9/14 3:57 (Summer, Day)
The Party that she now knew as “The Outrejects”, an E-Ranked Party because of politics even if all three members were equivalent, more or less, to a D-Class one, guided her back to the city they were based out on while making small talk.
“And so, because my father and the Guild Master of this city don’t get along we find ourselves, well in situation like this one.”
“I see. Wasn’t your father a Guild Master himself?”
“Yeah, but father is the Guild Master of the Capital and the one in this city was in competition with him for the position, only to lose, quite badly at that. So once I became an Adventurer in his city, well… let’s just say, it was a chance for him to mess with my father, even if only indirectly.”
“Why did you choose to work for him, then?”
“It was the only place where my achievement would not be thought of as nepotism. Either directly from my father or indirectly from people wanting to please my father.”
“I see. Makes sense.”
At the aknowledgement, Sabel beamed at the “Dhampir” walking near her, a composed expression on this second one’s face, while Jay and Hale silently followed behind, an amused expression on the last one’s face.
They were fast approching the gate for the walls around their city of residence.
“Ehi, Sabel. Who is the gate?” Once at the gate, one of the guards asked her, his tone suspicious as his hands neared the trigger to allarm for an emergency.
He was very experienced when it comes to discern the threat level of other People and in this case his Skill caused this reaction.
Said Skill was called “Threat Evaluation”, a Unique Skill he awakened when he was young, and it had two functions.
One was the ability to measure the power of a Person or Monster compared to his own based on their Souls, things that only measured precisely up to a certain point.
Even if her power was vastly greater than his own, this was not the reason for this hostile reaction.
The reason was the second effect of his Unique Skill that measured someone’s willingness to hurt other People, which in her case was too great for him to allow her within the city without at least an explanation.
Said willingness was not caused by her reincarnation as a Lunarian, but was a natural aspect of her being, a deep aspect that survived unscathed her time from her birth, as a Ghoul and finally now as a Lunarian.
An aspect that caused her to gain the Innate Skill “Spirit Body” upon her birth purely for affinity and causing her sister to acquire “Blessing of the Spirits” as a consequence and a response of this fact.
A nature that was part of the reason behind her Unique Skill “Singularity”.
A nature that was way too dangerous for him to ignore.
Sabel quickly interfered before anything… untoward was to happen.
“She has very important information to share and she is not going to start any fight.”
“And I suppose the ones starting fights will end up dead, won’t they?” The hostile response caused a snort to escape Luna before she attacked back.
“Oh, please. You are talking as if I will kill anyone that displeases me. I will just kill anyone who will get in my way without an important enough reason.” Her response was even more hostile, however, considering how the one she was responding to was in her way at this point.
“Hoh? Are you threatening me?”
“Do you feel threatened then? In that case you don’t have any reason to get in my way, don’t you?”
The hostility between the two was quickly reaching its boiling point while two third of the “Outrejects” awkwardly observed the situation, trying to decide how and when to intervene in what would soon become an outright fight if they didn’t intervene.
Jay intervened, speaking when he finally noticed they were still at the gate, taking his eyes from a notebook he was drawing in, confused by the loss .
“Why are we still here? isn't the news we have urgent or something?”
This was the perfect opening for Sabel and Hale.
“Right, right. I’m sorry, Buld, but we need to enter urgently. Even if Luna is suspicious, it’s too important.”
“Ah yeah, now that I think about it, how is Cora doing?”
His tone softened a bit.
“He is doing better now. He should be fine.”
This was the simple way to handle him, first lowering his guard with Jay then distracting him with something important while making sure that he knew she had important informations to share.
A necessary measure, all things considered.
Luna watched the interaction, a bored expression on her face, before she calmly walked past the Guard nearing the ability of a C-Class Adventurer.
He sent her a mean look before nodding to the Party and making a gesture to keep their eyes on her.
The Party moved to reach her before guiding her to the Guild, Sabel in the front with Luna starting to speak with this last one.
“I’m sorry about Buld, he is-”
“No need to worry. I know very well the effect a Unique Skill has on the psyche of a person.”
“You seem to know a lot about them.”
“Obviously, I studied them deeply considering how I had one since birth.”
Based on her own feelings and the research of Edgar she learned at the mansion.
“However, isn’t it different between someone born with one and someone Awakening one?”
“That is the common thought, but it is incorrect in the way you think about it. If someone Awakens an Unique Skill because of an Instability, they are twisted by it, sure. However, they are still People that know what being a Person meant when it comes to morals or similar things, being able to understand and being understood by other People when said Instability is not involved. If you are born with an Awakened Unique Skill, you understand no one. You are understood by no one. You innately think differently from every single being alive, even other People with Unique Skills.”
This all was said calmly as if it reguarded someone else while Sabel watched her, worried for her.
“And what about you? You said it yourself that you were born with an Unique Skill, so does that mean…?”
“From what I could study about other People, I have naturally no regard for other lifeforms, I don’t accept anyone's authority over me, I am incapable to share anything with other lifeforms and I was told that I’m incapable of expressing or feeling emotions in addition of being an egocentric narcisist omnicidal maniac.”
“Someone called you that?!” Sabel exclaimed, offended for her sake.
She shrugged, indifferent, before continuing.
“Don’t worry, I am not offended by the last words of people I have no interest in.”
Said words were the dying words of her Half-Elf self's parents in a tentative to hurt her.
Tentative that not only didn’t work, but didn’t even buy them any time at all before she indifferently ended their lifes.
Sabel continued to guide her to the Guild, an akward expression on her face at the casual confession of murder.
Once there, Hale advanced towards the receptionist, a grave expression on his handsome face.
“I’m sorry to disturb you, but our Party needs to urgently meet with the Guild Master.”
“Hoh? I suppose that young lady matters reguarding your mission then.” This last phrase was not a question, but the young Cleric nodded anyways in confirmation as she then continued. “Very well. However, he is busy at the moment so why don’t you three take her to the recreational room until he is free?” She half-asked half-commanded him before he nodded, leading the young “Dhampir” there.
“I’m surprised that you are so accomodating.” Sabel exclamined once there as Luna casually took some of the food offereded in the room.
“Oh, don’t worry. I count this as a favor to all of you and the Guild Master of this City. And I expect this favor to be answered in the future.”
This was not said as a threat, but as a simple fact.
A fact that all three of them, Jay comprised, understood that they better answer in a way that satisfies her or there would be conseguence.
Around half, if not three quarters, of an hour later, the Guild Master finally finished to being “busy”.
“So, what exactly did you three wanted to tell me?”
The Guild Master, a 35 years old Human, told them as he entered before noticing the young lady in the room with them that was busy continuing to slowly savor various pastries on the table before her with a single one of them being shared with Sabel that was half eating it and half just watching her.
Said Guild Master, named Heldov, pegged her instantly as a noble lady from both her tastes geared towards sweets and the grace and beauty of every single one of her gestures, grace and beauty that were not being made on purpose but out of pure instinct yet precisely made and following one after another.
A wealth of experience and talent in both fighting and manners.
He carefully observed her even more, noting her facial traits, her skin tone, her red eyes, her slightly pointed ears and her fangs before reaching his own conclusion about the being before him.
While Vampires are treated even now as dangerous beings, being considered even as Monsters by most nations, Midrar comprised, Dhampir are instead considered as People, even if potentially dangerous ones.
Additionally while Elves don’t like Half-Elves, which the being before him probably is at least a descendent of considering her ears, they are very popular when it comes to most other races for various reasons, so it wouldn’t be strange for a Vampire to take in an Half-Elf as a lover or whatever they would be from which the Dhampir before him would be born.
This would also explain her movements and what she did at the moment of his entry, her eyes briefly scanning him before turning back to eating her sweets.
“So, could you tell me who she is and what did you want.” The following was more an order than a question, order that roused Sabel for her distraction and Jay from his drawing.
Hale, the only one of the three paying attention, could only laugh awkwardly at that before starting to explain the situation.
“Luna found an anomalous Dungeon that we think is important to our Mission and that the Guild Master should know about it as soon as possible.”
“Hoh? How anomalous are we talking about?”
Luna sighed before taking an empty page from Jay and quickly drawing it while speaking.
“Every single Undead there had the Skill “Undying Body” at D-Rank except the Boss that had it at C-Rank. The two Liches and the “Undead Abomination” that is the Boss had both “Curse-Attribute Magecraft” and “Formalcraft”, with said Boss additionally having the ability to double the power of all Curses.”
“I see. This is strange. Are you sure your drawing is accurate?”
“Yes, the Dungeon is incredibly and surprisingly direct and short. There are no traps nor any indirect method of damage. However the Liches will start to Cast Curses on you the moment you enter not their room, but the Dungeon and said Curses are bound to the Dungeon itself once landed. I would suggest testing it with a Party full of C-Class Adventurers, at least one of which is well-versed in the Holy-Attribute.”
She took another sweet before continuing.
“I am certain that this Dungeon was heavily modified by a Person.”
“Then why make it so direct?” It was a response made out of shock, a question she already thought about and which she already had an answer to.
“Because of a question of Balance. It’s probably the reason it can be as hostile as it is.”
He sat down, resting his head on his hands, as he thought about what to do and Luna enjoyed herself.
“The three of you, what do you think?”
Hale continued to speak as the official spokeperson of their Party when it comes to the Guild Members.
“She took us within it and we can confirm that she told the truth about the Dungeon.”
“I see. Ahh, what am I going to do… Thank you for informing us. I will need to confirm this information before calling Headquarters. What is your name?”
“Luna. And don’t bother trying to search me in a register, I shouldn’t exist in any of them. I will rest in this city today and leave tommorrow at dawn. Sabel, you will accompany me around this city. Let’s go.” There were no more sweets and so the silver-haired one commanded, command that even if with a quick salute, she followed happily at the thought of spending more time with her.
Hale could only laught nervously at that.
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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
Attribute Modification
Attribute Reflection
Sorcery
Mana Burst
Release
Mana-Clad Warrior
Greater Self