Well, thank Jiolloker for reminding me of this. Also, I tried putting everything in a spoiler tag and it didn't work, so yeah..
But I sure do suck at writing certain descriptions lol
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Primordial Fear (Active)When your lack of emotions, empathy and interest in others' lives is revealed to those around you, all they will be able to see in front of them is Death Herself.Effects:Instills fear and stuns every weaker being that stands where you passed while keeping Primordial Fear active. The duration of the stun depends on how much Fighting Power they have.Instills fear and stuns every being of the same level as you or weaker.Instills fear and stuns every being not over 25 levels higher than yours. For every 5 levels higher, 20 seconds are subtracted.Radius:25 metersDuration:5 minutesCost:100 MP, then 2 MP per second if kept active.
Sprint (Active)By correctly moving your muscles you are able to run a short distance without tiring.Effects:Stamina isn't usedDuration:20 secondsCost:5 MP, slower stamina recovery for 1 minuteCooldown:1 minute
Clean Cut (Active)You are able to precisely cut the bonds of the atoms in every substance.Effects:The user's weapon can cut through anything.Duration:2 attacksCost:20 MP, weapon's durability decreases by 15%
Divine Healing (Active)Apollo's gift. Your connection to the gods reinforces your body faster than normal when healing.Effects:+100 HP per secondDuration:5 minutesCost:200 MP
Quick Analysis (Active)A fast thinker survives longer. By continuously analyzing the situation around you and adapting to it, you have reached the point where you can actively increase the speed of your thought processingPassive effects:+40% Faster in making a decision+40% Faster to spot anomalies and possible dangersActive effects:+100% Increase in thinking speed+10% Vision rangeCost:1 MP and 0.5 Stamina per secondWarning: keeping this skill active for more than 2 minutes can cause the player to suffer the 'confusion' hex
Calm Analysis (Passive)A calm analysis of the environment always helps making a more correct judgement on one's own situation.Effects:+50% Easier to spot anomalies and possible dangers+35% Easier to come to an understanding of the situation+30% Easier to spot lies in a conversation
Cooking (Passive)A good cook can make it so that their food refreshes the eater's soul, and while you still can't, you are on the right track.Effects when cooking:+45% Chance the recipe is successful+30% Chance to add enhancements to the foodFood is tastierFood is cooked fasterFood replenishes more stamina, health and mana
Sword Mastery (Passive)Since ancient times the art of the sword has enticed many, but not all could follow through. The more you train and conquer the art of the sword, the more you'll rise above the others.Effects when wielding a sword:+45% Damage+40% Speed+35% Dexterity+20% Agility
Predator Instincts (Passive)A natural predator always knows where its enemies and preys are.Effects:Able to sense every presence and determine its alignmentRadius:50 meters
Stealth (Passive)Mingling with the shadows is easier, making you able to sneak up on people more easily.Effects:+20% Chance to not be discovered-15% Sound produced
Night Vision (Passive)You are able to see in the dark just like in the light, as long as there is a source of light, no matter how small it is.
Dual Wield (Passive)Dual wielding is a difficult path to take, but once mastered, it will bring many benefits to the swordsmen using it.Effects when dual wielding:+45% Damage+40% Dexterity+40% Agility
Pinpoint Throw (Passive)The art of throwing objects and accurately hitting the desired target.Effects:+25% Chance to hit where aimed+15% Damage+2% Dexterity
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During Enyo and Thea's travel, there was only one true reason as to why the others left them alone. It was because Thea continuously used illusion on them.
At first, her illusions were pretty unrealistic, as most of the time the visual part was either omitted or badly reconstructed. But then, while they were fighting a boss, she had a breakthrough. That day, Thea had studied the precise location of where the brain handled the various stimuluses produced by the five senses.
While everyone was fighting, Thea concentrated on a lone player that wasn't key element of the fight. First, she used her skill 'Sense Transmission' to constantly see, hear, touch, taste and smell whatever her target was seeing, hearing, touching and smelling. It was two steps short of mind reading. Then, she began to alter his sense of touch, so that the weapons and clothes he was wearing were as hot as boiling water. She tampered his sense of smell, so that he could sniff his skin burning. Thea made it so that the player could taste his tongue slowly getting drier and drier as if his hot clothes were dehydrating him. Lastly, she modified his vision so that he could see smoke rising from his own body.
Then moment she sent back those informations to his victim's brain, he began screaming. The guy rolled on the floor while he tried to desperately undress. Unfortunately, he died before he was able to finish. Only a severely burned corpse remained, while many others left the group. They didn't have any proof it was Thea's fault (reason being Thea had long been able to hide her PK mark with an illusion), as her previous illusions weren't able to do anything, but they had a strong suspicion, so they left.
Thea continued to practice on the remaining members until none were left. Once, she drowned a an archer as she was taking aim on the enemy. Another time she made a colony of cockroaches climb on a warrior-like guy, of course it was an illusion, but it felt so real to him how those insects had bitten on his flesh, dug into it and then roamed inside his body to lay eggs. As a side note, he later had to visit a psychologist to cure his budding Morgellons syndrome.
Then, Thea was repeatedly killed by Enyo who said "It's your karma."
Frankly, she was a bit hurt. She had distanced those annoying pigs from her cute little sister and at the same time she had increased her skill's proficiency. What was wrong with that? Sighing, Thea relented to the cruel reality. As the two continued to make their way toward another monastery, Thea got her second sexual harassment warning. It frustrated her to no end how a stupid game tried to stop the blooming love of two girls. She had just kissed on the lips her dear sister!
Another thing that Thea was able to notice was the graphics of the game changed if you were deemed a minor or not. While she was able to see a body's dismemberment to its full glory, Enyo only saw the limb detaching itself, with no blood and a censor over the internal parts of the body, be it a person's or a monster's.
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When Enyo entered the monastery, the monks gladly welcomed her, showing that they already knew of her coming. The reason she was visiting the temples and monasteries of the western part of Hyria was that she had gotten a quest about spreading her legs the news about her ascension to Maitreya. Doing this brought her many sub-quests from the various people in the places she visited, but she also got to experience a variety of things that ranged from immersing her body in a cleansing spring, to beheading a man.
Quite a gap, wasn't it?
In the month (RT) Enyo spent playing, she more or less got a grasp of her class' objective: bring order over the chaos that is the world. But how she was gonna do that, she had simply no idea. No, really, she didn't, thinking wasn't exactly her forte. Lately, she just brought down justice on the evil guys (=players/NPCs with bad karma) and tried to reward the good ones (=players/NPCs with good karma), which were a lot. A bit too many maybe.
Interestingly, not always did the players with bad karma have the PK mark. Enyo had discovered that every little action one made toward another person counted as either good or bad karma. Quoting her sister who quoted some guy just to impress her
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
Which somehow seemed out of context. Anyway, going back to the topic, at the start Enyo had trouble dishing out punishments. Sometimes she had to kill the person, and she would not get the mark, and sometimes she just had to trip them. It took her a while to figure out how to read how much bad karma a person had, but from then on, she would know when to slaughter and when to bash in the head. Though her sister had been her first special case.
To bring her sister's bad karma down to zero, Enyo had to repeatedly kill her in diverse ways, like burying her alive, drowning her, cutting her head off.. Summarizing, if she killed Thea in the same manner she had killed her lab rats, more bad karma than normal would be eliminated. It made them lose a bit more than a week of time. Though, the reason she was a special case maybe derived from how Thea had gotten good karma.
They both were inside the waters of a hot spring when it happened. The two were both naked, but as Enyo was a minor, she could only see censored spots, while Thea could only see herself as Enyo was a minor. Enyo attributed the following happenings to dizziness caused by intense heat. Mostly because she refused to accept that she had her first kiss with a girl, and moreover if it was her sister. It was a really strange experience since she always liked to see well-endowed men ravish some poor girl in hentais thought to be interested in the male gender.
She felt really confused about her own preferences and her sister's continuous protection/advances it wasn't an easy time.
Enyo banged her head on a nearby wall, startling her sister and her companions, even though they were in such a situation..
'No good, stop thinking about other stuff, gotta be concentrated..'
Shaking her head, she said aloud
"OKAY GUYS, LET'S GO KICK SOME RAIDERS' ASSES!"
Which evoked a big shout, "UOOOOOOOOHHHH!", from the crowd of people as they charged toward the raiders' base.
End of Volume 2, part two.
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Forgot to say that part 3 is the last part~