Let's Start Again

I had my golem with the two swords swing at the air but I was sending an imaginary opponent to its mind. I found out that when I use the minor impart will skill on my golems, it is like an artificial soul, so that means my golems could think and learn. I obviously didn't use this skill on mom since she clearly, already has a soul. Back to my golems though, I decided to have them practice fighting imaginary opponents that I thought of. It brought me back to Earth when I played RPGs for a short period of time, and I imagined the golems opponent to be a sword master. I did an assassin for the dagger wielding golem. Once I finished thinking this up, something I didn't expect happened.

[You have acquired the illusionary Training skill!]

[Due to vivid and clear image of training opponents produced, Illusionary Training skill has been upgraded to Fake Reality Training skill!]

Wait… What even is this?

[Holy… Crap.] {Daz}

Oops, I think I said that through telepathy by mistake. Van and Darcia quickly ran over to me and before they could say anything, I pulled up the information of the skill and explained it to them through telepathy.

[Fake Reality Training[[Level 1]]]: Allows the user to provide the target with any type of training they can think of. It will put the target into a trance that, from the outside will look like the target is in a deep sleep, but the user can view the target's progress at anytime. Experience will not be gained in the fake reality that the skill makes however, skills can be gained and skills can level up through this training. The training is limited by the level and imagination of the user. The limits of the training are only determined by the target.

[This skill is insane! Although I can see that it relies heavily on your imagination so you will have to probably do some intense research if you use it on something or someone in the future who has an ability you know nothing about.] {Van}

[My Dan is growing up so fast!] {Darcia}

As soon as we finished discussing everything, I found out that I only had enough mana to put four targets under the fake reality. I put my two golems I initially intended on training, in there first. Afterwards, I put Van's bone skeleton and wolfie in there as well. Van stated that there really weren't any undead that he found suitable for it once I found out that I could have the targets 'join' the same 'world'. I set the time frame for them at ten days and decided to take my afternoon nap. It turned out that Van acquired the golem creation skill, but it was completely different from my golem manipulation skill. That didn't surprise me though.

Name: Dantelieu Race: Dhampir (Dark Elf) Age: 0

Nickname: Dan Job: None Level: 0 Job History: None

[Attributes]:

Vitality: 16 Mana: 65,009,000 Strength: 30 Agility: 4 Endurance: 55

Intelligence: 30

{Passive Skills}:

[Superhuman Strength]: Level 1 [Rapid healing]: Level 2

[Earth-Attribute Magic]: Level 4 [Golem Manipulation]: Level 2

[Status Effect Resistance]: Level 2 [Magic Resistance]: Level 1

[Night Vision] [Mental Corruption]: Level 10 [Non-Living Charm]: Level 1

[Inventory]: Level 2

{Active Skills}

[Rock Spike]: Level 2 [Sculpting]: Level 3 [Molding]: Level 3

[Minor Impart Will]: Level 1 [Bloodsucking]: Level 1 [Limit Break]: Level 2

[Fake Reality]: Level 1

{Curses}:

[Experience Gained in previous life not carried over.]

[Cannot learn existing jobs]

[Unable to gain experience yourself]

Thankfully, Van had undead flies on the outside that could tell him what's going on, and he could speak with the surrounding spirits. It hit the 15 day mark and they were still searching for us, so I put my golems and Van's undead skeleton back under the fake reality and set the time for around a month and a half since they were probably suspicious of the disappearance of the hunters. Thankfully, we overstuffed my inventory with food and water so we should be able to barely scrape for about two months.

One thing that I discovered was, I couldn't put Van, Darcia, or myself under the 'Fake Reality'. It probably has something to do with the fact that I can't think of suitable training for any of us. Another thing I discovered was, my golems managed to get a skill called 'mana core' while they were in the 'fake reality' so I didn't have to maintain them with my mana anymore, outside of Darcia's golem body of course. However, I didn't really need to supply any mana to mom, since Van anchored her to the golem and used his magic to fuse the two of them together.

A little on the 'Fake Reality' I sent my golems and Van's undead skeleton into. I modeled it after an RPG that was similar to our current situation, except there was a tutorial that guided them on the basics of fighting. After that, they would have to fight hordes of monsters, face constant traps, holy knights, priest, and once they reached certain milestones, they would do 'class upgrade quest'. It was fun to watch them, because it was like I was designing a video game with willing testers, and could update the game in real time.

After two months, before Van gave the go ahead so that we could leave, my golems and Van's undead skeleton, 'woke up'. I watched their progress pretty much everyday and saw that they progressed pretty quickly when it came to increasing their skill level and gaining new skills. My golem that wields swords gained three key skills: Dual Wielding, Basic Swordsmanship, and Sword Aura. The dagger wielding one gained four skills: Beginner Dagger Mastery, Stealth, Dual Wielding, and Assassinate. Wolfie gained four skills as well: Rock armor, Wind-speed, Pack Aura, and Howl. I couldn't see the status of Van's skeleton, but he told me the skills it gained. They were the same as my sword golem but it didn't gain Dual wielding since it preferred to use great-swords.

Van and I spent the afternoon after High Priest Gordan finally left, to just bask in the sunlight.

[Sunlight… Love you…] {Van+Dan}

Both of us started to speak recently, but weren't able to form complete sentences just yet. Living underground for so long wasn't as bad as it could have been. We didn't expect to stay there for two whole months. The water supply got pretty low at a certain point. Thankfully, with our combined excavation led us to discover a stream of underground water. I quickly contained it with earth manipulation, and it allowed us to have a stable water supply to drink and clean our diapers. I managed to use my sculpting and molding skill to make diapers out of rabbit and wolf skin. Both of us learned the skill [Danger Sense: Death] when we were getting low on food and had to find food underground that wasn't fatal. Both of us agreed to never live like that again.

[High Priest Gordan, adventurers of the Five-colored Blades Party, please be well.] {Van}

[Please don't die until we kill you.] {Dan}

After we managed to calm down from the sunlight, Van ordered his undead to set up traps, and I had my golems help them. My golems and Van's undead skeleton seemed pretty well versed in making traps now that they had experience with it. Since Darcia is currently asleep, I'm keeping her golem in my inventory until Van tells me that it's time for her to wake up. We both figured that would be the safest place to keep her at. Neither of us could leave this place right away though since we still slept for long hours and weren't able to run. Not that it matters since I could probably make a golem carriage once I get proficient enough with the skill. For now though, we had to postpone our revenge. We already came up with a plan to get revenge on them and I was feeling a bit impatient, but I had to wait if I wanted to make sure everything worked.

What sucked was the fact that it was winter right now. I just hope that we can catch some prey in this weather. Soon enough, Darcia woke back up when we were inside the cave and I let her out of my Inventory. We asked her about our father and she explained the history of vampires and how we came to be. (Chapter 4 of the original novel, in the middle of it. She also tells more about the world further down.) We were able to find out why we received our names after she explained everything. Thankfully my golems managed to catch us some rabbits and wolves to eat. Van's undead also gathered nearby fruit and edible grass that I stuffed in my inventory for later. Darcia went on to explain how jobs worked (Still in chapter 4 of the original.) and both of us realized how annoying one of the curses is. We can't obtain any existing jobs. However we managed to gain a level when one of my golems and his undead killed a wolf near us. It was about time for us to go to sleep, so I dozed off on our bed that I increased the comfort of with sculpting, molding, and the help of some rabbit fur.

Name: Dantelieu Race: Dhampir (Dark Elf) Age: 0

Nickname: Dan Job: None Level: 2 Job History: None

[Attributes]:

Vitality: 24 Mana: 65,009,000 Strength: 40 Agility: 8 Endurance: 58

Intelligence: 33

{Passive Skills}:

[Superhuman Strength]: Level 1 [Rapid healing]: Level 1

[Earth-Attribute Magic]: Level 4 [Golem Manipulation]: Level 3

[Status Effect Resistance]: Level 3 [Magic Resistance]: Level 1

[Night Vision] [Mental Corruption]: Level 10 [Non-Living Charm]: Level 1

[Inventory]: Level 3

{Active Skills}

[Rock Spike]: Level 2 [Sculpting]: Level 4 [Molding]: Level 3

[Minor Impart Will]: Level 2 [Bloodsucking]: Level 2 [Limit Break]: Level 2

{Curses}:

[Experience Gained in previous life not carried over.]

[Cannot learn existing jobs]

[Unable to gain experience yourself]