Authors Note: Will be in POV so thoughts are just text, italics are skills, and Character: “Is such a thing even possible” will represent dialogue
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**Etheria, Purple Star Realm, Unknown POV**
Having his cultivation be like a game from his world could not have been a better idea, and it's good thing i forcibly lowered his wisdom otherwise i can’t see how he could ever still believe he's in a game. Even though he trusted me i know this is the only way someone like him would survive here, he has to keep believing and be free of any conscience,not only would he not survive otherwise it could take who knows how many thousands of years for him to revive me training as a normal cultivator.
**Etheria, Purple Star Realm, Vangur City, Sandro POV**
Keeping Conceal Presence continually activated I've come to realize how amazing this skill really is. Sure people can see me perfectly but i might as well be a bag in the wind, not mention the fact it doesn’t use Qi. It probably alters my state of mind and ‘aura’ or some shit like that.
Riding on one of the carriages chartering people from the city to what i now know is Red Serpent School i begin thinking about my strategy for the upcoming days of exp grinding.
First i should go and scout out the “young masters” of various clans and see who will be the easiest target as well as richest. More importantly i have see the teachers/disciples which will be running the test, if i can’t use conceal presence to sneak by them i’ll have to redo my whole plan.
In front of a large mountain pass i finally reach my destination, 100s of what looks like 10-18 year olds are crowding around the gate.
An old man in a dark read robe stands in front of the crowd on a raised wooden platform
Perfect here's a guy i need to test Identify
Yan ZhengLevel: Profound Realm: 9/9ErrorErrorErrorErrorErrorError
Suddenly i feel a penetrating gaze sent to me through the crowd i quickly hide behind the much larger boy to my side, the gaze is immediately gone… phew…. And damn hopefully this guy is like a headmaster or a teacher otherwise there's no way i'm going to be able to sneak in here.
Memorizing the location i decide it’s better if i leave for now and come back in a few days, i mean even if i find some promising young masters it’ll be to hard to search specifically for them, when hopefully the testing is over and the exp pigs are lulling in their false safety as outer disciples. As i'm leaving i hear the old man address the students
Yan Zheng: “Welcome young cultivators to the admissions test for Red Serpent School.”
The mood suddenly shifts and he looks over a specific few in the crowd
“I warn all here any over the age of 18 that tries to sneak into the test will be dealt with severely.”
“Now let us head into the school it is but a few hours walk past in the mountain pass, along the way we’ll pass by the residences for outer disciples where many of you who join will be staying, those of higher talent can of course expect their own houses and property.”
Oh man that can’t be better, i can just go creeping between the houses with no one the wiser, i should take these next couple days to level up on some mortals in the hopefully existing slum district of the city and see if i can get a skill to avoid formations that i am sure exist.
Now back at the city and maintaining Conceal Presence i head towards the ugliest part of the city i can find, and yep this is definitely a slum, i look towards an NPC like thug and use Identify
Poi MengLevel: Qi Realm: 1/9Green Blood Gang EnforcerStrength: 23Intellgience: 7Agility: 19Wisdom: 12Vitality: 19Reaction Speed: 18
Hmm a gang member, oh man a whole gang of low level cultivators, i doubt they’ll have anything like a space storage ring with tons of stuff in it(not that i need the actual ring) but that exp…it's exactly what i need as an appetizer before the main course.
Sneaking up behind him i hit him with the handle of my dagger directly in the back of head,having twice the strength of an average adult male and this frightening looking dagger i’m currently surprised that didn’t kill him, as hes laying on the ground i activate Drain Vitality
What comes up next can only be seen as a vampire horror movie as a dark red energy comes out of my hand and the thug starts aging like the blood is being sucked out his body.
Drained 5 Vitality Gained 1 Vitality
Drained 10 Vitality Gained 1 Vitality
Drained 15 Vitality Gained 1 Vitality
Stoping before he's dead so i can level up my dagger, i take a good look at him..
He looks what i imagine someone at the age of 150 would look like, basically a living mummy, hmm speaking of mummies i wonder if an evil qi technique includes making undead? I’ll look at the list again when i'm higher up. Maybe i could make myself a high leveled vampire to protect me..oh man i’m salivating thinking of the exp and skills killing those students could get me.
i finish off the hideous looking thing
Gained 10 Exp
Achievement: Evil Cultivator: Taking your first step towards being a true force of evil you used an evil cultivation technique on another. Exp Earned = 100, Thousand Faces Mask added to inventory
Level Up!
Hmm looks like each level has a greater increase in terms of stat points i got 25 this time and only got 20 last level, still 3 skill points, though that means that profound cultivator guy(which is hopefully only one realm above me) could have a stat close to or above a thousand….shit if he actually saw me and could tell i have evil qi im screwed.
I put on the mask i just received and change my face to what the thug previously looked like, i put away my cloak in my inventory and put on his clothes over mine. We were close enough in height so hopefully i’ll see someone who recognizes him and can get into their hideout. This random bastard had 32 silver on him so hopefully there base has got some serious money.
Alter stats and skills
Status
Player Name: Sandro
Evil Qi: 55/700Level: Qi Realm: 4/9
Exp: 407/1000Stat Points: 0
Skill Points: 0Strength: 20Intellgience: 18Agility: 50Wisdom: 5Vitality: 23Reaction Speed: 29SkillsIdentify: Level 2Inventory: Level 1Drain Vitality: Level 3EmptyAlter Stats and Skills: Level 1 MaxChose Skill: Level 1 MaxEmptyEmptyConceal Presence: Level 10, MaxWindWeaver: Level 2EmptyEmpty
I start walking around the slums, coming across a couple bums along the way, most had between 5-10 vitality and were completely mortal giving me 1 exp per. Man, Drain Vitality is a really fucking freaky skill this is even worse then when i killed furry scaly man and his friends. i spend the next couple hours cursing the aliens for making them look so real when they age like grapes in the sun.
...and then profusely apologizing and telling them how much i appreciate their work.
Random Thug: “Yo Meng the fuck you doing walking around here, we'd supposta met back in the base”
Quickly using identify i find he's also a 1/9 Qi realm cultivator and his name is Hin Fei
Sandro: “Hin Fei Brother ahaha sorry you know me always spacing out looking at the clouds”
“HAHHAHAHAhahah ha hah”
Hin Fei: “Ah never change Meng never change, come on let's head back to base before boss gets on our asses”
No way that was actually his personality? What a chill guy i almost feel bad for killing such a nice cool NPC, almost.
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Reaching what looks to be a brothel(hmm i’ll definitely have to visit later) we head around towards the back and go down into the basement passing by another 1/9 Qi realm cultivator we head into a singular room with a grey bearded man with what i would bet with all certainty is a toupee on his head.
Identify
Hin LongLevel: Qi Realm: 3/9Green Blood Gang LeaderStrength: 36Intellgience: 11Agility: 41Wisdom: 16Vitality: 42Reaction Speed: 31
These damn NPC thugs having so much higher wisdom than me…..
Hin Long: “Little brother what took you so damn long?”
Haha long, these chinese names combined with them speaking english to me, i can’t wait till i meet someone named who
Hin Fei: “Haha you know brother Meng is always spacing out and dreaming i found him walking aimlessly in the back alleys.”
Oh man how did i guess that, now that i think about it this was a really risky idea, any normal person would easily notice if someone's personality shifted… damn wisdom i'll find a way to raise you.
Hin Long: “I need to speak with Meng privately about collection over in 41th district, ill see you later little brother”
Hmm i guess the 32 silver were the collections, he can have it.. For now
Reaching out i give him a bag that i secretly filled using inventory with 32 silver
Suddenly Long smashes down on the table, Damn what a table standing up to a cultivator like that.
Hin Long: “Dammit Meng i know you're too stupid to ever think of stealing from me but only fucking 32 silver? You have gotten at least 100 from that district, GET OUT THERE NOW AND FIX IT!”
i feel even worse for killing brother Meng now, hes a real chill guy
Don't worry brother Meng i'll honor your name by taking your face when i slaughter those students tomorrow!
He turns around placing the bag of silver in the corner, chance!
I activate Conceal Presence and WindWeaver and take out my dagger
Rushing over i quickly stab him in the neck stopping from what i hope are his vocal chords from calling out
Hin Long: “hmmmm Hmmmmmm”
Drain Vitality
Drained 5 Vitality gained 1 Vitality
Drained 5 Vitality gained 1 Vitality
Drained 5 Vitality gained 1 Vitality
Drained 5 Vitality gained 1 Vitality
Gained 33 Exp
Looks like the rest of vitality drained out as blood, hiding behind the door as i hear footsteps coming down the hall, a shocked Hin Fei enter the room as i stab my dagger into his side and activate Drain Vitality
Combined with the dagger sticking out of his side he becomes far to weak to fight back
Hin Fei: “Meng brother….why….i lov….ed….you”
He looked like a peaceful grandfather passing away, somehow there's no hate in his eyes.......
Drained 5 Vitality gained 1 Vitality
Drained 5 Vitality gained 1 Vitality
Gained 10 Exp
Fuck man…..that was heavy i should of turned off my mask, such a fucking real reaction from an NPC, aliens man...maybe….it….actually…..
Hidden from User: Wisdom has decreased by 1
**Unknown POV**
Dammit how does he keep reaching that conclusion when his wisdom is so low, i'm worried about lowering it so much but if he actually ends up in real trouble i'll help him out.
**Sandro POV**
Just shows how amazing aliens are.
Combing through the rest of the base wearing a mask that looks like Hin Long i finally find a safe and use the key that was on his body, pulling the 7003 silver into my inventory i take some time to wait for my qi to recharge and then i start going on a kill spree, targeting any gang member that's alone and draining as much vitality as i can before they bleed out.
Identify
Soul Dagger: level 3 17/20
I can kinda feel the evil qi surrounding the dagger growing, of course i have no idea how i know it's evil qi but it just is.
Leaving the base i spend the next few days walking around the slums hunting other gang member from this and other gangs as well as absorbing the vitality from any bums along the way. Unfortunately my actions have actually made the place quite lively with more and more ordinary NPCs and their families and their happy faces.
And so i start sneaking into houses taking the vitality from ordinary mortals. Im guessing that most of these women are pretty average/below average cause all the pretty ones get taken by cultivators or gangs, and i'm actually kinda worried about the brothel even with my high vitality i have no idea what kind of mutant stds can exist in this game of cultivators.
Oh well, i can hopefully raise one of the outer disciples as an undead,(please give me a vampire skill beautiful aliens) i'll end up killing when i visit the school later tonight. Can’t risk doing anything to them while alive who knows what kind of deadly treasures or Hero-like childhood friends who’ll run in at the last moment killing the evil cultivator(me). That kind of event could definitely happen in this game, i'm certainly not a main character at this point. In the end they are NPCs so i’ll be having fun.
**Unknown POV**
Fuck do i really have to watch the man i love having sex with beautiful young women….should i remove the raise undead skills he’ll be able to learn at Qi realm 5/9?? NO his life and me resurrecting to protect him has to be the first priority. I'll just remove any of the girls following him when it's time….
**Sandro POV**
Achievement Gained: Vigilante: For wiping out the Green Blood gang you have fought for justice in an evil way. Exp Gained = 100.
Achievement Gained: Harvester of Mortals: Killed over 100 innocent and powerless mortal in order to advance ones cultivation. Exp Gained = 100, Skill Gained = Evil Qi Transformation Level 1
Achievement Gained: Necromancer: Expressing your heart felt desire for undead followers your alien overlords have awarded you with a skill. Skill Gained = Raise Undead level 1
Evil Qi Transformation: Channel your Evil Qi into your body and temporarily augment your Strength. Increases Strength by Strength X .5(level). 100 Qi per Second. Appearance Change: When used your entire eyes will become pitch black.
Raise Undead: A skill that allows you to raise recently deceased and control their souls. The type of undead and intelligence will be based on the species and cultivation level of the deceased. High Levels of the skill allow for the raising of 1(level) above your own. Mortals and Qi Realm cultivators = Zombies, Low intelligence, easy to control. Profound Realm Cultivators = Vampires, Normal intelligence, difficult to control when skill is at low levels. Error Further information unavailable
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Author’s Note: I've decided the chapters will be at least over 2000 words every time alongside the 1 or more a day release schedule. also my dumb ass has fixed the font issue.
Thanks for reading.