Fragmented-Cinder Haril (lvl 1) killed; 1 essence gained.
-'Basic gifted-swordsmanship' gained 10 exp.
-'Basic gifted-swordsmanship footwork' gained 7 exp.
-'Basic gifted-sword-slash' gained 15 exp.
-'Crude draw-slash' gained 15 exp.
I quickly slashed off the head of a Haril on the wall after it had tried to attack the great me. It was aspected to fire in the words of Arcae, basically; It was of the fire element.
Not that any of that mattered, just seeing the amount of exp I got was doing wonders for my mental state.
Now that I had 'Real world scenarios' to use as an exp source, I can finally grind properly.
Specifically 'Basic gifted (Sword)-redirect', I was actually already setting up my grinder.
I currently had a completely imobilized Haril on hand, and I was doing my best to put in a semi-permanent
It wasn't working, which was evident from the fact that it was having another seizure.
After some time, the Haril had finally healed enough to fight me. And I stood up, realizing that it finally had enough time to heal.
Things in this place healed way to quickly, litterally. A broken bone? Maximum a few minutes. Lost limb? That's a bit worse, as you lose max hp when that happens, but you usually get a stub in a few minutes.
When it got close to me, it suddenly leaped for my neck, but after using my sword's non-sharp side to push it slightly to the side, it had missed. And that's what a redirect is, shifting where the attack goes, so that it misses.
And it's the most irratating skill to grind due to it's, usually hard to create, training. And with how difficult it is to use in real-world scenerios, it's also annoying to grind there.
But a little beast with so little INT that it doesn't even have the mental faculties to realize that what it's doing is futile, so I can just uniformly, and systematically use 'Real world scenarios' to boost exp gain.
It was quite entertaining to watch the little thing was figuritively throwing itself against a brick wall, endlessly. Not realizing the futility of it's continued existence, and the fact that it would die when I no longer needed it or I found it too irratating to keep bringing it along.
Though after I made sure I was able to split of a piece of my focus on grinding while thinking of something else with what remained, like; What I would do when I went to that dungeon city.
What would I do? It has the same answer as; 'What could I do with the best outcome in the end?'
Before I answer that I need to define 'Best outcome'. What I want is to set up a solid powerbase, an organization. I want it to work and sustain itself without my imput, and hopefully even grow while I do something else.
One that I can use as my legion, to literally anything. From helping an old woman across the road to devouring babies, not that I'd actually order them to the latter. That would just make people notice my organization, and I want it to be a secret organization with a few fake fronts. Then I make an elite secret organization with a connection to the first organization and say it's the 'Real secret organization', but there's an even more elite secret organization behind it for my real plans!
This is what I call the 'Layered mask' technique of secracy, you put your secrets in layers, and make it seem like one layer is the end, so that people honestly think it's the end of your evil.
I used it pretty often in my company, I was once charged for harrasing a woman, which was a false charge (That I myself created) used as the first layer of the 'Layered mask technique'.
Why did I fake my own charges? Because then people will think that's the deepest darkest stain on me, and won't expect (Or investigate) anything much worse. And let me tell you, I had a lot worse on my plate.
Also, make sure you make some more of such charges periodically, those that aren't so bad, but can still be used by dumbasses to mess with you. So that they don't accidentally find something real, and you need to 'Silence' them, but also naturally with a car accident or something.
Such accidents are suspicious and annoying to orcastrate.
I want a criminal organization (Mafia preferably), a public powerbase one, and then a merchant one for funding.
Let's use the box as my example, because; Wouldn't it be fun?
The boxes are cool to look at, cool to mess with, I'm able to set information in them however I want, ofcourse, I can't do that with the actual boxes.
But it's also common knowledge, and it's pretty much useless since you can't share it, and it's just like normal paper except it's very temporary. No permanent records.
I don't really know how commeners and thugs use this little fuction, but it is fun to mess with when you're grinding.
True layer The core of all of this is me, and other loyal folowers that can build it all up for me if it ever collapses. 6th layer There was a secret foundation that wishes to secretly amass all the power! 5th layer The cult was actually about science! 4th layer The cult is actually about another god but acts like it split from the church! 3rd layer They're actually all under a cult split from the church! 2nd layer They're all connected, and do shady dealings (But seem to be in a business only relationship) 1st layer Corperate corruption Dubious recruitment methods/less than favorable things for the church (But not enough for bribery to be unable to stop it) It's mafia public layer; Merchant group Public mercany/private military (Or something) Some random charity or activist group
Wasn't that cool?
That's the basic idea anyways, I don't think it's explained well, but... You'll see what it is properly, later.
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Now that my pondering is over, I can kill this Haril.
Fragmented-Cinder Haril (lvl 1) killed; 1 essence gained.
-'Basic gifted-swordsmanship' gained 75 exp.
-'Basic gifted-swordsmanship footwork' gained 19 exp.
-'Basic gifted (Sword)-redirect' gained 232 exp.
That's a lot of exp. And that's good, really good.
But if there were just, more victims, then I could kill them constantly and have an even higher efficiency.
I need to go even deeper into the dungeon so that there are more creatures to kill, though their levels are higher, it'll be worth it. The oppertunity cost will lower by at least 13%!
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Day 1; Today I have chosen to go on a journey with little chance of return, for those who read this, understand that one needs to be oppertunistic if you want a future. I regret nothing, for I have died for a 13% decrease in oppertunity cost! Remember my words; 'To infinity, and beyond!'
Day 2; Dear diary, since the last time I have met you, I have traveled reaches beyond those before me, the far reaches of the Wilds have long since bewildered me. For I go north, but instead I go east. For I go west, and then I instead go south. For I go north again, but I truly go south.
Day 3; Dear diary-
"No, this isn't believable, and more importantly, the writing is too fancy."
This was something I had been working on in my note book while I was walking deeper into the dungeon.
Osgar, who had been walking with me, heard my ramblings "Able Necros drake, is there a problem."
I sighed and put up my fake pupils "Yes, Osgar Necros Drake, I have been having a problem for the last few minutes."
"Really? May I know what it is? Should I know how, I shall help if you do."
"It is not a problem elder, I write- Blagh! Can I talk normally now?"
"Yea, you can, this is a dungeon, no shits to notice."
"Ah, that's good. So; I've been trying to write a fake diary to fuck with some shithead who dares glean into my shit. I want them on a wild goose chase for years, and eventually die from recklessness."
"...Okay...But isn't that to... Difficult?"
I felt like I had ascended the nine heavens "Yea... That is too troublesome... All I need to do is put some good lessons within, then morally destroy them and give them a trashy mindset! Make them trust what's in the book, then use that to infect their minds with trash or indoctronate them into my fold!" I was surprised by my own genius.
I need to act like some rich guru! Wait- Wasn't this about messing with people who tried to look at my stuff?
How can I mess up someone mentally? Give them an existential crisis! Then, if they're useful, you indoctrac- Stop, this is punishment for those who look through my stuff. Depression and suicidal thoughts are a good punishment. So I need to think understandable philosphy phrases up so that I throw nhilism into their minds, then it's their own problem.
But then an even more important realization hit me; I can make up quotes and who said them whenever I want! This is a miracle, I just need to make a few! Right now.
> "At the end of infinity, sanity dies." -Edwardo Incell
> "Death does not choose." -Whitu Knightu
> "Without proof, there is no truth." -U.R. Dum
I made these up on the spot, and they sound so cool! For the lay-person, not really sure about actual philosophers, but is someone like that going to read these? No, probably not. The first is utter nonesense to do with H.P lovecraft things, the second is actually about how death doesn't care who you are and will take you anyways, the third is just Hitchens's razor but said weirdly.
Isn't it fun making up quotes? I find so anyways, so I'm going to use this a few times.
I'm going to test this on my mother, who will come around one day, and I'm going to talk about how she couldn't even read a fairytale without turning into a crying ball. Then I'll make her commit suicide by the fact that her life is meaningless and that nothing she ever does will change anything.
If I do this correctly.
I haven't used literature to make people commit suicide before, I just have extremely twisted and grusome traps, or have security guards put those who snoop into my possesions down like irratating pets.
This is a new experience, and would help with the manipulation of others.
Now, how do I want to manipulate the reader? I know that I want to build up trust, and then slowly spiral into nhilism to let people read it without realizing it's about how life is pain and all that.
Let's think of a title...
'Purpose and you'?
'New goals'?
'Lost and afraid'?
'Purpose paradox'?
'Poison of the mind'?
I can easily make something that fits those titles in the beginning and then weave it out into how life is meaningless and how death is best. But even if it's a natural spiral, it'll still be difficult to become a seed of nhilism. And I want fully grown 'Flower' of nhilism within the palace of the mind, consistantly.
So I need to keep the seed hidden and give it time to grow, so it needs to be an undertone of the book to make a seed over time the more you contemplate over what it says, and even act as nutrients for it to grow into a beautiful flower.
"-What are you thinking about?" Osgar asked, slightly worried. I had suddenly fallen into a hole within my mind, and was caught of track, did I forget to kill everything I had met?
I looked at the logs, and no. That's good, not time wasted. I sighed, and finally answered "I'm pondering how to write a book that will put in a seed of nhilism and then grow it to become the core of their philosophy and maybe even personality."
"What's nhilism?" Osgar asked, as he had never heard of the word before. And learning something new won't ever hurt.
I smiled at the fact he wanted to know and told him honestly "Nhilism is the philosphy that life is meaningless, if you put it in layman's terms."
"...Okay, you do you..." Osgar decided he wanted nothing to do with whatever morally twisted thing I was doing.
Now back to thinking how to do this...
Maybe a few analogies will help with understanding this!
Maybe something digital?; The seed is like a virus, but it needs computing power given to it to spread and infect the machine- No, that's not good. How about something biological; Think of the 'Seed of nhilism' as a virus, it goes into a cell. It can't have the cell realize it's inside it, else it may kill itself. So it needs to be discreat. When it is finally inside, it needs to divert resources from the rest of the cell to it to slowly take over the cell.
I just thought of a better computer virus analogy; The book is a download link, the veil I weave over the seed is that 'Program', the seed itself is the virus, and it's feed is computing power.
When the user of the computer uses the program, the program uses a piece of that computing power to secretly grow the virus, then the user will want to use the program more, and then the virus will spread and use it's power to make the user more often think of the program. Until the computer's operating system is actually the virus.
I think it's pretty good, there was another about those spores that make zombie ants, but that's a little confusing.
This will be difficult. I need to make the phrases they remember say perfectly normal things, but imbue connotations of nhilism into them with the words surrounding them.
This will be complicated word salad, let's try this a few times "Beliefs, born of either pain or blessing, all are real, some shouldn't be there." I said verbally, trying to get a feel of the nhilism inside, my detectors read up a full '0'. No nhilism to be found.
"Pain is a part of life, but even in the darkest pits, it's still possible to have joy." A nhilism score of '0.2' with what will be remembered being 'Even in the darkest pits, it's still possible to have joy.'
Skill gained; 'Basic propoganda writing'
Skill gained; 'Basic insidious-propoganda writing'
Skill gained; 'Basic nhilistic-propoganda writing'
Skill gained; 'Basic Insidious writing'
Skill gained; 'Basic manipulation'
Skill gained; 'Basic Ideological manipulation'
And now I find a reason to do this, but how did I so easily gain all these skills?