Ok., so there is 30% for human and 70% for a monster like one… but what is bad? There are only 3 options for now! A half vampire (with djinn), a demon-ogrish-oni-something and kitsune… really? No, no - those are good but… really? There are so many of weird shit you could suggest… so many mythologist… none from America to throw here some native myths? (by native I mean those before Columbus… Wendigo and shit? I am not too good in those myth), no one from Nordic Nations? I wanted some diversity… kay’ I will not force any ideas into you. In the end I want you to participate in this story creation… but please… spam some ideas… or environment… the semi-flying one? The one that can live under a water? MORE CREATIVITY! Or chimeras. Chimera-kind is good too

Oh, and I allowed myself to not take a mecha-pedo-bear-kun as a possibility… don’t get me wrong, pedobear kun is ok, but I am not that hard into loli concept (yes I know loli is justice…but maybe not… at least not now…)

I will wait few days more for more ppl to vote in pole… in the end we can easily say that it’s 3:7 ratio… but it’s also about 20 votes difference – so not that hard to turn a table. But if monsters would win, I want to have a bit bigger pool of monster…so please get to the work :3

Before chapter note: I will skill him up a bit till the time you will change (or maybe not) his race. We don’t want to have a demon basing on strength race that will spam only int/wis/spir. So his leveling up will be a bit postponed. And I will threw some quests. Enjoy

To the chapter:

So, let’s sum it up. Ruby is strong in magic, but has no affinities, she was being taught magic by Hanna, as her mother died, BUT as she was still living she has her magic sealed… what the… how she could has magic sealed if she was taught after her mother has died?! Something is fishy here.. I think I should talk with Hanna first… but Ruby is looking at me with those eyes that demand an answer… What the hell should I do?!

- Ruby… I think I have to talk with Hanna… in private… right now…

- Sure thing, as only as you tell me how do you know the name of my mom!

CRAP! I have to tell something! But it’s probably better to not say stuff like: “I have just obtained power that allows me look into ones souls, determinate it’s powers and states, and I have just found that your mother put a curse on you, that stopped your magic, before you actually learned one…” Not a good idea… damn! Think! You have spammed that intelligence for a reason!

- Something is waking inside of me Ruby… I know stuff I have never learned before… I really have to talk with Hanna! – okay… it was not a complete lie… but now she may think about me as some weirdo… or threat… or weird threat.

- I… I will call Hanna – a good girl… but Hanna will be in village now, so it will take her some time to find her and bring her back

So I decide to practice a little:

[You have failed while attempt of creating [Small Hex Bag]]…crap

[You have failed while attempt of creating [Small Hex Bag]]… oh you little!

[You have failed while attempt of creating [Small Hex Bag]]… you are kidding me…

[Luck event triggered]

[You have succeed while creating [Small Agility Hex Bag]]

[You gained 5 exp – 5 exp boost]

[Small Agility Hex Bag

Hex Bag created by Zariel – an inexperienced witch.

Dexterity of the one possessing it is risen by 4

Reflex of the one possessing it is risen by 3]

It is… incredible good one… or maybe a luck was bad one? Or maybe because luck is a hided trait that you have usually no access to it…

[You skill [Hex Bag Creation] has leveled up. [Hex Bag Creation] is now level 2

The chances of success while creating Hex Bags will rise

The bonus attributes added to hex bags will be higher]

Sweet! Now let’s try a little…

- @*&#^*#^[email protected]#%

What was that? Some kind of whispers? From where!? I raised from a bed and walked outside the room where injured villagers were treated… I was taking a step by step… into Hanna personal laboratory. She has never told us to stay away from it, but we were not walking in there just because we were honoring her privacy… but this whisper is so alluring…

There were many books, chests, herbs, books, some kind of weird instruments, books, runes, books… and books. I heard it again… more clearly than before… I could almost understood words… DAMN! WHERE ARE YOU

- Here… come closer… I am here… just few more steps… Can it be you can hear me, boy? Turn right… yes, yes! closer! Beneath a table…

-

I pull… another book. But this one was strange, completely black, covered in leather… and bonded! It was covered in chains, belts, runes and many more…

- Feed me boy… just a drop of your blood… what do you desire? If you pay, I can give it to you… the price is simple – the currency with the true value! A ducat of soul… your blood. Just please… release me from these chains… sign a pact… BECOME MY MASTER!

- What are you doing here, boy? – it was Hanna.. but I almost didn’t pay her attention… this voice was so tempting… the voice of young girl… the one who calls her lover, oh I did answer her, but it was like I barely considered my actions… like I am doing nothing wrong

- This book is calling me… I am just wondering how I should open it… - the book was ripped away from my hands, I groaned in irritated manner, as if someone would deprive me of my life supporting resources… - what are you doing!? – I hissed… THE HELL!? I hissed like some enraged snake! For a moment I considered jumping on Hanna and taking it back!

- Hanna… what was that? – I was really confused… I didn’t intended to walk into her private room at all… normally I would turn back…

- What are you boy? – Not this question again!!! – you have a name of the ancients, you were putted into one of the most dangerous rituals in order of making a super mage, you can grasp pretty well every aspect of being a witch… everyone has some talents and skills that they would never learn no matter how much would they study… but you do progress like some kind of prodigy… you have said aloud a name of Ruby mother, that you have never met nor heard about her, and now… you are saying me that Grimorie of the Fallen was calling you? It was given to me because the council of mages were thinking, that no dark mage interested in it nor compatible with it would seek it here – in the middle of nowhere… I will ask it one more time boy – who are you? – Ruby was staying behind her, shit things are not getting better – and now better answer without hiding anything, no more half-truth, or else you can get out of this village.

FUCK. Better and better. I am still not prepared to leave this place! I am to weak! I don’t know the entire map, races, kingdoms and their politics! I can’t afford to be kicked away now! I also want to repay for everything they gave me… I have no other way…

- It’s not like I wanted to lie to you… it’s true, that I have awoken in the forest almost 3 weeks ago… but before it I… you will not believe me…. I have met a … - the pain hit my throat. I couldn’t make a sound… something was burning on my neck… CRAP!

[The [Seal of Silence] was temporarily putted on the user.

User is prohibited to mention his connections with gods, deities, reveling any information about circles and the fact that he is not natural inhabitant of this world in any way.

Seal will vanish in: 0h:0m:59s]

I looked at the mirror that was hanging on the wall of the room. On my neck some kind of sigil was glowing… okay it’s all funny that you have silenced me, but why do it have to hurt like a bitch!?

Ruby and Hanna looked at each other. Seem they know this kind of spell. As the spell vanished I looked up to the roof in directions of sky…. And probably heavens… and said quietly:

- Nice gift you gave me as goodbye, assholes…

- Zari… I know this kind of spell… it’s rare, but it has some blind spots… we can ask you a question… and you will nod or shake if you can answer it and do nothing if you can’t…

Are you here by your own will?

How the fuck am I supposed to answer it? I have raised my shoulders with “I have no idea” manner

- Are you here to do some harm?

Shake

- Are you some kind of spy

Shake

- Did you know about this book?

Shake

- Where you sent here by someone?

Nod

- A king?

Shake

- A mage?

Oh crap… you want to mention every possible occupation from king to librarians? I start shaking like a mad man.

- Not a human?

Nod

- An Elf? -… here we come again? I will break my neck if you keep asking these questions.

- A senile creature? – FOR FUCK SAKE!? CAN YOU EVEN CALL A GOD LIKE BEING A SENILE!?

A nod with “ I am not sure”

- A dragons? … no .. I don’t want to play like that…

- A gods?... – finally. I looked her deeply in eyes and didn’t move.

Now she was pale.

- Which one? – I hope I have some time… as I could saw it already the sigil in turning itself on after few words… maybe I will do the same this time too? Let’s try…

- Everyone! – I yelled before falling on the floor while grasping for air. They helped me to raise. Now the time was longer… needed to wait 2 minutes… 2 minutes of agony! Those assholes… they exactly knew that the pain of fighting for breath is the one I hate the most!... at the other hand… who would be stupid enough to say he is some kind of freak from the other world? I will never tell this again… to no one… ever… but those two… I owe it to them.

- Never mention it to anyone… never ask me again… please… - I was exhausted I wanted to rest for now… but one more thing… - Ruby… could you leave us for now? I have something to ask Hanna… but I would like to be alone with her.

Ruby only nodded and walked outside from the hut. Hanna was looking nervously at me.

- Answering your question… I have no idea what I am… as I get some power inside of me… I could just “pick” who I want to be… one of possibilities was a mage… and it happened. But there is something I have to ask you… why does Ruby’s mother put a seal on her?

- How do you know?

- Can’t answer – actually I can… just don’t want to. – I just know. And I can see that she bonded her magical affinities. You mind telling me how it is possible for someone to have affinities years before she started studding magic? And how we can get rid of it?

Hanna wasn’t looking pleased. Like I yet again bring some awful memories.

- Ruby’s mother was my friend. She was a witch too, pretty powerful one. And Ruby could use magic since a kid, she was one of those who were born with magic. But as a child she has no control over it, such a words like: control, balance, good or evil, were beyond her level of understanding. If some cat would scratch her, she would drown it. Same if someone looked with hateful gaze at her or her mother. Oh, there are few kids with power since birth… but not so powerful, unstable or violent. So her mother sealed them… and erased her memories.

Okay. It was… cliché? No honestly… if you can imagine a story of someone’s mother who put at hers child a seal… that a reason is almost obvious… “to protect the one I love…” and it’s… boring… honestly… I was almost looking to get some kind of…[Ding]… quest

[You have been given a quest]

[Your friend – Ruby – is under a curse that seals her powers. As she is mature now and is able to control herself there is no longer a need for her to have her powers reduced.

Create a potion that will release her from her weakening state.

You will require:

Medium potion creation and following herbs:]

Aaand there was a list… a big one. There was also a possibility of hiring a priest, but there was an info, that my reward will be way smaller.

A medium potion creation… I have a basic… how long will I have to grind it till it evolve? 10 levels? 100?! Something between?

And ingredients - some looks like they are pretty rare… but those are my least worry for now. I know how I will collect those.

- Hanna, would you mind if I would break it?

- Such spells are almost… no, if I can say something about you, it would be that there are no impossible things for you to do… you can try. But do you know what are you even trying to undo?

- Sure I know. I do even know ingredients required for it.

Oh, if you could see Hanna’s face… something like “he must be kidding” then it change to “but it is impossible” and finally to “whatever”.

- I have but one thing to ask you. Give me every book about alchemy. And as many ingredients as possible. I will start mass producing basic potions, that you could sell… 50% for me? just kidding… 25%? Ok. Deal.

-

I wanted to take my leave from a room but I stopped in the doors. I turned back once again and looked at black book, that this whole time kept whispering… something is wrong… it couldn’t be there without a purpose. Not in all that godlike shit happening all around.

- Walter! Sebastian! – two ravens flew to me. – I have a job for you. – Sebastian was looking as calm as ever, but Walter was all fired up. Haha, If I would tell them to go, Walter would fly away immediately and maybe, MAYBE after 10 or so minutes he would flew back to “ask” what is he supposed to do.

I have opened a book about basic alchemy, and show them drawings of some plants. They flew away. This way I have secured my herbs supply… just if Hanna didn’t want to give me few of her more precious one… oh it already happened. As I asked her about Silver Blade Grass, and she just shocked her head and told that she will need it to some very specific potion… bad luck. Can’t have everything you want. Now…

[You have successfully created [Low Health Regeneration Potion]]

[You have gained 3 exp – 3 exp boost]

[You have successfully created [Low Stamina Regeneration Potion]]

[You have gained 3 exp – 3 exp boost]

[You have successfully created [Low Mana Regeneration Potion]]

[You have gained 3 exp – 3 exp boost]

[Your skill [Basic Potion Creation] has leveled up. [Basic Potion Creation] is now level 2

Your potion will be more potent now

Chances of creating stronger potion will rise

Ingredient consumption while creating potion will decrease

Success ratio of creating potion will rise – it still depends mostly on type of potion and how many times user has already created this kind of potion]

2 is done… at least 8 more to go. This will be a busy week.