Chapter 5

7/1 664 04:50 (Summer, Day)

She was just done consolidating and thinking about it when Edgar caught her attention.

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but there is another matter to discuss."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Well, I have some informations to give you. The Growth Skill I have teached you, "Soul Harmony", can only be used by someone with an active Unique Skill so if you want to teach it to someone be sure that they have one. I have two additional matters to discuss that should be related. Another is your new Casting Aid and the Growth Skill "Unique Arma" that I will teach you."

"Not your own Growth Skill, is it?"

"It is not. This is a Skill that we copied from the Iriblades. It normally uses a lot of Orichalcum, but I learned how to substitute most of the Orichalcum with a lot of the blood of the User."

"It seems like Orichalcum is not as rare as I thought."

"No, it is. Natural Orichalcum is incredibly rare, but that party started to sell small quantity of it every other month. I think their blacksmith is able to refine or increases Orichalcum from other materials."

"And they are free to Hunt down a Vampire and all of its subordinate instead of being chained somewhere?"

"They only started officially selling it around one year and a half ago and by that time they had already made a lot of friends. While the leader" he indicated the central one "and the Half-Elf have no particular background or protection, they are very strong. Additionally, the Elf has a lot of allies in high places in various Churches and both the Witch and the Dwarf are nobles, even if not in too high positions. Additionally, by that time, all of them were famous and looked up to by the general population of this country rendering them well protected from nobles."

"I see. How did you find out about this Growth Skill?"

"Well, you know how it is. If someone has a lot of trusted friends, some of these may have different friends that they trust themselves and so on."

"Very well, when could you start to make this Unique Arma?"

"I'm sorry to say, but I can't make your Unique Arma. I can help you, but you would need to make it personally."

"I see. I have no idea how to make it." She said proudly.

He sighed, a sweat drop flowing from his forehead.

I suppose this is what it feels like to speak with a newborn God.

"Very well… I suppose I will teach it to you too. It's technically easy to make it, you just need to have an Ability Skill regarding Crafting of D-Rank or higher."

"So do they all have a Crafting Skill of that Rank?"

"I don't believe so. With enough Orichalcum, you don't need to personally make it, and a drop of blood should be enough. However, this is terribly inefficient regarding it's use of Orichalcum."

"I see… Yes, I suppose so. Well, after you give me the blood you promised me, you may teach me a Crafting Skill."

"Very well, while I guide you towards the forge in one of this manor's basements, one of my Ghoul will bring you much tastier blood, even if I doubt you will gain anything, but taste from it."

"It's fine, I want it only because of the taste anyway."

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7/1 664 05:41 (Summer, Day)

Having drunk a glass of blood, sighing slightly in pleasure at the taste, Luna refocused on Edgar gesturing for him to continue.

"The Crafting Skill I want to teach you and that you would use for your Unique Skill is the Ability Skill "Mana Forging""

"I see. Does the Crafting Skill impact it?"

"Not at all. The Crafting Skill is irrelevant to the final product. Mana Forging would be useful to you regarding also Mana Shaping."

"Very well, let's begin. Teach me."

"Mana Forging is the Skill to apply Mana to objects to Cast Spells through them. In your case, at an high enough Rank, you should be able to automatically use it with Mana Shaping to make more efficient and stronger weapons."

"How strange. The previous me had no idea about how to use such a Skill…" A pout was on her face as she thought about that.

"That is only natural, to use it with the Skill at E-Rank or lower you need a specific and costly Magical Item. Well, let's begin."

Edgar brought her towards a great Magical Item.

It was pratically a separated room by itself, three meters tall and a good four meters both in width and in depth with a door opening to a comfortable seat in the center.

"So, how does it work?"

"Well, this Magic Item is, in reality, a mix between a Creative Focus and a Disenchanter. You'd need to Mana Forge an object with a Spell, the object will be Disenchanted, and you will Mana Forge it again until you gain a D-Rank in Mana Forging. This one" he touched the machine "will render Mana Forging much easier and efficient until you gain the Skill. Our objective, for now, is for you to gain the Skill as soon as possible."

"I see… It seems like my first D-Rank Skill will be Mana Forging. Well, let's begin."

She nodded to herself before entering the Mana Forge and sitting comfortably on her new chair.

Once there she watched the room noting how in the room there was a metal arm holding carefully a staff before handing it to her.

She held it softly with one hand, the other going to the opposite space for it, connecting with a, mostly empty, well of Mana.

She enveloped the staff with her own Mana concentrating on a specific Spell, Stat Enhancement, and the Forge helped to direct her Mana until, 25 Mana and as many minutes later, the Staff was properly Mana Forged thanks to the fact that the Mana was forcibly held within the staff.

She could not even stop to admire her new creation before the arm reacted to it and moved the staff to the Disenchanting portion of this room where it passed the staff to a machine that drained the staff's Enchantment and converted it to Mana that was then flowing towards the Mana Well within the Machine before, 5 minutes later, the staff was offered to her again, she nodded to herself full of determination.

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7/1 664 08:37 (Summer, Day)

<Luna gained the Ability Skill "Mana Forging">

She smiled exhausted as she noted her new Skill that she gained after her fifth success.

Much faster thanks to the machine that negated any chance of failure in the Mana Forging and her own Mana Control that lowered the minimum required Mana to 25, having spent a massive 125 Mana.

She didn't hesitate, she sat up, went to the door and left the machine, finding herself before a Ghoul waiting for her.

"I need a pause" she told the Ghoul, "I have low Mana and I am liable to kill something if I need to enhance the same thing another time."

After a pause, the Ghoul's bearing changed and Edgar's voice rang out.

"I see. It is still day so if you want to leave I would need to send you with one of my Ghouls to function as a guide or you can come in my library if you want to."

She pouted before nodding to the second option.

"Very well, I'm coming there."

"Okay, the Ghoul will-"

"There is no need for that, I will reach you alone."

Before he could comment further, she left the room in search of his library.

A good 40 minutes later, Luna found herself before the amused Vampire in his library looking at his, for now, books.

"Quite the collections of book here."

"After all this is my favorite room except for the laboratory and, as such, is only less than two minutes away from it."

An amused chuckle almost escaped him, but he was more than able to suppress it.

He lived more than two centuries, such a feat was not hard for him.

Luna meanwhile showed no outward signs of any embarrassment at having needed various Ghouls to search her and bring her here from the opposite side of the manor.

Edgar was taking entire bookcases and moving them towards a ring that quickly absorbed them.

"I reached Mana Forging E-Rank, so I am taking a pause. Entertain me."

A sigh escaped his mouth at this before he focused on the young, bored Lunarian.

"Before that, may I ask you a question?" At her nod, he continued. "How much information do you actually know? A newly Rebirthed Vampire normally can barely talk or move at first, yet you…"

"I see. I'm probably the most knowledgeable being in the World technically. I just cannot access most of the information from my sources."

"Oh? What sources? Now I am genuinely curios."

"I have three sources: the previous me, all of the creatures whose blood I have drunk from my Rebirth to now and the Moon."

"I'm sorry… did you… did you just say the Moon?"

"Yes. One of my sources is the Moon. It's a giant… library? Well, it knows a lot of stuff. So much so that it is too much and so all of my knowledge is purely subconscious."

"I see… well, what do you want to learn?"

"Well, let's start with… " After a long pause during which Edgar restarted to push bookcases in the ring she nodded. "Red Moons and Blood Moons."

"Very well. I already told you that during a Red and Blood Moon the monsters are tireless. Monsters whose Racial Rank increases during a Red Moon, gain a new Unrelated Innate Skill, always. Instead, during a Blood one all Monsters gain an Unreleated Innate Skill and if their Racial Rank increses they gain another one and they grow, in general, much faster. Monsters with an Unrelated Innate Skill of D-Rank or more, can Evolve in a superior variant. Or at least that is what I was told by my previous Master, who himself wasn't alive during the last one."

Luna, while Edgar was explaining, Shaped a Mana Dagger and cut her own palm, carefully not to shed her own blood while still taking damage before nodding to herself.

The next step was obvious, she converted her own Hunger in to Health to instantly regain it before converting Health in Hunger and continuing this circle of conversion until, 5 minutes later…

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<Luna gained the Innate Skill "Regeneration">

<Luna gained the Innate Skill "Blood Gift">

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She smiled, condensing her Magicules while listening to Edgar continuing to explain.

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7/1 664 23:59 (Summer, Sunrise)

It was the moment before the end of her first day as a Lunarian when all living being on the planet received a message.

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<Emergency Alert>

<The Limits upon all living being on Gaea will be loosened.>

<All statuses will be updated.>

<Total Magicules will now influence their Owner.>

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Total Magicules 1905 (IV)

Stored Magicules 505

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Racial: Lunarian E

 Magicules: 100/1k. (III)

 A superior existence alien to the world of Gaea, a fleeting dream made real by the blessing of the Blood Moon and her own nature as a natural Singularity.

 The owner has no need for breathing and this body will not be affected by time, and the owner's body will find it easy to store and use their Vital Energy, that will slowly regenerate automaticaly.

 The owner can see in the dark perfectly, will never forget anything they experienced personally, with the addition of the knowledge obtained from the Moon's database even if at this Rank, this knowledge is mostly subconscious.

 The owner will have increased resistance to both Dark and Curse Attributes, with a slight weakness to Light and Holy Attributes and a natural resistance and vulnerability to Bloodloss derived by the fact that they are able to store up to 100 leters of blood in their shadows and the ability to convert it in Vital Energy and the conversion of it in Magicules.

 The owner will also, normally, have an increase to their affinity to both Dark and Curse Attributes, however, this time, because of the owner's Unique Skill, will instead be towards non-elemental affinity.

 Finally if the sucking of Blood kills or the victim has died shortly before, the Soul of the victim is stored within the owner's of this Skill's, even if at this Rank it has no particular effect beyond the addition of their knowledge to the Moon's database. 

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Unique: Singularity E

 Magicules: 1k/1k. (IV)

 A Skill that denotes the nature of the owner's Soul being a black hole in which nothing will ever escape.

 The owner of such a Soul cannot use any elemental magic of any type.

 However magic that doesn't depend on any element will be vastly enhanced and so will be the ease in the control of Mana and energy in general and the efficiency and speed of any energetic conversion and transfer.

 Additionally limits on magical affinity, Mana control and conversion efficiency will be nullified.

 The final effect at this Rank will be that the increases in an elemental affinity will, instead, increases non-elemental affinity.

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Growth: Soul Harmony E

 Magicules: 100/1k. (III)

 This Skill denotes that the owner's Soul is moving towards harmony guided by their Unique Skill, their Soul being strenghtened by this process and increased ease of use of the owner's energy in general and both their growth speed and their potential.

 Finally, every day, the owner will receive Magicules equal to the total Rank of all their other Skills.

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Innate: Regeneration E

#Lunarian

 Magicules: 100/1k. (III)

 This Skill denotes that the owner is able to passively and automatically generate and heal themselves using Vital Energy.

 In this case, however, this Skill function as an enhancement towards the healing caused by the nature of the owner as a Lunarian.

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Innate: Blood Gift E

#Lunarian

 Magicules: 100/1k. (III)

 This Skill notes the owner's affinity with Blood, healing and Vital Energy in general by allowing it to convert the first in the latter.

 However, this function as an enhancement to this process if, like in this case, the owner can already do such.

 Finally, if the previous situation is true, it allows the transfer of Vital Energy to heal others by allowing them to drink the User's Blood at a reduced efficiency, except in this case because of the owner's Unique Skill and so the efficiency isn't lowered.

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Ability: Mana Control E

 This Skill enhance the efficiency and ease with which the owner can activate their own Mana Core and the control they have on their Mana.

 Additionally this Skill will slightly increase their Mana capacity.

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Ability: No Attribute Sorcery E

 This Skill denotes the ease and ability with which the owner uses No Attribute Sorcery increasing the owner non-elemental affinity and the Power of No Attribute Sorceries.

 No Attribute Sorcery is based upon the use of Mana untainted by any attribute within the owner's body and without any chant, magical circle or other similar ways based entirely on the owner's willpower.

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Ability: Mana Shaping E

 This Skill denotes the ability of the owner to shape Mana outside their body throught willpower alone.

 This Skill enhance additionally the Power of the owner's Shapes and the control of their Mana.

 The process by which Mana Shapes are made depends on the owner's control of their Mana, this Skill and the Skill and magical affinity in a type of sorcery from which the shape is formed dealing damage based on it.

 In this case, however, the Mana efficiency derived by the owner's Unique Skill "Singularity" is such that all Mana Shape are transparent except for their outline.

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Ability: Spear Technique E

 This Skill denotes the ability of the owner with a spear or similar armaments and increases the Power of Techniques used with a spear.

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Ability: Knife Technique E

 This Skill denotes the ability of the owner with a knife or similar armaments and increases the Power of Techniques used with a knife.

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Ability: Bow Technique E

 This Skill denotes the ability of the owner with a bow or similar armaments and increases the Power of Techniques used with a bow and an arrow as projectile.

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Ability: Unharmed Technique E

 This Skill denotes the ability of the owner without the use of a weapon or with only fist-type weapons and increases the Power of Techniques used with their own body.

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Ability: Mana Forging E

 This Skill denotes the owner's ability to actualize the process to enhance something, using the owner's own Mana as a medium, with a Spell.

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Magicules sources.

 #Lunarian #Singularity

 A process to convert 100 leters of Blood in Magicules, the number of which depends on the owner of said blood.

 The ammount of Magicules gained is equal to 100 plus the total ammount of Magicules the former owner absorbed.

 This process is 1 hour long every 100 leters of Blood to convert them, with a 10% conversion efficiency, however with the combination of Unique Skill "Singularity", the time is instantaneous and the efficiency is of 100%, however this process kills the victim without a doubt.

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#Soul_Harmony

 A process to automatically gain Magicules equal to the sum total of all other Skills the owner possess depending on their Rank.

 E=1; D=3; C=5; B=7; A=10.

At the moment the Owner possess 12 E-Rank Skills other than Soul Harmony and so, every day, the owner will gain 12 Magicules.