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You have leveled up
I walked away from the dead body. He may have been an interesting ally I mused. Well does not matter anymore his heart has stopped and he is motionless. While walking away I noticed his eyes flick open.
“I am guessing you are the one who I was meant to find. Guess I do not have to bother sending another signal. I am Rex Draconis rightful heir of the throne of Draconia. Someone told me you were stepping into the territory of becoming a monster and said you would be of use.” I said assuming he could hear me. I then continued “Sorry about killing you. I might have over reacted to the shock of someone running at me with a sword in hand. Your battle style was very interesting.”
“You could see the sword? Wait a second. What do I look like to you.” the man said from a laying down position barely moving at all.
“You look like a normal human. If I ignore the gaping hole I blew through your stomach.” I replied.
“Hmm I will ignore that for now. Anyways you said you were here to find me. What do you need me for and how do you know about me.” he said as he grabbed some kind of glass container with a liquid in it from his pack.
“I came because someone told me you would be of use in reclaiming my kingdom. I prefer not mention who said this.” I replied as I sat down on a tree root.
He started drinking the potion and the hole in his body slowly repaired. He then said “I am not going to be of much use to you like this. I can not fight in this form yet. You are a vampire right? You may be able to help me perfect this form. Mind if I study your mana flow. It will not be painful and I will leave my sword over there against the tree.”
I thought about it. then responded “What use would studying my mana flow be for you. Your form seems stable enough as is. By the way what are you.”
As he got up he said “In order to perfect this form I need to study as many mana flows of different undead creatures and species as possible. I am a cheap knock off of a lich. So far I have only been able to study weak undead and undead that I have created. Studying a vampire would be very useful but very difficult. I would have to weaken it to the point where it can not move without killing it.”
“Fine if it will help get you ready to join my side. First lets move out of the sunlight. It is very uncomfortable not being able to see with my eyes.” I said.
As we walked I searched the ground for a cave. I found one and followed it to its opening. It seemed to be filled with large dogs. This may be a nice time to try out my lightning. Can’t have the cave collapsing on me. How much mana do I have.
NameRex DraconisPrimary ClassFledglingHealth550/550Mana900/2500Level31Health Regen/Sec1Mana Regen/Sec3Strength25-18Art200Wisdom10Intelligence50Stamina0Vitality20-12charisma50leadership70Dexterity40-32
Once at the cave's mouth I said “Stand back haven't used my lightning magic ever yet. Not sure if I can avoid hitting you while I rid this cave of these vermin.”
As he stepped back I started focusing my mana just below the surface of the skin of my palm. I slowly started to focus on all the vermin in order of closest to farthest. I released my hold on my mana and the pitch black lightning arced from my hand to the first wolf and on throughout the cave.
You have leveled up
You have leveled up
You have leveled up
-800 mana
I stepped into the cave.
You have challenged blood fang for ownership of this cave.
You are no longer weakened by the sun your power has returned to you
You are in a area that counts as night. Fifty percent stat boost to all physical stats
I felt my body tense up as I prepared for a fight. “This will be fun. I get to rid the world of one more stinking mongrel. I can smell him from here.” I said as I strode forward to end its wretched existence.
-100 health
Blood sword created.
I could see the lycanthrope rushing towards me. He still had some ways to go. I started to prepare my mana for another blast of energy much like the one I killed the humans with.
-145 mana
Hmm does not seem like it will be strong enough to kill it. Maybe I can take out an eye or two with it.
As I thought of this the lycanthrope was finally within visual sight. I smiled and flung the dark ball towards the lycanthropes head. It dodged and attempted to gouge out my eyes with its claws. I used vampiric run to appear behind it and stabbed backwards with my blood sword. As it turned around quickly I had to leave the sword in its body. I quickly jumped back as the claws of the foul smelling mongrel tried to touch me. I feared my nose would not live through the horrible stench of wet fur so I leapt back farther than normal and created a spear.
-150 health
Blood spear created
I launched the spear at the lycanthrope with all my strength. The spear sliced it across the eye as it turned itself to dodge the spear. I saw my opening and used vampiric run to grab my sword from his back. He turned back to face me. He attempted to bite me with his gaping foul smelling mouth. I stabbed him in the mouth and leapt back attempting to avoid getting his disgusting blood on me.
Once I was a good distance away I looked back towards where the lycanthrope was standing to see that he was indeed dead and disappearing.
I broke my sword and spear not wanting to have anything that touched it returning into my body.
Your blood spear is destroyed
Your blood sword is destroyed
You now control this cave and the surrounding area
You now have a twenty five percent bonus in your area
Most foreigners will view you as an enemy.
I guess I should set up defenses around the area. That can wait. I then said aloud “Lich can you wait outside the cave for a bit I need to talk with someone in private.”
He looked around then said “Fine I can wait outside. Just wondering who you are going to talk to only living thing I see here is that snake on your arm.” he then walked off.
“Good now that we are alone you can come out now Alyona. I need you to go into the ancestral knowledge door and gain some skills. Do you know how to build traps?” I said.
“Thought you did not trust me.” she said as she dropped down from the roof of the cave where she was hiding as she landed she continued “Yes I can make traps and what knowledge would you like me to gain while in there.”
I thought for a second. Then said “Any knowledge you need and also ask if my grandfather knows anything about this lich. I am not so sure about whether we can trust him.” after saying this I pulled the key out from my bag and focused on opening the door. It started spewing smoke and the smoke formed the door once again. I pressed the center of the lines and the door started to create the tunnel. Alyona then walked through the tunnel and faded from my echolocation sight. I stared at the door wondering how to make it go away. It quickly faded from existence as if it was nothing but an illusion.
Guess its time to call the lich back in. “You can come back now lich” I yelled. After a few seconds I could see him in my echolocations normal vision. A few minutes later he reached the mouth of the cave. “So how does this mana studying thing work.” I said not facing him as I contemplated how to make the cave more suitable to my liking.
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“For it to work you just have to stand still.” the lich said. He then said “The name is Jack by the way.”
As I turned around to face him I saw why I should not have been able to see his sword. My eyes saw a monster that seemed to be made of smoke. It was a little taller than him and had glowing red eyes. I could still see him using my echolocation but it was still creepy. I then said “ Before we do this could you please get rid of that creepy illusion.” after I said it the illusion slowly transformed into another illusion. This time of an elf that almost looked just like him except it had pointed ears and instead of short hair it had long flowing black hair. I then said “Is there a purpose to these illusions or do you just not like to show your face.”
“When everyone is against you it is better to hide your face so you can still buy stuff from town.” after saying this he started to pull out some things. Two candles and a vial. He started to put one candle in front of me and the other behind me. He then dug four lines making a square with the candles at two opposite points. Then he poured the liquid from the vial into the lines. Once the liquid reached both candles a fire lit at the tip of his finger and he moved to light the candles. After lighting the candles the flame on his finger went out and he sat down and wrapped his hand around a candle. A few seconds passed by and the flame increased in size to about the size of a human skull. He and the flame stayed like that for about two seconds and then both flames went out.
Jack got up and said “Its done. Most complete data I have ever gotten. I usually have to cut off a few limbs before they stop moving and that ruins the data. There is something that I think you may want to know as you use spells a lot. You can make it where you no longer stop regenerating mana when you are casting a spell. Do you want me to do it for you? It should work for you as well since we are both undead.”
“Are you fit for combat in that form now?” I asked attempting to gently ignore his offer
“Let me check.” after a few seconds of waiving his hands in the air and staring at nothingness he said. “Yes seems so I only have 1 mana regen every two seconds but with my soul scream collector I should be fine.”
“Good. We need to make this place more habitable. First things first we need to completely take over this forest. How many inhabited caves are there in this forest? I can only see two that are close by. One that is filled with short ugly creatures and another that seems to be filled with what I believe is spiders.” I said to jack.
“After you have made it so obvious that I am your ally it seems I am no longer counted as just another freedman but I’m also a monster as well. It also says I get a twelve percent bonus in territory owned by my faction.” He paused for a moment and continued staring at what I assumed was one of the messages that the gods send us to control our fates better. He then continued “I will take the spiders. You will not do very well against them they are very resistant to lighting and I don't think you would want to go into direct combat with them either.”
“Make sure to kill every single one. I do not want some random spider rebellion on my hands. I will see if there is a way to make the short creatures work for me. I don’t want to have to connect all the tunnels by hand. The spider tunnel entrance is directly outside this cave a couple hundred meters into the blast zone my accident made.” I said. With this Jack walked off towards the spiders cave. After Jack was gone I opened my information.
NameRex DraconisPrimary ClassFledglingHealth2500/2500Mana2500/2500Level34Health Regen/Sec0Mana Regen/Sec3Strength25+19Art200Wisdom10Intelligence50Stamina0Vitality20+15charisma50leadership70Dexterity40+30
It would be nice to see the effects of each before I put any of these stat point things in.
Vitality:Increases the amount of life you have. Slightly increases the amount of health regeneration you have
Wisdom:Increases mana regeneration. Slightly increases mana. Increases your ability to learn things.
Intelligence:Increases amount of mana. Slightly increases mana regeneration. Increases ability to comprehend things.
Dexterity:Increases the speed at which you can move your limbs.
Charisma:Increases attractiveness to opposite sex.You may not apply stat points to this stat.
Art:Increases the beauty of all things you create.
Leadership:Your ability to lead others. You may not apply stat points to this stat.
Stamina:Increased by amount of vitality. No effect as you are undead.
Strength:Affects amount of force you can exert with your body.
Hmm so those are the effects of each stat. Don't really need any speed I use vampiric run for that . Might need some strength for when I am out of mana. Vitality will be useful so I do not almost kill myself making weapons in battle. Hmm I definitely need Intelligence and Wisdom. I will put ten points in Strength twenty points in Vitality and fifty points each in Intelligence and Wisdom. As I thought so a message popped up.
Would you like to finalize the changes to your status table? This will leave you with forty points left.
Yes or No
I clicked the yes and felt the changes happen within my body.
NameRex DraconisPrimary ClassFledglingHealth2500/4000Mana5500/5500Level34Health Regen/Sec8Mana Regen/Sec6.5Strength35+26Art200Wisdom60Intelligence100Stamina0Vitality40+30charisma50leadership70Dexterity40+30
After confirming the changes I started to step outside and noticed a group of humans inspecting my mistake. Once they saw me standing at the mouth of my cave they prepared their shiny metal swords and their shiny metal shields wrapped in their shiny metal armour.
One of them stepped forward. He then said “In the name of freya we will cleanse this land of your foul presence vampire.”
After letting him say this I started to prepare a Lightning attack.
-2000 mana
After letting the dark lightning crackle in my hand for a second. I released it towards them. It felt almost eager to hunt and kill them.
Dark lighting has critically hit X 20
Dark lighting has been blocked
I looked out to the fading bodies to see a young boy barely old enough to start living on his own with a golden light surrounding him.
“Go back to your church and tell them to leave my land alone. This is just a warning.” I yelled to him as I walked off to the cave with the short creatures in it. Good thing that boy was good with his magic or I may not have had a messenger to deliver the message. Time for some subjugation but first lets find something to test my idea on.