Volume 2 Chapter 6: Fire Manipulation_Harem Reaper

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[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 died… in reality. Not very surprising but still pretty hilarious! Executing contingency protocol 349b! Your avatar is incomplete and unable to be revived, you will be given a temporary spirit form avatar until your new body is created! Please wait patiently for 3 months in the Wailing River… lol![/col][/box]

People die, sick people die faster, Ceda was only 25 years old but for someone with his condition, that was pretty damn impressive. Maybe if he had gotten the proper treatment faster, when he was still a teenager, but he didn’t… so he died. However, he died while playing Royal Road… the first person to die while playing the game. Well, no one really cares about Ceda or his problems, so lets skip past the boring 3 months that he spent in the underworld. Eventually he was born, and the whole crew was gathered in the rather spacious captain’s quarters to witness the disgusting catastrophe.

Perhaps it was due to the completion of the wish, or maybe the shock from giving birth to a Ceda, but Azrael and Nyx quickly returned their consciousnesses back to their original bodies. Azrael immediately snatched the newborn creeper out of her arms and held the strange creature in a similar manner that a person would normally hold a disgusting, slimy, dead rodent. He yelled “NOPE!!! No fucking way! Maternal instincts don’t go that far! I will not let this little gimper anywhere near you Nyx! Let’s just throw it into the ocean and try again!” in an extremely angry voice while struggling not to vomit while looking at the infant.

It had an extremely creepy smile as it looked towards Azrael and said “Plague… can I touch your hair?” while reaching out it’s not so tiny, disgusting little feelers towards his face… which was very, very far away. He basically just looked like a large, green, newborn baby… regardless of the overly dramatic descriptions of him. Only Azrael seemed to be disgusted by the strange creature, because they couldn’t comprehend its true nature. However, everyone was too confused to say anything about the situation so they just remained quiet and watched the show.

Azrael yelled “Oh fuck no! I’m really sorry Nyx but this thing is not our child… sigh. This is my own damn fault for feeling sympathy for the little cripple, I suppose this is God’s way of punishing me. My first born son was born a Ceda… oh well.” in an irritated voice as he continued to dangle the infant who was enclosed in a mana shield and being held by a mana rope with an outstretched arm. There is no way Azrael would actually touch Ceda, it was basically just a phobia that everyone from Forewarning contracted from knowing him for so long.

Ceda turned his head towards Nyx and said “I’m hungry… can you give me some milk? hehe.” in a whiny baby voice… very similar to his previous bodies voice.

Azrael yelled “Fuck this shit, get your own damn milk! There are plenty of mama wolves around this ship, I’m sure one of them would take care of you! Come back to us when you’re old enough to actually be useful!” in an extremely loud and angry voice as he sprinted out of the room while still carrying Ceda by using the mana rope.

After a few seconds of complete silence, Lorelei said “That baby was really creepy…” in a quiet voice while making a disgusted face. Nyx noticed that everyone was looking at her and then quickly became invisible.

Freya sighed and said “What the fuck is a Ceda?” in a confused voice while staring at So-Ra who immediately shrugged and started looking at Liesl, who had a very complex expression.

Liesl quietly whispered “How much longer until he finally remembers me?” in an irritated voice to herself while frowning and staring at the ceiling.

After leaving Ceda in some random corridor, Azrael gathered the crew on the main deck and started yelling from the upper deck down to them “Enough fucking around! I mean that both literally and metaphorically! We’re too weak to survive in our current conditions, we need to train! Our combined level is probably lower than just one boss monster in this world, hell, we might even have to fight against Gods! Experience is simple, you just kill shit and gain levels, we can already do that but what we really need is a better control over our abilities!” in an extremely loud and obnoxious voice.

Freya yelled “What the hell do you expect us to do differently then?!” in an irritated voice.

Azrael laughed and yelled “I’m a mage, yet I haven’t even begun to practice basic elemental magic! However, that doesn’t mean I don’t understand it! Out of the four Primal Elements, fire is said to be the easiest to use but the most difficult to master! Although, no one has actually mastered it yet… but I’m pretty sure they were just talking about the jump from beginner to intermediate. Everyone of us, including Freya and So-Ra can technically use fire magic, I figured that it would be the best place for us to start our training! Also, I’m going to go down there because my throat is getting sore from yelling so much!” in an angry voice.

As he was walking down to the main deck, Freya said “Azrael… people have been using the same spells for thousands of years for good reasons. First of all, spells are usually really fucking complicated, but mainly because it’s just so dangerous to experiment with elemental manipulation!” in an irritated voice.

Azrael sighed and said “It’s really not all that complicated. For example, when using the fireball spell, you first create a mana shield in the shape of a sphere. Then you heat the gases within the sphere until it ionizes and becomes plasma, then you either throw it, create a shock-wave to launch it, or use wind magic to guide the extremely light ball to its destination. Fire magic is mainly the ability to manipulate the fourth state of matter, plasma. However, it’s impossible to just use one form of magic in any spell, which is why spells are used in the first place. Even if a magic user doesn’t know mana shield, it’s used in almost every spell.” as he held out his right hand with his palm facing towards the sky. He smiled as a swirling ball of bright orangish red fire was formed above his hand, it appeared similar to a miniature sun. After he pitched it like a baseball as hard as he could, it traveled about 100 meters away from the ship before exploding into a slightly large explosion.

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Fire Manipulation (Lvl. 1 0%): Most mages who use magic learn a skill called Fire Mastery, which increases the effectiveness of all their fire spells. However, this is closer to having manual control over every aspect of the primal element fire. This is the most difficult, inefficient and dangerous way to perform fire magic. By training rigorously in this and the other Primal Elemental Manipulation skills, you can unlock the ability to manipulate the Major and then lesser elements.

Fire magic is mainly the control over Plasma and Heat, figure it out on your own!

Warning: This form of magic does have great potential, but requires much more control and effort to perform. For example, you can freely channel as much mana into a fireball as you want, but if you break the mana shield while you’re still holding it… well, why don’t you just try it?[/col][/box]

Lorelei said “Wow! That was way bigger than the ones I normally use!” in an excited voice.

So-Ra sighed and said “Are you sure I can use fire magic? I thought priestesses use holy magic…” in an irritated voice with a confused look on her face.

Freya laughed and said “Well, all magic begins as Mana, then it’s channeled through your Karma which can make a spell Holy, Unholy, Black, White, Neutral or whatever alignment you are. Priests, Paladins, Monks and many other Holy magic users simply have a naturally high alignment. If you create a fireball like Azrael just did, it should be closer to white instead of red.” in a tired voice as she lazily created a small yellow colored fireball in her left hand.

Azrael laughed and said “Well, aside from Karma, your emotions can also change the color, as well as the temperature of the flame. A white flame could just be really fucking hot, but if someone’s Karma is negative enough they should actually be able to have a black flame that’s as hot as a white one. Although, a black flame really shouldn’t even be possible… there’s something else interesting about Fire Magic though. Since it’s the control over temperature, wouldn’t that also mean…” in a happy voice as he pulled a gallon jug of water out of his bag. Then he placed it on his right hand and channeled mana through his palm.

As the water began to bubble violently inside the jug, So-Ra yelled “What the fuck are you doing?! It’s going to explode!” in an angry voice. However, the bubble stopped and starting from his palm, the entire glass jug was frozen over and cracked in several places.

He smiled and said “Fire is the Primal Element that controls plasma and temperature, which means that you can increase or decrease the heat of an object. However, I suspect it also holds the key to Temporal Magic… which is really important. Mainly because Asgard was destroyed over a billion years ago, which means I need to figure this shit out so that we can get the fuck out of here!” in an irritated voice. Then he created a fireball in his left hand, threw the frozen ice high over the water and then completely missed. In most things he was ambidextrous, but throwing wasn’t one of them… yet another skill he needed to practice.

Freya started laughing obnoxiously while So-Ra, Liesl and Lorelei were too confused and surprised to even speak. Nyx was thinking “As long as I’m with Azrael, I don’t care where we go!” with an overly happy smile on her invisible face.

After a few seconds, Lorelei yelled “Ah! I get it now!” in a happy voice. Azrael accidentally overheard something he probably wasn’t supposed to know… a flashback of Liesl’s story played in his mind. Although, whenever it comes to time travel, it’s best to just assume everything happens the way it’s meant to. Otherwise you’ll always be second guessing every decision you have to make.

Normally, being sent into the past wouldn’t be a bad thing and eventually if you just lived life normally, assuming you didn’t age, you would reach the present again. However, the present time of Royal Road was still moving forward at it’s normal speed. Even at a ratio of 10,000 : 1 it would still take 100,000 years in reality to reach the present. Since the game was going to break if he didn’t complete that quest within 3 ingame years, he really had to hurry the fuck up.

So-Ra finally yelled “Why the fuck does all this weird shit always happen to you?!” in a rage filled voice.

Azrael laughed and said “Weird shit always happens to the main character. Although, if I had written this story, I probably would have killed you off by now. I mean, why the fuck did you pick human? That’s pretty much the biggest death flag possible… oh yea! I completely forgot that you already died not that long ago, shouldn’t have picked human. Not sure how, but I predict you race changing in the near future… is vampire a race in this game?” in a happy voice as he gazed out at the relatively short horizon while imagining So-Ra as a centaur, harpy and various other interesting monster-girl bodies.

After an hour or so of bickering between the captain and his very small crew, they finally began their fire magic training. It was mainly focused around fireball, flame thrower and flameshield, which were the three most basic fire spells. After teaching the ones who didn’t already know the spells, Azrael taught them each the different variations.

Fireball could be a simply ball of super-heated plasma within a mana shield that is thrown at an enemy and creates a small explosion on impact. However, the radius and force of the explosion can be altered and the mana shield can even be guided towards the target without even having to throw the ball. Instead of a hand grenade, it could be more like a rocket propelled grenade. If you added some rocks or shards of metal inside the shield before creating the flame, it could literally become a frag grenade.

Flame thrower was as simple as creating a mana shield to protect your hand and direct the stream of burning gasses. Yet, if you focus the flames, they can become more like a welding torch. It’s even possible to add in some flammable liquids using water magic, but that wasn’t part of the lesson.

Flame shield has three possible uses, one is a basic mana shield that focuses on blocking out fire damage instead of physical. The second is to absorb incoming fire magic and transform it into mana. The third is to actually create a movable flaming wall segment that can be used to immolate an enemy in melee range that’s trying to charge the caster.

Everyone was paired up and casting fireball and flame thrower at each other while using flame shield to protect themselves. It wasn’t nearly as dangerous as it sounds, since their skill levels were relatively low with the spells. They continued to practice like that with fire magic every day for a whole month in-game. Azrael’s Fire manipulation had only gotten to beginner level 5, but it had gotten to the point where he could use a full body flame armor that was able to absorb everyone else's spells. His fire attacks had gotten to the point where if he actually used them it would damage the ship, so he had just been powering the ship for the last week.

The more mana he pumped into the ship, the faster it’s wildlife grew and the stronger they became. It also increased his Elven Sailing and Elven Navigation skills, which were still way too low for him to actually discern where the nearest land was. They were most likely traveling in circles since arriving on Asgard, but there was no way to find out with his skill level. However, there was another skill he had been honing constantly that had finally become useful.

For the past few days, Azrael had been hearing a faint voice in his mind that was usually just crying. It was rarely thinking words, but usually just feeling strong emotions of sadness and fear. When it spoke, it was in a quiet voice, speaking words that were unintelligible because they were too far away. He decided to sail towards that voice, but as he approached it, he also started to notice several other, similar voices. They were praying, begging, wailing and screaming, calling out to their parents and someone called Surt who was probably something like a God to them.

Every day their voices became louder and clearer, and eventually Azrael started to hear the voices of almost a hundred other people in the background. However, by that time he could already see the boats on the horizon. He already understood the situation, even before he could actually see it. Azrael yelled “Nyx, you steer the ship! Freya, turn into some kind of big fish and carry me over to those ships! Everyone else, prepare for combat! If those ships get within range, throw fireballs at them! Let’s go Freya!” in a loud and extremely angry voice as the air around him literally burst into flames.

The basic elements respond differently to each of the basic emotions. Anger and disgust are strong triggers for fire magic, so it was far too dangerous for Azrael to stay on his own ship. If he wasn’t half submerged in the cold ocean water while holding onto Freya’s sexy giant squid tentacle, she might have turned into fried calamari.

In less than an hour they finally arrived at the three large Elven ships that looked a lot like generic viking ships but with an actual tree as a mast. The sail was made of leaves, the body of the ship was covered in hundreds of vines. Azrael used them to climb up the front of the right side of the middle vessel, while trying to keep his anger from getting out of control. The ship had at least forty fair skinned humans on-board, each was dressed and looked like a viking. Only a third of them were females, but they all appeared to be warriors as far as class went.

They were surprised to see Azrael but didn’t view him as an enemy, they actually seemed to consider him one of the Aesir, a God. Their captain was a large, for a human, muscular man with a large warhammer in his right hand and a huge burn on the left side of his face. He was smiling as he said “Welcome aboard Aesir! We were sent here as envoys of the Allfather himself! He wishes for your assistance in the coming war, if you follow us we can take you to Valhalla!” in a happy voice while speaking obnoxiously loud.

Azrael started laughing hysterically and then yelled “Of course! I should have known there was a reason I was sent here!” in a voice that was almost loud enough to cast voice of death as he turned around. On the front of each of the three ships were the reason for his uncontrollable rage, one of the only two things that could make him so angry. There was a small, innocent, elven child chained to the dragon looking figurehead of the ship. The air around him burst into flames, along with the closest vikings to him, and he yelled “Anyone who commits the crime of slavery is my enemy! Anyone who permits slavery is my enemy! For your crimes, even your souls will suffer!” in a furious voice.

[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 cast Voice of Death! 47 Viking Warriors have been stunned! Captain Brandr has been deafened! Alfhildr has been stunned! -300 mana[/col][/box]

On each of the viking ships was a chained up Red Elf child, which was probably being used as a slave who could control the ship using mana. Red Elves have large dragon-like wings, tails and even horns coming from their foreheads. They’re often referred to as demons, but their elven ears and red skin are proof enough that they’re simply elves. Their cloven hooves and talon like hands tend to disturb most people, so they are typically considered monsters. However, to Azrael everything that would make a normal person hate or fear them, had the exact opposite effect. To him, they were beautiful and majestic creatures that were being used and abused by disgusting humans.

Azrael boarded the ship with no weapons or armor… hell, he was just wearing a bathing suit. He looked into the little girl’s glowing red eyes and telepathically said “I’m here now, so shut the fuck up. You’re whining is really annoying.” in an irritated voice as he channeled mana into strength and then tore the iron chains apart.

She had a confused expression on her face while looking up at the giant man with charred black skin. Her first thought was “Did Surt really come to save me?” since he actually did look like a black fire giant, with flaming horns, wings and even a tail from her perspective. Then a giant tentacle reached up out of the water and grabbed the little girl, pulling her into the ocean.

Azrael turned around and faced the ship full of angry, battle ready vikings who were already out of the stun. Since none of them even took damage from his voice of death, he could tell that they were at least around his level. However, he was far too angry to think of some clever battle plan, he simply turned that anger into a raging inferno. While wearing a suit of armor made of flames and mana shield, he grabbed the heads of the first two vikings who charged at him. The captain yelled “He’s a fire giant! Kill him!” in a loud and frantic voice.

After a quick squeeze, their helmets, along with the rest of their heads were complete melted off into their chest cavities as their limp bodies fell to the deck. The whole ship had already begun to catch fire all around him as he slowly walked towards the captain. Only three humans could fit, standing shoulder to shoulder in front of him. The held up their wooden shields, but they became cinders in an instant against his flamethrower. They screamed in pain as their whole bodies were immolated, but by the time their molten bodies reached the ocean, they were already dead.

Suddenly Azrael sprinted straight through the 36 remaining vikings, who were either pushed into the ocean or trampled over. Either way, they were incinerated by his bright, crimson flames, which seemed to be getting hotter by the second. He was losing control of the mana shield protecting his body and starting to take fire damage every second. However, he couldn’t even notice his own pain over the screams inside his mind of each person he conflagrated.

When he finally reached the back of the ship, the captain swung his hammer up towards Azrael, but he quickly tackled him into the ocean. While sinking into the boiling water, Azrael plunged his hand into the captain’s chest and grabbed something incorporeal. Not his heart, which was already hard boiled, but his soul.

[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 Soul Absorption! Captain Brandr’s soul has been absorbed! Soul mana has increased to 1/1! -2000 mana, health and stamina![/col][/box]

You have literally torn the soul out of someone while they were still, mostly, alive!

While you’re using this title, you will receive several effects.

Every time you kill something with a soul, you are healed for 20% of your maximum health!

Using Soul Absorption costs 50% less mana, health and stamina, but you will receive a large amount of negative karma!

Every humanoid you kill, that doesn’t have a soul, will give you 50% of their mana regeneration for 24 hrs.[/col][/box]

After immediately using the title a large tentacle wrapped around his waist and then launched him out of the water, onto the farthest left boat. He smacked against the mast and it was set ablaze, the crew had no idea what was going on. Before they could even fight back, Azrael used a powerful flamethrower out of each of his hands, turning the front and back of the ship into an inferno. The normal warriors were all pretty well done, but the extra crispy captain was still somehow hanging on.

She charged at him while swinging a large battle axe while yelling “Die demon!” in an angry, raspy voice. However, her health was already low enough that he could easily reach into her exposed chest and tear out her soul/heart and lungs. After quickly absorbing the soul of Captain Helga, he walked over to the mildly charred little boy and unchained him. By that time the last boat was trying to flee, but a much larger ship was blocking its path.

Fireballs rained down on the relatively small elven/vikings ship and its crew were screaming a beautiful melody of suffering. Azrael picked the boy up with his right hand and then launched him onto the deck of the Hanael. Then he jumped into the water and swam over to the last ship, with some help from Freya’s tentacles. He climbed aboard the front of the ship and quickly made his way past the viking flambe and unchained the last little Red Elf girl. She smiled a little and said “Father?” in a happy voice, her eyes had been carved out of their sockets, probably to be used in alchemy.

Azrael smiled as he patted her on the head and started laughing obnoxiously loud as he turned to face the last captain. This one was a barbarian woman, almost as tall as himself, but it was more than that. Azrael could immediately tell that this one was much higher level than the others, plus she had large angelic wings coming out of her back. Even amidst the inferno, she was unfazed and seemed to be perfectly fine. Her face was completely covered by a shiny mithril helmet and most of her body was covered in beautiful, obnoxiously revealing mithril armor.

[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Valkyrie Eir has appeared![/col][/box]

With an expensive looking mithril long-sword in each hand, she yelled “How could you side with those disgusting demons instead of your own kind!? I will bring your traitorous head back to The Allfather myself!” in an angry but confident voice as she charged towards him. Azrael tossed a fireball towards her, but she evaded by flying into the air and then dived sword first into his left shoulder. However, the blades became lodged into his body and it gave him the chance to grab hold of her right wing with his left hand. She screamed in agony as he crushed it, while setting it ablaze.

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Eir grabbed a knife from her waist and severed her own wing to escape from him, but that just gave Azrael the opportunity to charge an incredibly large amount of mana into a super compressed fireball in his right hand. Although, with the two swords severing his pectoral muscles, it was impossible for him to use lift his right arm. Eir laughed and yelled “You lose!” in a cocky voice as she lunged towards him as he removed the swords from his shoulder with his left hand.

Azrael yelled “Such an arrogant little girl!” in an angry voice as he parried her knife with the swords in his left hand, then swung his right arm towards her. The fireball missed her but hit the mast and created a gigantic explosion and shock-wave that blasted her body toward him with incredible force. He impaled her through the lower abdomen with her own swords, then sunk his teeth into her left side jugular and bit down as hard as he could. His anger receded and the flames surrounding him dissipated as he began drinking her delicious neck nectar.

She screamed “No! I wont let you kill me so easily!” in a desperate and terrified voice as she began to use all of her mana to heal herself. However, Azrael was chewing through her rapidly regenerating neck muscles and drinking copious amounts of her blood constantly so she wasn’t able to close her gaping neck wound. Meanwhile he was wriggling the swords around in her abdomen, tearing apart her intestines, spleen, uterus, kidneys, and pretty much everything else in that general region. If she didn’t have such a massive health pool, she would have died much sooner, but she was pretty much a boss or at least an elite of some sort.

[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 Sacrificial Healing! By drinking the life force of Valkyrie Eir, you have completely regenerated your own health! -50 Karma![/col][/box]

Azrael pulled his face away from her neck, looked into her beautiful blue eyes and said “Does this make me a vampire or a cannibal? I mean technically we probably aren’t the same species right? Oh well, I think I’ve finally quenched my thirst for blood, literally and metaphorically… at least for today.” in a calm voice as he reached into her gaping abdomen with his right hand. After tearing out her still beating heart, he quickly devoured it as the life drained from her eyes and her body became limp.

[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 defeated Valkyrie Eir!

All stats increase by 5!

Mana and health regeneration increase by 5 per second!

Karma has decreased by 50!

Faith has increased by 100![/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 have used Soul Absorption! Valkyrie Eir’s soul has been absorbed! Soul mana has increased to 2/3! -1000 mana, health and stamina![/col][/box]

Azrael carried Eir’s corpse in his right arm and picked up the blind Red Elf girl with his left, then began climbing up side of the Hanael. The Viking ships figurehead was pressed up against the Hanael’s hull, so he used it as a step to reach halfway up the side of the ship. By channeling mana into the ship, he was able to create footholds using the side of the ship’s vines. It was still difficult to climb the vine ladder without using his hands, but Freya’s tentacles were there to help him maintain balance.

After finally reaching the mid deck and putting the little girl down, along with the valkyrie corpse, Azrael placed his left hand on her face and said “What’s your name kid?” in a curious voice. Not only was she missing her eyes, but also her wings and hands were removed. The other children were only missing their wings, but it was still terrible.

The little girl said “Alfsigr, master… I’m starting to feel kinda funny.” in a worried voice as nervously fidgeted around. Azrael was funneling his health into her body and regenerating her hands, wings and eyes at the same time.

He smiled at her and said “Your master is dead, along with her crew and the other two crews. You’re no longer a slave, you’re free to say what you want but if you call me master again you’ll probably regret it.” in an irritated voice as she saw his face for the first time.

She gasped and said “How? What? Alfsigr doesn’t understand what’s happening… ah!” in a confused voice as she looked at her rapidly regenerating hands.

Azrael sighed and yelled “You other little fuckers, get over here so I can heal you too!” in an angry voice as he motioned with his right hand to the other little girl, Alfhildr, and the boy who was apparently named Alfljotr from what he overheard of the two kids who were chatting.

Then So-Ra yelled “Oh! You should rest! I can heal these two!” in a happy voice, since she was finally able to use her healing spells for something important.

Azrael sighed and yelled “Fine! Nyx, get us the fuck out of here before our ship catches on fire too!” in an exhausted voice as he dragged the Valkyrie corpse into the captain’s quarters.

Lorelei and Liesl were busy talking to the children and Freya give a shit, but So-Ra yelled “What the hell are you going to do to that woman’s corpse?!” in a worried voice just before he was about to close the door behind him.

He poked his head out and yelled “It’s my body now! Use your imagination!” in an irritated voice as he slammed the door, leaving So-Ra with a hilariously disgusted expression.

Freya started laughing and said “I know what I would do with it, well after satisfying my… curiosity. I would break it down and use it for alchemy ingredients. Either that or eat it… literally, I haven’t eaten valkyrie in thousands of years but I still remember how delicious it was. Ah, but back then I was a dragon, so everything tasted like food.” in a happy voice as she remembered the good old days of slaughter and destruction.

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[box border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=3 width=80% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5][col colspan=4 valign=top width=100% bordercolor=#202020 bgcolor=#f5f5f5]Aura of Creepiness (Lvl. 1 0%): You are quite possibly the creepiest baby that anyone has ever seen! Even if you’re abandoned in the midst of wild, hungry animals, they stay the fuck away from your creepy ass face! Seriously, how do you even do that? It’s not like your face looks ugly, but it just sets off an instinctual warning sign in any normal living creature. The life of a gimper sure is difficult… the worst part is that since you’re not crippled, i can’t even think of a decent joke. Fuck this shit.[/col][/box]

The invisible Nyx would occasionally go to visit her son, but not even his mother was immune to his Aura of Creepiness. It protected him from the wolves, but at the same time prevented even his own parent’s from loving him. Everyone quickly forgot about Ceda and moved on with their lives, his only ally was the Cotton Vine Kitten. Although, it was only interested in mana… after being fed, he was quickly abandoned again. Luckily he was growing 3 times faster than a human, so it would only take him a few years to reach that useful age Azrael was demanding of him.

Ae-Cha had finally finished setting up her secret lab and was busy continuing her extraordinarily dangerous experiments. Her next accidental nuclear explosion was under construction, but her main focus had something to do with Michael in reality. However, not even he knew what all that mysterious nonsense was about at the time. Actually, he still wasn’t even aware of her presence, in reality or in-game.

Over in Valhalla, Odin was laughing hysterically, the final trump card that was meant to be Asgard’s salvation, had become its damnation. Even so, The Allfather had anticipated as much and begun to launch a preemptive attack on Muspelheim. If Ragnarok was an impossible war to win, his backup plan was to at least let a few of his children survive. On Muspelheim, a volcanic planet where only fire elementals, Red Elves and Fire Giants can survive,along with various plants and animals, a gigantic portal was opened. Yet another major event that Azrael and his crew had no idea about.

Back in the Continent of Versailles, Osmond, the Sharptooth Orcs and the Dark Elves had begun a mass migration to the far east. There was some really dark magic happening in the orc lands and they wanted to get out before it was too late. With some help from the Susanoo Guild and their massive navy, they were able to safely cross over the sea to the Easternmost unexplored continent.

Meanwhile, the 27th Bunny Hunt had ended in a brutal tie, leaving both sides completely obliterated but giving the central continent some much needed time to recover from its wounds. Since the destruction of Cancer, none of the other world bosses had defeated but a gigantic water dragon had been spotted several times in the southern oceans. An enormous sand wurm had been reported devouring entire villages in the Desert of Tranquility. There was also a few sightings of a humanoid creature so ridiculously large that it walks through the western oceans as if they were merely ankle deep water.

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After bringing Azrael the named Fox that he asked for, Nyx left the captain’s quarters with a confused look on her invisible face. An hour later the loud screaming voice of a woman could be heard throughout the ship, for several hours until it finally stopped. Then some weird barking sounds and even some howling, everyone was deeply concerned about what Azrael was doing. Well, Freya was actually just interested in what torture methods he was using.

What was actually happening? Well, after dragging the impaled and disemboweled valkyrie corpse into his room, Azrael removed the swords, armor and helmet. Then he asked Nyx telepathically to find him a Fox named Uriel, he vaguely remembered naming one that back when he was fishing for souls with Matallost. He also saw it wandering around the corridors a few weeks before, so it was probably still alive.

While he was examining her completely nude corpse, Eir was screaming at him within his mind. Thus he discovered that she was luckily a virgin, he already had a feeling that was the case which was why the body was perfect for his project. Besides that, her face was definitely beautiful, blue eyes, naturally straight blond hair, straight white teeth, relatively large and perky breasts, feminine but muscular. Even her anus and vagina looked perfect, combined with beautiful angelic wings, the whole body was magnificent. Of course it required a ton of repairs, but that was relatively easy.

After receiving the living Fox named Uriel from Nyx, he brutally tore out its soul and absorbed it. Then he used Sacrificial Resurrection on the body which took an hour and nearly killed him since her health and stamina were nearly as high as his. After the body was completely healed, he shoved the fox soul into it.

Life Manipulation proficiency has increased!

Sacrificial Healing has increased to beginner level 8!

Creativity has increased by 100!

Faith has increased by 50!

Karma has increased by 50!

Level has decreased to 103!

All stats have lowered by 1!

Faith has decreased by 75!

-3500 Health

-1500 Mana

-1500 Stam[/col][/box]

Status WindowCharacter NameUrielAlignmentGoodLevel175ProfessionValkyrieTitleNoneFame0Health3500Mana1500Strength250Agility300Stamina1500Wisdom100Intellect150Luck150Vitality150Attack125Defense10Magic ResistanceFire: 35%

Water: 25%

Earth: 15%

Air: 15%

After exhausting his last bit of stamina, Azrael passed out on the floor for 9 hours while the frightened and confused reincarnated fox ran around the room while making annoying fox calls. Eventually it also passed out from exhaustion, curled up in a ball on top of the bed completely nude but since it had the mentality of a fox that wasn’t very surprising. While he was dreaming, Azrael spent his time brutally torturing the three souls who were imprisoned within his body. They still didn’t understand what they did wrong, so he made them experience slavery from the other perspective.

However, he knew how dangerous it was to keep enemies within his own mind. When he finally regained consciousness, after cleaning up the fox corpse, puddles of valkyrie urine and blood, he began to grow some suitable prisons for his captives. It needed to be a cage that couldn’t be unlocked by anyone but himself and they also needed to suffer sufficiently. After a few minutes he had finished the first two captain’s new bodies.

This is a very weak, non-combat pet with very little cognitive and learning capability. It requires small amounts of water, carbon dioxide, sunlight and mana to survive. The bunny will not be able to grow any larger or stronger because the creator specifically designed it that way. It has the soul of a proud viking warrior Helga and was imprisoned in this body by Azrael The Soul Stealer. It will be impossible for any monster, NPC or user to attack this non-combat pet. Has no gender. Magically linked to The Hanael, unable to leave the ship and receives small amounts of mana, sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water constantly.

Level: 1

Health: 50 Mana: 50 Stamina: 50

Agility: 10 Strength: 1 Cuteness: 700

Vitality: 5 Intellect: 5 Wisdom: 1

Knows 4 skills, Bunny Hop, Cry, Nap, and Cuteness Dance.

Has 5 passive effects, Pride, Shame, Sadness, Adorability and Panic Disorder.[/col][/box]

This is a very weak, non-combat pet with very little cognitive and learning capability. It requires small amounts of water, carbon dioxide, sunlight and mana to survive. The rat will not be able to grow any larger or stronger because the creator specifically designed it that way. It has the soul of a proud viking warrior Brandr and was imprisoned in this body by Azrael The Soul Stealer. It will be impossible for any monster, NPC or user to attack this non-combat pet. Has no gender. Magically linked to The Hanael, unable to leave the ship and receives small amounts of mana, sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water constantly.

Level: 1

Health: 50 Mana: 50 Stamina: 50

Agility: 10 Strength: 1 Cuteness: 50

Vitality: 5 Intellect: 5 Wisdom: 1

Knows 3 skills, Hide, Squeak, Scurry.

Has 4 passive effects, Pride, Shame, Sadness and Panic Disorder.[/col][/box]

Even if they tried to kill themselves, it would be impossible and nothing was able to attack them so they had no escape. A cute white bunny and a not so cute white rat were the perfect bodies to make two proud warriors suffer. The rat quickly scurried off somewhere, but the bunny had a much crueler fate. Azrael open the door to let the cute rabbit out, onto the deck where Lorelei and So-Ra quickly captured it.

Finally, there was only one left… but he had something special planned for her. He shoved her soul into the cotton vine kitten as a temporary measure, since he couldn’t stand her constant whining. Every couple minutes she would beg “Please! Just kill me!” or “Why are you doing this? What did I ever do to you?!” and sometimes she would even try to bargain “I’ll do anything! Just put me back in my body!” but to Azrael, slavery isn’t a crime that could be forgiven.

He realized during the battle that a rage fueled inferno was incredibly dangerous and if he was going to continue his crusade, he had to learn to control his anger. That group of enemies were relatively weak, so he never actually had to use any tactics or strategy. However, if he was going to start fighting beings that were considered as Gods, then not only did he have to start learning the other elements, but he needed to gain a few hundred levels. Luckily, the Aesir were far too busy with their war to actually sent any halfway decent assassins after him.

Azrael also needed something else, mage gear, but since he had no idea how to make cloth or where to find it, he was left with another possible option, Mithril. It was mainly used by warriors as a high end, lightweight alternative to steel, but there was another reason it was so expensive. Mithril had magical resistance, absorption and usually many extra magical effects when worked by a good enough blacksmith. The only problem was that the valkyrie armor was barely even a bikini, so between that, the two swords and the helmet, he only had enough to make a chain-mail T-shirt and boxers.

There was something else he had in mind for the mithril, a way to make useful items for himself and the rest of the crew. However, he put that on hold to deal with another more urgent issue. Uriel The Valkyrie had woken up and was scampering around the room, screaming and howling again. Azrael yelled “Oh for fuck’s sake!” as he tried to catch the extremely agile winged idiot that was struggling to crawl/run away from him. It had no skills, since it’s soul was from a fox, but it’s stats were still relatively high.

After he finally caught her, she urinated all over him as he carried her out of his room. Her wings were flapping around, her arms were flailing and ironically she kept trying to bite him to death. Valkyries have large wings, but not nearly large enough compared to their weight to actually provide sufficient lift for them to fly. They usually use wind magic, so since the fox couldn’t do that, he didn’t have to worry about it escaping.

Lorelie and Liesl were practicing fire magic with the naturally gifted Red Elf children on the forecastle, which was the elevated deck to the front of the ship. As soon as the three children saw the Valkyrie, they quickly cowered in fear behind Liesl. After finally making it up the stairs, Azrael said “Liesl, can you make this little fucker some food? If I knew that foxes were so fucking loud and annoying I would have settled for a shitty name. Anyway, since it’s got the mentality of a fox, I figured it would calm down once we feed it.” in an irritated voice. Since the valkyrie's body was almost as big as his, she was extremely difficult to carry around.

Lorelei walked over to the struggling Uriel and innocently stroked her hair while smiling. She said “Be a good girl and calm down OK? Mommy’s going to make you some delicious food.” in a gentle voice and Uriel instantly calmed down.

Azrael put her down and said “Is that some kind of dark elf passive? Well, whatever.” in a disinterested voice as he walked over to the three children behind Liesl and knelt down so that he was only a few feet taller than them. They were wearing some of Lorelei’s pelts and leather clothing that Azrael had made a few months ago. Since they were basically just dresses with exposed backs, they didn’t have to be altered to accommodate tails and wings.

Liesl looked down to the children and said “Don’t worry, mommy will be right back in a few minutes. Daddy might seem scary at first, but I promise he’s very kind.” in a happy voice while smiling at them.

Azrael sighed and said “They’re not afraid of me, they’re afraid of their former master. Listen kids, I’m not sure if you can comprehend this, but that isn’t her anymore. Anyway, I wanted to ask you some questions.” in an irritated voice as he looked into their bright red and orange, snake like eyes.

Alfsigr, the one should have been the most traumatized, was actually the most comfortable speaking. She said “Of course! Alfsigr can answer any question Daddy asks!” in a happy voice while smiling at him.

He started laughing and said “You kids are so damn cute… shit, I need to concentrate. Ah, it’s like they’re little humanoid red dragons, wait, are you guys hatched out of eggs? Never-mind, forget that first question, what I need to ask is actually important. I assume the three of you have some knowledge of this world, so I need to know the location of two pretty famous trees. Yggdrasil the world tree and more importantly, Idunn, the apple tree of eternal youth. Although, it might actually be a Goddess who grows apples… I have a feeling it’s actually just a special type of tree.” in a semi-serious voice, while trying not to smile too much.

Alfsigr frowned and said “Alfsigr knows where they are… but why does Daddy need to go to such dangerous places? I know Daddy’s strong, but he isn’t that strong.” in an upset voice while trying to hold back her tears. Even though she didn’t say it out loud, he could see both of the trees in her mind.

Azrael smiled and said “Don’t worry kid, I’m not an idiot… usually.” in a sarcastic voice as he stood up and looked forward, into the distant skies. The Hanael was headed straight towards some pretty rough weather, but that wasn’t what bothered him. It was something he saw inside Alfsigr’s mind… a familiar presence and voice. Her mental image of Surt, reminded him of a certain supremely annoying spirit that once tried to take control of his avatar.

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A large, barbarian man was chained to the floor of a dank, dreary cave somewhere deep underground. It was too dark to discern any of his features, but there was a large serpent sculpture on the ceiling above him. Every few seconds, one of the fangs would drip a tiny drop of liquid. The liquid would burn the skin on his face like acid and he would writhe in pain so violently that the earth would actually shake. Although, that was due to his powerful earth magic, not his physical strength.

A beautiful elven woman, wearing a white dress and carrying a large bucket rushed into the room and yelled “I’m sorry! Loki, isn’t it time yet? I can’t stand to see you in so much pain! First those bastards murder our children and then they torture you in such a cruel way! How much longer must you endure this torment?” in an angry voice as she started to catch the acid with the bucket.

Loki smiled and said “Don’t worry Sigyn, the magic of these shackles has finally run out.” in a deep, calm voice as he transformed his body into a much smaller, feminine form. He had turned into a beautiful blue skinned female elf with the eyes of a serpent and was small enough to easily slip out of the restraints. A third eye opened up vertically on her forehead and she plucked it out with her right hand, then crushed it and let the goop drip onto the floor. The black puddle began to glow bright purple and then it expanded in a huge swirling circle like a whirlpool.

Sigyn yelled “Ewww! I really hate when you do this kind of shit!” in an angry voice as she grabbed a hold of Loki and the entire room filled with glowing purple slimy liquid. Then it all flushed into the ground like a gigantic toilet bowl that just became clogged, sucking them both down into the inter-dimensional plumbing. After a moment of complete darkness, they were both free-falling through the blackened skies. Somehow they managed to avoid being struck by lightning, but they still fell into a violently churning ocean during a hurricane. Luckily for them a large elven ship just happened to be passing by.

Volume 2 Chapter 6: Fire Manipulation

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