Chapter 2 Valkyrie Crusade
I was soon transported to a white room that was the exact opposite of the last one and simply waited. A few seconds later, a window appeared in front of me.
[Welcome summoner of valkyries. Do you want to start the tutorial?]
[Yes/No]
I nodded and pressed yes.
"So how does this work?" I asked curiously. What would happen if I do summon an Arch Witch? Will they betray me? Will the world be conquered or destroyed?
[The Summoner, that is you, can summon Valkyries in the real world from your deck. Due to the world you'll be entering, some aspects of the cards will be altered to fit that world. When the Summoner summons a Valkyrie, there is no time limit for their summons unless the Valkyrie is destroyed or you decide they should leave.]
(For reference, it's like the old Valkyrie Crusade game, but there are some new features added and some removed.)
(Let's begin... by reading the rules!! Read it! Live it! Love it!)
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Rules:
1. All valkyries summoned will like you and be loyal to you unless you give them a reason to hate you.
2. You will be given a portable 'deck' for the cards to draw from. The card(s) may be stolen and used against you at a heavy cost to that person. An inventory will be provided for all unused cards that are not in the deck and will be safe from everyone who isn't you.
3. To summon Valkyries, it costs mana.
Normal card = 125 MP
Rare card = 250 MP
Super Rare = 500
Ultra Rare = 750 MP
Legendary Rare = 1,000 MP
4. You will be able to see the attack and defense of everything around you.
5. All Valkyries start at Lv 1. Upgrading or fusion allows them to level up.
(Ex. Other Valkyrie cards or slimes)
6. Each Valkyrie has a level limit that can be surpassed by something called Evolution. Evolution works by using two of the same cards and certain Arcanas. Some Normal and Rare Valkyries have 2 or 4 evolutions. Super Rare, Ultra Rare, and Legendary Rare have 4 or 5 evolutions.
There are Five types of evolution:
• Regular Evolution- Combine two similar cards to raise its level, soldiers, and rarity.
• Evolution Accident- A rare phenomenon where the character is reborn with their characteristics completely changed.
• Amalgamation- Combines two cards to make a completely new card.
• Awakening- is a form of upgrading a card, which will increase their stats and improve their skill. Only some cards are available for awakening at a small percentage.
• Special cards- They are a unique type that helps raise or increase the power of other certain cards.
7. Soldiers are the Life points (LP) of Valkyries. If it goes to 0, they will die and will be forced back into the storage unit until the end of the day, when you can decide whether to bring them back or not. If they are brought back, they will have 1 Soldier. It can be raised by using mana. [1 mana = 1 soldier]
8. Rare metals are only used to buy any Arcana and raise the skill level. The Max Metal limit is 9,999,999. The rest will be destroyed.
9. All Attacks and Defense of valkyries can be raised by using certain Arcana. All Arcana are one-time useable items and will be destroyed after use. Max limit per card is 100 each. Example: (+50 ATK/DEF, +500 ATK/DEF, +3,000 ATK/DEF)
10. You can play more than 5 cards at any given time, but you can only hold up to 6 in your hand. The draw will be paused until you don't have 6 cards in your hand.
11. You earn a certain amount of Summoning and experience points from your enemies by killing or defeating them.
12. You get 1 free random card pack (5 cards) per day from 5 different card types. (Passion, Cool, Light, Dark and Special) For more card packs, pay 100 Summon Points in the Card Store to draw 1 card pack.
13. There are no "turn" based attacks. You can and will be attacked by multiple enemies.
14. You can draw 1 card every 4 hours or you could save the draw for later. It can't be saved up to draw multiple cards.
15. When your life points reach 0 you die. You can only increase your life points and mana by raising your level. You gain 500 HP and 100 MP per level.
16. All card special skills require mana to activate. They can be upgraded to be more powerful and increase the activation of skills. It takes one day for all skills to fill back up.
Ex. Afflige
Little Shield- Deal 500% (550%) Cool DMG to all enemies / Sleep for 3 days
Cost 85 Mana
Activation 3/3 (5/5)
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[Let's Begin!]
{Name: John}
Level: 1
Exp: 0/100
HP: 8000
MP: 1000
MP Regen:
Deck: 0
Cards in Storage: 0
Available Draw: 0
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I blinked taking in my new surroundings. For some reason, I was in the middle of a tall grassy field that reached up to my waist, and yet it was empty in the middle where I was. I wearily glanced around my surroundings, cursing the tutorial as I started sweating buckets, thanks to the sun blaring down on me.
Then the tall grass started to shift gently around me, and I started moving backward, panicking because I remember watching something similar to this in The Mummy Returns Scorpion King.
Not a minute later, a figure moved out from within the tall grass, it was shorter than me with green skin. It looked like a typical goblin, with sharp pointy teeth holding a pointy stick, wearing only bearskin or what I hope is a bearskin tunic.
I flinched taking a step back, wondering if I could summon the goblin slayer. We locked eyes, mine terrified and his filled with joy at finding fresh meat. Before it could take a single step to attack me, it suddenly paused mid-step.
I didn't want to stay there, so I tried to step back, but I couldn't move my legs. Before I could piss myself in fear, 5 cards appeared in my vision, but I couldn't see what type they were.
[Pick a card, any card]
Deep breaths... deep breaths in... and out. I repeated that a few times, cursing the system in my head before calming down. I crossed my fingers and simply picked the third one on the right as it slowly turned around.
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Card Name: Witch
Card Level: 1/30
Element Type: Passion
Rarity: Normal
ATK / DEF: 1800/1800
Soldiers: 1350
Special Skill: [Charm- Inflict sleep on all enemies for 1 hour]
Cost: 90 MP
Activation: 3/3 per day
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[Summoning Witch]
(1000 - 125 = 875 MP)
The next thing I knew, there was a young woman in a witch's robe being held by two bells, leaving her shoulders bare with purple tights kneeling before me while staring up at me in happiness. She has pinkish hair that stops in the middle of her back with a witch's hat on top.
"Hehehe, I'm an archwitch. What do you want from me, my summoner?" She purred at me, slowly standing up with a hand on her hip. Which lifted a part of her robe, showing me that it barely covered her breasts and stomach, leaving the rest bare.
... ... ...
I was speechless and simply stared at her. I remembered her; she was one of the first valkyries I summoned when I played the game, and she looked better than her picture from the game.
"Ah? Did I go too far, master? I'm sorry, I just wanted to tease you a little." She walked up to me and waved her gloved hand in my face.
That brought me back to my senses, "Uh, sorry about that. It's just, you're, you're real. I mean you're here."
"Of course, I'm real, silly," She grabbed my right hand with her left bringing it up to cup her cheek, "You summoned me after all."
"Y-yeah, you're right. Um, what's your name? I can't call you Witch all the time."
"Aww, how sweet, but that's my name, master. If you want, you can give me a new name after this, darling. Now let's deal with this little miscreant, so we can spend some quality time together." She said, giving me a wink as she turned around to face the goblin and simply froze.
Before I could panic a new screen popped up.
[Now look at the goblin and Witch. Do you see anything different?]
I stared at them both and noticed something above their head that wasn't there before.
Goblin (ATK 1,000 /DEF 400)
Witch (ATK 1,800/ DEF 1,800)
"Yeah, I can see their attack and defense points now. Witch has 800 more attacks than the goblin," I said.
[Correct. So let's unfreeze them both and see what happens.]
Witch and the goblin both started moving again, but this time the goblin stopped moving. He let out a screech of surprise at her sudden appearance. He dropped his stick and retreated a few steps back giving a hungry look at her form. Drool started escaping his lips and she glared at him.
"You want to play with me that bad, huh? Heh heh ok, I'll play with you." Witch said playfully even though her actions say differently. A huge fireball was silently formed next to her before it flew towards the goblin.
The goblin let out a small war cry as he ran towards her dodging the fireball while trying to slash at her with his sharp claws. Witch simply smirked as two wind bullets appeared, one to stop the attack, causing it to fail with a broken arm, and the other flew into the goblin's stomach, lifting him off his feet. As he flew in the air choking, the same fireball turned back around and hit his back. The goblin fell on his stomach rolling around screaming in pain as he burned trying to put it out.
"Ah ha ha, such a pathetic creature. Did you think you could win against an archwitch like me?" Witch said condescendingly, watching as its body stopped moving, and after a few seconds, it turned to ash. With a light gesture, she directed a gust of wind to clear away all the ashes on the floor.
"Damn, that's hot." I unconsciously said, looking at Witch, finding her really attractive right now. I didn't realize I made a pun which caused her to giggled. I soon noticed that she was starting to disappear from the feet up.
"Oh poo~, I wanted to spend some more time with you." Witch said a little glum watching her feet turn to gold dust before brightening up, "If you get a chance, summon me again and we can go on a picnic together. I'll see you later, master. Chu~ ❤" She blew me a kiss before she completely disappeared.
I blinked and was soon back in the white room. I waited for the screen to appear and it did.
[You acquired 400 SP and 400 exp for defeating the goblin.]
[Leveled up x4]
"How is the summoning points (SP) caculated each time my valkyries destroy other monsters?"
[It depends on two things. One the deadliness of said creature and the second being the size.]
"What would happen if a monster that has 200 more attack than Witch and hits her? Does it kills her and do I lose that difference as life points?"
[No, if her defense is less than the monsters attack, then she'll take damage from the difference and lose her Soldiers. You would only lose LP if you take any damage or are attacked by monsters.
Ex. Orc ATK 2400 – Witch 1800 DEF = 600 Damage. 1350 Soldiers (LP) – 600 DMG= 750 HP (Soldiers) remaining.]
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[Examples of card effects]
• Card Name: Casino Waitress
Card Level: 1/40
Element Type: Passion
Rarity: Rare
ATK / DEF: 2,900/2,900
Soldiers: 2,600
Special Skill: Honey Champagne- Inflict faint on all enemies for 1 turn
Cost: 85
Activation: 4/4 per day
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• Card Name: Zombina
Card Level: 1/50
Element Type: Cool
Rarity: Super Rare
ATK / DEF: 4,200/3,200
Soldiers: 4,000
Special Skill: Love Bite Outbreak- Deal 100% DMG to all enemies / Paralysis for 2 turns
Cost: 90 MP
Activation: 5/5 per day
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• Card Name: Rikayu
Card Level: 1/70
Element Type: Light
Rarity: Ultra Rare
ATK / DEF: 6,590/6,600
Soldiers: 6,500
Special Skill: Shining Heart- All Light allies' ATK 200% up
Cost: 90 MP
Activation: 5/5 per day
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• Card Name: Karma
Card Level: 1/90
Element Type: Dark
Rarity: Legendary Rare
ATK / DEF: 27,999/25,999
Soldiers: 35,000
Special Skill: Rebirth Reject- Resurrect and fully recover all allies
Cost: 85 MP
Activation: 5/5 per day
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•Card Name: Slime Queen
Card Level: 1/50
Element Type: Special
Rarity: Super Rare
ATK / DEF: 4,000/3,900
Soldiers: 3,700
Special Skill: Level Upper- A single ally's ATK 200% up
Cost: 90
Activation: 1/1 per day
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[Tutorial End]
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