Evan was ready to be restored, so he got prepared for a complete restoration done with the bishop skills, and Grandine got ready to cast the spell. It wasn't an easy one, and it did cause some mental fatigue to fix a body with complete restoration (especially with a case like Evan, who didn’t have any part that was just okay). Just like with most spells, using them was possible, but they caused mental fatigue and headache. That said, some mages (like Evan) were capable of withstanding the pain of the headache and the mental fatigue way more than most, allowing them to push themselves harder when it came to spellcasting.
“Father. You should go to a bed, so I can cast well Complete Restoration.” Grandine said as she looked serious right now, fully focused on her duty.
“Understood.” Evan said as Grandine guided him to a room specialized for healing guests, that Grandine used as an emergency healing station for those nights that a cleric sent a wounded person to her house to get some healing done.
Evan went to a small guest room the manor had that only had a bed and a desk with a chair, and sat down in the bed. The room was clearly underwhelming, but it was enough for most wounds if someone considered the bishop abilities that Grandine had, and the room was made like that to avoid having to spend huge amounts of time cleaning it due to the bleeding individuals that arrived to her home.
“Okay, this will be a bumpy ride. Oh light that covers all of the darkness in our lives, heal these long-lasting wounds and save those who suffer! Complete Restoration!” Grandine said as she made sure that her mana was circulating from her navel, where the mana concentrated most even if it was produced by both the heart and mind, as it could only be stored in the area of the dantian.
A white aura came out from Grandine’s body, which enveloped Evan and started healing his heavily wounded body. This aura started healing the wounds in his body, due to his body having been stimulated by the aura to heal itself faster, yet it did not heal the eye. While Caroline felt the effects of using that spell, she didn't flinch at all since she was used to casting spells like most mages of her caliber. Evan felt a warm feeling of calm while he was being healed, but didn't like that his eye wasn't fixed.
After 20 long minutes of healing, Evan's body was completely restored and Evan felt a lot better than before. He still lacked his eye, yet the benefits outweighed that issue, which did make him feel sad.
“Finally I have my body fixed... But not my eye. Why?” Evan said as he was lacking his depth perception, and he wanted it back.
“I can restore the things that have remains of what it used to be... Not things that have been completely destroyed. That hasn’t changed at all, even from the Dawn World era!” Grandine said as she pouted childishly.
“So I will live all my life with one eye?” Evan asked as he made sure his eyepatch was covering his lost eye.
“The elves have invented prosthetic eyes when they worked together with the dwarves. Nowhere near what you could have in the godslayer era, but far better than what you could expect from a world that has jumped back to the old west technology, well almost medieval era, as you and the other godslayers would call it. Maybe you should get one of those eyes.” Grandine said as she looked at the eyepatch.
“Okay, then it can wait. Thanks for the help. And sorry for before.” Evan said as he was getting up from the bed.
“No problem, Father. I know that it will be overwhelming for you to know that we are in so much trouble. Then, now we can start planning. I have a lot of information about this kingdom, after all.” Grandine said as she smiled and looked happy to see Evan recovered.
“Great. Give me that info, I need it. I would be lying if I said otherwise.” Evan said with a serious gaze
“First, King David is not the most loved King by the merchants, the populace, and the guard. Literally, all of his plans mean to leave the slavery untouched and make it our best industry in the kingdom. The people are angry at him, but with the army and the royal guard... Well, you know. Impossible to make a revolution like that, and we are not even counting the knights of Zerax. Quite the zealous group of templars, paladins, clerics, and the like. Now that they know you might be around, they might start doing their own moves to hunt you.” Grandine said before she took a deep breath.
“Ugh, Paladins and Templars. The last kind of trouble I want to see! Even when you got a group of them to follow you, they brought problems. Later, the one cleaning up the mess was me. Do not remind me of that mess, that was you doing some messy eating. So all the other merchants…” Evan said as he massaged his forehead.
Caroline blushed brightly while being reminded of her first time having a feast with templars, paladins, and clerics. It did take two weeks to clean her room, and Evan did remember how many undead he needed for it. After all, if you can fix a chore your child won't do with undead... Why not? Or so Evan thought, as it was his usual way of thinking with issues in Dawn World.
“And to be exact, the ones that are not nobles because only nobles work in the slavery. You know, they have more voting power now, so David made sure they could partake in that cake. While also getting more allies, alongside the church, but the commoner merchants still have a decent voting power. That said, you can guess that with just the commoner merchants and the guard… You will get outvoted by the nobles, the church, and the royal guard.” Grandine explained with a serious gaze.
“They all will lose their jobs or have to adapt to worse jobs than the ones they are doing! The merchants will lose a lot of their money, the guards will be forced to protect the slave camps and they will be forced to see how nobles treat badly innocent people and the people show that they are fed up with this policy of slavery. Why he does that? It's economic suicide, and a loss of potential. Hell, in this era, we could be a world power without much issue if we focus on the food sector!” Evan said as he tried to understand what David was doing. ‘It’s as if he’s trying to kill his own country on his own!’ Evan thought to himself.
“He has deals with the elven kingdoms, the two of them. The demons are also in those deals too.” Grandine said as she scratched her forehead.
“And the dragons? I don't want to go full Killinger again. Last time I and Killinger went together to hunt something, eighty cities were burning. That German, he should be less direct.” Evan said as he scowled.
“Not yet, but there is already word of them being interested in this.” Grandine said as she smirked.
“Then we are going to use that as our reason for the future revolution. Of course the army and the royal guard will be a problem, but with the guard covering our tracks... They shouldn't be a concern in the long run. In fact, if we move well... Not even in the short run.” Evan said, as he started considering the many variables in his plan.
“Also, I found out that the one that killed Legadonia is an ally of King David too. And there is talk that she will be in the hero company. Which I find impossible, since Saida is near the hero. But if the rumors are true, we can go after the hero and justify it as an eye for an eye situation due to the regicide done by the one who killed my sister.” Grandine said.
“We are totally justified to go kill her then, and the hero once she's in the hero company! Thank you, David, for that sweet justification for going after the kill. No worry about being called the dark lord, even if I kill the hero thanks to that bitch! Ey, if they give me the perfect reason to just off him… I shall take it!” Evan said as he cackled madly.
“And the church is the ally of the king, be reminded of that.” Grandine warned with a worried look in her eyes.
“Yet, they have a pair of traitors. And we can put some seeds of doubt, while playing with several religions. The church of Zerax isn’t alone, and the favoritism of David is not appreciated by them, I can handle some things and have them to support us.” Evan said, as he was already planning to use the other organizations made by the gods as a way to move forward his plans.
“Traitors? More like I have never been their ally. And the religions will be hard to be used efficiently. The church of Zerax has a lot of followers, and the other religions can’t go against it openly.” Grandine said, as if indicating that Evan’s plan was flawed due to a lack of data.
“True, well... We can still work it out. Lillian helped out of her own kindness, but if she knew that I was the Dark Lord back then…” Evan said as he scratched the back of his head.
“She would have not helped. She is too loyal to the church. But it is normal, knowing how the church of Zerax is so known. It is the most loved one, after all.” Grandine said as she sat down on the bed.
“Well. Things have gone in one way, so we cannot be thinking about how it would go if anything changed. So we have to start working on the guard, once we get the guard... We can get the merchants easily. Then go for the underground, once we have the underground under control we can try to assassinate David or smuggle items from other countries that could be used in the revolution. It’s the most efficient method.” Evan said, as he fully had planned out the skeleton of his plan already.
“I will search for the information we need, but I know that the position of captain of the guard is open right now and that there are 3 candidates.” Grandine said, as she had plans on her own. ‘I need Nigredo to fully finish the third and fourth candidates, now. Then, Dad can deal with the second and I can fully focus on having Alex go with Lillian… Maybe I can get her to share him a bit…’ Grandine thought to herself.
“Start working on it then. We are going to mess with the election of the new captain of the guard. We have to prevent that the king corrupts it. If he gets it, the three required things for a coup will be out of reach for us. And you know what that means, Grandine.” Evan coldly said as he started moving towards the door.
“U-Understood, Father.” Grandine said with a trembling voice, knowing what he had meant. ‘If you can’t do a revolution, you plan on razing this place to the ground and then rebuilding it. Even if that means killing someone not involved by mistake. Your ruthless justice towards corruption is still alive, and it’s fearsome… Father.’ Grandine thought to herself as she moved quickly to leave the room before Evan.
Grandine left the room and Evan went to talk with Lillian about what he could do to help Cherubs Rest. He had a few interesting ideas, and he was going to try to see which idea could be done right away, and which would need more investing.
***
Meanwhile, in Cherubs Rest, Legias was reading books when he heard the door opening and went to check who was the one that entered only to see Flint walking with a flintlock mana gun, a special kind of gun that existed in Terra. An older model, since the newest ones didn’t require black powder at all to be used properly, but one Flint was used to wield.
The guns in this world were different from the old flintlock guns used in old Japan, but this kind in specific was extremely similar to the flintlock guns on Earth. The one that Flint was using had a mana core connected to the hammer and effectively substituting the gunflint, which would use mana to ignite the powder and then cause the explosion in a more efficient way, requiring almost no black powder and the bullets were totally different from the old bullets used being more cylindrical and having a tip with mana that could be enchanted.
Flint's flintlock was an iron flintlock gun made of mythril (a white metal made from an ore with the same name that had a high concentration of mana) engravings on the entire length of the barrel with enchantments of increased aim and lightened weight and all of his bullets were enchanted to be homing bullets, they didn't follow always the target, but their trajectory could change, and perforate the target. But this meant they also had to be made of Mythril and instead of having mana in the tip, they had an orichalcum tip (a dark green ore that was the offensive counterpart of mythril) with the enchantment attached directly onto it.
Legias looked at Flint with curiosity, and Flint simply looked at Legias while preparing his flintlock gun. Both were usually the best of friends, but they wouldn't joke too much about odd jobs since both had bad experiences with the odd jobs. Yet, if they wanted money... They didn't have much of a choice.
“Preparing for another odd job?” Legias asked as he looked at Flint’s gun.
“Yes, but I take the good ones. Also, I almost never need the gun. Well, unless some annoying noble tries to mess with me and I have to use it to scare them off.” Flint said as he took a deep breath.
“You can't ever be too careful about the odd jobs. Remember that time you ended up in the springs, you almost got drowned to death. Lillian scolded you for half a day.” Legias said as he smirked at Flint, who blushed in embarrassment.
“Yeah, still don't forget your odd jobs, either. Last time, you messed up big time when you forgot the package here, you forgetful idiot. Lillian almost knocked me out when she found out the package filled with that gross magazine. In theory, this time, I am going to do is to escort a small noble. Buuut, you know how this rolls, you have experience being the protected one. A noble sends an assassin to kill the noble I have to protect, and I will have to protect it.” Flint said as he nudged Legias, who simply scoffed.
Legias looked hurt for a moment, but calmed down since he knew that Flint was just prodding a bit to see how he was doing with that mess. In his first days, unless Lillian was near him, he couldn't sleep at all. And Flint knew exactly how he felt at first, which made him be more careful when saying some things.
“Indeed. Good luck.” Legias said as he went to sit down and relax while reading a book about cooking.
Flint left to go to get the odd job and Legias started reading again, since he forgot that he had to clean the dishes today. It was a normal thing for Legias, who wasn’t used to handling the chores of the house and used to read lots of books to prepare himself.
***
Inside a circular room with white porcelain tiles on the ground, walls made of quartz that had massive windows that showcased the view of the entire city of Crelens from above, vastly decorated with all kinds of statues that ranged from armored knights to a massive dragon placed in the middle of the room.
In the middle of the room, alongside the dragon statue placed in the exact middle of it, there was a massive table made of polished quartz with a hole in the middle for the dragon statue to be placed there and seats made of maple wood and extravagant leather cushions with fillings made of wool.
On the table, there were three plates made of silver and decorated with gems that showcased how much money the one who was the owner of that room had. Which was true, since this was a room in the royal castle of Crelens, as David was the ruler of Elstivia, and so he was a royal with more than enough money to spare for this kind of vanity.
But all that vanity was slightly untrue, since the economy of Elstivia was receding slowly but certainly. While it was true that it was quite the prominent country before King David the second started to rule… It became untrue due to the debts incurred between the massive constructions in the frontier with the renewed frontier walls, made by expert artisans of both Elstivia and Straka, and the many investments done to fortify the church of Zerax that would be paid in ten years alongside the ones done for the slavery industry which would be paid back as soon as possible.
David walked inside the room and sat down in the northern seat of the room, which was the furthest one from the entrance as it was the one where the king is supposed to sit down, as he waited for the food to be placed. As in Elstivian culture, the king was supposedly the one who should be in the front and going forward to the future, guiding his country. Hence, the king had to sit in the northern side while the rest had to share the remaining angles to stay in a perfectly symmetrical way.
Following David, three individuals entered inside the room. These three individuals sat down in three seats placed around the table, each on each cardinal point, with their respective empty plate placed while David’s plate was nowhere to be seen, and looked at David with curious eyes.
“Well, David. The plan is working accordingly. But I am surprised you invited us here, by asking sir Rubeus to make sure we came. We are good friends, after all!” One of the individuals said, a bald dwarf with black eyes and a rather thick, and braided, beard that easily reached his stomach who was wearing a loose white shirt, brown pants, and black shoes.
“Indeed! Master artificer Johann said it best! You could have waited until our usual morning meeting on Sundays!” Another of the individuals said, a pale man with red eyes and long black hair who was wearing a blue tunic with golden embroidery that made the sigil of a pigeon, blue trousers, and yellow shoes.
“Well, I asked him to invite you to talk about an issue. It’s still unconfirmed, but I must contact you all to warn you since it’s of grand importance for our plans.” David said, as he looked at Johann.
“That’s rare. Usually you’d prefer to confirm things before calling us.” An elven man with tanned skin, pointy ears, long black hair, and black eyes, who was wearing a black tunic with red stripes, red trousers that had a black belt with an iron buckle that had the shape of an X, and black shoes.
“Well, it’s a matter of high importance. We may have encountered a big issue, one which terrifies me.” David said, as he looked serious.
“Well, his majesty, we are here to help!” Johann said with a smile.
“I hope so. Because the opponent this time is the infamous Black Flame Devil.” David said as he looked at Johann, who shivered when he heard the words Black Flame Devil.
“W-We are talking about that infamous being, his majesty?” Johann asked as he got pale.
“Yes, we are.” David replied calmly.
“Jayce, can you explain to us why is that monster here!? Did any of your bloodsucking friends turn him into a vampire!?” Johann asked as he looked at the pale human.
“No! We would never! The moment he would get up, we know that we are dead! No vampire would ever dare to attempt that!” Jayce said as he looked scared.
“Then why he has appeared now!?” Johann said as he glared at Jayce.
“Atticus, you are the headmaster of the Andving academy! Did any of your students somehow summon him!?” Jayce asked as he looked worriedly at the elf.
“Forget about that! You know that all summoning arts in Andving are strictly overseen by my teachers. Unless one of them messed up, you can bet your fangs that kind of summoning wouldn’t be done in Andving!” The elf known as Atticus replied hurriedly.
“It doesn’t matter who summoned him! What matters is that he’s inhabiting my younger brother’s corpse. Or so it seems. It could be Edward being cunning and using this old tale to scare us. But just in case, we might have to be careful. If he finds your businesses here, he might try to kill you three.” David said, as he tapped the table calmly.
As David said those words, a maid hurriedly entered inside the room with a clearly worried look. She had long and wavy red hair, black eyes, tanned skin, who was carrying a wooden box with a white sealed letter on top of it.
“His Majesty! A box arrived right now. No one saw who left it, but it has a letter addressed to you!” The maid said as David got up.
David walked towards the maid calmly, and grabbed both the letter and the box. With one hand, he grabbed the hefty box to just carry it away from the table and leave it on the ground. Then he looked at the letter, which had a wax sealing with the emblem of a demon smiling, and paled at the sight of it.
“It seems he didn’t wait for long.” David said as he nervously broke the wax seal, and opened the letter, which had a small piece of paper that said ‘Para bellum’.
Jayce walked near the wooden box, since he was smelling something delicious inside, and opened it with his sheer strength. Only to find someone he and the rest of the individuals of the room knew, it seemed to be a human with black hair and hazel eyes that now had his white skin filled with wounds made by a blunt weapon.
This made the vampire to walk away, and fall to the ground, due to the shock of seeing one of his business partners dead.
“What does the message say, David!?” Jayce asked while in a panic.
“Para bellum. I don’t know what that means. But it had the sigil of the Black Flame Devil.” David replied hurriedly, as he ran to check the contents of the box. Only to see the corpse, and look surprised at it.
The words the king said made both Atticus and Jayce fall to the ground, and tremble at the words said by the king. They were terrified, and wanted to run away, but knew that they couldn’t leave the castle in such a manner since that would be disrespecting the king and that would equal to becoming enemies of Elstivia.
This left them in a situation of terror, in which they couldn’t just run away and try to put as much distance between them, and they both knew that the person that sent this knew that all the people that had come to this visit would come.
“The bastard knew that Rubeus would get us here! I wouldn’t go against an exorcist, so I can’t doubt of his integrity! He’s an exorcist of Zerax, so no way he’s a traitor. That means that we may all have our families at risk!” Atticus said, as he looked scared, because it was clear that whoever sent it knew exactly where each of them was at the moment and knew of their deals with David.
“What is the meaning of the words in the letter, Atticus!?” David asked with fear in his voice, something unbecoming of him since he was the king of a nation.
“I-It means… Prepare for war. The Black Flame Devil has clearly stated his desire to conduct war with you. This was a method the godslayers did in the Dawn World era. To kill a subordinate of their target, and leave a letter saying Para bellum. It was a declaration of war, done to avoid having to declare it publicly. My father talked of it when I was just a young vampire… But I never would have expected to be the target of one of them. I must hide! I am hiding, his majesty! Not only that, but I am not staying here! If he finds me, I am not going to survive for long!” Jayce said, as he got up and calmly walked out of the room, with terror in his eyes.
As Jayce left the room, Rubedo was watching from outside the room before walking away from said room as he held a small gemstone that was shining brightly close to his mouth as if it was a microphone. He went towards a hallway that had walls made of quartz, and the floor was made of porcelain tiles, just like the round room in which David was at that moment.
“Message delivered, Nigredo. This will keep them away from Lord Evan, for a while, thinking that it was someone else and that the one they suspected at first was just a prince using the name to put fear in them. It’ll give Lord Evan enough time to get the guard to his side, and maybe even the merchants.” Rubedo said as he walked through the ornate hallway of the last floor of the castle.
“Good, brother. He showed his hand too early, probably to intimidate David. Lord Evan lacked data over how stupid David is, and that he’d attack him nonetheless. Of course, if he was intimidated, it would take longer. Or maybe he was already planning on having him doubt the veracity of the words of the hero, underestimating how quickly the king would believe the hero. Either way, we already bought the time that Lord Evan seems to require, while opening to ourselves a way to acquire more time in case of necessity.” Nigredo said, as her voice came out of the gemstone.
“We should kill the vampire and the elf first. The dwarf seems to not know the stories about Lord Evan.” Rubedo said, as he kept walking, while everyone seemed to scamper in fear due to the commotion caused by the surprise box. Rubedo was sure that no one would hear his words at that moment, so he just could talk with Nigredo without any kind of worry, due to everyone being in terror after a wooden box with a corpse had appeared without any trace of who brought it inside the castle.
“Okay, I will get Taka and Yusu on the elf. You are an exorcist, so catch red-handed the vampire and exorcise him. Use a proper pretense that won’t endanger your position, brother.” Nigredo said with a smug tone.
“You shouldn’t be saying that to me. I have infiltrated the church of Zerax second-highest position without showing my wings, which ensured that I could come to Elstivia. And making a proper pretense here won’t be hard, especially with a vampire. I could just say that since he was a vampire, and that was close to the king, he was aiming to manipulate the king and use him as a puppet. No one will believe that a vampire is working alongside David, to follow the commands of a god known to say that love must be shared openly even for nuns and that only the angels and pure beings are above the rest. It would be heretical to consider that, and David is a follower of Zerax… Even cooperating with a vampire would be hard to imagine for a follower of Zerax publicly, so it would be easy to just consider him as a vampire trying to manipulate the king and exorcise him under that pretense.” Rubedo explained as he smirked.
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“True. But you aren’t planning on just using that pretense, right?” Nigredo said through the gemstone.
“Of course not. If I can catch him with a blood bank for the underground vampire kingdom… That would give me enough credits to be able to become head exorcist. That would mean that two of the highest positions of the church of Zerax would be ours. So I suppose that I have to ask you to dig up the data of the vampire, and locate any inadequate business he may have, and check things with the underground vampire kingdom.” Rubedo said as he was looking at the chaos provoked by Nigredo’s actions with the box.
“Understood, just be careful. I don’t want to lose you.” Nigredo said, as Rubedo crushed the gemstone and started walking to Caroline’s home.
Mina Status:
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Age(elven age/human age): 54 years old/ 22 years old.
Height: 1.35 meters tall.
Three sizes: 72-45-75. (Only shown when the analyzed one is 18 years old or older)
Cup Size: B. (Only shown when the analyzed one is 18 years old or older)
Likes: Important clients, good fights and that the plans come out well.
Dislikes: Cursed children (And hates Legias even more), traitors and monsters.
Level: 35
STATS (Maximum of 1000):
HP: 30000/30000
MP: 15000/15000
STR: 100
VIT: 200
INT: 100
DEX: 200
AGI: 100
Magic affinity: Basic magic, Ice magic, Water Magic, Wind Magic.
Skill affinity: Magician, Assassin, Warrior, Ninja, Thief, Craftsman, Swordsman.
Titles: Comrade of the Hero, Ice Blade, Assassin of Royalty.
Job: Assassin.
Skills:
Assassin (Master):
Mastery in daggers: Increases the damage caused by daggers and short swords and the ability to wield them.
Night Stealth: Allows the user to be unseen while he/she is in the shadows.
Night Vision: Allows the user to see in the shadows.
Ash Corpses: The corpses of those that the user kills may be turned into ash if the user desires so.
Mastery in throwing daggers: The user can throw daggers and their damage is greatly increased.
Assassin Sense: Active, 1 MP per second. The user can see through walls and can track down a target of the user choice.
Stealth step: Active, 2 MP. The user can teleport anywhere in a 10 meters area.
Double stab: Active, 5 MP. The user can stab a target two times and the damage caused is increased a 50%.
Execution: Active, 20 MP. The user may execute an enemy who cannot move or has not detected the user.
Shadow double: Active, 35 MP. The user creates a double that can be used to kill a target or to distract people.
Gatling throw: Active, 45 MP. The user throws several daggers to different directions and can bend the directions of the daggers.
Execution drive: Active, 100 MP. The user can execute several targets at the same time and turns himself or herself invisible.
Ninja (Master):
Presence suppression: Makes the user harder to be detected by anyone, allies included.
Hunting Eyes: The user can find tracks faster than normal people. Also allows to detect trails like blood trails.
Tool Mastery: The user can repair tools with enough materials, and their accuracy while using tools increases.
Grand Ninja Sensing: The user's mana sensitivity is greatly enhanced, so enhanced they can see the magic traps clearly.
Grand Ninja Blade Skills: The user can use more efficiently the ninja sword, and so increases their speed to wield them.
Death Absorption: Active, 0 MP. After killing an opponent, the user can absorb the mana that the dead has and use it to replenish their own mana pool. This said, the skill takes a few minutes to work and if hit while doing so... The damage will be critical and will paralyze the user for half a minute.
Ninja Evasion: Active, 5 MP. The user can avoid an attack really fast, even when they are in the middle of the air. That said, this won't help them avoid spells that target the user specifically, like Guided Bolt.
Ninja tool Precise Throw: Active, 10 MP. The user can throw a ninja tool in such a precise way, there's a high chance of them hitting a fly with them.
Precise Throw: Active, 25 MP. The user can throw any item in a really precise way, less precise than the ninja tool throw skill, but it takes a few seconds to fully function.
Hearing Boost: Active, 10 MP/Second. The user can enhance their hearing in order to hear conversations from 100 meters away.
Ghost Walk: Active, 15 MP/Minute. The user can walk without making noise, and without being detected.
Sky Jump: Active, 50 MP. The user can jump midair, and at least up enough to reach to a third floor.
Concealment of the Ninja: Active, 20 MP. The user can conceal their position, but can't move while using this skill.
Flesh Cutter: Active, 30 MP. A quick slash that is shallow, but can cause a grevious wound that can't be healed with normal means.
Shadow Slash: Active, 40 MP. Pinnacle skill. A fast slash, aimed at the back to ensure that the target can't move.
Craftsman (Master):
Total knowledge of the creation of battle tools: The master version of Knowledge of the creation of tools. Allows the user to create any tool that aids in a fight like kunais.
Master Creation of tools: Active, 2 MP. Allows the user to create a master class battle tool like kunais.
Master Refinement: Active, 5 MP. The user can refine the tools made by himself/herself with no mistakes.
Master Mass Creation of tools: Active, 20 MP/second. Allows the user to create 20 master class battle tools like kunais per second without stopping as long as the user has mp and the materials.
Warrior (Minor):
Knowledge of Swords: Passive. Allows the user to use more efficiently the swords, greatswords and any other kind of weapon.
Flash strike: Active, 3 MP. The user does a swift strike that is hard to parry.
Impact strike: Active, 5 MP. The user does a strike with enough impact to disarm the opponent.
Magician (adept):
Magic Knowledge: Passive. Allows the use of magic.
Magician's soul: Passive. All spells cast by the user are a 20% stronger.
Magic control: Passive. All spells are cast 10% faster. Some can even be used without chanting.
Basic Magic:
Minor analyze: Active, 1 MP. Shows to the user the status of the target. It can be tricked.
False status: Active, 3 MP. Allows the user to change what others see when they see the status.
Medium analyze: Active, 5 MP. Shows to the user the status and the personal data of the target. It can be tricked.
False data: Allows the user to change what others see when they see the status window and the skill window when they use analyze skills as Greater analyze or medium analyze.
Fly: Active, 8 mp/second. Allows the user to soar through the sky.
Ice magic:
Ice Blade: Active, 5 MP. Allows the user to create an ice blade or to implant the ice element temporarily to the blade.
Ice burst: Active, 10 MP. The user throws a concentrated explosive ball of ice that will burst and freeze anyone close to it.
Icebolt: Active, 4 MP. The user shoots a bolt of ice that freezes upon touch.
Ice spear: Active, 12 MP. The user creates spears of ice to attack the enemy.
Ice Wall: Active, 20 MP. The user creates a defensive wall made of Ice.
Nigredo Status:
Race: Undead and Beastkin. Subrace: Cat Beastkin.
Gender: Female
Age: 736 years old
Height: 1 meters and 40 centimeters.
Three sizes: 70/52/70
Cup Size: A
Likes: Cute boys, hacking, hoodies, heels, helping Grandine, teasing boys, loyal people, godslayers that get along with Evan.
Dislikes: Seeing Grandine angry or stressed, insults against Evan or anyone of his family, spicy food, corruption, hypocritical people, slavers.
Level: 60 (From the body)+20 (From the parasite)
STATS:
HP: 40000/40000
MP: 35000/35000
STR: 500
VIT: 300
INT: 500
DEX: 500
AGI: 500
Magic affinity: None
Skill affinity: Teleporter, Charmer, Mana Operator, Alchemist, Survivalist, Enhancer, Techno Maker, Martial Artist.
Titles: Former Godslayer, Grand Hacker, the eleventh of the 16 Sunken Guardians.
Special skills:
Mana recovery: Active, 0 MP. The user lowers the cost of all the skills by a 50% for an hour. Only works once every day.
Mechanical Mind: The user casting speed increases, and understands machinery far easier than most.
Cat on Machine: The chaotic nature of the cat beastkin and a mana operator do a synergy that allows the user to use chaotic mana operations.
Skin of Dragos: The defense of the user increases a 50%, and the strength of physical attacks without using weapons increases a 80%.
Processing boost: The user can think faster than usual.
Potential Unleashed: The user gains 400 status points extra at the cost of losing one affinity. One use only.
Super body: The user’s body is far better than usual, so it can withstand way better than the average person the side effects of skills like Limiter Release.
Overclocking: Active. 50 MP/second. The slime that makes the main body of this creature boost the body to go beyond limits. All stats increase a 20%, all limitations of any active skill the creature holds disappears. Causes stress to the slime, and usage without any limitation will lead to death.
Emergency Heal: Active, 100 MP. The slime that makes the main body can repair their host quickly, recovering a 40% of the total HP of the host.
Ego Destruction: The slime has completely destroyed the ego that the brain had, and absorbed the memories of the host without gaining their personality.
Chemical Enhancement: Due to the parasitic relationship of the corpse and the slime, the body has been upgraded, in terms of metabolism and processing speed, to a level the host would never reach on their own.
Parallel Leveling: Both the host and the slime share the same level bar. So once the host levels up, the slime levels up too. This said, the host gains all the status points and the slime gains all the skill points, which the slime can use to further improve itself or the host.
Parallel Processing: Usually a monster skill. Allows to process things faster with a doubled mental processing. (Acquired due to the necro slime and the special skills she had synergizing).
Skills:
Mana Operator (Master):
Mana Sense: Allows the user to sense better the mana in the area, and so they can control it better.
Tech Link: The user is able to connect with machinery, and to fully control them once they have overtaken the machine.
Mana Link: The user can connect with others using mana, and do a telepathic communication line between the people near them as long as they are 10 meters near the user
Basic Mana Operation: Active, 4 MP. The user can use the mana operation computer (MOC) to use the mana in the air that can’t be normally used to power the mana operation subcomputer and allow them to do certain things.
Basic mana operations are: Mana floating disc (which makes a floating disc above the subunits the user wants to use for it), mana laser (the subunits shoot lasers made of pure mana), mana shift (makes an item or person shift their position), trendy shift (makes people focus on something and leave the rest on their own or viceversa), analysis (allows the user to analyze someone status and skills {Does not help with items, skills, or spells that hide them}), record (allows someone to do photos or record stuff with the subunits), and mana shield (a shield of mana to defend people or other subunits).
Mana engraving: Active, 1 MP and one mana source. The user can engrave a mana mark or a mana tattoo in people and items that can store mana that the one who has the marks or tattoos can use when required.
Adept Mana Operation: Active, 12 MP. The user can make special mana operations that are more difficult than the basic ones.
Adept mana operations are: Counter force prism (A prism surrounds the target, which counters the physical attacks with an impact of the same magnitude sent towards the item that does the attack), mana dispersion prism (A prism surrounds the target and disperses all magical attacks sent towards the target), massive mana shield (a bigger shield of mana to defend people or other subunits), long range tech link (allows the user to link with tech from lange range using subunits), and warp mana operation (uses mana to warp someone to a better location).
Mana hacking: Actives, 25 MP. The user can hack into any system that uses mana as a power source and manipulate it (success rate depends on the MOC and the MOSCs used for this skill).
Master Mana operation: Active, 30 MP. The user can make the highest grade mana operations, which only a handful can truly use.
Master Mana operations are: Absolute Regeneration (the subunits can regenerate limbs lost by people, unless the wounds are cursed), massive warp mana operation (uses mana to warp all that is in 100 meters of range to a different position), mana tinkering (which allows fixing machines using mana), body analysis (allows the user to see all the sizes of the body), and photo modification (allows the user to modify photos).
Techno Maker (Master):
Tech Knowledge: The user is able to understand machinery easily and is able to make blueprints of all kinds of technology that they understand,
Engineering Mastery: The user has a good understanding of engineering, and so can learn faster about how some machines works.
Handy Man: The user can understand how to make items faster than other production specialists.
Master Enchanting: The user can put all kinds of enchantments.
Triple Effect: The user can add three times the amount of enchantments on each item.
Technical Craft: Active, 10 MP. The user can create any technologicalitem they know of, unless god-class items like stigmatas, and can make it quicker than most. Yet they require the equipment to make the items they want to craft.
Enchanting: Active, 1 MP. The user is capable of implanting permanent enchantments in equipment.
Enhanced Enchanting: Active, 10 MP. The user can improve enchantments previously put and even add more to the equipment.
Master Creation of Technical Items: Active, 2 MP. Allows the user to create a master class technical items like cryogenic bombs.
Implant Refinement: Active, 5 MP. The user can refine the implants made by himself/herself. They can also do so with only the implants, but will need specific materials to do so and it can fail. Failing the refinement can damage the implant, and cause massive damage to the one using it.
Upgrading: Active, 20 MP. The user can upgrade the equipment with several improvements that makes it stronger.
Alchemist (Master):
Knowledge of medicinal and poisonous herbs: The user can recognize the plants that are good to use for medical use and the ones that are used to make poison.
Knowledge of medicinal properties: The user can recognize all the items that can be used to make items to heal people.
Synthesis: Active, 5 MP. The user can merge several items using different methods to create an item. The user needs to have the equipment to do it.
Mass Synthesis: Active, 50 MP. The user can merge huge amounts of materials using different methods to create an item. The user needs to have the equipment to do it.
Decompose: Active, 5 MP. The user can decompose anything as long as he/she can touch it.
Mass Decompose: Active, 50 MP. The user can decompose vast amounts of anything as long as he/she can touch it.
Restore: Active, 5 MP. The user can restore things that have been damaged but needs materials similar to what has been lost. For example, an arm lost would need meat, calcium and lots of time.
Alchemistry of terrain: Active, 20 MP. The user can modify the terrain using his ability.
Alchemical Eye: Active, 0 MP. The user can recognize anything and be capable of reproducing it.
Martial artist (Master):
Knowledge of the body: Allows the user to practice martial arts and cultivate the body.
Cultivation: Active, 1 MP/second. The user can use the mana to improve the body taking out all the negative things that may be in the body and enhance the power of the user's body. The method may vary depending on the style you use.
Martial body: Improves the body of the user, making it stronger and easier to train.
Martial Soul: Allows the user to hit the ghost if they have enough concentration
Hardened body: The body of the user is extremely tough and will nullify the physical damage to those who are 20 levels below the user's level.
Perfect concentration: The user cannot be ambushed
Demon Style:
Demon Style cultivation: The user may be able to use the method of cultivation of the demon. The method is to sit on the ground and put the two fists on the knees while making the mana flow around the body. This cultivation will increase the strength, the vitality, the dexterity, and the physical power but won't allow changes in the body in terms of gaining muscle or weight, allowing the user to not be a mass of muscles.
Demon Impact: Active, 8 MP. A fist strike that is enhanced with mana. Used well can pierce an iron wall.
Demon Kick: Active, 10 MP. A kick enhanced with mana that can push even big boulders out of the way.
Wicked Aura: Increases the effects of the aura skills a 50%.
Demon Enhancement: Active, 20 MP. Increases all the status of the user a 25% during 5 minutes.
Demon Heavy Smash: Active, 16 MP. A hit with the strength of 20 demons capable of breaking an iron wall.
Demon Shattering Combo: Active, 50 MP. A combo of four Demon Impacts done in a flash, and two Demon Heavy Smashes consecutively. It completely devastates guards and barriers.
Demon Unholy Aura: Active, 2 MP/minute. An aura that increases the two highest stats of the user a 60%, and doubles the regeneration speed. Pinnacle skill.
Cat Style:
Cat style meditation: The user may be able to use the method of cultivation of the demon. The method is to fight while making the internal mana flow move across the body. It will increase all the stats unless intelligence, but the stat that increases the most is agility. Also, it increases the perception ability of the user.
Cat Thrust: Active, 8 MP. The user focuses their mana into their claws and does a lightning fast thrust towards the heart of the target.
Cat Dash: Active, 5 MP. The user can do a fast dash in one direction, by increasing the mana flow inside their feet.
Cat Aura: Active, 10 MP/second. Increases the perception ability of the user a 30%.
Cat Claws: Active, 20 MP. The user enhances the claws to be able to claw through leather armor.
Cat Jumping: Active, 25 MP. The user can enhance their own jumping power to reach higher than usual with their jumps.
Snow-white Cat aura: Pinnacle skill. When the user uses Cat aura, it will become this aura. In this aura, alongside the perception increase, the user increases their agility a 30% and their strength a 50%.
Charmer (Master):
Increased Charm: People of the opposite sex or those of the same sex interested in the same sex will be more attracted to the user.
Charmed Trust: Those who are charmed by the user will trust him/her totally.
Charming negotiations: The negotiations with the ones who can be charmed will be easier.
Irresistible: Those who may be interested in the user will lose any kind of restraint when they see him/her.
Teleporter (Master):
Mana Brain: The user acquires the capacity to hold a mana brain. The mana brain is an accumulation of mana that acts as a secondary brain of the size of a pea, that is inside the heart. Damage to the mana brain will cause a state of dizziness to the user, but it’ll nullify all the side effects of the mental fatigue as it runs all the subconscious thought. It’s said that the mana brain allows its users to learn twice as fast as they should be able.
Mana Fatigue Resistance: The user is more resistant to the side effects of using too much mana at once, allowing them to recover twice as fast as they should without this passive.
Spatial Resistance: The user is able to nullify teleports that affect them if they don’t want to be teleported.
Expansive Inventory: The inventory is twice as big as it should be.
Space Distortion: Active, 10 MP. The user can use this to nullify space magic that the user detects, as it distorts the space and nullifies the incoming space magic. It can be only activated as a counter.
Space Jump: Active, 5 MP. The user uses mana to jump at the speed of light to a location in a range of 50 meters.
Space Distortion Aura: Active, 15 MP. The user can create an armor that will send away projectiles, and nullify attempts of using space magic on the armor user, to themselves or an ally. This aura armor can only work for ten minutes, and can only nullify up to two space spells and withstand 300 attacks with projectiles.
Space Transaction: Active, 200 MP. The user can do a transaction between themselves or an ally and any space of similar size they have knowledge of. Fair warning: If the user doesn’t calculate well, the target may end up fused to a wall and unable to escape.
Mass Teleport: Active, 3000 MP. A mass teleportation that takes anything in a range of 100 meters, and sends it to another place. Takes both inanimate objects and people, so it’s way more taxing than any other teleport.
Mass Space Transaction: Active, 5000 MP. A mass version of Space Transaction. Exchanges a space of a size equal to a range between 50 meters and 300 meters with another location. Takes everything. Pinnacle skill.
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