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When the light faded we found ourselves outside the closed gates of the castle once more. The walls had been repaired somehow and If we were to open the doors we undoubtedly would find the lesser Jabberwocky sleeping. It was dark out almost dawn when we came out of the underground tomb. How much time had we spent down there? Fighting a raid boss in darkness is probably one of the worst ideas a dungeon diver team could ever have.
“Sure we shouldn’t wait till it’s light out to fight the Jabberwocky?” she asked.
“I just want out of this hell hole. Quickest way to kill the Jabberwocky is to hit him with mana edge. The only thing we need to do is make sure that the Jabberwocky doesn’t sense us before we make it in range. What is the range on this thing anyway?” i ask pulling out the knife.
“Don’t ask me. I only have your memories. It just...That knife has a weird aura…” she said.
That was putting it lightly. In truth while mirana didn’t have any of her previous memories she could feel an instinctual urge to stay away from it. Like how children learn that fire hurts them from experiencing the feeling of being burned. Mirana had that same urge whenever she saw the blade.
“...Aura! Hey you know how Jabberwocky's can sense their prey through mana right?” i ask.
“Yeah?” she says.
“Well what if we concealed our aura and assassinate it in its sleep.”
And get that close to a pissed off Jabberwocky. No thanks, i choose life. Why can’t we just Bulldoze down the door and blow that mother fuckers head off.” i say.
“What if you damage the exit gate. Or what if we need the Jabberwocky's core in order to make the gate work. I want out as soon as possible too but let's calm down and use our heads.” she said.
OK that definitely isn’t my character. Note to self, find out how we now are not exact clones of each other, how we even got that way in the first place, and how much has changed exactly cause i’m pretty sure that i would never say let’s be calm and use our heads.
“What about Aura Radiation? If the skill is designed to make your presence known why can’t reverse it and make our presence unknown?” she said.
“Reverse engineering a skill? Maybe given enough time. But i want out of here soon as possible” i said frowning.
“5 minutes. Give me 5 minutes of help to try and reverse the skill and if we don’t succeed we can try your method.” she says negotiating.
Yep, definitely regaining some of her own traits.
“Fine 5 minutes. But how do we even start?” i ask.
“Lets try activating the skill and examining the skill matrixes.” she said.
Kyanu had taught me how to construct my own spells and skills but i couldn’t ever make any other than the beginner rank spells that actually worked. Some of the other skills i tried creating had bad mana efficiency, needed faith or miasma or some other type of energy to work or just plain old blew up in my face. The latter mostly.
“OK here it goes.” i say.
She activates Aura radiation and a chilling aura descends on the area but i only feel it for a second. The cats look in her direction but don’t seem affected or even care. The skill description did say something about only affecting weaker beings.
“I only felt it for a moment...maybe because we are close in level?” i say.
“Probably. Wait, if we use this on the Jabberwocky won’t it not work?” she asks.
“Maybe? It all depends on how well we conceal our aura. But if you're asking whether or not it will affect him at all i think it should work. Since aura radiation is meant to affect the surrounding creatures but what we are trying to do is stop affecting the surrounding creatures.” i said in a sage like voice.
After a few minutes of talk we sit down and meditate to take apart the skill. I use Telepathy to connect our mind realms so that we can share our progress on the new skill. The skill matrixes were set up in a way so the person using the skill would emit as much ambient mana as possible while filling that mana with negative emotions. What we basically did we rip out this and replace it with a new similar matrix that instead of emitting mana would blend it into the background as much as possible
The hardest part was constructing the matrix. Think of constructing a spell or skill like making a video game. There are hundreds of lines of code to write and Debug. Similarly there are hundreds of mana matrixes to construct and put into place. The complexity of a skill that emits or hides mana is higher than anything i have tried to come up with. The process of creating a new skill is probably something better left to great sages and gods but as we don’t have one right now we just have to improvise.
“What about this energy rune?” i ask.
“It should be ok. I don’t want to mess with the foundation of the spell too much so we won’t touch those, but other than that i think we should be good.” she says.
We were so engrossed in tinkering with the skill that more than an hour had passed and it was now dark. The basics of the skill were left untouched but now instead of emitting mana the user of the skill should be able to blend their mana into the ambient mana. Of course in low density mana areas this skill would be less likely to succeed but in a mana rich dungeon it's perfect.
“Alright let's try it again.” i say.
“OK” she says sending me the skill template via telepathy network.
We both turn it on when mirana’s presence seems to fade into the dark background. I look to the two cats who seem to be looking around for a second when their eyes lock back onto us. It looks like the skill is a success.
*DING*
Congratulations
You have successfully replicated the skill "Conceal Aura LV1(Active/passive)"
Conceal Aura LV1(Active/Passive)
Users mana is dispersed and concealed into the surrounding ambient mana. Effectiveness depends on the level of ambient manan in the user's surroundings. Creatures with higher mana capabilities will notice user more easily.
Cost: 75 MP per minute
“Didn’t think that would work. You think it will work on the Jabberwocky?” I ask.
“Well only one way to find out. Although next chance we get i want to try tinkering with it.” she says.
“I think i’ll stick to my fists and blades.” i say.
She shrugs her shoulders and we approach the gates. As usual they open on their own revealing the toothy Jabberwocky. The gate bangs on the wall and the Jabberwocky opens its eyes and roars.
“Hey i think it remembers us.” i say.
“This was supposed to a stealth mission.” she complained.
“Too late!” i call out.
I charge up the knife with 100 MP and release it at the Jabberwocky's face. The slash of pure energy hits the Jabberwocky on the right cheek and it stumbles back screeching in indignation. The slash had made a deep cut on its cheek but in no time at all the cut was healed on it’s own.
“No fair why can’t we do that!” I call out.
“I don’t know!” she yells.
The Jabberwocky opens its wings and takes to the skies bellowing. The same feeling of near insanity except a bit stronger washed over me for a second but instead of feeling paralyzed like last time the feeling quickly disappeared.
*DING*
Mental attack dispersed by the effects of Dagger of Arcane Desolation
Now that's handy. Wait what about mirana?
I look over to see mirana fall and hit the ground out cold.
“Aw shit” i say inadvertently.
OK...this is bad. The Jabberwocky starts circling the area firing that beam of light pulverizing the walls and the land. I charge up the knife and fire it in quick bursts trying to clip one of it’s wings. The Jabberwocky avoids the slashes. Each one of those shots is worth 300 MP quickly whittling my MP down to 10500. Either i need to blow it out of the sky with a single mana blade or get it on the ground and decapitate it.
“Divine Soul armor!, Beastly Shift, Speed boost!” i call out buffing myself up.
“Wait! Dragon Ruler!” i shout remembering the skill name.
I had forgotten the power of being able to command the dragons, but in my defense i had just gotten the skill a little while ago. I power up the Dragon gods gift and activate the skill.
“Halt in the name of your god.” i shout in a commanding tone.
The dragon looks like it understands my words but instead of standing down it responds with a light blast from it’s mouth.
“Weaklings. Shall. DIE!” the Jabberwocky bellows.
“Oh come on! That was supposed to be a good plan! OK plan B.” say to myself.
I activate the armors wings and chase after the Jabberwocky while charging up another mana blade. I overlay the skill Energy Sheath and release a wave of energy in its direction. Even with 150% more AGI i still can’t even come close to the Jabberwocky. The overlaid Arcane blade and Energy sheath however instead of the usual smooth blade of energy that was usually seen a wave of crackling, unstable violate energy burst out of the blade and sped towards the Jabberwocky clipping it in the shoulder.
We are at an impasse. He can’t hit me with mental attacks or melee attacks and i can’t land a lasting hit on him. Or so i thought when the Jabberwocky roared and came at me with teeth bared snapping and nearly taking off my lower body. I kicked him in the nose and use the momentum to gain some distance between him and me. I drop back down to ground level and realize that the Jabberwocky did in fact eat my mana leg. I can’t hit the thing at all! My DEX is my lowest stat...Fuck it.
I launch a slash at the wall next to me and blow it apart to create a dust cloud that should help hide my position for a moment as well as activating Conceal Aura. At least the skill was good for something. I open my menu and start pouring my unspent stat points into DEX. 100, 200, 300 fuck it. All in.
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Name: Fraxia of the Forest shadow villageAge: 10 Class: Arcane FencerRace: High Beastmen(Subrace: Fortis Vulpes)Subordinates: 2Level: 133[30%%] HP: 2954/3000MP: 10210/15500 STR: 600(+300)VIT: 300 AGI: 300DEX: 779 INT: 310WIS: 300 LUK: 0 Skill Points:0 Skills: Death Resistance LV16 [67%](Passive)
Grave Talker LV6(Active/Passive)[78%]
??? LV??(???)
Divine Soul armor LV23 57%](Active/Passive),
Mana Manipulation LV45[2%](Active)
Telepathy LV29 [89%](Active/Passive)
Fire Ball LV6 [54%](Active)
Water Trap LV4 [18%](Active/Passive)
Lightning Bolt LV8 [98%]
Body Probe LV1[5%](Active)
Charm LV1[10%](Active)
Life Blessing of the Ancient Undead Earth King(Passive)
Ice cannon Mk.2 LV2(Active) [25%]
Ice Slick Mk.2 LV1(Active) [50%]
Summon Winter Wolf LV1
Freeze Bomb LV1(Active)[50%]
Frostbite LV1(Active)
Command LV1(Active)[10%]
Aura radiation LV1(Active/Passive)
Inspect LV1(Active)[50%]
Titles:Envoy of Death
Lady luck's fool
Apprentice of a goddess
Hunter
Novice Magician
Enigma of Fate
Calamity Slayer
Legend
Genius
Magician Extraordinaire
Blessed of the Ancient king of the Overlord Elite
Status: Well Rested(Adolescent)
When i close my menu i get a notification.
For having a DEX of 700 or higher you have gained the title of “Eagle Eyes”
Effects: +10% hit chance with all ranged attacks
!!!
Perfect!
The dust storm has finally settled enough for me to be seen by the Jabberwocky. He roars and fires more beams of light that break apart the earth and singe the ground. The beams miss me and i taunt him.
“I may not have the goddess of luck on my side, but all in!” scream towards the dragon.
While overlaying Arcane blade and Energy Sheath and Mana Conduit for good measure i drop the last 10 thousand of my mana pool into the skills. A sphere of crackling violate energy grows in front of me as i drain my mana pool dry and i use mana manipulation to keep the spell together. Typhoon like winds and a huge amount of energy is flowing of the sphere and both the dragon and me can sense just how frightening this skill is. He retreats back into the skies as i release the almost out of control skill.
Then i realized i made a huge mistake. Sometimes overpowering power is too overpowering. The sphere reshapes itself into a demonic looking creature with horns like a bulls and teeth like javelins. The creature locks onto the jabberwocky and makes a mad rush for it. Seeing this the jabberwocky knows it will die to the abomination if he does not leave the area immediately.
The jabberwocky flies as fast as it can to escape the dreadful aura of death coming from the violate creature but it’s too late. The creature streaks towards it’s intended target and devours the jabberwocky whole. The creature swirls around it’s prey ripping off it’s wings and the once proud and dangerous dragon let out a terrified cry as it’s body exploded. Blood and gore decorated the hole ridden ground and the head rolls to a stop at my feet with the look of dread expression permanently stuck on it’s face.
*DING*
Due to special circumstances you have summoned “Spirit of Gluttony”
Level 133 to 137
You have defeated “Final Guardian of the Crimson Castle”
Spawning loot…
I fell to my knees barely conscious. Mana exhaustion sapped my strength made everything bleary but i could clearly see the horrors committed in front of me. Taking on a humanoid appearance, the strange creature made of my mana was pulling apart pieces of the dead dragon and eating them even the pieces that fell in the bloody moat. Scales, hide, bones all of it went to the strange spirit. I felt sick to my stomach. I had seen wild animals eat before but this creature was just gorging itself on the remains of the once proud enemy.
While the spirit was eating the dragon the ground shook and the great doors to the inner castle broke open.
“SCCREEEEEECH!”
Out of the doors came another dragon. Bigger than the last one and much much more evil looking with scales midnight black, beady red eyes like miniature nuclear explosions, and its frill opened and shook. The dragon came to a rest next to the corpse of the previous one with the spirit still feeding on it and bellowed.
“YOU WHO SLAIN MY LEGACY SHALL NOT LIVE TO SEE THE NEXT SUNRISE!” screamed the great dragon.
I used inspect on it but the same message from last time appear except without a level and only giving the creature's name.
Kaylinth, Ruler of the Asylum LV???
Skill level is insufficient for further information.
The strange creature paused from its meal and looked at the angered dragon.
“Fooooood…” i hissed with a smile on its face.
The creature rushed the dragon and before she could react the creature bit into the scales and devourer the skin on it’s back.
“AHHHHRRRGGGG” the dragon screamed.
No longer could i take it. I got up to my feet and shuffled slowly over to the feasting spirit.
“STOP IT!” I screamed.
As if responding to my wishes the creature looked up and gazed at me.
“Foooooooood!” i cried.
I knew what was about to happen next. The creature slowly got up from the dragon's back who was now lying paralyzed on the ground slowly bleeding out. But before it could take a single step in my direction the creature suddenly started bloating and looked betrayed.
“SSSSSSS…...BOOOM!!!”
The creatures body sucked everything around it towards itself like a blackhole and exploded violently and turned back to unstable mana causing a storm of blue fire to rain down from the sky. Unfortunately i was one of the things that was pulled towards it and when the body exploded i was launched into the corpse of the dragon like a piece of shrapnel from a grenade.
Everything burned and the world went red. Just before i blackout i thought to myself and saw a few of the many blue panels pop up.
“I hope Mirana is alright”
You have acquired the title “Dragon Slayer”
Title “Legend” has evolved into “Untold Legend”