July 3rd, 2028, Okinawa, Japan
WORLD FIRST
Breakthrough Accomplishment
3000 exp.
Notifications
~You are now level 6
~You now have 4 attribute points to distribute
~You gained 2 points of Dexterity
~You gained 2 points of Agility
~You have gained 1 points of Constitution
~You are now level 7
~You now have 8 attribute points to distribute
~You gained 2 points of Dexterity
~You gained 2 points of Agility
~You have gained 1 points of Constitution
“Master, Shu. It would appear the student has become the master in this case. I can’t even believe you progressed this quickly four hundred levels in swordsmanship in record time. I am excited to see what you are capable of; I also want to give you two very important gifts. This is a skill crystal; you need to imbue it with a small amount of Aether, and it will give you the knowledge contained inside of the crystal. The skill in this crystal is called AETHER BLADE, it will enable you to create a blade out the Aether from your Aether pool and will cost you Aether until you discontinue its use. You can bend the Aether to create whatever type of blade you choose, and you can funnel more or less Aether into the blade to increase the size, length and or width.” Master conveyed.
I imbued a small amount of Aether into the crystal as instructed, my vision was immediately filled with gold and silver letters written in the most beautiful script, in a language lost to the ages. I then started to understand what those letters and words meant, not because I could read them, but because I could understand them. It was all quite confusing, but in the end, I knew how to make a blade out of thin air.
“The next gift is a sword fit for the first Yellow Prince of this new age on Terra. I give you, Honjo Masamune, long thought to be lost. Not lost, found by me, and kept for you. There is no other sword on this plane that is it’s equal. Honjo will grow with you as you grow master Shu, as you grow more powerful your sword will grow as well. I have been in possession of this blade for a long time in anticipation of your arrival, young prince. It is my honor to pass it along to you. Make a small cut on your index finger and let the blade have a few drops of your blood, this will bond the sword and the man, two spirits fighting as one.”
Master Musashi said.
I did as he said and let the blade have a bit of my blood, as soon as it hit the blade, it soaked in and disappeared not leaving a mark. Which to say the least is odd, but then…
XI SHU
July 3rd, 2028, Okinawa, Japan
#You have formed a spirit bond with Honjo Masamune#
~You have gained 30 points in Strength
~You have gained 40 points in Constitution
~You have gained 30 points in Agility
~You have gained 40 points in Dexterity
~You have gained 30 points in Wisdom
~You have gained 40 points in Perception
“Well, Byakko, it seems that bonding to one of the most prized swords in the galaxy has its advantages. I wonder if it gives more attribute points as it levels up with me. I wonder if anyone who has not bonded with it would even know.” I said as I stroked his soft ears and brushed his coat before we disembarked to Teng Zhou to study with Modi, at the Memorial hall. There I’m told she can help me to advance my Aetheric circulation techniques.
Hopefully at some point, I’d like to meet up with Lord Derrik Rinn, and his family. I dream about them every night and also have visions of them during my time meditating, if they are as amazing as they are in my visions, I’m sure once we are all together, we will all make a formidable team.
Now we are going to the teleport array in the basement of the training hall and were happily surprised to see that every teleport array on planet was operational, but a number of them had been closed by specific people. When I open up the specific arrays, I can see who locked them. It looks like the Rinns have locked Talos, Stanford, and Catalina Island, Dr. Alverez has locked Manchu Pichu, Saul Palo, Bogotá, and Rome. She sure has been a busy bee, The Russian girls have locked down St Petersburg, Budapest, and Reykjavik it would appear they traveled to Stonehenge from Iceland and are currently there with Grandmaster Merlin. The Rinns seem to be in Talos, which could be anywhere as no one has ever been able to find the mythical city. I decided to look to see where I was after the influx of attribute points and the couple of levels I gained as well.
Name: XI SHU (YELLOW PRINCE) Level: 7
Profession: Monk
Race: Human (XIAN) Bloodline: XIAN (PURE)
Age: 30 Weight: 95.26 Kg
Experience: 5300 Height: 1.854 Meters
You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
Exp to next level: 900 Class: TBD
Bloodline Provides per level: +2 Agility, +2 Dexterity, +1 Constitution
Health: 3120 Aether: 1120 Stamina: 3560
Health Regen: 62.4 per min Aether Regen: 52.4 per min Stamina Regen: 71.2 per min
STRENGTH: 75 AGILITY: 93
CONSTITUTION: 81 INTELLEGENCE: 28
DEXTERITY: 85 WISDOM: 59
CHARISMA: 14 PERCEPTION: 72
LUCK: 26
SKILLS: : UNARMED COMBAT – LEVEL 420
SWORD – LEVEL 500
AETHER CIRCULATION – LEVEL 62
AETHER ARTILLERY – LEVEL 41 (Dual Charge level 20, Delayed Explosion level 40)
ELEMENTAL CHARGE – LEVEL 61
AETHER BLADE – LEVEL 32
Attribute points available: 0pts
It looks like I have been applying myself up to this point. Time to WOOOOSH….
July 3rd, 2050, Teng Zhou, Mori Memorial Hall, China
I teleport into pitch black darkness, so I use my elemental charge and charge up my right hand turning it a glowing blue which lights up the room I’m currently in. I find the door to the exit of the small room I can only assume was a coat closet. Odd place to send your teleport array to, unless…...
As soon as reached for the door handle Byakko growled softly enough as to not be heard outside the door but with enough urgency I stopped in my tracks. I put my ear up to the door and listened for a moment and then I heard it, clank clank clank, clank clank clank…. And over and over like a large metal robot was walking around dragging its feet. I waited until the sound was as far away from the door as possible and slowly and quietly opened the door to look and see what it was, we were dealing with. I peeked out the door and examined the deer sized metal reptilian creature walking away from where we were.
*Juvenile Steele Dragon*
*Level 12*
*HP/1200
Ok, so I guess at this low level all I can see is the creatures name, health pool and level. There are three of those things in the next room. They are all solid looking beasts made of steel, and I’m sure they are all able to either breathe fire or shoot some kind of death type thing at me.
This is going to be a true test for my new blade and the skills and techniques I’ve been practicing all of my life.
I looked at my small tiger companion and asked him very nicely to please remain in the closet and be as quiet as possible while “I went out and killed all of the bad metal lizards.”
I brought Honjo out of my spatial storage ring given to me by the Monkey King, and quietly opened the door with the other hand.
With my newfound speed and strength, I made short work of the three Juvenile Steele Dragons, I saw the first of the three walking away from the door I came out of, and it was the only one in the small room the closet was in. The room was dark, and I assumed the dragons had terrible eyesight because I walked right up on it and took its head with minimal effort, one forceful downward slash and the head was separated from the shining metal body. Jesus, Honjo! This fucking sword is so sharp, it cut through the neck of a Steele creature and then into the ground and inch. I love this thing!!
I peeked around the edge of the door that was partially open and spotted the next dragon, it was walking to me, and I would guess it was going to see me any minute, so to save time I charged up my Aether Artillery technique and let one go at the head of the dragon coming my way. The Aether bomb landed directly on the left front shoulder of the dragon, exploding upon impact, and separating the dragon from his left arm and most of that side of its stomach and left leg. As the bomb was doing its bomb, explodey thing I waited for the shrapnel to settle and then swooped in as quickly as my legs would allow and relived the second dragon of its head before it could react. The third Dragon on the other hand was, pissed. To say the least.
We were standing about 10 meters away from each other when I saw it start to rear up on its hind legs and prepare to do something I certainly was not going to like.
I dropped my shoulder and charged the beast with all the speed I could muster Honjo leading the way. When Honjo met with the chest of the raging dragon the beast was shredded beyond repair. My skill with a Katana is almost difficult to get used to. I was three dragons down and hoping that the rest of my visit to Mo Di would be more… peaceful?
I went and retrieved my small tiger companion from the closet. On my return I noticed the dragons were all glowing a light blue, so I reached out and touched one and received some IGCs and some Steele dragon scales and two dragon teeth. This just gets weirder every day, now I’m “looting” my “kills”? Yeah, I’m looting my kills. I wonder what I missed back on the Island. Oh well, now I know, I also wonder where I spend IGCs?
After looting all the dragons, I wandered around until I found a blue door which was glowing faintly on a solid marble wall in the hall. I walked up to it and tried to push some Aether into the door to open it, and it worked.
“MASTER SHU!! WELCOME! Please excuse us for not having a proper welcome arranged for the Yellow Prince!! I require all who come to seek knowledge from this place to be worthy of the effort, the dragons are an easy challenge for some not so east for others, but a challenge you excelled at and here you are!” I heard from everywhere all at once.
“Mo Di? Is that you?” I asked as I lit up a large spliff.
“Yes Master Shu, it is I!!”
As she said that she materialized before my eyes.
“That is some trick, I hope you are going to teach me before we are through here.” I said with respect.
“I must ask where you obtained the cannabis you are smoking?” Modi asked with bright eyes.
“Master Wu told me he got the seed stock from a farm in Central California owned by a couple from Portland, Oregon. I have never seen any plant glow with the brightness this cannabis does, and boy is it strong! I just recently started smoking to improve my Kung Fu, but from what Master Wu told me there is no better cannabis on Terra.” I responded.
“That is Rinn family Cannabis, and you are correct, there is no better source of Aetheric Imbued Cannabis in the universe. How did you come to be familiar with Master Wu?” Modi inquired.
“Master Wu is my master, and I am going to return to him once I have gone through sufficient training and helped blaze a trail for the advancement of XIA here on Terra. Master Wu has helped me and provided me with a road map of places and things I must achieve in order to help take this planet back from the Evil Draco Empire and the Alliance of Darkness. I am here to humbly request your guidance and council. I understand you are able to teach me advanced Aether circulation techniques. Techniques that can help me on the path to enlightenment and help secure a future for humanity here on Terra. If this is the case, please accept me as your willing student, and please teach me all you can to aid in the liberation of Terra.” I asked
“First, pass that spliff this way young man. We must smoke, and then after we smoke some more, we can discuss what I have to teach you young Yellow Prince.” Modi said with a smile.
Sure enough, and true to her word we must have smoked 7 rather large spliffs, I started out rolling them, and then somehow at some point she had all my weed and my papers, and my goodness could she roll a beautiful spliff. They were each a work of art really, it may have just been the weed but, I was really getting to like this lady. She was super cool, and also she was like perfect looking, not a hair out of place perfect skin, perfect proportions, curves in all the right places…..
Shit! Not what I am here for, this weed got me!!!
After our grand smoke session, we settled down and Modi disappeared into the grand XIA Archive to find some Circulation Crystals, she assured me this was the most efficient way to learn new techniques in the universe.
The first Advanced Circulation technique I “learned” was called Calming breath, it aided in the intake of Aether and the expiration of impurities. The next Advanced Circulation technique I learned was called Quiet mind, this technique helped to quiet all of the thoughts you usually have running through your head, aiding in the speed with which you can enter the meditative state. Modi also made sure I learned the Ever-expanding Aether pool technique; this allowed me to expand and condense my Aether pool. I stayed in the time dilated space with Modi practicing my new advanced techniques and pushing myself for about 2 months, which is about 3 days on Terra, on the last day, right before I was to seek out Modi and say our goodbyes and thank her. She came and found me in a panic and told me there was a large contingent of Drow soldiers invading Ankor Wat in Cambodia. The Archive at Ankor Wat is an archive focused on Dark Magick, the Drow use Dark Magick exclusively, they use no other Magicks and as a result believe no other races should possess the knowledge of their scared Dark Magick. They are also willing to kill, destroy, and devour in order to keep their secrets. They plan to wait for all who exit, then torture them for every bit of information they possess and then sacrifice their lives to the Spider Queen.
The keeper of the archive there has sent out a distress call to all of the training halls, archives, and armories friendly to the light races. Modi received the call and was hoping I could go and take care of this small problem, and while there retrieve some scrolls for Julie Rinn, as I would surely be meeting up with her soon. Byakko and I walked down into the basement of the Memorial hall and located the Teleport array, I dialed in the location, Ankor Wat, Cambodia, and we walked through the portal and WOOOSH…..