Annika Ciakar
June 20th, 2028, Budapest, Hungary
World Quest- Annika Ciakar
-Help restore the Atlantean Empire on Terra- 500,000 exp
-Help humanity onto the path to regain their former glorious potential- 250,000 exp
-Help retake the Drow strong hold on Terra and rid this planet of their influence -100,000 exp & Epic Title
-Assist the human survivors in retaking Terra from the Evil Draco Empire- 500,000 exp & Terran Lordship
Well, I guess I saw that coming and shouldn’t be too surprised, it still sucks. I have been shuffled all around western Russia and eastern Europe over the last two weeks. I have had a lot of time to sleep and dream. In those dreams I am seeing the same people I’ve never met but I feel drawn to them for strange reasons I don’t quite understand. I see a large, tall American man who is a great warrior who can decimate his adversaries with his might, his hammer, or with his control of gravity magick. I dream of him, and his wife, who appears in my dreams as what I can only describe as a Ninja. Their daughter who looks to be some sort of Druid Mage or Light Wizard, either way she seems very powerful, and I hope should we ever meet we can all be friends. Dr. Cava seems like she is an extremely intelligent scholar who also knows how to ground and pound. And also, Elizaveta. I hope to find her and hopefully we can help each other through this crazy time.
The most intriguing person I have been dreaming of is a man named Xi Shu, he goes by Shu, and he is perfect in every way I can observe. He is beautiful, he moves with striking purpose and as delicately as water yet is as powerful as any man I’ve ever met. My other dreams have been showing me how to meditate (which is something I was taught to do many years ago and have access to small amounts of Aether to practice) and what to look for when I come to the Matthias Church. Once the clock strikes midnight the door to the training hall will open and I should be safe from most Draco. I have a cloaking ring on, and I will appear to be an Atlantean rather than a Draco Royal.
Hopefully whoever is inside can give me some help to achieve some skills, there is the door. No one could miss the glowing blue door right in front of the altar. I walked through the door and down a long twisting flight of stone stairs. At the bottom I found a large wooden door that had old fashioned iron bands at the top and bottom, the damn thing must have weighed 300lbs.
After shouldering the stupid door open, I saw a man who looked to be drunk as a skunk and was currently downing a bottle that was filled with a green glowing liquid. “Hello, there.” I said to the man. “Aye young lady, aye, are you here to bring more Cannawine?? Or perhaps Cannaliquer?? Which is it child?? I’m not here to play games with you! Do you understand?” He rudely bellowed.
“No, no Canna anything.” I yelled back. “Who are you, you rude bastard!” I finished. “Rude bastard! Rude bastard! Young lady, I suggest you apologize for your disrespectful and insolent tone and remarks before I am forced to remove my belt and teach you a lesson in speaking to your betters! I am Belda the HUN!! Millions have perished at the tip of my sword, I have driven nations into the sea, I blehhhhhhhh, I blehhhhhhhh……” Belda screamed and puked.
“You had way too much to drink and are having delusions as well as puking your guts out, oh mighty conqueror!!” I replied. “Is this a training hall or is this a tutorial area on how to be a drunken disappointment? I’m leaning towards the latter.” I finished.
“Bwaaa, blehhhhwaaaeeehhh…..” he replied “Okay, I can wait. Are you going to be alright? Mighty warrior!!!!” I added sarcastically.
After Belda was through throwing up, he went to a barrel full of water and dunked his head into it for what seemed to be too long, and then……
“Let me start off by apologizing to you for treating you so poorly upon our first meeting. Your ring is not enough for me to not see you for who you are, the fail safes on the entrances are already recalibrated. Are you here to try to destroy this hall? You will find it most difficult at your current level. I truly hope you can offer a better explanation. I would hate to resort to a violent course of action, but I suppose that all depends upon your intensions.” Belda stated, and also produced a large glowing red-hot sword that appeared to be too big for him to lift but he moved it around with grace and ease.
“I am here to try to learn some skills which will help me survive the Draco Empire, I recently escaped from Lord Vladimir and have no intension of ever going back. I will fight to my last breath to keep this planet safe from those evil monsters. I have no other intensions, I’m certainly not here to destroy anything that would help the people of this planet fight their subjugators.” I answered honestly. I went on to say “I only recently found out about the truth of my existence and there is no way I am letting anyone decide how I am going to live my life. I am here to train with this world’s greatest heroes and strategists in hopes of becoming strong enough to help the people of Terra overcome the evil Draco Empire. Now, are you going to help me, or am I going to have to go and start my journey elsewhere?” I asked honestly.
“Annika Ciakar, even your name is of Draco Royalty, but I believe I must look past this minor detail and help provide you with the training you seek. Being inside of a training hall you have stepped into an area of time dilation. Every day you spend here with me will be equal to one hour outside on Terra, allowing you to accomplish vast amounts of training without losing precious time on Terra. Where would you like to begin?” Belda answered. He went on to ask, “Do you mind if I look at your attributes and skills?” “Uh yeah, that’s fine. How do I do that?” I asked. “Just think about opening your user interface, and then think about allowing me to see it as well. Mental prompts are all you need to navigate your UI.” Belda answered. I did as he asked, and I saw my user interface for the first time. It was telling me to open my notifications and acknowledge my new attribute points.
-Notifications-
~You have gained 16 points in Strength
~You have gained 8 points in Constitution
~You have gained 12 points in Agility
~You have gained 9 points in Dexterity
~You have gained 11 Points in Perception
You have gained 24 points in Luck
~You gained 7 points in Charisma
Name: Anna Ciakar Level: 0
Profession: Draco Royal Family / Debutant
Race: Human (DRACO) Bloodline: DRACO
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Age: 19 Weight: 65.77 Kilos
Experience:0 Height: 1.88 Meters
Exp to next level: 0 Class: TBD
Bloodline Provides per level: +2 Strength, +2 Constitution,+2 Agility, +1 Dexterity
Health: 780 Aether: 320 Stamina: 700
Health Regen: 15.6 per min Aether Regen: 10 per min Stamina Regen: 14 per min
STRENGTH: 24 AGILITY: 20
CONSTITUTION: 15 INTELLIGENCE: 8
DEXTERITY: 15 WISDOM: 7
CHARISMA: 45 PERCEPTION: 18
LUCK: 52
SKILLS / ABILITIES
SWORDSMAN – LEVEL 40
SHIELD – LEVEL 30
FIREARMS – LEVEL 50
TACTICAL ENGINEER – LEVEL 1
ADVANCED GYMNASTICS – LEVEL 25
KINESIOLOGY – LEVEL 30
Attribute points available: 0pts
“You are going to be a fucking powerhouse, for sure!! You really are Rasputin’s daughter; I can’t believe you are here. I can’t believe you are not an evil soulless creature from the pit by now. You must be here for the correct reasons. How, may I ask, are you doing with all of this? All of these changes and chaos?” Belda asked.
“I honestly don’t really know how to feel. My father told me about all of the changes to come a couple weeks ago and we decided it would be better for me if I was not in Moscow, or anywhere near Lord Vladimir when the world came crashing down, and he was looking for a mate with a pure royal bloodline to create an heir. My father was sure that was me, which caused me to be shifted all around the eastern edge of Europe, to here, to ensure my safety. I have been training to be a part of the Draco royal family since I was 12 years old. My father was relentless, he had me train with various weapons such as guns, as well as swords, spears, and shields, and the proper use of rope. I am an expert marksman, and I am more than proficient with the Long Sword, I have the strength and stamina of men twice my size. I’m ready to see what you can teach me, and humbly ask that you give me any instruction that may aid me in my journey.” I answered. “We need to smoke a joint or two. Do you have a pipe yet?” Belda asked. “Pipe, joint? What are you talking about?” I asked, slightly confused.
“Cannabis, I think you kids call it “weed”?” Belda responded. Then went on to say, “Come sit, we will smoke, meditate for a bit, and smoke some more then we will get into some training. You have time here to grow and learn, cannabis will aid greatly in your advancement and help your mind retain more of what we are going to do while you are here. Cannabis is used throughout the cosmos for a myriad of reasons. Once imbued with Aether, Cannabis can extend life by a great measure when concocted correctly. I prefer to use Cannawine, which as I’m sure you guessed is a wine made from the seeds and flowers of the Cannabis Sativa Plant that has been imbued with Aether, it provides major benefits to your Aether circulation abilities and, gets you rip roaring drunk! I also smoke as much Cannabis as I can get my hands on, it improves your battle sight and aids in the flow of the Aether through your body.”
“Battle sight? Smoking Cannabis to improve your memory? This all sounds like the opposite of what we are taught all of our lives.” I lamely responded.
“If you knew, if all the people of Terra knew that cannabis was the wonderous gift from the creators that it is, humans would have discovered the Draco suppression generations ago. The Draco have prohibited the use of all mind-advancing substances on all worlds dominated by the Draco Empire, to ensure the subjugation of the local population. If you all started to advance your minds and evolve to a point where you could see through the mass spell cast on your planet, and discover the governors put on your genetics put in place generations ago by Draco scientists. They would lose their easy ride here on Terra and must go back to “HARD” subjugation, as they did so many years ago that your people have forgotten.” Belda replied.
“Well, I’m not against smoking the pot, I tried it once when I was in boarding school. I have a feeling though this is going to be a different experience.” I said bashfully. Belda and I proceeded to smoke a glowing cannabis cigarette and then we meditated for what seemed like ten minutes, then I felt as though I was traveling up, above my body, I looked down and saw myself sitting Criss cross apple sauce style with my eyes closed, there was bright blue Aether flowing all around and through me, oddly I could not feel it, but it looked like I was being inundated with glowing blue energy. Honestly, it was quite beautiful, I kept floating up until I floated through the ceiling and through the roof to the sky above. I guess I was around 150 meters in the air I stopped abruptly and looked all around. The entire town I was in looked as though it was hit with some sort of bomb. All the houses, cars, businesses, schools, hospitals were all on fire. They also looked as though they exploded from the inside or underneath. There was rubble and debris everywhere, people were running in every direction, I could hear the cries of mothers and the screams of children who were all suffering in one way or the other. I guess that was natural gas exploding due to the Aether explosion. I then floated down as slowly as I floated up, back down into my body. To find Belda bent over waving his hand in my face trying to get my attention. I was also greeted with a notification.
-Notification-
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Astral Sight
Astral Sight allows the user to leave their corporal body with their Astral body in order to view certain events. 20 Aether per min.
“Annika? Hello? Annika?” He kept saying. Once I finally came to, I said, “Belda, I saw the whole city, it has been destroyed. I’m guessing the natural gas lines exploded when the Aether gathering machine turned up at midnight. The cars, busses, trains, and boats all exploded or are inoperable and people are franticly running around and there seems to be nothing but chaos and death everywhere I looked.” “Annika, this is the tribulation and planetary reset. You are going to see far worse examples of destruction and senseless violence. The mighty rule the collective, you would be well served to never forget that one fact. Never mind all of that, I suggest you go to the bathroom and clean yourself up, change out of those ruined clothes and we will have food, then we will fight. You will show me all that you know, and we will work together to help make you the most lethal woman the collective has ever seen.” I did as Belda asked, he had a small bath with freezing cold water, clean water but freezing. After my bath, and change of clothes, we ate a dinner consisting of some sort of meat stew and some really stale bread that kind of tasted like dirt. After the meal Belda took me to another level below us into what looked like a fighting arena. It was a circle about 30 feet across with a gold line all the way around with a small stool on either side. The first time in Belda attacked me with absolutely no warning and I was immediately put on guard. I parried his first vertical slash, then from the middle of nowhere there was a dagger sticking about two inches into my left upper thigh. As shocked as I was at his speed, I was more shocked he actually stabbed me. I made a calculated backswing at his torso which he easily twisted his way away from and then screamed “STOP!! I have seen what I need to see we begin in the morning.” We would spar here, Belda would correct my form, and then give me a proper thrashing, from which my body would heal at such a rapid pace I could not believe my eyes, but the pain of regeneration is a palpable thing. Well, that’s how it went for the first two days, then I started to improve, I started to block the strikes with more ease, my parries were more effective, I touched Belda with the tip of my sword more than once. He was kind enough to teach me two Aether Techniques, one involving the sword, one involving defense. First, I learned Extended Strike, this technique allowed me to push Aether into my sword of choice extending the attack radius by an exponential amount depending on the amount of Aether used. The second technique was called Battle Sight. When used, my opponents’ movements are almost telegraphed into my mind just before they make them, allowing me to react with more effective counters. After over two months of non-stop training, smoking hundreds of glowing joints, and eating that horrible stew, Belda was no longer a match for me.
“It has been only three days on Terra, in that time you have progressed in ways I, myself cannot even believe. I hope that the skills and knowledge gained here during your time with me have been beneficial and you employ what you have learned to help ensure the people of this planet have a future free of the subjugation of the evil Draco Empire.” Belda said. “Belda, I cannot thank you enough for all you have done for me. I will be forever grateful for the training I received here with you, and of course the secret of the glowing loco weed, that is probably going to become a regular habit prior to my nightly meditation session. I gained several random attribute points here and wish I could stay longer.”
Belda turned on a teleportation device and recommended I walk through it, the only other portal accessible was in St. Petersburg at Alexander Palace, this is another training facility, where I should be safe from the Draco Empire for at least a few days. I thanked him again and walked through the teleportation device and woosh……….