Mila
Mila tried to look on the bright side of Aalam getting himself captured. At least the two in front of him were very, very horny for each other. Aalam couldn’t see it, both because he couldn’t understand their language and because he was generally oblivious, but he and Mila had started sharing their senses with each other over their bond and Mila was nowhere near as dense.
Aalam had also managed to kill seemingly every undead other than the generals and two dogs, so that w...
2023-07-03 02:16:53 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Congratulations!
Your Law Egg of Molecular Deceleration has advanced to peak grade.
Your soul is affected by your understanding of Laws.
Toughness +4, Perception +8, Magic +24, Soul +12
Toughness is already at maximum.
Nascent Energy Converter ability activated.
Free stats +4
Perception is already at maximum...
2023-07-03 02:15:43 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam was a bit disappointed by his second uniqueness. On paper it was awesome, +200% to all stats in a way that didn’t interfere with Id or boosts in effectiveness from abilities or classes. But it required him to be in his own Territory and, more important, it required his Territory to be large enough to empower that +200% boost.
At the moment, with the new Territory the Hiralian prince had claimed for him, he was only getting +36 to most of his stats, +24 to Aura and At...
2023-07-03 02:14:50 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The planet Hira was a little smaller than Earth, with slightly weaker gravity, though Mila’s much higher stats made the difference pretty much negligible, and the planet’s rotation speed and orbit around its star were very close to Earth’s, days about fifteen minutes longer and years shorter by about three days.
Mostly water, with one large continent, its weather patterns were similar to earth as well, the continent having rainforests near the equator, deserts further n...
2023-07-03 02:14:01 +0000 UTC
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Roland
Things were going Roland’s way. Hira’s tutorial hadn’t allowed any of the trial takers to kill each other, so, for the first time since his father’s assassination, he’d been able to walk around without hiding his identity.
The rebels had never had much support, what with how they used the blood of slaves, commoners, and nobles alike to power spells even before the rise of mana, leading to the apocalypse style integration in the first place. And the generals factio...
2023-07-03 02:13:01 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Okay, as your teacher, I feel I should explain a few things.” Nana Xara let her cry for a few minutes, but then the woman spoke again, directly into her mind, causing Mila’s sadness to again change to rage at the complete and utter invasion of privacy.
“First, I’m speaking to you now through our bond as master and apprentice. I can do the same with Diana and the bond allows me to sense everything you do. From now on, when you’re not crying, I will li...
2023-07-03 02:12:03 +0000 UTC
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Mila
When Mila regained consciousness after having her soul modified and a new body created, she wanted two main things. First, she wanted to strangle Aalam. She’d calmed down a bit from her initial murderous rage, so she no longer wanted to kill him. But she’d thought she’d be some kind of monster that still ate food, not souls, and especially not souls filled with lust, so she was very interested in him feeling pain.
Second, she wanted to know what she looked like.<...
2023-07-03 02:11:13 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah - One Year Ago
Isaiah stabbed his spear for the 1,728th time, and then he returned to a neutral position, standing straight and leaning the spear up against his left shoulder.
He was in one of the training halls of his clan, but not one of the nice ones. There were no automated training robots, no holographic projectors for showing lessons from the clan’s ancestors, no dao enhancement field allowing for easier comprehension of Laws. Instead, there was just a large empty r...
2023-07-03 02:10:26 +0000 UTC
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Mila
You have a servitor relationship with Aalam Alvaro.
Are you willing to maintain that relationship during your rebirth?
Yes/No
When the time was up, Mila saw this notification in front of her eyes and, after a brief pause, she accepted. Then the gambling hall around her faded and she found herself floating in an empty void, more System messages all she could see.
You have 623,879,540 Trial Points
2023-07-03 01:42:24 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Well, that went better than expected.” Nana Xara smiled down at them as they awoke, seemingly having waited for them in Training Room 0003, and then she tossed Mila the Twin Dragons in spear form. “But we don’t have much time.
“You two were unconscious for almost half a day and missed the loud voice giving the final instructions for the tutorial, as well as my final message to all the participants containing advice on what to aim for with their trial points, and no...
2023-07-03 01:22:43 +0000 UTC
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Mila
During the third challenge, mainly while meditating after everyone was dead, Mila raised her Law Egg of The Reaper, her Law Egg of the Healer, her Law Egg of Bonds, and her Law Egg of Severing all to middle grade. They joined her already middle grade Law Eggs of Calm and Rage, and her high grade Law Eggs of Obfuscation and Hologram.
Objectively, this was quite impressive, G ranks rarely having even a single Law Egg, let alone Law Eggs strong enough to qualify for a Heroic gra...
2023-07-03 01:21:29 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The knife continued toward her right eye, but then it stopped, a large see through barrier forming around her.
“Sorry, Kiloran.” One of the five remaining E ranks Mila had forced into a contract with a death punishment, a male mage with pale skin and blond hair, appeared on the roof of a building a couple floors lower than the tower she and her assailant were on. “While I would very much like to see her dead, I can’t let you kill her.”
At the same...
2023-07-03 01:18:58 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Getting Corith’s four E rank subordinates to sign contracts wasn’t difficult at all. Along her way to the whorehouse, she’d stopped by the home of a wealthy but physically weak merchant for a bit of B & E and took a bag of holding from off the man’s belt, which was lying in the house’s hallway as the man spent time in his bedroom with his young wife, his guards having been sent away from the house.
The contents of that bag of holding included a couple bottles of...
2023-07-03 01:17:11 +0000 UTC
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Mila
According to the dossier, the city had a total of 15 individuals above F rank, made up of two D ranks and thirteen E ranks. One of the D ranks was the city lord, his wife one of the more powerful E ranks, and the other D rank was a man called Corith, a mercenary who’d retired to the settlement about a year before the challenge’s start time.
Corith was a warrior while the city lord was a mage, and both had Laws more powerful than Mila’s. Trying to fight either would be i...
2023-07-03 01:15:34 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The Nightmare challenge Death to the Settlement is now starting.
Your goal is to kill as many humans over the next 27 days as possible.
Trial Points will be rewarded based on the number and power of the dead, irregardless of how they died.
Your role for this challenge is that of a human-shaped spirit of energy, but you can die just as easily as a human.
Finally, you have the followin...
2023-07-03 01:04:08 +0000 UTC
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Mila
It took almost a minute for Nana Xara’s laughter to stop, and Mila felt a little self conscious as Aalam looked on in confusion.
“Alright. Time to upgrade your weapon.” Nana Xara finally stopped laughing and made a gesture, Legacy of the Weaponsmaster flowing off of the ground and into a silver orb above her right hand. Then she gestured with her left hand and the glowing blue monster core and bucket of slime flesh by the door flew over to hover over her right as well.<...
2023-07-03 01:00:36 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila put down ‘A Devil’s Guide to Nefarious Deals’ and stood, glaring at Nana Xara. “I said I didn’t want to be under anyone and you’ve interpreted that as it would be a good idea to make me a servant or a slave?”
“Technically, you’re going to be reborn as a monster, and that will automatically change the nature of both these skills in the eyes of the System, so you will be a familiar, not a servant or slave.”
Mila continued glaring at the smiling wo...
2023-07-03 00:59:19 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Just as Aalam upgraded the third of his four new Law Eggs to middle grade, really benefiting from that maxed out Attunement stat, Mila finally mastered her last skill, Artifact Activation (G-Rare), and Nana Xara raised her hand, causing the robots to stop attacking.
Then, a couple hours before Aalam was ready to merge his own skills, Mila started her skill merge first.
Attempting to merge Weapon Enhancement (G-Epic), Artifact Activation (G-Rare), and Material St...
2023-07-03 00:56:57 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam was growing annoyed.
It had been six hours and the thing still wasn’t dead. Sure, the blue-gray slime was D rank, with high Toughness and high Vitality, but it was locked in a forcefield-like cage and he’d been hitting it with three full power mental spikes per second for six hours. Granted, his skill was only Epic grade and of G rank, only able to show the power of Spirit up to a value of 144, so, with his Id state, he’d hit the max threshold it could handle bac...
2023-07-03 00:54:59 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“You understand what your boyfriend’s insane goal is, right? At least the general gist?”
Mila waited for her body to stop twitching, but didn’t get up, instead looking up at the ceiling. “I don’t know for sure, but, knowing him, he’s probably going for some ultimate build of ultimate power.”
“That’s about it.” Nana Xara swiped her hand in the air and half the hovering robots faded out of existence. Then the others started attacking again and Mila p...
2023-07-03 00:51:33 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“So, I said get an offensive Law to round out a good trio, and you instead gain two opposing buff Laws and a healing Law.” Nana Xara was grinning from ear to ear, obviously quite happy. “You really don’t listen, do you?”
She then turned to Aalam, who was putting his pants back on now that he had legs again, and patted him warmly on the shoulder. “She’s rather impressive, isn’t she? Sure, she’s no you. But she’s on the road to becoming a true yin yang speci...
2023-07-03 00:50:23 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Law Egg gained - Rage
Your soul is affected by your understanding of Laws.
Spirit +8, Soul +4
Mila was about to attack the Rollie-Pollie, an uncharacteristically stupid decision, but Aalam screamed at her through their telepathic connection. “Open the door!”
Using the telekinesis skill from his headband, he took out two grenades from the bags of holding on his chest and a mana fruit from the Epi...
2023-07-03 00:49:21 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila couldn’t figure out what unnerved her more, Aalam again casually murdering everyone else in the challenge, the ease with which he took out tens of thousands of monsters, or the fact that, even before the introduction of magic, he probably could have created a pandemic capable of wiping out all of humanity with relatively little effort.
Sure, it made sense. Destruction was always easier than creation, and Aalam had created cures for the world’s worst diseases. So it s...
2023-07-03 00:47:06 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam finished looking over the brief memory of a Rollie-Pollie Mila’d sent through their rings’ connection and then looked down at his feet again, annoyed. The insects hadn’t been able to bite through his robes, but the two that had gone after his feet had bitten him easily.
He could see why shoes weren’t really a thing. With a high Perception stat, sensing minute vibrations in the ground would become possible, and shoes would make that harder. With a d...
2023-07-03 00:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The Nightmare challenge Rolling Death is now starting.
Survive for eight days.
Trial Points will be rewarded at the end depending on performance.
Mila found herself in a damp and slightly cold room, her bare feet on mossy stone, and there was no light. Thankfully, however, her training with Nana Xara had granted her two abilities to see her surroundings.
First, she could create a hologram which would give of...
2023-07-03 00:44:52 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila dodged the purple bolt, took a red bolt on the back of her dress, and then blocked one of the yellow bolts filled with kinetic force with Legacy of the Weaponsmaster, the silvery metallic artifact transformed into the form of a silver kite shield with a symbol of a sword crossed with a spear on the front.
The resulting kinetic push knocked her out of the encirclement of the 20+ hovering robots and she landed lightly by controlling her body’s qi.
Mila then used he...
2023-07-03 00:44:03 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“What is wrong with Aalam?” The sage leaned back in her chair again, but this time she was frowning. “Well, quite a bit.
“First, there is something wrong with that family. Uniquenesses have the same grades as classes, skills, races, and the like with Heroic, Fabled, and Mythic being the three grades higher than Legendary. Unlike most other things on the same grade scale, however, uniquenesses, like bloodlines, can have a grade higher than Legendary at G rank.
...
2023-07-03 00:42:51 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The sage smiled back, but there was an undercurrent of sadness for a split second and the assumption Mila had been fishing to confirm, about the identity of the woman’s first apprentice, seemed much more likely. Without showing any reaction, though, she asked her next question. “What advantages do you get from having apprentices?”
“There are quite a few. Given the purpose of the System, which I cannot tell you as it is classified, raising up another power to your leve...
2023-07-03 00:42:00 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila couldn’t control her expression, what with her surprise at the question and the state of her body, which was of course the sage’s plan. So, as the hovering robots stopped shooting her and she again stood up, she decided not to answer the question but instead say something which would make her seem more defensive than she actually felt. “He’s not my boyfriend.”
“Technically, you never actually broke up.” The sage smiled at her and, taking a step forward to a...
2023-07-03 00:41:08 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Had Mi la not been wearing her magical underwear, which reacted automatically to create a shield, she would have at least lost teeth, if not outright had her jaw broken. In fact, given his superhuman strength, and her lack of reaction, she could have possibly even died.
Mila had thought he might get angry. Despite what they’d gone through in the last couple hours, things were not back to how they’d been before she’d run away and he’d found out their entire relationshi...
2023-07-02 21:20:48 +0000 UTC
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