Hey guys! Fairsky here. First place in yesterday's pole was psyfish with 1009 out of 1094 votes. (votes were most certainly probably not manipulated.) As this isn't a very interesting story, I have decided to put an excerpt for the first chapter at the end of GD chapter 8. If it is well received, I will do a real chapter.
Second place is Only GD! with 56 votes. As I have come to the conclusion that you guys are slave drivers, I will completely ignore you.
Third place is the apocalypse story with 10 votes, which is my personal favorite. What a coincidence! I will do a couple chapters of this one, to see how well you guys like it.
In other news, I have run out of saved chapters for GD! Release will begin to slow down to 1 chapter every couple days or so, perhaps even less because of the apocalypse story. Hey, you guys voted for it. Kinda.
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Chapter 8
I studied my stats. ‘It seems like my mental stats transfer over, that’s good at least.’
I was also able to bring up some information about Lee’s race.
ding!
A homunculus is an artificial race created with parts from multiple dead bodies, and brought to life with necromancy, and as such, have no mental stats unless when directly controlled by a greater being. They are illegal to create in all kingdoms.
Homunculi lack the ability to naturally heal, and have large amounts of physical stats.
A pure homunculus is a never before seen variant that is an artificial body created purely from Nature, Earth, Order, Chaos, Life, and Death magic. It has been previously impossible to create due to the nature of having multiple opposing elements in it. Only followers of Libra who have the Balanced Mage skill, or Libra herself can make this currently.
It is unknown how legal pure homunculi are in the world because of their recent creation, although it is probably not a good idea to let people know just in case.
Pure homunculi lack the ability to naturally heal, and have large amounts of physical stats. They also copy the mental stats of its creator, yet have the ability to become stronger and smarter than them.
ding!
Libra has gained the title Creator of Life
Creator of Life
For being the first being to create life out of nothing but mana, you have gained this title.
Increases strength of beings you have created.
Holy crap, guess I’m an actual god now.
I instantly unequip the title, as I don’t know how the other gods will react, especially death.
After thinking about it for a minute, I decide that Thoth has been helpful enough so far, and has been a pretty much cool dude overall. I messaged him with the details of the create puppet skill, and also what a pure homunculus and a normal homunculus are.
Instantly after I ‘click’ send, Thoth replies.
You have been targeted by the spell teleport by Thoth to Thoth’s Domain. Would you like to accept?
I sighed, He didn’t even bother to send a message first.
“Yes.”
Instantly, I was in a huge library, with bookshelves as far as the eye could see, There appeared to be a ceiling, but it must have been several hundred meters up.
How fucking big is this place?
I turned around to see Thoth at a table, with a pile of books all around him.
“Tell me everything”
After a few hours of telling him exactly what I did, he finally gave up after realizing that he can’t make one of his own.
“I’ll pay you! I’ll give you some of my divinity!” He shouts
“It’s only been a week, I doubt that you’ve gotten more than a couple points of Divine Power, If you don’t want to turn into a Minor God, I’d suggest saving up for a bit.”
He frowned, crestfallen.
After questioning him a bit, I found out that all of the books in his domain are copies of every bit of written knowledge ever created by Mortals. Excluding magically protected tomes.
‘So that’s where he’s getting all of his information. What is he, the NSA?’
I said my goodbyes to the bird man, who had already buried his head into a book, which was quite funny to watch because he turned the pages using his beak.
I teleported back to my Domain, and sat down into an extremely comfortable chair I created using customization options and some of my money.
I focused on Lee until my mind merged back with my puppet.
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“Skills” Lee, er- I, said.
Skills
Split Focus level 1
Chaos Magic level 1
Order Magic level 1
Healing Magic level 1
Inspect level 1
Swordplay level 1
Light Armor level 1
Spells
Chaos Bolt level 1
-Shoot out a bolt of pure chaos magic that exploded upon impact.
Order Bolt level 1
-Shoot out a bolt of pure order magic that turns into chains that bind the target upon impact.
Heal level 1
-Instantly Heal a target for 50 health. Requires touch as you are not a priest.
Rejuvenate level 1
-Increase target's health regeneration to 500% for one minute. Requires touch as you are not a priest.
Well Rejuvenation is completely useless. Heal will probably get it’s spotlight soon enough though, because I can’t naturally heal myself.
Follower Skills
Balanced Warrior
Balanced Mage
Fool Balance
Balanced Strike
Balance Keeper
Summon Libra’s Sword
Hmm... It seems that in this mortal body, I have gained levels for all of my abilities, instead of just having everything at max level.
A quick message to Thoth reveals that Mortal’s skills all go from level 1 to 100, which is the max. The higher the level of the skill, the harder it is to grow.
Apparently for players, level 3’s were easily gained in the first day. Now however, about a week after the players have arrived, nobody’s skills have gotten passed level 5.
The average character level for those who have been here since the beginning is 30, while the highest is 50. How Thoth has found this all out is beyond me, but I still thanked him for the info.
“Inventory” Lee calls out
ding!
Balanced Iron Armor
Although not very strong, this armor will rise in strength with its wearer.
Armor Value: 160
(equal to 2x base vitality)
Balanced Blade
Although not very strong, this sword will rise in strength with its wielder.
Damage: 120
(equal to 2x base strength)
Fucking. Sweet.
Without waiting any longer, I used teleport on Lee to send my puppet to a rather secluded forest, with about level 30 monsters. I wanted to get used to fighting before I actually try anything dangerous. I’d hate to waste Divine Power having to bring Lee back after I stupidly try to take on a dragon or something.
Lifting up my sword, I tested a few swings with it. Instantly, I thought that something was wrong. I corrected my stance, and let loose a couple more swings. It seems that my sword mastery helps me with wielding the sword, that’s pretty interesting.
After a couple minutes of walking, I came upon a test subject.
Grizzly Bear
???/???
Level 32
Beast
Aggressive
The bear stood on it’s hind legs and roared, trying to make itself big.
Thanks for showing me your soft belly, idiot.
On second thought, do bears have soft bellies? I’m not really sure...
I raise my empty left hand, and point my palm towards the bear’s stomach.
“Chaos Bolt!” I shout
Instantly, a sphere of black and red energy appeared in my hand. I ordered the orb to shoot towards the bear, and it did as it was told. As it travelled, it left behind a trail of energy, making it look more like a comet than a sphere. The Chaos Bolt exploded upon impact with with the bear’s stomach. Instantly, it was shot backwards, where its head impacted a large boulder, knocking it out.
Grizzly Bear
300/600
Level 32
Beast
Aggressive (unconscious)
I step up to the unconscious bear and plunged my sword into it’s heart, which caused the bear to instantly explode into a burst of light.
ding!
You have executed an enemy by dealing damage to a vital spot while they are unconscious.
Gained
Chaos and Order magic experience
Swordplay experience
Bear pelt x4
Bear Meat x6
Bear Claw x2 (alchemy ingredient)
Bear tooth x2 (alchemy ingredient)
"Woohoo!"
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Excerpt from chapter 1 of Psyfish
"Glub Blub" Psyfish exclaimed
"Glub Glub" Psyfish's mother responded
"Blub Blub Glub Glub" Psyfish's father countered
Excerpt End!