Muddafunky JoJo's reference
/LB/
Mine and Pyrrha's part of the promotional video was approximately thirty seconds of raw footage, fifteen on Pyrrha solo, ten on me solo, and five of us paired.
For Pyrrha's footage, she demonstrated her marksmanship, swordsmanship, spear skills, and how quickly she can change style between the weapons. It took her four seconds for each style, with a mere second in between to change.
My solo footage was me literally doing fingerguns at Grimm, and killing them with my immense strength paired with the skill Far Strike. It was nothing but that. All jokes, all the time. 'Tis why Pyrrha received more screen time methinks.
Our shared footage was the both of us staring down an impossibly large group of CGI Grimm. If it were real, I believe I would have leveled so many times off of just one percent of the horde. The camera panned to my face as I glance at Pyrrha, giving a short laugh, and then panned to Pyrrha's face as she smirked toward the horde.
While Pyrrha was in her regular battle armour, I was in the jacket I got while in Vale with Yang, now with the Arc signature double-crest in bright yellow on the back. The cuffs of my jacket also have the crest, but with a design that looked like it was smoldering.
Yeah, while every Arc hunter does indeed use the Arc double-crest, we each have our own design on them. My father's, for instance, has a padlock in the curve of the inner crescent in order to fit his semblance of killing momentum of anything he touches. I don't know where I got the idea of heat, but it looks pretty cool.
I had a pendant of the Arc emblem dangling by my choker by a bit of tough chain, letting it rest just below my collarbone. The pendant held some extremely efficient gravity dust I picked up from an Alpha Beowolf a while back.
I also leveled up to 31, bringing my AP to nearly 70k, and my free points to 71. Just five more points, and I'll be able to learn that Major Arcane skill.
"Fold," Ren said with a sigh, tossing his cards onto the table.
Which is why I started a huge poker game with both JNPR and RWBY.
I grinned as I looked to Ruby, surprisingly the last one in the round aside from me. My hand was invincible, and I didn't cheat the whole game. I wasn't even dealer! I had Cardin deal for us. No chance of collaboration.
Ruby stared at me, determined to get her chips back (we were playing for actual potato chips). "Call," She said, and threw down a four-of-a-kind fives.
"Royal Flush," I declared simply, tossed down my cards, and took the bags of chips off the table. Considering I didn't even trade in a single card for my hand, my luck has to go up a bit...
LUK has increased by 30, because you pulled the most stupid draw in poker!
By increasing your LUK to 100, you haved learned the skill Lucky Shot!
Lucky Shot LV 1: Being lucky is totally a style! Believe me!
Passively increases accuracy % by LUK as a %
LUK now affects your total AP
Active: Increases STR by LUK
Active Cost: 120 AP per 1/sec
Is a 1 in 650000 probability really worth 30 points? My own high LUK stat probably caused this stupid draw.
My LUK was now at a satisfying 104. I tossed my newly won chips into my inventory, and wordlessly dumped 46 points into LUK, bringing it to the required 150 for the Major Arcane. I would wait until later to learn the skill though; don't want to have to explain a book bursting into pieces in front of Blake... who left as soon as I sat down. Meh, still don't want to explain to the remainder of RWBY.
Wait, did I read that right? My LUK increases my STR? And with my Arc perk... that's an additional 750 STR to what I can just consider my base, as I can keep this new skill up without my AP going down faster than my disgusting regens improved it. And a new maximum STR of... Oh my god, 5,748,485.76. Well, I reach that number for only 3 seconds because of Giant's Strength, but the rest of the time I can keep up a total 469,269 STR. I highly doubt anything on this entire planet of Remnant can withstand what I can do without Giant's Strength, and my full strength could likely be catastrophic.
"Well, that was a hand," I stated plainly, and left to my dorm without another word.
/LB/
The Major Arcane LV 1: The powers of the fool to the world.
Summon an astral minion of the 22 Major Arcane.
#0: The Fool: Sand/Dirt creature, specializes in physical attacks and defenses
#1: The Magician: Fire creature, specializes in ranged fire-based offense
#2: The High Priestess: Terrain/Metal creature, specializes in traps
#3: The Empress: A virus that forms a small humanoid minion on the target
#4: The Emperor: Conjured pistol, extremely fast and controllable bullets
#5: The Hierophant: Water based creature, High utility and good traps
#6: The Lovers: Extremely small insect, shares and multiplies user's damage against target
#7: The Chariot: Metal based creature, uses extremely precise rapier
#8: Strength: Takes form of metal, excellent combination with large vehicles
#9: The Hermit: Plant apparition, heals user and can be used for minor telepathic skills
#10: Wheel of Fortune: Amplifies any metal object it links to, excellent combination with small vehicles and devices
#11: Justice: Fog based creature, can take control of a number of dead bodies equal to this skill's level
#12: The Hanged Man: Light based creature, jumps between reflections and attacks with quick, clean cuts
#13: Death: An apparition that appears in the target's dreamscape, and controls all things in the dream. Damage dealt to target is transferred to reality upon waking up
#14: Temperance: A gel-body that attaches to the user, and absorbs organic material in order to boast an incredible defense
#15: The Devil: A doll that can be controlled remotely, but when attacked it flies into a rage and mercilessly charges all non-allies
#16: The Tower: A small swarm of beetles that can enter the target's body and cause internal damage
#17: The Star: A highly durable, very precise melee fighter. Can stop time for skill LV/3 sec every minute for 10x skill cost
#18: The Moon: A humanoid fish creature that deals moderate damage above land, and superb damage under water. Allows a moderate control of water
#19: The Sun: A small star with somewhat directable damage.
#20: Judgement: A metallic creature that can animate dirt, and transmute materials
#21: The World: A durable, very precise melee fighter. Can stop time for skill LV/2 for 10x skill cost every minute
Cost: 1000 AP and 10 MP per second, additional 500 AP per second for additional minions
Damage done to minion is transferred to user
Current limit of minions: 1
Scales with INT, WIS, and LUK
You can't be serious. This skill is busted, and I swear it's a reference... JoJo. It's a goddamn JoJo's refere-
By realising there are many references to fiction in your life, you have earned skill Bibliography
Bibliography LV MAX: Your Gamer power is full of references!
Each skill, title, and quest you correctly identify as a reference receives a bonus!
Skill Bonus: Skill level reduces cost as a percentage when active, and boosts effectiveness as a percentage when passive
Title Bonus: All stat boosts are increased by your LV/4 before Aura
Quest Bonus: Loot from referenced media as a bonus upon completion of quest (Never known beforehand, sorry Gamer!)
What. How.
Well, better not question things. This skill was a long time coming... and gotten immediately with poker. Only one thing to do now, and that's to reference the shit outta some show.
"ZA WARUDO!"
And as expected, the golden muscular scuba-diving heart shape addict from a fictional world appeared before me. This is stupid. My Semblance is stupid. Time to have time-stop shenanigans... with a cost of 4950 AP for the half second I get... wait, my World of Forms decreases the cost of everything by 30% passively, and with the INT and WIS scaling of Inner Self, plus the x5 boost to my regen that my Arc perk grants... I can keep my Major Arcane up indefinitely. This is stupid.
Didn't Yang call me something the other day? One Punch? I didn't get a title from that, but I imagine it would be STR based, so no need, even with my Bibliography skill. Still, would be nice.
()-()-()
"Fuck it," Glynda snapped after I cleared RWBY and CRDL at the same time, this time only being allowed to use my left foot. To hear Glynda actually swear... Kinda scary. Everyone was wide-eyed, barring Ruby and Sky Lark, whose eyes were both swollen shut. She took a breather before continuing. "As Mr. Arc has the power of a seasoned huntsman, he will not be 'fighting' anymore. The fact that every single one of you lost against him is understandable, but the fact that groups of you can't even damage him for more than a tenth of a percent of his Aura before he regenerates it is unacceptable!"
I don't think Glynda knows how much AP and AP regen I have under my belt... Well, as long as she doesn't do anything rash.
"So in order to show all of you how to actually fight as hunters, I will be facing Mr. Arc," She announced, rashly. Beautiful.
Some kid in the class, a team leader by the name of Helio Bright, spoke up. "You can't blame us for not being able to damage him, he's invincible! His matter control Semblance is too universal, making it perfect!" He complained. A legit complaint as well, considering my Semblance isn't that at all.
"And what is your Semblance, Mr. Bright, aquakinesis? Do you realize what exactly you can do with it? You could control Mr. Arc's very movements from outside his range if you cared enough to train," Glynda retorted, and slapped her riding crop onto her desk. "Enough excuses. The performance in this class is absolutely pitiful. Mr. Arc, take your position, and feel free to use your full movement."
This was a dumb idea. Well, may as well give me a chance to exercise my day old Major Arcane skill.
"When the counter goes to zero," Glynda started, and pointed to the large overhead screen, which was at ten, "we begin."
Name: Glynda Goodwitch
Age: 42
Race: Human
Title: Dominating Witch
LV: ?
Still unknown level? Neat.
As soon as the counter hit zero, I brought out Star Platinum, and stopped time.
Triggering all skills, I used my half-second advantage and rushed Glynda, making it to her in less than a hundredth of a second, poked her head in order to drain most of her AP, swapped Star Platinum for The World, reapplied the stopped time because the cooldown is separate because of course it is, rushed back to my spot, and recalled The World.
When time resumed, I got a notice saying the skill leveled, and Glynda was down to 30%. Looks like I underestimated her AP reserves.
Glynda picked herself off of the ground, and telekinetically tossed me toward the edge of the stage. I summoned The Hermit, and latched the summon onto the stage with its purple vines, and pulled myself back down to the ground. I then summoned Wheel of Fortune into my Aura Caliber pistol that I pulled from my inventory. The Wheel of Fortune turned the Aura Caliber from a properly sized matte, white revolver into and over-sized, hand-cannon of an automatic, all shiny silver with matte white trim. An already pretty gun transformed into an absolutely beautiful weapon of destruction.
Shrugging at having to use such a beautiful masterpiece in a spar, I shot five bullets toward Glynda, who was hit by three, knocking her down to 25%, while I regained my full AP in a blink of an eye. Glynda, however, reapplied her telekinetic grasp on me, forcing me to switch back to The Hermit in order to not be rung out, by grasping the rafters. I shot at Glynda with the normal Aura Caliber in order to divert her attention from me, and dropped down from the ceiling.
Continuing my firing, and reloading my gun by placing the rounds directly into the chamber from my inventory, I also grabbed a potent fire dust crystal from my inventory, and let loose a stream of white-hot fire, and tossed regular gunpowder bullets into the flames.
That distraction set, I summon The Chariot, and dash forward. With bullets going off in random directions, Glynda had her hands full making sure she knew where they were all going...
Or so I thought. Apparently, experience trumps power here, as she saw through my plan and directed all bullets at me. My HP just took the small metal projectiles with ease, so i figured it was fine to continue charging. Wrong again, as Glynda released wave after wave of her rapidly depleting telekinetic energy that forced me back... and off the stage.
With her AP barely above the 15% cut off, she won by ring out against me, who was at full 100%.
Life is full of mysteries.
I climbed back on stage, and looked to my classmates. Not a single one of them had a remotely normal expression on their faces. It was accepted that Glynda was one of Vale's most powerful huntresses, and too see her curbstomped by a mere student like myself was likely jarring. That, and summons aren't a thing many people can do.
"There's more than one way to win in a match," Glynda stated, wiping the sweat off her brow, and taking a seat. "Remember that during the Vytal Festival, because first years will be put up against fourth years. There are no separate year brackets. Class dismissed, and Mr. Arc, go to Ozpin's office."
Wait, why would Ozpin want to... oh, right, I just destroyed Glynda, even though the win was technically hers. He likely wants to check on my progress.
/LB/
"Jaune, I called you here for a very simple reason," Ozpin stated, standing behind his desk, facing out to the city of Vale. I had only entered the room not even a second earlier. "Qrow has reason to believe that our enemy has finally made her move."
I frowned. "What makes him so sure?"
"He was looking at the teams from the other kingdoms, and found something odd about one particular team. The team's name is CEMM (cream), led by one Cinder Fall. Her teammates are Emerald, Mercury, and Mint. While Mint seems to have a fairly clean track, and Emerald's track has a few thefts, it's Mercury and Cinder that I'm worried about. Cinder not only displayed extremely overwhelming skill with dust, quickly outpacing all of her peers, but she fits the description of the woman that attacked Amber. Mercury is somewhat more morbid, as he looks exactly like a rumored Hunter-Assassin that went quiet little over a year and a half ago. Qrow said that this Mercury boy and Emerald girl also match the associates of Amber's attacker."
I sighed, and massaged the back of my neck. I wasn't going to like this, was I?
"What do you need me to do?" I asked, already guessing what needed to be done. Ozpin had been over this when I joined the Inner Circle.
"Jaune, I am deeply sorry about this. You have all this power..." Ozpin trailed off, and rested his mug down, a solemn frown on his face. "Please, forgive me for this, but... I have to give you the order to eliminate Team CEMM on sight, no exceptions. Due to the danger they pose to the Kingdom of Vale, the complete and full strength you posses must be used. Mint may not be spared either, she's too much of a risk to our kingdom's safety"
"What level mission is this?" I asked coldly.
"Due to the threat, plus the fact that you will most likely be facing a pseudo maiden, plus who may be behind the whole plot..." Ozpin trailed, before picking up his mug and downing the whole thing in one gulp. "Double S class, with additional pay for materials bought for mission. I wish you luck, and demand your secrecy on this matter. If you are caught, you will be punished by the Valean Council, and I will be unable to help you."
QUEST: Autumn's Blurred Queen UPDATED
Task: Destroy the Half-Maiden*
Bonus: Destroy the Half-Maiden's Team**
Secret: ?
Secret: ?
Secret: ?
Completion: 1000000***
Bonus Completion: 200000***
Secret Completion: 1 legendary item per task***
Failure: Death of all Valean citizens, 90% of Valean Hunters, and countless others****
*Task Updated
**Bonus task updated to match main task
***All rewards updated to match difficulty
****Failure updated
I nodded slowly, and willed away the screen. I was just hoping Gamer's Mind blocked the guilt of killing another person.
Ozpin continued, "The team is from Haven, and should be landing in two days."
/LB/
"Blake, stop avoiding me," I said, pulling a signed, collector's edition of Ninjas Of Love 4 out of my inventory.
"Come on, can you just pause for a second?" I asked when she turned away from me. Ugh, perfect, I try and do a nice gesture and she turns away.
Blake huffed, and sped up her pace, which I matched. "Not talking to you right now!"
"Because you don't want an author signed copy of book four?" I asked, knowing it would get her attention.
And get her attention it did. She bounced off a clone, snatched the book out of my hands, and bounced off another clone to her original position. Pretty quick movements for her level.
"This is weirder than you know, but thanks," She said, and started walking away with her head down.
Weirder than I know? HA! She must forget page 80 in volume 2... I wish I could forget that...
/LB/
Wassup. I wanted to JoJo's Reference this fic.