9/13 13:03 (Summer, Day; Amber & Aurora)
A talon, leaving behind a trail of golden flames, was launched to try and cut her head, attack that was dodged before a tail covered in cold mist was swung in response.
As Amber floated around said tail, she roared releasing a wave of fire all around her, wave that was stopped dead by an incoming wave of freezing air before a narrow Dragon Breath was casually dodged as the Phoenix generated flames around her that she then shaped into burning red strings through both “Pyrokinesis”, an Innate Skill common in Phoenixes, and “Blaze Crafting”, another Skill common in the same Race, being an Ability Skill instead.
Strings that she then used to bind the Dragon’s limbs and her mouth around the frozen armor that started to slowly melt, before she released a rain of golden fire in the zone around them.
Hurriedly, Aurora created a wall of ice through Mana Shaping to block the wave of fire directed at her, a sigh of relief released by her, before she froze, her eyes widening.
The fire that was directed away from her froze in the air before being turned into crimson spears that surrounded her, spears that quickly tried to pierce her from all directions.
Aurora’s eyes quickly widened before she roared, doing something rare for True Dragons to do.
She forcefully changed the area around her, freezing the flames solid before they shattered in ice crystals, both the spears and the strings, before the area returned to normal.
“How surprising.” Amber praised, while her flames melted down the ice around her. “It seems like you studied how Drakes fought to learn how to actively amplify your Domain the way Drakes do. I must offer my praises to you.”
“Shut up! I don’t accept any praises from someone that is holding back like you are!” At her roar, another Breath Attack was launched from the Dragon.
At her words, the flames of the Phoenix rose as a snarl before she completely ignored the Breath piercing her body, flying up to Aurora and cutting her heavily across her chest before sending her crashing to the ground with a wave of flames.
As she breathed in and out to calm down, the hole in her chest refilled with flames as she quickly healed thanks to both her own Skills: Innate “Regeneration”, various Vital Energy-based Skills and especially her own Racial Skill “Phoenix”.
This allowed her to heal herself extremely quickly and cheaply while her “Undying Body” keep her from losing Vital Energy because of injuries, rendering the previous tactic of exchanging blows more than usable for her.
However just because this tactic was effective, it didn’t mean that it was the right one as evident by the fact that the shards of ice around her instantly become sharp, wounding her further.
This was far from their first fight and, as such, their respective weak points were easy to exploit by each other.
As the ice pierced her, she calmed down before heating up the area around her until the ice sublimated into water vapor before arrows made of fire rained down on Aurora.
A wall of ice rose up, meeting the fire half-way up and being constantly destroyed and recreated before finally this bombardment calmed down.
“Ahh, sorry, I lost my cool, I suppose. I should not lose control because of the words of a sore loser that isn’t able to beat a young girl two decades younger once in the last fifty times? Sixty? Sorry, I don’t remember how many times I beat you in a row. Tell me, do you remember how many times did you lose onesidely?”
“You piece of shit. You have an Innate Skill that, even at your age, you never Ranked Up. You could Evolve in a stronger Race and increase in Rank yet you are still a simple D-Rank Phoenix. If you had ever bothered to increases that Skill’s Rank, you would have long since reached C-Rank. What a waste, isn’t it?”
“I see… It seems like a certain frozen lizard forgot that for a bird, it is no more than a potential meal, didn’t she? In that case, why don’t you wait, while I proceed to cook my next meal.”
Fire covered the sky around her, before falling down as a rain of crimson arrows, rain that was stopped by yet another wall of ice before she fell down, her flames dancing around her as she started to spin, her flames being quickly condensed around her to form a drill that pierced straight through the wall.
Aurora hurriedly dodged as Amber almost drilled her, before the drill glowed and exploded in a wave of fire that battered her armor, before the Phoenix flew from the fire and cut into her with blazing claws.
The wounds distracted her enough for the Fire-Attribute one to release a breath attack made of condensed flames, in a mocking imitation of a Dragon’s Breath Attack, sending her away from her even as she shielded herself with her wings protected by her armor.
As she rose, the Dragon didn’t hesitate, releasing a breath of cold all around her to stop the incoming flames before narrowing into a beam that was fluidly dodged by the bird before she flew high in the sky to dodge spikes of ice.
Before the battle restarted in earnest, Aurora roared forcing the temperature around them both to sharply decreases, before a cyan Aura covered her.
She quickly regenerated her armor before meeting her opponent halfway as talons met claws again in a fierce battle as heat and cold fought incessantly.
Aurora roared again, releasing a Breath upon her rival, opponent and enemy, making a new hole in her body and that quickly healed again before quickly dodging two blades made out of flames that the recently wounded one was wielding in her talons that exploded to oscure her sight.
Which was quite a strange thing to do considering how her “Soul Sight” was more than able to see Amber through her smokestream and she should have been more than aware of that.
She didn’t hesitate, releasing another Breath Attack to pierce her opponent only for the fire that was hiding her to solidify in a barrier to block it before fire rained down on her.
She swooped down, dodging the fire that however stopped dead before it followed moving around her to limit her possible movements as much as they could.
As she somewhat clumsily moved to dodge the fire, she released a Breath to interrupt Amber from sending further waves of attacks at her, before encasing herself in a block of ice that dropped straight to the ground ignoring the fire directly.
Once there, the cube exploded, sending sharp shards everywhere.
Said shards were quickly melted down by Amber before she fell down in a nosedive while covered in almost solid flames.
In response ice spikes rose from the ground trying to skewer her.
Having noted that Amber stopped in the air while letting the crimson flames around her advanced forward, meeting the spikes and exploding, leaving the way open for her to resume her attack in earnest, her talons wielding and being covered by two great crimson and flaming blades.
As she descended, they were swung in parallel, trying to cut the Dragon in three parts, trying and failing as ice rose to intercept and break them before a Breath attack was released at point blank range, sending her away.
“I must offer my compliments. You are quite a bit stronger than you were 3 years ago. And you are even more capable in a fight. Did the little lizard finally start to train seriously now?”
“Ah ah, I could say the same to you. What is the meaning of all these swords, eh? Taking inspiration from those ones, aren’t you?”
“Obviously. If I find something interesting it only makes sense to be able to reproduce it myself, doesn’t it? However, it is quite surprising to hearing you disparage the little ones considering the fact that you bothered to make an armor for yourself. Afraid of a little bit of heat?”
Amber mocked as her “Rising Sun” continued to shine upon the area, increasing slowly the temperature to combat the lowering temperature caused by Aurora’s nature as an Ice Dragon and forcing her to use even more Mana constantly, after all the purpose of this Spell was to force Aurora to spend as much Mana as possible.
While Aurora was preparing for the continuation of the fight, her limbs pressed against the ground and her wings and tail moving slowly to prepare, while Amber was slowly flying in place, her talons wielding a couple of crimson blades in her talons.
“Tell me, why don’t we fight in a humanoid form?”
“I see… it seems that your pride is doing its best to crush you, you overgrown lizard. But if you want to lose AGAIN, who am I to refuse?”
At this point the two of them glowed, one a warm gold with a tiny purple core, while the other glowed a cold azure before leaving behind two humanoid figures.
In the place of the Phoenix, there was a 19 years old cute girl, 163 centimeters tall, with flowing golden hairs reaching just past her shoulders, pale skin and orange eyes, wearing a crimson battle dress made entirely by flames and wielding a blade in her right hand made of the same, with a pair of golden wings shining brightly phasing through her dress.
In the place of the Ice Dragon, instead, there was an 18 years old attrattive girl, 188 centimeters tall, with long flowing azure hairs, pale skin and vivid red eyes, with her distance from other living beings shown by her azure scales all over her body, a pair of horns, wings and a tail, wearing a light blue dress open on her back for her wings, before a layer of ice formed as armor covering her limbs, chest and forming a crown of ice upon her head.
The momentary pause in the fight ended as the two of them rushed in, a blade made of flames meeting a blade of ice once, twice, thrice before the frozen blade finally melted into pieces even with Aurora constantly cooling it, before she found herself hastily dodging the fifth swing, a small cut being burned on her side, her armor blocking most of the damage, before a kick from Amber coated in fire sent her away being followed by a cutting trail of fire.
Trail that was stopped by a wall of ice before Aurora flying back, ice forming claws around her hands as she swung multiple times, being able to hit Amber with her palm and sending her flying, her crossed arm minimazing the damage before she stopped herself, fireballs being generated around her, fireballs that she launched towards her opponent.
As fireballs rained down upon a wall of ice, Amber ran in, her sword forming a line of ash in the ground, before it was swung meeting one of the ice claw and piercing straight through most of her left hand, before it released a wave of flames.
From the flames, the Humanoid Dragon jumped out, her armor being slowly reconstitute as was her wounded right hand.
While her scales and her skin in general were quite sturdy as she was a Dragon, she unfortunately didn’t have the “Imperial Scale” Innate Skill yet, a matter that wounded her pride further.
Meanwhile the golden flames grew hotter and hotter, as slowly Amber exited from them, the flames moving in around her, as her wings opened wide on her back as she prepared to restart the battle, her sword wielded in her left hand starting to vibrate slightly.
9/13 14:21 (Summer, Day; Luna)
Luna smiled at what she saw.
She watched what, at first sight, looked like the entrance of a normal cave within a mountain.
She smiled, entering it only to find herself in a completely different location, still something similar to a cave, it was instead a crypt or at least a place similar to that, with skulls in various places within the ground or in the walls, various candles lit by purple flames illuminating of purple the black stone that is the wall of the entrance.
She watched behind herself, finding the entrance to be not an hole in the ground, but a great gate made of the same stone with various carvings of skeletons and similar undead creature.
She nodded, a True Arrow launched to one of the skulls.
After the Arrow ceased to be, there was no damage on anything already present before her.
Her hypothesis was proved correct, this was a Dungeon, a place where enough Miasma was accumulated to the point that a Core was formed and so a new Dimension was created by and around it, a Dimension united yet separated to the external World.
She heard it.
Pained groans from voices unable to speak intelligently.
She saw them.
Figures of skin, bone and flesh in various stages of decomposition entering the room she was in.
A group of around 7 Zombies, their empty eyes seeking her while an almost physical Aura of black Miasma pulsed from their bodies before they yelled, a piercing noise that seemed to suck the will of those that heard it.
Luna’ smile widened as she prepared for combat.
Status
Total Magicules 57462 (V)
Stored Magicules 1550
Racial: Lunarian D
Magicules: 10k/100k. (V)
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.
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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: 10k/100k. (V)
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 affinities, Energy 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 C
Magicules: 10k/10m. (V)
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 5.
At D-Rank the owner’s Vital Energy and Mana well are further increased.
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 C
Magicules: 10k/10m. (V)
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 and armor that covers the owner’s feet and most of their foreleg; 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 D-Rank, once it is manifested, the owners resistance to damage is increased and so is the quality of all Energy of the owner.
At C-Rank, while it is manifested, it additionally enhances the existance of the owner further and it will be able to awaken by using the command “Awaken!”.
Awaken State:
While in the Awakened State, all incoming damage is sharply reduced while the power of all Energy Uses is sharply increased further.
The cooldown is of one hour plus the Activation Duration.
While it is Awakened, it constantly absorbs Vital Mana from the User.
Finally, every day, the owner will receive Magicules depending on this and the corresponding’s Unique Skill Ranks.
Innate: Regeneration C
Magicules: 10k/10m. (V)
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
At D-Rank, the Familiars can increase in Rank.
Innate: Black Blood Manipulation 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 C
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.
At D-Rank, the owner can now enter in Deep Meditation.
At C-Rank, this Skill increases the owner’s control over their Energy and boosts Deep Meditation.
Deep Meditation:
While in Active Meditation, the user becomes more resistant to Status Alteration and recovers from them faster.
While in Active Meditation, the user’s Energy is recovered faster.
To activate it, 1000 seconds of Meditation is the base Activation Time required.
Thanks to High-Speed Processing D, Deep Meditation’s Activation Time and Recovery speed are both 1,3 times faster.
Because of Parallel Processing, it is possible to mantain a permament Deep Meditation by using 1 Process.
Ability: Presence Suppression D
This Skill shows the degree of the owner’s ability to hide one’s own presence.
Thanks to Singularity, all form of Energy within the owner is passively hidden.
At D-Rank, the owner’s Presence Suppression is spread also to their Weapons and Familiars.
Ability: High-Speed Processing D
This Skill speeds up the perception of the owner.
At D-Rank, this Skill is applied also to the owner’s Familiars and other Processing-Type Skill.
Ability: Parallel Processing D
This Skills shows the ability of the owner to process information through multiple thoughts at once.
At this Rank, it allows 3 extra Processing.
At D-Rank, this Skill increases the control of the owner on Energy.
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 105%.
#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 5 every day.
E=1; D=3; C=5; B=7; A=10.
At the moment the Owner possesses, other than Soul Harmony:
1 E-Rank;
12 D-Rank Skills;
8 C-Rank Skills.
Every day, then, the owner will gain 77 Magicules times 5, 385.
#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 C-Rank and Singularity is at D-Rank and so, every day, the owner will gain 800 Magicules.
Familiars:
Vision E
Third Eye of Physicality E
Weapon Mastery D
Warden E
Imperial Scale D
Physical Resistance E
Ash
Fire Magecraft D