9/14 0:57 (Summer, Day, Dungeon)
As the Magic Circle grew she ran in, a trail of fire behind her, while bone spikes rose from beneath her, spikes she casually dodged by jumping over them before landing on one of the said spikes with the point of her left foot, before swinging hard.
The wave of flaming air released from the swing slashed the mass of corpses however the fire on it was forcibly extinguished by its Mana.
“I see. A natural “Parallel Processing” Skill. Makes sense considering how many heads it had. Let’s see if I can’t outpace the amount of thinking you can do.”
She moved, breaking the bones under her with the force of her jump, her feet meeting the ground for an instance before jumping directly over it, slashing numerous time in the air to release various fire air blade at it before landing and sending a final one, causing various wound in it, whose flames were slowly spreading.
It had no time to react as the Skill was activated, causing the hungry flames to burst violently before being negated forcefully while it healed and continuing to Chant and groan.
As spikes appeared around her to try and impale her, she simply transformed her sword into a whip again, grabbing all of said spikes before throwing them back at the Undead, impaling it various times before releasing various slashes raining down on it again and again, more specifically they were targetting the hands and mouths Chanting, forcing it to continuosly switch heads least the Curse destabilize.
The reason it concentrated its attack on her while ignoring the other People there was simple.
It was the only way for it to survive.
At the moment, its concentration was split between the minimum required to Chant the Spell and fighting Luna.
It could not lower the concentration of the Chanting and the moment it did not thought about her, she would inflict immense damage faster that it could kill any of the three.
Not only that, but so long as the three were alive she would not be able to Cast any of the two Spells she used to kill the previous one, without killing them too.
So long as they wouldn’t attack or interfere with it, they could be ignored especially considering how it didn’t know their Skills and one of them was a Cleric and so was able, at the minimum, in Clerical Magic of the Holy Attribute that was most effective against Undeads, to heal and to Buff others while it had no idea if any of them knew Magic of any type or had any special Skills.
It would be best if it concentrated on the vampiric one until she died and as long as the others would not interfere.
This was an error, an error that would prove fatal yet an error that wasn’t its fault, but the fault of its programming and modification.
The non-modified one would have been weaker, sure, however…
That one would not have hesitate like this one did.
Once it had felt no Curse on her, it would not have started a lenghty Chant for a Curse consuming Processing Power for a long term possible gain while fearing possibilities, it would have and should have simply attacked at full force from the very start, raining down blow after blow on all of them, forcing her to spend a significant amount of Energy to protect them, unknowlingly attacking her pride to gain an advantage.
After all her twisted personality was her only flaw.
Flaw that it could have attacked, but didn’t.
This half-hearted misure was simply a waste of time and Energy for it, waste that she was more than happy to capitalize on as she made a large Magic Circle out of her own Black Blood high in the sky above its own, thanks to “Formalcraft” to instantly finished it by spending some quantity of Vital Mana and Blood, linking it with the Spell it was Casting, being activated the moment said Spell would be Casted.
She pierced the ground with her blade, leaving behind a line of fire as she started to circle the Undead.
She stopped suddenly, launching various slashes at it before running in.
It moved, launching itself forward trying to rake its claws on her, arms that were quickly cut off by Luna before she punched it directly in one of its skull, Casting a Mana Burst to damage it heavily before jumping over it and slashing various times, causing various wound on it.
It forcefully stopped itself dead thanks to its numerous arms before throwing itself to Luna.
She didn’t hesitate, impaling it with her blade that was now a scythe before using it to launch herself high in the sky, her weapon now a spear, before she swung all around her to shatter the one meter long bone spikes the Undead launched at her.
The Party merely watched as the fight continued, Luna’s bloodthirst evident in her continuos assaults to the point that her weapon was digging in the ground with every exchange between the two.
“Well, what do you think?” Hale asked his friends.
“I would say that they are both at least high D-Class. It is to strong for a First Floor Dungeon Boss.” Jay confirmed, as the most experienced of them when it comes to Dungeon and Monsters in general.
“I believe Luna is at least somewhat holding back. She is also very Skilled with a lot of different weapons. To not speak about her Magic use.” Sabel was the most experienced of them when it comes to People, expected considering her background.
“So, the next question is cronological and biological age. I would consider around early twenties for one and late teens for the other?” Hale
“More or less. Most long lived race age depending mostly on their maturity. However, I would guess in her case on the lower side considering her power.” Sabel.
“Hoh? Yet she is very strong for that age.” Jay.
“Yes, but that is the force and grace of talent mixed with effort and she is too weak for that combination to be significantly older. I have seen some Adventurers like that and they grow fast.” Sabel.
“I suppose so. Especially if she already killed the Boss before. What do you think that is, “Mana Shaping”?” Hale.
“No, I don’t think so. Or at least not “Mana Shaping” alone. They changed shapes to fluidly for it.” Sabel.
“Oh well, do you think they will believe us at the Guild?” Hale asked, refering to both the Dungeon and the Dhampir.
“They should. All of us are D-Class in power, the reason behind the fact only you are officially D-Class is because of external matters.” Sabel.
“Right. The fact your father is Guildmaster means you are probably stuck at E-Rank for a while.” Jay thoughtlessly infiered the Swordswoman’s pride.
“Hale, remember me to punch this idiot once we are safe to teach him to shut up.” Sabel.
They concentrated back on the fight in time to see Luna impale the Abomination with her weapon, before it bursted into flames.
They noted something strange however.
Luna was stalling while dealing more damage than it regenerated, bleeding it of Energy.
Instantly Sabel watched high in the sky noting the forming purple circle of the Curse and the complete black circle high above it before watching the ground noting how the scars carved from Luna’s weapon had a pattern.
“I see. So that is why.”
The battle continued for a further 30 minutes of attacks from both opponent before Luna nodded to herself upon seeing the Magic Circle almost being completed.
She thrusted her True Lance in it before said Lance exploded in various Spikes that pierced every single one of its skulls and hands as its Magic Circle briefly flickered, almost collapsing, before stabilizing because of its Link with her own.
She didn’t hesitate, activating her Familiar-Weapon’s Skill to cause the Boss to burst into flames starting from within its body, being reduced to ash.
She immediately jumped away to beyond the scars she inflicted in the ground.
It roared as it was Resucted in a flash of Vital Energy, being fully Restored, and finally finishing the preparations to Cast its Curse.
This was its last and lethal mistake.
The Curse it Casted was a simple one with the purpose to Drain the Vital Energy and Mana of the Target to the Caster’s reserves and in this case the Target would be all four of them while ignoring their Resistences.
Its Magic Circle released a wave of purple light everywhere.
“[Curse-Attribute Modification]!”
The Magic Circle made out of Black Blood shone on them all, the purple light being absorbed by it to the shock of the Undead before Curse Attribute light rained down on it, the parameters of the Curse changed to instead release a beam and affect everything hit by it with the Curse while doubling in Potency.
A massive smile appeared on Luna’s face, violent madness in her eyes before, with a laugh, the second Magic Circle, the one she carved in the ground, started to shining.
“[Curse-Attribute Reflection]!”
The beam launched by her own Magic Circle, landing on the “Undead Abomination”, stroke the line of white created by this last Spell, reflected the Spell doubling its Potency again, landing against the Boss once more, Cursing it.
As a conseguence of its Casting, not only did it spent a bit of Mana to accelerate the Casting of the Spell, but it was Cursed with “Energy Drain” at six times the Potency, all because of a couple of basic “No-Attribute Magecraft”.
And while they both could recover more than even what a double or triple Potency of the Curse, this was a time bomb on its life as it would continue to weaken in time while Luna would instead recover faster, driving it into a corner.
The final effect Luna was not certain of, but thought it probable.
It was no longer able to use its [Cursed Amp Roar] as that Spell, Technique, Skill? Would target its own Curse too, as she expected from such a troublesome ability.
It roared, bone spikes trying to impale her from all sides before they were shattered by her Ash-Whip, a returning swing branding its body, shattering various skulls and burning him.
Every single use of its Vital Energy or Mana would, inevitably bring it closer to death as while having no Vital Energy or Mana will not kill, but will render it incapable of fighting back against its enemy or even healing from any subsequent injury.
She had already driven it into a corner and it realized that she fought like that to make sure it would die for the first time shortly before the curse would be finished to maximize the time it would spent Cursed.
In other words, its death would now only be a matter of time.
So the next step was simple.
If it would die either way, considering how it could not leave this room and the Curse would last as long as it would be in the Dungeon, the obvious next step was to kill as many people as it could.
Bone spikes appeared around the three Adventurers.
Before the three could defend themselves from the spikes, a line of fire shattered them as Luna went all out, using a combination of [Mana Burst] and [Greater Self] to maximize her speed, before she glared at the “Undead Abomination”, her weapon starting to vibrate slowly with the blade heating up slowly, an almost feral expression on her face.
“I see. It seems like I was too merciful with you in our last fight. It’s a shame you don’t feel any pain or I would make sure to teach you how to behave thoroughly. Oh, well.”
Her blade was swund, releasing an arc of flame forward while she stood near her new acquaintance to protect them.
It didn’t bother defending itself, attacking instead not Luna, but the other three, trying to kill someone before it was killed, its Mana being used aggressively and without any reguard as spikes continuosly rained down on the three of them by all directions only to be slashed apart by quick swings.
She quickly grew bored of this.
While the combination of her natural recovery and the Curse assured that she was outpacing what she was spending, this wouldn’t mean that she was satisfied to stall until her target was defenceless and defanged.
As another wave of spikes was in the air, she made her move.
She ran forward, her blade becoming a whip and grabbing all of the bones in the air, dragging them after her and coating them in her Vital Mana before launching them forward to impale the Boss.
It didn’t hesitate, roaring again and summoning a wall of bone from the ground in the way of both the spikes and Luna as it recognized it as the distraction it was.
Before it could attack the party again to force her back, one of its head saw her.
Instead of being stopped or even meaningfully slowed down, she simply used the wall as a ramp and the spikes stuck there as supports to quickly scale it and attacking from above.
It recognized its final error too late.
With the wall in the way, she could afford to go all out without any prying eyes on her.
A second True Blade in hand, it was now housing Vision, becoming sharper and more dangerous with jewels similar to eyes all over while her body was covered by a True Armor, a Shape she based on her [Mana-Clad Warrior], housing Warden, gaining a scaled pattern, claws and a pair of horns, a Barrier fully covering her.
She started ripping into it, again and again, faster and faster, her weapons constantly changing shape and ripping into it while its owns were blocked by her Barrier.
It could do nothing else, but being ripped apart until it died, its carcass exploding into Miasma.
She grabbed the crystal resulting by its death, her Weapons ans Armor ceasing to exist well before the three could see them before throwing it to them and moving towards the exit.
She already absorbed the maximum amount of Magicules and potential she could from this Boss and so this crystal had no meaning or importance to her.
They followed after her, shattering it and absorbing 1000 Magicules each as four people entered the Boss Room.
Once outside, Sabel turned to the other woman.
“Do you have a place to stay? Because we know an hotel in the nearby city that gives a discount to Adventurers. We can pay for it, it’s the least we can do considering that you gave us the Boss reward.”
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“I may as well, nothing better to go.”
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
Knockwave
(New) Attribute Modification
(New) Attribute Reflection
Sorcery
Mana Burst
Release
Mana-Clad Warrior
Greater Self