill-”
“Yeah, yeah, “how dare I kill” whoever that was. Listen well, if you attack someone you should be prepared to the possibility of death. Being furious that someone you attacked, defended themselves is absolutely ridiculous. But you did the right move by attacking first, after all I planned to attack your back when I passed you before.”
She provoked, the smile on her face never wavering.
“You bitch!”
“Calm down, boss. If you attack without thinking, we will die.”
He breathed in and out, calming down as he prepared to fight.
Meanwhile a Fireball fell upon her, only to be blocked again by a True Wing, and Luna nodded to herself.
‘Considering the time between the Fireballs, the stability of the Spells, the location of their origins, their speed, the difference in quantity of Mana and the resulting differences in power between them...Yes, there is only one possibility especially considerating how he never strenghtened any member of this group.’
“I’m certain of it now. Your Mage is a Fire-specialized Wizard with a Fire Magecraft and Mana Control Skills of D-Rank with a reasonable affinity for Fire. Additionally, he is not particularly good at projecting Magic Circles away from himself and he is right there.”
Having said that she created a True Arrow floating above her before it started its flight towards the one she identified as a new D-Rank Fire Wizard, a person that was more than 130 meters away from her.
He was, however, fortunately saved by the second in command that smashed apart the arrow before it could leave the clearing and Luna’s smile widened at having her theory confirmed, her eyes litteraly shining with bloodlust in the dark of the Night.
The reason her Shapes could be seen was because a certain Vampire that died shortly before made quite a bit of money by making and selling Artifacts that granted Darkvision while equipped to various criminal organizations on the nearby continents, some of which were then stolen by various people, among which this group of bandits.
Artifacts that they used extensively to capture many people across the last 7 years.
Artifacts that were the only reason why only three people died when Luna simply rose her left arm, releasing spears from the ground around her, wounding at least that many more that were too slow to react.
This time, the leader didn’t hesitate running in.
“Heavy Slash!”
His sword clad in red met a similar weapon in the True Shape wielded by the Lunarian’s right hand, being stopped in midair as she rose her other hand only to hastily moving it towards the indoming mace forming a shield instead of a blade to stop it.
“Pressure Wave!”
The wave of force met the shield, weakening it enough that the continuing swing broke it into piece, forcing her to step back to dodge the attack, swinging a pair of daggers to block various arrows shot at her while she was retreating before forming a mace in her left hand, forcibly swinging it.
This was the same Technique that the mace-wielding one just used on her, however the power was on a whole another level as derived by both the quality of the Weapon and the use of Vital Mana, creating a two-meters wide wave of force that shattered three trees completely while unrooting many more, before it ended as they jumped away from there.
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She nodded to herself before doing the same with a sword releasing a slash that cut a line straight through various trees and rocks, killing another one of the bandits she was fighting.
A laugh escaped her as her targets from 21 become 16, ready and willing for the number to become zero, a new pair of True Wings appearing on her back, a True Bow in her right hand, a True Sword in her left and her Unique Arma covering both of her hands and most of her forearms.
The smell of blood in the air became more and more intense as the Moonlight shone above and cruel, but beautiful, laugher washed away all other sounds.
The real battle finally started as the 16 remaining bandits, these of D-Class, prepared to fight the D-Rank Lunarian.
Status
Total Magicules 10476 (V)
Stored Magicules 464
Racial: Lunarian D
Magicules: 1k/100k. (IV)
A superior existence alien to the world of Gaea, a fleeting dream made real by the blessing of the Blood Moon and her own nature as a natural Singularity.
The owner has no need for breathing and this body will not be affected by time, and the owner’s body will find it easy to store and use their Vital Energy, that will regenerate automaticaly.
The owner can see in the dark perfectly, will never forget anything they experienced personally, with the addition of the knowledge obtained from the Moon’s database even if at this Rank, this knowledge while mostly subconscious, can now be accessed actively.
The owner will have increased resistance to all attributes and a natural resistance and vulnerability to Bloodloss derived by the fact that they are able to store up to 300 leters of blood in their shadows and the ability to convert it in Vital Energy and Mana and the conversion of it in Magicules.
The owner will also, normally, have a large increase to their affinity to both Dark and Curse Attributes, however, this time, because of the owner’s Unique Skill, will instead be towards non-elemental affinity.
Finally if the sucking of Blood kills or the victim has died shortly before, the Soul of the victim is stored within the owner’s of this Skill’s, at this Rank it has the effect to add their knowledge to the Moon’s database.
At D-Rank the owner can now either create Familiars out of the stored souls or, given enought Mana and Vital Energy, can resurrect them.
The Familiars created are derived by one of the non-Racial Skill of the original Souls, but with one lower Rank than its highest Ranked Skill.
Also at D-Rank you can now use Vital Energy to control your own Blood and Mana to control and shape shadows.
Unique: Singularity D
Magicules: 1k/100k. (IV)
A Skill that denotes the nature of the owner’s Soul being a black hole in which nothing will ever escape.
The owner of such a Soul cannot use any elemental magic of any type.
However magic that doesn’t depend on any element will be vastly enhanced and so will be the ease in the control of Mana and energy in general and the efficiency and speed of any energetic conversion and transfer.
Additionally limits on magical affinity, Mana control and conversion efficiency will be nullified.
The final effect at this Rank will be that the increases in an elemental affinity will, instead, increases non-elemental affinity.
At D-Rank, all sustain costs are negated and the stability of any construct made of energy is brought to the maximum.
Growth: Soul Harmony D
Magicules: 1k/100k. (IV)
This Skill denotes that the owner’s Soul is moving towards harmony guided by their Unique Skill, their Soul being strenghtened by this process and increased ease of use of the owner’s energy in general and both their growth speed and their potential.
Finally, every day, the owner will receive Magicules equal to the total Rank of all their other Skills times 3.
At D-Rank the owner’s Vital Energy and Mana well are further increased.
Growth: Unique Arma: Sorcerous Armor of the Singularity D
Magicules: 1k/100k. (IV)
A person is considered such if they have an Unique Skill, whether it is active or not.
This is nothing, but the use of Orichalcum to manifest it in a physical form able to be wielded only by its owner.
This particular Unique Arma is derived by the Unique Skill “Singularity” and, as such, is extremely efficient to convert, transfer and amplify Energy in general, whether it is Mana, Vital Energy or other types.
This armament is able to strenghten both its owner’s existence and their Spell, Technique and Crafting by increasing the ammount of Energy in them without actually using any automatically.
Additionally, this Skill increases the quantity and the recovery speed of Energy of the owner, depending on the Unique Skill “Singularity”’s Rank.
This Skill manifests for the moment as two gloves covering up to most of the owner’s forearm principally made of a black scale-like material, had a circle made of Orichalcum on the center of it, both in the palm and the back of the hand with details in platinum around them connecting with a bracelet made of the same material around her wrist.
At this Rank, once it is manifested, the owners resistance to damage is increased and so is the quality of all Energy of the owner.
Finally, every day, the owner will receive Magicules depending on this and the corresponding’s Unique Skill Ranks.
Innate: Regeneration D
Magicules: 1k/100k. (IV)
This Skill denotes that the owner is able to passively and automatically generate and heal themselves using Vital Energy.
In this case, however, this Skill function as an enhancement towards the healing caused by the nature of the owner as a Lunarian.
At D-Rank this Skill also further increases the well of Vital Energy and Mana of the owner.
Innate: Blood Gift D
Magicules: 1k/100k. (IV)
This Skill notes the owner’s affinity with Blood, healing and Vital Energy in general by allowing it to convert the first in the latter.
However, this function as an enhancement to this process if, like in this case, the owner can already do such.
Finally, if the previous situation is true, it allows the transfer of Vital Energy to heal others by allowing them to drink the owner’s Blood at a reduced efficiency, except in this case because of the owner’s Unique Skill and so the efficiency isn’t lowered.
Thanks to Vital Mana Authority, this Skill can transfer Vital Mana, Mana or Vital Energy to the target.
At D-Rank this Skill further increases the speed at which Mana and Vital Energy are generated in the owner.
Innate: Vampirism D
Magicules: 1k/100k (IV)
A Skill that denotes someone’s thirst for blood, both biologically and mentally.
In someone who is not naturally vampiric, this Skill allows them to gain sustenance and some Magicules from Blood.
However, in a natural vampiric being, it enhances the effects of said process slightly and further increases the owner’s Vital Energy and Mana Well.
Additionally, in either cases, it allows the ability to sense Blood nearby.
At D-Rank this Skill allows the owner to store objects and non-living beings within the owner’s shadow.
Innate: Blood Forging D
Magicules: 1k/100k (IV)
This Skill denotes the ability to use the owner’s blood to enhance an object beyond its limits.
At this Rank the ammount of Blood needed to activate Blood Forging is greatly reduced and the owner’s Vital Energy recovery is increased.
Innate: Vital Mana Authority D
Magicules: 1k/100k (IV)
This Skill denotes the authority of the owner over the use of Vital Mana.
It automatically fuses together Vital Energy and Mana within the owner and counts it as either parts with much higher efficiency, quality, control, quantity and recovery speed.
Thanks to Singularity, the efficiency of the fusion of Vital Energy and Mana is set to a minimum of 100%.
At D-Rank, the potency of Vital Mana is increased further.
Innate: Familiar Summoning E
Magicules: 1k/1k (IV)
This Skill denotes the ability of the owner to fight with summoned Familiars, made with Mana or otherwise.
In this case, the number of Maximum Familiar is negated because of the owner being a Lunarian, so long as all Familiars are made by the Lunarian Skill, even if they still require Vital Energy and Mana to be Summoned.
Additionally the growth of all Familiars is increased.
Innate: Black Blood Manipulation E
Magicules: 100/1k (III)
This Skill shows the ability of the owner to fuse the shadow and the blood of the owner within and without the owner’s body to create a black fluid that is considered as both blood and shadow.
Additionally, thanks to both Singularity and Vital Mana Authority, both the blood and the shadow of the owner is passively changed to this substance, enhancing the owner’s existence further.
Ability: No Attribute Sorcery D
This Skill denotes the ease and ability with which the owner uses No Attribute Sorcery increasing the owner non-elemental affinity and the Power of No Attribute Sorceries.
No Attribute Sorcery is based upon the use of Mana untainted by any attribute within the owner’s body and without any chant, magical circle or other similar ways based entirely on the owner’s willpower.
At D-Rank this Skill increases the use with which the owner can manipolate Mana.
Ability: Mana Shaping C
This Skill denotes the ability of the owner to shape Mana outside their body throught willpower alone.
This Skill enhance additionally the Power of the owner’s Shapes and the control of their Mana.
The process by which Mana Shapes are made depends on the owner’s control of their Mana, this Skill and the Skill and magical affinity in a type of sorcery from which the shape is formed dealing damage based on it.
In this case, however, the Mana efficiency derived by the owner’s Unique Skill “Singularity” is such that all Mana Shape are transparent except for their outline.
At D-Rank Mana Shapes can now be considered as independent creations, no longer needing explicit mental commands.
At C-Rank Mana Shapes can now be freely manipulated depending on Mana Control both in aspect and function.
Ability: Unharmed Technique D
This Skill denotes the ability of the owner without the use of a weapon or with only fist-type weapons and increases the Power of Techniques used with their own body.
At D-Rank this Skill increases the owner Vital Energy Quantity and Recovery.
Ability: Mana Forging D
This Skill denotes the owner’s ability to actualize the process to enhance something, using the owner’s own Mana as a medium, with a Spell.
At D-Rank this Skill increases the passive generation of the Mana of the owner and greatly reduce the time needed to activate this Skill with the same ammount of Mana.
Ability: Weapon Mastery E
This Skill denotes the ability of the owner to use weapons and techniques at their maximum possible potential in combat or not.
This Skill will also absorbed all other weapon Skills in itself being strengthened for each.
This Skill greatly increases the owner Vital Energy capacity and regeneration and the power of technique, spells and crafting related to weapons.
Ability: Artifact Proficiency E
The power of all Artifacts attuned with the owner is increased slightly.
Ability: Meditation E
This Skill normally lowers the time needed to sleep however a Lunarian has no need for that and, as such, this Skill instead increases the efficiency of the use of all Energy of the owner.
Ability: Presence Suppression E
This Skill shows the degree of the owner to hide one’s own presence.
Thanks to Singularity, all form of Energy within the owner is passively hidden.
Magicules sources.
#Lunarian #Singularity #Vampirism
A process to convert 100 leters of Blood in Magicules, the number of which depends on the owner of said blood.
The ammount of Magicules gained is equal to 100 plus the total ammount of Magicules the former owner absorbed.
This process is 1 hour long every 100 leters of Blood to convert them, with a 10% conversion efficiency, however with the combination of Unique Skill “Singularity”, the time is instantaneous and the efficiency is of 100%, however this process kills the victim without a doubt.
Additionally because of the Innate Skill “Vampirism” the efficiency is further enhanced to 103%.
#Soul_Harmony
A process to automatically gain Magicules equal to the sum total of all other Skills the owner possess depending on their Rank times 3 every day.
E=1; D=3; C=5; B=7; A=10.
At the moment the Owner possesses, other than Soul Harmony:
5 E-Rank;
12 D-Rank Skills;
1 C-Rank Skills.
Every day, then, the owner will gain 46 Magicules times 3, 138.
#Unique_Arma #Singularity
A process to automatically gain Magicules every day equal to the value of Unique Arma’s and Singularity’s Rank.
E=100; D=300; C=500; B=700; A=1k
At the moment Unique Arma is D-Rank and Singularity is at D-Rank and so, every day, the owner will gain 600 Magicules.
Familiars:
Vision E
Third Eye of Physicality E
Warden E
Imperial Scale E