For the tenth time, the world exploded into white light. A noisy snake threw his hands in the air. “Me this time?! I call hacks. Aren’t I supposed to be a descendant of one of the Ancient Daemon’s all powerful enemies?”
“Ancient Daemons are stronger than Primals though,” Lucille commented absentmindedly.
He stared at her. “What?”
“Ancient Daemons use their cunning to trap Primals as well as their great strength, so a mere descendant of Primals wouldn’t have an advantage against them.” Lucy paced back and forth in the System space. “This isn’t working. Everything we’ve tried has failed.”
Scytale flopped on the ground and stared up at the white ‘sky’. “What happened to our cheaty time-traveller knowledge? I demand a refund, System! Why send us back in time in the first place if we don’t get to breeze through everything?!”
Lucy ignored her bond’s outburst. “Let’s go over what we’ve learnt so far. Amoria still only has access to her innate Luxuria powers and her Ira powers that she gained through the bond with Hellawes.” She tapped her fingers against her arm. “Ira grants the wielder immense physical and magical might for a limited time, but with her connection to Hellawes, we can only assume that time frame has been extended indefinitely.”
“Great. Absolutely wonderful,” Scytale replied sarcastically.
“Th easiest way to defeat Amoria would be to sever her bond with Hellawes, but that is exactly the objective of the Stage and what we can’t do.” Lucy sat down on the ground. “We don’t have an abilities that could sever the metaphysical connection between them, as it uses powers we don’t have access to at our Rank. Unless the System wishes to test if we can achieve that, but I’m sure it’s gathered enough information on us to know we can’t do that.”
Scytale rolled onto his stomach and lay with his cheek pressed against the floor. “This is depressing. Can’t you talk about its weaknesses... or at least our advantages?”
They had tried several methods against Amoria and the demoness’s silent backer. One of the first things Lucy did was try to use Ouroboros’s reflective shield against Amoria. It worked, to an extent, and Amoria wasn’t able to copy the spirit weapon’s abilities, but apart from shielding Lucy a few times it didn’t do much.
Lucille had used the Shard to see what was going on with Amoria too, and they discovered the Ancient Daemon’s powers would eventually be too much for the demoness, and she’d die from the connection... but it was only eventually. The one time they attempted to stall for as long as possible, the Ancient Daemon used some kind of ability that wiped the entire Dominion off the face of the Demon Realm. They died before any connection between Amoria and Hellawes could be severed.
Lucy and Scytale assumed that was the System’s way of saying don’t even try, so they gave up that idea.
And Lucille had obviously tested out her ‘Reward’ skill from the Demon Emperor several times, but Hellawes was immune to demonic spells, which extended to Amoria.
“Amoria isn’t really using true ‘Ira’ powers though,” Lucille’s bond pointed out. “She can cast these fireball demonic spells, true, but she hasn’t shown any other kind of magic besides turning your spells into her own. Couldn’t you curse yourself or something?”
Lucy gave her bond a look of disdain. “Then Amoria would simply not reflect my curse and would let me suffer from my own actions.” She put a hand on her chin. “There’s also the possibility that she can’t reflect anything not directed at her too.”
“There has to be some way the System wants you to do this.” Her bond sat up. “Forget about Sedric’s armguards and the daggers. What abilities do you have that would help? I’m able to keep Amoria occupied for a bit as you’ve seen, but eventually I get drained.” Scytale rolled his eyes. “I think the whole ‘fighting a fragment of an ancient creature massively more powerful than the strongest Rank-5’ is more than you bargained for when you said you wanted to learn to fight with the daggers.”
“We’re not really fighting against She In Her Scarlet Raiment at all. The Ancient Daemon doesn’t seem to be participating actively in any form,” Lucy refuted. “And I don’t have any useful skills because I’ve been collecting ones to use for my main ski....” She trailed off, then looked at her bond. “Do you recall seeing what Amoria did with the vessel fragment?”
“...hm?” Scytale didn’t look up from where he was playing around with illusion mana to create images.
Lucille narrowed her eyes. “Scytale. Where did Amoria put the vessel fragment?”
He looked up to think about it and shook his head. “No clue. Maybe she broke it. You didn’t see anything?”
“I’m trying to avoid giving Amoria the idea of having a direct conflict between our souls,” she explained. “With the Ancient Daemon we’d be sure to get decimated. So as my perception field is restricted, no.”
Scytale squinted at her as he stayed silent. Then he stood up and brushed off his knees. “You have a plan, right? Then let’s go again. This isn’t even the very last Stage yet we’re getting stuck here.”
“Right.” Lucy stood up and raised her hand to tap on Stage 19. “Forget about attacking and concentrate on locating the fragment. If it’s not broken, we might be able to do something.”
...
[S.T.A.G.E.S | Stage 19: Hellawes Irandes Nefas Infernalis]
The first arrival of an Ancient Daemon to the Demon Realm in 200 millennia has occurred as a consequence of your misguided curiosity. Every demon within the realm has felt Her arrival. Cressilin’s army has been consumed to fuel Her descension and Amoria used the vessel fragment as a conduit to host the Daemon’s power.
Did you truly believe... She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance descended merely from her vessel being damaged? You saw the vessel for what it was. It was a fetter, binding Her to the space between realms. You’ve attracted attention beyond your qualifications.
You’ll answer to this realm’s Rulers if you don’t take responsibility for your actions.
[Collapse]
Main Quest (Rank-2: Demon Realm) Overall Objective:
* Last two weeks while being pursued by forces so that the stolen treasure you carry can be placed on the summoning ritual along with yourselves.
Sub-Objectives – Stage 11:
Compulsory:
* Sever the bond between Amoria and She In her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance to return the Ancient Daemon from whence She came.
[]
[Completion Rate: 80%]
They watched silently as the Ancient Daemon formed its incarnation out of the Demon Realm again. Amoria was merely a speck they could barely see with their mana enhanced vision, but from the looks of it... she wasn’t holding the fragment. If the vessel fragment was still in the Stronghold, they couldn’t do anything. It was too late to assume that though.
Massive cupped hands moulded out of their crumbling hill raised them up and they were once again in the giant Daemoness’s presence. Amoria smirked from her position on the other hand. “Quite a spectacle, isn’t it? I don’t recall humans having their Primarchs at their-”
“Realms, be quiet!” Scytale’s tail slammed into the demoness and knocked her off the hand. “Listening to your voice on repeat is a form of torture, I swear.”
Amoria snarled and flung red fireballs at the flying snake, her nails elongated into claws. Lucy gave Scytale a mental thumbs up as she scanned the Ancient Daemon, having a theory about the incarnation.
She paused slightly when she noticed a change in the Ancient Daemon.
Is it just me or is she looking at me? She has no pupils so unless she moves her head I can’t...
Utilising arcane mana, Lucy built a walkway off the hand and watched it. Just being in the Great Being incarnation’s presence was stifling, as it felt like the realm’s gravity was concentrated on their lone Dominion, but she had accustomed herself to it. What she hadn’t accustomed herself to was seeing the shifting of the Great Being’s hair when she stepped just a bit too far.
Well, if this isn’t creepy. I don’t have time for this though.
She stepped back onto the hand and spread her perception to encompass Hellawes. Scytale was achieving his task of distracting Amoria and taking her away from her colossal support.
The vessel is a fetter to chain the Ancient Daemon to a location on a physical realm. Otherwise its powers would rage rampant across the entire Demon Realm’s time-space continuum. That means if the incarnation is only appearing in the location Amoria chooses...
A minuscule glint of red and Lucy knew she was on the right track.
There!
The Ancient Daemon was wearing a circlet of black metal, but embedded in the centre was a tiny red gem. It was nearly invisible, but Lucille saw it.
She quickly made arcane platforms beneath her feet and ran up them to reach the Daemon’s forehead. Scytale was still faring well, so she put a hand up to the gem to take it out... and then a swell of immense heat flooded through her, burning her nerves before the sensation could reach her brain.
Next thing she knew she was lying on the floor of the System space.
Scytale stared blank-faced into space and then whirled on her with anger. “Really?!”
Lucille raised a hand without getting up. “So... I found the vessel fragment.”
“And got us killed again!”
“It’s fine. I expected that we’d need at least one more try to pass this Stage.”
“Well I didn’t!” Scytale scowled. “This better be the last time.”
“Work hard to make it the last one.” Lucille tapped on Stage 19.
...
“Quite a spectacle, isn’t -”
“SHUT UP!”
Lucille ignored the sounds of snake-on-demon violence behind her and quickly climbed to the Ancient Daemon’s forehead. She unsheathed Ouroboros to deploy the shield and dug the white snake-sword’s tip into the circlet. The vessel fragment was pried free with a peal of thunder. The circlet crumbled away and the destruction soon spread to the physical form of the colossal Daemoness. Her marble-like hands gave out beneath Lucy’s feet.
Amoria heard the sound of falling sand and her eyes widened with anger when she saw Hellawes’ form disappearing. That didn’t mean the Ancient Daemon’s descension had stopped.
Before the demoness could fly over to Lucy, Scytale slammed into her and knocked her out of the sky. She screeched with frustration and released her demonic aura in a powerful roar of scarlet energy. Flaming wings of fiery demonic power coalesced behind her shoulder blades and she rammed into Scytale with greater force than he had used. He let out a hiss of pain.
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Lucille only gave part of her attention to slow her fall with a weightless wind mana spell, and clasped the vessel fragment tightly in her hands. Two small spheres of Influence spun within her internal space, being called on to work their magic on the small crystal.
Spells of any element, right? It never said they had to be human spells. And by this stage ‘Reward’ must’ve counted the Stages as increasing my comprehension of demonic power and demons.
She narrowed her eyes as the Rare and Ancient rarity skills grated against each other, their rarities and origins at odds with each other.
Gemstone Processor and Reward both involve conceptual manipulation. They have to. One was from a monster and the other from a demon who directly materialised it to give to me.
No, they need something bridge the gap between rarities. This is ridiculous- I’ll brute force it with Prodigious Archmage’s First Steps. Epic is good enough.
Scytale sent her a frenzied warning that Amoria has slipped past him and was flying towards her, but she was too absorbed in what she was doing as she fell. An element of it was her own personality – she was just too fascinated in Great Beings to give up her chance to make a major discovery about them.
Ancient Daemons were extremely elusive for reasons she never found out, and here she was... directly in front of an incarnation. It wasn’t something that could happen in the modern day.
She increased the depth of her spiritual perception in an attempt to discover more about the vessel fragment and why her skills just weren’t clicking when... for lack of a better term, it was like the entire realm rippled. No, it wasn’t the realm. It was the Stage.
Hellawes’ face morphed out of the ground below Lucille to watch her, but Lucy had to ignore it. In a few seconds Amoria would reach her and she needed to do something – she was on the cusp, the brink of something. Lucille could feel it.
[Warning: Destabilisation of Stage has occurred for unknown reasons. Cease all actions and wait for self-repair mechanisms to commence-]
She wasn’t sure that the System would allow whatever breach in the S.T.A.G.E.S’ infrastructure to occur again if they died there. A slight ringing, as if she had tinnitus, reverberated through her and Lucille clued onto what was happening. Pressure began to build in the air.
[ERROR. ERROR. CONCEPTUAL BREACH IN THE S.T.A.G.E.S’ 19TH SIMULATION SUBSTRUCTURE DETECTED. PRE-EMPTIVE RESET OF 19TH STAGE OCCURRING IN 10... 9...]
She used her will to pierce into her three active skills at the same time and like a burst dam the orbs’ intangible shells shattered. Their Influence merged together when the tips of Amoria’s demon claws brushed her back. The vessel fragment in Lucille’s hands turned solid black.
[8... 7.... 6....]
Lucy convulsed and chocked on blood when black claws sprouted from her chest. She looked back to see Amoria behind her. But the demoness’s face was drained of colour. “What-”
[5... 4...]
The black vessel fragment exploded in Lucille’s hands. The orange luminous clouds above their heads turned black. The whole Dominion’s sky turned black.
[3...]
The edge’s of Lucy’s vision dimmed and her spell cut out. She began to plummet at the same time as Amoria, who’s own wings were gone.
[2...]
[Objective Complete: Sever the bond between Amoria and She In her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance to return the Ancient Daemon from whence She came.]
[+10% Completion Rate]
[1...]
[New! Completion Rate: 90%]
[Transferring Users.....]
Lucille let out a gasp as air flooded into her restored lungs. Scytale rushed over. “Cutting it a bit close don’t you think?!-”
[PSC Intervention Measures Activating. Immediately sending Users Lucille Adrienne Goldcroft and Scytale to the following Stage: Stage 20 – {ERROR}]
“What?!”
Lucille felt a deep seated weariness set in. They weren’t done yet.
...
[S.T.A.G.E.S | Stage 20: Victorious Return of the Realm Travellers]
Congratulations! You returned the chalice to Count Valdin and defeated the army of Cressilin Viscounty. While you faced your difficulties, you overcame them with your wit and strength. The Realm of Demons has been conquered by mortals. The Marquess will reward you greatly.
Return to your realm and present your prize to your lord.
[Collapse]
Main Quest (Rank-2: Demon Realm) Overall Objective:
* Last two weeks while being pursued by forces so that the stolen treasure you carry can be placed on the summoning ritual along with yourselves.
Sub-Objectives – Stage 11:
Compulsory:
* Activate the summoning return ritual and return.
[]
Scytale stared at the Stage information. He took a deep breath, turned away, rubbed his eyes, then looked back. His face screwed up and he spun around to face Lucy.
“Tell me that’s not the default Stage 20 information, because I feel like I’m finally going insane! These whole Stages have felt like a fever dream, but this!” He jabbed a finger at the neon blue screen – “Is the final nail in the coffin!”
Lucy didn’t answer. That was because she was preoccupied with what she felt in the space her skills were. She touched her sternum, almost feeling a phantom ache.
I am an idiot.
“I am an idiot,” she announced.
“You already sent that thought through the bond,” he pointed out. “Tell me, why are you an idiot?”
She put a hand to her forehead and grimaced. “I just created a new skill.”
Scytale crossed his arms, looking unamused. “Do you want me to praise you for that?”
“The problem is I did it in an environment purposely simulated to reflect the time before the System assimilated the realm,” Lucille continued. “So... that shouldn’t have been possible. But I brute forced it by using my Authority, which... must’ve substantially increased because of my System contract with the Authorizer.”
Her bond’s reaction didn’t assuage her worries. He yawned. “So what?”
“I made a skill in an environment where I can’t even tell what it is and consumed the three skills I was going to upgrade my Conduit main skill with,” she stated flatly. “I may have destroyed all my plans for the near-future... and our way of getting Sedric back.”
Scytale stared at her. He looked up, down, left and right.
Lucille cocked an eyebrow. “What are you doing?”
“Looking for someone who speaks Lucillian.”
She sighed and turned away. “Come one. We need to set up this pentagram before the Stage throws its worst at us.”
Scytale grumbled but trudged after her as she found a location with even terrain. The shattered chunks of the Ancient Daemon’s temporary body remained around them, looking like blood red stones.
Lucille avoided them the best she could as she didn’t want the intense energy she felt radiating off them to influence the summoning pentagram.
She emptied the sack of materials – that Scytale had miraculously managed to protect – onto the ground and set to work arranging them in a way to draw power from them. The demon beast blood was utilised to draw the sigils and everything else needed to take them across realms. In some ways the demonic ritual was easier than mortal magic because it didn’t have the added layer of structural shape to impact its result, unlike mana-circles and arrays. It was only easy because of her extensive knowledge of demonic script though.
The Dominion was eerily silent. It was likely that every creature that could move had left as soon as they could before the Ancient Daemon could descend completely. It certainly made the mindless demon creatures smarter than Lucille and Scytale.
It was an hour or two later than Lucy began to feel uneasy and stood up to look around. “You’ve been keeping watch... right?”
Scytale nodded. “You asked earlier but there still hasn’t been a change. I’m not sure what you want me to see.”
“Seeing nothing different is... a good sign.”
I think.
Either something was going to go wrong when they used the ritual, or they were under a time limit and for some reason they couldn’t see any signs of it. Lucille shook her head and got back to finishing the rest of the lines of sigils. She was re-drawing the summoning ritual she had seen in the first timeline.
Eventually, it was time. Lucille spread her senses to try to see anything, but nothing of importance stood out. She prepared herself and took out Apophis. The dagger was plunged into the centre of the ritual to be the conduit. The demonic snake-sword rapidly lengthened and writhed around them as red energy crackled down its length to surge into the pentagram.
The air warped as if looking through rippling water and they felt electrifying power surround them. It was at that moment that Lucille noticed the horizon.
“Calling the rulers of the realm here wasn’t an idle threat, I see.” She chuckled darkly.
Giant clouds of grey dust grew larger and larger on all sides, forming a circle around the Dominion. Flashes and tinges of power bled through as hundreds of thousands of demons prepared to battle thundered across the ground on their chosen mounts, vicious demon beasts of the Lord level or higher.
Scytale inched back as the ground grew brighter. “Uh... we should be fine, right?”
“I’m not sure, but I strongly suspect they’re not here for us,” Lucy replied expressionlessly.
Four specks in the distance shot up and zipped straight to the edges of hill they were on, gazing coldly down at them from above. An androgynous demon with long black tresses and black leathery wings, a demoness with scarlet hair and eyes, a female demon with mottled red and black dragon wings with horns curled over her head, a male demon whose image distorted every few seconds so it was hard to see his appearance...
“Are they...”
“Demon Dukes. Yes,” Lucille whispered.
Scytale slowly crouched, prepared to battle at a moment’s notice. “What are they waiting for?”
“That’s what I want to-”
The ground rumbled below them as a gravitational presence descended on them, the air heavy with immovable energies. Lucy’s eyes widened and she traded knowing looks with her bond, before the hill was cleft in two and a colossal marble-white arm reached up to grasp them both. The glowing eyes of Hellawes Irandes Nefas Infernalis bored into them as her body began to emerge from the earth, but before her hands could close around them completely...
A powerful shout echoed across the realm and they looked up to see a crown-wearing white-haired demon in full blood-red plate armour glaring at the Ancient Daemon as he floated in the sky. Behind him, hundreds of white-haired demons with gold demonic script charged forward in black metal chariots pulled by winged demonic warhorses.
An emperor? But he’s not-
With one bellow from the crown-wearing demon, his legion of charioteers pointed their weapons at the sky and beamed their energy into it.
The realm seemed to shatter as one flash of red lightning smashed into Hellawes. She let out a blood-curdling screech as her body rapidly disassembled, the clouds taking back their essence that was used to form her hair, the earth melding with the curves and outline of her body once more.
The last thing Lucille and Scytale saw was the wrathful, pupilless eyes of the Ancient Daemon fixed on them as she swallowed back up by the realm, one outstretched arm turned to stone in permanent evidence of her defeat, and then when they blinked they were tumbling onto a stone floor.
Lucy felt a terrible sense of dread.
This... no, this was too easy.
“The chalice, the chalice!” a frail man yelled, stumbling towards them. Robed figures near them quickly backed away and bowed respectfully. “Did you get the chalice?!”
“Why is this old codger going on about the stupid cup?” Scytale groaned as he reached into the sack. He threw it onto the ground and it clattered noisily. “Here’s your stupid chalice, Marquess.”
“Ha.. haha! Hahaha!” The old man’s eyes lit up with glee as he picked the chalice up. Then he looked at them. He turned to a nearby armoured knight and his expression went cold. “Kill them.”
Scytale’s face froze. “What.”
The knight severed both of their necks from their bodies in one motion, and before their consciousness faded, they could see the messages of the Stage completion.
[...jective... plete... ]
[...+10%]
[Transferring-]
That last System message looked like it stopped halfway.
...
“I forgot about that bit!” Scytale yelled. “After all we did, the Marquess goes and kills us anyway! I guess it’s the System’s way of telling us that humans are no better than demons in the end-”
“Scytale!” Lucille hissed through clenched teeth. “We’re not in the System space!”
He stopped and looked around. His face blanched when he saw they were floating miles above what seemed to be... a flat, motionless lake of scarlet liquid, as rich in colour as blood. No, it was blood. Broken ruins littered the lake in few places. From the distant edges of the pool to everywhere the eye could see, grey clouds existed. Faint flashes of orange appeared but it was all hidden behind thick cloud.
Both of them felt chilled to the bone when the lake of blood rippled to reveal a pupilless orange eye as large as the whole Dominion they had been in emerge from the liquid. Streams and rivers of blood slid off white skin until the titanic face of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance gazed silently at them. Her perfectly sculpted lips were pale and bloodless, and her wavy tresses that had been made from fiery clouds were now formed of glossy rivers of dark blood, flowing into the lake with the sounds of rushing water. It was the only sound in the silent space.
This manifestation was marginally closer in size to what a real Ancient Daemon would be like. Where an entire dimension... only served to be enough for her face.
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance is wrathful.]
A blood red notification appeared in front of them both. It was not a message from the System.
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance cannot sense her true body.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance demands to be taken back to the Origin Reality.]
They stayed silent in the dimensional space of the incarnation. Lucille eventually cleared her throat and raised her voice. “We’re still in the Origin Reality.”
Orange orbs gazed at them as if she was looking past their very souls.
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance acknowledges your words as the truth.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance notices the artificial nature of this Simulated Reality.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance is thinking.]
Scytale gave his bond a thumbs up. Lucille gave him a weary look.
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance demands to be taken back to the real world]
“...we don’t know how to do that,” Lucy said.
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance does not like your answer.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance grows furious as she is aware this Simulated Reality exists only for you two abnormalities.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance threatens to shred and absorb their souls if they do not return her to her main body]
Lucille coughed. “We can’t return you to your main body... because you don’t have one. Your incarnation exists only for this simulation... so none of the other realms have been fully simulated.”
Something happened. The sound of rushing blood stopped. The flowing blood that formed her hair froze and stilled.
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance acknowledges your words as the truth.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance grows furious... because she acknowledges your words as the truth.]
[The Incarnation of She In Her Scarlet Raiment Who Blesses With Vengeance is wrathful]
And like the heralding of the apocalypse, the blood world shattered. Fragments of alien knowledge, chaotic images, swirling energies floated past. The rushing of blood and roaring of fire sounded as She In Her Scarlet Raiment’s titanic face slowly raised itself from the lake of blood, sheets of liquid falling from her immaculate body as if it were clothes. Her colossal face approached and Lucy and Scytale stumbled back.
She opened her bloodless lips and moved forward. Her mouth closed around them to swallow them whole-
[Terminating Ancient Daemon sequence.]
This time, it was truly, truly the end. The world turned white... and stayed that way.
[Main Objective Complete]
[New! Completion Rate: 100%]
[Calculating…]
[Calculating…]
[Users have completed all Sub-Objectives and gained a MAX Completion Rate]
[Users have gained new rewards! Please check your notifications]
[Main Quest (Rank 1: Demon Realm): COMPLETED]
Complete Stages 11-20 In the Demon Realm to reach Rank-2.
[Rewards: Rank-2 Status, Lvl cap increased to 299, Main skill slot +1, Class Tier cap +3, Aspect cap +3, Class Tier +1, 5000xp, Main Quest (Rank-3: Tartarus Realm) Unlocked]
[User has gained Rank-2 Status]
[User has unlocked levels 200-299]
[User has gained Main Skill Slot +1]
[User has gained Class Tier Cap +3]
[User has gained Aspect Cap +3]
[User has gained Class Tier +3]
[Alert: No Class detected for User Lucille Goldcroft]
[Withholding Reward: Class Tier +3 until Class is detected in User Lucille Goldcroft]
Scytale snickered as Lucille rolled her eyes. She shook her head and focused on seeing the other notifications.
[Level Up! x10]
[+10 levels]
[+50 Free stat points]
[User has reached Level 99]
[Xp: 52/710]
[Main Quest (Rank-2: Tartarus Realm) Unlocked]
“Now I really have to wonder how the System is going to mess up those Stages when I know Lucius in person,” Lucille murmured.
Scytale glared at her. “I don’t want to hear the word ‘Stage’ out of your mouth for another year.”
[User has new rewards (6) available: ]
Demon Realm Stages (Completion Rate: MAX):
* Unattributed Stat Potions (+5) x20
* Unattributed Stat Potions (+10) x40
* Resurrection x1 (Lucille)
* Resurrection x1 (Scytale)
* Blank Skill book (Ancient) x2
* Blank Skill Book (Epic) x2
* Blank Skill Book (Rare) x2
* 20 Crystalline Tokens
Bonus:
* [Skill: Indefinite Design – Anti-Reactive Transitional State Malleability]
[ ]
When they saw the bonus reward, they traded looks.
“....why is it giving you a skill when you just made a new one?” Scytale asked.
Lucille went to answer and then paused. “Ah. Because the Stages are only a simulation, I still have my three old skills. I suppose... this is the skill I created.”
He tapped on the reward list. “Let’s see what you got then. This is obviously going to you.”
[Gained New Secondary Skill: Indefinite Design – Anti-Reactive Transitional State Malleability]
[Secondary Skill: Indefinite Design – Anti-Reactive Transitional State Malleability]
Rarity: Legendary
Desc: An impossibility conceived through the coincidental alignment of multiple near-impossibilities. This skill was never created in Reality, but has been attributed to Lucille Goldcroft for her synthesisation of this within a simulation. In the Origin Reality, this skill would never have formed. It’s likely that only a time-traveller with conceptual manipulation abilities, extremely high Authority, and materialisation of this in an artificial mimicry of the realms could realise this.
Abilities:
Concrete Conceptualisation – Mana turned to matter.
* Allows the User to materialise a finalised product by consuming the appropriate resources used for its construction. Item remains in an indefinite, non-physical state until User finalises its creation. Cannot create non-mundane items.
Practical Application – Expertise to be used.
* Allows the User’s knowledge to expand the items able to be materialised using this ability. User must have knowledge of material properties, physics, energy laws, chemical interactions, and other properties to be able to craft item. Includes crafting methods and techniques.
[]
Lucille stared as she read the description and abilities.
“I think I might know what kind of crafting skill I’ll be creating using this.”