23 Mysterious tattoo, and new bird budy
-Strenght: I 18 > G 318-
-Defense: I 59-
-Endurance: I 24-
-Dexterity: I 10-
-Agility: I 20-
-Magic: SS 1184-
'Dungeon Cores are broken.' Bell thought as he looked at his new strength stat. Bell had destroyed 3 cores today, and it was absolutely worth it. He felt tired and annoyed on the way back to the twilight manor. Tired because it was night when the last dungeon core was shattered and annoyed because Loki refused to use her Godly powers to teleport them back home.
"you're an adventurer, what kind of adventurer cant handle marching from one spot to another?" were her words, and he couldn't refute them. She was right of course.
When they finally arrived back to Orario and entered the Twilight Manor, Bell crashed on his bed and let Loki molest his back in order to update his status. She very much enjoyed the new muscles on Bell body. Also, apparently, your muscle and body change depending on your stats! Ain't that nice? Can you imagine being ripped while never stepping foot into a gym or exercise?
Damn, no wonder All adventurers have hot bodies.
After she had fell him up, Loki gave him the paper sheet and left the room, but not before saying "check your skills". He did and discovered a pleasant surprise.
[Fusion]- A skill that allows you to fuse two items into one. The skill can be used only once a day. The skill cant fuse a fused item with another item.
"So that's why it stopped working when I fused my blanket with the mattress" He said, relieved that a good power didn't go to waste. Deciding to try it out Bell got up from the bed and grabbed his dagger, which he then placed on the table and began to search for something else to fuse with it. His eyes landed on his shoulder bag, inside it was the Necronomicon, a Golden Apple, healing potions, and mind potions.
Bell took one of the three small healing potions out of the bag and poured the liquid on the dagger.
"[Fusion]" he chanted while focusing on the liquid and dagger. The skill took effect and the Dagger began to absorb the liquid just like a sponge absorbs water. When the skill ended, Bell inspected the dagger and when he saw no noticeable change he did the only thing that should be done in this situation.
He cast {Silence} on his room and stabbed himself in the hand.
"MOTHER FUCKER!" he yelled in pain.
The blade went through his palm, exiting through the other side of his hand.
...something is wrong with this kid.
"FUCK FUCK FUCK!" he chanted when he yanked the blade out and looked at the hole in his hands healing slowly, but still at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Bell has made a dagger that heals the wound made by it. The perfect tool for torture to be honest... Would the dagger be able to heal a heart if it pierced it? Bell wasn't stupid enough to try that idea, but he made a note to test it tomorrow on an upper floor monster when he will go with the rest of his familia on their expedition.
"Alright, I'll fuse something cooler when I have it, for now, this skill is trash" Bell put the dagger in its sheat and threw it into his shoulder bag. He sat on his bed and prepared himself for what he is about to do next. Something that will either disappoint him, or please him, but he wasn't sure which it will be...
...time to use the lottery tickets that he has been saving!
The last ticket gave him his new skill [Fusion], and that was 4 days ago, and ever since he learned that his daily tickets are saved by the system if he doesn't use them...then...!
"Use all daily tickets!"
{Do you wish to use your daily spin x5}?
"Huh? five???" Bell looked out of the window. The moon was high in the night sky. Very high. "holy shit, it's midnight already. Better do this quick and go to sleep, I don't want to be a sleep-deprived zombie on such an important day tomorrow."
"yes, use all 5 spins" He said to the pop-up window and watched as it went crazy together with the other 4 windows that materialized when the last word left his mouth. Fingers crossed, lower lip bit, and eyes closed Bell prayed for good spins. After a moment he felt 2 things hit his lap and bounce to the floor, telling him that 2 of his rolls are physical objects. Either that or the other 3 missed him and landed on the bed.
Bell opened his eyes and looked at the 5 pop-up windows.
{Observe- The ability of every Gamer that lets them see the stat and description of items and people.}
{A Mysterious tatoo- What does it do?}
{A puppy themed get well card}
{Florida power- for 1 minute you gain the power of Florida man. One time use.}
{Palisman Flapjack (empty)}
"What?" Bell exclaimed. 'Palisman? Like the witch staff totems from "The owl house" cartoon?' Finding the hyper-realistic wood carving of a northern cardinal on the floor, Bell picked it up and quietly admired the woodwork.
Palismen comes from a cartoon that Bell used to watch before he got reincarnated. They are creatures that can turn into magic staff used by witches. They are made out of something called palistrom wood and if He remembers correctly, witches carve them when they are in their teenage years.
"[Observe]"
|| Palismen flapjack (empty) - The palismen flapjack from a timeline where everything went even more wrong compared to the original timeline. This Palismen was never filled with magic thus it's never came to life. ||
"MOM!" The boy shouted to his empty room shrouded in his {silence} spell, not doubting that his literal God of a mother can hear him. The appearance of a flat red-haired Goddess confirmed that she could and did hear her bunny-themed son.
"Is it an emergency or are we doing lewd things?" her question was ignored by the boy who used {Magic hand} to grab his magic staff in one hand while the other was holding the Palismen.
"Can you put the magic from the core of my magic staff into this wooden carving of a bird?" Loki made a confused face, and the magic staff sent a bunch of scared pulses of magic toward its owner but Loki grabbed both of the objects and did as her son asked.
Bell watched as Loki used her Divine powers to extract all energy from the staff crystal into the Palismen. He watched while holding his breath as the deep purple energy entered the wooden carving until there was nothing left, and when it was done, he waited.
"So-" Loki began but was interrupted by chirping noises. When she looked down she saw the previously normal wooden carving come to life and happily bouncing on her hand. Loki looked as it bounced from her palm and flew to her child shoulder.
He did it again, her Bun-Bun did something weird again, and she refused to question it. She just said "good night" and teleported out of the room.
Bell meanwhile looked at his new Palismen with a grin. He felt the familiar pulses of energy coming out of it, signifying that the consciousness from the previous staff was transferred to the palismen.
"Can you turn into a staff?" his question was answered when the bird closed its eyes and grew a long stick from its legs.
*Image here*
That night Bell slept well with his new bird budy resting on his head, forgetting about the mysterious tattoo that he got from one of his daily spins. Since he never checked it, he never saw it grow in size and engulf the skin on his left arm.
the tattoo pattern spread from the elbow to the shoulder blade before it seemed to be satisfied with its progress and stop.
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Damn, it sure makes you wonder how overwhelming it feels to level up from LV1 when infant dungeon cores exist, eh? 300 points in strength! 100 for each shattered core!
Or was it dungeon mommy giving the core some extra energy to feed bell more excelia?
who knows? we have to find out in the future chapters!
PS: Pepsi or Coca-Cola ?
