Ch 50: Shivering Sea
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' thinking '
[ System]
{ Author Note }
'Now that I have that done, what do I do now?' I open my world list and scroll down the options before my eyes stop on Dark Souls and Bloodborne, making me contemplate on the two options before I scroll a bit more to see other options that also tempt me for a bit before I cut out all the different options leaving only five in front of me to decide from.
'Let's rule out Bloodborne and Dark Souls. While useful, I can already clear through the place too easily, though Gracebane would live up to its name there; I finally want a challenge that leaves Marvel, DC, and Skyrim, with Skyrim being the most dangerous of the two but also being able to give me the highest yield out of the three.' At the same time, I pulled on all of my knowledge on the three worlds and even opened the knowledge tabs of Pacific Rim and Subnautica, as they had the three fiction worlds in their universes.
'If I go to Marvel, I may end up in the MCU, which would bring me a lower yield but also have the chance to send me to a timeline filled with the Avengers gone evil and possibly other things, with the same problem being with DC while Skyrim would place me who knows where not knowing when in the timeline if even in the right one.' At the same time, I start to walk around a bit and see Jörmungandr heading back over before I look back to the screen.
'Skyrim is my best bet, with it being both consistent and having the highest possible gain, though I will need to try and keep the Aedra and Daedra's attention off of me, mainly Bal and Namira with the others I can relatively deal with, and the Aedra probably be willing to tolerate my existence as long as I don't do anything devastating to the timeline where Akatosh will send a Jill which will simply wipe me out of existence.' I sighed deeply as Jörmungandr landed beside me and gave me a short look before looking out into the distance.
"I know where I'm going next, Jörmungandr. While I'm gone, I will need you to keep everything in check and make sure that with them all separated now, they won't cause any self brought chaos that might make things worse for the rest, though keep in mind I don't care if they go to war with each other just don't let them all die out." I say to Jörmungandr as he nods his head before flashing away where I see him appear in front of Arthur. I closing my eyes and tap on the world, and feel my entire body warp as I arrive in bone-chilling water.
'Damn, it's cold as hell now. Let's see where I'm at.' I morph my body into my standard form but heavily condensed to not trigger the attention of anything significant. My senses start to spread out sluggishly, confusing me and not going any further than a mile compared to how it would usually cover about half the world.
'Well shit, I should have seen this coming. This world has everything imbued with a damn concept.' I then start swimming in a random direction as I try and use my Spatiokinesis to try and help me understand where I'm at to feel a heavy restriction on it while barely allowing me to warp the water around me without using a massive amount of energy.
'Goddamn it, I'm already starting to see this as a mistake, but I have to deal with my decision now, don't I.' I start using my other abilities and see that the only ones unrestricted are my Hydrokinesis, Pyrokinesis, and Aerokinesis.
'Why doesn't this shock me, especially with Pyrokinesis? It is one of this world's greatest showings of magic, followed by Cryokinesis. It is the only reason I can use my Hydrokinesis somewhat easily without costing me half of my inner magic.' I finally sense something ahead of me that isn't a Slaughterfish or Horker.
I then start to swim faster as I finally sense something other than water and see that it is just a tiny island which I quickly climb onto to be hit by a chilling gale of wind. 'damn, it's cold. There is no reason for me to be this cold, but what can you expect from here, though that seems to be Solstheim, which means I'm at least not in the middle of nowhere near Atmora.'
'Now, let's start this and see what point in time it is with me being here.' I morph into a seagull and start to fly toward the giant island, quickly finding out that this is much slower but dealing with my decision nonetheless. I see a snowy beach and a small cave, which my senses start to flood into as I see massive amounts of Rieklings and Bristlebacks.
'Well, this is a good place to start and gives me a couple of forms I can take to fit in better here, or at least until I find a Nord or Dunmer.' I then realize that I have a better form than this as I shift into an Artic Hawk and start to dive towards the cave and gracefully fly into it, making sharp turns and rolls through the cave and arrive at the open part of it and seeing tiny houses carts and little goblins.
'Much faster and convenient now, let's deal with this and see if I can find an old Nord bone to chew on.' as I morph mid-air into Barioth and start to sprint through the cave, killing Rieklings and Bristlebacks, I find while grabbing anything that might be useful from their spears to scattered septims.
'This is somewhat fun; I feel like a cat, ' I say as I snatch up a Riekling and throw it into my mouth. I then see how well I can use my Hydrokinesis in this cave, as it is mainly limited to ice and minor water control rather than the other way around.
I then use the ice I know I control to close off the cave's exits and form spikes under some of the Bristlebacks and Rieklings, though some are less sharp than others due to the wide range it is being used. 'Well, that meets expectations, though I can make it work better.'
'Is that a Nord? ' As my neck snaps to the left, I see a slightly muscular Nord appear out of nowhere. It looks at me with a look of fear before its face hardens in resolve, bringing up a steel battle-axe. "Well, you sure are brave and very useful as well." I chuckle slightly as I let out a breath of ice shards and appear in front of the Nord warrior.
The Nord rolls to the left, dodging the ice shards as he pulls out a potion and quickly drinks it. I see his muscles bulge briefly and his body jolt as he rushes toward me, creating a perfect upward swing with his axe. I dodged to the side, and he clipped my tail slightly, cutting it off, making me somewhat bewildered at it as it quickly regrew.
'Damn, okay.' my entire body morphs into a Frostfang Barioth with the fur growing thicker. My body became larger as the Nord looked at me with an appraising look with an apparent show of fear as well, but continued to attack me as I continued to dodge his strikes each, one barely hitting me but always dealing some damage to me as I whip my tail around to try and swipe his leg to which he slams his axe down making it where my tail hits it like a shield.
"You obviously have some experience," I say with a slightly annoyed voice as I pounce over him and climb the cave wall. I look down at him, and he sighs as he removes a bow from his back and quickly looses an arrow at me, which I move to the side to dodge as I become more interested in how this will progress.
"Just stay still, " he mutters as he launches another arrow at me, which I dodge. I then morph into a Human form and pull Gracebane out, twirling it in my hands before morphing into a jagged spear.
"I had fun as a monster and running. Now let's see how it goes face to face." the Nord put the bow back on his back and grabbed the axe as he charged at me, to which I rolled to the side before stabbing at him, which he easily dodged to the right as Gracebane then turns into a Chain blade and sets itself on fire and sling it around me to hit him to which he dodges under before swinging his axe at my face to which I tilt my head and dodge.
"Come on, say something. This is starting to get more fun by the second," he grunts and uses the force created by his axe to twist around and kick me in the chest, sending me back but a smile to grow wide on my face as Gracebane wraps around his axe and pulls it with me as my back hits the cave wall making me come to a sudden stop.
"They said this was going to be easy," he mutters as two bound axes appear in his hand, and he gives me an annoyed look. "Well, that's not fair," I say with a fake indignant frown, to which his eyebrow just twitches as he charges at me again.
Gracebane then morphs into a Gladius and Xiphos as they clash against his axes. We both break out into a flurry of strikes, with him perfectly blocking mine and me, easily dodging his as my smile grows wider and deep blue scales start growing on my body, with horns starting to grow as well, making me look like a Dragonoid as our fight continues.
"I want triple pay for this and an Honningbrew," he says in annoyance as his axe lodges itself into my scaled arm and cuts a deep wound. He goes to swing his other axe into my head, which I block with my Gladius, and thrust my Xiphos towards his stomach, which he narrowly dodges as my arm heals back to normal.
"This is fun. Why would you want to leave," I say with an amused tone, which comes out more like a guttural growl to him than to myself, which sets him off slightly more than he already is as he dodges backward away from me as my body starts removing the scales and my horns as I give him a somewhat annoyed look that he dodged backward even though Gracebane is now a Naginata Polearm that would have been in his guts.
"You know what? I'm done with this," he says as if he is stopping a sparring match, which confuses me slightly as he then reappears in front of me with his battle-axe back in hand and fully pulled back as he then cuts me in half in one quick motion causing my face to morph into one of shock as his body starts to shimmer slightly to show a towering man in a winged helmet and a bear fur coat that drapes down his back with his armor being a mixture of dragon scale and chainmail.
"Well damn, that was quick. I haven't even been here for a day." I chuckle as I look at the man, who stares at me before my lower body reconnects with the rest. "You certainly are entertaining, aren't you." the newly revealed Aedra says as he looks at my restitched body before looking to the left.
"Did I lose your attention so quickly, Lorkhan, or should I address you to the name of this form, Talos?" I say with a bit of snark as he twists around and cuts my head, making me laugh as my body starts to restitch itself again, which slightly annoys the Aedra.
"You know what I deserve, but what did I do to garner your attention, my Aedric friend?" I ask Talos as he looks back at me and sighs before I get hit with a gust of wind and feel the energy flow through me.
"Akatosh told me to come and see why there was a dragon that wasn't his child, and since I'm the best dragon slayer that exists, I was sent to make good use of what was given to you," Talos says as he shakes his head slightly before in a golden flash, he disappears.
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{A/N Well, I hope you all liked the chapter, and I apologize for the late update. I was trying to give more time for the vote and getting distracted by doing a lore dive into TES lore, which there's a lot of, and I wish you guys didn't pick the most dangerous universe out of the five yet. I will live with the decision.
On the other hand, I hope none of you think I'm trying to nerf him, but I will be reducing his use of some powers and abilities. Still, they will be coming back, and it's not like he doesn't have them. They are much weaker when this world has such powerful gods and other figures ruling everything.
But I will now put the usual below, so I hope you all enjoyed it.
[Status]
Species: Devouring Leviathan
Name: Livyatan
OG Name: Cameron
Titles: World Breaker, Legend Slayer +11
Length: 632m (2073FT)
DNA Assimilated: 540