3 Chapter 3: The problem with obssessions
On a distant road in the middle of the Old Deepwoods, two lone travelers ride in a soot covered wagon. The passenger, a small girl with horns, riding shotgun, sits relaxed with a calm smile as the pale moon reflects its light off her grey hair and ashen skin. If not for the youthfulness of her skin and indicative rising of her chest, one would think they were dead. Besides them sits a hooded driver in a green garb and a mask showing only their eyes and nose.
Unlike her passenger, however, the hooded driver sits deep in thought.
"So anyways boss, why did you let me live?", they ask bluntly albeit meekly.
Not seeimng any reason as to why her new master had spared her. Considering she had beeen working with the others to literally suckk the life out of her.
"Again with the boss thing.", a long-sigh can bbe heard, "Well I just felt like it.", the tiny horned figure replies nonchalantly.
"Ahh...,", the hooded diver says after awhule. Thinking back on the events that led to this moment.
________________________ 3 hours Earlier __________________________________________________________________
Shortly after recieving the Hell Brreak notification, fire lept from my flesh spreading out in all directions.
"AHHHHHH!!!!!!- oh wait I'm not burning?", confused. Also, for some reason, I was begining to feel better... no, stronger?!?
"{Profile: Lizza Leona}"
{Profile}
[Name: Lizza Leona] [Class: None selected] [Title: Demon Lord of Melancholy (inactive)]
Gender: Female
Species: Archdemon (Type: humanoid Lineage: Forgotten sin series- Melancholy)
Age: 5 hours, 29 minuets, 59 seconds~
Status Scores: [Str- (12) -42- 27 +25] [End- 19] [Con- (22) -54- 24 +30] [Wis- (12)] [Int-(15)] [Cha- (4)]
Status Effects: Greater Blood Sacrifice of Binding(ritual)~ A ritual cast to bind you, its' power stems from a mass sacrifice of Cultists - Reduces strength to 0 and constitution scores by half. While bound by these chains, movement is impossible. (Weakened)
Mana overdosage(How are you still alive?!?): When consuming vast amounts of power a little backlash is to be expected. However, you've taken it too a new extreme. Gained Title: Godly Overeater.
Background: .....
Titles:{Demon Lord of Melancholy, Forsaken Hero of Man, Godly Overeater}
Demon Lord of Melancholy:
- Resistant to Depression, Dark, Unholy, and Infernal based attacks and abilities.
- Aura of Depression: Skill Unlocked: Makes enemies lose will to fight over time and succumb to darker thoughts.
- Bonus to attack on holy and unholy raced enemies.
- Demons will not attack, but obey you unless ordered otherwise by another lord or masster.
Forsaken Hero of Man
- Str +25
- All attacks recieve 15% more power towards damagage.
Godly Overeater (Mana variant):
- Con +30
- Mana Regeneration +20% during combat.
- Gain Skill: Mana Absorbtion
Skills: Aura of Depression(passive), Dominate Demons (Innate: Greater), Imperal Swordsmanship Master: (10/10), Mana Manipulation Novice: (4/10), Mana Absorbtion Beginner: (0/10)...
Seeing a new ta at the bottom, I mentally opened it to see what had changed.
*Racial Abilities*: (partially unlocked)
Emergency Species Evolution: Elemental Immunity *unlocked*- Soul, Arcane, Fire
Description:
[As a demon your species are prone are to experienceing world breaking extreme calamtious events. To survive these events, younger generations evolve and develop skills to survive in the future years. Develeop resistabbnces and immunities to survive certain event efffects. One use only.]
Elemental Immunity *unlocked*- Soul, Arcane, Fire
[Using your emergency evolution, you and your decendants have developed resistances to Soul, Arcane, and Fire based calamities]
Effects:
- 40% resistance the Soul Element.
- 50% resistance to the Arcane element.
- Immunity to the Fire Element.
Holy Weakness:
{As a Demon, your sopecies is weaker to the power of the Heavens.]
Effects:
- 50% weakness, or double damage, to the Holy element.
Oh, this is useful. Furthermore, it explained that the chains were weakening, hence why I was feeling stronger. and sure enough eventually enough of the chain broke that with a jump a burst off the table, and then the ceiling. Then a layer of rock, then another, and another, oh somebodies body, and then more and more rock.
I couldn't help but wonder, 'I get the underground sactum part, but just how deep am I?'
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________10 minuetes later.
Paula had never been one of the fanatics that plauged her life. Sure she said the prayers, baked the brownies, and sacrified a poor goat every now and agaain, but she never truly believed in their "Great Dark Lord". But, when your entire town is a brownie obssesed demon cult what could a girl do but not go along with it.
At first people didn't care about the cult, being a small, albeit annoying, cult and all. The cult was good for buisness, however, paid their taxes, and didn't do anything too crazy, so they were mostly left alone. Of course when one of there followers gets elected mayor, a depression hits, and the plauge is ruomored to be going around in the country again, one thing leads to another and the entire town converts, well almost. The only reason she was out here was to escape the cult.
Originally she was going to be forced to have wed Thomas, a 50 pushing 60 year old, or so, cultist leader, but then one opioid fueled orgy later and half of the cult gets a message from the "Master Tentacle" saying they need to ressurect so'n'so, and then stab them with a weird magic knife, or something. Of course when the sacrifces started happening, she figured now would be a good time to skip town, but then she got roped into body detail and next thing you know she's out here in the woods, surrounded by smoke and fire, and and being sat on by a crazy she--demon that wouldn't stop criticising her life choices.
"I get it alreaady, letting myself be dragged into a brownie obseessed wasn't he best idea, but come on what was I supposed to do?"
"I don't know, leave sooner, go somewhere else.", they say derividiley.
<Snorting>, "Oh yeah, and go where? If you haven't already noticed we're not exactly in the middle of somewhere. Heck the only other settlement out here is a week away, and it has only 15 people. Most of this area is uninhabited, monster infested Deepwoods."
"Still, you could see the signs that something was wrong, you could've done something.", they reminded me.
<Sighs>, "Yeah you're right," I admit, "but could you get off me."
"Why, your comfortable.?"
:|
Almost 3 hours later, she finally got off my back, and then we were able to hit the road.
Of course it had required a lengthy negotiation, and had come with a price.
{Profile}
[Name: Paula of the Deepwoods] [Class: Villager] [Title: Servant of Melancholy]
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 18 years 10 months 3 Weeks 4 Days 10 hours 39 minuetes, 8.7~ seconds~
Status Scores: [Str- (12)] [End- (20)] [Con- (15)] [Wis- (8)] [Int-(13)] [Cha- (10)]
Status Effects: (Tired)
Background: Nope... we're just gonna avoid that for now.
Titles:{Servant of Melancholy, Bad Baker, The Enduring Fool}
Servant of Melancholy:
- Resistant to Depression, Dark, Unholy, and Infernal based attacks and abilities.
- Obssesion with master.
- Low level demons will not attack, unless provoked or ordered otherwise by another lord or master.
Bad baker
- Con +5
The Enduring Fool:
- End+10
- Wis -2
Skills: Driving Master: (10/10), Baking Begginer: (1/10), Merchant Begginer (9/10)...
Racial Abilities:
*Adaptability: Resistance to all effects 10%. Skills are easier tolearn and master
Ugh, why did I agree to this?
The 'this' in question was to be a sevant to the she-demon sitting beside her. Which in this case included the role of driver, guide, information provider, and chair. It wouldn't have been as bad, except for the fact she was constantly wanting to pet her master.
"So anyways," her master Lizza spoke suddenly, "how far are we from town?"
"Ah, yes?", after a moment of deep thought," I would say about an hour."
"Alright, since that's the case, wake me up in 45 minuetes or so, then.", the horned loli says falling assleep on the others shoulder.
Trying to calm down from the events of the day, and unable to resist the sheer cuteness of there new master, they subconciously move them to sit on their lap.
After a while, "...that's nice.", they sigh.
"Will you stop petting me."
"Oh come on, your just so cute~!!!"
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