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(DHF)Chapter 192: Update
🕑 Added 2025-05-29 14:55:25 +0000 UTCWhile I had no desire to create the cursed energy version of a grimoire or even to be treated as royalty the Mystery DS would let me break some rules that I was forced to follow with cursed energy. Well ok that was TECHNICALLY not true but it may as well be! See from my understanding Mystery sort of expanded the rules, made them looser and less absolute and more highly suggestive. While this didn't seem like a huge change it allowed the owners of the DS to do things that bordered on the miraculous that otherwise would be fucking impossible.-
Take grimoires for example. Those pricy one time use books stored the ability to invoke magic in someone regardless of if they were supposed to get the magic or not naturally. The value here was not from how hard to make the books were(though it helped) but rather the the fact it gave someone with it an unnatural control over their destiny. Give the grimoire to a brand new adventurer who was never destined to become a mage and they now have that very path if they choose to follow it.-
This blatant manipulation of destiny was the closest to a miracle as you were likely to ever find without a god losing their shit and unsealing their divinity for whatever brief amount of time they can before the heavens yoinked their asses back for violating the rules. Mystery made miracles possible and everyone knew it. It was why I it wanted so fucking bad. Unfortunately no one, not even the holders of the ability, knew how to unlock it. It was seemingly random with no real process to unlocking access to it unlike almost every other DS known.-
I had a theory that the DS DID have a way to unlock it but it was so abstract that no one could figure it out, hell it might even be a mix of innate talents and external stimulus. It wouldn't be the first DS that required a specific thing that someone had to be born with as the Spirit vein DS required a unique constitution found only in royal line of the elves extremely rarely. It was rumored to give the owner both an insane affinity with mana but also a massive reservoir of mana to use.-
Supposedly it was thanks to this DS that one could skip levels of magic to clash with more powerful mages at a lower level. If rumors were to believed it did this by amplifying the effects of the weaker magic being used to terrifying degrees. To me that sounded an awful lot like the infinity technique of the Gojo clan in JJK. There was obvious differences but the fact remains that the two were very similar. Anyways I was looking forward to this next level up in hope I got Mystery but even if I didn't that was fine as I would deal with the cards afforded me.-
I had no trouble at all rising through the dungeon as the monsters I found were easily taken care of with my recovering cursed energy. It was after dark when I finally stepped out the entrance to the dungeon and breathed in the crisp slightly cold air of the city that had long cooled from the suns heat. The guards at the entrance gave me a once over before ignoring me entirely since I wasn't a monster or on the verge of death. I looked around suspiciously for Nix as the goddess had the bad habit of showing up whenever I had a breakthrough in the dungeon with my cursed energy but to my surprise she was entirely absent.-
I didn't take that as true quite yet though but waited until I had gotten several blocks away before letting out a sigh of relief when she didn't appear. I walked through the dimly lit city that was in it's night phase and thus mostly quiet and empty with a tired gait. My body weighed heavily as i walked but I still kept an eye out around me just in case. A good hour later I finally made it back to the manor that was only lit up by the soft glow of my cursed lamps. -
Simple lightings that glowed in a blue hue that allowed perfect sight without overwhelming brightness. Stepping into the chapel of the manor however I groaned at the sight before me. There waiting patiently while chatting with an uncomfortable Hestia was Nix in all her unnerving glory.
"Ah there he is, just as I said he would be." she said with a smile that sent chills down my spine.
Hestia grumbled "Fine, I admit you were right but even if you were I won't give him to you!" she said with a serious face.
"I didn't think so but I simply HAD to try. He has been causing my domain to resonate so passionately after all. What I wouldn't give to have such a man all to myself.~" Nix said with a predatory gaze directed at me.
'Yeah i'm too tired to deal with this shit right now.' I thought as I walked right into a wall and seamlessly went through it with my cursed technique.
Once I got to my room I dropped my bags and stripped off my armor and headed for the bath to clean up for bed. Admittedly I almost drowned as I sank into the hot waters that soothed my weary mind and body causing me to drift to sleep and sink below the surface. Sputtering out water was a rude awakening to say the least and I grumbled about it when I back to my room and passed out in my night clothes on the bed. The next morning I woke up, carefully peeled off the ninja goddess and got dressed before grabbing some breakfast from the kitchen.-
Name: Alexander Drake
Race: Cursed Human
Level:3(can level up)
Strength:951(S)
Endurance:1229(SSS)
Agility:912(S)
Dexterity:902(S)
Magic:1581(X)
Spells: Hell's forge(Innate technique): Can use anything from a living being and reshape or refine it per ones will.(Incantation: Hell's forge)(Extensions: cursed tool creation)(Reversion: Heaven's judgement)(Domain expansion: Hell's Forge)
Hell fire(Subsidiary technique): Flames created originally from an extension of the Hell's Forge cursed technique but expanded into a cursed technique all their own that contain the tiniest spark of true hellflame.(Incantation: Hell fire)(Reversion: Helheim)(Domain expansion: Hell's Forge)
Skills: Heavenly restriction: In exchange for the ability to wield mana and magic one gains access to cursed energy and cursed techniques.
Blessing of black: Permanently increases cursed energy efficiency, amount and control. Magic will always start at G rank after leveling up.
Reverse cursed technique: Grants access to positive cursed energy and reversion techniques.
Vessel of Sin: Hells forgemaster carries the burden of all mortal sin and is tasked to purify it from the souls of the dead. Strengthens soul over time. Permanent increase to crafting with cursed energy. Permanent decrease to all stats for each innocent soul killed and increase for each sinful soul killed. Grants skill: Soul gaze.
Soul gaze: See the souls of all things and their sins.
Developmental Skills: Curse-smith(G), Cursebody(G)
Comments
Cole Bromley
Thanks for the chapter!
Christian Jeffress
Thanks for another excellent chapter
