I woke up surrounded but a few beer kegs I know I didn’t summon last night at the party, smiling like it was the first joy I've had in a long time. Getting up I created a small meal with magic and started to eat as I walked outside to see everyone calmly walking about clutching their heads, even Rune was doing that. I created a small collection of sacred water for everyone before I left and told them to relax today as I walked past everyone on my way to the complex.
Once there I gained the 82 billion mana shrooms from Ander before checking on the blade of grass Bob. Bob had grown to just under 1ft tall since I left but I was surprised that it turned to face me when I approached. Interesting. I observed the plant and was pleasantly surprised to find that it has increased its stats roughly up to 5 for all except INT and WIS which are both 20. I think that I made a really good choice to take this plant but only time will tell. I left Bob and went to a spare room for some tests.
I took some of my flesh from my inventory and started to inspect it which lead to some interesting finds. My flesh isn’t exactly flesh, it's more along the lines of it being a combination of metal, flesh and gems which I found quite interesting. But knowing that wasn’t as useful as what happened when I decided to absorb it.
Hidden AEXP Store QuestBy absorbing flesh of a being with skills similar to your EXP conversion you can unlock the hidden shop by fulfilling this quest.
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Requirements
Absorb 200 corpses of beings with similar EXP conversion abilities or equivalent biomass.
5,000,000,000,000 AEXP
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Failure
Refuse quest
This skill was broken before I could use AEXP to shop but once I get this quest done things might get even more one sided for me. Without missing a beat I accepted the mission and started to absorb the rest of my flesh but I wasn’t enough. So I started to slice parts of my body off and absorb them until I unlocked the shop. This took 2 hours of non-stop bodily harm which by the way was probably the most boring way to get use to having your own body cut in half. Once the shop quest was complete I checked my stats and nothing was different, I tried calling the shop up but it wasn’t until I taped the AEXP section of the stats that a new window popped into existence.
AEXP Shop AEXP PackagesMaterialsItemsWeapons and Armor
Rather simple but I like it that way. I started to look through the separate tabs starting with weapons and armor. It opened up a page with a hundred basic weapons on it and a page tab at the bottom which really caught my interest considering it said it 1 of 1.7 Septillion. That's really mind boggling. I also noticed that the cheapest weapons are around 100 AEXP. As I was looking through I couldn’t help but laugh as a Point-ed stick was cheaper than a banana. I skipped a few hundred pages and the prices skyrocketed into the 100 millions. Most of the weapons and armor I saw in the tab where interesting and the kind of thing I might actually get eventually, for example there was a trench coat called Cas which was highly resistant to damage, repaired over time and provided extremely high resistances to holy and demonic magic. There was a weapon that was tempting to buy called Speck which was an unbreakable iron sword which grows in power by how it's used similar to a soul weapon except anyone can use it.
I left the weapons and armor tab after a few more minutes of browsing before I bought a somewhat cheap pair of gauntlet weapons called Oni that is roughly twice as strong as steel, they only cost me 1 million. I plan on giving it to Rune. I was going to get something for Vari and Falz but nothing stood out.
I checked the Items tab and was pleasantly surprised to find it had sub tabs for different types of items from food upto crafting tools and manuals for skills and different energies which was interesting. I whent to each tab and looked through them at my leisure before stopping on the food tab with a wide smile. I stumbled upon something I didn’t think I'd find once I got to the 83 page on the food tab. I found Puffer Whale Sashimi from Toriko which I've always wanted to try. As I bought this I thought that if this is heard I can maybe get other things from fiction. It cost me 20,000 for the sashimi and on the first bite a smile burst on my face, it tasted better than I thought it would and ended up eating the whole plate over an hour after closing the tab.
I moved onto trying the materials tab and I can honestly say it's along more complex that I thought there's so many different materials that it's almost like I could make anything with this. It's just like the Items section because it has several tabs as well. I wonder if this has material like mythril, I thought to myself. As I thought that the tabs changed to the raw material tab and showed me mythril ore and mythril composite ores. So I have a search ability with the shop this will be use full.
Closing that section for now I open the last one and am surprised because their is only a few pages for this one instead of the Sexpillions that the others had. I look through the packages and find that most of them are flat out stat boosters some are greyed out and I can't use them but I can guess what the do based on the the names of the packages. Almost all of the packages do something large for example the STR boosting one put all my AEXP into STR which would make me extremely strong. I notice one called Balance Stat package which would as the name implies balance all of my stats. I decide I'll buy that after a few more tests.
Moving on I go back to the items tab and search for a few manuals on different energies that I stumbled across. I took out a few beginners manuals on Chakra, KI and Qi. Suddenly 2 books and one scroll falls in front of me before I touch them I use observe on them just to make sure I didn’t just use 90,000 for nothing. As I reach down for the books I touch the Chakra one and learn how to awaken chakra and how to learn the basics for how to get started with it. I did the same with the other 2 books and instantly noticed that KI and QI and extremely similar but they are both different energies as well as how to use them.
I want to see if it's possible to gather different energies and if I'm right I'll be able to use multiple energies making me even more of a threat. I sit down and start meditating like the Chakra scroll said in how to awaken my chakra reserves. While doing so I was to look deep into my soul and connect my physical and spiritual energies. It was honestly harder than I expected to awaken my chakra but as soon as I felt a small touch of energie I immediately could use feel the difference of chakra and mana. a n expected window popped into existence as I opened my eyes.
CongratulationsYou have awoken your chakra and as such have gained chakra capacity.
Chakra awakened. Chakra+ 400
I checked my chakra and was surprised to find that I had extremely low recovery rates for it and I had lower chakra than I was hoping for. Oh well, I thought as I moved onto KI and QI. I done a similar thing as I did with chakra for QI except I was gathering energy from the world around me instead of from my very being. I had to be careful not to gather the chakra I noticed in the air while doing so since it was dangerous to me at a low capacity like I currently have. After about an hour of collecting QI I moved onto forming a foundation core like the manual said which took another hour to do so properly once I was finished I got another message.
CongratulationsYou have awoken your QI and as such have gained QI capacity.
QI awakened. QI+ 100
For the final energy KI I got up and went out to the clearing above the complex and summoned a level 100 skeleton using raw cast and started to fight it using nothing but my body. It took an hour of constant fighting and focus to find the final energy my body has rushing through my body as I was punching and kicking the skeleton whenever I could. I Finally had a grasp on what KI is and it seems so different from the other QI. I destroy the skeleton with some modified mana blasts as I get pop up about the KI.
CongratulationsYou have awoken your KI and as such have gained KI capacity.
KI awakened. KI+ 19,000
After going through the usual level up I noticed that Chakra, QI and KI didn’t get any more capacity like mana did. I don’t know how to use my new energies properly so I decided that it would be best to experiment before I went back to the village. I upgraded my G.STR into P.STR and got a pleasant surprise my KI improved from 19,000 to 190,000. I went back to the complex and relaxed for a few minutes befor I started to put large quantities of AEXP to work upgrading my Capacities and regen rates. By the end of it I had Billions of chakra, QI and KI at my disposal. My Regen rates for the energies al reached 100% shortly after. I picked up the books and scroll I left on the ground after I used a lot of AEXP and put them in my inventory for Rune,Falz and Vari. Before I decided to go train I went to the store and bought a few skill books and scrolls for the new energies, for chakra I for Shadow Clone since I could, transformation technique and substitution jutsu since they're useful. For QI I got one called simply boars cultivation. For KI I got makankōsappō, galic-gun, instant transmission one I found funny called Nail gun.
After gaining the knowledge of the skills from the books, aside from QI I got skills called Chakra arts and KI Arts. Practicing the skills where fun and extremely easy to master once I started to use shadow clones to do all the training while I rested. I told Ander to make another floor purely for training as I was about to leave I opened the shop and bought the stat balancing package which used all my AEXP to balance my affinities and my stats. It used all my remaining AEXP and was just shy of being balanced. My affinities are now exactly 1050 each but my AEXP when I was almost at my P.INT’s current stats. I now have no AEXP and all my stats are really high for my level now. I walk outside the complex and gather a few hundred leafs and start practicing a chakra control exercise I learned from the book using shadow clones while I started to practice with all the different energies I have along side another couple hundred. I spent 2 hours getting roughly 600 hours of training with my new energies which is along more than you’d think I'd need to get use to them. Once finished I dispelled all the clones and let all the knowledge sink in I summoned a level 100 Mush-man and started to fight it at my leisure. At the end of the fight which only took an hour I leveled up again with another excess level as expected, upgrading my G.VIT to P.VIT. The fight was extremely easy compared to the skeleton earlier and it would have been even easier if I used my new energies as well.
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As I was getting up and preparing to leave I felt an arrow hit me on the side of my arm before falling to the ground. Curious I turned to the direction it came from and saw the bowman from Shades dungeon. He looked panicked when his arrow did nothing. Getting up I walked up to him as he started firing more arrows at me before running for his life only to have me use instant transmission to get in front of him. He fell to the ground at the surprise before stopping himself from running again when he heard my voice.
(Dark): “So bowman are you going to apologize for shooting a lady or introduce yourself.”
(Bowman): “Who are you? And yes sorry for shooting you.”
(Dark): “My names Darkness what's your name Dave.”
(Dave): “My name… Hey how do you know my name?”
(Dark): “I observed you the last time we met but that was before I evolved, that and I observed you again. We have a lot to talk about.”
I could see that he was scared but it seems like he’s realised I'm not going to kill him.
(Dave): “I don’t have a choice do I? Well in that case what do you want to talk about.”
(Dark): “First off do you know who I am?”
(Dave): “Not a clue mate.”
(Dark): “I’m the wisp that kicked your ass in the dungeon a while back.”
His eyes widened slightly but he didn’t react any other way, from the way it looks he's thinking hard about something. Suddenly he smiles.
(Dave): “So that's where I know your voice from. I thought dungeon monsters couldn’t leave the dungeon.”
(Dark): “Only those that are greated by the dungeon have to stay.”
(Dave): “Ok so if you're not going to kill me what else do you want to talk about.”
(Dark): “The reincarnation games.”
Three simple words and he’s stunned and unable to do anything. I can practically see every thing running through his head as he hasn’t mover or even blocked for 5 minutes. When he finally does move he passes out as I catch him. I pick up the bow he dropped and take him with me back to the gob village.
When the gobs see me carrying a person they seem to panic a little until they see that he’s unconscious. Rou asks me what I'm doing as I enter my hut to put the boy to bed until he wakes up. I explained what happened except for the reincarnation games mentioning and told him that the guy passed out after talking with me. Rou tells me that I need to keep an eye on him to which I nod.
I send some clones to go and enjoy themselves with Rune,Falz and Vari while I sat waiting for Dave to wake up. At the same time I sent a few hundred to the complex and practice sensing energies with mana, chakra, KI and QI. I sat waiting for him to wake up to talk about the reincarnation games, I could have had a clone wait but I wanted to be here to listen to what he has to say in person. This is my first and possibly only lead into what the reincarnation games are and it’s too important to me to let this chance slip by me. I waited feeling more tense than I have in a long time over the chance to find out what this is to me. I waited an hour waiting for him to wake when my clones all dispelled themselves to inform me that a large group of people are coming to. I created another clone to wait on dave as I head out of the hut to see all the goblins preparing themselves. Their is just under 100 gobs somewhat trained and practically armed to the teeth with basic crude weapons.
I walk up and behind Rou and tell him to be prepared for anything as I transformed into a goblin with dark robes to hide and cover for Rune,Falz and Vari. I got all three of them to pretend to be mindless summons that will obey my commands. Just as the group came into view of the village borders I noticed that there are over 30 people in the group, some hobgoblins,humans, elves and a single dwarf lagging behind them. Almost all of them look prepared for a bloodbath and eager for it. Among the group I noticed a few that look like they really don’t want to do that, Kela Claire and Alex are among these people. I also noticed that most are around level 16 to 19 but their is 5 that are over 20. Kela’s group are between 23-25 a lone mage that has a sad smile on his face is level 48 and the dwarf I pointed out is level 98.
They stop when they get in range to see our levels and aside from the mage and dwarf everyone else looks ready to fight, even if Kela’s group look regretful. The mage commands them to eradicate the ‘pests’ and soon as they can.
I watch calmly as the group starts to charge until the Dwarf at the back shouts to the to stop acting like idiots as he steps forward. He starts to speak both with disgust and an apologetic tone.
(Dwarf): “Hello Rou I see you’ve finally got a mage in your village let's hope we can make this quick. You’ve also gotten stronger.”
(Rou): “Hello Dwark. Please don’t do this, you know we didn’t do anything.”
The mage shouted while laughing at him, it made me want to kill him right where he stands.
(Mage): “Like hell you vermin are innocent. To have the gaul to claim innocence you filthy Mu...”
(Dwark): “Shut up you pompous prick! Anyway I'm sorry we have to do this Rou you seem nothing like the Murlaak that attacked us this time, but orders are orders.”
(Rou): “For the last time Dwark were goblins not Murlaak!”
This caught my attention, can people really confuse goblins for whatever these Murlaak are and if so why is this group being ordered to attack us. I noticed the Dwarf raise his hand ready to order the attack but I intervened just in time.
(Dark): “Halt what you are doing, I have a few question Dwarf.”
(Mage): “Like a filthy bi...”
(Dwark): “Speak out of turn again elf and I'll kill you right here.”
The elf shut up reluctantly and Dwark signaled me to speak.
(Dark): “What are these Murlaak you speak off and how can you confuse the goblins for them?”
(Dwark): “Murlaak are creatures that resemble goblins to an almost identical setup the only difference is that Murlaak have a aggressive tendencies, lower intellect and can eat anything just like Rou.”
I looked at Rou and before either of them said anything I spoke again.
(Dark): “That's because of an inborn ability he gained when he was born and has nothing to do with his race.”
The group looked unaffected but Rou was confused and thankful. Before anything could be continued Dwark apologised and sent the group attacking us. I pretended to only be slightly stronger that group only sending them away rather than killing them. I could see that the gobs had a similar idea to me and started to deflect rather than defend the enemy group. That changed when the mage launched a spell similar to mana blast made of pure arcane energy. Instantly I released my disguise and blocked the blast with my wing barely hurt, not that they would notice with my regen. Everyone froze when I revealed myself.
(Dark): “Leave these goblins alone and return to Goldas before I get mad.”
Most of the group were a bit scared but Kela’s group looked glad, while Dwark and the mage looked like they heard a bad joke.
(Dark): “You can leave and like another day but if you attack me or the goblins again I will make you suffer.”
(Dwark): “And if we go against you, then what?”
(Dark): “Then I'm sorry.”
(Mage): “Big talk coming from a low level eidolon, your nothing to a mage like be or the old dwarf.”
(Dark): “If you continue attacking us I'll not hold anything back Theris Deloak the 3rd of the Deloak mage guild.”
They all fell quiet until Theris started to chant a spell and launched the most powerful spell he could which was blocked by a simple mana shield stunning them.
(Dark): “Now Theris, I have to make an example of you.”
Without any hesitation I fired my own copy of his arcane blast destroying him and a few trees not even leaving a scrape behind. Everyone was at their wits ends except Dwark who looked happy.
(Dwark): “Thanks for getting rid of that posh bastard, I now have a reason to leave and hopefully my superiors won’t retaliate. Which I doubt. All right guy were leaving. Good by miss Eidolon.”
Without saying anything the group followed Dwark back to Goldas the world they came from. I sent a clone to follow them so I know where the way to their world is. Everyone of the gobs had a look of relif, Rune looked disappointed for not getting to use his new gauntlets, Falz looks bored and Vari doesn’t seem to care. My clone with Dave popped and informed me he’s waking up, I turn to Rou and basically drag him to the hut Dave is in.
When I get their Dave looks confused with Rou practically mimicking him.
Before they could speak I sat back in a chair and forced them to do the same. As Rou was about to talk and ask how I knew about his ability, I jumped in and spoke first.
(Dark): “So I think we have to talk to each other about the reincarnation games.”
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 28 Race Profound Eidolon Gender Female Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Legend, Eidolons Mind,Mush-Goblin Creator, One with Mana Health 1 Billion/1 Billion Health Regen 100% per Min Mana 10 Trillion/10 Trillion Mana Regen 100% per Min Chakra10 Billion/10 Billion Chakra Regen 100% per Hour QI10 Billion/10 Billion QI Regen 100% per Hour Stamina N/A KI10 Billion/10 Billion KI Regen 100% per Min Stamina N/A -------------------- P.STR 678 P.INT 719 P.VIT 677 P.WIS880 P.AGI 677 G.LUC 677 AEXP28,000 --------------------Affinity’s Fire1050 Wind1050 Water1050 Earth1050 Lightning1050 Arcane1050 Holy1050 Demonic1050 Light1050 Dark1050 -------------------- Skill List
Wisp Arts Advance level 7
--Entropic Mist Advance level 9
--Energy consumption Max level
--Mana Manipulation Master level 9
Exp Conversion(variant) Max level
Godly Observe Beginner level 1
Advance of the Drudge Master level 1
Mana Bolt Max level
Mana Infusion Advance level 9
Meditation Advance level 9
Elemental manipulation Master level 6
Mana Blast Master level 2
Mana Barrier Master level 9
Elemental Bolt Master level 3
Nonexistence Max level
Wind Blade Master level 2
Flash Blade Master level 2
Healing Arts Master level 9
Eidolons Craft Intermediate level 1
Linguistics Max level
Touchkinesis Max level
Craft Inventory Beginner 9
Create Entity Intermediate 9
Arcane Pulse Advance 5
Dark Id Form Beginner 1
Weapon Mastery Advance 4
Mental Fortitude Beginner level 2
Raw Cast Master Max level
Chakra Arts Intermediate 3
Ki Arts Intermediate 1