Elise had challenged Gregory to a swordfight, which he was holding up to surprisingly well. Despite his immense lack of physical strength, his speed more than made up for it. She had to be careful whenever he moved, always watching for how he moved to determine his next action. She knew that in a direct magical confrontation she’d be way behind, but in a physical bout, he proved to be a very adequate sparring partner. At least as long as she didn’t use her full physical strength to attack him, which was hard considering how much fun she was having. As the spar continued, Elise discovered that Gregory really did enjoy competition. It finally ended, Elise emerging the victor due to the fact that she was able to disarm Gregory as soon as she used her full strength. Gregory had very little in terms of actual skill, relying entirely on his speed to let him do well in the spar.
When the spar had finished, Gregory laid down on his back from exhaustion. It had lasted a good portion of the day after swimming, and Gregory had very little to show for it aside from a swordsmanship skill. As Gregory laid there, he came up with something, he would try using necromatic and clerical energy to bring something dead back to life. He really didn’t want to need to use the points to unlock the class, since most higher tier classes required more points to unlock, especially if they had roundabout unlocking methods. True Magic Initiate was straightforward, but other things were less so.
“I need to head out for a little, I want to try something. I will be back soon.”
Gregory immediately started running, even while he was speaking, trying to find a creature that would be easy enough to revive. The first thing he saw was a wolf, which he easily killed by firing a magical arrow at it. Now was the time to try bringing it back to life. He began by starting with clerical energy to recover the body from the wounds, and then mixing necromatic energy into the magic. This only caused the spell to explode, destroying the body. Again, Gregory went looking for something else to find a pack of wolves. He did what he could to kill as many as possible, and then looked the the swatch of destruction he caused.
‘I only did it to revive them, I need to get True Revivalist…’
Gregory first started with necromatic energy this time, then mixed clerical energy in right before the revival, but it again only caused an explosion of the body.
‘So I can’t mix the clerical and necromatic energy directly, I need to think of another way to get the revival to work.’
This time, Gregory again started by healing, but only enough to recover the portions that would cause death. He quickly switched over to necromatic energy, and then right before the soul returned, used clerical energy to finish. It was amazing, but the wolf had returned to life. It wasn’t even a necromatic life, as the wolf instantly started running, and Gregory felt no magical connection to the animal.
True Revivalist has been unlocked
Revivification has been unlocked
Revivification
Brings the target back to life by healing the wounds, getting the soul to the body, and then filling the body with healing energy right before the revival. Requires a week before the body is back to full strength.
‘It worked, now to do the same for the rest of the wolves.’
Gregory did the same thing, but for the whole pack. A mass revivification as it were, which actually required a huge amount of his focus to perform.
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A new spell has been created, Mass Revivification.
200 WIS gained, 300 INT gained.
True Revivalist has reached Rank 3.
Mass Revivification
A spell that uses the principles of revivification on a mass of bodies at once. Due to the micro aspects of the healing in this spell, requires immense control over mana, and focus in spells.
‘A spell that took almost all of my focus and control to perform, no wonder nobody else has used such a spell in the past. The rewards were incredible though, I can’t believe I got so much from creating this kind of spell.’
Gregory tested these new spells to see how long he had before revival became impossible. Using temporal magic, he discovered that the timespan was only 24 hours. If longer than 24 hours transpired, it became impossible to revive the body. Another condition was that at least 75% of the body must remain and be undamaged. Only so much healing can be done on a deceased body and still allow resuscitation.
Gregory headed back after finishing this, wanting to see what the other party was doing while he had went off on his own. Albeit bright around the cave mouth, it was actually oddly calm. He could smell meat being cooked from here, and could tell that there was some dancing going on. He quickly ran over, which had the rest of the group on alert for a moment before realizing it was just him.
Tim spoke up first, followed by Atlas making a comment. Lily and Kat just glared at him for a moment before going back to talking to each other.
“You’ve gotta announce yourself first buddy, it is really freaky to have something run up to you that quickly.”
“Yeah, for sure. If we hadn’t known you wouldn’t be gone too long, we could’ve attacked you.”
Gregory craned his head down, knowing he should’ve let them know first, at least somehow anyways.
“Sorry, I didn’t even think about it. I should be more careful in the future.”
Elise responded this time, with the question that was really on the minds of everybody present.
“What did you get? You went off dedicated to get something done. We are all kind of curious.”
Gregory grinned, doubting any of them knew exactly how True Revivalist really worked.
“I unlocked the True Revivalist class, It is a combination of necromancer and cleric, and allows me to bring the dead to life. At least it worked on wolves anyways. It seems to be a highly beneficial class, though I think I need to get it and a few other classes to rank 5 to unlock the True Magic Adept class.”
Everybody present was shocked, True Revivalist was a very rare class, one that hadn’t been gotten in recent history. Nobody knew exactly what it did anymore, but Gregory had unlocked it in addition to a number of other classes. Gregory truly spoke the truth when he said that he had good potential, especially considering he was probably the closest person in over a thousand years to reaching the upper level combination classes.
The dancing started back up again soon though, Alfred dancing with Aurora, Jessica with Atlas, Tim with Caitlyn, and now Gregory with Elise. Gregory grabbed Elise by the waist and then brought her in to start dancing. Elise was a little shocked, surprised that Gregory would be so outgoing in this. He seemed so to himself usually, but it was perhaps that he was just becoming more comfortable around her as well. Gregory moved with ease while dancing, and showed a skill in dancing that few on this planet actually had. It turned out that his dancing lessons back on Earth proved effective, giving him an advanced level dancing skill.
The night eventually drew to a close, and everybody decided to get some sleep. During the night, Gregory and Jessica received a notification that had to do directly with them.
Due to the excessive death of humans, the transfer and merging of your world onto this one has been sped up. Only three months remain before the transfer is final. Another wave of humans has entered this world to help balance the declining human population.
Neither knew why this was happening, but one of the humans that had come was the cause.
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Sean was concerned by the death the war he had started caused, but saw that the number of enemy soldiers was falling as well. It wasn’t until he got a notification about the Earth transferring over sooner that he finally called a retreat. Since nobody had the power to resist his suggestion, none dared retreat unless he called it. While they were doing something foolish, the way they were made to look at it changed what they would do before the suggestion broke. Sean found that he could use his powers to make somebody amicable to an execution, but could not cause somebody to commit suicide unless they already had serious suicidal tendencies.
Now he had a larger base to grow an army from, and grow an army he would.
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Gregory and the rest of the group around him decided to head to the human kingdom, hoping that there was something they’d be able to do in preventing even more bloodshed. While most didn’t care much about this directly, Gregory and Jessica really wanted it. That was enough for the others to agree to this, and want to do their best in preventing the unnecessary death of even more humans.