Chapter 4: Heavenly Percussion_Harem Reaper

Reward:

Fame has increased by 150.

Experience and drop rates have doubled for a week.

The first monster hunted will drop some of its rarest items.[/col][/box]

Surprisingly he was actually the first person to ever find the place. Although he wasn't that surprised since most people fled Rhodium as soon as possible to avoid the swarm of beggars. Since the people who started there were mostly craftsmen, even if they had a quest to go into a dungeon they would definitely turn it down.

"Time to cook!"

Since Azrael was always alone and never had anyone to talk to, he often spoke to himself unconsciously. After his many food and potion experiments, along with his extensive research into ingredients he managed to discover a hidden trait of Nightmare Vine. He spend nearly his whole life in a dark basement with nothing but a computer monitor as a light source, so even without a torch he was confident that he would be able to see pretty well. However, it was a dungeon where he would have to fight undead and even avoid traps so he couldn't afford to take chances.

While potions were typically limited to liquids inside of vials that you need to drink, poisons were more versatile. He ground up the nightmare vine into a fine powder and sprinkled it onto a piece of barley bread, then dipped the bread in some green goop that was called ectoplasm. After devouring a whole loaf in two bites the effects kicked in.

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]You have gained enhanced ghost vision!

For six hours you will have mild night vision and undead will appear with bright glowing auras.[/col][/box]

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]You are hallucinating, because of your poison resistance you will be able to use skills and abilities but you will still occasionally have auditory and visual hallucinations.[/col][/box]

"Neat. Although, maybe it isn't a good idea to explore a dangerous catacomb while tripping?"

Azrael was able to see pretty clearly in the disgusting, cobweb filled dungeon but sometimes he would hear a woman's voice whispering in his ear.

"You aren't strong enough yet."

"Turn back."

"I'm trying to help you, listen to me!"

"Please Azrael, leave this place!"

*Sob*

After a while of ignoring it's incessant pleading, the voice just started weeping for hours non-stop. It was pretty terrible, but he was able to tune it out by singing to himself very loudly. A song that he just made up as he went along.

"This song is called Without You, now shut the fuck up for a few minutes."

(verse 1)

I can see you, looking back through the mirror

Of your life

But there’s never a break

From the choices you make

The decisions, from visions

And all of the reasons in life

(pre-chorus)

I know that nothing will ever be alright

You know that I wont give up without a fight

But I have to find a way

Maybe ill find a reason to stay

(chorus)

Without you

There’s really no reason to make it through

If I do

I wont let them torture me too

(verse 2)

I see it ever day, Running away

From what I say, to you

I can save you if you want me too

But if I do you have to help me through

Every time I remember you

So many reason I have to be careful what I do

(pre-chorus)

I know that nothing will ever be alright

You know that I wont give up without a fight

But I have to find a way

Maybe ill find a reason to stay

(chorus)

Without you

There’s really no reason to make it through

If I do

I wont let them torture me too

And I wont let them make me like you

But you give me a reason to make it through

When I do

I’ll make them regret this too

(bridge)

But I know, every day, every night, all those lies

And I choose who lives and who dies

I’ll make them pay

I remember the words that you used to say

Every day

But this is the only way

(solo)

(pre-chorus)

I know that nothing will ever be alright

You know that I wont give up without a fight

But I have to find a way

Maybe ill find a reason to stay

(chorus)

Without you

There’s really no reason to make it through

If I do

I wont let them torture me too

And I wont let them make me like you

But you give me a reason to make it through

When I do

I’ll make them regret this too

As he started to sing, all of corpses that were in a deep sleep within their stone coffins began to wake up. He unsheathed his great-sword with his right hand and kept on singing, using the sound of their bodies being smashed and torn asunder as a baseline. After pulling out the giant repair hammer from his bag with his left hand, he was using it to shatter their decrepit rusty armor and weapons, creating a beautiful harmony of symbols for his drum solo. After fighting for about three minutes the song was over and there was nothing but large piles of loot laying on the ground in a circle around him. Since he was going out of his way to destroy their armor and weapons, it was mostly just disgusting things like rotted flesh, broken bones, zombie teeth, brain juice. However, there were a few pieces of jewelry hidden underneath all the filth. Even though the zombie parts were considered alchemy ingredients, even Azrael had limits to what he was willing to eat.

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Heavenly Percussion (Lvl. 1 0%):Using knowledge from another world you are able to create music by striking or scraping even objects that don't seem like instruments.[/col][/box]

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Level Up[/col][/box]

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Art has increased by 5[/col][/box]

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Agility has increased by 1[/col][/box]

"Sigh, status update spam for the win..."

Azrael quickly put his 5 newly acquired stat points into agility, since he felt extremely sluggish in his huge body. After quickly making and eating another Enhanced Ghost Vision Loaf of Barley Bread he was able to see again. With a sledge hammer in his left hand and a great-sword in his right he slowly and carefully wandered through the tunnels that were relatively wide. If the tunnel branched into multiple pathways he would always pick the largest one for obvious reasons. He would sing random popular songs while hacking, slashing, stabbing and smashing the disgusting corpses in sync with the song's tempo. When he sang a song that he didn't actually write he very rarely gained any art, creativity or other stats.

On a daily basis he only received about 1 of each stat that he used. Every few days he would manage to level up but it became harder as the enemies became weaker in comparison to his level. Azrael still didn't know what he wanted to do and since his OCD kicked in when he saw a number like 17 or 13 he would place his stat points in whatever stats looked like they could be easily rounded up. He didn't actually have to know how to repair things because the skill would work automatically. Although at first he just used it on the rusty weapons and armors that dropped from random undead because with a low repair skill you could actually break items. However, after using it enough he was finally able to repair his sword to a certain extent.

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Every 6 hours he had to make and eat another barley bread covered with green goop and nightmare vine but it was fine because there were at least a hundred of each in his bags. He was slowly but surely walking deeper underground and he had no idea if he was even technically in Rhodium anymore. Although the rules that would prevent him from leaving the city until his month might have been bent by the fact that there was a dungeon within Rhodium.

"That old man lied to you, this is just a trap!"

"Please, don't come any closer!"

"You aren't strong enough to survive in here!"

Over and over the voice begged for Azrael to leave and after 10 days he finally snapped. While standing in a middle of a huge burial chamber that was at least big enough to fit a passenger jet inside of he screamed as loud as he possible could.

"For fuck's sake! It's obvious that I'm not going to give up after coming this far! So just stop it already!"

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]You have used Voice of Death! Not powerful enough to damage Golden Dragon of The Eternal Sleep. -100 mana[/col][/box]

"Oh shit..."

The ground began to quake as the ceiling started falling down all around him, the path he used to get there had caved in and the floor was being torn apart. An enormous 15 meter wide golden claw erupted from the ground along with a plume of molten lava that nearly landed on him. As the claw slammed onto the floor on the right side of the room, another one burst through the floor to the left. Before he could move out of the way a gigantic body erupted from under his feet with wings that tore into and shredded the ceiling apart in an instant. His already worn out cheap leather shoes burst into flames and his feet were quickly seared to a black crisp.

Surprisingly losing his feet didn't do that much damage to his health, but it did hurt, but only until he fell forward trying to use his sword and hammer to save his arms but they quickly melted after a few seconds. Luckily his bags couldn't be destroyed or affected by the fire but his clothes could and they quickly burst into flames.

With one flap of its wings the colossal golden dragon that looked more like a sculpture than a living organism burst through hundreds of meters of rock and dirt. It soared into the sky so fast that Azrael slid down its body and grabbed onto the tip of its tail for an instant before his arms simply disintegrated and he started falling toward a huge plume of lava that the dragon left in its wake.

It was incredibly painful, so much so that he wondered why he was even still alive. However, even in reality he had an absurdly high tolerance for pain and suffering. It's not like he was a masochist or anything, he was just able to turn it off like a switch in his mind.

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Endurance: Reduces physical damage and stamina usage, increases health.[/col][/box]

"It figures that I would managed to die within the first month of playing... I really hope my arms and feet won't be permanently gone."

Azrael started laughing as he was falling to his fiery demise. However, before he could be engulfed in lava he met eyes with the gigantic and majestic golden dragon. It quickly swooped down and swallowed him whole, or at least what was left of him.

Status WindowCharacter NameAzraelAlignmentNeutralLevel5ProfessionNoneTitleNoneFame210Infamy0Health487Mana424Stamina400Endurance1Strength35Agility30Art20Creativity30Wisdom35Intellect40Vitality40Fighting Spirit30Luck20Leadership5Attack19Defense0AffinityEarth: 10

Wind: 10

Fire: 10

Water: 10Magic ResistanceFire: 10%

Water: 10%

Earth: 10%

Wind: 10%

+50 Health

+6% Health

+6% Mana

+6% Unarmed Combat Damage

+5% Weapon Damage

Poison resistance: 20%[/col][/box]

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Heavenly Strings (Lvl. 1 70%): You have the innate ability to play any string instrument using your knowledge and experience from another world.

Angelic Voice(Lvl. 4 50%): Using your innate ability to control your vocal chords and breathing you can produce the optimal frequency to soothe allies and enemies.

Intermediate Alchemy (Lvl. 1 25%): You are able to easily determine if an ingredient is poisonous or not and you can now create many complicated or difficult potions and poisons.

Handicraft (Lvl. 5 7%): This ability is the foundation to every crafting skill and increases along with them.

Increases unarmed combat damage by 1.5% per level.

Increases weapon damage by 1% per level.

Iron Stomach (Lvl. 7 85%): By subjecting yourself to terrible and excruciating digestive torture you have gained the ability to neutralize weak poisons without much discomfort.

Increases Poison Resistance by 10%.

Creative Cooking (Lvl. 6 21%): Either out of laziness or desperation you have learned to use dangerous and

poisonous ingredients in combination with other more conventional ingredients to create edible food that tastes pretty good.

Warning! Most people or monsters will not think it tastes good and may die or suffer from the various poisonous effects!

Increases Health and mana by 1% per level.

Repair (Lvl. 2 85%): You can repair low level weapons and armor.

Heavenly Percussion (Lvl. 2 25%): Using knowledge from another world you are able to create music by striking or scraping even objects that don't seem like instruments.

Voice of Death (Lvl. 2 25%): Enemies with low health will have their hearts stopped at medium range and their brains will explode at close range.

Mana consumption: 25 per second[/col][/box]

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