Jace is on his knees in the middle of the safe house. He had just eaten the meat of a demon diseased wolf and experienced a weird feeling spread throughout his body, causing him to fall clutching his stomach. The feeling suddenly disappeared and Jace heard a notification.
“Ding, user has contracted level 1.9 disease activating immunity… immunity successful, disease being put into disease storage.” “Ding please name unknown disease.''Jace immediately opens the disease status to see his new disease.
????? (Level 1.9 G)
Symptom 1: Increases healing and growth of cells by 10% (Regenerate 0.2 health a minute)
Spread: Transfers through digestion with a 60% infection rate.
Jace seeing this is amazed and confused. ‘This one symptom is enough to make it level 1.9? Also, why is there a G next to it instead of an E.’ Jace puts off his questions and names the disease “It is named Self Heal V1” Jace, satisfied with the name, finally realizes that Reaper has been running and flying around him.
Jace sits up and says “I am fine Reaper” Jace now starts questioning the system. ‘Why did I feel the disease so much and why is there a G?’
Jace sits there hoping for an answer and gets one he wasn’t expecting. “ The reason you feel the disease is because at the moment your immunity is about to fail. The system was able to hold off Splitter V4 by using all of your immunity that wasn’t fighting any diseases and at that point it was about to break. So adding another high level disease was too much. User, please make a new level 2 disease to level up your disease immunity. You have one hour till immunity breaks.”
This sets Jace into a panic and he starts making a disease core immediately. ‘System, why didn’t you tell me about my immunity breaking earlier?’ Jace gets a notification that makes him sigh. “It was not a problem until now and the system calculated that the user would be fine.”
Jace only scowls as he is focused on making a disease core with Splitter V4 and Self Heal V1. Jace finishes the disease core with more than enough time to spare. This doesn’t matter to Jace however, as soon as he enters the combination room he starts moving as fast as he can.
Jace grabs everything from Self Heal V1 and throws it onto the new disease core. After that Jace grabs the symptoms that lowers immunity of infected by 3%. Jace throws it on the new disease core making sure that it is stable. It was, so Jace exits as fast as he can. “Ding, chose a name for a newly created disease." Jace says quickly “Self Heal V2”. When Jace wakes up he hears a notification “Ding, crisis averted. Disease immunity has leveled up to level 2.”
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Jace sighs in relief when he gets another unexpected surprise. “Ding, you have earned a new ability.” Jace puts this to the back of his mind and continues questioning the system. ‘System, you never answered what G meant.'
The system responds with “Ding, G means good and E means evil.’ Jace nods ‘That would make sense’. To which he then opens up his status to check out his new ability, his leveled up immunity, and his created disease.
Weak Disease Immunity, Level 2↓
* Makes you immune to the symptoms of level 3 or lower diseases
Requirements to level up: Create a level 3 disease
Disease Spell Creation, Level 1↓
* Uses mana to create spells that can be followed with Weak Disease Control.
Requirements to level up: Create a novice level spell
At this point Jace also opens up weak disease control to view its level up conditions as he hadn't seen it in a while.
Weak Disease Control,Level 1↓
* Gives the ability to control and make spells with diseases that the user is immune to (currently level 3 or lower)
Requirements to level up: Create a spell
When Jace sees that it says to create spells he becomes even more confused. He quickly opens hexmancing and cursemaning to see that they also say create. So he interrogates the system once again. ‘System, why does this say it is able to create in the original abilities, when I could only create when I got the new abilities to create.’
The system's answer was brutally honest and left Jace with a straight face. “Ding, the user was to incompetent to create anything without having their own insight and ability specifically for creating. Because of this incompetence the system adapted to the user and introduced things when you were ready.”
Jace nods ‘Fair enough, and here I thought that I was doing better than most’. Jace, now satisfied with the answers, opens up to view his new disease.
Self Heal V2 (Level 2.4 G)
Symptom 1:Lowers immunity of infected by 3%.
Symptom 2: Increases healing and growth of cells by 10% (Regenerate 0.2 health a minute)
Spread: Transfers through digestion with a 60% infection rate.
‘As I expected basic, but I can improve it tremendously’. Jace was finished with everything and finally had a second to relax. When this happened he was startled by Reaper pecking him in the head. Reaper then points to Jaces stitches.
Jace proceeds to get all the supplies he thought he would need. Jace, while looking at a mirror with the brightest flashlight they had pointed at his face, took out the stitches. Jace did this very slowly and carefully as some were right next to his eye.
When Jace took the last one out he clenched his fist in celebration. He then took a look at himself in the mirror. His scarlet red eyes and scar matched perfectly to make him the most intimidating 14 year old there was. Jace cleans up and heads to bed planning to activate Disease Spell Creation’s insight tomorrow.
The sleeping plan didn’t go well as he jolted up in the middle of the night once again covered in sweat. This causes Jace to once again start training, but this time he gains a lot more from the training. ‘Finally, all that hard work paid off’.