I open my eyes to see a screen colored in red disappear, but i got a quick enough look at it to tell i had just gotten something. The Hind Bear Bristling armor seems to have disappeared and i am buried beneath several hundred pounds of stone and sand and i check the see that my health is only at 13/2400. I managed to unbury myself from the rubble and shakely get on my feet. The stone skin boar was staring at the me as if surprised i didn’t die, he roars and starts glowing red and charges me again.
Pfft, Still trying to kill me, i muttered as i survey the situation.
The boar was finally goddamn starting to look tired after a few hours of chasing me through the jungle, running and in a canyon, falling into a river bed, and then battling me and getting fire up the nose, UP the nose. When he activated what i can only assume was another skill his fatigue seems to have taken a vacation. When i had been running, i had taken a few quick 2 minute rests so i was doing a bit better, but with both of us still standing and the boar powered up and me low on Health...well let's hope whatever gift from the gods i received is enough to help me survive.
I open my menu to see what that red screen was about when i notice my Soul gauntlet ability.
Name: Fraxia of the Forest shadow villageAge: 10 Class: Magic SwordsmenRace:Beastmen(Subrace:Vulpes)Level: 47[53%] HP: 13/2400MP: 118/1255 STR: 523VIT: 179 AGI: 144DEX: 139 INT: 251WIS: 201 LUK: 0Skill Points:17 Skills: Death Resistance LV5 [43%](Passive), Grave Talker LV1(Active), ??? LV??(???),
Divine Soul armor 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)
The Soul Gauntlet’s gone and in its place is a new ability called Divine Soul Armor.
“Well, it looks like i just powered up”, i said.
I wonder what happened. I was fairly sure i was dying just a moment ago, i remember going back through memories of my childhood but that's it. For now i won’t worry about it as i am about to be run over by this ugly piece of shit. I concentrate on the new ability i got and opened up a blue box.
Divine Soul Armor
Wear your Tragedies as armor, not shackles
+50% DEF
Cost:
50 MP
Bound Skills:
Transform LV1(Active/Passive)(NEW!)
Integration Potential LV1(Active)
Spatial Storage(Active)
Aura of the Divine Champion(Passive)
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I checked the armor log and find a new entry called “Gift from the Dragon god LV1(Active/Passive)”. I hope it's an actual gift because gods have a tendency to be the one one the beneficial side of everything, except the useless goddess.
Gift of the Dragon god! Gift from the gods indeed, i said quickly opening the description.
Gift of the Dragon God LV1(Active/Passive)
We may encounter defeat, but we must not be defeated
Effects:
Expand Divine Soul armor to cover the entire body.
+Resistance to knockback
+resistance to slashing
+resistance to piercing
+50% to all stats for 10 minutes
Bound Skill:
Wings of the dragon(Active/Passive)
Godly Aura(Passive)
Energy Sheath LV1(Active)
Magic Conduction LV1(Active/Passive)
Dragon Ruler(Passive)
Cost:
-90% to all stats for 1 hour
“Oh yeah, i struck gold” i shout out.
The debuffs on this ability are a little costly, but it's not like i have much choice, the boar is getting ready for another charge and i am low on Health. I summon the armor and a black plate armor covering my arms, legs, chest and head appears. It’s streaked with silver and red gemstones decorate the boots, chest and above my right hand. I activate the Gift of the Dragon god and black and silver threads started pouring out of the red jewel located in my chest, they spread over the areas that are not covered by the black plate armor which includes my shoulders, middle regions, neck, thighs and mouth. Over my eyes goes a piece of metal that extends from the helmet, giving me a heads up display of my stats and mana and health levels. The boar stops charging for a moment and moves back a little as if afraid of the new armor i put on.
“Ok bacon boy, my turn”, i said with a smile underneath my mask.
I activate Wings of the dragon and out from my back a pair of black wings appear. They are triangular shaped and built for speed, they seem to absorb all the light in the area and darken the atmosphere giving an intimidating look to my already mysterious appearance. I start hovering automatically while my wings are spread out just waiting for me to fly. I flap my wings and take off like a rocket, i am already 500 meters above the ground when i manage to stop. I don't know how i knew how to fly but i don’t care at the moment, i have bigger problems than not going to flight school.
Piggy is roaring in the direction that i flew off into and trying to get out of the river bed, but unfortunately he is trapped by those same smooth walls he chased me into.
I think it's the perfect time for a counter attack, while he is still trying to get out of what is essentially a sand trap, with every attempt to ram the walls he just collapses more and more into the river and he starts burying himself. I check my mana levels to find them at 220/1255.
“Perfect time to try out this new armor”, i said to myself.
I concentrate on my new abilities and open them all up.
Energy sheath LV1(Active)
Energy is emotion in motion.
Effects:
Release a Concentrated mana burst in the form of a projectile.
Power is dependent on user proficiency with mana
Cost:
100 MP
Godly Aura(Passive)
Your aura is so much more important than what you wear
Effects:
Surround yourself in a intimidating and majestic aura.
You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
Enemies will be more likely to surrender or be intimidated by merely your presence.
Wings of the dragon LV1 (Active/Passive)
Your wings already exist, all you have to do it learn to fly
Effects:
Summons a pair of wings
+25% AGI
Cost:
20 MP per minute
Magic Conduction LV1(Active)
Control yourself or someone else will control you
Effects:
Increased control over magic, Able to Change the structure of magic or modify existing spells.
+20% INT
+20% WIS
Cost:
400 MP
Dragon Ruler(Passive)
The brave men did not kill the dragons, they tamed them
Effects:
You are the king of the dragons, bend any dragon to your will.
Must be lower level than you.
“FUCK YES”, i shouted while doing a loop de loop in mid air.
All of these abilities are first class.
Finally someone from the godly realm cares. Kyanu is usually the only one but someone else finally is supporting me, i wonder who this dragon dog guy is. If he just did this as a “got you” sort of prank that involves killing me again and taking the god weapon back then oh well, it's nothing i didn’t know was going to happen. If it isn’t though i will have gained a supporter from heaven.
The boar manages to escape the sand trap, pity, but i am still just hovering over the canyon so there's no way for him to get at me.
“Time to play with the new toys”, i said happily.
I tuck my wings into a dive aiming straight at the boars ugly face. He sees me and maybe because of my new Godly Aura ability he starts turning to back away, and so the hunters become the hunted. I activate Energy sheath and my right arm becomes encased in blue, a mysterious formula appears in my head, i point my arm towards the boar and aim for his face and a blue bolt of whirling light fires out of the red jewel on my arm. It his the boar off target in the back and i pull out of my dive just in time. When i look back the damage to the boar was extreme. His stone skin which had repelled my fireball was now cracked and bleeding crimson blood, he roars in pain as he skids to a stop sending a glare in my direction.
At least Energy Sheath can wound it, i thought.
The effects of the blast are quite devastating, but the cost was half my current mana. I needed to regenerate my mana but at the rate it was going with me using my wings my mana regeneration is cut in half, so until such time i had better conserve mana. I could fly back to the village, the thought had crossed my mind, but something is making this guy chase me. It didn’t just happen upon me in the forest and decide to chase me for over an hour. I’m afraid i might accidentally lead the boar to the village, so until i can kill it i think it’s best to not make that a possibility.
The boar keeps launching fireballs at me every 1 minutes or so, which seems to be the recharge rate on it, to which i am thankful. I’m just glad it’s not firing them every few seconds like a normal magician might be able to. Suddenly i had an idea, i might be able to use these against him. I steer myself towards a one of the many rock formations in the area and he follows closely. His next fireball should be ready in another 30 secs or so, i’m keeping my last Energy bolt in reserve just in case something else decides to show up and attack me, but for now, waiting is the hardest part.
I land on the rock formation and land causing the boar to try to ram the form to knock it down. The formation starts wobbling and tilting as he tries to knock it down. I think i’m gonna help him a little. I use my last Energy bolt and fire at the base of the formation causing the whole structure to crumble, right on top of the boar. When it started trying to knock it down, it probably didn’t think of what would happen to the objects underneath it, hint hint. What happens when you drop a boulder on a frog.
The boar runs to escape the falling stones and ends up getting hit by quite a few of them. A massive dust cloud is kicked up and everything is shrouded in the cloud for a few minutes. But thanks to my HUD i can see my MP has regenerated to 440/1255. There is dust everywhere, stones are falling and rolling all over the place. I Quickly retreat out of the way as the rubble starts settling. Time for the finishing blow, the boar is dragging his back left leg and his face looks like one only a mother could love. The armor is about to run out so now is my last chance.
Similarly to how i supercharged my lightning magic, i pour the rest of the mana i have into this single shot and my arm turns solid sky blue. I dive bomb the boar again this time aiming for his nose again preparing to send this energy bolt where the sun don’t shine. I am nearing him when the when the boar realizes what i am about do and hastily opens his mouth and fires another fireball.
What! It shouldn’t be ready for another 40 seconds, i thought to myself as the mass of writhing flames and heat approaches me.
If i steer off course then i will lose the armor and crash into the earth, not to mention with 90% of my stats gone. I won't have another chance as good as this one to try and kill this thing ever again. Even if i survive and run away the boar would still follow me and wreck havoc
“I AIN'T F#CKING LOSING TO A PIG”, i shout as i dive headlong into the fireball.
It burns. The heat is unbelievable. It feels like i took a swim in a volcano, i can feel my armor straining with the effects wearing off and it starts disappearing. I reach the boars mouth and unhesitatingly fire the energy into his gullet and down immediately doge to the right as he chomps down. I am sent flying by the impact from all the force of the dive and the boar turns to face me. The boar starts smoking and gives a screech as his insides explode, but he still in barely alive and charges the spot where i am.
No way, the armors gone and my stats are draining away. I feel like crying, i went through all that only to die again. I failed again, i promised i would live like for my sister and for the life i never had but in the end i am done in by a giant boar in the middle of a bunch of rock formations...rock formations!
I look up and see that the fireball the the boar fired at me hit a rock formations behind the boar, it’s on the verge of destabilizing and coming down it just needs a little more. I see a boulder nearby and pick it up and throw it as hard as i can and hit the formation. With my stats draining away i can still throw it, i think i have about 300 or 250 STR left, and that's all it takes. The boulder impacts with the bottom of the formation and crumbles. The boar doesn’t realize i was aiming for the formation and dismissed my shot as a miss just as it closes in on me. As a looming shadow of the boulder falls on the boar he doesn’t have a snowball in a forest fires chance with the crushed legs and battered face as he is crushed a mere yard away from me.
There is dust everywhere, it’s getting in my eyes and sinks into every pore on my body. Previously i was protected by the armor but now i feel the full force as the shrapnel shreds my skin and dust clogs my throat and i fall unconscious. Unknown to me at the time, i just became a legend.
LEVEL UP
Level change from 47 to 131
420 Skill Points granted, please distribute.
Title granted
Enigma of Fate
Title granted
Calamity slayer
Level 100 breakthrough reward
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Title Granted
Legend