《Heretic King》Heretic King - Chapter 22
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Well the Dungeon is cleared, time to head out. I accomplished what I came here to do. The monsters in the area aren't high enough level for grinding to be worthwhile.
Once outside the tomb I pull the two girls to the side.
"Jen, Julie. I want you to to explore with just the two of you."
"OK? How far do you want us to explore and for how long?"
I don't think she got what I was saying here.
"I want you both to travel by yourselves for a while, once you both are properly strong we will join up together again."
"M-Master am I not good enough for you...? Are you leaving me behind...? P-Please Master I'll work harder but please don't leave me behind! Don't abandon me! You're all I have! Please!"
Julie began to break down crying at my words. I was surprised as I expected them to be elated at being free to themselves. Jen seemed fine with the news.
"Julie what's gotten into you? I never said I was abandoning you, I just think for now we need to go our separate ways. Once you and Jen are really strong we will meet up again. Don't think of it as me leaving you, treat it as an order to get stronger. OK?"
"So *sniffle* you haven't grown tired of me? You won't leave me forever?"
"No! No! I just felt I was holding you two back by having you party with me. In fights you both have no presence as I handle everything. I knew If this kept up you'd have high levels but low skill levels which is bad. When we meet up again we will. Treat it like fate. Who knows we might end up meeting again in less than a month."
"OK Master I will get stronger to be worthy of standing by your side!"
'What am I air?' Jen thought to herself seeing this scene.
I waved towards the pair heading West while I headed south towards London. It wouldn't take long if there were no interruptions along the way. Maybe half a day's trip.
Walking down the highway with fen in my arms looking around for enemies, I once began to passively train my skills.
My Cartography skill naturally went up with me walking through unknown areas while in my left hand I began practicing my blood magic, to become more used to and make it easier to use, while in my left I was transmuting a piece of stone to train my Elemental Transmutation while I was also using Golden Fiery Eyes to inspect everything in my path.
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Due to multitasking I was granted a new skill.
For dividing your attention to three different tasks you have been granted the 'Parallel Thinking' skill
This skill just made it easier to divide my attention towards multiple tasks. The max amount of tasks it would support is four.
"Skills!"
SkillsSkill Points Available:0Demon King's Aura Lv 2 [91%] (P) [R2]
Demon King's Bloodline Lv 7 [70%] (P) [R2]
Discernment Lv 9 [21%] (P) [R2]
Weapon Mastery Lv 8 [66%] (P) [R3]
Berserk Lv 4 [9%] (A) [R3]
Axe Throw Lv 7 [11%]
Demented King's Madness Lv 2 [88%] (P)
Blood Magic Lv 5 [52%] (A) [R2]
Authoritative Corruption Lv 8 [66%] (P/A)
72 Transformations [Partially Sealed] Lv 7 [34%] (A)
Golden Fiery Eyes Lv 8 [44%] (A) [R3]
Aura Condensement Lv 9 [91%] (A) [R2]
Bloodlust Coating Lv 8 [64%] (A) [R2]
Sense Danger Lv 6 [77%] (P) [R2]
Heart Cleanse Meditation Lv 8 [40%] [R2]
Heretical God Eating Seed - Grade [Human]
Eidetic Memory Lv N/A
Memory Analysis Lv 3 [49%]
Two Heads, Four Arms Lv N/A
Way of the Asura Lv 1 [66%]
Elemental Transmutation Lv 2 [45%]
Creation Magic Lv 1 [0%]
All-Devouring Flames Lv 1 [40%]
Soul Devouring Lv 3 [15%]
Devilish Deal Lv 1 [0%]
Gouge Lv 1 [0%]
Devils Elimination Lv 1 [0%]
Skill Fusion Lv 1 [0%]
Cartography Lv 1 [0%]
Parallel Thinking Lv 1 [11%]Current fusable skills:Demon King's Aura + Aura Condensement + 72 Transformations = Ninjutsu
Demented King's Madness + Berserk = Royal Rage
Sense Danger + Discernment = Scan
Skill Fusion + Creation Magic = Skill Creation
I quickly exchanged the skills, and the effects were beyond my imagination.
NinjutsuA skill pertaining to the Ninja Arts, arts of concealment, of Illusions and of manipulating of the shadows.Active/PassiveLevel7 [23%] [R2]Ninja ArtsShadow Clone Technique
Conceal Aura
Stealth
Silent Steps
Shadow Pierce
Shadow Fusion
Royal RageA skill when activated makes you lose all reasoning for extra damageActive/PassiveLevel4 [91%] [R2]-40% to Wisdom and Intelligence
+250% to Strength, Agility and Dexterity
+5% to Fortification
+1% to Madness after every activation
ScanUsing your skill of discerning danger and your surroundings you have fused these two aspects to accurately scan your surroundingsTypePassive/ActiveLevel2 [2%] [R3]
Skill CreationWith enough inspiration can create and fuse Skills. Still has access to Creation Magic.Active/PassiveLevel1 [66%] [R1]
Jesus Christ! So now I can sense my surroundings with Scan, I can now conceal that shitty aura and sneak attack shithead Monsters and can now create skills without having to be granted them. I don't know of the Fusion of Berserk and Demented King's Madness was a good choice though as it was one of my most used skills and now it has a sizable demerit to it.
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Although Skill Creation sounds great for now it'll be on the back burner while for right now I feel Ninjutsu will shine.
Since I still had a free slot for Parallel Thinking I set Scan to it and continued on my merry way to London. Maybe London Bridge burned down? That would have been funny to see.
Why can things never go my way? Like I have 200 Luck should that not keep me out of shitty situations.
Here I am surrounded by around 200-300 Players who banded together for my head.
I understand the Bounty is very tempting but do these people not place any value on their lives? Especially the front liners. Although this amount of people in their mind can kill me, I'm still gonna at the very least take a lot with me. But those fervent gazes in the Vanguards eyes is really disturbing.
"Crowe! We have gathered together for your bounty! You should feel honoured! If you yield we will make your death as quick as possible! I assure you of this!"
What is this arrogant twat talking about? Who in their right mind would willingly get their their head chopped off?
"Oi Mister "I'm so Important" get off your high horse, and start sending your people or else your Father here might die of boredom and then no one gets the reward! Ha"
That seemed to irritate him.
"Fuck, this bastard. Charge! Kill the cunt before he can get ready!"
Did this guy honestly think I was unprepared? With how they are grouped up all I have to is this.
"All-Devouring Flame." And now it spread like wildfire. I then drew my staff as it was very near it's upgrade I wanted to give it the last push.
"Shadow Clone Technique"
After I activated it soon there were 8 of me. The max amount I could currently produce. All were carrying my staff and now they were all striking down enemies. In less than a minute 50 of them had fallen with many more near death due to the flames.
Mr High and Mighty was beginning to panic. Without him noticing one of my clones disappeared from the battlefield.
Now he had a dagger in his throat. I'm not a total idiot, why would I use a staff for an assassination? I could just pick up an enemy dagger.
As I looked down from this position I could see chaos, death and most importantly blood. Within the swarm of chaos I could make out Fen ripping out the throats of enemies steadily raising her skill in killing. In less than ten minutes all that was left was a field of corpses and flickering black flames.
What happened next, I would rather leave omitted but since it's important...
Those corpses were eaten by me.
Although I can't say much about the taste but I strangely thought that the words of Alexander Pearce were strangely apt.
From this experience I learned something about Soul Devouring. When it said one ability, it meant one I could learn. For example I now have the basic skills for fire, wind, earth and water magic. I also got a skill for Lightning Magic. I fused them to get the Elemental Magic skill. Besides the Elemental Magic, I got Darkness magic and surprisingly Light Magic. But that may be because Light doesn't equal Holy.
And that was basically it. It seemed the rest had nothing really suited towards myself. And the piece de la resistance was Ruyi Jingu Bang ranked up twice.
Ruyi Jingu BangThe staff once wielded by the Immortal Monkey Sun Wukong. After being sealed the staff was lost to mankind. It now once again appears in a weakened form.WeaponTypeStaffDamage512-625Require's Title Heretic.
Grants user sub-title "Immortal Monkey's Succesor"Staff will get stronger as user slays other players
Deals extra damage towards Immortals and Godly/Holy Beings
Kills to next upgrade. [263]
The damage became more than 10 times the original. I may just have to slaughter even more people if the rewards are this good.
Well time to once again set off. I'm beginning to wonder If I'll ever reach London.
StatusNameThomas CroweAge20RaceHalf-AsuraLevel43GenderMaleClassUnholy MasterSub-ClassBlood Demon KingTitlesDemon King, Naive, Heretic, Asura, Devil, God's Enemy, Savior of Athen's KingSub-TitlesImmortal Monkey's Succesor, Little Priestess' Successor, Transmutaion Master's SuccesorBlessingsShezmu, [???]Health5520/5520Mana36,580/36,580Health Regen2.76sMana Regen18.29/sStamina31,860/31,860Stamina Regen15.93/sStrength1543 (+105)Agility566 (+52)Dexterity333 (+75)Intelligence525Wisdom1889Luck330Vitality288 (+15)Fortification452 (+105)Tyranny1451 (+15)Bloodlust2511Madness1%Corruption1%Qi10(2511)Unused Stat Points5Skills [+]
SkillsSkill Points Available:0Demon King's Aura Lv 2 [91%] (P) [R2]
Demon King's Bloodline Lv 7 [70%] (P) [R2]
Scan Lv 2 [2%] [R3]
Weapon Mastery Lv 8 [66%] (P) [R3]
Royal Rage Lv 4 [91%] [R2}
Axe Throw Lv 7 [11%]Blood Magic Lv 5 [52%] (A) [R2]
Authoritative Corruption Lv 8 [66%] (P/A)
Ninjutsu Lv 7 [23%] [R2]
Golden Fiery Eyes Lv 8 [44%] (A) [R3]
Bloodlust Coating Lv 8 [64%] (A) [R2]
Heart Cleanse Meditation Lv 8 [40%] [R2]
Heretical God Eating Seed - Grade [Human]
Eidetic Memory Lv N/A
Memory Analysis Lv 3 [49%]
Two Heads, Four Arms Lv N/A
Way of the Asura Lv 1 [66%]
Elemental Transmutation Lv 2 [45%]
Skill Creation Lv 1 [66%]
All-Devouring Flames Lv 1 [40%]
Soul Devouring Lv 3 [15%]
Devilish Deal Lv 1 [0%]
Gouge Lv 1 [0%]
Devils Elimination Lv 1 [0%]
Cartography Lv 1 [0%]
Parellel Thinking Lv 1 [11%]
Elemental Magic Lv 1 [0%]
Darkness Magic Lv 1 [0%]
Light Magic Lv 1 [0%]Current fusable skills:
AffinitiesBlood42%Chaos37%Darkness30%Space7%Time12%Battle31%Fire14%Earth16%Water13%Wind13%Unholy42%
A/N So there is the first chapter of the day. Another will be released in around 4-6 hours. Leave your opinions and suggestions down below, I try to reply to all the comments I see. For anyone who wanted to know I was listening to this the entire time I was writing this. For now Ciaossu!
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