Moyo appeared back at the blood hall, staring around the destroyed room, the limb of the blood king in his hand. Staring at the desiccated limb, he crushed it within his hands, the limb exploding to gore stains across the ground, a loud gong echoing around him,
Dungeon notice: congratulations!, the dungeon boss has been slain!, dungeon will collapse in one hour!.
For killing the dungeon boss, you get:
* 10 mythical aether shards
* 20 legendary aether shards
* 10 mythical dungeon cores
* 20 legendary dungeon cores
* Scythe of the blood king
* Elixir of the blood king
* 1,000,000 diamond coins
* 10,000,000 gold coins
* 100,000,000 silver coins
* Primordial aspect shard of the blood king
Closing that, along with the personal messages he got from the archailect, he turned to see the masters floating towards him. Using his aspect to burn away the blood on his hands, he walked towards them,
“I take it you all killed the knight?’ Moyo asked,
“More or less” Killian answered,
“Dead as well, or, more or less, I guess” he replied awkwardly,
“What do you mean by that?” Killian asked,
“So funny story there, we sort of took our fight to the Nethervoid, turns out sir Dracula had a lot of enemies, among them the slumbering sands” Moyo replied,
“Dracula?” Duval asked confused,
“I think the main question we should be bothered about is the other primordial entering the picture, he just mentioned the slumbering sands, like the ruler of Khemet and its empire” Killian said slowly,
Skatha rolled her eyes,
“he’s nice, well, as nice as a primordial can get” Moyo said cheerily,
Killian blinked slowly twice, Moyo could almost see the cog in the master’s brain grind to a halt with that sentence,
“He just called a primordial nice” Killian whispered,
“Brother?” Duval asked cautiously,
Killian took a deep breath. Shutting his eyes and exhaling,
“that’s it, I’ve had enough craziness for one lifetime, let’s get out of this dungeon and I can go back to normal things” he replied turning,
Duval chuckled,
“I am normal” Moyo shouted at Killian with a smile, the master snorting,
“you’re the farthest thing from normal Moyo, in fact, you’re the direct opposite of normal” the stellar blade replied as the masters walked to the edge of the blood hall, the entire fortress crumbling around them,
They could see masters in the distance fleeing the dungeon, no doubt scarred by the events that happened here. Moyo and the masters floating down in silence,
“Primordials and ancients” Moyo said,
“What about them?” Killian asked,
He swallowed before talking,
“How are they viewed by the greater archailect as a whole?” he asked,
Killian scratched his beards as they landed, walking among the destruction wreaked around, unsure of how to reply. Duval started, even as Skatha used her blade to poke at bodies of dead wraiths and other creatures that were slowly dissolving along with the dungeon. He turned to Moyo,
“Do you know how big the archailect is?” he asked,
Moyo shook his head as they pressed on towards the exit in the distance, a large blue pathway back to the world they were on. Duval nodded,
“let’s just say the archailect is, well, large, so large in fact that there have been reports of whole worlds cut off from civilization, where rogue golds or silvers rule as lords” he said,
Moyo glanced at Duval unsure of how that worked, for the archailect to come to a world, it meant its galaxy had been assimilated and an overseer placed in charge. Duval spoke,
“True, they go through the whole assimilation phase, but what happened when the species native to the planet couldn’t even survive the assimilation phase with low tiered monsters around?” he asked,
Moyo hadn’t really thought of it that way, Killian nodded,
“They get dumped, the archailect still flows through their world, but to be honest the brigade could care less. Worlds like that become fodder for low tiered experts capable of holding them as some sort of custodian, silvers and golds ruling like kings and rulers as their strength become incontestable” he said,
Rogue worlds with golds playing rulers?, it sounded bizarre to him, although he could see it happening. He himself had been the strongest being on Gaia for a long time, a title he still held by a ridiculous margin, he nodded, Duval continuing,
“Now worlds like these are far and in between, but they exist in their own galaxies. Currently the archailect has too many galaxies under its control that we hardly know where it begins and stops.” He said,
“Now, the strongest ascenders any average being in the archailect would ever see till they die are diamonds, and even those quickly ascend their planets, looking for greener pastures to fuel their ascensions when their world can no longer supply them with the resources they need” he said,
“To them, the masters and rulers are far myths, living on worlds that are considered paradises despite said ruler being the lord of the galaxy they reside in” Killian added,
“Meaning most ascenders rarely leave their planets?” Moyo asked,
“Yes, forget what you heard about inter-planetary travels, how many silvers or even golds for that matter have the funds to go to and fro from their home worlds?” Duval asked,
Moyo had seen the steep price he paid to transport his clan members to titan, he doubted any ascender below diamond or belonging to a ruler’s house or a master’s clan in his case could even afford it. As they got closer to the pathway, he could see masters with injuries that healed slowly make their way to the pathway, glancing at them, eyes wide with realization of where they were coming from and gave them a wide berth.
Moyo could care less, he preferred it that way even. He processed all he had heard before speaking,
“so if I understand you correctly” he started,
‘The archailect is near infinite, thousands of galaxies and therefore ancients and primordials are basically unheard of?” he asked,
“Precisely, the peak of the archailect as far as any ascender is concerned is ruler, to the average ascender with big dreams, then diamond. Only the luckiest of ascenders ever make it to master or ruler” Duval said,
“And then there’s you” Killian said as Skatha rolled her eyes again and Duval gave a short laugh,
“True, there’s you” the sol blade said,
Moyo grumbled,
“Saying it like it’s my fault” he mumbled as Skatha ruffled his dreads, the masters passing through the pathway,
“On the bright side, we came out stronger” Duval said,
“True, and it’s all that matters” Killian replied,
Stepping foot back on the muster world, Moyo groaned in pleasure as his body greedily drank the ruler ranked aether in the air, the other masters groaning in pleasure as well. While they could churn out their own aether from their bodies, nothing beat having to absorb latent aether in the air. Cracking open his eyes, Moyo stretched,
“so what now?” he asked,
“Well, we report to the thousand blades as his emissary, you can do whatever you like, but we’re sure the thousand blades would like to see you soon enough though” Killian said,
Moyo nodded,
He hugged the silent blade, smiling at her,
“They can come for me if they like” he replied with a grin,
Rolling her eyes, she patted his shoulder before blitzing away with the other masters. Glancing in the distance where he saw Idris and his guard all coming to him, he smiled, taking one step of Ogun and appearing next to them as they came to an abrupt halt. Bowing to him immediately,
“Miss me?’ he asked with a smile,
“Things have been boring around here, you look like you had fun though” Idris remarked,
“Too much fun” Amiya said as she looked him up to down,
“No, our lord has gotten stronger” Fern remarked,
“How fares the legion?” Moyo cut in,
“Strict training exercises, more cohesion between the cohorts, they are as ready as ever and itching for battle” Tomasa answered,
“Good, but for now I need to rest, inform them of my return, and an official banquet, it’s time I meet the entirety of the legion formerly, get to know your division captains and the other aspects of the legion” he ordered,
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Bowing again, his guard followed him back to their town where they resided, breaking off from him as he made his way to his quarters. Opening a pathway rather than walking in and meeting lines of ascenders trying to catch a glimpse of him, he stepped into his room, the pathway closing behind him. Taking a deep breath, he fell on his bed, staring at the glassy ceiling coated black. Finally bringing up his HUD and going through his notifications,
Notice: Esu’s greed has stolen the vitality of the blood king, +1000 to titan’s physique!
Moyo nodded in appreciation, it was the first time he had gotten that large a boost up in a specific attribute at once. He continued,
Notice: Digi aye has absorbed blood mana of the blood king, +1000 to intelligence!
Moyo sat up at that, his last attribute had crossed the five thousand mark meaning it could evolve, and like magic the HUD brought up the prompt,
Notice: attribute intelligence can evolve, evolve attribute? Y/N?
Moyo clicked yes, threw open his vault and picked one his mythical shards in preparation,
Notice: attribute is evolving, presence of aether detected……mythical aether shard detected……titan aspect detected……. evolution complete!
Note: attribute intelligence as evolved to titan’s mana!
Titan’s Mana: the titan has evolved another attribute, raising it to a higher realm of power. Titan’s mana allows you to gain greater control over any mana within your surroundings, including those of your enemies, disrupting their mana attacks or snatching control from their grasp.
Moyo snorted at that, perhaps if he had been a mage, it might had been useful for him, but he wasn’t. his HUD pinged again,
Notice: congratulations!, you have successfully evolved all attributes, therefore joining the few in the archailect who can boast of such!, you get:
* Title: evolving ascender: +10% chance of evolving skills and attributes to a higher rank
* 10 ingots of mithril
* 50 mythical aether shards
* 100 legendary aether shards
* 20 mythical dungeon cores
* 50 legendary dungeon cores
* 10,000,000 diamond coins
* 50,000,000 gold coins
* 100,000,000 silver coins
Moyo sat up with wide eyes at the notification, the rewards enough to stagger even he himself,
“What in the archailects name?” he muttered,
Notice: your accomplishments will be broadcasted to all masters, rulers, ancients and primordials, proceed?, Y/N
“No!” he shouted as he mentally clicked it also,
The last thing he wanted was to draw more attention to himself, sighing as he fell back to his bed, he opened his vault again and took put the elixir of the blood king he had been given for slaying the blood king, reading its description,
Elixir of the blood king(L): made from the rich essence of the blood king himself, it contains within it the power to strengthen the entire life force of an ascender, adding the fortitude to weather toxins and devastating poisons that could bring down even a ruler. Note: ascenders below master rank will die instantly from its use.
“Well thank the powers that be” Moyo muttered before downing it in one go,
The liquid burnt through his system as he grunted, feeling Oya’s elixir fight its effect within him, he willed his skill to assimilate the liquid, trusting it not to harm him. Ashira would had been a bad match for the blood king, anything poison, or toxin would be, and with the resistance he had already, he would be neigh unkillable by those methods. His HUD pinged as he groaned,
Notice: elixir oof the blood king has synchronized with skill: Oya’s elixir, fusion possible, fuse?, Y/N
Picking yes as he brought out another mythical shard, he rolled to his stomach, shuddering at the powers that rampaged within him,
Notice: elixir and skill are fusing……...mythical aether shard detected…latent aether detected…...titan aspect detected……fusion complete.
His body gave one last shudder as he calmed down, groaning and checking his HUD,
Notice: skill: Oya’s elixir(L) has grown stronger, +100
Staring disappointedly at the result, he closed the HUD, bringing up his entire stat sheet,
Name: Moyosore titan blade
Path: Titan blade
Body: Draconic Titan (+90% defense against mental attacks)
Bloodline name: titanic body
Race: Human
Rank: master (primordial)
Level: 580 (points)
Titan Aspect: Tier 2 (5% to tier 3)
Legendary core user: mountain stronghold of the titans
Mantle: Deific scales of the titan
Title: bane of the hive, draconic slayer, evolving ascender
Skills:
* Deific Greed of Esu (L)-800
* Sage’s Eyes(L)-800
* Oya’s Elixir (L)-950
* Step of Ogun (R)-800
* Oshosi’s Ferocity (L)-850
* Digi Aye (R)-800
* Runic Shield(R)-550
* Mutators Resistance(L)-550
Edicts:
* Da pa da
* Shi
* Irapada
Attributes:
* Titans might: 6050
* Titan’s Tenacity: 6072
* Titan’s Ashe: 6000
* Titan’s Physique: 6100
* Titan’s Agility: 5020
* Titan’s Mana: 5105
Staring at his stat sheet looked more impressive than ever, he closed it and opened his vault, willing the weapons he had obtained towards him,
The halberd of fire, the whips of lightning, the scythe of the blood king
All legendary ranked weapons of pure power, all powerful in their own rights, and also all accessible for him to forge with. Staring at the weapons that floated directly in front of him, he wondered just what to do with them, dominion was the ultimate weapon as far as he was concerned and he somehow felt like he was desecrating his heritage by messing with whatever workings of aspect and authority were within the halberd and whips. He had no compulsion whatsoever with using the scythe though, seeing as he had to use his aura to hold back the blood lust emanating from the weapon. With a sigh he sent them all back into his vault, sealing it shut and closing his eyes, enjoying the relative peace and quiet.
A loud ping got him groaning as his period of calm was disturbed by a message through his HUD, opening it and staring at the message had him sitting up, its contents definitely jarring him awake,
It is time- Altair
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Stepping into the city where the thousand blades and the other fleet rulers made their headquarters was a hive of activities. He, like the other planetary force commanders, were given immediate and hurried passage deep into the main building where the fleet commanders that made up the entirety of the armada were currently situated. Moyo saw faces both friendly and unfriendly alike, Mardar scourge rune waved to him from where he stood next to Altair who was in a white long robe with blue sash tied to his waist, Moyo cringing as the eyes of many masters glanced at him, appraising just who the master was that was on friendly terms with a jade of the first order.
He even spotted Urcar who sat next to Hilar, the two masters averting their gazes from him, one in what was obviously rage and the other he guessed was in shame. Moyo could care less though, what he did care about though, were the newly minted masters gotten from the no doubt thousands of diamonds that made up the fleets. Sitting with their backs straight and eyes smoldering, thinking they could take on the world. Moyo snorted at that, knowing just what sort of high they were actually coming down from, he said nothing though, staring ahead at the rulers and fleet commanders.
Altair, fleet commander of fleet thousand blades sat with four other rulers, all of them simply rulers and nothing as special as the ancient the thousand blades was. Next to him sat a ruler with a flaming hair, who sat next to master with red skin and black stripes and glowing rune tattoos. Moyo made a double take of the ruler who was staring daggers at him, raising an eyebrow at the ruler, he dragged his gaze to the other rulers, aware he was being watched. The other two rulers were nothing alike, one looking like a humanoid greenish glowing gel and the other a being wrapped from head to toe in a thick red silky material with yellow eyes glowing from within its wrapped face as well.
He felt Skatha sit right next to him,
Moyo paid extra attention not to turn to the ruler,
That explained the deadly look he had been receiving, no doubt the head of house fang blade very much likely wanted to rip him to shreds, but Ulric knew better than that, not here anyways. The room settled with the other masters sitting down, filling the whole room with charged energies that Moyo had to use his aura to give himself some breathing space. So much power in a place was rubbing off him wrongly and Moyo wasn’t liking it one bit, his attention however, was dragged to Mardar who was dressed in a bright blue suit, Moyo wondering how he didn’t notice that on his first glance.
The jade stepped forwards, blue runic eyes flashing as he clapped his hands twice, the sound echoing across the room to draw all attention to himself,
“Hello everyone!, nice to meet you all, both new and old masters, wow, we really have a lot of new faces here don’t we?’ he said with a smirk,
“Master ranked dungeons, I’ll never understand you lots delving them, such a hassle with a high body count” he continued, shaking his head,
Altair cleared his throat, calling the attention of the jade to the deadly looks most of the masters and rulers were shooting his way. No doubt they all lost some master they knew, and for the jade to be taking a shot at them this way would be no doubt offensive to them, Mardar simply smiled, clearing his throat,
“Right, right, why we’re all gathered here” he started again,
“so, while most of you were getting your ascendance to master rank due to the most unfortunate deaths of your superiors, and the rest of you were no doubt recuperating from your dungeon run” he said with a smirk at Moyo,
Moyo had seen the runes Mardar employed, stupidly strong enough to bind even Mortas crane lance empowered by Molrik the lord of mutation himself. To put it mildly, Mardar was stupidly strong, probably ancient level strong or border line full primordial strong, not even the thousand blades could do anything than report him to his superior who was the jade lord himself. He turned his attention back to the jade of the first order who continued his speech,
“We have been monitoring the planet Molrik and its moons, watching as Molrik expanded the planet to preposterous sizes and the fact that he just somehow employed a second star abyssal core fortress” he said,
Murmurs began to break out at the revelation, Moyo sitting up straight, that was indeed big news. Mardar raised his hand for silence, waiting till the murmurs died down,
“Never fear!, for while the star abyssal core fortress is almost the size of the planet, the council has prepared for this, after all, all forces of the archailect in all the systems are about to face the same thing.
Moyo suddenly worried about Ashira, the heir of Kairos fighting in another system, fighting as well, squeezing his fists together and promising himself to check up on her. He felt bad for haven’t done so in a while, stuck up in his world of getting stronger and his usual issues. Taking a deep breath, he exhaled and tuned himself back to what the jade was saying,
“Apart from the forces we have, I have been ordered by the jade lord himself to assist you, along with two arcane generals of the brigade” Mardar said,
Loud murmurs began to break out as Mardar smiled widely,
“Yes, yes, I know, you’re all feeling somewhat blessed to be graced by my presence on the battlefield!” he said as Moyo rolled his eyes,
“However, I have one piece of bad news for you all” he continued as the chatter died down,
Moyo actually saw the jade’s face become cold and grim,
“The lord mutator has finally done what we had been waiting for, he has summoned his entire realm of mutation into the archailect, somewhat permanently tearing a hole in the fabric of reality itself” he said,
Moyo felt the coldness pass through his body, the realization of what that meant was staggering. Mardar nodded,
“Yes, it means we no longer just have to find a way to seal the breach, it means we’ll constantly be assaulted by the forces of the mutator constantly till we can take out Mortas crane lance, his debatable avatar in this realm, not sure how that works too” Mardar admitted,
Moyo raised his hand as Mardar glanced at him,
“Yes, titan blade?” he asked,
“aren’t elites their representation or avatar?” he asked, the question on everyone’s mind,
“Ideally, they are” Altair said, Mardar glancing at the thousand blades,
“However this same phenomenon is happening on every system except the planet of dire itself, and it seems that the hold of each of the realms of these lords of the abyss are tethered to each of the brothers in their realms supporting them” Altair explained,
“Meaning the elites are most definitely with their lords, protecting them” Mardar finished,
Moyo nodded,
“That being said, the best we know is that these star abyssal core fortresses are lorded over by these tethers, why?, we have no idea, but it presents us with a chance to break the hold of these realms on the archailect, cutting off the taints at their sources” Mardar said,
“For this mission, all masters are to coordinate their planetary forces to the best of their abilities, while the rulers, I and the arcane generals of the brigade would assault the brother by ourselves, your jobs are to protect your planetary forces to the best of your abilities” he said,
Then he raised one finger,
“make no mistake masters, the beings we’ll be facing in that fortress are a prelude to what we’ll face on the planet itself, so prepare to face not simply the categorized monsters but things we have no categories for and creatures so foul and from the deepest paths of the abyss that you will need to prepare yourself mentally for, make no mistake, this is the true start of the war” he said,
“And I’m sorry to say, but some of you here might not make it back, I won’t sugar coat it for you all, fight hard and may the supreme beings be with you, we move in two hours, dismissed” he finished,
Moyo took a deep breath, using his HUD to call Idris,
“My lord?” Idris answered,
“Muster the legion, we go to war” he said.