Prince of The Damned: A Gamers Tale.
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Thoughts, 'Inner thoughts'
Speaking, "Talking."
System: You have levelled up.
Chapter 4 (The Kindly One.)
The sky was dark and cloudy with a light drizzle of rain beginning to pour down, signifying the rain that was sure to arrive later on in the day. The winds were strong and the atmosphere was quiet. It had been a 2 days since Dante's battle with the hellhounds and their Alpha.
Right now he was sitting down in the back of the bus, looking outside the window with a bored expression plastered on his face as he waited out the long duration of the trip. His destination? Long Island, where the mysterious and notorious Camp Half-Blood was located or as close as he could get via bus.
While he considered stealing a car and going on a joyride he really couldn't be bothered with all the trouble that would come with that and while he was sure he could kill or at least incapacitate any police officers who pissed him off, he knew a nation-wide manhunt would slow him down, which would be inconvenient, not to mention annoying.
Dante knew the monsters lurking around could sense him, especially now that his power had been growing. His scent had likely only gotten stronger and while he wouldn't normally mind the challenge, he didn't want to encounter something too hard to kill after the gruelling last few days he had been through, he wasn't a fucking masochist.
In the few days since his reincarnation, Dante had grown accustomed to his new life as a monster killing badass. The power that he had obtained in his new life, meagre it might be at this point, was still intoxicating to say the least and he wanted more.
When he had gotten back from slaying the Alpha which had managed to knock him around quite a bit, his clothes had all but been shredded and burnt off him much to his annoyance. Luckily he had the foresight to buy more clothes and decided to sneak into the hotel after awkwardly walking past gawking mortals who seemed to be shocked at his appearance. He wasn't surprised as he was literally covered in blood. His innocent smile that he wore on purpose must have freaked them out quite a bit.
Once he had gotten back to his hotel room he had proceeded to dump his ruined clothes and have a nice warm shower to get all the grime and blood off his normally smooth and unblemished skin.
Once he was clean and clothed he had dropped on his queen sized bed and fallen asleep within seconds, the mental exhaustion of nearly dying once more and battling for an hour was fresh on his mind making him forget all about his Gacha Token and stat points.
Now he was sitting on the back of a bus with his feet kicked up without a care for any of the people looking at him strangely, probably due to him being a 12-year-old making his way to Long Island alone.
Ignoring the glances thrown his way even though it annoyed him to no end that people couldn't just mind their own fucking business, he was bored out of his mind. He could feel the curse (blessing?) called ADHD all demigods had starting to act up, making him tap his foot on the ground impatiently as he started to feel frustrated.
Might as well allocate his points and use the Gacha while he still had the chance, who knew when some other ugly fucking monster might jump him.
Name: Dante Olethros
Level – 17
Title: None.
Race – Demigod/?
Alignment – Chaotic Neutral
HP – 430/430[172 per Min]
MP –860/860 [160 per Min]
STR – 46
END – 44
DEX – 47 (94)
INT – 43
WIS – 40
CHA – 40 (120)
LCK – 10
Stat points - 65
Money - 1400 dollars
Glancing at his 65 unallocated stat points he wonders if he should use them, he had thought that saving them would be a good idea, which it wasn't considering how quickly his fucking mana pool emptied out.
He considered it for a moment before distributing his points. He was the lowest of the low on the scale of power in this world. "Saving up points won't matter if I'm dead, right now I need power."
STR – 46 (50)
END – 44 (50)
DEX – 47 (60)
INT – 43 (70)
WIS – 40 (50)
He spent 50 of his stat points and saved 15 for emergencies, just in case another high levelled bullshit monster comes and tries to eat him. He would have saved them all but with his existence in danger every second he decided to play it safe.
Suddenly he felt a surge of power fill his body and warmth spread across his entire being. His muscles grew denser, his eyes seemed to sharpen and his magic poured out of his body as it seemed to expand at alarming rates.
Dante looked at his stats with pride, he was making decent progress even though he'd only been here for a few days.
Disregarding that for now he summoned his Gacha Token, the golden coin in his hand had the symbol of a 4-leafed clover on it, after examining it he mentally summoned the prompt up.
Would you like to open Rare Gacha Token?
[Yes/No]
He looked at it for a second while tossing and playing around with the large coin in his hands before glancing around to see if anyone was still looking at him, thankfully the nosy fucks had decided to do something better than stare at him, so he mentally selected Yes as he once more watched the coin turn into ethereal golden particles that floated into him.
Rare gacha token opening…
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[Blade of woe] (Epic)
[Blade of Woe] (Epic)
The Blade Of Woe from Skyrim is considered one of the most powerful daggers due to its unique ability to steal the life-force of those cut by it. (Lifesteal = DMG Inflicted.) (2x DMG inflicted if the blade is used in a sneak attack.)
Dante grinned as he read the description of his new dagger. 'It's about fucking time I got something useful,' he thought happily. He'd been planning to get a secondary weapon just in case he somehow managed to lose his sword mid-battle but this was better than what he had hoped to get.
He was planning on getting a Celestial Bronze dagger as a secondary weapon from the Hephaestus cabin whenever he got to Camp Half-Blood but there was no need now.
That life-force stealing ability on the blade would be invaluable in any battle of attrition he may get into. 'Better than that last shitty Gacha token,' he mentally grumbled.
Are you still bitching about that?
Instead of answering he simply looked away, deciding not to give the system the satisfaction of a retort. Just as he was coming out of his mental musings a new notification popped up drawing his attention.
New skill created - [Danger Sense]
[Danger Sense] (LVL.1)
That little feeling you get in the back of your mind when someone or something is trying to harm you.
As soon as the notification appeared he felt a tingling feeling in the back of his spine, making him shiver at the sudden sensation.
"What-" was all Dante could say before the bus got blasted off the road by a tremendous force sending it rolling down the side of the hill and into the forest, all the while the people around him were screaming as they were knocked around like bowling pins.
Finally, after the bus rolled down the hill it crashed into the earth. Dante looked around from his place at the front of the bus where he was embedded into the now broken windshield with a pissed-off expression.
- 50HP
"Well that fucking hurt," he said as he looked around the now blood-soaked and destroyed bus where the bloodied and unconscious forms of mortals were strewn about.
He ripped himself out of the glass and jumped to the ground, looking down at his ruined clothes. "Not again," he groaned, he really needed to invest in some more durable clothes, this was getting fucking ridiculous. "Whatever that was, I'm gonna murder it," he whispers furiously and spots his would-be attackers.
Lucia, Valmoria
Title: The Ripper
Level – 26
Race – Vampire
HP: 500/500
MP: 1500/1500
STR – 89
END – 50
DEX – 86
INT – 150
WIS – 37
CHA – 16
LCK – 4
Thoughts about you - Lucia Valmoria is currently trying to feed on Dante due to his godly blood, which is irresistible to vampires and empousa both for the power it grants, as well as its exquisite taste.
He quickly uses [Observe] on the rest of them with each of them being levels 22-26. The vampire Lucia who seemed like the leader of this little group stared at him with hunger.
She was pretty hot, long blond hair that flowed down to her mid-back, crimson eyes on a heart shaped face with a small button nose, plump cherry red lips, a decently curvy figure with C-cup breasts in a tight black dress with slits on the side showing off her thighs and a plunging neckline which made it look like any movement she made would make her tits to spill out.
"Well well well, it would seem the little Godling survived, and he smells absolutely delicious," she said while licking her lips salaciously. Her fangs were bared as the rest of them all gave off vicious smirks. Dante merely raised a brow in amusement.
"Now if you come peacefully I might even keep you around, as my pet of course," she says while rubbing her thighs together slightly. Crazy horny bitch.
"Bring him here," she ordered the two vampires next to her as they took a step forward.
Dante's eyebrow twitched. 'Who does this bitch think she is!?' He mentally growled. The two men that were advancing suddenly found 2 swords made completely of Shadows embedded in each of their chests. They all froze, before letting out an unearthly screech and toppling over to the ground.
The lead vampire looked completely shocked and as she looked back up she found that he had disappeared from his place. Dante, taking advantage of their shock at seeing two of their companions out of the fight so suddenly, rushed another male vampire who was behind the other two bloodsuckers that died. Equipping his sword he gave the bastard no time to react before he was short a head.
He shot two more Shadow Swords at the other female vampire who was turning around to flee, impaling her in the leg and in the heart.
[Shadow Sword Avalanche] has levelled up!
Lucia seemed to break out of her shock at seeing her companions being dealt with so suddenly and to his surprise shot out an ice spike which he promptly dodged. Deciding to test out something he had come up with on the bus he quickly tapped into his necromancy powers and channelled the necrotic energy into his sword, giving it a sickly dark green glow.
He felt the necrotic energy swell within him as he grinned viciously and swung it into a horizontal arc. A thin wave of dark green light erupted from his sword and surged forward faster than any normal human could blink.
To her credit, she managed to dodge most of it but failed to prevent her arm from being sliced in two just below the elbow, she screeched in agony and fell to her knees, the necrotic energy preventing her healing factor from kicking in.
New skill created - [Necrotic Arc]
[Necrotic Arc] (LVL.1) (Cost 200MP)
Infuses necrotic energy into your weapon and releases a thin wave of it at your target, prevents healing factors in enemies around your level from activating and acts as a flesh and life force devouring poison if the attack is successful.
'Huh, neat. I'll have to experiment with my powers more when I'm not being chased by monsters every second of the day,' he thought. He'd have to test out the limits of his skill creation when he got to the Camp.
Looking over at the last vampire he summoned his new dagger and promptly threw it at him, the knife flying through the air and nailing him right in the eye, immediately Dante felt the dagger try to activate only to fail due to his full health. The Vampire staggered backwards and fell on his ass, covering his eye while crying out only to look up when he saw a shadow towering over him.
His eyes widened in fear when faced with a pissed off 12 year old covered in blood. Dante snarled and grabbed the knife, ripping it out brutally before cutting his head off with a clean one-handed swing. His headless body fell to the ground.
[Swordsmanship] has levelled up!
Needless to say, Dante felt like a fucking badass. He didn't know what Saitama was bitching about since having this much power over someone felt fucking fantastic.
Dante turned around to see the Vampire leader looking at him with fear in her blood-red eyes. He slowly made his way over to her until he was standing over her kneeling form.
"You think someone as weak as you could ever make someone like me your pet you filthy vampire bitch?" He said venomously, making her eyes widen. He already knew what she was going to do, cornered animals fought the hardest afterall, and that was all this bitch was, an animal.
She pushed herself off the ground with her claws extended and aimed at his throat, hoping to kill him with a surprise attack, but he was already expecting that, and considering he was much faster than her it was child's play for him to lean back and slice off her hand.
She screamed once more as tears started streaming out of her eyes. He kneed her in the face making her fall down as he stood over her body.
She looked at him fearfully when she saw the murderous glare aimed at her. Dante was extremely annoyed, he had left her alive on purpose after all, he wanted to vent some of his frustrations.
He slammed his foot on her chest, causing her to wheeze before he reached down and grabbed her hair, lifting her up before slamming his foot down on her ankle, destroying the bone and causing her to howl in agony.
Dante let her go and she flopped back to the ground, starting to crawl away from him desperately. He let her, she was going to die anyways, and he wanted to savour this. Bitch thought she could turn him into what? Her blood/sex slave? He was going to make her pay for her arrogance.
"Where's all that pompousness from before you blood sucking whore? Turn me into a slave will you?" He bit out furiously while eyeing her crawling form, which only got more frantic.
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" She wailed, as he stalked towards her, "Sorrys won't save you, you bitch." Dante said as he rapidly crossed the distance between them and flipped her over, she was crying and then started pleading when he raised his sword, holding out the stumps of her arms, as if that was going to stop him.
"Please, please don't kill me. I'll do anything, I'll become your slave, your whore, anything you want, for the rest of my immortal life. I swear, just please- NO!"
He'd had enough of the mouthy bitch and was about to pierce a fourth hole in her body when a notification stopped him.
New Skill created - [Bind Soul]
[Bind Soul] (Cost: 100 MP)
Allows the caster to bind undead to his control. This spell can be used to bind any and all forms of undead or souls to the casters service, undead or souls weaker than the caster can be instantly bound, stronger targets can be bound either through domination or through voluntary submission.
New Skill created - [Brand]
[Brand] (Cost: 50MP)
Every Necromancer has to have a brand to control his undead slaves, allows the caster to give out commands that must be obeyed by branded undead, and creates a mental connection between the branded undead and the caster. In sapient undead the brand enforces obedience by punishing traitorous and/or disobedient thoughts or actions by inflicting unbearable agony on the undead, while also giving the caster complete control over his undeads body and/or mind should he will it. Souls of undead bound to you can be summoned at any time and anywhere, and dismissed at will. Even if the undead's body gets destroyed, their souls are still bound to the caster and thus, can be raised again.
'Oh?' Dante stared at the notification by the system, ignoring the hysterical vampire bitch below him for the moment, 'So, skill creation reacts to what I experience or desire then? And I assume that it only creates a skill if I have an affinity for it?'
Yes and no, general skills are usually created when you have a need for it, or focus on creating it, magical and/or other skills that utilise some form of energy or esoteric techniques of some sort require an affinity before you can develop skills related to them, which can be bought in the shop.
Level up!
Level up!
'Cool,' he mentally dismissed the prompts. "Now, what to do with you," Dante said while staring at the hysterical vampiress below him, he contemplated using his new skill to bind her, vampires are a form of undead aren't they?
"Well, I guess I can let you live," Dante said, the vampire was visibly relieved. "Thank you my Lord, thank you! I will never forget your kindness and compassion," Lucia said as she scrambled towards him and started kissing his feet.
"Hold your horses bloodsucker, you're not getting out of this scot free, you said you would serve me for the rest of your immortal life didn't you?" She looked up at him hesitantly, "Yes my Lord, I did," she said softly while lowering her eyes to his feet.
"Well then, you should feel honoured, you're going to be the first undead I bind to my service, it's only fair I make you my slave. You tried to do the same to me afterall." Lucia just remained silent, staring at Dantes feet with a blank look on her tear stained face.
"Oi, if you don't want to enter my service just say so. I don't mind sending you off to wherever you vampires go when you kick the bucket, you're nothing but a mook-tier vampiress at best, not like I'd be losing anything of value." She lifted her head quickly and looked up at him with panic in her eyes, "N-No my Lord, I'm honoured to enter a Son of Hades service, thank you for your mercy. I will serve you faithfully."
"Good," Dante said and cast [Bind Soul] on her, a brand formed on her chest just above her cleavage, a cornucopia or horn of plenty formed, slanted to the left and emerging from the middle of her chest, a scepter similarly formed, emerging from the middle of her cleavage and leaning to the right, both the sceptre and horn connected at the bottom. A howling three headed dog appeared on her skin in the space between the horn and the scepter, the entire brand was a deep ebony black and seemed to almost writhe on her skin.
Lucia was staring at the brand with wide eyes, as if just realising she had been turned into a 12-year-olds slave, Dante just chuckled at her stare. "Well, now that thats done with, you can fuck off for now, I'll summon you later." Her gaze snapped up to his, "Wait I-" she dissipated into shadows as soon as Dante dismissed her through the mental connection he had with her.
With that over with, his eyes trailed over all the bodies of men, women, and children who lay lifelessly on the ground. It truly was a massacre that would make even veteran soldiers who had experienced war look away in sadness at the sight laid before him.
"Meh, tough shit."
Dante started to walk back towards the downed bodies of the vampires who hadn't died yet, disposing of them quickly by lopping their head off, he made his way back up the hill to the main road, looking thoroughly pissed off with the situation he had been placed in yet again.
"Seriously it's like I'm just some sort of fucking beacon for danger, I can't even go one day without some monster trying to turn me into a chew toy for fucks sake." He ranted.
Well, technically you are a beacon for trouble.
"My scent?" Dante questioned.
Your divinity is leaking out, essentially shining like a beacon to all the monsters in a 50-mile radius.
Honestly, I'm surprised you lasted this long.
The system said without any care for Dante's obvious fury. Taking a deep breath he starts questioning the system. "How do I stop my divinity from leaking then?"
Quest alert!
[Quest]
Hidden Divinity.
Reward: 5000 EXP, 400 dollars.
Objective: Find a way to conceal your aura.
Failure: None
[Accept/Decline]
He immediately accepted and sighed. "That wasn't very helpful but thanks I guess," he mumbled a bit annoyed about the fact he had to find a way to somehow conceal this aura of his so he wouldn't become sushi for some random creature.
Dante decided to worry about it later and focus on making his way towards his next destination: Camp half-blood.
-Scene change-
Dante was not a happy lad. He had finally made progress on reaching the camp, only to have a bunch of stupid blood-suckers total the godsdamned bus, well, all wasn't lost. He had gotten a hot vampire servant out of it but still. Lotus eaters, hellhounds, then a group of vampires in such a short amount of time? He was starting to understand why Demi-Gods had such a high mortality rate, doubly so for him, since he was in the 'super tasty' variety of Demi-Gods as a son of Hades.
He had been walking for half a day trying to get a ride or directions to the closest bus stop so he could get another ride to New York. Unfortunately, due to his current appearance people immediately avoided him, opting to stare at him strangely and drive off without offering him a ride.
'You know what, fuck this.' He said with gritted teeth he had finally had enough. He had tried to act nice and put on a smile so he wouldn't have any problems in the future but honestly as far as he could see, being good never works in your favour. It was just straight up inconvenient.
Walking on the road he watches as a black Chevrolet Camaro comes flying at him only to suddenly break and the driver to start honking his horn. The man driving popped his head out of the window and started shouting angrily. "Why are you walking in the middle of the road you stupid fuck."
Scowling Dante summoned a single shadow sword and sent it flying through the windshield and into his skull faster than the human eye could see as his response.
He walked up to the car and pulled the guy out GTA style and proceeded to get in not caring about the blood and drove off.
"Asshole," he mumbled under his breath. Luckily he had a basic knowledge of how to drive from his previous life. He wasn't the best but honestly, he didn't give a shit anymore. If the police pulled him over at this point he would just kill them. He'd had enough of trying to play by the rules, it was just going to end up slowing him down.
He didn't know if it was [Gamers Mind] or if he had just never cared but he found himself uncaring of the crime he'd committed.
Summoning the map he had purchased before he left Las Vegas out of his inventory he looked over the directions to New York. Knowing what route to take, he took off in his newly acquired Chevrolet Camaro at breakneck speeds with a large smirk on his face.
-Scene change-
He had finally made it, after several hours of speeding and reckless driving he had finally made it to Camp Half-Blood. Pulling over onto the side of the street he rolled the window down and looked at the dirt road with a confused expression.
Taking off the newly acquired sunglasses he had obtained from the shop he may or may not have robbed along the way for supplies, he glanced at the wooden sign standing by the entrance and his confusion soon turned to awe as the words rearranged themselves and turned into a welcome sign to the camp.
Dante knew that he shouldn't have been so surprised after the last few days of the constant use of magic and the mythical monsters trying to kill him but coming from a boring mundane world he couldn't help but grin in excitement and anticipation.
Finally, he had made it. He looked up to see the sun starting to set and decided it would be best if he got inside the barrier that protected the Demi-Gods from the monsters around the camp before it became nighttime.
He tried to start the car only to frown when it didn't start, glancing down he checked the fuel gauge only to sigh in annoyance as he noticed it's empty.
"I probably should have refuelled the gas tank when I was getting supplies, well whatever," he said. Silently opening the car door, he swiftly exited the car and slammed the door shut behind him. He started to make his way towards the forest that housed the camp.
Are you really just going to leave that there, it's essentially evidence that you killed someone.
"Nope," he said simply as he commanded the shadows to wrap around the car and crush it, before flinging it to the other side of the forest, away from the direction of the camp, he casually started strolling into the forest, whistling a tune known only to him.
Looking around as he walked down the path he noticed that the trees seemed much more vibrant and full of life the further he went in and the flowers seemed to get more exotic and colourful, some wrapping around the trees with wildlife bustling all around him. It was breathtaking to say the least.
He had been walking for over 15 minutes and was admiring the scenery, until he heard a twig snap. He snapped out of his internal reverie and quickly spun around to the source of the sound only to see a young woman who seemed to be in her early 20s with raven black hair.
She had a mature, sophisticated look, with a delicate chin, full lips and a patrician nose. Charcoal black eyes with no pupils simply making it seem as if her eyes were empty, seeming to stare into his very soul, making him shiver. She had inhuman deathly pale skin that definitely wasn't natural.
Her body looked soft and slender with curves that suited her frame. Decent breasts with a nice ass to top it off. If she wasn't as creepy as fuck and probably a monster Dante probably wouldn't have had a problem getting a piece of that ass.
Quickly regaining his composure with help from [Gamers Mind] he opened his inventory, ready to summon his blades at the slightest sign of hostility. He gave her a passive cold stare, hoping to creep her out as much as she creeped him out. All the while she just stared at him with an emotionless face, her black eyes never leaving his eyes, as if he would disappear at a moment's notice.
"Can I help you?" Dante asked stoically, hoping to quickly end whatever this interaction was so he could finally enter the camp, he was not in the mood for a chat.
She simply stared at him for a few more seconds before raising an eyebrow and answering. "Yes, you can," she said.
"Dante Olethros, you are required to return with me to the Underworld. Lord Hades has summoned you and has permitted me to use force if necessary," she said leaving no room for argument. Hearing her words Dante activated [Observe.]
Alecto
Title: The Angry One.
Level – ?
Race – Fury
HP: ?
MP: ?
STR – ?
END – ?
DEX – ?
INT – ?
WIS – ?
CHA – ?
LCK – ?
Thoughts about you - Annoyance. Alecto has been ordered to retrieve you by her Master, Hades. She has been permitted to use force, if necessary.
Dante was thankful for [Gamers Mind] or he might have shit himself at the realisation that the woman he was looking at was a monster who was known for torturing and dragging souls to the underworld, along with being a hunter for the poor souls Hades wanted dead or brought to him.
He was currently facing a creature that out levelled him in every aspect including her actual level. He had been able to beat the Alpha by exploiting its lack of intelligence and mainly using hit and run tactics. This was different, Alecto was way above his pay-grade. So naturally, he decided to play the 'I don't know who that is card.'
"I'm sorry, I think you have me mistaken for someone else. I don't know who this Dante person is." He said with a same stoic tone and a straight face. She narrowed her eyes at him in response.
"Is that so?" She asked with a slightly mocking and a cold edge to her voice promising pain. Dante seemingly unfazed nodded, making her tilt her head which would have been cute, that is if she wasn't here to drag him to the underworld. She takes a moment to sniff the air before looking back at him with a frown.
"Nice, try." She said looking slightly amused at his attempt to hide his identity. Making him sigh dramatically.
'Oh well, it was worth a shot.'
"It wasn't hard to find you, especially with the trail of death you left behind. Did you think we wouldn't notice a child covered in blood moving around Las Vegas? Or a bus full of dead bodies? The blatant murder of a human and proceeding to take said human's car on a joyride to New York. You've been on quite the little trip haven't you. It wasn't hard at all to guess where you were attempting to go," she said with amusedly with a deadpan expression on her pretty pale face.
"Ah, well. I guess it's time for option two." He said with a sigh making her raise an eyebrow in curiosity. "Oh, and do enlighten me on this second option of yours." She said with a tilt of her head.
He simply sent her a grin as two shadow swords materialised behind him and were promptly sent flying at her at max speeds. Making her black eyes widen slightly as she dodged with a burst of speed and scowled, only to widen her eyes once more as a wave of necrotic energy was flying towards her making her quickly jump back, avoiding the attack.
"This is your last opportunity boy, surrender and come with me or I will be forced to hurt you!" Alecto bellowed as her eyes began to glow like black burning coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into sharp black talons. Her black dress melted into large, leathery wings and claws and a mouth full of razor-sharp yellow fangs, she looked ready to rip him a new asshole.
"Damn bitch, ever thought about visiting a dentist? That's not a healthy shade of colour," Dante said half seriously with a look of slight disgust at her transformation from a hot young woman, to a monster looking like it came out of Doom slayer.
Alecto let out an inhuman screech at him in anger and suddenly blurred with a burst of speed and barrelled towards him, before he could even react she lashed out with her razor-sharp talons easily ripping through his chest, sending him flying through the forest with a shower of blood.
- 200HP
Dante was sent back from the force of the attack and went flying backwards, demolishing several trees in his path, finally, he crashed into a giant dark oak tree stopping his path with a loud crack, making him slide down with a gasp of pain.
Quest alert!
[Quest]
Escape the fury
Reward: 5000 EXP, 500 dollars, 50 drachma.
Objective: Find a way to escape Alecto.
Failure: Captured and dragged to the Underworld.
[Accept/Decline]
He mentally pressed accept, the pain he felt coursing through him vanishing. Making him sigh in relief as he looked down with slightly widened eyes to see the three extremely deep newly made gashes from Alecto's claws that were leaking a generous amount of blood.
The cuts were deep but luckily they practically disappeared in a few seconds, the broken bones popping back into place and the gashes simply disappearing due to his [Gamers Body] keeping his body in top fighting condition, with regeneration that would make a member of the Phenex clan envious.
'I really need to invest in the luck stat, I think it may actually be affecting me at this point with the amount of bullshit I've been put through in the last few days.' He mentally growled out in annoyance. He had just started his life damn it.
One hit from Alecto had taken nearly half of his hp out, making him sweat a bit. He could tell she hadn't used her full force in the attack, she held back quite a bit and yet, still injured him pretty severely, which was slightly horrifying.
He had been so close to his safe haven from the monsters, but now he was facing someone who outclassed him in every way.
It was looking pretty bad for him and he seriously didn't know if he could escape, let alone actually kill the bitch. He had to admit the temptation to give up was starting to creep up on him, his golden eyes starting to lose their normal devious glint. He scowled.
'No. There is no way in Athena's saggy tits that I'm letting my dads side-bitch take me to the underworld. I'm the fucking gamer, this is my new life and I will live it how I please.' He growled out mentally, his eyes gaining a determined glint.
Alecto flapped her wings, creating a gust of air that blew everything around her away and took to the air and then landed on a particularly strong branch, wrapping her sharp black talons around it for support and fixed him with a scrutinising look.
"You're much weaker than I expected, boy," she said with a scoff of distaste and disappointment in her black eyes. Dante gnashed his teeth at the insult and raised his hand and sent a [Ray of Death] at her, the sickly dark green beam shooting out at high speeds towards her. She casually hopped off the branch and landed on another just as the pale beam hit the branch and caused it to blacken and decay rapidly.
Alecto looked at the branch with a raised eyebrow, with amusement dancing in her eyes she looked back at Dante. "Is that all?" She said condescendingly. It was clear to Dante that she didn't see him as a threat and was clearly taking him lightly, which served to piss him off even further, something he was going to change as he got up from his position against the tree and glared at her.
"If I take my insults back will you kindly fuck off?" Dante asked her with a scowl present on his face. She looked at him with that same amused glint in her eyes. "No," she said simply, making Dante grin.
"Good, because I meant every fucking word, you ugly bat. Seriously what's your purpose anyways, do you just laze about all day and hang upside down in the cave you call home, or is your time usually spent on your knees slurping on Hades' cock when his wifes not there?" he questioned mockingly and summoned two shadow swords behind him, both of them floating behind him waiting for his commands, equipping his Celestial Bronze sword at the same time.
He dashed at her using his max speed not waiting for an answer and fired one of the shadow swords at her. Alecto scowled with fury at his remark. "SILENCE BOY," she bellowed and immediately flapped her wings, and with a burst of speed she flew towards him and dodged the shadow sword with ease and went to grab him by the throat, only to have to pivot to the left as the other shadow sword came at her.
Dante swung his sword and let loose a [Necrotic Arc] at her, hoping to score a hit only for her to dodge again. He shot towards her and swung his sword in a downward arc.
Dante wheezed in pain as Alecto simply swerved her body to the side, avoiding the attack and driving her fist into his stomach. Not giving him any chance to move she latched onto his throat and glared at him. "Surrender boy, you stand no chance." She commanded.
Dante glared right back and tried to drive his blade into her stomach only for her other hand to grab his sword hand and squeeze insanely tight, the bones in his hand started creaking under the pressure. He looked at his HP with a grimace.
HP - 185/500
"Go fuck yourself with a skeletons arm, bitch." He spat as he summoned the Blade of Woe in his left hand and stabbed her in the gut, as she gasped in surprise and pain. Dante felt the blades enchantment activate.
You Gained 50 HP!
Quickly using her shock to his advantage. He removed the blade and plunged into her again.
You Gained 50 HP!
Before he could stab her again. Alecto regained her bearings and let out a deafening screeching sound, sending him flying back from a jaw rattling punch.
HP - 2/500
Dante felt himself being lifted up and opened his eyes to see Alecto's hand raised. "I've never met a Demi god with such great regenerative abilities. Let's test them out, shall we?" She rhetorically asked as she raised her sharp talons up. Dante panicked. If Alecto hit him again he would die. Of course she had no knowledge of how his powers worked and didn't know that he was on his last legs.
"FUCK YOU." He roared as his world turned a dark red and he felt his skin buzz with power. His head was spinning as nausea like none other assaulted him. Dante felt his consciousness begin to slip as his world began to darken, a notification being the last thing he saw before he passed out.
[Hellfire manipulation] - Unlocked
[System update commencing…]
Artemis
Artemis scowled as she looked at the whimpering messenger of Hades bowing before her. She had just received a message from her uncle informing her of a boy who apparently needed to be captured. Much to her confusion. Surely her uncle, the King of the Dead wouldn't have problems catching a child?
Naturally, she declined before being reminded of her debt to him, so she had no choice but to accept, lest Hades take his wrath out on her Hunters.
Artemis had the appearance of an extremely gorgeous 18 year old woman with long beautiful and ethereal silver hair that cascaded down her back and seemed to glow a faint silver.
She had soft porcelain skin and a toned, lithe figure, while still retaining a decent amount of curves. Giving her an athletic but very attractive feminine form, with extremely perky C-cup breasts, a firm and toned ass that fit her perfectly, and long legs that seemed to go on for miles.
Her eyes were a beautiful yellowish-silver colour with her face being perfect without any imperfections, cute full pouty pink lips, long lashes and high cheekbones. Even with the scowl she currently wore it did nothing to detract from her beauty. A cold air of indifference surrounded her, representing the Goddesses bad mood.
She was currently sitting in her personal tent and begrudgingly getting ready to start a new hunt for a young Demi-God. Artemis teleported the messenger away with a flick of her hand, not wanting the man-scum anywhere near her hunters. She called for her lieutenant, Zoe Nightshade. Who entered a few minutes later bowed before her Goddess.
"You called for me m'lady?" Zoe asked curiously.
"Prepare my hunters, we have a new target to hunt." Artemis commanded with a firm but sweet and melodious voice. Her silver eyes staring down and her lieutenant with a soft but agitated expression. Zoe, noticing her ladies' frustration, decided to voice her concern.
"M'lady are you okay?" Zoe asked softly. She and Artemis were the best of friends and after millennia of companioship she knew how to read her lady's expressions with ease. Artemis noticing her concern gave her a reassuring smile.
"I'm fine." She said with a sigh. Zoe, trusting her lady's words bowed once more before getting up to leave only to stop at the entrance of her lady's tent.
"M'lady, may I ask what we are hunting?" She asked turning around to face Artemis.
"Not a what, but a who." She said mysteriously, making Zoe raise an eyebrow in confusion. "Did your father ask you to hunt someone?" Zoe asked curiously with a slight grimace when she mentioned Zeus.
"No, I'm afraid my Uncle has called in a debt," she said with a scowl. Making Zoe's eyes widen in surprise. "May I ask who then m'lady?" Zoe asked even more intrigued. Artemis looked up at her with narrowed eyes.
"His name is Dante Olethros."
—END—
I recently got a beta for Prince of the Damned, both him and I will be working to clean up the past chapters, and fix up any mistakes in grammar and the like.
Lmk your thoughts in the reviews, catch you in the next chap.