章節 213: Tinnitus
The group continued walking at a slow pace, the injured members slowing their progress significantly. Soon night begins to roll around, and the group find their gazes shifting upwards at the twilight sky, and then at the stars that reveal themselves.
Michael gapes as he looks up, the others looking nonplussed despite the sight, simply due to them not knowing anything different... But he knew. Above them were thousands of stars and what looked like nearby nebulae that shined with a rainbow of colours... Not only that, there were two moons overhead, though, both looked distinctly different from the two moons from Halkeginia.
In fact, they looked like actual moons. The white globes he was used to seeing in his original world, instead of the radiant blue and pink things hovering in the sky in Halkeginia. This'd thrown him completely off, as he didn't remember any world that possessed two moons... Or maybe he was just overlooking it? Perhaps they were in a world that he had no knowledge of whatsoever... Honestly, the chance of them randomly going to a world from his memories was slim to none.
He lets out a sigh, mist escaping his mouth as his warm breath hits the air. "We should find shelter for the night, I'm wearing two cloaks and I'm still freezing." he says, glancing at Charlotte who seemed somehow comfortable in this temperature... Was it due to her proclivity towards ice magic? If so, he'd have to get himself some of that.
"Hn, mother will not last long in this cold." Charlotte affirms, "There." she announces, gesturing over at the horizon with her staff where a run down-looking tower stood. From what Michael could see, its top half had collapsed, and the rest of it was slowly getting reclaimed by the forest.
The group speed up their pace and eventually reach the half-destroyed tower, Michael eyes trailing along the moss-ridden stones comprising it. "Huh, so there are people in this world... Though... Maybe they're not around anymore? This tower looks ancient."
*Bbbbbbbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
...
"You guys hear that?" Michael quietly murmurs, alert and examining the surroundings for whatever was making that peculiar noise.
Charlotte nods, allowing her mother to stand on her own as she readies her staff.
*BzzzzzzzZZZZzzzzzzz!*
Michael's eyes focus on the tower as green light approaches the entrance from inside, the strange buzzing sound only getting louder at its approach. Soon enough, the group spot the thing that was creating the disturbance.
It slowly, jerkily steps out of the tower, its gnarled bark skin covered in swirls and marks that almost look like tattoos. Its form is humanoid and strangely female, the wood comprising its form creating a mock-simile of breasts. Its head looked like a mask of a females face, decorated with horns and hollow lifeless sockets.
Bright green glowing fliies cover its form as if it were a walking hive, entering and exiting its body from the holes in its bark flesh. Last but not least, its hands didn't match its attempt at mimicking the human body, instead looking like fierce wooden claws that began to glow green as it approached the group.
"What in Brimir's left testicle is that!?" Derflinger exclaims fearfully.
The group stays silent, and Michael feels his throat go dry as memories strike him like a hammer. "Spriggan." he whispers, barely loud enough for the others to hear him.
"Spriggan?" Charlotte parrots, still looking unsurely at the creature, her magic ready to strike at any moment.
Michael nods, "Spriggans. From what I remember, are like feral nature spirits. They attack people on sight if you approach their domains. I for one don't want to have swarms of insects shot at me, so..." he licks his lips, slowly pointing his fingers at the creature as to not cause it to attack first. "Shock." he casts, causing many bolts of orange lightning to strike it, their fire and electricity affinities dealing huge amount of damage to it.
Many flies die and pieces of bark are torn from its body as the spell hits, causing the spriggan to stumble backwards, an unearthly growl leaving it as the hive's buzzing increases in volume.
"Shock."
*Crack!*
Its wooden mask-like face cracked down the middle as another spell hits it, forcing it back even further.
"It's tough... I didn't think it'd still be standing." he mutters in slight curiosity. Usually green spriggans were the easiest to beat, breaking like rotten twigs with a good hit... "Shock."
Finally, the last Ether Shock blows it to pieces, the glowing green flies dissipating as if they'd never existed at all.
"Partner, how do you know what that thing was? Shouldn't we be in another world?" Derflinger quickly asks as Michael walks towards the spriggan corpse.
"We are in another world, it's just that I've heard of this world before... We're in a place called Tamriel, on a planet called Nirn." he glances at Charlotte with a steadily growing smile, "Good news, Charlotte, this place just so happens to have the best healers around. Alchemy is common, healing magic slightly less so, if all else fails... We could probably just ask one of the gods here to heal your mother."
"G-gods?" Derflinger asks, Charlotte and Illococoo looking equally shocked.
Michael nods as he wrenches his hand backwards, extracting the heart-like taproot from the spriggan's chest, "Gods. I'd be careful about which you interact with though. As far as I can remember, there are two kinds of gods here. Aedra, and Daedra. Don't ask me to list all of them because, again, I don't remember. That, and I'm pretty sure they know when people are talking about them... I'd bet they'd be more than interested in using Tiff's powers to extend their influence over multiple worlds... So yeah, no talking about inter-dimensional travel while we're here... At all." he orders, sending hard looks at everyone here to make sure they keep quiet.
He wasn't afraid of the common populace finding out... They could be dealt with the same as any other mortal. But he doubted he'd stand a snowball's chance in hell if the Daedra were to set him in their sights.
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章節 214: Sprig-gone...
With the spriggan dead, the tower was now free real estate. The group hobble inside and are greeted by a larger tree that'd sprouted from the center of the dilapidated tower, probably what the spriggan was attempting to protect. Regardless if they'd killed the previous owner, they'd stay here tonight. The tower would provide enough cover to keep predators and the elements away.
Michael sets up two tents, one for Charlotte, her mother, and Illococoo, and one for him and Tiffania. With everything said and done, the group entered their respective tents, Michael laying Tiffania down before covering both him and her with blankets and furs.
Before he allows himself any sleep however, he pulls out the Book of Heroes to see his progress.
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Name : Michael Hunt
Rank : Hero
Stats :
Strength : 19 > 21
Agility : 36.6 > 39
Intelligence : 19 > 23
Abilities :
[Gandalfr] : Enables user to utilise any weapon at two ranks above their current proficiency while granting them the knowledge necessary to use them. While wielding a weapon, temporarily gain +100% in all stats.
[Language Comprehension] : Enables user to understand all spoken tongues, and increase the rate of which they learn reading and writing.
[Basic Mana Manipulation] : Allows user more control over his magic, spells, and some abilities. Mana efficiency and control of power is increased.
[Pain Tolerence] : Allows user to endure great amounts of pain with little to no negative effects as a result.
[Novice basic Swordsmanship(Two handed swords/One handed swords)] : Determines how skilful the user is when handling swords.
[Novice basic Dagger techniques(Single edge, curved, straight, double edge.)] : Determines how skilful the user is when handling daggers.
Affinities :
[Lesser Water Affinity], [Lesser Fire Affinity], [Lesser Lightning Afffinity], [Lesser Darkness Affinity]
Spirits :
Commoner Tier :
Shadow Shaman : MAX
Slark : Lvl MAX
Riki : Lvl MAX
Hero Tier :
Anti-Mage : Lvl 5 > 8
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He'd gotten a good amount of training in during the week they were leading Loutiel around by his nose. Seems like the threat of discovery had pushed him to get stronger faster. His quick increase could be due to the ambush however...
On that subject, his Anti-Mage had finally reached level six! Allowing him to acquire Mana Void!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Spirit : Anti-Mage
Level : 5 > 8
Abilities :
Mental Fortitude (Rank 1) : Grants resistance to mental attacks that gets stronger when against magic.
Mana Break (Rank 2) : Burns the mana of any target struck, dealing damage to them based on how much mana is burned.
Blink (Rank 1) : Short Range but fast teleportation. Less range when unable to see location.
Counter Spell (Rank 3) : Provides passive magic resistance, can be activated to form a shield for a short time that blocks and reflects any single target spells cast towards the user.
Mana Void (Rank 1) : Attacks an enemy and deals damage to them and their surroundings based on how much mana they are missing.
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He hadn't had a chance to use Mana Void yet, but if it was as powerful as it was in the game, it'd be a serious game changer if he was facing any kind of mage or magical user. Depending on the situation, he could just insta-kill the opponent straight up.
He grins to himself, flipping the pages and entering his Spirit's worlds and informing them of the dimension hop. Both Rhasta and Riki were intrigued to hear about the method of travel, as well as about Tamriel itself.
Indeed, Michael had even gotten Rhasta a gift. He holds out his hand to the Shadow Shaman, the glowing heart of the spriggan pulsing with green light, as if it were still alive.
Rhasta's milky eyes widen as they behold it. He tentatively grasps the object, holding it to his face as if he were looking through it. "This... It's a magic siphon! How, strange! Hhahahhouuihhohi!"
...
"Magic siphon?" Michael questions, getting the general gist by its name but wanting a detailed explanation.
...
"Master?"
Rhasta looks up from the Taproot, "What?"
"What's a magic siphon? Are you alright? Or has your age finally caught up with you-*Bonk*" Michael starts but gets hit over the head by Rhasta's stick.
"Stupid student! Its use is in the name! It draws in, absorbs and condensed magical energy. Naturally formed ones are quite rare from what I heard, but it sounds as if these 'Spriggan's are common in that new world of yours." he squints his eyes as he frowns, "However. Do not hunt for them. There's a reason for Nature Spirits to exist, if you hunt for them you will start destroying the lands they protect. Kill enough, and you will find yourself an enemy of nature itself!... Student, hear my words, you do not want such a fate."
Michael raises a brow, "Why, what happens?"
"Nature will be against you... The water you drink will turn to mud, fruits you bite into will rot as you try to eat them. Wooden handles you use with grow thorns, animals will attack you whenever they see you, predator or not. Storms will be your enemy, lightning only striking at and around you, wind attempting to destroy whatever shelter you've found. It will not only be nature itself that will wish to harm you, even those with an affinity to it will find your presence sickening... Something I doubt you desire, considering that Half-Elf girl of yours." the Shadow Shaman remark, though, despite his jesting tone, does not change the severe frown on his face.
"You have been warned. I do not know if things will be the same in the world you currently inhabit, but those who harm nature will only be harming themselves..." Rhasta flips the taproot in his hand a couple times, "I'll be keeping this for now. I'm interested to see what uses I can find out of it..." he says, turning around and heading towards the makeshift hut Rhasta had built for himself during his stay here.
Michael is left there with an unsure look on his face. He'd never heard about any of what Rhasta just said before. In Skyrim he'd have his character destroy hundreds if not thousands of spirggans as he did quests. The fact that his character was also a vampire should've brought the wrath of nature down upon him... But, maybe Bethesda didn't want to integrate a Nature's Curse into the game, as it'd soft-lock anyone's game if they activated it... You wouldn't be able to do much if even the grass wanted to trip you up...
He shakes his head, deciding to leave spriggans alone unless they attacked him first. While their taproots could be used for experiments, alchemy, and maybe even improving his own magic, the risk was not worth the reward... He'd have to remember to relay this new knowledge to the others.
Michael exits Rhasta's world and snaps his book closed, allowing it to dissipate as he buries himself in his covers, cuddling up to Tiffania to warm one another with their body heat. He hoped she'd be up by tomorrow, otherwise he'd have to start feeding and bathing her... No, he'd let Charlotte handle that, she already did so with her mother, so she probably wouldn't be averse to it...?
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