After meeting the small oracle called Pynti and obtaining lots of flowers and matches (That Caroline had to store in her inventory), Evan and the girls went to the entrance of the mansion garden, where an elven butler stopped them. The butler’s face was covered by a black mask with a couple of pieces of glass attached to the holes where the eyes were located, and it was clear he was an old one as he had grey hair (or so it seemed, due to the receding hairline of his already short hair).
“They are with me. And I have been invited by Josh.” Caroline said as she looked quite annoyed at the butler. ‘Don’t you dare say any stupid word, butler, you’ll mess with my plan!’ Caroline thought to herself as she scowled.
“I know, lady Caroline. But what is a party without masks? And more knowing how this kind of parties end.” The butler said calmly, while blocking the path.
Lillian started sweating and Evan started to think that something was off, and he truly didn't like that. So even if he did not want to have to do what he was going to do, he had to put a childish voice and ask about what happened in that kind of parties.
“What happens in this kind of parties?” Evan asked, with an innocent tone and a wide smile, as he looked at the butler. ‘What are you planning, Grandine? And if it’s some sort of gourmand time for Lillian, I will most certainly use ignite on your bed. Why are you this sort of matchmaker? I should have never allowed Thundy to get that close to you, damnable loli.’ Evan thought to himself as he tried to understand what was going on.
Lillian caught up with what Evan tried to do and started trembling, like if she was a young woman caught up red-handed, and looked clearly embarrassed while hiding her blushing face.
“Things that a young man like you shouldn't have to know. Still, you all can pass. Sir Josh contacted me through telepathy. We will give you all masks.” The butler replied, as he used his inventory to pull a wooden box and opened it, while Evan looked at Caroline.
Evan tried to hide his smile as he looked at Caroline, who coughed while trying to act like she was calm. For once, being a kid had helped him to know what was going on.
The butler gave to Caroline and Lillian a black mask that only covered their eyes, while Evan and Rose obtained a white mask that covered all the face and let them go into the party.
“Grandine.” Evan said with a cold tone, which made the young succubus shiver.
“Yes, father?” Caroline asked, as her voice trembled, while Lillian just blushed brightly.
“Did you plan to have fun with Lillian? And by fun, I mean your kind of fun. You damnable matchmaker…” Evan replied as he glared at the archbishop.
Caroline started sweating, while trying to just laugh awkwardly, and Rose could only look puzzled since she didn't understand anything.
“Your face tells me all already. So who is the target for Lillian?” Evan said, as he decided to just massage his forehead, and not crush Rose’s innocence by pressing further. ‘This minx will be my death at this rate.’ Evan thought to himself.
“What do you mean!?” Caroline asked, with an alarmed tone, as she looked clearly outraged by Evan’s accusation..
“I know that you plan to give her that kind of experience. So who was her target? Josh himself?” Evan said, as he took a deep breath, while he moved along.
“No! Only I planned her to get a new way to get money for Cherubs Rest using the president of Silver Eagle company…” Caroline said, admitting her own plan, while Lillian looked at her with a clear red face.
‘You said it was just meeting boys!’ Lillian thought to herself, as she panicked.
Evan could just look at Caroline with a disappointment fit for a father who saw his daughter doing something wrong. The neutral face of displeasure was exactly what the face of Evan was right now, and Evan was simply unable to consider anything other than to just focus on the party.
“I should correct you. I really should. But now it is not the time, and also it wouldn't work. It would just trigger you. You have been impossible to correct for as long as I recall. But this idea? It’s terrible. Terrible beyond any level of ideas, and a first for you. Sumeragi and rash choices is a normal thing, Ruby messing up by trusting who she shouldn’t is also one of those, Aniette going full cat mood when drunk is normal, and Legadonia being too sweet is one more normal thing. But it’s not normal for you to have a foolish idea.” Evan said, as his eyes judged Grandine, with a tinge of worry, while the succubus gulped in fear.
“I just want her to have a good love life…” Caroline said as she pouted slightly.
“Just wait, and she will have a good chance. I have made my own arrangement. One that she’ll love, and not a half measure for her own situation. I don’t think that she would dislike the guy I am helping out, and I am sure that the old fucks of the church won’t want to mess with that guy after I am done. I told you five ages ago one thing: If you do something, don’t do a half measure! Either you do it, or you don’t. But never, ever, in my unholy life… Dare to do a half measure. Half measures tend to bite you in the ass, and then you cry about it. And then Rubedo and Nigredo have to do some cleanup because you did a half measure, while Albedo protects you.” Evan said as he looked at Grandine.
“Really? She’ll have a good chance? Well, if that didn’t make sure that I knew who you are… Nothing could. So what do I have to do, Dad?” Caroline said as she looked with tender eyes at Evan.
“Teach her the basics without getting her a partner. And do not kill the president of Silver Eagle. He’s Azmosdei’s son. I can stop him, once I am back at full power, but it’d be a mess for us. We need him around, and with us. That means: Do not kill him, don’t you dare to comfort him, just let him live.” Evan replied to Caroline’s last question, while Lillian blushed brightly.
“His wife passed away already... I wanted to comfort him…” Caroline retorted as she pouted.
“If we lose him, we are done for. So don't burst my plan, since there are many lives riding on this. Yours included. If those old fucks learn who you truly are, well… Might as well hope that the entire world doesn’t try to kill you, while you dance on a tightrope without armor, that is. So, yeah, we require a godslayer without enough chains to make a castle gate look lacking. And either it’s Azmosdei, or we will have to find someone else. Furthermore, we may even need more because I don’t have an army of undead. Do you know how I feel about that? I feel naked! Naked, I tell you! Even when I was starting I had an army to use, and ladies: If I had that… We wouldn’t be here. We would be assaulting, burning, and destroying every single city that would prefer that blabbering fool of a king than us. It’s easier, and faster. And excuse me, but if one thing we don’t have… That’s time.” Evan said as he kept moving on.
“Anything else?” Caroline asked, as she smirked.
“No, just eat like if it was a buffet.” Evan replied before sighing.
Caroline smiled, and they all entered the main building of the Holgan mansion. A massive ballroom welcomed them, with slightly yellow tiles made of porcelain, tables made of oak wood covered with white and yellow mantles as plates filled with all sorts of meats and alcoholic beverages placed on silver platters, massive windows that gave clear views to the garden which made most of this ballroom’s walls while the rest were pillars made of stone pillars with small gemstones attached, and a massive amount of lamps placed on the roof of the room with mana gems of the size of Evan’s head which ensured that all the room was illuminated.
Rose looked extremely puzzled until she noticed a pair of nobles kissing in the garden, which made her blush brightly and cough loudly, as she looked through the windows of the ballroom while Evan just took a deep breath as he felt out of place due to the refined ballroom he was in.
Evan saw many slave butlers and maids were busy helping the guests that were in the room and cleaning up all kinds of stains that were on the floor. All the butlers looked extremely similar, tall, black hair and were wearing a tuxedo and the maids were all short, blondes and were wearing a maid outfit. Both butlers and maids were extremely well-endowed, to the point of making Evan have a cold sweat and look truly scared for the future of his companions.
On the other side, Caroline was already planning how to flirt with the butlers or maids without causing a huge commotion already since in her eyes, they all were handsome snacks.
Josh wearing a red with strands of gold doublet, red trousers, and black shoes went to meet lady Caroline and her friends when he saw Evan. Seeing the young man that resembled Prince Edward, he clearly looked confused which was something that made Evan smile widely. Luckily the mask covered his face, which made everything a lot easier, but the doubt would make Josh get closer to him.
“Welcome to my humble house, lady Caroline.” Josh said, as he clearly recognized Caroline, and kissed the back of Caroline’s left hand.
“Oh, thanks for inviting me and Lillian. She wanted to bring her two most mature kids to the party to let them have a good time.” Caroline said as she smiled widely, and pointed with her free hand to Evan and Rose.
“Oh, I see. Well, if they learn how the Holgan family do their parties and know how our premium slaves are it will aid them in the future.” Josh said with a wide smile. ‘The two look as great additions for my business, once I leave it to be managed by my sister.’ Josh thought to himself as he eyed Evan and Rose.
“Of course! After all, you are one of the most important slave traders.” Caroline said, while getting closer to Josh, as she made sure to look as if she was getting intimate with the noble.
“I don't think I will inherit that. I will be the next captain of the guard. My sister will be the one who will inherit the trade of slaves. Still, you two have some fun stories. I know that everyone loves to go wild from time to time, but what she told me was that you were a beast with men and women.” Josh said as he stepped a bit away, enough to be closer to Evan than the archbishop. ‘And I don’t want to risk myself by letting you too close to me. I don’t want to be a target practice for the holy turrets. Another thing would be the future spouse of the hero, but I don’t want to end up in the wrong end of the hero’s sword.’ Josh thought to himself, as he looked at Caroline.
“Well. I think that all of us need a bit of love and fun from time to time. And Zerax said nothing about being promiscuous.” Caroline said with a wide grin, before giggling to herself a fair bit. ‘Got him! Right where I want him! Now Dad has it easy to learn the secret, and kill Josh.’ Caroline thought as she kept her wide grin.
“Indeed! But I believe that we should leave that as a secret for the commoners.” Josh said, as he tried to keep a calmer face. ‘Shit, if the commoners hear of it, this will be a mess for my slaves!’ Josh thought as he was panicking inside his mind, imagining what could happen if the commoners stopped using a few businesses that he had with the slaves.
“Why?” Caroline asked while grinning, which seemed as if she was teasing Josh.
“We have enough angry husbands and wives killing their partners due to promiscuity.” Josh said, while looking away due to the fact that Caroline looked rather pretty even with the mask.
Rose did not even know where to look anymore, two adults talking like that in front of her was too much. Evan noticed and sighed, but thanked Namika that there was not any way to record what he was going to do.
“I am sorry to have to interrupt you... But I believe that we have not met yet. My name is Edward Leonhard, but you may call me Evan.” Evan said, taking advantage of the fact that he was using the corpse of a prince to its fullest extent. ‘May attract attention, but doing this to a soon to be dead man… Might just do the trick.’ Evan thought to himself, as he extended his hand to shake Josh’s hand.
“Oh, true! Where were my manners! I am deeply ashamed of myself for forgetting that. My name is Josh, former Prince Edward.” Josh said as he went to shake Evan’s hand, the last part said while making sure the ‘former’ was heard clearly. ‘This brat thinks that he can go around flaunting his capacity to survive here? Well, once the assassins come here to kill him, I just have to stay away from him.’ Josh thought as his hand touched Evan’s hand.
Evan and Josh did a handshake, in which Evan uses that chance to make a blast slime that would enter into the body of Josh and go to his brain to kill him, and after that form a crystallized bolt of ice with the remains of the slime to make it seem like an ice mage killed Josh.
“And you shouldn't be so sure about being the next captain of the guard. Who knows? Maybe Roderick changes his mind. Also, who knows if Alex could catch you doing something you shouldn’t… Like, I don’t know, some sort of drug industry or illegal slavery?” Evan said with a smile, clearly aiming to annoy Josh. ‘I just feel like back home. A toxic bastard saying whatever they please, and thinking that they can annoy me. Well, two can play a game… And I know your kind more than you ever could, rich brat. Drugs and rich brats go together as good as butter and peanut… Even regarding how deadly both are.’ Evan thought to himself, refreshed for finding a place that was similar to his home back on Earth, in terms of toxicity.
“Quite cunning. You know about Alex, then?” Josh said, clearly annoyed by Evan’s words. ‘How much does this brat know about the secret club I have for commoners? Is he shooting in the dark to see me react, or is he warning me to not overdo it?’ Josh thought to himself, as his mind panicked due to how accurate Evan’s assessment had been.
“Yes. And the rumors say that he's good. Superb, after all, he survived an assassin trying to kill him.” Evan said as he smirked at Josh. ‘I know your secret, little guard. Trying to get Alex away by using assassins, you fool. Let’s see how you like this, as you are going to die… Might as well toy with you.’ Evan thought to himself, as he smirked.
“But Roderick hates him because he wants a certain holy maiden for himself, and will not allow Alex to have her. For me, I don't want to interfere with them. I am just getting ready to be the next captain of the guard.” Josh said, with a tinge of nervousness in his voice. ‘Shit, he knows it’s me the one trying to seal the deal for Lillian. If he knows all the plan, he might be trying to tell me to back off while we are being nice. If so, I will have to pay the assassins to kill him too.’ Josh thought to himself, while panicking as he tried to keep a serious face.
Meanwhile, Lillian looked at both men with a puzzled face. It was clear that only the two men were understanding the veiled attacks of each others, and the position of each other regarding that matter. But it was clear for everyone who looked at them, that a verbal fight with lots of venomous words and that Josh was clearly losing.
“We both know who's the lucky maiden.” Evan said while his face started showing a sadistic smile. ‘I know you are scared, now I will toy with you even more. Let’s see for how long you can keep this up.’ Evan thought to himself, enjoying the verbal dispute.
“So you know that? Good. Have you told her yet?” Josh said, trying to gain the upper hand in this verbal dispute.
“Well, I will say one thing: If I warn her, she will be careful with the one that she shouldn't be.” Evan said while he kept his sadistic smile.
Caroline clearly noticed the situation, and now she had found a chance to help Evan as she understood the situation. And she would most certainly use this chance to the limit, as her friend was in the middle of a very nasty business.
“And more with the rumors about Roderick using slave master skills and certain special baths.” Caroline said as she smirked. ‘If you wanna play this game, let’s do this. But you might regret it.’ Caroline thought as she felt angry at Josh for his actions.
“Who knows? Maybe he has that relic or not?” Josh said as he shrugged, trying to play it off as just rumors.
“Seems important. And if it is significant, it is confidential... So Rose and I will be wandering around the mansion and eating a bit. Also, I have to talk with a certain merchant here.” Evan said as he moved away from Josh. ‘A darn shame, but the timer is getting too tight. If I stay close to him for too long, I will be investigated once he dies. I need to go mingle elsewhere.’ Evan thought to himself
“Are you doing a worker job? Be careful. The odd jobs are dangerous, but the worker quests are even crazier. You have no protection from the scavengers.” Josh said while smiling, thinking he had won the verbal dispute.
“Scavengers? You don't mean... PK?” Evan asked as he raised an eyebrow. ‘I am getting more information than what I expected. Good for me. This victory is so much better than usual.’ Evan thought to himself.
“So you know of the reincarnated way of calling the scavengers. Clearly you know your stuff. They kill anyone who goes on a quest and keep everything the prey has. And if they are cute... Better bite your tongue and end yourself if you are that unlucky.” Josh said as he kept his smile. ‘You will become one of my slaves, sooner or later. So best you learn your place, brat.’ Josh said confidently.
“Thanks for the warning. I am not a worker. I just hunt monsters when I want and sell the items.” Evan said, while getting closer to Rose.
“Oh, a freelance? That's safe. Unless you end getting into illegal things like getting blue bunny moon herb. But if so, I would have to capture you.” Josh said while enjoying his victory.
“That's reassuring. Well, sir Josh. We will meet again, I guess.” Evan said, as he started moving away with Rose. ‘In hell, that is. But no need to rush that next meeting.’ Evan thought, as he was leaving.
Evan left and Rose followed him, while looking clearly ashamed of how she looked right now and blushing brightly. Josh did see Rose, and thought that it was that both were close friends or something more, since it wasn't a surprise in Elstivia that the youngsters did some stuff like that.
***
Back on the door to the territory of the Technocratic Revolution, as Runner and Rubedo were going to fight, Rubedo started by charging forward while using Body Enhancement, Skill Boost, Evasion Enhancement, Improved Body Enhancement, Improved Evasion Enhancement, Exorcist Armor, and Neural Enhancement.
Due to the effects of the various abilities used to increase his status, Rubedo’s dexterity had gone beyond what the system allowed, and the body suffered the effects of that as his mind was overwhelmed by the small details the eyes were taking in.
Rubedo’s mind couldn’t handle all the details and the precise movements his eyes and muscles were doing, and it overheated as if a computer tried to run a program that was way beyond its own capabilities, but Rubedo took that well as one of his passives, Super Body, lessened the damage.
Runner noticed the small twitching all across the body of Rubedo, but couldn’t understand what was going on. After all, no one would dare to go beyond the system limits, as it usually killed the user quickly. But she couldn’t even notice the speed that Rubedo had now, as she felt a quick strike on her, but quickly managed to dodge it by disappearing in a flash of mana and appearing five meters away from Rubedo’s fist.
“Hm, Trickster. A good skill tree to use. Especially when it comes to dodging. I expected this to be over with this punch, as going beyond the mortal limit is quite annoying, even if it’s for less than 200 points. Nonetheless, you started it and noticed the vast gap amongst us both, so you might as well surrender.” Rubedo said calmly as he prepared to attack again.
Runner started trying to find a way to use her skills to strike Rubedo, as she felt that the exorcist was an enemy that was way too strong to be sent as only a friendly being to the Technocratic Revolution. It was a fact that the church of Zerax hated the technocrats, as they went against all the tenets of the church with their meritocracy, and so they would never just send such a powerful being as an ally.
And so Runner disappeared in a flash of mana, done by another skill she had, as she appeared just behind Rubedo and stabbed him in the back with one of her daggers. The dagger went through the vestments, and flesh, as it vibrated at a hypersonic speed which made the blood of the exorcist to spurt out of his back. Once the exorcist was struck, the dagger released a powerful electric shock across Rubedo which made him recoil in pain.
“Got you, lapdog of that slaver god! I am quite strong here, so don’t think you can win!” Runner said as she smirked, while sending mana to her left foot to leave a transparent mana landmine due to the usage of Trickster Bomb and then added more mana onto it as she used Mark Creation to grant the landmine the effect of blinding Rubedo.
Rubedo was about to turn around, to strike Runner, only to see the young girl use mana to enhance her legs and jump to his left side and then dashed away while keeping her two daggers on her.
As Rubedo stepped where Runner had been, the landmine went off as it delivered a small and bright explosion that disoriented him. This blinded the exorcist, but as Runner tried to charge at Rubedo and stab him with both daggers as mana covered them. But then Rubedo delivered a back kick with his right leg, as it had mana coursing through the muscles of the right leg, unleashing the Heavy Staff Kick skill.
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“ACK!” Runner exclaimed as she was sent flying away from Rubedo, and towards a wall of the sewers, with enough strength to make the sewers tremble slightly. ‘This power! It’s too much!’ Runner thought to herself as she tried to get up, shakily, but she got up.
As Runner got up, she used Rage Mode and Adrenaline together. This made her get enraged, rather angry at Rubedo while maximizing her speed and strength, which made her charge at Rubedo.
This made Rubedo smirk, as he moved his right hand swiftly as if he was pulling Runner towards him and then to the left as the young girl was pulled to those directions. Runner was surprised, even under the effects of Rage Mode, but she never expected what would have happened as Rubedo struck her liver with a crescent moon kick while it was enhanced by mana as Rubedo had used the skill known as Crescent Moon Kick to deliver enough damage to get her own on the ground.
“So, enough damage, right? Think that even under the effects of the Rage Mode, your damage can’t do much if I just guide you to fail the attacks. Divine Guidance is so useful with this sort of situation. Your vibrating daggers went through the exorcist armor, and delivered some damage.” Rubedo said, as he used Holy Heal to heal himself from the wound he had sustained.
“It’s not like a damnable exorcist would come here to do anything that isn’t attacking us!” Runner exclaimed, while trying to recover from the damage taken, as she was forced out of Rage Mode due to the impacts delivered by Rubedo.
“Well, let me explain myself. There’s a mess that will be troubling for everyone going above the sewers. A noble will die, and if we don’t do anything, there might be countless victims of a noble vampire. I need the TR to help me out. Not because the noble needs to be saved, that bastard can die for all I care, but if the noble vampire gets to feast upon so many people… Not even lord Zerax will be able to know how many people die today.” Rubedo explained as he looked at Runner.
Runner looked at Rubedo, tilted her head, and decided to trust him. It was not a matter of believing him, but believing that if he was there to cause some chaos… He could have wreaked havoc on all the territory before being put down, and the fact that a noble vampire was going to cause a mess was already a matter that she couldn’t do anything about without informing her superior, so Runner only had one choice to take.
“Okay, okay. You can go in. But dammit, you are strong.” Runner said as she weakly got up.
“Thank you for your assistance. The archbishop will be delighted. After all, today seems to be turning into a glorious day as I end a noble vampire. One that seems to want to cause chaos above ground. And it would be beneficial for the TR as you showcase the might, and prevent having the adventurers venturing around here as they seek the noble vampires.” Rubedo said as he smiled widely.
Runner simply scoffed, and moved through the gate with Rubedo, as she would have to explain the situation and the reason behind her injured state. Hopefully, no one would be hurt if they kept their cool as soon as possible.
Or so she thought, until she saw many armored individuals right besides the door while they held all sorts of gun aiming at Rubedo. The individuals were clearly sweating, and scared, while looking at Rubedo and in front of them there was a man Runner knew very well.
A tall man, with black hair and black fur like the sort of fur that a monkey would have, slightly pointy ears that had fur around them, purple eyes, a black monkey tail. This man was wearing a bulky black armor with purple pauldrons and gauntlets, which had mana cables going from the knuckles to the shoulder, connecting on the wrist and going together as one from there to the shoulder, and wielded a massive metallic black staff with golden engravings on both tips.
“Rubedo, of the alchemical saga, what brings you here? Are you here to collect Jacques spine for the Jacques fucking incident? We did suffer already enough for it.” The man said.
“Sumong, I am here to prevent a bloody mess and lord Evan’s anger. And he would most certainly aim it at you rather than me. About Jacques: Either I take it today, or whenever I see him again. He made lady Grandine cry when she was a toddler with his damnable alarm, and you can most certainly fix a lacking spine. I think it’s not that terrible for him to suffer for his actions.” Rubedo said with a smirk.
“We will talk about this mess right away, in a better place. Out of sneaky bastards trying to spy us, and way inside our territory. That way you don’t wreck half the place. Ok?” Sumong said, as he proposed a good idea.
“Very well, but you better hide Jacques first before I consider doing as I should have ages ago.” Rubedo said while keeping his smirk.
Sumong clearly didn’t want to fight Rubedo, and this made Runner look at Rubedo with a scared face. She didn’t know what the alchemical saga was, but it was clear that they were strong… Way stronger than her, and strong enough to force the TR to step aside.
This made her want to become stronger, and do her best to surpass them, so she would never have to give up on her vow.
Flint's Status:
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male.
Age (True Age/Human standard age): 6.5
Height: 1 meter.
Likes: Crafting equipment, learning new crafting methods, history.
Dislikes: Those who disgrace history, bullies, corrupt governments and those who abuse others.
Level: 10
STATS (Maximum of 1000):
HP: 22500/22500
MP: 15000/15000
STR: 200
VIT: 125
INT: 100
DEX: 300
AGI: 375
Magic affinity: Enchanting
Skill affinity: Magic, Gunslinger, Blacksmith, Enchanter, Sniper, and Trickster.
Skills:
Magician (adept):
Magic Knowledge: Passive. Allows the use of magic.
Magician's soul: Passive. All spells cast by the user are a 20% stronger.
Magic control: Passive. All spells are cast 10% faster. Some can even be used without chanting.
Basic Magic:
Minor analyze: Active, 1 MP. Shows to the user the status of the target. It can be tricked.
False status: Active, 3 MP. Allows the user to change what others see when they see the status.
Medium analyze: Active, 5 MP. Shows to the user the status and the personal data of the target. It can be tricked.
False data: Allows the user to change what others see when they see the status window and the skill window when they use to analyze skills as Greater analyze or medium analyze.
Fly: Active, 8 mp/second. Allows the user to soar through the sky.
Enchanter (Minor):
Minor Enchanting: The user can only put minor enchants in the equipment like minor improvements of status or enchants like lightweight that reduces the weight of the equipment.
Enchanting: Active, 1 MP. The user is capable of implanting permanent enchantments in equipment.
Blacksmith (Minor):
Blacksmithing knowledge: Allows the user to create armors, shields, ammunition, and weapons.
Create equipment: Active, 5 MP. The user can craft equipment.
Gunslinger (Master) :
Increased aim: The user has easier to hit the target.
Prediction line: The user can predict where the target may move.
Fast Reload: The user can reload his/her weapon faster.
Eye of the Gunslinger: When the user aims, time is a bit slower for him/her.
Ranger's eye: The user can predict easier how to correct the aim to shoot to targets that are way too far away.
Piercing shot: Active, 2 MP. A shot that can pierce armors and barriers.
Crossfire: Active, 4 MP. A fast fire mana based shot that will ignite the enemy.
Triple shot: Active, 8 MP. Allows the user to shoot simultaneously 3 bullets.
Counter Shot: Active, 20 MP. If the user sees an enemy that is going to shoot, he/she can dodge it and shoot faster than the enemy.
Critical Shot: Active, 30 MP. The user shoots a critical shot that deals the double of damage than an usual shot.
Triple Impact Shot: Active, 60 MP. The user can shoot a target and send it flying up to three times.
Albedo Status:
Race: Undead
Gender: Male
Age: 736 years old
Height: 2 meters.
Likes: Helping children, making soup kitchens for the poor, godslayers, helping out in kitchens, altruistic acts to the followers, helping out people.
Dislikes: Fanatics of the gods, corruption, hypocritical people, slavers, bullies, those who hurt children..
Level: 60 (From the body)+30 (From the parasite)
STATS:
HP: 80000/80000
MP: 45000/45000
STR: 700
VIT: 700
INT: 100
DEX: 800
AGI: 700
Magic affinity: Basic Magic, Holy Magic, Ice Magic.
Skill affinity: Magician, Heavy Knight, Blademaster, Defender, Frost Monarch, Enhancer, Bodybuilder, Guardian, Chef, Purificator, Survivalist.
Titles: Former Godslayer, Former Grandmaster of the Camelot Guild, Boreas, the twelfth of the 16 Sunken Guardians, the preacher of the black flame.
Job: Bodyguard.
Special skills:
Royal Surge: The user recovers 50% of their remaining HP, and all of their mana when they lose 50% of their HP.
Mana recovery: Active, 0 MP. The user lowers the cost of all the skills by a 50% for an hour. Only works once every day.
Super body: The user’s body is far better than usual, so it can withstand way better than the average person the side effects of skills like Limiter Release.
Processing boost: The user can think faster than usual.
Nature’s blood: The health regeneration of the user becomes 100 HP/Second. The maximum amount of health increases a 25%.
Soul of Magic: The mana recovery becomes 50 MP/second.
Heavy Swordsman: The impact of the sword attacks doubles.
Overclocking: Active. 50 MP/second. The slime that makes the main body of this creature boost the body to go beyond limits. All stats increase a 20%, all limitations of any active skill the creature holds disappears. Causes stress to the slime, and usage without any limitation will lead to death.
Emergency Heal: Active, 100 MP. The slime that makes the main body can repair their host quickly, recovering a 40% of the total HP of the host.
Ego Destruction: The slime has completely destroyed the ego that the brain had, and absorbed the memories of the host without gaining their personality.
Chemical Enhancement: Due to the parasitic relationship of the corpse and the slime, the body has been upgraded, in terms of metabolism and processing speed, to a level the host would never reach on their own.
Parallel Leveling: Both the host and the slime share the same level bar. So once the host levels up, the slime levels up too. This said, the host gains all the status points and the slime gains all the skill points, which the slime can use to further improve itself or the host.
Parallel Processing: Usually a monster skill. Allows to process things faster with a doubled mental processing. (Obtained via usage of twenty skill points by the slime).
Skills:
Heavy Knight (Master):
Armored Defense: When the user is wearing heavy armor, their defense increases a 40% and becomes unable to be tumbled (due to the weight and this passive reinforcing their balance).
Knight's Defense: The user can use their shield faster than average, and their defense is boosted once they use their shield.
Heavy Pressure: The user intimidates with their own aura, making sure that the enemy will attack them or fall prey to the terror ailment.
Knight's Heart: Once a knight's morale is high enough, their defense is increased and can intimidate weak monsters.
Shield Smack: Active, 10 MP. The user uses their weight and strength to smack an enemy away with their shield. This pushes the enemy away, and its damage relies on the strength of the knight and their total weight. Depending on the weight and the size difference, the distance the enemy is sent away changes.
Shield Battering: Active, 15 MP. The user repeatedly bashes their shield on a target, causing medium damage on the target, but also making it feel dizzy and confused.
Disarming Attack: Active, 15 MP. The user attacks with their weapon, if it’s cutting it can cut a limb of the enemy, and said attack lowers the strength and dexterity of the enemy a 30%. If it’s not cutting, the limbs can be broken or disjointed.
Ferocious Rally: Active, 30 MP. With a short rally, the user can grant bonus defense to themselves and nearby allies for an hour while attracting the enemy’s hostility. Also, it can improve the morale of the allies and eliminate ailments like Panic or Terror.
Vengeful Stance: Active, 20 MP/minute. A stance skill maintained over time, that absorbs all the damage the user receives (the user still loses HP, but it’s stockpiled) and releases it in their surroundings once the skill is deactivated.
Heavy Knight’s Charge: Active, 100 MP. The user uses their manage to charge towards an enemy in the surrounding area and pushes them towards a wall with their charge. The distance traveled by the charge depends on the enemy’s weight, the user’s weight, the strength of the user and the strength of the enemy.
Binding Attack: Active, 40 MP. The user does a slow attack towards a target. If it hits the target, the target will be glued to the ground for 30 seconds.
Enraging Roar: Active, 45 MP. The user roars loudly while releasing mana to make the enemies focus on them.
Heavy Shield Slam: Active, 200 MP. The user uses all their weight to slam the shield towards a target, causing massive damage to the target and stunning them for a few minutes. Pinnacle skill.
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.
Blademaster (Master):
Blade Mastery: The user is more proficient with all kinds of blades, whether they be one-handed swords or katanas that are used as one-handed swords.
Earth’s Skin: The user’s resistance to cutting and perforating attacks increases a 50%.
Bladed Power: The user’s damage output with blades is increased a 10%.
Agile Feet: The user’s agility is increased a 20%, and the movement speed of the user is increased a 30%.
Focused Mind: The user can focus their mind, and so they can detect everything that goes near them in a range of 40 meters.
Layered Slash: Active, 40 MP. The user dashes with an incredible speed across a circular area of 400 meters, attacking up to four targets with a powerful slash per target.
Mana Breathing: Active, 15 MP. The user breathes calmly while absorbing mana, increasing their strength and agility a 30% for five minutes.
Flash Slash: Active, 50 MP. The user teleports near a target, and slashes them from the front. Range: 150 meters.
Twin Slash: Active, 10 MP. A double slash done so quickly that if the first hits, the second is guaranteed to hit. But if the first slash fails, the second shall fail too.
Fateful Cleave: Active, 25 MP. A wide slash that hits those in front of the user that are in a range of 15 meters in a conic range.
Divine Steel: Active, 50 MP. A quick slash reinforced with mana, which increases the cutting edge and offensive power of the attack.
Mortal Cleave: Active, 50 MP. Can only be done after a Fateful Cleave. A wide slash reinforced with mana, with the same range as Fateful Cleave, which causes grievous wounds that can’t be healed with skills or spells.
Sealed Slash: Active, 200 MP. Can only be done after any slashing skill. A slash done in the seconds after slashing a target, that deals massive damage and leaves grievous wounds. This skill never fails. Pinnacle skill.
Defender (Master):
Protector of the weak: Passive. Increases a 75% the speed of the user when he sees someone wounded, and wants to go to their aid.
Tough Body: Passive. Lowers the damage taken a 20% when protecting someone.
Resilience: Passive. Lowers a 25% the effect and duration of ailments, curses, poison, and charm.
Grand Recovery: Passive. When the health lowers a 50% of the total, the user regains a 5% of their total health per second.
Mana Dash: Active, 2 MP. Allows the user to do a dash forward using the mana in their body.
Curse Bane: Active, 5 MP. Increases for 10 minutes the resistance towards curses a 20%
Magic Bane: Active, 4 MP. Increases for 10 minutes the resistance towards magic projectiles a 20%
Savior's translocation: Active, 20 MP. The user teleports in front of someone else, giving their backs to the target.
Rescue Retreat: Active, 30 MP, must grab the nearest ally. Allows the user to teleport anywhere in a range of 200 meters.
Defender's stand: Active, 100 MP. The user increased twofold their defense, and make a small field that stops all kinds of projectiles for five minutes. Pinnacle skill.
Guardian (Master):
Guardian’s defense: Passive. The user gains a 20% extra defense towards projectiles and heavy attacks while wielding a shield.
Iron Foot: Passive. If the user blocks and attack perfectly, he/she shall never be moved but will take the damage of the impact, which will be lowered vastly.
Guardian Pride: Passive. The user will have a 10% enhanced health regeneration while blocking perfectly enemy attacks.
Shield aura: Active, 10 MP. The user raises the shield, making a field of 10 meters that blocks projectiles.
Shield Charge: Active, 20 MP. The user charges with the shield, pushing the targets away.
Mana Defense: Active, 30 MP. The user can enchant the shield for a short term of time (10 minutes), to defend themselves from curses, instant death attacks, and ailments caused by the enemy. It can be combined with Shield Aura.
Aegis Field: Active, 50 MP. The user makes a mana field that increases health regeneration of those inside it. Pinnacle skill.
Frost Monarch (Master):
Frost Monarch’s Royal Blood: The user is immune to ice and can’t be frozen under normal circumstances. Under the effects of the cold, the magic defense of the user doubles.
Frost Monarch’s Body: The user has a 50% more defense when they are in a cold space, while they have inherently a 20% less resistance to fire damage.
Frost Monarch Authority: The user can tame without taming skills any monster with the ice element, as long as they can suppress said monsters with strength or befriend them.
Winter Shall Come: When the user is in a space with high temperatures, they will release a cold aura that will lower the temperature of the area, and this will increase the effectivity of ice attacks vastly.
Frost Spikes: Active, 100 MP. The user creates several spikes on the ground surrounding them made of ice. If the spikes strike, they will freeze the target slightly, which will slow said target a 30% of their total speed and encroach their movements.
Frost Gale: Active, 200 MP. The user shoots from their hand a powerful gale of icy wind that freezes those in a range of 200 meters. It can easily cause the ailments of frostbite and hypothermia.
Frost Pilum: Active, 100 MP. The user shoots a powerful javelin made of ice that can pierce shields easily. Once it pierces a target, or a barrier, it explodes while releasing a freezing wave. This quickly puts those around the target in a frozen state, if they don’t have enough ice resistance. It will cause frostbite and hypothermia. Range: 500 meters.
Frost Monarch’s Aura: Active, 30 MP/Minute. The user covers themselves in a powerful ice aura that protects them from fire attacks, increasing their defense towards fire attacks a 20%.
Frost Touch: Active, 20 MP. The user can touch a target and freeze them slightly. This will undoubtedly cause frostbite and hypothermia if they manage to escape quickly from the user’s grasp. If the user can’t escape the grasp of the user, they will undoubtedly be frozen.
Defiant Frost: Active, 300 MP. Can only be used in front of a powerful fire attack. The user can condense a massive amount of mana into an explosion of frost mana that will make an ice barrier in front of the user to defend them from damage.
Frost Entombment: Active, 1000 MP. The user can entomb a target of their liking inside ice. This will freeze them perfectly, but will not cause frostbite or hypothermia. It’s a sealing technique, so requires the user to stay focused during the duration of the skill.
Frost Healing: Active, 1000 MP. The user can fully restore a target that holds the ice element affinity, by using powerful frost mana that will enhance their body, or those that are entombed due to Frost Entombment.
Frost Shell Prison: Active, 500 MP. The user will shoot a shell made of frost mana, which after hitting something will explode in a burst of frost mana. If it hits a target, the burst of frost mana will encase the target and instantly freeze them fully. Once the target is sealed inside the frost prison made by the shell, there’s no need to focus at all to keep them sealed. Pinnacle skill.