The city of Neop had been built centuries ago, and many runes carved into every stone and pillar.

The Larv were quite proud of their ancestral lands, and as many among them enjoyed their lives, one of them was lying in the bed, dying from a skin related pain he could not quite place.

Hello there, young one. You seem to be struggling. What can I help you with?

A message appeared, a feeling of dread following as he stared into what seemed to be a bastardized system message. They said he would awaken today, his last day maybe offering him a chance to survive if he put every statpoint into willpower.

"Who are you?" He asked, curious as to the messages origin.

You may call me Jeolas, and if you allow me, I can give you the knowledge of many lives, possible immortality, and a cure for almost everything that ails you... all you need to do is to agree.

"I assume you can't just come and shed my skin, right? Unless you have someone who knows something about that disease of mine? Because the only thing I want is to leave this place and live the life we are supposed to live."

I can. If you accept this deal, I will make sure your body can not be recognized, banishing that sickly disease from you.

"Then we got a deal."

As those words were uttered, Thimon lashed out, spectral tentacles shooting into his newest hosts' soul. Immediately, he shed his skin. The fragile structure burst apart as he used the spreading cloud to escape outwards, his blue skin different from the green his host had earlier.

"What was that, system?"

He asked, his confusion palpable.

"I almost had to make a new character. Why did you do that?"

As you are a system affiliated entity now, the effect given by the champion title has been rewoked, as it has been changed to Hero.

Your levels will be preserved now, but you need a target to open up to you for you to take control of them. The system values each individuals choices, as free will is an important part of every souls existence.

"I guess... well, let's see how I look."

He said, smiling as he glanced at his hands and swam towards a shining metal surface, where he was not reflected.

"A part of the whole shadowless thing, huh? Making me harder to spot and stuff?"

Joelas sighed, glancing at the other Larv that swam by him, heading for different places of the bustling city.

"I guess it's time for some reconnaissance and plotting. The first goal will be the surface."

And thus, he headed upward, the skin allowing fast and graceful movements as he continued to ascend, slowly vibrating his frills to hum a sweet melody, all eyes focussing on his song, even the guards letting their attention shift to focus it on the weirdly slim creature whos body seemed to melt with the water around him, doing so even more than their mucus normally did.

Once he reached air, the sunlight burned away the mucus on his head in seconds, a black snow exploding outwards and slowly dropping into the water below, stabilizing as black, rotten smelling orbs of slime at the surface, blackening the sky within the minute as it spread ever further, the orbs melting into one another and releasing ever more particles that continued to grow as soon as they touched water, until it formed a perfect seal, it's gelatinous structure making it a perfect seal.

When Joelas touched this substance, he felt himself be drawn inside, the slime waiting for a command of his as his every perk and handycap influenced this moment.

He began to panic. This would draw attention easily. He needed to do something about his image that somehow made it less bad than obstructing the sun with a gigantic black slime.

A smile crept on his face, frills flexing to simulate one as his skin began to peel from his every bodypart.

This time, his shell was drawn deeper into the black substance, his new skin coloured in black with red markings on it as he returned below, his body vibrating as he announced his plans.

"I am Jeolas, spawn of the Elderslime and Herald of darkness. I have come to tell you that the world on the outside needs you and that I will prepare our kin to ascend. Until that day, the seal of void will be kept in place, and nothing can lift it until we are ready to face the heretics out there!"

Some cheered at that, and most were confused. As for Jeolas himself? This deed was only to create an agenda and a character that the people could see, asserting himself as a dark lord type character that would help them overcome some sort of Imaginery weakness. Something he still had to think about, now that he used it to explain his biggest fuck up to date.

"What does my status say to this?"

Identity Race Name Level Class Titles Rank Token N/ Larv Jeolas 0 (0/10] Rule bender Hero, Fleshmason. 3

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Stats Strength Agility Dexterity Intelligence Wisdom Willpower Intuition N/ 0 0 0 0 0 10 3 Skills Respawn(¤) N/ 2 Handicap

Slim (3)

Shadowless Perk Magus ¤ Primordial Champion ¤ System access: 2 ¤ Animating dust Shed skin Psyonic aura Aquatic essence Description Height Hair colour Eye colour Skin tone Age Weight Gender N/ 200cm / Red Black 10 34kg No gender for this species. Language English German Goblin Berry Njord Larv

"I guess I look like humans would have seen Aliens..."

He muttered to himself, his unnatural colouring, slim frame and burning red eyes a stark contrast to the species normally black beads and blue-greenish skin.

Then, he dove down and escaped the staring masses into a nearby alley, hoping to think about what he had just done.

It was only when he noticed guards following him that he utilized a skill he hadn't used for quite a while. Now utilizing water instead of wind, he dashed away from them, barely escaping their questions and giving him time to search on how to behave in his newest victims memories.

Unlocked Skills

Spoiler

Respawn (Skill) (Unique): When you die, your soul is pulled back to the character creation screen with half your levels. Once here, you can build a new character and try again.

Once you press the create button on the character creator, you will be spawned at a place appropriate for your character.

Grounding (skill)(ground): While cast, this skill infuses the targets body with geound mana and forces it to remain on a surface below it.

Dash (skill)(air): Your movement speed increases by (move*skill level).

Tag stomp (skill)(Gravity): Target a creature and accelerate towards it at (lvl) times your normal speed. Cannot be used for the amount of time needed to accelerate before impact.

Restfull petrification. (ground): Your body is petrified for the duration you sleep. While you are petrified in this way, you are considered hidden.

You will restore (lvl) times the energy you would by sleeping the same amount of time.

Jet legs [1] (air) (skill): Air mana will concentrate in your entire body and focus on your legs. Once you activate this skill, you can gather ambient air mana for up to (lvl) seconds and release it at a later time explosively. One second worth of air mana can move you (lvl) meters in any direction and push everything else away.

Groundbound [1] (ground) (skill): an area of (lvl) meters around you is flooded by ground Mana, making everything within heavier.

Blizzard aura (ice) (skill): Raise your surrounding ice and turn it into a shield of projectiles. Born from memories of a fallen goblin, this skill has been optimized to spare the user any colloteral.

Second skin (Steel) (Skill): Coats the user in a secondary skin of Mana, reducing the damage received by [lvl].

Elemental aura [0] (mod) (skill): every living being in an area of (lvl) meters around you is flooded by Mana of your choosing, affecting the target as if it stood in an environment typical for that element.

Regulate temperature (Ice/Fire) (skill): allows the user to adjust his body temperature.

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Unlocked perks

Spoiler

Fairy wings (Perk) Reduces weight by 1 kg and gives the user a magical flying speed of 10km/h.

-10 token

Magical body (perk): Your body is held together by magic. Your body can not be dispersed by non magical means, and everything you do counts as magical. Dispersing magic will deactivate this perk for the duration. Your natural lifespan will now be extended by 10% for every point you have in Willpower.

-5 token

Magus ¤ : This Perk allows a person to interact directly with mana

Thick bones (Perk): Your bones are two times denser than is normal for your race, making it harder for your body to be moved in any direction.

-5 Token

Thick skin (perk): Your skin is thicker than that of most members of your species.

-5 Token

Blubber (Perk): You hold a layer of fad under your skin. Increases your weight by 5kg for every meter of height you have, but allows you to thrive in much colder climates.

-5

Muscles of steel (Perk): Your muscles are naturally harder and more effective at movement. Your muscles are much more resilient than they would normally be.

-10

Aquatic essence (perk): so long as a part of you is in contact with you, your body can reform from it.

Cost: 20 Token.

Psyonic aura (Perk): Your words draw the attention of everyone that can hear them, forcing a contest of willpower upon everyone involved.

Cost: 20 Token

Shed skin (Perk): You can shed your skin and choose how the layer beneath it will look. The skin will look like you and proceed to act as yours would.

Cost: 15 Token

Animating dust (perk): Anyone that dies after inhaling the dust will be reanimated as a Vito-Necromantic shambler.

Cost: 40 Token

Unlocked Handycaps

Spoiler

Slim: Reduce the amount a creature weighs by 5% per level of this handycap chosen, which can be stacked up to three times.

+1 Token

Small: Reduces the height of a creatur by 20%.

+5 Token

Heavenbound (handycap): Should you ever disconnect from the ground, gravitation will reverse for you. Any kinetic force excerted on you will be 100% more effective at moving you.

+8 Token

One armed (handycap): You only have one useable arm.

+30 Token

Bulky tendencies (Handycap): Your weight can not be reduced by more than 10% increases to your weight that hold for more than a day are permanent.

+15 Token.

Large (Handycap): Increases the height of a creatur by 20%.

+5 Token

Overweight (handycap): You weigh 10% more than your race normally does. (Can be equipped up to three times)

+5 Token

Body of stone (Handycap): your body is petrified, heavily limiting your mobility.

+30 Token

Shadowless (handycap): You do not have a shadow.

+20 Token