9/14 15:57 (Summer, Night)
Sabel returned to rationality after hours to find her head resting on Luna’s shoulder while being gently pet, her hands bound by shackles of Black Blood with Mafel in the same situation so that they wouldn’t .
Or at a second look, a similar situation as the former Boss was still under the influence of the Mark as she noted from the fact that the white-haired one had an expression of bliss in her face, her eyes closed in contentment.
“How is…?” Sabel.
“She is fine. She needs a bit more time to separate my emotions from her own as she is less used to feeling things than you.” Luna petted her head as her bonds dissolved.
“How long was I out?”
“No idea. It’s night right now. Can you walk?”
“Yes, I-” Sabel tried to stand up only to almost fall, barely able to stop herself before Luna helped her with her blood to lead her back to the coach and her arms.
Sabel found herself embraced by her front while Mafel leaned against her back.
She sighed, relaxing, while hugging Luna back before she noted something else.
“Why am I not hungry? Even with Vital Energy, I should be.”
“Simple really. I am transfering my Vital Mana to you two to feed you.”
“I-I see. Thank you? How long do you think she is going to be out of it?” Sabel asked Luna about Mafel only to recieve an unexpected answer.
“Why don’t you try to feel the answer using your Mark?”
“How do I- no. You are right, I must find out myself.” Sabel started to concentrate on herself, more specifically on the warmth in her chest, deep within her heart, calling for her attention.
No, she corrected, deep within her soul she found the Mark, a tether connecting to something, no someone, else.
As she concentrated on it, she saw.
Information almost blanked her mind before she slowly was able to slowly start to navigate the information, noting how the information was her own memories, even those she forgot, mixed with her own, Luna’s and even Mafel’s emotions.
As such, slowly she was able to concentrate until the influx of memories slowed more and more until they became just a trickle, trickle that quickly ended.
She sighed, exausted, before concentrating again, this time on the tether itself and not the part of herself connecting to it.
Their Link was not very strong yet, barely born, yet was more than enough for her to send a request for information, request that was answered almost automatically by Luna’s Soul not with words but pure information.
As such she understood the other needed an additional hour before she regained full control.
She turned to her own body, relaxing against Luna as this last one continued to pet her head.
“I’m sorry, you must have been bored this hours…”
“Not at all, fending the two of you off was quite entertaining and I had more than enough time to finish reading the three book and practice.” Luna responded, a True Self manifesting before them holding one of the books for them to read before saluting and Dispelling, the book vanishing back in her Ring.
“I see. Then I’m relieved.” Having said her piece Sabel leaned her head back on Luna’s shoulder and started to doze off.
“Very well. Now that Sabel is calmly sleeping, my Mafel is even more passive and so I can properly train all out.”
A mass of Black Blood rose from her shadows enveloping the three of them in an hollow sphere, mixing together with Vital Mana forming a True Sphere, enhanced with [Greater Self] and [Mana-Clad Warrior], while sharing with it one of her Skills, “Presence Suppression” to hide them.
A second one formed within it enhanced with the sames Spells while with the Skill “Artifact Proficiency” to enhance the effect of the Shapes within and around it.
The third and final sphere finally formed within it with the Skill “High-Speed Processing”, accelerating the inside slightly.
Immediately after her 5 True Images appeared within the sphere, being complete, naked, copies of herself made out of liquid darkness with bright purple lights in the place of her irises.
This caused another reaction because of the Skill “Parallel Processing” joining them to the network that was her mind.
Finally she Summoned her Familiars within three of her True Images causing them to change even further.
The one harboring Warden changed the least, its skin becoming densely packed scales as part of her hairs became horns, the one holding Ash changed the most when it comes to material, becoming made entirely out of solid flames.
Finally, the one holding her oldest Familiar changed the most, its nails and fangs becoming sharp as knives, a third light appearing on its forehead while its hairs became similar to sturdy whips ending in a spinning drill to impale individuals.
She smiled analyzing the changes within them caused by their Ranks and the presence of her Familiars and the way she herself would behave in that situation to find and correct any inefficiencies.
Starting from the most important and numerous change was that her own Unique Skill was inherited as an Innate Skill in their cases while her own Growth Skills don’t allow them to gain any Magicules in the first place.
But the most interesting thing was the effect of “Singularity” upon Ash.
This last one had as Skill only “Fire-Attribute Magecraft”, a Skill that needed a minimum Affinity towards the Fire Attribute, thing that should have been rendered useless because of her own Unique Skill only for said Skill to change, showing a new side to it.
Instead of reducing all Affinities to nothing while boosting the No-Attribute Affinity to the maximum, in this case it instead reduced all Affinities, the No-Attribute one included, to nothing while bringing the Fite-Attribute one to the maximum.
She smiled as another piece of the puzzle she and her Unique Skill were being revealed to her before the test even really started.
The battle started in full with her Images using Vital Mana to nullify the damage to her, her Mates and the office itself while she observed them attently, in movements sure but especially her three Familiars-Images’ version of her and their own Skills.
Immediately she recognized that her Warden-Image and her Vision-Image had the advantage, one when it comes to defenses, thanks to the combination of “Imperial Scales” and “Physical Resistance”, while the other had an advantage derived by its perception and its sheer versatility derived from its natural weaponry.
Meanwhile Ash was instead being slowly but surely being driven back as it was incapable of using “No-Attribute Sorcery” and “No-Attribute Magecraft” as it had no No-Attribute Affinity.
Some may wonder why she was bothering to train in this way, thinking she was merely trying to became better at fighting but while this is true, it is not the only reason.
The main reason for such, the one not normally actively known about, is that someone could use an immense amount of training to slowly drill against the Wall of their progress to decrease the Burden of the Skills on their Soul, training that because of the sharing of “Parallel Processing” the Images’ is counting as her own.
As she observed the battle royal before her, she noted how her Images were behaving, carefully concentrating their assault on the Ash-Image.
This from the outside may have seemed like the four of them decided to eliminate the weakest of the bunch but the truth was quite different, as shown by the fact that it was surviving in a battle against four Beings with the same stats as it using “No-Attribute Sorcery” to enhance themselves.
The truth was that the four of them were driving it into a corner to force it to adapt, leaving it no chance to survive otherwise, as the thought that a copy of Luna channeling a Familiar would be weaker than a copy of Luna alone was unacceptable to all other Lunas.
The only thing they could accept as behavior was to drive it to a corner until it could properly fight back.
Method that worked as evident by the fact that flames quickly started enveloping its fists, a Sorcery of the Fire Attribute used without the Skill to increase its power and ease of use, thing quite easy for Luna to do considering its naturally high Control caused by “Singularity”.
This caused her to actualize a Sorcery normally called [Burning Grasp] through pure knowledge, intuition and will, Casting quite the high-level Spell with the ease of a master.
This was evident from the analysis Luna made of its effects as it struck one of the Images, causing two, no three Complex Alteration of Status at once, “Burning Resistance Down (Self)”, “Burning Damage Increase (Self)” and “Continuous Burning (Self)”, both of them lasting a whole 10 minutes even if she herself was the one recieved this attack.
Attack that didn’t end even now as its hands were still clad in a flaming red aura while the struck Image was periocally bursting into flames from the inside out.
The effects of these Alterations were simple, really.
“Burning Resistance Down (Self)” lowered the Resistance to the Status “Burning” of who has it, “Burning Damage Increase (Self)” increases the damage the “Burning” Status inflicts once Active and finally the “Continuous Burning (Self)”, a Status that constantly inflicts some “Burn” every second.
Simple Status Alterations like “Burning” have three layer of effects depending on the Resistance and the amount of Status Effect inflicted.
In this case the “Burning” Status Effect has the following effects with the basic potency depending on the source: The first is that the Target recieves more Fire Damage from following attacks and is always active so long as “Burning” is present; the second is the Active effect, happening once the inflicted Status is equal or superior to the Resistance, that contiuously inflicts Fire Damage to the Target; finally, the third and final effect is an amplification of both the previous two effects relative to the difference between the Status and the Resistance.
Luna watched studying the following battle as Ash-Image started to use “Fire-Attribute Sorcery” and “Fire-Attribute Magecraft” to fight back against Warden-Image’s barriers and the attacks of Vision-Image who’s even its missed attacks were dangerous as the area around it was sharp as a blade.
She felt it, the Progress Wall being slowly grinded because of their efforts and her own constant passive trainining.
Time passed as Luna examined the slowly stabilizing connection between herself and her two Mates deep within their Souls while analyzing her own emotions and the desires natural of a Lunarian, much more intense than even that of an Half-Elf.
It was the reason why she couldn’t stop herself from taking the two of them as her own in such little time while the previous her never even thought about People in any romantic way or even simply cared about other’s People existence.
The truth was that as a Lunarian she was more similar to a normal Person than when she was an Half-Elf thanks to both her time around the old Vampire to analyze how he behaved and the stronger desires of a Lunarian helped her understand other People’s emotion.
She concentrated back to the fight, noting how the Skills her Familiar-Image were using would be quite different from the same Skills if used by her.
The “Fire-Attribute Magecraft” of Ash was able to generate, control and amplify flames; “Third Eye of Physicality” of Vision was able to roughtly see the opponents’ Vital Energy while its “Weapon Mastery” rendered its body a natural weapon; finally, when it comes to Warden, its “Imperial Scale” allowed it to create Barriers all over the place because it was incorporeal as just a Shade while its “Physical Resistance” was being channeled through her barriers.
All these were things she wouldn’t be able to do without her Familiars.
As her Images continued to battle, destroying and being destroyed in return, she felt it, her Soul growing in power enough to lessen the Burden to the point that it finally happened, she gained a new Skill surpassing her Wall, a Skill she wanted intensely.
*Luna Gained the Ability Skill “Crafting”.
She smiled, satisfied, and it was just in time too as Mafel finally was able to focus on reality, her Images vanishing.
Differently from Sabel, she instantly found their Link together and mastered its use, sending and asking informations with the same, if not greater, ease than simply asking to Luna’s pride to her Mate.
Meanwhile Luna examined the difference in her abilities from before noting no particular change from before, just a slight increase in power, at least for now.
“So what do you want to do?”
“I’m going to leave this city tomorrow. You are free to accompany me if you want to but you will be mine all the same.”
This response was only partial as all the same very soon they would always know each others’ location and she planned to come back to bring Sabel back with her.
This wasn’t hidden from Mafel and neither was the completely absent sense of direction that is part of Luna’s being, thing she understood easily throught their Mate Link.
“I see. In that case I will search you once I conquer the Dungeons nearby while keeping my new sister? Company.”
“Very well.” Luna accepted easily before kissing her Mate softly. “Let’s relax for now.” Her five Images, three housing her Familiars, were Summoned to restart her training.
Status
Total Magicules 71437 (V)
Stored Magicules 425
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.
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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.
Growth: Devouring Evolution E
Magicules: 100/1k. (III)
This Skill denotes the ability of the owner to devour other Beings and take in their power to expand the owner’s own Skills and increases their Potential at the cost of any potential Familiar or Magicules.
Finally, every day, the owner will receive Magicules equal to this Skills Grade times 100.
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 and creation of Vital Mana.
It automatically fuses together Vital Energy and Mana within the owner and thanks to Unique Skill “Singularity”, the efficiency of said fusion is set to a minimum of 100% while the process itself is instantaneos.
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].
This Skill can be used to boost an object with Vital Mana to shape an existing Spell within it, power depending on the Rank of this Skill and the Rank of the Sorcery Skill in question.
This Skill can be used to make independent Shapes out of Vital Mana, depending on this Skill, Control and the affinity of the owner towards the chosen Attribute; they are transparent except for their outline and can be manipulated freely.
Devouring Evolution: The owner can make a maximum number of copies of themselves equal to this Skill’s Grade [5]; each one of them has all the Skill of the owner at E-Rank; Additionally, all other Shapes made from this Skill inherit one Skill of the owner at E-Rank.
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: 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: 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.
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Ability: Crafting E
A Skill that increases the Quality of every single Item Crafted by the owner.
Thanks to “Authority: Black Blood” and “Authority: Vital Mana”, Items, Spells and Shapes Casted using either Black Blood or Vital Mana are influenced by this Skill as if a Crafted Item while the Quality of the Black Blood and Vital Mana themselves are passively increased.
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:
6 E-Rank;
7 D-Rank Skills;
7 C-Rank Skills.
Every day, then, the owner will gain 62 Magicules times 5, 310.
#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.
#Devouring_Evolution
A process to automatically gain Magicules every day equal to the value of the Skill Grade times 100.
At the moment the Skill Grade is 3 and so, every day, the owner will gain 300 Magicules.
Familiars:
Vision D
Third Eye of Physicality E
Weapon Mastery D
Warden D
Imperial Scale D
Physical Resistance E
Ash E
Fire-Attribute Magecraft D
Magecraft
No-Attribute
Roaring Destruction
Magnificent Ray
Knockwave
Attribute Modification
Attribute Reflection
(New) Fire-Attribute
(New) Fire Ball
(New) Firethrower
(New) Fire Rain
Sorcery
No-Attribute
Mana Burst
Release
Mana-Clad Warrior
Greater Self
(New) Fire-Attribute
(New) Burning Grasp