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"I'm so going to lecture Shigure for this!" were my thoughts as I dodged another claw like arm from a Headcrab zombie and proceded to kick his head with all my power, the zombie flatered being hit in his one weak point I quickly dispatched it with an air bullet at near point blank range reducing it's head to small chunks of meat, a blue box appeared in the corner of my eyesight, wich I ignored as a Husk ran at me for a grab, "Konoha senpuu!" I mentally shout aiming first for the ankle making it fall then nailing the second kick in the ribs feeling a few of them break, this of course didn't stoped it and it released a EMP wave powerfull enough to arm organics and it me with it's full force, that his until my body poped and in my place was a piece of stone with several paper bombs atached,"GUAH!?" was the uninteligent wail from the Husk before the makeshift bomb detonated,"Gotta love the Kawarini no jutsu!" I think with a grin.
Looking arround I spot Jane using her speed at close range to beat another Husk even more black and blue with The 3 B's despite the kinetic barrier protecting it, looking arround certain that I can thrust my back to Jane I spot a Headcrab this time trying to get the jump on me, with a shriek it jumps mouth wide at me only to go throught a smashed car window and I quickly set fire on the thing with a Hidama.
This add been going for a while since Jane decided to egg on every zombie wanker on the Instant dungeon, seriously I thought that this would have been harder to deal with, of course I have no delusions, coming out here a couple of years ago this would have been suicide, the Wandering Zombie his persistent with its stuborness of not staying down, while the Headcrab Zombie add bone claws for hands making close combat a bitch, surprisingly the Husk was the easyest to deal with since his kinetic barrier's could only stop bullets or other high velocity projectiles unless said projectiles are from DEW's(Direct Energy Weapons) making his EMP blast his nastier skill.
DING
Requirements achieved
Sub-Boss battle unlocked
Was the simple warning given to me, with a quick stamped of feet, the zombies flee the battlefield as a doe afraid of a predator," Well so much for not calling the boss! " said Jane with a half-grin, I only add time to shoot her a dirty glare before a high pitch screech made the both of us cover our ears while the last windshield of one of the cars breaks from the sound.
Not ten feet from were we stand an figure walks throught a portal, a honest to Gaia portal, looking arround before it's eyes meets ours, the 'thing' for a better lack of a description was one that I did not recognised immediately, floated a few feet above ground, it's skin was a grey color and dry as a straw with no muscle left, the 'thing' reminded me of a mummy without it's gaze, a hole ridden and rotted robe was all that covered it with some sort of crown on top of it's head.
The 'thing' looked at us, not sure how it saw us as it Lacked eyes and opened it's mouth,"FUS RO DAH!" it utered with a voice that was hollow of emotion as a visible shockwave barrelled at both me and Jane, without even sharing a glance the both of us pushed chackra thought our legs and jumped sideways as the attack crashed into a wall on one off the houses and knocked the wall, " Jane you OK!?" I shout not caring if the thing heard me," I'll live, but what the frak his that 'thing'!?" she shout's back, looking at the 'thing? a Observe reveals it's nature.
Dragon Priest LV: 20
HP: 2500/2500
MP: 2650/2775
STR: 15
VIT: 98
DEX: 10
INT: 49
WIS: 50
LUK:0(Your dead)
Perks: Priest(Even dead permanent Mp plus 1500, intelegent beyond death)
Description: A high ranking undead servant from the Dragon Cult in the Imperial province of Skyrim, pocess intelegence and cunning unlike most of it's undead ilk.
"Well shit, a Dragon Priest from The Elder scroll's SKYRIM, what next, the return of Alduin!?" I shout mentally but berated myself, no point in tempting fate.
"Your souls will appease the dragon God!" the undead priest said with a raspy voice," Tell your 'God' that he can lick the mud of my boot's!" I answer earning a wrathfull wail from the priest and a chuckle from Jane,"You dare insult the DRAGON GOD DIE!" the priest's furious scream his accompanied by a Fireball spell that I quickly evade by clearly jumping over 25 feet away from the epicenter, and just as I suspected the fireball blew up in a AOE attack, the priest look's in my direction as he prepares another fire spell but his cut sort as a red blur rushes behind him and delivers a vicious strike across his face with the tell tale of chackra splashing in his face.
I smile as Jane back's away from the stuned undead, capitalizing on his current state in cross my fingers in a very familiar way," Shadow clone Jutsu!" I utter creating a single clone," Jane get back, I'm gonna fry the fracker!" she look's my way and quickly moves back with a understanding look," Fire release: Great fireball, Wind release: Great breackthrough !" the Jutsus from myself and my clone combine as the wind powering the flames exponentially increasing it's destructive power.
The Dragon priest just got his bearings straight in time to see a wall of flames barreling towards him and knowing he could not evade just stood there taking the full brunt of the assault, a pop next to me signalled my clone dismissing itself as I look at the destruction wrought about by the combined jutsu," Damn, that was insane, overkill much?" a wide eyed Jane said as she joined my side," Not really, this attack was powerfull but too spread out...keep your eyes pealled this ain't over yeat" I say after a moment of silence in between us, we look at the burned area to find a still standing undead.
Dragon Priest
HP: 2137/2500
MP: 0/2775
" His MP his drained, how did that happened?" Jane asked curious at the oddity, I too was stumped in how that happened untill I remenber one particular spell in The Elder Scroll series," Fracker must have used a ward spell, it his a absolute defence against any type of attack but it drains one's MP like no tomorow worse under continous assault, oh crap!", I gasp in the end as I see the Dragon priest reveal a blue vial from his burned robes and chugging it down his rotten throat recovering 500 MP, " Jane scather !" she doesn't think twice before moving away with chackra coursing throught her legs as another fire bomb his jugged towards us, it goes straight throught a window of a nearby house blowing and burning it's guts," Switch !" I yell, she nods in understanding and points her middle and pointer finger at the undead," Lightning release: Pale white Lightning ", a white spear of lightning shots from her fingers against the priest cutting down another 200 HP, meanwhile I close in and deliver a Highkick to his chest.
Looking at me(Not sure how) with it's empty eye sockets he raises his bony arm in a attempt to block, my kick connects with his forearm with a solid 'Thud' and he backs away, his right hand starts cracling with lightning and he shoots at me getting a direct it before another puff reveals it as a shadow clone," Water release: Water bullet " comes a shout and a sphere of water impacts with his side cracking it's ribs and sending it packing against a old telephone post, the priest tries to get up but finds a black barrel against it's face, " BANG ! " the sound echoes throught the dilapidated street shaving another 500 of the Dragon priest's life.
I quickly back away from the undead bastard as he gets up, I pump the weapon in my hands and fire again only for the Dragon Priest to raise a hand casting his ward and blocking the shot, " FUS R- GAAAAAH! " he screamed as the tip of a blade pierced his chest from behind followed by another lightning strike, once again I step in close and fire at his head this time blowing it off his neck.
A ping announces that both me and Jane reached level 10, but right now that his the last thing in my mind,"I-inventory!" I call with a slight sting of my left shoulder, on the ground lies a spas-12 shotgun with a smoking pipe,"That really kicks like a bitch, not doing that again until I'm older!" I berate myself over the idiocity of shooting the damn thing, Jane aproaches from behind looking at the headless Dragon priest before it melts away while depositing it's loot in the inventory thanks to my Auto loot feature, she looks at me," Where did you got the gun? " she asks with a raised eyebrow, " One of the headcrabs droped it, they drop 12 gauge shotgun shells along with money, from the description it his a rare drop " I answer while taking a sandwiche from the inventory and munching on it," But using it with my current strenght hurts the user, " I finish eating and store the weapon.
Looking arround and seeing the zombies getting back to the clearing, I decide that is enough for today and promply dismiss the Instant Dungeon, the area arround us cracks and shatter's with the sound of broken glass as we return to the real world, or atleast it should have," What's up with all the white?" asked Jane confussion marring her face.
White indead, at first I thought we add ended in some sort of completly empty white space, but upon further inspection there was furniture in the space, but was just as white as the rest of the room, three chairs and a single table stood with(you guessed it) a white towel, "Hmm, this setup look's familiar somehow, not sure were I saw it before though," I was about to speack my mind when the sound of steps echoed throught the 'White room', Jane looks's at me with a meanfull look and then we both turn while taking a defensive stance in our respective styles only to freeze at the aproaching figure.
The first thing we noticed was the height, she(for the figure was clearly female) was 7ft tall, black silky long hair that fell down being her head like a waterfall until her heel, deep emerald eyes looked at each one of us with both wisdow beyond her years and a sliver of mirth, she was dressed in a simple blue onepiece dress while her feet where bare against the white floor, in terms of looks, sufice to say that many woman would kill to to have her figure that looked to add been created by a master sculpter, the last and possibly the most glaring detail about this unkwon woman was her description, or lack of it.
Looking at the corner of my sight I see that Jane still as her name and level floating above her head, so it his not the area where we are that his causing the description to dissapear," Who could she be, I know or atleast suspect that it was Gaia that gifted me The Gamer ability...so it stands to reason that it doesn't work on her, or her own servants!" I realize with a jolt and wide eyes, the unkwon woman probably confirming my deduction smilled," I was begining to wonder if you add refused my gift!" she said with a small grin showing her pure white teeth.
Jane gives me a confussed stare," Do you know this ba-chan(old lady)?" she asked with the subtleness of a warhammer, the woman that I'm now sure his Gaia look's at Jane with a sweet and extremelly creepy smile," Ara ara, what a rude child!" she says with a equal sweet tone that could drive a person to diabetes just from hearing it, sufice to say I was beyond creeped out while unconsciously giving a silent prayer to Jane.
In one movement too fast for any of us to see, Gaia was infront of Jane and..." AHAHAHA, what 'aha' are 'aha' you 'aha' doing ?!" tickling her everywhere.
I just stood there for a second too stunned to do anything before shaking it off and atempting a replacement technick.
Ding
A new skill as been generated throught a special act: Bloodlust
I only have time to read what the skill name before ducking away and hearing some sort of blunt object slicing throught the air, I quickly jump away as my attacker swings against me again, and again missing me, "Tch, damn brat is a slippery one !" said an annoyed voice, as I look arround I see my attacker and a scowl on her face, I feel my face burning as I notice her choice of clothing, or lack of it,"Ok, I was just attacked by a crazy chick with a honest to God Warhammer, and she his wearing a black leather bikini!?, tha frack!" she look's 16 of age and flat as a board, black unruly hair and grey eyes that are glaring at me, " You try that shit again and I'mma gonna bust the useless thing in between your legs !" the crude statemment whashes away any lust created by seeing her nearly naked, the feeling a of cold fury replacing it.
In a snap I conjure tha spas-12 and unload on the crazy chick, not expecting getting shot at she barrely dodges the buckshot still nicking her side, droping the gun I charge at her getting in close range, " I warned you shithead !" she shout's while swinging her warhammer in order to bash me of the ribs, there his the sound of cracking wood as I replace myself with a log, the chick snears at this only for her scowl to grow worse when etched on the log the words 'UGLY WHORE' are plain to see, childish I know but I'm seven and it worked, " Your meat you little shit !" she growl's out with a visible vein in her temple.
" Such strong words reveal you weakness !" I declare while channeling Aizen and warning her to my location but it his too late to dodge, " Konoha Taijutsu Ougi Sennen Gorochi ! " I shout the misleading named jutsu that instead of death promises nothing but humiliation on a legendary scale.
There his a silence as my chackra enchanced fingers connect with her rear with the force of a freight train, then a unholy scream of pain as the hammer chick his sent flying while griping her backside, in retrospective I shouldn't add used this on a girl, but what his done his done and she kinda deserved it for that castration threat.
PING,PING,PING.
Bloodlust increases by 1
Bloodlust increases by 1
Bloodlust increases by 1
At the sudden warnings I look at the sprawled form of the hammer chick as she slowly gets up with her back to me, then again slowly turns arround to stare at me, I froze for a second as her smile comes into view, Gamer's Mind activates calming me down, good thing it did, she as the smile of a pink haired psycho girlfirend that I saw in my previous life, not sure the name of the series but that his semantics right now, " KekekekekekekekekekekeKEKEKE! " she starts the mad cackling and rushes at me with her warhammer held high, I quickly dodge and counter her attack with a sweep to her legs making her fall sideways, that only slows her for a second as she drags her hammer and slams it on my head, she grins victoriously until my clone pops, she looks surprised and pissed as she gets up looking arround for me.
" Come out, come out, wherever you are you little p...", she never finished what she started as I saw from my position as the woman I believe to be Gaia suddently slaps her across the face, she stands up for a second before tilting back like a three, looking sthraight at my hidden position she calls, " Enough fooling arround, come out here young man so that I can explain a few thing to you !" looking arround I see Jane twitching on the floor and her chest working extra hour to keep her alive, I grin at that and drop the white tarp wich I was hidden behind pooping out of existence with a puff of smoke.
" What gave me away Madam ?" I ask cordialy not wanting to end up like Shigure that his just now getting up, " Your camouflage was perfect, but I can sense the very lifeforce, so hidding from me his pointless since you only losse it upon death !" she explained, while my inner geek was poked, " You like a sensor then, cool... ok i'll be blunt, your Gaia right !?", I blurt, she looks a bit surprised but gives me a small smile and a nod.
Gesturing to follow her while piking up hammer girl, she sits down one of of the white chairs, " You ok ?" I ask Shigure giving her a 'pick me up' while still taking deep but now controlled breaths, " I'll live, but what was up with the ba- I mean the Lady !" she quickly corrected as Gaia gave her a the 'sweet smile'.
Fighting down a snort of laughter at her sudden fear I explain to her who she his as we made our way to the table, sufice to say Jane was horrified, " Oh frak me, I insulted Kami ! " she murmured her face going past pale to a ashen and haunted look, " I'll forgive your transgression this time arround !" she says with a slight grin ," But next time I won't be so gentle !", she finish with a wink, I raised my eyebrow at that while Jane beside me just nodded.
After taking our seats Gaia finally started, " Well you already figured out who I am but just to make things official I'll announce it anyway, my name his Gaia, the will of Earth itself, next to me his Luna!" she presented, looking at the ko'ed girl I nod in comprehension, so the will of the Astral bodies theory his real, " Ok, so where his the rest of the gang? ", I ask as Gaia blink's while Jane as a confussed look stamped on her face, a gentle but sad smile adorns her face, " Sadly they cannot meet us at this time, Mars his still angry at what the Reapers did to her, the others either don't involve themself's with Mortals or plain hate them!" she explained with a sigth.
" With the exception of Venus! " finished the recently named Luna, she looked arround finally stoping to glare at me, there was a minute of silent staring in between the two of us with her finally looking away, " Moving forward, I called the two of you here to get some things sthraight with the two of you! " started Gaia before more interruption's sprung up, " First of Max, it his a pleasure to finally meet face to face with my current champion, and a releave as well ! "," What do you mean releave? " I ask curious at her statment, " Not everyone can became a champion of the Will's, people like that are only born or reborn in your case once in 10 human generation's, I feared that none would be born before the coming of Darkness to lead my children to victory! " she explained with her elegant voice.
A grin broke my lips as she finished, " No pressure at all, it explains why I was choosen for the job, not that I mind, advancing humanity's technological prowness will be easy, getting the rest of the galaxy to play ball will be like swiming through a quagmire in comparation " I finish with a sight as I recall the supossed rulers of Citadel space, " It gives me a headache just thinking about them! " I finish with a heavy sight.
" An effect of being in that acurssed place! " commented Gaia with a frown maring her face," That abomination in the Citadel as his own brand of indoctrination, it doesn't mind control his inhabitants, but instead implants them with a false sense of security making them complacent, but lets not spoil this first meating with such sordid matters ! " she finish with a sweep of her right hand and if brushing it aside.
At this Jane's eyebrow perk's up, " What do you mean, his this not why you called us out of the blue ? " she asks's confussed voicing my exact thought's.
" Fuck no, sister here wanted to meet face to face with her chosen one and his wife ! " blurted Luna as she crossed her legs on top of the table, Gaia gave her a whitering look while Jane's face attained the same color as her hair wich got a satisfying smirk out of her, I just looked at Luna with with mild interest, " As far as I know human's need to be atleast 14 to be married " at this a can feel the heat coming from my right as thought Jane turned into a stove causing Luna's smirk to widen.
" As my sister oh so bluntly stated I wanted to meet with the two of you, " cut in Gaia in order to finally get to the point, " And we kinda got sidetracked, no matter " with that she snaps her fingers and four tea cups with a string of steam climbing from it, " Now that his out of the way...
Back in the real world Jane and I take a mild jog after our encounter with the world's counscious, Jane being not herself by keeping quiet, " Ok what's eating you up ?!" I half demand as we take a break, she look's at me and sights " It's notting serious, at least I don't think so, well we just add a meating with none the least but Kami herself and I always thought that she would be someone above anyone else, " she starts somewhat hesitant.
" But now that you met her, you find out that despite having great power she prefers to make small talk while enjoing tea to make demands and shout awe inspiring speachs... not to mention punishment by tickling !" I say with the last part as a jab to her, she pouts trying to look intimidating but failing miserably.
Deciding to change the focus of our conversation I ask, " So what are you going to invest your perk on ? " she looks confussed for a second before her eyes widen and she pulls her status window going to the perk section.
Available Perks:
- Initiative Kenjutsu Mistress(Upgrades to Adept and Master); +15% exp gain with blade wielding skills, + 25% damage with bladed weapons
- Kaminari; +30% exp gain with Raiton technicks, + 50% Damage with Raiton skills
- Mizukami; +30% exp gain with Suiton technicks, + 50% Damage with Suiton skills
- Bloodlines: Kesshōton
My deepest apologies for the delay, life hapened coupled with writers's block and I didn't touch this story for months.
