Sorry for the late upload guys, i have had a lot of distractions going back to school. On that note, when we hit summer i should be able to upload chapters every few days since there wont be school(so everyone all wish for time to go faster). I saw that everyone wants a Fae as a sub character so i'm gonna go with that(even though i wanted a neko T_T).
Enjoy
EDIT: Lots of editing...
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“Your armor has potential in all four categories, did you not grow curious what that transformation ability meant. It allows you to tap into other powers besides your own”, she said.
“What do you mean besides my own, be specific”, i demanded.
“That armor isn’t some synthetic creation of the gods, true it was built by the gods, but unlike normal weapons we materialize for our own use, this one was created using furvium. It was literally forged using the blood, sweat and tears of gods and cooled in the depths of Niflheim. Not only that but there are some unknown properties that even the entire pantheon can't decipher”, she said solemnly.
“OK well at least i can see why they aren't too thrilled you stole it”, i said.
That would be like taking away the toy a kid just earned and saying just because you had a better use for it. Then again it makes you wonder what kind of security they had on it to let a single useless goddess through.
“...you just thought something mean didn’t you”, she asked.
“You're imagining things”, i replied.
“Anyway, the armor wasn’t instantly created like usually. If you really looked at it and really inspected it, you would find that objects created using legitimate crafting methods and not just imagining them into existence, like most immortals do when they need a weapon or tool, are of better quality. While materializing items is easy and convenient, the quality will always be low compared to the original”, she said.
“And the armor was created by hand”, i said.
“Correct, furvium is a metal that is created at the center of a black hole. Black holes traps in everything and nothing gets out, not even time. But still, the metalworking god Ræf’s is an ancient god, he was commissioned to create a weapon without equal. That gauntlet is at least part of what he originally created”, she said.
I opened up the armor’s stats real quick to take a look at it.
Soul gauntlet LV1(Active/Passive)[Incomplete]
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember
Summoning cost: 50 MP
+50% DEF
Bound Skills:
Transform LV1(Active/Passive)
Integration Potential LV1(Active)
Locked LV??(???)
Locked LV??(???)
Locked LV??(???)
Locked LV??(???)
Locked LV??(???)
Locked LV??(???)
“It appears although you didn’t get all the benefits from having this thing, you still got some nice powers”, she said optimistically.
“Yeah and bunch of nothing. I don't even know how to use that transformation ability or what the heck integrated potential means”, i complained.
“Now now my little hero, looks can be deceiving. Have you even tried looking at them, it is the masterpiece of many gods after all," she asked.
“...”
We were both silent for a moment while we tried to imagine what these few words could mean. I wonder if she really meant it was the blood sweat and tears of gods. Even if it was a gods i didn’t want a sweaty piece of armor.
“Well since it is the masterpiece of the gods those locked abilities are probably good. I mean come on my luck can't be that bad?”, i said.
“Well true enough, but for now lets concentrate on what we do have, there's that transformation ability, what's that do”, she asked.
I concentrated on the ability and a blue screen popped up.
Transformation LV1(Active/Passive)
Effect:
Customize Soul gauntlet(Incomplete)ability set and appearance to match desired combat armor mode.
9 Slots are open.
Current modes:
#1-Empty-
#2-Empty-
#3-Empty-
#4-Empty-
#5-Empty-
#6-Empty-
#7-Empty-
#8-Empty-
#9-Empty-
Cost:
Varies Per Armor
“So that's not bad, what about the other one”, she asked.
I concentrated on that one and another blue box popped up.
Integrated potential LV1(Active)
Be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience
Effects:
Absorb Materials for the use of Transformations.
Time taken to integrate materials depends on level and quality of materials.
Material absorbed is proportional to material needed for Transformation.
Currently Integrating:
None
“...”
“Isn’t this too powerful. With this if absorbed steel i could make steel armor without the need go through a blacksmith, heck what if i absorbed a better material than steel, what about mythril,"i asked.
“Yeah….and it doesn’t even specify that it must be metal. It could be the fur or hide of a tough monster. There are dragons in Ryalia i know that much, but what if”, she asked wondrously.
Ok first order of business as soon as i get the chance, get some good material to protect yourself. With the gods possibly on a witch hunt for me i don’t want to be caught with a sword to my throat while i sleep. Second order, get a fighting style. If with this i can use any fighting style i wish and so we find a good way to fight. I think we will lead with magic for now because that's what i can train currently. Hmmm i wonder what would happen if it absorbed a mana construct?
“Well at least i won’t have to worry about armor”, i said.
“With this you don’t have to worry about a fight against an opposing fighter. If you fight a Soul Practitioner then just switch to a spirit type armor. All you need to do is find the materials, for spirit armor i think you should absorb a product of nature or maybe spirit inscriptions. Likewise if you absorb the corresponding material it will be used in the corresponding type of armor”, she explained.
“Well i know what i am going to do when i can walk”, i replied.
We finished up our chat and kyanu finished teaching me the spoken language of the beastmen. When i woke up it was dark outside and mom and dad were still asleep. Snuggled in between them was the girl again who i knew was my sister.
Perfect time to grind, i thought.
But before that, i activated Soul armor and the gauntlet materialized on my arm. Then i realized the difference between materializing it in a dream/teaching session with Kyanu and being in my old body, and materializing it when i was a baby. I didn't have the arm strength to hold it and the gauntlet hit the side of the crib and the whole thing started to tilt.
Oooooooh FUCK , was the last thought i had before the entire crib tilted on its side and landed with a loud crack sending bits and pieces of the crib all across the stone floor.
"Dematerialize, Dematerialize, Dematerialize," i said over and over again in my head trying to get it to go away. My sister bolted up at the sound of the crib breaking apart on the hard stone floor. She saw my the armor in the last seconds before it dematerialized, my parents were stirring in their sleep but my sister woke them up and pointed to where the crib used to be.
“Mom! Mom! Fraxia’s crib broke”, she said hurriedly.
Mom came rushing over and grabbed me as fast as she could out of the rubble of the crib.
“Virgil, it's that pixie again. You need to get some people from the adventurer guild over here to deal with it before it troubles the whole village." she said looking around the room for anything that might indicate where the fairy went.
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SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!!!, i can’t let sister tell them what she saw, but i can't talk! Magic oh magic, don’t fail me now. I had used magic to solve all of my problem and now i was going to do it again, now think what can i do, oh maybe i can use magic to hypnotize her or manipulate her consciousness. I concentrated my thoughts into a stream of mana and sent it to my sister. On a side note, Kyanu told me mana was not visible unless it was made visible by the source or somebody used a skill or magic tool to see it.
It wasn’t working, the mana was just dispersing into air as soon as it got too far from my body. Oh i am sooo not letting a stupid stat get me caught, with that thought i pushed even harder at sending the strand of mana to my sister. I was able to make a connect the stand to my sister when i did a blue box popped up but i ignored it, i then could suddenly hear a voice coming from the strand.
“That wasn’t the pixie was it? I definitely saw little fraxia do something, i wonder if dad knows what it was?” i could hear her think.
I need to get her mind off the fact that there was something on my arm when the crib broke and focus on something else.
“NO, you shouldn’t do that, you should first make sure you sister is ok.” i thought.
“Huh?” my sister said outloud.
“What is it Blake? Did you see the pixie." my mother asked.
“You didn’t see anything.” i thought.
“What”, she said out loud again.
“Did you see anything”, my mom asked again.
“No”! i thought.
“No?” she said.
“Wait can you hear me?” i asked in my head.
“Yes”, she replied my sister.
“What! where!" asked mom turning back to my sister.
“No”, said my sister.
“Stop talking”, i told her.
“Stop talking?”, she said.
“What did you say young lady!”, mom said.
“You think it, i can hear it” i thought.
“What?” she said.
“What?” said my mother.
“???”
At this point i think everybody but me is confused except dad who is still half asleep, and i thought foxes where nocturnal. So i make a mana construct of a pixie and sneak it up behind mom and have it tap on her shoulder. Mom turns around and sees it and just freaks, she starts trying to hit it while trying to back away from it, unfortunately she trips while holding me which sends me flying.
I hate it when this happens, i thought while falling through the air. My sister managed to catch me before i hit the ground. She brought me up close to her face and thought.
“Is that you in my head Fraxia!” she asked surprised in her head.
“Whose idea was it to name me fraxia?!” i thought back.
Mom was knocked out cold and dad was sitting up with a bleary look in his eyes looking around probably thinking something along the lines ‘can i go back to sleep now’. My sister was probably wondering why can my less than a year old sister can talk inside her brain. OH my life is so colorful
“Don’t worry about it, for now you should probably deal with mom who is lying in a pile of splinters.” i said in my mind.
I disconnected the mana string because i ran out of mana and was silently relieved. After my sister carried my mom back to bed and dad finally got up and cleaned up the remains of the crib, it was already time for breakfast so my father put together whatever he could for breakfast which included porridge and goats milk. That's when mom woke up and found dad feeding me, to which she asked why he was feeding me porridge instead of my usual food. Really that's the first question you ask. Hey mom, maybe because i don’t want to eat cold mashed up peas and carrots instead of something hot even if it is somewhat watered down.
Dad had to leave for his job which i found out was a Guard for the village. I took this time to check out the blue box i had gotten.
Telepathy LV1(Active/Passive)
The hardest prison to escape is your mind.
Effects:
Listen in and speak in the mind others using magic.
Cost:
100 Mana per minute
My sister helped my mom work around the house while trying to keep an eye on me in case i started talking again. After awhile it got annoying so i reconnected the mana string to her.
“OK i can see you have questions.” i thought to her.
“Little Fraxia how do you know how to talk, and how are we even talking in our heads to each other, and why is there a pixie flying around so interested in you?” she asked.
“Well that's because my WIS and INT are high enough that i can sustain telepathy and don't worry about the pixie. Its a friendly one.” i thought to her.
“But you're still a baby!” she replied confused.
“That just means i can't talk, doesn’t mean i can't think.” i said somewhat offended.
“It's not normal." she replied.
“How do you know. Do you remember what you where doing when you where a few months old." i asked.
“...”
I have a feeling i stun everyone into silence by how abnormal i am.
“But how are we talking in our heads?.” she asked.
“I’m a mage soo, its magic.” i thought to her.
"Really!"She gasp and quickly suppressed it since my mother was in the room patching up clothing with my sister.
“Mommy said that only nobles in the capital have magic!” she thought.
“Well sorry to disappoint. I have magic and i am your sister." I thought back.
“Is that why the bad pixie was trying to push over your crib?" she asked.
“......yes”, i said after a moment.
Like i’m going to tell my sister that i broke my crib by accidentally materializing a piece of armor made by the gods of the universe, oh yeah real believable. And i thought we already established that the pixie was mine?!?!
“We should tell mommy and daddy” she said quickly.
“But if you do that they will have to send me away to the capital where i won't get to see you.” i said.
Well that was half true. i would probably be sent to a institution of magical learning or something and while i would be able to be raised in a more preferable environment with more magical resources, i don’t want to make it easier for the representatives of the gods to find me. Plus i hate people.
“I don’t want them to take my little sister away.” she said frowning at me.
“So don’t tell anyone.” i said.
“Ok, but how did little sister become a mage. I want to be one too but mommy said that you have to go to the capital and be a be a noble to learn magic.” she asked.
“I just wanted too”, i said.
“...”
“Mommy said that i shouldn’t talk to nobles because their mean, but whats a noble?” she asked.
“Well that's a mean thing to say, by the way i am not a noble i am your little sister." i said indignantly.
Honestly whats with this 'only nobles or old men may be mage's stereotype. Wouldn't it be better if magic was made availible to everyone. You know so they could cure themselves of deadly diseases or increase production speed with the use of magic spells? Logic ya fucking nobles, get some get some.
“...I don't think little sister isn’t normal.” she said.
“...Fair enough.” i said back.
For the next few years of my life in Ryalia, my sister was the only other person who ever knew i was the youngest mage ever. i wonder if they have a record book or something?