《Demon Artificer》5: Cluster-Fuck
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This chapter is on a short side, but fuck it, Im gonna post it anyway...
All credit to Overlord Mea for helping me to put my shit together.
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I looked with disgust at that useless pile of flesh, that was just snoring and lying beside me, and I made a conclusion.
Screw my old avatar, screw game masters, and screw that whore of the goddess!
I was too careful about this whole situation, it can't get any worse than this, so from now on I will do whatever I want!
I was about to kill that pig of a woman, but then unexpected notification window popped up.
Congratulations, thanks to your ability to maintain serene mind in dire circumstances, you have gained a new skill!
Meditation (ACTIVE)
Level: Novice Level 1 Exp 0.00%
(Meditation) is an ability that help you to maintain a serene mind in most heated situations.
This skill increase your resistance to mind affecting effects.
This skill increases regeneration of your mana and stamina.
Meditation is a skill that requires you to concentrate, if you fail, all the effect of this skill will fade, leaving you vulnerable for a short amount of time to all mind altering effects.
Congratulations, thanks to the special action, you have gained a new skill!
Visualization (PASSIVE)
Level: Novice Level 1 Exp 0.00%
(Visualization) is an ability that you can use while meditating.
This skill allows you to visualize and project images and sounds created by your own imagination.
Higher level of this skill will increase accuracy and how real your mental projections seem.
All effects of this skill are unnoticeable to others and will affect your perception only.
Congratulations, thanks to successful application of your skills in unusual situation, you have created a new skill!
Sex Mastery (PASSIVE)
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Level: Novice Level 1 Exp 0.00%
(Sex Mastery) is an ability that improves your performance during the sexual intercourse.
Increases satisfaction gained when used on another person, or yourself.
This skill allows you to gain small favours or influence with another person when used in appropriate and successful manner.
Holy shit! Did I just receive three skills for just one ordeal? Now I'm really feeling like I just defeated a boss in the dungeon.
- Muahahahahahahaa!!!
It's time to forge this useless shit-headed clerk’s life into something beneficial to me!
There is bunch of content in this game on which other players just gave up, but not me.
Because I know that what they were lacking was patience, and determination to find just the right application to these supposedly useless things.
By playing it I had found one fundamental truth.
Many things in this game may be broken, but hardly anything is useless.
Do you know what was true source of my previous success?
If you want it, I will share my trade secrets with you, just don't share them around, ok?
Fuck, why I'm talking to myself? Well whatever...
Where was I, ah yes...
Cursed Items, that’s right, discarded by others as a useless shit, was their loss and my gain.
In their raw form cursed items usually have a strong, beneficial trait, and one or two adverse traits that can hinder you greatly, or they might just drain your hp slowly till you die.
I was of course the only player that was fuckup enough to equip ten items at the same time.
Of course I had died, many times, but at the same time I was lucky enough to discover something new.
Negative effects of cursed items will stack together, but Items with opposite properties will neutralize each others influence, even if one of the effects is stronger...
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So the trick is to stack the items in the right manner, that discovery was a turning point that made me fall to the other side of gaming and to being reborn as a dark gamer.
After I had equipped a bunch of them and didn’t die I had gained a new secret profession, the Cursed Knight.
That profession was not so great, but it had one interesting quality.
Player could be affected only by one curse effect of his own choosing.
In other words I was immune to the most of negative effects that others could throw at me.
Ok, it will be better for me not to delve on the past, in my current state I need to find another way to regain my “badassness”.
I better check my status screen, there must be bunch of exploits that I haven’t figured out yet.
- Status screen... ( I commanded with a little hope bubbling inside my heart)
…
- Hollyshit! What the hell is this "cluster-fuck"?!
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