Body Sliming and Professions
After a quick log-out to eat, the merry band of heroes reunited at the tree’s entrance. Our beloved protagonist carrying a simple staff, a masochist equipped with a simple sword and shield, Shadow #1,000,000 with his dual daggers, a hellcat twirling a spear around her fingers, and miss timid with her very own staff. All of us dressed in some shoddy villager gear. We were going to massacre slimes, but we were witnessing a very special form of massacre that normally would never have worked.
Mage 1: “Burn these slimes to ashes.” ‘A snow elf is using fire magic? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of being a snow elf?’
Mage 2: “Don’t let them escape!”
Mage 3: “Who needs warriors when you can just nuke these slimes with magic?”
Mage 4: “Muahahaha! Feel the wrath of our trampled pride!”
Mage 5: “Show no mercy!”
Simply put, it was amazing to witness a bombardment of magical annihilation. Although, a group like that is going to have serious issues if a slime ambush occurs. And speaking of the devil, a lvl 3 slime appeared mid-fight which instantly wiped out one of the mages. Bon voyage Mr. Fire Mage! Of course, they easily dealt with it by spamming their magic and even continued fighting to avenge their fallen comrade.
Celsius: “Well, that was interesting. Hey, you warriors want to join the dark side? We even got cookies!” ‘Off to the side I can see Lily perk up her ears at the mention of cookies. Stop looking at me with those eyes! The cookies are not for you.’
Frost: “The cookies are tempting, but I got to refuse. I could never get used to fighting behind others.”
Snow: “Yeah! I like this spear too much to just abandon it!” *twirls spear*
Celsius: “Who said you had to abandon your fighting styles to use magic? You guys never heard of combat mages?”
Frost: “Normally weak and hard to pull off correctly?”
Celsius: “Hmmm, partially true. It does take a while to get the necessary spells but there are a few helpful spells.”
Snow: “Like?”
Celsius: “I will help teach you when we are on break to recover mana. It does take me 50 minutes to refill my mana bar. Better to do something rather than sit around all the time.”
Frost: “We will see then.”
And thus we finally resume our senseless violence towards slimes. The fights were radically different since Snow could actually hit the slime’s core with here spear. I also learned that I never had to fire off my magic and could have it remain at the end of my staff for some fun antics. Although, there have been a few close calls as everyone here is squishy besides the tank.
Nevertheless, we were able to finally reach lvl 3. During one of our down-times, I was also able to teach magical theory for body enhancement to the others. It was a little hilarious to see them freak out about having to learn mathematical equations in a game. Feel the suffering of us mages as we struggle to learn even one more spell!
Snow: “Celsius, behind you!”
Celsius: ‘Oh? Even so, my ice ball casts faster than this slime can body slam me.’ “Snow, heads up!” ‘After warning her of my plan, I use the ice ball like a baseball bat to smack the slime towards her.’
[You have learned Shattering Strike]
Snow: [Piercing Thrust]
Her spear pierces right through the slime’s core and instantly shatters it into tiny pieces. Normally, she wouldn’t have hit that hard but when u combine a piercing skill with an auto-critical from a frozen target (even if it’s a weak freeze), monster flying right into the attack, and bonus damage for hitting the core….it’s pretty much a death sentence. Not even the other 2 guys hit that hard. Spears are completely overpowered! Somebody nerf them!
Frost: “I don’t know what to say about that.” ‘Frost says with a concerned expression on his face.’
Lily: “So strong!” ‘A sparkle appears in her eyes as she admires Snow.’
Shadow: “Obviously, we should move on to lvl 2-3 monsters.”
Celsius: “Although, there is no telling what lvl a monster will be until we get close to it. But Frost, at your rate you are going to fall behind your girlfriend.”
Snow: “Hehe, no worries. I can pull your weight Frost.”
Frost: “I am pulling my own weight! You are just a monster compared to us normal people.”
Celsius: “Yeah! I thought I was clever with my baseball strategy, but I was surpassed by the hellcat.” ‘I state in a sullen tone. How am I supposed to prove the value of combat mages if you hit harder than all of us?’
Snow: *chuckle* “But most of my damage is because of your support though. Aren’t you ice mages all about support anyways?”
Celsius: “Doesn’t make me any less envious of your damage!”
Frost: “Agreed!”
Snow: “Then can I get even stronger if I learn more of those super spells of yours?” ‘She asks me in such an excited tone.’
Celsius: “Oh goddess, help me! I think I am about to unleash a monster of unspeakable evil on the world!”
Estelle: [That sounds fun!]
I blink for a second in utter surprise at this message. She can pm me? But I thought that was a friend only thing? But lo and behold, she had already put herself on my friend list. Straightening myself up, I respond to my ‘close’ friend.
Celsius: [You sure about that? The world might get destroyed by her and that’s not even the worst part. Since I will be the one that created her, she will come back to kill me just like with Dr. Frankenstein!]
Estelle: [But you can’t die in that body. Even if you could, I can just teleport you to my side and we can forget about the impending doom of mortals.]
Celsius: [Really? Isn’t that against the rules or something?]
Estelle: [Haven’t you mentally retorted about me breaking several rules already?]
Celsius: [Well, ya-wait a minute! My mind and all its secrets are being analyzed and dissected?] ‘Since you couldn’t get to my body for now, you went and sexually harassed my mind?’
Estelle: [O-oh, I am just good at reading what’s on your face. I certainly did not use my powers as a goddess to read your mind. Nor do I know about you being defeated by a stampede of little kittens. *giggle*] ‘Hey, those kittens were too powerful! Even with all my power as an esper, there are still things I can never defeat!’
Celsius: [Meanie! Don’t tell me that the other gods and goddesses are browsing my thoughts too.] ‘Estelle is one thing, but I don’t want everyone and their grandmother doing who knows what with my head! It’s like having all of my most embarrassing moments posted on the internet or whenever my parents decide to embarrass me in front of their friends.’
Estelle: [Well, a few were rather curious about you since we are ‘close’ friends.] ‘Before I could even respond, a wake-up call snapped me out of my private conversation.’
Snow: *slaps* “Celsius, what’s wrong? Your face keeps changing from astonishment, to excitement, to pure terror!”
Celsius: “Ow! What’d you do that for? Meanies! I was enjoying a really enlightening conversation with a friend of mine.”
Snow: “Oh is that all? Before you get too intimate with your boyfriend, you might want to read the notifications we are getting.”
Celsius: “What notif-“
[The slimes are getting riled up]
[Slimes are fighting amongst their own kind]
Celsius: “The devil sure does get around. But isn’t this a good thing? Excluding the fact that this reeks of a boss fight.”
Frost: “Which is what we are worried about. Normal slimes are tough enough as is, not sure I want to fight a boss slime.”
Snow: “Coward! You are going to let 3 beautiful girls fight a powerful monster and die?” *tsk tsk* ‘A grin appears on her face as she taunts Frost’
Frost: “Never said that. If anyone’s dying here, it’s going to be that slime.” ‘He grins back towards Snow. I can see Shadow face-palming himself at how these two always enters their own little world.’
Snow: “Welcome aboard, captain.”
*Snap*
Shadow: “Shhh, I hear something.” ‘I usually forget you are here Mr. Quiet.’
We stop our chatter to listen in to our surrounding. The sounds of branches breaking is coming from behind a bush to our side. Everyone gets into formation in anticipation of a grueling fight to the death. Then the figure of our adversary that leaped out of the bushes was….a snow bunny.
Snow: “Just a rabbit….” ‘You know, something always goes horribly wrong in these kinds of situations’
Estelle: [Oh, I forgot to mention that Loki has left presents in various cities and hunting grounds.]
‘Wait what?’
Celsius: [What do you mea-] ‘Suddenly a slime with a humanoid form jumps out and devours the rabbit whole.’
Estelle: [Have fun!] ‘I’m not ready for this!’
Slime Boss: “Guuaaaaahhh!” ‘An ear-piercing scream rings out with a torrent of wind and robs us of our mobility.’
[You have been stunned by Slime’s Roar]
In a blink of an eye, it had vanished and reappeared above our tank as it drove its fist into his abdomen. As Frost was knocked behind us, we were made aware of the reality standing in front of us. Above its head floated the words “lvl 5.” We had been thrown into a fight with a severe disadvantage of 2 lvls.
Lily was the 1st to react as she started to heal Frost back up from the blow he took. I then used my freeze on the slime, but it simply shrugged it off. Snow and Shadow backed off as they can’t handle a blow that tore through 60% of a tank’s hp (even if he didn’t get the chance to block the attack). However, it would not just wait on us and charged straight for Snow. I was able to get a frost shield up in time, but it was instantly broken and barely weakened the blow enough for Snow to survive.
I gave Snow a quick heal over time before firing several aqua shots. This got his attention and he charged straight for me with ridiculous speed. I hurry to cast my freeze spell and it was able to completely freeze him this time thanks to drenching the slime in water. This didn’t stop the inevitable body “sliming”, but Frost was able to get in front of me and stab straight at the core. Shadow also stabbed at the core from behind with his daggers before the slime could completely break free from my freeze spell.
Those attacks were able to drop his hp down to 82.9%, but ended up pissing him off. He instantly jumped back 15 meters in a single second and raised his arm towards us. Not good, that’s the slime machine-gun! Frost raised his shield, I put up an ice shield in front of him, and Shadow had already moved out of the way before the attack started. 3 slime balls completely shattered my ice shield and rammed straight into Frost’s shield with so much force that he was blown back into me and sent us both flying.
Celsius: “Ugh, this is tough!”
Frost nods at me as we re-enter the fight. Snow and Shadow had both already activated their body enhancement magic, but it’s nowhere near enough to handle that ridiculous speed and strength. I can see that they are both near death and even Lily won’t be able to heal them up before the next attack comes. But maybe she doesn’t have to?
Celsius: “Snow, charge straight at him!” ‘I yell as I begin pelting the slime with several aqua shots.
If we can’t stop him from attacking, then we will just keep stopping him in the middle of an attack.’
I grin as I see the slime redirect his attention back towards the spear-bearer. Just as it was about to pulverize her, I sent out my freeze spell and fully froze the drenched slime. Snow also used her deadly [Piercing Thrust] at the frozen slime core to deal immense damage. She was even able to land a couple of normal hits before the slime broke free from my freeze and backed away. Its hp has now fallen to 59.8%
Everyone had all thought this would be an easy match if we just repeated the same tactics, but we were wrong. The slime looked at his core as if puzzled, then looked towards Snow, and back at his core. It was then that it looked straight at Frost, no directly at me! Does it perceive me as the greatest threat? My thoughts were left short as the slime vanished into thin air and then pain flared up at my sides as I was sent flying into a tree.
As I coughed up blood, I realized that I only had 10 hp left! The others realizing the implications of hesitating even a moment longer had all attempted to save me from the finishing blow. Luckily, I was knocked into Shadow’s direction so he was able to shield me from the incoming bombardment of slime balls at the cost of almost every point of hp he had. Even so, this had bought enough time for everyone, including Lily, to gather around me to protect me from all sides. Since when did I become a damsel in distress?
Applying healing water to myself and Shadow, I get ready for the next round. The slime looks curiously to us, but still has not stopped glaring at me for surviving his attack. I try to hit him with another aqua shot, but he just moves slightly to the side. It looks like he is not going to let me freeze him as easily as before as it has realized that eating a few more attacks would be its downfall.
The slime then raised its arms again at Frost. I figured to take this chance to drench the slime while he can’t move. Strangely, it only shot a single slime ball and it didn’t hurt Frost at all. Much to our surprise, however, it had conjured a fire ball and slung it straight towards him. Without even a single point in agility, he could only grit his teeth and endure the impending explosion that went off. Fortunately, it didn’t do a lot of damage so its intelligence must be low.
Immediately afterwards, it had already appeared before us and knocked Frost away. I followed up with my freeze spell and it responded with a machine-gun firing of 6 shots of that explosive slime. Our 2 melee dps had rained a few hits on the slime before it broke free and continued the stand-off again. Lily was still healing Frost, I had 6 shots worth of explosives on me, and the boss is now at 27.2% hp.
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Momentarily, we had lost track of the slime while waiting for it to do something until a thunk sound was heard from the side. Lily had been knocked away from us before she could finish healing Frost. It then proceeded to jab its fist into my abdomen before raising its arm to fire more slime balls. Frost got in front of me to block the hits, but still took considerable damage. However, this was only a distraction so that it could reach me before I could get back on my legs.
The slime boss had already appeared near me but Shadow was able to reach me in time to suffer another crushing blow like before. I started throwing my aqua shots to drench it again, but it actually smiled at me as a flame appeared in its hand again. I then remembered that I was covered in explosive slime and my hp is too low to survive the incoming blast. I had then surrounded myself with an aqua ring before I was hit with its fire magic. Luckily, my water barrier was just strong enough to neutralize the fire ball.
But this was enough as indicated by our monster of a spear-bearer launching her [Piercing Thrust] while I freeze the slime boss in its place as I start charging ahead too with an ice ball at the end of my staff. Slamming it simultaneously from the front with a spear piercing it straight through the back, the slime’s hp had dropped to its final bits of hp. I was going to use my new staff skill, but a flying dagger had interrupted that train of thought and killed the boss before he could unfreeze himself again.
[You have leveled up]
[You have leveled up]
[For killing a King Slime (humanoid variant), you have gained 100 fame]
[For defeating a boss monster with a higher lvl, you have unlocked a new stat: Fighting Spirit]
[Fighting Spirit – Stats increase by 1% per point when fighting stronger enemies]
[Fighting Spirit + 2]
Celsius: “Really? You threw your dagger! I wanted to get the last hit.” I pouted as the rogue went to retrieve his weapon.’
Shadow: “Who cares? Besides, you would have never beat Snow to the final hit anyways.”
Snow: “That’s right!”
Celsius: *muuu* “Then I will just have to vent my stress for being pursued so relentlessly by this stupid slime.” ‘I grumble as I walk to the dead carcass of the king slime and start whacking him with my staff. Everyone couldn’t help but smile as I focused on mindlessly beating the slime until it completely lost its humanoid shape.’
Estelle: [Is this the relationship between the stalked and the stalker?] ‘Oh? Our curious goddess has returned.’
Celsius: [Yes, yes it is.]
Estelle: [Interesting!] ‘She sure gets happy over the smallest of things.’
Frost: “Although, I wonder what triggered that event to spawn a boss.”
Snow: “Good question. We were just peacefully minding our own business when that happened.”
Celsius: “Oh I almost forgot! That slime appeared because of divine intervention.” ‘And by the sound of things, he meddled with a lot today.’
Frost: “You’re kidding right?” ‘He asks worriedly.’
Celsius: “If you only knew.” ‘I say with a creepy smile on my face.’
Snow: “Hey, you’re scaring Lily!” ‘I look over at Lily to see her trembling from what I had said.’
Lily: “No, I am fine. It’s not scary at all!” ‘She successfully calmed down her trembling body as she denies her fears.’
Shadow: “Yeah, there are much scarier things than the gods of this game trying to kill us.”
Celsius: “Like the Yggdrassil Gate visor analyzing and dissecting our minds of all of our most embarrassing memories to post on the internet for everyone to see?” ‘My comment got a few chuckles out of everyone and was able to help Lily relax. If only everyone knew how real this was.’
Shadow: “No. Giant spiders are generally one of the most feared monsters in all games.” ‘Uh-oh, Lily is starting to tear up from hearing of giant spiders.’
Frost: “Yeah, I bet some of them are hiding around somewhere just waiting to for an unaware adventurer to walk by, take a good chunk out of their leg, and oops…no more leg!” ‘And now Lily is out cold.’
Snow: “You guys are horrible! Look at what you did to poor Lily!” ‘She yells out as she carries an unconscious Lily.’
Frost + Shadow: “Sorry….”
After waiting for Lily to wake up, we continued hunting to increase our lvls. There were ice slimes we could kill, but everyone was in agreement that we were sick of fighting slimes so we moved onto snow bunnies. They were extremely fast, but had low hp and damage. It was even fun to finally see a monster in this snow forest actually use ice magic for once.
These rabbits quickly became my favorite monster to kill as all we had to do was play baseball with them in order to win. You have never lived until you have seen a rabbit zipping all over the place just to have its attack countered by a shield bash into another person, staff whacked to another, spear smacked towards another, and the final person just stabs straight towards the heart. Even the goddess was clutching her sides as she watched us torture the poor rabbits.
Through serious effort in sportsmanship, we were able to finally reach lvl 10 within a couple hours. It was then that something weird happened. Everyone had obtained a notification stating that they can now obtain up to 5 professions which are basically classes in this game, but that’s not the strange part. Lily, Snow, Shadow, and I had received an additional notification for reaching the 100 stat mile-stone.
[Your wisdom has reached the 100 mile-stone. Please select a skill from the list as a reward]
[Mana-Recovery Boost T1 – Grants a 10% increase to mana recovery.]
[Cast-Speed Boost T1 – Grants a 10% increase to cast-speed.]
[Instant Cast T1 – Allows you to cast T1 spells with no cast time]
[Mp Cost Reduction T1 – Grants a 10% reduction in mp cost for spells]
I had picked instant cast because I figured that it would be useful to not have to worry about whether or not I can finish a spell before I get hit. Surprisingly, I learned that I could do a whole lot more with it than just what was written. As my T1 magic no longer has a cast time, I can cast a dozen ice balls or ice arrows at once for a rapid increase in dps. So if I ever have spare mana, this can help me out whenever I am in a pinch. Although, it makes me wonder why someone would get the cast-speed boost when you can instant cast, but then I realized that maybe you won’t be able to instant cast every spell. Still worth it even if I can’t cast the strongest spells quicker.
As Lily was a 10/10 int/wis build, she was able to get 2 passives. She picked instant cast like me and mp capacity increase, but she did tell me there was these interesting passives called magic piercer and control boost. Magic piercer seems to allow spells to ignore 10% of their magic defense while control boost increases control effects by 10%.
Shadow had obtained a really cool ability called Shadow Clones which is a clone of yourself that copies your attacks to increase your damage. The passives for run-speed increase and attack speed increase were insignificant in comparison. The last passive was acrobatics which allowed sounds like you could pull off weird stunts in fights, but I’m sure there is more to it than that.
Snow had obtained the piercer passive as to more easily handle monsters that are resistant to physical damage. She also mentioned there being attack boost, stun boost, and knockback boost. Stun boost and knockback boost were the weird passives that would only work on blunt weapon attacks so they weren’t very useful for those who don’t use blunt weapons.
Overall, everyone was pretty excited at the thought of getting stronger every 10-20 lvls. Frost, who was left out of our fun, could only listlessly look up to the sky as he will have to wait until he hits lvl 20 to get his 4 new abilities. He could use his free stat points from lvling up, but we had all decided to hold onto those until we were completely sure on what we wanted. These passives just made the decision even harder for us as I am sure every stat has something extremely powerful.
Before we were going to log out, we returned to the tree city to obtain our professions. I really need to learn the name of this city since calling it tree city all the time makes me feel bad. Anyways, I was surprised at what an old man told me upon asking to be an ice mage.
Celsius: “Excuse me. Can you help me become an ice mage?” ‘I politely ask my magic superior as I am pretty sure he has enough power to erase me from this planet if I were even a bit disrespectful.”
Mage Guildmaster: “Hoh, have you reached intermediate ice mastery yet young lady?” ‘The old man lifts his head from a large book he is reading.’
Celsius: “Uhhh, no.” ‘I didn’t realize I would be locked out of my chosen class for even longer.’
Mage Guildmaster: “Then come back once you have trained some more. Since you lack the requirements for the 2nd job, you can still accept the 1st job which is just a normal magician with no specialties.”
Celsius: “Alright, then please promote me to a magician.” ‘He smiles at my polite request before waving his finger and returning to his book.’
[You have become a Magician]
[Magician – Passively increases mp capacity by 10%.]
After thanking the old man for his help, I contemplated my issue for a bit. Raising skill masteries isn’t exactly hard, but it will probably take a week in-game to achieve it if you spam the necessary skills all day. Not a big deal since it’s just a few days or a week, but I need to check in on the others. Still it’s a pretty impressive balancing factor for those who try to be hybrid builds or try to obtain 5 combat professions. If just getting a specialization requires that much effort, then good luck trying to get a mix of 5 warrior/mage/rogue/archer professions and upgrading them to max potential.
With the acquisition of my new class, I went inside an inn to logout for the night. Little did I know that a certain goddess was just waiting for me to plonk down on the pillow before kidnapping me. Although, my new fluffy pillow is a whole lot comfier than the ones in that inn.
Estelle: “Welcome back.”
Celsius: “It’s good to be back.” ‘I respond back with a nibble on her nipple which elicited a soft moan.’
Estelle: “Aah! You are a bit more aggressive this time.”
Celsius: “You kind of had me in a daze with those cheating hands of yours. I dare you to find someone who can stay sober throughout all of that and not want to continue being submissive to feel more of it! You are like one of the strongest aphrodisiacs in this world and I don’t want to know how powerful the goddesses of love, beauty, and lust are in bed!” ‘She blinks at me before giggling.’
Estelle: “Well, those 3 goddesses can only use their powers on gods unless they want to do it with an incubus or a succubus which they do on occasion. Excluding those exceptions, all mortals will go insane from the effects of their divinity or spontaneously explode. It’s a lottery on the outcome from that.”
Celsius: “Note to self, avoid the goddesses of love, beauty, and lust like the plague.”
Estelle: “Well, that only happens if you try to make love to them. Their powers are not so deadly outside of that. You should, however, be more worried about the goddess of fertility. She can simply impregnate anyone just by simply getting close to them. Although I can block her power from affecting me, but you would become pregnant with my child if she were to walk by us right now.” ‘I blink at this revelation.’
Celsius: “Are you telling me that this goddess can bypass the logic behind how babies are born simply because she symbolizes fertility? I wonder what the stork would think of this.”
Estelle: “He could finally go on a vacation?” ‘She grins at me as she pulls me in closer.’
Celsius: “Oh right.” ‘I accept her embrace and start to massage between her thighs which was met with another moan.’ “Let’s cut the chatter short as we are both barely holding in our hormones.”
Estelle: “I was waiting for that.” ‘She then gives me another one of those kisses packed full of pleasure and starts to rub her body against my female bits.’
Celsius: “Aaah, I am not go-aah-ing to surr-aah-ender this early on.” ‘I try putting up some resistance, but it was futile.’
Estelle: “Good luck with that!” ‘She says as I start to loosen my grip from the surge of pleasure signals as she massages various spots of my body. She then flips me over so she is on top and starts to go all out with her advances. Seriously, these goddesses are just overpowered!’
And that marks the beginning of a very long night. Funnily enough, they had kept going for 24 in-game hours straight before the goddess finally let her lover rest a bit. She needed to recharge herself after being deprived of her precious skin-ship for so long. Our protagonist was a little grumpy in the morning due to sleep deprivation but she didn’t complain one bit about last night.