Hello again to my Death mage x Shield hero Fanfiction.
In this chapter I try to flesh out how things happened and might work out with the cross world summoning and stuff because I didnt want an "OP MC screws up another world" kinda story... for my first FF at least.
For the future I will use different text layouts and markings for different things.
Vandalieus inner thoughts.
Status and Weapon acquirements.
'Voices only Vandalieu can hear' (spirits,telepathy)
"Conversation"
[Skills/Magic] (Still figuring out if and how skills like of Lamba will come into play)
When new markings come up I will let you now.
Last of all please enjoy and let me know what i could do better.
After opening one of the room doors Vandalieu glanced at the interior before flopping onto the bed. Noting its softness and therefore its luxurious make he still found it inferior to the familiarity of his own in the royal castle of Thalosheim. Now relaxed and without appearent interruptions coming up he once again focused his attention on the shield now stuck on his body.
'Finally we can introduce one another Vandalieu.'
Now remembering the small voice he heard shortly after being summoned into this world, he noticed now standing in an empty white room. It at least felt familiar to him because he was in a similar surrounding when he was summoned to her realm by the evil god Mabivale in the scylla settlement.
'Now thats unexpected... I thought we could only talk while focussed on the shield and now we stand before one another. I do have a question. What do I look like to you?'
Looking around himself, Vandalieu found a curious yet somewhat familiar being infront of him.
"You look kinda like me. Height and dimensions seem the same. Whats different is, your form isnt filled with anything. I would summarize it by saying you are a Void condensed in the form of my body." Vandlieu answered while pacing around his void image. "Now its my turn to ask a question- Who and what are you?"
'Although it will be irritating... I am you. As you already saw made of something else than you or in simpler terms different memories after the fight with Gubamon. Appearently when we teleported alongside Gubamon this shield took advantage of the situation and tried to bring us with it to this world to save it. From what I figured out, while you got to meet the king, not everything of us got brought into this world. We are at most 1% each of our entire being. With that I want to say the rest of us is still in Lambda on our path to revive Mom. We just cant communicate with the rest of us.'
Coming to accept his void images explanation, since he certainly felt weaker and his magic didnt work like it used to, he waited for the next question since it was the others turn now. After none came, Vandalieu figured he gets to question again.
"What happened to our status? It only had marginal information and not a single mention of our usual values showed on it."
'Because this is a different world then Lambda, the systems work differently as well. Im working on it while we are talking and hope it will be fixed in the next hours. Fortunately I seemed to have managed to reaquire [Parallel Thought Processing] and [High-Speed Thought Processing]. I cant really check because as a spirit like existence inside the shield I cant seem access my status. Speaking of it... Unfortunately it seemed that beacause we got summoned incomplete and our body got rebuild in this new world in the process our curse got activated and we lost the Skills we acquired over the years in Lambda... Could you try to regain your control over your emotions? I get your anger at Rodcorte and I hardly manage myself to keep calm and reasonable, thinking we might never see our friends and family again. We dealt with the curses before and I'm already hard pressed to familiarize myself with the shield without drowning in my emotions twofold so try to calm down.'
Vandalieu, after being lectured by his void image, breathed in and out, wherever the air in here comes from anyway, thinking about it, to reign in his boiling over emotions and started listening again when his image continued.
'We also have to look out, how the other curses might affect us in this world, since we dont know if Jobs or an equivalent of them exist here. While at it a name for this world would be nice to make talking about it easier... Nevermind. Regarding EXP, since a Lv. indication exists something like EXP should exist as well. Finding one or more companions should be our first priority.'
"I have a weird feeling with you being more talkative then we usually are... Might be because this is essentially an inner Monolugue. Well, what do we do now? We seem to be stuck here with no way to Lambda and no means to communicate with the us there either. I really want to see Mom alive again..."
'Thats what I concluded too. I suggest you try to gather how we might get back by asking around and I try poking around in this shield and how it managed to grab us in the first place. That might give us a way to connect us back with Lambda.'
Thinking of this as the end of his inner dialogue Vandalieu opened his eyes he at some point in time had closed.
Once again on the soft bed he felt the drowsiness accumulated from the happenings over the day and from the revelations from his void image. Once more closing his eyes he produced a spiritualised part of his body and remodeled it into anorther head. Thinking back to what his image said he figured he had to relearn what he acquired in lambda and started right away while his body started falling asleep.
After he noticed the sun rising over the horizon returned Vandalieu his conciousness to his body. He opend his Status with his eyes still closed.
Name: Vandalieu
Race: Dhampir /Dark Elf
Age: 8 years
Equipment: small Shield
Attribute Values:
HP: 20
MP: 9,600,000
Stamina: 10
Attack: 1
Defense: 16 +3
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 22
Demon King Fragments:
Blood | Ink sac
Horns | Suction cups | carapace
Curses
Experience gained in previous life not carried over
Cannot learn existing jobs
Unable to gain experience points independently
Inventory
Skills
Magic
Help
The larger block represented the values of his body with added numbers through the base defense of the small shield he currently has "equipped" or rather was unable to remove. The only clear remnant of his Lambda Status were his Demon King Fragments and Curses display.
Inventory still only showed *none* just like the Skills column. Under Magic was a change and it read:
Death Attribute Magic | No-Attribute Magic
His efforts over the night seemed to have payed off. He was still unhappy because Vandalieu was now able to produce up to two heads while sleeping but no respective skill appeared in his status to show that fact. Appearantly Skills are not recorded numerical but are still trainable.
The Magic column at least acknowledged his efforts by showing his reacquired magic capabilities.
He still needed to say the spell name out to activate at the moment but was still happy of now being able to use [Telekinesis], [Healing Enhancement] and [Mana Bullet] through No-Attribute Magic. Through his vastly lower mana pool and significantly lower Atk Stat he was unsure if he could count on the Mana Bullets to deal any substantial damage. Regarding Death attribute magic was the reacqusition easier through the spirits flying around him which gathered at some point during the night.. Golem and undead creation still weren't possible at the moment but Vandalieu wasn't discouraged because after his birth on lambda it took him about a month to figure out how to manage it. The spirits were helpful by being saturated by his death attribute mana but sadly none gained a sense of self in the process. Over the span of the night he also noticed that spirits didn't linger like they did on Lambda. He could supply them with his mana like he did with Darcia to keep them around but it took an expentionally larger amount than in previous worlds. Noting that he will have to depend more on shortly before passed individuals souls if he wanted to make undead or golems, Vandalieu continued with his last column in his resized Status. The Help menu.
Legendary Weapon strengthening methods:
[Unlock Form] - A Legendary Weapon can absorb materials. If the material can be used to unlock a new form it will do so, using the material up in the process. Elsewise the material/item will be stored in the inventory. The time required to unlock a new form is dependent on the grade of the material and the number of forms the weapon has already unlocked. As the Weapon gains more forms, it can unlock new forms faster.
[Weapon Copy] - A Legendary Weapon can copy any weapon and object with a defensive/protecting intended function by touching the chosen object and giving the command.
[Weapon mastery] - The Legendary Weapon forms can be mastered after which the equip bonus becomes a permanent stat boost to the wielder.
Wondering how far the definition could be stretched he walked to the the with a window fitted wall of the room while thinking of the fact that the outer wall of castles were generally build to protect its inhabitants, he touched the cold stone surface and whispered "[Copy]"
The shield, or rather the jewel in the center glowed green a few seconds. After it stopped Vandalieu wondered if he thought to broad about it and failed in his test, until the announcement popped up in front of him.
WEAPON COPYING COMPLETE
[Name:Melromarc palace wall shield Base defense: 72]
[Equip bonus: Denfense +30 | Vitality up]
[Special Effect: Additional 40% defense rating while protecting royalty]
[Equip bonus: Skill 'Palace Wall']
[Unlock requirements not met]
Quite excited it had worked he was mildly dissapointed by the unknown requirement he has yet to meet but got his mood up by noting that he should have enough time until the next wave hits to figure something out and by figureing that no one should waste his time by protecting royalty in their safe castles till then. Now wondering about the absorbing part of his strengthening methods he started looking around and found easily loosend pieces of the wall just outside the window. Vandalieu easily moved them via telekinesis and absorbed them into the shield.
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name: Stone wall shield –Base defense: 34]
[Equip bonus: Defense +16 | -3% stamina per second while increasing defense by 10. No stamina loss while standing still. After Unlocking is deavtivating possible]
[Equip bonus: Skill 'Trutzburg']
[Unlock requirement not met]
Glad it kinda worked as Vansalieu anticipated he wondered how he could get something instantly equipable. Letting his eyes wander he focused on what else was in the room with him... There was the bed he slept in, a small conter with a jug of water on top, the window he looked out of a second ago, a small counter next to the door leading outside, with a door and a drawer built in. He decided to try the jug and its content because surely someone would miss the bed or rather the luxurios cloths on and the surely precious glassed window as well as the drawer. The door he at lest could try to copy since a door is just a movable and sometimes lockable wall right? Touching the door he recited again "[Copy]"
WEAPON COPYING COMPLETE
[Name: Wooden door shield –Base defense: 4]
[Equip bonus: Lockpicking up]
[Unlocked at Level 2]
Surprised to see a lockpicking skill he got even more excited about the prospect to use it on his next level. It would only see use untill he relearned golem making but well. Not wanting to damage the door to find out if similar to the outer wall he could get a wooden shield from its raw material, he turned to the water jug and started pouring half its content onto the shield...
Nothing happened besides himself getting wet from the droplets splashing away from the shield as they would from a metal plate with some residue gathering in the space around the jewel. Somewhat confused he put the whole jug towards the center of the shield where it got promptly absorbed like the stone wall parts.
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name: water jug Shield– Base defense: 1]
[Equip bonus: Stamina regeneration up]
[Equip bonus : Ability 'Liquid storage']
[Unlocked at Level 1]
After reading the last line he looked for the shield tree in his status which now was under skills in a seperate column and after localising the new shield he chose it via thinking and saying "[Water jug Shield]" instinctivly knowing from somewhere that only thinking it at the moment wouldn't work. The shield, after transforming under the cover of a green light, now had a cermic jug on its front with enough volume to hold about 2 litres. Now he always had something to carry liquids by hand until he can once again create containers himself by transmuting a golem into an appropriate shape. After retrieving the jug from his inventory he tried once more to pour the water into the shield expecting it to work only to get the pop up notice:
' no appropriate vessel in inventory found'
Cupping some of the water in his hand he once again placed the jug in the shields inventory and lets the water still in his hand trickle once more on the shield. Finally the shield absorbs the liquid without any of it splashing aside. Nodding to himself he retrieved the jug one final time placing it back on the counter next to the bed. A tad disappointed since he was really curious what a shield of water would look like and give as a bonus.
Thinking once more what he could try with the shield he opened his eyes while realizing:
I'm here too.
First using parts of himself, except his clothes which he meant to try once he aquired a change, he got the following shield:
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name:Dhampir shield] (Mastered)
[Equip bonus: Health regeneration up | Strength up | Blood consume strengthening]
[Unlocked]
He hadnt got Different shields from his hair, blood, skin, nails and bones -he fed the shield by cutting off two digits of his left hands little finger and growing them back afterwards with [Healing Enhancement] having minimized the damage through spiritualization- but it at least got instantly mastered.
Not sure by what mechanism it decided to only synthesize one shield, he opened his inventory and was baffled to not see his parts there. Not bothered by it, due to having regrown his missing bits already, he remembereded that materials are absorbed while objects will merely be analyzed before storing them away because he couldnt find the stone wall fragments either. Now curious about his Demon King Fragments he activated them one by one and absorbed them. A little surprised about the fact that the ink and blood got absorbed without problem but assured himself that it must be because they got treated as materials while the water was maybe... Food, an ingredient for cooking perhaps? He ignored the contradiction and questionable logic and looked the new shields up.
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name:Demon kings Blood shield– Base defense: 30]
[Equip bonus: Hp up | Hp regeneration up]
[Equip bonus: Ability 'Blood reinforcement']
[Unlock requirements not met]
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name: demon kings horn shield –Base defense: 36]
[Equip bonus: Attack up]
[Equip bonus: Skill 'Horned revenge']
[Special effect: Ignore barrier]
[Unlock requirement not met]
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name:Demon Kings inc sac Shield– Base defense: 20]
[Equip bonus: Concealment up]
[Equip bonus: Ability 'Camouflage']
[Equip effect: 'Ink counter']
[Unlock requirements not met]
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name:Demon Kings sucktion cup Shield– Base defense: 24]
[Equip bonus: Strength up | Stamina up]
[Equip bonus: Ability 'Steep climber']
[Equip bonus: Skill 'Suction counter]
[Unlock requirements not met]
WEAPON SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
[Name:Demon Kings natural Shield– Base defense: 97]
[Equip bonus: Defense up]
[Equip bonus: ability 'carapace']
[Equip effect: withdraw]
[Unlock requirements not met]
Slightly downtrodden because none were usable at the time he was quite excited and dumbfounded at the stats and names of the "Demon Kings natural Shield" because it deviated from the previous naming system. Just elated that he had more to look forward to he finally opted to leave the room.
I roughly based Vans Status Value on the Values around the time he fought Gubamon.
Additionally there will be no SP Value because his Mana Pool comes from the sheer size of his soul and the empty space it entails and got even more enlarged by the additional empty or rather "negative" space Rodcorte's curses added.
SP cost will be either multiplied by 100-something or dismissed entirely because he has such an abnormal soul that used up or "wrung out" parts wouldnt tax him at all. (Dont think SP got explained in such detail in RotSH Cannon)
I do know that not much happened story wise but please bear with it.
Suggestions are very welcome.