Gerard pov
I was waiting for master Lucien to find out what type of magic he was most powerful in.
Lucien: (Consumer?)
Gerard: (What did you say?)
Lucien: (A word entered my head and it said consumer.)
(WHAAAAAAAAAA?!)
Lucien: (Is something wrong?)
Gerard: (Consumer magic is supposed to be a ancient magic that disappeared over a thousand years ago. Not much is known about it but what's certain is that you don't simply have it. YOU TRAIN IN IT! Master Lucien i'm going to ask you a question and I want a answer.)
Lucien: (Shoot.)
Gerard: (Are you some type of God?)
Lucien: (pfft ...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You know that's a very good question. But since I've never met a god before well have to wait and see.)
Hearing what was just heard I was trembling.
(Is he saying he's going to take on a god?! Well this is master Lucien were talking about who has the darkness and now consumer magic. He's already god like.)
Lucien: (Anyway how do I use magic.)
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Trisha pov
I am currently enjoying some ale we found in the supplies of that army and partying with the troops.
Trisha: (YEAH LET"S PARTY TILL WE DROP!)
Crowd: (YEEEEEEAAAAAHHH!)
As I started a drinking game with a few human's and goblin's I started remembering the giant I fought. Strength wise he beats me hands down. But I was faster than him and I had the sword my darling Lucien gave me. Though he did almost get me once I was surprisingly able to cut his sword in half. After this I then proceeded to cut off his limbs one by one.
Orc A: (Winner ...Trisha.)
Trisha: (ALRIGHT WHO'S NEX_)
I then fell unconscious in a drunk stupor.
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Wendy pov
(DAMMIT!)
I was pissed. During the fight I was able to control 5 enemies at once but besides that I wasn't able to do much of anything.
(I need to get stronger!)
I then took some blank human's into a open space and tried strengthening my powers.
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Lucien pov
(Well this sucks!)
All I got from Gerard about my magic was some legends. There were only 3 people known to have this power. The first was a elf. Apparently he ate some animals and was able to take their shape's. The most famous of his transformations was a young dragon. The next was a human who also ate different creatures. But instead of taking their forms he took their strength and speed. He became known as the strongest man alive. It is said that he also could turn into a giant over 50 ft tall. The last was a demon and he became the first demon king. Like the others he fed on different creatures. But he was able to take their traits and magic. If he consumed something with the toughest skin his skin would be just as hard without changing his appearance. He became a master at magic by eating human's with magic and his own kind.
(One thing these stories have in common is that they all ate stuff.)
So I summoned a tiny cat creature that had arms and legs we found in the woods that was good at hiding it's presence. I then kept the darkness from healing it as I ripped off it's head. At first I was hesitant to eat bloody uncooked meat. But I forcibly choked it down and waited. At first nothing happened so I did some tricks other magicians use when using magic that effects their body's, which I learned from Gerard.
I soon felt stronger than before even though it was kind of a small improvement. To test it I went over to a house that was two stories tall and lifted it up. Before I could only lift a two story house full of stuff only 2 ft but this time I got it up to 3 ft. I also seemed to have grown an inch or two. After this I tested my speed and confirmed that I was a little faster than before.
(It seems i'm following in the footsteps of the human.)
Nodding to myself I then walked away. I then approached a blank to ask him if he's seen Wendy and Trisha. However when I touched him he jumped in surprise.
(S-sir what is it?)
(This was odd. Usually my pawn's can tell when i'm approaching thanks to the bad vibe that surrounds me.)
After I found out that Wendy was training and Trisha was passed out drunk I thought
(Did I take that cat's traits?)
I decided to test it out. Not only do the cat creatures hide their presence they are also agile and can grow claws. My theory proved correct when I was more agile and my finger nails grew 6 in and were as sharp as knives.
(It seems i'm also following the demon king. ...Maybe I can do the elf's trick.)
I then began to imagine the cat creature. I concentrated on it so hard that I closed my eye's. After a few minute's of concentrating I opened my eye's and everything looked bigger.
(No ...wait ... I became smaller!)
I looked at my body and it was the body of a cat creature.
(Hmmm! I wonder if it was the same for those other 3.)
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After testing my power out a little more I noticed that the human's path was easier than the other two. The difficulty for each path are
Easiest to hardest
Human
Demon
Elf
(Maybe they focused on one of the 3 path's offered to them unless they were forced to follow one.)
Also ...ummm I ...didn't really need to eat that cat creature. I found out that as long as I pull them into the darkness that counts as eating. I discovered this when a human kid wouldn't stop complaining about how someone took a toy he had. When I felt my strength rise after dragging the kid in. I found I could also change to look like him. So after this I dragged everyone into the darkness and pulled them out. I felt my strength rise at a incredibly fast rate. I also grew about 27 ft which kind of startled me. Luckily I was able to return to my original height. I also found each of the path's to be less difficult but still kind of a pain. I then practiced my magic and the magic I took from other's well into the night.
When I finished, the party quieted down so I picked up Trisha, who was still unconscious, and carried her to our house. There I found Wendy who was reading a book.
Wendy: (Oh your finally back. ...What's up with her?)
Lucien: (She drank to much of the ale we took. Where have you been?)
Wendy: (I was just strengthening my powers with the blank's. ...Speaking of power's father told me you unlocked your powers but he wouldn't tell me what it is. ...Soooo what did you get? Come on ...tell me.)
Lucien: (Consumer magic.)
Wendy: (WHAAAAAAT?!)
Lucien: (God your loud.)
Wendy: (But-but father told me that it is powerful magic that was lost.)
Lucien: (Well that's what I got.)
Wendy: (So what can it do?)
I told her what my magic could do and she seemed amazed. Afterword's I went to the bedroom and threw Trisha onto the bed. I then went outside and proceeded to offer the deal with the army we captured. One third made the cut while the rest became blank's. The most noticeable among the one's I erased was the guy in the robe. He refused to serve under the one that defeated him. However the other two in his little group were allowed to keep their personality's. The girl was named Betsy and she was a healer.
(Maybe healing magic is my weakness.)
Anyway she spent her life studying healing magic because when she was young a friend of her's bled out after protecting her from a wolf. If she had healing magic she would have saved them but that wasn't the case. However she was just a mid-level healer. The highest was a cleric and I became a little worried.
(If a mid-level could weaken the darkness. Than a cleric could probably do some serious damage.)
So I tweaked her magic so she could summon darkness in a water like wave spreading it further. The giant was called Sal.
(Darn I really wanted his name to be tiny so I could have a few giggles.)
He was a 46 year old general. He joined the army to protect his home when a war broke out 30 years ago. At first he didn't take the deal but after I said this would bring peace he agreed. I also learned some more about this world's circumstances. Apparently there are tensions between the human, demon's, and beast-men. The demi-humans which were the elves and dwarve's got along with both the beast-men and human's. The demon's mostly stayed to themselves.
Each race also had their own strength. The human's had number's, the beast-men had physical strength, while the demon's were efficient in magic. The elves were great sniper's and the dwarve's made strong weapon's.
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It's morning now and I summoned my army to the road that leads out of the village.
Lucien: (Everyone, it's time to leave this place but we will split up here. Since we number around 500 now I will make groups of 5 consisting of 100 in each group and put someone in charge of each group. Your job is to go to any village or city and capture it.)
In the first Group was Gerard and his animals. The next was a group of mostly blank human's which I made Sal in-charge of. Then were the Goblins I started with and other's we found in the forest. The one in charge was that goblin commander that I fought with in the cave because he was the strongest of them all. The fourth group consisted of mostly children that were both from the village and in those carriage's that were with the army. They were the one's that had magical power. In charge of them was the village's teacher which was a middle aged man with gray hair and some muscle.
(This might be the most successful group. I mean who would suspect kids to have enough power to destroy a village?)
Finally was my group which had Wendy, Trisha, some giant spiders, that lizard-man, orcs, human's, and Betsy who begged to be with my group. After all the groups were organized and ready I told the people leading each group that once their group reaches 200 cut the group in half and make someone the leader of the other group.
Lucien: (ALRIGHT GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY HUNTING!!)
With that each group went their own way ready to spread the darkness.