back to ruby and her faithful serpent. . . sorry servant.

hope you enjoy.

the royal party start to wade though the waters as it seems to Ruby that this entire expedition the 5 are on are just for the benefit for the princess, The world above must be a peaceful place if the princess of a country goes into a dungeon even if she is protected by 4 bodyguards but Ruby still follows them with her companion following behind her.

the direction the 5 go off in seems that they know where polls boss room it and they are going directly to it so since they look like very very big exp bags she thinks to adopt a tactic she saw in some old war movies which she watched when she was a human, she thinks of using 'hit and run' tactics.

the tactic entails hitting when they are already occupied with another monster with attacking the weakest of the group or their weakest point of the formation with instantly retreating before they can attack back.

But on the first attack that the 5 would hit by normal dungon monsters, in this case a goblin-fish swarm, she doesn't attack but instead does something that she has wondered ever since she saw it next to her title. She focuses on the purple equal sign in her status screen.

Once she does this a list all of her titles apper in front of her.

[Tr]Titletitle effect[Tr]survivalistendurance and strength are increased by 2 points[tr]big game hunter4 points in strength and 2 in endurance with +5 fame[tr]starving hungergain 3 to all stats and -10 fame as well as access to the skill unrelenting consumption

[tr]manipulatorits easier to trick people, you will gain 5 points in intelligence but lose 2 stat points in endurance

[tr]silent stalkerit is harder for people to notice you, you will gain 4 points in agility and 3 points in intelligence.

[tr]demonic titles[tr]monster of snobberyyour stats always become 1 more than your opponent's strongest stat as well as you gain the skill 'personal judgment'[tr]demon of snobberygain 2 extra title slots as well as once equipped the title 'demon of snobbery' is un-removablewith it increasing your weakest stat to equivocate of your opponents 2nd strongest stat ( only if your stat is lower than your opponents).[tr]deacon of snobberygain 3 more title slots and when versing a opponent your lowest stat become equal to your own second highest stat or your opponents highest stat (which ever one is the higher)[tr]aposle of alphardgain the ability to hear the word of the pagan god Alphard, this also comes with the effect of when this is your title, only other Apostle's of Alphard can see this title and you gain one extra title slot but its effects are doubled.[tr] sin of envy: The Leviathanyou gain an extra title slot that has the title 'Apostle of Alphard' automatically equipped at all times as well as your exp growth rate till you become a grade: A monster will become 5 times the normal rate (

only other sin title holders can see this title).[tr]pagan magegain 10 intelligence, +100 mana limit , and the skill 'Magic control: grade D'

from the sight of this ruby is stunned at all the titles she has gained over the short time of her life,and thinks of the best way to set the whole title system up, for her first title she uses her sin title with it being the main useful one with it allowing the apostle title to be used as well which gives off the allowance to use another title with double power so for this ruby uses the deacon title to allow for 6 more titles so for this she uses the 5 non demonic titles she has to fill them up with using the pagan mage title to fill in the last remaining spot. making it in total so the titles gives ruby, 5 endurance, 9 in strength, 11 intelligence, 7 agility, with -5 fame and the access to the skill unrelenting consumption.

To ruby this was like a extra level up with having to orginaise everything madly but before she could think more on the matter the 5 she was following finished their battle, So the duo follow them silently before they were left behind.

After a while the 5 encounter a new enemy but to ruby this monster species is one of 5he first she saw, the spike eel with the encounter having 3 separate spike eels.

As the 5 are occupied with the eels ruby whispers to Riley using aquatic language

"I'm gonna do something to you all you have to is squeeze"

From hearing this Riley just nods.

In the next moment ruby picks Riley up from the ground using one of her stubs and flings Riley so Riley is sent flying towards the 5, out of sheer luck Riley lands on Alicia's shoulder making it so Riley can rapidly rap around her neck while she just notices that that something was on her neck, this make her scream at the top of her lungs before it's cut off by riley's constricting.

From hearing the scream the whole part has their attention redirected towards Riley where Ruby takes the chance to fire off a dark ball which has been embuned with darkness blade into the centre of the ground where the party is,

This proves to be effective with the dark ball hitting where it was targeted and exploding on impact so a strong shock wave is sent towards them all knocking all but quasim to the floor.

As they are down the spike eels start to attack but they are stopped by quasim before they could deal any real damage but in this whole tile Riley has been strangling alicia. But before Riley delivers the last blow he's called back by ruby. This process. Leads to alica being able to survive.

The reason ruby pulled Riley back was because a message appeared in front of her.

Congratulations your party member has gained enough exp to evolve.

this is a very productive day indeed. . . .

here's a spoiler of the evolution table.

[table]

[tr]Riley's evolution path[tr]evolution path 1: the serpentcurrent species : aqua constrictorevolution path 2: the amphibian[tr]aqua constrictor --> Gemini serpent ♊aqua constrictor -> Aqua basilisk[table]

[table]

[tr]species namespecies descriptionmonster grade[tr]Gemini serpent ♊the Gemini serpent is a monster that consists of 2 serpents that glow in the dark slightly which are connected to each other at the tail making it so as a monster is not as agile, but for this weakness the Gemini serpent has countered with the fact that this serpent has access to light and water magic up to grade 4 and immunity to dark type magic attacks.grade : D[tr]Aqua basiliskA Aqua basilisk is a sub-species monster of the basilisk species with it capable to paralyze opponents from eye to eye contact,as a sub species this monster is capable of using water magic to grade 4, as a sub-species this monster is capable of becoming a full basilisk.grade: C[table]

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