Chapter 4: Meeting Navi and Some Kidnappers
While I was gone training, at the village my adolescent owner was fretting about my well-being.
When the time came, she set out early to see if I was still alive. (If only she knew I could respawn, or does she?)
At the meeting spot, I was still in my human form with a hint of a divine aura on me, a residue from the title. So when I started singing, it was at that moment that Kira came.
Of course I didn't notice her at first, so I continues to sing the song known as the [Song of God].
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(Kira's Perspective)
Reaching the spot where I'm supposed to meet Vocal, I wondered if he was okay. I can tell that he's alive because he didn't appear in the pet slot, but I can't see his status. If he's weak still, I probably won't be able to take him into combat.
As I came near the meeting spot, I felt an incredible aura nearby. Remembering a similar aura from the human churches, I knew that a Divine Being was nearby.
Sneaking to the meeting spot, I saw a beautiful boy singing. The song was on only a Divine Being could sing, but strangely his song was at a higher level than any other being was capable of.
"The Song of God. It is a higher level version of the Divine Melody. If you ever hear the song, then that means that a God is near you. Then either run away as fast as you can or face death if you're unlucky."
I remember my uncle's words, but I can't leave. Hearing the Song of God is a once in a lifetime chance. Also I need to pick up Vocal.
Staying hidden, I wait nearby to listen to the song and leave immediately once I get Vocal.
Hearing the song, I noticed that many monsters came to him, but none of them attacked. All of them were staying to listen to the Divine Being.
Lasting for about a minute or so, once the song ended, the Divine Being noticed everyone around him. Saying something, everyone was amazed when he started to disappear.
Looking around, I noticed that Vocal was in the crowd of the monster audience. Seeing as the nearby monsters were docile, I went over and picked him.
Leaving the area, I wondered why a Divine Being came here.
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Luckily I managed to fool Kira.
After finishing the song, I got a notification.
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Congratulations!
You have revealed the origional song to the world.
Because if this, you have been rewarded with the following:
Skill [DP Production] Lv: 1
Skill [DP Absorption]
Skill [HP Recovery Up]
Skill [MP Recovery Up]
Skill [Metamorphosis] Level Up
You can now evolve to a Divine Beast
Title [God's Voice]
You can now get a unique class
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Do you wish to evolve to a [Divine] Slimen?
Yes/No
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Do you wish to accept the class [Game Master]?
Yes/No
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Pressing yes for both, my status screen popped up in front of me.
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Name: Vocal
Level: 49
Class: Game Master Lv: 1
Race: [Divine] Slimen
Gender: Male
Health: 4900
HP Regen: 81 / Sec
Mana: 4900
MP Regen: 81 / Sec
Divine Power: 999,896
DP Production: 1 / Week
Titles:
[Game Master] [Kira's Pet] [God's Voice] [Divine Beast]
STR: 81
AGI: 81 (86)
VIT: 81
DEX: 81
INT: 81
LUC: 81
Attack: 1-81
Spell Damage: 81
Defense: 81
Elemental Resistances:
Fire: 1%
Water: 1%
Earth: 1%
Wind: 1%
Light: 1%
Dark: 1%
Stat Points Available: 4
Skill Points Available: 10
EXP: 93%
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It seems like my status really changed. My Regen is now per second rather than per minute. Also DP is integrated into my status. Even though I got quite strong, compared to others I'm still quite weak in my slime form. My goal is to be able to defeat others in my main body.
Closing the window, I finally notice how I’m surrounded by an audience full of a human and various monsters. Seeing that Kira was among them, I quickly got away by using [Burst Dash]. To others it would look like I suddenly teleported away. Quickly using [Change Form] I hide amongst the monsters just when Kira noticed me.
Picking me up, sweat trickled down my supposed forehead as I wondered if she saw me transform. With her high level, her eyes may have been able to catch me me move at a fast speed. Luckily, it seems that she didn't notice.
Taking me back to the village, Kira kept talking to me about how lucky it was to meet a divine being and stuff, but I mostly tuned it out.
Going to her home, she knocked down the door and yelled, "Hey Uncle Jack! Vocal's back!"
Inside the house was uncle Jack and his friends Ben and Lena. All of them seemed to be discussing an important matter, as all of their faces looked grave. Noticing the mood, Kira asked, "Hey, what's wrong?"
The first to speak was the woman Lena. "It seems that the Heilig Church has decided to ally with the Central Empire to raid the village again. Reports from the intelligence forces say that they have a large amount of soldiers numbering in the millions."
This shocked us. As far as I knew, everyone here was around the levels 200-500 but only numbered a population of a small army. Why would they send such a large amount to subdue a small village like this? Oh, it seems that they have cookies on the table.
Nearby, Ben also spoke, "And that's not it. I hear that several Immortals have joined." Confused, Kira asked, "Immortals? What are they?"
Answering, he said, "Since long ago, it has been prophesized that immortal beings from another world would appear on our planet. Most would barely leave a mark in history, but some have the potential to cause drastic changes to the world. At first, a few would appear, then they would start pouring in like a disease. All of them have special abilities, including the power to revive after 2 days."
Oh, so they mean players. I wonder what would happen if they found out that I'm also an Immortal. Also, I'm a divine being with the power of a god, so I literally have all the powers of a god. Well, the death penalty seems to be a loss of a level and loss of a level in 10 random skills.
"And you say that they're going to attack soon," asked a frightened Kira. Silence permutated the surrounding air. Seeing as no one was going to do anything, I started eating the cookies that were on the table. Mmm, they're pretty good.
Seeing me act nonchalantly, Uncle Jack said, "It's okay Kira. Everyone will leave the area again, you know the drill. Besides, we have up to two weeks to leave before they get here." Trying to change the topic, he turned to me. "So, how is our friend Vocal. Did he get stronger?"
"Ah, let me check." She wanted to ask more, but she knew that she wouldn't get much answers. Opening up her tamer screen, she was shocked at the change he underwent.
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Name: Vocal
Level: 49
Race: [Divine] Slimen
Gender: Male
Health: 4900 / 4900
Mana: 4900 / 4900
Attack: 1-81
Spell Damage: 81
Defense: 81
EXP: 93%
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(Kira's Perspective)
I can't believe how much Vocal improved.
A few days ago, his damage was less by 30 and his level was a lot lower. Even if it looks like he didn't improve much, considering that it's a slime that improved this much, it was quite a surprise. To the people here, he isn't even considered a threat, but everyone started to respect him. It's common knowledge in this world that slimes are the weakest monsters around, but their adaptability made it so that their race survived. A slime that could independently train is such an oddity that if anyone knew of him, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that a lot of people would kill for it.
He even became a divine beast! I bet it has something to do with that man I saw the other day.
Of course, there are many people who are under the impression that slimes are weak, but it's actually that their beginning tools are so horrible. There are some stories of slimes overcoming obstacles and becoming powerful monsters.
I thought of all of this during the past few days, trying to distract myself. Ever since I found out that the Central Empire is attacking again, I noticed how everyone was nervous and preparing to leave at a moment's notice.
Right now I'm at home playing some games with Vocal. I introduced to him a game called Shobo Darts. It's where you throw darts at acupuncture points on a wooden board. Surprisingly Vocal was quite good. He would absorb the dart into his body and shoot it out with a powerful blast and hit accurately at the desired points. He was especially good at hitting the lethal spots, which sort of frightened me.
Finishing another game, I decided to go hunting. "Hey Vocal, let's go out and hunt a few wolves." With a sort of jiggle which I guessed meant yes, I placed him on my head and headed out.
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Wow, I can't believe how lucky I was. When Kira brought up her tamer screen showing my status to the others, my heart practically stopped. Luckily they didn't notice that I was an Immortal.
For the next few days, I would just play some small games with Kira and sometimes Ben and Lena. I spent the next few days just leisurely playing around. It turns out that the skill points can't be invested into my skills, but actually another concept of the game.
Right now I'm alone as everyone had to leave to finish packing up some thing. They had to go to their various hiding spots and move all of the stuff with them. So right now I can play around.
It turns out that all races have an innate skill to do better in several fields than others. For example, an elf can have an innate skill for mana affinity. An dwarf could have an innate skill for crafting. For Vocal, as a slime he only had a single innate skill.
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Innate Skill: Adaptability Lv: 1 (MAX: 10)
A slimen is the most adaptable creature ever.
This skill allows you to gain other innate skills.
Higher skill levels can allow more chances acquiring new skills.
Skill Points to Level Up: 10
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Using all of my skill points, I leveled up the skill and received a random innate skill which became lesser mana affinity.
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Innate Skill: Lesser Mana Affinity Lv: 1 (MAX: 10)
By being used to magic, you have become more used to using mana.
Increases growth rate for training mana related skills.
Skill Points to Level Up: 10
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Now Vocal had two innate skills, which would probably help him in the future. Now I started thinking about my spells. In real life, a mage has a wide variety of skills, but mostly focus on a few spells and improving those spells throughout their lives. Usually it's around three per spell rank. In reality, I already mastered 3 mortal rank spells: [Fireball], [Mana Pulse], and [Blink]. Mastering the spell is basically using the full potential of the spell.
In game, the system seems to have a spell list for mages, but only spells you have mastered can be registered.
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Spell List:
[Mortal Rank]
Fireball (Lv: 12)
Mana Pulse (Lv: 1)
Blink (Lv: 1)
[Core Rank]
Field of Fire (Lv: 9)
Frost Storm (Lv: 2)
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If the system only saves the spell as an attack if you master the spell, then there will probably be very few mages in the world. It takes many years to master even a simple spell. Well it took me only a few days, but this means that even if players try to become a mage, they probably will give up before long. This takes care of the problem of having mages appear on earth, or at least having a lot appear. Well, people can still accidentally use an unmastered spell.
With this, I practically completed half of my job already. Now I just need to make sure that there won't be a lot of real life qi cultivators. Hopefully warriors only teach how to use a weapon.
Spells also seem to be able to get stronger even if they're mastered. This is good for me as it would help me play the game better.
What else… oh yeah. Apparently the Navi Pixie was downloaded into my system and I received an item called Core of Navigation. It's a dark blue sphere that's as small as an eyeball. The description says that if a monster absorbs it, the monster's core will fuse with it and give access to system controls to the fairy. I didn't absorb it yet, so might as well absorb it now.
Spitting out the core from my [Eternal Stomach] skill, I pressed the item, causing a notification screen to pop up.
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Do you wish to absorb the item [Core of Navigation]
Yes / No
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Pressing yes, I felt a slight pain in my stomach. My monster core started coming out of my body and absorbing the other core. Both melding together, my black monster core fused with the blue core. Entering my body, a notification popped up.
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You have successfully absorbed the [Core of Navigation]
You receive the following:
+ 10 INT
+ 10 LUC
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Hello Vocal, my name is Navi. I am an auto generated Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
created to help you. If you wish to speak to me, just think about it and I will read your mind.
For private thoughts, just imagine a mental barrier around it which I know you are capable of.
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Oh hello Navi, so basically you can speak to me with messages, but that would be troublesome during a battle. Can you change to voice instead?
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When I transform into my Astral Form, I will manifest into a spirit fairy.
If you wish, only you can sense me, but otherwise everyone can see and hear me.
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So can I see your astral form please.
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Yes, just hold on a minute.
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Light started appearing causing the surroundings to brighten up. From the source of the light a silhouette was slowly forming. As the light dimmed, I was able to see that a small tiny figure has appeared. A black silhouette remained, with no features other than a humanoid shape.
"Hello Mr. Vocal, again my name is Navi. Created from your divine power, I can help assist you in the affairs of this world. If you wish to customize my settings, please do so now."
Seeing the options, it turns out that I was able to choose a wide variety of things including class and stat growth. Finishing her settings, I made her a mix between a scout and a healer with some support spells. I also changed her personality to be similar to me, easygoing but serious when necessary. I wanted her to have an appearance similar to a little sister as I never had a sibling. Finishing some other stuff, I pressed create.
She was very tiny, around the size of my finger. Navi had long black hair and a slim figure. She had fairy wings coming from her back and she was wearing a simple one piece. Her age seemed to be around the early teens, but her eyes indicated that she held intelligence beyond her years.
"Heyo Big Brother Vocal, so now what do we do now. Do you wanna go out and play some games with Master Kira. Oh! How about we go check out the army?"
I made it so that she would know all about what happened since coming to this world, so she knew the situation going around the village.
"Well, I guess that checking the army out might be fun. Also I wanna see how far the other players got in this world. But let's leave that to tomorrow. I'm gonna log off for now okay."
"Alright, bye-bye Big Brother."
Exiting the game, I left the VR Machine and stretched for a bit. Relieving myself of my worldly needs, I went to the fridge and noticed that I was low on food. Guess I gotta go to the local market.
Leaving home, I activated several alarm spells so that I can tell if someone invades. Of course, a skilled mage might be able to deactivate most of them, but there are few skilled mages in this city that I know of.
Going around, I was influenced by the mood causing me to feel quite happy. Today was a beautiful day with the sun shining and kids playing around.
Going past the playground, I noticed some children playing a ball game. All of them had looks of joy and innocence on their faces. Nearby their parents were watching them occasionally talking with other parents. Looking at them, I thought, "How nice to be young," and "Wow I'm getting old if I'm saying things like that."
Shaking my head, I was about to turn away when I noticed that one of the kids kicked the ball out of the playground onto the streets. In situations like this, a cliche event involving a speeding car would happen. But this is reality, nothing like that's gonna happen. Look, a car just came onto the same street, but it properly slowed down while the kid went to get the ball. Nothing interesting happened.
...and I spoke too soon.
As the kid was walking back, the car doors opened up and two people wearing ski masks came out with one having a bag in their hands. One grabbed the kid and put him in the bag while another threw a bunch of papers around, probably some sort of message of ransom. Both of them drew attention as kids and parents started screaming while some tried to run to them. Unfortunately, both men ran back into the car while the driver inside floored it.
All of this happened while I was watching nearby. Obviously I would help them, but I have to make sure that my involvement doesn't bite me later in the future. Using a few spells, I wear my official uniform, a robe with several runes, magic circles, and spell words written all over it. Another spell cast makes my face blurred of definite details. Using my mastered [Blink] spell, I appear inside the car.
The inside of the car had three men and the kid, a little girl, was placed in a bag oddly quiet. A quick check showed me that she was breathing, but seemed unconscious. Right now, no one can notice me with the cloak on, even if they touch me or see someone touch me their mind will do anything to attempt to believe otherwise.
I've been in situations like this a dozen times, so obviously I'm quite calm right now. Of course, I feel quite angry against such trash, but I need to know their reasons first.
So I'm just gonna go with the for now. If it seems like the kid is in danger, I'll save her but otherwise I don't have anything else planned.