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I am writing out this outline in hopes that it will help motivate me to continue writing, like it did with the Hitman Reborn story, as I have just not been writing as of late. (Even that black clover thing was just a year old one shot I never posted.) I'd also like feedback on a few diverging paths from people familiar with the franchise and who don't mind so much having the story spoiled for them.


Chapter 47:

-Fran fights with the Undead Chimera with the help of Art's illusion magic until the undead uses a giant AOE attack, requiring Fran to defend Art and Jean.

-In order to save them, Fran uses up all of the mana inside of Lumiuse to kill the Chimera, causing her to lose all of the bonuses provided by the sword.

-The Lich then reveals that he had been reading Fran's mind and won't be summoning any more minions, so Fran and Rani can't recover their Mana anymore.

-With Fran having already reached level 45 from the B-rank undead, Art gained all of the EXP from the Chimera, causing her to level up to the point of evolving to the B-rank, increasing all her stats by 300% and increasing the level of her [Chaos Magic]. It also increases her Unique Skill, [Predation Absorption].

Chapter 48:

-Fran and Art do battle with the Lich using [Chaos Magic: Disrupt Magic] in order to cancel out his [Time/Space Magic].

-They are still struggling due to the Lich's ability to read minds and sense Art's lifeforce through her illusions.

-Art uses her higher level [Predation Absorption] skill to eat the fingers that Fran bit off earlier in the fight. This causes Art to gain resistances against the Lich's skills. Making her immune to mind reading and letting her hide her lifeforce. It also give her a [Detect Undead] skill. This is how the skill worked in canon with the wolf gaining [Detect Evil] and [Resist Evil] after eating part of the Evil God's Avatar.

-The tide of battle turns in Fran and Art's favor, with Art creating holes to let Fran use her [Skill Taker] to start stripping the Lich of his skills.

-Panicking, the Lich starts to expend more mana than Art can dispel to force Fran to keep her distance, stopping her from stealing his remaining high level skills.

-Stephon destroys the generators.

-In a rage that everything is falling apart, the Lich turns his attention to Jean, who is the obvious mastermind.

-Stephon arrives to save Jean.

Chapter 49:

-Stepton talks to the Lich, revealing that he was made to absorb part of the Lich's spirit in order to live out the Lich's dream of being an Adventurer.

-Stepton tries to talk the Lich down, saying that they could pass on together and reunite with their friends in the after life.

-The Lich almost takes the offer, but instead [Principle of an Element (Impurity)] kicks in and the Lich goes berserk, declaring that he would never give up on his vengeance.

-The Lich starts to use his skills to absorb all of the Miasma in the entire dungeon, causing him to start to level up.

-Archer returns (and uses [Doppelganger Synthesis] to create 5 copies of Fran and 5 Noble Phantasms for them to wield).

-Fran steals the last of the Skills that she could before they attacked the Lich directly, cutting his body to pieces with the Noble Phantasms that prevent regeneration.

-Before the Lich dies, he absorbs enough miasma for him to reach his max level and the Lich evolves to S-rank (The Lifeless King), causing him to regenerate completely and gain a divine aura. This also increases all of its stats by 300% at least. (or I might rebalance them for the evolution to be a sword fighter rather than just a magic user.)

This is enough of a reveal for now as I am unsure of what I am going to do for the reminder of the battle.


Diverging paths time.

1. Stephon is absorbed by the Lich, causing the Lich to develop [Principle of an Element (Purity)] as Stephon weakens the Lich from the inside, cutting off his divine aura in order to make him vulnerable to their attacks. (This results in Archer not absorbing the Lich's stone and instead creating a Godblade from it. "The Guiding Hand: Stephon")

2. Jean sees the Lich trying to corrupt Stephon's soul and martyrs himself in order to save Stephon's soul, sacrificing his life, mind and soul to the Netherworld God, becoming the God's Avatar until the end of the fight. (This results in Stephon joining Fran and Art after everything is done. With a really sad scene where the dying Jean smiles at Stephon, telling him that a good Necromancer always sees a soul off with a smile and never lets a corpse go to waste. Stephon eats Jean's body off screen before walking out, blood dripping from his mouth and with tears flowing from the eyes that had once been Jeans as he forces a smile.)

3. Fenrir starts to wake up within the sword because of the rapid ranking up and the presence of S-rank prey. Fenrir lends them divine power strong enough to cut through the Lich's own divine aura, allowing Fran to kill the Lich without Stephon or Jean's help. (This results in Stephon and Jean both getting to live together. ...Happy ending... Yay. I suppose Jean might tell Stephon to adventure with Fran while he is doing his other work.)

I'm also undecided as to whether to include the Seedron Rebellion from the Light Novel or just keep the Web Novel version of the sea trip and skip it.

On one hand, there are two adult princesses for Archer to meet and an entire kingdom for them to fuck with, on the other hand it isn't much of a threat. They would basically steamroll over it until I gave the enemies the same kind of buffing treatment I am giving the Lich. Increase them from having a single A rank fighter to having 4 or 5 of them.


Regardless what path I choose, I am planning on having Archer lose all of his Magic Stone Points soon, in order to reforge the sword after the damage caused to the sword by rapid Rank Up. This will boost the swords stats by about 50% at the cost of memory slots, like it does in canon, and also drains their Magic Stone Points to 0. So he will still be at Rank 29~31, but he will not grow any more ranks until he fills it all the way back up from scratch. Meaning his power won't be increasing for a while.

…Though considering he is going to have something like 2000 Attack, 30,000 Mana, a magic conductivity of SS+ and some remaining Evolution Points, he doesn't really need more Ranks right now.