5 Changes in The Shadows
//Author Note:-Hello guys! Sorry for not uploading AGAIN I was getting used to school again and let me tell you I didn't miss it.
I also in the spirit of the OG Solo Leveling author style, I am not going to review and give myself five stars.
So it would be appreciated if you did so. Thank you for reading this and I hope y'all have a good day or night. //
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//Somewhere Before the Release of Yggdrasil//
"Architect?"
"Yes Lord Ashborn!?"
"I ordered you something to do a while ago."
"Ah! Lord Ashborn, I did as you instructed but have encountered some problems. "
"What type of problems?"
"Lord, the body of your vessel is too weak, even if the system is bonded with him it would be impossible for his physical body to contain even 0.1% of your power.
Another problem is as you know the lack of mana in the world, this world doesn't have any mana most skills and spells wouldn't work without it.
The biggest problem is how the system is supposed to bond with him, my lord. There are no monsters in that world.
I would advise you to choose another successor the next time the Rulers reset time, I have heard that they plan to reintroduce mana in that world along with monsters."
"You could use a medium."
"What do you mean my lord?"
"You could use humanity's popular 'VR' games as a medium to test him and if he fails, just kill him without leaving any trace, you have already done it once and you can do it again."
" It should be easy enough. Now go you have wasted a lot of my time which I could have used for my precious slumber, next time if I don't get the news I want your death to be the least of your worries."
"Wait! That could work bu-"
*A Terrifying Aura Is Released*
"I won't hear any 'Buts' you go and do your job, without you here wasting my time, I am generous enough to give you a second chance and here you are wasting my time. If I see you again wasting time I will have your life! Now leave before I end you."
"I told you to go and do your job, not to make excuses and waste my time. The faster you get the system bound, the better. "
"I am generous enough to give you a second chance, if it was any other Monarch or Ruler you would be dead by now. So go before I change my mind."
*Retracts his Aura*
The architect quickly regained his consciousness and fled as fast as he physically could, running for his dear life to test the lowly human that could cost him his life.
He silently vowed to make the human suffer, for the humiliation he caused him if he somehow managed to survive the trial.
But he thought a human couldn't do so. Just as he was thinking about his revenge plan he suddenly halted and gazed into the pitch-dark sky of the realm of the dead.
His gaze went beyond the darkness to the center of the world where a majestic tree stood.
The tree was magnificent and divine which even a retard could tell, its leaves seemed to hold multiple star systems and galaxies, and its trunk seemingly made of stars and planets seemed to bend the reality itself.
One could go on and on to describe its magnificence as the Tree of Life or the World Tree Yggdrasil but what seemed to shock the Architect the most and all the other beings was what the tree had done.
It had anchored itself to Earth, everyone knew the implications of this.
"I am in the realm of Yggdrasil....." But then he saw what it was doing and got an idea from it.
"Wait didn't that human use this a few days ago? Yggdrasil has been planning this for some time, it even used an inferior version of my system! I can do the same thing to bind the System to him!"
Thinking this he ran off to his workplace frantically speaking in incomprehensible gibberish to make the new system compatible with Yggdrasil's connection to the human world and inferior system.
Throughout the world, multiple beings had similar reactions as the World tree had done something unexpected, and the repercussions.
The action had consequences reaching far into the future even putting the whole world at risk.
//With A Young The Ruler//
A group of Expression-less angelic beings sat on their respective thrones in a room decorated with white and gold designs.
The atmosphere was filled with worry and fear about the sensation all others might have felt.
In the entire room, only a single ruler (No.7)remained ignorant of the details of the matter, his brothers had suddenly called a 'SOD' emergency meeting with the details of the matter eluding him but he managed to understand that it had to do with the strange sensation he had felt mere moments ago.
Not being able to sit in silence he asked
"What is the reason for this sudden meeting?"
"Are You A F-."
"Call down, remember we didn't inform him regarding the matter."
"*EXHALES* Yes, now I remember. It's a good thing we didn't otherwise who knows what those vile creatures would have done if they knew."
"Yeah, now who is going explain it to him this time? I am not I did so last time."
A ruler wielding a spear said, "It's my turn, unfortunately."
"You have my sympathy brother."
"Mine too."
"You have my pity."
Hearing all of this No.7 got annoyed hearing himself being talked about in such a shameful way.
"Then why don't you inform me about the important matters beforehand? You would not have to explain it to me which you all despise so much for some reason."
The Ruler with the spear replied "It's because are such a gossiper! You can't even keep your mouth shut in front of those Monarchs!"
The young Ruler tried to defend himself but failed miserably at his task.
"You told a FREAKing Monarch the location of 'Heaven' We got raided and barely managed to fend them off! So forgive us for not letting you in on the secretive details because we don't want the Monarchs to know about it!"
"I apologize for that ok! So what's the reason for this meeting?"
"The Word Tree...has sacrificed 90% of its power."
"Excuse meWHATTTTTTTT?!!!!!!?!?!?!?"
"Yes and even if we use the [Cup Of Reincarnation] it won't be saved."
"Wh-da-puk!?"
"Because it's another [Holy Artifact] or being created by our {Father} bearing the power of all life it is one of the most powerful beings in existence as it contains quite a lot of his power matched only by Eldest Brother, so it negates the cup's time manipulation."
"I know that! I am asking why it is doing that in the first place. Why is sacrificing itself"
"It hasn't sacrificed itself yet but will shortly and is doing so to protect the humans, Yggdsarsil probably grew annoyed with the number of its children's deaths and decided to help the humans by sacrificing its powers and giving them to humans in smaller amounts."
"Also Heaven is resisting being transported by the World Tree, but we can't do it for long the World Tree is too powerful even in such a state."
"How much time do we have?" Another Ruler wielding a hammer asked.
"Maybe about 1 month at best, but we must be careful those Monarchs can attack anytime. So increase the defenses of heaven to the maximum."
"What do we do now?"
"We wait and see what the Monarchs do and more importantly see how ELDEST BROTHER reacts to the situation."
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//BACK WITH THE MC// (TIME SKIP:- UNKNOWN)
In the realm of Helhime, a mountain could be seen covered in snow and an intense blizzard going on top of it reducing visibility but Nix's character could be seen in the sky, his majestic form protected by pristine white armor while fighting against a group of leveled Ice mephitis.
He had completely reworked himself. He had sacrificed his [Angelic Warrior] class and now become a magic caster after daily grinding levels and assigning his stats and classes after careful consideration.
Now his new form resembled that of a priest-like angel with armor covering parts of his body with his primary weapon now being [Book Of Power] which increased his holy damage and stats proportional to his MG.ATK (x1.1 multiplier)
His magnificent form engaged in battle gracefully dodged and maneuvered in the air with unmatched fineness.
[IMAGE HERE]
His current enemies resembled ice goblins with wings to fly which made them extra annoying to deal with thankfully and unfortunately for the Nephites, Nix could also fly with his wings.
The Ice Mephits attacked him with a barrage of [Ice Bullet] but he swiftly and gracefully maneuvered in the air easily dogging them. He counter-attacked with a [Light Ray] which easily kills and heavily damages a bunch of them.
{You have defeated a Ice Mephitx7 and a Frost Mephitx4.....}
{You have obtained 1050Exp!}
{You have leveled up!}
{You have leveled up!}
{You have leveled up!}
{You are now level 35! Please assign your stat points!}
Ignoring the notifications Jinwoo focused on the remaining monsters.
The stragglers being one hit K.O. went beserk and flew toward him with extreme speed, this was the reason why they were feared.
When low on [HP] they blindly charged toward players and detonated themselves which dealt heavy damage to them and the player.
This was the reason an entire group of them was for lone players like Nix was almost suicide.
But thankfully he had completely reworked his character. He had completed an entire story quest that took 6 hours to complete including fighting monsters along the way, completing hard puzzles, etc
Completing them granted him [Raziel] job class which was an angelic version of a necromancer, this rare class specialized in both magic and summoning offering a large variety of spells for almost any occasion.
As the Maphits came closer Nix decided to release his spell.
"[Delay Magic]:- Release ([Boost Magic], [Penetrate Magic], [Widen Magic]) [-Spear Bombardment-]!"
Then above the Mephits a huge magic circle appeared and started firing a bunch of light spears before they could even think of dogging it.
"[Delay Magic:- Release], ([Boost Magic], [Widen Magic]) [-Restraint-]"
A new magic circle appeared below the Mephits from which chains made of hardened light wrapped around them destroying any chance of their escape.
They could do nothing but watch their inevitable death inch closer and closer.
*BOOM*
A resounding explosion went off from the fireball's impact momentarily lighting up the area before quickly disappearing.
Their drops fell from the sky making no sound when they hit the ground, there could only be heard the flapping of wings blowing in the cold wind which intensified with each passing second.
From the icy winds emerged his summoned 4th tier [Principality Observation] which looked like [Image Here] and [Archangel Flame] which appeared as a shining white knight in armor.
Its back is attached with wings, and a halo glows behind its head and wields a sword of flames.
Both of them were unable to help in battle as they fought a group on their own.
As Nix touched the ground he heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming toward him. He saw that it was his hired NPC's.
After doing some minor quests around the town and earning a ton of money he decided to spend all his hard-earned money to hire NPC knights to help him find combat.
The location of the double dungeon was displayed on his map and it was pretty far from the center of the realm because of this even getting there was a daunting task for which he had to level up and get the right type of equipment to surviven in Helhime's hellish landscape.
And he made the right choice as on his way to the double dungeon he encountered a ton of monsters that would have taken a lot of time to kill thankfully with the help of the NPC he managed to reach level 34 on his way which was a lot considering that he only had been playing for like 4 hours.
'Speaking of leveling up I leveled up again I should be level 35 right now and should use my stat points. Who knows what type of overpowered boss I may run into inside'
With a ton of different things that could go wrong, Jinwoo decided to invert all his stat points in defense, and MG.ATK as with all the other stats wouldn't do a thing against the statues.
After doing so he checked his equipment, organized his inventory, and healed his NPC he stepped inside the dungeon for a second nothing happened but then...
He remembered he had a skill for such a dungeon and quickly used it. An interface appeared in front of him with the dungeon's name appeared in front of him.
{Name:- (^^%^%(&#!$%^)%#&^^&^&}
{Difficulty:- DEA-%^&%^&*SY}
'Well, that's certainly not good but meh here I come!'
{Loading new terrain..ERROR..-
^&#^$^*%%$@$%}
{TRAN-0&$^-PORTING TO&l&^%()$#W}
Nix and his entire group were transported inside and what he saw surprised him. The interior of the cave dungeon was dark, with jagged rocks protruding from the ground and walls.
The air was musty and stale, and the only sounds that could be heard were the faint dripping of water.
The walls were covered in moss and lichen, small patches of plant life sprouting up here and there. The floor was uneven and rocky, making it difficult to walk, and the ceiling was low, forcing you to crouch down in some areas.
Snarling and grunting filled the air, creating an eerie and unsettling atmosphere that suggested danger lurked around every corner.
Nix could swear he heard some laugh like a maniac screaming 'success.'
Nix increased his vigilance and ordered the NPCs to follow him.
The group encountered a group of monsters within a few seconds. The group of monsters was diverse from normal goblins, to scally bipedal reptiles and magenta-coloured wild dogs with blue-green tatooes.
Both sides engaged each other faster than a normal eye could see and a fierce battle broke out.
The NPC managed to quickly overpower the monsters while Nix breezed through them, he was unlike the weak OG was way more powerful but still wasn't at the level at which he could defeat those creepy statues.
{You have slain an Advanced Goblin....x10}
{You have slain a Cave Trool...x5}
{You have leveled Up!}
{You are now level 37}
'It seems like the monsters here give a lot more Exp compared to Yggdrasil ones.'
Nix and the group after easily defeating all the monsters, healed up and continued on their way to find a giant door.
On their journey, they explored a ton of rooms and encountered some stronger monsters nothing they couldn't handle.
{You have slain...}
{You have...}
{You have leveled Up!}
{You are now level 39!}
After all the hard work Nix had arrived in front of a GIANT door that stood out like an elephant in a crowd of sheep.
[IMAGE HERE]
After carefully assigning all his stat points in PHY.DEF and MG.DEf he slowly walked towards them and opened the doors.
*CREAK*
The doors creaked open and as Nix stepped inside...
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