After two days, in which Evan focused on something that was a fact that differentiated the best ‘official’ players and the godslayers, Evan woke up at dawn while scratching the area where his lost eye used to be. Ever since reincarnating, his empty eye socket had been itching and it was insufferable. Alongside the fact that he lacked the depth perception to aim as well as he used to, so he had been getting used to that during last week, the itchiness and sometimes sharp pain he felt were an annoyance for Evan.
During those two days, Evan had been working on his accuracy and the status that were not stats. Back in Dawn World, even how the character was modeled affected the skill effectivity and other status that were not stats. So Evan had been getting used to his new body, and did some meditation efforts, even if they didn’t do much. A focused mind did allow the user to hit more accurately, and if the body got used to using mana… The side effects of using spells and the like were vastly lowered.
Evan, back in Dawn World, barely received any sort of side effects for using all sorts of spells and their variant forms due to his extensive work on the meditation and focusing his mind.
‘Finally got a 2% of my power back in Dawn World in Stats that aren’t stats back. Not much, but it should be a rather important part. But I am fully used to the body, and how it circulates mana. So I am not forcing it up that hard any longer, and it’s fixed. But I should still keep training, these snowball stats are the trickiest bunch since they lower if you don’t train them every single day.’ Evan thought as he put on the eyepatch and was ready to start the day.
When Evan was going to start some training, deciding to get changed first before anything, Grandine managed to reach to Cherubs Rest, went to Evan’s room and saw Evan completely recovered putting on a sleeveless shirt. Due to Lillian following quickly Caroline, she saw Evan getting changed with the clearly trained body of Evan, and so she covered her face while looking clearly surprised. This made Grandine to remember that Lillian was still quite pure.
“Father! I need to talk to you!” Grandine exclaimed as she looked worried. ‘Shit, this situation is going to hit the newest low. Hopefully father can deal with this, but I don’t want to be anywhere near his rampage.’ Grandine thought to herself.
“I suppose that something big has happened. I have been busy getting used to the body. Using a corpse as a body feels worse than it should be. Ugh.” Evan said as he finished putting on the sleeveless shirt. ‘I should use stat boosting items, I know, but fucking Namika kept my inventory away! Agh! I could always try to buy them from Azmosdei, but seeing the inflation of prices… I might die from having that bastard trying to rip me off. And I am not doing the grinding again, not when I have the items!’ Evan thought to himself.
“First, we have the possible captains of the guard. Took me several hours to even obtain a couple of names. But first, Saida is dead. Couldn’t tell you sooner, because the entire church had eyes on me yesterday due to this mess.” Grandine said as she took a deep breath.
Evan looked at Grandine surprised and Grandine knew that he had nothing to do with all this. Which made her curse her brother's anger issues, and that probably he was doing what they did promise ages ago.
“And by the way you are looking at me... Everyone is thinking that I had something to do with it. That Kanbe may be an annoying brat, but I must congratulate him for all the investigation he must have done.” Evan said as he scowled, while looking angry. ‘Shit, the hero. This son of a goblin horde is going to make me look worse than I already am! Uh, I am getting used to Flint’s cursing words. Oh, well, better now than later.’ Evan thought to himself.
“Indeed, but they underestimate you.” Grandine said as she smirked. ‘Which probably is what you want to, old man. You are as devious as myself at times. Let them underestimate you, while you get all the info. Then just stab them in the neck, and kill them.’ Grandine thought to herself while remembering Evan’s lessons.
“All the castle unless the hero. Isn't it right?” Evan asked as he scratched his chin. ‘The hero is too sensitive for his own good. He’s going to detect everything, and probably will become an issue later on. Ideally, I would kill him right away. But painting a huge target mark on my back is stupid, without having the supports. Should I focus on getting enough supports to withstand four years of assaults? Or should I go with the original plan and take over Elstivia in four years, while building up my power slowly. If I rush too much, I’ll lose chances of growth. And not only that, I’ll be targeted by the other godslayers. Agh, too many things to consider. Best to keep like I am doing, while trying to locate better options to build up my supports. Then once I am done, the hero dies. Or maybe I do it earlier, if I find a chance to do so.’ Evan pondered calmly about the entire situation.
“Yes, but now we can go easier. They expect you to go after the nobles first, rather than going for the guard.” Grandine said as she kept her smile. ‘Which opens a lot of possibilities for you, old man.’ Grandine thought to herself.
Evan chuckled and looked happy, since that meant that he could play carefully even after being caught off-guard. Which meant that there were many factions going on their own, and that he could weave them to fight each other.
“Ah. Good!” Evan said as he walked near Grandine. ‘If I can exploit that lack of worry of the king, I may get good soldiers to hold down the line for a while.’ Evan thought to himself.
“We should wait for a pair of weeks to handle the guard. Let this mess cool off, because it’s gonna be a mess if the hero starts thinking that this is a diversion of sorts and charges at you. You are nowhere near your old might, to consider risking it, and it’s not like there’ll be any good even to take advantage during those two weeks.” Grandine said, as she looked concerned about the hero. ‘That said, I might advise him to not rush too fast. He’s not back at his old strength, if a faction goes after him… He may die quickly. No troops to rely on, no black flames, and with a huge limitation in his inventory.’ Grandine thought to herself, worried about her father.
“Give me the information about the guard. It’s not like I can delay things for whenever I want to. Not with David fucking up the country because he is absolutely useless.” Evan said, as he massaged his forehead. ‘She’s looking after me, but we can’t just not take this chance. If the hero catches us, we’ll have to do what we can do. There’s no solution to that conundrum for now.’ Evan thought to himself.
“Okay. The captain of the guard right now is a 55-year-old man called Roderick. He is level 45 and quite a good fighter. But he will not expect poison in his retirement celebration in the next two weeks.” Grandine said as she smiled widely, enjoying the planning her mind was doing for Roderick.
“Too late. We need him dead before, so he cannot name the successor. If he names one, then we will have to get that one to follow our orders, or kill the successor and have an internal strife. If we have internal strife, only God knows when they’ll be done. And I want them under my command soon. In fact, as soon as possible. If I learned something on Earth, it is that you want the police working for you as soon as possible when you want to control a country. The army second, if possible… Otherwise, might as well poison their bases without them knowing.” Evan said as he scratched the back of his neck. ‘Without the security forces, the government can’t pass stupid laws, and then the one who holds them can start influencing the entire country.’ Evan thought to himself, reassuring himself of his choice.
“Or you can go after the successor. Josh. A young but experienced man. Vice-captain of the guard. He is a noble who loves woman, wine and usually extorts some slaves to get them into bigger debts. He is a noble of the most important slave-trading family in the human kingdom. The Holgan family, known for their sublime taste for slaves and wine, is one of the big noble families. Which is why I don’t want to mess with them, since everybody will expect you to attack the nobles.” Grandine said as she tilted her head.
“I see. Quite the pickle. Buuut... How do you expect me to go after him? Probably he knows how I look, and that means that if I get close to him... Well, there's a good chance of him using his weapons to... Well, be a bother. Also, I suck at dealing with close range fighters.” Evan said as he smiled. ‘And he’s a noble, which means he’ll have the attention of the hero and company. That could end up being more annoying that one could think this could be.’ Evan thought to himself, pondering the proposal made by Grandine.
“Well, I suppose you have some new ability to work things out. So I am giving you a chance: In two days there will be a ball and I have 4 invitations for it, but one will be used by me and the second one is for Lillian. I will open the path, but the rest is your job. Do not fail me now, Father.” Grandine said as she smirked.
Evan started thinking carefully, but also noticing that for once his luck didn't fail him, and prepared a couple of plans without any problem to kill him. After all, he had a few tests to run with the slime powers. The first plan would be making a slime parasite, just like the necro slimes he used to have in Dawn World, and the second one was to poison Josh's drink. In the best case, with the slime, he could just pull it off at any ball and just enjoy killing nobles covertly. It wasn’t his favorite thing to do, but raising up a bit of chaos amongst nobles was a good idea in his eyes (or at least a fun one).
“Well, seems that I will have to get a pair of allies, minimum.” Evan said as he scratched the skin surrounding his eye patch, as it was itching once more. ‘Also, just in case, cyanide never failed the Middle East, by what I heard, so… a good idea might be forming there.’ Evan thought as he chuckled to himself.
“Indeed. The other possible successor is a man called Alex. He is a commoner that is quite the innocent boy and pure. I would love to carry him to my house. After all, catching such snacks is no easy task. But he can't get a chance with the woman he loves, because she is a holy maiden.” Grandine said, as she pouted slightly, while remembering the man she was talking about.
“Do not tell me that he loves…” Evan said as he pointed with his thumb at Lillian. ‘If it’s that lovable naive nun, I must admire his taste for women. That said, knowing of Zerana… Poor man. He’ll have to deal with her being overprotective. I think that not even CidZoo would love dealing with that, even if he’s a zoologist godslayer.’ Evan thought to himself.
“Yes. Lillian is the lucky girl for once.” Grandine said, as she pouted more about the lost snack.
Lillian heard Grandine’s words, and she quickly covered her ears as she blushed brightly. Evan took notice of it, and then he started laughing softly for a while, as he found this situation quite ironic.
“If fate is trying to be funny... I will have to congratulate it. This irony is quite funny.” Evan said as he tried to stop laughing.
“There is nothing stopping a holy maiden to be with a man... Unless they are commoners that work in the guard, to ensure the separation of powers. But if he became the captain, he would have the noble status.” Grandine said as she smirked.
“Allowing him to try to charm Lillian. I see a chance to exploit there. That flagrant weakness shall be exploited with no mercy.” Evan said as he managed to stop laughing, and then smirked.
“For ensuring he is accepted as the captain of the guard... We should kill the captain of the guard. Before he has time to prepare another successor. You have two days to prepare all and then three days to kill the captain.” Grandine said as she smiled.
“Can be done. But I will need my own allies. I did not want to get them into this... But I will have to.” Evan said, just before sighing.
“Well, I will go back to my manor. Surely Sumeragi is around it.” Grandine said as she nodded.
“Oh! Send my regards to him!” Evan said as he sat down on the ground.
“Yes, Father…” Grandine said quietly as she moved while dragging Lillian away, as she didn’t want to leave her friend there since she planned to tease her a lot.
Caroline left while looking a bit worried, and Evan started smiling like a demon. He was angry, but he knew that he had to think carefully this plan to avoid loose ends to deal with later on.
***
In a far away location from the place where Evan was, a ceremony was being held for Saida. The hero had been forbidden from ever going, since only the king and a few individuals were going to be invited, as the hero would have to focus on finding the culprit who killed Saida.
They all were in a glade placed in the middle of the capital of Rivialt, Andving. The entire capital city was a circular city where the streets were made of polished stones, but were placed carefully, in order to allow the trees to grow in size besides the street and become big enough to house people inside said trees without hurting them.
Instead of buildings made of concrete or stone, all the buildings in the capital were trees that were modified by carpenters and expert druids to maintain a sort of symbiosis between the individuals that used the trees as buildings and the trees themselves.
The capital itself was filled with all sorts of flora, but the people of the country ensured that there were some sorts of pathway for the people, even if that turned it into a small maze with all sorts of streets and alleyways for those that traveled through the city. But as further proof of this symbiosis, there could be seen all sorts of lampposts made of steel that held within the lamp area an amber that released a yellow hue of light to light the city at night and all trees had small wooden devices that released bright azure mana that acted as the electricity for the buildings.
The glade itself was free of all sorts of technology, it was just a patch of grass and flowers with a tree that seemed a bonsai compared to the massive four-five floor tall trees but was big enough to be considered a tree. And in a relatively safe distance from the tree, there was a massive bonfire made of dried wood that was lit ablaze by armored elven knights that wore white and green steel armors.
Since Saida’s remains were crushed to the point where burying her was impossible, her remains had been set aflame inside the bonfire. This was quite disrespectful for most elves, but they understood that this time it was a must, yet what happened next would be way more disrespectful for the king and their loyal guard, the knights that had set ablaze the bonfire as a way to respect the deceased princess.
A man who had long black hair, pointy ears like an elf, tanned skin, amber colored eyes, a rather chiseled body that could be seen even if he was wearing an armor, and a scar on his left cheek. This man was wearing a black chest armor, with golden engravings made of pure gold that formed the emblem of a raven, golden pauldrons, black and white gauntlets, a six-piece black cuisses that went from where the chest armor end to the middle of the thighs, a pair of golden and black greaves, and black sabatons.
The armored man walked towards the bonfire, followed by an entire battalion of fifty fully armored men who carried a massive steel pot, a strainer ladle made of silver, tons of vegetables, and a massive beast that they had butchered and prepared for this special day.
The beast resembled a sort of ox, but had bulging muscles, but the people in the area knew that the deceased beast was a monster of the species known as Impact Ox. Capturing one alone could easily mean having tens of soldiers to wind up dead in one charge of the ox, but the men here had managed to kill it on their own without losing one member of their group.
When the man arrived to the bonfire, he looked at the battalion and nodded at them. The battalion placed the pot atop of the bonfire, and a few of them started casting all sorts of water spells to fill the pot while the rest prepared a massive hot pot, as the man looked at the battalion working on the feast they were about to have.
The elven knights started going towards the armored man, to stop this disrespect towards the princess, only to be sent flying by a wind spell that created a tornado to send them upwards and throw them away from the man.
While the food was being prepared, a few of those who had used water spells used another spell to grow the wood on the bonfire to make places where the entire battalion could sit down and start to eat the food that was being prepared in the pot.
As all was ready, which turned the top of the bonfire into a sort of table with the pot acting as both the table and a hot pot, the armored man sat down in his seat as he gave his back to the knights and started eating that funeral hot pot contents.
A rather tall elf, with blonde hair, pointy ears, pale skin, a few wrinkles on his face as he was old, and blue eyes walked towards the group with a clear frown on his face. This elf was wearing some green robes with several white cube-shaped patterns all across the robes, and a pair of white boots with green soles. Furthermore, he wielded a rather tall, golden staff with a giant blue cube on top of it that was encased in mythril shaped like roots.
“Excuse me, Eastern Hero. Could I ask what in all the grace of Kalarae are you doing with the bonfire for my daughter?” The elf said as he glared at the entire battalion, and seemingly releasing a bit of mana towards the armored man that led the battalion.
“Oh, we are just mourning the princess in the way of the Golden Ravens, his majesty. Instead of crying for the loss, celebrate life and eat so the deceased knows that you will miss them but will be able to move forward, sir Katas.” The dark elf said as he was eating a sort of dumping that looked like a bag, which was crunchy by the sound it released as the dark elf masticated.
“I see. But this is not how we do that in this country, we are not barbarians like in Krebs, Kyusashi Miyamori!” Katas said as he glared at the dark elf, gripping strongly his staff.
“Well, as lord Zerax taught to all the world: Accept all the mourning from those who mean well. I aim to mean well for the princess passage to the afterlife, and I hope it is a wonderful one as this capital.” The man known as Kyusashi said, while he still ate.
Katas could only bite his lower lip, as he couldn’t attack a hero of a country. Especially one that, after fighting valiantly for Rivialt, had been blessed by Zerax with his own hero-style skill tree, one which could be passed down to the people of the land even though it wasn’t one meant to defeat the Dark Lord.
As the battalion ate and enjoyed the feast, celebrating life as Kyusashi said, many elves went to watch and pray for a proper passage to the afterlife for princess Saida.
Katas could only watch as the people prayed for the safety of the soul of the princess, and it seemed like her own reputation that had growing worse during the year since the incident with Legias was becoming better just after her death.
Usually Katas would have exploded in rage, and start blasting at all the elves who didn’t like Saida until she died, but he chose to just pray calmly as he mourned his daughter’s death.
Once the battalion was done, they all poured a liquid to the flames which at first made the flames weaker but then made them far stronger, and jumped down the bonfire as Kyusashi walked towards a stone near the bonfire and with his own strength placed an incense stick on top of the rock.
As Kyusashi did so, the battalion placed their hands together with their palms touching each other and bowed towards the bonfire.
“May you have a safe passage, princess!” The battalion said at once, while Kyusashi simply placed his hands together like the rest and bowed silently towards the bonfire.
“I promise that if the hero can’t catch the killer, I will. Give my utmost respect to Eden, sir Katas. Now, if you excuse us, bereaved members of the royal family and those of the bereaved country.” Kyusashi said, as he moved away from the glade with the battalion.
As the battalion left silently, everyone just prayed calmly, as no one dared to stop the battalion that fought for the elven country when the last Dark Lord had attacked it in a fit of greed for their technology.
“Another Dark Lord will rise, men. And another wave of darkness will hit Rivialt. The Dark Lord has delivered a warning with this. Those who hid the truth from the people, and decided to avoid the shame of being related to the Black Flame Devil by using underhanded means, will pay their price. That’s the prophecy I heard from the corpse. If you want to follow me into battle once more, when the Dark Lord approaches this beautiful country, I will not stop you. If you desire to not fight with me, you may leave. You fulfilled your duty with me once we defeated Avericius, the Dark Lord of Greed.” Kyusashi said solemnly, as he walked with his battalion.
“We would never! We all were street kids left to rot by Krebs or by Rivialt! We live and we die alongside you, master Kyusashi!” The battalion said with a roaring voice, clearly proud of their master.
“It’s not like we will fight for the correct path. As the Dark Lord’s enemy, we will fight, is one who rages for the truth and for the balance. Will you still follow me?” Kyusashi said while closing his eyes as he walked.
“Of course! We don’t fight for honor! We fight to protect the place we call home and the one who is our master!” The battalion said with a loud tone, proudly, as they followed Kyusashi.
“I am blessed to have you all, my dear Golden Ravens! For this country, whose flowers blossom and its beauty blinds even the coldest person!” Kyusashi said, as he looked sad. ‘A shame, I don’t want them to face him. Not the monster I saw in the prophecy… Someone like him will burn the elven country to cinders if forced to. But one more reason to hope for the hero to break the prophecy, or at least fight as hard as I can. May the black flames come, I will drive them away if I must! ’ Kyusashi thought, as he was worried about his men’s safety.
And so, the Golden Ravens marched to patrol the entire capital, since they were renowned mercenaries that worked for the country of Rivialt and had orders to keep the capital safe.
***
Meanwhile, a messenger entered the castle to give Kanbe his own adventurer rank and that way he could work in small quests to get more experience.
Adventurers were people who worked killing monsters and hunting rare animals that caused issues for the people, businesses, and companies. As the monsters became less powerful, but more troubling, the adventurers became a necessity in each country.
The ranking for adventurers is this one: Wood, Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Ruby, Emerald, and Diamond.
The ones in the lowest rank (Wood) usually do fetch quests to get to the next rank fast and start working in killing slimes and goblins (Iron rank).
Kanbe obtained an iron ring with his name engraved on it, and he thanked the messenger, as he was doing pull-ups without a shirt, which showed his rugged countenance as he was used to training.
The hero was inside the castle garden, which was basically a square area that connected with the throne room and simply had a bunch of grass, a few flower patches, and a massive oak.
“Will you train tomorrow?” David asked as he walked near Kanbe.
“Of course. I cannot lose time if we want to defeat the Dark Lord.” Kanbe said as he was doing pull-ups.
“I see.” David said as he rolled his eyes, as he had seen the hero training during the last two days. ‘It seems he’s getting focused on killing the dark lord, well… That will help me out in the end.’ David thought to himself.
“Also, I will avenge Saida. I will defeat Sumeragi. At least that is a proper way to give her a good farewell.” Kanbe said as he kept training. ‘She wouldn’t want me to stay still and cry like a baby. She would have told me to keep training, and shut up. She’s just like that, after all.’ Kanbe thought to himself.
“I will ensure that you have top quality equipment! But be careful with Sumeragi, he has even more powerful servants than what I may have. Even the guard is unable to fight off his servants.” David said, with a worried face, while looking at Kanbe train.
“Well, then I will have to deal with it and get some proper companions to hold them back even for a bit.” Kanbe said, focused on his training. ‘If Haseya and the rest are doing okay, then we may have a chance, but Evan and those who support him are a danger to the entire world.’ Kanbe thought to himself, focused on getting stronger.
You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
David smiled because he saw that Kanbe could even be the answer to all of his troubles. Included the one known as Sumeragi, since with his death... David would finally be able to fully cement his kingship.
After all, his fiancée was being stubborn on not accepting the marriage and helping him become fully a king, since for that he needed an heir. It was due to the traditions and laws left in place, to avoid exactly what he had done to acquire the crown, and it was something that David had to tackle sooner or later.
Josh Status:
Race: Human
Gender: Male.
Age (True Age/Human standard age): 29 years
Height: 1 meter and 70 centimeters.
Likes: Wine, profitable situations, parties.
Dislikes: Commoners who don't respect nobility, traitors, and Evan.
Level: 45
STATS (Maximum of 1000):
HP: 40000/40000
MP: 15000/15000
STR: 100
VIT: 300
INT: 100
DEX: 300
AGI: 100
Magic affinity: Basic magic.
Skill affinity: Soldier, Magician, Enhancer, Warrior, Swordsman, Rage Master, Berserk.
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 cast 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 Analysis: Active, 1 MP. Allows the user to see the stats of the target. It can be tricked with false status skill.
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.
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.
Soldier skills (Master):
Soldier training: Passive. If the user is wielding a sword and a shield, his damage increases a 20% and his defense against physical attacks increases a 10%.
Soldier Experience: Passive. The user can deflect arrows and stop bullets with his shield and due to experience, his body receives a 20% less damage.
Skill Mastery: The user has such a mastery over the skills that the second skill used in a combo has no cost.
Shield Protection: The user can't be affected by debuffs if they are using the shield correctly.
Brutal bash: Active Skill, 20 MP cost. The user bashes someone with his/her shield with such strength that it will stun the enemy for a moment.
Perforating thrust: Active Skill, 50 MP cost. A fast thrust that can perforate any armor and will always deal the damage like if the target did not wear armor. It can be deflected.
Lacerating Slash: Active Skill, 80 MP cost. A slash that will leave a lacerating mark that will bleed. Will pass any kind of defense.
Perfect Defense: Active Skill, 20 MP cost/minute used. While the user activates this skill and holds his shield up, no attack will damage it unless delayed spells like Heart Crush.
Parry: Active Skill, 15 MP cost. The user can activate it when he/she can parry an attack and stun the enemy for a short moment. Any attack on the target after parry will deal an extra 80% damage.
Critical Power: Active Skill, all MP available. When the user has only a 30% of HP, he/she can use all the MP that has to increase his attack a 10% for every 100 of MP available for 5 minutes. Side effects: The user can only hold swords after using it and after those 5 minutes, the user will be stunned for 2 minutes.
Ultimate Shield: Active Skill, 150 MP/minute. Pinnacle skill. The user uses the shield to create a small frontal barrier in front of them to protect those behind them from the effects of delayed spells like Heart Crush.
Enhancer (Master):
Hardened skin: Increases the defense of the user a 50%.
Instant Reflex: The user returns to the attack stance when the enemy throws off-balance him by a previous attack. It can hurt depending on how the user is thrown off-balance.
Magic Soul: The user gains a 50% extra resistance to magic.
Body Enhancement: Active, 1 MP. Increases for a brief period of time (1 minute) all the status a 20%.
Skill Boost: Active, 3 MP. The damage caused by skills is increased a 3% for a long period of time (1 hour).
Evasion enhancement: Active, 5 MP. The user increases his speed when he dodges attacks during a brief period of time.
Improved Body Enhancement: Active, 10 MP. Increases for a long period of time all the status a 20%.
Improved Evasion Enhancement: Active, 25 MP. The user increases his speed when he dodges attacks during a long period of time.
Neural Enhancement: Active, 30 MP. The user makes his brain go faster, obtaining increased attack speed and reflexes.
Battle Aura: Active, 50 MP. The user increases all the power of the muscles and allows the user to imbue the weapon used with magic so not only can be stopped without any kind of mana skills.
Limiter Release: Active, 25 MP/second. Nullifies any limit that the body has, increasing a 90% all Status. But causes pain and overuse will cause the death of the user.
Warrior (Master):
Knowledge of Swords: Passive. Allows the user to use more efficiently the swords, greatswords and any other kind of weapon.
Warrior's training: Passive. The user uses all the weapons faster and easier.
Increased power: Passive. The user has more strength than most of the people.
Battle senses: Passive. When the user is fighting his body will move automatically to dodge attacks.
Mastery in fighting: Passive. The user is so used to fighting that has a keen sense to fight and can detect ambushes.
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.
Heavy Slash: Active, 8 MP. The user slashes an enemy with a lot of strength.
Counter Slash: Active, 12 MP. When the user is damaged, this skill can be activated to return a 150% of the damage received. It can be countered back and parried.
Decapitate: Active, 25 MP. Instant death skill that will decapitate a target but can be deflected or stopped with a defensive barrier.
Devastate: Active, 30 MP. A slash that will take out the 90% of the HP of the target but leaves the user exhausted during 30 seconds.
Carving slice: Pinnacle skill. Active, 50 MP. A slash that will pierce any kind of defense and deal heavy damage to the target.
Kyusashi Miyamori Status:
Race: Dark Elf
Gender: Male
Age: 18 years old
Height: 1 meter and 70 centimeters.
Likes: Taking care of his sword, haikus, fishing, freedom, his sword, loyal people, meditation.
Dislikes: Moriarty, corruption, hypocritical people, slavers, those who keep interrupting his duties and traditions.
Level: 60
STATS:
HP: 70000/70000
MP: 10050/10050
STR: 400
VIT: 600
INT: 1
DEX: 400
AGI: 400
Magic affinity: None.
Skill affinity: Samurai, Swordsman, Practitioner, Murim Hero, Blacksmith, Bodybuilder, Craftsman, Enhancer, Survivalist, Fisherman.
Titles: Murim’s hero, disciple of an old hero, mourning samurai, defender of the elves.
Job: Mercenary, and Assistant Hero.
Special skills:
Blessings of Zerax: The user gets 200 status point in strength, dexterity, and agility.
Skills:
Enhancer (Master):
Hardened skin: Increases the defense of the user a 50%.
Instant Reflex: The user returns to the attack stance when the enemy throws off-balance him by a previous attack. It can hurt depending on how the user is thrown off-balance.
Magic Soul: The user gains a 50% extra resistance to magic.
Body Enhancement: Active, 1 MP. Increases for a brief period of time (1 minute) all the status a 20%.
Skill Boost: Active, 3 MP. The damage caused by skills is increased a 3% for a long period of time (1 hour).
Evasion enhancement: Active, 5 MP. The user increases his speed when he dodges attacks during a brief period of time.
Improved Body Enhancement: Active, 10 MP. Increases for a long period of time all the status a 20%.
Improved Evasion Enhancement: Active, 25 MP. The user increases his speed when he dodges attacks during a long period of time.
Neural Enhancement: Active, 30 MP. The user makes his brain go faster, obtaining increased attack speed and reflexes.
Battle Aura: Active, 50 MP. The user increases all the power of the muscles and allows the user to imbue the weapon used with magic so not only can be stopped without any kind of mana skills.
Limiter Release: Active, 25 MP/second. Nullifies any limit that the body has, increasing a 90% all Status. But causes pain and overused will cause the death of the user.
Swordsmanship (Master) (Photon style/ Extreme style/ Plum Blossom Style):
Expert in Swords: Increases the power of sword skills a 25%
Perfect Striking: The accuracy while wielding a sword increases a 30%
Swordsman Wind: Increases the stamina of the user a 40%
Controlled Breathing: The user can control their breathing and increase their speed and power a 30%. Exhausts people faster.
Photon style:
Photon style swordsmanship: The user is able to use the photon style well, which is using a katana using only one hand. Allows the user to wield a katana with increased speed, and increased cutting power.
Photon swing: Active, 10 MP. The user does a horizontal slash with extreme speed. Increases the cutting power when the user does it while the sword is sheathed.
Photon assault: Active, 5 MP. The user leaps at the enemy, and follows with an upward strike.
Photon field: Active, 20 MP. The user does a wide slash that barely deals damage, but impedes movement.
Photon slash: Active, 1 MP. The user does a simple diagonal slash at an incredible speed. Can be used several times to break a target’s defense.
Photon Ichigiri: Active, 30 MP. The user does a vertical slash that can cut helmets in half.
Photonic thrust: Active, 100 MP. Pinnacle skill. The user does a charged thrust attack that pierces through most defenses.
Extreme style:
Extreme style swordsmanship: The user is able to use the extreme style well, which is using a sword with enhanced perception while doing powerful slashes.
Sword Essence: The user is able to sense the intent of the swords, and can concentrate mana and turn it into sword essence, which essentially powers up the sword or can make its own blade. Also, this essence can be used in special abilities.
Extreme Essence: The user, with a great deal of meditation and training, can gather mana and make a small reservoir of mana. This small reservoir of mana can be used in conjunction with sword essence to go into extreme mode.
Scarlet Nova: Active, 20 MP. The user does a combo consisting of an upward slash followed by a downward slash, and then finally a thrust.
Perfect Senses: Active, 5 MP/minute. The user can increase their reflexes to the point where they can block attacks without thinking. This taxes heavily the user, and consumes both sword essence and extreme essence.
Reverse circle: Active, 10 MP/minute. The user spins the sword, releasing a wave of sword essence to push allies away while cutting the enemies.
Scratching blades: Active, 50 MP. The user stabs the ground, and releases several waves of blade essence that will spread making a dome, keeping the allies safe while cutting the enemies and pushing them away.
Extreme wind scratches: Active, 25 MP. The user releases a pair of blades made of pure extreme essence to damage the enemy.
Extreme mode: Active, 100 MP/minute. Pinnacle skill. The user uses both blade essence and extreme essence to boost his stats a 10%. This mode improves all the swordsman skills effectiveness.
Plum Blossom style:
Plum Blossom swordsmanship: The user is able to use the plum blossom style well, which is using a sword using only one hand. Allows the user to wield a sword precisely, while using Qi to hide their attacks with illusion slashes. The masters of the Plum Blossom style can even use conjured blades made of Qi.
Plum Blossom Qi: The plum blossom qi is fragant and distracting, making it harder for the enemies to detect which attack is the real one.
Plum Blossom Slash: Active, 10 MP. One of the two basis of the Plum Blossom swordsmanship, a slash made of the Plum Blossom Qi. From this technique and the Blossom Illusion, the rest follow, as this one is the foundation of the style. It can be used on both normal and conjured blades.
Blossom Illusion: Active, 20 MP. The second of the two foundational techniques of the Plum Blossom style. Creates an illusion of a blossom blade, to distract the opponent. With Plum Blossom Qi, and the smart usage of a master of this style, it becomes hard to know which attack is real.
Plum Blossom Blades: Active, 100 MP. An upgraded version of Blossom Illusion. With it, the user conjures blades made of qi. Depending on the mastery over the Plum Blossom style, the blades are more solid or less solid. Masters of the Plum Blossom style have conjured blades that equal godslayer level weapons.
Plum Blossoming: Active, 60 MP. An advanced technique in which the user uses the Plum Blossom Qi in their blades to infect the target’s body with plum blossom qi. This nullifies any mage capacity to use magic for a short moment, and depending on the mastery of the Plum Blossom style can cause grievous wounds as the user can conjure blades from the qi within the target.
Falling Blossom: Active, 15 MP. An advanced technique, which requires more strength than magic power, that focuses on engulfing the blade in powerful qi to crush or cut any target below the user.
Plum Blossom’s Festival: Active, 20 MP. An advanced technique that requires fine control over the Plum Blossom Qi, as it creates copies of the user. Masters of the style can create weaker copies of themselves, that harass the opponent, but those who have not mastered the style only create decoys to hide their attacks. Only masters of the practitioner style of the Plum Blossom can create perfect copies of themselves, by combining this technique with Plum Blossom Incarnation.
Plum Blossom Flash: Active, 45 MP. An advanced technique that requires fine control over the Plum Blossom Qi and a mastery over the Plum Blossom Slash. The user sheathes the sword, and counters any attack in a split second with powerful Plum Blossom Qi reinforcing the attack.
Plum Blossom Flurry: Active, 120 MP. A master level technique, which requires a perfect control over Plum Blossom Qi, a mastery of both Plum Blossom Slash and Plum Blossom Flash, that releases a massive flurry of attacks. Masters of this technique add the Plum Blossom Qi precisely to create mirage blades that the target normally can’t recognize as fake.
Plum Blossom Uprooting: Active, 250 MP. A master level technique, which requires perfect control over Plum Blossom Qi, a mastery of Falling Blossom, Plum Blossom Blades and Plum Blossoming, and strong qi. The user uses Falling Blossom and Plum Blossoming at the same time, to infect the surrounding area with plum blossom qi that absorbs the mana of the area, and then uses Plum Blossom Blades to make it burst in the direction of the target.
Plum Blossom Seven Slashes: Active, 250 MP. A master level technique, which requires mastery of both Plum Blossom Slash and Plum Blossom Flurry. While only releases seven slashes, the seven slashes are perfectly controlled by the user and have far more qi embedded in the blade than usual.
Plum Blossom Secret Art: Celebration: Active, 5000 MP. The pinnacle technique of the Plum Blossom style, that requires mastery over all the techniques of the Plum Blossom sword style. As the user releases qi to create countless blades to attack the target, they charge and release a precise flurry of attacks, accompanied by the copies made of the user that do the same. As all the area becomes filled with Plum Blossom Qi, Plum Blossom Illusion affects the senses of the target and Plum Blossoming worsens all the wounds the user may have. Pinnacle skill.
Practitioner (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.
Practitioner’s Cultivation: A specific style of cultivation for all practitioners which makes the mana flow across the body, and condense it into a refined form of mana known as Qi. It must be done while sitting on the ground, with both hands together. It increases all the factors that decide the value of stats, while also increasing the soul power and soul defense. The amount of Qi is always half the amount of mana of the user.
Martial body: Improves the body of the user, making it stronger and easier to train.
Practitioner’s Qi: While mana itself in cultivators is already pure, the Qi is usually less pure than mana while giving higher power output. A master practitioner is able to refine the Qi and make it pure Qi, which increases the soul power of the user. But this makes impossible the usage of mana alongside Qi.
Plum Blossom Style:
Plum Blossom style: The user is capable of learning and mastering the Plum Blossom techniques, a Taoist style of practitioners. This style didn’t take roots from anywhere, as it was made from scratch, and became an important aspect of the Plum Blossom swordsmanship style. This passive allows the user to use the Plum Blossom Qi, if they haven’t learned to use it from the sword style, and cultivate it.
Plum Blossom Illusive Mist: Active, 20 MP/Minute. The user releases Plum Blossom Qi, as a mist, to distract all the surrounding enemies. It’s one of the foundational techniques of the Practitioner Plum Blossom Style.
Plum Blossom Steps: Active, 50 MP. The user uses qi to enhance their legs, and move quickly around the area. Another of the foundational techniques of the Practitioner Plum Blossom style.
Plum Bladed Blossoms: Active, 25 MP. The user uses qi to conjure plum petals that can act as blades. With enough mastery, said petals become blades that can cut the opponent as well as the average sword. Another of the foundational techniques of the Practitioner Plum Blossom style.
Plum Blossom Might: Active, 40 MP. This technique uses Plum Blossom Qi to make the user’s body stronger and more flexible, stimulating the muscles with said qi for a moment. It causes a huge strain on an untrained body, but masters of the Plum Blossom style can use it non-stop. It's the last of the foundational techniques of the Practitioner Plum Blossom Style.
Plum Blossom Fragrant Dance: Active, 60 MP. This technique is an upgraded version of Plum Blossom Steps and Plum Blossom Illusive Mist. The user releases illusive mist for a moment, to create a diversion to avoid an ambush, while using the steps to quickly move away.
Plum Blossom Attack: Active, 40 MP. This technique is an upgraded version of Plum Blossom Steps and Plum Blossom Might. Combining both techniques, the user’s next attack will be vastly stronger than before.
Plum Blossom Strengthened Body: Active, 50 MP. The technique is a deviance of the Plum Blossom Might, which ended becoming a technique of the style after much refining. Instead of increasing the user’s strength, this technique nulls the user’s sense of pain and makes the musculature more sturdy than before for a moment. Without a fine control over qi, the user may suffer internal damage.
Plum Blossom Fragrant Attack: Active, 70 MP. This technique is an upgraded version of Plum Blossom Fragant Dance and Plum Blossom Attack. A powerful move that creates a smokescreen, in which the user devastates the targets by continuously using Plum Blossom Attack. This technique causes a huge strain on anyone who has not mastered Plum Blossom Attack.
Plum Blossom Soul: Active, 150 MP. This technique is a combination of both Plum Blossom Strengthened Body and Plum Blossom Might. It increases vastly the power and endurance of the user for an hour, but this will exhaust the body more than the user can even notice.
Plum Blossom Incarnation: Active, 250 MP. This technique is the pinnacle technique of the Plum Blossom style. Using Plum Blossom Illusive Mist and Plum Bladed Blossoms carefully, the user can create a clone of themselves out of Plum Blossom Qi. This requires an absolute control over one’s qi, and any mistake will lead to this technique to fail and the user to suffer severe qi disassociation (which will make the user manaless for a while). Pinnacle technique.
Bodybuilder (Master):
Increased Muscles: The muscles of the user are stronger and bigger.
Increased Stamina: The user has more stamina.
Increased Training: The user can train harder to have more stamina and suffer less from training too much.
Increased recovery: The user will recover faster from any wound.
Muscle Defense: Active, 50 MP. The user can tighten the muscles and increase his/her defense.
Muscle Reinforcement: Active, 25 MP. The user can use his/her own mana to increase his/her physical power.
Survivalist (Master):
Survival Specialist: Passive. Allows the user to survive harsh conditions for extended periods of time, and grants the ability to recover from any ailment with enough time.
Survivalist Stomach: Passive. The user can withstand easily eating rotten food, with only some minor indisposition.
Survivalist Compass: Passive. The user knows always where he/she is, and which path to take in order to go back. Only works as long as the eyes are open, and if the user has seen the path they have followed.
Survivalist Last Stand: Passive. If the user is going to die due to not natural causes like starvation, once per month, they can heal themselves up to optimal condition.
Trap Making: Active, 10 MP. The user can make all kinds of traps, as long as he/she understands how to make them.
Mapping: Active, 20 MP. The user can make a map of the area with their mana, to plan where they go.
Marker Addition: Active, 30 MP. The user can place a mana signal on an object and is able to sense it in a range of 200 meters.
Light Sprint: Active, 2 MP/minute. The user can increase their speed a 200% while running. Pinnacle skill.
Murim Hero (Master):
Hero’s Qi: The user’s qi is far stronger than the average individual, as if they were blessed by qi itself, at the cost of being unable to use nor cultivate any qi that comes from pure qi styles that aren’t dark or demonic styles.
Perfected Qi Cultivation: The user’s qi cultivation is faster, and more efficient, than it should be.
Heroic Power: The user gains a 20% increase in all status when the user is facing a dark enemy.
Rejection of Darkness: The user cannot use dark skills, but his damage to dark enemies will increase an 80%.
Outstanding Hero: The user has more damage as less HP has left.
Enhanced recovery: The user can regenerate a 20% faster.
Heavenly Breaker: Active, 5 MP. The user can jump to an enemy and while jumping charge with holy mana an attack that can break iron helms like if they were made of gelatin.
Spinning slash: Active, 10 MP. The user spins quickly and slashes all enemy that is close to him/her.
Heroic stab: Active, 20 MP. The user can stab an enemy with incredible strength. Can be used to pin an opponent down.
Heroic Finishing Blow: Active, 40 MP. If the enemy is on the ground, the user can jump to the enemy and stab him/her with his/her sword, killing the enemy.
Hero’s Qi Restoration: Active, 50 MP. The user can heal the grievous wounds they may have sustained, and heal a 10% of their missing HP.
Heroic Qi Slash: Active, 250 MP. A far more powerful slash than the Radiant Slash, but far more stable and less damaging to the user’s blade. Can be added to any Qi Blade. Pinnacle skill.