“Ah i see you are done meditating, i had an idea.” tia said and pointed down to a pile of sand. That was now next to the magicly moved stone. “If you can't move the stone quickly then just make the sand into stone, you will likely have to hold it between your hands and transmute it in place, and i hope that it would attach to the rest of the stone. If not then it will be kind of like making bricks and go from there.” she said with a never give up attitude clear on her face.
“ That is really clever idea tia, good job. Now let's see how well it works in practice.” i grabbed a handful of sand and put it between my hands and then transmuted it to sand stone a third the size of the sand i had held. It did not stick to the stone that i had already moved, so i moved it to the ground and added more sand and transmuted it to see if it would stick to the already transmuted sandstone and it did. The whole experiment took 3 mana.
“Ok sandstone will stick to sandstone i can work with this.” i went out of the cave and grabbed handfuls of sand and started to transmute them into sandstone rock and tossed them inside, each rock only costing 1 mana and was a messy shape the size of my fist.
“Oh i see what your doing, making something to build with and then adding sand after to seal up any gaps. Rocks as an outline then sand, then rocks on top of that then sand, each time transmuting the sand to sandstone.” tia said while clapping her hands, she started to grab the stones as best she could, some were shaped in a way that she could not grasp them well. I made 40 rocks and then moved onto stacking them up and making a small shelter out of them. It was starting to get cold as i kept working and taking small breaks to meditate and get back my mana. It was done it was a tiny thing that i could just barely fit into but it kept my body heat in or at least that was tia’s theory.
“ well at least we have a chance with this, goodnight lilly, i hope we can sleep well.” tia then curled in next to me and started to sleep, i tried to drift off as well but she started to snore loudly. It was also getting colder then i would have thought and my teeth started to chatter as i shivered. I stayed awake through the night my eyes drilling holes into tias small form.
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“Yaaa, hmm” tia woke up and stretched, she turned and saw me staring at her with death in my eyes. “Wahhh” she flew out of my grasp and to to roof of the dungeon cave. “So umm lilly uh how did you sleep?” she asked sheepishly. I crawled out of the shelter staring at her the whole time.
“What do you mean by sleep tia?” i said sickeningly sweet. “Oh you mean the thing you did while you snored so loud i had no way to sleep if i wanted to.” i shouted at the pixie, then regained my calm. “But i should thank you because of you i learned a new skill and it should be very helpful.” i said between gritted teeth
[heat of petite hatred-fueled by a petie hatred you have found a way to keep yourself warm so long as you are around a petie or greater hatred, the stronger the hate the stronger the heat.]
“See even when i am asleep i still help you out. But in fairness you are a demon and they tend to do fire very well, also negative emotions.” tia stated pondering.
“It seems i can make the area around me warmer but only enough to keep off a chill, nothing like actually fire, with my new skill. But now that it is day time and starting to warm up i think i will take my turn at sleeping. You keep watch tia and make sure you don't nod off out of boredom.” with that i went to lay on the moss as my bedding and let my exhaustion take me.
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I awoke feeling my body starting to overheat. I shot up and saw my legs were a deep red and i felt some sand fall off of me as i stood. I brushed off the sand and felt a pain when i touched the red areas. I took a look to make sure the sand was off and saw that it was actually patterns that were rough but easy to see. The skin where the sand was on me was lighter then where it hurts to touch.
“Tia what happened why is my skin red and hurting?” i called out to the pixie, “and why are there patterns on my skin?” she flew over to me and flinched at how red my skin was in places.
“Umm that would be sunburn, it happens when you are exposed to the heat of the day for too long and it does go away in time. As for the patterns i kind of put sand on you to make them as a joke. I thought you would just tan and have lighter areas as a neat little patten but did not expect you as a demon to get a sunburn, who would have guessed.” tia said.
“So do you have any idea how long this ‘sunburn’ will last?” i asked in slight annoyance.
“ on a common race it would last a few days then the burnt skin would start to peel off, it is so gross.” she stuck out her tongue. “But on a demon i have no idea how it would work, it could take a day or year, i have no info to go off of for this.” i sighed at the news.
“Well at least something you are not a know it all about so there is that.” i said cheekly to her. “So how do most of the common races speed up recover if you know. And by that i mean something we can do with the resources we have on hand.” i looked around the empty cave.
“Hmm well drink more water and stay out of the sun is all i got.” she shrugged. “I am kind of shocked you did not get burnt yesterday while you were making the big bowl, you were out for hours in the sun.”
“I ran out of mana and then went inside to the shade and waited to get it back, i was meditating longer than i was in the sun by a wide margin. Mana gets spent fast when working on projects.” i explained.
“True enough, not like you were an earth elemental using earth magic. Those guys can just keep casting the non combat spells all day long it is nuts.”
“Well i guess today will be fixing up our little shelter to be a bit more cozy, and making some pots to store water inside.” i said and moved to the shelter of sandstone. Looking at it in the light of day made it clear how much of a rush job it was. It had clear gaps that let out the heat, and on the inside had bulges that blocked off some space.
I started out by smoothing out the inside of my little sleeping hole, no use making the outside look any better till the inside was livable. Then i filled in the holes with some sand i gathered from a few quick trips outside. I then started to make a small area of the ground as smooth as i could. After that was done i put some sand on top of it and made it smooth as well. then i transmuted the sand into a small sheet. It was more or less smooth on both sides the edges were a bit off but i ran my finger past the edges slowly while willing it to transmute back into sand. And the end result was not perfect but it was closer to a smooth rectangle sheet of sandstone.
“I am glad you made a rectangle sheet but why did you do that?” tia said while hovering over me confused at my work.
“This way i can make building blocks of sorts, something i know that would take me a long time to shape with my mana i can just transmute to the shape i want to make, and look i can make containers with this idea too.” i set my sheet aside and put some sand on my smooth cave floor. This time the sheet was a circle, i transmuted the sand and then put a small ring of sand along the edge of the circle of sandstone, then transmuted that. I repeated that till i had a rough bucket. “See now we have a way to keep the water inside.” i said proudly. Then i went to lift the new sandstone bucket and found it to move but with a lot more effort than i expected.”
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“Good luck moving that full of water, it is made of sandstone not the normal clay or lighter still wood. But it is good to know what tools we have on hand. Put it off to the side and made a smaller one something i can lift and i will till up the new bucket.” tia said and stood next to my small workspace. I went to work and made a small sandstone bucket that was pixie sized. It did not hold much but it looked like tia could pick it up at least. I don't know about flying while it was full but will find out shortly.
“Ok thanks now lets see how well this works. Oh nice i can fly with it.” tia said as she hovered just slightly off the ground and did not get much higher even with visible effort. “Well it is still better than walking.” she flew off and grabbed some water, as she was doing that i moved the first sandstone container to the side, and saw her start her walk back. “Well this sucks looks like i cant fly or even hover with a full load of water, next time i will grab half as much and i hopefully can fly then.” tia huffed as she moved her small bucket of water.
“Well at least we have more stuff to work with right?” i said trying to cheer her up. She nodded while walking.
I started making other flat areas on the cave floor putting little walls up along the edges of them to make a small templet to put sand into for transmuting to sandstone. I thought myself rather clever for that. It was just simple flat shapes so far but i could build on it in time. I lost myself in my work and started to make my transmuted sandstone objects from my templates, the time flew by till i was stopped by a blue message.
[dungen points +2 current dungeon points 5]
I sighed it is going to take 7 or 8 more days till i can get the radiant mana, that means all i have to eat is the moss, something i haven't even tried yet. Well i am low on mana right now anyway and have enough plats of sandstone to cover the small sleeping cave for tonight. I might as well see how the moss is. I walked over and grabbed a pinch of moss and tasted it. Nope nothing i want to keep tasting. So i swallowed it and left it at that, i took a few more pinches worth of the moss cutting out a section of the moss pinch by pinch. I moved the now seperated section of moss up with my mana and cut the stone free it was just the size of my hand but would be worth it even if i my next idea did not work as i hoped.
I placed the mossy rock into the sleeping mini cave and made it sink down into the stone of the cave making it flush. Then i meditated to get my mana back to full for this next bit, but as i was near done i heard some moaning and saw that tia was masterbating useing only her hands. I rolled my eyes at her actions but walked over to her and grabbed her by her tiny waist and she stared into my eyes not stopping. I scowled at that and gave her a quick swat.
“Oh yess do it again.” tia moaned out. I was confused but did it once more this time with a bit of hesitation. She moaned out louder and her wings started to beat erratically. “Thanks, oh it is much more tiring when you actually touch me, must be a succubus thing. Now check your status, i need to cool down.” she then broke free from my grasp and used her little bucket and poured water over herself.
“Status”
Race demon, subrace succubus
Name Lilly
Age 1 day
Titles dungeon core guardan
Abilities
Core Point Command
earth magic level 2
Seduction level 1
Soul Siphon level 1 soul points 2
Flight -locked-
“Ok it says i am 1 day old now, and wait what. It says i am level 2 in earth magic and i have soul points. I did not activate soul siphon, i did not even sleep with anyone. How do i have a soul point?” i asked confused.
“Easy i was masterbating and you were around. You should have gotten one yesterday, and i am guessing with how tired i am now compared to yesterday you got two more so should be at 3 points or so.” tia explained while ringing the water out of her hair. “Now you need to find out what you can do with those points you have. Say soul siphon soul points, lets see if that will tell you what you can do.”
“Soul siphon soul points.” i said to the air.
[current soul points from soul siphon 2. Would you like to know more yes or no]
“Yes.” i said.
[actions that can be done with soul points: use of 1 point list, heal self for 50% of total life, recover 50% of mana, increase a skill by 1 level for one activation. Use of 2 points list, heal another for 50% of their total life, recover 50% of there mana, increase a skill by 1 level for one activation, increase an ability by 20% for one action. For 5 points, trade for 1 dungeon point, increase options or strength of things bought with souls or soul points. For 1 complet soul uses, can be put in gear to make a cursed item, can be exchanged for 5 dungeon points.
Additional options, auto use is active do you wish to turn it off to conserve points. Leave on or turn off ]
I thought turn off.
“Hmm looks like i have a fair amount of options. Oh oh nice tia we might be able to get that radiant mana ability a bit faster, but i will need to use soul siphon on you a lot more. Do you think you will be able to take it?” i asked her, getting a puzzled look in return i explained the list of things i could use with soul siphons soul points.
“I think so but i want to make sure i am not exhausted from it beforehand, we don't know at what point that ability kills someone and takes the soul. So best to have me be in top shape and wait for any negative effects on me to go away.” tia said. “But it is a good idea that way we can get things up and running faster, and this has more possibility when we get some mobs running around. Ohh this is going to be so fun, having a succubus master will be great.” she flew in a loop and pumped her fist in the air before landing. “If not a bit tiring, that loop should not have been hard at all, i am going to rest and look at my own stats for bit. I will tell you when i am ready for another round.” she walked over to our sleeping cave and took a nap.
“Ok i will be trying something else out then.” i said as she walked the short distance. Hmm now to see what happens if i channel mana to the moss. I put my hands in full contact with the moss i had cut out and let my mana flow into it, and nothing happened. My mana was fully gone from that. Well at least i know raw mana does not do anything so that is something, next time let's see what using my earth magic will do. I used tia’s bucket as a small cup and got some water then started up my meditation.
With my mana now full i went over to my area of experimental moss and tried to channel my mana using my earth magic this time. I dumped all of my mana into this once more letting it take whatever path it wanted to with no shape in mind and no expectations. The moss started to grow slowly but surely, i was drained of mana and the new growth was the size of my hand.
[you have sped up the growth of a plant]
[you have unlocked the earth magic subskill earth mother level 1]
“Yes another skill, true it is still earth magic but yes go me!” i pumped my hands to the side and hit one the the walls and scraped my knuckles making them bleed. I dropped to my knees and cradled my hand from the sudden pain. A few drops of blood fell to the ground and the moss.
[you have created a new kind of moss, please name it]
“What?”
[do you wish to name the new moss “what” yes or no ]
“No, and more information.”
[more information. With the earth magic subskills transmuter and earth mother combined you are able to transform plants into new subspecies. They need to have mana from earth magic and a catalyst. This new moss made from the blood of a earth magic using succubus is edible by all that need to eat, it has a side effect of acting as an aphrodisiac when eaten in raw form, other methods of preparing it and consuming it are unknown as are any side effects that might come with them. ]
Well at least i know that i can eat it and it does seem to fit with what tia thinks of succubi. Hmm now for a name, succubus moss… no that sounds bad. Lust moss, no to straightforward. Earth mothers lust hmm sure that will do.
“Earth mothers lust.”
[do you wish to name the new moss “earth mothers lust” yes or no]
“Yes”
[new mosses name is “earth mothers lust”]
I looked down and saw where the moss had grown a small pale red patch was on the edge of the normal moss, it had to be no larger than a drop of blood but i guess everything had to start from something. I saw it was getting to be late in the day and meditated and got my mana back and used it all up once more to make my new earth mothers lust moss grow, it was a bit trickier to just pick out that small amount of moss to grow but i got it to spread out and it took the shape of a heart that was half the size of my hand when all was said and done.