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Chapter 306 - Steady Progress
🕑 Added 2023-06-21 03:59:01 +0000 UTCAuthor's Note -
I realize it's been awhile since I laid out Eric's complete character sheet. I'm doing so here at the end of this chapter just for fun, including listing all the titles (not in any perfect order either, but if you were at all curious about titles and the key bonuses they provide, it's here!) - For those who enjoy concise character sheets and heavy on the action, I got you! - They key points including stats and favorite abilities are always on top, and most character sheets will be on the more concise side (for me!) And with few exceptions (like if I made it exceptionally brief) I keep character progression sheets at the bottom of a chapter so you can always disregard if you lose interest.
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Eric sighted the roaring minotaurs from the keep top while slowly increasing the tension in the limbs of his bow, his crimson orb now hovering over the opposite shoulder to the one his beloved BunBun favored. He whispered a silent prayer for her safety, as unlikely as he knew that was… before clearing his mind of all thought save the battle about to commence, locking gazes with the closest roaring minotaur charging the keep, clearly not giving a shit about Eric’s fire-essence reinforced spike defense.
Instead of cocky disdain, Eric felt growing unease. These creatures were level sixty and that rank alone made Eric respect them. If they were charging… they had a reason to be confident.
Skill check made: You have FAILED to Pierce the Void between yourself and your target!
0.5 Temporary Soul Reserves extended.
You have saved versus migraine!
Eric cursed under his breath, but knew he didn’t have time to fuck around and be cute with his skills when death was literally seconds away from charging into them.
“Eric!” Jack’s voice took on fresh urgency, standing as he was just a few feet to Eric’s left as he peered over the side of the crenelated parapet, a wide-eyed Emily just feet behind them. Richard, Ron, and Steve were all inside, getting the rest they desperately needed, Eric recalling Richard’s earlier pained request.
“Can I count on you to keep those minotaurs in check for a short nap, Eric? It would mean a hell of a lot to all of us.” Eric had smiled and nodded, earning a relieved grin in turn. “Thanks, Jack. I knew I could count on you.” Eric had nodded, before looking in the direction of a glaring Ron who had immediately claimed a room and stomped inside without so much as a farewell wave to any of them.
“You’re good people, Eric. None of us doubt that. It’s just been a really, really long day. For all of us,” Rich had said, patting him on the shoulder of his crimson scale armor.
Eric had just smiled, dipping his head and quickly making his way to the roof, with an excited Jack and anxious Emily in tow. Because there had been a hell of a lot to say about Ron’s behavior, yet Social Perception made it clear that if he wanted any chance at all of making some genuine friends who weren’t tied to his mother’s coat strings, then he dare not risk antagonizing whatever bonds the six of them had. No, he had thought. He’d let Ron dig his own grave.
Eric was just happy to be on the roof, away from the man.
Even if that meant accepting the limits of his bow perks and the need to use them in tandem, paying twice the cost that he otherwise would. Of course the beauty of his Soul Reserves was that the expenditure was based on weight alone. So when he sighted the minotaur now bellowing into a charge and the distance between them telescoped in such a way that the minotaur now seemed just inches away as the thick wall of air faded to the void, it only cost him only a single point of Soul Reserves to let loose the crack and thrum that presaged the minotaur stumbling forward with a surprised bellow, crashing to the ground with death’s furious ember blazing in its eye.
Of course the sixtieth-level monstrosity thrashed and bellowed against its fate, as eternal heat inspired by the very essence of flame battled against the creature’s monstrous resilience before Eric’s critical hit forced the minotaur to surrender to the inevitable.
A loud pop echoed through the cavern as the lead minotaur’s skull exploded, spraying the area with superheated brain, blood, and gristle as the creature collapsed to the ground, tripping the minotaur just behind it.
True Strike!
Void Piercer!
Echoes of Dominion Pierces Natural Wards!
Essence-inspired Eternal Flame (4000 f) successfully ruptures natural resistances.
You have critically struck your target.
Fatality!
Solo Kill!
Experience earned!
“Nice shot!” Jack hooted. “Now it’s my turn for gold and glory!”
Jack twisted his hips and snapped forward with a javelin that hummed with so much potency that it blazed like a heat seeking missile to Eric’s Arcane Perception, streaking forth not in an arc but a straight-line shot that blasted right through the chest of a second minotaur now gazing down at the spurting hole in it’s chest with surprise before stumbling to the ground in a heap.
It struggled to rise on shaky limbs before being knocked over by the minotaur just behind it, the pair of bellowing creatures reduced to surprised bleats, such that only one minotaur made it through.
Eric whistled, truly impressed. As far as he was concerned, Jack wasn’t launching pointy sticks so much as firing precision artillery, with devastating results.
“Fuck! I couldn’t get off my ice in time!” Elaine cursed, before being sent flying off her feat as the entire structure shook.
“The fucker just leaped when he charged! He leaped over my spikes! The fucking fucker!” Eric shouted in dismay.
He then turned to meet Jack’s wide-eyed look of dismay. “It’s okay,” he assured. “Shit-for-brains didn’t break through” He flashed a bleak smile. “Three very potency-intensive runes in a work of flesh sculpting that’s strong as fuck, all of it braced with a convex curve that will be damn hart to counter...”
Eric winced, hearing the crack of masonry on the far side of the structure.
“Unless it carries the force through the entire tower,” he said with a pained grimace, before snapping back into focus, peering over the lip of the tower, knowing there was absolutely no time to waste.
His position was absolutely terrible for shooting straight down with his bow at the pair of fuckers now tried to scale it, and Jack’s cursing made it clear that as much as the high ground was a super win for him, throwing 90 degrees straight down wouldn’t be perfect either.
“Shit, their climbing the walls!” Jack screached.
“Cover your ears!” Eric shouted, before responding with the best attack he could think of. Perfect for this situation that gave almost no magic or cultivation tells, and best of all, assuming they really could complete this dungeon without risking multiple casualties… he could make use of one of the very few methods available to him to boost a stat that not even his Master Class would let him put points into.
Only with earned titles or dungeon completions could he hope to raise a stat that normally represented the Achilles heel of his race… The Sylvan half, anyway. And he definitely wanted a much bigger stat if he were ever to achieve outer world titles that could truly make him a force to be reckoned with along Psionic paths that made him shiver with sand dune excitement.
He glared down at the minotaurs which had already gotten far too close for comfort as Elaine screamed, the air suddenly filled with icy splendor in the form of a half dozen massive icicles slamming down into the closest minotaur and knocking it right off the tower.
Even if only one of them had pierced deep enough to draw the tiniest trickle of blood.
The minotaur who laughed off the icicles just dug monstrously powerful hands into Eric’s bone and hide reinforced wall that was far too effective at climbing, then flashed Eric a far too knowing smirk as he began scaling once more.
“Fragor!” Eric roared, both reveling in and hating the ice cold shiver and nauseating lurch he experienced, daring to use a power so alien to his bloodlines. Powers he knew he’d have to practice with every damn day, if he didn’t want whatever weird synaptic connections existed between himself and the most unlikely of abilities to rapidly fade to a half-remembered dream a part of him was eager never to experience again.
Your target has RESISTED Mana Portion of Psionic Rupture!
Eric’s gaze narrowed. Just how fucking tough was this thing? He’d killed High level 60s with just two applications!
He glared at the minotaur, forcing himself to focus, to build up his concentration, his furious hate, to remember the shivering icy cold sensation of spearing and RUPTURING his foe’s mind with will alone.
The minotaur bellowed, glaring at Eric in oddly sapient challenge, now scaling as fast as it could, battleaxe gripped in its mouth.
“Fragor.”
It wasn’t a shout, it was a whisper.
A whisper that shivered through the bones of everyone present, earning a surprised cry from Emily and a startled curse from Jack.
A shiver in the bones that built up to a furious crescendo of destructive power designed to sheer the links between body and soul by tearing the mind completely free to glorious explosive effect.
You have successfully PIERCED your foe’s natural defenses!
You have critically struck Greater Minotaur with Psionic Rupture!
Eric shivered, eyes widening in sudden epiphany. Sensing for just a heartbeat the potential of this odd fusion of Psionics, Magic, and Spiritual Energy synergistically channeled through the gauntlet of Runic Spell forging.
The absolute farthest thing from any clean psionic kill.
And more than enough to send the minotaur crashing to the ground, it’s skull exploding in bone fragments and crimson paste.
“Eric, what the fuck!?” Jack said, pasty-faced and lurching back, blood trickling from his eye as the final minotaur climbed over the ledge of the fort.
Emily looked green around the gills, doing all she could to avoid vomiting, unable even to lift her head up, it seemed.
Eric met a panicked, furious Jack’s gaze. “Close your fucking eyes right now!”
More by surprised reflex than anything else, Jack did just that.
And that’s when Eric struck.
Fire Fist!
The minotaur, just seconds away from leaping over the parapet had only a split second to look Eric’s way with malicious amusement before feeling the effects of Eric’s overhand cross.
It was a blow that hit with far more force than his superhuman physique would indicate, even if thrown by an Olympian boxer. Because a Gold medalist might, conceivably, achieve 20 Quickness, with finesse to match for the perfect punch.
With 265 Strength, over 13 times what any human who had ever lived could claim, the blow should have been beyond devastating. But when Olympian Quickness shot up to over 15 times what any Gold medalist could dream of, that alone equated to a 225 fold increase in power above and beyond what any monstrous 265 strength could generate with Gold medalist speed alone, and it was only his Speed Racer perk, mitigating inertia, at least somewhat, that kept him from cracking the keep tiles under his feet with the power of his strike.
So it was no surprise that even the minotaur’s rib cage shattered under the force of Eric’s blow, sending shotgun bone fragments tearing through the creature’s heart, lungs, and liver, just a split second before the entirety of the massive beast’s rib cage was filled with white hot flame.
The creature didn’t even have time to blink before it erupted in a catastrophic explosion of bone shrapnel and gore, and it was only the sheer power behind Eric’s blow that had the fire, blood and shrapnel spraying away from Eric’s two companions, who had both stumbled to the ground.
Jack gazed up with an awed curse, eyes now open to glare at Eric with suspicion and wonder, Emily curled in a ball, leaking tears as she sobbed and groaned with discomfort.
Congratulations! You have successfully slain 1 Minotaur of higher level than you in singular combat, using martial abilities and Qi Skills alone.
Fire Fist is now Rank 9.
Unarmed Combat is now Rank 16.
This is your first time challenging: Greater Minotaur in singular combat. Opponent is twice your Cultivation level. Opponent exceeds your Primal Adventurer level.
You have ascended one more step along the Path of Peril!
You have achieved Rank 28 as Death’s Disciple!
Strength +3
Vitality +3
Quickness +3
Spiritual Energy +3
Note! You are unable to advance further challenging this type of entity. - Singular Exception: Boss-tier opponents.
Eric flashed a fierce, satisfied smile. A quick look made it clear that, for the moment, they were free of hostile foes. So before more shit came their way, or Ron could burst out of the rooftop hatch and start screaming and cursing at Eric for not killing their enemies quieter, he took a long look at his character sheet, appreciating just how far he had come, and why his enemies were all so desperate to kill him.
His spirit was filled with an odd mixture of fierce satisfaction and the bitter rue of knowing he had once again managed to play the jester for his mother’s amusement. But all that aside, he could still take fierce satisfaction in how well the twin crucibles of pain and peril were forging him, promising himself that he’d never again play the selfless hero if gratitude was a sucker’s bet, and more powerful players than him were constantly pulling the strings. Because if it were otherwise, if he truly did have autonomy and free will and had been thinking with a clear head, then why the hell hadn’t he even bothered studying for himself the movement technique he had worked so hard to claim? Instead, he had spent every waking moment teaching his would-be wives… his mother’s pawns, how to master cultivation affinities and themselves while ignoring his own needs altogether.
He shuddered in self-disgust, wondering just how fucked in the head he had been, thinking he had actually been in control of anything… until that mithril collar had snapped about his neck and he finally woke up to just how penniless, and fucked, he truly was.
On the other hand, what the fuck did he expect? He had been matching wills not with a ninetieth level genius, or a Bronze titan beyond any human Classer, but a Silver-tier Empress who could slaughter Bronze titans by the score, with thousands of years of experience, and a dozen worlds under her rule.
A woman so tied to fey magics and ancient legends that mastering the minds of mortal men was child’s play.
And she was his mother.
How the fuck did he think he’d ever get the best of a fairy queen who he owed his very existence to?
He shook his head with a rueful chuckle.
Because none of that bullshit detracted from just how far he had come, in less than a year’s time.
Chapter 307 - Just how hot can fire burn?
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Eric Silver Level 54 Primal Adventurer
Rank 28 Cultivator (Death’s Disciple)
Level 31 Master Necromancer
Physical Characteristics
Strength – 268
Vitality – 281
Finesse – 198
Quickness – 352
Appearance – 24
Mental Characteristics
Scholarship – 23
Perception – 189
Willpower – 77 Perilous Focus.
Charisma – 13
Potency Pools
Arcane Potential – 161
(Mana Pool = 1932)
Spiritual Energy – 236
(Qi Pool = 2832)
Psionic Potency – 11
(Psion Pool = 132)
Soul Reserves – 85
Stamina – 2606 Points
Health – 3599 Points.
Resistances & Recovery
Physical Resistance – 53
Physical Regeneration – 28.1 health per second
Elemental Resistance – 29
Qi Resistance – 44
Mental Resistance – 27
20% Bonus to all Spiritual Energy points above 200.
30% Bonus to all Quickness points above 300.
Physical Age = 17 Years (+ 32 years, 10 months, 12 days, & 4 hours that Arcane Magics cannot restore! Superhuman vitality allows you to keep your youth, even if you’re now burning your candle at both ends! Note. Your meridians now anchor 12 Divine Tier Spirit Peaches. Life expectancy has increased by 12($%^&^%) years!)
Primal Adventurer Powers
1. Runic Lore - Rank 28 (Soul Infusion, Tier 2 Runic Spell Evolution, Runic Focus, Blood Runes.)
Greater runes known: Wood (herbam), Wind (ventus), Fire (ignis), Wrath (iram), Dominion. (dicio)
Lesser runes known: One (unus) / Many (plures) / Now (hodie) / Sun Duration (dies) / Weaken (debilito) / Strengthen (roboro) / Resilience (mollet) / Freeze (Congelo) / Lightning (Fulmen) / Torment (Cruciatus) / Blood (sanguis) / Gravity (gravitas) / bend/curve/warp (incurvo) / invert/reverse/turn upside down (inverto) / Concentration duration (attentio) / Resilient (mollet)
Fragor – Rupture (Psionic Explosion)
CONGRATULATIONS! You have successfully unlocked an unorthodox application of Runic Lore! You understand the links between will, form, and potency better than ever before! And what’s more potent than your own life force? You may now substitute temporary Soul Reserves for Mana whenever you carve runes into any surface using your blood!
Note! This variant of Runic Lore does NOT work with shouts or chants! Only physical representations of runes.
2. Unified Restoration – Rank 11 (This Power allows you to infuse your body with your own spiritual reserves whenever you take an injury for near immediate healing, over and above your basic regeneration rate!) - Perk evolution deferred.
3. Runic Spell Forger – Rank 8
- Inevitable Doom (105 Mana & Qi) - Rank 6
- Hell Vines (140 Mana & Qi) (You can direct this spell!) – Rank 8
- Lightning Bolt - Fulmen- (30 Mana & Qi) – Rank 12
- Blood Lightning – Sanguis Fulmen (30 Mana & Qi, 3 (.50%) SR) – Rank 9
(This spell dispels/abjures/& can cut through soul wards & partially heal.(X2 heal baseline Bloodmastery Synergism!)
- Fire Bolt -Ignes Pilum - (15 Mana & Qi) – Rank 8
- Psionic Rupture – Fragor (30 Mana & Qi & 4 Psion) – Rank 5.
Cultivation Affinities
Wind / Wood / Fire
Qi Skills
Fire Fist – Rank 9 (10 Qi)
Windfire Strike – Rank 13 (30 Qi & 3 SR… 1.5 SR with Blood Orb) – Bloodfire Strike – (Uses elements. Pierces resistance and armor and Soul Wards. - Necromantic affinities possible. Absorbs enemy vitality! X2 baseline due to Vampiric Drain evolution of Blood Mastery.)
Necromancer Perks:
Basic Class Perks
All necromantic (and blood magic) skill use is modified by Master Necromancer Level.
All Summoned & Forged undead have their potency enhanced by Master Necromancer Level.
All spells conjuring forth any number of creatures have summoned total modified by Master Necromancer Level.
One additional enhanced class perk is earned every 2 Master Necromancer levels.
Enhanced Class Perks:
1. Soul Orb: Tier 1
2. Undead Legion: Tier 6 (Up to 3,200 revenants may be risen after each battlefield victory!)
3. Undead Tactical Interface map access.
4. Vampiric Restoration
5. Mixed Unit Tactics
6. Mark of Resilience
7. Call to Battle (500 mana cost to summon ½ UL max at any time on the battlefield, but never more than the number of fallen bodies or remaining adversaries.)
8. Death March
9. Undying Phalanx
10. Enhanced Legion (You can safely raise undead up to level = Adventurer + 2*Necromancer level )
11. Crimson Orb: Soul Orb upgrade (Soul Orb potency now includes blood magic. ½ cost to all soul point using feats!)
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Interface Recognized Skills
Acting – Rank 6
Bardiche (Unified) – Rank 21 (Cleaving Blow, Battleforged,*Piercing Strike)
Blade and Shield – Rank 11
Boar Riding – Rank 7
Bow (All Types) – Rank 20 (True Strike, Void Piercer)
Crossbows – Rank 16 (True Strike)
Small Blades – Rank 4
Demolitions – Rank 14 (Path of Mastery)
ESS Manipulation – Rank 19 (Arcane Resonance Mastery)
Find Weakness – Rank 24 – (Spell Cleave, Qi Perception, Additional Magus/Cultivator Bonus, +5 Vs Dragons)
Flail – Rank 5
Identify – Rank 1
Gunnery – Rank 10 (Cautious Gunner)
Healer’s Aid – Rank 3
Iado (Fast-Draw) – Rank 17 (Doom Flurry)
Javelin Throwing – Rank 21 (Piercing Strike, Void Piercer)
Negotiation – Rank 12 (Intimidation)
Repair – Rank 1
Sling – Rank 17 (Precise Shot Adv.)
Spear – Rank 25 (Piercing Strike, Battleforged)
Stealth – Rank 15 (Hunter’s Grace)
Swordsmanship – Rank 30 (Doom Slice, Battleforged, Cultivator’s Fury (+50% potency Qi attacks) *Piercing Strike *Cleaving Blow)
Swimming – Rank 2
Unarmed Combat – Rank 16 (Empty Fist)
Essence Related Skills:
Burst of Strength – Rank 15 (Path of Mastery)
Dominion’s Resilience – Rank 3
Dominion’s Command – Rank 7
Heat Surge – Rank 13 (Path of Mastery)
Unified Perception Rank 23 (Sense Heat, Spiritual Energy, Magic, & Qi Flow.)
Arcane Skills
Elemental Wands – Rank 11 (Insightful Caster)
Advanced Arcane Weapons (Blaster Rifle) – Rank 9
Necromancer Affinities & Skills
Blood Mastery – Rank 30 (Blood Claimance, Lesser Healing, Essence Infusion, Vampiric Drain)
Spirit Mastery – Rank 30 (Tier II Path of Dominion, Forced Obeisance)
Rituals of Summoning and Binding – Rank 31 (Tier III Path of Dominion, Ritual of Greater Spirit Summoning, *Instant Transcription)
Flesh Sculptor – Rank 24 (Tier II Path of Dominion, Basic Revenant Preparation)
Blood Ward – Rank 3
Potency Binding – Rank 5
Necromancer Spells
Unorthodox Abjuration – Rank 20
Interface Enhancements
Full Neuro-Linguistic capabilities
Extradimensional Storage Space
Essences Claimed:
Fire – Blazing - (Rank 3, White Tier)
Wrath (Rank 1, White Tier)
Dominion (Rank 1, White Tier)
Path of Endless Bounty – Rank 14 (Crimson Balance, Evolution’s Crucible, Oblivion’s Mercy)
You may consume the potency of any tile you claim for a 50% bonus to baseline ST & VIT earned while granting 3 Lesser Bounties of your choice! (Note. These bounties increase in significance when claiming territories of orange tier saturation or greater!)
You dare to walk Oblivion’s Path (Rank 14 – Journeyman Status) You may consume the potency of any tile you claim, while granting 3 Lesser Bounties of your choice!
Drink deep… and share with your supplicants!
Crimson Balance: Each territory feeling the bite of your Necromantic Consumption now gives you a 50% bonus to baseline Strength and Vitality earned, while expertly coaxing the territories to spring to new, desperate life, still granting the same boon of Lesser Bounties as you had gifted before!
Note: All territories whose destinies you shape under the mantel of Conqueror (and resist feeding upon) will enjoy the bounty of 3 Lesser and 1 Greater land enhancements!
Congratulations! You have dared to embrace Evolution’s Crucible! The territories you conquer will blossom to unspeakable heights as oblivion itself commands its evolution!
Each territory you place upon the Path of Endless bounty will have one additional Lesser Boon as a thousand generations of fiercest competition transforms plants, soil, even magical potential itself to new heights of desperate glory, struggling endlessly for survival in a world more ruthless than any mortal could possibly comprehend!
You have embraced the hidden perk: Oblivion’s Mercy!
All territories that know your touch will suffer the Low Birthrate Bane!
All children born within or conceived by man or elf within territories you have forged will enjoy the Gifted Trait Boon. All such offspring will have a sharply increased likelihood of possessing pristine meridian gates of various configurations! (All children with any intact meridian gates whatsoever will be capable of using ascension pods.)
No child born or conceived within said territories will suffer any adverse genetic mutation or birth defects. All children born within those territories will be unusually beautiful, as pristine genetic templates result in glowing health!
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Just for fun, Eric flipped the page and took a gander at some of the key titles he had earned and the compiled summation of System declarations about each one that he had scrap-booked in a separate personal section of his character sheet… because who didn’t enjoy browsing cheerful System declarations when they were trapped in a hell maze with half the world wanting them dead?
Titles Earned
Necromantic Prodigy
HERO
Lightning Marksman
Realm Breaker
Headhunter
Mad Bomber
Master Negotiator
Battlefield Champion
Battlefield Archer
Orc Slayer
Master Criminal
Basher
First Ascendant – 5% Increased Rate of Cultivation. +5 to Spiritual Energy
Alpha Hunter
Nature’s Boon
True Disciple
Primal Warrior
Transcendant Farmer You have gained the title: Transcendent Farmer.
Arcane Trailblazer (Elite) You have brought the dead back to life and given them a class!
Lord of The Dead you risk being HUNTED by members of various fanatic organizations, should you fail to keep your title HIDDEN (or should you bring your undead armies off-world!)
Artillery Sniper! You’ve also gained an intuitive sense of exothermic reactions and structural integrity both! You can instinctively sense the strength of most mundane materials, and you’re able to jury-rig repairs for almost any complex weapon. The more complex, the better!
Increased spacial perception and understanding of your chosen weapons means you’re 20% more likely to hit all future targets with all ranged weapons you know at Journeyman Rank or better, and you’re now able learn all ranged weapon skills 20% faster than you would otherwise be able to!
Battlefield Slinger!
All slings now enjoy 15% Increased accuracy in your hands!
Your learn how to master the use of any sling 15% faster than you otherwise would!
Arcane Sniper
+15% bonus in the efficiency and use of all sniper rifles & arcane weaponry means you’re able to lock on and eliminate your targets faster than all your competition!
Harvester of the Harrowed!
You learn all necromantic skills and spells 20% faster than you otherwise would! Your mastery over the dead means perilous failures (for you!) are almost unheard of, and your chances of successfully forging fresh abominations is now better than ever!
Death’s Consort
You now enjoy a permanent 30% bonus to the mastery and application of all killing arts! This includes a 30% bonus to damage to any blow delivered with lethal intent!
RANKED CONTENDER
*Congratulations! You have hit 200 in Spiritual Energy!
You are the first Earth-born Contender to achieve this feat!
You are now visible in the Top 10 Player Charts!
You have taken the Number 1 Spot for Spiritual Energy in the Top 10 Player Charts!
Potency Boon is now in effect!
Terra takes note of her champion!
All additional boons, blessings, and Potency Points invested in Spiritual Energy while you reside on Earth OR one of her many pocket realms, will receive a 20% bonus from Mother Earth herself!
You have earned the Epic title: DRAGON SLAYER!
You now enjoy a +5 Bonus to all attempts to Find a Dragon’s Weakness, or overcome their magic resistance! You additionally enjoy +5 to Perception, because only most perceptive and savvy fighters could ever survive a duel with a race so far above their own!
You now enjoy a +5 bonus to resist Dragon Breath weapons and spells!
You may now radiate Lesser Dragon Aura: Fear at will! - As you are a cultivator, this counts as an enhancement of your natural killing aura!
You now enjoy a Dragon’s Boon! All Delve loot drops will be 25% great in quantity and scarcity of resources than for those who have failed to inscribe their feats into living legend as you have!
You now have +2 to all roles to garner respect from all dragons, so long as you behave with honor in all your dealings with them.
Adept Delver – 20% EX bonus upon entering Delves of Orange Tier or better.
Psionics Arcanist!
You now receive a 20% bonus to successfully incorporate Arcane magics and Psionics into any of your spells! Into any of your spells! Said spells have significantly reduced risk of critical failure. You will now learn spells incorporating said arts 20% faster than you otherwise would!
All additional boons, blessings, and Potency Points invested in Quickness while you reside on Earth OR one of her many pocket realms, will receive a 30% bonus from Mother Earth herself!
Speed Racer!
For having forged yourself in a high gravity field with thicker than normal air pressure, while harmonizing yourself with the spiritual essence of Wind and Gravity, you have learned how to instinctively maneuver yourself without being overly hindered by wind resistance or air pressure at all! You additionally have limited ability to manipulate the g-forces inertia places upon your form!
You may now race across any Terrain in Terra or any of its pocket realms with only 1/(Runic Spell Mastery Skill Level) the normal degree of air resistance! A speed-modified skill check will also allow you to redirect your own inertia! Pivot on a dime, with your original momentum intact!
*Note! This boon applies to you (and your familiar, an extension of yourself) alone. This boon will have NO effect on Revenants effected by the Death March Necromancer Perk!
Additional Title Boons:
- Increased spacial perception and sense of timing means you’re 35% more likely to hit all future targets with all ranged weapons!
You’re 50% More likely to hit future targets with all javelins and throwing spears.
- You now learn all ranged weapon skills 60% faster.
- You now learn all javelin & throwing spear skills 75% faster.
Your throwing spears and javelins fly 15% farther and faster than they otherwise would.
+4 to reaction rolls from all humans who know of your hero status.
- So long as you forsake the Path of Rulers, you may consume the essence and potency of any territory you claim!
- All skills involving explosives or gunnery improve 10% Quicker.
+2 to all skill checks to impress or intimidate non-native humanoids.
- You have (an additional) +4 to all skill checks to impress or intimidate non-native humanoids, should you reveal your Orc Slayer title.
- +1 to all intimidation skill checks.
- Unless you deliberately hide Orc Slayer title, orcs will either flee, or attack you on sight!
- You enjoy a bonus to all Find Weakness skill checks against Orcs.
- Orcs now have a penalty at resisting your Spells or Essence based attacks.
- All explosives you yourself design and implement, including artillery rounds, will earn you an additional 10% of base experience.
- Tier 1 (2) Structural Integrity Sense mean that your own weapons will hardly ever blow up in your face, and you now get a gut feeling whenever weapons (or shoddily made buildings) look ready to erupt, topple, or otherwise explode in your face.
- Your Tier 1 Inanimate Structural Integrity Sense is now Tier 2! Sense when buildings might collapse or bombs (and cannon) might blow up in your face with even greater ease than you otherwise would!
- All blows with melee weapons are now 15% more powerful!
- You learn all melee weapon skills 15% faster!
- All melee javelin and spear skills are learned 30% faster.
- All melee weapons under 2 feet in length or specifically used to assassinate are learned 40% faster.
- All thief and assassin skills are learned 25% faster than they otherwise would be.
- 25% increased chance of finding the weakness in any object through the application of carefully applied brute force.
- Tier 1 Danger Sense. You will automatically spot hostile intentions from sentients with a successful Perception Check! If you ever feel a cold shiver racing down your spine, you know to DUCK AND COVER, even if you fail to spot the would-be executioner!
- Your Tier 1 Danger Sense has Evolved to Tier 2! Now you can sense death a split second before you otherwise would!
- Social Perception - You may now use Perception in addition to Charisma to sense meaning behind action like never before!
- What The Other Party Wants - Above all else, you’re able to sense what others truly want in any negotiation!
Nose for trouble. - You can spot a raw deal like overripe fish, and can sense a setup a mile away.
Smooth Criminal – The law doesn’t take kindly to known criminals, but somehow you always come out smelling like roses!
Know the Score – You’re far more likely to hear rumors or be led by the strings of fate to uniquely profitable opportunities of all types and stripes! Rewards from all Elicit activities will be anywhere from 100% to a full magnitude beyond what they would otherwise be!
- Your bloodline has been purged of all negative mutations as defined by Summer Realm. Symmetrical features, unmistakably sylvan eyes, and enhanced pheromones increases likelihood of potential mates becoming infatuated with you.
- +15% Cultivation Efficiency
- +5% Potency to all Spirit Fruit eaten and Beast Cores consumed.
- All agricultural Professions are now open to you!
- You receive DOUBLE standard benefit to all Agricultural Profession skill boons, perks, and modifiers!
- All crops you tend to for 20 or more hours per week will grow at twice the rate and quality than they otherwise would have!
- You may now safely tend to and harvest all Spiritual plants of up to Silver Tier Potency, even without any agricultural profession!
You now learn all unorthodox arts (Including Blood Magic & Necromancy) 25% faster than baseline!
You now have a modified 65% bonus to the rate at which you learn all necromantic arts!
- Congratulations! You are among the first 5 Terrans to Achieve an Elite Tier skill!
You now learn all skills an additional 5% faster than you otherwise would!
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Chapter 307 - Just how hot can fire burn?
Comments
Ben Andrews
And perception. Especially after discussing the tier titles “availability” with Aurelia.
Ben Andrews
Why didn’t he learn the movement technique? I don’t think Eric’s that much of an idiot, the value of that technique is immense
Glenn
I will be so pissed off if Eric doesn’t raise Finesse over 200 before anything else. He’s leaving sweet titles and bonuses on the table! Since bonuses never hit just one stat, he’ll gain way more than the 2-3 points used.
P4PGOAT
Didn't he get the lesser rune agony from the collar?
Goldfish2
Noice! Love it
