Chapter 48
Author note:
Well, a little clarification in the previous chapter I said that the Job of a character was an acolyte (she even has spells to heal), since everywhere I saw her it said she has the Job Cleric, although later I could see her abilities and using talismans and everything, realizing that she is most likely a Soul Linker (Her mother that have the same Job even use a very simillar outfit that the one in the game). Not that much of a problem since you really won't be seeing her for a while, but just to clarify.
Okay enjoy you chapter.
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An exposition is heard and near us and a Star Gladiator appears, on top of what appears to be the remains of a robot... no that is a Ice Titan? Now that I see it well on the wall I'm also seeing artillery pieces and cannons... what the hell is going on here? This is not a medieval world? Although this would really explain a lot of things...
Immediately the group on the bridge cheers, the red-haired girl in the leotard immediately calls him Daddy, the others call him Lord Irine everyone clearly happy and relieved to see him...,hmm his name is Doven Irine a Star Gladiator level 110... I don't know if he can defeat that valkyrie but I don't think he can lose that easily, from what I see his only weakness would be this girl who called him daddy.
"Get out of here!!" He immediately turns to look at us and yells at us, again turning to the front while several electric attacks hit him... seems to be Jupiter Thunder?
"Why you won't die!!" The clearly annoyed Valkyrie begins to launch more and more attacks... Although it seems that she is consumed by madness... clearly she is not in her 5 senses... why doesn't Doven Irine attack her?
The others immediately begin to comment on her, the Warlock mentions that her name is Sarah Irine... so family huh... the Rune Knight takes out his sword ready to fight her, shouting at the top of his lungs the name of his sword called 'Vision' to get the attention of the valkyrie... the warlock finally gives up, mentioning failure at the end, the thief starts calling everyone crazy.
"Just look at her, it's suicide! Even animals know when to turn and run!!" In my opinion, this thief named Lidia is the one who best understands the situation, although it is not surprising, a thief does not survive long if he does not.
"But we are not animals." says the lewd leotard red haired level 44 Soul Linker... I try to keep my eyes on the fight, which thanks to being a Valkyrie wearing a thong is not such a problem, but my gaze quickly returns to this girl who when she moves clearly shows her butt, that leotard could easily be used for adult movies, the creators of this game really know how to sell.
"No? But you certainly look like lambs that come to the slaughter." The Valkyrie responds to them, increasing the amount of magic lightning behind her, causing the lewd leotard red haired level 44 Soul Linker to worry… and yes, I keep calling her that, at least it's better than flashing or exhibitionist girl, that leotard really don't cover her very well when she moves, I wonder who had the great idea to make her use that on her birthday... I want to personally congratulate him.
Without further ado, what had to happen happened, the Valkyrie didn't even really attack them, it could be said that she just used thunder wave and paralyzed them all, not really hurting them... well except lewd leotard red haired level 44 Soul Linker, that flashed me again, this time I can even see the red bush on the front... but this is something strange for the amount of hatred that the Valkyrie shows ...why she don't do anything more? The only one who can move his hand is the Rune Knight.
"Now, why do not you all just wait for me there. I will be back for you after I conclude my others business...." While the valkyrie speaks as the ice titans prepare to attack them, but with a look from the valkyrie she stops them and they back off... why did she do that? There is some extrange shit happening here... "I will finish the old man first!!" After saying that I could see in her eyes again that small piece of doubt, despair and guilt...?
The two continue to fight, launching magical attacks after magical attacks, all stopped by Devon Irine... In the middle of their fight I noticed something strange... I decided to go up to the wall, abandoning my wonderful viewing spot, because I couldn't help noticing some strange movements to the north of the village, I narrowed my eyes a little and went up to a tower, observing carefully what was happening.
What was my surprise to see that Zombies, Skeletons, Skeletons Soldiers, Skeletons Arches, Bonguns, Munaks and Sohee, from what I managed to look from here, apparently an attack reached the entrance of the cave, surely it collapsed some things inside and released all the undead inside the caves. To tell the truth, the fight here will not be resolved quickly and from what I see, the Valkyrie don't want really kill anyone, so I decide to go and help a little, although I don't like it very much, it's better that I use my bow, that way I won't have to get so close to the cave and in case something happens with the Valkyrie I will be closer to answer any threat.
[Zombie LVL: 17 HP: 234/234MP: 5/5 Race: Undead Element: Undead 1
Zombie is a walking corpse which has been cursed by an evil shaman. Beware of its poisonous breath. Bad case of the dead which has been reborn as a walking corpse by black magic.]
[Skeleton LVL: 27 HP: 612/612MP: 25/25 Race: Undead Element: Undead 1
Skeleton is the skeleton of a dead person who had died holding a grudge. It's an undead so of course it hates living things.]
[Bongun LVL: 59 HP: 2,510 / 2,510 MP: 35/35 Race: Undead Element: Undead 1
Bongun is a frozen male corpse that had become a monster by his own will to protect the girl, Munak. He has a tender passion for Munak.]
[Munak LVL: 58 HP: 2,445 / 2,445 MP: 55/55 Race: Undead Element: Undead 1
Munak is the dead body of a young girl who had died holding a deep grudge and never goes beyond the realm of the living. She sucks blood from living things nearby to prevent her body from being more rotten. A beautiful zombie that seems to be linked to Bongun somehow.]
[Sohee LVL: 64 HP: 2,875 / 2,875 MP: 85/85 Race: Demon Element: Water 1
Sohee is a virgin ghost that had never had a real love in her lifetime. She mostly appears near Payon, but doesn`t do much harm onto Normans. Although she is usually crying, she can become fierce upon being attacked.]
A huge amount of the undead is coming out of the cave, luckily the amount that can come out is highly controllable, so from my position on top of a tower I start shooting arrows, but no matter how many arrows I shoot there are always more undead coming out, although after a few minutes I could see how the corpses outside the cave rose again...
I turn to look at the bridge, the fight between the Devon Irine and the Valkyrie continues, although from what I see there are still no major problems... and it doesn't seem like he really wants to finish the fight either, that Lord clearly doesn't want to hurt the Valkyrie. .. but hey, this works a bit in my favor, so without waiting any longer, I jump and go to the cave.
'Although I will still use bows and arrows since several people saw me when I started to help them, I don't want to attract so much attention so I think it's better to be... how the hell I forgot to take off my cape that bears the symbol of my order!!' For a moment I almost even fell in surprise when I remembered that, without a doubt I can be very stupid in certain circumstances...
Without waiting long, I enter the cave to avoid people stopping me outside and asking me questions that I don't want to respond, seeing them closely Sohee and Munak are really beautiful, it's a shame they had to die... although Sohee doesn't attack me, she just keeps crying and when she sees me, she places herself in a fetal position... now I fell like a asshole.
Munak for her part quickly attacks me along with the other undead, although I easily finish them off using magic, which scares Sohee more and while I think about what decision to make regarding her I hear a bell and all the monsters I eliminate begin to stand again...so infinite undead apocalypse? Once again all the undead are thrown at me, I eliminate them and again I hear that bell, although this time I was able to discover the direction from where it came...
I quickly run to the left after I enter the cave, passing thousands and thousands of undead, and a strange kind of egg with a mouth...? After a few hundred meters inside I come to a kind of a expanded area, where a rock formation is in the center, these rocks have the shape of a mushroom... and on top of it the figure of a blonde girl, with a pair of ears and fox tails... even her hands and legs have golden fur.
The girl is simply looking up at the ceiling of the cave, where small beams of light pass through, with a melancholic look on her face, around her I can see some ghosts and specters whispering to her, trying to tempt her to do horrible things, but she clearly doesn't want any of that but the moment she moves to cover her ears the bell she carries rings raising the dead again.
"No, I don't want to be alone again I just want to find Sumire, I don't want to be kicked out of the village again..." I can hear how the girl responds to all the whispers around her crying... " I don't want anyone to die , i just want they all to be friends with me...now everyone is dead... Sumire... the villagers... I am Demon."
"You are not Demon." I speak and approach her, when I hear how all those voices and whispers want to convince her, trick her into thinking that this is the right thing...
Immediately the girl turned to see me, fearful and all the voices around her demand that her to kill me before I can hurt her, how could she endure so much being alone, I haven't been listening to them for a minute and I already want to get rid of them... However... it's already too late, I can see it in her eyes and the system, she only sees me as a toy, she is no longer the Moonlight Flower, she was already possessed by another identity...
[Moonlight Flower (Possessed by Tamamo) LVL: 79 HP: 3,240,000/3,240,000 MP: 16,270/16,270 Race: Demon Element: Fire 3
Moonlight Flower is a middle-class demon that commands fox troops. You will be sorry if you look down on her just because of her cute appearance. A strange wild girl carrying a big bell and having 9 fox tails. Tamamo the Demon Fox, she hates everything alive and can't wait to return to the material world to plunge it into ruin again.]
And looking at her well, I can clearly see a resemblance between her and Lilinaya, although I'm not sure if it's just my idea or maybe her race, but she keeps talking pretending to be a lost and afraid of what's around her, even the voices around her continue trying to tempt her... she approaches me and once she got close enough I used my Soul Breaker skill to attack her... something interesting that happened is that I also managed to damage the Demon that possessed this little girl.
Soul Breaker - 21,608,280 HP, - 21,608,280 HP.
The only thing I can do is hold this little girl, the last thing I hear is a small thank you coming out of her mouth and it doesn't help me at all that she's practically Lilinaya only blonde, sigh... why the hell do the monsters seem more 'alive' than the others, it would be much easier for me if they were just simple NPCs. Although among the things I was able to get from her, one is her tails, that I really don't want, also two weapons that are very interesting, a spear and a dagger...
Before I can continue I see how a black substance comes out of Moonlight's body, something between smoke and liquid, that strange substance quickly begins to take shape, a new girl appearing in front of me, the only difference is that this girl would be something like a Alter version of Moonlight Flower, dark blue in color and red eyes that are looking at me with a lot of hatred, even her skin is a little blue. Another difference is that she does not have her characteristic bell.
[Cat O Nine Tails (Tamamo Spirit) LVL: 79 HP: 1,631,720/23,240,000 MP: 56,270/56,270 Race: Demon Element: Fire 3
Cat O Nine Tails is a demon that commands fox troops. Born from the loneliness that Moonlight Flower felt when she had no one, she was corrupted and possessed by the spirit of the Demon-Fox Tamamo.]
I only looked at her for a few seconds before attacking again, clearly this is a vengeful spirit, I'm not going to let her continue using the appearance of Moonlight and Lilinaya to do her evil, it's an advantage that even though I had to end her life, Moonlight left me something to take care of her. A dagger specialized in this type of problem... I suppose it is the very representation of Moonlight Flower. I stick the dagger in the monster and use soul breaker.
[Moonlight Dagger Rank: Unique Type: Dagger
A dagger imbued with a lonely lunar spirit that finally find her rest, It have the power to drain an enemy's soul, It have the power to destroy an enemy's soul in especial circumstances (Possession, Projection, Etc.) . Regain 5 MP with each attack. Max MP +20%. Indestructible.
Bound: Fox Race. Leonhard Hauser.
Req. Level: 45, Swordsman Class, Mage, Archer, Merchant, Thief Classes, Soul Linker, and Ninja. Attack - 50 Price: 20]
Critical Hit - 999,999,999 HP, Soul Breaker - 21,608,280 HP.
I only see how she begins to writhe in pain, I never expected that just sticking the dagger in her would do so much damage... this weapon could easily be my secret weapon in the right circumstances, besides that once it finally vanished I got my first MVP card!! And a Skill Book!!
[Cat O' Nine Tails Card [Footgear] Reflect single target Magic back at the caster (Success Chance 5%). MDEF + 3]
[Skill Book: Curse Series: Gyokutenhou. Close-Range Attack Skill - Repeated kicks to the front, then a somersault kick, followed by a finishing jump kick. Also known as the "Polygamist Castration Attack".]
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"I got my MVP Card yes!! Now that I have finished here, can I finally go... huh? "
Without warning I begin to have a vision? In it I see a couple, the mother holding the baby that clearly has fox parts, but in the end the woman did not survive the birth... however the man, her father, a farmer, continued to take care of the baby, he clearly loves and cares for her, although the little girl did not understand why he hid her from other people. Until one day her father did not return, it was not until later that she found out that her father was killed by some bandits.
She then grew up alone with no friends and family. She often wander the road alone trying to make friends. At night she would climb her secret place in the hills to look at the moon and make a wish. A wish that everyone would stop hating her and be her friends instead, but those wishes was never granted. The villager did not like her because she is different. They said that she is an abomination. They always constantly abused and ridiculed her.
One day a girl walk up to her and offered her friendship. "I am Sumire" said the girl. She was so delighted that she finally have a friend. They spend a lot of time together, playing, talking, adventuring. She was so happy. She shared the hill with Sumire. They went to the hills together and played there. Sometimes till late night. There was this one time, that Sumire picked a flower cactus. That glows bright under the moonlight.
"You are like this plant, people don't like it, but deep inside it is good because my mommy said it's a healing herb. You look different but your heart is good, like this plant." Sumire lay down beside her.
"Do you know the name of that plant?" Moonlight smiled and asked but Sumire shrug her head and look at her
"I dunno, but I think its Moonlight Flower...cuz its like ...I dunno ...I only find this flower under the moonlight" Sumire responded unsure of what the flower could be called...
"Only under the moonlight?" She looked at Sumire that nodded.
"Because we can't find it if there is no moonlight, because its dark at night" and they laugh together.
One day the while playing Sumire fell off the cliff and died. The villagers were furious and put the blame on her. They captured her and tied her to a wall. They decide that they should execute her and take her away her life. In fear she screamed so loud that she accidentally opened a small vortex to the demon realm.
A group of demon fox warped in and killed all the villagers. Not a single life was spared. Traumatized with the incident, she dropped down to her knees and cried. A larger demon fox that seems to be the pack leader walked up to her.
"What is your name child?" She looked at the demon, nobody ever asked her name before. They always call her a demon....
"I am Demon" Moonlight responded and the demon fox laughed.
"We are all demon, but we all still have names, I am Tamamo, and you are?" The demon fox asked, the girl think for a while and responded.
"I am Moonlight Flower " like Sumire said that she was.
"Well then Moonlight Flower, why are you crying? We have killed all those that are trying to kill you." The demon fox asked.
"I don't want anyone to die, I just want they all to be friends with me...now everyone is dead...Sumire ...the villagers..." Moonlight were clearly depressed and the Demon fox smile more... she was clearly already making plans for the poor little girl.
"Well then, I give you this present... a bell. With this everyone will be your friend!" The Demon fox give her a golden bell, that strangely didn't make a sound until Moonlight had it in her hands.
"This can make everyone my friend?" Moonlight examined the bell and asked.
"Yes, give it a ring!" The demon pat her head and Moonlight rang the bell, rang it hard . The bell glows and magic dust flows in the air. Everyone that was killed then rises from the dead. They gathered around her and wait for her command. Now none of them hates her anymore, nor that they have any free will to do so. She was so happy now. Everyone was her friend....
"SIGH... if I already felt like shit having to kill her... the least I can do is find and bury her body on that hill... I guess it will be good to decorate it with those cactus flowers..." And to think that now I don't just clean up other people's shit, I even have to clean up the mess that monsters and demons cause...
'Still I wonder why the hell I had that vision at this moment... are those mushrooms around me hallucinogenic!!?' I keep Moonlight's corpse in my inventory, and I start to eliminate all the undead that are left out of the cave, I still don't forget that there is a fight on the walls...
"Sigh.... the decisions I always have to make... no matter the world or time they always suck..." but still we have no choice but to take them... and I'll take the responsibility when my time comes.