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StarDuster - Glory of the Umbral Avenger

My Father always told me to stand tall, this is my opportunity to do just that. [ This novel has been discontinued, a redux version of this series is currently in production. ] A glorious reign over the realm only to be hunted, a glorious return only to be haunted. Avery Hall had a fair share of experience when it came to the many layers of humanity. With the death of our real world in the future, everyone gets digitized and becomes... well, Immortal. To a degree. But how to do you spend immortality? Video Games... of course, with everything being digital... and with Hyper Advanced A.I... it's possible to create games that simulate what reality used to be like. Our story takes place in Starduster MMO, a fantasy based MMO game where the game's story is run mainly by player choice, with any choice being an important factor into anything. Our main point of view is Avery Hall, who specializes in the Sniper Class, a long range damage class that uses a Rifle. He is quite efficient at making use of all he has available, and is kind of a jerk. Avery also has been preventing the Progress of the game by holding on to a Key Artifact, other players find out about this and after a while decide they don't want him around anymore. While normally death lowers levels... his reputation is too low within the game and he gets banned, luckily he has a second account, as most V.I.P. users in the world do... Avery, swears to return the status quo, but maybe he'll be good this time... hopefully, habits take a long time to stop. So we join Avery's journey to get back to the top, just make sure he doesn't forget to properly transfer accounts.

BreathingMoon · Jogos
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222 Chs

Relic Teir Chapter.

After a quick lunch, I began working on the design... since Dice is here I had her help out by providing a bit of her Toxins. She blushed while doing so, I hope I didn't trigger anything.

| Blood Queen Insectoid Venom |

| High grade Toxin |

I don't think Toxins are the same exactly but I don't know. Also what is the grading system?

| Confirmed |

| Low Grade -> Mid Grade -> High Grade -> Artifact Grade -> Treasure Grade -> Relic Grade -> Divine Grade |

Ask and you shall receive. I didn't even do the mental command though, I guess this game is getting updates now.

Actually, that may be why speed is now separate from Dexterity now, they updated it so you have a direct way to increase speed.

Anyways, Crafting time.

The hilt I decide would actually use Death type magic... specifically the curse type stuff that Arch's friend had, I forgot her name. They are kinda forgettable.

I've never used Curses before... I had to ask the Girl for help... I recognized her by hair color, it was a pure black with purple edges... Her name was ...Cav! How did I forget that!

Whatever.

She said that Curses specifically needed chants, but such a thing can be worked around when working with crystals. Since they have basically unlimited Mana...

( At least the Big ones do )

... I can actually just brute force my way through.

Specifically I used ones that Decreases Defences... The other Crystals will do other things. Meaning that the Curse would be more effective.

Having one crystal dedicated to one thing makes the effect stronger than if muitple equally worked on the same thing. They dispell each other's Mana in a unique way.

For the two blades, I decided making one as large as a very short sword, with the other being about the size of a dagger. Curving them into what kinda resembled a religious sacrificing Dagger. It's a very scary looking blade... the curse managed to turn the bone black too. I don't get how though... it looks cool at least.

The crystals inside... the larger one will be using a Mana Replicate of Dice's Toxin while the other will just use AoE poison Magic. Allowing for it to take the back seat.

| Crafting Complete |

| Doomsday Cross blade |

| Naming Available |

| Relic Grade |

Another Relic Grade, I'm just pumping these -

| Congratulations to Player Cobalt for crafting the Second Relic Grade Weapon. |

Even the second one?

I can hear Arch across the field popping off already... he's a battle maniac after all, a smart one at least. Just like me.

?? - " I await you command, Creator. "

Again? Is it just a relic grade thing?

Hello, I've crafted you for a friend of mine, he will be using you along side another Weapon I've created... he will give you a name as well.

?? - " Understood "

These talking swords read my mind, but can't talk in my mind ? Inconvenient.

Bah humbug, it's a talking sword.

There is Arch arriving on time.

Arch - " Did you really make another Relic grade item! "

Me - " Yep, it talks as well. This one does Poisons and stuff. "

Arch - " I'll call it Needle Blade. "

Me - " Needle Blade? Rea - "

| Confirmed |

| Needle Blade |

| Soul Bound to " Arch " |

| Relic Sword |

| Stats : | Immunity to Artifact or lesser Poison | | 0.25% DoT Aura | | Fear Aura | | Lesser Paralysis Aura | | Greater Potion Aura | | + 5% XP boost |

Neat, pretty good sword alright.

I'm glad I made these, I'd be pissed if someone else did it.

He seems shimmering with even more glee. Since I'm on a roll right now, why not make atleast something for his pals. Since they probably will be jealous.

I probably didn't mention it... but the two swords took 3 hours to make. Kinda long considering it's a game, but not long compared to actually forging swords.

There is three magic users and one Paladin on their team.

I asked them each About their specific goals with their classes.

• Ridiculously strong magic - Luriel

• Lots of AoE Healing - Melody

• Really strong Debuffs and Zombies - Cav

• High defence and Buffs - Horizon

So, for Luriel and Melody the obvious thing to make is a staff, since mages use those to directly increase strength of Mana.

Cav doesn't use a staff, preferring the Necromancers Signature... Bell / Lantern.

Really? That's what they use?

Anyways, I'll do a shield for Horizon.

I'll keep these very simple.

Starting with Melody. The Healer.

For the staves, I had to borrow some wood from Arch... specifically Cherry Wood since I like the color. Using nature and Healing Magic for Melody is the main idea, both do healing and buffs... and so I'll be using those types of Mana Crystals

To start with, I began an experiment.

I tried to " Twist " the crystals in a braid... I wanted to see if it changed the interaction between elements compared to fusing them together. The outside of the Crystals were then covered by bending the Wood with Alchemy. Making the staff look almost like a natural branch, expect of course it being perfectly straight.

For the ends of the staff, I decided to have one just rounded off with wood, where the other will be topped with a light magic Crystal. Programmed to make a soft pink glow. I made a small vein in the middle of the crystal, allowing the inner magic to flow through it, opening it at the end of the staff facing the same direction as the staff.

| Crafting Complete |

| Holy Blossom Staff |

| Name Available |

| Relic Grade |

| Congratulations to Player Cobalt for creating the third Relic Grade item. |

Again? Do you need to alert the world every time? What even makes this worthy of relic grade?

It doesn't seem to speak for now...

but there's something else.

There are cherry blossoms falling around me... seemingly out of nowhere, and similar blossoms are growing off the staff.

That's pretty rad.

I handed it to Melody right away, she appraised it with me as she took had a very giddy expression, she decided to name it " Half Blossom Moon ". I think it might be a reference or something.

Anyways -

| Half Blossom Moon |

| Soul Bound to Melody |

| Relic Staff |

| Stats : | All healing magic becomes AoE | | Blossom Shroud Petals | | Blossom Light | | " Blossom Beam " Skill | | " Blossom Burst " Skill | | 5% XP boost | | 5% Gold boost |

Awesome, pretty good staff for a healer. I wonder what those skills are though.

Blossom Shroud Petals are probably the Petals that fell around me when I was outside.

After giving my regards to the Girl who's name I surely will forget in a chapter or two, I began working on the other Staff.

Since Luriel likes to cast all of the elemental magic... I'll just have to use all of the elements.

I decided to go back to Wyvern Bone, forcing all those crystals in a natural wood based structure would be cause for lots of intentional fires.

I also decided to compact the crystals into small orbs, this would decrease their potency overall but decrease size. Allowing me to fit them into a neat design.

Taking a few bones, I folded it similar to my earlier blades, before shaping it into a a briazer staff... I used some extra wyvern scales to make the shaft of the staff into a Dragon Like structure.

I molded slots that dotted around the base and added all the elemental crystals. Lightning, Ice, and so on.

At the top, I had the staff twirl out into four spikes that curled back in on itself. I made slots on the edges of those, fitting them with the Four basic elements.

Fire, Water, Earth, Air.

long ago -

Anyways. I made a small Mana vein through the entire thing... I connected the Orbs to the top structure, where I had them flow out. The ones specifically on the structure I had loop back through the entire design, connecting them to affilliated elements Hoping to boost whatever magic she uses futher.

| Crafting Complete |

| Heaven's Element ∆ |

| Soul Bound to Luriel |

| Divine Grade Staff |

| CONGRATULATIONS TO PLAYER " COBALT " FOR CRAFTING THE FIRST DIVINE LEVEL EQUIPMENT |

...

I'm going to completely pretend that didn't happen and just give her the staff and check the stats.

I'm being swarmed by Arch and his friends at this point, I guess my genius has finally been recognized. And I hand Luriel the staff. She's looks in almost Horror as she wields it. I might be able to use magic, but only true wizard classes can sense it... I assume she's scared of it's full power.

Luriel - " I name it... Dragon God's maw. "

* BANG *

The sunny field we once stood in... was now a raging storm... where we stood however had no rain or wind.

Storm clouds gathered above use, as light shined out an area before us, the ground cracked beneath the area before bursting out, revealing what had cause it.

Laid out before our eyes, was a Dragon made of pure gold, with intimidating red eyes at beamed light towards us.

? - " 𝖂𝖍𝖔 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝕮𝖗𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖜𝖍𝖔 𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖉 𝖚𝖕𝖔𝖓 𝖒𝖊 "

That's me isn't it. Fuck... uh, let's hit him with the roleplay.

Me - " I am the one you has called you. "

? - " 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖋𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖊 𝖒𝖞 𝕭𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖎𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖊𝖑𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖒𝖞 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊, 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖎𝖙 𝖆 𝕲𝖎𝖋𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖎𝖙 𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖒𝖊. "

With the speed it appeared, the Dragon now disappeared back into where is came... leaving no evidence of its arrival. The storm dispelled and the Earth returned to peace.

Me - " What the fuck. "

Let me appraise the staff real quick.

| Dragon God's Maw |

| Soul Bound to Luriel |

| Blessed by Dragon God Hesoth |

| Divine Staff |

| Crafted by Cobalt |

| Stats : | 500% Damage bonus to all spells | | 50% Decrease in Mana Cost | | | Grants " Dragon's Gifted " Race |

Only Luriel and I could read this... and both of us fainted from reading this.