First Battle
Chapter 5 - First Battle
Written By Curiostyx
"Now, Childe..." Odin muttered before pulling out 2 pairs of bizarre-looking Golden Goggles.
"You might have noticed that we aren't exactly in Yggdrasil... You might have forgotten, but we're on my Starship, The Astral!" Odin revealed.
"But there's a problem... The Astral is psychically controlled, My mind has to focus on constantly piloting the ship so that we don't crash" Odin stated.
"Yes, I can do small actions like walking around, reading books, talking to you... But I can't engage in combat..." Odin revealed.
He then pointed to the outside, where a pack of hungry-looking Aberrations was nearing us.
"Those are the Great Dragon's lackeys... Chaos Beasts as they are called... They are much too powerful for you to handle, so I cannot expect you to take them" Odin said.
"But I could... The problem is that my mind has to focus on the ship, therefore I can't... So here" Odin stated before giving me a pair of the Golden Goggles.
"These pair of Goggles are Divine Equipment that I managed to get my hands on... They can transfer the consciousness of the ones wearing it to each other" Odin casually revealed.
"So I will transfer my mind to you, and use your body to operate the ship... Meanwhile, you'll use my body to fight off the Chaos Beasts. Easy enough, right?" Odin stated.
Then a Screen flickered in front of me.
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Mandatory Tutorial Quest, "First Battle"
The Chaos Beasts of Nidhogg are too powerful of an enemy for you, So Odin came up with a solution: You will inhibit Odin's body to fight them off!
Goal: Defeat Nidhoggr's Chaos Beasts (0/9)
Reward: The Actual Start Of The Game.
Penalty: You Can't Possibly Fail The First Quest, Right?
Quest Rating: Tutorial Easy
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'Inhibit someone else's body? I just did that this morning!' It was quite an incredible coincidence that my Spiritual Time-Travel Marriege coincided with this game's Tutorial Quest.
I then inspected the Goggles... which came empty. Turns out, the shitty devs must have never bothered to make an in-depth item description for the Goggles, as their only purpose was to be convenient plot devices.
I then clicked the 'Use' button on top of the item, equipping it on my head spot. Yggdrasil was first-person and there weren't any mirrors in the Astral, but I Imagined the visage of my serious-looking edgy Angel Avatar wearing a rather goofy pair of Goggles to be quite comedic.
Odin then equipped a pair of Goggles himself. The moment he did so, our perspectives swapped themselves with one another.
I was now in the body of Odin, with the World Item, Gungnir, the Spear of Absolution, in my hand.
"Go ham on them, Tiger" Odin said before he promptly teleported me outside.
"Uh, shit," I said as I appeared face-to-face with one of the buggers.
"ROAR~!" The Abomination roared before striking me with one of its tentacles. The Chaos Beasts were giant masses of gibbering flesh, with one too many eyes and mouths, they also had a dozen or so tentacles for some reason.
<-3% Health>
"Fuck!" I said as I was propelled into space.
I then used the momentum to my advantage by fleeing the battlefield, I wanted to figure out if I could cheese the Quest by doing so.
Unfortunately, It seemed that these particular Chaos Beasts were faster than the All-Father's speed as they quickly caught up to their fleeing prey; Me.
Seeing as I had no other option but to fight, I turned around and took advantage of the distance between me and the Chaos Beast by scanning them.
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Level - 75, Chaos Beast
Level - 80, Chaos Beast
Level - 70, Chaos Beast
Level - 80, Chaos Beast
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I managed to scan 4 of them and quickly concluded that they were around level 70-80, which was very impressive for a tutorial.
The Level 70 Chaos Beast leaped for me and opened its razor-filled maw, I threw Gungnir in its throat in response.
Suffice to say, it was more than enough to slay the beast, which dropped some loot that instantly went into my-Odin's inventory... And here I thought I would get high-level equipment right off the bat.
The other Chaos Beasts, seeming unperturbed by the death of their brethren, all charged at me at the same time.
Right, Odin had some Magic Spells as well, Let's try those...
As the Chaos Beast got closer, a Spell Circle manifested in front of me, representing the school of Magic that it came from; The School of Mass Destruction.
『Chain-Smite』~!
The Nearest Chaos Beast immediately swelled and exploded as it was hit by Holy Lightning, the Lightning then traveled to the other Chaos Beasts like a chain, killing them all with a series of massive holy explosions.
Now only one remained.
"Grr... ROA-" Were the last sounds it made before I impaled it with Gungnir, finishing the battle with one last strike.
[Battle Encounter Completed. No EXP Awarded]
"Hn..." A shame.
//
You have completed the Quest, "First Battle"
You have successfully completed the guaranteed easy task of slaying the Chaos Beasts of Nidhogg while possessing the Power of Odin.
Reward: The Actual Game Will Start Soon.
To Collect The Quest Reward, You Will Need To Return To The Quest Giver.
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"The combat was pretty simple... I thought It would be at least a little challenging" I said arrogantly, not knowing that this quest failed to represent what actual High-level combat was like.
And with that, I returned to the Starship Astral.
"Ah, You're back... Did ya get them?" Odin-Cum-My Avatar asked.
I didn't respond, but the NPC still continued.
"Great, now let's change back," He said as my POV returned to my Avatar.
"Hn... Back to Level 1..." I felt weak, which I was.
"Hah yes! Back to my glorious body!... No offense, Angel, Your body was great and all, But it lacked the... 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭 of mine" Odin casually said. He then snatched the goggles off of me, ensuring that I wouldn't have a Divine Item at the start of the game.
"Now that we don't have any ruffians bothering us, we can get to wherever we want... Ah, I seem to have forgotten our destination, tell me, Childe, where we originally headed to?" Odin asked as a picture of the World Tree flickered in front of me.
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Select Your Destination:
-𝐀𝐒𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐃:
-𝐀𝐋𝐅𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐋𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐒𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐅𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐉𝐎𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐌
-𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐃
//
"I choose..."
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Well, That's it for today guys.
Sorry for the 1-day delay, Something bad happened to me yesterday and I wasn't feeling good.
But please, for the love of lucifer's anal virginity, give me stones.
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