Aalam
Watching both Diana and Isaiah pass out, Aalam began to fear they wouldn’t get anywhere near as far into the War of the Chosen as they wanted to.
Sure, if he’d entered into the formation and fought with Isaiah, the battle would have gone much faster and Isaiah wouldn’t have become so exhausted, but that would have forced him to stop the process of making the plague. Also, the small apparatus for plague construction he’d made after challenging for a commander position...
2023-07-04 23:36:36 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“Alright. It’s ready.”
Both standing in a large several hectare formation Aalam had set up using his energy to carve runes into the forest’s trees and ground, Isaiah caught the spear Aalam had been using several minds to forge over the last twenty minutes.
The spear was entirely made of a green transparent metallic substance called Living Amber Titanium, an Epic grade E rank resource Aalam had found within about an hour of starting to search the fores...
2023-07-04 23:35:57 +0000 UTC
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Diana
Diana had already maxed out her stats before participating in the Trial Tower, and that had allowed a few of her racial abilities to advance, Silver Soul to Golden Soul, Miracle Summoner to Master Summoner, and Nascent Energy Converter to Nascent/Primal Energy Converter. So, her original racial abilities provided quite a bit more power than before.
Omniglot Reader (Legendary): You can understand all non-magical and low-magical languages in both written and spoken for...
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Diana
“Mila, why is your opponent so easy while we have to face the army of an upper tier A rank force?” Diana sent angrily as she fought with who she guessed was one of the enemy force’s commanders.
For all the armies in the War of the Chosen, the first round had the same rules. There was a giant forest thousands of kilometers in diameter with 128 clearings inside. The two armies set to face each other would each be teleported to one of these clearings. And then th...
2023-07-04 23:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Brom
“So, why do you look so nervous?” After their servants finished placing down their meal of lightly cooked meat and left the room, Brom’s father, Orom Karendesh, sat down at the two person table in the home they shared and looked at his son’s face carefully.
“I lost my position as general of the army.”
Orom grinned, an expression which on a coran did not mean happiness, and his tail started to wave in agitation. “Elaborate.”
Brom then told his fathe...
2023-07-04 23:34:54 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Evil Eyes Diabolical Trickster (E-Heroic)
You are an exceptional cheat with the power of evil eyes
Effects:
Markedly increase the power of disguise category skills
Markedly increase the power of all bonds and contracts you enter into or for which you provide the magic
Markedly increase the power of your Evil Eyes skill
Greatly decrease th...
2023-07-04 23:34:35 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The War of the Chosen simulated real war, so every army couldn’t just consist of combatants. No one started with any artifacts, so smiths, leatherworkers, and the like were needed to create them from the raw materials provided by the War of the Chosen’s various environments. Potions and other types of consumables were also incredibly useful, so alchemists were needed as well. And the true key to doing well in a war in the universe was unifying the power of an army into a singul...
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Brom
The War of the Chosen was a relatively simple competition. A number of armies were created at the start with 1,728 soldiers, 12 commanders, and 1 general. Then every three months, i.e. 4 times a year, two or occasionally more armies would compete against each other and only one army would move on. This then continued for 6 years until a champion army was crowned after winning 24 battles.
If there were survivors on the losing side and dead among the winners, the winning army c...
2023-07-04 23:33:58 +0000 UTC
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Brom
“So, is everyone from the sub-forces accounted for?” Brom asked as the members of the Bronze Legion and the Bronze Legion’s subordinate B and C rank forces started setting up camp in the forest clearing, the combatants all helping out the small amount of crafters and logistical staff under his orders.
“Everyone but the 12th commander and the four soldiers she should be bringing.” Darra Jur, Brom’s assistant, used light magic to display the army’s status window i...
2023-07-04 23:33:38 +0000 UTC
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Brom
“So, do you think you can do it?” Brom’s father, Orom Karendesh, the twelfth and youngest subleader of the A rank force known as the Bronze Legion and the man everyone acknowledged as its next leader, looked at Brom from across a small two-person table in the home they shared on the Bronze Legion’s B rank planet of Dorinal, a relaxed look on his face.
He’d just asked Brom if he’d consent to being the general of the Bronze Legion’s second force in th...
2023-07-04 23:33:15 +0000 UTC
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Mila
In a small room at the heart of Paris, France, Mila took out the spear form of the Twin Dragons from the chest of her third target and sighed with relief, quickly starting to clean up the bodies of both him and his five subordinates who’d been hiding together and forcing contracts on innocent cultivators to have them try to assassinate Diana.
She’d just upgraded her Law Larva of the Reaper to high grade to match her other Laws and she would now be able to train Yin Yang C...
2023-07-04 23:32:53 +0000 UTC
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Diana
“Why are you running?!”
The final battle of the tournament was taking place in an arena as well, but one much, much larger, several dozen kilometers in diameter, with a ceiling at least a few kilometers high.
Their opponent was a humanoid alien with gray skin, six arms, and insectoid features—a race Mila called a Vilorax—and she seemed to be a psychic mage of some kind, with what Diana was pretty sure were three peak grade metal element Laws.
As soon as t...
2023-07-04 23:32:35 +0000 UTC
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Diana
Diana had never experienced the Trial Tower before, but she was pretty sure the first section wasn’t designed to be as easy as she and her team made it appear.
In each of the combat based trials, Mila, with Aalam’s Sensory Domain skill, was able to find any hidden enemies with ease, killing anything far away with the extreme range of her Yin Striker sniper rifle. And Diana, with the help of Helen and Dioscuri, was able to kill anything close by with ease. Nitya and Irena...
2023-07-04 23:32:16 +0000 UTC
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Mila
It took 53 hours for Aalam to wake up and again he didn’t look much different. His dark blue hair had all fallen out just like the last time he’d advanced his race, but hair of a half shade darker had already grown in. His amber, almost orange, eyes were a bit more subdued, appearing somehow more inhuman yet more natural at the same time. And, again, the biggest difference was in his aura.
Previously, due to his Prince uniqueness, he’d had by far the highest Aura stat o...
2023-07-04 23:31:43 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Strong Soul Incubus Prince (E-Epic)
The weakest variety of an incarnation of Lust, but an enhanced prince of their kind, one which eats souls.
Racial Abilities: 3
No limits, but a higher chance for charm, disguise, and noble related abilities
Advanced dual classes possible
Max stats:
Strength: 29,376
Agility: 29,37...
2023-07-04 23:30:52 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam finally mastered the seventh level of the Twelve Element Primal Code with eight days to spare. Then he and Mila spent a few days getting her weaker version of the cultivation technique up to match before Mila summoned a small ornate purple crystal bottle containing three drops of liquid, the so called Primal Code Soul Washing Dew.
The liquid inside appeared to Aalam’s Sensory Domain as pure water, but it obviously wasn’t. As he took off his shirt and lay down in th...
2023-07-04 23:30:29 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Here’s some food. Don’t eat too much each month or it will be harder to clear out the resulting impurities.”
“Don’t stay away for too long. If you can reach E rank before five years are up, you have a guaranteed spot to participate in the War of the Chosen.”
“Try not to die.”
A lot of people, both seniors and most of the core disciples of her same level crowded around Mila as she prepared to leave the Violet Mountain Blessed Land for several yea...
2023-07-04 23:30:07 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Almost three years after Mila left, Aalam, having already created a Heroic grade F rank shield and spear set for Isaiah to practice with, was working on his first E rank weapon, a common grade spear, hoping to give Isaiah a better weapon to use as soon as possible to help with his knight training. And, as usual these days, Diana had for some reason joined Isaiah in cultivating and meditating inside his crafting hall, despite the entire enlightenment zone providing the same effects...
2023-07-04 23:29:47 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
Isaiah readied his new weapon in his right hand, a moonlight iron spear which was the prototype for a custom design Aalam was working on for him, and in his left was a matching moonlight iron shield, round with two indents on the sides. Then, when Diana said go, he activated Storm Steps at full power and charged through the air at Epecteos, fully boosted by Dragon Drive and Knight.
At the same time, Epecteos moved like the wind to attack him and Isaiah blocked it with his s...
2023-07-04 23:29:23 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Once she'd passed the hurdles to create her identity, the Violet Mountain Sect was actually quite nice, filled with kind and easy to manipulate people.
Granted, they were only kind to her. With Sensory Domain she could spy on everything within roughly 54 meters of herself, allowing her to see behind a lot of closed doors, and there were many, many depraved people in the sect.
To her, though, most were deferential, her status as a core disciple putting her on nearly the ...
2023-07-04 23:28:49 +0000 UTC
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Arl
Arl Gremin spotted his sect’s new core disciple choose the Twelve Element Primal Code a bit too late, the information orb having already marked her soul before he’d realized what was happening. And this made him panic for a few seconds before he rushed over to her.
“Why choose the Twelve Element Primal Code?” he quickly asked. “You know you can’t transfer that copy to your grandfather, right?”
“Of course.” The young woman looked at him with an expressio...
2023-07-04 23:28:16 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“She’s clean.” The D rank human woman nodded to the D rank human man who’d been guiding Mila and the other 107 new recruits and moved on to one of the others.
She’d just scanned Mila with several D rank artifacts and a couple detection skills of her own, but she hadn’t been able to notice Mila was a monster, or anything else wrong with her fictional identity.
This wasn’t just because Mila specialized in disguises and her Trickster’s Guise skill was power...
2023-07-04 23:27:58 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Well, this is interesting.” Nana Xara sent as Mila stepped through the portal to the Violet Mountain Blessed land. “This blessed land isn’t a natural wonder at all.”
Stepping from the top of the tall mountain on the Carium Galaxy Cluster's capital planet to the periphery of the Violet Mountain Blessed Land, Mila felt like she'd entered into a different universe. The Law suppression was higher, at the B rank planet level, making it instantly harder...
2023-07-04 23:27:37 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam was enjoying his new skills. Psyforce Construction (F-Epic), Mana Construction (F-Epic), and Qi Construction (F-Epic) all allowed him to use the given resource to mold a material into the shape of his desire. Psyforce Material Cleansing (F-Epic), Mana Material Cleansing (F-Epic), and Qi Material Cleansing (F-Epic) each allowed him to cleanse the material of impurities using their given resource. And Psyforce Material Strengthening (F-Epic), Mana Material Strengthening (F-Epi...
2023-07-04 23:27:18 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Dodging the claws of the horse-sized furred scorpion by a margin way too close for comfort, Mila sliced a small gash in its flank with her spear and then dodged backwards, avoiding the beast’s tail. Then, as the beast turned to face her, she flash stepped to its other side and gave it another small slice before dodging back again.
This was now the fourth E rank monster she’d fought by herself, counting the two from the tests in the soul net, and, starting out, this fight ...
2023-07-04 23:26:59 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila had been quite lucky when it came to taking over the identity of Sarra Lin’Talic, one of 398 different female descendants of Epecteos older than 17 and under the age of 30.
First, the woman had been training up to be a lawyer, so, if she had managed to advance to F rank, the class she would have been aiming for was one Mila could quite easily fake. Second, Epecteos was her only living relative, the rest of her family having died of old age or from a major factional war...
2023-07-04 23:26:34 +0000 UTC
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Bothil
“So, is there anyone promising in this backwater?” the emissary from the Hewin Kingdom asked, not even bothering to look at Bothil and instead disinterestedly gazing out over the crowd which had gathered in Toril’s largest arena, waiting for the final round of recruitment testing.
“Yes, Lord.” Bothil made sure to bow deeply as he brought drinks for the emissary and the Violet Mountain Sect’s recruiter. “Mr. Epecteos has recently taken an apprentice, a descende...
2023-07-04 23:26:00 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Watching Epecteos yet again dismantle the combined assault of Isaiah, Diana, and Dioscuri at the same time, Aalam pondered if he should have gone with a combat class. Sure, the Laws he liked were much more suited for crafting than combat, and, sure, when he’d tried to copy Isaiah’s practice schedule using similar techniques with his bastard sword—stabbing and slashing at the air repeatedly for hours on end—he’d briefly considered slitting his own throat. And, yes, when h...
2023-07-04 23:25:13 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Watching Epecteos’s aura when he was looking at Aalam, Isaiah, and her without her disguise skill for the first time was quite entertaining, but seeing how fast he could move when Nana Xara was telling her it was obviously not his max speed really put into perspective how weak they were in the wider scheme of things.
She’d already intellectually understood how large the difference was between ranks, but she hadn’t seen a D rank fight since the third challenge of the tut...
2023-07-04 23:24:50 +0000 UTC
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Epecteos
Arriving on the home world of the young woman he now knew was named Mila, Epecteos almost immediately noticed three things. First, as Mila had promised, the world was E rank and had started its integration less than 2 years before. This meant, for the next 70 years, the ease of acquiring and advancing Laws would be equivalent to that of a B rank world, and that was huge, especially for someone like him who’d never been able to spend more than a year on even a C rank world in ...
2023-07-04 23:24:07 +0000 UTC
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