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Chapter 198: The Cleansing Evolution
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“What can you tell me about titles?” I ask Safyr.
“Titles always grant a large bonus of some kind, usually equalling the bonus you’d get from the legendary tier; however, some can be weaker. Many also grant some kind of innate ability, such as mine, that can summon allies to my aid. You can have multiple titles but can only benefit from one at a time, although getting more than one is very rare.”
“Alysara has a bonus that scales with her skills levels; I have a static but much larger bonus. I assume this is normal?” Kayafe says, inquiring about the nature of the title bonus.
“It is,” Safyr confirms, “Although a scaling bonus will often be weaker when first obtained.”
“What is the highest title bonus that you know of?” I ask. “You said equivalent to legendary tier is normal, so on average, around five thousand.”
“The highest static bonus I’ve seen was around nine thousand; the highest scaling is twelve thousand.”
“That’s well into the fable tier equivalent, but I suppose very few have a title that strong. How many have you met with that high of a bonus?” I ask.
“Three,” Safyr answers. “And of those three, they are old and very powerful; I consider them my equals. You saw one of them when he came to help with the cursed being a few years ago.”
That one, huh. Safyr likely has a title bonus somewhere around ten thousand too. ‘Guardian of the East Nexus’ probably scales with how many years she’s been protecting this place, so maybe around what Kayafe has.
“You’ll be losing one of your titles, right?” Kayafe asks.
If Safyr leaves, she won’t be considered the Guardian of the East Nexus anymore. I still can’t believe she’ll be leaving, and once she does, we’ll be left vulnerable.
“Yes, but I have another to fall back on,” Safyr says.
“Safyr, what are the chances that we’ll be attacked by a force that Kayafe and the Mana Arc may struggle with, and how soon would you expect it?” I ask.
Safyr is silent for several minutes, thinking.
“Depends,” She finally answers. “A lot of information can be gained from the world messages and from Kayafe being freed, so soon after I slew those things, they may draw a conclusion that we are in the same place, a place revealed by my title. They may look back in their records and see your own accomplishments and the ones you two will soon make and see value in this place.”
So the cat’s already out of the bag. However, they don’t know about the Lunaleyan island; by keeping that place secret, we can secure a safe fallback location if we are ever forced out of the Nexus.
“Won’t people just assume it’s a coincidence?” Kayafe asks. “What is there that shows that we are related other than the timing? Also, no one will know you plan to leave; they’d be crazy to invade when there’s a dragon here.”
“While it can happen, and has happened before, that world messages appear from two different locations, that is very rare, common sense will assume that they are connected or at least suspected to be connected. Furthermore, it’s something innate to the ‘guardian’ in the title, just like how your ‘saintess’ title comes from altruism,” Safyr answers. “A guardian needs someone or someplace to protect, but why would a dragon be protecting a Nexus unless there’s something there worth protecting; the nature of the Nexus itself isn’t enough for dragons. But, yes, you are right; only the most powerful beings will be brave enough to challenge a dragon.”
Safyr implication is enough to convince her that being a dragon actually makes it more dangerous since anything willing to challenge a dragon will surely be too much for Kayafe and the Mana Arc.
“If everyone knows there’s ‘something worth protecting here,’ then why hasn’t many already tried to get it?” Kayafe asks.
“Because no one knew what it was, it could mean a lot to me but nothing to them; why take the risk?” Safyr answers. “But now they know, or they think they do. The Mana Arc, Alysara’s knowledge, and now you. If they have records of your time, they will know you have mastered [Manipulate Mana] and seek that knowledge. They probably don’t, but Alysara will get that soon anyway and possibly cure her cursed skill, another very valuable thing to know and one that may produce a world message.”
“So what your saying is that us enhancing our skills and me curing my cursed skill just makes things worse” I feel like there’s a pit in my stomach.
I really want to purify my cursed skill, but there’s a risk it may alert the world. Enhancing [Mana Manipulation] is also a risk, but what can I do? I can’t just not cleanse my cursed skills, and enhancing [Manipulate Mana] is too good to pass up because I need to get stronger in case the gods want to chop my soul up for resources.
“Yes,” Safyr replies. “But I would encourage you to do so anyway because peaceful trade is always an option” Safyr looks at each of us in turn. “Many legendary beings aren’t stupid; they know that if they try to force you to give them what they want, you won’t out of spite. Therefore, many will seek you out with the intent of trade or favors; this is a good chance for you to gain powerful materials, training, and knowledge to strengthen yourselves.”
“They won’t try to take the Mana Arc?” I ask.
“Why bother? They know you made it, so they can learn how to make one for themselves,” Safyr replies.
Her arguments are sound; there’s more to gain coming in peace than trying to enslave and conquer, but what if they don’t have anything of value or are unwilling to part with anything? Kidnap, extortion, and other non-violent but aggressive and manipulative means are still an option. Mind control, memory reading, and who knows what else to get what they want without us knowing or being unable to fight back without immediately alerting Safyr. Then we need to consider that some may not want us to divulge this information to anyone else and may try to silence us, either by killing us, putting us under a geas, or other things like that. Not everyone will come to us with good intentions, and Safyr’s presence is the only deterrent.
I voice my concerns and my plans to use the Lunaleyan island as a place of refuge should the worse happen.
“Caution and the foresight needed to identify solutions to problems are valuable traits,” Safyr comments, but Kayafe has a different argument.
“Do you want to be an Empress? There can be other options, such as us getting stronger. There’s a dungeon, and we can train in there; we can try to craft a fleet of airships just like the Entylamo. I can make one in a few hours if I wanted; the only thing I lack is the materials to make the reactor. Once you purify your skill, you will be able to do the same. Plus, if we get legendary tier materials from legendary beings seeking our knowledge, we can craft many powerful items for us to help defend against dubious beings. You don’t have to do this.”
“No, I don’t want to be an empress, but we’ve both sacrificed too much for it all to be destroyed by some greedy people and monsters,” I say.
I can’t let the sacrifice of my Kyhosa be for nothing! If I can’t protect my people, my family, and my home, then I’d lose everything. Some may think that I’ve done enough, but it just means I have more to lose; that’s why I have to do this.
“At least wait,” Kayafe says. “It’s only been a day, and this is an important decision. You may change your mind for a better option.”
“Alysara is right, though,” Safyr says. “The people here aren't warriors, but the Lunaleyans are. By ruling them, you gain more power, and as long as you rule them justly, they will remain loyal to you, but you’ll also need the power to convince them that they can’t reverse the relationship.”
“All I’m saying is to wait and think it over,” Kayafe sighs. “I understand that you are worried, Alysara, but we’ve got time, Safyr will still be here for a few more years, and eleven, then no one will know she’s gone, so realistically we have decades to prepare”
“That only assumes no one notices my absence,” Safyr counters. “But, regardless, Kayafe’s right that you have some time, and hasty action is poorly thought out. With that said, I have something to give you, Alysara, for giving me the opportunity to fulfill my promise.” Safyr reaches forward, and her hand disappears as if going inside something before pulling out a gem made of pure beauty mana that almost feels alive.
“Spirits are just like elementals, but born weak; most lack intelligence, but the few that gain intelligence often grow in power and surpass common elementals. This is the heart of one such great spirit, who was once known as the Goddess of Beauty and Blood. She was a cruel and vain being who saw beauty in battle, destruction, and death, rather than creation, cleanliness, and creativity that Myrou finds beautiful.”
Heart of Brimora
(Legendary) (Archaic)
The heart of the Goddess of Beauty and Blood, a once feared war goddess known throughout the realm and beyond.
Vastly improves the potency and control of beauty spells
I take the heart offered to me, almost in disbelief. This is such a powerful material, and I didn’t expect Safyr to part with something like this.
Why does she even have this in the first place?! What use does she have for it? Well, that answer is simple, she can use it to trade, but this also suggests that Safyr is capable of slaying beings known as gods.
I suppose this is the kind of thing I can expect to receive for payment, to my knowledge. perhaps I might be able to make a warship, one that will help defend the Nexus in the event something bad happens. If I get more materials like this, it’s certainly a possibility.
Perhaps I don’t need to be an empress forever, maybe just as long as needed until we can be sure the Nexus is secure, but until that time, having a fallback location is necessary. Perhaps Kayafe is right that I need to think this through more carefully. Perhaps we don’t need warriors; we need vessels strong enough to take out any threat.
With Kayafe’s experience and my knowledge, we can make a warship capable of fighting off any threat.
“Thank you, Safyr.”
“Hmm,” Safyr hums before laying down. “If you have any further questions, ask Yrania.”
With Safyr no longer in the mood to answer our questions, we fly home.
“Alysara,” Kayafe says as we fly over the sea, “We should spend some time in the dungeon. You are ridiculously low level which only aids your paranoia because you feel powerless in the face of legendary beings. Once you gain more confidence in your abilities and power, you won’t feel the same way you do now. By limiting your class so much for the sake of your Bond, you are handicapping yourself; this is why I encouraged you to take a caster Class.”
“It’s too late for that now,” I reply. “But once I evolve my race and purify my skill, I will gain the power to punch way up; I have an enemy that I want to pay back when I have the opportunity”
I still need to find a ritual spell that will protect my mind, but once that is done, the Mind Eater is going down!
“Besides,” I continue, “Once [Manipulate Mana] is in my race, I will effectively have a caster Class.”
“You still need the supportive skills for caster skills, Alysara. But are you one hundred percent sure you won’t turn into a cursed being?”
“I’m as sure as I can be,” I reply. “Even if I’m wrong, with my soul, it will reform even if destroyed, so if I do turn, warn Safyr, it takes several hours to evolve, so you should have time.”
If the skill even has one mote of miasma left after the cleansing process, I won’t take the risk.
After the Lojyo, I lay down, ready for the long evolution process, and access my legendary points. I take a deep breath to prepare myself as Kayafe watches over me and will the point to cleanse the miasma from [Manipulate Mana]. I watch as the experience making up the points moves to the skill’s magic framework and begins to neutralize the miasma until it’s all gone; there’s even some experience left over, but that begins to fade as the magic framework repairs itself to look like a normal framework. It worked; the skill is fully cleansed!
However, I’m not taking the chance that the miasma will come back.
“The miasma is entirely gone; there was even some experience leftover,” I report.
Either this is not worthy of a world notification, or I have to move the skill into a proper Class or Race framework.
Kayafe nods, and I check my evolution options, the final test; if the evolution options involving [Manipulate Mana] still say (Cursed), I won’t take the risk.
I ignore the options based on souls, ectoplasm, and [Astral Projection] since they are still corrupted
Five-Tailed Mana Saintess Runalymo.
(Heroic) (Artifact)
You are the Saintess of Mana and Magic; you have seen farther than most and seen secrets only a few have ever peered into. You have made powerful items, ones that spawn life, ones that hold knowledge, and even one of the most powerful items the realm has seen yet. You have proven your mastery of mana, and with that, your control over it is ingrained in your blood.
Note: Skills may be merged or replaced.
Note: As the progenitor of an heirloom race, the merged skill will continue to level and achieve breakthroughs normally. Take your race to ever greater heights, or burn to ashes trying.
It’s cleansed! This is the slightly improved version of the previous corrupted one; the other options also have slightly improved versions too, but they aren’t heroic and artifact tier. Besides this, one blatantly says it will incorporate [Manipulate Mana] and the whole point of this is to make sure the skill stays purified.
What’s not to like about this evolution? It’s partially crafting-based, sense based, and should keep my skill cleansed. I select the evolution and fall unconscious as the evolution process starts.
Ting! The Saintess of Mana and Magic, Alysara, the Runalymo, has discovered how to cleanse cursed Skills!
The message is the first thing I see when I wake up. Kayafe is in the experimentation room looking over my inscription notes; she must have done her own thing when the notification appeared since that is confirmation that my skill is indeed cleansed.
It feels like a huge weight has been lifted from me. All this time, I’ve been worried about curing my Skill, and I’ve finally done it! I can cure [Astral Projection] now too, but I’ll have to put it in a Class; Scholar of Many Minds would be a good fit for it since it’s for my clones.
Five-Tailed Mana Saintess Runalymo.
(Heroic) (Artifact)
Race Trait 1: Mana Generation
Having traded the now unneeded physical boosting trait of their parent species, the Runalymo have instead gained a 1400% heightened mana generation rate and a 60% boost to their mana capacity.
Race Trait 2: Sense Magic (903/980)
This skill has been evolved by the Saintess of Mana and Magic, Alysara, the progenitor of the Five-Tailed Runalymo. This race is not limited by sensing just mana; they can sense magic too and have great control over their perceptive pressure, vectors, and eyes. Born from the best, this race is gifted with the ability to see what mana and magic really is.
Race Trait 3: Manipulate Mana (550/550)
This race is a master of controlling and manipulating mana, being far more gifted than even masters of this skill can hope to achieve. They can create super-solid mana, cast devastating spells, and make items that can even hope to copy.
Race Trait 4: Mana Senses
An evolved trait that has been honed and kept through the eons, this race still has very acute hearing, smell, and sight. Through a decade of exposure, the moment a member of this race has their third tail manifest; they gain the ability to smell and hear mana and, as such, can hunt and track by mana. This race can now adjust their mana senses to remove background noise and smells to focus on the mana they want to.
Race Trait 5: Mana Glutton
Having adapted to constant starvation and environments lacking in food supplies, this race now passively consumes mana to sustain bodily needs. Additionally, they can draw in mana from their environment to sustain themselves and have increased mana metabolism, completely eliminating their need for food and water while greatly extending the time this race can survive without air.
Race Trait 6: Runalymo’s Tails
This race is now the most beautiful, and its connection to the essence has increased the amount they can store in their bodies by 1300%. In addition, they can naturally channel it to use beauty spells. Their strength in wielding this mana is boosted by 300%, and are born with two tails. Once their third tail manifests at the age of 5, their bonus is increased to 500% and 800% when their fourth tail manifests at the age of 10. At the age of 15, this race will gain their fifth tail, granting them an increase to their beauty spells strength to 1200%.
Race Trait 7: Inventive Perfection
This race can easily spot flaws and may never overlook them. Memories are forgotten only at will. They are masters of finding and solving mysteries, puzzles, inventions, mechanics, circuitry, and other curiosities. Additionally, the more creativity essence a member of this race has stored, the faster they'll learn and master their arts and crafts. The more wisdom essence they have stored, the better they'll solve problems, finding more efficient and effective solutions.
Race Trait 8: Nexus Immunity 140/140
Adapting to the hostile environment of a nexus, even if the vast majority of the ambient mana is being siphoned, has made this race resistant to extreme temperatures and immune to mana toxicity. They can resist mana given off by great beings, recover faster from mana toxicity, resist mana storms, push against highly dense mana, convert mana toxicity into vitality, slightly resist spells, prevent toxicity from specific elements, store vastly more mana in their body, and resist extreme mana densities and liquid mana. Due to their adaptation to extreme environments, this race receives a 50% bonus to their endurance.
Race Trait 9: Inspirational Greatness
Dedication to the arts, crafts, study, and invention have made this Runalymo more creative and intelligent, granting them a +1300% to creativity and wisdom essences. +45% wisdom, +60% Intelligence
Race Trait 10: Alysara's Children
This Race is tied to ‘Beauty’, granting a 1400% boost to mana intensity and control when manipulating beauty essence.
There are some big changes and some small ones. Nutritional Milk has been replaced, so I guess I no longer qualify for a nurturer race, but it seems like I only lose the supernatural qualities; natural evolution will have to do the rest. This may also give my children the opportunity to regain that trait but why when we no longer need to eat?
Everything with numbers has been massively improved. My mana regen is through the roof, relatively speaking, but everything else has minor upgrades.
One thing that wasn’t stated is the increase in my ability to hear and smell mana, it’s so… rich now, so clear, and now I can get rid of the dull background noise from a dozen different mana. It’s nothing I can describe other than ‘pleasant’ or ‘unpleasant’; how do I describe a smell to someone who has never smelled anything like dark mana? Dark mana smells and sounds like dark mana.
I get up to start my day, stumbling slightly since I am not used to my extra tails. Once I enhance [Manipulate Mana], I’ll be ready for the dungeon.
Comments
Conor McGroarty
Anti mind magic ritual: Rightfully Paranoid Tinfoil Hat Activate
Andaconda Nation
I’ve been waiting for this for some time as well. Though I don’t even know if she’s kept the skill or if it’s been replaced.
Vladistad
So if I'm reading this right, Alysara used the legendary point she got from freeing Kayafe & completing the mana arc to cure her cursed skill manipulate mana, and in doing so, triggered a world notification stating that she did so, thus earning herself another legendary point, bringing her current amount of legendary points to two, one for discovering the cure to cursed skills, and the other being from mastering manipulate mana, which she will soon spend to enchance said skill, is this correct?
Halav
It would be cool if the extra expierience she got changes her skill for example if normal enhancement gives manipulate magic then woth the extra expierience it could instead become true manipulation or something and be able to manipulate more things than normal the double enhancement could also happen for sense magic at level 1000 where she can be given a fabled point and upgrade the skill itself again to be able to see divinity or something. But idk i dont write the story keep up the good work anyways
Tjark
lol
Randomplant
Now that I think about it. The Nexus Immunity ability works with surplus mana being generated or gained and a breakthrough to the ability would be the body naturally fortifying itself (temporary stat boost.) or generating a barrier such as a force field that is created. naturally to prevent the entry of more mana or with more breakthroughs that protect from damage. And that this shield recovers faster in an environment with more mana.
Squirtle
Only her descendants
Squirtle
Being able to control Miasma and Aether is too close to system access, so it's not possible.
Pawzom Lz
In a culture where everyone have tails and are craftsmen their furniture are definitely designed around it, and with tails being more fluff than flesh, combined with stats, its probably not uncomfortable at all. Sure, her furniture will have to be slightly modified, but with craftsmen there having perfectionist traits they probably dont mind doing it. The downside to getting 2 more tails is probably increased fervor in her suitors and an increased amount of them. The nobles from the empire will probably also be attracted by them and make a mess of things. Will be very useful for keeping her warm there though if she goes in person. Overall though, thanks to stats making it so she probably wouldnt feel uncomforable even if she sat on them. they are probably more comfortable than not.
Jacque
I wonder how hard it must be to sit with 5 tails…
Nobody
It makes sense legendary beings would be trading methods to obtain legendary points. Why make 2 legendary enemies to get an artifact when you can trade how you became legendary for instructions on how to make another of the artifact and gain possible future trade partners?
Jeanean
I think its only passed down to her Children.
Jeanean
All of that assumes that she can manipulate Miasma. Its something I find rather unlikely to happen anytime soon. The reason is simple. Miasma and Aether(Exp) are two sides of the same coin, so it would only make sense that, if she can control Miasma, she can control Aether. And the repercussions of that would be... pretty OP and unpredictable.
Pararably
How do heirloom races get passed down? Are they automatically given to only her children or will it be an option for any of her race to choose it if meeting some kind of requirement?
Pawzom Lz
What would be the point of waiting for them to become cursed again before she use them? If she can figure out a way to quickly cleanse them before she uses them with manipulate magic, even if she does not have something to integrate it into and she keeps them as ''cursed'' skills, then she can just use them while they are cleansed, and as such she wont suffer from the curse. Though this might not matter unless she ends up getting more cursed skills. Of the 2 she have left, Astral Projection should be easily integrated into one of her classes once she cleanses it, and her True Sight should be possible to integrate into her Race Trait 4: Mana Senses, since it also affects sight, during a future race evolution. Wont even be hard to lvl it up once she gets Manipulate Magic as she can just cleanse it then use it and get some achievements with it without having to deal with the pain.
Jeanean
Hmm... One thing I'm wondering about is, what happens if you cleanse a cursed Skill, and then let it become cursed again? As far as I understand, the "curse" of a cursed Skill is completely random, even among identical skills. So, could Alysara just cleans her Skills, and then let them be without integrating them, thus not healing them, but at least changing the "curse" of the Skill? Sure, every try would cost a legendary point, but in essense, you need only a total of 15 Legendary points. Four, one for each Class. One for the Race. And ten for the Ultimate Class. After that, Alysara would have little use for the Legendary points she might get from killing the ocasional stray Elemental or whatever might come her way. If she can use those to gamble on less debilitating curses, for example, curses that at least don't activate on their own like the Astral projection one, it would already be much better, even if the Skill is still cursed.
Stubbsee
I think that the point she got for curing her cursed skill would be perfect for her legendary enhancement if it isnt a fabled point although that seems unlikely. It would be more sensible to use the Heart of Brimora to make a Legendary item, and use that point to cure Astral Projection since to me crafting and killing Legendary points seem the most "basic" not to mention she could relatively easily replace it by making another item. The "feat" points are most suitable for upgrading classes and race since they "talor" themselves to you by virtue of being somthing you have achived.
Pawzom Lz
Its not magical beings that cannot have souls, but cursed beings that cant. All cursed beings are magical beings(and the large majority of them) but not all magical beings are cursed beings as I think I remember Safyr having mentioned seeing a magical being that was not a cursed being. So I just thought a LP revolving around cleansing might be a step in the right direction to get there for Aly if she uses it to upgrade Nexus Immunity. Kayafe created a new body from vitality with manipulate magic, which sounds similar to what the cursed being did in the fight in the nexus when it kept using miasma and mana/magic to repair itself.
Skia Elafris
Magic beings cannot have souls or acquire aether (or experience as Aly called it when she first observed it).
Fuyge
Well she would have to have another expandable legendary point not too mention she would have to find a class or race which would incorporate said skill. It’s possible but I imagine it’s still fairly hard.
Skia Elafris
The number 4 is unlucky in one of the cultures that 9 tailed fox myths appear in. Due to it having the same pronunciation as the word for 'die'. 1, 2, prime numbers and multiples of 3 are too significant to be skipped. 8 would be fable tier, and already having a mythic point means it may be effectively skipped even if she technically spends time with 8 tails.
Jemini
FYI, the human tailbone is the attachment point for your anal sphincter muscles. So, regardless of what you may have heard about vestigial body parts, the tail bone does serve a purpose. (Also, the tonsils are part of your lymph nodes and protect you from infections that originate in the mouth, and the appendix is meant to restore your intestinal bacteria after the natural populations in your colon are wiped out from something like bad diarrhea.)
DANTE
wouldn't a disposable Legendary kill be more suitable for skill cleansing? she doesn't need those skills right now and can afford to wait few years to find a suitable target
Pawzom Lz
The point for curing cursed skills would be a very valuable LP to pass on to her descendants by adding it into her race somehow since it was mentioned only the first individual that figures out how to cure cursed skills will get a point for it, meaning this point will NEVER appear again. could add it into Race Trait 6: Runalymo’s Tails, so that combined with that traits channeling ability and manipulate magic curing cursed skills on others will be possible/easier or make her attacks more efficient against cursed beings, or both? Race Trait 8: Nexus Immunity might make her more resistant to miasma stuff and cursed beings? Maybe make it so the downsides of her cursed skills before she gets around to curing them are not so extreme? Could possibly be the first step for her to become a magical being?
Pawzom Lz
One thing Alysara can do to increase the safety of her and her people is to just ask Safyr to contact the other dragons and tell them that she offers to help them upgrade their racial trait Mana Sight into Magic sight if they spend a decade or two protecting her people. With the dragons probably being at least a dozen, probably more, that is 100-200 years worth of safety after Safyr leaves. Erandur would be the easiest to persuade into doing this since his daughter is Aly's teacher. Safyr gave Aly Heart of Brimora, the heart of an actual goddess as thanks for Aly teaching her, so I dont see this idea of mine being an issue, hell, she could probably ask for waaay more. + by teaching so many dragons Aly might get some kind of teaching title or legendary point for teaching, which should make passing on her knowledge even easier. Off course this would have the downside of people knowing the arrogant dragons seek her out to learn from her.
Collateral_ink
I'd say instead it just means she hasn't thought to try or consider it yet. She now knows she has a tried and true method for curing her skills, and if she has to only pick one then it definitely makes sense to cure Astral Projection rather than True Sight. Based on the possible capabilities of the enhanced skill, and considering how much Alysara loves to tinker and research her capabilities with mana and magic, I don't see a reason she won't consider this avenue later. It would also allow her to easily cure other people's skills. They come to her to have the skill cleansed, but they would still have to move it to a class or race themselves to complete the process.
Paladin
That may not give her the ability yet. Many all she needs to cleanse skills without a legendary point is a certain breakthrough for magic manipulation
Robert Mullins
'I can cure astral projection now too.' After she gets her new legendary point. No mention of true sight. I think that makes it pretty clear that manipulate magic doesn't grant her the ability to cleanse skills.
Collateral_ink
Right now, she has two Legendary Points and her Mythic Point. One Legendary Point for mastering Manipulate Mana, which she has held on to because she wanted to use it to enhance the skill, and one Legendary Point for "Discovering how to cleanse cursed Skills," which she just got now. Since the point is for "discovering" it, not doing it, she will only ever get the single point rather than getting another Legendary Point each time she cures a cursed skill.
Gwendolyn Simmons-LaRose
I thought she only had one legendary point for manipulate mana, what is the second, and I guess the first, from?
Collateral_ink
Maybe, but I'm not sure she will need to. Once she enhances her Manipulate Mana into Manipulate Magic, I am thinking she will be able to expel the Miasma from skills with that, rather than needing to use a Legendary Point each time. She will still need to move the skill into a new framework (class or race), but it makes the process much easier. The only new wrinkle that might come from that is that using the Legendary Point not only cleanses the skill it counteracts the Miasma. Even if she can remove it from the skill with her Manipulate Magic, that still leaves a pile of Miasma floating around; not sure what that will do, but I wouldn't be surprised if it births a Magic or Cursed being somehow.
Robert Mullins
Implication from the chapter is she would use it to cure astral projection as soon as she's ready to classup her second class.
Robert Mullins
To be clear, you know this only affects Alysara's descendants correct?
Robert Mullins
Not necessarily the answer but she jumped over grand tier to reach heroic. If for her, racial tier tends match tail count then that could be the answer.
Collateral_ink
I'm curious what she might use that new Legendary Point for. It's mana and magic based, knowledge based, and just plain impressive from what we know. If she were Exalted already, I would say that this would be the best point to use to advance to Legendary tier. Since she's only Heroic, I'm not sure. Given how difficult it is for her Heirloom race to advance in tiers, it might be worth it to use it now to advance to Exalted anyway and use a different point later to advance to Legendary.
Quardine
sooo good! so I'm wondering now that they lost the nutritional milk trait will the males still have breasts or will they lose it over time like humans losing our tailbone?
Kenneth Baxter
Now that Alysara has cleansed her cursed skill and watched the process, could she now follow the same/similar process to cure her other cursed skills by herself without a legendary point? If so can she do it now or wait till she gets stronger?
Kenneth Baxter
Great chapter. I’m curious as to why the fourth tail was skipped evolution-wise? Was it because of her saintess accolade leading to a “double” evolution?
Osloo Mortan
TFTC
Neropol
That would be interesting to see.
Robert Mullins
Should be. Only problem is she doesn't have a race or class evolution ready for it yet. Though she is planning to start a training arc which should help with that. Also, astral projection is the more urgent problem since it can potentially kill her and she's long gotten used to not having sight.
J Berg
Stronk gorl
Alphafenrir401
Mmm if she purify the curse skill that prevents her from being able to see cause it hurts would she be able to see again?
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Hmm, now i wonder when she considers to tackle her 'true sight' skill. Most powerful races like humans and dragons have a mana sight skill, but lack in the sensing department. If she can get the even more powerful true sight together with her sensing skills into her race, she will become a monstrous progenitor. Ok, if she ever thinks about having kids - but thats less of a point then what others might think. Would they want that kind of race emerge?
Jemini
They can't fight single beings, but they can resist occupation. A single legendary entity can't control a nation, only destroy one. In order to control it, they'd need an army. An army which can be opposed with another army.
Richard Fromdahl
I wonder how Lanya (The grand priesttess healer lady) will react to that Cleaning World message. Side chapter maybe?
Arkeus
Really liking the relationship between safyr, kayafe and aly. Somewhat surprised she isn't getting to exalted quite yet, I had assumed you wanted to accelerate things. The idea that the lunaley can work as an army against beings who would win against dragons is wild, though.
Robert Mullins
Perhaps, and perhaps that would have pushed her race to exhalted. But it runs the risk of reintroducing the curse. Which may even require a larger point to cleanse when Enhanced. Better not to risk it.
Robert Mullins
No magic titty milk? Why even live?
deus vult
shouldn't she enhance the manipulate mana skill first? Idk.
Robert Mullins
Seems like it. Feel like there would have been more mention if it was higher and by virtue of having a notification it is legendary at least.
Fate Hydrax
Awesome chapter!
Lu
Did she get another legendary point for that notification? You made a typo in the title: cleasning -> cleansing.
AClassroomSpider
thank you for the chapter!. .
