14 First Party - Chapter 14
"Here is your medallion that tells others your rank." She handed me a chain with a piece of slightly glowing white crystal on the end. I put it round my neck and tucked it in to my cloak.
"Thanks again."
She looked up at me, "What is your job?"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Your job, Arcane Lord, or The Arcane Lord. What is it? I've never seen something like that before."
"I've got a question related to that. Do people ever get to choose a different job, outside of the usual?" I quizzed.
"No, they usual jobs are the only ones you can choose from, if you ascend, it's known that you get given two options of ascended job, each individual to you. But I've never heard of a started job that's individual."
"Well that's what I got, an individual starter job, after ascending, as you call it, I got the arcane lord job and my final skill."
"Your final skill." She trailed off as she looked through the skills. "The arcane form? Invincible, invisible at will and pure magic. I'd like to see that, that and your mana absorption skill."
"I can show them now if you want?"
"Yes please, I assume you have some mana absorbed now? Can I see what the visual side that is mentioned looks like?" She leaned forwards, evidently enjoying this.
"Alright then, don't jump." I warned her.
Then I released the visual effects of the billions of points of mana that I had absorbed, my skin wasn't visable as a dark purple energy appeared like a layer about my body, I knew that my eyes were a blazing white contrasting to this dark purple nebula shaped like a man stood in front of her. Her face went slack with shock.
"I don't have your arcane eye skill but I can still see the ridiculous amount of mana pooling in you and boiling out. How many points worth is that? Wizards have spoken of the fact that even a million points of mana is a dot the size of a pinhead to the eyes of a mortal."
I thought for a second, mana still pulsating about me.
"About forty billion, give or take." I shrugged.
"F-forty billion?" She gasped. "No mage in history has ever had control of over one billion and here you have absorbed that amount easily. What kind of physical changes does that amount make?"
"Not ones that I can demonstrate, all I can say is that time slows to a crawl and the thickest sheet of metal only feels like wet clay in my hands."
"That is astounding, I'd love to see this arcane form as well?"
"Sure thing." I stopped the visual of the mana absorbed and activated my newest skill.
The world became immensely bright and I felt my body become part of magic itself. The woman's voice came through to me as slightly distant.
"This is similar to the other." She reached out and tried placing a hand on my chest. The mana of my chest pulsated underneath her hand, providing a resistance similar to a magnetic field as it wasn't actually touching her but she still couldn't touch it. She withdrew her hand. "Amazing, I can feel the energy, it's like I'm not stood in front of a person at all."
I reverted back to my usual self, solidifying again, so as to not waste the mana. However, I still absorbed back in hundreds of millions of points.
"So, you happy now?" I asked, ready to go.
"Yes." She stood up and walked around my side of the table, she stood about up to my shoulders. "It was a pleasure to meet you a second time Yolen." She held out her hand. I took it and we shook.
"You too?" I lingered on the too.
"I'm Krystin Ook." She smiled. "Now, you best be on your way while I sort your papers into their drawers."
"Goodbye then." I said, leaving the room.
Outside, Fulcrum was waiting for me, smug grin on his face.
"So..." The little man said. "What rank did you get with your fake class?"
I held out my chain in reply.
His jaw dropped.
Then he dropped to the floor.
"Hey man, you good?" I asked, grabbing his arm and pulling him up.
"Yeah, yeah." Then whispering. "Legend rank? You weren't lying? What's your level?"
"One, three, six."
"You're ascended? How old are you?"
"Why?" My age was out of the blue there.
"Ascended live much longer than people who don't reach that stage, elves who normally live hundreds of years will instead live thousands."
"What about, celestials?" I asked, not willing to say that I was a fallen just yet.
"They usually live for thousands of years but they may live for hundreds of thousands at that stage, no-one really knows. And they're basically un-killable without a whole party because of their health regen."
"Ah." I couldn't believe it, I would be able to live for hundreds of thousands of years now? Just how strong could I become in that time? "Well I'm 23."
His eyes became even more shocked than I thought he would've been if I said that I was a fallen.
"23 years old?! I'm a hundred and ninety, and I've been an adventurer for about fifteen years now, from level twenty, if I'm lucky I'll level twice in a year.'
"That slow?" I said, dumbfounded.
"You're just that fast, no-one should be able to level that fast."
"What about if you could solo clear a dungeon?"
"That's stupid, if you could solo clear dungeons, even low level ones, you'd have to be at least level 50."
"But I could when I was your level."
"Sure you could, with your mystical job."
"Well my first dungeon was an undead dungeon."
"They're some of the worst ones, undead are so difficult to kill, and their bosses are even worse."
"But I can remove enchantements, I just pulled the undeadness out."
"You just pulled it out?" He was just completely caught off guard by this.
"Tell you what, we'll go to a dungeon and I'll show you."
"Well that should be no problem for you to get any dungeon now that you're a legend rank."
"Don't need to get a dungeon, it's legal for me to raid now. So I can just raid whichever ones I want."
"Only the guilds know their locations though." He tried to correct me but I was heading on my way out of the door.
"I can find one, don't worry." I waved for him to follow, he did.
Once I stepped outside, I focused on the flow of mana, due to my maxed out skill and my sky high intelligence, I could clearly see every small movement in the mana, even ones from distant spells being cast. I saw one flow of mana, it went westwards.
Turning back to Fulcrum "You good to go now?" I asked. He checked himself over and then nodded, looking somewhat excited and also skeptical.
I hooked my arm underneath his shoulders, placing some mana in the form of a protective spell around him. Then took off flying, focusing and using my agility to increase my perception of time. I could hear Fulcrum screaming in my ear as we rocketed away from the ground.
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"Finally!" Fulcrum exclaimed as I set him down on the stone floor. "I thought that wouldn't end, it was terrifying."
"Don't be such a baby." I said, looking at the entrance to the dungeon, it was a volcano, a dormant one at that but still.
"What are we going to do here anyway?" Fulcrum couldn't see mana like I could and so didn't realize that the cave entrance in front of us that lead into the dormant volcano was a dungeon.
"This cave is a dungeon." I explained "Check out your quest log."
For a moment he peered into the air and then nodded his head with a surprised expression.
"So it is. But how did you know?"
"Just do." I said, checking my own quest log.
DUNGEON QUEST - MOUNTAIN OF FLAME
OBJECTIVE:
DESTROY 5 MAGMA CORES - 0/5
SLAY 30 FLAME ELEMENTALS - 0/30
SLAY 20 ROCK ELEMENTALS - 0/20
SLAY THE GREAT MAGMA ELEMENTAL - 0/1
REWARDS:
+250 ABILITY POINTS
+40 SKILL POINTS
+50 TO ALL STATS
ELEMENTAL LOOT BOX
DUNGEON SPECIFIC ARTIFACT
DUNGEON SPECIFIC ARTIFACT
I then turned my attention towards the mouth of the cave. "C'mon." I said, starting towards the cave.
Fulcrum followed.
We walked for twenty minutes or so in the cave, Fulcrum summoned a puffer fish that swam in the air and glowed to give us light as we walked.
