A Visitor, But Not a Stranger (Rayne’s POV)

I heard a knock come from the door. I furrowed my brow in thought, wondering who in their right mind would come to this old shack? I absorbed all the mana around me, not caring too much about how inefficient it was. I stood up, stretching my muscles as I started spreading my mana towards the knock. [Mana Eye], a subskill of [Mana Wave] was a better form of it, but it couldn’t see a large portion of the area that [Mana Wave] did. It was enough for this instance, however.

Two hooded figures, the smaller one shaking like they were cold. I assumed that would be the case, so I made my way towards the door, making some mana threads with one of my branch skills from [Mana Construction]. Weaving them into a large portion of cloth, I wrapped it around me like a cloak, covering my shoulders and head. It wouldn’t last the full hour because I rushed it, but it would last long enough for my purposes.

I swung from the pullup bar I had hung above the door here, as this was the only place stable enough to hold it. Letting go of it launched me out the door, surprising the two. My cloak fell off my head, revealing my features. Upon seeing me, the figure on the left began shaking even more violently, seeming like she was in the middle of an earthquake. The taller one looked to the shorter one.

“Is this him?” She asked, her voice flowing like a small stream. Very calming. I like it.

I switched my focus to the shorter one, who had stopped shaking and was looking at me with two different colored eyes. Hmm? Where have I seen those eyes before?

She leaped at me, arms outstretched to grab me. It was so sudden, I couldn’t react to it in time, and was tackled to the floor. I pushed out some mana to protect my body from the impact, something I practiced yesterday. On the ground, those eyes bored into me like I was withholding something from her.

I did nothing, not sure what to do. I turned away from her eyes, unwilling to activate the skill again without knowing who the other figure was. I turned my eyes to her, staying only a second before flicking them somewhere else. I heard the rustling of cloth and a small chuckle. It was the same voice from the question earlier.

“Seems like it. Only you can make my daughter act like a wild animal…” The fox woman sighed, putting a hand to her forehead in exasperation. Her brown hair contrasted with her white fox ears quite well. Her eyes were both purple. For a few seconds I thought of the chances of the genetic defects that would cause her daughter to have a green eye, but gave up quickly when I realized that my mother had ice blue eyes, and both of mine were golden.

How confusing.

A few minutes passed, but the scene changed dramatically. I was sucked into another world. Specifically, the world of the girl’s bicolored eyes. Most would believe that green and purple don’t go together, but this world would prove them wrong. It wasn’t a meadow, or a cave, but a mountaintop. The snow blanketed the mountain, showing a reflection through each of its crystals of a purple sky. The sun shone down with a light green light, bright, but not to the point in which it would hurt your eyes to stare at it. The green sun seemed to be on fire, which would have made sense normally, but this was a bit odd. Instead of being a spherical ball of fire in the sky, this seemed to have a spherical core and the flames around it rose to the heavens. Contrasting the dark purple sky, seeming to have endless depth.

Looking at it objectively, there was a green fireball in the deepest abyss of purple night. The colors shifted, switching between each of them. Sometimes when I blinked, the sky would be green and the fireball would be purple. The purple fireball seemed to have its flames inverted, casting down as if scorching the earth.

As I watched on, entranced by the dance of colors in the sky, I realized that it had been far too long. I looked around for something out of place, a color that shouldn’t be there. It took me a minute, but I found a small golden patch of grass.

At the bottom of the entire mountain. Sighing with exasperation, I began to run. My stats stayed the same, so I should have some stamina and all my agility from before. I also have my health bar, so that should work just fine if I perhaps trip and roll the rest of the way down the mountain.

Ten minutes later, I ended up at the golden patch. The mountain was not all that tall, if you rolled down it like an idiot. It took me most of the time to just recover from all the nausea and dizziness. I need to do that again eventually.

The golden patch wasn’t really any different, besides the color. Short grass went up to my ankles, tickling slightly as I walked. The patch was quite large, expanding probably a few hundred feet in every direction. I waited for something to happen, but nothing did. I had no instincts to go anywhere, so I just began crafting there. I had access to four colors of mana. Purple, light green, gold, and silver. I felt like I had to use them all, so I made two different things, each with their own two colors of mana. Earrings were what I decided to go with this time, not really worrying if she had pierced ears or not. I could pierce her ears by myself if need be.

I forged the tiny pieces with the utmost of concentration, but not rivaling that of which I had in the icy cave. The small pieces to make sure that they didn’t fall out were the most difficult pieces, but I managed somehow. The rest of the time I attempted to think of a name. I failed so many times it wasn’t funny. But when the window popped up, I managed to type in a name within a minute.

(Left) Living Silver (Right) Golden Abyss

Owner: Rose Liana

Creator: Rayne

Description: A pair of earrings made specifically for the first person the creator saved.

Effects: (Left) Vit +5, Str +12, Agl +7 (Right) Int +7, Wis +5 Per +15

I was quite amazed at the amount of effects that the earrings gave. It upgraded both sides of the stats. 50 extra health is actually quite a lot.

I didn’t have much more time to think about it, as I was then transported back into the real world. Underneath a moaning girl.

Is it possible for me to seal away my eyes? I don’t want this erotic power.

I gave her the earrings, ignoring her ecstatic remarks as much as possible. I really think there should be a skill that comes with that type of meditation. I need to put it into practice more. Maybe it’ll level up my [Advanced Meditation] skill. That would be good. That skill takes so long to level up. It doesn’t help that I suck at meditating.

I guess I’ll just have to try and use it to the point where it gives me a skill.

A Summary (Another Power’s POV) [5/3960 days until Eve]

After that, Rayne went on to do that as another daily thing. He tried it with his mother, Rose, Elliot, and even eventually Freil. For some reason he didn’t really feel that awkward doing it to any of them, including the mother and daughter pair, probably due to influence from his vampiric side. Honestly, he wasn’t sure whether he should thank it for keeping him from dying of embarrassment, or punch it in the face for deciding his sexual interests. This train of thought was mostly followed by sighs.

Back to the main topic, he leveled up [Bewitching Gaze] very quickly, leaving each of them panting from their libido afterwards each time. Needless to say, all of them soon found themselves looking forward to that time during the day. His daily routine went (Mostly) as such:

4:00 am --- Wake up, begin morning exercises. Morning exercises: 50 sit ups, 50 push ups, 50 pull ups, 75 laps around the shack (About a mile or so).

~7:30 am --- Finish morning exercises, recover by abusing OP boulder. Begin meditation.

8:00 am --- Gain one mana point by using [Overcharged], attempt to stop the explosion that is caused by it.

8:30 am --- Fluffy time with little fox, still unnamed.

8:45 am --- Begin training with the ‘Eye Meditation’. Early morning erotica.

10:00 am --- More exercises. 2x morning exercises.

~5:00 pm --- Recover, relax. Maybe read a bit.

7:00 pm --- One more mana point.

7:45 pm --- Miscellaneous training to level up skills.

9:00 pm --- Attempt to find more branch/subskills for any skill while playing with fox.

~9:25 pm --- Sleep. (With the fox)

Repeat.

Doing this for so long leveled him up leaps and bounds. But he didn’t get much experience. A total of 300 Exp was gained throughout the entire time. That was when his [Mana Wave] fully evolved into [Mana Eye], and when his [Bewitching Gaze] reached level 10, evolving into [Enticing Gaze].

355 days have passed, for a total of 360 since Rayne’s birth. 1 month. While I regret not having taken notes, I shall attempt to recall the main things that happened this past month. The first 6 days I shall skip since you already know of those adventures.

Day 7 is where this story starts. Rayne had settled down in the small shack, it becoming a daily occurrence to travel there and meditate by the mana recovery boulder, reveling in its slightly over powered effects.

He worked on his body tirelessly. Or maybe he didn’t. He spent about ten and a half hours a day working his body to its limits, with recovering as best he could near the OP boulder in between the two sessions.

ALL TIME STATUS UPDATE (Whoops, forgot Caps lock was on...)

PER +85

WIS +74

INT +93

FTH -47

LCK +5

WPR +-0

END +448

STR +541

DEX +634

AGL +631

VIT +41

LDS -4

Name: Rayne

Level: 3

Experience needed: 2/600 (99.67%)

HP [3240/3240]

MP [847/800] (0.47)

SP [1360/1360]

Race: Vampire

HP [0.1/sec]

MP [0.356/sec]

SP [7.2/sec]

Blood [100%]

Strength

569

Endurance

492

Luck

15

Perception

137

Dexterity

652

Agility

649

Intelligence

123

Wisdom

108

Leadership

4

Vitality

54

Faith

-64

Willpower

86

Skills:

Blood Drain (Max)

Gain stats based off of amount and quality of blood drained.

Persuasion (8/10)

40% chance to persuade people to your side. Lessens if they know about the situation.

Mana Sense (19/100)

Sense mana. Max range: 10 miles. Blood range: 100 miles.

Advanced Meditation (46/100)

Recover mana 1000% quicker, regain stamina 8000% quicker. Regen health.

Enticing Gaze (1/10)

Stare into people’s eyes and activate their libido and filling them with strength. Every Vampire needs a harem.

Mana Eye (20/50)

Sense anything within your mana as it spreads outwards.

Goes through walls. A chance to inspect through hiding.

Mana Condensation (3/5)

Condense mana from the air. Maximum density: 2x

Mana Construction (76/~)

Shape your mana into anything.

This skill can evolve.

Effects:

Sunlight Weakness

5% less Strength in sunlight.

Disease Immunity

Immunity to any disease debuffs.

Blood Drinker

Grants Max level skill [Blood Drain]

Mana Body

All Spells deal 20% more damage.

Vampiric Body

Sets Hp/sec to 1, if over 1, 120% increase.

Overcharge (Max)

Overcharge your mana capacity, increasing it permanently by 1 every 100 extra.

Boulder

2x Hp and Sp regen.

4x Mana regen

Wanderer

Increase Stamina by 50 points

Repaired Body

Multiply Hp based on the number of times you have fully broken your body and healed.

Current: 6x

Titles

Wanderer ★

Erotica Defined

By working his body to the point where he literally began draining health and then some, healing gained him the effect: Repaired Body. This multiplied his total health based on the number of times he healed his fully broken body. Just saying, it is not a 1:1 ratio. Try 15:1. Rayne knows his limits now, having broken his body over 90 times.

He had to fill his blood bar 4 times a day, but not by more than a few percent each time. He didn’t want to fall below 95% at any time. Elliot and Avalina divided the times so they weren’t too weak at any point in time. Rose and Freil were the ones taking the bloodsucking every other day, just so that they could feel it as well. After all, for some reason sucking their blood would spike their libido, making it about as pleasurable as a few other activities I can think of. Putting it in the words of little erotic vampire here, they were delicious.

Over the month, all of them now produce more blood than an average human would. Without Rayne to help drain them down, they would overflow with their own blood. Or they might not. We don’t exactly have the consent required to experiment. I don’t think they would last that long without the feeling of Rayne doing his vampire-y things to their bodies. They can replace a pint of blood in four days, compared to the 2 weeks it takes otherwise. A pint of blood is about 10% of Rayne’s blood bar for Avalina, about 13% for Elliot, about 14% for Rose, and the best one was Freil, who managed a huge 24% per pint.

Along with all of the skill levels, [Mana Construction] gained some subskills, as did [Advanced Meditation]. Let me attempt to recreate the windows.

Mana Construction (76/~)

A skill with many, many uses. Shape your mana into anything. Upon breaking, the mana that made up the shape will last on the object for up to a day before evaporating into the atmosphere.

This skill has no definite maximum level.

This skill can evolve and branch off.

Evolutions found so far:

Mana Armor

Mana Weaving (Max)

Mana Constriction

Mana Forging (Max)

Mana Armory

Mana Bolas

Mana Enhancer

Mana Weights (Max)

Mana Familiar

Mana Weapon Mastery

Living Mana

Mana Jewelry

Mana Construct

Molecular Mana

Let me explain the ones that are new.

Mana Weights are as they sound, making heavy weights out of mana. These require no focus to keep, and if you want to increase or decrease the weight you just have to do the math and take away that much mana. It also allows increasing the density of solid mana, practically allowing smaller weights that weigh much, much more. Rayne uses these every other day during his morning training, putting an extra 5 pounds on each limb. This takes a total of 12 mana, 3 for each limb.

Mana Familiar was a branch skill gained when he brought the fox back from Avalina’s eyes. While he made the necklace, {Zinnia of Unbroken Bonds}, he was also unconsciously filling the fox with mana, perfectly replicating it with mana in the real world. The next skill also came from this.

Living Mana, the skill that gave the small fox life. The mana that had soaked into the fox had intentions, unbeknownst to Rayne, to bring it back with him when he left. So it began to ask questions. The fox couldn’t understand, so the mana soaked into the fox's soul itself, absorbing all the knowledge and absorbing it. It gave it to the fox in the real world, after Molecular Mana recreated its body. It only seems to work with willing souls, and it needs a mana body. Two very difficult requirements.

Mana Weapon Mastery was a skill that had been created after Rayne was training with a mana sword, mainly just to work his muscles. Eventually he started chopping wood, just to give himself something to hit, and the skill just progressed from there. All it really does is help him whenever he’s trying to do anything with a mana weapon.

Mana Jewelry is quite obvious, but not as much as you would think. This skill was acquired after Rayne had created his tenth piece of jewelry. But it really mainly helps with forging, a sub skill of a sub skill. Smaller details are simpler to add, making it helpful for both making jewelry and for making sure that a blade is sharp.

Mana Construct is something that is a bit more complicated. Coming from the name of the general skill, this skill literally creates anything out of mana. The denser the material, the harder it is to create. But the scientific approach behind it is that it forcefully creates bonds between atoms and molecules, building something out of the materials that are in the air. There is no skill called Mana Deconstruct, Rayne tried that already. But he can make things much faster when he uses existing materials. It’s pretty much mana glue, on a molecular scale.

Molecular Mana is just as it sounds. It was technically used before Mana Construct, but it was used unconsciously so the skill wasn’t made. What this skill does is it races through something, memorizing the molecules and atomic structure of an object, storing the information. When used with Mana Construct, it can perfectly replicate any object, including enchanted ones. Rayne found this skill when he was attempting to inspect something, and decided to fill it completely with mana, just to see what would happen. The amount of information almost overloaded his brain, giving him a two-day migraine.

Now let’s look at the other skill.

Advanced Meditation (46/100)

As it sounds, this skill allows for advanced meditation, increasing regeneration speeds by large multiples. With increases in level, come increases in multiples.

Stamina Multiple: 800x

Mana Multiple: 100x

Health Multiple: 40x

In order for the multiples to work, you must have 100% concentration. Branch skills may be created to help you achieve this in… difficult situations. Or they may even boost it over 100%, allowing you to take the most out of anything.

Evolutions found so far:

Walking Meditation

Hypnosis Meditation

Cryo Meditation

Bewitching Meditation

Let me explain:

Walking Meditation is a skill Rayne gained while he was walking with his mana weights on all the way to the city. He needed near 100% concentration to keep the weights from bursting out of his control at the time, so he had to fall into a meditative state while he was walking. This skill makes your steps smoother when in a meditative state, allowing you to stay in there longer.

Hypnosis Meditation is something not even Rayne knows how he got, but he was staring off into space before going to sleep once, and fell into a meditative state. That’s pretty much it. It allows a bonus to the 100%, making all the multiples go up by a few times.

Cryo Meditation is a meditative state in which you are unable to move, but gain a small boost to the multiples. Like, an extra 10% to the multiples.

Bewitching Meditation is the greatest one so far, gained through leveling his [Bewitching Gaze] to level 10. It puts him into the same type of worlds he was going to, decided by eye color, where he can meditate at 1000%. It also makes the original skill, [Bewitching Gaze], 10 times as potent. This was a lot of fun to watch when he got it in the middle of Elliot’s turn. He didn’t realize until after it had ended, but by then it was too late to help her.

I suppose it is time to explain what’s happening in the world right now, isn’t it? Well, now that Rayne is one month old, by his request, he is going to school. His fox will be going with him, to learn all the words and everything like that. He still needs to learn her name. I suppose he was a bit too excited to see Eve again that he forgot about it.

Obviously, the little fox didn’t like how little attention she had received this past month. Just some pets or play sessions that never lasted more than 30 minutes.

He was always too busy training. He could at least have asked her if she wanted to run with him. It’s not like he would be going very far from the house. In fact, he’d never be more than 100 feet from an entrance point, if you take into consideration all the holes in every wall. And those were only the human sized ones. Tiny fox-sized ones were pretty much every two feet.

Alright, I would pass the POV onto Rayne, but it seems we don’t have enough time to get into anything good, so I’ll just pass it onto Eve, and let her do some explaining about what might or might not happen next!

A new title? Whatever could you be talking about? Now, Rayne, you don’t want to do something you would regret… Hey! That hurts! Ouch! Stop! No! Mhmmmhmhhmhhhhh!

To Eve:

A Very, Very Lost Child (Eve’s POV)

I awoke with a scream. Or a cry, whatever you want to call it. I remembered dying, then I woke up. Something I realized very quickly, that sent me even further into becoming a crybaby, was that I could see.

“Oh, what beautiful golden eyes! Aren’t you just adorable…” I could hear a voice, cooing over me from above. I looked over through my tears, glad that I could see, but gladder that I thought I knew who the voice belonged to. My mother.

I never had a mother. She died during childbirth. My father got up and left as soon as she died. From the stories Rayne had told me, he never wanted children. He was only with my mother because he wanted to use her like a prostitute, except he wanted it for free.

Seeing my brown eyed mother looking down at my form with such gentle eyes was it for me. Tears flowed out of me like water, not stopping for an hour or two.

I finally had a family. But something was missing from my heart. My brother, Rayne was dead. He was the only one who stayed with me, no matter what. He protected me from the people in slums. He died for me. I died for him. We belonged together.

So why wasn’t he here, by my side?

A few days have passed since then, and I spent most of it reading. I didn’t bond much with my family, as whenever I looked at them my heart began to hurt that Rayne wasn’t there. Books calmed me.

I could read with my new eyes, but they never had any happiness in them. Golden eyes filled to the brim with emotions. Rage, distrust, the feeling of being betrayed, heartache, sorrow, and so much more. On an emotional rollercoaster, my car had broken down at the end of the drop.

I wanted him by my side. It’s all I’ve ever wanted from my life. A few weeks, in this world, have passed. I’ve read every book in the city. Now I have nothing to distract me from my thoughts. I’m forced to think about him. His voice. How his face felt. I remember every little detail about him, except for what he looked like. After all, I’ve never seen him.

Today, my parents were talking during dinner again. They always gossip during dinner, but nothing really seems all that interesting. Stupid things like ‘The Elder gave away one of his maids to the witch! Do you think he’s gone senile?’ ‘One of the carriage drivers was relieved from his position the other day! What do you think happened?’ ‘I heard an explosion when I was on guard duty! It came from the old witch’s house! Don’t you think that it’s cursed?’

But something they said had caught my attention today. “Yeah! I saw him too! There’s a rumor going around about some golden-eyed boy who seduces women on the streets and rapes them without even touching them! How horrible, for a child to do that to somebody!”

“Golden eyes? Like mine?” I spoke on instinct, my brother’s lesson of asking questions becoming a habit.

After the first few seconds of shock, my parents began speaking to me about him. “Yes! Make sure you stay away from him if you see him! There’s a rumor that he can impregnate women with a glance! I wouldn’t want your purity stolen by some glance, would you?”

I chuckled, a small portion of happiness shining through my blockade of sorrow. Shaking my head, we continued the conversation about that boy. I don’t know why he seems so familiar to me. Have I seen him before, without realizing?

I shook the thought away. I’ve barely been out of the house, what is the probability that I’d see him?

“They say he’s going to school here when he comes of age! Some girls are actually moving just to stay away from him! Golden-eye demon, they call him… I don’t think we have enough money to move, though… I’m worried, Eve! Please stay away from that boy!” She pleaded with me.

Carefully weighing my options, I shook my head with a smirk. “I’m afraid that’s not going to happen, mother. I’ve become a bit interested in this Golden-eye demon. I’d like to make sure the rumors are true, before acting rashly and regretting it.” Rumors are, most of the times, 98% false. Something Rayne always said to me.

The smile fell from my face as I thought about him. Oh, how I missed him. But I felt some hope now. I wonder why, but this golden eyed boy makes me feel warm inside.

Another few weeks, for a total of one month since my birth. I was taller now, 4’6”, about the same height as a 7-year-old. School was about to start. But my mother stood in front of the door, not letting me pass.

“I will not allow you to go to this school when the Golden-eye Demon roams free! I’ve called the guards to take him to the dungeon, so it won’t be long until you can go to school. Don’t worry, they will certainly find that demon guilty of something!” My mother was resolute. But I knew better. I had grown to looking forward to meeting this Golden-eye Demon. After all, it’s impossible to impregnate people with a glance. He’s not guilty of anything, so the guards can’t do anything.

My mother is worrying, but at this point in time, she’s wrong. I’ll get to school somehow, I promise. Whether I just tell my mother the truth, or if I have to escape in the middle of the night, I want to meet him.

No, I need to meet him.