Lotus Year 84
Skills
[Roots Whiplash] - Lv MAX
Create roots capable of purifying water and absorbing nutrients.
[Celestial Absorption] - Lv MAX
Absorb the magical power of celestial bodies through the process of photosynthesis, generating MP and SP.
[Undine's Embrace] - Lv MAX
Use Mp to summon water-type elementals, the result of the summoning will depend on the sacrifice offered and the level of the host.
[Earthward Caller] - Lv MAX
Use a catalyst and an Mp sacrifice to summon an Earthward that will follow your orders at the cost of SP.
[Lotus Blessing] - Lv 3
Bestow a blessing upon an allie that ncreased luck and fortune.
[Purified Wellspring] - Lv MAX
Use MP and Sp to add magical properties to large amounts of water near you.
[Lily Pad Shield] - Lv 9
Create Lily Pads that can serve as resistant shields, Lily Pads cannot generate energy.
[Solar Beam] - Lv 7
Use a flower to generate a concentrated beam of energy capable of causing massive damage, the solar beam must be charged and its strength is limited by the intensity of sunlight.
[Serenity Blossom] - Lv MAX
Use MP and SP to create flowers capable of emitting a hormone that calms and tranquilizes anyone who feels it.
[Toxic Bramble] - Lv 1
Create a small thorn trap that, if activated, will trap its victim with vines of poisonous thorns.
[Aquatic Allies] - Lv MAX
Use Mp to summon a variety of aquatic creatures that can serve as your allies.
[Whispering Mist] - Lv 4
Conjures a misty veil that not only obscures vision of the target, but also imitates sounds that have already been heard by you.
[Lotus Light] - Lv MAX
Use Mp to create a small light source in lotus flowers.
[Floral Flourish] - Lv MAX
Makes plants around you grow faster.
[Pond's Reflection] - Lv MAX
Use Mp to reflect any image, as long you have viewed it before.
[Kelp Keep] - Lv MAX
Use Sp to create small amounts of highly nutritious algae.
[Stormcaller] - Lv 4
Use large amounts of Mp to generate rain of intensity equivalent to the value offered.
[Enchanting] - Lv 1
Use large amounts of MP to add a random effect to an item.
[Illusory Reflection] - Lv MAX
Use MP to create and maintain a mirror image of your target. The mirror image cannot cause physical damage.
[Mana Manipulation] - Lv MAX
Makes your mana control more refined
[Blossom Rest] - Lv 2
Enter a state of hibernation after suffering large amounts of damage. While in this state, the host is immune to all status effects and gradually heals from injuries.
[Poison Resistance] - Lv 9
Gain resistance against poisons
[Purifying Tuber] - Lv 6
Use Sp to create tubercles that can safely store poisons and harmful substances.
Leaving the boy aside, I start to think about my possibilities for fusion skills. I have several skills at the maximum level I've achieved over the years, now that I have my secret cave, I can train all day long without the risk of being discovered, which has given me the confidence to try many new things.
My illusions are very "real", and can almost perfectly copy do anything I want. The only flaw in illusions is that they aren't 100% solid, so if someone looks closely they could see that they are a little transparent.
My illusions can also speak and even copy weapons and spells that people cast, but everything is just an illusion, so even if I can copy anything someone does, these illusions are not capable of even crumpling a sheet of paper.
The coolest thing about illusions is the fact that I can learn from them, because they are a type of "projection" that i can use to keep records of what someone said, their actions, and even reactions. Everything stored inside me to be reproduced at any time, which helps me study their language.
If I don't understand something, I can keep rewinding the same images day after day, night after night until I finally find meaning in those words.
But that's not important now, what matters is thinking about mergers, and I already have some mergers in mind.
Notice
The skills [Undine's Embrace] and [Purified Wellspring] had fused in the skill [Azure Torrent]
Skill
[Azure Torrent] - Lv 1
Use MP to enchant large amounts of water, creating a zone of water magic capable of creating water elementals of diferent levels.
'Wow! This is very promising! I can create an entire area full of water elementals that will defend me! And all I need is time and energy.'
Analyzing the skill, I soon realize that the gains seem huge, but so are the costs, the skill seems to need so much mana that it makes my current mana offer to "pay" for the skill seem like a bad joke.
'Damn... I need a lot of MP for this, an MP that I don't have right now... I think it will be a while before I have a lake full of elementals...'
For my next choice I decide to merge [Lotus Light] and [Mana Manipulation], a strange and risky combination I know, but the 2 skills don't have much use for me, the lotus lights are just a cosmetic effect, and my mana manipulation became much more powerful after gaining a domain.
Notice
The skills [Lotus Light] and [Mana Manipulation] had fused in the skill [Astral Radiance]
Skill
[Astral Radiance] - Lv 1
Emit lights capable of absorbing ambient mana or release energy into the environment
'An energy generating skill!? Perfect! I can also create energy-rich zones! This will be very useful in the future!'
The natural magic of the world was everywhere, available for everyone to use as they wish, some areas have more and others less, and some areas have specific types of mana, like the lake that has a considerable amount of water mana in the air. If I need to, I can use this mana to make my spells more stable and more economical, but I can't absorb this energy for myself, until now.
Creating some lights in my lotus flowers, I can see some people looking in awe at the bright lights that now have a slight shade of blue, and I can feel each of the flowers generating a small amount of energy every second giving me a small amount of energy.
Notice
You gained 0.01 MP points
Notice
You gained 0.01 MP points
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'It's not the best energy generator I have... But it's something I can use! Now I finally have another way to generate energy!'
For the last few years I've just been saving energy to power up my mud crustaceans and let them work in the underwater cave. The red clouds still prevent me from generating energy with the power of the sun, moon and stars, but now I can use my new power to generate some extra MP.
'He He he I liked this skill, the only disadvantage is that I need to keep the lights on to generate MP.'
It's not a big problem, and people like bright lights, so I don't think I'll get in trouble for keeping the headlights on 24 hours a day. And for my last fusion of the day, I decide to fuse [Floral Flourish] and [Kelp Keep].
Notice
The skills [Floral Flourish] and [Kelp Keep]had fused in the skill [Reef Garden]
Skill
[Reef Garden] - Lv 1
Use SP to create a wide variety of corals that can generate MP
'Oh!!! Cool, I liked this skill, being able to create corals that generate Mp is very useful for me.'
Now for the next fusion, I have something that goes very well with each other.
Notice
The skills [Pond's Reflection] and [Illusory Reflection] had fused in the skill [Mirror of Water]
Skill
[Mirror of Water] - Lv 1
Use Mp to create water copies of your enemies, water copies can use magic and are capable of copying 1 random skill from their target.
'Damn! Now that's a good skill! The ability to create water copies of my enemy? And I can even copy a skill for free!'
Deciding to test the skill, I direct my vision towards the village of the horned men, then look for someone until I see a middle-aged woman working with a large iron pot and some jars.
Activating the skill, soon a bubble of water rises between my roots up to the sky, then it begins to slowly deform until it completely assumes the exact shape of the copied woman. The disadvantage is that now the "reflections" are made purely of water, and are no longer illusions, having a physical body and real presence.
Because of this, they lost the ability to copy colors, being just identical copies made purely with water that mimics the people they are copying. Looking closer I can see that the reflection also looked "rustic", failing in its mission to copy minimun details such as textures and strands of hair.
'Great... Now, what can you do?'
Looking at the costs, I was immediately surprised to see how much mana I was spending to keep this reflex active, so I started to speed things up.
I created the reflection inside my cave, just using my privileged vision to copy a woman who didn't even know what was happening, but it doesn't matter, since the purpose of this is to know the usefulness of the reflections.
'Very well...'
To test the reflection, I summon a water elemental, which then rises from the waters of the lake and swims through the air towards the reflection. Soon the 2 water invocations were facing each other, on one side a woman made of water, and on the other a fish made of water.
'Okay! Now.... Kill each other!'
What is the best way to decide which of the 2 weapons are better? Putting them to tests, but instead of a test of resistance, skills or coordination, I just want to know which of the 2 is better.
As soon as my words fell, the water elemental enveloped itself in a tornado of water and shot towards the water reflection, in response the reflection just waited patiently until the elemental got close, and soon as it was going to hit the water reflection, the reflection's body deformed in impossible ways, opening a large hole in its own chest and dodging the elemental's blow.
As soon the elemental passed behind the reflection, the water reflection created a kitchen cleaver made of water, and rushed towards the elemental with all its might. Once close, the reflection begins to vocalize, emitting sounds and noises similar to those of the woman he is copying, and soon begins to cut the elemental.
Seeing the situation, the elemental just wrapped itself in a perfect ball of water, and created a super furious water current insed that ball. So when the water cleaver of the water reflection hit the water ball, it ricocheted and went flying turning into a small puddle of water.
In response the reflection quickly retreated and made a large water axe apear in her hand, so she grabbed the ax as if preparing to chop wood, and raised it over her head with both hands. Just as the ax was about to fall, the reflection activated some kind of skill that made the water ax fall like a very heavy weight, making the the water elemental sink into the ground with the pressure and splitting its water ball in 2 like a coconut.
The water elemental ended up turning into a puddle of water while the reflection barely had a scratch, so the victory was sealed with the victory going to the water reflection.
'Incredible!! But it has its flaws...'
The reflection it self is unable to extract so much power from under the hat, he needed to copy someone like the woman to be "complete", burning MP to copy the target, more MP to keep himself active, and even more MP for each movement the reflection made.
Basically these reflections are MP incinerators, they consume so much MP that I wouldn't be able to keep them active for more than 15 minutes a day with my current energy suply.
Dispelling the water reflection, I soon realize that I just copied a "peasant", so if I copied a warrior, like the red demon or the eggplant head, I would get infinitely more powerful water reflections.
'The problem with that would be the astronomical mana cost to keep the reflexes active... I need more mana...'
I have a natural limit to how much mana I can store within my own body, but I usually get around this by burning mana at the same rate as I generate, or by storing the mana within the magical water of the lake.
So whenever I use a skill that consumes a lot of mana, I just need to stick to a "budget", if the cost is greater than my generation I am losing mana, which means that the skill cannot be used lightly.
And this new skill is basically a drain that takes all my mana away in minutes, my natural mana reserve is used up so quickly that I need to actively suck the energy from the lake to keep the skill active.
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Lotus Year 85
Star Store Star Points: 8945.3
Random skill: 1800 Star points - Or more
Random Title: 6000 Star points - Or more
Conversion: 10 MP - 0.1 Star Point / 160 Star Point - 10 XP
I've gotten several points over the years, and I would have gotten more if my mana generation wasn't damaged due to the demonic clouds, I'm thinking about getting the new title and a skill, but I'm also trying to spend it all on a super skill .´
'Let's take it easy.... Skills are useful for sure, but titles give me incredible effects, it's okay that all the titles I have are "defensive", but it's still very useful to have titles like that.
Deciding to try, I spend part of the points on a new title.
Notice
You have gained the Title [Lady of the Fountain]
'You've got to be kidding me....'
Title
-={Lady of the Fountain}=-
Grants the special ability to grant greater blessings, spiritual protections, and oracles. Blessed allies grant part of their XP to you.
'Damn it!! The title is ridiculous, but the powers are really cool!'
The star store told me that the titles and skills are "random", but apparently they are not so random, I cannot get something that is "out of my reach", only things that have a direct relationship with my powers.
'But seriously... Fountain lady? It must be the fault of the horned men, their action of worshiping me as a deity must be influencing the system...'
Analyzing the title, I soon come across a problem, as I can't really "read" it like normal skills.
'How the hell do I use the functions in the title?...'
Directing my attention towards the farms, I soon come across a bunch of strange animals that look like cows mixed with pigs, the creatures are happily eating the vegetation in the enclosure, while in the background some buffaloes are pulling a plow.
Trying to give a blessing to one of the pig-cows, soon a lotus mark appears on the thigh of one of the animals that doesn't seem to mind the blessing, nothing new had happened so I turned my attention to my main body.
'And now?...'
While I was thinking about the possibilities, I soon saw an axolotl the size of a large dog start to swim through the inverted waterfall to come and bathe a little in the mana-filled waters of my home lake. Then an idea comes to mind, as the words 'subjects' come back to me.
'Does...'
As soon as I tried to offer a blessing to my axolotl, I ended up bumping into a new status screen that I wasn't expecting.
Blessing's
Choose the type of blessing you want to give your ally.
-={Lotus Blessing - Minor}=-
Grants a low level of luck and water control to a ally
10 Mana Points
-={Lotus Blessing - Regular}=-
Allies with this blessing gain a random skill based on their class, in addition to the ability to control water and increased luck
50 Mana Points
-={Lotus Blessing – Greater}=-
Allies with this blessing gain 3 random skills based on their class, in addition to the greater ability to control water and increased luck.
300 Star Points
-={Lotus Blessing – Unique}=-
Allies with this blessing gain 3 greater random skills based on their class, the superior ability of water control and increased luck and the ability to borrow your powers.
2000 Star Points
''A screen to give blessings?... It looks promising... but... These blessings seem.... Expensive... Very expensive....'
A smaller blessing is within the price range I'm used to, but as the blessing increases the price goes up more and you even start using Star Points!
'Star points are not easy to get.... So don't give greater or unique blessings to someone... Although... Shared XP is very tempting...'
Earning a share of XP from blessed people seems very tempting, but blessings are expensive. At least the greatest blessings.
'Does the level of the blessing make any difference to the amount of XP I will gain?'
If the smaller blessing and the bigger blessing give me the same Xp rate, then why spend it on bigger blessings?
Tempted to find out, I call a few more axolotls, on the first one I apply a smaller blessing, on the second one a regular, and on the last one a bigger one, then I order each one to go out to hunt a fish.
Soon I receive my results, and discover that the system is not as dumb as I think. A minor blessing only gives me a drop of Xp for each kill of my axolotl, the regular blessing is a little better but not much better, just a teaspoon of Xp. The biggest blessing gave me a little more Xp, something like a cup of tea, there's not much difference, but it's still a substantial difference.
There are also physical differences, the lesser blessing manifests as a three-leaf lotus flower mark in a random place on the body, the regular blessing takes the form of a lotus flower with some roots growing around it and the greater blessing takes the form of a shaped like a mark of a lotus flower wrapped in a ring of roots.
The difference can also be noticed in the eyes and other parts of the body, members with lesser blessings do not gain anything other than the lotus mark, but individuals with regular blessings gain things like tattoos of roots and leaves spread across the body, and individuals with greater blessings they gain white star shaped pupils that overlap the old regular black pupils, and a small blue ring around the iris, in addition to gaining some tattoos of roots and leaves, and in the case of azolotes, a lot of navy blue scales.
'Interesting...'
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My new skills seem to be very promising, my ability to create corals is really cool, giving me access to a wide variety of marine plants, such as corals and some live plants/animals.
I don't know what to call these things, they look like anemones or sponges, but I can feel that they are really alive, very much like me in fact. The strangest thing about them is the fact that they grow in freshwater, not in the sea as they should be.
These strange creatures live off the lake's debris and dirt, consuming the water's nutrients and producing energy for themselves. To date, they haven't generated MP for me, but I believe I know why, during the night these little guys open up to the world and show biolumenecent parts of their bodies, all directed towards the sky, but never producing MP.
I believe they have a skill similar to [Lunar Conversion] or exactly that skill. But due to the demonic clouds, they cannot generate MP.
It's not exactly a problem for me, but it's a bit annoying to spend resources on something that won't pay off anytime soon.
Another thing I've been doing in my free time is basically studying and observing, what have I been observing, you ask? Everything, absolutely everything.
Time passes slowly, and when leveling up my skills becomes too much work, I look for another way to pass the time. And what I got was basically a cataloging job.
I have been observing everything in the lake, I know about the health and size of every fish in the lake, every field of seaweed, and where each of my earthwards are, I have also organized my jeweled shells into orderly rows and separated the jewelry and junk by size and "value", more "interesting" things are placed in a treasure pile at the bottom of my lake house, while the rest is just scattered around the underwater cave.
I also created small water lenses, by using magic very precisely, I am able to create some water lenses that can serve as microscope lenses, allowing me to closely observe various organisms in the lake, as well as observe the horizon of the lake. village.
Water has many uses, magic seems to be able to take any form as long as I am able to give it a purpose and suitable formats. Sometimes I feel alone and I create a water dummy, I pretend it's really me and I start dancing and running around the underground cave, I try to scream and talk, but it's no use if there's no one to talk to.
I tried to create a tea party, made with several water dummies on a water table, with utensils made of water, but it's all make-believe, the loneliness seems to be affecting me in some way, and I don't know exactly why, I was always alone, from time to time I received visitors, and in some cases the visit would stay for some time.
But in the end they would always leave, and I would be alone again, and that's okay with me. At least I hadn't, when the horned men arrived, I unexpectedly felt more alone than ever.
They can talk to each other, play, run and even use their real bodies. But I don't speak their language, I don't understand their culture, I can't move, and I'm not important to them.
They don't even know who I am, they all think I'm the damn lady of the lake, and I must admit that it's great to have such a convenient disguise, but I feel ignored, I feel wronged.
I feel lonely.