Sorry guys for not showing Fraxia status in a long time, but here it is now.....please don't hate me. With summer coming up it is questionable weather or not i will get a part time job. If i do, most likely my release schedule is going to change, if i don't, no monies for me T_T. So while i try and figure out and discern the meaning of my life here is a chapter.
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Ok i think i lost him, i am tired of having to do this kind of thing just to get my goddam training done.
Three weeks have passed since this pedophile uncle came to live with us, and let's just say the results were...horrifying. He conveniently has walked in on me and blake changing in the morning twice, insists on teaching me things that i already know from my nightly sessions with kyanu such as how to spell the word hello in the beastmen language, which is my native language and has been for years, not that i can act like i know it already because mom and dad never sent me to school to learn. Worst of all, ever since he started living here he insists on knowing where i am the whole goddam time. I have taken care of myself for 10 years without dying and he does not need to be so protective of me, he always says that if i was to wander into the forest i could get hurt by the monsters that live there.
He also seems to make a point about telling me about monster bears the size of houses or snakes as long as the main road in the village that supposedly live in the forest. Problem is, i happen to have a Hind Bear cub in my hideout that is definitely not the size of a house and i have met a water serpent when i was passing by the river once. The serpent was definitely not as long as the main road in the village, more like the size of a small tree. I happened upon it when i was washing off in the stream after a morning workout when i suddenly lashed out at me, to which i proceeded to kill it with a quick lightning bolt. It, in my own words, was beautiful. It was about 4 meters long with blue and green scales running down the length of it. I was a bit sad i had to kill something so beautiful, but survival of the fittest. At least i was able to scavenge some of the materials from it. Adventurers are always pulling material off of monsters they killed so i wanted to know why. I asked kyanu and she said it was because the materials were useful in things like Alchemy and armor and weapons.
The materials i gathered from it where the scales, the fangs, the eyes and the venom glands which according to kyanu, are the only usable parts. She did say the meat was first class, but are you kidding me, the snake was bigger than me. There's no way i could have carried it all.
You would think for someone who traveled a lot the difference between a monster and a Demonic animal would be clear as day to him.
Currently i am trying not to get to my training grounds after evading my hawk like uncle, but it’s not going well. Apparently according to him his senses are top notch after living alone and wandering for years, meeting bandits and beasts alike who wanted nothing more the kill kill him. I am getting tired of having to evade him whenever i want to train, because of him i have had to decrease my training schedule from 8 hours to 2 and that's only if he takes a nap in the middle of the day. Next time i go into the forest i’m going to see if i can find some herbs to make sleep medicine.
I left dear uncle behind after ditching him at a game of hide and seek and started towards the hollowed out tree. After Uncle pedo came to town i was unable to go anywhere for 2 days resulting in my weapons and training gear getting destroyed by a flock of Gale Crows which were Rank 2 demonic animals. The Ranking of demonic animals is based on a combination of how old they are, their intelligence, and their individual fighting power. It’s the job of the adventurers guild to collect information about the fighting levels of all demonic animals that would appear in the area, as well as sending high level adventurers to evaluate new species.
The weapons i lost were my halberd, which was thrown down the cliff and turned into scrap metal from the impact, my crossbow had its arms broken and the dagger was missing. The rest of the gear i lost was either in shreds or in missing, stupid crows must have used it for nesting material or something. I wasn’t particularly attached to those weapons, but now i can only use magic to kill demonic animals. I was probably going to have to get new gear sooner or later because they were not taking the stress of me very well and i ended up having to bend back into place, restring and sharpen them every time i used them.
I talked it over with kyanu last night and she said weapons was the one weak point i had as the Soul Armor couldn’t make its own. She said that i should get try and find a spirit weapon if possible as they were usually very durable and sturdy from all the spirit energy and forging that went into making them.
“ A named weapon would be even better. There exists in the world monsters, weapons and armor and even items that have the spirit of a particularly powerful person imbued into them. For example, Thor’s Hammer, had his spirit imbued into it after he died” she explained. After a lifetime of using lightning magic and becoming famous for it, his spirit was forever tied to his weapon while his soul passed on. The difference between the soul and the spirit is the soul is a spirit is the power running through a person or monster's body, while a soul is the personality or temperament of that person. As such, the lightning magic used by him all throughout his life still resides in his hammer” she explain during our school session.
“So what i going to do for a weapon?” i asked.
“Well you have 2 options. Go and find a named weapon in some ruins or build your own” she said.
“Yeah i don’t feel like dying so i’m gonna go scour some ruins” I am the envoy of death not a victim of death thank you very much.
“You don’t have to die, just give it a name and imbue some of your power into it, that will start the process of making it official. When a person dies a lot of energy is released so naturally some of it goes to the objects surrounding it, be it monster, sword or item, as long as the amount of spirit energy in an object reaches a certain level it will be officially recognized as a named object by the world, the death of a powerful soul is simply the easiest way. Of course we're not killing you so relax, instead you're going to have to find one” she told me about a few ruins that might contain some named weapons such as fallen kingdoms or broken down temples. After that conversation i checked a map only to find the locations not on it, go figure you wouldn't find an ancient temple on a map from made by a noob adventurer.
I personelly want to make my own weapon, forging my own weapon would allow me to customize it to my own strengths and weaknesses. Problem is i don’t know how to use a forge and i don’t have the material.
I quickly approach the forest and since i don’t have any gear to carry i make do with a basket strapped to my back that’s full of rocks and sand. Likely i am probably carrying more than what a grown man could carry but i have been training like this for years. An ordinary villager would have a STR stat between 9-25 depending on what he does for a profession, a soldier would have considerably more, around 40-60, a knight would have 80-120. Me, i could probably be considered a monster
Name: Fraxia of the Forest shadow villageAge: 10 Class: Magic SwordsmanRace: Beastmen(Subrace:Vulpes)Level: 47 [53%] Health: 2400/2400Mana: 1255/1255 STR: 523VIT: 179 AGI: 144DEX: 139 INT: 251WIS: 201 LUK: 0Skill Points: 17 Skills: Death Resistance LV5 [43%](Passive), Grave Talker LV1(Active), ??? LV??(???),
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Soul Gauntlet[incomplete] LV21 [33%](Active/Passive), Mana Manipulation LV42[14%](Active), Telepathy LV29 [89%](Active/Passive), Fireball LV6 [2%](Active), Water Trap LV3 [67%](Active/Passive), Lightning Bolt LV8 [79%]
Titles: Envoy of Death, Lady luck's fool, Apprentice of a goddess, Hunter, Novice Magician Status: Normal(Child)
Most soldier and knight's Train a few hours a week to get stronger while i have been training non-stop for 10 years, using fairly extreme methods such as sitting under a waterfall. The more you stress your body the more likely you are to gain stat points in a particular area, a 5 kilometer run used to be strenuous for me but now not so much. Carrying a heavy pack and standing under a waterfall for example can increase strength. Most of the kingdom's soldiers and knights get their stats from level ups while i get them from extreme training, resulting in them being higher level but weaker than me.
The new titles came after i started hunting and screwing around with magic.
Hunter
To hunt successfully, you must know your ground, your pack, and your quarry.
Effects:
X2 ATK against prey that you have killed before.
Novice magician
Magic becomes an art when it has nothing to hide
Effects:
+5 WIS
I got the Novice magician title after i made Lightning Bolt LV1(Active), the condition for that title was probably making my own spells or using magic in a certain way, good for future reference. The Hunter, i got after killing a pack of wolves that attack me while i was training. The benefits definitely make it worth the while, with the added boost in ATK i got from the hunter title, i don't have to worry about most of the Demonic animals and monsters in the outer layer of the forest.
I’m running with my pack full of rocks and sand approaching the 4th kilometer mark when a wild boar suddenly dashes out in my direction. This kind of attack usually wouldn’t effect me but since i am without my crossbow or my halberd i have to stop to deal with this thing. I jump up and out of the way while throwing my pack of weight off, i start focusing my magic into a fireball when the boar keeps running away.
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Why did it attack me if it was going to keep running? I thought to myself as i watched it leave.
I was about to pick up my pack and start jogging again but then the ground started shaking. I looked to where the pig came from and suddenly a Drove of wild boar come towards me. None of them where demonic animals but still, standing in the way of around 50 200 kg boars is by anyone's standard a stupid idea.
I get trapped in the front of the drove just trying not to get run down, if i get trampled by all these guys even my vitality won't be enough to save me.
I managed to jump on top of a tree and let the boars pass. I strayed off my usual course by about a kilometer or so but i can make that up in no time and retrieve my pack.
What got into them? I wondered.
Usually those boar are very aggressive and not many creatures try to attack them, especially in groups where they can take down some pretty strong demonic beasts. As if to answer my question, trees from where the boar and i came from started getting knocked down in a path towards me.
Shit, gotta make myself scarce, i thought.
If there's something strong enough to knock down trees and scare a drove of wild boar into stampeding then after carefully examining the situation and considering all of my options i think it's best to RUN!
I get running when whatever was behind me caught up to me. It was a Rank 6 Stone skin Demonic Boar. It was a demonic animal that actually was the size of a house, with big jagged tusks, grey bristling fur, and red eyes.
It probably was expanding its territory, but that doesn’t make any sense because a monster this strong in the outer layer of the forest should have been reported to the guild by hunters and trackers. Regardless of the reason it was clearing out its competition and anything that stood in its way, for now i need to run. With 144 points in AGI i think myself fast, but geez this things was fast. I steer into a tree line hoping to slow it down a little, but it just plowed over everything it ran into.
Why isn’t it going after the wild boar?! I thought.
It took all the time to chase them down why is it chasing me? I can only stay ahead of the boar and hope i find a chance to shake it off.
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I've been running for a while now, i can’t remember how long but it's been at least 2 hours. I ran into a rocky canyon after it chased me out of the forest. The boar shows no signs of letting up and i’m getting tired. I have tried luring it into a river, crashing it into trees, and stabbing it with logs but nothing is working and i'm running out of options. Suddenly the ground gives out from under me. I had been running along a cliff edge hoping the the vibrations from its stampede would start an avalanche and crush it but the ground which was composed of rocks and dry dirt cracked beneath my weight and i slipped down the cliff. The boar followed me down just running down the odd 450 meter cliff made of loose dirt and cracked the stone when i got all the way down.
I was in what looked like a dried up river bed with sheer walls of stone cut out by the millennium of water that had run through here. The walls were smooth stone with few footholds or plants to use to climb out. I started running the other way to avoid him but i ran into a problem. At the other end of river was a collapsed arch like it had been blown up and all the rock blocked the river from flowing, forming a lake on the other side of the wall of stone.
Dammit, cant go forwards can't go sideways or backwards! I thought.
I can’t believe it chased me into a dead end, Right gonna have to fight.
Rank 1 and 2 demonic animals where the frequent requests of subjugation quests issued by the adventurer guild. Rank 3 and 4 where raid bosses present in a lot of intermediate dungeons, rank 5 and 6 where national threats and anything above that was considered a Beast of Unrivaled destruction that required the support of many countries to suppress. There are only 4 known Demonic animals that possess a rank higher than 6 and they are all watched under the close eye of the Holy. What i want to know is who the Fucking hell goofed up and let a Rank 6, this close to civilization, go unnoticed.
Rank 6 demonic animals were strong enough to fight on par with a 3 battalions of soldiers and still have enough strength to fight on for a few more days, but they were not invincible, however they are very dangerous. There was a incident apparently 4 years ago in the kingdom of the Dwarves where a Rank 6 Mineral eating Giga-worm was unearthed. It took 1 weeks, 3 armies, and 60 high level adventurers to finally kill it.
It destroyed 4 towns and 8 villages before it was finally killed, but the death toll added up to more than half the adventurers, 6,000 soldiers and an estimate of 50,000 Various villagers, townspeople, and non-combat personnel. The list of people that have the strength to fight on par with a Rank 6 in all of Speria is in the tens, and today, Fate has decreed i must make that list or die, Fuck you Fate.