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Chapter 13

7/29 16:36 (Summer, Night; Luna)

7 arrows were shot at her at once from one of the two Elves in the group of outlaws as she quickly blocked them all with her wings, her sword floating around her as she drew back a True Arrow nocked to her bow.

Before she could shoot, a silent Pressure Wave was sent at her that she was able to dodge as it was vastly slower than the Chanted variant, but buying his leader enough time to reach her and try to cut her in half.

She responded by retaking the Sword floating around her and parrying him away before blocking the skillfull thrust of the second and last Elf within the group.

As she was about to kill him, the two Beast-kins, one of the Deer-Type and one of a Fox-Type, interfered.

The second of the two, looking like a Human with the addition of the tail and ears of a fox and nails that looked like claws, swung at her with said claws from both of his hands clad in Vital Energy while the first, looking like a slender human with the horns of a deer, jumped over her before stomping down on her, his foot clad in Vital Energy.

In response, she formed two small platforms under her feet, launching herself not away, but towards the first of the two of them, letting her weapon go and grabbing his wrists before forcefully pulling him in the way of the other Beastkin’s stomp, sending them both crashing to the ground.

They were saved from a rain of lances from the sky by one of the three Dwarfs, shielding them with a Tower Shield 3 meters tall and two wide, a shield that was massively bigger then he was, with his barely meter and a half of height, using a Technique to increases immensely his balance, being able to keep himself and the other two safe.

Meanwhile a Fireball launched by the Human Mage away from them was blocked by a True Barrier over the head of the Elf, distracting him from the arrow that he was preparing and buying herself enough time.

After all, while a group of this size is dangerous, there is a reason most Adventuring Parties are comprised out of only a handful of People to minimize the variables of a fight.

Against a single Person, only so many People could attack at once effectively.

And that number was well within her calculation ability.

Sixteen True Lances that looked like drills materialized above her and started to spin, faster and faster, before they were launched at high speed, one towards every single one of her targets as distraction while she nocked an Arrow in her Bow, shooting it at the Wizard.

She really needed to call them something to distinguish them.

Dwarf 1 used his door of a Shield to protect himself and Beastkin 1 and 2 while Dwarf 2 and 3, a pair of twins, blocked with their maces.

Human 3 to 6, Elf 1 and 2 and the Leader evaded the attack without any problems while the two remaining Humans barely dodged, being wounded in the leg one and in the side the other.

Finally while the Mage was able to dodge the Lance because of the distance between them, the Arrow that followed was fortunately broken by Right-Hand who ignored the one sent against himself, accepting a hole in his left shoulder, his non-dominant arm while sending another shockwave back.

She calmly dodged it by flying a couple of meters away, before dropping towards the ground trying to stomp the Deer Beastkin with her left foot clad in purple, to reduce the number of inconsequential opponents.

He hurriedly dodged as a crater formed there, cracks expanding outwards before Human 3 and Dwarf 2 jumped in the hole, one armed with a katana while the other with a mace.

“Fast Slash!”

“Strong Blow!”

Both weapon clad in red were swung at her, the katana from her left being quickly drawn by its shealt while the mace fell from above on her right.

The response was immediate.

A mace formed in her left hand and she used Hard Blow to overpower the bladed weapon and stopped him dead while a katana formed in her right hand, using Fast Slash to deflect the mace to the ground, before she jumped and used the two’s chest as a jumping pad to dodge a third attack.

“Heavy Thrust!”

The rapier wielded from the falling Human 4, that used his own whole weight to increase the damage as much as possible, pierced where Luna was before until the hilt.

She nodded to herself while falling, noting what she felt when she was using the Techniques and what she was seeing through her Familiars.

Her copying of both Techniques was because Vision’s sight was connected with her own and so she could see how they manipulated their Vital Energy and copy this manipulation with her own ability to manipulate Vital Mana.

Fast Slash was a Technique to maximize the speed of the swing while Strong Blow, instead, was a Technique to use all of the body to maximize the power of a blow.

The two Technique cannot be normally used together, but she was more than able to use them in quick succession and so, the next step was obvious.

She used Strong Slash combined with Pressure Wave to create a powerful, but slow, air blade that was followed with a Fast Slash combined with Pressure Wave, fusing the two of them in a terrifying fast and strong air blade that was able to cut Human 4 in two, killing him and forming a vertical three-meters deep fessure in the ground as blood flowed.

“15 to go. Come on, teach me more.”

Her provocation was answered as a red Magic Circle formed under her before a pillar of fire enveloped her.

The rest of the group didn’t hesitate as Elf 1 shot various arrows where she was as Human 3 and 5, armed with two swords, ran in to cut her only to be stopped by a pair of swords.

She walked out of the fire, her Vital Mana covering her being solidified in a barrier to protect her from the fire before she nodded.

‘As I thought, he is no threat. Nor are most of them. 13 to go.’

She thought as her blades instantly changed in a couple of scythes, trapping the necks of the two Humans between the blade and the shaft before the two heads fell with a movement of her own wrists, her weapons dissolved in Energy before turning in five blades that were sent forward to buy time.

She stepped forward, her rapier piercing straight throught the armor of Dwarf 2 and his shoulder, impaling him against a tree before she ripped him apart by expanding her weapon and ripping him apart from the inside.

This death stunned them enough for her to shot an arrow through his twin, Dwarf 3, that exploded killing him.

A Fireball fell upon her.

“How boring. It seems like you will continue to bother me.”

Vision moved until, while still hidden, it could observe the Mage.

Warden then used Vision’s eyes as target mechanism to create a barrier within his forming Magic Circle, disrupting it in various critical places and blowing him up.

She returned to the fight, her sword meeting with Right Hand’s and Dwarf 1’s mace while both Human 6 and Elf 1 shot her with various arrows blocked with her newly-reappeared Wings, her right leg moving in a kick at Dwarf 1’s shield sending herself away before kicking at a tree, jumping forward again and punching it.

Before he could react, she grabbed his shield, pulling it towards herself, forcefully rising him in the air before smashing him in the ground on his back, creating a crater with his resistant body, stepping on his hands to stop them before, with a smile, piercing through his eye with a True Rapier, her Wings’ feathers becoming knifes and raining in the area around her.

A sword approched her neck before a True Staff blocked it as Leader continued the assault with a punch to her solar plexus dodged as she spinned, kicking him back before she stepped forward, her following punch being blocked by him crossing his arms before him, flying back.

As she jumped after him, a mace blocking his sight as she dropped to the ground, dodging the attack and taking the mace’s handle, stopping it before, with a smile she thrusted with her palm against his chest, using both Strong Blow and Pressure Wave at the same time throught her palm.

As the result, Right-Hand was sent flying, breaking various trees.

Beast-kin F jumped at her, his claws clad in Vital Energy as he attacked with a flurry of blows and she dodged while observing the way he used them.

After a while she nodded to herself before, her nails extended into claws, she ripped into him.

He fell as she stepped forward, stopping the kick by Beast-kin D by grabbing his ankle before stabbing him with a True Sword.

Human 6 slowly stepped back, his bow trembling, before he dropped it and ran away.

At seeing that, Luna’s expression worsened.

Her judgement was followed by her attack, a True Lance piercing his back, as Right-Hand, Leader and Elf 2 attacked her while Elf 1 shot her with various arrows.

Human 1 and 2 attacked her from the back, both of them using a pair of knifes.

She responded by Shaping a shield equal to Dwarf 1’s to block their and Right-Hand’s way while allowing the blade of Leader to pierce her right palm until the hilt she forcefully grabbed with barely a wince, moving him in the way of the arrows.

He was able to minimize the damage as much as possible from the arrows however this left him open to Luna that, bored of him already, pierced through him with her left hand clad in a spear.

Human 1 and 2 followed him in death because Spears fell from above, stabbing their arms and legs before they exploded through Mana Burst.

Elf 1 was next as she dodged mace and sword before, forming two True Arms as big as she was, she grabbed Elf 2 and Right-Hand and throwed them far away from herself.

She went forward, her Wings accelerating her as she dodged his arrows before, once she was before him moving outside his point of view with a sudden burst of speed, no more sounds being heard by his sensitive ears before feeling it.

A blade cutting him almost in two from behind as he, slowly, fell dying.

Elf 2 was able to land on his feet first, an hateful expression on his face as he reguarded her pointy ears.

“Oh? How interesting. You hate me, don’t you? How selfish. There is no meaning in a hate you cannot use to grow and you certaintly will not be able to use it as such. But I suppose, it is only natural for an Elf to despise an Half-Elf.”

The reason she said it was only natural was quite simple.

A Half-Elf was the child of an Human and an Elf with a Human’s Racial Skill with an Innate Skill derived by an Elf.

This Skill normally can be: Enhanced Senses, One with Nature, Skillfull Nature or Enhanced Agility.

This would not cause any issues for the Elfs, however these are not the only Skills a Half-Elf can hereditate from the Elf parent, merely the ones an Elf can obtain.

A Half-Elf can be born, even if very rarely, with two Skills that, indipendently of either effort or talent, will never be gained by an Elf causing immense envy in them because of their value and significance.

One of the two was "Blessing of the Spirits" that a certain Adventurer of the Iriblades currently possessed.

The other, possessed by Luna’s previous self, was Spirit Body, a Skill that she will be able to regain once she will become a B-Rank Lunarian.

Her smile expanded as she opened her Wings wide before flying towards her wounded opponents while weapons fell on them.

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7/29 17:19 (Summer, Night; Luna)

*Luna Gained 4087+114 Magicules.

*Luna’s Growth Skill “Soul Harmony” Rank increased to C-Rank.

*Luna’s Innate Skill “Regeneration” Rank increased to C-Rank.

*Luna’s Innate Skill “Vampirism” Rank increased to C-Rank.

*Luna’s Innate Skill “Familiar Summoning” Rank increased to D-Rank.

*Luna’s Innate Skill “Black Blood Manipulation” Rank increased to D-Rank.

*Luna’s Ability Skill “No-Attribute Sorcery” Rank increased to C-Rank.

*Luna’s Ability Skill “Unharmed Combat” Rank increased to C-Rank.

*Luna’s Ability Skill “Weapon Mastery” Rank increased to D-Rank.

*Luna’s Ability Skill “Meditation” Rank increased to D-Rank.

*Luna Gained the Ability Skill “High-speed Processing”.

*Luna Gained the Ability Skill “Parallel Processing”.

She was not finished.

As their blood finished to being absorbed in her mouth, she reguarded the 21 Souls she stored now within her.

They had no worth to her and so they passed on to the Moon.

The 5 at E-Rank left nothing behind.

The two most important Shades were Mage’s, leaving behind the Ability Skill “Fire Magecraft”, and Dwarf 1’s, containing “Physical Resistance.”

The rest of them were Ability Skills based on weapons that were then absorbed in Vision, forming a “Weapon Mastery” Skill based on her own, while Warden absorbed “Physical Resistance”.

The Shade formed by “Fire Magecraft” was then called Ash by Luna.

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She smiled, satisfied, before regarding the corpses around her.

“Now, what do I do? If Edgar was here, he would use Corpse Cremation, but I can’t use that Spell because of "Singularity".”

She tounched an arm on the ground, experimentally, Mana Forging it with Mana Burst before getting away from it and launching a Mana Stone enhanced with the same Spell against it.

The result was the simultaneous explosion of both.

She nodded to herself.

"Not this way. In that case…”

She cut herself, her blood invading a nearby corpse before activating its properties.

Quickly, the body was restaured to peak performance even if without any Soul within before it dissolved into Black Blood that joined her shadow in storage.

She nodded to herself before taking a branch from a tree, and follow the direction it fell towards, unaware that it indicated towards sud-est, the exact opposite direction she should be going towards.

Status

Total Magicules 14677 (V)

Stored Magicules 3765

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 → C

Magicules: 1k/10m. (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.

(Up) Finally, every day, the owner will receive Magicules equal to the total Rank of all their other Skills times 5.

At D-Rank the owner’s Vital Energy and Mana well are further increased.

(New) At C-Rank, the owner’s Soul is further in harmony with itself reducing sharply Cooldowns while enhancing their existence

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 → C

Magicules: 1k/10m. (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.

(New) At C-Rank, the owner is more resilient to alteration of status and heals even faster.

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 Authority: Vital Mana, 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 → C

Magicules: 1k/10m (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.

(Up) Additionally, in either cases, it allows the ability to sense and read Blood in a range depending on the Grade this and the Racial Skill.

At D-Rank this Skill allows the owner to store objects and non-living beings within the owner’s shadow.

(New) At C-Rank, this Skill increases temporary the power of the owner by consuming Blood, either their own or others, depending on its quality.

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 D-Rank the ammount of Blood needed to activate Blood Forging is greatly reduced and the owner’s Vital Energy recovery is increased.

Innate: Authority: Vital Mana 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 → D

Magicules: 1k/100k (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.

(New) At D-Rank, the Familiars can increase in Rank.

Innate: Black Blood Manipulation E → D

Magicules: 1k/100k (IV)

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 Authority: Vital Mana, both the blood and the shadow of the owner is passively changed to this substance, enhancing the owner’s existence further.

(New) At D-Rank, this Skill changes the nature of the blood further, enhaning the recovery and the quantity of both Mana and Vital Energy of the owner.

Ability: No Attribute Sorcery D → C

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 ease with which the owner can manipolate Mana.

(New) At C-Rank this Skill increases the Non-elemental Affinity of the owner.

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 → C

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.

(New) At C-Rank this Skill enhance the owner’s body even further.

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 → D

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.

(New) At D-Rank, this Skill decreases the cost of all Techniques using weapons.

Ability: Artifact Proficiency E

The power of all Artifacts attuned with the owner is increased slightly.

Ability: Meditation E → D

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.

(New) At D-Rank, the owner can now enter in Deep Meditation.

Deep Meditation:

While in Active Meditation, the user becomes more resistant to Status Alteration and recovers from them faster.

To activate it, 1000 seconds of Meditation is the base activation time required.

(New) Thanks to High-Speed Processing E, Deep Meditation’s Activation Time and Recovery are both 1,1 times faster.

(New) Because of Parallel Processing, it is possible to mantain a permament Deep Meditation by using 1 Process.

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.

(New)

Ability: High-Speed Processing E

This Skill speeds up the perception of the owner.

(New)

Ability: Parallel Processing E

This Skills shows the ability of the owner to process information through multiple thoughts at once.

At this Rank, it allows 1 extra Processing.

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.

(Up) Additionally because of the Innate Skill “Vampirism” the efficiency is further enhanced to 105%.

#Soul_Harmony

(Up) A process to automatically gain Magicules equal to the sum total of all other Skills the owner possess depending on their Rank times 5 every day.

E=1; D=3; C=5; B=7; A=10.

At the moment the Owner possesses, other than Soul Harmony:

4 E-Rank;

11 D-Rank Skills;

6 C-Rank Skills.

(Up) Every day, then, the owner will gain 67 Magicules times 5, 335.

#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

(New) Weapon Mastery E

Warden E

Imperial Scale E

(New) Physical Resistance E

(New) Ash

Fire Magecraft E