Flint went outside the orphanage and started to walk to the center of the city, going across the affluent streets of Crelens with all kinds of individuals walking and buying things from the few stalls placed across the streets and the shops, where there were a big market and a building of two floors made of wood and iron that had a small crest with a small sword. That building was the headquarters of the odd jobs, the place in which young children could obtain jobs that were terribly paid, but that gave them a chance to obtain levels, experience, and even open some doors to a better future if all went well.
The inside of the building was a lot more lively than the usual bar or any place where jobs were given. The first floor was a big bar with wooden planks acting as the floor, old wooden walls with windows that with dirtied glass alongside several holes on the wall caused by shots or spells, several wooden tables and wooden seats which had views to the market that was outside, and the second floor was a big room with the same kind of walls and floor which had several boards attached to the walls, and a receptionist behind a desk waiting for the people to get the quests.
Flint went to the second floor and found a tall woman with pale skin and black eyes, short golden hair, wearing a golden V-neck dress with a pair of high-quality high heels who was waiting near the desk.
“You must be my escort.” The noble said with a scared look in her face, clearly worried about being caught.
“Yes, that’s me.” Flint calmly said.
“I can make good things for all of those who are working here. Stopping the slavery may open the path to a better future for you all.” The noble said, trying to convince Flint which was a fool’s errand, as Flint calmly checked his gun once more.
“Yes, yes... Same song as always for the same result. Nothing ever changes, no matter how many 'good' people try it.” Flint nonchalantly said as he kept checking his gun. ‘A noble grabbing kids to defend her, she must be the kind that will end up in disgrace soon. It’s not the first time a rebellious noble ended up falling in disgrace because they are a rebel, and a noble that follows David’s ideology takes their place.’ Flint thought to himself as he sighed to himself.
“Well, I will be the one to finally get it done. Also, I am waiting for the second escort.” The noble said with a serious look in her eyes.
Then Zerana arrived at the place and looked at Flint, clearly surprised to see Flint there to work with her in this job. The children of Cherubs Rest never worked together, because that way they gained more money, but this case was a surprise since the client never told any of the two with who would they work with. Flint considered that as a way to defend the operation, they wouldn't know things about the quest until they needed to know them, and he didn't like it. But this time, the noble woman was paying a lot of money, and he decided to take a bit of risk.
“I did not expect to have to work with you.” Zerana said as she smiled widely. ‘Well, at least I don’t have to worry about a mage messing up with a minor level spell and get my fur charred. And Flint is superb with doors… But will we get enough money working together?’ Zerana thought as she pondered the situation.
“Neither did I expect this.” Flint said as he looked at Zerana. ‘She’s to be trusted, but this situation feels too dangerous. Well, it’s not like we can back out. A month of inability to do quests equals to being way behind in our objective of being free, and we don’t know if Evan can pull off whatever he’s planning. Agh, I hate this kind of risky situations, but might as well go with it.’ Flint thought as he cursed his own luck.
“Do you know each other?” The noble asked as she smiled widely at Zerana. ’Well, if they know each other and work with David… I am dead. But if they are not with David, that might be of help somehow.’ The noble thought to herself as she smiled.
“Yes. We are friends.” Flint replied with a cold tone. ‘Is she confirming this because it’s a trap quest? Ugh, Zerana was seen helping Legias. So that means that we are all targets, and she’s just a trap. But it’s not like I can lie with Zerana around, since she’s too innocent and naive to get the idea of lying. Might as well fall in the trap, and try to come out on top.’ Flint thought to himself as he pondered whether a noble would be ready to be sacrificed in order to catch a few kids.
“Good! That will help us in teamwork.” The noble said, as she made sure to look friendly to the two children who would protect her for the day.
Flint and Zerana smiled and waited in front of the noble, since they were the escorts of this noble lady. And both knew that escorts had to walk always right behind the VIP, even if Zerana thought that she would do better going ahead and scouting the area.
***
Meanwhile, Evan and Lillian left the house of Caroline and from there they both went to different places. Lillian wanted to buy some things that were needed in the orphanage, and Evan needed to gain levels first to be sure that he was strong enough. He didn't doubt his skills, he knew they worked exactly as they used to be in Dawn World, but he doubted his body. It wasn't the body he had prepared back in Dawn World, and that meant that things could work differently. Especially the status that weren't status, specific things that changed how a stat worked. An example of that would be the musculature of the user: If the user had a trained body, then increasing Vitality and Strength would work far better than someone who was overweight.
Yet Noche was surprised that Evan knew so more and decided to test his knowledge, asking him with telepathy directly. It was the first time he found a dark lord capable to think ahead of time, since most focused on dealing with the hero first rather than doing anything else and usually got wiped out.
“Evan, are you sure that you remember how to increase your level and the requirements for the skills?” Noche asked as he stayed inside Evan, to ensure no one would look at him funnily and summon the royal guard. ‘It’s not a bad idea to ensure if Evan knows the bare minimum, to ensure that he’s a proper candidate for a dark lord or if he’s a last ditch attempt from Lady Namika. If he’s a last ditch effort, might as well accept death.’ Noche thought to himself.
“To increase your level, you must kill enemies. That's how it went in Dawn World. And if you have the affinity for a skill, you can unlock it with 1 point, but it will start at minor level. You require 5 skill points to become an adept level, but in some, you may need to just train the skill. Then to reach master you require to use 10 skill points in total, 1 for minor skill and then a balance between the other two stages. And to obtain pinnacle skills, you need to reach master level and gain enough experience. Skill points can be gained through leveling up, just like status points.” Evan calmly said as if he was repeating it out of a book of instruction.
“I see that in your world you truly were smart and not just talented or blessed. But in this world, the gods may bless someone with already learned skills, extra affinities, and extra status points. Those blessed with all are called cursed children.” Noche said with a proud tone. ‘Good! He’s a proper candidate, that means that we are not going to just be thrown to death! Let’s hope he lives to the expectations and manages to mess with Zerax’s plan.’ Noche thought as he stayed inside the body.
“As I can guess... No kid should have extra status points, affinities or learned skills. Not even special skills, like I have.” Evan said as he pondered a few things.
“A normal boy has all the status at 1 and has around 4 affinities but no learned skills. When they are 10, they go to the grand church inside the castle and the Pope calls the power of the gods and the gods bless the children. Increasing their status, their affinities, and even give them minor level skills. And in your case, you are a damned walking irregularity.” Noche said before he scoffed. ‘Literally he has an entire build and Namika allows him to just keep increasing his status. He’s going to attract too much attention to himself if he gets analyzed by anyone with basic magic.’ Noche pondered as he was worried about having to face a situation in which the royal guard catch Evan more quickly than expected, and go to kill him.
“Ah. We all in Dawn World started like that, but some of us could choose our affinities. Those were the adventurers, the rest were villagers.” Evan said as he scratched his head.
“Ah, I see. But here there are new skills that you did not know. Like monster devourer.” Noche said as he snickered. ‘He may be from the Dawn era, but that means that he’s extremely misinformed on the new skills like monster devourer or pope.’ Noche thought to himself, considering the situation.
“Well, yes. Not used to that one. But I guess that new things are going to be normal and that they have their own ranges.” Evan said as he pondered their own things.
“Yes. With time, you will know them. I will teach you that.” Noche said. ‘And so, I ensure that you are close to me, whether you like it or not. This way, I can keep you on the good path for a dark lord.’ Noche thought as he chuckled to himself.
“The monster devourer what it is?” Evan asked, his curiosity driving his mind at this moment as he walked across the streets. ‘The earlier I can understand the new skill trees, the better. Ugh, it feels like checking a balance patch. Probably they seem overpowered since they are new but have some sort of grind mechanic that will make it weak, like Warlock.’ Evan thought to himself as he checked around the area.
“The most overpowered ability. It allows you to devour monsters and gain their abilities and forms using the ability body transmutation.” Noche explained calmly.
“Wow. That is great. Where's the catch? I know there's a catch, it's like the soulmancer skill tree. Sounds wonderful until you notice how much it requires to work decently. In early stages are trash, due to that. But later it gives you a surprise.” Evan said as he squinted his eyes.
“The users of that ability die young due to food poisoning due to eating monsters.” Noche said with a cold tone.
“Well, I have an advantage. Full resistance to poison and curses. Didn't tell you, but this certainly works nice.” Evan said as he smirked. ‘Okay, it’s a trash skill that with me has become useful. Yay, I have something far better than warrior… Probably.’ Evan thought to himself as his mind was celebrating the new skill tree.
“Lucky bastard. That way you won't die due to eating monsters.” Noche said as he scoffed.
“And I gain 2 skill points per level. So…” Evan said as he scratched his chin. ‘Should be 20 skills, so two skills in master level, but since spell affinities cost only 5 points to reach to master… It’s going to be two spell affinities for free and then one master skill. Getting monster devourer, and then thunder magic… And I will have to find a new magic affinity.’ Evan thought as he did the math.
Noche did restrain himself to not scream or go to smack Evan, since that would make everything so much harder to deal with if he was seen near Evan. The people wouldn't know how to recognize the dark lord, but they surely knew the grimoire of the dark lord.
“So, let's do numbers... If you reach level 10, you get 20 skill points. In short, two master skills. That means you get Thunder magic easily, you get another master skill which probably will be monster devourer.” Noche said as he pondered the situation. ‘And still have five skill points left to acquire another magic affinity. This guy will be a quadruple mage, and probably get too much attention to himself!’ Noche thought to himself, cursing Namika’s gifts due to them being too notorious.
“Maybe it is like that, or maybe you just have not seen the uses of the weak monster skills. By the way, you know where the gate is?” Evan said, as he decided to just try things out, using the gifts given by Namika. ‘If all works as intended, potentially I can abuse weak skills, just like I abused dark magic and fire magic back on Dawn World. This could lead to a new fighting style for me! With just ten skill points. I hope there are not so many new skill trees now.’ Evan thought as he pondered the new skill tree he could acquire.
“Go forward and then to the right.” Noche said, in order to speed up this tortuous situation.
Evan started to walk around the city trying to find the gate but got lost, to Noche's dismay, and while moving along Evan found a group of slaves, since they were wearing the steel collars that Evan had seen when he arrived to Crelens and dirty clothes that were just barely a step above being rags. Most of the slaves were beastkin with wolf ears like Zerana, and it seemed they were about her age, and were following a lanky man with short brown hair who was wearing a rather large brown fur coat, a bright yellow shirt, a massive amount of jewelry on his neck and fingers, brown trousers, and brown shoes.
Usually, Evan would ignore any kind of evil acts that wouldn’t have innocent people suffering. He wasn’t a hero, and in fact he was a villain, so he didn’t have to fight any petty thief or the like for any sort of following the greater good.
Another thing was seeing evils like slavery, extortion against innocents, and a rather nasty variety of evils that could be done against innocents. That kind of evil acts was exactly the kind of evil that Evan would never ignore, especially from a guy totting so many jewels.
And so Evan calmly moved towards the supposed slave trader, and shot a fire bullet at his left leg, which made the slave trader fall to the ground while the kids looked terrified of what was going on. As the slave trader was crying in pain and on the ground, due to the shot he had received, while the slaves tried to run away only to fall to the ground in pain as the collars were shining with a bright purple hue.
“Uh, I see now why normal slaves don’t run away. No need to use a leash when you just can put them in endless pain if they move away without being told to. Interesting technology, despicable usage of it.” Evan said as he sat on top of the trader with a crazed smile and a sinister glint in his eye. ‘Interesting piece of junk. Now, if I recall well, a mana operator should be able to hack into these back in Dawn World. Will it work again? I recall making a retainer for Grandine that had the mana operator skill tree.’ Evan thought to himself, managing to keep his sanity even if he was enraged by the trader.
“Wha-Who… Who are you!? Who sent you!?” The slave trader said, fear consuming his mind, as his pain felt smaller while he was in fear.
“That doesn’t matter. What matters is what you have done. That said, boys and girls… Be in a tick with you lot. Right after I sorted this tosser out.” Evan said as he kept an eye on the trader. ‘Ugh, this will take ages since I have to go back to Grandine’s house and it’ll be annoying to say the least.’ Evan thought to himself.
The slaves meekly nodded, and simply got up even with the searing pain coursing through their veins, as the collar started losing strength as the slaves weren’t trying to escape any longer, while Evan simply searched for a loose stone while staying on top of the trader.
“Who is paying you, boy!? I can pay you twice what they paid you! I am influential, and I can get you hooked up with my boss!” The trader said, scared of what could happen to him if Evan found a loose rock. ‘He must be an agent of the other underground areas, I can just give him a good share and then warn the boss!’ The trader thought to himself as he was trying to find out who was ordering Evan to do this.
“I am not being paid. Nor ordered. I just dislike two-bit villains who are so pathetic that need to do this sort of petty crime. If you are to be a villain, at least be proper and strike the rich first. Seriously, this is dishonor on true and proper villains like myself.” Evan said as he found a loose rock and pulled it out from the street. ‘At least, don’t attract all the attention to yourself by using so much gold. It’s just asking to get punked or assaulted, you bastard.’ Evan thought as he aimed his attacks, considering which bones to break.
“Evan, you shouldn’t do this.” Noche said from within Evan, only to have Evan ignoring him, which made him repeat himself once more. But the message the second time would come in a form of a message sent to the brain of Evan via a telepathic line between Noche and him.
“I should, you know why. But if you have time to complain, do help the kids with this parlor trick. Send them to Grandine, and she’ll sort them out.” Evan replied through the telepathic line. ‘Interesting trick that Noche has. I’ll have to be careful when thinking about plans with this one around, that’ll be really hard.’ Evan thought as he tried to avoid sending those thoughts to Noche.
Noche sighed and decided to trust the one supposed to be the dark lord, using telepathy to send a clear order by mimicking the voice of the trader, which worked to ensure that the collars would allow the children to get away. Once that was done, the children quickly went towards Grandine’s house, while leaving the trader alone to face Evan’s wrath.
“H-How!? How did you get the kids away!? The collars should be following my orders!” The trader said, surprised and scared that the boy managed to suppress the collars and allow the slaves to run away.
“Oh, well. Tricks of the job, mind you. Having a trusty fella that can use a sound only the targets can hear that can mimic someone’s else voice… Well, it came fancy this time. Not as fancy as you with those jewels… Well, let’s be honest… You look garish, and are ugly as a damn goblin.” Evan said as he smirked with a crazed look, as he raised the hand that held the loose rock, which was his left one.
“O-Okay! I will admit it! I am outgunned this time! Just let me go! I am a small fish in a rather vast ocean of very important people that want those beastkin of the wolf clan! Soon their species will be gone, due to the-” The trader pleaded, only to be silenced by a solid hit on the nose with the loose rock. This ensured that the trader was bleeding from the nose, but Evan made sure to fix the nose enough to avoid that the trader choked to death.
“Nope. That’s not it, if you have time to speak… You have time to attack. You don’t get to do a deal with me. And I don’t care about that group of fancy daddy’s little darlings. And the moment I care about them will be the moment I bury them in lava. So either attack or just take this and be grateful I am letting you live through this.” Evan said as he attacked precisely at the left clavicle of the trader, ensuring to break it and preventing being attacked from the left side.
For Evan, it was better to use the brick to counter or block attacks since his strength was utterly useless, and dexterity wouldn’t help much. The trader tried to punch Evan, only to get countered by a precise attack on the wrist as Evan used his right hand to catch the punch and pull it further, while striking with the stone to break the wrist and effectively leave the trader without hands to use.
“Well, now you can’t attack. Of course, you could have tried to slip away but I guess you were too much into the adrenaline of the moment to consider things clearly. Shame. Your kind usually ends up being killed in a sad crossfire in wars. Either way, best to tie this up!” Evan said as he dropped the rock on top of the man, and then used Dark Curse silently on the trader to make him sleep.
Noche came out of Evan’s body, since no one was on the area because between the illegal slave trader walking with the children out in the open and Evan’s actions… All the people had run away or hidden in their homes, avoiding seeing anything to prevent any sort of issue with the people behind the trader or the ones behind Evan.
“Well, good way to allow me to have a moment out of your body. Also, brutal.” Noche said as he chuckled in delight to the sight he was seeing.
“Can’t go further than that. Don’t want to learn that there’s a loophole that allows this man to legally have underaged children. But should recheck the laws, just in case, but probably Grandine can deal with it.” Evan said as he got up and channeled his mana to cast a wave of fire to clean his left hand of the blood that had stained it.
“Well, there’s none. He’s an illegal slave trader, but you know how things are. People pay guards to do whatever they please, as long as it’s not too conspicuous, and they can carry illegal slaves anywhere. If someone asks, they are being under trial due to illegal smuggling or the like.” Noche explained to Evan, who looked at Noche and simply shrugged.
“So I have to consider that there’s a sort of underground in which this kind of illegal things just go around. Noted, not so different from Earth. Maybe we even find some politician, or advisor, helping them out. Or worse, a judge or a group of judges.” Evan nonchalantly said, this impressed Noche vastly.
“Okay… Earth is messed up, but a lot. Seriously, what’s next? That they ignore the roots of their own country for their benefit?” Noche said with a sarcastic tone.
“Oh, no. They already do that.” Evan said, as he started moving away from the entire scenario, to avoid issues with the guard. ‘In most parts of Earth they do, which is not a wonder. Let’s be honest, a democracy where you allow the thieves and the tricksters to just do deals under the table to get public money and turn it into private with corruption and bribes is one that ends up corrupted.’ Evan thought as he was moving along.
“Bloody hell, that’s one thing I didn’t want to know.” Noche said as he entered inside Evan’s body.
And so, the duo went across most parts of the city… Due to Evan’s inability to orientate himself because of his lack of depth perception and after 20 minutes searching the gate, while Noche was calling him an idiot, Evan found the gate. But he also found a problem to deal with, in the form of a guard that looked like the kind that wouldn’t be bribed, and Evan wouldn’t bribe that guard just for being allowed outside, since he didn’t carry any sort of money.
Noche Status:
Race: Grimoire.
Age: Seriously you want to know that? 320000 years old.
Height: I am just a book of 50 centimeters.
Likes: Working with Evan, conspiracies, and good planning.
Dislikes: Corrupt people and those who overuse their power, and lazy or useless Dark Lords.
Level: 100
STATS (Maximum of 1000):
HP: 30000/30000
MP: 60000/60000
STR: 1
VIT: 200
INT: 1000
DEX: 300
AGI: 500
Magic affinity: Basic magic, dark magic, Demonic Magic, Space Magic.
Skill affinity: Magician, Dark Sage, Exchange master, Wizard.
Titles: Comrade of the Dark Lord, Grimoire of destruction, Old gentleman.
Skills:
Magician (Master):
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.
Magic modification: Passive. The spells can be modified to give them new effects and change the way they are used.
Chantless: Passive. The minor spells will be automatically casted without even saying the name of the spell and the user only has to think in the spell and the adept spells only will have to be chanted entirely when using magic modification.
Basic Magic (Master) :
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: Active, 15 mp. Allows the user to change what others see when they see the status window and the skill window when they use analyze skills like Greater analyze or medium analyze.
Fly: Active, 8 mp/second. Allows the user to soar through the sky.
Greater analyze: Active, 10 MP. Shows to the user everything of the target. It can be tricked with false self.
Telepathy: Active, 12 mp/second. Allows the user to speak to the mind of the target.
False self: Active, 20 mp. Allows the user to change what others see when they see the status window, the skill window and even the name and gender that appears in the status window when they use analyze skills.
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Teleport: Active, 15 mp. The user can make small teleports. Range of 1500 meters.
Full analyze: Active, 20 MP. Shows to the user everything of the target.
City Teleport: Active, 30 mp. The user can teleport to any city that the user has visited.
Dark Magic (Master):
Dark smoke: Active, 1 MP. The user shoots dark smoke to cover his whereabouts.
Curse: Active, 3 MP. The user curses the target and causes ailments like poison, blindness and sleep.
Lethargy: Active, 5 MP. The user makes the target be slower and less powerful.
Greater curse: Active, 6 MP. The user curses the target and causes ailments like petrification, degradation (high-level poisoning that makes the body degrade until it breaks if it is not treated) and bleeding.
Dark Chains: Active, 10 MP. The user can create chains made of darkness that will stop.
Dark bullet: Active, 5 MP. The user shoots dark element bullets that will hurt and pierce the target.
Dark Embrace: Active, 20 MP. The user can curse the target and cause instant death. It takes a long time to make it work.
Dark eye: Active, 30 MP. It forces the enemy to do what the user orders.
Dark Aura: Pinnacle spell, 0 MP. The user can add the dark element to any other spell.
Demonic Magic (Master) :
Demonic Bomb: Active, 5 MP. The user creates a dark bomb that explodes and hurts the enemy.
Demonic Blade: Active, 10 MP. The user creates blades of dark magic that will be sent after the enemy and will silence him/her for a while.
Arrows of Doom: Active, 25 MP. The user creates dark arrows that fall from the sky that will deal high dark element damage and will mark the enemy and the user can see where the marked ones are.
Hymn of Divine Disruption: Active, 30 MP. The user sends a wave of magic that blocks all kinds of magic that improves the enemy status. Also blocks any kind of help that any divine being is giving to the user temporarily.
Barrier of Twilight: Active, 55 MP. The user can create a barrier that blocks almost all attacks unless holy and dark element attacks. If a holy or dark element attack hits the barrier it will break down the barrier.
Charm of the Inferno: Active, 75 MP. The user can charm demons and control them.
Blackout: Active, 85 MP. The user sends a dark wave to an enemy and blocks any kind of attack that the enemy tries to use and puts the enemy in a profound sleep.
Gift of Twilight: Pinnacle spell, 100 MP. The user can heal someone with a demonic wave that will increase the affinity of the target towards the dark element.
Demonic Body: Pinnacle spell, 0 MP. The user increases their regenerative power a 200% for a long period of time and allows him/her to regenerate his/her own limbs.
Space Magic (Master):
Space Distortion: Active, 5 MP. The user can distort space to teleport to a specific area around 25 meters from the user's position.
Space Cut: Active, 20 MP. The user can distort the space to cut a small area.
Gravity Cross: Active, 45 MP. The user can increase the effect of gravity applied to the target.
Gravity Relief: Active, 50 MP. The user lowers the gravity of an ally, making him/her stronger and faster.
Black Ball: Active, 85 MP. The user creates a black ball that will increase the gravity of anything that touches it until it is crushed or the target gets 25 meters away from it.
Meteoric Fall: Active, 125 MP. The user can make fall asteroids to hit the target.
Spatial Empowered Aura: Active, 0 MP. The user cloaks himself/herself with spatial distortions that nullify any physical attack. Space Erasure: Active, 5000 MP. The user scrapes the air using a space distorsion made with mana so powerful that it can erase an area of 25 meters horizontally or vertically in a range of 100 meters. Requires having hands.
Space Erasure: Active, 5000 MP. The user scrapes the air using a space distorsion made with mana so powerful that it can erase an area of 25 meters horizontally or vertically in a range of 100 meters. Requires having hands.
Exchange Master (Master):
Increased exchange: Passive. The ratio of exchange instead of being 1:1 is 10:1.
Greater exchange: Passive. The speed of exchange is faster.
Maximize exchange: Passive. The ratio of exchange increases 100 times.
Health exchange: Active, 1 HP per second. The user can give his own health points to a target to heal the target.
Mana exchange: Active, 1 MP per second. The user can give his own mana points to a target to restore the mana of the target.
Dark Sage skills (Master):
Dark Mastery: Passive. The user dark spells are strengthened a 50%.
Dark Expertise: Passive. The user can absorb dark spells to restore the user mana.
Umbra power: Passive. The user can manipulate the darkness to cast instantly Umbra spells.
Umbra blast: Active, 2 MP. A shot of pure darkness that causes extreme damage still it is incredibly slow.
Umbra Translocation: Active, 5 MP. The user can translocate things from a shadow to another shadow.
Umbra Cell: Active, 15 MP. The user can place a mana rune that will stop the poor guy who steps in it for 5 seconds.
Umbra Ray: Active, 250 MP. Pinnacle spell. A ray of pure darkness that will pierce anything.
Wizard (Master):
Wizard's blessing: The user's magic skills are a 20% stronger.
Grand Magician's Regeneration: The mana regeneration base speed becomes 100 MP/second instead of 1MP/minute.
Wizard Channeling: The casting speed of the user's spells doubles.
Wizard Extra Chanting: The user can cast two times the amount of spells they should be able to.
Mana Bolt: Active, 1 MP. The user shoots a bolt made of mana, which can go through physical defenses but deals a rather small amount of damage. It can get stopped by barriers made by mana or by anti-magic fields.
Heavy Mana Bolt: Active, 10 MP. The user shoots a reinforced mana bolt that goes through physical defenses and deals a moderate amount of damage. It can pierce barriers.
Mana Decoy: Active, 25 MP. The user can leave a decoy made of mana, that is a foul mimicry of life, and gets eliminated rather quickly.
Mana Sound: Active, 100 MP. The user creates a clear sound in an area that is 300 meters away from the user. This sound acts as a diversion to lure the enemies away from the user.
Homing mana bolts: Active, 50 MP. The user can leave small clumps of mana that will be turned into mana bolts. These bolts will follow and try to hit anyone who gets in an area of 50 meters near the clump of mana. The bolts won't deal much damage, but these bolts slow down those they hit.
Enhanced Flesh: Active, 1000 MP. The user can enhance their body to block physical attacks easily and run fast for a moderate amount of time.
Mana Reparation: Active, 5000 MP. The user can repair any item to its optimal state.
Chef (Master):
Ingredient Knowledge: Passive. Allows the user to recognize several ingredients, and knows which are edible and which aren't.
Utensil Knowledge: Passive. Allows the user to understand what any cooking utensil does.
Mechanical Movement: Passive. The user moves more efficiently while cooking, allowing him/her to be lose less stamina while cooking.
Mental Cooking Training: Passive. The user has more resistance towards mental fatigue, which makes him/her be able to think faster in the recipes.
Cooking: Active, 5 MP. The user can use mana to manipulate several items while cooking, allowing him/her to do several steps at the same time.
Heating Up: Active, 2 MP. The user can use mana to raise the temperature in an oven or an item used for cooking.
Multiple Recipes Progression: Active, 20 MP. The user can do several recipes at the same time, but it's extremely strenuous for the mind.
Detoxification of food: Active, 30 MP. The user can take out the poison in some foods.
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.
Doctor (Master):
Doctor Knowledge: The more intelligent the doctor is, the easier for him is to understand the symptoms.
Doctor Experience: The doctor works faster and with greater precision.
Doctor Vision: 15 MP. The doctor can see the ailments that the target suffer.
Treatment creation: 5 MP/second. The doctor can make the treatment for the patient faster.
Surgery: 25 MP/minute. The doctor focuses on the surgery and his accuracy increases. Won't be disturbed by anything that doesn't kill the user.
Merchant (Master):
Knowledge of materials: Passive, allows the user to see the materials used in any item and be able to know the price of the item.
Discount: Passive, the user will pay less money for the items he/she wants to buy. Success rate depends on the intelligence and dexterity of the user and the target.
Overcharge: Passive, the user will sell the items for more money. Selling price increase depends on intelligence and dexterity.
Eye of the merchant: Passive. The user can see what the client is looking for and what they truly desire.
Pik Status
Race: Augmented Human (Modded Physically).
Gender: Female
Three sizes: 105/65/100
Cup Size: I
Age: 30 years old
Height: 1 meter and 70 centimeters.
Likes: Fashion (secretly), having voluptuous curves (secretly), healing people, modding bodies, her collection of rare items, loyal people, going with elven female godslayers, parties.
Dislikes: Robin, having to deal with Vizgard, dealing with her back pain, anyone who goes against her, fighting, not having fashion magazines.
Level: 60
STATS:
HP: 30000/30000
MP: 20000/20000
STR: 300
VIT: 200
INT: 200
DEX: 700
AGI: 700
Magic affinity: None.
Skill affinity: Archer, Longbow Master, Mana Operator, Techno Maker, Charmer, Scholar, Trickster, Survivalist, Master Scribe, Alchemist, Thief.
Titles: Godslayer, Saint Metal, Field Doc.
Job: Rebel, Doctor.
Special skills:
Vitality Augmentation: Due to the biological augmentation done on the user, they have 100 points in Vitality, and 200 points more in both intelligence and dexterity, with no cost.
Physique Augmentation: Due to the biological augmentation done on the user, they have 100 points more in Vitality, 100 points more in strength, and 200 points more in agility. Due to the invasive procedures, and the restoration processes, her body has enhanced curves and her body has changed vastly (due to the user physique this time, the user has to use heels to walk properly but can use them all the time without any discomfort or exhaustion).
Connection Augmentation: Due to the internal mechanical augmentation, the user’s ability to use magic has been replaced by an enhanced kinetic vision, nocturnal vision, enhanced connection with machinery, enhanced processing speed, and the possibility of hacking machines without using specific skills just by use of the manatek attached to her body.
Techno Enlightenment: Thanks to Connection Augmentation, Physique Augmentation, and Vitality Augmentation… A special synergy skill has appeared. The user learns automatically a skill tree to the master level.
Super Perception: The user’s perception abilities double in terms of effectivity, and enhances the processing speed of the user.
Royal Surge: The user recovers 50% of their remaining HP, and all of their mana when they lose 50% of their HP.
Skills:
Longbow Master (Master):
Longbow Proficiency: The user is more capable of using longbows than the average.
Arduous training: In order to use the longbow without deforming the user’s body, they have been blessed with greater strength and greater vitality. Increases the strength and the vitality of the user in 100 points.
Static Shooting: If you don’t move during your turn, your accuracy increases a 50%.
Longbow Mastery: The range of the longbow attacks/skills is increased a 10%.
Luck is only trained talent: Per each 100 points in dexterity, your luck increases in 50 points.
Take Aim: Active, 5 MP. The user uses mana to enhance their sight, making their next shot have advantage.
Powerful Shot: Active, 10 MP. The user uses their muscles, and boosts them with mana, to shoot a powerful arrow that can pierce through defenses and send the target to the ground.
Impactful Shot: Active, 10 MP. The user uses their muscles, and boosts them with mana, while also using their dexterity to shoot a precise arrow that will knock the target back 30 meters.
Low Shot: Active, 20 MP. The user uses mana to boost their sight and muscles to shoot a powerful arrow precisely to one leg of the target. If done correctly, the arrow can pierce the leg of the target and bury itself in the ground while ensuring that the target can’t move.
Slicing Shot: Active, 20 MP. The user shoots a powerful arrow enhanced with mana, to cause a devastating attack that causes a grievous wound that makes the target bleed profusely.
Shrapnel Shot: Active, 35 MP. The user shoots an arrow filled with mana, which makes the arrowhead explode in tiny bits that remain attached to the body of the target. This causes extreme pain, bleeding, and grievous wounds that need to be tended.
Visual Might: Active, 20 MP. The user concentrates mana in their sight, increasing their accuracy a 100%, for a minute. During that time, due to the focus, their movement speed is halved.
Awakened Shot: Active, 100 MP. The user uses their mana to boost their accuracy, muscles, dexterity, and also uses a fair bit of mana to boost the arrow. The shot can pierce through all barriers cleanly, and deals massive damage to the target. Pinnacle skill.
Archer skills (Master):
Eagle eyes: Passive. Allows the user to aim better than usual.
Steady hands: Passive. The hands of the user will never tremble as long as they hold a bow.
Quick aim: Passive. The user requires less time to aim.
Mastery over the bow: Passive. If the user uses a bow, the critical damage doubles and the accuracy increases a 25%.
Fast shot: Active, 2 MP. The user shoots a fast arrow that cannot be deflected.
Impact shot: Active, 5 MP. The user shoots an arrow that will knock back the enemy.
Arrow barrage: Active, 10 MP. The user shoots a lot of arrows against anything that is in front of the user.
Rapid fire: Active, 25 MP. The user shoots 5 arrows fast but loses a small amount of accuracy.
Archer mark: Active, 5 MP. The user marks a target and every time the user aims at the target his/her accuracy will increase a 25%.
Countershot: Active, 1 Mp. The user is capable of grabbing an arrow shot by another archer and shot it to someone else.
Long range shot: Active, 70 MP. The range of the user’s next shot is doubled. Can be combined with other Archer skills.
Sniping arrow: Active, 150 MP. The next shot of the user will hit the head, or the known critical area, of the target and deal massive critical damage.
Storm’s arrow: Active, 200 MP. A special shot that spins using mana, doubling the perforation power of the arrow and increases the power of the shot. There’s a high chance of breaking the arrow that is used for this shot. Pinnacle skill.
Doctor (Master):
Doctor Knowledge: The more intelligent the doctor is, the easier for him is to understand the symptoms.
Doctor Experience: The doctor works faster and with greater precision.
Doctor Vision: 15 MP. The doctor can see the ailments that the target suffer.
Treatment creation: 5 MP/second. The doctor can make the treatment for the patient faster.
Surgery: 25 MP/minute. The doctor focuses on the surgery and his accuracy increases. Won't be disturbed by anything that doesn't kill the user.
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.
Thief (Master):
Sticky fingers: Passive. Can steal things easier.
Dagger Hitter: Passive. The accuracy of the user doubles when they are attacking with a dagger.
Agile Thief: Passive. The speed of the user is increased a 20%, but also allows the user to pick locks and pockets easily.
Thieves’s loot: Passive. The user can loot skill orbs from the targets that are killed by them, but can only obtain one skill orb at affinity level (the lowest grade).
Steal: Active, 10 MP. The user can use mana to infiltrate inside the inventory of the target, and steal items from said inventory.
Stealth Aura: Active, 5 MP/second. The user can use an aura on their body to lower their presence, and so they become harder to detect even while using sensory abilities. The user can move, but loses a 20% of their total agility while using this skill and can’t use other skills while this skill is working.
Perfect Backstab: Active, 100 MP. The user can only use this skill before a fight starts, and if the user is just right behind the target. This skill allows the user to deliver a perfect backstab that will cause critical damage, paralyze the enemy, and make grievous wounds on the area where the strike is delivered.
Shanking: Active, 10 MP. The user can stab up to five times in quick succession to a target, as long as the dagger does not rebound. It does lower damage, but each stab has a higher chance of becoming a critical hit.
Disarm traps: Active, 150 MP. The user can disarm all kinds of traps by using mana to interfere with them, but this skill leaves a trail of mana that can be detected by anyone with sensory skills even after an hour passes.
Detect All: Active, 1000 MP. The user can release a pulse of mana that recognizes everything, from simple pebbles to magical traps that couldn’t be detected otherwise. This skill stuns the user for half a second after usage. Pinnacle skill.
Well, seems that Flint and Zerana will have to escort a noble to the castle. Why would the noble ask children for such important task?
Meanwhile, Evan is training. So he will be unable to save them if they fall in a trap!
Will all go well? Wait for the next chapters and remember to vote if you liked this chapter!