9/14 5:41 (Summer, Day)
Sabel showed Luna around the city, both of them ignoring that the Guild Master still had questions for her, leaving the other two behind, in that case almost exclusively Hale, to answer as many questions as they could.
Meanwhile the two girls stopped at a sweet shop were the black haired one paid for her sweets for the exploration.
Someone may wonder how she was able to eat so much without worries or using Vital Mana in her case, but the reason was extremely simple.
The process of eating in her case was considered as a process of Conversion, Conversion that was brough to such efficiency that it simply tranformed all that mass into energy then into Black Blood that was absorbed within her shadow.
It was a similar process that rendered the previous her completely tireless thanks to the combination with Skills that Converted Satiety, Health, Stamina and Mana into each other with perfect efficiency thanks to “Singularity”.
Especially considering how at C-Rank the effect of her Unique Skill changes the floor for Status Resistence to Nullification, negating the conseguence of such even without using “Authority: Black Blood” to evade the conseguence of said actions.
Sabel moved to follow as Luna simply wandered off once satisfied as she explored the town.
Meanwhile in the Guild Master’s office, place where the Guild Master and the rest of the Party were speaking about both the Dungeon in more details and about Luna.
“Which gate did the four of you enter from? And who was the guard that let you in?” The Guild Master asked the rest of the Party.
“The Nord Gate and the guard was Buld.”
“Buld, eh? In that case…” He activated a button on his desk, sending a message to his secretary, his desk being a Magical Item given to all Guild Masters from the Guild. “Call Buld as soon as possible, I have some questions for him.”
“Yes, Guild Master.”
Once his order was sent, he turned back to them, continuing the questions about the Dungeon as a map of the surrounding area appeared on the floor.
Said map was only an approximation of the area based on the Guild Master’s memories and various maps he saw, an essential instrument for the Guild, both in general to have as precise a map of the world as possible and in specific to control that no Guild Master would abuse their power by copying their memories once a month.
The two reasons why he could give a mission that was officially higher in difficulty than the “Outrejects” were simple.
In the first place, while their memories were recorded once a month as part of their position and the Contract they signed to be a Guild Master, this Contract also guarantees these Records are kept private with the only way to access them being for the Guild Grandmaster and at least 7 Guild Masters to decide to access them in response of a grave enough accusation with serious proves or if the Guild Master in question explicitly wants to review or share them.
Additionally nothing he did was illegal or particularly frowned upon as he was well aware that all three of the Adventurers were equivalent in ability each to a D-Class one, more than enough to examine a part of the area and then retreat.
The map enlarged, most of its precision being immediately around the city and the Guild Hall especially with progressively less precise details.
Finally Jay found the place where they found Luna and the Dungeon.
Conseguently a marker appeared there, a marker titled “Anomalous Undead Dungeon Ranked D+?” that once opened would lead to the temporary map of the first floor he saw, an incredibly important function of the Magical Item to integrate any map the user saw.
In this case, the map of the first floor of the Dungeon was linked with the marker.
He nodded to himself, a ripple centered upon the Guild Hall manifested upon the map before it stabilized, the now seven Dungeons around the city shone slightly, the higher amount in the nation even if the highest Ranked one was only C-Rank.
“She said that this Dungeon is artificial or at least heavily modified by a Person, right?”
“Yes.”
“If this is true, we need to analyze every single one of the remaining Dungeons in the area and the area themselves to see if there are any other new Dungeons. And with a Party made entirely out of C-Class Adventurers at least while stopping any entry in known Dungeons for security.”
He tapped his desk a couple of times with a finger before watching the nearest Dungeon to the city that was originaly a Dungeon City, just a couple of kilometers away.
“What are the chances this Luna is the one that modified the Dungeon?” The Guild Master asked Jay.
“I would say not likely. She doesn’t seem like the type to bother to be this indirect and half-assed if she wanted to harm this city or nation. It could be marginally more likely if she did it to train or to try out a new ability, but I personally doubt it. She would have no particular interest in such an ability and the Monsters didn’t seem to view her as anything in particular.”
“I see. Then -”
A knock sounded on the door and after his “Enter”, his segretary and Buld entered the room before he turned back to his segretary.
“I need you to bring me the list of casualties of the last five years separated by periods. And also the Adventurers dead or missing this year until now.”
“Yes, Guild Master.”
He sighed before turning to Buld, someone that wasn’t weird for him to know about considering how he himself tried to recruit him to either work directly for the Guild or at least as an Adventurer because of his Unique Skill and his power being equivalent to a D-Class Adventurer while being a Guard mostly stationed to Gate duty, job that doesn’t see much combat with People or Monsters.
His Awakening of the Unique Skill, however, made it so he needs to make sure the city, and especially the orphanage he grew up in, would be safe and so he enlisted as a Guard, job that is not renumerative relatively to his capabilities.
“Good day, Buld. I need information about someone that entered the city today, a certain Dhampir named Luna.”
“Yes, Guild Master. When it comes to overall level of power, she register a little lower than you as a threat.” The Guild Master hummed in response.
He was after all a former B-Class Adventurer when he was still active and from his measure he was now equivalent to an high C-Class one because of his years of rust and the lack of any threatening Dungeon in the area for him to grow, especially considering how he carefully studied all of the ones previously known, maxing out his rewards from them, but not being able to surpass his wall, differently from that bastard in the Capital.
“About her willingness to kill, I would absolutely not allow her within the city if not for the fact that the “Outrejects” interfered. I would suggest she leaves this city as soon as possible.”
“Do you think she is here to harm someone?”
“No. However, she will kill someone without any hesitation the moment they bother her enough.”
“I see… Well, that is worrying, but on the other hand I doubt she will stay long in this city and she did give us valuable information if it’s true. I will need to send a message to the Guild Headquarters about this information. You can go, Buld, and if you ever want to be an Adventurer, our door is always open. Until then, continue to do a good job.”
“Before I go, Guild Master, what information was that important?”
“I would not normally tell anyone outside the Guild or immediately relevant to the situation, but you can be trusted to keep it to yourself. It seems like either someone created a new Dungeon or a prevously unknown one was modified.”
“Is that… Is that even possible?”
“An Unique Skill at a very high Rank is probably not enough on his own. Not without extensive training if this one is not the training in the first place.”
“Training? You mean that-” Hale asked, his eyes wide.
“Yes, this is probably a test to see how much they can change in a specific direction. It’s why we need to carefully examine nearby Dungeons for any changes in them.”
“I see. Thanks for the information.” Buld calmy nodded before standing up. “I will need to return to the Gate and my job.” Once he understood that this matter would not be a direct threat to the city and, especially, the orphanage he exited under the gazes of the other three.
“Well, ignoring that. What do we need to do?”
“Once she leave the city, I would like to ask you three to continue to search the area. Naturally your Mission is considered already completed and this one is considered a new one. Do not enter any Dungeon and don’t interact with any Person you don’t know, especially if near a Dungeon entrance. We don’t know if the culprit already knows your faces or even cares at all. Consider today a free day to rest and recuperate. All the same, good job.”
“Yes, Guild Master.” Hale saluted before the two of them left the room as his secretary returned from the Archive with the files in question, bringing with her bad news.
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9/14 7:13 (Summer, Day)
Meanwhile Luna and Sabel were exploring the city, stopping at a weapon’s shop looking at various armors.
Or at least, Sabel was as Luna had no major interest in such.
After all, she had her “Unique Arma” that would eventually become a full armor to protect her and her [Mana-Clad Warrior] Sorcery, her “High-Speed Regeneration” and two different Autorities that helped her to keep herself safe differently while Lunarians in general are made to survive, her need for armor was pratically inexistent especially considering her own Rank and the Rank of the armors.
As such she was interested somewhat in the weapons to model her own Shapes after.
She however didn’t find any unique weapon type as the bladesmith making this weapons didn’t seem to be particularly revolutionary, or for that matter high in Rank as a Bladesmith.
However she nodded to herself before turning to the one at the counter while Sabel was analyzing various armors and weapons and confronting them with her owns and their prizes.
“Hey, do you have any guide on Blacksmith, Bladesmith or Crafting in general?”
“I-I’m not s-sure if-”
“Don’t worry, I am not competition for this store. I leave this city tomorrow morning. Additionally, I’m not asking you to give them to me free of charge. I will naturally pay for them.”
“Are y-you sure you want a book on that?”
“Yes. It would be more useful to me in the long run that anything else.”
“O-okay. I will ask my Master the price then.” Said assistant quickly ran in the back towards the forge, his face crimson because of her while Sabel sent him a brief hostile glance.
Luna turned back to the weapons, a satisfied smirk on her face at seeing her reaction.
Around 15 minutes later, the assistant came back, three small books in his hands before he went back to the counter, waiting for her.
“They cost around 10 Dirrar Silvers Coins each or-”
Before he could continue, the books in his hands vanished and 20 Dirrar Silvers and 1000 Dirrar Copper, the equivalent of 10 Dirrar Silvers, appeared on the desk while Luna started reading the Crafting one, the most immediately important one in her situation, all the while Sabel watched this with a small smile on her face.
This was because of the difference in favor the two of them enjoyed from the “Dhampir” in the store.
The reason why she was interested in the books was simple, really.
The three Skills related to the books would without a doubt help her out in her Shapes.
More specifically while her “Mana Shaping” Skill is not considered a Crafting Skill, her making a True Shape is because of the definition of Crafting employed by the Sistem requiring a material component before and after construction.
This however would be even more important and relevant for her than just affecting her True Shapes and her “Mana Forging” Skill as “Crafting” would influence a lot more of her Skills than just those if her theory about the limitations and absences of such from said Skill.
A theory that she can’t wait to prove correct once she obtains said Skill.
Meanwhile “Bladesmithing” would help her to make more effective Shapes for weapons and “Blacksmithing” would help her with her next project, the combination of [Mana-Clad Warrior] with her True Shapes to make a new Spell capable of holding her Familiars, thing that would vastly increase her options in combat offensively and defensively.
Thing that was only a positive for her.
She was able to read half the book before Sabel was done, thanks to a combination of “High-Speed Processing”, “Parallel Processing” and her ability to retain all of her memories derived from being a “Lunarian” combined with her experience with “Mana Forging”, a Crafting Skill in the first place.
Reading would however only help so much, the real prize would be obtained once she would really and actively practice.
All the same Sabel couldn’t afford any substantial upgrade to her gears with the money in hand while she certaintly would not ask Luna for a loan and so the two left the shop going back to explore the city.
One may wonder how could she read so much in such a short time considering how she was bored out of her mind by the process of making her “Unique Arma” or for that matter how she could handle staying hidden for more than a week in a single room on a boat, but the reason was simple.
She simply loved the process of becoming stronger indipendently from any other situations and so she could stomach things like reading books or meditations while the indirect method of the creation of her “Unique Arma” bored her.
Status
Total Magicules 71437 (V)
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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