9/14 0:21 (Summer, Sunrise)
As the Cleric and the Swordswoman decided to ignore their artistic rogue and restarted to bicker at each other with slowly rising voices.
“I was only trying to make sure she was alive!”
“Oh, yeah, you bi-disaster?”
“Yeah, look! She is not even breathing!”
“Yeah, sure, so you can tell me that I am a pervert because I looked at her chest. And even if she is not breathing, she is alive. Her Vital Energy is slowly rising. Thing you would have noticed if you bothered to observe her instead of perving over her body. As you are doing right now.”
“W-what are you talking about! I-I’m not p-per-”
“Shut the fuck up you two, I’m drawing and you are so loud I can’t concentrate!” Jay finally shut them up.
This was only a first draft and so he concentrated particular care on the Half-Elf before them, especially her peaceful expression, and the cave in the background where Miasma was slowly ammassing.
The two ceased their quarrel, knowing very well how the oldest of the Party thought about things and his priorities and so they merely sat down, launching each other challenging looks, while Sabel tried to not look at the one before them.
A good 30 minutes later, once the draft was finally finished, Jay carefully posed it in his place for new drafts before doing the same with his instruments.
“Done. Now we can proceed.”
“Finally.” Hale took a stick and slowly neared the sleeping one.
“What do you think you are doing?!”
“I’m making sure she is okay.”
Having said that he rose the stick before, carefully and slowly, he went to poke one of her shoulders.
As a result, the stick was forcefully grabbed before he could even touch her, being conseguently shattered into splinters that failed to even pierce her eyes to not speak of her skin.
The three quickly backed down, their weapons hesitantly raised to try to defend themselves.
Efforts that would have been futile considering the differences in power between them.
While Jay was not officially D-Class when it comes to the Guild Ranking, that was only because of his problematic behavior of caring only about his paintings.
He was very good as a rogue as he was very attent to details so when he relaxed his guard after carefully observing their potential enemy, the other members of his Party slowly following his lead.
As she rose to her feet, the Adventurers stepped back while she calmly stretched.
“What do you three want?” Her indifferent voice echoed in the area, a shiver passing through their bodies at the sound.
Sabel stepped forward, the most competent direct fighter of the three and the one who, except for her closeted nature, had the most ability to interact with other people as someone who was born in a noble family even if she was somewhat rusty with the so-called noble speach.
“I’m sorry we disturbed you, my lady. We were investigating the area when we found herself upon your body and wondering after your health.”
“I see. I was merely resting. Now, what would you be seeking in this place?”
“We recieved a Quest to investigate the area as a disturbance was felt.”
“Oh? Yet you are quite weak. I doubt you would be able to resolve a situation causing such a disturbance.”
This could have been interpreted as an insult or a threat however, it was quite true.
Even if all of the three of them attacked her at once while she was sleeping while they were fully prepared, she would have simply and casually murdered all of them, after all none of them had any special way to survive being ripped to pieces.
“You are correct, we are merely to examine a section of the affected area to see if it is the cause or if there are any other strange occurance.”
“I see. In that case,” what the Party was now thinking a Dhampir rose her left arm, indicating the cave behind her. “That is an anomalous Dungeon. Not only it is at least a D-Rank Dungeon with a minimum of two floors specialized in Undeads and Curses.”
“Could you please explain more?”
That request had two motives, one was simply the fact that they needed informations for their Quest.
The other reasons, however, was quite a bit more personal.
Sabel, the official spokeperson of this Party, simply found the voice of the person they just meet to be the most beautiful sound she ever heard and she wanted to hear more of it.
The other two members of the Party were to the side, well aware of the reason she subconsciously thought more important.
“Very well, but I suggest you don’t enter it. You are too weak to leave that place alive. All the Undeads on the first floor had “Undying Body” at D-Rank and the moment you enter the Dungeon, two Liches will start to chant to Curse you and the Boss has “Undying Body” at C-Rank and an ability to amplify Curses.”
“But that would mean…”
“Yeah. Addictionally I’m quite certain that it was at least in part modified by a Person.”
“What?!” Sabel.
“Are you sure?” Hale.
“How interesting.” Jay.
“Yes, I’m sure. The Liches were teached Formalcraft and the Boss had a Skill based on a Territory and was teached a version of Druidcraft, Skill that an “Undead Abomination” would never have.”
“This is terrible. Would you like to accompany us to the Guild?”
“Nope. I have no intention to.”
“I-I see… O-okay, I’m sorry for asking.”
“Oh? Why so disappointed?”
“She is disappointed because she finds you attractive and wants to spend more time with you.” Hale responded with Sabel not being able to refute it.
“Makes sense. I’m, after all, the most beautiful being on the World and she is not the first person I lead outside their closet.”
“Oh? Does it happen often?”
“All the time.”
Unaware that the previous her caused the sexual awakening of her own sister when this last one was 16 years old, further worsening her obsession and lowering her self esteem even further at the fact she found her sister attractive as a prospective partner or the fact that a couple broke up because of her and both of said ex tried to ask her out, unaware of each other.
“W-wait, I never said-”
At Sabel’s protests, their new acquaintance started to walk towards her until she found herself with her back to a tree.
“My name is Luna. Remember it well.” Her left hand slamming against the tree at the side of Sabel’s head while Luna’s right hand held her chin, rising it until their eyes met, before one of Luna’s finger caressed Sabel’s bottom lip.
Sabel became more and more red, her eyes swimming, as her embarassement and other emotions grew and grew while her brain heated up again and again until…
Luna’s arms moved, keeping the black haired, 17 years old’s body up as she lost consciousness.
She turned around, a smug smile on her face.
After all if you are attractive enough you can get away with behaving like this if you want to and she certaintly was attractive enough to.
She held her in what would be called a princess carry before moving back towards her tree before sitting down with the fainted swordswoman resting on her lap, her head leaning against Luna’s shoulder.
As they waited for the 17 years old to wake up, the other members sit down nearby starting to converse with the other one.
“So, where are you going?”
“I have something of a temporary destination in mind, but not really a definitive one.”
“You are a Dhampir, right? How does blood taste like?”
The reason why all of them thought her a Dhampir was simple, all three of them had seen her fangs and red eyes and she was standing calmly under Sunlight.
Ancestors were already unknown to Humans that didn’t specialize in Vampires with their origin having so many theories ranging from a blessing or curse of an unknown God of the Moon or Blood, by a scientist that altered themselves or some subjects to make the first Vampires to even some more absurd ones like the theory that the first Vampire was a high-rank Cleric falsely accused of a crime and executed for it only for their corpse to rise again; Additionally the only People that knew anything substantial about Lunarians were Dragons, Phoenixes and some Vampires themselves.
Jay’s questions could be considered quite rude, but Luna didn’t particularly care about that.
“Something like that. And about the blood… it depends on whose blood is drunk, their strenght and taste, and the likings of the drinker, both flavourfully and sexually. In my case, I have an heavy leaning in favour of women.” One of her hands gently touched the waking up Black-Haired girl’s neck, rendering her red in the face again and she started to stutter uncontrollably.
Hale and Luna enjoyed her embarassment, one mostly because of a sense of schadenfreude and the other because she simply loved being admired, whetever because of her power or her beauty didn’t matter, she just loved it, her previous lives or no didn’t change it.
Sabel jumped away from her, her face completely red as a whine escaped her mouth, while Luna rose to her feet, her Vital Mana restored fully as she stretched before moving back towards the Dungeon.
“I will travel the First Floor of this Dungeon again. I need to test something.”
“Can we-”
“Why not. I’m strong enough to be able to babysit the three of you.” She said confidently.
This time she would have to fight quite differently from before as she needed to save as much time as possible.
Without any hesitation, she Shaped a True Curved Sword, Mana Forged with both [Greater Self] and [Mana-Clad Warrior] in her right hand and for the first time Summoned Ash within not a Drone, but a Weapon.
Her Curved Sword, seemingly made out of black glass and outlined in purple with an hilt long enough for her to use two hands on it if she wanted to, transformed.
A purple pattern was etched in the sword, from hilt to the tip of the blade, portraying a savage flame ready to consume everything, before said flames bursted from it, surrounding it in a dense layer of flames passively.
She entered the first room, finding herself before 7 Zombies again.
She didn’t hesitate.
She launched forward, [Mana Burst] released from her feet to accelerate and a Magic Circle formed behind her out of her Black Blood, releasing a shockwave on herself that she modified with “Formalcraft” to have minimum power, but maximum knockback, accelerating her even further.
“[Knockwave].”
Before anyone could react, she already crossed the whole room and swung down, bisecting the central Zombie and leaving behind a trail of fire.
She didn’t wait anything, her sword changing direction as she cut straight through its right leg, releasing a wave of fire that burned the three on that direction before she continued the swing, spinning in place and cutting in half both the already bisected one and the one at its immediate left.
As they burned in pieces, she moved to the final twos Zombie, launching her sword in the air and grabbing their heads with her hands, ignoring their Auras as she destroyed their heads by forcefully clenching her hands, shattering bones before taking back her falling Sword and cutting both of them in half.
She finally activated the version of the Skill of Ash she had access to, causing her flames to violently burst and burning the corpses to ashes.
She didn’t wait, moving to the next room finding herself before the group of Zombies and Skeleton and releasing a shockwave of flames that bisected all the Undeads.
As they fell, she moved in, cutting the falling Undeads into pieces again and again until, their Vital Energy exausted, they all died.
In the next room she was even more savage, moving to the Liches instantanously, severing both of their heads, their arms, their legs before cutting them further in half.
She calmed down, they would no longer be able to Chant their “Curse-Attribute Magecraft” and so her time limit was destroyed with the two of them.
But that was no reason to slow down in her destruction.
Her sword changed shape, becoming a whip and grabbing on to the other Undeads, pulling them into a single place before, her flames exploding as for the second time she used Ash’s Skill to make all of the Undeads burst into flames, ending all of them before they could even use Vital Energy to heal.
“So, next room is the Boss. What do you think until now of this Dungeon?”
“Well, on one hand we finished this floor in around one minute and everything died immediately, on the other hand if we were in the place of any of them, we would have died in a similar matter, so it’s hard to misure power appropriately.”
“I suppose so, but the Boss should help you understand at least a little, even if we don’t have any Curses for him to Amplify.”
Luna fought in a way vastly different from before for two important reasons.
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The first was that she already understood the threat of this place.
The second was very simple yet incredibly important.
She was not alone.
And while their… leader? May have been fascinated by her, as was natural, that didn’t mean they would not indeer her, directly or not, in the future thanks to the knowledge of how she fought and this way, this possibility would fall in her favor as their information would prove to be another weapon in her favor, if necessary.
It’s the reason why she didn’t correct their assumption she was a Dhampir while still giving them her name instead of a false one or why she didn’t drink the Blood of the Undeads.
She moved towards the Gate to the Boss Room, guiding all of them to the final fight of this Floor.
They may have been too weak to properly fight the Boss, but she was more than strong enough to beat the Boss while protecting the others.
As she found herself in a plane of bones, before the “Undead Abomination” again she could not help but smile, her eyes showing the playfull sadism of a predator finding an amusing prey to play with.
“What is this situation called, I wonder? Ah, yes. Déjà vu, correct? Now, be entertaining before you die!”
She swung her blade casually in the air, a trail of hungry flames following it as it roared, some of its hands and heads already Chanting “Curse-Attribute Magecraft” as it prepared to fight, rembering well the one before it.
Status
Total Magicules 71437 (V)
Stored Magicules 525
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 E-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: Authority: Vital Mana D
Magicules: 10k/100k (V)
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%.
It allows the owner to feel Vital Energy, Mana and Vital Mana around them in a range equal to the sum of the Grade of this Skill and the Total Grade multiplied depending on Rank [(5+5)*3m = 30m].
At D-Rank, the potency of Vital Mana is increased further.
Innate: Familiar Summoning C
Magicules: 10k/10m (V)
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 when it comes to Skills, up to the Rank of this Skill (C-Rank).
At C-Rank, the Familiars can increase in its own Rank, up to 1 Rank lower than this Skill’s (D-Rank).
Innate: Authority: Black Blood E
Magicules: 1k/1k (IV)
This Skill denotes the authority of the owner over the use of Black Blood.
It automatically fuses the Blood and Shadow of the user, rising the quality further and vastly strenghtening the owner’s existence and their Energy when it comes to all aspects.
Said Black Blood can transfer all kind of Energies from and to the owner or be turned into Energy, with the additional ability to boost an object or a Spell to beyond its limits by mixing in Black Blood.
It also allows the owner to absorb the blood of others into themselves to convert it into Energy or, if the process is fatal or done on a corpse freshly killed, Magicules.
This Skill can also store objects and non-living beings within the owner’s Black Blood.
It allows the owner to feel Blood, Shadow and Black Blood around them in a range equal to the sum of the Grade of this Skill and the Total Grade multiplied depending on Rank [(4+5)*1m = 9m].
Ability: No Attribute Sorcery C
This Skill denotes the ease and ability with which the owner can uses No Attribute Sorcery, it also increases the owner’s 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.
Ability: No Attribute Magecraft E
This Skill denotes the ease and ability with which the owner can uses No Attribute Magecraft, it also increases the owner’s non-elemental affinity and the Power of No Attribute Magecrafts.
No Attribute Magecraft is based upon the use of Magic Circles or chants to, through Mana, manifest a phenomenon upon the World.
Ability: Formalcraft E
A Skill that denotes the ability to modify the price and result of Magecraft, depending on Mana Control.
This Skill additionally increases the owner Mana Well and Mana Control.
Magicules sources.
#Lunarian #Singularity #Authority:Black_Blood
A process to convert Blood in Magicules, depending on the amount of Magicules the victim had.
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 still kills the victim without a doubt.
Additionally because of the Innate Skill “Authority: Black Blood” the efficiency is further enhanced to 105%.
The final gain of Magicules is 100 plus the Magicules absorbed by the victim, all of it increased 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:
4 E-Rank;
8 D-Rank Skills;
8 C-Rank Skills.
Every day, then, the owner will gain 68 Magicules times 5, 340.
#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 D
Third Eye of Physicality E
Weapon Mastery D
Warden D
Imperial Scale D
Physical Resistance E
Ash E
Fire Magecraft D
Magecraft
Roaring Destruction
Magnificent Ray
(New) Knockwave
Sorcery
Mana Burst
Release
Mana-Clad Warrior
Greater Self