Chapter 145: Ritual of Burning Shadows
It has been... all day. I haven't gotten anything done.
These... harpies... they hound me for food, sometimes I'm not even sure if they are different ones or not as for all I know it's the same 9 coming again and again. Where the hell are they coming from anyhow? I'd be less suspicious of this should Blossom Tree stand, but right now it's merely a stump. However as night started to come the Harpies started coming less and less, and eventually they stopped. It's night now, and I guess it's here I work best... so I finally decided which material to use, the Harpies left plenty of feathers... most much bigger than any feather I've seen on their actual bodies.
| Large Harpy Feather x13 |
| Storm Material, High Grade |
| Desc. A special type of feather, in which a Harpy can only have one. The shedding of it is rare, however some species have been found to exchange them with some species. It glistens and crackles with " Feather Storm " like magic. |
Special huh, this is the Feather Storm stuff I've heard about... if it's anything like Blossom then I'll be pleased, but it is in fact a material I can use...while I only have 13, those 13 feathers are capable of making a nice cloak at least... but I'm not sure if I'd like that. Rather, I'm more inclined to either make this into boots along with my theorized unnamed metal. Maybe I could even add it to my wings if I try hard enough.
But before that, I'm going to try making the ' new metal ' which I haven't named yet. My new mana core burned and twisted inside of me as it spurred to life, the invariable form that is mana filled me with elation and a feeling of youth. The mana gathered inside and poured out through me like water out of a faucet. I formed a simple magic circle, using Blood Mana of course as my first goal. The Magic circle formed, spun, and fizzled out into the air leaving a thick floating puddle of a red variation of pure mana. This certainly is pure blood mana.
The formation of mithril is complex, but I do know for certain it's a condensed version of pure mana. So, using alchemy I pull away out all impurities in the mana... with little result, nothing much really came out. I was ready to form it into mithril, pulling the mana into a sphere... successful, next make it denser... pull it closer and closer together until... METAL! IT WORKED!
| Vile Mithril |
| Relic Grade Metal |
Holy shit~! I fucking did it!
Now... to form something even stronger.
...
| Defiled Stygian Metal |
| Divine Grade Metal |
| Desc. An Object that shouldn't exist... let alone be held, or even seen. |
I am in an absolute state of serenity, it's a great night to be me... I'm going to try to make some more types in the morning...this... ' Stygian Metal ' stuff is going to be pretty cool. I head to my chambers, laid down in bed... and got so- * Squawk! *
It's... morning. Fuck, I stayed up all night!
Well... I don't feel absolutely tired, I could keep going till tonight at least. Even so... I probably should prepare plenty of coffee. I got work to do... again.
After meeting up with Scarab, I began the process of producing mass quantities of blood mana which Scarab mass purified and pushed into the super metal... only taking a small amount for itself to upgrade it's ' Core '. Syn eventually woke out of his Torpor and headed out to help as well... but making sure to stay many paces away from my Nebula Fantasm.
' Carrion ' he called it... or at least ' a carrion ', either way... they supposedly came from the H.U.B. but likely it's a little different then that. My theory is that either their offsprings of ' Star Eater ' or the Neolithid. The fact that they are supposedly more fleshy makes me think Neolithid, but the fact that mine specifically is metallic and such... it makes me think.
But I'm going to assume that it is in fact a Carrion, but not the same types that are basically monsters... rather this type is ((( friendly ))). That could likely mean that the fleshy ones are from Neolithid and Nebula Fantasm is from Star Eater.
I remember Star Eater... what a beast. Stygian Bronze and the base of a neolithid??? Considering that Neolithids are able to compete with the fucking system then Star Eater surely surpasses it... at least eventually as " Sacrifices to increase stats " would in fact need sacrifices to increase stats... unless... it leveled up.
The other games that were eaten by supposedly the Neolithid... did Star Eater do it? To gain sacrifices or enemies defeated? If that's the case... then why? It wasn't fighting anything... unless...
The reason the Neolithid was ' busy ' that day... it was Star Eater. They fought! So when I made that strong item and nothing responded to it... its either cause both the Neolithid and Star Eater were dead, or Star Eater won and that's why my rifle became a Car-
* Shting! *
What was that?
Huh? A Knife? Where did that come from...
I look around at my surroundings, I can't identify the source of the shot through vision alone... so instead I opt to climb the small stone clump and peer over the various battlements.
I... don't see anything?
Health... check... HUD...check... nearby enemies... check... wait nearby enemies?!?! Where! I don't see a damn thing!
... they are in stealth aren't they...
- " Come out, I know some bodies here. "
... nothing.
- " Fine. "
Manager Vision on... and there still isn't anything, either they've masked their mana signature or they're players. I turned Heat Vision on... and still nothing. Masking even that... but you can't mask my next one.
- " Syn, clear the area. "
}{}{ Confirmed. }{}{
Many small turrets appeared out of Syn, fueled with Fire Magic type shots they began using their flamethrower like abilities to cover the entire ashen area with a thick carpet of fire... and by chance it snagged on someone's cloak.
- " There you are... come on, don't make this harder on yourself. "
The Flame on the cloak stopped, but the ashes left a mark upon it. This was caught to the instigators attention when Syn kept it's turrets all constantly tracking its position.
- " I can still see you. Come on out. "
I could nearly hear the cloaked person's gruffled ' fine '... but it didn't speak a word, instead it's invisibility faded away. I couldn't discern details from under it's cloak, but notably upon it's cloak itself was the Origin Logo.
- " Assassination? Origin falls so short of expectations... especially when it doesn't even work! Oh delightful, a contender to the rin- "
" Shut it, Old Man. "
- " Now now, that's not nice... what is it with people calling me old? I can't be that old now could I? "
" Project - Z.P.E. 1-001. The first successful ' charm ' "
- " What do you know about me. "
" So it is you after all... Crimson, well... I guess your called
' Target: 0570, Priority 11/10 '... or, should I call you Cobalt? "
- " Well that doesn't help at all, I already know all of that. Tell me the juicy stuff, or better yet... I need you to tell Ruby something. "
" I'll tell her something alright, I'll tell her target eliminated. "
- " Bang! "
" Huh? "
- " Oh, woops... sorry, I mean... "
* BANG *
| Warning: Enemy is 70 Levels higher than you, damage reduced by 90%. |
Ah fuck. Well...
- " Syn, take care of him for me. "
}{}{ Of course. }{}{
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