I finally reached a safe place to take off my mask and check the blue boxes. I was in a mountain that nobody in there right mind would visit.... "Who are you?" I small little dwarf asked me, damn it, I had just taken off my mask.
"I am John, I am on a rare dragon hunt. who are you?" I asked the little dwarf, she was small yet not what I had been told to expect, she was small but not a fat oaf, maybe that is only male dwarfs? of is that just from the miners? oh well, she stood as tall as my leg however looked fully grown, she had short brown hair and brown eyes. she wore a Blacksmith's clothes and had big thick gloves, she had a hammer on her back as big as I was and it was built to last, she was also looking at me with hearts in her eyes... do I hear 7? I bet 5 Divine Dragon Scales on it being a fan of Origami, maybe a mysterious type who agrees with my goals? oh well, I can't be right all the time, and Origami does not have the charm stat... I don't think, every other stat moves over ok, well the physical stats do, I can use what feels like an endless supply of Paper.
"A Dragon Slayer? would you happen to have any Dragon Scales on you, I am making something and I ran out of them" the Dwarf said to me, I looked at her name, moving all my Blue Boxes I need to look at to one side.
[Dwarf Gone Wild]
[Level 800,000]
[Eily Hammerforged]
"I do but they are not for sale" I said simply and then she picked up her hammer and whacked me with it. hey I felt nothing. lucky me. she looks and angry and started hitting me over and over again. wow... the occasional -1 hp... I almost feel sorry for her.
"*pant* gimme *pant* the Dragon Scales *Pant*" Eily has most her points in intelligence and wisdom. 487 in each. however her strength is only slightly enough to hold that hammer. she whacks me again and I grab her hammer using Crushing Grip and sure enough her hammer is unable to move, I lift her hammer into the air and she goes with it. dangling the air not willing to let go.
"Let go you monster. this hammer is important, give it back" Eily said almost crying... oh crap. I let go and she fell to the ground. "You meanie, why did you just let go like that?" Eily said with an angry face, she started lecturing me about the dangers of doing that so I just looked at my blue windows.
[Strength has reached 500, a new skill has been added]
[Vice Grip: anything in your grip will be crushed slowly with this active, over time anything that can be crushed will be however the time it takes depends on what you are gripping]
[Dexterity has reached 500, a new skill has been added]
[Muscle Memory: every time you do something involving physical actions it gets easier the next time]
[Vitality has reached 500, a new skill has been added]
[Shock Absorbers: impact damage is reduced by 50%]
[Intelligence has reached 500, a new skill has been added]
[Chakra: An alternative energy source has been found. Chakra recovery speed and potency can be increased through opening Chakra Gates, you have 1 Chakra gate open, the root Chakra]
[Root Chakra: This is the first Chakra gate and this gifts you with the life energy known as Chakra. with this you now have greater survival instincts and can use Chakra Points for skills that use Chakra]
[Wisdom has reached 500, a new skill has been added]
[Danger Warning: If something is 1 second away from attacking you, you will get alerted of it if you do not already notice it, amount of time between warning and attack is increased by skill level and Wisdom]
[Charm has increased to 1000, a new skill has been added]
[Heart Wave: blast everyone with the same effect of Heart Bolt, damage depends on skill level and Charm]
[Fighting Spirit has reached 200, a new skill has been added]
[Roar Of The Dragon: charge Mana in your lungs and roar, this roar will scare anyone who hears it, unless they are able to withstand a Dragons Presence]
[Willpower has reached 100, a new skill has been added]
[Presence: your willpower is now strong enough to be felt by those well trained in aura. they will acknowledge your strength be it superior or inferior without the need to fight you, if you release your presence, anyone not prepared for it will not be able to stand in it]
[Paper Clone Advanced: you can now create Paper Clones to fight for you with your paper abilities however without your stat boosters. you can enter one of your clones and people wont be able to tell the difference]
[Paper Plane Advanced: you can now put a automatic Paper gun on your paper planes that fire Paper Bullets every second]
[Paper Ball: Create a ball of paper that is able to move at very fast speeds, however it will bounce off anything that hits it resulting in no damage]
[Fake Paper Dragon: It looks like a dragon, it feels like a dragon, but it is not a dragon. you can use this to confuse people into believing you can make a Paper Dragon with the strength of a dragon]
Those are some nice abilities, I will have to test Chakra out at some point, maybe after I am done with this quest...
"...GRR.. ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?" Eily said slightly annoyd, of she whacked me with he hammer again. I answered in a way I thought she would understand.
"yes... but just for confirmation can you repeat all of that" I said with a lazy expression, she whacked me in the face with her hammer. wow, -2 HP.
"What the hell are you made of?" Eily said looking at the indents on her hammer. I fixed them up with Mana Repair and smiled.
"I don't know my self, it is either flesh and bone or coding. take your pick" I said seriously, I have heard there are some gamers made of literal 1's and 0's. so I am honestly not sure.
"Anyway, I am not just taking the Dragon Scales for free. I can pay for as many as you have" Eily said with a smile.
"I have 897,653,900,372,381 Basic Dragon Scales, I have 306,152,989,329 Ancient Dragon Scales and around 40,000,000 Divine Dragon Scales. give or take a stack of 99." I said seriously while counting "Oh and from Fire Dragons I have 890,631,780,369,800 Greater Fire Gems" I added with a smile, she whacked me with her hammer looking angrily at me.
"Don't joke with me, I can clearly see you have near nothing on you" Eily said angrily whacking her hammer off me a few more times.
"Oh yea" I said as I summoned a mountain load of Basic Dragon Scales and she jumped back looking at me like I am a monster.
"What the hell are you?" Eily said while waling backwards pointing her hammer at me. "Oh I know, you are one of those delusions, I must have inhaled to much Mana Crystal Powder. I mean just looking at you makes my heart beat fast and you are surrounded by love hearts" Eily said while pinching herself. I then face palmed, My charm stat is getting to powerful.... oh well,
"I am not a delusion, I am purfectly normal, now Kieran is a monster.." I said however
Kieran's Point Of View
hmm? I feel like I need to go kill something in the Liwiasin Mountains, meh it is to far away, I will just go kill another dragon... wait, Verod told me when I lost Origami If I killed another Basic Dragon he would throw me in a bottomless pool of lava. to bad, I guess I will just sleep a bit more and kill it if it gets closer
John's Point Of View
*Shudder* I just felt like returning to the 3 Fists Academy will be suicide, oh well, it is probably nothing. wait where did my Dragon Scales go? "It is done, finally done?" Eily said while running up to me with a smile, then pointed this strange weapon that looked like what the Technological Academy used in the tournament. then a bullet made of Dragon Scales was shot at me, very slowly, I avoided it and moved back to my original position. "Huh? is it broken? you should be dead from that!" Eily said while shooting a few more times, I caught all the bullets with my inventory screen.
"nice try, I am a dragon slayer, that wont work on me" I said with a smile. I then walked over to her little workshop. she had my Dragon Scaled in a pile however a bit of Psychokinesis fixed that by moving it all into my inventory.
[Psychokinesis has evolved into Psychokinesis Advanced: Psychokinesis is now 50 times stronger however has a limited reach of 5 meters]
interesting, does that mean it wont shatter if I try and catch a punch? lets test that, Eily walks over to me and tries whacking me with her huge hammer, I catch it with Psychokinesis Advanced and sure enough she cant move it. I smile as she gets more angry.
"What is so funny? I am doing advanced scientific research here. and you wont even help." Eily said pointing her gun at me and firing more bullets that I catch with my inventory. wow I am really getting a lot of these, I wonder if they are worth more or less then normal? wait research? why all the way in the mountain where you run the risk of a wyvern attacking you.
"And why would I help someone who is trying to kill me?" I asked and she looked angry.
"Because this is top secret research on a mountain that nobody will find you in, while on that note. how did you get here, you should be dead with how cold it is" Eily said to me pointing at the blizzard, oh right, I forgot about that, I just wrapped myself in a fire cloak to prove the point of me being able to warm myself up.
"I have ways around the cold" I said happily, maybe I should just develop a resistance with my gamer ability? meh, to much work. and it sounds like Kate will have a field day when I get back. neither of those I want as they both usually end up bad, maybe I just have prejudice because of the pain I went through to get Fire resistance from Kate.
"Sure... well anyway... is there any way I can convince you to die?" Eily said with a hopeful smile while looking up at me. I shook my head.
"Unfortunately I like life... most of it at least" I said thinking back to the academy, and my survival chance if Kate remembered I was Origami.
"Well then... there is one other option" Eily said while getting read and looking off to one side
"No. nope, not happening" I said simply putting my point across and this got another hammer to the face. oh wow, -3 HP, that is a new record.
"Why, I promise I wont be angry all the time, I am good in bed, I can make all sorts of tools that you wont get anywhere else" Eily said, I like the tools comment, the angry all the time promise is rather vague and oh my NO, I am still 17, why does everyone what it that bad, admittedly myself including however there is a time and a place for that sort of thing.
"In that case go to the 3 Fists Academy, I am slaying some rare rouge dragons at the moment. I still have a long way to go" I said half truthfully, I have a really long way to go before I reach the Dust Academy.
"Ok then, I will get in touch with Conner and ask him to pick me up" Eily said....
"Sorry... WHAT?" I shouted making the room shake and she fell back, I caught the Ice spike about to fall on her head. she knows Conner? well enough to ask a lift? how? why? when? where? all questions for another time.
"I helped conner build that Academy. well... some of the more recent work. I added the teleportation shack that connects to the other academies after some sort of event that could have used such a thing. oh well. I also made the men's wash room, added a camera in each one *COUGH* *Cough* I mean I added a boiler in each one... to keep the water warm...." Eily said, making me slightly glad I don't need use a bath or toilet.
"To late for that cough and change of what you said, and I will just asume you will be able to get there and sort things out with the others" I said hopefully dissuading her a bit?
"Ok, I promise I will sort things out with Kate Eron, Nina, Lilian and Yuna" Eily said with a smile.... I fear my privacy has been violated by this person who I have only just met, however I will try not to look into it. I will just deal with it later when I return to the Academy. also not most of the students of the destroyed academies were transferred over to the other academies, I wonder how many will be left after they meat Kieran? the fools and the strong I guess.
*Sigh*"Ok, you just go sort that out and tell them I am fine on my current Quest." I said with a smile and she whacked me in the face with her hammer.
"Is that anyway to say goodbye?" Eily said before placing the whacking part of her hammer to the ground and climbing up the pole, she then grabbed me and kissed me before climbing back down and pushing a button on her hammer and shrinking it down to fit on her back. I just looked at her like she picked the most confusing way to kiss me. even Nina does it better. by getting me to crouch down or jumping up to me. she just used her hammer as a climbing frame. wait... a better question.... DO I HERE 7? I feel like an auctioneer slowly counting up for the highest bidder. what is with so many cute, sexy, powerful women are attracted to me? my charm stat is not only powerful but specific to.
"Well, with that I have to go now, I need to go fight a few dragons now" I said truthfully, the Dust Academy has been famous for its dragons since the tournament. one of them managed to beat Kieran, something not many can do, if anyone else other then a dragon.
"Ok then, for each day you take I will whack you with my hammer" Eily said with a smile... oh my god I have added a psychopath to my Harem. oh well, I will just tank whatever damage she does to me, I am nice to those I love, and she is making cool technology, I have to except that, and she loves me, a bonus.
"I will be a while, maybe a few months" I said with a wry smile and she whacked me again with an angry expression.
"Then I will get strong enough to whack you into the floor" Eily said before walking off to the exit of the cave, where Conner was standing, he waved to me before leaving. oh well. I put on my Paper Mask and started to make my way to the Dust Academy...
Clark Teta's Point Of View
It has been a while since the tournament, I keep thinking about what Origami said, it is true that the Academy Of The Sky did tests and I saw some progress being made personally however I was told nothing more. I assumed they had just failed miserably. but Origami could be just trying to confuse me, I will have to check on it, currently it is 11 pm. most people are asleep however I decided to investigate. I am walking to the Headmaster's office to see if there are any clues there. I broke the door down and sure enough, after ripping off a fake wall I saw some incriminating documents, most unrelated to the Blue Mist and I knew that our academy had to do a few dark things just to be able to train dragons. I acknowledged that however they said it was for a good cause, to make dragons be able to save millions of lives.
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I look around and after searching through a few piles of black mail and stolen items I found a few transactions with the Academy Of The Sky. sure enough it was about the Blue Mist, they had found a way however according to the note it would be bad for the academies money income that they make through quests and donations. I made a copy of the letter. I would question the Headmaster on its authenticity, I know Origami can control paper so he could have forged this. Oh well, I guess I will have my answer by tomorrow. I placed everything back the way it was and left. the next morning I was on my way to see the Headmaster however...
"Halt, Clark Teta, you are under arrest for suspicion of treason against the country, come with me" the guard said to me, I just pushed him to one side, I was going to be meeting with the Headmaster and don't have time to deal with a Guard mixing up my name with a criminals.
"Clark Teta, stop or I will assume you are resisting arrest" Ans as soon as the guard said that Feron, Quin, Teonus and Yorlan all jumped out off there hiding places, I thought they were just sleeping awkwardly however no.
"I have committed no crimes, I am actually on my way to the Headmaster to talk with him about something important so can this wait?" I asked, these dragons were my friends who I trained with, they must know me well enough by now to know I would not do such a thing, hell Teonus is the most likely dragon to do anything, that or he just acts like a prick. I assumed they would let me go however I was stopped.
"Sorry Clark, I assumed you of all people would be the last person to do such a thing however the Headmaster told us you assisted Origami in the Void Tournament you entered, affectively destroying the Void Academy" Quin said to me while summoning his usual set of daggers.
"I did not assist him, I failed to spot his traps and I accept that I was blinded by the rest of the fight however I did not try to loose, I attempted to win however he was just a confusing fighter" I said honestly, in raw strength Origami would most likely loose however he was clever and cunning, using the rules to his advantage.
"We are not talking about that, we are talking about that letter you are carrying" Quin said to me... wait do they mean to Blue Mist letter... I was actually just checking its authenticity.
"that letter? I will assume you mean the Blue Mist letter I found within the Headmaster's secret cabinet where he keeps information to dangerous to let others see or just burn and loose forever" I said and then all of them put up there fighting stances.
"So it is true after all that you are a traitor" Teonus said to me with a sad expression, "I always thought I was the most evil on the team and all I do is act a bit annoying, I still am good, it seams you forgot about the line between the 2" Teonus added as he powered up and attempted to kill me. It has been a long time since my fight with Kieran and I have grown a lot stronger, he reminded me that yes there are normal strong humans, but there are also abominations of nature who deny this universes order with their own. when I killed him, death denied him, he was his own creation, created from nothingness and with his own set of rules and laws. unlike a normal human, he cant die. so he was able to get incomprehensibly strong as he cant get weaker, so he had all the time in the world to train, he may even be older then this world however I can't be sure, his Mana did not work like anyone else I knew. oh well, he woke me up and I trained harder then ever, I am currently the strongest dragon in the academy.
"Fool, who do you think I am" I said as I avoided his pitiful attempts with ease and stood behind him. "I have never committed a crime in my life, I have no reason to stop now and give up to a life of crime, I have no reason to help Origami either, he may have a strange power however I see no reason to help him without motive" I said simply, they calmed down a bit before the Headmaster came out of the main hall, maybe he can clear up this misunderstanding.
"Clark Teta. Why do you resist arrest, if you have nothing to hide and you are innocent it will be proven with time will it not?" the headmaster said with a caring smile. I then relaxed realising he was right. "Now if there is nothing further to discuss you know the way to go about this situation, Quin, keep watch of him so he does not break out etc. while I work on gathering all evidence that may support his argument of being innocent or guilty." The headmaster said with a smile before he walked off. with that done I lowered my defensive stance altogether.
"ok, with this I can clear the misunderstanding. Lets go to the waiting area Quin" I said simply with a smile as he relaxed and smiled to.
"yea I should have known it would be a misunderstanding, you are to kind and honourable to the point of it being annoying," Quin said jokingly as we walked heading to the waiting area. it was a simple barred up area that had magic to prevent escaping, us dragons could but it is still used since we rarely do anything wrong... sorry, since Teonus rarely does anything that wrong. I walk in and Quin shuts the gate. "Sit tight, I am sure the Headmaster will be done within a day or 2" Quin said with a smile. the headmaster worked fast, he is weak with anything that does not involve his mind or speed. he is faster then me in a foot race when I am not in my dragon form and he can calculate things incredibly fast. he is not that good in a fight but as a Headmaster he is impressive, even if his means of doing things are questionable.
"Hey Quin" I said getting his atention, he turned to me with a smile
"I wont get you any more then one glass of water, I am not a yo yo like Teonus would have you believe" Quin said jokingly, I smiled.
"damn, and I was getting really thirsty to" I said adding to his joke and he lightly chuckled back.
"What is it?" Quin asked more seriously but still with a smile.
"It is something Origami said to me at the tournament. he said he was brining down academies because they prevented the end of the Blue Mist Calamity" I said informatively and he looked at me before laughing a bit.
"You worry to much, brining down the academies would end the Blue Mist Calamity, however it would only end because the Blue Mist will have won" Quin said pointing out the fact the Academies defend against the blue mist. but with the letter I found I know it was more, depending on its authenticity of course.
"I guess you could be right, I have other evidence pointing to it meaning something else however the authenticity is questionable" I said honestly and Quin looked at me confused but accepting.
(7 hours Later)
It is getting late and Quin is falling asleep, I woke him up a few times to tell him he is supposed to be keeping an eye on me and he said he was just resting his eyes and keeping an ear out. I see the sun setting in the distance and the sky is getting dark. I also see the devil himself... running away in terror from the Headmaster as he walks towards my waiting area. he is being followed by the other 3 Dragons. I wonder what is up?
"Quin, arrest him, the Headmaster found irrefutable proof, he had a Mana crystal that contained footage of him breaking into the hidden room in the Headmaster's office and planting a few extra incriminating documents alongside a teleporter that an unknown entity could use to enter the room. proof enough was inside of the notes. arrest him" Yorlan said sadly. What? I did none of that, I entered the room and looked at things, I planted nothing.
"there has to be some sort of mistake, I have not done such a thing" I said however they did not believe me. they looked at me with mixture of pity and disgust. then Quin enters the waiting area and attempts to place a seal on me to prevent me from using my Mana, I avoid it, I did nothing, why should I have my Mana sealed? however the others just acknowledged my acts as resistance and started attacking me. I blocked them however I was pushed back. I was being attacked by my own friends, and the Headmaster is smiling. wait... Dragon Heart. I used my high sensing skills to look through him, it is something Dragons can do after a they get very strong, however I was the only one to manage to achieve it. all I could feel from him was negative energy directed towards me. why? does he have some sort of bias against me? all I did was find that letter... don't tell me he framed me? no, why would he?
(Flash Back)
"Fear not, I will be heading to the Dust Academy after this tournament and we can fight again there, however my fight is just, I do not do this out of malice. it is for the fate of the entire world." Origami said to me with a serious face. "Maybe you should focus less on me and more on the academies preventing the end of the Blue Mist Calamity such as even your own" Origami whispered into my ear before walking past me
(End Flash Back)
He said his fight was just, however he brought down academies. for the fate of the world. however the academies protect the world and give it peace so why would they? greed? it is profitable yes however who would put them self about the entire world? oh yea... the Headmaster is evil, I guess this time I mean more then just his aura. I avoid the dragons attacking me, I will have to prove my innocence another time. I powered up and as fast as I could ran away, I can't beat the 4 of them and the Headmaster. They fail to catch me with slower speed. I finished my run in a forest with clearing with a pond in it, I stop to catch my breath, I look back and sure enough I am not being chased. I then lie face down on the ground, to exhausted to move.
"I did not expect you to come running to me so soon" Origami said to me, I looked up and Origami was standing on top of the water. he was smiling. I stood up with what strength I had left.
"I didn't, I don't believe in your method of doing things" I said to him, he smiled even wider.
"Don't. what I am doing is wrong. how dare I punish an evil academy that would keep the Blue Mist for a profit? how dare I kill nobody in the process and make it so academies that would see an end to the Blue Mist can." Origami said in a mocking tone.
"enough, you have power that nobody else does, you can manipulate Paper, a power nobody can understand. was this the only way?" I asked seriously and he looked back to me with a serious look, he was emitting a pressure that felt strong yet pained.
"this was the only way with no casualties. I have seen the monstrosities that the Blue Mist creates. I have felt the pain of loss that others have felt hundreds of times over. I have seen all to much. and I am not even classed as an unlucky one, I have came close to death many times yet came out stronger. I have faced the Bloodlust that is caused by the pain and moved passed it. I want to stop all the needless deaths. then I was given a way to do that. and I won't let ANYONE stop me" Origami said with a serious tone, I felt like I would be crushed under his pressure... but then he calmed down and smiled... did I just see a bit of his true nature? beneath his façade? "sorry about that, some bad memories came up... anyway. I need to go fight a few dragons and destroy another academy now, excuse me" Origami said as he walked towards the Dust Academy... Damn it he is almost forcing me here.
"Wait" I said already slightly regretting it. he is fully right but branded as a criminal, who should I believe in this situation? damn it, "I will help you, however only if you can promise there will be no casualties and the end of the Blue Mist" I concluded with and he turned around.
"to late then, without the Sky and Void academies many criminals are going wild in those areas. many have already died and will continue to unless I finish off the remaining academies and stop this nightmare" Origami said to me before running off into the distance. damn it, I ran after him, I acknowledge he is right however I will follow and keep an eye on him? damn he is fast, he has already out ran my line of sight. wait. there is a Paper Spider on my shoulder.
"I will help you, you can't beat a dragon, and there is 4 of them in that academy, and the Headmaster... he is something else...."I said and the Paper Spider looked at me.
"I know about the dragons, I can ignore them, I only need to destroy the academy so it wont come back for a year or so" Origami's Paper Spider said to me. oh god damn it. I am talking with a spider. wait that is all he needs.
"Then hold on, I have a way to do that and you won't need to do much" I said with a thought in mind. He then came out of nowhere at a blinding speed and sat down in front of me.
"Explain" Origami said with a smile as he made a Paper Seat to sit on. he made one for me to. it was surprisingly comfy for paper. oh well, with that I started to explain my plan
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Chapter 50 - Speed Beyond Speed
Origami and Clark Teta team up, Origami boosts Clark's speed to make him able to do what he needs to do, Origami is on distraction fighting off 4 dragons and the Headmaster of Dust academy. how will this fight play out?
I hope you enjoyed the chapter. also let me know, do you prefer long chapters or short chapters? or do you think it depends on the contents? let me know in the comments. if nobody says anything I will continue as I have been