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Chapter 16

9/13 14:21 (Summer, Day; Amber & Aurora)

Amber moved, her sword burning a line in the ground, before it was swung meeting a shield made of ice.

Before said shield cound be pierced, it changed shape forming spikes that tried to impale the Phoenix’s arm, tentative failed as she jumped down, flames trailing behind her as she used them to boost her speed.

Before she could even land, her wings opened wide, stopping herself in the air before launching herself back with a thrust.

Her sword pierced straight through the shield in Aurora’s right hand, causing a small cut in her arm as she forcefully redirect the strike, the shield shattering into quickly melting pieces and her following swing was interrupted by another frozen blade in the Ice Dragon’s left hand before Amber blocked a strike from a right hand clad in a claw made out of ice, flying back a couple of meters while releasing a couple of trails of fire.

Trails that were quickly blocked by a wall of ice.

The reason the two of them were moving and reacting faster than when they were bigger was because their power was concentrated in a humanoid form.

This however had consequences.

The two of them when in their more monstrous-looking forms were incredibly more efficient in their Energy use to the point that with the same ammount of energy Aurora would theorically use to regenerate a whole limb in her Dragon form, a form with a wingspan of 40 meters and 17 meters long, would regenerate only a little more than a forearm if she was in a humanoid form.

Additionally the change is proportional to both Vital Energy and Mana; their stamina, physical, mental and even spiritual, is much reduced while in their non-humanoid forms they had no cooldowns and all Spells are considered automatically chanted.

However, even if the scale of their power was much reduced, their intesitity was on another level entirely, their being in their entirely was boosted incredibly.

The area around Amber was starting to smoke and lit ablaze because of the temperature while the area around Aurora started to freeze and a slight mist was manifestating passively even with the power of the Spell “Rising Sun”.

“Let’s see what this will do. [Blazing Fang Slash]!”

Flames were released from all over her body, the area around her starting to being lit ablaze as her “Rising Sun” lowered itself from the sky, exploding into fire, as the temperature increased again and again as the flames condensed in her curved blade wielded in her left hand as it quickly lightened from red to orange to yellow to an almost transparent white, her wings opening wide as she prepared.

Aurora’s eyes widened in terror as her Territory opened between the two of them causing ice to spawn between the two of them to deflect and minimize the incoming attack as much as possible towards her own left, her wings opened wide as she moved towards her own right at full speed.

The blade was swung.

A line was burned within the world rendering everything touched into ash.

Aurora fell, a scream of pain escaping her mouth.

She was luckily able to turn a blow that would have certainly split her in three, with the central part of her body remaining only as ash, into a blow that merely ended the fight, her left arm, wing and part of her tail being cut off with the cut being cauterized.

She was barely able to drag herself up panting, needing her remaining arm, to look up at the calmly walking Amber, her left hand presenting some burn marks on her hand that were slowly healing and her blade nowhere to be found.

Her own Vital Energy being barely able to heal the burns on her remaining body thanks to her armor that however melted down into a pubble under her.

“This is my victory, again. As you can see, I’m not quite used to the last attack, after all this is the first time I used it seriously. For the next time, you should really start to handle your pride seriously, yeah? See you.”

A small fireball formed on the Phoenix’s right hand that was held to the Dragon’s face, before it exploded sending her crashing down into the ground and almost uncosciousness, her last vision being Amber flying away from her, her own eyes full of a vicious hate for the one before her.

She was younger than her by 2 decades.

She was not even bothering to use her Innate Skill!

She was stronger than her!

She was growing faster than her!

Even with all of her own training!

Even if she herself was equivalent to a 180 years old Dragon while only being 165!

She was stronger than herself!

She hated her!

Hate! Hate! Hate! HateHateHateHateHate!

An hate that quickly exploded once her enemy was outside of her vision.

An hate that was the birth of a spark.

A spark that unleashed an inferno, an inferno that functioned as a trigger.

There are only three methods to obtain one’s own Unique Skill.

The first being born with one already active, either because of an Irregular Reincarnation like Evan of the Iriblades or because of the otherness of the person like Scarlet was; the rarest method.

The second was limited to specific races that automatically obtained them at a certain Racial Rank, like Dragons and Phoenixes at C-Rank for example; the most common method even with the relatively low quantities of such races.

The third was caused by an overwhelming amount of emotion, often negative ones, that forced the activation of an Unique Skill.

An example of such was Azure of the Iriblades whose despair at the loss of the only person she ever had and ever mattered to her caused the Awakening of her Unique Skill, “Blood Hunt”.

However, Awakening a Skill in this way has as a conseguence the amplification of the emotions that caused the said Awakening in the first place, the less power of the owner, the more the emotions are amplified in response and the more specific and intense emotion is needed to awaken it in the first place.

Azure’s obsession with her sister, Scarlet, become even more twisted as she was just a 12 years old girl being trained by her sister at the time.

Aurora finally lost consciousness, barely able to hear the messagge from the World.

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9/13 14:22 (Summer, Day; Luna; Dungeon)

As the 7 Zombies moved slowly towards her, Luna pointed towards them.

Instantly True Spears appeared around Luna before being launched to her targets.

Said targets were pierced through their hearts as they groaned.

However they didn’t react further than that, their eyes locked on her without any hesitation.

“I see… “Undying Body”, is it? How strange, you all are too weak to naturally have that Innate Skill, especially considerating how all of you are normal Zombies at E-Rank. This is a Dungeon of undeads, after all. I suppose this is to be expected from such a place.”

The Zombies casually ripped the Spears out of their bodies, starting to walk towards the only being there alive.

Luna measured the way the Zombies handled the damage.

“Normally wounding someone or something would constantly consume Vital Energy to keep them functional until the wound is healed. However, “Undying Body” negates this drain while keeping the owner fully functional, so long as the owner has Vital Energy.”

She watched as the wound regenerated extremely slowly without the use of any Vital Energy or Mana.

““Undying Body” at D-Rank judging by the fact it automatically heals and the slowness of such healing. Oh well, at least it is not C-Rank.”

This judgement was calmly and positively uttered as she was quite well aware of the effect it gains at this Rank, which would render fighting them so boring she may have been tempted to just blow everything up and leave right then and there.

Before they could reach her, she simply stepped forward and punched the one nearest to her, releasing a Mana Burst in tandem with her punch, sending it flying back with its chest caved in.

The other six tried to grab her, but she casually stepped back, out of their own and their Auras range, before thrusting with a True Spear through another one, spear whose head quickly changed into a scythe that she used to forcefully separate said Zombies into two while the scythe continued on to impale another one.

Without any hesitation, her weapon transformed again, separating the blade from the shaft that became another spear.

Meanwhile the impaled zombie was immobilized as a True Viper was manifested from the blade and started to constrict it.

While Zombies had no need for breathing, if a Zombie cannot move it is easy to ignore.

As the upper part of the bisected Zombie tried to regenerate the missing parts passively, she grabbed it with a True Tail, a very recent Shape inspired like her True Viper by, well snakes.

Said scaled tail used it as a weapon to smash it against another one, sending it crashing towards a third one, before clenching hard around the one she grabbed, crushing it.

As a result of the first part of the combat, one Zombie had its chest caved in, another was cut in two with its upper half reduced to bloody chunks and two were sent to the ground.

The remaining two moved in to strike at her, their Auras surrounding them ready to suck the life out of her, and nails ready to rake her body.

This tentative assault was casually dodged before a True Greatsword two meters long and 40 centimeters large, misuring only the blade was swung by Luna’s hands, severing the Zombies legs at the knees before with the same movement, slamming the Greatsword down into one of them, smashing it in two.

The Greatsword was Mana Forged not with “Mana Burst”, but with “Release”, that proceeded to convert it into its entirely into pure destructive power released to the sides, leaving behind only the end of its limbs.

As it struggled to regenerate from its left leg, she Casted another True Viper that attacked the limbs that started to regenerate.

A True Viper was a semiautomatic drone she made with the express purpose to fight without any need of being directly controlled once it had its orders and rules.

In this case, Viper 2 had the order to attack the limb that started to regenerate until it stopped and a new one started to.

The reason is that “Undying Body” started to heal by the most important piece, whether by size or organs amount, independently from its Rank.

The Lunarian moved towards the other Zombie on the ground, True Arrows rained down upon it.

As the first Zombie hit and the other two sent away rose from the ground, Luna was thinking about how to render her Vipers more effective.

She Casted another one around herself before breathing in and out, concentrating on her own Familiars, more specifically Vision and trying to Summon it in a particular way.

The Innate Skill “Familiar Summoning” allowed someone to Summon Familiars using Mana or other things, in her case her own Black Blood and her True Shapes were made mixing together the Skills of “Mana Shaping” using Vital Mana and “Black Blood Manipulation” and so the next step was simple, but complex.

She Summoned her first Familiar using the third Viper as its body to a simple result.

The Viper gained a third eye on its front while all its eyes started to glow slightly and its tail and eyes become sharper.

She nodded to herself before doing the same with the other two, the first Summoned, the one that was holding a Zombie stationary, now held Warden, becoming slightly bigger and whose scale become even more sturdy.

Meanwhile the second Viper was now holding Ash, her newest Familiar, obtaining red flaming eyes and a red glow from its mouth from which flames leaked every now and then.

This Viper watched the remaining pieces that it broke apart into 9 pieces before opening its mouth, releasing a wave of flames to start to burn the pieces of flesh to ash.

This forced the Zombie being burned to spend its Vital Energy to quickly heal as much as it could before it died completely.

The Viper ceased to release the fire after a total of around seven seconds, entering a fourteen seconds cooldown for the version of the Ability Skill “Fire Magecraft” it had, before biting down on the healing Zombies and trying to bind its regenerating limbs in place.

Neither of the Vipers had any problem with the “Miasmic Aura” as they had no life to suck in the first place and so, while the first Viper was stopping a Zombie with great ease thanks to “Physical Resistance”, she used “Imperial Scale” to create a barrier, that was effected by the previous Skill thanks to its effects, to slow down the incoming Zombies, entering a two seconds cooldown for this Skill because of the size of the Cast barrier.

Luna didn’t hesitate, Casting various True Knife in the air around her, Mana Forged with Release, ready to fire a couple of moments before the barrier broke.

She turned back to the Zombie impaled by Arrows forming an Hammer and smashing heavily down on its chest, triggering the Mana Burst within the arrows and making numerous holes within the body while transforming her own Tail to a great Viper’s head that opened wide before closing violently around the Zombie, crushing it into paste before spitting the resulting paste in the ground as the legs that were starting to regenerate instead were crushed against the ground by said tail.

The paste quickly regenerated using most of its Vital Energy and as the barrier broke, it and all the free Zombies were rained down upon by the knifes that exploded on contact with them, reducing all of them to small chunks.

Before they could regenerate fully, the cooldown of Ash finally ended and so they prepared.

The Zombies held by her two Vipers were thrown were the others’ chunks were before Luna and Warden made a barrier around them before Ash released a stream of fire within it, turning the inside of the barrier in a lake of fire while leaving the barrier intact.

The Zombies finally died before she sucked in the blood that was on the ground by using “Black Blood Manipulation” as the way to move them.

*Luna Gained 100 + 5 Magicules. X7

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Unfortunately, Monsters owned by a Dungeon had no Soul for her to absorb, being more similar to her own True Vipers than actual Monsters or living beings in general.

She nodded to herself before moving to the next room, her Vipers returning to her, reducing in size until all three of them could be underneath her clothes.

She found no problem with that, considering how she they were a part of her and that she liked snakes.

It was now time to proceed.

Status

Total Magicules 58197 (V)

Stored Magicules 2285

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.

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

#Unique_Arma

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