After Rox was done sparring with Epei, he healed him and rested for a short while to regain his lost strength.
When he was done resting he invited Eu. EU is a very beautiful woman who is twenty-two Big cycles old which is approximately twenty-nine Earth years. She has blue hair and blue eyes that accentuate her facial beauty. A well toned face with visible dimples whenever she smiles. If not for the fact that she isn't curvy enough she would have been able to challenge Nana in beauty.
As Etit's special handmaiden, she carries herself with grace. She is five feet five inches tall with a well toned light skin.
She came from humble beginnings as the daughter of a baker. She was gifted with water magic and as she grew, she joined an adventurers party and started hunting monsters and magic beasts with them. Remi Sairitz's wife and Etit's mother, Ave saw her talent and recruited her.
This led to the Sairitz family recruiting her whole party. She was thought how to carry herself as a servant in the employ of a high noble and when Etit was born, Etit was left in her care. She keeps on training and trying to better her skills as a healer and water mage to better protect her mistress in case of emergencies although her free time is limited.
In time she and her mistress were saved by one who they perceive as a god and her mistress chose to serve that entity effectively making her that entities subordinate.
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As usual, before Rox started the match, he appraised Eu to check her stats;
Name: Eu.
Race: Lower Divine Xerxi.
Level: 18.
Health Points(HP) = 124629.
Mana Points (MP) = 28541.
Strength (ST) = 9038.
Speed (S) = 176.
Durability (D) = 2854.
Stamina (E) = 33298.
Skills: [General Etiquette], [Water Magic Boost], [Healing Magic Boost], [Intermediate Healing Water], [Intermediate Aqua Heal], [Basic Sonar], [Intermediate Water Ball], [Intermediate Water Sphere], [Basic Ice Javelin], [Basic Water Wall], [Intermediate Water Barrier], [Intermediate Magic Barrier] [Intermediate Water Whip] [Intermediate Water Absorbtion].
Resistances: [Intermediate Water Magic Resistance], [Intermediate Fire Magic Resistance], [Intermediate Poison Resistance], [Intermediate Cold Resistance], [Basic Heat Resistance], [Basic Earth Magic Resistance], [Basic General Magic resistance], [Basic Ice Magic Resistance], [Basic Fear Resistance], [Intermediate Intimidation Resistance].
Titles:[Water Mage], [Healer], [Rox's Subordinate], [Divine Oracle's Handmaiden]
"Since you have so many resistances and a lot of defensive skills, it will be hard for me to damage you if I fight you normally using your own skills but let's go. My stats are same as I used to fight Au and Epei. Give it your all." Rox made some space between himself and Eu and commenced the duel.
With a resolute face, Eu said to Rox; "I'll do my best My Lord." and conjured three [Water Spheres] aiming at Rox. She then crouched down, touched the ground and started reciting a spell; "Earth below me, bind my enemies [Earth Bind]."
Rox after seeing the conjured [Water Spheres], tried to move to dodge them but the earth below him grabbed his legs. Rox accelerated his thoughts and started thinking. (That was a nice plan that would indeed catch a lot of people off guard but with my [Thought Acceleration], that wouldn't work. I have enough time to consider my next move.) Rox moved his legs and easily broke out of the earth's hold.(The spell was too weak. Probably because she is not an earth mage. Since she doesn't have it as a skill, it should be something she recently learned. I say I've gotten a lot of skills but the number of spells I just got far exceeds the skills I've gotten. I only checked the skills because I didn't have enough time but I think I should check them out later. Or I can just forget about them and use the more efficient skills.). Rox moved aside effectively dodging the [Water Sphere]s and casted two [Ice Javelin]s at Eu. His attack concentrated only on speed as he was trying to check her reflexes.
Confident in her durability and resistances, Eu simply received the [Ice Javelin]s with her body without receiving any damage. This made Rox hypothesize that with high enough resistance equivalent attacks will be nullified.
While receiving Rox's [Ice Javelin]s, Eu prepared a counterattack and sent it Rox's way.
For thirty minutes after they began their fight, they were going nowhere. Eu's (HP) was almost full and Rox's (HP) seemed as if it had never been touched. Rox's (HP) seemed so because his durability and resistances completely negated Eu's attacks.
Since Eu is a defense based mage, her skills are more geared towards healing, high defense and resistances and of course, she had low attack power.
Resistances scale off of durability so her high durability means her resistances are automatically high.
Cutting everything short, Rox could barely damage her using the skills he got from her and he was already getting bored of the fight. His mana was still almost full while Eu had about half of her mana remaining.
As he had his thought acceleration on all this while he felt like he had been fighting for ages.
Rox could no longer wait for thirty more minutes for Eu to run out of mana.
Rox searched through his magic spells and found one spell he thought would help.
All this while they have been using attacks that have low power that they both can resist. Frankly, Eu has resistances against all her attack skills and magic so beating her with her own skills is near impossible.
Rox conjured a [Water Ball] using his [Intermediate Water Ball] skill, used the [Freeze Water] spell he just found after going through his magic spells to freeze the water since Eu has only basic resistance against ice magic and before he fired it he told Eu to prepare because the power behind it may kill her if she takes it lightly. Then he fired the [Water Ball] at Eu.
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He used 6635 (MP) which is about a fourth of his suppressed mana bank to cast the [Water Ball] skill, 3318(MP) to completely freeze it and 5000 (MP) to give it a velocity of 600m/s.
"Master, you are going to have to save her." Ansah told Rox in thought acceleration mode.
{Did I overdo it?}
"Indeed. By the way congratulations on creating your first technique. How would you like to name it?"
{Let's put that aside for the time being and concentrate on saving her.}
On the other hand, Eu after hearing Rox's declaration deployed an [Intermediate Water Barrier] and [Intermediate Magic Barrier] simultaneously to protect against Rox's attack. Unfortunately, the ice effortlessly passed through the water barrier, shattered the magic barrier and just when she thought she was doomed she saw Rox standing in front of her in his armor and the ice ball of doom was no more.
A little before that; {Ansah, how do I save her? Even at my full speed I won't be able to catch up with it and I couldn't cancel the skill when I tried.}
"You can not cancel it by cancelling the skill or magic because it is now a technique but you can simply use Kuma's speed to catch up with the ice ball and destroy it."
{Oh, I forgot Kuma was around.}
"Just tell me you had it at the back of your mind that using Kuma will let you lose experience."
Rox jovially said to Ansah; {Shut up, stubborn girl.}, equipped Kuma and with a speed that far exceeded the ice ball, walked towards the ball, stood between the ice ball and gave it a casual punch which destroyed it.
After destroying the ice ball he relaxed, slowed down, turned to Eu and ask; "You are not hurt are you?"
The particles of the ice ball were scattered in the air creating a picturesque scene of a gallant prince saving a princess.
With glittering eyes, holding both her hands in front of her chest while sitting on her butt, Eu said; "I-I am perfectly fine My Lord. Can... Can I touch you?"
"Of course." Rox bent forward and stretched his left hand towards Eu. After observing Eu's state, Rox offered; "If you want I can even help you go inside the barrier. It seems you-"
"Don't bother yourself with me My Lord, I can...". Since Eu thought asking Rox to help her go inside the barrier would be too much for a mere maid to ask, she wanted to do it herself but her four legs couldn't help her stay up when she tried to stand. Eu had grown weak in the knees after staring death in the face and seeing the effects of Rox's casual punch while wearing Kuma both figuratively and literally.
Rox picked her up in princess carry and as he was taking her towards the others, he looked in the direction of the place he stood when he came up with his first technique and saw the devastation he caused with his casual punch.
Upon impact, the ice was instantly vaporized. The shockwave went on to both burn and uproot trees that are directly in its way. A crater stretching for miles was created and as Rox was looking at the crater, it started raining.
All the subordinates behind the barrier including Juba had their mouths agape. They snapped out of their stupor when Rox entered the barrier. The common thought they all had was; 'As expected of our God.'.
{Is this how powerful a level eighty-six is? I knew they were powerful but I didn't use any skill to enhance my power and I didn't punch with my all.} While screaming in his mind, Rox asked Ansah about the power he just exerted.
"Normal mortals at level eighty-six aren't as powerful as you are, Master. Your base stats are far above that of a normal mortal making your casual punch more powerful.
Every time you level up, the gap between you and a mortal using a Tier-One System is widened. By the way, you have leveled up to level nineteen and received the title [The Nonchalant]."
{Are you telling me that even after Kuma taking his share of the experience or whatever, I was able to gain enough experience to level up?}
"Yes, Master"
{That means I have killed enough creatures that would have raised my level to at least sixty right?}
"It is as you surmise. You have indeed killed more than enough."
{Sh*t, to think I'll waste this much experience. Well,I shouldn't fret over it. I'll never be able to reverse it regardless. Now, Ansah, what is the effect of the title I just got?}
"It simply shows that you don't mind about the consequences of your actions."
{Are you kidding me? I didn't know it will do that. Let's just end the conversation here I don't want to...} Rox looked down at the woman who was blushing in his arms and saw yet another woman blush in his presence. He handed Eu to Au and asked Au to take care of her.
Upon observing his subordinates he was impressed by their reactions. Then they started showering him with praises.
A while later, the rain stopped and they all stopped showering him with praises. Rox unequipped Kuma and Etit approached him.
"Ma-Ma-Mazter, can I... Also... Will ..." Etit was feeling envious of her handmaiden and wanted Rox to lift her too but she couldn't muster the courage to say it out loud.
With a glance, Rox noticed why Etit was acting that. Now that Etit is his oracle, he doesn't know just how much authority she holds in the hierarchy of his [Ruler's Reach] skill. If the skill or system considers her words or orders to the subordinates as decrees from him, making her envious of her handmaiden may end in a disaster.
Rox put his right hand on Etit's head and started caressing her long loosely curly blonde hair.
He then said to Etit; "Zairitz, I am going to show you something." He let Etit turn around to face the other subordinates. "Give an order to anyone of them."
Etit immediately ordered Eu who was in Au's arms to kneel down which Eu did regardless the fact that her condition hadn't improved.
While on her knees Eu asked her mistress if she had done something wrong but got no answer.
"You can give another order to anyone you want." Rox said to Etit.
Etit looked at Eu who was asking why her mistress was acting this way and commanded; "Slap yourself.". Eu immediately slapped herself as hard as she could.
With tears in her eyes Eu started begging; "Please, Mistress, please forgive me. I don't know what I've done to displease you but please I'm begging, I won't do it again. ..."
Rox looked at Eu's sorry face and asked Etit; "Zairitz, is this how you always treat your handmaiden?".
"No Mazter, I always treat her kindly but..." Etit stopped because she didn't really know why she acted that way.
"But what? ".
"I don't really know why I acted that way but why would she follow my orders and start begging me for forgiveness if she wasn't guilty?"
"Guilty? You do know she is your handmaiden and she is supposed to follow your orders right?"
"Yes Mazter, but she would have protested if she thought I was giving an unreasonable order."
"Why don't you ask her why she didn't protest?"
Etit asked Eu and Eu replied; "I couldn't Mistress. My body just moved according to your orders. I figured I couldn't disobey your orders because you are now Lord Rox's oracle and I am now having the title [Divine Oracle's Handmaiden]. That is why I started begging because same as we can not disobey Lord Rox after becoming his subordinates, I think I can not disobey you even if I wanted to."
"I am sorry. I don't know why I was acting that way. Please forgive me I won't do that again. Please stand up.". Etit knelt in front of Eu and asked for forgiveness after realizing she was acting no different from the First Noble who she hates.
Rox told Eu to go and rest and said to Etit; "Zairitz, I don't know much about your race but if you are similar to a race called humans that I know of, then you acted that way out of jealousy. How did you feel when I lifted Eu up?"
"I felt betrayed. I was asking myself why my servant gets to experience something that I want that I haven't gotten the chance to experience."
"How old are you?"
"I am ten Big Cycles old, Mazter." Etit was puzzled not knowing why Rox asked of her age.
Rox did some mental math and converted Etit's age to Earth years. According to his calculation, Etit should be at least thirteen years old Earth wise which meant he was right when he estimated her age. "As I said, if you are similar to the humans I know, you should be maturing from childhood to adulthood by now. You should be experiencing new emotions like love, lust and jealousy right now. You couldn't process your emotions properly because you are new to them but I don't want you to let your emotions control you. The fact that I named you my oracle means I like you the most out of my current subordinates and you are also the one who holds me in the highest regard so you shouldn't envy anyone. In fact, I will be highly disappointed in you if you let your emotions control you once more. Being my oracle not only gives you a Ninth-Tier system but it also makes your words almost as heavy as mine so before you give an order to any of our subordinates, think twice about it. If you do anything disgraceful, it will tarnish my image too so don't do anything that will bring disgrace to both our images."
"I'll do my best to not tarnish your image, Mazter."
"Good girl." Rox caressed Etit's hair once more and picked her up in princess carry. He thought he was far older than Etit but when he converted his age to Earth years he realized he was just fourteen years old Earth wise.
Etit was blushing in his arms but his mind was somewhere else. Why is it that he has the body of a sixteen years old boy was what he was thinking about. His conclusion was that the Holumni grow faster than humans. The reason he thought Etit was far too young was also influenced by the fact that he was once a twenty-three years old man on Earth.
He started having an existential crisis because he managed to experience what he couldn't experience in twenty-three years in fourteen. His values on Earth tried to convince him he did something wrong when it comes to Nana but realized in the end that what he did was normal on Planet Soyzy. Nana is one month older than him so if one defiled the other it wouldn't be him.
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