Pyro POV

After the arena battle JJ was convicted of treason, but as he is a hero, it'll be us who decide what to do, not kingdom. Don't care either way actually, what I care about is how he got his hands on a dagger? Well queen told me that this dagger is a treasure left over by some hero of old, who vanquished the demon lord and some other stuff.

Pyro: “Yep, and it has some sort of really nasty poison. I pity that commentator, he was a fun guy.” The Commentator died before the clerics arrived. His died of that [God's Bane] poison, which melted his innards and bones, but not skin, don't understand why though.

Queen: “It was said that this dagger was used by previous demon lord and-”

Pyro: “Can I have it?”

Queen: “Sorry Kuro, but this dagger is family heirloom just as Kingdom's most guarded treasure. I don't understand how could Gloria take it.”

Pyro: “Just as she gave that armor and sword to that moron. I need to gain poison affinity or something like that. Should be fun.”

Queen: “Poison Affinity? I never heard of it.”

Pyro: “Sure, it's just a long term goal” besides I just accidentally acquired new quest

Gain Poison Affinity

You started thinking about some stuff (probably something totally unrelated to the conversation you had) and guessed about one of the affinities.

Rewards 75 unallocated points, 1 rare token, 1 epic token.

Yep, new kind of token. Seems like it costs half amount of unique, but is easier to acquire. Well unique cost like 5000 points, but now unique costs 10'000 points, so it's 2'500 for epic. Legendary is 50'000 still, basically other tokens didn't change their price.

Anyway I'm currently planning on 'acquiring' this dagger. Hey, heirloom or not it's quite cool, especially with that strange shape, it looks like a kriss from hell or something, completely black and radiates black aura. I guess it was good idea to piss off the princess, and so the JJ. Well originally I just wanted to test my powers against some powerful equipment with strong opponent, but most heroes are rather weak, physically not magically, the strongest heroes are Ken followed by BDL, then Zealot, Perverts, Girls and finally Boys. Boy-scouts are what you would consider warriors, girls and BDL are druids, Zealot is some sort of paladin, Perverts are spell-blades and Ken is full-fledged wizard. JJ is somewhat balanced, but quite weak and only by his equipment he was stronger than others, not me though.

Oh right... plan is already set in motion, well sort of. I need to create a Dullahan, Death Knight and Lich, but Bones is lich, so I don't need to create another one, at least for now. Oh right, Death Knights are skeletons, Dullahans are zombies and Liches are skeletons or mummies... Yes I will create another lich, one is good two is better, just need to-

Queen: “-Kuro? Hero Kuro?”

Pyro: “Um, yes?”

Queen: “Have you heard me?”

Pyro: “Nope, I was thinking on what to do.”

Queen: “What should we do with hero-”

Pyro: “Execute, banish, castrate, whatever you do, I don't care.”

Queen: “Will heroes understand if we-”

Pyro: “Dunno. So what about the dagger?”

Queen: “You can't have it, as-”

Pyro: “No I mean who gave it to JJ?”

Queen: “I think it's my daughter, as only queens know about it.”

Pyro: “OK, so she plotted against me, tried to sow discord amongst the heroes, by putting moron in charge, and gave relic to some idiot, which by the way was moron.*sigh*”

Queen: “I will talk to her.”

Pyro: “Please do. Oh and what about the kulpo?” come on queen! Don't shake your head!

Queen: “I really can't understand how can you drink it, but yes, I will help you with your request.” YES!!! Now I will have access to the well of KULPO!!! Well more like farm, but still...

Pyro: “Nice... Oh yeah, the thing you asked for... well here.” I gave her the concoction I made. “Just don't get overboard with it.”

Queen: “Fu-fu-fu... Now my husband won't flee from me.”

Pyro: “DON'T FORGET! Don't use it outside of your room. I tried it on some bandits and... well they changed orientation.” It's really strong aphrodisiac.

Queen: “Yes, I heard you. What sort of play should we do?” and she started daydreaming. Who knew she was into S&M play? Now I know why king fear her, besides the fact that she's the ruler. Well at least it's not me she wants. No, it's not like I don't find her attractive, but... she's not my type.

Anyway I returned to my room and decided on the plan for phase three. It'll commence at night, so I have quite a lot of time to play around with magic, so I went to the adventurer guild to take some bandit subjugation quest.

When I came there and asked about it, I learned bitter truth. There are no bandits left around the capital, yes some crime rings remained, but all are in hiding after my slight rampage. Who knew that massacring few of their leaders would have such effect? At least I have some corpses left in my inventory for the experimenting purposes. Few hundred will do I guess? Some of them are in good condition by the way.

I took some quest about some monster extermination around some remote village and took off.

…

When I was quite some distance from the capital, I started heading towards the cave I found some time ago. It was a small detour from the route I took, well actually I took that quest mostly because of the cave and length of mission. Phase three will require for me to sneak into the castle, but first let's wait for dusk.

As just waiting for time to pass is boring, I started my little experiments, so I took the corpses out and started making the skeleton I desire for the Death Knight. Oh and Death Knights are actually some sort of hybrid between Knight, Rogue, Mage and Puppeteer. Knight is warrior-defender combo by the way. Dullahans are Warmongers and mage combinations mostly, while Liches are mostly Sages, with a bit of a ranger notes. Shades and Wraiths are ethereal creatures, while being similar in their nature, they act differently. Shades are Sages, while Wraiths are Warmongers and Acolyte, meaning Shades are Magicaly oriented and Wraiths are stronger, but more Physically oriented than Shades. Joke is that both of them are almost immune to physical damage, but quite weak to magical attacks.

Anyway my first, well like third, minion will be Death Knight. For creating it I need shitload of mana, bones and of course some metals, which I already stole from the warehouses in Krustomp. Hey don't judge me! They just got a shipment of demon ore, and with my metal manipulation I could easily remove impurities. It ended in me having around 250 kilos of this stuff, which is quite good amount actually, and I will use at least 50 on Death Knight, so I need to make him strong enough. Around 70-80 will be used on Dullahan, while rest 120-130 will be used on golem. YES that twin me in my head nagged me for a while until I surrendered. Oh and my Lich won't use metal, but some enchanted fabric. Two ghost types will have to go around naked, until I figure something out, or I won't summon them until I do.

Yes so my Death Knight. I started merging bones from different creatures, including the black wolves I got, together, while infusing them with my mana. Thinking about it some more I decided to merge them with demon steel, which resulted in quite fancy skeleton, so I decided to increase amount of demon steel in creation of death knight, after I merged all bones and allocated demon steel. Mithril, Orichalcum and Demon Steel are mana conductive metals, which easily allows to use them for spell-blades and other hybrid classes. So now my skeleton had base weight of a seventy kilos after merging all those bones, while also had another hundred after the merge of demon steel, plus around ten after merging with some gems, well actually I merged gems before merging them with him. And I haven't got him a weapon, which might increase his weight by another dozen or so kilos. Seeing that my Knight will weight around two hundred, with the height of around two meters, not bad considering his 'physique'. All those manipulations cost me half of my mana, it was quite hard, but also fun. Now to the creation of my third minion. I started magically engraving some runes in his bones, so they will be much more durable and will mend themselves if they get damaged, same stuff happened with his outer layer, which is mostly metal by the way. Gem was inserted in his ribcage, which was reinforced by extra layer of mana-conductive metals, giving him a bit more mana reserves. And afterwards I just made some finishing touches, including unlife.

Know what funny? The mana cost of this thing was at 30'000! Six more and I would be left without mana for a few days. You see when you deplete your mana reserves, your mana 'core' or whatever it is named shuts itself until it's at least half-full, mana recovery decreases and you get a debuff on your stats for a few days. Yeah I tried it already, and should say that it was like a hangover, with really annoying headache, which could only get a bit more tolerable after drinking some health potions.

Anyway my Knight was complete and now I could command it.

Pyro: “Arise my minion!”

Death Knight: “As you command.” And he risen. “Though you could just ask me about it.”

Pyro: “And lose the dramatic effect? No thank you.”

Death Knight: “Your orders?”

Pyro: “Oh right... hunt in this vicinity for any creatures, except humans... screw that, you can hunt them if you see them, but don't hunt specifically for them, hunt for monsters and animals, while humans are side mission.” I gave him a purse. “After you kill the creatures store their corpses in this bag. It's enchanted with space and time magic, and can store few thousand corpses.”

Death Knight: “Understood. Anything else?”

Pyro: “Hmm... Actually if you encounter people with wagons store everything they have in wagons, can also store some wagons. Oh and change of location where to hunt, considering that I'm sort of on human side, I should not be suspected, so you will go with me for now.”

Death Knight: “Yes master.”

Pyro: “Oh and call me commander.”

Death Knight: “Sure Commander. What name should I be called?”

Pyro: “Garrus.”

Garrus: “From now on I am Garrus.”

Why did you name him as such?

His voice is similar to that dude. Do you think he would look cool with sniper rifle?

Sure, just don't forget to make MY golem.

What's the deal with golem anyway?

I like robots. And golems are a first phase to automaton in fantasy worlds.

Fine by me. Though let's make golem from adamantine. More durable and strong, while-

No we make the golem out of Demon Steel. Later we will upgrade it.

Fine.

Well no Dullahan for now then.

…

After I transported us south of capital and left Garrus to his task, I teleported to the cave where I made him and started preparing for phase three.

…

Narrator POV

Deep in the dungeons of Royal Palace, hero Elizabeth was sleeping. He dreamed of his outburst on the arena, how he killed Kuro and was named as the strongest hero. And how he fucked the Gloria with his 35 cm dick.

In reality it was not like that, he lost, was condemned for treason and his dick was 3.5 inches, or a bit less than 9 centimeters. Guy can dream, right? What else could he do in such a sorry state? His limbs were reattached but his nerves were severely damaged, his pride was tampered and he would never be on his operation for increasing his 'sensitive' part.

Meanwhile princess Gloria was under house arrest, and forbidden from meeting anyone, but few maids, which were chosen by queen. She was really frustrated as her plans were going towards the rabbit hole, disappearing one after another, at least she still had an escape plan, which should start any minute now.

Suddenly she felt wind blowing and the newcomer entered.

???: “Did you get it?” Princess nodded. “Good. First the agreed sum. As you remember it was two hundred and fifty platinum in advance, with another hundred and a location of stash with ordered items.” After such words princess gave the newcomer the satchel. Figure took it and looked inside. “Good. Now the maid will come in a few moments, ask her to come in.”

Gloria: “Yes.” She was much less stubborn when dealing with the newcomer, as it was an assassin she contacted few months prior. This assassin was the trump card she could use, but it came at hefty price. Costs of this particular assassin was not that high in monetary regards, but in the items it asked for. Unless you could provide specific items and money, you better not even try to contact it, as the cost of even putting a job was at the price of ten platinum, enormous amount of money just for the meeting with it, and it wouldn't guarantee you that assassin would take this job, if you haven't got a proper compensation.

Indeed, as assassin told, soon the maid arrived.

Maid: “Princess, I'm here to check on you.”

Princess: “Uh fine. Come in.” princess was sitting on her bed in pajamas. “What do you want?”

Maid: “Her majesty the Queen Anna ordered us to check on you every hour.”

Princess: “So you checked, happy?”

Maid: “Yes-” and the maid drifted off to dreamland.

Assassin: “Put on her closes princess.”

Gloria: “Staff will recognize me if-”

Assassin: “They won't.” princess was less than happy putting on the maid outfit, but complied nevertheless. “Good now [Disguise].” as soon as the assassin told those words princess and maid interchanged looks. “It will work till dawn. Let's not waste time.”

Gloria: “Yes.” as soon as she said that assassin hid in her shadow.

Assassin: “{Now hear me. You go to the head maid, tell that princess is not feeling well and then you will go to the temple. I will help you with this until you get to the 'Drunken Bear' pub in the slums, where you will wait until I get the other one.”

Gloria: “What if-”

Assassin: “They won't. 'Drunken Bear' is on rennovation after the drunk fight. Owner was already dealt with.” Gloria was in confusion.

Gloria: “What do you mean? He was paid for-” assassin just shook his head.

Assassin: “Killed.”

Afterwards princess had done as assassin told and gone to the maid, from which she had gone to temple quarters and then to the pub. After she entered the pub assassin moved out from her shadow and told.

Assassin: “Wait in the basement.” and as soon as he said so, he took looks of the maid, currently sleeping in princess chambers.

Gloria: “What? How?”

Assassin: “I will be back in half an hour. Don't make a sound until I get back.” and as soon as 'she' said that, Gloria was left alone.

Gloria: “Well, I need to wait in such place. I hate it.” but nevertheless she had done as instructed.

While Gloria was busy hiding in the pub, assassin moved back to the castle with 'potion' that 'priests' gave 'her'.

Assassin-maid: “Head! I got the potion. Priest said to give it to princess.”

Head maid: “Yes, let's go and give it to her.”

Assassin-maid: “Yes.” and they walked towards the chambers.

Head maid: “Princess. We came to give you the medicine.” but there was no sound. “We are coming in.” when they entered they saw 'princess' peacefully sleeping on her bed.

Assassin-maid: “Should we wake her up?”

Head maid: “No, but we will leave the potion here. If something we will administer it when needed or in the morning.”

Assassin-maid: “Yes.”

Head maid: “Now get back to work.” with such words head maid left the room, while 'maid' left to the dungeons.

When 'she' came near the dungeon, 'she' disguised in the form of royal guard.

Guard: “Who goes there?”

Assassin: “Order of the queen came to interrogate the ex-hero Elizabeth.”

Guard: “And? Where are the rest of interrogators?”

Assassin: “You five are to accompany me in this endeavor.”

Guard 2: “Finally! At least I won't get bored.”

Assassin: “Lead the way.”

Guard 4: “Yeah, as usual.” and so they moved towards the holding cell of 'hero'.

While they were waling, guards joked about the current heroes.

When they finally got near the holding cell assassin ordered.

Assassin: “Open up.”

Guard 1: “You should have the keys.”

Assassin: “Really funny. Now open.” at those words guards became agitated.

Guard 5: “Who are-” and as they were going to confront the 'Royal Guard' they all dropped unconscious, while assassin opened the door.

Assassin: “Rise and shine meatbag.”

Elizabeth: “Who, what?”

Assassin: “Princess said to rescue you from this place. Let's go.”

Elizabeth: “Wait... Gloria? Rescue?” ex-hero Elizabeth was quite a sleepy-head. He couldn't wake up in the mornings, nor he could recognize surroundings. “Where am I?”

Assassin: “Dungeon. Come.”

Elizabeth: “Wait I'm-” and he was lifted by the assassin.

Assassin: “Troublesome brats. Let's go.” and so assassin started quickly walking towards the exit.

Elizabeth: “Hey! Put me-” and then 'hero' was put to sleep again.

Assassin: “Be calm. Everything is according to plan.”

Just as assassin said, everything was going smoothly. He was soon standing in front of the 'Drunken Bear' with 'package' on his shoulders. Quickly finding basement he opened it and descended, where he was met by princess.

Gloria: “Is he-”

Assassin: “Sleeping. Too loud.”

Gloria: “That he is. What now?”

Assassin: “We get out of this place.”

Gloria: “How?”

Assassin: “Smuggler route.” If Gloria could, she would have question marks floating around her head. “It's in this place. Behind that shelf.” as he said that, assassin moved towards the shelf and pushed it away. “Let's go.” and disappeared into the tunnel.

…

When they moved out of the tunnels, assassin dropped Elizabeth on the ground.

Assassin: “Rise and shine meatbag.”

Gloria: “Meatbag?”

Assassin: “You were escorted out of Vertgass, so the rest of the payments are in order.”

After such words gloria gave another satchel and the parchment from her ring.

Gloria: “Here as we agreed upon.”

Assassin: “You have weapons and armor?”

Gloria: “Yes.”

Assassin: “When you get to Millis use this to contact me for another contract.” as he said that, he passed the ring to Gloria. “From now on the payment from your side will be half in advance half afterwards. No need for the 'audit' payment either.”

Gloria: “How much would it cost to kill a hero?”

Assassin: “Half a million. In platinum of course.” at such price the jaw of princess dropped. “But I won't take it until the demon lord is dead. Too troublesome otherwise.” princess nodded “But it also depends on strength of the hero, but half a million is the minimum.”

Gloria: “Understood.” by this time Elizabeth became more conscious.

Elizabeth: “Hey! What was that for? I challenge you to-” and he was kicked right in his family jewels.

Assassin: “That's how you speak to a woman? Not even counting that she's your benefactor?” Elizabeth was still covering his smashed possessions with both hands.

Elizabeth: “Sorrry...” was the only thing he could say before he felt a boot on his face.

Assassin: “Males these days.*sigh*” said she before leaving the duo to their devices, but before she could.

Gloria: “How should I address you?”

Assassin: “Shiro.” and then she disappeared.

Status

Status V3.521

Name: Pyro

Race: Homunculus

Variant: Esper.

Sub-Race: Ancestral Vampire

Variant: Daywalker, Morgul.

Class: Polymath

Variant: Xenomorph.

Extra: Chosen of Chaos.

Level 15

Experience 89%

Health: 27000/27000

Regeneration: 12000 H/hour

Mana: 36000/36000

Regeneration: 1440 M/minute

Stamina: 90000/90000

Recovery: 9000 S/minute

Weight

Max 2'400 kg.

Titles *active

Traits

Weapon Master

Alchemist

Pyromaniac

Master Assassin

Living Shadow

One-man army

Lone Wolf

*Hero

Firestarter

Distrust Gardener

Space-Time Apprentiece

Wielder of Curses

Twisted Genius

Parallel Processing

Enhanced Regeneration

Indefatigable

Tough Skin

Know it All

Discerning Eye

Prodigy

System Enhanced Assistant

Shape-Shifter

Psyker

Archmage

Harbringer

Illusionist

Vampiric Origin

Void Walker

Overlord

Polymath

Magic Blood

Undefeated

Legendary Strength 100

Legendary Vitality 100

Legendary Vigor 100

Legendary Endurance 100

Legendary Agility 100

Legendary Speed 100

Legendary Dexterity 100

Legendary Perception 100

Legendary Processing Power 100

Legendary Intelligence 100

Legendary Willpower 100

Legendary Magic 100

Legendary Charisma 105

Luck 100

Unallocated points 6'968

Coins 100'000

Stored Life Force 6'000

Stored Essence 0

Tokens 4 Common

12 Uncommon

6 Rare

Affinities

Fire 100

Water 15

Earth 25

Air 10

Light 10

Darkness 52

Lightning 20

Nature 10

Ice 25

Blood 25

Shadow 54

Illusion 15

Void 10

Time 10

Space 10

Psychic 100

Mana 10

Chaos 30

Death 10

Life 10

Weapon Masteries

Defense Masteries

Magic Masteries

Utility Masteries

Dual Wielding – MAX

Hand-to-hand – MAX

Dagger – MAX

Throwing – Expert

Archery – Expert

Whips – Expert.

Short blades – Expert

Long blades – Expert

One Handed – Expert

Two Handed – Expert

Axes – Competent

Hammers – Adequate

Spear – Novice

Shield – Untrained

Heavy Armor – MAX

Medium Armor – MAX

Light Armor – MAX

Evasion – Expert

Dodging – Competent

Blocking – Competent

Counter – Competent

Enchanting – MAX

Mana – MAX

Psychic – MAX

Illusion – MAX

Shadow – MAX

Darkness – MAX

Light – MAX

Fire – MAX

Water – MAX

Earth – MAX

Air – MAX

Ice – MAX

Lightning – MAX

Nature – MAX

Blood – MAX

Death – MAX

Life – MAX

Chaos – MAX

Void – MAX

Time – MAX

Space – MAX

Necromancy – MAX

Hexes – MAX

Summoning – MAX

Sneaking – MAX

Camouflage – MAX

Alchemy – MAX

Swimming – Expert

Survival – Expert

Traps – Expert

Hunting – Expert

Cooking – Adequate

Herbalism – Adequate

Crafting – Adequate

Fabrication – Adequate

Fishing – Trained

Smooth Talker – Novice

Intimidation – Novice

Flesh Carving – Basic

Runic Knowledge – MAX

Active Skills

Passive Skills

Magic Skills

Buffs

Debuffs

Slash

Assassination

Hide

Penetrating Strike

Devour

Blink

Charm

Bind

Power Strike

Shield Wall

Smoke Screen

Polymorph

Spirit Lantern

Fear Aura

Appraisal

Evil Eyes

Inventory

Last Stand

Polymath

Magic Control

Poker Face

Elemental Manipulation

Life & Death

Blood Pool

Magic Stabilization

Awareness

Resistances : Pain (X), Physical (V), Magical (IV), Elemental (IV), Mental (X), Holy (I).

Creation

Enchanting

Infusion

Transmutation

Personal Dimension

Domination

Icy Flame

Metal Manipulation

Magma Manipulation

Life Steal

Resurrection

Reality Slash

Gravitation Control

Time Control

Teleportation

Gate

Fly

Laser

Doll Creation

Summon Elemental

Blast

Shield

Ray

Orb

Spear

Blessing of Chaos

None