The Legacy
'Its hard to breathe, I can't see, I can't think straight. Something is coiling around my body and trying to pull me down towards the earth.' Roan awakens at an untimely manner as his whole body is being swept beneath the unknown lake.
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Minutes passes by...
*Plop*
Roan's entire figure drops into a secluded grotto and lands on a pile of bones.
He slowly stands up from the ground, his entire body was filled with dark and thick liquid which was slowly dripping down creating a mini puddle.
The gnarly stench increases as time flies by, the smell of excrement and dead skin cells permeates throughout the vicinity.
Roan looks around to see where he came from.
He stares above to see any traps or doors were activated upon his arrival into an unknown territory.
He then looks around and was intrigued by his many sights. It was brightly lit by the many lanterns attached on the nearby pillars, scattered wooden bookshelves placed neatly in columns and rows, unknown lustrous objects shine behind glass cases stationed equally in groups of eight on both sides, an extensive crimson carpet leading straight towards a turquoise stone arched door.
"What are these?" With intrigue and curiosity, Roan walks across the vicinity and came to inspect the many glowing objects.
From objects that look like oddly shaped cubes to scaly eggs.
As he tries to touch the fine glass, the grounds starts the quake, the walls and ceiling starts to shake, and he begins to fall into the void as he rethinks his decisions and came to a conclusion that he made a grave mistake.
As his entire being was being swept down to the abyss, he looks down on the ground and realises that he was about to be dropped into another pile of bones which was much larger in size than the previous.
"I need to think of something." As he continues to ponder, the persistence of vision clogs his mind and he begins to wonder.
He remembers that he can use instrument creation, he quickly think of an instrument that would help in his endeavour.
[Music Mode]
He begins to chant and summon ten bass drums facing vertically and were layered on top of each other.
[Instrument Creation: Bass Drums]
Roan repeats the same chant over and over again to help reduce his speed.
Eventually his mana starts to run dry due to the repetitive use of instrument creation.
The sounds of tearing of plastic pulsates like exploding gunpowder causing minature shockwaves to spread across the area.
As he was nearing ground level, he positioned himself to a sitting posture and curled himself like a ball.
He lands safely on the pile of cold and brittle bones.
As he digs himself out of it, he finds himself in an eerily dark and expansive room.
Roan wipes off the dust from his body before navigating through yet again, an unknown location.
Compared to the brightly lit entrance, it was comparing light to darkness.
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Walking through the cold and hard flooring, he manages to be in front of an oddly placed object which was sitting on top of a small quartz stand.
"It's brighter than the objects from before, this smell-" as he begins analysing the object in front, he notices a percuilar smell.
"It smells like something like perfume or perhaps food, it almost feels a bit too intoxicating." While he was pondering what this thing was, purple smoke arises from beneath the stand.
The smell deepens, it dwells further and seeps into the nostrils of Roan before he could react to the sudden change.
"AGH!" An unknown pain similar to his death resurfaces causing his eyes to bulg and turn blood shot, crimson red liquid trickles down from his eye lids, light red foam arises from his mouth and out of his lips. Both his hands were scrunching on his left chest with extreme force.
He rolls around on the ground from left to right wishing this pain to cede away.
The very cells within his body were repairing at rapid speeds.
His skin were peeling and borne anew.
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"Huh… huh… huh…" Roan releases slow and quiet huffs.
As the pain goes away, so has his complexion. Roan begins to observe the changes to his body.
Purple sheen scales appeared around his body and were especially apparent around the joints.
As he wiffs the smoke around him, nothing changes.
"Info."
[Roan Williams][HP:210/210][MP: 0/80]
[Age: 22]
[Level: 1]
[Strength: 5 +20%][Speed: 7 +50%][Endurance: 8 +50%][Intelligence: 10 +100%][Willpower: 7 +20%]
[Style: Music, Poison]
[Instrument Creation]--[Rank: EX]--[MP: 2]
[Description: User summons a desired instrument they know how to play. The higher the proficiency, the faster the summoning of the instrument, +7% speed]
[String of Nightmares]--[Rank: E+]--[MP: 5]
[Description: User must play a sorrowful or creepy musical piece causing nearby enemies' all stats to reduce by 1%]
[String of Dreams]--[Rank: E+]--[MP: 5]
[Description: User must play a happy or extreme musical piece causing nearby allies' all stats to increase by 5%]
[Passive: Rhythmic Echo]-- [Rank: F-]--[MP: 0]
[Description: User automatically buff themselves 10% all stats if they move with a consistent tempo]
[Toxic field]-- [Rank: D-]--[MP: 1 | 10 second]
[Description: User creates a mist of toxins causing nearby enemies to take 0.5% per second for 10 seconds and reducing their speed by 10% across a 10m radius.]
[Toxic Arrow]--[Rank: E+]--[MP: 5]
[Description: User forms a green arrow that deals significant damage with their hands and can point towards a desired direction]
[Passive: Poison Immunity]--[Rank: EX]--[Immunity: 100%]
(NEW)
[The Snake's Legacy]—[Rank: EX]
[Description: User has received a stimulus from a source of ancient poison thus, allowing its user to harness the power of poison with higher proficiency and have a stronger physique than normal. 500% proficiency in poison magic]
[Eyes of Knowledge]—[Rank: EX]
[Description: User's eyes are able to now discern truths and learn at a faster rate than normal]
He looks at his own stat panel and skills in awe.
While his stats and skills have significantly changed, he couldn't help but wonder what the object right in front of him meant to do for him.
Roan grabs the object and analyses more thoroughly than before.
"So, this is Eyes of Knowledge."
His vision begins to colour out and whiten, the scene in front drastically changed.
The object in front was revealing two different scenes. On the left side of his vision, there was a dull black background with crimson coloured skulls and human corpses in a battlefield. On the right side, it was a bright and uplifting scenery with tall wheat farms and happy civilians outside with a blinding sun shining upon them.
"Why are there two scenes?"
"How come I at the same time know and don't know these two scenes?"
He tried to remember when he saw this scene from but, he couldn't.
*Hiss*
Suddenly, a massive creature appears behind him hissing its tongue and slithering around Roan.
"You are the first one to live till this stage, I applaud you." The unknown being said in a raspy voice.
Roan with a cold sweat, turns around and faces the gargantuan of a being.
He couldn't help but distance himself backwards little by little.
"Who are you exactly?" Roan gulps with a small hint of fear.