A/N: I'm currently locked out my laptop, damn thing won't turn on. I'm borrowing my brother's old one, sadly it is very slow for certain things, like typing, but I am thankful he offered it. Unfortunately I can't access a lot of my important files, including four novels I'm working on, I've ordered one of those things that lets you read the interior memory card or whatever and transfer it to this one, though I'll have to pull apart my old one first, sadly the centre screw is proving to be a bitch, but I'll get there…eventually. (Got to be careful or I'll wear away the metal too much, gotta find the right screwdriver.)
Also is there's anyone who hasn't okayed my using their OC in the light novel adaptation, please inform me, and if you're not okay with me using it, let me know as well and I'll make the needed changes.
The Light Novel's current working title is: Nerfed as a Level 1 in someone else's fantasy world. The world will be very different to FF9, though with a few vestiges from this fanfiction. All the place names are named after villages in an area in India, mostly because they have two places with very similar names to places in the game, these being Alexandretta and Doli, and it made me laugh. (A pat on the back to those who get that.)
(Start of chapter)
DINGIR AVATAR STATS
Character class: Grey Mage
Rank: Pluto Knight X (Private)
Level: 16, 4827xp until next level up.
HP: 1116 / 1116
MP: 999 / 999 (maxed)
Strength: 49 (67)
Speed: 31 (26)
Spirit: 46 (49)
Magic Defence/Defence: 32 (53)
Magic: 75
Magic Evasion/Evasion: 16 (28)
Primary Weapon: Iron Sword
Secondary Weapon: Mythril Dagger
Headwear: Iron helm
Armour: Iron Armour
Accessory: Steel Gauntlet with buckler
Skills: Minus Strike
Abilities: Bright Eyes, Level Up, Man Eater, Bug Killer, Grey Magic, Antibody, Bandit
Magic: Poison, Regen, Sleep, Panacea, Osmose, Protect, Cure, Bio, Shell
Magic Stacking: Asag's Toxin - level 1 (40MP) Adel's Healing – level 1 (30MP) Hypnos Field – level 1 (50MP) Physical Barrier – level 1 (30MP) Magical Barrier – level 1 (30MP) Magic Gluttony – level 1 (20MP)
Trance: Balmung strike
Items: 20 D-Potions, 6 Phoenix Down, 10 P-Potion, 10 R-Potions, 30 Potions, 10 Eye Drops, 10 Echo Screen, 10 Soft, 13 Goblin Steak, Goblin dagger, Traveller's cloak, Isekai ring, silk shirt, lots of regular clothes.
Gil: 24,966
A nerfed Dingir in Final Fantasy 9, seriously?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Journey to Cid (2)
"Damn it, take my sword," Mark shouted, throwing his fellow knight his weapon. "I'll focus on long range magic, knock away any of its legs that get passed my spells."
"Got it!" Laudo yelled back, catching the sword, drawing, and ducking under the first tentacle, and slashing at it. It didn't cut deep, but the long limb recoiled as the monster let loose a shriek.
"Nice!" Mark called in encouragement, firing multiple Bio spells, but the octopus-like monster was ridiculously fast, additionally it seemed to use air sacks to move up-down-left-right, better than any aircraft Mark had ever seen. Even with his new powers, this was going to be difficult, once an opening presented itself; he'd send his fellow knight for back up from the other Black Mages or Beatrix, whoever could help them.
With his gamer sight, he could see the monster was a Gigan Octopus, level 31, normally that wouldn't be a problem, but its mobility and their side being limited to the ship would make it a tough fight.
"Bio!"
It dodges.
"Bio!"
It dodges.
"Bio!"
It repels it with a tentacle, encased in a club of ice.
'Ice magic?' Mark thought in surprise. He didn't think that this thing could use magic and elemental magic at that.
Mark was then forced to dive to the side, as his own spell went flying towards him. It struck part of the upper ship, and he could hear angry yelling from within. Well at least the rest of the ship knew that they were under attack.
"Bio!"
"Bio!"
"Fuck! Bio!"
He fired several more of his spells, the creature seemed to be immune to poison spells, but the non-elemental aspect of the spell still did damage. Still with its speed, landing a solid hit was going to be tough.
Laudo was doing quite well, he was repelling and dodging the two – three tentacles that the creature spared to hunt him, when it was able to get close to the ship. But Mark wasn't making it easy, even if he was wasting a lot of MP to maintain the near stalemate.
"SCHREEEE!" The creature let loose a blood curdling screech, and began charging an enormous ice magic spell, based upon its size; it was at least a Blizzara.
"Physical Barrier + Magic Barrier!" Mark cast two of his new stacked magicks, he made it cover the ship, and hopefully it would be enough.
Though to be safe, he cast the lesser versions of the spells, which simply reduced damage to a person, on both himself and Laudo.
"Protect!"
"Shell!"
It was then he noticed that Laudo was drooling blood, and had several nasty cuts on his arms and armour. It seemed the Gigan had sharp slashing hooks at the centre of its many limbs, much like the giant squid, which were known to fight whales at incredible depths.
"Cure!"
"Regen!"
He cast an immediate healing spell, and one that would top him up periodically. If the Gigan was using was using magic then he would have to focus on that.
"BRIGAHHH!" The monster let loose it enormous ice spell, it was larger than the ship, had it stacked spells to produce something on par with a Blizzaga spell.
'This is bad!' Mark thought, a cold sweat running down his back.
"Climhazzard!" a beam of light slashed through the ice, splitting it in two.
"Good timing, General!" Mark praised without looking back, there was only one person in the kingdom with that sword skill.
"What's going on, Private?" she demanded, approaching him, she paused, seeing his strong defensive spell.
"We're dealing with a Gigan Octopus, its only level 31, but it can move in all directions at high speeds – in the water and the air. I haven't been able to land a solid hit," Mark answered. He could sense an increase of Mana; the creature had avoided her sword skill as well. "It dodged your attack as well, despite being right behind that mass of ice."
Beatrix frowned. The Pluto Knight was right, though she noticed several burn-like marks on its body, and several of its tentacles, it seemed that the irritating knight and his fellow had actually done it some harm, however minor.
Then to their surprise, the Gigan's tentacles grabbed the two massive chunks of ice, and then it cast Blizzara right in Beatrix's face, she was forced to guard against it, and in that brief moment, it hurled the chunks at the ship. They struck the two barriers, and the ship was sent careening to the side, thankfully it didn't capsize. Mark felt himself being hit with immense weight as the ice struck his twin barriers. But they shattered, and he was smashed into the decking, cracking it.
He vomited blood, as he felt several ribs crack, but not fully break.
"…A-Adel's Healing," he whispered, as his body glowed green, his wounds healing. This stacked spell had the effect of five cure spells, and assuming you weren't fatally wounded, it fixed you up immediately. That said, he still felt a deep ache as he stumbled to his feet.
"Still alive?" Laudo asked, hurrying over, his borrowed sword black with the creature's blood.
"Just about," Mark replied, blood staining the lower half of his face. "You?"
"Fine, thanks to your spell support," Laudo replied, being surprisingly humble.
"Says the guy who's hurt that monster more than me," Mark grinned back.
The Gigan began to charge another Blizzara.
"Bio!"
"Thunder Slash!"
He two of them cast almost simultaneously. Mark's Bio cancelled the spell before it could be launched, and as quick as the Gigan moved to dodge, Beatrix's long range slashing move still took two of its legs.
"Nice one!" Mark grinned, happy to see it take some serious damage.
Several arrows then fired towards the creature, along with basic elemental spells, though the creature easily avoided them. Mark glanced back to see about a dozen reinforcements of Beatrix's soldiers, and several black mages, who peppered it with spells.
"Laudo, go explain the situation," Mark said, gesturing to the reinforcements. "Get them to herd it to myself and the General."
"Right!" He hurried over to them, and hurriedly explained the situation, their attacks became more sweeping, leaving dodge/escape routes close to the level 16 Pluto Knight, and the level 99 General.
"You shouldn't order my troops," Beatrix said with a frown.
"They'll assume you said it," Mark shrugged. "What matters is we need a plan, and you haven't volunteered one yet."
"We'll be talking about this later," she warned.
"Excellent," Mark shrugged, making her flush with anger. "I'll counter its spells, you kill it in that opening, use it consecutively if you can."
"…Very well."
"I'm counting on you," he grinned, as Gigan was forced towards them.
"Don't expect me to say it back."
"Bio!"
"Bio!"
It sent several Blizzard spells to counter his.
"Stockbreak!" Another tentacle was sliced off.
It evaded the next few sword slashes.
"Bio!" Mark's spell knocked it to the side, right into the path of the next…
"Climhazzard!"
This continued for a further ten minutes until all of its tentacles had been cut off.
"Bio!"
"Bio!"
It fell towards the water
"Thunder Slash!" and like that it was finally ended.
Whatever items they might have gotten from the battle disappeared beneath the waves.
Mark fell back on his arse and laughed with a mix of exhaustion and delight. They had survived.
Laudo's level above his head, changed from a ten to an eleven. Thanks to his ability 'Level up' Mark got twice as much experience points as normal, not enough to level up, with the points doled out equally to everyone who had fought, but it had shaved off quite a bit of time until his next level up. Hopefully they'd encounter more monsters on the journey and be able to manage a level up or two. (But on land this time!)
Level: 16, 2106xp until next level up.
"Oh, cool, I levelled up," he heard Laudo declare happily.
Later, as his adrenaline returned to normal levels, Mark's queasiness returned. So he returned to the side of the ship, to vomit, so he finally drank an R-Potion made from a Potion and a Remedy, which he took his item sack, which was currently tied to his waist. A Remedy cured most health issues and status ailments but it also cost a day's wages. With any luck, its effects would last until they reached land.
CHAPTER END
Next Chapter: Journey to Cid (3)
A/N: Thanks for reading the newest chapter. We'll meet Cid in part 3.
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'N' Things Anthology: Corpses 'N' Things
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DINGIR AVATAR STATS
Character class: Grey Mage
Rank: Pluto Knight X (Private)
Level: 16, 2106xp until next level up.
HP: 1116 / 1116
MP: 659 / 999 (maxed)
Strength: 49 (67)
Speed: 31 (26)
Spirit: 46 (49)
Magic Defence/Defence: 32 (53)
Magic: 75
Magic Evasion/Evasion: 16 (28)
Primary Weapon: Iron Sword (Laudo gave it back afterwards.)
Secondary Weapon: Mythril Dagger
Headwear: Iron helm
Armour: Iron Armour
Accessory: Steel Gauntlet with buckler
Skills: Minus Strike
Abilities: Bright Eyes, Level Up, Man Eater, Bug Killer, Grey Magic, Antibody, Bandit
Magic: Poison, Regen, Sleep, Panacea, Osmose, Protect, Cure, Bio, Shell
Magic Stacking: Asag's Toxin - level 1 (40MP) Adel's Healing – level 1 (30MP) Hypnos Field – level 1 (50MP) Physical Barrier – level 1 (30MP) Magical Barrier – level 1 (30MP) Magic Gluttony – level 1 (20MP)
Trance: Balmung strike
Items: 20 D-Potions, 6 Phoenix Down, 10 P-Potion, 9 R-Potions, 30 Potions, 10 Eye Drops, 10 Echo Screen, 10 Soft, 13 Goblin Steak, Goblin dagger, Traveller's cloak, Isekai ring, silk shirt, lots of regular clothes.
Gil: 24,966