Jack is in a luxurious room in the town hall, in front of him is the person responsible to see if the person that want to take a quick job, Jack is here now because after the problem involving The King of Weapons a worker said that he would call the lord to tell the good news and seeing all the problems that this could bring him he decided to take a job that involves going outside the village. In the end he took one that is related to gather some plants to an alchemist of the village but since this is outside the village, they need to check his strength, and this man is the supervisor that will see if he can defend himself.
- Sir, please show to me the maximum amount of power that you can but that doesn’t exhaust yourself - The supervisor said covering himself in all kinds of defensive spells. Seeing this Jack tried to remember the feeling of the golden flame and tried to summon it to envelop his body improving his physical capabilities while also giving him the power of the golden flame. He managed to do this but things went wary pretty quickly since the flames were so strong that even by just being near him the defenses of the supervisor started to break so he quickly shouted – You pass.
- Oh, sorry I didn’t expect it to be so strong – Jack said feeling surprised by the way thing were going and quickly dispelled the flame but not before the system gave him a message.
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Attention!!!!
The Titan has managed to obtain control over the Imperial Flame and create an ability
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Imperial Mantle
Cover the Titan’s body in the Imperial Flame boosting the Titan’s physical capabilities and the power of the flame
It also gives a more accurate control over Fire
Spell Card (Newbie Stage)
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- Here is the direction of the mission and these are the plants that you need to gather – The supervisor that was gasping for air.
- Okay, bye – Jack said running to not encounter the lord, when he left the door he activated “Shadow Concealment” and ran to the direction that he needed to go, while he is running he notice how everything here works but while seeing this he almost hit an elf, he manage to dodge her but she feel the wind from him running and turn to his direction but the only thing she could feel was the energy of darkness but she couldn’t feel malice so she left it like that but decided to pay more attention to people who use darkness.
After Jack left the village he uncast the “Shadow Concealment” and started walking in the direction that he need to go while playing with the fire, he focused on using the Imperial Flame to create things like swords, shields, spears, he even created a bow and arrows to train his control in a more delicate way, he tried to create arrows in various positions like drawing the bow, jumping, running and other positions. He also tried changing the form of the armament from a sword to a shield while attacking and defending, from a spear into a bow, from a scimitar to a katana, he even tried to create armors and after all this training the system recognized his efforts.
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Attention!!!!
The Titan has managed to obtain control an element in such a fine way that he managed to gain two abilities
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Create Weapon
Create any kind of weapon using energy, be it elemental or not
The weapon can be changed at any moment
Spell Card (Newbie Stage)
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Create Armor
Create any kind of armor using energy, be it elemental or not
The armor can be changed at any moment
Spell Card (Newbie Stage)
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After managing to do this Jack decided to try using The King of Weapons, he activated it thinking about a katana, nothing happened, he tried thinking about a rapier and it worked but it is a plain rapier so he started to think about the most powerful rapier that he could think of and that has things related to the elves: a rapier that was made from the best materials like a trunk from Yggdrasill and the ore from the best metal so it can contain all the blessing that it has, the rapier has the blessing of the spirit kings of the wind to be faster than anything, it has the blessing of the spirit kings of the earth to be the sturdiest rapier possible, and also has the blessing od the spirit kings of water to have the power to bring anything to the ground, this rapier was forged in the most powerful fire of the spirit world so all of its characteristics can fuse well together but before it was finished the Sun and the Moon gave their blessing so the rapier would always be strong and walk into a righteous path but the users intentions influence it to become better at its role as a weapon so it has the sharpness to pierce anything which made its true name be obscured and instead be known to the world by another name: its new name translated from elven is World Piercer.
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Attention!!!!
The King of Weapons isn’t complete enough to bring forth the potential of World Piercer
The King of Weapons will create a lesser version of World Piercer
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World Piercer (Obscured) (Lesser Version)
Attack: 1.000~10.000 Durability: Infinite
Attack Speed: 4.000
It can pierce anything below a certain grade
It can weaken anything that it can’t pierce
It can be strengthened using material that are good enough
It can be desobscured by fulfilling its role
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Seeing this Jack became excited to try this rapier but also knew that he shouldn’t do something bad so he can desobscure this rapier and show its true name and potential so he calmly continued to follow his path to the mission.
While he follows his path, he tests the rapier with his flames to strengthen both, he tried to infuse the Imperial Flame into the rapier and after some tests he managed to infuse the rapier its blade gained the golden color of the flame and then he tried to change the element to darkness in the blink of an eye, the same darkness that he use to conceal himself in shadows, he also managed to do this and this time the blade and the entire weapon became shrouded in a mist that made it difficult to see it, like it is a weapon that isn’t there, and to reward his efforts:
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Infuse Weapon
Infuse your weapon using energy, be it elemental or not
The element can be changed at any moment
Spell Card (Newbie Stage)
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- Cool, if I manage to gather more elements I will be able to have lots of elemental weapons, armors and also infuse my weapons with elements – Jack said excited and changed the element infusing the weapon back to the Imperial Flame and started to walk to his destination again.
Everything was going fine until Jack reached his destination and there he found a problematic situation: There are humans here, and they are gathering the plants. Remembering that the forests where the elves stay are considered sacred to the elves, he did the only thing that he could think of, intimidate them using the Imperial Flame so he cast the Imperial Flame encircling them and said through the flames;
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- Who are you and what are you doing in the sacred forest? – He said analyzing the group, all of them looked like scholars but he could feel magic from them, this is one of the things that he doesn’t understand in Veritas besides that it can simulate all the senses, it can also give to the player new senses like the sense of energy, plus the equipment that they are using made Jack think that they are mages, they are wearing robes and staves. They are two girls and seeing the flames one of them tries to shoot a water ball in one direction but before the ball even hit the flames it evaporated which made the girls surprised, they looked at each other eyes, nodded and the other girl said:
- Kurikaeshite moraemasu ka – She said but Jack couldn’t understand what she said but the system helped him:
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“Knowledge of Babel’s Library” is translating the target speech to the Titan’s language and will translate the Titan’s speech to the target language
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- Can you understand me now? – Jack asked hopeful.
- Yes – the girl said.
- So I will repeat: who are you and what are you doing in the sacred forest? – Jack asked.
- We are scholars from the Arslam Academy of Magical Arts, we came to this country in an expedition of our school but we ended up lost, when we were trying to go back to our group we found this place filled with rare herbs so we decided to collect some of them – The girl said trying to appear to be the most inoffensive possible.
Since Jack doesn’t have any ability to related to detect lies, he decided to do another thing, he conjured the card of “Fire Control” in his hands and imagined a fire that burn those who lie and do bad deeds and from the card a black fire appeared, but the fire isn’t of a dark type of black, it is a pure black, a black that seems to consume darkness itself and he used this fire in the girls:
- Swear on your lives that what you said is true and that you have no other intention here - He said to the girl who talked with him while enveloping her in the fire.
Seeing that this could potentially be her only change the girl said – I swear – But the fires burned her, it didn’t leave a mark on her body but it left her vitality low.
- What she said is true!!!!! – Shouted the girl who launched the water ball.
- It is only partially true, she has another intentions for coming here – Jack said feeling the feedback from the fire.
- I want to search for a herb to cure my mother – The girl who was burned said exhausted – I thought that if I lied you could leave us be and maybe I could try to find the herb to heal her in the way – She explained feeling that she should tell the true now that the beans are spilled.
This time the fire didn’t burn her so Jack freed her and enveloped the girl who shot the water ball in the black fire and asked her:
- Tell me why you came here and be truthful – He said.
- I, I, do I really need to say? – The girls asked reluctantly.
- Do you want to feel the fire? – Jack asked trying to appear heartless.
- Sigh… I came here because I want an elf boyfriend and I heard that in this forest we could find elves – She said blushing.
Seeing that the fire didn’t burn her Jack became speechless and started to wonder: What the hell?!?!?!
- To think people like you truly exists, sigh, just go away from the forest – He feeling frustrated.
- Please do you know where I can encounter the ten thousand (10.000) years lifesaving ginseng? – The girl who wants to save her mother asked since she could see that this person don’t mean harm to them if they don’t do anything stupid.
Jack tried to remember if he saw any information about such item, he couldn’t but with his card on hand he tried to think of a fire that instead of harm, will cure, purify, cleanse, improve and revive, he managed but he felt drained like he made excruciating exercises during hours but he still managed to stay firm and say:
- I don’t know anything about this plant but if you bring your mother here, I can try and cure her – He said putting his intent in his words in such a way that even the girls can feel that he is serious.
- How do we find you? – The girl who want to save her mother asked.
Listening this Jack also tried to think of a way, but the only thing he could think is to use an element so he decided to go through his limits: he stored his “Fire Control” card summon his “Darkness Control” card and imagine a darkness that always leaves a trail so the one who use it can always find it, a darkness that follows living beings as a ghost and is stealth like a shadow so everything that is done with this darkness can only be sensed by the user and he imagined this darkness sticking in the girls like a crest and following his will an invisible crest now is incrusted in the girls foreheads and with this he can see anything that the girls see, smell anything they smell, hear anything they hear, feel anything the touch and see anything they think but now he is exhausted but through sheer willpower he make a firm voice and tell the girls:
- I will know – He didn’t notice but when he said this all the shadows in this area vibrated but the girls noticed this and feel fear since they think that he is in the best shape and can kill them at any time so they started to walk fast in the direction they came.
When Jack couldn’t feel them anymore, he sat in the ground and let himself relax.
- System why I am so tired? – He asked exhausted but also feeling that he shouldn’t be feeling this tired.
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For over using the abilities of “Fire Control“ and “Darkness Control” with “Elemental Mastery” to change the characteristics of the elements you exhausted your mental power
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- So I was using “Elemental Mastery” to so easily change the elements, this is why it was so easy… Well, I think that this explanation can be plausible now let’s see what they are doing… - Jack tried to say but the system bombarded him with information from what he did:
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The Titan has created two new types of fire:
Righteous Fire: A fire that will burn evil and wrongdoings
Miracle Fire: A fire that will burn every injury, impurity and curse, it will also enable beings to improve under certain conditions and if certain conditions are met it can revive something
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The Titan has created a new type of darkness:
Silent Darkness: A darkness that is specialized in stealth and ranger activities
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Attention!!!!
The Titan has managed to obtain control over the Silent Darkness and create an ability
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Crest of Monitoring
Mark a being with a crest that can monitor everything the being do, think an its location
Spell Card (Newbie Stage)
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- So this is what I gained… There is no more prompt?... Ok so now I will see what they are doing – Jack said feeling excited to test this new spell - But first I need to choose which girl I want to see… the girl with the sick mother, she seems more normal and foot on the ground – Jack said this and activated the spell in the monitoring mode.
- Mina, what do you think of the guy who trapped us – Asked the girl who wants an elven boyfriend excited.
- He seems like some kind of hidden power but not necessarily from the elves so don’t get overexcited thinking that you will be able to fulfil you dream so easily Harumi – Mina, the girl with the sick mother, to Harumi, the girl who want an elf boyfriend.
- He called the elven forest “sacred forest” and you think that maybe he isn’t an elf? You are being overly suspicious Mina – Harumi said thinking that her friend is just trying to make her feel desispirited.
- He could be there searching for something to, elves usually use spiritual magic or elemental magic of the four (4) main elements, not unusual versions of fire and darkness – Mina said thinking logically.
- Well… He could be a mage that focuses on researches so he could have created modified versions of the elements the black fire that he used didn’t contain darkness and only burned when we lied and he could discover when we lied so maybe he does researches on alternatives ways of using the elements – Harumi suggested trying to hold firm into her dreams.
- This could be right but we need to take into account everything that is possible, for example we know that some elves in these lands don’t speak our language but he first spoke in another language but only after we talked that he changed the language that he was using and he changed it so easily that it seemed like he was talking his native tongue – Mina said remembering all the strange points that she could take – And elves hate the element of darkness because it is associated with demons, but his darkness was completely different from any darkness that we have seen ourselves or recorded in the academy – She said remembering the description of the element of darkness that her academy managed to obtain through the years – Not even elemental fruits had anything similar to that darkness – She said remembering a type of item that can change the properties of the element of the person who eat it or it can give the element when ingested.
- …………. Ok, maybe he isn’t an elf – Harumi said finally accepting that maybe she was dreaming too much after a brief moment of silence.
- Sigh, maybe, even if he isn’t an elf, he doesn’t mean harm – Mina said trying to comfort Harumi.
- Interesting – Jack said absorbing all the knowledge that he just gained – Now I should finish the mission – He said coming out of his hideout and gathering the plants. While he is gathering the plants, he also started to think about the events that happened during his time in Veritas until now he noticed that there was one thing that didn’t have an explanation: who or what attacked him when he encountered Alriel, it seemed like it was there to kill that group but after failing the attack they just gave up or decided to wait, but what if the target weren’t the elves but himself? At the time he hasn’t done anything so if he was the target, why? Did someone already discovered that he is a Titan and for some reason was trying to eliminate him? If yes, why? Jack doesn’t know almost anything about Veritas yet so he doesn’t have any idea if killing Titans is something that some beings want to do or if it has some sort of glory in it but before he could think of anything more, he sensed another elf coming this way and this elf is the one who he almost hit so he decided to use “Shadow Concealment” while fueling it with “Silent Darkness” and hide to see what she will do.
She arrived at the clearing and started looking around like she searched for something.
- Strange, I am certain that sensed the person who used darkness here, could I be wrong? – The elf wondered feeling confused since she is the elf who have the best senses in her village – Ok I will stay here for a while, maybe that person will come back – She said and sat in the ground while taking a book from a bag that Jack only noticed now.
Seeing that she won’t leave Jack decided to sit while in the shadows and rest, He decided that since he isn’t doing anything he should try to ponder on the questions that are bothering him. He thought about how it all happened, everything started to happen so fast after he encountered the elves but he also thought about who the hell is the CEO of the company that created The Face of The Cards, he created nano machines that are injected into someone’s bloodstream just by entering one of these special capsules and these nano machines can strengthen someone’s real body, or this guy is a genius or he is some kind of mystical being. He also thought about what Yggdrasill said, it was like she knew him, or at least the Titan Exarion, so who is Exarion? From the reaction of the elves when he said that he created cards and fussed them Jack noticed that this shouldn’t be possible or extremely difficult, so who is Exarion that can do this with such ease that these actions became cards, and from what Alriel said for someone to gain a card this someone needs to master an action, spell, or knowledge so this means that Exarion mastered the ability to create and fuse cards? If yes who he is that mastered such powerful ability and Jack isn’t even taking into account the ability to dismantle cards that it seems to also have the ability to dismantle enemy cards and take for him the new cards. It is as if Exarion is some sort of special being to the world, or maybe all the Titans are special beings since they have so many good cards from what Jack remember seeing in the Hall of Cards.
While Jack was mussing over this the elf closed her come angry from wasting time here and started to walk away but looking back at the direction of the clearing to see if someone appeared but no one came since Jack is currently lost in his thoughts so he didn’t even saw her going away.
- I know that there is someone there but why it didn’t reveal itself? Maybe it can sense me even from this distance? – The elf wondered to herself while looking at the clearing not even thinking of the possibility of the person she is searching for already leaving or just forgetting to see if she was still there since she thought that her senses are the best and no one would forget about her so she just left, and this time for real leaving a pensative Jack to himself.
After some time Jack decided to see if the elf was gone even from the maximum range of his senses, not sensing her any further he finished collecting the plants while still under the effect of the spell, then he returned to the village and only after entering the village he uncast the spell and went to the alchemist, there he gave the plants and received his money, ten (10) silver coins that are equal to one thousand (1.000) copper coins so he went to an inn and there he decided to pay for one night which is ten (10) copper coin, when he arrived at his room he lay down on the bed and disconnected.