If you ever want to swear without 'swearing' just say this few words: "Sugar Honey Ice Tea"
Undertario = Bloody hell... Get a permanent name.
Shine Archetype = Someone give this guy BGM Death by Glamour. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
MSLBRAWL = Kirito, that OP piece of Sugar Honey Ice Tea.
PikaBlast = Okay let's see here... What's your family name, if you're my 'brother' then you should know the family name.
RebelWingsProduction97 = Really? You should learn how to manage your money for something else.
If you don't get those four words, good.
Chapter 4: Awakening Power
"You may need weapons, Stella." the blacksmith stated as they were in his shop, "I already got a bow." Stella stated as she pats her weapon, "What if I told you that I have a better bow, well technically two bows." the blacksmith said as he leaned on his counter, looking at her, "Hm?" Stella hummed in a questioning manner as the blacksmith reached down and pulled out two bows, one of which is a long bow and one is a shortbow, "I was supposed to say you can choose one but since you helped defend the village, I'll give you both of them." the blacksmith generously said.
Both of the weapons are made of iron, "Can I, really?" Stella asked as the blacksmith nodded, "Thank you so much!" Stella said a bit too excited as she covered her mouth in embarrassment, the blacksmith could only chuckle, "Where's your friend? I need to give him a weapon as well."
"I'll call for him." Stella said as she went out of the door and called out his name, "Chrome!" a second later Chrome appeared as a blur in front of her, "You called, p-Stella?" Chrome asked, correcting himself before he even say the full word, "The kind blacksmith wants to give you something." Stella stated as Chrome nodded, "Alright." he then went inside together with her and the blacksmith smiled, "Ah! There you are, come here." the blacksmith ushered as Chrome walked towards the counter, "Here, choose two weapons."
"I wonder..." Chrome thought, "I can't accept any, however, can I make my own weapon instead?" which in turn made the blacksmith laugh heartily, "You're a real man! Of course you can! Come, come, I'll show the ways of forging weapons." the blacksmith said patting the back of Chrome's back, really hard, fortunately, he have a high pain tolerance, "You can come as well, Stella." they then reached the basement of the place or otherwise known as the 'Forging Room' and the blacksmith didn't waste a second and just started teaching Chrome.
Once the blacksmith was finished, Chrome's head was spinning with too much knowledge, once he got his bearing he shook his head and nodded as the blacksmith laughed heartily, "Alright, create your own weapon." he ushered as Chrome gulped and went in front of the smeltery. He first created an Obsidian sword blade, and he heard something flop in his backpack and when he checked, he saw a few of magical wood, "Huh?" Chrome then got an idea and decided to use it to make the hand guard and tool rod out of it.
He then assembled the parts together and thought of what name to give it, he then gave it the name of "Hunter", "Okay, good. Now for the fun part, adding modifiers." the blacksmith stated pointing at a large chest, "In that chest, contains some items needed to add modifiers." the blacksmith then taught him once more about the modifiers this time and he surprisingly got it immediately, "Okay then." Chrome said as he continued. He applied obsidian plates until the weapon's description has Unbreaking X on it.
"I would say that was an expensive thing of you to do, but obsidian is not that rare." the blacksmith joked, "I'm just kidding without your help, this village wouldn't have stood longer, you can use those as much materials as you want, until it's maxed of course."
"Thanks." Chrome said as he maxed his weapon out with nether quartz, "Alright, it's finished." he showed it to the blacksmith as he noticed the wooden parts of the blade, "Why did you use wood?" the blacksmith asked, "It's magical wood."
"M-magical wood?! That's really rare! How did you get it?" the blacksmith exclaimed as he shrugged, "I don't know, just found it in my pack." Chrome answered as the blacksmith just nodded slowly, "Alright let me show you how to use it."
"Since you made a longsword, you should know that it makes you 'lunge' forward." the blacksmith explained once they were outside, "Lunge?" Chrome said in a questioning manner, "How about you charge your weapon."
"Charge?" Chrome asked in the same manner, "Think of lunging." blacksmith stated as he did so which made him jump forward at a surprising distance, "Whoa!" Chrome exclaimed, amazed at the display of mobility, "Quite a flexible skill, it can be used for any situation, chasing, running away, and even exploring." the blacksmith stated proudly as he had his arms crossed and nodding, "That's all I can teach you, best be on your way if you're planning to still go."
"Will the village be alright?" Stella asked as she walked and stood besides Chrome, "Yes, the iron golems is now fully repaired and ready to defend the village." the blacksmith stated, "Alright, thank you for everything." Stella bowed and grabbed Chrome's head making him bow as well, "No, thank you." the blacksmith laughed. They now set on their way to the pyramid as the entire village waves goodbye as both of them returns the wave as well, "Alright, where is it again?" Stella asked.
"We're a bit fully packed, no?" Chrome asked seeing Stella have two quivers both of which contains one kind of arrows. One contains heavy arrows, while the other one contains light arrows, "I'm alright, they don't weight anything at all." Stella stated reassuring him, "Ri~ght." Chrome said with hints of sarcasm, "Hmph! At least I'm not carrying a big sword." Stella said as she looks away from Chrome, "Said the girl carrying two bows." Chrome made a comeback. When Stella looked back at him, there were no signs of him anywhere.
"This is not funny!" Stella exclaimed as she looks around, she then looked ahead and saw Chrome far ahead, at the edge of the plains biome, "How did you get there so fast?!" Stella shouted as she run forward, once she reached him, her face was flustered, "What's wrong, Stella?" Chrome asked looking back, "H-how... did... you... got far ahead?" Stella asked a bit out of breathe, "I used this sword's lunge and my Quickstep." Chrome replied as he was looking at the direction of the pyramid.
"Let's go." Chrome said as he stepped on the first block of the desert biome, "W-wait!" Stella exclaimed stopping Chrome, "R-remember, I'm a humob skeleton." Stella stated as Chrome face palmed, "Oh yeah... you're sensitive to sunlight." he said as he went back to Stella, "Wait a second..." he trailed of as he remembered he have something, "Here, I got a cloak." he pulled out said piece of fabric and gave it to Stella, "Awe, how thoughtful of you!" Stella teased him, "Just put it on."
"Okay!" she giggled as she put it on, "Let's go then!" she exclaimed as Chrome was dumbfounded about the sudden change of personality, "I said, let's go!" she grabbed his wrist and dragged him, "What made you so excited?" Chrome asked still being dragged, "Well, it's my first time to cross the desert without having to worry about my sensitivity." Stella answered happily as they continue, "Oh, good for you. You're father might take this as 'Why did you take my precious daughter through a desert?!' he would have my head!" Chrome imitated her father as she giggled because of the spot on imitation, "Don't worry, I'll leave this out."
Once they were at the entrance of the pyramid, he stopped Stella by standing his ground, preventing her from dragging him, "Be careful, princess. This place is dangerous." Chrome stated with a serious tone that she didn't manage to scold him, "Do you by any chance have a torch?" Chrome asked as she shook her head, "Figures, Blue or yellow?" Chrome asked as Stella didn't understood the question, "Yellow?" she answered as he closed his left eye, making his right eye glow yellow, creating a stream of light in front of them.
"Follow me." Chrome said as she did so, he held his longsword in his right hand gripping it hard, he discovered that his glowing right hand made his weapon glow yellow as well, "Huh?" Chrome thought as his sword made a makeshift torch, "I guess we don't need my right eye now." Chrome stated as he made the yellow glow disappear, "You're magic is so useful." Stella commented, "I think we're there now." he said as he ushered Stella to move faster.
"Wow!" Stella exclaimed taking in the beauty of the room, as the sunlight shining down the hole from the ceiling, "When did this place have natural lighting?" Chrome asked nobody in particular, he then starts to look for a way up but couldn't and decided to use Yellow Strings. He aimed up the ceiling but when he was about to reach the next floor, he was magically bounced away causing him to fall to his back and groaning in pain, "Are you alright?!" Stella rushed towards him and kneeling down.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Chrome replied as he recovers, "This is a pyramid, so maybe there's a secret button or lever somewhere." Stella suggested as Chrome sat up then finally stood up and bending his back making a sound, "Okay let's go find it." they started the search when suddenly, a thought cross through his mind and he made his right eye glow once more, he then saw a golden stream of light leading towards a wall, he followed it and touched where the light is pointing and noticed a button, he pressed it and a hallway opened up.
"You found it already?" Stella asked looking at his direction, "Yup, let's go." Stella then followed Chrome through the hallway and at the end of the hallway; they saw a tall room with blocks placed in the air five blocks away from each one, "Um... How can I put this in words..." Chrome whispered to himself, unfortunately, with the enclosed area, "What?" Stella asked as he jumped, surprised, "Um... well... Either you stay here or follow me." Chrome stated sounding like he gave two choices, "Of course I'm following you."
"Well, I may have to carry you." Chrome said as she instantly blushed, "Alright, if that's how I can follow you, alright. How?" Stella asked her imagination running wild but mostly it landed on a certain carry, "What am I thinking?!" Stella exclaimed in her head, "Alright." Chrome crouched down, preparing a piggy-back ride, "Come on." Chrome ushered as she's now being carried by her guardian, "All right, this might get a bit dizzy." Chrome started using Quickstep as he jumped from block to block in a blur.
Stella didn't even manage to process what happened as they were already on the top, "You can climb down now." Chrome said as she did so. She looked down and kind of got frightened with the height, "Eep!" on impulse, Stella hugged Chrome, "Huh?" he blushed a bit as Stella noticed it as well, "E-excuse me!" Stella exclaimed, "The more I use my powers..." Chrome trailed of as he scratched the back of his head together with his left eye close giving the yellow glow, "The more I remember my difficulty in blushing."
"You don't blush often? Even if embarrassed?" Stella asked a bit amazed, "Yeah..." Chrome shrugged as he removed the glow from his eye and instead focused it on his blade, "Probably because I am really reserved." he then ushered Stella to go through the door way. They often see manageable jumps, however, when she jumps, he looks away, "Why are you always looking away whenever I jump?"
"How about you look down when you jump." Chrome answered as he jumped another block and just made his back face her, she did so and noticed it immediately, "Pervert!" she exclaimed, blushing profusely whilst covering her chest, "Really? Telling you about it makes me a pervert?" he asked as he sighed, "Poor o'l me."
"Come on, only one more floor." Chrome stated as he reached the end, "This is so tiring." Stella stated as she panted after reaching the end as well, "Alright, I'll go ahead." he stated as he went through the door way and only to look back, "Stella!"
"Chrome!" she exclaimed as well inspecting the sandstone door that blocked the two from each other, "Don't worry! I'll find a way to help you!" she said as she tries to look for a way to get to him, "What the hell?!" Chrome exclaimed as he slammed his empowered fist on the door, unfortunately, nothing is happening, "Whoa." he looked back and saw light shining on an altar, he walked closer and inspected it seeing an amulet made of stone and in the middle contains two dull gray gems, "What's this?"
He held out his right hand as the gem from the right started to turn yellow, "What the?!" Chrome exclaimed retracting his hand causing the gem to become dull once more, "Huh?" he then held it out once more as it happened once more, "Interesting..." Chrome retracted his right hand, turning the yellow gem to dull gray. He then held out his left hand as the left gem started glowing blue, "Amazing... I wonder if I took it." he reached out and took the amulet, as the both of the gems started glowing with their respective colors until it blinded him.
The light gave him the feeling of his skin being seared to a crisp as he gritted his teeth trying not to scream knowing it'll make Stella even more worried, "Things I do to live!" he thought as the light banished into the gems as he it magically around his neck, however, his vision went white.
"Where the hell am I?" Chrome asked to himself seeing he is in an open desert area, "Where's the pyramid?" he asked as the sands shook making himself wobble a bit until the sands started shifting upwards, "I feel like this won't be fun."
Boss Fight: Ammon the Desert Guardian
"Holy, crap." Chrome swore as he noticed the giant and towering sandstone monster, about the same height as the pyramid and weighs probably the same as the pyramid (Fifty blocks high). Chrome immediately activated his magic and instead of the usual glow, it's now fire-like as it flickers along with the desert winds, "I feel..." Chrome trailed of looking at his hands, "More powerful." he gripped his hands as it blazed with their respective colors and so did his feet.
Chrome then used Quickstep to avoid the ten block thick arms that smashed down to him. He could only gulped as he notice he was five blocks away from the arm. He then used Quickstep once more to get himself on the arm. He continued to use it in order to get higher up while also avoiding the massive hands of the giant. He then used Forcing Will only for him to get a surprised as a giant hand made out of blue energy appeared in front of him and acts like his own hand.
He then used it to hit the incoming sandstone hand as it crumbled back into sand upon impact, he grinned as he continued using Quickstep to get up until he used one last Quickstep and got in front of the giant, he then used Iron Fist only to see another giant hand appear in front of his own made out of yellow energy. The impact of the blow smashed the giant's head back to sand as the entire sandstone giant dissolved into the desert sand.
"That was easier than it looks- Crap!" he exclaimed as a giant hand made out of sand came out of the ground and grabbed him, to his horror, the hand quickly pulled him deeper into the sands, "I'm not gonna die just yet!" Chrome shouted as he used the giant right hand and smashed underneath him, the resulting blow causes him to blast up out from the sand. He's eyes surrounded with energy flickers as he focused his vision and a red oval heading straight to him.
He used Quickstep to avoid a giant hand made out of sand. The hands kept on popping out of the sand like sharks as he continue to dodge, he knew he couldn't keep this up and observed his surrounding some more until he saw red sphere bigger than the rest. He grinned as he used the giant left hand, the hand appeared above the red sphere and plucked it out of the ground. What he plucked was a giant, sand white sphere, he threw it up and suddenly sand from the ground started following it. Once enough sand attached to the sphere it suddenly made an ear tearing sound as it compresses, Chrome covered his ears in pain as it wasn't any sound that could be shrugged off.
Once the ear torture is over, he saw in front of him is the same monster except it was smaller about six blocks high to be exact. His eyes almost popped out of its sockets when the sand monster appeared right in front of him, he only had a half of a second to avoid this as he used Quickstep, fortunately for him, a strand of hair is the only victim on his head. Chrome then faced near death once more as the monster followed him as well and he was to get hit when he suddenly thought of using the giant right hand to block.
Miraculously as he thought of it, it appeared instantly and blocked the monster's attack, Chrome grinned noticing the opportunity to strike back and did so as he thought of the giant left hand and it appeared, with his left hand, he grabbed at the air whilst looking at the monster. The giant hand followed the movement and grabbed the monster; he then squeezed really hard as the monster turned to sand once more. He then felt the comforting silence, however, he wasn't comfortable.
He started looking for the sphere once more and saw it and used both of the giant hands as he held them together and was about to smash, he was interrupted by giant hands made out of sands trying to grab and bury him in the desert. He was grabbed and buried once more, he tried to blast his way out the same way but couldn't as the sand's grip were tighter and firmer, but, he was determined to survive this as he closed his eyes and mustered as much magic as he can.
When he opened his eyes, it glowed with each respective color; it was so bright that it can blind a seagull out in the sea. The sand suddenly shot upwards as a three block high and four block long wolf made out of black sand appeared, its eyes glowing blue and yellow (from left to right) and its snout forming a snarl; it had tribal markings on its body as hues of blue and yellow runs through it. It suddenly grinned and sped towards the sphere, which was still visible thanks to it being marked red in its sight.
While running, it's paws started getting sharper and sharper thanks to respective colors of magic forming it. It then smashed its paws on the sand sending magic through it, its left eye glowed brighter as it made the sands levitate up along with the orb. It saw the opportunity as it jumped high enough to reach the orb, it then slashes it with its empowered right paw smashing it to pieces. It then saw another smaller orb and bit down on it and landed perfectly, it then closed its snout tighter smashing the smaller orb with its sandstone teeth.
"Chrome!" Stella dashed in as soon as the sandstone door lifted up, "What happened to you?!" she exclaimed as she noticed he was kneeling down and had his arms support him, taking closer inspection, the glow from his hands seems to die down a bit until it was only glowing instead of flickering like fire, "Are you alright?"
"Y-yeah..." Chrome said panting but then started laughing, "You should have seen what happened." he tried to regain his breath, "W-what happened?" she asked very concerned, "Nothing... just a trial." Chrome answered finally starting to feel better, "Trial? It ended within five seconds?" Stella asked piquing her curiosity, his only reaction being eyes wide, "W-what?! To me it ended in an hour." he said confused as he sat back up, "What's that amulet?" she asked once more.
"This? I found it on that altar." Chrome explained leaving some of the information, "Let's get going, I need some rest." he stated as he stood up and headed straight towards the door, "W-wait up!" she exclaimed catching up to him.
"It has awoken. It's now your choice to use it as you see fit." he heard a voice inside his head as he looked back, "What's wrong?" Stella asked him, "N-nothing. Let's hurry." he dismissed it as they went on his way, "What does that mean?"
And... End of chapter! Now there's a lot needed to be explained about his 'new found' powers, so, let's get on with it.
Amulet of Origin = Allows him to talk to the two brothers to make a deal. The two brother's can deny the access if it's being used for unneeded situations.
Ascended Gate = Thanks to the amulet, Chrome now have the capability to tap into the Earth's power, increasing his powers dramatically and changing it in nature. This power can only activate when he makes a deal with one of the brothers. The form this power takes would depend on which of the brother he made a deal with.
Deal from Ascended Beings = Chrome is now bounded and forced to complete the end of the deal. This is, however, dangerous due to it's gambling nature.
Left Eye/Hawk Eye = Chrome can now increase his vision range, allowing for an easy and safe scouting.
Left Eye/Giant's Left Shackle = Chrome can now 'releases' and unleashes a giant left hand made out of blue energy.
Right Eye/Sign of Life = Chrome can now see any living beings through objects. Invisible or hidden enemies can be seen as well.
Right Eye/Giant's Right Shackle = Chrome now 'releases' and unleashes a giant right hand made out of yellow energy.
Left Hand and Right Hand/Giant's Wrath = Allows Chrome to control the giant hands to his choice of actions.
Left Hand/Control = His control with the giant left hand is perfect, allowing him to do anything with finesse.
Right Hand/Blasting Smite = His giant right hand sets of an explosion at will causing anything near it to fly or die instantly.
Nature's Wrath = Chrome surrounds himself with elements of nature and transform it into a fierce avatar.
Now a little update to his current magic when Ascended Gate is activated.
Lock-On System = Allows him to determine where Giant's Left Shackle to appear.
Target System = Allows him to determine where Giant's Right Shackle to appear.
Quickstep = All of the downsides have been removed and so did the condition.
Thanks to the Amulet, his power's downsides have been erased and instead been replace with certain conditions.
Forcing Will = No longer depletes the hunger bar, however, he needs to touch the target. He can only manipulate one target but he can switch to other targets he had touched before thanks to Lock-In System.
Yellow Strings = Now has infinite range, however, it needs to charge in his hands(1 block/1 second).
Quickstep = Now has infinite range while making him invisible in the process, however, it needs to charge (1 block/2 seconds)
Alright that update was too long for my liking but it was worth it just for you guys and gals to understand what I meant when I insert a magic's name in the story. Also tell me what you think about this, is it OP or balanced? Because I think it's balanced considering the cons of having to complete a deal from a god.
With all of that out of the way! I hope you all have a pleasant Day/Night! :D