Hey guys, and welcome back to Re:Gamer.
First off, I know... I've haven't working on other stories much, especially some of my oldest ones and the Black Dragon Slayer.
So I received some reviews and wanted to clear some things up in case my non-reviewers had the same question.
Ea and Enkidu
Enkidu is the chain that Gilgamesh uses, and it is considered his most trustworthy/most secret weapon. Ea is just the most powerful.
Nerf
Yeah, I did XD
Leadership
As Fallen-Ryu pointed out, leadership can have a huge impact if I adjust it, but it remains to be seen exactly how I will alter or add to it. But I had been thinking about this in terms of Crusader Kings II title style. So it would be barony, county/tribe, dukedom, and kingdom. So closest thing that Ruto can qualify for at the moment is barony, but it requires that he have Stone fortification (as per CKII rules) before he could be a baron, which he doesn't. This is not, however, cemented and change be changed, so I want yall to give me some more ideas.
But I do want to thank Fallen-Ryu for the idea. I'll be sure to go over it again before I make any changes to Leadership.
Speaking of which, I must point out that RUTO IS UNAWARE OF HIS LEADERSHIP SKILL. It is a skill that had created itself out of nowhere due to his actions, and one whose notification he may have pushed aside without really thinking about it. That and on top of the lack of notification of skill LvL Up's, it may be some time before he recognizes it.
Day 61(continued):
I sent two more imps out as soon as I heard that, and they returned with the exact same news.
"Che," I spat as I stood up. "How the hell did they find us so fast? We're more than several clicks from their nearest village and out of their sight."
Shirou quickly abandoned the shortsword he was pounding, ran up the walls, and unto the wall platforms, which were made to allow us to stand and overlook the area. He stood there, and I felt magic drain as he used it. I looked towards where he was looking, and did the same thing as he was doing.
[Reinforcement]
My eyes screeched with its nerves as my vision became clearer. I could see further, and make out more details. And I saw the incoming bullywugs. Most of them were dressed in clothes that may as well be rags. They wielded simple weapons like axes, swords, and few bows and arrows.
They were definitely here for a fight.
Now, had the number been somewhere between ten to twenty, I would've scoffed and ran straight at them. However as it was, they were not only numerically superior but they held our resource.
The lumber.
It was something I couldn't do about. The forest provided us with food and lumber, and it was the only reason why I know that Shirou had not used one of his swords to blow the bullywugs out of their misery. Well, it would also blow our cover here, too.
So we had to fight up close and personal, and make sure that none of them make it out alive.
I turned to my clan. "I want all imps who can fly to grab a rock and fly up high! I don't want any of you dying because they spotted you for flying too low and shoot you out of the sky!" The imps scurried along to obey my orders, and I turned to the secondary evolutionaries, or as I came to call them, Seconds.
"I need any of you who are trained so far with bows to man the fort. We don't want to fight them up close before they get to us, or they'll be able to just run us over."
Well, mostly my men and women as I was sure that Shirou and I could survive, but I didn't need to inform them of that.
They nodded, including Dresa, our resident Kobold, and moved to set themselves up. "And shoot only when you know you'll get someone!" I added, because I knew that we had less than a hundred arrows ready.
I grunted as my reinforced eyes saw the bullywugs move closer and closer. Soon, they would be less than a kilometer from the fort, and it would be all too visible. I canceled the reinforcement and turned to Shirou. "Can you cut down their number as much as you can?"
Shirou nodded. With that, he traced Archer's black bow, and projected mundane arrows. The other archers followed him, and knocked their own arrows. When he lifted his great, black longbow, and aimed, they did.
"In 5 ... 4... 3... 2... 1... Fire!" Shirou shouted, and let the arrows loose.
Immediately, the others let their own loose as well, and a total of 12 arrows soared into the sky, and flew straight towards the unsuspecting bullywugs. The froglike creatures jumped out of the forest, and were met with arrows. The first few to emerge were killed immediately under the waves of arrows unleashed. However, a lot of those arrows still missed.
I projected my own bow, and let loose a shots after shots as more and more of the bullywugs jumped out of the forest. Almost like a frenzy, they let out a croaking roar and charged at us without a care for their comrades.
I watched as my third shot flew and pierced through a lead bullywug right through the forehead, killing it instantly. The other bullywugs didn't stop. Actually, there was one ... Nope, he's looting the body. Damn. I knocked another arrow, and fired, and it killed the bullywug that was looting its dead comrade's body.
They were less than five hundred meters from the fort now, and I grimaced. "Keep firing until they're a hundred meters from us!" I shouted to my clan members as I knocked and fired off another arrow. It pierced a bullywug in the leg, and it fell forward with a cry. It didn't live long as its "comrades" stampeded over it. "And definitely don't let yourself get caught alone by these bastards!"
With that, I dispelled the bow, and projected a katana like the ones used by the samurai back home.
Shirou didn't stop with the firing as he was a master archer, he had no need to stop. The other clan members put their bows away and pulled out their weapons. Most of the trolls had their hatchet while the rest had a shortsword that Shirou had made for them. From some reason, trolls seemed to love hatchet more than blades.
By now, there were only fifty bullywugs. All of their archers had been picked off by Shirou in their initial charge
Then the bullywugs began to climb. They used each other as stepping stone, and rushed at the Ironwood Clan with their brandished weapons.
The first bullywug to reach the top cried out in triumphantly as it jumped over the spiked walls-
-Only to find a find a rather large club heading for him.
"Croak."
The club struck home at its chest, and everyone could hear the rips snapping in crescendo. The club didn't stop there. It continued to move, and the helpless, nearly dead bullywug was lifted up, and flung out of the fort. It flew for a meter or two before falling down, head first.
It didn't get back up.
"And home run~!" Yan cackled as he chopped off a bullywug head and kicked it before it struck the ground.
I grinned in approval, even as my mind tried to see how Yan could have gotten that reference. After all, I didn't remember talking anything about sports, and that sounded like one.
Regardless, I turned my attention back to the climbing bullywugs. Without hesitation, I swung my projected longsword in a wide underarc, and sliced through two bullywugs.
Then I heard a arrow.
I was too late to dodge it, and felt it stab into my rib.
-50 Physical Damage!
I gritted my teeth to prevent a scream from ripping out. It seemed that Shirpou forgot one. Oh ... nope. He just finished the guy off.
I staggered a bit, feeling my balance shatter from the sudden pain.
[Minor Shock: -10% to all stat]
Well damn.
I broke the arrow by the arrowhead, and stabbed it into a new climbing bullywug. The frogman screamed when the broken stick was stabbed into its eye, and I used this chance to slit its face open with the longsword with a vertical strike. The frogman fell backward after the sword cleaved its forehead in two and left.
I grunted as the projection shattered, and made another longsword.
It was just then that rocks began to fall from the sky. I gave the imps in the sky a thumbs up before twirling around and slicing off a bullywug's jaw.
I didn't stop there. As I sliced off that bullywug's jaw, I stepped forward and continued the spin, and finished off the miserable and jawless bullywug with a slice to its throat. Even jawless, it gurgled in its own blood -actually it was much more pronounced now- as it sank to its knees.
I grabbed it by the head, and launched it at another bullywug who were starting to overwhelm the Oni girls. "Dori, Candy, keep it up!" I barked to them before I had to block a horizontal slash. I parried it and caved the offending bullywug's face with my fist. It flew backward and struck the wooden wall.
-40 Physical Damage!
With a grunt, I turned around to see a trembling bullywug with a bloodied axe in its hands. It just snuck up on me and hit my back!
I grabbed its neck and squuuuueeezzzeedddddd.
The bullywug wheezed and slapped at my hand. I scoffed, and threw him over the wall. I watched in satisfaction as Shirou nailed the fucker in the chest with his arrow. My satisfaction only increased when the arrow exploded.
"You're breaking mundane arrows now?" I asked him as he dispatched a bullywug that was running away. It too blew up, leaving nothing of the fleeing creature.
"I don't want to do any cleaning," he replied.
I shrugged. "That is a good point," I said as I projected a dagger, and overloaded with thrice the usual amount of mana. I grabbed the nearest bullywug that had just climbed over the wall, and stabbed it multiple times in its chest, left the dagger there, and tossed him overboard.
BOOM
"Oi, don't damage the wall!" I heard Yan yell. I waved him off.
Now, there were less than two dozen bullywugs left. "Let's finish this," I said as I projected another longsword. Now with a longsword in each of my hand, I jumped over the wall with a frenzied glee. Shirou groaned and jumped after me with his traced Kanshou and Byakuya.
I sliced into the surprised bullywug before overloading the sword I stabbed it with, and push-kicked him into a group of three bullywugs.
BOOM
The winds howled on my face in protest, but I could only grin as the smell of bacon washed over the area. "Hey, I think we can eat these guys!" I yelled.
Shirou made a disgusted face as he sliced another bullywug's stomach open. Without even looking back, he spun around the dying bullywug, stabbed its back for double check, and sliced another bullywug's neck.
I whistle before I blocked a strike to my back. I knew that Shirou was good, but his elegance in battle was too much. I wonder how many people he killed to get that good. Or was that the perk of his "Trace" that was working for him right there?
My muse was cut off as I sidestepped a bullywug's vertical axe strike. The axe planted itself into the ground, and I jabbed at the bullywug's face. My left fist struck it right at its nose, and it croaked as it stumbled backward. I didn't stop jabbing at it before I stabbed through its stomach with my last longsword. I quickly grabbed its leg, flipped it around, and threw it at the last bullywug left.
The mostly unscathed bullywug cried in alarm as its comrade flew at it before the two were engulfed in another explosion of mana.
I watched the red fire ignite and then collapse on itself before I turned to survery if there were any more enemies left.
Character Status by the end of Day 61:
Naruto [Imp Ruto] [Troll Ruto]
LvL 42
The Gamer
HP: 168.5(+131) (+1.5 HP per hour regen)
Mana: 640 (+5.9 per minute regen)
STR: 262
DEX: 83
AGI: 81
END: 110
INT: 84
WIS: 88
CHA: 45
Unused Points: 26
Spirit: 35
Magic: 24
Power: 24
Traits Taken + Earned:
Ambitious, Quick, Genius, Cynical, Stressed, Content, Teacher[Neutral] (Unavailable), Power Overwhelming, Strength is Key
Focus:
Growing
Racial Traits:
Beast Slaying (max)
Troll Blood (max)
Skills:
Archery (LvL 2)
Ambush (LvL 7)
Baiting (LvL 21)
Blade Mastery (LvL 7)
Charging (LvL 7)
Clairvoyance (LvL 1)
Crafting (LvL 3) - Construction (Subskill)(LvL 1)
Fishing (LvL 6)
Intimidation (LvL 7)
Leadership (LvL 9)
Listening (LvL 14)
Observe (LvL 40) + Structural Analysis (Reveals Physical/Chemical/Magical properties of target if LvL of Observe is high enough)
Physical Durability (LvL 2)
Projection (LvL 2)
Running (LvL 15)
Sonar (LvL 3)
Throwing (LvL 10)
Trapping (LvL 19)
Ironwood Clan:
8 Trolls (WoW)
3 Onis
1 Faze
1 Kobold (D&D)
22 imps (WoW + D&D)