Scroll of path creation

This scroll written by a master script writer allows an individual to create paths up to the rare tier, these paths could then be duplicated for group uses or stored for future use. Note that an individual can create a path, not in line with their paths and store, there are no effects whatsoever on the individual’s path

Moyo read the notification out loud for everyone as Annika, Idris, Ayo, and Boyle gathered the 40 rare dungeon cores. Surrounding the core itself, Moyo placed scrolls at his side,

“These could come in handy for creating random paths we could give out,” Mrs.. Martha said,

“Yh, but then it would have to depend on if people want said paths” Moyo replied

“You worry too much lord, you think most people would want to rack their heads for a path to create? maybe few, but most just want security” she countered,

“Be that as it may, we’ll need to test it out, Annika” he called as she stepped forwards and held the scroll

“it’s asking me to create a path for a price of ten thousand silver coins,” she said, Moyo nodded for her to continue as Mrs.. Martha gave her the coins that were sent through the system,

Immediately the scroll flared with a bright light and Annika began to glow,

“it’s creating an uncommon storm bringer path for me!” she growled,

“probably due to her not having her own path first!” Idris replied in alarm,

Moyo moved in a flash, grabbing her other hand and placing it on the core, bringing up the path creation menu and depositing the 10 rare dungeon cores for an evolution. Immediately a gust of wind began blowing through the room, sentinels burst into the room in alarm as they began shouting about the sky turning dark and windy with thunder booming and lightning flashing. Moyo watched as a message popped up on his Hud

Notice! Initiate Annika is about to evolve her storm bringer path!

Moyo switched and added his sobriquet also, eyes furrowed in concentration,

Notice! Lord Moyo has gifted sobriquet (titan) to former path storm bringer!

Path evolving…...evolution complete!

Notice! Path storm bringers(c) have evolved into the path: Titans storm wielders! (r)

Around Annika, a whirlwind of wind, thunder, and lightning blew in a ball,

“what’s happening to her?!” Idris shouted over the noise of the lightning,

“evolving” Moyo simply said, arms folded as everyone else averted their eyes from the wind and bright flashes of lightning,

Notice! Initiate Annika has created the path: storm maiden (r)

Through the help of lord Moyo, Annika has obtained a path suitable for her, now one with the storm, she would be his herald of destruction.

In a flash, the storm disappeared along with the lightning and wind to reveal Annika, a different Annika from before. Blue eyes that seemed to spark, her dark hair now blue and blue tattoos that shone white as lightning ran through them. She glanced at everyone with a smile,

“Hi!” she said,

Immediately everyone began talking, Mrs.. Martha calmed them down,

“Before we go into this, josh, inform your sentinels to once again calm the people, it’s dusk already and we can’t keep letting them wake up to loud noises,” she said as josh nodded and walked towards the door,

“Storm maiden,” Moyo said,

“Yh was going for something more deity like Mrs.. Martha, sango, the deity of thunder and stuff, guessed the system just decided to translate it that way” Annika replied,

“fascinating” Boyle said, stroking his goatee,

Mrs.. Martha picked up the scroll of path creation that Annika dropped, sending the info to everyone in the room,

Initiate titans storm wielders path

This scroll contains the path: titans storm bringer, requirements for use:

Class: battle mage

INT: 150

Cost: 10,000 silver coins

“Well congratulations everyone, we just created another customized path,” Mrs.. Martha said,

“Seems the requirements are pretty straight forwards, the mages with lightning attributes would be interested in it, plus it’s cheaper,” Boyle said,

“Cheaper for initiates to buy, to store it would still require the one thousand gold coins” she replied,

“If we do store it, won’t that make it public for anyone in the archailect to use?” Idris asked,

“Indeed, however seeing as we do not have a scribe as of yet who’s an initiate or higher, we can’t duplicate the scrolls, archailects’ rules” Mrs.. Martha explained,

“Then we add it to the archailects’ database, we need our pages stronger and this is the way” Moyo finalized,

“Agreed, who’s next?” Idris asked,

Ayo stood up and walked to the core, placing her hand on it,

“let’s do this,” she said,

Moyo nodded, took the ten rare dungeon cores, and activated the path creation menu. The same process repeated itself like josh’s, however as the process went on Ayo began to glow brighter, Moyo noticing she had picked an uncommon sun path and merged with her archer class. Moyo fed the ten rare dungeon cores to the process

Notice! Initiate Ayo is choosing and evolving her path!

Evolving…...evolution complete!

Path dawn archer(u) has evolved into the path: Eye of Ra (r)!

Notice! Initiate Ayo has created the path: eye of Ra(r)

Choosing to follow the path of both an archer and a mage, Ayo has created a path that wields both the powers of the sun and her archery skills!

Ayo seemed to radiate a subtle form of heat, her bow now sporting a golden color along with her quiver were a perfect fit for her identity,

“Another path based on a deity, interesting” Mrs.. Martha said,

“Gives me ideas for my path, anyways I believe Idris is next?” Boyle said,

Idris stood and placed his hand on the core,

“Well, here goes nothing” he muttered

“Guess you’re going for a body path?” moyo asked,

“yup” Idris replied and dived deep into the path creation option

Moyo watched as Idris began to take aspects of hardness, force, metal and strength. With a flick moyo added the ten dungeon cores as all those aspects merged together

Notice! Initiate Idris is choosing and evolving his path!

Evolving…...evolution complete!

Path titanium fighter(u) has evolved into the path: Hand of Geb (r)!

Choosing to go down the path of his fists, Idris has evolved his path into one of pure raw might, as he grows stronger so does his very existence adds weight to the might of his attacks!

Idris had been cocooned in a sphere of rock, the rock dissipated to reveal an imposing Idris. His very physique now bigger, the armbands of the gauntlet now stretched and bigger, Idris grinned,

“nice” Annika said smiling,

Idris left the core and sat back on his stone chair that cracked a bit, everyone raised an eyebrow at that,

“a perfect tank in battle” Mrs. Martha noted

Finally, it was Boyles turn, standing up he turned to them,

“I had a dream- “

“Sweet lord, Boyle just get through the process” Mrs. Martha said as everyone chuckled,

Grumbling about everyone stealing his shine, Boyle walked up to the core and touched it as he dived in also. Moyo couldn’t explain what he was seeing, noticing Mrs. Martha sitting up straight, Boyle was touching fundamental aspects of weird things. From a hammer melting to the core of the sun blazing, to the vibrations of sound, moyo added the ten dungeon cores and watched as the notification blazed to life

Notice! Initiate Boyle is choosing and evolving his path!

Evolving…...evolution complete!

Path Elemental smith(u) has evolved into the path: Primordial Forger(r)!

Wielding the arcane knowledge of the smiths, Boyle has taken a step into the coveted path of the venerated rune forgers!. An average weapon or item forged by him would start at the uncommon level and the more he grows, the greater the items he can create!

Boyle was awash in flames which disappeared in a flash, in their front stood a Boyle whose eyes were alight with weird symbols and in his right hand a hammer with a black head and inscriptions on it,

“Color me impressed” moyo whistled,

“Hands down the highlight of the night” Annika added,

“So much knowledge, so little materials” Boyle hummed to himself,

“I think we broke Boyle” Idris said as everyone including Boyle who snapped back to reality laughed,

“I was able to copy the initial paths you all got before evolving them into four different path creation scrolls” Mrs. Martha said as she sent moyo the list,

Initiate storm wielders(r) Dawn archers (u) Titanium fighter (u) Elemental smith (u) Healing cleric (u)

“Healing cleric?” moyo asked,

“Yes, those healers who took Idris from you when you arrived are a few of them” Mrs. Martha explained,

Moyo glanced around the room as josh came in back, every member of this room was on a rare path, the foundation for bastions power had been laid. Walking to the core he placed an arm on it and turned to them all,

“What we’ve accomplished here today shouldn’t had been possible for at least a few years down the line. No doubt when the factions and their experts arrive on earth, they won’t meet easy preys” moyo started,

“it’s why I need your helps, my path could and would take me away from bastion, but I can’t in good conscience leave you all with nothing less than everyone here being an acolyte and if possible, advocates. We have just one month, and we’re going to do everything possible to get stronger, even if it means draining our funds dry” he stated,

“What plan do you have lord?” Mrs. Martha asked,

“In time, but first, time to go on a spending spree, let’s get every single member of bastion a path from what we have on ground” moyo stated smiling,

That same night, the whole of bastion congregated in the walls of Ife, Mrs. Martha explaining to them the paths they had created and how everyone was free to pick those paths or if they wanted to, wait till they had accumulated their own dungeon cores and create their own paths, seeing as they had no trust for the paths in the archailect. Every member of bastion who had no paths decided to pick from the list, seeing as they were in the yellow zone and the cost of a dungeon core was way below their level. With a generous donation from the treasury of bastion, every mage class with a lightning affinity chose the storm bringer path, the other mages with other affinities decided to stick with their class affinity in hopes that a pure mage elemental path could be created, the archers taking the dawn archers and a few women took the healing cleric path.

In all, with a substantially depleted treasury but a room full of people on paths, moyo addressed the room,

“First of all, I’d like to thank you all for your faith in me, your trust, a few weeks back I had no idea my life would turn out this way, but it has been one hurdle after another. Tomorrow, we face the second wave, substantially stronger, staring from level 60 and the wave boss level 70” he started,

“Despite everyone’s’ levels being in their early 20s, my plan would ensure that we all get stronger, a lot stronger, so go to bed people, cause tomorrow would be hectic as hell” moyo said grinning,

In high spirits everyone left, their footsteps filled with purpose, moyo watched as they disappeared into the night, turning to his team,

“Alright, time to plan, Annika, you’re in command of the storm bringers, Idris, you are in charge of the sentinels with josh as your right-hand man till we get titanium fighters, Ayo, the dawn archers are yours to command, Mrs. Martha the whole of bastion is your playground, we’ll need your cunning for what I have tomorrow, channel your Anansi path and all” he said grinning.

After the whole planning, everyone had retired to their quarters, save Mrs. Martha that sat opposite moyo in the core room of Ife, staring into the core that released a low hum,

“You look like a man with a goal that he can’t share” Mrs. Martha started, dragging Moyo’s gaze back from his thoughts

Glancing up he gave her a weak smile, staring back into the orb

“Not as much as I can’t share, more like I can’t burden everyone else with it” moyo replied,

“I’m not asking for you to share if you don’t want to, all I’m saying is, don’t think you have to abandon it because of us”

Moyo looked across at Mrs. Martha, glinting as he saw a glimpse of an aura of a spider behind her,

“Seems like you have yours also” he murmured, surprised by what he saw,

“Being the steward of bastion has certain…privileges assigned from what I can glean, the system that runs the archailect is extensive, you need but ask my lord” she said smiling at him as moyo snorted,

“Perhaps later, when we’re not staring down the countdown to an invasion” moyo replied,

“By your will, like I was saying, you’ve done all you can for us here at bastion. You’ve left us at a place of power, to be honest if we can’t take advantage of it, then it meant we’re weak” she stated as a matter of fact,

“Eat or be eaten, adapt or die” moyo murmured,

“Indeed, so go rest moyo, do what you have to do tomorrow, be rest assured that bastion would still be standing, waiting for you when you return” Mrs. Martha said,

“Been a while you called me my name” he said raising an eyebrow,

“Situation demands it, you’re moyo, the titanblade on the path of the crushing blade, you wield a katana named dominion, your very will is your power from what I’m guessing, you are a titan first before a lord of bastion” she said sitting up,

Moyo withdrew dominion from his spatial rip,

“indeed” he murmured staring at his katana.

As daylight broke over bastion, the ground rumbled. A giant wall of stone began to appear from below the ground, circling the entire city around Ife, along with all the houses and buildings, excluding the fields from the main crystal walls of bastion. From the grounds of the fields grew slabs of stonewalls in different angles, creating an intricate maze, on the top of Ife stood the whole team, moyo, Annika, Idris, Ayo, josh and Mrs. Martha who kept playing with the interface as she finished the building process. Below them stood the entire of members of bastion, the sentinels with their swords, the storm bringers with their various weapons, the dawn archers with their bow and arrows and the healing clerics in white.

Moyo stepped forwards,

“today, we meet the second wave of the crisis, stronger than we were before!, they will serve as experience points for our advancements!, their very death would supply us with weapons and loots to supply bastion, their very bodies will serve as materials for production” he started as they stared at him with rapt attention,

“Make them bleed for every ground of bastion they step upon, teach them the meaning of fear and keep growing stronger” he finished as they all roared,

At that moment a gong sounded,

Sector Notice:

Citizens of bastion, wave 2 begins now, Goodluck!.

From the forest outside of bastions crystal walls came a roar as monsters of different shapes and sizes poured out, disfigured and looking like the amalgamation of different creatures in one.,

Raging chimera level 60

Moyo withdrew dominion as everyone began shouting orders, Annika floated in the air as thunderstorms gathered in the horizon,

“Storm bringers to me!” she shouted,

“Sentinels to me!” Idris shouted,

“Dawn archers to the walls of Ife!” Ayo ordered

“Reserve mage forces man the walls of Ife along with the archers, healers stay on standby!” Mrs. Martha ordered,

As the monsters poured down towards the walls of bastion, moyo nodded to Mrs. Martha, watching as she opened the crystal walls for a minute and closing it back up. The few monsters inside bastion found themselves inside the walls of a maze, and the entire army of bastion descended on them. Arrows of flames fell on them from above, the storm bringers released arcs of lightning along the corridors of the maze, directing the sentinels to mop up the remaining confused monsters.

In minute it was over,

“Add your attribute points now, mostly in endurance, you’ve got a minute” moyo shouted,

“It worked” Mrs. Martha said,

“Yh, leaving everything to you” moyo said as he dimension stepped towards the crystal walls of bastion, spatial walking outside the walls and releasing his realm, slowing down the monsters that were about to descend on the walls again, with one blade of the titan attack and a barrage of intent blades, moyo decimated the level 60 monsters in his realm, notifications began pouring in, smiling he began dimension stepping towards the rift where the monsters came from.

Avoiding the monsters that tore through the forest was easy for moyo, a dimension step here, a kill there till he finally stood at the entrance of the temporary dungeon. Flashes of thunder and lightning behind him reminded him of the battle going on at bastion, but there was nothing he was willing to do about it, they had to learn to stand on their own two feet, get stronger the hard way. Stepping into the dungeon, he appeared in a forest similar to the one of bastion, except everything was quiet here, too quiet.

With a burst of his realm moyo took in his surroundings, and the giant chimera boss that waited in the middle of the forest. With a burst of speed, he tore through the forest in a straight line, his senses honing on the monster that growled as the forest shook, dominion in hand moyo clashed with the level 70 monster that slammed him into the ground. His draconic body and wrath of the titan skill ensured he came out of the small crater his body made with nothing less than a bruise that faded immediately. The chimera growled, moving backwards, hackles raised as it stared at this creature that hadn’t sustained any injury, suddenly wary of this prey that was slowly becoming a predator.

Moyo shook his head in disappointment, a bit miffed that a level 70 monster could not damage him. Stretching in front of the monster as his bones popped in pleasure,

“Excuse my rude manners” moyo said,

“You see, I was hoping you’d be enough to push my skills higher, but it seems you can barely touch me” he continued, dodging a swipe of the chimeras’ sharp claws that glinted in the sunlight,

“it’s entirely not your fault, mine really. Hard scaled skin, body that regenerates at a fast rate, really a hassle” he continued as he used dominion to deflect another claw attack by the chimera,

“But you see, I need to buy enough time for my friends to keep using your monsters to level up, so me and you are going to spend quite the time here” he finished

The chimera turned to him, mouth wide open as it spewed an inferno out of its mouth, flames so hot they scorched the very ground moyo stood on. It didn’t do a single point of damage, Moyo weathered it true, blinking at the chimera,

“Well, that was new” he replied,

The chimera ran away into the jungle,

Moyo stared in surprise as the creature tore through the forest,

“Well, this should be fun” he muttered in boredom as he began dimension stepping after the beast.

The people of bastion had spent the whole day killing monster waves after monster waves. Annika lost count of the number of times she stabbed, sliced and channeled lightning after lightning bolt. Over time it became an ingrained process, trap the monsters, disperse them through the labyrinth, the dawn archers along with Ayo that blazed with the power of the sun raining down hell on the monsters, the storm bringers stepping in to take down clusters of large targets with area of effect lightning attacks and finally the sentinels lead by Idris whose very attacks shook the walls decimated what were left, then the healers would step into the field with their dimension space bags shared to them by Mrs. Martha who coordinated the whole effort to retrieve any looted weapons and heal the team, then the process began all over again.

By dusk every member of bastion were firmly in their level 30+, Annika and the main leaders in their level 40s. Exhaustion was slowly spreading despite how many times they had added attribute points to their endurance, their bodies were slowly tiring along with mental fatigue, it was time to call it a day, she only hoped moyo was fine. With a snort to herself she raised an arm towards the direction of Mrs. Martha who nodded, who was she kidding?, that man was a force of nature, his very presence alone was like an incoming disaster, if anything she pitied the boss monster that had to face him.

As she turned back towards the forest in preparation for another wave, a loud boom came from the forests, and from tat same forest strode moyo calmly, not a piece of clothing out of space, raising his katana in the air and grinning at bastion, the notification came then,

Congratulations!

Bastion has survived its second wave, the next wave is in 23:57:20 hours, good luck!.

The whole of bastion roared in jubilation, they had done it again, but this time by themselves, their titan had given them the path and power and they had seized it. As Annika watched moyo stroll towards the crystal walls of bastion that began shaping itself into a large gate, the chants of “bastion” and “moyo” filled the air…