Palace of Alcazarzaray
Fuse
Sitting on the living room couch, I spoke to Angeles who was standing next to me, "So, Dori and Nahida are doing good, then?"
Mechanically nodding, Angeles relayed to me, "They are. They're also having their first elections in 2 weeks."
Oh, that's good, that's good.
Well, I should open my gacha tokens, then.
6 Divine gacha tokens and 10 regular gacha tokens… This better be good.
Divine Perk rolled.
[Never Going Down - For the first 1 minute of a fight, you are immortal and cannot be killed within that minute.]
Divine Class Upgrade Skill rolled.
[Crystalized Army - Turns living beings into stone golems under your command. This effect can spread. Your golems will copy your power rank.]
Divine Skill rolled.
[Thousand Strike - When activated, your next attack will repeat itself a thousand times over against your target..]
Divine Perk rolled.
[Phase 2 - When you lose a fight, you will come back with a phase 2.]
Divine Item rolled.
[Curse Removal Wand - Once every week, you can remove a curse from anything and anyone, including yourself.]
Divine Weapon rolled.
[Blackhole Blade - A long sword whose blade is entirely black. Because the blade is a blackhole that can eat anything it touches. You can selectively choose to make things immune.]
Rare Class Upgrade Skill rolled.
[Extra Hands - You can create extra hands that hover around you so you can use more items at the same time.]
Rare weapon rolled.
[Glaive of Explosion - This glaive, once it hits something, explodes the target.]
Epic item rolled.
[Interdimensional Computer - This computer can connect to any internet anywhere. It can also connect from other worlds.]
Common perk rolled.
[Spare Coin - You will sometimes find something of minor value on the floor.]
Epic skill rolled.
[Rolling Wave - Summons a wave that fits your aesthetic that you can ride on.]
Epic item rolled.
[Relic Finder - FInds relics nearby.]
Mythic class upgrade item rolled.
[Weapon Combiner - Every 24 hours, you can combine 2 weapons with each other to add their special effects together. The rank cannot increase by more than 1 rank.]
Uncommon cursed item rolled.
[Self-Sacrificial Dagger - By harming yourself with this dagger, you can temporarily increase one rank by one.]
Uncommon perk rolled.
[Poison resistance - You get some poison resistance.]
Epic weapon rolled.
[Prosecutor's Gavel - A large gavel of a judge. Every hit against a target will strip away 1 random power from them for up to 1 minute.]
Wow, yeah, that's very good.
A way to remove my curses, a way for one of my blades to just one-hit everything it touches, a way to negate any of my opponents powers, a way to make an army, a way to not die, twice, and just some nice quality of life improvement in the computer.
I think I just doubled, maybe even tripled my power in this one haul.
Hm…
Have I finally reached that point in my journey where I basically don't have any real competition aside from the peers who reached similar points in their journeys?
Sure, my ranks can go up, but I just have a shit ton of hax that can handle the gap.
I guess this is why I'm forced to go up against the other gamers. I just outpaced all of my previous opponents in the span of 10 seconds.
Hm, speaking of previous opponents…
Maybe I should revive Colette and hand them off to Luciel and Garbanag and bump up their support group by one. The gang whose asses I all beat.
Yeah, that sounds nice. Maybe they'll teach her a thing or two about loving America.
But first, I'm just going to do a few things…
Curse Removed:
[Imbalanced Soul - Your soul is incapable of carrying others. Souls in your inventory have a chance to affect your actions against your will. The higher the number of souls in your inventory, the more likely this will happen. To get rid of this curse, you must cut all of your ties to the land of the living. All of them.]
Now that's no longer a problem! Man, that is really convenient.
Weapons Combined:
Blackhole Sword & Roosevelt.
Now Roosevelt can slice through basically anything because he's a blackhole.
With that done, I toss out Colette's body from my inventory. The corpse unceremoniously drops onto the floor.
"Ah, you have won," Angeles seemed proud of me winning yet another battle, "Are you going to revive her?"
Nodding my head, I reached out with my hand, "Yep, I decided that this is the nicest thing I could do for them."
Activating my revival spell, a burst of light erupts from my hand as the wounds on Colette's body heals and repairs her.
With a gasp of air, the French woman is alive once more.
"You…" Colette coughed, not expecting what had happened, "You revived me? Why?"
I shrugged with a disinterested hum, handing her this spare apple I had in my inventory which she reluctantly took, "I revived everyone else, so I figured I'd just do the same for you. I'll hook you up with the others soon…"
Actually, if my friends are out, I may as well do it now. I have nothing else to do except wait for them or just go to the next world.
Actually, what is my next world?
(World menu)
[You cannot freely travel between worlds until your Destiny is fulfilled. However, you are able to travel between worlds you've been to.]
[You are currently on: Luciel's Universe: Genshin Impact]
Possible Destinations:
[Eastern Wall of The Universe]
[Gamer's Hub]
[Garbanag's Universe: Terraria]
[Lily's Universe: Pokemon]
[Colette's Universe: Youjo Senki/Saga of Tanya the Evil]
[Azure Dragon's Universe: RWBY]
Huh, Azure Dragon, Azure Dragon… His name seems vaguely familiar and I do know that show which flopped and died I think…
Ah, actually, I do remember why I recognize that name now. I got a fortune cookie with his name on it a long time back.
Taking that specific fortune out, I reread it to jog my mind.
'There shall be no 'forgiveness', no 'leniency'. No amount of flowers shall be permitted to bloom in this city while the infallible Azure Dragon rules.'
Yep, that is a tyrant if I've ever heard one. I'm going to enjoy killing him.
I wonder, is he an actual dragon? I do feel kind of curious about it.
As for RWBY, I didn't watch the show. All I know about it is that there were some monsters that people had to fight. Maybe there were animal-people, he didn't exactly know or care.
As Colette finished eating the apple, she asked, "So, what's going to happen to me now? Am I your slave?"
"I don't do slaves," I immediately shut down that avenue, "They're the antithesis of the American dream. Instead, I'm just going to leave you with the other people I beat and you can go from there."
It kind of pissed me off that she immediately went to slavery, but you know what, I'm the bigger man. I'll let that slide.
Colette narrowed her eyes, still evidently not trusting me as she got up, "Really? You revive the people you defeat and let them free in your own world? Why?"
Again, I shrugged, "All I needed from all of you were those domino fragments. Sure, none of us really met each other on the right foot, leading me to killing all of you. But every American is entitled to the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"I am not an American."
"You will be once you realize our greatness," I waved her off, not taking her very seriously, "But yeah, they're a bit far away, so I'll just take you there."
Then, I turned to Angeles, "Hey, Angeles. If you see Dori, tell her that I'll probably be off to the next world before I meet her again."
Angeles tilted her head questioningly, "Why is that?"
"I've just reached that point where I don't think I can be stopped," I said, signaling Colette to come with me as I walk out the door, "So I'm just going to keep pushing until I can't be stopped anymore."
Standing outside, I called out, "Washington! Are you here by any chance?!"
Immediately, my Braviary landed right beside me.
Petting his head, I told him, "Hey, I'm giving Texas a break, so fly me for a bit, alright?"
Washington immediately positioned himself to let me get on, so I called out to Colette, "Alright, we're going to a place called Natlan! Ready?"
Colette had the funniest and most foul look on her face, and I couldn't help but laugh.
Natlan
Aether
Slicing down another abyssal monster, he heavily breathes in and out, trying to catch his breath before the next monster comes.
He's been fighting all day, but the abyss just doesn't stop.
Right now, he's helping the Children of Echoes evacuate, but with the amount of monsters pouring out from nowhere, it doesn't feel likely that many will make it out alive…
"Geeze, you guys are having a tough time, aren't you?" A new voice appeared from behind him.
No, it wasn't new, he heard it before… Back then in Sumeru…
"Fuse?" He somehow remembered, as he looked back and saw him with a large bird and another girl.
Looking at the horde of monsters coming their way, Fuse ignored him as he pointed directly at them, "Soulless beasts… Alright, should I steal the spotlight, or should I let Luciel and Garbanag have some fun?"
Recognizing those names, Aether explained to him, "Luciel and Garbanag split up, they're fighting across Natlan and trying to stop the spread of the abyss!"
Acknowledging his presence, Fuse sounded surprised as he said, "Trying? Man, Luciel dropped a whole cloud of ice on me when we first met, and Garbanag was matching me bar for bar. What happened to them? Oh well, I guess they lost some of their power to me."
Dropped a cloud of ice? Matching him?
What was Fuse even trying to say?
As the monsters got closer, Fuse turned his attention towards them, "Alright, if they're split up until this problem is dealt with, then I guess I'll just deal with this problem."
With his hand still stretched outward, Fuse nonchalantly said, "Now, I may be just a priest. But the holy light I use can also be used to burn."
Light flows out of his fingers as he sealed the deal with one final word, "Burn."
The entire world lit up as Aether had to close his eyes to prevent himself from being blinded. But with his ears, he could hear the screams of the abyss as it tried to prevent the light from killing it.
But soon, it would burn in holy retribution.
Opening his eyes, he finds that a lot of the land was now burnt with a sense of divinity. But it was far better than being tainted with the abyss.
"Are you…" Aether thought of the only word he could think of at the moment, "A god?"
"I don't believe in gods," Fuse seemed disgusted to even hear Aether consider it, "Only mortals should have the power to change their own world."
With that amount of power, Aether really didn't think that Fuse was adhering to his own words. But maybe their definition of what a god is was different.
Suddenly, the girl next to Fuse spoke up, "So, what do you want me to do? Help with cleaning up these demons?"
"Sure, go do that," Fuse said, getting back on his bird, "I'll come get you once this whole mess is done and over with."
With that, Fuse departed, not even letting the girl speak.
But she seemed really happy as she pulled out a gun, "Alright, that's fine with me. I've been looking to get rid of this stress…"
Well, at least they were helping?
Natlan
Luciel
Freezing another area in its entirety and shattering all of the abyssal creatures within, she grits her teeth as she walked towards another abyssal area.
It feels like it's been hours since this entire ordeal began, with her practically killing a small country's worth of hillichurls. But they were still nowhere close to being done with this battle.
If she had been able to continue her journey instead of being confined to Alcazarzaray by Fuse, she would have the power to single-handedly stop this invasion.
Instead, here she was, alone. Strong enough to decimate an area alone. Too weak to handle anything more than that.
At least she wasn't Garbanag. That poor dude has it the worst, since a lot of his power actually came from the domino fragment itself.
Stepping over a dead corpse, she notices a change in the air far away.
Then, a giant beam of light suddenly erupts out of nowhere, the aftermath of the divine judgment reaching even her and purifying herself a little.
Yeah, that was Fuse, no question. Seems like he had something he wanted to tell them and came in at the right time.
…That could've been her, in one timeline.
Sighing, she spoke to herself to try and convince herself, "If he's letting me do all of this in the first place, maybe that could still be me."
As Luciel tears apart more of the abyssal invaders, she admits that if it had to be anyone she lost to, Fuse was a pretty good option to lose to.
God bless America for making someone like him.
Natlan
Garbanag
If one arrow can take out, say, 5 monsters, But the abyss sends back 3 for every one killed, how many arrows will it take for the abyss to finally run out of enemies?
The answer is it doesn't matter. Garbanag literally has infinite arrows. He has no limit to his stamina. His arrows definitely kill more than 5 enemies at once, every arrow is tipped with a plague that hits only abyssal creatures.
Though Fuse beat the shit out of him before he could really pop off, he was still a god of destruction and plagues.
Flying in the air, he rhythmically killed everything within sight. But those dumb bastards kept coming. There was even a giant blackhole in the sky now.
Obviously, he tried to kill it. It didn't really do anything.
As the random beams of light suddenly started appearing closer and closer to the city, he figured that Fuse was getting closer to his location. Probably because the dumb bastard wanted to tell them something straight away.
Before Fuse could reach his location though, the pyro archon, Mavuika, suddenly began to rain down fire upon the abyss, tearing apart all of the pesky abyssal pylons that kept spawning those creatures.
So, they were starting to win again.
Knowing full well that Fuse was about to try and go to his location, Garbanag preemptively shot an arrow towards him, knowing fully well that Fuse would just block it or something.
As Fuse suddenly appeared in front of him holding, you guessed it, his fucking arrow, Garbanag groaned, "What the fuck do you want? Do you want to help us win this battle or not?"
"Ah, I was just letting you guys enjoy yourself but you're a lot weaker than I remember you being," Fuse tapped a finger on his chin as he amusedly pointed out, "Really, the boss when he's against me versus when he's on my team."
"Shut up," Garbanag irritatedly shot another arrow at the monsters below, the area finally being cleared out, "So help us win, or go away."
Fuse stared at the archon in the middle of blowing shit up, "Hm, you guys look like you have it handled here. Why don't I revive everyone I come across as an apology?"
Garbanag opens his mouth out of instinct.
Then, he closed it out of logical thought.
"That… Would be pretty nice, yeah," Garbanag said, much more politely this time.
Being nice to the guy who can revive everyone who dies is the closest you can get to actual common common sense. What kind of idiot would be rude to him suggesting to revive people?
Fuse gave him a thumbs up, "Alright, guess I'll just start now. See ya, then."
He leaves, riding the Braviary that Garbanag didn't spot before.
Then, Garbanag scowled in disapproval.
God, why couldn't it have been any other guy than him?
Natlan
Fuse
Eventually, the god of this region blew up a hole in the sky and the abyss stopped flooding into the nation. With that, Natlan securely won the battle for its survival.
Meanwhile, I just made a couple of spells that let me find revivable corpses, and I went ahead and revived all of them.
It took maybe an hour or two to do, but I had nothing but time to kill, so I went ahead and did them all a favor.
Sure, I didn't give any of the revived people an explanation. All I did was revive them, kill any monsters nearby so they can get back home safely, and leave. But hopefully the concept of "You're alive now" reached their minds safely.
Taking a break, I was casually strolling through the countryside, taking a note of where Colette was so I could bring her to the others. But suddenly, I feel someone watching me.
Someone of, say, middling power.
Turning around, I saw the guy walking towards me and told him, "Hey, I'm on break right now. You mind shelving this conversation for another time?"
The guy named Capitano by my system shook his head as he came to a stop within 2 arm lengths of me, "I feel as though you are only saying that to run away and never speak to me again.
Smiling underneath my own mask, I raised my hands in surrender, "Ah, you caught me. But seriously though, I was just about to take off. I'm only really talking to you right now because your outfit was cool enough to grab my attention for long enough for my dumb ass to start talking."
"Then I am glad that the man who made my armor and clothing had good taste," Capitano said before getting to the point, "But I would like to talk of your ability to revive people…"
"I'm not sticking around for long," I immediately shut him down, "If you want someone revived, go to Luciel and put in a request. She can't revive anyone right now, but she's getting close to it."
Capitano hummed, curiously crossing his arms and putting a hand on his chin, "Is that so? How do you know?"
I jabbed a finger at myself, "We're kind of both aliens. With the somewhat same power progression that, uh, scales highly. You know what I mean?"
"Descenders…" Capitano turns around, signaling the end of the conversation, "I see. I won't bother you anymore, then. Thank you for your service in reviving everyone that has fallen in battle, however. We will not forget your kindness."
"I hope you don't," I said, also getting ready to leave, "If Sumeru ever starts talking to you guys about democracy and America, I hope you're all very eager listeners."
"I will be sure to spread the news, then," Capitano leaves, walking away from him.
What an odd guy. Cool outfit, though.
Anyhow, yeah, I should probably introduce Colette to the rest…
"Well, aren't you guys one step ahead of me," I loudly announced to the entire bar, staring dead straight at the three amigos drinking themselves to death.
As it turns out, during my walk, Luciel and Garbanag found Colette and they filled each other in on their shenaniganry.
Colette looked at me with a displeased look on her face, drunk as shit, "How do you expect anyone to deal with you without a copious amount of alcohol?"
"That's a skill issue," I said, knowing full well that it was a weak defense.
Luciel was somehow outdrinking the actual god of destruction and plagues sitting across from her as her mugs were stacking up to the ceiling, "You… You skill issue… Hah… America fucking… Gets all the stupid strong guys."
Taking the compliment, I spread a bit of patriotic cheer around, placing my arms around the three, "Obviously! America is always on top in every category!"
"America fucking sucks," Garbanag signs his death sentence, too drunk to realize he had signed it.
I crack open the table with his head.
"Woops, my bad, hand slipped," I half-heartedly apologized, turning to the barkeep, "Here, I'll give you this, uh, fucking…"
Looking into my inventory, I find myself disappointed with what I keep in there. I have jack shit.
I took out the Guitar of Smashing. It probably was never meant to be used as an actual guitar, but fuck it, they don't know that.
"Here, take this," I handed the unamused barkeep the guitar, "Go, uh, sell it or something if you can't play it."
Garbanag somehow recovered from his alcohol poisoning from that strike, "Bloody Hell… Fuse, you brought Colette to us, great, thanks. We still haven't completed the whole archon quest yet. Are you staying or are you leaving?"
"I'm leaving," I said, not looking at him, but at my inventory trying to find the other potential gifts so I could organize them, "Did you need anything from me while I'm here?"
"No," Garbanag paused after his outburst, actually thinking about it for a moment before speaking again, "Actually, yeah, no. We literally need nothing from you."
"Alright, I guess I'll just go kill the Moon Lord, then," I said, creating a portal to Terraria.
The Terrarian was able to register it for only 1 second before reacting, "Wha- THAT'S MY KILL YOU BASTARD!"
I laughed as I fell down straight to his world.
Say, calculate this one for me.
If a monologue boosted Soul Ballista with around 25,000 souls mostly comprised of weak human souls but mixed in with some decently high tier lunar souls, additionally mixed with Thousand Strike so it hits a thousand times, hits Moon Lord, what happens?
The answer is Moon Lord dies.
In quite literally 1 shot (Though, if Thousand Strike hits it 1,000 times after, does it really count as 1 shot) Moon Lord was defeated.
Grabbing the treasure bag, I get some luminite, the last prism, that weird tentacle that summons the pet, potions, the portal gun, and the star wrath.
I combined Eisenhower with star wrath, so now Eisenhower can bomb things with stars. I keep the portal gun and last prism in the inventory for future purposes, and I'm now deciding what armor set I should go for.
Quite frankly, given my liberal use of Soul Ballista, I should probably go with the mage set. Then use the other fragments to craft the wings or whatever.
However… I really want to be able to shoot things more. So I'm going to craft the vortex armor and craft the nebula wings.
Returning back to Teyvat, I found the ancient manipulator that Garbanag dropped off at one point in time and crafted the items.
Now, my crystal assassin armor I stole from Garbanag was replaced by the Vortex set and my butterfly wings have been replaced by nebula ones.
So, big upgrades.
While I was in the mood of traveling through old worlds, I was considering giving Lily a visit in the Pokemon world, but…
…Well, honestly, I spent way too much time there.
So, instead, I just shrugged my shoulders and decided that I was going to go to Azure Dragon's world and start trying to get whatever domino I can get out of him.
Knowing what I know from that one fortune, I think I'm going to enjoy killing him.
Opening the portal, I drop right into RWBY, ready for anything.
(Self-Status)
Fuse
Status: Healthy
Stamina: Healthy
Mana: Full
Race: Human/Slime Hybrid
Title: Ambitious Regent, Devourer of Souls
Classes: Mercenary, Soul Mage, Geomancer, Dual Warrior, Beast Master
Professions: Stylist, Chef
Ranking Setting: Universal [Change]
Overall Ranking: A-
Power Rank: A- [Expand]
Magic Rank: B [Expand]
Social Rank: B [Expand]
Rank Points: 0
Perks: [Expand]
Titles: [Expand]
X
Ranks Expanded: (Universal)
Overall Ranking: A-
Power:
Strength: A
Speed: A-
Vitality: A-
Endurance: B
Magic:
Magic Power: B
Mana Reserve: B
Control: A-
Social:
Confidence: B
Charm: B
Luck: B
AN:
Just a quick check-in on the former gamers.
I'm stat padding like crazy in this by the way. Gotta get that daily word count in so I can get to 100k words this month. At my current deficit, I have to write 4.3k words a day to get to it.
I'm at 4.1k words right now, so all is good in the world. I just gotta write maybe 200 more words than normal tomorrow and we'll be good.
Anyhow, if you've noticed by now, we've reached that point where I've realized all of the worlds we'll be going to don't have any point aside from being set dressing for Fuse and his fight against the enemy player.
I have gone through all the phases of denial and left at acceptance.
This fic is likely ending in the next 10, maybe 15 chapters as Fuse goes through his last 2 worlds.
I may as well start thinking of what the next PvP gamer fic will be, whether I go to the traditional format or go balls to the wall and make a battle royale PvP gamer fic next time.
Actually, battle royale PvP gamer does sound pretty fun…
Well, I think I'm ditching the rank system the next fic and just doing straight up words. Hell, I might even just ditch half the system lmao. B-rank but now doing continent busting? Absurd.
Yep, so anyways, can't wait for all those bad fortunes to finally start popping up.
Happy New Years!
[I got to 4.3k words. Hah, I love author's notes and putting the few hundred words into my total word count. Like, I got a good 1~2k words or so out of the 100k that's just the author's notes through the chapters I wrote this month.]
[I did manage to achieve 100k words in December, by the way.]