28 Return of Hades
I woke up late the next morning. My left arm feels weird... Its both sore and cold. I sit up from my bed and shake my arm to try to wake it up. There was a dark blue skeleton with a cloak of shadows sitting in the chair along the wall.
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Hades: How did you do it brat? I am awake 4 years earlier then expected and im healing faster then possible. It feels like ive only been gone for a year or so.
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Slate: Welcome back Hades. I made a deal/ bet with Chaos and I won. Thats why you healed so fast. Hows your body? You look like a Sapphire Skeleton with a cloak.
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Hades: Well... My body has regressed to its tier 1 form. The blue color is from you though. Your extra darkness has enhanced my starting point. After training in the underworld for a few centuries... Ill be even stronger then I was before. Your Dark King Arms are almost finished cooking too. That Amulet lady is one hell of a smith. She enhanced them without molding them so they can shape themselfs.
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Slate: Well... I need a teacher to learn how to use my weapons. I have maxed out a total of 23 classes with 6 of them being production classes. I need to get [Gunsmith] And ill be ready to make Pluto's Partner.
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Hades: [Gunsmith]? There're not any really good guns out there. The only ones that you will be able to get blueprints for are weak and inaccurate.
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Slate: No worries, Thats what I have Gaia for.
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Hades: Who is Gaia? I know of a spell named as such but not a person.
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Gaia: Correction. Gaia.00001 Is a Primal A.I. and the personal A.I. to User Slate.Clean. I am not a person.
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Hades looked at my phone confused. He walked to me and asked to see my phone.
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Hades: Are you on a call? Where is she? Is she fully loaded up top?
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Gaia: Answer. This unit is not currently contacting another person, Gaia.00001 core systems are housed within the unit in your hands, ERROR with your third question.
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Slate: Gaia is the collective knowledge of my former planets technology. She is an Artificial Intelligence that learns when she has more data. Actually... Gaia, can you find any sort of wireless data connection here?
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Gaia: Request Acknowledged. Scanning... Primitive Network found.
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Slate: Can you learn everything you can from it and this world? I would like you to do this from now on whenever we are somewhere new.
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Gaia: Understoon. Executing Sub-System [Gathering]
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Slate: Hades, I would like you to teach me how to fight and use my body with my weapons. Am I correct in assuming that you can use a Long Sword, Great Sword, Polarm, and Scythe proficiently?
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Hades: You would be right. My Swordplay is ok but my Scytheplay is exceptional. I can be your teacher... but we cant train here in this realm.
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Slate: What? Why not? Where can we train?
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Hades: My body as it is now cant remain in the realm of the living long. Your arm should be sore right now... Thats because its taking the burden of me being summoned. In another few hours or so you wont be able to move your arm. If you want me to train you... You will have to return with me to the underworld and hunt there to increase my level. Along the way, you will get to practice your weapon handling. But first... You need to get your Union Classes. For both your battle and crafting classes.
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Slate: Union Classes? As in Class Fusions? Wont that remove the classes I have now?
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Hades: Kind of. A Union Class takes the Classes you have Maxed out and uses them to create a new class with all the benefits of the classes used. The only downside is that the more classes you used to form the Union class... the harder it is to level it. You said you have 17 combat classes and 6 production classes not including [Gunsmith]... 17×10×17 for the combat and 7×10×7 for production... Thats 2890 levels to max the combat class and 490 levels to max out the production class. A Union Class take 10 times the exp per level up. If level 1 took 100 exp then level 2 would take 1k. and so on...
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Slate: Holy shit in a handbag... How do I unite my classes?
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Hades: Well... I can preform the ritual but it will take some time to prepare it. About a month of making the magic circle in your arm should do.
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Slate: Please get it ready as soon as you can. Ill max [Gunsmith] Within the month. After that, we can gring in the underworld and both level. Sound good?
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Hades: Sigh, you cant level a union class until your body adapts to the new change. Im not sure if a union class made of 17 classes has ever been formed... ill get right on making the circle. Ill see you in a month.
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Slate: Dont go yet. Lunafreya is throwing a party for the 5 of us. We missed our birthdays when we were maxing our classes. Want to join? Can you eat food?
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Hades: I can. The food I eat will turn into Mana and a tiny bit of Exp for me. Summon me when the party is starting.
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Hades turns into dust and flows into my left arm. The soreness disappears almost instantly. I get dressed and walk out to look for Amulet. After I find her by the Typhoon, I asked her if she had a [Gunsmith] Materium. She sold me one cheap and I gained the class.
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Slate: Gaia, would you please pull up the schematic for the "Thunder Lord" from the game Destiny.
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Gaia: Ofcourse User.
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Im looking at my phone and realize something... The screen is way to small to mess with the schematic.
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Slate: Gaia, how are you doing with learning from the net available?
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Gaia: I have stored all relevant and irrelevant knowledge.
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Slate: Ok. I need something like a holographic screen that I can attach to your core unit so I can modify schematics. Any recommendations?
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Gaia: Searching... Television Materia matches requirements.
Searching... Match Found. Within the room of the King and Queen, there is a 70 inch Hover display Television Materia.
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... Ill ask Lunafreya if I can use her TV.
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I walk out of my room and eat a face full of Noctis's Fist. I was launched into my wall. One of my front teeth escaped my mouth.
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Noctis: HA YOU LITTLE BRAT! WHO'S RICE IS COOKED?!
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Slate: OUCH you shitty father-in-law. You knocked out one of my pearly whites... I didnt want to do this but... Those pictures are going viral.
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Noctis: Huh? What pictures?
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Slate: While you are here... Im going to take your TV as payment from the Tooth Fairy.
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After finding Lunafreya... she asked how my tooth fell out. I told her I tried biting Noctis's fist but he got the better of me.
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Slate: When is the birthday party? I need some time to make the girls their gifts.
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Lunafreya: Well... How long do you need?
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Slate: Around a week? I need to get some materials first though. Oh... Hades is joining us. He said he likes food.
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Lunafreya turned pale. She looked around and wispered to me.
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Lunafreya: Dont say his name so loud. You invite death everytime you do...
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Slate: No worries. He is a part of me now. Im going to go see if Amulet has materials ill need. Cya later.
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